| Show AS ts S A Cleveland Plain Dealer Last winter four steamers were vero buIlt bui on time the lakes Ilke fur for time the Northwestern Steamship Coto COIO form Otto a U regular N ular freight line hue Ino between Chicago anti and Liverpool Liverpool The Time lImit of tho time four tour tho thu Northwestern has hal now started from fron Chicago for Cor the voyage to Liverpool with a cargo of oC meats lard oil 01 cake hay lay machinery crIO and black b walnut lumber The Tue second of the thc leet the Is II scheduled to 10 leave leae next Monday and amid the time other two to will wi follow to I 1 aa as lS soon ax an I they can cnn be begot I begot e got ready and nd 5 It I Is time the steamers rs wilt will wi take provisions and grain across returning with wih miscellaneous laneous merchandise These will wi be the th first lirot regular line lne to pass from time thc lakes IlkeR to time the ocean through time the Canadian system o ut ot canals and time the largest vessels that have hae ever er been canals locked the entire chain of ot Kansas City CitY World This io use so of ot the canals by h t i line lino of or steamers steaming under the American Amerl ln ling hag and ant owned ownell exclusively by Amen Ameri Americans cans calms Is going to bo be 10 an nn event In the history of ot Canadian navigation The Tho canals which will wi be used while built bul t by the Canadian government nt mit great groat expense have hav not hot so 1 far been b en used by any alY regular line UIO of seagoing steamers I The Tho canals have inive practically mode Indo no n return to tho the government and tho the Northwestern line Une Is ii I the first to signi signify fy ty t that It I will wi use uso them steadily during the six 81 months of ot navigation on ott the Great Lakes Ih The Northwestern rca ves vessel es sel s1 which first passes posses through the those e canals will wi also be something for ong and Ind Germans O to look at nt when It enters Hamburg Liverpool or Lon IMn London In lion don For Kor or tho time steamers steamer of o tho the North Northwestern Northwester Northwestern western wester line lne will wi be bo the time first to enter these ports orts flying the time American flag 1 a anti and Ind owned solely by Americans 1 Chicago But Dut Chicago la is destined In course of oC time to be something moro mono than thal a lake lakeport lakeport lakeport port that Is hI she wilt will load cargoes c into Inlo ocean In Chicago river and har bar harbor harbor barbor bor In fact regular communication be between between between tween this lila city and amI the principal Euro European Furo European pran ports Is to ho be established during luring the time coming season of navigation ns as ni a forerunner of ot the great grent wean otean CU tonnage tonna that Ihal Is some Rome day to be ho a n feature of this port Time The steamer Northwestern tern which left lef Hush street bridge yesterday afternoon will wi be time the th American steamer to go CU from Chicago Chico to Europe Eurol direct It will 1 discharge a n grain cargo ago nt at Buffalo and ant lighten up to II twelve fret feet t t tso so as to lo asH thu tIme Welland and other othir Canadian canals cl hl anti time the th shallows of ot the St HI Lawrence river loading lending full ull depth again with wih a n cargo nt at Montreal Chicago News Nr With the time actual opening of ot this IhlA n new w branch of oC commercial activity however the i ople lo of Chicago o will wi flail find 1111 new 1 reasons for fur promoting every e r enterprise looking to tn I waterway facilities ties lEs the of the he Chicago hla o r anti ROl the tho of ot n a great navIgable waterway which shall hul make lal Chicago as 1 easily euly through the tho Gulf of or Mexico and III the tim Ih Mississippi 1 river liver through Michigan It I Is iii II not lot merely a R visionary I suggestion RU I that t thin the th time may come comae Iome when tilmen ns n it a great Inland seaport wilt will wi be f ships across the tu riot lut only through the lake system s html but by b gulf Hulf and canal punts ports direct to Asia Mla Australia and ant till all ul Pacific |
