the plains adjoining the railroad lines. Forty miles 8 east of Calgary it was possible to see the Rocky Mountains in the distance. When we got to Calgary, where, because it was Sunday, there was hardly anything going on at all, they hooked on the end of the train an open-topped observation car. When the train started out a man came in the car to sell smoked glasses. He was the lecturer. That is, the man who knows all about the scenery we were about to pass through. He had passed through it many times and found that the pleasure of watching it was increased anywhere from fifty to seventy-five per cent by those smoked glasses. He had a whole lot of them and that was why he could sell them for just a dollar. I bought one of them, and they increased my pleasure just as he said, anwhere from fifty to seventy-five per cent. We climbed from the minute we left Calgary. The train follows the Fraser River up into the mountains. We stopped at Banff and Lake Louise and later at Field and Glacier. Outside of the mountains, which were wonderfully interesting, the thing which impressed me the most were the circular tunnels. Passing through these tunnels one easily loses all sense of direction for the first tunnel to be seen is the second tunnel to be en- tered. The train enters these tunnels and circles back under itself, so to speak. It comes sixty to seventy feet undergrade from the point at which it entered. We made a second climb after we had passed through the Rockies when we came to the Selkirks. The grade ascends