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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-11-27, Page 60 c t Vie ilway joitraeY brought the party erom Swansea to ciliester one of, the old walled cities of hIngland(York being the other.) Arriving there At noon on July 16th .e had luncli with the newspaper t$OQfiatiou and In' the afternoon toured the city, and had afternoon • a with the J.NIayor. :The will, iIch only surrounds the iliue! city was originally built by the Romans In 47 4. D., but was partially de- • rayed, and later rebuilt on the old gPiln a t io n . We walked around, on the top of the greater portion of the wall, from which one gets a ev7 of the city. , Chester is on the Inver Dee about which Cliarles liingsle,y wrote Ills familiar poem: 'Oh. Mary go and call the cattle .honie. across the sands o' Dee; and as the poem tragically ruus9the tide .came up and Mary never returned ,home At Chester we had the priv- liege 'of bowling on a cro-Wn green (nigh in the centre and sloping to , all sides). verpool Our stay in Uverpoai extended over just one day, but during that time we saw Diu eh of ,the great port and also took a. trip over to Port Sunlight, a model town, -where ' Sun. - 'light and many other kinds, of soap are- manufactured by the well own Lever tirni. Liverpool is on the Mersey RiVer which is about half a mile wide at this point.. The tide has consider- able ebb and flow here and for the accommodation of the passenger traffic across the river there is a large floating landing stage nearly half a mile in length. It is really a floating dock. The docks extend for 6 miles along the river and there are 27 miles of quays. About 25,000 ehip,e enter the port annual- ly and if our geographical inform- ation is not wrong it is the fourth greatest seaport in the world being surpassed, only by London, New York stnd Antwerp. The volume of passenger and freight traffic ia ou the increase and the tinge develop- ments known as the Gladstone Dock Scheme are under way, the cost of which' will be 35 millions more and it will add three miles more of docks The population of Liverpool 18 about 1,200,000 and it ranks next to London as the largest city ie G-reat Britain. 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, imMense tobacco', ware- houses leather and turiber trade When we 'were there the city was ablaze ,with flags and bunting in preparation for the coming of the King and Queen who were to unveil Liverpool's War Memorial and ded- 7 icate the Liverpool Cathedral 'which has been in course of construction for go year and will require maitY more Yeas% to complete, Mtich has beee read in the papers recently of this great Cathedral so we will, not dwell on it hero. We were a day early to see the official opening. The tell) to Port Sunlight was very interesting. Our Old friend J. j, Hurley, of 13rantford deScribes it as follows,— A, swamp consisting of 42.2' acres has been Iturned into a beautifu town site of about ten thousand people. The working portion of the popelation is employed altogether in the making of soap—Sunlight and various scented soaps—Soa,ps, for all purposes. "The factory ie a monument to the organizing genius of Lord Leverhulme and (hoe as- sociated with him. It is a colossal affair. In passing through the fac- tory we were conducted by a guide through a series of overhead. walks. These walks are especially built for visitors. They permitted a bird•'s- eye view of the factory and all its, operations, without our, in any way, interfering with the employees. We saw great vats --steam heated—boil- ing the soap. Then the various ma- chines through which it passed, cut- ting it to size, boxing, packing, etc. Never again will we say that a wo- man cannot drive a nail. In most cases the covers of boxes, Fere nail- ed on .by machinery. In this part - ENING TflB •TUNNEL Uppr Jeft—Lu spite ot heavy snowfalls and below sere 'weather Om work ot lining the Connaught auntie] .15 COrttinUed ' throughout the winter Mont* The eloud-wrapped heights of 'Mount Abbott and Rosa Peak stsind as western sentinels of the ' Little town. Upper right.--Glacler, B.C., showing Mount Macdonald, 9,482 feet, through which the five rale, Connaught Ttinnel Passes. Eagle Peak, 9,354, is in the centrese the picture and Mount Sir Donald, one of the most beautiful peaks in the Canadian Rockies. with an altitude of 20,808 feet, is on the extreme right- • Lower left—The resident engineer's bungalow nestles' among giant evergreens on the banks of the illecillewaet River, ventilate the 'big hole' ' Lewor Flighto--Virestern Portal of the Connaught Tunnel. showing the fan konse and the two !Ingo, 14 ft. steel fans which , High up on the crestof the lofty Selkirks with half The lining of the "big hole" was begun in 1921 ' •. a dozen of .,the finest mountain peaks in the and when this-- work is - completed the Connaught . world lunching' their snow -clad shoulders about its Tunnel will stands.* one of the finest and most corn- ! rows. of trim brown houses, lies the picturesque engineeringjiU town pIete obs n the universe. ndertaken ef. Glacier odiii rathe main, line of the Canaan Pacfic n the name of safety, the, Connaught ,Tunnel has . : Railway through British Columbia. ' Three and a always been a 'safety first" proppsition. Throughout, , hal.f ,railes.,distaht from this little construction centre, its construction days, during the eight years it has " whieh has Virtually beencalled into being -through been in operation and the four years that it has the lining of the COnnatight Tunnel hangs the great already taken to line it, it has been singularly free Illeeillewaet Glacier -on the slopes of, Mount Mae- from accident. , • 49nald and Win. Milesnearer nestles Glacier ITause, Nearly 500,000 sacks, of Canadian cement will 'thelinnual 'mecca' afethensands of aiunnaer*tourists- have gone into the lining of the Connaught Tunnel : 'F.Nria of the sierra -ending, peaks at cileeiee are less when it is finished. Practically all the machinery than 9,000 feet in altitude, The famous Cheops, used in the work is Canadian made,. including the Mount .Sir Donald,. Rege. Eagle and Abbott -Peaks' en- huge .cOmpeeesers. and powerful motors,. . The four circle the little settletnent. Ili'n,WiNter titdeni'blanket types d'reinforced steel aellaPsible fOrals.,,whiell are of snow enfolds town and mountains alike. In spring used in the various Stages Of thelintrig Process, came. . the brilliant yellow slide lilies follow the ever-reced7 from a western Canadian plant "and- the Sydney E. . in snow line as it Climbs higher and higher up the 'Junking Company,. 13C., 'Liniited, construction Mountain, Sides.: Life ' is . enlivened in the summer neers are in charge of its lining. thie by 'the crowds of, guests who throng Glaaier The tunnel's concrete jacket is completed in 'sec- • allouee andetransfeeneas- tee eealie again with,.gene.rous tions 22 feet long, each section taking about four or ' splislies of orange, crimson aiid'eretaset. f . Coinmon inteeest it the great engineering project five days to prepare, when it is sometimes necessary ' to do considerable blasting, one day to fill with con - under way has brought, about a very definite- cora-- natality spirit at ,Glacier. For almost every young- creteeanol three days in which to set. Six complete sets of femme:are at pork within the tunnel which ster'a daddy Works iii the, big tunnel in one or other means a completed section for .eveery .working day in of the various branches of work which the lining de- the week, Or a total of 132 feet in six days. mantle, 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 limps illuminate the 115. Half a hundred children attend, the little brown tunnel at these six working points. Owing to :the school' house and various ',clubg for the grown -nes remarkable ventilating system, which in itself is one provide linterests - of . a recreational and , cultural of the moat interesting and important features of ' nature. - - , the tunnel, Working coconditions'are excellent. At the , ' , , , Engineers', foremeneearpenters, machinists, drillers, Western portal two great steel fans, driven by Iwo electricians, laborers and train crews make up the 500 litlse'four cylinder semi -Diesel engines, tura at ' wage earners among the 500 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 thalittle homes where the men with families live al] underground passage. The ventilation thus created the conirenienees of a nnadern city ere enjoyed includ- Takes it possible for trains to pass through the tun- ing ,electric lights. and tanning ?later piped :from a nel with 'practically no discomfort to passengers and nearby reeeesteth stream. , for workmen to remain at ,their tasks for eight. eon - The lining of this' five mile tunnel, the longest seelitive' hours without detriment to health or vigor. on the ' American continent; with e steel reinforced One comes upon many surprising things in the concrete jacket represents one of the most interesting couree of a walk through the great double -tracked engineering projects now under way anywhere in the tunnel. Grains of wheat. fallen from the thousands world, , , . e ' of cars of Canada's 1023 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 rept for many yards within each 'portal' " 'tions of Connaught and ;Glacier: With the opening and the tiny field mice ever. in ,Seareb of provender !of, this undeeground short-cut in 19:16 the Canadian searnper 'acrose.' the 'tracks' within the very heart cif Panifie Railway oVerdime the many diffieulties'whieh the tannel. At ;two points in the tunnel wall doors , ,the old Rogers Pass route had presented. Track lead throne -1 the solid quartzite ' rack to the pioneer, ' curvetute to all =bunt corresponding to seven corn- ,bore and here in this miniature tunnel one finds two . iilete circle's was eliminated; the summit attained by brilliantly 'illuininatecl and immaculate' "white the Railway was ;educed by, 552 feet; the trackage Itinchea." White capped 'chefs preside in thege under - was shortened by four and a half, miles and more ground restaurants dispensing steaming betide' , of thart font miles of snow sheds -'Which had been rieces- stein and fragrant coffee to the small army of workers sary 'on the slopes of Mount Maedonald,,tverfa .dis. who are bringing to completieb ,the. lining of the perided with; - , ' ,‘ ,: ', Connaught' Tunnel. .• , .7,7777,7 ""nr—en THE EXETER Tim '• icular department, however, a girl was nailing on covers by hand, As an exhibition of nail driving it was perfect. She kept the hammer in constant inotion,—never was it at rest. The Company makes all" its own boxes—both wooden and paper. It buys nothing but raw materials, and these it draws from all parts of the earth. 11 was a strange co -inci- dence, and one that excited no little comment, that in this establishment we were to find one of the largest (if not the, largest) printing plants in the country. The ,town itself was beautifully laid out, Churches, Schools, Parks and Playgrounds were conspicions. One of the most beautiful war memorials we saw was there, erected to Ithose of the works who had fallee in the war. In the midst of a beautiful park -like sur- rounding was an art gallery, "The Lady Leverhulme Art Gallery." It contained enany most beautiful sta- tues, cut frOm solid white marble. Several, roonts contained furniture. of differ'entt periods. A great for- tune must have been invested in this alone. A charming ,lunch ended the visit to Pert Sunlight. Oh the re- turn to Liverpool a magnificent din- ner was tendered the visitors at the Adelphi Hotel at which the • Lord Mayor presided. At Manchester July 18th 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 morning we were 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 castial 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 and 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 of its best assets. When the French wea- vers came- over in the 161h 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 well 'Worth while. This marvelous projectii,Put through 40, , years ago, meant: 'bringing 'the ocean 351/2- milee-rntland and mak- ing an ocean poit out of an inland Icity. In doing this Ithe 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 canalis seen front 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 front 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, Canadia.a Commis- sioner Ray and others. A few miles up we came to a point where •a snaaller canal was carried across a swing bridge which swung as the tug approached ,the canal, water be- ing securely heist on the bridge by water tight gates ,at both ends. The Channel averages 2.8 feet in depth and is from 200 to, 250 feet wide at the top. Over 160 industrial works of many and various, descriptions sprung into existence on their erect- ion and equipment being estimated at 175 million dollarS. Products are laudedethere front all over ,the world The annual tonnege .in, and- out of this port is.fiee millionass There'bre n� few,es, thapenine docka.‘ancl onecoI! themsis half .asiatileslongs , In the afternoon,. we yesited,, a, cat - 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 oat 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. These 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, whieh is only six miles from Manchester.. has' a populatiOn of 126,000 and in the City Council we were quite surprised to find the mace brought in when the Con -nen was in session, just as in our Legis- latures and Federal Parliathent. The cotton Spinners ,'a-verages about two pounds sterling per week when they work full time. While the men were at Stockport the ladies had a delightful motor ride to Buxton where so many of the Canadian soldiers were in Hospital during the war. They paSsed Had- don FLall, the home of Dorothy Ver - t:1071, and were shown throtigh the Derbyshire residence of the Duke of, Devonshire. — NOTES By the way we+ See more of pub - lie holidays in England than usual in our country, The shops seeni to be closed every Saturday afternoon and evening. You can hardly find O news stand open on a Saturday night. Then many cities have a weekly holiday. In the great man- ufacturing districts many were dos- ed down for a whole week just for a holiday. In Glasgow and gdin, burgh we ran against the same thing. Long 1 -tour- working days are not known in England now as in the old days. Wages are proper- tiouately 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." Rents "are munli 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 of a single factory worker in England owning an automobile. • SIGNS Mistress—loam a woman of few words. If I beckon with my hand that inea,ns `come.' New Maid—That suits me mum. I'm also a woman of few words. If I shake my head it means, "I'm not coming." ee* ee* *0* *0* The frost is on the pumpkin and the shock is in the price. *** **A *** *** When men stare at her, she knows everything is fixed right, when wo- men stare at her, she wonders what is wrong. eee eee eee eee A grouch and his friends are soon parted. *0* *0* *** *** Woman is crazy for wearing c-lothes that freeze her in the winter, says a man who wears clothes that roast him in summer. 41e0* see.*** **-0 The longest sentence in the -world is "I do." 000 ,0** eee see You can't travel far ,on a lame ex- cuse. *** *** *e* *** • The key to success locks the door to excess. **'* *** *0* *A:* THE WILLING WORKER He goes to his task with a song and a smile, He never says "maybe" or "after a while," • - The fellow that's willing to work. Aea e -1. - But he lives in the sunshine that • gladdens today, And lightens each load he. his good- natured way,— The fellow that's willing to work. I -Ie isn't afraid of the trusts that • 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 a little to 'spare ° t' For the fellow that's willing to work. eee eee eee 4,0e. Advertisement in the. Oklahoma City, (Okla.) News..—"Party who tole 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. ee eee eee MERELY LOST HIS LIFE A newspaper editor relates this story about a green reporter, He was _hurried off to write up the raur 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 loose money in the bank the day before, so that he lost practically nothing but his life.' • ee,“ 00* *0* *** LOCAL" PRIDE ,Local pride is liased on affectiOn, 'for the place in which you Bye and alniost 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 ,familiarity not only with the topography and the external asPeSts of the place but also With its spirit. Anyone whose local pride is strong enough to impel him to stick study will- become emblled with an ambi- tion to contribtite to the improve-- , mment of the community: lie will be in his turn one of the makers of its history. \ Local pride that finds its express- ion at 'Mine 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 of home in order to recognize the superior claims to general interest that some other place offers, Provincialism, as local pride is likely to be called when it expresses itself away Priam lionee, is uually bumptious, hpercritical and petty, It retards the mental grow- th Of the man wbo suffers' from it, for he is seldom one who at home shows any local pride of a construc- tive nature. nutuvE TIITI BEST The fellow WhO'S a little wrong Ti very- seldom helped along 13'y making any act of Ms Look blacker than it really is The fellow slipping now and then Will try to get his feet again If those around him clay by day Will only act the other way, And try to give hint credit for The man he is—and maybe moi'e! What people say he is, you see, Is what a fellow tries to be To make a man•throw out his chest. Believe the Best, Forget the rest. We'll all be happier, I'm Sure, And more old friendships will en- jure And more new friendships we will The hearts of all of us to warm, If all are slower to believe Suspicions that will make 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 he closed his eyes, lifted bib hands and shook his head with an air of ecstacy. -After this compliment to the dish, he said interrogatively: "Quack, quack?" "No, no," said the Chinaman, "Bow wbw." all'••••=eloar••••••••••••••• OTJR EASY LANGTL. A writer in the "New StaiZgear n"' takes the fellowiug lines 'krona the late Lord Cromer's "CO osIoPlace Book:" When the Eng1isi1 tongue We $lioak, Why is"break" not rhymed wits '`freak?' Will you tell me why its true We eay"sew," but likewise "Jew;" And the maker of a verse Cannot cap his "horse" with' "worse?" "Beard" sound e not the same as, "heard;" "Cord" is different from "word;" "Cow" is cow, but "low" is "Shoe" is' never rhymed 'with "foe." Think of "hose" and "dose" and "lose;" And of "goose" ---and yet of 'choose' Think of "comb" and "tomb" and "bomb;" "Doll" and "roll;" and "home" and "some." Aid since "pay" is rhymed with: "say," Why not "paid" with "said" I pray? We have "blood" and "food" and "good;" Wherefore "done" but, "gone" and "lone?" Is there any reason known? And, in short, it seems to me Sound and letters disagre "pH Be Herne' aeon, Mother, Writes Sammy' Sanaray is a keen little lad. He looks much younger than he le ---only sixteen—and he has much more wis- dom than is usual at his age. For two years he worked in a foundry doing a mares. work. His father Worked beside him and helped him, master the art of pouring molten metal. One day •Sariutty conapiained of a sore side but hie people didn't. worry much. "It'll be all' right in the morning." mother said; "go and take a rest" But it wasn't all right in the morning, nor the morning after, no, nor a week after. It wag.' then time for a doctor to examine', Sammy. The doctor looked him over. several times, then 'took him to a, , specialist. Both medical men agreed.4!' that Sammy was consumptive and both held out some hope if he "took !' tine cure" at once.; Sammy is quite a favorite up in the Muskoka or ns m Hos ital f C p o u p- tives. He keeps the other patients in goad humor with his pleasant smile., and his quaint stories of French Que- bec where he spent his boyhood day's, "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 I arg-e mea sure reliant upon public' generosity,yor its funds to carry an its work. 4P Contributions may be sent to Hon.. W. A. Charlton, President. 223 College. 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