Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE TRACK SlIliTER IN ACTION cry of Look out, there! Look out! You willhear that warning hail many a time and oft in theforenoons walk we are about to take. I dont knowof any spot where Edward Everett Hales motto,Look Out and Not In; Look Up and Not Down;Look Forward and Not Back needs editing morethan at Culebra. The wise man looked all thoseways and then some. For trains are bearing downupon you from all directions and so close are thetracks and so numerous the switches that it is im-possible to tell the zone of safety except by observ-ing the t
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE TRACK SlIliTER IN ACTION cry of Look out, there! Look out! You willhear that warning hail many a time and oft in theforenoons walk we are about to take. I dont knowof any spot where Edward Everett Hales motto,Look Out and Not In; Look Up and Not Down;Look Forward and Not Back needs editing morethan at Culebra. The wise man looked all thoseways and then some. For trains are bearing downupon you from all directions and so close are thetracks and so numerous the switches that it is im-possible to tell the zone of safety except by observ-ing the trains themselves. If your gaze is too in-tently fixed on one point a warning cry may callyour attention to the arm of a steam shovel above. Photo by Uniicruvua ii- Cndtruood A LIDGERWOOD UNLOADER AT WORK 214 PANAMA AND THE CANAL your head with afive-ton boulderinsecurely bal-anced, or a big,black Jamaican afew yards aheadperfunctorilywaving a red flagin token that adobe blast isto be fired. Adobe blast isregarded withcontempt by thefellows who ex-plode a few tonsof dynamite at atime and demol-ish a whole hill-side, but thedobes throwfifty to one hun-dred pound stones about in a reckless way thatcompels unprofessional respect. They tell a storyon the Zone of a negro who, not thinking himself inrange, was sitting on a box of dynamite calmlysmoking a cigarette. A heavy stone droppedsquarely on his head killing him instantly, but wassufficiently deflected by the hardness of the Ethio-pian skull to miss the box on which the victim sat. I ^ ,#- ONE OF THE COLONEL S TROUBLESThis shovel was overwhelmed by a slide. The accident is not uncommon Had it been other-wise the neigh-boring landscapeand its popula-tion would havebeen mate
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