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Panama Canal by Frederic J. Haskin 1913 Hard Cover
The Panama Canal by Frederic J. Haskin
Hard cover
Copyright 1913 by Doubleday, Page & Company
386 pages
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Land Divided-The World United..3
II.Greatest Engineering Project 23
III.Gatun Dam 30
IV.The Locks 45
V.The Lock Machinery 57
VI.Culebra Cut 70
VII.Ends of the Canal 82
VIII.The Panama Railroad 93
IX.Sanitation105
X.The Man at the Helm 118
XI.The Organization 133
XII.The American Workers 145
XIII.The Negro Workers 154
XIV.The Commissary 164
XV.Life on the Zone 176
XVI.Past Isthmian Projects 194
XVII.The French Failure 206
XVIII.Choosing the Panama Route 221
XIX.Controversy with Colombia.233
XX.Relations with Panama .246
XXI.Canal Zone Government...o..256
XXII.Congress and the Canal r268
XXIII.Sea Level Canal Impossible 977
XXIV.Fortifications4.283
XXV.Fixing the Tolls 295
XXVI.The Operating Force..309
XXVII.Handling the Traffic 317
XXVIII. The Republic of Panama 326
XXIX.Other Great Canals.....335
XXX.A New Commercial Map 347
XXXI.American Trade Opportunities 358
XXXII.The Panama-Pacific Exposition368
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Birdseye View of the Panama Canal Zone .Color insert
FACING PAGE
George W. Goethals, Chairman and Chief Engineer10
A Street in the City of Panama 11
Theodore Roosevelt 18
William Howard Taft 18
Woodrow Wilson 18
Vendors in the Streets of Panama 19
A Native Boy Marketing 19
Lieut. Col. W. L. Sibert 42
The Upper Locks at Gatun 42
Toro Point Breakwater 43
Concrete Mixers, Gatun 50
A Center Wall Culvert, Gatun Locks 50
The Machinery for Moving a Lock Gate 51
Steam Shovels Meeting at Bottom of Culebra Cut74
L. K. Rourke 74
The Man-made Canyon at Culebra 75
The Disastrous Effects of Slides in Culebra Cut 82
U. S. Ladder Dredge "Corozal" 83
A Mud Bucket of the "Corozal" 83
W. G. Comber 83
Col. William C. Gorgas 106
The Hospital Grounds, Ancon 106
Lieut. Frederic Mears 107
The Old Panama Railroad 107
Sanitary Drinking Cup 114
Mosquito Oil Drip Barrel 114
Spraying Mosquito Oil 114
Typical Quarters of the Married Laborer 115
A Native Hut 115
Maj. Gen. George W. Davis 138
Rear Admiral J. G. Walker 138
Theodore P. Shoots 138
John F. Wallace . 138
ILLUSTRATIONS
John F. Stevens 138
Charles E. Magoon 138
Richard Lee Metcalfe 139
Emory R. Johnson 139
Maurice H. Thatcher 139
Joseph Bucklin Bishop 139
H. A. Gudger 139
Joseph C. S. Blackburn 139
Brig. Gen. Carroll A. Devol 146
American Living Quarters at Cristobal 146
Harry H. Rousseau 147
Lowering a Caisson Section 147
John Burke 170
Meal Time at an I. C. C. Kitchen 170
Washington Hotel, Colon 171
Major Eugene T. Wilson 171
The Tivoli Hotel, Ancon 171
Floyd C. Freeman 178
I. C. C. Club House at Culebra 178
A. Bruce Minear 179
Reading Room in the I. C. C. Club House, Culebra179
Col. Chester L. Harding 202
The Gatun Upper Locks 202
Lieut. Col. David D. Gaillard 203
Culebra Cut, Showing Cucaracha Slide in Left Center203
The Man of Brawn 210
Ferdinand de Lesseps 211
An Old French Excavator Near Tabernilla 211
Philippe Bunau-Varilla 211
S. B. Williamson 234
The Lower Gates, Miraflores Locks 234
Middle Gates, Miraflores Locks 235
H. 0. Cole 235
The Pay Car at Culebra 242
Edward J. Williams 242
Uncle Sam's Laundry at Cristobal 243
Smoke from Heated Rocks in Culebra Cut 266
Tom M. Cooke 267
The Post Office, Ancon 267
A Negro Girl 274
A Martinique Woman 274
San Blas Chief 274
An Indian Girl 274
An Italian 274
A Timekeeper 274
A Spaniard 274
A Negro Boy 274
Testing the Emergency Dam, Gatun Locks 275
Col. Harry F. Hodges 275
The Ancon Baseball Park 298
Caleb M. Saville 299
Gatun Spillway from Above and Below 299
An Electric Towing Locomotive in Action 306
Blowing Up the Second Dike South of Miraflores Locks307
DIAGRAMS
A Graphic Illustration of the Material Handled at Panama 25
A Cross Section of the Gatun Dam 35
Plan of the Gatun Dam and Locks 36
A Profile Section of the Canal 40
From a Model of Pedro Miguel Lock 48
A Cross-section of Locks, Giving an Idea of Their Size .49
One of the 92 Gate-leaf Master Wheels 64
A Mauretania in the Locks 67
The Effect of Slides 72
Average Shape and Dimensions of Culebra Cut 75
The Corozal and Its Method of Attack 85
International Shipping Routes ... 351
A Map Showing Isthmus with the Completed Canal . . . 379
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