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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-06-26, Page 2t►NG PuRPoSEscaNAuIANsTnNE FOR AMnaoat 'Unlimited Choice of and hide Constr 'Thai pyrateld of Cheops, the grand, est mouumeat of all time, was built 'With limestone and, the surface fiuisii- ed with polished blocks of cohered granite se ingeniously joined together that it appeared to be a single slab front top to bottom, Roman palaces, ampbetheatree, and Mananente loom out of history ,in all their beautyYand yerfection, because the Roman archi< tests and Contractor's 'made full use of their xeeaourees of building stone, •Al- theugh we are sew living in what is known es the "Concrete Aga," says the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the In- terior, the ereetign of structures cent bluing both permanence and attrac- tiveuessi should stlil be a natural aim, and ideal conditions, can be obtaied in a large measure by selecting for build- ing purposes the finer gzatdes of stones with. which the' Dominion. is so richly endowed. In the prase the style rxf architecture adopted for our public buildings and the moire expensive type of residence has been largely influenced by the oharacteristie of the Canadian stones s that ;have been exteushvely used for their ~construction. The tuore, modern 1 use of stauotural steel and concrete has neoeseari'y changed • the design tend et±eated a demand for stone that can be more easily worked, such as the imported Indiana limestone, which can be cut with equal facility in all direc- tions and which for all practical pur- poses can be considered a freestone. Imports of building stone (exclusive of granite worth $72,500) and marble had a value .of $370,000 and . $294,000 respectively. Quality and Calor for Outside notion and Finish. other atone. The .elose•grained,' fine - textured St. Mary's limestone iso the chief building Piton° in western,' ( tarso, endthe majority' of the ,cities. and towns in that area; have Made Wee of it. Extensive baits of erystaliine lune - stone, covering roughly 100 square Miles. are found in eastern Ontario, the intermediate types being eminent- ly suited to arobi•tectural purpos'ee�. of the highest order, In some places the stone is fine in grain and -constitutes a true marble, whilst hi ethers it 1s too coarse and friable for building use. Some of the finest white marble quar- ried in Ontario camp from the "village of Haleys, Renfrew County, much of n it being free from impurities of any kind. Similar stone is also found at Portage du Fort, in Quebec; and the product from these areae is an ex- tremely desirable material, worthy of development on a scale that would permit of building stone being always Available, a necessary -condition be- fr architects and builders can be ex- pected to make full use of these re - mimes. Mention should also be made of the ithegraphic stone in Hastings county, the red sandstones along the Rideau canal, the purple banded sandstones, of the Perth -Smith Falls area, the Nepean sandstones as used in the par- liament buildings at Ottawa, and also the large amounts of exceedingly handsome variegated marbles which can be obtained in the Bancroft area in Hastings country. These marbles, together with those from the Missls- quoi and; South Stukley areas in the Eastern. Townships can supply ma- terials for interior decorative purposes equal < to most of the imported varie- ties; azyd certain beds are welladapted to exterior construction work. Once developed so .that .supplies are readily obtainable they should become the standard decorative stones of eastern Canada. The chiefbuilding stone quarriedin the maritime provinces is sandstone, and desirable atones of olive-green,. blue, brown and red colors have teen extensively used for public and private truotures throughout the provinces nd also shipped to distant points both in Canada and the United States. The province of Quebec produces lime - tone of structural quality in Barge mounts., is rich c in granite of various kinds, and is growing in . importance as a producer of marble, As nearly every variety of atone may be used for building purposes, refer- ence cannot here be made to all the deposits. worthy of development in eastern Canada, but those mentiioned. e sufficient to point out that there re many excellent Canadian building stones that can be utilized to meet the emends of the construction industry. There are many stones in the Do- minion that can be utilized instead of Imported materials, such as the Tyn- dall limestone of Manitoba; which ranks above any other limestone quar- ried in Canada, and the Sackville sandstone of New Brunswick, a red freestone largely used in the Maritime Provinces and many parts. of Ontario and Quebec. Another excellent stoneis the Wallace sandstone of Nova Scotia, width Is suitable for fine carved work and largely used in the construction of permanent buildings• In eastern Canada, the trimmings of the Victoria museum at Ottawa being A good example. Owing to the cost of transportation these stones cannot al- ways be used, and more local deposits must supply the greater part of the demand. The finest building stone at present produced from the sedimentary rocks of Ontario is- the grey sandstone of Halton county, and thisy together with the product of the Longford quarries in Ontario county, rank amongst the most important building stones in the province of Ontario, the latter being g more widely used in Toronto than any d s a ar a -Romance of a First -Aid Invention. "Mummy has asked us to write and thank you that -we still have a daddy." This touching letter was, •received by a St. John Ambulance man from the four children of a miner whom he had saved from death in a mine accident by his prompt and skilful first aid, Tho incident has a direct bearing on the story of a wooden box which has been fixed in the miniature 'coal -mine at the British Empire Exhibition. It is the invention of Mr. Charles Harmer, who began work in the pit at the age of twelve and a half. The daily round of accidents turned his thoughts to the need for a complete fxrs'taid equipment in a box that would possess the following apparently Im- possible combination of advantages: 11 must be dustproof and easily disc acernibla in the dark. It must be "thief ,proof," yet available to all. He experimented for fifteen years until he perfected the device which now can be seen at Wembley's coal- mine. Access to the key inside is obtained by striking a metal knob attached to p' rod fixed above a glass plate in the Interior of the box. The downward action of the rod breaks theglass and allows the key, whioh is hung en a chain, to drop through. When the box ie unlocked the loud. ringing of a bell warns the miners, that someone is opening . The cross of the Order of St. John Jerusalem M enamelled on a circu- r glees in the door, Behind the gime a "lamp" perpetually shines through the cross, and its, gleam in the dark tells the miner where to find the first-aid box. Harness Volcano. A new plan for harnessing volcanoes comes from Hawaii. The territorial government has consulted the Depart- ment of Commerce about a suggestion, seemingly eemingly ;practical, for making bricks .. f molten lava from the orates et Ki- lauea. The idea is to stretch across *le erater a trolley that will carry an Ail<dless ehaln of buckets to scoop tip ae liquid leve, bring it to the rim of the Nadeano and pour it into znetikla. Are You 100% Successful and Happy? Use this naeaauring sti k an your - 1 of, taking credit of fen for .each st b f en which you etre con Alen ,iously r+elai n it, Workk and Earn, Record kx. yoncittgrop, -Haire a palak c c n t ,say L fe to ttri e ka xs yoke /wrestndaeuaties, eatom t1 131 �•�' . �' � y, with ethers,. C !Your Tine, World Tour in Seventeen Days. Complete time -tables for a round - the -world passenger service which will accomplish the journey in seventeen days have been worked out by experts of Imperial Airways, Ltd., the new British •organization. Fresh links' have been mapped out for the 27,000 -mile air -line, and tests are to be made with airships • of enor- mous capacity. Passengers will leave London by the morning air express for Paris, which maintains a speed of 105 miles an hour. They may expect to reach Constantinople the following morning and Cairo by midday. A long-distance airship will take them from the Egyptian capital to Australia, arriving on the ninth day atter leaving London. The air travellers will cross the Pa- cific to San Francisco in another giant i airship, and will. cross the United States by aeroplane express. New York will be reached on the fifteenth day. This, link is already established. The Atlantic crossing to Europe will be made by the great airship liner soon to be delivered to the 'United States by the Zeppelin Company. The airship voyage to Europe is scheduled so that world -travellers, gliding down at London, will accomp- lish in seventeen days what took Jules Verne's imaginary hero eighty days. -t:7 aaa. What She Must Give. Mother (pouring the castor 011)— "Hale much must I give Willie for a dose?" Dad—"His price le fifty dents, I be. Have." A 'Genius fat Work,, City Editor --"I don't know whether that new copy reader is a nut or gentus, Managing Editor --"What's has he done?" City u 1:5d1tor– •• I told him to write a head for a dispatch. about the fight over Tutankhtamen's treasure and tie labeled it: "Grave Ercononi a Issue i4" "T iR WOis ° IS. YET TO' COI 'PR t"5,. PRIVATE. rt' e`eriaaesee Whet ' Cortez and Coda.,„ The fourth eeiitenart of the Intro- duction of cocoa 'i'nto Eureat is shortly. to be celebrated by a corffel4ifce.ef Em- pire producers at the Wembley Ex- hibition: wv It Creole. 1524 that sold ere pi : Cor- tez, returning. frim: Cher gnquest 01 Mexico, introduced the- overage to their 'Spaeashfellow=counti*en, with whom it speedily found aeatiee • • Not until the. middle tef the seven- teenth century, • howeyar, was th•e drink introduced into England, along with tea and coffee—all three in the course of a decade. The firet London coffee house dates from • 1652, the first chocolate house was opened in 1657, and Pepys drank his first cup of tea in 1660. Hard-boiled eggs are being used as money in parts of Southern Russia. There is no bore like a man who talks about . himself.—Sir Chartres Biron, London magistrate. .Three Prayers for Sleep ;.. and Waking, Bedtime. Erethou sleaenest gently lay Every troubled thought away; Pitt Rif worry and di•streee Ad .thou putteet off thy dress; Drop thy burden aid - thy eerie In the quiet arms • of brayer, Lords Thou knew•est how 1 live, All I've done amiss. forgive; AU of good I've tried to do, Strengthen, bless, and carry- through;; All I lov o `in safety keep, While in Thee I fall asleep. 1I, Night Watch; If .slumber should forsake G" Thy pillow in the dark, Fret not thyself to mark How long thou Heist awake. There is a better way; Let go: the strife and strain, Thine eyes will close again, If thou •wilt only pray. Lord, Thy peaceful gift restore, Give my body sleep once more; While I wait my soul will rest Litre a child upon Thy breast. 111.. . New 'Day. . Ere thou risest from thy bed. Speak to God whose wings were spread O'er thee in the helpless night; ° Lo, He wakesthee-now with ,light! Lift thy- burden and thy care In the mighty arms of prayer. Lord, the newness of this day Calls, me to an untried' way; Let me gladly take the road, Give me strength to bear my load, :. Thou niy guide and helper be -- I e -7 will travel through with Thee. —Henry . Van Dyke. Say what you like on every occasion and you will be sure to hear some- thing you dislike. T. o adsScetiis Y njo. Wonders onde� s and ► rts of the Parks in Canada Reservations Include Forests, Plai -While Fish Abo By Frederick B. Edwaxds, the la There are 'more than fifteen thous- and 'square miles of _public -park do- main in Canada, and zueled d in this fast area of ': national playground is every every variety of scienic eptendor or garden printnes's a ;generojze Creator has. provided for the inspmat%on er the satisfaction of the soul 0 ni ankind Canadians are awieelyrw peo- ple.": Having,beneatli•oue "cilli tory larger in actual` 'm than even the vast areas of States, our government h et for years considered conservation of cer- tain of the choicest beauty ' spots. -a fundamental 'policy: Canada's entire population could reside comfortably in with scenery not less beautiful al - Loring Mount ains - Big Game in Plenty, ms -Variety of Recreation. rd of buffalo in the world, Pwo ether preserves are de- voted to antelope; and the lakes of Revelstoke Park .offer to the camper canoeist •a whole summer ' of delight- fol journeying upon placid waters. The thausends • of travelers; who, seeking the magnificenaee of the mountains', 'year 1 L1z ne every to - Cana than ,leockies, devote their' attention chiefi3G, to Rocky Mountains F?z,rk and Jasper, r, with pilgrimages es to tea: sma 11- er, but'not lasts splendid;; -'areas. ,' of Mount Robson, Glacier and. Yoho. Canada has other 'public domains, .which offer advantages of greater` ac- cessibility and lower cost, combined some of the larger of the Dominion's natinal parks; yet 'Canadians continue from time to time, an occasion arises, to say of this or that acreage:", "This' we will set aside as a public park for all' the ages, in order that our pos- terity may call us blessed." :Pos.terities, are notoriously ungrate fol; but surely in the future •centuries the' descendants of the present gehera- tion of Canadians viewing as:'their heritage the .magnificences of Mount Robson, the awesome and glacier. clad precipices of :Mount. Edith Cavell, • the emerald green lakes of the Algonquin region oe the pine clad :slopes 'and, val- leys of the Lourentides will find, it in their heartsrtosay "thanks” to the far. seeing statesmanship which has made it possible for them to enjoy; these treasures trove free of fee or restraint.. Historic Sites Remembered. Some of the smeller Canadian; parks have •been established around historic sites and are as ca • ullytended as an Euglish estate. Several Canadian 'cities have notable parks, Halifax, for ,example, has a public gardens which rivals tire., fame of Boston's, fa- mous arboretum, and -Mount Royal Park, in Montreal, has been strictly preserved in its original wild :state to achieve fame as the most l niisual of. all city parks on the American coil tinent, by reason 'of its large area and. the fact that it is actually a forest clothed mountain arising from, the heart of a metropolitan city. At' Niag- ara, also, the Canadian and American governments have co-operated in the construction of nationally preserved areas adjacent to the historic Fells, but, reasonably, it is in the treirend- our reserves of forest and mountain country in Quebec, Ontario and '.the Canadian Rockies. that loyal Canadians find their keenest pride. There he no limitation save that of human desire upon the scope of amuse awent offered by these conserved Spaces. In Algonquin Park one may fish, but may not bunt. In the Lauren - tides •area fishing and hunting both are perniltted according to season. The scenic glories of the Rocky Moun- tains Park add Jasper, the newest and mightiest of them all, offer comttlete satisfaction of soul to those Whose. hearts are eat upon the high hills; and thereis hunting ttntin Within their to g it b<itnd- aries such; ss the aboriginal Indians experienced- betore the days of Colum o ,c at play, stop this renegade bursiutes boa, the Cabow, ea of ,Tacrzues Cartier: Canadst:,will be faced with an exodlta ` f Ns whoich starting forest sires, At Wainwright there :iso pt•eserved will fail to reified t Population ss whlcit a century of effort y,"-•�Cunadiit,tt Foeestry Associat9atr. though less. awe-inspiring than the Rockies, and the• virgin wildness of the Northern forest and lake areas. • There are two such reservations within easy reach Algonquin Park, in Ontario, and the Laurentides Park, in Quebec Province. Both these•areas are a part of the great Laurentian Mountain chain, fb • hfeh. the claim is made by ,geologists, rat they are the oldest identified- rock ledges in the world to -day. , French Canadian vil- lages nestle in their valleys••"and in the brooding shadows' of •the pine -hung shorelines of.their tiny lakes;' Laurentides Park Iles immediately north of Quebec ,city. It has an area of 3,700 square miles, and there are three 'series of comfortable camps maintained by the government.: Big game hunting is permitted in. season and so is fiehin fn g' the t boos ' ands 0 !lakes s which j are everywhere er who Y re in th park:- Fur -bearing animals• s.may no be trapped or killed: The iag,es swat with that'particularly game and tooth seine fish the Canadian red. trout: Th rules are simple permits are inexpen- sive sive and because the territory hart never been developed as, have the ,Feuds in the Animal World. That animals carry ea feuds ,w' other aaitnals is a fact known: tO tural history authorities; but most mai' w'e prone to avoftit hostiliti�e•'tbal will •lead to nothing bait woundsl, . Meet :cpeatureati' fullry .eomprelten their awn powers. and those of others capable of infiloting injury, and they; are pnwi,lling to risk Possible hurt or evert,engage my„vio1�ent effort to 1'tClo purpose, Thus the puma and the bear, though undoubtedly posseseingr'„ a hatred for each other due to their seeking similar game, hold a mice, -^ rarely if ever broken. Feuds between different species; cines of both of which greaten the safety of the other's young, are not Widen - Mon, and this is the chief cause of such hatreds asexist between the wild -oat and the wolf, the mink and the the fox; the racoon and the weasels, The enmity that the crow displays to- wards the hawks is, an euample,_and it Is shown also by the suspicion with which all herbivore regard members of the larger felines aacdamines. Among the reptiles certain feuds • exist that are more difficult to explain; such is, the king,snake's desire to'des troy all poisonous and some non- veno- mous species, larger and . seemingly more powerful than witsei.f: Nor it is und.erstod why the rattlesnake shows a readiness to inflict its horribly ag,:: gressive defence upon dogs, cats, larger birds, and :humans, and. regards with h indiffer+enee the near nese of -horses and cattle, unless trodden upon. Its .enmity for the hog is natural enough. _ It may seen strange, also, consider- ing the small intelligence with which we •credit reptiles in general, that the skunk and some snakes readily die. tingui'sb herbivorous :from carnivorous animals, fleeing from the latter and approaching deer and cattle to 'feed upon the flies they attract. Smoldering Fires. In every man are latent aptitudes and gifts that are deeplid till -circum- stances call then forth and demand their active .exercise.. As, in the spring ;arm sees: the forest floor and known the flowers. are waiting the magic stir of thea vernal quickening that brings them forth, so we are aware of hidden possibilities in men and women, and we are sure that in each ofthem are potencies unguessed, undreamed, till •they shall be touched and awakened. by the right constraining influence. The lieay.ty of things has, power to brie ng delight,- to convey peace, to min- ister content; but the first andthe greatest ,of all forces to moid and change a -life is that of a personal af- fection. We are different henceforth, because there is one w•hoin we seek to please. No longer can w•e live1;,unto cul elves alone. To the end of satisfy ing him who . inspires- and >cot{nsels and encourages, we strive to build bet f ter than, we know;. .we a re revived d e p '•I�t fails, and dno� 0 P s WO when the si i.• t say that we mast rise' through from. m. the dust and renew the effort, since We live ve and i1 _ no: P la ; er. � ,sells 1 I: h. The It a truism that wedo not know what asal` can ado till the burden. we never thought we cottld assume is laid on us, till the irks r,`1 confronts us• and we cannot Then all our evade e, t ptawers�aresummoned, and made manifest, and the 'issue f surprising to ourselves.. All through 1 the time of war soldiers • and those who more luxurious• tourist centres the .pu suit of the simple life becomes, •a ma ter of inevitable routine, Algonquin Park,, one of the first o the great-Oanadian public domains, is only a few. lours' train ride from 01- taw a. No firearms• may be carried in- to this reservation, but the fishing is abundant and varied. Highland Inn is the most pretentious of the several hotels and camps, but the charm of the territory lies for wilderness en- thusiasts, in the thousands 'of available camp "sites: Camping equipment may be rented. Travel.is exclusively by canoes for the only roads are olds cord duro%• lumber trails, orate; responsibility THE JOB KILLER. .. w.+ "Five t•hottsand Canadian forest industries, with their half a million de 1ndents and ie • two t1 au sen d towils,ate prop ped u p on n othing toresect•orien spruce and pine and fir trees, Unless the people of Canada, who use the woods for w i' • worked tor soldiers, were doing more than they ever knew they were cap, able of doing.•The smoldering "fires broke forth into a blaze that was more than a mere upleaping 'incandescence, that died away as suddenly.: A stead3t flatiae . burned and warmed, .and. the. glow of it, a beacon seen afar, is still remembered, and it still invigorates., - For none can manifest a. valorous spirit *without bringing to other lives the light that shines from the aspect of every radiant example. A Long, Long Road. A bill will shortly be presented to the British Parliament for the making of a motor road between London and Manchester, which may possibly set a pattern' to the world. The new road, however, will clot be, the first motor road, or by any means the longest. At the corner of West Forty-second Street and Fifth°Avenue, New York ICty, there is, a sign which, might be passed by unnoticed, yet which is surely one of the mostre•` markable in the world: "Lincoln High. ` way: To. San Fran isco, 3,,354• miles." • Tht,s great motor road, connecting' New York with San Francisco; was de- signed as a memorial to the martyred President Lincoln. It has an average width of sixty feet, passesin 'a direct line through twelve States, and is fourteen miles longer than the t.rans,. Centlneiital telegraph route. • 'Sh— rhey tellmo rato :lt� ons • are � bad for one.' f•3te--"y'es, bttt there aro ,two onus.", Treat all living creatures kindly. Retnetxibe • the Golden Rule.