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Show EMPEROR WILLIAM . OPENS TELTOW CANAL BERLIN, June 2. Emperor William opened the Teltow canal today. This is another waterway connecting the manufacturing man-ufacturing suburbs of Berlin with the sea via the Havel and Elbe canal, and gives some hundreds of manufacturers all-water transportation to Hamburg and adds another to the network of waterways wa-terways which it is the Emperor's plan to extend so as to place Berlin and other great interior cities in easier touch with International over-sea commerce. com-merce. The new canal was bullt'at the expense ex-pense of the localities which are benefited, bene-fited, by it. It cost 10,000,000, has a depth of eight feet, and is crossed by fifty bridges. |