innovation that other lines would do well to follow. The 

 Michigan Central already has commenced to present 

 bouquets of flowers to passengers 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 our Market Street, four lines of street 

 car tracks, electric lights, electric railways, opera house 

 (with Margaret Mather now playing there), fine stores, and 

 a hotel that would put to shame any we have in Philadel- 

 phia. It has a frontage on the main street of 216 feet, is 

 seven stories high, with a rotunda forty b}^ ninety feet, a 

 dining-hall fifty feet wide, ninety feet long and twenty-six 

 feet high, grandly lighted by three copper electroliers, 

 aided b}' a blaze of wall fixtures. Then there are massive 

 stone fire-places and also a balcony at one end, where an 

 orchestra enlivens the dinner hour. 



The hotel has turkish and ordinar}^ baths, private 

 supper and dining-rooms, is heated b}^ steam and lighted 

 throughout b}^ an elaborate electric plant. The charges 

 are from $3 to $7 per day, and the hotel is well supported. 

 This hotel, this cit}', this Canadian Pacific Railroad, with 

 its progressive management, are indexes of the enterprise 

 of the Canadian Northwest. Here the "star of empire 

 may well hold its .sway;" here future provinces and 

 cities will rise from the level table land of the prairies, 

 by the limpid waters of the A.ssiniboine and Red Rivers, 

 and become rich, prosperous and happ}" in the lavish and 

 generous returns from the tillage of the fruitful soil. 



Future colonies will leave their mother countrj^ where 



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