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Updated: June 5, 2025
For Gatun police launch is one of those peculiar motor-boats that starts the same day you had planned to.
One February noon I reported at the office to find that passes to Gatun had been issued to five of us, "Scotty," "Mac," Renson, and Barter among the number. The task in the "town by the dam site" it seemed, was proving too heavy for the regular enumerators of that district. We left by the 2:10 train.
For instance, that white-haired man at the other end of the table is Colonel Bland, one of the commissioners. The man over there with the black beard is one of the engineers at Gatun." Stein, who seemed a gossipy person, ran on glibly for a time, pointing out the passengers of note and giving brief details about them.
Beyond, higher up, the scattered houses of a city of fair size came into view. "That's Gatun," cried Fenton. "I've read half a dozen descriptions of it lately. Great town, that." "The houses look like boxes from here," Jimmie observed. "Of course," Peter replied, "they are all two-story houses, square, with double balconies all screened in. Might be Philadelphia, eh?"
The clerk finally consented to this arrangement, and in ten minutes Ned and his chums were speeding toward Gatun on a railroad motor car. At eleven o'clock that night the workmen employed at the locks, the spillway, and the barrier of the Gatun dam found that their lights were not working satisfactorily and sent word back to the electric department that something was amiss.
"We must get some pictures of this, Joe." "That's right, so we must. Whew! It is a big cut all right!" he went on. "No wonder they said it was harder work here than at the Gatun Dam. And it's here where those big slides have been?" "Yes, and there may be again," said Blake. "I hope not!" exclaimed Captain Watson.
"We'd better be getting out of this, anyway," Jack put in, "for those chaps are sure to come back and bring a gang with them. Suppose we go back to the cottage and see what has been doing there?" "I thought you came from the cottage here," Ned said. "No," was the reply. "We left the road leading from Gatun at the point where you two left it last night."
Now, you boys go on down the road toward Gatun," he added, turning to the others, "and make all the noise you want to. I'll go up to the old temple and see what is going on there. One of you would better go with me not close up with me, but within seeing distance." "That's me," cried Jimmie. "I'll stay near enough to see what becomes of you, and go back and tell the boys if they're needed."
Those who have read the former books of this series will remember that the Boy Scouts at one time had a commission to stand guard over the great Gatun dam. They did not remain long in Panama, however, as they were anxious to get to the scene of their future operations.
When a west-bound ship arrives, for instance, it will be raised through the Gatun locks, three of them, and then sail along eighty-five feet above the ocean, across the lake and into a channel dug right through the hills, until it reaches the locks at Pedro Miguel. Then it will be lowered to a smaller lake five miles long, then down again to the level of the Pacific.
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