Who Built the Panama Canal?

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. As preparations are going rapidly forward for a world-wide celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal, at the exact time determined nearly ten years ago under the Second Isthmian Commission, whose administration constituted what has come to be known as the railroad regime at Panama, in fancy I see many scores of men scattered over the forty-eight States and other scores still in the Canal Zone, who helped to make the work Of that regime notable in the history of human achievement, scanning with perplexity the books that have been written about the new waterway and the articles con cerning it in the public prints. Is it a fact or is it a dream, in imagination I hear them say, that it was the railroad men of the United.