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Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Pana

Harry Alverson Franck

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ling unconsciously into the "th" pronunciation of the Castilian, began blithely to reel off the questions that had grown so automatic.

"Name?"-;-Federico Malero. "Check Number?"—"Can you read?" "A little." The barest suggestion of amusement in his voice caused me to look up quickly. "My library," he said, with the ghost of a weird smile, nodding his head slightly toward an unpainted shelf made of pieces of dynamite boxes, "Mine and my room-mates." The shelf was filled with four—REAL Barcelona paper editions of Hegel, Fichte, Spencer, Huxley, and a half-dozen others accustomed to sit in the same company, all dog-eared with much reading.

"Some ambitious foreman," I mused, and went on with my queries:

"Occupation?"

"Pico y pala," he answered.

"Pick and shovel!" I exclaimed—"and read those?"

"No importa," he answered, again with that elusive shadow of a smile, "It doesn't matter,. . . Read More

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anecdotes form 1912 in panama C Z . author franck is a world traveler (and well educated tramper), ships and backpacks etc. knows or can pick up most any language with the briefest of encounters, and gets a job 1st as a census taker, then a cop. on the ground, first hand accounts of all the immigran

I wasn't kidding about that Panama Canal business in my profile, I'm utterly fascinated by it. Harry Franck is this uber curmudgeon who wrote all these bitter travelogues in the early 1900's. This one is about him essentially showing up during the digging of the Panama Canal and getting a job as a c