The Huron News-Record, 1893-09-13, Page 2Or Bronchi tis
"I never realized the good Of a medicine
set much as I have in the last few months,
during which time 1 have suffered intensely
from pneumonia. followed by bronchitis.
After trying various remedies without
benefit, I began the use of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral, and the effect has been marvelous,
a single dose relieving me of choking. and
secunng a good night's rest." —'r. A.
Higginbotham, Gcn. Store, Long Mountain,
Va.
•1. Grippe
"Last Spring I was taken down with la
grippe. At times 1 was completely prostrat-
ed, and so difficult was my breathing that
my breath seemed as if confined in an iron
cage. I procured a bottle of Ayers Cherry
Pectoral, and no sooner had I began taking
it than relief followed. 1 could not believe
that the effect would be so rapid." -W. 11.
Williams, Cook City, S. Hak.
Lung Trouble
"For more than twenty-five years, I was
a sufferer from lung trouble, attended with
coughing so severe at times as to cause
hemorrhage, the poaroxysms frequently last-
ing three Or four !fours. I was induced to
try Ayer'e Cherry PectoraL.and after taking
four bottles, was thoroughly cured. I can
confidently recommend this medtcinc."-Franz
Hofmann, Clay Centre, Kans.
AYER'
Cherry Pectoral
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer F. Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price Si ; six bottles, $5,
Prompt to act, ogre to cure
The Huren News- Req,ord
$1.50 a Ye..:—$1.25 1n Advance,
IVednesday, Sept 13th 189 3.
THE SAULT STE. _MARIE SHIP
' CANAL.
BY J. J. KEHOE.
The River St. Mary, flowing a dis-
tance of sixty miles, carries the waters
of Lake Superior into Lake Huron.
It ruga its uoble course in varying
width from about 100 feet at one point
to four utiles at another, and fortus in
its main channel part of the inter-
national boundary. As it passes be-
tween the Canadian town of Sault Ste.
Marie and the Michigan city of the
same name, it ruehee over a rooky bed
in shallow rapids of half a mile in
length, with a difference of nearly
nineteen feet between the upper and
lower levels. To overcome this im
pediment to navigation, there was
built on the Michigan side a canal
which was completed in 1855. An-
other canal was built parallel and close
r0 this and completed in 1881. In
1889, the United States Government
commenced work on a new cauel on
the site of the ono of 1855, now do
molished to make room for the new
one, which is likely to be finished next
year. Our neighbors will then have
two canals to accommodate the im•
mense and growing traffic which now
presses very hard on the canal of 1881,
at present tho only one in use.
The project of a Canadian Ship Ca-
nal has been suggested at different
tines, and as early as 1851 it was at•
tempted to form a company for itscou-
struction. This company did not be-
come incorporated owing to the opposi-
tion of the late Sir Francis Hincks, then
Prime Minister. The action of Sir
Francis was made the subject of grave
charges against him, which, however,
were fully disproved on au investiga-
tion by a select committee of the Legis•
dative Council in 1855. But even
earlier than the time of Sir Frances,
and earlier than any one now living can
remember, a canal and lock had actu-
ally been constructed and used ou the
Canadian side. No trace of this canal
was visible until, when excavations
were being made in May, 1889, for
the water power canal, the timbers of
the old canal were unearthed. It was
built in 1797 by tho North-West Com-
-pany--in its time a rival of, but after-
wards amalgamated with, the Hudson
Bay Company—and was destroyed by
the United States soldiers in the war
of 1812.
The need of the Canadian Ship Ca-
nal has been very specially felt on two
"memorable occasions. The first of
these was when the. United States Gov-
ernment refused to allow Sir Garnet
Wolseley to go through the Michigan
canal with the Canadian troops on
their way. to quell the first Rail re-
bellion. The ostler was during the
canal toll excitement of last year.
Whatever may be the opinion of any
one, be he a political partisan or not,
every Canadian would have been bet-
ter pleased if the Government had
'been in a position of independence.
It would have been so, and the Waeh•
ington Treaty, too, would have been
different in terms if our ship canal had
been built twenty years ago. Apart
from these political considerations,
however, the growth of Manitoba and
the North-West and the consequent in-
crease of lake traffic require the build•
ing of the fine public work which is
now under construction, and an ac-
count of which, in its building and in
what it is to be, io here attempted .
Work was oonmmenced on the 1st
May, 1889, by Messrs. Hugh Ryan &
Co., the contractors, and at the time of
writing the greater part of the excava•
Hen is done, and sixteen courses of
Stone out of the twenty-two of the
lock -pit walla on both sides are built.
, The whole of the work will easily be
completed so as to have the canal open
for navigation in the summer of
1894.
.The eite of the canal' is through a
neck of land jutting out from the main-
land. This land may be called either
a•p.enineula or an !clam!, the term tg
be used depending on whether a small
etreaul running on the northerly side
to considered of sufficient importance
to make this jutting land an island
rather than to make it a peninsula.
There was, until three years ago, a
larger stream, but this has been since
diverted by the work of the contrac-
tors. Before ground was broken, thie
peek of land was a wild a.,d beautiful
picot) of nature. There were many
small streams where the fisherman
caught fine specimens of speckled
trout, nod plank bridges thrown across
these streams afforded a means for the
strolling tourist to reach the Indian
fishing village, which is still on the
banks of the main rapide. There are
now left but two of the streams, the
construction of the ship canal and of
the water power canal having destroy-
ed the others.
The general formation of the ground
consists of an upper stratum of sandy
loan, mixed with boulders and below
thio is red Potetinm eaudstone.of vary-
ing hardness. The work of excavation
gives euployment to aboat four hun-
dred men on au average. The excava-
tion of the lock•pit is completed, and,
as already mentioned; a large amount
of masonry work is done. The facing
or cut atone comes from Amhuratburg,
while the backing stone comes from
Meldrum Bay ou Manitoulin Island.
The quarrying of the stone gives em-
ployment to upwards of two liundre'd
men in the two quarries,'and a fleet of
vessels is required for the transporta-
tion of the material. It takes about
two hundred stone cutters and masons
to do the work for the lock -pit walls.
There are also numerous machinists,
carpenters, eta., and no fewer than
eighteen blacksmiths. The magnitude
of the operations being cartied on may
be better conceived from the statement
that there are fifty-three teams of
horses and ten miles of railroad track.
The bottom of the canal is now liko a
railway yard, and is a scene of constant
activity ; train -cars, carrying stone and
concrete, being constantly moved and
switched.
The stone is all brought to this rail•
way yard and hoisted by three travel•
ling derricks stationed at points con-
venient for the work as it progresses.
These travelling derricks deserve spo•
Cal mention. They are each built on
a truss reaching from oue wall to the
other, and carried on a track of a gauge
of forty-eight feet six inches. The
walls on which these derricks rest are
the walls of the culvert, the bottom of
which is twelve feet below the bottom
of the lock wall. 'they project below
the lock pit, thus making a channel
under the basin or floor of the lock : a
narrower channel will Le used for cul-
verts to convey the water iuto and out
of the lock.
After the masonry is completederand
the derricks are taken away, a timber
covering will rest on tha walls, which
project as above described. The dor•
ricks are so built that they have hoisted
the stones that are laid in the lowest
course, and will hoist the coping
stones, which will lie on top, forty-four
and one-half feet higher. Each ders
rick has four masts, two for each wall.
The engine on each derrick drives five
seta of drums, four being for hoisting
and the fifth for locomotion of the der-
rick on the tracks.
The various pieces of machinery for
hoisting, pumping, drilling, stone -
crushing and other purposes require a
large amount of power. Water -power
Inas been utilized, and one thousand
horse -power obtained. This both
drives the air compressor and transmits
power by cable to various machines on
the ;work. The compressor is here
used for the first time in Canada on a•
public work, though it is also used,
I believe, in mining. The great merit
of air compression is that the pow-
er can be t.ansmitted a long distance
without Toes, unless by a possible leak-
age. On this work it is used for some
of the rock drills and hoisting derricks.
Others of these drills and derricks are
driven by steam•powor. The total
number of derricks is forty. The cable
runs the pumping engine which keeps
the big ditch dry, and also transmits
power to a stone -crusher one thousand
three h'indred feet away. These are
two stone crushers, one with a capacity
of fifteen to thirty tons per hour, and
the other able to crush from twenty-
five to forty tons in the same time.
The amount of crushing done depends
on the hardness of the stone to be
crushed—whether it is a hard boulder
or soft sandstone. The stone is crush-
ed for concrete, and while the crushers
can be regulated to produce different
sizes, the heavy rock which enters the
jaws of these crushers are broken eo
that the pieces can go through a two
and one-half inch ring.
To more fully describe the work of
construction would require more space
than can be afforded in this sketch,
which is intended not for engineer's or
builders of canals, but for the general
reader. The whole of the work is
mainly ca-ried out for the contractors
by one of the three members of the
firm, Mr. Michael J. Haney, who is well
known as a civil engineer of .re-
pute. A good testimony to the ability
with which the work is carried on is
that with all the enormous mase of
material, and numerous engines and
the 750 workmen, order and system are
evident everywhere. It iealso worthy
of note that in the course of four years
of construction but one man has been
killed; his death was killed by the break-
ing of a derrick.
The length of the canal from water to
water will be three thousand seven
hundred feet. The masonry walla
will be, one thotreand oue hundred and
nix feet on each side ; the length be.
tween the gates will be nine hundred
feet and the width of the look sixty
feet. There will be but one lift to
overcome the eighteen and throe -quer.
taro feet of fall between the upper and
lower levels. There will bo twenty-
one feet of the water above the mitre sill,
taking the loweat recorded water level.
In this connection it is to be observed
that the level of the water has a varia-
tion of about three feet in a eeaeon, and
depends on the effect and direction of
the wind. On the 22ud of August,
1883, after a wind storm, the water was
three inches from the top of the wall in
the Michigan Canal ; it ie usually five
feet below this.
The filling and emptying ot the lock
will be acoomplished by means of the
four culverts beneath the floor of the
lock. In this floor there will be one
hundred and fifty two openings through
which the water will flow up or down
as may be required. The old way of
letting water through a eliding valve
in the gate itself or through the walls
around the gates was found objection.
able, for the reason that the force of
water driving the boats to the lower
gates and breaking their linos, often
cameos, derange to both boats and
lock. This will be avoided by the method
to be adopted, as the boats will -be lift-
ed rather than ehoved.
There are to be three sets of gates at
the eastern or lower end ; one is to be a
guard gate and will be used only when
it is wanted to empty the lock for re-
pairs. Of the other two gates, one is a
spare set to be used in case of acci-
dent to the other, which will be the
outer gate and in constant use. At
the west end there will be a main gate
and a guard gate.
The width of the walls will be eleven
feet at the top and twenty feet at the
bottom, but there will be a uniform
width around the gates of twenth-five
feet carried the whole way up. There
will be altogether seventy-five thousand
cubic yards of masonry in the work.
The manner of opening and closing
the gates is not yet determined, but it
is most likely that electric motive
power will be used. This power will
be generated from the water power ;
this water power will be supplied by
me:ne of a pipe running back of
one of the walls, and tulbiue wltcels
will be used to generate the electricity.
There have been a great many changes
in the design of tho canal and lock
since the plans and specifications were
first made, but in the main the plans
are those of the late Mr. John Page,
who was chief engineer of the Public
Works Department at Ottawa. The
resident engineer in charge on behalf
of the Dominion Government is Mr.
W. J. Thompson.
• SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT.
ilei ;rave.
Too iute for last week.
Mr. Thoe. Black has returned from
Manitoba.
Mr. John Ward is recovering from
a severe illness.
A number of new street crossings
have been laid and the sidewalks
around town repaired.
Mr. J. L. Geddees had his face
badly burned by the explosion ot some
melted babbit metal one day last week.
Mr. John Rath returned from Listo•
wel on Thursday where he "had been
for a couple of week .receiving treat-
ment for defection eye sight.
Mr. Ed. Wightman had the misfor-
tune to get his threshing engine badly
damaged by the governor belt coming
off last week.
Morris.
Tno'•tte for last week.
Alex. Campbell passed to the im-
mortal shore on Friday, Sept. lst,about
9 o'clock in the morning. He was
born in Perthshire, Scotland, in the
year 1816 and was 77 years, 3 months
and 16 days old at time of death. He
crossed the Atlantic in 1852 and settled
in County of Halton where heremainud
for two years. From there he remov-
ed to Clinton and four years later he
come to his late home on the 1st line
of Morris. Ho only suryived his late
partner in life by a fewweeks,
Mrs. Cambell having passed to
her reward on the 22nd of July last,
aged 76. Of the family who remain
to mourn a kind and loving' father,
they are, John and Alexander, of Cal-
gary, N. W. T., I)r. Jas. Campbell, of
Detroit, Archie and Kate, on the
homestead, Duncan, who resides just
across the road, and Margaret, (Mrs.
Geo. Turvey) Morris. The late Mrs.
John Purdue, who died in October of
1887 was a daughter of deceased. For
years the deceased suffered the pangs
of disease, undergoing at times several
severe sicknesses, from which he was not
expected to recover ; but his lost illness
was limited to a few days only, when
the freed spirit, released from the weak,
worn and pain -scarred body, entered
tie higher existence rich in the rewards
of a life which was beautifully adorned
with all those manly principles that
win the love of human hearts
and the approbation of angels.
Honest and kind, faithful and true, the
commendations of all rest upon him,
He was a consistent member of the
Wingham Presbyterian church, and in
politics a life long Reformer. The
funeral obsequies on Sunday after-
noon were largely attended, something
over one hundred carriages being in
Cie cortege to Wingham cemetery.
In all that goes to strengthen and build up
the system weakened by disease and pain,
Ayer'e Sarsaparilla is the superior medicine.
It neutralizes the poisons left in the system
after diphtheria and scarlet fever, and re-
stores tie debilitated patient to perfect
health and vigor,
Tuekersmlth.
Tea late tor tastiweo1.
Muosra, W. A.ehton and L. Ilapsou
have returned to their reepeotive
homes in Alorris and llullott.
Mr. A. Mtinnint;e,of Stratfor<l,epent
Sunday with J. E. Bal'.
Mise N. Crich has resumed hor
study at the Clinton Collegiate Insti-
tute.
Rev. A. Parent occupied the pulpit
of Turner'e church ou Sunday iu the
Mbsence of the Rev. Mr. Smyth. On
onday evening the Rev. gentleman
slivered a very interesting and in-
etruotive lecture on the work of the
ruiesiouary in the Province of Quebec.
Nye can say that those who have the
privilege of heating Mr. Parent and
miss it will miss a treat.
Mr,.Mudd, of Clinton, agent for the
Armstrong Sieves, sold three set in
this noighborhoud ou Thursday last.
Full wheat seediug will be fairly
well wound up this week.
IIMEERSIEMMMINCUIESIMMOSIMIliMosmsaLSIMIF
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25t5D°g11�°D' tit`'sital^A't�I
CuresConnnraptlnn,Ci ill hs, Croup.t1
Throat. Sold by all Z%rueciscs on a Cuarzntcc.
For a Lame Side, 17tck hout cr C:c t �l.i'ca'e Pay
FLaster will give Fr
roti ,fact:cn, es cent3.
SH111. ITS ViVALs I C'e
ltfae. T. S. I3awkins, CLc ttannoga, Tenn., says:
"Shaole'a Vitalizer 'cl tVJJD IIY
collsideritthcbest•remcd;lfcr zd_hidtat&e'ate,a
1 ever steed." For Ds spc�=lc Livor cr iSitlaoy
trouble it excels. L ricoil5 c$s.
MILO WSTV:.CATAR r
llrveyouCatartf17 Try. lbialtor]rds. )t„RI
positively relitwo and Caro you. Price 60 Sts.
This Injectori..;r itiF'.1.'cett'iful 1.rcatlnrnt1s
furnished free, ;t^rare l.or, t,iioL'uIientt t ea
aro Sold Gait 1 tl:.rt t.'.c. t y dve ::c.tis:.::;ticti.
.....mss..- ---
UNLOCKC ALL THE CLCCCED EECREI*10I:n
OF i-ir BOWELS, KIDNEYS AND LIVER,
CArRYlNOOFFGRAcUe.LLY, WITHOUT WEAKEN-
INGTILE STZITEM, ALL IMPURITIES AND FOUL
HUMORS: AT THE SAME TIME CORRECT-
ING ACIDITY or THE STOMACH, CURING
BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, HEAD-
ACHES, DIZZINESS, HEARTBURN,
CONSTIPATION, RHEUMATISM,
DROPSY, SKIN DISEASES, JAUNDICE,
SALT RHEUM, E;RNSIPELAS, SCRO-
FULA, FLUTTERING OF THE HEART,
NERVOUSNESS, AND GENERAL
DEBILITY. THESE AND ALL SIMILAR
COMPLAINTS QUICKLY YIELD TO THE CURA-
TIVE INFLUENCE OF BURDOCK BLOOD
BITTERS.
x = -I- - X = + X =-i -+= x = X=
It foeSIi't
take a very smart person to cutch sold but a
man or firm must be wide awoke and enter-
prising to catch tra i1e. Newspaper advertis-
ing is the surest way.
NOTICE.
There being some misunderstanding with re•
gard to wreckage, let it Le distinctly understood
that if any person tatles-dprsseselon of any kind
of wreckage and fails to report to me 1 shall al
once tuke proceedings. Itcuiember this le the
last warning 1 shall give. CAPT. WM. L'ABB.
Receiver of Wrecks, Goderich•
Coderich, Sept. i th 1891.
WESTERN FAIR
LONDON.
SEPTEMBER 14th TO 23rd, 1893.
Canada's Favorite Exhibition
ESTABLISHED 1888.
The Oldest in the Dominion.
LIVE STOCK EXHIEITS,
Entries Close September 7'1,.
The best and largest Stabling and Space allotted on
receipt of t.ntiiea.
BETTER SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
TITAN LVEn BEFORE.
SPECIAL EXCURSIONS FROM ALL POINTS
For Pi ire List and information npply to
CAPT, A, W. PORTE, Ti{os, A, BROIVNE,
Pres;dcnt, Serrctnv
The McKillop Mutual Fire
Insurance Company
Farm and Isolated Town Proper-
, ty only Insured.
OFFICERS.
Thos. E. Hays, President, Seaforth P. 0.; W.
J. Shannon, Secy Treas., Seaforth 1', 0. ; John
Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. 0,
DIRECTORS,
Jae, Brondfoot, Seaforth ; Donald Ross, Olin
ton • Gabriel Elliott, Clinton ; George Watt
Harfock; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; J, Shan
non, Walton ; Thos. Gerhart, Clinton,
AGENTS.
Thos. Nellane, Harlock ; Roht. McMlllnn, Sea.
forth ; S. Carnochan Seaforth. John O'Sullivan
and Geo, Murdie, Auditore,
Parties desirous to effect Insurance or trans-
act other business will bo promptly attend•
ed to on a.ipliention to any of the above officers,
addressed to their respective poet offices.
EUlER TWINE.
,-0.-
WHY BUY LOW GRADES WHEN YOU CAN GET
BLUE RIBBON, RED OAP,
ST NDARD, THREE 'PLY FLAX,
AtRock Bottom Prices,
IiARLA11-D PROS_,
STOVE AND HARDWARE ;�� - . !Albert St., Olirit,ott
1t
Disease commonly comes on tvitll :ilig'::
symptoms, which when neglected inc, eal:e
in extent and gradually grov,v dangcrc•u::. w
if you SUFFER FROM HEADACHE, DYS- TtiKE ", 1
PEPSIA or INDIGESTION, . _ I?' i:111 t`i� :z.::,r ,1..a •,,,+ i.... :1If you are CILIOOS,CONSTIPATC3, or kava �;D! %' 1
LIVER COMPLAINT, TAKE 5�b ."a ,..) ` iet..:`f•`s•- N li,i•
,s
:f your COMPLEXION P1 SALLOW, or you �p p@,�•{g p.t
SJFFERDISTRESS AFTER EATING, SAKE U'ai 5iudu,
For
OFFENSIDEEB eFtIFIeFsfolesca,EATH r.nd At:L CI3CR: TA KL
Rrparts Ta;wI2s Regulate the ,9j'F.i.3!L'
4'S - TO 2II E 'a
SAVE MANY A DOCTC :' ; L'•'1_L. r'
K.H.144H.11. K14.44.4444.1.4•1 H.I♦
ONE
= GIVES
RELIEF.
Sold by Druggists Ev:ry :;here. 3
THE HUB GROCERY.
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'.Te have closed our financial year 1st of February and find that it has been
year of fair prosperty to us. We wish to render our best THANKS tit
Customers for their patronage and will always strive to win your con-
fidence in future, by giyiug you GOOD GOODS as cheap as any other
House in Town.
Our Stock of
CHINAWARE, .-PORCELAIN AND STONEWARE,
is well aesorted (and as we have a large Import Order conning from
England) we will offer them at Close Prices to Make room.
GEORGE SWALLOW Clinton.
Happy :-: Thought :-: Rangesr
They are without cf7/ Equal,
They are The Rest in Anaeric t,
They speak/or Themselves,
They ui'e sold by Reliable lien,
They are not sold by lieddlars,
Over 4,00( Sold in America
HARLAND B RO S H1rtI ,1r TON"
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NEW HKELI
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WILSON as HOWE have bought the good -,will and interest in the bakery
recently carried on by ilr. 1;.. McLennan, in addition to the Restaurant
carried on by Mr. James Anderson, and have amalgamated the two businesses
The combination will be carried on in
THE OLD STAND IN SEARLE'S BLOCK
and will hereafter be known as THE NOVELTY BAKERY AND RES
TAURANT. Mr. McLennan will be ,our baker. Bread of superior quality
will be delivered as usual, and 13rea11,•Cakes, &c., constantly kept on hand and
sold only at the Novelty Store. We solicit the patronage of all old
customers and ma y new ones.
Wilson 4 -,owe - - Clinton
1
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As an extra inducement to Cash purchasers I have made arrangements with a
leading firm of 'Toronto for a large supply o' Artistic Pictures by well-
known Masters, all framed and finished in first'class style, and suitable
for the best class of residence. Each customer will be presented with
one of these magnificent Pictures free when their cash purchases aggre-
gate Thirty Dollars.
My motto in business is to supply my customers with good reliable Goode a'
Bottom Prices.
Although the principal Soap Manufacturers have advanced prices 30 per cent.
1 will supply all Electric Soap and the noted Sunlight and Surprise
Soaps at the old figures.
Call and see those beautiful Works of Art, samples of which are on show al
our Store.
fico.
Our Sock is replete and well selected. We offer excellent values in fine Teat
including best grades in Black, Green and Japans. Try our Russian
Blend and Crown Blend, the finest in the market.
Eximine rite qnalityand prieesrof our Combination Dinner and Tea Setts,,
and be convinced that Bargain Day with us' is every business da,,
throughout the year.
N. ROBSO&,pa China ���Ono copy of n nweper that roaches rho home
Ie worth more for the purposes of advertising that
here that don t." P. T, BARNUM. i Clinton, Feb, 14, 1893.