Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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der construction, two morewere to be commenced at once, unlessthe tunnels proposed prove more econ-omical. The most important harborimprovement was the cutting of a 40foot channel in New York harbor. Electricity continued to oust everyother form of power for street railwaywork ; indications were that for citywork the underground trolley would bethe exclusive system, with the over-head trolley for suburban and short in-ternrban lines. The electrical equip- RAILWAYS AND CANALS. 517 ment of steam roads did not progress asrapidly as anticipated, thongli the re-snlts of the third rail system on theNew York, New Haven and HartfordRailroad were quite satisfactory, andextensions were planned. The greatsvstem of the Manhattan Elevated was there is one of similar nature beingpromoted by American capital that isto be called the International Rail-way, or the Pan-American Road. Atthe expense of ^25,000,000 it is to con-nect this country with the South Ameri-can states, starting from Matamoras, on
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Map op the Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railway. Showing the entire route from Port Arthur to St. Petersburg. The dotted line marks the sec-tion where work was not completed in 1900. to be electrically equipped, severalthousand tons of third rail having beenordered in 1899. As the century entered upon its clos-ing year there were, in course of con-struction, two marvellous lines: one,the Trans-Siberian route, being laid bythe Russian government from St. Peters-burg, Russia, to Port Arthur, China,thus taking in all the resources of un-known Siberia and China ; the otherthe Cape to Cairo route, as yet onlypartly built and partly on paper, but amarvel in imagination, extending fromthe Cape of Good Hope, at the mostsouthern extremity of Africa, upthrough unknown savage lands to itsnorthern terminal at the old capital ofthe Pharaohs, Cairo, Egypt Besides these two great undertakings, the Rio Grande border, running alongthe gulf coast to Guatemala, ihen alongthe border and down throug

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