Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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l rulesand regulations needed will come from Washing-ton. The cities of Colon and Panama did notcome to us with the strip, although they lie withinit. They remain a part of the Republic ofPanama; but we shall have much to say aboutkeeping those cities clean and healthful. In paying, as it did, to the French shareholders 228 LITTLE HISTORY STORIES OF MANY LANDS $40,000,000, the American company acquired theright to all the machinery and plant equipmentson the isthmus; but the engineers in calculatingthe cost took no note of this neglected property.Of the $20,000,000 worth of machinery on theisthmus, including miles of steel rails, scores ofsteamers, dredges, scores of machine-shops, and In the spring of 1904 there were some 2500buildings on the isthmus belonging to the com-pany, and accommodations for nearly 20,000laborers. The hospitals were valued at $1,000,-000, and the machine-shops at half as muchmore. But everything was in a sad state ofdecay and neglect. On all sides stood monu-
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MAP SHOWING THE PROPOSED ROUTES OF THE PANAMA AND THE NICARAGUA CANALS AND TEHUANTEPEC SHIP RAILWAY. THE acres of dump-cars, only a small part has provedof actual value. So injurious to iron and steelis the effect of the tropical climate that muchof the machinery had rusted beyond repair.Some of it, we are told, had become so rottenthat one could push a hat-pin through it almostas easily as if it had been so much cheese. ments to the criminal folly and mismanagementof the early company. The canal route was thencovered over with a luxuriant growth of plants,vines, and trees; but scratch the surface any-where and there came to light the most unex-pected signs of French workmanship. Everysort of article, from kitchen utensils to locomo- LITTLE HISTORY STORIES OF MANY LANDS 229 tives and dump-carts, appeared half embeddedin the soil. During the progress of the work all facilitieshave, of course, been greatly increased. En-gineering science and sanitary science haveboth advanced with wondr

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