ZONE POLICEMAN 88

A CLOSE RANGE STUDY OF THE PANAMA CANAL AND ITS WORKERS

BY HARRY A. FRANCK

Author of "A Vagabond Journey Around the World" and "Four Months
Afoot in Spain"





TO A HOST OF GOOD FELLOWS THE ZONE POLICE

Quito, December 31, 1912





CHAPTER I


Strip by strip there opened out before me, as I climbed the
"Thousand Stairs" to the red-roofed Administration Building, the
broad panorama of Panama and her bay; below, the city of closely
packed roofs and three-topped plazas compressed in a scallop of
the sun-gleaming Pacific, with its peaked and wooded islands to
far Taboga tilting motionless away to the curve of the earth;