This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...from the negro in the States. They could do or would do more work than the Jamaican. Here and there I found hard workers. At the Imperial Hotel the night porter seemed very obliging and efficient, and every now and then I would find some one much above the average; then one gradually begins to learn that one cannot ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...from the negro in the States. They could do or would do more work than the Jamaican. Here and there I found hard workers. At the Imperial Hotel the night porter seemed very obliging and efficient, and every now and then I would find some one much above the average; then one gradually begins to learn that one cannot expect so much from them and becomes less critical. If you shout at them or speak quickly they get rattled. Many of them who have the best education are almost impossible. They swell up and are impudent. Yet, you will find among this class men of ability of whom it seems unfair that they should suffer for the deficiencies of their fellows. Taken at Rio Grande. Laborer and family at home. The woman on the board walk must be considered as a separate incident. She wanted to be In the picture and she is. On the following pages is shown four groups, intended to give an idea of the class of labor that has enabled the American foreman to carry out the work of construction. The women who do housework are the most inefficient of all classes as far as my limited observation went. Talk about the question paramount in many households in the United States of America, then join a circle of housekeepers on the canal zone, and the latter will give facts that will open the eyes of the ladies on the visiting committee. Here's where simple man has to fade, and yet there are some good ones somewhere, I am sure. As I said, it costs $25.00 to lick a Jamaican or any negro who is a British subject. When I asked one man what he was, he said, "I am from Jamaica, I'm a British object." He was proud of the distinction; he did not know the meaning exactly, but he knew, as he explained, that while you could call him all kinds of names, you could not "lay hands ...
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Very Good. The author traveled to Panama and records his observations of the Panama Canal while it is being contructed. Numerous b&w photos of various construction scenes and people. The covers aree decorated green pictorial cloth with black and silver embossed decorations that depict a man in huge steam shovel bucket. There are numerous photos of the Canal under construction. The front free end paper has some glue residue. There is a folding map.; B&W Photographs, folding map; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 146 pages.
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