New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-08-27
CANADIAN FAST AILANIf' MS H.
TROUBLE OVER. RIVAL CLAIMS OF "'hHf'1
AND MONTREAL

Ottawa Ont Aug. Is Specializing cahaoIdi'
Government is having considerable FoN''e
Ietrine OF the proposed fast Atlantic contract "''
Will M, he entered into until a fun Eaolre' Hee
49,. l., h.,d IN this civ Representatives from que
re ubtcb proyiuce Sir Wilfrd Laurier represents
demand that Quebec. being five hunoreo M.
rearer to Liverpool than New-1 oFh' anu 10 -
six competing lines of railway shou!o Dc Ile '
n,,sl MORT in Canada OF the fast Atanuc me
1To-rsaI accuses Hon MIR. Tarte OF oluInhS
-,bsn ba favors Quebec a summer as wei d' Z"
winter terminus. The representatives OF ina ~
saw that II Montreal is 70 be sideuacheu i4@+
should be both the summer ana the "i'e "
minal- ,,,, 49,,
r. c.bfpet ministers IN Ottawa ridlcule the
statements of G. H. Murray. Premier OF Nova SEQ
tia and L. J. Tweedie, Premier OF New uAs"4eh
that the Canadian Pacific Will not get the CONT g.
hut that II will go the Elder-DeHnpster-
continuation and that ii was decldeo oeIoie 't'eS
IT. ENGLAND that the terminals were to De quebec
in summer and Halifax in winter, with oSueS a'
mort of call. These matters, the CABINET
cav will be considered by a fun Caoinet Heelilis
in 5ue time and those who make the statements
that any definite conclusions have oeeh d .
GRO doing so without authority and on their own
responsibility. 49, :, $1,000
No decision, definite or otherwise, Will DC al Nv 81
at bv the Dominion Government II Is SAID uiit
Sir Vyflfrid Iaurier Sir William Mulock. MI led
ing. Hon. Mr.. Patterson ana MI dbl
the old country.
Sir Thomas shaughnessey. of the Canadian Pa
ci6c Railway says: We will enter into no com
b,natiop We stand by ourselves. We have not
nor do we intend. to join forces with the Allan
FIder-Dempster and Furness lines for the 1ast
mail service between Montreal and Liverpool IL
is true that the Alans have submitted an indie
nendent tender for about eighteen-knot service
to Quebec in the summer and Halifax in the winter
for q subsidy of e225.0OO of which Canada pays
f15O 600 and Great Britain s75,o0o Why. therefore
should it be inferred or limited that the Cana6ian
Pacifc seeks to join the alleged combination! II
the Canadian Pacific does not get the conlract II
viii establish service Of its own Our engineers
are engaged in perfectng plans for the straighten-
ing ont Of the Canadian Pacific roadbed ana the
ruction of its gradients, and it is proposed to re-
duce the time across the Continent to seventy
hours" 49,, . . --L.... ,or
In connection with the proposed scheme for
old country should not be forgotten that IN lsSi
Mr. Huddart came to Ottawa, by invitation or the
Dominion Government. and proposed a weekly ser
ice of steamers maintaining a twenty-knot speed
in normal conditions. acting as large passenger
carriers and fitted at the same time with refr1ger
ating machinery for the conveyance OF hrst class
nerisha bile goods The Canadian Parliament haV-
Ing sanctioned subsidy of $4,000 yearly for ten
Years MIR Huddart asked the British Government
for subsidy of SIS 600 year for ten Years to to
publicly called for in 1896. lower tender than Nj
Hu6dart's was taken. In June, 1888, however. TINS
enterprise was announced as having failed