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OliONTO CORRESPONDENCE
Un versity of Toronto Convocation -The Navy
Question -Toronto Spreading Out -The
Weather.
The annual Univereity of Toronto con-
vooetion, reearring each year ia the early
•slaw leStfy June, merits the close of
college actieities for the P.Oadexalo year,
• mud Wands the last contingent ot the 8U
de brigade, letunbering many thousaude,
tee their b. °ales for the suinneer. 'rile (sere-
Mony of COI1VOQP.,tiou, ari now eerried out.
ebrings a touch of old-world pietureeque-
/ AGES to this very material and comment.
alized city.. A. prooessiou of professors
and such studeats as amain its the oity,
cousieting chiefly of the graduatiug class,
• all clad in mortar -board ceps and gown%
forms at the main u.niversity building in
Queen's Park and Marenee across the
lawn to the new Gonvoeation gail wbere
the proceedings are held. Tlae chief lune -
tient of the day is the conferring of the
new degrees The proceedings are en-
livened bY the students' exuberant, later -
'mentions, their feelings thus finding a free
outlet after being pent up through the
long examination grind Ot the last few
onths. Afterwards there ie a garden
party. when good-byes are eai1 aud stn.
dout We for the Year is at an end.
ONE OF TIM BIG UNIVERSITIES.
The University of Toronto, with its many
allied colleges, is now in point of attends
mace, one of the largest universities in
tbe world. Judged from this point of
view it has outdistanced suell faanoue
ande time-honored institutions as Oxford
and. Cambridge. But there is a question
in some sznines as to whether it is yet
iuftuencing the life of the nation to the
extent that it ought, in view of the num-
ber of its graduates and the money that
is being spent on it. There is a disPoei-
tion in some quarters to criticize. the
method by which it is managed. Its a.
airs are controlled almost entirely by a
Board of Goveenors appointed. by the Pro-
vincial Government, this Board consist-
ing of eminent business men. There
seems to be a tendency on the •pert of
this Board to run the institution after
the fashion of a private business and it
may be that a little more publicity and
a greater effort to bring the univereity
into touch with the lives of the people
*would be -a good thiug.
President R. A, Falconer, after a Ave-
orama as eneral
aoubtlesa being tinWilling to haeard 12,14"
big a mistake in gaugiug publie °platen.
A.ua meantime it is being left to olio1i or"
ganieations as tne Overeseate Club to cue,
tivate eetetiment on the quenitioe.
The Over -seas Club littleerto has consist-
ed 1argel7 of recant arrivaae from. Bri-
tain, but an. enOrt 12 being made to bring
nthaeteovergaellaxinzaadtioann.s viraf!rwprerneembiersumtlyrolutintgo,
Euglishman of very plesteiug qualities ana
marked ability,. 11 is generally under-
stood that the chief persOnalitY behind
the movement is Lord Northoliffe. the
famous London newapaper publieher, who
Is an Eiraent Imperialist. Earl Grey, re.
centlY Governor General, is a,lso much in-
terested.
ANNEXATION AN ISSUE.
The elllef issue in local aolities at the
moment, le anaexation-whether Toronto
with its 426,000 population shall annex
North Toronto with its 5,000 seine, The
proposition waa voted down bY the rate,
Paiers of the city last „Tannery, but a
new situation leas been oreated by the at-
tempt of the Mackenzie and Mann inter-
ests to get an extension of franchise for
their Metropolitan railway within the
limits of North Toronto, If they succeed
it may complicate matters 'when Torontc.
takes aver and runs its own street rail-
way, as it expects to do nine yeas hence.
Probably both municipalities will vote
on the annexation ^question in the near
future.
North Toronto is the last independent
suburb of the city to be annexed. To-
ronto junction, five miles west of the cor-
ner of King and. Image streets, East To.
mirth to the east, Wychwoocl to the
northwest and other areas, all have been
taken in, while North Toronto, beginniag
scarcely more than two nailes straight up
Yonge street, has remained out. -Opposi-
tion to the Inclusion et this distriet has
come in part from owners of vacant laud
in the eity limits who don't want rnore
eompetition. Tb.e statement is made that
Toronto bas room for 260,000 more. people
without ealarging its areas. This state-
ment has never been clearly demonstrat-
ed, a.nd it is doubtful if there is room
for such a growth witnout serious over-
crowding. Certainly there is to the casual
ver very'little vacant space in To-
ll e choice building ter-
etb. amaz-
PRICES OF FARM PROONIS
,gatm.p
REPORTS PROM THE keArlitio Times
CENTRES OP AMERIOA.
Prle�s 0 cattle, Drain, Cheese tine other
Produce at Home and Abroad,
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, jurie 4.--Flonr-Winter wheat,
90 per cent. patents, 54.10 to a4.15 at sea-
board, and 54,15 to $4,26 for home con,
sumption. Manitoba Flours'Firet pat-
ents„ $5.70; secona patents, $5.20, and
etrong bakers', $5, on track, Torento.
Manitoba Iv/mat-No. 1 Northern, $140.
Bay ports; No, 8 at $1.07, and No. a at
1B -Ay BPaQ3ertesS'orts.ced. Wl‘sat cltwted
at 67Ontario Wheat -No. 2 wbite, red and
mixed, $1.05 to $1.06, outside.
?eas-e. 2 ehipping peas, $1..25, out'
SideA
Os --Car lots of No. 2. Ontario 48 to
490, and No, 3 at 47e. outside. No. 2 On -
tarn), 51e, on track, Toronto. No. 1 extra
W.Ctle-efedo,zs.
4t9o, Bay ports, and No. 1. et
480,
ay
u
Barley -Prices nominal.
Corn -No. 3 American yellow 08140, Bay
ports, and at 86 1-20, on track, Toronto.
Rye -Prices nominal.
Buckwheat -Prices nominal.
Bran -Manitoba bran, $25, in bags. To-
vont° freight, Shorte, $27.
COUNTRY' PRODUCE.
Beans -$3 per bushel; prienee, $2.65 to
$231.705.ney-Extracted, in ties. 11 to 12o Per
lb. Combs. 82.50 to $2.75 per dozen.
Baled Hay -No. 2, 819 to $20 a ton. Clo-
ixeds $14 to $15.50. on track.
Baled Straw -$11 to $11.50, on traela Tp -
Maple Syrup -$1.25 per gallon. !
• Potatoes -Car lots of Ontarios, in bags,
$1.75 to $1.80, and Delawares at $1.85 to
51.90. Out-of-sbore, 51.95 to 52. Imported
potatoes, 51.60, in oar lots, and $1,80, out -
of -store.
33 -UTTER,, EGGS, CHEESE.
Butter -Dairy. choice, 23 to 240; bakers',
inferior, 19 to 20c; creamery, 26 to 27c for
rolls, and 250 for solids.
Egge-22 to 23e per dozen, in ease lots.
Cheese -New cheese, 14 to 14 1.2e per
pound.
HOG P-RODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 14 1-40 per lb.,
in case lots. Pork -Short eat, $24 to 526;
da, mess, $21. Hams -Medium to light
18 to 181-201 heavy, 161-2 to 170; rolls, 13
tato 211301.-2es breakfast bacon, 180; backs, 20
Lard -Tierces, 140; tubs, 141-4o; Pails,
141-20. •
MONTREAL MARKETS, •
Montreat'June 4.-e-Olitababadian West-
ern, No. 2, 55c to 551 -Oa; do.. No. 3, 501-2 to
510; do., extra No. 1 feed, 511-2 to 620. Bar-
ley -Man. feed, 65 to 66o; do., malting. 81.-
06 to 51.07. Buckeybeat-No. 2, 74 to 7513.
Flour -Manitoba, Spring wheat patents.
firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, 55.30; do., strong
bakers', 55.10; do., Winter patents, choice,
55.25 to $5.35; dos straight rollers, 84.80
to $4.90; do, straigbt rollers, bags, $2.30
to 52.40. Rolled oats -Barrels, $5,35; do.,
bags, 90 lbs., $2.66. Bran -$25. Shorts -
$27. Middlings -$29. tfouillie-$30 to $34.
Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20.50 to $21.
Cheese-Filaost westerns, 14 to 141-8o; doe
finest easterns, 13 3-4 to 13 7.8c. Butter -
Choicest creamery. 27 to 271-4c; do, sem
onds, 25 3-4 -to 26 1-2c. Eggs, seleeted, 25
to 26c; do., No. 2 stock, 18 to 19c. Pota-
toes -Per bag, care_lote, $1.70 to 51.75.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Buffalo, June 4. -Spring wheat -No. i
Northern, Dazloads store, $/.22.,3-4 Winter.
No. 2 red, 51,20; No. 3 red, $1.18; No. 2
white, 51.19. Corn. -No. 3 yellow, 830; No.
4 yellow-, 82e; No. 3 corn, 791-4 to 80 1-4o;
No 4 corn, 781.4 to .783-40, all on track,
through billed. Oats -No. 2 white, 580;
No. 3 white, 571-201 No. 4 white, 561.20.
Barley -Malting, $1.16 to 51.2.5. •
Minneapolis, June 4 -Wheat ---May, $1.-
12 5-8; july, $1.13; September, $1.05 3-8; No.
bard, $1.15 1-4; No. 1 Northern, $1.141-2
o 51.143-4; No. 2 Northern. 81.121-2 to 51.-
14 3-4; No. 2 Northern, $1.12 1-2 to 51.12 3-4.
Corn -No. 3 yellow, 74 to,750. Oats -No. 3
white, 510. Rye -No, 2, 831.2 t,o 84c. Bran
-523.50 to 524. Flour -First patents, 65.50
to $5.75; do., seconds, $5.20 to $5.45; first
clears, $3.90 to $4.15; do., seconds, 52.80 to
$3.10. •
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LIVE STOCK ,MARKETEL
Montreal, jun° 4. -Choice steers sold at
$7.75 to $8.00; good at $7.25 th $7.50, arid
the lower grades front that down to 56.-
50 per cwt. Choice bu.tehers' cows sold
as high as 5675±0 57.00, and good at $6.25
to 56.50, while the comixion sold down as
kw all 54.25 per cwt. Cheicesbulls sold at
,6.7b to $7.00, good at $6.25 to $6.50, and
oonnuon from 54.25 to $5.50 per cwt. Sheep
sold at $5.00 to $5.50, and Spring lambs
at 53.00 to 54.50 each. The demand for
calves was good at prices ranging from
53.00 th $10.00 each as to size and qua-
lity. A weak feeling developed in the
market for hogs owing to the increased
supplies and prices declined 25 to 50e per
cwt., with sales- of selected lots at 59.25 th
$9,50 per cwt., weighed off cars.
Toronto,. June 4. -Cattle -Extra choice
heavy steers for butcher and export, 87e
60 to $8; good. medium to choice butcher
loads, 57.15 to 57.80; common, $5 to 56;
canners, $3; choice butcher cows, iirm,
at $6 to 56.50; bulls, $5 to $6.25. Stockers
-Steady demand at $5.25 to 56 forgood
quality; extra choice heavy -feeders, $6.-
25 to 56.50. Calves -Good veal, $4 to $7.-
90; bobs. 51.50 to $2.50. Sheep -Market
lower; choice ewe, 55 to $6.25; 'bucks and
culls, 54 to 55; spring lambs, 53.50 to 56.-
25 each. Hogs -at 58.40 Lob., $8.75 fed
and watered, ana 59.10 weighed off cars.
a fit Of rage, she
beating. City Judge Hotchkiss de-
clared that if women desired men's
• prerogatives they should also have
"men's punishment when found guil-
ty of violation of the law. He al-
ways dealt severely with wife -beat-
ers, he said, and, accordingly, he
sentenced her to three months in
the penitentiary. •
$1,000 MEDAL FOR ROSTRON.
Captain of Carpathia to be Reward-
ed by Congress.
A despatch from Washington, D.
C., ss:. The Senate on Tuesday
passed a joint resolution extending
the thanks of Congress, and appro.
priating- $1,000 for a medal to Cap-
tain Arthur H. Rostron, of the Car-
pathia, and also a vote of thanks to
the Carpathia's crew.
al
that
t e food value of candy is eyond
dispute, and that it has a therapeu-
tic use in certain forms of heart dis-
ease. The absenee of fat, it seems,
is an indication that children should
not partake of it in unlimited
quantities, although the only dan-
ger from eating it lies in the fact
that it is often adulterated.
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FRENCH ARE DYING OFF.
An Increase in Mortality of 34,869
for Last Year Recorded.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Freneh Minister of Labor, in the
report of th.e vital statisties of
France for 1911, says the number of
deaths was 34,869 more than the to-
tal of the year previous, thus con-
tinuing the unfavorable situation of
Frame& as compared with that of
'growing nations.
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MAKING- SAFE INVESTMENTS
"Never Put AH Your Eggs In One Basket" -This
Should be the Investor's Motto -What Happened
to Several Prominent Investors Who Overlooked
This Idea.
If a farmer had 31,000 with which th buy
stock for his farm would he spend it all
for a pedigreed bull if he could 'bur no
snore? If you had 510,000 to inveat would
you put it all into one security!? If you
and the farmer were wise equally the
answer would be an unhesitating riega-
tive. Yet, when it comes to investment
many, people place all „their money in one
security. The ! farmer's bull might dee;
your security might fall on evil days. Two
bulls would be lees riek.. Twenty head ot
cattle would be little.aisk. • .
A. few years ago 'aellank ettestaa
its available 'funds in one security. It
bought all it tould with its own aral ate
depOotters' Money and .berrovresi • more.
Something Went wrong -things seldom go
snioethly at firet--and the bank had to
borrow attn. more. Finally the erash come
and the Farinete' Beek failea with prac-
tioally ell • its assets locked Up in the
Keeley merle, .The craeh was inevitable,
of couree, huf.the ghastly folly: Of the di.
reotors putting all their shateholderte
moneY late ova security -and ehat . a
nalne-ean an error which no intelligent
broengor would ever be guilty, of when
buying for handed!.
• The greed old ride, "Never put all Your
ego in' one basItat," it one of the most
important that the invesfor Cats follow,
and then Oren if his Judgment is at fault,
kis average over eay ten securities -un.
lege they ard' all mines -will be Much bet.
tor time if he only purehtteed one,
rem eenen buying nende, this diatribe-
-doe of risk as it 88 called, Os a very iire
portant matter. If you look over the in-
vestments of the insurance companies
you will find this followed closely. In
the Insurance Blue Book issued by the
finance department at Ottawa all the in-
vestments of the insurance companies are
given in detail. One of the smaller life
companies fine three pages with ite mu-
nicipal inveetreents 8.1020. Then it has
sound corporation bonds, such as those
of electric liglet, power and tramway eons -
/mutes, some iezaustrial bonds and a small
but select list of bank stocks, atid a few
of those _like C. P. It., but not many.
Then thca have mortgages and loans se-
cured by collateral --chiefly bonds. Theo
ono can find the seeetritiee of foreign goy-
erelnente,'iricluding each high-grade stuff
as Beide*. e,onscds. In short„, tie° distri-
bution -of risk theory is followed to a
commendable extreme.
The beaentof this is obvious, A few
yeare ago the Sovereign bank found it
had the ;ashy Chieage and Milwaukee
nonde for the good of lts health and
incontinently was wound tip, At the same
time eeveeal insuratice °duvet:dee had to
write' off seventsailve!per coat.' of the 'par
value, of ;these bonds. Did theyfail?
WhY, tio. •The! advance in the price of
their other breestments more than offset
thierelatively entall Imes, • But had theY
no followed the old advice about their
eggs there 'alight have been. troteble. The
Sovereign bank forgot it, however, and
there was treuble.
The moral is obeloue,
"INVESTOR."
Since
DIFFERENT NOW.
the Slugger, Coffee, Was
Abandoned. •
Coffee probably causes more bil-
iousness and so-called malaria than
any one other thing -even bad cli-
mate. (Tea is just as harmful as
coffee because it contains caffeine,
the drug in coffee).
A Ft. Worth man says,:
"I have always been of a bilious
temperament, subject to malaria
and up to one year ago a perfect
slave to coffee. At times i would be
covered with boils and full of ma-
larial poison, was very nervous 'anal
had swimming in the head.
"I don't know how it happened,
Vat I finally became convinced that
my sickness was due to the use of
coffee, and a little, less than a year
ago I stopped coffee and began
drinking Postum.
"From that time I have not had
a boil, not had malaria, at all, have
gained 15 pounds good solid weight
and know beyond all &ebb this is
due to the use of Postum in plate
of coffee as I have takea no Medi -
eine at all.
"Postura has certainly made
healthy, red blood. for me in pleat,
of the blood that coffee drinking
inapoverished and made unhealthy."
Name given by Canadian Posture
Co., Windsor, Ont.
Postunt makes red blood.
There s zt reason," and it is ex-
plained in the little boOk, The
1:toad te Wollville" in pkgs.
vor read the above lattert A now one
aware from tIma to thin). They ere
• ginelneetatilettlid 11.111 of Rumen intareet.
THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH
Eux.,ENIN. FROM Att OUU
THU GI,011X IN X
NUTSHELL.
the Empire and the World
in Couoral Before Teat
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• CANADA.
Canada
Simooe has passed a $36,000 sew»
age by-law.
Calgary's police census gives a
population. a 61,340,
All grades of Sugar have been re-
duce(' ton cents per hundred lbs.
D. F. McMillan a Reaina eity 8,s-
' ,
aecarr, dropped dead in the city
h
Two Toronto stenoeraphers be-,
came heirs to an eseate between
$75,000 and $100,000.
Roes, convicted of raan,slaughter
at Montreal, is dying in , prison of
tabeaaulosis.
The Toronto police. believe they
have arrested the leader of 421, gang
of eotaine smugglers. .
Conaplaintilme beep. laid at Que-
bec against the C.N.R. for aot post-
ing time table a i3a. French.
• Forty million dollars will be spent
by the railways in Montreal wit -
in the next two or three years.
Those who subscribed to the
Y.M,O.A. fund in Ottawa and have
negletted tee pay up, will be sued.
Alex. Blondia was shot and killed
on. the Alg'oraa Central Railway line
byhis partner, jos,epli Bend, who
anistcx3k him for a deer,
Conditions at Hamilton •General
Hospital are so discouraging that
Mayor Lees has suggested that a
new building be erected.
• There are 23 ocean steamers now
using the, St. Lawrence route for
which the,re is no dryclock large
enough in ease of necessity.
• The Militia Department reports
its inability to get horses for eamp
purposes. Eastern breeders are
sending their horses to the west.
Parents of Harailton school chil-
dren have been asked to express an
opinion on the advisability of the
keeping of two schools ,open during
the summer.
Sohn. Macpherson, postmaster at
Traeadie Road, N.S., died four
years ago, but his death was never
reported to Ottawa, his widow
raaantaining the office,
lVira,and will
establish. a customs re-
codnd will reach about $9,000,-
000, an increase of two and. a half
inillion.s. Twenty-four new customs
ports 'have been opened by the Gov-
ernment.
The Dominion Mining and Ex
ploration Company, with a paid-up
capital of $2,500,000, is being form-
ed by a nuMber of leading Canadian
and American financiers, to inves-
tigate mining a,nd other proposi-
tions in Canada.
GREAT BRITAIN.
General Booth has been declared
totally blind by the doctors in at-
tendance.
The will of the Duke of Fife dis-
poses of an estate of over $1,000,-
000.
Landon shipowners have declined
to' 'confer with the transport work-
ers toward a settlenaent of the
strike.
Mr. Asquith and Mr. Winston
Churchill viaited the Mediterranean
to e,onsult withViscount Kitchener
and others as to defences.
UNITED STATES.
The United States Senate passed
the bill for an eight-hour day- on
Government work.
U. S. eraigration returns show an
ex.oclas of 175,329 .to Canada the
past year, an. increase of about 22,-
000. •
John Maley, a Boston chauffeur,
who ran down and killed two men
while joy -riding, was sentenoed to
five years. •
The Housewives' League of New
York have taken • up the fight
against the inereased price of an-
thracite coal through Mrs. Julian
Heath, the president
The New York ex.eursion season
opened with all'vessel e fully sup-
plied with life-saxreg equipment, as
a result of the lesson given by the
Titanic disaster. •
The United States House steel
and iron tariff bill passed the Sen-
ate, repealing the Canadian reci-
procity act and ,putting a universal
duty a $2 it ton. on print -paper.
More than a thousand waiters at
the Waldorf, Gotham, Breslin, and
Rector's hotels, New York, joined
the strike already in force at the
Holland and Knickerbeek'er.
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MONTREAL HARBOR PRAISED.
Engineer Cowie Says It is Not
Equalled itt -the World.
A despatch from Montreal says
Mr. F. W. Cowie, chief engineer of
the Harbor Oomnaission, who has
juet returned from the twelfth In-
ternational Navigation Congress at
Philadelphia, said 9n Friday :-
"There is not a harbor in the world
that equals ours in the economical
handling of freight. Our most up-
to-date freight handling facilities
give us the most economical port
handling in the world." Mr. Cowie
continued: "My own personal im-
pression of the Congress is, after
listening- to discussions by learned
representatives from every civiliz-
ed country in the world, that we,
here in Montreal, ha,ve an initia-
tive equal to'that of any other port
on the earth."
SIX
PERSONS DROWNED.
Terrible Aecident on Lae le Grand
'Quebec.
A despatch from Chenneville,
Quebec, says: Six people were
drowned in a, boating aecident on
Friday while crossing La,c le Grand
P,oisson Blanc, There were thir-
teen in the beat when it was upset
in it squall, and seen managed to
save their lives. •
HO HELES S F-RO III FIRES.
Several Lumber M,ilIs DeStibyed in
Newfoundland..
A despatela from St. Sohn's,
Nfld., says: Several lumber mills
• have been destroyed by fire and 175
persons are homeless as a result of
the forest fires raging in tlie north
of this island. The fire has been
raging for the past two days.
GENERAL.
The London Welsh Male Choir
won the President's prize of $2,000
at the Paris musical festival.
Postoffice clerks in Paris have
been found who have trained snails
to race as an office pastime.
The Powers have notified 'Turkey
that they will not tolerate the clos-
ing of the Dardanelles Straits.
Prof., WilheThi Grugel, 'Dean of
the Hygienic Institute of the Uni-
versity of Rostook, Germany, an.
aatinces that he has found the bacil.
lus which causes foot-and-mouth
disease, and a serum for rendering
69,We immune against the malady,
The serum is preventive and can be
administered only to healthy ani-
mals,
• BONDS PAYING 6Z INTIRE$T
q The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Bros. & Company at their present price
pay 6 per cent interest. The security they offer is first mortgage on 6,000 square
miles of pulp and timber lands scattered throughout the Province of Quebec.
The timber is insured with Lloyds of England against loss from fire. The earn-
ings at present are sufficient to paybond interest twice. over, and when the mill
now in course of construction is in operation'earnings will be enormously
increased. These bonds can be quickly converted into cash, as there is a ready
market for them.
¶ Prom standpoints of interest return and security, those bonds-tonstitute an investment of excep-
tionally high order. There is every reason to believe these bonds will considerably increase in
value. .
We will be gIad to send you literaturefurther describing these bonds.,
ROYAL SECURITIES
CORPORATION Li miTED
BANK Or MONTREAL BUILDING • • - NONCE AND QUEEN STREETS
TORONTO
R. M. WHITE MONTREAL-QUEEJEC-HALIFAX-orrAW.•
Manager • LONOON (ENG.)
THE CANADA BRICK 00.,
$100.000 7 per Cent. Preference Stock
with .43 per Cent. Bonus of Common
THE Montreal Bond Company, Limited, are making a public offering of
$100,000 of 7 per cont. cumulative preference stockf the Canada Brick
Company. Limited, at 95 (par value $100.00 per share) with a bonus of
40 per cent. of commote The capitalization of the company is 31.000.-
000, divided inth 7 per cent. preference, of which 3200,000 will be issued
and 5600,000 coalmen, of which $300,000 will be issued. Of the issue of pre-
ference stools 5100,000 has been taken firm, leaving but $100,000 th he of-
fered to the public. The great anthant of building aotivity Which is go-
ing on in Montreal at the present time has created. a tremendous de-
mand for all -kinds-Of building material, and it is to supply a portion
of the demand for brick that the Canada Brick Company, Limited, has
been incorporated. The company are erecting two plants, one at Mile
End and the other at Si Lambert, the combined capacity of the two
being 15,00000 bricks per year. As there are 325,000,000 bricks used in
Montreal every year, and as the National Brick Company can supply
but 135,000,000, it males that nearly 200,000,000 bricks are required to be
brought in from other sources..•
THE Canada 13rick CoMpany propose manufacturing their bricks by
what is known as the sand -lime process, which is regarded as an IM-
• proveinent on the ordinary bricks made from clay. According to tests
made by Milton Hersey & Company it is shown that sand -lime bricks
are equal in strength and quality th the best kind of pressed brick, and
at the same time possess greater regularity of form and uniformity of
dimensions than the ordinary brick. In addition; the brick is impervious
to climatic changes, which rnalree it invaluabee in a climate such as we
have in Canada. It is especially suitable for -the better giades of build-
ings which are being erected in the city of Montreal at the present time.
While in a raeariffee the process ie a new one it hos been rapidly coming
into favor •with architects and builders. In Germany where it was first
discovered in 1880 there are 280 plants in operation at the present timer
while in the United States, whore it waa introduced in 1901, there are 74
plants manufacturing this class of brick. Canada has 10 companiee en-
gaged in its manufacture.
IN Montreal at the present time high class brick, such as sylli he ona
par with that being Manufactured by the Canada. 13rick Company, are
sellina at 5/8 per thousand, but the neW eompanylexpect ±0 manufac-
tute brick at $7 per thenoand, and have put -their net selling price be
the proapeetus at 512 per thousa,nd, which givete theeu a good margin
• of profit. Ao a matter of fact, they have already sold oyer half of their
first, year's estimated output at a figure ceneiderably higher than the
$12 Mentiened itt their prospeetuse Placing their output at only twos
thirds of full captteity, the company ebowt; id profits, after payinent of
dividends and of manufacturing expenses, 536,000, which ie equivaleet to
12 per pent. on the Demmer; sthck. As Montreal is situated at the pro.
sent time, there are no available supplies of eley-making brick and
Other Materials must be subetituted. Everythine, therefore, point ±0
the likelihood of the new company securing an ample market and a
good price for their eutput from the very start.
THE Clotapany are fortunate la seettrieg at members of the bo'ard of di-
rectors men prominent in the busittesa afeairs ef the country. Amoilie
these are C. H. F. lemmas, H. A. Lovett, K.C., G. F. (*yips,
• N.C., and A. G. Cameron. The prosperity which lute attendeti other
brick concentt 10 Montreal 18 likely to be ditplicated to an oven geetaer
extent 1)y the Canada Brick! Company., letafinfaettiring wile commence at
the St. Lambert plant earlY in Joao.
APPLICATIONS tor Proanettua Subsoriptions may ba Mailed (NONA
to Montreal Conn Co., Limited, Montreal, or to any branch -
of tin Claret of Toronto, •
MEAT IN Clii-CTS.
Six Cents a round D ea Retail
tail Than a Week Ago.
A despatch from Chieago say I
Meat on Wednesday advaneed to
the hignest priee known einee the
Civil War. Retail butchers began
charging from fear to six eents
pound more for prime eats of beef,
veal and mutton, thee: a week ago.
An unusual feature of the soaring
retail market is that, although Chi-
cago is the meat producing centre
of the country, the prieeS here' on
Wednesday for meatsaveraged
from one to two cats higher than
butchers are'eharging in New York
City. • No explanation of this start-
ling condition was offered by Pack-
ers. Aecording to packers, the high
prices will prevail many weeks,
with a prospect of further in
The packers blame' the alm
Of cattle, due to a scarcity of
hibitive co_st of meia, t to the sh
•
RECORD CUSTOMS INCREASE.
Nearly $9,500,000 Revenue Report-
ed at Ottawa for Hay,
A despatch from Ott.in says:
The promise of a record Increase n
the May customs receipts is amply
fulfilled in a s4,tement completed
at the Department of Customs on
Friday. The exact increase for the
month reaches the substantial figure
of $2,531,956.37. The receipts for
the -month amounted to $9,485,111,-.
78, a,s compared with $6,953,155.41
for the corresponding month of the
previous fiscal year. This brings
the increase for the taro months of
the current fiseal year up to
098,776.04, the receipts being $17,-
561,074,03 for the two months of
1912-13, -and $12,462,29'7.99 for the
same period of 1911-12. •
ATHEIST MUST TAHE OATH.
Decision in Peculiar Montreal
Coiirt Affair.
A despatch from Montreal says:
The disputa which arose in the
courts here as to the relative legal
values of a witness' word of honor
and his testimony on oath has been
settled by Mr. Justiee Laurendeau;
to whom it was submitted. The
judge has decided „tb at it witness in
a Quebec, court in a civil suit must
swear upon a Bible and accept the
regular- formul& about telling the
truth put to all -who testify.
$10,000 FROM STRATHCONA.
Fund for Montreal School for
Blind Now Complete.
A despatch from Montreal says:
The president of the Montreal Asso-
ciatiou for Blind on Friday receiv-
ed a letter ,from Lord Strathcona„
with a cheque .for $10,000. Three
years ago the society started out to
collect a sum of $100,000 to erect
and equip an up-to-date school ter
the English-speaking blind. Last
August Lord Stratheona, promised
to donate $10,000 when $90,000 had
been subscribed. The $10,000 cora- '
plebes the fund.
EMIGRATION TO CANADA.
• Over 27,000 • From Old Lands in
April.
•
A despatch from London says.:
Government returns of emigration '
shows that the following went tici
Canada during April.: -,-From Eng-
land, 20,163; from Scotland, 5,557;
from Wales 316; from Ireland, 1,-
324; total, 27,370. To the other do-
minions the number was 10,624, and
to the United States, 13,028. 'While
Scotland's poptalation is one-eighth
of England's, emigration from Seat -
land is twice as rapid as from Eng-
land. •
ITALIANS TO LEAVE TURKEY.
Home Government Has Decided to
Recall Them. "
A despatch from Rome says.: The
Government has decided to recall to
Italy immediately all Italians in
Turkeywho are exempt „from the
expulsion. order. The redaon given
is alternatively stated that massa -
ares are feared when in the near fu-
ture Italy begins aggressive action
being. ineabeyance until the exedus
age,inst Turkey, naval eperations
is complete, or becande the exempt-
ed persons are skilled artificers or
others whoare connected in impor-
tant ways in aiding Turkish indus-
tries Whose withdrawal might crip-
ple the Port. • ,
• TO EDUCATE YOUNG nurtmEns
New Zealanil Iles Allotted a`Large
Sum for the Purpose.
A despatch from London says:
The.iaern
t4DdGii"ovtioedmueenatiteothGNyeowmZgear,,lzno34,1
er a the future. The Cabinet has
allotted a large sum tor the imme-
diate erection pf apprentices' oar.
tors at the Experimental out-
side Wellington. The lads will be
instructed by officers of the Agri -
al Dpabxaertt, and after
three months training a slight re-
numeration will be paid, irkereasing
ite proportion to the degree, of in.
dustry arid ability.