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. FEE 0 or ps LPR, THE DRYDEN OBSERVER "AN ELECTRIC LAUNDRY ABOARD SHIP Abraham Martin Honored ABRAHAM MARTIN. Auld Scotland many a hero boasts From John o Groats to Wigtown's Monument to First Scottish Settler, First King's Piot On the St Lawrence, and First Farmer akin On the Plains of Abra- Both Lowland lads and Highland . ham Unveiled. hosts . That wear the tartan; : But now another seeks your toasts, A ; 01d Abra'm Martin. But: what pretence has he to fame, That we should celebrate his name, And thus in stone and bronze pro- claim His style and story ? A threefold plea can Martin claim To all this glory. y The first of Scotia's sons was he To cross Atlantic's stormy' sea-- True pioneers of liberty, Giving their. best That this Dominion fair might be i Blessing and-blest. | } See in his wake the glorious band, MacKenzies, Frasers, foremost stand, MacDonalds, too, in high command, And James McGill, Mountstephen and Strathcona grand-- Twould pages fill, The first was he to till this plain, Now sacred to that fierce campaign "When heroes fell, but not in vain In glorious strife. O Canada, thine was the gain, Renewed thy life! ; He was the first to mark the tides, The rocks, the shoals St. Lawrence hides-- : The mariner in him confides And bans his fears; "The ship," he cries, "in safety rides ° When Martin steers." Though fate 'mong strangers cast his lot 3 He ne'er forgot he was a Seot, Thrifty and shrewd he was, I wot, Canty and gaucy, Proud of the nickname that he got, "Abra'm I'Ecossais." Let us whate'er our race or creed, This ancient Scot's example heed, 'And give the best that's in our breed ; That ours may be A Canada in word and deed .. High-souled and free. ee --A. Patterson. ~ ; . -- ae EE ---- = i J --" TEE kaw i veil p gs | g 7 } 2 : i (1) A first-class smoking room onthe "Empress of France"--(2) A group of the laundry staff of the | ; 3 same liner.--(3) Corner of the finighing 'department. t:s:Quebec recently the - Hon. Athandse David, Provincial Secretary in the Quebec Cabinet, officiated at the; unveiling of a monument erected by. the Canadian . Pacific Railway Company in memory: of Abraham Martin, whe was the first known Canadian of Scottish descent and the first King's pilot on the St. Lawrence 'River. The Plains of Abraham re- 'ceived their mame from him, he re- ceiving a grant of the land from Champlain in 1617. The unveiling of the monument, a handsome gran- ite shaft seven feet high surmounted by a globe supported by thistles, was an important event and was attended by a large number of prominent citi- zens and political representatives.' ¥ The sturdy pioneer, is further ac- claimed by Andrew Patterson, who 8ays-i-- Ta fr i CLOSE .SEASON FOR FISHERIES ; bill wil provide for a close season OTTAWA June 26--Hon. Ernest jfor halibut in the 'North Pacific and'... : : Lapointe, minister of marine, will to- the appointment of an international 1: has been said 'that the modern morrow bring down legislation to give fist "commission of. four mem- ocean liner is a floating hotel, ig The north Pacific halibut fish- bers, to be appointed by the and this is probably the best descrip- y corzluded Alin Sigres and two by Canada. tion that can be given. 'A modern ] of the washing machines, electric motors are fitted to the top of them, controlled by an electric timing de- vice which regulates the revolving and reversing of the inside cylinders. a and large: staff of workers make it probably the finest of its kind afloat. In addition to the large amount of work undertaken for passengers at shore prices, it deals with 100,000 [AN] va rey 1 : 5 o bon hotel is a city in itself, and a modern | sh , /1t ) 'een, the" Ui ted States am Canada |The bill will also make * an offence cean liner of the type of the Cana-| pieces of ship's linen per week. This|{ The oil -burning "Empress of. ~~ :) Z o yp 3) 4 p \ ie P ishing vessel which engages dian Pacific "Empresses" is certam-| new department is under the man-| France" has a length of 571 feet, any iQ and the « nature of which gave rise , for 5 to consideratle controversy. sin hibited In accordance with the treaty, the adian port. beam 72 feet, depth 42 feet, and gross: 'tonnage of 18,481. The speed which' made her such an asset to 'the navy] during the war is still maintained, and Captain John Gillies, her com-| mander, is the hero of many an ex={ citing race to port. Once aboard the| "Empress" one has. nothing to doi 'but enjoy-life while awaiting the end' - Si - of the journey which usually arrives : 8 all too soon. She is a beautifully ap-| pointed ship with seven first class ptiblic rooms, including a. lounge, smoking room, card room, and lib- rary. Provision is made in the sec-| ond-class quarters fer three public! rooms, and spacious deck space af- fords all passengers more than suffi-| cient room for open air games and exercise. Her steerage accommoda- tion is in may ways about equal to. the cabin accommodation of Atlan-! tic Kners of a few years ago, and her first and second-class provides every. comfort thet has been devised. ™ agement of G. Dawe, junior, * whe controls' its staff of ¢ix men and thirty women. Three washing ma- chines form part of the equipment, and one of these, the largest ever fitted to a liner, is capable of deal- ing with 3,000 pieces of limen at a time, each piece being subjected to the entire washing process without removal. ~~ There is. also a huge ironing machine which will iron and .dry sheets at the rate of 400 per hour after they have been passed through a power wringer. This machine is operated by a team of nine girls. The higher class of laun- dry work is done by skilled ironers with press machines and electric irons, while shirts and collars, etc, are starched and finished by machines specially fitted for the purpose. All the 'machizory is electrically driven, and there arc claborate eclectrisal controls for starting, stopping and regulating the machines. In the case ly no less. When a couple of thou- sand or so of passengers are cut off from land to spend 'a weck or more on the ocean, they must have every convenience and comfort that land] can provide. The ship must be self sustaining in every particular. In this respect Canadian Pacific ships are as complete as modern' invention _.. can make them, and whether their © trips extend for one week, or six weeks as does the cruise of the Medi- terranean which the "Empress of Trance" made this winter, or even for three months as in the case of the cruise around the world to be made by the "Empress of Australia" this year, nothing is lacking to en- sure the complete happiness of all on board. ; As an instance of the way in which modern liners are equipped, the new- 'ly installed laundry of the "Empress of France" is well worth comment. It cost $25,000 and its complete plant fishing, to use a Can- rman a "A Word for the Under-Privileged Boy Sens. =n SE CHEERS HRT under-privileged boy of this class," sald Mr. Beatty, "Is often precocious but more often he is undeveloped physically and mentally, and there- fore not capable of accomplishing his own destiny. : "If the under-privileged boy of the city, born to unfortunate physical environment, is to succeed, he must have that environment made natural and normal as far as possible," said Mr. Beatty, and this, he suggested, argues even more strongly for the supervising care by those in author- ity, and competent inspection involv- ing sanitary housing no overcrowd- - ing and supervised playgrounds, etc. Tvery boy should for his own sake and for the sake of the community, have the use of the common tools of life or a common school education. A boy should also be taught the in- comparable practical and spiritual advantages of honest self-made man- hood, he added. ' 4 "It has been truly said that the ri VHE Rotary 'Club: of Montreal, B=. like its sister organizations throughout the: continent, is an effi- cient and .. effective organization - working for the good. of the commu- nity in which it exists. It has par- . ticularly devoted . its attention to * work. among the class of boys that fall under the term "under-priviles- +. ed" - In every great city there are ,. thousands ef such lads facing life "under grievous handicaps imposed "by poverty, or by the more dreadful combination = of poverty and such physical or moral surroundings as "would be a menace to the strongest. - The task of brightening the lives of. these lads and of giving them a fair chance to become good citizens {s a grateful one, and the Rotary Club of Montreal has done a splendid work: in this connection. It, has interested itself in a very practical sway in the Boys Home at Shawbridge in the Laurentian Mountains, and has * done' a great deal for boys through- out: the. city and district. , The: Shawbridge Boys Home is the particular care of E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who is also president of the Home. He has always taken a greatinterest in the boy, and it was natural, when the ' - . Totary Clubs held their convention in Montreal recently, that he should phase of their work. under-privileged be asked to address them on that "perhaps the saddest thing in. the : greater Or more inspiring than that LEI which helps to place the handicapped boy where he can face the world on ." Mr. Beatty went on to quote an eminent English educationalist who, "of the problems. of thelr ¢ gnd, not being capable of "with their difficulties, do "inspiration that tends : "fe kind of citizens "up. to be. "The best educated man is the man who has a knowledge of living through contact with those whose problems he shares and whose conditions he understands.... I presume there is no more effectual means of stimula- ting the interest -of a boy than the careers and achievements of men of whom he has heard but of whose personal qualities he knows nothing", and the speaker deplored the fact that biographies and other stories which might influence the boy for good are so written that the the great personal freedom Wwe enjoy under-our form of democracy carries with it the responsibility of sacredness of righteousness is large- can be initiated by parliament or made effective by legislation. It requires the personal interest and the friendly contact of the-man who of the boy." ) can compel the respect and regard = JCS The glacial rockies as a mevie location. said Otto Paul Schwarz, of Bergschrund." «and did it bark at you 2" he was asked. do they bleat ?" "Or rock wall and cracked. we came to was a chimney. This is a hard busi- Teicles fifteen feet long hung above us." gy «It is a great life, this one of mountain climbing, especially higher up where the glaciers are. ~Ima- gine a river of ice with a depth of something like The next stumbling block "0 the bowels of the earth, peaks and minarets rise world," sald Mr. Beatty, "is the sub- Ys AW just then," j £0 normal boy, or one whose standard | human side is left out. He added « Switzerland, in describing a trip in the | from its uneven surface and glisten in the sun of health is low, and no work. is that the boy "must be taught that Canadian Pacific Rockies. "we saw a huge which can never warm them; a giant green-white force, irresistible, stupendous, with an alluring fascination which the lovers of the outdoors cannot deny. ahove was taken on the 'roof of fairly equal terms with the more|being and doing our very best. He ; ; i The picture fortunate." must learn that there is no virtue | "Ach, no. A bergschrund is not a bird. =~ 1It18 2) canada" near Banff, and the huge glacier which without temptation and that the huge crevasse where the ice has slipped down the|.y party is traversing will, in years, perhaps, help a ins. Travelling at the {ay, nothing can with- to make fertile the prairie p rate of about fonr inches each although not prejudiced against |ly constituted in the effect of the ph of a ~qrents as a class, stated with truth | individual or nation to attain it. | ness. It means bracing your back against one an hold it, but another generation of sightseers, will "* many parents are not appre- "This," he said, "is not a work that and your feet against the other and doing what YOU | pave come and gone before the ice on which the call on this side 'the shimmy' till you get to the toP. | climbers stand will have found its way down to the warmer valleys where it will melt; and in the m¥an- time, snow from the even higher peaks will press land pack and so, so far as the present day world |is concerned, the life of this wonderful natural force 1,000 feet. Great 'crevasses reach down, it seems, 'is without end. Co 5 AN