^^ y m ^ /}, >> 0^ ^ ^>' IMAGE EVALUATrON TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 «i^ IIIIIM 156 13.2 I.I 1^ 1^ 1^ 1^ M 2.0 1.25 U III 1.6 6' riiuiugrapiuL. Sciences Corporation V A i< ^ fA V iV ^p :\ \ - c- te atppoiiitijieiitw tor.. ^^ Di^Pei* aiMi Shipper Parties, 4. .-2? i.jalls, (;Uibs, Kte. WINECIvLLARS >' CANADA FIRST-CLASS SKRVICI- AT ALL irOT'RS. «:li'' ''-.U Special attention given to Electric Car Parties. I s I li I ■ I ^i Suburban... I [.u TT i !(. M MONTREAL AS SEEN FROM THE ROUTES OK THE Park & Island Railway Co. A DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE OUTRKMONT AND SAULT-AU-RECOLI.ET LINES OF THE ROAD. __- j^:«. Published by the Park .s: Island Railway Co. •»> DESHARATS .V CO., PRINTERS. u I appej fertil Suburban Montreal. < •J % W o 6 < ex Q < M < %W many Montrealers know Montreal ? Probably ' they all think they do. but do they ? The city proper, the closely built business quarter, where men swelter out the summer days in the con- finement of their great palaces of commerce, they are familiar with, and so are they more or less with the more populous residential quar- ters where seclusiveness and man's inherent love of a neacefnl restful home have succeeded so far m resistmg the invasion of trade. But it is only Little Montreal that is comprised within the thirteen wards of the city corpora- tion Montreal really extends far beyond its mun.crpal lim.ts i The men who do the busi.iess of the city, who have brought - to Montreal th" trade of half a continent, are looking beyond the limits of the city for homes. Although man is pre- eminently a sociable animal, he prefers an isolated home if he can acquire it. He is neighborly, but he prefers a home surrounded by flower gardens rather than one hemmed ,n by the houses of his neighbors, as in the confined city. So, when a man has acquired the means to provide himself with an deal home and is not prepared to pay hundreds of Aousamls of dollars for a site to build it on, he has to go beyond the cty limits for a location. So it comes that the country contiguous to the busy city, is the home of thousands of Montrealers. It appears to be only a question of time before 'h^ whole of this fertile island can fairly be described as Greater Montreal. What fairer country on earth either, than this great district so rapidly being dotted with the homes of Montreal people ! Scenes of rural beauty there are to enchant the artist and inspire the poet, while historical associations cling to picturesque spots and quaint structures to inspire the patriotism of the Canadian and excite the interest and the admiration of the stranger. If the people of Montreal have been compara- tively ignorant of the natural beauties of the lovely country contiguous to their fair city, they have no excuse for conti- nuing in ignorance any longer. Like ma y other goods we enjoy in this latter part of the nineteenth century, we owe this boon to that subtle power, that very latest and most up to date necromancer, electricity. Heretofore rural Montreal has been comparatively a sealed book to Montrealers because the highway was the only means available to reach its solitudes. Every citizen of Montreal does not own a horse or the time to indulge in long drives and none of us enjoy the blinding dust of a country highway It would have been almost sacrilege to desecrate this rural paradise with the screaching, the dust and the cinders of the steam railway. Where the steam railway, with its objectionable locomotives, would have meant complete ruination to the natural beauties of the adjacent country, the electric railway has been introduced, giving perfect communi- cation between the very heart of the city and some of the most remote and most lovely parts of the surrounding country. The country has rtually been brought to the city, and the magician who has accomplished it all is the Montreal Park and Island Railway. So far, this enterprise is in comparatively an incomplete stage of developement. Before long its system will include a net- work of tracks grid-ironing the whole island. At present I k great ontreal ; artist ing to riotism tioii of mpara- :ountry conti- goods we owe it up to eal has use the litudes. time to ig dust ilege to ust and ailway, oiiiplete try, the mmuni- he most country, and the al Park omplete idude a present H i ' it is operating two main routes, one running up St. Lawrence Street, thence to the Back Rive-, the other running up Bleury Street' and Park Avenue, passing through Montreal Annex and Outreniont to C6te-des-Neiges, whence it is at the present moment being convinued round the Western spur of the moun- tain to connect with the Street Railway Company's system, providing a complete circuit of the "two mountains," for the Park and Island Railway Company has the privilege of run- ning its cars over the Street Railway tracks within the city. A trip over either of the Company's present routes is a great treat, enabling a tourist, with the minimum of discom- fort to enjoy a magnificent succession of pretty landscapes; and pretty landscapes, liko pretty faces, have ever been a pleasure to the eye since the world began. The Cote-des-Neiges line, a.s it is called, emerges from the city abruptly at Fletcher's Field, an historical spot. Your car, as it rapidly rolls up the slope of the lower spur of Mount Royal, IVt i BOYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, MONTREAL. wrence Bleury Annex present moun- lystem, for the of run- city, tes is a discom- I scapes; been a rem the r car, as t Royal, Garth & Co. 536 to 542 Craig St., Montreal, Hot Water »♦' Ste am Engineers, Contractors i or HEATING. PL'JMBI . i * VENTILATION. Kstitnatesnn. ms Funiished. Manufacturrrs and F-.trnishfrs ok URRRS AND r''RINir»nr..r. v.. . . . ,^^ FIRE DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES, HIGBBF. PATENT HOSR COUPLING. Thtead cannot be crossed. 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