Arrival of the Banana Packet

Hans Marx

Baltimore Sun

The all-white ships of the United Fruit Company maintain a strict schedule into Baltimore, a leading banana port. Often a boat must wait in the stream until there is room to dock. The packets make a round trip to Honduras in ten days.

Hans Marx, "Arrival of the Banana Packet," in POYi Archive, Item #320, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/320 (accessed January 11, 2025).