Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-10-29
Another Interesting Letter From
Rev. j. r. Walker.


Gle of our trip from arrival at To-
ronto to arrival at Montreal.
Montreal, $50 p. m, Thursday,
June 12. In Montreal is monu-
ment to Queen Victoria commemor-
ating somessof the great events and
names between her coronation in
1887 and her jubilee 1897, so years.
The tablets are as follows:
l. Development of constitutional
government throughout the empire.
Confederation of Canada 1867. EN-
press of India 1876
2. Peel, Golden, Palmerston,
O'Connell, Gladstone, Bright, Bea-
consfeld, Salisbury, Chamberlain,
Mcdonald, Lourier.
8. Enormous expansion of British
commerce. The first screw steam
ship, 1888; Victoria bridge, 1850;
Suez canal, 1870; Canadian Pacific
railway, 1885.
4. Telegraph, 1887; Penny post,
1910; Cable, 1866; Telephone,
1878; Electric light, 1878; Electric
railways, 1882; First British iron
clad, 1860.
5. Thackery. Dickens, Carlyle,
Macaulay, Tennyson, Browning,
Herschael. Faraday, Darwin, Hux-
ley, Dawson, Livingston, Shaftes-
bury.
6. Chloroform in survey, ls47;
antiseptics, 1878; roentgen rays,
1895; first international exposition,
1851; diamond jubilee, 1897.
I. The British empire gratefully
rejoices in the longest most benef-
cent and most glorious reign in her
history.
St. James cathedral is a model
of St. Peters Rome. St. James is
one third the size of st. Peters. 1t
is built in the form of a great cross.
The great dome is near rear end at
center of arms of the cross. The
building is of stone.
Montreal has "Stonewall Jack
son cigar factory" A Stonewall
Jackson school would be more ap-
propriate.
We went up on hit. Royal and
got fine view of the city. Mon
treal is unusual from Mt. Royal.
Late Friday afternoon we visit
ed the Notre Dame cathedral. 1t is
a great rectangular building. There
is middle aisle and there are three
aisles on each side. three rows Of
seats and six great columns, and
two galleries, and pipe organ at
front of building.
In this magnificent cathedral I
saw a plain man, dusty shoes, old
overalls, soiled, praying snd
counting beads. | wish that peo-
pie like that would come to our
fine churches.
Friday mornine we paid our first
visit to one of Thos. Cook aud
Sons offices. After looking into the
terms offered by different touring
companies, the Sunday school trans
portation committee decided to turn
over this business to Thos. Cook
and Son of London, New York and
many other cities of the world. This
company offered several tours all in
cluding the Worlds Sunday School
Convention, Zurich, Switzerland,
July SIS. Tour l had about 400
people. Tour 5, about 24O. Our
tour was No. 2 with about 80. We
are to sail from Montreal at daylight
Saturday June IA. The tour is to
be fiity-two days. Here is a brief
outline of what is promised us.
June IA, Saturday: Leave Mon
treal by Donaldson line on Cassan-
dra.
June 90, Monday: Arrive in
Glasgow; rail to Edinburgh; car
riage drive.
June "a, Tuesday: Excursion to
Melrose and Abbottsford.
June %, Wednesday: York.
June 26, Thursday: To Scrooby
and London.
June 97-3o, Friday Monday: Lon
don.
June 80, Monday: Leave London
for the Hague.
July l, Tuesday: The Hague; rail
to Amsterdam.
July 2, Wednesday: Amsterdam;
excursion to Isle of Marker.
July 8, Thursday: cologne, Ger
many.
July 4, Friday: Rhine steamer to
Biebricb; rail to Wiesbaden.
July 5, Saturday: Wiesbaden, to