The Panama Canal: System and Projects (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Panama Canal: System and Projects

The Panama Canal is an undertaking of the vastest meaning to America, commercially and nationally. Its construction should be so correct as to leave nothing for present regret or future challenge. It becomes in some measure the duty of every engineer who cherishes his ideal for this great public work to break his silence and reserve if he perceives that in any vital degree or at any remediable point the Canal seems failing Of the highest that it can achieve. No one knows more intimately the elements, no one knows more profoundly the difiiculties, inherent in this vast problem, than the eminent men, French and American, who, from the inception in 1879 all the way to to-day, have studied and planned by the best in them to solve its perplexities. Let praise go to them unstinted, for this is their smallest due. Believing profoundly, though reluct antly, that the announced methods of solution are not such as to secure to the American people the best, the safest and the most enduring Canal, the writer feels that he would be faithlesscto his citizenship did he not state so. Knowing further that there exists a more scientific system, it has become his duty as.

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