Judge — February 24, 1917 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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SATO A EY NE EE A F. Once the Plague-Spot of the World— Where a Revolution was Born Every Minute —A Moral Fester, the Mecca of | the Parasites of Society who Live on Vice How Uncle Sam Spent $375,000,000 in making the Panama Canal an accomplished fact is one of the biggest human interest stories ever told—a story that will never grow old or stale | | COVER DESIGN—Bad Manners, but Good Taste Enoch Bolles ) so long as there are red-blooded men to admire and emulate this matchless achievement of Yankee brain and brawn: This volume not only tells, in all its interesting details, about the construction of the Canal itself, the Herculean obstacles overcome, but also about the marvelous changes wrought in the moral and sanitary conditions of Panama. Man’s Greatest Adventure, had its appropriate setting ina land | of romance where for generations “Gentlemen Adventurers,” Pirates [| and Buccancers disputed with Spain fr the possession of the spol of the New World—where richly laden galleons discharged their | cargoes of gold and silver, stripped from the temples of the Incas, for | shipment to the Old World—a | land that had already written many a bloody chapter in the pages of History long before the | first English settlements in North |) America. Rich in Romance No spot in the Western Hemi- sphere is, so rich in history and | romance as that narrow strip of land now pierced by the Panama | Canal, linking together great Oceans, and realizing dream of Columbus and the early Sea Rovers of a Western passage to || the fabled riches of Cathay. Read the stories told in Panama—The Greatest Engineering Feat in the World early history of the Isthmus—of how Columbus visited it; of Balboa Silent, upon a peak in Darien,” first saw the Pacific Ocean, pf the founding of Old Panama in 1519; and how for nearly two centuries f was the center of the richest trade in the world; of gallant Sir Francis Drake and bloodthirsty Sir Henry Morgan and the rakehelly freebooters who sailed under the **Jolly Roger,”” whose names were the terror of the surrounding seas. The Eighth Wonder of the World Did you know that an Isthmian Canal was proposed and surveys actually made as long ago as 1534? Do you know the interesting story of the Panama Railroad, once the best- paying railroad in the world; and of the thousands of gold-seekers, the orty-niners” who rushed across the Isthmus to the newly discovered fields in California? Do you know the tragic story of the F rench who sunk 5 $260,000,000 in attempting to build the canal; and of the sad end of the’ | career of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps under whom the work first took [ | definite form? Do you recall what happened when the Colombian Govern- ment thought “Teddy” was merely blu ng? This is all told in this beauti- ful volume. RICH CLOTH BINDING; ILLUMINATED COVER ILLUSTRA TIONS IN FOUR COLORS; HUNDREDS OF VIEWS) MAP OF CANAL ZONE; PRONOUNCING GAZETTEE! OF VOL- UME 11x 8 INCHES; BEAUTIFUL PRINT AND PAPER. | BRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO. } 1116 BRUNSWICK BUILDING NEW YORK CITY Dar OEE. os CRTEEENE ST RET OEE on |) Vol. LXXII The Panama | | AN INFANTILE PRODIGY - - “ || CHIMMIE! CHIMMIE! February 24, 1917 No. 1845 | c O N T EN T Ss | BABY’S FOOD LAND (full-page drawing) - - C. W. Kable A MODERN VERSION - - - J.K. Bary THE PATHETIC SYMPHONY - Lawton Mackall SPRING COMING -~ - - Walt Mason BIG TOWN GOSSIP - = = = = Arthur Chapman | IN THE FIFTH AVENUE ‘BUS (full-page drawing) Orson Lowel | MY PA AN’ BILLY'S - - - - J. A. Waldron | AFTER THE WAR, WHAT? Strickland Gillilon THE PUSSYCAT - - - - - F. Gregory Hartswick AT THE AUGUSTA COUNTRY CLUB Drawn by F. L. Fithian Paul Creighton THE BABY (full-page drawing) - Jack Sears THE NOTION COUNTER - Douglas Ma'loch TO A WAILING THIRTY-NINER ONE OPINION OF D. CUPID - - THE LAST DITCH s ¢ & 8 4 DEALING IN FUTURES (full-page drawing) Calvert Smith GODSPEED! - = - = =) = = CM.Carlise - Drawn by G. B. Inwood DISCRETION - - - - - - - SE. Kise 1 CANNOT SING THE OLD SONGS - - Douglas Malloch Mary D. Donahey Chas. G. Jones Drawn by L. Fellows }| WILLIE’S IDEA OF A GOOD LICKING Drawn by Dan Lynch Drawn by Gordon Grant Cyril Andrew - Clinton Scollard Tennyson J. Deft Anna Cadogan Et LOOKS GOOD IN PRINT - = $ BETWEEFN CURTAINS oe = LENTEN LINES TO LYDIA - ONE BARD'S CONSIDERATION - THE MODERN WOMAN ~ - - . JUDGE'S Foreign Humor, With the College Wits, Stories with Smiles, Passing the Mustard, and Jest and Verse by His Honor’s Humorists Additional Drawings by R. B. Fuller, Zim, Paddock, Charles H. Wrighi Lang, Westmacolt, Ray Rohn, Clara Reynolds, and others. a comicbooks.com