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Show . JAMAICANS LACK GINGER. Seek Employment at Panama, But Aro Said to Be Wasteful and SI lipid. Jamaicans aro apparently jacks of all trades. Hungry for tho big wacc3 ' of Panama, school teachers, barbers, I shoemakers, storo clerks have flocked I to tho Isthmus to find employment as I masons, carpenters, blacksmiths and 1 painters Indifferently, says Everybody's Magazine. Thoy aro wasteful; they L-t stupid; they aro possessed with an u: .t Table hatred of exertion other than conversation, preferably on religious relig-ious or ethical topics. Here nro somo more statistics from my friend tho foreman of painters: Hospital 54 is a building nbout 40 feet square; the amount of white lead required for the paint to bo applied to It would be, hero In tho. states, about 75 pounds; it was necessary to use 250 pounds of white lead on the job; none of it was stolen; none was carriec' -wv; that white lead and all tin- - wasted materials which were . .. j with It aro chargeable to the Jamaica negro's Inefficiency. Yet tho canal must bo I built With Jamaican labor In the main. Some workmen are being brought from Gallcla, in Spain; some have been Imported from Martinlquo; a few, very few, havo como down from tho United States. |