HOUSE-BOATS AND CARGO-BOATS ON THE GRAND CANAL I CHINA 



Once the Grand Canal was a nine hundred mile highway over which the tribute of an 

 empire was borne to the capital at Peking. Then came coast steamers and railways, and the 

 Grand Canal, silting up from year to year, lost much of its former glory. But in China, 

 wind-power on small sails is cheap and the man-power at the heavy oars is little dearer, so 

 an American corporation is soon to begin dredging the Grand Canal. 



Photographs by C. D. Jameson 

 NO DONKEY ENGINES OR ELECTRIC TRAMS TO OPERATE THE LOCKS OR TOW VESSELS 



ON THE GRAND CANAL 



The natives, young and old, male and female, take their places at the heavy stone-set capstans. 

 A boat is seen almost through the gates of a lock. 



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