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Mar ots they: sup : \ ; STEAMSHIP LINES rope the Ports t hich th sal A the Pd hes llingas PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES pt ATE on sae zy SRL RAT BUILDER OF RAILWAYS COLLINGWOOD SCHREIBER HAN HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER. Veteran Construction Expert, Who at the Age of Eighty-Three Is Gen- eral Consulting Engineer In the Canadian Government, Has Parti. | cipated In Building of Every | Great Canadian Railway. ! | No one: so thoroughly. epitomizes | | the railway history of Canada as Collingwood Schreiber, C.M.G., at) present General Consulting Engineer to - the Canadian Government, says Francis D. Cameron in Toronto Star Weekly. It is not merely that his ca- reer includes almost the whale perioa of railway building in the Dominion. | It is that he has played a large part in the construction of our railways. He bas had a hand in the surveyin or building of every 'one of our big systema of iron road. One might al Say that he epitomizes the transpor- tation history of Canada, for he has also supervised the construction of a 'Boodly part of our present canal | system, { When Mr. Schreiber came to Can-| ada as a young man, there were only ! 205 miles of railway in operation in this country. That was just two years later than the middle of the century. His first year with us he went into his life work, and took part in the building of the first line of railway between Toronto and Hamil- ton. In that work young Schreiber 'made good" and he has been in the forefront of railway builders ever since: He helped to build some of the lines now Included in the Grand Trunk system. He had charge of the | engineering work on the Intereolon- fal. He superintended the construe- tion ~of the Canadian Pacific. As chief engineer of the Department of Railways and - Canals he supervised the plans for the building of sections of the Canadian Northern system to be. And since 1905 he has devoted his energies to inspecting the cvon- struction of the Grand Trunk Pacific. Mr. - Schreiber was eighty-three years of age on the 14th of August. Most men who have the good fortune! to outlive the Psalmist's span of life are glad to rest when they reach Mr. Schreiber's age. But he is one of the unresting natures of the world. He is a big man physicaily, and he has a magnificent constitution. Year by year since the road was begun he has made his annual trips of inspection over the route. This year he was able { to do his work in the comfort of an inspection car. But only four years ago, when he was seventy-nine years of age, he covered five hundred miles on horseback and afoot in connection with the survey of the line. Mr. Schreiber belongs to that much-maligned race of men, the preacher's sons. His father, the Rev Thomas Schreiber, was rector of Bradwell, in Essex, Eng. His grand- father was Admiral Bingham, and Collingwood was named after the great sea captain. Young Schreiber was apprenticed to 2 surveyor, and it was from him that he learned the rudi ts of that science of which he became in after years an outstanding exponent. It was as a surveyor that he got employment on the Toronto & Hamilton Railway on his landing in Canada; and his training stood him in good stead in the new land. He stayed with the new railway un- til it was completed in 1856, and by that time had become so well known as an efficient and capable engineer that he was taken in as a partner in the engineering firm of Fleming, Ri- dout, and Schreiber, of Toronto. The bead of the firm was, of course, the man who managed the basic surveys for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and now Sir Sandford Fleming. Fleming and Schreiber are two great names in the railway development of the Dom- inion. ° Sandford Fleming achieved the greater fame through the build- ing of the first transcontinental in the world, but Collingwood Schreiber has been more intimately connected with the general system of railway transportation throughout Canada While in partnership with Sand- ford Fleming, Schreiber superintend- ed the construction of the Esplanade at Toronto. During four years later he had control of the construction of the Northern Railway, which is now part of the northern division of the Grand Trunk. In 1863 he was invited by the Government of Nova Scotia to assist in the development of the rail- way province, and was thus brought into close touch with what is riow the Government system of railways. For four years he was engaged in the construction of the Pictou railway, which .was taken over by the Dom- inion Government after Confedera- tion; and from there went on to lay out the Lake Temiscouata section of the Intercolonial. He built the Kast- ern Extension line, now part of the I. C. R., became superintending engi- neer and commissioner's assistant over the entire system: and in.'73 was placed in charge of the opera- tion of the new railway. The decade after 1880 Collingwood \ Schreiber spent in the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He went to the C. P. R. as the successor of his | old partner, Fleming, and became | chief engineer of the road in Flem- | ing's room and stead. He held this position during the critical times of the construction of the great trans- continental, and until it was getting on its feet; and them he returned to the service of the Government, as chief engineer and Deputy Minister of the Department of Railways' and Canals. For over nine years he has held the position of General Consulting Engi- neer to the Government with the rank of a Deputy Minister, his chief work beiag the inspection of the, con- struction of the Grand Trunk Pacific as the representative of the people of Canada. For over sixty years Mr. Schreiber has been actively associated with 'the railway development of the Dominion. The railway history of Canada will be Incomplete unless it llingwood includes the "Memoirs of Schreiber." : -------- When a man gets lonesome he be- gins to realize what Poor company he is. Mission Boards Are Maintaining Pro. grams For the Year. : Apprehensive, but not duspondent, Would be, perhaps, a fair description of the attitude of the various Cana. dian churches towards the probable effect of the war on missions, whether at Rowe or abroad. "We Methodists," said the ev. Dr. Endecott, "haye ope board Fo both home and foreign 'missions, And at its meeting last month, the appro- priations covering both were equal to those of last year--in fact, slightly In advance of last year's. This plan 'can be carried out only at the cost of unusual sacrifices. We recognize that ge from the question of un. u lt financial stringency, the war is Making unusual calls on church mem. EIS In the shape of subscriptions t¢ pa &- tle Fund, and other cognate [fahds, We: would not, have anyone, '8iYe a cent less to any of these. But, : the tame time, we make an appeal 0 our church members for su remea Toykity and self-sacrifice. We a do out patriotic duty and religious duty tog. 'Fear God, Honor the King.' Our duly 'in both directions fs absolute #1d imperative. \ We are retaining all our mission Sridd in the foreign field, and are sending forward small reinforce- ments, especially to China. In Western China, we have one of the most complete missions in the world ----one of great variety, with its medi- cal, educational, and evangelistic branches, and with its press, which is the press for all missions there--and this is very expensive. In Japan, we have more than doubled our mission- ary staff in the last four years. In fact, during the last ten years wa bave been sending out an abnormal number of missionaries. Our main effort this next year will be to keep up maintenance so that the work may 80 on. Our reinforcements will be up to the full standard. But we are restricting expenditure on buildings and property. "As regards home missions we mean to hold our ground. Our work west of Lake Superior will be carried on on the same scale as last year. But this is only rendered possible by the loyalty of our missionaries.' The Presbyterians consider that the present is a time to advance in the foreign mission field. They have twenty missionaries returning thither from furlough, and are sending out twenty-five new missionaries. Like the Methodists, however, they aim to keep down expenditure on buildings as much as possible, "As regards home missions," said Mr. Edmison, "we intend to re- trench, in the sense that we are not opening up new work. But we are not taking a single missionary out of the field. This is no time for re- trenchment of that kind. Ours is a warfare, too, and we can't recede at a moment like this. With regard to finance, church work has not suffer- ed in lean years in the past. And, up to the present, the contributions to our home missions this year are up to the average, perhaps a little better than usual, although one can scarcely speak definitely as to this, as many people are accustomed to withhold their contributions until the end of the year." Municipal Affairs. Beveral dally newspapers have giv- en their approval to the idea advano- ed In these columns that Ontario should have a commissioner or min- ister of municipal affairs, says The Canadian Courier. Manitoba has a commissioner; Saskatchewan and Al- berta have a minister. At this time, when municipalities need assistance ; and advice in financing, a provincial minister of municipal affairs would be of great assistance to every muni- cipality. At present the town on cils of cities, towns and villages hava no adviser. The Provinelal Govern- ment does nothing to help. These lo- cal bodies must blunder along as best they can. The farmers have a minis- ter who is supposed to help them; the mining men have a minister to help them; other sections of the com- munity get help and advice; but the people who look after municipal ad- ministration get none. In Great Bri- tain, there is a Local Government Board which not only advises the town councils, but finances them. This is a reform to which Canads has given too little attention and which is now a pressing national problem. ------------ The Wolf's Serenade, : The hunting-cry of the wolf-pack resembles almost ezactly the "music" of a pack of fox hounds, save that it is rendered indescribably doleful by the echaes of the forest. Theer ig no more heart-rendering ex- perience than to hear them calling at night-time in the northern Canadian wilds, with the grim desolation of the forest all round, dimly lighted by the beams of the aurora. A writer re- counts that when he was camping near Arrowhead Lake in the spring of 1913, an old wolf sang a nightly serenade to us, and words cannot de acride the sound as it echoed away in- to the peaks, coming and going, and nally fading into the gorges with multitudinous ghost-voices. "Fence Post" Artillery. se ts made recently at the oud to, represent some- t new in warfare. The new de- oth : improvised mortar gun w "whoots fence post. A hole is Jn foe ground at the required o, of gun cotton placed in. it, Wnd on top of that a fence Joat. di] gun Sutton is touched ot an _Roes the post, the idea ing XE fo the fence post is attach- ed a HENt but Strong cable, the post " ¥ Over 'wire entanglements and uled back by those who 'Wihiere Fishing Pays. Salmon fishermen in British Colum- bia earn $15 a day, and some in stances when the catch is exception. ally good as wuch as $235 a day. ---------- \ Entertaining a hope is no disin- terested act of hospitality. Ap enemy is a man who injures When a man's wife hears him call her maid an angel the fly season is at band. et an mi you, then refuses to forgive vou. Deliver us "from the who loos oon vp cul whoa bight : y I Lines In Which They Could Revel In > Dropped "Haitches." Mrs. Crawford, the author of the Popular song "Kathleen Mavour- heen," admitted writing one line of' the song pu to "confound the cockney warblers," who would be certain fo sing it thus: | The 'orn of the 'unter is 'eard on the 'fil. Among *'Moore's Melodjes" is "The Woodpecker," and Moore once said that be wrote its concluding lines with the same mischievous intent as Mrs.' Crawford and that he had often enjoyed hearing the passing butcher boy and fish monger throw into them the utmost aspiration of thelr senti- mental souls for the joys of love in a cottage: Hand I said, ""Hif there's peace to be found hin the world, A 'eart that was 'umble might 'ope for it "ere!" A little group of literary men once Supping at a certain hotel in the hart of London after matching anecdotes of extra and omitted h's Jovially agreed to compete on the spot in writ- ting 'a "Petition" of thé aggrieved letter to the inhabitants of the dis- trict for better treatment. The prize was to be a set of chessmen, and the effusion that won it was composed in fourteen minutes. It ran thus: Whereas: By you I have been driven From 'ouse, from 'ome, from' ope, from 'eaven, = And placed by your most learned society In hexile, hanguish and hanxiety--- Nay, charged without one just pre- tence With harrogance and himpudence. I 'ere demand full restitution And beg you'll mend your helocu: tion! If the Pinch Came, The Indian army is Kitchener's own work. He fcund it very little changed, in training und efficiency, from the days of the Indian Mutiny, and he re-made it. Now it is known that he helds the opinion that it is equal to the best troops in the world. It consists, with reserves, of-about 300,000 men, writes John S. Steele. Theer are 40 regiments of cavalry, 20 mountain batteries, three regi- ments of engineers and 140 battalion of infantry, with service, medical, tvansport and other corps. The men enlist voluntarily for a period of three years and they have the option of extending their service to 82 years. They almost always accept of the op- portunity of extending their service. About 35 per cent. of the men are Ma- hommedans, 63 per cent. are Hindus by religion, and the rest pagans, Christians and Jews. About a third of the cavalry and in- fantry regiments are 'class regi- ments," each composed of men of a particular race or religion, and even within the regiments the companies ore often organized on caste lines. In sddition to these there are about 20,000. excellent soldiers who are known as imperial service troops. They are raised and maintained by the princes of the native states in British India, but the Imperial Gov- ; °rnment has the right to call on them and they are armed and organ- ized on the same lines as the Indian army. Next to them come the troops of the independent rulers. It is esti- mated that, trained and organized on more or less modern lines, there are about 50,000 of them, but such a figure is misleading, for in states like these practically every man is trained fo arms and is a potential soldier. In- dia, if the pinch really came, could probably send to Europe an army that would be reckoned in millions rather than in hundreds of thousands Soldier's Christmas. On Christmas day a million of the flower of the British race will take their Christmas dinners in. the trenches, under canyas, on lines of communication, or in training in bar- racks, huts and exercise grounds. Forty-odd millions of the rest of the inhabitants of the British Isles will, if all goes well, enjoy their roast beef, thelr turkey, their Christ- mas pudding amid the familiar sur- roundings of peace and good will, se- cured to: them by the bravery of their brothers, sons and husbands at the front and on the sea To the soldier on service nothing speaks 80 much of the British Christ- mas as the Christmas pudding, and the London Dally News, with the consent of the Army Council, has de- cided to undertake the organizstion of a supply of Christmas puddings from its readers for distribution on Christmas day among the troops un- der arms. Pretty Old Bread. A loaf of bread 4,500 years old has been found in the tomb of King Mentuhotep, who died in Egypt 2,500 B.C. It is now. in a! museum and ought to be shown to all boys who object to bread that is not fresh from the baker's. This loaf of bread is dark brown in color, and inside are many large holes.' Probably this part of the bread long since fell into dust, but much of the bread still re- mains in the shape of whole- kernels and pieces of grain. This particular loal was made of barley and shows that the grainé were only rudely crushed and not sifted. Jndging from this bread, the kings of Egypt had pretty poor eating, and what kind of food the common people sub- sisted on is hard to imagine. The common laborer of to-day would raise a riot. if he had to put up with the privations and discomforts of the nobility of ancient times. Unconscions Humor, The humor of ecclesiastics is some- times. unconscious. We may suppose; at' any rate, that the learned and pious Dean Burgon was guiltless of 2ny intention to make a pun when in & sermon on the x of the high Anglican schoo! logy he eulogized Je Doc tor Bull, and then exclaimed with characteristic intensity of fervor, "May I live the Mfe of a Taylor and die the death of a Bult s § i ml Aflection in dress indicates a flaw in "DON'TS" FOR "TOMMIES." Rules On Active Service Are Mam) and Very Strict. On %etive service the British sol dier finds himself surrounded' by many pitfalls. Discipline in the army is necessarily strict in time of peace, but when the war bugles begin to blare it becomes ten tim ore strict, and what appear to the '0fdin- ary man as perfectly innocent actions become very grave offences against military law. For instance, one would think that a soldier suffering from the "blues" or afiicted with the "hump" would be at liberty to disseminate his gloom among his mates; but that is not so. Should he do so he is liable to prompt court. martial and long imprisonment for creating unnecessary despondency in the ranks. "Keep smiling' must ever be the watchword of the soldier on active service, It seems a noble thing indeed for a soldier to rush from the ranks under fire' and pick up a wounded comrade who has fallen by the way, and in such cases the average citizen would think a Victoria Cross well earned. Military law takes a different view of the matter, and instead of the V. C, awards the dreaded "D. C." (drum- head court-martial), for no soldier must leave the ranks without permjs- sion of his officers, and "attending to wounded" is one of the excuses spe- cially mentioned in the War Office manual as being inadmissible in cases of this kind. The lot of the soldier taken prisone er by the enemy is not a happy one, but his capture is only the beginning of his troubles. In due course he will have to account to his own side for 'his misfortune, and if he cannot show that his capture was in no way due to carelessness on his part he will have to suffer a beavy penalty. Nor is that all. It may be that in the course of his captivity an' excel- lent chance of escape presents itself. Should he fail to make use of fit, court-martial and punishment awaits him if the officers of his regiment get to know of 'his omission. There are still soldiers in the army, called up with the reserves, who have unpleas- ant recollections of punishment for these offences in South Africa, though they plead that they were not really careléss and did not know of the way of escape at hand. "Sleeping on his post" is one of the most serious offences against mili- tary law, and in aggravated cases death is a penalty that may be award- ed. In the South African War sen- tenced ranged from two to seven years' imprisonment. Yet this is an offence fer which many men in the stress of war cannot morally be held responsible. It may happen that af ter long days of forced marching, fol- { lowed by sleepless nights, a soldier succumbs to sheer exhaustion when at a post of danger. No matter what his physical state may have been, there is no palliation of his offence, because the knowledge that the safe- ty of his comrades depends on his wakefulness is held to be sufficient to drive slumber from the eyes of the most weary soldier who ever paced at his post. "Hoist With His Own Petard." The one sort of mefaphor that ought not to get mixed in a history of the war is a military metaphor. However, when histories of the war begin to appear a fortnight after the war begins either the writer or the printer has to set down much in haste. © That no doubt explains why we read in one of these headlong histories that Germany at a certain point of her diplomatic career "found herself hoisted 'on her own petard." The writer (or printer) must have thought that a petard was a sort of eclovator. Shakespeare, who coined the immortal phrase, was amused by the idea of the military engineer, { "hoist with his own petard"--that is, blown up with his own bomb. A petard was a sort of bomb used for such work as blowing in gates o1 doors. Never Saw the War. Killed by a golf ball while on sen- try duty is the fate that recently be- fell a member of G Company of the 4th Black Wateh (City of Dundee, Scotland). He had been doing duty as guard at Worniit, and was at a spot which adjoins Wormit Goll Course, when a ball driven by a lady from a considerable distance struck him a severe blow on the temple causing a wound and a considerable flow of blood. He was conveyed in a dazed condition to a villa in which he bad been billéted. It was sup powed that he was recovering, bul later he collapsed. New Tobacco Area. The annexation of German New Guinea, by the Australians has made a notable addition to the tobacco growing area of the Empire. The to- bacco plant is indigenous to New Guinea, but it has never been culti- vated for export in the British sec- tion of the island. The German colon- ists discovered, however, that New Guinea tobacco, properly treated, finds a ready sale in the European market, and they formed a syndicate which exports the leaf in great quan tities, India Out of Matches. A scarcity of matches is being felt in India, and if the war is protracted an absolute famine will likely result. Austria and Sweden id an extensive trade with India in matches and Ja- pan was by no means 3 mean rival. It is practically impossible to get any matches from Sweden at present, and even consignments from Japan will be limited in quantity. Japanese matches are moreover not so popular as the éthers. War In Schools. 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