‘‘ WESTWARD HO!’’—MY GLIMPSES OF 
CANADA AND THE STATES. 
(With Lantern Views.) 
By Rev. A. BISHOP. 3rd March, 1903. 
The Lecturer gave an interesting review of the development of 
travelling, from 1819—when the first steamer crossed the atlantic, 
the voyage occupying twenty-six days—to the present time. 
His voyage out was made on the Teutonic, which at that time, 
after a race with the City of New York, was proclaimed as the 
Queen of the Ocean. He regretted these races, because when it 
was known that two such vessels were racing, much gambling 
was indulged in, and some thousands of pounds changed hands. 
Beginning at New York, the Lecturer explained the plan of 
the city, the hotel life, and the lion sights. His method of 
travelling was to stay a few days at each centre, and not to 
exhaust himself by long railway journeys. Among the places he 
visited and described were Albany and Saratoga, where he saw 
the social side of Society. What was the absolute attraction at 
Saratoga, he was unable exactly to say, but one man, a darkie, 
said ‘* They come to be seen.”’ Of one thing he was fully con- 
vinced, that the adoption of hotel life in America so largely by 
families, in winter and in summer, can not be a healthy contri- 
bution to the strength of the State in the long run. What of 
the home training? Children were nearly always away from 
their parents, and at the age of thirteen and fourteen were in 
public dining rooms and social gaiety. 
Illustrated by many Lantern views, the Lecturer gave a vivid 
description of the Niagara Falls, and, passing into Canada, 
descanted in a pleasant manner on views of Toronto—the garden 
of Canada, and sometimes called the city of churches— Montreal, 
Ottawa, Washington, Boston, and Harvard College, the alma 
mater of O. W. Holmes. 
