New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-22

way lies open to the Loire and also TO the Mediter-
Tterc are two other lines Of canals tapping the
Belgian country one az Chareroi, making use OF
the river sambre ns o'n nF WopIsworths poetry
and the Aisne. Both these also use the river use
Aeain tbbev are connected with the purely French
canal Of tIe river Somme. which flows down
through The department o aa W,m tb a"G Com
queror set sail for Eng land Other historic mem m
Grayelines al the mouth of the canalized river IA
or the FIVE great battles at Condo on me Mons ca
nal might help % interest the tourist in these arui
ciai WATERWAYS. But their real importance IS IN
their forming network OF cheap trahspoIta,c,n
routes over the whole country ana from nation 20
nation They make pain the startling advance OF
French industry in the years just preceding the IN
The next systems Of canals belong properly to n"
region of the East. which is SO connected WIN me
North and Belgium that IL makes ON! vie ,nro.
trative section with the latter. It's chief interest
Marine which flows into the StNlc az ,h' go 7,
Paris. all the way to StrasourG am me knne. -
passes through the cnak ms b champanc wine
meets with ltheims centre 81 NJ ,rraint
trade with Metz, the mpregnah!e CITY OF LORRAINE
until the Germans took and Kept II. ana. toward
The south with the Saonc River which Joins the
Rhonc at Lyons and goes on 10 the Medic lan i
r,,n1,an wine dIstrcte is also put communication
With belgium by a canal from the Marine to the
The french LONGER sing Alfred de MTssers ,, DE-
iian song Oh" p,' ,hnr k"ep in arei order The
canals which made the Rhine provinces one win
The canal systems Of the south OF France are yet
more important than those already named. There
are three travcrsinG different regions Of the m
terror from Paris 10 Lyons. ono or these pass.
westward to the Loire and the Atlantic ocean,
has been the making OF the manufacturing district
around Roannc IN the hills northwest OF lyons
Another. again. connects the Rhone with the Ger
man frontier. ., -. A.,
The broad Loire has saved great portion OF the
west OF France from the necessity or arunclal ca
nails But the valley OF the Nire In cheese,inaking
Normandy. has had ia river Canalizcd; so has tlc
Sarthe and Mayenne in old Maine: there IL cahSl
from Nantes TO Iirest through Briianny. ana 50 on
down to La Rochelle. =,
The southwest Of France Is the classic land OF
canal achievement: and the present Dukes or cara
man and the Princes Of Chimay owe their origin
10 the plain RiQuci. who built the cana. OF l'anRuc-
doc and received "A baron's title In return. Along
the Mediterranean slope Il Is the complaint OF Mar
settles that she Is not furnished Win c.rar cahiis
concentrating the inland trade on her port.
Perhaps the general conclusion might hr Drawn:
from even so rapid a survey that the prosperity or
France has been due hitherto to this careful deVc-
opment Of internal resource. Iher" would now '
little manufacturing around the hcadwaters of the
Loire without these artificial waterways FOR the
transportation OF supplies. The wine commerr" mas
long depended exclusively them. They have thus
helped home production. hut they have not .ess
helped home consumption It Is healthy example
Of France Tor the French