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332 employés found himself one time in distress. Newfoundland is a very human place and therefore democratic. The people are by nature appreciative, chivalrous and unaffected. Those who serve the travelling public are so attentive and well-intentioned that even if road-beds are rough and cars sometimes acrobatic, the visitor will be inclined to overlook annoyances which under other conditions he would think cause for grumbling.

Hotels.

The Newfoundland of the present is primarily for the angler, the hunter and the woodsman. Scenically it is as magnificent as its pools and barrens are sportive. But it is not a luxurious country and tourists unwilling to content themselves with moderate comforts of travel coupled with, for the most part, the most unassuming hotel accommodation will be happier not to come. The only tourist hotels which offer anything like first-grade service are the inns, some of them conducted by sportsmen, which have been erected near stations at the western end of the railway—St. George's Bay (Stephenville Crossing), Spruce Brook, Humbermouth (Bay of Islands) and Grand Lake. Grand Falls, a new town brought into being by the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, has adequate hotels. At Torbay, Topsail and other coast towns near St. John's there are modest summer hotels, and at most railway and steamer