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ESTIMATES FOR CROP OF 1912
Canada's Wheat Harvest is Expected to Reach a
Total of 187,927,000 Bushels
A eltspatch from Washington
says: Preliminary figures of this
year's orednetion of the principal
crops of several foreign countries
were received on .I'riday by the De-
partment, of Agriculture by cable
tfrom the International. Institate of
Agriculture at Rome, Italy, as fol-
aows:
Wheat—Prussia, 40,472,000 bush-
els; Bulgaria, 63,750,000 bushels;
Canada, 187,927,000 bushels; Erg„),,pt,
26,948,000 louShas,
Corn—Spain,. 25,984;000 fittushels;
Egypt, 76,448,000 bushels.
Cotton Egypt, 844,144,000
Atounds,
Rye—P ussia, 346,444,000 bushels;
Bulgaria, 12,400,000 bushels; Bel-
gium, 22,518,000 bushels; Denmark
18,028,000 bushels,
Barley ----Prussia, 81,125,000 bush -
else Bulgaria, 18,373,000 bushels;
Canada, 32,520,000 bushels; Egypt,
10,345,000 banshele; Denmark, 25,-
655,000 bushels,
Oats—Prussia, 387,444,000 bush-
els; Canada, 340,022,000 bushels;
Denmark, 52,368,000 bushels;
Hungary, 87,549,000 bushels,
Riee—Spain, 8,564,000 bushels;
Egypt, 14,500,000 bushels.
The condition of cereal crops in
Ruesia is sueh as to predict yields
above the average.
A EUGENIO 'MURDER.
Lan His Wife to End Rer
Sufferings.
Viennese (Aestria) clerk named
s who shot his wife dead in a
reilwaer carriage aad theri endea-
verecl to commit suicide, has just
beea acqnitted by a jury at Leoben.
He was fouad guilty. however, et
rying eevolveT witheut lieense,
and had te pay a Aite Of 81.87 be-
fore beiug released.
The was no denial of the faets,
The man had deliberately ehot Ms
wife and then turned the weapon
epon himself, inflieting a, slight
fleeh woued, whieh, hewever,
caused him to be unemeseious until
the train reaehed p station and the
oliee came end arrested him. Herr
Uaas pleaded, nevertheless, filet
bis wife Was ill the last stages of
vonsumptioe, and that he bad shot
her heeauee her eufferiugs had
made him feantie,
Witeessee, including- her physi
elau, teetified that this was go a,
also that the pair had lived iu per
feet. harrnoey, Two doctors ealled
by the preseeution deposed that the
depresetou caused by the illness
his wife was suftleient to make Rea
not evsponeible for his act. There
upon the jury retureed the verdict
of not guilty, but insisted that he
Sh011iti lie pueished for earrying a
revolver withoot a license, since he
had himself admitted that when he
purchased the -weepor! he bad no
idea to what use he was to put it,
ancl therefore at that time zuust
have been perfectly sane.
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC OVER.
Ottawa's 31et1iea1 Officer Issues Re-
assuring Message.
A despatch from Ottawa, says:
Dr. W. T. Shirreff, Medical Officer
.of ;Health, on Friday night issued a
moet reassurieg message to theelti-
Zene of the eapital, informing them
that the typhoid epidemic had rim
its eourse and that he city water
was now fit for drinking, Bacterio-
logical tests of the water supply for
the past five weeks show conclu-
sively that it is now free from all
contamination and fit f,c)r consump-
tion without boiling or otherwise
treating it. "The eaweative rea-
son for typhoid has now been re-
moved," he states, "and every pre-
caution has been taken to protect
the alI-steel intake pipe which is
now being used exelueive'ly."
SMALLPDX LN MONTREAL.
Thirteen Patients are Now in the
Hospital.
A despatch from Montreal says:
With thirteen smallpox patients in
the Isolation Hospital, and many
houses disinfected and under super-
vision, there has developed in the
city the nucleus of a smallpox scare.
No fewer than five eases have come
in th's week. Eight were reported
last week. The Majority of these
are from three families, all of wham
obtained the infection at Les Ebou-
lernents, on the St. Lawrence, be-
low Quebec.. The Provincial au-
thorities did not know that there
was smallpox there until the cases
were discovered in Montreal and
the infection was traced back.
TWO DOLLAR BILLS POPUL
Marked 'Increase Circuletion o
Small Notes.
A despatch from Ottawa says.
Returns received by the Finance
Department ehow that the circula-
tion of small notes is substantially
larger than it was last summer.
Comparing the circulation of July
31, 1912, with that of Jely 31, 1911,
there 15 an adVall0 ir 011O dollar
notee of approximately $e00,000, in
two dollar notes of approximately
8800,000, in four dollar note 4 of over
8300,000; or in all of between $1,-
000,000 and $1,700,000. In addition
there is the additional eireulatiencf
the new five dollar note, wbieb
the end of July Was 86,075,000; this
is prectically balanced by the do
-
eased uee of large notes, which
e usedf exclusively by hanhe, tn
the three weeke of August, which
have elapsed the circulation el
fives has increased to approzimate-
ly
L'MER STR
ary Leigh and. Gladys ivans A
Being Forcibly Fed.
A deepatett from Dublin, Ire-
laed, says : Mary Leigh and Gladys
Evans, two suffragettes, who were
sentenced here on Auguet 7 to five
years' imprisonment on charges re-
spectively of wounding John E.
Redmoud, leader of the Irish Par-
liamentary party, with a hatchet
hrown at Premier Asquith's ear-
riage, and of setting Are to the The-
atre have started a hunger
strik, They are being forcibly fed
by the jail officials.
CHILDREN BITTEN RY DOG.
Sent for Pasteur Treatment, as
Animal was Thought Mad.
A. despatch from Chatham says:
James and Isabella Bennie, chil-
dren of Robert Benuie of Leaming-
ton, were seriously injured at the
home of Alexander Farquabarsen,
in Tilbury East township on Wed-
oesciay, by being bitten by a, mad
dog. The canine attaeked them
while they were playing on a swing..
People in the neighborhood assert
positively that the animal was mad,
and the ,children have been removed
to Toronto, where they will under-
go treatment, at the Pasteur Insti-
tute.
BRITISH INSURANCE ACT.
London Draper Heavily Fined for
Disobeying It.
A London despatch says: The
first prosecution under the Insur-
ance Act took place at the Lambeth
Police Court, when William Hur-
lock, seventy years old, a promin-
ent Liberal, who has been in busi-
ness as a draper in Walwerth
road, South London, for mare than
fifty years' and who effiploys about
a hundredpersons, was afraigned.
He had openly announced his in-
tention to disobey the act and was
fined $25 on each of three sum-
monses for refusing to lick stamps
and $25 tosts on the first sumraons.
Permission was given to state a
case for appeal. A number of other
cases are awaiting trial..
ATTEMPI 10
ECK A MN
Section Man Discovered That Spikes and Angle
Bars Had Been Removed
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
The discovery of a deliberate at-
tempt to wreck Canaclia,n Pacific
passenger train No. 108 on the
,.Stonewall branch at a point two
miles south of Kaman° was made
by a sectionman early on Friday
morning. The train is due in Win-
nipeg at 8 a.m., and between 6 and
7 o'clock it was discoverer' that
spikes had been extracted and angle
bars pulled out until they stretched
outside the ties. Marks indicated
that men had been working on the
, mcking job some hours, and the
displaced material had all been car-
ried away. The wrecking crew has
been unable to ,discover either
spikes or bars. The sectionnian
went north to the nearest wire
point and stopped the south -bound
train. If this line had not been re-
gularly patrolled as asual early Fri-
day morning before trains go over
it a disastrous accident would have
resulted. Chief 13e11 of th'e Cana,.
dian Pacific Police is working en
the ground with a body of men, and
it is hoped that the wrecker., will
be rounded up
PRICES,OF FARM PRONCTS
EPORTS PROM THE LEAD1Nil TEARS
CENTRES OE AMERiCA,
Prices of Cattle, Qraln, Cheese end OtPar
Produce at 'Name and Ahroad.
BREADSTITFFS,
Toronto, Aug. 2V -Flour ----Winter wheat.
90 per cent patents, 63.80 to 63.85 for
new, f.o.b. mills, and. at 83.90 to 83,95 for
old, Lab-raills. Manitoba fiehrs (these
quotations are for jute bags, in cotton
bags, 10c more):'First patents, 85.70; sec.
ond patents, $5.20; and strong bakers',
65, on track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 8113,
BAY ports; N. 2 at 81.10; and No, 3 at
$1.06, Bay ports. Feed wheat sells at 64
to 65c, Bay ports,
Ontario Wheat -No, 2 white. red and
;nixed, 96 to 970, outside; uew wheat, 90
to 93o outside.
Peas -Nominal,
Oats -Car lots of No, 2 Ontario, 41 1-2c,
and No. 3 at 40c, outside; No. 2 quoted at
43 to 43 1-2c. on track. Toronto; No, 2 W.,
0, oats quoted at 441.2 to 430, Bay ports.
Barley -New No. 2 barley, outside, and
NO, 3 extra at 60 to 62e.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 81e. nn.
track, Bay ports, and at 830, Toronto;
No. 3, 34e, Toronto, and 80e. Bay ports.
Rye -Nominal.
Buckwheat -Nominal,
Braa-Manitoba bran, $23, in bags. To-
ronte freight. Shorts, $2,4 to 825,
COUNTRY PR0DI70E.
ButterDairy. choke, 24 to 250: bakers',
inferior, 20 to 21e; choice, dairy, tubs, 220;
ereatnerY, 27 to 27 1-2e for rolls, am 26 to
26.1.2,0 roe solids.
Eggs--Oase lots of new -laid, 26 to
per dozen; fresh, 24e.
Cheese -New cheese, 14 14 to 141.20 for
Jar. And 141-2 to 14 4-40 for twins.
Beans-Hanal-picked, $2 per bugle
primes, 6285 to $2,90.
oney-Extracted, in tins, 11 1-2 to 121-20
Per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2,26
to 83, wholesale,
Roultr,v---Wholesole Twines of elloice
dressed noultryt---Cblekerts, 16 to 18e Per
lb.; bens. 13 to 14e; dealings, 15 to 16e;
be noultrY. about 2e lower than the
above.
Potatoes-Oanad'an new, 90e to 81.09 Per
bushel,
PROVISIONS,
Biteom-Long clear. 131.2 to 140 Per lb,.
10 ease lots, rorlc--8hort cut, 824,50 to
$29; do,'mess, $20 to 828. Tiares-Medium
10 light, 17 to 171-7a; heavy. 1514 to 130;
rolls, 1314 to 13 3-4e; breakfast bacon, is
to 101-2e; boelio. 20 to tio,
14ard.-eiercest, 13ei tubs. 151-4e; pails,
111-2e.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
fontreal, Aug. 27.--Oats--Can65or West-
ern,- No. 2. 471-2 to 40o; do,„ No, .3, 461-2 to
47e: extra No, 1 feed, 471-2 to 45e. Barley
Manitoba feed, .65 to 630; malting. We,
lour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents,
,85,65; do.. Seconds, s,s.ao.1 strong
$5,10; Winter patents, eboice.
104 'rollers, 84.85 to 3420; de., lo
bags. $2.25 to 82.50. Rolled onts-Earrelli,
85.05; bar, et 90 1/0S,, 82.40. litillfeed-Bran
$22; shorts, 826: middlings, 820; molt:line,
830 to $54. Tin' -No. 2, Per ton, ear lots,
$16 to $16.50. Cheese -Finest westerns.
133-8' to 181.2et do., eastern% 125-8 to lea
nutter--caoleest OPeATOOM, 261-4 to 261-2o;
seconds, 2514 10 25e, Eggs -Selected, 28 to
29e; No. 2 stock, 19 to 20e. Potatoes -Per
bag, ear lots, 81,15 to 81.23.
--
UNITED STATES MARNETS,
inneepolls, Aug. 27, -Wheat -Septem-
ber, 913.4e; December. 92.14e; 31.ay, 961-20;
No. 1 hard. 991-4e; No, 1 Northern, 923-4
to 98 3-4e; No. 2 do„ 803-4 to 963-4% Corn
--No, 5 yellow, 75 to 75 1-20. Oats ---No. 3
white, 30 1.2 to 31e. liYe-NO, 2. 66 10
6612e. Bran --$18.50 to 819.50. F101ir -
Leading local patents, in wood, to,b.,
Minneapolis, $4.80 to 85.15; other patents.
64.65 to $4,80; first clears, 83.30 to 8315;
second clears, $2.25 to 82.50.
Duluth, Aug, 27. -Wheat -No. 1herd,
96/-2e; No. 1 Northern, 951.20; Septem-
ber, 931.20; December, 92-1•4c bid; May,
963-4o
LIVE STOCE MARKETS
Montreal, Aug. 27.-Choiee cattle, 86.25 10
86,6Qt good, 85.50 to 86; fair. 85 to 85.75.
Butchers.' bulls, 82.75 to $3, Cows, choke,
84.25 to 84.50; cOmmon. 83.50 to 84, Sheen -
4 to 41-20 per lb.; lambs, So to 60 per lb.
Rogs--Selects, $8.25 to 88.50: sows, $6.75,
and. stags, 84, off ears. Calves -Milk ealves
82 to 87, and grass calves, 88 to $10 each.
138sillit:ariell.choice, were selling' from 850 to
Toronto, Aim. 27,-0att20-Buteher, best,
$7; medium, $6 to $680; cows, 35.50 to
$4,50: stockers. $4,80. Calves -83 to 88.25,
steady. Sheep -Light ewes, 84.25 to $4,75;
heavy ewes and backs, 83 to 83.50; hogs.
88.50 to 88.75; lambs, $2.60 to 89.10.
COBBLER ,GETS A. FORTUNE.
Australian Unele 1Vills Farm to St.
Kitts Man ---Another
A despatch from St. Catharines
says: Two residents of St. Cathar-
ines have within the past few days
received news of fortunes coming
to them. Mr. Robert J. Sprat, a
shoe repairer, has had -word of the
death of an u-ncle in Australia, who
has left him by his will 150 acres of
farm land worth. $30,000. Mr.
Spratt is selling out his business,
and will go as soon as possible with
his family to take possession of his
inheritance; and Mrs. J. 11. Bonn
has similarly had the pleasant sur-
prise of learning that property in
Toronto valued at $50,000 has been
willed to her.
TO 'VISIT SCOTLAND.
Ring and Queen Will be ,Guests of
40 Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh.
A despatch from London says:
King George and Queen Mary will
pay a visit in the autumn to Floors
Castle, the residence in Kelso,
Scotland, of the Duke and Duchess
of Roxborough. His Majesty shot
142 brace of grouse on Tuesday on
Lord Sefton's Lancashire moors.
The shooting party comprised seven
guns, and the total bag was 792
brace, a local record.
MANY CLAIM BIG ESTATE.
Americans Scramble for $50,000,000
in England.
A despatch from St. Louis says:
The d'scovery that an estate of $50,-
000,000 in Middlesex, England, is
awaiting a clamant has resulted in
the -appearance of at least Rye in
St. Louis, one in Chicago and one
in Des Moines, Iowa. The estate
is said to have been left by Alfred
Page, who died in England in 1333.
It is said to include Weabley Alan -
or, one of the most imposing coun-
try places in England.
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THE NEWS IN A PARASRAPH
RAPPENINQS FROM ALL OVER
GLOBE IN A
NUTSHELL.
Canada, the Empire and the Worla
le Genera/ Before Your
Eves,
CANADA.
Between 50 and 60 miles of new
roads have been constrneted in
Northern Ontario.
Tho Ontario G-overnnaent will
supply thoroughbred stock for
Northern Ontario.
Kingston City Council is again
urged by the Local Board ef Health
to install a filtration plea,
Mrs, Mary Lessard, who died at
Minton, aged 87, gave her twelve
children a eollege education.
Twenty-seven officers and anon
have been awarded eolonial auxil-
iary forces long -service medals,
A three-year-old ehild of Staff-
Sergt. Law of Kingston dieki of Pto-
maine poisoning after eating can-
ned food.
Four racing hersee died at Mid-
dleton, N.S., from cerebro -spinal
meoingitis through drinking pol-
l-04Ni water.
The. -steamer Erie, ashore on Sae
hie Island, is total wrea, having
broken up. The erew were all
eyed, also part et the veep of
krgentine melee.
The Railway Commission warned
the Graed Trunk and Canadian
Pacific Railways to proceed with the
Toronto Union Station without fur-
ther delay.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The King bad a narrow eeca,pe
&am an aceident while materitig iri
Yorkshire,
Bramwell Rooth Was ellOSell by
the late General to eucceed him as
head of the Salvation Army. The
official document was opeueol and
read by the Army solicitor at head-
quarters in Lonelou.
TED STATES.
eeriminations toolz pia
he 5. Senate regarclio.-
tri lite to party funds.
The aecused in the Rosenthal
murder case was arraigned in the
MeV/ York Criminal Coert ou
Thursday.
Startlang evidence .
eontributions to the Republiea,
party in 1904 was given before th
U. 5, Senate Committee.
GENERAL.
The eoloey of Chueng Chow, part
of Hong Kong, was raided by pi-
rates.
Negotiations between Italy and
Turkey point to an early terrehm,-
tion of the war.
French troops are hurrying to the
relief ef the headquarters force in
Morocco, which is hemmed in by
Moors, under -the Pretender.
BRAMWELL BOOTH.
The new General of the Salvatio
, Army.
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label. The words -No Alum"
without the ingredients is not
sufficient. Magic Baking Powder
costs no more than the ordinary
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cans 25c.
EN GILT ETT -COMPANY UMITED
TogoN-ro. oNT,
wiNtsuPgo morrrREAL
BIG DEMAND FOR HAD COAL
Big Companies' Stocks Should be Filling
Winter, But Are Depleted
A de4mtch from Winnipeg saye
Reports from the Pennsylvania an
tfiracite field show that the demand
in spite of every effort to avoid
shertage, is likely to be overwhelm,
ee on aeeount of a reass of belated
orders accumulated during the
eke period of the epeine. stoeka
of the big coel companiese'through-
u the couetry, which at the pre -
t time should be filling up for
winter demands, are in amay Can
being absolutely depleted. Price
aro accordingly eieing in Winnipeg.
Pennsylvania heed goal has one up
from ten and a half to eleven dol-
lars a ton, Alauiteba, and eastern
MAKING SAFE RIVES
AN
INTERESTIND, COMPARISON
•BONDS AND MORTCAOSS,
Up for
Saskatchewan are cleeiendentri, this
apply, though further west it comes
into competition with hard coal
tr<Hil CrOW'S Nest.
The Shortage VAN be judged ef by
following Ast1r4M of ehipmeeta
HI Poupsylvania: April, 1911, 0,-
1- tona; April, 1912, 200,62a
Afay, 1911, 6,417,362 tone;
.173. len. 1,429,457 tons, Eiree
eu menthe, 1911, 82,113,645 tons;
"od, 1912, 22,382,182 tons,
o the Canadian prairie
is dependent for its fuel sup-
ee Outside sources, and these
figures present an alarming rtrfea-
pect, LOCO CO.41 dealers are anti-
cipating alurther rise in pricee.
Ou ibe other heed bocee, ca.retene
ceenee. iuvo1ve AO IBOYO leather *eau tlee
euttina 082 ouporte evere ba)t year and
'cpotiag theia 30 the aatta. Qwarm.
earene 30oy8u hoods TIVOSt 19ON Into tho
atter ery eaoefqiOy, Bonds earr.ylog
nntsee mmon steelt BTO necessarily
ulative an2 1101414 be avidded by
Ito esnnot afford to take chances.
In lb° eafo Of Indus,
nets should amount to
bomb issued and the
rtion JR the better..
d Ito over twice the
fo bond interest, If a
bonds has outstanding,
It has been paying diet,
ex; for lite bentre
Abe stoeltholderte divi•
ey own preferred or
careful investor, haw -
t a bond of a comPanir
t least earnings for
which average well
at required tor bond
eriences oO Two Men, One o
Wilt/ and tbo Other
In M aro Readily Neut.
awe,Mor*gagg are Nat.
The art1er eo5tr30ted by "Inv
are for Ibe solepurpose Of grading P
peetire Inv , and, if poseible, of 4
ing them from, losing money *broil
Placing it in "wild•cat," eutorpriees. T
impartial and reliable character of t
laformation may be relied uPen, Tbe
writer of these articles and the oubliette
t this paper have no interests to verve
in ceneection with this matter other than
those of the reader.
14
By eitteentoree
A. few mire ago -it was in the pante
year of 1907-0, man possessed, a Inuri,'
^age which he wanted to sell and couldn't
xt tried to realize on it by -using it
s collateral security at a bank for
loan. Now, under the Benic Act, batilm
are wisely prevented from loaning on
such fixed security as mortgages, You
see, a bank's business le essentially a
cash business, and its assets have to he
suck as may be readily turned into cash.
They may, therefore, buy bonds or loan,
on bonds or stocks, hut not, on mortgages.
So, of course, the bank couldn't loan this
man any money on the mortgage. At one
bank, however, be knew the general man,
ager, and. knowing that the mortgage
was a goodoneand tho man bonen the
banker loaned him the money on hie note,
taking his verbal promise not to use the
mortgage without paying off the note.
That Is ono of, the greatest drawbacks
to loaning money on a mortgage -it is so
difficult to cash it in if one requires the
money unexpectedly, or even tO get a loan
on it.
During the same year a MAU had some
bonds which he had bought as an
vestment. Now, 1907 was a year when, as
everyone will remember, money was
ceedingly scarce. As a result he had to
raise some money, and to do so lie went
to his banker with the bonds, "Certainly,"
said the banker. "We eau loan you up
to 90 per cent. of tbe value of those
bonds" -they were bonds of fairly well-
known municipalitieS-"or you can, of
e,ourse, sell, them and get about 98 per
cent. of what they cost you."
This man didn't want nearly 90 per
cent. of the value of the bonds, nor did
he particularly want to sell them, so he
borrowed what money he needed and put
up the bonds as security. So soon as the
stress was over he paid of/ his loan and
put his bonds back in his strong box.
Mortgages are, without doubt, a very
excellent form of investment and one
which people with lots of money and with
no occasion to have to realize on them
at short notice may purchase if they use
care. They are, of coulIe, in many ways
a nuisance because they involve a. whole
lot of attention to details. Insurance,
titles, valuation and upkeep are :natters
which require more or less attention and
the best legal advke is necessary in draw-
ing them up and searching the titles. But
for those with lots 61 time to attend th
such matters they are satisfactory.
511487
pale one need not be so WOO.
Tillages and small towns be
olded-one may buy with conlIdoure,
TURN F JITO MONEY
There Is a firm in Toronto who give bun,
credo of men arid women an opportunity
earn from 8250.00 to 81,500.00 iNverr year
with but little effort, This firm nutnufae•
tures reliable family remedies, beautiful
toilet preparations and many necessary
household goods, such as belong powder.
washing compounds, stove, furniture and
metal polialica.„tu all over ono ituatired
Preparations that every home uses every
clay. aust....ore person 111 elleh IONtlit$ can
newt) exelusive right free to distribute
these preparations to their neighbors.
They pay 100 per cent commission to their
agents. Don't, you think you better in.
crease your Intorno? If go, write The
Rome Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Build, •
Inc-, Toronto, Ont., for full particulars,
]IAS FOUND CANCER, GERM,
Dr. Odin Also Says Ile Tras an 4
AntieCaneer Serum.
Dr. Gaston Odin, a Paris, France,
phasician, announces that he bee
discovered the microbe of cancer,
and that he has succeeded in iso-
lating and cultivating it. He also
declared that he has found an anti-
cancer serum which, whether or not
it leads to a permanent prevention
Or a cure, will show with certainty
if the cancer parasite is present in
the blood.
Dr.din, who has been conduct-
ing his research for a decade,
claims that Professor Matruchot, of
the faculty of science. and Profes-
sor La,nnois, of the faculty of medi-
cine, at the University of Paris
have verified his discovery, which'
he asserts has definitely proved the
correctness of the theory of the
parasitical nature of cancer.
STRIKE IF SHIPS' OFFICES
Mercantile Marine of Great Britain is Seething
With Discontent
A despatch from Landon, Eng-
land, says: The culminating strike
of the serles which has crippled the
British ea,rrying business' during
the pant two years is. threatened by
the officers of the mercantile mar-
ine.. The ITIOArement began on
Thursday, when the newly -formed
union of shipmasters . and mates
tried to prevent the Canadian Paci-
fic liner Mount Royal from sailing.
The Chief Officer was dismissed,
and the union demanded his rein-
statement. A substitute was ob-
tained by the company, however,
and the vessel left port. The <yen-
cers are well organized; they are
violently discontented and they
propose to put forward before* the
end of the year what they consider
their legitintate demands. Failure
to meet these on the part of the
ship -owners ;611, they say, be met
by a strike, "which may starve the
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nation."
Inadequate Salaries is the fore'
most count in the indictment
against the companies. Masters of
/some of the largest passenger, ships
are paid no mare than $2,000 a
year, and most of them have fam.i
lies ashore to,maintain. Entire de-
nial of vacations, 'seven days' work
weekly, with long hour§ while in
port as well as at sea. and the 11-
bility to loss of certificates through
t>ne error of judgment, are some of
the hardships being. discussed.
Other recent strikes 'have failed,
largely ,because the strikers liiere
unskilled laboreis whose places
could be filled. The officers of
ships, on the other hand, are a spe-
cial class, and a general strike by
them would leoye the ONV11BYS al-
111-0St helpless'
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