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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-01-25, Page 3/, +•W a tree, p +i ( mpL on of the Banff -Windermere Road Marks an Epee,l in Tourist ''gavel in Weotern' Canasta. Cenadione 11r growing numbers are and in the Si•rtelalr pass all altitude of beginnitieg to realize tire. natien'a 4,950 feet. On its westerly course in wealth of nature). eeenea:y and the po- reaching these two passes, it climbs a tentialitie's v✓eio'ti lie theroiu. The total of 2,626 feet ane d'eeeen,de a total i+apidly iiaoaeaasing use of the autoni,o-of 4,205 feet, Despite tele consider- • bile on this ceaitinent ars taking people able riseand fall in elevation, the into 'th,e alien an giving thein. opleaf* grades obtained are reniaracablY 10W, tumeitiee bo ,'gee the weeders of nature the maximum being some 400 feet of euo1i as they never' had beton, North mine per cent., with an average grade and south, east and west, go the men!- of three per cent. leers of this ever-lncreasing army, with Constructing Under Difficulties, beheflt to themselves and to tee cern-The feta' length of the road is 93 miles, of which the 30 milee lying ist .Rocky mountaine park had been cdaar strutted by the National Parks Branch several years previously, The Province of Britieb, Columbia: had ale° built 10 miles, o1! the road in that pro- vince: tee path Construotion of the uncoln- the automobile; and at the same time Dieted 53 muss in British Columbia` the 'higher the mountains and the was begun by the Canadian National grander .the ,sceneery; tikes mere motor- Parks Branch in the fall of 1919, we - lets, . there are. -desirous of going der •a°n agreement with the pro,rinlce that called for. the completion of the through true, that ci e 1 eel: This is particlenorth rose' by January, 1924. The uncoil? Buie of the Realties, �vhioli. north pleted mileage. eomp•rises olilefiy the and south, of the enternea,ti•onai Bound middle motion of rho road between the ary are :visited by eooree of thousands t.wp summits: No.rrailroad'lazes were of motorls•ts '"every year. Canada has aveil"able for trans'portation,; and all some of the beat `of the', scenery but equeipment , and supplies had to be up to last auteuns wa 'moan' touring in the • hauled to the location of ,flys work Canadian Iiocl ie,s was handieappecl by! fram the east or west end of the road.. The average haul from each end was 35 melee, which included the peeving over of one of the mountain summits. This transportation' :problem. was suc- e,ersfuldy met by the, use of six. motor trucks which. hauled ;ail supplies. dur- ing the summer rnoueths, -These truckes� averaged about 100 miles. per day, which run very often included- two reg turn trips over either the Sinclair or Vermilion pass. Opening Next Dominion Day. Due to the location of the work, favorable conditions,fee grading opera tione prevailed for ,only four months eaoh year. A high' rate,of progress the upper valley of the Columbia river. head consequently to be' maintained From, tee hatter locality there is direct access by motor roads to sautheas,teen naunities they visit, Tourist ` traffic brings not only •direot benefits' which are obvioivs to all, butt it bears with it great indirect benefits a,s the frequent forer^un•ner .of permanent residence and investment. Naturally the mountain caveinss are tl t1 of .a roa,diess area in the heart of the mountains which, stopped ell traffic. The building of the Banff -Windermere highway by. the Canadian National Parks Branch' of the Department of the Interior has supplied the missing link, placed the Canadean Rockies on one o1! .m,erioa's greatest tourist high- ways,, and ozs•ened the way for a great and ininiediaba: increase in interna, tional motor travel. Over the Continental Divide.' This road affords a. direct and first elas's, motor hig=hway from ,the town of Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, eauthwesterly over • the Continental Divide, to the Windeemere district in during the working season. In order to utilizeall the surrinuar .•neontlla on Britesie Columbia, to the National grading work and to lessen the danger. Parks of the,.United Stater, and to the of fire in the heavily timbered country large tourist centres of the Pacific traversed., right-of-way clearing wits • coast. The napidiy Increasing motor drone in the winter noetdra traffic to,BR:;caff and the, Canadian Na- In 1921, 26 % rallies! of new road were tional parks' heas' thus been provided gram and the completion of 161,e with a through route, Bast and west, miles of grading this year saw the of an interprovincial and .interneational work completed in September,_ 1922, a ciharr cter; and • one that has more po- yea'r and a (half sooner than required tentialities from a tourist traffic view by the terms of the agreement, point than any ,other western road • A stanedard width at read providing completed in rscerit years.: a 16 -foot, clear wheelway was adopted The grandeur .and beauty of the which with an allowance for ditching i section of the Rockygives a 20=foot • base incuts. AB -the scener-y of the curves ves are'supexelevated and given an 'Moue:tains ; through vehicle ` the mead extra width. winds, cel scarcely be surpassed, par- . a of the'' It is expected that the road will be tfcaalaaly en the neighborhood • officially •opened for traffic on or about doer, casayon, where,thie . road pas,s w • etJuiy 1, 11923. ^* a, as en,towering' walls- of red 'rook. o- . n -7, nae' of Many kindrs• le plentiful and -�,e•ep, %goats', insane, elk,, and even bear -are so nurneesms and now so fear- lese . of roan that they 'are often to' be sewn feeding within camera shot of the moving motor. • "It's the inflation .of the tube that The engineering features of the road store the •train,"'declared the first tra- get their interest from its location in velem: the heart of the, Rocky monruta:ins,; its A Technical Explanation. Two -commercial travelers ea a train became involved in an argument as to the'actior'of'the vacuum -brake. "Wrong, wrong!" Aimed ,the second. oonetruction through, seventy - three «It's the output of the echaustienl milee of. eirgim'moumtain and forest So they wrangled for an hour. Then, oountry, and from the !~act that it when the train pulled into the station crosses two mountain pas,see they agreed to submit the Matterfor The general route of the road is settlement' to • the. engineer. That santbwesterly from Bao f,;folleowing in gentleman, .leaning.from the window of succession the valleyu, of .four noun- hie cab, listened with an attentive fain streame,: namely, those a'the , grown. to the two travelers,' statement Bow, Vermillion, and:Trootenay 'rivers of their argument. Then he sn;iled, 'and Siuoiafi• creek. It cream the shook his head, anfl said: main- mange -at the Reeky. mountains «weil, gents, you're both, wrong via the Vermilion pass, which was• ex-' about the working of the vacuum plored by Sir ,lanes Hector in 1853, brake. Yet it's very simple and easy wh:eaa with.' the Pai.lieee,r exp,editicei, to understand. When we want to stop the train we just turn. this 'sore tap, and then we fill the pipe with vacuum." seeking a route through the, Rookies foe the Canadian Faeroe railway. A western: range of the Rockies, namely, the Brisco range, is crossed by the Sin - Clair pass: In the Vermilion pass, the Persons :of a abegiving temper set- road reaehe5 an altitude of 5,660 feel diem have mu to be forgiven. UNtlOVE13 ROMAN PAVEMEN'T'S IN' ENGLAND, very beautiful tessellated htlulani paverneiit has• bean ree,e3)4,1Y dis'- <ibvered Iklelegiositiwi E'sigidiid, ntt ilnpe'taTht find yrelated:te the period of Roman oceltpatitt1+ Of Ithie BrltisiiTeleL, 1't is in perfect ,'condition, as the picture shows. AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME r. eve Too Clever for the Camera.. The Indian conjurer is' too clever for, the camera. Some of Us tricks baffle B.C. Spring Salmon in Eastern Water's.' Very satisfactory re'ults have been eeeee Stories of We.ow People 'Lard Beeverbrook's Turn, en the days' of :his youth -Max Aiken was a ea:udida•te tar membership in a ,L.ertaln social club la his home town in New Bruuswi•ek. A Member of the deb whose name iniglst be Ro'berte looked down from: the height• of the squall town aris•tooracy upon the clergy- man's sem, and for some reasoe' .de- clued to blackball him. Some years later Max Aiken, then. Leal Beaver- brook, entertained an old friend, • e fovmer nteinber of the club, in London, England.. On hie leavieg Lord Beaver- brook said: "By the way, when Yogi see Roberts, ayl'11 yea ,tell Min for me that the King of England is not half an par titular. as he is. I ani dining with his Majesty' esty' tiernprro w." the keenest eyesight, the highly sense secured in the transplanting of spring tined photo,graphioplate even. One of "salmon from British ,Columbia to the then, the famous rope trick we learns '.eastern waters of Canada; according, from Lord Frederic Hamilton in Here, to a statement made by Mr. Alexander There and Everywhere, utterly bewild- ' Joib:naton;; Deputy Minister of Marino ered an English colonel who we,s pre- and Fisheries. ;Beall year since :1919, pared and determined to solve it. Colonel Barnard,.writes,Lord Harriil- ton,• had never met an eyewitnese of the rope trick, but hiss .policemen ,lead received orders, to report to him the arrival in Calcutta of any juggler w,ho- tbe department has transferred eggs of spring salmon from British Colum- bia to the Dominion Government hatch- ery at ThurlaW on bhe Bay of Quints, near Belleville, Ontario. These eggs were ' hatched out during the winter professed to do at At last one ofthe and in the early spring, each year. police informed him that a man who was able to perform the trick had reached the city but that he would not show it if Colonel Barnard were -ac- companied by more than one friend. The colonel took with iiim one of i.of Lake Ontario. This, is, one of the his English subordinates; he took also i indications which the department has hie camera, into. which he had inserted that these • fish have !thriven` in Lake a new roll of films. The two English- Ontario and that the species may soon men. arrived at a poor house in. the na- be found ali over the St. Lawrence tive quarter and were' ushered, into a waterways from Lake Ontario to the small courtyard the t was clouded with Atlantic ocean. dense .smoke arising from two braziere. To those unfamiliar with fish .. cul - The except for his loin .tare the depttirtment. makes the ex- cloth, x The juggler, naked1} ,a,hom- ears and coinmenceed sap), la, ation that the salmon is cl tri appeared,. } were•distributed in suitable tributaries. of Lake Ontario. Late in the autumn• of 1922, a four year-old salmon, weighing fifteen Donnas, was caught in the eastern eiud What's in a Name? Few people know the ,full name of ex -President Wileon, It Is Thom e Woodrow Wilson; and this is the story of how he . discarded the "Thomas," About th!rty.years ago Mr. Wilson was a profe•seor, at Wesleyan College, and one evening he started a discussion with a fellow -professor on names and their effect on success in life, The future President of the United States held that the effect of a name was dye entirely to whether it was composed of long or short syllables. "Thomas," lie declared, "Is quite the wrong kind, of name to have. 'Wood- row Wilson,' Qn the other hand,is sure to bring success, Bo he . dropped the Thomas, and as Woodrow Wilson he achieved world fame. iie ' rofoundl ire continued ;1 lenr ," fish. This means'that 'the salmon am g P y, exaggerated salaam for some •little are 'always hatched in fresh water ane. Eventually he produced a long streams,. leading to the ocean. The. coil of rope. To Colonel Bernard's• in- salmon Iive for one or more years in .•expressible surprise, the •rape- began, the fresh water and then go out to paying . away, as sailors say, of its own the ocean; where they attain their ma - accord out of the juggler's, hand and tur-ity; but however far they go, they went straight up into trid-aim, Colonel always return at the proper time. to Barnard photographed it. It went up deposit them •eggs, in the Stream in and up,till his, eyes could no longer which epee themselves • were hatched, or were • distributed as fry from the see the tap of it, Colonel Barnard many thousands: of measurements, an pllotogsapnleetr nc again Then .a small hatcheries,. approximate average fibre Iength has "Never Mind, Sambol".• Father" 'Bernard Vaughan, whose health has been giving cease.for anxie- ty is a noted raconteur. One of his beet stories Is ,about a Negro w•to wanted to enter a swell churols In Now The olergyruan said, "We don't brave a7ny colored geatlenaerr i.n• this chum's." 'But the Lard told me to come here,,, replied the Negro. "'Well," said the clergyman; "you bad better go and ask for more guid- ance." ,j After sortie days; the Negro return- ed, saylpg, "The Lord eti11 says die ,ie"' zny ci&0roh," • "I am sorry," answered the paroon, "but we can't take you In." Tlie Negro returned a third time, saying; "I told the Lord what you said: Ile say, 'Never mind, Samba, 1 .myself 'lave been trying to get into that cburch for yeai'a but have never sue- -- Hard to do HamiWithout a Shave Matheson Lang, one of the leading British Shakespearean actors, wee' born in Montreal and is a son of Rev. Gavin Lang, of Inverness, N.B., where she went to school. His career bas been full of adventure, and he tells znany amusing yarns of his early days. He was once appearing with asmall touring company in "hamlet." Funds were very Iaw, and the actor, who was to play the title role had not one penny to rub against another, in sheer des- peration he went to the manager, "Look here, sir," he said, palming his face, "I've got to play Hamlet to- night, and I haven't had a shave for three days." The manager turned out his pockets, but they were absolutely empty, Then he had a brain -wave. "I've got it," he _exclaimed. "13Iackeu therest of your face and we'll play Othello." Left. in Doubt. judge—"De evidence am insufficient to convict de prisoner, so I daffo de- clarehim not guilty." • Psisonier—"Thank you, ledge. What must I' do wiff de watch keep it or give it:back?," e • `h• Fibre Lengths of Softwoods. The Forest Products Laboratories of the Forestry Branch of the Depart- ment of the Interior have, conducted ooneiderable research, en the length of fibres invariouss softwoods, especially those 'imparta_mt;to the pulp and paper industry. By means of work involving I boy, who was standing by :the juggler, Thus at rs expected that ,thecae sal been determined for several Canadelan wing up was held a e o om. accorc'im commenced climbing the rope, which mon ,will in a few years be pa I woods: PIie fibre length differs coni t th b tt by nothing and dowry the St. Lawx;etiece g siderabiy according to • species—the by- nothing. 'T1bee'colonel to their lite m migration and that the St. fibres of balsam fir, for example, being cu -ted 1 supe the boy,who .went up: Lawrence• and its fie-ibuisries will thus e about half the lengthrof :those of Doug - its t h f a valuable fish and up till"he disappeared, be the houie o• very las fir. Sud,d•eniy the juggler, professing • It is, of interest' to note that in all himself to be angry with the boy !or the species studied the Iength of the 'leis, dilatoriness, started in 'pursuit of fibres increased in each Successive an - him up the rope,' 'The colonel jellaba nue,' layer of wood• during the first graphed him, also.. _Finally the man descended the rope Ana, wiping a bloodstained knife, explained 'that he Quad killed the boy for ,disobeying his, orders. Then he pulled the rope down and called it, and suddenly the boy reappeared ,and, with. hamaster began both from the standpoint •el food sup- ply and pleasure for the sportsman. The Department of Marine and Fisher- ies 10 naturally gratified with .the sac - cess ,o£'as''experimesvt alaamla profoundly. The trick was s aver. The two •Europeans, returned honte, absolutely mystified: With their own eyes, they bad seen ebhe-irnposaible, the incredible. Then Colonel Barnard went into his dark room and developed • his negatives—with an astounding re - Milt. Neither time juggler nor the boy nor the rope had moved at all. The Are You Selling Yourself at a Premium or at a Discount? If you 'Work for a living, you are .selling yourself in some way; in fact, m meanie ways, You are not only sells lag your time mid: ability, but also your manners, your . hearing, your conver- satlpn,'your ,education, your training, your babies, ymil appearance, your whole personality. ; • ' Whether you sell to your advautage oredesedinatage will depend upon the teuelitf"of' your ,goods:. •Some people get enorniouis prices foi• their person- ality alone, because it attractes• trade, photographs of the asoeneding' rope, of it draws and holds customers•. A pleas- tlee boy climbing it and of the man'fol-ring personality is•so very valuable that lowing him were simply blanks; They even When accompanied by compare-. showed they details of the courtyard ,tively •small rmezntaL• :ability, it coon but nothing else, Nothing whatever a'nti's, mom :than nuwhb larger ability had happened, 'it ,weaned, but how in without a fine, attractive personality. tli?d name of all that es, wonderful had Younice selling yourself, my friend, the juggler :conveyed the impressibn to but, have you fitted yourself to coin - two hard-headed, matter-of-fact Eng- mend the bent inerlsetprice for your iishn an? possibly the braziers con energies and abilities? While still 'Wired cunning preparations, of hemp 's.aung, yehi can readily uomreet all your opium unknown to Buropean deficiencies, your lack of education, of science; possibly they may have been training, of inanera. You can change burning some mole, subtle brain; steal- your bad ambits fon' good ones, elimin- er; orpossibly.the'deup salaams efth+e ate disagreeable or bad qualities and felio`w had h teieetize. his speota.tors ou.litivate : an 'attractive pers,onali,ty and had forced them to sees this things ;Nail's& Wi11, sell itself without words or he wanted nein to sae. ekoit on your part.. ,;::You c<aii do all leas, 11! you will. A ,,prise beauty 'these as her Schools, books, abrade%; courses of in - reasons -tor her 71ove..lydorm cold hath structien, all the 01.80110 to help you every meeting upon iaeleiilg; ,eose.•eise are everyvehere,.free as air. \Vheth'er every' clay; no ero ssee•tie estalle t two yioa bake •ativa:ntaga ,oi' your opportunI- tYlCiales ,a day, :vventiti little' meat but, ties, or 511at, remember that the price 'luny' Iaiisine, 'She is Eve feet'e?e'von eon bxiing al the inelastrial rnarinit de- inehet"baelll' .apeaweiglis 180 rieou'ndi. pends upon yourself. it rests with Mitt wileet me you will sell et n pee- zttittarz' a1' ,at ta. disaouri t, whether yott will be a topnotcher or a leftover, on the bargain, counter, -•-O, •5, r'ais'on. The woelcl has fall' 11s just what we have for it; It is n great. whia'ering 'gallery whioh fiiaige • back the echo' of our voices. If we laugh,, it laughs back; if We curse, it curses back. Ternnl;?--- Po,p, does it take ton mills to make ''a tent?" Tommy's Pop: "'es,, 017 son, tn11e5.s they'hsp. leen. to lie' give '1•`aratories. fib' yearns of the tree's ga'owele. After the fiftieth annual ring the fibres show- ed no further increase in length. Fur- thermore, the length of 'tTh a fibres was found to vary according to their height from the ground. The iongesat fibres last bhe tree usually occurred at a height of about 15 feet in the vicinity of the fiftieth annual ring. Germany is the ehtef ;purchaser of eow ,hides from India,. Satanic Geography. No person, either historical or legen- dary, has more places named after him than the Devil. The famous explorer, Captain Amundsen, added to the list during his last ,expedition. He gave us, "The Devil's, Glaoier" and "The Devil's Danc- ing Reom." In Dorset one fids the "Devil's Bel- lows,"' near Lyme Regis. The name was given because of the fury of the wiled as it sweeps througe, the pass- age. Near Studland is the "Devil's Nightcap," a block of sandstone shaped like a cone and placed on top of a hill. There are two "Devil's Punchbowls." One •is, at Hindhead, in. Surrey, and the other in Somerset. In the same county ,is the "Devil's Den," an ancient bury- ing urying ground: Ireland boasts many such names. One of the most interesting is "The Devil's Bit." It is a gap in the sum- mit of a range of hills and is explain ed. by the legend that Satan, in a St of anger, bit a lump out of the hill arid; then "spat fit out again. The piece can. be seen some miles away in the Rods of Cashel.- Angel ashel,.-Angel was a very popular name for London lanes avid marts In olden times, the name being taken from the sign of some prominent shop or tavern in the thorougiblfare. The signs have gone, and sometimes the ,shops, but the name survives, At one time there were forty Angel lanes, courts, and so on in the City of Lon- don. The Bishop Let It Ride, • Speaking o•f misprints, Phlllipe Brooks, in an article in a religious weekly, was made to say: "We- bray to loud and work too little." "I let it go at that," said the Bishop,. in telling the story. "The fact is, I believe the printer was right and I never ventured to •oo,rrect him." - 9— err 'Wealthlies in our trees, and it would be a policy of literal madness to neglect them. Wo owe it as a duty to posterity to do everything that lies within our powerto see that the pro- cess, of development is unim- peded by any lack of care.