The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
SCENES, MEN AND MANNERSIN
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Mr. j. w. TempletOn, Wake County Traveller,
Writes to Mr.. B. F. Montague of What
He Has Seen.

man can find some place to put his
money. Still they live better than we
do and if I was able to live as we'll in
Cary as they do here, it would cost me
very near as much.
There is all through the west
and up the coast quite a lot
in the papers and elsewhere about the
rights and dignity of labor, but here
what the capitalists and corporations say
goes, in other words here, as elsewhere
money talks. There seems nevertheless
to be good deal of socialism among the
people and the signs are that it is get
ting to be a factor to be reckoned with
in politics. I've not yet been out to the
fish canneries, but expect to go. 1t is the
main industry at this season and the
salmon are now at fioodtide going up
the rivers. From the beach | can see
numbers of little fishing boats out where
English bay meets the Gulf of Georgia,
but they tell me this is nothing to what
they have about the mouth of Fraser
river where the cannery business cen
ters. They fish all week except from
Saturday evening at 6 o'clock until Sum
day evening at the same hour, when no
fishing is permitted. This much time is
given to let the fish go up to the spawn
ing ground and incidentally the fisherman
can keep Sunday. l see that one Of
the fishermen went to work before the
signal was given last Sunday and he
was fined twenty dollars and the cost.
We are eating lots of fine fresh salmon.
l did not like it at first, but / am learn
ing.
/ was out Saturday to see a game of
Lacrosse for the championship of the
province of B. G.. / had never seen the
game played before and think it less
brutal and dangerous than our national
game. Next Saturday there are to be
"Caledonian games" on the same grounds
and l may take them in. l don't know
what they are other than dancing the
Highland fling" There are daily ex-
cursions from here all UP and down the
coast and into the interior, and if man
had money in plenty he could amuse him
self quite a time.
1t was funny to me to go out to the
beach and see the water alive with
male and female bathers trying to keep
COOL" while I shiyered until my teeth
almost chartered in the cold wind. An
other funny thing was to see a big buck
niger out there teaching young ladies
and children to swim. I learned after
ward he is paid by the city to look after
the bathers and keep them from drown
ing. The papers say he saved four lives
Sunday.
There is a lot of hypocrisy and put on
here as well as in our county, yet / be-
lieve there is more solidity and less shat
and tinsel than with us. Their houses,
their vehicles, their machinery, their
roads and all their products, if taken all
through, are more substantial than ours,
and / verify believe there is less trickery
and double-dealing and higher average
of integrity among them than with u.s.
Well, it goes without saying I'm en-
joying my trip so far 1t costs some
thing, but to me the pleasure derived
from the scenes and experiences of such
a trip far outweights the cost and I'd
rather have it than the money it costs.
With best wishes, 1 am
Very truly yours,
J. NJ TEMPT ETON