Debts of American Republics, 365 Department store, 166 Deportation of laborers, 152 Devol, C. A., 143 Dikes, 126 Dikes of Holland, 44 "Dingler's folly," 208 Diplomatic entanglements, 17 Dredges, Ladder, 84 Dredges, Suction, 83 Duty on imports, 325 Dynamite, 28, 74 Eads, James B., 202, 203 Eastern Roman Empire, 3 Eating places, 170 Economy in handling material, 55 Efficiency records, 72, 73 Eight-hour working day, 137, 271 Elections in Panama, 251, 327 Electric current, 67 Electrical department, 315 Endicott, Mordecai T., 135 "Energy; the lord of the Isthmian way," 394 Engineering department, 314 Engineering difficulties, 29 Engineering project of all history, 23 Englishman defies Tropics, 177 Equipment for hauling material, 53 Erie Canal, 346 Expense of operating canal, 313 Extravagance in building French canal, 207 Ernst, Oswald H., 135 Filibusters, French, 334 Finley, Carlos, 11, 106 Fire department, 264 Fishing, 192 Flamenco Island, 88 Flowers, 330 Foreign trade of U. S., 353 Fortifications, 18, 283-294 Foundations, 90 Fraser, John Foster, 355 French began work in 1880, 5 French canal, 53 French failure, 206-220 French Panama Canal Company, 200 French spent $300,000,000, 8 French Canal Company, 9, 93, 252 Fruits, 330 Gaillard, D. D., 138, 139 Gamboa, 40 Gatun Dam, 13, 21, 23, 25, 26, 32-34, 36, 41-43, 56, 279 Gatun Lake, 36, 37, 38, 45, 47, 50, 56, 60, 62, 82, 95, 315, 330 Goethal, George Washington, 13, 18, 33, 43, 119-132, 273 Gold Hill, 79 Golf links, 315 Good Hope, Cape of, 19 Gorgas, William C., 105, 108, 134, 138, 142 Government ownership of railways, 99 Graft, 14 "Great undertaker," 218 Guayaquil, 19 Gudger, H. A., 263 Guerin, Jules, 374 Gulf States, 20 Hains, Peter C., 135 Handling the traffic, 317-325 Hanna, Marcus A., 227, 230 Harding, Chester, 143 Harrod, Benjamin A., 135 Hay, John, 246 Hay-Herran treaty, 16, 231, 232, 233, 235 Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 17, 225, 300, 301, 303, 304 Health of canal workers, 210 Heat of the Tropics, 179 Hepburn, William P., 223 High cost of living, 175 Hise, Elijah, 198 Hodges, Harry F., 139, 141 Honolulu, 19 Hoosac Tunnel, 71 Hospitals, 112, 208, 209 Hotels, 100, 101, 171 Hunter, Henry, 278 Hunting, 191, 192 Hydraulic excavation, 79 Hydraulic Fill, 35 Ice plant, 92 Ice, Price of, 168 Iguana, 329 Immigration, 157 Incas Society, 152 Injury to the canal, 324 International commerce, 3 Isthmian Canal Commission, 12, 88, 96, 97, 109, 119, 201, 224, 225, 229, 268, 269, 311 Johnson, Emory H., 18, 299, 306 Kahn, Julius, 370 Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, 340-341 Kid Canal, 340-341 Knox, Philander C., 43, 243 Labor in passing ships through, 68, 69 Laborers, 307 Land, Prices of, 333