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PROSPECTIVE VIEW X 
 
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 TORONTO. 
 
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 James Mi iray & Co., Pbintbrs, 26 & 28 Front St. Wsot. 
 
 1890. 
 
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A PROSPCGTlVE VIEW 
 
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 TeRGNTe. 
 
 ONE of the chief 8tuc!ies of every true citizen is 
 the growth and development of the city in which 
 ho was born, or where he has spent the greater 
 part of his life. The position of importance which any 
 great commercial centre may eventually hold is due 
 almost entirely to the individual energy of its citizens, 
 and if they fail to take a large hearted interest in all 
 that concerns the present and future welfare of their 
 own city, they are indeed unworthy of the name of 
 citizen. For, as Emerson tells us—" To accomplish 
 anything excellent, the will must work for catholic 
 and universal ends." 
 
 *• Unless above himself he can 
 Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " 
 
 One of the most pleasing features connected with 
 the rapid growth of Toronto is the increasing regard for 
 its future prosperity which dominates the minds of its 
 citizens. Those who see in the future of this great 
 city, wide capabilities of its usefulness and the ulti- 
 mate realization of all their brightest hopes are the 
 true friends of its inhabitants. For there are many 
 ways in which, both as a community and as individ 
 uals, we may aid in helping forward the general 
 growth and advancement of our city ; to do which it 
 is not necessary to bv. a member of the City Council 
 or be prominent in public affairs : improvements in a 
 neighborhood or street are often brought about by the 
 
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 enterprising efforts of one or more private individuals. 
 Men of the .highest public spirit recognize this import- 
 ant fact, that to assume a pessimistic attitude with 
 regard to the future of their city is a sure way of hin- 
 dering its progress. There have always been in every 
 great community a small handful of growlers, or con 
 servative obstructionsts — men.who have gone through 
 life continually looking upon the dark side of the 
 picture— and whatever city they may hail from, they 
 distinguish themselves by opposing all healthy reform 
 and every movement started for the welfare of human- 
 ity. But their voice soon becomes very feeble, until 
 at last it is drowned by the enthusiastic energy of 
 those who are wide awake to the real and best interests 
 of their city. 
 
 Population and Oeogrpaphlcal Position 
 of Toronto. 
 
 Toronto is undoubtedly fast becoming in every re- 
 spect a great city; with a unique geographical position, 
 it has all the conditions necessary for the maintain- 
 ance of a large population. 
 
 It has been recently said : " The best method of 
 supporting the theory that Toronto will continue to 
 develop rapidly for many years to come is, perhaps, 
 to tell what has been her rate of growth, and show 
 that the causes which occasioned it are still, and must 
 continue to be active, with regularly increasing force, 
 until her tributary country is fully devoloped. Three 
 years ago a conservative estimate gave her a popula- 
 tion of nearly 123,000, the increase in the preceding 
 six years having been about 63,000, or at the rate of 
 10,500 per year. Toronto now has 215,000 inhab* 
 itants." 
 
 A writer to the Empire has well said that "Toronto's 
 progress is a wonder and an astonishment to all; 
 we are as certain to have a population of half a million 
 when we pass out of the present century, as that the 
 
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 greatest railroad in the world tells us that in less than 
 twenty years Toronto's population will be 1,000,000," 
 
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 It is an undoubted fact that Toronto's resources are 
 greater for building up a mighty centre of commerce 
 than those of any other community on the great chain 
 of Lakes. With prospects of a future so prodigious, 
 we have no hesitation in saying that Toronto is des- 
 tined eventually to become the Chicago of Ontario. 
 Already she stands as a type of the modern commer- 
 cial city, exhibiting a vigorous and well developed 
 municipal life ; meeting questions of industrial and 
 commercial interest with prompt and intelligent con- 
 sideration. 
 
 It is pretty evident that the city is rapidly grow- 
 ing north, and w^ fully believe that the suburbs of 
 Toronto must extend in that direction. T' popu- 
 lation has trebled in ten years ; why shouiv* it not 
 double in the next ten ? The World of April 19th, 
 1890, gives it that •* Toronto has increased in popula- 
 tion for the last ten years at the rate of about 1 2,000 
 a year, and is increasing now at an accelerated pro- 
 portion ; some place must be found for these people 
 to live ; they won't object to the suburbs providing 
 some of those places. Toronto's population increased 
 20,000 last year, not counting the increase by the an- 
 nexation of Parkdale. At twenty-five persons to the 
 acre, which is about the average, 800 acres additional 
 would be necessary to give sites for homes for this 
 one year's increase." With such a rapid growth in 
 numbers, there must of necessity be a corresponding 
 extension in area. 
 
 Although it has been said that the city proper is 
 capable of sustaining a population of 1,000,000 we 
 very much doubt whether this coyld be accomplished 
 without excessive over-crowding, resulting in a state of 
 things similar to those under which Galsgow suffered 
 some years ago. We quote Mr. Albert Shaw's article 
 in the Century Magazine for March, 1890. "Origin- 
 ally the * closes ' and lanes of the city were not at 
 all objectionable. The houses were of moderate 
 height, and unbuilt spaces were attached to many of 
 the dwellings, and promoted ventilation ; now, how- 
 ever, in those localities almost every spare inch of 
 ground has been built upon, until room cannot be 
 
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 found to lay down an ash pit. Houses, too, which 
 were only intended to accommodate single families 
 have been increased in height and are found tenanted 
 by separate families in every apartment, until they 
 appear to teem with inhabitants. A worse state was 
 disclosed by an inspection of some of the more recently 
 erected houses for the working classes. Tenements 
 of great height are ranged on either side of narrow 
 lanes with no back -yard space, and are divided from 
 top to bottom into numberless small dwellings all 
 
 crowded with occupants Occupatioi of 
 
 cellars and sunk flats as dwelling houses is largely in 
 the increase." .... " It had become constantly 
 more apparent that drastic measures must be taken 
 with the old part of the city. Nothing short of very 
 extensive demolitions could remedy the evil. There 
 were practically no streets at all ; but only a system 
 of * wynds, v^nnels, and closes,' permeating an almost 
 solid mass of tenement houses." 
 
 Shortly after the extension of Glasgow's boundaries 
 m 1846, and the consequent reorganization of the 
 municipal government, public attention was forcibly 
 drawn to the frightfully crowded and unsanitary con- 
 dition of the central parts of the city. The success 
 which had followed the city's brave efforts to enlarge 
 and deepen the tiny Clyde into a great ocean highway 
 had been attended with a most extraordinary develop- 
 ment of industries in the Clyde valley, and growth of 
 urban population. The more fortunate classes moved 
 out of their old homes in the central district of the 
 city to the handsome West End suburbs. The busi- 
 ness core shifted somewhat also, and the old buildings 
 were packed with an operative class which Glasgow's 
 new prosperity had drawn by scores of thousands from 
 the Highlands and from Ireland. The peoole lived 
 for the most part in single room apartments, and in 
 unwholesome conditions which will not be readily com- 
 prehended by future generations. Epidemics, origi- 
 nating in these filthy and overcrowded quarters, 
 invaded the homes nf *■!>« hoffof />laaa<ic. ^^a »«i*.^--, 
 tection made some measures of reform a necessity. It 
 was resolved by the town council to set aside $150,000 
 
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 for the acquisition of property in some of the worst 
 neighborhoods ; but while a considerable investment 
 was made in condemned tenement structures, the work 
 of building others on the same bad models was going 
 on apace. At length a committee was appointed to 
 make inquiry and report to the council upon the sani- 
 tary laws and arrangements of the large cities and 
 towns of the kingdom. 
 
 As laid before Parliament, in 1865, the scheme 
 covered an area of 88 acres, which then contained a 
 population of 51,294; the average mortality of the 
 area for some years past being 38.64, with epidemic 
 diseases the cause of 36 per cent, of the deaths. The 
 average density was nearly 600 to the acre, and r6 
 various parts of the district it exceeded 1,000 — the total 
 inhabitancy of the city then being 423,723, covering an 
 area of 5,063 acres, and showing therefore an average 
 density of eighty-three as contrasted with 583 in the 
 area to be dealt with. The financial side of the ^cheme 
 looked plausible. The initial outlay was estimated at 
 about $7,250,000, and it was expected that the re-sale 
 of building-sites would pay back all but $750,000. A 
 new park was to be made at a cost of $200,000, and 
 the paving and sewering of three or four miles of new- 
 made streets was estimated at $325,000. For all the 
 advantages of improved streets, improved health, and 
 improved general appearance of the town the rate- 
 payers were not to be charged at all dearly. 
 
 The council committee which carried out the 
 improvements acquired some further powers and did 
 more than was originally contemplated. Besides pur- 
 chasing the 88 acres and some other small areas in the 
 crowded parts of the city, they acquired and laid out 
 in streets and squares for workingmen's residences two 
 estates known as ♦' Overnewton " and " Oatlands." 
 They also formed an important open space, the 
 " Cathedral Square," in a densely populated neighbor- 
 hood, and carried out other large enterprises not at 
 first in the list. Their operations were very vigorous 
 
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 directly the cause of, much house-building and real 
 estate speculation in G'asgow. 
 
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 In comparing the growth and expansion of other 
 great cities, such as Liverpool, England, and Chicago, 
 United States, we are bound to deny an assertion 
 recently made, with reference to Toronto, that land 
 which IS now staked out in lots, intersected by avenues 
 and streets, will in twenty years time be used only as 
 inarket gardens. It has also been erroneously stated 
 that Toronto contains as many as six thousand vacant 
 houses, but a digest of the returns lately taken, prove 
 that there is at the most but one vacant house to every 
 100 popui tion, or t^n to every 1,000. It is well 
 known that in all large cities there are a considerable 
 number of vacant houses ; old houses in which nobody 
 cares to live, houses under repair, and new houses not 
 yet rented for the first time. The Detroit city council 
 recently passed a resolution in which it was declared, 
 that for a city to continue in a progressive and politi- 
 cally healthy state, there should be from fifteen to 
 twenty per cent, vacant houses, " and that building 
 should be encouraged to that extent." To accommo- 
 date the natural increase and influx of a large city 
 like Toronto we require at least 7,000 new houses 
 annually. The erection of the new Parliament build- 
 ings and Court house— at a cost considerably over 
 $2,000,000— must necessarily employ large numbers 
 ot men, many of whom will have come from outside 
 towns with their wives and families, and they must 
 require houses, or purchase homesteads of their own. 
 
 A City of Commepclal Enteppplse. 
 
 It was for many years supposed that Montreal would 
 always hold the right to claim herself the monetary 
 centre of the country, since it was in that city that 
 Canadian commerce was first carried on, steadily 
 developed, and eventually maintained an unrivalled 
 pre-eminence in financial affairs. But we hope to 
 show clearly that the position which Montreal now 
 holds is quite a secondary one when compared with 
 our present outlook. 
 
 Conoiusive evidence will be found in the following 
 quotation of statistics as to the truth of our assertion. 
 
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 Toronto's loaning Capital ., $46,231,200 
 
 Montreal's loaning Capital 5,818,089 
 
 Money' centered in Toronto 65,228,206 
 
 Money centered in Montreal 44,455 422 
 
 The Toronto World of March 22, 1890, states :~ 
 "According to the Postmaster Generals' report, the 
 Toronto post office does a larger business than any 
 other post office in the Dominion and this one fact goes 
 a long way towards proving the commercial supremacy 
 of the Queen City. The post office doing the next 
 largest business is that of Montreal, but the transac- 
 tions of the two offices show a distinct advantage in 
 Toronto's favor. The gross postal revenue of the 
 Toronto post office for the year ending July 1889, waa- 
 $318,741,21, and that of Montreal $272,526,97, a dif- 
 ference in favor of Toronto of over $35,000. The 
 Toronto postal system does also by far the largest 
 money order business in the Dominion." 
 
 In an address entitled " Links of Union between 
 Canada and Australia " given by J. Castell Hoskins, 
 F.R.C.I. he makes the following statements : •« I 
 material developement Australia is in some respects 
 ahead of Canada, in others, far behind her. During 
 the last twenty years we have in this country broad- 
 ened and improved our commercial facilities until we 
 have one of the most splendid lines of water communi- 
 cation upon the face of the globe. We have connected 
 all the provinces and peoples of the Dominion by lines 
 of railway, which have increased from 2,500, to 12,000 
 miles in extent ; we have developed our industrial 
 enterprises, increased our deposits in banks and other 
 financial institutions from 38,000,000 to 182,000,000 
 and our total trade from 130 to 200 millions of dollars. 
 The moral, the intellectual, the social history of our 
 people has been onward and upward. The growth of 
 the press, the growth of the educational faculities, the 
 diffusion of knowledge as to our natural resources, and 
 the development of a feeling of confidence in our 
 future has been very marked." 
 
 Turniner to Australia we find that 50 vAAr« a«rt 
 *,here was a population of 143,000; land under cultiv- 
 
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 K ation amounting to 181,000 acres, and sheep number- 
 
 3,500,000. To day there is a population pi 3J mill- 
 ions, 8,00Q,000 acres of land under culivation, and 
 96,000,000 sheep in the country. At the former date 
 the exports were valued at $6,500 000, and are now 
 worth $270,000,000, while the imports have risen 
 from 10,000,000 to 320,000,000 of dollars. The 
 deposits in the banks have risen to upwards of 
 400,000j000, and the miles of railway to 9,500. 
 The total amount of gold raised prior to 1887 has 
 been estimated at 1,580,000,000, while the private 
 wealth of Australia — aside from Crown lands — 
 is placed by the Government statisties of New South 
 Wales at $6,000,000. Such figures demonstrate 
 the immense progress of the country, and enable 
 us to realize how the Australians are able to 
 bear an aggregate national debt of 830,000,000 with 
 out difficulty^ while we grumble at a debt of less than 
 300,000,000 with a far larger population. The gr^at 
 difficulty in Australia has always been the lack of 
 water, and the internal development of the country, 
 aside from its mines, cannot proceed without a con- 
 stant expenditure upon works of irrigation. When 
 this great problem has been eftectually disposed of we 
 expect to see the Island Continent enter upon a career 
 of, if possible, still greater prosperity. In other ways 
 the progress of the people has been wonderful. The 
 wool of the country does much towards supplying the 
 wants of the world, while it produces wheat, beef and 
 mutton enough to feed the inhabitants of an empire, 
 and promises to rival France in the production of 
 wine, and Spain in the growth of oranges." ♦ ♦ * 
 " One of the most remarkable points in Australian 
 . progress is the rise of these great cities. " Marvellous " 
 Melbourne as it it so often called, with its 400,000, of 
 a population, (why should we not have " Marvellous " 
 Toronto ?) itis splendid buildings and great capitalists, 
 its broad streets, and the massive, solid appearance of 
 its architecture is one of the most remarkable instances 
 of urban progress which can anywhere be found. 
 Then we find Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, 
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 appearance and magnificent buildings of granite; 
 Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and the 
 " sweetest city of the hemisphere " as it has been fre- 
 quently called, and in all of them we see a population 
 which appears to be characterized by a restless energy 
 more in keeping with the habits of the denizens of 
 Chicago or San Francisco than those which one would 
 suppose to be possessed by residents in a hot and trop- 
 ical clime, such as that of Australia. As an illustration 
 of values, I might say. that sales of city property have 
 been recently made in Melbourne at ten to fifteen 
 thousand dollars a foot— and this is the thirty-seventh 
 year of its history." 
 
 Such testimony as this is of the highest importance, 
 and fully to be relied upon. 
 
 Buildlncr and Real Estate. 
 
 The building which is likely to take place during 
 the next few years is certain to consist mainly of 
 private dwellings. Numbers of families which only a 
 short time ago helped to swell the population of sur- 
 rounding country places, have now settled down in 
 our midst, not merely as tenants of other people's pro- 
 perty, but as sole proprietors of homes and lots of 
 their own. 
 
 We may without doubt persume that prices of Tor- 
 onto 'real estate' will continue to advance, for there 
 never was a period when investments in Toronto 
 property bid fair to rise with greater certainty than 
 at the present time. Noting then the rapid increase 
 in value of real estate in the c'ty and suburbs of 
 Toronto, we need hardly say thai all who are of a 
 thrifty and far seting judgment will avail themselves 
 of present facilities for securi-or what, in a few years, 
 will be attainable only by men oi considerable wealth! 
 
 As in the case of individuals, we fmd men, who, 
 having once become rich, are able,, even in times of 
 extreme depression, to add fortune upon fortune ; and 
 while others are unable to pull through the "hard 
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 est. So with communities, we find the same principle 
 exists Toronto, which is now the most prosperous 
 city in the Dominion, would be able, under pressure of 
 very bad times *' to stand— financially— four square 
 to all the winds that blow," while smaller and less 
 prosperous towns would fall, and become burdened 
 with debt ; but when cities grow as large as Toronto 
 they absorb all the best talent and capital of the 
 smaller, and less important towns. As civilization 
 advances centralization increases. 
 
 The most reliable indication of a city's growth may 
 be found in the assessed valuation of its property. 
 We find that the total assessed valuation was 
 
 i^55?5 «72,715.533 
 
 • laS-r- ...113,063,075 
 
 inl890iti8 137,230'774 
 
 A rough estimate of the amount invested in build- 
 ings will prove still further the advance being made. 
 
 }^ $1,600,000 
 
 t?S 3,000,000 
 
 JJfJ • • 2,500,000 
 
 1^'' 4,000,000 
 
 Millions of dollars are being spent upon the mag- 
 nificent new Parliament Buildings, the erection of 
 which has stimulated the building trade considerably. 
 
 A City of Univepsities. 
 
 Toronto is the fortunate possessor of a university 
 within the walls of which the highest educational 
 training may be received. In the whole of the great 
 continent of America there is not a university which 
 may be said to rank higher than that of Toronto. 
 Students from all parts of the United States and 
 Canada have thronged to this centre of light and 
 learning; and every year the love and veneration 
 which is felt for this noble institution grows stronger 
 within the heart of every patriotic citizen, the truth 
 of which was clearly manifested at the time of the 
 recent fire. 
 
 we nave also Irinity and McMaster Universities, 
 
l*>jri,* 
 
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 both of them flourishing Theological Colleges. A 
 School of Veterinary Science, a School of Dentistry, 
 a School of Pharmacy, Colleges of Music, a'hd various 
 Business Colleges. The students coQnected with the 
 above Universities and Colleges, comprise, alone, a 
 a population of about 4,000. 
 
 First-class schools are situated in all parts of the 
 city, where children may receive a thorough educa- 
 tion in the necessary branches of knowledge ; and for 
 those who have not enjoyed the advantages of a good 
 education in early life. Night schools have also been 
 established, which we are glad to find are greatly 
 appreciated ; the registered attendance of these schools 
 being 1,236. 
 
 Thus we see that the facilities for education in our 
 city are not only numerous, but excellent in every 
 respect. Institutions whiah are built for purposes so 
 noble as the cultivation and enlightenment of men s 
 minds, must give to any city a tone of superior dig- 
 nity and strength. The commercial success of Toronto 
 is also mainly due to the business ability of its busi- 
 ness men, for, while it is true that the highly edu- 
 cated man is not always the best man of business, yet 
 it is also true that the well eduf>ated man of business 
 has an incalculable advantage over his less instructed 
 rival. 
 
 Vacant Buildingrs in T<)wn. 
 
 {World, April 30.) 
 
 A Much-Vbxkd Question put at Rest by a Real 
 Estate Firm, Who Send Out Enumerators. 
 
 A variety of talk has been indulged in of late re- 
 garding the number of vacant houses in the city. It 
 has been put down at all sorts of figures, the most 
 extravagant being those used by a newspaper writer 
 lately — 6000. To set the matter at rest Messrs. 
 Thompson and Dustan, real estate brokers, determined 
 last week to take an enumeration of the vacant houses 
 and stores throughout the city, and "five men were 
 
 aooovH i 11 ofl V nnf. in ■wort Th** o.ii.ir wna fliviWo/l [nin 
 
u 
 
 iections. each man allotted his division, and they 
 have been plodding up and down the streets all last 
 week The enumerators brought in their books on 
 Monday n^ht, each man taking a statutory declara 
 tion that the count had been well and carefully do^e 
 Yesterday the totals were made up as follows: 
 
 fe°i t'^^P'^P Richard Short. ... C04 
 
 West of Dufferin street. ..P. W. Hay ward ^ 
 
 Yonge to the Don j. S. Ma^. _::::: .iSs 
 
 Yonge to Bathurst /i'- E. Harwood ) ..- 
 
 \T. A. Pattertield [ • • ^^^ 
 Bathurst to Dufferin. . . .E. R. Bartlett. ...... 807 
 
 3299 
 A digest of the returns, which is herewith given 
 show a stete of xffairs which is far from dissafisfS 
 
 Finished and habitable houses .... 01 «« 
 
 Unfinished houses "^iSS 
 
 Unmhabitable houses .".'.*.".'.'.' .' ." .' .' .' ." *■.''■ ^ 
 
 Total houses ^^ZZZ 
 
 Vacant stores •' ''.'.".'.'.*!!.'.'!!.*.'.'!"* 311 
 
 Total vacant buildings ^^ 
 
 From the above it will be seen that there is at the 
 most one vacant house to every 100 population or 10 
 to every 1000. This does not show ?he ruinou's state 
 of aflairs that some pessimists try to paint. If the 
 citys popu ation increases 20.000 this year, as it did 
 last year (exclusive of Parkdale), and it takes one 
 house to every five, 4000 habitable houses will be 
 necessary Even if the increase is only 10,000 the 
 habitable houses now in the market will be nearly all 
 required. "c«,iijr mi 
 
 In a large city, if progress is to be made, there 
 
 ?^L^^^\ ^^ * ^*^^ ^^ '^^ numvacant houses 
 People are always moving about in search of mor^ 
 commodious dwellings. A number of the prominei^t 
 house renting .firms say that if a house-owner has 
 nme out o ten of his buildings under lease he shoSfd 
 t^fl «*ti8fied-considering the various causes o 
 „-.u=^ \acanejr. x he returns show that the proportio 
 
10 
 
 ii and they 
 •eets all last 
 •ir books ou 
 tory dcclara- 
 refully done. 
 
 5W8 : 
 
 .. . 604 
 
 .... 862 
 
 ....loss 
 
 |.. 491 
 
 ... 807 
 
 8299 
 
 with given, 
 dissatisfac- 
 
 ...2166 
 ....786 
 .... 88 
 
 ..2988 
 .. 811 
 
 ..3299 
 
 re is at the 
 tion, or 10 
 inous state 
 t. If the, 
 as it did 
 takes one 
 3s will be 
 0,000 the 
 nearly all 
 
 ide, there 
 t houses, 
 of more 
 rominent 
 vner has 
 le should 
 causes o 
 oportio 
 
 is not 80 largo the whole city through, a condition of 
 affairs which everyone will be pleased to hear of. 
 
 If anyone doubts the returns the books are at the 
 office of Messrs. Thomson & Dustan for examination. 
 It is easy to verify the figures. A section may be 
 taken and counted by the policemen in a day. The 
 doubter may take this means of satisfying himself 
 that the city is not in bad shape after all. 
 
 House 81^ js in Toronto. 
 
 Some facia to correct- a prevailing nmconception. 
 
 Strekts, Parks, Business Blocks and Public Build- 
 ings Take up 5,000 Acres — Only 10,000 Acres 
 Used for Residence Purposes — Only 400 
 ^ Acres Unimproved Within the City Limits. 
 
 When there are so many erroneous statements 
 made by irresponsible people regarding the city, 
 quoted as facts by writers who should know better, 
 a few reliable statistics are received with pleasure. 
 The grossly exaggerated reports as to the number of 
 vacant houses have been completely silenced by the 
 special enumeration of these buildings. It is to be 
 regretted that such untrue reports should have been 
 published, but the bad effect produced was not 
 unmixed with good. It has been shown beyond a 
 doubt that all houses in the city are absolutely neces- 
 sary, that fewer than two houses in twenty are vacant. 
 The enumeration may be relied on, as the returns 
 made by Polk & Co., the directory publishers, differ 
 only slightly with the figures published a few days ago. 
 
 The World desires this morn'ng to point out 
 another misconception, generally accepted, in regard 
 to Toronto property. It has often been stated that 
 Toronto is a "spread out " city ; that its area is large 
 enough for years to come ; and that for people to seek 
 homes beyond the city limits would be nothing short 
 of folly. These statements, however, are merely state< 
 ments, having no foundation but the empty gabble of 
 street talkers. The statistics given below go to show 
 a state of affairs entirely opposite to that which is said 
 
k 
 i 
 
 If 
 II 
 
 [3 
 
 1<^ 
 
 i°'^parJo'7wl'hTh^^^^ -ea of Toronto is 8m«n 
 
 pan of th« p^pu atfon out tn H ^"''.^ 'f "''"' *« ^^''^^ 
 
 •re to a fve^t'an "''"■ "^ ^'^'^^^ »«^««- " wo 
 within the ji^itsST""'**^'^^* ''^ *« *h« 'and 
 tracts are to bTsubtralted : ""''"" P"^^°«-' *'-- 
 
 Acres. 
 
 600 
 
 Marsh Lands . 
 
 Streets . . 
 
 T»o-t_ 
 
 X nrKB 
 
 Churches ...'.' 
 
 Schools . , 
 
 fire Halls . .' 
 
 Markets 
 
 !?ot,to1'^!"r' ' ■*^":'Wtioi- Ground.; 
 
 w4" -c't r':;i3trr:7er ,^^'^« -«• 
 
 «res not ,»ed for houae pZ^, '°Th1 "J "™^ \«''<' 
 given are taken for the mn.t ^ i «<"-eage8 here 
 
 Assessraent CommiLon^. f -'u' °f ^°™"*<>- The 
 fife hall, and The Park, 0„?„"^*'-"'° *""'«<' ■''"'« 
 P«rk6. The »)lotaenroAh.T- .'"'T'' *•■»' "« ""e 
 »ent and 8i„,o^ st^u and IlV"" ^'J^""' ^"^'"^ 
 and the Bay ^ an eZv,i ? ^'T**" Q"*™ St«et 
 
 within the'^Zr^ **■" ""y """ ^ ««»Pted as 
 
 City area... . 
 
 ^ds not used forhou^ep^^rtV. 
 
 15,500 acres. 
 6,000 " 
 
 ^ I'and.usedf.. ^property I^ .. 
 
 Now^^^if.::: Li :";:^:^ :? r^««e ^^ ^so feet. 
 
 how closely Tor<. . v, ,*"**, ^S"*"©^ to find out 
 -' " — ' '•' ' .JT*''^ ., lO^OOO acres 
 
 gives 2,500,000 feet f 
 
 /ii 
 
 i|Le. 
 
 ,. . -^viv/vw acres 
 i'Sim.Ating five persona 
 
ftilto is groan 
 OOrisitlering 
 ' much con- 
 isit to throw 
 should be a 
 o city, 
 es. If WQ 
 to the land 
 poses, these 
 
 Acreg. 
 . COO 
 
 406 
 
 400 
 
 2120 
 
 ime 
 
 82A 
 28 
 
 II 
 
 191) 
 
 »,807A 
 
 the rail- 
 ver 6 000 
 sages here 
 
 tueasure- 
 »to. The 
 ige of the 
 tt of the 
 n Parlia- 
 n Street 
 f all the 
 epted as 
 
 Hows : 
 res. 
 
 '50 feet. 
 >nd out 
 ) acres 
 persons 
 
 1 
 
 .17 
 
 in a house and the population at 200,000, thei are 
 40,01 ) houses in the city. This figure, according to 
 the assessment department, is about correct. Then 
 2,500,000 feet divided up among 40,000 houses only 
 gives a frontage to each house of aljout sixty feet. 
 This IS a small average considering the number and 
 extent of the private grounds and residences, scores of 
 which have hundreds of fnt t. frontage, and goes to 
 show that cramping ia going on in more than one 
 locality. 
 
 Instead of u.Uocating a continued restriction of the 
 extent of luu;! available for houses, as some have lately 
 done, a policy of extension should be liberally 
 supported. A laboring man cannot exercise his 
 muscle in a strait jacket ; neither is it good for his 
 health to live in a garret. Let us have cheap houses, 
 Mnple room for them and rapid means to get to thera! 
 Temperate extension will be found the best thing for 
 this steadily growing city. There are only about 400 
 acres yet unimproved within the city limits and 
 judging by the rapidity with which building has been 
 going on this will not be left idle very long. Exten- 
 sion is desirable, both on account of health and cost of 
 hying— not a too rapid extension, but one in accord 
 with legitimate demand. 
 
 Such colossal works as these— giving employment 
 to so many of our citizens— will stand for ages yet to 
 come, as monuments of style, adding architectural 
 beauty and ornament to our city. The repairs to our 
 University will also form a considerable addition to 
 the building programme for this year. We might also 
 !^ic. tion the lew officer of the Freehold Loan, which 
 i' i istimatfcu will cost about $170,000, and the Con- 
 federation Life building. Then we are to have a new 
 Gymnasium, costing $100,000. What a splendid 
 institution for the youth and healthy manhood of our 
 city ! There are other and even larger works than 
 these— whic.i we will not stop to enumerate— known 
 to our architects, and contractors, who look upon the 
 present season for4;he building trade as being the best 
 the city has ever kmmn. We quote the opinion of Mr. 
 Knox, Secretary of the Toronto Builders' Association 
 
I 
 
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 whose judgment aught tp be worth something, and he 
 
 nTh': cittthCr?^'*'^ ?""'^"^^ '^^'^ -«"tte 
 in this city than he has ever known them to be " 
 
 With regard to «real estate,' let us look for a 
 
 moment at the. rise of land in other cities durL the 
 
 ast twenty-fcve years. First class residential streets 
 
 P«h; ff f "". frontage, and at the same price in 
 Park street, overlooking the Central park. A quarter 
 of a century back, land in these same locahtieTwent 
 begging for one hundred dollars per foot frontZe At 
 Bowling Green, south end of Broadway ?herf is an 
 insurance building erected on a piecJ'of land one 
 hundred feet frontage, by the same depth ; the cost of 
 
 $120oSo Tak-'''r^r' '''' ^"^'^^"g -id"^ be 
 JPI ^0,000 Taking Buffalo, we find on such residen- 
 
 r io toTsOo" ""/^T^" r""^' ^-'^ range? r^m 
 
 li tie land is off^^Vrl^^^^ th^ centt ^bu^^^^^ 
 the pnces run high on the outskirts, and arolrFa^r 
 mount Park it ranges $2,000 per foot. Near the 
 Palmer House, State street. Chicago, land reL ed 
 fnd^Sou^th'n Mk^^^*^" neighborhood of Linco^ 
 per foot. ^ P"'"' *'^ ^'°™ ^1200 to $1500 
 
 Coming back to Toronto. In King street our high- 
 est land would represent about $20 per square foot 
 Residential land situated relatively Tt the'co L'of 
 Bloor and Jarvis streets, is selling kt $2 and $3 per 
 square foot, so that the depth of say 150 ?eet woS'd 
 make these lands $300 and $450 per foot. 
 
 Believing, as we have said elsewhere, that Toronto 
 will one day be as great a city as Chicago, we thTnk 
 t no exaggeration to presumed high an^e timate for 
 the future prices of Toronto real estate. 
 
 The Stpeet-Cap Lines. 
 
 With increased population and extended area the 
 demand for additional means of transit, is aenerailv 
 very soon felt, and with a well Organized iSuS 
 guvurnment, sucii as we possess, ver> soon met. '""""' 
 
Wng, and he 
 le are better 
 to be." 
 
 look for a 
 
 during the 
 ntial streets 
 now selling 
 me price in 
 
 A quarter 
 ilities went 
 )ntage. At 
 here is an 
 f land one 
 the cost of 
 said to be 
 ch residen- 
 tnges from 
 Cleveland, 
 slphia very 
 )ut we find 
 3und Fair 
 Near the 
 d real zed 
 )f Lincoln 
 
 to $1500 
 
 our high- 
 uare foot, 
 corner of 
 d $3 per 
 Jet would 
 
 b Toronto 
 we think 
 imate for 
 
 irea, the 
 generally 
 lunicinal 
 Jt. 
 
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 Therefore as the facilities for transit improve, the 
 city must naturally expand. Additional street rail- 
 ways will have to be laid, in order to meet the require- 
 ments of those living in the suburbs ; and this will be 
 accomplished at no far distant date. 
 
 Where the land is a gradual rise from the lake to 
 the north of the city, the speed ai which the horses 
 are able to travel, is greatly diminished, and amounts 
 to little more than an ordinary walk. This fact alone 
 has prevented" the extension of building operations in 
 the north. While it is thirteen miles from the extreme 
 east to Mimico, it is only two or three miles north, 
 but we feel confident that horse-cars will very soon 
 be a thing of the past, on this side of the Atlantic, 
 and be superseded either by cable or electric cars. 
 Experience would seem to shew that electric motive 
 is by far the most suitable for a climate such as ours. 
 While the cable is more generally preferred in the 
 warmer regions of Australia and California. 
 
 In St. Paul Minn, the two systems were tested side 
 by side, in the winter time of deep snow and severe 
 frost. The result was in every way successful, and a 
 contract was entered into for supplying the city with 
 electric power, at a cost of $2,000,000, The electric 
 motor is now in full force in St. Paul ; having tri- 
 umphed over all difficulties, it is carrying people, who 
 would otherwise be kept in the city, to the fresh air 
 and health of suburban homes. 
 
 As soon as this city secures the control of the street- 
 car franchise on the 14th day of March 1891, a more 
 thorough revolution will take place, both in suburban 
 property and the street car system, than has ever 
 been known in Toronto before. Then will be the 
 time for some enterprising company to reorganize our 
 system of street railways, and introduce something 
 new, which for speed and general convenience shall 
 be unrivalled in the whole of America. Such a com- 
 pany as we suppose would be likely, first of all, to turn 
 their attention to the need that has been long felt in 
 in the Northern portion of our city, and provide for 
 the inhabitants of that part better and quicker means 
 of transit, which would have the eflfect of keeping the 
 
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 those who hve SIX op seven miles away frony the centre- 
 boat Tf.{ ^'t" .T'"^ ^" ^'^^^' ^y ^»i'^*y or by 
 boat. If therefore, the street-car company allow the city 
 
 to grow SIX or, seven miles each way, east and west 
 
 dea?nf . T \*^^ ™"'* °^ "^^«««i*^y ^OBe a great 
 ihL f ^^.?'' ^"^ *° substitute the electric motor or 
 
 Infirl} A P'^'^"* .'^'*^^'" ^^ ^«^«« PO^er, would 
 
 entirely do away with the heavy grade up north 
 Instead of travelling at the slow ratf .of four or five 
 miles an hour, we should then be enabled to go fifteen 
 miles m the same space of time, which would be the 
 greatest boon to the citizens of Toronto. And as 
 King, Yonge and Queen streets will have to be repaved 
 m the course of the next year or so, the advisibility 
 of changing the street car system before this is done 
 Will be apparent to all 
 
 The following, taken from the St. Paul Tribune of 
 February 23, 1890, speaks for itself. ^"^^^^ of 
 
 i, 
 
 ^ ELECTRIC LINES. 
 
 "The chief event of the week in property circles • 
 was the announcement that the street ?an/ay com 
 pany had let a $2,000,000 contract to thrSprare 
 company for the equipment with electric power^of?he 
 hTstrlf "r^^"^- .^*^^ P^oniised improvements in 
 fnl i "^^"^'7 '^'^^*'^ ^'•^ *^"« t'^king on tangible 
 form and the idea of rapid transit to and from the 
 
 8ot"a'\h?wrfr*^'n '"^^^^ '^ *« be commend a 
 wm do mt h T ''7 •" ■^'''^'^' '^^'^ in^provement 
 will do much toward giving a better value to Minne- 
 apolis property, especially the outlying, which i^ stm 
 ridiculously low. If other streets having the eleefric 
 
 Z7:e :o:th h 'r'^IJ^ P-portio^as turth 
 avenue south has been, these electric lines will do 
 
 In Mo r "f^f "° *"^ '^' *^""^ *- ever done." 
 In Montreal the street railway company pays a 
 
 pSle^to m^^^^^ -f ^l^'^OO -iLlly.'aJirJom 
 From ite Z«f *'^, '^' °^" ^«^^^*y- Toronto levies 
 mTof «in^W J'^^'^^'P^"^ ^^^0 per annum per 
 ^.ll''!^«^*',?^*^^- ^^^ '^ Ottawa, the sum of ^59 
 P^^ «.."«.„, «u lold, represents the contribution to the 
 
 
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 for at present, 
 Pon» the centre 
 railway or by 
 
 allow the city 
 ast and west 
 
 lose a great 
 Jtric motor or 
 power, would 
 le up north. 
 
 four or five 
 I to go fifteen 
 i^ould be the 
 to. And as 
 
 be repaved 
 
 1 ad visibility 
 this is done 
 
 Tribune of 
 
 )erty circles 
 ailway com- 
 >he Sprague 
 )ower of the 
 Dvements in 
 on tangible 
 ^d from the 
 nnaenced as 
 iprovenient 
 to Minne- 
 lich is still 
 the electric 
 as Fourth 
 es will do 
 ver done." 
 ny pays a 
 id is com- 
 )nto levies 
 innum per 
 m of 1559 
 tion to the 
 
 civic treasury, and apparently the company are under 
 no obligation to repair their roadway. 
 
 A reference to Old Country figures, however, will 
 show that even in the most favorable cases the street 
 railway companier in Canada are exploiting the 
 cities. What other conclusion can be come to when it 
 is found, that the Glasgow company pays to the corpo- 
 ration no less than the magniticent rental of $2 800 
 per week besides providing for the repair of its roads ? 
 Atter making all due allowances for Glasgow's larger 
 population, it is evident that in our Canadian cities 
 the street railway companies are paying a dispropor- 
 tionately small sum. 
 
 This question not only affects the municipalities as 
 corporate bodies, but it comes home to the private 
 citizen and the private citizen's wife and children. It 
 is the question U the working classes and indeed of 
 everybody. The good terms obtained by the Old Coun- 
 try corporations are not the result of high fares 
 charged by the companies. On the contrary, these 
 are very much lower there than here. Two ceht fares 
 are frequent, and within certain limits a fare of four 
 cents is the maximum. It has been found by the 
 companies that penny fares mean a money-making and 
 dividend-paying business. The Glasgow company, 
 after paying the corporation and providing for the 
 repair of its road, secured a dividend of 91 per cent 
 for Its shareholders. An instructive experiment was 
 made by the Birmingham (Eng.) Tramway Company 
 a year or two ago. They determined to raise their 
 fares for certain runs from a penny to two pence, but 
 the falling oft in their receipts was so immediate and 
 manifest that they speedily re-instated the old rates 
 at which they have since remained. ' 
 
 We here quote an account given of the opening of 
 the Grand Avenue Electric Railway at St Paul's 
 Minn. : — 
 
 *' The chief event in St. Paul on the anniversary of 
 Washington's birthday was the formal opening of the 
 Grand avenue electrical motor line. Early in the fore- 
 noon the Streftt rars mnninr* frv *K^ T> _^ . 
 
 - - — -- & "• viiu ^Mtxiuavy street 
 
 barns were crowded with people going to see the new 
 
1 
 
 22 
 
 w!^';'l'ti""'V'?''' "P"" *''«' '"«»' trip- The start 
 was to be made from tlie corner of Smith avenu.Z? 
 Forbes street at 11 o'clock and long tofor^ Zt !.„? 
 hundreds of citizens bad gathered"? that viStt ?o 
 witness an event which would significently mark the 
 progress of a great city. SU tr^ns each^onsfatin^ 
 
 near the Ramsay street barns, ready to recei™ fhf 
 
 lZ'^\^tr*^ "? "-^ ^'"*' '""■■•"'d company ol 
 those holdmg invitations were allow^To boa d 
 
 lih tw*dT\';"ei yuZ:jT¥--^P 
 
 &tfcTorrd£HH:~r 
 
 among the citizens on the fir! t t^in w"e^ A^"hWsho"p 
 
 xvxurr%y. -Ine fifst tram started shorfli^ off «- i 
 o^lock, followed closely by theother ^^tSI' ufS 
 
 Xhtr?'"'-*^'' *° *•■« "■•■»'">■» o' the line ^^tlTont the 
 slightest mishap, at some points attaining a sp "d of 
 at least 15 miles an hour. At Macalester p!tb. 
 
 l3inTne\^o°' "^^ r^"'' "' M^-?X Co feg" 
 
 Pe:tt:itrtt;wttX''T;'Sr:''7i 
 
 Park, the western terminus^of tie line! a tleZtt^^ 
 ti^nsT "'^'^ »»d. «»" after th; 3 of t™ 
 otrns. noZTt"^ by hundreds of enthiiatt 
 
 phe plTrm^.^flwr;- ^0^^71:77 
 
 Sr:, fr™' "t^"' «■»■"> -dltorfo^ott ;„: 
 
 eventV Thi *^ ''^^^'l' °" ^^'^^^^ d^*«« auspicious 
 !h ? ; J ^ 'r^^'^ ^^ ^"^ ^^'^^s strength and insoir 
 
 wlrl * w^*\''' ^"^ '^' enthusiasm 1,f the day Ts" 
 warmer._ We honor this morning f.l,« K;"li:Y '^ 
 
 George Washington. How much w^ owe t;;he72nd 
 
 11 
 
ip. The start 
 h avenue and 
 ■Ore that hour 
 tt vicinity to 
 ntJy mark the 
 ch consisting 
 : on the tracks 
 o receive the 
 pany. Only 
 3cl to board 
 theless, very 
 >ple crowded 
 8 seventy.five 
 Prominent 
 i Archbishop 
 Sanborn and 
 n W. Roche, 
 William M. 
 Villiam Pitt 
 after eleven 
 he six trains 
 
 without the 
 ■ a speed of 
 ter Park a 
 3ter College 
 ily cheered 
 
 Groveland 
 ge platform 
 ival of the 
 enthusiatic 
 appearance 
 jp Ireland, 
 f other pro- 
 ; chairman, 
 a eloquent 
 
 first elec- 
 
 auspicious 
 md inspir- 
 he day is 
 
 »fKJ _i« 
 
 5 viiUa.y u£ 
 
 > the 22nd 
 
 •■ 
 
 i 23 
 
 of February 160 years ago. We owe to it the liberty 
 of our country and the wonderous prosperity of this 
 country which depends upon its liberty. The 22nd 
 of February, 1890, will be for St. Paul and Minnesota 
 a historic date. The electric motor is here. It has 
 triumphed over all difficulties. Soon will it speed 
 over all the thoroughfares of St. Paul, carrying our 
 people to the fresh air and health of suburban homes. 
 And in widening the territorial area of our city, 
 widening also its hopes and prospects. 
 
 It will shoot out across the M .ssissippi, into the 
 heart of our neighboring city, binding it to us by iron 
 bands and the fervent ties of stonger friendship. 
 It will suggest frequent visits of the people of one 
 city to those of the other, and frequent visits increase 
 the love which will lead to the long wished for wed- 
 ding. Electricity will do more than move our cars. 
 It will be the omnipresent and effective power that 
 will move the machinery of the most ambitious 
 industry. It will penetrate into the hearts and veins 
 of our citizens. Give them unwonted energy and 
 enterprise. The dual city will become a giant in 
 life and promise, and its bountiful hands will reach 
 out to Minnesota, distributing gifts to villages and 
 foreign lands, stimulating Minnesota products and 
 making Minnesota geographically the central state of 
 the coming future republic, the pivot upon which will 
 turn the life and strength of all nations." 
 
 The following more fully explains the scheme pro- 
 posed for extending the lines, and increasing the speed 
 to ten or twelve miles an hour. 
 
 The electric line will be extended out Nicollet 
 avenue (the present motor line) to Washburn Home, 
 and an electric line will be extended along the motor 
 right of way out Thirty-first street to Lake Harriet. 
 When electricity is put in on Lyndale avenue, which 
 which will be, if possible this season, the Lyndale 
 tracks will be extended to Thirty-first street and the 
 Lyndale cars run to the lakes. Then that portion of 
 the Thirty-first street line between Nicollet and 
 Lyndale avenues will be abandoned. The proposed 
 new line to the lakes will be considerably shorter than 
 
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 the present line. The motor line, where it lf.«v«« 
 N^^let avenue and Thirty-seventh s'treet to the falls 
 will be abandoned and the travel in the Twelfth and 
 Thirteenth wards will be taken care of by an ex ten 
 sion of the FouHh avenue line to Thirty-ethth street" 
 the Eighth avenue line to Tnirty-eighth^st eet afd' 
 the Bloommgton and Cedar avenue line to Thirty 
 
 raUwav 'l^"f I' ""^ ^"''^'^ '''"«"■«• The street 
 
 premises, but ,t 18 s id are willing to make the 
 change, should the council so direct At the „e^t 
 
 wssed. At the same time the railway company will 
 ZTloTT^ '" '----^ the speed'^f th? elLw" 
 cars to 10 or 12 miles an hour, which will mo«« „ 
 ayerage reduction ?n time on the'lin'^of alr4rp:r 
 cent This rapid transit interests very deeply the 
 are t'J^usi:^' owning property in the'^sub'S who 
 
 ?n DohTt of r ^'5"^^*^ "'^'"'' ^^« ^"«i»^««« centre 
 
 m point of t me on direct routes. Such a plan will 
 
 timula te real estate values and build up much yacint 
 land within a very short time. 
 
 The Belt Line Railway. 
 
 The projection of the Belt Line Railway scbem« 
 hke many another good and useful propolion Tas 
 met with the usual amount of scorn and rWicule that 
 so Often follows on the introduction of anything ne^ 
 It has been referred to as "the unbuilt line whfch his 
 Its existence only in charter and on real estate mans » 
 and IS merely -floating in the minds of a numberof 
 enterprising speculators." But in SDit« ntTu u 
 apparently wise prophesyings the 'wo k t nL"in 
 
 St::el^st':^'''f'''ii''' «^^* Line RaTwi; 
 win prove the finest mode of transit in the City for 
 
 that this new line is being built fisnonu.!!,, .. ..-";?? 
 renuirements of those who live in"t^J*^(ski;t;"oV tt 
 
 mg 
 
ere it leaves 
 t to the falls, 
 
 Twelfth and 
 by an exten- 
 eighth street, 
 h street, and 
 e to Thirty- 
 
 Minnehaha 
 nsion of the 
 avenue and 
 
 The street 
 itand in the 
 > make the 
 Vt the next 
 ility be dis- 
 >mpany will 
 the electric 
 11 mean an 
 t)out 40 per 
 deeply the 
 iburbs who 
 ness centre 
 ' plan will 
 uch vacant 
 
 y scheme, 
 
 sition, has 
 
 icule that 
 
 ihing new. 
 
 which has 
 
 ite'niaps," 
 
 umber of 
 
 : all such 
 
 is now in 
 
 Railway 
 
 City, for 
 
 in mind 
 
 ■ts of the 
 
 .. 
 
 town, and must not be associated with the ordinary 
 suburban trains that are now running on the old R. 
 R. tracks. 
 
 A description is here given of the intended route 
 to be taken by the new line, which appeared in the 
 Globe of Feb. 28th, 1890, the words are those of Mr. 
 J. D. Edgar, M.P., who is one of the chief promoters: 
 
 The line, which is expected to do much in fostering 
 the growth of the suburban districts of Toronto, will, 
 it must be first understood, be operated for the Com- 
 pany by the Grand Trunk Railway. The right of 
 way over the Esplanade will thus be secured, no matter 
 what disposal may be made of the lake front. The 
 Belt line «i ill leave the tracks of the Grand Trunk at 
 the Don Station and pass northward along the line of 
 the Don improvements. Leaving that it will proceed 
 along the valley of the Don to where that river is 
 joined by Spring Creek. The route of the creek is 
 then followed through Rosedale, the line passing 
 under the high viaduct of the C.P.R. and p-oceeding 
 through the beautiful valley to the northern boundary 
 of Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Along the south side 
 of Merton street to Yonge, and across that thorough- 
 fare by an overhead steel bridge, the track will go, 
 passing the rear of Upper Canada College and cross- 
 ing Eglinton avenue near Mr. Gibson's brickyard. 
 Thence the route will be to Bathurst street, crossing 
 It at the line between lots one and two. It will cor.- 
 tinue west to Fairbank and strike the Grand Trunk 
 tracks again, or rather the Northern Railway track 
 near Fairbank. The above is the plan of the principal 
 route, and the length of lie line will be seventeen 
 miles. 
 
 A shorter loop will leave the city front by the 
 Grand Trunk main line track west, and utilising that 
 road to Carlton, a little north of West Toronto Junc- 
 tion, a crossing of Dundas street and the Canadian 
 Pacific tracks will be made a little east of Lambtoii. 
 Taking a southerly course the road will proceed by 
 Jane street and the Humber Valley and join the 
 Grand Trunk on the return journey to the city at the 
 Great Western track near the Bolt Works. The 
 
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 length of this road is ten m les. and it is expected to 
 
 tr?cf I'^l/vT'T* ^?^ '^' S^'^'^y devel^ng dis- 
 tricts around the Junction and Carlton. 
 
 Ihe construction of the Yonge street loop will pro- 
 ceed immediately. The other till also go on as soon 
 as the landowners in the western district gfveU 
 favomble consideration and reasonable assistance 
 
 ' What effect on the distribution of our population 
 will the road have, Mr. Edgar ? " population 
 
 " I look on the construction of a belt line in Toronto 
 
 Is red'edr^^^'"" '! '""^ '''' ^^ ^^^-^« '^'^^^ 
 ties needed for a great centre of population The 
 
 position of our city is exceptionally faLable to such 
 
 a proposal. Take Buffalo as an example of what I 
 
 want to convey when I say that we are exceptionally 
 
 the"trlt '" 'Y f' *'^ ^^"^ lies almost dfaTlevet 
 the street car tracks run out from the centre like 
 
 spokes from the hub of a wheel, the tire of whTch is 
 
 the bel Ime. The street car lines thus do a erea? 
 
 deal traffic that in Toronto would fall to tLSt 
 
 Line for m this city the land rises to quite a height 
 
 northward, and there is a difficulty in obtaining street 
 
 !nd ™;;* ^^^^'^J^^^-^runeastand west and so few north 
 and south. Now, by meanes of the light engines 
 special y provided by the G.T.R. for the service^the 
 difficulty will be surmounted. Within the scope of 
 
 It hT' T'' * "?' ""^ ^^^ ^^«* ^^^^'« *he wate^rs of 
 the bay and m no city with which I am acquainted is 
 
 would thus be within speedy access from the city 
 We have a great advantage, of course, in that we 
 secured the use of the existing lines aiong the ci^ 
 
 " I* will pass through the ravine to the east of the 
 Zt:i ? *, Poi^V^arly .one-fourth of a mile fro™ 
 the present places of interment. It is proposed to 
 
 .. 
 
expected to 
 veloping dis- 
 
 oop will pro- 
 
 on as soon 
 rict give it 
 sistance. 
 
 r population 
 
 e in Toronto 
 i& the facili- 
 ition. The 
 ible to such 
 '■ of what I 
 cceptionally 
 b dead level, 
 centre like 
 )f which is 
 do a great 
 to the Belt 
 te a height 
 ning street 
 'or the fact 
 ) few north 
 (it engines 
 srvice, the 
 le scope of 
 J waters of 
 [uainted is 
 
 1 land that 
 I the city. 
 1 that we 
 g the city 
 
 rounds of 
 
 ist of the 
 mile from 
 oposed to 
 the bury- 
 luch as is 
 mean the 
 
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 doing away with the long journeys in carriages from 
 all parts of the city, and would be a great deal more 
 civilised than the present method." 
 " As to the Upper Canada College ? " 
 "I have a letter," replied Mr. Edgar, "from Hon. 
 G. W. Ross, expressing his pleasure at the location of 
 the line near the College. There will probably be a 
 station right in the roar of the College grounds, so 
 that scholars from the city can come by the trains 
 and boarders can be booked to all parts of the 
 c'>untry. To the west of this point there are splendid 
 sites for athletic .grounds, and this will doubtless prove 
 a solution to the question « Where shall we go?' asked 
 by the clubs when they are forced out of their old 
 grounds. At Forest H'U, near which the highest 
 grounds are reached, I have seen on a clear day the 
 most of Niagara Falls and the range of the Caledon 
 Hills. The opportunity for building on sites whence 
 a splendid view can be obtained is unlimited." 
 
 People residing at Forest Hill will be able to take 
 the train going either east or west, and land at the 
 Union Station in fifteen minutes ; instead of being 
 compelled to go by street car, and taking forty-five 
 minutes to reach the centre of the city. 
 
 It is to be expected that large suburban towns i^ill 
 soon spring up wherever stations belonging to the 
 Belt line are situated ; thus affording all the advan- 
 tages of the metropolis, with the additional benefits 
 of a country life, and charming surroundings. 
 
 In Melbourne Australia, one of the finest cites in 
 the world, with its population of 400,000 there are 
 only 40,000 people residing in the city proper, the 
 balance choosing rather to live in the suburbs— which 
 are all provided with the quickest, cheapest, and most 
 comfortable means of transit— to remaining in the 
 smoke, noise and tumult of a large and busy to^n 
 Chicago with its million people, is another sample of 
 what quick transit will do towards building up its 
 suburbs. Those who would cry down the extention 
 — — „i.8„„, „ji?^«,^i loiiicuiDci" xur u moment some of 
 the evils which go hand in hand with over crowding, 
 narrow streets, and back lanes. No, we look rather 
 
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 to the time when Chestnut. Centre, Elizabeth and 
 the surroundinff strpftfu ohnii ^- ^"'^»"oin, ana 
 n^;Ao^ e ^ si^reets, shall disappear from our 
 
 midst, for we cannot bear to keep such disZceful 
 
 hot t'^i^'"' "^^ «'^^" ^'«'* our Eeaut fS cour 
 
 afford f^'^r?^'- ^^""^ ^^' ^'^' I^ine Rai way wH 
 afford facilities to both rich and poor iorllt^n^ 
 
 procured af th« f ""^* ^"'^<^^ng «i*«« in Ontario can be 
 procured at the lowest rates. When compared with 
 the prices paid for property .within the cit/Sts we 
 feel confident that the many advantages to Cainid 
 m accepting our low and easy terms will be read^l v 
 acknowledged by all, for it is now pretty well known 
 hat what IS called outside, or sub'urba^ propertrrs 
 
 in^^e:rrn%roferrr' ^^^^ -"^"--*- *^- 
 
 Many there are in Toronto to day, who have reason 
 
 to be thankful that their attention was called to 
 
 investing in property of their own years ».o for r.ow 
 
 Forest Hill. 
 
 We do not wish to conceal the fact that we issue 
 this pamphlet for advertising purposes, and i7 Xe 
 keeping our own interests in view" we kdd to the ma 
 luainer^^"*^ '' ^^^^ ^"^^'^ ^^^^' our^ct ts 
 
 hlu^^l^ attention is becoming more alive to the 
 beauties and advantages, for residential purposes of 
 the high lands lying along the northern ifmit^ of the 
 City That portion of it in which we are more nar 
 ticularly interested is named Forest Hill Tt is W 
 ted between St. Clair and Eglinton avenues Ba hu st 
 
 Line^d:o:d''"^*^'>"^'^^*^»^ -"^^ °^ the B 
 w thin ! f K 7 2"" '^"'•'^ «^ construction, and 
 Co W« r ^^V^^'-ed yards of the new Upper Canada 
 College which is nearly completed at a cost of everat 
 hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Spadjna Avenue, now called Broadway, whose ex- 
 tension reaches Forest Hill, is destined to be the finest 
 
izabeth, and 
 from our 
 
 disgraceful 
 utiful court 
 ailway will 
 or getting 
 itmosphere, 
 ario can be 
 pared with 
 ' limits, we 
 > be gained 
 
 be readily 
 s^ell known 
 property is 
 a-tive than 
 
 ave reason 
 
 called to 
 
 o, for now 
 
 •eing their 
 
 k we issue 
 if, while 
 > the ma- 
 object is 
 
 i^e to the 
 rposes, of 
 it of the 
 lore par- 
 t is loca- 
 Bathurst 
 the Belt 
 on, and 
 Canada 
 ^ everal 
 
 lose ex- 
 ile finest 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
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 street in Toronto, and is fast becoming a leading 
 business centre. It is block paved nearly as far as 
 Davenport road, and a petition has been signed by 
 property holders under the Local Improvement Act 
 for the expenditure of $48,000 for the purpose of 
 opening the street and otherwise improving it, north 
 to Forest Hill Road close to the Belt Line railroad 
 station on Eglinton avenue. Taking Knox College 
 as an objective point, tho great importance of Broad- 
 way as a business thoroughfare, and of Forest Hill as 
 a desirable and convenient residential district, becomes 
 apparen*; to even the casual observer. 
 
 Agai I, Bathurst street, which extends from the old 
 fort on Hie Bay shore, through Seaton village to the 
 northern limit of the city, and thence into the 
 country, is about to become a leading thoroughfare to 
 the business centres of the metropolis, and at no very 
 distant date the formidable rival of Yonge street in 
 this particular. Indeed this is no new theory, for in 
 the early history of the city its superiority as such 
 was acknowledged by engineers and others who knew 
 the respective merits of each. It is block paved as 
 far as Bloor street. The street cars run on it to that 
 point, and will before many months extend north to 
 the C. P. Railway, where a regular passenger station 
 will be established. Besides the $23,000 now expend- 
 ing m this contract, a large sum is being provided 
 under the Municipal Improvement Act for the im- 
 provement of Bathurst street from Davenport road 
 north to Forest Hill, so that in the near future side- 
 walks will be laid along the street to accommodate the 
 people as far north as Eglinton avenue and the Belt 
 Line railway. Indeed, it is safe to infer that street 
 cars such as we now have, or the more popular cable 
 or electric motors, will run along this fine thorough- 
 fare from the Bay to the Belt Line, thus giving the 
 fortunate inhabitants of Forest Hill the advantages 
 of street car as well as railroad communication with 
 the principal business centres of the city proper. 
 
 Forest Hill at this point is particularly well adapted 
 for a suburban town, being about the same distance 
 on the Belt Line east and west from the Union sta- 
 
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 tlon. It will therefore have a double service of 
 trains, giving e, '-ain every fifteen minutes from this 
 point And KH rhe Belt Line Railway Company pur- 
 pose having their trains make the circuit of the line in 
 thirty minutes it will only take fifteen minutes to get 
 from Forest Hill to the Union Station. This will bo 
 a great sa'ing in time as compared with the slow 
 transit by cars drawn by horses. Thirty or forty 
 minutes 18 occupied in going from Seaton village to 
 the Union Station, so that the artisan, laborer or 
 business man living at Forest Hill would labor under 
 no disadvantage by reason of distance, while he would 
 enjoy the freedom of suburban life, pure air fine 
 landlord """"^ ^^^ ^*^^^ consciousness of being his own 
 It will be observed upon looking at the map accom- 
 panying these pages, that Forest Hill occupies an 
 enviable position as to the future growth of Toronto. 
 
 ThJ fi f?"^^ ""'l*;'" ^^^ ^'^^ °^ «P««i^' attractions. 
 The fine thoroughfares, Spadina and Bathurst streets. 
 
 Forest. Hill road near the Belt Line railway station 
 and with other converging streets form at this point 
 a peculiarly attractive centre, well worthy the atten- 
 tion of eithec the homesteader or the speculator. 
 Professional men and others who realize the value of* 
 the position have already secured building sites here 
 and beautiful residences, under wholesome building 
 restrictions, will shortly be erected, enhancing the 
 value and adding to the natural loveliness of this 
 favored locality. 
 
 It is well known that the tendency of business men 
 in all great cities is to get away from the bustle of 
 
 Thlv fl''T\r"*T ^ u^' *^" *°" ^^ *^« d^y i« done. 
 
 ruZ^^ K^K-? .-^ '"^^'^' *° ^"J^y *^« q"i«t of their 
 rural habitations. Toronto will not be unique in this 
 
 Already the dwell-ngs of the rich are found beyond 
 the scenes of business strife. North of Bloor and 
 beyond Davenport road may be found the McMasters. 
 ^lillt"^A^^?L^^.r.^^ *^^ B'^^d-ns and the 
 
 Gooderhams, and some of these !>.« 
 
 
 northwards towards Forest Hill, portions of which are 
 
service of 
 )s from this 
 unpany pur- 
 i the line in 
 nutes to get 
 rhis will be 
 th the slow 
 by or forty 
 1 village to 
 
 laborer or 
 labor under 
 le he would 
 •e air, fine 
 ng his own 
 
 oap accom- 
 ccupies an 
 f Toronto, 
 ttractions. 
 rst streets, 
 venue and 
 \y station, 
 this point 
 the atten- 
 ipeculator. . 
 e value of 
 sites here, 
 ) building 
 ncing the 
 ss of this 
 
 iness men 
 
 bustle of 
 
 7 is done. 
 
 of their 
 je in this, 
 id beyond 
 iloor and 
 cMasters, 
 
 and the 
 
 i.-- -l-V 
 
 ;A.(ii;iii4ing 
 
 which are 
 
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 sought for bv persons desirous of securing the ad van- 
 tages of suburban homes. Forest Hill .ffers rare at- 
 tractions m tins regard. Speedy transit to it is but 
 a matter o a few months. Its educational interests 
 are already assured. The College will induce 
 hundreds of people to secure ho^nes in this locality 
 
 numhT^fT'"*' ^'^ i^^"« ™^^« fo'' the erection of a 
 number of houses at Forest IJill, to be completed as 
 
 Y wT ?:r n'af ll "^"^ ""^^'^^^^ '^ "" operaToT'^This 
 
 ■ referred to th« ^^ '"'«;"'*' ^^ *'»« «*^««*« ^^^ore 
 
 West To^^ T'^T °^ *n,*°^" ^^>^»' °^*y "val 
 vyest Toronto Junction. The corner lots at the 
 
 UnlT \Z ^! ^^""8*"" ^^««»« ^'ith Forest Hni 
 wm bu^y ht '^"''* ?''•''*'"'" ^^«°^^ °"'3^t« those who 
 heoZlA , T P'T^' ^"^ «P^"^^ indicements will 
 w^th h! • '"'> ''"^ '^'^^ ^° persons purchasing lots 
 at once ^"""'"^ "^ "" «°"^ '^^'' «^ ^^«"»»««' 
 
 is ll'JrTY '^*r' ^^^ *^^ '"^r^'^ o^ civilization, 
 IS generally towards the north west. This is an 
 ackno^h^dged fact, although few have troubled them 
 ht fPnf kT^ 'J.^ '*"^^- The artist will pitch 
 
 fiir^ew'Li"'^!^^' ^""^^ ^° ^« *« command the 
 
 the water Th^^T ^- '^'^f,°^ «^"*^' ^'^^ overlooking 
 tne water The Indian will pitch his tepee so as to 
 
 protect himsel from the North-West blLarda bv 
 b orfnd thet 1 '' ^" the direction from .hTch he^ 
 as tie arif T ^"^^^^^'^g ^^^ ^"ter the same 
 
 tent or f ht* T *''T^"« *^" P^*^'""g «f the first 
 tent or the erection of the first house to be the 
 
 ounding of a city, each succeeding building wSl 
 fdlow the plan indicated by the first, until the Lure 
 fron TreeroT^ monopolized, forming the first or 
 
 order toT; tl '*T*' ^^" ^^^"^ ^«"«^ ^^ the same 
 order to the north and west, thus swelling the growth 
 
 mi^ht L"" •" '^''? directions-numerous exfmTles 
 ?ntL T ^T" 1 ^^'^ ^«" established theory 
 
 ness L h""'" '*'f ^."^^^^^^« P^««^ of its correct 
 ness for having extended along the lake frontage ^ 
 until almost every available ^unA.. u^^^ZT. . .*'''. ^® 
 
 Cvirof"^ ^^^? -pidi77ddedir;i;:no"s:Tnd' 
 
 the values of property m that direction are increasing 
 
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 in a wonderful degree. It is but a few years sirice 
 land in the neighborhood of Bloor street, could be 
 procured for a few dollars per foot, while to day it has 
 a value little short of central city prices, while the 
 hundreds of palatial residences in this direction are a 
 sure indication of wlmt a few years more will do for 
 the magnificent plateau but a short distance to the 
 north, overlooking the city proper and the blue 
 water of the lake beyond.