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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-05-02, Page 2Markets of the World T3readstutTs.. • Toronto, Ap. 29. --Manitoba Wheat see -No. 1 Northern, $2.241/2; No. 2 Northern, $2.211/2; No. 3 Northern, $2.17' ; No. wheat, $2.111/2, in store Vert William. ry Manitoba oats. --No. 2 C.W., ,- 5%c; No. 3 C.V. 72%c; No. 1 feed, 70%c; No. 2 feed07%e, in store Fort Wil- liam. Manitoba barley-. No. 3 C.W., $1,00%0; No. 4 C.W., $1.014 c; rejec- ted, 94eec.; feed, 94;,e; in. store Fort William. American corn --No 3 yellnw, $1.85; No. 4 yellow, 41.82, nnnrinal, track Toronto, prompt shipment. Ontario oats—No. 2 white, 73 to 75c; No. 3 white, 71 to 78e, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat—No, 1 Winter, per car lot, $2.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do, $2,11 to 32.19; No. 3 do, $2.07 to 32,15 f.o.b. shipping points, according. to freights. Ontario wheat—No. 1 Spring, 32.09 to 82.17; No. 2 do, 32.06 to $2.14; No. 3 do, $2.02 to 32.10 f.o.b. shipping points, according to freights. Peas—No. 2 $2.00, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Barley—Malting, 97c to $1.02, nom incl. Buckwheat—No. 2, 31.10, nominal. Rye—No. 2, 31.60, nonrenal, Manitoba flour—Government stan- dard, 310.75 to 311, Toronto. Ontario flour ---Government stand- ard, 39.05 to 39.75 in bags Toronto and Montreal, prompt shipment in jute bags. slillfeed--Car lets, delivered Mon- treal freights, bags included. Bran_, 342 to 345 per ton; shorts, 340 to $4o per ton, good feed flour, 32.65 to 32.75 per big. Hay—No. 1, 326 to $28 per ton; mixed, 320 to 324 per ton, track To- ronto. Straw—Car lots, 310 to 311 per ton. Country Produce --Wholesale. Butter—Dairy, tubs and rolls, 33 to 40c; prints, 40 to 42c. Creamery, fresh made prints, 63 to 64c. Eggs—New laid, 42 to 43c. Dre =sed poultry—Chickens, 30 to ".i_c; roosters, 25c: fowl, 30 to 33e; ducklings, 32c; turkeys, 45e; squabs, doz., 36.00. Live poultry—Roosters, 22c; fowl, 28 to 83e; ducklings, lb., 35a; turkeys, 35e; chickens, 27e. Wholesalers are selling to the re- tail trade at the following prices: Chcese—New, large, 28 to 28e; twins, 281 to 290; triplets, 29 to 29eec; Stilton, 291:, to 30c; old, large, 291/2 to 30e; twin, 30 to 301 e. Lotter—Fresh dairy, choice, 50 to 520; creamery, solids, 63 to 64c; prints, 65 to 67c. Margarine--34sa to 35c- Eggs—New laid, 47 to 48c; new laid in cartons, 49 to 50c. Dressed poultry—.Chickens, 40 to 42.; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 37 to 88e; turkeys, 45 to 500; ducklings, lb., 35 to 28(jc; ° p abs, doz., $7.00; geese, 2S to "d Pctaloes—On`arios, f,o.b. track To- ronto, ca-: lots, $1.40; on track out- side, $1.25 to $1,30. 136ai:s—C'ii c :ail, hand-pick., bus., e4.25 to $4.50 primes, $3 to $3.25; iopo ' ed h nd eisked, Burma or In - Clan, 3 >0; Liens , 18a. 1io ey—Extreete d clover: 5 -Ili. tin, 25 to 2ec Ib.; 10.db. tins, n4ie, to 25e; 60 -Ib. tin. 24 to fne. Buckwheat, tri -]b. tins. 19 to 2i+^ Comb: 76 -oz, ei.5e to $5 do::.; 10-r_s.., 33.50 to 34 dcz. Maple products—Syrep, per imper- THE FOLLY OF UYI GL! DFO DED Ilow many men. and women in this community do their shopl7irg blindfolded? Funny when you think of it that thinking men and women will play "Blind Man's Buff" with their money. You don't have to shop blindfold- ed unless you want to. The Out -of -Town Houses started the Big Game of 'Blind Man's Buff." I3ut, it's a dan- gerous game for us to play in our town. It isn't a fair game. It is x't fair to ourselves. it isn't fair to our come munity. It isn't fair to our hone merchant. He is helping us, beednerating with us, working with us to upbuild and improve all our home institutions. Then, let us play fair :with -ourselves and with hint. Let us give the home merchant the first chance. That is all he asks. RODIANIANS WIN GREAT VICTORY Part of Communist Army Sur- renders South of Budapest. A despatch from Berne says:— Part of the Hungarian Communist army facing the Roumanians south- east of` Budapest has serrendere:. I To E Ar mews , REPUBLIC City of Dantzig to be Represent- ed by Polish Diplomats. A despatch from Paris says:—Re- consideration of Polish aspirations and claims relative to Dantzig has resulted in a decision concerning the and the rest is in flight, according future status of that city, which to a Roumanian official statement re- goes considerably farther toward eeived here. satisfying Polish demands than was West of Budapest the Czecho-: contemplated some time ago. Slovaks have occupied Komorn, on The "free city of Dantzig" will be the Danube, and Raab (Gyor). created, not as a neutralized State, Czeeho-Slovak forces have also but virtually as an autonomous Re - it which Shue within the Polish State, eon- ial gallon, lee 45 to 52.30' per. 5 am- attacked the city of n , p 1 p g tion by Colonel Henry, of the Mieis- lb,, 27c, troops are said to be aiding the Rou- union and represented an anternatron- d �I manians in their advance in Eastern al relations by Polish diplomats. Its Provisions—Wholesale. Ilungary, according to advices re-' citizens will be entitled to diplomat- Smolked meats—hams,' medium, 87 ceived ,here from Vienna, is privileges held by the citizens o£ to 30e; do, heavy, 33 to 34c; cooked, Thousands of people are leaving I Poland, and Poland will be guaran- 52 to 54c; rolls, 32 to 33c; breakfast Budapest on foot and are carrying: teed free use of the Dantzig wharves The augmentation in numbers of bacon, 43 to 47c; backs, plain, 46 to their, baggage, as there are no trains; and docks and other transportation the delegation above those pat - 47c; benelese, 52 to Sues nr • 1 ''les. , facilities. Poland will be given con - Cured meats--Long•�clear bacon, 29 l SI k continue trol and admmistxatiox of the Vrs- d made it necessar to seek for al to 80c; clear bellies, 28 to 29c. Laird --Pure tierces, 3 -3 to 31c; RST RUN 1 LEAN LOSSES DU n•Y0 BLOCKADE D'Ei [WMT IS A FULL DAYS WORK? Over' 56,300y000,000 Marks is Estimate of Imperial Health • Ministry. A. despatch from Berliii says;... --•-Tho Imperial health Ministry 'has issued a memorandum on the results of the blockade. It says from 1915sto 1918, as a result • of under -nourishment,. 763,000 persons died in Germany, and a further 150,000 died from influenza, owing to the loss of their power of regi,:tanee. The fall in the number of births during the war exceeded 4,000,000 for the Empire, and over 2,500,000 for Prussia. The memorandum calcu- lates at 56,300,000,000 marks the damage inflicted by the hunger block- ade, in which it includes such curious items as unborn people and the loss of wages due to reduced working cap- acity. DEL GATS ARRIVE Advance Contingent of Telegra- p iers and Corrc iporldertts Reach Versailles. A despatch from Paris says:—The first of the Germans who are to par- 8,500 tons, will sail from Montreal on ticipate in the Versailles congress 24 for French ports,' arrived in Versailles on Friday in After this first sailing it is intend - two parties. The fust group, consist- ed that a regular ten -clay service ing of three official couriers, arrived shall be established. early in the day, and the second, headed by Herr Lersrer, came later. They were escorted to the Hotel Des Great Honors to he Paid Reservoirs, The Body of Edith Cavell 5,000,000 HAVE DIED IN INDIA FROM INFLUENZA SOME AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS IN WAR -TIME FACTORIES. British Hold World's Record in Ship- yard Riveting -••-,Lender Rifle Ori- gade's Werelerfel March. The merit clifeeu t emit of the Bri- tish Coal Commission ileums to be to discover how much coal witting is a fair "darg," or day's work for a col- lier, It appears that• in a good "plane" a man will cut four tons of coal in a shift, yet, for all that, tho yearly out- put of coal per man vias only 220 tons last year. It is rather interesting to glance at other forms of work, and to see just how much other toilers do in a day. Take ploughing, or instance. The man who, with a single horse plough, turns an acre in a day, is well earning Itis money. In completing his task, be will have walked and guided the plough about fourteen miles. Harvesting i.n the old clays lased to A despatch from London says:— Almost live million persons have died be slow work, and the man who cut in British India from Spanish infiu-; by hand half an acre of wheat was do. era. n, and felly a million others are! ing well. With the modern horse -cut - believed to have died in the native 1 ter and binder there is a great speed - states from the same cause, accord- ing-up, and one man, with the assist- ing to a report of the Indian Gov- ance of two "shookora," has been eminent made pu iic here. The area! known to cut and bind twenty acres affected contained a population of 1 of wheat in one day. 238,020,240, and the number of deaths Some wonderful. r ucords were put up was 4,899,725, or 20.0 deaths per 1 in munition factories during the war. thousand. In. a few months,.-i.t is ob- 1, In November, 1910, a workman belong - served, influenza claimed half as 1 Mg to Woolwich Ai:ienai told the Loa. many victims es did the dreaded plague in a peeled of 20 years. WONDERFUL WORK OF don Munitions Tribunal that ho had made seventy-eight shells during a six -hour shift—s.:,mr�thing that had never been done before. ROYAi.. into FORCE The feats achieved by riveters in the British shipyards were startling. in May, 1913, Robert Farrant, of Brom. ley -by -Bow, set up a record of 4,275 rivets in a day, to be beaten a week later by Daniel Deviuey, who, working at a Clyde shipyard, drove as marry as 4,429 rivets in a clay. A despatch from London says: -- The Air Ministry has published an astonishing record of the work of the air force during the war. t states that before the war the air forces consisted of 272 machines, 197 officers and 1,647 men, while in Oc- tober, 1918, there were 22,171 ma- chines, 27,906 officers and 263,842 men. From July, 1016, to the armistice the air force on the western front brought down 7,054 enemy aircraft, dropped 6,043 tons of bombs and fired over ten and a half million rounds at grortnd targets. CANADA STEAMSHIPS START • ATLANTIC SERVICE MAY 24 A despatch from 11Iontreal says:— Records in Riveting. Two Americans—Charier Knight and Tom Moore ---successively, beat this amazing achievement; but In the end the record remained in British hands, for on May 23rd William Moses, of Barrow-in-Furness, drove 5,894 riv- ets in the course of a single • working day. These were li.ih tensi'.o steel rivets, much more difficult to beat than the mild;steel rivets usod in the previous competition, At ono time the setting of three Canada Steamship Lines, Limited, i hundred bricks was considered a day's work for a bricklayer. But at piece - have to -day that arrangements 1 work and using a special soft mortar, urhave been completed for the smuge a man has been known. to lay 1.400 and of their newt Atlantic service bricks during an eight hours' day, and and that freight steamer i3dlbster, to continue this average for days on end. Packing fruit is no easy task, 'like oranges, for instance. These average one hundred and fifty to the box, end each fruit has to be separately, wrap- ped in paper, Seventy boxes is con- ;:idered a very fair day's work, but a man has been knowr-•to pack one hun- dred and twenty boxes in a ten -hoar day. He had to handle and wrap eigh- teen thousand orange:; to acconplisn this task. The work our men did in France when marching in full kit is far beyond that of an ordinary laborer. The world's marching record is held by a detachment of the London ltifie Brigade. In April, 1914, these men— sixty-two in number—marched from London to Brighton, a distanro of fifty-two miles, in ' fourteen hour:a twenty-three minutes. They were in full kit, and carried rifles, a total weight of forty-two pounds, yet not a man fell out. The next best achieve- ment is that of the French Foreign Legion, of which a battalion covered fifty miles in fifteen hours thirtythree minutes. I°o sugar, is expected to fall soon. French 1 tamed within tee Polish customs The Germans were met at :the sta. gallons, $2.35 to ,..,•40• s,; 3r try of War Commissary, an ! . Oudaille, of the Ministry of the In- terior, who 'were delegated by the Foreign Office to take charge of the German representatives. The Czecio-.ova forces e y advance in the direction of Buda- tula water route and freedom to ditianal quarters, and a second host- to 313/4c; f �3 .1 , v ; according to advices from cross, not only through the Polish' elry, the Hotel Vater, probably will tubs, 31 to pails, 31 ..t to 31 .i, pest,be requisitioned for the mtelegraphers, prints, 32 to 821/2c. Compound tierces, Innsbruck, 'corridor, but also through German 251;s to 254;i c; tub, 25't to 261a.c, The advice.; say it is reported that territory, if necessary, newspaper correspondents and other pails, 26 to 261zc; prints, 271:1 to Bela Kun, head of thes'Soviet Govern -1 Polish control, however, will not attaches of the Touton mission. 2. 'a c. inept, is pi'yparing for flight into ' extend to the internal affairs of the The • arrival• 'of Lersner and his Montreal, April 29,--Quotation'se-- S, - fiaeilailrl. ! city, over which the residents will party was so quietly arranged' that Oats, extra No.:1 feed, 841.zc. I�lmrr, wi Man. Spring, new standard grade, $11 to 311.10. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., ,�, 83,-, 5 to 34. Bran, 344 to 345.50, i , ' Shorts, 345 to 345.50. Hay, no. 2, per 1 �fiJ•�G 1i ton, car lots, 329. Cheese—Finest easterns, 24 to 25c. Butter --Choice creamery, 63 to 04c, Eggs—Fresh, 48 to 49e. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots, 31.90 to 32,25, Dressed hogs—Abat- toir killed, 330.50 to 331. Lard—Pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 311/20. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, April 20. --Good heavy steers, 314,25 to 315,50; Choice hut - cher steers, $13.50 to $14; butchers' cattle, choice, $18.25 to $14; do, good, $12.50 to 312.75; do, medium, 311.50 to $12; do, common, 39.75 to 310.25; hubs, choice, $11.25 to $1.2; do, med- ium, $9,25 to 310; do, common, 37.50 to 38.25; stockers, 38.75 to 311.50; feeders, 311.50 to 213.50; canners and cutters, 35.50 to 37; milkers, good to r:haice, $90 to 3150; do, cam. and med., 365 to 375; springers, 300 to $150; light ewes, 313 to 315; yearlings, 312 • to $14; choice lambs, 318 to 319; spring lambs, $12 to $15; calves, good to choice, 315 to 316; hogs, fed and watered, $22.25; do, weighed off cars, 322.50; do, :f.o.b., 321.50. . The wheat crop of South Africa is nog 1 worth about $20,000,000 a year. ' tic r ill .s out - enjoy complete local autonomy. The few, rf any, persons m e sa e independence of Dantzig under the side the carefully selected force of conditions will be guaranteed by the hotel servants assigned to their League of Nations, which will ap- rooms and to ilie serving of meals, were aware of their presence. point a High Commissioner to ar- Vd 1'ia ' range the necessary treaties with Operation of New B. C. Company To Be Conducted on World - Wide Seale. Germany and Poland, and assist the municipal representatives in drafting a constitution. Germany willbe guaranteed freedom of passage across the Polish corridor to East Prussia. • A despatch from Victoria, B4O., 500,000 CONGO NATIVES 1 Hymn -Writers' Lease of Life, says:—What is undoubtedly the most HAVE DIED FROM INFLUENZA f h $343 • 3343,836,801 COST OF LAST YEAR OF WAR A despatch from Ottawa says:—A blue book tabled in Parliament gives details of expenditures under the War Appropriations Act during the fiscal year 1918, the last full twelve months' period of the war. Total or the year was 836,801. The expenditure in Canada A despatch from London says:— The body of Edith Cavell, the English nurse who was executed by the Ger- mans in 1975 at Brussels, will be brought to England from i3elgium on May 16 and taken to Westminster Abbey, where cermonies will be hold. The body will he brought to Dover on a warship and will be transported on a gen carriage with military escort to Victoria Station and thence to Westminster Abbey. •Internment will be at Norwich, the home town of the C.aveIls. May 1 the Earliest Date Germans Can Reach Versailles A despatch from Paris says:—The German Government has officially ad= vised the allied and associated Gov- ernments that the German plenipo- tentiaries would not leave Berlin be- fore April 28, and that they would reach Versailles May 1, at the earliest. Seven newspapermen will accom- pany the plenipotentiaries, tho des- patch added. _` expenditure The death of the Rev. William gigantic lumber enterprise ever con- Henry Bliss, the well-known hymn ceived, and a scheme that is fraught A. despatch from Brussels says:— by the Militia Department was 3201,- with tremendous possibilities in the Great loss of life among the natives 288,628, while overseas expenditures writer, at the age of 85, is a reminder • development ofe the British Columbia of the Belgian Congo as a result of amounted to 3115,881,248. Naval de- of the fact which has often been lumber ,industry, is about to be an influenza epidemic is reported in fence cost 39,666,229 during the mooted, namely, that hymn writers launched by a syndicate headed by , despatches received here, Some esti- twelve months' period, while the In- seem to live to a riper age than emus - Pere Furber president of the Meal- mates place the number of deaths at ors engaged in other departments of Literature. Fanny Crosby reached the age of 95; Mrs, Alexander, who wrote "There is a green hill," was 77; Charlotte El• liott, the author of "Just as I am," and Mrs, Cousins, famous for "The sands of time areseenking," were both 82, The writer of "Our blest Redeem- er," Harriet Auber, died in her 90th year. Contrast these with T'hackeray, who died when not more than 52; Dickens was only 58, Scott 82, and Keats 26. can Oil Field' Co. of New York, and 500,000, John Arbuthnot, financier, well known in this city. This syndicate will be Mine Left by Germans ' known as the Furber Lumber Com Explodes on French Railway pang, and the operations of the syndi.- i _..� cate will be conducted, on a colossal '• Ades titch from Amiens sa s: —A and world-wide scale.p y Orders have already been placed ' slow mine left by the Germans ex - with the syndicate by British inter- ; ploded on Friday on the railroad be- este to deliver 30,000,000 feet of i tween Mira-Umont and the Aohiet lumber, which, in the ()veep, of a sat- , rrho explosion cut the main Brio of isfaetory agreement being reached oat' the road running between Paris and urchase price with the sawmills and lumber manufacturers, will be sup- ; Belgium for a distance of 100 yards. plied by British Columbia mills. J Nobody was hurt by the explosion. valided SoldiersCommission requir- ed $11,393,654, The remainder of the total was spent by the various other Government departments. The First Food Monopolist, "This ought to make life easy from now on," remarked Noah as the ark landed. "To what do you refer?" inquired Japhet. "Our monopoly of eggs, butter, milk, beef, ate., with nota soul on earth to start an investigation." --•� ] The Real Heroes. "Tire real heroes of this war," said a recently returned officer, 'are the nursing sisters. Nothing too much can be said about their.c.ourage, their untiring patience, and their ability. Whet the men had to endure in the front line trenches was child's play to the work of the nurses after an en- gagement, when the badly shattered nien wens brought in and left to their kindness, which never failed. Their only reward in marry cases being tho intense worshipful love of the mon." One of the mysteries that has puz- zled bellmakers for years was how the great bell in the bell tower at Peking was ever bung. It was cast hi 1415 and weighs fifty-three and a hale tons. It measures fifteen :feet in height, is nine inches thick and pas a cireumference of thirty-four feet at the rim, To hang ,it nowadays would require the most up-to-date mechanical apparatus, and how it was hung lnincireds of years ago is a mystery which has never bee* solvetln