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Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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heshifting of theroadbed of the Panama railroad as the original bed wouldbe covered by the new lake. The developmentof the commissary system which supplied everything needful for the daily life of the employee,the establishment of quarters, the creation ofa public school system, were all well under way.Then arose a new issue which split the second Com-mission and again threatened to turn things topsy-turvy. Chairman Shonts, himself a builder of long ex-perience and well accustomed to dealing with con-tractors, was firmly of the opinion that the canalcould best be built by letting contracts to privatebidders for the work. In this he was opposed bymost of his associates, and particularly by Mr.Stevens who had been working hard and efficientlyto build up an organization that would be capableof building the canal without the interposition ofprivate contractors looking for personal profit. Theemployees on the Zone, naturally enough, were withStevens to a man, and time has shown that he and
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THE BALBOA ROADThe trolley line shown will extend from Balboa, through Panama and Ancon to the ruins of Old Panama THE RESIGNATION OF ENGINEER STEVENS 159

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