. St. Nicholas [serial]. e averagefreight steamer would be $3000. The savingin time would be even more important. Asteamer on this line makes only about tworound trips a year through the Strait of Magel-lan, but through the Panama Canal at least fiveround trips a year probably could be made. It might be interesting to go further into fig-ures to show how much the Panama Canalwould benefit the world, such as the total ton-nage that would be likely to pass through the narrow waterway each year, and the extra num-ber of passenger ships that would ply betweenNew York and San Francisco; but suffici
. St. Nicholas [serial]. e averagefreight steamer would be $3000. The savingin time would be even more important. Asteamer on this line makes only about tworound trips a year through the Strait of Magel-lan, but through the Panama Canal at least fiveround trips a year probably could be made. It might be interesting to go further into fig-ures to show how much the Panama Canalwould benefit the world, such as the total ton-nage that would be likely to pass through the narrow waterway each year, and the extra num-ber of passenger ships that would ply betweenNew York and San Francisco; but sufficienthas been said to convince any one of the greatneed of this new waterway. By dividing a hemi-sphere, man will create a new commerce of theworld, and bring the countries of both sides ofthe globe into closer relationship. Next to gird-ling the globe with submarine cables, therefore,this work of cutting through the Isthmus of Pan-ama will prove, it is hardly too much to say,the most important commercial event of the LAZY COOMARASAWMY. {An East Indian Fairy Tale.) By George Sylva.
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