TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
Philadelphia. Leading English firms like the Mac- 
millans print Toronto on their title pages in addition 
to London and New York. The largest manufac- 
tured output is in agricultural implements, liquors, 
hardware, musical instruments and ready-made cloth- 
ing. The Hydro-Electric and Niagara Power com- 
panies supply the motive force for hundreds of fac- 
tories, and new inventions are constantly adding to 
the number. There are more than 20,000 auto- 
mobiles licensed in Ontario, and three-fifths of them 
are said to be in Toronto, giving an average of one 
to every sixth or seventh family. The retail trade 
is not less flourishing, and while a couple of great 
departmental stores would seem to the onlookers to 
get the bulk of this business, there is evidence in the 
tasteful and even luxurious appointments of many 
shops that large profits are being made elsewhere. 
The jewellers in particular are noted for their beau- 
tiful stores, and, as in the case of the churches, the 
taste of one man set the fashion for the rest. Dia- 
monds are imported free, but other goods paid a 
duty of $775,000 last year, which probably indicates 
a business of $10,000,000, wholesale and retail. 
From the macrocosm of the city we pass to the 
microcosm of the university. Here the meetings of 
the International Geological Congress will be held, 
so a brief account of the buildings will be of interest. 
The original King’s College was on the site of the 
present Parliament Buildings in the Queen’s Park. 
But in 1850 the institution was secularized, the name 
changed, and the system of administration altered to 
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