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Their capacity is 1,250,000 bushels. The train we met 

 at Fort William was the transcontinental express. It 

 had eleven cars, two of which were filled with Chinese 

 passengers ticketed through from New York to China. 

 Two cars of colonists were going out to settle at dif- 

 ferent points on the line. The cars were clean and 

 comfortable-looking and were used at night as sleepers, 

 having the same arrangement of berths as the Pull- 

 mans, without, of course, the luxurious appointments 

 which characterize the latter. There is but one 

 through train a day and this averages about twenty- 

 two miles an hour. 



The road is a single track, well ballasted, and has 

 splendid rolling stock with good motive power. The 

 management of the line contemplate bestowing the same 

 attentions on the through first-class passengers as the 

 trans- Atlantic steamship companies do, such as pass- 

 ing fresh fruit, beef tea, lemonade, etc., round to the 

 passengers during the day — an innovation that other 

 lines would do well to follow. The Michigan Central 

 had already been in the habit of presenting bouquets 

 of flowers to its patrons on reaching a certain station. 

 Such little attentions do not cost much and they 

 make a good advertisement. 



The city of Winnipeg, with a population of 25,000, 

 was a veritable surprise to me. It has broad streets, 

 half as wide again as any in our eastern cities, four 

 lines of street car tracks, electric lights, electric rail- 



