The San Francisco call., 1904-03-26
GREAT SHOWING
FOR THIS PORT
Official Figures Determine
San FranciSco's Position
Relative to Canal Routes
MAKE Up GOOD EXHIBIT
Demonstration Will Be Made
in This City's Building
at st. Louis Exposition

A very remarkable showing relative
to the commercial position OF San
Francisco. in view Of the construction
Of the Panama canal and as related to
the Suez canal and all established
routes Of travel, has been prepared by
the San Francisco display committee
for the San Francisco building at the
st. Louis Exposition. 1t will be told
TO the people of the world assembled
at the great show that the Panama
canal will cut down the distance by
sea from San Francisco to New York
from 1900 miles to 5299 miles, a
saving of 1891 miles, and that the dis
tance from San Francisco to Liverpool
will be diminished by sea from $500
miles to S039 miles, a saving of $3.50
miles. New York and San Francisco
are by the canal brought closer to-
gether by 7791 miles, while Liverpool
and San Francisco have the distance
lessened between them by only $3.50
miles, a difference in favor of New
York of 223O miles.
The distance from Hamburg to San
Francisco is 1909 miles via the
Straits of Magellan and via the 18TH
mus of Panama the distance is but
S467 miles. so that the canal will save
55S2 miles. The saving from Bor-
deaux to San Francisco by the canal,
as compared with the route via the
Straits of Magellan, will be $3.50
miles. Liverpool, Hamburg and Bor-
deaux sustain practically the same re-
latioR to San Francisco. as will appear
from the perusal of the figures given
in the foregoing.
ON ORIENTAL ROUTES.
The distance from New York to
Yokohama via the Suez canal is 49,
04S miles; by the Panama canal the
distance will be 1886 miles. Com
merce between New York and Yoko-
hama will find a saving of 3213 miles
by using the Panama canal as against
the Suez canal route. The distance
from the west end Of the Panama ca
nal to San Francisco will be 3277
miles and the distance from San Fran
cisco to Yokohama is 1855 miles. This
makes the total distance from the
west end of the Panama canal to
Yokohama via San Francisco 1913
miles. The excess of the route via
San Francisco is but 153 miles from
the west end of the Panama canal TO
Yokohama, as compared with the di-
rect route from the west end of the
canal to Yokohama. The same small
excess of I53 miles by way of San
Francisco applies TO the distance to
Hongkong from the west end of the
Panama canal, as compared with the
distance when San Francisco is left
out.
These figures have all been pre-
pared for the display committee from
data supplied by the bureaus connect
ed with the Navy Department of the
United States. There are other fig
ures derived from the same official
sources that apply to Seattle and the
sailing route to the Orient, as COM
pared with the showing made for San
Francisco. The figures are as fol-
lows:
Miles.
From west end of Panama canal to Sc
From sS1le Seattle to Yokohama.. 38os
Total west end Panama canal to Yoko-
From nave west e end Panama canal to Yoko-
hama via San Francisco: ........... 7,s1a
Greater distance by way Of Seattle 6o3
From Panama TO Seattle via San Fran
cisco ..................... 4114
From Seattle 10 Hongkong ........... 5 ,S91
Seattle 10 ooe
kong S1il via San Francisco. ............e. 9.3s7
Saving Of distance via San Francisco. 66e
From west end Panama canal direct to
Yokohama via Honolulu. ....--..-.-. s, 06s
From west end Panama canal to Yoko-
hama via San Francisco. ...-...-.--. ,Sia
Saving of distance via San Francisco. 251