The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1897-09-04
TORONTO, CANADA,
4 City Of Good Government and Good
People.

The very favorable impressions O
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, formed BY
our delegates to the great Epwortt
Convention there this summer, and BY
Mr.. Albert Mas during recent visit
prompt US TO present our readers with
the following short history Of this in
teresting city, which is q portion Of 6
letter written to the Commercial Ap.
peal by Mr.. John r. Flippen, promi-
nent citizen OF Memphis, Tenn. 1t i:
worth a perusal:
There are probably now more than
100 Memphians in this goodly city
And it's no wonder, for Memphians
know good thing and good place
when they see it. 1t is indeed a fine
city, containing 100000 people, 25t
miles OF streets and 224s miles of water
mains. and 225 miles of gas mains. and
l20 miles of electric conduit, There
are 81 miles OF steam railway track
The hun ber of passengers carried bv a
street railway last year was near o.
o0o,Voo. The estimated value of the
property owned by the city is more
than ss.0o0,0oo, and its total assess.
ment, 1891 was about 9130,0OO, 900, While
the property in the city exempt from
taxation is more than $22, 900. 900.
The number OF policemen is only 257,
and the number of fireman only 10.
Public school teachers. 800, and the
registered attendance at the public
schools is 10000, at an annual cost of
about 2500,00o.
Churches, lS6: saloons. $50. Here is
one city where the churches outnumber
the saloons. Here is moral ozone for
you! In a certain sense il is Il city set
on hill, while geographically it is on
the northern shore OF Lake Ontario,
extending along the same shore seven
Or eight miles, Hnd running back from
the water from one to three miles.
gradually ascending TO tie height of
22o feet sbove the lake. During the
war | learn this city had many strong
Southern pathixers, and today
their greetings to us are unatfectedly
warm. 1t is Il lovely city, filled with
the best OF people. Aud ! have gone
into its particulars toilet others Know
more of it, so that ia the future they
too may come away from the heated
term in their own land to this delight
full resort. And then living is com.
paratively so cheap. Most excellent
board by the week may be obtained
here from 81 to s., cheaper than living
at home. The temperature only for a
few days in the summer goes up into
the nineties, and then goes down to the
seventies. The nights are cool, re.
quiring some covering, and sleep comes
unsought with the evening shades. II
is such restful place, away from bus.
mess cares, that nature soon refreshes
from its exhaustion. The vital forces
take on new life with new blood. and
the elastic step and frightened eye be.
speaks rejuvenation.
We have but little conception of the
size of Canada, The Dominion is COM
posed OF eight provinces, or States. az
we call them. The Province of Ontario
is $50 miles from east to west and 400
miles from north to south. From here
to Wjnnepeg, in the Province OF Mani
tobia, is more than 1,100 miles. Re-
member, British Columbia is west of
Manitoba, probably the largest prov
ince in the Dominion. Then Canada
runs north up and beyond Hudson's
Bay. Its area is larger than the
United States, and yet we are accus-
toned to think Of it as rather a small
strip OF land just over the border. It
is, too, country rich in minerals, gold,
silver, lead copper, asbestos, coal,
nickel and iron, and with virgin forests
wherein human feet have never yet
trodden.