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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-11-01, Page 6Caua.da Explores Vast Interior and Taxies to Gold Fields by Air Hudson Straits Sea Route Found Navigable Into December— Indians Get Their Treaty Money by Plane —Forests Protected and Maps Made North of the two Canadian trans- continental railway lines the Land is practically unexplored, Indians, a few white trappers and here and' there. mining camps, constitute the only in- habitants of the great mineralized area surrounding the Hudson Bay.. This territory, the airplane is now exploring. Two Viking Canadian -made sea- planes, with two Pilots, two surveyor navigators, two photographer me- chanics; a photographic officer, and a gook, as well as a Pully equipped outfit, provisions', spare parts, cam- eras, ate, came down out of a clear sky one day toward the middle of September, when the foliage of tim- ber far below was in colorful hue.. The two ships landed gracefully on Cormorant Lake, on the Hudson Bay Railway, north of Lake Winnipeg, Within three weeks they shad com- pleted an oblique photographic and' forest type survey of 24,000 square miles, The airplane in Canada has been ttsed chiefly in remote regions. Forest fire prevention and reconnaissance service; photography of areas as yet unuiaped; sketching of vast forest regions to determine the nature of timber growth; surveying of power sites; transportation of supplies to remote districts—these are some of the uses of the airplane in the Do- minion. The. Royal Canadian Air Force in conjunction with the Ontario Pro- vincial Air Force have kept more than 165,000,000 acres of virgin forest under constant surveillance in the summer and late autumn when for- est fires are most menacing. Sea - have been found by the air patrol to .have too fast a current for freez- ing over, and • were entirely free of iceep to December 10. That is as toe gas the Great Lakes, nearly 1500 miles farther south are open. On that day In. December a huge ice pan, floating down from Fox Channel, blocked the entrance to the Straits from Nottingham Island to the north- ern mainland. Shipping Wheat After Harvest Here again then, the air'piane has: proven of value to Canada. It has shown that it will be feasible to ship wheat from the West via the Hudson Bay and Hudson Straits immediately after the harvest. And this season results will show for how long a period the Straits are open; whether they will be navigable from April 15 to December, just as the Great Lakes. To -day the question of electric power is one of vital interest. It has been discovered ou the surveys and forestry patrols in northern On- tario and Quebec that., there is an abundance or water power awaiting those who care to harness it. Many enterprising concerns have gone north, and by means of airplanes, sometimes those of tate Government, !have surveyed and photographed power sites, at which they are build- ' Mg uild-'ing huge dams and power houses for the transmission of rower to more populated regions. The time-honored custom of paying treaty money to the Indian tribes living in northern Manitoba and ' around James Bay is now done by airplane. No longer do the Indian agents set out for a trip lasting sev- FIVE MILES A MINUTE D'Arey Greig of the Royal Flying Corps, who attained a speed of 300 miles an hour in a flying -boat trial flight. planes are used throughout. The oral months to pay to the first in - country which these airmen watch' habitants of Canada their rightful over abounds in lakes and rivers treaty money No longer is canoe making ideal landing fields. after canoe packed with camp equip - Flying Boats went and provisions to last such a ing and homestead lease aPplications.� trip. Now the natives of the court - The the incident the Montclare passengers The Ontario Provincial Air Force try see a graceful ;>itd Par ahova their About 600 families will live there with -I may well have witnessed the ending of operates 22 seaplanes. Twelve of heads gradually come closer, and the in a few years. When it comps to a I Mass the 's single-handed attempt to these are large 11. S. 2L flying boats, roar of engines tells them it is the question of a bear or .a sheep taking i cross the Atlantic in a light plane. used principally to transport men up room on Kodiak Island, the pros- On the other hand, there is the report poctive farmers aro for the sheep. I of a somewhat similar occurrence—the Clouds Reaches La keiturst Goal After 67000 -Mile Flight THRONGS CHEER GRAF ZEPPELIN ON ARRIVAL AFTER LONG OCEAN COYAGE Flying smoothly despite a badly torn navigating fin, the giant dirigible Graf Zeppelin dipped to earth at Lakehurst, New Jersey, at 6.30 Monday' (Oct. 15th) afternoon, ending the longest non-stop flight in the world's history. The leviathan of the clouds, with 20 passengers and a crew of 40 aboard had been 111% hours in the air since leaving Thursday (Oct. 11111), and had covered approximately 6,000 miles in its efforts to avoid stortft zones on the Atlantic The picture is a striking photograph of the dirigible taken as it passed over New York where whistles blew and flags flew to welcome the voyagers of the air. ' mote places prospecting parties,fully1Light indicates equipped with camp, food' and min- ing necessities to investigate pos- MacDonald Fell sibilities. That area which is known• as the �`°I � Goal Great Pre -Cambrian Shield, covering 4 nearly two-thirds of Canada, and which investigation has showu to be Liner Passenners caw Flam-1 heavily miueralized, although only a - ing Object Drop Into Sea tenth of it has as yet been touched and more than half not yet explored 150 Miles Off Irish will bo rapidly developed by the use' Coast of the airplane, In fact, authoritids' L t Th it on mining state that with the use of i o n c o n.— o pons ,fifty that the airplane, the Canadian pr0s000-'Lieutenant CCeumander M. C. Mac - tor should be able to do more in the , Donald, ,you Briton who was at - next five years than he has done in tempting to fly from Newfoundland to tte past 50 years.—By J. M. in The : England, perished when only 150 Christian Science Monitor. 'males front the Irish coast was indn- cated by passengers and crow of the Stock Farms Will Oust 'Canadian Pacific liner Montclaire, i which' arrived in .Liverpool Sunday. Brown Bears in Alaska i They said that at 6.15 p.m, Thursday; -Anchorage, Alaska.—Civilization 15 � they had seen "a light drop from the reaching toward the wide-open spaces sky leaving a trail of flame behind it.". of Alaska, and the big brown grizzly; The position of the Montelaire at bear, which furnishes amusement for , the time was 150 utiles west of Tory hunters, must give way before an , Island, off the northwest coast of advancing array of live stock raisers County Donegal. The light was too who are about tok pre-empt the haunts !far to the southwest for the observers of bruin in the Western islands. Es -Ito be sure as to its nature. pedally is this true of Koriiak Islands, MAY HAVE BEEN FLIGHT'S END much of which is taken up under graz- Froin this position and the time bf and equipment to the scene of a fire. The other 10 planes are light De Haviland Moth scout seaplanes, used in detecting work. Photography and sketch work is and civilization, to bring the Indians being carried out in these same 11t• what the Great Whits Queen had tie -known regions. Maps have to be promised them 50 or more years ago. made. Formerly these were done To the Gold Fields under the most hazardous conditions. It was these government air saw - Canoe was the only means of getting ices that showed commercial inter- into nterinto the country, each of the innnm- este the vast tike to which the Plane erable lakes h'ad to be circled, port- could be put in the northland. With ages had to be made, carrying camp the rush to the newly discovered gold equipment and instruments. -To-day, items of Red Lake in northern On - the airman flies 5000 fest high above tario in the spring of 1926, three the region he is to photograph, the commercial air transport companies photographer takes pictures so that went in. One hundred and twenty when placed together they form a miles separated the gold strike from mosaic which allows the draftsman Hudson, the nearest railway point. It accurately to draw his maps, and took something like a weep or 10 trained men record the type of for- days to get in through the snow and est growth and physical features. spring slush by dog team and a -foot. Studied Sea Route Canoes were impossible. The air - For many years a new sea route plane did the trip in a little better connecting the Canadian West has than an houri, even the old machines been advocated via the Hudson Bay making it in two hours. They clung - and Hudson Straits to the Atlantic ed $200 a passenger, and carried in °seen. A railway was partly con- the season alone nearly 500 passeng- strutted to Port Nelson. It is being ers and about 11 tons of freight at $1 run to Fort Churchill, both points on a pound. the lltuLon Bay in Manitoba territory. Another gold field in Quebec, open - From the latter the grain freighters ed about the same time, called for an will leave for Europe. air service from Haileybury, Ont., to It was believed that the Hudson Rouyn, Que. One flying boat car - Straits were frozen solid most of the Tied 576 passengers, 12 tons of year, or otherwise were so blockaded freight and 4000 letters in 146 hinrs with .icebergs as to be navigable for flying time, before a railway was run Only a short time. To discover at into Rouyn. first hand just what the conditions ' Better machines in the field were are on this new route to Europe, a seen in 1927, and a cut in prices, thus fleet of seven planes, with pilots, more business. One company, West mechanics, radio operators, housing ern Canada Airways, which also ran materials and supplies to last for 13 planes into the newly discovered months was sent north last summer mining areas of northern Manitoba, by the Canadian Government. And and in addition did some special daily; for the past year, the towering transportation work, carried 100 pas- eengers in 1927, transported 145 tens of ,freight and express and flew a total of 154,000 miles. With these facts to base their Moth scout plane. theories on ,two mining companies Working from ,three bases, one et this year formed air fleets with Nottingham Island, in the mount of which to convey their own prospee• the llu000u Bay, where it joins the tors and supplies to possible Inca- traits; another halfway to the At- tions. Both have their headquarters lantic on Qiiebee territory, and the in Toronto, their bases at The Pao third at the northern extremity of Manitoba, and at Hudson, Ontario. Labrador, the expedition has cover- From these points they convey flnan- ed the Hudson Straits nerth, east and eters and directors to spinae which Went,'in a daily patrol of 1200 miiop, are showing possibilttted, 'flying these . The Straits are front 50 to 100 miles hien In comfortable, heated cabin in: width mid 460 miles long. T1toy white man with their annual heri- tage. Now the seaplanes of the fores- try service come swooping down each autumn on lakes and rivers, hun- dreds of miles beyond the railway cliffs and the snowbound regions just below the Arctic Circle, have wit- nessed the passage of six Fokker pianos and one light De Haviland A NEW SALVAGE CRAFT FOR UNDERSEA RGSCUi;S, "Can I have a private bath?" "Yes, could not ltavo descended, as Itas boon Invention of Simon Lake, Bridgeport, Conn, A divingcompartment everyone hero takes his bath privately hold by some anthropologists, from under Lite nose permits ermits divers to work with their baso at operations along- sir, We have only one bath, but ovary"Indnalt ancestors; but came inclepend- one here takes his bath privately,' only across tills 13erinss J''aa•att," sighting of "a light resembling an ex- plosion"—from the steamer Mirach, which was 6everal hundred miles fur- ther west, at 11.30 o'clock Wednesday night. MacDonald's plane might have been at either of the two places at the times mentioned. He took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Wed-. Mother (at bedtime): "Don't mum- ble your prayers, Helen. I can't hear a word you say." Helen; "I wasn't speaking to you, Mummy" • —4 "Have you ever wondered, what you would do if yott had Rothschild's income?" "No; but I've often wonder- ed what he would do if he had mins," nesday neon. EARL IS BRIDEGROOM The Earl of Bective, heir to Marquis of Headfort,was married at Bromp- ton Oratory to Lady Clarke, widow of Sir Rupert Clarke of Melbourne. Cold Claimed Three Scion of Titled English Family and Two Companions GaNte Up' Hope Near Thelon River - Winnipeg.—The bodies of three. men, believed to be those of Jack Hornby, scion of a titled English Yam- Professor R. Ruggles Gates of fly and noted Arctic explorer, and two King's Collage, London University, companions, who have been missing has just returned to England after a da fort Tests Show Eskimos Not of Indian Blood English Explorer Reveals :Re- lationship With Manchuri- ans as Result of Analysis II.�un fur uur years, have been foundinthe barren four months' exploration along the lands along the shore of the Thelon Mackenzie River, going as far north River. It is not known who Hornby's as latitude 70, whore he made blood two companions were., tests amongtaltoverhe Esltimitisos aditndion Indians.ith Such is the story bre'. lit to �iinni- In king expew peg by a party of prospectors who flee scientific editors of The London arrived at The Pas, Man., by airplane Morning Post, he said: from Port Churchill, terminal of the i "I found that the Indians were 'suf- Hudson Bay Railway. The discovery, , Tering from the most serious epidemic they relate, was made by the first of influenza they haus ever had, This party of prospectors to ponetratr North flus night have complicated matters had I particular region in the Fat Norhi not been able to turn it to a good twenty years, who, traveling by canoe account. down the Thelon River, found' the "The method of blood testing con - The wrapped in blankets Ind silts in taking a drop of blood from lying in the snow, the ear, and as the Indians seemed The discovery brings to a close a to think that the test was in the search which has been in progress for nature 04 a cure for influenza, I had over two years, Hornby, after:coming little difficulty in performing it. In to Canada, passed his early days- in Tact,many of them confessed that the wilds of northern Alberta, later they bit much bettor for itl amassing a fortune, at Edmonton, "Among tha Indians I tested were Alta. Prior to the fatal journey into, men and children from hall ee dozen the,Arctic region, he had gone from different tribes, with such picturesque Chesterfield Inlet, on Hudson Bay, names as Dogribs, Yellow Knives, and was considered a resourceful tn.- Hairelrins and Loucheux. Sento of veier, the children traveled ,1,000, miles for Lack of provisions is believed to be tube testa - France Makes, c nrget Hub` of Airship System Continent's Main Terminal, Alive With Planes, W a4 Pasture in Pre -War Days 1 Sky Travel Loses Novelty Radio Reports Movements of all Craft En Route Le Bourget, France. --A° cow pas, tura when the war began, the avia' tion field at Le Bourget, has become the Grand Central terminal of the air in 'little inore than ten years, Itg development and its Pante and popularity belong to the great hush' ness romances of this fast-moving age, ,rn. immensity, completeness- comfort and efficiency, the airdrome just outside Paris combines many of. the faellities of a great station and a great port, In fact, the officials wire govern' the arrival and departure of the planers— which. often come and go at the rata of a dozen or so an hour—remind one who asks abeut their field that 1t Is "both a station and a port," Flattop arrive not only from almost all of the capitals of the Oontiuont, connect- ed with. Paris by rail, but they also come from overseas—from Africa, Ia• dia, England, And one 4s:9s;gettable night .,the silvery ship bearing Lind. bergh slipped down on the grass of Le Bourget, thirty-three and one-half hours out of New York, Le Bourget has ,also witnessed the arrival of America's Round -the -World flyers of 1924, the departure of Costes and LeBrix for South America last autumn, and before that the tragla farewell of Nungesser and Coli, when they set out for New York, In the near future it is sure to see many more pianee sail away for the new world, and no doubt the day will come when New York will take its place on the bulletin board along with London, Berlin, (Copenhagen and the other cities to which there are regular daily services, Travelling by air is no longer looks ed on as a novel experience or a sport, and an hour at Le Bourget will reveal what an efficient verkaday means of transport the airplane has become, Tho planes_ leave with the regularity of trains, on schedule, eta colt When the weather is exception, ally bad, The position of all the big planes equipped with wireless, which fly be- tween Paris and other capitals, la known at Le Bourget every moment they are in the air. Where the rail- way dispatcher trees the telegraph, Lie -Tiourget employs tho,wh•eless tele. phone. It was as a military establishment that Le Bourget got its fledgling wings, That wasduring the war: Aid- atom viators were trained there and it was from, there that French pilotp tools the air to chase away the Germans flying towards Paris, Have Engine Ready f o?,Strain of Frost Precautions Needed to Pre. vent Injury by Unex-• petted Chill the reason for hit failure to return from the northern wilds on his last tour of exploration, Weak from hun- ger unger+ and numbed by the intense cold, the three men are believed to have collapsed, folded themselves in their blankets and perished "The results were unexpected. Tho Indian tribes gave results similar to those that halee been recorded for other Indian tribes of North America, while those of thesiEsitlmos resembled` results that have boon obtained from Manchurians and Chinese, "From thee°, olio could draw the tentative conclusion that the Bskimoe With frost nipping here and there at unexpected times it is well. for the motorists to remember that the fol. lowing precautions may prevent ex. pensive repairs. Run a solation of washing soda through the radiator and cooling sys• tem while the motor is running for n period of at least tan minutes, "Then flush with clear water to drain oft the scale and rust that have collected. When the water runs clear the radi- ator and cooling system aro clean, Carefully check radiator, water jac- ket pump, hose and other connections ' for leaks. Be sure drain cocks aro closed, Tighten gaskets, drain cocks, grease cups and pump glands,'expan- sion plates, hose and pump connote tions of the cooling system, Atter. this procedure ,alcohol and other antifreeze solution may bo added and when freezing temperatures arrive there will he no regrets regia• terod by the motorists, Canadian Aut=r ists Honor President Silver Emblerrt Is Presented to Dr. P. E. Doolittle In reoognition of his services to the motorists of Canada, Dr. P. E. Doo- little, of Toronto, has been' elected president of the Canadian Automobile Association, at the closing session of the fifteenth . annual t convention at Winnipeg. He ' also was presented with a shield of silver, which contains a scene representing the TransCanada Highway, of which Mr. Doolittle hal been a strong advocate for many years. This will bei the doctor's ninth -conseentive term as president, W. D. Robertson, of Toronto, was re-elected secretary -treasurer. planes, They will tratieport tie re. 6.108 the Punkas vessel, Inset, an int.erier view. 'How do you moan you nudes 'a'taus pas' last night, Sohn?" "Well, 1 told' Harold I'd never been kut led before, and it appears 1-wi a engaged to hind last summer,'