water-edge where He cable ships and Bermuda liners, cargo-boats flying the ensigns of many nations, tiny coasters that wend a perilous way to reef-bound havens up and down the Scotia shore, hulking steamers bound for England or just arrived with emigrants from Baltic ports, sailing vessels discharging fares of newly-caught herring and cod, tourist steamers on the way to Boston, or St. John's, or Gaspé—craft of every flag, model and destination, designed for every sort of mission on the seas.
One rung higher is a street filled with shipping offices, lobster shops, and sundry emporiums whose windows announce bargains in rusted salvage, sailors' kits, hardtack, fishermen's boots, "gear" and cordage. The street above is chiefly devoted to banking and Government offices and to hotels. The rear windows of both the "Queen" and the "Halifax" overlook the docks where most of the passenger steamers berth. The union railway station is situated about a mile north of the hotel centre.
Barrington Street, two hilly blocks above Hollis, is for its comparatively short length lined with shops so modernised as to have lost their one-time British air, a fact bemoaned by the rigidly loyal Haligonian. South of the shopping and theatre district Barrington becomes Pleasant Street, and north of the Parade it is known as Lockman Street. Duke, George, Prince and Sackville Streets all
