Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose

With the completion of the Canal appeared many problems other than the engineering ones which had for so many years engrossed public attention. Some of these problems--like the...

Within twenty miles, at the very most, east and west of Colon lie the chief existing memorials of the bygone days of Spanish discovery and colonization, and English adventurous...

For an American not too much spoiled with foreign travel the city of Panama is a most entertaining stopping place for a week or more. In what its charm consists it is hard to sa...

The Republic of Panama has an area of from 30,000 to 35,000 square miles, roughly approximating that of the state of Indiana. No complete survey of the country has ever been mad...

The probable failure of the French became apparent some years before the actual collapse occurred and public opinion in the United States was quite ready for the assumption of t...

Technically what is known as the Culebra Cut extends from Bas Obispo to the locks at Pedro Miguel, a distance of nine miles. To the general public understanding, however, the te...

From ocean to ocean the territory which is called the Canal Zone is about forty-three miles long, ten miles wide and contains about 436 square miles, about ninety-five of which...

By its provision for the comfort of the unmarried employees the Isthmian Commission has justified the allegation that it systematically encourages matrimony among the men. The b...

The seal of the Canal Zone shows a galleon under full sail passing between the towering banks of the Culebra Cut, with the motto, “The land divided; the world united”. Sometimes...

The history of the Isthmus from the fall of Old Panama to the time when the government of the United States, without any particular pomp or ceremony, took up the picks and shove...

Having built the Panama Canal at a heavy cost of treasure and no light cost of life, having subdued to our will the greatest forces of nature and put a curb upon the malevolent...

While that portion of the Panama territory that lies along the border of Colombia known as the Darien is rather ill-defined as to area and to boundaries, it is known to be rich...

Our Reckoning with Colombia--Our Commercial Interests in South America--Mutual Interests of the United States and Great Britain--What the Canal has and will Cost--New Work for t...

The week after the fall of San Lorenzo, Morgan with his full force appeared at the mouth of the Chagres River. Before leaving St. Catherine he had dismantled the forts and burne...

Colon is the most considerable town on the Caribbean Coast north and west of Cartagena. It is in fact two towns, the older one which is still subject to the jurisdiction of the...

American control of the canal, as I have already pointed out, was taken over without any particular ceremony immediately after the payment to Panama of the $10,000,000 provided...

That section of the Canal, which for the convenience of engineering records and directions is known as the Central Division, comprises within its boundaries two of the great spe...

The gray sun of a bitter February day was sinking in a swirling sea as the ship doggedly plowed its way southward along the New Jersey coast. One after another the beacons that...

Entering the Panama Canal from the Atlantic, one finds the beginning of that section called by the engineers the Atlantic Division, four miles out at sea in Limon Bay, a shallow...

Two years of the joys of Port Royal emptied the pockets of the buccaneers. The money that passed from hand to hand over the gambling tables went thence into the pockets of the h...

The visitor to the Canal Zone about 1913 could hardly spend a day in that bustling community without becoming aware of some mighty potentate not at all mysterious, but omniprese...

illness was due to their deprivation of their accustomed opium, and for a time the authorities supplied them, with the result that nearly two-thirds were again up and able to wo...

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Why Fortify the Canal at All?--The Suez Canal no Parallel--Some Details of the Fortifications--The Mobile Force on the Zone--The Sufficiency of Fortifications Planned--Effect of...

The Harbor of Porto Bello--The First Appearance of Balboa--Early Indian Life in Panama--The Futile Indian Uprising--The First Sight of the Pacific--The Beginning of Balboa’s Dow...

The Doubtful Soil of Panama--The Simple Study of Native Life--The Building of the Bridegroom’s House--Labor and Land Titles in Panama--Agriculture and Temperature in Panama--Rub...

The First Appearance of Panama City--The Popular Panama Lottery--Panama’s Cost of Living is High--Scenes in the Panama Market--The Prevalent Temper of the Panamanians--Why Ameri...

The Population of the Canal Zone--The Temptations to Matrimony on the Zone--The Gold and Silver Employees--The Object Lesson of the Canal Zone--Why It is not at all “Socialistic...

The Great Problem of the Slides--The Physical Characteristics of the Slide--Some Peculiar Features of the Slides--The Explosive Experience of Miguel--The Gorgeous Coloring of Cu...

The Colossal Business of the Commissary--The Task of Feeding Forty Nationalities--The Stern Suppression of the Social Class--Evil Effect of the Abolition of the Canteen--Some Fi...

The Scottish Settlement in Panama--Disasters Beset the Scotch Colonists--The Repeated Revolutions of Panama--Early Projectors of a Panama Canal--Sea Level or Lock Canal--A Relic...

Why Panama Wanted Independence--Our Share in the Revolution--A Revolution Without a Single Battle--Treaty Rights of the United States--Illustrations of the Magnitude of the Cana...

The Approach to Colon--The Architecture and Population of Colon--Railroad Building in a Swamp--The French Come to Colon--The Beautiful Roosevelt Avenue--Colon Streets in the Ear...

Beginning the Warfare on Mosquitoes--Methods of the Anti-Mosquito Crusade--Some Humors of the Mosquito War--How the Streams are Sterilized--Results of the War on Mosquitoes--The...

Atlantic Beginning of the Canal--The Plan of the Gatun Dam--How the Chagres Current was Blocked--The Spillway, The Nerve Center of Gatun Lake--The Uses of the Electric Power of...

The Beginning of Work under Wallace--The Absentee Commissioners and the Red Tape--The Successful War with Yellow Fever--The Change from Wallace to Stevens--The Varying Estimates...

Marriage Customs of the Indians--The Many Tribes of Panama Indians--Characteristics of the San Blas Tribe--An Exclusive Aboriginal People--Family Quarters of the San Blas--Custo...

The Native Affection for the Chagres--The Indispensable Native Cayuca--Keeping the Record of the Chagres--Cruces in Its Day of Greatness--Animal Life on the Chagres River--A Typ...