INDEX
Accessory Transit Company, 199
Accidents, 72
Amador, Dr., 238, 239
Accounting department, 315
American Federation of Labor, 271
American clings to home habits, 177
American Federation of Women's Clubs, 176, 180
American mind wanted canal, 11
American Rivers and Harbors Congress, 346
Amsterdam Canal, 341-342
Amundsen, 4
Amusements, 178, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192
Ancon Hill, 89
Ancon Study Club, 183
Animal life, 331
Ants, 331
Appropriations for canal, 269
Aspinwall, William H., 102
Babel of American ambitions, 80
Bailey, John, 197
Balboa, 6, 7, 89, 90, 333
Barnacles, 40
Beef, Price of, 166, 167
Beauregard, P. T. G., 204
Bitter, Karl, 374
Blackburn, Joseph C. S., 138, 142, 250, 252, 258
Board of consulting engineers, 32
Boswell, Helen Varick, 180
Bridles, 77
British bondholders, 365
Brooke, Mark, 133
Bryce, James, 20, 23
Buccaneers, English, 334
Bull-fighting, 328
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, 222, 230, 237, 238, 246, 327
Burke, John, 143
"Bush dwellers," 155
Cables, 78
Caisson gates, 62, 63
Caledonia, 159
Camp Fire Girls, 183
Cantilever pivot bridges, 57
Canada, Western, 20
Canal not constructed to make money, 10
Canal Zone, 6, 7, 247, 326
Canal Zone government, 256-267, 271, 312
Canals, 335-346
Canals, Isthmian, 194-205
Cargo ship, 319
Central and South American Telegraph Company, 253
Chagres River, 5, 21, 27, 32, 33, 36, 37, 40, 82, 110, 214, 280, 330
Chagres Valley, 33, 36
Chain for stopping vessels, 58, 59, 60
Channel, Sea-level, 46
Charles V, 194
Chauncey, Henry, 103
Cheops, Pyramid of, 24
Chicago Drainage Canal, 345
Childs, Orville, 199
Choice of route, 221-232
Chucunoques, 332
Civil administration, 138
Civil-service requirements, 136
Claims, Adjustment of, 323
Claims for lands, 260
Clay, Henry, 197
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 15, 17, 198, 302, 303
Cleveland (Ship), 297
Clutches, Friction, 57
Clubhouses, 186
Coaling, 320
Coaling plants, 91, 92
Cock-fighting, 328
Cole, H. O., 143
Collisions, 60
Colombia, 227, 228, 231, 233-245
Colon Beach, 101
Columbus, Christopher, 3, 194, 347
Comber, W. G., 143
Commercial map, 347-357
Commissary, 164-175
Commissary department, 30
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, 213, 214
Concession, Extension of, 104
Concession to the French, 196
Concrete mixers, 54
Congress and the canal, 268-276
Conquerers, Spanish, 334
Constantinople, Capture of, 347, 348
Constantinople, Convention of, 292
Contra Costa Water Company, 43
Contract system, 13
Contractor's Hill, 79
Controversy with Colombia, 233-245
Cook, Thomas F., 144
Corozal (Dredge), 84
Corruption, 14
Corruption in building French canal, 9, 207
Cortez, Hernando, 195
Cost of canal, 5
Cost of French canal, 208
Cotton production, Center of, 355
Coupon books, 169
Court system, 261
Courtesy of West Indian Negro, 157
Courtesy of workmen, 147
Cranes, Floating, 322
Cristobal, 6, 7
Cromwell, William Nelson, 280, 287, 327
Cronstadt and St. Petersburg Canal, 343
Cruelty of natives, 329
Cruelty of Spaniards, 333
Culebra Cut, 5, 13, 21, 26, 34, 35, 40, 70-81, 214, 216, 277, 278
Culebra Mountain, 4, 20, 79, 80, 196, 277
Cullom, Shelby M., 282
Culverts, 50
Dams, Emergency, 60, 61
Davis, Charles H., 196
Davis, George W., 134, 256
Death rate, 303
Debts of American Republics, 365
Department store, 166
Deportation of laborers, 152
Devol, C. A., 143
Dikes, 126
Dikes of Holland, 44
"Dingler's folly," 208
Diplomatic entanglements, 17
Dredges, Ladder, 84
Dredges, Suction, 83
Duty on imports, 325
Dynamite, 28, 74
Eads, James B., 202, 203
Eastern Roman Empire, 3
Eating places, 170
Economy in handling material, 55
Efficiency records, 72, 73
Eight-hour working day, 137, 271
Elections in Panama, 251, 327
Electric current, 67
Electrical department, 315
Endicott, Mordecai T., 135
"Energy; the lord of the Isthmian way," 374
Engineering department, 314
Engineering difficulties, 29
Engineering project of all history, 23
Englishman defies Tropics, 177
Equipment for hauling material, 53
Erie Canal, 346
Expense of operating canal, 313
Extravagance in building French canal, 207
Ernst, Oswald H., 135
Filibusters, French, 334
Finley, Carlos, 11, 106
Fire department, 264
Fishing, 192
Flamenco Island, 88
Flowers, 330
Foreign trade of U. S., 353
Fortifications, 18, 283-294
Foundations, 90
Fraser, John Foster, 355
French began work in 1880, 5
French canal, 53
French failure, 206-220
French Panama Canal Company, 200
French spent $300,000,000, 8
French Canal Company, 9, 93, 252
Fruits, 330
Gaillard, D. D., 138, 139
Gamboa, 40
Gatun Dam, 13, 21, 23, 25, 26, 32-34, 36, 41-43, 56, 279
Gatun Lake, 36, 37, 38, 45, 47, 50, 56, 60, 62, 82, 95, 315, 330
Goethal, George Washington, 13, 18, 33, 43, 119-132, 273
Gold Hill, 79
Golf links, 315
Good Hope, Cape of, 19
Gorgas, William C., 105, 108, 134, 138, 142
Government ownership of railways, 99
Graft, 14
"Great undertaker," 218
Guayaquil, 19
Gudger, H. A., 263
Guerin, Jules, 374
Gulf States, 20
Hains, Peter C., 135
Handling the traffic, 317-325
Hanna, Marcus A., 227, 230
Harding, Chester, 143
Harrod, Benjamin A., 135
Hay, John, 246
Hay-Herran treaty, 16, 231, 232, 233, 235
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 17, 225, 300, 301, 303, 304
Health of canal workers, 210
Heat of the Tropics, 179
Hepburn, William P., 223
High cost of living, 175
Hise, Elijah, 198
Hodges, Harry F., 139, 141
Honolulu, 19
Hoosac Tunnel, 71
Hospitals, 112, 208, 209
Hotels, 100, 101, 171
Hunter, Henry, 278
Hunting, 191, 192
Hydraulic excavation, 79
Hydraulic Fill, 35
Ice plant, 92
Ice, Price of, 168
Iguana, 329
Immigration, 157
Incas Society, 152
Injury to the canal, 324
International commerce, 3
Isthmian Canal Commission, 12, 88, 96, 97, 109, 119, 201, 224, 225, 229, 268, 269, 311
Johnson, Emory H., 18, 299, 306
Kahn, Julius, 370
Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, 340-341
Kid Canal, 340-341
Knox, Philander C., 43, 243
Labor in passing ships through, 68, 69
Laborers, 307
Land, Prices of, 333
Laws of Canal Zone, 268, 267
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 8, 132, 211-219
Lidgerwood cableways, 53
Lidgerwood dirt car, 25
Lidgerwood dirt trains, 76
Lidgerwood flat cars, 74, 77
Life on the zone, 176-193
Lighting of locks, 325
Liquor question, 186
Lloyd, J. A., 196
Lloyds, 324
Lock canal, 13, 18, 137, 216, 217, 281
Lock machinery, 57-67
Locks, 19, 26, 46, 48-55, 58, 62, 318
Locomotives, Electric, 65-67
Lottery, 217, 254
Loulan, J. A., 148
Lusitania, 297
Machinery, Dependable, 57
Machinery, Abandoned, 207
Machinery, Value of, 219
MacKenzie, Alexander, 119
Magellan, 4
Magellan, Straits of, 19
Magoon, Charles E., 109, 135, 136, 264
"Making the dirt fly," 27
Malaria, 9, 11, 106, 207, 211
Man-made peninsula, 45
Manchester ship canal, 20. 30, 339
Manila, 19
Manson, Sir Patrick, 11, 106
Manufacturers of U. S., 363
Margarita Island, 284
Maritime Canal Company, 200, 223
Markets, 329
Marriage, 155
Married men more content, 179
Materia medica of Panamans, 381
Matrimony, Premium on, 179
Mears, Frederick, 143
Melbourne, 19
Menocal, A. G., 200
Metcalf, Richard L., 189
Miraflores, 26, 27, 40, 47, 55, 61, 67, 82, 89, 126
Mississippi Valley, 20
Mistakes in building, 12
Mahogany, 330
Money for building always ready, 11
Monroe doctrine, 7, 15, 360, 361
Morgan, Henry, 334
Morgan, John T., 221
Mosquito Coast, 198
Mosquitoes, 9, 11, 12, 105-107, 114, 115
Naos Island, 87, 284
National geographic society, 23
National Institute, 327
Naval display, 375
Navy, Efficiency of, 348
Negroes, 154-163
Nelson, Horatio, 197
New Caledonia, 7
New Granada, 237
New Panama Canal Company, 133, 219, 221, 224-228, 233, 235-237, 242, 270
Nicaraguan Canal, 15, 16, 198, 199, 201, 222, 230, 231
Nicaraguan Canal Commission, 199
Nombre de Dios, 7, 53
North Sea Canal, 342-343
Olympic, 59
Operating force, 309-312
Orchids, 330
Oregon (U. S. Ship), 10
Organization, 133-144
Organization of government on Canal Zone, 313
Pacific Ocean Exposition Company, 370
Pacific Steamer Navigation Company, 321
Palmer, Aaron H., 197
Pan American Conference, 7
Panama, 230, 237, 238, 240, 241, 243, 246-255
Panama, Bay of, 280
Panama-California Exposition, 376
Panama Canal Company, 133, 218
Panama City, 12, 43
Panama-Pacific Exposition, 368-378
Panama (Republic), 6, 15, 326-334
Panama Railroad, 7, 34, 68, 88, 93, 104, 136, 214, 228, 245
Panama Railroad Steamship Line, 100
Pay-day, 160, 161
Pay of Americans, 178
Paying off canal army, 30
Pedro Miguel, 25, 27, 47, 48, 55, 61, 89
Pennsylvania tubes, 50
Perico Island, 88, 285
Pilots, Canal, 60
Police force, 262, 263
Population of the zone, 315
Porto Rico, 358-360
Position of canal, 5
Postal service, 261
Prize fighting, 328
Purchase of material, 272
Quartermaster's department, 174, 314
Quellenec, F., 278
Railroads opposed to canal, 222
Rates, Passenger, 103
Rates, Railroad, 99
Rating of employees, 151
Reed, Walter, 106
Reimbursement to owners of vessels for accidents, 323
Rental for Canal Zone, 326
Religious activities, 183
Roads, 191, 264, 265
Robinson, Tracy, 215, 216
Root, Elihu, 242
Ross, Roland, 11, 106
Rosseau, Armand, 217
Rourke, W. G., 143
Rousseau, Harry H., 138, 139, 148
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 321
Safety appliances, 57
Safety for ships, 281
Sailing ships, Death blow to, 322
Salaries, 310
San Blas Indians, 332
San Diego and Arizona Railway, 376
San Francisco earthquake, 368-369
Sanitary department, 30
Sanitation, 105-117, 328, 332, 352
Sault Ste. Marie canal, 314, 335, 343-344
Saville, Caleb M., 41, 143
School system, 264
Schools, Night, 187
Sea-level canal, 13, 18, 137, 272, 279-282
Secret societies, 184
Servants, 181, 182
Shanton, George R., 262
Shaw, Albert D., 232
Ship railway, 202, 203, 204
Shipping routes, International, 351
Shonts, Theodore P., 135, 137
Shovels, Steam, 83, 150
Sibert, William L., 138, 139
Simplon Tunnel, 71
Site of exposition, 371
Slides, 77, 78
Smith, Jackson, 138, 139
Social diversion, 182
Society of the Chagres, 152, 153
Soda fountain, 178
"Soo" locks, 62
Spanish American war veterans, 128
Spanish language, Study of, 181, 188
Spanish Main, 356
Spillway, 26, 37, 38, 39
Spooner, John C., 229
Steamship lines, 98
Stegomyia, 11, 107, 115, 211
Stevens, John F., 27, 102, 119, 129, 130, 136, 138
Stoney Gate valves, 50
Strangers' Club, 182
Street-car system, 191
Strikes, 129
Suez Canal, 21, 29, 335-339, 376, 377
Suez Canal rules, 292
Supplies for building canal free of duty, 323
Switches, Limit, 57
Tabernilla, 78
Taboga Island, 285
Taboga Sanitarium, 113
Taft, Wm. Howard, 33, 118
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, 202, 204
Tehuantepec railroad, 203
Tierra del Fuego, 4
Thatcher, Maurice H., 139
Tivoli Hotel, 100, 170
Titanic marine stairway, 45
Tolls, 18, 295-308, 319
Toro Point, 46, 87, 284
Towing, 322
Track shifter, 76
Trade opportunities, 358-367
Traffic, 18, 19
Tramp steamer, 320
Transcontinental tonnage, 350
Transportation of material excavated, 75
Traveling salesmen, 363-364
Treaties with Colombia and Panama, 244
Tropics, Diseases of, 9
Type of canal, 275
University Club, 182
Vaccination of negroes, 162
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 199
Voting, 184, 185
Wages, 146, 165
Wallace, John Findley, 130, 133, 135
Washington Hotel, 101
Washington monument, 23, 25, 26
Water, Control of, 65
Water supply, 265, 266
Watertight material, 41
Wickedness of the City of Panama, 328
Williams, E. J., 143, 160
Williamson, S. B., 143
Wilson, Eugene T., 143
Wilson, T. D., 204
Wire screens, 12
Women's clubs, 180, 181
Women's Federation of Clubs, 183
Wood, Leonard, 108
Workmen, 145-153
Wyse, Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte, 212, 218
Yellow fever, 9, 11, 12, 105, 109, 110, 112, 211
Yellow fever commission, 106
Young Men's Christian Association, 178, 180, 207
Accidents, 72
Amador, Dr., 238, 239
Accounting department, 315
American Federation of Labor, 271
American clings to home habits, 177
American Federation of Women's Clubs, 176, 180
American mind wanted canal, 11
American Rivers and Harbors Congress, 346
Amsterdam Canal, 341-342
Amundsen, 4
Amusements, 178, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192
Ancon Hill, 89
Ancon Study Club, 183
Animal life, 331
Ants, 331
Appropriations for canal, 269
Aspinwall, William H., 102
Babel of American ambitions, 80
Bailey, John, 197
Balboa, 6, 7, 89, 90, 333
Barnacles, 40
Beef, Price of, 166, 167
Beauregard, P. T. G., 204
Bitter, Karl, 374
Blackburn, Joseph C. S., 138, 142, 250, 252, 258
Board of consulting engineers, 32
Boswell, Helen Varick, 180
Bridles, 77
British bondholders, 365
Brooke, Mark, 133
Bryce, James, 20, 23
Buccaneers, English, 334
Bull-fighting, 328
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, 222, 230, 237, 238, 246, 327
Burke, John, 143
"Bush dwellers," 155
Cables, 78
Caisson gates, 62, 63
Caledonia, 159
Camp Fire Girls, 183
Cantilever pivot bridges, 57
Canada, Western, 20
Canal not constructed to make money, 10
Canal Zone, 6, 7, 247, 326
Canal Zone government, 256-267, 271, 312
Canals, 335-346
Canals, Isthmian, 194-205
Cargo ship, 319
Central and South American Telegraph Company, 253
Chagres River, 5, 21, 27, 32, 33, 36, 37, 40, 82, 110, 214, 280, 330
Chagres Valley, 33, 36
Chain for stopping vessels, 58, 59, 60
Channel, Sea-level, 46
Charles V, 194
Chauncey, Henry, 103
Cheops, Pyramid of, 24
Chicago Drainage Canal, 345
Childs, Orville, 199
Choice of route, 221-232
Chucunoques, 332
Civil administration, 138
Civil-service requirements, 136
Claims, Adjustment of, 323
Claims for lands, 260
Clay, Henry, 197
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, 15, 17, 198, 302, 303
Cleveland (Ship), 297
Clutches, Friction, 57
Clubhouses, 186
Coaling, 320
Coaling plants, 91, 92
Cock-fighting, 328
Cole, H. O., 143
Collisions, 60
Colombia, 227, 228, 231, 233-245
Colon Beach, 101
Columbus, Christopher, 3, 194, 347
Comber, W. G., 143
Commercial map, 347-357
Commissary, 164-175
Commissary department, 30
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, 213, 214
Concession, Extension of, 104
Concession to the French, 196
Concrete mixers, 54
Congress and the canal, 268-276
Conquerers, Spanish, 334
Constantinople, Capture of, 347, 348
Constantinople, Convention of, 292
Contra Costa Water Company, 43
Contract system, 13
Contractor's Hill, 79
Controversy with Colombia, 233-245
Cook, Thomas F., 144
Corozal (Dredge), 84
Corruption, 14
Corruption in building French canal, 9, 207
Cortez, Hernando, 195
Cost of canal, 5
Cost of French canal, 208
Cotton production, Center of, 355
Coupon books, 169
Court system, 261
Courtesy of West Indian Negro, 157
Courtesy of workmen, 147
Cranes, Floating, 322
Cristobal, 6, 7
Cromwell, William Nelson, 280, 287, 327
Cronstadt and St. Petersburg Canal, 343
Cruelty of natives, 329
Cruelty of Spaniards, 333
Culebra Cut, 5, 13, 21, 26, 34, 35, 40, 70-81, 214, 216, 277, 278
Culebra Mountain, 4, 20, 79, 80, 196, 277
Cullom, Shelby M., 282
Culverts, 50
Dams, Emergency, 60, 61
Davis, Charles H., 196
Davis, George W., 134, 256
Death rate, 303
Debts of American Republics, 365
Department store, 166
Deportation of laborers, 152
Devol, C. A., 143
Dikes, 126
Dikes of Holland, 44
"Dingler's folly," 208
Diplomatic entanglements, 17
Dredges, Ladder, 84
Dredges, Suction, 83
Duty on imports, 325
Dynamite, 28, 74
Eads, James B., 202, 203
Eastern Roman Empire, 3
Eating places, 170
Economy in handling material, 55
Efficiency records, 72, 73
Eight-hour working day, 137, 271
Elections in Panama, 251, 327
Electric current, 67
Electrical department, 315
Endicott, Mordecai T., 135
"Energy; the lord of the Isthmian way," 374
Engineering department, 314
Engineering difficulties, 29
Engineering project of all history, 23
Englishman defies Tropics, 177
Equipment for hauling material, 53
Erie Canal, 346
Expense of operating canal, 313
Extravagance in building French canal, 207
Ernst, Oswald H., 135
Filibusters, French, 334
Finley, Carlos, 11, 106
Fire department, 264
Fishing, 192
Flamenco Island, 88
Flowers, 330
Foreign trade of U. S., 353
Fortifications, 18, 283-294
Foundations, 90
Fraser, John Foster, 355
French began work in 1880, 5
French canal, 53
French failure, 206-220
French Panama Canal Company, 200
French spent $300,000,000, 8
French Canal Company, 9, 93, 252
Fruits, 330
Gaillard, D. D., 138, 139
Gamboa, 40
Gatun Dam, 13, 21, 23, 25, 26, 32-34, 36, 41-43, 56, 279
Gatun Lake, 36, 37, 38, 45, 47, 50, 56, 60, 62, 82, 95, 315, 330
Goethal, George Washington, 13, 18, 33, 43, 119-132, 273
Gold Hill, 79
Golf links, 315
Good Hope, Cape of, 19
Gorgas, William C., 105, 108, 134, 138, 142
Government ownership of railways, 99
Graft, 14
"Great undertaker," 218
Guayaquil, 19
Gudger, H. A., 263
Guerin, Jules, 374
Gulf States, 20
Hains, Peter C., 135
Handling the traffic, 317-325
Hanna, Marcus A., 227, 230
Harding, Chester, 143
Harrod, Benjamin A., 135
Hay, John, 246
Hay-Herran treaty, 16, 231, 232, 233, 235
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 17, 225, 300, 301, 303, 304
Health of canal workers, 210
Heat of the Tropics, 179
Hepburn, William P., 223
High cost of living, 175
Hise, Elijah, 198
Hodges, Harry F., 139, 141
Honolulu, 19
Hoosac Tunnel, 71
Hospitals, 112, 208, 209
Hotels, 100, 101, 171
Hunter, Henry, 278
Hunting, 191, 192
Hydraulic excavation, 79
Hydraulic Fill, 35
Ice plant, 92
Ice, Price of, 168
Iguana, 329
Immigration, 157
Incas Society, 152
Injury to the canal, 324
International commerce, 3
Isthmian Canal Commission, 12, 88, 96, 97, 109, 119, 201, 224, 225, 229, 268, 269, 311
Johnson, Emory H., 18, 299, 306
Kahn, Julius, 370
Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, 340-341
Kid Canal, 340-341
Knox, Philander C., 43, 243
Labor in passing ships through, 68, 69
Laborers, 307
Land, Prices of, 333
Laws of Canal Zone, 268, 267
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 8, 132, 211-219
Lidgerwood cableways, 53
Lidgerwood dirt car, 25
Lidgerwood dirt trains, 76
Lidgerwood flat cars, 74, 77
Life on the zone, 176-193
Lighting of locks, 325
Liquor question, 186
Lloyd, J. A., 196
Lloyds, 324
Lock canal, 13, 18, 137, 216, 217, 281
Lock machinery, 57-67
Locks, 19, 26, 46, 48-55, 58, 62, 318
Locomotives, Electric, 65-67
Lottery, 217, 254
Loulan, J. A., 148
Lusitania, 297
Machinery, Dependable, 57
Machinery, Abandoned, 207
Machinery, Value of, 219
MacKenzie, Alexander, 119
Magellan, 4
Magellan, Straits of, 19
Magoon, Charles E., 109, 135, 136, 264
"Making the dirt fly," 27
Malaria, 9, 11, 106, 207, 211
Man-made peninsula, 45
Manchester ship canal, 20. 30, 339
Manila, 19
Manson, Sir Patrick, 11, 106
Manufacturers of U. S., 363
Margarita Island, 284
Maritime Canal Company, 200, 223
Markets, 329
Marriage, 155
Married men more content, 179
Materia medica of Panamans, 381
Matrimony, Premium on, 179
Mears, Frederick, 143
Melbourne, 19
Menocal, A. G., 200
Metcalf, Richard L., 189
Miraflores, 26, 27, 40, 47, 55, 61, 67, 82, 89, 126
Mississippi Valley, 20
Mistakes in building, 12
Mahogany, 330
Money for building always ready, 11
Monroe doctrine, 7, 15, 360, 361
Morgan, Henry, 334
Morgan, John T., 221
Mosquito Coast, 198
Mosquitoes, 9, 11, 12, 105-107, 114, 115
Naos Island, 87, 284
National geographic society, 23
National Institute, 327
Naval display, 375
Navy, Efficiency of, 348
Negroes, 154-163
Nelson, Horatio, 197
New Caledonia, 7
New Granada, 237
New Panama Canal Company, 133, 219, 221, 224-228, 233, 235-237, 242, 270
Nicaraguan Canal, 15, 16, 198, 199, 201, 222, 230, 231
Nicaraguan Canal Commission, 199
Nombre de Dios, 7, 53
North Sea Canal, 342-343
Olympic, 59
Operating force, 309-312
Orchids, 330
Oregon (U. S. Ship), 10
Organization, 133-144
Organization of government on Canal Zone, 313
Pacific Ocean Exposition Company, 370
Pacific Steamer Navigation Company, 321
Palmer, Aaron H., 197
Pan American Conference, 7
Panama, 230, 237, 238, 240, 241, 243, 246-255
Panama, Bay of, 280
Panama-California Exposition, 376
Panama Canal Company, 133, 218
Panama City, 12, 43
Panama-Pacific Exposition, 368-378
Panama (Republic), 6, 15, 326-334
Panama Railroad, 7, 34, 68, 88, 93, 104, 136, 214, 228, 245
Panama Railroad Steamship Line, 100
Pay-day, 160, 161
Pay of Americans, 178
Paying off canal army, 30
Pedro Miguel, 25, 27, 47, 48, 55, 61, 89
Pennsylvania tubes, 50
Perico Island, 88, 285
Pilots, Canal, 60
Police force, 262, 263
Population of the zone, 315
Porto Rico, 358-360
Position of canal, 5
Postal service, 261
Prize fighting, 328
Purchase of material, 272
Quartermaster's department, 174, 314
Quellenec, F., 278
Railroads opposed to canal, 222
Rates, Passenger, 103
Rates, Railroad, 99
Rating of employees, 151
Reed, Walter, 106
Reimbursement to owners of vessels for accidents, 323
Rental for Canal Zone, 326
Religious activities, 183
Roads, 191, 264, 265
Robinson, Tracy, 215, 216
Root, Elihu, 242
Ross, Roland, 11, 106
Rosseau, Armand, 217
Rourke, W. G., 143
Rousseau, Harry H., 138, 139, 148
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 321
Safety appliances, 57
Safety for ships, 281
Sailing ships, Death blow to, 322
Salaries, 310
San Blas Indians, 332
San Diego and Arizona Railway, 376
San Francisco earthquake, 368-369
Sanitary department, 30
Sanitation, 105-117, 328, 332, 352
Sault Ste. Marie canal, 314, 335, 343-344
Saville, Caleb M., 41, 143
School system, 264
Schools, Night, 187
Sea-level canal, 13, 18, 137, 272, 279-282
Secret societies, 184
Servants, 181, 182
Shanton, George R., 262
Shaw, Albert D., 232
Ship railway, 202, 203, 204
Shipping routes, International, 351
Shonts, Theodore P., 135, 137
Shovels, Steam, 83, 150
Sibert, William L., 138, 139
Simplon Tunnel, 71
Site of exposition, 371
Slides, 77, 78
Smith, Jackson, 138, 139
Social diversion, 182
Society of the Chagres, 152, 153
Soda fountain, 178
"Soo" locks, 62
Spanish American war veterans, 128
Spanish language, Study of, 181, 188
Spanish Main, 356
Spillway, 26, 37, 38, 39
Spooner, John C., 229
Steamship lines, 98
Stegomyia, 11, 107, 115, 211
Stevens, John F., 27, 102, 119, 129, 130, 136, 138
Stoney Gate valves, 50
Strangers' Club, 182
Street-car system, 191
Strikes, 129
Suez Canal, 21, 29, 335-339, 376, 377
Suez Canal rules, 292
Supplies for building canal free of duty, 323
Switches, Limit, 57
Tabernilla, 78
Taboga Island, 285
Taboga Sanitarium, 113
Taft, Wm. Howard, 33, 118
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, 202, 204
Tehuantepec railroad, 203
Tierra del Fuego, 4
Thatcher, Maurice H., 139
Tivoli Hotel, 100, 170
Titanic marine stairway, 45
Tolls, 18, 295-308, 319
Toro Point, 46, 87, 284
Towing, 322
Track shifter, 76
Trade opportunities, 358-367
Traffic, 18, 19
Tramp steamer, 320
Transcontinental tonnage, 350
Transportation of material excavated, 75
Traveling salesmen, 363-364
Treaties with Colombia and Panama, 244
Tropics, Diseases of, 9
Type of canal, 275
University Club, 182
Vaccination of negroes, 162
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 199
Voting, 184, 185
Wages, 146, 165
Wallace, John Findley, 130, 133, 135
Washington Hotel, 101
Washington monument, 23, 25, 26
Water, Control of, 65
Water supply, 265, 266
Watertight material, 41
Wickedness of the City of Panama, 328
Williams, E. J., 143, 160
Williamson, S. B., 143
Wilson, Eugene T., 143
Wilson, T. D., 204
Wire screens, 12
Women's clubs, 180, 181
Women's Federation of Clubs, 183
Wood, Leonard, 108
Workmen, 145-153
Wyse, Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte, 212, 218
Yellow fever, 9, 11, 12, 105, 109, 110, 112, 211
Yellow fever commission, 106
Young Men's Christian Association, 178, 180, 207