Show PANAMA ABANDONED utter failure of the great creat canal project uncle same marns gold now efell at a high premium in the Mo desolate mcgion everything iver thing gone hiie to hull the squadron adron for special al service consisting of the baltimore san francisco and Char charleston lefton which sailed from 1 ac c dodo cal on october 10 on a round of iri friendly endly visits to the various countries that lie to the southward of us and more particularly to chill chili to invite her to participate in the naval review next april in new york harbor arrived at panama november 11 says bays a panama dispatch to the new york recorder this place which was ao 0 o busy and wore such a delusive aspect of prosperity when the canal works were under full headway is now bumping along the corduroy road of the hardest ardest li of hard times the good yellow gold of uncle sam brings 6 a premium of 75 per cent and ther 3 isa is a brisk demand for it it at that the streets street sare are quiet almost deserted and grass gras grows grons in spots nowhere is there any activity except in the neighborhood of the omnipresent market IvOl woman nn clothed in her peculiar slee e fess waist which is ib a charae charac of the people many of the jamaica and oth other erWest indian nef gerocs docs rocs who ho worked N ork ed on the canal are still here some because they are arc so GO poverty stricken that they cannot get away and others the majority because they are under six feet of ea rth arth the very air of the city beems charged with death and peculiarly offensive and unhealthy smells strike ones nostrils in every street the great trouble with panama is that ships hire to anchor so far from thore that communication is difficult this disadvantage van tape is compensated for berh perhaps by the be healthier althier air for were we close in bhore na we C would get the full bew benefit fit of the miasmatic exhalations exha lations of the swamps fevers are so prevalent and the general health is so bad that there is no such thing r as a health ol 01 acer for the port from which it is to be inferred that at no place from which a ship could come would the sanitary conditions be worse than they are here although 0 it is supposed to be the dry season it rains every day and when it does rain there isa is a businesslike manner about the downpour that leaves no doubt of its antt intentions rations rit ions the canal and the machinery for the work are in a dreadful state the alie one given up to long 6 grasses grasi ses and sedge the other rusted and unfit to all appearance for any use but to be sold as old iron acos scows and dredges are moored just where they were last used with no one to look out for their movable belongings ings the work mens shanties have fallen into ruin nain and the picture of desolation presented could hardly be bettered the canal companas comp anys office on the plaza is closed 4 |