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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-04-04, Page 7They Use Snow Instead of ice We raced down the juniper slopes on the north side of the Marble Mountain . . For the moderately active visitor to .the mountainthere are few more wonderful.things than the wealth of flowers in summer . . Summer, on the Ulu Dag is also the season of the snow -cut- lers. And if there is any sound which -. has for me the 'magic quality on the mountains, it is the distant tinkle of bells in the night, sounding far down in the forest below the Refuge. Al the bells come nearer, the watcher will see, if he goes to a window, a line of donkeys and mules coming slowly up the road. A faint . dust rises from their hooves and shows up' in the scintillant light of the moon. The spruces line the way like frozen statues, and their shadows 'lie blue on the granity path. Now the caravan is passing the Refuge. The bells sound strongly as the two drivers on the leading mules ride past. Be- hind them the tethered donkeys follow. And now the tinkle of bells lessens, until. once again it falls faintly on the ear and finally vanishes into the night. The snow -cutters ride on for another hour, then mount the screw to the snow -pit in the hollow under Zirve cliffs. There they unstring their axes and start their labour. Cubes of hard neve snow are cut and stored in panniers lined with felt and cov- ered with spruce boughs. Each aminal is loaded with a pannier on both sides, and before the eastern skies have reddened with dawn the caravan is once -again in movement on the • journey seven thousand feet downwards to Bursa. The snow -cutters leave the frozen silence of the snow -pit, and within five hours are sweat- ing in the 90° shade heat of the town. It must be a hard life, de- manding fortitude and immense stamina, both of which the An- atolian peasant possesses in abundance. The snow is sold in Bursa for the equivalent of per- haps a penny a pound, and en- ters the ice -boxes of the town to cool the butter and fruit of the population. The profession of, snow -cutter is an ancient and even honoured calling. It is also the appanage 0 a few families only. I am told that the snow -cutters in some eases still possess 'Firmans," or royal letters of appointment from the Sultanate, dating back as far as the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. The profession of snow -cutting in Bursa was for centuries restricted by edict to these families, and passed down from father to son. Even in ancient times the Sul- tan's snow was quarried from the same snow -pit as the cut- ters use today, and probably car- ried on the backs of the ances- ters of the same donkeys. Once in Bursa a special runner ser- vice of fleet horses bore the snow to the port of Mudanya. find from Mudanya fast sailing vessels, whom no one had the power to delay under the pain of the imperial displeasure car- ried the precious and perishable cargo to the walls of the Seraglio an .Constantinople. It is curious to reflect that the sherbets which the Sultan em- ployed to slake his imperial thirst were cooled with snow from the Bithynian Olympus that had probably taken three days to accomplish .its journey. From "The Mountains of My Life," by Ashenden. "I say, old man, what hap- pened to that parrot of yours?" asked one neighbour of another. "Oh, I married, you know, and after a few weeks it just died," was the reply. "Jealousy, I.suppose1" "Not really, itcouldn't stand the competition:" FIVE THOUSAND TIMES FIRST—Jockey Johnny Longden, astride "Bente," returns from the finish line at the Santa Anita race track in California recently, after riding his 5000th winner, the most in history. The 47 -year-old jockey achieved the mark after riding in more than 25,000 rages -oyer a 30 -year span. He has won over 16 million dollars in purses, accounting for his "Mr. Moneybags" nickname. When it Was Really Cold In Britain Moustaches froze stiff, three- inch icicles hung from- horses' noses, trees were split by the frost .... Those were the sort of things that happened during a typical cold spell in bygone cen- turies. In December, 1813, the Thames began to freeze so solidly that a fair was held on it with all sorts of amusement booths, skit- tle alleys, music, dancing, eat- ing, drinking, roystering, even a sheep or ox roasted whole on the ice and sold at a bob a slice. But when a sudden thaw set in everyone had to . scamper off the icy mush; some traders got off with their goods, others bar- ely got off with their lives. Tents, booths, roundabouts went slithering downstream, to pile up on ice -floes at the bridge piers. One temporary pub that had been set up slid away with nine men inside yelling their heads off when it caught fire. As it crashed into Blackfriars Bridge they managed to scramble out over the polar hummocks, but think of all that good, strong beer going to a watery grave. That wasn't the only frost fair oir the Thames, by any means. John. Evelyn, the seventeenth century diarist, actually saw bull baiting, puppet shows, horse and coach races on the ice, and coaches plying on it between Westminster and the Temple. Furthermore, the intense cold brought down a dense fog which choked everyone, froze the water supply, put the brew- ers and Other tradesmen out of work, and caused many acci- dents. The countryside was blasted by the frozen fog. Men, cattle, deer, poultry, wild birds and even fish perished. Trees split and crashed, as if from lightning. The coasts were so arctic that ships couldn't move in or Out of harbour and. supplies were paralysed. Fuel was at famine prices. Funds had to be started for the=poor to keep body and soul together. - Another chronicler records a most unedifying spectacle one winter when football was play- ed on the Thames and courtiers came out to shoot' at targets set up on 'the ice. All the spivs, loafers and unemployables: set out to cash in on a charity rac- ket. Donning aprons, clutching old spades, hoisting a turnip on top of a pole or rake as distress sig- nal, they paraded the streets shouting mournfully, "All frozen out! We be frozen -out garden- ers! We've got no work to do!" In this way they often made double a skilled workman's wage. It was a sad day for them when the sun shone againand the ice began to melt! Invariably the sudden thaws SEE ANYTHING STRANGE? — Nothing would seem unusual about this photo at first glance. As the caption material says, German tourist Gudron Henkle is shown chatting with a Rome, Italy; service station attendant while her car is checked. But what about that New Jersey license plate the Fraulein, is sporting on the rear of her Italian roadster? Maybe, she likes the color combination. caused floods and havoc, sweep ing away homes and bridges, and drowning people. A coach bowling over .the snow looks romantic on an old- tirne Christmas card, but it must have been an ordeal, when win- ter travel had to be done over roads like quagmires, and pas- sengers had to muffle themselves in heavy great -coats, shawls and comforters against bitter cold and blinding blizzards. On the jaunt from London to Dingley Dell, Dickens tells us the travellers had to fortify themselves with hefty draughts of ale and brandy to defy the frost, and at one stop Mr. Pick - wick's fingers were so numb that it took him five minutes to find the sixpence to pay for the li- quor. Until the 1830s there were no , buses for winter shopping and visiting within the city, and. when they did arrive they were crude, uncomfortable vehicles with conductors noted for their insolent behaviour. Not until 1863 was LOndon's first under- ground railway opened between Paddington and Farringdon St. TV WONDER — Ten -year-old Robert Strom observes the sun through a telescope at his home in the Bronx, N.Y. Amazed television audiences have been watching the youngster as he handles difficult problems on "The $64,000 Question." . De- spite his "`genius tendencies, Robert's interests, like any other boy's, range frombase- ball to popular music. The telescope is a prize he won on another TV show. 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But so long as we have not solid rock it is amazing what we can do. The best medi- cine for any soil, light or heavy, is a liberal application of old fashioned barnyard manure. But manure is hard' to come by in these modern days and it is lia- ble to be filled with weed seeds. And so most of us willhave to turn to something else. Fortun ately there are many substitutes, commercial or chemical ferti- lizer, special soil conditioners, sand where the soil is heavy clay, lime where it is sour, and humus anywhere. The latter we can make ourselves. It is simply rotted down vegetable refuse, like leaves, grass clippings, weeds and even clean garbage. This can be dug directly into the soil or piled in a corner, covered with layers of earth, watered occasionally and allow- ed to rot and then dug in. Seep It Informal For most garden layouts the informal lines are best. This suits the relatively small space at the disposal of most Canadian home owhers and it tends to snake the average garden more interesting. The general plan is, to have a lawn in the centre and foreground with the shrubbery and flowers arranged in irregu- lar clumps all along the sides and at the bank. This is where the height of mature plants and time and col- our of bloom is important. We don't want small things like alyssum, portulaca, dwarf zin- nias and marigolds hidden by bigger, taller plants and we don't want all the bloom com- ing on at one time. The seed catalogue lists all these points and also tells us about the colour and whether the varieties are hardy or tender. With this pre- cise knowledge we can plan a pleasing and practical layout, have our fences and walks. screened but not our windows, and also have something in bloom from early spring- until late in the fall. 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