HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-9-27, Page 7CENTRAL SPAN OF QUEBEC,
BRIDGE BOLTED INTO P
Successful Accomplishment of Vast Engineering Feat" Gives'
Canada Largest Structure of its Class in the World.
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A despatch from Quebec says: -The
Steel structure of the greatest canti-
'lever bridge ever designed was com-
pleted at 3.28 p.m, on Thursday when
the big central span of the Quebec
bridge was bolted into position. After
11 lyears of work and two accidents,
Winch cost the lives of 78 men, the
bridge is prectically -finished, but it
will be some months yet before trains
can be run across it. It will be about
three years before the final touch is
put to the structure, which has yet to.
be painted at a cot of $35,000. The
bridge, which is 3,239 feet in length,
cost in the neighborhood of $20,000,000
to build, and the total weight of the
steel structure is 180,000,000 pounds.
Work was begun in 1906, and the en-
gineers at that tine planned to throw
out the two great cantilever arms un-
til they met- 150 feet -above the water
in midstream, In 1907, when the
south cantilever arm was all but com
pleted it collapsed, precipitating more
than 100 inen into the river. Of
these, .70 lost their lives, The bridge
was then redesigned and the engin-
eers determined to avoid the menace
of collapse from cantilever arms of
such great length by building the cen-
tral span on pontoons, floating it into
position and hoisting it to its place.
Last year the attempt to hoist the
central span ended disastrously, when
the lifting apparatfts broke. This ac-
cident cost the lives of eight more
men.
The pinning up of the central span
to the hangers that are to permanent-
ly support it marks the successful ac-
complishment of an, engineering feat
without equal in the annals of canti-
lever bridge building, and gives to
Canada the credit of possessing a
structure the largest of its class in
the world.
CHINA OFFERS
300 000 SOLDIERS
9 k
• Would Send Troops to France
if Desired.
A despatch from Pekin says: An-
notincement is made in Government
circles that thy/Chinese Cabinet, pro-
vided the Entente powers approved, is
willing to send 300,000 soldiers to.
France in compliance with the French"
request.
An appeal has been made to the
United States to aid China, as the
Entente allied powers were helped,
financially, to equip her troops,
A despatch from Tokio says: The
Chinese Government has sounded Jap-
an on the proposed despatch of Chi-
nese troops to Europe and the indica-
tions are that Japan will offer no op-
position to such action on the part of
China.
Commenting on the advocacy
abroad of Japan's participation' in the
land fighting, the semi-official Times
declares that as Japan is not directly
menaced by Germany no sufficient
reason exists to send troops and the
allies should be satisfied With Japan's
naval and other assistance.
LOTS OF CRUDE OIL
FOR U. S. AND ALLIES.
A despatch from Atlantic City, N.J.,
says: There is not the slightest dan-
ger of a deficiency in the supply either
of crude oil or its products, kerosene
and gasoline, for the use of the Unit-
ed States or its allies in the war, in
the opinion of A. C. Bedioed, of New
York; President of the Standard Oil
- Company of New Jersey. Mr. Bed-
ford ,expressed that conviction in an
address he delivered here before the
War Convention of the American
Chamber of Commerce.
DOZEN I3RITISH SHIPS SAVED
, BY THE SMOKE -BOX SYSTEM
A despatch from London says: --
The Press Association hears on high
naval authority that the new defen-
sive measures against submarine war-
fare are in.eeting with success, justi-
fying the hope of a further reduction
in the losses, and says it can be stated
on official authority that the results of
the methods adopted in the past month
give cause for growing confidence.
According to an Acirniraltye state-
ment dozens,of ships have been saved
,by the snaoke-box system, which the
Admiralty during the past few months
has supplied a majority of British
merchantmen.
LENS GARRISON EAGER
TO EVACUATE THE CITY.
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Gen. Sir.. Douglas Haig Telling Lloyd George of Progress.
This remarkable group photographed on the front in France shows
several of the mightiest men of Great Britain and France. In the group
are from left to right: Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions; Gen.
Sir Douglas Haig, Commander -in -Chief -of the British. forces,. operating •in
France, and the man who is directing the great drive in Flanders; Marshal
Joffre, hero of the Marne; and Lloyd Georg -e, the British Frenaier, who is
the directing genius of the British Empire in the war. General Sir Doug-
las Haig is shown telling Lloyd George of the progress of the -war, and
from the expression on his face and his gesture it can be gained that he is
speaking most optimistically. Marshal Joffre is ready to affirm any of the
British General's' assertions, for Joffre is perhaps better acquainted than
any of the French and British officers with the strategic moves planned and
being carried out at the present Moment.
• Preadetutts •
'.1:"Oronto,. Scat. 25-5tanitoha NVY100,t7
No. 1 Northern, 32.21; No. 00,, t432,1$
.Nu, do„ $2.15; No. 4 wheat., 32.10, Ln
Store, Port kVilliam,
Manitobit ,outs ---,NO, 2 O.Ws -07, in
store Fort William
mezi Qan. corn -No. 3 yellow, nominal,
track Toronto. '
Ontario eats -No, 2 white, 600, nomi-
nal; No.;, do„ 590, nominal, according
Lo freights nn (:-.4d0,
0016010 wheaL.---New, No..2. 32,17 to
32,20, according to fre1ght8 outside.
Bariey-l)laiting, 'new, 31,63" to ,$1.20,
according to freights outside.' ,
ftye--No, 2, 3E70, according to ,ttreigb ts
Alanitolat,flour--First patents, in Jute
bags, $11.50; 2nd ao., $11.00; strong
bakers', do„ 310.00, T01'017,03.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, 310.20; in bags, track Toronto,
prompt sliimnent.
lqillfeed-Car lotS-Deliverecl 'Mont.
real •freights, bags •included -Bran, per
ton, 335; shilits,.do„ 342; Middlings,
do. 315 to $46; good feed flour, per bug,
33.;25.
Hay -No. 1, new, per ton, 311.00 to
$11.50; mixed, dp, 33 to 39,50, track.
Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 35 to 37.50,,
track Toronto,
Country Produce --Wholesale
13tater-Creamery, solids, per 11.),' 36
to 3990; prints, per lb., 399 •to 400;
dairy, per lb. 33 to 310.
Eggs -Per dos,, 40 to 41c.
."Vholesalers are selling to the retail .. ,
_ ...
trade at the following prices ;-- •BIG NcREA
Cheese -New„ large, 23 to 23.9e; twins, '•
23i to 233e; tllplets,231 to 240; • old, ' '
large, 30c; twins, 309e; triplets, 3010. ' • ' , • •' . • ,
creamery prints, 42 to 431:., solids, 419
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 39 Lo 4060 •ciiNAD tips • T ADE
to 42e. -
F.,g,gs-New laid., in cartons, 52 to e4c;
Out of cartons. 46 to 470.
I Dressed poultry --Spring ohicleens, 25
to 30c; towl, 20 to 22a; squabs, 'per doz.,
34 to $1,50; turkeys, 25 to 30c; ducks,
Spring, 22'c, -
Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb„
229,.; hens, 20 to 22.:', ducks, Spring. 90e,
hi oncy-- omb-ltxtra fine, 16 or,,
33.25; 12 oz, $2.75; No. 2, 32.40 to 32.50:.
Strained -Tins, 21'8 and S's, 17c per 11);
110's, 169c; 60ts, 151 to 16c.
Beans -No Canadian beans on market
until last of October; imported hand -
1 picked, 37.75 per bush; Limas, per lb.,
' 15 to 160.
i Potatoes, on tracic--Ontarlo, per bag,
31.30 to 31.35.
Provislons--Wholesale
ii preventing waste by de-
manding the whole. wheat in
breakfast foods and bread. •
Shredded Wheat iTtsCoit
•
•
is 100 per cent. Whole wheat
grain prepared in a digestible
form -contains more real nu-
trirnent than•meat or eggar
potatoes* and',costs inch less.
Servewith milk.. or cream,
sliced peaches, bananas or
other .fruits. • ,
Made in
Canada.
TRY PAINTING YOUR SHOES.
Black Paint is Said to Preserve Shoe
Leather Almost Indefinitely.
Big inventions sometimes come by
accident, and leather nide are to -day
A despatch from Canadian Army experimenting to prove the claims of Britain Wants 10 000 000 T
, , ons
Headquarters in France says: Pres- the employee of a Chicago automo- , From Canada and U. S.
sure upon the defences of Lens is un -I bile factory that ordinary black paint,
relenting. ,,Posts have again been properly applied, will preserve shoe
A despatch from London says:1In-
pushed out into "No Man's Land" leather alinost indefinitely. The auto_ auguration of a new food economy
the region south-east of St. Laurent. mobile man, driven by the advancing campaign in Great Britain was an -
The Germans are being literally prices of the neighborhood cobbler, nounced on Thursday by Baron
squeezed out of Lens, and prisoners was mending the uppers of his shoes Rhondda, the -Food Controller. "If
declare the garrison would welcome at home one evening. When he was voluntary measures fail," he said, "I
the order to evacilate. Enemy orders done he scraped an accumulation • of
are still to hold on at an costs; but black paint off the soles. He was es-
thete is reason to believe the cost is tonished to.find that the leather un-
becoming too great, since the occupa- derneath the paint'showedno signs of
tion by us of the northern suburbs wear. Constant walking over the be -
permits the projection of gas into the smeared drying -room floor, he found,
town from the north as well as from had worked the paint clear through
the soles.
ti tl nd
Nurnerous tests since have appal: -
Sinoked meats--15-Iams, -medium, SO to
31e• do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to
42c; rolls, 27 to ...Se; breakfast bacon,
• L 36 to 40c• backs, plain, 38 to 39e; bone-
less, 42 to 130.
Cured 'meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to
FOOD NEEDED
le sou a west.
RUMANIAN SOLDIERS' WOUNDS
• DRESSED WITH SAWDUST.
A despatch from Washington says:
Rumania is so short of medical 'sup
plies that wounds of her soldiers are
being dressed with sawdust, says a
cablegram received here from the
American Red Cross Commission to
Rumania. The cablegram adds that
the Rumanian railroad system is bad-
ly crippled, and that there is urgent
need for ambulance transport, with
drivers and mechanics. "
GEN. HAIG'S NEW 0 FFENSIVE IS
BIGGEST IN RECENT MONTHS
Marked Success Attended Advance of British Troops in Crucial
Sector Between Ypres-Roulers Railway and Hollebeke.
A despatch from the British
Armies in France and' elgium -says:
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The British at daybreak on Thursday
launched a heavy offensive against the
German defences about the Ypres sa-
lient along an extended front, which
has its centre' around Inverness
Copse, and astride the .-"Ypres-Menin
road, a little south-east.of Hodge.
From tlae first moment of going over
-the fop the assault proceeded with.
marked suceess, especially ,in the cru-
cial sector between the Ypres-Roulers
railway and Holiebeke, where the Bri-
tish early in the day had forced their
way forward over marshy ground and
through woods filled with machine-
guns to a considerable depth, and
were continuing the bitter fight in the
neighborhood of the famous Inverness
Copse, Nun's Wood and Glencorse
Wood, where much blood has been
shed since the allies began the Battle
of Flanders on July 31.
Thursday's attack was another fine
success for British arms. Our troops
penetrated to a depth of a mile, which
is a wonderful achievement, consider-
ing the- gro.und advanced over. The
troops reached the Sennebeke-Ghelm-
velt line, and -also advanced beyond
the central parallel of Polygon Wood.
We are now bombarding the Germans
who are massed for a counter-attack.'
It is ,b,elievecl that the number of
'prisoners will' reach - four figures.
Every shell -hole yielded about a dozen
prisoners, sometimes surrendering
without resistance and sometimes
,fighting stubbornly. In one instance,
the inmates of a semi -concealed cra-I
ter held up our troops for, some time
by bombing. In other instances .the
enemy came out with fixed bayonets,
as the barrage crept towards them.
shall have no compunction in putting
the nation on conipulsory rations."
Baron Rhondda added that the
danger of the situation did not lie
in the submarine peril, but in the
world's shortage of cereals, meats and
fats. ,
Baron Rhondda made this state -
•,'•""`•
ment to correspondents, aft te ng
stuff
that the minimum foodre-
ently demonstrated that when ordin-1 them
ary black, paint, (hard finish), such aslquirements from Canada'and the
• LTfilted .States 'during the' forthc.Oining
any Iocal,
applied to sole leather certain changes
take place
•
The first coat soaks into the fibers,
or pores. This process requires at
least two days.
Then a second liberally laid on and
allowed to remain the same length Of
twelve 'months would be more than
10,000,000 tons, representing an ex-
penditure of £250,000,000.
REFUSE S-AFE CONDUCT
FOR GERMAN DIPLOMAT..
time forms a thick jelly. A despatch from London says: It is
A third coat gums the surface, and leaned that Great Britain does not at
a final one will harden perfectly in present intend to approve any applica-
four days. The cost of this initial tion forea safe conduct for Count von.
treatment bees not exceed 25 cents,ILuxburg, the German Minister to .Ar-
and.the shoes, whethen.new or old, 'it gentina, whose passports have been
is claimed, have a well-prepared pair handed to him by the Argentine Gov-
ernment..
of soles. The hot sidewalks of sum-
mer will only bake the preparation on
still harder. If the paint is thorough-
ly dried it canrIt come off on rugs
or carpets. ,
The secret of the treatment seems
to lie in the thorough drying of each
layer.
4,900 BRITISH KILLED
- IN ONE WEEK.
A despatch --from London says:
Casualties in the British ranks re-
ported for the week ending Sept. 18
follows:
Killed -or ,died of wounds, 135 offf-
cers and 4,755 men; officers wounded
or missing, 431, and men wounded or
Agriculture is the science of the
labor of man aided by sunshine and
rain of the heavens.
When we waste bread we waste the
efforts of heroes who have died for us.
'There is nothing truer than that.
Lightning is the rush of one kind of
electricity 'from a' cloud to unite itself
with another kind, in a cloud or in the
earth.
ARGENTINA VOTES TO SEVER
RELATIONS WITH GERMANY.
A despatch from Buenos Ayres
says: The Argentine Senate by a vote
of 23 .to 1 declared for the breaking
off of relations with Germany.
The resolution now goes to the
Chamber of Deputies. There is strong
public feeling in favor of its final
passage.
•
Total For First Five Months of
Fiscal Year -$1,128,274,119
.A. despatch from Ottawa says:
Trade figures for August and 'the first
five months of the present fiscal year,
made public by Hon. J. D. Reid, show
that Canada's great trade expansion
coritinues unabated. Last fiscal year •
Canada's trade aggregated two billion
dollars, but at the present rate the
trade for the present fiscal year
should be at least five hundred mil-
lion more than last year's great re --
cord. For the first 5 months of the'pte-
vious fiscal year our total trade was
'$768;635 214, while for tile
2730 le; clear bellies. 261 to 4, ,
' ,Larcl-Pure lard, tierces, 26 to 2,61et sponding period, this year it is i$1
tubs,. 26?‘ to 26ic; pails, 261 to 27c; .
compound, tierces, 20 -to 2010; tubs, 209 128,274,1,19. The trade balance in our
to 203c; 1)1118 90, to 210.'
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Sept. 25 -Oats --Canadian amounted to., $91,931,000, as against
wesCern, No. 2, 77,,c'; No. 3, 761c; extra ,
No. 1 teed, 7610: No. 2 local white, 70c; 72,331,014 for August last year.
No. 3 local white, 690. Barley -Mani- For the five months of the present
toba teed, 31.29; malting, 31.33. Flour -
Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, fiscal year, ending with August, our
511.60; seconds, 311.10; strong bakers', total imports were valued at $474 -
310 90; Winter patents, choice, 312.00; .
straight rollers, 311.50 to $11.S0; no., 031,859, and for the -same period
bags, 35.60 to 35.75. Rolled oats-Bbls., last year $322,198,881. With this
$8.70 to $9.00; do., bags, 90 lbs., $420 to
increase in our import trade has come
a' corresponding increase -in revenue
for August of $3,075,000, and for the
five months, $17,540,000.
The export trade shows a corre-
sponding increase of from $96,832,-
161 in August last yeat to $152,563,-
345 during the corresponding Month
this years For five months our ex-
port trade totalled $672,022,649, an
increase , of $217,291,385 ,over the
seine period last year. Fisheries show
an increase for the month of $200,-
000 in export, animals and the pro-
duce, $8,000,000, agrictiltural pro-
ducts $25,000,000 and manufactures
$2'7,000,000. There -was a 'slight de-
crease in exports of minerals, and.,
favor for the first five months of the
present fiscal year is $180,000,000.„
The total imports for August
$4,40. 13ran, $34.00 to 33e.00. Shorts,
340.00. Middlings, 543.00 ., to 350.00.
Mouillie, 355.00 to 360.00. Hay -No. 2,
per ton, car lots, $10.50 to 311, C,heese
-Finest Wresterns, 210c; finest East -
erns, 213c. Butter -Choicest creamery,
121 to 13c; seconds, '411. to 420.' 'Eggs -
Fresh, 53 to 54c; selected, 47 te 48e;
No. 1 Stock, 43 to 44c; No. 2 stock, 40
to 41c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots;
$1.55 to $1.60.
Winnipeg, Sept. 25--pash
Wheat -No. 2 Northern, 32.18; No. 3,
do., 32.15; No. 4, 32.10; No. o, 31.91;
No, 6, $1,81; feed, $1.70. Oats -No. 2
0.36r., 67c; No. 3, do., 65c; extra. No. 1
feed, 65e; NQ. 1 feed, 64c; No. 2, do.,
639c, Barley -No. 3, $1.20; No. 4, $1.16;
reJectecl, 31.12; feed, 31,12. Flax -No,
1 N. -W.0., $3.27; No. 2 C.W., $3,21; No.
3, do., 33.10.
United States Markets
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minneapefie,'-Sept" 25 -Corn -No. a t$h2eforests,00O,00O. decrease - in produots of
yellow, $2.06 to $2.08. Oats -No.
white,$30b5idS. to 59111our-TJne,hanged.
Bran -$30.50 to $32.
bid; November, 33,431 bid; December,
September, 33.441 bid; October, 33.441
Duluth Sept. 25 -Linseed-$3.441; BLOCKADE MEASURES s
Live Stock Markets
Toronto, Sept, 25 -Extra choice heavy
steers, 311.10 to $12;- do., good heavy,
$10.25 to $10:75; butchers' cattle. cboice,
$9.75 to $10.25; do., good, 39 to 39.40;
WILL BE MORE RIGID.
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A despatch from London says:
Lord Robert Cecil, British Minister of
Blockade, and Albert Metin, under-
secretary of the French Foreign Of-
fice in charge of blockade matters,
do. medium, 38.29 to 53.6e, au. common,
36,75 to $7.40; butchers' bulls, choice, had a conference here with the object
$S.30 to 38.65; do., good bulls, 37.40 to of gaining closer co-operation from
37.35; do., medium bulls, $6.S5 to 37.10;
do., rough bulls, 35 to $6; butchers' the United States in- a 'Policy • which
cows to 3isnggiurndo,6.e0oct aims at exercising --rnore rigid ii.es-
1 choice hosino;$8
$6 75; $ will
7 50 to $9.25, feeders, sure on, the enemy. This policy wi
$8 to $9; canners and cutters, $5 lo be carried out without interference
36.50; milkers, good to choice, 3100 o
5135; 00., cont...and med., 375. to 535; with the economic condition of neu-
springers, $90 to 5135; light ewes, $9,50 tral countries. ,
to $11.50; sheep, heavy, $5.75 to $7.50;
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yearlings, 311 to 312; calves, good to
SUCCESS -II
choice, 314.50 to 315.25; Spring lambs, RUSSIAN
$15.7e; hogs, fed and watered, 317.50 to
$13; do., off cars, $17.75; do., f.o.b.,
KORNIJ,OFF TO BE TRIED s615o°2itresi, Sept 25 --Choice steers,
BY JURY AT THE FRONT.
$10.50; good, 39.75 to $10; low,sr grades,
38; butchers' cows,$6.50 to $8.50;
ON RIGA FRONT
A despatch from.Petrograd says:--
The Russians ors Wednesday on the
A, despatch from Petrograd says:
bulls, $7.25 to $9.00; canning bulls, Riga front rdpulsed an attack by the
:isa.t500$t6025:14c,5mov;s,
$e5hete°e,$5$82,55;o °tenta$1.1.10°., eG,aclere, according to the statement is-
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choice milk -fed calves, $14 fo 315;
70r sued by the Russian War Office. The
'Ides, $9 to $13, selected hogS, $17.
Gen. Koruiloff, leader of the recent re-
volt, it has been decided' definitely,
will be :tried by court-maetial with a
jury. At the instance of the Council
of 1Worlemen'S1 and Soldiers' Delegates
the Government has agreed that the
trial shall be held at the front -instead
of in Petrograd.
The copper mines of Cyprus, in
ancient times the richest in the world,
are to be re -opened by American capi-
tal.
lambs, $14 75 to 315.25; Quebec lambs,Germans 1471 1 great 1ossos to the in-
forc$13. Rumanianewere compelled to abandon
enemy positions that they had oc- •
cupied in the region of Ocna.
During the course of a trial in
Chicago a witness by the name of
FURTHER LOANS MADE
BY II. S. GOVERNMENT.
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A despatch from Washington says:
Loans of $50,000,000 to England and ,Francis Dopley was asked concerning
$20,000,000 to France made by the the defendant: "Are you related to
United States Government, bring the Thomas Dooley?" "Very distantly,"
total thus far advanced to the allies said Francis. "I was me mother's
up to $2,391,400,000. first child; Thomas was the tinth.'
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