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Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e tries the tight-rope route to the shore.The new contracts for wharves, docks and piers atall our Zone ports jDrescribe that they shall be rat-proof. Indeed the rodents are very much under theban in Panama, and the annual slaughter by theSanitary Department exceeds 12,000. Preparations are being made to make Balboa aquarantine station of world-wide importance. Themere proximity of the date for opening the Canalhas caused discussion of its effect upon the health ofcivilized nations. At Suez an International Boardexists for the purpose of so guarding that gateway COL. GOETHALS HOUSE AT CULEBRAThe Colonels house tops the highest hill in Culebra, looking down the cut 398 PANAMA AND THE CANAL from the East that none of the pestilences for which nation alone. Despite this cheerful optimism ofthe Orient has an ill-fame can slip through. No Europe, there has not yet been a very prompt acqui-suggestion has been made of international control at escence by Congress in the estimates presented by
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ELECTRIC TOWING LOCOMOTIVES ON A LOCK Panama. In fact such of the foreign articles ashave come under my eye have been flattering to usas a nation, asserting, as they all do, that in sanitaryscience the United States is so far ahead that thequarantine service may be safely entrusted to this Col. Gorgas for the permanent housing and mainte-nance of the quarantine service. Since the UnitedStates is to give the Canal to the world, it should soequip the gift that it will not be a menace to theworlds health. CHAPTER XX DIPLOMACY AND POLITICS OF THE CANAL -^1 AVING built the Panama Canalat a heavy cost of treasure andno Hght cost of Hfe, having sub-dued to our will the greatestforces of nature and put a curbupon the malevolent powers oftropical miasma and infection,we are about to give the com-pleted result to the whole world.It stands as a free gift, for nevercan any tolls that will be im-posed make of it a commercial success. It was thefailure to recognize this inevitable fact that made it

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