216 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

now over four hundred. Mails are daily forwarded and received between Charlottetown and the principal points on the Island, while foreign mail matter is made up and sent off by steamer every morning, returning with mail each evening—— Sunday excepted.

A great triumph of invention was the Telephone, first used here in 1884 for the transmission of messages. Scientific men had not long been engaged in this wonderful agent when it was brought—we may venture to say—to perfection. Lines of telephone have now been established from Charlottetown to near all parts of the Island, by the means of which men, many miles apart, can communicate with each other almost instantane- ously. Thus, facility in business lines await the tradesman on every hand.

EDUCATIONAL

D.]. McLeod. Chief Superintendent of Education. Rev. Donald McNeill: Clerk to

The administration of the educational interests of the Province is vested in a Board of Education, a Chief Superin- tendent and Inspectors. Each District has a local Board of Trustees, elected annually by the ratepayers. The salaries of the teachers are paid from the Provincial Treasury, but may be supplemented by local assessment.

The Prince of Wales College, which includes the Normal School, is situated on Weymouth Street; its staff consists of Alexander Anderson, L.L.D., Principal; John Caven, First Professor; Herbert H. Shaw, Second Professor; Edward Jordan, Third Professor; Samuel W. Robertson, Fourth Professor. Attached to it as an adjunct to the Nomial Department is the Model School with two teachers.

In addition to these public sources of education, there are in connection with the Roman Catholic Church : Saint Dunstan's College, in the vicinity of Charlottetown, two Convent Schools within the city, and several others located in various parts of the Island. In all these, both boarders and day scholars are received.

St. Peter’s School in connection with the English Church of that name, also gives means of tuition to children.

In 1877 the Public Schools’ Act was passed, which provided