A MAP SHOWING THE ISTHMUS WITH THE COMPLETED CANAL

INDEX

Accessory Transit Company, [199]
Accidents, [72]
Amador, Dr., [238], [239]
Accounting department, [315]
American Federation of Labor, [271]
American clings to home habits, [177]
American Federation of Women's Clubs, [176], [180]
American mind wanted canal, [11]
American Rivers and Harbors Congress, [346]
Amsterdam Canal, [341]-342
Amundsen, [4]
Amusements, [178], [188], [189], [190], [191], [192]
Ancon Hill, [89]
Ancon Study Club, [183]
Animal life, [331]
Ants, [331]
Appropriations for canal, [269]
Aspinwall, William H., [102]
Babel of American ambitions, [80]
Bailey, John, [197]
Balboa, [6], [7], [89], [90], [333]
Barnacles, [40]
Beef, Price of, [166], [167]
Beauregard, P. T. G., [204]
Bitter, Karl, [374]
Blackburn, Joseph C. S., [138], [142], [250], [252], [258]
Board of consulting engineers, [32]
Boswell, Helen Varick, [180]
Bridles, [77]
British bondholders, [365]
Brooke, Mark, [133]
Bryce, James, [20], [23]
Buccaneers, English, [334]
Bull-fighting, [328]
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, [222], [230], [237], [238], [246], [327]
Burke, John, [143]
"Bush dwellers," [155]
Cables, [78]
Caisson gates, [62], [63]
Caledonia, [159]
Camp Fire Girls, [183]
Cantilever pivot bridges, [57]
Canada, Western, [20]
Canal not constructed to make money, [10]
Canal Zone, [6], [7], [247], [326]
Canal Zone government, [256]-267, [271], [312]
Canals, [335]-346
Canals, Isthmian, [194]-205
Cargo ship, [319]
Central and South American Telegraph Company, [253]
Chagres River, [5], [21], [27], [32], [33], [36], [37], [40], [82], [110], [214], [280], [330]
Chagres Valley, [33], [36]
Chain for stopping vessels, [58], [59], [60]
Channel, Sea-level, [46]
Charles V, [194]
Chauncey, Henry, [103]
Cheops, Pyramid of, [24]
Chicago Drainage Canal, [345]
Childs, Orville, [199]
Choice of route, [221]-232
Chucunoques, [332]
Civil administration, [138]
Civil-service requirements, [136]
Claims, Adjustment of, [323]
Claims for lands, [260]
Clay, Henry, [197]
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, [15], [17], [198], [302], [303]
Cleveland (Ship), [297]
Clutches, Friction, [57]
Clubhouses, [186]
Coaling, [320]
Coaling plants, [91], [92]
Cock-fighting, [328]
Cole, H. O., [143]
Collisions, [60]
Colombia, [227], [228], [231], [233]-245
Colon Beach, [101]
Columbus, Christopher, [3], [194], [347]
Comber, W. G., [143]
Commercial map, [347]-357
Commissary, [164]-175
Commissary department, [30]
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, [213], [214]
Concession, Extension of, [104]
Concession to the French, [196]
Concrete mixers, [54]
Congress and the canal, [268]-276
Conquerers, Spanish, [334]
Constantinople, Capture of, [347], [348]
Constantinople, Convention of, [292]
Contra Costa Water Company, [43]
Contract system, [13]
Contractor's Hill, [79]
Controversy with Colombia, [233]-245
Cook, Thomas F., [144]
Corozal (Dredge), [84]
Corruption, [14]
Corruption in building French canal, [9], [207]
Cortez, Hernando, [195]
Cost of canal, [5]
Cost of French canal, [208]
Cotton production, Center of, [355]
Coupon books, [169]
Court system, [261]
Courtesy of West Indian Negro, [157]
Courtesy of workmen, [147]
Cranes, Floating, [322]
Cristobal, [6], [7]
Cromwell, William Nelson, [280], [287], [327]
Cronstadt and St. Petersburg Canal, [343]
Cruelty of natives, [329]
Cruelty of Spaniards, [333]
Culebra Cut, [5], [13], [21], [26], [34], [35], [40], [70]-81, [214], [216], [277], [278]
Culebra Mountain, [4], [20], [79], [80], [196], [277]
Cullom, Shelby M., [282]
Culverts, [50]
Dams, Emergency, [60], [61]
Davis, Charles H., [196]
Davis, George W., [134], [256]
Death rate, [303]
Debts of American Republics, [365]
Department store, [166]
Deportation of laborers, [152]
Devol, C. A., [143]
Dikes, [126]
Dikes of Holland, [44]
"Dingler's folly," [208]
Diplomatic entanglements, [17]
Dredges, Ladder, [84]
Dredges, Suction, [83]
Duty on imports, [325]
Dynamite, [28], [74]
Eads, James B., [202], [203]
Eastern Roman Empire, [3]
Eating places, [170]
Economy in handling material, [55]
Efficiency records, [72], [73]
Eight-hour working day, [137], [271]
Elections in Panama, [251], [327]
Electric current, [67]
Electrical department, [315]
Endicott, Mordecai T., [135]
"Energy; the lord of the Isthmian way," [374]
Engineering department, [314]
Engineering difficulties, [29]
Engineering project of all history, [23]
Englishman defies Tropics, [177]
Equipment for hauling material, [53]
Erie Canal, [346]
Expense of operating canal, [313]
Extravagance in building French canal, [207]
Ernst, Oswald H., [135]
Filibusters, French, [334]
Finley, Carlos, [11], [106]
Fire department, [264]
Fishing, [192]
Flamenco Island, [88]
Flowers, [330]
Foreign trade of U. S., [353]
Fortifications, [18], [283]-294
Foundations, [90]
Fraser, John Foster, [355]
French began work in 1880, [5]
French canal, [53]
French failure, [206]-220
French Panama Canal Company, [200]
French spent $300,000,000, [8]
French Canal Company, [9], [93], [252]
Fruits, [330]
Gaillard, D. D., [138], [139]
Gamboa, [40]
Gatun Dam, [13], [21], [23], [25], [26], [32]-34, [36], [41]-43, [56], [279]
Gatun Lake, [36], [37], [38], [45], [47], [50], [56], [60], [62], [82], [95], [315], [330]
Goethal, George Washington, [13], [18], [33], [43], [119]-132, [273]
Gold Hill, [79]
Golf links, [315]
Good Hope, Cape of, [19]
Gorgas, William C., [105], [108], [134], [138], [142]
Government ownership of railways, [99]
Graft, [14]
"Great undertaker," [218]
Guayaquil, [19]
Gudger, H. A., [263]
Guerin, Jules, [374]
Gulf States, [20]
Hains, Peter C., [135]
Handling the traffic, [317]-325
Hanna, Marcus A., [227], [230]
Harding, Chester, [143]
Harrod, Benjamin A., [135]
Hay, John, [246]
Hay-Herran treaty, [16], [231], [232], [233], [235]
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, [17], [225], [300], [301], [303], [304]
Health of canal workers, [210]
Heat of the Tropics, [179]
Hepburn, William P., [223]
High cost of living, [175]
Hise, Elijah, [198]
Hodges, Harry F., [139], [141]
Honolulu, [19]
Hoosac Tunnel, [71]
Hospitals, [112], [208], [209]
Hotels, [100], [101], [171]
Hunter, Henry, [278]
Hunting, [191], [192]
Hydraulic excavation, [79]
Hydraulic Fill, [35]
Ice plant, [92]
Ice, Price of, [168]
Iguana, [329]
Immigration, [157]
Incas Society, [152]
Injury to the canal, [324]
International commerce, [3]
Isthmian Canal Commission, [12], [88], [96], [97], [109], [119], [201], [224], [225], [229], [268], [269], [311]
Johnson, Emory H., [18], [299], [306]
Kahn, Julius, [370]
Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, [340]-341
Kid Canal, [340]-341
Knox, Philander C., [43], [243]
Labor in passing ships through, [68], [69]
Laborers, [307]
Land, Prices of, [333]
Laws of Canal Zone, [268], [267]
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, [8], [132], [211]-219
Lidgerwood cableways, [53]
Lidgerwood dirt car, [25]
Lidgerwood dirt trains, [76]
Lidgerwood flat cars, [74], [77]
Life on the zone, [176]-193
Lighting of locks, [325]
Liquor question, [186]
Lloyd, J. A., [196]
Lloyds, [324]
Lock canal, [13], [18], [137], [216], [217], [281]
Lock machinery, [57]-67
Locks, [19], [26], [46], [48]-55, [58], [62], [318]
Locomotives, Electric, [65]-67
Lottery, [217], [254]
Loulan, J. A., [148]
Lusitania, [297]
Machinery, Dependable, [57]
Machinery, Abandoned, [207]
Machinery, Value of, [219]
MacKenzie, Alexander, [119]
Magellan, [4]
Magellan, Straits of, [19]
Magoon, Charles E., [109], [135], [136], [264]
"Making the dirt fly," [27]
Malaria, [9], [11], [106], [207], [211]
Man-made peninsula, [45]
Manchester ship canal, [20]. 30, [339]
Manila, [19]
Manson, Sir Patrick, [11], [106]
Manufacturers of U. S., [363]
Margarita Island, [284]
Maritime Canal Company, [200], [223]
Markets, [329]
Marriage, [155]
Married men more content, [179]
Materia medica of Panamans, [381]
Matrimony, Premium on, [179]
Mears, Frederick, [143]
Melbourne, [19]
Menocal, A. G., [200]
Metcalf, Richard L., [189]
Miraflores, [26], [27], [40], [47], [55], [61], [67], [82], [89], [126]
Mississippi Valley, [20]
Mistakes in building, [12]
Mahogany, [330]
Money for building always ready, [11]
Monroe doctrine, [7], [15], [360], [361]
Morgan, Henry, [334]
Morgan, John T., [221]
Mosquito Coast, [198]
Mosquitoes, [9], [11], [12], [105]-107, [114], [115]
Naos Island, [87], [284]
National geographic society, [23]
National Institute, [327]
Naval display, [375]
Navy, Efficiency of, [348]
Negroes, [154]-163
Nelson, Horatio, [197]
New Caledonia, [7]
New Granada, [237]
New Panama Canal Company, [133], [219], [221], [224]-228, [233], [235]-237, [242], [270]
Nicaraguan Canal, [15], [16], [198], [199], [201], [222], [230], [231]
Nicaraguan Canal Commission, [199]
Nombre de Dios, [7], [53]
North Sea Canal, [342]-343
Olympic, [59]
Operating force, [309]-312
Orchids, [330]
Oregon (U. S. Ship), [10]
Organization, [133]-144
Organization of government on Canal Zone, [313]
Pacific Ocean Exposition Company, [370]
Pacific Steamer Navigation Company, [321]
Palmer, Aaron H., [197]
Pan American Conference, [7]
Panama, [230], [237], [238], [240], [241], [243], [246]-255
Panama, Bay of, [280]
Panama-California Exposition, [376]
Panama Canal Company, [133], [218]
Panama City, [12], [43]
Panama-Pacific Exposition, [368]-378
Panama (Republic), [6], [15], [326]-334
Panama Railroad, [7], [34], [68], [88], [93], [104], [136], [214], [228], [245]
Panama Railroad Steamship Line, [100]
Pay-day, [160], [161]
Pay of Americans, [178]
Paying off canal army, [30]
Pedro Miguel, [25], [27], [47], [48], [55], [61], [89]
Pennsylvania tubes, [50]
Perico Island, [88], [285]
Pilots, Canal, [60]
Police force, [262], [263]
Population of the zone, [315]
Porto Rico, [358]-360
Position of canal, [5]
Postal service, [261]
Prize fighting, [328]
Purchase of material, [272]
Quartermaster's department, [174], [314]
Quellenec, F., [278]
Railroads opposed to canal, [222]
Rates, Passenger, [103]
Rates, Railroad, [99]
Rating of employees, [151]
Reed, Walter, [106]
Reimbursement to owners of vessels for accidents, [323]
Rental for Canal Zone, [326]
Religious activities, [183]
Roads, [191], [264], [265]
Robinson, Tracy, [215], [216]
Root, Elihu, [242]
Ross, Roland, [11], [106]
Rosseau, Armand, [217]
Rourke, W. G., [143]
Rousseau, Harry H., [138], [139], [148]
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, [321]
Safety appliances, [57]
Safety for ships, [281]
Sailing ships, Death blow to, [322]
Salaries, [310]
San Blas Indians, [332]
San Diego and Arizona Railway, [376]
San Francisco earthquake, [368]-369
Sanitary department, [30]
Sanitation, [105]-117, [328], [332], [352]
Sault Ste. Marie canal, [314], [335], [343]-344
Saville, Caleb M., [41], [143]
School system, [264]
Schools, Night, [187]
Sea-level canal, [13], [18], [137], [272], [279]-282
Secret societies, [184]
Servants, [181], [182]
Shanton, George R., [262]
Shaw, Albert D., [232]
Ship railway, [202], [203], [204]
Shipping routes, International, [351]
Shonts, Theodore P., [135], [137]
Shovels, Steam, [83], [150]
Sibert, William L., [138], [139]
Simplon Tunnel, [71]
Site of exposition, [371]
Slides, [77], [78]
Smith, Jackson, [138], [139]
Social diversion, [182]
Society of the Chagres, [152], [153]
Soda fountain, [178]
"Soo" locks, [62]
Spanish American war veterans, [128]
Spanish language, Study of, [181], [188]
Spanish Main, [356]
Spillway, [26], [37], [38], [39]
Spooner, John C., [229]
Steamship lines, [98]
Stegomyia, [11], [107], [115], [211]
Stevens, John F., [27], [102], [119], [129], [130], [136], [138]
Stoney Gate valves, [50]
Strangers' Club, [182]
Street-car system, [191]
Strikes, [129]
Suez Canal, [21], [29], [335]-339, [376], [377]
Suez Canal rules, [292]
Supplies for building canal free of duty, [323]
Switches, Limit, [57]
Tabernilla, [78]
Taboga Island, [285]
Taboga Sanitarium, [113]
Taft, Wm. Howard, [33], [118]
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, [202], [204]
Tehuantepec railroad, [203]
Tierra del Fuego, [4]
Thatcher, Maurice H., [139]
Tivoli Hotel, [100], [170]
Titanic marine stairway, [45]
Tolls, [18], [295]-308, [319]
Toro Point, [46], [87], [284]
Towing, [322]
Track shifter, [76]
Trade opportunities, [358]-367
Traffic, [18], [19]
Tramp steamer, [320]
Transcontinental tonnage, [350]
Transportation of material excavated, [75]
Traveling salesmen, [363]-364
Treaties with Colombia and Panama, [244]
Tropics, Diseases of, [9]
Type of canal, [275]
University Club, [182]
Vaccination of negroes, [162]
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, [199]
Voting, [184], [185]
Wages, [146], [165]
Wallace, John Findley, [130], [133], [135]
Washington Hotel, [101]
Washington monument, [23], [25], [26]
Water, Control of, [65]
Water supply, [265], [266]
Watertight material, [41]
Wickedness of the City of Panama, [328]
Williams, E. J., [143], [160]
Williamson, S. B., [143]
Wilson, Eugene T., [143]
Wilson, T. D., [204]
Wire screens, [12]
Women's clubs, [180], [181]
Women's Federation of Clubs, [183]
Wood, Leonard, [108]
Workmen, [145]-153
Wyse, Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte, [212], [218]
Yellow fever, [9], [11], [12], [105], [109], [110], [112], [211]
Yellow fever commission, [106]
Young Men's Christian Association, [178], [180], [207]

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