. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. anciers, American, 98 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE Canadian and English, will, by thattime, be vitally interested in the de-velopment of this new commercialpath and that the Irish project, aswell as the Newfoundland one, willbe put through. With what results?Killery may, on the European sideof the Atlantic, stand as the greatrival of Liverpool, and on the Ameri-can side St. Johns as New should not a tourist cut hishours on the ocean in two, and sub-stitute for the perils and inconven-iences of ocean travel the speed. East in general. By following t
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. anciers, American, 98 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE Canadian and English, will, by thattime, be vitally interested in the de-velopment of this new commercialpath and that the Irish project, aswell as the Newfoundland one, willbe put through. With what results?Killery may, on the European sideof the Atlantic, stand as the greatrival of Liverpool, and on the Ameri-can side St. Johns as New should not a tourist cut hishours on the ocean in two, and sub-stitute for the perils and inconven-iences of ocean travel the speed. East in general. By following thispath instead of sailing through theSeuz Canal, the Englishman may savenineteen days in his journey fromLondon to Tokio. But it is not passenger traffic alonethat makes for great seaports. Thequantity of commercial products,grain, cattle, hogs, and manufacturedgoods, that pass through a city is afactor of still greater teems with wealth. Her vastplains are golden with grain and darkwith cattle. Great pines crash be- m. Wabana Iron Mine, Bell Island, Newfoundland. safety, and comforts of the railwayexpress? Three million persons, itis estimated, cross the Atlantic everyyear. Of course, an enormous num-ber of these are immigrants—glad toreach this continent, no matter howgreat the miseries they may experi-ence in so doing. But the others willseek Killery Harbor and St. Johns—to be reached by railroad fromLondon and New York, Killery-St. Johns route alsofurnishes the shortest, most directroute to Japan, China and the Far neath the sturdy blows of the woods-man. Her bosom is pierced with pickand racked with dynamite that shemay reveal her mineral hoards. Atpresent the bulk of her foreign com-merce finds its way to the worldsmarkets down the channel of the This is for seven monthsof the year, when that waterway isfree from ice. During the five ofthese months the ships on passinginto the Gulf of St. Lawrence turnnorth through the
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