Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-24

, course, and well to the northeastward of Duluth.
 The thing that made me want to know just where Fort William is was the information contained in the foi- lowing dispatch, dated Nov. 10, 1922:
 "The greatest grain armada that ever put to sea from Fort William, Ont. set sail a few days ago for eastern ports.
 Fifty great vessels, each carrying load of staggering size, slipped away l in a single day and tally of their | takes shows close to 10000, 900 bush | els of grain, most of it wheat.
 Carriers with about 100000 bushels in their holds, which would have caused special mention 10 years ago, were | hardly noticed in the list of the big fel- l lows that slowed away 1000 and n some cases 100000 bushels at a time. l ''So quickly are the ships cleared that | the nightly lists of departures often | show ships clearing that are not re- ] corded in the arrivals column. The closest kind of watch is kept on them, 1 and on the elevators to see that not a minute is lost in the process of reload ing and sailing away again"
 1 Think of it: fifty great vessels sailing l with ten million bushels of wheat in a single day from a port I'd never even 1 l ignerunt?' asks Desperate Ambrose of Alkau Ike in the Sunday papers comic l section.
 I'm not so ignorant, now, as ], was a week ago. know where Fort William, {, Ont, is. On the map it looks about as 1 important as Trading Cove. But a port which can ship ten million bushels of 1 wheat on fifty vessels in single day has the right to claim bigger letters on the next map printed.
 As sat back in my easy chair, re- | covering from the exhaustion attending my map hunt, another thought slowly ' filtered it's way into my alleged mind Fort William is in Canada It seems to be about the nearest Canadian port on Lake Superior to the grain fields of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, And it is shipping wheat, millions of bushels day. Only the other day Sen | ator badd Of North Dakota reported that thousands of bushels of wheat I were rotting on the fields of that state because the farmers couldn't get it moved to market. They had grown t and reaped it and threshed it. There they came up against a stump and could go no further The railroads 1 simply couldn't haul 1t away for them 1 North, Dakota is in the United States Fort William, as has been several times said. is in Canada.
 Fort William isn't in a whsat-xrov. ing section. It draws it's huge grair 1 shipments from other Canadian prov. 1 lnces farther west and north Tho grain has to be hauled from those re. mote wheatgrowing provinces by raj 1 before it can be dumped on the vessels at Fort William.
 |. Yet the Canadian railroads seem t. be doing it, not occasionally and de. sultorily but regularly and by the ten. of millions of bushels While the United States railroads, down Nortl Dakota way, can't or won't haul the wheat which the farmers are vainly begging them to take to market.
 Why this difference?
 This country Is supposed to be richel than Canada. It is supposed to have more railroads more cars, more en zines. It has not, hitherto, been dis posed to take any back seat in the mat
 ter or railroad enterprise or railroat
 management. It would hardly be popular thing for one to say, even now that Canadian railroad n1anagernen
 was any more brainy or resourceful O
 public-spirited than ours The ma, who intirnated such thing would brin,
 hornets buzzing into his hair yer:
 quickly.
 But the fact remains that Canada,
 railroads and Canadian vessels ar moving Canadian wheat with speed precision and in vast quantities, whil
 wheat just over the border in the Unit
 ed States is rotting on the ground.
 I don't ask you what's your theory 0
 this, President Cleveland once re
 marked that it was not a theory but ;