IMPRESSIONS OF CANADA

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 1

IMPRESSIONS OF CANADA

. N North Island?:, who has been spend■mg a hurried holiday iu Canada, fiends the folio" ing ineresting notes to a member our stall“ The present time-table of the C. and A. Lino gives New Zea.tnndeis with eignt weeks to spare a grand opportunity ol seeing something ot Ameriea. The 15 days we are spending in this country are giving ns a good insight into American life n.noi activity. Vam-euver astonished us. f( has mp.dr wondeifnl it rides. and is still large.lv on the boom. Its many miles ot beautifully-formed streets, the great business blocks, including several skyscrapers, and many ornate -and substantnri buildings, the residential rpiaitcd.s comprising many Handsome houses standing on land w Inch two year's ago was covered with forest, the magnificent Stanley Turk, the street illuminations at night,' and many other- features of an up-to-date progressive city gave us great delight. But Vancouver is outdone in every department by Seattle, which is a miniature New York, and vet not so very miniature, for it has over 300.000 inhabitants, and spreads over a very wide area, with numerous skyscrapers (one 46-sUny building going rip opposite the 12-story hotel at which we resided), and magnificent boulevards. The eitv tairly hums with husine.-,s activity, and its shops and brilliantly illuminated shop signs far surpass anything to he found «or<th°of the Line. The American people everywhere make a great display of electric light. Iho cluster lights in ns? in almostall their cities give great attractiveness to the streets. There are generally live large frosted globes, arraged in pyramid, on every lamp post, and these, ‘along both sides 01. a long street, look real showy. I here are picture theatres everywhere (86 in .Seattle), and some fine theatres in both 1 rr-ncouvei' and Seattle, producing vaudeville and legitimate We saw a Klan and Lilanger production. ‘The Bonud-up," with an exciting light with Indians, in which, besides many rilies, a galling gun was brought into use on the stage. The Americans like plenty of noise. We saw a tine game- of f cot Ira II (American slvlo) between Washington and Oregon Universities, with some 3.G00 college students giving their college songs and yell? and a,~ tiliknm in the arena in the interval, the latter being a sort of Turkey trot indulged in as thev proceeded snake fashion, one behind the other, round the grounds and worked themselves into a 'wonderful maze. Tiro lootball fcentred rather rough and stupid compared with Rugby, hut there must he some science in it. as wo noticed that the Washington coach was next- day offered an engagement for two years at 'lO.OOOdol a year by one of the big chibs out East. From Seattle we came north into the Rockies, staying at Field, and now at Banff I Alberta t. The latter has grown considerably, and is an attractive winter resort. We came up in a snowstorm, and have been walking over snow, driving, and Mcitrhirijj. nnrl thoroughly enjoying the mountains ami scenery the 1.-rf two dav.sA