The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-07

of Duluth; Cadillac, the founder of De-
troit and Bienville, the founder of New
Orleans. The Americans occupied the
city, under General Montgomery who
was afterwards slain in an attempt to
capture Quebec; he occupied the
Chateau de Ramezay which is still pre-
served as it stood then, the kitchen be-
ing underground, alongside the wine
cellar, while on the main floor is large
reception room which was occupied by
Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and
Rev. Charles Carroll while negotiating
the cession of the country to the United
States. Here Benz. Franklin's press
was also set up. In every direction is an
evidence of wealth. Montreal with
population of 300, 900 being the wealth
lest city of its size in the world. 1t is
an extremely religious city and has
schools churches and institutions Of
every descriptions monastery, where
300 monks study and pray their lives
away; across the street being nunnery
where 400 nuns take care of 500 home
less children; Notre Dame cathedral is
one Of the largest and most beautiful
edifices in America, seating $4,000
people, the two large towers rising 227
feet above the street and one containing
the great bell weighing 24,7S0 pounds,
being feet high and feet across the
| ho nd is taA mi af
the Blessed Virgin and st. John the
Baptist and emblems of agriculture,
commerce and industry. The other
tower contains ten smaller bells beauti
musical airs can be executed while they
peal: the bells weigh from S97 to COIL
pounds, the heaviest being for the note
do the next re and so on through the
the scale.
In the body of the church are valua-
BILE paintings and statues fourteen side
windows. forty feet high, most wonder
fully colored; the grand main altar in
tended to represent the sacrifice OF
Christ as foreshadowed in the signs
and prophecies of the old testament.
Facing the grand altar is the organ
built in 1891, and rivaling any organ in
! America, it being preferred by Fred
Archer to the one in the auditorium at
Chicago; it took six years to erect it and
place properly the 5,772 pipes the sizes
ranging from that of a quill to huge
tubes more than 80 feel long the differ
ent changes in the regulation of the
Eorgan being by eight electrical appi-
ances.
Riding along it is noticeable that
practically every building of any size is
built of grey stone, giving an appear
ance OF solidity that is found in no
other city and every few blocks some
institution of learning or religious
structure-chief among which is McGill
University, the buildings covering forty
seven acres and to which buildings and
and equipments have been added by
gifts every few years since its founda-
tion in 1891; the city also has Montreal
college, Laval University French in
stitution entirely as McGill is English.
Leaving the business and the thickly
settled residential portions the carriages
took us to the winding road up Mount
Royale, which was formerly shut off
from the city by high wall, but is now
covered by the finest of residences,
beautiful parks, play grounds of every
description and from the top Of which
may be seen the entire city, the glitter
ing domes and spires of the churches,
the palatial homes of the wealthy and
the more thickly populated portion with
its little old fashioned houses, the broad
parks and avenues and beyond all these
the great st. Lawrence river with the
docks and shipping and still farther on
the south shore prosperous towns and
villages, and in the distance the peaks
of the Green mountains and the Adiron-
dacks; while in other directions are
forests, cemeteries and farms.
A hasty visit was made necessarily to
some of the other historic points and it
would be interesting to TINES readers
to freshen their memories regarding
this part of America and especially
about Montreal and Quebec, which we
were not so fortunate as to visit this
trip. GEO. Nj. DEWEY.
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