Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-18
Built for Absconders.

Halifax and ending with the Empress
Hotel on Vancouver Island
Built for Absconders.
If We except the Windsor at Montreal
(Which was built by and for the comfort
of abscorlinS bankers and spectators for
~ years ago, and i'm order that they
might have 4 comfortable place to- spend
their exle) and the King Edward at
Toronto. all the first-class hotels i'm Can
ada are the result of railway enterprise.
The Chateau Frontenac. built by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, is
the most conspicuous and important
building at Quebec, and if it were remov-
ed the quaint old capital. the real cradle
of Canadian civilization. would become
a "reminiscences At Montreal the Place
Niger Hotel is owned and operated by
the same company, and the Royal Alex
andra. the halfway house of the Canadi-
an continent, is a part of the Canadian
Pacific terminals at Winnipeg. 1t is in
the same building with the station and
the general Offices of the company, and
is under the same management as the
dining cars the station restaurant and
the other hotels belonging to the railway
Being the only first-class hotel in Winni-
peg. 1t is always crowded. and the head
clerk told me they never reserved rooms
for anybody. although they received an
average of a hundred letters and tele
grams daily asking for reservations. 1t
is probably unique in this respect.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company
has plans for a larger and finer house to
be called the Selkirk. The contract for
construction has proba bly, been let by this
time, and it is to be ready for guests
within the next year. 1t is wonder
private enterprise has not taken advan-
tage of the extraordinary demand for
hotel accommodations at Winnipeg. There
are many second and third class houses
and sufficient patronage for several first
class houses. The Selkirk will not be at
tached to the splendid new station of the
Grand Trunk. but will be only a block
or two distant and will have 500 rooms.
Hotels in Mountains.
| The Grand Trunk also proposes to erect
several hotels in the mountains when it's
| line is completed to the Pacific ocean,
and plans for building at Prince
Rupert. the Pacific terminal. similar
to the vSelkirk. have already been
completed and the work of construc-
| ton will be begun this fall. 1t is the
intention of the Grand Trunk company to
/ have a string of hotels from one end of
it's line to the other. at all important
! stations, and also at isolated stations
| where the conditions will not justify the
| investment of private capital. President
! Hays. in his long experience. is convinced
| that the best advertisement for a town
small towns to build up for the benefit
| of the company of which he is president.
| It is also interesting to know that he
| plans half dozen fine summer hotels in
the Connecticut valley. on the line of the
Central Vermont railway, which is a
part of the Grand Trunk system. They
are intended to attract tourist travel and
make the Green mountains popular as
| the White mountains.
The Canadian Pacific has half a dozen
| fine hotels in the Rocky aims the
largest and best being at Banff. Farther
| on and on both sides of the mountains
are several others which have .been
| profita bic investments in promoting tour
| list patronage. Thousands of people from
! the east AZ well the west. visit the
Canadian Rockies every summer who
would not and could not do so but for
the attractive and comfortable hotel az
commoda tions.
/ The Canadian Pacific also built and
manages the Hotel Vancouver and the
Empress Hotel Vancouver Island
| which is one of the most attractive in
| America. 1t has plans for large hotel
at Calgary and other growing cities
| along the line
| The Canadian Northern railway, which
| is a rival of the Canadian Pacific. is fol-
| lowing it's example and Is building hotels
to attract tourists as we'll as to accom-
modate commercial travellers and the
public generally. The first essay of the
company in that direction is the Prince
Arthur HOtei at fOFt arthur, the Ter
minus of three railways on Lake Superior
and the Canadian rival at Duluth. II
is a handsome building, occupying a
slightly eminence and commanding fine
view of the lake. 1t has $50 rooms and
all the modern comforts and cOnveniences
A duplicate is being erected at Brandon
Manitoba. and when the Canadian North
ern reaches the Pacific it will build q
third at the new terminal, called Pori
Mann, in honor of Sir Donald Mann, the
vice president of the
Guarantee of Profits.
BY guaranteeing interest on the cost OF
construction. the Grand Trunk Railwa,
Company persuaded experienced and
popular hotel men to build large anG
comfortable summer houses in the High
lands of the province of Ontario. which
are already largely patroniZed by Amer
leans. The Royal Muskoka on Muskoka
lake. about 10 miles north of Toronto
was the first and the largest. Its sue
cess was followed by the construction o
the Nawa Hotel on the Lake of Bays
which is one of the most romantic anf
picturesque spots in America, and it i:
so popular among Americans that ii ha:
been enlarged every year since it wa.
opened The region abounds in wild bird:
and Indian legends Wawa is the Indiar
word for little wild goose"
We nave poet in our party who goes
there as often as he can, and is always
SINGING songs ABOUT the woods and the
birds and the flowers and the soft soutf
wind of the Muskoka. A few minutes
ago he pushed these lines across tn.
table
am waiting in my wigwani
For the coming of the spring:
For the forest flowers To blossom In the vale
ana watching from my migwam
Fog the Wild goose the wing.
| When IL gather up my traps and hit tn,
i trail
To tia. highlands Of Ontario.
i In the merry berry mpon
| l. To the hannis Of Hiawatha that nigh