Identifier: newfoundlandatbe00harv (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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with adequate resources is impregnable in waras in the peaceful arts. The time is opportune. Never didhuman genius offer methods so ample and so perfect forcreating a vast plant and for producing its output, and neverwas the demand for its product so great and so urgent, andnever were men enlisted so fit to give scope and success to theundertaking. The President of the Company, Mr. Henry M. Whitney,like his brother, W. C. Whitney, is a man of broad views, oflarge executive force and honorable record. Mr. Arthur J.Moxham, the Vice-President and General Manager, who hashad long practical experience in the iron business, has a geniusfor large affairs. He has attained success, step by step, andoccupies his present commanding position by force of inherentand acquired fitness. Sir William Van Home and other membersof the directorate are men to give character to the movement.The founding of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company atSydney, at this time, fitly marks the opening of the newcentury.
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Mr. Henry M. Whitney. President Dominion Coal Company and of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company. RECEPTION OF Their Royal HighnessesThe Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York AT ST. JOHNSOctober 23 and 24, 1901 New York : The South Publishing Co. IQ02 CHAPTER I. THE VISIT OF THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE DUKEAND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORK. The Legislature having voted a sum of $15,000 for thereception of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess ofCornwall and York, the Government invited a number of repre-sentative citizens to form themselves into a reception committeeto aid in arranging and carrying out a suitable programme. Under date the 12th of August, 1901, a circular letter,issued from the office of the Colonial Secretary, convening ameeting in the Council Chamber, Colonial Building, for Thursday,the 15th inst., at 4 oclock, for the purpose of electing a chair-man and inaugurating the work of the said committee. Promptly at 4 oclock the meeting was called to order bythe Premie

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