El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-20


magistrate Jay did it, whatever ''sti-
pendiary' magistrate Jay is.
They have lots of things here that
are American, but made under another
name They say these articles have
not been patented in Canada, hence
they can be made by Canadians and
Englishmen with impunity. In the
newspaper office here-they call it the
Daily Colonial-I saw a number of
small typewriters. The Herald in the
early days had a lot Of them and they
were called Wellingtons-but up here
they bear the name Empire. One OF
the chief men of the editorial depart
ment is a Canadian and a pleasant
young fellow, who has red hair and
smokes a meerschaum pipe that he
didn't have to smuggle over from Jua-
rez and he has never been in the Unit
ed States, though he is but four and
half hours by steamer from Seattle,
and it is not necessary to get seasick
to makesthe journey, either. Down in
the business office they have young
man who has never been further away
from home than Vancouver and didn
know that FL Paso had eight railroads,
the second largest Smelter in the
world, % miles of paved streets, 30
miles of street cars and a 12-story
Mills building Under way. Charlie
Kline and Jack Harper will have to
ship some of those chamber of COM
merce booklets up this way and start
some Victoria travel to the sunny
southwest.
Reached BY Boat Only.
Victoria is on an island, completely
isolated from everybody else except
by steamer connections, but there are
enough of these to keep the people
busy if they go down to the wharf ev-
cry time a boat came in or went out
which they don't do 1t is one of the
most pleasing water trips anybody
ever made, into this place from either
Vancouver or Seattle. Many people get
their tickets to Vancouver, which is
possible, even from Ell Paso, if Jim
Morrison is in the right mood, and then
come down to Victoria and go on to
Seattle by boat. The boats run inside
the sound with the coast in sight prac
tically all the time and it never gets
rough To the Ell Pasoans who have
made the trip from San Pedro TO Cata |
lima island in California and have VOW |
ed that they would never again go on
water unless it was frozen and they
could walk on it, I recommend this trip |
to put them in a good humor again
with the sea. The trip is almost as
smooth as glass in these big steamers
over 200 feet long and, besides retain |
ing all that was carried aboard in the |
way of consumed food, a passenger
soon gets so hungry from the salt sea
air that he wonders how the company |
can make anything in giving him such |
a meal as is served in the dining sa-
loon for a dollar, Canadian or United
States money The boats are very fine |
and anybody that is lazy can get |
stateroom all the way for a dollar. The !
N the n9rlOrS and |
sing and play the piano or stand on the |
decks and the bridge among the gold |
laced officers or equally gorgeous por-
tiers and walters and give each other |
transformation.
Lots of Customs Officers.
There are as many customs officers |
as at FL Paso at either the American |
or the Canadian end of the journey, but |
they do their work fast and the Amer |
lean officers look for nothing smaller !
than Irish lace or French silks, which |
they don't often find because they look I
so rapidly when a grip is opened. Lit |
tie things like French opera glasses I
that sell in the United States for IS and |
in Victoria for So and sometimes cheap |
er, pass muster as they might have
been taken to Canada to use in admir-
ing the scenery, you know. The Off
GERS have no trouble with men about
bringing back cigars for the cigars
here are as high as in the United |
States, which is not surprising, since
most of them come from Florida and /
Cuba and pay duty, both import and
export. II takes a quarter to get two !!
good cigars here but the kings pic
ture on the wrapper or maybe the pic
ture of the Princess Victoria or the
Princess Charlotte, make them worth
it, even if they were not good smokes,
which they are. And the Princesses
Charlotte and Victoria, in this instance,
are not girls, but the ships that handle
part of the traffic into and out of Vic
toria.
In Seattle the passengers pass to the
right in getting into the boats and the
men loading the freight do the same,
but when they get up here, they walk
in and out like the street cars and the
cabs operation the left. It's a Won
der the crews don't get stuck in the
middle some times.
Some Victoria Features.
The pavement here is vitrified brick
and blocks and all of the streets are
clean, but narrow. The parliament
buildings occupy position directly in
front of the quays and are three stor-
les in height, of blue-gray sandstone,
with a dome on the central building
that reaches higher tnan Joe Nealon's
political ambitions. On the other side
of the quay is the Hotel Empress, a
mammoth structure that is finer than
anything I have seen in Seattle, SpO
kane or Denver. And nearby is the
postoffice, of the same stone as the
parliament building. The parliament
building and the hotel are surrounded
by beautiful parks, sown in clover, with
myriads Of flower beds full of flowers,
and many handsome trees mostly ma
ple,' which is the official tree of the
Dominion The leaf is worn as an en-
blem of loyalty and is made in all
manner of jewelry. The park sur
rounding the parliament building is
also cluttered up with some tomb
stones, as. an American tourist said
monuments to men who have done some
service for their country, most of them
Sir Something or Other and few of
Cobb and his protege, William Jen-
nings Bryan, would say.
The shopwindows-not store windows
here, no sir-e-@are all nicely arrang-
ed and the principal streets are lined
with substantial brick and stone build
ings, many three stories in height and
n few four hI5t none as tall as FL |