The Brussels Post, 1912-5-30, Page 6THE NIGHT OFFICER'S WATCH
Olt TIE: BRIDGE OF AN OCEAN
STEAMER.
Realistic Account of Life at
Sea
While 1,000 Passengers Sleep
Below,
(The 8 to 12 Watch, and deo was
sight at nightfall/.
Two bells have just gone. It is 9
o'clock, You walk to wind'ard atld
sniff anxiously. Yes, there it is,
unmistakably, the never -to -be -for-
gotten smell of ice . asmell
as indescribable as it is unrnistak•
able, writessW. H. Hodgson in the
Westminster Gazette,
in
You stare, fiercely anxious (al-
most incredibly anxious), to wind'-
ai'd, and sniff again and again. And
you never cease to peer, until the
very eyeballs ache, and you curse
almost insanely because some door
has been opened and let out a shaft
of futile and dangerous light across
the gloom through which the great
ship is .striding across the miles.
For the least show of light about
the deck "bunds" the officer of the
watch temporarily, and makes the
darkness of the night a double cur-
tain of gloom. threatening hateful-
ly. Yon curse, and 'phone angrily
for a steward to go along and have
the door shut or the window cov-
ered, as the case may be; then once
again to the dreadful strain of
watching.
Just try to take it all in. You are,
perhaps, only a young man of 26
or 28, and you are in sole charge of
that great bulk of life and wealth,
thundering on across the miles,
One hour of your watch has gone,
and there are three to come, and
already you are feeling the strain.
And reason enough, too, for though
the bridge -telegraph pointer stands
at half -speed, you knew perfectly
well that the engine -room has its
private orders, and speed is not cut
down at all,
CFIILL-OF-DEATH,
And all around, to wind'ard an
to luoard, you can see the gloom
pierced dimly in this place and that
everlastingly, by the bursts of pleas
phoreseenee from breaking sea
crests, Thousands and tens o
thousands of times you see this
ahead. and upon either beam.
And you sniff, and try to distinguish
between the coldness of the half -
gale and the peculiar, and what I
,night term the "personal" brutal,
ugly. Chill -of -Death that comes
But your human veles@ is roaring
words that hold life and death for
a thousand sleeping souls; "Hard
a starboard!" "Hard a star-
board 1"
WHIRLS WHEEL WRONG WAY.
The matt in the wheel -house leaps
at your cry . et the fierce in-
tensity of it; and then, with a mom-
entary loss of nerve, whirls the
wheel the wrong way, You make
one jump, and aro in the wheel-
house, The glass is tinkling all
about you, and you do not know in
that instant that you are carrying
the frame of the shattered wheel.
House door upon your shoulders.
Your fist takes the frightened
helmsman under the jaw, and your
free hand grips the spokes, and
dashes the wheel round towards
you, the engine roaring away in its
appointed place. Your junior has
already flown to his post at the
telegraph, and the engine -room is
answering the order you have flung
at him as you leaped for the wheel-
house. But you . , why you
aro staring, half mad, through the
night, watching the monster bows
swing to port, against the mighty
background 02 the night . . . The
seconds are the beats of Eternity in
that brief, tremendous time
And then, .aloud to the wind and the
night you mutter, "Thank God!"
for she has swung clear. And be-
low you the thousand sleepers sleep
on,
A fresh quartermaster has ``come
aft" (to use the old term), to re-
lieve the other, and you stagger out
of the wheel -house, beeoming con -
scions of the inconvenience of the
broken woodwork around you.
Someone, several people. arc assist-
ing you to divest yourself of the
framework of the door; and your
junior has a queer little air of re-
spect for you that somehow the
darkness is not capable of hiding.
THOUSAND SLEEPING MEN.
You go hack to your post then;
but perhaps you feel a little sick,
despite a certain happy elation that
stimulates you.
Eight bells! And your brother
officer comes up to relieve you. The
usual formula is gone through, and
you go down the bridge steps to the
d thousand sleeping ones.
Next day a thousand passengers
, play their games and read their
- books and talk their talks and make
- their usual sweepstakes, and never
f even notice that one of the officers
. is a little weary -looking,
The carpenter has replaced the
door; and a certain quartermaster
will stand no more, at the wheel,
For the rest, all goes on as usual,
and no one ever knows
I mean no one outside of official cir-
cles, unless an odd rumor leaks out
through the stewards.
And a certain man has no deaths
to the name of his father's son.
And the, thousand never knew.
Think of it, you people who go
down to the sea in floating palaces
of steel and electric light. And let
your benedictions fall silently upon
the quiet. grave, neatly -uniformed
man in blue upon the, bridge. You
have trusted him unthinkingly with
your liras ; and not once in ten
thousand times has he ever failed
you. Do you understand better
now?
stealing down to you through the
night, as you pass some ice -hill in
the, darkness.
And then those countless bursts
of dull phosphorescence, that break
out eternally from the chaos of the
unseen water's about you, become
suddenly things of threatening, that
frighten you; for any one of them
may mean broken water about the
unseen shore of some hidden island
of iee in the night . , some
half -submerged inert Insensate
Monster -rd -Ice, lurking under the
wash of the seas. trying to steal un-
perceived athwart your hawse.
You raise your hand instinctive-
ly in the darkness, and the cry
'Marc. a Starboard 1" literally
trembles en your lips; and then you
are saved from making an over-
anxious leetaele of yourself ; for I
you see nun' that the particular
burst of phosphorescence that had
scented su pregnant of ice is nothing
more than any r.ne of the ten then -1
sane) other bursts of sea -light that
come and gu among the great
moundings of the sty, -foam in the.
surlonnding night, •
I\FI?RXAL IC11 SMELL.
And yet there is that infernal ice
sniell again. and the chill that I,
have called the Chill -of -Death is
stealing in again upon you from
some unknown quarter of the night,
You send word forrard to the look-
outs, and to the man in the "nest,"
and redouble your own rare of the
thousand humans who sleep so
trustingly in their bunks beneath
your feet . . , trusting you—a
young man ---with their lives
with everything. They, and the
great ship that strides so splendid
and blind through the night and the
dangers of the night, are all, as it
were, in the hollow of your hand
a moment of inattention
•and a thousand deaths upon the
heed of your father's son! Do you
wonder aunt you wateh, with your
'very heart seeming dry with anx-
iety on such a night as this!
Four belle! Five bells! Six
bells! And new thele is only an
hour to go; yet, already, you have
neatly given the signal to the quar-
termaster to port. or stttrhnttrd, as
the case may be; but each time the
-conjured terror 'of the night, the
dree, suggestive foam -rights, the
infernal ice -smell, and the Chill -of -
Death have proved to be no true
Prophets -of Disaster in your track.
Seven bells! My God! Even as
the sweet silver autinds wander
for and aft, into the night, and are
golfed. •by the gale, you sae some-
thing•elosc upon the starboard bow.
, A boil of phosphorescent
lights over some low -Jing, sea -bur-
ied thing' in the darkness. Your
night -glasses tare glaring at its and
then, even before the various look-
outs can make their report, you
know. • "%ty Goxd!" your spirit is
brying inside of yell, "My God I"
Earrings were worn so far back
as 1732 B.C.
For 16111-1012 the total number of
officers and men, active and on the
reserve list, in the British Navy
is 102,402.
Pioneer settlers in Saskatchewan
want land grants, following out a
precedent established in Manitoba.
Sault Ste. Marie will run four
special trains to Toronto in June,
to boom New Ontario. A parade
and mass meeting in the city are
planned.
When the 1
'
Appetite Lags
A bowl of
Post
Toasties
with cream
hits the right spot.
"Toasties" are thin bits
of corn ; fully cooked,
then toasted to a crisp,
golden -brown.
This food makes a fine
change for spring appe-
tites.
Sold by Grocers, and
ready to serve fron>, pack-
age instantly with cream.
and sugar.
"The f"Iemory Lingers"
Made by
Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd,
Pura Food Paetoriea
Windsor, Oataclo, Canada,
MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS
UNWISDOM OF BUYING CERTAIN
SHARES ON PRESENT MARKET.
Several Instances of Where the Investor
Should Leave the Field Severely Alone
and Let the Speen/eters Take the
Chances and any Ultimate Profit.
T4
er o .
a t1 leacontributed
nv '
by 1 ester"
aro for the sate p d 1 it guiding pros•
lag m Irani and, if pioney of sgh
to them from local" money through
placing 10 In •wild•aat" euterprlees, The
Impartial and reliable character or Lha
Information may be relied neon. Thr
writer of tunes articles and the publisher
of this .paper have no Interests to serve
In connection with this matter other than
,hone of the reader.
(BY "Investor,")
At the present time the Toronto and
Montreal stock oxohanees are showing
the greatest activity forsome months
oust. Several important investment and
semi•investment securities like Otto de
Janeiro Tramways, Sao Paulo, Winnipeg
Electric and Toronto Railway—not to men-
tion C. P. It,—have been strong and ac-
tive. Of late. however, there has been a
decided prominence given to the common
shares of a number• of industrial corn•
navies, which may be justified from a
speculative point of view, but which no
one should purchase under the impres•
eton that he was investing in the true
sense of the word. For those who can
afford to take aha.nees, and can dispense
with income from their investments for
some time to come—several years, per-
haps—there is something to be said for
well chosen. purchases of industrial earn -
111011 stacks. Anyone, however, who is suf-
tiriently well versed In the financial situ.
ation to make such nurehaees with pro-
per discrimination requires little further
in the way of general finanetal education.
For the average person--partieularly
those away from the chief centI•es, where
information (of a(grt) more or lose In-
formed may be had for the asking—it is
the reverse of wise to "dabble in the
stock market. That, of course, is all they
would be doing were they to purchase
these securities at the present time.
The most recent of the common shares
to move were those of the "Steel Company
of Canada." Most of this stook was given
away to the promoters and as 0bonus
to underwriters of the bonds. As sueh
it represents merely the value placed on
good will," and at present, and for
some sears to come, is chiefly "water;"
that is stock created for various put,
noses for which no money is paid, and,
therefore, represents no investment of
cash in the plant. When in years to
come the increase in the value of the
plant and other assets has justified giv-
ing a value of par for this stock the
water" le said to have been "squeezed
out."
The earnings on "Steel of Canada" cam•
mon shares are about 3.8 per cent. It
should be some years before any diva -
lend is attemnted on the common shares
and eo they are not worth what they aro
selling for today, though the specula•
tive chance that a dividend may be paid
sooner than generally expected gives
them a value in the market quite dis-
tinct from that which one would give
them from an invootmeat point of view.
Spanish River Pulp and Ontario Pulp
and Paper Companies' common shares
have also been moving excitedly for some
time now, but as those interests closest
to the inside are at a loss to justify the
Present prices—for as yet oarnines do not
justify them, though they may before Iong
—there is not much to be said on the
subject.
Other shares like Sawyer-kfassey corn•
mon are moving upwards too. The Saw-
yer -Massey common stock is doubtless
nearer dividends than many others more
recently issued, but the water hasn't vet
been squeezed out in a suffcient degree
to justify the ha urchaB
Y e of h
U t
etock
an investment. albeit an unremuuoratico
one, for there is no dividend in sight
for some years on that stock either.
The policy of not paying dividends un-
til a good substantial reserve is built up
i0 a sound ane, and any shareholder who
urges his company to act otherwise is so
eager for the fruits of the present that
be jeopardizes the possibilities of large
crops in the future.
And so. anyone who buys non -dividend
industrial common stooks at the present
time, unless he has reason to think the
period of reserve building is at ars end, is
not investing wisely, In any ease his in-
vestment savors rather too much of epece.
lotion to bo In any sense sound,
LEON L1±ONI
New Chief of the International
Detective Bureau of Parts.
TREES ARE LUMINOUS.
Newspnpers Can Ile Read By Their
Light.
These remarkable trees or shrubs
are to be found in the vicinity of
Tuscarora. There is nothing very
remarkable about the tree to look
at, It rarely attains a height of
over six feet, while the circumfer-
ence of the trunk in its thickest
part is only about two feet. The
most remarkable pact of tate tree,
however, is the foliage, which is ex-
tremely rank. At certain seasons
of the year this foliage is so lumi-
nous that it can be seen at a dis-
tance of nearly two miles while a
person who .sits in the immediate
vicinity can read a newspaper lvith
ease.
The luminous property consists of
a gummy aubstanee, which adheres
to the leaves and emits a phosphor-
escent light, Apparently the
leaves of the tree either have the
property of producing this plies•
Nutria matter or of attracting it in
some way.
TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE
QUEEN CITY.
A Clergyman's Mistake --Tho Race Meeting
—Premier Borden's Visit --Beattie
r Nesbitt's Return.
(Woa
)t
va arras for OC D kl letter
g a weekly Y
about Toronto affairs, whieh, we behove,
will be ofreat interest to many of our
readers, These lettere will bo from the
pan of ono of Oanada'e foremost journa.
leets, a man who Las covered some of the
world's greatest happenings and now 00.
cupios a loading position on one of the
Toronto dailies.)
Roe. J. D. Morrow's campaign for 840;
000 to complete h's big down -town church
has not been helped by his action in mar'
raring a young girl to a Chinaman at a
late hour at night, end tete eubsequent
Pollee Ctert nroceedings, Mr, Morrow is
the 'marrying" minister of the oily. that
is, he of all the clergymen, has the great-
est number of marriage ceremonies to his
credit in a year. Ole boasts that lie turns
all the fees over to his church fund, but
the fees as a rule from his patrons aro
not large, though the Chinamen gave him
010, kir, Morrow has been using plouty of
other methods of raking (undo,- Snorting
organization%, in recognition of his in-
torost in athletics andhie former prowess
as a sprinter, have raised a goodly Bum,
but the goal is still a long way off. Some
of tate wealthier congregations have elven
generously, and when kir. Morrow gets a
chance to go in another minister's pulpit
he tells a touching story of his work
among tale down and oats and his ntrug•
gee with the fleaacint question, Bttt; large
subscriptions are infrequent, Apparently
to many people Mr. Morrow is eccentrics.
WOODBINE GAYETY.
Posalbly the gayest scrotal function to
the Toronto calendar Is the opening of the
0. ,T 0. spring meeting at the Woodbine.
It ie a scene not to bo duplicated any -
whore on the American continent. Halted
States race meets aro not eociety funs•
Ilona, They draw a sporting crowd ar'ue
and simple. And none of them has rho
boautifal setting that the Woodbine pro-
video—the like across the meadow, the
unsurpassed green sward, the stately elms
and the flower beds, Given May sunshine
end Blay breezes the whole setting la
1171110.
P110 crowd is the most cosmopolitan that
gathers in Toronto, It Cute society in a
vertleal sortton, Tho highest in the land
is there. So is the lowest. About the
atab1OB one may Bee some rare specimens
of humanity, So, also, in the public stand
and betting ring, Some are, no doubt,
attracted thither by the love of 'man's
beat friend," but most have the fever of
gambling in their veins,
PREMIER IS DEMOCRATIC.
The first visit of tho Right Honorable
R. L. Borden to Toronto Mime his aoces•
Mon to the Premiership was the occasion
of a warm welcome, as was natural In a
city whirl' is se strongly devoted to his
cause and party as is Toronto. While
Mr. Borden's cltoraeter 800,00 on the sur-
face to lack something of warmth, news•
paper men know him to be one of the
easiest public men in Canada to inter•
view. His predecessor, Sir Wilfrid Lau•
rier, refused always, and still refuses, to
bo quoted in an interview about anything,
Mr. Borden, on the other hand, rarely de.
clines to be interviewed, though, nater•
ally, he does not make important an,
nonncereents by this method. To say that
lie is easy to interview does not mean
that he to a seeker of publicity, or has
not a keen sense of dignity. Quite tho
00ntrary.
Bir Edmund Osler, his host during his
visit, has always expressed himself as u
warm admirer of Mr. Borden's abilities
and oharacter, Sir Edmund is one of
Canada's wealthiest men, the Canadian
Pacific) and, Northwest. lands having fur.
niched him with the means of fortune,
building, rt
LIVE WIRE 1N LACROSSE.
Tho lnerosse situation has been touched
by a live wire this Beason, said live wire
being no less a personage then our old
friend R. J. Ptetning, General Manager of
the Toronto Street Railway, whose chief
hobbies heretofore have been Jersey
cows and Sunday school activities. Until
last year Bob" Fleming did not know
a lacrosse stick from a baseball bat. Trion
ho had the Toronto Lacrosse Club given
to him. It was literally forced on him.
The owners bad been losing money. They
caw no way of getting even, Thee .rad
been playing on the Toronto Railway
Company's grounds at Soat•boro Beach,
and so they went to the railway's man-
ager and calmly informed him that it
Was up to him to take the team off their
hands.
He went to see kis hove play. They
lost, He decided to get some new players,
But he was informed that under the rules
of the N. L. A. he could not eugnge Dew
players at that stage of the season. The
'(.tient allows what a novice he was.
But this year Ile was not to be fooled
again. with the result that lacrosse play
ere have been making contracts at un-
dreamed of prices. There never hen bean
such doings. Of course. the game in this
league has been thoroughly profeseiott-
take , and no one Mixes for glory And
hitherto they have played for moderate
rash considerations. But between
Fleshing and Con. Jones, an ex -Australian,
who runs a big billiard parlor in Yen-
eouver, and who is the lacrosse magnate
of British Columbia, salaries have been
boosted to dizzy heights. In the Newsy
Lalonde, affair it is understood that Jonas
paid 85,000 for a one -season contract after
Flemingthought he had him at 54,500, of
which 82.000 had bnen paid over.
When friends point out that at such
salaries 1)0 can't hope to make money.
even if he filled the largest grand stand
in the oity at every game, Mr. Plem•
ming declares that all ho cares about is
to get a team that will win games.
With big league lacrosse so thoroughly
commercialised it is a pity that the situ-
ation hl the amateur leagues of the na-
tional game is not better. But there ie
a hope that the rivalry between the Ca-
nadian and Ontario associations will bo
straightened out before another Beason.
DR.'NESBITT HOME' AGAIN,
Dr. Beattie Nesbitt Is again In our
midst. The method of hie homo•oonilne
was quite in keeping with his (Matador.
Dow to get, from the Ohloago train to
the fall without running into a reporter
or a photographer was it problem that
gave a new turn to the game of life, but
58 a game which offered some measure
of enjoyment it appealed to the ,jovial
doctor, and as such he entered into ft
with his accustomed zest.
Those who saw the doctor in court de-
clare he has aged greatly in the sixteen
months since ho left Toronto. Ile hos
loot weight, added wrinkles and lost some
011100,has acenstomed lfghtsomeness of man.
Sympathy is eopreseed for hie wife and
child, a little girl, 11x0. Nesbitt 5118 one
of the two daughters of the late Mr, Hub.
hard, who had built Pp a hie hnoiuess in
dental supplie0, and left at his death an
estate of some $200.000, Dr. Nesbitt man -
egad the business for a period, but un•
ouoceasfUlly.
�•r
PAT AGAIN.
An English clergyman turned to
a Seetchnfan and asked him, "What
would you be were you not, a Scot?"
The Scotchman said, ttWhy an
Englishman, of course!" 'Then the
clergyman turned to a gentleman
from Ireland and' asked him, f1And
what would von be were you not
an Irishman ?" The man thought
a memcnt and said, "I'd be asham-
ed of meself 1"
By always taking out and never
putting in the bottom is soou'reech-
ed.
FOR MARINO SOAP,
SOFTENING WATER,
REMc1.!/it%Cs PAINT,
DISINFECTING SINKS.
CLOSETS, ®RAI ISI$ a LTC.
SOLD EVERYWHERE
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
eatEIlaciJ
WHO OWNS SOTJTII POLE LAND
question Raised by Success of the
Amundsen Expedition.
The question of whether Norway
owns the territory surrounding the
South Pole, whieh has just been dis-
covered by Captain Amundsen, al-
ready is being discussed by authori-
ties on -international law.
Ever since 1778, when Capt.
Cook's expedition, planted a flag
in the Antarctic, explorers of vari-
ous nations have carried their flags
to various parts approaching the
South Pole. It is generally be-
lieved the land in the Antarctic will
be regarded in the same way as the
Spitzbergen archipelago, which is
inhabited by men of various na-
tions, and now is regarded as a
joint possession of all mankind,
John Bassett Moore, professor of
international law at Columbia Uni-
versity, paints•out that leading au-
thorities have taken the position
that discovery alone does not suf-
fice to give good title to a new un-
occupied land and that the customs
of the nations for centuries has
crystallized into a part of the law
of nations that in order to perfect
the right given by discovery it must
be.. followed by general occupation,
•Prof, Moore says that the task of
oecapying the territory surrounding
the South Pole undoubtedly will
prove more difficult than its discov-
ers' and that it was extremely un-
likely that the question of owner-
ship would ever be brought up to
the joint commission of arbitration
for settlement.
6Z INTEREST AND SAFETY
q Price Bros. and Company Bonds pay 6 per cent on the investment. They
offer the strong security of first mortgage on 6,oao square miles of pulp and
timber lands—which are insured at Lloyds against fire. The earnings of the
Company at present approximate twice the bond interest. The new pulp mill in
course of construction will double this earning power, Purchased -at their present
Price they pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent. The best posted investors in
Canada and England have purchased these bonds. Owing to the security and
increasing demand of the products of the Company, these bonds will unquestion-
ablyincrcase in value.
It you have money to invest write ire for complete information.
Y L SECURITIES
CORPORATiOIN LiMITED
BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING • YONGE AND QUEEN STREETS
R. M. WHITE TORONTO
MONTREAL-OUEBEC-HALIFAX-OTTAWA
Manager LONDON (ENO,)
$5Q,000 WAS
TED
FOR LARGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
•
The business of the Simian Company, Limited, has boon
growing so rapidly that an Immediate increase of capital is re.,
quired. We aro instreated to offer 000,000 preference stock, In
shares of 5100, In this Company, on the following terms:—
Wo guarantee a dividend of 7 per cent„ payable on Juno lot
and December 1st,
This dividend has never been passed, .Investor's tlesiritt,
the names of parties all through Ontario who have been receiv-
ing dividends of 7 per cent. for eight or nate years will kindly
aeries res, and toe shall be pleased to send,fitll particulars.
Preferred stockholders also share In the dividends on nom.
mon atdok, as follows:—Ir the common stock pays 3 per cent.
the proferred pays 3 par Dent. In addition t0 the 7 per cent.
guaranteed, or 10 per cent. Ip alt,
Investors may redeem their shares at par at any time alter
one year upon giving sixty days' notice.
NATIONAL. SECURITIES CORPORATION, LTD.,
CONFEDERATION LiFE BUILDING, TORONTO, ONT,
Ts
HOUSES HAVE LIFTING POLE
THE QUEEN BUILDINGS O1?
AMSTERDAM.
Some Peculiarities of Housing
Clod •
dlfions In tells. Big
Du(c'It City.
"One of the peculiarities of Am-
sterdam, Holland, housing condi-
tions is the fact that wealthy busi-
ness men very frequently have
their residences in their once and
warehouse buildings. The upper
floors of the structures are, elegant-
ly curtained with plush or lace,
while the lower flours are occupied
as
office quarters, or the lower
floors are used for residential pur-
poses and the talc, floors as ware -
moans, All of these houses front on
the Canals and waterways," writes
a correspondent.
"Each house in Amsterdam has a
lifting polo projecting about four
feet over the sidewalk from the
highest gable of the roof, All coal,
furniture, household supplies, and
merchandise ase lifted by rope and
pulley and taken' in through the
windows. Another peculiarity of
Dutch houses is the little mirror at.
inched to the windows, that show,
to persons in the upper Stories, a
view of the street or of any one
ringing the front door bell,
NEW TENEMENTS.
"Recent years have witnessed the
construction of new fonr and five
storey apartment houses and tene-
ments, entire blocks and suburban
sections having been built up in
this manner. The working man's
flat in these new tenements gener-
ally consists of only two rooms, •
rarely of three, and the average
rent is $10 to $14 a month. In more
prctentieus houses the rent is fully
twice this amount. In the oke sec-
tions of the city, where five and six
families occupy a single tenement,
the rent averages $3 to $4 a month
for each room, according to size and
general accommodations. In the
better inner quarters one large
room with a small kitchen and even
two small rooms with kitchen can be
rented for $5 to $10, '
MANY SMALL STORES.
In the oke -fashioned houses, pecu-
liar to Amsterdam and predominant
on all the side streets, with one liv-
ing room downstairs, one sleeping
roost on the second floor, and a kit -
hen and dining -room on the third
floor, the rent is $14 to $16 for these
hree rooms. The upper floor's are
cached by a winding stairway; the
rat floor is entered direct from the
trent. The side streets in Amster •
-
lam on which these dwellings pre -
ail are rarely over eight feet wide,
yet occasionally the lower rooms
re used for business purposes. I
ave, not found in any of the large
,ties so many small retail stores as
n Amsterdam, not only in the:heart
f the city, but throughout the en -
ire suburban district as well.
here are no large collective or de-
artment stores here; each house -
old community is handled in a see -
rate shop,
LIVE IN BOAT HULLS,
"One of the striking features of
he Netherlands housing methods is
1e quarters of barge and canal
oat men, who with their families
Fist in the hulls of their craft. The
ooms are necessarily small, with
o ventilation or sunlight except
at as may come in through the
pen hatch, which must be closed at
ght and in rainy weather. The
eck furnishes the children's play-
nnd. The large motor boats and
eam barges have one or two small
oms constructed at each end of
to barge. The roosts must be low
allow the boats to pass under
'idges, These people are leading
ssibly the most frugal lives of any
the urban working classes of Eu -
pe, with no rent, ne street car
1'00, or other usual unavoidable„
ty expenses, Clhiekens are some -
Uses kept on the. boat, and con -
me the garbage.
"Working men in The Hague gen
ally live in small houses built op-
site each other on narrow side
Teets or garden places. These
uses aro customarily two stories
height, with one room down -
airs and one upstairs; often a
all kitchen, not larger than 6 by
coli, is attached. This game class
house is sometimes found in the
r of yards of large business
les it and heats every cry and
natives., The rent Unice varies
In $6 to $6 a tenth, according
location. Merchants, especially
:retail shopkeepers, live in the
ne building where their ttusiness
located, either at the rear or
,ve their stores, If. they live in
rear they rent the upper ilool•s,
good locations, as flats at $12 to
a month."
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