The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-07-28
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
FIRST THROUGH TRAIN FROM THE
ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC.

The following extracts are from
the description of the departure of
the first through train on the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, in the Mon
treal Gdzette:-
When the history of the Dominion
comes to be written in the future
the 2Sth of June, 1886, will be re.
corded as II remarkable day in the
progress of Canada. The great
continental railway from the At
lantic to the Pacific may be said to
celebrate its premier birthday when
the first through train left the Dal-
housie Square station on its long
pilgrimage of 1920 miles through
the fertile prairies, the woods
primeval, and the noble mountains
of the broad Dominion, to Van
couver on the western coast. The
event was an important one for the
city of Montreal, and the citizens,
in organizing spontaneous demon
stratlon, manifested their high ap-
preciation of the significance of the
occasion. There was no display
made of the official announcement
| that the first train would start, but
the announcement was ventilated in
the city newspapers and the citizens
turned out in force to tender their
hearty good wishes at the inaugural
ton of the grand enterprise, which
forever shall be landmark in the
progress of the country, the settle
ment of its vast territory, and the
development of the trade with the
outside world which is destined to
grow to immense proportions and
furnish resources of wealth and hap
piness.
AT 20 O'Clock 6 p. N.Y. the ten
cars and engine, which comprised
the first all through train, started on
its journey, amidst the cheers of the
thousands assembled and the boom
ing of the guns of the Field Battery,
which fired fifteen guns outside the
depot. Col. Stevenson, with Capt.
j. S. Hall, jr., was in command of
the battery, and the occasion was a
suitable one on which our brave de-
tenders should fire a joyous salvo.
The members of the City Council
assembled in the City Hall and
proceeded in a body to the depot to
witness the departure of the train.
The train was composed of two
baggage cars, Nos. 319 and 1856,
mail car 252, first-class car 1855,
sleeper " Yokohama, emigrant
sleepers No. 142 and l4S, first class
car 1870, sleeper "Honolulu," and
dining car "Holyrood." The dining
car was superintended by Edward
Ermatinger, the sleeping cars by r.
Powell and the cook III. Friek, who
went on the first train to the Rock
les. II. Cardiff, one of the most
reliable men in the company's' SER
vice, was the train conductor, and
George Blake waiter. Mr.. SWEET
had made every preparation requisite
for the comfort and provision of the
passengers, and the appliances are
most elaborate, the silver used Oh
the dining car alone being valued al
1000. On this first trip the dining
car will go right through, but after
wards it will be attached at Mattawi
and run to Missanabie, distance OF
$50 miles, when freshly provi
stoned car of the same kind will re-
place it.. The dining cars will thus
be run in the different sections, in
order to avoid delay in taking on G
stock of provisions.
To attempt to describe the luxu'
rious fittings of the sleeping and
dining cars would be vain if it were
intended that the reader should
J lobtain full appreciation of their