The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-17
TRIP TO HALIFAX
BY R|CHMONDERS
Mr.. W. |. Royal Writes interest
ingIy Of Going to Nova Scotia.
CORONATION DAY IN COLONY
He is Greatly Struck by the answering
Loyalty of Englishmen in Every
Part of the World 10 Their
Sovereign.

To the editor OF The Times:
S;r.-At the end OF July ] left the heat
OF Richmond in company with MY wife
and her sister, Mrs. Thomas Boiling, Tor
Halifax. Nova Scotia. and 1t may inter-
est your readers to learn something of the
details of a trip there. You leave Rich
,rond at 3 p. NJ. by the Norfolk and West
err for Norfolk and take steamer that
evening for Boston or Providence,
r. ]. The Boston steamers are much the
best. You arrive in Boston in the morn
ing OF the second day after leaving Rich
mend and take the steamer for Yarmouth
at 2 p. NJ CT that day, arriving At Var
mouth ut z A. NJ. the next morning.
! q here you take the train for Halifax, ar
/ irving there at 4:30 p. NJ. of that day.
/ The cast OF the trip is S11 from Richmond
to Boston; about sl2 meals included. from
Bcston TO Halifax.
We stopped day in Boston to see It's
Fights, which will repay anyone who has
not seen them. Harvard University IN
terestcd me more than anything else !
/ saw there 1t is truly mammoth affair.
with It's rise of 1000 students. After
looking 1t over and finding cut as much
as could about students life, then
am at loss TO say whether l want TO
send VIM. l., Jr., there or whether want
to keep him at Virginia schools. In
nfraid the boy has better facilities for IN
struction and more OF them than we can
give him. which Is a heavy item upon
tfnt side of the ledger. There is per
centra however, which perplexes me ex-
tremely.
The students seggrcgate themselves into
grades Some dormitorics are occupied
!, by The sons Of wealthy parents and these
boys live in great style and at heavy
outlay OF money, scme spending a much
as $4,000 a year and living in bachelor
quarters fitted up as handsomely as any
IN the world. They are a caste TO them
selves and the spirit OF caste must cX-
1 tend from them to ell other sections. AT
The other end of the line are to be found
students in the extremity of poverty, who
work their way through college oy per
forming mental services. A boy gets ms
meals as pay for waiting upon .abieS az
which other students take their meals.
and he gets his lodgings as. pay for I'M
ming an opIlent persons furnace. The
democracy of such an institution must be
I theoretical only. in the nature OF things.
Tile boy who has waited upon fellow
stpdent at breakfast as mis- domestic ser
want camel possibly feel at his ca Sc with
him when they meet together Afterwards
as fellow-studcnts. Now in our Virginia
schools, without exception. and OF what
ever grade the boys stand socially upon
the same footing. whether one is very RIGA
and the other very poor, as they do when
both are very rich or both are very poor.
A QUESTION.
Ys the diminItion of E-esteem which
/ the syster, necessarily crafts upon boys
mind compensated by the superior adTan-
t.res in the methods of education, grant
ing that these exist? No doubt II is
Icon and blessing to the poor boys that
they are able TO secure 4. liberal educa-
ton even by this drastic course Of Droce-
cure But that concerns mo only from
the standpoint OF the philanthropist
From the standpoint of the father. do
] want to send my boy TO that college,
That Is the practical question before the
father and upon that question / confess
, that the case take it all in ALL puzzles
! nc.
we crossed from Boston to Yarmouth
i'm a splendid new ocean steamer and.
on getting to Halifax found q telnpera-
; lure that would permit a light ovcScoat
! at all times and vegetables august Sth.
ahoutdwhat it is with us early in June.
. We had cherries, raspberries green peas
that period We went to a delightful ho-
itel. the Waverly where we were charged
So day or $3.50 per day. by the week.
4 think board GENERALLY can be had upon
.l,etter terms ] have never had better
J fare anywhere than we got at our hotel.
CORONATION DAY.
We were in Halifax on the day King
1 Edward was crowned, and no one could
have seen what transpired there that day
.,yl,hout being convinced that her colo
(, mics are as thoroughly and entirely a part
! Of England in heart. soul and spirit as any
| part OF Kent, Gloucester or Cornwall could
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