The Herald, 1910-02-18, Page 6TORONTO A
BAD PLACE.
Given Quite a Character by a
Woman in Toronto.
Mayor and Premier Annoyed Over
Letter in Scotsman.
Toronto despatch: "Here's a marked
copy of the Weekly Scotsman, Edin-
burgh, which I have received. from Pre-
mier Whitney," said Mayor Geary at
to -day's board of Control meeting. "An
article in it annoyed him, and I may say
it annoyed me."
Mayor Cleary then read from a letter
in the Scotsman, signed "Auld Reekie,"
It is from a woman living in Toronto,
and working in a hotel.
Part of the letter is as follows:
"The rooms as a rule are left in a
filthy condition. Men out here of all
classes chew tobacco and expectorate
all over the place. Cigars are cheap, and
so they are constantly smoking. The
rooms smell dreadfully.
"By the by, the canny Scots get the
credit of being great whiskey drinkers,
but 1 must candidly say that 1 have
never seen so much drinking as I have
done since coming out here. Servants
would refuse to clean such rooms on.
the other side.
"Their sleeping quarters are very dif-
ferent to the nice, clean rooms at home,
and the food is as a rule scanty, and
not of the same quality as that of the
average hotel. They make no tips, and
have to pay for their own laundry,
which, by the way, is a most expensive
item out Here. Clothes are more expen-
sive, and not so good in the long run.
"If :i, girl is ill and is off work for a
day or half a day her pay is stopped.
The same applies to a holiday. No work,
no money is the motto. The Canadians
are great on 'hustlers,' and unless amen
or woman can acquire this habit they,
as a rule, do not succeed.
"A good, steady, reliable worker is
put on one side for those who keep the
capital 'I' ever before the notice of their
employers. Such would be termed `eye -
servants' with us. They know every-
thing, and we poor people know nothing.
Their manners are anything but to be
desired, and it is humiliating in the ex-
treme to a woman to walk along the
streets—men and youths evidently seek
• their women friends in this way.
"I would advise any girl to think
'well before deciding to come out here,
as when all's said and done she is a
great deal better off at home. There
is, of course, good and bad all the
world over, but all this business of
Sack being as goodaa his master is
greatly overdone, and although the
money es more plentiful, one has to
Work a great deal more strenuously
than at hone.
"There is scarcely a woman employ-
ed here but is married and living
apart from her husband, or unmarried
and living with men. There are Chi-
nese dens here In -great numbers;` and .'
with offerd of big Money girls "areade-'
toyed to them. The '`White ;.slave
traffic' is carried on to an alarming
extent.
"The Rev, Mr. Wilson of this city,'
(Toronto),.;has lately been, exposing'
the cause of a, great.deal of:iipmoraluty.'
"A. girl in lodgings Ire r, if`'she wish'
es her friends to come and. see her, is
obliged to have them in her bedroom,
and as the male sex predominate-
averaging about six men to two women
--girls are early married.
"A.s we are just on the borders of
America a man can clear off, and the
girl has no alternative but to make the
best of things and go back to work
again, as the law' cannot interfere once
the man or woman is in America.
"In case of illness, hospitals demand
payment; there is no such thing as
voluntary help; and as the climate is
so extreme, both in summer and win-
ter, a common illness for the freshly
arrived immigrant is rheumatic fever,
and also, owing to the water being un-
filtered, typhoid fever is very preval-
ent."
"I want to cable a denial of this,"
said the mayor.
Controller Spence—"If the newspapers
here were to ridicule this, wouldn't that
do instead of having you cable about en
anonymous letter?"
The mayor—"No, I'm going to cable.
I wouldn't mind. if it were some other
paper, but the Scotsman is as important
in • Scotland as the Times is in Eng-
land."
Controller Church --"It ought to go to
the Dominion Government."
The mayor -"We'll attend to this
ourselves. We'll have City Relief Of-
ficer Taylor look up the faots and I'll
sign a letter that will be written."
MR. FAIRBANKS.'
Ex -Vice -President and the Incident
at the Vatican.
,l,he.'teem en ,Oa .the \I_e,tigaa Cmt11'41
are demanding an incrkstee in w.tgee,
An outbreak of tr}1.'11om t has been dis--
eoverect,, anteing Rcgiu:t ,huol chidlren.
A professor, at the University of Miah-
igalt makes use of the natural man of
conservation to give a scientific' proof
of immortality.
Dr. J. 0. Orr, Scert'tnry :cad.:ui:t11 ger
' of the Canadian N,ttienii Exhibition,
has been given a $1,000 ieel'e.1Se of ha:-
ary, making it. $5,000.
Sir Henry M. Pellatt at the annual
T,,eeting of the Toronto elleetrie Dight
Company promised a revision of tire.
rotes now in force.
The C. P. R. will add another to its
system of hotels, which exteuul across
the country, by ereeting a fine house at
Arrowhead, north of Arrowhead Lakes.
It will be the 'same as the Chalet, at
Lake Louise, and will Bost $100,000.
Robert A. Ross, of Montreal, has been
appointed by the Council . to act as In-
gersoll's arbitrator or valuator for the
purpose of establishing the price to be
paid for the real estate and equipment
of the 'Ingersoll Eleetrie Power & Light
Company.
The promoters of the I. M. C. A. in
Chatham have received a subscription
of $5,000 and they have also received
an option on a.ceetral location for
$6,000, The canvassers have besides this
been successful , in raising $1,500 to
date. •
A Melbourne despatch seys that Mr.
Alfxed' Deakin, speaking 'at Ballarat,
said the Government hoped to make
further efforts in the direction of pre-
ferential trade treaties acct Imperial
co-operation, the hope and mainstay
of the Empire. .
]Lome, Feb. 14.—Rev. George Carling,
pastor of the Methodist Church in Rome,
gave adinner last night inhonor of
Chas. W. Fairbanks. Among the guests
were Dr. Wallin Clark, head of the
Methodist organization in Italy; the
Rev. Walter Lowrey, rector of the Amer-
ican Episcopal Church in home, and
John W. Garrett, First Secretary of the
United States Legation. Ambassador
Leishmann was unable to attend. The
conversation at the dinner centred iu the
incident between the ex -Vice -President
and the Vatican.
With regard to the Pope's rc usal to
give an audience to Mr. Fairbanks, ex-
cept on condition that he withdraw from
his promise to address the Methodist
Church on Sunday, the 'Vatican explains
that it is customary for the Pope never
to receive a personage who acts in any
manner other than that of it Catholic
minister in Rome.
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Prof, Thibault, of Kansas Medical
College, has announced the discovery of
an anaesthetic far more powerful than
stovaine. It promises to, supercede
cocaine entirely.
Another Modern Miracle
Paralysis Permanently Cured
Word comes from Gull Lake that
Jacob Henry, a Mississauga Indian, 72
years of age, was frozen to death at
that place, in Peterboro couuty. He was
Crossing the lake in company with an-
other old man, Robert Sawyer; and be-
eame exhausted.
A large number of residents of North
Winnipeg, headed by Jewish rabbis who
have always slaughtered the beef which
their people consume, are combining to
form a co-operative botched an dabat-
toir concern, whieli will enter into direct
competition with the abattoir trust.
William Leonard, 80 years of age, is
dead at the Hotel Dieu, Windsor, of
pneumonia, brought on by exposure and
hunger. 1'ie lived alone in a tumble-
down place in the outskirts of the city,
and his condition was not known until
reported to the city authorities by a
neighbor.
The Sufferer Paralysed From Waist to Feet—Encased in Plaster of
Paris for Nine Months—Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cure After Four
Doctors Had Failed The Cure Vouched for by a. Well Known
Clergyman.
Paralysis, no matter how slight, is a.
terrible affliction, but to be paralyzed
from waist to the feet, to be a helpless
cripple, totally dependent upon what
others do for you, is a condition as
wretched as man could possibly bear.
Such was the state of Mr. Allan J, Mc-
Donald, of Ries Point, P. E. I. For over
a year he was it helpless invalid, Hp
was paralyzed from his waist to his
feet and for nine'month lay in bed
encased • in a plaster of paris cast.
Four of the best doctors in Prince
Edward Island were unable to help
him, and he seemed doomed for a life
of misery and despair. But hope
came to hint when he read of what
Dr. 'Williams' Pink 'Pills had done
for other sufferers from paralysis. He
procured a supply of the Pills and be-
gan taking them. Gradually they
broke the chains of disease that bound
him, and filled his whole body with
new blood, life and vigor, Mr. Me -
Donald says: "I tum a farmer and in
cansequence have a great deal of hard
work to do. One day while about my
work I injured niy back, but at the
time I paid little attentiou to the in-
jury and continued my work. As time
went on, though, the pain became more
severe, and I soon found myself unable
to lift anything no matter how light.
It was not long before I had to stop
work altogether and consult a, doctor. He
treated me, but his treatment did. „tot
help. ine and 1 rapidly grew worse. 1
had to take to my bed, and in the hope
that my spine might receive strength 1
-was encased in a plaster of paris cast.
'This did not help me and I could feel
the paralysis slowly creeping over me
till I was totally paralyzed from my
waist to my feet. 1 lost all control
over my bowels and 'bladder, and my
lags had no more feeling than if they.
were made of wood. Three other doe-
tors strived to cure me, but thein treat -
went also was a failure, and for eleven
months I lay in bed unable to move. Dr.
t'llillia nee Pink Pills were then advised
them. 1 bought a supply and jn less
than three months they made a remark-
able change in me. I was able to get
out of bed and crawl along the floor on
my hands and knees. Gradually my
limbs became stronger. Soon I could
walk with the aid of a cane and. inside
of nine months after I had begun the use
of the Pills I was totally cured, and once
more able to do light work, Now 1 am
as strong as ever I was, and can do my
work about the farm without the least
trouble. I think Dr, Williams' Polk
Pills are without an equal, for, besides
my own case, I know of two other cases
of paralysis cured by them. Two young
girls who had been cripples and whore 'I
advised to try the Pills,"
In corroboration of what Mr. Mc-
Donald says, the Rev. D. MacLean, of
Charlottetown, 1'. E. 1.: writes: "I vis-
ited. Mr. McDonald many times during
his illness, He was attended by three or
more doctors and put in plaster paris,
and everything imaginable which might
be of benefit was done for him without
success. He had lost all power of his
body from his waist down and I think
he was nearly a year under treatment
before he began to use Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. I was with him the first day
be moved his bug toe, and from that tittle
on he gradually improved and for the
last few years he has been perfectly well.
1 can vouch for the care .Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills effected in bis case,"
If you are sick and the treatment
pia are now taking shoes not help you,
give Dr. Williams' Pink Pill a fair trial.
They have -cured thousands' after doctors
and other inedieal treatment bad hope-
lessly failed. These Pills actually stake
new, rich, red blood, feed the starved
nerves and bring health and strength' to
every part of the body- This is why
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills care such ap-
parently hopeless oases as Mr. McDon-
ald's, and it is why they bave cured
thousands and thousands of siok, dis-
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An employeew ;:Che Montreal registry
office has absconded, leaving a shortage
of over $5,000. It is said that the ,, hort-
age covers a period of over seven years,
and all that time he suecoeded's' by a
series of continuous embezzlements to
fill the gaps made by his first losses in
mining speculations, -
Rev. L. , S. Hughson, pastor of the
Bruce Avenue Baptist Church, Windsor,
denies that he was an applicant for the
pastorate of Ossington Avenue Baptist
Church, of Toronto, He had been asked
by the Pulpit Committee to allow his
name to go before the copgregation, but
had declined to do so.
Mr. Recorder Weir, of Montreal, an-
nounces the formation of a new women's
court. At present men and women are
tried. in the same court, before the usual
ging 'of morbid spectators, and it was
is o do away with this detriment to re-
form and progress that the recorder has
decided on the new step.
A pitiful tragedy of 'New York's ex-
treme cold weather is the death of.
three-year-old' Cecilia Roanie, who was
found to -day frozen to death in her lit-
tle crib near a window. The baby had
kicked the blankets from the cradle dur-
ing the night. At the child's side was a
half-filled bottle of Frozen milk. •
DOG ORDER
Which Explains What Owners of
Canllies Must Do.
B ere is a copy ot• the order -in -Council
passed by the Cabinet yesterday ntd is-
sued. to -day:
'Upon the recommendation of the 13on-
orable the Provincial Secretary, the
Committee of Council advise that in
view of the fact that rabies exists in the
Province of Ontario, and is readily trans-
misible from animals to human beings:
the Committee of Council advise that all
dogs within the following counties
namely:
Brant Huron
Bruce Kent
Dufferin Lambton
Elgin Lincoln:
Essex Middlesex
Grey Norfolk
laldimand Oxford
Halton' Peel
Perth Simcoe
Waterloo Welland
Wellington i'1' entworth
York
shall be either securely chained in an
outhouse or other building, or kept
under lock and key, or efficiently muz-
zled with metallic muzzles, in amanner
satisfactory to the inspectors of the .De-
partment of Agriculture of the Domin-
ion of Canada; provided, however; that
in any municipality where rabies is ac-
tually known to exist, the muzzling
privilege - maybe withdrawn, in which
event all dogs shall be confined or iso-
lated.by being chained up or kept under
lock and key."
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f tit l was shown testimonials of others for $2.50 from '.i'ho Dr. Williams' Meda
e had been eared of paralysis through eine Co., Brockville, Ont.
A case of suicide by drowning was
narrowly avoided at St. John, N. B,,
when a patient in the Provincial Hos-
pital escaped, and, running a couple of
hundred yards, bounded into a cove
neat; the Reversing Falls. One of the
attendants had followed close on his
heels and jumped into the water after
him, and with considerable ` difficulty
managed to pull him out.
A majority of the grocers of Peter-
boro have petitioned the City Council
to pass a by-law to have all groceries
close at 7 o'clock in the evening. There
is no regulation at the present time.
In commemoration of the Shackleton
expedition to the Antarctic regions, Dr.
W. A. R. Mitchell, of Roncesvalles ave-
nue, Toronto, surgeon of the expedition,
has just received from King Edward a
handsome bronze medal.
Last week a well-dressed stranger,
calling himself Davis, appeared in the
Brockville G. P, R, office and obtained
a waybill consigned to a firm in Ottawa.
Once itt his possession, he lost no time
in raising the figures to suit 'his own
circumstances, and made the waybill,
which was originally for two bags of
oats, to read for a considerable amount
of brass and rags. so he was 'able to ob-
tain. from awa denamed.
1aplon $125 on its strength.
A narrow ganaugeOttrailway isaler to be ova-
structed to the site of the Garden of
Eden, which Sir William Willcocks, Brit-
ish advisor to the Turkish Ministry of
Public Works, claim% to have located.
According to Sir William's measure-
ments the homestead of Adani and Eve
WAS situated in the Earilab district,
about 250 kilometres north of Bagdad.
The spot is an oasis situatad in the cell.
tre of a vast desolate plain wirieli is
traversed by four arms of the Euphrates.
PASSED AS NUNS.
and started a door to door begging cam-
paign. Their layout, however, was lack-
ing in details, and they had not been
on the beat more than a few hours be-
fore they were spotted and arrested.
They were brought before the Magis•
torte to -day, where one gave the name
of Mrs. James Robinson and the other
Mrs. Jean Lacombe, both well over for-
ty. Their husbands appeared in court,
both working men, who stated they had
recently moved irom llawkesbury, and
that they knew nothing of their wives
attempts to eke out the fancily income..
in view of the circumstances the women
were let off with a sharp lecture and a
fine of $10 and costs.
Two Women. Arrested at Lachine
For ,Begging.
Montreal, Feb. 14. --Two women frons.
Hawkesbury, Ont., were arrested yes-
terday at Lachine, caught masquerading
as nuns and travelling around collecting
charity in that garb. Both were 'elder-
ly women, one of thein a mother of four
and tate other of thirteen children. They
had fixed up imitation nous' clothing,
UNLUCKY NUMBER.
Thirteen Men on Thirte -ii Year -
Old Bark.
Halifax despatch: Thirteen men who
sailed on the thirteenth. of the month
in a thirteen -year-old bark, the Cal
eium, landed in Halifax to -day un-
alterably determined never to have
anything to do with that number
again. Leaking like a sieve, and
ablaze from stem to stern, the Cal-
cium was abandoned three days ago,
and her crew taken off by a. lifeboat
from the British steamer Syrian.
For five days the hark's crew had
slaved at the pumps in a desperate
attempt to keep the water-logged
craft a. ,oat, and when the Syrian
bore down on them, in response to
their distress flares, theemen of the
Calcium had almost abandoned all
hope. A. .terrific sea was running,
which made the work of . rescue ex-
ceedingly difficult, but it was accom=
plished, although' one of the bark's
crew had three ribs broken, and had
to be put in the lifeboat with a sling.
More difficulty was experienced in
getting the men aboard the steamer
on the return trip of the lifeboat, and
so rough was the sea ,that the boat
was smashed against the steamer's
side, but not until after all who were
in her had been hoisted on board
in safety, The Syrian was bound to
Manchester from Port Arthur, Texas,
and put into Halifax this morning
to land the shipwrecked men.
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