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GUARDING ST.
PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
AGAINST AIR RAIDS DURING
THREE YIJAR$ AND MOVE ..
Wen's Great Masterpiece, Uutnuehed
ro by the Ravages of a Cruel War,
Stands Safe and Serene.
The story of the men who have
been guarding St. Paul's Cathedral
against air raids during the great war
forms an interesting episode, of which
salve record should be preserved, says
the Leedom Times,
By a etrolse of good fortune the
year immediately before the war saw
the installation of a new and 'elaborate
oeheme of fire prevention in the'builcl-
ing, making it as safe from fire as is
hulnanly possible. Protection against
incendiary bombs was all that could
be afforded it, though we believe that
expert opinion tended to the view,.that
the effect of explosive bombs, other
than those of the heaviest type, might
not be very serious.
Th Night Watches,
The Watch was orghnized in 1915,
and has been kept in being during the
larger part of the war, by Canon
Alexander, treasurer of the Cathedral,
and Mr. Mervyn Macartrtey, the archi-
tect, assisted by the clerk of the works
and Mr. L. A. Turner, who has been
indefatigable in his services as sec-
retary. It has consisted of architects
and other professional men, with
guides, vergers, and workmen belong-
ing to the Cathedral staff. These mien,
trained by the London Fire Brigade,
have been on guard every night for
more than three years, 10 or 15 being
often present at one time, and sta-
tioned (with fire hose ready) at the
pests allotted them, when a warning
pals received. Many have attended
two or three nights a eveek,and the
whol country owes them a debt of
gratitude for their devoted service.
Through the cold and dark nights
of three winters these men have been
on guard in the national Cathedral,
often compelled, if a late warning
came through, to spend the whole
night there between two busy days of
work, beds being provided for such
sleep as they could obtain. A system
of telephones from the Crypt to the
various roofs has made for united
action.
It was in Septenikber, 1915, that the
danger to the Cathedral..frstebecame
pressing. At a quarter to 11 on the
night of September 8, a Zeppelin was
seen by the watchers on the roofs
approaching rapidly from the west in
the glare of the searchlights, and a
great' fire began at Wood• Street, in
the close vicinity of the Cathedral,
which for two hours and a half il-
luminated the whole building, while
thousands of eople hurried up Lud-
gate Hill 'to see St. Paul's on fire.'
Narrow Escapes.
On two other occasions -in June
and July, 1917 -the Cathedral had
very narrow escapes from the bombs
of Gothas flying in• broad daylight.
Twice it was struck at night by anti-
aircraft shells, one, of which pene-
trated, with great force but com-
paratively little damage, the roof of
the South Transept. On June 13,
1917, a small part of an explosive
bomb which fell within a few yards
of the north side of ,the building was
thrown up on the Stone Gallery, where
a slight dent. was made in the asphalt
by the impact of it. This is the only
mark which Germany has left on St.
Paul's Cathedral.
On the eve of the armistice, Canon
Alexander, who is said to have mis-
sed only one of the raids on London,
paid a last visit to the Watch. The
men on duty were reported high up
above the dome, looking out across
the City from the Golden Gallery, The
Lord Mayor's Show had passed by
during the day with tumult and shout-
ing; but now in the deserted streets
everything was still. Between the
river mists and the quiet stars Wren's
great masterpiece, untouched by the
ravages of cruel war, stood out safe
and serene.
Beatty and Nelson's Signal.
It does not appear to have been no-
ticed, writes a correspondent of. the
London Spectator, that Admiral Beat-
ty's signal for the Fleet after the
surrender of the German ships, in
..Which he stated his intention to return
thanks to God for the glorious vic-
tory, is identically the same signal
as Nelson made to his fleet after the
Battle of the Nile, 120 years ago.
Nelson's signal on August 2, 1798,
ran:
Almighty God having blessed His
Majesty's arms with victory, the Ad-
Iniral intends returning public thanks -
,giving for the salve at two o'clock
this day, and lie ,recommends every
'ship doing the•Seine as soon' as con-
tenl cS ,G,
C. P 0
11.;RE • appoint -
mint of Lt:
Co.lG. Mc,
Laren• Brown , as .'
3:tni,gbt Coleman- r.
Or' ,of the Order -
of the tl'i•itish
leenpire is the ree
suit of: the very
One services ren -
tiered by the Euro-
pean Manager of
the C. P, it. to the
British Govern.
ment, for whom
he acted as As-
sistant Director
of Transport dur-
ing the last three
years of the war.
"G. MeL.," as he
is popularly
known, both in
Canada and the
Old Country, is
•the son of Adam
Brown of Hamil-
ton, Ontario, and
was born in 1885.
In it887 Jae was
appointed agent
of the Canadian
Pacific Railway at
Vancouver, pro-
moted five years
later to be Asst.
General Passau-
FFICIAL N R
Sir George MeL° Brown.
ger Agent, Western Division, and subsequently became in turn Executive
-Agent, Superintendent of Hotels, and Dining and Sleeping Car Dept., and
General Passenger Agent C. P. 11. Atlantic Steamship Lines, In 1908 he'.
was appointed General Luropean Traffic Agent, and in 1910 General Eur
pean Manager, with head offices at G2-5 Charing Cross, London, 5,W.
Col. George McLaren Brown, says a friend writing in the "Montreal:'
Gazette," is one of those rare men whose friendships are equal to the nuni-•
ber of their acquaintances. To all in that wide circle the announcement ;of
the new honor which has been conferred upon him comes as pleasant and
very welcome news. It is a recognition of qualities and services which
they all know him to possess and to have rendered. The reputation whiele
he enjoyed in Canada, not alone in the railway world, has been enhanced
in proportion to his larger opportunities as European Manager of the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway in London, arid the value of his service In the organ/.
nation and direction of troop transportation during the war can hardly be
overstated. It was as successful as it was onerous, and although given.'
with no other thought than that of duty, was none the less deserving of recog.
rlition now accorded. It was but 'one, if the chief of hips war activities,
which were in fact as varied as were the demands upon his help and counsel.
In all this McLaren Brown bas been true in both impulse and action to the
stock of which he comes. Similar impulses, finding similar expression
having regard to place and circumstances, have characterized the long and
honorable career of Adam Brown, his father, now and for many years poste ;
master at Hamilton, Active and successful in commercial life, a pioneer its
railway development, and one of the fathers of the National Policy, Adam
Brown at ninety-six, is still young in spirit. giving largely of his time and
substance in philanthropy, and to the support of war relief organizations,
As is the father, so is the son, strong in his undertakings and, withal a
thoughtful, kindly gentleman.
FLIGHTS IN THE FUTURE
From London to New York in Thirty
Hours by Aeroplane.
Many people are wondering what
our aviators will do when pea:Ce is
signed. This question is answered in
Hodder & Stoughton's new publica-
tion. "The British Aircraft Industry,"
where it is suggested that flying will
in the future become of paramount
importance, not in war, but in com-
merce, pleasure, and sport.
Two miles a minute Se, quite an
ordinary flying speed to -day. To -mor-
row we shall be flashing through the
sky at one hundred and eighty miles
an hour. A return trip to New York
from London will be accomplished in
two and a half days, instead of ten,
or, to Singapore in a week.
If you leave London early on Mon-
day, you will be able to descend in
either Sydney or HongKong late on you that a quarter ounce o£ a drug
Friday. called freezone can be obtained at lit -
Such trips sound like fairy tales, tle cost from the drug store but is suf-
flcient to rid one's feet of every hard
but they are based upon sound scien- or soft corn or callus.
tific formulas. Probably an aerial You simply apply a few drops of
postal service will be the first prac- freezone on a tender, aching corn and
soreness is instantly
relieved.
Short. innovation. Before long, low-
ly the entire corn can be lifted out,
ever, two services are predicted which root and all, without pain.
with trains and ships. will compete w p I This drag is sticky but dries at once
The first will4 be fast aerial snail -car- and is claimed to just shrivel up any
I be ' 'y 1i
Fasliio111
This pretty model for tihe schoolgirl
i is charming when developed in con-
trusting materials The middy is
quite short and but;s around
I
the waistline 11/11cOail Pattern No.
{} 8706, Misses' and Girlie' Middy Dress.
' In 7 sizes, 8 to 20 years. Price, 25
cents.
somewhere around twenty cents. Pas-
senger traffic may be cheaper. "It is
not very easy," says the author of
these predictions, "to, forecast what.
fares will be by flying machine, but,r
as an estimate it would appear ;°; ,
from ten"to twenty cents 'a mile, ac-
cording to the lengths- of the route,
would be about the figure."
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e"' -o-^ s O O --O- 'O O O—O--O—•t1"'-l�
Hurrah ! How's This
Cincinnati authority says corns
dry up and lift out
with fingers.
e--o—o-o--o--o— o—o—o—o—o—o--s
Hospital records show that every
time you cut a corn you invite lock-
jaw or blood poison, which is needless,
says a Cincinnati authority, who tells
riers and passenger service, with an
average night and day speed of one
hundred miles per hour. The second
will be a slow (?) passenger service,
running during the day only, at an
average speed of eighty miles an
hour.
A striking table has been drawn up
to show the difference between the
corn without inflaming or even irri-
tating the surrounding tisane or skin,
If your wife wears high heels slie
will be glad to know of this.
What He Could Do.
It's a good thing to write a square
deal for little nations into the, peace
terms. Little nations in the past
capacities of the flying machine of the have certainly got the small end of it.
future and the other means of transit. I They've been treated, especially by
It relates to the comparative distances Germany, as Jobbins was treated by
in a twenty-four hours day. I Battling Bill.
. Road lorry, 120 miles; cargo steam- Battling Bill borrowed Dobbins' best
ermai140 miles; goods train, 360 miles; I on
stealner, 360 miles; motor car oneelexcuseeor another, users from nwouldn't , and ngive
480 miles; express train,960 miles; them back. A month passed, and job -
flying machine, 2,400 miles. bins sent an urgent messenger to Bill.
In regard to cost, aerial travelling I "He must have them trousers back
for a long while will be expensive, and to -day, Battling, said the messenger.
manwillusetheairt
the commercialo
save time rather than money. But as
tins in business means
money,
will,
of course, stand to win In the end. To
carry a ton a mile may work out at
The Minted Drive
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"Oh, _dear!" said the messenger.
"What is poor Mr. Jobbins to do
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t "Do?" said Battling Bill. "Why,
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A dainty bureau scarf cane be lntacxe
with dimity bordered with checkered
gingham or -used on the hies or flow-
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too, can be made in this way. • •
If the fannner carries with thine ti
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needed to be done, he will usually, net
stack for work during winter days
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attnaxd's riniment Ouress Garret 1n stews
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Pxlice, 15 cents.
These patterns may be obtained
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Tonotnite, Dept. W.
MONEY ORDERS.
• Pay your out-of-town accounts by
Doiniinion Express Money Orders. Five
Dollars costs three cents.
Big Bertha.
The "experts" who wrote long and
learned articles about "Big Bertha"
will wish that the information now
in the possession of the Allied mili-
tary authorities regarding these wea-
pons could be suppressed. It now ap-
pears that they were not new guns at
all, as we were so confidently assured,
but naval guns specially fitted with
new tubes, made to withstand the
tremendous pressure of the charge
that was employed. The guns were
pointed at all angle of 65 degrees, and
its the eourse of its journey the shell
rose to the height of 22 miles!
Weissardis Liniment Cures- Diphtheria.
Liucoln's Inn.
London has rightly been called the
"Bagdad of the West," but it will be
a surprise to most people to hear that
there is an open air vino in the Met-
ropolis, in Lncoln's Inn. About a dozen
bunches of grapes on a vide, trained
to No. 12 New Square, were trying
to get ripe during the first dismal
week of December. These 'Lincoln
Inn trees are amongst the last open
ail vines that still, in favorable years,
ripen. Formerly vineyards were
common • not only in. London but
throughout England.
t+linarW+u Y,lnlinen t iInre0 nlfit entxten
When bniilial; fl,?11 always ‘tie it up in
it -thin cloth and add a Vittle vinegar
to the water. This makes the fii.h
firers and keep.; it white.
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Lord Roberts Predicted I+ sub's 'Victory
L'Evenement, of Quebec, states that
when Lord Roberts was in Canada ten
years ago at the dedication of the
Plains of Abraham as a park and play-
ground, he made this prediction:
"They refuse to believe me, and
we are asleep under a false security,
for I do not hesitate to affirm that we
will have a frightful war in Europe,
and that Britain and France will have
the hardest experience of their ex-
istence. They will, in fact, see de -
fat very near, but the war will final-
ly be won by the genius of a French
General named Ferdinand Foch. Pro-
fessor in the Military School in Paris."
Spanish I
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There Are Others.
In one of the base hospitals of the
army not long ago a new librarian
was set to work by the Library As-
sociation. She was a very charming
young woman, and very anxious to
please all of her "customers," though
some of them didn't even wish to look
at a book. In her rounds she approach-
ed one of the patients and he declined
to be interested in her wares. At the
next cot she stopped and offered its
occupant a book. "What's it about?"
the patient asked.
"Oh, this is `Bambi,' " said the
librarian. "It's a book about a girl
who married a man without his hav-
ing anything to say about it."
"Hold on there," shouted the pian
who had declined all books. He rais-
ed himself up on his elbow and reach-
ed out his hand, "Give me that book.
It's my autobiography."
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