The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . inister. On the street—the samevarigated procession; otherwise thereare times when Ottawa feels ver-much like a big overgrown village. At the Kideau Club, which is fair-ly opposite the Parliament Buildings,you find less of the shoepacker, un-less he happens to be a millionaire,and more of the financier. Most ofthe lumbermen of Ottawa belong tothe Rideau Club. Most of the Ottawabon-tons—outside cabinet ministers,members of Parliament and civil ser-vants—are lumbermen. The richestlumberman in Canada, if n

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The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . inister. On the street—the samevarigated procession; otherwise thereare times when Ottawa feels ver-much like a big overgrown village. At the Kideau Club, which is fair-ly opposite the Parliament Buildings, you find less of the shoepacker, un-less he happens to be a millionaire, and more of the financier. Most ofthe lumbermen of Ottawa belong tothe Rideau Club. Most of the Ottawabon-tons—outside cabinet ministers, members of Parliament and civil ser-vants—are lumbermen. The richestlumberman in Canada, if not in Am-erica, lives on Metcalf street abouthalf-way between the Parliament andthe Museum—John R. Booth, who isthe incarnation of what Ottawa usedto be, even while he keeps a shrewdeye on the Ottawa of to-day. For itwas once the city of wood. The sign manual of Ottawa of thepast should be smokestack over a heapof sawdust, variegated with a peavey.Once there were more saws in Ottawathan there were what irrelevantpeople nowadaj^s call grafters. Hull has most of the saws and lum-. iN IMtLIAMKNT HIM, . Wlil.l;!, .SdMI. MKN. Si l IT IS S.MII. SIMIM.V TdrCil TllK lUTTUN ill: Il 1.1. TIIH LE^R. ..1> TlIK THING GOKS