The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-15
A SUMMER IN NOVA SCOTIA.
Mai. OrmOnd StrOng's Impressions
of the Northeast Country.

-""S' OHHonu StronSs Impre sslOnS
of the Northeast Country.
Maj Ormond B. Strong has returned
to the city fully recovered from his at
tack of typhoid fever. and will remain
at the head of the Savannah Prepare
tory School.
Maj. Strong spent the summer in
Newfoundland and the province of
Nova Scotia, visiting the land of Evan
gellne. This picturesque Arcadian
country has always had a strong hold
upon the Imagination of the average
American" said Maj. Strong, but I'M
I'll the present year has been some
what inconvenient of access. Now,
however, there are two excellent steam
ship lines going direct from New York
to Halifax and one line from there to
St. Johns. Thus the entire trip from
Savannah to Newfoundland may be
made by sea with only one change in
New York. The sea trip, to those not
subject to NAL de mer has only one
disadvantage. The most northerly part
of the journey is usually made in a
dense fog and the passenger with sensi-
tive nerves is we'll nigh distracted by
the fog horn. which frequently blows
at two minute intervals for days at a
the strained nerves find a delightful
relaxation in the quiet grandeur of stu
pendous rocks and rugged cliffs, rising
abruptly hundreds of feet above the
well sheltered harbor. A short hours
drive from st. Johns lies the little fish
ing village of Quidi Vidi, where the
visitor may see acres upon acres of
fish exposed to the sun upon roughly
constructed sheds. But if you are not
fond of Goldfish. don't go near Quidi
Vidi. The sight and the smell are
satiating.
intellectually, st. Johns is disap-
pointing. With scarcely a dozen excep-
TONS" said Maj. Strong, Its business
buildings and residences are only
roughly framed shanties and it's street
cleaning department seems to have
taken permanent vacation. The stamp
of poverty is indelibly impressed upon
the greater part of the city. The whole
province is practically owned by less
than twenty persons, and there is no
real estate tax. Here consequently
can be seen the extremes of wealth and
poverty. There is no agriculture;
even the grain for the cattle is inn
ported from Prince Edwards Island
and the tourist who does not care to
walk is overcome when he sees his
livery bill. The two means of liveli-
hood are catching cod and tourists.
Halifax, the impregnable garrison
city and the capital of Nova Scotia, is
the Mecca of most summer tourists.
Here is located the headquarters of
both the naval and military service of
Great Britain in Canada. The red coat
of Tommy Adkins furnishes a pleasing
dash of color to the eye and the fleet
of British warships in the harbor re-
minds one that Halifax is the Gibral-
tar of North America. But the sol
diers with their swagger sticks and.
pill-box caps, their drills and maneu-
vers and Sunday march to the garri-
son chapel are but an incident in the
life of a city which is unique in its in
dividuality Here are to be found more
forms of outdoor amusement and more
persons with leisure to enjoy them than
in American cities ten times as large.
The social life of Halifax is one of it's
marked characteristics, more closely
resembling the hospitality and friend
illness of the South than that of most
Northern cities.
"The story of the Statesboro lynch
ing not only reached Halifax" said
Mai. Strong, but for several days
formed the chief topic of conversation
in the clubs and hotels and never be-
fore was 1 so forcibly impressed with
the far reaching effects of lawlessness.