Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Photo- bt/ Underwood & Vnderivood UNGAINLY MONSTERS OF STEEL WORKING WITH HUMAN SKILL rigid arm of the shovel follows it, checking it as itapproaches the edge of the car, pushing it back,buttressing it with other stones, so that when thetrain gets under way it may by no chance fall you see all this done from a point atwhich the directing man is invisible and the effectis uncanny. Travelers in Burmah are fond of telling how the task. We shall see on the Zone many mechanicalmarvels, but to my mind the sight of a man, seatedplacidly in
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Photo- bt/ Underwood & Vnderivood UNGAINLY MONSTERS OF STEEL WORKING WITH HUMAN SKILL rigid arm of the shovel follows it, checking it as itapproaches the edge of the car, pushing it back,buttressing it with other stones, so that when thetrain gets under way it may by no chance fall you see all this done from a point atwhich the directing man is invisible and the effectis uncanny. Travelers in Burmah are fond of telling how the task. We shall see on the Zone many mechanicalmarvels, but to my mind the sight of a man, seatedplacidly in a comfortable chair, and with a touch onlevers making a twenty foot steel arm, with a pairof scoops each as big as a hogshead at the end, feelup and down a bit of land until it comes upon aboulder weighing five tons, then pick it up, depositit on a flat car, and block it around with smaller. THE WORK OF THE STEAM-SHOVELLERS 217
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