A Trip Over the Intercolonial Including Articles on the Mining Industries of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick With a Description of the Cities of St John and Halifax Classic Reprint

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Owing to the short time allowed for stopping at the former place, your correspondent had'no Opportunity of ascertaining anything like a correct description of the starting point of the Intercolonial Railway. It is sufficiently Well known, however, to the general public, and does not perhaps require any lengthy mention; except, perhaps, to add that the. Station arrangements were very similar to those of any other line. I triedq in vain to gather a few hasty notes; but the energetic station master informed me that probably he might have an hour or so to spare in the course of a few days but at that precise moment his hands were too full? To attend to anything; adding that the same general hurry, bustle and' business had been going on for the past two or three weeks. It may be here remarked that the business of the road is greatly facilitated by the punctual and admirable arrangements of the Grand Trunk Railway, There were no delays, no confusion among employés, or mistakes. Every thing appeared to be in thorough working order, and might, so far as a. Stranger was concerned, have been going on precisely in the same way for; the past ten years. Upon appealing to the conductor to satisfy my thirst for knowledge in the public interest, he admitted he was a comparative stranger along the road, and he could not give me any information what ever. But he was an exceedingly obliging fellow, and the way he assisted an infirm old lady to the waiting-room was the perfection of railroad: gallantry. The incident was exceptional in my experience of. Railroad officials, and is therefore noteworthy.

Having safely deposited his charge the signal all' aboard Was given the locomotive shrieked its loudest and we were en route to Cacouna, six miles distant.

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