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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-5-28, Page 3Items of News by Wire Notes of Interest as to What Is Going on All Oyer, the World bormalimmor ri • ...ma. mimonosearimme• oam'o Canada. Fore,s,C,fires are raging in northeen Mueleoka,, near West Cobalt, in the LaurentianjVfoun,tains and ui the Algoma, region. A "dope fiend," refused cocaine, gashed Wm, 0. Soper, a London druggist, with e: knife, and then ran away. ' Prof. Alex, X. Kirkpatrick,"—of the School of Mining, Kingston, died at Cape T,ormentine, N,13., fol- lowing an eratioor acute, ap- p.euclicitis. Herbert Hutt, ex-eity treasurer of Prince Albert., Sask., Pleaded guilty to a eharge of inisa,ppropria,-. ting $3,080 d the ea1ys funds!. Joseph Simon of Brantford, after hearing that lie is net of the three heirs to an estate of $163,000,0b0 left by an uncle in "San Francisco, went back to 'work at the Radiator Omnpany'e factory. Michael Driscoll, tramp, who tried to stab a servant girl who re- fused him a sandwich, i51eaded drunkenness when brought before' the Brantford magistrate, and was allowed to go. ' When an autoinobile turned tux- • tie at a curve in the road at Alex- andria Bay, four Kingston men were seriously hurt. They are Her- bert and Allan Magee, Arthur K. Routely and Allan Reid. The B.C. Rifle Azeo,ciationPa.seed a resolution of confidence in the ability of the National Rifle Associ- ation of England to conduct the Bisley Mateh.es in the interest of Empire rifle shooting. At Elk Lake Tuesday night the plant of the Big Six Mining Com- pany was totally destroyed by bush fire, ent,ailing a loss of Several thousand dollare, and it is also feared the Regal ?fine plant is also gone. To please the people of the pao- 1 viace, whado not like theevontrac- tion "Albeee'', \the post °Ince de- partment has deeided ito discontinue the use of the contraction "Alta," in the postal service, and to recom- mend that letters, eand other mail matter for ,the province should, wherever possible, boar the name ‘`Alberta" n full, Jack Kong, the Chinese boy on trial:at Vanc.ouver for the murder of Mre. Millard, said that, when he had burned the perridge, the said she'd cut hie ears off, and approach- ed with a, knife. In a struggle she fell and 'struck a chair and was killed. He out up and burned the body, Previously ha had hidden some jewellery to get even with his ompley-er for overworking him. -Great Britain. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his wife liave sailed for New York and will go to the Canadian Rockies. Stephen Townsend, lecturer, au- thor and 'actor, and hutsbandaaj Mrs. FranceHodgson Bitanett, is dead in London. A Conservative member of the glitis,h Commons raises the ques- tion as to whether there is an, An pact against participa- tion in the Panama Exposition. May Richardson,, the Militant wile,' slashed the "Rokeby Venus" and was released from jail after a, hun- ger strike, was re -arrested. United •States. Five, person sw,ere'' killed near Ashville, Ohio, 25 miles south of Columbus, on 1Vednesday, when a Scioto 'Valley traction ear struck an ,a,utomobile, at a crossing. General. General Villa is reported to have defeated a large force of the Fed- erals. ONTARIO WHEAT CONDITION. 32,00 Acres Out of a Total of 604,. 000 Have Been Winter Killed. A despateh from Ottawa says: The cenaus and statistios office in a bulletin states that a,ceorcling to re - tans from its, ,erap correspondents, made on May 6, about 19 per cent. of the are,a, sown to fall wheat in Ontario has been winter killed, this pela,entage repaesenting a, reduction of 132,000 a,cres, i.e., from 694,000 acres, the, area sown, to 562,000 acres, the area. expected to be har- vested. • - In Alberta the Other laage fall wheat proyinee, fall wheat has been killed to the extent of 15.6 per cent., representing 36,000 a,cres, which will make the irea, to be har- vested 193,000 acres instead of 229,- 000 acres, the, area, sown lastt falL The total area estimated to be sown to faJl wheat, including be- sides Ontario and Alberta., 3,000 acres in Manitoba, 78,000 acres an Saeleatchewan and 2,700 awes in British Columbia, -was 1,006,700, now xeclueed by winter killing in Ontario and Alberta to 838,700 acres. . The condition of fell wheat on May 6 ws in Onta.rio returned as 81.3 per cent., and in .Alberta. C1,5 87.3 percent. For all Canada the conelithan of fall wheat on May 6 was 83 per dentof the standard, or 103 per cent. of the average coat - 'Um of the past five years repre sented,by 100. The condition of the fall wheat crop this year is, in fact, superior to that of any year since 1910, when the record was over 89 per cent. of 'the standard. Upon the whole, spring seeding was well advanced, except in the Maritime Provinces, where the epring this year is repoated as ab- normally late, and'- in Quebec, where not more- than from 3 to 5 per cent. of spring seeding wa-sre- porte•d to have been done by 1l�ay 6. • In Ontarie at this date about 24 per cent. of wheat, 43 per ent. of oats, and 41 par cent. of barley had been got in, and 40 per eent. of the, to- tal. seccimg was reported as. com-' pletecl on May 6 as against the ea,nie proportion last year en April 80. In Manitoba. 517, in Saskatchewan /9, and in Alberta 88 per eett. of the spring wheat crop was reported as seeded by May 6, these propor- tions comparing favorably with the e progress re.peerted last year on April 30, Vol' the five provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Sas- katchewan and Alberta the propor- tiein of seeding reported as effected on May 6 wee about 48 per cent, for Wheat, 23 per scent. for oats, 16 per cent., For barley end 37 per ce,nt, for all ,crops. About 14 per cent,. of the area in, hay- and 'clover- erte ado we is report- ed as winter -killed, as ocatiparetl' with 22 per ee,nt. lea year. The average eondition of thee° crops 'On May 6 was 86./ per cent., as (>o11 - pared with 890 per cent last rear and 74.6 in 1912, . CANADA.'S NATY RESERVE. Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes to Be Three Dieisions. A despatch from Ottawa says : The Governm,ent Bureau has issued a. stateraent which says that an order -in -Council has been passed by the Government and was sigaed by the Duke of Connaught authoriz- ing the •establishment in Canada of a volunteer naval reserve force un- der the Naval Service De-partenent. A sum is being placed itethe esti- mates sufficient for this year'e There is already. a volunteer na- val force at Vietoria., 13.0., ‘which bas been financed privately. Ad- miral Kingsmill is on his way to the coast, and this force will be at once given official recognition. There is a, petition already be- fore the department for the forma- tion of a company of naval reserves in Toronto, and steps will be taken at once to organize the farce.- Mr. A-eanilius Jarvis is interested in the Toronto company, and 'predicts easily. the, formation of a company of 250 anon. The headquarters of ..the force will be at Ottawa, but it is proposed to organize three divisions, Atlantic, Great Lakes, and Pacific. The Great Lakes division will likely have its headquarters in To- ronto, and will include the Upper St. La,wrenee, the Great Lakes, and the territory as far as the Rockies. MAN WENT INSANE. — juiriped'in Water to Save Mother • and Dilighter.' A despatch from New York say•e: As bells and whistles were sounding the ,second call for all ashore just before the hour sOhedured for'the new Scandinavia.reAmerican lin-er Frederiek VIII, to leaee her pier at Hoboken a steerage gangplank crowded with men, women and chil- dren, still shouting their farewells to friendon the 'steamer, broke and spilled overboard at least seven persons, of whom 'three ' were drowned. Several men dropped into the Hudson and helped to save the drowning, and one man, Eric Pe- terson, a harbor junkman, was overcome by his failure to save a mother and h,ar ',email daughter from death in the Water. His mind gave way, and he was taken in straps to St. Mary's Hospital, -Ho- boken, a raving lunatic. e KILLED UNDER TRAIN. Attempted to Board Locomotive and Missed His Ilfold. A ,cicipatch from Brantford says : Lavie Cirgeseti, a,n *employe of Johnston Broe,, contractors, tor the Lake Erie and Northern Railway, was iastently killecb being run over by the ballasting -train engine, and his head and one leg severed from the trunk. He attempted be mount the engine of the train while it was moving, mi•ssed his held, and felt Prices of These Products in the Leading Markets, are Here Recorded OUR FUTURE GOVERNORGENEIIAL AND WIFE. Prince and Princess of Teck at llottypttntly Coal Mine. His Serene Highness -Prince Alexander of Teck, who will succeed the Duke of Connaught a Governor-General of Canada is 1.11e .third eon of the late Mike of Teck and is ferty'Years old. He is &brother of Queen Mary, and hae always lived in England, serving in the army, where he won the Distinguished :Service Order. Be has done valu- able work in London as Chairman of the Great Middlesex Hospital, placing it on a sound financial basis. The Tecks themselves are not rich. The Prince was married an 1906 to Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany, a .grandda,ughter of Queen Victoria, and they have two eons ancl one daughter. In the photograph the Princess is carrying the silver miner's lamp and bouquet presented to her by the South Wales 'coal miners. BEARS AT STURGEON POINT. • Several Have Been Killed and Others Have Been Seeas. desPateh from Mindensaers Bears seem lb be particularly- tame just now in the North Country. It is seld.arn that a bear is seen at Sturgeon Point, yet one trotted past a lady reeently- and disappear- ed in the bushes. A big black bear, weighing 250 pounds, was shot' by Mr. Ezra, King, of 13elna•ont Lake. The skin was in prime condition. Phil Aldred, of North- Harvey, shot a bear which he had previously trapped Tbet pelt Was jethlack, a•nd valued at $18. The bear was a large one. HELD AS SLATE IN PARAGUAY British Charge d'Affaires Has Been Asked to Iteport the Facts. A despatch from London says Sir Edward Grey stated in the House of Commons that the atten- tion of the Foreign Office had been called to a report that a British - Canadian was being held in slavery in Paraguay, and that the British Charge d'Affaires had been re- quested to report the facts imme- diately by cable. JUMPED FROM MOVING TRAIN Kingston Man Died After Reaching the Rospital. A despatch from Brockville says In jumping, from the eastbound Grand Trunk express, on which he was stealing a. ride, Fred McCor- mack, a Kingston man abottb 25 years of age, fell metier the wheels as the train waa coming to a. stop at the local depot. One arrn a-nd one leg were severed and other seri- ous injuries inflieted. MeCormack deed four hours later in the hospi- tal. l'O Ifie MEN KILLED ON SHIP. Vessel Was Participating in Naval 'Manoeuvres• at the' Time. A despatch from Bizerte., Africa,, says: Four men were killed and one was bad•ly scalded through an a,ccident in the stokehole of the French destroyer Renandin on Wed- nesd•ay. The Itenandin waa pa.rbiei- pating at the time in the annual naval» manoeuv.res. Essay Pasha, leader of the revolt agamet,the King ,01 Albania, will be deported to Brindisi. Villa, ordered the execution of the entire,staff of thirty officers, of Gen. Oscura., Vederal commander, whose army was defeated at Pareclon. CKER IS FOUND GUILTY Another Jury Declares, That he Hired Gunmen to Kill Rosenthal Nem- York, May 22.—For the sec- ond time Charles Becker, former police lieutenant of the New York force, was convicted to -day of the murder of Herman Rosenthal. The jurors were in absolute •agreement ,on their first ballot after only 40 minutes of actual deliberation. They could have saved Beaker's life even in finding hienguilty if they had wanted to show mercy. Mr. Justice S.eabury had told them they could choose among 'three degrees of inurder, and two of -these ,clegree,s would have meant imprisonment,. But like, 24 men who had gone be- fore them, 'the first Becker jury and the gunmen's jitty, they believed that Jack Rose tad the truth when he said that Becker Orderea, ar- ranged and paid to'r the assassina- tion of the gambler vhi was about Lo ruin hina . • Thee° wes only ene other murder ca,s,e in t,he history etethe State in which a second conviction was ob- tained after the Court of Appeals had .reverved the first verdict. The ahnost unbroken record of mis- trials and 'acquittals la such .con- tinue.d p1'escatioa8-118 Beckers was what -made the verdict, to -day eo shocking, a •disappointment to E ek- or and ,his coun,sel. They had hopc.d for acqui tt, al, Th ey littild.cd posi- tively upon a; disagreement, 13itt they never thought 'there was a chance ,in the world 'that b.1,velve men, 'rafter the Court. of, Appeals decision, would, over '531)cl Becker to the chair. The swiftness of the jury's action was the t-hing blut•t intensified the oonvietion. - The men who had Becker's fate in their hands were out of the courtroom for four hours and five minutes—from 12.51 p.m, until 4.56 p.m.—but forty minutes was all they needed for reviewing the evidenee. For the rest of the time they lunched, thediscussed their 'business affairs, they made social engagemente and arrange- ments to 'continue friendships form- ed in seventeen days of the closest companionship men can have. Hears His Doom. The jurors .seated themselves at 4.54 p.m,, and waited for the jus- tioe. A minute later Justice Sea - bury was on the 'bench. Clerk Penny raised his. voice. "Charles Becker to the bar.'' One glance wasall that was need- ed to see that Becker had himself Under magnificent, control, There was ,conficlence and hope shining in bis eyes. Coolly, without haste, he studied the face of .every man in the box. Not one of them met his oyes. Clork •Penny bent toward the foreman and slowly asked the cus- Winery quest -ion; "Gentlemen of. the jury, have you agreed npan your verdict?" "Guilty as charged in the indict - me n t,'' Fotclna.n :13 leaden breathed more than spoke. ;Justice Seahu 17, after brief con- sideration, announced that 13eelree wa-s remanded to the Tombs until May 29, when he will ba sentenced The jurors were in agreement that the evidence justified convie- tion for, thunder in the first .degre3 on the first ballot. Breadstuffs, • Toronto, 'May 39,---FWEir—OntarJ0 wheat flours, 90 per cent., $3.$0 to $3.80. seaboard, and At $2,85 to 33,90, Toronto. Manitobas--Firs,t, praents, jute bags, $5.60; do., sconcis strong halters', itt jute bags, $4. Manitoba wheat -134Y Ports—No, 1 Northern $1.014 and No, .2 at 59. Ontario wheat --No. 2 quoted at 91,04 to 61.05, outside awl SLOG, on traelt, Toronto. Oats—No, 2 Ontario Oats, 393 to 40e, outside, and at 42e, on track, Toronto, Western. Canada oats 467...c for No. 2, and at 41e for No, 3. Bay ports. Peas -e$1 to 91.05 outside. Barley--QoOd malting barley, 56 to 58e, according to qualltY. Rye—NO. 2 at 63 to 64c, outside. B0c3twheat---83 to 85c, outside, Corn—No, 2 American, kiln -dried, quoted at ?Sc, Toronto, s 13ran—Manitoba. bran $24 to 625 a ton, in bags, Toronto freight. 'Shorts, 926 to 997. . „ Country Produce. Butter ---Choice dairy, 18 to 20e; In- ferior, 15 to 16c; farmers' separator Prints, 21, to 22c; creamery prints, fresh, 23 to 24a; do., storage prints, 22 to 23c; solids, storage, 2-0 to 21c. Eggs -21 to 23c per dozen, in case lots. ' Honey—Extractedin tins, 109, to 110 Per lb. Combs, -92.25 to $2.50 per doz- en for N. 3, and $2 for No. 2. Cheese --New, cheese, 14 to 149c for large, and 149•to 16c for twins, Beans—I-Iand-piolted, 82.25 to $,2.30 Per bushel;- primes, 92.10 to $2.20. Poultry—Fowl, 11 to 190 per lb; chickens, 19 to 20e; ducks, 20c; geese, 15 to 16e; turkeys, 20 to 22. Potatoes—Delawares, 91.20 to $1.25 on track here. and Ontarios at $1.10 per bag, on track. ' Provisions. Dacon—Long clear, 15 to 16c per lb. in case lots. Hams—IVIedium, 18 to 189e; do„ heavy, 17 to 18c; rolls, 15 to 159e; breakfast bacon, 18 to 1.9c;. backs, 20 to 23e. Lard—Tierees, 129c; tubs, 13e; pails, 131e. Baled 3Eay and Straw. Baled hay—No. 1 at $14.50 to 6/5 a ton, on track here; No. 2 quoted at 613 to $13.25, and clover at $10 to 911. Baled straw --Car lots, $8.25 to $8,^50, on track, Toronto. 'Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg., May 26--Cashl--Wheat— No, 1 Northern, 969c; No. 2 do. 948c• No, 3. dc. 33; NO. 1,' NO, , 5, 31,1.4.(:: No. G, feed, 709cl No• ter wheat, 95;;;,...f.,10.. 2 tvo„ 949e.; No. 3 02ac. c» s---' 2 C.A.V., asge:‘ No. 3 do., 27,1e; No. '2 J:Qed, 361c, ..UatircY* No. 3, 491C; No. 4, 481,e; rejected, 45ic; feed, 45o. Flax—N'o. 1 $1.364; No, 2 0.W„. 31.351; No. 3' do., rpl.22.1, 'Montreal Markotri. Montreal, May 26,.—Corn—Arnerican 2 yellow, 80c, Oats--Canadian."WeStern, 2ma43rItotoba444;ealo.60.L\Tto6, Manitoba Spring wheat patents, fir$1:8, $5•60; 3O.,serondS, $5.10 strong bak- ers'. 64.90; 'winter ea,teats, choice, t$05 . /54.9too ; 6(150,5-1.70 60 tl)rta.iggsb t 2r o.,2110er st 0, , Rolled eats --barrels, 14.55; bag oe 4 lbs., 62.15. Mil1fced.--S3ran, 623; shorts, $25; middlings, ,628;.ineulllie, 623 to $32. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots, 614 to 615.50. Cheese7-1'inest westerns,121 Lo 121e: do. . easterns, 119 to 12c. 13ut- ter—Choicest creamery, 23 to 239c; sec- onds 22 to 229c. Eggs—Fresh, 23 to 24e; seiected, 26 to 27e; No. 1 stock, 23c; No. 2, clo„ 21 to 219c, , Potatoes—ler bag, car lots, 95o to $1,25, mallyii,n,nhae13101.4asi. 97.12 -et: No. 1 Northern, 259 to 985c; No. 2 Nor- thern, asa to 963c. Corn, No. 3 yellow, 68 to 6811c, Oats, No. 3 white, 36/ to United States Markets. 391c. Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth, 1V1inn., May 26.-14nseed. cash, 91.505; July, 91,575. Close wheat, No. 1 hard, 979c; No. 1 Northern, 9090; No. 2 'Northern, 949c to 941c; Stay; 969c, Live Stock Markets. Toronto, May 26.--Cattle—Choice but- chers, $7.90 to 28.30; good, 97.90 to 68,25; common cows, 95 to $5.25; can- nersand cutters. 93,60 to $4; choice fat cows, $6.50 to $7.25; choice bulls,. 37 10 97.90. Calves—Good veal. 68.75 to 919; com- mon, $4.75 to 92. Stockers and feeders. --Steers SOO to 900 lbs.'$7.25 to 67.15; good qualitY, 100 to 800 lbs., 57 to $7.50; light,' 66,025 to $7.25. Sheep and lambs—Light- ewes. $6.50 to $7; heavy, $5.75 to $6.20; bucks, 25.15 to $2.25; Spring lambs, each, 96 to $10,; yearling lambs. $9 to 99.50. I-Iogs. $8.35 to 95.40, fed and water- ed; 68.60 to $8.65, off cars; $8 to 68..05, Montreal, May 26.—Prime beeves 8.0 to near Ste; medium, 53, to 75c; coin - 11102), 450 10 59c; cows, $30 t� $80; calves, 30 to lc; sheep, 510 to Sic; spring. lambs, $4 to $6 each; hogs, 91 to 99c. IT1'4DESI1Uj3LES DEPORTED. Ontario Rejects Over Four Hun- dred in. Six Months. - A cledpaitch from Toront.o says: In the half -yearly r.eport of the Pro- vincial Police, issued Wednesday, the campaign against undesirables has been ,contiratecl with consider- able saccess. During the -six menthe 417 uaclesirables were, turn- ed over to the ,Dominioa immigra- tion aufilioaities for cleportatiOne which is an increase of =274 'over the 13R1T4.IN'S NEW AEROPLANE. King Enthusiastic After Witnessing a Flight--Seeret Will be IC,ept. A despatch from London says: It is stated that the Government wish- es -to maintain the secret of the DOW safety aeroplane which is the pro- perty of the War Department. While this would give a '6a:eat ad- e:a.s- tiaege t e it itspointed.hOR$%ilaa)ibyrm a:oliael sr that it would be -a,gaitist the intereets of humanity 1L1 the conquest of same Period last year. Evident:1Y the air. The King is enthusiastic conditions in the United States are . . driving this class to Canada, for la,st week 44 undesire.hles were en- countered at Niagara Falls. The number of ,cases handled was 789, in connection with whieh there ,were 527 convictions and 136 dis- charges. This is an increase of 279 eases handled. A PRINCESS MIRY ARRESTED. A Sentry Thought She Was a Mili- tant Suffragette. London, May 20.—Princess Mary was a-rrested as a suffragette while at Aldershot recently with the King and Queen. The Priacesswent be- fore breakfast to the, aircraft en- closure in .order to take some pho- tographs. The -public is absolutely excluded from this enclosure, and a sentry immediately placed the Prin- cess under arrest, refusing to be- lieve her claim to be the Princess, and'exprassing With soldierly plain- ness of speech his conviction that she was a euffragette. She was. de- tained for a quarter of an hour in theeenelosure before an offieer who. knew her happened to pass and es- corted her to the King's quarters. .14 14IILITANTS ARE BLAMED. Fire Broke Ott Near Where King and Que.en Were Staying. A despatch from Aldershot, Eng- land, says : 4. serious fire,. sup- posedly of suffragette origin, on Wednesday, breke out in the long valley dose by the Royal pavilion, where King George and Qvteee Mary are sbaying for the= manoeu- vres. Their Majesties had left the pavilion when the blaze was dis- covered, The fire was extremely difficult, to combat and was not ex- tinguished for° a, caneiclerablo time. When the King and Qiteen left the pavilion two suffragettes were seen at the entrance waving "votes for women" banners. . 1.B BLOWN TO PIECES. Tried lo Pieh Dynamite Out of CreVice With a Hammer, A despatch from Dundas, Ont,, says : George Niblock, a foreman, 50 earof age, 'employed by the Canada Crushed Stone Corpora- tion, was blown to pieces at the quarries hereNililock dropped a piece Of dynamite itto a rock ore. viee, He tried to pick it ont with hammer and a, terrific explosion followed . over- the new machine. = After wit- nessing a flight at Aldershot he ex- claianecl : "Why haven't you a lirua- drecl of these in the army .?)' Col. Seely, Secretary for Wax, in an interview ,saial the invention of the machine was due to the brains of many men.- Four organizations had played a part, namely: the Na- tional Rhysieal Laboratory; the Ad- visory Committee on Aeronautic's, the Royal aircraft factory and ex- perimental fliers. "The new aero- _ plane," he said, "is inherently not automatically stable, that is to say its etability depends on the shape, not on any mechanical_ attachment. The secret can be applied to the monoplane as well as to the bi- plane. The new aeroplane, hieh is all British and all the product of British brains, except the engine, has been put to all manner of triode. It: has been flown in a gale, flung at air pockets and eddies, and backed steeply, and has proved etable in all tvaya. A :novice can quite safely control it in the air, but still the greatest preblem of all remains to be solved—hat of eafe landing. I have flown hundreds of miles and know that this, is one thing that is checking the advance of flying." 11JILITANTS AGAIN ACTIVE. Battle of Buckingham Was Fiercely Contested. A. despatch from London says: What the public calls, the Pankhurse Ilan maniac's gave what was per- haps the ecillieist of their numerous silly shows, when they rared.c a hope- less attempt, to force their way into Backiagham Palace to zee King Ge,orge., They can, if they wish, boas,t of having causad several hunee dred police to be snmanon.ed to spe- cial duty at the public expense, and of having cansecl. 'some thousands of idlers to stand in .the broiling sea - shine te wa.tch their futile antics, but their achievements beyond this, amounted to practically nothing ex- cept that ,57 of them were arrested, sa & U'SEb) Q'ItrilAT IC ii.11115',RO S. Like Snonecovered Islauds, Re. pelts Sea sal i av i a ti Cant in 'A despatch 'from Boston says : Numni'oihergs and heavy field Inc on the Grand'Beeks < inp e I led ilia Swede n may Line eteamehip Texas, )vhic'h arrived here from Ste- ‘• 411 ger, to '1Tlako a, long detour to the south, Capt. Ifilleetrom re- ported that 80M0 of the bergs were of enormous size end looked like 0tow-eovered islands.