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MARINE REVINW. | 13 To Encircle the Globe. Although the Canadian Pacific Railway, with its great line of Pacific steamers, has received subsidies and land grants aggre- gating upwards of $200,000,000 from Great Britain and the | Dominion government, and is now preparing to place a line of boats on the Atlantic, it is certain that the intention of President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern Railway and Northern Steamship Company, is to eventually compete with the big Cana- dian corporation in a railway and steamship system that will almost encircle the globe. A sectional drawing from a map of the United States, which accompanies this article, shows how the Great Northern Railway, with its eastern connections from all Atlantic seaport cities to Buffalo, and'its lake steamship line and direct line of railway from the head of ake Superior to the new town of Everett on Puget Sound, is already in possession of advantages over the Canadian Pacific as regards the best route over the American continent. The fleet of six passenger steamers on the lakes, which will undoubtedly be the outcome of the present contract for the two vessels now under construction, will form the most important link in the system intended for competition with the Canadian line, as the monotony of the long trip across the country will be broken by a ride of more than 1,000 miles through the lakes on the most elegantly appointed ships afloat on fresh water. The policy of the Great Northern in building these vessels is, of course, along the plan adopted by the Canadian Pacific, when that company several years ago brought ship material from England and established its present line of fast steamers between . Owen Sound, Ont., and Port Arthur at the head of Lake Supe- rior. But in extending the lake route through the whole chain of waterways from Buffalo to Duluth, Mr. Hill has demonstrated, by actual competition with the Dominion railway, the advantages of the increased water haul in freight business, and is now pre- paring to do the same in the transportation of passengers. With this railway in full working order to the Pacific, and complete passenger and freight connections on the lakes, there is no doubt that plans already considered for a steamboat line on the, Pacific to China' and Japan will be definitely arranged. Great Northern officials have repeatedly given expression to their intentions in this regard. Mr. Hill is very firmly of the belief that present indications are in the direction of a revival in Ameti- can shipping and a great increase in the trade of this country with foreign nations. He is also of the opinion that with this revival in shipping will come a marked improvement in the ship building industry, and it is not at all unlikely that an early announcement will be made of his connection with the building up of some one of the present coast ship yards, or the establish- ment of a new plant on a big scale. When a freight line of six big steel steamers was put into the lake trade by the Great Northern four years ago, it was openly declared that the line would not find an eastern connec- tion from Buffalo. Still, this line of modern built boats not only found a surplus of business on account of the wonderful growth in all lines of lake trade, but has gained control of the traffic Pee ee ee between St. Paul and Minneapolis and the seaboard, and in all : arrangements regarding freight rates the management has de- a manded that rates from St. Paul and Minneapolis to the east > should be the same as those from Chicago to the east. This is : simply mentioned to show that advanced methods (big modern -- a "WISCONSIN {ow aA a cS MARINE REVIEW CLEVELAND QO | | | | | a DAKOTA ' DAKOTA: NEBRASKA A in ae rare s R GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP ROUTE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC. MONTANA WW) TEN Ss 1G R Ea T N | : | : steamboats in this case, for instance) are a great ruling power. en re A small map attached to the accompanying sectional map shows the enormous scope of the projects mapped out by these | competing northwestern lines for control of international commerce. | That the Northern Pacific is also planning for the establishment of fast steamboat connections there is no doubt. Numerous rumors | have connected this company with negotiations for the construc- tion of steamboats for the lakes as well as the Pacific. OREGON aS > z an Francisco WASHINGTON O° & a '\ os 1 \ ' , ' ti t y ms BA (XQ SS ' = {al (( | i | \ : --