The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-24

Vancouver. August S.-(SpeciaL i've
 had an excellent view of Vancouver fror
 sightseeing trolley car on the Van couver street railways and I commend
 to the management of the Birmingham
 Railway, Light and Power company the
 adoption of a similar plan as I am sure
 it will prove profitable to them and will give Birmingham's many visitors an op-
 portunity of seeing some of the attractive
 portions of that city.
 There is open top trolley with seats
 arranged in tiers so that about 100 pas
 sengers can be carried at one time. The
 fare is 8 cents. The car is in charge
 of guide who points out various points
 of interest and gives information as to
 the several things which are to be seen
 and there are many interesting things to be seen around Vancouver.
 The city rises back from the sound to
 the hills which are quite high and from
 which in Birmingham beautiful views
 may be had
 The Canadian Pacific has very beau tiful hotel in the heart of Vancouver. The
 Vancouver. and it is royal in all it's ap-
 pointments, all in excellent taste, too, apparently the question of cost was not
 considered at all in the erection and
 furnishing of it. It is about 10 stores high and from the roof garden at the top beautiful views of the bays, sound and mountains may be had. The public build
 ings are imposing and the business
 houses impress one with their solidity. There must be 30 or 40 banking institl- ttions here and I noted one with some thing like 40 millions in assets. I had ar Unusual experience in one where I called for my mail and had a $50 draft on New | York cashed. they charged me 15 cents for cashing it and gave me s51S5 for !my $50 draft, the difference on Canadian
 and American currency being four per cent.
 The Hudson Bay company has a mag nificent department store here. occupy ing nearly a block. and there are many attractive stores where one who has the l money may shop to advantage. getting
 real English goods at reasonable prices. | There are many Chinese and Japanese 1 and some Hindus here. but very few ne- groes. Most of the beyy boys and DOT ters at the hotels are Japanese and many | of the walters
 l Stanley park situated on a wooded point which gets into the waters. is very | attractive. There are enormous fir trees. making portions of it a dense forest; | one of the conditions of the donor, MT. Stanley, being that no trees should be cut. There is a fair zoo and a wealth of flowers over which Mrs. Hard threw several fits. The roses were gorgeous and were surprised to find that carna- tions will grow out of doors all winter. There was as fine collection of the latter as either of us had ever seen. | There is boating and bathing and ex- | celent roads for motoring all through ithe park and then as elsewhere in Can Iada we were struck by the absence of tsigns warning people to keep off the Igras. There were picnic parties scattered Iall around over the grass and under the trees and there was every evidenc that | the parks are made for the people. l One of the interesting things was 1 Shakespeare garden in which there is sup posed to be collection of all of the l plants and flowers mentioned by Shake speare We found that few were miss | ing. but the gardener in charge said he
 intended completing the collection. I We found Vancouver a very pleasant nlace. Its business interests are large, being an important part from which ply some of the largest Pacific and coast l wise liners sail. It's sawrnills. shingle mills, grain elevators, salmon canneries and fisheries keep large sums of money l in circulation and its tourist trade IS 1 heavy.e
 l pleasing feature is the ease with which one can get around and the uni- form courtesy with which one every where meets.
 | Prices are moderate and altogether II IS good place in which to sojourn and those who make their homes here ap- narently find it pleasant place in which | to live.
 | The idea of my being in vancouver, A place which always appeared too far off | for me to reach. but having reached it. now have hopes of going to Van Die mans Land or stopping for while at Terra del Fuego.
 Puget Sound, Steamer Princess Ade- Ix,;I r;~xt,t fotv temperature 60, wind southwest. light, so light, in fact. that today we passed through them. the waters of the Straits of Georgia, Haro, Juan del Fuca and Puget sound were as placid as East Lake.
 We left Vancouver at 1o:so this morn ing on the good ship Adelaide of the Canadian Pacific line with couple Of hundred passengers apparently from all over the world for Seattle and the {, trip is delightful We pass by series | of wooded islands, through green waters i, deep enough to float the biggest battle l ship round the southern end of Van ccuver Islands and enter the port under l our own steam and dock without as- | sistance of tug at Victoria, the capital , of the province, in front of the impress sive gray stone buildings of the houses l of Parliament and the beautiful Elm press hotel both surrounded by velvet lawns ana lOVely SdrCenS. we nave dia hour and half at Victoria in which we view the town from sight seeing bus. but of this more anon.
 Going out of Victoria the Japanese liner Fuijnui Maru, with the Japanese | peace commissioners, and a large pas senger list, is met coming in en route from Seattle to Yokohama and other ports in Japan, and we realize that it is almost as near to Honolulu from where we now are, in point of miles, as it is ! to Birmingham the way we have come
 The snow-capped range of Olympic mountains are on our right as we sail up Puget sound and the combination Of snowy mountains and sunny sea is charming.
 Our steamer, one of the Canadian l Pacific liners, is about as long as city block. is three-decker. is swift. com modious, safe and comfortable. It can carry comfortably 1900 passengers. so we have plenty of room nearly dark.
 Leaving Edmonton our way lays first country. gradually ascending through | the broken country to the foot hills and l the mountains. |
 About 25 miles out of Edmonton I had | two reminders of Alabama, one in the | form of coal mine tipple and another in the person of negro woman pas senger who got off at a nearby station i near which, it is said, there is quite | settlement of negroes. |
 About noon we got into the highlands 1 and began to get some real mountain scenery. We ran alongside of the Att