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