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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e month,up to the 23d, of 615,600 cubic yards. He predicted that thenew engineers would have the united support of the divisionsuperintendents and of the men to prosecute the work stillfurther. I then asked Stevens why, after all he had done upon theIsthmus, with the certainty of having his name linked forall time with one of the greatest engineering feats of thecenturies, he should want to quit. He smiled and told me astory about a surgical case that needed immediate treat-ment. I inquired as to his health, which seemed to be good,and suggested that the people would regret his departure. Are you homesick? I said. Stevens smiled. Did you ever hear of the Chinaman who tried the tobog-gan ? he asked. Well, after the slide was constructed, hisfriends induced John to make the ride. John climbed to thetop of the steps and mounted the chute. He came down withrapidity that made his head swim, but he landed safely,somewhat dazed. Try it again, said his friends. Not by a dlam sight! said John.
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THE PANAMA CANAI,. 273 And with this Stevens waved his hand significantly.When he finished his story, I asked the retiring chief if hehad confidence in the work and beUeved it could be finishedwithin a reasonable time. His answer was emphatic. Hereferred to the great progress the Americans had made; to the establishment of a well-equipped working organization,and with the best good feeling toward those who were totake the work from his hands, said: I make the prediction that the canal will be finished andthat ships will be sailing through it by January ist, 1915. In subsequent talks with Colonel Goethals, the incomingengineer-in-chief, and his associates, Gaillard, Rousseau andSibert, I learned that the plans outlined by Stevens had beencarefully gone over, and, in the main, would be followed. As we mingled with the officials we perceived someuneasiness amongst the superintendents and foremen as to the effect of the change upon their positions, but ColonelGoethals declared it to be the

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