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THE DETROIT REE PRESS: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1907 Qixixt Quebec IlWfe' Ancient and Modern Mingle strangely amous Old Canadian 7 about Len Shaw Sv gas after distance there are tears in her of 1 sad you Men Who Have Assisted in Building Up Greater Detroit first or Married olk in Le a constant suc and contradic who has spent they until ho en drinks Si break quake lose the tlr at to is in to wait be late now or And If as general manager measure be first now lne yen con pre Their reflec provineial municipal latter and the of one of these from which to and conduct the healer or once novelist He used Os into a given territory A single room will furnish shelter for She says you must come She is going to play bridge And now then of a from your squawk of they have Quebec in imposed by nature as the machine dashes along the roadway leaving a cloud of dust and a smell of oline in' its wake A CAL A 11 QUEER CONVEYANCE PECULIAR TO QUEBEC prowling where are and the Strang niinnnv a vvvopT cv habitant's bill of fare rench lasses for feminine beauty sterner sex lias not? You linger long ii tions but you can be differently cousins of further east becomes the not only but also as disagreements Lytton the his success husband away to one Ask the one or weeks among the historic have given him innermost work Mr Bagley is his as floors may be polished until tobacco business Bagley is not familiar Years of active participation in the busi ness established by his father the late Gov Bagley a knowledge of the Ings of the trade content do devote gies to his duties John Bagley Co nancially interested er enterprises Jacobson is another Detroit er whose miss'ion in life is to make the cars go He was instrumental twinkle the lights on teeming with a to this quaint old He was Employ a poten the open that the la an entire family sometimes more than one and your rench Canadian pater is not sparing when it comes to numerical strength The rickety abodes towering upward three and four stories are veritable ant hills ed run hither and thither ing away from irate adults path they may have crossed out the cavernous depths to doorways lead come strange and fleeting the lowly are gained through the few windows whose heavy wooden shutters have not been closed for the inhabitant believes in taking his sunlight in homeopathic quantities There are stairways and balcon ies No house here is complete with out the possessor vantage passerby terchange of gossip is an envy to the neighbor hqve fared well there are drawbacks wit a window dirty foe The outlined against the with curious old type The pal within hailing of batteaux single mas ted vessels with or pulpwood when you tell them story buildings for your is polite however great required Children scantily cloth scurry whose rom which odors glimpses of life among gained through whose heavy 10 things the mr pride become more i vou are less inclined Bv the time Quebec the illusion is dis are forced ta admit nvision from the States omplished so much waters And send where else He ninety nine cases STRENUOUS WORK OR ATHER Oh! father dear father Come home with me now The clock in the steeple strikes two And new waist Has come home from the shop And she get it shut without you of unbelief twenty five renchman the effort ar above the city on the hights beyond the citadel are the Plains of Abraham where on that memorable Wolfe with 4500 guns which they had dragging up the hill to Gen the struggle waged British finally wrest from the rench and of the A few yards away both mortally entire ener treasurcr of although fl which the timber has been cut Of various oth flcially Mr Stephens is with which Paul other undertakings although not of not familiar Tears flcially identified with them It would be difficult to enumerate 'all the holdings of Albert Ste phens who is heavily interested in timber lands in northern Michigan and elsewhere and who also re ceives heavy royalties from the mines located on the land from second to none in th QUEBEC RONT LEVIJ KNOWING CITADEL AT LET exterior of houses is less forbidding than the in terior Carpets are a luxury with these dwellers in the congested dis tricts A few lengths maybe found in the spare room if such there be although they are rare A deal ta ble a few chairs a kitchen stove a bed a dog and home is complete The they shine but there is a barren ness a gloom about the dark rooms which the sunlight is rarely permit ted to enter that is depressin one unaccustomed roundings The entire city is cession of surprises tions days spots abounding there and he will tell you it is not of America even 'though in it that it is a page from old rance The seeds sown there by the hardy renchmen centuries ago have thrived and themselves as firmly as the giant rock whose frowning battlements overshadow the city Here progress and primitiveness mingle as in no other city on the continent: the things of the present and those of generations ago rub elbows on all sides The first warning that you are approaching the city comes after you ponder invasion already making and sigh at the prospects fortunate points of view the daily in object of who may not Nevertheless even here to descent from a volume of sturdy men who viq with each other for the opportunity afforded to gain distinction by taking a turn at the pumps On they go pulling tugging pushing perspiring cheered by the excited populace for a fire is an event to the peaceful inhabitants of this strange old city Primitive? Perhaps but it meets the require ments Skyscrapers have no place in Quebec The natives point with pride to a five story structure and strive valiantly to conceal the smile Wolfe and Montcalm fell day in 1759 pen men and two succeeded in gave battle forces Here the ing the city gaining final possession country ing a position of prominence whowould run less risk of identifica tion in a crowd This is not attribu table to diffidence on Mr part although he is the last man to court notoriety but rather to the fact that he devotes all his time to giving Detroit a street car service world Dur ing his spare moments Mr Hutch identified ins finds time to serve as a direc with the Wabash Cement tor of the Security Trust Co To the efforts of Henry Joy Co as president and is a director can in a large of the Union Trust Co attributed the success When all other topics for discus him to drink the the wife some declared that in out of a hun the people matters take The lnglish In kas brought changes that out in marked to the primitiveness some quarters progressiveness finds tion in the splendid parliament legal and buildings On rhe hill old town and far back from the cit adel stretch long avenues on eithvy side of which are modern dwellings where velvety iiwns and artistic ally arranged flower plots are in marked contrast to i he long rows of heavily shuttered brisk and plas tered dwellings built out to the walk line with only a narrow alleyway leading back to the court in the rear and never vegetation visible that mark the So father dear father Sprint home with me And gladden dear eyes her heart it will we surely must it be that she prize forms an indispens tlie adjunct to every well appointed home and chatters with his neighbor across the way Or perImps you stroll in to the little wino shop where Pierre repairs to meet his countrymen and smoke joys a She says not afraid And likely to lose the first prize There are buttons galore And an inch contains four It will be a tough job set for you To begin at the top And never once stop Till you've buttoned the thirty and two to to such sur the unexpected above of water sent by an invisible side with foreigners street its with its neither will re to tlie student of ttb Champlain street XVLLS CAP THE NAP POWE C5T STREETN QUEBEC Sunday Customs You learn with surprise thai do not start the street cars midday on Sundays so that the em ployes may attend mass in the morning But in the midst of praise for the corporation so deeply interested in the spiritual welfare of its servants you wonder how many nickels are missed by this un usual procedure You search the town on a hot Sunday for a soda fountain at which to slake your thirst you look 'in vain for a thirst parlor with a side entrance tight give made town The is nailed down And just as you are about up in despair the discovery that tlie bar in every notel is running full blast The New Quebec Not all of Quebec belongs to that far away period when progress was a stranger and when were content to let their own course vasion stand trast vailing in Its counterpart any progressive It is the strange race that ap A great physician who had a big reputation doctor matrimonial told Bulwer the secret of to order tlie place under the pretense of its be a suggestion of in necessary for from the street rench quarters wounded their men on ward with their dying breath the one victor the other vanquished Yonder stands the granite shaft marking tlie spot where the Eng lish general gave up his life Wandering out the road that fol lows the river around the base of the hill you reach the place where Montgomery the brave but mis guided American general gave up his life in an attack upon Quebec on that fateful New Year's eve back in 1775 ar up the hillside is a signboard designating the spot where the gallant leader fell at the head of his men in the fruitless ef fort to scale the hights Standing there: overawed by the daring of a man who would undertake such a feat you are carried back to those stirring Revolutionary days and your mind pictures that resolute band of Continental soldiers as they crept silently up the hillside clam bering over rocks picking their way cautiously in the darkness advancing in the face of what must have seemed certain death And sudden you are roused reveries by the hoarse an automobile horn for a few automobiles in spite of the handicaps Above lies the new town care not found in city throughout the land narrow tdingy thoroughfares pled with a peal to you ar Dufferin Te life that is new town and wnh regret and rose over the itself felt of a time when the transformation shall have been completed and when the Quebec of today will be only a pleasant memory a bend in the St Lawrence there bursts into view the grim old cita del which has given Quebec the fit ting title of Gibraltar of Amer whose massive walls and guns have for cen hurled defiance to all An moment and far up on the just below his pipe the while glass of tlie strange peculiar to the locality there is a fascination through the little shops sold the smoked menfj smelling herbs that prominent place in the Th' nc if you have an eye and who of thoappeal to you the older sec tread as you traverse the citv but and into view comes an old you forget this fact in wonderment strong a hand pump with over the scenes unfolded Here came Tong sweeping arms manipulated by the Jesuit fathers centuries ago blazing the way for the faith which has laid such a strong hold upon the people But the feeling of rev erence as you survey the imposing edifices that mark the outgrowth of their labors disappears as adown the street there comes a murmur growing into a babel of tongues as a diminutive fire engine looking not unlike an overgrown teakettle mounted on four wheels dashes along surrounded by a wildly ges ticulating throng A minute more cnlv a step removed sted states in its cus mgration of the young ci across the border me sojourn might only has had its effect mdentlv proclaim after conditions in this it tlie Americanization near at hand reach Montreal IM LITTLE CHAMPLAIN STREET i yviTEI ERE AN NECKTEPE IN and deep throated turies other hillside just below the fortress nestling beneath the very muzzles of the guns as though enjoying a sense of absolute security in the protection afforded one of the most imposing hotels in the country pro jects itself upon the scene The customs house a model of its kind is clearly hillside covered houses of the rench atial steamer passes distance of a fleet the diminutive rench sailing vessels with their cargos of hay or pulpwood drift ing slowly with the tide their sails flapping idly while the boatmen croon the songs handed down to them by their forefathers Historic Ground It is historic ground that ENRY LELAND is one of those progressive Detroiters who is a firm believer in the doctrine that union begets strength implanted be it labor or capital that is banded together in the advancement of common interests Mr Leland has always been a conspicuous advocate of equal rights for all the first president of the association and was tial factor in supporting shop doctrine holdin borer is worthy of liis hire regard less of trade affiliations Mr was the to set foot where i' quoted The Other ing over the guide book reflection around a cor threatened to thoroughfare unintelligible greeting to a added ver moved a foot criticism perhaps but rd for the truth com mission that in some re i aavo advanced but lit lavs when Champlainr idished a trading post the lower town ome changes many of riiss has made itself felt vi ars Modern ideals i' ir impress Sentiment dc before the sordidimni' rcial life But tiie stretching along the iiwrence at the base ring cliffs and winding eastward where the i i narles loses its iden same old town to all a purposes that had its rile guns of Gen Wolfe inhabitants to flee for itid reduced the village smoldering ruins I 1 Homes has its east throng of its Clark (use Place a'llians But A il A 1 ii mt aa A UH I Ui 1 r1li A A 'V dl Al a zz i 111 1 vs 1 1 Tnlli Jr) PR 'h r'S I yay 7 t' A A 1 "IVIHV 2 1 A i a ZMidnic I at rat Mm IVWUB te Mfl i 'Sfey I list XmBS I aH iM'X I mwiMWA Bo WU a a llrm jrKjfUMKW 4 fix tit 1 ns ill i area a 1 la's 11 W14 A I qvx! aP fiE 'w mu ri WS (w) JA11 3 MKEi 0 7 citv but and 1 In point of advantage is with cities Little street is but a long Soules Cap covers a mm space But it is in that a greater number beings could be crowded passing under the Quebec bridge on which seven years of labor have al ready been spent with the task but little more than half completed and which when finished will be the longest single span bridge in Amer ica if not the world rom the deck of the steamer as it swings around land was the active head of the Le land aulconcr Co up to the time of the consolidation which re suited in the formation of the Cad illac Motor Car Co of which he is general manager It would be a difficult matter to discover anything relating to the achieved by the Packard Motor Car Co which has won international fame in its particular field Nir Joy is likewise president of the Detroit Union Railroad Depot Station Co operating the ort street station and terminals He is also a holder of stock in numerous sion are exhausted by public offi cials and private citizens there is still left the Detroit United' Rail way always a fruitful theme Every body in Detroit knows of President Jere Hutchins comparatively few know him It is doubtful if there is anpther man jn tlie city occupy in securing the greater portion of the right of way for the Detroit Monroe Toledo Short Line and with that out of the way promoted tlie Detroit Termirfar Railway Co as the new belt line bordering tlie city limns is Known Air Jacob son is at present engaged in a sim ilar undertaking at Grand Rapids There are modem stores too where twentieth century commer cial enterprise is in evidence but you turn your back on these famil iar scenes and wander where of an evening after the day's work is done the renchman gathers his family upon the balcony which dred if the husband and wife 'could be prevented from seeing each other for six weeks when they tnet once more there was a remarkable increase of affection only thing has been that they could not stand seeing each other so he explained Wl2KExV or iraEzW Obtroit Km tlm mBI 'C: i If BBB MIBBBBm 1 wBKii rs I I 'a MMM EK IBHB Il a kWMfK HNk II fl fl 1 St i KW fl fl fl a 'flU Isj 'A Kn fT I I Jk Ax 1' albert Stephens jere hutchins henry leland henry joy paul bagley jacobson I I I I i i.