MARVELS OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9174, 18 June 1908, Page 6

MARVELS OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.

It .is claimed for the CanadianPacific railway, in the May number of Cassell’s Magazine, that it iff the largest railroad corporation in the world. Already it provides work for 74.00.> employees, out of a population of six millions. Its fleet comprise! 74 vessels, including 15 Trans-Atlantic steamers o It has built 17 huge hotels, , two at a cost of a quarter of . a pounds each. It controls a mountain \ bearing quartz in British Columbia, ' with 15 miles of passage underground. It is developing extensive coal mines which will shortly make it ‘ independent of ail outside supply. | In its own works, the Angus shops .• in Montreal, it builds its own trains;- i 40 giant freight cars every day, [ three giant engines every fortnight. ; It stores the grain from the great West in its own elevators. V Not content with its triumphs Jr Canadian soil, it has overstepp. the border into the United J3ta J where it controls sgme 3000 fro ,a ~ track. Every year.adds 40D'nfwits track. -V—: : ■; In Canada alone it runs its triSt' now over more than 10,000 mih| and Sir Thomas . Shaughnessy, president, controls at his desk Montreal the traffic over neaK* ‘ 12,000 miles in a direct line, frol' ; Liverpool to Hongkong. ‘ * It circulates literature printer Mp*'*-- . Bussian, Finnish, Swedish,' weigau, Danish', Icelandic,— . Dutch, German, and Chinese, as well as EnVD^^f" At the Pacific end .we’fin<m.fj~?.' table enabling - money-order or his ;faref Negro porters on the sleeping carJapaß»V|;i control the lift at Jfche^ Hotel; Chinese ' * livery attend on you at P&KET>£' , > a Canadian * - ticket on the way Landing; Italians, Irish, English,, are at work'upon tlljft* track. ] You whirl past villages of Icef? f landers in a train which starts from v-i a province where they speak the Vj French of Louis XIY. 9