Zone Policeman 88

Zone Policeman 88, is a Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers written by Harry A. Franck, who is also the author of  "A Vagabond Journey Around the World" and "Four Months Afoot in Spain".

Strip by strip there opened out before me, as I climbed the "Thousand Stairs" to the red-roofed Administration Building, the broad panorama of Panama and her bay; below, the city of closely packed roofs and three-topped plazas compressed in a scallop of the sun-gleaming Pacific, with its peaked and wooded islands to far Taboga tilting motionless away to the curve of the earth; behind, the low, irregular jungled hills stretching hazily off into South America. On the third-story landing I paused to wipe the light sweat from forehead and hatband, then pushed open the screen door of the passageway that leads to police headquarters.