HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1909-12-16, Page 3Disomber .1611.43909,
CAIROA I I044.
Early Englich Writer Deocribee the
Growing Gelony.
Though there has been a myriad ot
ElOglish correspondenta within our
borders during the past ten years ens'
gaged in the bueineas of "writing up'
Canada, it must not be thought that
they are in any sense pioneers in the
business. Ae early as 1844 there was
published by A. ec C. Blear of Edin-
burgh, a volume entitled "Views of
Canada and tne Colonists, by a Four
Years' Resident," which resernbles in
its accounts of Western Ontario towns
the vivacioue accounts recently. given
of the centres springing up rn the
great Northwest. which appear con-
stantly there The author was aural)",
*louse but it was suhsequently reveal,.
ed that hie name was Brown, and
Chamber's Jcurnal vouched for the
fact that he was a "highly respect-
able' person free from all connections
which could produce a bias in his
mind in favor of the colony generally,
or any of its particular districts."
That sounds bully nowadays doesn t
it. It must be remembered that
"Canada" in the days when this heels
wars written, comprised what are now
known as the Provinces of Ontario
and Quebec, the Maritimes were
,separate and distinct territories, some
'halt- the oldest inhabitants of which
have not yet accepted the name
"Canadian."
Mr. Brown was generally favorable
to Canada. He spoke of the comfort
of the farming class, their own free
farms, light taxes, and plenty of beef,
bread, and wool. He was particularly
enamoured of the London district
where he said that out of a popula-
tion of 30,000, there were only ten
persons subsisting on alms. He con-
trasted tide with conditions in Eng-
land, where he alleged that pauper-
ism had reached the alarming figures
of nearly ten per cent. of the popula-
tion.
He spoke particularly of the work
of Mr. Talbot, the Irishman, who first
;planned the scheme of colonizing the
;London district in the early twenties,
and a memorial to whom exists in
the prosperous little city of St.
Thomas. He states that scarcely a
man of those who accomdanied Tal-
bot to Upper Canada in 1822, was pos-
sessed of mon. than one hundred
pounds, and that every man of them
twenty years later owned a fine farm,
plenty of stock, and was "in enjoy-
ment of all the comforts and many of
the luxuries of life."
That is going some when one eon -
eiders the old-time election talk of
poor over -taxed and over-worked
farmers who have hardly enough
time to expectorate. Speaking of the
town of London, he said that it had
fine streets, a very respectable look-
ing Court House in castellated style,
and a two-storey district school. He
was particularly impressed with the
Mechanics' institute, which was in
classic style, and was going to have
a portico ani pediment finished with
columns when it was completed.
"London, III the spirit with which
, this institution is supported is," he
declared, "an example to the whole
province. I ant net aware of another
instance in Canada -not even in the
comparatively polished and most
English -like town, Toronto -where a
building has been erected for a pope
lar institute.
In the London district they certain-
ly took thew plerieures seriously in
ose days. During the winter even
Ings, the writer stated, the inhabitants
were "enlivened by lectures on scien.
tific subjects " One that he had lia
tened to was by John Wilson, Warden
of the county; and a barrister of talent
and eminence, who chose for his sub
ject the enlivening theme of "Optics.'
•
She Let Out the Secret.
Dissembling is not a vice of child-
hood, and sometimes parents find to
their cost that even the most inno-
eent kind of dissembling does not do
when the very young are about. Not
long ago a certain young Tweet° wife
planned to surprise her husband with
nice home-made birthday gift. The
-surprise was to come with the nature,
not the mere fact of tht present -for
birthday gifts are an established cus-
tom in the family. The truth is that
the wife in question was neaking for
the head of the house something out
of the ordinary in pyjamas. She had
apprised her ilve-year-old daughter of
the fact but had cautioned her not
to divulge it. The work was pretty,
nearly completed, but -she had forgot-
ten the exact date of the husband's
:birthday; so as the three sat enjoying
the circus which visited the city re-
eently, the wife leaned over and- said
casually:
"Oh, by the way, Jack, what date
does your birthday come on -the 20th
or the 21st."
"It's the 20th," answered Jack;
"but deed you go spending a lot of
time /nuking something for me.".
"No, no; I'm not going to make
you anything, but I just wanted. to
know."
"Now, isn't that too bad," piped
up the five-year-old to her father.
"Why, daddy, muver was going to
,give you two lovely pairs of pyjamas."
Mr. Tudhope After the Fire.
It was two hours before the big fire
in Orillia destroyed the Tudhope Car-
riage Co.'s works, that Mr. J. le
Tudhope, M.P., president of the corn-
pany, stood in good-humored conver-
sation with a newspaper correspon-
dent. He was telling about his re-
eollections of early days on the farm.
"Folks in my district were content
with very little," observed Mr. Tud-
hope; "they began with a log cabin,
then boarded it over, then bricked it.
That made them permanently happy,"
"But you seem to have written your
life story in big .capital letters," re-
plied the correspondent. Mr. Tudhope
smilhd at the compliment. ,Two
hours later his •factories lay in ash
heaps. It was the newspaper manes
-duty to again meet the downhearted
president, and the irony of their pre-
vious conversation made them both
smile.
"Well, what do you think of your
homily on success?" the president
was asked.
Mr. Tudhope looked his questioner
square in the eye.
"I an afraid my Capitals are alf
pied,' he answered.
Sugar Water.
Eau sucree is said to dispel thirst
hnore efficaciously than any other
drink, and it is simplicity itself. Put
rthree large lumps of sugar in a turn -
!tier with a tablespoonful of water and
!allow the sugar to disaolve, then fill
up with more cold water. The French
any that the perfection of tide drink
coneiets in letting the sugar first melt
slowly in a small quantity of water.
Ducks Slaughtered Out of Season.
There is a great slaughter of ducke
along the Rideau Canal, more par.
tieulerly at Dog and Cranberry tekes,
despitis the fact that it has been the
•clotr .aeasen.
F4108.
Fewer Hatnesteade Being Tilton Up
• In the ..West.
"We can gee the Arnett, of the day
of, free donde for eettlentent in the
West not far away now,' said F. T.
Griffin, land OmMissioner of the
Canadian radii; the other day.
"There will probably be isome good
free lands for the next year or two.
but after that the settler who wants
May sort oi suitable location wait
have to buy hie land. Settlers look-
ing for free lands will be forged away
beck, far from railway conununicas
tion,. and the time during which tree
lends will be "available will depend
upon how far north the wheat-produes
ing section of the map can be rolled
northwards. Probably this will prove
to be much mere extensive than we
imagine to -day, bue within a very
short time settlers will either have
to buy land or go to the far north of.
Alberta or Sashatchewan."
Ais a matter of fact Mr. Griffin
stated that the prppoetion of settlers
who bought land wee continually in-
creasing, while the number of home-
steeclers was comparatively dropping
off, owing to the steady way in which
ell the available land within easy
accesa was being taken up. The hind
sales of the Canadian Pacific during
the past year had shown a decided
increase over those or previmea yeare,
owing probably to the better claso of
settlers .who are coming:. over.
"The talk of a big harvest hase of
emerge, affected our land sales," said
Mr, Griffin. "and the results of thie
year's operations lave been decidedly
geed. A marked feature of the yeses
sales. has been the number (it Men
who bought land in districts where
there are still free lands, ' The chance
of getting 140 acres for nothing natur-
ally appeals to the settler, and a
great many have bought land that
year in such a location that they
could also take up a cinarter section.
This has been particularly the case
in southern Alberta and parts of Sas-
katchewan, notably in the country
west of Weyburn, which is the start-
ing point for the C.P.R. line to Leth-
bridge."
As a result of the increasing de -
Mend and decreasing supply of free
lands, Mr. Griffin stated that there
had bete: r. steady (Appreciation in
the prices of land throughout the
West, the figures running from $10 to
$25 an acre, according to the loca-
lien and quality of the land. There
had else been a very active demand
for irrigation lands in the Calgary
district. where the prices ran from
$25 to $30 an acre.'
Stork Beats Taxi.
Ohl Mister Stork established a new
record in Toronto in the early hours
ohe inornitig recently; when he -beat
taxicab No. 2 with Chauffeur Bishop
at the wheel, in a neck and. neck race
froth Scollard street to the General
Hospital. Also When 'Briby'. Heade.
one -day-old son of Charles . Head, 82
1-2 Scollard street,. wants to visit his
birthplace he will have to hunt up a
bright red taxicab bearing tag NO.
5,801.
It was this Way: A private, ward
had been taken at the hospital for
Mrs. Head, 'and at 3 o'clock in the
morning a taxi was celted. The lady
was hurried into the motor and the
race between Mr. Stork.. an instate,
tion as old as the world,'and Gilbert
Bishop in chargeof the conveyance,
which shares the lead among the
moderns with the airship, was on.
Brother Bishop, when he learned
the nature of his trip; got very busy
and tore up the speed limit, arriving
at the hospital door in just about six
minutes after leaving Seollard street.
but it was not enough. Jut as the
taxi drew up at the deers of the hos-
pital Baby Head was born arid Mister
Stork won.- •,
Bishop declares that the 'race Was,
not on the square, for thtereason that
the Stork, taking the air -eine, Wes
able to cut corners on 'him and thas
shorten the ran. •
Both mother and child, a ,cheery
little chap of eight pounshe weight,
are doing welt at thS hese-Mai, it is
understood that the little fellow con-
fided to the nurse .orf Mitering the,
hospital that a 'taxiwas a first -clues
place to be born; and that whenever
he hears "Home •Seleet Home," he
will yearn for' a taxi. .
Building Boom On.
August "construction' notes a pre
era improvement in building opara-
dons. From'. 19 centres permits .for.
July tatalleit• $5,ee5,486, gompared:
with $4,645e68 in Jule last year.
ronto's figures were. $1,754,105 as
against $1,,221,000 a yearegos: again
of 43 per cent. Peterboto shews •an.
increase of 244 per ent., London. elf:
114 por cent., Berlin 106 per cont., e
Hamilton 31 per cent, mid. Stratford .
10 per cent. • • • . -;
Next to Toronto, -Montreal has
shown greatest bnifding . activity,. with
$712,126 value, as . eserneared with
$435,405. h. •
' Winnipeg's figures . are $950,800,
considerably less then iast
which amounted to $1,401,-
250. other cities submit the following:
Brandon, $20,480; Calgary, $182,260;
Edmonton. $.774.355;' Fort William;
s1ee,235, Hamilton, $205,475; London,
$73,e0S.; Port Arthur $114,260; Regina,
$51,300; • Stratford, .$14,760;Sydnee,
$17,750; Vancouver, $599,307; Vietoria,
$372,120; Windsor, $33.650.
New Musical Instruments,
Mr. Charles I. Hendricks, of Greet
etreete is an ingenious Torontonian
who invents his own musical instre.-
menta. His new lyeic harp is original
inamanydetails. It hes a graceful
i
outline, s about 33 inches long, has
88 string, and q special keyboard
which enables its player to transpose
into all keys. Twenty different
thords involving modulations to nears
ly related keyare readily produce-
eble. The tome; are pure, full and
resonant; and these qualities showed -
to advantage in Sullivan's "Lost
Chord" and other compositions which
Mr. Hendricks plays. .
The instrument is not upon the
merket; it is the drily one of its kind,
and is reserved for its inventor's ex-
elnsive use.
Another instrument whith Mr,
Handricks has originated he terms
the Symphony Harp. This invention
has an abridged keyboard Of the
piano type attaehed, end it is capable
of some novel effects.
Short Out Foe Mariners.
It will not be long before deep
deaught vessels, instead of tumble
into the IL S. channel at the foot of
Wolfe Island, and going down pest
Alexandria Bay, will go straight down
'the Caritidien chamiel.
The land that blocked this de.,n
water ehartne.1 in the yicieity of List
Channel is being dredged out, end
vessels will ba saved a run of about
two miles by .continning itt Can/a:Inn
wetere. There Will then he, ti ems-
tinuoualy Cenadian channel for daerp
.draught vessels from Eingsten to
Montreal. .
THE SPEIJIAL .
41,0g.
Arthur E. McFarlane Hag Achiet
Fame In U.S.
In these highly developed d:
writer ot 0. special artiet‘ is ettie%
ed to put faney as well'aa the rt
facto. into his material. lItt is t,
pected to be •epigrammatie, to p,
life blood into his attar, to maw hi
readers sit up and laugh here art
there all throwli the article an'
then take it seriously in the end
That's what Arthur X. )41cFarlane
the well-knowti young Conrail=
magazine writer (lees. If he didn't
deliver the geode he would not hoe
so many of his articles aecepted mid
highly paid for by big publieatione.
For it takes time to work up the
material for a special article these
days, and time means money. A.nd
the fact that any one of a dozen
leading editors is ready to say, "Mc-
Farlane, spend the time and money
necessary to get wise on this ques-
tion, and let is }taxa what you thirds
its worth"-thie fact riaeane that Mc-
Farlane can deliver the goods.
Some time ago he made a contract
with a certain soured to write some-
thitig about Barnum and Bailey's
-circuit. He didn't simply go to the
circus and write a page or two about
it offhand, He teaveled with the
(thew for two or three weeks; stood
in the tieket-eeller's cage and kept
his eye peeled for incidents; strewed
as a clown and helped in a turn; and
learned pretty nearly everything
there wee to learn about the humor-
ous and serioue eiders of rwrining. a
big circus. That's the way special
articles are worked up theee clays,
and that is one reason why their
prepartient is somewhat More , ardu-
ous but ale° more profitable than
short -story writing.
Naturally Mr. McFarlane, sojourn-
ing with istrange folk•here and there
to learn their habits and language,
has accumulated a large fund of good
stories. One that he told the other
day to some friends seems tirnely
just now when so much is being
hoard from suffragettes on the lack
of consideration accorded women by
the world. Mr, McFarlane and
Arthur Stringer roomed together for
a time when they made their first
attack on literary New York. In
those anti -prosperity days, the young
men lived frugally in unaesthetic
surroundings, their window koking
out on a prospect somewhat resern-
bling the famoes street scene in
"Salvation Nell." They were amused'
as well as diametral by many strange
noises, but from the cramped dieni;
elle of a certain family near by arose
every night sounds of discord and
strife that came to be distinctive ami
of compelling interest, One night in
this disturbed and disturbing homo
a row ensued that made all previous
rackets there ecein as theacoeing of
dove. All over the court windows
flew open; that of McFarlane ancl
Stringer eanolig them. From what
could be heard it seemed that mar -
der was being done. They were just
about to dash off, thinking to rescue
a woman trona -the bands of a brutal,
besotted husband, when suddenly an
excited *little, urchin rushed out of e
doorway,and ,yelled to a group of
night hawks assembled on the pave-
ment.: .
, "Come an up quielc, youse; 'me
mudder's )(Min' me f adder." '
Then; the windows were all slam-
med down And interest in the epieode
suddenly faded. ,
A' Peripatetic. .„
The hotel t Waiewright, one Of
the new divieional points of the
Grand Trunk Pacific and one of the
new towns along, that line which riee-
booming at piesent, wits not built or-
iginalle. at Wainwright, but at a
paint called. Bellwood, some three
miles and a half east. • When the tine
was going through and the new towns
were being projected, the Proprietor of
the hotel got what he thought f was e.
sure tip- that a spot on the prairie
called DerweciOd was te bit tiler
sional point. •With real western en-
terprise: he built. bis big hotel hofpre
the line, :reedy for 'traffic to come,
Nraiting elreacly to beethe eentre et
life, for: the new western hub, gat
way or breed .beellet-savery *eve in
the west' is brie of the theee.: • Bet •
the line went elsewhere.• Wainwright
'Wes chosen Re the divisional point:
Nothing dennted, the proprietor pro-
ceeded to haul his hotel to the, new
town and loetted• trt the corner of
what is now Mein street 4,.nd 8-c017d
av.muo, Witiniveight. As 'he had to
drive theelembw for his firet hotel
soine e2 Miles ever.. the prairie, he
certainly clesoryos some modicum of
success. 2 •
•• O.P.R. Telegraphs.
The C5.0e0 miles of telegreph wire
already ohsrated by the ('.P.R.. will
idceive consiclerehle additione during'
the coining menthe. Nine Ithedree
and seventy-one miles of wire will bs
erected bstween 'Winnipeg emit Thad.
end another, 276' miles bAwean Cat!
gery end Crarbeoolc. A new wire lies
just bum eorepleted between 'Toronto
end Sucibery, thins hiveng,Teronto an
independent eonnection with Winnie
n'T., Owing to the grewth oi business
.between Vancetiver, Nerd and - the
• mainlend another ceble Will prebobly
be laid in the near futere. SheeTd
the contribetors. to 'the Pacific eable
c'ecide to ley on Atlantic cohlqes
part of the scheme of an"Alhred"
caminunicetion between 'Great
teen end Amereline *in Canada, the
Cenerlian Par.fie Is 'stated te tow
offered its right of way from Ifarifax
to Vaneonver for a Specie! 'svire for
the hendliee of this business.
. Canada's Water Power.
There are few, if any, countriet
which have such magnificent water
powers as Canada posseeees, says The
Vaecouver Daily News. The develop.
tient of eleetrical seierice has given
these water powers a value far be-
yond whatthey were considered to
have thirty or even twenty years ago.
In the eheap production of power
which is possible by the utilization
of the cements of our rivers and
streams, we have the most important
teeter for ,the foundation of all lines
of manufecture under most favorable
conditions.
Mr. Challies estimates the miseinnitte
flow development of all the water
powers of Canada et26,682,907 horse
power, of vthieh but 516,885 horse-
power has as yet been developed. A
calculatiert made by- Mr, Young
shows that the Maintenance of one
horse -power per annum from stem
power requiree a consemption of 21.0
tone of teal. 'If we take tine as a
basis the nveilable water powers of
the Dominion represent an energy
whieh, if maintained by steam power,
weald require a coal donsumption of
562,456,833 tons per annum:
England'e Meat
Great Britain COnsttmes 47,600,000
met, of Meat a year, or 120 lbs. tier
braid of the population. Of this fifty-
four per ant. is produced et home,
imor.44ord
Tit SET $UM A WEEK.
F. H. McGuigan Again Shows Up In
the Limelight.
'Same Men seem fated to be always
in the spot light -no matter where
they move it somehow followts them,
say s a wreter in -Saturday Night. Of
each is Francis H. McGuigan. now
0 Toronto, and formerly of Montreal
And other places. That which is al-
ways happening is not accidental;
from which one might conclude that
Mr. McGuigan is not an accident, but
that the constant aseoeiation of his
name with big enterprises is an indi-
cation of the quality of the man. If
confirmation be needed, one has but
to make enquiry arotind the Grand
Trunk offices, to be pretty well con-
vineed that whatever happened in
that mysterious affair over in St.
Louis, a few years ago, the Great
Northern Railway, and not F. H. Mc,
Gingen., was the greater loser because
of the disagreement.
The spot light shows Mr. McGui-
gan, at the present time, As the pos-
sible head of the new Lake Superior
Corporation at a salary of $25,000 a
year. Twenty-five thousand dollars
per year is ;either rnore salary than
the moot of us would know how to
draw -that is., it would be if we were
really conscientious. Not being con-
scientious, for the most part, we
would manage somehow to get it into
our jeans. The subsequent proceed-
ings would probably make interesting
reading. Roughly speaking, $25,000
per year is e500 per week, whereas
$500 per year is slightly in excess of
the mut which placed our fathers in
affluence and allowed them to get
married and aceumulate a large and
husky farally. But the world is "mov-
ing some," for an offer of $25,000 per
year wouldn't raise McGuigan's en-
thusiasm a jot. In fact, it might
even plunge him into despondency.
How would you like to have your
salary cut down about a third? Well,
it's likely that that is about the way
poor IrleGuigan would feel; for, to
have to take $25,000 per year would
mean a reduction of a little matter of
$10,000 per year, as compared with
his last Joh. And it was no foal eith-
er that paid him $35,000 a year, but
Jas. J. Hill, probably the ablest rail-
way man in America, Oh What a
cinch -$35,000 a year -$700 a week --
$115) a day.
When McGuigan left that job there
w•as more talk than when Keiser 131.11
droppedhie -Pilot. Why he left it
cannot la,! general knowledge „until
this day, for T can't even pick up a
hint. It was exceedingly interesting,
however, to read that story of the in-
terview between Louis W. Hill and
Francis IL McGuigan, in which the
latter was merle to administer several
physical rebukes to Louis W. before.
he, drew his final check. A loyal
Grand 'Fronk man was .heard to re-
mark, "McGuigan could do it toe,"
but 1 :un told by a very close friend
of Mr. McGuigan that he was the
last Man in the world to ;do that kind
of thing, being, in fact, too diplomatic
to allow inatters to get to that pass.
However that may be, there is little
doeist that had latenee• J. Hill contin-
tied in the position of president of the
Great Northern, instead of resigning
in favor of his :son, Mr, McGuigan
would still be occupying the position
of chief vice-president of the reed and
-drawing thist.fine, fat salary.
A eSneciel :Article" EXpert,
Among.the young Canadian writers
who..:are. "in right" with 'American
.
editors is Me. Arthur E.. McFarlane,
who is 'at present living in Toronto,
out:Scarbotio way. 'When Me. Maar- •
lane. was at the Terento'University he.
becanae afflictedwith the literary. bug,
-took a hand at editing that 'facetious
sheat, The Varsity, and -when he
graduated began to . approach local
editors with. copy -short 'stories, spe-
-pia.' articles; end so cm. Most of ,the
editers pridted his copy -hut sent him
no checks in return, eci McFarlane
cursed Canadian: newspapers . anti
magaiincs and editors, all and sue-.
dry, .'siith 'a..mighty curee,, and kit:
• the country. •,}le went over to. New.
York flbOUt the' game time. that Ar-
thur Stringer and other hopeful young
Canadians made their debuts there,
and although his name IS not so well
known perhaps., as' those of Stringer
anct .Notaian •Duncan. and Harvey
hrehes .been.abut; as suc-
ceseftil in his hely as anye cif them.
He can stroll into the editorial reeme
•of any ono .01.0, dozen or so big Amer-
ican' publication, go out with the:
editor to lunch, end arrange for the
. .
writing, of afa article or a seriesof
articles at a price that .would even
yet fairly stagger some Crinadian edi-
tors., He also has the satiefaction • of
knowing that he is making more
, money than a good .many of the. afore-
said Canadian editors. Mr. McFar-
lane began his literary success as e
writer of short stories, and : good
'stories they were, toe, • But while he •
can still produce inoritorioutt tales to
order et any tittle, • and does so occa:
sionally, he devotes 'nest of his. en-
ergy to the manufacture :of; special.
articles.' They pay betters '
Lord Halsbury's Lucky Number.
The figure "5" seems to have play -
eft a prominent part in the life of the
Earl of Halebtfry, whose eighty-fourth
birthday fell on the fifth. Born in
1825, the earl eornMenCed his career
at the Bar in 1850, was made a q.c.
in 1665, Solicitor,General in 1875, and
Lord Chandelier in 1885. Known aa
"the judge -Maker," his lordships nev-
er smokes, detests tobacco, was an ex -
Pert fencer, held the Lord Chancellor-
ship for the longest period, has been
mistaken for a celebrated "bruiser,"
and wae instrumental in inaugurating
the special service at Westminster
Abbey for ItIWYerS.
When he first went to the House
of Commons to take his seat tor
Launteston, in 1877, he found himself
witless. He earthed high and low,
and turned out a remarkable collec-
tion of articles, ranging from collar -
etude and a ten -bladed knife to boot -
Nees, Ulthnately, the missing writ
was discovered in a member's hat.
Old Timis Reporting,
"No," said the old tramp printer,
"reportin' hainat what it used to be.
The rugged strength, the grandeur
and ginger is all gene."
He took out his worn wallet.
"Listen," he said, "to this here de-
scription of DeWitt Taltnage what
Comp Stick of the Tin Can &hinter
writ in '73."
In a, voice .vibrant With admiration
the veteran teed:
"Sweat triekled from the beak
jungle of his dieordered hair along the
ravines and farrows of his haggard
face. He advanced and retreated, ris
ing upon his tote and coming down
on his heels with a dislocating jerk
that made the windows rattle, paus-
ing oeeriaionally to inhale through his
dilating nostrils tempestuously and
then emitting a shrieking epigrant or
apostrophe that thrilled the blood like
a wild cry at rei,thight IA a solitary
place."
WORK OF YEARS CONE.
Handsome Library Ruined In Lees-
loture Fire.
Serious aa is the damage to the
Ontario Parliament buildings in the
recent fire, the really irremediable
loss which the province suffers isin
the destruction of the unique and.
invaluablestate papers, manuscripts,
journals of the House, newspapers
and others literary and historical
material whichhave been consumed.
The fire spread at) rapidly that there
was no time to save even a portion
of the priceless collection in the main
reading room. But before the flames
had reached this part of the building
a large accumulation of books, papers
and miscellaneous files stored in the
annex, above the library, had been,
sacrificed.
•Marroaduke Willem, assistant to
the librarian, and Archibald Currie,
messenger, with two other assistants,
made frantic efforte to save some
from the inevitable ruin. At the rish
of his life M. Currie rushed into the
reading roorn and threw bundles of
Papers out of the window, trusting
to tate that they would be carted to
secarity. He then turned his attexis
tion to the cupboards eontaining the
newspapers Ales and endeavored to
carry out the early copies of The
Globe, of which the province is t3aid
: to have had the only remaining corn-
. plete set. Eut at this moment the
-flames broke through the ceiling, and
the falling glass and timber drove
them out into the corridor.
"The most deplorable low of all,"
said Mr. Wilecin After the fire, "is the
Canada section. Here we had a num-
ber of books oncurring the adminhe
tration of Governor Simcoe. Henne-
pin's travels through Canada, which
contained a valuable record of the
Jesuit missions and explorations that
can never be replaced. In addition
to these, there were paisersrelating
to the rebellion, journ.als of the
Legislative Assembly and pamphlets
about Cauada, duplicates of which
will be hard to find."
With regard to the journals, the
only consplete file now in existence
is in the Ottawa library. A few years
ago the Goverinnent sent stenograph-
ers to Ottawa to copy the journals
from 1808 to 1820, as the Legislature
decided these should be ebteined at
any cost,
The constitutional law section wag -
else eopsumed. In works of this
Character the provincial library was
complete, Many of the books are
new out of print, and in spite .of
money cermet be replaced.
The gallery of the library was large-
ly given over .to magazines. A 'file
of the Gentleman's Magazine dating
back to 1731 fell A Prey to the flames.,
This meerizine was among the first
ever published, and is neer valued for
the. eurious light it throws on the
scientific conditionof those days.
Bound volumes tif The Quarterly,
*Edinburgh Reviews, Beackwoods,
The 'Nineteenth Century. North Amer-
ican and other well-known standard
publications are desteiv ad.
In addition to the loss of the books
on Canada, among the state papers,
burned are a large number of docry
' ments relating riegotiatioep bO-
tween Canada and United States,
IL. S. federal and state reports and
international documents.
It is hoped that a part of the late
report sectione will be saved. •Here
the library was quite .complete. In
the two years during Which the
statute 'revision emennissipn has hems
sitting, only one or two references to
the books at .0sgoode. .11411.heve been
necessary. • • ' '
As far as numbers are concerned
:the large collection of relerPece booke
on economics, engineering, natural
and • physical science will loom
lamest. -While a ..number cannot .be
replaced; these subjects constitute
progressive ecienee, .and the riucleue:
Of a new Rhea*, will he readily ob-
tainable: ,
• ..Mr. •Wilson places $180,000 as an
estimate Of the immediate intrinsic
damage, but added with muchfeel-
"lefoney can never- • give back'
eome treasures „that were wiped out
of extetence in a moinerit."
Mr.' Prirdrie,ie eogarded ee a most
capable librarian, and wider him the
legislattee, library bee erown, from
scattered Collection ifito. one of the
nicest perfect' collections of reference
books in Canada. Ile was not pres-
•erit at thefire, but was spending a
•few 'days in -Muskoka, where he
sought a rest after the hot summer
menthe. ,
NORTHCLIFFE I THE WEST.
How Harmsworth Condeeted .an in-
terrogators;.Regarding Canada.
Western newspapers rind western
railwaymen have an idea that they
are hustlers, but they readily yield
the Palni tp the great English jour-
nalist who is now touring the West,
and whom they admit is the liveet
Wiee that everstruck the prairie
provinces: He it Making a .flying
trip through the West and it is safe
16 s.4 When he hes returned be will
know more aladea Western Canada
from a soeial, economic, political, or
any other old standpoint than . the
eldestold-tirner west 61 the great'
lakes. .No reporter was ever more cf
a 'walking interrogation 'point than
Lord Northcliffe. He can. interview
more ,people and seeure more 'infer.
-mation'in. the shortest Possible time
than any other man the • West halt
ever seen. . The West fakes off its hat
to 'Lord Northcliffe. • Ile can boat it
at its owe game.
Many are the stories which are
drifting in from ,the West of Lord
Northcliffe's methods of securing
firet.-hand infoemation, and of his
keOn pewere of observation. W. P.
Hihton, general passenger agent of
the Grand Trunk Pacifie, accom-
panied Lord Northcliffe ovee the new
road as far as Edmonton.
"There was to chance to point out
or explain anything to 'Lord North-
cliffe," said Mr, Hinton in recount-
ing his experiences. "Why he saw
a thirig and had it all sized up be-
fore you realized that he had noticed
it at all. He wented hie information
at first hand and he got it. Wherever
he stopped he 'walked right up to the
nearest man arid pumped, him full tif
questions that soon emptied him of
everything that he knew abont the
country. He walked'right into stores
and talked to the men behind the
counter as well as to the proprietors,
"In one town he walked into the
newspaper office, shook hands with
the editor and -then walked into the
composing too. One glance at the
printer and he hailed hitn; 'What
part of Xent are you from?' And be-
fore the printer had reeoYered from'
his astonishinent he had told all
about hitnself and his family, and
their experienees in the world,'
During his trip to Edmonton Lord
Northcliffe tnade several short dXcur.
stone Out into the country. He visit.
ed the farms, talked with the far -mere
and their wive, and in a yet 1eY1
minutes had their whole life ate*.
• • •
It will continue until
the end of Dece,mber
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See the new Self -wringing Mops only
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