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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1925-05-29, Page 6Amiukt "Hello Dodd,' - don't fo 'get Ifriglegr LIK 111-1140N X TOL F. J., Re FARS: nye,' Needeatild 'ritt at'adllatet in M4n Uni%Pere% eel t40 iliasiatent 'New York Wei VIM and AtirSil )hstitute, Mocaree 0 141 olds Square Thro t ItOas tOe $01,11,, Lohigi; drIllbig. At Coneraeta ratel, $teafeaaah, third Monday ill ittcni - ,e; 4tora 11 a m. to 8 p.m. ee'Street, South, Stratford. , ea§tratferd. CAMPBELL, V.S. of Ontario Veterinary nivensity of Toronto. All of domestic animals treated most modern principles. reaSonable. Day or night ltreneptly ttended to. Office on In' Street, Hensall, opposite Town Pone UG. s en• gtl4- LEGAL No. 91. JOHN J. HUGGARD :eirrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer aria Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, •Seaforth. Money to loan. EST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- Oars and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. JAMES L. KILLORAN Barrister, Notary Public, etc. Money to loan. In Seaforth on Monday of each week. Office over Keating's Drug Store. VETERINARY F. HARBURN, V. S. onor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the Ontario veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod- ern principles. Dentistry and Milk Fever a specialty Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. ;All orders left at the hotel will re- ceive prompt attention. Night calls aeceived at the office. JOHN GRIEVE, V. S. onor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic /animals treated. Calls promptly at - !tended to and charges moderate_ Vete erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mack -ayes Office, Sea - forth. MEDICAL R. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario ; Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resident Medical Staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15. Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. " '404 44 V00. PlIP14104,%1 Aci, A VUOrt' tilfa40 • 4, v;, Brfit; axgrtilii,, 414 § oer0 t4roce von t4e i. tau da Cunha, rot,Rugt alai heY UP41, balm qx, u just *rice bed, o ship toutihstiC ste. Jut thrice head eke Intivos glimpse of a strange twee The Wee sionarjes were larded in 1922 by the courtesy of the Japanese Ogliern.M.taUt which ordered a subsidized rnerchente man to touch there just long eno for them to land. Later in the Yeer the Shackleton-Rowatt relief ship, the Quest, called at the island, and in March, 1928, the British light cruiser, Dublin, called with mails and supplies. Last January a Spanish freighter from Rio to Durban dropped anchor long enough to buy some fresh meat. The Rogers were taken off by a Jap- anese ship which stopped her engines for two hours while the missionary, his wife and their baby, born on the island, got read* to leave. Another upportunity might not have come for months or even for years. and the captain remained only two hours, be- cause he feared to stay a moment lon- ger than necessary near this spot. What makes the island dreaded by seamen is the fact that it seems to be the centre of a sort of hurricane belt. The winds are terrible in their force, and the suddenness with which they arise, and there is no good anchorage. On land, it is said, that when the wind is high, it is impos- sible to take a cup of milk from one house to another. The milk will be swept out of the cup. When the wind reaches hurricane force, which it often does for days at a time, it is impossible for anyone to move abroad without danger to life. No person can stand against the winds of Tristan da Cunha. Tristan is one of five desolate peaks which rise out of the water 1.600 miles west of Cape Town. The Panama and Suez Canals have diverted all the trade that used to pass the island, and the wind sweeps at it over a thousand miles of sea in every direction. The currents are also fierce, and even if merchantmen and traders, it yet would be avoided because sea cap- tains hate and fear it This volcanic rock was discovered in 1506 by a Portuguese viceroy of India, who gave it its name. It was then populated by seagulls, and no human beings lived on it until 1810. In the War of 1812 it was used as.a pre -carious base by American priv- ateers, and in 1815 it was annexed by the British Governor of Cape Colony, not because it was good for anything, but on general principles. W hen Napoleon was sent to St. Helena, Tristan was garrisoned to prevent it being used as a base for the Emperor's rescue, and when the garrison was withdrawn, Corporal William Glass, a Scotchman, remain- ed with a few others as permanent settlers. One of the men who had been a guard over Napoleon, a man named Cook. was one of the original settlers, and another was a man named Swane, said to have caught Nelson in his arms when he fell on the deck of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Amsterdam Dutchman, a few Boers, a few Americans from a whaling ship, and a cargo of negro women from Africa completed the original settlement, and the people there to -day are, with few exceptions, descended from them, the island having failed to attract immigrants of any class, although there was one infiltration of Italian blood. Gen- erally speaking, the people look white, but here and there the negro cross manifests itself without em- barrassment to anybody. The present population is 140, and when the missionaries returned they reported that they were approach- ing destitution. The supplies landed almost two years ago were nearly exhausted. There was no soap, tea, candles, sugar, flour or new clothing. For two years the potato crop had failed and seabirds' eggs had failed as a supply because of the frequent raids in the past. The islanders at the present time are living almost wholly on fish. One of the troubles is that the island is overpopulated. More than fifty years ago fifty of the islanders were induced to leave and settle in Cape Colony, but it was not long before the population had again risen to more than 100. In 1885 the recurring problem was tragically solved when all the adult males but one were drowned while attempting to trade with a passing ship. In 1905 the population was 80, and an- other attempt was made to induce some of the people to establish themselves in South Africa, where life would be easier. In some re- spects the islanders enjoy a remark- able freedom. There is no money, no taxes, no jails, no crimes, because there are no laws. All the property is held in common. A stern Victorian morality abounds on the island despite the absence of laws. The women never bathe in the ocean and were shocked when Mrs. Rogers ventured in. Marriages are recorded by the contracting parties writing their names in a book kept by Robert Glass, a descendent of the original patriarch. Whenever a chaplain happens to be aboard a vessel which touches at the island the book is taken aboard and the marriages of the previous years given official sanction. The sea about the island teems with life, for nobody fishes those wild waters ex- cept the natives. Even whales abound. Tristan is almost a devoid of land life as a desert, says a writer in the New York Tines. The island is overrun with rats, the progeny of rodents that came ashore from an American whaling ship. The island- ers have ratting days and slaughter thousands. There are many wild- cats, descendants of domestic cats of an earlier day. They live on sea - fowl. And there.are wild cattle, once of tame stock, that are now so sav- age that they will attack any 'man who approaches. The islanders shoot them for meat whet they have am - Munition for the strange collection of old rifles that Wake up the Wand areerial. Trietet do, Sinha is an ex - DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield_ Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master Rotunda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the Methodist church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- thy University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. 11140 egq45, ba 4103 kCgaP011,0- Cele iEla acva alotNE Will jotIN AUCTIONEERS F. W. AEIRENS Licensed Auctioneer for Perth and Enron Counties. Sales solicited, Real Estate, Farm Stock, Etc. Terms on application. F. W. Ahrens, phone 834 r 6, R. R. No. 4, Mitchell, Ont. 2996-52 OSCAR 71 . REED Licensed auctioneer for the Coun- ties of Perth and Huron. Graduate of Jones' School of Auctioneering. Chicago. Charges moderate, and sat- lsfaction guaranteed. Write or wire Oscar W. Reed, Staffa, Ont. Phone 211-2. 2965x52 THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be snade by calling up phone 97, Seaforth, or The Expositor Office. Charges mod- erate, and satisfaction gearenteed. OSCA K LOP P abyss restless nights might be avoided Scalded skin and other skin troubles are common causes of restlessness, and often could be avoided by care- ful bathing with Baby's Owu Soap. Its fragrant lather cleanses and heals Baby's skin, and prepares for restful sleep. "Best for you and Baby too" Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- ang°. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- thandise and Farm Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing neatket. Sat- Isfaction assured. Write or veire, °Meer Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone 22-92. 2844 -52 R. 11% LITIKER • 1104,e auctioneer for the County ,1Iuron. Sake attended to M all Patte-.41 tbocount. Seven years° ex- fer-lence itilIssitoba and Saakatehe- Vernier reasonable'. Phlox* No. r• Centralia P. 0., U. 'Ordera kft at 'The 863.141 .10r-Offlae Stigelith ploiriptly Slip a package Inn your pocket whern you tto home fo- ught. Give the ionnastees this wholesonnelort lustful sweet -for pleesnreand benefit. e1fafler f smoking or when{ work draes. Re a i ereatliale fieshenerj 1 - "5151'er Page areal' 2f,S14,Y 604 ' =,,co.. • SEALED KE PT RIGHT!' 1IlIi!,iI ililil1 1 1111111111111111111i 1111111 111 111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 C sts yvtu less than 2% a ye..tr 11), Though it accomplishes in a few minutes what would otherwise take you hours, the cost of the telephone is one of the smallest items in the family's yearly outlay. A study of expenditures by hundreds of families shows that food costs 43%, miscellaneous 25%, rent 17%, clothes 13% and the telephone Rees than 2%. Ras new oubserZer Ode to the mime of YOUR telephone Amp•soufffloeViiiaMli Unt balsa with one large cream' at the enniMit, 7,000 feet above the sea, ‘-aaiti„`• hialdreds of small cones. Mara iso large pond of rain water in the ember, Plant life is restrict- ed tia daisies, wild roses and a sort of mesqUite brush. There are no butterflies, 'ne bees, no songbirds, no unosquitoesA, no snakes. JACK'S RESTAURANT. WAS FAMOUS RESORT For raore than a quarter a a cen- tury Jacit'e place in New York has been one of the attractions of the town, Visitors hunted it out as per- sistently as they hunted out Jack Sharkey's -.place or Steve Brodie's dump or the. old Haymarket. It was one of the most noted eating and drinking places in the city, or in the country for that matter. There the sporting world was on view froni midnight till dawn. Many of the town's celebrities were regular fre- quenters, It was a place for news- papermen and actors. Now it is a place for tears, for it is no more. Its proprietor has closed it down, and in doing so has with a magnificent ges- ture sacrificed a fortune. For even if Jack's .to -day is not like the Jack's of ten years ago the folks. from out of town are not aware of it. The very name and good -will could be counted on for a weekly profit of sev- eral hundred dollars. But the pro- prietor, .rather than see his place degenerate from being a headquar- ters fok lusty booze -fighters into a stalking ground for sleek -haired lounge lizards, went abruptly otit of business. He just closed down. As a goodinany readers are aware, Jack's was located at Sixth Avenue and Forty-third Street. It opened some thirty-four years ago as a lit- tle oyster house shortly after its proprietor, Jack Dunstan, had been discharged from hisjob as head waiter at Sammy Burns' place. On beim fired, Jack is said to have re- marked: "Some day I'll buy the place over your head." Twenty- eight years later, at a cost of $225,- 000 he did so, but Sammy had long ceased to worry. We presume the secret of Jack's success was that he sold good oysters with suitable sauces, sold them cheap, and hap- pened to be in a place where there was a demand for them. He proa- pered, and soon it was necessary for him to acquire the property next door. In a few years more his place was so gorged with gorging cus- tomers that he bought the place on the other side. In the course of time one of these additions came to be known as the Blue Room, and the other as the White Room. It was the Blue Room tElt made the repu- tation of Jack's. White Room was an innocuous as Child's. There family parties would assemble. A man and his wife would eat their ham and eggs and drink perhaps a stein of beer, while in the Blue Room a man and somebody else's wife would be laying into the chicken and opening wine. Jack Dunstan never had a press agent. Seemingly, he never moved hand or foot to get publicity, but he got as much of it as Delmonico in his palmy days. The spotlight was first turned on the place when Frank Jay Gould and Helen Kelly held their wedding breakfast in the Blue Room. It became fashionable to put in an appearance at Jaek's after the theatre. One could always be sure of something turning up. Jack did not rook his customers, either. Up to the time of the war, not an entree cost more than fifty cents. There was always more drinking than eating going on at Jack's, and even after prohibition, it is said that the Vols te a d agents took enough booze away from a secret place on the roof to light up Broadway for a month on end. The drinking was probably the primary cause of the impromptu fist fights that happened in Jack's on an average of perhaps five hundred times a month. The fact that it was from the first patron- ized by sight-seeing college boys may also have accounted for the atmosphere of warfare in which the place was bathed. For the honor of their rival colleges these lads would go to the mat, or perhaps to win favor in the eyes of the ladieS who observed them. But to he strictly accurate, paci- fism was the keynote of the place. The fights that started there were never finished. The place was re- nowned rather for its flying corps of bouncers than for its battling patrons. It is said that the waiters at Jack's were retired pugilists, but they certainly were not retired. They were extremely active and trained to the minute. No sooner would a couple of revellers take a mutual pass than the waiters would be on top of them like hounds on a hare, and the bel- ligerents would be hurriedly hustled into the street, arriving there, in all probability, on that part of their persons made to think with rather than skate upon. Suits innumerable were entered against Jack for dam- ages sustained' by ejected guests and though some of them were awarded damages, the heandal of their rfian- :00 'Sixtifi4V44.** 4r Ql-ago Ostsor trOutami'steir; tbP, ' SAMand ibe vi.ciarti 4011bro4 44oNO,140 44 411. with qu. oporolriov'Oro.. qrs. of the/ waitors. 41.)1030 °c4itsn - 6 - .....sastrodelgaeie, I; Brady might be ele vim! *Kb% Ids walking ?tick, supposed to be worth $150,000. ASilent" Smith, the man who beat Wall Street out of a for- tune, and John We Gates, the man who sometimes gave a thoneand- dollar tip to a waiter for a five -dol- lar order were other frequenters. Now and then a notable figure of the underworld would be seen, for Jack's hospitality was Catholic. But it is not to be understood although the place had an all-night license that it was lacking in proper restraint. It was one of the last restaurants in New York where ladies were per- mitted to smoke. They might drink as much as anyone would buy for them, but if they lit a cigarette they were sternly warned, and for a sec- ond offence were led outside. Even after prohibition, liquor was to be had at Jack's, so the closing of the old landmark is pot due to Volstead. The proprietor saw that his old friends and patrons were dying out and that no worthy successors to them were coming forward. He felt that he had lived a great life in a great era, and that his memories would be better than any new exper- iences. So he quietly locked his door for the first time in years and re- tired to private life. • Kew buildings, exe ent librav and boratory fac- ilitiea. 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