The mirror., 1913-06-26

mining men, 10 VlSlt tue fslHfuuS VI
Panama. and see for myself
some of the many wonders 1t con-
tains: study the formation OF Cul-
ebra Cut and surrounding country,
and to see how they handled the
dirt the way they did, and In so
short time.
Leaving the boat at Colon, we
Immediately presented our crede-
dentials to the board Of commits
sioners of the Canal, and also the
general manager of the Panama
Railway Company, who issued us
passes good for 80 days too and from
any station on their line, also for
one trip through the Canal by way
of the motor car, and gave us the
use of one of their pilot boats, with
which we could run up the river to
Gatun. or over to the fortifications
which were then under construction.
1t being Sa turday, they in-
formed us that they generally spent
the week end at the Capitol, and
told us that the hotel accommOda-
tons were so much better at the
later place we decided to 90. Al
ter taking us to lunch at the Travel
er's Club, which by the way, is
built so that it extenGs out In the
bay of the Caribbean sea, we took
the 4 O'Clock train to Panama City,
a distance of about 40 miles.
Imagine if you can, on alightlng
from the train at Panama, to see
as far as the eye could reach
hacks, hacks, and hack drivers. 1t
seemed to me their were more hacks
in Panama, city of not 10000
inhabitants, then | had ever seen
together in any city in my life be-
fore. Pushing and struggling with
the crowds to get through the gates,
(for they have metropolitan de-
pot we could hear hundreds of
voices, crying: Lottery Tickets"
but we will leave the lottery tick
ct" sellers for a few hours, while
we. take one of these many hacks to
the Tivolli hotel, where, after reg
istering and beng informed the
rates-for it's American plan-we
could readily see Why the Tivolli,
to the Zone. is what the Waldorf
is to New York; San Francis to
San Francisco; and the Gruenwald, :,
to New Orleans. Looking about
the well furnished lobby, you could
see many beautifully gowned lad
les, and the gentlemen-either in
evening dress, or the freshly laund-
ried white fannels or linens, which
is the correct thing for all occasions
in the tropics.
After dinner we were presented
with cards for the Saturday Eve
ming Ball'' at the hotel with the
compliments of the manager.
Looking at the invitation we no.
ticed that The grand march began
at II o'clock and on inquiry were
informed that was the hour they
usually began dancing, and lasting
until about a. IN.
Having a few hours to pass before
the ball, we decided to go down and
see part of Panama by gas light.
We called a hack, for nobody on the
Zone walks, except fools and
Amer leans, as they express it, and
day laborers and even washer
women ride to work in private"
hack, and the fare is only 10 cents,
for it's the same here as Mr.. E..
read us in his interesting paper on
Argentine few weeks ago.
One thing which a Northern man
notices is that about so per cent.
of the population are jamaican
negroes, and all use the Cockney''
accent in their speech. On the
streets men, women and even little
children were selling lottery tickets
for the Panama Lottery, which
takes place every Sunday about
noon. The grand prize is $4,000
monkey or spigotty" as they
call it down there, or 81 800 ouI
money, but to those of you who
have been in Mexico, | will say it's
on the same plan, and although the
prizes are not so large as they were
in Mexico few years ago, there
are several different ways by which
you may win small piece of the
grand prize. Que of our party was
lucky enough to win $37 80 gold. OF
$1,000 spigotty." after investing
nearly that amount for various