NEW YORK STATE BARGE CANAL 4217 



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 



CANADA 



.MAP ()F Ni:\V YORK STATE BARGE CANAL 

 (a, a) Erie Canal; (5) Champlain Canal; (c) Oswego Canal; (d) Cayuga and Seneca Canal. 



of the land line it is 125 feet wide and in rock 

 cuts ninety-four feet wide. Wherever possible 

 it follows natural watercourses, and in the beds 

 of rivers and lakes is 200 feet wide. There are 

 thirty-five locks on the Erie branch, eleven on 

 th< Champlain, seven on the Oswego and four 

 on the Cayuga and Seneca. These locks, which 

 are built entirely of concrete, have a standard 

 length of 328 feet, a width of forty-five feet, 

 and can admit boats having a tonnage of from 

 1,500 to 3,000. Two boats of about 1,500 tons 

 each can be locked at one time, or can pass 

 each other at any point along the canal. There 

 are forty dams in connection with the system, 

 those at Delta and Hinckley forming huge res- 

 ervoirs. The former has a capacity of nearly 



i.OOO.OOO cubic feet, and the latter of about 



3,500,000,000. Vischer's Ferry Dam, which is 



OO feet long, raises the water level in 



Mohawk River, and near Schenectady mov- 

 able dams have been constructed, which can be 

 raised and lowered to regulate the height of 



Commercial Importance. The original esti- 

 mated cost of $101,000,000 was exceeded l>y 

 $49,000,000, but th. i.- is abundant promise that 

 vast expenditures for this great public work 

 will be entirely justified. With its present fa- 

 cilities it can easily become a powerful asset 

 immerce of the country. For years 

 past millions of bushels of grain from the wheat 

 U of the Northwest 



[M throih and 



rs to Montreal ,1 to 



1. The compl* .<> Barge Canal 



will undoubtedly place in the hands of Am n- 



can shippers that part of the carrying trade 

 which naturally belongs to. the United States. 

 Moreover, vessels carrying over 30,000 bushels 

 of grain, and operated in fleets, are able to re- 

 duce the time required to transport grain by 

 r from Buffalo to New York at least fifty 

 per cent, with a proportionate decrease MI 

 charges. It is estimated that it costs thr canal 

 management only twenty-six cents to tnu 

 a ton of freight from one of these cities to thr 

 other, and it is expected that the canal system 

 will eventually have an annual capacity of 

 twenty million tons. The construction of thr 

 Barge Canal is considered the beginning of a 

 new chapter in the economic development of 

 America. See CANAL. T.E.F. 



Consult Hepburn's Artificial Waterways of the 

 World. 



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, one of th- 

 est and most important coeducational univer- 

 sities in the Unit. .1 States, located in New York 

 City. It was founded in 1831 through the in- 

 llm-nce and efforts of a group of prominent 

 New York men. Thr urininal purpose and policy 

 nf tin- institution was to bnnn thr broadest 

 education possible within reach of all (ho peo- 

 ple. For this reason the various departments 

 are not all on one campus. 



At University Height*. In upper New York, 



the college of arts and pure nclence, the school 



of applied scl- -ie nummer school. One 



of the most Interesting In thin group of fourteen 



iinR. In the Memorial Library. In which IN 



lilch se). 



In the great University bulMing 

 at Washington Square, are the graduate sri 

 ^chool of pedagogy, th school of commerce. 



