Daily British Whig (1850), 15 Sep 1916, p. 11

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| Lumber Camp in k \ py - New woctbe rate of anything fro: Yield 5.30% Safer 'B Than Any Mortgage Exempt From All Taxes. Subscriptions Received by J. K. Carroll - Agency ; 56 Brock Street Phone 68 or 874. A + Sawmill Destroyed by Fire. Renfrew, Sept. 14.--The saw mill at Calabogie, belonging to James Dempsey, was destroyed by fire Wed- nesday morning. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Mr, Dempsey had his season's logs at Calabogie ready to be cut. His father, S. J. psey, lost all his property in Cochrgpe by the recent fire there. > [a ARAN ea TE Every Subscriber S 1 a i ! BOTs 2 2 3 '$ English Park } Hit 30 From The London Times. F you wculd know the lumberman of Canada and how he works, £0 to thé edge of Windsor Gr Park *7here the cross Virginia Water the main road betwes a ofe Sunningdale. «There Case Plantation, you 150 men of the 224th Forestry Battalion converting trees into railway sleepers and boards at i 15,000 tu eat Statiof strikes and on the Clock will see 120,000 board feet a day. The plantation, whi of the lands owned by the Crown and administered by the Commissioners | of Woods and Forests, included a considerable area covered with } spruce, fir, cots pine, and laren, 'with an undergrowth of chestnut, Not very long ago a party of experts looked at the trees with the dispas- sionate measuring eye of the under- taker, and gave it their opinion that from this wo it was possibie to get 3,000,000 board feet of tim- ber. To-day whole acts of it been swept clear by ind, the quaint square tower 1d Royal lodge, which stands deep-set in the wood, and whieh, so the stcry goes, by its resemblance to the cage of a grandfather's clock gave the planta- tion its curious name, is vigible from the roadway for the first time, per- haps, in a hundred years. And still the Canadian woodsmen g9 on, eat- ing their way through the wood wita a thoroughness that knows no merey, The lumber camp is 'all Canadian ~----men, machinery, and methods. The men, who are drawn from all paris of the Dominion, have the bronsed, healthy look and the easy, confident | swing which we have learned to look | for in Canadians. The kbaki under | their blue overalis proclaims them soldiers; they draw military pay and | they know the rudiments of military drill; but first and last they are woodsmen, with their craft at their | finger-tips. Every man knows his task and does it with an enviable | independence of orders or imstruec. | tions; yet from the first stage to | the last the work proceeds smoothly and harmoniously. Let us follow | the process, under the guidance of | the officer in charge and the sergeant | who is 'foreman of the bush.' | ' Facing the main road stands the ! mill--'home,' the men generally call | it--flanked on the one side by piles of logs and on the other by stacks of i bhava sawn timber. Walk along the wind» ing track of a light railway, not yet | completed, which passes behind the | mill, until you come to a clearing, where burning heaps of 'brush' lop- ped from the tops of the fallen trees are filling the air with the refresh. ing scent of the pine. Here and | there thrgugh the blue smoke you | catch a glimpse of a lumberman in g picturesque slouch hat. A little further you are among gang of 'fallers.' Watch how fell a tree, 70in. or more thick at the A man with an aze kneels at its foot and with a few dexterous strokes cuts & deep nofch in the trunk a few inches from the ground, Two others with a cross-cut saw cut through the stem on the opposite side. In half a minute the tree begins to lean and there is & warning shout. A ge cond or two later, with a loud cracking and rending sound, it to ples and crashes to the ground. With- out any apparent effort, the 'fallers' have controlled the direction of its fall almost to a foot. Next, without 'any ado, half-as dozen "swampers" set to work with dxe, clearing the limbs and straight ening up the tree. Simultaneously a "fitter," with a wooden rod, divides the stem in suitable lengths, mark- ing the cutting points with a notch; while two other men, one Carrying a paint-pot,' measure the tree, enter the size in a book, and mark the read from - over | Canadian | bh. forms part | | ton portion of the tube : 3 Ee 5 _£. a PTL . i a - --te------_t-- ---- ~~ THEDAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1916, Stam and * the butt . of several - trunk with a blob of red paint show that their work 's done. Saw- yers then. cut the stem according to the "fitter"s" marking, and ithe sec. tions are ready to go to the mill. They are dragged -there by horses over deeply scored trails and "sloop- ways," and take their turn to come under the saw. The mill itself is a Stoutly-bullt structure, made of timber cut-and prepared on the spot, the saw and engines coming from Canada. For hours the saw screeches and throws' | off a spray of sawdust as it slices up the logs that a short while before were splendid living trees, and all the 'whole, other saws, trimming the {edges of the boards and cutting off "the ends, join in the chorus. surprising that the daughter of the keeper of the woods was reduced to tears wheh she stood by the mill? CANADA'S BIG TELESCOPE, | Instrument for Victoria; B. C., is | Largest in the World, | The great 72-inch reflecting tele- | scope designed and constructed for | the Dominion Ast 'onomical Observa- | tory at Victoria, B.C., ranks in size as the largest yet completed in _the world. In design the telescope is a | reflector six feet in diameter with an | equatorial type of mounting, having |the main or polar axis pointing to- | wards the north star and swinging | the body of the telescope in a plane | parallel to the earth's equator and |the apparent paths of the stars; and la dectination axis at right angles to |and passing through the centre of |the polar axis, to allow movement inorth and south. The instrument {weighs 55 tons, and will rest upon | massive piers of reinforced concrete. |The polar axis is 23 feet long and | weighs ten tons. The declination {axis weighs five tons, is 141% feet |long, 156% inches in diameter, CAITY- ing a flange 41 inches in diameter and four inches thick, to which the | body of the telescope is attached. | The tube is 31 feet long in three sec- | tions, and weighs 12 tons. The cen- | tral cylindrical casting is 12% f. * in diameter, six'feet long, and weighs {Seven tons. The mirror cell, weigh- ing with counterpoises and mirror six tons, forms the lower end, while to the upper end is firmly attached | the rigid skeleton tube, made of ' structural steel in tension. The skele- is 23 feet long, 7% feet diameter, and weighs "with attachments abouf two tons. A driving clock similar in design tto that which has been so.successful in the Lick and Yerkes telescopes, moves 'the telescope east or west with great precision, through an ae- curately cut worm wheel nine feet in diameter mounted on the polar axis, The telescope is moved from one positiop to another, and is set and guided wholly by electric motors, Seven motors with solenoids and magnetic clutches are provided for these motors. With the focal length of 108 feet the guiding speed neces- sary for a star image is 1-300 inch per second. The observer, at either the upper or lower ends of the tube can clamp or unclamp the telescope, make the fine settings and guide the tele- scope by means of push buttons on a portable key board kept at a con- venient place, The engineering and mechanical Jegblema involved in designing and constructing a telescope of such great proportions and accuracy will be apparent when considering the extreme rigidity, necessary for carry- ing the optical { parts ( invariably in their correct relative-posjtions with- out strain, and at ths same time 80 well poised and adjusted as to en- able the telescope to be easily pointed towards and accurately set on any desired object, and to enable the = whole massive mechanism, weighing 43 tons, to unvaryingly follow the motions of the stars, The sun, the moon, the planets, and the comets all have different rates of motion to that of the stars, and all this must be provided for in the con- trolling mechanism; The revolving dome is 66 feet in ri a Blow for » 8nd is provided with a -- iy. its FA es . « Victory to, Is it | § with 5 = 2 : E = = : B B | ¢ Issue of $100,000,000 5% Bonds Maturing 1st 00 A OE October, 1931. PAYABLE AT PAR AT OTTAWA, HALIFAX, ST. JOHN, CHARLOTTETOWN, MONTREAL, TORONTO, WINNIPEG, . ' REGINA, CALGARY, VICTORIA. INTEREST PAYABLE HALF-YEARLY, Ist APRIL, 1st OCTOBER." PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD. ISSUE PRICE 97% A FULL HALF-YEAR'S INTEREST WILL BE PAID ON 1st APRIL, 1017. THE PROCEEDS OF THE LOAN WILL BE USED FOR WAR PURPOSES ONLY. ¥ -t ~~, . Tre MiNisTER oF FINANCE offers herewith, on behalf of the Government, the above named Bonds for subscription at 973, payable as follows: -- 10 per cent on application; 30" " 16th October, 1916; 30 « " 15th November, 1916; 274 « " 15th December, 1916. The total allotment of bonds of this issue will be limited to one hundred million dollars exclusive of the amount (if any) paid for by the surrender of bonds as the equiva- lent of cash under the terms of the War Loan prospectus of 22nd November, 1915. The ifstalments may be paid in full on the 16th day of October, 1916, or on any instalment due date thereafter, under discount at the wate of four per cent per annum. All payments are to be made to a chartered bank for the credit of the Minister of Finance. Failure to pay any instalment when due will to forfeiture and the allotment to cancellation. Subscriptions, accompanied by a deposit of ten per cent of the amount subscribed, must be forwarded through the medium of a chartered bank. Any branch,in Canada of any chartered bank will receive subscriptions and issue provisional receipts. This loan is authorized under Act of the Parliament of Canada, and beth principal and interest~will be a charge upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Forms bf application may be obtained from any branch n Canada of any chartered bank and at the office of any Assistant Receiver General in Canada. Subscriptions must be for even hundreds of dollars. - In case of partial allotments the surplus deposit will be applied towards payment of the amount due:on the October instalment. 3 3 Scrip certificates, non-negotiable or payable. to bearer in accordance with the choice of the applicant for registered _ or bearer bonds, will be issued, after lotment, in exchange for the provisional i When the serip ceflificates have been paid in full and payment 'endogsed thereon by the b receiving the money, they may be exchanged for bonds, when prepared, with coupons attached, payable to bearer or registered as render previous payments liable: to principal, or for fully registered bonds, when prepared, without coupons, in accordance with the application. ~ Delivériof scrip certificates and of bonds will be made through the chartered banks. ~The issue will be exempt from taxes--including any income tax--imposed in pursuance of legislation enacted, by the Parliament of Canada. ¢ The bonds with coupgns will be issued in denominations of $100, $500, $1,000. Fully registered bonds without coupons will be issued in denominations of $1,000, $5,000 or any authorized multiple of $5,000. The bonds will be paid at maturity at par. at the office of the Minister of Finance and Receiver. General at Ottawa, or at the office of the Assistant Receiver General at Halifax, 8t. John, Charlottetown, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, or Victoria. : % he interest on the fully registered bonds will be paid "gheque, which will be remitted by post. Interest on bond with coupons will be paid on surrender of coupons. Both #heques and coupons will be payable free of exchange at any branch in Canada of any chartered bank. Subject to the payment of twenty-five cents for each "new, bond issued, holders of fully registered bonds without coupons will have the right to convert into bonds of the denomination of $1,000 with coupons, and holders of bonds with coupons will have the right to convert into fully registered bonds of authorized denominations without coupons at any time on application to the Minister of Finance. + . The bodks of the loan of Finance, Ottawa. ie ip Application will be made in dué course for the listing of the issue on the Montreal and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Recognized bond and stock brokers will be allowed a commission of one-quarter of one per cent on allotments made in respect of applications bearing their stamp, provided, however, that no commission will be allowed in respect of the amount of any allotment paid for by the" surrender of bonds issued under the War Loan rospectus of 22nd November, 1915. No commission will be allowed in respect of applications on forms which have not been printed by the King's Printer. 'will-be kept at the Department Subscription Lists will close on or before 23rd September, 1916. DrparTMENT OF FINANCE, OTTAWA, September 2th, 1916. A 0 00 OS double shutter 15 feet wide, All of the movements of the dome, telescope, ete, are by means of motors. \ The principal mirror is in diameter, 12 inches thick, Pierced with a hole | Trade Makes Vast Stride, yt incréase n in the total trade of Canada is indicated by nary trade ures covering the 12 months ending May last which have sued by the Trade and Commerce De- bartment. The total wag . $1,563,- 230,613. . . As regards year was $432,000,000 in 000,000 in 1913. having an opening Its weight is 120 tons. wind shields, shutters, electrical 73 inches and centre. of nearly half a bil- fig- been is- exports, the total this $820,000,000 as against 1915, and $353,- The greatest in- ORDERS MAY BE SENT US AT OUR EXPENSE FOR THE NEW WAR LOAN '», export of manufae- red goods, which has risen from H3.000.000 hn 1915, to $261,000,- . Agricultural prodyce rose from $45,000,000 to $107,000,000; mine products from $57,000,000 to $68,- 000,000, es from $16,000,000 oducts of the for- : $43,000,000. to $52,000,- ~ DOMINION or CANADA % BY TELEGRAPH OR TELEPHONE Who' would not assis¥to the utmost of his ability to hasten the end of the war? Whether your funds be hundreds or thousands it is within your power to help. Canada's Second War Loan, now offeror subscription, is the chance of a life- time to obtain the soundest of all investments. The Sure Income is 5.30% per Annum He who subscribes benefits both himself and his country to which he lends. The evidence of your practical help can-be in the form of the nation's bonds you hold. Subscribe through us by "Phone or Wire, or use this Form War Loan i iF ~ E. AMES & CO. Insestrrent A. A Bankers 53 KING ST. W., TORONTO TELEPHONE MAIN 4, @21, 4022, 4023 Dominion of Canada 5% Wood, Gundy & Company, © Toronto 1 hereby request you to record ny subscription for Se of the Second Deine War Loan in accordance with the terms of the Official Draspectus, and | hereby engage to pay the instalments as they shall become dus, ; : : : gn " Name. en or 5 4 (State whether Mr., Mrs. or Mist) the United Stas te increased from $167,000,000 to $337,000,000. There was rd »n increase to $3,000,000 to $37,000,0 There was a deer of dutiable v Address 4 To subscribe th a ------ zs, Roughton, Ss si 60 Brock Street Representative, Telophous

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