With Speaker Cannon through the tropics - a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama- containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions (1907) (14798787113)

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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ns there, including our quondam friend, WilliamsC. Fox, late Director of the Bureau of American Republics,who had departed from our Five OClock Club-GridironDinner, in Washington, for his new post as Minister toEcuador. Panama is regarded by the Government as ofsufficient importance to have an American IMinister, and welearned that he was in town, but did not call upon him. The beautiful hills above the City of Panama were dottedwith the buildings of the celebrated Ancon Hospital, andMcKinley and I, accompanied by Division SuperintendentMaltby, urged our driver in this direction. The winding-road was firm and even; we were told that the hospitaloccupied the site of a wornout volcano, and that it had beenselected by the French because of its salubrity and fine out-look. Royal palms dotted the roadway and towered abovethe detached cottage-like structures. The latter were thor-oughly screened, porches being inclosed along with the doorsand windows, and w^e were informed there had been no
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THE PANAMA CANAU 277 mosquitoes in the vicinity since January. Major Phillips,the physician-in-charge, escorted us through the varioushuildings, informing us that he had at that time a total of420 patients. We visited the wards for the whites and forthe blacks; it would have puzzled a genealogist to trace therecords of the patients, but their nativity, at least, wasrecorded, and it was as varied as the countries. There wereno cases of contagious fever, so far as v/e were advised.The accident cases were numerous, and in the surgical wardwe found some of the sufferers badly cut up; they wereworkmen who had been injured along the line of the rail-road or in the work of excavation, and had been brought in))romptly under the Commissions system. I was followingMcKinley through one of the wards, attracted somewhat bythe fair-haired nurse, who sat like a school-maam at a desknear the head of the room, wondering if she and her asso-ciates were the graduates of our American training schools;whe