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CANADA'S MOUNTED ESCORT TO QUEEN sufficient riding experience to fit them for such a gruelling | parade as the coronation pro- cession, Assistance from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was obviously called for. As a result, Col. Brooks, command- . With more than two months of strenuous training first at Winnipeg and then at RCMP school .in Ottawa behind them, Canada's mounted escort to the | Queen at the coronation .on | June 2 in London is just about ! ready for the big day. When | ,Canada was asked to rpovide a detachment of the Queen's . Escort it created somewhat of a problem in military circles, as no officers were available with RS Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, was asked to form the escort from officers of his unit who had served with him in Korea, ' and the mounted police offered Marks110thBirthday OTTAWA (CP)--~The Ottawa Citi- | - One of them was Henry J. Friel, zen, daily newspaper born in the | Montreal-born newspaper man who horse-and-buggy era before Con-|became Bytown's last mayor and federati-on, today celebrated the one of the first mayors of the new 110th anniversary of its founding city of Ottawa when the commun- with completion of a new $2,000,000 | ity switched its name in 1855. Four wing. | years earlier the Packet had be- ¢.: special 160-page edition, filled | come the Citizen. th stories and pictures of by-| It began twice-weekly publication gone days, rolled off new presses in 1859 and six years later started capable of producing 45,000 papers ' daily editions. During the transition an hour. ithe paper had changed location News carriers were given bonu- | 2nd politics. It now was situated ses to g their frie and carts In 8 '"hole-in-the-wall" office in albng to help distribute the anni. central Ottawa on Sparks street a versary edition which conipares Plock from its recent location on a normal edition of 36 pages. the busy shopping street between STARTED AS WEEKLY Metcalfe and O'Connor. It suppor- One of Canada's oldest newspa- 'ed the Conservative party. pers, the Citizen, with a combined | At the start of the century the Iporing and evening dally circula- Citizen was a morning paper only. | tion of 60,000, was born as a weekly It had a daily circulation of 1,800 entitled the Packet when Ottawa |publishing from. a flat-bed press ing officer of 2nd Regiment, | | to supply the horses and have | the riders fit and ready in the | limited time available. It was | a tough struggle but it worked, | and the result is seen lined up | under the Peace Tower on Par- liament Hill in Ottawa. From left are Lt.-Col. E. G. Brooks, left, of Montreal and Winnipeg; Maj. J. S Orton, Ottawa; Lieut. H E Pepler of Oakville, Ont, and Lieut. H. A. McLellan of Sarnia, Ont Central Press Canadian. | capable of 900 papers an hour. Bulky 160-Pagelssue BIG STEP FORWARD Then came the turning point in the paper's career. In 1879 a | 29-year-old Hamilton man, Wilson | Southam, took over the paper. He ordered a new press which could boost production to 10,000 papers {an hour, transferred the paper to a new building and went into the evening as well as the mornin field. : In three months the combined circulation jumped from 1,800 daily to almost 6,000. Mr. Southam per- {suaded leading advertisers to transfer ads from the front to in- side pages at a 50-per-cent increase in rates. And the paper became independent and liberal in politics. | He erected the first building in | Ottawa specifically built to house 8 newspaper--the Citizen's pres- ient site. For almost a half-century !Mr. Southam directed the paper's affairs until his death in 1947 when his brother, H. 8. Southam, the present publisher, took over. The "Goliath" beetle found in tropical and southern Africa may reach four inches in length. was a lumbering village called By- | town. | The Packet appeared first in| 1844, just 17 years after Bytown | was formed and 23 years before Confederation. It was published by | William Harris, an Irishman, who! operated in a small office on Qeorge street, a site now occupied by vegetable gardeners and prod- uce merchants in lower-town Ot- tawa. Publisher Harris followed the | Reform party and wrote scores of | biting editorials. The Packet went through difficult | times. Mechanical equipment was rudimentary, circulation small and | advertising revenues meagre. 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He took his bachelor's degree in from march to a ballad and sung music from the University of Ari- M. (AP)-- offi ficially | ALBUQUERQUE, NM. (AP). office to start off the song officially !as a nostalgic reminder of home. zona in 1948 and - now is working Some 40 years ago a young Yale on the long, long way which has . , A / 3 | Eliott considers the slower Am. on a master's degree. Elliott is student named Alonzo Elliott | brought author Elliott $70,000 ino rican version sentimental. It was |cOMPposing a southwestern opera in wrote a maroh for his fraternity royalties over the years. It still written as a march and Elliott has [the grand style based on the life convention. 'brings Elliott an average of about 'decided marches are what he does |of Billy the Kid. we music Soria fiver notieed $1,000 a year. best. ; , It was quickly forgotten. | At 61, Elliott still is writing, With the money from 'Long, : copy submitted to an English pub- |music--as a student in the music Long Trail," Elliott went % Nab Toronto P alr lisher gathered dust for years. 'department of the University of | Europe in 1929. He travelled the | . Then came the First World War New Mexico. If it seems strange continent trying to write nent. | For Diamond Theft and the English publisher, strolling | for a successful song writer to be popular songs "like Irving Berlin." | along the Thames, ran into a group sharing a classroom with young- After repeated failures, he| TORONTO (CP)--Donald Mun- of Canadian soldiers quick-stepping |sters, Elliott has an explanation: settled down and wrote the militant roe, 21, a baggageroom employee along and singing: 'There's A| "Early success can be detrimen- opera "Top Sergeant" following 20 at nearby Malton airport, and Eu- Long, Long Trail A-Winding. . . ."" tal, as it was in my case," he years of work. The publisher hurried back to his 'admits. Another of it spread by Montgomery's troops while they | Song Writer Finds "i neo mi ih, i, che soils hue | gene 8. 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