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The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE
COLLECTION o/CANADIANA
^een's University at Kingston
A8ih^^AAM^/x^^AJU/ lU-
W. Hardy Dayton,
leal Estate & Insurance
:?J Agency, :j:
%2 ESSEX ST.. . - SALEM. MASS,
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
SPORTSMEN'S PARADISE.
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BEAUTIFUL NOVA SCOTIA:
^be 1lt)cal Summer %mt>,
THE BRIEF STOKV OK A SIMMER RAMHLE ALONC; THE SOUTH SHORE
OF NOVA SCOTIA, A LAND WITH EVERY SUMMER CHARM — PEERLESS
IN CLIMATE, IN SCENERY TRANSCENDENT; WONDROUS IN HISTORY,
FAMOUS IN SONG — A LAND OK REST AND RECREATU)N — NATURE'S
PERFECT VACATION LAND — ACADIA.
Published by
The Yarmouth Steamship Co., Pier t, Lewis Wharf, Boston, Mass.
1897.
J. F. SPINNEY, Agent. Pier i, Lewis Wharf
BOSTON, MASS.
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Copyiighl, i'^97, by J. P. SimnnkV.
JUST A LITTLE INTRODUCTION, ON THE QUICKEST AND EASIEST
WAY TO GO "ABROAD."
Where? •
K Where?
it thu/thfT "^ffn'l- '"'v;"'"^ ";;"'"'' '^"''''""- '^ ^''^ '^"^' '"°'-^' '^^'"' continuous thought concent.ate.l on
« :; ;o':;f Itr:?-.''"'^^^ "^'^"^"' ^'"-^'^^ ^^^^'^'- -' '"■ ^'^"- •— b..nche/to,ether.-..Wher:
I had been strujjK^iinj,^ witli it for weeks myself, and it was wearinLr me out " P„r....„ -> . i
I had alinost „,v™ the thing „|, as ho,,ele,s „l,e„ I chaiiml on an old aciualntance "Wh™,. ■• T
" • ":",L;:;' trr" "'^' ■""" ""- "-^ ™^- ^"^"' "---'"«"-«".. -.rc.,„nL.r;n:'r-,c...!.!::Lr!
"Where?" I asked.
"Abroad."
"Indeed," I e.xclaimed.
"Just where ajjroad was it?" I interrupted.
" Nova Scotia."
I fear I smiled.
/J
Milt I kept tliinkinjr it ovlt. " Wdl, now," tlioiiRlit F, "why not Nova Scotia? It's only two or three
hiin(h-c(l miles from Moston, hut it's a foreij^n land nevirtlieless. You j;ct your occ-an voya^jo ; you see new
scenes; you—" I conchulcd I too would );:i "abroad,"' — and I went.
I eniharkcd next day for N'armouth,— a jr|orious sail, and a delij,ditful town. I went to Shelburne, which has
the finest harbor, and the most extraordinary history of any town in America. I went to Oak Island, where Cajit.
Kidd buried all that ^Ad of his, and I saw people dij4Ri"K' ii^ay for it like beavers. I roamed around hilly old
Halifa.x. I picnicked at (Irantl Pre, whiie ICvanj^eline and (labriel and all the rest of them used to live. I took a
dip in the Hay of h'undy, where they have those terrific tides; the biKKi--st in the world — fifty and sixty feet. I
burrowed around the old fort in Annapolis, oldest town barring .St. Augustine on the continent; I — but come sit
down and let me tell you about it.
ly two or three
you see new
iiriie, wliicli liiis
(1, where Cajit.
niiind liilly old
ve. I took a
sixty feet. I
— but come sit
\-.
THE OCEAN SAIL.
I.f, ashore •» Koinjf ashore! All ashore 's ^oinK ashore!" and there's a ^icvt clatterinK down the ^rang
plank. A moment later the second oflicer looks at his watci' and calls out " F.et go
the plank !" And between deck hands and dock hands they are making cjuick work
of it. when up runs a breathless woman: "Where's Willie, did Willie go ashore?"
Willie is soon located uj) in the bow. sitting serenely cm a coil of roi)c, and telling
a Western boy how nuich l)igger Boston is than ('hicago. His relieved mother sinks
into a chair to ri'gain ' , breath, the plank is thrown off, and the big steamship
"Hoston" swings out into the harbor.
, It's .always an exceedingly interesting moment, to a landsman, when :m ocean
steamer cuts loose from its mooring. 'I'liere's a sense of separation from all that is
old and tr.ed and familiar. There are new experien.-es, new sensations and new associa-
. tions ahead of you,— a new life, even though your voyage is but a few hours' duration. Then
here s t.>. spectacle - always more or less moving -of three or fom- lum.lre.l people saying a sinn.ltaneous gor.d-bye
to three or lour hundred other people - the crowd on the .lock waving handkerchiefs, an.l shouting, and tendering
uuunuerable partmg u,,mcfons : ' • Take care of yourself ! " " U. sure and write ! " " Wish I vv;.s going too ' '
.Now, Janue, you won t get sick, will you, Jamie?" and other e.iuallv v.iluable counsels
Hut the "Boston" does not wait for prolonged goo<l-byes ; sh. is soon treading her wav jauntily down the
harbor. you are a fervul Bostoman, you will doubtless take your place in the stern and watch the last lingering
Z:™'h ;, r t • ,^'"' "^■"' "" ""^' ^'"' '-'"■ '"^^''y- moved by the general hu.nan impulse to look
ahead rather than back -to take your camp-chair to the bow.
Vou will get many a pleasant salute from excursion boats on their wav to Hull and N.antasket. and you'll
encounter, too, a good many pnvate pleasure yachts, dipping and rising so jatmtily and skin.ming along so saucii;
as tf hey felt that they were Ixnlt of just a little better timber than anything else artoat. You will notice tha th^
only boats that pass you are those going the other way. Nothing going in your direction is likely to go by y
for the "Boston" and her running mate, the "Yarmouth," are very fast sailers, and
are not accustomed to watching anybody's iieels.
Hut liere you are, past the old forts, down past Hull, and a few minutes later you
are rounding the lighthouse and heading for the ojien sea. To the south of you lie
Hul! and Nantasket, to the west Wiiuhrop and Revere, and soon you pass
^^ Nahant, and then land becomes but a distant outline.
It will be a timely proceeding, just about now, for you to repair wMth
all the speed at your command to the dinner table, for the bell rang some
time ago. You will descend intending to return forthwith, so as not to lose
the glorious sail — an intention, however, which >ou will fail utterly to fulfil, for
you w;ll find this ocean dinner one of the most delightful repasts at which you
ever sat. There is one thing which they have in Nova Scotia (and you get a
foretaste of it on the Ijoat), which is better than anywhere else in tlie world, and
that is fisii. He it Irout, salmon, halibut, or haddock, it's always fresh from the
uater and exquisitely cooked, — cooked with that perfection of art that comes from
generations of experience.
That first afternoon upon the water you will find wonderfully recuperalive, —
the \ery essence of rotfulness. No dust, no cinders, no ratde and roar, no being-
crowded into a seat with a 300-pounu stranger who puts his bundles on your feet,
while the baby in tiie seat in front waves her arms at you and persists in making
remarks about your personal appearance. Instead you have tiie pure breath of heaven,
room unlimited, freedom unrestrained; you can lie back in your comfortable hair and
listen to the plashing of the waves; you can close your eyes and feel your soul expand
within you and j-our heart grow young. livery vacation should begin and end with a sea voyage — then there's
not a moment of it lost. Seasick? Not at all. There's not ihe slightest ncces.-ity of it in the 18-hours' sail
between Hoston and Yarmouth Of course in bad weather the water is rough, but yf)u c;':i always tell b£;bre you
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St sailers, and
iiites later you
Jth of you lie
50on you pass
to repair with
lell rang some
as not to lose
y to fulfil, for
at which you
lid you get a
le world, and
resh from the
it comes from
icuperalive, —
oar, no being
on your feet,
sts in making
th of heaven,
Ae hair and
r soul expand
-then there 's
i8-hours' sail
11 btibre vou
embark just about what sort of weather you are going to have, and on an ordinary summer day you get scarcelv
more motion m this ocean trip than you do in the ferry to Chelsea. ^
If you've been very much of a landsman it willmterest you greatly to look about over the boat. Both the
Boston and the ''Yarmouth" are large steel-clad Clyde-built steamers, with a length of nearly .50 fe t nd .
wKth of about thirty-five. They 're trim, staunch boats, both of them, with a speed of x8 knots an ho.^ , d they
sail undaunted at any weather. ^^hey have put out from their docks in many a storm "^
when every other ship stuck as clos.,- to the pier as hawser could keep it. The^' 're
handsome boats, too, being very -ichly appointed in cabins, saloons, and slate-
rooms. If you get as far down as their engine rooms you '11 not wonder, when
you see the huge machinery, that they should plough the water so fast.
You will marvel when supper time comes around, — remembering
your du.ner,-that you find year appetite again so vigorous, but it is the
sea au-.
It is the sea air, too, which, after a delightful evening under the
summer stars — or the moon, if you have timed your excursion right -
will put you so instantly to sleep the minute you 're in your berth Don't
over-sleep, because it 's worth cutting your nap a little short to get out
on deck the next morning before you haxc passed the big red and white
ighthouse which commands the entrance to Yarmouth harbor. That
hghthouse IS on Cape 1-ourchu, and a half hour later you will be lying
snug and tight against the Yarmouth dock.
Here you are, only one night out from home, and vet in a foreign
lam . This fact will soon be brought home to you by 'the appearance
of the customs officer, who will want to know what you have got in
that bag of yours. \'ou will find him a very gentle person, however
;
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HOSPITABLE YARMOUTH.
>ARMOUTH is not as large as New York, nor as gay as Paris, nor has she as fnie a public
library as Boston, but in one respect she outshines them all, — in genial cordiality Yar-
mouth's latchstrnig is always out, and the stranger within her gates is always welcome She
makes you feel it, too. She takes you by the hand in such a hearty way and says ■ "Glad
to see you. Glad you came. Want you to stay as long as you can, and have just the best
time you ever had; and when you go away, come back again and bring you friends " You
are made to feel wonderfully at home at ^'armouth.
,„„,,. , . . . ^'''^ ^^'^ '" ^"'^*^ ='^ '' should be. The New Englander ought to feel at home at Yar-
mouth or \ arn.outh .s nothn,g but a bit of New England that went a little adrift. New iM.glanders founded Yarmouth
and all these people that you n.eet on Yarmouth streets, albeit they have been there all Llr lives, and their fathe ^
and grandfathers before them, are all New Englanders-just a few removes
It came about in this way. When Governor Lawrence issued his proclamation from Halifax in 1758, hustling
the poo. Acadians out of the country (to be sure Professor Longfellow has expressed this rather better;, he forth wit
issued another proclamation un.t.ng settlers to come from the colonies further south to people this region, and th re
years later, m r76x, a couple o Ma.ssachusetts men,-Cape Codders, - Sealed Landers and Elishama Eld idge s iec
ov to Nova .cotia, prospected along the southwestern coast, and finally entered a sheltering harbor and eU^d
Others followed them a year or two later, coming from the same section, and bringing the n'n.e of " Yarmo^ 1 "
with hem from the httle town on Cape Cod, -a goodly company of God-fearing men -1 Ebenezer Ellis Mose Per v
o^than Crosby, Jc.hua Burgess, and Consider Euller. A few years later can' one Waitstill Te^ ' t^ ^ X
helh""' ". TT' ,?°?"'" ''"""■• "^^ '^''''^^*'" '^'''''- ^° --der Yarmouth sprung into a fin Z
hea thy existence. Nearly all those early settlers were men of a biblical nomenclature. They wtre all Pele^ and
Seths. Judas and Joshuas. What could you expect from a community like that but thrift and uprigh^Ls honesty
and smgleness of purpose ! And there are the descendants to this day, though under a British 'fla^ the verTTaU
of New Englandism, uncontaminated and undefiled. Yarmouth ought to be a good place; and it is.
■ , ,„„-atlr.ctive by nature, and donbly attractive by reason of the prosperity and
And It is an attractive place, too - attractive Dy . , ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^„^,, ,^e„
good taste of its residents, -prosperity that pernttts * " 'y''"™;'',™;™ ,„ ,,^, „,ey had one poor little
how. The people of Yarmonth ''»- >>-" '",T1 f e'^o J i « th o r aiiiable mother across the sea, Yarmouth
seventeen-ton schooner. In 18.2, when we had ""J'™'''' ' '' ' „^^,^|, „„, ^„d have a brush with an American
shipping had increased to such a ^^^l^^^tXi^ t o^ Tdtlge, -- but not usually; for when the
ship every few weeks or so. Sometimes the bru h »'^ Yarmottthians had taken ten of ours,
war closed the Americans had taken »;" "^ J '^'j;;"™,,^ ;„ discharged this debt, and m.ade most ample
-iSfbTti: XI.'" r.""->' '""---- -= •-■■ --■ ''-'- ^'""-' "^' '° ''"' ""
'- «'^iX:Mt;;t:t now as ^^^:^^ :zt;:; '::r^ ^^^f^:^ ^^^^^^^
part in commerce that they chd a quaiter ^^ .^'^^^J ^^^ ^^^^.^ ^^em. capacious conservatories, and, most attractive
on every side, - in stately residences w.th ample ^^^^out J^he^^ .^^ _ p^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ,^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^
of hawthorn and some of spruce. Some are cut short, and
some grow to a height of fifteen or twenty feet. Some are
trimmed in a natural simplicity, and some are cut and
scalloped in most fantastic shapes ; but they are always
Ijcautiful and Yarmouth is full of them.
The climate of Yarmouth is another thmg that com-
mends itself most agreeably to a stranger. It is always
cool The thermometer rarely mounts above seventy on an
^n^u< dav. and it seems incredible as you sit on the
braid piazza of the (^.rand Hotel looking out across the
harbor and away off over the Atlantic beyond, that >ou
,,e only a matter of two hundred and twenty- miles from
sweltering Boston.
RESIDENCE OF HON. L. E. BAKER, YARMOUTH.
osperity and
shows them
e poor little
a, Yarmouth
an American
or when the
ten of ours,
most ample
[heir firesides
the important
e to be seen
nost attractive
ows are some
:ut short, and
;t. Some are
are cut and
;y are always
ling that com-
It is always
seventy on an
ou sit on the
out across the
rond, that you
nty* miles from
You will find if you tour around through the
F'rovince that of all the Nova Scotian towns Yar-
mouth is the most conspicuously up to date. As
you sit on your hotel piazza the electric cars go
gliding by the door, not frequendy enough to dis-
turb the serenity of the scene, but often enough to
serve you as a great convenience in carrying you
along the main street of the city, south towards
Church Hill, or north towards the ancient town of
Milton, a pretty suburb of Yarmouth, which has the
distinction of having opened the first public library —
back in 1822 — in all the Province.
Speaking of the Grand Hotel and its generous piazzas,
It would be doing Yarmouth a distinct wrong not to dwell a
moment on this subject, for we Americans have an idea that ^^e are
the only people on this side of the water that have perfectly appointed hotels
It IS quite true that in days gone by Nova Scotia was a little weak on this
' ' Crand" ' ''it'ht'h "' '"'"', ^T '''' " ^°" "'" ">^ ""^"^ >-°" ''' '"^^ ™- o. pobe.t cai. esq v.rmouth
tourists "" "'" ' '"° " '"'' ^'""' '"^ '' ""'' ^^^"=^^y '"'-^^^ ^ "-- <"- itself among American
fr.. , ^' '' TT"-' T""""'^ *''' '"°'' '""'■"'''^^ •'°^'^' '" ^'^^ ''••«^i»c^- It is a handsome structure of brick -uid
estone erected on the most commanding site in the city. From its large ofi^ce, from all its fro'troom ad from
any spot upon .ts generous p.azzas you get a most extended view. Sitting on the front pia... vo look dZ
Ahnti; r?" K °" /''' °'''''" ^•^'' •'^"^ ""''' '^'^' ^"^ f^^ ---y the Hay of Fundy and the open
Atlantic. It IS a superb view. In fact it is a superb hotel all through, superb in its bu'ldmg, in L appILents"
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in its service.
Tin
•'lIKl ., .., .
-:;-::-.^:;.=£55*" -' = *- irs: :■ £
. "K-re are some deli.rlnlul ,i,,\.,> ^ ''''"• "^'' toin,,any of i:vanodi„es
. ^"" uiJl notice as you sit o^i th ' "' '"' "^"'' '^ ''-Y View Pa,-k ' " ''"' ''^'^'^'"^ -""^■'' time i„ Var-
A le,v „,i„„„,. ,,,„ i;,,, "'X .' '"-^ "'°"S "K ..hole AH.ntic co„, *= " ''""""...0"« coJIaboni-
S*;a5f - "SHS=- - -£s - - - ~.
'-- been ,„ost att^L^^:," l" i'"'^'"'"' '" ^'^ ^'"-k. -Inch
'"'»>-e J)ermanent -uest. "■'"'"ent excursionist or for
I'" you are there sini|,l\- for th,. ,1
-taunuu amply provided . ^ i '\ J^'' ^"°" ""' ''-' ^'
you have time for a longer vi i. ^ ^""'' "■'"'•'^- ""
summer cottages read ' ^"^ "'" ^"'' ^o.v little
able terms. 'l ' , V'""' """'"^'■"" "" -ost-a,.- ^
^'--'-'".'^":th;;;^:r:;:';r^^^
.s u.L.', ,n,)ng tile harbor ijeacii ;
bor.
^"" Will (iiui this the mcst
^o "iiniactilatcly
lasses, ulio trip
o' l'-\ai)^eliiies,
oiKlcifulJy beau-
^'li time ill Var-
■tlicr side by ;,
until it termi-
li«litlioiise and
'Oils coUabora-
es you across
t'li'^ the most
"^"SS
or if you prefer the surf, it is but a few minutes' walk
over to the Fundy shore where tiie waves come
rolling in without check or hindrance. As for
fishing, you have but to drop your line from
the end of the long pier, and your basket
will fill a])ace. And such air ! If it blows
from the east or the south you get the
pure breath of the Atlantic. If it blows
from the west or north you get the sa-
lubrious salt of old Fundy.
And best of all — the view !
You will have no idea when you
land at the pier and mount up the
short ascent how magnificent a stretch of vis-
ion you will soon enjoy. It is not a great eminence
the water, but in all directions your vision is free and hr re.Zf '' X Tr '^'" '"° ^T"^'"^ ""' '^^^ ^''' ''^'''''
Atlantic ; over to the southeast looking to the left of the li.X^I ^ St.-etchmg away to the south is the boundless
fifteen n,iles away. To the west of >^u rol s he rest ^s Mv rVih" "' ,'"."'" ^"'-^'' ^"' '''' """^'^^ ^^'^"^«
stretching away towards St. Mary's Hay • while acLs the h.rh " 1 r f ^"" " '^' ^°''' =^"^' '""^^'^ ^^ore,
wharves, handson^e homes, and stately sps Some dl t, ", 'T' ''"^' "'^ "^ ^''"'''''''^' ^^''^^ its bustling
notable hotel in Bay View Park, wort^ to rank ^h th^'.^rl d ' h T T """ ^"'"^ -on,-there will be a
lieated Bostonian.s and hotter-still New Yorkers The ! . ' """'^ '""'"'''' "'" '^"^^ '' ^"" "'^ ^^P^'""
alone is quite enough to fill the largelt hcidLy Im bXtLr""" "'"'"""" " "'^^ '"'''" ''''' '' ^^ ^ T'^
spot, ^':^r:; i^i::/z:!:i:ij:i^^ ^'^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^>^^-- i- -^4. spied this sightly
S still bears, Cape Fouichu, which, bemg anglicized, means the forked cape.
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YARMOUTH, LOOKING DOWN THE HARBOR
.,*S^
minutes' walk
; waves come
ranee. As for
^'our line from
:1 your basket
r ! If it blows
I you get the
:. If it blows
)ii get the sa-
"undy.
II — the view !
lea when you
mount up the
itretch of vis-
eat eminence,
ifty feet above
:he boundless
usket Islands
agged shore,
li its bustling
ere will be a
full of super-
65°. That
If you stay in Yarmouth a week, or even a month, you will find your-
self taking a spin over to Bay View Park every day, for the \'iew
jfrom its summit nc. er palls.
But we must not linger too long even in pleasant
[Yarmouth, for the South Shore beckons us. It be-
looves us, therefore, to be up betimes in the morning,
par the "City of St. John,"— or the "City," as every-
body calls her in this part of the world, —is an early
|boat, and pulls out from her dock at half-i)ast seven
|in the morning ; and half-past seven means half-past si.\
by your American watch, if you have not already discov-
ered the fact that Yarmouth time is full sixty minutes ahead
of Boston time, and regulated your chronometer in accordance. -^i#
If a man has any poetry in his soul, or an appreciation
of the work of Nature, where Nature has been able to do her best
unhampered and unhindered ; or if his tastes are a trifle more san-
guinary, and his chief joy is to reel in the line after his basket is
full to the top with beautiful trout; or if he likes to try his aim on that shiest of game, the moose ; or if
ordu.ary person, simply in quest of the utmost possible vacation to be scjueezed into a limited time, le
•for of any or of all of these desires he will find the complete, perfect, overrunning fulfillment in the Soi
BAY VIEW PARK .
he is a plain,
t him rejo'ce,
;th Siiurc.
this sightly
d cape.
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AMERICA'S FIRST DISCOVERER.
HI-: "City of St. John" makes less ado in picking her way down Yarmouth Harbor
ta the larger ''Boston." She is soon rounding the "Bug Light," passing John's
Cove and Cape Pourchu on the right, and in a few minutes is at the mouth of the
harbor, makmg for the more open sea. ^'ou soon notice a little village clustered on
the high bank at your left. That is Chebogue, a place old enough to be larger
than It IS, but no less mteresting on that account. It was settled in 17,0 by French
ron. Annapolis. Probably sonie .neighbor on the boat, of whom you ^inqt.ire about
he ittle village, will tell yon the interesting romance that took place there one
hundred and twenty years ago. They were building a church (they are always build-
ing churches in Nova Scotia) when part of the English squadron cast anchor off
Chebogue, and the captain of a man-of-war went ashore and watched them as they
„„ , f ,1 .M ''"' "'' ^''^ '■"''' •'^^'"ctuary ; but more did he watch the beautiful, red cheeked dautrhter of
became the captain of a man-of-war, and was knighted by the K'ng atteruauls
\'ou ought to take another look at Chebogue for George Bancroft's sake, the great historian who cune sc.
nea. being a Chebognean. His father, Aaron Bancroft, moved from New England to this little N "' S oth. ettle
ment m T780, but he returned to his native country before his illustrious son was born
Now you are cro.ssing the bay at the mouth of the Tusket River, which is as full of isl-.nrk ... h u ^,
Ihcre are 360 of them all told, -almost enough to fill out the vear. Yo w 1 h,^ d shor f o h; i 7\ \
;:iiT:thTv"' '7r 't ^""^^"^^^' -' ^•°" ^^"' '-■"'- "^'- ;n"t^rridii:::rr ^, '^'^'t^"s
tell juu that the.se are lobster shanties, used by the fishermen of these parts during the lobster season. TlSe are
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Vannoutli Harbor
," passing John's
the mouth of the
illage chistered on
ugh to he larger
1739 by French
k'ou inquire about
place there one
are always build -
I cast anchor oti"
lied them as they
eeked daughter of
s colors, and the
• sailed away the
e a fiuiious Lon-
liat he afterwards
m, who came sci
a Scotian setde-
as it can hold,
le islands fringed
'?" They wil!
on. These are
the most famous lobstering waters in the world, The
season is from January ist to July ist, although the best
hshnig IS from the middle of April to the first of June
It IS during those few weeks, a Nery lucrative occupation.
I he lobster men set their traps all the way from shore
to three miles out in fifteen fathoms of water. (Jne mm
can tend fifty traps or so ; and it he has good luck he
will catch hve or six hundred lobsters a day.
But by this time you have passed Whitehead Light
to r Q K, T ,"" ^^^ f" f." '■''"■^ ""^'^^ ^''y' ^'"^ '''"^ *'■■''«'"*? "^'"-er
to Cape Sable Island, which is the most southerly ,K>int of Nova Scotii
Tnk. ^"/f "f that contains several square miles and three or four thrifty little villaires'
is the oldest traclof l^fttrlo a'^ •'^"'' u' ^""''1 '^°"" ''' -"'"^"^^""^ ^'' -■''-' o«"l-io t
before Columbus had ever cV:LI;:d' J dil;: •ngTr::h:ng "^ '^ '"'''' ''^' ''^^"" ''^"^'^^ ^"" ^^ ''"--' y^^^
northwrd\uo''Iltli:':;i'"f;,;,'^^;,^^^^^^ rr '^ '''' "°^''' "^'"'^ '■^'•-'-'- --' -- turns
piles on either side Tl"sl r1 ', . h k^ ','^f'^'"^ "'' '•'" "''"""*^' ''^''''^' '^^'^ ^^^^' '"^rked out by a row of
I the ancient tc!^ JZ^i^^'Z^^'C^^ little town ahead of you stretched along by the .^Uer'l I,;^
into the deep water of the cha ^l'. md t e Id " C t^' l"^ si 1 7 ""r '°"''^ '''' ^'''' ""' '"'■°'" ^'^ ^-"
you would think, to last Harrington month Af.^?^ 7 T ' "" ^'°''' °'' '^"' ""^'^''^'"^' '^"-'g'' ''■"^isht,
for everybody has been on borrd 7 / a Te" >ortf l^te'f ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^"'^l'^ ^^^"^'^'^ '' "°^ ^^^ ^^" "-'«'■
^;un, this time taking the eastward passa;e to n C ^ ble iZ, "'T ''''' 'T'' '"^" ''' '''^^^''
River and Cape Negro and aonin mi-r . u ' ? , ^""" >'°" P^"" 'he month of the Clyde
left is Shelburne HglUh.. a d e bett^u Z "? 'T ^" """■• ''''' '^^'^''^"^^ ^^'"^'^ >'- '^^ °" >--
bo, -the finest hfrbor on the Atlandc colst. ""^ "'' "'" '^" '""' ^^'"'^^ "^ >'"" '^ ^''^"^-^ "-
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'W^
AT
SHELBURNPS WONDERFUL HISTORY.
11 sij^lit tlmt must have Ik^cmi, tliat l)nj.lit May mom
Ijfaiitifiil liarhor, on wliicl
men-of-war, H(]iiaR'-riy^},'e(l slii
1 you ait' now enter
'"«:. 1783. when up ihi^
same
ing, sailed a fleet of twenty En^Wish sliips,—
nd si
stiioone
new-horn Republu:. The war was over. George of England h:::i r^^i^M^ZZ
and (.eorge of \ .rgmia was supreme from Maine to (ieorgia. \ow. in a good mam'
of the larger c,t,es there were people who did not take kindly to the new eonditioi,
of tlnngs; they did not yearn for a republic; they did not want any part or parcel
.n Ins new expermiental govennnent. They wanted to get back under the English flag
and they formed soc.et.es for that purpose. Now, Captain White, the secretary of th.'
iN.'w \ork socety, had see.i Shelburne Harbor, and when his fellow lovalists wanted to
was there so gay a metropolis. Thev rli„ed -unl fertcd \^n .n. u J f , ^^"■'''' ''^'^"■'
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7»ri»
lieu up ihis same
ty En,t;lisli sliips,—
Loyalists from the
'cc-illeti his troops,
■, in a good many
the new condition
any jjart or parcel
r the Englisli flag,
e secretary of the
oyaiists wanted to
iiore and Philadel-
re came another,
was to be a great
ion. They built
tiiries, with stair-
ni\ they furnished
to \isit the new
*ii in those days ;
ital from ' ' New
's present Oueen.
Never before
work. And wliy
li and Barrington
111(1 I.o,l<port, iiard-working, sea-faring men from Massachusetts, looked
upon the newcomers with amazement, and contemptuously styled them
' the dancing l)eggars."
Hut the day of reckoning came. The government supplies were
:iit off, and the gay capital began to grow hungry. T1h\- wouldn't
ish, and they wouldn't trade in furs : these occupations were beneath
hem. They coukln't farm, it was not a farming country ; and so they
^tarved. Famine followed feasting ; lamentations took the place of
nirth. They had houses,— palatial houses, but these, unfortunately,
vere not edible, and so they began to desert and scatter. Sonu-
iurned back to the States ; some went to the neigiiboriiig towns,
ine after another they gathered their movable possessions and turned
Mheir backs on the "New Jerusalem." And their stately mansions, with
§iiahogany balustrades and marble mantels, were left fl)r the birds to buiki
' heir nests in. It was indeed a deserted city.
Never did a city rise so gnuidly and fiill so mi.seral)Iy. The 14,000
loon became a beggarly four hundred. Boys wandered through the streets ^
\m\ amused themselves with stoning out the windows, with no one to chide
:|liem,— for there were windows to spare. Some of the houses were torn
lown and carried away to other towns to build again, and others of these •
f lately structures, brought fVom the States at so great expense, were pulled down
tnd used for hrewood. If you will permit me, the people of Shelburne had houses to burn
^^ Is there- another city on the North American continent with such a history? Is there another whose story is
so umque, .so fascinating? There ,s something wrong about the man who does not want to .see Shelburne
I he .Shelburne ol to-day is a cjuiet. serene, comfortable little town of 2,000 people. Vou can .see to this dav many
tiaees of the ancient splendor of the town. Ouite a number of the original houses built in ,7X3 are still standing
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hale and hearty, and apparently good for another century. There is one of them on King Street, only a short
distance from >.H,r hotel where Pnnce Edward was entertained. It is in a fine state of preservation, a handsom
specimen of old colonial archuectnre. You will con.e across the old pumps set in the middle of the streets, whe"
ley were put over a hundred years ago, and any of the citizens will take you to the little engine house to show you
the old fire.engu.e sent over by King George himself in Shelburne's early days, as a safeguard against the ravages of hre
'^"^ there is the srperb harbor, the same to-day as it wa. a century and a quarter ago,- ten miles long from
She Iburne to the .ea, and two or three n.iles wide, a secure haven for all the navies of the lorld,-the finest IZ^
ol the Western hemisphere. ;
But if you have sporting blood within your veins, it is possible that neither the historic glory of ancient!
Shelbume, nor its present natural beauty will excite your interest as much as the glorious fishing and sliooting you f
will find in this section. I
All the south shore of Nova Scotia is one great network of lakes and rivers, having their origin nearly a I
Ii ttrm ?sT' "rl South Mountain range; and as yet these lakes and rivers have hLly been disturbed'hyl
the hsiermans fly. There are fine sea trout there, luscious big four-pounders, just waiting for you to drop them I
me, and Sainton which tip the beam at thirty pounds. Three or four hundred salmon is no unusual season's catch
or a oaU fisherman ; and as for trout, any -nan who cannot put a hundred in his basket in a day must be halt
and bud. There are three rivers in the neighborhood of Shelburne. all of them famous for their fishing First
die Shelburne River, which empties into the harbor close by the town. A dozen miles away to the west is th^
Cyde River, while about an equal distance to the east is the River Jordan. These rivers are full of falls, and these
^alls abound in trout. They are all fed, too, from innumerable lakes; and while thev empty into the .ea at wide!
divergent points, their headwaters are so close together that a carry of a mile, and often less, will take you from one
stream to another ; ^o that if you want variety you can fisli from spring to fall, and every day in new waters. The
best fishing in the Shelburne River is to be had by driving some ten miles out from the town. A ten-mile drive •
will bring you to where tlu: tu u branches of the river meet. Take cither branch ; both are fhmous for their fish |
A few miles fiirther up and you strike a chain of lakes running in quick succession seventy miles away to the foot oil
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itreet, only a short |
/ation, a handsome
the streets, where ;
house to show you \
the ravages of tire,
en miles long fnjin
— the finest harbor
: glory of ancient
and shooting you
ir origin nearly a
been disturbed by
lu to drop them a
ual season's catch
day must be halt
ir fishing. First,
o the west is the
of falls, and these
the sea at widely
take you from one
lew waters. The
A ten-mile drive
Dus for their fish,
way to the foot of
VIEWS OF SHELBURNE, N.S,
ON BARRINGTON RIVER.
you were to measure off a rectan.l here tl , , "'' '^ '"^""'''y ^■''^''- ^^
would find that it contained a h n -ed lUes t^ nV^' f- "'''' "''^^' >-
M.ddle and Lower Clyde, all excellen shh^ points ^L'^ f"'^' '"/? ^''^P^'
and httle runs where you are sure in the sprfne^ ' f J f?"l '' ^"" "^^^"'^i
>ng for what comes down. ^ ^ '' ^"" *° ^^'^^ '^e trout watch-
The Jordan River, an equal distance to the east of ^1. ik
fished very little because its water is so rapid It if ^''^"^"'•"^' has been
and you can reach it easily by the post ro.d T. ''' f ' '"°" '^'"^«"''
There ,s excellent shooting, also, in this ^.icini;v f L ^ " "'"' '° ^'^''-'^ P-'"^«-
moose in vour ly.,„ ,o„ l,.,,.e il,„r„„„l,l f >"" ■""■' 1"" •■' bM
probably not be ,,bl Z b, u hT ^ "T ''°"'' "«'" '° °"-'>' » «""' ^■°" "i"
»i.l. yo„, one >vl,o frol ^ ^ / ,," .l: .'"""^ "",'- >- '^"'^ » '-al companion
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elburne and reached i
tributary lakes. \{
six miles wide, yon |
livided into Ujjper,
ream is full of fails
id the trout watcli-
lelburne, has been
>us salmon stream,
Sable River, too,
will tind very feu
It there are nati\e
there is a geni.il
' and casting the
Js.
idge and moose.
i,t,nilarly sagacious
tire keen and his
LOCKPORT AND LIVERPOOL.
■BOUT fifteen miles southeast of Shelburne, built on an island of irregular shape and founded upon
take' he" C^r V^'rt , ^^T ". ,''"' "" ""^' '^ '>' ' '"""^ ^''°"^ ''^ «h°-- ^ y- -"
take the City of St. John, which latier course I think on the whole is considerably to be
fenlrnf 'J° m ' TT' '' %\T "'''''' ''''' '' ^''"' >'°" ^'"°"^^'- °PPO--t-ity to sail the
ength of Shelburne Harbor. When you get at the mouth of the harbor you pass through
he channel at the north of McNutfs Island, turn to the eastward, and sail straight across
7yr —r--;^^' the mouth of Jordan Bay, around a rocky point, and then make directly into Lockport
^C JBV r^'; , ," °^ ^' ' '''°" '"'' "'"' '-' ^''°'-""Shly enjoyable one. This is a wonderfully
^■^ ^^^ Ihelburne ^'"'^ "'' '"'"''"^' ^"' ' '°''"^' '"^''■'"' ''^''' ^'""^ '^^ magnificent harbor
You will not long be left in doubt as to the way in which the thousand or more Lockporters get their livine • for if
you wander along the mam street that winds and curves with the shore von uill «.. fi i i , t"'^"^. "^''S - <or if
with cod ^nd^:cSrdTl:t.'^" °^^"^°°"^'-^ '-'' '°^^" '- '-'-' ^° --- ^^'^^^ °" Saturday aftemoon loaded
If you follow along this main street to the lower part of the town, you will come to -i sea wall th.r .»•; .
around until it is at right angles with the row of docks ; and back of this sea wall isn vo T K
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i t
.oa4'"Ci^" t^;tri:^tX:;:;^^^^ -^^^- yo. c. ..e .. acco..
driver, who in a most tantalizing way wo Id 00^1 out to o.' ''''''''''''''t " T" ^^°"'^ '--• ^ ' had, a voluble
his neighbor Jenkins, had broujn down a Lty mooTe ' ""^^ '"^ "^^ """'^ ^^'^^'"^ '^^' - ^i^ grandfather, or
stn.igh7:::e:;''st:::L:;:s;.;aii:n.:dtST' ^t^'?- ^-^ ^^'^ ^ ""■"^- °^ '^-^ ^'^--^h its long,
inner harbor, which is 'as serene s a d ck po:^' Wh" n M """ '"'°'' ='"' ''' tempestuous waters from t£
1604. they came into this harbor .md found T vtel tlr wL cT': "^ ""''"''''T ""^ ^"^^^"^'"^ ^'^'^ ^^^^ '"
took the ship, having use for the san.. and by ^^^^n^^ Z^ :;-r T'^U '' "^""- ^^ ^°'"^
hnn, Ross,gno] Bay, and it remained so called for Luw yeSs ' ftervvCds "" ' " """''^ '"^'^ ''■'''' '^'^^
Liverpool came into existence in 17^0 or '60 ' I it^ v.,.-.,, '.1 " j r ,
Presbyterians and Baptists from New Eng and . nd the other ^ ' » °'''P°'''' '' "'^ ^^"'^^ ''^ ^-d-fearing
Experience Helms, and Eliakim, Obediah a^ I e.uuel CroTbv 1"" ^ I 'r T"" °' ^'^^ °"^'"''^' proprietors :
hundred people. When eleven years later the W'lr of th. Ti. . .• u , '^""P"" ^''■^^"''''-^ numbered five
pool W.S much put to it to know on wl^h s'lTt tood and th " "'\'" newly founded town of Liver-
much with their old friends and neighbors in the rebellious' c I r T" """^ '^''' "''°^^ sympathies were very
the second w.r between England and d e Un ted State vhe""." ""''• ^"' ^ '""''^ °'" ^ -"^-y '^^er, in
tender regard for the good ^ople of the ^^ ^\:'ZeZ':^^S^7:: J^' con. upon the scene, their
Liverpool there sailed forth a number of most idvf.nf„rn„. . '°'^ "",. , ,°' '^^ ''^ov, and from this same town of
«hip. In fact, to be quite honest about rUvtpo7 nut ' ' '""^'^ '°"" '""^^^ ''" ""happy American
she got by simply goi,?g out upon the^i^h ^^ ^^i;Z:i:V2JT-'^ ''' T^'°"^ ''''''' ''''-'
because in those good old limes of .,„r L„, , i,- nersell,— lor ivhicli she is not to be too harshly indscd
tender consideratio^ which th"rdo at p-S,T ^""""»""^» '"'>' ^''^"="- "' "^ "nd property did not receiie Aai
No nratter how short yonr stay in Liverpool yon nms. a. leas, take tin.e to go ont to Fort Point, Just a
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If you take the boat it will take you to T-lnbur fro , .^'^^^ ^^--^I^'-'d^ewater, Lunenburg, Mahone, and Chester,
now that you have ploughed the " ves C enZh , l] ." T"^" '°"'" ^"' ""''^ ^'^^^^''^'^'^ ' ^u' '^ V-- ^-1
Bridgewater, twenty.e^ht'n,iles awaT Th:^va;^^f^^^^^^^^ ^^'°">;^ ^^ ^ -^- ^^^^^ « ^rive to
'^^y '■' ^'»'y ^° find -you have only to follow the telephone wires.
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THREE VERY PRETTV TOWNS,
)QMP: people call the La Have River "the Rhine of Nova Scotia," while others call it "the Rhone
' of Nova Scotia," and others a,q;aiii are content to refer to it simply as the prettiest river
in the pro\ince, and this it undoubtedly is. Fourteen miles from the mouth of the La
Have is the little town of Bridgewater clinging tenaciously to the hillside. The first
question that naturally enters your mind when you get into Bridgewater is, "How in
the world do the people here get up these streets in winter time ? " You will be very
l)o.-;itive that they must be possessed of some supernatural power to mount those giddy
slopes after the frost gets into the ground.
Bridgewater is quite a youngster compared with the venerable patriarchs with
which we have of late been associating, for Bridgewater is only a matter of fifty years
^ ■ o'd, but it has made excellent use of its fifty years. There are few places in the province
t'l'it have so ample and well appointed a court house, so capacious a music hall, and so handsome
and substantial a railroad station. There is a spirit of enteri)rise that impresses you immediatelv.
There is great fishing around Bridgewater. It is famous for its trout and its salmon. ' It does not live on
fish however, after the manner of some of its neighbors. It gets its livelihood principally from the twenty or thirty
million feet of spruce and pine lumber which it sends forth each year to Boston and other markets.
Be your stay at Bridgewater long or short, you must certainly crowd into it a sail down the charming La Have,
as picturesciue a stream as one might wish to see ; and historic as well. After you have passed Getson's Cove and
Conquer All Bank, and are nearing the mouth of the river, they will point out to you th.e spot on which the old,
original French settlement stood, back in 1637 ; and they will show you the place, too, where the local Mollie Pitcher,'
back in the days when a deal of privateering was done both by the seamen of No\a Scotia and of the United States'
in 1812 or thereabouts, put to flight the fleet of the aliens. Her good husband was away, so the storv runs, scouring
the high seas for American ships, when his Amazonian helpmate spied some American prixateers coming up the river.
1 here was a little cannon out on the point (they will show you just where it stood), put there to protect the river ;
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MAHONE BAY.
and out went the enterprising lady, loaded it up, and took such
skilful ami that the oncoming ships took to their heels and
sailed with all speed out to the open sea again.
Hut here you are down to Rockbound Island at the
mouth of the river. Now you must tack about and make for
Bndgewater, or you will miss the next train to Mahone It
IS about a tiMrty minutes' ride from Bridgewater to Mahone
through a veiy pleasant country and past many lakes. As
you ride down into the little village from the station, the road
runs along by the edge of as noisy a stream -for one of its
size — as you ever saw. It makes a tremendous clatter, dash-
ing through its sluices as if it couldn't wait to get down into
the cool, clear bay.
around its prelly l.arbor.- aiul if it »vre not for ,1,. „, ■ '!' " ,'',^"'', !'"'" '°""' '''" "•'''°"''' ■="<"!«' » ™^ay
after |,aBsi„g a night hore to 1, ZZ"°JZ ' 7 "^ ■ "'"°'''' ""°«'' '''"^"'' ^o" """W ""I " ^ry difficult
.he little Aeacia hotel, with boCed ,11'^,!',',"' ' 'V" ',?'"■ """'' '"' " ""'■'P'"^ "'»" >•"" «"">'''= »"
vouch^red .,ch „.o.,de;,„ J.^^Ti:':^^-^^ '::^^^iT::; :: :2;ro;"r'Lra b^-^'^- '--
z:xxi:'C:ti^7z :;:::■ :7".' " -,"- '^r -' '--■ -::« a-'- ":r,r :;«:;•
for waffle, />Z- Ar,//„c, rf fo sllL T '''''' ',,••"" f""'" "> '"'"''" that for n.outh-watering ntuffins
under the ^..^i./^^ ^:t^,::::t::,.:'' '""""'"""' """'^ "•"^^' >'°" "™" ^^ - «■= '■••'= -'.ide i„„
take you will feel confiln, th at yo I a , nd th I -r^ "' "" "''■"'"' """ "'''<^'-- '"V Vo"
- .... .urteen-„,i,e driye, ha,?:; t;-f:,:^Z^tZ.J^. ^l:^;!^ 2^ " tl
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n
L^i'^ 7 ""^'^ T^""'^"^"'^^ '''^ ^^^P ^-- -lands, -"emeralds in a sea of
r o' ChelT " ■^^'"" J^--"^'"'- ''"^ "'-'^"^ ' i.n.nediately got out a piece of paper and made a note of it on
hi 'thit .cu !l h "T ^ -■"--.--■^ ti,an any place you have seen since leaving Yarmouth. Here is a
cl that actually 1 as a dancmg hall showmg what a terrible inroad the wild dissipations of the world have made
here. Speakn^g oi hotels, the great hotel of Chester is the one that is to be. There is only one other place along
the coast which has such a magn.ficent site for a hotel,-Cape Fourchu at Yarmouth. Out in front of Ches^
jutnng out mto the bay ,s a high promontory; and when you climb the three or four hundred feet to its to Tou
find a magn>hcent cyclorama spread out around you,- the beautiful bay dotted with verdant islands, the Ve!n
beyond and back of you m.le upon mile of rolling country. As you stand up there on that breezy height "sk
son.ebody to pomt out Oak Island to you. It lies over there to the southwest about four miles away, and you are
go.ng to sop there on your way back to Mahone ; for that is the island where Captain Kidd buried iTsgold ten
no 7 bt r . ;'r '" ' r'"^ '^'"•^^^- '' '^ °^'"" ''^'^ ^°"^^^'-'-^- ^-"^^^ -->' -^er the secreting Z ; there "
no doubt about .t or are there not hundreds of people around here whose grandfathers told them so? You can
sa,l over to Oak Island m an hour. Or if you have driven over from Mahone, perhaps your best way will be to
1 'Aft r"" '7 : ' "u ^T1'- ^'^ "^' ''' ^"'"^'"^^^ ^° ^°^ y"" --- to the'island, a quarL of a mi^
o shor. , T ' °" . u n""" '\ " '' '"^'-""^ "^''' "P ^ '°"^ '-^' — - fi-'^l - t.vo, Ing a little strip
bLes of i;'"n ? "' T , . ,:° '"" ^°'' ^^'^^^'i"g^>-digging not for now and then a stray nugget, but for big
boxes of It all nicely packed, and all properly coined, ready to spend. ^ bS ' "' "'g
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THE PIRATE'S GOLD.
T is a most iipliftine sensation to st-mH in *i,„
^ having I thefe rigln u der >w fee" selaTed"? ''" "'";°" '""^'" "'" ^^""^- -"d" -^'-'"^ Ml
*^. gold that has'been gathered f^m e o r nuaT '"VT'^ '" T '^^ ^'-^'^^^^ ^''°-'^'""' °^ ^^^>~
^ two hundred years fgo-and aH your ,Y " " 1 ""'' ''''' """ '"^"^'^^ '"°'- -''' ^ied for
told in two short chapters. ' ' ^ " '''" ^^'^'''^ "• '^^'^'^ ^^ory of Oak Island can be
a busy':::r:y did^t'::; rj •;' t::''::;i'-r'' v'- '^^^ ^^'^^^'" ^'^^- "^ -•«
. / however, chat he was not all that he .h 1 1 T'' '^^ ^^'''' '' '"''y ''^'^^ *« believe,
-. I-rt of his life scouring the hig d "k nl T T' "V' ''T '' ^'^^"' '-^ ^'^^>' --'"d-bi;
arises, what did he do with it? He bu edt "on^? "^- I '' ''' '"'"'• ^°^^ ^'^ ^"-^i-
people have thought, ever since this enterp Ci t nd e .'"' T '"^' '""^ ' ^"^^ '-^ ^^^^ "-'"X
that he^buried it somewhere along the solttsZ^o; Noric'::;.'^"'"^''^" ''''' '^^'° '^""^^^ ^^^^ ^^°'
but sparsely populated" o^fdav^ht'::enf 17 ^^ ^s^^.^^ '\;^^^ exact, in : 7,3. this part of the country was
rowed over to Oak Island together to explore the ph ce On he et ""' T^' '"^''"' ^"'-"^ -long the n.ainland,
of oak trees, ,n the centre of which they discovered othe^U^ °^ ''" "'"^^ ^hey came to a large grove
•stood one lone oak tree. There were marks 1",^° t ee ^T\ "i"'"''" l"""'^" ^■'""'"^' '" ^'^ "-'^^'^ of which
neath u they discovered a circular depression n' te e.r h H ' o„ '"'' 'T'"' '"' '^^" '^"^^ ^^"^ '-^'"^ ""^er-
old pulley. The three explorers were deeply im, ess" Ivi'th the I U ^° " '" ''^^ ^° ''' ''''' '" ^^is hollow lay an
and pickaxes, and returned to dig. When hev Id 'nt d T ^^'""T"''- ^^'^^y hi^d them home, got shovels
exated their interest still further, ^and they d g'a "theTten Tt " '1' T'^ '° "" '''''' °^ ^^^^ P'^^s. Tl
-. .0..., .„ ., .. ., _,„ „„,, _^ „r^7 - rr :ttr '^n:^;: a::-r-;b
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I :i
!
'■f, .
Kidd-s own work, and that his ba„r:ccou„r^^^^ "V"t --'--'>' ^'-^ it was Captain
upon a broad, fl.t stone with curious .ml th '"""'"' ,°": ^"=»''y ^hey reached a depth of ninety feet, and came
it was not difficult for tL: o t s t "i ' ,he ^^^^^^ '' '^^P^-' '^ ^^'^ -^"^ 'i^ beneath-
dug down another five feet and sounded u^r^h^^u ". ' ''''°'' '''^ ^^'" """'°" P""»^'« Juried.- Thev
the Captain's gold was praeticlnyiTthd^^^^^^^^^^ ""^'"^' •'^"' ^"^^ ^"°"^'^ ^'^^ ^^ '^^ ^hick layer of oak. and
to be tJ^rt'n^rr;^:^;:?" or;;;: ^r^ ;r^ :r" '^^-^ ^^ ^'^^^^ °^ ^'- '^^-^-^ ^-''^ ^^hich was
twenty-five feet of the top. TheTbaird d b. e^'w^'" H ' "!"'"'. -• ^'" ^'=''^' *' "'''^ ^"" °^ ^^^^ ^° -^hin
still stood within twenty-five feet of th ton jtt 'fv'' '''"' Tf ""'' '^ '''^^ ""' '^^ "'^'''' ^^' ^^e -ater
few feet away and dug down this time a depth o one h ."^'° /^'^ '" "^ '"°''^^'' ''"'''' ^° ''->' ^^arted a
of the hidden chests f but again wTre the r hop L d st e 5 H ".f '" k'' .'''"' ''"" ^^''•""' =^ ^"""^' '" '^e direction
noonday refreshments at the moul of he shaft , ' T ^' '^'''''^'''^- ^^'^"^ ^'^^>' "^^'-^ taking their
no. ,:f ^:,rci::s'x; :::"rt:rs:s tL:,rt^i-:,- - *- - ■"- °^ -'^
bailed and bailed, b« without . e slishTeft, TbenTlTT 'm '''"" "7 ™ "™"'«^' <"" ^ "■" '"ey 'oo
shaft. Sure enough, when the auguf go down nearK „ f ' ' " ^""f '° ""'" ■"■ """'"^ <'°"" '" ">' «"'
inches of metal, then eight inches o'^f oaf an o.lVtt^lnl h h "?' "T^'' /""' '-'- "' "■■''<■ •'-" twentytwo
It was as plain as daylight The c we-c w The '"f " ' "'"' "°"">' ''''"'■ ""-■"« °f «*■
full of gold. The only ,„/e Jf goM Thlrthc' ; to.X Z !"' M 't;ht"L"^'th""?T";. '"^''' '^'^ ^"O
but that .as ,,..e enough. The .wo million pouni we. 'the. ^itLirl,!; cl^s^i^^rsf tlV^;*,,:: l^T.
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^
feet away, and diijr down one hundred and nine feet Acrni.. n<,^^ ^u . • • .
ln,n,lrcd fee. ,lee„, b„, he had dug a ,„„„el f,„„, ,he .LTc ,hrt h,^rr.,„dK,! five fee, "' ',",! I ^°''' "
hundred aud eighteen fee. d^ep, and aga n "e e lored ™^ T n T ,"""^- T"' ;""' ''"" """"'" ''"" """
nn.i. ,«,,. when a„o.her cousin,, „af fonn^ Xl^^agil^r. t^^Ll^^^r : hrl::;,:"' ^.I'T:!:'"
large engnie to keep up with the Atlantic ; so they gave it up ' ^^' "^
get down to the captain's two million pounds dry-itmded ^ ''' '''''''^' ' ^° ''''^^ "'^^ '^•'»"
una„g,ie;:;:rir.h:::':'c:;;.u:;-?a^j :v::;'L'n::;;h:,:Tf ::sr"V'r" r-^'"-^™- "- --'^ -■'
coun h™,se, «ai„. „„,ch of .he fla^; of .h.,e G^roS/yr'tn^iurLratragr''™ •^"" '" ^■™'' -"
s.o„e of ,he hi,,, ,„„,ing o.e. a/,.e.., a ha.or as rnytl'tuTd"':. "tL: EX, 'Zre;, Tfi* To teS
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use, for it is quite a sliipjiinjr centre and a Preat place for fisli A flp^f of - i i i u
burg every spring for the f.shing l.anks confin.M.. 11? \. I ""'''"' schooners puts out from L„„en-
hunched .Kl three hundred ous nd c uint-^ o^^ '" '^ ^""T ''" "^ ^"^ '"' '^^"''•°'^'^- '^^^--" 'wo
revenue. And if you want to dot.ne wteur f^^^^^^^ ""''T '^^""/r^T'^"^^ ^^'^^>' y-"' '-"M-K' a handsome
-as well as a fine locality for yor L; ^7 H^^^^^^^ '°"""' ^^^ -> <;-•/''" "^ "^"-"""^^ "'''^'^^ "^ ^--y >-"- '--^L
geese, just waiting to pose as t.ugeL "^ '" '""""" °' '"^'^ ^''^^^' '^'°^'^^' -'•-' --^'-ck- and wild
••oven:":f:,r::n:^on:'n::°rti;L'i::t?rr t" °" "^^ r°^- ^'- --^ -" -- - ^^^
These ■■Ovens'- are great caverns,: re ot^^^^^^^^^^ '« "^^'^ '« '"Merest you deeply,
diameter, eaten into the solid rock by the r.n.Zs u^Z T' , ,r^ '^' ''"'' twentyfive or thirty feet in
these ledges for thousands of yel 'xhey C t k^ '17 "^^ w "'' ''^ ^^'=^"^'^' '^^^'^ '^-^-^ ^'^--t
in -small grains, where the watL^Is IsL H. '^t, rr^c^" V i^: ^.t /rTtilfr " '^^";" '' ''-' '"^'^ ^^•
meet with sufficient success to encourage its continuance .no In^ „ i? L ' Ovt?' ' "'v '^ ""^'' -^'"^ "'^>'
but within more .11 of gnnpo.der, ;hot^h:;: :::i d:!;^:^ r^ ^^ ^^ ■ :rth:'^ l- j-- -■-'
'*-• ..T..
■fffij^i^"^.
?Fi?::ii;rif
'j>r»*ifvt
.-_*t . '.ii^
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■ ^s^-
FAMOUS OLD HALIFAX.
i1 is a five Iioiirs' s^iil from Liinenburtr tn H-.lif..». at, i • r
' ^it t, , n '"""? /'""-^b"^g Harbor you turn eastward, passing
f.rst Mahone Bay and shortly afterward Margaret Bay, with Mount As
potogon between the two. keeping equal guard over each ; and
you are hardly out of Aspotogon's sight when you come to
Sambro Island, w.th its little village clustering around the omni-
present sp.re. And soon you are n,aking in to land, heading
oward Hahfax Harbor. That little cluster of houses around
the small cove, sheltered by a barrier of rocks, is Ketch's Cove
|^I.ere the pilots live who steer the uninitiated into Halifax
Th .'•'',''; '" "°'' ^'"" ""'^ "' '^'^ '"""th of the harbor itself
i't^:tzr °"^ " ''' "" °^' ^°" ''''' ^-° ■'^•'^^--
rises so precipitous and sheer. That is York R^^ wh^r^;^!:*" ntl'^cto '"?"' '' 'T ''^\ '''" ^' ^°"^ ''''' ^'^'^
guns pointing out toward the n.outh of the harbor whlhl^M^ I ' '" ""'"^'' "'^ ^''' ^'''S''' ^^^ deadliest
for people who were not wanted This hie si uH ^ u '"'-^^^^^"'"8^ '"'« ^^'^^-^ a nK,st unpleasant enterprise
sheltering it fron. the winds a:d wave X tlant,^ irMcN^b': if T'^VT ^'^ '''''' '"^°"' '^'^ ^ ''^'^
ing McNabb's Island and steaming on toward the citv vou en ^^'■''"^; " ^f ^ - fortification at either end. Pass-
George's Island, where Fort Charlotte is si .t d At yo .r Teris I>'"T p[ "'"" 7^'- """ '^^^^'^'^'^- '^'"'^ ^
of the peninsula on which Hali.x is situated. And a^:!^: , ^ th^t^^:. CUv' T ''t ^""T""""^^ '''''
you have passed so many a delightful hour, is rounding into the Hnl a\ {' ''^°'' substantial decks
Halifax cabmen, the most wonderful masters of the gent 1 ar In !^^^ ' , 'if'""" ^°"^ '"''"^ you, -those
cents, however, to ride up to your hotel ^ persuasion m the world. It is only a matter of fiftv
Speaking of hotels, Halifax is thoroughly to be commended in this respect. Nothing could be more
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SUMMER HOUSE. ON THE GROUNDS OF THE DUKE
OF KENT, HALIFAX.
comfortable, commodious, and complete than the "Halifax" or the "Oueen."
They give you wonderfully spacious apartments, and their table will tempt you
far beyond your needs. But as it is a couple of hours to dinner time, you had
best make straight for the Citadel, for that is pre-eminentlv the starting point in
sight-seemg about Halifax. You can't miss it; any street that runs up hill will
take you there. It is in the heart of the city, stands over 250 feet high and
everythmg slopes from the Citadel down. If you are stopping at the "Halifax"
or "Queen," walk down Hollis Street until you come to the Parliament House
Ihe large buildmg that stands diagonally across from Parliament House is the
Po.st-Office. Run up to the top of it before you leave town and see the Provin-
cial Museum. You will find it exceedingly interesting and instructive.
„n th« l,;il I • u M. , . , ^"^ *^ ^'''' Citadel. You turn here at the Parliament BuildiuL^ and start
up the hill, which will take you straight to the Citadel ; and the last k^v hundred feet of your journey will be
continual staircase. It is a good test of lung and limb ; but it is worth a little shortness of br'eath. 'for when one' a
the top you have the whole cty spread at your feet. You will pronounce it the finest cyclorama you ever saw
.I'°^l^'"g o the eastward, the cty lies just before you, sloping away as abruptlv as a toboggan slide down to
Vioto •'•'"?." ," "■• . 'rr''^'''' •" '"'""^ °' >'°" '^ ^'^^ °'^' ^^'-k Tower-built by PHnce Edward good
Victoria s fother, who coin, nanded the English forces in these parts just a hundred years ago. Son.e distance beZ
Tuit T T^ f ^' 'Y"" '''^'"'' '""' •" '^°^'°" '" ^750. In front of the church lies an open plal"
called the ' Parade,' and at Us oth.r end the City Hall. Down by the water's edge, and a little wav up the In bo"
lie her Majesty's dock yard and ordinance yard, both surrounded by high stone wtlb ; while acro.ss ' 1 ' r r t d^
little city of Dartmouth, with six thousand souls.
Walking around the glacis of the fort until you stand on its southern slope, vou enjoy another ma<^nificent
ZZ VT /'"■"•^f ^^J^y '^^'r ^■°"' J"^' ""'''''' ^'^^^ ""''^^^ ^-""ds, are the barracks of {he artillervn ^ o tl
1 ft o the barracks is the Court House, gloomy and forbidding ; a little to the left of that St. Mary's Cathedral"
most imposing church edifice m the cty, while a little beyond that is the Government House, stately and sombre, Z
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or the "Queen."
able will tempt you
inner time, you had
le starting point in
at runs up hill will
250 feet high, and
;■ at the "Halifax"
Parliament Hou^e.
nent House is the
md see the Provin-
tructive.
Building find start I
journey will be a |
for when once at
you ever saw.
a:an slide down to I
ice Edward, good k
me distance below
s an open piazza
ay up the harbor, I
the river is the
lothcr magnificent
'tillerymen ; to the
y's Cathedral, the
'■ and sombre, the
vou passed ns you steamed up the larbor TOs t ' '' "" ^y"'' "'™> »" '» >'<'i« '''eas.-'nt Park, which
^elusion and oLtoral pe, ceflet „,d "^oks IV !" """■"? "',"°"^ "'?"'" *="""*■ " »"="' ""= »'' "' "«»
those gently w'avin, lelvef^ „;« t e d sti ct ™ ,11^, T'T' '"" ' '"' -'J T 'r™'"^ ^°" ' ''"^ ""*^
...ehed ,,e,.oss the haH.o. a„d hack^or't,:^:^=„^;;:,.,,^::r£y::7art:et„^
3e.„„ST„.s".'Zes' L'siior'irTdis 'bj:= -^t-iitS'Tr-' '"" '•" h -'^ "^^^ '-
gronnds, are some ntore barracks ; and IrW he Ihtle Garr so C , I °" ™"' "' "" ""l"'^' "' ""= <'''»'"''
Sunday, to see the soldiers mirch m -.nd ,„ ^,7, , j ' ' " ''°" """' S°' '' >'°" "« "'"' ""^
peacefully side by 'side "" '"' "''^ ''^'^^ '' ''' ""^"-°^-^^'^'- ^'^ -"--'^ "•^'-- -'i%-^t anchof
.Ley will sho„ y„„ ail yon need to see, and'yon'wil, llnd It ZSlly' iLe;::,,,;;!' ""°"- >™' ""^"""^ '""= ^ ^"
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H. M. S. BLAKE IN DRY DOCK AT HALIFAX, N. S.
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visit the open market, which convenes around the Postf)ffl,-. Vt i ^^^' "'''^ ' , ^^'^^ ^^''" S^''^ yo" ^ chance to
sights extlnt. All the good farn.e s w ve fronf , J ie T ' ""'■"'"^' '"^' '"^''^ " °"^ °^ '^'' '"^^^ ""i^"-
Haligonian's dinner. You vv 11 Z his nnrkir sc ^^^^ "'" '"'" '""" ""' ^'"'" S''^'-^^" ^''-'^ ^^ ''-
proffering their potatoes and p llc^fso ^ers ,ve l tl t if vo ' ''"''""^-^'l"^ = ="^^ ^^ -" ^^^ these thrifty people
yourself walking' off down thJ street .^r^^^^Z ^^nJ ui:;^:^ """"^ "" ^°"^ ^"^^'- ^°" ^•'•' ^"--
Halin^xt^^tl^el^ i^^'X^^Z^cXt f :" '"^ ^'"^'%^-^'-- ^^ ^'^ '""'-y ^^"^ P'ays there and all
a.l lakes and running streanJ -^'^^o^ ^ S j;::^.^;^^^^^
trees and shrubs as m your own Public Garden, are designated by their mellifluous Jtin nTn s
..n,d,ed ,.., .„l „ory „„h a pocf., ,va„d. and spread it, C„„e a,„o„g all ,h= „a,i„,„ of d,e eS" for"l die.
WHERE EVANGELINE LIVED.
I ' ° 't' !, r" .°'" .'''' ^°'"'"'"" Atlantic Railway and go back to Yarmoutii'
I jmmggmgmmmmgiimg^ two hundred and eighteen miles away. The country traxersed by this road
JEj^^^^^B^^^m "i '""'^'! .T''' ^^'"'''^''' '" '^^ American tourist than the bold South Shore
'?'°"^ '''^""^ ":^ '^='^'^ ^o •■^'^^"tlv sailed, but this familiarity does not serve to
unpa.r ones mterest ; for it is a wonderfully attractive country, a land of
History and romance and poetry, and a land of superlative scenery.
You leave Halifax from the Intercolonial station, and you ride on the
rails of the Intercolonial road until you reach Windsor Junction, some fifteen
m.Ies away. There the road branches ; the Intercolonial goes eastward to
, -— - ^ *■:;■■? ""^^ I'f o»- and to distant Cape Breton, but your train at this point
fc» 9K« switches on the rails of the Dominion Atlantic, which reach from Windsor
Junction to Yarmouth.
Off!,, f,-o„, of you o'^ h roof „ ,el „ "';"" ',' ""''"'' '■"" °' ""= "'»" ""^ "» ^"vi'onn.e,,,.
gyi».„„ ; „.|,ile back of y„„ lie, ,|,e ,„„„ ,,,el,erc,l l,v encircl ,,J' h 11, W ,',H :• ' ''T'"'" """ ''""T"^ "'
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to far away Caj)c
1 leaving- Halifax is
back to Yarmouth,
ersed by this roaci
bold South Shore
does not serve to
ountry, a land of
scenery.
d you ride on the
ction, some fifteen
goes eastward to
train at this point
ch from Windsor
d rugged country.
The fu-st is old
rejjay you. You
ill older buildings,
!e the moat, now
1 its en\ironment.
situated. To the
:rcat quantities of
ction, perhaps its
y river a half-mile
wide. Big ships, four-masted schooners and
deep-draught square-riggers are sailing over its
waters ; but if you looiv for that same river a
few hours later you will find it gone -evapo-
rated,— vanished. You can walk across it and
scarcely wet you feet ; and the big ships are now
tied taut to the wharf, their keels a good fifteen
feet above the tiny rills of water that trickle along
the river bed. The Avon River is but an arm
of the Basin of Minas, and the tide rises and falls
here thirty-five and forty feet.
Of course you must go to .see ".Sam Slick's" house
You will find it a inodest one-story building, but imposing for
all that, with Its dignified architecture and its commanding position.
The people of Windsor point with pnJe to this old hous!, 'and ,1
they may, for the learned jurist and merry wit who was known tn 1,. u
of jurisprudence as Judge Hahburton, and t'o the world of hu r as ■' Sanrtl ck ''^^:'r ""^ '"''''' "^"°^' ^^
After visiting the "Sam Slick" estate, if you will keen on tL ' F "^ '"^"^ y^""'' °^ ^'^ ''^^ there,
to King's College, one of the oldest' instrti^ oflZ^]:^ ^^Lr'^" '''-''''' '''''-' ^°" ^^'" --
..ous of "Lit^vr ^:;s; i:r'Visttzt':s: ^^°\-" 'r' ^^^' -^^^^^ ^-«^"- -^^ most
of green bank and deep red water, and ii ter f so ^LTs of Tts "hi """^ "' If T""^' '^ ^""^^'"^"^ ^'^"^'"^
you are now riding belonged to the ill-fated Acadi ns ul ' .1 ^'uZ '" '^'' '°""^''^' '^'^''S^' ^^""'^h
from their happy homes. Soon you are at Horton'TandL T ' " ^"^! "^° """ ^"^^" ^ ---'--ly
It wa= here that the Acadians were driven "rtT 1 J si" . k" '"' 7" '^' '""'^'^ °^ ^'^^ ^^l— ^'ve.
">inutes later you stop at the station of G ZlTrc f vou' 'ave' "'""!? '"i"^' "''^ '" ^'^^'^^"^ '^"^^- ^ k.
in. If ^ou have ever wanted to know whether or not you possessed
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WINDSOR, N.S
of his life there.
•, you will come
How made most
:onstant blending
through which
ii so merciless!}'
laspcreau River.
t lands. A few
<t you possessetl
the poetic temperament, you can now settle the question
lor all tune ; for (irand Pre will prove a perfect test If
you are a plain person of prose, when you get out at the
ittie station you will exclaim, "Well, I don't see anything
here, ' and you won't see very much,- a chister of old
willows, a rudely curbed well, and a great stretch of meadow
^ ^ reaching oft to the Basin.
But if you have any poetry in vour soul,— if you
roll .uv.,v ;'r ' '•'•"■?', •''"' °'" '"'" '^^ ^'^^ invisible,- if you are able to
. /^'^^ ^''^ ^'"'''="" "f tJ'e P'-esent and call forth the misty past what a
z:^^':':^:::r '°";" r ir 'r- ^^^''^•" ^"'=^^^ ch,ster:dic:;n;;;;u^
look out on that great expa",s of me- do , , "'" ," T^^' '""""^^ '''' ''''' ^'''^^'^ -'^-- ^'- -»
patient people diking L land! and .:!e:;;::'l^'^ .^1^:1''^ ^^uT"^"^' 7] '''' ? '^ '"^"''^'^
are enough traces of the old Ac-idi-.n vlll.ot , ' ''''- S:rasp of the greedy tides. There
scene vl 'dlv before ,„ ,f y„ ^ ^ ne .'Tl'.r'T ,'" 'T'^, ""' ''""-' "'">■ "^ ""»«'-'!-■ '-"-i"^' '!•= «l,„le
"nsuspeeti,,,. peasant, were decoyed. Hard n .Ive c nl I, '°""*'"°- »' ■!«-■ vcrv ebapel into ,vl,ich ,he
nten,,;is of thi, eraft, hammer heads and ton. m-e lee f 1 """' "," '""T """''-■ '"■**'>' "'»!''»■ ■•" "'»">•
long row of willows starting b,„ a few n Z i fe f™ ,,t ! , '"l,''''"','" '"^ '"" ''"■ '■'"'■ ''"" "" "»"- »
■■the Old Freneh I.ane," and yo„ ean stil , en^^ive r ..■""' "'""'"*•' "'' ""-' '""»''''=■ "'■" '' ™"^<(
villagers stood one hnndred a,,d' ", / ^ea a^ t , rbe "a ™'", 1°"%"'"'" "" '"'«' '"'"'" "' '"' ^-"i™
.o ils top. and sit down there on the hillside bene tl ^1 I " "" '■°," '" """' "" "'"' °''' f™"='' ''""■•
". .- Of yon .r nearly two mi J t f ^d r ^triH^C^r n, ^:t ^1 C:^^'^,^
43
i i
the ,„„s, glorio,,, appte „; 'he Jorlci ' '"" '"" "™" ' '"«" ""'"""■•"' °' '"=='"™' "PP'^I- "■-= f™-
keep o«tt;,:f \Thrbe:lr,,„t?"^"^ '"""' 'i ■-/ ^''™""'^ "'"^ '°"" -* ^« "*« - «■<>■" °n, .„
.he town i, give ove .0 stude 1 C^ """i' T ^."'T"'"" '""■'" "" '"' ''^ ^-^' »"«= i" ">= »--
village, looking .o .'hi e T he e^.h „g LT g ^^^1"^ .h'' 'frh'"'" 7'"^ '"' '""* '' *^ ""'=
vaiiey, .ide b, .,,e wi.h .he winding^ oi^^^-r.r^Zlol:^:^:;:^^:^^^ "T '''
.ne. I, „ a town „f some soe.al prominence, too, with a distinct English flavor ; and it is m the ve v h„r, ,f
r-^rdt-n'm,:,:';.::.,:" '" --' " ^' "- -^^ '--"' '^"- -=> - -^^ wit-th^Arpor;;.;:;
44
resort, where they
:d beans, and other
ipple-pie made from
kes in front of it to
while in the winter
College. You will
lition of the capitol
lege a quarter of a
le Basin, mile after
lile immediately at
St ! There, nestled
lies before you so
to see if it is not
stand, is the little
g along down the
brown. There is
lint lisping of the
:ave that charming
1 of the County of
Dominion Atlantic
e very heart of a
Annapolis Valley,
bring ^::;"Ltp'!^er;!::t„';:.k t^the if T. '' ''- f °°"^°"^^- ^^-^ ^ ^^'^^ «^-" -^-^ -^-^ wm
twenty miles down L valley'of the intpolil '"'" """ '° '" ''^^'" °^ ^'"-' ^^ to the westward
But if you really want a view, vast, varied, incomparably grand, come with
me.
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FROM ''LOOK OFPS" LOFTY TOP.
IT is a fourteen-„.ile ride on the Cornwallis branch of the Do.ninion Atlantic Railway from Kentville to Kingsport
- °" '^'' ^'f^. f ^^'"'•»«- When you reach Kingsport you will find the
staunch little steamer " Evangeline " awaiting you. Board her and take
--- •''■ ■'^=!'' ''"''"^ t'l^ ^''si" to Parrsboro. It will give you a grand opportu-
^..lagllll^BB^IIBlll^ r.ity to see what Cape Bloniidon looks like from the water side • and
as you appro ch the other shore you will find much to occupy' your
attention. There are the Five Islands to the eastward, Mount Cobe-
quid to the north of you, and Cape Split and Cape d'Or and Isle
de Haute to the west of you.
But for the view. That you get at " Look Off." To reach
"Look Off" you must leave the train at Canning, a station nine
•^Wf miles out from Kentville, and take a carriage for a five miles drive
"^1"^ ^'''^ ^°"'' '"'les carry you through undulating orchards, but
a..d up U1.1 you reach the c.st of loffy " Look^ff ^ ^.;^h;r liJ^tbrt^S^hete^r ^^.^ Z
wi 1 never forge that view. It is transce.dant. Hundreds of feet below you. down the sheef side oHhe mo ntain
hes the Cornwalhs Valley. It stretches off before you southward to South Mountain, fourteen n'L a v .v I ""^
away to the westward to KeiUville, fifteen miles away, and for fifteen miles beyond that. Si! d Ln ri'ver ."nd
along down the valley towards the Basin. In the foreground the little Pereau bevond t1,n7n. r i r
^ree miles come the Habitant, Canard, and Cornwallis,\nd Gasperelf andT..' H^^ ^ fi ^^^ t^^ ^^^le^
You can see as many towns as rivers. There a.e Kingsport, four miles away on the shores of the Ba,t nd Cm n^^:
WilLr^o r '"1 d T^^'rT T "^ ''''''' "P °^'^^ ^ ''"'^ '""• Then there are Kel and p"rt
VMlhams to the westward, and Wollviile and Grand Pr6 towards the south
To the eastward lies the great Basin, red with the perpetual strife of its tides beating against the dikes and
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'~^-^- ■>**^iif*--'
C/-
itville to Kingsport
you will find the
Joard her and take
a grand opportii-
e water side ; and
ich to occupy your
vard, Mount Cobe-
ape d'Or and Isle
Off." To reach
ig, a station nine
a five miles drive,
ing orchards, but
.1 keep going up
Methuselah, you
: of the mountain,
es away. It rolls
ferent rivers wind
itervals of Lw(j or
ide of the valley,
isin, and Canning
[entvilie and Port
1st the dikes and
climbing up Mlomidon's ruddy sloi)e, a height ol
fort>-, fifty, and sixty feet each day ; and away off
to the east you can distinctly see the farther shore
of the Hasin.
This valley that lies before you . the richest
soil on the continent. "We have worked it two
Inuidred years and never given it an ounce of fertil-
izer," said my companion. "The soil there is just
as black as )our shoe," he added (though unfortu-
nately I happened at the time to be wearing a jiair
of ru.ssets). 'I here are some six thousand acres of
this dike land in the Cornwallis \'alley. My Iriend
volunteered the further information that it was worth
four hundred dollars an acre. Regarding that I
could not say from personal knowledge, but I am
sure the view from " Look Off" i.s well worth that.
Vou will be a better man for having stood on " Look
-n^^r^-
'*" ■-^..
MOORE'S FALLS, KENTVILLE, N. S.
u!ll a fb^ Texuultir! ^h^h'^IJl dh" ^^tr^VT"'"'' 'T' "^' ^°" ^"" ^^^^" ^'^^^ "^^-y -'"--
see how full those pigeon-holes are of work ^°" "^ ''"''" °"^^ "'°''^ '^ y°''' '•°"-t«P desk, and
veryagllXrdo ^:i:J'l:Z:^ Z^nl^'l " '7f'' T'' "^^^'^'"^'^^ ^'---y- "•'" «"^''
rinest garden country in the world.-nrmilethruI'L^ 'T:''' '"""' '' '—---- miles through the
It is a charming ride on the Do^Z^t^^^^^'f''^'' P'"7 g--n.steins and long red astrakans.
the Annapolis Valley. Vou will soon notice .it em dd t"' '" ^"'"P°''' ' '''''''' °'' ^'"^^y "^'■^ d°-"
is the beginning of the Annapolis River, ifg ows I 1^^ • n^^^ "?""? '^■"''''^ ^'°"^ ""' y^^^' "S^^- ^hat
grows larger and larger, and by the tmie you have crossed it at Paradise
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r\
\
CAPE BLOMIDON.
it has b^ome a sizable river Halfway in your ride you come to Middleton, notable by reason of the mineral
.,.. mgs that he near by, a.ul because the Dominion Atlantic road is here met by the Centra winch rm amrt;.
IHiinisula from l.unenlMir^r on the South Shore. uit ^unv.n wMrIi nii.. across the
^-..u nn.st indeed be a singularly insensible person if you do not feel a distinct thrill as the train pulls in U (ho
..at .n at Annapohs an< you hnd yourself in the oldest town, with the sole exception of St. Augustin on 1 Am;^^i
Contu,ent. It was founded n. 1604. That was three years before Jan,estown and a good twenty siVy;."lc .re oi
n.t cstcdmthcold 1h„ -the general outhnes of wh.ch are still intact. You are still obliged to cross the moat over
Inch ahva^s lend .charm to an anoent ruin. You will fmd in an excellent state of preservation the olc iM-ench
louder ,naga.ne bu.lt n. .74;. The quarters once occupied by the officers are still standi g ; and vou will e 1 '
l\ u, 60. Don t hurry away Iron, the old Von. Sit down in some spot a little sheltered fron. the breeze, and refresh
\ unu oi Annapohs played a nK.st conspicuous and nuxst sanguinary part in that prolonged conflict. From
l.e battlements of the Port. looking down the Annapolis l^asin you can just see Digby, twenty miles
. away, peenng at you between the intervening islands. It is a twenty-eight mile ride around bv the
curvmg shore from Annapolis to Digby. and you will cross as many bridges as they have in
^ - \ en ice.
Digby is at the foot of the Annapolis iiasin, clinging to a sunny hillside and
ovcrlookuig the whole ex,,anse of blue waters. There are two spots there that you
certauily must visit for the excellent views which you can get from both; one is the
hilltop back of the village, and the other is the end of the long pier Of the
.. two perhaps the hilltop gives you the wider range. There before you, stretching
twenty miles away, lies the Basin, blue as the bay of Naples. Not
far away is Hear Island, where a number of Americans have their
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the
the
left is Digby Gnp, cut sharp and sheer U «,g ,|,e t d ^^k If^M V H T" '"',"" "l"""'"- °"" "' >"""•
from .he Bay of Fundy jus. outside. Nea f , h ^ Ibl tilT " ",' 'T^'' "'''* "'" '*= "'*
the Bay pushes in to nieet the little river. '^ ""■">■■ " ""= "^^l"*'^' » '""^ »™' ^hi-^h
effort tt' ::;Lte''„:„:* :™;cwet„2:Tt';,e 'rrr''" !°t ■": °^ •"= ■'""■'■ ^°" -" -= -"« •> '<»p--
the su_ hoarder awAr it is ^rr;:t::^^:-Ts^:d:-^^^^^^^
cases, ^';ri ;;lr!:i:ri::S^;:^^'::r,''-'--""'''- — °- "- -- -- -nd ony. stai.
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i f t
BACK TO BOSTON.
^K first hour's ride on your way from Digby to Yarinoiith takes you through a rugged piece of
country, but after passing Weymouth (which, by the way, it is really a mistake to pass,
for only two miles down the Sissiboo River from Weymouth you come to St. Mary's
Bay, which is altogether one of the prettiest spots in the whole peninsula), you come
out into the more open country, and a little later the conductor calls out "Ohio!"
You may be interested, by the way, to know how Ohio got its name. Back
in the twenties, when many New Englanders nulled up stakes and moved to Ohio,
a little company of Yarmouth people were stricken with the contagion, and they
made their preparations to migrate to this western Eldorado ; but at the last moment
their hopes 'vere dashed, —they could not go. So they moved a few miles out of
;^ Yarmouth and started a little Ohio of their own,— a fine illustration of the supreme
^^_ " wisdom of wanting the thing you can get when you can't get the thing that you want.
' ,-*h-* j^^j^ j^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ Milton lakes, and here is Yarmouth.
You will be glad to get back to the "Grand" hotel, not that other hotels have proved so poor, but because
this has proved so good. And you will enter the dining-room with an appetite brought to a fine edge by the memory
of your former visit. There are the waitresses, each in her snowy apron and dainty cap, who serve you so expedi-
tiously, so noiselessly, so modestly. You will linger at the table long after your hygienic instincts will tell you that
you have had enough, simply from the pleasure of prolonging these gentle ministrations.
If in your flight through the province you have left any desire unfulfilled, if you still want more boating, more
fishing, more cycling, more scenery, you can easily supply the deficiency before you leave Yarmouth. If you have not
yet had^ your fill of fishing, get a guide and go out to the Tusket Lakes,— you will find it a glorious ending to your
summer's sport. If it's boating you want, try the harbor at flood tide ; and if you still feel an aching void for scenery,
take the little launch once more over to Bay View Park, clamber up again to its peak, and drink in that supernal
scene,— and then board the "Boston" or the "Yarmouth" for home.
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The boat leaves shortly after the arrival of the Halifax train about six
in the afternoon, and it will get you down the harbor and out on the broad ocean
in ample season to see the great Atlantic catch fire in the west, burst into a blaze
of splendor, and then gradually die away from crimson to purple, and from purple
to gray, as the sun drops into his watery bed. If there is a moon you will find
the evening perfect, and if there isn't a moon the stars will do just as well. But
you will find that your sojourn in Nova Scotia has made you a prodigious
sleeper, and by ten o'clock you will tun.ble into your berth to sleep as sound
as a saint.
You will enjoy the sail ne.>:t morning hugely. The only thing to mar it
will be the fact that so many of your fellow-tourists, made garrulous by the un-
wonted joys of a Nova .Scotia vacation, will insist on telling you
'Z;^
X"
of the harbor -and here's Boston Light. And now we are in the harbor itself, with
old Port Warren, looking with all his grimness, pleased to see us back again. And
tiiere is the gilded dome, and here at last the dock. You are back in Boston.
The customs officer, as he dives into your bag and stirs your brushes and
collars all around, notices, even with his hurried glance, that you have brought
5.3
^^ what a glorious time they have had, and how many fascinating
-^ things they have seen.
" But here, before you are at all prepared for it, or in any
mood to welcome it, is laud. There it is — Nahant, sure enough —
and you are almost home. And there is the south shore, too.
Sttik ""'' Strawberry Hill and the water tower, Point §t a "T
- ''Ill Allerton and Hull ; and there are the Three Brews- \\\^ \ f ),
'*-^! "N* '^'^^' '•^^ unfortunate islands
that got stranded just outside
back a great many things which you did not take away, —thousands of dollars' worth — but, poor fellow, he has to
let you enter them duty free, for there's no tariff on round cheeks and clear eyes, hard muscles and hardy nerves,—
nor on the great stores of vitality that will last you for a big year's work.
When you get up on Washington Street with your grip in your hand your old friends will pass )ou by without
recognizing you. You can hardly blame them for you are in fact a new man. The pure air, the clear sunshine,
and the sweet breezes of Nova Scotia have been all over you and through you, and driven out the dust and
cobwebs, and have renovated you in body and renewed you in mind, and rejuvenated you in spirit. You have
had a recreation that re-creates.
And finally, when some friend with more penetrating vision than the rest discovers your identity and
exclaims: "Why, old fellow, how you have changed ! You look four thousand per cent, better than you did!
Where in the world have you been?" you, looking at him wonderingly for asking so unnecessary a question,
will reply : " Been ! Been ! Why, where could I have been to look four thousand per cent, better, but tci
beuitiful, charming, glorious Nova Scotia ! "
The Game Laws forjthe Province of Nova Scotia.
.u.ued:::^^d:£;^;^siS^u;rs.?;;srs^^^^ - ^---^^ .., u.^ is . sa. ... „., ^e
sale, except in months aforesaid ; no niatter wiiether killed i Nova Scotirorit P 'T ' T"'' ""''^ '" "' possession, or offer it for
evidence of its having been killed in close season by the pelnr.fosseion o it "°" I'^f " "''"' '" ''°'' '^^^°" '^ presumptive
meat out of the woods within .o days, but not later in any cTtI . t r,. I r I ^'"T'l """'"^ '"°°'" ""^ ^^"''°" ^^all carry the
.,or more than |3oo for each offe.ice No person sla k I in one se s ,! mo ^T"?' "'"'' '"■■ ''"''''^' °' '""''^S"'"^' "«' '^^« '^an foo
SNAKES.- No person shall set or attemp tto se any sn° e or trTo for m '" T"' "1 '"° '^'"''^°"- '^'^"^'^y- ^5° to |.oo.
destroy it. Penalty not less than foo nor more tlL#^ for e.diow! T °'' '" °'V ""'^ '"^ P''''°" '^"'""^ '-^ ^"'-"-^ °'- ^^'-^P >"«>'
the party intends to set it. * ''''''' °"'"''- ' '''^ Po^^ess.on of a snare or trap is presumptive evidence that
additic^ t:™ r ;:s?;r2;:;s^^;;^r^::^ :: sn tt d ■ "^'■'^' "^^'t " ^ ---'^^ °^ ^- - ^'- >-
No person shall hunt or kill American Elk or Red beer before the^r^lnvrrw ^T'"'' °' "'^""' '° '^""' '"°°^^ "^ ^^--'bou.
HHAVKK. No person shall hunt for or kill beaver' umH^N^tmber ^ .^ ?e":ur'|l " ''"'■ '''''''''' '^° " *'^-
Octob:r^^rr:s^Sr;;Sfo;i;:t;r^:;^^-^^S^^^ ^om Pebmary^th to
nearest hedge. All snares or hedges unlawfully set may be destroyed Petn tv for el ff '"." x^ '"'' ""'''''''' '"''' ^^''^^ •''"^- ^^e
time any Newfoundland Hare or Jack Rabbit. Penalty, In' ^"'- ' ^"'"'^^ ^""^ ^^^'^ ""^"'^e- fc- >^o Person shall hunt or kill at any
Othp:r Flk-ijearing Ani.mai.s.— Close season for tII itiiB.- f,,,- u • • i
The possessi.,,, of .my of the .ibovLS^e 1 1 r, ,! T "^ <l«cki. .h„„,s the ,„o„th, of April, May, June. July and August,
possession ofit Peniltvforlll , „? r r t dose season is presii.nplive evidence of imla»r„l killint b" the oerson i„
I. rot-each of sitch Ss^ ^ei''^' I It dl^^^^^^^^^ '=? ■"»" '■' ""' "- "■" *" '"' =«.. o«;;,ce i^'adS Z
ridge, or .any other bird included in th; dehnhiZrf • Game " -^ . ars^son ,',f r'y'™ '' °'' "" '""" "" ""' "' ""' '" ^■'°"«' ■"«"■
Gr„.s:''i™pS;;^^:rit;i;x'';:;,r'r
bird mentioned in this section. ' ' '= '°' '"'' '^'"""'■■' '"''""'' ■""' '^1'"'" ""'""'te and J,5 for each other
55
License.— No person whose domicile is not within Nova Scotia shall kill or hunt any of the above-mentioned animals or birds
without having obtained a license. Licenses are sold by the Clerk of Municipality in each county, from the office of the Provincial Secre-
tary, and by the agents of the Game Society appointed in various convenient places through the province. Licenses shall be in force only
from August ist, or the day of their delivery, till August ist ensuing. License fee, I30 for moose and game and |io for birds. Officers in
H. M. S., if members of Game Society, are exempt from payment of any fee, otherwise they shall pay a fee of I5. Every holder of a license
must produce the same when required by any justice of the peace, game commissioner, or officer of Game Society. Penalty for hunting
without license, $50 to |ioo, in addition to the license fee. The hunter, guide or companion of any such person hunting without license, is
liable to same fine as the person himself
Export of hides, etc.— Unlawful to export moose or caribou bides from Nova Scotia. Any hides attempted to be exported shall be
forfeited. Penalty, I5 for each hide. Unlawful to export p rtridge or woodcock. Penalty, $20.
I'^isn. Salmon —Close season from August 15th to March ist, except that salmon may be fislied for with the fly alone from
February ist to August 15th. From low water nearest 6 o'clock p.m. of every Saturday to low water nearest 6 a.m. of every Monday no
one shall fish for salmon in tidal waters. In non-tidal waters frequented by salmon, no one shall fish for any kind of fish between 9 o'clock
p.m. of every Saturday and 6 o'clock a.m. of the following Monday. Drifting and dipping for salmon is prohibited. Penalty for breach of
foregoing provisions, |;2o for each offence.
Troi.; etc.— Unlawful to fish for, or to have in possession, any speckled trout {sa/vcHnitsfor/iualis), lake trout, or land-locked salmon,
between isc October and ist April. Unlawful to fish for trout by any other means than angling with hook and line. Penalty for breach of
foregoing provisions, |2o for each offence.
Explosives.— The use of explosives to kill any kind offish is prohibited under a penalty of |2o.
Bass.— Close season from ist March to ist October, except that bass may be fished for at all times by angling with hook and line.
Bass shall not be fished for by any net having meshes of a less size than 6 inches, extension measure, nor by means of seines. Penalty, $20.
Shad and gasi:)ereaux.— Close season for shad and gaspereaux shall be from sunset on Friday evening to sunrise on Monday morn-
ing in each week. Penally, I20. By a late amendment to the game laws, agents of the Game awd Fishery Protection Society are appointed
in various places in the province, where non-residents are likely to arrive, for the purpose of selling licenses, and of generally carrying out
the law. This has been chiefly because strangers have complained of the difficulty of finding the officials who hitherto have had authority to
sell licenses. It is the intention of the Game Society rigorously to enforce '.he above laws, and therefore this publicity has been given to them.
Note.- No person shall sell or expose for sale, or buy any animal or bird included in the definition of Game until after a lapse of
three days from the end of any close season. Penalty. I25. It very person who brings or sends the carcase of a moose or caribou, or who
oflers for sale, shall bring or send together therewith the neck and foreleg of the same, and shall retain and keep the same exposed,
together with the meat so offi;red for sale. Under a penalty of I50. Whenever a fine is imposed by the Game Laws, the person fined is
liable to imprisonment if the fine is not paid ; and judgment may be recovered in the County Courts for amount of fine and costs, and may
be recorded, so as to bind the lands of the defendant.
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;d animals or birds
e Provincial Secre-
lall be in force only
• birds. Officers in
i' holder of a license
Penalty for hunting
f without license, is
e exported shall be
the ffy alone from
)f every Monday no
1 between 9 o'clock
;nalty for breach of
and-locked salmon,
enalty for breach of
,'ith hook and line.
;ines. Penalty, $20.
: on Monday morn-
iciety are appointed
nerally carrying out
ave had authority to
been given to them,
iitil afler a lapse of
or caribou, or who
the same exposed,
the person fined is
and costs, and may
Nova Scotia Hotet.s.
hotels,' th: Hah^:^5.;d < Cc^; ^.IrSbljtlie'S^and^r ^''T """^^ "' ^ ^ ^"^^^ ^"'^'^^ °^ "^"'^^ ^^^'-^ -« '-'^'"^
on an average. Rates will ra.'.ge f^^uS^l';:':^^:':^:^;:::';^:^^ 't::^' T^^'T^' T''' '' ^° ''• '' '' "^ '^
proprietors in advance, as to terms and acc<^,,modations. ^ ^^ ^ ''^'"'^'' ''" '''^" '" communicrae with the
TOWN.
.An.N'AI'OI.IS
avlhsford
Hai)df-:ck
15 KO FOR I)
I5ERWICK
Hridoktown
Bkidgewatei
Canninc;
CllKSTIiR
Dic.nv .
HOTEL.
Clifton House .
Queen ....
Aylesford . . .
Aylesford House
Bras d'Or House
Telegraph . .
Hellevue . .
Central House .
Evangeline . .
Grand Central .
Fairvievv . . .
W^averly . . .
Lovett House .
New Royal Hotel
Acacia Valley .
Myrtle ....
Short's Hotel .
Waverly House .
De Halinhard's .
Digby House
Hurnham's . .
Hay of Fundy
Trefry House.
PROPRIETOR.
John D. Cameron
C. A. Perkins.
M. N. Graves.
•Mrs. Corbin.
I'Vank Anderson.
J. Dunlap.
William Wilson.
Mrs. Vaughn.
Geo. Kirkjiatrick.
E. J. Lan/jley.
Fred. Clark.
Mrs. A. n. Baxter.
L. C. Manning.
E. Stalling.
Capt. Raymond.
VV. S. Troop.
Miss Short.
Miss Woodman.
J. A. C. De Balinliard.
Misses Smith.
Mrs. Burnhani.
J. O'Connor.
Mrs. J. Trefry.
TOWN.
Frederickton,
Grand Narrows
Grand Pre .
Halifax . .
Hantshort .
Horton Landing
Kentville
KiNCSl'OKT
i 4
Kingston . .
Lawrencetown
HOTEL.
Barker House
Grand Narrows.
Clear \'iew .
Halifa.x . . .
Queen . . .
".Vaverly . .
Albion . . .
Grosvenor
Revere . . .
Royal . . .
Acadian , .
Central . . .
American . .
Hantsport . .
Dunedine . .
Hotel Aberdeen
Porter . . .
Kentville . .
American . .
Central House
Kingsport House
Kingston . .
Elm House .
PROPRIETOR.
F. B. Coleman.
.McDougall & McNeil.
Hy. Mitchell.
Hesslein & Sons.
James P. Fairbanks.
Miss Romans.
S. LeBlanc & Co.
J. C. Morrison.
J. F. Priest.
Mrs. Winsor.
Geo. Nichols.
Miss Payson.
E. W. Dalton.
J as. Wall.
Thos. Harri.5.
'\ McLeoJ.
vV^ H. Townsend.
Mrs. J. Lyons.
Jas. Mcintosh.
J. P. Corkum.
E. C. Borden.
C. Neily.
A. Oswell.
NOVA. SCOTIA HOTKLS. — (:;;;///«//,v/.
TOWN.
Liverpool
LOCK'ORT .
LUNENDURC; .
MiDDLETON .
Mahone Bay
Newport
New Germany
Parrsboro .
PiCTOU . .
Port Williams
Sheldurne . .
hotel.
Thorndike
Acadi.i . . .
Grove Mansion
Clifton . . .
King'.s . . .
American . .
Acacia House
Newport . .
Morgan House
Grand Central
Queen . . .
Minas . . .
Revere . . .
Village House
Port Williams
Atlantic . .
PROPRIETOR.
Geo. Scluiltz.
Mrs. .Sellou.
Mrs. Hill.
M. Rineger.
J as. King.
D. Feindel.
Mrs. McDonald.
W. Gibson.
J. H. Miller.
C. M. Day.
D. McNaniara.
W. B. Gavin.
C. L. Rood.
Geo. Brown.
M. A. Orr.
D. B. Frost.
TOWN.
S.viith's Cove
St. John
Truro .
TUSKET .
Weymouth
(I
Windsor
woli-vii.le
((
((
Yarmoith
hotel.
r.'easant View Houst
Royal ....
Victoria . . .
DuU'erin . . .
Learnient . . .
.American House
W'oynioulli H(juse
Goodwin Hotel .
Hotel DuH'erin .
Victoria . . .
Rose Cottage
.American . . .
Kent Lodge . .
Grand Hotel . .
Queen ....
PROPRIETOR.
I^ R. Thomas.
Raymond & Dolierty.
D. W. McCormack.
E. LeRoy Willis.
A. H. Learment.
.Mrs. \V. H. Gilman.
R. L. Black.
J. W. Gooilwin.
j. Co.x.
T. Doran.
F. I>. Rockwell.
Mrs. Grace Rockwell.
Mrs. Moore.
Grand Hotel Co.
E. M. Nichols.
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PROPRIETOR.
. Thomas,
iiond & Doherty.
/. McCormack.
L'Roy Willis.
. Learment.
\V. H. Clilniaii.
. lilack.
("jooihviii.
X.
Dian.
Rockwell,
("■race Rockwell.
Moore,
d I Fotel Co.
Nichols.
m
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64 Chatham Street,
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Sbip ant> Steamsbip ^Brokers,
Commiesion /Iftercbants.
SPECIAI, ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE SAI,E OK
LqniE^„ riLi
DEALKKS IN
CANADIAN FLOUR, CORN MEAL, PROVISIONS, ETC.
RAYMOND & rtsur^
WHITCOMB'S ^^^' ^^
AU
Traveling Expenses
Included.
SUMMER AND AUtUMN TRIPS, 1897.
Parties will leave BOSTON and NEW YORK for the followInK trips :
Central Europe.
bailing from New Vork May 15: -Tour of 93 days throuKh Frame,
Switzerland, Northern Italy, Austria, HuiiRarv, Cermany iiicludinK the
Rhine, Belgium, Loudon and Paris. Sailing froni New York May m : — Tour
of 64 days tlirough Great Britain, inclusive of Kiigland, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales, together with a visit to Paris. Sailing from New York Juney: —
I oiir of 64 days over same route as preceding. Also on same date, tour of
64 days, including England, Belgium, Holland, fiermanv (the Rhine, etc.)
Switzerland and France. Sailing from New Vork Juni 26; — Tour of 6s
days through France, England, Belgium, Holland, Germany (the Rhine,
etc.), and Switzerland. Also on same date, tour of 85 davs tluough the same
countries and Northern Italy in addition.
Northern and Central Europe.
Sailing from New York June 9: -Tour of 127 days, comprising an e.v-
teiided and comprehensive tour round through Nnrwav, the Land of the
Midnight Sun, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Auslria-HungaVy, Northern Uilv
Switzerland, France and England. A party will sail from New York Mav
19, and alter making a tour of Great Britain will sail for Norway in conifiic-
tioii with the foregoing, making a trip of 148 days.
The Yellowstone National Park, Alaska and Colorado.
July I and July 13: — Two unsurpassed tours of 44 days over the most
picturesque routes 111 the world. The outward journev from ocean to ocean
by the Northern Pacific Railway, with a week in the Yellowstone National
Park, and a return through the grandest scenic sections of Colorado.
The Yellowstone National Park and Colorado.
J"'')'.'.') : — -Vialtiitctivc trip through soiue of the luost uicturesiiue parts
of America, omitting the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
The Yellowstone National Park and California.
Early in September : -A magnificent tour of 64 davs across the conli
nent, including a week in the Yellows )ue National Park, wU, a visTt to
California and a return homeward through llah, Colorado, ec'aUo a
parly for the \ ellowstone Park, returning ,riiect. >-"'"""'"' "-'c- • aiso, a
Around the World.
f.ii'/''""^''"*; '^"«"st 2j !<"■ a toil'- around the globe, including Colorado
HoK°V'!?,;.-'"-'r"'i^ ""i?' ""= ^'.™'.'' SettlememsrCevlon, India^Eg"ypMhe
r,mr I p ' ""^'<*=>-. t"'--<-'St. Italy, and other sections of Southern ad
Centra Europe, re iirning in Kehniarv, March, April, May or line i8y8
according to individual ,.rcference. Leaving August gY-Toiir of the
Hawaiian Islands and connecting with above. *-"»'y- '""roi ine
Short Tours to Leading Eastern Resorts
v\'i,i?''^''\r" "'."-'•■^■als during iJK- summer and autumn, including the
VVhileM<.uiitains, Saratoga, Lake (ieorge, (Juehcc, the Saguenav e
MarUime Provinces, Niagara Falls, the ThousaTid Islands, etc
Our Annual Winter Trips to California and Mexico
i89;-9S^'" '" °'"°'"^'' ''""' <:o"t'""e at short intervals through the season of
(br a^lX^U^ui;! iuti™ . ''""""'" ""'''"^' """ "'""■« -"• ^■■'^ '^'"Pl"Vcd
Also trips to Flori.la, the Bahamas, Jamaica, etc.
*»f-Send for descriptive book, mentioning the particular tour desired.
RAYMOND & WHITCOMB, 296 Washington St. (opp. School St.), Boston, Mass.
(lays across the coiiti-
I I'aik, with a visit to
Jolorado, etc. ; also, a
;, iiicluiliiiK Colorado,
Ion, India, Esypt, the
ons of Southern and
il. May or June. iSy8,
ust 9; — Tour of the
Jtumn, includiUK the
;, the Saguenav, the
inds, etc.
through the season of
IK i^ars, are employed
F. L. MARSH,
Forwarding Agent for the Yamiouth Steamship Company
LOWEST PRICES.
Patrons of the Yarmouth Line arriving at any of the Boston depots can have their bacg.ae
p.omptlymnsferred thereby avoiding delays, if they will retain their cLcksun.f'
they arrive at the Yarmouth S.S. Go's office and hand them to us.
SPECIAL ATTENTION AND LOWEST RAT£v tiiucu jn ,, , u.,.^^ ._ ..,_
»/-i=<-. /!..,c„ -^.vsLn !» AU ninuo Ot uuHi AND HEAVY TEAMING.
GOODS TRUCKED IN BOND.
F. L. MARSH, Proprietor, Pier I, Lewis Wharf, Boston, Mass.
lifM
M
Hams and Bacon
nre " niiscil in tin- >;'':i'" c()\iiiliv " in tlif
vicinity of NiwcmsIU'. Ind.. iiiisi.<l iiiulir
liL-alllilnl coiidilidii-^ — purr, clean {ooils —
grains — fitsli iniininK water.
40 Years on the Market,
A little better every year.
'li.cv'ic ciircil liy luilninl prmcsscs. rot
forced, and arc ,siiii)iH<l frcsli from our
own >niokc-lifuiscs cvi-r\- day.
Notii'c how fMK'-iiiaini'd antl firm tluy
arc. Note particular!-. l!ic flavor.
/.v iiuii/:/:/\ii or yiiin !ii:.\ /,/■:/! in:-
mi:m/!/:i! tiii: \im/-: .\i;»c.i.sri.i:.
CliAS. A. BALDWIN d CO., Bo ton. Mass,
9
k!<
'4
i
8. H. MflYO FURNITURE CO.
107 to 131 Fulton Street, Boston.
Parlor,
Dining,
Library,
and
Chamber
Furniture.
Steamer
Chairs.
^ Desks.
Our Special
Reed Rocker for J 897,
No. 949.
ALSO BOXED CHAIRS AND FURNITURE FOR SHIPPING.
RE CO I Appleton's Quide= Books for 1897
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Appleton's General Guide-Books to the
United States and Canada.
IN THREE STYLES, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
I'ART I. \k\V iC.Mil.AND AND Ml 1)1)1. !•; STATUS.
I'ART II. .SOUTIIKRN AM) WkSTKRN StATKS.
And in One Complete Volumz.
Tln;v are tasiefiiliv illustralufl and wull printed, ami nimli care lias heeri
uikeii to make tliein Uic mosl cmnprehuTislve, coinplele, ami accurate C.iiide-
KiMiks ivcr issued iii this country.
These Quide-Books have undergone a most
thorough revision, and many new features
have been added of great value
to the traveler and tourist
In additiijii tii tlio rcsriilar features, tlie m-w editions include new railway
and steamboat routes, descriptions of newly developed resorts and excur-
sions for tourists, and descriptions of important cities and towns brought
down to date, with itineraries for Kniiists whose siKlU-seeiiiK i an theieliv he
acniinphshed in the shortest time. These itineraries have been made up bv resi-
dents 1)1 the vaiirms cities, under the supervision oftlie e<lilor.
Appleton's Hand-Book of Summer Resorts.
One Volume. Paper, 50 Cent.s.
.\ clear, conip.icl, and readable aciount of the ^icat Waterine l'lare> and
leailiiiif Resm IS of the Summer Tom isi.
Appleton's Canadian Guide-Book.
Complete in one volume. \>,y Ciiaui.i:s <;. I). Kf)ii|.;KT;;
Professor of Fnglisii Literature in King's CoIIe>;e, Windsor'
X..S. With supplementary chapters describing Western
t anada from Toronto to Vancouver.
In r.iiiKe of iiifoimalioM and in literarv value this C.uide to Canaila as ap-
proached by no ,ither book. It furnishes vivid and detailed <lescriptions of a'l
the Lan idian lesnris, cities, towns, villaKCs and livers ; with clear and full info,-
Illation as to Us l|sliinK and huutimj Rrounds, the means of access to, and tb;.
Kame laws KOveiniiiK them.
Visitors to Quebec should read Qilbert Parker's famous
romance "The Seats of the Mighty."
The Seats of the Mighty.
lieino the .Mtinoirs of Captain Robert Moray, sometime an
Olhcer in tiie \irginia kei>imeiU, and afterwards of Am-
iierst's Regiment. 121110. Cloth, illustratt c|, 11.50.
'• .\nother historical romance of tlic vividness and intensitv of ' The S.ats 01
the Mighty has nevei come from the pen of an Aiiicrican. Nir. I'arker's latest
work may, without hesitation, he set down as the best lie has done. I'loni the
lust cli.aptei to the last wtnd interest in the book never wanes; one finds it diHi-
cnlt to interrnpt the nariativc with brealhiuK space. It whirls with excitement
andslran.neadvciitine. All of '.lie scenes do liomaKe to the ),'eniiis of Mr.
I arkcr, am make I he Seats of the Mi,i;hlv ' one of the books of the vear "
— < niratio Art'"/ if,
Appleton's Guide to Alaska and the Northwest Coast.
I'.V Miss Ij.I/.A RlllAM.Ml .SflDMOKl:.
Imlndiim the shores of VVashiiiKton. liritish Columbia, Southeastern Alaska,
Aleutian Islands, the Seal islands, Heriiiv; Sea, and the Aictie Ocean. With
A most interesting and inslrnclive hook.
Ill
M.ips ,ind lllustr.-itions.
Clifton ID0U6C, ^ ^
Annapolis Royal,
Nova Scotia. v*.A
This is the Leading Commercial
Hotel (if Annapolis, pleasantly sit-
uated, being near " The Old Fort"
and convenient to all places of
business.
= ! fip
Fitted throughout with Electric Lights, Bath Rooms,
and all other Hodern Conveniences.
SAMPLE ROOMS FOR CONVENIENCE OF TRAVELLERS FREE.
Best or £iKrp Supplied ar Sbort notice.
Carriagef, convey guests to and from
all Boats and Trains Free
JOHN D. CAHERON,
Proprietor.
THE HOTEL mmu
KentviUe, N. S.
THE LARGEST AND HANDSOMEST HOTEL
BETWEEN YARMOUTH AND HALIFAX.
.\
■iM:
"■A
1 he hne nc-w Amerdkkn, j„st opened this season, is conveniently situated
close to the stati.ni. It has ovct one hundred rooms, including several suites is
provided «,th cloctri. lights .u,,! hells and steam heat, and is handsomely fur-
nished throughiMit.
Of Course You will Stop at Kentvillel
Itscentraluess, h.althfuluess, and the heauty of the surrounding country -
Cornwalhs Valley, Lool: OlV, and Blomidon-make it most attractive Then
stop at Us best liotel.
-D. McLEOD, Alanager.
' 11
Pi
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ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
FREb. E. 5TK0H
Wedding Cake a
Specialty v»*»«*-/t.^"*
421 & 423 Hanover Street,
BOSTON.
B OST ON
PROVISION
CO. ' ^ ^
w. w. J. McLaren..
Manager.
Whulrsiili' (tiicf h't/tii! Dial, IS i,.
/Treats, (3roceiies,
provisions an»
SFjips Stores.
Flour, Fruit, Vegetables, Salt Provisions, Etc.
DECK AND ENGINE STORES.
390, 392 & 394 Hanover Street,
BOSTON,
AM LeltiTs sent lo Our Address Proiniuly Delivered.-
THOMAS COOK & SON,
Chief Office, Ludgfate Circus, London.
*^ Chief American Office. 261 and 262 Broadway. New York.
'^^-'^ New Yorl« Uptown Office, I22S Broadway.
And at Boston, Philadeiphia, Chicago. San Francisco, Etc.
Baltimore & Ohio R.R.
Central R.R. of New Jersey.
Fitchburg R.R.
New York Central & Hudson River R.R.
OFFICIAL TICKET AGENTS FOR THE
Boston & Albany R.R.
Chesapeake & Ohio R.R.
Lehigh Valley R.R.
New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R.
Also for All Sound Lines.
Boston & Maine R.R.
Erie R.R.
Long- Island R.R.
Pennsylvania R.R.
5IONS, Etc.
iiplly Delivercil.
E-UrOpe, May to August. A
KOUnd the World, September and October. Padfic Coast and National Parks. Niagara Falls.
f^SYPh 1 he iNile, and Palestine, ^ if wrence. Lakes George and Clumplain, Nova Scotia.
iV'm
ik'jT
lit
KsrABMSIlHU 1S37.
J- W. HUNNEW^ELL & CO.
Oils, Varnishes, Drugs, Naval Stores.
PROPRIKTOKS OK
"SOLAR LIGHT" AND "CRYSTALLINE" BRANDS OF REFINED PETROLEUM.
strained Yellow Dip, Crude Turpentine, Pine Tar.
Wilmington Pitch, Rosin,
SHIP AND STEAMER SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY
146-148 Commercial St,, and 125-127 Fultii,-, yt,,
HOSTOIV, Af^iSjs^.
H. J. KL-LEM =
CitDographcr
and
printer,
iO Oliver Street, Boston, mass.
Estim.ites clieerfiilly luniislied for ALL KINDS OF KIRST-Cl \SS WORK
at MODERATE I'RICF.S, .ind sali,-,laai.>n Kuaiaiuc-i'.l.
Telephone 5?5.
With P. H. FOSTER & CO.
AARON R. GAY & CO.,
FIRST-CLASS ACCOUNT BOOKS 5T/^T[1©1ME!^3 .^.^
Account Books made to order H/^lNiy F/^CTO ilSiJ
fl Good Fountain Pen
Is a Kieat convenience fur tniirists ai.d others, and we liave reliable makes
which we can reconnneml. The " Idkal," the "Swan,"
and the " b \siia\vav."
Prices, $2.50 and Upwards, according to Size.
lasi Stc^kte Sti->es«$«r,
liustoan.
Blancharu Sz Towlk,
WHOLESALK AND COMMISSION DKAI.KRS IN
pECSE
Jise
^fp
;ti
Nos. HI ^ tiLi Conimerol^al V\^li<arf.
I.. A, lil.ANCHARD.
Telephone 651 Haymarket.
E. S. 'I'owi.K.
Wlitirf.
K. S. 'I'owi.K.
Clark's Hmericaii Courlst Hgencp,
Chei
wa
e^a'^e'l' *'nl'''^"' '" '^' Pennsylvania Railroad,
y NewVork "' °''" '"'""'' '^'"^^' '="=■ «' '" ^
Erie,
Broad-
and^r \^::j^^-;:- i-- r '^^ °-- ^"--
Chief Office, ill Broadway,
BOSTON:
C. V. Dasey, 7 Broad Street.
TRINITY BUILDING, NEAR WALL STREET.
New York.
JERUSALEM: j^^^^^
Opposite Jaffa Gate Hotel du Pare.
■n.,.,^. i jt ,, "• ^'^'■'^' "'S. Vice-Consul, Manager for Palestine and Egypt.
.. -.r-iages, and .amp e.,u,pments tor independent or escorted travelers in Palestine.
CLflRK'5 TOURIST QflZETTE. WITH n.AVS, PUBLISHEb HOfiTHLT.
ADDRESS. F. C. CLARK,
111 BROADWAY, N.Y.
BRANCH C.TICES AND AGENCIES
IN CHIEF CITIES IN THE UNITED
STATES, EUROPE, THE ORIENF.
■ I
l'%
ROOMS:
$1.00 per day and upwards, one person.
$1.50 per day and upwards, two persons.
GOING TO BOSTON?
TRY THE
MERICAN
HOUSE
BOSTON, MASS.
HANOVER STREET,
Near AJams S<|iiare.
C. A. JONES.
European Plan.
THE YARMOUTH STEAMSHIP CO.
LIMITED.
I'SK AND RECOMMEND
VACUUM^^e^
600W. Miner..: Cylinder Oil.
Marine Engine Oil.
Signal Oil.
H. R. KING, Marine Agent.
VACUUM OIL CO.,
4S Purchase Street, Boston.
r~m I 1,1
i W. dieslerton \ Co.
Railroaa and
StcamsMp $upriic$.
steam Packings.
Rubber Goods,
Oils, Waste, Etc., Ktc,
NO 49 INDIA STREET,
BOSTON, MASS.
JAMES P^OLSOM & CO.,
Ipbavniacists,
34 ATL.WTIC .WKNTK,
lllCAIl 111'
V. S.S. CO. WHARF.
-Bo.sroN.
Medicine Chests and Ships' Medicai Supplies a Speciaity.
I'r.'scriptions Acciitatfly Dispensed with riiiv Drugs and Pliar-
macopnat I'rescriptions.
A REGISTERED PHYSICIAN IN DAILY ATTENDANCE.
JOSEPH H. COY,
1-4S Atlaiitie Avenue,
BOSTON.
\M
n
I'assentjers arrix'inj; or depaiiiiif;-
by the steamers of the Vannoiith
Line will find this Dinin<;- Room
a very convenient place for a
Limch or Meals at reasonable
prices.
The Coolest and Pleasantest
Dining Room in Boston.
EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS.
iLI
0THCIf4 BARKER HOUSE,
marine
Raraiuare
SHIP. yflCHT, m BOAT TRIMMINGS AND OOTFITS
OF ALL KINDS fl SPECIflLir.
Lanten s, Spar Varnish, Block Makers' M.te
rials, etc., etc., and a Complete Line
of General Hardware.
GALVANIZING DONE TO ORDER.
-. ^ ^ AGENTS FOR
Chester Folding Anchors, and Patent Worn, Gear Steerers.
170 Commercial Street,
BOSTON.
FREDERICKTON, N.B.
The St. John River is rightly termed
the Rhine of America," and alL*.-*
tourists to the Maritime Provinces^
should include a trip to this beautiful
sheet of water in their itinerary..:*.^
1 lie Steumbf)!its I'rniii St I,. I,,, /.. ; •
Rates, $2.00 and $2.50 per Day.
N.B.-First=Class Livery in Connectio.,.
Free Baggage always in attcnJance at Boats.
Travel Tickets Kverywhere.
ISS'r^BCISHBD 1(>«44.
Henry gaze & sons,
Orleinators and First Conductors of Oriental Tours.
Tourist and Excursion Directors.
Hotel and Traveling Contractors,
LTO.
Isiiie Tourist Tickets lor Iiidiviiliial Travelers to all parts of
AMERICA, EUROPE, AND AROUND THE WORLD.
OKKICIAI, ACJKNTS OI
Escorted Parties to
EUROPE, THE ORIENT, AND AROUND THE WORLD
At Freijiieiit Intervals.
THE PRINCIPAL TRUNK LINES.
PASSAGE TICKETS BY ALL LINES OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
GAZE'S TOURIST GAZETTE, WITH MAPS. PUBLISHED MONTHLY : BY MAIL FOR !0 CENTS.
Chief Offices:
113 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. - - 142 STRAND, LONDON.
220 SOUTH CLARK ST., CHiCAGG
New England Agency, 201 Washington St., BOSTON. 14 South Broad St., PHILADELPHIA. 2 Rue Scribe, PARIS.
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
;re.
HE WORLD
Weymouth Bridge, N. S.
The visitor to Eastern
Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton should extend his
Journey to Louisburg.
Daily trains from the Inter-
colonial Railway, Sydney.
7>
iniprovcnieiits ' " ' "" '"O'l'-'iM
There are some of the ,„ost heautir„'l drives fn 1
NDON.
be, PARIS.
Smoking and Reading Rooins.
Goods Fishing in the Lakes and Rivers.
Boats and Guides Ftrnished.
CHHRR/lcs, AV Jl /.y ;
pl'-iiti/u! a,idf,,-e to all.
No pains spared ,o,nake,o„ris,s ami quests
ofthe house feel at home.
R. L. BLACK, PROPRIETOR.
• - l*?^^^^ !^.
^
Q^eei? j^otel....
HALIFAX, N.S.
^AMES P. FAIRBANKS. P.op.,
ETOR.
Tl-a,nlhi,ig ca„ make a vhit In H^rr
fitt'd 7cil/i „// „,„/'■■ ""''""""M- 'S" rooms,
«is/„„ns of II,,' I,,,/' I '"-y'lnoiis /■„,.
sin,'. Oil,' vi.sit wiil\nii , '^^'•"'•>it cm.
^"/'•■>i«niy,,f!n;i;:ii ""^ "'" "'"■ ■'-'""■
T'Z 'i':Z'!. Z"'"-"^' '"■' ''■'■Mrst hol.ls i„
''•"vii,,. ollin CaiuuU.n /i, M ,' , 'T '
■s,.,<,m,'r,, ,„ ,„i,.„„,, ,„ „^ f_-- ■
L''i'''ii ui,- luiini i„ ,1... ...... , ""■-'' n,'„i/,
lop at (I
NEW MANAGER, NEW FURNITUR
E,
NEW CARPETS, NEW FITTINGS.
. The hotel ace
and .vi/j^ri:?!/;;;^;;;!'--;:^';-"': »^<^^ are an,p,e
as the substantia'ls
'c QijKKN to the
more attentive to the 1
ol the seaso
popular favor offlietravel
WHAT OUR GUESTS SAY OF US
The best i„ the Provinces are to he roumlh
lilHeth
- Pla^^
.niKpiihlic: CI
here rest,
etitcrtaiiiineiitand
I he house lias heen n
oil Mollis Street
i^a/Av Ttavi'llfr, A.
I "IRS tl.
lied witi
Kl :xs isl=5"e;:teS iHrS
w
conifiirt niav h
c made our hr
near the business
'".?■• i>), r,s'y_s.
!i KUests all s
(^■entre, and «it"i
r the pleasure and
'iimmer, and nianv t
comfort of
KUcsts th
tic manaKemeni.
le found
a line table
. ieatthe(Ji-K
I" their ideals
■plead with the del
liN d
11
111 ills our sta\
liere are three
lin a few
'urists from the St
steps of the Parliament ]S
- the h si , f^^^- ,^^ ->-e never meruith h^l^^;!;;;:;!-;^--'' Jux
?^r,l"^^.i"-y^-.'J;;:,,
nild
"K». Po^ oC"S!f ^ ^!!±J/' Halinix The 1.
people in a larRe'ct
icii)al Stores, and St
'lotel Is cent I
(■■amer Landing.
Ill the city,
catures that
ries, as Well
y who Were
■illy located
s — SosloH
Tie Coast feilwa^y C^mfMi%
1897.
v/lLL OPEN 31 MILES OF THEIR ROAD IN JUNE,
WHEN THEY WILL BE PREPARED TO RECEIVE
PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT FOR
Arcadia, Tusket, Belleville, Argyle, Pubnico,
And Points on the South Coast of Nova Scotia.
Excellent fishing and shooting, boating and bathing. Comfortable country inns, with good fare
and moderate charges. First-class hotels at Yarmouth, Barrington, and Shelburne.
Connections at Yarmouth with Dominion Atlantic Railway for Halifax, and
Yarmouth Steamship Co. for Boston. At Pubnico with Davison's Coach
Line for Barrington, Clyde River, Shelburne, Lockeport, etc.
15 HOURS FROM BOSTON. MASS.
For full information apply to Company.
Head Offices, YARMOUTH, N.S.
897-
Dod fare
FH, N.S.
Druggists,
^HIN ST.. VHRTWOUTH.
*♦_
Telephone,
No. 81. ^
Electric Cars
pass our door. ^
HEADQUBfVTERs pqr
«)arana Segars, etc. ^^
All Information as to fluides e..- .^ .
""•ues, etc., cheerfuUy given.
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE.
GEO. S. TAYLOR,
Tkl
poo
339 and 341 Main St
YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA.
rectf
^
^. Special Attent
ion Given t.- th ~ ,,,
American Tourists.
8l
HE onlv direct water line'between tiie
twc cities without brealsinsr bulk. . .
BETWEK:N
JBO^TOH^tiifiEWYOKK.
steamers Sail from India Wharf, Boston,
-Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays,
And From Pier II, North River, New York,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
The steamships ofthis line are b..;itonron, with water-tiglit compartments and
lor great speed, insuring perfect safety and quick despatch.
Lowest Rates. No Delays. No Re-Handling of Merchandise.
Tlie locations of our docks ill New York and Boston are most convenient, and our
lacihties for handling and delivering freight are unequalled.
ThrouKh Rates Quoted and Direct Connection Made at v.w York with
p^lr"'.^' I'^T'^l^''-",'!^' & Western Railroad; New York, Lake I., i^S Western
«^ .'h^^'i v'"?'' Y'*"'^*: ?'-' '"'ay; and central kailroad of New Jersev for points
South and West ; also with the steamship companies for '^
Wilmington, N.C. Brunswick, Qa. Fern.nndina Fla
Jacksonville Pla. Galveston, "Tex. N^w Orleans, ui.
Savannah, Qa. Charleston, S.C. San Franclsci, Cal.
And all interior points, and with all roreiKU steamship lines.
BONDED TO C.VRRY both appraised and unappraised merchandise.
All through freight forwarded promptly and with great care, and through bills
oflading issued or piucuied to all shipping points. luugn duis
Mark your merchandise and freights via " Metropolivan Line."
IT IS THE CHEAPEST AND BEST.
For thidugli rates and full information, .ipply to
H. M. WHITNEY, Agent,
India Wharf, Boston, iVIass.
or H. F. DIMOCK, Agent,
Pier II, North River, New York.
Tk Cambridge Laundry.
Soden Street, Cambildgeport.
PURE ARTESIAN WELL WATER.
amous
lexible
inish
Trade
Mark
We make a Specialty of
WASHING FOR
STEAMERS. . . .
Work called for and delivered FREE in all parts
of Boston and vicinity.
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OFFICES:
Boston,
Reu) york,
Cl)Jcaso,
^an Francisco.
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new Pork,
San Francisco.
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■INK IS PICTURESoOli AND THE
TOWNS ARE PLEASANTLY
SITIATED, AND FAVORITE
RESORTS tOR TOURISTS. .
NOVA SCOTIA.
Coa. . L^enB.^, . ^e^ tZ^.I ^uf^"'
The forests abound vvitli <.ime m » ., •
'•■"" '^''^ leadied, besides other
Stag-e connections are m^id^ =.f TV ^
Caledonia, and at BridTett" f^rwS WuL^r d'^'^^^^^' ^°^^^^ -^
^0." ^^.-er ..or.a.o. „. .,.,,,,, ^^^^,,^^ ^^ ,^ ^^^ ^^ ^— ^^
R. M. .1. MCG-LL r • . ^° -^y ticket agent, or to
- -vK.u.LL, General Passenger Agent.
BKll^GEjvvAarEJK INT « ^" ^^'°^^LL' General Manager.
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Jrefry j\oase,
J. A. TREFRY.
Di^by, l^oi.'a Seotia.
This House is situated on the shores of the
beautiful Annapolis Basin, commanding an
extensive view of the Basin, Gap, and sur-
rounding country, only a few steps from
excellent boating, bathing, and fishing..^^
Terms : $7.00 to $9.00 per week.
$t.50 per day.
ALBION HOTEL,
S. LeBLANC & CO., Proprietois.
fill iMilP
"-• *" 1 1 1 III "ffias^^
The most centrally located Hotel in the City.
22 Sackville Street,
ilALIFAX, N.S.
Mear Post-Office. Principal Banlts, and Steamboat Landing^.
Terms, $1.50 Per Day.
(3ran6 Central Ibotel.
HEAD QUEEN STREET,
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia.
Special ilccommodarion
Tor Courisrs and
Commercial Crauellers,
'NCLUDINQ SAMPLE ROOMS.
Rates Reasonable. Table First Class.
LIVERV STABLE ,N CONNHCTION,
Carri.3ge at .->!! Trains. .
JOHN H. WILLIAMS,
"Province Notes," and Correspondent Daily
WORCESTER, MASS.
and Sunday Spy,
E. G. LANGLEY, Prop
netor.
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VieTORIA yOTEk,
D. W. Mccormick, Proprietor.
Centrally Located.
Electric Elevator and all
Modern Improvements.
FIRST CLASS IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
KING STREET,
SAINT JOHN, N. B.
BOSTON MARINE BUILDING,
YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA,
CONTAINING OFFICES
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E. H. ARMSTRONG, Agt.
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KENTVILLE.
N. S.
The Best
$1.50 A DAY HOTEL ^.
In the Annapolis Valley.
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U LARGH AIRY ROOMS,
H HOT AND COLD BATHS, !J
I , GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS -'
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T^Hf tfee Fery Pfst,
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«< SPECIAL RATES BY THE WEEK. >«
Free Bus Heets All Trains.
W. H. TOWNSEND,
Proprietor.
WAVERLEY HOUSE,
Canning, N. S.
TERMS: ^^''^^ ^^R DAY.
($6.00 AND UPWARD PER WEEK.
and 'Jiomtet'lj;;;^;;;;?;:;^ *;;;>,;;"'•;;•' '<> the nu„».,s Look-off
accessible by mil. ^ '^"^ '""^'^ "«arcr than any other i,oint
[hei/tS^Jt t::„;;;„^ii'^^- can obtain
to Canninjf. *"" **»• ^o « Office in Boston, direct
"r^::;;;:^i.r"7r:as^^^ '" -^'-
from these tH.-^^laces th^ V^ n^s;'?.!:'''';'-"'"^' "'« "■''^i" of .Mi„as
Canard Dykes to W'olfville Pnl " '^'"'^ '''""^"^^ "'e beautiful
Home of E\angelii e -' [hirh'^' ''■'^;^',', '"^''^ ^''-^''^ Pre •'The
poet, has touched with' the win, 'nf^f • ""^"•- America's ^re Jes!
'"""ortal. "'^ ^^■^"'J of Its genius and made forever
Good Livery and Careful Drivers
connected with the House.
MRS. A. B. Baxter, Proprfetress.
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HAI.IK;,X SOUVENl„ OOOOS.
^- E. HEBB
stationery, Books and Fancy Good.
'3P HOLLIS STREET '
(One block north Halifax Hotel)
^' ^^OVA SCOTIA.
Souvenir Spoons, Paper K„i
- ...» rrit?""" '"--".vr - -
inksUnds, Card T,. ^ "Pers.
• ^'ta I rays, Trink>» r-
"BBB'S QU,OE TO C.TV, w.TH „,p.
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HEBB'S NEW POCKPt MAr>
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Prices 10 Cents and 45 C^nfc P
« <-cnts Respectively.
Acacia Valley House,
ACAOA VALLEY,
DIGBY, NOVA SCOTU.
Transients tl m ,3^'""^'
All desired inforinat
ion readily giv,„ by addressing,
^' B. RAYMOND.
PROPRIETOR.
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ROYAL HOTEL,
ST. JOHN, N.B,
RAYMOND & DOHERTY, PROPRIETORS.
This is the Largest and Best Equipped Hotel in
New Brunswick.
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.a.e ",•'7"*! "" ""''"" '"'P°''^'"'-^'-S i"cl«iins two efevat„,,-„„e for passengers and the other for bag-
g ge A story has recently heen added to the house, which increases its capacity considerably. The rooms
floor* ,rl:'r h" ":"" *'""' ■'"'" "'*'"'* """ •"•"" "'"""="">■ """"-"• Those on the other
ha or Other " "" " "' ""' "" "'" '""' ' ™^""'"""' ^'^* '^ '° ^' '"'' »' "» ^V »""
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blr- h' p ' " " """ ""''"^ '"■'"'■ ^'"^' ■"' °" "« ^™""^ "»"• A'» » news stand and
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Dye Works,
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HALIFAX, N. s.
Caundrp in rbcmaririmc Provinces.
mclESitLOFTHEPRElPflLTOm:
"^^niLL/IGES.
Give Us a Trfal.
W. A. MALING & CO
Wholksa,.,, and Rkta.l
'>8A,.KRs ,N KiRST Class
ftesfc Cawet
POULTRY, ETC.
Of
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HALIFAX. N. S.
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SHIPPING PROMPTLV ATTHNDED
Telephone 378.
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The
North American
Life Assurance
Company,
^- 'Of Toronto.
One of the most progressive
and successful Life Insurance
Companies in Canada.
Assets to Liabilities at
close of 1 896j^ Twenty
Dollars to One
Profits to policy holders
on the investment policies of
the North American unex-
celled by any company in the
world.
American, and all other
tourists visiting Nova Scotia
by the Yarmouth S.S. Co.,
should call on a North Ameri-
can agent and secure one of
its valuable policies.
Agents in every town in
the Maritime Provinces.
The Prominent Officers of the
Company are :
JOHN- L. HLAIKIE,
President.
WM. McCAHE, 1-M.A.,
.ManaKiiiK Director.
HON. A. G. J(3\ES,
Chairman Xova Sctitia Board.
Hon. Judge Morse ; lion. I>".
W. Horden, Minister of Mi-
litia ; Hon. H. H. Fuller;
Hon. Judge Forbes ; Hon.'
Geo. H. Murray, Premier of
Nova Scotia ; R. L. liorden
MP.; \V. L. Lovett, Capi-
talist; A. AV. Fakins, Mer-
chant ; and others are promi-
nent members of the Nova
Scotia Board of Honorary
Directors.
GEO. E. LAYERS,
I'rovincial Viaii.ijjer,
Halifax-, N.S.
T. B. LAYERS,
I'rovincial .Manajter,
St. .loliii, N.B.
E. H. ARnSTRONO,
Ajjeiit, Varnioiitli.
HESSRS. YROOn & ARNOLD,
Anents, St. John, NMi.
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UNION BANK B..LD,NO, HAL.PAX. Containing 0«.ces „, North American L.,e Assurance Company.
OOraiiil¥iiiI
JVejrc
-m^ Sportsmen
Oursclyes,
and
3re pleased
r^^_ ■ '"'"^^ '' specialty of ,
^flnPlNQ OUTFITS
^- ■'. nORTON fir CO.,
yarmouih,
fO"e doc- sou.h.f „„,,.„,, Office;,
A'oi^a Jco^/o.
W.A. KILLAM,
Wholesale Dealer In and
--hlpper of all kinds of
PLUMBINQ. HEATING. UAHPS >.v..
' •"^IFS AND KITCHPM
P»-esh Fish,
»«'"•««. Mackrel, Sata, rrool, Smelb, £els,
coo, HADDOCK. LOBSTERS, ETC.
VARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA.
The Grand Hotel,
YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA
^
The
"Grand '*
IS. ic.« brick and freestone hotel of the first class, built
> >N,^-<>t, and brst opened to the public July 2, 189,,. Tl e
I ouse was built and furnished wfth especiii reference to
tie demands of nio.lern tourist and business travel, and
pteasan ly situated suites of rooms, witl private parlor In II u.d h!,^
Electric Cars Pass the Door.
f„,.i7''lv"*''*'^^'''" '''"■i'lB the few months of its existence has eariii-,1
b°.V mi e'xuaordiin r''^'; "'I.'' ""''"T ""i^P ^"'" i' -'o' '-"'-.""iua
wJre Hk Fx, pM^n . I "if '^'^ «"?'•"* '^■'"•■■•ained in the summer of .4
I i,K. A? ^'^^^'I«='"^>, Lord Aberdeen r.overiior-Ceneral of Canada) with
Lady Abenleen and suite, and His Excelluiicv v<)lu.ileere<l tie m,,Jt
complimentary ren,arks regardinK the bouse and'its maimgeinenl
Ch Jand IbeBllis TiVl'" '^'"".T"! '-",' yP^rienced and accomplishe.l
cnti, ami tne Bills ol hare provided bv 1 111 are not suroissi^d pitlim- i„
v^ane y or quality, in the best hotels in the Uomhiio, X chniue roo
ceMeir'%hUi;!L',''f '■''."■'■■' '''«'-^' '"■'-■•''^•'}"' ™'""' •■""I "><^ table se vice ex-
c^^,*"''!'""'""; '-■°"ta"ii»K In" information may be obtained and rooms
secured m advance, on application to the ManaKer '•"'"'"' »"" '""'"»
U. E. BAKER, President.
A. W. EAKINS, Secy.-Treas. FRED. W. CLARK, Manager.
THIS CJHAIVr. HOTBT. COMPANY, ...„.«..„
One Hundred Rooms.
American Plan.
Moderate Rates.
Special Prices by the
Week or Season.
S.
YAmmtk Pacli
COTTON
SAIL DUCKS,
Wicie Ducks,
EXPORT AGENT,
^- ''■ TURNER, ;, BPOAO ST., NEW VO.K.
S.A.CROWKLL&CO.
Yarmouth, N. S.
Wcral iKcrcftanis,
"WLDER5 HARDWARE, TOOLS
AOR.CUUTURAL .«plbmb4, ol,s5
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES *
W>-c,inv,iSt,)di,.f . . •""'^HES, &c,
'"" P^"'' C»„cr,. scissors. Razors. Sc.
ALSO A KULL LINE OK
Gum, Revolvers. Ammunition
SALMON and TROUT Ki.,in, Gear
Main Street, Yarmouth, N. S.
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COASTAL STEAM PACKET CO., Lid.
Halifax anil Bridgewaier, Novn Scotia.
Fares Cheap
and Accommodations
Fifst-CIass.
.<v««,-<THE NEW STEEL.^.*."*
Steamer "Bridge water."
CLASSED A1 AT LLOYDS.
SAILS FROM
Halifax for Bridgewater every Wednes-
day and Saturday at 8 a.m.
RETURNING,
Leaves Brldgewater every Monday and
Thursday at 9 a,m. for Halifax.
I .nirists will fiiirl the s:iil very L-nioyal.le along the Coast and on the La Have River The
sleainerooni,.ctsal Hri,li;ewater with the Nova Seotia Central Railroad an 'lallbr.ls
a very atlraitive return trip to parlies viiiting LnnenburK County hy railroad.
PRANK DAVISON, President and Mar.
■ »QI»T AT HALiraX,
BRiDGtwATtR, N.s. JOSEPH WOOD, Central Wharf.
Ba
Bo
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Put
the
o'cl
Stea
term
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For P
DAVISON'S ^^
_^*^ COACH LINE.
VKR7VVOUTH
• . AND . .
^^^LBURNE.
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Boston ; also after .^l ^^^I^^S.^^^^^Ar^^^^^
Coach leaves s„elh ''^'''''''^''''''
termedS pofnt ".' *"i"' °" '^"«''^' 'Steamers ft 'l°n i'" '^^^outh
''" '•-"'" information App„ ,„ '^
JAMES KROST &
PROPRIETORS,
SONS,
^nanfic Bouse,
SHELBURNE, N. S.
v««
OniD Firsr Class Borei in com
inr
Open Fire PLACEsr
Hot Water Heat,
Hot and Cold Baths
Electric Bells,
Centrally Located
Table Unexcelled. '
KATES: .1.0.00 p^j^ ^^^
D. B. FROST. Manager.
J. D. mm s CO.,
YARIVIOUTH. N.S.
Special Points for Tourists
AND EVERYBODY ELSE.
Fine Kid Gloves, Laces, Velvets.
Celebrated for Black Dress Silks.
Very Strong in Dress Fabrics imported
direct from Britain, France and
Germany.
Yarmouth Homespuns.
Extra Inducements in Fur Garments.
MILLINERY.
Acknowledged to be as fine a Dry Goods Store and as fine a
stock as there is in the Maritime Provinces.
Made up on the premises by a successful
French milliner, from stock directly
imported from London and Paris.
THE DUFFERIN,
St. John, n. b.
DOWN BY THE SEA.
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'»■-. overt,,,, .'7 ;■' '*— T,„s
tourists. A'li'Jliian t„ s„„„„^,.
EXCELLENT CUISINE
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E. LE Rofw/LL/S
Proprietor. '
Goodwin Hotel
"'BVMOUTH. NOV,^ SCOTU. '
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""■"■^■""'"^'-^^'— pp...,,,,.,,.
•»• W. GOODWIN, PropHetor.
THE
HALIFAX HOTEL,
I One of the Finest Hotel*
) in Canadav'*v<i«»v'«v<v"«v'*
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
THL jiivat impidwmeiits anj .uiJitiDiis maJf to tliis p(.pulai- hotel within
the past f.n\- years lia\e now placed it in the rank-s as one of tlie fore-
most hotels ill Canada, it contains now upwards of tw(i hundred hed-
ro< as, with ample accommodatirMi for at least 350 ;:iuests. The spacious
Dinin- Hall has a seating capacity for 200 persons. The Parlors, Reading
Room, and Chanihers are all comtortahlv titted up and supplied with all modern
approvements. Incandescent l.i^ihts throughout the whok' huildin<i. in hot!i
corridors and rooms. An attracti^•e Conser\-ator\- and nu.uniticent outlook-
over the Harbor, which is admired \ery much by tourists, is approached from
the Ladies' Parlor. Also one of the latest improved Llectric Passenger Lle\a-
tors bein^f added for the coiuenience of its jzuests.
THE CUISINE IS OF THE FINEST,
And the Proprietors are saf- in saying that those who may honor them nitii their patrona-,. uiij r\.d
well satisfied with tlieir \isit to Halifax.
Terms Moderate.
H. HESSLEIN & SONS, Proprietors.
Hotels
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Pickford & Black's
Steamship Lines.
Halifax to Bermuda — Semi-Monthly.
Halifax to Kingston, Jamaica, and Turks Island- Monthly.
Halifax to Haytien Ports — Monthly.
St. John and Halifax to Bermuda, St. Thomas, St. Croix. St
Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes!
Trinidad and Demerara — Monthly
Halifax to Sheet Harbor, Salmon River, Isaac's Harbor, Canso
Anchat, Port Hawkesbury, Charlottetown, Summerside and
Souris — Weekly.
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ALL ABOVE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Halifax to St. Peters, Baddeck, Bras d'Or Lakes, Sydney, North
Sydney, Ingonish, Niels Harbor, Aspy Bay, and Channel
— Fortnightly.
Halifax to Codroy, Bay St. George, Bay of Islands, Boone Bay
Rose Blanche, LaPoile, Burgeo, Harbor Breton, St. Jacques'
Balloram, Grand Bank, Fortune, Burin and Placentia _'
monthly.
Halifax and Glasgow- Donaldson Line of Steamships.
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PVJi-L. INPOR7VVKT
ION ON KPPLICT^T
ION TO
PICKFORD St BL-T^CK.
HT^LIFAX, N. S.
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