Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . of South America is chieflyaffected by the Canal, and that to a degree rigidlylimited by the distance of the point considered fromthe Straits of Magellan, and the size of the Canaltolls imposed. Nor will the Suez Canal be an abandoned water-way after our own cut at Panama is will, indeed, be not surprising to see the SuezCanal tonnage increase, for trade breeds trade, andthe Panama Canal will be a stimulant as well as acompetitor. To all of British India and SouthernChina the distance from Liverpool via Suez is lessthan via Panama, an
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . of South America is chieflyaffected by the Canal, and that to a degree rigidlylimited by the distance of the point considered fromthe Straits of Magellan, and the size of the Canaltolls imposed. Nor will the Suez Canal be an abandoned water-way after our own cut at Panama is will, indeed, be not surprising to see the SuezCanal tonnage increase, for trade breeds trade, andthe Panama Canal will be a stimulant as well as acompetitor. To all of British India and SouthernChina the distance from Liverpool via Suez is lessthan via Panama, and to Melbourne, Sidney andother Australian ports the saving in distance viaPanama is less than 2000 miles. The Suez Canal, ? V ?•?xii-. J^ NOT! Cf!U£LTY TO « fUmSHEl) BlfTHr- EEfl^»Ti _ ANY PCRSOH WHO OVERLOADS. : ^?«*Sil££ii2Si-*^* BEATS OB , .„„-„„.„,„.,».,-„ WORKS AM ktOWsl. JSii Ksm eSoIsSIm^T^ PUNISHABLE BY riHE *HD kcBATcNlUW OOH 35lt*™ IMPRISONMENT ^*^^f!^^^pmsiOi. A ZONE SIGN OF CIVILIZATION EFFECT OF THE CANAL ON TRADE ROUTES 375 it is to be remembered, is owned by Great Britainand a very slight concession in rates will be all thatis needed to keep British merchant vessels to theirlong accustomed routes. We have had a hardertask in digging our Canal than the French had atSuez, but we need cherish no delusive idea that weare going to put the earlier waterway out of really great material advantage which theUnited States is to derive from this monumentalnational undertaking will come from the all-waterconnection between our own Atlantic and Pacificcoasts. A ship going from New York to San Fran-cisco via the Straits of Magellan traverses 14,000miles of sea—some of it the very most turbulentof all King Neptunes tossing domain. By Panamathe same ship will have but 5000 miles to amazing thing is that ships are going aroundthe Horn, or at least through the Straits, but thehigh rates on tr
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