Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-10
COL. HOLLOWAY ON
THINGS IN CANADA
FORMER RICHMOND MAN
TELLS OF EXPERIENCES AS
CONSUL AT HALIFAX.
SAYS HEWSpAF Err REPORTERS
Are We'll Qualified To Hold Down
Consular Pos-tions-Taay Can
Get Desired Information.


lY of Richmond. now United States
consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia. IS in
indianapolis, enjoying among his
friends his leave of absence. Il have
been at Halifax for two years" he
said, in talking of his work. 4 see
fewer Americans there than | saw
when consul at St. Petersburg. By
the way, tie Canadians do not think
it good form for us to appropriate
the name of Americans, for when it
comes to landed possessions they have
not including their magnificent ice
crop.
"But the ice crop is some distance
from Halifax, where the cold is no
severer than here. The wandering
people from the States, as the Ca
nadians designate this country, don It
come about the consulate, although
some years from $4,000 to 10000 of
our people visit Canada. Many of
the people of the New % England
States go through Nova Scotia. A
considerable number remain there
during the summer months and there
is no more delightful region in sum-
mer than Nova Scotia. They have
been going there for years. a."
4"A number of them have country
residences there. General Bingh am,
a regular, army officer, formerly a
factotum at the White House at
Washington under President Harri-
son, has an island there. Perry
Heath, of Indiana, has an island.
Heath induced Admiral Dewey to
buy an island The admiral became
dissatisfied with his purchase, and
Heath took it off his hands. This
island, a beautiful place, is at Ches-
ter, only 200 or 800 yards from the
land. There are as many as a thou
sand people from the States at Ches-
ter each summer. Occasionally, not
often, I see and Indianaian at the
consulate.
"There is nothing really remarka-
BILE about the people or the country
to one from the States, and we are
not especially interesting to them,
for the reason that there is not a
family in the maritime provinces that
is not related to somebody in the
United States. They have married
and intermarried on both sides of the
border, so that the feelings of Cana
dians for us is most cordial. We
speak the same language and read
the same newspapers, all this being
encouraged by the fact that we have
the same postage.
"Halifax is a place of 10000 pop
ulation, but it is old, long-settled and
slow. You should remember that
many of the old families there are
descendants of those persons who
were sent there from Boston, after
the surrender Of CORVALLIS at York
town, persons who ha drefused to
take the oath of allegiance to the
United States. These old royalists
were very aristocratic. They would
not work. Their houses were fur
nished with rare old mahogany,
which came from England. People
from the States have been buying
this old furniture and other heir
looms from these ancient houses.
"I said it was not much colder at
Halifax than here, but I will admit
that the wintry sea breeze comes in
rather sharp sometimes. AS con-
trast to your present weather here
was at Atlantic City the other day.
1t was the finest day I ever saw.
Thousands of persons were prone
nading the long boardwalk, enjoying
the air.
"There's a kind of a gas war on
at Halifax and / find a gas war on
here. TIE street car company at
Halifax is a great corporation and
owns the electric lighting and illumi-
mating gas plants. Gas there is 81
so thousand feet. Most of the
rich people there take no interest in
new ventures. They put their money
in insurance companies and bank
stocks. Shares of bank stock OF
which the par value is 800, are held
at $3.50 and $3.50.
"R. G. Hervey, a Canadian, who
lived for several years at Tere
Haute, where he was a well-knowr
railroad man, returned to Nova SEQ