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FORTY YEARS OF

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"THE "CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.

On June 28th, states the Canadian Pacific, the official bulletin of the C.P.8. and C.P.R., forty years elapad since the first through train left Montreal for the Pacific Coast prer the Canadian Pacific Railway. Six days Inter, sharp on time, itarrived at Port Moody, which was then the terminus, the first through train to raach Vancouver propar arriving there in June, 1837.

MR. ROCKEFELLER'S

GOLF GAME.

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE STILL GIVING AWAY DIMES.

Mr. John D. Rockefeller returned to Fosantico Hills from Lakewood some little time ago and his friends say he is playing a strong game of golf. One who played with him laid ----

"I never saw Mr. Rockefeller play a bottur game than he has since-bis-retra from the South. Why, he made 1 thron the nine holes this morning and beat me. 1'll say that is playing the game for a man who will be 87 next month. His health appears to be splendid."

The first transcontinental train started from the old Dalhousie Square Station in Montreal. It is not used now for pas

Mr. Rockefeller, telling of how he keeps senger purposes having bean superseded by the modern Place Vigar Station, ad- himself in trim, said to a friend recently: joining the Place Vigor Hotel and by the

"I never worry. The days' of worry splendid Windsor Station Terminalare vor for me I don't let anything which is the finest station and general | bother me It is true that I am sadden. railway office building in Canada and ed now and then by the death of an old compares very favourably with the best friend, but I make new ones and people in the United States.

hre very kind to me. Then again I keep cheerful. It is a great help to good health to be cheerful. There is enough troubic in the world and if I can spread a little sunshine it helps me and I hope it helps others."

REMARKABLE DAY.

Asked about his diet, Mr. Rockefeller said:

The antreal Gazette of June 90th, 1880, contained the following account:--

When the history of the Dominion comes to be written in the future, the 29th of June, 1888, will be recorded as a Remarkable day in the progress of

"I'm not on a diet. I eat what I like. Canada. The great Continental railway But I always eat moderately. Overeating From the Atlantic to the Pacific may be is bad for any one, I discipline myself said to celebrate its premier birthday to eat sparingly and I have found that it when the first through train left the Dal- pays. Then again I never get up from housie Square Station on its long pil- the table right after a meal always grimage of 2,990 miles through the fertile sit at the table for a time. I never hurry prairies, the woods primeval and the my meals and I'm never in a hurry to noble mountains of the broad Dominion leave the table. Its not good-for-the on the Western coast.

digestion. If people will we common sense in eating they won't have much trouble with their stomachs."

Mr. Rockefeller is still giving away bright new dimes to his friends. He says,

The event was so important one for in City of Montreal and the citizens in organizing a spontaneaus demonstra tion, manifested their high appreciation of the significance of the occasios..

I hope you won't take offence if I offer At 20 o'clock (8 p.m.) the ten cars and you a little souvenir," and with that he engine which comprised the first all-pulled forth a dime. The dimes" are through train started on its first journey, always welcomed by the recipients, who amidst the cheers of the thousands assem- treasure them highly. bled and the booming of the guns of the Field Battery which fired fifteen guns outside the depot Colonel Stevenson, with Capt. JS. Hall, jr., was in com mand of the battery.'

The train consisted of two baggage cars, a mail car, two first-class coaches, two colonist sleepers, the first-class sleepers "Yokohama" and "Honolulu " and the dining-car" Holyrood."

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He is playing his regular game of golf Mr. Rockefeller is the picture of health. every morning and he taugh and jokes with his friends Here is one of Mr. Rockefeller istest stories. He says he was coming up from the South and on the train was a woman who was pester- ing the conductor with questions. She became a great nuisance and the conduc- Lor became disquested. Finally she asked The mileage of the Canadian Pacific him" Conductor, why is it that you wave Railway as shown in traffic returns at the your hand to the engineer when you want close of 1986 was only 4,651) miles. Now him to start instead of pulling the bell it is 14.163) oad in addition the Com-rope Why," replied the conductor. pony controls other railway lines whose when I ware my hand it means get the mileage amounts to 6,105% and produces bell out of here." At the conductor re- a grand total of 20,271. The gross earn turned to the train a man who had heard ings of the Company for the fiscal year the remark said, "You should not have ending December 31st, 1888, were only talked that way to that woman. She is $10,081,003-in five years they had more the wife of one of the directors of your than doubled, being $20,941,005 for the road." year ended December 31st, 1891. Since then they have increased until in the banner year of 1990 they exceeded $245,000,000 and yearly since then have been over $180,000,000-and these figures do not include the Company's controlled

lines.

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.

"Phew.!" said the conductor.....” I guess I had better go back and apolo- gize. In a few minutes he returned and the man said-to-him, "What did she say when you apologised "

Hub; she didn't say anything. She just waved her Lind."

In 1888, the Company possessed no FALL INTO A DEN OF LIONS. steamships except three on the Great Lakes. The next year a trans-Pacific ser- vice was established between Vancouver and Japan and China with three charter-

ALARMING" SCENE IN A CIRCUS.

While performing a trick cycling feat

Paris, Roger Spessardy fell into a dea of lions.

ed Steamships Abyssinia, Batavia and in a travelling circus at Montreuil, nesr Parthia and four years later, in 1891, the first of the three Empresses the Empress of India-made her first voyage from

His motor-cycle landed on top of the Hongkong to Vancouver. So quickly trainer, who was putting the animals were the mails handled by the new Em through a performance, nearly stunning press service between Hongkong and him, while Spessardy fell heavily close to London that the London Times comment the animals. The latter at first resented ed specially on the wonderful change the intrusion, and one of them was about made by the opening of the Trans- to maul the senseless cyclist when the Canadian route. Since then the origit a trainer recovered sufficiently to keep them. three Empresses with, their 6,000 tons quiet until the cyclist was removed. gross register have been replaced by the The feat was called "The Cycle of "Big Four" which maintain a fort-Death," and consisted of cycling round a nightly service between Vancouver, Yoko small basin-like track at terrific speed. hama, Hongkong and Manila and bold Underneath the track was the hons cage. all trans-Pacific speed recards, besides Apparently Spessady slowed down to having the very highest reputation for quickly, with the result that the machine, comfort and luxury without astentation. losing its impetus, left the "track and fell In 1903 the Canadian Pacific acquired by into the lions' cage. Both cyclist and purchase a feet of fourteen steamallips on trainer-were-injured, but not seriously. the Atlantic and its later absorption of the old-established Allan Line and the

segregation of its Atlantic and Pacific and it is stated in the last annual report services into the "Canadian Pacific that the Company is about to spend acar. Steamships, Ltd.", has established one ly $15,000,000 for new rolling stock. of the leading steamship organizations of the world, the fleet" including as its flagship the Empress of Scotland, largest vessel on the St. Lawrence route, the Empress of France, which holds the cords for speediest passages between Quebec and English porta, and the Em press of Canada,

mileage, its equipment and its earnings The growth of the Canadian Pacific are coincident with the development of Canada-and-a-great deal of Canada's development was brought about by the opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the extension "of its lines. The which holds the Dominion of Canada" would have been

record for the fastest trans-Pacific impossible, as it stands to-day, without voyage ever made, and the Empress the Canadian Pacific Railway

of Australia, both over 21,000 tons The traveller across the continent, as gross register. In addition

to the he is carried over the prairies of Mani- trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific services toba, Basketchewan and Alberta, as he the Canadian Pacific Railway operates climbs the Rockies and Selkirks and, fleets of speedy and luxuriously equipped through the canyons of the Thompson and vessels on the British Columbia Coast, the Okanagan, Arrow and Rootenay Takes, the Great Lakes and the Bay of Fundy. The Company's total ocean-going tonnage exceeds 410,000 tons.

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A comparison of the equipment, peases sed by the Canadian Facile Bailway at the close of 1886 and at the end of last fiscal year (December-31st, 1926) is very interesting. It is as follows

1890. -019-

Fraser Bivers, is transported with speed, safety and comfort, on the Trans-Canada, Limited, or one of the Company's other splendid-equipped trains, to the British Columbia Coast, cannot but be impressed by the thought that, where he now sees farms and fruit orchards, thriving villages, prosperous towns and busy cities, there was, forty years ago, prac tically nothing!........The marvellous changes. 1920, and immensa development that have taken place Lave been brought about by the Canadian Pacific Railway which per- forma not merely, a national service, but also an Imperial one by linking together and bringing within close touch the world-wide members of the British Em- pira.

-2,101

537

Locomotives. First and second class.

passenger cars, bag- -gage cars and colonist

sleepers presente

First class sleeping and

y dining ears

Parlour cars, official and

paymaster, cars tänud APT Freight and cattle, cars a

(all kinds)

Conductor's cars

...8,233 178

Board foot and auxiliary-7

cars and steam shovels @31 (Continued on next Column):

139

80,852 1,336

0,759

Progress during the last forty years has-been wonderful, but it is only a be! ginning... The possibilities for fature development, are boundless, and no man can foresses how great a future lies be fore the Dominion of Canads and, indie. solubly connected with it, the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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