Canal Zone Life Under U S Jurisdiction Described
The article details the Panama Canal Zone under U S sovereignty with ten miles width, three marine miles, and governing duties. It describes Governor Thatcher’s administration, a diverse population, zone police from both white and black officers, penal and immigrant procedures, development plans, the Culebra penitentiary, education for workers’ children, and the local school system as the Canal Commission builds roads and infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mounted Police
Canada
Canal
United States
Canal Zone
Culebra
Chorrera Road
Education and public services in the Canal Zone
The report details schools in the Canal Zone with Jamaican teachers for colored students, a Gatun high school, and transportation by Panama Railroad. It notes clean water, sanitation, music, calisthenics, and gardening programs, plus an impending industrial school for colored children. Public works, fire protection, taxes, postal service, liquor licenses, and a Marines presence are described as part of Civil Government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Gatun
Panama
Balboa
Corosal
Ancon
Culebrando
Canal Zone
Division of Public Works
Civil Administration
Tropics
Thatcher
Camp Elliott
Bas Obispo
Republic of Panama
United States
Mgh
Canal
Camp Otis
Sitka Island National Monument Biographer of Baranoff
Taft set aside Sitka Alaska as a national monument under the antiquities act. The tract, about fifty seven acres along Indian River, preserves graves of a Russian midshipman and exiles, totem poles, and ruins from the Baranoff era. The piece reviews Sitka's Russian fort, early trade, and the Lovers Lane path to the monument site with Indian rancherie nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Act For the Preservation of
Ska
Alaska
Pacife
Hrady
Elie
Baranof
Sitha
Matanof
Alapka
Sitka
Bit
Baranoff
Bitka
Boston
Barqnost
Ussan
D? Baranom
Taft Haa
Pacific Coast
Russia
Brady
Hfe
Northwest
Washington
Sithka
Tar
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chama Canal
Republifc
Armenica
Panama Republic
Widh
Republic
Ita Matsienanes
Rledt
M. H. Thitcher
Isthmanton Canal
Preser
Amlartinique
Colombia
Veneswelis
Italy
J. P. Ve
West Indies
Canal Commission
Canat
Zonc LS
Ancen Police
Col JP HyPle
Cama/ Zone Police
Taland
Pacific
Bea Bay
Lem Lee
Uged
Elt
Katalon Rok
Baranoffs
Gear
Haron Wrdugell
Siberia
Indiana
Pete
Ueavillebe
Hel
Pads Mire
Lovery Lane
Baica Tearne
Enw National Monument
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