Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . he ships will steam alongbetwixt two towering walls of living green. Ones attention, however, wHen in the Cut is heldmainly by its industrial rather than by its scenicfeatures. For the latter the view from above, al-ready described, is incalculably the better. Butdown here in the depths your mind is gripped bythe signs of human activity on every side. Every-thing that a machine can do is being done by ma-chinery, yet there are 6000 men working in thisnarrow way, men white and black and of everyintermediate and indeterminate shade. Men whotalk in S
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . he ships will steam alongbetwixt two towering walls of living green. Ones attention, however, wHen in the Cut is heldmainly by its industrial rather than by its scenicfeatures. For the latter the view from above, al-ready described, is incalculably the better. Butdown here in the depths your mind is gripped bythe signs of human activity on every side. Every-thing that a machine can do is being done by ma-chinery, yet there are 6000 men working in thisnarrow way, men white and black and of everyintermediate and indeterminate shade. Men whotalk in Spanish, French, the gibberish of the Jamai-can, in Hindoo, in Chinese. One thinks it a pitythat Col. Goethals and his chief lieutenants couldnot have been at the Tower of Babel, for in that eventthat aspiring en-terprise wouldnever have beenhalted by so com-monplace an ob-stacle as the con-fusion of tongues. To us as weplod along allseems to be con-ducted with ter-rific energy, butwithout any rec-ognizable a matter offact all is being. THE ROCK-BREAK THAT ADMITTED THE BAS OBISFU directed in accordance with an iron-clad train, the last cars of which are being loaded, onthe second level must be out of the Cut and on themain line at a fixed hour or there will be a tie-up ofthe empties coming back from the distant row of holes must be drilled by five oclock,for the blast must be fired as soon as the Cut is emp-tied of workers. The very tourists on the observa-tion car going through the Cut must be chary oftheir questions, for that track is needed now for atrain of material. If they are puzzled by some-thing they see, it will all be explained to them laterby the guide in his lecture illustrated by the workingmodel at the Tivoli Hotel. So trudging through the Cut we pass under aslender foot bridge suspended across the Canalfrom towers of steel framework. The bridge was erected by theFrench and wiUhave to comedown when theprocession of shipsbegins the pa
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