Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from With the Flag at Panama: A Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Big Bill Bolger to steal the old French dredges, described in my book, is based on a sim ilar incident of real life. The Big Slide at the Culebra Cut, which forms the basis of the closing chapters, is remembered by the veteran canal worker with a shudder. As a matter of fact there have been several of these slides in the past four years with as devastating a result as that pictured in my story.
I have tried to present to you the big facts of the Panama Canal and to give you a bird's-eye glimpse of the wonderful engineering feat which is to unite the world's two greatest oceans. If I have succeeded, and have at the same time won your sympathy for Rod Standish and the battles he was called upon to fight, I will be well repaid. Incidentally, I hope in the near future to give you a similar picture of other great industrial achievements and great business enterprises, which are making the events of peace more stir ring in our country than many of the events of war.
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