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fanned under similar conditions on
IRRIGATION WORK canals in Montana and adjacent
areas. Beyond the eastern end of
this cut, the main canal, with a
capacity of 3,800 cubic feet per se-
cond, divides the ,sarnaller portion,
with bed width of 30 feet and ca-
pacity of '800 cubic feet per second,
turning toward the north, 'while the
larger branch, . with capacity of 2,
!fill tato a 200 second -feet, continues toward
the east. On the northern branch
and its sub -division are many im-
portant structures, such as drips
and flumes, but .the large number
of tlr ese is on the eastern canal, and
its sub -divisions, '
ASSANO DAM, OVER BOW
RIVER, IS COMPLETED
BY C.P.R.
Turn a 'Great Desert
Land of Milk and
Honey.
The construction of the huge Bas -
dam across the famous Bow
iver, 83 miles east of Calgary, by
he Canadian. Pacific Railway Corn-
y, has been completed, As a
eeult of its opening a million acres
f prairie land, previously looked
upon as of little or no use for agri-
cultural purposes, is now placed
under irrigation and will prove as
Ziroductive as any other portion of
the Dominion. The gigantic work,
which has entailed the expenditure
of several millions of dollars, has
been carried out under the super-
vision of Mr. J. S. Dennis, assistant
to the President, and head of the
Department of Natural Resources.
About three' years have been
spent on this 'work; it is probable
than the , remainder can be built
.daring the year 1914. The greatest
Fparb of old earthwork for the ca-
nals, aggregating twenty million
cubic yards, has been completed
'and operations well. advanced on
tithe principal structures. The re=
taming work to be done consists
largely of placing .ove.r a, thousand
small strue tures, mainly wood,
scattered over the irrigable, tract
covering the greater part of 2,000
square miles.
HOTELS 1LONDON AND li'RRY.
waiter -logging the soil and in the
consequent demand for drainage.
For all quantities in ,excess of
this xna:namum an additional charge
is made and collected in advaaicc.-.
The result is that the irrigator, be-,
ing called upon to pay out his race•
ney when he demands more water
than the minimum, oansidere very.
carefully as to whether he really
needs.the water.
• As a rule he concludes that he can
get along with a smaller amount
that he otherwise would deem ne-
cessary. Experiments leave shown
that the .largest crop yields• are ob-
tained with the Minimum aniounb
of water applied, consistent with
suitable plant growth, and that
while many crops are tolerant of
considerable aanounta of water, yet
the yield is reduced in quantity and
quality to such excessive applica-
tion. . .
The eastern section includes a
million acres, oat of which there
has 'been selected apploxirnately
440,000 acres,. lying in an altitude
of from 2,300 to 3,300. feet, • and
which may be irrigated from the
system when completed. The tract
;aa•,a• wahole is apart of the northern
great plains, the surface of which
has been modified by glacial action;
with resulting heavy underlying de-
posits of sand and gravel, and. par- To live in •these- gay and gorgeous
ticularly of° clay, interspersed with institutaons and' to entertain in
them is the easy way out" The fact
that ib is .also the expensive way out
never seems to bother anybody in
New .York. I have not the slightest
doubt that New Yarkens spend pro-
p'ortionately at least twice, proba-
bly three times, as 'mach in hotels
and restaurants as any other com-
munity in the world.
Another thing that strikes an
SOME CANDID C'OMPARISON'S
BI'.A TRAVELLER
a ys They Play More Important
Port bi New York Than
in Laiden.
I see that a party of Ani.erican'
bote1 proprietors have come' to
England 'on a tour of inspection,
criticism and. come arison. The first'
thing in all, probability that will
etrike them isthe very different
peeition' occupied ,by the ,hotels
•Greatt •Bnitain 'and., in, the United
States, and especially. in London
and Nero York, writes a trans-At-
'lantic traveller to the London Daily
In.Londou, hotels are a eonven-
lance,' a welcome aeoessory to the
serial round, an agreeable and de-
eo` ra ive sembellishment: But they
arevery ,far from being the pivot,
e `unc:uf. tiemain pivots, of metro-
politan life. Yet. that is the high
function they fulfil in New York.
They play a part in the, daily life of
Manhattan Island that infinitely
exceeds the part played by similar
establishments in any other capital
in the world.
The most notable of the canal.
structures is the Brooks aqueduct,
10,000 feet in length, with capacity
of 900 second -feet, erossing a• broad
low depression. The, design of this
equeduct is novel, but evidently
based on careful study with a view
to permanence and economy of ma-
terial. Practically all of the, larger
structures in the eastern section
have been. or are being, built of
concrete, the chief exception being
several large wooden flumes. The
drops in the Canal are of substanti-
al design of concrete; and'' embody
features found to be necessary for
this purpose. The smaller struc-
tures for distributing water to the
farms• or groups of farrns, number-
ing over a thousand, have not yet
been put in place. A , a new coun-
try develops, it will he necessary
to m.ake.•a number of changes in the
distribution system, with the re-
sult :that by the time that the
smaller wooden structures need re-
newal, there exists such a differ-
ence in methods and of transporta-
tion possibilities that the wood can
then be replaced to advantage. with
The quantities, as shown by the concrete. At the same time the
recoads of the Dominion Govern- plans can be modified• to suit the
meat, are notably large, the river developments which have taken
receiving the drainage from over place.
6,000 square miles above Beesano.
It has e heavy- spring flow, the
highest stages being reached be-
tween June 15th and August 15th,
A and .thus furnishing an ample sup-
s t ply through the crop season. At
other times it affords an adequate
r quantity for conveyance through
The area for which water is being
provided, in general, is undulating
and with notable elopes towards
Bow and Red Deer Rivers. There
are a number of district drainage
lines traversing the oountry, and
topography, as eompared with that.
of most of the plains region, is fav -
ible •tip add, is en to
man's reputations and prevent t leu
from cunip rem isin g bhenvsel\er, un.I
necessarily, When Itried a tarn
months ago to stroll U1 upon elle of•l•
these almost Adamless Para•di;-es, a
shocked head'waitee asked elle whe-
ther I was "escorted" by a lady.
replied that I wawa alone, .nu-
£riended and 'defenceless. He et
once and firmly bowed me i s)
ariother and _much . emptier srrid
g1 ioxller rooin, where 1 ,could take
a cup of tea without scandal" or. •anv..
detrauent to my rnoralel I can ne-
ver be too grateful to llirn
Otherwise I do hot -knew- that.
there is roach difference between a
O:rst-rate hotel in New York and
one of the same rank in London.
The clerks in the coffee ,and the, head
waiters in. the 'restaurant seem to
have more intimate friends among
the patrons of an hotel in_ New York
,a
N.Y. Folk Live in Hotels.
s A strike of the waiters in the New
York hotels and restaurants has
:proved again and again to be little
lees than a aocia,l calamity, not a
mere troublesome and disconcerting
incident, but something that for the
time being positively disrupts so-
ciety and brings it to an abrupt
stoppage. The reason is that an
enormous percentage of the private
entertainment and hospitality of
the city is given in ;public, and that
people live in hotels in New York
find invite their friends to 'dine with
them there, who; if they were Pa-
risians or Londoners or Viennese
would never dreaan, of being without
a house of their own, and who
would regard it a.1mo:st as a matter
for apology if they invited their
friends to dine with them anywhere
except beneath their own rooftree.
The Easy Way Out.
The Ritz, the Plaza, the Waldorf,
Sherry's, Delmonaco's, and the
twenty other first-class hotele and
restaurants are New York'a'trium-
phant answer to the conditions that
limit her area and to make ._homes
scarce and dear, and ,that also com-
plicate the 'domestic service problem
and so make their uncomfo .table -
the inain oanal: to the storage reser- orable for a relatively rapid run-off
voir located within the irrigable of excess water. The main drain -
tract. This provision of storage for age system has been provided in
a part of the irrigable area and in
the vicinity of the farms is notble
as an assurance against cer talo
cla,seee of operation troubles..
The low water surface in Bow The fist problem under the pre -
River is raised 'approximately 40 wailing -climatic contlit#ioiis is, first,
part by nature and in part by arti-
ficial means.
• Problems to be Faced.
feet by the Ba•ssano Dam. It Is a
composite structure, the nest nota-
ble portion. being the conorete spill-
way,. 720. feet in length. This is
built with regard to economy of
material and of the Ago called " Am-
bursen type," with heavy .floor on
the bed df the streaan, protested
by suitable,eut-off. walls. Upon this
are erected buttresses carrying a
eloping deck with apron, the whole
designed to .pass 100,000 cubic feet
of waiter per seeond with extreme
height of 13 feet. above the crest:
ilii ge Eastern »yl(es.
The concrete portion of the dawn
is prolonged westerly within rbhe
Morse Shoe Bend - by an eastern
dyke `; with guestimate ihei ght of 45
• fe e,t and • .length .of 7,000, feet; c on-
tateingrshout 1,000;:000 cubic yards,
:t�lxttending easterly,, from the dame
is the man canal, five miles In
length, rpartly in • a• deep out of 70
feet bobtoi>i. width, and which, being
made.in',earth of somewhat trench
erous character, has• given eonaide•r
tide. trouble, In this respect it is
isomparabin .svibh; a nitnibeX ,of sine -
trial' , deepdeepearth tints which :have crop under ordinary conditions,
been roar and erecesefelly .P14111 --but` it i6 not .enough • to result
to induce the, faroner to exercise
forethought and to rise water at the
right time; the second, and even
more difficult, is to get him to ap-
preciate the danger of tieing too
nich uwater. Re is apt to assume
that if a little • water, is a good
thing, a large quantity is banter,
whereas, the larger quantity' may
be injurious to his erop and to his
neighbors' fields, and ultimately
may neeeueitat�e large add other-
wise unneceissary expenditures for
deepening and extending the
drains.. In order to prevent; the
occasion for these large , expendi-
tures for drainage arising, arrange-
rnents are made, on many of the new
irrigation systems. t,o deliver water
en.. a measured 'basins, s cerosin
minimum • quantity being obtad,ned
at' a, • hat' charge assessed on all
irrigable lands. For example, ,50e.
or $1 is to be paid, usually in ad-
vance, whether the irrigable land
receives water or nets and for this, y
sa on.e,;aoresfoot can be, had. -This
miaiiouum is set at lthe a,n,ount
whielt i` s considered to be necessary
for the produe oneof :the ave$ge
T H, E COUNTRY.
C'ollectors of Curios Find Colra
Numbers of Great
Value.
(;ollectors of gr•andfather,`olocks,
"china:; and brie -a -brae genera•llyeare
complaining that there- is' netiring
le,ft.to eelleet in this oounti;y, or,
indeed, ie. any of the accessible
parts of Europe.. Such disappoint-
ed person's, siglhnn.g for new worlds
to conquer,.',shiould go to "India :if
they can 'afford to do se, says the
London Standard.
than they permit themselves in. Lon- Aenording to a 'jr oxninent xxrem-
don, ..,and there is a oondeeee315ion ber of -the Society of Antiquaries,
and affability in their bearing who has Just returned from Cal -
which I am afraid Ettgliehnren :some outta, "treasures are scattered all
times fail to• admire: But the be- aver India, acid lie mouldering
dianionilwd, nail -cleaning, supercili-
ous youth of the comie papers hags
long since vanished from. Manhat-
tan Is]a'nd, and though one may
still eome 'across a waiter or cham-
bermaid or page of the most un-
mitigated rnannerlessness, still I'
think New York hotels have im-
nnensely' improved • in what F fifteen
years ago was unquestionably their
weakest point—I mean the personal
side of their service.
Rapturous Days Over.
The cooking, on the other hand,
has fallen away. I can remeeiber it
when it was the daintiest and most
individual in the world, when one
could still order a dinner in : which
every dish was an appetizing novel
ty, served with a genuine • native
art, when the French chef was an
ally and not a master, and .when
the United States poured footh her
treasures of edibility to be refined
through the sieve of Gallic virtuos-
ity.
Those rapturous days are over.
The Frenchman has now clinched
his hold on the American kitchen
and runs it to please himself and
as he would never dare to run it in
Paris or London. Nothing is vainer
than for a New York hotel or res-
taurant proprietor to import some
famous French chef and then expect
him to do as well on Manhattan Is-
land as he has been doing on the
banke of the Seine. In Pan19 he is
an ,arbist, exhibiting his •skill: for the
.delectation of a eompany of expert
acid accomplished.-cin°ties:"•.In �Nity.
York he is often a mere tnechanicail:
provider of food for undistinguish-
ed multitudes; who are largely un-
versed in euLnaary eubtletries, have
never had time to study the art of
dining, and are willing to put up
with whatever is given them with a
meekness that astounds a, Euro-
pean.
large and small boulders: The re-
sulting top soil on the glacial de-
posits is frequently loamy, usually
very rich, and in places slightly
sandy. Everywhere 'seen it is of
suitable depth and quality for ex-
eellent crop production. The native
vegetation, largely .of various grass-
es, grows luxuriously whenever
the palaces of the native princes n
Pass from hand to hand without
anyone being aware of their great.
value. NO one." he . continued,
"knows what these princes ;pose'r.
but there is no doubt that mains- of
then have in their possession heir-
looms of enormous.. value, for in
various .families.. they can trace -
their origin back to mythical times.
and during: all these e.e•nturies hake'
held a posataon of wealth and mag-
nifioeiiee;
"The presence of a, few eollettors
in Calcutta, 'prospeeting," let lira
say, for arms and armour, carvings
and jewellery, might bring to light
a good supply of :genuine articles
which wouldsoon begin to drift in
from out -roof -the -way parts when it
was known that there was a sale.
for them. Of course, in every eity
in India, there are curio shops,
mostly filled with trash—worthless
cloths 'and embroideries, modern
metal work, trumpery trinkets,and
so forth. Nevertheless, mixed with
it is much valuable ware of more
or less ' ancient manufaetiieie -.
]toughly speaking, antiquity is the
test of its value."
Rajahs are "Wise."
Mr, Stanley Clark, the expert
director of the Indian section bf'the
Victoriaandd Albert Museum, does
not entirely agree with the a.ntd
quarian. The rajahs and other na-
tive princes, he said, have become
much too sophietooated and t:om-
rnertial to harbor reasures upon
Which they,.can realize 'har, ea hr ;
Which
The conversion of their valuables'
began sonie 40 years ago, when they
sold a large portion of their native
ornaments, jewels, furniture, and
other possessions, and- iilvested in
modern furniture from Tottenham
Court Road. Among other things
of that period .which they bought
lavishly were the 'huge, gli;ttsring.
chandeliers, which are now almost
unknown to the present generation.
Tons of them. were "-unloaded'.' on
the rajahs..
"The modern Indian prince,"
continued Mr. Clark; ''knows the
value of his art treasures, and when
he wants to dispose of thein he calls
in a, European dealer and sells
thein for the full market i'alt)e.
Every season the beet of these deal-
ers come to London with the pick of
the art objeots They have acquired.
Last year one well-known 1)elhi
merchant brought a ino•at magnifi-
cent emerald, wh•ivh ultimately
found its way to Paris in the form
of a pendant and wag s4,ld fox
Many Thousands of Pounds.
there is an .a<bequate supply cf Englishman about the hotels in New
moisture. York is that they are public pro -
Br bas Taken fegm Salaries. pert,. Casual passers-by drop in,
sit about, smoke, listen to the mu -
The highest court of the Hansen- sic write letters.,just as though
tie cities has just rendered a deci- they were membrs of a universal
shin that is calculated to strike a club. There is oaie famous hotel in
serious blow at th'e widespread fifth Avenuewhere the lookers-on
practice of bribingcommercial and always seem to be. diners. Extra -
technical employes- in Germany. ordinary people sIvaraii along the
The North German Lloyd Steamship corridors and lounge in the public
Company, having learned that th'e 'rooms andpeer into the dieing sa-
Saha,,ntung Coal Camp."37 in China Ions, sirnply for their own amuse -
was paying the lines s engineers a went and as a way of passing the
"rake-off" of 25 cents a ton on the time.
coal purchased for its steamers, Afternoon Tea.
docked the wages of the men by the . •
Yet,. As a atter of feet, only two aririusr�t, claiming that this toeelf 'n
of .the. New' York 'hootelns offer the
nay rightfully belonged : to it�sradiant spectacle presented by all
The engineers brought suit •to re_ the leadingLondon restaurants. 'At
sacci,
andthecoil°t sustained the only two f thein is evening dress'
steamship compamy• for men and women alike the rule.
a Most of the New York restaurants
I Hot One. at the dinner hour look, ee far as
the woxnen'e dresses go; like a bet
Miss +lypp--I wonder if 1 .shrill teergo,wned London tab -fight or
lose my looks too when T'get to be luncheon party; If New York were
year , age I•provatied, •,a,sr Londrrr is, with an.
Moi Elder—You will be fortunate abundant eu ly of clean and catn-
if your do, pp
fortable taxicabs at reasonable
Decision. prices, so that there was no need• to
do any walking or to. crush priceless
"Mies Peach is a decided blonde,
ain't she 2" remarked Mr. Dubbe.
"Yes," replied Mies Oraa,bbe.
"She decided to beco•nie one about
a month ago,"
" " fine,udviee
"Know thyself is
For use through life. all rire—
But here is some beyond ip
Study your wife.
A man went to, a Judie and :ask•-
ed whether he. tould bonng suit, for
islander -.against a man who • 'had
called him a r'hineceriis. "Why, "When
,said the Judge;
did he call .you that V' "About
three yearns ago," "Three years
ago 1 And you only start •suit to-
day 1" "Bet, your Emma, y ter -
day 1 saw a 'rhinoceros for the first
time,"
garments in a crowded and dirty
street ear., New York women would
find it possible to make dressing
the rule instead of the exception:
But people: will not "dress" when
by oat . dressing they e•an get to
their theatre .,or restaurant almost
ae quickly and at u; .thirtieth of the
cos1t,
�.7here is,however, one English
31.
custom that New York has at Last
begun to appropriate -•I anean af-
ternoon tea.. Go into the Ritz, or
the Plaza, et any other fashionable
hotel oily ;afternoon at five o'clock
and you will find 'We.. scene of the
elest dissi. atiou revolving
geore
around mountable . sdelicacies and
of
lakes: of tea.
cihoelced. the 1Veiter.
And every cart, • I am glad to, be
AEROPLANES IN FR :14CE.
1.000 Bought by Government Since
Beginning of 1911.
A serious controversy has arisen
in France, which is the direct out-
come of the .great national meso -
plane subscription inaugurated two
years ego, and as a result of whioh
208 aeroplanes were .preseaited to
the French army. Of these all but
33 were in active use at the end of
last Ocbaber, These aeroplanes
were in addition to the direct orders
placed by the army. It is alleged
that tb.e aeroplanes bought through
the national st bseriyption were not
new, and that the orders for new
machines fell 'short by 200 ofy the
number voted. The National Com.
mibetee, of course, repudiates the
charges indignantly., but the French
newspapers seem to think it only
too probable that certain mainline
-
threes did, in feet seize the oppor-
tunity to dispose of machines not of
the most recent; and improved. tylia.
The investigation started by thed
National C"committee alt least seic
the purpose of calling attention to
France's aeoopla•ne strength. In.
the first year 320 aeroplanes were
delivered at the depot ,art Obalais-
Meudon, while the definite orders
placed for 1918 ainottiit to u 4total of
431, of which 286 had been delivered
at the end of October last and the
balance by now. Asa result 751
aeroplanes have been acquired. by
the • aeronautical esteblahslnnent of
the French army during the past
two. years and close upon 1,000 ma-
chines esuse: the beginning of 1911.
Bleriot alone has built 181 military
machines and -.Henry Fatiman 105,
No ;wonder that France hasa real
aeroplane i•ndn.gtate
Proof 'l?onsitive.
1',awv ea• --Did you examinethis
lady carefully before certifying, that
she. was insane 1.
physician --)es. I asked he,r age
a•nd,ahe inaele hereelf out two years.
older than she was.
"At the same time there is, n-.
doubt, a very gaud field in 'Mil,
far the colleoter who specializes
One very. good `line' 1 may mail •.
tion—Kashmir shawi:s of the seven-
teenth century. These are wonder
ful example% of hand-woven week in
intricate • designs, ntai.lnwed by ate
to the most perfect +..e,r,tubinat-ion
colors. These shawl:', +)'i•, more -.,f-
ten, portions of them, are still to..
be :picked up cheap, and over here
they are of great value. They are
being used hi Fretless for introduc-
ing into panels faMr dev'ora;tive p,lr-
poses, and with inowwt artistic ef-
fects.
'AAs for eeins it armour, carv-
ings, images, <thin i, anel glees, their
value all depends upon their date,
and it may be said that anythiwg
really good and hiii>.tnrie coronalids
a fairly high price. It. robust not be
forgotten, toxo, that in 1904 Lord
Curzon passed the , noieat, Moen -
merits Preservation Vicat, by -which
the, exportatitra,n of sculpture, caxv-
ings, im,age;;b, has -reliefs, and in-
seription'r----w;niceh nosy be made to
cover almoot evetu hiug' in the na-
ture of an.objet- e'a,it cis pr.f,,hih
Yl ovists Alarmed.
Florists', . are somewhat con0eri)'2'
about the t5e y fatshioes, beeaese
sonxre v f the new Merisel do not colli
vain enough saasateriel to pin eruse`
oro ;