The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-21
THE WORLDS CANALS.
N YFIILEs THE PANAMA canal is the great 5. NAY est engineering nroiect of it's kind

several other sbig ditches worthy of attention Third in cost among the canals of the world is Ethe famous Manchester ship canal which was formally inaugurated by Queen Victoria in i894. The appropriations made by Congress for the Econstruction Of the Panama Canal amount to I$322, ,54d,468 The Suez canal, completed in 1869, cost $lO0sO 0sO0OOo0 while the Manchester ca nal stands third, having cost SS5 OOOOOO This Icanal, thirty five and one-half miles in length, makes seaport of the great industrial city Of anehester, connecting it with liverpool It is wide and deep enough for ocean steamers drawing tWent tysix feet to dock at the wharvess The city of Manchester paid one third of the
 The Welland ship canal in Canada, when all the proposed improvements are completed will frank among tn most important and expensive lof the world ship canals It runs parall ei to Ithe N Niaaar a riv CT from Port Golborne on Lake Erie, to Port Dalhousie, on Lake Ontario adis-s Iatnee of nearly twenty ty-seven miles It was Iopened to travel in 1883 and has since been en-s Ilarged and deepened, making the total cost of lfhe project $26D9O ,366. The increase of the Idepth from fourteen to twenty two feet and other Improvements vii cost $3O0O0O00 more. The 4NelIandS canal overcomes the obstacle to navigation between the lakes presented by the Niagara Falls.
 The Cape Cod sea level canal, now nearing Ieompletion, is another mighty project of this nature. It is about dozen miles in length and tvent y- five feet deep, and by connecting Bug zards Bay and Massachusetts Bay will shorten lfhe sea route between Boston and New York by. about sixty three miles. The Cape Cod canal ! is expected to be navigable by the middle of. Summer, but will probably not be opened for Igeneral business until November. TheSuez Canal, connecting the Mediterran-l lean and Red seas, was completed in94869, at 8 Icost Of about siO0Oo0,Oo0. Most of the labor was performed by Egyptians who were forced. Ito toi1 for mere pittance, barely able to keep them alive and who were watched over by bru- tai overseers who constantly piled their lashes lon the bare backs of the Khedive,s slaves
 Germany's greatest canal and the most im- portant "ditch of continental Europe, is thrs Kaiser Wilhelm canal connecting the Baltic and North seas twas completed in 1895 at a cost 1 of S4O,OOOsOOO It is sea-level canal, thirty l six feet in depth and sixty-one miles long. Longest Of the worlds canals is the Erie, between Albany and Buffalo, 387 miles. Itwas completed in 1826, and the cost with improve lments, amounts to S5254o8oo The Erie, and l the Oswego and Champlain canals are now be- ing enlarged. by the State Of New York to 8 l depth of twelve feet. The cost of the improve ment is to be kept within SiOd 100000.
 In the matter of tonnage, the canals at Sault Ste. Marie while comparatively short and mex pensives far surpass all of the other canals Of the world. The tonnage passing through the ditches connecting Lakes Superior and Huron are more than three times great as that of lSuez
 1 The Manchester canal is in one way the most remarkable in the world, since it was built through country densely settled and with in lterests vested from time imnlemorial, thus pre- senting problems not encountered in the con, lstruction of otherwaterWays. I The prominent citizens would all like to at tend the C.. A. R. exercises May 80, but they are Iregretfully compelled to absent themselves on
 account of their obligation to root for the home.
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 After few more of these labor troubles, it
 may occur to some employers that a is worth a few cents more day if he has heard
 of the United States constitution.
 l There might not be any danger to the
 Queen of Bulgaria in this country on account of
 the Mexican war, but she would have found the
 sounds that emanate from the ball grounds very laffrighting.
 l A man may be enthusiastic for the annexa- ton of everything down to the Panama canal
 but that does not prove that he will accede to l his wife's request to dig Up yard or two more at the end of the garden