. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . i. View showing gates closed across a lock chamber and water welling up through the floor of the lock. 2. From large culvert at the right the water is conveyed through cross culverts under the lock floor, and thence throughopenings in the floor, as shown in No. I. RIVALRY AMONG THE DIVISIONS 157 than its estimated capacity in a giventime, it hastened the completion of thebig waterway, for Culebra Cut was thebackbone of the work, just as CulebraMountain was the backbone of the isth-mus. When Colonel Goethals installed thecost-keepin
. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . i. View showing gates closed across a lock chamber and water welling up through the floor of the lock. 2. From large culvert at the right the water is conveyed through cross culverts under the lock floor, and thence throughopenings in the floor, as shown in No. I. RIVALRY AMONG THE DIVISIONS 157 than its estimated capacity in a giventime, it hastened the completion of thebig waterway, for Culebra Cut was thebackbone of the work, just as CulebraMountain was the backbone of the isth-mus. When Colonel Goethals installed thecost-keeping system under which he pro-posed to check up the work of every manon the canal, he was carrying out thesame idea that had led to keen rivalryamong the Atlantic, Central, and Pacificdivisions. The Atlantic division he madea military organization. Every one of itsresponsible heads was a military man. ThePacific division was strictly a civilians or-ganization—not a man in it was an armyman. The Central division was made upof a military head and civilian subo
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