The city has two electric light plants, an electric fire 
     
     alarm and a gas light and power company; and legislation has 
     
     recently been passed for an electric street railway. There are 
     
     three daily and several weekly and bi-weekly newspapers; and an 
     
     interesting little monthly magazine has lately appeared upon the 
     
     scene. Religious and National Societies are well represented, 
     
     there being no less than 15 lodges or societies including Masons 
     
     and Odd Fellows. The leading hotels are the Davies, Queen and 
     
     Revere. 
     
    

    
     Charlottetown contains machine shops, wood—working, furni- 
     
     ture and tobacco factories, a pork factory, woolen and flour 
     
     mills, a boot and shoe factory, a condensed milk factory, and 
     
     minor industries. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The number of establishments in 1881 and 1891, was :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     1881 1891 
     
     Number 198 238 
     
     Capital $980,018 $959,589 
     
     Number of hands employed 1,005 1,049 
     
     Wages paid $235,241 $281,119 
     
     Cost of material $610,209 $797,795 
     
     Value of products $998,530 $1,405,246 
     
     Value per head of population $ 87 $ 123 
     
    
   
   
    
     The city’s affairs are managed by a Mayor and eight 
     
     Councillors, and its population is about 12,000. 
     
    

    
     Summerside, in Prince County, has a population of about 
     
     3,000 and ranks next to the capital in wealth and importance. 
     
     It is situated on Bedeque Bay, in the centre of one of the 
     
     finest farming districts in the Province, and has a large trade 
     
     being the principal oyster mart of the Island. It possesses a 
     
     good harbor, and duringr the season of navigation has daily 
     
     communication by steamer with New Brunswick. The town is 
     
     lighted by electricity and boasts of the largest and finest 
     
     departmental store in the Maritime Provinces. Its schools are 
     
     excellent and hotels fair. Near Summerside is the Dunk River, a 
     
     noted trout»fishing stream, where many piscatorial beauties have 
     
     been killed. Alberton at the western end of the Province 
     
     possesses the only harbor, Cascumpec Bay, available on a long 
     
     line of coast, which has been considerably improved by 
     
     dredging. The village has a good trade and a number of