at llic jniucijnil lioUl : tlial iIicsl- represented the dry goods 

 and ready-made clothinginterestsalone, and llial iIr- luiyers 

 tor these departments ot' the Iludx)!! I'.ay Company looked 

 at e\eiy man's samples before they l)tnight a dolhir's 

 worth. Now, as tliis eomjiany also sells groceries, wines, 

 crockerw hardware, drngs, slo\es and tinware, gnns, 

 ammnnition. etc., the reader will easil\- see what an 

 ent)rmons trade they still monopolize np here. 



At Kort William the C. P. R. R. has three big grain 

 ele\-ators, which at the present time are fnll to the roof, 

 and yet the_\- are shi])ping 1)_\- lake and throngh the 

 canal as fast as they can get boats loaded. The capacity 

 of these elevators are 1,250.000 bnshels. The train we 

 met at Fort William was the trans-continental ex])ress. 

 It IkuI ele\en cars, two of which were filled with 

 Chinese pa.ssengers ticketed through from New York 

 to China. Two cars of colonists were going out to 

 settle at different points on the line. The cars were clean 

 and comfortable-looking, and were used at night as sleep- 

 ers, having the same arrangement as to berths as the 

 Pullmans, without, t)f course, the Inxnrious a]i])oint- 

 ments which cliaracterize the latter. There is but one 

 through trail! a day, and this averages about twenty- two 

 miles an hour. 



The road is a single track, well ballasteil, lias splen- 

 did rolling stock and good motive power. I am informed 

 that the management of tlie line contemplates bestowing 

 the same attentions on the tlironj;li first-class passengers 

 as the trans- Atlantic steamship companies do. such as 

 passing fresh fruit, beef tea, lemonade, etc., around to the 

 passengers frequently during the da\-. This will be an 



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