Panama fever (39 page)
Authors: Matthew Parker
Tags: #History - General History, #Technology & Engineering, #History, #Central, #Central America, #Americas (North, #Central America - History, #United States - 20th Century (1900-1945), #United States, #Civil, #Civil Engineering (General), #General, #History: World, #Panama Canal (Panama) - History, #Panama Canal (Panama), #West Indies), #Latin America - Central America, #South, #Latin America
uerne, Slaven & Co. dredges at work. Visitors were hugely impressed by these monster machines, but the American contractors were among the most corrupt of all those working for the French Company.
he works in the Culebra Cut in 1888, with Gold Hill on the left.
ith the press running for cover, the directors of the Canal Company, led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, are brought to trial. Eiffel brings up the rear.
N the Isthmus, wreckage from the French effort was everywhere, with the jungle quickly returning.
a cartoon published six days afterward, the
New York World
gives its impression of the “Panama Revolution.”
illiam Nelson Cromwell on one of his frequent journeys between Panama, New York, and Paris.
eneral Esteban Huertas in the regalia of the Commander-in-Chief of the Panama Army. Declared a “Hero of the Republic” for his part in the “revolution,” he was quickly seen as a threat by the Conservative junta.