The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-15
NOVA SCOTIA SCENES.
As Seen by Former Member of Journal
 and Courier Staff.

 day from Clarence s. Hutt, who is spending his summer in Dartmouth Nova Scotia. MT. Hutt was formerly a member of the Journal and Courier staff. He is also a graduate of Yale, having taken honors and made Phi Beta Kappa at the 1905 commence ment. He gives an interesting account | of his experiences. Extracts from his letter follow:
 T was very much pleased to receive letter from you (yours arriving yes- terday. Yesterday was August 1, and by the way was natal day in Dartmouth, and with your eyes shut I you might have mistaken it for weak attempt at a Fourth of July celebra- tion. They have fine chain of lakes here, large and prettier than the Whit ney lakes and the main events of the day occurred there. In the afternoon there was regatta given under the | auspices of the Banook Canoe club, l consisting of canoe contests, single 1 souls and four cared shell races. The band of the Royal Canadian regiment l from the Halifax Citadel rendered tml- sic. In the evening therewas beauti- ful illumination with fireworks, red and 1 green lights, fountains in the water and 1 illuminated boats. About twenty of us went out in the afternoon on the bank l and picnicked there, having an open air supper, and it was a good one, too. | The day was ideal. Dartmouth Natal day differs from the Fourth of July chiefly in that 1t is purely local and that 1t does not come on the same day two years in succession. Last year it was August 5.
 There have been three large battle- ships in port since have been here, | the French ships Desaux and Jurien de la Grarrire and the British ship Do hinton. The latter is still here, but sails tomorrow,
 1 Wednesday evening l went with the fellow to whom Jack Todd gave me a letter of introduction and another friend of his to the Citadel, a strongly fortified hill rising in the center of Hal- flax, The place is old, built of strong mason work, with a deep moat and chambered underground. We went into I the quartermaster-s -sergeant's mess and met a number of soldiers. There were also several sailors from the Dominion | there that evening, and had a most l interesting time. We saw couple of underground dungeons, used a century | n,1 1 I,oi oyn yN.-i n11- CTS in, that were as thrilling as any in romance, not excepting Monte Cristo.
 Just now there is an exodus to the west from here. The young man, go west" cry has come this way and the young men are following the voice into l the erstwhile wilderness of the great Canadian northwest. Winnipeg, which is commonly known as the Chicago of Canada, the great wheat and railway l center of the entire northwest has a population of 90, 2l6 by the special gov ernment census just completed, against 1 forty-two thousand in the Dominion census of 1901 and twenty-five thousand in 1S91 Calgary, Alberta, has jumped l from two thousand to eleven thousand in the last five years This while the \ eastern cities of Halifax and St. John are practically stationary. Forty-one 1 hundred men left St. John night or two ago for the annual harvesting in the great wheat fields and many of these will never come back. This num- Der went just from the maritime prov inces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
 The first place stayed at, Malone Bay, where I spent three weeks, is q little town of about twelve hundred I people. It was almost like being out of the world, but l had three of the mcGa delightful weeks of my life there. I did not know Russell Sage was dead until I read of the unpickable black coffin several days after his demise In the local paper, issued weekly, it was re- corded that Mr. Clarence Hutt,of New haven, Mass, was visiting there I met a girl there one day Che lives there tool wearing a Yale pin. At a general store there where they sell clocks among an intinitude of merchandise, most of these were New Haven clocks. T At the place I was staying their bird was living in a Hendryx cage So the l fame of New Haven reaches even to the uttermost bounds of the earth.
 We went out to an island in Mahone Bay one evening to look through lit- tie toy-like lighthouse there. The light-keeper, an elderly man, has a Bi- ble out there which he is very fond of reading, as evidenced by the fact that he has read it through thirty-two times. The light itself consists of an ordinary kerosene lamp placed inside a circular 1 magnifying glass, which is not of very high power.
 Next Tuesday plan to leave for Bos- ton. I expect at present to return by rail through New Brunswick. Maine and New Hampshire. My idea is to laave here at S:11O a. n1., reaching St. John about p. m., stay there over night and leave for Boston the next morning, thus having a daylight trip through Maine. The only other time I have been through there we came at night.
 shall probably be in Boston about a week. hope to spend a week with an aunt in Bridgewater, Mass, where 1 spent my two weeks last September So will be home about the first of Sep tenpber in time for a last glimpse of dear old Savin Rock.
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