Show CUBA MAY MA BECOME t V AMERICAS g Worlds Works After er having av g reached the age when most i 1 st men are glad to retire and enjoy St th gained by forty years of EX x d ing ork Sir William Van Horne Hone the he l I i of the Canadian Pacific Pa mil has undertaken to give Cuba a nev new railroad system The present writer once spent many Interesting ho rs watching the days work of this th 5 born builder and manager of railroads who was then president of the Can Canadian C n nadian adian adlan Pacific He had h d then completed the line across the th continent and wee was arranging for its complementary fleet t of steamships to the Orient Sir Wi Wiliams Hams liams marvelous mastery of details showed itself to his hl wonderful visitor in m a hundred ways The sar ary V department was gone into with a thor hor thoroughness t thoroughness toughness which would have done h hm honor m n nto i to a New England housekeeper the designs on the china to be used in m the th dining cars the hotels and steamships were examined into and ani de decided decided upon the standard size of the sandwiches to be served at the eating Bating houses on the line vas was laid down in inches he bc scrutinized the copy c py f t H a dozen advertisements advertisement and a hundred It other Hems items of equally small import apparently Yet one carried awa away the th notion that during his interviews with the men who submitted these multi multitudes multitudes tudes of details for his decision he ht w was Wa WaIn as asin in reality training them how to make their own in future and in pro prof f ot ur this one observes that after his with withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal from the presidency to become be chairman of the board these identical 1 assistants were moved moed up the ladder and today conduct the road in the very er manner set et forth in those interviews lew s Railroad people will watch with great interest his new enterprise in Cuba The construction of this road said Sir William who has lately returned d from Cuba is essential to the deel t of the eastern end of the is 18 island island land J nd and this thie fact has prompted us t to face obstacles obstacle of a serious and unusual un usua I nature Under the conditions whit h now prevail in Cuba conditions main mam mainly mainly ly due to the terms of the Foraker res resolution resolution all applications for public con eon concessions cessions must be referred to the Unit United ed eel States military authorities and w we weare e are therefore proceeding on the basis j of a private railroad doing business on T its own ground right ri ht of way having been cheerfully accorded without con consideration consideration by the owners of the prop property property property erty through which our lines passes We are well aware that when our road is completed we shall not be able to t open it for traffic without the sanction of ot the authorities but we cherish the belief that by that time some decision as to the government of Cuba will have been reached or if not that congress V will recognize that the Foraker reso resolution resolution resolution lution is an incubus to industrial en enterprise enterprise enterprise in the island and afford re ye relief lief That the road will yield a hand handsome handsome some BOme profit is absolutely certain Cuba Cub hi Is the richest country I have hae ever evE evERen seen Ren and awl the time will surely surel com come when It will be the Riviera of the United States S te Wealthy Americans will wilt build villas there by the hundreds and enjoy the ideal winter residence When the railroad from Santa Clara to San Santiago tinge tiago is completed its projectors will wilt turn their attention to the mining and plantation industries of the e interior Eastern Cuba is rich in mineral re resources resources sources and the land acquisitions of the th development company in that part of 01 the island are already large The sub subscribers scribers to the preliminary installment were it is la said willing to take double the amount for which they set down their names which means probably nothing more than the confidence of or capitalists in Sir William WIlHam |