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SATUROAV&CHINOOK Vol. IV, No. 19���Established 1911 VANCOUVER. B.C.. CANADA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 Price Five Cents PUBLISHED Every Saturday by the Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited George la*. Murray, Editor HEAD OFFICE: Corner Thirtieth Avenue and Main Street, South Vancouver, B. C. TELE-PHONE: All departments Fairmont 1(74 NIGHT CALLS Fairmont 1946 L ���efiatered at the Post OSce Department, Ottawa, as Second Class Hail Hatter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: To all points In Canada, United Kingdom, Newfoundland, New CeaJand, and other British Possessions: $1.00 a Year "The truth at -UI timet firmly standi And shall from age to age endure." THE SIGN OF THE PLOUGH HENCEFORTH our message will go out under the name of the SATURDAY CHINOOK, and we hoist a new emblem to the people of British Columbia���the sign of the plough. It is unusual for newspapers to adopt what might be styled a crest. But if it is good for families, factories and communities, there seems no reason why a newspaper should not raise aloft a worthy mark. In making the changes in the name of this journal, it was decided that some figure should be found to go with the title. Naturally one turned to books on peerages and heraldry for a suggestion. Here let it be stated that through all the pages of standard works upon these subjects, there appeared no family coat-of-arms, no crest, no standard from which might be drawn an idea for the bringing forth of a suitable crest for the SATURDAY CHINOOK. All the great families of England, of France, of Germany, and of the other countries of Europe, have their proud arms. Though they bear in many cases Latin legends extolling truth, virtue and honor, these arms almost invariably glorify the practice of bloodletting. Place all the coats-of-arms of Europe before you on the floor and you would have a fine conglomeration of daggers, battle-axes, thumbscrews, swords, boars' heads, spurs, spears, crowns, coronets, lions, snakes, thistles, eagles, ravens, crows ���figures of objects which have to do with wars, feuds, slaughter, murder, and the other pastimes of the dark ages. Times have been changing in British Columbia. The day is at hand when this Province must put its band to the plough. British Columbia, now repentant of her past few years of bubble-chasing, must humble herself. We cannot reap where we have not sown. In the words of the Prophet, we must BREAK UP THE FALLOW GROUND. Therefore, the emblem of the SATURDAY CHINOOK will be the sign of the plough. "It is not known where he that invented the plough was born," says Colton, "nor where he died; yet he has effected more for the happiness of the world than the whole race of heroes and conquerors who have drenched it with tears, and manured it with blood, and whose birth, parentage and education have been handed down to us with a precision precisely proportionate to the mischief they have done." Our hope is to broaden the field of the SATURDAY CHINOOK. We are lowering the yearly rate to one dollar a year. That we have come through the past three and a half years of trial and tribulation with a good record and a profit on the right side of the books proves that in this Province the SATURDAY CHINOOK has a niche to fill. Mr. George M. Murray, who was at the helm when the paper was first launched, is today the editor and manager of the paper and printing and publishing house from which the SATURDAY CHINOOK is issued. We wish to thank those who have stood by the paper in the past, and promise, with the continued support of old friends and the new support which the improvement from time to time in the character of the paper will warrant, that the SATURDAY CHINOOK will continue to be a clean-cut, independent, fearless journal, fighting for the best interests of the people of this Province. PROHIBITION: THE MORAL ARGUMENT THE prohibition question having now become a vital issue in the affairs of British Columbia, it is incumbent upon every loyal-hearted citizen of the Province to give it the most earnest consideration. The citizens will be called upon within a very short time to record their votes on a plebiscite on the simple issue as to whether or not they wish the bars abolished throughout the Province. This question has now been before every other Province in the Dominion and each of them has adopted or is about to adopt some form of prohibition. Should British Columbia follow suit, this great Dominion will have gripped and solved a problem which for centuries has baffled the efforts of older lands, and will have shown an example to the Empire fraught with far-reaching and enormously beneficial effects. To this young country of ours, so steadily growing into national manhood, and destined to take its place in the councils of the Empire at no distant date, the opportunity has come to give a lead in one of the greatest moral reforms of the age. Our freer institutions, the lightness with which old world traditions and customs sit upon us, the fact that vested interests have not yet completely submerged liberties of people, make it comparatively easy for us to cut loose from hoary-headed abuses. To the new nations, with the freshness and vigor of their young life and ideals has been awarded the task of leading the world in moral reform as well as in material progress. British Columbia is now called upon to line up with the sister Provinces in taking one of those great forward steps which go far towards the world's betterment. The abolition of the bar as an institution throughout Canada's fair domain, is required by the highest moral considerations. Its tentacles reach out to, touch and poison every department of the national life. The home, that most sacred of all places, the individual character, politics, nothing escapes its blighting influence. It is the magnet that draws to it the criminal elements in our midst who hatch their crimes in its privacy. Drink and crime as every judge tells us, are invariably associated. Our prisons and asylums would be half empty but for it. Every quality of life that goes to the making of a high-minded, vigorous and noble people is undermined, even destroyed, in exact ratio to their drinking habits. This is no theory but well established scientific faet. No thinking British Columbian who has his own welfare at heart, the wellbeing of his fellows, and of his Province, now that the opportunity is at hand, can hesitate for a moment in abolishing this menace. Especially must he take seriously to heart the interests of the rising generation. There is not a man or woman among us, even those who have acquired the drinking habit, who would wish to see their sons and daughters followers of John Barleycorn. But if they sanction the maintenance among us of an insti- tuiton whose sole interest and purpose is to create and foster the drink habit, how great is their responsibility! There is growing in the country a noble spirit of pride in our magnificent heritage, and a great belief in its destiny. Canada is sacrificing herself unstintedly on the altar of high ideals. We look to her emerging from the turmoil of this war purified, higher toned, more spiritually deepened. It is due to our children that we should place them in circumstances better fitted for the expression of those higher ideals than we have enjoyed. There can be no doubt that by abolishing the sale of liquor we are taking a decided step in this direction for British Columbia. When the legislation of a country is dominated and shaped by a privileged class, creed or vested interest to the extent that the people's will is rendered nugatory, that country is in a more or less degraded and enslaved condition. The liquor interest has always and everywhere laid its leaden grip on the levers of legislation, and barred the way when the people, rendered desperate by their danger, made efforts to throw off the yoke. That eminent statesman. Lord Rosebery, long ago told the people of the British Isles that if they did not gain control of the liquor traffic it would very soon control them. That condition of moral degradation has not yet been reached by the Province of British Columbia, but it is on the way. The committee of financial men who followed the Business Men's Prohibition Committee to Victoria in un endeavor to counteract their efforts, gave it as their opinion that were prohibition granted it would entail financial disaster in the Province, so bound up with the liquor interest was the financial stability of the Province. If this be true what more unfortunate, dangerous and immoral condition could we be in? What better argument could we urge for the immediate suppression of the traffic while yet we have the power? Let the people think deeply and broadly on this question. They will find the moral argument for prohibition unassailable. Next week the economic argument for prohibition will be dealt with. AWAY WITH THE FLOATER GOVERNMENT SOME people refer to it as the McBride Government, others as the McBride-Bowser Government, and yet others dignify it by the name of Conservative Government. We had occasion to meet some days ago a prominent man from the Interior who has always been a staunch Conservative. He is in fact a kinsman of the Hon. Sir Hugh John Macdonald, of Winnipeg, son of the late Sir John A. "Some of us up there call it the Floater Government," said this gentleman. There is not a floater in the country but will back McBride up when he comes to the country. "The floaters love McBride. Does he not furnish them with work on these railways? Do not the floaters wax fat in the gambling business and general vice which attaches to towns upon big railroad construction? The floaters love McBride. They will vote for him and give money to swell his campaign funds. "This is a great government for the floaters, but heaven help the poor taxpayer." "Government of the floaters, for the floaters, by the floaters" should be the war cry of Sir Richard when he next comes to the country. �� BY THE WAY M WHY THE VISIT of the submarines I.O.U. and her sister at the Evans-Coleman dock? The answer is that Sir Richard in moving from place to place any more fears to show himself to the people. Hence for a jaunt to Westminster, he rings for a submarine, climbs down the hatchway, shoots into the oozy depths and is landed up at the head of Burrard Inlet, or wheresoever he may wish to land, from whence he may cut across the woods to New Westminster, or take a quiet route to any other quarter desired. ROBERT McBRIDE'S new party seems to have been strangled to death some hours after birth. The people have learned to beware of the name McBride. If Bob wants a new party he should disguise himself and travel under an assumed name. MR. COWPER, THE LIBERAL candidate, seems to be able to stir up more trouble for the powers that be than any other man in the country. He does it so gracefully, so deftly, so effectively! Cow- per is a quiet specimen of politician. When he speaks in public he usually has something to say. He says it and shuts up. He writes much as he speaks. A plain man, not tarred heavily with the party brush, a man with a definite message for the people���Mr. Cowper is one of the most promising of the forty-two candidates the Liberals have nominated in British Columbia. BE IT KNOWN that all this exposure of Mr. H. H. Stevens' association with the Dominion Trust Company follows upon a little rough plowing done by the CHINOOK in this field. Some months ago we intimated that Mr. Stevens was in on the deal to the extent of having been a good agent at Ottawa in fooling the Federal Government into reposing confidence in the late managing director. IT HAS JUST COME to light that the promoter of the South Vancouver brewery had not actually purchased the site for the brew house from the C.P.R., but had bought an option on a couple of acres. He is alleged to have told the C.P.R. officials that he wanted the ground for an industrial site. "What are you going to manufacture?" he was asked. "Inside finishing," was the ready response of the promoter. THE "PROVINCE" PUTS forward the anti- prohibition arguments of Joseph Howe, uttered fifty years ago. JOSEPH HOWE REFERRED to the waters. The waters carried the commerce of the world, turned mill wheels, irrigated dry lands, he said. Yet, he asked, because floods wiped out whole villages, carried men and women to their death, destroyed crops, would we do away with water? * ��� * IF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN were made of whiskey, every bottom in the British Navy would be destroyed in a week. AND LOTS MORE people would want to be sailors, the office joker says. * * * THE WHISKEY THAT Joe Howe took was not the kind of kill-at-forty-rod peddled over Vancouver bars today. MOST OF THE WHISKEY sold in Vancouver is made from chemicals. Some of it is made of dynamite. THE COTTINGHAM shooting case isn't going to make the whiskey business any more popular in Vancouver. >f >f tf IT WOULD BE interesting to have a photograph of Sir Dick McBride, Doc Young, Tom Taylor, and the Honorable W. R. Ross, discussing prohibition plans. * * * IT WOULD BE as interesting as a snap-shot of Sir Rodmond Roblin, Coldwell, Howden and Dr. Montague planning oul moral reform legislation. A DESPATCH SAYS that because Roblin and his gang were ministers of the Crown, they were beyond the law, that consequently they cannot be punished even if guilty. * * * ARE WE LIVING IN MEXICO? * * �� BEFORE THE PEOPLE of Canada can get back to the land, it will be necessary for them to get back the land. A MAN IN THE Peace River country took 1000 bushels of oats off ten acres. That's alright, but a man would need nearly a thousand dollars to get to the Peace River country from Vancouver. * * * MR. H. H. STEVENS, M.P.. had a fine plan to colonize Agassiz. Isn't there enough business appertaining to his office to keep Mr. Stevens busy without forcing him to advise the city council where to head in? SOME ONE SAYS that by having a day labor system the municipality is losing three hundred dollars a month. Better have day labor than contract and have the contractors graft three thousand a month. THE PROVINCIAL LIBERAL executive have gone on record as being in favor of direct legislation. Progress is the watchword. THE LIBERAL LEADER, Mr. Brewster, with Honest John Oliver, addressed a meeting up country presided over by Mr. John Keene, an oldtime Liberal. "Mr. Brewster will address you until he is tired," said the chairman in introducing the speakers, "then Oliver will address you until you are tired." IT IS SAID THAT Honest John is going to get all the voles in the Dewdney Riding. His opponent's chief claim on fame is that he stands and talks like Dick McBride. ���MM TWO SATURDAY CHINOOK SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1915 MONEY TO LOAN In Multiples of $5,000 at 8 per cent, on inside revenue producing business property. Our client will only consider property that is now paying its way. CANADIAN FINANCIERS TRUST CO. HEAD OFFICE, 839 HASTINGS ST. W. VANCOUVER, B. C. Patrick Donnelly, General Manager. Keeler's Nursery Grower and Importer of Plants, Bulbs, Roots and Shrubs Cut Flowers and Design Work a specialty. Flowering and Ornamental Shrubs for Spring and Fall planting. One hundred varieties of Roses of Choice Sorts and three hundred varieties of Dahlias. 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Coulter Local Manager 10 BURNS BLOCK, 18 HASTINGS STREET WEST THERE, on the left, is loco, British Columbia's newest town, j It looks from a distance like a postage stamp on the broad sweep I which rises from the shores of the Inlet, east of North Vancou-. ver. loco is owned by John D. Rockefeller, and within the limits of j loco are stored hundreds of thousands of gallons of petrol. An oil j tanker carrying the sign of the Standard Oil Company is anchored in the stream off loco. From the train the figures of scores of men may [ be seen as they work along the waterfront at loco. Leading from loco, up the hill and eastward, may be seen a neW trail. If one were to follow that trail, it would lead him to the! pages of a new chapter in the development of British Columbia. It j goes up the hill and down the other side of the hill and on into ai valley. And in this valley there is a colony of back-to-the-landers. The ground up in there was controlled by the Dominion Government up to about a year ago. It was located in what is known as the railway belt. The Government threw a whole township open for settlement, selling the land by auction. Whole twenty acre blocks went for as low as $100 and the govenment allowed easy terms of payment. Thus a great number of settlers were induced to come into loco and at Sunnyside, back a mile or so, they are working out their salvation, proving that British Columbia land may be cleared profitably by the chap who wants to work and proving that life on one of those twenty- acre tracts, when a man owns it outright, is well worth living. Near loco, to thc west, is some kind of a broken-down "industrial" concern. The dock which had been built but a few years ago had already fallen into the water. There was a bit of a clearing in which stood a group of cheap buildings, one surmounted by a high smoke stack. In the palmy days, we were informed, a smooth promoter had come to Vancouver and had promoted a company to manufacture something or other at this place. Our informant said that the promoter had the buildings erected, merely for scenic purposes, that nothing had ever been manufactured at the spot, but that the promoter had made well out of the concern, while many Vancouver people had invested their good money, only to lose it���to lose their money and their faith in Vancouver as a manufacturing city. To the right of the splendid roadbed of the Canadian Pacific, as the train, hauled by a giant engine which burned John D. Rockefeller's oil, sped onwards the Fraser Valley, we entered and passed, like a shot, the "city" of Barnet. Men were busy at the big mill there and some said that munitions of war were being manufactured within. We thought of a recent interview with a certain politician who had taken from a Provincial Voters' List the names of all the voters in Barnet���the voters of a year or so ago. This politician had endeavored to meet the voters personally, but upon visiting Barnet found that only a corporal's guard had been left of the hundreds upon the list. Some were fighting before Achi Baba, others had gone to Brazil, some had enlisted with the first contingent and were in Flanders. Likely there will not be many votes to poll at Barnet when the Provincial elections come round. And we may trust our political friend to see that there will be no impersonation. Above Barnet rose the Mountain, and as we slipped by its base, one thought of the' man who owned the top of Barnet Mountain��� A. V. C. MacPherson, the "Happy Jack" MacPherson, of race horse fame. He died leading the Fifth Royal Scots against the Turks somewhere in the Dardanelles country. MacPherson had lived at Edmonds, where he had cleared much land and built many pleasant homes. We had talked with MacPherson one time in 1912 at Edmonds. He told us at that time of the tract of land held at the top of Barnet Mountain. "We hope to lay it out for a high-class.residential suburb," said he. "We have an engineer hired who is laying out streets, parks, boulevards and the like. It will be ahead of Shaugh- nessy Heights some day, for it has the finest view of any tract of land in the west." MacPherson was full of hopes of the future. He had done with the race track, he said. From his stable he led out a splendid chestnut in whose veins ran the purple of old Kentucky. He told us briefly of the record of the chestnut, how he had won the handicap at Jaurez and how he had made a record at New Orleans. But there , would be no more racing for either MacPherson or the thoroughbred. Maybe the chestnut still stands in the stable at Edmonds. In j putting his estate in order, no doubt, MacPherson made some provis- ; ion for the keep of the horse. MacPherson died for his country at \ the Dardanelles. The circumstances of the brave lieutenant's passing I have not been made known as yet, but it seems sad that it was not pos- | sible that the old charger and his master could have cashed in together, the victims of the one shell. Barnet is only a minute or so from Port Moody, and the train passed Port Moody with its nose in the air, so to speak. Port Moody is the city where Mayor P. D. Roe solved the unemployment problem. The mayor is in the lumber business. He owned large timber limits near the town. The unemployed came for relief. The mayor mel each husky with an axe and a cross-cut saw. "Yonder is the bush," said he, "usual wages for taking out shingle bolts. Cook camp and bunk house up there . Go to it!" Some went to work. But the majority left Port Moody. Wise Mr. Mayor P. D. Roe. In the snap of a finger you are in Port Coquitlam. Port Coquit- lam suffers because upon every hand there may be seen old sign boards advertising sub-divisions, the marketing of which brought no good to the town. An ordinance should be passed calling for the removal of these reminders of the past. If some of the great signs were torn out Port Coquitlam would strike the casual trarveller as a substantial and progressive little city. Adjoining the city may be observed farm lands not under cultivation���lands that were cleared years ago and in the good days before the subdivision era yielded their full harvests every year. Maybe these lands are assessed so highly that the taxes eat a farmer up, maybe they are cut up into small thirty-three foot lots���maybe the owners are in litigation. At all events, it is not well to see men in the bread lines of Vancouver while the richest land under sun, rots for want of cultivation just a few miles off. When you strike Mission you realize then that the valleys of British Columbia, under proper attention, become fruitful and enticing. On the platform at the depot .were scores of great cream cans, were loads of crated fruit, were rows of ruddy-cheeked boys. While we slowed up, the tinkling of a dozen cow bells could be heard not far from the track. Mission is the centre of a wonderful pastoral district. Through woods and through fields, following the Fraser River, the cars slip along. Here is a ten-acre patch under cultivation, a neat house, a barn of shakes. Next to it is a hundred acres of wild land overgrown with trees which yield wonderfully colored foliage. Who owns the big chunk of unimproved land? Why isn't il under cultivation? If the little chap can get along with this lot, why couldn't the big chunk be brought to profitable use? These are questions which strike the mind of the traveller. The easterner, hearing of hard times in our cities, would wonder why some effort hadn't been made to solve the problem by using the materials God has placed at our hands. Harrison Mills was a great place once, from the mills and buildings round about, but only a Siwash was there on the platform as the train went through. Bow-legged and pigeon-toed, he watched her pass him as a freight would pass a tramp. In the moving picture, a row of empty wooden houses with broken windows gave the impression that Harrison Mills had had her pie and had eaten it. The Rat Portage Lumber Company has a huge plant there and apparently is not operating it. You pass through a forest which puts one in mind of pictures along Brazilian rivers���a forest which is broken occasionally to give a glimpse of the Fraser and its gravel bars where once in the dim days of long ago the miners took out lots of gold. Your introduction to Agassiz is a reel of pleasant farm lots, with orchards, a red barn here and there, and for a finale the white buildings, the great trees of the Dominion Experimental Farm. Out from a Pullman, the black porter helps an aged man with white whiskers on his chin. The whiskers are wilted, his head bends low, he has a cough. His wife and a friend help the oldtimer to a seat on the station platform. Two well-dressed, delicate looking girls alight. There is a group of Indians there to welcome us. It is the hop season in Agassiz and the Indian lads and lassies for miles around, hundreds of them, come down to pick hops. On the station platform is a boy munching a big red apple. He is bare legged. He has pockets in his pants and he seems to be.what a horseman would call "hipped." "Where did you get that apple?"* we ask. Likely he has stolen it, so he does not answer. "Got another?" "Yas." The hand goes to the pocket on the right side. After much pulling and tugging, the deformed hip drops back to normal. In place of the great apple the pocket now contains one nickel. Away the lad goes for fear the nickel will spoil the pocket by burning a hole through it. "Are you going lo the Springs?" Yes. "This way, please." The old man gets into the car first, and his bones creak as he settles into place. Soon we are loaded into the big easy riding Cadillac. We hit a piece of rough ground and the car gives us a bounce. "Are ihere springs in this car?" asks the old man. "No," says the driver, "the springs are up at the hotel." We proceed along a pleasant, gravelled road, by the big Experimental Farm. Over the fence we see the corn growing tall and heavy cared. Nearby there is a root crop. Blood red mangles, anaemic, though fat-looking turnips with their withered locks. Potatoes, row upon row of them, under frost burnt vines. Some one mentions that the agricultural neglect of British Columbia does not speak very well for the influence of the Dominion Experimental farm. But that is has a splendid influence locally at least is indicated in the bright, well kept, well-tilled farms along either side of the road. Fields which this year bore great harvests of oats and barley are barbered in military fashion. Every straw has been cleaned up apparently.- Stacks and bursting lofts here and there testify to the fruitfulness of the land hereabouts. The air is balmy as we sail along in the car over a road now smooth and even. The setting sun hits the sides of the mountains and illumines the leaves and the ferns which have already fallen under the brush of Autumn. Farm upon farm we pass and suddenly plunge into a forest again, and for several hundred acres there is a waste land, wild land, workless land���the kind that goes hand in hand with pau- 1 perism. Why is this so we ask. Here a splendid little farm, rich and ! productive, well tilled and beautiful, next door'a space of wild land. 5AXUU1U-V. SEPTEMattlUUUJUi SATURDAY CHINOOK THREE ^hree Hours From Vancouver (Continued ft >m page 2i Here a farm with a magnificent house, wired with electric wires and hooked on to the telephone line, a tennis court, a croquet lawn, a bank barn. Over the line fence a wilderness sheltering wild animals. Is there needed a master hand to make the rough places of British Columbia smooth, to even matters up a trifle? On we roll through a perfect paradise. We turn a curve and ahead is a young man riding on a bicycle. He is going so fast that his old-fashioned coat tails stick straight out. He wants to keep ?.head of the car. For about half a mile he is successful, then he gives it up and steers into the ditch to make way for progress and capital. Another curve and we swing into the driveway which leads to the St. Alice Hotel, five miles from Agassiz. It is not the old- fashioned lines of the hotel which strikes the eye, not its grand grounds, nor the flower beds nor the ash trees about the building. Il is the wonderful view of the Harrison Lake which is opened to us. The Islands away in the distance, the broad smooth waters, marred only where the steam, away to the left, rises up from the boiling mineral springs which empty themselves into the lake. The car draws up at the entrance to the great buildings. On the verandah stands a grey-haired young man, deep of chest, open of countenance, tall, dignified. He is Mr. John O'Brien, manager of the inn. He welcomes his guests and as he aids the old man from his seat in the rear of the car, he hears the old chap say that thirty-five years ago he had visited the Lake, before there were many houses in the district, any pleasure or health resort. He must have a dip tonight in the tank if at all possible, but Mr. O'Brien says that such would be impossible until the morning owing to the great heat of the water now in the tank. Entering the house the old man recounts many unusual experiences attending his annual journeys to the waters at Harrison Hot Springs since 1880. In the dining room is a large company. Several are from Vancouver, some from New Westminster, a half dozen from Victoria, others from Ohio, Texas, Hope, B.C., Rossland, and all the points of the compass. One has rheumatism, another has a streak of neuralgia, another has indigestion, many have nothing but a desire to sepnd a few pleasant days in the lap of nature, and money to back it up. The meal is plain but well cooked, well served. The potatoes came out of the hotel garden, the cream from the farm on the other side of the hotel. The bread was baked on the premises, the butter from the same farm as the cream. The apples grew on a tree in the garden, the celery came from the same garden, the chickens from the hotel's own pens���all the slaples are produced in the Aggassiz district. tf if. tf tf. tf One of the guests at the hotel was a mining man from the Koote- nays, an oldtimer in the country. We met him at the spring where the boiling water may be baled up by the bucketful. He was of that swiftly vanishing type who refer to Ontario and the eastern Provinces as "back in Canada." Yes, he had left "Canada" nearly forty years ago, had roughed his way through Montana and Colorado had come into the Boundary country, went through the great Rossland boom, had returned to "Canada" to take a hand in the Cobalt silver boom and was now living in a little Interior city. This man was from Glengarry and was not ashamed of it. He could "spoke tae Gaelic" moreover. While we drank together and chatted over the steaming cups of the magic waters, an Indian with a great gin bottle came up to the springs, filled his bottle with the hot water, put it to his throat and drained it down, filled it up again, corked the bottle, grunted and went away. "Speaking of the Gaelic," said the man from Glengarry. "I was ���once in a town in Montana in the early days. We were in a saloon, my friend and I���drinking liquid much more fiery than we have in these cups. A great skookum fellow with skin as black as the average pure-bred Indian's came. My friend hailed the fellow, 'Sandy,' said he, 'meet Mr. Mac , the same name as yourself.' I remarked that the newcomer was a trifle shadowy for one of the clan. Whereupon the Indian spoke to me in Gaelic as good as my mother could use and said that the color of a man's hide did not help him out any. I was badly taken back, hastened to apologise for my hasty remark. But the Indian was quick to put me at my ease. His father had been a Hudson's Bay factor, his mother a pure Indian. Flis father owned the town in which we were and ten thousand acres round aboul. He had two brothers, both almost white, both bad men, the worst in Montana, outlaws, cattle thieves. But Donald, who had enherited his father's brains and his mother's color, was one of the rich men of the State, a sober, industrious, studious, canny Scotch-North American Indian. Fie had been educated in Scotland and the man from Glengarry stated that the half-caste knew more about the members of the Scottish clan who were the first settlers back in Canada than the pioneers themselves had known. Night was falling upon Harrison Lake and while we drank cup after cup of the boiling water from the depths of the earth we were joined by other guests at the inn, among them a man from Texas, who had a line of talk rarely heard in Bntish Columbia. He knew all about the Mexican situation, the wheat production of his native State. knew all about the State of Oklahoma and was wise to the frugal ways of "the Kansas Jay-Hawkers." He was a railroad man and had several thousand men under his direction in the building of a certain new line shortly to be completed and opened for traffic���not the Canadian Northern. We walked back to the inn, along the gravelled pathway, under the electric lights and the Texan and the man from Glengarry talked with us on many subjects. The question of prohibition came up and from these two men, representatives of a strange order of rough and ready manhood, men whose lives were spent on the range, in the mining camp, on railroad construction, in the rough places of the earth, we received a tip as to the force which will wipe the liquor traffic out of business in British Columbia. "No good," said the Texan, "and I'll vote against it every time. I drank it my time, dyin' all hemlock, took lots of it, but not in eight years have I touched it." He told of the relation of booze to the building of railroad grades. There was the case of the Swede, Anderson, he had made $3,000 profit on hi.s work in a certain place, took his cheque to the Hotel, had it hung on the cash register, gave orders for drinks all round till il was eaten up. Three days after, he was back on the pick and shovel. There was the case of the other Swede who made $40,000 on the same contract, immediately got a nice easy jag on, slept in the chairs in the bar, bought a worthless mine with a goodly portion of the profits of five years labor, bought a touring car, got married, bought a boat, forty dollars worth of red neck ties, bought everything in sight, lost all in two months, walked to Vancouver, and because the railroad work was at an end in British Columbia, entered the bread line until such time as he could make a sufficient number of dollars at clearing city land at Hastings Townsite to buy him a ticket to somewhere in the Couer D'Alene. cater to whiskey drinkers. If John could have told us what he knew of the influence of John Barleycorn at Ottawa, what a tale it would make. Surely there must have come under his observation men who came up irom the constituencies with the trust and hope of whole Canadian counties in their breast pockets, men who were bright and clever, who meant well, whose ideals were right, but who fell before the diplomatic cup of the lobbyist. Surely there had come under his observation cabinet minisiers with a real message for the good of the Canadian people, who tried to mix it with Old Barleycorn, and who went away from the capital, disgraced and broken. But Mr. John O'Brien is not telling these things. H> t �� H1 V If it is beautiful by the light of day, under the light of night, the surroundings at Harrison Hot Springs fascinate one. All round are the mountains, away out from the front of the hotel may be seen the glaciers. The surface of the lake is without a ripple, save bordering the distant cloud of steam to the left where the hot sulphur-potash waters bubble out of the crevices of the rocky shore. Mirrored in the lake are ten million stars which stud a blue-black heaven. ���GEORGE M. MURRAY. gBBllIIIIifH I ...'.Jllll PURE MILK DAIRY CO. I Official Photograph of His Royal Highness Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught,' Governor- General of the Dominion of Canada, who comes to Vancouver this week. "Railroadin' wasn't godly work by a long shot, but booze and railrpadin' mixed makes fine business for the gamblers, tin-horns, sharks, and the lost sisters," said the man from Texas. "No good," agreed the man from Glengarry; "and the way I look at is this. Take one of them bits of boys. A parent has to lay our money on them for the first fourteen or fifteen years. A parent has to feed them, nurse them, clothe them. Then they get able to make a dollar or so a week and then often times they start on them dirty, snippy cigarettes and on into booze. Sometimes they have no more pride than to lay drunk right in front of the house where the neighbors see them. They disgrace everybody belongin' to them, on top "of the waste of time and money bringing the brutes up." These and other arguments against the liquor business were put forward by the two gentlemen from the Interior. We decided in our minds that the force that was at work would not couch its protests against the traffic in honeyed, pious words. The swearing, raring veterans of the mining camps, the men who have been and seen, the men who know that the development of the country has been cursed by the presence everywhere of saloons, the men who have seen neighbor boys hanged for crimes they never knew ihey committed, the men who have seen the little chaps fall down before the great interests who have throttled this western country because John Barleycorn always fought on the side of. capital���these are the boys who are going to give the traffic the run the first opportunity that presents itself. We were sitting upon ihe verandah and while we talked, the little old man who came in with us, walked by. His head was up, his chest was thrust forward, his chin whisker stood oul straight and brittle and game. He had a mug in his hand and was away for another three or four shots of the magic hot water belore retiring for the night. Surely ihis thirty-fifth annual visit to the springs was going to be as beneficial to .him as any previous visit. We were joined in our temperance talk by Mr. John O'Biicn, the host. Now John O'Brien was for many years at the Russell Hotel in Ottawa. Fie presided over the head clerk's desk there during the years of the Laurier administration, when much of the history of Canada was made right in the Russell Hotel. Mr. O'Brien was interested in ihe discussion over the temperance question. He is nothing if not discrete and very diplomatic. 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If you c-re alarmed at night, reach for your extension telephone and send out your appeal for help. Noiselessly, quickly, the message is speeded forth. No need to turn on a light and search for your loaded revolver, with the probable danger of shooting a member of your family. Besides loaded weapons are dangerous things where there are children. The Telephone is quicker, surer, safer. When you telephone, you know in a moment that your appeal has been heard, you are assured that help is being sent. All the Company's telephones are available for service day and night. To know that the means of instant communication is available at any time assures security and gives an absolute sense of relief. B.C. TELEPHONE CO. LTD. THEIR ONLY MEETING It is said that Admiral Jellieoe has only met his great rival of today��� Admiral von Tirpitz���on one occasion, which was at the opening of the Kiel Canal. At that time there were well over a score superiors to Jellieoe, in official seniority and position, as commanders of the British Navy. It was Mr. Winston Churchill's promotion of Sir John Jellieoe over thc heads of eleven "superiors" at the beginning of this war which has made it come 1" pas- that today those two men who met just once now find themselves the opposing lenders of great fleets. It seems strange to reflect thai Nelson and Wellington are also said tn have only met nnce. And then, as tragedy would have it, they did not know each other! The meeting���as you may have seen it portrayed in a celebrated picture���is reported to have taken place in Whitehall, where the two waited together for interviews with a noted statesman of the day. Rut at that meeting Nelson was already famous, whereas Wellington, though he had even then made a mark, was not the tremendous force for Britain which he afterwards became, years after the triumphant Nelson had passed away so gloriously at Trafalgar. What seems very astonishing to us today is to reflect that Wellington himself has left it on record that he never once set eyes on X'apoleon, though he was fighting against him almost constantly for close on fifteen years. The Iron Duke both saw in battle, and met at other times, such great rivals as Soult, N'ey and Mlirat. A recent' report from France relates that Lord Kitchener,, during a visit. be paitl to our forces there not long ago, only just missed meeting again Colonel Marchand, who, when be heard how close he had been to hi.s former rival of Egypt, regretted they had not met once more. The whole future of Egypt turned on that meeting. Marchand had advanced into the Soudan from the south; Kitchener from the north. Marchand claimed the land for France by right of first "discovery"; Kitchener for England and France into war. Even- tually Kitchener's claims were held to be established, and the Soudan Marchand and H. H. Stevens, M.P., Played The Game With Dominion Trust Builders Lulu Island Ghost City tftfftftftftftf if,. ^ # it ^ if * * PUBLIC MEN'S REPUTATIONS, THE FORTUNES OF HONEST BUSINESS MEN, THE SAVINGS OF THOUSANDS OF WORKING MEN ALL WENT IN THE QUICK SANDS AT THE MOUTH OF THE FRASER RIVER :���: :���: :���: :���: :���: :���. -.���. m T is not with any cheerful spirit that we must chronicle the connection of Mr. Stevens with Arnold and the Dominion Trust Com- They were a happy little family all together in the top floors of the gilded palace which itself had been built with money fleeced pany. What a great opportunity Mr. Stevens had at Ottawa to! from the general public of British Columbia and the Dominion of render service to this community. How the people, Liberal, Tory, J Canada. Laborite, thought that in Stevens we had a man who had some idea It is not too much to say that the explosion of the Vancouver of the responsibility and the opportunity the people gave him! Libe-; Harbor and Dock Extension project was the blast which wrecked the rals resented attacks made upon Mr. Stevens in the early days of the last hopes of the ring who were running Dominion Trust. Vancouver "Sun." All seemed to agree that Stevens should be given l As Mr. Cowper says, the plan was to turn the far end of Lulu a chance to do his best by Vancouver. Now he has fallen down.! Island into a city. The scheme had originated in the mind, it is said. His connection with the Dominion Trust places him in the same class j of gentleman by the name of Mr. Carl Erhland, who came to Van- with Mr. Bowser and those others of the inner circle in the wrecking j couver in 191 1, put up at Glencoe Lodge, and set out to promote of this institution, who must share responsibility for the worst financial crash ever known in the history of Canada. Had Stevens warned us, had he given us the tip in time, the structure might have been saved. Some hope would have been left for the thousands of small depositors who lost all that they had. But P. M. DRAPER Secretary-Treasurer of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, who will reach Vancouver a few days prior to the big Convention on September 20 to complete Reports and compile Resolutions, as required by the legislation of last year. "Paddy" Draper is the most popular man in the city of Ottawa. He is an eloquent exponent of the principles of trades unionism, known among union men all over the continent. He is a radical Irish-Canadian, whose untiring efforts in behalf of international fellowship among the workers entitles him to a large place in Canadian political history.' j was evacuated by ^^^^^^^^^^ France. But that one meeting was surely pregnant enough for these two rivals. Stevens kept the truth from the people who trusted him. He pulled wires at Ottawa to help the concern into deeper misery. Stevens apparently was at the roulette table with the others, each feverishly put- j ��n the sea on Lulu Island at fabulous figures. something. Mr. Ehrland had letters from Russian capitalists and from other capitalists. His first plan was for a railway from Vancouver to Fort George. He was a clever fellow, Ehrland, and he started a propaganda for the road to the north. To spread the propaganda he enlisted the aid of the churches and the writer had the pleasure of attending at Kitsilano Presbyterian Church one night to hear Ehrland hold forth on the wealth of the north and the need for a road which, he declared, he had the money to build if the Government would stand by him. Mr. Carl Ehrland doubtless had in mind the MacKenzie and Mann schemes in the launching of this road. But Sir Richard McBride was too clever for him and wouldn't talk business. So Ehrland failed in promoting the northern road to make way for Pat Welch, Jack Stewart, and the rest of the P. and G. E. bunch wha had the entre to Sir Richard's house at Victoria. Ehrland must have spent some money on the Vancouver���Fort George project. He wasn't to be downed, however, and he turned his attentions to the possibilities of building a city at the end of Lulu Island with docks and terminals that would put Busch, of New York, in the shade, and would make Vancouver a greater city than New- York. Ehrland went ahead with this enterprise, piloted it through the stages of infancy, saw that it couldn't be put across, unloaded to Charles Fenn Pretty, of the Pretty's Timber Exchange, who caught William R. Arnold, then at the height of his career. Readers of the newspapers of Vancouver during the past four years will remember the great advertisements run by the Vancouver. Harbor and Dock Extension Company. These advertisements were placed with all the papers, the Government press being specially cared for. Col. J. D. Taylor's paper, the "New Westminster Columbian," was one of the favored papers. Mr. Stevens' little paper in Mount Pleasant came in for large advertisement contributions from the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. , Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on advertising the stock of the company. Where did the money come from? The depositors of the Dominion Trust seemed to have contributed liberally to the promoters of the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. Options were bought upon marsh land and wild land fronting The best engineers WESTMINSTER CHURCH The usual services will be held next Sunday at Westminster Church. Mr. Craig will conduct Ihe service both morning and evening. In thc morning four new ciders will be ordained. The topic for the evening service. "When a man is single." The Christian Endeavor Society have kindly lent their service to usher. The Sunday School will be held at thc usual hour. WANTED: a few pupils for piano by certificated teacher. Terms very reasonable.���Miss Roscoe, 4410 Ontario St. Phone Fairmont 1255 R. ting down assets, betting on the little ball. Stevens hadn't much at stake save his reputation. But that was for the time the property of the citizens of Vancouver. The money the others gambled belonged also to other people. "Enough truth in it to make it damnable," said Mr. Bowser, in taking a day to answer the attack upon him for his connection with the Dominion Trust which was published in the CHINOOK. "Enough truth in it to make it damnable," these were the words that rung through the legislative chamber at Victoria. And so it is with Stevens and his connection with the Dominion Trust. Stevens has been damned so far as his political career is concerned because he tampered with this rotten institution, because he played the game with the late managing director. Do any of you remember the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company, capitalized at an outlandish number of millions? Their offices were upstairs, over the Dominion Trust Company's offices. Mr. Stevens, M.P., had his office between the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company and the Dominion Trust Company. It was better that such arrangement should be made. For Mr. Pretty, the promoter of the docks, could run in and see Mr. Stevens, M.P., and officials of the Dominion Trust, who were taking the money of the depositors to make the big many-millioned proposition a success, could also reach Mr. Stevens, M.P., without leaving the building. Mr. Stevens, M.P., was boosting the Ottawa end of Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. Then upstairs was the office of the Attorney-General of British Columbia, the Hon. W. J. Bowser. Mr. Bowser was the lawyer for the Dominion Trust as well as for subsidiary concerns, and was doubtless the legal adviser of Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. available were put at work to lay out a townsite and harbor scheme. It is understood that foreshore rights were secured from the Government. The plan upon which the harbor project was to be worked was the same as the plan upon which Mackenzie and Mann always operated. The plans and specifications were to be got ready, the promotion of the concern was to be perfected, then the scheme was to approach the Provincial and Federal Government trees and shake down subsidies. They went to Ottawa and asked the Government to guarantee the bonds of the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. An expensive lobby was set up at Ottawa, several very brainy men were despatched to the capital to bring all sorts of pressure to bear. Just at that time Vancouver and South Vancouver and the city of New Westminster had in hand plans for improvement of their harbors. Representatives had waited upon Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., and Col. J. D. Taylor, M.P., to urge them io intercede at Ottawa in behalf of these municipalities. South Vancouver had hopes for the development further of the North Arm of the Fraser as a fresh water harbor. Development here had been undertaken by the Laurier Government. The people thought that Mr. Stevens and the Borden Government might do something more substantial than the past government had done for the development of the River. Alas, the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company, financing what had become known as the "Pretty Scheme," got the inside track at Ottawa. The lobby set up at the Federal capital declared to cabinet ministers and government officials that the North Arm scheme was a mere dream and even went so far as to say that Burrard Inlet as a harbor would never be satisfactory. With the idea of supporting the great many-millioned scheme on Lulu Island, backed (Continued on page 5*) I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 SATURDAY CHINOOK FIVE I'm out to help you save Anyone I'hmiliar with my r-tur��' know* I'm lolling Groceries, Meats, I'roviHlonB and Kruitw nl such unaiually low prices. In fact M many people arc. taking advantage Of my nnfii>n that each Week-end the store*! packed ail day long. I-nut Saturday I couldn't attend 1*�� all who came���and I had two extra men on. There'! one l It i It* thing I'd like to men- Hon 1 ti parlleular ��� with iln* prices i have on groceries and supplies right now, it's just Im* posslble for me to come out big and tell you about everything! I'm selling on ;t narrow mart;in��� so narrow hal people are wondering how I'm doing tt nnd Staying in business, Anyhow, I'm perfectly sdtiHfled with re- BUlts and put it down lo careful buying and honest dealing. I'd be glad to have you come dowft nnd took round the store���no obligation to buy whatever. I guarantee every article in the store for freshness* purity and unaIIl>���you take no ri-.u whatever, i m11 weiKlit guaranteed too GERMAN SPIES PANTAGES "The House of Happiness" E. D. Graham, Resident Manage) Phone Seymour 3406 The Four Rennees It has been customary tn consider j secrets were ton well guarded tn bc'"THROUGH FIVE COUNTRIES ihe German spy system the most per- spirited away. The man from theI IN TWENTY MINUTES" feet in the world, and assuredly they Admiralty admitted thai the secrets have reduced it tn a fin,- arti TKe^were well guarded, bin thought he Three shows daily 2.45. 7.20. 9.1! German Renins seem-, to lend itself Icould get them if he wanted. ; Admission���Matinees, 15c; nights naturally to a spy system. It is eun- "1 know a shipbuilding firm that 15c an(^ 25c�� boxes, 50c. iiing and crooked to a degree. If thereIwould give $20,000 for these plans,"! are any dark ways underground to the German spy said,specifying them, be trodden or diabolical contrivances The other hesitated and shook his to be used, the German genius is at head. "No-o," lie said, "il isn't worth home in them. On the other hand, ihe [while." British nature abhors spying, it is re- The German offered $30,000, $40,000 pellant to the race and the spy has l $50,000 and finally $60,000, but each always been looked upon as an outcast time he was refused. among us. Hence the popular view "I'll give you $70,000," he said at f the British secret servile as ;. ne- last. gligable quantity. A gri tttei misap Theatrical Notes ill PICNIC HAMS. reg. 1'������ or 13*4 SALT BACON, reg, IN for 14c FANCY dOVT, litT'l'l'.l first mad,.-, reic, 40c Cor .. :i:t'i ONTARIO CHEESE i Fancy), ���i ror .... 35c H & K ROLLED OATS. ���eg. 16c for .... :ia<- FRY'S COCOA, reg. 2Sc for 20c mud ti S.T. WALLACE 44 Hastings Street West Classified Advertisements u notes r- have the plan-. The German agent paid over hi.s which has proved it- $70,000 and received in return a series support the country's|of plans purporting to be of the fn- dominable, the Inflexible, and the Invincible battle cruisers. The plans were hurried to Steinhauer, who hiin- sclf took them to his royal master. The German designers rubbed their hands. If this was Britain's best they FLORISTS BROWN BROS. & CO., LIMITED, Seedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen, 48 Hastings St. E., and 782 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. prehension could not exisl Briti to meet the underground workings foreign governments, particularly Ger- , many, has been compelled t-> maintain I a seeret servic self w.ll able t interests when the battle nf wit- wa afoot. Quite a number oi striking in cidents have recently emerged tn pro\ this. The .--wii'l tracking of la dy, wli wa-- shot in the Tower of London, an Knil fli-i. whn committed suicide i 'his cell after conviction and confcs-l would have no difficulty in beating it. siou. are recent cases in point. The So they designed a vessel that was to j perfect fighting condition of tin- Bri- be bigger* faster ami much more pow- Itish navy just prior to the outbreak erfully armed. It was tn have a of war proves unmistakeably that the! speed nf 25 knots, a displacement nf government, through the vigilance Dt; 15,500 inns, and a main armament of the seeret service, were thoroughly twelve 8.2 inch guns. This vessel was cognizant of what was impending laid down. She was presumed to belong before the bolt actually fell. the mightiest battleship in the world. Certain facts have lately been colli- As a matter ni' faet she was out-of- illg to light which demonstrate that j date before her keel was completed, the much vaunted superiority of tlu-: Still t*,e Germans did not know that German system of espionage is notjThey went mi building and in due Pantages Theatre The manager. Mr. I'd. Grahi arranged I'm- another -tar feati next week for Pantages Theatre-goers j Holland and Dockrill presenl a novi I I right, sai.i the other, "if you tv equestrian spectacle. This act iu 0 in Hank nf England eludes four beautiful white horse my rooms I'll lei you trained P. the highest degree. Thi All nn <ny Sol. Ilespie Girls queens and ���.-led : . III! t> WATCHMAKER ENGLISH WATCHMAKER AND Jeweller when you think of watch, clock and jewellery repairs think Appleby, 438 Richards St., hilf block from Hastings. All mainsprings and cleaning jobs guaranteed 12 months. MONEY TO LOAN t-. tlie I lebrew hum- irist, has la m a ureat favorite ��ith lovi rs oi iln Yiddisher dialect, and hi- jokes are great. Mr. and Mr-. Perkins Fisher in the funny rural sketch. "Thi Half Way House," by F.zra Kendall, is a playlet par excellence. The Four Rennees present "Through Five Centuries in Twenty Minutes," a European singing and dancing revue which cl- - a bill that has not been beat nn the Pantages circuit for some time. RED CROSS CONCERT A concert in aid of the Red Cmss will be given in South Hill Theatre. Sunday night. September 19. at 8 p.m. Admission free, collection. A large attendance is requested tn aid ihis worthy cause. High-class artistes what it has been suposed to be. but, time the ship was launched. She was that it is capable of being outwitted j christened "Blcticlier," and cost $5'.-j'v'11 he there and some splendid sing- by the "innocents" nf the British see-1000,000. This was the ship that was/"!* will be the feature nf the evenin ret service. One of these incidents is caught on a baby-killing raid and was of historical, and at the moment, vital .blasted from stem tn stern and sent interest and is well worth recording, to the bottom by Sir David Beatt'y. MONEY LOANED, DIAMONDS, Jewelry, etc. A quiet, respectable, reliable place to borrow money. Old gold bought. Established 1905. Star Loan Co., 812 Hastings West. Steamer New Delta SUMMER SCHEDULE On and after Saturday, May 1st,' Steamer New Delta will leave from FERRY WHARF (Foot of Columbia Ave.) For PORT MOODY and I0C0 CTSry01) DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS At 6.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Returning leave Port Moody at 8.00 a.m., 11.00 a,m. and 4.45 p.m., except Saturday, when she will leave Port Moody at 12.00 a.m. SUNDAYS Leave Vancouver at 1.30 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. Leave Port Moody at 4.45 p.m. and 9.20 p.m. Express or Parcels Reasonable Rates STEAMER LEAVES ON TIME This Schedule subject to change without notice In the year 1904 Germany started her aggressive naval policy, which was aimed solely at Great Britain. For years previously there had been nothing striking about our naval policy. We had jogged along iu the old. old way. making slight improvements here and there, lint-effecting nothing which I created much of a stir in the world. But in 1904 Lord Fisher became First Sea Lord, and six months later, it was decided to build the Dreadnought. The day of little guns and little ships was over. The era of the big gun in the big. fast ship had dawned. The biggest guns properly served will win any battle. Lord Fisher knew it and based his, policy nn it. The Dreadnought was his reply to the German menace. WATER INTO WINE The German Admiralty, while chuckling at having caught Great Bri- I' '*��� marvellous how the fakirs try tain napping, had a terrible awaken- to prove that Christ's turning of water ing. They found they had bcen:'"t" wine is an endorsement ol the tricked. Their cleverest spies bad been fooled in the simplest manner. The British Admiralty had been cognizant of what was going on all the gmg shop. If we remember the Scriptures, Christ at one time walked upon the waters. Merely illustrations nf the Master's divine gifts, reason- fee PERSONAL NOTES KENT & SON SECONDHAND STORE Can supply your needs at right prices. COLLINGWOOD EAST (Right at Station) tune and had deliberately engineered';able people, agree. lie might have the deal. Tji��j)fc*^lmi��*^^'^t'*ft'M'*tlie Utirne4^.o><**i^��ia*J8tB:jift^r walked Germans liad set so much store .were ' upon the air. Oh, well, ihc devil can false. The "Bfeucher" was doom*c(TT-|Uotc scripture to his purpose. tn destruction before she was built. I m , She was designed five years behind her time. The launching of the Dread nought reduced every navy in thc world to absolescence. She had al Mr. J. VV. Goostrey has opened a Sliced of 28 knots, a displacement of grocery store in his block, oor. 41st 17.250 tons, and was armed with eigbt I Ave. and Main Street, formerly occu- The rumor of Britain's bold move j 12-inch guns. This is the ship the pjeil by Mr. St. Quintin. Mr. Go, s- startled the world. Tbe reports i"Bleucher" was built to outclass! trey's many friends wish him ^success, reached the Kaiser in record time. aiid|\*ever has a power been outwitted so | * * �� I' it will be realised that the German .VI- nea'tly, Since this illuminating inci- power that their like had never been Deen any bragging or boasting about | ghai LITTLE MOUNTAIN HALL Cor. 30th Avenue and Main Street Comfortable Hall for oublic meetings, dances, etc., to Let Apply W J. STOLLIDAY 34 32nd Avenue Y OU WILL GET VALUE AND SATISFACTION BY PATRONIZING Crossland's Store 4520 MAIN STREET A nice clean stock of Groceries. Candys and Tobacco. *��bli.hrd IBf'l Rt|,nr,l Sr,ti< CENTER * HANNA LIMITED M.w l-noiioo. 1049 Cnraia Strr.-I. o[XHi����ie tntvt V M..C..A. l',rr���,���J CrliimUnum ���fij'rrfi.mii Vmli. ',-.��.�� ,���,! \���(, ' S.H. W miralty was by no means pleased at the new condition of affairs. Detested Britain was building ships of such great size and tremendous V seen before! This was no niorc than the truth. But it lost nothing in the telling, and it became so distorted and magnified that the would-be "Admiral of tbe Atlantic" was driven nearly frantic, lie commanded Steinhauer. his master spy. who was an officer in the Prussian Guards, to obtain plans of these ships. Without these plans the German navy was lost. At any- cost they must be secured. The master spy set his organization to work- to find nut a- much as possible, at the same time detailing his highest-paid j member and cleverest agent to get hold ol copies of the plans. This secret Service man bad long lived in London. No one suspected his nationality or his real business. He set to work ill charctcristic fashion. For some time he watched an official al the Admiralty with the object nf striking up an acquaintance with him. but an opportunity did not occur until one evening when this man slipped into a bar for a whiskey and soda. The agent followed and as the man was about tn drink accidentally jolted his arm and caused the drink tn be spilt. The agent apologised profusely and insisted Upon paying for another drink. His offer was accepted and from then mi the two met frequently and became very friendly. The spy naturally led on the Admiralty official to talk shop. He waited till the moment was ripe, and then approached the matter circumspectly. The Briton was so indignant that the German discreetly dropped the subject. The friendship continued just tbe same, however, and the spy brought all his remarkable personality to bear. The hints and innuendoes In- dropped from time to time began, apparently, to take effect, until one evening he thought it sufficiently safe to make a more direct appeal. It seems that he led up to the subject by speaking of the disappearance of some other plans and suggested that Admiralty dent we have continuously outclassed j , the German building programme and I have ships mounting 15-inch guns audi ���steaming 30 knots. There ha Mr. Riddle, who resided at 145 42m' West, died September 12. after i brief illness. Mr. and Mrs. Riddle I came here three years ago tn residi With their daughter. Mrs Gar* Mrs. Kiddle will return 1. them but there they are waiting "the *0)mrill wil]) ,,,,. husbaim;s remains. day." The Germans looked to their) * * �� spy system for salvation. Thosi ver spies have proved as gullible as country bumpkins. The Kaiser has been beaten at his own game. The fact is plain that German spies have doomed their country to destruction. The Epworth League nf Mountain View Church have divided the members into contesting lines and every Ittetldance i^ marked and counted. This is to stimulate attendance and interest in the work. Tbe flag on Sir Wm. Van lliriu school has been flying al half mas', tbis past week out nf respect tn Sir Wm. Van Horne, who passed mi m the great beyond, September 13th. * * * Mr. Shnesinith and family have removed from 5418 Prince Edward St. to 246 43rd Avenue. * * * Excelsior Club nf Mountain View Church meets with Miss Ina Wood. Valentine Street, near 24th Ave. H. H. Stevens, M.P. (Continued from page as it was by the Dominion Trust money by Mr. Arnold, by Conservative members of parliament, every harbor and waterway on the lower coast was misrepresented at Ottawa, and in England and throughout the world. By these tactics, after hundreds of thousands of dollars of the money of the depositors in the Dominion Trust had been spent in promoting the big harbor proposition, the boldest stunt ever undertaken in the history of public utility promotions and government milking in the whole history of the west, the promoters made their last stand. Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., had apparently done his duty for the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company at Ottawa. Had there not developed the hearty opposition of some of the big financial men in Vancouver and the Vancouver Board of Trade, the great scheme would have been brought to a successful issue���from the point of view of the promoters. The Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company received, as it was, many promises from Ottawa, and a great deal of actual help. They were given certain waterfront concessions. They promised to allow the railway commission of the Dominion of Canada lo exercise jurisdiction over their rates and the Government, in return, agreed to guarantee certain bonds that were to be issued. A frantic attempt was made by the Vancouver Harbor St Dock Extension Company to secure the aid of Mackenzie and Mann in putting over the promotion. It is stated that Mackenzie and Mann thought so well of the scheme that they had agreed to have some part in the undertaking by making the phantom city at the end of Lulu Lland a freight terminal! Shades of Port Mann! Here was a stunt that had the Port Mann embezzlement improved upon a thousand times. That the ghost city might be linked up with Vancouver, a railway charter had been received from the Government The name of this charter is forgotten in the rush but it was one of the half-dozen charters secured from the Dominion Government by private promoters through the agency of Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., since 191 I. Then there were plans for tunnels from the "ocean terminals" to Vancouver. There is one man better qualified than any other to tell the details of the vast plans of the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. That man is Dr. H. Buffington Vrooman, formerly a lecturer at Oxford, a man who had much to do in assisting in the legitimate development of British Columbia. Dr. Vrooman was brought lo Vancouver from London, and through the usual means of misrepresentation of facts, was induced to take a hand in aiding the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. He was to be paid a substantial salary and his position was to be that of a sort of advisor, guide and phloscpher. Several times Dr. Vrooman was urged to lecture before the Progress Club of the day, the Board of Trade and all public bodies throughout the west. He was undoubtedly sincere in all that he said. Little did he realize that he was being used as an advertising medium for the Harbor and Deck Extension Company. Dr. H. Buffington Vrooman was urged to go to England to lecture on the future of Vancouver. He addressed large audiences throughout the towns of the North of England, and was followed up by a shrewd band of stock salesmen peddling the securities of the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company. Dr. H. Buffington Vrooman was undoubtedly used as a tool. When he discovered the fact, through the intercessions of friends in England who were familiar with finance���and Dr. Vrooman was no financier���the learned doctor packed up his box and came back to Canada. He came back a worried and broken man. He is now al Washington, D.C., where his brother holds a position as head of the Agricultural Department of the United States Government. It seems that Dr. Vrooman's name, friends and family had been worked to give Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company a respectable appearance in the eyes of the outside world. The promoters at that time owned and operated one of the largest printing establishments in Vancouver. Literature by the ton was issued from this plant to the four corners of the earth. Some day the story will be written in detail of the promoting and financing of the "ocean terminals" on Lulu Island. It is possible that the most hair-raising fiction ever written, dealing with high finance, would be a mild yarn as compared with the bare statements of fact bearing upon the rise and collapse of this collosal scheme. The Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company was the beautiful bubble which took the mind of the late Mr. William R. Arnold from his successful and legitimate business as it appears to have been, four years ago. Once in the whirlpool of this promotion, io man could very well withdraw. The game was to shake down the Dominion Government, to grab subsidies from the Provincial Government. Mackenzie and Mann had played the same game, had won, ind they were not any brighter than some of the men identified with the big dock project. Other people had played the same game, had fathomed almost the bottom of the pit of despondency, had sleepless dreams of yawning penitentiary doors, had won. been knighted, had received seats in the House of Lords. This paper will not charge that Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., received one cent illegally from the Vancouver Harbor and Dock Extension Company, had received one cent wrongfully from the Dominion Trust Company, from Mr. Arnold or from any others associated with that institution. What we do charge is that Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., like a lamb, was led to the slaughter. We charge that he supported the whole outfit behind the Dominion Trust and Vancouvei Harbor and Dock Extension Company; that he pleaded their cause for them at Ottawa and elsewhere; that he tolerated work of these men which he knew to be wrong and not in the best interests of tlie people of British Columbia; that he actually went so far as to allow his name to be used in a scheme to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for his masters; that Mr. Stevens was in on the wild-catting, was the product of a wild-catting period in the history of Bntish Columbia; that Mr. Stevens favored the building of the Ghost City on Lulu Island and refused to piead the cause for legitimate development on ; Burrard Inlet and the North Arm; that he encouraged corruption, embezzlement and theft by silently allowing these conditions to grow under his very eyes, under the auspices of companies with at least one cf which he was personally associated. The people of Vancouver elected Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., to attend at Ottawa and there voice their legitimate wants, put forward their grievances, protect their interests���in short to carry Vancouver's message. Mr. Stevens wasn't at his post doing hi** duty. And so this young man who went away with the trust of the people, not only of Vancouver but of British Columbia vested in him, writes in his pathetic, explanations to the daily papers the last chapters of the story begun by the late William R. Arnold, a story of hopes blighted, of a city temporarily ruined, a story of death, desolation and misery. / ��� SATURDAY CHINOOK SATURDAY' SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 wb? $0tttue $itrpU f ?atlf?r Sandy meets in wi' an' auld freen an' hae's a bit crack aboot the|! Conscriprhrn Bizness Wccl freens, the long dark nichts art wi' us again���an' l"ng. long nicht* they'll be tae the folk wha hae iheir husbands i r sons awa al thc front iechtin' agin the cowardly Huns. t say cowardly, advisedly, an' I mean what I say. It seems to me there has been owre muckle stilly sentimentality an" so-called "kiiltur" dis- played among oor ain cleckin when talkin' o' the Kaiser an' lii- murder- Xa, iM. they were tmi crafty for that. They wenl aboot their mission in an unnerhaun faushon, in fact they stole the pootther frae thc Soshylists o' Germany in that they installed a specie o' Soshylism o' their ain, Their Soshylism meant that they organized eddicashun, they organized capital, they organized industry, they organized the railways, they organized the workin' men, they organized evcry- s associates. It's time wc were done thing in siclit. wi' wan objeck in view hvi' a' this politeness when referrin' tae the savages, They're a darned siclit wanr than they're i.i'il. Wha can ever think o' the l.nsy- tania. when aboot a luinner wee in- nocent bairns were drooned in their mither's airms an' think o' the Germans as bein' onything less than dirty, cowardly murderers. Aye an' waur than that. Ther' wis some talk a wee whiley ago aboot some Canadians bein' crucified by they monsters. The story wis furnished by some o' the Canadians who had been witnesses o' the "incident" themsels. The thing . I iwis su diabolical that bad an' believed the Germans tae be. I could hardly thole the thocht that a twentieth century human bein' could ha'e done sic an act. Hut since then, the deed has been proved up tae the hilt, in' what's mare it wis only yesterday tbe Rev. K. J. Campbell, successor tae the great Spurgeoil o' the City Tabernacle in London, an' leader o' the Christian Soshylist movement, bad another case proved tae him when on a visit tae the trenches in Flanders, Hei, ���the prevention o' waste. That's what Soshylists advocate, Sandy, but the German military man didnie mak (iny bones aboot their objeck in so doiu'. The workin' cless tae their wey o' thinkin' were only there tae be organized an' dreeled by them for the purpose o' cairryin' out their lust for world power an' a "place in the sun." Weel. hoo dae vac think a victory iur Ihe Allies 'II alter a' thi-. Jim." 1 asks. "I u this wey. Sandy." he replies; "if the Allies no forward wi' true dc- tcrminashun an' crush these tyrants so that they'll never be able again tae attempt tae cairry oot their mad dream o' conquest it'll be the means o' tak- ln' this heavy burden o' militarism off thc back o' the workin' man. an' the money wud be diverted tae improvin' the condecshun o' the industrial community. This curse o' militarism has kept back social reform in the cecvil- ized countries long enough." "What dae yae think o' Keir liar- die an' Bernard Shaw, Jim," 1 asks; "they're baith Soshylists. are they no', an' they're agin the war." had it conclusively proved tae him. "Weel. Sandy." he says: "yae maun that twa sergeants had been nailed "l> ;ii|ow cverv miul haen i,is ajn opcen- ���i-llivin'���by these savages. ^ yjn gu, wl,e��� y.u, mens'lun Keir Aye, frcens. this '11 be a da'rk an' dreary winter for molly a wife an' in ithcr���rendered a' thc marc acute by the absence o' iuformashun as tae whaur her "man" or her laddie is. Them o' us wha happen tae he in the riicrried cless an' hae observed the Wnller wcy in which oor better haul's yin. Hardie, I maun say that I ha'e jist as muckle respeck for Hardie noo as ever 1 had. Despite what a section o' the press say, I hold that never was a man mare true tae his ain cless than the redoubtable member for Merthyr- Tydvale, an' 1 feel sure, also, that if i it came tae a show doon. Keir wud display untirin' devoshun in bringin' ptay ;ls honorable a pain as ony o' up the bairns, nursin' them through a'J they screeci,in' yellie. dugs that are the ailments incidental tae childhood, hojtc.riri' for his blui'd. \s lor Bernard *.$'��� then guidin' their steps wi' moth-1 Shaw���weel. he's a conundrum. If erly'pri.le on their entry intae ihc | ,K.-S a Soshylist. weel. we'll let it go everyday world���we can easily guess L, t|,at_there's aye a biack sheep in hoo they weemen maun feel that hae cvery flock." their .laddies awa fechtin' ���ds. Hooever, 1 think I'm safe in sayin , that no wall them but vliat wud ha'e their laddie dae what he's daen���an' 0 if her laddie should be spared "Weel, I'm richt gled tae hear yae express they sentiments, Jim," I says: "it's refreshin' tae hear the like o' 1 often hear some q' they fellies that hae sic a contempt for Soshylists talk aboot tlie war as if it Vis mine o' If there's wan thing mare than an- their bjzness_0f c0���rse, their ain ither that has shown itscl at this time Urty ski��� is t,K, maist va\mb\e thing it has been the attitude taken up ���>>" | tlicy possess." ithc advanced leaders o' the workin' ���.,. ... ... T. ���T . Weel, Sandy, Jim says; I wud .cless in thc auld country. ,T met Jim, my Soshylist freen, the ither day an' we had a long crack aboot the war an' thc pairt the worker was takin' in it. Wc started talkin' aboot the coii- ���scripshtm bizness, an' I askit Jim if go in a meenit if they'd let mc, but I'm in the unfortunate posccsluin that they wunnie tak me. My faithcr wis a sodger, listed when he wis seventeen tae get awa tae the Crimcay, my auld- est brither wis a sodger, my youngest brither is a sodger an' the yin atween Ihe personages who know exactly what is going on behind the fog which nils many of the actual happenings transpiring during the war are the commanders in the field and the monarch- of the respective nations engaged in the -truggle. When King George visits the wounded iu the hospitals he astonishes the soldiers by bis accurate knowledge of the events which have occurred on the Continent, and thi- is because hi- Majesty shares every important war despatch with Lord Kitchener. Every day the head of thc War Office visits Buckingham I'alace. and on such occasions he relates to the King the progress of tin campaign iu Flanders, King George al-o follow- the doings of the British Army by means of elaborate plans and maps, as well as model-. There is a -pecial salon in Buckingham Palace which contains a huge map thirty feet long by twenty wide, on which arc marked the approximate position -if our Dreadnoughts, thc dispositions of all troops, lines of trenches, and the position of forts, hi accordance with the latest events King George's secretaries ri-adjust the panorama of (Infighting so that hi- Majesty each day can see at a glance how things are faring with our troops. Needless to say. the map room at the Palace is closely guarded, and none enter il but paign, as a whole. As a human document it should prove unique. The aged Emperor of Austria is to,, fettered by illness lo follow t|ic example of his brother monarchs and visit his troopS in tbe field. In his gloomy palace at Vienna he lie- on a bed of sicklies.- wailing tidings of his troops, which arc brought to him by despatch carriers who travel from the front in motor-car-. It is a sad spectacle this, of the white-haired monarch crippled by illness, and with hi- kingdom loitering, anxiously waiting lo licar of the victory which never comes, OUR MEN! By Agnes Littlejohn Though we have lost our truest friend- and nearest. We've no regrets, for they have done the right; Though we must miss the ones we know were dearest. We must be glad���their honor still i- bright! We could not dare to hold them back from glory. For they have died to help a righteous cause. And we who live shall hear their noble story Sung, ringing with sound of the world's applause. ~ HILLCREST DAIRY PUKE PASTEURIZED MILK No Preservatives No Adulteration Purity Guaranteed 11 Quarts for 1 Dollar 131 FIFTEENTH AVENUE WEST Phone Fairmont 1934 DREAMLAND H. H. D��AN. Proprietor COR. TWENTY-SIXTH AVENUE AND MAIN STREET DAMON & PYTHIAS ��� IN FIVE PARTS SEPTEMBER 27 and 28 FAIRMONT THEATRE 18th and Main Street All the Latest in Motion Pictures SOUTH HILL PALACE OF VARIETIES (Three blocks south ot Municipal Hall) ALL THE LATEST WAR SCENES AND BEST OF MOTION PICTURES AMATEUR NIGHTS, WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS JAMES C. WATTERS President of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, who is now en route west in the interests of the Congress and the Vancouver-Convention, which commences on Monday, September 20. .lie thocht the workers in the auld . , ..,..,, ^v , , , him an mc wis invalided name���an country wud statuid tor it. i ,, , ,,, ... , ,. ���,.,-' ���, . hue. Sandy, its like what yaer Harry ���'Weel. Sandy, lit- says; that s a ���'nuestyin that'll solve itsel. Tae my -vey o' thinkin' if they'd pit that fellie Harmsworth in an internment camp the auld country wud be a whole lot belter off. lie cairries on a propagan- [a which is a typical example o' what we use tae ca' yellie journalism. "You can bet yaer bottom dollar, Sandy," he conteenyies; "if Kitchener says wc need conscripslutn���then the Lauder says; "Im the saftest o' the fainiily." "I'm awa, Sandy," an' thc tears were in his e'en. "Guid nicht, Jim." T says; "I'm richt gled I met yae; yae aye seem tae treat ony subjeck I tak up wi' yae in a sensible wcy, an' there's wan thing aboot Soshylism���a whole lot o' folk are talkin' aboot it noo wi' sonic mare respeck than �� hat they did a year or hack." workin' man in the auld country an' in a' the countries that go tae mak up Is0 /' ., . , , ,. . ,,, , ,, .,,���,���������,i" looriloo, sandy, see yae again, an the Kmpire, 11 obey tlie command. , ,i. , u , i,.,f ,..,,. 'vl that we panted. .lim. dae yae really mean what yae I say?" I. asks; "efter what I used tae j Yours through the heather, hear vac ca' the military ��� hired SANDY MACPHERSON, assassins' an' ither sic like fancy j *- * ��� ��� names. "Sandy, you dinnie unnerstaun; PUT THE SURPLUS IN THE you're like a lot mare folk that pro- BANK ken sae muckle aboot Soshy- lie lac1, is ya'( dinnie hen a j thing aboot it." Our readers will find it greatly to d on noo there, Jim." 1 says';!their advantage to nun to the adver- lia'c use sinnin1 yaer sOw-1 tisemenl of S. T. Wallace, the well- >vve a vie bitty argyment"������ 'known grocery and provision merch- "Ach, yae scunner nv, Sandy." he ;���,, 0f 44 Hastings Street West. Mr. broke in; "yaell fin that Soshylism has'Wallace is out to save money for his m,in- gain fra< this war than ony- customers���ni I by --���Hing them se ining that has happened sin the time cond-grade or inferior goods, but by less lism 'then o' the flood, an' if yae want tae ken reason ot his splendid system of trad onything, Sandy," he conteenyies, ing. This enterprising merchant buy "yaell fin' that the Soshylists wud be, in unusually large quantities direct | ihe firsl tae urge conscripshtin if Kit- from the packers and manufacturers, h'-mr or ony o' the ither lipid yins thus effecting a big saving that 11s- Satd it wis necessary." nally goes to the middleman and job- "What dae yae mean by siyin ,ber. This big saving i- passed on Soshyilsts hae sic a lot tae gain by j to the customers iu the amazingly low the doonfa' o'the enemy, Jim," I asks, prices charged at this fine store��� "Weel. Sandy, it should be patent | prices that are at least 20 per cent, lo you that the Herman Empcreor an'Mower than those regularly charged, his satellites hae been fechtin' Soshy-1 Another reason why it pays to deal lism tbis guid twenty or thirty year from Wallace, is that every article in back They didnie fecht it in a tl|e store is fresh and guaranteed for strecht-frae-the-slicjuther sort o' wey. purity and quality. King George, his secretary, and the civil and active heads of the navy and army. Tbe Kaiser is too nervous and impatient to stay in his palace at Potsdam and await news of his troops. He journeys to spots, let it be said well in the rear of the fighting line, where iu the resplendent royal tent he eagerly awaits tidings of good or ill, as they are brought to him by numerous despatch riders and by telephone The Kaiser's field lent is always connected by field telephone with the fighting line, and messengers ill motor-cars, aeroplanes, and on motor bikes are continually travelling to and fro between the trenches and the War land's comfortable headquarters. In his palace at St. Petersburg the Czar keeps in constant touch with his commanders in the field by means of wireless. The Commander-in-Chief of the Czar's legions, the Grand Duke Nicholas, utilises a field wireless outfit to send messages to his ruler. From the fighting line they are transmitted to the nearest town of importance; where a wireless station is situated. arid from there the tiding- are flashed to the Czar's palace. Kadi week a messenger leaves the firing line with a resume of the week's work, prepared by the Grand Duke, and it is delivered to the ruler of all the Rttssias by hand. The message is in code, a copy of which only the Grand Duke and the Czar possesses. The plucky King of the Belgians se- all his war news first hand, for Full well wc know that they have never faltered Upon the road they trod with -weary feet: With right or wrong our brave men never paltered. And we must take the bitter with the sweet. Though we may bc thus for a brief time parted. Wc still must hope, wait for the open door, We still must work to help the cause, uphearted��� Their honor lives, unstain'd, for evermore! SOUTH VANCOUVER NIGHT SCHOOLS I'se your spare time to increase your efficiency and earning power. Better informed men and women make better citizens. Night Schools will bc opened in South Vancouver at an early date. Enrolment will take place at the following schools:��� GENERAL WOLFE, Twenty-seventh and Ontario Street. SELKIRK, Twenty-second and Commercial Drive. MACKENZIE, Forty-sUth and Fraser Street. CARLETON, Kingsway and Joyce Road. on Monday, October 4th, between 7 and 9 p.m. A fee of three dollars ($.,.00) will be charged, but this will be returned when pupil has completed 73 per cent, of possible atten dant- BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES, SOUTH VANCOUVER. MARCHING SONG By W. M. Fleming he is continually in the firing line with his troops. In a powerful motor-car he travels to and fro between the headquarters of the Belgian commanders, and during these journeys he makes copious notes in a leather and gold pocket-book presented to him by his children. At tbe conclusion of tbe war tbe contents of this pocket- book should throw many interesting sidelights on the war, for it is a diary as well as a skilled analysis of the cam- Left! Left! I.efl! For sweethearts, mothers and wives, We'll take our stand in the bloodstained trench And fight for onr children's lives; For children maimed .and for women shamed. For the innocents who have bled. For the soldiers fallen along the way And mangled ere they were dead. \ Chorus: Left! Left! Left! We're marching for the front. We're out to do.the proper thing Where the bayonets bite ami the bullets sting. And brave men bear the brunt, March! March I March! Though your feet are stiff and sore For this is the song the bugles sing, j And this is the word that roadwaysl ring: War! War! War! Left! Left! Left! With the dangers ail ahead. We'll win our way to the Kaiser's throne Over his Uhlans dead. We're out to show Canada's sons PHONE SEYMOUR 900 MacDONALD & HAY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. 1012 Standard Bank Bldg. Vancouver, B.C. Jingle Pot Coal Ask Your Neighbour We Sell Stove Wood Coast Lumber & Fuel Co., Ltd. Phone Fair. 2500 Phone High. 226 Phone Fraser 41 *4= Are made of proper stuff; However good the old men were, The young are jusl as tough. Left! Left! ]...fi! To turn for home again. Those who have won to victory. And paid for it in pain; Those who have unit themselves like men, And won to lasting fame; Those who will leave to their grateful - sons An ever-honored name. PROHIBITION RALLY District W.C.T.U. will hold a public rally. Monday, September 20tli, in the Grace Methodisl Church, r. l6th Avenue and Burns Street���Fraser ear. Afternoon at 3 p.m., [01 women only. Subji --I. "Civic Conditions " l'veiling. K p.m.. Public Me-ting. Addresses by 0. T. Gibson, ex-bity controller, and Ur. J. W. Mcintosh. Alderman for Ward IV Chairman: Mr. John Nelson. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IK, 1015 SATURDAY CHINOOK SEVEN MAPLE LEAF DAIRY PURE PASTURIZED MILK We are Milk and Butter Specialists A. Tommason, Mgr. Phone Bay. 1417 1935-2nd AVE. WEST A phone call will have prompt attention ROOT OF ALL EVIL AN IRISH FAIRY TALE I ii heard the story, I Mill: Foot of Ontario Street, Fraser River Phone: Fraser 97 PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY CANADIAN CEDAR LUMBER CO. Manufacturers of BEVEL SIDING, BOAT LUMBER HIGH-GRADE CEDAR LUMBER AND LATH Wholesale and Retail GRIMMETT P. O., SOUTH VANCOUVER P. M. HAMILTON F. WILLIS brave John, si,.., .i> ever ye laid eyes on, but it's only one .. emselvcs" could iit on tile like, it's that small anil tiny." Mil -lire tile old stories an- often tin best, and it will be iln pucer day when tin- same obi stories are forgotten in Ireland. God grant that 1 may ii"t be there to sec. Were you ever in Water ford ? It's a fine county, with many a beautiful river running over the stones as clear and as sweet as th. mountain stream, and the hills are covered with trees. soft and green in the summer and all a gh-ry of red and u ild when the touch of the irost firsl comes on the air. And they havi the sea too, and the rough, high cliffs, and the long, smooth stretches >t -and. There i- little wanting and then is easy grow- "I'll tell yc what I'll take. I'll give ing in it full and plenty. ye tin shoe if ye give mc your word and hand mi it that every furrow I j plough as long as I live I'll find a [olden guinea at the end of it." Thai with the money clasped tight in his hands. Next day almost before the sun he'was oul ..-���;.,!.. mid when the sun pise iiig'n above hi- head still on and -.n he urged tin horse���on and on. from morning till night, ei the same, spring, summer, autumn��� on till the frost was on thc ground, still he ploughed, and still thi have that, -ay- my I guineas came leaping to hi- baud. It lin.- a little crystal was little en.nigh comfort lr;- ;.. ,,r wife got of all ihe gold Her face grew lined and haggard, her hair ;r. w white and seam, her eyes grew hungry "Now," says the merchant, "that is watching for tin- loving lopk ",* long the very kind of a shoe i am looking ago that never came, and her for. and I'm ready and willing to givi grew weary for one tender word from a big price for it. t..... What would his lips, -et in hard, mean line- with you say to a thousand golden guineas, the greed for gain. Each night he fresh from the mint:* Kb. John?" would Stagger home, dog tired, reel- lint John sl������,k his head. "A thousand guineas is a g ; price' but it i- tour of thesi laces. Then them I ..-.r (.'hi. I. ..ur Mayor, Mdi -ii..'.:. mr License Commissi ������ and our License Inspector. Aftei I you will never hear another chirp. They ���������������'. se< f r thcmsi 1- ��� - splendid bodj ��� .���' men ..ur officials v Me:: who IVOuId die r.itll. l 111: n -��� ifl starve rather than lei these pi u - - run knowingly, therefore i; .- i spite of ti mi Xuif -aid. The pric�� :'��� r -pints after h iurs is 20c per gl; --. d '������ ��� r 60c per bottle. I)..n't ask for jng t i eat. it causes thi >*ait'ei i.. frown. At least don't ask for anything I than a gin-fizz, that i- il.- nearest thing to food I saw n ii.y last -.i-it. and was being inhaled by tw., -.f our City Aldermen on that occasion, and. ihey have the reputation ..i being very temperate men, and theref t. must have been taking 'the ing like a drunken man, and throw himself down on hi- bed. muttering not good enough," say- he. "Even ajof thc gold even in his sleep; and mixture solelj : r its food pi pi thousand of them goes quick, I want when moning eann he would ris,- up, be sure oi full and plenty for the his eyes shining like lamps in his head. v SI if my life. I'll tell ve. ays he. KINGSWAY HOTEL WtkWw&W?.'���������'������' ������ ��� . ,-������'. ..,...'.���- ...-���.:..":' ~ R. CURRY, Prop. was a line steep price I warrant you for a little wee bit of a shoe nol tin- bis mouth fixed, as though parched with the thirst, and without a word hi w - :ii.l he off ; . ihe unending toil, 1 am. "HALO POT1 while the money piled up. no ,,-.- I ,.-,,.,. CHjNOOK living -.ml. But one night she heard the horses MORAL DECAY THROUGHOUT coming home, and going ..ut sh.- found THE WORLD them alone. John was not there. She Sir.���Tin -��� ��� ivar is tin >ut- Icngth ..f your link- linger and ii was Iran down to the field, her heart crying growtl .' ������,,- . . more than the merchant bargained out in her brt.r*. ai"l there shi found ditlons ��-hi for Me twisted and turned and him, ihe i old frost already whitening \'0.,h hemmed ami hawed, and say* h the last of the gold pieces at the end . ��� , ��� -,-, . . Spir ot ihe furrow. liny do be -ayin ti'e people of them part-, that on cold frosty night a- yon go over t brow of the hill you eau see l-ilm r*i:. i war were the r< -nit. H, still ploughing the broken field, and hear his hoarse voice urging on the ir. wouldn't advise you. John 5hea, to ask that, for a- sure as you're there you'll .;. i ah.ve 'of the money ami misfortune 'II come ..n you. I've lived in this world f.-r thousands aond thousands of years, and I never saw one that did ni t lose by the greed if he got hob! of him. Hut." -ays he. "that i- your own visible horses. It must be an awe- lookout; s,, give me tin shoe, and, -:. some sight, agradh, enough long as you live. :�� it long or short, 'ear of God in any ..lie's In y..u will find a golden guinea at tin j between us and harm this ni end of every furrow you plough."! Then, grabbing the shoe out of John's hand, he was off. no one could tell how or where. Willi, nit as much as a word to his wife. John raved oil to the yard. hitched up the horses and away with him to ihe field, lie was in such a hurry t.. get to the end of the furrow ���pun an- ;de !n-_. ini'ln, m.-, ... .1 resist true im-p're of what wil i: was ,n [In daj s of N. hi l< in tin ... - of the lays of ���I the by the f| ��� I ''-Min-. havi a fi r "as -hall it f Man." Correspondence that he urged ihe hot- District of South Vancouver NOTICE New Feed Store COR. FORTY-NINTH AVE. and FRASER With Complete Line of' POULTRY SUPPLIES HAY, GRAIN, CHOP and MIXED FEEDS Our stock will contain everything you need for successful poultry raising A trial will convince you that our trade is built up by QUALITY, SERVICE and LOW PRICES Vernon Feed Co. (Branch from Mount Pleasant) Two Phones: Fairmont 186 and 878 South Vancouver Branch: Phone Fraser 175 ui to their Delegate Irom Winnipeg. Newly elected' top speed and tore like a madman Social Democratic member ot Manitoba Legislature, a familiar figure al Trades and Labor Congress of Canada Conventions. Vancouver, B.C.. September 14. 1915. Editor CHINOOK; John th.- Revelator, in spi - i _ ol the last days, ( ;,-��� "I saw three unclean spirits . . . They are the spirits levils, workii miracles lii !i go r Ttli untc ih.- kings of ;' .��� earth and f the whoh Id, to gathi * tl em ta the batth of I > . n .t daj nf C, id Almighty, lie;-...Id. I come as n. thief Blessed is In ���' al watcheth, ..nd keep ith his garments, lest he walk naked, shame."���-Rev. 16: tlown the field and���would you be- that I do not want t.i hi nv letter Over in Knockaderry, in the town- land of Newcastle, there once lived a man named John Shea. He was a decent, quiet, poor boy and no one had a word to say against him. and him- lieve it?���as he got to the end a bright | new golden guinea jumped into his. hand. For a moment he stood stock | Mill staring at il. and then he put il between his teeth and. bit on it to see if it was real, and then he started to jump anil shout and dance with joy. He made such a row that his wife Sir.��� I am writing you for the reason 13-15, In referring :.. the final outcome, he says "The nations were angry, and the ,-. rath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thous shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and t., tin- saints, and them that I decorate the VV. I1. B. of any of our subsidized Vancouver dailies. Will you kindly ask any of the kind friends of the humble and much a- bused saloon keeper, those friends self and his wife were as well thought came running from the house t.. set of as any iu the countryside. It's a what was the matter. "John. John, queer tiling, alanali, how little we what is on you, avic?" she cried, for b��rlu,"d .'" ,lu* ��"'lu'r "' Columbia In reply to the inquiry, "What shall sing his praises as a law-abiding fear thy name, -mall and greal and citizen, etc.. t.. pay a visit between | shouldest destroy them which destroys the hours of eleven and twelve p.m. J the earth."���Rev. 11:18. t.. tin dining rooms of the majority of He comes in mercy to cut sho'rl this the hotel dining moms in the neigh- cnle| w,,rk of destruction. know- of ourselves or one another, and j the very face of him changed. His it isn't till we are tried that we ever eyes were staring out of hi- head like find out the truth. John wasn't what a madman's, his hands were shaking as you'dl be calling rich, but he was they held the plough his lips were set wanting for nothing, and to all ap- and his voice shook and sounded pearance was a flahool as the next; hoarse as be urged the horses on anil no one at all would have suspicion.-.!. on. It's no wonder the poor woman the mean, eh.se streak in him till it was distracted as she ran beside bin. came to the lop. \iul ihis is how it crying, "What is it, agradh? Tell in i was. . about it. alliniv? Ochone, what will Early one morning he was getting 11 do al all? It's mail, he is!" ready for the fair of Clonmeh and lie turned his head for a mintiti ' went out into the yard to drive theito glance at her with an unsecin, sows to the meadow before he left. [ stare, and half whispered: "Wa: when what should he find glistening I Mary, wait till you see! At th< . m like a diamond in the rising sunlight of ihe furrow, at the end of the fur .but a little tiny wee hit ..i crystal row! Och. the bright, bright gold! shoe. Xow. John was no tool, and. It'- little seed I need to be |>' ntin when he saw the shoe he just t." k it ever again, when the bright up and put il in his pocket, thinking and Hastings Strut. lo himself: "Themselves must have I lost it last night when ihey came "Ui nghl up from th.- earth. Wait and sec, wait and see!" Then with a frcn zicd shout he urged on nnd ..n the .' ihe old rath lor the dance. And panting horses. She ran Inside the them that lost it will come after it, plough, her anxious eves Fixed ..:i his and maybe 1 won't make them paj for face and her lip- whispering prayers it!" When his wife laid eyes on it (till at the end of the furrow sin w she raised an awful pillapoh.o and was -truck dumb to see a bright, glistel all for sending it back to where he ing piece of gold conn- leaping froj had found it. "for," says she. "there the earth and rcsl in J..hn's ml is neither luck nor grace in dealings stretched palm FRED. BANCROFT with "Them"'; for John was thinking "Orrah, Mary, have pity on us!" -he Vlce-Pretidtnl oi Trades ana Labor Conpeti ,, ,, ,- . f ...I,.,, 1,,. ,.,,,,1,1 iii-.k,-,-,.; .1 --\\t .* r -i I ��' Can.id.-i. who will be pr, sent at the Van- all the tune ol what lie lotiiu m.iki inul. What diviluicn :- nn US ,. ... .��� i i ,. , j .. 11 ��� ���,,,,��� -, i i t i couvei Convention which meets o.i Sept. 20. I'.IUel "1 tile I moll Mn. 1 Spvctilb out of his find. ���'��������� throw it back. John avi urneen- lle wave the fair the go-by, for he thrown it away! Sure, the ilivil hini- was afeared to leave the shoe behind,self must he in it!" But John onl} and he was twice as feared to carry it laughed and answered: "Well. G nl with him on the lonely road over the or devil, I'll hold on tn il. and as lot be the sign nf Thy coming, and ol the end ..f lh,- w, rid?" Jesus said to his disciples: "As the days of Noe i wen-, s . shall al- - thc coming of the Son of Man be. I',.,- a- in tin- days that wert before, the fl 1 they were eating md drinking, marrying and giving iu marriage, until the day that N'ne entered the ark. and knew nol " 't'1 t't fl ' n md took them all t'vaj : so -: ��� tin coming oi the Son :' M ,.- be."���Matt. 24 !. 37-39 While a p .\\ - fr .::: belli at!: is tal - ing p..S-, ssi..n ...' th,,.;. who have casl *''���' "' i restr ������mil: influence of the ���~;'' ' a power l'i .', -,, v nl taki |n -- ssion oi Cod's !��� >..! subjects While - se. ' - ""��� "���> md v rs. . eing deceived." ' the go d i*ill ��� |,.ve|( pj, ,, 11 ' will* gi rigl ��� ' |ifei '���..i-:i the tn.- ������!. ..... more distn;, t as till -. . . .arth.piai , -. mine, and pes ���l|v uiiiiii-- Christ's Matt. 24 7-14 '. r\ - Hrs, c. \. ci 'i.i-:. CIGARETTES FOR THE SOLDIERS . ri the) will find all kinds a1 i conditions of men and women. Sober ST. DAVID'S CHURCH iTominv'and Sandy and Jean wants I mountains. When night came he went | as there is breath in my body 1 will i cannol afford to gel drunk (most is tobacco���and plenty of it. down to the path, and, lying down, he find a golden guinea at ihc en ': Ihey have first caught thcii Rey |)r ' K Wright of th Knitted things are welcome, but a sang out as if to himself: "John every furrow I plough." The po ��� "nightlj sucker." The sucker in dif- s, ,..,,v uj]j c.r. 'packet of cigarettes is the key to a Shea o' Knockaderry has found a lit-1 man turned sorrowfully away. ,vhih enl stages ol drunken development: scn:ic* *fp . nalist. soldier's heart. In the long nights of tie shoe." Then, jumping up, he was behind he sh< could hear her man Women of the underworld, grown grey (, ( ^ ' '; "' J . . -, ... , . - -1...,, ... :.,... .1. I. ' It ��� In niirmll nf tlinr i.nlm-at. ��� ' 'U, Will Irwin, the American joti in a recent article on "The Smoke ol Battle," wrote:���This has been called a war of nerves am! a war of endurance and a war of starvation. All these terms fit. but t-. my mind it is! nerves steady a war of tobacco, This gentle drug- cipating an atta may be unnatural in time of peace, an smoke, acquired and vicious habit. It is no 'Hie Overseas Club. Aldwyeh. Loll the trenches, with the big shells burst- off like a. hare to shelter. |urgingth, horses on and on. At noon m pursuit pt their unlovi iilg repeatedly and ihe rifle bullets) The nest morning, brave and early, j it was down to the field she had lo young ejrls just Starting ol behaving like a -warm of siiper-hor- an old man dressed like a grand rich.bring his bit of sup, for sorr.i a bit quick road to moral death, nets, il is tobacco which keeps the | merchant cam. lo the farm door and of him would slop: and ..n and .mi he derman who think thai no The wise officer, anti-i savs he: "Is this where John Shea|went while the sun went down and the ! th i\. r. orders his men to says he: lues:" Herself, who never suspi- twilight gathered, and nol until ii w;.- with a blind eye. cioned who it was. asked him to walk j too dark ;.. sec the money would iu ; Heavens, what a combination. And int.. the room, and says she: "I'll come back to thi- house The horses we have a Chief ol" Police whom n ���������1- in argue that question War is I rlon. ha- opened a cigarette and to- call himself." There is no use in my were staggering in their tracks ��� I * a man grown up from an unnatural state of being, arid in that 1 bacco fund, every shilling contribii- taking up your time in telling you that were hard sel to drag thems Ives 1 thi ranks - therefore onto his job unnatural state tobacco fits. It is the ted to which represents a packet con- he was close at hand, hanging around to the yard, but John wall dasoniA edged t, enforce.! sweet console,-, the imperfect substi- tabling;50 cigarettes and 4 oz. of to- the yard and foosthering over this and air, not feeling ihc weam -- tute for what a man ha- left behind, bacCoO sent to a soldier at the front, thai to give an excuse for nol getting the long hours of toil, for sure At the end of a lone,, w'ear'v march. With each of these packets is en- off to Ihe ploughing. When he heard!.:,, matter what is the object, w. when the dust has -caked under his! closed a postcard addressed to the herself calling he strolled in. letting heart into us all. and. the love oi clothes or the mud ha- encased his donor of ihc shilling, and the recipi- r.n to be surprised when he -aw the money wa- -ell set in his heart by boots into armour, when his kit on his I em'of the gift posts this card direct stranger. "God -aw y,." s.ii- he. | this. back seems to weigh tw.. tons, a pipe] from the trenches to the contributor \rd at thai word the merchant got as j It was all I It is a novel scheme, bringing the ���-bih as the driven snow, for it's | to get him ofl ��� r ti., n "I wish 1 "Wi or a cijjarette Rets his nerves back m j order. When the new recruits go for the first time under the ordeal ..:' shell fire they reach instinctively for a smoke. Do nol forget when all is done that tbe creature ComfoM which donors in every part of the world into personal touch with at least one "I our brave Tommies. Send your contributions to ihe secretary of the Overseas Club. it'l UK to hear li d inn i name ..I God, He w p. make answer, bin s. luck ..' y..uisell. John Shea. Hi e'er a little shoe you could be Hoard practically all nominated by the s I Mr. Rowser. who poses as an apostl. ' rati ..f purity. What do you thin', E it: ^e! ii't need to ask, but I'm writing foi disgust, the bei I tl -i in j ic'll." fi im this kin.! .a thing "Wouldn't and don't know when they ������ well ' .���ii. P who think thai n ith a - nl fthlg it up anil letting it tiii".: uncil and an honesl chief of watermelon?"���with trough his fingers like a baby witl car In "regulated." i^-\- ti i 'Why ���> andful of colored beads But t 1 iritl them any mori t poor Mary could do bed. for In -.- at thc kite,lee, table con: I taxed him oiT and ,si, i p thei n a p-.-rs. mally ci indiii I million walermel- fiin!" exel I leu we c.nhl cat :-.i" ������ -- legro ;n rnc mc one give yi iu one li'l rising indigna- -,. n\-i. i-nolhin' lazy 'ti ittgh ambition wa -1 r-.n.-l. >nsv' i'l EIGHT SATURDAY CHINOOK SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1915 South Vancouver Citizen's Club Debate on Municipal Matters resumed���Shall the Municipality be allowed to go into the hands of a Receiver?���Wanted A Man! On taking the chair at the last meeting nf the Citizens' Club, Citizen Jones asked if members had heard ail) thing about a receiver Peing in South Vancouver before the end of the year. An interesting debate followed, the general opinion being that given a MAX to lead, South Vancouver is all right, and that tbe appointment of a receiver would not be fair to property owners who have paid their taxes regularly. Citizen Robinson led off the discussion. He said: I have heard a good deal about a receiver for South Vancouver recently, and there is a disposition in some quarters to think that it would bc a mighty good thing for the municipality. Personally I do not agree with that view. All that is needed in South Vancouver is good business management and a common sense view of economic conditions. Reeve Gold was supposed to be a business man, capable of restoring the financial standing of the municipality, but he has sadly disappointed his friends. He has not lived up to his election promises. Citizen Browne: 1 thought that was the very thing the reeve boasts he has done���carried out his election platform. Citizen Robinson: lie has done nothing of the kind. You remember how Mr. Gold criticised and condemned Reevc Kerr for issuing treasury certificates instead of selling bonds. You remember how Mr. Gold stated time after time that given a business reeve and council, South Vancouver bonds would find a ready sale. The secretary of the South Vancouver Voters' League, which as you are aware was Mr. Gold's organization, frequently declared that he would guarantee if Reeve Kerr and his council were turned out and Mr. Gold and his supporters were put in office "Within twenty-four hours South Vancouver would sell every unsold bond on the London market." That statement was made on Gold's platform many times and was confirmed by Mr. Gold. Again, you remember how Mr. Gold argued that no public work should be undertaken by thc council until the bonds were sold, and the money in the municipal treasury. But, what did Reeve Gold do as soon as he took office? He entered into negotiations with an American firm for the sale of treasury certificates and broke off with Wood, Gundy's of Toronto, who had financed South Vancouver during a very difficult period at far less cost than neighboring municipalities were able to finance. Was that carrying out his election pledges? Most decidedly no! Citizen Mackenzie: I agree with Mr. Robinson. Reeve Gold has by no means lived up to his election promises. What about trips to Victoria and the use of the municipal auto? You know how he criticized Reeve Kerr about travelling expenses and trips to Victoria. Yet Reeve Gold has sent far more councillors to Victoria than there was any need for, in fact he almost begged councillors to go whenever any matters in which he was personally interested was concerned. (Citizen O'Brian: As for instance? Citizen Mackenzie: Well, take the tax sale proposition. It is common knowledge that Reeve Gold was anxious to stave off a tax sale because the Gold property was involved. And you all know how many councillors were sent over to Victoria at the reeve's special request, on more than one occasion. Then you remember how Mr. Gold used to sneer about Reeve Kerr using the municipal auto. Yet Reeve Gold has used the auto quite as much as Reeve Kerr ever did, and within the past week appointed one of his political supporter? as municipal chaft'ettr in place of a man who enlisted. Where is his consistency? Citizen Robinson: Reeve Gold has no consistency, and as a business man be is a failure. He made a big sprose on the platform, but his pretensions to business ability have been pricked and he has collapsed like a toy balloon. He reminds me of the story about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. He makes a tremendous fuss about piffling little things that are not worth five minutes consideration; but when important matters are before the council he is all at sea. When his year of office is up I think it will be proved that his administration has cost this municipality anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 more than it should have done. Citizen O'Brian: In what way? Citizen Browne: Well, take the issue of treasury certificates. Wc have- it on the authority of Wood. Gundy's that there was a loss of $30,000 on that issue alone. In addition to that there is a big shrinkage on the sale of the treasury certificates, which could have been avoided if Reeve Gold had carried out his pre-election policy of selling bonds before undertaking any work. Then, instead of making the money realized by sale of treasury certificates go as far as possible. Reeve Gold has advocated and sanctioned a policy which I am informed by those who are in a position to know, is losing South Vancouver thousands of dollars. Citizen O'Brian: As how? Citizen Robinson: By carrying out sewerage construction on a relief basis at $3 a day. We have it on the authority of Councillor Rowling, who bases his statement on the engineer's report, that thc municipality has been losing $700 a week by so doing; and I am told by sewerage experts that going ahead digging ditches before the pipes are ready to be put in is likely to cost the municipality dear, especially if wet weather sets in soon. Citizen Mackenzie: There is another matter in which Reeve Gold has not carried out his election pledges. Which of us has not heard Mr. Gold protesting and complaining about the illegalities practised by Reeve Kerr and previous councils in taking bylaw money for administrative purposes and vice versa? Yet Reeve Gold and his council took $102,000 from bylaw account to pay interest���the very thing Mr. Gold condemned Reeve Kerr for doing. And that is by no means the only instance where Reeve Gold has sanctioned illegalities. Citizen Browne: The fact of the matter is Reeve Gold is a bluffer and a wind bag that can be pricked by anyone who takes the trouble to bunt up facts. He pretends to be a level headed business man, but beyond a natural tendency to strike a hard bargain, he has shown a lamentable lack of business ability. Mr. Gold just plays to the populace, and there is a chance he may be re-elected at the next election. A determined ' effort should bc made to prick his wind bag by facts and figures put before the populace by a convincing speaker. Eddie Gold has not a leg to stand on if properly attacked; but so far as I can see we have no man in South Vancouver who is both capable and willing to tackle Eddie as he should be tackled. We have one or two* men capable of doing so, but none apparently who are willing. Citizen Mackenzie: I agree with Browne. What is most needed in S/OTRDAY^CHINOOK "THE LITTLE PAPER WITH A MESSAGE" II We will send it any place on the Globe for $1.00 a year. That figures out at less than 2 cents a copy. We are independent, unfettered. We like your words of encouragement, but must have your support. 11 We are the only weekly of interest to all classes, all places, published in Vancouver. ff Next week the Saturday Chinook will carry some splendid illustrations, better editorials, live special articles. 11 Yes; we are out against John Barleycorn. In fact we were the first paper to tackle him in British Columbia. South Vancouver is a MAX oi convincing personality, a keen debater, capable of putting facts and figures before an audience ill such a way as to strike conviction home to his hearers, l-'or, after all, Mr. Gold's success as a politician is due chiefly to the convincing manner in which he states bis case. The fact thai his statements arc for thc most part fictitious or misleading goes for nothing, as no one takes the trouble to nail bis statements to thc counter. Citizen Browne: Quite so, Reeve Gold has talked about a receiver in South Vancouver till the people believe a receiver is necessary. And as a matter of fact, if Mr. Gold remains iu office much longer a receiver will be absolutely necessary. But. given a MAN, South Vancouver will still weather the financial storm and come out in good shape. Citizen O'Brian: I have heard Reeve Gold say that it would bc a good thing for South Vancouver to go into the hands of a receiver. Citizen Browne: I do not agree. Would it be fair to South Vancouver property owners who have regularly paid their taxes? Why should their property be placed in thc hands of a receiver for the sake of gamblers in land who have not paid their taxes? The bulk of the people of South Vancouver paid extortionate prices for their property to land gamblers. Now the gamblers squeal because they are asked to pay taxes. If they would pay their taxes there would be no need for a receiver. If they are not willing or able to pay, they should admit their defeat in thc land gambling game and bear their losses like good sports. Citizen O'Brian: What do you mean by "bear their losses?" Citizen Browne: Simply this���if the land grabbers can pay the taxes due they should be forced to do so by proceedings in the courts; if they can not'pay, they should like good sports turn the property over to the municipality in lieu of taxes. The majority of South Vancouver ratepayers bought their property for homesites, the proportion in arrears with taxes is comparatively small; the bulk of the property in arrears was bought for speculative purposes���in short it was a gamble. And why should the land gambler receive more sympathy than the gambler in stocks and shares or the backer of horses? Citizen O'Brian: Well, of course, if you put it like that I suppose there is something in what you say. Citizen Browne: Of course there is, and the sooner land gamblers quit squealing and admit that they have been gambling thc more likely they arc to pay their debts like good sports, or clear out. They are the people primarily responsible for large expenditures in opening up roads through the bush, putting down water mains, plank sidewalks, etc., for thc convenience of "suckers" to whom they sold homesites at boom prices. Then why in thc name of common sense do they not bear their part of the burden like men, instead of squealing, as Reeve Gold and others like him squeal, about mal-administration, etc., etc.? Reeve Gold has talked a lot about past councils; but I venture to say Reevc Gold's administration has been the most unbusinesslike in the history of (he municipality. I challenge any of you to mention one year when South Vancouver has been mismanaged so badly as during the year 1915. Citizen Robinson: Browne is quite right. Reeve Gold's administration has been the most unbusinesslike ever known in this province���and that is going some. The thing for the residents to do now is to give marching orders to all real estate men who seek municipal honors and to run the municipality for the benefit of those who have made their homes here. I notice Reeve Gold in a letter to the council at its last meeting talked about reducing thc police force and the fire department. Why? Because he lives in Vancouver and it would make no difference to him if South Vancouver was over-run with thieves and incendiaries. He stands to lose nothing. His land would still be there when all was over. But the residents arc in a different category. They have much to lose and nothing to gain by a reduction of th police and fire departments. Suppose the fire department is reduced, what will happen? The residents will have insurance rates raised on them. But what does it matter to the reeve? He has no property to insure. It is time South Vancouver kicked out the real estate men and "absentee" landowners and began tn manage their own affairs. Let the slogan at the next election be "South Vancouver men for South Vancouver council." The debate then adjourned. '.��.-**, AHEAD OF THE TRACKLAYER Some of the most interesting features of great human undertakings are those that are permanent Whereas the biggest wonders in the world become stale by familiarity, that which is transient at once strikes the attention. It bursts upon our consciousness, shouts a genial "Now or never," and then disappears. And with it often disappears brilliant pages of romance. Your modern railway, for instance, with its ordered life, its rules and regulations, its scheduled rates and uneventful runnings, may have its astounding aspects, but the whole thing is so integral a part of our life that it ceases to attract. It is like porridge every morning. Yet what a thrilling story might be told of the days of its construction. How thc Durham folk must have marvelled when Puffing Billy, with much snorting, made his first trip. GBy the way. why have locomotives since changed their sex?) And how the prairie pioneer must have watched for the approach of the grading gang as the first railways began their revolutionizing work in the khaki West and brought steel to grain. In England, tbe home of tbe steam engine, even costruction work has reached the prosaic stage���there are no forests to penetrate, no vast unpopulated distances to span, no simple folk to astonish, The navvy is an accepted member of his community, his work being now chiefly that of repair and maintenance. In Canada, on the other hand. rail-, way building is still in its infancv, or at the most in its early youth. Feats as great as any in the past have vet to bc achieved. Thousands of miles of bush, scores of rivers, hundreds of mountains and hills, have still to bc pierced, or bridged, or tunnelled, before railway communication can bc said to be equal to the need. And these gigantic tasks arc cvery week being essayed. Thus, away up at the steel-head, and in the construction camp, life is still more or less rough, and more or less romantic. It is worth a trip either to study human nature under conditions entirely fret* from pose and artificiality, Suppose that a section has been built and twice or thrice a week- a train it running. It will be what is called a "mixed! train" and its time schedule will bc both generous and clastic. There will be freight cars of sorts, carrying goods to the pioneers and material for the contractors, and at the tail, a passenger coach. Here will be found picturesque men of every kind on every sort of business���laborers, drummers, prospectors, sportsmen, managers, immigrants and,��� clearly out of their environment���perchance a tourist or two. The pace is leisurely, and al a score of points you drop off and wander about the track, chatting with a nearby settler, or heaving a stone at a prairie chicken or a chipmunk that ventures into view. 'Sometimes the engineer and his fireman stretch themselves in thc shade until the signal comes to proceed. At the journey's end is a scene animated and unique, A big shack or two have been run up by enterprising individuals, who, for some time to come, will hold you in the hollow of their hand. These shocks form a kind of cmb \- onic station and exchange and mart. The business of the district is done here, from the cashing of a money order, to the serving of a "quick lunch" or the purchase of a horse and if the distance from the nearest town is considerable, prices will be proportionately high. A "lunch" of vegetable soup, mountain goat (it may be) and fruit tart, with a cup of indistinguishable tea or coffee, served en famillc and "everybody help themselves" will cost from fifty to a hundred cents. Thc arrival of thc train is an event to which settlers dire or drive in for miles around. A grey old-timer, who has neither rig nor hack, perhaps tramps in on foot. Thc ranch boy comes in with his gun slung across his saddle. The ranch owner honks up in his automobile���a machine that has a short and exciting life on these hazardous roads. Other folk drive up in laden democrats, drawn by wiry teams. There are cheery salutations and unexpected recognitions, and then thc contents of thc baggage cars are flung A. V._LEWIS Painting Contractor 4450 COMMERCIAL STREET Phone Fairmont 1314 R lo earth pell mell. There are His Majesty's mails, game traps, a mattress, a gun. a cycle wheel, sundry boxes of fruit, sides of beef, a gramophone, a child's rocking-horse, a bag of nails, a brace of birds ���all in incongruous melange. The crowd strolls up and sorts it over, each man picking out anything there may be for him. But mark tllat fellow with the big eigar and the well creased trousers. He is obviously more interested in the men than in the goods. Quiet in manner and movement he picks out his man, taps him on the shoulder, and, after a brief conversation, gives him a little ticket. All the men he- accosts arc swarthy fellows and most of them are young. They chatter con- terttedly enough in a strange tongue. They have their kits in homely bundles. At length they move in a body towards the unfinished track���all save one, a raw band evidently, who speaks broken English. "Ten mile?" says he. "How wc get there?" "You didn't expect an automobile to meet you, did you?" retorts he with the cigar, with a touch of not unkindly irony. "Some of you can ride in the wagon and some of you can walk, by turns." This man knows his business. He is one of tbe company's foremen, at once firm and human���considerate to honest workers who do not expect all the advantages of civilization in the bush, but with no use for slackers and "jumpers." Let us follow the gang to the construction camp. Behold, on a piece of rising ground, partly cleared, a cluster of tents, log huts, and houses of unpaintcd pine. Scattered about arc articles of domestic use, cooking utensils chiefly, while from sundry subsidiary camp-fires a blue shimmering column of smoke ascends. Certain articles of male attire are stretched to dry between convenient trees. Those little shacks removed a stone's throw from the rest, with the good-wife at the door, and perchance a child or two playing with the dog, arer the married quarters, and tn these pertain the uamp-fires aforesaid. ., The single mei. live and cat in common. The big square building yonder is the bunk-house, where they sleep, tier unon tier. That, is the dining room and kitchen. The food is nlain. but plentiful and well-cooked. Every camp has its own cookce, an expert, whn draws big wages: for without, a good cookee there would be no camps. Occasionally the camp consists of a string nf box cars, of which one if fitted as thc store, another as the kitchen, a third as a tool and genera! dtilitv shed. The eating-house is denoted bv a length of rail suspended bv thc door. This is the dinner-gong, whose clamorous tongue, reverberating through thc solitude, summons Ihe toiler frnm his toil. Life in these bachelor quarters is not hard. The interiors are often not less home-like than that of a gypsy caravan, allowing, of course, for the general absence of feminine touch. The men get no little fun in the evening out nf a ball game, a stroll with i gun. or. when the nights are co'i>\ varning around the glowing stove oi the blazing fire. The fires in the open give stimulus to thc imagination. When the filmy smoke arises, wraith-like, against a background of nurnle hill or sombre pine: when the logs crack asunder and thc sparks flv wildly skvwards: while Ihc bark of the coyote breaks on the ear, or the call nf a startled bird���then ly man grnws reminiscent, his tongue is loosed, his b"art expands, and he brings forth from the storehouse of memory things new and old. Then it is, too, that he sees in the flames, with moistening eye, the old home and thc old dear fac.es. All thc same, it is no life for weaklings. Here, above everywhere, one has to nlav the man. Social prejudices and foolish imaginings have alike to bc put aside. The hours arc long, the work is hard, there are none of thc gaities of town, A rea1 deprivation sometimes is the lack of washing facilities, though where the camp is pitched by a stream there is the luxury of thc out-door baths. For the rest, the life is healthy and the "av gnnd. As there arc few opportunities of spending, a man can save ���"ore than out of twice as much in the city. PHflFTTSThe Bi* Grocery L*ESXJm* I * ���*-* 118 Halting* Street W. SENSATIONAL BARGAIN SNAPS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 200 CRATES PEACHES���Regular $1.00 crate lor 7sc FLOUR���No. 1 hard wheat; reg. 12.25; none better 11.80 PASTRY FLOUR���46c value ..15c SUGAR���18-lb. nack (with tea) ��l.25 TEA���45c Victor; 3 lbs. for . .H.OO APPLES���Fancy Eating or Cooking���Per box $1.00 10 lbs. for only 25c PRUNES���Fancy fresh stock: per crate OOc TOMATOES���Green, for chow; 15 lbo. for 25c ONIONS���Small pickling, 15 lbs 25c VINEGAR ��� Double/ strength gal J. 50c POTATOES���Dry and ljird, sk. ��5c ONIONS���Silver skin; 15 lbs. 25c LAUNDRY FLAKES���Res- 10c pk.; 4 for 25c RIPE TOMATOES���Per basket 20c LAUNDRY STARCH ��� Reg. 10c Pkg.; 4 for ��� aSc LAUNDRY SOAPS���Royal Crown; reg. 25c; 2 for 4Sc EGGS���Reg. 40e; 3 doz. for ,.��1.00 BUTTER���Reg. 40c; 3 lbs. for S1.00 CHEESE���Reg. 25c; 5 lbs. for (1.00 ROBIN HOOD ROLLED OATS��� Reg. 30c. for jg, QUAKER ROLLED ' OATS���Reg. 25c, for goo ROYAL STANDARD ROLLED OATS���Reg. 45c, for .. ���. .Mc HAMS���Reg. 2r,c lb., for loc BACON���Reg. 30e lb., for 22c LARD���Peg. 15c lb., for 12Vic SKY. .-mis. 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Titled "The Greater Vancouver Chinook" from 1912-05-18 to 1915-05-01, for 1915-05-15, and from 1915-06-05 to 1915-09-11; "The British Columbia Chinook" for dates 1915-05-09, 1915-05-22, and 1915-05-29; "The Saturday Chinook" from 1915-09-18 to 1916-04-15; and "The Standard" from 1916-04-22 onward. Published by Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited from 1912-05-18 to 1916-01-01; Chinook Printing House from 1916-01-08 to 1916-04-15; The Standard Printers from 1916-04-22 to 1917-04-07; and The Standard Company from 1917-04-14 onward.
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