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PANAMA A WORLD HARBOUR. 



The BiilUtin of tin Pan-Amaican Union states 

 that last November more than three-fourths of the 

 Panama Canal was aheady completed. Already 

 there appears to be a surplus of both European and 

 West Indian labour. The force of labour is being 

 reduced. The canal is divided into three sections : 

 the Atlantic, which ends in the three flights of the 

 Gatun locks, seven and seven-tenths of a mile in 

 length ; the Central, from the Gatun locks to the 

 Pedro Miguel locks, thirty-one and seven-tenths of a 

 mile ; the Pacific division, extending from the Pedro 

 .Miguel locks, eleven miles long. As the accompany- 

 ing sketch suggests, there is provision at the Pacific 

 end of the canal for the largest and most completely 

 equipped harbour and dock system in the world. 

 The piers will be a thousand feet by one hundred 

 and ten feet, and the slips between them three 

 hundred feet wide, thus permitting vessels like the 

 Olympic, which is eight hundred and si.xly feet long, 

 to dock with ease. The locks are gigantic erections 

 capable of containing with ease vessels of the size 

 of the Olympic. They are capable of being emptied 

 ■ )r filled within fifteen minutes. Their steel gates 

 are as high as a six-storied house, the larger of them 

 Weighing si.K hunilrcd tons. 



WHY JAPANESE WENT TO AMERICA. 



The Japanese in -America form the subject of an 

 interesting paper in the Oriental Rci'icio for January, 

 by Dr. Jokichi Takaminc, President of the Nippon 

 Club. He declares that the young men and women 

 who came to .America a generation ago were mostly 

 students, and later came to be the guiding spirit of 

 modern Japan. " Newhaven and Cambridge are 

 names even more familiar to the Japanese than New 

 York and Chicago " — a very remarkable statement. 

 The Japanese in entering America dreams not of 

 money, but of books and colleges. Japanese domestic 

 servants are complained of because they always 

 demand time to attend night-schools or similar 

 institutions : — 



A few years ago, when the Japanese Government, at the 

 request of that of the United Slates, prohibited the coming 

 of ilie Japanese labourers to America, a vital blow was dealt 

 to the young men who were not rich enough to come as 

 regular college students, but who still wanted to come, not 

 really to work, but to learn. The flow of immigration from 

 Japan has not only been stopped, but reversed. 



The so-called anli-Japancse feeling in .America was 

 a political fiction only. The Japanese form no Japan- 

 town as the Chinese form a Chinatown. They 

 assimil.ite with the .American methods and manner of 

 life. 





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Sketch of Docks and Harbour at Panama : to be the largest in the World. 



