The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-02
TRAVELLING IN CANADA.
The Way OF Doing Things Illustrated in
Comments on . Balky Locomotive.

The Way of Doing Things Illustrated in
Comments on . Balky Locomotive.
They are primitive people In Canada, or. at
all events. some OF them are. Those who aren't
primitive perhaps are too sophisticated. But
! that's a matter Of taste.
Now, there is q railroad in Canada, thai may
be called the Central Lower Canada. as o dis
guise similar to that which the detective as
sumes: OF the stage. 1t runs from jacques
Cartierville to Arlington. a distance OF about
145 miles. At Arlington It connects with an
American railway. one OF those conceHtedly
named roads which'combine the name of q
city with the name OF q State. llke'the Oshkosh
and Nebraska, or something In that style.
This Lower Canada Central uns one train a
day to connect with this American line. The
train leaves jacques artiervllle in he after
noon and takes In theory five and q half
hours to run to Arlington. tits only in the
DRY that it takes that length Of time. not
there. and the other train having TO do the
waiting. the Central Lower Canada ttkes six
or seven tS or T more eI hours Ss n to RH PI sc The l H. t,m OF
which the company bought-ten years ago. is in
The other day, It started, On time to,the sec
onsda and dL TeRt 1. slowly : IS,s up pt the fret be o Of The l99p e
making up, the schedule. but, In Canada are
not takenTlnto account, AS It Went on: the
half an hour late at a fiaG station. There It
waited. and kept on weitinE-it had,a hot'box
The passengers went out to see the fun and
tsrvals Of the formers struggles with the hot
box, making comments on affairs N general
and on those OF the Central Lower Canada In
r, "Th B 81, SSSs4 ths o to he given EsP thinner thif sSr
Eranted and. miattsred;
They hadn't. She broke down yesterday.
"Thav n,t thosa hrasaaa I'm this mornIn'
though said the fireman. from the cab.
"Ya-as." said the engineer; drawing ont the
The passengers were getting interested.
Where's the engine that should pull us?"
"I'hoh shes. been laid up for two or three
de SSytdSis e.. f Edt 5 tas '4 TGes one sG q lie @2ss sSstss
who had been around the engine, came back
tern issiaAe q. sSS E tfs i sas15s.r suusn,y., a, tn.
passengers streamed on 20 verify the state
melt, lamp broke dowR when we tried e
ns Afte T. an 80 h Ts n he e Go PUT was ss so laetf saf iSfsSfiy
to allow the train to go ahead. and It arrived
r. Aflin 6t3.h only h about ,90tm tT Ssd and 9SrSi half dn hS9 yrs
train that should have waited had departed.
The Central Lower Canada ADVERTISED inIGan-
ada as the "shortsst and best ne"-but'the
1T ought 70 be Interesting TO those Ameri-
'~'palatial double-tier steamers Of the Richie
lieu and Ontario Navigation Company" to learn
window into a woman's stateroom that that
is the way he aud bis eontreres are directed To
proceed TO learn IL the passengers are up and
ready TO leave the boat. But the manager
saws he will forbid the stewards 70 % It Ia the
anyway; 80 perhaps the Americans who sup
port the line may take comfort for next year.
Last year there, was q train from. this city.
which: reaching Jacques-C artierylle on time,
brought the traveller into the city. at $50 In
the morning. In time TO get the early morning
not like that arrangement, and as the Cana
dian Pacific is the biggest hotel keeper In the
taken of. 80 now there Is only one way OF
getting into and out Of s-Cartierviile
Ehe ~hotels-Whleh is nice for the hotel keepers.