Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-07-19

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mar of this city, sends the following
interesting letter from his summer
camp near Portland, Ontario, Can
ada:
Portland, Ontario, July Is.
SPORTING EDITOR JEWS:
l am under the canvas again, the
surroundings being quite different
from Smith street. 1t Is cool and
pleasant here in marked contrast to
the torrid heat in Amboy. A word
about the Permo Club, whatever
may be said of it, good or bad, 1t Is
a certainty that the boxing held
there has made Perth Amboy known
to people who otherwise would not
| know of its existence.
On my way here | had to remain
over night in Brockville, and at the
hotel where l stayed met a winner
who had been working a claim out
In the porcupine region $50 miles
| north from Toronto. He was on his
way to England, his home. He had
read the Police Gazette out there
and had seen cuts of the Waiter,
Young Bedell and others in the
paper, and had read descriptions OF
the bouts as well. And whatever
might be thought OF the Gazette as
a medium for advertising CONNER
cial projects there can be no doubt
it reaches more nooky and out OF
the way places off the beaten track
| all over the world than any litera-
ture the Boards of Trade might send
out from any single city that could
be named.
Smiths Falls, distant from here
twenty miles, with about 5000 peo-
pie, in an unusually progressive
town, and is more up-to-date than
most places of similar size. Every
one can find work there who desires
the strenuous life. A shore time
e the big tent shows (Ringling
Bros.) showed there and attracted
$4,000 people to the afternoon per-
Torrance. This simply goes to show
money is not scarce. or course an
| outsider can see they lack many
things that are common enough
with US, notably good roads. But
the people there have a deep down
innate feeling that theirs is the
chosen community above all others,
and this Is not a bad feeling, as
thinking this way and working to-
| gether is bound to lead somewhere.
But some of the people in their zeal
to boost things Canadian get a tr1fe
astray. | have been told here that
| the T. Eaton stores in Toronto n
| Winnipeg employed 5000 people n
did as great a volume of business as
the Wanamaker stores In Philadel-
phia and New York.
E-Xould be a waste of time on
my part to try and convince this
party l talked to Q waa wr2ng.
anyway life is too short % w0ffy
ones self needlessly. But l could
not resist saying Philadelphia and
New York combined almost equal
In population hat of Canada. This
being so I can't see how the Eatons,
| whose stores are in cities the COM
| bined population of which Is about
a half million, can do the great
trade spoken of above.
l don't know that these waters
have any curative powers or that
invalids, other than those seeking
rest and quiet, would be much bene-
fitted by coming here. 1t Is not a
high enough altitude, or so / think,
(about 400 feet above sea level) for
sufferers from acute diseases such
as rheumatism. But the lakes are
very beautiful, the air is like q
breath from Heaven, the waters are
clear and chemically pure; it Is rest
full, and fish of good varieties can be
caught, salmon, black bass and pike.
There was a page in the New York
Sunday Sun of July 1 with illustra-
tons describing a fishing paradise,
| distant from here 40 miles north
(Temagami). Some New York mar
wrote the article. The waters he
refers to are around Lake Ntplss1ng
I'D in the Cobalt mining region
where there Is an Indian reserya-
ton (Algonquin) and which the
Indians of that tribe owing to the
| beauty of the surroundings believe
is the happy hunting ground that
after death the Indian returns to.
There are many people from the
states spending their vacations
around here. They are people who
return from year to year. There 1s
some subtle charm about the peace
and restfulness of the place that Is
indescribable but that lures them
back. | have already taken up too
much space so will close.
Your respectfully,
JOHN DUNBAR.