Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . WHEN THE OBISPO BROKE IN 2l6 PANAMA AND THE CANAL lever and they close. A third lever causes thearm to swing until it comes to a stop above theflat car, then with a roar and a clatter the wholeload is dumped. Perhaps then the trouble isjust beginning. Once in a while a boulder of ir-regular shape rolls about threatening to fall to theground. With almost human intelligence the great trained elephants pile teak lumber, pushing withtusk and pulling with trunk until the beams lie leveland parallel to an inch. But marvelous as is thedelicacy with which
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . WHEN THE OBISPO BROKE IN 2l6 PANAMA AND THE CANAL lever and they close. A third lever causes thearm to swing until it comes to a stop above theflat car, then with a roar and a clatter the wholeload is dumped. Perhaps then the trouble isjust beginning. Once in a while a boulder of ir-regular shape rolls about threatening to fall to theground. With almost human intelligence the great trained elephants pile teak lumber, pushing withtusk and pulling with trunk until the beams lie leveland parallel to an inch. But marvelous as is thedelicacy with which the unwieldy animals performtheir work, it is outdone by the miraculous ingenu-ity with which the inventive mind of man hasadapted these monsters of steel to their appointed
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