By reason of the shorter and cheaper haul down the St. Lawrence there was a greater volume of grain shipped out of Montreal last season than the combined grain shipments out of all other Atlantic ports. The locks of the New Welland Canal, now being constructed and well advanced towards completion, are seven in number and capable of locking vessels ... continued
Development of the St Lawrence Valley – Part 1
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
THE wealth of the Indies was the objective of Columbus and the early explorers in their search for a westward passage to the Orient. The Portuguese navigator Antonio Galvao in 1550, in the belief that no channel-way existed between the Atlantic and Pacific, recommended that an isthmian canal be built-the precursor of the present Panama Canal. Herna... continued
Automatic Train Control Ordered
November 20, 2009 By
NO MORE RAILROAD WRECKS will be caused by disregard of block signals after July 1, 1924, if an order just issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission in accordance with permission given to it by the Esch-Cummins Act of 1920, becomes of effect in March, and works out as intended. Trains that run into a closed block of track will come to a stop whet... continued
New Gliding Records
November 20, 2009 By
Glider Pilots Set New Records for Staying Aloft WHEN The Outlook printed Lieutenant Tinker’s article “Statesmanship Run Wild,” it presented the latest news as to the achievements of the Germans with motorless airplanes. That article stated the surprising fact that a German had succeeded in remaining in the air without a motor for ... continued
Seventy lives a Day
November 2, 2009 By
ACCORDING to figures compiled by C. E. Robb, statistician of the National Safety Council, the daily total of deaths from automobile accidents throughout the country during the month of September averaged 70 per day, or at the rate of 25,500 per year. Seventy per cent of the victims were pedestrians run down by motorists. Of this percentage, 31.8 we... continued
Apache Trail Made Into a Road
November 2, 2009 By
THE Apache Trail, closed while improvements were being made that perfected it as an automobile highway, is open again. This means that the westbound traveler may once more deflect from the railroad to marvel at Roosevelt Dam and the man-made inland sea which the earth has now taken to herself as though it were her own, and not her foster child. It ... continued