The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-26
4 SITE FOR 4 CITY.
Building . Town IN Canada Beside the Recl<y
Profile OF an OLD Woman.

Building q Town IN Canada Beside the Reo1-1
Profile OF an Ola woman.
0nArDB MERE, Province Of Quebec, Sept %.
1T u an odd thing to see a town laid out, with
malice prepense, as 1t were, with a jagged rock
for q site, and all because the ock happens to
have q waterfall Of forty feet and resembles tho
profile of an old woman. Some day when Grande
More comes to DO known to fame, as 1t will be
in good time, It will be interesting to recall Just
how It got its name, for by that time, perhaps,
tho old rock that now divides the falls and is a
monument to the water power that gives tho
place its commercial value may have disap-
peared.
How long this waterfall has been booming
down tho st. Maurice no ono can saw. The In
dams who first knew II have long since passed
away, Heaven only knows to what remote
hunting grounds. But still the falls have thun-
dered on without any especial concern for tho
shrewd prospector who might come along in
tho course Of the advance OF civilization. A
few years ago, however, the place was discov-
cred. tho resemblance to an old womsn's face
was seen In tho rock that divides the fall. as
Goat Island divides Niagara, and a wood pulp
mill was built At the. foot Of the $4,000 horse
power that from time immemorial has been go
ing to waste over the Jagged rocks.
A year or two ago some American capitalists
found out this wasted power. Away to the
ASA 49, VI hs 49, SASot IA y a'N AAAh-
Der. 1t required only the putting together Of
two and two to find hero an excuse for devel-
opinR this splendid force, and three months ago
the work was begun in earnest. Sir William
Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific Railroad,
Mr.. Angus Of the Bank Of Montreal secre-
tary Of War Alger. and A. Pagenstecher OF New
York city are among the interested capitalists.
They have begun operations on a scale that has
already made Grande Mere famous In Canada
Iah0rara = forkipu IN the alta in p-ra-
bers. and the silent forest is transformed into .
scene OF the greatest activity.
Here. some twenty-odd miles up the st.
Maurice River from the ST. Lawrence at Three
Rivers. and more than 100 miles from Montreal,
in the heart Of the forest, a city has been laid
out. Where three months ago there was dense
wood 800 habitants are at work now blasting
rock. building a railroad and digging forty fcr5
s below the, the surface 1G ice and md q aSdnod5e dozen feet eeiow me
paper mill. London may oc interested n Ills,
because II is said that the product OF this mil
Meantime this great work has brought TO-
Rether a great force of men for whom The 40
commodations, are OF the most meaEre. From
a bowling wilderness Grande Mere has come 10
be a place OF nearly 1000 population, all Within
the managers and foremen. and the habirau;s
live as they and our own Italians only can Eve.
halfway. enterprise, and already streets have
been laid out and forty houses are under way.
has found It's way in from GarnoGX Junction.
There are a telegraph and a Post Office on ITO
premises, and electric lights in the newly PRO.
Sected streets are only 4. matter OF time. Nj,
partment Mr.. Hardy, the civil engine -
charge, and young Mr.. Alger are building fno
houses on what will be called the RIVERSIDE
Drive. overlooking the falls. First svenD,
LOOKS out on the river. and Broadway, 50 ca,lr.
because there is no other side of the way al PRES.
ent, lies parallel. a block away. Before snow
flies these streets will be all built up, AMI at
the further end OF the town. That now c>i-ls
only In q blue print from which the engineers
are working. a hotel Is up and only waiting for
the necessary lumber with which TO inGIo." il.
The new railroad, still n novelty. brin 3 q
dozen visitors n day to see the works. 50 i'm
portant in inactive Canada. and any one who
misses the single train each way u day may
Hot, who keeps the one boarding house in Tho
place, can find room for him at her table. For
a ped let him look for a dry place in the era.
10 a visitor from the States the oldest thin;
or Canada is thu one recognized lungUa-p
SPOKEN, Inc natives appear To have no hul'-
tion to acquire English. There is Prarttr"r
enough TO make ones native tongue salnG tNi
n foreign speech. But Siill it is a poiyElpt COM
pany that makes up this frontier settlement.
pany, Is an Amcrican-horn lrishmIu. M.
Maurer IL n German, and among the engineer,
urauShtsHen, clerks and lahurers arc N0vT,-
cans, SRxons. French. CHnucks and Indian.
or two, with a sprink,ing OF Scotch.
some S1,ooo;o0O Is being invested here N
plS-tlnE on the side OF a rocky rrccip.r7
me tnture great city OF tirande Mere; ami so'.'
Idea OF the Difficult les OF the undertaking may ne
had from the fact tint unril this spur of ra.I,oul
boilers, steam pumps and, drills and nl MA -
rails used had 10 be hauled several mic across
a wild country and then ferricd over the 81.
Maurice above the picturesque falls.