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144 Night view of a lighted lock-chamber. The electric lamps are buried so deeply in concrete hoods at the top of high concrete columns that, while they illuminate the chambers, the lights are not visible to the approaching vessel ; only the signal lights being discernible.
commission houses, arriving finally at the one occupied by the chairman and chief engineer. "Let's go up-stairs and see how he lives," said one of them. After going through the rooms another member said to the colonel: " Pretty fine house ! What did it cost?" "It was built by my predecessor, Mr. Stevens," replied the colonel, stating its cost. "You apportion the quality of the house to the salary the man receives?" was the next question. "Yes," replied the colonel. "Then, if we were down here working for the Canal we would each get a house half as good as this, the house of a $7,500 man?" said the congressman. "Oh, no," retorted the colonel with a beaming smile, "if you were down here working on the Canal you would not be getting $7,500." The colonel's smile is famous on the Isthmus, being put in use usually to temper the wind of disapproval to the unhappy victim of it. It is thoroughly frank and even beatific in character, but under cover of it he utters the most deadly of all jests—those that are based on truth. It may be said of it that, like the bass drum in a country band, it covers a multitude of sins. One other sample of its use may be cited. A visiting congressman, of the chronic double-breasted-coat type, while on a tour of inspection of the locks in the early period of construction, climbed up one of the eighty-two-foot ladders that are embedded in the lock-walls, at the imminent peril of being hit with concrete from the buckets that were flying about. Coming safely down, he strutted over to where the colonel stood with the other members of the delegation and, slapping his bulging chest, asked: " What degree do you give me for that, colonel?" With the smile in full play, the colonel replied: "D. F." There were occasions when the colonel did not employ the smile in the presence of questions and comments by visitors. High official comment was frequently disconcerting. One cabinet member, who was visiting the Canal and to whom the colonel had devoted himself continuously for ten days, said on departing: " Colonel, I wish to thank you heartily for your hospitality and your courteous attention. I came here all worn out mentally and I Personality of Colonel Goethals 145 shall go back refreshed. You have given me a complete mental rest." Another official of like rank said, as he was passing in a launch through the nine miles of the Culebra Cut, looking at the banks on either side, which had been seven years in the making and were from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in height above the bottom of the Canal: " It is extraordinary, colonel, that nature should have given these banks on both sides the same slope !" One of the most frequent of the ignorant questions asked by visitors was in regard to the dams and locks on the Pacific side. A congressman who had passed over the line of the Canal from the Atlantic entrance to the southern end of Culebra Cut at Pedro Miguel, and had heard the full explanation which had been given to all the members of his party, said: " But, colonel, I don't see why you have these locks and dams on this side. Why don't you sail right out into the Pacific ?'' There is a tradition that after having this inquiry addressed to him on several occasions, the colonel with a perfectly serious face replied: "That would be all right, you know, going out, but coming back vessels would have to go up-stream against the current." The pre-eminent gifts of Colonel Goethals as an administrator have been demonstrated in many ways, but most conspicuously in two directions—first, in his really marvellous capacity for mastering and retaining details, and, second, in his ability to win the confidence and inspire the loyalty and enthusiasm of the rank and file of the force. His mastery of details was not confined to the engineering part of the work, but included all departments of civil-government administration and the operation of the Panama Railroad. He is one of those rare persons whose mental vision is not hampered by full knowledge of details. He uses that knowledge as the foundation for a broad general view of the field of action, with every portion of which he is familiar. He is not only able to see all phases of the problem as it exists to-day, but to foresee the questions that will arise in the future and prepare to meet them. He has in rare degree the gift of sagacity without which there can be no successful leadership.
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