| Show TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC IN SEVENTY TWO HOURS THE canadians are contemplating a scheme by which the transatlantic ocean trip can be in three days daye and nighta in fact there is something more than contemplation in it inasmuch as ae some of the preliminary work has baa been performed the survey for a labrador railway has just been completed from a town on the nay river to port aarnham on st lewis lewie inlet sixty miles north of the straits ot of belle isle the quebec and lake st john railway now runs rung to the point on the nay from whence the abet proposed labrador road la is to start the distance from this point to port aarnham irs miles the road can be built in 18 months from port aarnham to milford haven in wales the water can be traversed by ocean steamship in seventy two hours it is pr proposed posed to establish a steamship port at that place in labrador during eight months of the year navigation can ba prosecuted without any trouble the engineers who have completed the survey say that the salvador climate is bracing and invigorating and that mineral in vast quantities can be found in that region english capital is at the back of the scheme and if the canadian government will only grant certain concessions it is in said that the work ot of constructing the road will commence immediately |
