Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-18
ty or sixty miles unless the wolf took
to the BUSH before the dogs could get

I'VE will be like the Scotchman," ar
gued the editor "who prayed morning
and night and. Oh Lord, gle us a
competency. When his young daugh-
ter asked her pious father what was
a competency, he scratched his head
reflectively and replied, "A competency,
lassie, is jist little mair than we've
got The people of Winnipeg will be-
come as fully accustomed to this sort
of thing as have the people of Grinnell
for there are five or six denominational
colleges and provincial university all
ready in the town. The ideals OF the
nation" will be looked after.
However their town is too new for
a modern theatre. The best opera
house in town is an immense barn like
room over q grocery store, with a
small stage and as roughly finished as
any barn. Ike Speers' opportunity
| awaits him here.
But all is not pleasure in Winnipeg.
The first thing one sees upon arriving
over the 500 line is a $3,00O,0O0 hotel
| and terminal station built by the
| Canadian Pacific railway and you no
more than express your admiration
| than the bus man tells you that the
| Canadian Northern is going to build
a $4,000 900 structure on the other side
| of town The Grand Trunk, too, is get
ting ready to build to the coast by the
aid of the Canadian governments
| guarantees of the interest on it's bonds
and a third palatial structure may be
expected Winnipeg will never lack
| for hotels. in fact altho only few
| thousand larger than Des Moines. she
now has sixty hotels. The liquor law
does it. In the province of Manitoba
no saloons are permitted. A bar is al
lowed to every fifty-room hotel and
the license is $3.50 per year. l think
| I never saw so many fifty-room hotels
in one city in my life. A. member OF
the provincial parliament lecturing be-
fore a young mems club estimated that
s21S4OOO We're spent annually in the
city for liquor; S31 per head for every
man. woman and child. Judging from
his talk the temperance question is
up for discussion in Canada The 81
| lent partners, are the breweries which,
| it is said. hold blanket mortgages on
| the fifty room hotels. The bars how
ever, close promptly at eleven o'clock
at night excepting Saturday nights,
when they close at $3.50 and on Sun
| DAYS liquor can be served in the hotel
dining rooms at meal times. The net
result is nuisance to the travelling
public, for a man paying his $500 per
| day can never find a vacant chair in
| the hotel lobby or a chance at the writ
| ing desk because of the mob of loafCrs
| that infest the place and patronlze the
| bar in the next room.
| Sunday however, is a closed one to
be sure, no street cars are permitted
| to run and no Sunday papers to be
| published, altho l was told that the
| Toronto World, a thousand miles to
| the east. had caught the Hearst spirit
| and published Sunday morning paper
before twelve o'clock Saturday night.
winnipeg is today better built
city than any in Iowa. Seven story Of
flee buildings abound. Eaton's is
six story department store occupying
whole block and doing a business of
fourteen millions at the Winnipeg and
Toronto stores. The government is
putting up a $2,0O0,000 post office of
white granite. By a mere coincidence
this official palace is located on the lot
next to a fine new building just erect |
ed by the Free Press. In driving by |
I naturally asked Does the Free-Press
own it's building?" Yes, and the next
one too" was the facetious reply. 1t
seems that the Press is the gov
eminent organ. In SO it's owner was |
busted" but he became minister of the |
interior and in very few years owned |
summer houses, yachts the Free
Press, ottawa property and secured an
appropriation" for Winnipeg just be-
fore he was forced out of office. The
people of Winnipeg like their building,
but are inclined to call it graft.
The banks of Winnipeg are it's mar
vel. however To the man who has lis |
tened to the people of Des Moines brag
when a bank consoidates for 100000 |
capital. the Canadian system COM
mands respect, when he can see within
two blocks of one another in this
northern city full dozen banks all
possessing over 100000 capital stock
and as much more Eat rest as they
call it, The Canadian Bank of Com
merce occupying a marble palace, has
ten millions of capital, four and half |
millions at rest, 1873 branches thruout
Canada, the United States and Eng
land, seventy-four millions of depos
it's and on the day left Winnipeg the
annual bank statement was published in
a Winnipeg newspaper, ten and half
columns long. Most Of it was review
of business conditions in the whole
country by the general manager, adj
dressed to his $500 share holders and
discussing in detail the New Found
land fisheries, the Quebec lumber, fac
tory and shipping interests, the On
tario fruit crop, Manitoba, Alberta, and
Northwest provinces grain yields, and
the fisheries mines and lumber of
British Columbia and Washington and
Oregon states. His report was of UNI
precedented prosperity, but warned his
people to prepare for storm. A four
teen per cent dividend was declared
and another million and a half in stock
taken out which necesstated increas-
ing the directors from ten to twelve
and a very GENEROUS request was made
for an increase from 100000 to $685.
600 for all the directors salaries for a
whole year. Shades of Wall street!
was such a thing ever known on this
side? A ten million dollar bank with
seventy-five million dollar business
and $4,000 per year for the salary of
each director!
The beauties of the Canadian branch
bank system were explained to me by