The Panama Canal

by Frederic J. Haskin

Every American is proud of the great national achievement at Panama. If, in the case of the individual, this book is able to supplement that pride by an ample fund of knowledge and information, its object and purpose will have been attained.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The grateful acknowledgments of the author are due to Mr. William Joseph Showalter for his valuable aid in gathering and preparing the material for this book. Acknowledgments are also due to Colonel George W. Goethals, chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, for reading and correcting those chapters in the book pertaining to the engineering phases of the work; to Mr. Ernest Hallen, the official photographer of the Commission, for the photographs with which the book is illustrated; to Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic Magazine, for permission to use the bird's-eye view map of the canal; to Mr. G. Thomas Ritchie, of the Library of Congress, for assistance in preparing the index; and to Mr. Howard E. Sherman, of the Government Printing Office, for revising the proofs to conform with the typographical style of the United States Government.

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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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