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THE COST OF HYDRO" FOR
TUC ERSMITH
Mr. D. F. McGregor, Clerk of the
Township of Tuckersmith,has receiv-
ed from the chief engineer of the
,Hydro -Electric Power Commission the
-following estimate of the cost of an
electric Tight and' power service for
the rural districts of the township:
SE &ORTH, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920.
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D. F. McGregor, Esq., Clerk, Town-
ship of Tuckersmith. Dear Sir: -In
connection with petitions which have
been received by the Commisssion,from
your Township for electric light and
power service in the rural districts,
we are now in a position to advise
you approximately the cost - of such
service.
We .give . herein an explanation of
,the various =classes into which it has
been found' advisable to divide rural
service; the approximate cost of each
class of service; the method of apply-
ing the rates,. and a. description in
detail of the application of the whole
scheme.
It is considered advisable in order to
distribute electric power to the farm-
er, ;that districts should be formed in
which the same rates shall apply to
all consumers. These districts shall
be an erea that can be served by the
construction of lines from one power
distributing centre (these centres will
usually be -the step-down transformer
stations in the municipalities). Each-
district
achdistrict will have a radius of from
eight to twelve miles and may include
a number of townships or 'parte of
townships.
The transmission lines would be
constructed and paid for by the
Hydro -Electric Power Commission of
Ontario, and the rural systems when
constructed would be operated by
employees of the Commission. Re-
cords would be kept of revenue and
expenees and an adjustment of rates
would be made annually so that ser
vice would be supplied at cost •as.
nearly as may be.
Contracts of standard form would
be entered into between the townships
-law
in
and theCommission; a .b
Y
r
council only being necessary to auth-
orize the signing of such contracts by
the township officials,
The consumers would sign contracts
with the township; the term of such
contracts' being twenty years. The
1 ' 'vide
rate to the customer will be
into a service and a consumption
charge. The service- charge is de-
signsd to cover theanneal chargese
s on all capital spent to give service.
The eonsulnption'charge is to cover
thecost of power. These' charges
are -proportioned to the class of ser-
vice, and are based on the- demands
corresponding to each class.
FeT. those unfamiliar with terms
used•7n power measurements, it is to
be noted that one K. W. (kilo -watt)
is approximately equal to 1 1-3 H. P.
(horse -power). or three K. W. equals
4 H. P., and a K. W. H, (kilo -watt
hour) is the amount of electricity
equivalent to one kilo -watt used for
one. hour.
The service charge is divided into
two parts, Primary, (line on highway)
and Secondary, (transformers, meters,
etc.) With the present cost of con-
struction and material, the annual
primary' charges are • approximately'
$215.00 ,per mile. The Secondary
charges will be as shown in table
No. 2.
The consumption charge is measured
by a meter and will vary with the cost
of power at the distributing centre,
and also with the diversity between
customers. The base rate per K. W.
H. will be for the first fourteen hours
use per month of the class demand,
and all additional consumption per
month will be at -one-half the base
rate. Table No. 1, column 2, shows
the average monthly consumption for
the various classes., Columna 3 and
4. show the amount chargeable at the
first and second rates respectively.
TABLE NO. I
Average figures obtained from districts now
tr operation.
Class Average use per Amt. at Amt. at
Mo. in K.W.H. 1st rate 2nd rate
1
2
8
4
5
16
15
40
150
75
1-0 5
1
12
14
28
70 80
70 - 5
6 150 126 24
'7 800 210 90 -
Note :-If an electric range is . used in
classes 6 and 7, the donsumption would• be
increased by 150 K. W. H., all of which
would be charged at the . second rate.
The following are the classes under
which power would be supplied in
rural districts:
Class Service Class Demand Phase Volts
K.W.
1 'Hamlet Lighting 0.75
2 House Lighting 1
1 110
1 110
8 Farm Lighting 2 1 _ 110
4 Lighting & Cooking 5 1 220-110
5 Light farm service 5 1&8 220-110
6 Medium farm service 9 1&8 220-110
'7 Heavy farm service 15 1&3 220-110
8 Syndicate Outfits 8 4000-2200
Class 1 will include all contracts
where four or more consumers arefed
off one transformer for house light;
ing only. Farmers and power cus-
tomers shall not receive service un-
der this class. •
Class 2 will include all contracts
where residences are served that can-
not be grouped as in hamlets. Farm-
ers and power customers shall not
receive service under this class.
Class 3 will include the lighting and
the operation of miscellaneous small
equipment of a residence and out
buildings on a farm.
Class 4 will include the lighting
and the operation of miscellaneous
small equipment of a residence and
out buildings on a farm and service
to an electric range.
Class 5 will include the lighting
and the operation of miscellaneous
small equipment of a residence and
out -buildings on a farm and service
to a 5 h. p. motor, but not an electric
range or electric heaters.
Class
the
6 will include the lighting and
operation of miscellaneous small
equipment of a residence and out-
buildings to a
buildings on.a farm and service
5 h. p. motbr and an electric, range,
or
without
the
motor w
to a 10
h. p.
electric range of electric beaters:.
Class 7 will include the lighting
and the operation of miscellaneous
e c
shall equipment- of a
residence e and
out -buildings on a farm and service
to a motor of 10 to 20 p. and ais.
electric range. •
Ciass 8. Any of thatitforegoing
classes may join in the use of a ayndl-
cats outfit as long as the consumma-
tion of their relative class demands
is equal to the killowatt capacity of •
the syndicate motor.
Prom the petition and maps which
you forwarded to this office, we find
that there will be required sixty-five
miles of primary line to ' supply all
of -the customers named. There are
216 petitioners .having a total class
demand of 683 K. W , which is ap-
proximately 101/ K. W. per mile.
On the assumption that three-quarters
of the petitioners will sign contracts
and take power, the net cost for the
various classes will be approximately
as shown in Table No. 2. The cost
to .all classes would be reduced if all
the petitioners took power, and in
order to find out how many customers '
could be obtained, we would suggest
that the petitioners be canvassed to
see how many would sign contracts
at the following rates:
Service Charge.
Class 1 - $3.75 per month.
Class 2 - 4.50 per month.
'Class 3 - 8.00 per month.
Class 4 - 16.00 per month.
Class 5 - 18.00 per month.
Consumption Charge --61c per K.
W. H. for the first 14 hours use of
the class demand plus 314c per K. W.
H. for all additional consumption per
month. Total bill subject to 10 per
:cent. prompt payment discount.
These rates are based en a demand
of 8 K. W. per mile average and
power at distribution voltage. costing
545.00- per H. P. per year, with . a
diversity of 6. These rates give ap-
proximately the total yearly costs,
shown in Table leo. 2.
TABLE NO. II
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1
2
3
4
5
20.25
27.00
54,00
135.00
135.00
20.00
20.00
30.00
40.00
60.00
40.26
47.00
84.00
176.00
00
195.00
8.75
10.15
28.87
77.22
50.90
49.00
57.15
107.87
252.22
245.90
has been passed. When the township
council is ready to consider the agree-
ment, the Commission, if requested
to do so, will send an engineer to
discuss the agreement and' the scheme
in general. The agreement, of
course, must be signed before the
construction of a distribution system
is commenced.
It is wall best to have a
public
usually
'meeting in the section most interest-
ed and have committees appointed
at that meting (not necessarily
members of the Counci):) to canvass
the customerii along certain well
populated roads. When a sufficient
number of cantracts are obtained =the
Commission would -arrange to com-
mence line construction in
one or
more of the most promising sections
and the system would be added to
each year as more contracts were
obtained.'
As a eneral policy construction
work wod • only be done in the sum -
Wednesday Afternoon
Closing in Seaforth
commences next
Wednesday and con-
tinues through May,
June, July, August and
September.
mer season owing to the high -cost
of winter work.
a,
The engineers of the Commission
have given `d great deal of study to
the problem of distributing electric
power in rural districts, and we are
satisfied that if you study the scheme
carefully you will agree that the one
outlined in this letter is a 'good one,
and will give an equitable distribu-
tion of charges among the various
classes of consumers. The whole
scheme is based on supplying power
to each customer at cost, and the
consumption charge will be varied
from year to year according to the
operating conditions in each district._
It has been found that if the
parties interested will co-operate with
the Commission when the pole lines
are being constructed, i.e., supplying
labor and teams at reasonable prices
and also boarding the men when they
are on the work, the costsof the
lined can be greatly reduced and,
therefore, the service charge which
forms a large part of the rate can
be considerably reduced. e
If there is any further information
you require in. connection with this
matter, or if there are any points
which we have not made clear to you
McLean Brea., Publishers
$1.50 a Year in Advance
way junction at Hazebroucl, and you
could watch at the same time the
enemy searchlights at Bruges and
Ostend nervously searching the sky,
and trace the course of eaeh enemy
in this letter, we would be very pleas- , bomber over the vast surroundinf
would advise
ed jf you us.
Yours truly,
H. GABY,
Chief Engineer.
BATTLEFIELDS SEEN
TRAIN
There is said to be a rush to visit
the French and Belgian battlefields
this-- Easter. No doubt the tourist
agents,whose staff work has always
been an example to armies, are plan-
ning good routes and picking fine
viewpoints, so that much may be seen
by their customers in a short time.
But to see a good deal you do not
need totgo to any of the high places
of the front, like K;emmel, the Vimy
Ridge, or the ruined abbey on Mont
St. Eloi, to which the great ones of
the earth used to be taken up to see
the war. You have only to choose a
train journey well, and in an hour or
two you will see as much battlefield
iis your memory can warehouse, in a
week or your imagination work up,
in that time, into permanent tissue
of its own, . -
Through the Calais gap in the
dunes of the coast the train issues
into the wet alluvial hinterland, cross-
ing it, E, S. E., to Audrucq; a sta-
tion of many war sidings. Here was
the greatest of all British dumps of
munitions in France, and a famous
mark for enemy •.airmen.- It was like
Joseph -the archers "shot at it and
hated it.'' Once at least --in 1916 -
they hit `"it. The sounds that ensued
for some days were heard all over
Northern France and Western Bel-
gium, and men in the trenches east
of Ypres said to each other that"the
old .Boche must have come out at
last" and the fleets be having it out
in the Channel. Thence past the
Forest of Eperlecques, populous in
the May of 1918 with' American troops
in training, and up the marshy y vale
of the Aa till there come into sight
the tall and dissimilar towers of
e
three of the, many churches of St.
Omer. Inone of the rather darkling
streets of this old home of the Jesuit
Order our British G. H. Q. abode
from 1914 till the last day' of March
in 1916. And during the Flanders
' battles of 1917 Sir Douglas Haig's
.Advanced G. H. Q. was under the
great trees of Biendecques, a village
on -the rising ground seen, two miles
away to the south,, just after the train
clears St. Omer. In a red house
among the trees -east .of the white
road seen running steeply uphill to
i o
the S. S. W. the Royal 1 n F y g Corps,
rps ,
as it was then, bad its battle head-
quarters at the same tithe, and the
hangars of one of the largest of our
aerodromes were big on the skyline
st the top of the road. Three miles
east of St. Omer the railway crosses
on the same level, a road. . This was
the great marching road up to Ypres.
Nearly all the men who did not go;
by the road went by the railway that
crosses it here, so that this level
crossing has been used by almost
every British soldier, now alive or
dead, who ever foughtin the salient.
From it you cannot quite see the'
canal swing -bridge of Argues, a mile
west along the road, where a fair-
haired
airhaired .and sunburnt young woman
who worked the bridge, and paid
friendly greetings for every British
unit that erossed it, must now be
remembered as Joan. of Arques by
quite half a million of Britons all
over the world.
About a mile east of the level
crossing are passed the village and
station of Renescure, where Austral-
ian divisions used to rest during the
Flanders battles. Here the traveller
by train has licence to feel that he
first comes under fire, for into
Renescure there fell, in, the summer
of 1917, and of the longest shots ever
made by the German gunners before
Big Bertha began her -career of
hyperbole. The nearest point in the
German front line was some five -and -
twenty miles off, and the Renescure
shell was supposed to have come some
thirty-seven miles, from a sylvan
bower in Houthulst Forest. Each
village the train passes now was at
some time the headquarters of a.
British -corps, division, or brigade, and
you can scarcely see a. farm that did
not have British troops sleeping close-
ly packed in its barns. At W allon
Capper, four miles beyond Renescure,
a long, straight road, crossing the
railway at right angles, points due
a 7
northward to the famous little hill
of Cassel, with its many cheerful -look-
ing windmills and its many centuries
of battle' history, From the -train
you can easily see on the tip of the
hill the Casino which was the Second
Army's headquarters almost through-
out the war, and, with more difficulty
the low and wide white house, looking
south, where the Commander -in -Chief
put the King up in the : summer of
1917. From the hilltop, on any ' fine
night in. that summer or autumn, you
could see more of the war, at one
time, than from any other place in
France. In.• the east, the twinkling,
trembling radiance of the fronta_
gunfire was continuously visible -!
along some sixty miles of front, first
British, then Belgians, then French,
then British again, from Nieuport, on
the sea, past Dixmude, Yypres, and
La Bassee, .till it was shut :out in the
south-east by the black mass of the
forested hill of ;Notre Dame de Lorett-
te. You -could: ace the upward splasb
of flame as eadk German bomb packed
in Dunkirk or St. Omer or on the
French munition works of. Isberques,
- close to Aire, or on our great rail -
FROM THE
The primary charge will be more
or less than shown in th'e table, de-
pending on the demand per mile, and
the consumption charge will also vary
depending on the cost of power and
the. diversity. The secondary charge
will remain the same under all condi-
tions, varying only in ease of a
change in the price of transformers,
meters, etc.
It must be kept in mind that the
figures given in the preceding pages
are estimated figures only and must
not be assumed to be absolutely ac-
curate, as there ' are many factors
entering - into the making of rates
that can only be obtained accurately
when the system is constructed and
in operation.
We will forward you shortly, two
-copies •of the standard agreement with/
the Hydro -Electric Power Commise.
sion of Ontario to be signed by your
Reeve and Clerk, after the necessary
by-law in council authorizing same
. .
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plain, from the sea to Artois, by his
unfriendly escort of breaking sparks
and the line of stars successively
1 blotted out for an instant by his
plane. After Hazebrouek, the next
town on the line, you begin to see en
the south the great Forest of Nieppe,
a real forest of romance, dense and
beautiful, excellent quarters for dry-
ads; it was the last thing thht seemed
to intervene between. some millions
of soldiers of the New Army and
actual warfare. For the ground on
its west, between Hazebrouek and
Aire, was a great place for new troops
to detrain and march off to their
first French farm billets, with the
first slowly rumbling sound of the
guns in, their ears from beyond the
trees, and in 1918 the furtherest
wave of the German advance washed
right up p against the forest's eastern
edge.
Near Strazeele, the first station be -
Yong Hazebrouck, you cross the
furthest westward German front of
1918. A little beyond the station you
see on the left the ruins of Merris,
where the Australians flballer .field
the enemy up. Beyond it to the north
are visible the ruins of Meteren, also
on the enemy's highuater mark of
that year, and then you pass the
station of Bailleul, just outside the
heaps of rubble that were once that =-
pleasant and friendly town. ' Just here
south of Bailleul, we were, on April
12th, 1918, in some danger of losing
the war, as we were when the gap
lay open east of Amiens in the last
days of Mareh, with "Carey's Force" -
camouflaging the hole. The enemy,
south of Bailleul, had only to walk
straight on. We had nothing left in
front of him. Luckily, as at the First
Battle of Yypres, he did not know,
or he was too tired, Next day we
had caulked up the hole.
- Northward, during all this part of
f
seen a
rangeo
e are
the
journey, ya
isolated hills running east and west
-first, on. the east, Mount Xeniinel,
its top honey -combed with tunnels
the dug -outs, some oft e bo
rin gs
leading to masked eye -holes M obser-
vationat
lines over the
l# t
old German
Wytschaete and Messiness then the
smaller knoll of the -Scherpenberg,
whither kings and presidents and
i..
counsellors and foreign. ml tory at-
taches were brought to see battles.
or look downs at the 'bleaching bone'
of Ypres on the plain beyond; then
the Mont Rouge, where . a British
corps long had its headquarters in a
country house among tree, then the
Mont des Cade, with
the is big
monastery
buildings on its top, where a stout
old priest who had given. Christian
burial to a fallen cousin of the
Kaiser's during the first German ad-
vance refsed'to telt the Kaiser where
the body was until Belgium shouid
be righted.
Ypres cannot be- seen from our
train, nor can "Plugstreet"--only two
miles away at one point, but hidden t.
by rising ground. But the rather
more than half -ruined Armentieres
can. Half a mile west of the towns
the train crosses the Lys, in whose
saltless waters the Ilex for the
Armentieres linen milts used to be
retted, coasts along outside the
southern edge of the ruins, and then
strikes, very little south of east, a-
cross some dull, flat, country to the
old front line of 1914-18. It is cross-
ed near the first wayside "I%lt" oft
the line, a short two files. east of
the town. Her at the. Christmas of
1914 au incident happened that was
to be the theme of much rumour and
comment during the war, but not of
any exact account, On Christmas, eve
the Germans lit up their front line
with Chinese lanterns, Two British
officers thereupon walked some way
across o Man's Land, hailed' the
enemy, and asked for an officer. The
German sentries said, "Go back, or
we shall have to shoot" The -Eng-
lishman
Englishman said "Not likely!" advanced
to the German wire, and asked again
for an officer. The sentries held
their fire and sent for an officer. With
him the Englishman made agree -day
truce, and on Christmas Day the two
sides exchanged cigarettes and played
football together. The Engliek In-
tended the truce to end with the day
as agreed, but decided not to shoot
next day till the enemy did. . Next
morning the Germans were still Lo-
be seen washing and breakfasting
outside their wire, so our men) WO,.
got out of the trench and sat about
in the open.
One of them,
cleaning
hie rifle, loosed a shot by aec d U
and an English subaltern went across,
to tell the Germans it had not been
.j
fired to kill, The ones he spoksa_to
understood, but as he was wig
back a German somewhere wide
one flank" fired and hit him in the
lmee, and be has walked lame e
since. Our leen took it that some
German sentry had misunderstood OUT
fluke shot. The truce then, ended;
everybody got into his trench; atfd
any such local truces were barred fir
the future. But, on a 'small scale,
they were sometimes made and not-
ing heard of them in the great world.
Then the train, crosses the .fiats
west of Lille and picks its roundabout
way over emergency bridges, beside
the wrecks of the old atone and steel
ones, into the station east- of the
town, where, at the time Of the errata-
tiee, not a whole pane of glass could"
be seen in a roof like that of St.
Pancras. Round the station
of ruins, .a few kundred
diameter, illustrates the
terest of gunners and
airmen in enemy transport.-
mg-
CLUFF SONS
.
'
Building
1920
_. .
When snaking preparation for
ness we bought our stock early,
high -standard of quality, and -at'
than are now prevailing. We
Cedar Fence Posts in
Red Cedar shingles --XXX
Beaver Board for
Fibre Board -or
Oak Veneer -A
cessty,
Flooring gree
'Lumber for all building
this
thereby
prices
have :-----
8 and
and
painted
covering
polished
nota
est labor
season's
Sect
much
9 in. lengths
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walls and
with wall
oak floor
luxury,
saver in the
purposes
busi-
ring a
lower
-
ceilings
paper
is a ne-
its the
house
N. CLUFF
Seaforth, Ont.,
Class
the
6 will include the lighting and
operation of miscellaneous small
equipment of a residence and out-
buildings to a
buildings on.a farm and service
5 h. p. motbr and an electric, range,
or
without
the
motor w
to a 10
h. p.
electric range of electric beaters:.
Class 7 will include the lighting
and the operation of miscellaneous
e c
shall equipment- of a
residence e and
out -buildings on a farm and service
to a motor of 10 to 20 p. and ais.
electric range. •
Ciass 8. Any of thatitforegoing
classes may join in the use of a ayndl-
cats outfit as long as the consumma-
tion of their relative class demands
is equal to the killowatt capacity of •
the syndicate motor.
Prom the petition and maps which
you forwarded to this office, we find
that there will be required sixty-five
miles of primary line to ' supply all
of -the customers named. There are
216 petitioners .having a total class
demand of 683 K. W , which is ap-
proximately 101/ K. W. per mile.
On the assumption that three-quarters
of the petitioners will sign contracts
and take power, the net cost for the
various classes will be approximately
as shown in Table No. 2. The cost
to .all classes would be reduced if all
the petitioners took power, and in
order to find out how many customers '
could be obtained, we would suggest
that the petitioners be canvassed to
see how many would sign contracts
at the following rates:
Service Charge.
Class 1 - $3.75 per month.
Class 2 - 4.50 per month.
'Class 3 - 8.00 per month.
Class 4 - 16.00 per month.
Class 5 - 18.00 per month.
Consumption Charge --61c per K.
W. H. for the first 14 hours use of
the class demand plus 314c per K. W.
H. for all additional consumption per
month. Total bill subject to 10 per
:cent. prompt payment discount.
These rates are based en a demand
of 8 K. W. per mile average and
power at distribution voltage. costing
545.00- per H. P. per year, with . a
diversity of 6. These rates give ap-
proximately the total yearly costs,
shown in Table leo. 2.
TABLE NO. II
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cd
ds
a
a
di0
u
1
2
3
4
5
20.25
27.00
54,00
135.00
135.00
20.00
20.00
30.00
40.00
60.00
40.26
47.00
84.00
176.00
00
195.00
8.75
10.15
28.87
77.22
50.90
49.00
57.15
107.87
252.22
245.90
has been passed. When the township
council is ready to consider the agree-
ment, the Commission, if requested
to do so, will send an engineer to
discuss the agreement and' the scheme
in general. The agreement, of
course, must be signed before the
construction of a distribution system
is commenced.
It is wall best to have a
public
usually
'meeting in the section most interest-
ed and have committees appointed
at that meting (not necessarily
members of the Counci):) to canvass
the customerii along certain well
populated roads. When a sufficient
number of cantracts are obtained =the
Commission would -arrange to com-
mence line construction in
one or
more of the most promising sections
and the system would be added to
each year as more contracts were
obtained.'
As a eneral policy construction
work wod • only be done in the sum -
Wednesday Afternoon
Closing in Seaforth
commences next
Wednesday and con-
tinues through May,
June, July, August and
September.
mer season owing to the high -cost
of winter work.
a,
The engineers of the Commission
have given `d great deal of study to
the problem of distributing electric
power in rural districts, and we are
satisfied that if you study the scheme
carefully you will agree that the one
outlined in this letter is a 'good one,
and will give an equitable distribu-
tion of charges among the various
classes of consumers. The whole
scheme is based on supplying power
to each customer at cost, and the
consumption charge will be varied
from year to year according to the
operating conditions in each district._
It has been found that if the
parties interested will co-operate with
the Commission when the pole lines
are being constructed, i.e., supplying
labor and teams at reasonable prices
and also boarding the men when they
are on the work, the costsof the
lined can be greatly reduced and,
therefore, the service charge which
forms a large part of the rate can
be considerably reduced. e
If there is any further information
you require in. connection with this
matter, or if there are any points
which we have not made clear to you
McLean Brea., Publishers
$1.50 a Year in Advance
way junction at Hazebroucl, and you
could watch at the same time the
enemy searchlights at Bruges and
Ostend nervously searching the sky,
and trace the course of eaeh enemy
in this letter, we would be very pleas- , bomber over the vast surroundinf
would advise
ed jf you us.
Yours truly,
H. GABY,
Chief Engineer.
BATTLEFIELDS SEEN
TRAIN
There is said to be a rush to visit
the French and Belgian battlefields
this-- Easter. No doubt the tourist
agents,whose staff work has always
been an example to armies, are plan-
ning good routes and picking fine
viewpoints, so that much may be seen
by their customers in a short time.
But to see a good deal you do not
need totgo to any of the high places
of the front, like K;emmel, the Vimy
Ridge, or the ruined abbey on Mont
St. Eloi, to which the great ones of
the earth used to be taken up to see
the war. You have only to choose a
train journey well, and in an hour or
two you will see as much battlefield
iis your memory can warehouse, in a
week or your imagination work up,
in that time, into permanent tissue
of its own, . -
Through the Calais gap in the
dunes of the coast the train issues
into the wet alluvial hinterland, cross-
ing it, E, S. E., to Audrucq; a sta-
tion of many war sidings. Here was
the greatest of all British dumps of
munitions in France, and a famous
mark for enemy •.airmen.- It was like
Joseph -the archers "shot at it and
hated it.'' Once at least --in 1916 -
they hit `"it. The sounds that ensued
for some days were heard all over
Northern France and Western Bel-
gium, and men in the trenches east
of Ypres said to each other that"the
old .Boche must have come out at
last" and the fleets be having it out
in the Channel. Thence past the
Forest of Eperlecques, populous in
the May of 1918 with' American troops
in training, and up the marshy y vale
of the Aa till there come into sight
the tall and dissimilar towers of
e
three of the, many churches of St.
Omer. Inone of the rather darkling
streets of this old home of the Jesuit
Order our British G. H. Q. abode
from 1914 till the last day' of March
in 1916. And during the Flanders
' battles of 1917 Sir Douglas Haig's
.Advanced G. H. Q. was under the
great trees of Biendecques, a village
on -the rising ground seen, two miles
away to the south,, just after the train
clears St. Omer. In a red house
among the trees -east .of the white
road seen running steeply uphill to
i o
the S. S. W. the Royal 1 n F y g Corps,
rps ,
as it was then, bad its battle head-
quarters at the same tithe, and the
hangars of one of the largest of our
aerodromes were big on the skyline
st the top of the road. Three miles
east of St. Omer the railway crosses
on the same level, a road. . This was
the great marching road up to Ypres.
Nearly all the men who did not go;
by the road went by the railway that
crosses it here, so that this level
crossing has been used by almost
every British soldier, now alive or
dead, who ever foughtin the salient.
From it you cannot quite see the'
canal swing -bridge of Argues, a mile
west along the road, where a fair-
haired
airhaired .and sunburnt young woman
who worked the bridge, and paid
friendly greetings for every British
unit that erossed it, must now be
remembered as Joan. of Arques by
quite half a million of Britons all
over the world.
About a mile east of the level
crossing are passed the village and
station of Renescure, where Austral-
ian divisions used to rest during the
Flanders battles. Here the traveller
by train has licence to feel that he
first comes under fire, for into
Renescure there fell, in, the summer
of 1917, and of the longest shots ever
made by the German gunners before
Big Bertha began her -career of
hyperbole. The nearest point in the
German front line was some five -and -
twenty miles off, and the Renescure
shell was supposed to have come some
thirty-seven miles, from a sylvan
bower in Houthulst Forest. Each
village the train passes now was at
some time the headquarters of a.
British -corps, division, or brigade, and
you can scarcely see a. farm that did
not have British troops sleeping close-
ly packed in its barns. At W allon
Capper, four miles beyond Renescure,
a long, straight road, crossing the
railway at right angles, points due
a 7
northward to the famous little hill
of Cassel, with its many cheerful -look-
ing windmills and its many centuries
of battle' history, From the -train
you can easily see on the tip of the
hill the Casino which was the Second
Army's headquarters almost through-
out the war, and, with more difficulty
the low and wide white house, looking
south, where the Commander -in -Chief
put the King up in the : summer of
1917. From the hilltop, on any ' fine
night in. that summer or autumn, you
could see more of the war, at one
time, than from any other place in
France. In.• the east, the twinkling,
trembling radiance of the fronta_
gunfire was continuously visible -!
along some sixty miles of front, first
British, then Belgians, then French,
then British again, from Nieuport, on
the sea, past Dixmude, Yypres, and
La Bassee, .till it was shut :out in the
south-east by the black mass of the
forested hill of ;Notre Dame de Lorett-
te. You -could: ace the upward splasb
of flame as eadk German bomb packed
in Dunkirk or St. Omer or on the
French munition works of. Isberques,
- close to Aire, or on our great rail -
FROM THE
The primary charge will be more
or less than shown in th'e table, de-
pending on the demand per mile, and
the consumption charge will also vary
depending on the cost of power and
the. diversity. The secondary charge
will remain the same under all condi-
tions, varying only in ease of a
change in the price of transformers,
meters, etc.
It must be kept in mind that the
figures given in the preceding pages
are estimated figures only and must
not be assumed to be absolutely ac-
curate, as there ' are many factors
entering - into the making of rates
that can only be obtained accurately
when the system is constructed and
in operation.
We will forward you shortly, two
-copies •of the standard agreement with/
the Hydro -Electric Power Commise.
sion of Ontario to be signed by your
Reeve and Clerk, after the necessary
by-law in council authorizing same
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plain, from the sea to Artois, by his
unfriendly escort of breaking sparks
and the line of stars successively
1 blotted out for an instant by his
plane. After Hazebrouek, the next
town on the line, you begin to see en
the south the great Forest of Nieppe,
a real forest of romance, dense and
beautiful, excellent quarters for dry-
ads; it was the last thing thht seemed
to intervene between. some millions
of soldiers of the New Army and
actual warfare. For the ground on
its west, between Hazebrouek and
Aire, was a great place for new troops
to detrain and march off to their
first French farm billets, with the
first slowly rumbling sound of the
guns in, their ears from beyond the
trees, and in 1918 the furtherest
wave of the German advance washed
right up p against the forest's eastern
edge.
Near Strazeele, the first station be -
Yong Hazebrouck, you cross the
furthest westward German front of
1918. A little beyond the station you
see on the left the ruins of Merris,
where the Australians flballer .field
the enemy up. Beyond it to the north
are visible the ruins of Meteren, also
on the enemy's highuater mark of
that year, and then you pass the
station of Bailleul, just outside the
heaps of rubble that were once that =-
pleasant and friendly town. ' Just here
south of Bailleul, we were, on April
12th, 1918, in some danger of losing
the war, as we were when the gap
lay open east of Amiens in the last
days of Mareh, with "Carey's Force" -
camouflaging the hole. The enemy,
south of Bailleul, had only to walk
straight on. We had nothing left in
front of him. Luckily, as at the First
Battle of Yypres, he did not know,
or he was too tired, Next day we
had caulked up the hole.
- Northward, during all this part of
f
seen a
rangeo
e are
the
journey, ya
isolated hills running east and west
-first, on. the east, Mount Xeniinel,
its top honey -combed with tunnels
the dug -outs, some oft e bo
rin gs
leading to masked eye -holes M obser-
vationat
lines over the
l# t
old German
Wytschaete and Messiness then the
smaller knoll of the -Scherpenberg,
whither kings and presidents and
i..
counsellors and foreign. ml tory at-
taches were brought to see battles.
or look downs at the 'bleaching bone'
of Ypres on the plain beyond; then
the Mont Rouge, where . a British
corps long had its headquarters in a
country house among tree, then the
Mont des Cade, with
the is big
monastery
buildings on its top, where a stout
old priest who had given. Christian
burial to a fallen cousin of the
Kaiser's during the first German ad-
vance refsed'to telt the Kaiser where
the body was until Belgium shouid
be righted.
Ypres cannot be- seen from our
train, nor can "Plugstreet"--only two
miles away at one point, but hidden t.
by rising ground. But the rather
more than half -ruined Armentieres
can. Half a mile west of the towns
the train crosses the Lys, in whose
saltless waters the Ilex for the
Armentieres linen milts used to be
retted, coasts along outside the
southern edge of the ruins, and then
strikes, very little south of east, a-
cross some dull, flat, country to the
old front line of 1914-18. It is cross-
ed near the first wayside "I%lt" oft
the line, a short two files. east of
the town. Her at the. Christmas of
1914 au incident happened that was
to be the theme of much rumour and
comment during the war, but not of
any exact account, On Christmas, eve
the Germans lit up their front line
with Chinese lanterns, Two British
officers thereupon walked some way
across o Man's Land, hailed' the
enemy, and asked for an officer. The
German sentries said, "Go back, or
we shall have to shoot" The -Eng-
lishman
Englishman said "Not likely!" advanced
to the German wire, and asked again
for an officer. The sentries held
their fire and sent for an officer. With
him the Englishman made agree -day
truce, and on Christmas Day the two
sides exchanged cigarettes and played
football together. The Engliek In-
tended the truce to end with the day
as agreed, but decided not to shoot
next day till the enemy did. . Next
morning the Germans were still Lo-
be seen washing and breakfasting
outside their wire, so our men) WO,.
got out of the trench and sat about
in the open.
One of them,
cleaning
hie rifle, loosed a shot by aec d U
and an English subaltern went across,
to tell the Germans it had not been
.j
fired to kill, The ones he spoksa_to
understood, but as he was wig
back a German somewhere wide
one flank" fired and hit him in the
lmee, and be has walked lame e
since. Our leen took it that some
German sentry had misunderstood OUT
fluke shot. The truce then, ended;
everybody got into his trench; atfd
any such local truces were barred fir
the future. But, on a 'small scale,
they were sometimes made and not-
ing heard of them in the great world.
Then the train, crosses the .fiats
west of Lille and picks its roundabout
way over emergency bridges, beside
the wrecks of the old atone and steel
ones, into the station east- of the
town, where, at the time Of the errata-
tiee, not a whole pane of glass could"
be seen in a roof like that of St.
Pancras. Round the station
of ruins, .a few kundred
diameter, illustrates the
terest of gunners and
airmen in enemy transport.-
mg-