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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-10-06, Page 7Coast exploit in finding Wlneland in the 1 Ruins, uins, on :.na�4.br4 dor Coast year 1000.. From .lhis home in Green- land he sailed for Norway, and was . After Morrissey EXpedition Exarn y glare.. orSe at romances theh re t110 proeeedhe e 1 to the Visits Nearly 500 Years Before Colu.rribtts Court of King Ola 2ryggvason, was converted to Chliotiauit,y . and rever- ently assumed the mil hii of carry- ing itis new-found religion back to Greenland. On the return voyage he encountered contttwelel America. - 0 Rock Carving l-A7,�lnura Found What is said to be the largest petro - glyph, or Indian rock carving, in Can- ada •an a(10 has just been reported to the arrhat;u,erfacal °nice of the National' 11lueeum at 0ttatva, This petrcglyph is said to be over 50 feet long and to be carved on a vertical face of reddish rock rising from Fraser. River Valley., The place Is only about twelve miles from Yale,, B.C., on the railway line, and as 11 is Ulm most available parse glyph to two transcontinental rail- ways, a0 effort will be made to have it set aside as a national monument, Previously to this discovery the larg- est known petreglyph .in Canada was on the west side of a seventy-foot can- yon near Bella Coola, about one mile south of Mackenzie Highway, in e Relics The Putnam expeditioninto our north country' is creating some inter- est in the States, George Palmer Put- nam is' keeping the American Prose supplied with many columns of in- teresting details et his discoveries and experiences, Recently he dealt with the ell ruins 'ou_ SOulpin Inland as follows; Newfoundland was:.the "Markland of the Danish sagas, and Nova Scotia was possibly "Kjalarness," On the other hand, "Wineland the Good" may . have been Nova Scotia, perhaps reach ing flu' to the south and we 4t, Pos elbly the students of Lit se proble ns never will be entirely agreed, Taut for the main Premise there is agree- ' ment andsound evidence, Leif Erie sort and Thorlinn Karisofni came to J, nterica £om Ca'eonland 492 years be- : fore Columbus. • ! Up hero midway along the coast of Labrador and not for from the settle- 1 nlen.t of Nain, are ancient ruins, pos- sibly,of Norse origin.. For years they have been known and p..rio(hcally in- vostigatod, Soon, it is understood, they aro to bo the subject of thorough- g'oing study and archeological re- search, which well may settle ,their exact status and possibly fill au allur- ing gap in early American hlstdry. In our oWn brief visit we could ob tain at bust only a cursory glimpse of the country. Wo found the ruins 011 a smaller isle to the east of Sculpin Is- land, accessible from it at low water. Sculpin Island lies some twenty miles from Naha, say .two-thirds up the coast •of Labrador, The ruins themselves are on a small rocky peninsula a few-liuttdredyards long with an average width of 150 feet. The groupcontains eleven ma- jor structures about fifty feet from the water. Close at hand 10 an gxcel- lent protected landing place for small craft, with some indication of au arti- fiofal breakwater. Substantial Ruins. The maximum height of the walls is about three feat 1d t110 dimensions of a typical large 11ouee aro approxi- mately twelve by eightcol feet. Most of them aro nbl:0g in rime. Tito main walls apparently averaged about eight0.n i1101e8 in tlhtclemsr and were consttuoted of flat natural etonee. In at least one building n. clearly (refined doorway remains, with :r 1'eetartgnlar passage beyond it. Several of thine cititslde entrance appruoche- were eri- deut. Except for their rectangular shape they clo c ly 00 .entbl0 the cold - protecting en110111ce tunnels of many modern Eolcinto igloos e.1c')untere•l in Greenland and elsewhere. In addition there were tome round houses, while adjacent were remains of characterls- tie Eskimo dwelling and Lent rings, where later residents evidently had camped. 1'. 1'3etlisch, the Moravian mission- ary at Nein, told us that the Eskimo name for these ruins signifies "tile houses built by strange peuple:" Ap- parently the natives know nothing about their origin 1111(1 are willing enough to bell.sve that Alley are the Oil. .,. . ;.__"'wT•- i • IiCj 0 j handiwork of riait.)ts 1'1).11 acmes t100 that Ma 1 American residence was In Wineland. It seems illogical that these'- early mariners should have halted ou tdtoce hard s11oi•an long enough, to 'require stone houses, o1' to have completed and oeculiied a community ofthorn, as 1)1dim:111d by the relics.. Pint again 1 000 may rejoin that perhaps Winter I overtook then, compelling thorn to camp where they 'ware.. Only ' then, pe-nce1f, they would have gone just a bit furiher, to the mainland, where a few llwirli1 sail would have brought them to timber an(1 abundant water, Al lei' this, o' 00010(0, 1s purely' colr- jealural, 7 f 1 1 r,re authorities like Babcock wbo teke a pee in)1011)' glow as to the likelihood of finding :r.ny authentic Norse relics. They (t'011 doubt the ex- istence of any. "It seems," pays Babcock, "that so far as investigation has gone there is not a single known record or relic of Wineland, Markland, Hoiluland or any Norse or 10elandic voyago of cliscov cry extant at this time, which may bo relied. on with. any confidence." +l And' on the other side of the picture there are those who place consider able reliance upon the "relics" and the evidence on record, and who pur- sue further Posailiilities, suei as the ruins on the Labrador coast, with hopeful enthusiasts, But it would be presumptuous for one who is not a :Ancient of the problem to enter into the dis013.5sion. Lill drat can be said is that the details have been sifted and battled over for some decades. The Norsemen's Landing. By and large, it may be well to give the "ruins" the benefit of a historic doubt. if not thomeelves of Norse crigiu, there is small doubt that Norsemen made their first landfalls hereabout. And. what an extraordin- ary story lies in those; voyages—a story that may never be adequately recorded. It begins iu Ireland, for Iceland was originally largely peopled by the Irish. And in Iceland, before the year 1000, Eric Raudl, or feria the Red, 'appears to have led a ntrottu0us life. Not him- self a trouble maker, iso semis fre- quently to have been in trouble. As a result of his difilcult'ioa he was for a time practically an outlaw. Later, helped 1)7 friends, he tilted out a ship and disappeared to Aha westward. Three years later lie returned. Ho hard found Greenland. A considerable i Girls' Choice is Love or Learning . London --Love or learning 630015 to be the choice confronting the modern girl Statistics . covering seven years show that only five per cent, of the girls passing through Oxford Univer- sity have obtained husbands—though they do not show how many wanted them, Women educators say that men feel abashed In the presence of the female Intellectual giants turned out by Brit- ish Colleges, and aro picking the girls whose thoughts run to the intricacies of the latest dance. fleet of adventurous pioneers followed Ihim back to the new country abiut 111c: year 985, Maven vessels being lost I in ttoeres en Lim way. Art after that I Gro nl.n:(l w' a Aor,e for Guo 3'ears. IAn epic of 101011101181011 Megan nuly to IIntl 111 tragedy, fee the c Bray 'wee mysteriously wiped nut Prom, say, 1450 to 1721, when leans Flgerde re- diocovored atnl revived it for the Danes,' Greenland wad a lost and de- r.olated land. Their e: -n10 L?if. Treelitioll sere hie Gentleman of the World—"A sales- man bas a sweetheart in every town —a enli.or a girl in every pori—" Collegian.—"But only a college mail has a co-ed on every davenpot't!" 1 Though both training and circum stances snake it practically impossible 51>r members of the royal family to encu ihOtr living, it will be ciiffereot, pi nt ably With their children.— IIe ntlLe, wife of the ex -Kaiser, Senator' Raul Dandurand Canada's representative to the League or Nations Books of Witchery For Your. • Child $'r'el'y child loves to hear stories of 'magic and whitchet'y Here is a,_list of the best books of this type, com- piled by the book editor of "Child Life,' The Children's Own Magazine: Black Cats and the Tinker's Wife, by Margaret Baker; Boy who Knew 'What the Birds Said, by Padraic Colum; Donegal Wonder Boort, by Seaumas MaeManus; Down -A -Down -Derry, by Walter de la Mare; Elfin Pedlar and Tales Told by Pixy Pool, by Helen Douglas Adam; Moonshine and Clover, by Laurence Housman; Mystery Tales for Boys and Girls, by Elva S. Smith; North Cornwall Fairies and Legends, b Buys Tregarthen; Shen of the Sea by Arthur B. Chairman; Tale of the Good Cat Juple, by Neely McCoy. Caeaference of Irish Leaders is Planned Cork, Irish Free State.—President Cosgrave, whose government came out victorious by a small margin in the recent general elections, and Eamon de Valera, Republican leader, who steads the Opposition, have been invited to attend a conference here to consider the economic position of the c003511y and the question or coned e! tion and unity. . Tho invitation emanates from J. F. Daly, chairman of the Cork Harbor Board, .ilio at a meeting appealed for unity by the political parties in the national interest. PRINTING DEVICES O T IVAL , Chuang Will Wed WOr``.K F SKILLFUL FINGE ' S MMe. Sun's Sister Mechanical Task of Feeding Sheets of Paper to The Press He Divorces Wife Now in Has Been Perfected U.S. and Will ia'r. Great Inger-oily has been shown by the printing Inclestry in devis',nfe mother's for feeding single sheets of paper into the presses m c:an:cally. The system al feeding from rolls, such es is acarid In the tree newspaper presses, is common knowledge to -clay, but In the jab printing industry even that eemarttable invention has been surpassed. Nothing is left for the human hand of do beyond pulling a slack of Papel' within reach and keep- ing the parts fa working order. The distance tee industry has comp can be seen when one recalls how in the fifteenth century the old German printer, Cutetiberg, the first man in the -Western world 10 010 movable type, bad to lay his parchment sheets ea the type by hand and press a block an them laboriously: to obtain the im- pression. The work of feeding .the presses for ordinary job work, in fact, seemed to have arrived at a high state of perfection a:generation ago, Presses is use then opened and closed auto- matically, like the jaws of a frog, carrying the paper up to the type and then away again, so that the printer could take out the printed sheet with one hand and slide a fresh page in with the other. By means of rubber grippers on • the thumbs and fore- fingers, and after a good deal of prac- lice, the sheets could be shifted In and out with something approaching me- chanical regularity. To -day the new devices do that work far more rapidly and with greater accuracy. One automatic feeder, for example, which was shown at the recent exhibitiou of the graphic arts at the Grand Central Palace, ac- tually lifts single sheets up off a pile and .passes= -gone could almost say' hands—theta -into the roilars 'that guide them down an Incline into tie revolving press, Contplioated devices do all the work, At the two far ends of the pile away from the rollers ars wheel -like arms. These revolve slowly and as the pile of paper is lifted up,. they bite in et the corners and keep a small number of sheets raised slightly ,in the air. Above these are other wheels that comedown on the top of the pile at. intervals and revolve,butting their humpy, eurfacee auto the paper to jiggle it and help separate the sheets. Near these is the first pair of magl.c, hands, composed of rubber cups, like the ones on the toy arrows that used to stick en walls. Operated by cam- pressed air, they snap down on the pile of; paper when their turn comes and in , another moment snap back, bolding 1 the sheet aloft, Just at the crucial moment in that process, blasts of compreseed air, blown through cracks in the flattened. ends of pipes, are shot under thesheet from several angles, setting it to gut- , tering freely. Suddenly another pair 1 of rubber -auction hands closes to the rollers, snaps down and seizes the sheet; the other "hands" let go, and while the air keeps the sheet gutter- ing, the second "hands" carry it for- ward to the rollers and release it. Another automatic feeder uses the older method of taking the sheets off the pile by a series of wheels. The wheels to -day are so finely adjusted along the way down 1110 incline that. if an extra sheet has got started, It is mechanically held back to await its turn. Airplane Crashes Pilot Escapes Grampian, Pa.—The airplane CItY of Olympia No. 31, au entry 4n the air races at Spokane, Washington, crest- ed to earth in the Pennsylvania hills near here. Lieut. Valentine GeP- hart, of the Marine corp reserve, the pilot, jumped with a parachute when the motor went dead 2,000 £eet in the air. He made a good landing and was uninjured. The Sonoke Nuisance Le Devote (Ind.): Do people take seriously this smoke which pervades the atmosphere, -covers everything with dirt and shuts out the sky? Do we stop to think how poisonous it is? Since its stipresslon restores health, is not this an additional reason for ignoring it? Because myglene es seen from the scornful treatment ac - cored those who have the direction of the IIea1111 Services, is just shelved. I Tiro Man resp>11sihle fortheAmeri- can polo team defeating the British Artry in India team. A stop in time Lore; a fine. The New Welland Nears Completion • tea. Fol out oeeortle and information Donald tad ov of tho efeeetun of the AmelI an Italian made a e'wetilee ex- am''01 tion of the ent're fr0ltp and, with Profeescr Goal, th1 enpudition's geoid i1her,. lm(1 hie eeeletantt, oxo-. cute11 a etrvay cold reep rf 1113 ruiva end 1(1100ent turr,iu, trash nmeet:eo- m001e of 11011vil!t:et1 etrucLuros, All of thio (11fnt'llnitlttlt is, of course, .of po- tential importance far subsequent comparative study. Without dislo- cating the walls 601100 careful excava- tient worst was undertaken in one building, suet nothing was f0tmd. In deed, the only discovery was the re- mains of an ancient nail.. Our own group approached Sculpin. island with 1(001 interest, hoping, I am sure, to secure definite evidence of an authentic Norse visitation. The impressions gained tended in an opposite direction. Rut our disap- pointment was tempered with the hope that subsequent discoveries will upset our pessimistic snap judgement. Ruins Not Ancient. The consensus of our opinion Is that, as reported to The New 'York Times by radio, the general appear- ance of the ruins pronounces them to be of no very groat antiquity and of no greater historical importance than 9 would be due to the remains of an early Esltimo civilization. Mr. Cadzow, a student of Eskimo anthropology, attributes the ruins to the lskimos. Captain Bartlett, ex- perienced for a generation in. things relating to the Eskimo, pronounces them relies of an old-time Eskimo hunting community, built there bo - cause it was a good base for hunting and fishing. That natives or a later Period also camped there, as .pointed out above,coroborates this theory, But, of course, the Norsemen 'too, it they lived there, would select a good hunting site. To some of ne amateurs thewalls seemed more suited to temporary hunting quarters than permanent • homes, and considerably loss masgive than our uuderstanding of the authen- tic remains of Norse habitations in Greenland, "There is no trustworthy record of any Norse settlement in America ex- isting, continuously for More, than one year, nor of any Norse voyages ex- cepting those of Leif and. Thorfinn,, and one other mach later," Is the judg- ment of Babcock. The sages tell us that the period of JJ The fall of 1030 is the latest esti- mate for the opening of the new Wel- land canal. At the present time tho job 'ls 75 per cent. completed. Those- illustrations set out progress of the; LOCK DEPTH NSA work. UPPER LEFT shows the giant 1 control sluice gates leading to waste weir alongside loch No. 1, at Port 1 Weller,; the latter lock being illus tratedd'atthe RIGHT. The last leaf of j RLY SAME AS THAT OF HORSESHOE FALLS the lower steel Mite gates ie in the the lower gates at Port Weller, siini-, background as is the harbor. LOWER lar seta, of gates being used on each LEFT is another view of the harbor, loch. Each of the gates weighs 454 tous and is 82 feet high. It is impos- the land around which has been built sible here to adequately represent the up. The oval depicts the leaves of gigantic size of these gates. LOWER Wellesley Graduate, Miss Meling Soong Shanghai—Tho present whereabouts of General Chiang Kai-shek, who re- algned recently es Oommander-in- Chief of the Nanking Nationalist armies, 15 a question that is puzzling Shanghai blase . days far more teen the, political manoeuvres at Nanking as reports of his approaching marriage are c.enfirmed.. ISome say that the young General has already gone to Japan, others that he is till in his native village. But one thing is certain: he will wed Miss !Meting Soong, a fact wildch bas just leaked out hero respite fervid denials on the part of his friends. Miss Soong has several claims to fame. She is the sister of Mime Sun Yat-sen, widow of the founder of the Nationalist movement, and of T. V. Soong, ,Finance Minister in the ori• spinal Nationalist Government. She 1s a graduate of Wellesley College, and she is probably one of the most beauti- ful young Chinese women In Shanghai society, iRumors of this marriage which have been thick 501''ths past week or ten: days; were eondrmed recently by persons very close ' to ' the Soong family. 'But Chiang Kai-shek's whore. abouts remains a mystery. That he is in Shanghai seems. fairly certain, his ! tailor, an Englishman, "admitting to me I that Chiang had ordered several suits end Arad fittings a few days ago. Then l he disappeared, ordering the suits de- llvered to. the house In the F'r'ench Con- cession in which T. V. Soong lives. Mr. Soong has gone to Japan to meet his. wire, his mother and other meta- 1 em hers of the famous family at Nagasaki, Con - and it is expected that" Chiang Kai- hereof will meet them there within the next few days. The date of the wed- ding le uncertain. 1t is explained that Chiang divorced his first wire several months ago by the old Chinese 0001010 of merely pro- claiming that she was no longer his wife. Chiang has denied that the Mine. Chiang li.at-sbelc who is now in. America is his wife at all,. and it seems that he has sent away two other 'iwives," as well as his original wife, and Is 50016 ready to marry MissSoong_ Their remmice began at Canton two years ago. Mies Seeng's famous sis. ter, lime. Sun Yat et -n, who is now in Moscow, is also an American college graduate, while their brother, T. V. Soong, was a member of the Harvard class of 1915. Tee later incidentally, bitterly c'ppn es the marriage. but de- spite family objections Miss Soong is res"hot Ly breaking the r ge-old p.ern- nt and 1(1o).:Ing her own mate. 'Tele efetir explain. (.1ti,^ng's fee- relent :e-r lent visits to the Senn., home in re- pent. menthe. with 11 :ages averted emi- t -elle I i1'lp-' 1'tut political eligu:uents, who e ('0 actually the young fevole ticnist was engcgcgtl fn busness of a rar rit rcpt character. A file etc': from Colombo, Ceylon. recently ail that it was rcpertrd !.here that ('1110115 Kai-shek had sailed for Ant.nra r cantly, Free Speechnot De3il'ab.e It in comntciily assumed that Prco Speech 18 a generally desired andmuch elc:siroble thing. It is nothin of the sort endnever lona boon. It is 0011.111 by a vastly smaller group than they who firmly oppose it, anl the great mass eceen't care a darn about it one way or another. Petters it is just as well; the country is better run without Free Speech. The u'ork:ng- matl lo more comfortable; there 11 less dissension. Mouths are filled, ears pleased, feet warmed and the enzymes work busily 121 the stomach, while ad- renin can be saved for the pleasures. of the day rather than squandered in anger from a soap box. Lnt:anyone arise and tell ale that it is better to be free to express one's opinions than it Is to eat, love and play and I will arise and pc -int lura out as nu invincible and colossal ass. Liberty or death, in- deed! Life is short enough. Give those of us who have capacity for'hap- piness, enjoyment, contentment these blessings, and Liberty may be con- signed to the devil forevermore. Lib- eryt doesn't mean either happiness or enjoyment and this fact is obvious from the fact that most exponents of Liberty have either had hard deaths or bard living,—Plain Talk, RIGHT shows an extended view of looks 5 and, 0 with 7 in the back- ground. In the foreground the height is 131 feet, almost the same 'as' those of parts of the Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River. - Will Rogers Studies Effect of a Man Losing a Million Beverly Hills, Cal. --rust been over 'visiting Charlie Chaplin at Isis studio, and watching him worit. I wanted to see how a man acted that had just 'Iden separated from a million, That euld be the supreme test of a corn- Matt. lie is funnier than ever He _routed ,Ane the new picture.. 11 la next wife settles tor a rent less thaztl' Ivo an da half million, she is a chump. Yours, WILL ROGERS. Aviation in Canada No country proyidos a ltettpr field ��ppv air communication than Canada. tI'ha distanobe between the cities are @it'eat and the climate is favorable for lying. Experience Shows that with suitable equipment, winter present's no insuperable obistaote. 4o the con• urinous operation of air routed.