Dam, 132; territory trav- ersed, 133-134; lock struc- tures, 134-136; excavation, 136-137; expenditures, 137- 138; equipment, 138-140. Canal, Saavedra's early sugges- tion of a, 11-12. Canal zone, 133-134. Cemeteries, 312-314. Center, Colonel, 53-54. Charles V., 12-13. Chauncey, Henry, 41. Childs, Colonel, 31-32. Chiriqui, 158, 328-347, 396; as a health resort, 158; an- cient graves of, 348-362; jour- ney from Panama to, 363-381; journeyings in, 382-396; vide resources of the country. Churches of Panama, 314-325. Clay, Henry, 23-24. Colon, 158-161, 164-168; its relation to Canal Zone and American occupation, 133- 134; improvements in, 138, 159, 160-161; as the terminus of the Panama Railroad, 164; in the revolution of 1885, 165-166; land ownership in, 167-168; in the revolution of 1903, 90-96.
Colombia, The revolt against, 90-99.
Columbus, His search for a west-
ern passage, 1-4. Comité Technique, 82-83, 112; purpose and accomplishment, 82; report and plan, 82-83; plan in relation to present project, 112.
Esquemeling's narrative of the sack of Panama, 181-282.
Harding, Major Chester, 143. Harrod, Benjamin M., 103. Hay, Secretary, 90. Hayes, President, 39-40. Hecker, Frank J., 103. Herren, Dr., 90. Hise, Elijah, 29-30.
Ferdinand and Isabella, 2. French enterprise, The, 63-90; extravagance and graft at the inception, 63-67, 70-74; tech-Hoadley, David, 49. nical plans, 74, 76-77, 82-84; receiver appointed for Pan- ama Canal Company, 77-78; statement of receipts and ex- penditures, 78; new Panama Canal Company organized, 81; appointment of Comité Tech nique, 81-83 sale of proper- ties to the United States, 86- 90. Froude, 69.
Holmes, Wm. H., 350-354. Hodges, Colonel H. F., 142, 144. Hubbard, Commander
G Gaillard, Colonel D. D., 142, 143. Gama, Vasco de, 4, 9.
93-96. Huertas, General, 106-107. Humboldt's suggestions for a canal, 20-22. Hunter, Henry, 117-120.
Isthmian Canal Commission, 86- 89, 103-104, 113-115, 142- 145; the first Commission ap- pointed, 86; it makes a com- parative investigation of Nic-
araguan and Panaman routes, Louis Philippe, 26. 86-87; ultimately recom- Lull, Captain E. P., 33. mends purchase of New
Panama Company's rights and
properties, 86-89; Commis- Magellan, Ferdinand, 9. sion takes charge of operation, Magoon, Judge, 115.
its composition and duties, Marriage Laws, Peculiar, 306- 103-104; reorganization of 307.
Commission, 113-115; com- McNeil, 351. position of present Commis- sion, 142; reorganization of duties, 142-145.
Menocal, A. G., 33, 38.
Kane, Commander, 165–166.
Labor on the Isthmus, 45-46, 139-140, 145-148; various kinds that have been tried, 45-46; composition and strength of the present force, 139; expensive and ineffi- cient character of, 145-148. Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 35-40,
63-68, 70-76, 79; promotes the Canal project, 35-40; his methods, 63-68, 70-73; his plan, 74; his failure, 74-79. Lock, or sea level canal, 111- 113, 116-120; the Walker Commission's plan, 111-113; the findings of the Board of Consulting Engineers, 118- 119, 121-123.
Locks of the Canal, 134-136, 171; description of, 134–135; method and time of passage, 135-136; material required for, 171.
Lock-canal plans, 121-140; the plan of the minority of Board of Consulting Engineers, 121- 123; present plan, 123-140. Lombardi, Señor, 385.
Milla, Manuel, 19.
Morgan's raid on Panama, 15, 181-282, 314, 318.
Napoleon, Louis, 27.
Nashville, The affair of the, 92- 96.
Nelson, Lord, 18-19. Nelson, William, 51. Nelson, Dr. Wolfred, 70-72. New Panama Canal Company, 81-90; organized, 81; Comité Technique appointed, 81-82, its report, 83; sale of its rights and property to the United States, 86-90.
Nicaraguan Route, 15, 18-19, 23-27, 29-32, 34, 36, 38, 84- 89, 100-102; first transit line at Nicaragua, 15; British de- signs for acquisition of, 18- 19; Aaron Palmer's project, 23-25; investigations by the United States, 25-26; French interests in, 26-27; United States secures right of way by, 29; Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 30-31; transportation line established by an American company, 31-32; the Inter- national Canal Commission recommends the, 34; another French attempt, 36; a con- cession granted to Americans, 38; French oppose American projects, 83-84: Nicaragua and the United States make a
Palmer, Aaron H., 23-25. Panama Canal Company, 63- 90; vide "French Enterprise, The."
Panama, City of, 158-161, 283- 304; sanitation by the United States, 158-161; relocation of, 283-285; old walls of, 284- 287; strange working of the law in, 287-294; the people, 295; the police, 296-299; the houses of the, 299-304.
Panama, Definition of American Quellenec, M. L., 117-120. policy toward, 105-106. Panama, Independence of, 99. Panama Railroad, 32, 41-62, 164-174; the undertaking by an American syndicate, 41- 47; labor difficulties, 45-46; prosperous operation, 47-50; decline and transfer to the French, 50-58; acquisition by the United States, 58; im- provement and relocation, 59- 62; the Company's holdings in Colon, 167-168; descrip- tion of line from Colon to La Boca, 168-173. Panama Route, 27-29, 33-40, 99-101; first French conces-
Randolph, Isham, 117-120. Reclus, Lieutenant, 36, 38. Resources of the country, 328- 347; hardwoods, 328-330; rubber, 330-332; cattle lands, 335-337; sugar lands, 337; tobacco, 338; coffee, 338; fibres, 338; fruits, 339-340; minerals, 340-341. Ripley, Joseph, 117-120. Roosevelt, President, 97-99, 103, 106, 114-120, 126, 136, 141. Rourke, L. K., 143. Rousseau, H. H., 142, 144, 161– 163.
Taft, President, 104, 119, 141, 149.
Sage, Russell, 57. Sanitation on the Isthmus, 69- Tehuantepec Route, 11. 70, 138, 141-142, 149-163; Thatcher, Maurice H., 142. difficulties of the French, Tincauser, Eugene, 117-120. 69-70; outlay by United Totten, G. M., 32, 42-44, 51. States in Colon and Panama, Trautwine, J. C., 44. 138; splendid work of Colonel Türr, Etienne, 35. Gorgas, 141-142, 150-151;
former condition of Panama Van Buren, President, 26. and Colon, 149-150; cam- paign against the mosquito, Vespucci, Amerigo, 4-5. 152-154; comparison of past and present conditions, 156-
Saville, C. M., 144.
Shonts, Theodore P., 115, 145. Sibert, Colonel Wm. L.,
Wahl, Christian, 394-395. Walker, Admiral John C., 86, 103, 113. Wallace, Dr., 149. Wallace, John, 104, 115–116. Watt, J. M. G., 144.
Stevens, John F., 116, 119, 141, 147, 171.
Stevens, John L., 26, 41.
Stockwell, Alden B., 57.
Williamson, S. B., 143. Wilson, Leslie, 388-390.
Wyse, Lieutenant L. N. B., 35– 36, 38, 68, 81.
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