The Red Cloud chief., 1901-06-07
HER BRIGHT FUTURE.
Cuba Will Become the Riviera
Of America in Time.
NoSeA Railway Bsiids~ Describes
Present asa Coming CondItiess
whea Facilities for Travsa
Are Afforded.

After having reached the age when
most men are glad to retire and enjoy
the wealth gained by 40 years OF ex-
acting work, Sir William Van Horne,
the creator OF the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, has undertaken to give Cuba a
new railroad system, which he himself
describes below. The present writer,
says the Worlds Works, once spent
many interesting hours watching the
days work OF this born builder and
manager OF railroads, who was then
president OF the Canadian Pacific. He
had then completed the line across the
continent and was arranging for its
Complementary feet OF steamships to
the orient. Sir williams marvellous
mastery of details showed itself to his
wondering visitor In q hundred ways.
The commissary department was gone
into with a thorough ness which would
have done honor to . New England
housekeeper; dining cars, the com
panys hotels and steamships were ex.
amined into and decided upon the
standard size OF the sandwiches to be
served at the eating houses on the line
was laid down in inches: he scrutinized
the copy of a dozen advertisements and
hundred other items of equally small
import, apparently. Yet one carried
away the notion that during his inter
views with men who submitted these
multitudes Of details for his decision he
was in reality training them how to
make their own future; and in proof
of this one observes that after his with
drawal from the presidency to become
chairman of the board these identical
assistants were moved up the ladder,
and to-day conduct the road in the very
manner set forth in those interviews.
Railroad peopse will watch with
great interest his new enterprise in
Cuba.
"The construction OF this road" said
Sir william, who has lately returned
from Cuba, sis essential to the develop
ment Of the eastern end OF the island.
and this fact has prompted us 10 face
obstacles OF a serious and unusual ma
ture. Under the conditions which now
prevail in Cuba, conditions mainly due
10 the terms of the Foraker resolution.
all application for public concessions
must he referred to the United States
military authorities, and we are
therefore, proceeding on the basis of a
private railroad doing business on it's
own ground. right OF way having been
cheerfu.ly accorded without considera-
ton by th- owners OF the property
through which our line passes. We are
n N han iC
pleted we shall not be able to open it
for traffic without the sanction of the
authorities, but we cherish the belief
that by that time some decision as to
the government OF Cuba will have been
reached, or, IL not, that congress will
recognize that the Foraker resolution
is an, incubus to industrial enterprise
in the island and afford relief That the
road will yield a handsome profit is alb
so.utely certain. Cuba is the richest
country | have ever seen, and the time
will surely come when it will be the
Riviera of the United States. Wealthy
Americans will build villas there by the
hundreds and enjoy the ideal winter
, residence When the railroad from
Santa Clara to Santiago is completed its
projectors will turn their attention u
the mining and plantation industries OF
the interior. Eastern Cuba is rich II
mineral resources and the .and acquisi
tions of the development company il
that part of the island are alread.
s large" The subscribers to the prelim
e mary nstallment were, it is said, will
4 ing TO take double the amount for whicl
!, they set down their names, whicl
a means nothing more than the conf
o dence of canitnlists In Sir William.