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CHIPPEWA-WEENSTON HYDRO -ELECTRIC
DEVELOPMENT MAKING RAPID PROGRESS
May Beat Estimate by 16 Months in Having Power Ready
for Trelivery by September First of This Year—Largest
Power Development in the World Will Then
be Owned by the People of Ontario,
Niagara Falls, Ont., Feb. 20.—
Some time last summer the prediction
was made that the Chippewa -Queens -
ton Hydro -electric development could
not be completed before January,
1923, and only by the utmost good
fortune. could two wilts of 55,000
horsepower each be installed and in
operation three menthe prior to that I
use& The scene changes almost daily,
and net September when the water
is turned into the canal the people of
.Ontario will have for themselves the
largest individual power development
in the world, and one that, despite
the handicaps of high 'abet' and ma-
terial eosts, will. supply• electrical
energy at a reasonable capital cost.
date. I The influence of this on the wealth
At the time that forecast was made and prosperity of the community will,
• there was an acute power shortage be measured more effectively by the
over the entire Hydro -electric system,maximum amount ef power produced
The city of Toronto was vitally con -e than by considering the power itself
cerned, in view Of the prospective ac- as 'the ultimate commodity. When
quisition of the street railway on the the development is fully 'completed
first of September next. • To tax there will be nine unite of 55,000
the Niagara system with another 40,- horsepower each, and it is hoped that
000 horsepower customer was beyond these will have a eombined capacity
reason, apart -from meeting the under full head of probably 550,000
steadily increasing demands for horsepower.
power from all districts. A word about the men who are be -
It then that the challenge was hind the project. From the incep-
made to the engineers to beat the tion Sir Adam Beck has never way -
prophecy by 16 months, that is, to ered in his faith that the Chippewa
have two units each generating 55,- development would be the same sue -
000 horsepower installed and in •op- cess that the whole Hydro enterprise
eration by the first of September has been. The scheme is Canadian in
next. That also meant to finish the its ,conception and is Canadian in its
sturdiness and execution. It is inter-
esting to observe also that the Uni-
versity of Toronto has supplied most
of the engineering brains employed
on the work. Mr. F. A. Gaby, Chief
Engineer of the Hydro-electrie Power
Commission, is a graduate of the
University of Toronto; Mr. H. G.
Acres, Chief Hydraulic Engineer, is
another Toronto graduate. It is stated
that 75 per cent. of the entire engin-
eering staff received their training at
the Provincial university.
excavation of the power canal, to
end the power -house at Queenston,
install generating and transformer
equipment, and do a million other
things. The engineering staff accept-
ed the challenge and set about to de-
mand from the entire organization a
scheduled performance from day to
day.
The mien winter has been most fav-
orable"i-Or rapid progress, Concrete
is befog •poured daily, and altogether
some 400,000 yards of this will be
=age
OUGHT TO REMAIN The school teachers' strike here is
A PROTECTORATE ended, all the teachers having been
reinstated by the School Board. The
Teachers' Association is now recog-
British Comment on Lord Mil- nized by the board as representing
nor's Report on Egyptian the eity's teachers. Schools will re -
Question. open Monday morning, after being;
closed one week. Salaries will be
London, Feb. 20.—Coannent of adjusted by a joint committee of the
Lordadilnee's report advocating self- board and the association, and in ease
determination for Egypt, shows that of disagreement provisions are made
the Imperialists are dead against for arbitration. It was agreed that
such a measure of independence •to ,a strike -or lockout would be the last
Egypt on the ground that it is the
hey to India and ought to remain
within the orb of the British Empire.
resort, - and thirty days'. notke mug
be Igiven of such action.
The Premier's object in publishing Airplane Police
it is obviously an effort on his part For French Frontier
to sound out the country.
The Morning Post 'cries for a
A despatch from Paris says:—The
"rightly administered, courageously
French Government is establishing
asserted" protectorate., because to
several airplane squadrons to guard
grant self-determination to Egypt
must involve the gravest peril to
what is the key to a strategic position
for the British Empire."
New Westminster Teachers
Win Their Fight
the frontier.
These squadrons will be known as
the "custo is police," and will aid the
customs authorities in enforcing the
revenue laws. They will be under
the divection and command of the
police authorities, however, and will
be utilized whenever necessary to
New Westminster, B.(j., Feb. 20.— chase fugitives from. justice.
Weekly Ma rCie Report —
1104 0141.14...1 4.11.
To ron o.
ielaieieoba wheat --No. 1 Northern,
$1.01; No. 2 Northern, $1.88; No.
a
Northern. $1.84; No, 4 -wheat,
al .79.
Manitoba oats --No. 2 (JW, 49%e;
No. 3 ('W 45%; extra No, 1 -reed,
453ac: No. 1 feed, 43%c; No. 2 feed,
40%e.
Manitoba barley ---No. 13 CW, 85aac;
No, 4 CW, 70tac; rejected, 601/2c;
feed, 60aarc.
All of tile above in store at Fort
American corn -93c, nom., track,
Toronto, prompt shipment.
Ontario oats—No. 2 white, 47 to 49e.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 Winter, $1.85
to $1.90 per car lot; No. 2 Spring,
$1.75 to $1.80; No. 2 Goose wheat,
$1.75 to $1.80, shipping points, accord-
ing to freight.
Barley -80 to 85, according lo
freights outside.
Buckwheat—No, 8, 9ac to $1, nom-
inal.
Rye—No, 3, $1,50 to $1.65, nominal,
tiecordiag to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -410.70, bulk, sea-
board.
Ontario flour -48.50, balk, seaboard.
Milifeed — Delivered, Montreal
freight, bags included: Bran, per ton,
a38.40; shorts, per ton, $87 to $38;
good feed flour, $2,85 to $2.50. per bag.
Cheese—New, large, 80 to 31a;
twins, 81 to $2e; triplets, 31% to
321/2e; old, large, 82 to 85c; do, twins,
32% to 36%-c.
Butter—Fresh deiry, choice, 49 to
60e; creamery, No. 1, 135 to 59e; :fresh,
38 to 61c.
- Eggs—New laids, 48 to 50e; new
laid, in cartons, 51 to Mc.
Beans—Canadian,,handepcked, bus,
$3.15 to $4; priniesa $8 to $8„50; Ja-
pans, 8c; Limas, gadagasoala
California Limas, 121/2o.
Maple productsa—Srap, per bap.
gal., $8.40 to $3.50; per I imp. gale.,
$8.25 to 8a,40. Maple sugar, lb., 20
to 25e,
aa and 30-1b. titat, 22 to 24e
1 per ib.; Ontario comb honey, at $7.50.
per 15 -section case; 5a13 -21/2-1b. tins,
23 to 25e per lb.
Smoked meats—Hams, med., 40 to
41c; heavy, 37 to 39c; cooked, 58 to
57e; rolls, 82 to 83e; cottage rolls, 35
to 360; breakfast bacon, 45 to 49c;
fancy breakfast bacon, 53 to 56e;
backs, plain, bone in, 49 to 54c; bone-
less, 55 to 59c.
Cured meats—Long .elear bacon, 27
to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c.
Lard ----Pure, tierces, 21% to 22c;
tubs, 221,4 to .23ake; pails 22 to 2$e;
prints, 23 to 24c. Shortening, 14 to
14%c; tubs, 15-,4 to 161/2e; pails, 16%
to 18c; prints, 16 to 17c,
Good heavy steers, $9 to $10; but-
cher steers, choice, $8.50 to $9.50; do,
good, $7.50 to $8.50; do med., $6.50 to
$7.50; butcher heifers, choice $8.50 to
$9.50; do, med., $7 to $8; do? come $4
to $6.50; hatcher cows,
.choice, $8 to
$9; do, me.cl., $5 to $7; canners and
cutters, $3.50 to $4 butcher bulls,
good, $6 to $8; dofair, $5.50 to $6;
do com., $4 to $5;tfeeders, good, 900
lbs., $7 to $8; do., 800 lbs., $6.50 to $7;
milkers and springers, choice, $100 to
$150; calves, choice, $15 to $15.50; do,
med., $12 to $14; do, eoin, $5 to $10;
lambs, $11 to $12; sheep, choice, $6
to $7.50; do, levy and bucks, $4 to $6;
do, yearlings $10 to $10.50; hogs, fed
and watered,'
$18.75; off.cars, $14;
do, f.o.b., $12.75; do, to the farmer,
$12.50. .
- Montreal.'
Oats, No, 2 OW, 08c; No. 8 OW, 64e,
Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents,
firsts, $10.70. Rolled oats, bag 00 Ibs.,
$3.40. Bran, $88.25. Shorts, $$6.25.
Hay, No, 2, per ton; tar lots, $25 to
$26.
- Cheese, finest eastearis, 28 to 28,1/2e,
Butte; choicest areamery,158 to 33%e.
Eggs, fresh, 48e. Potatoes, per bag,
car lots 06c,
Med, COws and heifers, $6.60 to
$7.50; miners, $3; hullo, $5 to $6,50.'
Geed veal, $14 to' 16; -Med., $12 to
18, Lambs, good, 12.50; come $6 t.
rifogo, flew* .16; sows', $12,
NOW ALL TOGETHER—HEAVE HO, MY HEARTIES!
STOPPED IRISH
EMIGRANTS AT DOCK
Raid in Liverpool is Alleged
Work of Sinn Fein
"Government."
London, Feb. 20.—Sensational de-
velopment of alleged Sinn Fein activ-
ity broke out in Liverpool last night,
when armed men in civilian clothes
raided several boarding houses near
the docks and took passports and
steamship tickets from a number of
Irishmen -due to sail to America in a
few days and ordered them to return
to Ireland. The inference is that the
Sinn Fein "government" is carrying
on a campaign to prevent Irish emi-
gration from weakening the poterte
tial strength of the "Irish 4eprtblican
Army" in its fight against the British
Government. The raiding parties
numbered from twelve to twenty men,
and at least in one ease are said to
have represented -themselves to be
Liverpool police. . They worked so
quickly and efficiently that the neigh-
borhood was coinpletely surprised,
and by the time the police were noti-
fied the raiders had escaped. So far
only. one arrest on suspicion has been
made. Some of t'he raidersawore
smoked glasses.
The mystery of the motive . was
deepened by a remark of one raider. -
"I've seen you in the Black and
Tans." The man denied this but ad-
mitted he had been in the British
army in Ireland. •
The police investigation is handi-
capped because nobody in the district,
either through sympathy or - fear, will
give a description of the raiders.
To Rebuild Forts
in the Valleys
A despatch from Paris says—The
General Staff of the French Arany has
decided in. the reconstruction of its
frontier forts to place them all in
valleys instead, as formerly, 011 the
summits of hills. This radical change
in all preconceived ideas of military
fortifications has been made as the
result .of their experience in the late
war.
Reds Advancing
on Tiflis City
A despatch from Constantinople
says;—Tiflis, capital of the Republic
of Georgia, is threatened by a Russo -
Armenian Soviet army. The Geor-
gian Government has fled. .
Smuts the Diplomat.
?ranter of the 'Union of South Able
co, who, states that he intends asking
Geteral Hartzog, his Nationalist and
tineuecessful rival, to the next
pale' Coeference. .
New Taxes Announced •
by Ontario Government
Two -mill tax on all real estate
transfers.
One-quarter of one per cent.
tax on all bank reserve funds.
Extension of amusement tax to
billiard parlors and pool rooms.
Railway taxation increased
from $25 to $40 per mile.
Increased taxes under *Mining
Tax Act,
Estimated Increased Revenue:
Propertt-tax — $ 250,000
Bank reserve fund tax 450,000
Billiard Parlor tax ... 280,000
Railway tax 420,000
Mining Act tax 100,000
Total increase . $1,500,000
Stefansson's Services
Acknowledged by Dominion
4v despatch from Ottawa says:—
Tleenaarigy Council of Canada has is-
Si:10CA k Ote of "thanks to aril-
hjalmaierStefansson, the Arctic ex-
plorer; acknowledging on behalf of
the Canadian Government the serial:le
which Mr. Stefansson has rendered
the nation In exploring uncharted Can-
adian lands. The statement observes
that in three expeditions in the last
eleven years the explorer "has added
greatly to our knowledge of lands al-
ready known to exist and has discov-
ered lands of large area previously
unknown, thereby extending the boun-
daries of Canada." -
Mr. John, Stanfield, Colchester, N.
S., has been appointed to the Senator-
ship left vacant by the death of Sen-
ator William Dennis, of Halifax, N.S.
TWO DROWNED WHEN
WATER MAIN BURST§,
---
Damage Of Over $100,000;
28 Persons Injured, in
Montreal.
Montreal, Feb. 20,—Two boys were
drowned, damage estimated at over
$100,000 done, thirteen families were
rendered hoMeless and 28 -persons
were taken to Montreal General gos-
vital as the result of a bust high
preseure water main feeding the east
end of the city, which 'marred at
the corner of St. Urhain and ' Dor-
chester streets early this amoening,
Of the 28 taken to the hospital only
two were seriously enough injured to
be admitted to wards.
The dead are: Issac Schachter, 3,
of 215 St, Urbain Street; Abel
Schachter, 2, of the same address.
The injured in hospital are: Isaac
elatzky, 42, with severely cut hands;
Mrs. Sarah Slatzky, 40, with severe
nervous shock.
S. Fortin, assistant director of pub-
lic works, said to -night that the water
main which burst was a bad piece
of piping which had broken frequent-
ly in the past three or four years. It
carried a pressure of between eighty
and eighty-five pounds to the square
inch.
The' water worked its way into the
houses, filling tbe cellars and rising
to the next floor, and spouted, up-
wards with such force that the ten-
ements collapsed under the pressure.
London University
Appoints Woman. to Chair
A despatch from London says:—
The London University Senate has
appointed Miss Anne Louise Meilroy
to the University chair of obstetrics
and gynaecology at the London School
of Medicine for Women. Miss McIlroy
was educated at the Universities of
Glasgow, London, Berlin, Vienna and
Paris.
Speaker of the British Columbia
Legislature.
Manson who hor been ap-
pointed Speaker by the Legislature.
Mrs. Ralph Smith declined the ap-
Pointmen t.
CANADA ENTERS CLAI FOR BILLION
DOLLARS AGAINST GERMANY
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Reparations Do Not Include Losses Involved in Sinking of
Ships Which is Included in British Claim — Largest Con-
stituent of Claim is Amount Expended by Canada
Pensions Board.
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A despatch from London says:—
The total amount of Canada's claim
for reparations against Germany, with
the exception of losses involved in
the sinking of ships, Which are in-
cluded in the British total, has been
forwarded to the Reparations Com-
mission by the Canadian Government.
When :the marine losses are added,
Canada's claim will amount in all to
about one billion dollars. This en-
ormous sum, however, is not regard-
ed s a practical figure, inasmuch es
it will be but one of the items in the
"moralti, damages due from Germany,
rather ;that the actual amount recov-
erable under the peace conference
settlement. Its largest constituent is
the amount paid out, or to be paid
out, by the Canada Pensions Board,
which, as capitalized, is assessed at
slightly over five hundred millions of
dollars. For separation allowance
another hundred million dollars has
'been added. A third item is the
charge for the expellees of the Can-
adian pagan of the army of °coupe -
tion. This is a definite figure, but not
a large Mai, tee the Canadian troops
remained on the Ithine for only a few
monthia'
The Canadian. marina 103803) -as ale
ready stated, are not separately men-
tioned in the Dominion Gove-antnentis
atatenleert, being Included in the Bri.
tish total of over seven hundred mil-
lion poande, It would appear,. ealeat
a considerable difficulty may later de-
velop over the apportionment of the
sums recovered from Germany under
this head.
This money is not to be paid over
to the companies which owned the
lost ships, since they were reimburs-
ed by the payment -of the insurance,
nor to the insurance eompanies, since
they profited from the war prem-
iums, but will become the property of
the taxpayers and to be used by the
respective governments of the Mother
Country and the Dominions for pub-
lic expenditures. The diffieulty, which
promises to arise is over, the question
Of vessels -owned in one part of the
Empire and registered in another, In
the case of the Canadian Pacific ves-
sels, for instanee, which are owned in
Canada but registered in Great Bri-
tain, the -contention advanced here is
that reparation should be made to the
country oa registry rather than to
the country of ownership„ especially
as eo much O.P.R. stock is held in the
'United Kingdoto, Thie Is a VIM avlsiab,
will scarcely be popular in Canada.
How Canada 'and the other parts of
the Empire are to share:gin the twenty.
two per ent. of the total German
payment for reparation whith Great
Britain is to receive has not yet been
decided, Tillie will probably be a gib-
jeet for diseuvaion and decision by
the Conference of Premiers in Lon-
don in June.
WESTERN TEACHERS:.
• . G9 ON STRIKE
ht Many Parts. r of the West
•-•They Sympathize • With,
New Westminster..
A
despatch .from New Weetrnineter,
3-3.0,, says:—Thd fiestmove. to 'settle
the stake of..75 teachers and send
3,000 .children back to school was
made , on Fri,day when the School
Board decided to call a conference of
representatives of the teachers, the
board and the New Westminster
Beard. of Trade. This is considered
to' be a concession on the part of the
board. The Teachers' Association
will send tare° representatives to the
meeting.
A despatch from Noose Jaw, Soak.,
says:--41ere is a possibility of • the
teachers in the Collegiate Institute
and public school staffs having to re-
sort to similar action to that' taken
at New Westminster, according to an
official of the local branch of the
Teachers' Alliarice. The local board
has refused to negotiate with the
teachera, who have asked for certain
adjustments. The local branch of
the alliance will likely endorse the
action of the New Westminster
teachers.
• A despatch from Winnipeg says:—
The Manitoba, Teachers' Federation
has been called to meet Saturday tee
consider the strike of teachers in New
Westminster,: B.C. IL 17. Runtley,
President of the federation, states
that "steps are likely to be taken ,to
endorse the action of ,the New West-
minster teachers."
A despatch from Calgary says:—
The Alberta Teachers' Alliance will
not help the New Westminster school
trustees to fill the places of teachers
who have struck there for higher
, wages, according to J. W. Barnett of
'Edmonton, Secretary-Treaeurer of the
Alberta organization. Mr. Barnett
also wired the New Westminster
teachers, congratulating them on.
their stand, and advising them that
the Alberta teachers would give them
all the assistance in their power.
LLOYD GEORGE WINS
SIGNAL VICTORY
Cardigan- Gives Nearly 4,000
Majority to Premier's
Secretary.
London, Feb. 19.—Captain Ernest
Evans, the Premier's Private Secre-
tary, was declared to -day elected,
member of Parliament.fer Cardigan,
1 Wales, by 14,111 votektteI0,621. teat
for Llewellyn Williams, his "we're
free" adversary. (The old guard of
Liberalism is known as we're free.)
It is a -comfortable :majority in a
contest which before it closed took
on the aspect of a directfight for
popularity between Lloyd George and
I Asquith.
Mrs. Lloyd George canvassed .strera.
uously for Captain Evans, and her
Welsh speeches made a strong ap-
peal to the Welsh votees...
Llewellyn Williams, on the other
hand, had the support of Lady Bon-
ham -Carter, Asquith's daughter,
whose platform ability was establish..
ed during her father's fight for Paie*
ley last year.
BLACK AND TANS
CAPTURE FIFTEEN
i Members of "Irish Republican
IArmy" Digging Trenches
Near Dunman.way,
A despatch front Cork says:—
I Black and Tans surprised and captur.
ed fifteen members of the "Irish Re-
publican army" who were (Jigging
trenches near Dumnanway, County
Cork, on Wednesday night.
A despatch from Dublin says:—An
attempt was made by incendiaries to
destroy the Earl of Rentnare's house
at Charleville, north of Cork on
Thursday. Considerable damage watt
done to two rooms on the ground floor
by an explosion,
There still has been no solution of
the escape of Frank Teeling and two
other prisoners from the Kilmainham
jail. An official -communication says a
military. court has investigated the af-
fair, and that as a result of the fade
ascertained disciplinary action It
contemplated against certain er80314
who are believed to have been Tee-
ponsible for the men escaping.
The matter is still under consider-
ation, it is added, and further details
cannot be given at the present ;irate
To Demolish
St. Laza re Prison
A despatch rem Perie - The
f algae ateittee S ant Lamm, t11.t.,
oenal institution ttoa tvoaien 'eittavied
In the heart of Paris, whose tragic
and sinister histoiy &tee from the
eleventh century., is to be demolisher
by the Faericb Government. The an -
dent prison, harboring within its
dark and sombre embrace the mini
dreary dungeons in the mold, has
outgrown ite usefulness and will be
entirely destroyea,
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