Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . fftuio oy L ndurwuod S: Ll^a JUNCTURE OF FRENCH AND AMERICAN CANALSThe American Canal is the wider, and affords the more direct route to the sea THE FINANCIAL ABERRATIONS OF DE LESSEPS 117. PART OF THE TOLL OF LIFEThis cemetery on the westerly slope of Ancon Hill is one of the Zones pathetic spots wise bald and uninteresting statement of fact, bysaying that the rocks were much less resistantthan we had expected. These needless ceremonies and the false reportswhich attended them were merely what in our cyni-cal age and nation are called press-agent
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . fftuio oy L ndurwuod S: Ll^a JUNCTURE OF FRENCH AND AMERICAN CANALSThe American Canal is the wider, and affords the more direct route to the sea THE FINANCIAL ABERRATIONS OF DE LESSEPS 117. PART OF THE TOLL OF LIFEThis cemetery on the westerly slope of Ancon Hill is one of the Zones pathetic spots wise bald and uninteresting statement of fact, bysaying that the rocks were much less resistantthan we had expected. These needless ceremonies and the false reportswhich attended them were merely what in our cyni-cal age and nation are called press-agent stunts,and were necessitated by the need for interestingthe French people in the work, lest they let the mar-ket for the shares slump. They were early symp-toms of the evil that culminated in the revelations ofblackmail and forced tribute paid the French presswhen the final collapse was impending and inevit-able. De Lesseps indeed was a master in the art ofworking the press, and had he confined his ac-tivities to that, without interfering with his engi-neers, history might have told a different story ofhis canal management. But lest doubt should seizeupon would-be. investors, he continually cut down the estimates of his enginee
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