Show I A PROJECTED CUBAN RAILROAD 1 A year and more ago The Tribune urged that the Government as n I means of quieting the Island of Luzon 1 to swiftly open up Its resources and to I enable the people to find n quick and lucrative market for their products I should as swiftly as possible stretch n line of railroad through the Island The lessons taught by opening the wilderness I wil-derness of our country by railroads ls so plain and convincing that It sccma to us they should have Impressed 1 themselves upon our statesmen when our rule In the Philippines was con fronlod by I the t rebellion of Aguinaldo I It seems that some of the wealthy men of New York have clear visions of tho possibilities to bik realized through I railroads I In new countries or through undeveloped portions of old countries Tho New York Sun says that all the stock for I railroad to run the whole I length of Cuba 1200 miles In allhas been subscribed for the puipose being I lo revolutionize the industrial conditions condi-tions I of the whole i lnIHJ Tho road I will he begun at Iho cast end of the f island and run lo Ole as yet undetermined unde-termined point in the I Vest l The Sun further says that its Information loads to the belief that no road was evermore ever-more cxpedlllously built than tho new Cuban road will be I gives the names o the stockholders as follows L I VIIllam C Whltno > Gen C 1 Dodb Sir William Van Home J J 1 Jlfil Id ward J livrwlnd George B Hopkins George G Havon H i1 Whitney H Walters I I P Morton ion Sam Thomas Peter A B Wldoncr Thomas Dohin and R II Klklris I was published n few days since that an American wait about to build u great modern American hotel n Hat Ha-t ana so It seems that the second con i quest the I industrial conquest is i about Ito t I-to begin When the work shall be In full blast those Cubans who are preparing f pre-paring for independence will be troubled as they never were at the sight of I l Federal soldiers They all their lives I have been accustomed to soldiers I but i I time work of building C mile or two of I railroad dall > and building great houses in a feu months will be a revelation revela-tion of force and energy which will be certain evidences that a superior raco Is at the helm in their country |