President Roosevelt’s Panama Canal Sanitation Plan
Roosevelt outlines his Panama trip and the sanitation program led by Dr. Gorgas on the Isthmus and in Panama and Colon. He defends the chosen 5 foot level canal, praises French canal works, and notes progress in urban paving, water and sewer systems, while addressing criticisms and logistic challenges.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal
Cee
Senate
House of Representaives
Panama
Canal Zone
Colon
United States
Canal Company
French Canal Company
Culebra
Ding
Nicaragua
Darien
Isthmus Life and Labor Conditions Under the Panama Canal
Detailed observations describe white and colored workers on the canal and railroad projects, wages concerns, and the workforce composition including Americans, Jamaicans, Spaniards, Italians, and Chinese. Sanitation efforts in Colon and Panama, water supply upgrades, and street improvements show marked progress with mosquitos reduced by new drainage ditches and reservoirs expanding to secure ample clean water.
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Jackson Smith
United States
Congress
Stevens
S. Ome
Panama
Mount Hope
Colon and Cristobal
Colon
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Grant
Front Street
Prairie
Roosevelt Praises Isthmus Work Protects Labor and Progress
Theodore Roosevelt defends rapid construction on the Panama Canal zone, praising health measures policing, and the use of foreign labor trials. He notes 200 plus police, half white, half black, and supports hiring Chinese laborers while avoiding harm to American workers' wages. He argues for contract work to speed completion and commends Shonts Stevens and Gorgas for leadership.
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Colon
Shanton
United States
Jamaica
Barbados
America
Shonts
Stevens
Gorgas
Army
Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
The
White House
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W. C. Gorgas
Marine Hospital Service
Health Department
Col. Waring
New York
Isthmus
West Indies
Commission
O'Connor
St. Lucia
Underwood & Vace Qgand
Pedro Miguel
Culebra Sur
Olass
la Boca
Gatun
Taft
Messrs. Noble, Stearns and Ripley
Culebra Cut
Bierd
Canal Commission
Great Lakes
Thomases
Coton
Secretary of War
Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Rogers
Comsel
Pacific
Atlantic
Tropics
Underwood & Underwear
N. Y
Tivoli Hotel
Canal
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