PANAMA

CANAL

WHAT IT IS

WHAT IT MEANS

This sketch was made by Joseph Pennell while workmen were quitting work for the day By permission of Joseph Pennell and J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

JOHN BARRETT

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION

U. S. Minister to Siam (1894-98); Special Commissioner in Asia
(1898-99); U. S. Delegate to Second Pan American Conference
(1901-02); Commissioner General to Asia and Australia of the St.
Louis World's Fair (1902-3); U. S. Minister to Argentina (1903-4);
U. S. Minister to Panama (1904-5; U.S. Minister to Colombia (1905-6;
Elected by the Twenty-one American Republics, in 1906, as the
Executive Officer of the "Bureau of American Republics" (changed
by international agreement to "Pan American Union" in 1910),
which position he has since held.

PAN AMERICAN UNION

WASHINGTON, D. C.
U. S. A.