The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-08

II had palaces at that time. and its build
ings now are medieval and quaint to an ex
IRENE. Just below the city there is a lum
her yard at which barges Of American lum
Der were unloading.
| noted the name {. the firm. 1t wa,
Dubbledam, an evidence that the lumbel
men of Holland can compete in profanity
with our men at nome.
ROCKS WE'RE IMPORTED
FOR THE BANKS.
In many places alorg these canals there
were dredges at work. and here and there
we saw the officers of the Waterstaat SUI.
perintending the building of new embank-
ments.
The canals are almost everywhere walled
with stones the size Of your two fists, and
as l looked at them the enormous work
that it must have taken TO make 2,gG
miles OF such canals came to me.
There are no stones in Holland. Every
pebble has to he brought in from other
countries, and every one of those stones
was laid by hand. Each one took a part
of a mans life to put 1t In it's place, sc
that in reality the lives of generations have
been swallowed up by these canal banks.
You AVE all heard Of, the windmilis of
Holland? They are to be seen everywhere.
Along some of the canals there are hun
dreds of them. They spot the farms. and
you see them on the edge of the towns.
where they grind flour, saw lumber and do
all sorts of things.
They give a great charm to the land
scape. They look so alive that | don't
wonder, that Don Quixote took one for a
giant and wanted to fight him.
These mills are all old. and it must have
cost many millions of dollars to build
them. Their day. however, is past, and but
few new ones are building. The gas engine
and the steam engine have taken their
places and we may yet have Il Holland
without windmilis.
, Holland has made its ship canals pay
well. Amsterdam has the North Sea Canal,
which Is about fifteen miles long. running
across the country from Amsterdam to the
ocean.
1t is thirty feet deep and has two enor-
nous locks which protect it from the North
Sea at high tide.
/ took a ride along it a week ago and in
spected. the breakwaters at its entrance.
The work is. well done, but the locks do
not compare with those of the Sault Ste.
Marie between Lake Superior and Lake
Huron.
one-fourth was paid by the sale of the re-
claimed land. which brought an average
price of almost $500 an acre.
OCEAN SHIPS NOW ENTER
ROTTERDAM HARBoR.
ihls toNh '" fhotltIIIIl Is 4 CITY OF
canals and caralized rivers. The Mas has
been SO dredged that it now permits the
largest of ocean ships to come into Rotter-
and the connections with the Rhine
and other parts of Europe. are such that
this city has become one of the chief ports
OF the continent.
1t is one of our principal gateways for
Europe. SURPRISING Antwerp IN
its importations CT American products.
antwerp. as far as the figures go, has the
greater tonnage. but much Of its tonnage
Is made up of ships. which merely touch
there. while that of Rotterdam is composed
of ships. which take on and discharge car
Rotterdam has about half as much
shipping as Hamburg. and about one-third
that of Liverpool or London.
The shipping Is steadily increasing. and
1t now comprises lines 70 all parts of the
world. In 1906. there were about $40 ships
from the United States.
This IL not one-tenth of the whole num-
Der that came here. but they carried almost
of the cargo of that Year. The
chief of these ships are those CT the Hol-
land American line. which go from Rotter-
doing SO since 1890. These ships are first
dam direct to New York, ana have been