Sea from a collection of wooden shacks to a civilized centre of commerce.

Never has the tide of local prosperity run higher than it does to-day. Property stands at a fair value, the mining industry is advancing with rapid strides, new firms are opening up in the city, new buildings and residences in the course of construction meet the eye at every turn; and added to

VANCOUVER LIEUT.-COL. WORSNOP.

this, increased wharf accommodation and a new railway station have practically been necessitated by the magnitude of the Klondyke trade, and the steady stream of regular travel.

Vancouver has yet another thing of

which she is justly proud, namely, her militia forces, and a finer body of men than the Second Battalion of the Fifth Regiment of Canadian Artillery, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Worsnop, it would be difficult to find throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion. The Pacific Coast district is in all respects equal in importance to that of Halifax; both form the maritime boundaries of Canada, and the fact that Vancouver is situated three thousand miles distant from the Ontario and Quebec centres does not lessen its value as the western military outpost of the Dominion.

It is perchance, in a measure, due to the conglomeration of nationalities represented in her harbour that Vancouver has become such a thoroughly cosmopolitan city, for every clime under heaven appears to have contributed its mite towards the stream of humanity that incessantly ebbs and flows along the streets and on the wharves.

White men and yellow Chinese, Negroes and swarthy Italians, Spaniards, Coreans and Japanese ever intermingling with the new genus homo, the "Klondyker," jostle one another as they pass by, and any day you may hear the Irish brogue, or the canny speech of the Scot, combined with American wit, German expletives, or French idioms, as you take your constitutional stroll down the length of Cordova street. All these diverse types vastly interest and amuse a stranger, and invariably cause him to wonder how on earth such an admixture of temperaments, creeds, and prejudices, to say nothing of languages and customs, has ever succeeded in building up so fine a commercial city. Truly, it is a confederation of opposing forces, bent primarily on promoting trade, and who, with the "Almighty Dollar" as their goal, have evidently found sufficient unity of purpose to bind them together in the interests of prosperity and ad

vancement.

Julian Durham.

MARGARET ANGLIN.

THE HE most prominent Canadian now on the American stage, who is not a star, is beyond peradventure Miss Margaret Anglin, the young actress who, as leading lady with Mr. Richard Mansfield, is appearing as Roxane in Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac." Miss Anglin is the daughter of the

PHOTOGRAPH BY SARONY, NEW YORK.
MARGARET ANGLIN.

The Canadian Actress who has been winning fame in the
United States.

late Hon. Timothy Anglin for some time speaker of the House of Commons, and she enjoys the distinction of having been born in the House of Parliament at Ottawa, April 3rd, 1876. At the age of twenty-two she has done much and climbed many rounds on the ladder of fame. Miss Anglin lived most of her babyhood in St. John, N. B., and Halifax, N.S.; then at the age of

seven came with her parents to Toronto where she was educated at Loretto Abbey, and subsequently at the convent of the Sacred Heart in Montreal.

In August, 1894, Miss Anglin made her professional debut at the Academy of Music in New York, in "Shenandoah." She then spent a season as leading lady with Mr. James O'Neill, our greatest living romantic actor, with whom she won approval everywhere, especially as Mercedes in "Monte Cristo" and Ophelia in "Hamlet," as well as Virginia in "Virginius." Last season she appeared with Mr. E. H. Sothern in "Lord Chumley" and "The Adventure of Lady Ursula." This season all America knows of her splendid performance in the play

of the year. She is pronounced as surpassing Ada Rehan and is undoubtedly a coming artiste who has already arrived. With her equipment of beauty, culture and intellect the future lies open and bright before another daughter of Canada.

MISS ETHEL KNIGHT MOLLISON.

During the last two years a number of the bright stars have disappeared from the theatric firmament. Their places must be filled by the most talented of the younger generation. One

of these, who is rising to an enviable place. is the gifted young New Brunswickian, Miss Ethel Knight Mollison. She made her debut with Miss Olga Nethersole four years. ago, playing Nichette in "Camille," Constance in "The Transgressor," Pauline in "Frou-Frou." The end of that season she joined Mr. Augustin Daly's Company, and appeared as Ferta in "Love on Crutches," Daisy in Nancy & Co.," Zamora in "The Honeymoon "-an impersonation which the New York press compared with that of Miss Ada Rehan in "Twelfth Night." The following summer Miss Mollison determined to try her wings in her own country and went to St. John with the Harkins Stock Company, where she did Eliza in Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe's play that seems to resemble Tennyson's brook, Dora, Miss Maud Adam's original part in "Men and Women." In the following September this indefatigable Canadian began a season with the Girard Avenue Theatre Stock Company, of Philadelphia, where she played thirty-one parts in as many weeks, and succeeded in establishing a reputation for remarkable versatility and artistic excellence, playing everything from Bob the bootblack in "The Streets of New York," to Lady Anne in "Richard III.," and making especial hits as Lady Tommy in "The Amazons," and Chouchou in "The Pearl of Savoy."

After appearing in Bulwer Lytton's "Money" with Mrs. John Drew, she created the part of Rada, the Eurasian girl, in The Cherry Pickers," and toured the principal cities with that attraction. The next summer she did a series of curtain raisers in Kansas City, scoring well in Rosina Vokes' role in "My Lord in Livery." In August she appeared in the trial production at the Columbia Theatre, Washington, D.C., of "The Marquis of Michigan," in which Sam Bernard afterwards starred. Then came Miss Mollison's engagement with Miss Julia Arthur, with whom she played Lady

Betty Tantillion in "A Lady of Quality." Last summer she played eight parts in the Maritime Provinces with the Harkins Stock Company, scoring big hits as Ernestine Echo in "The Crust of Society," and Cissy in "What happened to Jones." This season she is again with Miss Arthur. Four years

on the stage-fifty-four parts-and never a failure. Surely that is a record to be proud of? Those astronomers who are looking for brilliant luminaries in the dramatic firmament should turn their telescopes in the direction of Miss Ethel Knight Mollison.

MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER.

The full names of the popular young

was living

in

Reading at the time of his son's birth in 1858. The boy's earlier years were pas

sed in Bath and Clifton. On the return of his father to Scotland he finished his preparatory education at the High School in Stirling. Even in those early days young George Samson acted a small part in a classical burlesque called "Ju

By way of compromise between the young man's inclination to an artistic profession and the father's wish that he should adopt a business life, George was permitted to try the study of medicine at Edinburgh. But this, after a couple of terms, proved no more alluring. So another change was made. The young man was sent to London to be apprenticed to his father's friend, Mr. Leaf, of the then famous silk house of Leaf & Co.

piter Aeger" in private entertainment. The lad's threatical bent and talent were not hereditary.

"My mother had never been in a theatre in her life," Mr. Alexander told me. "My father had, but hated the stage intensely. He was a Scotch manufacturer, and ardently desired that I should succeed him in his mills. I hated the idea, and always hankered after the boards."

Mr. Samson could hardly

have discovered a surer way to frustrate his own plans than the course which he adopted to ensure their success. Once established in London young George Samson became an enthusiastic playgoer. Joining the Thames Rowing Club, he became a prominent member of its company of amateurs, and distinguished himself as Jack Wyatt in "Two Roses," and Charles Courtley in London Assurance." For

a couple of years In 1879 a successful

this life went on. appearance in a performance of the "Critic" crystallised the aspirations of the young Thespian into a decision to make a bold plunge, and to adopt the stage in earnest. "I was not exactly a runaway from home," he says, "but the determination was hailed with anything but satisfaction by my family."

At Nottingham George Alexander made his first public appearance in Sep