HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-07-27, Page 2GE TWO.
HURON NEWS.
Italian Planes Fly Down Lake.
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.Quite unexpectedly, 'but much appre-
ciated, tithe +history-anaking 'Italian air
armada,. &fa:Areal-.1Chieago. bound,
ave Goderic'lutets a !thrill, passing' the
INr,-t in all 'then majesty on their -rec-
,ord 6,,100 -mile flight ;front Italy to the
Century o'f Progress Il .air, Chicago.
'£houstnd's of 'citizens viewed Ibhe glit-
tering flying 'boats, 'twenty -Dune of the
r-beard'he roar ref
• and the twenty -Sour, itt
tout
e 3 ,
;their motors.'What cities of a half
million and more people wa'i'ted in
vain for hours .to see was accorded
Go'dcrich.ites 'withou't any expenditure
of time or money. IWihrle preparations
were being made for the swimming
meet at the harbor the roar of twelve
airplane motors carne out Of a ,cloud-
ed sky from the north at 2.30 ` p.m.
'flying low under the clouds, about
•two ru'le's out in the lake. 1A11 eyes
were •cast 'skywards. The ;planes flew
in groupts of three, v-forination vtsith
'General hallo IBal'bo's machine as the
;spearthead. 'Phe report was ,quickly
-spread that it was,.the Italian fleet but
nobody was sure. All doubt was dissi-
:pated ten minutes later, however,
.when six more planes "passed by,
southbound, toying in identical 'ash -
..ion. It was not until three o'clook,.
one-ha'lf hour after .the first was
sighted, that three more appeared,
further out and higher top. They were
plainly risible, 'but their motors were
•not heard, The remaining three
planes, it 'has since turned out, had
become separated and followed the
original course along Lakes Ontario
and Erie, joining the main fleet at'De-
troit. The 24 giant flying boats, .which
left 'Montreal about '1=1 a.m. July 8,
:made fine progress along the .St,
Lawrence river and the north shore
of 'Lake ,Ontario as 'far as Belleville,
At that 'point they ran into bad visi-
bility ,and the main body swung north,
flying aver wPeterbor•o and west over
Lake 'Simcoe. They were sighted at
Coldwater and Owen Sound, reach-
ing the shore of Lake Huron at
Southampton, 'then swinging south to
Port Huron and Detroit, thence to
:Chicago.
Engine Runs Away. --Sawing opera-
tions Which were commenced in the
Kalb'fleisch mills at Zurich were de-
layed when in some unknown man-
ner the 'large and slow motion engine
that drives the sawing mill as well as
.the planing mill and flax mill, started
to speed up, apparently the govern-
ors not shuttigg off. The result was
that considerable damage was done
before .it was .brought under control.
The saw mill was immediately shut
off, but the train shaft through the
planing mill suffered injuries, as two
large pulleys did not stand the ex-
cessive speed and broke, and t'he 'bi'g
shaft was badly bent and twisted.
Big Check. Mr, Henry !Haist of
Crediton has received a cheque for
$3,250 in 'payment of the wind ,insur-
ance covering his two barns which
were blown down during 'the •big
storm,
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THE. SEAFORTH •NEWS.
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933,
from IR.olling'.s pit at $2J118 per 'cord;
Block 15 ,Exeter side road to Elmer
Lawson to draw 20 'cords ;from Web's
pit at $2.40 per cord. Motion that the
Clerkrequest "P, R. ,Patterson, county
engineer, to have Portland street
Victoria street or London road to .C.
N:R. station resurfaced as the county
.treated the !London road 'through the
village of •Centralia and that the clerk
further write J,.33. Hawes, district
engineer, requesting !nim to approve
of this work being done. :Motion, that
tenders be asked for and be received
up' to 1' o'clock p;m, on August 7th, to
draw and deliver gravel on Block 1, 2,
3 and '4 on Exeter side road, The 'clerk
stated that he had received the Gov-
ernment auditors report coveringthe
township road expenditure for 1119132
which he presented to the council and
which Was read wherein it stated that
the superintendent's books and record
including the treasurer's cash 'boo'k,
were found in excellent condition
with no adjustments necessary.
Stephen Council. — The council of
the Townehip di ;Stephen convened at
the •town hall, Crediton, on Monday,
July 3, at 2 p.m. All members were
present. The minute,; of the previous
meeting were read and approved.
Tenders were opened for delivering
gravel on certain roads and on 'mo
tion of .Edmund 'Shapton and second-
ed by E. ,Lampert, the following ten-
ders were accepted: On Town 'Line
between Twps df MI'eGil.livray and
Stephen: 'Block 1 to :Norman Vin-
cent to draw 25 cords :from Paton's
Pit at '$2:50 per cord; Block 2 to Ed-
ward rahner to draw 25 cords from
Rolling's pit at 31..90 per cord, (Blade
3 to Roy Hodgins to draw- 20 cord,
from Rolling's 'pit .at $,1,65 per cord;
Block 4 to Elmer 'Lawson to draw
20 cords 'from- Rolling's pit at 51.97
per cord; Block •5 to Elmer Lawson
Registrations at Goderich Summer
School. — Wilmer Harrison, .Porter's
Hill; Ronald E. ,Borghey,. 'Bayfield;
Ida' McGowan, Blyth; Margaret
Johnston, !Blyth; Annie Craig, Blyth;
Rev. !Charles Daniel, !Peterborough;
Thelma' CCheere, ]Goderich; :Mabel
Bailie, !Goderich; Fred Wainwright,
Dungannon; 'Marjorie. Prouse, IGo'de-
rich; Annie 'McK•innon, !Goderich;
Professor K. Cousland, 'Toronto; Mrs.
Couslarid, Toronto; :Jessie +Mathieson,
Goderioh; 'Lester 1T3aird, 'Motherwell;.
R,ev. F. Craig, :Goderich; Margaret ,H.
Forrest, Egmondviile; t Marian Wal-
lace, Egmondvillle; 'Esther Harding,
Gorrie; iRu'by Harding, ;Corrie, Bern-
ice Moore, ,Goderich Rev. G. Mr. Ol-
iver, Blyth; !Rev. C. A. Malcolm, Eg-
mondville; Evelyn !Wynne, Wood-
ham; Laura Rundle, Woodham; Ada
Coo•lce, 'Woodham; Mrs. E. Rush,
Tillso'nburg; .Marjorie IDerlibri d g e ,
Elimville; Anne ITabb, RNile; !Irene
Stoll, 'Carlow; Rev. D. 'MaeMilian,
D u n ganilon; ,,Margaret Watson,
Brucefield; .!Rev. 1W. A. !Bremner,
Brucefleld; Graham 'MdD'owell, ;West-
field; Minnie Million, Auburn; !Helen
Bettger, Mon'kton; ‘James 'lLaGiti,
Westfield; Dorothy !Hicks, 'Centralia;
Beatrice Beecroft, 1Belgrave; iOlaire
McDermott Tavi'swtock; iFran'k1 i n
Holley; Tavistock; Edna Rivers, Sea
forth; 'Jessie 'Richmond,Blyth; I3ar-
vey .Bryan's, 'Walton; (Bernard Shaw,
Walton; :Rev. G. T. Watts, Goderich;
Alam Howell, Goderich; Norman
Craik, (Goderich.
A.Y.P.A. Picnic at 'Goderich,--The
picnic held in ,2Ienese'tung Park, ,Go-
derich, under the auspices of -the lo-
cal council of the A. Y. P. A. o'f ;the
deanery of (Huron, an Wednesday,
was a great success. The sports were
in charge df the 'Bayfield, Varna and
Middleton hranc'h and under the lead-
ership of the president, Carl ;Diehl,
and the efficient 'committee, 'Stewart
Middleton,- ,Leslie 'Elliott, Margaret
Groves, 'Norma Welsh, Margaret
Chutcr,'a .splend•icl program of races
was run off. The following were the
uinrer,: IBnys' shoe. race, 'Kolb Arch-
ibald, ,Seatrortih; Alec ;.Ray, IGorrie;
consolation, ILyai Crawford, 'Gaider-
1 roh; 100 yards- tLyal'Crawford, ,Godo
rich; Bab Archibal'd,'Seaforth; consol-
presented by Jolseph Harmer, of ;Ot-
tawa, on tbeblalf of the family.
ation1 John ;M'ar'es, ,Bayfield; rtfartii'ng
broad ,jump, !Rev. ;L. Pocock, Myth;
Rev, ib+I, Parker, •Hens'abl; 'consolation,
R. Rlogers, Bel'grave;,girls' Slipper:
race, M'anath!a 0V.ilbee, (Seaforth; iMa,i
jory 'Paulin, Wroxeter•, consolation,
Grace Cameron, B!ayifield; IMO yards,
Marjory Paulin, Wroxeter; Kay
Scotchnter, IBlayifiehl; consolation, .;Lil-
lian Elliott, Verna; ,h,ap, slaip and
juntlp - Isobel Cameron, IB'aylfield
Marjory Paulin, 'Wroxeter; consola-
tion, Key S'c`otchnner, [Bayfield; ;part-
ners, necktie — ,Martha RNilbee and.
Wm; •Leyb'urne, :Sea'borth; Jessie and
Frantic Anchif!b'ald,'Seafonth; ,thread and
needle, Bill Dlrunt'm,ond, IHensall, and
Muriel Elliott, 'Varna; JMarian Mid-
dleton and Randrall ' 'Cote, 'Godeni'oh
Twp.; oonsclatio'n, Freda !Williams,
Sealfort'h, and HHugh'Middfdton, Gode-
rich 'Twp.; deep, Rev. M. !Parker,.
Herseall; Rev. t. Pocock, iBlyth; con-
solation, Canon Appieyard, iSealfor.th;
Rev. F. G. Rickard, Brussels; slaw
time race, Marion Middleton, IGoder•
ich Twp.; J. Nesbit, !Blyth;` consola-
tion, Grace Cameron, Bayfield;. paper
race, Bob Archibald, Seaforth; Mar-
ion Middleton, (Goderich 'Twp„ Evans
Cameron, Kay Scotchmer, Bayfield
elopement race, Jessie and Fra'n'k Ar-
chibald, ISdatforth; !Dorothy Parke,
Seaforth, .and Alex. Wray, 'Gerrie;
consolation, Muriel 'Elliott, Varna,
Bill 'Drummond,'Hensall; relay, 'Jessie
and ,Frank ;Archibald, Seaforth;
Bob Archibald and Dorothy' Parke,
Seaforth; '.B'ul'l ILeyburne 'and Mar-
tha Willbee, Sego/tit; Randall Cole
and Marion Middleton, Bessie Chuff
and John "McFarlane, Ross 'Middle-
ton and Alice Bonniok, IGiod'erich two.
Games o'f so'ftbal'l were also enjoyed.
Following the supper the 'douncil met.
It was moved by 'Mr. Moyle of Ex-
eter, seconded by Rev. F. G. Rick-
ard, Brussels, that the council con-
sult different ;branches whit regard
to having a dramatic contest, to be
held in April, A motion to the effect
that the president 'be requested to
write to each branch every ,three
months Was 'moved by Canon .Apple -
yard and seconded by Robert ,Archi-
bald. The prizes 'for 'the races were
donated by H. Blackstone, IGoderich;
H. 'Bar:tliff and Thos. iHa'wkins, Clin-
ton; !Rev. 2'. G. Rickard, Brussels;
and others,
FIVE MASSACRED •IN H'O'ME.
IPeunbroke, Ont,—The bodies o'f five.
members of the family di Joseph
Bradley, farmer of Demers Centre, a-
small Icontmuaity on Alttinette Isiand,•
lay on the house which was, the -scene
of their murder. Ruthlessly 'slaughter-
ed by some person unknown, in whom
the blood -lust was not: satisfied until
his victims had fallen to 1 is tifle the
Bradley's, quiet spoken, orderly and
highly respected in the small village
of Demers Centre were ,coldly murd-
ered, one after 'die other.
[Residents of that neighborhood had
cast off their' fears today and s'po'ke
of possible causes of •the tragedy. They
spoke of strange island feud's of years
standing. None, however, could or
would declare !definitely against whom
they would point the finger of lsus'pic-
ion.
lAt !'east three eye ,witnesses saw the
killing of Johanna Bradley, the 315 -
year -old daughter of the housse. None
saw the murder of Joseph Bradley, 69,
who was ,found dead in the stable, of
Mrs. •00aggie Bradley, his wife, of
John ,Bradley, his 05 -year-old brother,
or of Tose !Bradley, the mentally de-
fective son.
'Mrs—Allard Narcisse V'aillan'court
and Lawrence Manville of Demers -
Corners, saw the ru'thless shooting
down of. Johanna. ;All heard shots
around 7,30 o'clock in the /northing.
They saw Johanna running through
the yard of .the Bradley ;farm,pursued
by a man carrying a :rifle. Mrs. All-
ard declared he seemed to have a
blanket over his head.
(The pursuer stopped and fired at
the 'woman. At 'the same time they
heard her 'shriek: 'Pin 'being 'murder-
ed," She •staggered into the house
still chased :by the retiiorseless'"frend.
He was not seen again.
The neighbors were terrified. None
dared 'approach 'the house. •I't was the
local priest, !Feather (Harrington; of
Chapeau, who entered when told .of
the 'occurrence later, and ,his eyes lit
on evidences of one df 'the most dread-
ful malssacres in the .history of the
dVlemorial to Late 'Bayfield Rector.
—St Step'hen's Anglican Church :at
IThannesville was well filled at the 11
o'clock service last ,Sunday when the
dedication of the Hinde and 'Harmer
memorials was conducted by Rev.
Canon C,' E. Jeakina, IBJ.A., MB D., rec-
tor•,of 'the 'Church o'f St, John Evan-
gelist, (London. A reredas, the gift of
his 'granddaughters, 'Evelyn, Edith,
Carrie and Fannie 'Harmer, was ded-
icated to the memory of !Rev. Mr.
Hinde, rector of the clnirc'h 'from
!1/189 •to 14493, An altar rail was given
to :the memory of the late Mr. and
'Mrs. J. N. !Harmer, faithful members
'from 131712, to 19122, and a credence
table in memory of 'Jenny Harmer,
and. a prayer book to Caroline 'Harm-
er'George. These were given by Mr.
and wire W. IF, Lindley, 'Loudon;
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph .N. 'Harmer [01 -
o a description of Jeclburgh, for that!.unies, rebound as one in the eigh-
's a town of woolen mills. It was one, teemtli century, comprise 940 letters,
0'1 the first towns to begin the wool -1 all ;o of maritime interest. The letters
en industry, and it 'reta4ns its emi- are not concerned with mere` matters
fence in that trade still: It has other j of ,routine, and 'this May be the rea-
son why, they became separated 'from
hose 1preserved at CaMbrid'ge. But,
for
Fall that, they are '°'lndter-books" in
t'he strict meaning of !the phrase—that
is'to.say, office copies of oor:reslpond-
enc'e ,dispatched. More than one thand
cam he traced through the volumes;
but many of the letters were c'opied
by Pepys himself, some in
don
hen
d
some in sbtorthand, and same in a
mixture of the two.
As (soon as the letters 'reached
Greenwich, Mr, Edwin Chappell inn-
dertook .the transcription of the
sshot-Th'aud items, so that the entire
volume might be a'vailable for study.
"Shorthand Letters" is the;,result of
this la'bour,'an'd the title is a straight-
forward description of the contents.,
With' one in'sign'ifican't exception, the
letters :trarsoribed by 'Mr: Clha'p'pelll
are 'simply and solely shorthand.
!Shorthand, we know, was :employ
ed in Queen Elizabeth's day; and
within 20 years of ler dea'th' the cuni-
our .cou'Id ,purcth'ase 'Thomas Shelton's
tittle 'primer on ;the ,su'b'ject. 'In 1641.
Shelton launched aiu'improved system,
wihf''ch he called "tadhygraplhy." This
method .was , !mastered by • Samuel
Pepys twthen he ,was up at 'Oambnidge
some •10 'years later. It• l's' not neces-
sary to describe the system, which is
'tdequated'y treated .b3 Mr, IClhappell in
his in,troduction.nBitt 'bw!o aspects need
stressing here. In the first tp'lace, the
system ,was a "pioneer" system; it
'pointed the road rather than actually
esacle it, leaving popularization to the
nineteenth cen'tury,,p'hon'etics, and Sir ••
Isaae Pitman! 'In the second place,
the system, in the middle sev'en'teenth
,century, 'was the exact antithesis of
What is meant by "ancillary." He 'wlho
mastered it, as Pepys ,mastered it,
did not perhaps Master the .whole
world, but he dominated the secret-
arial possibilities of ;any 'sphere into
which he entered. Fate, in the shape
cd family influence, intervened; and
Samuel Pepys went to seta with his
cousin Montagu on. a political errand,
Iwhielh 'history n'ow describes as" the
ndustries as ,well, among Thein being
a brewery and a tannery, the tannery
being owned by 'Messrs. J. !Gutluie
& Sons,
There is a certain 'connection be -
ween the .woollen and the ,;tanning
industries, as some 'firms of spinners
'buy the skins` with the fleeeiee on
hent. Im the 'last
YFw years a new
ndustry !tag' been added, that of the
,production of artificial silk at the
Cannongate Mills. Among the firms
engaged in tlie woollen industry pro -
per are Messrs. J. Boyd & Son, of the
Nsw Bougate Mills, the weaving mill
being at New 'B;onga•te, just outside
the ,bourn, while the spinning rill is
within the town.
But, Ile- miles further north on the
maim. road from ,Edinburgh which
passes through Lauder, is. an interest-
ing nn011 at Eareston,, :with spinning
and. \weaving' sheds in !proxi'm'ity. It
is kiso!wn as the Rhywmer's Mill, from
iEarls:ton being the old Eicil'doun of
Thomas the !Rhymer, and is owned by
Messrs. 'Simpson & Fairbairn.
Unemployment hal hit Jed+burgh
recently, of course, as it has other
place's, .but the artificial 'silk in'dustry,
the newest in the' town, has done well.
The tweed indiustry has been' the main
one in the ;torten for more than a cen-
tury, and work here has been fair;;
steady. The building trade did not do
well last year, during which not ,.
single dwelling -house was erected.
!The rotate from the north into Jed -
burgh is through the beautiful scen-
ery of the Roxb,urghshire hill's and
mountain's. From 'Earlston, going
south, the road runs parallel with the
River Leader for about three 'miles
until it joins the 'Tweed. Soon the
road meets the 'River Jed and 'follows
that stream- south' to 1J'dd'burgh. - A•s
we approach the town we see the full
.mountain , country, with its many
peaks and 'bens farming ',a' glorious
view on a clear day.
The High 'Street runs completely
through the town, south to the Market
Place, but rising towards it, and then
continuing to rise, and very steeply,
to the Old 'Castle of Jedll tirgh=th'e
"Old Castle" is the name by which
the people know it, but there is no
castle now; the ,present buildingels an
ad prison, and a large one at \that,
merely built on the foundations of the
famous Jedburgh Castle,
Jediburgh Abbey is, of Course, the
most interesting of 'all the interesting
buildings of the town, and the history
of the town is bound up with it.
'The Abtbey.Bridge is in a very ,pic-
turesque position, and is old, though
doubtless it has been strengthened
and restored from time to time.,
(The origin , of the .present Abbey
'buildings' is clearly traced, but that
of the confraternity, as distinct front
the present surviving remains, is a dif-
ferent and an dbscure matter. There
is no question that there were ancient'
settlements of monks in the ninth
century at place's named as Old Jed
burgh end New Jedburgh, King Dav-
id 'I. founded a 'monastery at Jedworth
in '0147, near his royal residence, and
brought montes from 'Beauvais, in the
North of France.
"J'ed'hurgh" is a corruption, or more
properly speaking, an evolution, frim
the form ""Jedworth," of, which "Ted
wart" and "Jedclart" are real corrup-
tions. The second syllable is the Sax-
on "weorth," meaning a hamlet.
'Tate absolutely unique sport of Jed -
burgh is annual .on'l'y, and is held on
Candlemas, which falls on the 'fixed
date February 2nd, every year. .But
its present practise does not 'depend
on anything ecclesiasticah,iTwo sides,
the '"IJppies" and the '"Doonies," play
football in the streets, and although
efforts have .from time to_time been
wade to encl the practise, the game
goes 0n.
Recently a great "addition has been
made -to, an already excellent supply
of domestic water, by utilising 87,000,
gallons which 'had been, going to
waste daily for many years • at 'the
three sources of the town'''s supply.'
'The quantity now available' is 2517,000
gallons daily, The 'population is about
21500,
Ottawa Valley.
JEDBURGH
Most of the songs of the Border
country in 'Scdtland deal with 'hove and
war; they were 'fine fighters in 'the
old days in the (Borderland: But there
is one old song which deals with the
great industry of the. Border towns,
the growing of 'wool and the spinning
and weaving of it into the cloth for
which the Tweed, by a lucky mis-
take on the part o!f an invoice clerk,
litho ought to have written 'reveal"—
has achieved fame 'by 'givin.g'the cloth
its name. "The song is to 'be found in
the collection of "Songs of Scotland"
gathered together by Robert Chamb-
ers, 'It bears the title. "Tarry Woo,"
and comprises five .stanzas, of which
follows here the 'first:—
Tarry woo, '0 tarry woo,
"Parry woo is ill to spin;
Card it wail, 0 card it well,
'Card it wei'1 ere ye begin;
'When it's cardit, row'd, and spun,
Tlien the wark is halflins done;
,But, when woven, dress'd and clean,
It may be cleadin' for a 'queen.
A a note says v --,"Sir 'Walter .Scott
',used annually to join in the festivities
.of the .woollen tnan'u'facturers of Gala-
shiels, on the day of the inauguration
of their deacon-conever. On one or
two of these occasions,. inotwtithstand-
,ing disqualifications equal to those •of
tate Nightingale Club, 'he was induced
Ito regale the company (at an ad'vanc-
eed period of the evening) with 'Tarry
!Woo',"
IThe song belongs to the tfhole of
tawa, and Mr. and Mrs.'F. Mc'Ritch-'the spinning and weaving towns, and
ie 1Moosejaw The memorials were is th r f fitti i t el i
REMEMBER
17 werekilled. and
174 injured because of
defective lights in
Ontario in 1932
MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
Leopold Macaulay, Minister
AN OLD .ART
Lr this year, the tercentenary of his
birth, it is .only to be 'exp'ected that
much Which is new will be said eon-
,cereing Santudl 1Pepys; and - yet it
may be doubted ,whether anything
more uprooting to 'popular belief :will
be supplied than may he found in a
slim volume, to be b'ulbhisbed, entitled
Shorthand' " Letters o'f Samuel
Pepys,"
It is co'mmoo ennow'ledrgo that near-
ly all df 'Pepys.s boobs and manu-
scripts passed, at •the'. death oaf his
nephew John' Jackson, into the 'keep-
ing of Magdalene 'Co1.iege, Cam-
bridge. 'But certain voluIines ,of letters,
l'a'rgely of family concern, ;went to
John Jackson's descendants; and a-
mong them were ,three volumes of
naval -'papers. These came under the'
hammer in April, 1.931, and 'were ,se-
cured by 'the trustees of the National
Maritime IMlusen:le The three
Restoration' of Charles II
twchygrap'tt'y 'to 'aid' ihim in the flame
ship which brought the King to his
own again, Pepys made ,the most of
'a great opportunity and became in
turn secretary to the .Navy .Com'mis—
sio'ners 'and to 'the !Lord IHigh Ad-
mlrai,
Rf taohygrap'hy !rad .equi,p'ped' the
s'ecretaria'l "Supenman," England cer-
tainly had need. ,of hien. With cen-
turies of 'se'a-ex!p'eeienoe ;behind her,
she still 'had .no. better way of coping
with +maritime emergencies than +th'e
characteristic pro;ces's of "muddling
through." When the sea aspirations
of another State threatened her with
eclipse, .Great !Britain made use ofd
the flittering and ,personnel cif her . �,
cantile ,marine. Such im'provisatit71 s
proved sufficient to neutralize the
anti-British schemes of sixteenth -cen-
tury Spain, biut .wan inadequate to
break the 'worldwide tha'lattocracy+of
the seventeenth -century Dutch. IIt was
inevitable then that England :must
perish or anust',build :up a naval force
suffi,cien't, for "the safety,honbur, and
welfare" of the ,Kingdon;; and of
such a force the proper machinery ,of.
naval administration was the n'eets
Conc'o'mitant. rl.'hat machinery was the
lifework of one uvho,, deserved a seat
he the (louse df' Lords than many of
his :'cantevnporaries, but who carried'
to'the .grave no more honourable dis-
tinction than that with Which his ad-
mirers salete hien torday--!Mister
Pdpys.
These shorthand:letters show 'hum
at work riveting together the joints :oaf
Isis Machinery, The view they afford
fragmentary. For a complete esti-
mate they .must be studied in relation
to the immense mass 'of 'his offic'iel
correspondence. in longhand. But
they serve well enough as illustra-
tions. In the first item we find him
faced with a ,most .delicate piece of '
procedure; the choice o'f;a banner of
distinction at sea to 'be used by
'Prince ,Rupert. The Royal 'Standard
Was asked for; and eventually refused; _.
Pepys scanned tine past for preced-
,ents, and reached conclusions .that the ,
.Roya!l Standard .coulid be word only
by the, King's Majesty:—
"!`Yesterday the Duke at dui ` at-
tending 'hint enquired What was al-
lowable by 'custom to the Prin'c'e as —
to'the 'wearing of a standard. It was
an'swer'ed (by the old ones) that no
adlmiral in their 'memory : :!had ever
clone it, 'the, standard implying tlee
(Zing's being present' , at leash,
Mrd higher signal of ..the King's 'pres-
ence is provided than it"
11n passing it nutty be noticed' that
Pepys was wrong: '(further research
has shown that 'fo' centuriespast the
Royal 'Standard had 'been worm by
Admirals com'mand'ing in -chief; by.
Dake in the cantlpaign' : of 11585,8G,'
and even .by Hawkins at San •J•uan ele
Ullo'a. But these contradictions- serve
naw to' emphasize 'Pcpy's's p'dsition,
'Arriving at sane conclusions art 'tlhe
best available evidence, he nmdu'ded
the future like a patter h!antdlin'g .clay.