Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

TIE GREAT SHIP CANAL -- AMERICAN INNf~-
TORS FIGHTING sHY-soME REMARk AKIE
Plans QUARANTINE SARA BEENHARDl.
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among people generally, is the opening "l
bids for stock in the French scheme, the one
engineered by NJ. de Lcsseps, the Grand
Digger General of the famous Sucz canal,
and which was approved hy the lnttrna-
tional Commission recently IN session at
Paris. The possible complications. with the
Monroe doctrine of an European Regency
of a project of such magnitude makes the
matter something Of political as well as com
mercial and economical import. The French
men have very kindly offered to let us help
pay for the piper and have through their
financial agents here. the Credit LyonBais
who are srmptuously accommodated in that
magnificent palace, the Equitable Insurance
| Building, allowed our moncyed magnatcs To
hand forth any amount of ducats. But
strange to say, although many of our bank
crs, shipping merchants. and other pluto
cratic dignitarics, have spoken warmly in
favor of the plans of NJ de Losscrs, SO iaras
it appears as yet not one dollar has been
forthcoming from any American. 1t seems
sum of 500, 000, 600, will he allotted
To European applicants if there are
any. So our poor counirymen VIII
| he left out of the cold, If the
French plan is suffered TO proceed The
| Nicaraguan Government seems 10 have, in
its own interest, walked up with vast deal
more energy than is usual with the some
what incident authorities of Central Amerl-
can States when anything hut revolutions are
under discussion They have already, it is
said, begun deepening the Ncaraguan canals,
and IN that way fallen into line with the re-
concentrations of our own intelligent cx
| plorcrs. Ii would seem On the face of il that
the American idea was 10y all odds the most
reasonable in any way. Two splendid ports
at the cxtrcmiiies of the canal, with Lake
| Nicaragua as most convenient halfway
house in the middle and the canal cummuni-
cation divided in this way, and 10y several
miles shorter than hy any other route.
Some queer ideas have been preached about
this lsthmus cutting. One was 10 have a
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motives large enough l" move huge Trucks
or rather sections of dry docks on wheels,
on which the largest vessels fully laden
| might he carried over the lsthmus, like a
bale of calicocs, the locomotives to he iitted
with donkey engines, about the size of the
Corlss centennial motor, To shovel the coal,
turn the nonderous thrnttlrs oil them up
etc. Another notion was TO initiate balloons
and calmly lift steamships across from ocean
To ocean.
The recurrence oi an outbreak oil yellow
fever at Memphis and the appearance IN
few isolated instances OF cases IN New York
and Brooklyn where the patients had eluded
inc quarantine regulations mas eAc'cu COIL
siderable interest III tiiat "ld-lashl"hed sale
guard 1t is, of course, a nuisance to pas
sengers l" he detained IN quarantine and To
conslgnces and shippers when the unloading
and loading Of cargoes is interfercd with, hut
properly administered quarantncis undoubt
edly great protection. Few people know
what the institution really is IN New lork,
ana many nave Il most unreasonable horror
OF IT.
The quarantine station Is in tact sliuat-
ed IN charming locality Mt The
entrance to the harhor, and has
marine Views that beat Coney Island or
Lon" branch HOLLOW Inc h'SpHal proper
Is on an island an ARTIFICIAL reel bullt "ut IN
The broad Atlantic Itscii. The buildings are
all frame huis. eNInisltrly clean anu open l"
every breeze anu surrounded ny sllcil NcSc-
ta'ioh as Will grow IN s'lch a brihy athi"S-
pherc The stall OF physlclanS and nurses
Is oil excellent c"mp"sitl"n' ana II there Is
Charm i"r any SICK man I" recover he can
mol possibly hnd his lines caSt IN pleas
ahter places thah III quarantine Inc heau-
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tic resort ior very exclusive Juilhe'lhS par
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health onlcer yacht was frequently HIieu
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