The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-20
THOUSANDS
IN QUEBEC
Great Preparations Made for
Big Celebration
PLAN STUPENDOUS PAGEANT
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME WILL
BE ACCORDED PRINCE OF
WALES WHEN HE
ARRIVES.

| QUEBEC, July 2O.-Every boat and
train into Quebec today brought i'm
mense additions to the vast throngs
already congregated here to witness
the stupendous pageant with which the
city will this week commemorate its
tercentenary. Not in it's long history OF
800 years has the ancient town on the
st. Lawrence entertained so great a
gest historical exhibition of modern
times, and with the official reception
tomorrow to the French, English and
American battleships and the disting-
uished guests, the weeks festivities
will be fairly inaugurated. The prince
of Wales, now speeding across the At
! lantic on the famous mystery ship,
the British cruiser Indomitable, will
arrive Wednesday afternoon, and his
reception will bespeak the regard in
which all Canadians hold their future
king. President Fairbanks will b
among the distinguished men who will
greet the prince and bid him welcome
to the new world
Heralds clad in all the finery of a
by-gone age and mounted on dash
ing steeds cantered through the streets
of Quebec today and men of the
watch shouted out announcements to
the crowds of the great events to come
Practically all of the hotel accom-
modatiOns of Quebec We're engaged far
in advance by parties of distinguished
men and women from other lands, ana
the rank and file of the visitors will
be accommodated in the tent cities
which have sprung up as if by magic
on the heighths Of Quebec and in other
places in and near the city. Hundreds
of private residences have been opened
to visitors, and all the educational
and religious institutions of Quebec and
Lewis have transformed their class
rooms and dormitories into sleeping
rooms which will accommodate thou
sands. Temporary restaurants and
lunch rooms have been established by
scores and the provisioning of the
thousands is one considered to be
matter for apprehension.
While the gathering of such a crowd
in so small a city is bound to result
in some discomfort for the visitors,
the great spectacle will be we'll worth
it.
There is no such other stage ia the
world for dramatic pageantry as the
Plains Of Abraham where the grandeur
of the natural scenery defies descrip-
tion, and where the 10000 spectators
in the grand stand, face the st. Law
renee 800 feet below, at the point
where Wolfes Highlanders clambered
up the heights.
From the foot of his statue, where
stands for all time the bronze figure
of the great Champlain, stepping
ashore, as it were, as he did so long
ago, to take possession Of this new
country of the west, the prince of
Wales and President Fairbanks
with other illustrious guests, will see
in procession before them all the great
man and women who have made this
country what it is, and later on will
see, as in dream, the moving, living
pictures of the great events of those
early days.
On the banks of that river, when the
long rays of the sun stretch over the
plains, shall be seen again, as Cartier
saw nearly 400 years ago, cluster OF
wigwams set beneath the trees. Away
on the broad waters Of the river many
feet below will come the little boats
with Cartier and his crew, their names
still preserved and their descendants
them.
Then the spectators will be trans
ported in their dreams to the court or
France, the gardens at FontainDleu'
and high on a white charger, trapped