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Show mm oceans I JOINED THE MI J w The Last I))kc of Iiartli at (iamboa (0 H Bo Blasted Oat os (lie Tenth of .H This Month V DREAM OF CENTURIES BEING REALIZED . ! To'All Intents and Purposes the 11 Canal Is Finished-A Little , 'JH More Work to Do , H Washington, October 1. olH When the last dyke of earth at "? Gam boa in tho Panama Canal is ' H blown out with dynamite on tho. H tenth of October, the news will w ;H be flashed to Washington by :H telegraph from the Canal Zone, H and the cities on the Pacific w fH Coast wilK unite in celebrating Vt the event which means the "" actual realiaztiori of tho dream, M centuries long, of the physical l H joining of the waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific. IH The removal of the last dyke , H will not mean that the' , JH canal is ready for the passing kA (H of ships. There will be debris H to remove, and considerable workmfaA , M to be done to render the canal , ' H available for commerce, but H what remains to be done is but - ? H trifling as compared with the jI vast work that has already ben vf 'IH ccpmplighed,To.alUntinU,aiid purposes, the canal is finished. " ' , ;H Within a few weeks at most, 11 the first vessel will be sent ' tM through the completed water- 'H way, which is to cut the length H of the route between most ports in the far east and on the west- ern shores of the two Americas, ' and the ports on the Atlantic H coast both in Europe and Ameri- ca. Even after paying tolls for H passing thr6ugh the canal, the H commerce of the world will bo H saved many millions of dollar ( annually because of the shorten- n ing of the distance that must be H sailed. The United States will collect toll, to be sure, but it will ,, fM not receive money enough from - that source for many year to M come to amount to adequate M intereston the vast sum expended M in building the canal and in its 'H uykeep and administration. ,M |