The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-28
CAPE GOD CANAL
 OPENSTO TOMORROW
Two Governors and One Roose- welt Will Take Part in First
 Trip Through Breach.
SECOND IN IMPORTANCE
 ONLY TO PANAMA CANAL
Cuts off Seventy Miles of Most Dangerous Coast in America. Improvement Cost $12,- 0OO,OOO.

Boston, Mass, July zs@The first vessel ever piIoted from the south to the north of Cape Cod by any other route than the Graveyard of Ships, 9 at Polocks Rip, will steam through the new Cape Cod canal tomorrow morning.
 Bearing the governor of New York and the governor of Massachusetts the mayor of Boston and Assistant Sec retary of the Navy Franklin D. Roose- welt as an emissary of the government, the steamer Rose standish. leading a fleet of yachts and pleasure craft, will officially open the new $12,O00,000 water way.
 Ceremonies in which all New Eng land will participate have been plan ned. Assembling at New Bedford at Il a. m., the fleet will move through the channel to Cape Cod Bay.
 Behind the Rose Standish, the ofn- mans yacht, Sultana, with a. party of guests Next will be Commodore Mor- ton F. Plants Thelma. with another party, and following will be a dozen other yachts, including Commodore E. c. Benedict's Oneida, and August Belmont's LAnta- Mir. Belmont, as president of the Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal company, win be in charge of the affair, having the state and city officials on the official boat. Secretary Roosevelt, in a Navy Department cutter, will follow direct ly behind the Rose standish.
 A special train, leaving Boston at s:55, will carry delegations of Boston business men, who return on another special from New Bedford. Speeches and a general celebration will mark the return of the party to the south the channel will be open to vessels of commerce.
 The completion of the cape Cod can al is regarded in commercial circles as the greatest achievement of the cen tury, aside from that at Panama. Cut ting off seventy miles of the most dangerous and uncertain route between the greatest cities of the eastern coast, 1t provides an inside waterway pro- tected at every point It is thirteen miles long, five miles of the total be- ing the distance to a thirty-foot depth in the terminal bays.
 At the northern end, only thirty miles from Boston, a 5000 foot break water, costing $4.000,o0O and com posed of millions of tons of granite, protects the approach. The channel is 25 feet deep and 100 feet wide. ca pablo of enlargement to twice that ca- pacity. Two highway bridges one at Bourne and the other at Sagamore span the canal. It is lighted along it's whole length.
 Strategically, the canal is important It makes almost impossible success ful blockade by a hostile fleet of the eastern coast Properly fortified 1t provides a constant channel of com for ships of both war and commerce A movement to enlarge 1t for warships is under way
 Commercially. its advantages are manifold. Barges from tbe new Erie Canal may be lowed safely to Boston There have been thirty-fve wrecks a year for fifty years outside of PolIocks Rip and the outside course is regard ed as the most dangerous on the At lantic- Coast. It is expected that 25.- - ono tons a year will pass through 1 tF~ canal. making 1t second in tom mage among the canals of the world