The Quebec chronicle, 4 mars 1912, lundi 4 mars 1912

[" a The Weather Fine and Cold, > Chronicle, Min Temperatures imum, 0.4; Maximum, 10, \u201cUNI ORCSTRZEEESE I ESTABLISHED 1764.\u2014 tendency to, discolor.Large Tins Phone 1141 : GORN ON THE COB This corn Is already cooked.To insure it opening up white, immerse can in hot water for about fifteen minutes in order to thor; oughly heat corn.Cut open can just before serving.If corn is removed.and cooked in open vessel, it will have a A.GRENIER, 94.96 St.John Street s.\u2026\u2026\u202600e50e, each Est.1882 ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY Of Peace Celebration Between Great Britain and United States Favored.(Special to The Chronicle.) Ottawa, Ont, March 3\u2014At a meeting of the Canadian group of the Interparliamentary Union, which was fargely attended by Senators and Commoners.the executive for the ensuing year was chosen.Hon.Mr.Dandurand was re-elected chairman, Hon, George H.Perley was named as vice-chairman, and Messrs.Duncan C.Ross, M.P., und L.Coderre were chosen as joint secretaries.Several speeches were made in favor of a cel- tbration of the one hundredth anni- rersary of peace between Great Brittin and the United States, the celebration to take place in 1914 The Manitoba Boundaries bill will rome up in the House tomorrow for à second reading, when it is expected that the chief speeches will be made by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hon.Robert Rogers, Minister of the Interior.No intimation has been given as to the line the Opposition proposes to take, nor is it definitely known that they will move an.amendment to the second reading.NEW LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OF NEW BRUNSWICK.Ottawa, March 3\u2014Th: appoint- .ment of Senator Josip.Las Edentenam-Governor of New Brunswick, will, it is expected, be made to-morrow.Senator Wood succeeds Lient.-Governor Tweedie, whose term of office has expir:d.The new Senator from New Yrunswick in place of Senator Wood will likely be Dr.Daniel, of St _ ohn, who gave up his seat in the Commons to Hon.J.D.Hazen.$100,000 FIRE AT TOLEDO.Toledo, O.March 2\u2014Four men, three city firemen and the night watchman, were injured tp-night in a fire which destroyed the plant of the Owens\u2019 Bottle Machine Company.The loss will reach $100.000, which is amply covered by insurance.The firemen were hurt more or less seriously by falling girders aud steel stacks which fell on them.J.Kiwack, the watchman, was injured by a gas explosion which set fire to the building.The plant will be rebuilt immediately, say the officials.MR.BOURASSA ON NAVAL : BILL AND KEEWATIN.Montreal, March 2\u2014In a signed article in Le Devoir Mr.Henri Bourassa has the following to say regarding the repeal of the Navy Bill and the Keewatin question :\u2014\u201cAt Le Devoir the changes of cabinet do not make us change our principles.The tvolutions of politicians of all calibre and of all colors do not make us turn with the wind of favor.Not having any small interest to serve, or any little vengeance to satisfy, we do not strike small blows at a cabinet in order to lay a trap for the succeeding cabinet, and thus get into their good graces.We go on our way straightforwardly and without any consideration of what can result from it for us, or others; the rights of truth are above those of men and of parties.We shall continue the struggle against the naval bill, for the maintenance of the constitution of Kecewatin, and for every cause which we think to be just, legitimate and oppor- tune\u2014whether it be gain or loss for the moment, and in spite of what the Reds and Blues of either one or the other chamber may think of it.Nothing is lower or more vulgar than to fight only on the side of the winner.Nothing is more stupid and more cowardly, and at the same time a worse calculation than to abandon the causes which seem to be lost.Even though dead and buried forever, to the eyes of the people who are practical and short-sighted politicians, they have sometimes astonishing awakenings and resurrections.\u201d action as an abuse of power.LIBERALS HAVE A LOVE FEAST Whistling to Keep Their Cour- \u201c age Un\u2014Tribute to Edward Blake.(Special- to the Chronicle.) Ottawa, March 3\u2014Liberal members and Senatcrs Saturday night sat around the banquet board in the Commous restaurant, welcomed Hon, G.P.Graham back to the firing line, and sought to convince each other that all was not lost.The new member for South Renfrew and his predecessor, Tom Low, were there and were toasted.N.W.Rowell, Liberal leader in Ontario, and A.B.Cupp, Liberal leader in New Brunswick, were present and were also toasted.Sir \\Vilfried Taurier presided and was toasted.He encouraged the hope that he would continue to lead the Dpposition so long as his health remained good and the party wanted him.Referring to the defeat of his Government on the issue of Reciprocity he said : \u201cI have nothing to regret.not even defeat.If it were to be dene over again I would be ready again to fall on the same issue.\u201d The Liberal leader during the course of his speech paid warm tribute to the memory of the late Hon.Edward Biske.\u201cThe Canadian people of to-uay,\u201d he- said, \u201cdo not realise how much they owe to Blake.Cansäf has fyst-one of \u201cher ablest sons, her greatest lawyer and one of her most prilliant parliamentary orators.\\We never knew the full measure of his stature until he_ was gone and it was too late.\u201d ° FRENCH MINERS MAY ALSD STRIKE If Parliament Acts Unfavorably on Various Reforms Sug- gested.Faris.March 3.\u2014The pussininty of the French miners following the example of the English workers, while remote, nevertheless exists.This subject was discussed by the National Congress recently held at Angers, but the decision was leit entirely to the discretion of the executive committee of the Miners* Federation, who, it is known, will order a strike only in | the.event of Parliament acting unfa- vorabl yon various reforms for which the miners are now agitating.So that a strike of the French miners could not, strictly speaking, be considered a movement in support ui the English strikers.Several dist:ict committees of miners have voted in favor of a twenty- four hours strike on March 11, with the possibility of continuing ic indef- initcly, if Parliament does not take the hint.But the attitude of a majority of the miners in France appears to be on the whole conservative, although it is difficult to determine the extent of the influence exercised by the British strike on the minds of the French workers.The executive committee, which met at Lens yesterday, maintains the strictest secrecy with respect to any conclusions reached, but it may he remarked that prominent members of the Anzin union discredit the act of the secretary of the Anzin committee, who telegraphed on Friday to the British Miners\u2019 Federation, congratulating the British workers on the coal strike, and adding: \u201cIn à few days the French miners will strike.\u201d They declare that he did this on his own responsibility, and characterize his POMMERY Fes GO.Shippers of the famous .QUEBEC, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1912, NEW RACE IN THE FAR NORTH Fair in Color and Are Distinct From Any Eskimo Tribe\u2014 A Surmise.Ottawa, March 3\u2014Three Arctic ex- ILLUMINATION OF NIAGARA FALLS A Bill to Be Introduced Into New York Legislature to That End, Albany, N.Y, Gittins, of Niwgara Falls, will intro- plarers are in Ottawa, Dr.Frederick] Cook,\u201d Christian Leden, of Norway, and Capt.Bernier, of Qu:bec.Leden wants to interest th: Government in an expedition to thé far northern coast of Canada which he is undertaking for the Norwegian Government.\u201cAll this exploration,\u201d he said, \u201cis in connection with my conviction, &s à result of discrveries I have al ready made, that the Eskimo and the] Indian of the far north were originally] one and the same race.I have also 8 theory as to where their ancestors came from, but of that I will not speak now.\u201d ; Mr, Leden betrayed much interest in the report that has reached the Canadian Geological Sirvey from V, S| Stefansson, the explorer who is doing] joint theological work in the north of] Canada und the Unit:d States, to the| effect that he had discovered a new] race, fair in color und distinct from any Eskimo tribe, in the tar north.\u201cWe have heard of Stefansson's dis covery in Sweden,\u201d he said.\u201cPerson ally I think this new tribe must be the result of inter-raarriage between the survivors of Franklin's expedition off, one hundred and sixty men which went north and never returned, the liskimos themselves.Otherwise [ cannot account for it.\u201d \u201cI met Dr.Cook in Danish Greenland,\u201d said Mr.Leden.\u201cWhen we, first came together he said nothing ahout having discovered the Pole, but told us lie had heen pretty far north.Later when people asked him if he] had been to the Pole itself he admitted it and with every such affirmation he seems to become more sure of himself, My idea is that he really believes it now.\u201d OR, FRED, A, COOK and}; duce Monday night a bill carrying an appropriation of fifty thousand dol- {ars for eonstruction and instatiation and two thousand five hundred dollars.for one year's operation of an illuminating; plant for the illamination of the Falls of Niagara; such money to be expended through the agency of the State Reservation Commission at Niagara, .It provides that no part thereof shall be \"available \u2018until the Government of the Province of Ontario provides equal sums for like pur- | poses, to he expended jointly by the | two Governments, | In discussing the plan to-day Sen- \u2018ator Gittins said : \u201cFor generations | back the illumination of the Falls of | Niagara by.night bas been advocated tand of late years much enthusiasm | has been shown concerning the pro- impediments which appeared insurmountable.For many years the State .of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario, through the agencies of their respective government reservation or park commissions, have, at ! large expenge, acquired and bLeautified lands in the United States and Canada i surrounding this great natural wender i which liés between them, so that the ' sane may be ormamented and enjoyed by the peoples of the countries to which they belong.These parks are illuminated and improved in every way caleulated to promite the pleasure and enjoyment of .tLe public at large.But the falls them elves are so dark at night that they ca mot Le scen or enjoyed except by listening to the roar of the waters.Whenever a plan NOW IN OTTAWA \"Stl Myintaing \u201cThee Me Pin covered the Pole, But Can\u201d Prove Beyond Doubt.Ottawa, March 3.\u2014Still maintaining that he discovered the pole, but stating that it is as impossible for him to prove it beyond doubt as it is for Peary or any other explorer, Dr.Frederick A.Cook.the man about whom so much controversy has raged over since his announcement that he had succeeded in reaching the goal on which sn many had set their hopes, is in Ottawa.The capital appears to be the Mecca of explorers these days.as Mr.CU.Leden, a Norwegian cxplorer vf some note, was here only on Saturday, and Captain Hernier is always with us.Mr.Leden, by the way, threw some doubt on Captain Cook's discovery so that his departure yesterday from the same hotel as that at which Dr.Cook was staying was perhaps fortunate.Dr.Cook states lie does not quite remember him.As for Captain Bernier, well, the Canadian voyager into the frozen regions, has always been a supporter of Cook's cause and was with the doctor when the latter was interviewed by the Canadain Press.\u201cI just dropped into Ottawa to see my friend Captain Bernier during some spare time which is mine while carrying a lecture tour on which I am at present engaged in in the United States,\u201d said Dr.Cook.\u201cYou was.to know, of course, as they all do, whether I discovered the pole?Well let first tell you there is no intermediate course.You cannot say you think you did or did not discover the pole.Of course, I have never claimed pin-point accuracy.The pole isn't something you can hang your hat'on and say \u2018this is it.\" It cannot be accurately located within miles.What we did, however, when we left the last land was to measure off the distance travelled, first by time and then by checking up with a pedometer.Occasionally when the skies were clear we took observations for latitude and longitude, Nome were absolutely correct, hut they were sufficiently so as tn give up a work hypothesis and to plot out our daily advance.\u201cWe finally reached a place where we had the sun night and day at about the same altitude, and there the shadow gave us a final check.It was the same length at every hour of the twenty-four, a fact which is only a fact at the pole or at least within ten or twelve miles of it.\u201d POMMERY CHAMPAGNE \u201cPOMMERY\" stands for the bighest grade : of Champagne shipped from France.PARIS ad LONDON LAW, YOUNG & GO.} Pay the Highest Prices for POMMERY MONTREAL.| Dr.Cook went on to state that he had commenced an action for $100.000 against the New York Times.Asked as to Peary\u2019s observations alleged to have heen taken at the pole on April 6, he stated that at that date it was almost impossible to get the sun at all.He discussed among other things the probability of the South Pole being reached and gave it as his opinion that both Scott's and Amundsen's parties would probably get to it.for the nightly illamimation of the falls has been advanced, its promoters were confronted not only with the question of raising the necessary funds for construction, maintenance and operation of a plant that woud produce a suitable illumination, but also, owing to the physical conditions obtaining at Niagara, with the objection that the desired result would be best obtained by\u201d the decation of such | a plant on the Canadian side of the river and it has heen regarded by some as unfeasible to construct, maintain and operate works of this character upon a foreign shore.About 5 years ago some public spirited parties contributed the sum of $35,000 for a temporary and experimental illumination of the falls and two batteries of searchlights or projectors were installed, one about half way up the Canadian bank of the gorge and the other on top of the high cliff on the Canadian side.and by means of these projectors the faliy were illumianted two hours a night for about two weeks, The electric companies at Niagara donated the current required for such illumination.The experiment proved ntost highly successful and made a magnificent spectacle and the great catarac: was more beautiful and attracted more attention by night than it ever had by day.Photographs then taken of the Falls of Niagara at ten o'clock at night are now held as valuable possessions and they are most beautiful to look upon.J believe that the Government of the State of New York, which maintains on the American side of the falls the reservation at Niagara through its Niagara Reservation Commission, and the Province of Ontario, which maintains on the Canadian side the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park, should, and with great propriety, through the two agencies, or in some other proper way, construct, maintain and operate permanently an illuminating plang to light the falls by night ; and to this end I have carried along negotiations for some months with the Canadian authorities and find that there is a strong disposition on their part to join with the State of New York in this enterprise.In fact Evan E.Fraser.M.L.A.of Niagara Falls, Ont., has taken the matter in hand for his people and has prepared a bill to be immediately introduced in the Legislature of Ontario, which also carries an appropriation of $50,000, to cover the propor: tion of the expense to be borne by the Ontario Government in the construction and maintenance, and two thousand five hundred dollar: to cover the operation of the plane Jointiy and in co-operation with the Government of the State of New York.From estimates based uppn experiments already made and careful examination and investigation of the question.it has been ascertained that one hundred thousand dollars will cover the cost of a permanent construction and installation of a suitable plant and that five thousand dollars per annum will cover the cost of operation and maintenance, and it is helicved that the co-operation of the two governments in the matter will not only lighten the cost to each, but it wilt abso dispose of the objection of placing the plant, at the sole expense of vither government within the territory of the other.The ubove figures are based upon an understanding Lhe electricity required be furnished gratis by the various electrical power companies operating at Niagara Fally and Tam assured that these companies stand pready to donate the required power.\u201d March 3\u2014Senator | | ject.and there seemed always to be |.THE CONL STRIKE [IS MARKING TIME | All Negotiations Broken Off\u2014~ ; Leaders Dispersed \u2014 There |\" Is No Disorder.London, March 3.\u2014The cos! strike, the greatest in the history of the British Isles, is making time over the week end.One satisfactory feature ds the complete absence of any gisor- 'der in the districts affected.All negotiations looking to a settlement have ceased, as the leaders who were fecently gathered in London have dispersed to various parts of the coun- gry to attend to local matters in con- hection with the strike.Labor leaders, in speeches during the last day or two, have insisted upon the far-reaching importance of supporting the miners, because now that the government has decided to institute a minimum wage in connection with the mines, it will be impos.{sible much longer to withhold the es- { tabtishment of a minimum wage in all industries.Thus the strike will be- \u2018come a triumph for the cause of {labor all round.The next word is with the govern- (ment, and Premier Asquith's promised statement tomorrow is awaited with the greatest interest.The parliamentary whips, however.have not yet made any arrangement for the introduction of à minin:um wage bill.At a mass meeting of the dock workers of Bristol today a resolution was adopted to the effect that imports of forcign coal should not be handled.! Most of the railways announce a further curtailment of \u2018heir services, beginning tomorrow.Fourteen stations in London will be closed down altogether until the strike ends.WHO WILL REACH SOUTH POLE FST?Scott or Amundsen?The Former Has Some Days of a Start.London, March 4\u2014The Morning Post Christiania correspondent has interviewed Borchgrevink, the well- known Ant-Arctic explorer, regarding the prospects of the Amundsen ex- peditinn.After expressing the opinion that Amundsen\u2019s route was the shortest way to the South Pole, the explorer says : \u201cAmendsen will he confronted by quite unknown conditions and difficulties.When on his northwest paseage he had the opportunity of fishing for salmon and ham- ing different wild animals, fn the interior of the Ant- Arctic continent no life is to be found.There is to be met with only the most absolute solitude.1 therefore feel a little uncasy by reason of the fact that Amundsen has nnt a doctor in his company.The advice and assistance of one would prove most useful under the strained conditions of life to which the human body is submitted during the Ant- Arctic expedition.As we know, Capt.Scott entered Ross Sca perhaps a few days before Amundsen and will follow Shackleton's route.As Scott and Amundsen both had plenty of time to arrange their depots, the question of ultimate success descends partly on who was the first to start for the common goal.I am ignorant as to Amundsen\u2019s scheme regarding his route, but rather hope that after having gone straight to the Pole, he may have succeeded in continuing his way uninterruptediy.erossing the Ant- Arctic continent to a point in Weddell's Bay, where the Fram is to meet him.1 do not think the distance he thus covered would be any longer than by returning to Ross Sea.Such a crossing of the continent would constitute & fine piece of work.Weddell\u2019s Sea has not been explored since 1832 when Weddell reached 78 degrees 10 minutes without secing land.Then he returned owing to the hcavy ice.Completion of this route, | mean the crossing of the Ant-Aretie continent, is in my opinion practically the most important geographical task that is ieft to-day.The Fram has gone to fetch Amundsen, but nobody knows what direction it has taken.If the vessel proceeded to Ross Bay Amundsen has obviously returned the way he went, on the outward journey, and the first telegrams from him may be expected to come from New Zealand.On the other hand if he crossed the great white continent from Ross Bay to Weddell's Bay.every objection tu his scheme and its accomplishment will be ahandoned and the first ttews of him will come from South America or the Sandwich Islands.In any case his report may be expected in the very near future, perhaps in the beginning of March.\u201d mare re We ate offering 45 tours ta Europe for this summer at prices that defy competition.Eight tours start from Quebec and are personally conducted \u2018and all travelling expenses included.The price of there tours is from $160 up, or at a cost of $§ to 38 per day.\u201cSend for booklet giving complete ine formation.MM, DEAN HOWELLS Something New-and Betterpean, ENTERTAINED At a Birthday Party\u2014A Memorable Assemblage Present Author's Address.New York, March 2\u2014Wiilizm Dean Howells was the central figure tonight of a birthday party which will he memotable in the literary world.The novelist was 75 years old to-day and to do honor to him the President of the United States and more than 400 prominent men and women in literature gathered as dinner guests of Col.George Harvey.To swell the volume of testimony to the eminence to which Mr.Howells has risen in letters, scores of congratulatory mess.{ ages with tributes both in prose and verse were read from literary celebrities all over the English speaking world.President Taft, who shared with the author the distinction of being born in Ohio, hailed .the guest as \u201cthe greatest Hving American writer and novelist.\u201d and mentioned fim among men like Shakespeare.Burns and Lincoln as men without the university education who rose to fame in literature by their own effort.President Taft was introduced by Col.Harvey as \u201cwith one cxception the most distinguished native of Clio now living.\u201d Mr.Howells.who sat between his host and the President, appeared in full possession of his health, genial amiability and versatile faculties which hive reflected themselves in his work and he was enthusiastically applauded for his address on literature, which was the principal speech of the evening.Drawing from a fund of reminiscence of his personal acquaintance with such men as Mawthorns and Emerson and Walt Whitman,\u201d Longfellow.Holmes.Whittier and Lowem, Bryant, Bancroft and Motley.llarriet Beccher Stowe \" and Julia Ward Howe.Artemas Ward and Mark Twain, Mr.Howells spoke with reverence and love of old friends, but optimistically of the present and future of American literature\u2014in all departments of which he saw \u201ca high or higher average\u2014which is the distinctive American thing.\u201d He pointed i out what American literature had at last assumed national proportions.\u201cNearly all the writers | have been naming were New Englanders,\u201d he said, \u201cbut now our writers are of every sectional origin, and constitute an Ametican authorship.They are of the west and of the south, as well as of the north and east.and more and; more their work tastes of the soil | that mothered them.\u201d Other speakers at the dinper in| cluded Hamilton W.Mabie, Winston Church, Basil King, William Allen White, Augustus Thomas and James Barnes.Cangratulatory messages were received from abroad from Thomas Hardy, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Andrew Lang, Israel Zangwill.Anthony Hope Hawkins, \\Vililam J.Locke.H.G.Wells, Anne Thackery Ritchie.Arnold Bennett, Mrs, Humphrey Ward, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Parsons, Eden Philpotts, Sir Arthur Pinerow, Theodore Watts Dunlon, J, M.Barrie.Sarah Grand and J.St.Lee Strachey.EAGER TO FILL THE OFFICE OF HANGMAN Montreal, March 3.\u2014Since the publication in the press of Montreal of a story from Fraserville.Que.10 the effect that Sheriff Martin of that district was worried over his inability to find a hangman to officiate at the hanging of Jules Plourdce.which is to take place March 8, Sheriff Lemieux, of this city, has Seen literally besieged by swarms of would-be executioners anxious to relieve Mr.Martin of his trouble.No less than forty men have called upon Sheriff Lemieux in the ast two days to aak him @ use his influence to secure them the post, The applicants were of all ages and ap- argnces, some of them being mere 'bovs, Yesterday Sheriff Lemieux had ALLEGED ROBBER UNDER ARREST Supposed to Have Been Connected With Attempt to Rob Royal Bank Montreal.Que.March 3\u2014Last night the police of Lachine arrested a man who gave his name as David Weston, and held him on suspicion of being implicated in the attempt ww dynamite aud rob the branch of the Royal Bank of Montreal West yesterday morning.The police received a telephone call from the Canadian Pacitic station agent that four suspicious looking character had just passed the station.and hurried in pursuit.teer police force of Montieal West.The police only suceeeded in capturing one of the men mentioned by the agent.and be was so weary that he ~almost fainted from exhaustion before they reached him, and he made no resistance.ing his age as 33 and saying that he was from Toronto and had only been here today.and then stating that he was 29, and that he had boarded in Montreal for some time, but claiming that he could remember neither the street nor the number of the house where he had been residing.The man was scantily dressed and hail ne cvercoat and no clue could he gained irom examination of the pockets The fact that one of the rob- hers dropped his avereoat in the hank building in his haste to c