Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-09-05
CAR OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Interesting New Light on Mr..
Reid and His Island.
The Great Scotchman Who Was WILL
ing to Rescu Country for "a Con-
sideration-A Notorious Cam
paign-The Latest Phase.

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a series of charters or contracts which, in
the scope Of the powers surrendered NY
the government in the magnitude Of the
property acquired by one man, in the
amount OF subsidies inVoived, in the crca~
ton OF an enormous landed estate--is not
paralleled In modern government or busi-
ness. and can only be ogualed ny the OPP
Grafton of the great East India compa uics
of the seventeenth century, says a CORE.
spOndout Of the Boston Transcript.
From the days when news of the steam
locomotive first penetrated to these shOr, -
the railroad has had peculiar fasCina-
ton for Ncwtounlanders. Its first dream,
nifty years ago. was Of the railroad 800 miles
long, from St Johns to the western shore
which should be a link in fast steam
ship and railroad service from Liverpool
to New York. But When the telegraph
and cable began to reduce the necessity
for fast mails, when steamships began to
run almost as fast as locomotives. this
scheme WAS abandoned; ana Ncwfouud-
landers began to hope that some Individual
would build an island road.
Never did hope seem more vain. Appur-
entity there was not i'm all the world "A
man who was wise enough to have
amasscd money and fool enough 10 invest
it in Newfoundland railroad. Any rail-
road more than thirty miles in length
would necessarily have a city of 10000
as one terminus ana Il barren rock as
the other. with no possible reason why
the city should travel to the rorj, or tho
rock to the city.
PrlVat, ,ntcrprise laCl<ing the infntu-
atod government itself Took M TN, yorl,
of railway construction. and I'm lA>5. twrn-
tv-srv,n miles were counl.ted w Ism ,
few miles more. ,onnectirn ST Johns and
the larc~rr suburbs were, finished The.r
were only a. taste to vhct th, annette
OF the railroad hungry country. and i'm
1870 the poy,rnmant ad,.,rtioai for +, n
ders for tn, extension of the railroad fir. m
st. Johns tn nan Hnv. two hundred and
fifty miles STRAIGHT into tho tirnh,r l,rd
IT was i'm ,..pous. tn mis- adyartisn,n,..t
that Mr. Il g Reid cam. to NowfoInd
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