Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-23

1912 ........50 q, 1893 467 9.18
(Compi.ed from the annual reports
Of the department of sanitation, 18TH
milan canal commission.)
women and children belonging to the
families OF the workers; does not in
clude, of course, those who have gone
home to the states owing to illness,
and there died; and does not include
the negroes n other foreign employees
who died at their homes, unless they
were actually on the pay roll at the
| time of death.
Even at h present time there is a
noticeable-albeit observation-disclosures
about the constantly occurring deaths,
especially those by accident.
A hospital a Is carried IN every
train, and 1t is a common thing
though to some it never ceases being
a gruesome one-to see a stretcher, or
two. OF three, taken out of this car at
Panama, upo which lies PROSTATE a
human form: sometimes animate. with
only the foot or arm or head wrapped
in bloody bandages; sometimes cov-
monotonous noisy hum OF the crowd
ed station platform Is rent by a wall
or shrek as the stretcher is met by
some waiting friend or loved one.
Then a crowd gathers silently
around-orderly, unexcited. simply in
terested in watching the wife or moth
the stretcher, and listening to her
weeping. But presently. with the sys-
tematic dispatch which marks the
whole organization, the stretcher is
placed In the hospital ambulance and
driven away, and the crowd quietly
disperses. The matter has been Of
comment.
Old Traaedies
One would never dream, amid all
the canal enthusiasm and energy and
the sort Of j%oyousness that prevails
among the workers. that every day
life-that 80 or 40 die each month in.
Ancon hospital alone, and that two
dozen new graves stand ready all the
time at Ancon cemetery for the occu-
pants whose speedy coming may be
depended upon. The stories of the
manifold sufferings Of the workers Of
than Of today: and. IN a way, sad
der, In that the fearful loss Of life
due to ignorance Of the causes Of the
tropical diseases seems. In the light Of
our present knowledge and splendid
use OF 1t, quite needless.
There 10 the story Of the thousand
Cinnamon who came to work on the
railroad, and who began to die OF 80
fast from yellow fever that the rest Of
them. discouraged and heartsick, COM
mitted suicide. The place where they
lived and died bears record Of this
story In it0 Observation-Disclosures
Chiuaman."
There II tho story OF the gang Of
light-hearted 1rishmen arriving full Of
energy and ambition who succumbed
even more quickly to the climatic con-
ditions than did the Chinese. and died
on promptly, to q man.
HNhANA n tAA &@tN~1r - \AA W~~-~A
consuls who came with their families,
one after another In quick succession
sometimes only six weeks apart
each sickening In q short time Of
the dread fever, and paying the PEN
atty with h~eartrending unorfginality.
which came into the hands Of the
Americans when the purchase was
made from tho French IN 1904.
and are now the home Of the
American legation. are still 3 sur
rounded with the traditions and
penings that not q servAnt can be In
duced to sleep there at night. An go
home when dusk falls, to return only
with morning light.
And the yellow fever In the drst
years Of y own occupation Of the
are the tales told BY the few canal
err" still on the isthmus who sur
v1ved those early dAyn.
= remember WELL" raid ono, s"shoW
. dozen Of ~ had . dinner In honor
! Of tns en.assment Ct - g our mum.
he added, reminiscently. The din
ner va On : Saturday night ana 4
Wls sthsSSaIegt afnair of The season
Tbs next saturday nleht eight OF ~
dined togsehsr a4Ain-.eho other four
~. 6F1T Aannn1 hoI 49, 1920 IsSe1