The Seaforth News, 1957-12-05, Page 7Do Cats Foresee
Disaster At Sea
When the liner "Reins del
Pacifico" crunched on to a coral
reef near Bermuda recently, a
eurious incident occurred on
board. •
As the ilner stuck fast, a cat,
which had, voyaged with her for
some months, raced up on deck
and stared through the rails out
to sea. Then, apparently satisfied
with everything, she calmly
walked over to . a lifeboat, sat
down and waited,
Few of the. passengers aboard
knew that the ship had grounded,
the shock was so slight. Yet the
at knew; •and she also knew
where to go in such a time of
danger.
This is not an isolated case of
a cat sensing disaster at sea long
before human crew members.
There was a very strange ex-
ample two years ago when the
Island vessel Joyita was about to
.sail from Apia, in Samoa, to Mai-
ana, twenty miles away. For over
a year an old tom cat had made
his home abroad the Joyita; but
late on the day of her sailing the
cat appeared on deck in an agi-
tated state.
After roaming around a bit he
made a sudden dash down the
gangway and vanished among
packing cases on the wharf.
The Joyita sailed soon after-
wards and was not seen again
until some two . months later
when she was found waterlogged
north of Fiji, her crew and pas-
sengers missing.
The Joyita has since been re-
paired, but there is still no sign
of her crew or passengers, Did
the cat sense danger aboard?
If anyone has any doubt about
a cat's ability to sense danger
before it becomes apparent to
human beings let him consider
the very odd case of the armed
trawler Remindo, which was
used to protect shipping be-
tween Portland and Cherbourg
towards the end of the first
world war.
The Remindo was on the point
of sailing in search of enemy
submarines on February 2nd,
1918, when her mascot, a cat
• which had been living on board
for some months, took a wild
leap from the trawler, landed on
the wharf and made a dash for
safety.
The Remindo sailed without
the cat a few minutes later; and
a few minutes after casting off a
violent explosion rocked the
trawler. Other ships raced to the
scene, but there was no trace of
the Remindo except for some
debris on, the water where she
had been. She had disintegrated
completely and no one has ever
found out whether she hit a mine
or was sabotaged.
Ex -skipper of the Tara, Cap-
tain R. S. Gwatkin-Williams, has
told how he once had a black cat
for a mascot which appeared to
be quite content until the ship
reached Malta, when it became
nervous.
*Shortly before the Tara was
due to sail, the cat jumped over-
board into the sea and tried to
swim ashore.
A boat was ,lowered and the
animal was huled out of the
water and returned to the ship,
although it fought all the way to
escape. It was locked up on board
and the Tara sailed.
About a week later the ship
was torpedoed and sank in about
eight minutes. The cat went to
the bottom of the sea with her.
The Stony Point had had a
tabby cat as a pet aboard for.
about ten months and she seem-
ed to be quite content until the
tanker called at her last port be-
fore embarking on what proved
to be her last voyage.
Just before the tanker sailed
the cat appeared on deck and
made a twenty -foot leap to a
quay and rushed away in spite of
attempts to capture her. The
tanker sailed and soon after col-
lided with the Ioannis with a
serious loss of life. Didi the•cat
foresee the collision and get
away just in time? Or was it
just coincidence?
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They Live Well And Eat Well
These Present -Day "Pioneers"
By H. R. CALVERT
Ed. Note: In this article Mr.
Calvert ,concludes the story of
his visit to Lynn Lake, the new
mining community in the far
north.
The single mine employees
live in relatively small, semi-
private rooms in company bunk-
houses. The boarding house
meals, served by caterers select-
ed by Sherritt Gordon, are sub-
stantial and carefully planned
to give the men variety. Steward
Chief Cal Graham pointed out
that in addition to the regular
meals, the men received a 14 -oz.
T-bone steak on Saturday night
and turkey or chicken for Sun-
day dinner. A typical week -day
menu, and one which I personal-
ly enjpyed, was a choice of
grilled pork chops, pork hocks,
beef tenderloin, cold cut plate,
grilled halibut, with soup for a
starter and butterscotch pie, jello
or fresh fruit salad with choco-
late cake for dessert and, of
course, tea, coffee or milk. The
meals are served cafeteria style
and the men may return for
follow-up portions. The living -
on -camp men 'pay $2.25 a day
for room and board and since
the boarding house operation
alone costs Sherritt Gordon ap-
proximately $3.00 per man per
clay, it becomes apparent that
the company subsidizes the men
.75¢ a day with, in effect, free
lodging.
In complimenting Mine Mana-
ger I'Doc" Gallie on the obvious
interest the Company has in its
employees and the community,
he commented: "We have our
problems here. It's a long win-
ter - don't let anybody kid
you. It begins to look endless
around the middle of March.
People here have very real
problems. Because of the long
winters, fuel bills are high. A
lot of oil is-- burned. Sherritt
Gordon worked long and hard
and finally succeeded in getting
the freight rate reduced on fuel.
This was a help, •and the kind
of help we feel our employees
are entitled to. We have had a
very real problem caused by the
lack of rainfall in this part of
the country; to keep the mine
ophrating and to supply elec-
tricity for the homes, we in-
stalled deisel generators which
cost a good many hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Things are
looking up as far as our power
situation is concerned because
we have had more rainfall in
the past few weeks and I hope
that very shortly this will mean
that we can decrease rates."
I told "Doc"'Gallie that I had
Leen impressed by the obvious
financial well-being of the com-
munity, "Doc" looked at me
sharply and asked in return it
I realized that the cost of living
was somewhat higher than it
was in Winnipeg. I retorted that
I came from Toronto and• it was
higher in Toronto than it was in.
Winnipeg and the "Doc" just
grinned and said it was a well-
known fact that everything was
better and higher in Toronto. I
backed away from the subject in
a hurry but just for fun I
checked the cost of a few items
selling retail in . both Lynn Lake
and Winnipeg, and the list shown
below proved quite interesting:
Winnipeg Lynn Lake
Retail Retail
Heinz,. Baby Food 3/29 3/31
Soda biscuits. l's .33 .35
Javex •- 32 -oz. ,35- .39
Oatmeal non premium 3's .37 .39.
Nabob Coffee: 1,07 1.05
Dog 'Rood, Dr. Ballard 2/27'..18
Aylmer Peaches 15.05.
fenced choice .27
Pacific -Milk 2/33.
Tures Toilet Tissue 2/25,
Tide Giant .81.
Campbell .Tomato Soup 2/27
Heinz Vinegar 33 -oz, .34
Johnson's Paste Wax 1's ,59.
Veal shoulder- roasts .65
.29
2/35
2/27
.85,
.15
.39
.59
159 .,
Steaks - all types .85 .79
Bologna .35 .35
Back bacon Va's 1st gr. .67 .63
Tomato Juice, Libby's
20.oz, 2/35 .21
Rinse Giant .81 ..15..
Dreft - Giant .81 .83
Tomatoes -Aylmer Choice .28 .31
Shredded Wheat 2/39 .23
Veal leg roast .28 .89
Pork Hocks .27 .31
Rice -long grain 2-1b, .39 .45
Salt tubes .14 .18
Soda, 2 -lbs. .65 .63
Cigarettes - 3.20 3,20
Butter .62 .65
To the best of my ability I also
checked the average wage in
Canada as a whole against the
average wage at Lynn Lake,
and obviously not having access
to the company figures I could
only guess, but on even a fairly
rcugh guess it was very apparent
that if the gentle reader would
like to improve his financial
position he should hit for Lynn
Lake.
Mind you, these modern
pioneegs put up with moon-
' veniences and problems which
the majority of Canadians can
neither appreciate nor know
anything about. The sense of
isolation, the lack of radio and
TV, and the long, cold winters
are all very real. But real too is
the fact that here the average
man can enjoy many things in
life which are not possible to the
average man elsewhere. He
makes more money; he belongs
to a community which is truly
his community. The reason is
easy - the average man at
Lynn Lake is not an average
man, he is a pioneer.
To return again briefly to the
Mine Manager, he regretted he
could not give me more time,
having just returned from holi-
days, and he politely but firmly
refused my request to go under-
ground at the mine; I must ad-
mit that I felt he was deeply
suspicious of journalists. He
told me, however, that the em-
ployee turnover at Lynn Lake
is less than one-half of the
national average in the mining
industry, and his obvious pride
in the community is best sum-
med up in his closing remarks
to me which were:
"We believe that our (Sherritt
Gordon's) effort are appreciated.
Lynn Lake is a good place to
live. and Sherritt Gordon has
spent thousands of dollars to
make this so. Weintend to con-
tinue doing everything we pos-
sibly can to keep it this way!"
Well, there we have it! A
modern town of 1,674 kind,
generous people, providing for
themselves a time to work, a
time to play and a. time to wor-
ship - living together in har-
mony and undoubtedly with
some inconveniences; but, as
more than, one resident said
"Despite the isolation - the
long,cold winters - the high
cost of some foods and fuel, we
are happy. You see, we feel we
live in a community 'of which
we may be proud we have a
wonderful 'esprit corps', most
of the modern conveniences,
more than adequate recreational
facilities and' • social activities
and we work for a fine com-
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YES, IT'S A GOOD LIFE!
MERRY MENAGERIE
'I save NUTS for a living -
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