News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-14
QUICK TIME TO EUROPE.
A Scheme to Shorten the Voyage
Between the New and Old Worlds.

Cle desire to shorten the time of
passage between this country and Eu.
rope has given rise to scheme for fur
nishing continuous railroad transporta-
ton from all parts of this country to
some point on the eastern coast of New
foundland and steamship transportation
from there to the western coast of Ire
land, distance of only 1, $40 miles. 1t
is claimed by its advocates that this
method of transportation will reduce,
by at least two days, and possibly four
days, the travelling time between New
York and London. The scheme has
been quietly advanced for some time by
DIR. Norvin Green, of the Western Union
Telegraph Company; his son, and A. l..
Blockman, until recently the General
Manager of the Newfoundland Railway
Company. Early in the present month
company was organized in New York
City for putting the plan into execution,
with DR.. Norvin Green as President,
and Mr.. Blockman as Vice President.
The name of the corporation is the
Great American and European Short
Line Railroad Company. Charters have
been obtained from the Diminion Gov
eminent and the Governments of Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland, and work has
been commenced on what is called the
Oxford Division of the road, a stretch
of seventy miles in Nova Scotia, from
Oxford to New Glasgow. The idea OF
this line was derived from similar line
that has long been in successful opera
ton in England. That line crosses Eng
land by rail from London to the Island
of Anglesey, and connects, by steamer
across st. Georges Channel, with a rail-
road from Dublin to Queenstown, where
connection is made with the transatlan-
tic steamship which sailed from Liver
pool ten hours before the train left Lon
don.
The Great American and European
Short Line will run by existing railroads
from New York by way of Boston,
Bangor, and st. John, New Brunswick,
to Oxford, Nova Scotia, where the sec
ton already spoken of is building, thence
to New Glasgow, and from there by the
Halifax and Cape Breton Railroad to
the Strait CT Canso. From this point
the line will extend to Cape North, 100
miles distant across the Narrows of the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, Sc miles, by
steamer, and then across Newfoundland,
800 miles, by 1ail. The Strait of Canso
will be crossed by bridge, and that, as
well as the road to Cape North and the
road across Newfoundland is yet to be
built. Passengers will be conveyed
without change of cars to the port on
the eastern coast of Newfoundland, and
will there take steamship to Ireland.
The terminus in Ireland viii be near
the port of Galway, and from that place
to London there is continuous line of
railway, connecting by steamer across
st. Georges Channel, to London, already
in operation. It is part of the COM
pany's plan to run daily line of fast
steamships both ways between New
foundland and Ireland, and thereby it
expects to get the contract for carrying
the United States mails. The advocates
of the plan claim many advantages for
it, chief among which is the avoidance
of the dangers of navigation along the
coast of this continent from Newfound-
land to New York. They also claim that
they will lave an almost air line from
Chicago to Newfoundland, by which
twelve hours will be saved from that
point, and great stress is laid on the
beauties of the scenery along the line in
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Work
on the Newfoundland Division will not,
it is said, be commenced before next
year, and it is expected that the entire
line will be put in operation in 1886 or
1887.