The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-11-28

HENRY NJ STANLEY.
over here on a vacation. He 6as just
finished trip to the Pacific and back
and is resting in New York among his
old friends. r.
He is proud Of being in parliament,
and especially Of having been elected in
great London district, with only 10
days in which to make the canvass
among the voters. II can't say it was as
hard piece Of work as ever did," he
says, "but it mad its annoyances.
"In your journeys on this side have
you been lecturing or pleasuring?"
IT am resting" said Mr.. Stanley,
"and the two months and half that
am enjoying away from my duties are
the first real rest have had since
reached manhood, the first period in
which I have not had something to dc
for somebody else. have just made a
trip to Montreal, then west to Vancou-
yer and Victoria, to Seattle. then down
to San Francisco and Los Angeles and
back BY the way Of the Santa Re. rail
way. Ny, parliamentary duties closed in
September, and as the season in Europe
had ended I ran over here to see that
part of tho British dominion which ]
had not seen before-Canada.'' =.
"The first thousand miles westward
Il mean that vast tract of woods and
rocks and water that seems to feed tire
great lakes-you found uninteresting?
I suppose it is of little value" Thus
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"No, indeed" said Mr.. Stanley, who
seems to have been again discoverer
in that part Of Canada. "That rugged
woodland country north Of the lakes
seemed to me to offer sites for millions
Of homes. The ideal Of busy business
man would be to summer in a place
more congenial than the near neighbor-
hood Of the city, to live in a grove be-
side lako and to satiate his eyes with
a beautiful prospect Of water, wood and
rock. Consider what money has been
able to mako of Monte Carlo. In its
neighborhood you may see any number
of places that show what it was. Yet it
has been made most complete place.
Up there in Canada man may have a
lake of his own. Sir William Van
Horne says there are thousands Of them
not pools, but winding lakes Of crys-
tai water, swarming with fish, where
you may enjoy fishing and hunting amid
the most perfect settings Of wood and
rock. The region is quite accessible to
your leading cities. From Ohio to New
York your people may reach there in
ten hours at the latest. Your tired bust
ness men, rowing and casting their eyes
about, could not find more delightful
region on the globe.
"What do you find to be our progress
in railroading?'
''There, . said Mr.. Stanley, showing
that had opened q fruitful topic. GAS
to your Wanted Pullman carriages,
they need further improvement. For one
stateroom there are often six applicants,
and not being able to secure stateroom
i've men are obliged to put up with
what is only an improved accommoda-
ton car, where they hear crying babies,
are pestered all the time BY trainboys
and remain dissatisfied because they
cannot get what they wanted and have
not a moment to themselves. Then,
again, I do think that institution, the
American conductor, might be replaced
BY potter kind Of man. He need not,
when he comes into the door Of we'll
furnished Pullman, put on that stern
air and forbidding appearance, because
Il is very unlikely that in such a car
among we'll dressed passengers there is
anybody who will need to be forcibly
elected. II is possible that these big
railway corporations may find more
oourtly persons for conductors, but
you'll keep pegging away. Every adj
vanced nation is stodgy as a whole, but
there are always individuals rising up
who modify that stodginess and improve
the country in spite Of everything. I
noticed the growth Of the many cities
very steady, the aspiring houses, the
architecture. All, the architecture-that
70 what have been wondering at !! I say
that il you 60 on during the next 100