HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-5-8, Page 2Bilding h Cafgatla
The prononneed revival hi build,ing
th Onne4.1.11 evidenced in 1922 was ca -
I4 into 1923, Which, in spite of de -
amine; 'mines, on the whole, recorded
an Increase of new eoestruetion under-
taketr within, the twelve menths. New
construction during the year 1923
amounted in value to $311,254,300 tiS
eStImated, in comps-15cm with $311,-
813,1300, an inerease ot $2,110,500. The
value of building permits in 56 Cana-
dien citiea for the year amotinted to
$130,239,885, Ere agalast $114,423,974
1922. Taking only the 35 principal
cities however the permit value is
found to be $111,4224522 in 1923, as
against $122,S14,569 in 1922. This re
-
Yeats that the increase in building re-
corded during 1923 waa accounted for
by the smaller cities, towns, and gee-
eral construction.
Estimated cost of construction un-
dertaken In 35 principal Canadian
cities, amounting in value to $111,-
174,325, is distributed among the pro-
vinces all follows:—Nova Scotia, $697,-
861; New Brunswick, $743,961; Que-
bec, $35,358,863; Ontario, $57,311,438;
Manitoba'$4,667,134; Saskatchewan.,
$2,405,976; Alberta, $2,310,510; and
British Columbia, $7,678,582. Taking
this larger civic building, Quebec was
the only Province to record an in-
- crease in value during the year.
Of the total value ot new building
in Canaria in t23.rameunting to $3'4,-
254,800, $97,615,200 is accounted for by
residential coastruction, 580,430,800 by
business construction 4127 022 000 by
industrial con,struction rind 5109,155,-
300 IsY engineering, Comparing 1923
with prenieue 'years, on the basis of
construotion in 35 cities, it is foend
that whilst the total value of 1923 is
slightly less' than 1922, in this one com-
PS•riSen only, lt is substantially greater
than 1921, 1920 and 1519, It is about
three times as great as nay year from
1915 to 1918. Figures for 1923 are proximately the sume as titose of 1910,
and one-tnird lower than those of 1911,
1912 and 1913.
Accerdiag to "MacLean's Building
Review" conditions are ciistinetly en-
00araging for building ia 1924. It is
exPected that resicieatial construction
will, continue in at least two-thirds the
volume of last year, and from, all in-
clications there will be increased ac-
tivity in the erection onpublie works
and utilities. It is now considered
that cost lias receded to a point where
government and municipal work can
be undertaken on a sound basis. A
foreeast is made of new construction
in 1521 to the 'value of $300,000,000,
divided as follows:—Ontario, $150,-
G00,000; Quebec, 5100,000,000; Mare
time Provinces, $7,00•0,000; and West-
ern Provinces, $43,000,000. All in all
there is every prospect of the initia-
tion of a volume oS construction in
Canada during 1921 as large, if not
larger, than in. 1923.
More Men arad Boys Taking Waship. the Dishes.
Up Wiusic. 1,Vhen we on simple rations sup
From the heads of music conserva- How easy is the washing up,
to-eies, music teachers, musio lee. But heavy feeding complicates
turers and Q therS in a position to voice The task by soiling many plates.
an opinion, it is learned that, at the
present time, more men and boys in And though I grant that I have prayed
That we might find a serving maid;
I'd scullion all my days, I think,
To see Her smile across the sink.
Canada are taking nil music, either as
a profesaion or as a hobby, than, ever
before. One piano teacher recently
ventured the assertion that at least 45
per cent, of his pupils were boys,' I wash. She wipes. In water hot
whereas before the war the percent.' I souse •each dish and pan and pot,
While Taffy mutters, eurrs a.nd begs
And rubs himself against my legs.
The man who never in his life
of the most important reasons is the Has .washed s the dishe,s with his wife
much wider interest taken, in music Or polished up the silver plate;
generally by an classes of people. The He still is largely celibate. „
tette was when music was followed 1
chiefly by the wealthy classes, and par. One warning; there is certain ware
ticularly by the fair sexin any coin- That must be handled velth all care;
.
=amity. The advent of the player' The Lord himself will give you up
piano, phonograph, pipe organs in the If You should drop a willow ctin!
movies and numerous other agencies,' —Christopher Morley,
have altered thio and made music a
much more democratic art. Now,
musia•is perhaps the most cosenopoll- Peace.
tan and -democratic branch ot art We My soul, there is a country
have, And this includes the men and t Bar beyond the stars,
boys just as much as the fair sex. Where stands a winged. sentry
Another reason, perhaps .more subtle' All •skillful in the wars.
but' nevertheless inipartann is that There, above noise and danger,
nnteic is not Considered nearly as "ef- I Sweet Peace sits crowned with
ferninate" as it was not so v-ery long smiles,
ago. It is within the recollection of And One born in. a 'manger- -
many of us that men and boys who commands the beauteous files.
were studying intiSie were often the, He is thy geacious Friend,
subject of uncomplimentary remarks I And, 0 my soul, awakei—
from their fellows. "Sissy," "effemin- Did in pure love descend
ate" and other adjectives were MI To die here for thy sake,
numerous cases applied to them. The ' If thou canst get but thither,
writer once heard of a youngster whol There grows the flower of Peace,
deelhied to aecept a leather music roll , The rose that cannot wither,
Warded him as a prize in a piano solo Thy fortress and thy ease.
qempetition, explaining with SOnle em- Leave then thy foolish ranges;
liarrassment that he preferred carry- Por none can. thee secure
fag his music: wrapped in a newspaper But One who never changes=
sio other boys could not knciw what it Thy God, thy life, thy cure.
I. *sync,. This lad at the very same time —Henry Vaughan.
sped to make it a -point when he prac-
tived in broad daylight to pull down se•
age of boy's taking piano 'lessons was
not any more than fifteen.
There are va.riouS "explanations, of
course, for this growth. Pro' bably one
• the shade,s, close the shutters and turn Propagating Salmon Trout.
ea the lights, so other boys who were
paseing might not discover him in so
humiliating an occupation as playing
the pianal
ley weie no eaved would g -o confided to his lieutenant in piracY,i an nninense sensation, and large sums
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s' The Rise of the Co ar.
One huntired years ago men's white
• slirts 1o1 the collars attached. Then
•one•elaYlt, Occurred to a man living in
o' town ou te : etitrseteursriefb:lnniei:s°sf otfhae shirt
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coeld be prolonged if the eollars were
ruele separate; a soiled collar could
then be reeled with a, clean one.. His
Human Effort awl Human Waits,
wife, says air. Logan McPherson in
in'ade collars for hire tleat at firet -were
„attached to tile shirt 15y Meatis of tape
the bach oThen ho rtnatdh°e that(n.Qe1ClakrlIn(1anid) cl'idt to
ed in front,' They were so successful
that ,she made others to sell 'to the
neighbors. '
e niTpl; oey ienciv e)inotio4re ,f otlfitee 4s egpcetiriatiteewcoonlilealt.:
of other families, who. were glad thus
to increase thole incomes. Not con
tent with what he had done, he took a
basketful of collars to Boston, where
they found reatly;sale; and after Bos-
ton caine New York and other mar-
kets. Then. buttoning at the back as
well ae in the front was introduced;
and collars were made' more durable
bY being manufactured of manifold
plies of linen and cotton stiffened with
starch; buttonholes too were devised
that did not -tear readilY.
Business organizations of Troy spe-
cialieed in producing collars and cuffe.
Pattern' bloelta and knives were in-
vented eeneereby piles of cot.ton or linen
many sheets thick could be cut with
one application of the, ltnife into col-
lars of a special design -and a special
Size. Then' machinery- was invented_
for"use in the various processes of aft -
• ting and folding. The making of col-
lars and cuffs and then shirts became
he main business of the town Tra-
'11/fr. George Robb of Auchtermuchty with his wife and six Chihli% en, photograPlied on b8ard the Canadial-1 Pa-eif13 dition and association led youn.g men
I VI liner "Metagama" at Glasgow en route f or Canada. This family party is proceeding to Bra.eside, Saska.tchewan,
and young women into the employ -
Captain Burial Gold
The patenting of a grappling devic
seems an unromantic tyansaction, bu
it hides one of the most romanti
quests of modern times. It means
determined effort to locate the secre
hiding place of Captain Kidd's buried
treasure of gold, which he hid snugly
somewhere in the Sheepscot River in
1700—the year before he was cap-
tured by a British frigate, immediate-
ly after he had pirated a rich Indian
clipper and was making the captain
and crew walk the plank.
That the buriec old exists is eel
tain. enough. His "Song of the Bold
Buccaneers" has been handed down
for generations:—
"I'd ninety bars of gold as I sailed—
as I sailed;
I'd ninety bars of gold as I sailed!
It's ninety bars of gold. and- dollars
manifold,
With riches uncontroll'd as i
seared!
Plans and Maps.
Before the gallant Captain was
turned off at Execution Dock he con-
e fit out the expedition, sVhich starts
t shortly, when the ice will have melted
c' off the river in the bed of which the
al treasure is believed to lie.
tI Jewels as Well?
I This is not the first attempt Which
S has been made in the loaality to re -
fessed that his vast thasure of gol
was still safely hidden. Being tol
by the Ordinary •(or Chaplain) tha
he should confess its location, Cap
tain Kidd remained silent for a few
I cover Kidd's hidden gold.
lb y hadocc. e the spot
:where the chests had been sunk, and
them. The old weoden sloop in which
elaborate plans were niade to recover
theparty Saile.d is stilllei up in a
small shipyard, close by, having only
retire -d from service up and down the
SheepscoteRiver a few yea rd ago.
This vessel *as named the "Glory,"
and thee is still living an old man of
ninety-four -who remembers the ex-
pedition and the excitement it created.
He says that -the party spent ninny
weeks investigating the bed of the
river, but without success.
The plans now pessessed,by King
show, h.owever, that they were wiadc-
'Sevbrity years ago,a,'party of Men
ing the wrong part of the river. Kidd's
, •
d plelns are' unusually clear, and al -
d though timeThaS somewhat altered the
t bed of the river it is believed that the
- Precise spot 'can be loca e without
I much difficulty. - •
no! Let those find it that have the vast store of jewels and gold dollars
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moments and then broke out: "But It is confidently expected that a-
socrgti" Immediately afterwards hei will also be found, as it is established
• waNsohwanthgeerde has come 'upon the scene flash with booty when he was per-
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that Captain Kidd was unusuall
a very old man who declares that he sued into the river. He held at one
is ready to get the gold. He has ere- time the King's commission, and had
dentials—unusual ones; and pluck as flthtteedsl000upt acfjoarrt,sm"Aoudtvherf HtuerewGasalsltelyp'_'
For years he has been laboring at posed to sail to Madagascar to hunt
a grappling device, which he declares
is absolutely necessary to secure the
treasure of golden bars -•.vhich lie
.A. total of 40,000,000 salmon trout hidden beneath the ice in the bed of
eggs has been collected during the the turbulent Sheepscot River.
last season by the I)epartment of it is saicl that, being hard pressed
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pirates, but 'when he arrived there
he turned pirate.
Terror of -the Seas.
Iris first prize Was the "Quedhad
Merchant," whose crew he. murdeiTc1,-,
Tn this ship he sailed the seas as a
rortunately, through various in- Marine and Fisheries in Lake Huron, by a pursuing frigate, Captain Kidd pirate "of great renown;" and col-
onences at work, music ha,s been exalt- , • I ran his black pirate craft up the lected immense booty. In one year 1
Georgian Bay and Lake Superior.
is computed he looted 180 rich .5 hips.
Ile, was finally hunted down by the
King's ships, and sent home under
escort. His trial in London created
ed in the eyes of males these last fey,- eggs is conservation in the highest
a ° mg or these river and sunk his bars in the bed of
collecting 1110 an
yea.rs, and to -day, for a man or boy to sense of the terrn;as they are obtain- the stream, intending to return and
ed from the commercial catch of fish collect them. He was cheated by Pate.
follow music is a mark of distinction.
Men and boys who study the piano . The secret of the hiding' place was
take vocal lessons or follow any of the into the offal barrels and be a total
-- - - -- -- lass so far as reproduction and the one Jeremiah Trash, a tough old sea -n of money were paid, for
musical instruments, no Inna*Pr zn
maintenance of the fisheries of the '
dog who had mutinied on board one 'Court. 1 -le defended himself with abil-
seats in
around feeling that they are "effemin-
ate" or "sissified," but rather do they
' are Great Lakes is 'concerned. The total
feel that in studying music they
adding to their refinement and making
themselves stronger and nobler citi-
zens.
number obtained compares favorably
with the average collections of recent
years and is sufficient to fill all the
hatcheries on the Great Lakes en-
gaged_ in the propagation of salmen
, Worldly wise is but haLf witted at
its highest praise, trout.
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of the King's ships, eser e , and
taken service with Kidd.
Financing a Dream.
Captain Moses King, "ninety years
youngas e descril3es himself, is a
great-grandson of Trash. He claims
to have in his possession the original they; Vanished just,before his capture.
maps and plans made by Kidd and The search for the booty of the
handed to his lieutenant. King was, notorious pirate has aroused great
bred rind born at Wiscasset, on the !interest throughout America: If it is
river, and came across the plans some, found an interesaing point arises, as
bizne ago, although it had always been to whether it eould not be claimed by
a tradition in the Earthly that Kidd's the British Goverinnent as "property
treasure charts were somewhere ,,of piracy" forfeited to 'the Crown by
stored away. While examining an old' the conviction of Kidd. `
bureau, he found the papers in a se-
cret drawer. From this it would ap-
pear that the gold bats are concealed
in two vast chests sunk deep in the
bed of the stream,
How King get funds to begin his
search afresh and got his grappling
apparatus patented is in. itself a ram-
ity. •
For long he had a passion for ac-
cumulating 'jewels, costly watches,
and snuff-boxes: That he had a chest-
ful of these there can be, no doubt,
and there is also strong evidence that
' Fair Offer.
An Englishman who was given to
drawing the long bow' told at a dinner
one day a„ thrilling tale of a tiger
which measured thirty feet in length
and which he, alone and unaided, had
caused to depart thiS We.
`trice' Among the guests was a WelShman,
A. banker living in the neighbor- who listened, apparently unimpresSed,
hood of the home of old man King to this narrative of adventure.
met 1,,im at dinner one night, The "Heard on 31 of ye Over Of a skate,
financier began to speak , of dreams, caught off the coast of Wales, that
and mentioned that he had had a most covered. two, acres when it was spread
peculiar One oenderning the fishing up on dry land'?" he inquired, in. a clear,
from 'OA river oX a big iron -clamped innocent voice a moment later.
box containing bars of gold. The hero,. of the tiger tale flushed
- Xing grew quite excited and told and looked mach offonded, and 008 01
the banker that he was merely "see- his friends glared across the tablo at
mg in advance," for, he added, "if
had the funds those chests of gold
wOuid seon,,be a reality."
' The banker was interest:0d, examin-
ber.ta is fast beeoming. a leader in the precinct:Ion of saddle horses and' e
Plt>1.° 0010'4, III 41gra4111 shOW5 ryfr-, GI r n r !OS lmnicr, Bannock»urn,i
Vit•Pin,or of the ilOvice citampionOilp at Ole MSTI. Sprilig Horse SboW,
tile,j)g01113.1,e'oliteinse'V\anTell,8011111.111(Lnii, niy- friend?"
110"Naeoln, .ttrihtalt°cli ,.don't, " said the Welsh.
11 the plans, became enthusiastic and man, placidly, "but if lie inc-lines to
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vas also inapressecl with King's de.. lake ten feet from hi .1 tiger, f will do
vice, f1,grappiinz. chest,s, Ile 015 bei,t multi' the fish, but of 0°24)11 -
end he gave a lodge suol of -money te mont to .11
• Cla+Ck;
The clock has stopped,
The*riinning WheelS • . • .
That ground the seconds up se small,
The slowly -swaying pendulum,
They do not move at all.
And, one would think—so still and deep
The hush—that day, had gone, to sleep.
The 'slender hands that used to mark
The.liours,anc thinutes as they sped
Lie Hatless in the lap of Time
Like fing-ers of the dead.
And furtive seconds tiptoe in,
Then softly `tiptoe out again.
Thirteen past five!' The magic hour
That dew lies thickest on the lawn,
And•shadows crouch beneath the trees
As hiding from the dawn.
When wakening birds begin to say
"What' shall we breakfast on to -day?"
• ' —Victor Starbuck.
A Possible -Exception.
Political Orator' (fiereely)--"What
law of universal application and bene-
fit was not enacted by my party?"
Auditor---L"The law of gravity might
be mentioned, perhaps."
After Ei g ht. .
Aunt --"You've counted up to eight
nicely, dear. But -don't you know
what conies after eight?"
Editle--"Bedtime."
IN& Use.
Irdsitor—"Do you go to school,
Tommy?'
Small Boy—"What's the use? I
can't read, I can't write, and I- can't
draw; so I don't go."
ment, in -which they obtained special-
ized sleill and training. Shirts are now
macle in nearly every town and city in
the United States but Troy continues
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to supply nearly the dollars worn
by men in. other parts of 'the world.
Fault-Fiaading.
In e human and,fallible World there
is always something the matter, and
mortal affairs, large or little, are for-
ever crying aloud for adjustment -and
repair. In one part or another the
ma,chinery of • civilization collapses;
and those who bring experience ti
bear are summoned to 'do ewhat they
can—even though, after brief trial,
the verY ones who' invited- them may
send them away. Nations and house-
holds, business corporations and in-
dividuals repeatedly invoice the add of
the wise who are able to tell them
what is the matter and install a better
s ch ern. e.
• Yet the name of fault-flnder gen-
erally conveys a reproachful implica-
tion. It sugges•ts the crabbed, shrew-
ish temper of one always looking for
trouble. It seems to mean a spirit of
„
nagging that brings misery ••by its in-
cessant querulous raanifestation.
• But this is the lesser and negative
phase of every censorship. •Comrection.
byno means implies a personal anti -
tilde of antipathy.. On the contrary,
it often is the manifestation of a pro-
found' affection, so devoted to the ob-
jedt that it cannot bear to see that ob-
ject appearing at a disadvantage.
Good advice is not merelY the ad -
'Vico we like to take, which gives us
the assurance that we are doing ex-
actly right. We should be as grateful
when we are told that we are entirely
wrong. But, because of vanity, we
are sensitive, and bridle when we are
reproved, letting the hurt we feel be
larger than the help that was given us,
if we would receive it. A foolish
hyper -sensitiveness, even beyond per-
sonal l-aziness, is the chief obstacle
to seleimnrovement. "Faithful are
'the wounds of a friend"—end it is a
grievous error to assume that those
who love us are those who find in us
no fault. -
The sense of humor is the one sense
that grows stronger with advancing
• years.—Dr. Ethel Smyth.
---;-AND THE WORST IS YET To-a)mE
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The Pygmies of Andaman.
' On tho Andaman islands, wliich'llto
in the iniddle of tile ".,Ilay ,of bengal,
there is a penal settleinetu, to which
many of tire niost despereate 'criminals
from India al,e sent. In the Interior, at
the islande among tropical jnzig.'• 1 a
several Iribes'of black dwarfbi'''' ,•• ro
P,1110I1g, 040 Incsst primitive hunian,crea•
tures on earth. ' They are net much.
mere than four feet in, height, but they
are perfectly forniecl. Mr. E. .A.,Salls- •
biify, 'writing in Asia, bas this to say
about 1110112: ,
As we ,stepped ashore -0'1e of the tiny
women, caught my attention finmedi-
ately. -§lie had Nyhat appeared to be a
huge white ornanient hinging from
her neck. I went closer and almost
jumped 'with astonishment. ,S1lie orna-
meut was a ghastly hunian sleall.
The forester laughed. `"Phe women
wear the skulls of their dead hrisbands ,
as loving souvenirs," he explained.,
Then he said that when a rrian dies
the little people blow on his face to ,
say good -by, then bury him and -desert •
the damp In which they are living.
After several -months they come back,
,dig up the bones and wash thein in. the
sea. Finally they-,•holcl a clanne iti hon-
or of the dead inan'e skull; painb it
with red ochre and whites'claY and give .
it and the • jaw hones to, ,the chief •
mourners, wlio wear them , on fibre '
stringe round their necks. , -
,A.no ther woman we' saW scluatting on
the ground, appai.ently efcanaining her
,
child'S' arni. But when we went for-
ward, to lier she WaS making a row '
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of little cats around it; the boys body
Was covered with rows of sca-f-g. The,
Andamaxiese 1)elieve that every child.
is bora with evil spirits within them;
so every two or three months the
mother cuts the skim- to lot the spirits
escape. As a. result -the bodies Of all
the men and women are .covered with ,
At the request of our forester the •
Andamanese held a mock marriage.
Two who lied recently been: married
acted as the bride and the bridegroom.
There was' a dance; then the young -
man pretended to flee into the jungle:
The: other men ran after him and
brought him 1)a.ck to where the bride
was sitting on the ground, surrounded
by the women. With loud shouts the
men plumped the lad down in the girl's
lap, and all, men and women alike,
threw 'themselves on :top of the 13ricle
and the bridegreom, weeping and wail-
• Standing near the marriage ball was
a girl whosa body was covered with
long zigzag designs in white. ,She re-
fused to enter into the fun. The for-
ester explained that she ,was a de-
butante, and that- marriage was much
too important ' for her to enter into
sport about it. She had but lately re-
ceived hor "flower name."
Everypygmy girlenust be called all.
teia flower when she reaches womiin-
hood.- . She passes through an elab or- .•
-
ate three -Say ceremony to receive the le
name, and,during that time she 12 al-
lowed neither to eat nor to sleep. At
the -end of it a name is chosen for her
after one of the jungle trees or plants
in bloom; it shows that the girl her-
self lias bloomed into womanhood.
Henceforth she is never known by her
childhod "
But perhaps • the strangest • thing
abbut the pygmy nomads is, that they --
know no way of -making fire. Each
family has a fire of their' own, which
they always keep going. When they
travel they carry the fire 'with tiler. •
they think it is, a gift from the go
and that if it is once extinguished they
may never relight it.
The LittJe Blue
The Federal Department of Health
has issued new editions of "The Little
Blue Books."
• No. 3—How to Take 'Care ot the
4—How to T,alce Care of . the
Mother.
5—How to Take Care of ,'the
Children.
6—How to Take' Care of the
Father and the Family.
7—Begining a Home in Canada.
8--11Owl to Build the Canadian
House.
' 9—How to Make Our Canadian
• Home.
10—How to Make Outpost Homes
in -Canada.
1.1 • How to Avciid Accidents and
. Give First .Aid.
• 12—Canadians Need
• 13 --How We Cook in -('Ialiada • ,
toMaAake 1-fouse•srtirlt In
Canada. ,
1.5, -,,How to Take Caro of House-
hold Waste,
1G—I-To-usehold Cor,CAcieounting in
Canada,
• If you, would liko ccrpies of these
books write to Feder241 1)cipartilient of
Health, Ottawa, and nten tion
newspaper in Tont' recitiest, Letters
wrifteil to a geverniriont department
on official lin‘iiiriess 00021 not be stamp -
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1v. beilioLpY0U 111 0111 p01 OH.lLiL 011 be
LJseful Trunk.
Jimmie c,aime • back from Ile ciruns
much excited, . •
"Olt, mamma,' 00 10.011 as
he got, in Abe house, 'Mtry spilled
some' nuts, and what do you 'stip n'n
'the elephant .dici? it picked 'the:,
upPwith his ,,,aelinin C1'3011 01'"
'A 'V'Jc: rine nye , M
.13arlter:--`'W1iY does 21, woman ,
ways keep a 'man waitingeS long
ter oho sayS she'll 110 ready in a ,
ate?"
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