The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-22
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 l The keystone was laid at II o'clock and after the ceremony the guests in attendance were arranged in the follow ing order; Immediately behind the em- peror and empress were the royal visit ors, in the rear of which were the Han | seattle Burgomasters; to the left of the imperial marquee were the suites of the various royalties, and to the right Chancellor Hoheulohe, the imperial and Prusian ministers, the members of the Bundersrath and the heads of govern ment departments.
 To the left of the stairs leading to the jetty stood the foreign ambassadors and admirals, and to the right were the reichstag committee and the canal com mittee. Grouped behind these were the guards of honor, the members of the reichstag, the invited guests and the foreign officers.
 Chancellor Hohenlohe met the em- peror at the jetty and led him to the marquee. Chancellor Hohenlohe's doc ument giving history of the canal, with a set of coins in the reign of Elm peror Frederick III, was placed in the stone which was then closed. After the emperor had tapped the stone with a mallet the empress stepped forward and performed the same act, followed by the Crown Prince of Prussia, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, the King of Sax ony, the Grand Duke of Baden, the Grand Duke of Hesse and a number of others.
 At the conclusion of the ceremonies at the Keystone the emperor went on board the Hohenzollern, where he took luncheon. Sa1utes to his majesty were fired by several of the warships in the bay
 It had been arranged in the course of preparations for the celebration that the assembled warships should steam past the Hohenzollern in review, but for some unexplained reason it was de- cided later that the emperor's yacht should merely steam through the lines of the German and foreign fleets lying at anchor.
 This was accordingly done, all of the ships saluting the Hohenzollern as she passed. All of the ships were literally covered with flags and in the bright sunshine made a magnificent specta- cle.
 Miss Herbert, daughter of the United States secretary of the navy, with party of friends, was on board the American cruiser New York.
 Never had such a scene as this been witnessed. Nearly every type of mod ern warship was represented, and a fair idea of the effectiveness of the various national forces was afforded by the sew eral squadrons sent to the gathering of this mighty fleet.
 THE NEW BALTIC CANAL.
 The first sod of the new Baltic Canal was turned by the venerable Kaiser Wilhelm I. eight years ago. The canal Is considered one of the greatest en- gineering achievements of the century. It unites the waters of the Baltic Sea with those of the German Ocean. The | project is 500 years old, In 1898 a water ! way known as the Stecknitz Canal was i made It was little better than ditch, Tn 1784 the Elder Canal, from Kiel to | Toennig, on the North Sea, was cut, | but it afforded passage only to very | small craft. The new canal follows | for half it's distance the course of the l old Elder It was built at cost of | S39, 900, 900. It extends from Holtenau, |
  mouth of the Elbe, a distance of sixty | one miles. There Is a lock at each end, | but none between. It is lighted by | along Its whole length. At l no point is it less than twenty-nine feet | six inches in depth. It saves forty hours between Hamburg and the Bal .ic, and twenty-four hours between III English ports south of Harwich and he Baltic.
 THE GREAT FLEET AT KEEL.
 Never before was such a powerful leet assembled in one place as that n Kiel Bay to-day. There were 116 Of these Germany was rep by eight battle ships, six coast defence ships, three cruisers, five des- batch vessels, eight training ships, the oval yacht, four torpedo division boats md twenty-four torpedo boats, beside numerous small craft. The United States was represented by the cruisers ] New York, Columbia, San Francisco md Marblehead. England sent four battle ships three cruisers, two tor ,edo vessels, the royal yacht and the Admiralty yacht Austria-Hungary | ent three cruisers, France had a bat leshrip and two cruisers, Denmark wo cruisers and four torpedo boats, ,pain a battleship and two cruisers, battleship, Italy four bat leship, a cruiser and an armored gun ,oat Sweden two turret ships and a .un nboat, Norway two gun vessels and ix torpedo boats, Turkey yacht, and a cruiser and gun vessel four armor-clad barbettes, hree armored cruisers and two royal ] achts.
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