America's Triumph at Panama
Subtitle: Panorama and Story of the Construction and Operation of the World's Giant Waterway From Ocean to Ocean
By: Edited by William C. Haskins of the Canal Record
Contributors: Haskins, William C.. ed.
Publisher: The L. W. Walter Company
Published: 1913
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 384
Copyright date: 1913
Subjects: Panama.; Panama Canal (Panama)
Table of contents: title: 7
label: Foreword; title: 9
label: Chapter I. Discovery and Settlement; title: Early Discoverers — The First Settlement — Discovery of the South Sea — Balhoa's Unfortunate End — Settlement of Old Panama — Spain's Power Spreads — Period of the Great Trade — The Scotch Bubble.; title: 21
label: Chapter II. Raids of the Buccaneers; title: Drake's Expedition — Fall of Old Panama — Other Attempts.; title: 28
label: Chapter III. Proposed Canal Routes; title: Tehuantepec — Atrato River and Tributaries — Calidonia — San Blas — Nicaragua — Panama.; title: 32
label: Chapter IV. The Panama Railroad; title: First Work on the Panama Railroad — Completion of the Enterprise — Early Rates Nearly Prhibitive — Establishment of Steam Ship Service — Concessionary Rights and Privileges — Changes in Ownership — The New Main Line — Busiest Short Line in the World.; title: 45
label: Chapter V. The French Failure; title: DeLesseps, Promoter — Procuring the Concession — DeLesseps' Plan — Inaugurating the Work — French Labor Force — LaFolie Dingler — The Sick Poorly Cared for — The Crash — The Second or New Company — French Aid to American Project.; title: 69
label: Chapter VI. The American Triumph; title: Organization of the Canal Commission — Taking Possession. Change in Chief Engineer— The New Commission — Commission Again Reorganized — The Purchasing End.; title: 80
label: Chapter VII. Making the Isthmus Healthful; title: The Fight on the Mosquito — Cleaning House — Results Have Justified the Cost — Rigid Quarantine Maintained.; title: 95
label: Chapter VIII. An Army of Workers; title: Getting the Force Together — Keeping the American Employes Contented — Plant — Monthly Cost of Allowances — Feeding and Clotliing the Canal Army — The Canal Zone — The Postal Service — Postal Savings Bank, A Popular Institution — Zone Customs Service — The Zone "Dry" — Keeping Order — Guarding Against Fires — Educational Facilities — The Law Department — Paying the Canal Force — Accounts — No Graft.; title: 135
label: Chapter IX. Constructing the Lock Type Canal.; title: The Canal a Water Bridge — The Dam at Gatun — Gatun Spillway — Gatun Lake — Dams on the Pacific Side. — The Locks — Guards Against Accidents — How the Locks Were Built — Making the Dirt Fly — Dredging — Cutting Through the Divide — Across the Isthmus in a Hydrobiplane — 70,000,000 Pounds of Dynamite — Slides, Eloquent Argument Against Sea Level Project.; title: 213
label: Chapter X. Auxiliary Plans and Projects; title: Acquisiton of Private Lands — Tolls — Protecting the Canal — Fort Grant Military Reservation — Fort Amador Military Reservation — Fort Sherman Military Reservation — Fort Randolph Military Reservation — Fort De Lesseps Military Reservation — Breakwaters — Ligliting the Canal — Port Facilities — Dry Docks — Permanent Repair Shops — Government Coal and Fuel Oil Business — Private Coal and Fuel Oil Storage — Bonded Warehouses — New Floating Equipment — Permanent Villages and Buildings — Permanent Organization — Wireless Communication — Beautifying the Canal — Permanent Administration Building, Balboa — Cost of the Canal.; title: 247
label: Chapter XI. Future Canal Traffic; title: 258
label: Chapter XII. Republic of Panama; title: The Panama Flag — National Hymn of the Republic of Panama — The Reconstruction Period — "The Land of the Cocoanut Tree" — Government is Progressive — Revenues — National Currency — Public Improvements — Free Public School System - Panama Richly Endowed by Nature — The People — The Indians of Panama— The Guaymies — The Chocoes — Ancient Civilization of Chiriqui — Sightseeing — Bathing — Panama Hats — Canal Zone Souvenir Stones— The Panama Lottery — Panama to Hold National Exposition.; title: 313
label: Chapter XIII. Panama-Pacific International Exposition; title: 324
label: Chapter XIV. Panama-California Exposition; title: 328
label: Chapter XV. THE LAND DIVIDED—THE WORLD UNITED; title: Destruction of the Dikes — Letting Water Into Culebra Cut — "Garaboa is Busted" — Gatun Locks, The First in Actual Operation — The First Practical Lockage — First Lockage at Pacific End — From the Sea to Culebra Cut — Earthquakes — Making a Passage Through Cucaracha Slide — Secretary Garrison's Visit — The Official Opening — First Boat Through the Canal.; title: 372
label: Chapter XVI. The Monumental Task Completed