The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-08-18
ACCEPT INVITATION OF. THE Gov
EMINENT AND RAIL WAY co.
Special Train Through the Trip
of Fifteen Davs--They See the
Sights Canadians Are Very
Hospitab1e.

Canadian Pacific Railway Co. The
invitation was extended to the northern
tier of states bordering on Canada.
About sixty of Wisconsin's editors ac-
cepted with their wives or friends and
started from Waukesha Thursday
morning at4 o'clock, July 81, in three
special Pullman sleepers. Michigan
had two more, which with the baggage
car made a special train. The Wis
consin Central R. R. Co. kindly fur
nished an engine and hauled the train
to st. Paul.
st 7:3O a. N. we reached Oshkosh,
where breakfast was obtained Here
some of the party were picked up.
Chippewa Falls was reached at 1:30
.. N. We were greeted here with a
brass band which escorted us to the
hotels for dinner. 1t was a queer
sight to see a lot of ladies and gentle
marching men in the middle of the
road with a brass band leading them.
Some of the inhabitants who did not
know of our coming were undecided
whether we we're detachment Of Buff
falO BilIs Wild West show or an en-
larged female minstrel troupe. How
ever we continued our journey after
dinner, picking up recruits all along
the line as far as st. Paul, where the
party was completed, making a grand
total for the whole train Of about $50
persons.
After taking supper we left st. Paul
for Winnipeg at 8 p. m. over the
Northern Pacific Co.'s road, whose en-
CINE hauled us to Winnipeg; they also
furnished a dining car, so that those
who had no lunch bought their break
fast next morning (July 22) on the
train. Just before reaching Winnipeg
Cat noOn) we were met by the mayor
and aldermen, also A. B. Calder, pas
senger agent of the Canadian Pacific,
and Will j. White, representing the
government Of Canada. The last two
gentlemen remained with us through
out the trip, doing everything possible
for our pleasure and comfort and en-
sgineoring the whole trip.
After dining at the hotel the city
officials took us in charge for trolley
ride all over the city and through beau
Giful parks, ending in the evening at
River park, where q banquet was
spread in the pavilion and a dance
after until midnight, music by the
Military band. Winnipeg might be
called the Chicago of the Northwest, is
a bustling, wide awake city of 10000
inhabitants, capital of the Province of
Manitoba, formerly known as Fort
Garry (pop. in 1871, 100). Situated at
the iuncture of the Red and Assiniboine
rivers, both navigable by steamboats,,
it has been, for many years, the chief
post of the HudsOn's Bay Company,
which has here very extensive estab-
lishments. Winnipeg commands the
trade of the vast region to the north,
east and west. The city is handsome
" built, superior brick and stone being
available; and has electric street rail
ways, electric lights, parks, hospitals,
great Touring mills and grain elevators,
and many notable public buildings, IN
clgding Provincial and Dominion Of
ices. The Railway company own the
odd numbered sections in the belt OF
land extending twenty-four miles on
each side of track between Winnipeg
and the Rocky Mountains. The land
is fine for wheat and also for farming
and grazing and is being settled fast.
We left at 1890, G. P. R. engines
taking our special train to the coast
and back, we arrived at Brandon, 1913
miles west of Winnipeg, for breakfast
Brandon has a population of $500. A
divisional point, and one of the largest
grain markets in Manitoba; and the
distributing market for an extensive
and we'll settled country. 1t has eight
grain elevators, Touring mill, large
planning mills and a number of manu-
factories. The town is beautifully
situated on high ground, and although
only fourteen years old, has we'll made
streets and many substantial buildings.
A Dominion Experimental farm ana
Provincial asylum are established near
6he city
Wedrove over the Experimental farm
and saw the Indian school and resumed
our journey at 1910 q. M, arriving for
dinner at the " Crescent City," Souris,
which was furnished in the park by the
women of the city, and was as fine as
any we had on the trip. The speeches
and receptions were all short along the
"trip. During the afternoon westopped
for Is minute speeches at GrisWold
and Virden and took supper at Moose
min. All the above towns are new
and prosperous, situated as they are in
rich country farming district; with
land cheap and good crops the people
quickly become we'll to do and they are
as free hearted and generous lot of
people as one could find anywhere and
~rorv b0cpi+oIolo ThnU 1Oun thair.