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Dare-Devil Stuff
An anonymous young man is
planning to defy death this
autumn by plunging over Nia-
gara Falls enclosed' in- a steel
barrel specially made for the
purpose. He won't 'disclose the
date of his proposed exploit in
case it is stopped by the police.
Dare-devil Bobby Leach, one
of the few men to survive
"shooting" the roaring, foaming
Falls, would have laughed at
this ban on making the 168-ft.
drop over the brink. No police
restrained him when, watched
by 300,000 people, he strapped
himself in a cigar-shaped steel
barrel which had been carefully
cushioned inside and took the
plunge on July 26th, 1911.
When /the barrel dropped it
was at once caught by a giant
wave which hurled it twenty feet
into the air. It was then held for
eighteen minutes in the whirl-
pool below the Falls. Between
the time he went over the ra-
pids until he was hauled un-
conscious out of the water,
thirty-nine minutes elapsed. His
knee-caps were found to be bro-
ken.
Leach's hair grew white from
his terrible experience, but he
little dreamed of the strange end
which fate had in store for him.
At the age of fifty-eight he
broke his leg when he slipped
on an orange peel' in an Auck-
land street. The leg was ampu-
tated. He died some time after
the operation.
An attempt to "shoot" Horse-
shoe Falls, Niagara, in an oak
barrel killed George Stathakis
in 1930, the barrel being ,,smash-
ed on the rocks at the cataract's
foot. The man's body was im-
prisoned in the wreckage in a
cavern behind the thundering
torrent of waters and daYs pass-
ed before it emerged.
A friend was so confident that
the attempt would 'fail that he
summoned an undertaker some
hours before the barrel went
over
. A Bristol barber wore a pad-
ded suit in an ill-fated attempt
to go over the. Horseshbe Falls
in a wooden barrel strengthen-
ed by iron bands thirty-five
years ago. An iron plate weigh-
ing, one hundred-weight and
sixty pounds of lead were used
to keep the barrel vertical.
It was dashed to pieces' at, the
foot of the Falls. The intrepid
barber, who was killed, had thus
made his last gamble in a life
of adventure, for he used td
boast that he had shaved cus-
tomers in a lion's den and bad
an apple ddl it, two' on his throat
with a sword:
More Forest FITCS Were re-
ported by an alert public last
year, than by any single govern-
ment detection, agency.
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the Latin 'pipare' meaning 'to
chirp' and was applied first to
a wind instrument. One James
Cartier concluded an explora-
tion of the St. Lawrence estu-
ary in 1536. In his description
of the voyage, he mentions that
the Indians carried a skin bag
suspended from their necks
which contained, some dried herb
and a piece of stone or wood
'like a Pipe'. It would seem,
therefore, that Cartier's descrip-
tion' was ‘ the nearest he' could
give to this tubular piece of
wood or stone which resembled
the musical instrument.;"
Raleigh 's.' PiPie-were ,inede . of
clay andas the detail& -grew,
manufacture on a „large scale
was started in this , country:
There are references' .IC pipes
made of silver and oiNvalnut
shells with a straw but these
were possibly made' iris-more
remote parts of England where',}
the right claY„ was not readily ,
available. i \ i '
The greWmg Peplarity of the r
clayt is illustrated py the report
of a German t aveller, Paul
Hentzner,..bf a visit to the Bear
Garden, \in \Southwark ,,111 1598.
He sayst i 'At these ''SP'eetacles
and elsewhere 'the. English ,are
constantly smoking tobacco, for
which pi..rperie' 'they - have _pipes
made of relay." They- draw the
smoke intie-their mouths and
puff it out again through their
Smoking is a far more ancient
custom than is generally sup-
posed, Its origin has been traced
back to the religious ceremonies
of priests in districts of eeuntriea
we now know, as Mexico and
Central America. Stone effigies
of Priests Of the Mayas, whose
civilization began before the
birth of Christ, show them en-
gaged in the act of ceremonial
smoking, They used a form of
pipe and blew the tobacco smoke
towards the sun and the four
points of the compass,
The practice spread but did
not reach England until Some
time in the 16th century.
Sir Walter Raleigh is popular-
ly supposed to have been the
first pipe smoker in England
and it is said that Ralph Lane,
Governor of Virginia, presented
him with an. Indian pipe in 1586.
It is certain however that pipes
were smoked in England before
this, for William Harrison in
1573 writes in his "Chronologie"
of 'the taking in of the smoke
of the Indian herb' and goes on
to describe how it is taken -
'by an instrument formed like
a little ladell'. This obviously
describes a form of pipe with a.
narrow bowl.
Although not the first to
smoke a pipe, Raleigh, by his
example, did much to popular-
ize the art among men of fa-
shion who were soon carrying
the necessary ponderous equip-
ment. A good deal of fun was
made of the smoker's apparatus
and a. contemporary pamphlet-
eer writes: 'I beheld pipes in his
pocket: now he draws forth his
tinder box and his touchwood
and falleth into his tacklings:
Sure his throate is afire, the
smoake flyeth so fast from his
mouth.'
It is interesting to note that
the word 'pipe' is derived from
nostrils like funnels with 'much
of phlegm and defluxtion
the head!
Nevertheless there was a good
deal of oPPositien to the habit
which was condemned as 'loath-
some to the eye and harrnfull to
the brain',
Towards the end of the 19th
century, English firms started to
manufacture briar pipes in that
country and London became the
centre, French workmen who
had experience of the 'new' ma-
terial were brought over to teach
the craft, They found the 13ritish
very willing to learn, They soon
became experts and the words
`London Made' became famous
throughout the world as a sym-
bol of pipe perfection.
A high degree of skill is re-
quired in the making of a pipe,
where each bowl is turned indi-
vidually.
The briar root, often weighing '
ten pounds or more, is first dug
up and then sawn into, blocks,
the trade name for which is
'Ebauchons,' These blocks are
then boiled for twenty-four
hours to remove all traces of
sap and so prevent cracking.
After seasoning the blocks are
roughly shaped and passed to the
craftsman who turns the bowl.
This latter is a highly skilled
operation as is also the shaping
of the stem, which may be
round, square or flat. The bowls
are next sandpapered and are
ready for selecting and grading.
After grading, the rich colour
of the briar is brought out by
fine oils and the hidden beauties
of the grain disclosed. Finally
the bowl is polished on a lathe,
head, running at high speed. In
all, more than thirty skilled op-
erations are necessary to produce
a pipe.
Took His Diamonds
To The Grave
"I have thetn' here, he,
said, prodttcing the spigots
from his, dotit pocket.
., Everybody `roare ti with
inirth—except the president
of the kalite association. Mid
in "the ' back cOntessions,
where, a' good, joke was ap-
preciated, 'and -hunting re-
Strictions were disliked, the
incident t cemented Engle-.
hart's prestige .and his repu-
tation of being ,a "real titan
even if lie looks jike a school-
boy
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Eriglehar k t was to , toe
:London ,o12, twao,ther Otea-
:SibliS21-litt. not, Wie . latigh.
ter; On' AptIl 9, 18 9', his tc-,
finery 'e:Scploded with what
new9paperS '''terined' t'it , fe,..
tihrt that' rocket!' the' tatiini-i '
Bait. if the biast•shoak Will-'
Ao$,,,,,' . it injured trobody 4fiti A\
the tamage was estimafed.
at at ly ,$2,040, tesS shall'
(
profits, for throughout North
America people who had al-
wayS burned a mixture of
whale oil and' lard in their
lamps were clamoring for
the Wonderful new lighting
fluid, kerosene, developed by
Dr. Abraham Gesner of
Nova Scotia.' Southwestern
Ontario was, then one of the
chief sources of the petroleum
from kerosene ..was
distilled. Thai's, how the in-
dustry was, When,. Englehart
came' to Canada,
While his first refinery was
beiri . 'erected in London,
Englchart traveled through
the oil. fields persuading small
prodncers, . mostly farmers
with oil wells in their pas-
tures, to let him handle their
output and sell it through
his New York. office. Before
his refinery started operating
in the "fall of 1866 .he had an
assured supply' of crude pe-
troleum. to feed it.
He . had this in spite of
competitors who followed
kiln around spreading word
that lie was "wet behind the
ears," too young to be trus-
ted, and, what -was worse, a
city slicker from the States.
Ironically, a practical , joke
and, his one appearance in
police court enhanced his
popularity, with the produc-
ers in the back concessions
and defeated the efforts of
his 'competitors. '
Englehart, at the time of
this 'affair, was a griest•at the
Tecumseh' House in London
and one evening as he was
going out for a sti.oll he no-
tided two wooden spigots
from beer kegs on the hotel
prOprietor's desk,
-On the street a couple of
minutes later lie encountered
the head°of the game protee-
tive, association, and, on an
impulse, informed him grav-
ely that he , alispetted the
proprietor of the "TecUMseh
of breaking the game laws;
as he had seen two wood-
cocks in his office. Without
checking up, the president of
the game association rushed
off and laid a, charge against
-the, hotelkeeper. Englehart.
Was strurnOned asp a witness.
Called to the stand he con-
flitined hiS 'Statement that he
hart seeii twit; w'o'odcocks on
the proprietor's 'desk.'
In 1905, when Sir James
Whitney became premier of
Ontario, lie ',discovered that
the -Temiskarning and Nor-
thern Ontario Railway, a
provincial government ven-
ture which had been 'launch-
ed three years earlier, was in
a sorry mess. He needed the
ablest man he could find to
unravel its tangled affairs,
complete its construction,
and put it on a payinc, basis.
He appealed to Jacob''' Lewis
Englehart, of thehttle south-
western Ontario town of
Petrolia, a founder and vice-
president'of Imperial Oil
Limited.
"Jake," lie is reported to
have said, "will you come to,
the rescue and run the T.
and N.O. for 'me?"
"I'll be happy to," Engle-
hart is reported' to have re-
plied. "What is-it?!
The, thinning number of
men who remember the
amazing Jake Englehart still
tell this apocryphal story be-
cause it flashes a light on
three facets of his coniple2i.
' character: he was • always
willing to, help a friend, he
reached .ecisions instantly,
and he was not afraid to
tackle anything. These traits
might have ruined an ordin-
ary individual. But Engle-
hart seldom failed at what
he tried.
When he established his
own oil company, as a raw-
boned youth of 19, older men
laughed at him and predicted
his bankruptcy. They stop-
ped laughing when within
a few years he had built, and
successfully operated, the
biggest refinery in Canada.
At the age of 33, he was
the organizing genius behind
the move that' brought 16
lea.ding oil men, business-
men and political figures to-
gether to form Imperial Oil.
*
The biographical volume
says he was born in Cleve-
land,- 0., on November 2:
1847, a, son of S.' John Joel
and Hannah E. Englehart,
and that, in 1866 he formed
Jr. L. Englehart and Com-
pany, 'refining., producing
and exporting Canadian pe-
troleum," with a refinery at
London, Ont., and 'an office
at. New 'York. 'The volume
does riot Say
.
What his father'
did or how Jacob Lewis En-
glehart, -at '19,, had acquired
enough cash, to come to Can-
ada and set hiniself tip in
busliiesS; But the American
Civil War, Which 411866 was
just. newly Ovei., had given
Many NOrthernTrs opportnii-
illes to Make incitcy. Engle-
htirt may. have been one of
them; Or he may. have been
backed - by his father. In
either case he required a
.niOdest amount of
capital; Refineries,' in 1866,
Wete dheap., contrap-
tions which looked like Over,
grotini ink bottlei, The lar-
gest of theins had a. tanaelty
Of only 'a, feiv: htitidted bar-
rels' a week,
They. WeTt risky invest-
!tents .because many Of theta:
Blew tips Mit those whieh
didn't' explode yielded high
seven weeks later it WAS rip-,
ped by another explosion.
This one caused $6,000 dam-
age.
One paper that reported
the explosions was the Wy-
oming News Letter, Publish-
ed at Wyoming, in the heart
Of the Ontario oil fields. It
was ,in this same year, 1869,
that the News Letter ran an
editorial advocating a new
oil company "with a capital
of $500,000" to enable Can-
ada to carry on "an export
trade of larger proportions."
Ellglehart never 'forgot this
editorial and 11 years later
when Imperial Oil was born
it had precisely what the
News Letter recommended
—a Capital of $500,000,
Ilut other things were to
happen first. Engiehart re-
built and expanded his Lon-
don refinery and in 1870 got
an order from Germany for
a $30,000 shipment of kero-
sene. 'When the shipment
reached its destination it
was rejected on the grounds
that it was not up to speci-
fications. The cost of bring-
ing the kerosene back to
London, refining it again,
and returning- it to Germany,
would, have been ruinous.
Englehart met the emergency
by sending 'refining equip-
ment to Germany and re-
processing the kerosene there
—a procedure which reduced
his losses.
Meanwhile he had been ac-
quiring oil wells at Petrolia,
'Where drillers were striking
oil wherever they sank a hole
and where oil even flowed
down the deep ruts, of the
main, street. And—perhaps
conyinced by the German
experience—he decided that
in addition to his London
refinery lie needed a second
refinery 'close to the oil wells.
So; in the Muddy; booming,
excited little town of Petro-
lia,,, he bought a refinery and
enlarged it until it was re-
,puked ,to be the biggest and
most , efficient ,in -the world.
He also laid a system of
ppirpaenst through which oil could
be pumped right into his
*
cfkle was a nice' man," says e
Stothers, "but all business—
all business, no fooling. Used
to bach here one time;; him
and Ed Kirby, the'first may-
or, bached together in a
frame house."
He was baching. with. Ed
Kirby in 1880 when his .
dream came true—the dream
of an oil company with fin-
ancial resources large enough
to' improve petroleum pro-
ducts, create new outlets for'
them, place the Ontario oil
fields on a solid foundation
and meet the competition
front American fields, After
months, of negotiations in
which he played a leading
role, Imperial Oil Company.
Limited—now Imperial Oil
Liinited—Was formed. Engle-
hart betaine vice:president
and assumed an active role
in managing.the new corpor-
ation.
The new company absor-
bed refineries belonging to
sonic of the 16 original share-
holders, and used the equip-
ment to enlarge Englehart's
London and Petrolia plants.
These became the first Im-
perial refineries.
Englehart was at the
plants six days a week from
morning fill nights Refining
was still a hazardotO trade,
Englehart instituted a sys-
tem by Which funds were set
aside to compensate men in-
jured at work, but. he also
reduced hazards and preach-
ed safety rules,
Once he saw "a man run-
ning through a dangerous
part of the refinery. He fired
but re-hired hint two.
weeks later and froth his own ,
pocket paid him the wages
he, had lost.,'
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Few people know that the wi-
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world heavyweight boxing
champion who loved jewels and
was buried with nine diamonds
in his teeth, is living today in
the United States, a grey-haired
kindly woman of eighty.
She revealed that the Cornish
'Blacksmith, as Fitzsimmons was
called,' never really liked fight-.
ing although he on the world
championship at thirty-five.
Fitzsimmens was one of the
'most popular boxers who ever'
fought. Lovers .of sport often
stopped him in the street to
shake hands. Some admirers
even followed him into restaur-
ants and tipped waiters for the
privilege of occupying nearby
tables.
One of the most sensational
knock-outs ever administered by
Fitzsimmons, who died in 1917
from double pneumonia, was in
his contest at New Orleans with
Dan Creedon, the stalwart and
brilliant New Zealander.
So lighting-like' and devastat-
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Up north he pushed a rail- •
roadinto almost virgin bush
country: Englehart Spent a
lot of time there after ,he ac-
tepted the chairmanship of
the T. aril N.O. froth Sir
James Whitney. It Was a
new adventnee for 'a" man
who was a pioneer at heart,
The Salary that went With
the lob, :kvhich was.,supposed, -
to be very much a part-time
job, was $5,000. a year,. Eng-
" lehart made the job .very
nearly a -fulltime job and
gave his salary away to north
dotintry ,settlers who 'needed
efi, •
--rnipetial oil' keview.
HE'S .•LOST HIS DRIVING PERMIT three-Year-old JefP
a pretty upSet guy. After all, he'S had his driver's license,
suspended: because of an accident .s.he had iait JUKe'
With' his tiny "dUniii ido". A neighbor;,. pulling out' ''of his
driveway, , backed into 'Jeff's vehicle, knocking Jeff to the
ground. The neighbor's insurance company calfter:dcross with
$41 to pay the hospital bill and buy Jeff •ti neW dump truck.
Tllhijs how the slate Bureau of Motor Vehicles gat Wind of the
Apparantly thinking a real dump frock was involved;
the bureau demanded'. an accident report. Jeff's clad, thinking
rt was • rill a Mistake, ignored the demand, The bureau beramei
indignant, at this slight' and revoked Jett 's driving permit."Wi
cryi& iiaoicie . Wails Jeff,