The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-12-15
CANALS.


As the attention OF the world concentrated the Panama
Canal be amss consider other canals the world which
under the category The ship canals of the world nine
number The Suez Canal commenced 1850 completed
1909 The Constrad and St Petersburg Canal begun 1877
chester Ship Canal 1894 The Kaiser Wilhelm Canal 1895,
meeting the North Sea and the Baltic The Eb and Trave Canal
T. The Weland Canal connecting Lake Erie with Lake
tao Two canals connecting Lake Superior and Luke Huron
belonging to the United States and one Canada.
BY far the most important Of these is the Suez Canal though the
number of vessels passing through does equal that passing through
the canals connecting Lake Superior with the chain of Great Lakes
OF which about wotrd formed OF shallow lakes through which
passage had be deepened Originally rs deep 1895
deepened 81 The
the surface 42oeet The of construction with improvements
been slightly over upon which an income Of ten per cent
paid, high.
In S7oe number of vessels that passed through 49, year
there 37oS vessels with tonnage 248413 The
passage occupies about eighteen hours goes day
by night the canal being lighted with electric lights When
opened vessels had to anchor night The cost OF passing through
the canal little S. The canal without locks the level
of water on both sides Of the sthmus being the
The COrnth Canal connects salt Also joining the Gulf Of
Cornth with the Bay of Aegna only four miles long but of
through granite rock. The tolls The
being o It reduces the distance between the Levan and Med
iterranean ports about US miles.
The CronstadS Petersburg Canal is really deepening OF the
Nva channel and the Bay Constad from nine feet twenty feet
1t has made of ST. Petersburg commercial well imperial city
Before its construction only vessels of very light draft could reach the
capital going stopping away and
transferring their The Manchester Ship Canal has made Nam
the average depth feet This canal has four locks which
of 90 feet for the entire length of hrthve miles The
originally built for strategic pur-
poses connect the naval habor e with the North Sea he
through marshes shallow lakes and valleys The Ebe and
Trave Canal is purely commercial.
Three ship canals intended continuous passage vessels
the head Of Lake Superior Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence
the Weand Canal originally constructed 1888 and enarg
ed in 1871 and the St Mas Falls Canal Sau Ste Marie
Mich opened 1855 and enlarged 1881 and 1896 and the Canadian
their present the canals the St Mays River
surpas that OF the Weand Canal the number of vessels passing
the canals the St Marys River being eight times
the number through the Weand and the tonnage of thu
products OF the Lake Superior chiefly
section Lake Erie large OF thu
grain coming from Lake Superior from Buffalo the Atlantis
by the Erie Canal and railroads Buffalo Ih
important article the westward shipments through the Saul
Ste Marie canals COAL the territory contiguous LAX
Erie These conditions large for the fact that the number
the ST. Mary River canals greatly
those OF the Weland Canal
Thus mankind by the expenditure Of OF and tn
engineering skill has performed marves in the of i'm
proving commercial and naval and avoiding OF the
been piled from Phoencan gaey Roman slow sair
Ducs yaws saucy fgates and the swift Of times
Undoubtedly work the Suez Canal is the
to the but the greatest work ALL the wedding OF Atlantic
Pacific do Others
OF it, others have essayed but rests with do it,
compish it.
When Columbus discovered America the search
the great beyond began Every estuary
probed by who each thought his particular
longsougor passage This search Magellan south til
discovered the that bears his Columbus
the Onoco 1t inspired lie Marie and Scouten and countless ohe
To the dreamed it, Hudson sought
the that bears his and that bay also named after him
where passed from human ken into the Arctic fog while his munou
sailed back deserved trial in their land.
But opening this mighty 1t left that
When the Panama Canal completed the great work
will have been rounded by human skill. That this
fitting Nothing stop completing that commercial high
way, which Columbus and his followers sought
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