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i anes NL : |] w TIE UR YUEN USS it vee Have You Ever Thought o This? --That a Cup of properly infused, is blessings as a harmless stimulating beverage, TEA : 7 a ~ B581 one of Nature's greatest BLE] EI i I] { ----- w 2004042000290 00 High Cost of Misses' and Children's OXFORD SHOES. Black and Tan." 50 er cent cheaper than to-day's market. F ONLY A FEW PAIRS. See our Centre Window, bd 2 Ad J DIED. Pre-war Prices. DB . SUIT, Dryden 34090400 $00000900404040¢00090400 y BCIC200¢200080000000/00000300¢ 0400000400020 { Northland of Belle Isle Straits, Canada Would Benefit by t | 7 BLOGK ARGTIG CURRENT PROPOSAL TO DAM BELLE ISLE STRAIT. oh Having St. Lawrence Free of Ice All Year-- Newfoundland and Now England States Would Also Have Milder Climate. ES \ \ - n LANS now chrystallizing, in Newfoundland may lead to a marked amelioration of the somewhat rigorous climate of the island. The broposed daming which would block the Arctic current, would also greatly help Canadian commerce by | keeping ORen the St. Lawrence route. : It would also give the New England | states a milder climate. The citizenry of Newfoundland is / keen to construct a great dam the | squarely across the throat of Strait of Belle Isle and thus shut, the door in the face of the frigid and. intrusive Arctic current. | It is into the Strait of Belle Isle that the Labrador current so fre- quently drives great masses of field ! ice and towering bergs to menace navigation during the spring and summer months when the glacial releases these perils to shipping. At other times, the Labra- dor current surges into the Gulf of : St. Lawrence, chills the contiguous; air, and sets back for weeks vege- tation's response to the rays of the northern 'sun. According to our hydrographic experts, describing the | drift of ice and bergs in the grip of. the Labrador current: , to Canadas. . ious "By the middle of January the' shores of Newfoundland and Gulf of | "St. Lawrence are full of ice which ! | August or has been frozen there, and are open-; ed or closed by a favorable or ad-! verse wind. Navigation in the River | St. Lawrence is closed about the middle of November and does not! open until about May. A wind from | northwest to southwest will clear the eastern coast of Newfoundland, while i the Gulf of St. Lawrence may remain' full of ice until the first of May. | Even after thig date much ice ig] found in the gulf until July, and by earlier the field ice is re- placed in the Stimil of Belle Isle by bergs." Plainly, the /iretic flood that en- ters the Gulf of St. Lawrence by way | of the Strait of Belle Isle is one po- tent aid to the development of local ice by chilling the waters so that they | will freeze eatly. This, quite apart from the intrusion of bergs and floes from Labrador, closes the St. Law- y and feteh her CANADIAN RUNS NX. YI HOTELS. The Story of John M. Bowman Lik» a Romance, John MM. Bowman, the Toronto man who went to New York with- out any money, and just looking for a job, and who now operates six great New York hotels and two re- sort hotels elsewhere, has had a ca- reer like a movie hero, Mr. Bowman is frequently in Toronto, though known by comparatively few people in that city. The November Amer- ican Magazine tells his story: "Only a comparatively ago he was driving a truck in New York! Later, he broke saddle Liorses. But always he had the idea that he was cut out for the hotel business. Any other kind of work he regarded as temporary--as a means to an end. But no matter how hum- ble the job, Bowman_ contrived to use it in some way for permanent gain. i "Even. his first Ready little job, doing errands for hig grandmother, taught him something of definite value. "In his native town, Toronto, was a factory that hag wood shavings to give away. and Bowman's grand- mother liked these for starting a fire in the kitchen stova. So she would often ask him to g0 to the factory a large , burlap sack full of shavings. Young Bowman did not like this at all. He did not mind the physical effort SO much, but he imagined that he looked ridiculously undignifiad bearing a bulky sack of shavings through the streets. "However, he willingly did as hig grandmother desired because of the twenty-five-cent piece he knew she would give him. Gradually it dawn- ed on him that 'there was nothing undignified about the task, that no honest labor, to gain money one needs, is undignified. In fact, he came to feel that boys who loafed about the street corners and occa- sionally laughed at him, while doing nothing themselves, were really less dignified than he, "This wholesome view about use- ful work has clung to him ever since, When the Riltmore was under con- struction and there was some ques- tion about its being ready to be opened on schedule, Bowman, who was to be its manager, used to put on old clothes and climb about over the building to see what was going on. On the day that it was thrown open to the public, there was a lot of confusion about the turning on of water into certain pipes. And the only man who knew exactly where each valve was located and whare each pipe led was-Bowman himself, He was obliged to put on a pair of overalls and bersonally take charge of the plumbing. emergency. "Bowman's first hotel job was at Ténee river to navigation for months when movement to and from the sea would be of Rre@. economic moment. a little resort in the Adirondacks, when he was only nineteen years old. Because of the short Season there, The throat of the Strait is in the | neighborhood of Fortean Bay, where! the span from shore to shore is ten: miles, { Evén so, the soundings show | depths ranging from 32 to 62 fa- | thoms (192 and 327 feet), Nothing approaching a dam of such length! erected. | the eastward where the ! distance across ; is about eighteen * miles, the soundings show depths of | 17, 20, 43 and 18 fathoms across they strait from Wreck Bay to Cape Nor- | man. Here the shallower water and |. more moderate currents, even with a, wider interval to be closed, would { make it easier to plant the obstruc: ! tion. In either case, the enterprise | would call for the expenditure of ga : vast sum. ] ~ It is argued as an offset that the climatic modifications, wiich would be effected by shutting out the Lab- rador current, would induce enor- mous agricultural increases and raise the value of {nh lands by billions of dollars, Further, we are 'told that the exclusion of the Labrador current from the Guir ¢t St. Lawrence would permit the W.'rm waters of the Gulf Stream to Swing in nearer to the coast, thus tempering the cold months and making the St. Lawrence river as well ag the gulf navigable the year round. . % ? "The Labrador current brings 'masses of sand, ete, from the Aretie, which have been deposited in the 'Grand Bank, and instead of under- running the Gulf Stream without ser- interference has been forced . more and more surfaceward 'by the 'steadily rising Grand Bank--an ob- stacle in the main of its own form- ing. In a kindreq fashion, but to a lesser extent, the Gulf Stream has = carried sang northward and has S-- helped ~to wupbuild from the south he great bar: jer which to-day brings the frigid waters of the Arctic cur- rent and the tropics. "into disastrous in the neighborhood of Newfoundland-- robbing the Gulf Stream of the major bart of its beneficial heat and modi- fying radically its further paths of travel, i i Siven years ago an American mechanical engineer, Carroll Living- | sten Riker, of New York city,"who! has done notable things in the realm of hydraulic enginesring, boldly pro- po the building of a giant jetty Projectiiig to the south and east fron Cape Race directly across the mein path of the southbound Labra- dor current, In Inying his scheme before Congress a yzar later My. { claimed that he could accom- this amazing resyit at an ex- iture of $20,000,000! He pur- I effecting this by drawing upon forecs of nature in such a way £ to induce both the Gulf Siream wd the Labrader Current--e ecially ae latter--io rear a great sandy bale .ork right athwart its own present sweep. No action was taken, but the san now Bropcesead is somewhat along in this line.-- Robert Loronts Stay. G. Skerrett, cf Farm Stock. value of 1816.. Ih Mowe 1] the totg: SH Glock cxecelod one CAREY EY «Hlion ules, Fi, ad he desired a Permanent place at some good hetel in New York Cigy. A wealthy man gave him a letter of introduction to the manager-of what was then one of the best hotels in New York, a place that Bowman had thought a suitable field for -his talents. , and re- But he 80t no response. He wrote again and asked for the return of his letter of Introduction. Even then he got no re- a strong opinion y, and he formed about the character of the mah who had exhibited what seemed to him such gross and needless discourtesy. Years later Bowman became presi- dent' and directing manager of the company that took over that same hotel, and. his first official act was to discharge the manager who had failed to answer his letter. He did not discharge him to vent personal spleen, but because he thought the man lacked that sense of courtesy and consideration which should be among the qualifications of a suc. cessful manager, "Having failed to get the hotel job he sought in New York, Bowmnian -had to do whatever work he could find, Frequently he was obliged to be go economical that eaeh meal was a genuine problem. "Later he secured work at the Hol- land House under one Gustav Bau- mann. that put up the Hotel Biltmore and Bowman was to be its manager. A few months after the hotel was ready for occupancy, Baumann died. In a short time Bowman hag so thorough- ly convinced the board of directors of his ability that he not only wag bermanently retained gg manger, but was made president of the com. Dany. Then he: branched out operates six great New York hotels-- | the 'Biltmore, the "Commodore, the Belmont, the Manhattan, the Murry Hil, and the Ansonia. He also con- trols two great resort hotels -- the Belleview at Belleair, Florida, and! the Griswold at™ New London, Con-| necticut. Mr. Bowman is 43 years old." J and now Awkward For His Wife, A 'good story was told recently by Sir Charles Parsons, of farbine tame, A. a certain learned profes- 4 concerning sor what shall he nameless. He was, explained Sir Charles, very absent-minded. One day he saw taat his wife had placed a fine bouquet of freshly-cut flowers on hig desk. "What does this, mean, dear?" he asked. i "Why, don't you know!" she €X-~ claimed. "This jg the anniversary ot our wedding-day." } "Ah, is it, indeed?" he answered politely. "Kindly let me know when yours comes round and I. will recipro- cate." Re Birthdays Forbid Marriage. A curious idea among the Burmese is that people born on the same day of the week must not marry, ang that if they defy the fates their union will he marked by much il! luck. To prevent theze dj marriages, eve y girl carrt of her birthday in her 1 day of the week Laving a lotto: Lt few years tn Baumann headed a conipany | tain = When you buy a much care in making your selection TRACTOR, use just as as you would in buying a good horse, Don't make the important decision too hastily--find out for yourself. Be sure that the TRACTOR has all . the features essential to all-round service, . efficiency, and economy of operation. For instance, look for: | wy A KEROSINE ENGINE that will operate on Sn cheap fuel, A THROTTLE GOVERNOR to regulate the fuel. A DRAW BAR with a wide range of adjust. ments. A FRICTION CLUTCH PULLEY with B.A wide face and broad diameter, A ROOMY PLATFORM is the latest feature. WIDE FENDERS over the drive wheels to protect operator. 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