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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-06-21, Page 7rr'hursdary, ?June arse, z928 368 'Dr~.A -skir ted natives—glowing sunlight—cool mountain tops—great ships ploughing through tropic seas—these things all come to mind when a cup of "SALADA" is steaming before you„ Such .flavour -such fragrance, Try ""SALADA" Till■IIIMI Intl l lr) ll�l it■I I IIIUIrI illi ll■III■III�IIIAI ll�l 11®I) I/I11®III®III■I I Ill! I■t11YlI I ISH l■111111U E gs C„ream f Poultry u. M 1-lighest Market Prices. "•our'o.rder dor. Ice Cream, Soft Drinks s Letits W�a vey , "�■ ,._ your Pic -Nie or Garden Part . We will '�tc., fon you Y 1.1 :liver Ice ILioam'and Pop. de P N Produce P�®I Ltd. - 1 it , �e��. ng�t® ®. Win hant.I - ;� W. B. THOMPSON, Branch Manager. 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CARSON & SON LI WINOHAM ADVANCE-TIMB;* ON THE WAY WEST GEORGE appreciate it, sufflcent to say it is all MASON SEES MUCH OF "Manitoba",, one hundred per cent; INTEREST IN WINNIPEG. Wind:thorst, Sask.` Editor Advance -Times: - Leaving Wingham,' we strike off for Port McNicoll, the C. P. R. port on Georgian Bay. In due time we reach. a wayside station called Toronto which is noted for its "Sunnyside;" "Modernism", Christian Science," Uni- tarianism" and other "isms" too num- eroits, to mention, This town also' boasts of having a new station which is.jquite a resort for the natives to see the trains come in,. After a stay of a few hours viewing the Elephant and bright lights we again resume the journey to the said. Port 1111cNicoll. Arriving there we were anxious to see the town, but not a blessed thing in sight but an elevator, station . and a lot of water, Not even a "Fergy" joint to purchase a cocktail to wash down the Ontario dust collected on the way—a fine place this to accomo- date thirsty pilgrims! The S. S. Assinaboia, plying be- tween this port and Fort. William is 0.14- accomodation for about two hundred, well finished and furnished, comfortable parlors, restrooms and' all. accomodation desired including a smoking room which is little used as the ladies and gentlemen puff away all over the "bloomin" place regard- less of upholstery or anything else; such is the tendency of the lovely habit. The "Grub" is immense,; I don't think "King Edward" has anything over this boat, you can stuff yourself to your heart's content, make yourself. sick nigh unto death and wish for an enlarged capacity for more and more - 1 advise tourists to fast for a ' few days before leaving home. Sault . Ste. Marie is an important place nicely situated on the River connecting the two lakes, here we pass through a beautiful lock which is an interesting feature of the trip;. an hour's run takes us into Lake Sup- erior the largest body of fresh water in the world; width r6o miles, length 340, depth as much as goo feet—some lake. Twin Cities are reached after two days, good harbors here, the world's largest elevators seen from deck. Tot- al capacity of the thirty-six great elevators is in excess of 64,000,00o. bushels. The greatest grain port in this wonderful world of ours. Land journey from here to 'Winni- peg, over. 400 miles, occupying about twelve hours, we turn sadly from the Assinaboia for a nasty dusty ride through a very uninviting :part of our province containing much rock, scrub, small lakes and sloughs. A hundred Fireproof VW' Sale 13 R.ae & 'Thompson ' Thompson. & Buchanan Hardware �^ . e, .tlueston y Wingharno Ont. Winghelra , '011"lt. G+r#ieo Ont. that is, every atom of material made and grown in the province. A. close observer in newspaper read- ing will notice that the great religious donferences have :nightly little to say about Heaven, Hell and Eternity to which we are all on the way, but a lot said about the material, such a$ sal- aries, amounts raised for this°.;and that and the other, the great advancement on temporal lines, organizing galore, striving for membership and building up in every conceivable manner out side the one thing, salvation. Look- ing at this city it is ae. preparatory place for the Celestial City built with- out hands, it has lots of churches, but is it a good city? I rear not, there is a good deal of "Red" here, a costnor politan city, an element which does not take God or His Son into consid- eration, a great foreign element here to Canadianize. Truly the church has, a great responsibility in saving this, great population and : making ,them meet for the., Kingdom of Heaven. There are many helps by the way, such as missions, revivals, etc,; but they say the people they want to in- fluence wont go, but the same old crowd attend all meetings and the un- washed. are noticed by their absence. We hope to take you through the unexcelled Parliament Building later. Geo. Mason. Sir Christopher Wren said: "Ar- chitecture has its political uses, public buildings being the ornament 'of a Country. It establishes a nation, draws people and commerce, makes a peo- ple love their native country." If this idea is ; carried out, truly the Mani- tobans should be a 'happy people, for this exquisite Legislative Structure. almost incomparable in this wide world should cause a throb in the heart of every beholder. A fellow is lost not knowing where to begin, ,a word picture cannot fully convey to others the beauties and magnitude of this place. Again, John Ruskin says: "Architecture is the art which so dis- poses and adorns the edifices raised by man for whatsoever use, that the sight of them contributes to his men- tal health, power and pleasure." And there are many more expressions that could be quoted from Engineers, Ar- chitects, Builders and others but space forbids, We cannot refrain from giv- ing another by Statham: "All ,archi- tecture is one vast symbolism—sym- bolism controlled and expressive of structure." In competition 67 designs were sub- mitted; those of Mr. Simon were selected and the building was coni- pleted under his guidance and direc- tion. Usually buildings of this nature are over -furnished but in this case acre farm here would be worth about there is a quiet dignity characterizing fifteen cents. Kenora, thefirst in the whole thing, as a Chicago archi- portant place, population about 5,000; , tect said.: "To my eyes your furniture beautifully situated among the lakes, is a fine summer resort visited by many Americans and Winnipeggers, Keewatin nearby with its. big Flour Mill where we sgmetimes get our sup- ply. A comparatfvely short run brings us td Winnipeg', and what shall we say about this beautiful city of the prairies? The writer has not suffic- ient English to intellegently describe this place, present its glories, beauties, grandeur and importance. The chief. thing I can say is "don't go to Eur- ope or anywhere else before you see Canada first". We have the greatest country under the canopy of Heaven. Winnipeg, the captial of the Key Province of Canada, has wide streets, great buildings, boulevards, trees and a great' many objects of interest on every hand. One sad circustance of our modern life is the "mergers", chain stores, departmental and other corporations candling the trade so that the little fellow is being crowded out and cannot snake a living, just fancy, three dry goods stores in this city of 275,0001 Trade is being shot topieces, people waiting for bargain day. It seems to be dog eating dog,. for Eaton and Hudson Bay are buck- ing up against each other, exhibiting a rivalry quite as bitter as little one. horse concerns. The public are milk- ing the cow and I don't blame them. These stores., have money to burn so I say to the public roast them hard and get all you can, for they have ruined many. Looking at their won- derful system and management through it all, we must give them credit for "mighty minds" to con- ceive and work; out these grteat.com- mercial enterprises to such a colossal extent, The Eaton Store is great, but they have to take aback seat now as far as the building is concerned, one of the wonderful feautres of this city is the new Hudson Bay Store on cor- ner of portage Ave and the "Mall', the finest situation in the city, the Suilding' being the last word in store architlectiure, built of concrete, six stories high, furnished up to the hilt, stock nicely displayed, floors covered. with magnificent carpets and in some cases splendid tile. l cannot ade- quately give a word picture of this place, it has to be visited to properly is not expensive looking and in that is' its chief charm", we must pay tri- bute to our old Wingham boy, Mr. Thomas W. Leslie for much of thel beauty, color effects and finish of his palace. I would here say Mr. Leslie is pleased to see any from our town who may visit this city—his kindness to nse is much appreciated—and in fact to all whom he may meet. I would also say if you have not the artistic and appreciative developement stay out of this building, for you must admire or else you will be shown the door in a very quiet and graceful manner. Thousands of opinions expressive of the general beauty of this building are in the possession of Mr. Leslie, but it would not add to the value of this letter to quote and take more type, I desire to say Mr. Leslie has. compiled and written a beautiful book descriptiveof this building, printedon splendid toned paper, containing also excellent views both interior and ex- terior, price is' one dollar which does. not even cover the cost, I do say that it is worth while spending time to visit Winnipeg, you will find all offic- ials courteous and kind. Now just sit down and start thinking and size up this great country of ours, ' the ground' on which this building is erect- ed was practically a wilderness a little over 5o years ago, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Co., containing 215 people while to -clay a beautiful pity of over 280 thousand; it is wonderful what we Canadians have wrought, we lutist stand amazed at the advance- ment. Can any other country show. such an •achievement • in so short a space of time? Banks galore, Corn- mercial i• establishments in great num- bers, Churches, Public Buildings and fuze streets much in evidence, 50 years can you grasp it?This city, the great- est grain market in the world! This city with 600 miles of Railway sidings, nothing like it hi the universel—Yes, unfortunately just a little too much Russian, Poles, llungatdan, Celestials, Slays and' such like and too little English, Irish Scotch and Canadian. Our Governments are "Bum", why are we not like the Australians? Well here we go again; Sir John A. Mci)onald said, "You cannot check '1�p'NYI Manitoba," and the sight of this build- ing will ever, inspire the people to go on and make advancement. The anon-' cy spent is the best advertisement Manitoba even made, there is nothing I know that veil! impress the world more anti show the greatness of this wonderful country, why, it cost about nine millions! and isn't it worth it? A 9 million *.dollar "ad" inthe papers would not bring the same results by, any moans -a fellow could go on and: empty an inkpot over this Eulogy and: scarcely get tothe end, for if'you go into detail regarding the resources of this province the Advance'would not have space to publish any more de-` partures of friends both dead and a- livel Fancy the`boundless resources— just a few: grain, Cattle, pulpwood; timber, minerals, water power, elect- ricity— I will here stop. The size of the Palace is 328 feet from North to South, 337 feet from:, East to West, the Bronze i3oy holds, a torch which is 255 feet from the ground, the whole plot contains 3o acres and in that enclosure the old parliament building and others were razed, I understand the University too. will have to come down to make way,. for: the completion of thh "Wall" lead- ing !up to the North Entrance, These people up here don't seem to care for•;, a few' millions—they have them to burn -it will take much time yet to complete the "job" and then let them come from. Europe, U. S. and every - he i and they will sit ug a d take notice and realize .that Canada is certainly. on the map! Now we come to new features: "The Pediment", it would take a page to describe this, so we won't try, the "Sphinx", South Portico Dome, Eastern and Western Portico, Monuments of "Verendrye", Lord Sel- kirk; General Wolfe, Lord Dufferin, Tower and Dome, the splendid carv- ings of Agriculture, Art, Industry and Science "perched" on top, Vestibule, the grand Staircase Hall, unexcelled anywhere, showing life size Bisons, (emblem bf Manitoba) in bronze, by a Frenchman; Garden of Paris, Four female figures carved in stone, from the Greeks -it is called the "Cary- atides"—the Porch of Maidens. Dome Rotunda; the Pool of the Black Star, immediately under the great Dome; the Brangwyn Mural from this great- est painter depicting various army activities as seen along the front in France during the Great War 1954— 9 Visitors to Jasper National Park, which is Canada's largest and finest nationalplayground,: Situated in the oc Mountains have a heart of theR Mountains, .have •opportunity of studying the habits of wild animals. For Jasper Na- tional Park is a game sanctuary in, the finest sense of the' word, and guns and hunting, dogs' are forbidden within its boundaries, " it is of interest to observe the manner in which the animals recog- nize this. Though it is only compara- tively thissanc- tuary e few years sr great san tuary was set aside, the shy deer and mountain sheep are no longer shy, the black and brown bears have become daily visitors to village and to hotel grounds, land the animal population of the park is increasing by leaps and bounds. However, it is Bruin who demonstrates perhaps most ,forcibly, how the animals have come to regard man as their friend instead of as their enemy. Now it is ,a. daily event to have one or more bears visit the Lodge grounds in search of the titbits which they know tourists love to feed to them. Nor is it unusual for a golfer playing over the magnificent scenic course which has been laid out in the Athabasca Valley, to meet a bear at the turn of the fairway, or to find a shy deer viewing him with interest as he gets down to lineup his putton one or another of the greens. A short time ago, it was estimated that the mountain sheeppopulation of this 5,300 square mile•national park was over 10-,000, with an equal number of deer, while the bears are numbered in thou- sands and are seen at almost any turn of the road. And when once a bear cub has developed a taste for sugar, he is a con- firmed visitor to the Lodge grounds.— Canadian National Railways photograph spx8; picture, "Lest we Forget.".. Our guide showed us the Lt. Gov- ernor's room, pannelled in walnut, it is beautiful, Library is great, :65,000. volumes, (I did not see a smgking- room), Committee •Rooms are fine, So I will end up with the noble Hall where they grind out politics, good,. bad and indifferent. I am not going to spend any more ink and energy on this,, you will have to see it for your- self—lovely room, I guess the last word in beauty of Construction, Dec- oration, arrangement and everything for convenience of members and the public—the guide says 46o chairs, up- ho'stered nicely in dark blue, speakers. chair and surroundings massive, •the Cabinet and members of Ruling party at the right, the "opposition" on left, a gentleman whom I . met here re- marked: - e -marked:: "What a humbug and farce this opposition is, I hate the word, there should be no such thing- it should be "co-operation", the one side propose one thing and the other buck up against it making a failure of gov- ernment in many cases. The most of these "fellows"' don't know anything aBout parliamentary proceedure ani' five good .business -men could run the show more effectively" —what do you think of that? Aren't we "awfully" governed, we certainly are a long suf- fering people, Ohl Lord, How long? Geo. Mason. 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