Quartermaster's department, 174, 314 Quellenec, F., 278 Railroads opposed to canal, 222 Rates, Passenger, 103 Rates, Railroad, 99 Rating of employees, 151 Reed, Walter, 106 Reimbursement to owners of vessels for accidents, 323 Rental for Canal Zone, 326 Religious activities, 183 Roads, 191, 264, 265 Robinson, Tracy, 215, 216 Root, Elihu, 242 Ross, Roland, 11, 106 Rosseau, Armand, 217 Rourke, W. G., 143 Rousseau, Harry H., 138, 139, 148 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 321 Safety appliances, 57 Safety for ships, 281 Sailing ships, Death blow to, 322 Salaries, 310 San Blas Indians, 332 San Diego and Arizona Railway, 376 San Francisco earthquake, 368-369 Sanitary department, 30 Sanitation, 105-117, 328, 332, 352 Sault Ste. Marie canal, 314, 335, 343-344 Saville, Caleb M., 41, 143 School system, 264 Schools, Night, 187 Sea-level canal, 13, 18, 137, 272, 279-282 Secret societies, 184 Servants, 181, 182 Shanton, George R., 262 Shaw, Albert D., 232 Ship railway, 202, 203, 204 Shipping routes, International, 351 Shonts, Theodore P., 135, 137 Shovels, Steam, 83, 150 Sibert, William L., 138, 139 Simplon Tunnel, 71 Site of exposition, 371 Slides, 77, 78 Smith, Jackson, 138, 139 Social diversion, 182 Society of the Chagres, 152, 153 Soda fountain, 178 "Soo" locks, 62 Spanish American war veterans, 128 Spanish language, Study of, 181, 188 Spanish Main, 356 Spillway, 26, 37, 38, 39 Spooner, John C., 229 Steamship lines, 98 Stegomyia, 11, 107, 115, 211 Stevens, John F., 27, 102, 119, 129, 130, 136, 138 Stoney Gate valves, 50 Strangers' Club, 182 Street-car system, 191 Strikes, 129 Suez Canal, 21, 29, 335-339, 376, 377 Suez Canal rules, 292 Supplies for building canal free of duty, 323 Switches, Limit, 57 Tabernilla, 78 Taboga Island, 285 Taboga Sanitarium, 113 Taft, Wm. Howard, 33, 118 Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, 202, 204 Tehuantepec railroad, 203 Tierra del Fuego, 4 Thatcher, Maurice H., 139 Tivoli Hotel, 100, 170 Titanic marine stairway, 45 Tolls, 18, 295-308, 319 Toro Point, 46, 87, 284 Towing, 322 Track shifter, 76 Trade opportunities, 358-367 Traffic, 18, 19 Tramp steamer, 320 Transcontinental tonnage, 350 Transportation of material excavated, 75 Traveling salesmen, 363-364 Treaties with Colombia and Panama, 244 Tropics, Diseases of, 9 Type of canal, 275 University Club, 182 Vaccination of negroes, 162 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 199 Voting, 184, 185 Wages, 146, 165 Wallace, John Findley, 130, 133, 135 Washington Hotel, 101 Washington monument, 23, 25, 26 Water, Control of, 65 Water supply, 265, 266 Watertight material, 41 Wickedness of the City of Panama, 328 Williams, E. J., 143, 160 Williamson, S. B., 143 Wilson, Eugene T., 143 Wilson, T. D., 204