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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-11-27, Page 4eee .:0011. 27, 1921 ThE EXETER TIMES CANABIAN T At Chcstee A Jive hour r ailway jouri3y brought the pry from Swaneea to Chester one of the old walled cities oi England(Yerk being the other.) rrivine there at noon on :July 16th wo had luneh with the newepaper ()elation ' and in the afterueon toured the city, and: had afternoon tea with the Mayor. The wail, Which only surrounds the inher city s as originally built 'by the Romans en 47 A. D., but was partially de- stroyed, and later rebuilt on the Old, • foundation. We walked around, on the top of the greater portion of the wall, from which one gets a riew? of the city. Chester is on the River Dee abeut which Charles Klege ley wrote his ,familiar poem ; "Oh. MatY go and call the cattle home, egress the eands o' Dee," and e tbe poem tragically runethe tide caene up and Mary. never returned twine: At Chester we had the priv- . Ileg of 'bowling en a craWn green (high in the centre and sloping to all sides). At ibiveepool Our stay in 'Liverpool extended over just one day, but during that . time 'we saw much of, the great port . and also took a trip oyer to Port 'Sunlight, a model town, where Sun- light and many other kinds of soap • are- manufaetured 'by' the well known Lever eine., Liverpool is on the Mersey River which is abeut halt a mile wide at this point, 'The tide has consider- able ebb and flow here and for the ccommodation of the passenger teaffic across the elver there is a large floating landing tage nearly half a mile in length. It is really a floe tin g dock. The clocks ex tend for 61/2., pailes along the river and there are 27 milee of quaye. About 25,000 ships enter the port annual - 1Y and if onr geographical inform - kitten is not wrong it is the fourth greatest eeaport in the world being •surpassed. only by London, New York end Autwerp. 'The 'volume of Passenger and freight traffic is on the increase and the huge d,evelop- merits known as the Gladstone Dock Scheme are under way, the cost of whicls will •be 35 millions more and it will add three miles more of docks The population of Liverpool is about 1,200,000 and it ranks next to London as the largest city hi Great pritain. The cotton imports easily 'come first in importance but Liverpool is also famous for its cold storage facilities, its shipbuilding and Ship -repairing plants, its grain elevators, inamense tobacco , ware- houses, leather and timber trade When we were there the city was ablaze ,with flags and bunting in preparation for the corning of the King and Queen who were to unveil Liverpool's War Memorial and ded- •ate the LivetPoel Cathedral whicb. has been in course Of Construction for 20 years kind will xequire natiny mere yearto complete, Mucb hae been read in the papere recently of this, great Cathedral so we will not dwell on it here. We Were a day early to eee the official opeuing, The trip to Port Sunlight was very interesting- Onr old friend J, J. Hurley, of Brantford describes it as folloWse— iculax department, however, a girl was nailing on covers by hand, As an, exhibition of net/ driving it was perfect. • She kept the hammer in constant motion—never was it at rest. The Company makes all' its oWn boxes --both woodea and paper, It hays nothing but raw materials, and these lt draws from all parts oi the earth. It was a, strange co -inci- dence, and oee that excited no little comment, that in thie establishment A swamp consieting of 422' ecres we were to find one of the largest has been lturned into a beautifu (if not the1argest) printing plants town site of about ten thousand in the country. The aton itself people, The working portion of,the was beautifully laid out, Churches, popula.tion is employed altogether Schools, Parke and Playgronnds in the making of soap—Sunlight were conspicious. One of the most and various scented eoape—Sops beautiful war memorials we saw was for all purposes. /The factory is a there, erected to those of the works monument to the organizing genius who had fallen in the war. In the of Lord Leverhulme and those as- midst of a beautiful park -like stir - Societe(' ,with him. It is a colossal rounding as an art gallery, "The affair. In passing through the fac- Lady Leverlitilme Art Gallery." It tory we were conducted by a guide contained Ineany most beautiful sta- through a series of overhead walks. tues, cut from solid white marble. These walks are especially built for • Several rooms contained furniture visitors. They permitted a bird's- of differentt periods. A great for - eye view of the factory and all its tune must have been invested in this operations, without our, in any Way, alone. A charming lunch ended the interfering with the employees. We visit to Port Sunlight. On the re- sew great vats ----steam •heated—boil- turn to Liverpool a magnificent din- ing the soap. Then the various ma- ner was tendered the visitors at the chines through which it passed, cut- Adelphi Hotel at which the Lord ting it to size, boxing, packing, etc. Mayor presided. Never again will we Say that a wo- man cannot drive a nail. In most At Blanchester cases the covers of boxes, ,were nail- ed on .by machinery. In this part - LINING THE CONNAUGHT TUNNEL . • Sielleeet- Upper left., --In spit o of heavy snowfalls and below zero 7reather the work of ihting the Connaught 'runnel 15 continued throughout the winter months. The cloud -wrapped heights • of Meturt Abbott and ROSS Peak stand azi` western sentinels of the little town. Upper right. --Glacier. 113.C., showing Mount Macdonald, 9,482 feet, through which the five mile Connaught Tunnel passes., Eagle Peak, 9,353, is in the centre of the picture and Mount Sir Donald, one of tho most beautiful peaks in the Canadian Rockies. with an altitude of 20,808 feet, is on the extreme right. • Lower left.—The re.sident engirieer'a bungalow roman among giant evergreens on the banks of the Dlecillewaet River. Lower right—Western Portal of the Connaught Tunnel. showing the fan house and the two huge 14 ft. steel fans which ventilate the "big hole." High up on the crest`of the lofty Selkirks with half The lining of the 'Osig hole" eras begun in 1926 world hunching their snow -clad shoulders about its Tunnel will stand as one of the finest and most corri• a dozen of the finest mountain peaks in the and herhen this• work is completed the Connaught SOWS of trim brown houses, lies the picturesque town plete engineering jobs in the universe. Undertaken of Glacier on the main line of the Canadian Pacific in the name of safety, the Connaught Tunnel has Railway through British Columbia. Three and a always been a "safety first" proposition. Throughout half miles distant from this'little construction centre, its construction days, during the eight years it has which has virtually been called into being through been in operation and the four Years that it has the lining of the Connaught 'Tunnel, hangs the great already taken to line it, it has been singularly free Illecillewaet Glacier on the slopes of Mount Mac- from accident. clonal(' and :We/ mile s nearer nestles Glacier House, Nearly 600,000 sacks of Canadian cement will the annual mecca of thousands of strainer -tourists. have gone into the lining of the Connaught Tunnel pew of the surrounding peaks at Glacier are less when it is finished. Practically all the machinery than 9,000 feet in altitude, The famous °berms, used in the work is Canadian made, including the Mount Sir Donald, Reis, Eagle and Abbott Peaks en- huge eemere,ssers and powerful motors. The four circle the little settlenfent. est whiter time•e, blanket types et reinforced steel ;collapsible forms,, which are . a snow enfolds town and mountains alike- In storing used in the various Stages of the lining' process, ,came the brilliant yellow slide lilies follow the ever-rece.d- from a western Canadian plant " and the Sydney E. ing snow line as it climbs higher and higher up the Junkins Company, B.C., 'Limited, construction engi- ' mountain sides. Life is enlivened in the summer neers are in charge of its lining. three by the crowds of guests who throng Glacier The tunnel's concrete jacket is completed in sec - House andeteansfoenesetee- eeert,e again with geneybus tions 22 feet long, each section taking about four or sex -ashes of orange, crimson andstrusset. , five days to prepare, when it is sometimes necessary Common interest in the great enilliegrins project to do considerable blasting, one day to fill with con - under way has brought about a very definite' cam- crete- and three days in which to set. Six complete munity spirit at ' Glacier. For almost every young- sets of forms -are at. ,work within the tunnel which ster's daddy works in the big tunnel in one or other means a completed section for eveeey working day in of the various branches of work which the lining de- the week, or a total a 182 'feet in six days. mends and every household is regulated by a schedule of working hours which begin at 5 a.m. and end at More than 100 powerful flood lamps illuminate the 1.15. Half a hundred children attend the little brown tunnel at these six working points. Owing to the school house and various clubs for the grown -laps remarkable ventilating system, which ill itself is one .. provide interests ca a recreational and cultural of the most interesting and important features of nature. the tu'rinel, working conditions are excellent. At the Engineers, foremen, carpenters, machinists, drillers western portal two great steel fans, driven by two electricians, lahoiws and train crews make up the 500 li,p. four cylinder semi -Diesel engines, turn at wage earners among the 600 residents of Glacier, the rate of 255 revolutions a minute driving a brisk • Single men live in a well ordered camp. Here, as in breeze through the five -mile length of this great • the little homes where the men with families live, all underground passage. The ventilation thus created the conveniences of a modern city are enjoyed includ- Takes 11 possible for trains to pass through the tun- ing electric iigbte and running water piped from a eel with practically no discomfort to passengers and nearby mountain stream, for workmen to remain at their tasks for eight con - The lining of this five mile tunnel, the longest secutive hours without detriment to health or vigor, •on the American continent, with a steel reinforced , One comes upon many surprising things in the conerete jacket represents one of the most interesting COUTSe Of a walk through the great double -tracked engineering projects now Wider way anywhere in the tunnel. Grains of wheat fallen from the thousands world. , / of cars of Canadas 1923 bumper crop which have Beneath 6,000 feet of mountain the Connaught passed through on their way to the port of Vancouver Tunnel cuts under Mount Macdonald between the sta. have •taken root for many yards within each 'portal' -Hens or Connaught and Glacier.' With the opening and ehe tiny field mice ever in sea-rch of provender Iof this underground short-cut in 1916 the Canadiari scamper aerose the tracks' within the very heart of Pacific Railway overcame the many difficultiee which the tunnel. At two points in the tunnel wall doors Ithe old Rogers Pass route had presented. Track lead through the solid quartzite rock to the pioneer curvature to an amount eorrespOnding to seven corn- bore and her in this miniature tunnel one finds two plete circles was eliminated; the ettearnit attained by brilliantly illuminated and immaculate "White the Railway was teduceci by 552 feet; the trackage lunches," White capped chefs preside in these under.- , wee shortened by four arid a half miles and more ground restaurants dispensing steaming bowls of p than four miles Of snow sheds which had been traces- soup and fragrant coffee to the small artny of workers `, sary on the slopeS a Mount Macdonald were ds- who are bringing to completion the lining of the 1 pere,,,ed with. , , . , Gonna -tight Tramiel, e - , July lath and 19th were spent at Manchester, the third largest city in England; and within 100 miles of 'its centre live half the population of Great Britain. It is the centre of Industrial England. On Friday morningwewere shown through the Royal Exchange where 10,000 people can congregate for market buying .of cotton from all Over the earth without being even crowded. The noise and clamour of an ex- change is something deafening, and to the casual observer the wonder is that business can be carried on at all. Around the huge dome above the room is the inscription: "A Good Name- is More to be Desired Than Great Riches." Deals invol- ving millions of pounds are put thro here without the stroke of a pen. Manchester is ,. immense, with its smoking mills hnd like the indust- rial centres of the north, dirty. The same term describes its weather. For the first time since leaving Can- ada we had rain at Manchester. Its moist climate is no doubt one 02 its -best assets. When the French wea- vers came over in the 16th century, they found the air just moist enough in this district to keep their product right, and they located there. Then the visit to the ''Manchester Ship Ca- nal was welt Worth -while. This marvelous projea,",'Pht through 40 years ago, meatif, 'bringing the oCean 35 lie mileiiiland ' and ' mak.- - i ing an ocean poi4nt of an inland , city. In doing this the water was , raised up over 60 feet. It cost some ninety millions and for some years was a "white elephant" financially, but, to -day has splendidly made good The need for the ca.nat is seen from the fact that it cost as much to freight cotton in a few miles from the seaboard as it did to carry it all the way from the Southern States. On board the harbor tug we had the pleasure of meeting a number of Manchester people, President, of the Board of Trade, Canadian Commis- sioner Ray and others. A few miles up we came to a point 'where a smaller canal was carried across a swing bridge which swung as the tug approached the canal, water be- ing securely held on the bridge by water tight gates at both ends. The Channel averages 28 feet in depth and is from 200 to, e,50 feet wide at the top. Over 160 industrial works of many and variousdescriptions' sprung into existence on their erect- ion and equipment being estimated at 17,5 million ..dollars. Products are landed• -there from all over the world The annual tonnage .ieandeout of this port is five anillimieae,There.e no feweeetbanenine.docke.and oneief, themeis half a, mile, long.. • • ,-; ;!. In the, afternoon. we -vieited ,a, ce,t- ton spinning plant where 500, hands are employed. It was a revelation -in up-to-date machinery., , The raw material • came from the United States and Egypt. The amount of dirt taken out of the cotton in the spinning process is surprising. A big nigger had been caught in the hydraulic press that' presses the cot- ton into bales and the thread -mak- ing company did not consider it a profitable investment to- pay freight on a black man to be , spun into white thread. Those who -went to Stockport hat factories tell us the finest felt hats are made out of rab- bits' ,hair and the coarser variety from the short clippings of wool, Stockport, which is only six miles from Manchester has ft. population of 126,000 and in the City Connell we were mitt° surprised to find the mace brought in when •the Codneil was la session, just as in our Legis- latures and Federal Parliament. The cotton spinners .aVerages about two pounds Sterling per week when they work f tilt time. While the men Were at Stockport the ladies had a delightful motor yide to Buxten Where so many of the Canadian soldiers were in Hospital during the war. , They passed Had - doe Hall, the home of Dorothy Ver - NOTES — BY the way we see more of pub- lic holidays in England than usual in, our country. The shops seem to be closed every Satnrday afternoon and evening, You call hardly find a news stand open on a Saturday night. Then many eitie,s have a weekly holiday. In the great man- ufacturing districts many were clos- ed down for a whole week just for a holiday. In Glasgow and Edin- burgh we ran against the same thing. Long hour- working days are not known in England now as in the old ,days. Wages are propor- tienateiy.higher than before the war though still very much lower ,than in Canada. Printers for instance in the cities get about half the wages paid in Toronto. Rent 'are much lower here than in Canada. In the Lancashire district we visited an im- mense cotton works. Of the three plants one was shut down owing to dull trade. One may judge stan- dards of living here and in Canada by the remark made to me by a Bri- tish publisher who said he had never heard ef a single factors,' worker in England owning an automobile. SIGNS Mistress--Ieam a woman of few words. If 1 beckon with my hand that means 'come.' New Maid—That suits rue mum. I'm also a woman of few words. If I shake my head it means, "I'm not coming." *** *** *** * The frostis on the pumpkin and the shock is in the price. *0* *0.* *** When men stare at her, she knows everything is fixed right, when wo men stare at her, she wonders what is wrong. *** *** *** *** A grouch and his friends are soon. parted. *** *** *** *** Woman is crazy for wearing: clothes that freeze her in the winter, says a man who. wears clothes that roast him in summer. *** *** **. *** • The longest sentence in the world is "I do," • *** *** *** *** cYostei. can't travel far‘,on a lame ex u *** *** *** e** The key to success locks the door to excess. . • *** *** *** *** THE WILLING WORKER 0. He goes to Inc task with a song and a smile, He never says "maybe" or "after a while," • The fellow that's willing to work. But he lives in the sunshine that ' iBELIEVE THE DEO The fellow whole a little Wrong Is yerY seldom helped along BY making any act of his Leek blacker than it really is The fellow slipping now and then Will try to get his feet again If those around him day by day Will only net the ether w,ay, And try to give him credit for 'rile man he is—and maybe more! What people say he is, You see, Is what a fellow tries to be To make a man throW out hie chest. Believe the Best, Forget the rest. We'll all be happier, I'm sure, And more old friendships will en- dure And more new friendships we will form The hearts of all of us to warm, If all are slower to believe Suspicions that will nia,ke us grieve Are just a little more inclined To publish only what is kind, If we will lend a listening ear, But only good reports to hear— Yes, life will have a lot more song Believing right, not thinking wrong Whatever rumor may suggest, Forget the rest. Believe. the best, Men like to tolke to gossip too, I've even heard that women do, So here and there, and up and down The strangest stories float, Until humanty you doubt. Is ever any fellow fair? Or is there goodness everywhere? Of course there is, More good than bad I've found the world, because I had A simple rule, a simple test: Believe the best, Forget the rest! NAMED The Chinamean could speak but little English, and the Englishman could speak no Chinese; nevertheless the dinner went off agreeably. There was one dish that pleased the Englishman. It was a rich stew of onions, pork, mushrooms, and a dark tender well -flavored meat that tasted like duck. The' Englishman ate heartily of this stew. Then lie closed his eyes, lifted his hands and shook his head with an air of ecstacy. After this compliment to the dish, he said interrogatively: "Quack, quack?" OTTR EASY LANGUA A writer ill the "New Stat n."' takes the following lineessfrom the 11S,,,,, htte Lord in Croer'e "CO ' ig7''4" Place Book:" When the English tongue we speak, NATIty le"brealt" not rhymed with "freak?" Will you tell me why its true 'We eay"sew," but likewise "Jew;" And the -maker of a verse Cannot dap his "horse" ' with,. "worse?" / "Beard" sounds not the same as - "heard;" "Cord" is different from "word;" "Cow" is cow, but "low" is "low," "Shoe" is never' rhymed with "foe." Think of "hose" and "dose" and: "lose;" And of "goose" --and yet of 'choose' Think of "comb" and "tonib" and "bomb;" "Doll" and "roll;" and "home" and• e "some." Aid, since "pay" is rhymed with. asay,,, Why not "paid" with "said" I pray? We have "blood" and "food" an& "good;" Wherefore "done" but "gone" and "lone?'' Is there any reason known? And, in short, it seems to me Sound and letters disagree: "P11 Be Herne $em% Mother,"' Writes Sammy Sammy is a. keen Utile lad. Be looks much younger than he la --only sixteen—and he has much more wise dom than is usual at his age. For two years he worked in a foundry doing- a man' a work. His father worked beside him and helped him roaster the art a pouring molten metal. . One dal -Sammy complained of a sore side but his people didn't. worry much. "It'll be all, right in the morning," mother said; "gd and take a rest." But it wasn't all right in the morning, nor the morning after, no, nor a week after. It was ' then time for a doctor to examine Sammy. The doctor looked him over several times, then took him to et. specialist. Both medical men agrehtl<.? that Sammy was consumptive and ,4 both held out some hope if he "took tke cure" at once.: Sammy is quite a favorite up in .1 the Muskoka Hospital for Consump- tives. He keeps the other patients in good humor with his pleasant smile - and his quaint stories of French que- bee where he spent his boyhood dayS'. 'Tell the folks I'll be home soon,'" he wrote in his last letter; and he. probably will be, for he is making splendid progress. The Muskoka Hospital for Con- sumptives, the Haven of the poor af- flicted with tuberculoses, is in a large measure reliant upen public generosity...for its funds to carry oh its work. "No, no," said the Chinaman, "Bow Contributions may be sent to Hon.. . A. Charlton, President, 223 College. I WOW." Street, Toronto, Ontario. gladdena. today, And lightens each load in. his good- natured way,— The fellow that's willing to work. He isn't afraid of the trusts that 7 expand, He doesn't look forward to woe in the land, The fellow that's willing to work. For he knows that the earth'll give food, drink and air, And there's always enough and. little to 'spare ' For the 'fellow that's willing to work. *** *0* *0* *0* Advertisement in the. Oklahoma Citye. (Okla.) News..—"Party who toOle green silk ,pyjamas from clo- thes line at 416 West 12th Street please return same and no ember- . rasing exposure will be made on my part. • *** **.* *** *** MERELY LOST HIS LIFE A newspaper editor relates this Story about a green reporter, He was ,hurried off to *rite up the mur der of a wealthy manufacturer. Af- ter describing the details graphic- ally he concluded with this sentence Fortunately for the deceased, he had deposited all his lose money in the bank the day before, so that he lost practically nothing but his life.' *** *** *** *** LOC,A.L PhIDE ,•) , , • Local pride is liased ori affection. for the place in which you liye and is 'almost as natural a sentiment as family pride. Like family pride, it may be useful and deadening. A proper local pride manifests, it- self in study of the history of the community and its founders, in a de sire for a thorough knowledge of the institutions, industries and peo- ple of the community, and in acqu- iring .1amiliarity not only with the topography and the external aspects of the place but also with its spirit. Anyone whose local pride is strong enough to impel him to seich study will- become embued with an ambi- tion to contribute to the improve- mment of the community; he will Pc in his turn one c the makers of its history. Local pride that finds its express- ion at heine is an admirable trait, There is; however, a local pride that is frequently exhibited only by peo- ple who are away from home, and that is not to be commended. it is usually a, mark of narrowness and prejudice.• A man need not sacrifice or abate his love ef home in ordee to recognize the superior claims to general interest that eome other place offers, Provincialism, as lecal pride is likely to be ealled, when it expresses itself away Demi home-, is Itually bumptious, 11nel-critical and petty. It retards the mental grow. non, arid were shown through the th of the mall who.eliffere' from it, Dorbyshire residence of the Deice of Cor lie is Seldom one Who at home Devonshire. • 1 shows anY loeal pride of a construe - eeeleser- • TORY LOAN COUPONS We will cash your Victory Loan Coupons or place them to your credit In, our Savings Bank where they will draw interest at 37,xler annum. THE CANADIAN ANK OF COMMERCE Capital Paid Exeter Branch Crediton Branch - Up $20,000,000 Reserve Fund $20,000,000 - M. R. Complin, Manager G. G. Maynard, Manager ',Moos OSIM10020.1.1=10312111. eseil Incorporated 1855 CAPITAL • - 44,000,000 RESERVE - $3,000,000 OVER 120 BRANCHES IN CANADA THE MOLSONS BANK sae. Pay Cheque Payments of household aeOonnts are often hard' to keep track of, but whe,n,paid „by cheque there is an accurate record and receipt for each trans-, action. There is a conveniently located branch of The Molsons Bank' where you or your wife could ' transact this •business and be assured of ef- fiecient service. XETEE BRANCH T. 5. WOODS, Manager , USBORNE & 113iBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office, Farquhar, Ont, President; JOHN ALLISO'ei Vice -President, JAS. McKENZIE DIRECTORS H TOS. RYAN SIMON DOW ROBT, NORRIS, WM. 13ROCK AGENTS JOHN ESSERY, Centralia, Agent for lUsborne and 131ddulph. OLIVER HARRIS, Munro, Agent for Hibbert, Fullerton and Logan. W. A. TURNBULL Secretary -Treasurer Box 98 Exeter, Ontario. GLADMAN & STANBURY Solicitor, Exeter. NtOrieemlemexim...10.me•Wooml. DR. 0. IttoutsTolir, D.D.s DIINTIST oats *VW' I. R. Carling's La, eines. aimed "Or erir iVednestlaY Otte etet„ ISA-. A. B. EINBILAIT, lilonor Graduate of Toronto Deivere DENTIST . Office over Gladman tee Stambury'o office, Main Street, Exeter. MONEY TO LOAN We leave a large amount of private fund e to loan on farm and villasse properties, at lowest rates of -Ines. tereet. GLADMA.N & STANBURY Barristers, Solicitors, Main St, 7111xetei, Ontario •JAMES W. WATSON LICENSED AUCTIONEER, Sales conducted in any locality. Farm Stock sales a specialty. Satis- faction guaranteed. Charges mod- erate. Orders left at this office win be promptly attended to. R.n. no. 1, Kirkton, Phone Kirkton 54r2.