The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

Tor more than eight hundred miles II 4.
aaafsE business 70 keep down cattie xfs~.I-
Tx and smuggling. They watch - -
hiAffs and look out for prairie frAa 49,.
.s'i.lk those who start item Tsaev -,
- Judges "a we'll AZ policemen and ar
1851 $500 sain classes 81 cFininaIa These
Ioieernen receive from ~ eerfs "a e. -
Gay. With the exception Of the ,.-ses-.,
year s-sSS
Canadian Fr~uehm.p
speaking Of a possible war wgsh c~Aa,
britain, doubt whether fhA r,%,,t-~
soehsfy Gould rely upon q large uart ~
.sF Aaaaalaa population IN sssch 4 cas-
49,. -. i.seea g Ind Bow many French
..sh mere are here. Fully one-tnlrd ~
Iae e.slzenz OF British ArnerIea srsssr
french. Sna hundreds &C ahoaSands -
A4sM cannot speak English The F-rer.n
are nearly ali Roman cathal4cx rr@.-.
nave hitie sympathy xith English inst
eassoss aho are French In thought. habf,
81 language. They work together IN
poftlcs and they practically eavern ,hfx
province Of Quebec. went ~ the e1.-
eminent buildings today to get some In
iDIhnatica and every official / met vzas
frenchman. You hear little els. thaa
fftnch talked upon the streets he~.s
he signs oyer many Of the stores ara
8tSteh- lns street car tickets IN Mon
1HH
II blish dnd many Of the advertisements
are IN both languages Quebec l. tnnrs
IKE french town than ar English orr
rs stress ara narrow. and tbs. ciear,
ctd-faahioned houses come clos. auf "a
TIE Sidewalk. The vehicles used are Ike
none you have seen Ia England or ths
1.iteo States ride about this city IN
Kind OF a cross between a furlksha aaa
cog cart. II II high, hsp-shafs.I
carriage with a seat for the erlser On ths
aasnbcards and my driver Is invariably
Frenehman. There Is little enterprfaa
among the French Canadians Tn4v are
good farmers. but with them everything
seems 70 DC an suslii scale. The fields
are long and narrow Some are not more
than ly@ feet wide. and SO long that a
farmer spends half his time in walking
from one end Of his farm 70 the other in
ebluNauhg his crops. The houses are
picturesque One-story cottages. bullt
close 70 the roadway. and not way out
on the fields Ike our farm houses They
are wonderfully clean. and the people
have, l am told the thrift Of the peas
antry OF France.
Canadians tn the United states
Tie officials Of Quebec are making big
BIDS for the return Of the Canadians VINO
nave gone to the United States. They
oIser them farms and hold out many In
ancementfs The fact Is that there Is a.
nfost constant emigration going on
iEtm Canada 70 the lands across the bor-
der This occurs whenever times are
hard. and II our new tariff materially
affects business here the emigration wlI
Increase. Canadians are TO be found in
Massachnsetts. Connecticut. New YORK,
Michigan and parts OF the West There
arc nunsi crs OF them in Buffalo. New
York city has something like 10000 a.
tlvss of Canada. Brooklyn has $500 and
Boston has. II Is estimated. somewhat
Ike $500 citizens of Canadian birth In
Bay county. Micn.. there are 1860 Can
adams, and In 81. Claire county there are
1000, while = number of other counties
have even more The Canadians in oar
country IN fact number hundreds Of
thousands. and their loss is a matter Of
great bitterness 10 those Who remain.
Mary Of the French Canadians go TO
Now England 10 work In the factories
and mills. IL Is this class which the Of
noials Of Quebec are trying 70 bring back.
In the French Markets.
Montreal. which is the New York a.
Canada. IL practically French city It's
biggest market. that Of &c nsecours. is IS
French az any market Of Southern
France. When ! visited IL the other day
! found patent medicine man decIaim-
Ing in French the virtues OF certain pills
while he showed a hook Of horrible pic
lures describing the effects before and
after takinv shem This market takes Up
wide street. running from the heart 81
Montreal down 70 the wharves The
street IL the overflow OF the market
proper. which includes a church-iike
building covering. Judge. about an acre
of space Tho street was filled with
French farmers VINO had driven their
carts into the city early IN the morning
and were now selling all sorts OF vegets-
hles and fruits 20 the citizens Fully
half Of the wagons were owned hy wo-
men. who all not look unlike the market
women whom you find In the Hales Cen
trail Of Paris Many Of these spoke 10
me Ia Frenah az I walked through the
crowd pushing their wares into my face
and asking me 10 buy I stopped az the
fcw market and asked some questions as
10 prices. | was told that eggs were II
cents a dozen. chickens frem 50 70 ~
cents a pair and turkeys from fs 10 IS
cents pound one or two OF the Eng
iish speaking masket men had complaints
10 make about the tariff. and stated that
Il would materially hurt the farmers Of
Canada.
Montreal.
found Montreal very fine city. II 10
growing az fast as an American town
and IS now almost as large as Washing
ton II has an immense deal OF shipping.
and YOU find steamers from all parts OF
the Great Lakes and from Europe at its
whartes The most Of the ocean steam
ers are British. and a number q them
arc engaged IN carrying grain 20 Eng-
land came 10 Montreal from the
tUftes states crussiag frsm northern
New York into Canfda and travelling
shout three hours before I reached the
ST Lawrence river As W. approach 4
the St@sawrence I could see the smaks
fgon a hundred great stocks rising into
the air and I and that Montreal Is the
great manufactures city - this part -
America. II has silk ard cotton mills.
iron and rubber works and II makes
vast deal 81 lumber Il Is the financial
center ~ British America. and the Rank
or Montreal which has a capital Of SIS
90 go IL said % ~ the largest hank on
this continent. The notes ~ this hank
are e. ken without discount cverYwh here.
although I am told thar the notes - oih-
er Canadian banks are shaved when they
ate presented IN the United States. I
have had 10 trouble here in using Amer
lean bank notes. whether Ereenbacks ~
silver certificates The people seem glae
% Ect them ard take them without ques-
tien. Even my nickels have been ac-
ceptea ard an American quarter passes
as readily here as @ Canadian scent
niece. Montreal Hike New York Is stu
atea on an island surrounded ~ two
rivers. The Ottt.wa and Tire s. faWref1ce
tcin sc this point cneirciigE sn islanf
about - miles lanK spd from seven -
ten miles wide. Montreal itself - ahot,
five miles Ioag and two miles vide
.Cis, of Churches.