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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-12-20, Page 3ed is Hat observer warns Blizzards, being rare, do not necessarily alwaye follow R esents Slander ebiiwok. But it frequently happens that it severe blizzard cornea in the wake of one, 1"Holas Reputation as Being The blizzard is peculiar to North "Lover of the Blizzard" America. Other parts of the world have severe winter storms, but no one When it Simply fells of them has anything just like the the \Vest Of Dread blizzards Europe's great winter storms Storms Ap- h Medicine Hat never sees much snow. come from the northeast; the blizzard always comes from the northwest. proae A,fail of one foot, fifteen years ago; OBSERVATORY THERE stands -today as the record. The low- estledicine }Tat, Alberta is not res- temperature, e8 degrees below w m s.bl.e lar the .blizzards that peri - Lying occurred in 1913. odiceil 'go roaring down the ,eontirf : Vying in a depression two miles South Sas- Y gthe Sot h out by1 wide, scooped o qtr p nt .contrary to a gen al belief ketchewan River during many ages, io lined for a long time. Medicine Hat is 200 feet below ihe "The I•lat" gets the had reputation prairies: that :stretch away for miles 1 e.e,y bccausp it has the only weather 'ineveiy diseetion. hong,ago two hos stetion in an enormous territory in : !he Western Canadian prairies, The t'le ljrihes, of Indians engaged isn a blizzards cross the international'l { trio omile or two above the present site of ,the town. Before the fighting boundary` line south and east of Medi - vine Hat, and the bel'ar has- become :eea one of the' me kine men can- sealee d in 'his war bonnet some rare herbs found only in the Rocky Mound tains. During the fight he lost it. 1 almost universal that `,'Medicine Hat is where they originate." But Medicine Hat's . weather ob- >server declares this is false and many ,ef the city's leading citizens support his statement. storm arras no exact place of war bonnet was found some distance -genesis" says Hugh Hassard, 75 -year- down the river where it had floated `old :weather observer at Medicine Hat. and lodged at a -place wherethe stream "You might ea well -say that all the makes a. great "U" turn at a wide and water that flows down the. Mississippi 'River past New Orleans same from Laice Itasca as to say that blizzards orioinate here in illedicine Hat." The observer at Edmonton, 200 miles tp the northwest declares that 'blizzards are unlinow%u up there, and that while one may be raging at "The Hat; sweening: south -and east and prostrating half, a continent, the pro- vincial'capital basks in pleasant win- ter sumehine and the calm of a wood- land -lake. "Tjie blizzard carne from that direc- tion, just the same," Mr. Hasserd in- sists. "Perhaps a ten -mile -an -hour zephyr started away up beyond Daw- son City, Alaska, followed the' long MacKenzie Valley, passes over the Slave Lakes and up the Peace River; 'thence down to the prairies, gathering 'momentum and size. with every mile. By the time it reached us heve in Southern Alberta it was a blieeari that grew worse beyond the line '-, • 7vlantana, the Dakotas .andon ok-`- ward amens the American prairies,; siatil finally it became di sipeted fee - 'wise over a wide secticn as it neared 00 'the seaboard." MEDICINE HAT'S NAM);. When the battle' was over and len. side the -. victors, the medicine man's deep depression in tale prairie. Medi- cine slat -was the name immediately conferred upon the location. Natural gas, which caused Rudyard Kipling to call Medicine Hat "the town that was horn lucky," brought three of the city's chief industries there -pottery, flour mills and brick works. The "lucky town" uses -Ifip- ling's words for -n slogan. Great wheat and cattle ranches extend in every direction from Medicine Hat, among them being the E. P. Ranch, owned by Edward, Prince of Wales, at High River, about sixty miles westward. `Paris —}1(ew "y6rk•; THE SWEEP OF A BLIZZARD, Occasionally the Appalachians -'break it and save Charleston, Sayan-, nah and ,aeksonvillefrom cold spells. But all the rest of the country east of "the Reeky Mo sntains feels its effects. Thermometers in New Orleans will drop to 20 degrees, while a "norther" •brings woe to residents of Texas and , Oklahoma, There is nothing to indicate the ap- proach of a blizzard, Mr. Hassard 'states. They come unexpectedly, like calamities. Men who have spent years 'on the prairies perhaps would "'call 'they --turn" oftener than less-experi- •eneed ones, he thinks, Doubtless that is.'Why 'he has such a high reputation as stn, observer in Teront-o, where Can • %lien' weather data are daily assembl- .ed, for he has lived fifty-four years on the prairies. '«I would never be brash' enough to say that a blizzagd is coating, because they cover a vast area and I am only a dot in the region of their progress •s'outheastward," Hassard Went , en.. "They coine, usually, after we've had some precipitation. It gets rapidly .colder after the rain, which has turn- ed to snow. The wind increases and blows from the not rawest. Each flake of snow turns to ice that pelts and •cuts, and finally the air is filled with 'these tiny, round pellets, fine a dust but each as round as a sphere. -"The fury of the 'wind takes your 'breath away and makes the cold seem 'far mere intense than it really is, though the thermometer always falls inuch lower after the blizzard has passed. I have been lost in •blizzards on the Manitoba prairies and the only way I was able to find my bearings was by feeling the grass: The pre- vailing,winds over.there are from the northwest and the grass always leans toward the southeast. In that manner I was able to reach my (legislation be cause of a 'canvass' that never var- ied." Ranchers and prairie dwellers have been lost and perished in blizzards ee,. while going from their houses to their barns. Sometimes they prepare for 'blizzards: by stringing wire or ropes from one farm building to another and to their houses. In a blizzard objects cannot be distinguished ten feet away. Often while blundering about on the prairie ranch men, will collide_with horses and stock which, like them- selves„were blinded by the fury of the blizzards*' Windsor -Detroit Seek New Wheat Bridge Soon Open Grading Process Two -Mile Structure Extend» Saskatchewan Growers Want Present Visual Test ' Abandoned Kipling Saeik,—Abandonment oe rho ing into United States to Have Great. Ef- fect on Traffic Byrd Expedition Advance Guard Sails Southward Supply Ship Eleanor Bolling Leaves Dunedin for South Detroit. --In 'visual test, and the instltu- ln .process of construction Polar Regions acrose the Detroit River at a site tion ,of a new procose of grading Wellington, N.Z. — The advance where the Indians, for years before wheat based upon protein values was guard of Commander Richard Id. the arrival of the white -man, found It l recommended by witnesses'. 'epee- BYrd's eipedition is sailing south• most convenient to ford is the longest l senting the agricultural interests of Ward to establish a base at the edge span highway bridge in the world, and,southeast Saskatchewan who appear.' of the Antarctic ice bariior. when completed in the summer of ed before the Saskatchewan Royal Fifty , mon and Commander Byrd 1129 will be known. as the Antbassa- dor Bridge. This great connect structure win ' he trails whichin r byled t r years mono 3 6 into the wildernesses of both. Michi- gan and Ontario, and which' were tra- versed by the iluron :warriors in their - journeys to and from tho river. More than fifty years or the white man's efforts to bridge this river are culminating now in the rapid building of tho span, -which will join Detroit, Mich., to Sandwich, Ant. Early Plane, developed in the days when Detroit was but a small community .and the SECRETARY TQ PRINCE river bore but a fraction of its present of Wales, with volume of commerce, were curious .of - Lady Godfrey: Thomas,, private secretary to the Priuoo Lady Thomas, as :lie left Canada for honk :after a two-months'..vacation. feringc. Osuch plan wfor a series of pontoonnos or Seatsas to be swung aside to permit river traffic' to pass through the opening thus pro-. vided.• Progress -Brings Relief Even in those early days, however, it was foreseen thatstructures such as tltie would hamper. development of traffic on Detroit River. Gradually as newer methods of construction made possible the great lengths of spans and with the rapid increase of water- borne commerce through the Great Lakes, it became 'apparent that only in a single, mighty span from shore to shorn could this international bridge be realized. Cato the automobile and with it the rapid growth of the city of'De- troit and oe the border cities of On- tario, along with the necessity for free interchangeof, passengers and freight. The ferry service, expand as it might, could not handle the -ever-fucreasfng volume of traffic without, at times, considerable delay. It was Charles Evan Fowler of New 'tort City. a eoneulting engineer, who took the initial etep to project a bridge. along modern lines. In 1925 plans for the international structure took definite form when Joseph A. Bower of New York City, a former Detroiter, became actively in- terested and completed the ultimately successful efforts to snake the bridge a reality. Location Is Praised No better location for the bridge could be found than the one adopted, and the general type, a wire cable sus- p'ension span. Plans for the project were drawn and approved by the two governments di Canada and the U.S. In the spring o0 1527, which enabled the sponsors of the bridge to arrive at a final estimate of costs and to arrange for the 'necessary fluancing. On May 7, 1927, actual work on the bridge was started on the American side, and one month later work was begun on the Canadian end. The date for the bridge to open was established by a contract as not later than August 16, 1930. No delay was tolerated and every ounce of man and machine power pos- sible has been exerted since tate very beginning of the work, as is shown by a recent announcement that every indication points to the opening of the international highway on July 4, 1029. It is quite probable, too, that the Prince of Wales may be present at the • ceremony. For more than one hundred years the United oStates and Canada have lived peacefully, separated only by 'um fortified barriers. The Ambassador Bridge will be a new link spanning a water barrier to tis more closely choice. : these friendly nations. Situated in a strategic position, where the flow of commerce is continually increasing, this bridge will promote the exchange of raw and manufactured product and constitute one of the most important contribution of recent years to the In- ternational growth and amity. Almost Two Mlles Long The bridge structure itself, from en. trance to exit, is approximately 9,000 feet, or almost two miles. The main span over the river is 1,850. feet in length, which exceeds that of the Philadelphia -Camden bridge -now the longest in the world—by 100 feet. The bridge will carry an unobstructed roadway forty-seven feet wide, with a capacity of five lanes of traffic and an eight -foot sidewalk. The clearance over high water' in the -river will be 135 Peet near the shore and 162 feet near the centre of the span. . The main piers which support ,the two steel towers. are close to the two harbor lines, leaving the entire avafl- I et t h f navigable water• free Air Mail Service Tourists . to Pacific Coast Rudyard Kipling Sees Utility - in Increased Tourist Traffic London.—"That Maritime By-pro- duct; Passengers," was the topic of Ludyard Kipling at the anneal'dinner of the Liverpool Shipbrchers' Eine Experiment Will Be Tried at End of Present'Month and Service Will be Ex- tended if Test Proves Suc- cessful ve'ent Society. _. Montreal -An air ,mail service be. Referring to the bad olri dais when tweets Mosit,eai au1 Vancouver' is passengers were neglected, 'Mr. Kip - Promised by the postal authorities if ling went on to say: "Now that we an experiment they contemplate car- have imposed the world -end habit on rying out from December 19 to 29 the week -end habit, the caseis altered: proves successful, Victor Gantlet, So ling as the passengers muster at Postmaster foul the district of Motit-' boat stations with our belts on and do real, told members of the Chamber rot try to alter the ship's course or of 'Commerce recently. Tho inaugn set her .alight, we can do absolutely ration of such a serifce between here what eve please. And the do, - and the Pacific Coast would take 24 "To take one side of our activities hours off the time noes* required to de- only. We arrive in 20,000 -ton liners liver mail to Vaueeuver, to 'assault lovely and innocent coast - Mr. Gaudet emphasized, the linen_ towns, a thousand of us, under cover tion of the Federal G-overnmeut to of -a gas attack by 200• motor cars: use this service as a factor in bring- We roar through the streets, a pillar leg all parts of the Dominion into of dust by day.' We come back at closer communication. The Govern- night, with our picture postcasds,'0b mint :had committed itself to a policy dance to amplified gramophones on of providing an air mail service to , promenade decks, settlements which. are practically curl "And this traffic this prodigious off ,from outside communicatiou'^<dur-• tourist traffle—is increasing. Time Ing the winter months, he said. , and distance, only excite it to wilder The speaker contrasted the differ- effort; for there is a man at this table ence in the manner mail is delivered who expressed his regret to me the to the Island of Anticosti and Seven other day that he could not for the Islands singe the air mail service has moment -for the moment, nark you— been introduced. Formerly, these' include the' Galapagos Islands (where sections of the country had to be ser the giant tortoises come from). in a wed by.dog teams, which took 15, tourist itinerary. days to coyer the distance an airplane "Even supposing we may be able completes in a few hours. next year to cruise about, scratching Starts December 19 our initials on turtle back sterns, Starting December 19, tile authors --what is the good of us? Apart from ties will give temporarily an air mail, our dividend earning capacity, what service from Winnipeg to Regina; :?moral purpose do we passengers serve from Regina to Calgary, and ' from, in the general scheme of things'? Calgary to Edmonton via Saskatoon. " "This—and it is not a little matter: In this manner a letter mailed het'e I whett we are home. again, and have before 10 o'clock on Monday, leaves arranged the snapshots of ourselves for Toronto by plane at 11.15 a.m., and Is in Winnapeg by train oa Wed- nesday morning. A half hour later it leaves for Regina by air and is there before noon. It reaches Cal gary at 4.15 p.m. and is in Edmonton DISTINGUISHED MODEL A distingiushed model of lustrous black crepe satin, featuring the diag- onal closing bodice and circuit* flared skirt in front, showing smart up -in - the -front wasitline. The most re• markable thing about it is the easy manner in which it is made: G,anton- faille crepe, wool crepe, dull flat silk crepe, crepe Roma, georgette crepe, crepe Elizabeth, sheer velvet and sheer tweed are appreciated for Style No. 910: The applied band around neck and down front is interesting made of contrasting fabric or color, or cut from the bias of fabric, Pattern in sizes 16, 18, 80 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and i 6 inches bust measure. Size 86 requires 8 yards of 40 -inch ma- terial with a yard of 30 -inch con- trasting. Price 20e in stamps or coin (coin is preferred). Wrap coin care- fully. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write yqur .ame and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) `for each number and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St, Toronto. Patterns sent by: return mail. Chances Are Poor CHINOOKS. A Medicine Hat Winter is bete suc- ceseion of chinooks. They are warm, dry Winds that blow in th-rough the passes of the Rocky Mountains from the Pacific Coast, Because they came afron, the direction of a nearby Chi- nook Indian camp, fur then called the /item, dry winds that brought winter rains chinooks. Crows Nest Pass acid Kicking Horse Pass are two of the principal low spots in the mountains that admit chinoolcs, 100 miles or more west of Medicine Hat. Perhaps "The Hat" has bad a steady cold spell for a'week or so early in January, with a thermometer never down below zero and seldom more than eight or ten inches of chow. Then one morning residents awaken, and off to the south, low in the sky, they see soft; dark clouds that so�inetimes as- sume the form of an arch, which is known as, "the chinook arch," If the chinook clouds are intensely black, the warm spell will be all the more pronounced ; and probably of greater duration. As the dry wind - sweeps out aver the prairies' the clouds will disappear, and- a clews' blue sky follows and the warm wind' blows with the softness of March in Maryland. Every mild spell in winter is not the herald of a chinook, Mr. Hassard points out. A chinook is a definite, distinct phenomenon. "After a chinook watch out for a blizzard!" ,the Medicine Hat weather standing in front of the Pyramids or the Parthenon, we have, at the lowest realized that there 'are other lands than ours, where people lino their own lives in their own way, and touched the things we have hitherto only read an hour later. A saving of 24 about. hours results. "Ad when interest in one's neighbor, As regards the international mail curiosity about his housekeeping, and service which commenced on Octo- understanding os his surroundings are ber 1, Mr. Gaudet is unable ps yet waked and can be gratified in hart - to produce flguees,'but at present it dreds of thousands of hearts, trey is being more extensively used by make for tolerance, good will, and so the inhabitants of the United States than of Canada. Some husbands give their 'wives kisees by the bushel.' Others are con- tent on tent with a "peck." Crain Commisaion, in its initial pro- were on the supply ship Eleanor Boil - i when lett Dunedin w It t r towingan- v i g incial session. s other ship'the south polar a Ione to r representative's,w hop g The farmers' were selected to represent the dig The'party will establish a base in the trio at a convention held recently Bay of Whales., and remaine there also recommended absolute 'abandon- while the' Eleanor Bolling returns to mina or' mixing in every form and Dunedin for the remainder of the the establishment of some additional personnel and equipment.' grades; viz, ems, frosted or five rust Dr,'Vaclov Voiitech, a young Czech - ed, to take care of grain too good for slovakiaa geologist, whose original grade No. 5 and not quite good en- application to join the expedition was ough for No. 4. refused, won a' place in it by per - Witnesses testifled , that- in this sistence, '._ Not content' with the re- section the milling value of this fugal he made hie way to Wellington, year's crop is very' high, that is the arriving soon after Commander Byrd. protein quality, but grades aro low He renewed his. plea and was prom - because of 'appearances and "off= ised a place on the Eleanor Bolling Weight” and color. Several swore on her second trip. ' they knew, by tests 'as well as fact, ' For the first few hundred miles of that local millers _are making a lino his 2000=mild voyage to the ice-cov- quatite' of tour out of number six. ered polar continent, Commander This mill product is sold in this torri- Byrd will.' have easy sailing. Later tory. however,, the ships will lave' to force :,Thomas, porter, of Kelso, testified their way through the polar ice pack. that the . grain growers feel very In the Antarctic, Deems' - are the. `strongly over the manner in which world's largest icebergs, the biggest their grain is degraded, as he term on record :having a length of five ed it, by lake -head mixing houses. miles, They move slowly through This is our wheat. It goes Into the ice path, giving the navigator a the Private terminals without our con .constaat.problem, sent and is mixed without our per . The :ships will require several mission and the mixers extort a huge .weeks for tee plodding'trip. Dur - revenue from that source," ,said Mr. Ing this time natural scientists plan Porter. "Then it goes• overseas and to gather data on the depth and tem. it is not the same grain we 'delivered peraure or . the water, the nature of at the lake -head. The ultimate buy- the ocean bottom, the structure and er won't pay the price that he would movement of the ice pack and the. have paid had it been the same wheat, direction of currents. that started from our farm, then the The' party will set up a portable price he is willing to pay,'is the Liv- town at Use ice barrier, and this will erpool quotation and that quotation -be its base of operations for at least on our degraded wbeat overseas a year end a half. comes back to Canada and sets the level of prices in turn that the wheat) here is sold for, minus the dint of de -i Most men are quick to embrace an livery at Liverpool It is au endless opportunity—when' it's wearing frills. chain and vicious circle with the : farmer getting tte worst of it and Wonder what the big captains of the mixing house owners alone of all industry do when they are -not pre. concerned reaping 'Heli profits." ' dieting "continued prosperity"? Customs Men Curb Canadian Border Traffic There is small hope in the ,use of a specially fitted automobile for smug- gling liquor into the States across the Canadian border, because all the secret places on a motor car are known to the customs men, points out Richard Carroll in "Liberty Magazine." "There is ecarcely 'a dodge worked by the to'ur'ist that is new to the cus- toms man, reports Carroll.. "The wise tourists talk of spare tires, or seat springs, or dashiapards and o^- good places under the hoods covering the engine. Forget it. They're all known. Everyone of them. False tops, false bottoms, even fake lamps. The cars designed to carry supplies of rum in. quantity over' the border are seized when found, impounded, and the own- ,ers held in stiff bail. Among the little fellows; who pay a fine of $5 a bottle and depart sadder, wiser and 'dryer, women are the chief offenders. Some- thing seems to tell the average tourist that his women folk will not be search- ed, They come to the borcler going into Canada slim of hip, flat of chest and guilty of countenance. They'ar- rive at the border on the way home large of hip, bulging of bosom and with innocence written all over them. The deceit is pitiful and funny," peace. And that is to the good,' ti Many a woman doesn't know what trouble is till she has married the man of her hoic e THE HURRICANE IN ENGLAND i the storm that battered tate' Wave breaking over the pier at Brighton n coast from Land's Eud to Dover and spread ruin over the southern half of 1pngiand, Repairing Storm Ravages GiViNG THE KING SACK HiS SWORD The famous statue of Richard Coeur de Lion in London lost its sword as a result of the recent hurricane. The U.S. Post 23,649,044 Letter's and 461,- 441 Packages Went Astray in United States Last Year Washington—Results of an im- provement and expansion program` in the postal service of - the 'United States, particularly in the air mail, are outlined .by Harry S. New, Post - patrons concerning registered, incur ed or collect -on -delivery mail and postal money orders; demurrage charges on undelivered collect -on -de- livery parcels; punishment for those attempting to extort money through the mails by means' of "blackmail," and permission to hire motor vehicles from carriers for use In the service. The Neighborhood Store Chicago News: There are still 1, 328,000 small • retail dealers in the master -General in his annual report United States, so that it is rather wild to President master-General, which noted for one to predict the. disappearance an operating deficit of $33,303,148 for of the neighborhood merchant: He the year ended June 80. has a place and a function lit modern The five -cent rate en letters. sent society. While Ste cannot afford to by air. `was made . effective since the minimize 'the influence of chafe -store date of the report, but Mr. New said competition, he need not despair or that the contract air mail aerVle9 abdicate. To meat that competition, appears to justify his opinion that as Dr. Klein says, he needs resource - private enterprise can perform the Lanese, enterprise, originality and mil- The creditably. tivation of the personal and the he - The Postmaster -General reoom"' man element In trade.' The small mended amendment of the March 8 shop has its own advantages and can act under which contracts were letdur-p retain them and even increase them. Ing the last year for transporting thelitcan pay more attention to individual aro re c o mails by air between New York and , from obstruction. Each of Ilse two tastes pend preferences; it can play a piers supports a superimposed load -of Montreal; Hey West and SanWes tpart"in building up the neighborhood Porto Rico and between Hey' "W'esJuanl . and it can diversify its stock more almost 20,000 tons and is composed of concrete cylinders, one under each tower column. Those cylinders are thirty-eight` feet in 'diameter and are carried about 1,15 feet down ihrougli the clay and sand to a firm bearing. on the natural limestone rock. Roads and Railways New York herald -Tribune: Time was when the line of progress in com- niunications seemed, clear. Alt,over the world canals replaced roads, and then railroads replaced canals. livery town wanted at least a stub railway line. To -day many a stub railway line has been -abandoned, even in the United States; and, for local passen• ger traffic, at least, many railroads find it cheaper to operate bus lines paralleling their own tracks than to run steam trains over the rails.. The ante truck has changed the na- ture of the road. It is do longer a pair of muddy ruts carrying lumbering horses slowly across a few bare miles, The automobile on a concrete road keeps pace with the train, and except and the Canal Zone, asking authority l freely and nt less risk. to make contracts for routes between the island 'possessions , and foreign countries, between such island pos- sessions, and over routes In foreign New York World: • (The United countries. . !States Supreme Court has upheld e "The fiscal affairs 0f the depart-, New York decision snaking it cora- Ment indicate :careful and economical; wagerer for the K. K. IC. to- filo their administration of . the service,. he! constitution, caths and lists of mem- said. "Notwithstanding the decrease bertha)). Secrecy Las always and air in theincrease of postal revenues1 most everywhere been the essence of under those of the preceding year, the Klan's strength; the value 'of sec' the operating deficit increased at ,a recy explains why it has fought this lesser rate per cent." Baso up to the. Supreme Court, The ' The average per capita expend!* ICIau's decay and the decay of sew tura ' for postage was $5.11. A reduo- recy have gone hand in -hand. In tion or 8.6 per cent. inthe number various States where 4t has been of undeliverable, letters was noted, most dangerous, such es Indiana, but these messages totaled 28,849,044 Georgia, Pennsylvania and Alabama, pieces. The decrease was ascribed to legislation has been passed or vigor, the department's campaign to induce ouely pushed to compel it to unmask, mail advertisers to , use envelopes Education, enlightenment, the dist i bearing returns addrosees, - Money lusionment of multitudes of dupes, found in dead letters or loose in ,the havfarobbed the Klan of its strengths malls totaled . $98,678 and 461,441 par- The best safeguard against the ler cel post packages went unclaimed.- orudesoense of any such body L A long list of reecmmendatiells simply strong light for degislativ4 -action were made, for heavy freight in bulk ft erro v s among them one to prohibit tite Send, "`hese days," says a lecturer on he railroad's purpose even better. it lag of unsolicited al?Uoios through cosmetics, ebeauty is not always eklp t bhe mails Rol Nalo. haskp." $ro, sand not' always knew lugs. delivers at the door, saving two reload. were: A Ree inqulrioeOters made. f�ed highdee, r„ - /1,4 s 51 f .Yui: gree