HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-9-23, Page 7BOMB IIN WALL STREET
KILLS 31 AND WRECKS BUILDINGS
Explosive Placed in Street Opposite Offices of J. P. Morgan.
& Co. -200 Injured and, TWO Million Dollars' Dam-
age Done to Offices and Other Buildings..
A despatch from New York says:-' street from the J. P. Morgan build-
In broad daylight, and in the most l ing.
prominent spot of America's great fin -
struck
the nation-horrors
at tidings of the catastrophe -
andel centre, a red-handed blow was the same interpretation was placed
struck at noon last Thursday at the upon it, and public buildings and great
heart of the country's banking inter- storehouses of wealth, as well as con-
gists. sgieueus men, were placed under v igi-
It missed its aim -the house of dant egexplosion
Morgan-in that no member of that stThe nassh m which turned Wa'
great firm was seriously injured, but was into a shambles at poen to -day
claimed as victims many hapless was the xesultlot, a dating to and
Fed -
passers -by, well-prepared plot, .according to Fed-
ssers-byre persons are known to be eral and city officials, after an a ten -
killed, and more than two hundred sive ins esti„ation at the scene of the
were injured. tragedy, They based their conclusions
on the following facts:
The explosion of a time bomb two_ First: Investigation shows that no
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ee-
nate see
FEATURE OF THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION
Detachment of Canada's fanned Mounted Police who entertained vast crowds
at the Grand Stand performance by smart drill work and musical rides.
Canada From Coast to Coast
Vancouver, B.C.-The American attitude of the average farmer to-,
minutes after twelve o'clock on the i waggon carrying explosives from Nitrogen Products Company, a Seattle wards ,irrigation was noticeable for its. fore Methuselah is reached, The chart.
Wall Street side of the J. P. Morgan authorized sources vas in Lower Man- concern, who have a plant at La enthusiasm °wheat compared with that measures forty-five feet, and is be -
Ca; office;ati Wall and Broad streets, hattan on Thursday: Grande, Wash., have been experiment- lieved to be the largest genealogical
killed betwen twenty and thirty per- he a lesion ing in the exti•aet=on of nitrogen from tree in existence.
sons,and sent overtwo u i men, Second, The effect oft xp * * * * *
s n e h ndie% i en, lyse far greater than any that could the air and have erected a plant at
A Letter From London
The Kings and Queen had a mast en-
joyable -trip to Scotland and Wales and;
were received with immense enthusi-f
asm in both places, an. enthusiasm;
which extended to the Princess Mary, I
who is becoming, more and mere popu-
lar every day, All the royal children
are the admiration 'of the public, and
their popularity has considerably add -I
ed to that of the queen, who has
brought them up with such care and
superintended their education to the
smallest detail 'with zeal and attention.
The assertion that King George is
a direct descendant of King David may
find some confirmation in a wonder-
ful genealogical chart preserved at.
Hatfield House, wherein the ancestry
of Queen Elizabeth is traced back not
merely to the Psalmist but to Adam,
As far as the nobility of England.
have eoneern in the family tree the
Boat of arms in given in every ease,
but is necessarily abandoned long be -
of some years ago when the Associa-
tion was first formed.
Regina, Sask,-Saskatchewan .agrz The Bing made history by taking,
cultural societies now have a member-
part in the regatta of the Royal.
doshllp of over 20,000. spent
t this a million Northern Yacht Club, This was the
dollars is to be spent year in first occasion on wa reigning
i •in
raising the standard of production and g
promoting greater interest in pure monarch has raced his own yacht in
bred stock, a regatta on the Clyde, His Majesty
Timmins, Ont.-- .Engl�ieh interests is an enthusiastic yaehtsznan, and as
are financing diamond drilling on the Prince of Wales was a much more fres
sand planes an the township of `fount 'quant visitor to racing in different
Joy, Work to date has brought forth parts of the country than his heavier
duties of State now permit,
portions of porphyr and sohist rock, *,
and bas given rise to the belief that
women and boys and girls to hospi- be produced by an ordinary explosive Lake Buntzen on the north arnl of
tats with injuries, some serious, but carrying enggan, Burrard Inlet..
in the main superficial, Cuts from fly- Third; Iron missiles made from
ing glass furnished the greater part broken -up window weights unlike any
of the minor injuries. in the Wall street district caused all
A couple of million dollars' worth.hf the damages to the building and weft
damage was done to the buildings in responsible for the loss of life.
the financial district, The Assay and Fourth; The coincidence of time and
Treasury buildings, near the scene, location of the explosion.
were wreeked and shot through with • Fifth; The fact that three men were
hurtling iron fragments from the observed running east on Wall street
giant bomb. Shovers of broken plate about two minutes before he explosion:
The Indian Government has ordered
four million feet of ,creosoted British.
Columbia ties. The order will go far -
ward on the first Canadian Govern -
meat Merchant Marine ship on the
new British Columbia,India service,
which will be in operation this fall.
A four-year-old Ayrshire cow owned
by the University of British Columbia
has just completed a year's milk pro-
glass fell to the streets and to the These men are reported to have fled duction test and established a Can- the Kneeland Lake gold area rock.
floors in the interior of buildings. in a waiting automobile, ad:an record. She is the first of herj formations may be duplicated here,
Sixth: The discovery of a peculiarly class to produce sn excess of 16,000 The theory that gold bearing reek ex
wired bo\ containing electric batter- lbs, of milk in a year, her production fists beneath the sand is rnve being
les, that was placed by unknown per- being 10,208 lbs, . stable mate of much d:..cussed here. Two diamond
Oe Thursday night, twelve hours sons in the automobile of Henry Babb, this cow has just established the A.S:r-: thin. machines are being operated by
1;:tcr, investigating authorities rt•ere two blocksfrom the scene of the ex shire four-year-old record for butter the English interests, There seem to
:most certain the disaster was due to plosion, fat production. be good pro .pests of finding coinnier-
; n infernal i:iaeh•'re left on an un- Sevelihl Only four sites in Leaver Cow than, B.C,---Development work dal deposits of very* promising are;
severed ene horse Cruel• in Wall street Manhattan are using explosives in on the manganese deposits at Hill 60 Montreal, P.Q.-At the opening of
Fortunately, the horror of a great fire.
was; not added to the other fearsome
oeeurrc n"es,
Holyrood is perhaps the most un-
comfortable of all the royal residences.
Bence it is that since the time of
James I, few of our monarchs have
eared to live in it. Queen Victoria
cordially disliked the place, and de-
clared, after her first visit, that she
would have preferred to have stayed
at the Calton Jail, just opposite, which
is a modern imitation of a mediaeval
;:re.tir in flan, o. the new [duffed construction work and not one of them indicate that a large tonnage is now the Empire Timber Exhibition at Lon- castle*
Panes 1. -say Office, next door to the received or expected explosives en available. The aerial tramway, which don, England, promoted by the De-
has- been 'under erection, is now ready pertinent of Overseas Trade with the The Duke of York, I ars told, is
for service. object of bringing into more "giver- left-handed, but this does not in any
Lethbridge, Alta, -The annual con- sal itse the timber grown n the Em- w'ty interfere with efficiency. He can
vention of the Western Canada Irriga- pire, the promoters gave a .special write equally well with either hand,
tion Association had a large atten- word of praise to Canadian Forestry and is an excellent shot. Ambidextrous
a:: b -Tree ury , and directly across the Thursday.
Likely to Represent Canada at Geneva
Hon. Charles' Murphy, Minister of
Justice, who is almost certain to be
one of the Dominion's representatives
to the Assembly of the League of Na-
tions.
Alberta Wheat Worth
Two Hundred Millions
A despatch from Calgary says:-
-.The Calgary Herald says: "Alberta's
wheat crop in 1915 was sixty million
bushels, valued at $50,000,000. In 1919
the yield was valued at $63,349,000,
being 34,575,000 bushels. The largest
Federal official estimate of this year's
crops is 82,972,000, which, taken at
$2.60 a bushel, will - bring Alberta
farmers the huge sum of $215,727,200.
This means, in other words, that the
bumper yield of 1915 will this year be
,increased over four -fold in monetary
value, assuming that approximately
the present price of wheat holds."
•
Austria Allowed Credit
by Inter.Allied Commission
Vienna, Sept. 15. -Consent for Aus-
tria to spend without restriction the
present .credit of 5,000,000 pesos given
her by 'Argentina has been 'accorded
by the Inter -Allied Reparations Com-
mission.
British Wool Stocks.
A statement by the director of raw
wool stocks of Great Britain shows -a.
total of 2,905,554 bales of government-
owned wool en band. The quantity of
combing merino wool which is still
available for sale Ss 790,573 bales,
This stands out in strong contrast to
what has been generally supposed as
being the stack of combing wool, cloth-
ing and carbonizing stocks being sen-
sibly less than half the quantity of
combing. wools still• unsold. fibs
statement .shows some very significant
totals, and the merino combing wool
available far outweighs both the cloth-
ing and carbonizing stocks.
Some very significant figures come
under New Zealand wool. The stocks
in the United Kingdon ports are 217,-
638 and the stocks in New Zealand
amount to 341,937 bales, all these be-
ing New Zealand wools. These totals
represent 559,625 bales, virtually a
whole New Zealand year's clip. These
are all crossbreds, there being no mer-
ino New Zealand wool returned at all
in the stocks held by the government.
The stocks of unshipped Australian
'crossbred wool are very considerable,
amounting to .057,352 bales, and if the
New Zealand unshipped stocks are al-
so added, we have 999,289 bales of
Colonial crossbred wool which re-
mained unshipped in Australia and
New Zealand last June 30.
Artificial Silk to be
Made in Vancouver
A despatch frbni Vancouver Bays:
An organization has been undertaken
here having in view the erection of a
plant for the manufacture of artificial
silk. This enterprise has its basis in
the fact that practically 75 per eent.
of the raw material used in the manu-
facture of"artificial silk by the Japan-
ese is a British Columbia product, viz.,
sulphite pulp:
The organizers claim that instead
of shipping this pulp to Japan and
having it returned as a costly material,
theycould manufacture the artificial
silk here much cheaper. They recog-
nize that the rhea and rahmi grasses
of Uganda, Africa, make a better pro;.
duct, but the fibres of the B.C. forest
timbers are already making a satis-
factory silk.
dance, including the provincial Min- Laboratories at Montreal, Canada has rather than left-handed is the correct
an well staged ex-
etv Canadian firms being
When you next read the headline
rectors of experimental farms: The individually represanted. "Premier sees the King," you might
ister of Agriculture, professors from a fairly extensive d ll description of our newest Duke.
Western agricultural colleges, and di- hsbit sone 1
Securities Lost in
New York Disaster
A despatch. from New York says: -
As a result of the explosion in the
financial district many thousands of
United States Receiiring I like to recall this little story of the
german Immigrants
A despateh from Washington, D.C.,!
says: -For the first time since Am -
dollars' worth of securities have been ,greats are being
g allowed to enter the
Urtti _
ted States, it was learns at the No: 1 Northern, 2.823§; No, 2 North -
first thne Kling George ever met a
Premier. It was in his nursery days
it is just as well to 'begin young -and
Queen Victoria, Mr, Gladstone, and a
party of distinguished guests were sit-
ting round a table in the drawing -
room, discussing weighty matters. All
went smoothly till' Mr. Gladstone sud-
denly felt
ud-dentyfelt something brush against hit
foot.
"Heavens above us, madam," ex-
claimed Gladstone, "there is some-
thing under the table overhearing our
conversation." ..,
He bent down and dragged out the
miscreant, who proved to be a small
boy, trying to hide his faee in his
hands,
The queen bust out Iaughing, and
said, "It's of no consequence, Mr, Glad-
stone -he is only my graceless grand-
son, George!"
The future King had been up to
some mischief in the drawing room
when he had heard the party ail-
proaeh,ng, and in order to escape
punishment had hidden under the
table, He has listened _to m4ny Prime
Ministers since, but never under sim<
liar conditions.
* * * * *
Somebody who has known Mr. Lloyd
George "intimately far over forty
years" has been writing about hit
meals, "His diet," we are told, "is
simplicity itself: He •dislikes anything
new-fangled in the way of food. He
just loves the plain dishes to which he
has always been accustomed. A boiled
egg', a milk -pudding, are always ace
ceptable. Ile has a moderate appe•
Lite, is always ready for his rneala
but refrains from dinner when he i(
going to snake a speech."
* * * *
L64, the Zeppelin which bad a some-
what stormy trip to Pulham recently,
had a narrow escape during the war
She was attacked after raiding this
country, by Captain Cadbury, D.F.C.
and the rear car set on fire by intent*
diary bullets. After a tough struggle
the crew succeeded in extinguishins
the flames before theyspread to the
gas -bags, and she got hems all right
BIG BES`',
October 18 Will be
Thanksgiving Day
. A despatch from Ottawa saysen
Thanksgiving will this year be cele.4
orated on. Monday, October 18th.
Weekly Mare, Report
Wholesale Grain.
lost, Y d Toronto, Sept, 21. -Man, wheat ---
Brokerage houses reported that Department of Labor. So far, how- ern, $2.79%; No. 3 Northern, $2.75%;some messengers sent out with se- ever, this immigration is restricted to No, 4 wheat, $2.59%, in store Fort
curities• dropped them and ran as soon Germans who had applied for Amer- William,
as they heard the explosion. I scan citizenship before the war and Ulan.. oats -No, 2 CW, SOc; No. 3
Other messengers disappeared in. were detained in Germany at the out- CW, 77c; extra No. 1 feed, 77e; No. 1
the confusion and have not been heard break of hostilities, and to those who feed, 75e; No, 2 feed, 72e, in store Fort
from since, . can show "-compelling, necessity." William
A messenger employed by Block,
Maloney & Co. found near the scene
of the explosion $42,000 in negotiable
bonds and three one -dollar bills. The
latter were scorched.
British Mine . Strike
Nearing Settlement
A• despatch from London says:--
The
ays:-T.he conference of the Coal Miners'
Executive with Sir Robert -Horne,
president of. the Board of Trade, ad-
journed late on Thursday afternoon
without an agreement having been.
reached in settlement of the contro-
versy between the miners and the
Governnen. Sir Robert Horne de-
clared, however, that new proposals
,made by the miners constittitecl an ad-
vance toward a peaceful . solution of
the trouble.
Sir Robert Horne refused -to re-
commend that the miners should have
two shillings advance under the pres-
ent circumstances, but added that if
an increased output were assured an
advance in wages could be given.
Quite Right.
Teacher -"What is it fine feathers
snake,. `Pommy?"
Tonany-"I don't know, ma'am."
"Oh, yes, you do know. Now think.
Fine feathers make fine-"
"I reail33 don't know, ma'am."
"Yee, you do, -Tommy. It begins
wwith'the letter 'b.'
"011, yes; beds, ma'am!"
Honor Canadian Dead.
Cenotaph erected by the I.O.D:111. at
the corner of Portage and: Main
Streets, Winnipeg, in memory of the
men who fell in the Great War.
�Man. barley --No. 3 CW, $1.23; No.
4 CW, $1.16; rejected, $1.09; feed,
$1,09, in store Fort William.
American corn -No. 3 yellow, $2;
'nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship-
ment.
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 70 to 75e.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per
car lot, $2.30 to $2.40, shipping points,
according to freights.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Barley -$1.30 to $1.35, according to i
Ry
;freights oNowt 3,de. $1;75, nominal, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.
Manitoba flour -$13.25, new crop.
Ontario flour -$10.40 to. $10.50, balk
sea -board.
Millfeed-Carlots, delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran, peri
ton, $52; shorts, per ton, $61; good
feed flour, $3.75. '
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Eggs, selects,' 65 to 67c; No. 1, 61 to
G3c; butter, creamery prints, 60 to
62c; choice dairy prints, 49 to 51c;
ordinary dairy prints, 45 to 47e; bak-
ers', 35 to 40c; oleomargarine, best
grade, 34 to 38e. Cheese, new, large,
28% to 29%c twins, 29% to 30%e;
Stilton, old, 35% to 36%c; old twins,
34c. Maple syrup, 1 -gal, tin, $3.40;
5 -gal. tin, per gal., $3.25; maple sugar,
lb., 27 to 30c. Honey, comb, new finest
quality, eases of 15 sections, 16 oz. to
section, per case, $8. Honey, extracted,
New Zealand, in 60 Ib. tins, per ib.,
26 to 27c. Churning cream -Toronto
creameries are paying for churning
cream 59 to 61e per pound fat, f,o.b.
shipping points, nominal.
Provisions:. Wholesale.
Smoked meats -Harass, med., 47 to
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50c; heavy, 40 to 42e; cooked, 0.1 to
68c; rolls, 34 to 36e; cottage rolls,
80 to 41e; breakfast bacon, 50 to 62c;
backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 58
to 64e.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27
to 28e, clear bellies, 26 to 27e.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 25% to 26%e;
tubs, 27 to 273e; pails, 27% to 28c1
prints, 26 to 28?c. Compound tierces.
213 to 22'c; tubs, 22 to 23e; pails,
233 to 24c; prints, 2632 to 27e.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Sept. 21 -Oats, Can,
West., No. 2, $1.05 to $1.06; Can,
West., No. 3, $1.03?fir to $1.04%. Flour,
new standard grade, $14.50. Rolled
oats, bag, 90 lbs., $4.75 to $4.90. Brant
$54.75, Shorts, $59.75. Hay, No. 2,
per ton, car lots, $30. Cheese, finest
Easterns, 26c. Butter, choicest cream-
ery, 60 to 61e. Eggs, fresh, 64c. Poe
totaoes, per bag, car lots, $1.55..
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Sept. 21.-Choiee heavy
steers, $14 to $14.50; good heavy
steers, $13.25 to $13.50; butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $12.50 to $13; do, good,
$11.75 to $12; do, med,, $10 to $10.50;.
do, comet $7 to $3.50; bulls, choice, $10
to $10.7; do. good, $9 to $9.25; do,
rough, $6 to $8; butchers' cows, choice,
$10.25 to $11; do, good, $9 to $9.75;
do, coni., $6.25 to $7.25; stockers, $7.50
to $9.50; feeders, $10.25 to $11; can-
ners and cutters, $4.50 to $5.50; milk-
ers, good to choice, $100 to $165; do,
com. and med., $65 to $75; lambs,
yearlings, $8.75 to $10; do, spring,
$13.25 to $14; calves, good to choice
$17 to $1.9; sheep, $3 to $8; bogs, fed
and watered, $20.50 to $20.75; do,
weighed off cars, $20.75 to $21; do, Lee
b., $19.50 to $19.75; do, do, country
points, $19.25 to $19.50.
Montreal, Sept. 21. -Butcher heif-
ers, com.. $6.50 to $8.50; butcher cows,
med., $5.50 to $8.50; canners, $3.00 to
$4; cutters, $4 to $5; butcher bulls,
good, $5; cone, $5.75. Good veal, $13
to $15; med., $10 to $13; grass, $6.50
to $8. Ewes, $6 to $8; lambs, good,
$12 to $12.50; corn., $i.0 to $11.50,
Bogs, off car weights, selects, $20,50
to $20.75; sows, $15.50 to $16.50.