Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-29
Canadians Anxious to Inaugu-
rate Fast transatlantic
Service.
THREE PLANS OFFERED
President of the Company Says Plans
Contemplate Construction of Four
Twenty-knot Passenger Steamers
and Other Fast Freight Boats.

Montreal, July 26.-Discussing the
Canadian Pacific railways tender for a
fast Atlantic steamship service to be
subsidized by the British and Canadian
governments to the extent of $1,000 900
per annum, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy,
president of the company, has stated
that the plans were contemplated for
the construction of four twenty-knot
passenger steamers and ten or eleven
100000 tons cargo boats with a speed
OF fifteen knots. Other railway COM
panies, he said, would be placed on an
equally favorable position as the
Canadian Pacific as regards traffic.
Officials Are Silent.
London, July 26.-Lord Strathcona
and the Canadian ministers neither
confirm nor deny the reports telegraph
ed from Montreal and Halifax that the
Canadian Pacific railway has offered
to establish fast Atlantic passenger
service and greatly improved cargo SER
vice, with complete appliances for cold
storage etc. 1t is probable, however,
that an offer of some kind has been
made for the purpose of assisting Sir
Wllfrid Laurier and his associates in
their negotiations with the board of
trade and their conferences with the
n"emiers of New Zealand and Austria
liza.
The announcement serves as a feel
er Tor drawing out the comments of the
Englis press on the systematiZed eff
forts for fighting the Morgan combina-
ton and the earliest responses, with
! few exceptions, are favorable. News
papers here are aware that there is a
strong public sentiment in favor of de-
/ Tending British maritime interests and
4 the now encourage it by sarcastic par.
| asraphs at the expense of the Nor.
| gans, father and son, and by compla.
cent references to the energy of Can
ada, the vitality of the old empire and
the facility with which Morganistic
agreements can be dissolved.
| Three Proposals Are Favored. :
The facts have already been fully
presented in the dispatches. There has
been determined effort to secure the
cooperation OF the colonial premiers in
/ making three offers to the imperial
! government one for fast mail service
| between Liverpool and Halifax, anoth-
err for cargo service between Mon
treal Cape Town, Auckland and Syd.
ney, and third for mail service be-
| tween Vancouver and Sydney. Lord
| Strathcona and other prominent Can
adams are confident that the first OBJ.
| ject can be accomplished by the paw.
ment of liberal subsidies from the
I Canadian and British treasures. Var.
1 lous amounts are named.
| The second plan is dependent upon
the cooperation of England, Canada,
Natal, Cape Colony. New Zealand and
Australia and the proportions of the
subsidy which each colony shall bear
cannot be readily arranged.
! The third project is still in the air,
but prospects are not favorable for
carrying it out in conjunction with the
1 fiji st plan. British officials are not con.
vinced that twenty-six day service
4 to Australia via Canada is worth the
expenditure of an enormous subsidy,
/ Ii the first and third schemes could be
subsidized as whole Australian mails
would be carried weekly by the Orient
line and via Canada, and the Peninsu
lar and Oriental line would receive a
severe blow
No definite results have been ac
complished but the imperial govern
ment without doubt is impressed with
the earnestness of the eolonials when
it offers to put its hands deep into his
own pockets in order to keep the Brit.
| ish flag free from the control of inter
national shipping pools. There is nc
! indication, however, that the board OF
trade has broken off negotiations with
Morgan and Dawkins in connection
with the shipping combination.