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Mr. Persons Pictures
Wonders of Panama
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a defective flange should chip off a
wheel, or some careless fellow should
leave a railroad spike on the track.
But as you safely pass over, you forget
possible perils and wonder at the mar
vel of the thing. The engineers said it
could be done, and Mr. Flagler said not
to count the eost, and what is there in
▼ this world that brains and money ean
is becomes a world wonder as well as
being a world of use. When you get
into Key West you have been charmed
with your trip over the seas by rail,
and if you are observant, you will no
tice that this railroad is using the sea
to make its terminal docks which some
•day will hold the freights for far
Oathay so diligently sought by Colum
bus and his bold mariners of the loth
century. The dredges which are mak
ing deep water for the ships that are
yet to come throw up the bottom of the
sea to make dry land, and on this land
great warehouses and shipping stations
will be built as the commerce of the
new ocean route are developed. All of
this change of the bottom of the sea
to terra Anna, mind you, belongs to
Mr. Flagler, and you are reminded of
this when you see signs nailed up at
every entrance: “Private Property,’’
showing that the company by permit
ting its use now, does not thereby pro
pose to establish an easement right in
the public that future haekmen may
quarrel over when another big East
Coast Hotel goes up on Key West reef,
and its owners and managers tell the
common hackman of the town who car
ries you whithersoever you may list, to
keep out as he is interfering with div
idends. Key West is a town unlike
any other so far as its foundation is
concerned. Most South Sea islands are
volcanic. Not so with Key West. Mil
lions of years have been the period of
its building for those little sea archi
tects which have to be studied by the
aid of the microscope, have made it by
sacrificing their lives until man’s brain
would reel if it attempted to calculate
their total number. So Key West has
no soil naturally. It has no fresh wa
ter save that which is distilled from
the sea by the clouds, and you drink
rain water in Key West from a «is
tern, and you are glad to get it. The
(own, though of several thousand in
hibitants, has no waterworks, no sew
erage, and the only animal that can
jive on its stunted, thorny, scrubby
herbiage, is the ever dominant Wil
liam Goat, whose “goat’’ nobody has
ever yet gotten by expecting him to
starve to death on a coral reef. Yet
With all of this Key West is destined
in my opinion to be a great seaport.
It would be fanciful speculation to at
tempt to restrict its importance when
the canal is finished. Yet it will all
be locked in the grasp of the East
Coast Railroadw, for be it remembered,
that road does not only have the dis
tinction of owning an oceanic stretch
of railroad, but it also has the dis
tinction of owning Florida, and every
body knows and recognizes that fact.
Yet let it be said to its credit that so
far it has been a benevolent owner
ship, and the wonders of that state are
being unfolded to the world by the de
velopment of that railroad, as it brings
its thousands upon thousands to Flor
ida’s sunny clime where her golden
fruit greets you on every side, and
the air is redolent with the perfume of
her tropical flowers.
When that train from Chicago finally
arrived, all beat a hasty march for the
gang plank, little knowing that their
blithe steps w’ould be halted before an
other twelve hours by the horrors of
sea-sickness, for the Carribean is no
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respecter of persons. Finally the last
signal was given, the gang plank was
lowered, the engines began to revolve,
and the ship eased herself out of her
berth, and turned her nose towards the
Yucatan Channel. As the night shad
ows gathered, the gaiety of the passen
| gers settled down, for night at sea has
. its sobering effect. You are far out on
the element which man can govern in
its pleasant moods, but which at times
shows him how utterly impotent he is,
and how great is the Force which gov
■ eras it all, and without asking his eqn
• । sent. Not far out and while the night
•, was yet young, we passed the Governor
' Cobb, a sister ship, inbound from Ha
' vana. Her decks were aglare, and pas
-11 sengers thronged to her rail, while the
• two marine sisters solemnly saluted
■ each other with their hoarse sirens,
. while their search lights shook hands
across the soft rolling waters. Yes,
•we all went to supper, but w r as the next
1 morning breakfast, or the meals there
after until Colon was reached popular?
Well, I did not hear of any one reserv
ing a table, as they say you must do a
week ahead at the Hotel Cecil in Lon
-1 don, if you wish to dine at that fash
ionable hostlery. No, the dining room
became almost as vacant as the Carri
bean became more boisterous under the
everlasting blow of the trade winds.
Did you ever feel the trades blow?
Well, you have yet an experience in
store for you. The atmosphere is clear,
nothing but a few fleecy clouds speck
ing the blue above, and yet those trade
winds blow thirty or forty miles an
hour until the indigo of that wonderful
sea acts as if it were having an epi
leptic fit. You can stand and watch
the billows as they come (provided you
are not dying in your state-room), and
see them mount ten, twenty, thirty,
forty feet high, and as their frothy
summits strike the wind they are blown
into millions of globules until their
spray is scattered far and wide. The
ship mounts upon their crests, she
rises, rises, rises, until you wonder
when she will stop, and then suddenly
you will feel a fierce tremor course her
keel, as the twin screws come out of
the water and her engines then un
leashed race like an automobile with
the clutch kicked out; until finally the
same law of gravitation which took her
up brings her down again, but down
she goes, deeper, and deeper, until you
wonder if she is going to the bottom,
when suddenly her nose will turn up
wards again and she mounts another
swell that repeats day in and-day out
the same operation. The seamen say
that the Carribean is calm sometimes,
but as you go through such an experi
ence as I have pictured, you are con
vinced that her name, meaning “rough
water’’ is perfectly apropos. I am in
no wise surprised that Columbus dis
covered Central America, since I have
I
felt the trades blow, for if he spread
a sail and got before them, he was
obliged to find land, for they blow al
ways, and his luck was in not being
thrown up on a coral reef, as was the
Princess Louise of the American-Ham
burg line several years ago off the
coast of Jamaica, when her captain,
crazed by the loss of his splendid ship,
is said to have committed suicide.
Sea travel is always attractive, but
even sailors get tired of it sometimes,
and it was but natural with nearly ev
erybody on board sick, that we should
be land hungry, and when the old
Scotch chief engineer leaned over the
rail and shaded his eyes with his hand,
and said that land should soon be in
sight about twenty miles to the south,
I became unusually land hungry. It
was not long before we saw the dim
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April
Ghappel, morning of 7 28 19
Bell's Store, evening 0f... 7 28 19
Unionville 8 29 20
Blount .... 9 30 21
May
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Juliette 11 2 23
Johnstonville 14. 5 26
Goggansville 14 5 26
Lamont, morning of 15 6 ... 27
Horne, Evening of 15 6 27
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Russelville, morning of. 17 8 29
Dyas, evening of 17 8 29
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Maynard's Mill,evening of 18 9 30
June
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Colliers, evening of ... 21 '. . . 2
Brent 12 3
Maynards 22 13
Smarrs 23 14 .... 4
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Lorane, evening of 24 ...... 15 5 I
Popes 25 16 6
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shadowy streak along the horizon that
was soon to grow into a low mountain
range, and we came into view of the
first land of the Western continent
which was to make Columbus the
greatest discoverer of all time. Colon,
formerly known as Aspinwall, was com
■ ing closer and closer and we were soon
Ito land on the spot which marks the
i activities of the American government
'on the Atlantic side of the great canal.
It is hard to describe your sensations as
you approach so historic a shore. Your
fancy and imagination run riot with
your reason as you think of the ro
mance of the Carribean, the sufferings
and doubts of Columbus and the early
conquisadores. Spain’s pride and glory
can be fancied in the proud sailing, if
clumsy, galleons, and as she attempted
to corner the commerce of the new
world; Drake and Morgan, and the
French buccaneers in their fast sail
ing, rakish privateers again people the
sea, and we see ships halted with a shot
across the bows, and men who care
neither for their own lives or the lives
of others, mounting the ship’s sides ami
going through the ship's chests until
the “pieces o’ eight.’’ fall into hands
who never toiled for them. We can
fancy the sallying forth of Balboa on
his quest of the famous “South Sea,’’
related to him by the Indians, and the
bloody inarches of Pizarro as he leaves
the Isthmus seeking the gold of the
Incas in far away Peru. We can im
agine Columbus’ eagerness for success
as ho sails for his last time seeking
the bend of the narthern shore think
ing that there he would find the pass
age leading to India’s fabled shores,
only to have his hopes blighted, for
the passage which he sought and which
did not exist was not to exist until
nearly five hundred years later, when
the sons of the Anglo-Saxon were to
people the continent discovered in the
name of Ferdinand ami Isabella. Yet
wo were leaving the halo of romance,
and merging into the activities of the
greatest engineering feat ever attempt
ed by any nation of all time; the con
structing of the Panama Canal. I was
to see from one end to the other this
great separation of the Northern and
Southern hemispheres.
Panama has always been one of the
real interesting spots of the globe, first
because of the discovery of a new
world, and second because of the con
quests headed by Cortez to the North
and Pizarro to the south resulting in
the conquest and annihilation of the
Aztecs of Central America and Mexico
and the Incas of Peru, but this was not
done until Balboa had discovered that,
there was a great sea just across the
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