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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1913-5-29, Page 6mlas DONE E,24.1EONSIMCETRITIBe COM pcnamnortiam.rmo CSTAIILISHER 1901 HEAD OFFSCE: 26 KING STREET EAST - TORONTO MONTR EAU. LONDON, E.C., ENP. The Bands of long-established industrial concerns 6% INCOME SECURITY and MARKETABILITY OUR FIRST MORTGAGE SINK- ING FUND INDUSTRIAL BONDS OF RECENT ISSUES YIELD THE INVESTOR SIX PER CENT $100, $500 or $1,000 bonds are obtain- able, either registered or payable to bearer. Descriptive Circulars upon Request ANDCbIZEOrazinoNporins OUR LETTER FROM TORONTO WHAT 15 0EINC DISCUSSED IN THE CITY AT THE PRESENT TIME. 09151de and Inside Legislative Halls -Dan. -'ger of High Water -Enormous Figures -Millions for Schools. As able is written the tulip bode sur- rounding the Parliament Buildings to Queen's Park are a blaze of glory, the verdure of the grass and trees has reacked a mid-June maturity and the idyllic scene breathes no suspioion of the stirring evente within the brown stone walls that marked the *losing days of the session 02 1913. Someway the tranquility and beauty of 141ay in Queen's Park do not fit 1n with violent partisan disputes. A wintry scene is not inappropriate. After one has braved the stinging west wind which in February or March sweeps across the long paved path from College street to the buildings fixed at 245 foot above the New York levo . Theories that the blgh water is caused by unusually big spring freshets do not stand investigation. One geologtet says that peculiar vibrations of the earth's stir - face calicos the water to rise and tall. The danger of high water is the damage that may be occasioned to wharves, docks and beaches and the inco,7ven1ence paused to ahlpptng. The water in Toronto har- bor is now oloee to the top of the wharves and boats unload under difficulties. Some authorities fear that if we were to have a severe and long continued storm from the east, whfoh would pile the water up at this eud of the Lake, the result to To- ronto's Island might be disastrous. Tho Island is only a sand bar and at no poLnt 18 more than a few feet above tho level of the lake. High water has flooded it bel -ire, but a severe .storm might have a more disastrous effect in shifting its very foundations. Toronto Has "Big Eyes." According to the estimates of the City of Toronto for the financial year, the City proposes to spend the enormous sum of 939,146,142.00. This figure is deceptive. The actual current expenditures for the year amount to $11. 744 956.00. The balance of and swirls and eddies around theentrance something over $27,000,000.20 is made up with particular viciousness, it seems to be of items which might be described as Da- in accord with the fitness of things that the warring of the elements outside should be matched with political turbulence In- side. A May prorogation of the Legislature is unusual. Needless to say, it is not po- pular with the members, and when the Lieutenant Governor (garbed this time in plain black trousers, not the gay white satin which earlier in the year added to the splendor of the occasion) attended to despatch the final formalities, there was a baro quorum of members in attendance. The Proudfoot chargee which were the chief cause of the late prorogation pre- vented the annual disbanding being char- acterized by that feeling of goodfellowShtp among the members which 1s generally observable. Tho British House of Com- mons has been described as the first club in the world, and the spirit of the club is noticeable also in the Legislature. In ordinary times members of the opposing parties mix on terms of the utmost friend- liness, and one whopictures;them ae mor- tal enemies, hardly speaking to -one an- other, -is badly mistaken. But an incident such as the Proudfoot attack, rousing partisan feelings and resulting in *bargee of unfairness on both aides, does much to bury intor-party friendliness. On such occasions the good fellows retire to the background and the fighters come to the front. pital expenditures, that Is, they are for permanent improvements. The significant thing about the figure is that it indicates what an enormous development le under way. The largeet item in the total is an amount of less than seven million dollars for a waterworks extension scheme. There is another two and a half million dollars provided for the Bloor Street viaduct, An item of approximately one million dollars is set aside for a garbage incinerator pleat. The other items aro the ordinary run of public works. That they should amount to such a large total indicates the present temper of the citizens generally toward extension. There is no possibility that all of this sum will be spent durlug the present year, The cash will be raised by the sale of bonds and debentures, and as there is al- ready acme twelve million dollars of these securities nndigeeted, the prospecte for fresh sales aro not of the best. Even with the money available it would not be pos- sible to do more than begin a number of the public works included in this year's estimates. O1 the eleven million odd, to be spent on current expenditures, almost three and a half million is provided by revenue producing assets suoh ea the waterworks, The balance of 90,646,630 is to be raised by taxation, which is to be levied on the tax -payer at the rate of 191-2 mills. On the whole it may be said that the. city L taking Mr. W. P. Maclean's advice and has been getting "big eyes." Lake Ontario on Rampage. Some apprehension is felt on account of the unusually high level of the water in Lake Ontario during the present year. It 1e now almost three feet higher than the average, and as it generally continues ris- ing until early in Juno, it to possible that all records, which have been kept for 50 years back, will be broken. No one understands what causes the fluctuation of the water level In the Great Lakes. Al Toronto fluctuations have been. observed .covering a range of six feet. The lowest ever recorded was when the level sank to 242.92 feet above the mean sea level at Now York. This was. on May 18th, 1895. The highest reached was on May 6th, 1870, when the level was 248.96 feet above the mean level at New York. For a few weeks past the level has been hovering around 248 feet,or, as it is technically described, 36 inches above zero. Zero being a point Sweet Bits of Corn Skilfully cooked— Post Toasties —At Your Service. Ready to eat direct from tightly scaled sani- tary package. From our ovens to your table Post Toasties are not touched by hu- man hand. Delicious with cream ,and sugar . or fruits. For sale by grocers everywhere.. Post Toasties have Distiinctive. Flavor tlanadfah Pootnm Cereal Co., Ltd. Windsor, Ontdrto, BRITONS' WINTER I'ARAIIISE Thin BEAUTIFUL FRENCH TOWN OF CANNES. . Its Ilotels Are Generally Run By Germans and Are Very Expensive. Candies its the, winter paradise of the n Englisharoe splendid golf 1 nks. Hereman. Juet west of - abouts is the most famous polo playing on the Riviera, and here, both on shore and back in the hills, are most wonderful v it a central inhabited by English. point of the town and coast is a statue of the late Euglish king, Edward VII., in the t short coat and cap of a yachtsman. Three-quarters of a century ago Lord Beougham rode on donkey - back, as one may rids to -day, oveT the mountain, and discovered Cannes and the Bay of Napoulo, on which it is situated, Therefore, his name is here perpetuated in park, statue, etc. There had, though, been a town here before the famous English lawyer arrived. In fent, a Roman consul destroyed one town that stood here as early as 55 B.O. The new glory of the place is en- tirely due to the beauty of its sur- roundings and the "salubrity of its climate, also to the initiative of two Englishmen, the famous Lord Brougham and Sir Robinson Wool - field." French Sky—English Streets. Attacks on Toronto's Schools. Toronto spends over a million and a half dollars a year on the maintenance of its public echoole. It spends another quarter of a million on tho maintenance of its high schools and a further hundred thou- sand on the maintenance of its techutoal and commercial soboole. In grad spent last year practically a million dol- lars on school buildings and sites, so that the present rate of expenditure moans that practically three million dollars a year is being spent by the city on its publics school system. One of the industrious trustees has been doing some figuring, with the- result that he estimates that in one high school of the city it is costing 9690 a'year to teach and provide accommodation for each upper school pupil, and that in all but one or two collegiates this coat exceeds 9100 per pupil. At Harbord Street. Collegiate, which is perhaps the beet known, the cost wee 9140 per pupil. Each pupil in the public. schools cost no less than $40 a year, In spite of these large figures, Mayer Hocken is on record as declaring that the eohool system in Toronto to -day is no bet- ter than it was forty years ago, if as good. There le a diepoeition in many quar- ters to criticize the system because of the fade and frills. T110 latest attractionin which this tendency is shelving itself is in the decision to engage a bead teacher of dressmaking at a salary of 91,500 a year. The iarument In is that they areeprr acti:al, the but is t frllele doubtful if they always realize that standard. Mayor Hocken is advocating a radical change in the system of levying taxation for school purposes. At present the school taxes are included in the general tax rate and roughly amount to about one-third of. the total, or a fraction over six mills on the dollar, The taxes are collected by the city, but the City Council. Ins little juris- diction in the spending of the money, which is done by the Board of Education. The Mayor's scheme is to separate the eohool taxes from the general taxes and let the Board of Education be directly re- sponaible to the people for the collection 5of its 18 111inke thn e money d of wl Educationno t ove.. gndaanf (apparently wants to wash hie a The guide -book says: "Cannes is very French and very Pr0vencale as regards its sun, its blue sky, and its southern flora, but the town has become anglicized by the regularity and cleanliness of its new streets, lined with buildings resembling pal- aces and luxurious hotels, which leave nothing to be desired 8.9 re- gards comfort and sanitary ar- rangements," These hotels seem to be neither French nor English. They are mostly run by Germans. It is ex- pensive living ab the hotels, but if you should choose to hire a furnish- ed House, there is no place in the world where you could live much more cheaply than at Canners, and dielightfully, especially if you could live on air, oranges, salad greens, and oil, with fish, those that swim and those in shells. If one is to judge by the hundreds of feet of fish net beach or esplanade in the west, a great deal of fishing must be done. The market is but mildly interest- ing. The confectionery shops, like many of the shops along the shop- ping street, are meet of 'them fine, and contain quantities of candied fruits. Burt this whole coast, even to Genoa, Italy, is famous for this business. Whole melons, whole or- anges, peaches, etc., are treated? by a long process. A specialty of this neighborhood is a small mandarin. A great many of these little fruits aro candied. In one of the shops there is a fancy basket which axlu•st hold a bushel, and this is packed with these fruits The Countess of Crewe, Who entertained the King and Queen on the occasion of their visit' to Crewe Railway Works. She was Lady Margaret Primrose, daughter of Lord Rosebery. ' A. GREAT COMET. Travels Ono Thousand Five Hun - deed Miles a Day. We think we are doing something quite wonderful when we take a train weighing a few thousand toms and bring it through from Venoou- ver to Montreal on time to the sec- ond, says an exchange. And it is wonderful, when the fact is consid- ered that less than half a century ago the trip required nearer three men bio than them) days, and such a thing as completing the journey at an appointed minute was out of the question. This great feat, however, looks a good deal like a child hauling its tin train of cars around the kit- chen when one oo0nsidess the speed of ono of the big (creels.- There is a comet that cones With- in eight of the earth every 575 years. Its tail is millions of miles in thickness and many more mil- lions of miles in length. It was first seen, so far as history remade, 1769 years before the coming of Ohrist. In a few weeps it faded from the sky, only to return in 1194 and 619 B.C. The . year 44 B.O. it came again, returning in 531- and 1106 A.D. The last time it' wars seen was in 1681, when Sir Isaao Nevi - ton beheld it, and discovered that comets are kept in their orbits by the sun, the eamle as the earth and the other planets. Two hundred years have ' n osv passed since the comet disappeared. Even if it has been travelling no more rapidly than the earth goes around the sun, its enormous bulk has been shooting through space at the rate of about 1,500,000 miles a day. Yet in 343 years from 'now—in 2256—thus same old comet that was already a well-lcnolvn visitor when it looked down upon Julius Oaersar, will again come within sight of those human beings who will then inhabit the earth, Talk about a railroad train going half wary across a continent in three days and reaching its destination on time, what is such aperfouinance as compared with that of a comet that makes a trip of 310,000,000,000 of miles in 575 years and keeps so closely to its schedule that it always bursts from the darkness at the moment when the astronomers ex- pect it. In the Most Ifflautiful Variety. One can buy ripe olives in the market here, and olive oil as well ao orange flower water are .both manufactured in the town. Both are as good as any that one can get anywhere in the world, and one oan have for 6 cents a bottle of either, containing as muoh as we should pay about 76 emits or a $1 fox at home. Of course, the natives cook with oil. A native cook would not maks English toasted bread unless she was taught to dews, but instead, if she wanted something of this sort, would fry her bread in oil until it was quite hart, On the boulevard that runs along the shore, like a sort of embank- ment, there are various planes where sewage water comes down from the hills. back. At these piaee•s the 'gulls gatther, and near the ca- sino, where there is a great via- duct, people stand and feed these birds, which the French call "les mouettes." A bread merchant stands near, and from shim, people purchase what they throw to the hundreds of gulls, which catch great pieces that are tossed in the air, make it circle, and are back again for an•oth•er piece. The pieces of broad that fa11 into the water are never lost, far the younger and less oouragoons hirds hover, ready to jump in after any crumbs bhak fall, When by them- oelvos they .malty no great noise, but, when being fed in this way, they ,scream const:antly. The casino •dining -room, a few steps lower than the tea-room, looks like en ideal place to eat in, with • the blue Mediterranean stretching) away from its great plate glass windows. Cause of Poverty. Soule men arc poor because they have smoked up their cake and guz' sled their moss ai pottage. A matt may think ho has extra- ordinary business ability if he sue deeds in aegniring a rich see -in-law. R , Job at Last. Huggins—"Whatever became of that friend o£• yours who used to have"money to burnt" Buggins•--"Re's sifting the ash- es." A Promising Writer. Gibbs—You say your friend is a very prolific writer of fiction. What sort .of fiction Dibbs—L 0, U,'s :mostly. A tonsorial parlor in which only dumb.barbers were employed would probably do an 11D1D01180 business. NOT INTELLECT BUT TONGUE atilt WHITCST.LIsefet 1`1 t1 IG E 1 C A IV Fa C, tq CON` /TAINS INCA ALUM. CONFORMS TO THE I'1 I GH STANDARD O F GI LLE"TT'S GOODS. Ili 1111 .111111 illlllllillQl 011111111.1 11101.111l11111.1111.. I111 I 1 II.II 111111 10 FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND stTes dnhedihge FoCrrokHo tel, NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HEB BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going on in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Scottish manufacture iron work - ere' wages have been increased by 6 per cent. About $1,000 01 damage was done by a fire that occurred ab Patrick Sawmill, Glasgow. The old garrison artillery guns 'have been• mounted on the Moat Brae at Kirkcudbright. Mr, J. Johnstone, a great tem- perance worker in Dingwall, is about to leave for Canada. Lieut. Colonel Douglas Campbell is to retire after 28 years service in the Seaforth Highlanders. .,The sanitary state of Bishopwell is at present receiving the careful attention of the local authorities. Alderman A. Logan, Mayor, of Berwick, has been appointed Dan- ish Vice -Consul for Berwick, dis- trict, , The death has occurred at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, of Ms. William Stewart, of The Glen, In- nerleithen. The new private fitting -out basin at Russell & Co's llingston yard, Port Glasgow, may bo completed by June. Suffragettes were caught, lately in the act of attempting to set fire to the naw grand -stand at Kelso race. course. The dreaded Isle of Wight dis- ease has made its appearance among. the stocks of beekeepers in East Lothian, Dumfries School Board are dis- cussing a proposal to reconstruct Loreburn Street School at a cost of $7,500. Montrose is destined to become one of^the most important aerial and naval centres on the east coast of Scotland. -Arbroath Town Council havede- cided to purohaao premises in Mar- ketgate street as a site for the pub - lie baths. - Lieutenant -General :Sir Robert Baden-Powell visited Kilmarnock and made an inspection of the Ayr- shire Boy Scouts. At the Highland and Agricultur- al Show at Paisley the county terri- torials are to furnish a guard of honor to the Duke of Teok; In coast villages in Rose -shire and the Island of Lewis an experiment is being made with nine o'clock Closing of public houses. The sculpture hall and museum which have been added to the Col- lege of Art, Edinburgh, were open- ed by Lord Provost Inohos. Aberdeen Harbor Trustees have abandoned the idea of laying out money on constructing landing Is Reason for +Parrots Being. Able to Articulate Better. A -German scientist has gathered some curious data eomoerhing the tongues of birds. As he points out, madly persons suppose that wood- peckers use their sharp -pointed tongues as darts with which to transfix their prey. It is true, says Harper's Weekly,,, that the Woodpecker, like the hum- ming -bird, can dart out its tongue with extraordinary rapidity and than its month is furnished with an elaborate mechanism for this pur- pose, yet investigation shows bloat the object of their swift motion is only to catch the prey, not to pierce it. For the purpose of holding the captured viobixn the woodpeoker''s tongue is furnished with asticky aeeretinll. Inasmuch as it possesses the pow- er ofimitating speech, it is not sur- prising to learn - that the parrot's tongue resembles that of man more closely than any other bird's tongue does. 3t is not because the parrot is more intelligent than many other birds, but because its tongue is bet- ter suited for lbrticuls(wo•n than theirs that it is able to amuse us with its mimicry. In some respects the humming•• birdls tongue, is the most remark- able of all. It is double nearly from end to end, so than the little creature is able to grasp its insect prey very much as if its mouth wore furtiShod with a pair of fingers. Tweedsmuir, Peebles, which was dropped three years ago, has been renewed by the licensing court. It has been deoided to close Holyrood Palace to the public in order to obviate any possible risk of danger being done .by suffra- gettes. Dalbeattie is to erect a tablet on the Town Hall Buildings to the memory of Lieut. W. N. Murdock, R.N.R., who went down with the Titanic. A public meeting was held in 'The Council Chamber in Gatehouse to oonsider the advisability of adver- tising the town as a holiday resort. Ayr Town Council are to put - chase at cost of $1,000 one of the fire -engines discarded by Glasgow Corporation in favor of. motor en- gines. A threatened strike of the plum- bers in the Falkirk district bas been averted by the concession to the men of an increase of one cent. per hour. • Glasgow bricklayers to the num- ber of about 900 have accepted the compromise of the employers, and the new rate of wages, 21 cents per hour. A distressing drowning accident, involving the death of two kcal fishermen named Henry and Mail, occurred at Levenwick Bay through the capsizing of a boat. • James McRobbie, while working on the glass roof of a shed in Lev- en Shipyard, Dumbarton, fell through and alighted on Robert Paxton's- head, ,killing him instant- ly. McRobbie was only slightly in- jured. • There's room at the top, but the experienced traveller prefers the lower berth. LIVING CHEAP IN JAPAN Bix---I believe every man should own his own home, don't you? Dix• •Sure l And as many otll^,r people's to he can. WAGES ARE CORRESPONDING. LY VL.IIY SMALL. - For Recreation the Julia Go Out tot. See the Cherry ' Blossoms. Seven thousand miles away is m nation of 69,000,000 people whose average income is $33 a year. How do the Japanese live on such in- eomes 1 Their menu cards, if they had any, would read like this: ]31iEAKFAST. , . Tea. Dried Fish Soup. • Boiled Barley and Ries. Miso. Tea. LUNCHEON. Tea. Ball of Cold Rice. Cold Broiled Fish. Tea. DINNER. Sake. Vegetable Soup. Boiled Rice. Sake. Miso, Raw Fish Sliced. Rice Boiled.; Sake. Radish Pickle. Tea. Sake. Or if you were to get a peep at the ?bookkeeping of a Japanese you would see something like this: By one year's income $23.00 To taxes ...... ... .$4.40 To rent ...... .... .... ,.. 1.60 To food .... ........ .. .14.00 To clothes 2.00 To incidentals 1.00 Postage Stamp Buys Meal. GR �. REFERRED �pup �,' Etta f9 �"«S' " A Neap Booklet 10 Pat Issued, dealing with repiresentatIV0 preferred stocks and containing infor- mation as to the business, directors, capitalization, dI• vidends, earnings, market value, eto., of the oompanies considered. Copy on Request A. E. A M E S && CO. Members Toronto Stock Exchange 'TORONTO MONTREAL FILsend-in Coupon, copy of "Prefmail to erred Stoand we shall NAME, ....... PLACE. PRov 1IIIliI1111111111111 M1111111111111111111111i1111121111Mili11➢111111011111111111111111111111 f 2 How $5,000 Will Earn a ®liar a Day Maxleaum of safety, combined with high interest yield, is the desire of �ll ' investors. The following suggestion for the investment of $5,000 seems to meet both these conditions: Int. Security Bate. Toronto Paper Bonds . 0% 12 Tooke BI•oa„ Prof.. 7% ' Ontario Pulp Bonds ., 6% Qf 1 18 Macdonald Common 5% I Can, Machinery Bonds Os 25 Par Price, Value. peat. Yield, 9100 91,000'01,000 and Int. $ 60 80 1.,200 1,068 84 96 1,000 960 and bit. _ - 60 55 1,800. 090. 40 9S 1;000 980 and Fut. 60 09,000 $4,998, Bonds and stocks of a par value of *6,000 would thus be purchased for $4,99S, and accrued interest on the bonds, yielding $354 per annum, equal to 7108%, Wo believe the above prices will appreciate consider- ably from the present low level. �i°MINI N -BOND: COMPANY, LITEJA.Mb DOAf1:NtON 530700 DTfrk.DI52'• DOMINION AXIMEieB iltit'Lpy:ta TORONTO PVIOiY"1'.1t131Ayr VArroovvon. LONDON; )siva. etas a The land of the fertile rico plains, or the mosquito breeding paddy fields, according to your viewpoint or your feeling point, is the place where a postage stamp buys a meal. If the menu offered does not appeal you spend your two cents for baked sweet potatoes or rich, juicy - "udon," macaroni made of buck- wheat flour ; with it have a sweet orange and tea and be happy. Why strive for high soaring steak, aris- tocratic Irish potatoes and the white loaf 4 Take three bowls of rice three time a day and be con- tent. A Japanese gives the following estimate of the monthly cost of liv- ing for a mechanic's . family, in which the husband earns 37% cents a day and the. wife 121% cents. In this family are two children, one 9, one 7 years old, and an old mother of 60. The wages would amount to $15 a month if both worked thirty days, so the family is slightly, above the average. Rent ...,.. $1:50 Rice . .. .... .. 4,00 Fuel, oil , . ... 1 .. .81 Vegetables ...... .. .81 Saving - 1.00 Newspaper .12 Sugar, soy, salt, tea ,... .93 Liquor and tobacco ...... 1,35 School expense .. .. .00 Children's allowance .... .60 Bath ., , ...... .37 Hair dressing .. .... .. .26 Clogs ... . .24 Paper and matches ., ... .10 Contingency .... , ... .. .80 America • Seems a Paradise. f 11 1111111111111111111111111111111111i1IllirtlNll �1➢II➢lI➢NIIIIIIIIIlIIp1111111IIIIg11lI 1111111. No wonder America seems a para- dise to the Japanese newcomer. If he be a coolie he can earn as much herein a month as he could at home . in a year. The Manner of living of the Japanese does not make allow- ance for palaces, autoinobiles,- steam heat and such things. In all Japan there are just three hun- dred .automobiles, and half of them aro owned by foreigners. The thick straw maty; are tho only furniture needed in a Japanese house. They are three by Six feet in size'an'd take the place of tables, , beds and chairs, The house is nev- er heated. In winter the people pub on thick wadded kimonos, sit on their feet and hold their hands oyer a little chareoa;l brazier. For recge ation they go out to the fancily burying ground to worship the spirits of their' ancestors or to a f, shrine- to see the sherry blossoms. If earthquakes, which are as com- mon there as thunder storms here, shake down the little houses orthey areswept away by the fires that a proverb 'says sweep ,Tokio every scion years, the little brown folks only smile and murmur "Sliikata ga nal!" (There is no help for 'it). .r- Wondcrful Malden. Ted --"Slee seems to be a very' methodical girl about things." Ned —"Very., .She: can find anything in her work -basket without emptying it into her lap, and sorting it all over bit .by 'bit." • Carelessness is' nearly always the most costly item in an expense a0 - count. . The longest speech ever made in a British court of law was that con. eluded last November by Sir John Simon, the Solicitor -General, after he had addressed the Railway Com- missioners in the telephone arbitra- tion proceedings - for nearly ton days. 4