The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
ALL RED ROUTE
GREAT HIGHWAY
Wonderful Plan to Join the
British Empire and Its
Dominions.
WILL MAKE FAST TIME
Proposed to Have a Twenty-one-day
Schedule Between London and
Sydney, Australia.


system. styled the Imperial ALFRED
Route" which is designed to link the
farthest separated dominions of the
the British empire. This great highway
through England, Scotland, and Ireland,
across the Atlantic to Labrador. across
British North America over the most
northerly parallels of latitude yet fol-
lowed by trunk line railways, and di-
versely, across the Pacific to distant Yo-
kohama, Hongkong, and Shanghai and
10 yet more distant Auckland and sgd
ney, is planned to serve the purposes of
war as well as to pursuits of peace. 1t
will be backed by the might and the
combined resources of the United King
dom, Canada, New Zealand, and Aus
tralia.
In the flight over tremendous distances,
by the swiftest means of land and sea
transportation that twentieth century
engineering skill can devise, the traveller
will be borne from the zenith Of modern
civilization through lands replete in as
sociations with the very dawn OF hu-
fnanity across seas to virgin forest
stretches scarce trod by white man, and
again across seas to States and great en-
pires striving for civilizations ideal
From London to the Scottish border and
Stranrear by car-ferry twenty-one miles
across the North Channel to the town Of
Larne, in ireland, and from Larne west
ward across the Emerald Isle to the mag
nificent new harbor of Blacksod, on the
Western coast of the County Mayo, Aus
tralia-b bound passengers will proceed for
55l miles by swift-moving express trains.
From Blacksod, steamships of speed
capacity for twenty-sIx knots per hour,
having finer lines and smaller displace-
ments than the Mauretania, will run in
three days to Cape st. Charles. on the
bleak, rock-bound coast of Labrador, just
north of Belle Isle Strait and but 1.6lS
nautical miles westward from Blacksod.
From this northernmost Atlantic harbor
on the Western Hemisphere, limited
trains will race westward, almost by air
line, to Winnipeg, landing their passen-
gers in the Manitoba metropolis In little
more than four and one-half days from
Blacksod.
From Winnipeg, or from the longitude
of Winnipeg, onward TO the Pacific Coast
the choice of three routes is open TO the
promoters of the great enterprise, among
whom are the leaders of state and church
and finance throughout the Empire Inc
first of these routes, of course, is the long
established Canadian Pacific Railway to
Vancouver and Victoria, b. c. The second
is the national transcontinental Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway. now in course Of
rapid construction from Moncton, n. b,
the. Atlantic terminus. to Prince Rupert,
B. C. the tidewater outlet on the Pacihc.
But 4SS miles of the total distance of LIS
miles from Winnipeg TO Prince Rupert
{now remain to be completed, the track
having been laid for 1,25T miles and this
latter mileage being now in operation. The
third route under consideration Is the
projected Hudson Bay and Pacific Rail-
way. to extend from Fort Churchill, on
the western shore of Hudson Bay, TO
Port Simpson. B. c.. which is but few
miles north of Prince Rupert. A spur of
few hundred miles in length. from point
on the Labrador Winnipeg to a junction
with the Hudson Bay and Pacific Rail-
way, would provide a through transcon-
tinental route to compete with the great
railways already in operation or in course
of construction.
Although planned mainly as a new line
of communication between the capital Of
Britain and PARKWAY New Zealand and
Australia-a line to be as dependable and
as valuable in time of war as in time of
peace-the ALFRED Route is designed
10 enter actively into competition for
service to less distant points, as well.
From London to Winnipeg in five days Is
as important an object relatively as the
accomplishment Of a twenty-one day
schedule between London and Sydney.
radical lessening of the running time be-
tween London and New York, Pittsburg,
Detroit and Chicago is also sought. For,
via Cape ST. Charles and rail connections
through the city of Quebec, il is expected
20 land passengers and mails in New York
one day ahead of the arrival of the Liver
pool steamers.
Inestimable social and economic bene-
fits promise to accrue to each of the
territories which will be traversed by the
ALFRED Route Australia and New
Zealand. by the saving of almost week
in the Journey to and from London. will
derive manifest commercial advantages.
Canada. in the words Of Vice Admiral Sir
Charles Campbell of the British Royal
Navy will become the central province
Of the Empire and the carrier of all the
traffic between the Australian colonies
and the mother country.
Proportionately, however, Ireland must
come r. enjoy yet greater advantages.
From the making of the erstwhile lonely
and isolated Blacksod Bay the Atlantic
terminus of the railway line from London
must bring about the concentration at
that point of the multitude of interests
sure to follow the sudden diversion thither
of a traffic universal in its scope and
gigantic in volume. Grain elevators, coal
and oil storage, warehouses and all the
equipment Of great harbor terminus,
whereto vigorous and spreading ] opu-
lation is sure TO be attracted, will pace |
BIacksod well in the race for maritime |
supremacy among the port cities of the |
British Isles. The effect upon the indus |
trial position of the North Irish country |
of which BlacksOd will be the logical |
gateway, is obvious. |
The establishment of a first-class sea- |
rort so far north on the Atlantic coast of |
ireland as Blacksod would not only cAs~-'I |
greater security TO the United Kingdom !
as a nation, but would better insure the |
entry into the country, under stress of |
war, of provisions for which the British |
Isles are quite dependent upon the OUT
side world No less distinguished an |
authority than the aforementioned Vice |
Admiral Sir Charles Campbell has thus !
MAY0R'S WALNUT OIL