THE ILLUSTRATIONS

[Birdseye View of the Panama Canal Zone]Color insert
FACING PAGE
[George W. Goethals, Chairman and Chief Engineer]10
[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]43
[The Upper Locks at Gatun]43
[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 Cut]74
[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. Shonts]138
[John F. Wallace]138
[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, Culebra]179
[Col. Chester L. Harding]202
[The Gatun Upper Locks]202
[Lieut. Col. David D. Gaillard]203
[Culebra Cut, Showing Cucaracha Slide in Left Center]203
[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. O. 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 Locks]307

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

The Panama Canal

"I have read the chapters in 'The Panama Canal' dealing with the engineering features of the Canal and have found them an accurate and dependable account of the undertaking."

Geo. W. Goethals.