Show V1 fA I P I now CANADA IS DEFENDED I V4 4 A Visit to Forts of Quebec W1lcf Guard tho Entrance to I I I I I i Queor > Victorias American Dominions 11 I i I 2 1 i I I I Th C1I Militia nlIoO It I I fifimaged Tire 1unt1 if vcImrwumrN 1 1MII C FF hu lUookolM Urcrithaten anti III Thy Jillclt it In c I of WTh C uf ft vilitd state 1 111 to I 31 I 1 It 100 10 I It rk 4 I 1 of CnimiU ueid II fk at II lhh Itah rt 11 u Ii Quebec Canada September 7 1897 111 The fact that one ot our biggest battleships bat-tleships the Indiana In l now In the dry dock at Halifax Is I a striking evidence I of our want of preparation for a JIOHS 11 ble war with Great Hrltuln The Canadians Ca-nadians point to the fact with exultation exulta-tion and rather sneer Ilt Uncle Rm for having to go out of his own boundaries boun-daries to clean the barnacle off of his j tronof war The Canadians hale six good 1 dry docks In which their naval I WWII can be cleaned They have live of these on the Atlantic coast A nil there Is I a magnificent one at the I entrance to ru get sound on the P A clan Canada has within recent Years I i been steadily Increasing her Irense I Tho Canadian Pacific railroad which 7 Is one of the bestequipped lines In the I Z 0 world lias largely built for this purpose pur-pose and tin line of steamers which goes from Vancouver to Hong Kong I subsidized by Knftland England loan loa-n naval station so close to our northwestern north-western boundary that within four hours her mnorwor could tam I from It to within shooting distance of Seattle and Tncoma This station la I I at Ksaulmalt very near the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island It Is I I I connected with Victoria by an electric railroad The character of the Is I Ion Is I mounta I never and the moun I tolns come down 10 the water so that I I the form here n shelter from the storms nnd mako the harbor nn excellent one This fort practically controls tho straits of Fuca and the entrance to Puget pound It Is I BO nenr our coast that the morning and evening guns may be cord In I the American town of I Port Townsend across the way Gen mien who was stationed for ct longtime e long-time on the Pacific says that In twen tyfour hours the British fleet nt Is f qulmalt could take absolute possession I f I of Puget pound nnd destroy its cities and towns Thl fort thus to n certain cer-tain extent controls tho two great I trunk railroads which past through tho northern part of the United Slates and have their termini nt Seattle and Tacoma I Ta-coma I refer to the Northern Paclllo and the Great Northern The dry I docks at both Halifax and RsiUlmalt are large enough for the biggest battle j bat-tle ships The dock at Rsqulmall Ill I I built of stone nnd I 1 said to be one ot the IInet or tile world TIm DEFLINCES 01 rIm S1 8 I LA WIll NCLl Ree nt Quebec you Nee something of the defences which Canada hn been constructing within recent years Mio boa drdped the St Lawrence no t thai the blKgeet ocean BfimerB can KO 4 to Montreal and she him liullt Fuel a ret or connie that mall tlomoro I I all get clear to he trend of Iak 111 f pOllur The dredgIng Of the St Law j trace has mad Lulllre1 the chief i f seaport nor more of Canada ran ever purely mild Quebec a city of 14 let Th citv has becti callI th IIN I albraltar or Amvrlca ItJr 1B 1lei1 l t ir Aleandila Vaand were It 1 not for the IIrlng or the gllll 011 the many Forts about It mornlllg and elening and he tramping now and then or it COMPAnY or 3uh1lers through Its rocky strecta you might almost 101 ORlne It A fly o tile dd It hr oLout 6000 people Illld Is I If ollylhlng faillnt off In population ThO tUWII is Lull i un 11 urenl 1111 rr which rle at i I Mot 310 fi t from tire S I rtrV IW hflt h1 TnBlt I La wren river which at this loln In loos tIan a mil uldr This hlllrr Is I I Jocky ond from I tit Bides In Falling i long tho St Lawrence you can sk 11 the 1 mouths at vannon ftov nlng down i1 nm tr f llnfn upon you Upon till hlBlient part of the hlurt there Is I n great foil known n > tho citadel This has Immengo walls or tone upon the lop ot which ore many cnllln The fort In I eludes about tortytwo acres filled with barracks and mnlln Back I cf Ihj fort tome dltonce ooY Ore I the Plain or Abraham vvheie tile Inch and i tho llrlllth rou ht In 1 1710 The English troops landed from I the British nt under the cover ot darknl scaled the cliffs and under Cen ral Wolfe formed their lines or tattle Wolfe died on the Held and I Monfnlm the Trench genoinl was f mortally wounded It was by thla I I fight that the English finally got pos session or Quelcc It wits About nt I t cell Years later that nnet Arnold nnd the Amrteon trool fought tile Drltlh I her And were defeated INSIDI THE FORTIFICATiONS 1 lsltcl the fort thin DOming I to cllmhln up the stelin whch lead frnlll the Uufferln teac to It My I cllmcm was taken train me before I ws nil milled on1 i under the guard of a Pol offer I was ohulll over > tho fort The most of the gun are old ones though 1 om told there art several seven and clhtlnch modern guns among them I There are dozens of mItura Ivith I na of cannon balls lying beside them nnd I walked over the ground below I which were stored tho trngailm of the fortlncaton From the edge of I the battlement on the other side of the river I could BJu three other forts which hlo runt I am told J25COO 000 mil In the sides 1 of the hill below me I taw tho Muck holes behind which war cannon The eoldler who took me over the fort ims a thorough 1nlIhIllOIl Allot n thorough beKger Ho told me In response 10 my I question an to hw ho 1111 I the life of 0 sold left hat It de rnded upon how he was trented from time to time Sd lie You see Ion I I-on get 30 ovals a day for my piO Iut visitors AOlllctlm ghc me some thing for showing the around Wo eoldrs take turns In taking the tour lots ovor the fort and wo depend upn our fees for our extra boots and I cio t hem I only gt two suits or c oOns a year rrolll the government and you it l I1ow that 30 cents a flay Is I not mnch I mode the man happy I by giving him a quarter whtn I left him As I walked down the hill back or I ho fort I mw lomethlng as to how the Canadian soldiers earp their 34 cents a dayfiomc were working on the road others mere lilting grand and it I hint trim Iran making a finee There Fire Only 180 soldiers III the fort all the Uadlnn1 1 I am told that the garrisons I of theother forts are equally I small run i ANAI > IAN M1L11IA I Cnnnda li I now def llded by Its own troops It I I i wild that there are about ne million men In 1 the dominion title nn II might he funds Available Am righting I I matHlal Thin I Julg IN I decidedly Theele an ovoreatlmat Th i < gui limit or i I the Militia 1 now fortyfleeIthousand I wil the troop In fictive service con I olet or 3 permonet Nrp ot ollly one I thousand Theme men are laid mitt I Uoirm offleervil front tire Military Col I onH lg at Kingston They 1 are enlisted I for three I I arm In addition to thin I th r In tilt aetirp militia tonslatin if iI IInm risen 5 men ulto vlung I Per rr thr e firm hut hQ sorve I I > nlv frail el ht to sixteen dais annul annu-l oily Thy are paid when thy ore ailed out They comprise 1dygd trop of cavalry ctIren 1Ild 01101 forty t wo car 115 n hattl with Mount gulat IInd nlnty battal Ion or Infantry wlh Inpendont and Inollnted rWe I companies Hvery male Conndlnn between eighteen and sixty Is I liable > to serve In the mllltla I Thrre arehovoever n fw exceptions Judges ir lergymen college professors and I the heads of lunatic asylums nnd the lily li-ly 1 sons of widows annot be drafted THE MuUNran roucn AND TUB KLONDIKi Just lion the most Interesting ofthe Canadian troops tire the M lunle police who are oil duty In the North weft Teirltory The number of these Is I limited to one thousand and 1 baPn told l that n large nunllr loa or hn dent to the Won Ion Tire mounted police I a flat the country along the western fmUor Or I bFiF7 Amrleo ror more than eight hundred miles H Is I thilr business to keep down cnllle stealing and smuggling They watch the I Indians nnd fugloolfnttlt for I ralrlo fires punlBhlntr those who start them They act ni Judges au well no tin I cjj men rind can punish Pertain Classes or criminals These policemen receive from fifty cents to two dollars per day with the exception I of the ofllcers who get salaries 1 of from one thousand to twentjslx hundred dollars n year CAADIAN rnrNCHMnN Ruenklng ot a possible war with Great Ilrltaln At pomablide whethr the mother country could rely upon a large portion of her Canadian population popu-lation I In n case I am surprised to nnd how many Frenchmen there are here rully oneIhlrd or the citizens of Brit Ih l America speak Trench and hun them rnnnol ilreds of thousands of speak Ung ish i The Trench are nearly near-ly all Roman Catholics They have little lit-tle sympathy jib ngllh Intltu KUBffiS Preach Uon find are Frnch In thought habit and language Thy work together In politics and they practically govern gov-ern this province of Quebec I went to the government buildings today I to tom t-om Information And every official I met was n Frenchman You hear little lit-tle else than t French talked upon tin streets here The signs over many of the stores are Trench The street car tlckus In Montreal are printed In both Trench and English Anti many of the advertisements ale In both languages I Quebec Is I more like a French town than on 1nril1i one its streeta are narrow od tho clan olrnhlone houses come close out to tile sidewalk side-walk The vhlcle ud ore like none you have on In ln land or the United States I ride about this city Inn In-n kind of a cross between a Jlnrlkshu and a dog cart It Is I n high bow hp1 carriage ulth n sent for the driver on the dooh wnrd and my driver is I Invariably n Frenchman There Is I little enterprise among tho TienihCnnacllans Thiy arc good farmers hut with them everything seems in I a on a omoll scale 1 The fields are long and narrow Sm Are not moo than n hundred rt uIdt 1 and sit long that a former Friends half tilt lime In olklnll from one end of his farm to the other In cultivating his crop The houses are okturslu ono story cotture Inllt close te the roadway road-way and not way out on the dcld like our farm houses They are wonderfully won-derfully clean und the people have I am told the thrift of tho peasantry or France I CANADIANS IN Till UNITED ATATIS The nmrlnl Jr Quebec are making big bids for the return of the Canada ans uhn love goac to the United States They orrr them farms anti hold nut many Inlncemn Th fact Is I that there In I almost a constant emi graUon going on from Canada to the lands across tire border Thin occurs hner times are hard and IC our nw torlrt Materially affects bumIness her the emigration nlll Increase Cnmidln are to i be found l In Mats Ma-ts Com UCllt New York MlrhlRim and Paris of the West There are numbem of them In IluRuln New York city has BomethlnK like 70000 natives of Canada Brooklyn has rOUO and Huston bus It In I estimated I something like 25000 citizens of Canadian Can-adian birth In Hay county Mich there are 100011 Canadians and In St Claire count there are 10000 while a number of other counties have even inure The Canadians In our country III fact A if noberhundredn of thousands and their loss In I a mailer of great bitterness bit-terness to those mho remain MnllY or the French Cananri go to Nw England 10 work In the Factories and inllla It Is I this class which the mil claim of Quebec are lr > lnR lo bring i backIN IN Tim rnnNcii MAIIKIOTR Montreal which Is I the New York of Canada Is I practically a French city its biggest marklthnt of 1I0ncour Is I an French As allY market or southern south-ern France Who I visited It the other ty I folind A lVent Medicine man detchdridnit In Pre tit 1 the vIrtues of certain pili while ho Allowed n book of horrible pictures describing Iha effects before and after taking them This market takes up 0 nide street running from the heart or Mon I treat Iuln i to the wharves The street It I the oOrllw oC the market proper which Includes a churrhllke biiijilin covering I Jude about an aero of Prince The street was filled with Trench farmers who had driven their I tarts Into the city early In the mornIng morn-Ing and wr now Aelling oil Earls of I vegetables andfrulto to the citizens vuny nal or trio wnoon Nero Owned by women who did 1 not look nllllk the Market woolen 110m 3vu find In the I I Halles Central of Paris Many of i theme spoke to me In Tiench as I walk ed through the crowd pushing their WOrt Into MY face aral asking alrtket buy I stopped nt tire fowl I l11arkt and nokl 00 questions an to prices I wa told that 0998 were t I cents 0 don thIckens from r0 to 60 cents a pair and turkeys s front 12 to 16 cent a pound Ono or two of the lnlIhOklll market men had com plaints I I to make about the tariff and Elated tint It would materially hurt the farmers of Canada lOoTIIJlL RI found Iontelll n very fine city It Is owlug Ito fast am oft Amerl can town rind Is I now almost no lorge 00 Washington II has un hrn deal of snipping und you nnd stomrs front all pans of the Great Lakei ond fm Ell rope nl Its wharves The mot of the occan tllmeo I nr nrlllh and 0 number of them are engaged in cKllni grain tn England I came to Montreal From he UnIted States cramming from northOrn INw York In I to Climda anti traveling about throe i ham Imfte I achd the St lw rnc river Ao we arpohj the St lownc I could see tilt mok frm 11 hundred great stackm riting Irto th Ale Out I I find llul Mneol I tll rent oviitifilturinir tit oC this frt or Accretion It Ills ollk Ind uttn 0111I Iron Rod rubbrr work anti II into a a v ist deaf of lunl r lii 10 1 n lie namlal c nter of Ilritl Fir Aoko and the 111 Ik nf Mnirrl whkh he I o eOIta f 31 > 11 ii Is I said I to I be th t IrK I 0 oUnnl Th 111 I 1 1 th I Ilk or taken without Ill Oil it re r v I 1 alth inch i am lull that till nut 3 uf otr I L r Canadian honk nr ohav1 when they pr rented In tho I United t l States I hivo had no trouble here In using American r Ameri-can bank notes vv h < her greei backs nr silver c rllflcntis Th people I seem clad to get them mild take tin m without I with-out < quostli n Hven my nickels bar hn ecopt < < l and an Awrlron quar ter passess its readily hero no 11 eano lit tv < ntynve enl place Alont real Ilk New York I Ituoto on n I a land s rrounI1 hy two rivers Cho Ollnw and the St Lavrence join nl I him polnl cnrclln on Island about thirty irllcs I I Via 9 oDd rrom OJOo to tn mil Ile wde Manic al Itelf alut five miles lung and two mil I ulde Their h a hili or muUntln nt 2o trick or the city up whlh YOII co on tin Inclined rallroull and r t W ld IJI W i < net a magillcont Alvw A I the81i Lrtrmce the Ollnwo Montreal and the urrnunIII1 country A CITY OF CMUICIinS I In looking over Montreal you are reminded re-minded I of Moscow It Is I n city r0i I hllrche There are church spIres In almunt every square and heie and I there rise great cat In edrals convents and hospitals I climbed I to the top of the tower or Nolle Dame church Y relay Thin Is I one of the hIll = Ill rchen In America It will hohl 10 WO t fpl I and 1tOW have been crow c1 together mithIn Its wall It bulla bull-a tower containing nn elevator hy which for A quarter I OU Inn be ralsd about twothirds of the way tot to-t b c lot I om told that the eleIll 1 po I am uI prised at the nuinbe of prl sts tire ear hr You could not throw a alone without hilling erne They ne drvetl In long block gowns anti hat a of different styles according to their order There are no num erou Mot a nil sister 5 or various kinds From this van would Judge Montreal In be a very good city I hata tin roll III doubt that It Is 00 Bei Although a i nuog mn with whom I chanced 10 ride nn the street car this Afternoon voluntarily and onn dcnllally Informed me that the town was An wlckl and as wide atoll all any or the American cltlcs HANK n CAItlENTKIl |