Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . llan. A general idea of the saving in distancebetween points likely to be affected by the Canal isgiven by the table prepared by Hon. John Barrett,Director General of the Pan-American Union andpublished on page 384. The Pacific coasts both of the United States andof South and Central America will be quickenedinto new life when the stream of commerce beginsto flow through the new channel at Panama. Itmay be wise to lay emphasis at this point upon thefact that so far as industrial and commercial lifeon our own Pacific coast is concerned it needs lit
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . llan. A general idea of the saving in distancebetween points likely to be affected by the Canal isgiven by the table prepared by Hon. John Barrett,Director General of the Pan-American Union andpublished on page 384. The Pacific coasts both of the United States andof South and Central America will be quickenedinto new life when the stream of commerce beginsto flow through the new channel at Panama. Itmay be wise to lay emphasis at this point upon thefact that so far as industrial and commercial lifeon our own Pacific coast is concerned it needs littlequickening, as the march to civic greatness of thosecommunities has been unparalleled. But even thatmagnificent advance has been impeded and harassedby the difficulty of communication with the marketsof the Atlantic coast. The struggles of the Pacificcoast planters and lumbermen to break the bondageimposed upon them by the railroads have been fairlyfrantic, and their uniform failure pathetic. Per-haps the railroad managers have demanded no. Photo by BTOxcn Bros. THE BEGINNING OF A SLIDEThe great crack has opened in the side of a road; note house in the distance about to go THE MUCH-MOOTED QUESTION OF TOLLS 383- more than a rightful care for the interests of theirstockholders warranted. This is no place to arguethe railroad rate question. But from the shipperspoint of view the demands have been so intolerablethat every expedient for resisting them has beentried and failed. Even now there is profit to acorporation—and to the shippers that patronize it—in carrying goods from San Francisco to Hawaii,thence to Tehuantepec and across that Isthmus tothe Gulf and thence again to New York in com-petition with the direct railroad lines. If freightcan be thus handled profitably, with two changesfrom ship to car and vice versa, it is easy to see howvastly beneath the charges of the railroads will bethe all-water route between New York and SanFrancisco. It is little exaggeration to s
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