Panama Canal Zone

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Now for the American League, the visiting team, this is the lineup.

Scored 96 runs, has 200 hits, leads the club in stolen bases with 40.

It's been a big year for Rod Carew from the Panama Canal Zone.

The pitch, just inside.

[crowd cheering] Fastball, Carew backing away.

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During these years, a half-dozen nations developed projects and made surveys, but no digging was done except by the French until we took charge in 1904.

The Canal Zone is a strip of land ten miles wide across the Isthmus of Panama, the distance being about 40 miles from shore to shore.

It is less than this, however, in a straight line.

The canal runs from northwest to southeast, the Atlantic end at the north being about 22 miles west of the Pacific end at the south.

Hundreds of Negroes with oil cans sprayed almost every nook and corner of the zone with kerosene.

Houses were screened, every case of sickness was looked after, and the result was soon manifest.

A mighty victory was won by Gorgas, and today the Canal Zone is as healthful as any tropical country on earth.

Of course, people criticized and joked about the mosquito brigade, but the colonel went ahead pouring oil upon the water, cleaning up filth, and compelling sanitary measures, paying not the slightest attention to the harping critics.

The Virgin Islands, Danish West Indies, were bought by gold in 1916.

The Canal Zone was acquired by lease in perpetuity.

The use of Guantanamo on the coast of Cuba and Fonseca Bay on the coast of Nicaragua as naval bases by the United States may perhaps be compared with the establishment of German and Japanese naval bases on the coast of China.

One must add financial penetration.

American Marines were forthwith landed under orders to prevent the landing of Colombian troops within 50 miles of Panama.

The right of secession denied by Lincoln to the Southern states was recognized by Roosevelt in the Colombian state of Panama.

Why the new Republic of Panama was so zealously shielded and immediately recognized by the United States appeared clearly enough when a treaty was signed on November 18th, 1903, whereby in consideration of $10 million cash and a quarter million per annum thereafter, beginning in 1911, Panama leased to the United States in perpetuity a canal zone 10 miles wide over which the United States would exercise sovereign rights, including the right of fortification.

There is on page 426 a map titled The Lands of the Caribbean Sea.

Carew now living in Brooklyn, New York.

He's from the Panama Canal zone.

He was the American League's Rookie of the Year last year.

A left-hand batter.