New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17

oman +he very same obstacles have 70 De met Ioi
as existed three hundred miles furtneF sVutH
viously. they being intensined py INC o. -;
whereas Cabot Strait is hfty-seVen lnlie 49,
SO allows ample scope for even an error IL
+,ons BELLA Isle Strait is only fourteen miles VICE.
is hid by foss infested by bergs, ana mas ctoSe
currents running through 1t, winch HlaA9
,ney-+sble If the least error in naVlsaloh o00uiS
Even so carefully handled q craft % =, C.,
shin the Lily became total wreck IneFe Ii sep
+aynber 1895: a consort the Columhine STRANDED
there last October and the French corVetIe
struck an iceberg there in August 1~S' WINE t II
would take a volume TO record the lsI VI
which have left their bones on It's peril suewn
$50 ~ .ora 70 the bottom from contact with
icaherqs encountered during periods of fog IN the
narrow feirway.
Consequently. no ships attempt TO make the
sauna Tina over the Canadian route that they do
over the New-York route, because the latter are
in the open sea a few hours after leaving port or
until few hours arriving there, snc can MAIN
tain their highest speed until they are near either
coast without fear Of encounterins any put the
ordinary periIs incident TO navigation in waters
for nine-tenths Of their voyage east or west But
the liner to from Montreal has to make one
third of her whole journey through waters winch
literally TEEN with perils for her kind Between
Montreal and Antioosu lie eight hundred miles OF
+or+,,oSs river channels where ships constantly
stranding: between Anticosu and Belle Isle lie FOUR
hundred miles of rookbound coast, with VARIABLE
currents setting thereon ana the narrow DANGER
ous strait as the worst menace OF all, while even
sc Gar as three hundred miles east Of the strait
there is always more less danger from icebergs'
so that is rarely that passes without one
or more ships making their way TO ST. JOINS Win
battered hulIs from contact with these frozen ter
rors OF the northern Amid suon waters ana
against such conditions high speed IS impossible,
and q liner is helpless freighter, for the
faster q ship is the must be her damage II
she comes by rnishap from any Of these causes;
and q passenger boat enjoys immunity from
these hazards which a freighter has also 10 face
On the Cabot Strait course somewhat similar OBJ
stacles exist The Magdalen Islands extend across
the track which all ingoing outgoing ships must
take. and have picked up and destroyed numbers
OF them. Then, midway in the strait. lie st. Paul
Islands which are likewise prolific source of
danger, with long death roll Of ships and crews
Cape Ray, too is a marine graveyard with grew
some record the St Pierre 9dqQ e aTcaPeiago
did fabric. and. finally, Cape Race has TO be nego-
any other headland in the North Atlantic, on either
side Of the ocean. wrecks being OF weekly occur
Effectualfy to safeguard these routes is vel pgh
lavish hand in dredging and buoying the St. Law
renee River and lighting and sentnelling the gun
foghorns. beacons and wireless biography stations
She has sought and has secured the rSinfenanGe
land coast IN order to equip and operate them more
hermit because II is Canada's commerce which
really needs them. She has carried out the past
IL thg na9nat bene Oq BECAUSE no Runan
agenceg can Cope with the sodden fogs Which pre-
vail all oyer This G9ast IN sumner 11r ana fo %91sR
and a syren inaudihle at two miles while in fog
all sense Of drectness is lost also as shown by the
under Cape Race fog whistle, thinking it the
een 81 an ing r is an spprecaon of
these conditions that inspires one well informed
results in respect to forming definite conclusion
# be
the figures of one voyage, or even two, but that
comparison of data for several trips in the spring.
conditions of weather might be taken into account
some substantial Talue
s are seasons 2a wRsn e gfns pn o ana three
days by fogs. because high speed is Impossible
oen 6 5o pPns Of every cass rom the tiny
fishing smack t to the pet assnseT # ms
not be forgotten that the Canadian turbine boats
@y for t6e SevY route are contracted
to be at least twentyye and that all the e. other
pl1lson as soon as the adyantages are proved be
ieviathans now under construction. In such an
event there will be more than conpensating benz
oi1eege keain the jnevitable fact that Canadian
line Involves three routes and three terminals at
different seasons seriously handicaps it when COM
the whole year round, Lastly, the superior at
every class of traveller. its hotels and railway
service. must make it an overshadowng competi-
Canada possesses.
But even if there a Canadian line making
short passages 1t could only give one trip week,
whereas there six frstcass lines plying by way
of New-York. giving virtually daily service
throughout the year. The logical inference from
this is that tourist and business travel will move
in the direction where II be disposed Of daily
in preference moving in another direction where
it can be accommodated only week. The
heavy cost Of subsidzing fast steamers forbds the
possibility of Canada providing more than one such
iine Cor many years TO come, while the greater
growth of the United States will be constantly in
creasng the demand for more of the fastest liners
that can be built, and even those relegated to
second place will be still the equals OF Canada's
best. Hence it be readily seen how ill-founded
is the idea that the supremacy Of New-York IN
the fast Atlantic service is IN any way en-
dangered.
WATCHED IRIDIUM WORK.