Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1908 — SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS.

They Run East and West Instead of North and South. Although to the North American exponents of that project there has seemed a discouraging Tack of interest in the Pan-American Kailroad men, there baa really been no cessation of the activity of the latter in pushing development in their more immediate spheres. “Let us build the lines the country needs,” they say, “and don’t ask ns go out of cmr way to further a scheme which, however practicable from an engineering point of view, would not pay ns dividends In this century, and possibly not in tbe next. "We concede that we might benefit indirectly through the increased stability of government that would follow the building of an intercontinental line, but that benefit Is too remote to Interest us at a time when we have ample opportunity for expending all our available funds in the construction of lines that will yield returns from the day they are opened.” So It happens that while there has never been so much activity in railway construction In South America as at the present moment, almost without exception th* new lines are following the parallels rather than the meridians, running east and west rather than north and south.—Review of Reviews. Mr. Huntem—l’m going to India to hunt six months. Miss Catchem —And I suppose you will forget all about poor me. Mr. Huntem —My dear. It will take a terrible fierce elephant to make me forget you. Tou can't make a nagging woman believe that she hasn't the sweetest disposition U) the neighborhood.