THE ALL RED ROUTE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 228, 19 June 1908, Page 7

THE ALL RED ROUTE.

TOO MUCH SENTIMENT. AN EMINENT AUTHORITY'S VIEWS. HIGHEST SPEEDS PREMATURE.' BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Ottawa, June 17. ' Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, President of tho Canadian Pacific Railway, speaking at Toronto, said that while he was hopeful for tho "all-red" routo,_ho believed the time had not arrived for employing Mauretanias in tho Canadian servico. At present there was too much reliance on sentiment, and not enough on commerce. J ■ SOME PRACTICAL OBJECTIONS. Tho two or three extra knots, it is well known,, mean an altogether disproportionate infcrense in tho cost, and Sir Thos. O'Shanghnessy has previously expressed himself against the employment of 2i-knot or 25-knot boats between Britain and Canada. His motto is to uso what will pay. "He estimates that to incrcaso speed from 21 knots to. 25 knots means sin increase of 58 por cont. in the cost. Ho is also against tho Blacksod Bay route via Ireland. One of his principal objections' to this route is that it will involve costly transhipments; to which tho advocates of tho ' Blacksod Bay scheme reply that tho .train which takes passengers and mails from London will land tnem at Blacksod Bay by moans of a train-ferry service across the Irish Channel. But this would involve a, largo expenditure on train-ferries and on a length of - railway to link np Blacksod Bay with the present Irish railway system; in addition to the cost of the great Atlantic greyhounds. This ambitious scheme does not appeal to the commercial and practical intellect of the president of the Canadian-Pacific Bailway.