Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-11-23


Get, Colon.
cents you are privileged to take
dip" any time between a. m. and
10 p. m. The water is always warm
and it is just as pleasant on Christmas
day as Fourth of July. At one side Of
the pool is Battery Morgan and at the
other two concrete bath houses.
On Colon Reach.
Just outside of the hotel grounds is
picturesque Christ church, erected in
1866 by contributions from the Panama
railroad and missionary societies. For
a short time the Colombians used it as
a barracks and arsenal, but it has
since been used as q place of wor-
ship, the members being mainly West
Indian negroeS-British subjects, Ia.
borers on the canal work. A few seats
are reserved FOR white Episcopalians
and visitors.
A walk along the ocean on Colon
beach is the next point of interest.
Here you see big gray houses, facing
seward and flanked by rows of tall
coconut trees. In these houses en-
plOyees of the Panama canal reside. In
most cases there are four families to
o house. which is built somewhat on
the style of an apartment house. At
the end of the street stands the recent
ly completed government hospital.
where Americans are cared for at a
minimum charge if they are govern
ment employees. Pass this building
and you come face to face with a sign
telling you to keep out' OF the quar-
antine reservation. Down back of the
hospital the three tall radio or wire
less stations loom skyward.
Now let us take a coach and drive
up Bolivar street. This street runs
parallel with Front street, with q ro-
mantically named alley (Bottle alley)
running between. In the early days
Front street was filled with saloons
(thefe are many even now and all the
bottles were dumped out back of the
buildings. Front street was then the
first and last street in Colon, because
the land had not yet been filed in
for building and it was just swamp.
The strange looking people are Jamaic.
ans, Martiniquos. Barbandians and
almost every other kind of of folks, In
Guiding Panamanians. Most of the
children do not wear clothing until
they are five or six years old. 1t all
depends on the mothers ambition.
Where the Officials Hold Forth.
The large building to your left is the
administration" building of the Pan-
amanian government, where the gov!
ernOr of Colon, the alcalde and other
officials hold forth. In the basement
you will find the post Office, but do
not make the mistake of addressing
letter to any of the American fam
lilies living in Colon to this Office, as
they all receive their mail in CristobaI.
A mammoth fire swept much of this
section of the city little more than a
year ago, and the new concrete shops
along the way mark this place. The
ramshackle frame buildings are tene-
ment houses, and the occupants pay
from 81 to $12 per month for a single
room. The overhanging balconies look
as though they would tumble on the
heads of the passer-by, but they have
been clinging there for some tine and
we will hope for the best.
Back of Bolivar street Is Broadway!
the widest street in the city. as its
name would indicate. Here you find
more tenement houses and on the side
streets catch glimpses of the cottages
Of the better class o, Panamanians
and a few Americans who are in pri1i
vate business in CCi0n and therefore
not entitled to government quarters.
On Broadway also are two theaters.
usually used for moving pictures, but
provided with stages large enough to
accommodate small company of play
ers. Further up toward the end of
the street is the government corral.
where horses and mules used in the
work at Cristobal are kept.
At the end of Broadway you come
to Mt. Hope road, which leads out past
the 'substation," which furnishes elecl
trio current for government work and
homes, to the cemetery at Mt. Hopel
Now had not the slightest intention
of bringing you out TO the cemetery
and leaving you there, but it is a pretI
~ spot, so full of flowers and won5
derful tropical trees and plants, that
one forgets 1t is a burying ground.