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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-01-08, Page 6GADS AND FLOODS CAUSE BIG DAMAGE IN BRITISH ISLES AND FRANCE London, Jan. 4. -The heavy galethe message sent Friday said she was which has caused great damage in itsunable to proceed owing to a broken path through the British Isles during throttle valve. the mid -week continued on Saturday. The worst consequences seof the gale, A blizzard ,was .reported in the Scot which ended by browing itself out. to - tisk Highlands, day; teaming a trail - of disaster in' eyer•y part of France except the favor - Reports of distressed shipping con- ed Riviera,. were the floods- in Norm- tinned to be received. The Dutch'liner andy. Thea River Vire has reached Veendam, bound for New York, was the highest mark recorded since 1852, unable to land its pilot at "the Isle of and the City of Caen is entirely sur Wight or Plymouth owing to the rounded by floods. heavy seas, and was compekled to pro - i, In. Southern Brittany the situation eeed to Falmouth, where he was land -1 also is grave. The Town of Pontivy ed with great difficulty.' The ship's is in a desperate plight, being almost carpenter was injured by a huge sea entirely flooded out, while at Morlaix which struck the liner as it was enter-' the central part of the eity is flooded ing Falmouth Bay. to a depth of two feet, a sight which The British steamer Kalimba, en has not been seen for 40 years. route to Buenos Aires, also stopped at, The rivers in the northeast of Falmouth Bay and landed her car- France and Belgium are also very penter, who also was severely injured. high and at many places are already At Bargoed, South Wales, a land- -over their: banks. At Bruay-en-Artois slide caused a mineral train to topple the dyke burst and the river flooded over an embankment, killing the en- the town in the middle of the night. gineer and fireman, Incidentally, 2,000 The inhabitants were awakened by the miners will be laid off, as the train: tocsin and escaped'as best they could, wreck destroyed the electric power abandoning everything; Hundreds are cables connected witb the mines. now without shelter.. A despatch to Lloyd's from BarryA full gale lashed he French sea - to -clay announced that the 'United; board at Brest last night, and a tor - States shipping Board steamer Eel- 'ren tlal rain flooded the near -by coun- beck, which sent out wireless distress try. The River Elorn overflowed, signals off the coast of Scotland dnr- while the Towns of Landivisiau, Cha- ing last Friday's storm, was proceed- teaulin and Quimper were inundated ing for New York. - The Eelbeck in by several feet of water. French Think Columbus 1 U.S. Thanks Great Britain Did Not Discover America! for Aid Given World Fliers French savants are investigating! London, Jan, 4. -The following mes- the thorny question of who discovered sage from the United States Ambas- America, says a Paris despatch, In sador in London to Hon. Austen a paper read before the College de: Chamberlain appears in current fleet France, a paper which the French orders: press terms "sensationam," Professor; "Under instructions from the Un- Meillet states that it was not Chris ited States Government, I have the topher Columbus. The famous voy-1 honor to express the deep appreciation' ager merely rediscovered a continent' of the American Government for the which was known long before his day many courtesies and assistance ex -1 to other navigators. j tended by the British authorities to 1 Up to the present, says Professor' the American aviators in their recent , Meillet, no serious study of the indi-', flight around the world. The Amer- genous languages of America, and of-ican' Government fully realizes that other regions has ever been made, but without the co-operation of the var..; the ground now is being broken by, sous foreign Governments over whose : French students and 'a eomparison of. territory the flight passed, this the 'vocabularies of a group of Cali-! achievement would not have been pos-' forma languages and certain Polyne-s.sible, and it is therefore particularly elan languages has brought to light happy to express its gratitude to his satisfying and numerous seines- Majesty's Government for its cordial • dances, co-operation" 1 "The vocabulary of the. indigenous races of Patagonia," the lecturer told • his colleagues of the College de France Wheat Reaches Highest Mark "shows striking resemblances to that at Minneapolis Since'1920 of Australian races. And it ie inter- esting nter- esting'to note that these linguistic re - A despatch from Minneapolis semblances P a aralI 1 almostidentically e mos similar resemblancesin the arms, do- sayer -A carload of wheat sold at the mastic utensils and other objects used Chamber of Commerce here on Friday in the sum epoch in America and for .i 2.21 a bushel, giving the first other regions. But these similarities day's trading here in 1925 the highest mark reached for wheat since 1920. do not date from the time when these continents were connected by land in- The previous high post-war cash price stead of vast oceans. Therefore, it is was $2.18m,4, established Dec. 26 lase! to be concluded that navigators sailed over these immense spaces." Eight -Hour Day Introduced First by Czecho-Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia was the first indus- trial state among the European coun- tries to ratify' the eight-hour conven- tion and introduce a statutory eight- hour day. It is believed that the carloadabove referred to was of fancy spring grade, which has been selling at a premium on the Minneapolis market all season, although this is the highest figure yet recorded on this crop. • • CAUSE AND PATH OF SUN'S ECLIPSE About 9 o'clock on the morning of January 24, Toronto and a -sixty mile strip of territory in Western Ontario will be in the path of a total solar eclipse. It will be visible only for about two minutes, The above map shows the path' of the shadow that will rush so swiftly across the contiueut from Duluth to Long Island. The single column drawing shows brow the sun and moon caper around to cause an eclipse. Although the relative sizes of the sun, moon and earth are disregarded In the illustration., the general truth- of the eclipse may be observed, Because the sun to larger than the moon, the shadow of the moon, when cast toward the earth, •conies nearly to a point when It touches the earth's surface, Yet as seen from the point T. on the earth, the moon, because it is nearer, looks as large as the sun and appears completely to cover it -just as with a lead 'pencil a quarter of an inch in diameter held six inches from the eye you eau cover an object a foot in diameter situated 24 feet from the eye. In addition to hiding the sun at T there will be part eclipses between the points X1 and X2. Between P1 and P2 the degree of the eclipse increases as the observer happens to be nearer the belt T. Canadian Re -union at Los Angeles. A despatch from Los Angeles, Cal., says: -This city will be the scene of a huge Canadian re -union on Feb. 7, 1926, according to an announcement; made here by John Hooper, president of the Canadian Tourists' Society and director of the American Tourists' As- sociation, who estimates that fully 50„ 000 visitors will attend the gathering. The municipal coliseum, seating -81,- 000, will be thrown open for the field day and an open-air picnic will be held in the exposition grounds ad-, joining, Announcing the re -union, a Can- adian ball was held in the Bon . Ton. ballroom on the Licic Pier, Sante Mon- ica, recently,and which w ch was attended by 2,000 members of the various Maple Leaf Societies. According to the announcement, made here by Mr. Hooper, the plans for the reunion were formulated at the recent conventions of the Tourists' Association at Toronto and at Put -in -I Bay, Ohio. The Chamber of Com - King Boris of Bulgaria is about to merce here will assist in working ou start a round of visits to all the royal piens for the big gathering. courts in Europe in search of a royal bride, it is said. Word has gone ahead Duke of York Ducked that he wants to make the allied noun- by Ship's .Passengers tries forget his country wee on the other side In the war. A despatch from London says:- Ontario Housewife Wins Dictionaries Were Popular Passengers on the steamship which• took the Duke and Duchess of York to Prize in English Contest Gifts for' X -Word Fans Kenya had the experience of shaving and ducking the King's son and then A report on hours of labor in Acton, San. 4. -Mrs. Schram of Many persons this Christmas have helping him shave and duck the ship's Czeeho-Slovakia has just been issued Acton has received the prize in the been astonished and delighted at get -captain. These amenities are part of by the International Labor Office, competition in fruit cakes with the ting a dictionary, of all things in the ,a ceremonial to which all persons The first part of the monograph is ladies of Acton, England, at a bazaar world, for a gift book, and the book- crossing the Equator for the first time devoted to an ac"aunt of the scope and held here recently. John Taylor, Sec- sellers have expressed equal astonish- usually are subjected. pro"isions of the Czocho-Slovakia. re-: retary of the Acton Chamber of Corn ment at the demand' for such books, The Duke was ready and wore run- ning pants and a vest for his hazing. He then led the assault on the cap - public act of 1913, by which the eight- rnerce at Acton, England, writes: hour day or forty -eight-hour week was! "Our people here appreciate very introduced in the republic. - much the response in the matter of says a London despatch. It is not any particular thirst for knowledge or love of learning for its tain, who was dragged from the bridge The monograph devoted spinal at. the cake competition. Should your own sake, this tide of buying, but and boisterously baptized. tendon to the methods of a 1 n then Acton women folk decide to challenge simply to meet the demond for refer= — - pPy` act in railway undertakings and the our Acton women folk to another con- encs wort: in connection with the: 'Prince Offers to Drive While provisions for permanent or temper test in the future I will do all in my solving of cross -word puzzles. Tired Chauffeur Sleeps ary exemptions. This is followed bye power to make it a worthy hustle. Following America's example, the . data concerning the administration of _ newspapers started this amusement A. despatch from London says: - for the benefit of their readers, many offering prizes for correct solutions, and now "everybody's doing it" Cologne Will Boast Largest Bell in the World A despatch from Coiogne: says; - near the Canadian Pacific yards here The City of Cologne is soon to have would require his ear at 7 o'clock. De - Friday. Her absence was not noticed the largest bell in the world. It will tectiug ,a shadow .on, the chauffeur's by her mother, who was conversing weigh more than twenty-five tuns. - face, the prince inquired the reason. with a friend, until' the train neared The bell has been ready for ship- The man replied that he would not ment from a factory at Apolda ,for have time tie clean the ear, whereupon MOTS than a year, but on account; of the prince replied: the foreign occupation of the Cologne " "Well, bring the car round at 7.30. zone it was deemed impracticable be- fore this to install it the act. The third part of the study deals in some detail with collective agreements regarding hours of work. Among the countries already cover- ed by this series of publications of the Port Coquitlam, B.C., Jan. 4.- International Labor Office aro Bel- Traveling with her mother from Vul- glum, France, Germany, Great Bei- can, Alta., to Vancouver, Harriet tain, Italy, the Netherlands and Sims, 10 years old, fell from the train Switzerland. Girl Who Fell From Train Picked Up Alive. Boy is Smothered The numerous rounds of engagements the Prince of Wales is called on to fulfill often demand long hours of duty on the part of his attendants, but he is uniformly considerate of them. The prince arrived home early one morning and told his chauffeur he Under Falling Strawstack 'Vancouver. A message sent along the line led to the discovery of the semi - Saskatoon, Jan. 4. -Arthur Vempes conscious child nearly three hours was (mothered to death Saturday later. Her injuries are serious, but it afternoon on a farm nearthis city is believed she will recover. when : he was pinned under a huge i' stacks of straw. Tho lad crawled into a deep hole in the side of the stack" and the overhanging mass toppled - when his companions jumped on It during their play. I Canadian Potatoes Find Ready Market in Britain I A deepateh from London slays:- The barring - of American pota- toes because of their infection with a pest, and .the shortage of English supplies, has provided Can- adian,potato shippers with an 'oppor- tunity of which theyhalve not been slow to. take ;advantage. - Large sup. plies oftubers have arrived here from Canada during the las, few weeks. l''rom one port alone, Perth, N.B, 5,000 barrels a: week leave been re- ceived and it is expected, .that before the st;asoe closes at least 1,000,000 'narrate will reach these shores; • Don't trouble to clean it. I'll drive and you hop inside and have a sleep." Herschel Island Visited by First Relief Ship in Year A despatch from Nome, Alaska, says: -Here's a gripping plot for a thrilling sea story. For more than a year not a vessel had called at Herschel Island, isolated in the Arctic Ocean northeast of Alaska. The few white traders and trappers living there 'and several Eskimo colonies were just about ready to resign themselves to a diet of seal blubber and bear meat for the winter when a strange thing happened. The gas power schooner Maid of Orleans, out from Seattle since June 26, trying vainly to reach Victoria Land and unspoken by any ship later than August 30, was given up for lost, as were four other Arctic boats. Then, like Santa Claus dropping down a chimney, came the Maid of 'Orleans to Herschel Island, frozen in a big ice floe, The boat, fast in the ice, is in a safe harbor for the winter. On the schooner are sufficient suplies to keep the islanders from want until next stunner. In return Captain Klengen- tberg will get a cbrgo of the white furs for which Herschel is famous. So Herschel Island is saved and the Maid of Orleans in a harbor -there you have it, the framework of a thriller, Halifax Chronicle Celebrates 100 Years of Publication Halifax, N,S„ Jan. 1. -Celebrating 100 years of continuous publication, The Morning Chronicle, in association with The Nova Scotian, to -day pub- lished an edition of 84 pages replete with matter of great historical inter- est'to Canada. The magazine- section includes articles by Dr. Archibald MacMechan and Dr. J. D. Logan on Joseph Howe, perhaps its most brilliant editor, and The Chronicle's place in the history of Nova Scotia is graphically told by Dr. W. E. Maclellan, a former editor. The story of Rt. kion. W„ -S. Field - in is ield-ing's career with the newspapor is told in detail. The edition also includes the facsimile of the first issue of The Halifax Gazette, the first newspaper published in Canada, Widening of Strand Will Cost $25,000,000 Per Mile A despatch from London says:--• The widening of the Strand, in the heart of London, is an expensive pro- ceeding, according to H. 11. Gordon, a former London county councillor, He places the (est at e25,000,000 a mile. Traffic - congestion calces the work necessary. _ Tho' opening of the 32nd meeting of the council of, the League of Nations in Rome, iI. !f2 FIVE FIREMEN HURT" IN MONTREAL BLAZE Fifteen Persons Driven from Beds in Zero Weather — $150,000 Property Damage. A despatch from Montreal says: - Four stores; four dwellings and a club are in ruins, five :fire- men and a civilian were - hurt by felling debris or affected by smoke, more than fifteen persons were driven in night attire from their homes in a temperature 6 degrees below zero, as a result of a fire which started in the men's fuenishinge store of E. Bernier, St. Hyacinthe, Que. Damage estimated at between $160,- 000 and $200,000 is partly. covered by liaehranee. Only the work of the fire- men, aided by hundreds of citizens, prevented the destruction of the en- tir�e• business section of the town. The outbreak was not brought under con- trol for. six hours, The.`ble.ze is.be- lieved to have' been caused by an over- heated furnace in the Bernier prem- ises. Duke of York Shoots Rhinoceros inAfrican Jungle g A despatch from Nairobi says: - Reports from the'shooting camp of the Duke and Duchess of York, at Isiolo, show a good be- ginning has been made. On the way from Nairobi, however, the party were overtaken by a cloudburst. Forty-one and one-half inches of rain'fell in a half-hour. The Duke of York's' biggest success was the shooting of a rhinoceros, sev- eral miles from the camp, accompan- ted only by a white hunter. He tracked and 'wounded' the rhinoceros, which charged. The Duke waited until the animal was within 80 yards, therm he dropped it with a second shot. The Duke also shot a kongoru, a zebra ago an impala. The camp is. surrounded by lions, and the party consequently expect to ostein a good bag. The Duchess of York has been suc- cessful with small' game. May Use Ships' Sirens to Save the Orchards A despatch from Sydney, N.S.W., says :-The Irrigation Commission of New South Wales has made available a sum of money to undertake a unique experi- ment, It is proposed to make tests with marine signalling apparatus to see if it will be effective in scaring starlings and; other birds from vine- yards and orchards in the irrigation area. The apparatus consists of a siren used by ships in distress,- and would be operated electrically from the farm, the siren iself being placed among the trees or vines. Canada d in Many • Minerals. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior says that if Canadians would give more serious thought to the great min- eral resources of their country they would more fully appreciate them. They take too much for granted, and appear to think they' are not of any individual interest except to a few promoters or others directly Interest- ed. The number of minerals, both pre- cious and economic, in which Canada is' at present, or is rapidly assuming the leadership in production, would surprise many of our people if they would but .give a little thought to -the subject. University College Increases Tuition Fees. In the University of Toronto there are four Arts Colleges, 'viz., Univer- sity College, Victoria College, Trinity College, and St. MichaePs College. Of, these the first is' the provincial colliege, which is supported by the Government of Ontario and the other three are nomination colleges have found that ppegndent fortheir revenues on the re- ligious denominations concerned. As is well known, the fens paid ^ by stu- dents.for many years'have;covered only about one-third of the actual cost of tuition and in.resent years the de- nominational collegest have found that they cannot continue to exist on the funds available. Last year Victoria College -increased her fees from $40 to $75. Trinity and St.-MichaePs were` anxious to do the same but it was clear to all concerned that Sour colleges, all doing the same work, and all being part' of the. same organize- gon, could not have in force different ceales.oi' fees.= : Students, would :ria= turally tend to enrol with the college having the smallest fee. The problem struck at the very foundation of versity Federation. To solve this sits nation,' University, College ,raised its e to $75, effective next year. Even so, the fees in; Arts are ,now little more than half those in Medicine and Applied Scienee. 1,200 London Children Guests of Hamilton, Ontario Natural Resources -Bulletin. The Natural Resources intelligence Service of the' Dept,; of the Interior at• - Ottawa says: -. Lieutenant -Governor. Cockshutt, at a banquet tondered him by'the Boards of T,rade of 'Ontario on; Nov 20, gave a description - 'of the'provtnce 'and Its area<that will bear repeating in this bulletinComing from a •businessman of M•r. Cocicyhutt'.s standtng, it is free from any taint of propaganda, and is the,reselt of that close. sts,dy; that all interested in the - -welfare of Canada and its indlvid'uak provinces -should make. Governor Cockshutt, among 'many other interesting statements, said: "While Ontario- is' only one of the nine Canadian provinces, it will be generally conceded that it is, one of• the main supports of the Federal edi- floe. " It is a vast'domain, practically, self'coetained;;we_are proud of, it and. should be, loyal -to its interests. Let me, .first of all, remind you, that the -area of our province is so great as to. demand our consideration.. As a ,' Matter of size alone,' its vastness touches the imagination; for .acreage, resource's and the maintenance' of po- pulation are' vitally interdependent. The aree..is 407,262 square miles. This - large territory is se situated that'the distance between the farthest south- ern point and the farthest northern • point is 1,070 miles, and between the 'eastern and western boundary, 1,000 miles. The' province is only 8,000 square miles less in -area than France and Germany 'togeth s and is almost equal in extent to the total area of the six New ;England States, plus the States. of New :York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 'Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. When these distances and this area aro visualized, we obtain a more real conception, than would have been possible 'otherwise, of what the development of our na- tural resources, involving transporta- tion facilities and the distribution of mails and merchandise, means to our people. The post office is vital to the. merchant. A letter travels 1,134 mi' -es by rail from Toronto, to the most north-westerly post office in the pro- vince. From that office or from the Hudson' Bay Company's post, the,' whole' district of Patricia -400 'miles wide and 700 miles'long-has to be postally served. "What is known now au Southern or Old Ontario -the Ontario of the early settlement, south of the Ottawa and French Rivers; occupies an area .of less, than 'fifty thousand 'square miles, less than one-eighth of the whole. It has' been on this comparatively small portion of our soil that our. history in war, in trade' and commerce, indus- trial enterprise, agricnitural develop- ment educational institutions and in�' moral and religious character has been , Made. The remaining seven -eighths of our area lies at the threshold of de- velopment and makes a call on our patriotism and manhood to which we cannot turn a deaf ear. need scarce- ly say here, that, while Ontario con- tains 'one-third of the population of Canada, the number of its ,people is far below a third of its apparent ca- pacity. This is obvious froth its fav- orable situation on this continent. Its possibilities largely rest .in the fact. that its- southernmost point --en Lake Erie -touches north latitude 40 deg. 41 minutes, the same as that of home; the city of Toronto being in the same latitude as Florence; Cochrane, the northern railway centre, is on a- line many miles south of Winnipeg; ' and - Moose Factory, at the foot of Jennie Bay, where excellent crops. have been raised for probably two hundred' and fifty years, is latitudinally a long dis- tanee south of Edmonton. So mesh for the :extent of the great estate which has been entrusted to uY-a present population of only 2,993,du30" Saving Waste. Paper. ' During the war many organizations were engaged in collecting waste,: pa- per and numerous 'undertakin ,s` were* financed by this 'meads. There is an enormous waste -going ou continually. in.the destruction if this used paper. It is used: chiefly in the manufacture of building paper and paperboard, in which it.represents 80 per Bent of the ' material. Canada's forests are called upon to provide new woodpulp if waste paper is not available. Fvcry six tons of waste paper collo seed saves an acre of pulpwood timber from the axe. The intensive cutting of the sor- est can only mean .one r�etfalt. if we can delay the final destruction, by col- lecting and making avaiiable for fur- ther use the large•amount of waste' paper now destroyed, it will.' he to Canada's advantage. When Wood Gets Scarce. Canada gets so inuch `.out of,the forests that one can-aitrd y rad'-iOe that.the day is connng wh n wood will .be much scarcer and cons grently higher' priced than at is t:+ day. ,What will take its place rasa question that' many industries arc - carefully con- eidering. Metall have been substitut- ed in many cases, but the demand :for • wood continuos to grow et ee smarm- ing rate. We,"howevor,'are still burn - 41.11 our forests. at a greater rate than We sire using them for commercial London San. '1. -More. than 1,200 small guests were, entertained at the Guildhall to, -day through the custom- ary annual benevolence of the cbil- i'teo. of, klaniilton, ' Ont,, 'Phe Lord' Mayor presided, .and he was supported by .Shorifie, and Aldernieu' of the City and,representatives of. the Dominion of Cenasla. urposes. • Perfectly All flight, Little Wilde had gone' -to bring the new kittens in.:' His mother, hearing g shriili is eorviag, called out: "Don't hart the kittens,- Willie. "Oh no,' laid. Billie. "I'm carrying thorn very asrefuily bythe starneh• 41