554 Angle of inclinatiOn in 1912: Bishop, Gateway, 190.

  554 “WhAt are We to do now?”: Bishop, Goethals, 208–209.

  20. LIFE AND TIMES

  Because the American community in Panama was a government creation from start to finish, there are endless records of every facet of daily life food, housing, varieties of entertainment, health, job efficiency. The body of documentary material on this one subject alone would be enough for several scholarly theses. Moreover, a vast photographic record was made of that now vanished community, a record from which I have drawn again and again for this account.

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  555–556 Observations by the Outlook reporter: Edwards, 48–50.

  556 “A more healthy, well-to-do and companionable group”: Adams, Panama Canal Zone, 6–1.

  557 “standardized buildings and standardized men”: Sands, 25.

  557 “Every American looked and behaved”: ibid.

  557 Sands’train-window view: ibid., 27.

  558 “It is as if each were individually proud”: Franck, 225.

  559–560 Pay scale: Manual of Information, 1909; Canal Recordy May 27, 1908.

  560 “In fact, everything is done”: Canal Record, Sept. 18, 1907.

  561 Remembrance of Mamie Lee Kelly: Crede Calhoun, conversation with the author.

  562 Winifred Ewing recollection: conversation with the author.

  563 Fowler flight: John O. Collins, “The Year 1913 in Canal History,” in Society of the Chagres, Yearbook, 1913.

  563 “Hot water and grit soap”: Edwards, 52.

  564 Robert Worsley recollection: conversation with the author.

  565 $2,500,000 expenditure: Bishop, Gateway, 279.

  566 Sapphires and shark’s teeth: John Fitzgerald, conversation with the author.

  566 orchids and hounds: General Edwin L. Sibert, conversation with the author.

  567 New York banker on socialism and consequences: Abbot, 326–327.

  567 “The marvel is”: Edwards, 571.

  567 “First of all, there ain’t any democracy”: ibid.

  567–568 Harry Franck on the caste system: Zone Policeman 88, 219.

  568 “bull-necked, wholehearted, cast-iron fellow”: ibid., 86.

  568–569 Corporal Fitzgerald’s experiences: John Fitzgerald, conversation with the author.

  568 Footnote: Sands, 5; also Abbot, 235–237.

  569–570 “The individuality and character”: Adams, Panama Canal Zone, 16.

  570 “Goethals has created”: Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 14, 1912.

  570 “Congressmen and senators”: ibid., Jan. 13, 1912.

  570 Rose van Hardeveld’s recollection: Make the Dirt Fly, 100.

  571 Goethals’ romantic life: R. H. Whitehead, Mrs. R. H. Whitehead, Winter Collins, conversations with the author.

  571 Pro- and anti-Goethals’ factions: General Edwin L. Sibert, Katharine Harding Deeble, R. H. Whitehead, D. St. P. Gaillard, conversations with the author.

  571 D. St. P. Gaillard recollection: conversation with the author.

  571 Goethals’ dislike of others reported in Washington: miscellaneous newspaper clippings, Goethals papers.

  572 Footnote: Gorgas and Hendrick, 217.

  572 Goethals’ estimate of Gorgas as an administrator: R. H. White head, conversation with the author.

  573 Goethals-Gorgas exchange: Gorgas and Hendrick, 222.

  573 Whitehead opinion: conversation with the author.

  574 Gaillard stricken at lunch: D. St. P. Gaillard, conversation with the author.

  574 “Poor Gaillard”: Bishop, Goethals, 207.

  574 “Your father has killed my husband”: Mrs. Thomas Goethals, conversation with the author.

  574 Goethals and D. St. P. Gaillard do not speak: D. St. P. Gaillard, conversation with the author.

  575 “that I might someday solemnly raise my hand”: Franck. 12.

  576 “Even New Englanders”: ibid., 225.

  576 Black teacher-pupil ratio: Canal Record, July 7, 1909.

  576 “As for the man whose skin”: Franck, 221.

  577 “Most of us came from our homelands”: John Butcher in Reminiscences.

  578 “The visitor who saw first”: Abbot, 344–345.

  578 Difference in benefits derived by black and white workers: Bishop, Gateway, 279.

  579 Stevens’ view: Stevens’ testimony, Jan. 16, 1906, Hearings. . . an Investigation. 579 Amount of illiteracy: Franck, 129.

  579–580 Account by Jeremiah Waisome: Reminiscences.

  580 Experience of Clifford St. John: ibid.

  581 Account by Edgar Simmons: ibid.

  582 Figures of illness and fatalities: Isthmian Canal Commission, Annual Report, 1914, 381–391.

  582 Accident figures: ibid.

  582 “Some of the costs of the canal are here”: Franck, 85.

  583–585 Account by James A. Williams: Reminiscences.

  585 78,000 would have died: Gorgas, Sanitation, 283.

  586 “In temperament and tradition”: Edwards, 81–82.

  586 “It is hard to like people who”: ibid., 93.

  586 Robert Wood view: Monument, 43.

  586 “They hate us because”: Abbot, 235.

  586–587 Rose van Hardeveld feelings: Make the Dirt Fly, 116–117.

  587 “They joined their settlements”: Sands, 30–31.

  587 “These people are of no more use”: ibid., 31.

  587 “The Americans took awful advantage”: Alice Anderson, conversation with the author.

  588 “It is said Amador gets half the loot”: Rousseau to Goethals, Oct. 8, 1908, Goethals papers.

  21. TRIUMPH

  The collection of superb papers in Vol. II of The Panama Canal: An Engineering Treatise, edited by Goethals, has been the main source for this account of the locks and how they were built. The authors of the papers were the principal builders themselves: Hodges, Goldmark, Whitehead, and Schildhauer, among others. Colonel Sibert’s essay, “Construction of Gatun Locks, Dam, and Spillway,” is contained in Vol. I. The various figures pertaining to the canal after 1914 are from materials provided by the Panama Canal Information Office.

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  589 “It is hard for me to transmit to you”: Wood, 44.

  597 Gates swing “easily and steadily”: Bishop, Gateway, 372.

  598 “Strongly as the Panama Canal appeals”: Ira E. Bennett, in Bennett, 322.

  598 Pittsburgh participation: “Industrial Roll of Honor,” ibid., 436–460.

  602 “No specifications could have been more exacting”: J. W. Upp, “An Instance of Co-operation,” General Electric Review, Jan. 1914.

  603 “They were very smart people”: Roy Wallace, conversation with the author.

  603–604 French-Olmsted report: quoted in Mack, 512.

  604 “The pride everyone feels”: Scientific American, Mar. 9, 1912.

  604 “Men reported to work early”: Wood, 36.

  604 Upper gates operated: Scientific American, June 22, 1912.

  605 “The Cut tonight”: N.Y. Times, Sept. 10, 1913.

  605–606 Gatun makes first passage through the locks: John O. Collins, “The Year 1913 in Canal History,” in Society of the Chagres, Yearbook, 1913; photographs, National Archives; N.Y. Times, Sept. 27, 1913.

  606 President Wilson sets off Gamboa blast: N.Y. Times, Oct. 11, 1913.

  608 “Mr. Dooley” on Goethals: Bishop, Goethals, 255.

  609 “So quietly did she pursue her way”: John Barrett, “The Opening of the Panama Canal,” Bulletin of the Pan-American Union, Sept. 1914.

  613 Engineers do not regard Pacific arrangement as a limiting factor: Maj. Gen. David S. Parker, correspondence with the author.

  613 1974 slide: Panama Canal Spillway, Oct. 18, 1974.

  614 “we. . . have no property rights”: quoted in W. Va. Gazette, undated clipping, Goethals papers.

  AFTERWORD

  616 “I had never encountered such a powerful personality”: Eric Sevareid, “The Man who Invented Panama,” American Heritage, Aug. 1963.

  617 “One of the rather contemptible features”: Roosevelt to Bunau-Varilla, July 7, 1914, quoted in Wagenknecht, 272.

  617 Goethals refuses use of name: R. H. Whitehead, conversation with the author.

  617 “I believe that we are but children picking up pebbles”: Stevens, Engineer’s Recollections, 69.

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