A LITTLE AHEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 30 March 1926, Page 7

A LITTLE AHEAD

VANCOUVER ANTICIPATES,

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

VANCOUVER, 10th March. The most up-to-date man in the world is the man who lives in Vancouver. His longitudinal location is tso favourable that he reads, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon paper, of events that happen that night in London and Paris. He knows Wall Street closing prices at 2 p.m., and the final deliberations of Congress at thi same time. Events in Australia and New Zealand are known to him the day before they happen, on account of the day that is "thrown away" in the Pacific. There is a story told of a Vancouver sportsman who, hearing the result of the Melbourne Cup the day before it was run, cabled his bet on the winner, at the heavy odds it paid, and was surprised to learn that his cable lost a day also'in the Pacific. Vancouver is a modern city, built on the American town-planner's design, with avenues running parallel from No. 7 to No. 70. It is just now going through a boom, owing to the decision to send all the Alberta grain this way to the Old Country. It has the advantage of being only 30 miles from the border, and of being able to profit by anything new the States produce in the way of merchandising, drees, or diversion. It is the most British town in Canada, although one meets hundreds of Americans, especially at the week-end.