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X0,000 Canadian
Rai��ay. �Ien leek
Wade Increases
MANY CLASSES OF EM-
PLOYEES INVOLVED.
Men's Demands Range from
Ten to Twelve Cents Addi-
tional Per Hour.
Montreal.—Wage negotiations in-
volving more than 90,000 men, and
wage deleands ranging from 10 to 12
cents nn hour, confront Canadian rail-
way' in :the opening weeks of this-
year. Ona parley is proceeding, an-
other dispute is the subject of Board
of Conoi.iatien proceedings, and other
negotitions will follow this course,_
Negotiations onelied around tho re-
quest of 25,000 Maintenance -of -way
ween of Canadian lines for ars increase'
of 10 cents an hour. Three representa-
fives Gf the men are meeting the Wage
Ccmnuttee.of, the Railway Association
cf Canada on this :natter,: and sertain
we rki,g 'conditioins aro also the sub-
ject of, discussion, previous negotia-
tim 5. having been :Adjourned.
Bail shopmen in Canada, to the
nue ler of 85,000. employed , on all
Canadian lines, are looking iso to
r eureption of neg:tietions, when their
representatives will put forward their
request for an increase of 10 cents an
hour.. Their negotiations also will be
resumed with the Railway Association
of Canada.
The Canadian Brotherhood of Rail-
road Employees 'are looking to nego-
tiations with tho Canadian National
Railways for a wage increase broach-
ed to the company in August last.
Their 'request involves 18,000 Can-
adian National Rai.viay employees,
including office staffs, freight sired
employees, roundhouse men, ferry-
boat crews, etc., and is for a 10 cents
per .hour increase for hourly rated
,nen and, $20 a. month for monthly
rated men.
Negotiations are expected too
open
toward the end of this month between
the Canadian National Rat ways and
representatives of some 800 employees
in the sleeping, dining and parlor car
services of the railway. The employ-
ees request wage increases of approxi-
mately 12 per cent., as well as a uni-
form schedule, instead of the four
schedules for this class of workers in
use at present.
Tho wage requests of some 6,000
railway and steamship clerks employ-
ed on the Canadian Pacific Raihvay
became the subject of the Board of
Conciliation proceedings.. toward the
close of Mast year, wages and working
conditions being the issues. The pro-
ceedings, it is understood, are not yet
completed.
In Ontario and Quebec, which con-
tain about 82 per cent. of the manu-
facturing industry of the Dominion,
about 90 per cent, of the total power
demand, excluding steam railways, is
met by water -power.
New Zealand. Premier .Will Cross
Canada....
Int. Hon. J. • G,•;Coates, Premier -of
New Zealand,, accompanied by Mrs.
Coates and members of his party, has
left Loudon on his way homeward.
The party is travelling to New 'Zealand
via New York, Montreal and Van,-
soaves•.
U.S. Factories on Border
Issue Citizenship Mandate
Toronto, Ont.—Canadian mechanics
and workmen employed in factories in
border cities of the United States have
been told that they must .become Un-
ited States citizens or lose their jobs.
The result ,of this mandate from a
number of employers in Detroit, Buf-
falo end Cleveland, has bean the re-
turn to Toronto within the last month
of a number of young men, according
to W. S. Dobbs, head of the employ-
ment service of Canada,
—"A general overhauling of factories
in the United States seems •to be in
progress," said Mr. Dobbs in discuss-
ing the situation.. "What is happen-
ing is that employees are giving for-
eign workmen the opportunity of be-
coming citizens or losing their jobs,
and it appears that there are a num-
ber who would prefer to return to
Canada than live in the United
States."
Forced Auto Insurance
Starts in Massachusetts
Boston. -With mingled 'high hopes
and misgivings Massachusetts gut
into effect the first compulsory auto-
mobile . insurance law in the United
States. Every automobile owner in
the state, and there were 850,000 last
year, before he can obtain a registra-
tion license for 1927 must post a bond
to cover apcident liabilities or show
,an insurance policy covering the same
risk.
THE MARKETS A KFF S
TORONTO.
Man. wheat—No. 1 North., 31.46;
No. 2 North.,- 31.42; No, 3 North.,
31.37.
Mann. oats—No, 2 CW, nominal; No.
3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 59%c; No.
2 feed, nominal; Western grain quota -
Am, corn, track, Toronto—No. 2
old yea:ow, 88c; No. 3 old yellow, 87c;
No. 8, new y:alow, 85c.
Millfeed—bel. Montreal • freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, 332.25;
shorts, per ton,. $34.25; nnicldlings,
340.25,
Ontario oats, 5Oc, f.o.b. shipping
points.
Ont. good milling wheat—$1.25 to
$1.27 f.o.b. shipping points, according
to freights.
Barley—Malting, 60 to 64e.
Buckwheat -75c, nominal.
Rye—No. 2, 90c.
Man. flour—First pat., 37.90, To-
ronto; do, second pat., $7.40. -
Ont. . flour—Toronto, 99 per cent.
stent, per barrel, in carlots, Toronto
35.50; seaboard, It bulk, 35.50.
Cheese—New, large, ' 0 to 201/2c;
twins, 201 to 21c; triplets, 22c. Stil-
tons 28c, Old, large 25o; twins, 265;
triplets, 27c. 01d Stiltons, 28p.
Butter—Finest creamery prints, 45
to:40e ; No. 1 creamery, 44' to 45c; No.
2, 43 to 44c, Dairy prints, 34 to 85e.
Eggs -Fresh extras, in cartons, 65
to 68c; fresh extras, loose, 65c; fresh
firsts, 60c; fresh second.:; 88 to 39c;
fresh pullets, 52 to 53e. Storage ex-
tras, 45c; cio, firsts, 43c; do, seconds,
86 to 375.
Poultry, dressed -Chickens. 5 lbs.
up; 36 to 38e; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 35 to 37c;
do, 8 to 4 lbs., 33 to 85c; do, 2% to 3%
Toe., 31 to 330; do, 2 to 21/2 lbs., 80 to
32e; do, spring squabs, 1 to 146 lbs.,
82 to 83e; ]rens, ever 5 lbs., 80c; do,
4 to 5 lbs., 28c; do,3 to 4 lbs., 25c;
roosters, 22c; turkeys, 42 to 46c;
ducklings, 5 lbs, and up, 32e,
Beans -Can. hand-picked, $3,60 to
$3.90 bushel; primes, $3.45 to 38.60.
Maple products—Syrup, per imp.
gal., $2.25 to $2.80; per 5 gal., $2.15'
to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, 1•b., 25.
Roney -60 -lb. 'tins, 12% to 130; 10-
th tins, 12to 13c; 5.1b. tins, 13: to
li34c; 24%-16 tins. 1,5e.
• Corhb honey -$3.40 +o 34.50 per dos,
Smoked ' meats—Harms, med., 28 to
80c; cooked hams, 42c; snicked rolls,
£se; breakfast bacon, 32 to Sec; backs,
boneless, 83 to 40c.
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., 322; 70 to 90 lbs., $20.50•
20% lbs. and up, $21,84; lightweight
r6lls, in barrels, $11.50; heavyweight
rolls, $38.54 per bbl,
Lard—Pure tierces, 141 to 15 sc;
tubs, 16 to 1606c; pails, 16% to 17c;
prints, 171,2 to 18e; shortening tierces,
113¢ to 12c; tubs 12% to 181,6; pails,
13% to 13%c; blocks, 14% to 1436c,
Heavy export steers, $7 to . $7.75;
heavy steers, good, $6.25 to 36,50;
butcher steers, choice, $7.25 to 37.65;
do, fair to good, 35.e5 to 36,26; do,
com., $.4.75 to $5; butcher heifers,
choice, 36.25 to 37; do fair to good,
35.60 to 330; cio, come $4.50. to $5; but-
cher cows, gel. to choice, $5, to 35.25; do,
coni. to med., 33 to 34; do, canners
and cutters, 32.26: to 32.75; butcher
bulls, good to choice., 35 to 35.25; do,
med., 34 to $4.75; do, boiognas, 38.50
to $8.80; baby beef, 39 to 310;
feeders, choice, 35.50 to $5.80; do,
fair, 35 to $5.25; stockers, choice,
34.75 • to 35; do, fair to reed., 34 , to
34.50; Mich cows, 3370 to $90; spring -
ars '390 to $110; plain to med., cows,
34th to $65; calves, choice, 313
to 314; de, meds, '$9 to 312.50; do,
com. and grassers, 34 to 35; lambs,
choice, $12.50 to $12.75; bucks, $9.78
to $10; sheep, choice, $6.50 to $7; do,
heavies, 34.5 to 35;'do cu'lOs, 33 to
33.50; hogs, thicic smooth, fed and
watered, $11; do, f.o.b., 310.50; do,
country points, 310.25; do, off cars,
311.40; select premium, per hog, $2.16.
MONTREAL.
Oats—Can. west., No. 2, 75c; do,
No. 8, 681e. Four, Mang spring
wheat pats, lets, 37.90; do, 2nds,
$7.40; do, strong bakers, 37.20; do,
•winter pate, choice, 36.10 to $6.15.
Rolled oats bag 3.0 lbs., $3.65. Bran,
332.25. Shorts, 334.25. Middfnngs,
$40.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, carlots,.
314.50,
Cheese, finest west's, 18s to 19c;.
butter, No 1 pasteurized, 47.% to 42c;
eggs, storage extras„ 47d; do, storage
flrsts, 44c; do, Storage monde, 40 to
41c; cio, fresh specials,' 75c; do, fresh
extras, 65c; do, fresh firsts; 60c,
Cows, cutter quality, 33; canners,
32 to 32.25; calves $10 to $12; hogs,
311.25 to $11,30; sows, $10.,
HIGHER SPEED OF
MOTOR VEHICLES
NOT A MENACE
Will Not Mean increase of
Accidents, Says Motor j
League Official,
Toronto.—That an increase of the
speed limit on the highways to 35
miles an hour -will not mean en • in-
crease in accidents, is the`. opinion of
Ontario Safety League officials.
J. F. II, Wyse, General Manager of
this organization, declared that he
didn't believe the "raising .of.the limit
in outside municipahitiesvvould endan-
ger the safety of motorists. Mr. Wyse
had just returned from a trip through
the States, having been as far south
as Georgia. Ile noted , that many
highways in ,the: South allowed the 35 -
mile -an -hour .speed, and where the
highway began at the. edge of a muni-
cipality signs announced: "Begin 85
Mlles" or "Speed 35 Miles."
"In Maryland," said Mr. Wyse, 4
as told that there was opposition to
the proposal: to raise the speed to 35
mikes an hour. But now it is found
that there is no increase in accidents.
The Ontario Safety League will not
oppose the Government's plan here.
I don't think the increased limit means
increased accidents."
Tho Safety League is opposed to
the raising of the speed laws within
municipalities.`
' Brantford. ---Brant • and Brantford
motorists, queried regarding their
opinions on the, proposed new legisla-
tion
tion to make the motor vehicles speed
limit on the highways 35 miles an
hour, expressed themselves as . being
in accord with the idea. The general
impression seems to be that the 25 -
mile limit is too stow, and somemotor-
ists stated that this rule was seldom
observed,
London, Ont.—Police Magistrate
Graydon and Chief of Police Bin -ell,
as we_l as other prominent citizens,
declared in favor of the 35 -mile -an -
hour speed which 'the` Ontario Dept.
of Highways is to establish shortly.
Torevent the formingof dust on
P
concrete floors, wash the surface
clean; when dry, cover with a coating
of linseed oil. Sodium silicate (ordi-
nary water -glass) can also be used for
this purpose, although its wearing
qualities are not so good as the linseed
oil.
-..4111.0are ,
New Welland Shill
Canal Ready by 1930
St. Catharines.—Subject to
weather conditions and the con-
tinuance of Government appro-
priations, the Welland Ship
Canal should be complete and
ready for heavy -draught ahen -dr ht nd
big -ship navigation by 1930, ac-
cording to a statement made by
Alexander 'Grant, chief engin-
emPort We!ler, tho Lake
Ontario entrance, is now •a'vaii-
able as a port of refuge for
steamers with a draught up to
25 feat. Sections 1 and 2, lying
below the Nllagara esoarpnient,
wi$ be fully completed early in
the coming season,
'Seventy -Six .$4." •
In Wild Stampede
At Moutrcai Theatre
127 LOSE LIVES
AT LEVEL. CROSSINGS
Bureau of Statistics Reports
Record Total of Canadian -.
Victims During 1926.
Ottawa, Jan, 9.—The level crossings
of Canada took e record total of 127
lives during 1926, and eaulsed injuries
to 367 others, according to statistics
compiled from the monthly reports
issued by the Railway Board. There
were reported to the Boarda total
of 297 crossing 'aceldents, end in 229
of them automobiles were involved.
As recently es 1912 there was not a
crossing accident in: ell Canada in
which a motor ear wee concerned, ac-
cording to available figures. The pre-
vious high total of crossing accident
deaths was set in 1924 when 94 lives
were lost in this manner.
Inn the past 12 months 22 passengers
were killed on Canadian railroads, and
334 passengers were injured. In the
same period 129 employes were killed
and 1,741 injured, and others killed
totalled 275 and injured 555, this
classification including` the victims of
railway crossings.
Plans for St. Lawrence Tunnel
Are Sulimitted in Quebec
Quebec.—Plans for the construction
of a tunnel under the St. Lawrence
River, between Montreal and Longue-
uli, were submitted to Parliament by
the Montreal Underground Terminal
Co., a million -dollar concern, which
will be established_ for the carrying
out of the project. The bill will be
presented before the Legislature at
the forthcoming session.
CANADA LINKED -WITH ENGLAND
BY IIS
IRE WIRELESS TELEPHONE
wards, director of radio in the Marine
THE DOMINION ,CAPITALI and I fisheries Department, spoke fro
his:house in 'Rockliffe, this city, tmo
Mr. Vyvian and Mr. Matthu, after
which J. Fred Booth and his son, J.
R. Booth, also conversed with the
same parties in England. The com-
munication was over the beam radio
system between England and Drum-
Ocean—Experiments Fore- mondville, Que., to which Ottawa was
shadow Opening of Direct connected with the regular long -
Phone Communicationsdistance telephonic. so dfsbinet was
rho test that Mr. Ahearn turned on
With All Parts of Empire. the loud speaker of his radio set and
Mr. Vyvian heard a minister in one of
the local churches, Whose sernmen was
being broadcast at the time. The dis-
tance frons. Ottawa to Bridgewater is
slightly under 3,500 miles.
To -day's tests are in no way con-
nected.with the radiophone communi-
cation itu'tugurated'between ,Now York
and London on Friday of last week,,
and foreshadow the opening up of di-
rect telephone :communication toallately he heard the voice of R. N. VY- parts,of the Empire. It is a new and
vias; engineer -fn -chief of the Marconi distinct inter -Empire -project which it•
Company's long-distance communica- is hoped to carry out through the
tion at. Bridgewater. The converse Marconi beam system. .
tion between the two was most dis-
The first two stations to be built
timet.. Mr. Ahearn aewards k
to sir. Matthupersonalftrt ehnicalspofop-e mondville,tit
Que. Others in the Im-
are at Bridgewater, Eng.,and Dru.
,
resentative of Signer Marconi, A few Aerial chain are now being construct
minutes later, Commander C. P. Ed- ed in South Africa and Australia.
TALKS WITH BRITAIN.
Sermon Preached at Ottawa
Distinctly Heard Across the
Ottawa, Jan. 9.—Empire wireless
telephone • connected Ottawa with
Bridgewater; Somas -sot , England, at
noon to -day. T. Ahearn, well-known
Ottawa financier, picked up the tele-
phone receiver at his 'home and "Cen-
tral" informed him that "England de-
sire to speak to you, sir." Immedi-
Rt• I•Ion, Stanley M. Druce, Prime
Australia, who recently visited Tonwnto.
Minister
of the Commonwealth of
OUTBREAK OF FLAMES
DURING SUNDAY
MOVIE.
Children •Trampled to Death
in Mad Rush for 'Exits—
Stairway Jaimned' With
Bodies of Victims.
Montreal; Jan, 9, Beelies, of
seventy six, and possibly more, boys
and girls lire lifeless en the floors of
the Montreal Morgue. A score of
other children and a•few edults;.scar-
red, crazed and burned, repose et four
city hospitals.
All aro victims of a stampede that
followed a minor outbreak of fire this
afbernoon during a movmgepieture
show at the Laurier Palace, in the
mat end oSthe•eity.
All bvoning the toll mounted, and
may continue to mount hour after
hour as .ambulances stake still more
journeys to- the old grey mortuary
chambers near the harbor. Long after
the last wisp of steam and smoke had
dissenrinated over the gaunt east end
building which had been a tomb for
so many, mothers and fathers; broth-
ers and sisters, tramped wearily from
hospital to hospital.
Some cried hysterically as they
found their little ones in safe care.
Others left the last hospital with one
more call to slake. And. the Morgue,
enyeloped in the deathly stillness of
a business district hushed on the
seventh ;dray, saw the: ever -filling lines
of taut -strung men, woven and chil-
dren, even, still searching and await-
ing the worst.
The mute and mutilated were taken
in arid -afternoon from .a stairway,
barely 50 feet long, leading from the
eastern end of the theatre gallery to
the street. Ten: minutes encompassed
tike whole tragedy.
Nearly all pulled out et the stair-
way were dead. Two orthree boys
gave their names and died. Outside
the police worked feverishly. While
motor fire -pumps roared in ear-split-
ting cacophony, as the interior blaze
was attaeked with tons of water, doe -
tom were summoned. frail little bo-
dies were Ladd in rows on the sidewalk.
Deed and injured were quickly separ-
ated. Priests wore on the scene, and
the last rites were given to a few
gasph g little cues, who revived a lit-
tle in the open air and then diad.
Near -by fire and police stattens be-
came temporary morgues. Ambulances
ruehed the injured to the various hos-
pitals, The news spread, and soon
hatless anxious parents were on the,
run toward the theatre. Reinforced
police were merciless to the curious,
kindly and sympathetic to the people
who feared their little enes were in-
side the building. They got little
news. The safety forces of the city,
and the hospital squads worked so
quickly that either hospitals or the
Morgue alone could anewer the quer-
ies.
Then the trek of tragedy from hos-
pital to boseital, and then to the mor-
gue began. Admitting officers at the
four big hospitals were bcsiegod for
the names of the patients they had.
The beat was done fox the questioners
but there was need for tact, for more
n'ere dying, and the rustle of the
soutaune was heard in more than one
corridor.
At the end of the journey was the.
Morgue. Lino after lino of police re-
pelled the _insistent, 'near -crazed peo-
ple who wanted to decide once for all
if the loved ones were dead or missing.
The 'scene in the little roost of the
Coroner's Court was unparalleled. A
long line of weeping parents led to the
Mrs. John Thorburn
Who is dread at Ottawa at the age of
91. Mi•s. Thorburn was a founder of
the Women's 11•I•issionary Society and
also of the National Council of Women.
bench, where Coroner McMahon,
vostigator of crime and'acciiient cases
in Montreal for more than forty years
asked each ono particulars concerning
the deceased.
BRITISH AIR MINISTRY
COMPLETES AIR TRIP
Left Croydon, England, on
Y g
Dec. 27, and Covered 6,300
Miles in 63 Hours.
Delhi, British India.—A salute was
fired wJien the air liner Hercules made
a graceful landing here, and Sir
Samuel Hoare, Britsh Air Minister.
and Lady Hoare,'conipleted their air
enyago from England. The last leg
of the long flight was from Jodhpur.
Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare left
Croydon, England, in the Hercules an
Dee. 27. They concluded the 6,400
stiles in (13 flying hours. -
Field Marshal Sir William Bird-
wood, Commander-in-Chiefof the
British Army in India, herded an im-
posing assemblage- of welcomers. Soon
after landing Sir Samuel delivered to
Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, a letter front
the King.
Command of Fleet to Pass
5,
Into Hands of Canadian
Montreal. --One of the few remain-
ing appointments held in this country
by English naval officers is shortly to
pass into the hands of a Canadian.
When Commander Massey Goulden,
R.N., retires as Senior Naval Officer
of his Majesty's Canadian ships and
estab.•ishnvertts at Halifax on Jan. 30,
it is said that he be succeeded by
Lieutenant -Commander Victor C.
Brodeur, R.C.N.
w hi:e the Department of National
Defence at Ottawa have not as yet,an-
nouncecl the official appointment they
have intimated that the routine orders
covoriug the promotion of Lieutenant -
Commander Brodeur will be issued at
an early date.
Commander Brodeur is the soli of
the late lion. L. P. Brodeur, former
Canadian statesman, jurist and finally
Lieutenant -Governor of this province.
•
Heavy Snowfall.
Quebse —Forty -faro inches of snow
has fallen in the Ancient Capital so
far this winter, it was '-earned from
the Quebec Observatory. The latest
stoi-nl, lasting two days, has been the
means of giving employment
eround 500 amen.
INTERNATIONAL ATIONAL BANKERS TRANSACT
BUSINESS TALKING ACROSS ATLANTIC
transatlanticradiophone service. Buss
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 00s000 we ansatet? lnbytintc nation
BRIDGES THE OCEAN. al bankers, speaking from telephones'
in their owe offices. A news agency -
received the first commercial radio-
telephone despatch from London,
The lino was officially opened at
8.44 a.m., when President Walter Si
Gifford of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. took down the re-
ceiver and asked to be connected with
Sir G. Evelyn P. Murray of the Brit-
ish General Postoffice,
Ilalf a minute later the two Were
Calkm ; ssate.d Seale 3,500 stiles apart,
with high seas, Western Eng0anrl,.
New England, and 6,800 miles of cir-
cuit route between them. It was the
least auspicious conversation of the
clay. For, despite its . ceremonial: sig-.
nifieance, 'Static, the invitsible enemy
of radiated speech, crashed end spat,
Within half an (hour sending seemed
clearer, and engineers explained that
practicably ell tine inconvenience could
be ,traceable to •static. Newspapers
nand Tho. Assoeieted - Press were the
first to avail themee'.lves of the new
means of eommoavication,
Numerous Applications for
Overseas Telephone Ap-
pointments Leads to Erten-
.Bion of Service Hours—$5
000,000 Foreign Exchange
Transaction. When Forty
Londoners Talk With Forty
New Yorkers on First Day.
New York.- Hei:i, London?"
"Are you there, New York?"
Thus two human voices, by the
grace of years of scientifle research
and 35,000,000 worth of complicated
electrical equipment, leaped, in either
direction across the Atlantic on Fri-
day ;for $25•,_,'
laor.ty ,New Yorkers talked to 40
Londoners an the opening day of. the
UNIVERSAL FUEL
DERIVED FROM COAL
Scientist's Hope for More
Efficient Use of Black
Diamonds
Pittsburg, Pa„—A common lump of
coal, pioductivo naw'of little more
than beat, smoke and ashes, is a veva-
able "Wonderful Lamp” in poesibilites
and AmegIean sclenti5ts are deur-
mined to be its Aladdin.
Smokeless ooal, autoenobii•es run an
bituminous substitute for gasoline,
universal gas heat inetead of ooal
Leat, are only a Yew ofthe obanges
bound to come about, experts say, as
a result of Ineiese:I seientife re-
search,
New Process Tested.
Predictions of revolutions in energy
sources hare increased eines the.olos.
log of the 'recent International Con.
ferenoe on Bituminous Coad here, at
wblch•it dovelopsa that France and
Germany had one further than other'
countries is coal research,
Attention Is being directed, not to
tho mines as in the peat, but to the
laboraories, said a scientist, a layman -
educator, a coal expert arid a .Govern -
meta chemist.
"Some processes which are talked
about a great deal can be adolfiecl
profitably;of 'soldrho CDeraThomas . Balser,
President, rnegie InsStituto of
Technology and sponsor of the Inter-
national coal meeting.
Wider Use of Gas.
"There are; groat deposits of low-
grade coal in America which, when
edubeeted to certain processes, can be
transtorinecl• fate ,higher-prkisd pro
ducts." a
Dr. Baker pointed out that the most
difficult problem facing the coal man'
from a business standpoint is overpro-
duotlon.
"Abstract research," he added,' "is
likely to be more profitable than solv-
ing the everyday problems."
A. C. Fisher, chief chemist of the
United States Bureau of Mines, said
lie forsees the approach al theday
eon when gas win be used In nearly all
homes to take the place of coal Treat.
Some of the porer class homes, he be-
lieves, will usa coke extracted' Penn
coal by a process of low carbonization
distillation, Either course would elim-
inate the problem of smoke.
Motor Fuel Possible.
"Enough work has been cone," he
sarin, "to show that when the need
arises a gasoline substitute can be
Made for a low prlee not prohibitive
for antemotive use."
C. 13. Lesher, assistant to fire Pre-
sldent of the lettebfu•g Coal Company,
predicted that research will devise a
subelitute for anthracite, oil, gasoline,
and curer processes for developing
fuel.
A smokeless solid feel Ont of soft
coal, ha asserted, will be a future fact.
The developments of suet] a fuel, he
said, we make for steady urine opera-
tion, more finance and other signs of
prosperity.
F. W. Sperr, sr.. advisory fello:v of
the Mellon institute 'of Industrial Ite-
search, said coke vv111..become more
generally appreciated through the cur-
rent sctentine iuvestlgatlons.
Duke an
>!d 13uchess of 'Pffork
Start 34,000 -Mile Journey
Portsmouth, Eng.—The Duke asci
Duchess of York, boarding the battle
cruiser Renown, on which the Prince
of Wales made his, ,great tour several
years ago, started en their 34,000 -mild
globe-cnrircling voyage designed to
tighten the bonds between the Mother
Country and the Dominions.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Henry
and Prince George were en hand, as
well as most of the population of
Portsmouth, to wish the pair God-
speed. The Duke of York will offi-
ciate at the opening of the Compton-
vvoe::tli Parliament' at Canberra, the
new Australian capital..
The Renown was attired in its finest
party dross of saver, which replaced
the utilitarian batt:c-grey.
The voyage shatters all naval tra-
ditions, es a British warship for the
first„ time is carrying women around
the globe. the Duchess being aoeom-
panied by two ladies-in-waiting.
The University Report.
Sir Robert Falconer has just issued
the annual report of the University sil
Toronto. Acres -cling to this there were
last year 5,480 students proceeding to
degrees lir diplomas 2,225 in exten-
sion courses and classes, over 14,000
in nreelc, and some hundreds ca ere in
affiliated colleges. •
Students coin to the Provincial
University of Ontario from every
county and district •ki the province.
Some' of the counties sending large
numbers are as follows:: Wentworth,
173; Sheen; 155; York, 134; Carlton:
106; Waterloo, 9'7; Ontario, 94; Well-
ington, 91; Middlesex, 90; Huron, 77;
Brant, 76; Halton, 75; Grey, '72; Line
coin, 68;.E,esex, 68.
Thole were 2,626 students in Arts;
808 in Medicine; 445 in Applied
Science and Engineering; 57 in
Household Science;, 504 1•n: the College,
of Education; 44 inn, .Forestry; 329 in
Guaduate Studied; 63 in the course for
the .degree of Bachelor of Mtge; 346
in Dentistry 97 in the Department
of Socia! Service; mud 218 in the Dee
pat„nt;ht of Public Regal- Nursing.
Mewing your horn is an right if
the •tine ria lrarmorrie. -