The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-08
VAN LOAN INTERVIEWED.
His %Defalcations and His Fears,
His Daring and His Panic
Stricken Flight.
specia. to the snndau Morninq Menus

cp2c9Gs 70 IHe SUNDAY morning N91BS.
BELLEvILLE, Canada, Sept. 5, $780,
After wandering over about eight-tenths
of the Province of Ontario, changing cars
four times and driving across country
once in a ''bus" Everything is a "'bus''
here from an OK cart to a barouche) which
felt as though it were approaching the
fate of DR.. Holmes celebrated one horse
shay. and which was drawn by two ami
mated candidates for a bone phosphate
factory, looking as though. like a bicycle.
all that kept them up was their motion, l
succeeded in finding II. John Van Loan,
formerly general bookkeeper of the Sec
ond National Bank.
About twelve miles almost due south
from here the great lake of Ontario
makes q sweep in around the Canadian
shore, forming a sort of bay; high bluffs
crowned with outrageous trees descend
abruptly to the beach. and hem in the
bay with a wall of verdure. Upon these
bluffs you can sit, protected from the
fierce rays of the sun by the thick shade
of the trees, and look out upon the water
stretching away as far as the eye
can see.
To one who is accustomed to the roar
and plunging of the surf this place has
an uncanny aspect. The surface Of the
lake is as smooth as glass, the
waves lap the shore with scarce
a murmur, and you might sit
there a whole day without seeing a vessel
go by either under sail or steam. A sort
of channel marked out after the manner
of a ferry slip. only extending a few feet
above the water mark, runs away into
the lake from a mill or two located on
what we would call a creek, a short dis
lance inland. On each side of the chan
mel is a broad boardwalk. the northern
one of which terminates at q wooden
lighthouse which marks the entrance to
the channel.
The place is something Of a summer re-
sort and is visited by the farmers and
their sons and daughters from the sur
rounding country and the residents of
the towns within a radius of thirty miles
or so. As the country is not over popu-
lated this place at its best never seems
more than half alive. On the beach
is q row of rickety bathing
sheds and a boat house where you
can get a first class cedar boat for 20 cents
an hour, while on the bluff there is q
merry-go-round which is merry for every
body but the sad eyed Canuck who has to
turn the crank, collect the money aud sec
that the babies don't fall off. The older
portion of the natives are melancholy
visaged individuals whose chief occupa-
ton seems to be drinking Scent whiskey
and kicking at the board they get for IS
per week, the standard irst-class price in
that section. The lake is full OF fish, and
all sorts of game from partridge to deer
abound in the vicinity.
AN INVALID CLERK FROM NEW YORK.
1t is to this lonely, half civilized place
away from the usual course of travel that
John H. Van Loan has banished himself.
He is there as a New York clerk, who has
been ordered away from the States by his
physician, and who has chosen that place
on account Of its quiet and healthfulness
This was borne out by a severe attack Of
illness which he had shortly after his ar
rival there. When he had finally become
settled and the relaxation OF the great
and nervous strain under
which he had been set in, he
collapsed entirely and for q while his life
was in danger. He has entirely reco