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Show FROM ALASKA TO CAPE HORN. A Pan-American Railway, Greatest Project of Its Kind. Tho gray plover nests In tho sedges of Alaska, says E. B. Clark in tho Technical World; and when tho short summer wanes, It loads Its young In perilous flight southward across plains and mountain ranges and then, guided guid-ed by tho coast-line, wings its way steadily onward until it reaches Its wlntor homo in Patagonia. For more than one-half of tho immense-, distance of its migration tho flight courso of the gray plover Is almost coincident with tho surveyed lino for tho projected project-ed Pan-American railway, a commercial commer-cial connection between tho northern and southern continents that a few years ago was regarded as tho dream of enthusiasts, but which to-day has passed far beyond tho realm of visions. vi-sions. Men whoso lives aro well behind them will probably live to seo tho day when they can make an unbroken railway rail-way Journey from tho River Yukon in Alaska to tho River Llmay ln Patagonia. Pata-gonia. This Journey from tho north to tho south means moro than tho traveling of an immense distance within a short space of time, though this thought alono is Impressive. It moans tho passing through alternate alter-nate cold and heat, moisture and dryness, dry-ness, bare fields and green fields, treeless tree-less plains and tropical forests, fertile valleys rind sterile mountains; It means ncqualntnnco with men of every hue of skin and of every habit of life, It means tho wedding of the ends of earth. |