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Comparatively few pastors ol tho dCyown
their homes. This fact Is due. In part, to
the transient character of most pastorates,
partly also to the fact that In many caass
parsonages ar provided. Then there are
WONDERS OF MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL
Will Pierpont Morgan Own It? How the City Became a Seaport Her Fight With Iiverpool A Look at the Docks and Their Warehouses Filled
With American Goods A Great Grain Elevator Built by Yankees How Our Cotton Goes to the Factories A Trip Upon the
Canal and Something About England's Internal Waterways as a Possible Investment for American Capital.
wt in one of
Special Corrf rpondeno or Th Buaixj Republic
Manchester. England, July 22. I hav
come to give you the latest and newest
information about the Manchester ship
canal. It Is rumored that Fierpont Morgan
end h's associates have bought a control
ling interest in it and that they will short
ly put on a new line of steamers to trade
between Manchester and the United Statu
There is no doubt but that Morgan's Loo
don bank owns a large amount of tn
shares. It took them when the canal tu
begun and has held them ever since. If
these rumors are correct the canal will
soon be the chief route for the entrance
of our goods into this busiest part of the
United Kingdom, and Manchester will be-.
come a headquarters of the American in
vasion. Indeed, the city already receives
"steamers from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Galveston and New Orleans.
Hundreds of thousands of cotton bales from
our Southern States are hero brought via
the canal, to be transferred to the mills;
an enormous grain elevator has sprung up
for the storage of American wheat, and I
find that the warehouses along the Man
chester docks are already filled with all
sorts of American goods.
But first let me tell you something about
this great port, which the English havo
created in the very heart of their country.
Manchester is far back from the sea. It is
one of the busiest cities of the world, and
the country surrounding It Is a vast beehive
of work. In passing over the railroads to
and from it In every direction you rldo f
through groves of smokestacks, and it is
impossible to get away from the dense
smoke, which pours forth from the foun
dries, factories and mills which dot the
landscape.
Including lta Bister city, Salford, th
The Reverend Doctors "W. W.
Samuel J. Niccolls Possess
"With Every Modern Convenience and Beautified by Well-
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those whose Incomes would permit the own
Inr of a home, but who prefer to lease In the
finer sections of the city. Thus they have
all the desirable surroundings and comforts
possible to those owning homes.
Among the ministers in the well-known
the: iocks or- the i
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place has now about 00,000 population and
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THE REPUBLIC: SUNDAY. 'AUGUST 10, 1902.
OWN MAGNIFICENT HOMES
Boyd, J. T. M. Johnston and
Houses That Are Equipped
pastorates who prefer to own their own
home3. Is the Reverend Doctor J. T. M.
Johnston, the wealthy pastor of the Del
mar Avenue Baptist Church. Ills residence
is a princely stone front structure on AVash-
t fif C A
CXj JP.EH0KM0U& ELEVATOR
AOTJUCT OF Tag BTOWKTER Mh
docks. This means tjiat goods brought
nere on the canal can be carried by horses
to the homes and factories of these two
million pconle,
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mgTuTT etrTe"a.rCT7 jnsrc a. ICW d00r3 West Of
Pendleton avenue.
Another Is the Reverend Doctor TV. Vf.
Boyd. long-Umo pastor of the Second Bap
tist Church. The Doctor recently sold his
former residence and is Just completing a
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AOTCAN QRMN .THfr ISfROM PfflUDftiPWA
I Near by are other Industrial centers wnicti
1 make all sorts of products for home trade
1 nd export. Sheffield, with its cutlery, gun
jrojka and furnaces for making Iron, and
IN ARISTOCRATIC RESIDENCE DISTRICTS
Owing to the Transient Character of Most Pastorates an3
to the Pact That Parsonages Are Often Provided, Com
paratively Few Clergymen Invest in Real Estate..
handsome brlcfc and stone house on Water
man avenue. Just west of Union avenue. The
building has every modern convenience, in
cluding a handsomo study and library. Its
location is all that could be desired.
Another pastor who prefers to own his
STORAGE- Of
steel, is but an hour away by train, and tho
woolen center of Leeds is almost as near.
All together Manchester forms tho nearest
port for a population of abode" eight mil
lions, and Its people estimate that they can
land ordinary goods by means of "heir
canal at a saving of $1 per ton on the in
land trAsport over" tho same goods landed
at Liverpool. The canal people have pre
pared estimates of the actual cost of dis
tributing goods throughout this part of
England, and it will pay American shippers
to investigate the advantages of pending
their exports by the canal almost direct to
the factories.
I have spent some days in going over the
canal and in looking through the vast
wurehouses and buildings which havo
grown up about it- It Is one of the wonders
of modern engineering, and as a long-timo
investment it will probably be a success,
although tho present generation and per
haps the next cannot expect to have divi
dends out of it. The cost cf the undertak
ing ha3 been enormous. At the start it
was thought that the canal could be con
structed for $40,000,000, but when completed
it was found to have cost $73.0G0,0XI. Before
It was built Manchester was on the down
grade. Its factories and warehouses were
failing and some of the greatest of Its in
dustrial institutions were transferring their
plants and business to Glasgow, where they
could have better shipping facilities. Liver
pool was steadily gaining and Manchester
steadilv declining. The former citv rharaeJ
' what tolls It pleased on :?oods passing
through to the Manchester region, and the
railroads collected enormous freight rates.
Canal Built by
Manufacturers of the City.
As a result the Manchester manufacturers
taw ruin staring them In tho fact. .They
own home is the Reverend uoctur Samuel
J. Niccolls. LU D., pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, Doctor Niccolls has
lived for many years at No. 2G51 Washing
ton avenue, but owing to the removal of the
Second Church to Westminster and Tiylor
came together, planned this ship canal and
raised the money to build it. They got tho
city corporation of Manchester to baclc
them to the extent of J23M0.CO0: they put
their hands in their own pockets and gave
millions more, and within a short time they
had an army of laborers at work larger
than that which Xenophon led on his march
to the sea. When in full swing their army
consisted of 17,000 men divided Into eight
companies, officered by picked experts, c.ich
digging at a section about four miles in
length. This army had its camp In each
section. Its tents were wooden houses
made from lumber brought from the United
States, and as many of thj workmen had
their wives and families t'ere w.is a busy
town along the whole line cf the anal.
No one can appreciate the extent cf the
work without going over the canal. It is
thirty-five and a half miles long, twenty
six feet deep and at the bottom 1J0 feet
wide. If you can imagine a cellar so deep
that you can drop a two-story houso
Tvumn it and nave the roof below the sur
face so wide that the average city lot could
be laid out crosswise across the bottom, and
so long that it would take a railroad train
nt n, good speed an hour to run from one
end of It to the other, you may have soma
idea of this enormous ditch which the Man
chester people have dug from thtir city to
tho sea. A part of the canal was along tho
courso of the little river Trwell, but much
of it had to bo dug out of the oltd reck.
The excavation necessary ins half as great
ns that required for the Suez Canal and
most of it much more difficult. Eight
nines or embankment and c?-. wall had to"
De erected along the fores'ioro of the Mer
sey, and upon the whole cannl 70,000.000
bricks and ro.OCO.OOO cubic ycrds of ma
sonry were constructed.
1'lve sets of locks were put in. each big
enough to admit an Atlantic liner, and
these, by means of great steel (.lulco gates,
raise and lower the ships to the height or
depth of sixty feet. There r.re. In short, from
Manchester to the sea, five mighty steps,
each twelve feet high, which thi ships havo
to climb in coming up the canal.
Docks Are Vats of Water
Walled With Masonry.
I was surprised at the extent of the Man
chester docks. It seems strange to see all
the surroundings of ono of tho largest sea
ports right In the heart of a rich manufac
turing and agricultural country. The docks
are vats of water walled with masonry and
surrounded with great warehouses, which
aro equipped with the finest of modern ma
chinery. The water space within them cov
ers 256 acres, and the total length of the
quays about them Is more than five miles.
In one of the docks three Atlantic liners
have been berthed simultaneously at the
name quay, and during my visit yesterday
i saw a Biup irom uomnay, one from Aus
tralia and one from Galveston loading and
unloading goods almost side by side. Along
tho docks railways run and the company
has 100 miles of track connected with the
canal, and there are more than forty trains
dally, carrying goods in and out the docks.
-it was In the canal company s steam ;
launch that I was taken from dock to
dock, and from warehouse to warehouse, !
and it was with a canal officer that I later
on took a trip down the canal from Man- I
encster to the sea on the Duke of Leln
ster, bound for Ireland. Our captain of the
Lelnster was a jolly old sea dog who
trembled like a leaf as we were photo
graphed standing on deck going down the
canal.
I am surprised at the traffic which this
port already has with the United States. In
every warehouse I found American goods,
and in ono especially, known as the New
York warehouse, I saw thousand of bales
of cotton, which had just come 'from Gal
veston, great boxes of machinery for the
Westinghouse electric works, crates of
American desks and great cases of hams,
bacon and lard. On the top of another
warehouse, four stories high. I took photo
graphs of a thousand odd barrel of resin
which has just come from the pine lands
of Georgia and South Carolina, and at the
grain elevator I saw a ship unloading wheat
from Philadelphia. v
Chicago Men Built
Large Grain Elevate...
This elevator is of Amrii.:.i construc
tion, having been built by Messrs. John S.
Metcalf & Co. or Chicago. It has a storage
capacity of 40.000 tons of grain, or a million
and a half bushels of wheat, and in it j
there are 235 bins or pits, the largest of ;
which holds as much as 200 tons. The ele
vator is right on the canal, and the grain I
is taken directly from the ship through a
marine leg. .which works by, revolving;
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avenues, has concluded to build a handsoma
home In Hortense place, just east of King's
highway. The building la of lavender col
ored brick, and Is eouinned with every mod
ern convenience. Neither this residence, nor
Doctor Boyd's Is yet finished, but will b
ready fpr tho "house-warming" when thes
pastors return from their mimmer vacations.
buckets on an endless chain, lifts the grata
up Into the tower beside tho boat and drops
It upon a wldo india-rubber belt, which car
ries it into tbo elevator and up Into th fclaJ.
There are also pipes which do tho earn
work by means of suction, so that a ship
load of wheat can be discharged within a
few hours. The machinery will take E00 torn
from the steamer hold Into the elevator In
one hour. It weighs the grain at tho water's
edge, and later on weighs it again when It
Ms In the sacks, ready to be loaded upon
tne carts or barges, by wnicn it la taicsa
over the country.
During my visit to the elevator, and. In
deed, throughout the trip, I was accom
panied by Mr. A. Joynson of tho Manches
ter Canal Company. He tells me that the
grain Imports have steadily Increased since
this elevator was finished, and that they
now amount to about 150.000 tons annually.
During the first six months of this year
S3.000 tons of grain havo been received Into
the elevator, and the most of this cams
frntn thA TTnitprl Rtnfpsi
' He tells me that thp. sh'nnlnir from the
United States Is steadily Increasing. Reg
ular steamers have been run here for years
from Galveston, and there have been acco
sional sailings from Baltimore, Newport
News. Charleston. Brunswick. Mobile and
Pcnsacola. Cattle are now brought here
from Philadelphia, and In the near future
there will be a direct steamship line from
Chicago to Manchester by waj? of the St.
Lawrence, the Welland canal and the great
lakes. These ships will bring cargoes of
lumber and provisions and a regular serv
ice will probably be maintained.
The traffic of the canal Is steadily grow
ing. Within the last six months the reve
nue has increased to the amount of X123.
000. and tlieie has been a steady growth In
the business since the r.:u. ning. The
traffic of the present year, will probably ex
ceed S.000.0W tons and will be greater than
that of any year In the past-
In my ride up the canal I p.issed cotton
ship from America and from Egypt. The
American imports up to .!." middle of
last April were almost 400,000 bales and
the Kgyptlan about one-fourth that num
ber. At the lumber docks I saw a shlD
from Mobile unloading a cargo of pitch
pine and at the same wharf was one simi
larly loaded from Pensacola. There were
gFeat tank steamers from the Russian oil
fields at the Russian oil tanks on the right
bank of the canal, and on the left other
tank steamers discharging American petro
leum. I passed the freezing wcrks where
the Nrw Zealand ships land their frozen
mutton In my sail on the Duke of Leln
ster and also the great cittl.' rhtds and
abettors belonslng to the .Manchester cor
poration, of which I may speak further In
another letter.
Fields, Factories and
Warehouses Along Hie Way.
The ride down the canal was one of great
est Interest. The canal company owns
much of the land alongthe way. and thl3 Is
of such a nature that there could be nn'al
most continuous doc!- from one end of It to
the other. Leaving Manchester, you sail by
the great warehouses and fnct-jrles on the
canal's bank. Now you aro passing throjgh
fields as rich na any in old England. They
are bounded by hedges and tip n the green
grass fat cattb- are feeding. Che.hlre Coun
ty, pn your left. Is one. of. the richest dairy
counties of the United Kingdom, and Lan
cashire, tn your right. Is the busiest manu
facturing country of the whole world. We.
saw large manufacturing towns at every
few miles, and often passed other steamers
comimr up ta the city. The locks were
easily and quickly gone through: the sluice
gates open and shut automatically and the
steamer drops twelve feet within less than
half as many minutes.
KRANK G. CARPENTER.
Copyrlsfct. ISCi. bv K. G. eorpentcr.
Her Valid Excuse.
"She has Just refused a man worth a
million."
"Is it possible? Any rational explanation
of her act?"
"Oh. yes. She had just ncc-pt-I another
mat worth a million." JJrooklyn Life.
Huston.:: Didn't you tell thtt cook 1
wanted my breakfast right jn the minute?"
Wife: "I did."
"And what did she say?"
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