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     St. Johns, No. 1, Victoria, No. 2, Charlottetown; King Hiram, 
     
     No. 3, Summerside; St. George, No. 4, Georgetown ; Alexan- 
     
     dra, No. 5, Port Hill; Mt. Lebanon, No. 6, Summerside; 
     
     Zetland. No. 7, Alberton; True Brothers, No. 8, Tryon; 
     
     Orient, No. it, Souris; Mount Zion, No. 12, Kensington; St. 
     
     Andrews, No. 13, Montague; Prince Edward, No. r4, Stanley. 
     
     Alexandra, Royal Arch Chapter, No. 100, meets Ist Wednesday 
     
     at Masonic Hall, Charlottetown. Prince Edward Royal Arch 
     
     Chapter, No. 13, Summerside. meets and Wednesday in 
     
     February, May, August and November. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Besides the societies already alluded to, a branch of the 
     
     Young Men’s Christian Association has existed here for the last 
     
     forty years. It has a well supplied reading room and gymna- 
     
     sium. Another branch of the same society is also established 
     
     at Summerside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Society of Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 
     
     together with that of St. Vincent de Paul, are of a more recent 
     
     organization. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As already shown, communication with the mainland is 
     
     maintained, during the period of ordinary navigation, by a line 
     
     of steamers connecting daily with ports in Nova Scotia and 
     
     New Brunswick, and thus with the various railway systems of 
     
     Canada and the United States. Branch railways have recently 
     
     been constructed to Cape Traverse and to Cape Tormentine, 
     
     and there is no doubt that a permanent connection will be 
     
     established between these two points, and that communication 
     
     during winter will, ere long, be accomplished with but little 
     
     difficulty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A subway has been proposed to connect the Island with the 
     
     railway systems of the other Provinces, and the matter is fairly 
     
     before the Dominion Government, its complete practicability 
     
     having been favorably reported on by many leading engineers. 
     
     Surveys and borings have been made by which the bottom of 
     
     the straits has been shown to be perfectly suitable to the 
     
     enterprise. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Under the superintendence of Postmaster and Assistant 
     
     Inspector—F. De St. C. Brecken, there are excellent postal 
     
     facilities throughout the Province,—post offices being estab- 
     
     lished at intervals of three or four miles, and of these there are