St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-20


during flood tide, for period of three
or four hours each day. Each of the
gates is twenty-seven and a half yards
IN width, and the space enclosed by its
walls. is 164 yards in length. The low
est possible depth at the Brunsbuttel
end is almost twenty fathoms, and at
Z Holtenau a trif1e more. The lock
gates, or sluices, are operated by hy-
draulic power. The whole canal is
lighted by electricity, said to be the
longest distance in the world illumina-
ted continuously that way. Some 5000
tall poles, taken from Bismarck's oaks
In the Sachenwald, have been erected
for the purpose, and each light is of
twenty-five candle power. AT several
points the canal is crossed by nova
bic bridges, which when opened leave
free space of fifty-four and quar-
ter yards. There are also a number of
ferries. Two finely constructed perma-
nent railway bridges at Levensau and
Gruenthal carry the Kiel-Flensburg
lines across the canal. The piers of
these two bridges have casemated but
tresseS, each capable of holding 400
soldiers, and port holes for guns
wrought into the masonry, which in
times of war would be used to pre-
vent the enemy's passage.
COMMERCIAL AND NAVAL.
The purpose of the Baltic canal is
twofold one, commercial and naval.
AS for the commercial advantages they
result plainly enough, since the short
ening of a voyage, hitherto made
around the Skager rock, is consider
able. From Newcastle and London the
saving in nautical miles is 107, ISL and
239 respectively; from Dunkirk and
other points along the French, Belgium
and Dutch coasts, the saving varies
from 236 to 250 miles, and from Emden,
Bremen and Hamburg the saving is
2S3, 323, 425 miles respectively. A SINH
lar saving of distance and time is eff
Afected for Baltic ports of Prussia,
Mecklenburg and Russia. The military
advantages accruing lie in the fact
that henceforth, in times of war, the
German navy cannot be rent or kept
apart, and provisioning of either the
Baltic or the North Sea cannot be
interrupted or rendered impossible.
Germany has about fifty large and
small vessels of her imperial navy at
the opening exercises, while the other
nations are represented about as fol-
lows: Great Britain by ten vessels,
with a total displacement of 1850 tons,
III officers and 1880 men; Italy by nine
vessels, with a total displacement of
3S,817 tons, 180 officers and 3,309 men;
the United States by four vessels, with
total displacement of PLAT tons, 70
officers and l ,497 men; France by three
vessels, with 1880 tons displacement,
80 officials and 1850 men; Russia by
three vessels, with 20,S72 tons displace-
nent, 70 officers and 1,305 men; Austria
Hungary by four vessels, with total
displacement of 1884 tons; So officers
and LIP men; Scandinavia, five yes
sells, with So officers, CTS men and 1854
tons; Spain by three vessels, with Sc
officers. 1892 men and II, ,S66 tons; Dem
mark by six vessels, with 80 officers
1870 men and 1850 tons; Holland, with
two vessels, % officers, Alb men and
4175 tons; Roumania by two vessels,
with % officers, 400 men and $50 tons; !;
Turkey by one cruiser corvette, with
Is officers, 800 men and 1850 tons-in all
about fifty-two foreign vessels, with
S14 officers and II, 463 men. OF the grant
of $420,000 more than half viz, $220,-
GOO, was used in erecting temporary
buildings, scaffolding, in transporta-
ton to and fro of the guests of the
nation and of the material and pro-
visions needed for their entertainment,
in hiring small craft and charerting
large steamers for the conveying of the
800 guests of the emperor and of their
suites. The balance, some 100000, will
be used to defray the cost of the
hospitality to be extended to the of
ficeis of the foreign squadrons, in
Guiding grand ball for the officers and
dinner to the crews.
THE GREAT CEREMONY.
+. The most brilliant series of festivi-
ties will be thq laying of the last stone
in the building of the canal, and in the
international banquet, which is to fol-
low it, this marking virtually the close
of the official programme of festivi-
ties. This ceremony will take place
in the open air at Holtenau, not at the
lighthouse adjoining the sluices, as at
first intended. The spot where the
emperor will perform this ceremony
on Friday has been embellished by
handsome designs in landscape garden
ing, and the lighthouse, in close prox-
unity, shows already the three bronze
reliefs of Emperors William l., Fred
.erick Ii. and William II. Beneath the
relief medallion of the old emperor is
a black marble tablet, richly orna-
mented, on which is engraved in gilt
lettering, His Majesty Emperor Will
lam |. laid the corner stone of the
Baltic canal on June 8, 1887, and ac-
companied his blows with the hammer
by the words In honor Of united Ger
many for her permanent welfare, In
token of her might and power (" The
io1 t.11 Iafc l.
two bronze medallions show as yet no
inscription. The lighthouse and the
block of masonry into which the en-
peror is to place the finishing stone are
surrounded by enormous scaffoldings.
rising amphitheatrically in a semi
circle and affording seating room for
about 1900. From these seats the
whole space where the banquet is to
take place and the bay where the in
ternatienal naval demonstration is to
come Off, can be overlooked at ease.
ExTRAVAGANCE RUNS RIOT.
One hundred and fifty are lights will
furnish the illumination for the grand
banquet tomorrow night The table
arrangements have been entrusted TO
BOarchardt, of Berlin, who receives
100 marks ($25) yer plate, or $4,000 in
all, which sum includes wines, service.
transportation, etc. Emperor William
will toast the United States navy and
the band will play ''Eail Columbia
His majesty is expected to make an
important speech. The French adj
ntral, Menard, will sit on the emperors
right hand, and the Russian admiral,
Skrydoff, will be seated on his left
Some 300 yachts and other private
pleasure and passenger craft have
been assigned positions in Kiel harbor
and immediate vicinity. To enable the
Hamburg Berlin railway line to bring
the thousands of visitors from every
part of Germany to the scene of the
dedication, all freight traffic was or
dered suspended on that line during the
three days from June Is to %. The
newspapers of the world are of course
represented, but Of the $50 who ex-
pressed a desire to participate by some
representative, but $50 could be ac-
eommodated by the government, the
steamer assigned being unable to con-
yeniently convey more than that num-
Der. or the $50 nearly one-half repre-
sent newspapers of other countries
than Germany. AT the imperial BAN
auet but fifteen representa- tiveS of the