The Panama Canal

by Frederic J. Haskin

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	The Land Divided—The World United	3
[II.]	Greatest Engineering Project	23
[III.]	Gatun Dam	32
[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.]	Sanitation	105
[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	256
[XXII.]	Congress and the Canal	268
[XXIII.]	Sea Level Canal Impossible	277
[XXIV.]	Fortifications	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 Exposition	368

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