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Show Development of Bruges. Bruges Is better known to Americans Ameri-cans through Longfollow'a poom on Its famous belfry than In any othor way. Tho romantic pageantry ot the past which tho poot calls to mind appeals ap-peals moro to tho imagination than modorn statistics of commercial expansion. ex-pansion. But Brugos hns moro than a belfry. Tho othor day Its now seaport, sea-port, Hoyot, was formally opened. Hoyst is connected with Brugos by a new canal, which ends in an artlflolal harbor created by a broakwoter two-thirds two-thirds of a mllo long. It Is deslgnod to make Bruges a competitor with Antwerp for ocean Udo. Youth's Companion. |