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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CANAL ZONE IN 1909 It was good to land at Colon and see some workaday Americans. For a month I had been among the carefully dressed Britishers of the colonies. It was a joy to see men in flannel shirts and khaki, mud up to their knees, grime on their hands, sweat on their brow?men who were working like galley slaves in a poisonous climate, digging the biggest ditch on earth, and proud of it. Colon is a nondescript sort of place; there are docks and railway yards and Chinese lotteries and Spanish restaurants and an Astor House which reminds one much more of Roaring Camp than of Broadway. There are many mining towns near the Mexican border which one might well mistake for Colon. One of the Panama Railway steamers had come in during the morning, bringing mail and newspapers from home and a number of the Canal employees back from their leave in the States. One of them attracted my attention; he was standing on the railway platform among a group in khaki who had come down from their work to welcome him back. They were asking him endless questions about God's country and making much sport of his store clothes, and especially of some Nile-green socks. He pulled up his trousers and strutted about pretending to be vastly proud of them, but it was easy to see that he was keen to be back in his work clothes. Their joshing was a bit rough, but good-natured. For they are a free-and-easy lot. thesemodern frontiersmen of ours, undismayed by the odds against them. The Panama Railway is our first experiment in Government ownership; and, as it is always enjoyable to see something accomplished which people have for a long time thought impossible, it was a pleasure to see what a thoroughly good railway it is. An old college friend met me at the dock, and, a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217303194 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217303196 |
| Weight | 1.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 In |
| List Price | $26.71 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 406 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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