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VOL. VII.
CRISTOBAL, CANAL ZONE, 1924.
No. i.
PUBLISHED BY THE CRISTOBAL HIGH SCHOOL
I -* v -
Discharge from Gatun Spillway thr-ough six gaei.
CONTENTS
Advertisements.. . . . . . . . . CHESTER
L. PIKE, '24. .76-88
Literary-Continued:
Alumni. . . . . . . . . . .. .. M ILDRED MORGAN,
A appreciation ....,,, .. .. .... . ...
By the Shores of the Caribbean. CLARICE STEENBERG,
CARIBBEAN Staff ............ .. .... ..... .
D edication...... ....... ... .. .... .. ..
Editorial........... ......
Exchanges.... . . .
. GLADYS B. LOWANDE,
H.... ELEN ABENDROTH,
Faculty, T he.... ..... ...... .. .. ..... .. .
Freshm an Class ... - - - .. ............
G graduates .. .. - . . . ... .
Jokes. . ... ..... .. CHARLOTTE HOUSEL, '
Junior C lass ........................ .................
Leavings . . ..... . . . . . . SENIOR CLASS OF 1924
Literary... . . . . . . . . . FLORENCE ALBERT, 24.
A Capture.......... f ANDREW D. SMITH, '25.
RICHARD A. FISHER, '25.
A Few Centers of Canal Zone Activity ..... . .. ...
About the Canal..............,DELILAH MAY. '26.
A Coast Defense Garrison, .... GEORGE OAKES, '24
Cristobal Coaling Station..... MILDRED MORGAN. '25.
From the Interior. ...... DOROTHY ABENDROTH, '24.
"Ralpho, Thou Dost Prevaricate"
FLORENCE ALBERT, '24.
The Control Hovse of Gatun Locks
DOROTHEA TUFrTS, '26.
Through the Canal .......... IRENE McCOURT, '24.
"And Things are Not What They Seem" ....... ......
The Dog WroughttheChange..EDITH COULBOURN, '24.
Only a Baby- ......... DOROTHY ABENDROTH, "24.
Average Boy. ................... JOSE AROSEMENA, '24.
Beyond the Chagres............. CALDWELL B. Foos '25
Charcoal.........................CARLOS PULGAR '26.
Do You Remember?. ............ FLORENCE ALBERT '24.
Education by Travel..... .. ... .....
(By the Senior Class in Economics.)
Luc
16
S45
'25. .
Golf ..
..... CHESTER L. PIKE.
ILife in Panama...,. .
.... 54
At Juan Franco. .... JOSE AROSEMENA, '24.
Cariiaval, ...... .. .. DOROTHY ABENDROTHII, '24
Panama Lottery Office.. .GLArnYS B.:LOWANDE, '24,
Shipward Bound . .,,.. .ANDREW SMITH. '25.
The Ice Cream Vender . .. -CHESTER L. PIKE, '24
ks" .... . . . . . CALDWELL B. FoOS. '25.
"Oh. There are Voices of thie Past"
CLARICE STEENBERG,
On the Road to Cativa ..........CHARLOTTE HOUSEL,
Pitcairn-- "Mystic Isle of the South Seas"
MANOLA BLISS.
Places of Interest in Panama . . . . . ..
Cativa ...... ....
Escoval... ...
San Bias as Seen by a Senior.
* 40
S38
. 41
* 43
.. .........JUAN B. PAPI, '26.
.... DOROTHY ABENDROTlH. '24.
. .INZA MARKHAM.,
Sympathetic Sketches of Near-By Scenes..,, .
GEORGE OAKES, '24
DOROTHY ABENDROTH, '24
FLORENCE ALBERT. 24
IRENE
MCCOURT,
GLADYS B. LOWANDE,
lEmIT COULBOURN,
43 Ten Precepts of English . ,. GLAnDYS B. LOWANDE, '24,
The Coral Tree Shark-A Legend
38 MORRIS MARCHOSKY. '25,
40 Ulp-to-the-Minute Dramas .....
69 As It Never Was....... CHESTER L. PIKE, '24.
Shades of the Great....... .
Who Knows Noah's Troubles?
GEORGE OAKES,
JOSE AROSEMENA,
Poetry .............
An Oral Report in English Class...... JOHN ORDWAY, '26.
Moonlight in the Tropics. SENIOR ENGLISH CLASS. '23-'24.
Rest After Toil.................. CHESTER L. PIKE, '24 .
The Washington Pool.........DOROTHY ABENDROTH, '24,
. . .. 48
. 48
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Moonlight in the Tropics.
The moonlight's silver sheen is on the sea
Where rippling wavelets wrap the verdant
shore;
It forms a pathway leading straight from me
To dream-romance through fancy's golden door.
A palm, a silent sentinel leans out
Across the bay-all jewelled by the light.
The glistening, gleaming fireflies flit about
And emphasize the blackness of the night.
The shadows mark the passing of the hours;
From troubles of the day one finds surcease;
The languid odor of the tropic flowers
Perfumes the air and brings a sense of peace.
How calm, serene, and quiet now seems life
"Far from the adding crowd's ignoble strife."
SENIOR ENGLISH CLASS, '23-'24.
THE CARIBBEAN.
Left to Righte
HoDkins. Assistant Editor-in-Chief:
Georee
Oakes. Circulation Manager;
Row 1--Gladva Lowande. Edit4
or-in-Chief: Ruth
A
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Gladys Lowande, '24.
HE CARIBBEAN is to Cristobal High School
far more than is implied in just the word
poster, and to do one's share willingly for the
whether it be in soliciting or by washing
baza r,
dishes;
"annual."
It is a goal-an opportunity
-a challenge.
Have you a talent for literary composition ?
Your
goal will naturally be to concentrate and improve
upon your former English work in order that you
may so perfect one or more articles as to make
them worthy of a coveted place within the covers
of the year book.
Perhaps your ability may follow the line of art.
Does not the book demand the exercise of such
ability? There
development of
is constant opportunity
for the
clever department headings
novel class designs.
Apart from these more evident phases comes the
challenge;
the challenge to aid in the sale of ad-
iance tickets for either the book or the senior play,
5 advertise, by word of mouth or by the making of a
the challenge to the election of staff officers, not
because of popularity but because of capable arid
dependable qualities; and last, the challenge to
those elected to carry on their interesting and im-
portant work with the utmost thought and care.
Although this is, briefly, the function in the school-
room, the school itself is not the only body concerned
with the success of THE CARIBBEAN, for there is al
community,
which,
when called
upon, his
responded with an overwhelming list of kind arts.
As a result, the annual not only serves its purpose
in the school but continues to function as a point of
contact between the high school student and the
community, thereby not only welding a steadfast
friendship, but keeping alive the interest of the com-
munity in school activities and its faith in its youqg
people.
Webication.
O OUR FACULTY, WHO HAVE SO ABLY AND WILLINGLY
E ND ENCOURAGED US IN OUR WORK AND
HEr, D-.rri.J A1i
JLiN\A/Jt IXflISJ.lJ Ut0
II'~ 'S^Jfl
TVnslVna gnflIJ1/
PLAY
SUCCESS
AND
AND
TO WHOM
THAT
GRATITUDE,
WE HAVE
OWE
ANY
ATTAINED,
DEDICATE
THIS,
DEGREE
WITH
OUR
LOVE
SEVENTH
l AUTI1RIR ANT"
4
A MMTT a
"*TLTIT
THE
CARIBBAEN.
THE SOUL OF THE SCHOOL.
George Oakes, '24.
_ -g -II
school what esprit de corps
It is the spirit of the body, the
submergence of self for the good of the whole. It
is manifested in many ways.
As an example of the submergence of self for
the good of the school, consider the boy
or girl
athletic contest with a rival team, and perhaps
is never better shown, than when, in the face of
certain defeat, it loyally urges on its own team
to continue the fight.
But school spirit is not confined to loyally sup-
porting and enthusiastically cheering on the team
who is anxious to appear to good advantage in
athletics, has set his mind on playing on the team
in an important contest against a rival school,
and, at the eleventh hour, gives place willingly to
another, thus defeating his fondest hopes, but en-
suring that the team representing his school shall
win. This is one of the highest forms of school
spirit, the sacrifice of the individual for the good
of the school.
School spirit is also manifested by the student
body under a cheer leader, cheering and encour-
on the athletic field.
The submergence of self is
self-discipline and there is a discipline of the class
room as well as military
discipline, or the disci-
pline of a well regulated business office.
That par-
ticular student body in which the sacrifice of self
and the loyal support extended to teachers are
best manifested, is the best exemplification of
school spirit or esprit de corps.
For, while school spirit on the athletic field is
noisy and easy to acquire, the other must be slowly
acquired in
everyday work
in the
prosaic class-
aging the school while
ts men are engaging in an
room.
5
School spirit is to the
is to an army.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Miss Dodd. Miss Hornbeak. Miss O'Connell. Mr. Schneppmueller.
BY THE SHORES OF THE
Clarice Steenberg,
On the shores of Caribbean
On the shining Big Sea Water
Stands Cristobal High, the mighty,
Stands in pride the seat of learning
For each loyal son and daughter.
In this building is a teacher,
She, Miss Dodds of Minnesota,
Chief of all that she sets eyes on,
Best chief on the whole horizon.
Chief of old Cristobal High.
She it is who teaches Latin,
Pounds it in until we know it
Wonders then why we don't show it
When we have examinations.
She it is who knows old Julius,
Caesar, of the Roman battles,
She it is from whom the Seniors
Learn sociology and English.
And that English-how she knows it!
Knows it as it should be spoken,
Knows it as it should be written,
Knows it 'way from first to last,
Knows it 'way from last to first,
Knows it
Knows it
Very
with its first side last side,
with its last side first side,
learned is Miss Dodds.
Srom Texas, then, we have Miss Hornbeak,
She, the one who is so little,
Little-yet so awe-inspiring;
She, the one who sternly gazes,
Gazes at us, almost through us,
Gazes through us, never round us,
Wants to have the book report
Which was 'sposed to have been written
But was somehow just forgotten.
Then she tells us we must stay in,
Stay in till the thing is written-
*;!| * irwf- ,n tirt^ eiUttn
Miss Barnhouse. Miss BakewelL.
Miss Currier.
ARIBBEAN.
Then o'er science, mathematics,
Reigns the wondrous Miss O'Connell,
She who talks of a2 b2,
Tells us of an x2 y2
Multiplied by c2 d2,
Then branches off to H2 0
Until we think our brains are slow
So very slow they will not go
When e'er she speaks of H2 0.
In this great Cristobal High School
We have with us Herr Schneppmueller;
He does teach the boys their drawing.
If not drawing, then they're planning,
If not planning, then they're drawing.
Plane geometry he teaches;
With his compass and his ruler
He does work out propositions;
Makes us feel our blank brain's dumbness,
M likes us feel our dumb brain's blankness,
Makes us wish that we were smart as
"Schneppie" is in problem's plane.
Next we have with us Miss Bakewell,
She of household arts and history,
She who makes us learn of Europe
Learn it from the outside inside,
Learn it from the inside outside,
Study till we know it right side,
Bone it till we know it wrongside,
Till we know it all by heart.
Last, not least, our dear Miss Barnhouse.
She from whom we learn the Spanish
Till we think that we can speak it,
Till we think that we can write it,
Till on our Spanish friends we try it
And find they do not understand.
On the shores of Caribbean.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
MR. W. W.
ANDREW,
Miss MABEL JEAN
BARNHOJUS
Watsonville,
Providence, Rhode Island.
Superintendent of Schools.
Leland Standford Jr.
California.
University.
Spanish.
MR. FRANK T.
WILSON,
Sophomore
Class Adviser.
Seattle,
Washington.
University of Washington.
Assistant to Superintendent of Schools.
IN OTT-wA RIMWA
Perhaps you're not so fortunate as we
In having one who takes the u
most
In teaching you so that you plainly see
Miss J. ISABELLA DODDS,
Claremont, Minnesota.
Macalester
Latin, Social
Adviser.
The "why" and "when
Whose wit
College.
Problems
and Economics.
Senior
Class Adviser
of Spanish anJ
"where;
and mirth and jolly company
Afford us merriment beyond compare.
Regardless of the person, place, or town,
One better than Miss
Barnhouse can't
be found.
IN CHAUCERIAN VERSE.
Eek now we'll tell you of our principal
Who's sikerly of port full amyable,
Who does her best always to be of cheer
In school, in church, in clubs, both far and near.
Miss
MARGARET
Grand Rapids,
H. O'CON
NELL,
Minnesota
Creighton University.
University of Minnesota.
Of Caesar,
, economics too
Algebra,
General Science,
Physics,
Solid Geometry.
She knows the p tst and present through
From Claremont four long years ago she ca
Since when we know Miss Dodds by name
Miss
ADELA F.
BAKE
and th
rough.
and fame.
WELL,
Lansing, Iowa.
Iowa State College.
University of California.
IN COMMON METER.
Just one short year she has been here,
But you should see what she has done.
She's made all doubts and puzzles clear;
And with her, work's turned
She's good in
Physics,
into fun.
Algebra;
But that is not the best-
Home
Economics,
Adviser.
Modern
History.
Why so few b
ugs in Panama?
Miss O'Connell has the
IN LONG METER.
MR. HENRY K.
To judge her, you must know her well
In all her classes and her moods:
Of modern hist'rv she can
And how to make the best of foods.
To say this is to say the least-
Search every comment you can find-
To plan a party or a feast
Miss Bakewell
once has declined.
Miss HATTIE LEE HORNBE
Saint
SCHNEPPMUELLER,
. Minnesota.
Stout Institute.
Manual Training, Mechanical Drawing, Geometry.
IN SPENSERIAN STANZA
Of Mr.
Schneppmueller
we'll now relate-
The drawing teacher of Cristobal Hig}
With tourist hat, umbrella, at a rate
Of fifty miles per hour he seems to fly
To school
with giant strides that pass us by.
Waxahachie, Texas.
Trinity University.
Columbia University.
American
Just six feet one as you
can easy see;
With blonde moustache and horn-rimmed b
voice
History and Civics.
Adviser.
right blue eve;
that maketh for us melody,-
The man most liked and worthy of our faculty.
IN RIME ROYAL.
Perhaps
you think it strange that we should
Miss HELEN F. CURRIER,
spend
Minneapolis,
University of
Our time to write of one so very small;
But, if you knew her well who strives to lend
Inspiring thoughts that to our best selves call,
That mold our speech and ideals into all
That's beautiful,-with us then you would seek,
The friendship of Miss Hattie Lee Hornbeak.
But think not that is all that she can do;
Her jolliness close rivals her good will,
Her pleasing smile her enemies can woo;
Minnesota.
Minnesota.
Chorus, Orchestra.
IN SHORT METER.
Miss Currier can jest
Just like the rest of us.
And though we seldom do our be
She'd rather smile than fuss.
English,
Caribbean Stah
care
Junior
English,
Freshman
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Class Motto---Vestigia nulla retrorsum
Class Colors-Green and White.
Class Flower-Buginvillmea.
CHARLOTTE HOUSE.
20-21
Chorus.
'21-'22
School Basket Ball.
Indoor Baseball.
"Olympian Council.
Class Basket Ball.
Track.
Chorus.
22-'23
Girls' Glee Club.
Girls' Athletic Editor, THE CARIBBEAN.
School Basket Ball.
Track
"The Princess and the Sage."
'23-'24
President Senior Class.
Chorus.
President Girls' Athletic Association.
Supper Club.
Basket Ball.
Indoor Baseball.
"Charm School."
Tennis.
Joke Editor, THE CARIBBEAN.
GEORGE OAKES.
'20-21!
'21-'22
'22-'23
Delaware City High School.
Middletown Township High School.
School Basket Ball.
Baseball.
Track.
Chorus.
'23-'24
Class Vice President.
President, Boys' Athletic Association.
Circulation Manager, THE CARIBBEAN.
Baseball.
Class Basket Ball.
School Basket Ball.
THE
CAR IBBEAN. 9
FLORENCE ALBERT.
20-'21
Curtis High School.
22 Class Basketball.
'-22 -'2
High School Chorus.
Supper Club.
Exchange Editor, THE
Class Vice President.
CARIBBEAN.
Supper Club.
Class Secretary.
Literary Editor, THE CARIBBEAN.
Supper Club.
"The Charm School"
Chorus.
CHESTER L. PIKE.
Jefferson High School, Portland
Oregon
West Philadelphia High School, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Camden High School, Camden, N. J.
Class President.
Athletic Editor, THE CARIBBEAN.
School Basket Ball.
Class Basket Ball.
Class Tennis.
President, Upsilon Gamma Gamma.
Business Manager, THE
T rack.
CARIBBEAN.
School Basket Ball.
ClaIss Basket Ball.
Chorus.
"Charm School.
GLADYS B. LOWANDE.
'20-'2I
Class Secretary.
Supper Club.
"Olympian Council.
Bowling.
Indoor Baseball.
21- '22
School Basket Ball.
Class Vice President.
Athletic
Chorus.
Association-Secretary.
Swimming.
Basket Ball.
23 Assistant Editor, T'HE CARIBBEAN.
Secretary, Girls' Athletic Association.
"Trysting Place."
Track.
Basket Ball.
Editor, THE CARIBBEAN.
2 -2 2
Chorus.
2.l-'24
School Tennis.
Track.
'23-'24
'23-'24
THE
CARIBBEAN.
ETHEL SONNEMAN.
'20-"'21
'21-22
22-'23
"Esmeralda.
"Olympian Council.
Chorus.
Glee Club.
Supper Club.
Chorus.
Glee Club.
Tennis.
23-'24
Supper Club.
Chorus.
School Notes Editor, THE CARIBbEAN.
"Charm School."
EDITH COULBOURN.
'20-'21
West Philadelphia High School
for Girls.
'21-'22
'22-'23
Milford High School.
Assistant Circulation Manager, THE
RIBBEAN.
Class Secretary.
Chorus.
Supper Club.
Glee Club.
'23-'24
Chorus.
Supper Club.
"Charm School.
IRENE McCOURT.
'20-'2I
'21-'22
'22-'23
'23-'24
"Olympian Council.
Chorus.
Girls' Glee Club.
Supper Club.
Chorus.
Supper Club.
Supper Club.
Chorus.
"Charm School."
THE
CARIBBEAN.
DOROTHY B. ABENDROTH.
'20-'2I1
'21-'22
'22-'23
Balboa High
Balboa High
Basketball.
School.
School.
Chorus
Supper Club.
Chorus.
"Charm
School."
JOSE AROSEMENA
'19--20
'20-'2I
'21-'22
'22--'2
23-'24
Balboa High
Europe.
Balhoa High
Basket Ball.
"Grumpy."
Chorus.
School.
School.
THE CARIBBEAN,
Assistant Manager.
Track
Class Basket Ball.
School Basket Ball.
School Baseball.
Chorus.
"Charm School."
INZA MARKHAM.
'20-'2I
'2I-'22
'22-'23
'23- 24
"Olympian Council."
Supper Club.
Supper Club.
Supper Club.
'23-'24
THE
CARIBBEAN.
PROGNOSTICATION
I tuned in the radio.
"Station
speaking.
BY RADIATION.
The latest
reports
from station CHS will now be given."
I settled down to spend a pleasant evening.
"LEAVINGS."
We, the members of the class of '24, being about
to pass away (to new fields), do hereby distribute
our several possessions and characteristics as fol-
lows:
"Class of'
21--
Gosh!
I turned it off.
i. Florence Albert leaves
to Olga Arcia
Tuning in again, later, 1 caught the last of a
long-winded speech by Mr. Jos6 Arosemena, who
had, in his capacity of President of Panama, just
concluded a treaty with the United States where-
by no school child was to be forced to study or to
attend school against his wishes.
Then another name caught my attention. Miss
Charlotte Housel, the world-famed pianist,
to play
her famous selection,
was
"Moonlight Son-
ata." I listened enraptured until the
was struck.
nate
Then--
"Mr. George Oakes, forward on the
Celtics Basket
Ball Team,
'Original
will now tell a few
secrets of the game.
There followed the announcements of attrac-
tions in famous playhouses.
"Miss Ethel Sonneman, the greatest emotional
noon-hour monopoly
of the France
Field
phone line, appreciating the latter's rising need
of same.
Her composure she bestows upon Cald-
well B. Foos.
2. Charlotte Housel leaves her vamping ways to
Helen Abendroth with one word of advice, "To be of
any real value, they must be exercised constantly."
3. George Oakes leaves his perpetual grouch to
Richard Fisher to be added to the latter's already
abundant supply. Believing that "variety is the
spice of life," he leaves his Physics marks to Mor-
ris Marchosky.
4. Gladys Lowande with characteristic thought-
fulness bequeaths her small stature to Genevieve
Booth.
And her busy office of editor-in-chief of
the annual she leaves with the best of wishes to
Ruth Hopkins.
actress since
Theda Bara, is acting in
'One Wild
5. Inza
Markham
leaves
Andrew Smith
Night,' at the Strangers
Enough of that!
"Station
ABC,
' Club, Colon.
Philippine
Islands, speaking.
The United States Navy, commanded by Admiral
Chester L. Pike, is anchored here.
Albert,
assistant
photographer of
Miss Florence
the Islands,
took numerous photos of the fleet in formation
this afternoon." Then began a lot of sputtering,
so I tuned in at Station CHS again.
After a short talk on the latest books, I heard
that Miss Gladys Lowande, though she had lately
entered a state of wedded bliss, was acting as pub-
lisher for Miss I)Dorothy Abendroth, who had just
bathing suit.
6. Irene McCourt, after profound consideration,
leaves her permanent wave to Dorothy Deibert.
7. Ethel Sonneman's passion for wild-cat hunts
by moonlight is bestowed, after much thought,
upon Harriet Steenberg.
8. Edith Coulbourn leaves her connections with
the Navy to Ruth Duey.
9. Chester Pike, following the unspoken wishes
of the faculty, leaves his noon-hour laboratory
privilege to Richard Fisher.
His ability to cram
for the Annapolis exams he passes on
Stewart.
to Guy
finished her latest book,
and Individual." Then
"How to be Independent
io. Jos6 Arosemena leaves his sheik methods,
after exercising them all year, to William Cousins.
"Miss Irene McCourt will now talk on
"Practice makes perfect," is the slogan
accom-
Best All-Year Round Care of Barns,
' to be fol-
lowed by a few humorous incidents gathered by
Miss Inza Markham, based on her years of close
association with school teachers."
"Gee," I
thought,
"she ought to know.
lived in the same house with them for five years.
I was about to turn off the radio when,
Sta-
paying the gift.
II. Dorothy
leaves her
Abendroth,. after
"Stacomb"
much
urging,
to Dorothy Stauffer, ask-
ing only that it be used freely and frequently.
Upon consideration, her ability to grind out a
theme a day is bestowed upon Mildred Morgan.
To the members of the faculty, the class as a
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THE
CARIBBEAN.
by Clock Position:
1 Mildred Morgan;
Marchowsky;
Adela Bakewell.
2 Andrew Smith: 3
8 Olga Arcia; 9 Willi
Base 1 Helen Abend
Anniel Heim; 4 Katherine Fischer; 5 Caldwell Foos; 6 Dorothy Stauffer; 7
am Cousins; f10 Dorothy Deibert; 11 Harriet Steenberg; 12 Richard Fisher;
roth; base 2 Ruth Hopkins: base 3 Guy Stewart; base 4 Ruth Duey.
Nut shown-Leo Eberenz, Margot Pugley.
Morris
Center,
TH E
JUNIORS.
RICHARD
"Dick" believes there
is much fame and fortune
awair-
C.LASS OFFICERS ing the dancing
os. CLASS OADEL
FOOS. CALDWEI.I
instructor.
Ruth Hopkins---President.
Guv Stewart-Vice-President.
Dorothy Deibert
-Secretary
"C. B. F." blushingly confessed
a sheik like
that he wanted to be
ack Coffey.
ANNIEL
and Treasurer.
"Niel" told
us in a hushed
voice that she would
adore
being a surgical
ROTH, HELEN
me, "Fluff,
"to be
" rather belies her
secret
Her nickna
bition which i
KINS,
a:nl-
nurse.
RUTH
"Bootie"
a bovy
surprised us by telling
us that she d like to
a jazz composer.
ARCIA, OLGA
wants
is rather
to be terribly
sophisticated,
"Olguita
sweet.
ARCHOSKY,
MacT
"Mac
NORRIS
intends
a millionaire
philanthropist.
KEWELL,
MORGAN, MILDRED
ADELA
Our good adviser has
Junior-Senior banquets.
decided to
swear
oti any
more
Here's
a good
one! "Millv"
wn [ts
to be a tight-rope
walker.
USINS,
\ILLIAM
To be a Paderewski
on the uke
"Willie's"
paramount
SMITH, ANDREW
"Andv" has started
out to be a second John Ba
rrymore
desire.
and he
s well on his
DEIBERT, DOROTHY
STAFFER, DOROTHY
got mad when
we discovered that she wanted to
"Dotty
" said she'd fool
us as she
was going
to lead
be an old maid.
life of leisure.
DUEvE
RurTH
ENBs RG,
HARRIET
"Rufus" has
such musical talent that
we all believe
"C>"-' -
k.*,n-d ,i,.r4 cin,It ri tkh raImni
Isn t
very
S-.. L
secret
because
everyone
knows
ani! own a Cadillac.
Names
ABEND
"Dot
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THE
CARIBBEAN.
fltI__L.A. = AWt'T C AfDkltflhTOW A .A:.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
THE SOPHOMORE CLASS
OFFICERS
President-Dorothy Pike.
Vice-President-Wallace Johnson.
Secretary-James Van
Scotter.
Treasurer-Delilah May.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE
x. Manola Bliss were not worrying about her Latin?
2. Hildegarde Blythe were tending to some one else's busi-
ness?
3. Betty Carson came to school in the afternoon?
4. Jack Coffey were always on time?
5. Arthur Cotton knew his lessons?
6. Maurice Eggleston sat still in class?
SOPHOMORE CLASS
14. Juan Papi didn't have an ample supply of saddle horses?
15. Dorothy Pike bobbed her hair?
16. Carlos Pulgar ran out of hair grease?
17. Clarice Steenberg had no one to pass her notes?
18. Garland Tinsley were noisy?
19. Dorothea Tufts brought a voice amplifier to classes?
20. Gay Turner would
answer
unprepared" in class?
7. Irene Hopkins didn't serve lunch in the fifth period?
8. Wallace Johnson stayed after school when told?
9. Johanna Kleefkens were not always wanting the window
shut?
xo10. Delilah May didn't have to beg for dues?
II. Lola Munoz lost her smile?
12. Mildred Neely knew her history lesson?
13. John Ordway could recite without smiling?
S
21. James Van Scotter studied his lessons instead of reading
novels or lunching?
22. Dorothy Vaughan had a speedometer to regulate her
speech.
Christian Wirtz were six feet and a-half tall?
24. Miss Barnhouse, our faithful class adviser, weren
ways ready and willing to help us?
16 THE CARIBBEAN.
THE
CARIBBEAN:
FRESHMAN CLASS.
Freshmen.
Marion Barrett... ,
Emily Bledsoe..........
Frank Booth.., ........
Genevieve Booth.......
Pauline Briggs..........
Mary Douglas Bronson..
Ward Bronson, ...........
Harry Brown...... .. .
Lawrence Callaway.. ,
William Clinchard .. ..
William Coffey.......
Myrtle Coulbourn..
Grace
Dowell.
Rae Fischer.... . . . . .
Teresa Gallagher. .. .. .
James Grider..... . . . .
Julian Hackett.... .
Louise Heim . . . .
Mary Heim..........
William Henter.... . .
Russell Jones ... ... .
Miss Hattie Lee Hornbeak.
Jeannette Kalendar;. .....
Oliver King..... . ... .
Margurite
Kitt...
Elizabeth Laning. .
Edward Lowande..
Clara May.........
Erma Phillips.....
John Solomon..-. .
Fred Sonneman .
Henry Stevens......
Wilhelmina
Surse
Stute.
Taylor..
Foster Tufts .... . .
Helen Vineyard........
Dorothy Wertz........
Charles Will . . ...
Euphemia Woolnough..
Direction.
E.SE.
N.N.E
S.g. E *
E. by S.,
S.W. by
N.E. by
S.W .....
N. by E.
East........
S. by W ......
S.S.E ...... . .
W. by S. . . .
W. byN.... .
N. by W...
N.W .. . .
W.N.W....
N.W. by W
S. bv S. E,
Center.
N.E. .
South.
(1)
Lower
E.byN...
N.N.W.. .
S.W. by WV
S.E. by E.
West... .
N.E. b
S. by E.
Lower le
W.S.W..
E.N.E...
North...
N.W.
S.S.W.
Chief Ambition.
To outshine the other Maid Marion..
To be an advertisement for Pepsodent
To be
To sini
To be
To be
To be
To rivi
To be
a
g
a
sailor ... ..... ... .. .
in the Metropolitan. .
second Ma
Pickford
a modern Cleopatra .
a great lawyer... . .
ill Charles Chanlmin.....
.
a comedian-..:..
To be demoted.. . . .
To join a circus....-. .
To "sit by the side of the road and be
a friend to man."
To "fiddle away her time"...,.....
To install a secret wireless in
her desk
To be a second Ann Pennington . .
To institute couches in class instead
of chairs.
To be a second Sanzio Raphael... .
To edit a book on How to
To be seen
Concentrate
and not heard...
To be a Rudolph Valentino . .
To know the why's of everything..
To start us along the right road .
To be a heart-breaker. . . . . .
To be allowed
to read wild
novels in peace.
To become a medium ........
To be a second Carrie Chapman
To be a floorwalker ........
To live up to her first name.- .. -
To become
the personification
soundless motion.
To be head waiter at the Biltmore, .
To be tennis champion of the world.
To be a Julian Eltinge .... ..
To be the best-ever dome
teacher.
To be
a naval
stic scien
officer ....
To become a labor leader .. ..
To pose for coconut oil shampoo
To live up to her direction.. . .
To be
a college professor .
To be a whiz in algebra.......
How We Know.
By her devotion to her
Hood."
By her radiant smile.
By his interest in boats.
I By the zest sh
own on
own "Robin
Tuesday's sixth
period.
SBy her flowing locks.
By her
Bv his
speaking eyes.
love. for arguing.
y his antics in the assembly
room.
By the way he seeks the limelight.
By his interest in the eighth grade.
By his Siamese twinshtp with Christian
VWirtz.
By her wholesomespiritof comradeship.
By her rapid progress on the violin.
By her futile attempts to put something
over.
By her grace in dancing.
By his classroom lounging.
By his skill in drawing.
By her faculty for studying under all
conditions.
By her self-effacing
manner.
By his stacombed hair.
Bv his insatiable curiosi
By the efforts she
direction.
By her languishing
has made
in that
glances.
By his actions when caught with a book
in assembly hall.
By her frequent "absence from the body"
in daydreams.
By the dignity with which she presides
over the class
By practice he ha
By her start.
meetings.
s had in school aisles.
By her quiet-as-a-mouse
trances.
By the way he
refreshments.
By his untiring
generals
efforts at
exits
and en-
serving
the game.
Because he makes such a fascinating lady.
By the delicious samples she brings back
from cooking class.
By the way he swanked as Lieutenant
Pinkham in the Freshman play.
By his interest in a full dinner pail.
By her fluffy golden locks.
By the fact that she has gone there.
By the way rn which he dispenses knowl-
edge.
Ask Miss O'Connell.
Alpha Morgan, Jack Nunnery, Melba Baker, Ethel Nelson. Virginia Tucker.
. .
T
' Not shown. Not shown:
THE
CARIBBEAN,
Mildred Morgan, '25.
Although we have lost track of a few of our
graduates, we are living in hopes that THE CARIB-
BEAN of 1924 will reach them and set their minds
in the road that leads back to old Cristobal High.
Many indeed have taken that road, for from
some we have had cherished visits;
from others,
kindly greetings and interesting letters which we
have read eagerly;
from a few, pretty gifts and
checks for our Easter Bazaar,
with perhaps an
order (and money order) for the 1924 issue of this
book.
We don t want an alumnus to wander
away from us, for we are proud of them all and
are anxious that they keep up their old friendly
interest in us who are trying to keep up the stand-
ards of Cristobal High School, standards which
they have set.
be bigger and better, and that much success will
crown your efforts.
MInOT COTTON.
Susie Harrison, 1429 Munsey Building, Balti-
more, Md., is working
as a stenographer.
wishes the best of success to the Annual for this
year.
Catherine Waid of New York City, N. Y., will
be graduated from Columbia University School of
Journalism in June.
As far as we know Burke Welch is still residing
mn Wyoming.
The last address we have for Mary Verner is
Hendersonville, N. C.
1919.
This year another
band goes forth-each
James Raymond,
residing with his parents in
take the part in life for which Cristobal High has
helped tcf prepare him.
"Oh years may come and years may go,
But may our faithful alumni go on forever.
1918.
R. F. D.
3, Box 2586,
Cristobal, is working at the depot commissary.
118 MAPLE AVENUE,
TAKOMA PARK, MD.
I've just come from church where I heard a
good lecture on psychology-and the last thing
he told us was that we were born to be kings and
TAMPA, FLA.
The superintendent of schools was here yester-
queens.
pretty
grand
but nevertheless
don't know what to say in THE CARIBBEAN!
day and saw Mattie's CARIBBEAN.
well that he wanted a copy. Go a
1923.
He liked it so
head and try to
(Mattie says it can't be done.)
LULA PULLIG COMAN.
25I6 BEDFORD AVENUE,
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
I'm still working with the Western Union Tele-
I have been teaching for the past year at the
Washington School for Secretaries. I find the
work very interesting and enjoy it very much.
I'm also, in my spare time, taking an English
course at George Washington University. Best
wishes for the success of the
1924 CARIBBEAN.
graph Company in New York City.
The world
is not so large, for I see Canal Zone people quite
often. and when we aet together there is hound to
That's awful!
Sorryl
ALICE ARLENE BALL.
THE
CARIBBEAN,
1920.
up here, but they do not have to pay the athletes
Etha Bevington
from Woodbury's
Angeles, Calif.
was graduated in
Commercial
College
December
in Los
to come to California.
They come of their own
accord.
ALSO SEARS.
Best wishes for
COLON, R.
THE CARIBBEAN.
ALICE STILSON.
Lillian Cotton
Avenue,
Brooklyn,
Van Wagner, of 2516 Bedford
wishes
every
fortune for THE CARIBBEAN of 1924.
Katherine Burgoon Stewart, a pleasing adjunct
in the Cristobal Clubhouse, wishes every success
for this year's Annual.
Al Doyle
Canal
is working hard at the
Press getting
ready
to sen
The Panama
d little Miss
Eva Jeanne to college when she has been gradu-
ated from her daddy's and mother's alma mater
in 39 or 4o.
R. F. D. 4, COUDERSPORT,
I'm just writing a few lines to wish you s
and plenty of it.
PA.
success
Also, I want, through you, to
greet all my old friends and wish them health and
happiness.
Whatever else you may do, don't forget to put
BANCROFT
WAY,
my name on your mailing list.
I wouldn't miss
BERKELEY, CALIF.
When I received your message I was in the midst
of studying for my final examinations, my final
finals.
I wrote my last one this morning and next
week I shall again be a graduate.
It hardly seems as if it could be four years since
my copy of THE CARIBBEAN for anything.
KENNETH GREENE.
The last
time
we heard
Lindale
Davies he was residing in Boston, Mass.
1921.
I left high school.
They have been
MOUNT ST.
VINCENT-ON-THE-HUDSON.
years and have brought a full share of hard work
and study, but they have also been very happy
years.
I hope I may see some of you in California.
I join with the other alumni in sending you my
hearty greetings and most sincere wishes for hap-
piness and
success.
I am working hard for a B. S. degree and find
college life agreeable, both
tuallv.
am very glad to
socially and intellec-
see so much school
spirit in this year's class, and am sure its Annual
will be better than ever.
ALICE HUNTER.
HARLAN
W. HOLMWOOD.
Carl Duey is working in New
Box 279,
York City.
AUSTIN,
I am a candidate for mv B.
ical engineering this
year at
TEXAS.
. degree in mechan-
the University of
Texas. It seems a long time since I was in Cris-
tobal, but I can recall everything clearly.
JACK B.
FIELDS.
BOWDITCH STREET,
344 EAST 120 STREET,
NEW YORK CITY.
You'll find that there is a much harder life than
that of going to high school.
The way they hand
it to you here at Columbia makes you feel that the
Three Wise Men are at the head of the faculty
supervising the handing out of work and know-
ledge,as no one else could think of as much to have
BERKELEY,
I was
CALIF
very much disappointed at not getting
an Annual last year.
It must have gotten lost
you do.
So you see I have been quite busy and
still am-and shall be until school closes.
Then
for the glorious June when Paul and I see a good
in the mail.
If you have any left please sell one
to my brother and he will send it to me.
also get one for this year.
He will
I am gettjg along fine
place
and school
again.
saying
some good students again, for I think that with
the graduation of the class of '21 there were no
here. I will be graduated in May, 1925.
Next year I have the honor of being the captain
more good
School. D
ones
to be had at Cristobal
High
o you agree with me?
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Kirbv
Ferguson
is residing on
Colon
Beach
with her parents.
FORT RANDOLPH,
CANAL ZONE.
CUHECO FRATERNITY,
STATE COLLEGE, PA.
I am taking an electrical engineering course in
I sincerely hope that this year's Annual will be
a great success.
Although I shall soon be min the
States I shall always have a warm spot in my heart
for Cristobal High School and its faculty.
ELEANOR ZIMMERMAN.
Charles Henter is a radio man on an aeroplane
at Hampton Roads, Va.
Penn State College, Penn State, Pa.
position
summer.
in view
in New
York City
I have a
for this
See that my mother gets an Annual for me. I
hope things are going along fine and old Cristobal
High School is still the best in the land. Give
my regards to the faculty
success
of the graduates.
Best wishes for the
And here is hoping the
1922.
Annual is the best ever.
NEW
YORK- CITY.
I have been receiving news on the sly about a
few of the doings of our school which leads both
Frank and me to believe that each year the stu-
dents get better.
Be sure to save a place for us
GEORGE CARTWRIGHT.
GATUN,
CANAL ZONE.
Best wishes for the class of 1924 and for the
success
of the Annual.
to root for Cristobal High School at commence-
EMMA
TOWNSEND.
Frank says he knows more than I do.
Of course he does-he knows me, and I know him!
PAUL DOYLE.
GATUN, CANAL ZONE.
Thanks to the training I received at Cristobal
High School, I was able to be graduated from the
New York State Ranger School, a branch of the
I1 8 MAPLE AVENUE,
TACOMA PARK, MD.
I'm having a glorious time.
if we do have to work hard.
I love normal even
Best wishes for this
year s annual and the faculty.
MARJORIE D. BALL.
Syracuse
University.
Since
working for the Panamanian
junior surveyor.
Government as a
I have kept in touch, as much as possible, with
the Class of '24, and know that outside of being
the largest class to be graduated from Cristobal
High School they also hold the honor of being the
most wide-awake and ready to work of any class.
With them as the leaders, backed by sturdy work-
ers of Cristobal High School, this year's Annual
will be a record, hard to surpass.
WESLEY
TOWNSEND.
1221 MARSHALL LANE,
SYRACUSE, N.
I am at present a student in the New
Y.
York
State College of Forestry at Syracuse University.
THE CARIBBEAN has my best wishes for a suc-
cessful year.
JORDAN ZIMMERMAN.
Ida Brown (Mrs. Al Doyle), wishes every suc-
cess for THE CARIBBEAN of 1924.
1923.
TAMPA, FLA.
My very best wishes for the brainchild of Cris-
AUSTIN,
TEXAS.
My good wishes to THE CARIBBEAN and its
staff for 1924-may this issue be the best ever.
I am very intent on securing my B. S. degree and
am in love with work and Texas University. My
warmest regards to those who still remember
MARY GLENN FIELDS.
tobal High School-our Annual.
You'll be scan-
dalously proud of it-I get so puffed up when I
show mine to people up here. I showed it to one
man here whose daughter had been graduated
from Hillsboro High, the big school of Tampa,
and I told him, rather emphatically, that I
would put my
Annual
beside that
of Hillsboro
1 1 Ti 1......
ment.
r.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Well, howdy, friends of C. H. S.,
I wonder how you feel!
My hope is that you're at your best,
So you can listen to me spiel.
How time has flown-'tis but a year
Since I had many things to learn
In C. H. S., that school so dear,
For which I'll never cease to yearn.
My precious paper in my hand,
On graduation night last June,
Gave me a feeling that was grand,
And meant that I'd be working
I tried my hand at managing
A soda fountain at the Base,
But far from home I could not clin;
297 HIGHLAND AVENUE,
ARLINGTON, N J.
Hello Cristobal High!
I am awaiting the pub-
location of the 1924 Annual with the greatest of
expectations.
know
it will be the best yet.
Good luck to the staff and the school.
My life
will always be filled with memories of Cristobal
High-the best
PHILADELPHIA
soon-
Believe me, I have Cristobal High School, Miss
Dodds,
you kids,
our school
teams-in
short
Cristobal High School spirit-to thank for a num-
ber of things.
Do you know it's instilled some-
o'er to another place.
At Jackson's Laundry ev'ry day,
Eight hours' hard work do I put in,
So that when I receive my pay,
'Twill not be with that guilt
thing fine in us, something we graduates can never
lose. Sometimes, do you know, the thought of
all back
home
working,
plugging,
wishing
for the best to those of us who have gone on,
y ginem.
My future plans are not quite made,
And tho I chose the auto line,
I really wish I might have staid,
In C. H. S. a longer time.
Quite like the rest, I must pass o'er-
But raise to you three hearty cheers,
And hope your Book of '24
May prove the best of all the years'.
-Gerald D. Bliss
keeps me going when I get discouraged.
is anything I don't like to do, I
basket ball game and phew! The
If there
picture it's a
whistle blows,
I pitch in, and before I know it the game is over-
and there's another
thing I don t
again!
I am sending my best wishes to
BEAN
mind
doing
THE CARIB-
, may it be the best, no I don't mean
but make it be the best ever, make it truly
represent
t what all
classes ahead of you have
Ernst Euphrat, 3935 Burwood Avenue, South
Norwood, Cincinnati, Ohio, is attending dental
tried to have it do.
LOUISE HENTER.
college.
He is making his home with Doctor and
Mrs. Morris.
Emogene Nash is residing with her parents in
Balboa.
She sends her best regards to her friends
GATUN
, CANAL ZONE.
Kindly carry to the school and faculty my very
best wishes for a successful year, a more successful
play, and a most successful Annual.
and wishes for the success of the 1924 CARIBBEAN.
EDWARD MAY.
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school on the map.
HENRY MOORE.
So came
GENERAL HOSPITAL.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
II
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A.>
a
' K.s
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Albert,
TEN PRECEPTS OF ENGLISH.
Gladys B. Lowande, '24.
(Based on Professor Palmer's Self-Cultivation in English
I am English thy
language, who brought thee
out o
land of poorly expressed ideas, out of the house of tedium.
I. Thou shalt place no other study before me.
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any likeness of anything
that is not a tool of effective speech, or that is not
exact in impression, or that is not equivalent to what
thou shalt mean:
thou shalt not bow down thyself
unto limitations in the expression of thoughts, nor
serve such limitations, for I, English, thy
language,
VIII.
family that
English made
is within th
wondro
y gates:
us nouns,
for in all months
exquisite adjectives,
and appropriate adverbs, and all that with them is,
and rested not in any month, wherefore English bless-
eth all months and claimeth them.
V. Honor thy hearer and thy subject, that thy influence
may be great with the power which English, thy lan-
guage, giveth thee.
VI. Thou shalt not kill thy opportunities for advancement
in genera
1 serviceableness and in consequent delight
through a lassitude in thy daily advancement in
English study.
Thou shalt not be slovenly in speech.
Thou shalt not commit the vagrancy of reporting a
am a jealous
language, visiting
the limitations of the
vague am
1 undetermined meaning
or general emo-
fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth
generations of them that do not properly use me;
and showing loving kindness unto the thousands of
them that love me and keep my
precepts.
III. Thou shalt not take the possession of English, thy
language, in vain, for English will not hold him guilt-
less who taketh such a possession in vain.
IV. Nine months shalt thou
studies; bur all months
language; in
labor, and do all thy other
are labor unto English, thy
all of them thou shalt work, thou,
teacher, thv chum,
ssmates
even
tion and thou shalt not be afraid to send thy words
wherever they may follow best their purpose.
IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against any word in
thy Webster's Dictionary.
X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's strange, technical,
or inflated expressions, nor his poverty of expression
through provinciality, nor his personal command of
just a few approved resources of speech, nor his lack
of unity, nor his inability
of many, nor anything th
of thy neighbor.
to construct one thing out
at is the limited possession
Florence
THE
Beyond the Chagres River
Are paths that lead to death,
To the fever's deadly breezes,
To malaria's poisoned breath!
CARIBBEAN.
the wharf, the thing got slammed hard, and it
didn't break, only rang like a gong, with a pecul-
iar quiverming sound."
Hm-m!
the bed.
I'll speak to him.
He approached
The man roused himself.
"Hello, Doc! he said eagerly.
Listen, Doc,
I've made a wonderful discovery, and these fools
won't believe me.
Beyond the tropic foliage
Where the alligator waits,
Are the mansions of the devil-
You'll believe me, won't you,
Doc?"
"Sure!" the doctor returned calmly.
all about it."
"Tell me
His original estates!
"I've discovered a new people, Doc, and opened
up the greatest field for scientific investigation
that the world has ever known.
Me, Doc, me!
Beyond the Chagres River
Are paths forever unknown,
With a spider
neath each pebble,
And a scorpion
neath each stone.
I'm the only one left.
There were five of us, there
were, all fearing neither God nor man, and all after
one thing-gold!
There was 'Chinese' M'Gee, the
wickedest little death-dealing bunch of humanity
I've ever seen-little and consumptive, but sure
-Gilbert.
death
with either hand at anything under two
"I tell you, its true!
I've seen it!
You might
hundred yards. Then there were Big John, a
giant Slav, dumb but strong, and willing to do
think I'm crazy, but it's God's own truth.
swear it on a stack of Bibles a mile high!"
man's voice broke sharply.
sically
and mentally.
I'll
He was a wreck, phy-
e men lowered him
what he
crook
gentle
was told,
wanted
and Sir
for murder,
as a child,
Harry, an
English
but soft-spoken
and myself,
to say nothing
of Philadelphia Charley, the head of the party.
tenderly to the hospital bed.
With an ecstatic
Brains!
was due to him that we
had all
sigh, he sank back, babbling happily.
"Lord, how I've dreamed about it!" he said.
"White sheets, white people, and the clean white
smell of things." He lay back and rested.
Came the doctor from the other side, who had
escaped that time back in the States, when they
almost caught us in New York.
what
killed
Even Chink obeyed him.
and so
we went
across
His brains were
He was chief all right.
Well, we
had to lie low,
the Chagres and down
been summoned hurriedly.
The interne spoke to
trails that no human foot had trod, cutting our
him in a low tone-"Extraordinary case-came
down the Chagres in what appeared to be a glass
way,
streams.
fording
swimming
alligator-infested
It was hard, bitter hard, and sometimes
boat, with no visible means of propulsion.
Seems
we would meet a native who would warn us back-
half out of his head-almost starving when we
picked him up-raving about some queer people
or some queer place he has been in-can't make
him out at all."
"Glass boat, you said?"
I t I
asked the doctor in-
VIalo, muy malo!' but we kept on.
Our compass
was broken, and we didn't know where we were
going, but we kept on-and then Chink got sick.
Poor devil, he was the weakest of the party, and
when we traveled through a swamp for two days,
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IIKTJE
THE CARIBBEAN.
for weeks, and we thought it might cheer poor
Chink up, so w
was sorry for C
and rubbed it
Charley gave a
the scared nigg
had gotten Cha
It v
We
it, t
Chi
it a
swit
asked
was
goo(
front
it, C
was
met
and
was
there
We
didr
die
"i
lectE
dow
stro
beca
had
buri
kno
e
hin
on
ye
er'
rle
b
l
broughtt him o
k, and he took
Chink's foreh
11 and grabbed
s hand.
y too, bui
vas shaped from an ing
passed it around, ever
he fever in our blood n
nk's. We passed it to ]
nd crooned to it as if i
:ched those icy eyes o
ed him where he had
scared blue, but he
d magic and that it hi
i a place where there
nly much, much, big
underground, and th;
al that the idol was ma
that the temples had
sure death to go any n
i, and showed us the
tried to make him gi
't know just where it
if he tried to go there;
Chink died that night.
ed to the last, and we
n the delirium. He ha
nger than death itself.
wuse he said I was the
. -
al
ws)
We t
t he s
ot of pi
y hand
nore dea
him, toe
t were
f his on
gotten
said th
ad come
were m
ger, an
at the
de of fo
roofs o
ver. The native
: out a little idol
ead. Just then
Sthe idol out of
thought the heat
craped the idol.
ure gold. Gold!!
eagerly grasping
idly than that in
), and he fondled
a baby; then he
the nigger and
it. The native
e idol was very
., long, long ago
any statues like
d that this city
people used this
r pots and pans,
f it. He said it
earer to it than we were
general direction of it.
ide us, but he said he
was and that he would
sc
c
d
I
or
Ve buried him that nig
service (where he 1
, and though we wer
Swe
Hev
would
a wil
He le
ily fi
ht.
earn
e all
let
was
St
se
11 t
ft
-ie
C
ed
lh
him go.
s calm and col-
ee him fighting
hat was almost
his guns to me,
nd he had ever
harley gave the
it God only
ard men, there
wasn't a dry eye in the bunch, and I was crying like
a baby.
"But the gold fever had us fast, and next morn-
ing we set out in search of the city. We made slow
time, hacking and slashing at the thick growth.
Then, for a time, we followed a rock outcrop. For
seven days we followed it, as it seemed to lead in
the direction that we wanted to go, and we traveled
far. We couldn't tell where we were, but we kept
on and on.
"Then came the great day. We left the rock
outcrop where it went below the surface again,
and plunged anew into the jungle. Of a sudden we
came to a small river, perhaps fifty feet wide, and
t arch.
But what struck us st
J
fear was the thing that stood beside
was shaped geometrically in the for
cylinderfora head; a truncated cone.
at the top than at the bottom, for
four long, flexible cylinders, with tri
at their extremities, for arms and legs.
saw us at the same time that we
started for us with a curious sliding
extremely fast. Big John and Harr
for him to get to them, but whip
45's and opened up. Charley and I
slightly as the bullets struck him,
clear, ringing sound with which th
off him into thile water, throwing ui
spray. It sounded like fine china bei
silver, or like glasses clinking to
he was on them. With two terrific
prisms on the ends ofhis upper cylind
their skulls. Then Charley went do
the thing perceptibly slacken his
knew Charley was not killed. The
toward me; then everything went b
"When I came to, I was being lift
boat. That is, it looked like glass. I
te 1
mac
look
look
som
imp
He1
uno
the
out
arci
tor. He was handling m
must have been seven fet
de of, or covered with am
:ed like cream-like lenses
ing into the top of a per
thing within looking
session of a great intelli
put me into the boat wit
conscious, and then he h
sides of the boat in his
into the center of the s
1.
-ft.~ I
e as i
et hig
nor of
es. Ii
.iscop
out a
gence
hCha
imsel
prison
trean
ill with staring
the arch. It
m of a man-a
,slightly wider
a body; and
angular prisms
The creature
saw him, and
gait that was
y did not wait
ped out their
saw him falter
and heard the
Ley ricocheted
p fountains of
ng struck with
gether. Then
: blows of the
ers,he crushed
wn, but I saw
swing, and I
thing swung
lack.
ed into a glass
Looked at my
were a feather.
H^e was either
a substance that
t reminded me of
e-that feeling of
t you. I got an
and an alert will.
rley, who wasstill
f got in. Taking
ns, he impelled it
Sand toward the
\
Dipping with the river, we shot down into
darkness.
"It was pitch dark at first, and we
the creature glowing phosphorescent
)om..
iveled
shing
: were
and d
back
hwly.
stare
The bc
at frigh
around
standing
ownwar
by sheet
We did i
d struck
)at, if left to itself, 1
tful speed, because the
the stern and past the
g still and the water ru
d:1. The thing seemed to
r will-power, so that it
not see how this could h
with awe at the thing's
would see
in the
water was
bow, as if
shing past
beholding
descended
happen and
lenses.
a
THE
CARIBBEAN.
white protective covering that was applied to him
like a coat of paint.
He seemed to view the haze
"A small passageway communicated with this
room, and through it he led the way, with us at the
with something very like fear.
Then he looked at
rear.
The corridor opened into what appeared to
us, and we read his thoughts! W e didn t hear them,
we didn't see them, we didn't make them out in
English words, but we
spoken, this idea: 'If
experimented correct
"got"
as plainly as if he had
No. 6780.486 theorized and
ly,
these
unaffected bv the death ravs.
creatures
will be
It is a wonderful
opportunity to prove or disprove his work.'
"Death rays! But we were helpless, held to
the bottom of the boat by some invisible force.
The green light grew brighter.
The creature seem-
ed to be obsessed with the desire to get past it as
quickly as possible. It grew dazzling, blinding, and
be a great audience chamber,
with innumerable
small passageways leading into it as did ours. It
was filling rapidly with creatures like ours, and
more were piling into it every moment.
Every-
thing was done in perfect order.
"Our captor lifted us both to a raised platform
at one end of the hall.
There was one other crea-
ture on the platform, who seemed to act as a sort
of chairman of the meeting, and as soon as we
arrived in sight of the crowd, he began to send
thought waves at tension, just as a speaker raises
we were forced to hide our eves.
Slowly it sub-
his voice to address an assembly.
His discourse, in
sided, and we uncovered our aching eyes. We
were rapidly driving into the darkness again, and
were conscious of our captor's relief.
us minutely,
but without
look through flesh and bone.
slon:
'Evidently unharmed.
moving,
He examined
seeming
We got the impres-
Curious, but I am
unable to receive their mind impressions.
' This at
effect, was this:
'Brother scientists, number 1198.-
658 has returned, as you can see.
He has, by
means of his perfected protection against the green
death rays, penetrated by the River Deathladen
to the outer world, of whose existence we have been
aware, but of which we have known nothing. The
formula for this protection is as yet the secret of
least, was comforting.
We were unharmed, and he
Brother
1198,
but as soon
as he has made it
could not read our thoughts.
"Then
quietly,
smoothly,
we were
scarcely aware of the change, we were turned into
a diversion-a diversion
uphill instead of sharply down.
that evidently
flowed
We followed this
absolutely safe for all, he will make it known.
Brother 1198 will now address the assembly.'
"1 198 gave a brief account of his journey to the
outer world, his discovery of these strange beings
(he referred to us),and the curious ray-hurlers that
for perhaps fifteen minutes-somehow we
could
carried,
that struck
with such
terrific in-
never keep track of time down there;
arrived.
then-we
"It was one great glow-a clear, glorious blue-
exhilarating and yet marvelously restful-the most
tensity
that he was staggered by their impact;
of how the light up above seemed a mixture of all
colors, and contained a large proportion of infra-
red and ultra-violet rays;
of how there seemed to
By its reflection
we could make out the outlines of an immense cave.
It was of tremendous size, with a roof to which one
slender beam of blue light extended, striking out
golden sparks.
The beam was perhaps a half mile
The floor was studded with ten-foot squares,
of a dark red color.
The creature drove us before
him directly to one of the squares, which, as we
approached it, opened before us. Under it was a
platform the size of the square and, on an imperi-
ous motion from the thing, we stood on it. He
stepped on it with us, and it descended under us
like an elevator, until it came to a stop in a large,
be no limit to the roof, that it was so far distant
that the eye was unable to perceive it; of how this
outer world was overrun by immense plants, the
stems of which sometimes approached the height
of a man in width; of how it was lighted by a great
flaming ball hung high up in the roof; and of how,
when he had perfected his ray coating, he intended
to lead a large party to explore further the country
and bring back more specimens of Its inhabitants
for experimentation.
When he was through, a
committee inspected us carefully,
and reported
that I was a splendid physical specimen, but far
below my companion in intelligence;
they were
Et .. 1 1 I
I*' ** *>., 1A i Ut If r Tfltrn
wonderful light I have ever seen.
f~i I
THE
CARIBBEAN.
"This time he took us into a new room, where
there was a queer chair-like contrivance, with three
boats!
You grab aho
of the sides near the stern
and think hard-'Move forward!'
and she moves
polished switches on its arm.
In front of it was a
sweet!
I watched old I-something comining
thing that reminded me of a searchlight, only it
was bigger than the ordinary light, and shining all
over. This room also was white, and bare of all
down, and it'll work the same for anybody! And
as for being tortured when we're caught, why, they
intend to cut us up and torture us anyway t
o see
furnishing except this chair.
I198 seated himself,
how we react!
I'm tellin
you, our best bet is to
and pulled over one of
the shining levers.
stantly he was flooded by a brilliant yellow glow
from the light in front of him.
He basked in it for
cop old Roundy and beat it!
"I grasped his hand.
old kid!' I exclaimed. '
'I'm with you, Charley,
1ell me some more about it!'
a while, then shut it off, and switched on a deep
tust then we were
aware of a strange humming
When he tired of this,
he pressed the third
stop and blue light wavered around him.
Heplayed
that suddenly filled the room. 1i
self from his chair and appeared
[98 roused him-
to listen. He
with it awhile, varying the shades and producing
started over toward us
, and the humming stopped
exquisite colors and
tones;
then switched on a
as suddenly as it had begun.
Picking up Charley
deep marine blue, and sank into a sort of torpor.
As he slipped down in his seat, his arm brushed the
and carrying him under his arm like a sack, he
started out into the passageway.
I tried to follow
yellow 1
resulted.
control,
and a pale,
sickly green
He sat bolt upright with fear and pain,
them,
but the creature hurled
me back
into a
corner, and I lay there-for how long I can not
and switched on the full force of the red.
He lay
tell-until he came back.
He looked over toward
in it for a while, recovering from his narrow escape;
then switched on the light blue and apparently
dozed.
me, and I read his thoughts.
" 'Very
creature
interesting,
evidently
' he was thinking.
had a reasoning intelligence.
"Charley grasped my arm. 'l)D
we're saved!' he whispered tensely.
worked out now!'
ave,
old bo
'I've got it
"I knew Charley, so I wasn't surprised, because
he had brains
enough
to think
out anything.
Too bad he died so quickly.
one next,
and he
vitality than the first.'
"So Charley was right!
in a research
laboratory!
However, we dissect
promises
to have
more
Cut up like a guinea pig
And I was next! I
And his brains were what killed him, as you'll see.
"I have it all fixed
exce
pt how we'll get rid of that
shivered all over with fright.
"I 198 sat down in the light chair, and enveloped
thing.
I had begun to think he was invulnerable,
and there's not a possibility of getting away with
himself with a pur
asleep.
lish glow.
He seemed to be
him watching.
But as soon as we get a good
opportunity-he's not deep enough asleep now to
take a chance-we'll switch the yellow and blue
I could hear Charley's last words ringing in my
ears.
chair.
Now or never! I stealthily crept over to the
I came closer, closer. I could see the levers
lights on him, and he'll croak!
There's something
on the chair arm.
The red and blue controls
were
about green light that gets through their glass suits
and kills the nerves within, and he'll croak sure as
God made little green apples!
part way over, and the yellow control was closed.
I reached over toward them;
an ecstasy of fear.
then jerked back in
1198 had moved!
" 'Yes, and
we'll get tortured
We'll never be able to get out of this plac
to death!
e. Besides
"But he sank back again.
an uneasiness in his sleep or rest.
It was evidently only
Gathering all
how are you certain that green light will kill him?'
" 'I know!
That thing that examined us in the
my courage, I again approached the chair, and with
one motion shoved back the red lever and switched
auditorium was thinking about the physiology of
his own bunch when he was going over me, and I
on the full force of the blue and yellow.
A glaring
green leaped out of the cylinder, and 1198 jumped
got it all!
There is a central nervous system all
up from his seat, and
then fell back, sprawling
cased up in flexible glass that's bullet-proof, jimmy-
awkwardly,
still in that unearthly
green
light.
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P
THE
CARIBBEAN.
and it immediately shot up to the big cave floor.
It was just as I had seen it last, utterly deserted,
with the solitary blue beam extending to the far-
away roof.
I went down to the wharf, wasting
more precious time hunting for it, and took one of
the many boats.
As I put out into midstream, the
blue beam swept over me.
armored men
I looked back;
were pouring from every
s
t
The blue beam was sweeping everywhere.
denlv it focused on my craft. Then I p
square.
Sud-
lunged
into the tunnel, and escaped the searchlight.
"I rushed along
through
that tunnel
speed, because I knew I was being followed.
suddenly it opened
at top
Then
into a chamber with six other
the right entrance.
I greeted the green light with
joy, got through it with many bumps, as it was so
blinding that I could not see, and finally came out
into the outer world.
"I grounded the boat and fell on the ground,
laughing
crying
amazingly good;
hysterically.
it was wonderful to
It looked
see the old
world again with its hot sun overhead, and its
birds and trees and plants.
beautiful.
and Harry.
Even the lizards looked
Then I saw the skeletons of Big John
They were clean and whitened. And
I thought I had been in the underworld only about
twenty-four hours!
How long had I been in there,
anyway? I buried their bones; then took the boat
and followed the river upstream.
It came from a
lake of springs, and I followed another river that
emptied out of it until I got to the sea. I followed
the coast in an easterly direction for three days,
and on the morning of the fourth day I sighted
San Lorenzo. I was weak from hunger;so I put into
the mouth of the Chagres to get something to
Then
these
gentlemen from
the hospital
found me.
That's all, Doc.
You believe me, don't
I'm going to get well, Doc, and show the
world this place.
I will get well.
I will!"
"Sure
you will,"
"Just lie back and
said the doctor soothingly.
get some sleep. That'll help
"Sleep?
night, Do
need it,
God knows.
Well, good-
"Good-night." The doctor turned to the interne:
Coconut palms along the Caribbean.
"Wasn't
there
exploring
party
tunnels running from it.
I groaned,
but there was
National Geographic Society on the boat yester-
day?" he asked.
no time to lose, I chose one near the center and
"Yes,
sir," the
interne
answered.
"They're
plunged into it.
I followed it
for a
while,
at the Washington now.
then it ended at a black wall, with water bubbling
up from below.
"Nothing to do but turn around and come back.
Almost at the entrance to the chamber I stopped
the boat suddenly, and
quarter
darkness of
back in
the tunnel.
the three-
The armored
men were streaming back out of the extreme right-
hand opening, their boats following each other at
regular intervals.
only expressed:
There was one thought cornm-
'If we could only have caught
"Well, let him sleep.
I'll be back in the morning.
I'm going over to see those explorers."
"Then you don't believe he's crazy ?"
asked the
interne in surprise.
"I'll stake any reputation that I may have as
an alienist that the man's absolutely sane, said
the doctor emphatically.
"Well, if you say so, sir,
" replied the interne,
"he must be.'
THE
CARIBBEAN.
ip=to=tbe=1hinute
SHADES OF THE GREAT. a reci
George
Oakes, '24.
Nero
Sramas.
ital with his harp at the opera house to-night.
, being a friend of mine, gave me compli-
Scene.
Ghosts
of Napoleon,
Alexander
Great, Charlemagne, Hannibal, Richard the Lion
Hearted, John Paul Jones, and George Washing-
ton gather in the War Club to discuss the marvel-
ous inventions and improvements of the twentieth
century.
mentary tickets for the crowd.
(Exeunt-Mars and ghosts laughing and joking.)
Curtain.
WHO
They regret not having them in their
time and offer many if's and why's as to what
they could have done.
Alexander
(Stroking
think I died so young!
his beardless
Characters.
chin).
Why if I had had a modern
doctor, I should have lived to conquer the remain-
ing world and other planets.
KNOWS NOAH'S TROUBLES?
Jos6 Arosemena,
Mr. Noah.
Mrs. Noah.
A Salesman.
Place.
Entrance to the Ark.
Time. Afternoon.
Hannibal (Busv shining his helmet).
Yes, and to
Noah.
Two elephants-check; two
sardines-
think I had Rome almost under my power. If
only I could have telegraphed to Carthage to send
more men and supplies, instead of waiting years!
Charlemagne (His strong head weighted with
the iron crown). If I had had motor busses to
carry my soldiers from France to Spain, Roland
and my great army would have never been des-
troyed by the Saracens.
Napoleon (Walking up and down with his right
hand tucked in his military coat). Good gracious!
Charles!
If I had had steam trains to carry my
men and transport supplies, I should never have
lost my grand army in Russia.
Richard (Perspiring in his huge armored suit).
check;
check--
Salesman.
two whales-check;
Afternoon,
two mosquitoes-
Mr. Noah.
you're getting your old tub ready.
see that
I have come
to see if I can interest you in some insect powder-
guaranteed to kill all the bugs around the place.
You'll need it inside the Ark.
Noah. Ti
Salesman.
wo fleas-check;
two iguanas--
Now, this powder will work wonders.
All you have to do is pick up the bug with your
fingers, tickle him in the ribs, and, when he laughs,
throw a pinch of powder down his throat. Five
seconds later he will be dead.
Noah (Impatiently).
Can't you see that I'm
To think I
wasted my time in
the Holy
Land
very busy ?
I have yet to check one thousand nine
while
John.
England
Oh! If
was being
I had
wreck
had a good
i by brother
airplane that
hundred and thirty-seven pairs of animals.
Mrs. Noah.)
(Enter
would have taken me to England in a day instead
of my having to travel for months on my war horse!
John Paul Jones (Deciding to say something
Noah.
Noah, come inside.
Quick
cats are chasing the rats, the fox is trying to kill
a chicken, and everything is in an uproar.
about the sea).
Yes I'll admit I was right when I
Noah.
Can't
leave
a fellow
alone
said, "We have not yet begun to fight.
" Look at the
while?
Let the cats eat the rats, and the fox kill
Navy to-day with submarines and huge warships.
George Washington (Straightening the bow on
his white wig). To think I gave my farewell ad-
dress without having a radio audience.
the chickens.
Mrs. Noah.)
Salesman. May
cages ?
I'll get another set of them.
interest
(Exit
you in some
You can put the rats in them, and don't
Napoleon
think if I
n
walking up and
down).
had the method of map making that
have to worry about them any more.
Noah.
Get away!
Let's see.
Where was
they had during the World War, I should never
have lost the Battle of Waterloo and been exiled
Here it is.
check;
Two horses-check;
two monkeys-
two camels--
II I C, ~I--------
O -_1 ..... -
1T- *.L .
[ |
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Noah (Picking up a dinosaur
I'll crack your bean.
(Exit Salesman.)
Beat it, or
(Rudolph
Queen of
Valentino enters, takes a seat near
Sheba
and Cleopatra.
Lady
Astor
nudges Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.)
Noah.
At last I got rid of this fool.
Now I can
Lady
Astor.
Watch those ancient flappers vamp
continue with my work.
(Enter Mrs. Noah.)
Mrs. Noah. Noah, somebody has called and
said that he won't be able to deliver the sea lions
until day after to-morrow.
Mr. Valentino.
Aren't t
CaUt (Exceedingly shocked. Shows it).
hey terrible? The very idea of their cornm-
ing here like that!
clothes on!
Why, they have hardly any
Impossible!
off to-morrow.
The great flood will come
I can't wait any longer.
and send him a radio message.-(Exeunt.)
AS IT NEVER WAS.
Chester L.
Characters:
Cleopatra (Whispering in Queen ofSheba's ear).
Isn't he perfectly grand. Just look at his hair.
Smoother and more glossy than Tony ever had his!
Queen of Sheba (Rolling eyes and straightening
hair). He sure is some sheik.
ing on him.
Nero (To Caesar, pointing to
Solomon had noth-
Valentino).
Queen of Sheba.
Cleopatra.
Lady Astor.
Mrs. Carrie C. Catt.
Nero.
Gabriel.
Place. Indianapolis Speed
Time.
July afternoon in 1924.
(The curtain rises
Indianapol
crowded.
is.
disclosing the speedway at
The grandstand and bleachers are
Everywhere are seen bright colors and
the reflection of the sun on the bright helmets and
shields of ancient gladiators and on the armor of
knights. Straw hats bob here and there among
the flowing robes of
the Greeks
and Romans.
Along the side of the speedway are lined automo-
biles, surreys, victorias, buckboards, and chariots.
Robin Hood and his men have tied their horses
beside those of Bill Hart and his broncho busters.)
The Gracchi (Going about the grandstand). Ice
cold Coca Cola.
Doctor Cook (Following the Gracchi wherever
they go). Eskimo Pies. Fresh from the pole.
Nero (Strumming on his violin). Won't they ever
begin? Therewas neversuchdelayduringmyreign.
(The entrants for the feature race of the day are
lining up.
Number one, near the post, is Ben Hur
in a red, white, and blue chariot on whose wheels
are Goodrich balloon tires and which is drawn by
Man-o'-War, Morvich, and Zev.
.1p.. t
Number two is
* T I
The Gracchi.
Smith Brothers.
Saint Peter.
Shylock.
Doctor Cook.
Gods!
Such a poor excuse for a man!
A regular
woman!
(By this time the race is growing exciting.)
Queen of Sheba (Jumps up. Waves fan). Look
at Ben Hur! Gee. He almost lost a tire when he
passed De Palma that time.
(Places hand on Rudolph's arm, but
seeing Queen of Sheba doing same, quickly with-
draws it). Go on woman. What's the matter with
your eyes?
He didn't pass De Palma; De Palma
passed him.
Rudolph (Tapping Queen of Sheba's arm). Par-
don me, madam, but do you see Paddock anywhere?
Queen of Sheba (Pretending scarcely to notice
Valentino). Of course not. What chance has he
against Ben Hur?
(By this time the crowd has shouted until they
are hoarse.
drops). H
Enter Smit
ere you are!
your sore throats!
h Brothers with cough
Just what you need for
(They proceed to distribute
cough drops.)
(The race is almost over, De Palma leading,
with Revere a close second and Ben Hur far be-
hind.
De Palma at a hundred yards from finish,
runs car through fence.
Paddock, who has been
riding on the rear of Palma's car, jumps off and
wins the race by running the remaining one hun-
dred yards in 9 315 seconds.)
(The crowd then leaves for the Colosseum where
Tarzan of the Apes and Robin Hood are putting
on a trapeze performance.)
Noah.
Cleopatra
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CARIBBEAN.
EDUCATION BY TRAVEL.
GENERAL.
Chester Pike, 24.
The morning of Saturday
bright and sunny.
absent.
the econ
jaunt to
Upon
out-part
seats as
Fickle old Ji
Evidently he did not c
comics class of Cristobal
the various institutions
boarding the train we
y sitting in small groups
near them
comfortable for the
March
dawned
upiter Pluvius was
are to accompany
High School on its
on the Pacific side.
found the rest of
. We tookvacant
as possible, and made ourselves
e hour's ride to Gamboa.
The view which flew past t
freshing. The dark, dense ju
native huts, and the artificial
were all basking in the rays o
sun. Everything seemed to
peace with the world. Before
the train stopped In front of
he win
ngles,
beauty
fthe e
be at
we wer
a low,
dows was re-
the thatched
of the Canal
arly morning
ease and at
e aware of it,
flat building
with a large yard surrounded by a high wire fence
over whose gate was the sign,
CANAL ZONE PENITENTIARY.
Contrary to all expectations, Gamboa Peniten-
tiary is not a large place.
houses about eighty-seven
The building is a long, 1
well ventilated and lighted
space surrounding it. Insi
At the present time it
prisoners.
ow, wooden structure,
, with a large enclosed
ie, the floors are of ce-
ment, and to clean them all that needs to be done
is to attach a hose to a faucet and let the water
run through.
There are sixteen cells, two of which accommo-
date nine prisoners each, all the others, six. In
each cell are shelves for the prisoners' personal
belongings.
ventilated fr
iron rings to
ing him
other dis
position
tit'i i
to
con
mor
*
There are also two punis
om above. On the walls
which the prisoner is man
stand up. However, he
fort, for he can not be k
e than a certain number
.i. 1....*
iment cells,
of these
are
acled, fore-
suffers no
ept in that
of hours.
was struck by a large gray cat, which was lazily
sunning itself.
It took us a
the prison but
and enjoyable,
Outside we
Studebaker au
kindly placed
party divided,
on the next lap
little over five minutes to inspect
we found the visit both instructive
, thanks to Captain Walston.
-Florence Albert, '24.
found waiting the two fine big
tomobiles, Mr. Hopkins had very
at our disposal for the day. The
half to each car, and we started
of our trip. The curving road was
smooth and inviting, the day exhilarating, and
the scenery inspiring, and the cars glided along
so gently that we feared this part of our excursion
would too soon be over. A few miles from the
penitentiary we passed two gangs of its prisoners
working on the road. There were all types of
criminals here, some even wearing a ball and chain.
At the end of about a half hour's ride we drove
into the yard of the
CANAL ZONE HOME FOR THE INSANE.
I had always thought of insane people as being
of an entirely different world from the world as
I knew it. What impressed me most in looking
over the patients in Corozal, was their human
quality and their close resemblance to other hu-
man beings. Then I wondered if, after all, maybe
there weren't just as many "crazy people outside
the asylum as in it; if maybe it wasn't the location
that made the difference.
The inmates who are violently insane, or likely
at any moment to go off in a tantrum of rage, or
the like, are kept sequestered in cell-like rooms.
They are treated sympathetically, as far as lies
in the power of the nurses, in order to have them
as quiet
On er
tonishedc
of the
morons
{i i
and as
entering t
Sat the
inmates.
and idio
1- A -
pea
he
do
Lceful as p
women's
cility and
Evidently
maintain
possible.
barracks, I was as-
apparent meekness
, there were more
d than radically in-
THE TRIP IN
i
THE
CARIBBEAN.
something
" differed in different individuals.
The building that is used for this ward is a
The sight of a very small child would start one old,
chin-whiskered woman off on a wild search for her
cottage
trees.
surrounded
green
grass
and shade
Although the cottage appears very small
baby.
Usually
the mention or remembrance of
even a very small thing would turn a woman vio-
lently crazy for a moment or two; then she would
be herself until another occurrence.
every
inmate
of the asylum
is crazy.
from the outside, we found that it contains three
large rooms, and a very small one where finished
articles are kept.
The room that we entered first was the largest.
My first impression of it was one of emptiness-
Among others present, traveling about in wheeled
chairs, we noticed two colored men whose both
legs were severed.
Upon inquiry, we learned that
they had both, at one time, been brakemen on
Panama Railroad freight trains;
in a moment of
carelessness in their line of duty, their legs had
been amputated
by the train, and
the Govern-
ment, having no other place to keep its pensioners,
placed them here.
They did not seem to mind the
queerness of their companions, but cheerfully en-
gaged in childish repartee with any or all of them.
Of course, among others, there was the preacher,
which
every
asylum
possesses.
though we did not see him, held our attention be-
cause of his extraordinarily vociferous eloquence.
There was a Chinaman who had quite a garden,
of all kinds of weeds, under the highest of the
barracks.
An old
turbaned native of India
was, in his
mind, a Buddha worshipper. He sat all day, with
arms folded, before a post that supported a wind-
mill made by a carpenter of the kingdom.
A little skinny Panamanian, with a black derby
balanced precariously on his small head, walked,
or rather tiptoed, around the grounds with a slim
finger across his lips,
"Sh, Sh!"
Our guide said
she didn't know what was his reason for being
there but he surely was as amusing a specimen as
any of them.
On the whole, in looking them over, we came to
the conclusion that they weren't what we had ex-
pected to find.
Leaving the grounds, we confided to each other
that we were beginning to doubt everyone. If
those folks were
insane,
what could some
the queer people outside be called?
but this did not last.
henequen
green-bright
seem
of vivid
baskets, gay
to remember the many
there were scores of them.
On the walls were hung
colors-purple,
bags-and I
red,
can't
other things, but
In each of two corners
there was an old-fashioned loom
old-fashioned rag rugs were made.
was a half-finished rug.
where equally
In one there
A nurse told us that they
were able to utilize almost all the old clothes and
linen in this manner.
The next room would delight the heart of any
child.
In it were toys of every kind, size, and
description, and in every
stage of
the making.
There were tiny chairs, tables, pianos, doll houses
-some
miniature
furniture-auto-
mobiles of many colors, boats, house-boats-and
almost every sort of toy.
The place seemed fairly
alive with toys-two side walls were hung with
them as well as the ceiling.
There were about five
long tables and benches in this room where many
of the
inmates
worked
making
these
articles.
The floor here was unbelievably clean-for a work
room-only a few shavings and blocks of wood
being strewn about.
The third room was the one in which the brooms
are made-and very good brooms they are. In
fact, they are sold wholesale to the commissaries,
and supply the housewives of the Isthmus.
They
are made by some colored men who lost both legs
during the construction days, and who are given
employment here by the Government.
was to see here was straw,
All there
brooms, and more
straw.
After I had seen the broom room, I went to the
small room
away.
THE OCCUPATION WARD, COROZAL.
Unfortunately
we arrived
at the
occupation
rooms too late to see the morning workers and too
where the finished articles are put
It is almost impossible to describe it.
was very small, and I seemed hemmed in by the
prettiest of baskets done in contrasting colors,
more bass in brilliant colors and fantastic designs,
33
THE CARIBBEAN.
Then, we assembled in the first room we had
But soon we came in sight of Palo Seco itself.
visited;
here we heaped question after question
It is an island apart from any other.
As there is
on the two nurses who had so kindly explained
things for us as we went along.
They had still
no landing place, the boat stopped about a hun-
dred yards from the beach, and a small rowboat
another surprise for us, and when they unrolled
two beautiful rugs made of soft silk-one in three
shades of brown, and the other in old rose and two
shades of luxurious blue-our ejaculations began
anew that people with sick minds could make
such useful, and at the same time attractive-
really exquisite-articles.
Our respect for
insane was growing.-Ruth Hopkins,
came
out to
meet us.
The womenfolk of
party went over in the first boatload, and left
Guy, Chester and me until the next trip.
We sat
in the launch and yarned away, as has been the
fashion of males from time without measure, and
watched the boat slowly approach the beach. It
finally grounded about five feet from the shore,
and a big black carried the girls ashore, one at a
Again we boarded our trusty Studebakers and
set out, this time to satisfy another part of our
body than our eves and mind, for our next stop
was at the Ancon Restaurant.
When we had ap-
peased our hunger, we held a council to find out
how many were going to Palo
Seco.
Five of the
girls decided that, for various reasons, they would
rather not go to the island, so they stayed in
Panama.
The rest of our party then went to the
piers to get our boat for
time.
"Lucky coon,
" remarked we in unison.
Then the boat came back for us, and we climbed
in and settled down, wondering rather uneasily if
a leper had sat there recently.
As we were rowed
toward the beach, we could see a few buildings and
a sign-"Palo
prohibited."
I
Leper
Colony.
Entrance
I, personally, felt qualms, and be-
gan, far down within me, to have a slight wish
that I had stayed back with the girls who had not
come with us.
No, not quite that bad, but I
began to see their viewpoint.
Still I was deter-
mined to go through with it, and I knew the rest
THE TRIP TO PALO SECO LEPER COLONY.
felt the same way.
The boat grounded and I
Caldwell B.Foos, '5.
made a standing broad
jump onto the
beach,
We got out of the car and walked over to the
end of the pier and, looking down the runway,
saw the police launch that was to take us to Palo
followed by Guy and Chester.
We went up the hill, and halfway up met the
girls and Doctor Tucker, the superintendent of the
colony, just coming out of the dining hall. Miss
It was a trim craft with lines that hinted
at its speed.
Its engine was already running, and
we started as soon as we had piled aboard. We
went out of the pier enclosure, and started across
Dodds introduced us to Doctor
that this
visited,
Tucker, and said
building was the first place
that it looked like an army mess hall
inside, and that it served as an auditorium and
the bay to Palo Seco.
It was about a half-hour's
movie hall besides,
movies being
shown
there
trip and the ride was certainly idyllic-the engine
throbbing regularly, the waves rushing past the
bow with a soft swishing sound, and everything
calm, peaceful and sunbathed, with soft breezes
blowing gently all the while.
Now and then a
long string of heron would fly overhead, perhaps
forty in a group, proceeding in perfect formation.
Near-by the Fortified Islands could be seen, and,
in the distance,
Taboga.
The islands were the
once a week.
THE DISEASE.
After we were introduced to Doctor Tucker, he
kindly consented to show us around the colony.
On leaving his office, we walked up a little flower-
bordered path where we met our first patient, a
well-built black, who stopped and talked quite
cheerfully to the doctor. Had I met him on the
direct antithesis of what a tropical island is usually
street, I
should
noticed
nothing unusual
thought to be.
The tropic island of romance and
in his appearance other than some bumps on his
ballads, and in fact, usually seen, is a low, sandy
face and a queer growth on his nose.
I began to
Seco.
F
THE
CARIBBEAN.
on of these two. The outward mani-
of the nodular type are little brown
nodules, and small scars resembling
by smallpox. Doctor Tucker assured us
afflicted with this type suffer no pain.
ned from this little path into a broad,
alk, which seemed to be the main street
ige. At the end of the street is the hos-
e the patients periodically receive their
of chaulmoolgra oil, the salvation of the
rell as treatment for any minor ailments,
tor Tucker reminded us, they are human
and have their stubbed t
aches, and toothaches, too
In the hospital we found
the mixed type. His face
with little patches of nodi
were distorted, were mini
while his body was draw
was in bed because of an in
no pain from his disease.
As we proceeded, Doctor
that in the nei
become paraly
become hard a
and toes fall
man who had 1
who had return
a slight infect
several joints
still bore a few
of healed woun
off, leaving the
All these pa
I was strongly
fortitude with
The whole c
resort to me.
tentedly reading
mango trees ar
as Doctor Tuck
leper might ha
and be under a
:oes, and
their tummy
a patient afflicted with
and arms were covered
rules; hi
us one
hands, which
r two fingers,
n up awkwardly. He
fected foot, but suffered
Tucker explained to us
rvous type the nerves and muscles
zed and contract, while the nails
nd horny, and often entire fingers
off. To illustrate he showed us a
been cured of the nervous type, but
ned to the colony to be treated for
on. His left hand was twisted and
were missing from his fingers. He
scars, but they had the appearance
ds where the dead skin had dropped
new skin rosy and clean.
tients were very cheerful; in fact
y impressed with the remarkable
which they bear their infirmity.
olony seemed more like a summer
When one sees the patients con-
ig magazines under the picturesque
id watches the faces of all light up
er comes near, one wishes that every
ive such comfortable surroundings
.s wise and sympathetic care.
-Guy Stewart, '25.
I disagree with Guy's statement that it seemed
lilo W ciimmrnr reenrt- ft mtov hnvp tn them hut
Tucker,
to see us walking along behind Doctor
being very, very careful not to touch anything, not
even the door knobs.
THE CURE.
Long
athso
ve th
r .ts
rints
combinati
festations
bumps or
those left
that those
We turn
concrete w
of the villa
pital where
treatment
lepers, as w
for, as Doc
r
h
h
n
t
the voi
looking
but hat
But,
recently
the dis
turned
it has b
in our c
ly) clam
have kni
it for ce
The o
mool
found
of its
the s
plant
it ha
been
those
seeds
the si
butd
tried
g ago in the days of Christ
)me disease, for which the
e Divine. Lepers were rega
and were called "the acc
e was given them; they w
homess and were stoned if
.e city walls, as they often
ade their new homes in the
abandoned tombs on the
temple and the synagogue
The law demanded that
Unclean!" if, perchance, an
According to "Ben Hur"
remulous wail, exceedingly
ce of a spirit vanishing froi
back the while." They we
I no hope except in death.
now! How different it is!
y experimented with an oil
ease. The thoughts of ti
from death to the joy of liv
'arely gone beyond the exp4
country, the Asians (the Bui
their 1
n by
own
ntui
il
egends
of pre-B
eprosy was a
re was no cure
Lrded
ursed
ere d
they
did, tt
wild
hills.
were
they
yone
the c
sorry
as unclean
of
river
can
o get
erne
Th,
fort
cry,
cam
ry w
owf
God."
From
ne too
Food.
ss and
e rites
hidden
"Un-
e near
vas a
ul like
uv
m Paradise and
re afraid to die,
Scientists have
that will check
he afflicted are
ing. Although
erimental stage
rmese, especial-
uddha times to
the value of this oil and to have used
ries.
is obtained from the seeds of the
gra tree, whu
1 principally
origin. As
upply, Haw
action, but,
s grown eig
produced. 1
its name is derived.
nurma, inau
demand is fa
has begun a
he tree bears
years, little <
leaves are ab
of an almond tree; the fr
are extracted and distilled
ze of an apple. The oil
oes not remove the scars;
through life, a constant
dreadful
not fully
flnctn
uit, f
d int
c
r,
r
oU
ro
:o
hecks
those
remir
chaul-
It is
the country
greater than
haulmoolgra
o fruit until
Sno oil has
t the size of
'm which the
oil, is about
the disease,
must be car-
ider of that
affliction that even the joy of living can
wipe out.
r Tickorl whn hn' hoon in chzrlae nf t-ha
such as had this patient, nervous, and mixed,
or a
No ca
their
near t
They
in the
of the
them.
clean!
them.
slow.
t,
T T 1
THE
CARIBBEAN.
hard to get people to take it, and those who were
willing were often unable to do so."
The amount of one dose, which is about one-
half teaspoonful, is now administered by injection.
The Asians probably used this in a primitive way,
both internally and
externally.
The oil
as it
appears to-day has the consistency of sugar and
water, and is of a clear, amber color.
It is received
from the laboratories in small five-inch vials tap-
ering to a point at one end.
Doctor Tucker also told us a story concerning
a land where this tree grows near the water. In
July when the fruit ripens, it falls into the water
below. The fish, eating the fruit, are poisoned.
On this account fishing in this land is not allowed
at this time of the year.
had been twenty-nine patients
He also told us that there
discharged from
lent in a certain leper colony in Japan. Moved by
this story they collected ten dollars and gave it
to the traveler to send to the Orient.
months later,
while
Bishop
Several
Morris was in
States, he received a sum of money from the Jap-
anese, in appreciation of what their brother lepers
had done for them, and knowing of no better use
to which to put the money, he purchased this
book rest and sent it to the chapel at Palo Seco.
On a little shelf beside the altar stood two small
glass candlesticks, their white candles bowed over
by the unscrupulous heat. At one end of the altar
rail was a door which may be said to lead from one
religion to another, as it is the front of the confes-
sional for the priest, when opened so that he may
sit behind it, but becomes a panel on the wall when
pushedbackagainstit for the servicesof other sects.
Palo Seco.
As the price of the oil is very high, the scientists,
fearing that a scarcity might ensue in the Orient,
bought a quantity of seeds from the Mawlaikians
and sent them to California to be grown.
Accord-
ing to reports, the transplanted plants are flour-
ishing.
Although the oil is used to a great extent in
Palo Seco, there are no trees on the island.
How-
ever, there are some young plants in the hospital
grounds at both Ancon and Corozal, and these in
time, it is thought, will supply the demand on the
Isthmus.- Katherine Fischer, '25.
Doctor Tucker then took us to
In one corner stood
a battered
organ,
scratched and paint-worn from the many dustings
it has received, while in the opposite corner stood
a neat stack of hymn books dog-eared and be-
thumbed
by who knows how
many
disfigured
hands.
As we turned to leave, we saw through the open
door the calm blue of the Pacific and the purple
islands, while above all floated a mist of carefree
clouds.
Passing through the bougaminvillea-cov-
ered porch we descended the steps and walked
up the path toward the dispensary.
-William Cousins
When we left the dispensary, Doctor Tucker took
us to his office.
It was a typical doctor's office,
THE CHAPEL.
The little chapel had stepped back out of the
path as if to let us pass, but we decided to enter,
attracted by the twin signs standing at the sides
of the door, announcing to this little world the
following: on the left in English,
nesday,
Catholic;
"Services-Wed-
Monday, Episcopalian,
with a bookcase of books on skin and tropical dis-
seases, a map of Panama on the wall, and the
executive touch showing in the desks, safe, and
filing cabinets. He went to the safe and took out
a box of the money, evolved by himself, and used
in the Colony. It was of aluminum or brass, the
size of American coins, with a round or square hole
in the center, and stamped with the name of the
on the right in Spanish,
"Servicios:
Los lunes;
colony.
According to Doctor Tucker, it serves a
Episcopal; los mibrcoles, Cat61ico Romano. Bien
venida."
On stepping in, we visitors saw several rows of
rude wooden pews and a small white altar upon
double purpose:
First, the money
of the outer
world is not infected with germs of leprosy, and
second, this money can not be used anywhere else
but in the colony.
He gave an interesting side
which
rested
a large
brass
crucifix,
two stiff
- a- t t *- 1 i I II 1
light as to this last. He said that in the old days,
i .1 I l 1 1 1 *
THE
CARIBBEAN.
There he would get gloriously drunk, and when
streets
between
two- and
three-story
buildings
money
as Doctor I
offer a nativ
even slow do
station of n
Doctor T
who were a
with us, an
boat, we sta
the beach a
buildings, an
A general
was all
uck
e a
wn.
ronn
'uck
lso
id a
rtec
t P
dflc
fee
the beach faded
Doctor Tucker
came to Palo Se
suddenly
shells, c(
riedly w
We ha
memory
question
at-docks
1
gone,
himself up.
er smilingly rem
bushel of money
" It was certainly
v as a means rat
er and Doctor
visiting the Coli
after two more t
1. We had a las
'alo Seco-the h
'ating over it all ti
ling of relief cam
from sight-a so
told us that m
co on legitimate
1
become int
)llect a few or
thoi
da
Sth
ngs
arked,
and h
y a go
her th;
and
ony, c
p*
ri
t t
iill
he
ie
)rt
an
b
y inter
beach.
"t T "
"Now,"
"he could
e wo
od de
an ar
Mrs.
ame
uldn't
;mon-
end.
Erb,
back
)s in the row-
ading view of
, the wooden
American flag.
over us all as
of relaxation.
y people who
business would
tested in sea
an
leave
ut going up the hill.
ride back that will linger long in my
Len we docked and, amid the eager
of the stay-at-homes-or rather,stay-
-we left for Chiriqui.-Caldw/el/B.Foos,
We drove past the church with the golden altar
and the historic flat arch, and down the narrow
overflowing
with dusky
up in front of Chirh
to visit the place wa:
to the Plaza France
into th
idly in
small t
guide e
invited
Panam
:ted to the F
d, we retrace
were very c
courtvard.
iall groups a:
ikets which
lained every
s to visit t
an Government is
humanity
Prison.
ing sougi
Ssee the
'nch Can
our
liall
e p
loo
1
al
r steps
lv rece
risonei
ked at
tried t(
ng to us,
new pris
Our cars drew
while permission
we walked over
pressive monu-
diggers. When
to the prison
lived and taken
rs stood about
us. Some had
o sell us. Our
and, as we left,
on (which the
erecting), as
soon as it
is completed.
From here we drove to Las Sabanas. We went
along the beaches, past the bull ring, and around
the new Santo Tomas Hospital-a hospital under
construction on an extremely beautiful spot near
the seashore.
We then returned to town and, after another
brief visit to the restaurant, boarded the train
for home. We were a tired bunch that returned to
the Atlantic side that night, but all agreed that
the day had been well spent.--Chester Pike, 2.
1
THE
CORAL
TREE
SHARK-A
LEGEND.
Morris Marchoskvy, '25.
He had guarded for years and years, as had his
fathers and forefathers, that precious, invaluable
coral tree with its majestic outspread branches.
Now he is dead.
ferocious man-eatinu
but he is gone.
The shark of Moi
tives, and to any tou
day at Taboga, Pan
had circulated weirdc
of his size-a great
they had seen,floati
his head formed like
ing teeth, keener th.
ocity shown in the h
might a
"qTL _
attack.
f-_l- _J- j ............
Mayhap some other of those
g sharks will take his place-
rro Isle was known to all na-
rist who had
ama's Palm
tales about
hulk, longer 1
ng lazily on t
a sharp bull
an any razor
stay
Beac
him.
than
:he v
et; o
: an
ed even one
:h. Natives
They told
any cayuco
vaters-; of
f his gleam-
d of his fer-
hurried death of any whom he
1 -' -. -.
swimmer in those parts always wore tucked in
his belt. The guardian of the coral tree had never
forgotten it.
One day the shark discovered someone with a
, gracetu
his hated
1 1 "
, brown body near the tree.
adversary.
C 1
to rob mm or tne cor
which rightly belonged
destroy him for the sacs
commit. There was a
shark turned over, the
ing like a white streak
But where was the bor
if he had not been the
sudden stabbing pain ti
was his Nemesis, for it
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It was
He was sure he had come
al tree, the dear heirloom
to him. He must set out to
rilege which he had come to
swish of the waters, the
white of his abdomen show-
below the surface of water.
? He had disappeared as
re. Then the shark felt a
through his back. The bolo
had struck true and deep
1
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CARIBBEAN.
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Centers
Canal
Zone
atibity.
THE CONTROL HOUSE OF GATUN LOCKS.
Dorothea Tufts, '26.
See illustration on page 39.
People from every land come to see the Gatun
Locks,
which are the largest in the world.
trol house and witness the process of "locking a
ship through."
A COAST DEFENSE GARRISON.
George Oakes, '24.
rived there, they immediately go to the control
house in which the control and operation of all
lock machinery is centralized, and from which they
can get not only a better view of the Canal but
also a better idea of the control and operation of
the lock machinery.
The lock machinery consistsof: the signal arrows,
one at each end of approach or center wall for
The Atlantic side of the Canal is defended by
various service organizations.
Forts Randolph,
Sherman, and De Lesseps, composing the coast
artillery
Canal.
garrisons,
border the entrance
to the
Forts Davis and Gatun, lying near Gatun
Locks, have garrisons of infantry and field artil-
remaining
posts,
France
Coco Solo, lie near Fort Randolph.
Field
These posts,
signalling to ships; t
which fend ships from
preaching;
the forty
he eight
gat
chain
fenders,
hitting gates when ap-
tes, which separate and
garrisoned with air service and naval troops, can
defend the Canal in the air and on the water.
Situated on the edge of Colon and bordered by
divide the chambers into sections; the fifty-eight
rising stem valves, which control the flow of water
down stream from lake to chamber, from chamber
to chamber, and from chamber to sea; the sixty
cylindrical valves, which control the water across
stream, or from the chamber on one side to the
chamber on the other side.
In the center of the control house is a long
table, or control board on which are slabs of gray
Limon
Isthmus.
lies the smallest
army post on the
FortDeLesseps, the headquarters of the
Coast Defenses of Cristobal has a garrison of one
special duty company and
the Sixteenth
Coast
Artillery Band.
Lying next to the bay is a battery of two six-
inch guns that guard the entrance to the break-
water.
Adjacent to the battery is the post theater
where both soldiers and
townspeople enjoy the
marble representing water in
this table
are the
miniature
the locks.
machines,
Upon
gates,
cool breezes as they watch the entertainment ac-
companies
music by
the orchestra.
Next
chains and arrows, which correspond to the actual
machinery in the locks, and the levers which oper-
come the five sets of officers' quarters surrounded
by tropical palms and flowers, a very pretty sight
ate all said machines.
The most prominent indi-
when
viewed from
the bay.
Near the officers
cators on the control board are the tall thermom-
eter-like towers which indicate the water eleva-
quarters stand large cement barracks.
Here at
one end are the offices of the post, headquarters,
tion throughout the locks.
The chain fenders,
commissary
department,
quartermaster
depart-
gates, and stem valves all have indicators which
ment, and ordnance.
At the other end are the
operate simultaneously
the machines and
show the exact position of each machine at all
company
mess hall.
quarters,
band
quarters, library,
Behind this building and facing Colon
times.
The cylindrical
valves have indicators
are the noncommissioned staff officers' quarters-
which consist of red and green lights and indicate
the opened and closed position of the valves only.
There are various additional indicators showing
the operation of signal arrows, and elevations of
water at the sea end of locks, in the chambers, and
three sets with four apartments in each.
Across
from the entrance to headquarters is a small wood-
en building that houses the hospital and post ex-
change.
The post exchange, known as the can-
teen, is located on the lower floor.
It does much
at the lake end.
All exterior lighting on the locks
business
the soldiers,
who have children's
is controlled from the control house, as are the
range lights for midliny shins through the hreak-
appetites for candy and ice cream.
The rest of
the lnimldln ik elon on hv the hnoniral.
THere
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THROUGH THE CANAL.
Irene McCourt, '24.
A ship coming from New York and bound for
San Francisco through the
the Canal
a pilot and
n Limon Bay, w
several colored
time the pilot gets aboa
the handling of the ship
must assist him in ever
under its own power, the
where the locks are seen
steps, leading to Gatun
As the ship nears the A
waits, if other ships occupy
the ship may advance a
arrow at the entrance has
This arrow is moved by
trol house to designate w
into the east or t
Cables from tl
let out by one
codils from the
mules). Colored
a hand line, whici
ship by other cole
which they carry
wall. The cable,
hand line, is fast
opened and the
pilot then signals
the ship moves
Two locomotives
two behind exert
the ship steady w
More mules are t
4-^
te west
hie towi
-hundre
Lrd
Sa
y
Panam
here it
employ
he is
nd the
a Canal enters
takes on board
ees. From the
responsible for
lock operators
way possible.
Then,
.
ship proceeds to Gatun,
rising like great concrete
Lake.
ktlantic approach wall, it
)y the chambers. If not,
.s soon as the large red
been placed in position.
the operator min the con-
ihether the ship is to go
chamber.
ig locomotives are now
d-eighty-foot-per-minute
locomotives (corn
employees in a sm
h is let down from
red employees, to
With them from
, drawn aboard th
ned to iron bits.
guard chain is d
to the locomotive
)n, towed by foui
are fastened ahea
ing back pull, in
imonly
all boat
called
fasten
the bow of
the cable ri
the appro
e ship by
The gates
dropped.
operators
r locomoti
d pulling,
order to k
ves.
and
eep
while it moves through the locks.
ised in some cases according to
the size of the ship being towed. They tow at the
rate of two miles an hour.
These towing locomotives weight forty-five
tons, are thirty feet long, and have two 75-horse-
power, 220-volt motors. There is a cabin on each
end so that the operators can run them towing and
returning without the mules' being completely
turned around.
The ship makes its ascent in three levels, each
lifting it twenty-eight and one-third feet-the
total being eighty-five feet, representing the dif-
ference between sea level and the lake level.
a a i i i s Y _1 r. ... I . ..
next chamber. Thus, when the gates open from
the third chamber, the ship is at the lake level,
eighty-five feet above the sea-level channel. Here
the plan of the locks can be seen best. The Atlan-
tic entrance, the locks, the lake,
the famed golf course, and the
(Lock City), a
The cables a
and the ship
it proceeds up
vide (the Gaill
Miguel locks,
begins. The 1
single flight or
of thirty feet f
is accomplished.
and the
town
11 lie before the eye of the
ire then taken in by the r
starts on its own power.
the channel, through the
Channel,
of Gatrn
tourist.
apid coils
Thence
great di-
ard Cut), until it reaches the Pedro
where the descent into the Pacific
ocks at Pedro Miguel consist of a
step of twin locks, by which a drop
rom Culebra Cut to Miraflores Lake
From the Miraflores Lake the
ship passes into the Miraflores locks. Here there
are two steps of twin locks, each step representing
a lowering of twenty-seven and one-half feet, a
total drop of fifty-five feet.
Now the ship is in the sea-level channel, with
Ancon Hill ahead in the distance. She turns a
bend in the channel and steams into Panama Bay,
ready, after dropping the pilot, to glide into the
Pacific.
ABOUT THE CANAL.
See illustration on page 39.
On board S. S. Subjunctiva,
Gatun Lake,
Transiting the Panama Canal.
Dear Evelyn:
At last I have the desired information for you.
I was fortunate enough to find the captain in a
talkative mood last night and, taking advantage
of this unusual state, plied him with questions as
to the material advantage of transiting the Canal
rather than circling the Horn.
If we had used the route around Cape Horn, it
would have been necessary to travel ten thousand
five hundred miles from Cristobal on the Atlantic
side, to reach Balboa on the Pacific side. By using
the Canal we are reducing that distance to forty-
four miles, and shall make the trip in less than ten
hours.
The cost of operating the ship is approximately
four hundred and forty dollars per day. If he
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THE CARIBBEAN.
As well as I can remember, you especially wanted
the lower chamber from the
, the gates and
to know how the water is opt
during the lockage of a ship. I
this process to you, but the cc
staggers my nontechnical min
I was playing cards below
we had reached the locks un
the porthole and beheld tower
Throwing down my hand, I
followed by the rest of the pla
I found out that we were in
which is one thousand feet lon
ten feet wide, with a depth of
I asked the captain for perm
and look over this wonderful p
A gang plank was pulled aboard
FortunatelyI metoneoftheem
and explained to me the opera
1
We went be
tically the fu
cated the ma
chain, gates,
tunnel is num
ber in the con
The guard c
weighs about
that this chai
pressure and
gates. In ca
tected by a
three hundred
the chain to
is lowered, it
low into the
tun
11 length of the
Lchinery which
valves, etc. E
bered and has a
trol house from
chain,which I ha
ninety pounds t
n is lowered and
is used for th
se a ship hits t
small valve wl
d pounds per sq
3ay out gradually
rated in the
locks
shall try to explain
)mplexity of it still
d.
and didn't realize
til I looked out of
*ing concrete walls.
rushed up on deck
tyers.
the lower chamber,
g, one hundred and
seventy-eight feet.
mission to go ashore
iece or01
Sand I
plo
Ltio
nel
loc
ope
ach
corn
whi
ve men
o the li
Raised
e prot
his cha
which w
uare in
v. Wh
into a recess in the
tomrn of the locks.
The next machine
of the gates. There
halves of these gates
long, seventy-eight fee
each weighing three h
bottoms of these gati
ments which give the
are opened and close
connected to the gate
tunnel, which is gear
driven by an electric
Next was the opei
handled by gravity.
a fresh-water lake wh
was one which
* engineering.
went ashore.
s whoshowed
f the locks.
ch runs prac-
Here is lo-
es the guard
chine in the
)onding num-
t is operated.
tioned above,
nk. I learned
by hydraulic
action of the
in, it is pro-
ill release at
ch, and allow
ien this chain
sides and bot-
h operates one
are twenty sets or forty
, each being sixty-five feet
thigh, eight feet t
hundred and fifty t
es have air-tight
m a buoyancy.
d by a strut-arm
and to the bull wh
ed
mo
rat
It
ich
hick,
ons.
com]
Fhe
whi
eel it
half-way around a
'tor.
ion of the water.
comes from Gatun
i is eighty-five feet
mnd is
It is
Lake,
above
valves at the lower end
The valves at the lower
are opened, allowing t
level
wate
mid
The
the
The
this
Al
pass
to tl
there
each
to pass into the
r in the lower char
dle chamber lower;
valves are closed,
ship then passes
gates are closed an
chamber as in the
after the ship is r
es into the upper
he level of the lake
e and a half milli
lockage. After tU
the upper
mixed with
As soon
chamber, a
get back o:
We are n
expect to
noon. Fro
continue o
level
isal
as t
Sga
nto
low
arri
m t
urj
as we arrive
ready to mail
trip.
of this chamber are closed.
end of the middle chamber
he water from the middle
lower chamber. As the
nber rises, the water in the
s until they are equalized.
the gates are opened, and
into the middle chamber.
id the valves are opened in
lower chamber.
aised in this chamber, it
chamber, where it is raised
It takes approximately
on cubic feet of water for
xe fresh water passes from
into the middle
evel, it becomes
t water
I,
h
ship had been raised in the upper
ng plank was put aboard for me to
the ship.
steaming along on Gatun Lake, and
ve at Balboa sometime this after-
here we go out to sea, and then shall
ourney to San Francisco. As soon
there, I shall have another letter
to you, telling about the rest of the
Sincerely ours,
DELILAH.
CRISTOBAL COALING STATION.
Mildred Morgan, '25.
Cristobal Coaling Plant is located on Mindi
Island, west of Cristobal-Colon, and separated
from the American vicinity by the old French
Canal. Mindi Island runs south of Cristobal to
the inter-section of the
new American Canal.
The construction wo
gan about 1914, and
first step was to sink
north end of Mindi Isl
ing a pier fronting on
the north, east, and w
construction work was
tractors was begun in
unloading and deliverii
its entirety cost about
old French Canal and the
rk on the coaling plant be-
was finished in 1916. The
the large
and, prep;
the watei
est sides.
finished, 1
erecting tl
ng purpose,
three milli
caissons
aratory to
C 1
s or the
After ti
he work
e machi
s. The
on dolla
D
b
he
;o
rs. The
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THE
CARIBBEAN,
line, the carriage being operated on a boom with
bridge are also movable, there being one hopper
track.
When the collier comes to the plant for
for each reclaiming bucket.
These bridges are
unloading, these booms are lowered down to the
built on trucks and run on tracks, in a north and
ship after it is tied up.
All the unloading towers
are operated by steam, and are the only part of the
plant that is not operated by electricity. Each
one of the unloading towers
has an
unloading
capacity of two hundred and fifty tons per hour
when
the digging is not interrupted.
It takes
from twenty to thirty hours to unload a twelve
thousand-ton collier, depending upon other work
being done at the plant at the same time. The
last part of unloading a
collier
is considerably
south direction on the plant.
a capacity of five hundred
These buckets have
tons per hour each.
A track runs through each bridge and connects
with either side of the elevated railroad by means
of a sliding switch, the latter being so constructed
that it fits over the track on the elevated railroad
and slides along said track when the bridge is set.
In addition to the main plant machinery, the
Cristobal plant has a fleet of three barges, equip-
with coal conveyors on elevators,
that are
slowed down on account of getting near the bot-
tom, where there is shoveling work necessary to
bring the coal
toward the center of the hatch.
used for delivering coal to ships away from the
plant, or for delivering coal to vessels at the coaling
plant, when it is necessary to coal such vessels from
These unloading towers are handled by one oper-
ator and one engineer, with a colored crew of six
or seven.
The delivering side of the plant consists of four
reloading towers (operated by electricity), that
have a capacity of five hundred to one thousand
both sides at the same time.
This is done by using
a reloading tower from the dock side and a con-
veyor barge from the opposite side.
are equipped with
generator sets,
These barges
operated by
steam, for making electricity with which to run
the motors in each conveyor.
These conveyors
tons per hour, depending upon
which a ship can receive coal. TI
the speed with
these reloaders are
independent of each other, and also constructed
so that they can be moved along the reloading
dock along similar lines to those of the unloading
towers. Each of these is operated by one operator
and a crew of three or four negroes.
The reload-
ing towers are located on the west side of the plant.
There is also a reloading machine at the north end
of the plant, commonly referred to as the
bunker.
"wharf
" This machine is stationary, and is pro-
are constructed along the lines of the old-fashioned
cistern pump, with cups or small buckets on a re-
volving chain. The conveyors are from forty to
fifty-five feet high. The coal is fed to them from
the bottom of the barge and carried up to the top
by this chain of buckets, and from there emptied
into large, round, telescoping shoots that are con-
nected to the coaling holes or openings in the ship
being coaled.
The coaling plant was built for supplying with
bunker coal, commercial vessels calling at the
vided
two conveyor
booms operating
Isthmus or transiting the Canal;
for supplying
swinging circles that have a radius of forty feet
each. This machine is capable of delivering a
little more than one of the reloading towers, and
requires an operator for each of two conveyor-
booms if they are operated simultaneously, with
a colored crew of the same number for each oper-
ator as is needed for reloading towers.
The elevated railroad, commonly called the via-
the Panama Canal, Panama Railroad, Army and
Navy, and individuals on the Isthmus with coal;
for providing the Navy Department with a coal-
ing station for all Navy vessels.
The storage pile
of this plant is divided into two areas, one a wet
storage basin for storing coal under water for the
Navy, for an indefinite time as a reserve supply;
and a dry storage area for commercial and other
duct, is
located between the unloading and re-
purposes.
The wet storage area occupies about
loading sides of the plant, and serves both of them.
Across the plant and connecting with east and
west sides of it, are built two large bridges. On
each of these bridges are two five-ton capacity re-
claiming buckets, which are used for digging coal
one-third of the storage basin, and the dry about
two-thirds.
The Cristobal plant is reputed to be the most
efficient coaling station in the world, and is thor-
oughly modern in every respect. Unloading or
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THE
CARIBBEAN.
the best records made was the delivery
of one
"Well, I like that, Florence Albert,
" all chimed
thousand and two tons of bunker coal in an hour
in at once.
and ten minutes.
"WVell, wait a minute.
I haven't finished.
"RALPHO,
"Let's see who can tell the biggest lie,"
Ruth, for the want of better inspiration.
"All right,"
You start."
chorused
THOU
DOST
PREVARICATE."
proposed
Let s.
There were four of us, of whom Ruth, eleven or
twelve, was the oldest.
and, tired and hot, had sat down to rest.
to do something, so suggestions as to what to play
We had
if you're nice to me, I'll take you up there and
make him do his tricks for you.
Anyway, now
that I've got him up there, I'm not afraid to walk
through the dark arches because if anyone's there,
he'll tear him all to pieces. And when I go away,
I'm going to take him with me, so that you kids
can go in the dark arches without me."
This was too much!
"Florence Albert, I'll not speak to you again.
My mamma doesn't allow me to associate with
liars," declared Ruth, virtuously, jumping up and
starting to leave.
were called for.
Telling stories, playing colors,
Me, neither,
" echoed Martha.
"And you know
playing house, were suggested-and rejected scorn-
fully. Then came Ruth's idea-something en-
tirely new!
"Well"
she started,
"I was onil one of my uncle's
that you haven't got a bear up there because the
boys are up there, and you are afraid because I
wanted you to go up and you wouldn't go."
"Well, I'm going with Martha and Ruth be-
farms last year during vacation.
He has an awful
cause I
don't like vou anyway,
" declared Elsie,
lot of farms
We listened
different.
twelve or maybe fifteen!"
wide eved.
was something
We fairly hung on her words.
and all three stalked off the porch in righteous
indignation, leaving me to wonder at the perver-
sity of human beings.
"He has lots of grape arbors, too, and let me eat
all the grapes I wanted to.
I used to eat them all
FROM THE INTERIOR.
the time and he just used to laugh because I ate
Dorothy Abendroth, 24.
so many, and he never said a word!
to bust myself."
Just told me
It was on the Randolph road that I first saw him.
He was a shiny, ebony-colored man of absolute-
0-oh, just imagine having somebody around
who didn't keep telling you not to eat between
meals, because if you
, you
would
t eat any
supper and would maybe get sick!
"So one day when I was eating some, I ate a
On his round head re-
posed a monstrosity in the shape of a hat. Be-
neath the tattered brim, peered forth the blackest
and most innocent-looking eyes ever seen, except
What must have been rather full lips,
big spider. I s
She stopped.
aw it and ate it!"
finely
We looked at each other rather
chiseled,
shock of kinky
were
hair which
reached
hidden
down
over
dismayed.
Then
Martha,
Ruth's sister, spoke
where his necktie should have been.
A ragged,
up and said
decidedly,
"That's not true, Ruth
McCombs, and you know it. I'm going straight
home and tell mamma you were telling fibs."
"Aw,Martha,youknow I said we'd see who could
tell the biggest lie. Don
"I'm not a tattletale.
t be such a tattle-tale."
I'm going home and
tell mamma you called me a name.
"Wait,
Martha,
interposed,
hastily,
sleeveless shirt covered his back (literally speak-
ing; for there was no front in the thing). A filthy
pair of trousers, which, I feel sure, must have once
been white, fitted rather snugly and terminated
lust below the knees.
With head held high and shoulders well back,
he walked briskly along swinging a pair of sinewy
arms in time to a tune whistled beneath his breath.
tell my lie now, and then Elsie and you.
Don't
pulled
my camera.
"Say, John,
break up the game.
I began, "You know I have a bear up in the
about a picture?"
answer came in
an unexpected
manner
dark arch.
He follows me everywhere I 0o. but
He nicked up a pair of perfectly proportioned feet.
43
-Butler.
Florence Albert
the rest of us.
We had been playing tag
y perfect proportions.
in a cow.
completely
THE CARIBBEAN.
SYMPATHETIC SKETCHES OF
Situated on a high bluff overlooking the Atlan-
tic Ocean stands the historic fort, San Lorenzo.
NEAR-BY SCENES.
There the sea seems to merge with the white
sky, broken here and there by patches of blue.
Once
grand
jungle.
the stronghold
of Spanish
gallants,
old fort now shelters the beasts
-Florence Albert, 24.
of the
Where the haughty Spaniard once trod
It is a hot sultry afternoon.
Everything seems
now prowl the cat, tapir, and wild hog, making
exhausted-even
the Caribbean,
that ocean
their homes in the crumbling walls.
Where once
ever-changing
moods.
seems-
the iron cannon rested, now roost the wild parrots
and turkeys, rousing the jungle with their strange
motionless, save for a few ripples which, touched
by the idle breeze, wash lazily upon the aged,dull-
cries.
This fort that defied all until captured by
brown coral reef.
Farther out the breakwater
the swarthy pirate Morgan, now lies in a state of
decay
tropical
growth
hiding it from the world.
slowly
but surely
Thus the strange battle
stretches on aimlessly.
the sky and water, a yellowish
let the horizon unite them. Thi,
The sun seems obscure;
drab, seemingly
s scene of monot-
of the centuries goes on, with Nature always sure
of the conquest.-George Oakes, '24.
It was a typical balmy day of dry season. The
sea lay stretched out like a length of shiny satin
ribbon-the
of melted
sapphires.
Blue,
blue, blue, it was-that exotic shade of blue that
makes the heart ache. Motionless white craft
formed raised dots on its smooth, soft surface.
The breakwater made a silver border for the rib-
bon, and at the same time formed a definite divid-
ing line between the blue of the sea and the equally
startling blue of the cloudless sky.
Not a sound, not a motion, nothing but the
perfection of Nature manifested in the unmatch-
able blueness of sea and sky.-Dorothy Abendroth, '24.
ony is broken only by a lonely sea gull as it wends
its way over the waters.-Irene McCourt, '24.
The white-capped waves roared in between the
reefs which guarded the once quiet and peaceful
lagoon.
The sky was as dark and menacing as
the threatening sea below.
Clouds scurried across
it, hither and thither, as if seeking refuge from
the coming storm.
The palm trees bent before
the lashing of the wind, which, shrieking like a
banshee, swept through their branches.
The sky grew darker, the waves rose higher and
tumbled faster and faster in between the sentinel
reefs;
a faint mist rose from the spray and cov-
ered the water as if with a veil;
thunder
hush!
were
The sk
heard
y grew
at intervals.
faint rumbles of
Suddenly
more overcast-and
It is a beautiful tropical March afternoon with
the sun shining brilliantly.
The pervading silence
is broken only by the faint noise of the little waves
as they run up on the shore and break on the
smooth, brown stones, which can be seen at irreg-
ular intervals along the beach.
The bay, a clear blue gray, is disturbed only by
the ripples made on its surface by the breeze.
Occasionally, a fish jumps, describes a flashing
silver arc as he goes through the air, and is gone.
In the distance the breakwater shows silver,
storm broke.
Rain, falling in seemingly never-
4-
ending torrents, hid the land from view.
-Florence Albert, '24.
The sun, a gorgeous fire ball of the melted,
tinted hues of a rainbow, is setting o'er the tran-
quil waters of Colon Harbor.
An almost indis-
tinct gray smudge of smoke just appearing on the
horizon foretells the approach of a steamer. A
tiny sailboat flaunting its glistening white sail
before an impish sea breeze, slowly glides along
beside the silver breakwater.
Only the faint chug-
THE
CARIBBEAN.
The bay is calm and qu
let save for the lapping
whispered in the gentle breeze, making soft mur-
waves
sailbo;
sky.
orang
with
great,
Spang
water
tant sl
view on
gine gra
Silenc
dropped
ats are
Wonder
e are refl
as many
glowing
i Bann
Sthe fla
draws
its wa1
dually
e once
behind
ol udy streaks a
against the
silhouetted
ful sunset t
ected in the
varied and
opal. The
r are
comes i
earer ar
to the
lies dow
again.
the hor
re left i
n
stars peep out and are ref
peaceful and quiet save
waves against the sea wa
sea wall. A f
against the 1
ints of rose, b
'I
\
i
vater, mak
changing
strains of
rd faintly
m'n. A spec
n aeroplan
i. The hu
ntil the pl
and o
sky.
ed in
the 1;
ing
col
"r
aI
ew
be
lu
it
or
1 lit
acro
in t
corn
n of
ne hl
of f
pale
ew e
Small
autiful
e, and
gleam
s as a
SStar-
ss the
he dis-
es into
its en-
rnds.
ire has
tinted
evening
calm bay-
ing of little
-Edith Co nbourn, '24.
A glorious golden moon shone, shedding on the
water a pathway of subdued light. The palm
fronds, silvered in the moonlight, rustled and
during
the lap
water,
moon, 1
as thost
destruc
noises
ping o
turned
ured ai
e water
tion the
Midnight
, which seemed accompany
f the waves on the beac
golden by the rays of the
nd invited, as enticing in it,
nymphs of old, who drew
Sunwary mariners.-Florence
and everywhere
dotted with twinkli
that touches the
sound is heard exc
washes against th
patches, with phosj
waves passing ove
which shows the b
a mossy coating, v
inhabitant sparkli:
ing the shore, th
jungle night only <
sea.
n
C
e
e
p3
r
ot
/i
n
e
gsta
arib
ment to
h. The
tropical
s beauty
to their
Albert, '2a.;.
the black blanket
irs covers the
bean shore.
pt when an
sand. Th
horescence IT
the reef. 1
ttom of the
th diamond
g from its
murmurous
occas
t watt
iade b
This c
reef c
eyes
shelter
t ocean
"celv a
ripple
ows in
gentle
a light
ered with
some sea
Border-
mystery
emphasizes the stillness of the
eorge Oakes, '24.
A CAPTURE.
Andrew D. Smith, '25.
Richard A. Fisher, '25.
Until recently our acquaintance with the octo-
of this
intense
strain
strength of the octopus
pus w
"Toile
pedia
give V
a few
a spec
is not
Octop
The
As we
for a s
in front
confined to the one in
of the Sea," and to those i
-itannica, but we two now
or Hugo and the Encyclope
Inters since we captured, a
ten of the shallow-water t)
so large
Victor Hugo's
n the Encyclo-
think we can
.dia Britannica
few days ago,
Tpe-even if it
and ferocious as the deep-sea type
method we
used w
as ex
proceeded along the coral ree
andy, stone-and-shell-strewn
- C I I 'N "
t of a sm
such an opening
whether or not th
was occupied w
entrance, one o
We found a sit
proceeded to sec
steel harpoon.
we prodded a:o
fastened a long-
TIt, r o n~n s'^ b ct.i
anl opening. L
.g we would
ie octopus was at
e would see, str
f the tentacles
nation of this
*ure our prize w
After we harpo
und in the bac
handled steel h
ceedingly simple.
f,
st
n
reepi
try
:hoi
etc1
bar
natl
ith
one
k o
ook
toc
me
hed
rTin
ure
a s
d t
f t
we searched
pot directly
g up behind
determine
. If the hole
across the
.g intrusion.
. Then we
ma
-he
he
into
nclnn *- t -
,sharp,
>ctopus,
ole and
s body.
gave
of th
he sq
by th
used
to es(
Afi
we sa
of th
was
ture
was
white
and c
were
were
feeds
color
\We
grout
High
4-- ,-. /~\ '
out, and he released his hold o
e niche. After being taken out
uirted a stream of inky fluid, w
ie natives to be very blinding.
as a smoke screen when the oct'
cape from an enemy.
ter the octopus was placed on th,
xw eight waving arms or tentacles
e sack-like body. Between thi
a web-like formation, which helj
to swim. The under side of t
pink in color, and studded with
suckers. The brain is below t
:lose to the base of the tentacles
black with white oblong irises
of thick, elephant-like hide. 1
on crabs and shellfish. He is ab
to some extent, but generally is a
Caught several that evening, ar
Swe selected two specimens for tl
School laboratory. One large on
-'n *-/^ rbrrni-^ao,, tirbaho 'ann\ r
n the walls
of his hole
which is said
This ink is
opus wishes
e coral reef,
le
ps
he
#
t
h
e
1it
1C
"i;
at the base
Stentacles
Sthe crea-
tentacles
vo rows of
e stomach
The eyes
The lids
he octopus
to change
mold gray.
i from the
e Cristobal
, with ten-
n11l e'lnir~h^l,,
i r
THE
CARIBBEAN.
"Oh there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken Chain."
Clarice Steenberg, '26.
One late afternoon I was curled up in a corner
of the sofa in my father's studio, drowsily attempt-
ing to read a romantic tale of life in the early nine-
teenth century. My eyes wandered to a large
portrait of my great-great-grandmother, at eigh-
teen, which hangs in state over the large mahogany
This awoke me with a jolt from my rapturous
contemplation of her.
She was referring to my
latest shingle bob, and I rose to defend it.
"Why
indeed
not!"
answered
"This is the latest shingle bob!
indignantly.
It's considered
quite the snake's eyebrow in my crowd.
Your
desk.
Pretty, sweet, little thing!
I could see the
numerous young gallants she surely must have
had, ready to prostrate themselves at her feet.
In some respects, it must have been wonderful to
live at that time.
A creak of the door roused me from my mental
ramblings; probably one of the girls running over
to ask which dress I would wear to the dance that
night.
on in!"
Without turning my head I called,
"Come
hair is pretty, but it's really fixed awfully old-
fashioned, you know."
"Mine!"'
she exclaimed in consternation.
I am not old-fashioned!
"Why
was considered
most fashionably dressed belle of the town.
still pride myself on
the languishing glances
received from all the young gallants, as I rode
through the streets in my barouche behind my
lovely bays."
"Barouche!
There was no answer, but I heard a seductive
Bays!"
ejaculated,
My dear, they're awfully passee!
"Feature
Come on
little rustle
looked
beheld
as someone
around, and
entered
a gasp of
room.
delight,
the daintiest little figure imaginable!
gazed at her and then at the picture above the
desk.
Yes, it was she!
My great-great-grand-
mother, just as if she had stepped from the frame,
only so much more adorable, for she was alive,
breathing, even smiling at me.
She was arrayed in the daintiest of gowns, in
the style fashionable in her day.
satin
bodice,
SIt had a tight
a wide, flounced
out and I'll show you a real ride in my snappy
little red Hudson speedster. If that darned old
speed cop, that's always laying for me, isn't in
sight, I'll step on 'er and show you some speed,
perhaps up to seventy, with the cut-out at full
blast!
Then, oh boy!
"Speedster!
you mean?" s
Speedcop!
Watch our dust!"
Seventy!
ihe asked bewildered.
What do
"But, child,
I'll go with you as soon as you are dressed."
"Dressed!" I exclaimed. "Well, for crying out
loud!
I am dressed."
hooped skirt, covered with net and creamy old
lace, with tiny pink rosebuds peeping from among
the ruffles.
The neck, cut low enough to show her
lovely shoulders, was softened by a lace fichu fast-
She looked with wide eyes at my orange flannel
coat-dress,
perfectly
straight,
as the mode
quires, fastened on the side with one large orange
buckle; then at my white chiffon stockings, with
ened at her breast with a cameo brcoch.
Tiny
orange clocks, and
the wide
roomy flat
puffed sleeves came just above her elbows, where
they were fastened closely with dainty pink rose-
Egyptian sandals, with crepe rubber soles stick-
ing out all around.
With still greater wonder
buds.
Black lace mitts extended to her dimpled
she looked
at the long dangling earrings
elbows.
Loose, short black curls
peeped
under the frilly blue poke bonnet, which made a
lovely setting for her pretty little face.
She proceeded with little mincing steps to come
toward me, and seated herself demurely beside me
on the sofa.
I was conscious of a faint scent of
reached nearly
to my shoulder, at my
hair with a stiff curl pasted across each
clipped
cheek,
and the bangs that covered my forehead.
With a pitying glance at me and a self-satisfied
smile, she looked down at her dainty dress, and
gentlyv patted the ruffles and pink rosebuds with
-Proctor.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
"You don't mean to say you call that a dress,
do you ?
Why it's just a straight piece of hideous
crossed, and his face aflame with a joyous grin,
as he rocked back and forth on an opal basket
goods, and, child, where are the sleeves?"
He was very
happy, because
had been
" I answered condescendingly,
we don't
paying a lot of attention to him lately, and his
wear much sleeve nowadays, and this piece of
hideous goods happens to be the latest creation
from Giddings!"
throne gleamed
flames.
at me.
with a million
varicolored
I patted him fondly, and he grinned back
"Really?
but tell
don't
ever
Then my
"Wufful Boid,"
the companion of m
dance?"
horseback rides, posted merrily up and down on a
'Dance?
"You do?
Sure!"
I replied.
French
But how do you ever dance in that
narrow skirt
"Easily!
You ought to see mv latest cake-eater
officer's saddle,
flapping
wings
crowing lustily:
"Colon, Gatun, any place at all;
Fort San Lorenzo beats them all.
and me do the double-shuffle or the camel walk.
That boy is some finale-hopper."
You may ride there fast, you may ride there slow;
But whichever way you take, it's a long way to go."
"Why
how interesting, granddaughter, dear.
Next in line came my
"Sping-Wow
," proudly
Is it anything like the minuet?"
"Well, I should hope not!" I said with a superior
toss of my head, as I went over to the phonograph
and looked over the records.
"How would you like to hear'She Wouldn't Do
What I asked Her to, so I Socked Her in the
Jaw?' I asked, picking up the latest favorite.
bearing a shield in the form of a tennis racquet,
with two basket ball shoes sable sub three tennis
balls argent on a field verde, bearing the motto:
Vary your spin, vary your pace,
In every game and set;
Remember,
time
to sock
the ball,
Is when you charge the net!
"What!"
she gasped.
Then, last in line, and sadly tarnished and bat-
Quickly putting on the record
snappy steps of the
around the room.
"Oh, stop!"
.ut off that
camel-wal
she cried.
, I performed the
k" once or twice
"How very immodest!
awful
heathenish dance!
tered from neglect, stood myv
"Brainy Boy," the
god of my school work, resting on a square erected
on a side of an equilateral triangle, bearing the
motto,
Intellego.
" I stood for a while, looking
penitently at him, when a magic sound penetrated
I'll show you a minuet.
She arose from the sofa, and humming a little
tune to herself, she began to dance.
A tiny little
mv consciousness.
I rushed into the gym.
Down
at one end three soldiers were engaging in basket
practice.
One of
them,
with a
welcoming
foot in its strapped slipper, peeped out from under
the ruffled gown, pointed, and then drew in again.
Curtseying, smiling, swaying, bowing, she floated
about the room.
the air.
The faint musk scent pervaded
Her slippers seemed barely to touch the
floor, and her skirts rustled fascinatingly. She
made me think of a gracious fairy, and I closed
my eyes h
the spell.
had vanish
ard
smile, hurled the ball far down the hall to me.
I caught it-two dribbles-and tossed it high in
air.
swished
"Boojum!"
through.
I y
"Atta
elled.
boy,
K-CHK!-
Boojum!" I
applauded.
REST AFTER TOIL
daring to breathe, lest I break
But when I opened my eyes again, she
ed! Nothing remained, but the faint,
haunting scent of musk.
"LUCKS."
From the upper end of Gatun Lake,
The natives, in their cayucos, glide
-
To the Gatun docks, where shippers take
Their wares, and then confide
To them the latest prices
Of animal furs and native rices.
Caldwell
As I
B. Foos
sat and looked lone
somely out over the
The natives then to Colon go,
Where they spend the rest of the day
THE
SAN BLAS AS SEEN BY A SENIOR.
Inza Markham, '24.
See illustration-Page 49,
At daybreak we found ourselves working our
way out into the lower San Blas Bay.
arrived
We had
just at sunset the night before at San
Bias Point where we had paid our respects to the
Panamanian
Governor
of San
He it is
CARIBBEAN.
by a tribe of people who have not accepted civili-
zation and are practically the same as they were
generations ago.
Through this same influence we
were able to win the confidence of the chief who
gave us an authentic story of his people. And
from close contact we were able to get first hand
information as regards daily life, customs in mar-
riage, sickness, and burial, and government.
who issues the clearance papers which must be had
by all ships
Bias waters.
captains who wish to travel in San
His is an unusual domain.
Besides
the mainland territory, San Blas comprises three
hundred islands-only fifty of which are, however,
inhabited.
They reach from
San Blas
Point to
the Colombian border-approximately one hun-
dred and fifty miles.
All morning we traveled
past low coral reefs and small islands covered with
waving palms.
On the mainland rose the
Here we
mountains of the Continental Divide.
At noon we anchored off Nargana.
bade good-bye to Captain Rowe, master of the
good ship Arabia, and embarked in a native cayuco
for the village of Diablo. Arriving there we were
met by many Indians who had already been in-
formed of our coming.
My father and I went
The islands,
covered
dense
coconut
groves, rise only a few feet above the water but
are protected to the windward by a coral reef.
These Indians are small in stature, brown in
color,
with straight, black
shoulders and arms, and large head.
yell-developed
All are good
swimmers-in fact they learn to swim when they
are three years old. The Indians are descendants
from the mountain Indians. We suppose that a
band of Indians came down from the mountains
centuries ago to fish, and were perhaps compelled
to stay on one of the islands over night. Realiz-
ing what a lovely spot this would be in which to
live-as these islands are free from snakes, mos-
quitoes, and all other insects, they have continued
to come out of the mountains to live on the islands.
Their government is one of the most just and
to visit the chief of police who treated us royally
and said he would do all in his power to make our
stay in San Bias a pleasant one.
Our next move
was to Nargana, a few rods from Diablo.
Upon
arriving there we inquired for Jake, a chief and
a friend of ours.
"Jake,
" his brother told us
was
on his plantation to the windward," but he him-
democratic existing.
island
Suppose for instance one
becomes overcrowded
people are compelled to move to another.
of the
When
they are settled on this island, a chief is appointed
by old Chief Coleman who lives to the windward.
Before this new chief can govern this island, a
meeting is called by all the people over whom he
self would take charge of us.
He took a cayuco
and went to the Arabia for our baggage; and in
due time we were members of the family-living
with his wife and children, and his three sisters
is to rule.
Every Indian has the right to the floor,
After an open discussion, if the majority accepts
this chief, all well and good-he serves for life
unless he is removed for cause, which can be done
and their children.
I staved two weeks in San
by calling a meeting and voting him out.
If he
visiting
many
islands,
living
many
is not accepted, they nominate and elect one to
families, and learning the customs of this unique
people whose land had so long
white men.
been closed
They had managed to live to them-
their own liking.
The chief wears no
uniform
or insignia of any kind to denote his rank. He
enjoys no privilege that is not enjoyed by any
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CARIBBEAN
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HAMMIABHE
o50 THE CARIBBEAN.
under him policemen who serve as messengers.
They wear no uniforms, and carry no club, badge,
When
the girl is
about
thirteen and
the boy
eighteen, if the girl is a good cook and a good
or revolver.
There are no prisons;
in case one
worker, and has plenty
coconuts,
of their unwritten laws is violated, the offender is
biy is a good hunter or fisher, the mothers get
punished
flogged.
singers.
bv
being tied to
a coconut
tree and
The chief also has official musicians and
They, like the police, receive no salary
but are supported by the house from which they
are appointed.
The home of the San Bias Indian is sand-floored,
and bamboo-walled, and has a palm roof sup-
together to arrange for the marriage.
If the par-
ents wish to put on style they have a feast. The
mother of the bride informs the chief, who gives
orders to his police to notify all the people of the
coming event.
The Indians bring food such as
bananas, yams, yucca, and dried fish.
distant island comes the
From some
"Official Taster."
ported
ground.
bv four hard-wood
posts
There is a door at each enm
set into the
d. There are
drink is furnished by the parents, for it is the
most important part of the feast.
It is made by
no partitions of any kind.
The Indians sleep in
boiling the juice of sugar cane and corn together,
hammocks which they weave from the bark of a
tree twisted with cotton to form a thread.
Shoes and stockings are unknown among the
Indians.
The clothing of the men consists of a
then covering it and allowing it to stand.
Each
day the taster tastes it. Then comes the day
when he announces it just right. A group of men
now goes to the house of the boy and takes him
pair of baggy trousers, a shirt which has neither
collar nor cuffs and which always hangs on the
outside (perhaps in order to display better the
fullness which is obtained by several rows of shir-
ring in the back and front), sometimes a gay-color-
to the home of the girl.
hammock,
backs
They are placed in a
to each
other.
After
a while the boy is taken out to a small inclosure
and bathed.
This is repeated four times.
After
the last time they are considered married.
ed necktie, and
always
"The Hat"
sometimes
comes the big feast.
The drink is passed around
made by the women, sometimes a panama, some-
times a derby-but always worn and always sev-
eral sizes too small.
The women working on plan-
in a gourd, the women, children, and men taking
a drink.
drunk;
It takes very little to make the Indian
so he soon becomes like a wild animal,
stations or around the house wear a waist and a
short skirt coming to the knees.
When they are
sometimes even killing his own wife and children.
The Indians lie around until they are sober; and
dressed up, they wear a longer skirt, known as
the performance is repeated.
This lasts for three
smoke
sail,
which
reaches
the ground.
days.
At the end of the feast they bury their
The waists are one-piece and consist of several
layers of bright-colored cloth cut and sewed so as
to form picture writing with the various colors.
The women have their ears pierced and wear large
dead, and the bride's father takes the groom to
the jungle where he compels him to cut so much
hardwood.
The boy
goes to live at the girl'
home-they are never allowed to go and build a
brass earrings.
When a child is about two weeks
home of their own.
In one house in Tigre there
old, its nose is pierced.
Through this hole is run
were one
hundred and
thirty people.
After a
a thread.
Each day a larger thread is put in until
the hole is large enough to admit a ring an eighth
girl is married, she bobs her hair
mains the rest of her life.
and so it re-
of an inch thick.
are bound.
Also from infancy their legs
There are yards and yards of colored
beads wound around their legs and arms.
Every
One night we attended a meeting which was
called because of a dispute over coconuts. The
house in which it was held had, as usual, no floor
few days these are tightened so that the flesh often
grows out over them.
When
wound
correctly
but the sand.
long benches;
Down each side of the room were
at one end, a hammock.
We were
these beads form the same patterns as are on the
the first to arrive and took much interest in those
dress.
There are three of these bindings on both
who attended.
The chief came in dressed in a
legs and arms.
On the head
is worn a bright
pair of dark trousers,
white shirt worn on the
I i. . . C 1 ... .. I ........ .. 1
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Next came six men, three
sat down on the chief
The women, children.
the benches. When a
wearing short blue trn
tie, and brown derby
TI
pipe. He was
He gave the pip
handed it back
turn to each of
all had puffed it
out. The chief:
sat down in his
dience rose and
the chief got u]
down in his ham
talked at once.
hour, when the
went out. The
While visiting
to ask about th
in heaven San I
deer, coconuts-
arrow to kill de4
the ex
e to t
to th
the m
:, he p
now a
hamn
Sspo
p, spo
mock.
This
chief
meetir
one o
eir rel:
Bias-
-no I
er. B
walk around blind,
me the story of N
cleverest and best
were great whirlpo
pass. Several Ind
cayuco and all. T
in the whirlpool int
he had
yes, the
been
Sgrea
gone.
4-o n
of whom
's right and three on his left.
and other Indians occupied
ill were gathered, an Indian,
users, white shirt, red neck-
hat, came in carrying a clay
pert canoe man or runner.
he chief, who took a puff and
.e runner, who handed it in
en around the chief. When
ut it in his mouth and went
rose, spoke a few words, and
lock. An Indian in the au-
ke-then another. At last
ke a few minutes, and lay
Now every one got up-all
went on for nearly a half an
rose, said a few words, and
ng was over.
f the chiefs I took the chance
igion. He said, "All people
no white men-plenty fish,
ndian
'ut in
nothing t
elly, the
of them a
ols over
ians had
hen one c
Shis cayi
then he h
use more than
hell-nothing, Ii
o eat." Then he
San Blas Indian
Aroui
ch no
n swal
Nelly
. For
come
reat-grandfather of
nd Nargana
man could
lowed up-
went down
three days
back. "Oh
e chief had
grave for the spirit in the next world.
guidt
time;
In
with
Robi
askec
of its
were
do n
with
Theyv
e ift
S yes
I91
litt
nson
i the
owr
esta
ot li
then
hayv
I asked our
he spirit drank much. He said, "'Some-
, sometimes no."
0 a Catholic school was established but
le
1;
h
b
k,
e
sUCCt
i Ind
mana
)ut i
hed
e the
but t
a bas
ess. r
ian wh
la Gove
t was ni
with su
schools
he youn
eball di
years
o had
rnmern
ot unt
access.
nor a
ger ge
amono
later Charles
been to the
it to found a
il 1916 that s
The older
nothing con:
neration like
I and never
States,
school
schools
people
nected
them.
tire of
telling of the time they beat the crew of some ship.
There is a dance hall where the young people go
and enjoy themselves. Through the influence and
training of teachers from Panama the Indians are
gradually
leg bands.
being induced to discard their arm and
All too soon came the day when an Indian re-
rned in his cavuco and told us that the Arabia
had I
cayuc
to pa
many
That
and 1
)een
:o to
ck up
Sift
even
lome
sighted to the windward. We took a
the island where our belongings were,
our baggage-already increased by the
s of shows and arrows, dresses and spears.
ling we were on our way toward Colon
, with a real feeling of friendliness for
those we had just
CATIVA.
Ju:an B. Papi, '26.
Cativa
es una pequenia poblacion, muv cercana
seen Nelly
Th
people
mean
ness.
and
hamr
I
en I asked about some carved
e had
t noti
Whe
boil t
aock.
to chase o0
songs are
found little
Afewda
an Indian
drive a peg
mock with
ings. The
told me were their gods.
thing and were used only ir
en an Indian is sick, they
:hem together under th
The odor of these herb
it the little devils. Son
chanted. On the whole,
Sickness among the Indi
ys later we visited the cem
dies, they dig a hole and
. Then the Indian is pu
his bows, arrows, and
hammock is hung to the
sticks which
He said they
Time of sick-
gather herbs
e sick man's
s is sup
ietimes
however
ans.
e
tI
t
ot
i
posed
weird
8r, we
terry. When
at each end
in his ham-
ther belong-
pegs and the
a Colon.
noven
man
chas
pobla
razas,
queno
El pueblito es co
metros cuadrados
mnos trecientas pers
iendas retiradas en l
n. El pueblo estai hI
s cuales trabaian 1l
mo de
. Los
onas, a
[os mon
labitad
aborios
unos
habi
unqu
tes v
o por
amen
ochenta
tantes s
e hay min
fuera de
different
te sus p
montes.
Traen sus produ
grandes trabajos
caminos que les pe
mas faiciles, mas q
en bestias.
Cativa estAi habi
tidas, las cuales
muchas de sus neces
ctos a la cercana cuidad, con
y dificultades, por no tener
rmitan acarrearlos por medios
utie el de traerlos al hombro 6
tado 1
estin
sidade
or personal muy diver-
dispuestas a sacrificar
, para divertirse durante
by the chief.
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THE' CARIBBEAN.
guardar en forma de ahorro, algo de dinero para
los muv esperados dias del carnaval.
Esos dias
mas iban cr
Por fin lleg6
fiestas y los
umnieron un gi
do una espec
silenciosas ho
de tambores
mente contain
martes, en el
la despedida
deseados se iban acercando, y
ido los deseos y el entusiasmo.
sibado, el dia de principiar las
rtimientos. Sin tardanza se re-
rupo de los mis ilustrados y, forman
ie de comite, decidieron romper las
iras de la noche con alegres sonido
y sonoras voces de alegrfa. Igual
uaron el domingo y el lunes, pero e
dia de mis divertimiento, el dia di
le la bien acogida fiesta del carnaval
en ese dia las fiestas y
temprano y no se vi
miercoles de ceniza.
Lo mis bonito y ec
artistic sal6n de baile
reunieron un grupo d
cantidad de hojas de p
en forma de trenzas,
una barraca o sea el
tal forma de adorno
ranchos i
bello y a
sal6n de I
como la
Cuando 1:
ioso pic,
a bailar i
con tan g
isados en la 6
tractivo de to
baile que tenia
1 1 1
los bailes principiaron muy
meron a terminar hasta e
:on6mico era el espacioso y
Para arreglar
hombres y co
Imnas, las cuales
las clavaron a
queleto de un;
que h
poca d
do era
una su
I
ondulada de u
questa toc6 su r
pic, boom-boom
hello baile native
compis y elega
orquesta era compuesta
tres tambores y un rayo.
Los tres tambores son
diferentes y dos de ellos,
son tocados por medio d
las manos, mientras el bo
es tocado por medio de d
Tan pronto como toca
presents se entregaron <
miento, demostraron su
saltos y gritos de "Viva
mas se divertia era uno
de c
n
mI
acian rec
e piedra.
el piso d
perficie t
mar tern
elodioso y
salieron 1;
"Tambo:
vahlientes cooperadores del divertimento, y esa
pobre iracunda nube, para no verse humillada,
prefiri6 mejor dejarse llevar por la suave briza
veranera al lejano oaisis.
ESCOVAL.
Dorothy Abendroth,
s Escovalis a native
- high on the bank
1 means of approach
e pier projects sullen
That allows the visit
Proper. If he surv
rewarded by the si
as to remind him ol
1
sal6n
taron una
as tijeron
ededor de
chosa, en
ordar los
Lo mis
el amplio
an a niv6l
pestuoso.
harmon-
as parejas
nto
lo bailan.
uatro
mnstrumentos,
de formas y sonidos muy
o sean los mas pequenios,
e continuosos golpes con
m
0os
rc
X), o sea el rr
palitos.
n los tambo
toda gana
egria, por 14
Tamborito
or el apodo
dor," porque bailaba y brincaba mis
derais.
Principiaron las fiestas de despedida c
una de la tarde, y en medio de la mAs
alegria, se deio ver en el vasto firmam
is grande,
es, los alli
al diverti-
s brincos,
' y el que
de "Avia-
ie los
:omo a la
acalurosa
ento una
Mor
Tl
way,
cart
side
high,
small
kitch
shak
gan was the dri
he main street,
wide enough
to wend its rut
with thatched
, skinny stilts.
l,
e
y
village, picturesquely perched
of Gatun Lake.
is by water, a fl
ly out from the
or to wheeze up
'ives the muddy
ght of a village
f the stories of t
ead of every sma
merely a rutted, x
for a single woi
nbling way, is li
huts balanced nr
Underneath
As the only
imsy wooden
steep incline
to the village
climb, he is
so primitive
ie days when
ll boy.
winding path-
oden-wheeled
ned on either
ecariously on
ach of these
one-room structures, are the stable and the
n, saved from being one room only by a
partition of woven reeds stretched from
side to side.
Here in these twenty-foot squares all the busi-
ness of life is c
ten people live
ently, suffer no
having known
At the farthe
fare stands, or
breeze causes it
arried on. Sometimes as many as
in one of these huts and, appar-
discomforts from congestion, never
other homes.
r end of
rather,
to sway
this monotonous thorough-
trembles-for the slightest
dangerously on its wabbly
legs-the village store. Swinging squeakily on the
rusty nails is a crude red sign to the effect that
"SNOBALS" are for sale therein.
Branching off from the main street, numerous
corduroy
tant
one
they
the
lage.
arriv
One
bake
other
anes,
overgrown with
green grass imaginable, trt
to-nowhere. They start
never get anywhere. And t
abit of everything and ever
They start out bravely,
e. However, the exception
of these winding pathways le
shop. A large wooden build
Side of a shallow box over
most luxur-
erously lead
lustily, but
seems to be
e in the vil-
DUt tney
proves th
ads to the
ng squats
which a
never
e rule.
public
on the
skinny
tan
ciern
ese
dive
cara
ev
e;
,
t
'
[
THE
CARIBBEAN.
huge lumps of dough
board. At the conclu
ing,
and
will
ward
corn
on en
but s
on t
initial
bake
Th
side
some
grim'
and
gath
attirn
tons
ing t
smnoo
they are pulled
delivered to the
the visitor survive
emerge only slig
ed by the sight
in a pilon. This
id in which the co
olid log, held in I
he corn, flatteninr
Il preparation of
d in the bakesh
iere is no sign of a
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01
S(
Ys
ys
wh
ers
ed.
of
he
th
a smI
)rt.
a.1
o
<(
are jammed by a long, flat
vision of the ten-minute bak-
out with a rake-like affair
owner.
es the closeness and heat, he
ly wilted an
Sa native la:
s a hollowed
is spread. 1
th hands, is 1
the kernels.
will
ly po
og st
ten a,
ough
This
the corn for the corn bread
op.
school, unless a scene by the
l-.- i i lJ. - f - 1r
ake woud ndcate a schoo o
und two stout negresses, whose
tied up around lumpy waistlines,
y feet a
of very
Here the
abs
the two women
m on flat roc
stones, until
re
yo
or
bare
young
bedly
of covering,
girls similar
watch the o
n, who wash clothes by
ks and beating them
, besides being credit
daily
y un-
pera-
plac-
with
tablyv
ing these poor, maltreated remnants on the grassy
banks, they leave them to dry in the scorching
sun. These silent watchers have evidently gath-
ered to learn the technicalities of a washer-
w Uiiiua
If th
ent on
he will
sides th
ers a h
bearers
edge w
drop it
from si
The
s business.
1
t
h
h
visitor
he buri
see the
it of a w
eavv mn
wend t
ere they
is fortunate enough to be pres-
al da
lake
ashti
etal
heir
Sgrui
y ofc
being
ib. B
coffin,
silent
ntingl
)ne or
put
learin
, the
wayva
v low
scoval's citizens,
another use be-
an sinewy should-
ack-garbed pall-
wn to the lake's
their burden and
into the muddy lake where it quickly sinks
ght.
beauty of Escoval lies in its vegetation.
Immense trees, mango, guava,
vitae, form a dense fringe aroui
settlement. Beautiful tropical
fully in the front yards; velvety
the slopes of the surrounding h
ical flowers seem to spring up
most unusual places, making
omitting
only the squalor
palm, and l
nd the edge
ferns wave
green grass
ills; languh
magically
the whole
introduced b
ignum-
of the
grace-
covers
d trop-
in the
place,
e hum-
clean
, they are nearly threadbare.
Then, spread-
an element, a vivid scene of natural beauty.
0
e .
NH
CHARCOAL.
Caros Pulgar, '26.
See illustration on page 49.
Early on
e morning, I started for a hike to the
small sticks are arranged, covered up with larger
jungles.
entrance
was going
all fence
Nature.
hundred
g.
d
T
ya
soon came to what
> that particular j
It was like the en
on both sides and
'his tunnel wasn't
rds-and I came qu
I made it my bu
siness
Syou
ungle
trance
on t4
so lot
ickly
to hurry
might call the
into which I
Sto a tunnel--
op by Mother
1g-perhaps a
to the end, for
as I never had
ones, forming a
Th
dirt.
put ii
The r
ing w
a stic
I
is, in turn,
A small tu
n, so as to
material in t
'as
k
mnou
is c
nnel
reac
heh
nd.
)vered with green grass and
is left where the fire can be
h the hollow in the middle.
follow is now ignited by burn-
te, which is pushed through the tunnel on
or wire.
been there before and was afraid of wildcats or
snakes.
Coming to the end I entered a clearing where
a man was burning something that looked to me
to be a wigwam covered with dirt. On inquiry
I found out the following: The wigwam was a
charcoal bin. The bin is more or less in the shape
of a fat cone. Inflammable material, such as chips
The
wood f
late thc
all the
layer is
coal bu
ders it,
soon DU
C
)uter
aver of grass and dirt prevents the
rom burning,
roughly thro
gases without
removed, the
rner collects t
and starts out
it to use. frvin
but allows
ugh the woc
t burning.
mound coll
he charcoal
for town, w
Sfish in the
he hea
d and
When
apses.
in a sa
iere his
circu-
.move
outer
char-
shoul-
luct is
charmcoal braierQ
(
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THE
LIFE IN
CARIBBEAN.
PANAMA.
AT JUAN FRANCO. Evidently
7os6 Arosemena,
Juan Franco race track is already crowded when
we reach it.
On first view we get the impression
a tiny,
every
battleship, destroyer, and sub-
chaser was to be supplied with mascots.
red monkey was perched on a fat shoulder.
a tall gob was dragging a stubborn goat.
Here a
There
Yonder
wise-looking marmoset was comfortably
of a large mass of humanity, but soon we are able
to distinguish that the crowd is divided into small
groups. What a cosmopolitan crowd is assembled
here!-North American tourists, American Army
officers, native Panamanians, South Americans,
Chinese and Hindu merchants, and a thousand
different shades of West Indians.
What strikingly different persons are seen con-
seated in the calloused hand of a fireman.
Nearby
a red-headed Irish lad was gingerly carrying a
land crab, and grinning at the anticipation of fun
caused by placing it in somebody
s bunk.
That
tall, blond-headed chap with the merry, twinkling
blue eyes must have been a naturalist by inclina-
tion, for he had a stuffed iguana and two cases of
Panaman butterflies.
versing together.
An American Army captain is
Hadn't the Colon
merchants grown
talking in confidential tones with a small black
boy. In a corner three Chinamen are doing their
best to understand what an old Jamaican is tell-
ing them, while near to them a group of tourists
are trying out their high school Spanish on a
patient but bewildered Spaniard.
A tall, fat man is endeavoring to squeeze his
way through the crowd, while in his wake follows
a murmur of protests which he answers with an
occasional
excuse
pardon
me.
selling scarfs, silk, cotton, blue, green, pink, scar-
let, purple, striped, checked, of every shape and
size-and a few extra kinds thrown in for good
measure ?
Valentino,
jewelry!
They served as bandanas, sashes a la
neckties,
and knee
bandages.
Fingers were embellished with King Tut
luck rings, and necks with ivory pendants shaped
like Buddhas, roses, elephants, and hearts.
The fruit venders must have had to replace their
stock, for look at the supply here: Pineapples, soft
wonder on how many feet he has stepped or will
step before the day is ended.
A bit of a man about five feet three with a beard
and moustache in the style of Napoleon III seems
to be greatly excited. He gesticulates wildly and
talks at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
A bell rings and everything else is forgotten in
the mad scramble for seats in the balcony. The
horses come out of the paddock and march to their
position
at the
A hush
prevails
i
stands while the starter gives his directions.
n the
The
and mushy,
coconuts.
beads
bunches
mangoes,
A tall
of
greei
marmol,
msperros,
black negro, his face covered
perspiration,
n bananas.
was lugging
That little s
two
hock-
headed fellow's eyes must have been larger than
his stomach;
he was carrying two sour saps and
four pineapples in one arm, and in the other a
bunch of bananas.
Here came a young fellow,
who had evidently read "Swiss Family Robinson,"
for he had six large, yellowish green breadfruit
clutched in his arms.
riders do some clever bits of jockeying in their
desire to get the start on their rivals, and--
"They're off."
And the sailors!
Tall, lanky, short, fat, clean,
dirty sailors were standing, sitting, lounging, lying
flat, laughing, talking, singing, swearing, and even
sleeping.
A shore patrolman was just dragging a
SHIPWARD BOUND.
Andrem Smith, '25.
struggling sailor to his launch.
Someone must
have seen an interesting fight, for the gob's eyes
were black and swollen shut, and the S. P.'s nose
,
THE
CARIBBEAN.
rum-befuddled
"Feed thepolly,
old chap deliriously
called
and offered hisspongy white fore-
What's he disguised as?
clean shirt.
Guess he donned a
Disguise enough!
finger to the bird.
Excited Mr. Parrot, however,
Boom!
Boom
Native
tom-toms!
mistaking his purpose, took a bite.
The liquor-soused sailor let out a blood-curdling
shriek, followed by an amazingly long stream of
profanity, and then swore to do every thing from
they'd
granted.
be "San
dance
"Viva!
tiago.
the "Tamborita.
Santiago!"
" Now they stai
That's a good-looking pollera.
Mv wish
The MAN
rt. Clap!
must
Clap!
She dances well,
punching
parrot.
the owner in
nose
to killing
A shore patrolman gently lead him to a
to:O.
Swirls around.
No stockings!
Can it be-yes, it is-a man dressed up.
Pretty
launch bearing the name
"Texas.
" Into the boats
good!
Others notice the discrepancy.
Clapping
they piled, some crowding, some lagging, some
quarreling, some singing the classic, "Hail, Hail,
the gang's all here."
The docks were cleared as if some master hand
had been
there and swept them clean of their
gets weaker.
All over.
What a fascinating noise from another corner
of the park.
group of negroe
spring faces.
Sounds like a nutmeg grater. A
s. Black grease paint on their per-
All dressed in short, green trousers
human burden. Dong, dong; ding, ding;
chugg, chugg, fainter, fainter, and fainter still.
motor boats have left "the world to darkness
and black
tuxedos.
Goody!
"Lejos de ti, no soy feliz
romantic.
Splendid
harmony
They're going to
, mi amnor. How
They
to me.
pass around the derby.
That reminds me!
a funnv-looking affair a minute ago.
There he is!
CARNAVAL! !
Dorothy
.Ibendroth,
A fat Chinaman in a swallow-tail coat.
derby, with a hole
on his greasy head.
cut in the crown, upsi
Silly idea!
A black
de down
Mi pollera!
D! Carnival
Mi pollera!
is here!
A clear tropic night!
ful combination!
Reds!
Blues!
Green
Blah!
Blah!
Spacious park!
Yellows!
Wheee!
Wonder-
And a seeth-
ming surging mass of multi-colored humanity. Lots
of fun elbowing mv way through the noisy crowd.
A big, fat negro in a sheik costume.
slippers-silver
sheik
turban.
With silver
Ah, he smiles-in real
fashion-at a skinny Chinese girl
nished gold-cloth ballet dress.
bad-looking Syrian in his native dress.
arm with a bathing-beauty.
Ye gods!
in tar-
Jot such a
Arm-in-
She's an
More
Lindo."
him--
music
My
" and,
from
favorite
the bandstand.
Spanish
piece!
"He said to her
don't they go home to talk scandal?
"Cielito
"I told
Gosh! Why
Guess I'll
move on.
Band disperses to a bar for liquid refreshments.
A sudden hush falls on the crowd.
going to speak.
stuff! Phew! I
"Amigos mios--
The queen's
" More soft
Yet's getting close in this jam.
liam's talcum powder!
other
brand!
More
Lilac, I think it is!
perfume
It surely
feels cold when it strikes the back of your neck!
Too much local color.
Guess I'll trot along.
American. A ghastly looking skeleton approaches.
Muttering to a group dressed as-Is it possible?-
grave robbers. Ghouls! Carrying a miniature
coffi n.
Probably a bottle inside!
PANAMA LOTTERY
OFFICE.
Gladyvs Lowande,
La Paloma!
comes the queen.
fhe band's playing.
Viva!
Viva!
Ah! here
La reina!
Sunday morning!
the Panamanian lotte
The time for the drawing of
:ry is fast approaching. The
linda!
Que lihda!
La reina popular!
What a clever get-up!
red satin, tight-fitting suit.
Tall skinny
With a Ion
man in a
office is packed and the street outside thronged
with a multitude of people, most of whom clasp
one or several
tickets on
this week's
drawing.
hate to die-if that's a devil.
Wow!
That perfume smarts.
000!
My eyes.
Perhaps the three Fates have ordained that some
one of them shall hold the winning number.
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THE
CARIBBEAN.
that jauntily balance over one eye, striped shirts
that fairly screech, flaming ties, suits of the most
modern cut, and highly polished pointed oxfords;
THE ICE CREAM VENDER.
ChAester Pike,
or white silk hats heavily
laden
kaleido-
scopic wreaths of flowers, gorgeous satin dresses,
and dangerously high French-heeled shoes.
In sharp contrast to this violent array are those
poor creatures who have just returned from work.
Dirty, ragged clothes and all, it makes no differ-
ence, for they shuffle their lazy way through the
crowd,
barely
managing
to keep on
dilapidated shoes.
Scattered here and there, are groups of pictur-
esque
somber
Panamanian
attire,
in Spanish.
characters
up incessant
dressed
conversations
They somehow impress one with the
fact that they are the descendants of old aristo-
cratic Castilian families.
Several San Blas Indians have also been attract-
ed by this wheel of fortune. As is their custom,
they are lined up in a row, one directly behind the
other. How do they manage to keep their bare
brown feet from under the crushing heels of the
populace? How queer they are in their ill-fitting
gingham trousers, loose hanging shirts, and funny
hats that seem to perch upon their huge heads!
If theirs be the luck to win, what an assortment of
gaudy cheap beads and bright dress goods will be
carried back to the families in San Blas!
Then there are sailors, not only a few straggling
American boys in their white middies, but a couple
of old sea dogs from the French battleship that is
at anchor in the harbor.
Eskimo!
Eskimos!!
pies befo yo dies.
dies.
creai
Come get yo
Eat Eskimo pies an
Eskimo
yo' nevah
In such a manner the arrival of the ice
m-
vender is announced.
rumbling of the hand truck on which he wheels
his ice cream barrel.
and run down stairs,
"What yo
Wheneve
I grab our commissary book
, where he greets me with,
need, sah?"
hear him say this word
need"
when he means want, I have a hard time to
keep myself from saying, "I don't 'need' anything,
you old fool, but I
would like
to get some Ice
cream.
I ask him what flavors he has, and he answers
"Cherry, cherry make you merrie,
ilia to-day, sah.
" or "Van-
The best vanilla you evah saw.
It is only after I have made my purchase that
I notice what a peculiar person he is-a short,
jolly, old Jamaican with a light brown hat cover-
ing his short, black, curly hair. He wears a large
white butcher's apron over a faded blue shirt and
a pair of old khaki pants, thus giving himself a
semi-sanitary appearance.
Then, remembering that I am holding the ice
cream, and fearing that it will melt if I stay there
much longer, I go upstairs.
When I reach the
top step, I hear him again, as he continues his
rounds, calling,
"Ice cream.
Eat Eskimo pies and yo
Makes
Dream.
nevah dies."
Look!
Martinique
women each
with a
kerchief on her head and another about her neck,
caught gracefully at the throat.
Their flowing
TROPICAL SNOWBALLS.
skirts are held loosely over their arms in such a
manner as to display very stiffly starched, white
lace underskirts.
On the outskirts of
this jibbering, jabbering,
motley mass is a fringe of late comers who, as
the possession of prayer books would seem to indi-
returned
church
services
where, perhaps, they have offered pious prayers
that they may be favored this Sunday morning.
Hark!
The first whir of
the lottery
cage is
JosJ Arosemena, '24.
Snowballs, frescos, fruits of all kinds,
They'll take all the troubles away from your minds.
I know where they sell all these good things to eat.
In the snowball shop right in Bolivar Street.
Strawberry, Pineapple, Lemon, and Peach!
My favorite flavors!
I'11 take one of each.
Orange, Banana, Cherry, and Lime,
Which one shall I take? All I have is a dime!
heard.
A sudden silence falls.
All eyes are turned
anxiously toward that whirlinR contrivance which
"Now, be a sport, you surely know me!
f1 1. l-
-. J
THE
CARIBBEAN.
PITCAIRN-"MYSTIC ISLE OF THE SOUTH
SEAS"
cook stove, brought by the
several
years
Youngs from
ago, cost them sixty-four
Tahiti
dollars.
(Written by Manola Bliss '26, from authentic information-
direct from the island).
Pitcairn Island,
August 20, 1921.
Dear Manola:
Just two weeks have passed since that happy
day when we heard the cry of "Say Lo,
breathlessly down to
the beach
ataka drop anchor about a mile out.
and ran
to see the Rum-
It would
be hard for you to realize just what an event in
our quiet lives the arrival of a steamer is, or how
.
exciting it is to see our men, who have gone out in
little boats, clamber up the ropes carrying articles
Mother says she is a much happier woman since
she has the stove, as cooking on it is such an im-
provement over the old method of the open fire
and the stone oven.
All of
the women on the
island have been making good use of it for their
baking; so, as there are forty families, it has been
kept very busy.
To-morrow we go down to the beach to make
our yearly supply of salt.
many days, we set up camp.
in huge caldrons over open
about
twenty-five
year's supply
pounds
for one
As the process takes
We boil the sea water
fires until
of salt,
family
we have
which
procure
to sell or exchange for jelly, sugar
cloth, overalls, and
used by us for bar-
ter are fresh
dried fruits, such
as bananas and
pineapples, done
up in layers ofdried
banana
strings
made
shells
leaves.;
beads
I dyed
bright-
colored beans; and
baskets
finely
and fans
even perfume.
, soap, flour,
The articles
amount about forty-six bucketsful of water are
necessary.
As our entire population
is Seventh
)ay Adventist, we
go back to the vil-
lage on Friday for
our
which
urdav.
Sabbath,
is your Sat-
Friday is
always the busiest
day of the week,
for on this day we
prepare
all the
meals for the mor-
row.
Abe
woven
women
There are sixty-
six children on the
island between the
dried grasses, split
palm or banana lea
A Chinese junk at anchor in Colon harbor. ageS
ves, and artistically embroidered
seventeen, al
one and
of whom are healthy and robust;
or painted in gay colors.
Imagine our delight when, after several bags of
mail had been thrown into the boats, a large crate
was carefully lowered into one.
We were breath-
forty-six
taught
these attend
by the great
of the Bounty.
to attend school,
the school,
grandson
the children
the fee
which
of the Captain
are required
a barrel
for which is
less with the anticipation that it might be mother's
long-desired stove, and so it proved to be. This
of potatoes, one barrel representing twelve shil-
lings-making school fee one shilling per month.
was set up with great ceremony
in our
house,
We have
few books;
so our teacher
which is in the center of the village, and was con-
sequently visited by all the islanders.
I can't find words to express our gratitude to
your father and mother for procuring the stove
lessons
blackboard.
slates, but not long ago the pencils dwindled down
to half a dozen stubs;
around
to each in
these had
to be passed
turn in order that he might
for us.
For several years we have been carefully
write his lesson;
however, a large package of pen-
saving the money gotten from the sale of fruits
I I r -
cils and crayons soon came to Daddy by a passing
THE
CARIBBEAN.
so I'll begin with the history. Two ships left
England in the summer of 1762 for the purpose of
exploring the
the island o
Cristobal has
(Aunt Edith w
The Swallow,
sighted a roc
Pacific ocean. The Dolphin
f Tahiti, where Doctor Dre
been consul from the United
as their maid while they lived
while looking for "Easter Is
k one morning in 1767. In ho
the midshipman who discover
named it "Pitcairn's Island.
1790, the mutineers of the
Bounty, landed at Pitcairn v
people they had picked up at 1
twelve women
Englishmen.
and fifteen men,
They took all the
they could use off the b
it. Then the Englishr
nine parts and made t]
Our climate is very
(according to the tourism
guavas, yams, bananas,
plantains, breadfruit,
sugarcane, and even p1
a few trees grown from
from
Th
fathe
six.
near
Engl
oat and
Eng
with
rahi
found
her of
States
there).
land,"
)nor of
t, the captain
On April 28,
lish ship, The
some of the
ti. There were
nine of whom were
fittings and things
afterwards burned
men divided the
he others their s
similar to that
sts who visit us).
oranges, pineapj
coconuts, sweet
beaches,
a
a passing ship a few
ie oldest inhabitant o
r, Mr. James Russel
He has been a miss
Pitcairn. He has
and, and California,
land intc
laves.
of Florida
We raise
ples, limes
potatoes
for we have quit
few peach
years ago.
n the island
McCoy, w
onary amot
also been
and hopes
York and Sydney before he di
government secretary and is
best educated person on the
brothers, Warren and Baby
I go to school.
There are one hundred and
on the islan
Los Angeles
Clarke, who
have lived
spoken on o
ested to kn
fair-skinned
d, two of whom are
, a father and son
married on coming t
here for ten years.
ur island is English.
ow what we looked
, others swarthy, bu
stones gotten
I is my grand
ho is seventy
ng the island,
to Brisbane
to go to Nev
es. My father is the
considered to be the
island. I have two
Ivan. Warren and
seventy-four people
Americans from
by the
:o the is
The
You w
like.
t most
name of
land, and
language
ere inter-
Some are
of us are
berths on board a ship) are built along the walls.
Each house has a large garden, and pens for the
pigs, chickens, sheep, goats, or dogs, and in a few
cases shelters for cattle. Our furniture is very
simple, being made by the men from yellow
tefano wood.
The government is carried on by a chief magis-
trate, assisted b
several assessors and an internal
committee. These officials are chosen by the
people, men and women alike voting. This elec-
tion takes place on Christmas Day. Our laWs
are made as the need arises. One law which will
seem peculiar to you, although it is quite import-
ant here, is the law regarding cats. There is a
heavy fine for the killing of a cat, because they
keep the island free of rats, but sometimes they
) kill the fowls and in that case the cat must be
sacrificed.
a I believe you asked me in your letters about
e our celebration of Christmas; it is very simple
, in comparison with yours. Instead of turkey and
, the innumerable good things which you mentioned,
e we have roasted goat and baked sweet potatoes.
1 After dinner is over, all of us go up to the church,
where there are two trees loaded with gifts. And
- do you know what our gifts are? Bananas, pine-
- apples, coconuts, hats, baskets, beads, brooms,
s and fans, each carefully labeled with the name of
the person for whom it is intended and the name
A
of thu
we goc
which
very
close
in sle'
usual
The s
the ol
I h
hearil
I am
reach
Wi
e donor. After we have received our gifts,
down to the beach to see the boat races in
i the men partake. Since many of them are
skillful, this is an exciting pastime. At the
of the day we return home and are soon lost
ep, for on the morrow we must be about our
tasks, as we celebrate only the one day:
un is our alarm clock, and we follow closely
d saying, "Early to bed and early to rise."
iope you will answer soon for I do enjoy
ng about your family, school, and pleasures.
mailing this on the next boat, which will
you about Christmas time.
shing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy
light brown; our features are regular and gentle
(at least people say so).
Our houses are thatched-roofed, wooden struc-
tures, usually two stories high, with a ladder leading
to the upper story, where beds (similar to the
New Year, I remain
Your friend,
Hilda Christian.
V
THE
CARIBBEAN.
"AND THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY
SEEM."
-Longfellow.
ONLY
A BABY.
and fastened her restless eyes upon a bit of white-
ness in
the bay;
thinking.
watched, she
narrowed them slightly, and I perceived a coldly
I lounged on the porch of the Hotel Washing-
ton, hoping to see some of the latest styles on the
numerous tourists who thronged the place.
Not being immediately thrilled
any espe-
calculating look in
thinking!
their gray depths.
She was
Then a dapper young fellow drew up a chair
and began a conversation.
They were evidently
cially striking costume, I
must have dozed off.
The tap, tap of very high heels accompanied by
the strong odor of "Jasmin
" brought me out of
my stupor all too suddenly.
The tapping I had heard was caused by a very
beautiful pair of suede slippers on the dainty feet
of a wonderfully garbed woman, who walked, or
rather slunk, gracefully over to a seat across from
me, and sank tiredly into its comfortable depths.
She leaned back and closed her eyes, giving me a
splendid opportunity to
Feet first!
look her over.
The black suede slippers were set
off by enormous silver buckles,
which the silver
stockings matched so well as to seem only a con-
tinuation of their shiny surface.
The black silk-
crepe dress was very chic, being all-over beaded in
silver translucent beads, and having no sleeves
and a very low neckline, which allowed her throat
to rise like a marble column from its blackness.
Her face was very striking, shaped as it was in
that fashion commonly called Oriental.
ing almond
eyelashes.
eyes were protected
The slant-
ong, silky
Her long, thin-lipped mouth was the
color of a ripe strawberry and was beautifully vivi-
fied by the black mole which grew near the lower
left side of her dimpled chin.
She evidently became weary of the chair, for
she got up, approached my haven, and sank her
lithesome slimness into a chair near my elbow.
Leaning back, she closed her eyes, and once more
I gazed upon her beauty.
But "distance lends enchantment!"
Her enviable whiteness was the result
repeated applications of liquid powder.
of patient,
The rosy
lips were not of Nature's coloring, nor even of the
-1r 1 T i i i "ii
old acquaintances, for I caught some very remark-
able scraps of a
which she
"slung
in a
very coarse voice, accompanied by wise shrugs and
knowing winks.
"Evidently a very coarse person.
one of the new cabaret girls," wer
Maybe she's
-e some of the
thoughts that floated through my now thoroughly
aroused brain.
As their voices became louder and their words
more indiscreet,
the object of
my curiosity re-
moved her black satin turban and ran slim white
fingers through the fluffy blondness of her bobbed
hair. This called forth some remarks from
"Monty
exactly
having
to the effect that her locks were not
same
shade
in Honolulu.
he remembered their
Her only response
was a low chuckle and a phrase reminding him
of the fickle preferences of man in regard to the
color of hair.
This word-throwing contest (for it could hardly
be called a conversation) continued for some time,
and I was about to meander along, when out of
the hotel came a nurse carrying a small
baby.
She directed herself straight toward my compan-
ions.
I thought it was a case of mistaken identity,
as she came smiling toward these queer folks, un-
til I saw my
queer
"painted lady
mincing
steps,
starched English nurse and
bundle
expression
in the capable
on the enameled
miraculous transformation.
jump up, and with
run to the stiffly
bend over the tiny
arms.
entire
face underwent
The hard, coldly cal-
culating look became one of glorified mother-love.
Even her thick voice assumed new tones.
It no
:~ i C .L C n
59
Dorothy Abendroth, '24.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Even
"Monty
was conceded a higher place in
my opinion, as he smoothed a satiny hand of the
child, and remarked, "Quite a rummy little chap,
what?"
Now that I had had a glimpse of their better
natures, my spirits rose, and as I sauntered non-
chalantly by the happy group, I bravely whistled,
"The End of a Perfect Day."
in it. My heart went out to the old fellow.
could I ever have thought him a criminal?
DO YOU REMEMBER?
Florence Albert, '24.
Do you remember the time when mother made
some cookies-just the kind you liked the best,
big crumbly brown ones full of fat raisins, and
told you not to touch them until she came home,
when she would give you one?
She put them in
THE DOG WROUGHT THE CHANGE.
Edith Coulbourn, '24.
on the pantry shelf;
so you resolved that you
would be good and not go near them.
out to play
but it wasn't interesting.
tou went
Midge
He sat beside me at the station waiting for a
tramin. I could imagine all sorts of things about
him. A great red face he had with a heavy dark
moustache. A big old felt hat pulled tightly down
over his ears partly shaded his staring red-rimmed
eyes which rolled apprehensively now here, now
there.
His dark suit was dirty and shiny and was
much too large, for it hung on him like the rags
on a scarecrow.
He pulled out a huge red bandana and wiped
his sweaty face and uncouth-looking hands, then
dusted
his large, clumsy shoes.
He shook
bandana furtively and put It away in his grimy
pocket, then could find no place for those large
hands.
he folded
them
n his lap,
in his lap,
then put them in his pockets, and finally picked
up a big paper bundle and held on to that.
I was sure he was nervous and fidgety because
wasn't out and you didn't like to play with Jane
Page and the others.
You went back into the
house and roamed aimlessly around.
house and roamed aimlessly around.
wandered mi
pantry door.
mother told you.
Lto the kitchen and
Then you
looked
at the
You would be good and do as
You went and got your favorite
doll, the baby doll with real hair, but somehow you
didn't feel like playing with it just then.
Then
you had an idea!
It wouldn't do any
harm just to peek at the cookies. At first the
door resisted all your efforts to open it. You were
.
despairing of carrying out your plan, when sud-
denly you gave the right twist to the knob and
the door swung open.
But the cookies were up
too high for you to reach, and you had to get a
chair.
the jar.
You got up on it and took the cover off
They looked so good.
But you reluc-
tantly and slowly put the lid back on, for you had
told yourself that you would just look at them.
the police were looking for him.
In my mind I
pictured this man doing all conceivable crimes.
Into the station there came a dirty little dog.
On his side was a large sore which he stopped to
You took another peek. Just (
any difference among so many.
mne wouldn't make
But alas!
"Just
one" led to another and another and another until
you had eaten so many you felt as if you would
lick every few minutes.
As he came down the
aisle past where I was sitting I drew back with
burst. You looked into the jar. Y
agined that you had taken so many!
ou never im-
You looked
Soon he crawled
to the feet of that repulsive looking individual-
my criminal. Almost instantly the man leaned
over and tenderly picked up the little cur. "Poor
around for a place to hide but there wasn't any.
You decided to meet her at the door and tell her;
but when the time came, you couldn't say a word.
And when mother went to the pantry to get the
fellow,
" he said,
you have gotten some of the
cookie
she had promised
trembled.
world's hard knocks, haven't you?
So have
When she saw how many cookies were gone, she
Let's chum it together.
" He pulled out his red
turned
and looked
bandana and carefully wiped the dog's side.
ashamed
and sorry that you cried; but mother
grew tender looking.
His hands had found
didn't take you in her arms and pet you as she
S S -- -S -- S 4t 5 4- 4
loathing from such a creature.
1
THE
CARIBBEAN.
AVERAGE BOY.
Jose Arosemena, '24.
club, Self-Denial, he made the first hole, Perma-
nent position.
Average Boy brought out his team on the high
i 1 1 i i 1 II ii^ l ir I I r 1^ C .
sco
ool basket-hall floor
mination, Industry, En
dation, he hoped to c(
ondary Education. T
the whistle, and the tea
the floor. English, Ma
tory, and Industrial A
Secondary Education t
As Mathematics had
fame, Average Boy took
leaving English practi
some minutes of play,
the places of Industry a
rest of the team was
these new substitutes;
suffered badly. Near
another player, Cramn
no avail. The end of
Boy two points behind.
In the second period,
in. Bluff was good for
and had to be put out.
dered. He was unable
team. He despaired o:
whistle sounded for the
Average Boy two more
Between the second
coach, Common Sense,
when the referee called f
age Boy's team was str
ing this period they play
and were able to rega
For the fourth quar
out his strongest team:
Enthusiasm, and Goodc
having recuperated gr
quarter. With this t
Common Sense from t
was able to win the ga
possession of the cup
. vlih tlme am or Deter-
thusiasm, and Good Foun-
)nquer the team of Sec-
'he referee, Faculty, blew
ams took their position on
thematics, Language, His-
rts, made up the strong
eam.
come preceded by great
: special care to guard him,
cally unattended. After
Laziness and Apathy took
nd Deter
not used
therefore
the end
iness,
was p
nation, t
playing
e tean
the q
ut in,
but the
g with
a work
quarter,
but to
the .period found Average
.*
a new player
wnl
Avei
o cat<
winn
end
point;,
and
gave
r the
, but h
age Bo
hupw
ng the
)f the
behind
third
the tea
third
a
t(
engthened by
ed much bett
in two of th
ter, Average
Industry, D
I Foundation
eatly during
earn and th
he side lines,
me handily;
called Gra
, .J . I
e tired b
vy was b
ith the
game.
quarter
1.
periods,
ffulB c a m e
)adly
ewil-
other
The
with
the
m a talk, and
quarter, Aver-
SHope. Dur-
er than before,
e lost points.
Boy brought
determination,
, the last one
the previous
e coaching of
Average Boy
thus securing
uation.
Again teeing off with
landed Ambition near t
Higherposition. Herehe
confidence, and drove to
using his club Efficiency,
With the use of his ch
dence, he made the ne,
which was Employer's
three, increases in salar
Driving for the seventh
in the high grass of Socie
he made no advanceme
Managership of the fir
acquired by using a ne'
placed him far ahead ol
The ground between
eighth (General Mana{
with no difficult obstacle
his
club Confidence
he next hole, which was
took thewrongclub,Over-
o far. In two more shots,
he reached Higher position.
ubs, Efficiency and Confi-
ct four holes, the first of
confidence, a
y.
h ho
ty, that, for
tnt toward
m. This
w club, Ing
f the field o
the seventh
gership) wa
es. and he m
nd the next
anded so deeply
se
th
he
;en
)f c
i h
is
iad
veral shots,
e Assistant
afterwards
uity, which
competitors.
ole and the
fairly level
e hole eight
easily by using his two best clubs, Efficiency and
Ingenuity.
From the eighth hole till the last there was one
rance
Suspi
the s
ral mi
s, Eff
satis
ast he
after
cion
lough
minor ti
cienc'
factio
)le. th
the ot
and Je
, Boar
raps.
y and
n his
e Presi
her.
ealous
d of
With
Confi
ball
There were
y-of-fellow-'
Directors,
the use of
dence, he f
settle comf
the bunk-
employees,
as well as
his trusty
finally saw
bortablv in
dencv of the firm.
ON THE ROAD TO CATIVA
Charlotte Housel, '24.
A crude woven basket sat helplessly on the top
of a turban that
kinky growth o
haggard-looking
ing, unkempt ey
it had been force
had finished gro
considerable spa'
at a thin cigar
mouth, her thick
w
f
ey
eb
ed
wi
ce,
ound itself
hair. Twoc
es peered ou
rows A no
Sto change
ng, flattene
. Now and
that hung
carelessly around a
Narrow, deep-set,
.t from overshadow-
)se that looked as if
its course before it
d itself out over a
then, as she puffed
loosely out of her
ps revealed a few isolated teeth,
or remnants of teeth.
GOLF.
Chester Pike, 'z;.
A ruffled collar and vestee made a pitiful attempt
to make attractive her coarse woven-fabric gar-
After comp
ucatlon,
eting his course in golf,
College-Gradua
te started o
his school
his round
ment.
bonvy
Her long
wrists, as if
sleeves hunt
endeavorin
g loosely around her
g to hide the ragged,
v --
THE
CARIBBEAN.
RTS
Girls-Ruath Duev, 25.
Boys-Guy Stewart, '2s.
STEW
ART SAYS-
During my long and diversified career
as journalist, man-about-school, and soda-
water guzzler in general, I have come to
many conclusions. One of these con-
cerns the utter uselessness of human be-
ings. After listening awhile to Mac, the
anarchist, this becomes even more evi-
dent. Why not a world without human
beings? A Utopia totally devoid of these
incredibly stupid creatures! No hen-
pecked husbands or surfaced wives, no
dumb school children or grinning, tooth-
less hags; no need for census reports,
read now only by proof readers; no
worries about the Mellon plan or oil
stock or--
And gentle reader, pause and think
how much better it would be for the ani-
mals and insects and little fishes! Such
a wonderful opportunity for them to exer-
cise their lurid individualities, untram-
meled by conventions! But after all,
BALBOA HUMBLED ON HOME
GROUNDS.
nine-inn
orsehide
but the fielding was
We had a new ma
Fisher, who has a ni
showed his stuff.
perfect game on
* *. I
JANUARY 26,
1924. It seems that
every time Cris-
tobal beats Balboa
it is on the Bal-
boa'shomeground.
Cristobal t o-d a y
Succeeded in tack-
ing up four runs to
Balboa's hard-
earned three, in an
; game. The crack of
,s continuously heard,
perfect on both teams.
an pitching, Richard
ce curve, and he ably
Juan Papi played a
short, and pitched a
S * ... .
don't you think they would act the same
way we do? Suppose we take an instru-
ment for seeing into the future, recently
invented by Mr. Foos, B. S. J. C. H. S.
Mr. Foos claims that his instrument can
show us anything we want to see in the
future, or anything we want to see any-
way.
We would see a fat coo
back of an ape, reading
spouse the latest news
house Gazette.
"I see where this bird
broken into print again
tie, livi
to his
from t
Grease
with hi
rig on the
esteemed
:he Bug-
Bug has
s famous
troupe of Red, Blue, and Blackjuveniles,
that perfect bunch of performing potato
bugs. And look, our friend J. K. Bee is
slamming Gerald Doodle Bug because he
has the sense to uphold the Atlantic
Side."
Of course, you see, this could be con-
tinued indefinitely, but since I'm paid for
a column only I'll go home and sleep off
my last night's movie show, Baby Peggy,
"The Darling of New York."
G. K. S.
first and third very well while Leo Eber-
enz covered the keystone sack well. The
pitchers did little work but should be
commended on their good batting. On
the whole the game was as perfect as pos-
sible and notwithstanding the ability of
the Balboa team our boys were unbeat-
able. Cristobal was always in the lead
and never in dangerof losing. The action
was fast and peppy all the way through.
The line-ups were:
BALBOA.
Engelke, p.
Stanziola, c.
Foster, ib.
Morris, 2b.
Burgoon, ss.
Crofs, 3b.
CRISTOBAL.
Fisher, p.
Eberenz, c.
Oakes, ib.
Arosemena, 2b.
Papi, ss.
Solomon, jb.
0. H. S. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
FORMED.
October 1o, 1923. To-day the Athletic
Association representing Cristobal High
School was formed. The attendance was
one hundred per cent, and a sincere co-
operation was promised to the teams.
The meeting was called to order by
Miss Dodds, who, after a brief talk, an-
nounced that nominations were in order
for the presidency of the Association.
George Oakes, '24, was chosen President,
William Cousins, '25, Secretary and
Treasurer, and Guy Stewart, '25, Man-
ager. President Oakes said that in the
f
very near future our athletics would open,
beginning with some scheduled swimming
matches to be swum against Balboa.
The meeting was adjourned with every
one confident that our athletics will be of
the best this year.
ORGANIZATION OF GIRLS'
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
On the twenty-eighth of October,
high school girls met to organize
Athletic Association. The officers ch
were:
President-Charlotte Housel.
Vice President-Gladys Lowande.
Secretary and Treasurer-Dorothy
the
the
osen
bert.
The first few months we spent on gym
work, which was successfully carried out
only by the able leadership of Miss
Mathee. It is through her that we were
able to have our fun and gain our victory
in basket ball.
DISASTER.
February
2, 1924. It is
feeling
akin to sorrow that we write of this game.
Our boys, buoyed up by last Saturday's
victory over Balboa, through some psy-
chological twist, are plunged into depths
of despondency, and Balboa walks all over
them. The game, considered as a game,
was a poor excuse. Balboa played well
we agree, but Cristobal lost because of
hr nht.el1tlv fultyv teamwork. The
THE
CARIBBEAN.
fell down on the job, and
there
was crabbing.
learned psychologist
plain this;
we can t.
saw its opportunity an
us, the score being 13-4
give credit to Balboa.
everywhere
Probably
will be able
Of course Balboa
Ad waded through
. We really must
They won, and
Buster Burgoon, old time Cristobalite,
helped them do it.
good.
tobal.)
This boy is certainly
(Observe he usel to live
His curves are
perfect
in Cris-
and his
batting consistent.
The line-ups
BALBOA.
Burgoon, p.
Clements, c.
Foster, Ib.
Crofs, 2b.
Engelke, 3b.
Morris, ss.
Hutchins, If.
Newhardt, ci
Elias, rf.
were:
CRISTOBAL.
Fisher, p.
Eberenz, c.
Oakes, Ib.
Arosemena, '
Papi, 3b.
Solomon, ss.
Brown, If.
Marchosky,
Lowande, rf.
Johnson, rf.
CRISTOBAL LOSES IN BASEBALL
TO BALBOA.
January 19, 1924. The first game of the
season was played at Mount Hope to-day,
with Balboa taking back with her a very
hard-earned victory. Owing to the Balboa
team's having to return to Balboa on the
four o'clock train, the
in the sixth inning.
When the Cristobal boys
game was called
went out on
the field they were all discouraged and
didn't think they had a chance with Bal-
boa, which was a veteran of many games.
It was the first game the boys had played
together and there was very faulty team-
work.
Then too,
everyone
was grouchy
and was reluctant about playing.
Nevertheless the Cristobal boys held
Balboa down in the first innings until, in
a final burst, Balboa succeeded in wading
through us.
It seems that now the boys
woke up, but too late.
The prospect
brightened for us and we succeeded in
bringing in one run.
We tightened up,
February
23, 1924.
Generally, Balboa,
suburb of Ancon, has everything
its own
way. This time it got fooled to the tune
ot 31-28.
To-day our space annihilators
carved a niche in the Hall of Fame.
all ye brethren!
The highest point
scorers were both men from Cristobal, and
senior laddies at that.
and George
points each.
Jose Arosemena
Oakes tied for a good nine
Like Grape Nuts,
S"There s
a Reason!"
A SCRAPPY BATTLE.
century,
goal of all speed
was first on the program.
The boys
not have been Paddocks, but still they
made pre
ankled his
tty
time.
Oakes
way to victory, closely followed
but were chagrined when the Balboa boys
had to leave.
The game finally ended in
GIRLS' BASEBALL.
Partly for fun and partly for credits,
we finished out our athletic
baseball.
We had about
year
with
two weeks'
practice before our first game.
was composed of:
Charlotte Housel, p.
Helen Abendroth, c.
Rae Fischer, ib.
Ruth Duey, 2b.
Dorothy Deibert, 3b.
Grace Dowell, 3b.
Gladvs Lowande, ss.
Marion Barrett, rf.
Dorothy Stauffer, If.
Wilhelminma
team
the 6th
To win,
inning, 5-1.
our boys should practice all
next week, and travel to Balboa confident
in themselves because we see that Balboa
really not invincible.
Practice and
more team work and we'll1
Balboa next Saturday.
Juan Papi, a new man, pitched for
Cristobal and very ably showed his stuff.
His underhand is spectacular.
ceeded in securing
several
He suc-
strikeouts.
Then our friend Johnny Solomon played
a consistent, errorless
game at the initial
sack. Also George Oakes played second
base very well, and Harry Brown held
down third ably.
Eberenz as shortstn
Stute, cf.
April 19 we journeyed to Balbo
our mettle.
During the first two
the score was neck and neck.
few wild throws allowed Balboa
a to try
innings
Then a
Girls to
bring in several runs, and we were not
able to rally sufficiently to win; so the
game ended I5-10 in favor of Balboa.
Everyone enjoyed
this first g;
ame so
thoroughly that it was decided we play
another. Accordingly, o
second game took place.
)n May
Some of our
team were not there so our subs were
used.
The playing
of both teams was
Then we have Leo
who can play
better game and should tighten up. We
are very much indebted to Jack Klunk,
who held down th
e keystone
sack.
as follows:
CRISTOBAL.
line-ups were
BALBOA.
Stanziola, c.
Whitlock, p.
Barton, Ib.
Burgoon, 2b.
Morris, ss.
Engelke, 3b. (Capt.)
Klunk,
Papi, p.
c.
(Capt.)
Solomon, Ib.
Oakes, 2b.
Eberenz, ss.
Brown, 3b.
by Arosemen
Balboa, third.
a with
The track
Whitlock of
was very
and in poor condition.
The sixteen-pound shot-put was copped
by Kid Coffey, the demon swimmer, who
flipped the marble thirty-two feet, with
Richard Fisher second and George
third, all these from Cristobal.
We dropped the relay to Balboa.
a funny thing happened.
Oakes
Runner number
two, new at the game, ran about ten
the wrong
way before he was stop-
ped. As it was, the Cristobal fourth man
was not very far behind his Balboa man.
An orange shirt and a pair of legs and
you have
Balboa's
speaking,
any man.
a portrait of Ralph
v jumper,
Clements,
who, literally
rose to greater heights than
He took first place easily in
the high jump, but Chester Pike and
Maurice Eggleston won second and third
places,
respectively.
The running broad jump was easily
won
bv Jose Arosemena, with George
nn) tmtc cernnA nh n, nr frenA (Ielnenrc
CRISTOBAL HIGH SCHOOL
SURPRISES SUBURBANITES
IN TRACK.
!
.
-
.
nnf- ^IQ o'nnrl a hofnrp htr t-he pverrfmont
THE CARIBBEAN.
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64
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Durain
showing
Cousins showed
pretty storm.
good mettle wht
a discouraging start, he pluckily
third.
Willie
en, after
came in
Then the 220-yard dash was barely
taken by Whitlock and Durin of Balboa,
who in a spectacular finish took first
from Arosemena.
Arosemena had
a good lead in the first hundred and fifty
yards but his ankles grew wabbly and he
finished a very close third.
Juan Papi, Henry Stevens, and Guy
Stewart also ran for Cristobal.
In coming
years, ift
Cristobal
takes
wipe Balboa off the map as far as swim-
ming was concerned.
It may be remem-
bered that in the championship
swim-
ming meet, held on the Fourth of July,
a Cristohbal High School team consisting
of Jack
Coffey,
Alan Wallace, James
Burgoon, and Alpha Morgan, carried off
the Senior 220o-yard relay championship
of the Canal Zone.
The boys from Cristobal
came out
Sfor swimming and trained faithfully for Oliver
over a month under the
Morgan were:
Andrew Smith,
leader
Jack Coffey,
Foster
ship of
(capt.),
Tufts, Richard
were
confident of victory, and some fin
are promised.
e games
We note with satisfaction
the names of several newcomers i
n tennis.
The use of courts all over the Atlantic
side has been secured, and the players
mInay be assured a good gallery.
SONNEMAN VICTORIOUS.
November 28, 1923.
and Mau
the semi-finalists
John Ordway,
rice Eggleston
in the tennis
matches for championship of the school;
but Fred Sonneman, stellar
attraction,
good interest in track we can but succeed,
for we have excellent material, and inade-
quate equipment is our greatest handicap.
Mr. Bogda please notice.
Fisher, Oliver King, Billy Coffey, Chris-
tian Wirtz,
Oakes.
Surse
T aylor, and George
who had not played in the first part of the
tournament due to doctor's
orders,
defeated them all, leaving Eggleston
We may add that Cristobal
retain the championship next
expects
Fourth
CRISTOBAL LOSES TO BALBOA
IN HAND BALL.
December 14, 1923. For the first time
in the history of the school, Cristobal
rounded up a hand ball team and traveled
to Balboa; after some long, rather scrap-
py games, we lost to Balboa.
Leo Eberenz, school champ,
ed us in the singles and glor
CRISTOBAL
AND
BALBOA
IN TENNIS.
--v
^< -
r
December
1923.
tennis stars went over
played Balboa some fine
To-daty
to Balboa
games resulting
in a tie, Cristobal boys winning
represent-
iously-we
C-
say gloriously because it was a splendid
fight-lost to Bobby Engelke of Balboa.
Engelke is to be given credit for his superb
playing, and we predict for him a great
future,.
two out
of four series played.
Fred Sonneman was pitted against a
worthy opponent, Horace Foster, who
was forced to put utip a brilliant game of
defense, though at times he showed him-
self well in the
offensive.
Sonneman won the first set
If Eberenz would improve his
defensive, he could be counted on to give
a hard game any day.
were 21-6, 21-8.
It was surely
The final
scores
a queer, almost pathetic
sight to see the two freshman midgets,
Charles Will and Harry Brown, playing
against
Ralph Clements
six feet)
and Fred Brady, also of great height.
GIRLS' SWIMMING.
November 24, 1923. On this date
prelim
mnary swimming meet against
boa took place at the
Washington pool.
This was to prepare us for finals, but due
Unfortunately our boys lost, but as the to the fact that we haven't had
a swim-
Nevertheless
-5-.
The second set was any man s set until
Foster, through sheer weight and very
clever fighting, was able to beat Fred. 9-7.
Sonnemnan soon recuperated and show-
a ed his wonderful torm in the third set,
where he easily slashed his
way to victory,
winning 6-3.
Maurice Eggleston dropped his
Robert Engelke after a plucky
sets to
up-hill
odds were greatly
against them, they
should be given credit for their plucky
fight. It may be said to their credit and
to the credit of Cristobal High School,
ming instructor for
the final meet was n
only through the cou
that
we were
abl
that our men never fall down on a job. factory practices.
As it was,
and fast.
21-14.
BALBOA
the games were spectacular
The final score was 2d-1 I,
length of time fight the score being 6-4, 6-5.
ever held. I
rtesv of Miss
e to obtain a few
Balboa defeated
points, which was as it should be.
t
TENNIS OPENS WITH A RACI
FORFEITS
SWIMMING TO CRISTOBAL.
Balboa and Gristobal were scheduled to
*. 1
NOVEMBER
1923. To-day
'I\
N
first round ol
elimminations
;
: was
Reed
satis-
us in
KET.
t 14,
the
f the
f, i
Caldwell Foos and John Ordway lost
to Ralph Clements and Gerrans after a
strenuous fight in
which victory
St
right in their hand several times,
the superior weight and length
eemned
when
(?) of
their opponents told on them and Balboa
won, 6-4,
>9, 9-7.
John Ordway, the sophomore slasher,
played
a game different from his usual
one, playing cautiously with an eye more
toward accuracy than speed.
He easily
outwitted his opponent, Jimmie Driscoll,
runner-up.
1
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*-
IT m .....
THE
CARIBBEAN.
GIRLS' TENNIS.
More tennis fans and players have ap-
peared this year than ever before. The
first preliminary match was played at
Balboa, December 1 5.
Ruth Duey Mary Joe Lowe
Helen Abendroth Gladys Blakelv
We easily defeated them, for they had
not had as many practices as we.
During the month of March the girls'
tennis elimination was taking place. A
great deal of fun was derived from these
sets, for everybody tried-even those
who hadn't played for several years. The
final four girls winning were to play
singles and doubles against Balboa's best
April 19 we held our singles
Much interest was shown in th
the supporters who were looki
Charlotte Housel defeated
Lowe, 6-3, 6-3.
Gladys Lowande defeated
tin,'6-2, 6-2.
SENIOR-JUNIORS V
SOPHOMORE-FRE
NOV
p 1923
the
Na'
afte
fast
Sophomore-Freshmen wit
17-13. This was the fi
game of the year and a
were keyed up and full ofp
..
promising material was vie
one is confident that we w
a run for their money.
During the second qu
pretty play was going on,
snapped off for a second,
were turned on again,
Bliss had disappeared. T
to our rescue-sounds p
enlisted man very ably r
mainder of the game.
at Balboa.
e games by
ng on.
Mary Joe
Belle Mar-
VIN FROM
:SHMEN.
EMBER 20,
i. Last night at
old Army and
vy "Y," the
or-Junior boys,
r a very hard,
game beat the
th a score of
first basketball
dl the players
ep. Some very
wed,andevery-
'ill give Balboa
arter, while a
the lights were
and when they
referee Gerald
he Army came
oetic-and an
efereed the re-
]he spectators
were a very sportsmanlike bunch,
heavy cheering was heard continue
The line-ups were as follows:
UPPER CLASSMEN. LOWER CLASSM
Arosemena, f.(capt.) Jones, f.
Eberenz, F. Pulgar, f.
Oakes, c. Solomon, c. (ca
Pike, g. Grider, g.
EN.
pt.)
UPPER CLASSMEN COP GROWN.
December 3, I923. Again the Senior-
Junior boys played the Sophomore-
Freshies and proved that a ripe old age
is no disqualification by beating them to
the score of 28-16. Again we saw won-
derful playing as both teamsran off some
excellent plays. It's rather hard to pick
a star player, but we think that Arose-
mena for the older boys and "Rusty"
Jones for the youngsters are pretty good.
A still larger crowd was in evidence, and
we even had some organized cheering
by the freshman girls, led by Dot Wertz,
which surely raised the roof. Of course
the Senior-Junior young ladies-the
others are mere girls-retaliated and we
think they won. Mr. Schneppmueller
attended this game and commented upon
the good points of the teams, and pointed
out some faults which should be remedied.
The players were:
GRAY-BEARDS.
Arosemena, f.
(capt.)
Eberenz, f.
Oakes, c.
Pike, g.
Cousins, g.
Fisher, sub.
Foos, sub.
Stewart, sub.
STOP!
KIDS.
Jones, f.
Pulgar, f.
Solomon,
Grider, g.
Eggleston
Brown, su
Lowande,
LOOK!
c. (capt.)
,g.
ib.
sub.
READ!
Cristobal High School again plays extra
quarter with Lincoln Five! April 12,
1923. Recipe for Nervous Prostration,
or One Exciting Game."
Ingredients.
Five School Boys.
Five Big Men.
One Scorer with Automatic Adding
Machine.
One Referee.
One Basket Ball.
One Time Keeper.
Place basket ball in center of large
floor. Put boys and men in and mix
for five quarters-sprinkle liberally with
flashy plays. Inject a little bit of referee
when friction becomes too great or when
too strenuous mix-ups occur. Stir con-
eagle-eyed vision; and one scorekeeper
plentifully supplied with sharpened pen-
cils. A series of superhuman plays inter-
mixed with incredible feats of valor,
Hoarse voices. Give boys due honor and
compliment.
This gives a game which we guarantee
to cure the most despondent cases, as
well as to exhilarate mentally. Observe:
This game can not be served to men on a
silver platter because it is apt to burn
their fingers.
Such was last night's game.
For details, use imagination freely.
OUR BOYS.
Arosemena, f.
Jones, f.
Oakes, c.
Solomon, g.
King, g.
By the way, the score was 30-26, and
the Lincoln Five won.
EXTRA! THRILLING-ELEC-
TRIFYING GAME! EXTRA!
LINCOLN FIVE FORCED TO
PLAY TWO EXTRA QUARTERS.
January 4, 1924. In one
clysmic games that fans
rarely ever get, the Cristob
boys
from
23-22
victor
point,
were
ment!
suffered a glori
the Lincoln Fi
. Here is a ca
y, for the gamn
and two extra
played! Wow!
Fast! Thril
noise! We believe ti
ceiving complaints
raised that night. Th
lery, and believe us,
The Lincoln
quered! Vet
hard-earned
handful of b
ters!
Our mind
can think oi
and arms am
we see little
halfway acrc
Then we see
quickly folio
shooting in
I
:e
o
V
0
inv
rains of a
victories !
ys to play
of those cata-
pray for and
al High School
ous, exalted defeat
re, the score being
se where defeat is
e was won by one
quarters, six in all
Talk about excite-
ling! Talk about
he "Y" is still re-
about the racket
ere was a good gal-
they were lucky!
incible and uncon
thousand and one
Forced by a mere
two extra quar-
is still in a whirl and all we
f is legs and ball and arms,
d legs and ball! Occasionally
"Rusty" Jones being flung
oss the floor by a big Marine!
Oakes sink a perfect basket,
wed up by Al Doyle's superb
the opposite basket. But
THE
CARIBBEAN.
point piles up on either side.
Thrills!
Excitement!
Speed!
all the
game
was good and fast with
some
plays throughout.
that made the game worth while was the
friendly spirit of rivalry which
existed
thrills were raindrops,
your imagination run freely!
the Army
Then
up and in a burst of enthusiasm, rend the
air with three lofty cheers, for
has arrived!
The battle-scarred
CRISTOBAL.,
Jones, f.
Arosemena, f.
Oakes, c.
Cousins, g.
Pulgar, g.
Pike, g.
Referee.-Tom
Cristobal
heroes were:
LINCOLN FIVE.
Jones, f.
Al Doyle, f.
Hawkins, c.
Bliss, g.
Eberenz, g.
Collins.
BALBOA CAPTURES FIRST
BASKET BALL GAME.
The line-ups
BALBOA.
Clements, f.
Elias, f.
Sullivan, c.
Burgoon, g.
Engelke, g.
Knabenshue, sM
were:
CRISTOBAL.
Jones, f.
Arosemena, f.
King, c.
Saloon. .
Solomon, e.
Cousins, g.
Pulgar, sub.
GIRLS TAKE SEASON'S SERIES.
OUR form
ur games
naturally,
/,^ Balboa
wr ptobal,
were played.
ostsport,
is basket
A series
games was
between
d Cris-
though
any girls took an interest in basket
between the two sides.
quickly with the
favor.
The end came
close score of9-11 in our
On February 16, Balboa met us at Cris-
tobal playshed, determined to send us to
ignominious defeat, but their efforts were
in vain.
Our rooters witnessed a hard
struggle to the last second.
When the
quarter was up, there was only two point's
difference with Cristobal on the safe side,
9-7.
We were so confident of the third game,
February 23, that the speed of the Balboa
girls took us
by surprise.
ahead in the first quarter and kept us
busy trying to catch up with them. It
took us the whole game to
they were in the lead. At
realize
the end
resolved never to let the score
their favor) happen
again.
April 4,
1924.
With a team consider-
ball that it was difficult
to select a
team,
March i, the final game was held on
ably weakened, our boys traveled to Bal-
boa and lost the first basket ball game of
the season to Balboa, the
As a team Balboa
and the players are all stars.
score being
invincible,
Cristobal
has excellent material but it can't work
together.
Why?
lack of training.
Lack of practice and
The game was played
at the Balboa playshed, and that might
have been why we lost so decisively.
Then it was plainly seen that Balboa had
some well-thought-up
That's something we n
organized
but at a special meeting
were selected:
Charlotte Housel, f.
Dorothy Deibert, f.
Dorothy
the folio
our floor.
Naturally
it was the
game, for both teams were ready
(Capt.
Stauffer, c.
Rae Fischer, sc.
Irene Hopkins, sc.
Gladys Lowande, g.
Ruth Duey, g.
The first game of
ruary
2, was played
the season, on Feb-
at Balboa playshed.
any remarks were heard
eed. Nevertheless did
passwork of the
teams,
on the splen-
but the thing
to the finish.
Balboa's team wa
hardest
to fight
s some-
what dampened in spirit on account of
some of the girls' bei
progressed smoothly
cultvy.
taugh,
ill, but the
in spite
of this diffi-
Much credit is due Florence Mur-
captain of Balboa's
team,
through her ready optimism in the face
of odds, the score was brought up to our
very
heels.
Then time intervened
left us victorious with the
the beginning
game,
same
9-Il.
THE
WASHINGTON
POOL.
Rainy
days, sunny
hot days, cool;
In all kinds of weather there are people at
A lanky man in English tweed
the pool.
comes
loping down
the
And stops to speak to a pair of twins with huge brown
* stairs,
teddy-
Long women, short ones, skinny ones, plump-
Everything's in swimming from a mermaid to a frump.
That tourist swims so funny-he holds his head up high,
And uselessly he works his
feet, just like a gum-stuck fly.
bears.
On the benches all around, loll people of all kinds
Who laugh and talk and smile and stare, with nothing on their
minds.
A little Panamanian lad in a bathing suit too large,
Leaves
behind a trail of foam like a Hudson River barge.
And I sit laughing, talking,
For I am there to gather hi
hiding my
stares
nts upon the latest
with smiles,
styles,
A tiny miss-American-dives gracefully below,
rainy
days, sunny days, hot days,
And comes up smiling with a stone for her little friend
to throw.
In all kinds of weather there are women at the pool.
"Y" would have floated.
Gentle reader, pause and reflect.
42-16.
game
score
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Ethel Sonneman, '24
OCTOBER.
30. The high school gives a rising vote of
Oct. 5. Cristobal High School reopens her doors
with so large an attendance that the Seniors are
relegated to the library.
teacher, Mr. Schneppmuell
stituting until
teacher.
the arrival
We welcome one new
er. Mrs. Noble is sub-
of our mathematics
appreciation to Mr.
S. J. Shreves, father of James
Shreves of the Sophomore class, who, through
tireless effort as a diver, has been able to help
raise a sunken submarine and so save the lives
of two men imprisoned therein.
NOVEMBER.
The Freshmen are initiated.
Nov. 1.
Wallace Johnson presents to C. H. S.
Oct. 12. A bald-headed row is in evidence.
Oct. 15.
THE CARIBBEAN staff is elected, classes
a joke box which he has made.
Nov. 2. The first staff meeting of the school
are organized, and a
very brief meeting of the
Supper Club is held after school.
Oct. 17. The Boys' and Girls'
Athletic Asso-
ciations hold their first meeting this afternoon and
elect their officers.
Oct. I8. A Supper Club meeting is held at the
Y.W.C.A. The following new officers are elected:
President.-Ruth Hopkins.
Vice President.-Mildred Morgan.
Treasurer.-Teresa Gallagher.
Secretary.--Irene Hopkins.
The old members are hostesses at a real jollifi-
cation and again Miss Dodds delights us with a
few readings.
Oct. 19. Mr. Schneppmueller's pleasing barl-
tone is heard in
two solos in assembly period,
"The Song of Hubrias, the Cretan,
Mother of Mine."
and "Little
year is held during lunch hour.
ness occupy the whole hour.
Nov.
3. The Seniors give the
unique Hallowe en party,
World,"
Lunch and busi-
high school
"A Trip Around
and serve delicious refreshments.
member the Peninsula of Death?
And the stunts?
Did the Senior patient have can sir or two more?
Nov. 9. A Supper Club meeting is held at the
Y. W. C. A. The new members are initiated.
Hornbeak
"Books
gives
an interesting
" and the Senior girls serve supper.
Nov. 10. A staff meeting is held this evening at
Gladvs
Lowande's
home.
After
the business
meeting is over, Mrs. Lowande serves an enjoy-
able repast and we spend the remainder of the
evening in playing games and singing songs.
Nov. 12. Chaplain R. C. Deibert gives us a
very interesting talk on
"Youth, its Advantages
22-24.
The skies fairly burst open on these
and Dreams.
" School medical examinations are
days:
Oct. 22. From midnight
fall was 9.02 inches.
Oct. 2
From midnight
to midnight
the rain-
held to-day also.
Nov. 14. The Upsilon Gamma Gamma Club is
organized by the
to midnight the rain-
steps
are taken
Junior-Senior boys.
toward
drawing up
The first
a charter
fall was 4.23 inches.
Oct. 24. From midnight to midnight the rain-
fall was 10.03 inches.
The Gatun bus is held up at Fort Davis on ac-
f*fs. * *^k t-/"i ^ w i r-a
and the following officers are elected:
Oracle.-Chester Pike.
Scribe.-Richard Fisher.
Adviser.-Miss Dodds.
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THE
meeting, a supper which we all enjoy very mu
is served by Mrs. Oakes.
Nov. 26.
Thanksgiving vacation begins.
CARIBBEAN. 69
ich a picture of the Colosseum, doubly welcome be-
cause it is our first piece of real art.
Club girls
vote the Freshman girls'
The Supper
refreshments
DECEMBER.
7. A staff meeting is held after school.
of wieners and sauerkraut both different and de-
licious.
Strictly business.
regular
Supper
Junior Girls are hostesses at
meeting.
Bakewell
I1-15. 0O days of midnight oil and fear,
The first semester tests are here!
gives an instructive talk on
and an interesting playlet,
" The Girls' Budget,"
"The Budget Ghost,"
is given by the program committee.
Dec. 18. The Seniors acquire new
brilliancy.
Shiny new rings and pins are donned.
Dec. 19. Miss Corbett, member of the National
Board of the
Y. W. C. A., pays C. H.
a very
brief visit.
15. The efficiency
of this staff business
meeting at the home of Guy Stewart is rivalled
only by the excellence of those tiny sandwiches.
I'll never tell how many you ate!
expected ice cream?
And who ever
Feb. 16. Advance sales ticket contest
Delilah May's side, losing, has sold 132;
Oakes' side, winning, 142.
closes.
George
Dec. 21. The Juniors give a delightful Christ-
mas party at the Y. W. C. A. Especially appre-
ciated was the mock faculty meeting with
Katherine Fischer as Miss Dodds,
Mildred Morgan as Miss O'Connell,
Ruth Duey as Miss Barnhouse,
Olga Arcia
as Miss Bakewell,
20. Emily
Bledsoe
, '27,
tickets, is presented prize of a
having sold
two-and-one-half
dollar gold piece awarded by Edward May, '23,
for the girl selling the most tickets in the recent
contest, while Surse Taylor, '27, having sold 30,
wins an award of the same amount given by Mr.
V. H. May of Gatun for the boy selling the most.
Dorothy Deibert as Miss Hornbeak,
Richard Fisher as Mr. Schneppmueller.
Christmas vacation begins.
JANUARY.
Jan. 7. School reopens and many new resolu-
tions are made.
Jan. II. A delightful supper is served by the
Sophomore girls at the Supper Club meeting.
Jan. 14. We begin the new school hours. Eight
o'clock seems at least
three
hours earlier
Charlotte
Housel,
'24, selling
and Charles
'27, selling 25, run them close seconds.
Lady
tertains
"Czardas,
Thais, of Czechoslovakia, delightfully en-
three
" Mozart's
"Humoresque.
more effective
violin
"Minuet
solos,
Monti's
and Dvorak's
" Her performance is rendered even
by the sympathetic piano accom-
paniment given by Mrs. L. A. Schandler.
Feb. 20, 2i, 24. Mr. Schneppmueller's mechan-
ical and architectural drawing classes have open
nine.
Jan. 16. Mr. Schneppmueller sings three selec-
tions.
house.
exhibit.
We enjoy them, and then laugh long, while
Only too few visitors see the interesting
29. Another noonday staff meeting.
he tells us about Cousin Olga and something
ood MARCH.
to eat.
18. A staff meeting is held during lunch
hou-r.
Jan. 22.
school and
The faculty and students of the
.the eighth grade visit the U.
the eighth grade visit the U.
high
S. S.
California through the courtesy of Chaplains G. S.
Rentz and B. R. Patrick.
Jan.
gives
25. The Upsilon
a beach party at
of the faculty
wieners, and a
Gamma
Gamma
ew Cristobal in honor
and some girl friends.
good
sing contribute
Games,
to a satis-
March
7. Senior girls are hostesses for the last
time at the Supper Club.
an minstructive talk on
"Star
Miss O'Connell gives
s." After a delicious
supper the meeting is adjourned early on account
of the Sophomore party.
The Sophomore Class gives a Leap Year party.
Charlotte Housel as the vamp, and
stunts with Caldwell B. Foos
the month
impersonation will
long be remembered.
March 8. Feminine members of the faculty and
of the Senior Class plan a hike to Cativa. Only
r -
THE
CARIBBEAN.
makes their two hours interesting as well as in-
held at Jos6 Arosemena's home.
Business occu-
structive.
March 14-16. Twenty-five C. H. S. girls attend
Y. W. C. A. conference at Balboa. "Wasn't that
stunt funny at the frolic luncheon?" "Weren't
the Balboa girls good to us?" "Did Miss Pell
pies most of the time, but we find time to eat a
delicious supper, after which the boys prove their
ability to play a piano (player variety).
May 31. The Junior-Senior Banquet is held at
the Washington
Hotel.
Cheerful
conversation,
to speak
you about going
to sleep?"
"Aren't you glad our'Gipsy Idyll' won in the song
contest?" "We had the grandest ride Sunday
p.m.
March
21. Through
the favor of Mr.
P. R.
Joyce, the Tarpon Club at Gatun is placed at the
disposal of Cristobal High School for
the party
which Delilah and her losing side give for George
and his winning side.
They did not lose out in
choosing a place for the party!
March 22. The social problems class visit Gam-
boa penitentiary, Corozal Hospital, Palo Seco Leper
Home, and Chiriqui Prison. This is made possible
only by Mr. Hopkins' t
nished by Mr. Andrew,
wo cars, the passes fur-
and Captain
Phillips
loan of the police launch.
impromptu toasts, good things to eat, and dancing
keeps us royally entertained for the evening.
JUNE.
June 6. The senior play, "The Charm School,"
is given at the Gatun Clubhouse and draws a large
crowd.
June
The Charm School' Is given again-
at the America Theater.
June I. Again "T
sented at Coco Solo.
he Charm
School" is
Thanks folks, for your
generous applause."
June 14. Again we give our play-this time at
the National Theater to a Pacific side audience.
June 17. Miss Dodds entertains in honor of the
seniors at a dinner at the Old Washington Hotel
with the faculty as guests.
APRIL.
June 22.
Baccalaureate services are held at the
success.
blossom into a
The Easter bazaar is held and voted
"How the old laboratory did
beautiful flower-and-fancy-work
booth." "Oh! the delicious Easter bunmnies and
candies." "Will you ever forget the Tea Room
or the Blue Grotto?"
April 21. Tales of moonlight nights, beautiful
seas, and sailing boats are heard from the Easter
vacatiomnists.
April 29. Mr. Schneppmueller is compelled to
give up teaching on account of ill health, andsails
for the States, carrying a heavy load of our good
wishes.
Mr. Betterly
takes
his duties
mechanical drawing teacher.
MAY.
May 2. Most of THE CARIBBEAN work goes to
Union
Church.
June 23-25. Final examinations.
June 25. Graduation exercises
Washington auditorium.
June 30.
in the Hotel
Cristobal High School closes her doors.
The Junior Class had quite an eventful time
and certainly did a full share in the school activi-
ties. Starting out with the Senior party in which
each class had to give a skit, we pulled off a very
good Ku Klux Klan initiation in which the whole
class acted.
presented.
Of course this skit was the best one
Then we held several candy sales and
collected enough money to hold our party. We
started out with an entirely different kind of a
party, for we gave It at the Y. W. C. A. and the
crowd danced to the music furnished by a loud
the print
success.
ers.
The freshman
party is
a great
"Will you ever forget Butter Scotch or
speaker.
two little
Here we shone again, for our class gave
playlets, "The Bogus Count" and "A
Lt. Pinkin's quaint, sad love
affair?"
"Can't
Faculty Meeting
" in which the whole class co-
you see Emily Bledsoe as the stout lady, Henry
operated.
Then came the Easter Bazaar and here
Stevens
as the beautiful
vampire,
Sonneman as Jack be Nimble?"
Mrs. R.
Wilson takes up the duties of
again
the Juniors did
The Junior
Class gave two luncheons at the domestic science
building for the purpose of collecting funds for
-aaa I .1 ay C' n -1 fl
April 12.
a great
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REFLECTIONS.
The Cambridge
Review.
Cambridge
andLatin
School,
Cambt
Isolated
as we are from so many hig
our exchanges mean much more to us
exchanges of most schools.
They
schools,
than do the
are like
voices
Your cart
EspanLolas"
ranged.
oons are great.
very much.
We enjoyed your
Your
magazine
r adge, A
"Notas
is well
from afar telling of the activities of other students;
of their athletic scores, of the plays thev have
The Gleaner.
Your headings
Pawtucket
are original
School, Pawtucket,
and clever. Th
given, of their clubs and
parties.
An exchange
Tattler is
unique.
gives
us an insight into a school's literary stand-
ards and ability, and into its ideals.
We have been very fortunate in receiving this
year many new monthlies and annuals, but we
The Curtis
Monthly.
Curtis
"The Post Office is a
High School, Staten
Island.
unique idea, and your
tis Blast" brought forth many
apartment headings
are also
a laugh.
N. Y.
"Cur-
Your de-
attractive.
regret to
say that we have not heard from some
of our old friends.
Junta, the Apokee
missed them.
Where
psian and
are the
the Herald?
and the
We've
The Student.
very good
are original
Holmes
magazine.
High School,
Your department head-
Your athletic records
are great.
We welcome all new exchanges, and are
eager
to add to our list any worthy school publications.
We are sorry to say that Balboa, our friendly
rival, published only a pamphlet last year instead
of her usual worthy annual.
However her maga-
TheExhaust.
We should
tents and
various
through t
list in the
South Euclid
High School, South Euclid, Ohio.
suggest that you have
arrange
a table of con-
the different departments under
heads.
he book before
corner
were obliged to look all
we found
your exchange
a page.
zine, though small, showed that she is still alive,
and it is with pleasure that
to put out a year book. V
we learn she is again
Ve hope that
we may
soon have it upon our exchange list.
The Reflector.
You have an
Your ads are to be
Middletown
excellent
envied.
Township High School,
Leonardo, i
exchange
department.
were delighted with
your comment on our magazine.
OUR REFLEXES TO
OTHERS.
thusiastic booster in our
You have an
en-
circulation manager.
The RedandBlack.
ReadingHigh School/for Boys,
Readin
The Scribbler.
FrankEvans
High School,
Spartanburg,
Your literary department contains unusually good
You have a wonderful literary department.
material.
You seem to excel in athletics.
exchange list is very
good, and your list of advertisers
is a delight to
the eve.
The Netop.
You have
Turners Falls
a clever
High School,
magazine.
Greenfield, Mass.
However we
The Spectator.
Johnstown
High School,
Johnstown,
looked in vain
for your exchange
department.
You have an excellent literary department.
We en-
should
suggest
that a table of contents and a few
very
much
your page
entitled
"Just a Mom-
and cuts would greatly improve your book.
Helen A.bendroth, '2S.
A
Lass.
Covington,
f
31
cartoons
cuts to
your
" But why not add a few
book?
ent.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Neptune Township
Your athletic department is good.
High School,
Ocean Grove, N.
Your cover de-
The Squeedunk.
Through
again
Monroe City
the courtesy o
High School,
f Miss
Octave
received a copy of your worthy annual.
sign is always
arranged.
attractive and your ads are very well
beyond doubt, the best high school book we have ever
been fortunate enough
to receive.
We should ap-
preciate
on your exchange
The Ehco.
Norwalk
High School,
Norwalk, Conn.
very good paper devoted to school activities.
more cartoons
La Riata.
would greatly improve it how-
Albuquerque
Your annual is the
High School, Albuquerque,
second best we
have received
this ye
good.
ar.
Your dramatic department is especially
The cuts and cartoons are excellent. On look-
The Epitome.
Reading
High School for Boys,
Reading,
ing over the magazine
we wondered how such a good
A well-arranged magazine.
Your cuts are extreme-
annual could
be published without advertise-
ly good and your athletic records are to be envied.
ments.
Quoddy Light.
Your cuts
school news a
Lubec
are splendid.
mnd one of which
High School, Lubec,
Your magazine
:h to be proud.
The Pai.
Tamalpais
Union
High School, Sausalito,
Through the courtesy of Elinor Harrold, we
is full of
We con-
ceived this worthy exchange.
The departments are
gratulate you.
well arranged.
The pictures and cartoons are excel-
The cover design
unique
attractive.
The Retina.
M. R. Waite
High School,
Toledo, Ohio.
What more
can we say?
We like the
book is printed.
Your
fine quality of paper on which this
Your cover designs are always good.
headings and
io" is clever and w<
cartoons are
ell written.
excellent.
"Gos-
The Mimir.
La Grande High
This far-west exchange came as
to us.
School, La Grande, (
a pleasant surprise
We like it from the front of its very attractive
cover to the very end.
Your account of
school
The Voice
of South
Youngstown,
Ohio.
activities
indicates that you are very much alive.
A superior
magazine.
A heading for each depart-
would
greatly
improve
however.
The Pinion.
McKinley
High School,
Honolulu,
Hawaii.
We were especially
pleased to receive this far-away
The Torch.
West Philadelphia
High SchoolforGirls,
Philadelphia, I
You have a wonderfully well-developed exchange
exchange.
Linczer, a
yourathlet
Inoneoftheearlyissueswesaw thatOlga
former classmate of ours, was on one of
ic teams.
Your paper is full of local
department. You
always distinctive.
r drawings and cover designs are
We enjoyed the story
and receives our hearty applause.
"I Would
If I Could, But I Can't," by Dorothy Pizor,
appeared in the March number, as swimming
of the principal sports here.
The Oracle.
which
is one
Englewood High School, Englewood,
Your headings are clever.
deed a novel idea.
The poet's
corner is in-
The Monitor.
Wellesley
High School,
Wellesley
Mass.
Pebbles.
Marshalltown
High School, Marshal/town, Iowa.
A few more stories and cuts would greatly
improve
A splendid paper, with good athletic records.
your paper.
Why not tell where it is published too?
bigger
literary
department would improve it, how-
ever.
Reflector.
Your
Woburn
headings
High School, Woburn,
are good, but a more systematic
Mass.
The Round-
Reading
High School,
Reading, Mass.
arrangementof the contents would add greatly to the
attractiveness of your publication.
For so small a paper, you deserve praise.
literary department is
excellent.
The Breccia.
Dueering High
School,
Portland.
"Pebbles" is a unique heading for your clever jokes.
Searchlight.
Bound Brook High School, Bound Brook,
A well-arranged little paper, filled with school
A few
more stories would
very grateful for
help a good deal.
your comment
We are
news.
on our magazine.
A few more stories would improve it.
editor-in-chief
attended school in Bound Brook at
one time.
The Academy Journal.
NorwichFree Academy, Norwich, Conn.
Your cover design is always attractive.
Day" is
clever.
"Day by
cuts would help.
The Westport Crier.
Your paper
Westport High School,
is fully devoted
to school
Kansas City,Mo.
interests.
What greater praise
is there?
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tr 1 ft vi. trw I fl.
J L.a I, ~a fllfltt a
The Trident.
ever.
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Schulze we
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AS WE ARE REFLECTED.
THE CARIBBEAN.
Your publication is excellent.
THE CARIBBEAN.
The Echo.
Your magazine is
extremely
attractive.
You have
many original ideas and your large number of photo-
THE CARIBBEAN.
graphs makes your
magazine attractive.
The Torch.
We consider ourselves very fortunate
with you.
Your magazine is splendid.
to exchange
To a boy or
THE CARIBBEAN.
girl in the States the photographs and well-written
(The exchange list of this
in the form of poetry.)
magazine, was written up
The first on our list is THE CARIBB
stories of THE CARIBBE
AN are
of special interest.
were delighted to hear about George
classmate of ours.
Oakes, a former
From Cristobal, Panama!
'Tis like a trip to a foreign
And is the best received by far.
The Reflector.
zone,
THE CARIBBEAN.
Quoddv
THE CAR
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Your magazine is one of the best among our list
THE CARIBBEAN is the best yet.
fine pictures and such interesting
partments are well gotten up.
news.
as so many
All the de-
of exchanges.
It is well balanced and proves itself
The Scribbler.
to be the result of much hard work and student in-
terest.
The pictures
add greatly to the attractiveness
THE CARIBBEAN.
of the issue.
The Monitor.
We wish to give special mention to
of Fort San Lorenzo," by
arner
"The Dungeon
Bowers. Your
THE CARIBBEAN.
We welcome anything that comes such a long jour-
Distance lends enchantment.
well drawn up.
THE CARIBBEAN.
Your annual is
Some of the poems were wonderful.
The Record.
magazine gives a good idea of the country in which
you live.
The Mirror.
THE CARIBBEAN.
We find that this magazine is
We were delighted with our far-away friend, THE
partment.
complete in
ey have numerous pictures
every
of Panama
CARIBBEAN, with its splendid
tropics.
stories ot
life in the
Your cuts are very clever and your alumni
and views around the Canal Zone.
ing, helpful m
agazlne.
It is an interest-
are glad to exchange with
department is well developed.
splendid paper.
Y ours
certainly is a
CARIBBEAN.
The Spectator.
AN ORAL REPORT
(With apologies
Ten thousand
are on me
as I get up from my
Ten thousand'giggles greet me as I trip up on my feet;
And when, bewildered by the laughs, the words I quickly pour,
No stranger in the class can doubt I wish the thing were o'er.
IN ENGLISH CLASS.
:s to "Casey.")
rway, '26.
And there I stand before the
And they look on with laugh
class-a gasping
idiot there-
s and smiles, enjoying
the affair;
And when the words refuse to come and I can not even speak,
And when again the whole class laughs,
"Sit down!"
says Miss
Hornbeak.
THE seventh annual issue of THE CARIBBEAN is completed. We of the staff have worked hard, for we were
Loath to have it fall below the standards set for us by any of our predecessors, and we were anxious
^ Bthat students of future years might look upon our annual as worthy of their emulation. We say it Is
completed. It will never be complete. No one knows that better than we. We see its errors, its
- shortcomings. But in spite of them we are unashamed. We feel that we have put into it that which we most desired
it to have-a bit of the real Cristobal High School spirit. What we have done however could never have been
accomplished without the aid of those of you who read this. You have surprised us, accustomed though we are to
your kindnesses, by your generosity and interest. People of the Atlantic side, ever loyal in their support, have sur-
passed themselves this year. Even people on the Pacific side have given material evidence of their interest.
Personal thanks are out of the question. Consider this is written to yzu. We of Cristobal High School thank you.
We can not close, however, without a special word of gratitude to our tried and true friends of the Panama Canal
Press, who have indubitably proved, in ways which we can not mention, and for which we can never sufficiently
The Trident.
THE
CARIBBEAN.
Char otte Ho:tsel, '24.
SIMPLY
SUGGESTIONS.
WHAT
IF SOMEONE
ELSE HAD
SAID IT?
CharIotte Housel,
We students of Cristobal High School realize
that unless some necessary improvements are car-
ried out within a short time, so as to produce a
reaction in studies and lessen the physical action,
the high school as a whole will continue to suffer.
Speaking not as a critic or cynic but as a person
who is very much interested in the welfare of the
school, I suggest that individual telephones be
installed in
that they m
the desks of certain individuals, so
may
converse
with one another the
entire study period, as some desire, without dis-
turbing the whole assembly.
Comfortable cots are desirable for those tired
exhausted human beings who study so hard and
wonder why they receive only a scarlet "F" or
a timid "P."
A sounding board in front of the assembly room
to throw the teacher's voice, so that she can im-
press upon
the hard-of-hearing pupil what she
wants and expects, would prove a success-pro-
vided nothing else were thrown except the voice.
An inexhaustable supply of paper is imperative
so that the paper in some people's desks won't
prove a magnet to the nails on the fingers of the
less fortunate or forehanded.
A giggle-muffler to silence those who find a joke
in everything
common
sense
in nothing
would not prove unacceptable.
i. .
And last but not least, a machine to utilize the
lost motion caused by individuals who love to
Miss Dodds (to Richard Fisher who had just
come from the luncheon given by the Juniors).-
How was the luncheon to-day?
Richard Fisher.-As good as you could expect
from beans.
WE HOLD
Miss
) THESE
O'Connell
TRUTHS TO BE
(outside the
SELF-EVIDENT.
room).-Miss
Hornbeak?
Miss Hornbeak (inside the room).-Yes.
Miss O'Connell (still outside).-Are you gone?
Three o'clock in the morning-old Ancon Club-
house after a basket ball game.
Z. P.-You fellows open the door now. I've
been up here three times and I'm going to settle
this.
John S. (anxious to help out).-We're all sleep-
ing, sir.
OF COURSE HE DIDN'T KNOW SHE MEANT KIPLING'S
VOLUME.
Miss Hornbeak (in front of room).-I am very
anxious to find "Mine Own People."
(surprised-in
of room).-Why,
thought they were in Texas.
AND THIS IS WORD PLAY!
Guy (talking of giving a play to get money for
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