. Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development . foregoing, and only theabundant resources of the Reid-Newfoundland Company couldhave successfuly coped with such an undertaking. Mr. H. , the assistant manager of the company, placed his privatecar at the disposal of the gentlemen, and what with the repre-sentatives of the local press and some fifty guests, they soonfound themselves traveling through the Peninsula of Avalon ;through scenery not less novel and interesting than that whichMr. Maxwell was accustomed to look out on last year from the
. Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development . foregoing, and only theabundant resources of the Reid-Newfoundland Company couldhave successfuly coped with such an undertaking. Mr. H. , the assistant manager of the company, placed his privatecar at the disposal of the gentlemen, and what with the repre-sentatives of the local press and some fifty guests, they soonfound themselves traveling through the Peninsula of Avalon ;through scenery not less novel and interesting than that whichMr. Maxwell was accustomed to look out on last year from thebeseiged city of Ladysmith. But this was only one item in thepress programme. The next evening, at , a dinner was giventhem by the same company on board their magnificent ship« Glencoe,» one of a fleet of splendidly equipped sailing yachtsthat now engirdle Newfoundland, and that afford passengersnot alone rapid locomotion, but, in point of equipment, table andfurniture, are little Lucanias in their way. At the banquet theguests of the evening over and over again repeated their sur-. NEWFOUNDLAND. (>1 prise at all they had seen, and assured all present that as occa-sion offered they would not fail in placing Newfoundland in atrue light before the British public and the world at large, andin that way remove the impression that many people have thatwe are not a bright, prosperous and progressive people.
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