New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-30
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION
ENTERTAINMENT OF THE VISITORS. ,
AN EXCURSION TO QUEBEc-PRoFFER OF TRANS
PoRTATIOS TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
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MONTREAL, Aug. 29.-The scientific junketing
opens to-day with the first of the series of excursions
planned by the local committees for the entertain
ment of the British Association. At II o'clock this
evening 400 of the distinguished visitors and their
travelling companions left the city by special
steamer for Quebec to remain over Sunday. Upon
their arrival tomorrow morning they TO DO
formally welcomed by the Mayor taken for sail
around the harbOr, TO the falls of Montmorency,
given public luncheon at the skating rink, and en-
tertained by the Lieutenant Governor OF the
Province at n garden party at Spencer Wood and IN
the evening by the Marquis Of Lansdowne at the
Citadel. The expense Of this excursion to each
member of the party will be about 81 the local
committees having secured great reductions in
transportation rates.
Tomorrow similar excursion has been planned
for Ottawa This will be free to all and those who
60 will be taken in carriages to every point of in
terest and generously entertained. On the same day
there will be excursions to Lake Memphremagog
and the Ausabe Chasm at nominal expense. There
are also daily excursions to Lachine Rapids and Sc.
Hilaire and at the close of the session next week
there will be another to Toronto
GREAT EXCURSION
Another excursion has been arranged on still
larger scale including trip to the summit OF tho
Rocky Mountains Dy tue tdndtlin d'lit i'hIiNdg'
The railway transportation will be free and meals
will be furnished at low rate. This privilege re-
strcted to one hundred and fifty gentlemen. but the
Canadian Pacific officials announce that trans
atlantic members of the association who are not in-
cluded in the special excursion and may desire to
visit the Northwest will be furnished with Tree
passes to the crest of the Rocky Mountains. ms
is iunketng reduced to a science, and on that ao-
count possibly comports with the general scope OF
the British Association The hospitality OF Mon
teal ~ poured out with a cup full 10 the brlm ana
running o>er in honor of the English guests.
Toronto vics N>th Montreal IN tempting offers enab-
ling every visitors <onnected with the ASSOCIATION 10
see Niagara withorr< expense. and even far-away
Winnipeg stretches our its hands with gesture Of
welcome. The serious members Of the association
who are accustomed to make weeks debauch
every year at the fount of wisdom undehled may
look with disdain upon all these peasurable rlyoli-
ties but even the wiseacres have foolish sons and
stirring daughters who are ready for recreation;
and probably even their staid and dignihed wives
find the proceedings Of the scientific ,ectons
severe form OF Intellectual discipline and are easily
tempted by the aluring prospect OF cheap recre'1-
tiOl.
English youth is largely represented in Montreal
as well as English scholarship. The transatlantic
VOYAGE of the association involved special reduc-
tion Of steamship rates 10y certain lines and the OPP
portunitv of making an American tour economically
ha, attracted hundreds of Engshmen who have
never read sceut tie treatise IN ther lives aud arg
amazed every year that the London papers >hOull
devote s much space 10 Professor pTya-duSl aliu
an hi, learned colleagues of the asSocl9tlou 20 y
happens that the talk az the reception rooms OF
NcGil College and III the corridors Of the " ndsoT
- about the Yellowstone. the Rocky Mountain, and
American routes rather than of the learned ueates
and discussions OF the scientific sections. COOKS
two agencies attract larger audiences IN the course
OF a day than all the sections put together.
POPULARITY or THE YELLOwsTONE.
The Yellowstone occupies prominent place IN
every dialogue on American travel The rising
generation in England is apparently convinced that
in order to do the continent properly aud 10 return
with good grace with consciousness of not having
vastcd It's time the Yellowstone Park must be
taken iu Last seasons official junhctug on the
line of the Northern Pacific has not been wholly
barren In result. The sons and utpucWs OF tho
nobility entertained then on large scale have adj
ycrtispd the Yellowstone successfully m the London
clubs, he British Association, u must Ice confessed,
has its brigade of " chappios. They are conSpicu.
oIs I'm the hotels and streets for their db-trditcs OF
costume Alterations of manner and accent ana Tor
their geuul boOr,hucss OF behavior he ldca tnat
America is only partially civilized ana mat
traveller, can do here hundred things Nhlch they
would not bc allowed to do at home stll prevails IN
certain circles of English socicy his is the only
way of accounting satisfactorily Tor the eccrntrci-
ties aud atrOciOus manners Of the English
Chappcs.'