A WONDERFUL WATERWAY.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 52, 26 May 1910, Page 3

A WONDERFUL WATERWAY.

Dr. Vaughan Cornish. F.R.G.3., F.G.S., F.C.S., in'"The Panama Canal and its Makers," states'that this isthmus, or canal zone, is at the present moment the most interesting place in the world. For men of all nations are here engaged in the construction of a great canal directed by the most skilful engineers, equipped financially by a munificent Government, and having at hand the "greatest collection of machinery ever massed for the accomplishment of one undertaking." Indeed, as the author rightly points out, "no one who cares to know the greater things. which are shaping the world can now afford to be ignorant of what is happening on the Isthmus of Panama." The distance from New York to San Francisco will, the author points out, be shortened by no less than 8400 miles, and that from Liverpool by 6,000 miles ; the distance from New York to South American ports will be reduced by an average of 5,000 miles, and that from Liverpool to these ports by an average of 2,600 mles ; then, for the first time, "'Yokohama on the north and Sydney on the south will be brought nearer to New York than to Liverpool or Antwerp, and th r n will New Orleans and the ports on the Mexican Gulf le brought nearer than New York, by sea, to San Francisco, South America beyond Pernambuco, Australia, and Japan." "We shall not te far out," says Dr. Cornish, "in saying briefly that the distance between New York and South American Pacific ports will be shortened by an average of 5,000 miles."