Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-11
OVER HALF WAYTO
EUROPE BY RAIL
A. w. Lee in st. Johns, Newfound.
land, Which He Designates the
Norway Of America.

ANYWAY VI AulSTlCtts
SPENDS one WEEK In THAT PLACE
Says it Was Well Worth the Effort
and Regrets That the Absence of
His Family Permitted Visit No
Longer.
Special Correspondence, Letter No. 3.
Halifax. Nova Scotia, Sept. Re
turning from Newfoundland, the Jour-
ney is one of fifty-one hours from st.
Johns to Halifax. Leaving st. Johns
Thursday evening at $50 o'clock the
traveller rides all night and all day on
the Reid-Newfoundland railway till
p NJ. Friday, when he reaches Port
| aux Basques, at the extreme south
western point of the island. He i'm
mediately transfers to the splendid
steamship Bruce and arrives at North
sydney at 5 a. m. Saturday Here
there Is wait of few hours and at
10 o'clock the traveller takes the fast
express on the Intercolonial railway
which brings him into Halifax at sos
p. m. After this flfty-one hour trip,
Halifax seems long way toward
home from st. Johns, Newfoundland
though to the mind of the Iowan Hall
TAX is very great distance from the
Mississippi river.
1t was with genuine regret that left
NEWFOUNDLAND, with the accent on
the land, as they pronounce it here.
Had my family been with me, two or
three weeks could, and probably would
have been spent in the island with the
greatest enjoyment But my family
remained in Halifax, and hence my
trip to Newfoundland occupied just
one week from the time | left Halifax
till my return to that city. Hurried
as 1t necessarily was, the trip was we'll
worth the expense and effort, and l
shall not feel satisfied until | spend a
much longer period enjoying it's mag
n1hcent summer climate and grand
and Imposing scenery. 1t is the Nor
way Of America, and it's pure air borne
by the winds across thousands of miles
of salt water, north, east and south, is
laden with health and REGENERATION.
1t is a matter of surprise to the tour
list to learn that the winter climate in
Newfoundland is much more salubri-
GUS than that of the main land 1t
hdoes not have the intense cold which
prevails at Quebec or even at Mon
treal. 1t is on the southeast coast es-
pecially, subject to heavy fogs, but it
is by no means the land of perpetual
fog that many have enormously sup.
posed. During my weeks excursion
| experienced but one day of fog. The
balance. of the time the weather was
almost perfect.
Even st. Johns is not the limit te
which the tourist can go in Newfound
land. Labrador is a part of New
foundland, SO far as government is
concerned. From ST. Johns the Reid
Newfoundland company not only run
a line of splendidly equipped steamers
to points along the entire coast line OF
Newfoundland, but to the coast of Lab
4 rador as we'll. This latter is journey
OF about one thousand miles and is one
that Is replete with interest and enjoy
ment Again reminding the interested
reader that full information in regard
4 to Newfoundland and the many enjoy
ments which it offers to the summer
tourist can be freely obtained by ad
dressing H. A. Morine, G. P. A. OF
the Reid-Newfoundland company, ST
Johns, Newfoundland, | will leave the
the great island province to turn my
attention for the time to the Maritime
provinces OF Canada, Nova Scotia anG
; New Brunswick.
City Of Sydney.
= Landing from the steamship Bruce
at North Sydney, city of four or five
thousand inhabitants. ferry carries
one across the bay five miles to the
city of Sydney, which has population
OF twelve to thirteen thousand people
Sydney is situated but few miles
+ from the ruins of the old historic fort
lof Louisburg, the capture of which By
the New England forces under Pep
perell, aided by Warren, and it's sub
segment capture second time by the
English forces cost so much in BLOOD
and treasure. Desolate enough are
the Notifications of Louishurg today
For twenty-five years the French la
:, bored upon it, expanding nearly. 81,
i millions of dollars in completing the
defences. The capture by Pepperel
+ in 1745, was the first but not the fina
/ conquest. Louisburg was restored t.
France by the pease of Aix-la- Chapelle
but the brief truce was soon broken
S and then came the armies of England
: and the immortal Wolfe here sough
and won his first laurels in the new
: world. Louisburg fell once and thu
knell of its glory was rung 1t wa.
ordered that the fertilization SHOULD
be destroyed and the work of demoli
: ton was begun. 1t took two years Il
complete the destruction, and thei
: the once proud fortress was shape
less ruin.
i What mighty changes have beer
t brought about in $50 years. Whel
every resource of human ingenuit,
was then being used to capture AM
destroy, now is heard the hum of hu
c man industry
At Sydney is located the great plan
2 of the Dominion Iron and Steel CON
pany in which over $16OOO,O00 hay
already been invested and which
now working tn tho full canacitV TIL