Show MORE ABOUT UNCLE I ISAM'S SAMS SAM'S BIG I INow Now youre sailing up the P canal It wont won't be long Ions now shipping of the world will be he here too I suppose That's the i ii locks up ahead where you see thos j jers ers I made a trip a a. day from t Bello to Gatun with sand for the con mixers Guess Ive I've navigated the Thc I Ima Ima ma canal about as much as an has so far fan The short grizzled down east captain leaned from the pilot house hous dow and watched the brown waters pie before the blunt bow of llie l tu tug I Vc tie Up right there at cranes cranes he lie said Just so go over gr west bank and from there you ou cal eal the locks the dam the spillway Chagres and all T made my way by the concrete mixers where dusty dusts n toiled with their heads bound M handkerchiefs and alone aIon the way that conveys the concrete fron ron mixers to the on t bank There laid out below was was a maze of construction work work- Con lock walls rose within rd Iron fr 1 work Semi circular lock sills between barricades of wooden frame fram Cranes locomotives and men nien Ilk many different varieties of insects insect the picture at motion while overheat f bucket of concrete sailed out on th way and dropped to the signal of a aj with a white flag to a group roup of Indians waiting up to their knee wet concrete at time the bottom of the tho j jOh Oh the magnitude of it all all th tho cate system and the detail Who of us can We know what we have to do and it is done but again I ask who ure the magnitude of It It- It Not marvel at some almost trivial det dt that donkey engine perched on omi th of yonder hill for Instance The ask ourselves how on earth they go gothere got there and as we turn to gaze at a landscape converted Into a Just such problems of the july it we grasp for an Instant a j of the proportions or the tho enterprise Just as I was picking my w ya the the 11 o'clock to blow on on everything carriers carriers- It was like the noon hour in a a m manufacturing city and up wp tiie-wp stairs filed I an army of mud spattered groes army colonies colones Irish bs and Spaniards Some of tl from the west bank carne carn sailing b. b a cement feet in the in Dinner time at Gatun and for ti tithe the operations are are- abandoner abandoned to t thi mering heat of the W I In Scribners Scribner's Magazine |