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
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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; behind, the low, irregular jungled hills stretching hazily off into South America. On the third-story landing I paused to wipe the light sweat from forehead and hatband, then pushed open the screen door of the passageway that leads to police headquarters.