A few days ago statistics were riven out by the Commerce Department of the American Government which show that the expenditure of American tourists abroad amounts to about. $960,000,000 per annum.
this total it is estimated that about $190,000,000 spent Canada, "This leads to the subject of the American tourist trade in 'Montreal. The number of Americai visiting' the Canadian metropol has been increasing year by year,. One of the Montreal.papers sent a representative uptown to interview tourists at the Mount Royal Hotel yand round about, with the object. {of trying to find out what draws so many tourists to the city from so many parts of North America, A resume of the answers received shows that among the chief attractions are the Montreal summer climate, the horse racing, the liquor system, the good roads and the quaint" scenic beauties of French Canada, There were many other answers in addition to the above, Dut there is no doubt that those mentioned are the chief reasons for the position of Montreal tourist centre, After an absence from the city of about four years, I could not fail to be impressed when every day down town I seo tons of American ears from every state in the Union, and when the busiest corner in the ping district, at the comer of Peel St. and Ste. Catherine St. is crowded with tourists waiting tour the city in a sightseeing bus.
Eastern Canada has been getting a spell of wet weather for the past. ten days, but as the weather in July and'early August was very good we have nothing to complain of, There will be some delay harvesting the "Into hay and ths grain, but when rain is expected, People are prepared. Soon all the summer holiday will be over, and big people will settle down making money, and little people will get back to' school, presentative eared back, the word, Fam with hope and fulahed with Enthusiasm, "Cats moved swiftly {rom fe rain fields fo renin markets and Switly' back again."
And so many of the railway troubles have ended, What has Vappened would have been considered entirely impossible a few years ago, but the happy sequel to-Gay is that not only are the railway lines satisfied but farmers jand shippers are making better profits and markets are kept normal because of a mutual effort towards a common end beneficial to all.
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