| Show THE completion FIRST SHIP WILL PASS THROUGH THE BIG DITCH SOME T TIME IME NEXT SUMMER one of the small vessels used by ca canal a I 1 builders will make first trip form formal al opening of waterway to tae ta 6 place a later C washington some time next summer or fall no exact date being sped fled a vessel will pass from the t cr 8 L now tl ftfe a 0 isthmus 0 oTy anama whick consequently must disappear f from ro teho ho worlds geography and by the same human agency the western hemisphere will be divided into two continents ts the vessel will not be the oregon nor any other famous ship but will be one of the many small water craft in daily use by the canal builders and probably the only passengers will be col george W goethals and the staff of american engineers who for the last eight years have been carrying on tho the greatest engineering work the world has ever seen it will be later than that anywhere from six months to a year perhaps before the formal opening of the waterway will take tahe place and a naval fleet headed by the famous old oregon will pass through into the western ocean and the canal may be fairly said tv to be open to trade |
