The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

nave on our hemisphere. She wanted
10 know what would become Of South
America, hen il was let loose. and
asked whether it would not drop of
ana De lost when the great gorge was
cut through.
another engineer ave me today a
conversation which he had Just over
heard between two rival woman tour
ISIS one had spent the day at Cule-
bra cut and the other had been IL the
Gatun dam. Each was triumphantly
boaStlng about the wonders she had
beheld and trying 10 Guido the other.
Tor a time It was nip and tuc until
finally the first woman said:
We'll, | nave seen something that
You have not seen. | have seen Col.
Cocktails car, called the yellow Devil,
in which he goes around the works.
and | even saw Col. Goethals himself"
We'll. who is Col. Goethalso" asked
the othe; woman
Il don't know" replied the first,
but anyhow, he owns that car"
She Was From New England and
Wanted TO Know.
Another tourist of the feminine SEX
came here with a notebook and upon
landing started in to take down very
thing she card. She first drove TO
CriStobal, and there accOSted Col. Eu-
gene Wilson,, WHO mas charge OF I Hcle
Sans hotels and all the commiSSary
arrangements, with this question::
Where is the Isthmus of Panama ;?
I have come all the way from New
England, m I want to see II. | sup
pose it is that point over there And
with hat she directed her umbrella
toward the lighthouse on the Toro
breakwater.
mo, madam" replied the genial
colonel, that is not the whole Isthmus
of Panama. It is only a part Of it.
The isthmus is the great neck Of land
which connects the two continents Of
North and South America"
"Oh, is that 90" replied the lady
busily writing, Il thank you SO much,
but you see 1 come from New Hamp-
shire and l want to know"
Seeing the Isthmus.
I do not know how many tourist:
the canal has had this year, but it has
run high into the thousands The
Panama Herald, In a recent issue
says that a few years 6 the tourists
came in couples andra little later ir
scores, but they are now coming il
hundreds and thousands A single ex.
cursion boat with two or three hun
dred Cookies" is not uncommon, ant
we are having parties Of hundred;
representing boards Of trade, cham
bers Of commerce and other bushes
organizations. We hav clubs Of dent
lists, doctors and electrical engineer
who swoop down without notice an
load the hotels. Crowds are COMM
from England and Germany, and mex
winter the prospect is that the visit
ors will be far more than can be TAX
en- car of.
During my stay here the hOte,
have been crowded. There have Ofte
been a dozen men on cots in tn
0 opposite mine, and at times tn
public parlors have been fenced Q
and guests have a to sleep on tn
floor. Uncle Sam has made some &C
ditions to the Tivoli during the pas
season, and the Panama Railwa
} Company is putting up q f~our-hundre
thousand-dollar hotel at Colon. An
one who thinks of visiting Panam
should write M engage rooms be
to have some prospect Of gettin
them. Otherwise he Is liable to /
forced to remain on his steamer an
perhaps leave without visiting tt
places he most wants to see.
Points for Travellers.
I have recently received many lie
ters as to the cost Of seeing the can:
and the time needed for the trip. !
to the cost, it is comparatively littl
= outside the steamship passage fro
New York OF New Orleans, and II
steamship rates are not high. II
= trip from New York to Colon cos
' SIS and from New Orleans the frs
Z class fare is $25 less. There are
, number Of good lines. Uncle Sa
y has the steamers of the Panama raj
: way, which, l am told, are by I
8 means the BEST. And then there
the Hamburg American Company al
the Royal Mail, and last, but not leas
= GRO tina ChinC of tho limited Fiji
e Company. All Of these go from Ne
+ York. and most of them stop at Cut
e or Jamaica. giving you a taste
4 these islands on the way.
The United Fruit Company has al
a line of steamers. two every wee
. from New Orleans to Colon. The
. ships make the trip in two days le
:, than via New York to Colon, and Il
n seas are more likely to be smoo
u Moreover, one of the freight steaIne
each week calls at Puerto Barrie
q Guatemala, and Port Ldmon, Cos
l.. p;ca and come even take in BOCaS d