. Loyal citizenship. ys to makenavigation safer. The Bureau of Navigation andthe Steamboat Inspection Service enforce laws forthe safety of vessels (including the examination andlicensing of pilots and officers of steamships). TheLife Saving Station Service rescues the passengersand crews of vessels in distress. Canals. Before the day of raikoads, canals werebuilt as a means for the cheap transport of freightand even passengers. The most famous of our earlycanals was the Erie, which ran from Buffalo toAlbany and connected the Great Lakes with theHudson Biver. A glance at the map will show what
. Loyal citizenship. ys to makenavigation safer. The Bureau of Navigation andthe Steamboat Inspection Service enforce laws forthe safety of vessels (including the examination andlicensing of pilots and officers of steamships). TheLife Saving Station Service rescues the passengersand crews of vessels in distress. Canals. Before the day of raikoads, canals werebuilt as a means for the cheap transport of freightand even passengers. The most famous of our earlycanals was the Erie, which ran from Buffalo toAlbany and connected the Great Lakes with theHudson Biver. A glance at the map will show whata large part of the United States it served. Canalswithin our country have lost much of their earlyimportance. Nevertheless, the state of New Yorkfound it worth while to spend nearly $150,000,000 inbuilding a barge canal over much the same route asthe Erie, the work being completed in 1918 (). A similar canal from Albany to the lowerend of Lake Champlain was completed in 1916. Development of Communications 269. Fig. 11;>. A scdion (.1 lli. \, „ ^ wi k Darge Canal. A giant, carfloat, huill in a shipyard on the (iroat Lakes, is being towed throughthe canal for use in New \Ork harbor. These canals will accommodate vessels drawingtwelve feet of water. There are several important ship canals connectinglarge bodies of water, such as the Sault Ste. MarieCanal, which unites Lakes Superior and Huron,and the Cape Cod Canal. The Panama Canal bringsthe east and west coasts of the United States closetogether for commerce and defense. Up to thepresent time it has cost the United States not farfrom $500,000,000. It was completed under thedirection of General Goethals of the United StatesArmy. 270 Loyal Citizenship Railroads. The railroads of this country were builtby private capital, sometimes with govermnentassistance. For a long time they did as they pleasedwith regard to their rates and the character of theservice they gave. But they discovered that com-petition in rates and se
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