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CANADIAN PACIFIC

World's Greatest Travel System

JULY 30,

1930.

3D EDWARD BEATTY, K.. President, Canadian Paotic.

STUE CANADIAN PACIFIC

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT.

and constructing the largest and

THALLAWAY links the atlantle most powerful toomeliver in the and Pacific Devans traversing the British Empire. One aspect of its 3,000 miles between the two and development is particularly interest. running through practically all the ing to travellers, namely, the im- major cities of Canada, Accord, provenent in the rolling stock of ing to the latest annual report of the company in what might be

feet train service. The new pas-

fewer equipment, will set a new and high standard of service and com- fort and one which no country in the world can better.

Most of this new passenger equip- the company, total mileage is termed de luxe equipment, overment has been designed for service around 21,00, of which 16,055 miles are in Canada. It operatesight sleepers, lounge and compart-on the long distance, all-sleeping. ment cars, indicating the fact which ear trains, such as the Trans- steamship lines on both oceans

A short para-: joining Canada with Europe on the all Canadians take pride in, namely Canada Limited.

that Canadian railways are de graph on these cars will emphasize East and with Japan and China on the West.

tertained that in equipment they the great lengths to which the shall at least equal the service and Canadian Pacific will go to ensure that the traveller gathers his "uipment in any other country in impressions of the Dominion un- the world..

der the most pleasant auspices.

Since, the war the

It is the largest privately owned concern in the British Empire and one of the largest in the world. Canadian Pacific Railway has built An idea of its expenditures is af- almost a complete new fleet, leaving forded by the facts of its outlay in only three vessels in service which 1929. In order to improve service were in operation at the outset of and supply its patrons with the hostilities. In C.P.R. "Princess, latest improvements in rolling Duchess, and

Empress" vessels ock, the company built and pur there has been set a newer and chased in that getir 116 passenger higher standard of steamship sor cars, 9, 100 freight cars and 30 vice in Camus and between Cana Econolives involving a total dian parts and those olsowhere, Trailway president in

NO BE NOT ONLY the youngest penditure of $31,238,000, in addi- Additions to the Company's fles and a Solarium Lounge which |

the tion to which appropriations exceed-

in the last ten years have involved necessary for world but also president of the in $200,000 were

such interior furnishings as ups

an expenditure of over $95,000,000, world's groutest transportation bolstery, chairs, ecrtains,

Within the same period toʻal ex- system that was the fare dis, Furthermore, over $1,700,000 was penditore by the Company on tinction the Fates Feserved for allotted to the adding of modern hotels, some of which are enumer. Edward Wentworthy Realty, K.C., improvements to existing cars and ated overleaf, is in excess of $42 Chairman and President of the olives. The chairman and 0.04 Canadian Parie Railway. He issident of the Canadian Pacifie Railway. Mr. E. W. Beatty, address was born in 1877. he succeeded ing a body of traffic men recently. New Jocomotives have been do the late Lord Shaughnessy as Prestated that in the last five years signed to give the Canadian farm sident in 1918, at the age of forty his company had spent on capital or and industrialist still more, per one. The record Is sensational, account along in Canada and for

etc.

Canadian services a sum in excess

even 00 D Coutinent of "of $24,000,000 and during the i

portunity.

same period constructed more than! 1,000 miles of branch lines. In the past ten years the sum spent Mr. Beatty was educated at the by the ralfway on capital account,, 'Torontu Model Sekond. Upper. Was, said Mr. Bratty, in excess of Canada College, Harbord Street, $385,000,00. In addition a $50. Collegiate Institute, Osgoode Hall and improvement of facilities by ER00,000 prozraume of development and the University of Toronto In Calian Pacific is amounted 1898 he graduated from the latter; for 1930, institution and took up the study!

of law with a private law firm.¦ In the ten years referred to, the His ability and, diligence soon at- Canadian Pacific Railway has rock- Leacted the attention of the ballasted more than 2,000 miles of General Counsel of the Canadianį railway, it has ingreased the weight Pacific Railway, and this was the lyf rail and has block-signalled over turning point of his career. En 1,300 miles; also it has increased tering the law department of the its rail mileage by almost 2.500 when he was miles which a few years age would company in 1901, Twenty-five, he achieved a posis have boon considered a great sya- | tion visi by many experi- en in itself. It has built at Van- enced lawyers, Fast, far from ever one of thes most modern being

· satisfied" 10 nest, he piers in the world for arean and continued his studies keenly. AL estal freight and passenger ser- twenty-eight, he had mastered yine. It has completed construe- every detail envireled with the lion and ling of the great 'Con- great system and was appointed-manght Tunnel in the Selkirk Assistant-Solicitor. Followed Fa connais at a cost of more than pidly bis promotion fo General | $8,000,000. It has born its share Solicitor, In 1910, Chief Counsel, if the post of the great viaduct in 2nd Vice President in 1914 and Toronto, It has spent millions of President in 1918, The Chair-j dollars in enlarging, modernizing, manship rendered vacant by thejazd swingthening its bridges and death of the late Lord Shaugh-lit has mute the most conspicuous nessy in November last year Mr. [risvelopment through the efforts of Beatty accepted in May, 1921. Canadian engineers, in designing

BOW RIVER AND MOUNT RUNDLE, BANFF.

The Solarium Car which is des signed as rear-end equipment for the Trans-Canada, is a car given over entirely to the comfort and convenience of the passenger. It includes two shower baths, ladies lounge, a smoking room, buffet, main observation lounge,

takes the place of an open plat- form and which is glazed with Vila Glass, to admit the most bene- 'ficial of the sun rays. These cars were built at the company's own shops at a cost of not less than $90,000 each. An approximately similar sums has been expended upon each of the luxurious sleep- ing ears, and upon the new diners. all of which embody all the latest developments in public, comfort. convenience and safety,

LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA.

MORRAINE LAKE AND VALLEY. OF THE TEN PEAKS

Among greatest engineering giant of the railway, with the ex- feats on this continent was the ception only of materials that are construction pl the Conaughtinot procurable from Canadian manufacturers, Plans for the de- Tunnel, the work on which was sign were recently completed for started by the Canadian Pacific the company by H. B. Bowen, chief Railway Company in 1913, costing of motive power and rolling stock, when completed well over $8,000,- 000, or over $1,350,000 a mile for the tunnel which pierces Mobut MacDonald in the Selkirk Range, is nearly six miles long.

Biggest Locomotive.

The new locomotive will have a two wheel leading truck, five pairs of driving wheels and a four wheel trailing truck. It will be known as the Canadian Pacife Railway T-d-a class. The locomotive alone. will weigh approximately 466,600 s, and the tender 27,600 lbs., Designed to give the tremendous making a total weigh of 764,000 tractive effort of 83,200 pounds, abs., 332 Lons-14,000 lbs. new locomotive to be operated on a heavier than the 5900's and 120,000 high steam pressure principle is is, heavier than the 2800's. under construction at the AngusA Shops of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way at Montreal. The engine, the

Mighty Bridge.

first of its kind on the American Faith in Canada's northern areas continent, will be one of the most of resource becomes a reality in the powerful in the world, and will Canadian I acific. bridge at supersede the 5900 series as the Nipawin, Saskatchewan. Design- most powerful in the British Em-jed to take the heaviest locomotives pire.

likely to be built, this magnificent structure, a little more than 1,907

An appreciation of the capabil-fect long, spans the Saskatchewan ities of the new engine can be gain-River at a point leading from the ed from the fact that it, tractive more definitely agricultural section effort is 5,200 pounds more than into timber and mining districta the 5900, series,, and 37,000 pounds of recognized magnitude. It will greater than the 2800 series just afford ready access to still further hailed as the fastest and met mo-farm lands and direct transporte- dern passenger engines yet pro- tion possibilities for those who will Juced. Canadian material will be explore and develop mineral ex- used in the building of this new panses rich in promise.

Among the major operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway for the year 1929, the Nipawin Bridge, begun in October, 1928, is one of the exceptionally large steel struc- tures in Western Canada. In sym- metrical spans it connects north and south banks of the Saskatche- wan at 150 feet above water level of the river. It provides not only railroad transit calculated for 60,- 000 pounds axle load on the engine drivers, but is made in double track fashion with a sixteen foot highway for vehicular traffic on the lower chords designed for fifteen- ton loading..

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JULY 30, 1930.

in the fostering and placement of industry, the Canadian Pacific has made contributions of inestimable value through its activities in con- nection with the tourist trade, which brings to Canada more wealth than all the country's gold mines produce, and through its steamship activities by which it has made Canada known throughout the world.

RANT HALL, Vice President,

Gr Canadian Pacific Railway, was

born in Montreal, on November 27th, 1863, and was educated at Bishop's College and School, This steel roadway, built on a Lennoxville, Quebec. He joined creosoted understructure with a the C.P.R. in 1887 as locomotive two inched untreated wearing sur foreman, later he left the C.P.R. face. will carry the Saskatchewan and from 1893 to 1898 was general Government's provincial highway locomotive foreman on the Inter- across the river. Legislative forces colonial Railway at Moncton, New co-operated with the railway com- Brunswick. In September, 1898, pany in relieving the situation he returned to the Canadian which naturally proved a hindrance | Pacific Railway, where he was con to agricultural development, Hither、 | secutively general foreman, first to a ferry was required to convey at the McAdam, and later at the travellers and vehicles across, a Winnipeg shops; master mechanic mode of travel full of difficulty by of the British Columbia division; reason of the steep descents to the assistant superintendent of motive water level on both banks, a parti-power and car department, cularly, serious condition in winter. At each end there is a trestle ap- proach connecting the bridge road- way with the usual highway to the river,

What this connecting link will mean in agricultural settle- ment and progress can scarcely be computed.

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western lines; from November, 1911 to December 1914, nasistant general manager. western lines. In 1914 he was appointed Vice Fresident and General Manager.

Grant Hall, who has been since 1918. Vice-President with juridic- tion over all lines has been aptly This company was first a railway described as a "big man physically mpany only and railway trans- with a heart as big an his body." portation is still its major activity, "Grant." as he is known by the but the Canadian Pacific Railway rank and file of the railway, is a Company of to-day is much greater favourite with everyone from the than a railway company in the er-trackwalker up. dinary interpretation of that term. it comprises within one corporate existence many activities, several

of a body of men than any other half dozen men, and it is largely because he knows how to take off his own chat and do, his own share of the work.

Westerners will tell of the time when he was in cherze at Revelstoke years ago, and when he of which taken by themselves, worked night and day for a week would be considered very substan- in the mountains to lift one af tial Canadian enterprises. For ex- the worst snow blockades in the ample, it is a steamship company history of the transcontinental and the largest Canalian steam-railway. It is a matter of record ship company. It is the only on the Revelstoke division that Canciae company maintaining a "Grant" could get more work out first class passenger service to and from Canadian parts, and its addi- tions to its flerta in the last five years has invalved an expenditure of the enormous sum of $15,000, 000. It is a lake, river and con-1 steamship company. It is a tole- graph company. It is an express company. It is an hotel company Its hotel investment alone con- stitutes it one of the largest of that kind in the world. It is a land company. It is a settlement and colonization company. It is a lumber company. It is a mining company, the second largest min- ing company in Canada. It is a townsite and housing company. It is a coal company. It is an Irriga- tion company and it owns and oper- ates experimental_farms, Indeed and in fact the Canadian Pacific Railway plays a major part in the development and prosperity of the Dominion.

Apart from its contribution to Canadian development through its interests in agriculture, its de velopment of natural resources and

MR. GRANT HALL Vice-President, Canadian Pacifio.