Der Bu BRITAIN IS PERFECTLY SOLVENT THE WORKMAN READ THE WORKMAN LEARN ALL THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR WEST INDIAN HOME WEEK BY WEEK AND PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY NYA TRAGIC. CALAMITY AT BALBOA DRY DOCKS gasHis gasVOL. 12 No. 49 PANAMA, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1924 PRICE CTS. Cy.
FRENCH BRITISH WAR SHIPS JONE YEAR IN GAMBOA COLONY PASSING THROUGH CANAL For Running Away With Celebrates 135th AnniverAnother Man Car. sary of Fall of the Bastile.
Commander Finds it Impossible The ouly case on the Cristoba The 135th Anniversary Court docket last Thursday was fall of the Bastle was of the Four Coloured Men Succumbs to celebrated to Make Official Calls. that of a soldier from France Firid, Monday last, the 14th, by the Deadly Fumes of Poisonous Gas. with Britannic Majesty Charge Affaires in this city, we are able Gatun, Edwards had left bis ear but impressive fashion, at least in afternoon last can be better imagined than expressed Through the courtesy of the Hon. Ford His stealing and occupying a motor ear French colony and other foreign belonging to Edwards of residents here in the usual gay The scene at the Dry Dock at Balboa on Wednesday to state that three ships of the British Navy, S, Hood somewhere near, the Cristobal proportion to the distance they are when the news spread around that four coloured men who. Repulse and Adelaide are expected to arrive al Balboa Commissary and walked off a distance when soldier Roland from gay Paree.
nex at one p, on Wednesd just a few hours before had left their wives and children the 23rd instant, in walked up and claimed control The great love for their country in the bappiest of spirits to seek the bread that perisheth, order to transit the Canal on their way to Jamaica. They withou: the knowledge of Edwards, was, as on other similar occasions. were ushered into eternity and so many wives and a are under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick L, Roland sped along Fort Randolph manifestly shown by Frenchmen number of children left widows and fatherless, respective Field, and left San Francisco on the nth and the nice to Cativa where the from Colon to Panama. The facts in connection with the mournful tragedy July. They will remain at Balboa about three and a half car got stuck in mud. band concert which The Cristobal Police being. will not lasted are as follows: to the dock. They will then proceed to Miraflores Lake, notified of puhe loss of the cornearly two hours is held in the shortly after ngon on Wednesday was no more fortunate, for he too where they will be anchored all night, and will transit the dispatched Police Sargeant Gregg new Plaza de Francia in the night, last, when a gang of men returned teppeld over after reaching a few Canal early in the morning of the 24th instant. No stop bunt down Smith and succeeding ed patriotic selections as well as the bia of the Pacific Mail Steamship Seeing the fate of four of his who started on a motorcycle to when the Republican Band render to work on the steamship Colom feet on the ladder.
can be made at Cristobal, as the ships are due at Kingston, in finding him at the wheel in the National Anthems of France and Company, which had, within the gang the foreman above raised the Jamaica, on the 26th July. he asleep. He Owing to the short space of time during which the wreckimtaken to Cristobal and on Panama. Numerous flags of dil. preceding 24 hours been dry dock alarm and a Policeman on duty tak before ferent nations bedecked buildings ed at Balboa for the purpose of the docks rushed to the scene fol.
ships will be at Balboa, Vice Ad niral Field finds, greatly preljeninger de examination Wade he was referred to in all parts of the city. The French extensive repairs to damage of her lowed by crowds who to his regret, that it will be impossible for him to make the higher court witu bail fixed colony.
gathered any official calls.
assisted by the French hull, received when she went on from all parts of the docks, while.
Is the District Court Smith Mutual Aid Society La Frater the rocks off Cano Island, four of Shreaves. Diver, was sum. Hood is the largest vessel in the British Navy, having a displacement of 45, 000 tons, a lergth of 860 pl pleaded that he was intoxicated nite. after the latter had held a the gang went to their untimely moned. Shreaves, wearing a feet, and a beam of 104 feet. She draws about 33 feet. In from the effects of two glasses of solemn Mass in the San Francisco death by falling into one of the mask, was immediately the Canal Locks there will be a clearance of only two and stuff fron a bottle. His statement Legation, and accompanied by the generated by rotting cargo.
lowered beer and some other u kluwn Church, marched to the French holds, overcome by lethal gases into the hold with a rope tied a half feet on each side of the ship.
as far around his waist. On arriving below These ships, together with the Britlsh Light Cruiser District Judge Bl«ckburu ordered Hon. Emanuel Neuville, the de was fast on the rocks at Court was concerned and Acting French Charge Affaires, the During the time the Colombia he lost no time in fastening ropes Squadron, left Devonport, England, on the 27th November, his transfered to Gamboa penit legation directed Cano around the bodies of the prostrate itself to 1923, and have been engaged a cruise of the British entiary for one year.
the Island, a quantity of her perishable men and they were pulled out of Empire. The Light Cruiser Squadron will return home monument erected in the Plaza to cargo, was soaked with water and the hole by a crane. Shreaves, after via Cape Horn and South America.
CRIPPLED GERMAN their efforts to join the Pacific and combination Frenchmen who lost their lives in oil and had started to rot, the making fast the fourth man had The Hood and Repulse after leaving Jamaica SHIP emiting dangerous been rendered so weak that he also Atlantic oceans by a will proceed to Canada and will reach their home ports waterway. gas, although the actual scent was fell, but was immediately hauled about the 29th September upon completion of their cruise To be Repaired at Balboa. ed an impressive address, during was not thought as deadly Here the Charge Affaires deliver said to be near that of the oil and up, half unconscious.
round the world.
Rescuers had Battle with which wreaths of flowers as it mask was pulled off his face by were turned out to be.
Shark.
an employee of the Panama Agenplaced at the foot of the monument.
part of a cies, and he was rigorously fanned.
the In the afternoon Appreciative Comment on Our Editorials.
The dead men were Charge The Panama Canal Tug The four men were dead when received crowds of gang of six that were washing vorite which went to rescue the visitors who called to congratulate down, with water hose, the muck they reached Ancon Hospital, to TO TAX EDITOR THE WORKman: late. Now that you have started, German shop Sisak that struck a him upon the anniversary of the and slime from the deck below the which place they had been transSir: It is my humble opinion please be regular. The Westieel off the coast of Ecuador, great French day.
main deck near one of the holds, fered immediately after taken up.
Indian Employees Association is The vietims were as follows: that within the past month there grateful to you for this belp We completed her work and the After they had been at work but a has been an apreciable improve know that the Association is a fact disabled ship was brought to Bal.
few minutes they began to be af.
DEAD ment in the tone of your editorial and that it is bere to stav, boa Sunday last to be dry docked DISABLED PACIFIC MAIL fected by the deadly gas from the Henry Powell, single. about 45 column, and that if this change is notwithstanding the LINER hold and it is said that one of years old; living in house No. 18, persisted in your paper must activities of a few of our fellows eventually exert upon us a proper with ill will; but we realize that The English wreckingtug Killerig them yelled to the foreman above Coco Grove, 20th St.
wholesome influence; and in obedience to what dem a duty every honest and considered advice also assisted in the rescue work. Arrives at Balboa. Now on to shut off the water. Inmediately Geo. Mottly, Barbadian; mar. owe to myself and to you, as well lives, is a support and encourago she struck the sunken reef given to the people along these The ship was badly rent when Dry Dock for Repairs. one started to the deck above by ried; 39 years; House No. 36, 23rd as the public, to give praise where ment to our movement: hence our and way of a ladder, but after reaching St. Chorillo.
it is due, venture to address you thanks. We are not posing as pumps had to be kept going on her Henry Williams, Jamaican; The Pacific Mail Liner Colom a few feet from wehere he was, these few lines.
leaders, must explain, but we are throughout the rescue work to keep bia. reported on the rocks near fell over into the sline 10 feet Married; 28 years; house No. 6, Your editorials captioned The trying in our humble way to effect her afloat. It is said that owing to Cano Island, off the south western below. Not knowing that his fel. 24th St. Guachapali.
eurse of poverty and Who are the bringing together of our fellows the depth of the water in coast low workman was a victim of the Abelardo Pinillo, Panamanian; tauoe Ana deber de cueciony whey believing that are the little coell. she was lying nothing could be miles from Balboaica, hil about her gas, another of the gang 350 Leaders are, to my mind for cooperation and mutual rushed married. 25 years; 25th Street, are happily free of a profusion of who, by depositing small quantities done but to caulk up the rents in way to the Canal, arrived at Ball promptly to his assistance and he Calidonia.
the words that call for the liberal of matter from their bodies at a her hull with oakum.
boa Monday evening last with her too fell into the hold below, being Shreaves and Maas were admit.
use of a dictionary, and more, they time, have in course of ages build Making a ted to Ancon Hospital for treatare free of bitterness and contain up lands for the habitation of The caulking was done by Diver hull badly torn and bespattered all overcome by the gas.
not a word of offense to any one higher organisms than themselves, Barney Keegan of the Tug over with oil as a result of the rapid headway towards the ladder ment. Shreaves is an American and another victim was claimed, by the Dockmaster at Cristobal; while For these reasons they speak in even mankind, so may we, quietly Favorite who also had a wonderful bursting of her crude oil tanks.
a. for clear and simple language, and and without haste, on this same experience with a shark under the She was helped off the rocks by deadly gas, who also followed the Mass is a Jamaican; married. lives the things that are of moment in ourselves and posterity a founda: water. Keegan worked on shifts for the Wrecking Tugs Relief and previous two to death. fourth at house No. 5, San Miguel.
into deep our social and economic life. They tion which will protect us from the nearly twelve days and during one Willet and assisted have rightly placed upon ourselves ravages of the deep waters by which of these shifts he was attacked by waters by the former and trailed the responsibility to take the we are now overwhelmed.
Speeder Fined 40 a big tiger shark. It is said that the by the latter. She arrived at Bal.
Baptist Church Activities.
proper steps to improve our condi Very truly yours, diving helmet that Keegan wore boa under her own steam at about tion. WHYTE.
weighed around 55 lbs and his half speed.
The semi annual meeting of the For many years, Sir, many of us La Boca, Judge Schaefer, acting in place of Baptist Burial aid Society of Pahad longed to have read in your shoes 25 pounds each. Keegan in the rescue work two false Judge Blackburn while the latter bama was held at the Chorrillo July 17, 1924, paper editorials like these to warded off the shark in the first decks, made at the Balboa shops, is act og District Judge during the Church on the 7th. The report which now refer. We had attack by throwing up his right were used. These were fastened in absence of Judga Joho Walling showed that there longed for these dignified and CHILEAN BOY SCOUTS hand, and although he made a bite place and compressed air ford, fined Ludlum forty dollars members. The new officers elected dispassionate leaders: these that forced for reckless driving on the streets were as follows:keep writer and reader in the at him he only got a scrape from into the forward tanks. Excellent of the Canal Zone last Monday.
proper frame of mind to President Deacon Reid.
think and On Way to England and the sea glant teeth. Hastily draw work is reported to have been It would pear tbat Ludlum Vice Presideat, Deacon MeDenmark.
act. An angry man cannot think ing his knife from his belth he rendered by the wrecking crews.
started to test the speed of his car Intosh, Secretary Deacon well, nor can an angry people Copenhagen, Denmark, as caught monster, in his hier bem maid, whom the gods their final destination, 36 Chilea eta ek berceath the lower jaw with crew of about fifty men, the Co and thought that, that wasn the and hea con lewis.
from the Chorrillo District. Besides and a Panamanian policeman saw him Liaton, Treasurers, Pastor Witt would destroy they first make Boy Scouts arrived here Thursday the first stab, and repeating this lombia carried among her cargo, appropriate placed to hopken ble following were elected mad. To use threatening and last on the Orcoma They menacing language without the go to participate in the Inter performance he had his opponent copper, brass, coffee, lumber, tests, and managed to hop on the members of the managing Comnecessary force to support it, is to national Jamboree in Copenhagen, beat and it subsequently floated to hides and canned goods, a large bw, Ludlum apparently decided Stewart, Deacon Cummings, Leacon court disaster. And here again where Boy Scouts from all over the surface wehere it was shot by quantity of running board while the car sped mittee, Deacon Smith, Des con which would quote another truism, the world expect to meet. They had to be to disregard the presence of the Joboson, Deacon Barrett, Mr. Discretion is the better part of are in charge of Captain Victor the crew and raised on deck. The thrown overboard after being cop and crossed the border into Lynch and Mr. Williams.
valor. And with these well in Wolnisky of the Chilean Army sea monster is said to have had a partly destroyed by water when the Canal Zone where it is reported Letters from Pastor Thrift state mind we should be able to keep and will also visit England and barrel shaped mouth, measuring 30 some of the holds in which they that he would have collided on an Harry will travel with him on the he was stopped when he realized that Mrs Thrift and their son our feet on the ground when gazing take part in the British Boy Séouts inches across and could easily take were contained flooded following Army truck.
Jamboree at Wembley.
at the stars.
This gave the Gorgas which is expected to Your advice to West Indians to The party is composed of 27 a man body or a bunch of the spreading of the steel plates. Panamanian police an opportunity arrive in Colon on the 24th inst.
Anniversary Services will be held organize may not be considered Scouts, scoutmasters and four bananas. It measured 14 feet The Colombia has been placed to get off. Indlam was arrested timely, yet it is by no means to officers of the Chilean army.
inches in length in dry dock at Balboa for repairs. and fined as above. Continued on page Fa Affaires insidious at that place.
were 77 in