SHORTENING THE ATLANTIC JOURNEY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11701, 10 March 1902, Page 4

SHORTENING THE ATLANTIC JOURNEY.

Jfc is announced from Halifax, Nova Scotia, that a great bridge is to be built across the Strait nji (Janso, which may be taken to that n new rail-steamship route ts JKnrope is at last about to De inaugurated. It is argued that none would .ever invest £BOO,OOu in a bridge simply to mahp. unbroken tail communication Detween. Cape Breton island and the mamJand. It is well known tfcat influential men vrjtli powerful backing, and representing vast commercial transportation . interests, jfciave for several years been considering the feasibility of u. new transatlantic route which should materially shorten the time Jiow required to travel between Europe and .America. It -a-ill be in no way surprising if this new bridge schemer shall prove the first step in a great project to establish a passenger and innil route from £urppe to America via Sydney. From Liverpool to New York" is 3053 miles, which, for the average ocean greyhound, means sis days on shipboard. Careful estimates show that- a passenger £otrld be taken from Liverpool to New iTork" via the Sydney route in just about four and. a-half days. The present rail distance .between New York and Sydney is 1096 miles', divided as follows :—New York to Boston, 1 via the New York. New Haven, and Hart- ! ford railroad, 214 miles; Boston to Portland, via the Boston and Maine, 115 miles; Portland to St. John, via the Maine Central and. the Canadian Pacific, 340 miles; St. Jtihn to Sydney, via the Intercolonial 'aftway, 427 miles. Railway authorities that there is no reason why this whole tde cannot be put in a condition which rill make it possible for a train to cover he entire distance between New York and Sydney at an average speed of 55 miles n hour, or in 20 hours. The running istance can probably be shortened nearly X) miles by straightening the present line. Prom Sydney the steamship course will nbably run to Londonderry, Ireland, rpping jasf south of Cape Race, NewWriland. and then taking the great circle 5 .sailing distance between Sydney and nionderry is slightly less than 2000 er, which the fast ships of the day can er in three days and eight hours. Crossing Ireland by rail to Dublin, pjs»6rs would mai v .e the passage of tie ii Channel to Holyhead and be landed Liverpool in aJjoctt seven hours from iondeTT. With such a schedule the from New "Yurk to Liverpool wonld by over a da v and a-half, end tens;, r tan tic voyage, so trying *to { wc-.'ld be shortened' 1 by more than Fhll o lvs.

5 following table .sb©-B T s the time in •' rli*. journey could he done by the ged cstt route:— Honrs. ndoi: Liverpool —5 rerp'yVL to Londonderry ... .... V ndor.-ierry to .Sydney -- 80 Jney to New York - 20 Tot;: I time from London to & Kew York I*l2 H i -pointed oat- that this Sydney l 'onte W n Europe and America may be ex ~ to find the active snppoit. of pow - r ~ liray and political influences. get' the mails ar.d the' national sub- • paid on their transportation.'

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It is often said that the French President receives no more than £24,000 a year for his services. That is, as a matter of fact, the actual salary of the head of the Republic, but. it is not generally known that M. Loubet is supplied gratuitously with a number of household necessaries which represent in value at least a couple of thousand pounds a year. For fruit, vegetables, game, oil, logs for his fires, gas, and electricity he pays nothing, while in addition his household" linen is washed free of charge.

An American paper says: —Four thousand deer and 175 moose were killed in Maine this season. This refers only to the number of animals brought out of the woods. Many are killed and eaten in the woods, or are allowed to lie where •they fall. Not less than 12,000 deer are killed in Maine each season, and their present numbers are estimated at- from ICO.OOO to 150,000. The open season for deer in Wisconsin resulted in a death-roll of seventeen men killed and thirty-three wounded. The casualty rate of Maine during the open season for deer was nine men killed and fourteen wounded. The modern shooting rifles used are deadly at two miles, and their power of penetra-