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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nation to an end. Dr. AVeyl concludes that it is by reason ofhis qualities and their defects, by virtue of hispowers and his limitations, that John Mitchellis so mighty and beuefic(>nt an influence in thelabor world. He is the ideal trade-union leader,because he is singly and always for the union,because he limits his efforts to the immediatelyattainable, and because, without compromise, hereconciles opposing factions. THE PAN-AMERICAN RAILWAY. ALTHOUGH the project has been discussedfor many years, tlie Pan-American rail-way is still regarded by most Americans as aUtopian scheme, quite beyond the possibility ofrealization,—at least within the present century.We imagine that most readers of Mr. Peppers article in the April Scribner^s were surprised tolearn that more than one-half of the 10,391 milesof the projected line between New York andBuenos Ayres is already in operation. It is truethat a long series of gaps remains to be filled,and that some of the most difficult engineering
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MAP OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, SHOWING RAILROADS ALREADY IN OPERATION AND THE PROPOSED PAN-AMERICAN ROUTE. 606 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI/IEIV OF REI^IEIVS. problems in the entire scheme are yet to besolved, but in the light of accomplishments inrailroad-building during the past half-century itcan no longer be said that the completion of theintercontinental railway line from the UnitedStates to the Argentine Republic within the nextfifty years is beyond the range of possibility.There is now all-rail connection between NewYork and the boundary line between Mexico andGuatemala. There is also a completed line ex-tending from Buenos Ayres northward into Bo-livia. Here and there, between Guatemala Cityand Tupiza, the Bolivian terminus of the Argen-tine road, there are sections of the interconti-nental line completed or under construction. Tocomplete the required links in this long chainwill require an expenditure estimated by Mr.Pepper at two hundred millions of dollars. Theactual mileage

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