item: #1 of 13 id: 12010 author: Williams, Cora Lenore title: The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition: San Francisco, 1915 date: None words: 4689 flesch: 72 summary: I speak: From the universal flux, In a moment, that is ever unique, Life to new consciousness springs; Creator and created together evolve, In a time-stream continually changing. Obviously to give it extension we shall have to ascribe to reality other dimensions than those of our present sense realm. keywords: consciousness; exposition; head; life; man; things; thought; time; world cache: 12010.txt plain text: 12010.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 23435 author: French, Henry F. (Henry Flagg) title: Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles date: None words: 127245 flesch: 66 summary: | drainage. For the year 1840: Number of rainy days, 50; total rain-fall, 42.00. ====================================================================== DAYS | |March |June |September |December | | | | | | |February |May | |August |November | | | | | | | | | |January 1840 |April | |July| | |October | -----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+--------- 1 | | | |0.55|0.14| | |2.72| |0.64| | 2 | | | | | | | |0.08| |0.05| | 3 | | |0.32| | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | |1.08|0.10| | | | | 5 | | | | |1.16| | | |0.63| | | 6 | | | | | | | |0.50| | | | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | | |0.20| | | | | | 9 | | | | | | |0.25| | | |3.72| 10 | |2.20| | | | | | |1.28| | | 11 | | | | | | | |0.10| | | | 12 | | | |2.12| | | | | | |0.54| 13 | | | | | |0.14| | | | | |1.12 14 | |0.58| | | | | |0.70| | | | 15 | | | | | | | | | | |0.36| 16 | | | | | | | | | | | | 17 | | | | | | | | | | | | 18 | | | | | | | | | | | | 19 | | | | | |0.82|0.24| |0.68| | |1.04 20 | | |1.54| | | | | | |0.44| | 21 | | | | |0.98| | | | |1.04| | 22 | | | |0.52| | | | | | |2.20| 23 |1.68| | | | | | |0.96| | |0.18| 24 | | | | | | |1.40| | | | | 25 | | | | | | | |0.16| | |0.35| 26 | | | |0.18| | | | | | | | 27 | | | | | |0.17| | |0.30| | | 28 | | | | | | | | | | | | 29 | | | |1.80| | |0.10| | |1.40| | 30 | | |1.42| | | | | | |0.08| |1.04 31 | | | | | | | | | | | | -----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+--------- Total|1.68|2.78|3.28|5.17|2.28|2.41|2.09|5.22|2.89|3.65|7.35|3.20 ====================================================================== The average quantity of rain which has fallen in Waltham, during the important months of vegetation, from 1824 to 1858 inclusive--a period of thirty-five years--is for-- _April. keywords: = =; = |; air; clay; cost; country; day; depth; ditch; drainage; drainage water; draining; drains; earth; england; evaporation; fall; feet; field; fig; flow; foot; general; ground; half; heat; illustration; inches; labor; land; land drainage; level; line; moisture; new; open; outlet; pipes; place; plow; point; power; quantity; sand; soil; spring; stones; subject; subsoil; surface; system; temperature; tiles; time; use; water; way; wet; work; years; | =; | | cache: 23435.txt plain text: 23435.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 29269 author: Hill, H. R. title: A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama date: None words: 7232 flesch: 56 summary: The following observations were thrown together as the result of communications with several gentlemen locally acquainted with the Isthmus of Panama, and who expressed to the writer their astonishment, that amidst the numerous undertakings, of more or less utility, which science has realised in our time, one so important to the whole commercial world, so easy of accomplishment, and so certain to be productive of ample remuneration to the undertakers, as a Ship Canal through that Isthmus, had not been taken up. The natural obstacles to be overcome in forming a Canal between Panama, and the _nearest point_ of the opposite coast, which is the Gulph of San Blas (likewise called the Bay of Mandingo), render it expedient to select a position west of that line, and the happy coincidence of two navigable rivers, traversing the low lands to the west of Porto Bello, the one falling into the Atlantic, and the other into the Pacific Ocean, which may either form part of the navigation, or be used to feed the Canal, renders that part of the Isthmus the most eligible for this purpose. keywords: america; bay; canal; chagres; isthmus; miles; panama; point; present; river cache: 29269.txt plain text: 29269.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 31383 author: Dabney, Thomas Ewing title: The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce date: None words: 19864 flesch: 67 summary: This is the Canal that was finally built--nearly 70 per cent larger than the one that was begun and about 100 per cent larger than the one originally planned, when the newspapers and forward-looking told the people that the lack of such a canal had cost New Orleans millions of dollars in development. [Illustration: WILLIAM O. HUDSON President, Board of Commissioners of Port of New Orleans] FOREWORD. keywords: board; canal; capacity; channel; city; company; cost; development; dock; dock board; facilities; feet; foot; great; industrial; industrial canal; lake; lock; material; miles; mississippi; new orleans; pontchartrain; port; president; public; railroad; river; ships; steel; water; work cache: 31383.txt plain text: 31383.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 34124 author: Mills, J. Saxon (John Saxon) title: The Panama Canal: A history and description of the enterprise date: None words: 60383 flesch: 65 summary: The Greeks were, it is true, not equal to the Italians or the Spaniards, and very few of them were recruited for canal work. He may be supposed to have known the isthmus at these points very well, and his scepticism about the prospect of canal construction there in those days was not wholly groundless. keywords: american canal; atlantic; british; canal commission; canal company; canal construction; canal zone; central; coast; colombia; colon; construction; country; course; east; england; feet; french; gatun; good; government; great; islands; isthmian canal; isthmus; lake; level canal; lock canal; locks; miles; new panama; new york; north; pacific; panama canal; panama company; panama route; people; republic; route; sea; south; suez canal; time; trade; traffic; treaty; united states; vessels; war; water; west; western; work; world; years; | | cache: 34124.txt plain text: 34124.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 37124 author: James, Juliet Helena Lumbard title: A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition date: None words: 933 flesch: 74 summary: At a signal from _Enterprise_ the _Fairy_ turned her wheel, Venus threw her golden ball of opportunity, and lo! Energy_ pushed ahead: the _Fairy_ ever flitting near. keywords: city; golden; sea cache: 37124.txt plain text: 37124.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 37671 author: Cornish, Vaughan title: The Panama Canal and Its Makers date: None words: 27935 flesch: 65 summary: Distances B Barbadians as labourers, 104 Bohio, abandoned site of dam, 70 C California, rush of gold-seekers to, 29 Canal, Panama, national and commercial status defined, 39-43 tide-level schemes, 52, 54-55 curvatures of, 60 time of transit through, 64 date of completion, 95-6 Suez, opened 1869, 30 effect on value of Panama route, 30 dimensions and cost, 59, 173 Caribbean Sea, Spain unable to protect her ships in, 27 Chagres, River, course of, 48 sudden rise of, 51 Charles V. of Spain, canal project, 26 Children, white, health of, on Isthmus, 143 Climate of the Isthmus, 140-2 Clubs for employees, 143 Colombia (formerly New Granada), treaty with United States, 1846, 28 Senate of, does not accept offer of United States, 1903, 38 want of sea-power, 39 Colon, protection from northers, 78 yellow fever in, 129 Columbus discovers Bay of Limon, 25 Commission, Isthmian Canal, Report of 1901, 36-37 a second appointed, 113 a third appointed, 114 Congress, appoints Isthmian Canal Commission, 1899, 25 Spooner Act of, 37-58 Congress, Act of, sanctioning 85-foot-level canal, 1906, 53 Constantinople, conquest by Turks, 1453, 25 Contract Construction of Canal, proposed by Second Commission, 114 Cortes searches for a strait, 26 Culebra, view of works from, described, 84-90 Cut, form and dimensions of, 81-84 amount excavated in, 94 Currents in Canal advanced as objection to tide-level scheme, 55 tidal, below Milaflores, 66 D Dam, Bohio, abandoned, 70 Gamboa, controlling feature of tide-level scheme, 54, 57 Gatun, as proposed in minority report of Board of Consulting Engineers, 56-58 plans of, April, 1908, 70-74 Milaflores, 69 Pedro Miguel, 69 De Lesseps, Ferdinand, forms First Panama Canal Company, 1879, 31 plan for tide-level canal, 52 Depew, Senator, on the cost of operating American ships, 168 Dimensions of Panama and other Canals, 59-61 Distances, Shortening of, by Suez Canal, 160 by Panama Canal, 153-165 to Pacific Coast of North America, 155, 156 to Pacific Coast of South America, 155, 156 to Asiatic ports, 158, 159, 161, 162 Australian and New Zealand ports, 158, 161, 162 E Employees, number of, on Canal Zone, 112 Engineers, French, ability of, 32 Board of Consulting, Majority Scheme for tide-level canal, 53-55 Minority Scheme for high-level canal, 56-70 names of chief, 113-115 Corps of, U.S.A., and public works, 115 Excavation, amount of, by French Companies, 94 by American Commission, 94 F Fever, Yellow, 121-132 geographical distribution of, 130-131 Malarial, _see_ What then are we to understand by the term neutral as applied to the Panama Canal in war time? keywords: american; canal; canal zone; commission; culebra; cut; dam; feet; gatun; great; illustration; isthmus; lake; level canal; locks; miles; new; pacific; panama; panama canal; ports; route; sea; states; suez; time; united; united states; water; west; work; york cache: 37671.txt plain text: 37671.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 41807 author: Haskin, Frederic J. (Frederic Jennings) title: The Panama Canal date: None words: 100704 flesch: 64 summary: Panama canals are not built every year, so it was not a matter of ordering equipment from stock; everything had to be invented and designed for the particular requirement it was necessary to meet. Much that might be written of the romantic history of the Isthmian territory--tales of discoverers and conquistadores, wild tales of pirates and buccaneers, serio-comic narratives of intrigue and revolution--is left out of this book, because, while it is interesting, it now belongs to that antiquity which boasts of many, many books; and this volume is to tell not of Panama, but of the Panama Canal--on the threshold of its story, fitted by a noble birth for a noble destiny. keywords: american; american canal; atlantic; big; building; canal army; canal authorities; canal commission; canal company; canal construction; canal diggers; canal law; canal project; canal zone; cent; charge; chief; city; colombia; colon; conditions; congress; construction; cost; culebra; cut; dam; day; end; engineer; feet; force; french; french canal; gates; gatun; government; half; illustration; isthmian canal; isthmus; lake; level canal; line; little; lock canal; locks; man; maritime canal; material; miles; money; new panama; nicaragua canal; operation; pacific; panama canal; panama railroad; panama route; people; place; president; republic; result; right; river; sea; ship canal; ships; states government; suez canal; time; tons; traffic; treaty; united states; water; way; west; work; world; yards; years cache: 41807.txt plain text: 41807.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 41987 author: Rogers, Robert W. (Robert Wells) title: "The United Seas" date: None words: 17341 flesch: 72 summary: Having your feet shod with the gospel of world peace, your judgment made discreet with the gospel of contact and your soul made heroic for service by an invincible faith in a better humanity, such as was possessed by the Son of Man. I say, when the people once glimpse the vision of world peace, world harmony (or democracy) in its full grandeur, a spirit will be aroused that all the warring kings and illegitimate trusts on earth cannot check! keywords: day; democracy; earth; fruit; god; great; land; life; man; men; nations; new; olive; peace; people; sea; seas; spirit; trees; vision; words; world; world democracy cache: 41987.txt plain text: 41987.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 42603 author: Merry, William L. (William Lawrence) title: San Francisco and the Nicaragua Canal date: None words: 3905 flesch: 72 summary: ======================================================================== BETWEEN | | | | | | |Around | Via | | |Advantage|Advantage | Cape |Magellan| Via |Via | over | over | Horn |for full|Cape of|Nica- | Sailing | Steam | for |powered | Good |ragua | Route | Route |Sailing | Steam | Hope. ----------------------------------------------------+--------+------- The shortest practicable route from | | Brito to Yokohama | .... keywords: = =; canal; francisco; pacific; route; san; | | cache: 42603.txt plain text: 42603.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 48924 author: Pennell, Joseph title: Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January—March 1912, together with impressions and notes by the artist date: None words: 7079 flesch: 73 summary: The mouth of the Canal is on the left in the flat space between the mountains; on the right of this, the dark mass on the edge of the water is the docks and harbors; then comes the great, towering Ancon Hill, one side all dug out in terraces for dirt, much of which goes to fill in the outside of locks, which, however, will work before they are filled in. But great work is great art, and always was and will be. keywords: american; canal; cut; french; gatun; illustration; lock; panama; time; work cache: 48924.txt plain text: 48924.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 7348 author: Macomber, Ben title: The Jewel City date: None words: 59335 flesch: 66 summary: Color of Exposition palaces, 36-41. Column of Progress, 16, 36; description, 50, 51, 56, 61, 57, 58; frieze, 61, 60; night illumination, 140. See also Adventurous Bowman. Transportation, Palace of, 16; architecture and Sculpture, 35, 36, 51; exhibits in, 150, 151. Travertine, Artificial, material of Exposition palaces, 36, 39, 40, 77, 96, 107. keywords: ages; american; annex; arches; architecture; art; arts; beautiful; beauty; building; california; center; charles; chief; city; color; columns; commissioner; country; court; earth; east; end; entrance; exhibit; exposition; exposition palaces; figures; flowers; fountain; francisco; french; gardens; general; gold; grand; great; group; hall; honor; italian; jewels; john; left; life; light; machinery; main; man; medal; mrs; music; nations; new; north; pacific; paintings; palace; panel; pavilion; pictures; products; progress; room; san; sculptor; sculpture; seasons; section; set; south; spirit; state; structure; style; sun; time; tower; trees; wall; water; west; woman; work; world cache: 7348.txt plain text: 7348.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 9647 author: Mullgardt, Louis Christian title: The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition date: None words: 20540 flesch: 62 summary: Court of Palms Portal, Palace of Education Court of Palms Portal, Palace of Liberal Arts The sympathy between architect, sculptor and colorist is nowhere shown to better advantage than in the richly decorated frieze surrounding the Court of Palms. keywords: arch; arts; avenue; building; colonnade; columns; court; court palace; dome; exposition; flowers; fountain; gardens; group; main; newton; night; north; palace; palms; photo court; photo palace; portal; south; tower; w. zenis; wall; zenis newton cache: 9647.txt plain text: 9647.txt