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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931 ed PAGE TWO * Ontario News | wy | Contest Ea A --~Master Teddy McCrea : WW age, was the winner of : i in the oratorical contest ¥ 8 under the auspices of the 29s at 12 Cents . Brockville.--Very little syrup is be- lig brought into. the village of Jas- per and is selling at $1.25 a gallon. Kggs are selling at 12 cents per doz- en, the lowest price in years. Clected to School Board Brockville.~When the electors of DID YOU | SEE IT « . THERE IT GOES ... % Z-Z-ZIP Right into my brand new tuxedo suit. Those || pesky MOTHS do millions of | dollars' worth of damage Each Year. Springtime is Housecleaning® time and housecleaning time is the time to beat Mr. Moth as his own game. You've heard about that ounce of Preven- || tion , . . Yet How many | of You Folks Really MOTH- || PROOF Your clothing, bed- ding, woollens, etc., before putting them away. It's so easy--Rinse Your Woollens in Rinsing Larvex, spray Larvex on all your clothing and bedding, then it's 'Safe and Sure. Get Mr. Moth, before he gets you, by using FlyKil ...........50c & 75¢ | with Sprayer $1.50 You Save With Safety at a Jury & Lovell King St. E. Phone 28 Simcoe St. 8. Phone 68 i an Cardinal village voted to fill a vac- ancy existing upon the school board, they retarned Joi Bennett to that office by a majority of 43 over Dr. W. O. Williams, Left $6,300 to Church Carleton Place.--~Under the will of Mrs. Peter McDonald, of Carleton Place, a bequest of $6,300 was made to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in the town. Of this amount $300 is left to the W.2L.S,, the balance being divided amongst the different orangi- zations of the church, 7,348 Employed Peterboro.~The total number of employed persons in the city at the present time, including the various trades, professions and businesses is given a8 7,345, made up of 5310 males and 2,035 females. TraPs Large Wolf Fenelon Falls, -- Archie Taggart caught a large dog wolf in a trap and mailed the pelt to the County Treasurer at Lindsay so that he would be sure of receiving the bounty. Jailed For Liquor Theft Deseronto--A crowded court room heard Magistrate Bedford pronounce a sentence of six months determinate and a further indeterminate Sentence of not more than two years less one day in the Ontario Reformatory, on Clarence Cooper and Gerald Gold. The pair elected summary trial and pleaded guilty to a charge of enter- ing the Liquor Store at Deseronto, on December 13th last, and stealing liquor to the value of $920.65. They received the same sentence to run concurrent with the above on a charge of entering the blacksmith shop of William D. Perry and steal- ing therefrom a quantity of tools and Saws. Harold Simmons, the other member of the trio appeared with his counsel R, D. Arnott. The prelimin- ary evidence was taken, which was sufficient to commit the man for trial. Moves To Syracuse Kingston.--Rev. Charles Paterson- Smyth, rector of St. John's Anglican church, Prescott, has tendered his re- signation to the Bishop of Ontario to take effect on May 15. He has accepted the charge of Grace Church Syracuse, N.Y, Golf Club Officers Brockville--The following officers were elected at the meeting of the directors of the Brockville Golf and Country Club. President, J. Gill Gardner; Vice-president, F. I. Rit- chie; secretary-treasurer, Miss Mary Hall; captain, E. C. Cossitt; vice- captain, N. L. MacDowell, To Tour Ottawa Valley Ottawa.--In an endeavor to have a display at the Central Canada Ex- WU Yi 7 INS Here's a Room that PAYS ITS OWN ese Once u on a time it wasn't a room at all. It was just waste space be- neath the roof. Then we learned how easy it was to make use of such places with TEN/TEST and we converted it into a recrea~ tion room. But it was afterwards that Heat no longer escaped. The house at once became more comfortable and the coal bill came down. the big surprise came. In building the room with TEN/TEST we had put insulation between the roof Now, every year the saving in fuel represents a nice tidy rent from the room, and we have the room too. We killed two birds with one stone . . . we got an- other room and we reduced our fuel bill by practically one-third. Not bad for TEN/TEST. For complete information, estimates, ete., call Oshawa Lumber Co. Limited ~ 25 Ritson Road N. Telephone 2821 hibition this year of "made in Otta- wa Valley goods," several members of the Ottawa Board of Trade are planning to tour the valley and inter- view the various manufacturers, Win Trophies Port Hope.--Misses M. L, and M. Ward won the Houston Cups in the finals of play at the local badminton courts defeating Mrs, H. E. Martin and Mrs. C. S, Mann, The cups were offered for competition in ladies' doubles. CALLS BLUENOSE A FREAK VESSEL Captain Ben Pine, Doughty Gloucester Skipper Adds Her Equal Will Never Built . Halifax, N.S.--"If you ask me, the Bluenose is a freak vessel. They'll never build another like her." Thus were the sailing quali- ties of the famous fishermen-racer summed up by Captain Ben Pine, who was at the wheel of the Ger- trude L. Thebaud during part of the series in which the Thebaud de- feated the Lunenburg schooner off Gloucester last fall. He is now in Halifax superintending repairs to the Squanto. "And Captain Angus Walters is the man who can sail her. Here the voice raised itself in the tones trained on the quarter desk and he glared around as if he dared any- one to contradict this eulogy of the skipper from whom he had more than once tasted defeat. Naturally enough the talk turned to the last racing series which was between the Bluenose and the Ger- trude L. Thebaud. "Captain Wal- ters made a mistake, but it was not near as big as some 1 have made and he can't be held to blame for that." Of this Captain Pine cer- talnly should know, and as he stoi- cally puts it: 'There is more luck attached to racing than enough." Here is what he had to say about the races. 'They brought the best crew to Gloucester I ever saw. We went arm and arm to various functions and you can't beat that for two rival fishing schooner crows." Here a broad grin passed over his weather-tanned face. 'And could remember times when it would have been a running fight, "What does age mean to a vessel like the Bluenose? She gets bet- ter and better like a rare old wine." Here hoe stopped to compare her with the whalahoats they used to race in during the good old days. "We used to grip them by the sides and shake to limher thew up, and by jolly, they used to slide through the water after." This, of course, was in answer to some claims that the Bluenose was strained and had weakened herself when she was stranded on the Newfoundland coast last year. "Why the Columbia went ashore and knocked her keel out, An- other skipper put her ashore again on the opposite tack and near straightened it out again." "My vessel used nearly always have her keel clipped as I always used to like to go tou gear the rocks in Gloucester." Of course Captain Pine is glad that the Thebaud won. 'But {tf she had not," Captain Pine raised his voice to impress, "we sure would have built another to take her place as challenger." Captain Pine belleves that the International Series wii we renew- ed this fall and looks forward to the races with keen delight, RESCUES RELIEVE GRIM PAGES OF SEALING RECORDS Many Deeds of Heroism Adorn Lore of Newfound- land's Seal Hunters Bonavista, Nfld.--Since the loss of the Viking added more than a score of Newfoundland' <eal-hunt- ers to the toll of almost six hun- dred men who have iow (neir lives in major disaster to the fleet fyles have been resurrected and records searched to bring to ji,.t stories comparing with the (tragedy of Horse Island. But there are nu- merous instances of thrilling res- cues to brighten the grim record. Thirty-five or forty years ago it wag customary for townspeople here to repair to White Rock, an eleva- tion of 200 feet, and watch the seal- Ing fleet from St. John's pass north on March 10.. Then also, men of the town who had not been fortu- nate enough to secure a berth to the ice donned their sea-boots and prepared to prosecute the industry from thelr own homes on the pack- ed ice of the harbor. Here were enacted In miniature the successes and failures , disasters and escapes characterizing the fleet's activities in the north. "Uncle Larry" Keel, when a lad of twelve years or so, accompanied his grandfather out on the ice one morning; the wind blew off-shore and the ice broke imo pans. In late afternoon the grandfather knew his strength was gone and that no hope remained of 'their reaching shore together. He per- suaded the boy to leave him and try to reach a vessel that could be seen several miles off. This the lad did, succeeding In reaching the vessel shortly before nightfall, and as it was impossible to set him ashore that night, it was decided to take him to the fce-flelds. That was in March, and the vessel did not make her home port of Harbor Grace until May. One bright af- ternoon in that months young Larry arrived safe at home, having profii- ed hoth physically and financially from the venture. The grandfather wis never seen again. "Uncle Larry" died an old man, three years ago. experience of the same sort, 4 | thirty years ago when a man left Old Days When Tall Masted Ships Sailed From St. John Are Recalled by Aged Sailor Saint John, N.B. -- Twinkling lights shone across the harbor through drizzling rain; port noises blended with the rattling of a train of dump cars on their way to the Mill Pond, being filled in as part of the necessities of harbor develop- ment. The new West Side elevator loomed sentinel-like in the dark. And a former sea-rover stood at the head of Market Slip with re- sentment in his voice as he mused aloud on the changes wrought by time. He was Willlam Hammond, now a resident of Union: Street West, whose home was once any corner where he might toss his clo- thes-bag. Gradually the noises of progress faded, to be taken up by the phan- tom ring of caulkers' hammers, "The last vestiges of sailing ves- sels have almost vanished," sald William Hammond. Ships laden with lumber, their bulging sails shining in the sun, are gone. Old shipyards where once hundreds of men clambered over the skeletons of vessels are waste places. Ma- chinery rattles where once the sound of mallets, the squeak of saws, and chantey songs filled the air. . .the building of 'the ships of grey St. John.' "Few tall-sparred ships sail to- day," he muttered angrily. Scavangering sea-gulls cried over the flats of the Pond as if to remind all that on far-off shores Fundy's old-time ships rotted or were used as coal barges--their history, build. er and portrof register forgotten. But still there remains a handful of ageing men who knew those ves- sels--sad-looking men with wistful eyes, jealous of honors bestowed on fast liners----strangely bashful. "We always like to see a 'sailor' come up the harbor," the story-tell- er sald. 'You young fellows can't understand." "Something's missing," he con- tinued as he dragged on his ancient pipe. He became loquacious, speaking in quick short sentences. "Who cares about those days?' he demanded, pacing back and forth long the deck. "Why, when 1 was a boy back in '65, Saint John thrived like it never hag since, Then upwards of 26 blacksmithe, 27 ship-builders, 84 shoemakers, 13 carriage and sleigh makers. dozens of boarding houses, more than a score of hotels, seven sailmakers, five brewers, 14 iron foundries, 13 auctioneers, and close to 300 beer retailers, flourished here and em- ployed help. They're all in my book at the house----wonderful men they were. "What? Well, there were bell hangers, a bone factory, brass foun- dries, many carvers and gilders, only a couple of opticians and doz- ens of small boat builders." The vision faded for a moment as a tug steamed down the harbor to meet an ocean liner arriving, seven days out of Liverpool. Grad- aully,. the rattling of the dump cars and the shouts of 'longzhoremen were again surmounted by the curses of foreign sailors operating hand-winches,....old chantey songs... .flapping canvasses, tim- ber ponds, horse-cars, operating be- tween foot of King Street and In- diantown, silk toppers, hitching posts in King Street, the Saxby Gale of '69 and the ruin it left in its wake, the great fire of '77, fol- lowed by the erection of tents and shelters in King Square. "1 remember the Scammell fleet of bird shipg of about the year "66 and '67---the Tropic Bird, Snow Bird, Prairie Bird, King Bird, and though less spectacular, occurred his home at two o'clock in the morn- | ing to go "off on ice." During the day he became separate from his | companions and was given up for dead that night. Searching parties found no trace. Blinds . were drawn in the home of the relatives. Nearly a week had elapsed when tidings came that the man had reached Litter Dernier Lighthouse after forty-eight hours on the ice, and was on his way home, It was customary years ago when the ice came in for the ,.. men and girls to prepare kettles of hot tea and "figgy bung' and go out to meet the men-folk on the ice. After this refreshment they were ready to look for another turn o' pelts, When the sealing mneet passed north this year the only recogni- tion of the event in Bonavista was a signal on the fog-horn as they passed the capa. The bay was as clear of ice as in the month of Au- gust. The old customs have fallen into disuse. a host of others. And the Sears, who built one of the largest full- figgers on the Strait Shore. Now they're gone, forgotten," he said. "And way back in '66 or '66, Hathewdy & Small, Tom McLeod, Tippett & Goldsworthy, Bob Stack: house and others built ships around the corners of Middle and Union streets and King and Market Place, West Side. I 'member dads used to send their sons to the yards after wood. "I say nobody cares now-a-days. Some do?" It was his defense. With his an- cient pipe gripped in his teeth, he leaned forward as we 'sat on the edge of the wharf. "Saint John's ships were known iif every port of the world: Your grandfather sailed them....your ancestors built them.. ..George Holder made sails for 'em. So did the late John Roop on Johnson's Wharf; John Gardiner on Lawton's Wharf and a half-a-dozen others. Water could have been called 'Sail and ship clndlers lane' 'Twas paved with Wooden blocks. "Local ships in '66 were valued at about a million dollars and in "72 or thereabouts more than 800 vessels were owned here or near- by, worth around seven millions of dollars. A dollar a day was a good wage then. You had to work from dawn till dark....nobody had to loaf though unless they wanted to." he sald, 'Men loved their work and took pride in their trade.... master craftsmen, all of them, "And what a thrill folks used to zet when a big one slid down the ways and splashed into the water, verhaps of the harbor or of Marsh Creek. And now we old gents can only dream, talk, swap yarns and look at old pictures." Then came a story of the world- famous Marco Polo, best known ship ever launched in Marsh Creek. "James Smith built her....she went to Liverpool in 15 days.... ran to Australla in 68 days, beat. ing a steamer by a week, Fastest hip in the world at that time, She went tramping at last and as though 'he wanted to 'lay-up' near home she piled up on the rocks of P.E.I "And there were lots of ships plying between here and uppe I"undy ports, with lumber and pro visions, Water was more popula: for transportation of such thing: in those days when I was a boy And the old wood-boats uown river 7aunt river-men all spires now." After that he told of the chantin river-men who chant no more Wheelbarrow boats, millions of fee of lumber piled on the edge of th Mill Pond and Strait Shore.... schooner-rigged barges that too! ten days to go to Fredericton.... Captain Paddy Gallagher, uncrown od king-of-tbe-river-men. He pilot ed his tug through the falls onc with the higgest tow ever take: through by a single craft. Hun dreds stood on the old Suspension Bridge. 'Here comes Gallagher was a favorite shout along the riv er-shore. "But the world 1s quick to for get, ...ldols of old days are forgot ten....only old men now.... "Those were great days for us young fellows when a locally built ship sailed in, reeking of spices and tea, thelr shining white canvas. huge sailors who on going ashore fought in Water Street or swapped tales in bar-rooms." As the night waned, the story- teller told of the old tide mill op the Mill Pond. The wheel turned when the tide rushed in and at slack tide the men went home, Fishermen made comfortable 1iv- ings from their harbor-weir catches. Open air markets in Market Place on both sides of the harbor where | horses and feed were sold in huge quantities and where country folk from up-river sold their wares, All gone now, only memories, CANADA'S FIRST PAPER MILLS The first paper mill in Canada wa: established at St. Andrews, Quebec, in 1803. The first paper mill in Up- per Canada was established at Greensville (then called Crook's Hol- low), near Hamilton, in 1813, and a | near. | mill built at Bedford Basin, Halitax, in 1819 was the first of these mills established in the Maritime Provinces. s Honey Harvest Honey Production in Alberta has come to be a real industry, to judge by the fact that production for the past year was three times that of the year previous, and that a few years ago, very little honey was produced in that province. Production In 1930 amounted to 1,- 500,000 Ibs. GUARANTEED POCAHONTAS NO, 1 AND DRY BODY WOOD, HARD SLABS, AND - SOFT WOOD SLABS, ALSO GENER- AL MOTORS WOOD. ALL CUT STOVE LENGTH. SOLVAY-DUSTLESS-COKE DIXON COAL CO. SIZED CANNEL Five Direct Lines SASK. MAN CAN PREDICT QUAKES Carl Viberg Is Regarded As A Human Seis- mometer Shaunavon, Sask. -- (By The Canadian Press)--This town pos- sesses & human seismometer in the person of Carl Viberg, who pre- dicts when earthquakes will hap- pen. Just about the time some- thing seismic is taking place in the world Mr. Viberg declares he "feels" it and tells his friends to watch for the announcements in the newspapers. On February 14 Mr. Viberg told friends an earthquake was taking place and that they shortly would hear of it. The following day newspapers carried accounts of an earthquake at Alina Cruz, Mexico. Recently Mr. Viberg "felt" unusual movements in the earth and the following day the country was shocked with detailed accounts of the New Zealand earthquake. He also foretold earth disturb ances on Penal Island, off the coast of Mexico. Asked to describe his "feel- ings" Mr, Viberg was unable to give any idea of it. A certain trembling comes on, he states, which he cannot account for. This is always . followed by news of earth movements having taken place. . 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