The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-19


sibiIities of the Canadian Prai-
ries and Learned Many Things.
Travel stained, but far from tired,
the 1856 Minnesota editors and their
friends, who have been touring North
western Canada for ten days, returned
from their 4,000-mile jaunt at a few
minutes after noon yesterday. All
united in declaring the excursion to
nave been the finest, as 1t was the long
est and the largest, ever taken by the
Minnesota Publishers association.
A brief summary of the trip as far as
Banff has already appeared in The
/ o b e OF Sunday.
Columns could not tell the delights
that awaited the tourists on every
hand from the negative courtesy shown
them at the border line in the failure
to pry into the baggage of the excur-
sion, through old Fort Garry and the
new and metropolitan Winnipeg; over
the pralrles of Manitoba where at ev-
cry stop enthusiastic demonstrations
OF brotherly love were made, and
through ever changing vistas of prairie
and mountain. hill and dale
AT Winnipeg, District Passenger
Agent Rogers, Of the Northern Pacific,
who had accompanied the party in
smoothly, turned the party over to
youthful looking Canadian, who is more
like an American.
This was Arthur B. Calder, a Win
nipeg boy, who has been stationed by
the Canadian Pacific railroad at Ia
coma to look after the itinerant tourist
Fnd steer him over the greatest sum-
worthy successor to Rogers. He was
UBIQUITOUS and interchangeable. He en-
tertained the fair sex all day with
facetious descriptions of the various
points of interest, and in the evening
he had a fund of Western anecdotes
for the lotteries who CHANGED to be loi-
tering in the smoking rooms. The trip
without Calder would have been lack
Ing in one of it's most Overwhelming
pleasures
After the Bohemian Sunday night
and early Monday morning repast.
which may be called either supper or
breakfast, as one chooses. the party
retired to the cars. Some of them,
however, did not seek the berths.
and they were the ones who were for
tunate enough to enjoy the scenery
between Banff and Field, a picturesque
station and eating house, where trains
change engines and charming cashiers
change all sorts Of bills. I'm
der the shadow of Mount Ste
PiiSH, VIII TedTS MS head
5000 feet above the track, and 10 900
some odd feet above sea level, the ko-
daklsts frolicked In the morning sun
shine, while the patriotic blended
America" ard "Gcd S We the Queer,''
and the meeting adjourned with three
cheers for Steve" the same being the
mountain.
1t was necessary to forego a long
stay at Glacier, but a few indomitabIe
spirits were determined to scale the
Icy thing, and seven of them made it,
although the hour which the managers
or the excursion allowed was extended
by five minutes before the last of the
party had returned.
AT, or at least within sight of Glacier
mousse as the Swiss villa depot and eat
ing house is named, are ''the loops"
where the engineers Of the road entan-
gied seven miles of track in hard knots
In order to get passable grades on a
descent of 522 feet to a po..4t "a the
lllicilliwaet valley, which. looking from
the engine, seems to be directly be-
hea'h-E.e sleeping car tail lights. It
Was Was while the party was inspecting
this engineering triumph that storm
broke, and the first bad weather of
the trip turned out to be treat rather
than otherwise, for the grandeur Of
the scene impressed the least romantic
Some. of the seven who were on the
glacier thought that the enthusiasm
SHOWN by the echoes Of the thunder
IN the vast crevices of the Ice was al
most too marked, but no one was hurt
and all was we'll
FOLLOWING the Illicilliwaet down.
very picturesque ride, in spite of the
rain, brought the party to Revelstoke.
the entrance to the Kootenai mining
camps, where the men obtained hand
outs to last them to the prospectively
of K d
From Revelstoke the road passes
through Eagle pass into what are
Known generally as the Gold noun
ta1ns, not as elevated as the Selkirks
and Rockies, but in many cases snow
carped, and almost Invariably green
clad. Down Eagle river, and along
one side of Shuswap lake, where the
occasional pop of the safety valve on
the engine would brighten from the
weeds flock Of ducks or a knot of
lonely looking looms, the sportsmen
or the party were In q fever until sun
per time.
The task Of feeding 200 hungry trav.
elers az p. m. is something more than
the dining accommodations of Kan
loops are equal to, but the rural editor
showed himself a man of resources
ana some volunteer walters hustled the
Chlnese cooks around with all the sat.
lsractlon that comes from a new ex
perience, and ultimately every one was
fed. e was
1t was an all nights ride to Van
couver, and at that city every one in
sisted mat the party had missed the
finest scenery of the trip down the
Fraser river canon. But just at that
time the pleasures Of scenery had nall
ed on the satiated taste, and the priv
ilege of walking or "biking" on asphalt
streets was too much for many of the
party to resist. The people of the
city had arranged to take the party
up the north arm of Burrad inlet for a
boat ride. There was a free bar on
the boat and every possible pains had
been taken to provide for the comfort
OF the city's guests. The fair seq
got along very nicely on lemonade and
crackers.
Many of the editorial party did not
follow the set programme, but drove
about the city with its magnificent, al
most primeval Stanley park, whose big
trees rival those of Yosemite. and
whose roses infatuated every Minne-
sofa woman who saw them. The can
neries at New Westminster also drew
their visitors, and all in all the dav
that was spent in Vancouver was onlv
too short.
e.: J. Coyle, district passenger agent
of the G. P. R., with Headquarters at
Vancouver, Joined the party here. ac-
companying 1t to Victoria.
II was arrangements day at Vancou-
yer, and the freedom with which the
lodges were permitted to parade as
founded some Of the visitors, but as
the Minnesota editors and the Orange
men took the same boat to Victoria
that night, everything was explained.
and the evening passed off without
the suggestion Of a clash.
Practically all the way over, until
the late sunset, the party was In view