Deep Sea Harbor of Interior English City
i I .
r' ' "' W I ear-re,
p ;- - l1
- X
m
t s
SWINGING AQUEDUCT OF THE BRIDGE WATER CANAL.
IN ONE OF THE LOCKS OF THE MANCHESTER CANAL.
M
(Copyright, 1902, by Frank O. Carpenter.)
ANCHESTER, England, July 81.
(Special Correspondence of The
Bee.) I have come here to give
you the latest and newest Infor
mation about the Manchester ship
canal. It Is rumored that Flerpont Morgan
and his associates have bought a controlling
Interest in It, and that they will shortly
put on a new line of steamers to trade
between Manchester and the United States.
There Is no doubt but that Morgan's Lon
don bank owns a large amount of the
shares. It took them when the canal was
begun and has field them ever since. It will
soon be the chief route for the entrance of
our goods Into this busiest part of the
United Kingdom, and Manchester will be
come a headquarters of the American In
vasion. Indeed, the city already receives
steamers from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Galveston and New Orleans.
Hundreds of thousands of cotton bales from
our southern states sre here brought via
-the canal, to be transferred to the mills; an
enormous grain elevator has sprung up
ifor the storage of American wheat, and 1
jfind that the warehouses along the Man
chester docks are already filled with all
ortj of American goods.
Seaport of England's Heart.
But first let me tell you something about
this great port, which the' English have
created In the rery heart of their country
Manchester Is far back from the sea. It is
one of the busiest cities of the world, and
the country surrounding It Is a vast nee
hive of work. In passing over the rail
from the Black sea with 7,000 tons of Indian
corn, the sailing vessel MUtiades from Ban
Francisco with 11,000 quarters of barley
and wheat and Clampa ot Tacoraa with
2,500 tons of wheat from our great north
west. The traffic of the canal Is steadily grow
ing. Within the last six months the reve
nue has Increased to the amount of $125,000
and there has been a steady growth In the
business since the beginning. The traffic
of the present year will probably exceed
2,000,000 tons and will be greater than that
of any year of the past.
In my ride up the canal I passed cotton
ships from America and from Egypt. The
American Imports up to the middle of last
April were almost 400.000 bales and the
Egyptian about one-fourth that number. At
the lumber docks I saw a ship from Mobile
unloading a cargo of pitch pine end st the
same wharf was one similarly loaded from
Pensacola. There were great tank steamers
from the Russian oil fields at the Russian
oil tanks on the right bank of the canal
and on the left other tank steamers dis
charging American petroleum. I passed the
freezing works where the New Zealand
ships land their frozen mutton In my sail
cn the Duke of Lelnster and also the great
cattle sheds and abattoirs belonging to the
Manchester corporation, of which I may
speak further In another letter.
Some Wonders of the Canal.
The ride down the canal was one ot great
est Interest. The canal company owns
much of the land along the way and this Is
ELEVATOR FOR STORAGE OF AMERICAN GRAIN THE SHIP IS FROM PHILADELPHIA. auch a nature that there could be an al-
roads to and from It In every direction you . . .,. ...,.,.,, Anrm. ..,, 4hl u , most ccntlnuous dock from one end of It to
ride through groves of smokestacks and r - u"" " '"V""1 . ' "' wnicn carrlea 11 ,nt0 tna ,n9 other- Irving Manchester you sail by
it is impossible to get away from the dense "tefc 'M In the heart of a rich, manufac elevator and up into the bins. There are ,ha great warehouses and factories on the
smoke which pour! forth from ths toun- How t. Canal Was Ballt. rin, and agricultural 1 country. The dock, also pipe, which do the same work by canal's bank. Now you are passS? through
dries factories and mills which dot the As a result the Manchester manufacturers are vata f w,Ued wlth maaonry and mean of "uctlon. so that a shipload ot flelda rlch a ln old Engla"d Th
landscape ,aw ruln atarln them the They ""rounded with great warehouses, which wheat can be discharged within a few e bounde(1 by heges and won the .m
Including Its sister city. Salford. the came together, planned this ship canal and "f quipped with the finest of modern ma- hours. The machinery will take 600 tons , r, fat cattl. are feed, ChnUn c"UIlty
place has now about 800.000 population and raised the money to build It. They got the chmerjr' The wate' ,pace, w,lhl" thera fromw teamer hold into the elevator In on you, left on of th lcheBt d ,
the manufacturing towns nearby ars so city corporation of Manchester to back eow" 2" d the total length of the one hour. It weighs the gra n at the water's Ue, of the Unlted KIngd and LancaBbir.
close together that 8.000.000 people live them to ths extent ot $26,000,000; they put ua' abu them is more than five mils, edge . and later on weighs it again when it on your rlght the bualM't manufttCturlng
within carting distance ot the Manchester their hands Into their own pockets and gave a one of the doc" three Atlantic liners J In the sacks ready to be loaded upon the count of tne who,
docks. This means that good, brought millions more, and within a short Urns they haT been berthed almultaneously at the carts or barges by which It is taken over manufacturlng towna at e f
I V " 1 11 111 ' i 1 " 1 -
Y ' -. . 1 lj : ' ' '
!; ;'.';:; " j, r H
I X .' ' " " . i
y ? . ' i ... r
J7U tZ ctopl the dock, rallwsy. run snd the company ter Canal company. He tell, me that the
M 1 " f v diin .1 . MotnB .hnf 1m has 100 miles of trsck connected with the rn imports have steadily Increased since
ana export, eneuieiu, wnu n - ------ .w. u ,., , n-t,t,n , t,A uimuies.
work, and furnace, for making Iron and length. This army had It. camp, in each tZfZl T now InZZ to lloui -m L tola wnulu W "teame1
steel. I. but an hour away by train and ection. It. tent. w.r. wooden house. '''I d?ck- DuTlng the firs? six moS 80 h,h abov can that the mast, of
,ths woolen center ot Leeds is almost as made from lumber brought from the United anal ,C0lnp"jr'V "'eam 000 tons o ' rain habeen received n?o th o touch them a. they pas.
mear. Altogether Manchester form. th. Stat... and. a. many of th. workmen had ,au,n that I wa. taken from dock to dock "J0' t"f "J" hm08t 0f thU came n below. These bridge, were erecfed at
nearest port for a population ot about their wive, and families, ther. wa. a busy and wrehou" t0, " from ths United St2e. an Immense cost by the canal company. The
:8.000.000 and iU people estimate that they town along th. whol. line ot th. canaL ..canaI ' mc'a hat .on fn. .Hn,. trnm railroad comp.nle. were opposed to the en-
1 ordinary good, by means of their No one can appreciate the extent of the "( " ?Cv!" " United State. 1. steadily increasing. Reg- terpri.e. as they thought it would cut down
a saving of $1 per ton on th. inland work without going over the canal. It U Our CSaf of tht Leln.Ur was ar steamer, have been run here for year, their traffic between Uverpool and Man-
t over th. .ame good, landed at thlrty-flvs add a half mile, long, twenty. or JJ " v SmhMUkml W New York, Savannah, New Orleans 'hter. so they forced the canal people to
ii. Th rnl neonle have orenared alz ft dMn nt at h yttnm in a jouy oia sea aog wno iremDiea line a leaf , t' . nnt nni. kim h. ,.m. v.., ..... .v.
can land
canal at
transport
UvitpnAi
r - - -w " bvu. iwt ... nf.AAfv..nf..4 .i.mIm. mm m. i . u u udiTrBiou, sua vuere uhvo uvea sect " " . v .usva, uub iu . io a m.
estimates of the actual cost ot distributing wide. If you can lmaglns a cellar so deep "ttJ ? th. n.i "analDg on deck atonal sall'ngs from Baltimore, Newport railroads for several miles on each sldo of
goods throughout this part of England that you could drop a two-story house 1 . n , ' ' News, Charleston, Brunswick, Mobile and the canal, so that the slops of the road
and it will pay American shippers to ln- within It and have the roof below tha -nr. am surprised at the trafflo which this r..n1. ri.i ... hnn.M wP. crossing- the canal mieht not h tn
estlgate the advanUges of sending their face, so wide that the average city lot could port ,readr has with ths United States. In from Philadelphia, and ln the near future The most surprising bridge on the canal,
exports by ths canal almost direct to the be laid crosswise across ths bottom and so Tery warehouse I found American goods, there wn l)e a dlrect gteamship line from however. Is one where ths Bildgewater canal
factories. long that it would take a railroad train at and ln on Pclallr. known as the New Cnlcag0 t0 Manchester by way cf the St. crosses the Manchester ship canal. The
m... . w-. 100(1 ,Deea an hour to run from one end Ytk warehouse, I saw thousands of bales Lawrence, the Welland canal and the Great Erldgewater canal has for years done s
" M,,l,y waterway. of t t U my hay ot cotton. which had Just come from Gal- nne.. These ships will bring cargoes ot large business between Manchester and
I have spent some days in going over the of this enormous ditch which the Man- eton, great boxes of machinery for the )Umber and provisions, and a regular serv- Liverpool. It was bought by the Manchester
canal and ln looking through ths vast ware- cheater people have dug from their city to Westlnghouse Electric works, crates of lce wln probably be maintained. company at the time they began the ship
houses and buildings which have grown up the sea. A part of the canal was along the American desks snd great cases of hams. c a d (Ue w,.t lUle.. canal and It was then making s profit of
about It It is oue of the wonders of course of the little river Irwell. but much bacon nd ,ard- 0n tn top of another ware- .... . something like $100,000 a year. It is still
modern engineering and as a long-time ln- of It had to be dug out of the solid rock. bouae' four ,tor,e hln' 1 took photographs Canada already has a line of large steam- ,n Ufe gnd t carr,e8 cons,derab, fre, ht
vestment it will probably be a success, The excavation necessary was half as great ' thousand odd barrels of resin which has er to Manchester, which make regu ar The Une of this canal was right acres, the
although the present generation and per- a. that required for the Sues canal and Ju,t eonl from the pine land, of Georgia trips during the summer. These .hips foute necei to (h Manchegter gbl
haps th. next cannot expect to have dlvl- most of it much more difficult. Eight miles " 8outn Carolina, and at the grain ele bring both lumber and cattle. Soma ct c(ma, -
dends out of it. The cost of the under- ct embankment, and sea wall, had to b. a unloading wheat fro them sre of M'-;" c construction cf the latter would necessitate
taking has been enormous. At the .tart it erected along the foreshors of ths Meraev Philadelphia. commcdatlon for 700 live beeves. de-tructlun
SeTft wa's fVurXve'costZ: eUW "rd' f This .levator I. of American construe 1 VhVu.V.. ta"
Before it wa. built Manchester wa. on tha pi.. ...7 ,w. .. u v. tlon. having been built by Messr.. John 8. been brought here from Jamaica and a ' .T ". .u " ".. - " !
iJ!f f.?'- " factorle and warehouse. ,n0Ufa to admit an Atlantic
akiiius;
IU Industrial
their plants
they could
Liverpool
-Chester steadily
charged what
Passing throush to tha Manchaatar .n .... .Trw,.1. ,l lM xtent or tn Man nain. H"s the grain up Into the tower bananas.
"w ocs. ii ssems strange to see sll beside th. host and drops it upon a wide Among the recent arrivals are two ships (Continued cn Eighth Page.)
""e" Metcalf ft Co. of Chicago. It has a storage regular banana service is to be instituted :' ' 'B " " "V . , "ua
liner, and these. , An nn , , , . , rftft a .vw , , ,k MMUnrf. wlth tTlI. even with the boats In it, and by machinery
UtZn"KEi2 ZJZIZ r.'rV" "1 bushel, of wheat, snd In It there are '226 fruit, and this 'service may In the future be '1. ""!?
and business to Glasgow, wheri IV. . T "yl" bin. or pits, the largest of which bold. u. extended to Porto Rico snd Cuba. The Zrr-VZ::
have better shlnoina facilities. Ik... " .1' .7 . " " much as 800 tons. The elevator Is right cn fruit companies here have bought three . . . . ra ihm m..,.. i " ..I
was steadilv alnln .,! Man. :2.V" ... 7 -P. eacu th- canal and the graln taVen dlrec ,teamer from the Chesapeake ft Ohio Rail- I" V," 7" .w". "
declining The former Tltv 7, 1'. . gU W u m "n,p, 10 ttom ih hlP through a marine leg. which way company and will run them to Jamaica. "'"T.i,- i sn rrn. a
ton. it ' ;i.ld 1- '! Cltob to eomln, up th. canal. work, by revolving buckeU on sn endless Each boat will bring 40.000 bunches of ' l''.1'!.! .VS"'"
coin; iujubu ii w v ijUiv4 icii iuiu lUUr
