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As to any removal of the Nor- mal School or Provincial Museum no an- nouncement has yet been made. But an official statement, the other day. calling for offers for the whole Normal School property caused everyone to jump to the conclusion that the Government was of- fering it for sale. Immediately the city press and officials and citizens generally, perhaps with someithing of the spirit which has earned 'for ' oronto the nickname of “Ilegtown,” began to clamor that the property should not be sold, but that it should be pre- sented to the corporation of Toronto as a. { ublio park. The modesty of the request s appreciated when it is stated that St. James Square is worth approximately one million dollars, although it is only a little - patch of land bounded by one city block ‘On each side. TORONTO'S MORAL. RIGHT. ' Toronto's argument is that originally the Provincial government paid only 18,000 for the square, that the tremendous ncreasc has been brought- about by rea- son of the city's growth and improve- ments, and that therefore the “unearned increment" is ./the city’s by moral right. It is also pointed out that the property has enioyed exemption from taxes, which according to the sensationally displayed figuring of one paper, would have amount- edhto upwards of $300,000. But no one has painted out that while the Province has 'benefited by the increase in values in Toronto. the city of Toronto has in its- turn benefited to an untold amount by havmg had located here the Normal School and the Department of Education. Some of the papers have been kicking I'up a great fuss about the matter. But, meanwhile, Sir James Whitney sits tight. {4 deputation from the City Council inter- viewed him. but they lost courage to ask 'himbfor a gift of the property. Their only request was that the city be given a chance to. buy before the Square was sold to a. private individual, and this Sir James readily assented to. There is a suspicion that the Premier has no inten- tion of selling the property, and that he merely wanted to find out what its actual value‘is. If this is the case he must be ‘ongoying the storm that is being waged. Everyone is agreed that it would be a. calamity if the property passed into private hands, and this breathing spot in one of the most congested dist-riots was closed up. .But if it is to become a city park the difference of opinion arises as a) whether the city ought not to pay for THE CASE OF REV. R. B. ST. CLAIR. One of the strangest prosecutions To- ronto has seen in a. long time was the trial of Rev. B. B. St. Clair, secretary of an ~organization known as the Toronto Vigilance Committee. on a charge of cir- culating obscene literature. Many per- sons who have come in contact with Mr. Bt._ Clair and the Vigilance Committee which he brought into being. have not been disposed to take him over seriously. He has_ not been in Toronto long. and since his sojourn here he has evinced something like a. monomnnia on .the sub- ject of clearing up vice. This is the kind , of Job that many very good people prefer to leave to some one else, and wish it done With a. minimum of publicity. But among _many activities Mr. St. Slair did one thing that got him into the spot- lights. He attended a performance at one of the burlesque houses and wrote out a description of what he saw, which be mailed to a number of men and wo- men, chiefly clergymen and others speci. ally interested in the suppression of vice. Now, this performance had been passed upon by the local police officers as a. fit and decent show, proper for public pre- sentation. But immediately Mr. St. Clair sent a. description of it to a few friends he was arrested (not summoned) by the same police department on the charge of circulating obscene literature. In defence of the police action it is stat- ed that Mt. St. Clair's description was not warranted by the actual perform- ance. but as to this there is conflicting evidence. Substantial witnesses support ing Mr. St. Clair‘s drastic condemnation of the Show were not wanting at the trial. and the whole all‘air has served to arouse much bitter fooling against the class of performance put on at these bur- lesque theatres. They are attended chiefly It‘s an W. SIMPLEST. “133m HOME . DYE, on. an buanhy you don't even have to knowwhn: mo! Cloth your Good: In and: QLvso We: on Imponlhlo. 3“ Soul for Free Color Curd. Story Booklet. Ind Booklet giving results of Dyeing over other colon. The JOHNSON-RICHARDSON CO.. Limited. Mutual. (hands. by men and boys, 3 woman being only occasionally seen in the audiences. They draw houses ranging from. 1,000 to 1,500 each at each one of 12 performances a week, every afternoon and evening, and as their prices are not particularly cheap they are veritable gold mines for the pro- prietors. Smoking is allowed. and the whole atmosphere is not particularly ele~ vaLing, to say the least. TORONTO GROWING LIKE A WEED. The completion of the city's assessment on which taxes for the your 1915 will be paid shows that the total assessment has increased in a year by the remarkable figure or $83,000.000. and the aggregate now . stands at $426,000,000. These figures are eloquent of the city's growth. Over half of the increase was made in ward three, which includes Yongc street, where there has not been so much actual growth as there has been increase in values. caused by the general growth of the city, and while in some instances on Yonge and nearby streets assessments have been doubled over last year, they are, in all cases, still‘far below selling values. The usscssors' estimate of population is 110,000. It. is admitted, however, that assessors never get them all. so that the police census of 425,000 probably most ac- curately represents the present size of this centre. The increase in a year has been 55,000, and this does not include an- nexations. In a. decade Toronto‘s popula- tion has increased by 106 per cent, a re- cord not equalled by any other city of 400,000 population in America. Detroit, which in that period has become the "ca- pital of the automobile industry," has is next best record, namely 91 per cent., but Toronto's: growth has .not been con- .fincd to any one industry. Then comes Pittsburg with 86 per ccnt.,' Cleveland with 70 per cent... New York'with 47 per ccnt., .Buil‘alo 42 per cent., Chicago and St. Louis 33 per cent.. Philadelphia; 23 per cent.. and San Francisco 22 per cent. Los Angcles is the only city of approxxmatcly Toronto's size that has enjoyed a: higher rate of growth. It has now about 375,000 and ten years ago was nowhere. Toronto is now the twelfth city in America. These bonstings as to growth and size are be- coming the everyday stock in trade of the -average citizen's conversation, but under the circumstances a little boasting may be forgiven. BALL TEAM’S JOB ENDED. The winning of the pennant by the To- ronto Baseball team does not seem, to Ihave created the enthusiasm iliat. the some feat did five years ago. But the performance was. clean-cut and altogether creditable. and the fans are happy. Meanwhile the players, referred tojocul- arly as the “hired help," have hurried oil' to their respective homes. all far south of the boundary line, with the exception of the solitary home brew, O'Hara, who is a product of our own corner lots. In the winter time “Bill,” in partnership with “Jack” White, another baseball star, runs a. billiard and pool room in his home town. Most of the others likewise have profitable winter occupations which sup- plement the substantial salaries they 'draw in the summer time as ball players. Some are dentists, others have shops and others are in other lines of business. “Joe” Kelly, the manager, lives in Bal- .timore. His father-in-law is tlicfdemo- cratic "boss" there and as such is said to hold in the hollow of his hand all the municipal and other patronage of that large city. They do say that-“Joe” him- self goes on the pay roll at the rate of $5 a day and that his official title is that of messenger. . _ Next year the championship wmncrs will all be back, barring accident-s, as the only man drafted by the big leagues was Fisher, a. catcher who did not make good and was farmed out to a minor league team. of course, some of the stars may be sold. but this is unlikely, as the own- ers are understood‘to have made money. and therefore are not likely to liquidate their talent. So that the prospects for good ball in 1913 are rosy. LACROSSE IN THE DOLDRUMS. In' contrast to the prosperity in base- ball is the financial difficulty that all the big lacrosse clubs find themselves in. Without exception they have lost money. They haye paid fancy salaries and have drawn poor gates, sometimes only a. few hundred people. Mr. R. J. Fleming got the coveted championship-with his To- rontos, but he is reported to have lost the most money of all, because he paid the highest salaries. Friends of lacrosse are earnestly discussing the question of what is wrong with Canada's national game that it has lost its attractiveness to the public. Some advocate a lacrosse commission, which would' keep salaries within bounds and control other matters connected with the game. But this, while it might save some money would not overcome public apathy. No letter of ex- )lanation of that indifference has yet on forthcoming than that the game was killed by long years ofumismanagc- ment in which foul tactics were tacitly encourngagcd finally resulting in public disgust. Now it is found the game can- not be reinstated in a day. It will pro- bably take many long years of consci- entious work to overcome the effects of the period of former disastrous policy. 44._______ SUN FEAST AT S’I‘ONEIIENGE. __ Africa and Orient Send Worship- pers to England Annually. A sun feast in England, the land of fog, seems strange, Yet it is a wonderful fete, rare and striking evocation of a past that is old as history. Persians, Aryans, Hindoos and Arabians, all European delegates of the’ principal Asiatic races united by the ties of a common religion, meet in the ancient druidical ruins of Stonehenge, near Salisbury, and there with full rites offer their im- pressive annual reverence to the sun. Upon the appointed (late, at one hour before dawn, in silence and draped in white, gold and pur- ple robes. inore than a hundred sun-worshippers enter Stonehenge and prostrate themselves upon the earth, while five officiating priest-s about their solemn invocation to the sun. And when from out the pale English sky the first beams of the sun lap in the east, the bowed heads are raised and from every throat comes opening notes of a hymn of praise. '_ , An harmonious recitativemt first, with long, high notes that seemed to tell of grand and awful things; a hymn which thrills the listener. Then with a florid running passage it becomesa national song with the theme frantic with war and fighting and revenge; with all primitive man’s wild passion of hate and love and of spiritual longing that ignor- ance held captive. It ends as it had begun upon'a'said, prolonged and piercingnote’. " “ " Then, each in order, the pilgrims renew their vows of faith in Allah, in ‘his universal majesty, virtue and infinite love. Before.t-lie solemn dignity of these dark-skinned men, robod in the garments of gorgeous antiquity and in the isolate-d plain where huge blocks- of rough-hewn granite seem- ed the grim guardians of this strange religion, cveii tlic idlest spectator was awed into silence. For thisrcvival of man’s earliest “fetish” evoked if} surroundings that lent it added grandeur, seemed more like some well-staged theatri- cal scene than an incident in real life. ' With a fervor entirely oriental the Sun-Worshipper-s remained in prayer until noon, when they slowâ€" ly dispersed and prepared to pass from ten centuries before Christ to tho workada-y world of this year of grace, 1912. 01 WORK AND WORRY IIWEIAKEN ' WOMEN New Health and Strength Obtained by the Use of Dr. Williams’ » Pink Pills. 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The foundation of modern engi- neering, he said, had been laid on mathematical and physical science, and the days of blind reliance upon engineering formulae. and “rules of thumb” were over. It was proba- bly true that no brainch of engineerâ€" ing had benefittcd more from math- ematical alssirs-ta-nces than naval architecture 'li‘ad done. Mathematiâ€" cal theories led to the introduction of the experimental tank, and the operations of these tanks had reâ€" sulted in a great addition to naturâ€" al knowledge and had secured enor- mous economies of fuel. The suc- cess achieved in connection with modern developments of steam navigation and the attainment of very high speeds was chiefly due to these tank experiments, which had involved relatively small cost. Na- val. architects owed the great ad- vantage they possessed over their predecessors to the genius ofWilâ€" liam_ Fi'oude, who devised these tanks. ' Mathematicians ' seeking new fields to conquer might profitably turn their attention to two subjects on which additional light was still needed. The first had relation to the laws which governed the cili- cicucy of screw propellers when apâ€" plied to steamships. They had been using screw propellers for 'more than seventy-years, and, frankly he confessed that they were still in need of light about that. An ex- perience of his own showed the pos- sibilities here‘ existing. A large cruiser obtained the guaranteed speed of 23 knots on trial with dis- placement of about 30,000 horse- power. He had anticipated a. speed of 23% knots, and he got it by sim- ply i'mcreasing the radial area of the propellers by 20 per cent. Another subject upon which knowledge was still incomplete was in regard to the stresses cxperi-' enced by the structure of ships at sea when driven through waves and made to perform rolling, pitching and heaving movements simultanâ€" ously. 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