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The Week -A British Columbia Newspaper and Review. )1. XI, No. 33-Eleventh Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, Oct. 11, 1913 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year efence -VNo policy will be satisfactory to the people ,5 British Columbia which does not include a substantial and prompt contribution and the ESTABLISHMENT OF A FLEET UNIT ON THE PACIFIC COAST." A The Minister of Justice N thc occasion of the first visit to the Const of the Hon. C. J. Doherty, Minister of Justice, that eminent jurist was enter- ,. tained by the Canadian Club, and took occasion to emphasize orUiiice,! especially in a new country, of practical patriotism, ,aie-oJ' address affected by the distinguished guests of the Cana- "■lnb is as varied as their numbers; some deliver an oration: (' it'll address,; some speak, and a few talk. Thc Hon. C. J, y is "'' ''.iter; he just indulged in a post-prandial chat •■' ' ...onl effort or pretension, was strictly germane to the T-fciRnadian Clubs, and entirely appropriate to a rcpresenta- ' ""Nation of what he frankly admitted is destined to bo the 'ISof'thc Canadian Provinces. Be reminded his hearers that 'Turn docs not mean simply sentiment for the race one springs but it is the duty one owes to the land one elects to live in; tha aba* "ives him a place to make his own, that lie may enjoy the i;k of life and represent tlie centre from which shall radiate said influence for the good of an advancing civilization." Later fid that in speaking of Canadian patriotism he was speaking "icmnboiicy upon everyone to do whatever lies in .their power Ivantagc of the country. Tho careful nnd assiduous cultiva- '..i :..r spirit and. pride of Cauadianism is the truest Jin- i.ith now of these sentiments will the readers of The "d to disagree. They arc not new; they aro not oven ..'( ' i; form. They are rather the reiteration of truths i we arc all so familiar that we are apt to forget them. Thc ;'",;'luecd an excellent impression by the geniality and kind- ,, manner and by the breadth of view wbich he displayed. ataliyj. ■ ..Committee of the Canadian Club should be con- •ed on providing the best luncheon in their history, a circum- '' which contributed more than a little to tho success of the " Waiting for Winston jicai'ly thirty years since tlie Bouse of Commons "waited for .Smith." That retiring and inconspicuous statesman sud- JV assumed unprecedented importance in connection with the . ''it of an acute phase of the Home Rule question. It had to do (j .Inininhiim Prison and certain alleged negotiations between eaders who had been incarcerated, and the Government; and once a man who had been regarded as of mediocre ability and of e or no importance in thc ranks of the Ministerialists, became Ihe i of tho hour, for whose verdict thc country waited. While the tllel is not exact, the circumstances of Mr. Winston Churchill's prtant deliverance at Dundee naturally recall the historical inci- Somehow or another the First Lord of the Admiralty has ually assumed a position of ever increasing importance in thl i of his follow countrymen, and on the great question which is ving tho ranks of political parlies today, as it did thirty years it is not too much to sny that, it was for the latest utterance Ir. Churchill that the country waited. We have hnd the repeated verations of Mr. Asquith, Mr. McKcnna, and other Ministers of •r rank, that nothing would prevent the forcing of tlie Borne Rule through tho House nnd that, least of all, would the policy of Sir ■avd Carson and his colleagues divert tho Government for one lent from their intention. But the country is facing a crisis, itever may be said of the methods of Sir Edward Carson, and tever people may think of Homo Rule, it is certain that public ion will not face with equanimity the bare possibility of an insur- on in Ulster. There can be no question that the conduct of Sir *ard Carson amounts to treason, but there can be no stronger irsation of his attitude than the fact lhat lhc Government has not d to tako action against him. It is all very well to talk of Ulster g in the minority in Ireland, nnd of the nnti-Home-Rnlers being minority in Ulster, the fnct remains that there is in Ulster so i a body of men, pledged to armed resistance, that no Government precipitate such a crisis. The view of Tlio Week is, and always icon, that an appeal must be made to Ihe constituencies before lhc ie Rule Bill is passed. The utterance of Mr. Churchill at Dun- js the first indication thnt the Government mny have to weaken to this extent. He first of all hints that Ulster may bo accorded "special consideraion," which can only mean exemption from tlie provisions of any Home Rule Bill. If the Government is prepared to go so far, then the chief objection to the Bill will be removed, that of coercing a loyal minority. But many other objections would re, main, and, knowing this, Mr. Churchill points out that even if the Home Rule Bill is forced through the Commons now, and rejected, as it would be, by the Lords, there is still time for a general election before it would become operative. This line of auguuient indicates the weakness of thc Government's position, a determination to carry a measure with the reservation that such a policy is only intended to demonstrate the strength of their determination, as who should say, "I will show you that I can do it," and having done it to ask the consent of the constituencies to its enforcement. This is not a dignified position for a Government, and the suggestion will bo regarded somewhat in tho light of a "dernier resort," especially when it is considered in connection with Mr. Churchill's most significant suggestion of "special consideration" for Ulster. The fact of the matter is that the Government is in a tight fix; it is rapidly approaching the time when an appeal to the country can no longer be deferred, and unless The AVeek entirely misreads the true significance of Mr. Churchill's speech, he has made a bid for the leadership of his party, and of the country, along more conservative lines than have yet been adopted by any of his colleagues and along lines which may at least serve the purpose of modifying the bitterness of the conflict. The Hon. G. E Poster's Speech MR. FOSTER'S great speech at the Canadian Club luncheon in the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, on "The East as a Future Market for Canada" should be studied by every Canadian. It is so important as to demand special treatment, and The Week proposes to publish in the next issue a careful digest. Meanwhile, there are one or two features which may be referred to. The first is that one of thc ablest men in the Dominion, (and indeed in the Empire, on his return from a personal visit to the Orient, finds that tho one message ho has to deliver to his countrymen is that they should study the Oriental. He quoted a few figures to show that the sea-borne trade of the Pacific today reaches the enormous total of $3,000,000,000 a year, of which China and Jajinn claim over $1,000,000,000. He pointed out that when one comes to consider the human factors in tho problem, the overwhelming majority of the Oriental races is strikingly apparent; for while there were 150,000,000 people of Angol-Saxon or Latin origin on the Pacific Coast, there were 1)00,000,000 Orientals. The enormous and rapidly growing trade of China and Japan, the overwhelming population, the insignificant amount of Canada's Pacific trade, reaching only $30,000,000, and the fact that the great outlet for Canada's commercial expansion lay in the Orient, furnished the principal reasons why Mr. Foster urged his countrymen to study the Oriental; pointing out that it is impossible to achieve our destiny as a great Pacific nation unless we aro able to develop trade and commerce with tho Oriental, and this can only be done on the ground of a mutual good understanding. Mr. Samuel Price's Report IT has been a long while in coming. Now that il is before the public the report of Mr. Samuel Price, K.C., on tho Nanaimo strike discounts the very unflattering comment mnde upon thnt gentleman by the Liberal Press. A more lucid, concise nnd sensible report has rarely lieen presented. Mr. Price wastes no words; he does not cloud the issue with vague and ponderous phraseology, but ho makes his findings in simple language, which nil can understand, and follows with four specific and important recommendations. Incidentally, he brushes aside the very industriously circuited suggestion thnt the .Minister of Labour refused to grant nn Arbitration Board under the Industrial Disputes Ael, nnd shows that; Mr. Crotbers did everything possible to hnve such a Board formed. He also shows that it wns the officials of tho Union who refused to fall in with snch an arrangement. Interest is centred, however, mainly in the recommendations, the first of which is that the term 'strike" should bo defined by the Legislature. Considering that the miners left work in 'May last on what they termed a "holiday" and that they denied the existence of a strike, it would certainly seem that this recommendation is in order. The next suggestion is that collective agreements entered into voluntarily and formally for a specified time between workmen mid employers should be given the sanction and protection of the law. This is a sound recomendation and would undoubtedly do much to prevent strikes. It wns just because such agreements have lieen disregarded, nnd their provisions treated as matters of convenience rather than of obligation, that industrial disputes have often been precipitated. Snch legislative action would not only ensure greater deliberation in the framing of agreements, but would necessarily involve very careful consideration before breaking them. The third recommendation is that there should be a change made in the law to prevent discrimination against employees wdio exercise lhc legal right of joining or being connected with unions. This is a recommendation entirely in the interests of the men and one which is fully justified by experience. The Week speaks on the fullest authority when it states that more men have been dismissed becuuse of their association with unions than for nny other reason. Their removal is effected on a pretext, lint it is generally so flimsy that no one doubts the real reason. A workman has a perfect right to belong to any union, and no employer hns a right to discriminate against him for exercising one of the privileges of manhood. The bitterness engendered by such conduct has laid the foundation for many a strike. Mr. Price's fourth suggestion is to render it unlawful for any person to intimidate or insult a workman because he refuses to line up with his fellows in the matter of a strike or a labour dispute. Such protection is so reasonable as not to le open to argument. Closing the report, Mr. Price points out that the essence of tlio trouble is the resolute determination of tbe men in the union to establish a branch of tbe U. M. W. A. and to compel recognition of it by the employers, and the equal determination of the companies to have nothing to do with this organization. There was no matter in dispute concerning wages or conditions of employment, and the issue is therefore a simple one. Whatever the individual opinion of the readers of The AVeek may be, there can be no question of the value of Mr. Price's report and the desirability of acting on his recommendations. Alien Labour at Sooke ALDERMAN CUTHBERT and the Committee appointed by the Council to investigate the matter of employment of alien labour on the Sooke Waterworks contract have presented their report. It fully bears out the representations made by The AVeek when first directing attention to this subject. The report finds that a largo number of aliens have been engaged on the work, not only as labourers, but as assistant engineers and chainmen, wdio wero principally Americans. It finds that these men have no special qualifications for their work over and above local men who belong to the same profession, and after carefully considering the evidence adduced the Committee makes the following recommendations:—I. That the AA7ater Commissioner be instructed that in future preference must be given in nil labour employed on the Sooke work to residents of the City of Vietorin and British subjects. II. That engineers, assistant engineers, rodmen and construction men, now residents in the city, who are known to bo capable, be put in charge of the work in plnce of the American citizens now engaged thereon. III. That when arij labour is wanted it be secured from men who have registered at tbe City Clerk's office, on tho understand ing that the Engineer, or the party responsible for hiring the men, shall make his own selection from nmong the applicants for the work for which they are required. These conclusions arc just what might be expected by any who read the excellent reports furnished by the daily press of the evidence laid before the Committee. It would be hardly possible for the Council to do otherwise than accept the report and to give instructions for its recommendations to be carried out. Incidentally, it may be remarked that no ono hns yet been able to explain why, with such a large number of British subjects, residents in Victoria, out of employment, the foremen in charge of the work engaged so many aliens. The only reasonable explanation is that it is because they are aliens themselves, which bears out the contention of The AVeek thnt the only way to conserve local work for our own people is to ensure the employment of British subjects as foremen. Tho American simply will not employ any but his own countrymen nnd no means have yet been devised to compel him. Sunday Closing THE advocates of Sunday closing are nothing if nnt zealous, and it will afford tlie public considerable amuse nt In follow lhc lillle tilt which they are now having with tbe Attorney- Goneral. Old birds nre not to be caught with chaff, ami Attornoy- Oenerals like our own are nol lo be trapped with soft words. Why did not the legal advisers of lhc gentlemen who arc so anxious lo enforce Sunday closing in ils strides! form, till them thai the con- senl of tho Attoi'noy-General was nol necessary! Thai among ihe many special privileges enjoyed by Vancouver Islnnd is thai of observing the Sabbath according In lhc statutory regulations nf nn Ad passed in tho reign of King Charles II of blessed memory? As n rule, "reformers" are not over nice in lhe methods which they adopt. They nre nmong lhe most devoul believers in lhc nhl proverb that "the end justifies lhe menus," nnd il is llie lirsl time Tlie AVeek bus over known them cavil nt the particular legislative enactment which ihey should use to enforce their peculiar views. By all means lol them attack the decision of Chief Justice Hunter, if Ihey are so inclined. The Chief is not often wrong nnd Tho AVeek is little inclined In believe thnt he is wrung in the present case, nnd if lie is riglil, the "reformers" nre urging the Attorney-Genoral In dn what they are iplite able In effect without his aid, under an existing Statute. The twentieth century hns but n nodding acquaintance through the musty, fusty Ionics of our public libraries wilh Ihe Sunday observance laws of lhc time of Charles II. It would be refreshing to have nn object lesson on Vancouver Islnnd. which would appear In Ik- lhe mosl highly favoured spot in Canada in thc matter nf such regulations. Cremation CREMATION is admittedly u luxury nml luxuries nre things which have In be pnid fnr. Some day when il bus become universal the crematorium mny be a necessary adjunct tn every dwelling-house, but il will hardly ever be the case that cremation will be permitted in lhe back-yard by the simple and primitive aid of a log fire. Whatever lhe City authorities were abonl in permitting such an outrage In be perpetrated nl Clover Point passes the ordinary comprehension. Until Victoria is provided wilh a decent crematorium such ceremonies should be strictly tabooed. Whether (Continued on bnck page.) Page Two THE WEEK Victoria, B.C., October 111 At The Street Corner BY THE LOUNGER ing or otherwise, anent the style of Canada as "Our Lady of the Snows." furnace recently installed in the Many people have an idea in their basement of his host. Those of us heads that all Canada is cold; that who have lived in Victoria a few Viotoria is in Canada, and that there- years know that all the fuss which fore Viotoria must be cold in the is made ahout heating is nonsense, winter. Utter nonsense! If we had Sometimes the mornings are a little less overheating and more fresh air, raw; the evenings may be chilly and we should have fewer colds and the there are occasions when wind and winter would be as little annoying to frost induce an extra grouch against everyone else as it is to the the weather. But for the most pari we could manage very well withoul all the extra sinking which goes en to overheat our ollices, lintels and homes in obedience to the same in- 1™_______—* stinct which made Kipling write of " Cfri <rzc«^z^t SEATTLE EUROPEAN-WODtRATE MODERN-CONVENIENT 225 Outside Rooms- 135 With Bath. METCHOSIN TEA HOUSE (Next to Hall) METCHOSIN, B.C. The Misses Willson and Smyth (formerly of the Dorothy Tea Boom, Victoria, B. 0.) have opened the above for Teas, Light Refreshments, etc., etc. Open on Sundays pr^esr***^^ ^mr=*m T AST week one of the unemployed, petual this coming winter unless steps I i that is to say n distinguished are taken to remove it. The "Pay- gentleman of leisured ease, strolled as-you-enter" cars are excellent in into my office and told me that he many ways. It is a great conveni- had a good thing for me. I thanked ence when once you have successfully him and told him to go ahead, where- fought you way to a seat to know upon he sat down and wrote the fol- that you will not be disturbed by lowing cryptograph. "Twenty years anyone coming round for fares. But a"o thc saying was that if yon s.iw they entail a great deal of annoy- a°red-haired woman, yun would have ance at the time of entering the car. to look out for a white horse. Now- AVhen it is wet the number of pas- a-days, if you see a owmnii with au- sengers increases, and Ihere is usu- burn hair vou must keep your eyes ally a good-sized crowd waiting to open for a blonde automobile." I board all the out-going cars read lhe message and said "Ye-es." main points of departure right insi It was one of those "Yes-es" which the city proper. A very small per- you say when yon mean to convey the centage of passengers have exaclly idea that you understand all right, Hie right fare; now-a-days still fewer hut you can't for the life of you carry tickets. Consequently a large make out what the other fellow is proportion demand change, and with drivin-*- at. You know the kind I the best will in the world a conditc- mean. Mv intonation had the desir- tor cannot keep pace with the in- ed effect for he took pains and Iron- coming crowd, all demanding change hie to point out that the pith of his and raging when one who has lhc remarks meant that horses of any nickel passes a previous comer and kind are growing rare, nnd in con Tennyson's Religion Written Specially for The Week by J. Arthur Hill, Member of the English Society of Authors N-0 individual, least of all a poet, the reasoning faculty to the facts of is of exactly the same opinion life. He continually repudiates tbe on matters of religious belief at all idea that we can know. If he had ...6 ... *?«?■ A™f"S as cert'»» l*a*.s written in prose he would probably at the of. ^\^ef are uppermost in his lmve ,,sed much lhe smm , .. mind, his judgment fluctuates, Con- *- temphitin- "•- '-1'---1 "—»;-!—- - as Kant, with whom lie is in perfect the blind fanaticism ot philosophical accord. "No one, it is the straiter sects, or the gorgeous ^.i remavks Kant ("Critique of ceremonial of Roman or High Angli- pur0 jjonson sequence white horses are becoming rprer. I promptly followed the example of the excellent Captain Cuttle, and having found his meaning "made a note." Now for the sequel. Probably you hastens through to the coveted seat Exactly what remedy can be found it is hard to say. One might suggest that nt the corner of Government and Yates, and again at the corner of Douglas and Fort, an extra man should stand, provided with change. The company might issue a new series wi]| of tickets, five for two-bits gome a change for the worse. Disgusted hy who have read the ^W, «J» ^Zwvlr, wiilhaveTbe done ««' secularist's loud-voiced vulgarity agree with me that lhc, w. i Un sac S, , f and blat t ga 10„s, we come hack ,„e,it was hardly wothwakig up ^ |o |he oplmol, „,„,, a the •_,„ ,ve two flights of stairs to make. I i .. ,, e n,,, a.,.,11,.,, nil passengers who will storm the cars thought no more nt the mallei uu ' B , . . , , home I between live and six every night during the dnrksom.e months. that evening. On my way me the usual procession of vehicles ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bringing back from ihe races those * _ . unfortunate people who, aeor*.ing I" I noticed in thc evening paper last the morning paper, have been indulg- Tuesday that owilg to a dispute be- in" in an orgy of vice during the tween the B. C. B. K. and the Bsqm- past fortnight. About six o'clock malt Waterworks we are at present every evening Ihe road leading from dependent upon the long distance Oak Bav Junction to the Willows has transmission lines between the city • , • n uak i>nj .11UH.I1UI ui T„.„i,.„ niai,,„ „,a,l tho nitv nml moment is inos prominent in the been densely packed with automo- and Jordan Unci and the city and ■ ,., „ ,„ _„_/._.. .. ,,..., .... biles On this particular evening I Hreiilwuod Bay. If anything happen found mv attention attracted by one ed to either of these we vehicle in particular. Por some rea- plunged into darkness, and I won , • , a ., I , - "'" ""aa-iaaa ,, 'Will 1)0 able to which, by its appeal to ,,„„„. ..,„,. > , ,, . ., . ..j. /.. a ..„•.... a,.- ...a., I)0ast ""it he knows that there is a Cod and a future life; for, if lie knows this, he is just the man whom I have long wished to find. All knowledge, regarding nn object of mere reason, can be communicated j and I should thus be enabled to hope that my own knowledge would receive this wonderful extension through the instrumentality of his instruction." Tennyson is equally convinced of lhe fact that knowledge of the objective truth of these beliefs is absolutely unattainable, and that Ihere is, therefore, room for hesitancy and doubt. Prom Ihis it follows that he does not, and cannot, consider doubt or unbelief as r ,, ... , ,, ,. a form of wickedness, as do some prefer the positive to the negative „«,,,, ,. . ... „ „, . , '. , ,'.,. - .,, , °, .,, oi lhe religious societies of Chris cn- bigot-siipcrstilious failli to no faith , ,„ «,„,„, , „ ,,-, , ,, «om. I'or such as are oppressed nt a I. AATe mav sweep out the one ... ,,,,., ... ■' ,. , , ., „ ..*. , , •„ , ,■ . with "obstinate, questioning," which devil of superstition, but it by doing ,, so we prepare a plnce for seven other secular devils, truly our last state will be worse lhan the first. The result, then, of this fluctuation of feeling according to the phase of religion or anti-religion which at the can ritual- feeling, succeeds in lulling the intellect into lethargy and inactivity—one is ready to cry a hasty anethema, and to demand an awakening of reason above all things. AVhen, on Ihe other hand, we listen to the atheistic Boanerges of the "secular society," and hear his strident denunciations of the faith which our fathers held—a faith, which, whatever its faults, has bred men of heroic and noble character—we feel disposed to turn Conservative and abjure our ideas of radical reform, lest it turn out to be cannot resolve, he bus a wide tolerance and spmpnthy; and he hns a gentle rebuke for those who have no patience or forbearing wilh i.onest doubts. son I stood and watched it till it was dered how many people arc absolutely out of sight, but I was unconscious relying on tho B. C. 13. E. and how of anv special reason for so doing, many keep a few candles or oil lamps When' it had disappeared from view in their homes in case of an emerg- I awoke to Ihe fad that it was be- ency. Judging from my own hnppy- cause il was a horse-drawn vehicle go-lucky disposilion I should be prc- that it had aroused mv interest. Then pared to wager that at least fifty per more upon what my cent, of lhe rcsnlenls of a modern mental Held of vision, is thai we are should be "f different opinions at different times. Consequently, we need not expect lo find, in the writings of a man whose literary labours extended over such a considerable period of time as half a century or more, nny such absolute consistency and harmony as wc may at lirsl be disposed lo require. In Tennyson's poetry, then, as in any other work of the kind, there-may be passages that do 'There lives doubt, Believe me, creeds.'' more faith in honest than in half the had written city would be quite unable to lay , ,, „ . -, hands on anv other means of not seem lo be altogether m accord tlicr I thought once visitor in the mornin r,'I7li^'!reZ,S,'a«e',of ighHng'thcir homes .ban lhc usual will, sentiment, expressed in \Tl We, ee the nobleAnimal electric light bulb. Of course those paris of (he book. At lhc same tune ,, if. of less an 1, sfcr automobilists who keep their cars at Ihee will be a certain undan.en.al "' "'e 1 sel h ,caiouallv home have acclylcnc lamps which and permanent substratum of re- •"'If „ fLl of hackwe see help out. bul I think Ihnl Ihe aver- Hgian. thought, which is independent * Tat h in B t how often age' householder would be left very nf the influence exerted by him at ^ mi]ch ,n l]|c dM,k jn o(|se of nn .n_ p01,al.y | The burnt has temiption at lhc present lime in the consequently remains lhc same, how _ - * Bivcr ,„• ever accidental conditions happen lo Of '•••""•'J"aaaaaaaaaaaaaal tern- which _____________ _ . . ... B)ircumstnnces, and do we see him being driven in a buggy? -— - . 00me upon us so quietly that we ave ^—2 » £**» --- ^ Swav opinion on details barely become couscous of tbefact. fj^^^^'^, Stance. This substratum in the of Tennyson, may readily he But il is lhe Irulli, and you might bo ______________ • i i„,i if a.,„, wore lo take lhc In advertise my wares, _.._ , !" ,„ th mm e f p.",- us live so securely, lhat is to say so discovered and .sealed. trouble lo count lhc , unbi . 1 rf ^ £ ^ ,( ^ T||(, , spw|(ir ,, ,.,,,,„ „f doubtful if many people would have Tennyson's poems, though perhaps nmiiBiiMnam ^^^ ' "---1 " all nrlistie point to count lhc number of privately driven bursesj 1 of the next week. but most of case in lhe course I wonder whether we have to blame democracy for lho fuel Hint wc never see in Afoloria "Tn and Out" barriers creeled In front of thc many wiokets in town where wc have lo tiansacl business. Take for example lhe money order wicket at the Post office. Persons ™"~^™"^^^ window lhe forethought in provide against an not the besl fro accident. When one comes to think of view, is of course "In Memoriain. In Ihis very mournful yel very nolile f it wo are singularly helpless these ays when anything docs go wrong juice." But, though Tennyson is agnostic as regards knowledge of God and Immortality, he is full of a religious faith; indeed, the denial of knowledge leaves Faith a larger scope, and makes it the one feature of his religious life. Throughout his work there is continually manifest a habitual faith in the morality of Ihe Cosmos; unlike old Omar—who, if he had the power, would break up this "sorry scheme of things," and "mould it nearer to the heart's desire"—he believes that there are reasons for what seems unjust and immoral iu Nature, and that what we call evil is working towards a moral cud—is really only good in the making, in sections 54, 55, and 50, belief that surely somehow good will he the final goal of ill; Ihal no life shall bo utterly destroyed; that "we can but trust that good will fall, nt last —far off—nt last, to nil, and every winter chnnge lo spring." This implies thai we aro so constituted as lo require lo assume the existence of the poet naturally dwells on such snbjecls as religious failli, Ihe Immortality of Ihe soul, the nature and attributes of Ihe Divine Being, and so forth. In lhe lime of bereavement, when a dear companion is suddenly removed from communion with pavement, and us, il is natural for the mind to turn when the latter is laid ou a hill the wilh wistful longing to snch questions us those; sorrow cries out in wilh the Now lhat lhe leaves have begun lo fall, tho sidewalks in many ports of wishing lo buy all town are gelling lo bo positively from dangerous, „ _ . . ., . , a good lnid and Ihe ai'tunhlv of sonic ilir"e-eulo"'V o 11 i t'pii.rteit trienil, ,... . „ , ., ,, ,.« . iiiigi uiiwso y ; i ^ t' I,],, 01. stale after death, if life is Pew things nre more lo be worth living. If Ihese are not truths, then "enrlh is darkness nt the core, and dust and ashes all Unit is." If 'there is no immortality, then once to sink lo often disastrous to lhc tin- " 'Twcre besl peace, Like birds draws, To drop head foremost in the jaws the charming serpent order approach lhc --a—■—«■—■■•—■—■—*■■—_—■, r either the north or (he south side; fieacberous lhan a wot loaf on a wet they sometimes come directly from and rather greasy the' oast, having previously bought STli: i'fl^S'S Z /epam S^Vl «S ^Z:\X™, Z S Of -«_ darkness and „ cease." „0 regular line of movemen ; wis lhat more men con lbe put to dc^rig.mo 1 mn ns . ^ ^ ^ ^ & ^^ everyone pushes his or her way "i work sweeping up the leaves. It ap- so, now- « be ,1,0, regard to the old motto, pears to be the prevailing pra J , ,' rot " Memorial,!," brutal mnteri "p.,,t come, first served." Thesamo to ^ J"*. ^i^*^£ ™, may be taken as giving a fair clear of Deity, leaving man to jour contented with a brutal materialism that sweeps life state"of"'a'lfairs prevails at the C. P. on the roads, leaving the ..u«w»m» X,','',,f'Tennvson's opinions on those ney forward to his end, void of all EI ft N. ticket windows; nt to the tender mercies of the houfe- idea of ^?TJSZ.M si l,nn„ „,■ Mlh in life bevnud the R. and the autumn, great questions of belief which must hope the most pnrt being washed by the rains nf heaven faith in life beyond the fthK'Sffi Srs Tt wh^oS,^.;:^;:; zzr&». ^«-_-»s^j^^^ **« ing better than this:— He thinks he was not mnde to die, interest for the thoughtful mind. The lirst thing Hint strikes us <—■——■__awirn__m-__----i "In Memoriam"—from thc point of And thou hast made him; Hum art- view of religion—is the poet's abso- just." lute surrender of all Natural Theol- That we can think and hope these ogy At the very opposite pole of filings is n prophecy of their truth. thought from Profcsosr Flint and By denying them we voluntarily re- his disc banks Seeing that J^fJ* „„ „,„„ mig„tbo oraployotJ to kha r," S u S Gently if U. »?. -f the pedestrians. Wc gel • „Ln„led to T believe that little enough consideration in all r^t'VTof llfort could bo truth; let us at least have our legs "voided at these places if a barrier preserved unto us whole. ri,^'S»tf5SS °™ mwe hns t,,e ,imc comc ,In s the Iran e ml which Ihe round when lho big office buildings which was the entrance ana the "transcendental as, j,:p,r,,rr., -. - * --*_*■_ -aa^T-Jr?:"- - r "•""" ■"' long" the wail. iusWcnl demands of visitors from faith, wc cannot know." This is the or goats, , , season mav be he Bast who have been brought up burden of his song with regard b Thnt nourish a blind life within the Now that the rainy mum may m tje^astjn^n^^ ^ ih,JnmJr Mlosc mlestions which, according to brain, said ciples, he has no confidence duce ourselves to a plane of being claim's of knowledge of the from which wc have arisen and which Reason has escaped. In another poem Tennyson Now tliat iim. i...., ---- , „ illP1.mn,110|_r those questions wnicn, uccuruaug .. .-.. s»id to have sot in, .t ^^ J ' j er ero outside, and when thc the natural theologians may ho If, knowing Go 0„t of place to . evnt. «J»ra ai M ^ ^^ mi „ j t0 discussing the te - ^« ™™ ^ ^^ ^ mneu by a correct application of (Contuiu- nl, they lift not bands ued on Page 3.) Open 7 a.m. to Midnight When You're Hungry THAT'S WHEN YOU WANT TO DINE ON SUNDAY-NOT AT ANY STATED TIME- JUST WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT. SUNDAY DINNER AT THE MECCA IS "ON" FROM NOON TO 8 P. M. 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PubUihea Every Saturday liy The "Week" FuMlihlnsr Company, Ltd., at Page Three and admitting its lonesomeuess, "especially when Charlie was away," she said with conviction, "I have never seen the day when I regretted coming here, nnd I have never seen ■1308 Oovernment Street, Tlotorla, B.C., Canada, - Telephone 1983 *'ie (ln.v when I would change with Entered aa Second-Clan Matter at the Poit Office ln Tlotorla, B.C., Canada, anybody else." Snbiorlptlon: One year, ln advanoe, $3.00; ill months, *pi.oos three montha, Tho aavaain„na:„„ (,r:, ,, ., , |Mc. Single ooplea, 6c. Foreign anbaoriptloni to conntrlei ln Poatal Union, »a.oo liK explanation of this I attribute > year. Paymenta mnat be In advance and ahonld be made by Oheq.ne, Poatal '° "" intelligent, educated mind, J<•■*■«, or Bettered letter, and payable to The Week PnbUehlng Co., Ltd. whicli can regard the future with Advertlalntr Bate, on appUoatlon. Intinlrle. within city limit, will be h„„„f„i,,' i • ■. a mded to by a poraonal repreaentatlve of THE WEEK, nopetulness and equanimity, to a Newa-matter, correspondence, advertising copy and changes mnat be ln by 'ove of farm life, and in no small seaday morning of eaoh week. UnsoSclted manuaorlpt mnat be accom' ri„,,_ a„ n,„ uLs. ~ r . i id by stamps sufficient for return If fonnd unavailable for publication. Wo measme to lhe bracing climate and » oan be taken of anonymous communications. natural attractions of the Flathead IH^»'A-~»OBB President and Editor Valley. And with this reference I proach to "that far-off divine event, towards which the whole Creation moves." Until then, says Tennyson, let us hope and believe. POLITICAL .JUGGLERS .President and Editor Valley , Mo-ooBALi,-:. .\v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.:v.v.v.v.:.:.v.v.v.\_^«_r!iS_ THE SIMPLE LIFE BY BOHEMIAN TENNYSON'S RELIGION (Continued from Page 2.) tw«i-ai«aBr~.S"^V_~"™~ ^asaiauoaia faaaia xiuuor ! *M?DOBaSi?^..•.•.•.••.•"" *.*^:-.*.;!!<".,^2 milst "lose a somewhat lengthy article, deferring until next week a more detailed description of the Valley itself and its undoubted promise. It would not be, however, fair lo omit mention in this article of the kindness and attention extended to a stranger, who must have been something of a nuisance breaking in upon lhe limited accommodation and sup- ■■■■■■{■■^■■H people truly HAVE just returned from one of I found the cayuse route tolerable, '''e- ] 'vnnt to acknowledge the per- Ihe most interesting trips of my if not altogether enjoyable, and after sonal attention, not only to myself, e. There was nothing big and 120 miles, during which I never once mi' ln a" travellers, shown by Mr. thing sensational about it, and to got out of a walking gait, I think nncl Mrs- Adars at 20-Mile Stopping- e superficial observer it would it speaks well both for horse and '"",se> where you can bo sure of a irdly seem to be worth writing rider that on my return the animal ll0lll'ly welcome and a good meal, lout. But I have lived just long was delivered up to the livery stable A,so '" Mrs. Gephart, Mrs. Sehoen- otigh and travelled just far enough at Belton without a gall or a bruise, bergcr, Mrs. Myers and Mr. Clute, know that if one is to understand And ,now for the Valley. The "le m"el' ""e of t'*le most interesting n and things aright, one must look , , , , . .,' „ men I have met for a long time; who neath the surface; and I propose plaC° ,mS been m,lc1' m evldenoe for is "batching it" all alone on a homo- lift the veil for my readers and hv8nty years Past- Publle attention stead contiguous to the international ke them a peep into a scheme of having been attracted by reported boundary line, nnd filling in his 'e which is to be found very rarely discoveries of oil aud coal. It was spare moments until some intelligent, rib of lhc 4!)th parallel, but whi'li probably these discoveries which led sensible woman makes up her mind jam informed is not by any means '" I'10 construction of the rough to share'his lot, by studying Karl common south of the line. waggon road which runs for fifty Marx on "Socialism" and the "Phi- iA fortnight ago, leaving Victoria miles >" Uncle Sam's territory to the losnphy and the Yogis. the G. T. P. boat at 10 a. in., 1 international boundary line and some light the 7 o'clock Oriental ex- thirty or forty miles in British Co- ess on the Great Northern from bunhia lo the head of the Flathead mttle, and reached Belton, Mou- River. This road has been the ui, lhe following night nt 7 means of taking settlers into the lock. Belton is in itself a place country; I do not know exactly how no importance. That is, it eon- ninny, but from the fnct that there Is of a depot, an inn, a general is » rural telephone with eighteen re and, as far as I could judge, subscribers, there must be nt least more lhan lliree or four dwell- that number of homesteads. Of all To these, however, must be these homesteaders I want to say What, indeed, are men better than •led lhc (Ircnt Northern Hotel, or thnt they work hard and live bard, sheep or goats, if they sink Ihem- ilol as it is called, which forms but they are hospitable to a degree selves to the animal level by will- i first link in that marvellously in- and I never mot with kinder treat- ingly permitting degeneration and esting chain of chalets and np- ment in my life than from them. atrophy to seize upon and destroy ntments which hnve been provided It is here that I would like to lift, those very faculties which chiefly the entertainment of visitors to lhe veil, but must do so within the distinguish man from beast? The Glacier National Park. Every- limits imposed by delicacy. Many of purely animal life is not sufficient has hoard of Yellowstone Park, those people talked freely with me; for man; he has powe- • that demand comparatively few know of this Ihey told me of the hardships they scope and exercise, and if he fet- est addition to Uncle Sam's piny- had to endure; of the monotony of lei's those activities he debases hiin- unds. It is a truly magnificent Iheir lives; of the impossibility of self to Ihe brute-level—commits spir- iervo, nbout fitly miles square, making any marked progress, and of itual suicide. The man with the inded on Ihe south by the G. N. the certainty that they would con- muck-rake illustrates his mental and on lhe north by the 49th parallel, tinuo in the same rut until a rail- spiritual attitude; his gaze is fixed the west by the Flathead River way canio along and rendered their on earthly and material things, and d on the oast by an arbitrary sur- holdings valuable. It seemed to mo ho does not see the angel of his line. thnt this story was as old as the higher faculties, who is ready to The Park consists of high menu- hills. How many thousands of pio- crown him with blessings if he will is capped with snow and glaciers, neers in different parts of the Amen- but acknowledge her. The material- 1 almosl innumerable scries of can continent have just squatted on ist's mind is truncated, one-sided; :es, ice enves, game preserves and thoid homesteads and waited—some the whole man hns religious faith, row valleys stringing down be- ten, some twenty, some even fifty It is abundantly clear lhat Tenny- en the mountain ranges. A more yenrs, before the iron horse, fore- son held firmly to the cardinal be- tui'csque, unspoiled, natural beauty runner of plenty, came snorting up liefs that a good God exists; that t could nnt be imagined. I am the valley? One of the best in- events around us (and within us) going to institute comparisons formed settlers told me that most of are manifestations of His will; and h our own Strathcona Park, now the people had been there from lhat tho continued existence of the the making, because I have not twenty to thirty yenrs; that they individual human soul after the l the latter; hut if it compares cultivated just enough land to raise death of flie body is part of lhe all favourably with Glaciei Park food for themselves and their stock; scheme of things ordained by the will become one of the attractive that a few had developed stock- Supreme Being. These are his fun- rist resorts of the world. I musl; raising because the range wns good, damcnlnl articles of belief; and from a word for the splendid organ- and they were able to drive out a them follows n natural consequence .tion which hns been perfected bv small band of entile every year to that optimism, Hint steady fatih in Government. The whole Park thc south. But there wns no money final good—in spite of nll that might been lnid out with roads, walks in the valley and hut for the few seem to "shriek against the creed"— |l (rails; comfortable sleeping days of real work, lumbering nnd which is such n marked feature of ccs have been erected nt scopes other odd jobs furnished by the Gov- his religions and philosophical .poinls; travellers can spend n few eminent, it would be n hard thing thought. He believes thnt we are or a month or two iu the Park, to make bnlh cuds meet. He gave progressing towards lhc ideal, even it ns suits Iheir convenience, nud it ns his opinion Hint there were in mailers temporal; thnt the "grenl be provided with horses, tents, few, if any, settlors in the valley in world spinning for ever down lhe omplete outfit and provisions; or receipt of more lhan $800 n year, ringing grooves of change" is going n take the single-day trips pniln observation T should think this through a process of evolution which ween given poinls. Although this „ fair estimate. In most cases llie will bring better and better material ii new venture ninny thousand? of settlers live in log houses, which nre conditions. But apart from, nml rists have visiled the Park this kept scrupulously clean, but which above, Ihis merely material and soc- i,r, and I enn only say tha. if boast lillle furniture, The side lluil ondiiry amelioration, lie believes in own Government is able to coin- impressed me war Unit amid such lhc continued spiritual life which fo as excellent a system, it will rigorous conditions lhc wives and will bring improvement in character well. children nf the selllers were in the to an indefinite extent. He has faith .eaving Belton and travelling main both happy and cheerful, in the working out of high possi- Ih along the route of the Flat- While the husband goes away, some- bilities which one can do no more d inlo British Columbia, one has limes for months nn cud, to work in than grope after and vaguely con- choice of three methods of loco- lhc National Pnrk or elsewhere, lhe jeeture; possibilities that are still [ion—walking, riding and driving, wife runs lho ranch, generally with- wrapped in the mind of God, to be ting been over the road I should out help, even lo cultivating the revealed at the appointed time, Linly prefer the first, if walking garden patch, milking lho cows and when man has made further ap- le'ss a weariness to the flesh lending the stock. The children, who '; it is now and more of the aro not numerous, soom rather shy, isure it was twenty years ago. but everywhere intelligent, and lhe strong men, who nre wise, walk, women of a class which surprised idn't. A. enyuso offers lhe next me. They were all fairly well cdu- t method of travelling, becuuse the enfed; one or two exceptionally well. Ids arc so horribly bad lhat driv- They wore all readers; there were i in any vehicle is painful and nt piles nf magazines nnd papers in bs dangerous. I have heard com- many of the houses, nnd tho wife ints nbout roads in Canndn, espc- wns ns well ns, if not better, posted ly in parts of Nova Rcotin; but than her husband on Ihe general hank as a waggon road lhe first affairs of lhc country. T recall one on miles from Belton, north, "take healthy, intelligent, attractive young enke." It is not merely up hill woman, only twenty-throe yeari of i down dale, but it attempts age, who said she hnd been married des which are next to impossible seven years and had n liltle girl six I loaves you to flounder in mo- yenrs old. Her husband wns a man sos out nf which no one could of forty. T met him twenty miles ;rge with credit. I wns informed nwny from homo, working in Ifho t the rond is to be repaired, and Park-. His wife prepared us 'an re wore some evidences of this, appetizing lunch, furnished from her I doubt if for years to come own garden, with the addition of ro can be any pleasure in n drive deer-meat secured by her own rifle, m Hilton into British Columbia I Diseasing lhc kind of life she led Editor The Week. Dear Sir;—I enclose herewith a cutting from The Northern Mail, issuing in Newcastle-on-Tyne, which may interest those of your readers who have taken any interest in Old Country politics lately:— Some items at the Parliamentary (and purely imaginary) "Slopers' Concert" mentioned on this page yesterday: MB. LLOYD GEOKGE will perform some of his celebrated Sleight of Hand tricks, including his sensational illusion, INSURANCE. (Prudentially assisted by Horatio Bottomley.) In full view of the audience Mr. L. George will produce 9 coppers (in plain clothes) from 4. Sir Rufus Isaacs and Mr. Lloyd George will sing a duet (in 2 shares), entitled "Oh! Oh! Mareonio." Accompanied on a wireless piano. Air. Keir Hardie will conclude with "GOD SAVE THE KING." Tours truly, "AMUSED." Victoria, B.C., Oct. 6,1913. Hotel Washington Annex Headquarter! for the Automobile Trad* EUBOPEAK P_AH Located at the corner of Second Avenue and Stewart Street. A minute's walk from the business and shopping centre of the city. All outside rooms and strictly fireproof. Street cars pass the door. Auto 'bus meets all trains and boats. First-class Cafe under the supervision of the hotel management. "A Homelike Place" J. H. DAVIS, Proprietor 828 Courtney St. Phone 4252 Victoria, B.C. 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Page Four THE WEEK Victoria, B.C., October SOCIETY AND PERSONAL a: aaHaa THE Carnival aud Vaudeville Concert held on Friday evening of last week, in the Arena, which was a blaze of lights and gayly adorned with colored bunting and Hags, proved to be but .a moderate success This, however, was not due to the Committee, who worked hard and provided au excelent entertainment, but lo the apathy of thc general public. A guard-of-honor furnished by the Boy Scouts and under command of Colonel Cunlifle, met Mrs. Paterson, wife of Lieutenant-Governor Paterson, aud the .Hon. Dr. Young at the entrance to the Arena, from which they were escorted to their seats by Mr. F. A. Pauline, Mr. Cuthhert, Mr. A. Von Oirsewald and other members of the Carnival Committee. Sharp at S o'clock the Fifth Regiment opened the concert by playing a selection of Scotch airs, and the Victoria Pipe Band marched round the floor, Mr. A. A. Codd opened the programme by singing "The Maplo Leaf," and wns followed by Miss Mary Shearer, who charmed everyone by dancing the Highland Fling. Mr. Tracey sang ''Good-Bye, Sweetheart," and Mr. D. J. Tliursby gave a "Spanish Song," which wns much appreciated, as was also the clog- dance by Mr. D. Dumbarton. After the vaudeville entertainment a fancy dress parade took place, the revellers marching round the rink to the tune of Mr. B. Bantly's Carnival March. The following kindly consented to act as judges: Hun. Dr. Young, Messrs. Pauline and Taylor, Mrs. Roy Troup, Mrs. H. Helmcken, ami Mrs. S. Maclure, The prizes were distributed by Mrs. T. W. Paterson. Others on the committee were Mrs. E. A. Thomas, Mrs. Harry Pooley, Mrs. Shallcross, Mrs. Despard Twigg, Mrs. Audain, Miss Lucy Little, Miss Vera Mason, Miss Muriel Dunsmuir, Mrs. Biggerstaff- Wilsou, and Mrs. Briggs. St. Paul's Church, Esquimalt, last evening was the scene of a very pretty event, the occasion being the marriage uf Maude Ethel, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones, Dry Dock, Esquimalt, lu Robert Alexander Gough Thomson, the son nf G. A. Thomson (Government agent, Nanaimo). The Rev. H. Baugh-Allen officiated. The church was crowded lo witness the ceremony. The choir met (lie bride nt the entrance to the church and preceded her np the aisle, singing "Tho Voice lhat Breathed O'er Eden." She was given away by her father, and looked exceedingly pretty in a becoming gown of white silk trimmed wilh pearl trimming nnd silk lace, and wore a handsome necklace of pearls with sunburst attached. Her veil was of white tulle, arranged in mob-cap style and wreathed round with orange blossoms. Her bouquet was of bride roses and maidenhair fern. She was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Caroline Thomas, and Miss Verna Deckley, of Nanaimo, cousin of the bride. The former wore pale blue satin, trimmed with while ninon and lace and a dark hide plush hat with ostrich plumes, while Miss Deckley wore a French ninon de sois and a pale blue hat trimmed with rosebuds and black velvet. Each carried a bouquet of pink roses. Mr. Alan Foa'd noted as best man and Mr, Kenneth Jones as usher. During the services the organist, Mr. Johnston, played the Mendelssohn Wedding March, also the bridal chorus from "Lohengrin." After the ceremony an informal reception wns held at the residence nf the bride's parents. Mrs. Jones, the bride's mother, wore a becoming mauve satin dress with hat lo match, while Mrs. Thomson, mother of the bridegroom, wore n brocaded velvet in a becoming shade of wisteria. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson left by the midnight boat to Vancouver en route for Seattle and other Sound cities. The bride's going away dress was of pale blue eloth and pale blue hat trimmed vdth long ostrich plume. On their return to Victoria they will take up their residence at May Street. The bridegroom's presents were, to the bride a handsome silver purse, and to the bridesmaids pearl brooches, and to the best man a silver match box. j*. A pleasing wedding took place at Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday, October 1, when Miss Alice J. Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Edwards, of London, Eng., was united in mnrringc to Mr. George R. Ball, of Victoria. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. F. H. Fatt. The bride, who was given away by Mr. Geirge H. Evans, was attended by Miss F. Raddish, while Mr. H. N. Wright acted as best man. A quiet reception was afterwards held at the Balmoral Hotel, when, after a daintily served repast and a few felicitous speeches, Mr. and Mrs. Ball left for a short tour on the Island previous to taking up their residence in Victoria. On last Tuesday week Mr. and Mrs. James May, Mount Tolmie, entertained a few of their friends in the evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Tulloch, who aro visiting in Victoria from New Zealand. Among the guests" were Mrs. W. H. Rowlands, Mrs. Dcdwith (Vancouver), Mr. Robert McKie, M.r and Miss May (Cowichan), Mr. and Mrs. Thurburn, Miss Tulloch, Mr. W. V. Rowlands, and Mr. Whittaker. *,' Among the guests who have been spending the past week-end at the 'Riverside Inn, Cowichnn Lake, are: Mr. D. Y. Wooton, Victoria, B.C.; Mr. and Mrs. 0. Doe, Victoria, B.C.; Mr. L. Peacock, from Singapore; Mr. R. M. Palmer, Victoria, B.C.; Mr. J. T. Wit tome, Duncnn, B.C.; Mr. J. H. Hadneey, Duncan, B.C.; W. J. Telfcr, Victoria, B.C.; A. N. Godson, Victoria, B.C. rls Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis, of Victoria, have left for Alaska, where they will reside for some time. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. B. Bngshawe have loft nn a holiday trip to the East. They will visil Banff, Calgary. Saskatoon and Winnipeg and other points of interest before returning home. Mr. nnd Mrs. C. H. Vernon were guesls at the Strathcona Hotel during the week, from Vnneouver. Mr. and Mrs. James R, Boothby, from Duncnn, B.C., havo been slaying at the Empress. Tho Row G. H. Andrews has removed to his new home, St, Mary's House, Burns Street, Onk Bay. Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher arc in town from Cowichan and are staying at lhc James Bay Hotel. Mrs. J. Lubin is in town from Vnn- oouver and is registered at the West- hiilmc Hotel. Mr. nnd Mrs. H. B. Shannon have taken up their residence at the James Bay Hotel. Mr. C. L. Lloyd, of Chemainus, has been a recent guest at lhc Dominion Hotel. Mrs. Peter J. Webb is nt home to her many friends at her charming home, 601 Cook Street. Dr. Knight has been visiting in Victoria from Cliilliwnek. Mr. Richard MeCallum, from Vancouver, has been spending his holidays in Victoria, the guest of his mother, Mrs. Campbell MeCallum, "LAND BEOISTBY AOT" Major and Mrs. Mills, of Victoria, and their children have been staying in Ottawa recently, the guests of Major Mills' parents, Dr. and Mrs. James Mills. They are en route for their new home in Halifax. Mrs. H. H. Nash entertained a few of her friends last week at a smart tea. Among the guests were Mrs. James, Mrs. Phipps, Mrs. Christie, Mrs. Machin, Mrs. Broderick, Mrs. C. P. Browne, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Maher, Mrs. Joft'ry, Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. A. Robertson, Miss Moore, Miss Bagshawe, aud others. Mrs. J. Davis has been a recent guest in town from Vancouver and was registered at thc Dominion Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. E. Elkins, of New York, are guests at the James Bay Hotel while making a short visit to Victoria. PUBLIC WOBKS OF CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA D3EDQIHQ FLEET Sailed tenders addressed to the undersigned and endorsed "Tender for 260 cu. yd. Dump Scow," will be received at this office until noon on Friday, Oct. 24, isn't, for the construction of a 260 cu. yd. Dump Scow. Specincations and B/P's can be seen, and form of tender obtained at the ofllce of W. Henderson, Resident ArcliL tect, Victoria, B.C.; at the office of C. C. Worsfold, District Engineer, New Westmtntser B.C.; and at the office of thc undersigned, Boom 40, P. O. Building, B.C. Persons tendering fire notified that tenders wli not bo considered unless made on forms supplied, and signed with their actual signatures, stating their occupation, and placo of residence of each member of the firm must no given. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of the Honorable, the Minister of Public Works, for 10 per cent, of amount of tender, which will bo forfeited If tho person tendering declines lo enter Into a contract when called upon to do so, or fail to complete the work contracted for. If the tender be not accepted tlie cheque will be returned. Tlie Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any bidder. By order, J. L. NELSON, Superintendent of Dredges, B.C. Ilepartment of Public Works, Vancouver, B.C. October 8th, 1013. N.B.—Newspapers will not be paid for this advertisement if they Insert it without authority from the Department. oot.11-18 "TENDERS FOB LAUNCHES" Sealed tenders, addressed to the un. derslgned and endorsed "Tenders for Launches," wil be received up to Saturday, November 1, for tlie construction of Two Launches for tlio Department of Indian Affairs, in accordance witli plans and specifications already prepared, and equipped with a 25 H. P., :i Cylinder, 1 Cycle, Samson heavy duty engine. Plans and specifications may be seen at the offices of tlie folowing: Peter Byrne, Esq., Indian .Vgcnt, New Westminster; A. M. Tyson, Inspector of Indian Agencies, Vancouver; Edson S. Shock, Naval Architect, 4-1 s Seymour Street, Vancouver; and W. E. Ditchburn, Inspector of Indian Agencies, A'ictoria, B.C. '•lacli tonder must be accompanied by a certified cheque on tlio chartered bank, made payable to the Honorable lhc Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, lair live per cent, of tlle contract price, which will be forfeited if the party tendering declines to enter into the contract wlien called upon to do so or If he fails to complete tlio work contracted for. The cheque of deposit of unsuccessful tenders will be returned to them upon tlie execution of tlie eon- tract. Tile lowest or any tender not neces_ sarlly accepted. Payment for this advertisement will not he made unless" tlie publication of the same lias been authorized. W. E. DITCHBURN, Inspector of Indian Agencies, Box 775, Victoria, UC. oct.11-20 PUBLIC WOBKS OF CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA DREDOINO FLEET Sealed tenders addressed to tlle undersigned and endorsed "Tender for Iron Work for Dump Scow," wil be received at tills office until noon on Friday, Oct. 24th. 1913, for the supply of Iron Work for Dump Scow. Specifications can be seen and form of tender obtained at tlio office of W. Henderson, Resident Architect, Victoria, B.C.; at the ofllco of C. C. Worsfold, District Engineer, New Wcstniinstor, B.C.; and at tho ofllce of the undersigned, Room 40, P. O. Building, Van. couvor, B.C. Persons tendering are notified that lenders wilt not be considered unless mado on forms supplied, and signed with their actual slgnnturcs, slating their occupation, and place of residence of each member of the firm must be given. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chart\red bank, payable to the order of the Honorable, tile Minister of Public Works, for 10 per cent, of amount of tonder, which will be forfeited if thc person tendering declines to enter into a contract when culled upon to do so, or fall to complete the work contractor for. If .the tender bo not accepted, tho cheque will be returned. Tlie Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any bidder. By order, J. L. NELSON, Superintendent of Dredges, B.C. Department of Public Works, Vancouver, B.C. October 8th, 1913. N.B.—Newspapers will not be paid for tills advertisement If they insert It without authority from tho Department. oct.11-18 IF IT'S BEER Wholesome, body-building, nerve-strengthening, genuine imported Beer — THEN IT'S HUMBSEE BEER 10c per glass At the Kaiserhof Blanchard St., near Public Library Phone 4753 "Siberian" Por YOUR Auto If you want real efficiency from your auto, try a real lubricant of perfect purity. You'll find it in "Siberian Oil" at the sign of The Red Sentry 737 BROUGHTON STREET HOSNELtt Cherry! othPasI Prepared by | UOSNELU iwDOH&PARIsl Must wom W" Patronized by THE QUEEN After careful consideration Queen Alexandra haa chosen GoineU'i Cherry Tootb Paste and has given its makers tlie gracious favor of a Royal Appointment. Surely such a crlti- c a 1 selection should indicate that vou will experience a new delight in this dentifrice. For the same . ea s o n we would recom- m e n d Cherry Blossom Perfume, which is also used by Her Majesty. At your druggist's. Nerlich ft Co., 146 Pront St. W Toronto. B Orchestra fteatoris Music Dept. David Spencer, Ltd. IN THU MATTER of nn application for a fresh Certillcato of Tltlo to Part S acres of fractional Southcoet 14 of Section r>2. South Division of Salt Sprlnff Island. NOTICE Is hereliy Riven of my Intention at tho expiration of ono calendar month from the first puhllcatlon hereof to Issue a fresh Certificate of Tltlo In lieu of tho Certificate of Title Issued to liUlzaheth Curtis on the 12th day of November, 1010, and mimhered 28K27C, which has lieen destroyed. Dated nt Land Registry Orllce, Victoria, B.C., this ,10th day of July, 1913. S. Y. WOOTTON, Refi-lHtrar General of Titles. oct.11-nov. 8 Mr. H. G. E. P0C0CK Assncinte uf the Royal College of Music, London, Eng. ORGANIST AND CHOIRMASTER, ST. 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Tickets $1, including refreshments can be had from: Mrs. Michael Hallward 1028 Hulton St. or Victoria Club Phone L3381 Baby Car Special.^ THE BABY CAR CO. 758 Fort Street All Kinds of Repairs to Al| Kinds of Cars Victoria, B.C., October 11 THE WEEK P.«ge Fnr* PROPOSED DRY DOCK AT ESQUIMALT Some Objections to the Lang's Cove Site From An Engineering Standpoint By William Blakemore, Mining and Civil Engineer, Greenwell Medallist THE PROJECT for building a drydock nt Esquimalt has been under consideration for many years. In 1903 Messrs. Bul- len, who have successfully established the important engineering business conducted by the B. 0. Marine Railways Co., .Ltd., opened up negotiations with the Dominion Government, the result of which was tlie granting of a subsidy by the Government and the cession to the Messrs. Bullen of the entire wnterfrontage rights on Lang's Cove for the nominal sum of $12,400. Although this important concession was made in connection with an application for a subsidy for building a drydock, by a singular oversight the Crown grant conveyed the land without specifying the purpose for which it was granted or imposing any conditions. Nothing of a practical topography and engineering difficulties. If all these have been considered in a favourable light with respect to any proposed site, there still remains the economic aspect, affected by two main features, the cost of land to he purchased and the cost of construction. It is in respect of the two latter formidable items that Lang's Cove appears in the most unfavourable light. In criticizing the proposal to build the drydock here, it is assumed that the dock is to be placed in the position indicated on the plans prepared by the Messrs. Bullen, because these are the only detailed plans at present in existence, and the only ones on which a decision will be based, if it is arrived at before independent surveys are made. Sketch Plan .No. 1, accompanying this report, shows the outline of Lang's Cove and the position of the dock. With respect to land values little need.be said, because, first of all, of the circumstances under which the foreshore rights of temporary purposes to such a depth. In our own harbour works less than half this depth has been considered prohibitive, although in actual practice forty feet has been negotiated in connection with dock construction. But the difficulty does not end here. In lengthening the proposed dock from 850 to 1,150 feet, whether the extension be made at the east end, being the top of Lang's Cove, or the west end, out towards the open harbour, the difficulty increases because the depth is greater. Off the east end of the proposed dock -the new soundings commence at CO feet and increase rapidly. The same is true at the west end, so that at present the actual depth to rook bottom for the increased length of the dock has not been ascertained, but is something in excess of CO feet. There can be no question in the mind of any marine engineer that it would be far cheaper to blast a whole drydock out of solia rock than :*) attempt to build a coffer-dam merely Sketch Ho. I SHOWING PROPOSED DRYDOCK IN LANG'S COVE Scale Approximately 300 Feet to an Inch t*A rs «♦ tsffSA iO* Y o-cteff '"- A Sketch No. II SHOWING CROSS SECTION OF PROPOSED DRYDOCK IN LANG'S COVE.—Scale Approximately 40 Feet to an Inch ■haracter was done for six or seven years, and then the Messrs. Bullen imployed an engineer who made extensive soundings and prepared Slaborate plans for a proposed drydock, the dimensions of the same leing S50 feet long, 100 feet wide, and 36 feet deop to tlie sill, that wing the size of dock then contemplated nnd regarded as sufficient lor the requirements of Esquimalt harbour; The fate of Ihese plans A'ns to be pigeon-holed for n lime among the archives of tlie Public iVorks Department at Ottawa, and they were not resuscitated until ast year, when, in consequence of the strong representations made ut :)ttnwa by lhe local Members of Parliament, enforced by an influen- ,ial deputation from thc Board of Trade, they were again put forward is a definite proposal and as the most satisfactory method of fulfilling ho Government policy which had by this time been announced as 'a drydock at Esquimalt." laAKGS COVE ItKCOMMHXllKD Judging from the comments in tho daily press and the very mphatio assertions of the Messrs. liullen and their friends, lhc public voiihl be justified in concluding lhat lhe Government has already leeided mi Lang's Cove as the site for thc dock. 11 is hardly possible, jowevcr, for anyone familiar wilh lb nditions existing at Lung's ,'ove to accept this very positive statement as more lhan Ihe expres- iion of a wish which is father lo lhe thought. Il is nol likely that ny responsible Government would, in connection with an expenditure f public money, running to at least $4,000,000, sclcel n site without rst subjecting it to a thorough expert examination. Neither is it kely that in such a matter a responsible Government would accept ie engineering reports and plans furnished by other parties, espo- ially when those parties have a strong personal interest in the latter; and since it is certain that no such examination has been iade, involving borings and accurate scientific tests, it may be taken ir granted that the Public Works Department has not yel made up 's mind whore the site is to be, since it is not in possession of the ata to enable it to arrive at a just conclusion. It is rumoured that lere have been preliminary reports by the local Dominion engineers, ad it was made known on the occasion of the visit of lhc Minister, le Hon. Robert Rogers, that they had reported against Lang's Cove nd in favour of another site; but while they mny have done so on ich data as was available, they could not have done more than tender preliminary report until the usual borings and other tests had ;en made. In view of these facts, it may not be out of place to consider the hysical conditions which exist at Lang's Cove, since, whether it lie ie favoured spot or not, it has been the site most frequently spoken f and to ensure tho selection of which the most extraordinary efforts ave been made. A BAD SITE In determining the best sito for a drydock there are many con- ■derations to be borne in mind, such as approach, convenience, Lang's Cove were secured by the Messrs. Bullen; and secondly, because if it can lie shown that from an engineering standpoint the project is not feasible, then the land can possess no value whatever for drydock purposes. If the Government were going into the real estate business and proposed to purchase the land for an investment, it would always have sonic specific value, but for drydock purposes, this value, even to the extent of a single dollar, depends on its suitability. All that need be said on this point is that if the Lang's Cove site is accepted by lhe Government, they will have lo repurchase from lhe Messrs. Bullen, first of all, the watefront rights, which were ceded to them under the Crown grant referred to, and, secondly, a fringe of land approximately 120 feet deep all round the Cove, which, on a conservative estimate, would bo worth $300,000, But this is not at present a factor, and it is upon the suitability of lhe site and the engineering difficulties to bo overcome, these latter governing the question of cost of construction, that the ultimate decision must lie based. PHYSICAL IIIKFNTI.TIKK It will bo seen from Sketch No. 1 lhat the proposed drydock is located longitudinally half on land and half on water, being approximately 50 feel iu width mi each. The reason for Ibis is not apparent until one comes to consider lhe soundings. Tt has been said lhat the configuration of Lang's Cove is such as would lend itself naturally to the construction of a drydock. It is a singular comment upon this "natural adaptability" thai iu order to construct a drydock at all it has to be slung upon the hill-side. The reason for this is revealed by the soundings. Lang's Cove is so deep that bed-rock bottom cannot be reached anywhere near the centre of the Cove, and even when the dock is carried along the north shore the depth to rock is so great as to present enormous, if not insurmountable, obstacles tn economic const ruction. The depth of water and mud, taken along the proposed southern side of the dock, ranges from 25 to CO foot and averages 43; and this, bear in mind, for a dock only 850 feet in length. Now that it is to be increased to 1,150 feet, still greater difficulties present themselves, which will bo dealt with subsequently. A depth of 00 feet to a shelving rock bottom is practically prohibitive; at any rate it far passes the practical economic point. In deciding this Ihe method of const ruction has to be considered. METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION The system is to surround lhc proposed dock entirely with a coffer-dam, consisting of two rows of sheet piling, twenty feet apart, with the intervening space filled in with clay. AVhen this coffer-dam has been constructed, as it has to bo, from a solid roe1*, bottom up t<" the surface level of the dock, lhe whole of the water in the interior is pumped out, and lhe actual work of construction begins. The difficulty in the present ease lies in Ihe enormous depth lo rock bottom, and the prohibitive cost of constructing a coffer-dam for merely for construction purposes at a depth anything like that of 00 feet. It is only fair to say that the promoters of this scheme propose to utilize that portion of the coffer-dam which runs parallel with the south wall of the dock, for the purposes of a pier, and no doubt piers will be required at Esquimalt, and if the coffer-dam referred to is over constructed, it could be so utilized; but it is not fair from an engineering standpoint to debit to a work which has not yet been determined on the cost of constructing works which arc indispensable for the building of the dock. A EOOKV FOKKSHOItE It may now be well to consider the surface conditions along the other side of the dock, the north side. Here we have a rocky shore, rising steeply from the water's edge. Sketch Plan No. 2, attached io this report, gives an average cross section, showing the present elevation of the rock, the excavation which would bo necessary and the position of the drydock when constructed. With reference to this shore line, it is only necessary to point out that the average depth of the excavation of rock along tlie oilier wall of the dock would he in ihe neighbourhood of 20 feet, with a maximum running as high as 4C feet. And when this enormous excavation lias been made, (here i.l slill not an inch of surface land available along lhc north side of the dock, unless further excavations arc made and as lhe hill rises rapidly, lhe depth would increase with every foot laterally, The cost of excavation would be so great lhat il would either mean an unjustifiable waste of money or a drydock with a "blind side." No drydock can be considered properly located which does not give at least 150 to 200 feet of space on a level surface on either side. THE PROHIBITIVE COST It has been said lhat thc Government is prepared lo vole an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the Esquimalt drydock, and there is no reason why such a sum should not prove adequate if a suitable site is selected; but it cannot be too widely known that the estimate put forward by the Messrs. liullen some years ago for lhe 850-ft. dock was, in round figures, $3,000,000. To construct a dock of the dimensions now proposed, viz. 1,100-ft. long, 120-ft. wide and 45-ft. on to lhe sill, having a capacity of (1,(100,000 cubic ft, as against 3,400,000 (and iu this computation only live feet of excavation is allowed below tho level of the sill, although il is probable that much more would be necessary), would practically double lhc cost, making it $0,000,000. To this must be added a percentage to represent the increased cost, of labour and materials since the original eslimale was made. Few contractors will deny that one-third would be required under this head, which would raise lhe total cost of the dock to at leasl $8,000,1100, without making any special allowance for greatly augmented land values, a figure which neither lho Government nor the public can afford to contemplate with equanimity, because it is sufficient to build two drydoeks on sites which have any "natural adaptability" for the purpose. Page Six THE WEEK Victoria, B.C., October 11 FINE PROSPECTS heen going on in real estate and other FOR FORT FRASER directions is now stopped. ■ "The head of our largest bank in Government Reports Give Facts an interview stated ' that he has come About Nechaco in Plain back more impresed than ever with Language the possibilities of our Western country, and he cannot help being an The cold type of the official gov- optimist in regard to the future of eminent reports never impress the this vast country.' We know, also, reader with the idea that the writer that the crop is practically assured, was expressing himself fully. One and that that period of uncertainty always gets the impression that a iu this respect which causes the whole government official, alive to his re- country so much anxiety is now past sponsibilities, makes his reports in for this year. plain, straightforward language with- "Up to the present time, the high out any of the picturesque phrases standing of this country in the mnr- and tricks of writing which stamp kets of the world has made it pns- the work of the professional writer, sible to borrow on the most adviiu- Thus government reports ere accept- tageous terms, and the enormous sums ed as the statement of bare facts which have come here have been pro- written by an unbiased man. cured by our railroads and munici- With this in view, the believers in palities at rates which, when com- the future of Fort Fraser are much pared with the rates paid by the encouraged to find in the British Co- United States and other countries, lumbia Government bulletins some- show a tremendous saving for this thing resembling enthusiasm in the country. description of the Nnchaco Valley. "Our Northwest, which has had For instance: the benefit of a greater part of this "In regard to the agricultural de- money, although a new country, has velopment of the Nechaco Valley," been financed because of the high says the report,'' there seems no good credit and standing of the older prov- reason why it should not become one inces on a most conservative basis. of the richest areas in British Co- When one goes through the West and lumbin. Barley seems to ripen well sees the splendid buildings which the in nearly every part. Onts were seen railroads and banks are putting up growing on twenty different farms in in cities like Winnipeg, Calgary, Ed- the Nechaco Valley. These fields monton and Vancouver, and, in fact, varied in size from half an acre to all the principal cities of the West, 25 acres, and it can truthfully be it must be apparent that a very large said there was not one poor crop proportion of new money coming this among them. Many of them, from way is being invested there, and that their appearance in the field, would whatever work is being done, is being yield from 65 to 75 bushels per acre, well done, and with a view to the It is doubtful if all of them ripened future requirements of the country. well, but where they did not it would We have had to put up with the be doubtless largely attributable to most inadequate railroad terminals in poor seed and late-maturing vari- Montreal for many years, and still eties." have to put up with them, but in the The foregoing report is sufficient West they must be oil up-to-date. I proof that in the Nechaco Valley, merely make these statements to British Columbia, are magnificent show that there should be no cause stretches of country eminently suit- for complaint ns between the East ed for agriculture. and West." It is recognized that the pressing need of the country today is the development of its arable lands, in order that the rapidly HMSHI BMaMM population can be supplied with the VT0T "P to 0le standard of the necessities of life. Cheap food is nn •^ last two weeks, but still very important factor in the enormous tan; is the programme at the Em- task of building up a new country, press Theatre this week. Clarence So far British Columbia has certainly Oliver, a monologist with songs, is not enjoyed this advantage, but the Hie principal attraction and a good cost of living is possible of reduction one, whilst Gruett & Gruett put on through the development of our agri- a amusing turn in which the "nig- cultural lands. . Ser" is very funny, and Clayton the The 'Fort Fraser district is, with- ^T Players &mish lv °™™al out doubt, the centre for this great 'Shakespearean travesty. Snyder & movement as the _ ... aaamniaHaaaanaaaHlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal and virgin lands of the interior, to° ambitious, tenor, and if his songs establishes its claim ns the coming wel'e wrltten m a lower key the au- metropolis of lhe interior. The lands dienee would be spared some thrills, tributary to Fort Fraser are with- but lle nild hls P™*n« Pllt "P some out doubt the richest in the prov- Passable patter, ince. The formation of the Nechaco —_-„ , * Vnllev shows the soil is of wonderful TOURING the enrly part of the richness. The possibilities are uu- , weok tlle Kinemacolor Theatre bounded, and positive proof is to be ™& miaer » weaker bill than usual, found on any of the farms which lho ™tural e°lo<"' films were only are beginning to dot this wonderful ^en ln. a two-reel comedy, which to ,. . -a the writer's mind The government report, in its cold, 'from ^eir value, official language, again gives reliable f a Hypnotist ' was a sensational information as to the natural growth '■ d™«lfl fo»n«ed on the "Trilby" idea of the Nechaco. It says: °* hypnotism and was not of a very "The usual luxuriant growth of P'easant OTe. The Topical Budget wild grass, peavine, vetch, meadow had some interesting scenes, rue, etc., is found in abundance here. * The luxuriance of the growth is not fJ ow a ™™g picture theatre apparent from the trail, most of it AJ* oan manage to procure such having been eaten off, but farther 8°od vaudeville turns to accompany back among the poplar woods it is the picture is a question often in the high and thick, furnishing excellent m™s of those who visit the Crystal grazing over thousands of acres. rlie!,lre "" B™"' Street. When one The Fort Fraser district is there- 'realizes the expenses attendant on a fore sponsored by the responsible l"el"re house, Ihis question becomes officials of the government. even more difficult, to answer. But; , the Crystal chics it, nud lhc proof of the pudding is in the cnling, ns the crowded house shows every night. Gossip from the Stalls oubt, the centre for this great ~-—~i—-' ^»r^. u.,yu ' , ,. , ... Hallo are a couple ot clever dancers, lent. Its geographical position, . r aaia, ii <,.;,„ Tom O'Brien is an ambitious, rather • natural trade for the fertile , , .„.! rather detracts 'In the Power stately brunette, with a face which is somewhat Oriental in general contour and expression. For seven years she was leading woman for Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre, London. THE management of the Victoria Theatre announces that Henry Miller, in the latest New York success, "The Rainbow," will visit the Victoria Theatre on Thursday, October 10. This will be good news to local play-goers, who have eagerly awaited the coming of Ihis notable player in the sparkling A. E. Thomas comedy, which created enthusiasm not only during its long run nt lhe Liberty Theatre, New York, but in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and the East to such extent that Mr. Miller played two seasons in it in those cities. It is promised that Ruth Chatterton, the charming young player who attracted great attention in New YTork, together with others of the original cast, will be with Mr. Miller here. The beautiful production given "The Rainbow" by Mr. Miller in New York wil also be one of the features. '& MUSIC lovers in Victoria will be glad to hear that Mr. H. G. E. Pocock, organist nt St. Mary's Church, Oak Bay, is now entering the field ns nn instructor in the pianoforte, singing and the organ. Mr. Pocock, who studied under the direction of Sir Hubert Parry, Sir Walter Parrntt ano Mr. Herbert F. Shnrpe, has hnd considerable experience since he graduated at the Royal College of Music, having taught for six years at a well-known school in the south of England before he settled in this country. *ai IN the days when Scliuinaiin- Heink, who will appear here of October 29, sang nt the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York, she was regarded by the musical directors and the musicians in the orchestra as a model to other artists, because she attended rehearsals as regularly as the minor artists, who usually fenr to keep nway. Some of the big artists neglected to appear, or appeared late and so delayed matters, but Schumnnn-Heink, considered by many the greatest artist in the aggregation, was always on time and, best of all, radiated cheer like beams of sunshine. Frequently the noted contralto wns the first of the grent singers to arrive and on such occasions she availed herself of the opportunity to speak with some of lhe first players of the orchestra, Ihe men who perform the solo instruments in the presentation, nnd how these men adored Schumnnn-Heink! *« THE very latest play, a dramatization of the book, "Life's Shop Window," to create a sensation | in New York on its first presentation there this season, will be produced at the Princess Theatre next week. "Madame X," which hns been running this week, has been giving eminent satisfaction and plnyed to very large houses. Lnck of spnee forbids nn extended review of it, but the cast did remarkably clever work, Miss Page in the leading role being excellent, while singe effects and selling were perfect in every detail. Mil. C. B. GORDON, President of Cnnndinn Manufacturers' Association, in a recent interview on the subject of Western progress, had lhc following to say:— "Probably no subject hns been so thoroughly discussed during the last few months as the financial stiiu- gency which tho country has been passing through. This has been occasioned, as far ns Canada is concerned, largely because of the fact that she has hnd to expand so rapidly, making it necessary for her, as a country, and for her railroads and municipalities, towns and cities, to borrow, very largely in Grent Britain and elsewhere. For the most part, I think this borrowing has been nmply justified, and the money thus obtained well spent nnd honestly invested, so that we may look for it to produce the results it wns intended to produce. No doubt there arc enses where cities and towns hnve strained their borrowing powers, and have been eager to grow more rapidly than the circumstances of their position nnd surroundings warranted. "Reports, however, of llmse who hnve just returned from the West, nnd whom I hnve interviewed in the past few days, including the heads of our grent railroads and banks, agree thnt over-expansion has been the exception rather than the rule, nnd that much of the wild-cntting which hnd MISS CONSTANCE COLLIER, who plays Porlia in William Fnversliani's production of "Julius Caesar," which comes lo the Victoria Theatre on Monday eening, October 13, is accounted one of the most beautiful women nn the English- speaking stage. She is a tall and If You Insist ON PURITY AND PRECISION MAKE BOWES' YOUR DRUG STORE C. H. BOWES 1228 Government Street IF YOU GET IT AT P L I M L E Y S' IT'S ALL RIGHT A MONEY MAKER for MERCHANTS "WILLYS" UTILITY TRUCK, $1,850. The Willys Utility Truck is designed for carrying loads of % ton. Unlike the conventional light truck, the Utility is not an adaptation of a pleasure car chassis to commercial purposes, but a high-grade truck designed solely and especially for the carrying of merchandise. The Utility is built with painstaking regard to the needs of business, of the best materials, and every detail has large quantities and it is unattainable to any other and safety. The exceptionally low price—$1,850—of the Utility chassis is based on production in large quantities and it is unattainable to any other manufacturer. See this model at once. THOMAS PLIMLEY 7.30 YATES ST. Phone 698. 787-7*9 JOHNSON IT. Phone I97. 647 PORT STREET, Victoria, B.C. Phones 3559-0, 3566 COOKERY CLASSES Commencing- September 15th, by a Trained Cook from London, Eng\ Clast Are Held Weflneedtty and Saturday mornings: 10 to 12 noon. Tuesday and Friday afternoons: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday and Thursday evening's: 8 to 10 p.m. The Course will consist of 12 lessons with practical demonstration in tlie following branches of high class Cookery: Soups; Fish; Vegetables; Salads; Meat; Entrees; Poultry; Puddings; Pastry and Cakes. Bread Making a speciality. Jams and Fruit Preserving if desired. Terms:— 926 FOR COMPLETE COURSE Special Terms for Private Lesions Each class Is limited to ten pupils, Pupils can commence at any time. Separate classes for beginners. HALL & WALKER Agents Wellington Colliery Company's Coat MM fnuimut m mum n Discriminating Victorians Stop at The Hotel Perry When they visit Seattle. European—Modern—luxurious —Exclusive—Glorious View At Madison and Boren SEATTLE, WASH. B. H. BROBST Manager 4 Per Cent. Interest A glance at our last annual Balance Sheet will assure you of the safety of depositing your money with us. British American Trust Gompanu Limited 733 FOBT STEEET VICTOBIA Peter McQuade & Son SHIP CHANDLERS WHARF STREET, VIOTORIA Dealers In PAINTS For painting your boat or your house. Varnishes for your boat or your home. MOTOR OIL for auto or boat ALL the little fixings for your auto or motor in stock. We can satisfy you in service and price. TELEPHONE 41 Princess Theatre Week Commencing Oct. 13 "LIFE'S SHOP WINDOW" cedar Brook il Embodies the result of more than a century of effort to produce the best Whisky that grain can be made to yield. Produced today, as in the olden days, by the famous sour- mash hand process, from the choicest grains and the purest spring water. Matured by eight years' storage in the U. S. Oovernment Bonded Warehouses—bottled in bond and the Government stamp affixed to each bottle. Pre-eminently purer and better, milder and mellower, richer and smoother than all others. OEDAR BROOK WHISKY Reaches the consumer as pure and wholesome, and as delightfully fragrant as when it leaves the distillery. Pither & Leiser LIMITED Victoria and Vancouver, B.O. Ladies' Hair Dressing SHAMPOOING AND MANICURING MRS. M. L. ROSS Successor to Madam Kosehe Phone 1175 1005 Douglas St. Victoria, B.C. We retread and Repair Motor Tubes and Casings. We are sole agents (or the Famous FIRESTONE TIRES And we want your busintsi. H. BAINES Cor. Yates and Wharf Sts., Victoria, B.C. impress Week Oommencing October 13 The Unusual Comedy "IN 1999" With Osborne Searle and Pay Wheeler By William C. de Mills Some Riddle! P. T. Selbit's "SPIRIT PAINTING" Presented by J. B. Dane, the Mystery of the Age Clever and Comical POLLARD The Talkative Juggler The Mnn, the Girl, the Piano Ray— —Mattie BELMONT & HARL Offering a cycle of Melody's choicest Gems The Man from Ireland WILLIAM CAHILL Topical Tales and Songs The Crystal Theatre Broad Street The Largest, Best Furnished and Most Comfortable Vaudeville and Picture Theatre in the City. Two Acts of Vaudeville, changing Mondays and Thursdays. Four Reels of First Run Pictures, changing Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Best Music—three-piece Orchestra in the City. The biggest Fan on the Coast, removing 37,000 cubic feet of air every five minutes, insuring you fresh and cool air. Hours: Pictures from 1,30 to 5.30 and 6.30 to 11.00 Vaudeville, 3.00 to 4 0» and 7.00 to 11.00 The Choicest of Young Meats Is Lamb—Spring Lamb. It is a very delicate flavored meat, and tender. You can get some to-day that is particularly choice, with plenty of meat on the joints and not a bit too fat. You'll find this offers you a very nice change for Sunday's dinner. Try some. Hindquarters of Spring f\ (? Lamb, per lb ZaDL VICTORIA MARKET 584-0 Johnson St. Phones 1923-4934 DOUGLAS MARKET: 1423 Douglas St. Phone 1701 V.-P.R. MEAT CO., LTD. INSIST on the Brewery's Own Bottling OF Beer and enjoy the finest that the market affords A white bottle guarantees its purity R. P. RITHET & Co., Ltd. Distributors Hibben-Bone Building Victoria, B.C. Thomas Hooper ARCHITECT 522 Winch Building Vancouver, B.C. Victoria Theatre MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 Curtain 8 o'clock WILLIAM FAVERSHAM Presents JULIUS CAESAR Prices: 50c to $2.00 Seats now on sale Victoria Theatre Thursday, October 16 HENRY MILLER in The Rainbow Prices: 50c to $2.00 Seats on sale Oct. 1 Victoria, B.C., October 11 THE WEEK Page Seven TheWhitc Horse - . Cellar Provincial Mining News m Whisky I BYAmUNlMENT TO I IhmkingohobgevI There's something: about White Horse that touches the right spot. It's soft and mellow. Sstab. 1742 Mackie & Co., Distillers Limited, Glasgow. John E.Turton. Canadian Representative HOSE & BROOKS CO., LTD. Distributors, Vancouver, B, 0. BLACK KNIGHT ft STOVE P01ISH ( ¥ A HOUSEWIFE IS JUDGED BY HER KITCHEN, FOR A BRIGHT STOVE AND A BRIGHT REPUTATION, USE BLACK KNIGHT. A RflSTE I the F R Oalley ©.ltd.INo Dust NoW/,9TE | Hamilton.Qnt. I No Rust Phone ^fiTOftfii?** Stocktaking Clearance of MANTELS, GRATES AND TILES We have got to cut our exceptionally large stock of above in half before tlie end of this month. Builders and Contractors call and inspect same lit our show rooms, and wo will meet you at your own prices. VFor Contract, Judicial, Fidelity and Guaranty Bonds; Fire, Accident, , Sickness, Automobile, Marine, and Employers' Liability Insurance, We represent the following Companies:— SPRINGFIELD FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE 00. I i EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORPORATION. PACIFIC MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY CO. For Terms and Rates Apply to GREEN & BURDICK BROS. Cor. Langley and Broughton Streets Phones 4169-4170 VALUABLE copper deposits, which, when the district becomes more accessible, will be operated directly at Vancouver's back door, will add to the city's wealth, aeording to William J. Mogridge, a mining man, who has returned to Vancouver from an investigation of the mineral belt near tlie headwaters of Indian River. Mr. Mogridge said that it would be only a question of time when this copper belt, which contains unusually good surface showings, would attract tlie attention of mining capital. It is now necessary to go in by way of Newport and over the divide for about 17 miles. Mr. Mogridge on his trip was accompanied by A. Macdonald, M.E., of Vancouver. In a very short time it will be possible to reach the district very easily from Wigwam Inn, at the mouth of Indian River. The Government Forestry Department has a crew of men building a trail into the district now. The mining men inspected the newly-located London group, surface samples from which give values of $23 in copper and two ounces of silver to the ton. Mr. Mogridge was pleased with the showing and purchased a substantial interest, and will make arrangements for the construction of a bunkhouse and put a crew of men to work this winter developing the showing. On a previous trip, while on Indian River, in the Britannia belt, they discovered a large intrusive dyke carrying low-grade copper ond estimate the dyke to be 400 feet wide. This was staked and called the Mammoth, nnd Mr. Mogridge says it has the earmarks of developing into a big proposition. DRIFTING from the bottom of the 200-foot shaft on the Lily May claim of the Richmond Consolidated group in the South Belt at Rossland, the operators of that property have struck seven feet of ore, which runs $20 in gold, two per cent, in copper and carries some silver, according to a visitor from the Golden City, who wns in Nelson Inst week. Last year a carload of ore wns shipped from the Lily Mny claim which gave returns of $33 per ton in gold nnd copper, it is said, but tlie dnim wns acquired by the Richmond Consnlidnted Compnny chiefly with the idea of drifting from the shaft to the ore bodies on t!.i Richmond group. The strike recently was mnde when tlie third shot wns put in nt the bntom of the 200-foot shnft. nnd the ore body is snid tn run in the direction of tlie other clninis of the group. BRITISH COLUMBIA mining interests plan a display of provincial minerals for 1915, the idea being to have something worthy to show peoplo who may be coming and going to the Panama Exposition at Snn Francisco in that yenr. A nucleus of the collection has been formed, for the Vnneouver Exhibition has been assembling ores for several years. In the mineral depnrtment at the recent exhibition lliere were not only metalliferous ores, but raw material, which is the basis of several established industries, such as cement manufactories, salt works pulp works, plaster factories, etc. Mr. H. B. Brown, of Hedley, manager of this department, is well versed in all kinds of ores and has hnd successful mining experience in different parts jof the continent. Most people know that in British Columbia there is gold, copper, iron, silver and lead in large quantities, but it was a surprise to some residents of British Columbia to see snlt from the wells of the British Columbia Salt Company, of Prince Rupert, which are located at Kwinitsn, on the Skeena River, and an exhibit of polished marble, comprising twelve distinct colorings, from Texnda Island. This marble is the equal of Italian nnd Tennesseean marbles. The marble here is located within fifty miles of Vancouver. Gypsum, of which there nre large quantities in the Si- milkameen, was shown, ns well as the finished plaster. With the completion of the direct railway lines between the Coast and the Kootenay, this product mny be manufactured and shipped to Vietorin and Vnneouver, displacing imported material of the same kind. BABY'S OWNi^SOAP NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OP RESERVE. Notice is hereby given that the reserve covering lands formerly held under expired Timber Licence, No. 37469, notice of which appeared in the B. C. Gazette on the 27th of December. 1907, is cancelled. The said lands situated on Lasqueti Island, and covering portions of Sections 11, 12, 14 and 15, will be open to pre-emption entry at 9 o'clock in the forenoon on Monday, October 20, 1913; all applications to be made for legal subdivisions of said Sections 11, 12, 14 and 16, Lasqueti Island, which are within the boundaries of lands formerly covered by said licence. R. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B.C., 12th July, 1913. Ju 19-OC.18 NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that a reserve covering certain lands situated in the vicinity of North Thompson River, Kamloops District, formerly held under expired Timber Licenses Nos. 11267 and 13768, notice of which appeared in the B. C. Gazette on the 27th of December, 1907, is hereby cancelled and said lands will be opened to entry by pre.emption on Monday, the 8th day of December, 1913, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon; application to be made to the Government Agent at Kamloops, B. C. ROBT, A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B.C. 27th August, 1913. aug 30 oct 25 c£W/ for The purity and fragrance of Baby's Own Soap have made it a universal favorite. Its use is beneficial to any skin. 4.4-13 Albert Soaps Limited, Montreal. CANCELLATION OP RESERVE NOTICE is hereby given that the reserve, notlco of which appeared in the B.C. Gazette on the 27th of December, 1907, is cancelled In so far as it relates to lands formerly covered by Timber Licence No. 21206 known as Lot 450, Sayward District, and same will be opened to entry by pre-emption on Monday, the first day of December, 3 913, at tlie hour of 9 o'clock in the forenoon. The lands in question will shortly be subdivided Into suitable parcels for preemption, and all applications must be made In accordance with such subdivision, particulars of which will be available at the oltlce of the Government Agent, in Vancouver, to whom applications must be submitted. R. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Depnrtment, Victoria, B.C., 12th August, 1913. ftllg. IG "OV. IB Adne R. Graham Phone 1377 Edwin M. Brown Island Coal From South Wellington We are again in a position to supply this famous Sack Lump Coal at $7.50 per Ton, Cash Place Your Orders with Us NOW and Secure Your Winter's Supply iVICTORIA FUEL CO., LIMITED 622 TROUNCE AVENUE SYNOPSIS OF COAL MINING REGULATIONS, CANCELLATION OP RESERVE Notice is hereby given that the Reserve covering lands formerly held serve covering lands formerly held under expired Timber Licences Nob, 39195 and 3S196, situated In the vicinity of Powell Lake, New Westminster District, is cancelled, and that said lands will be open for entry by pre-emption on Monday, tho 3rd day of November, 1913, at the hour of 9 o'clock in tho forenoon. R. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands, Lands Department, Victoria, B.C., aug. 2 nov. 1 WATEB NOTICE Application for a Licence to take and use water will be made under the "Water Act" of British Columbia, as follows;— (1) The name of the applicant ls Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Tatlow. (2) The address of the applicant is Arbutus Road, Gordon Head. (3) The stream is unamed. The stream has its source in Lot 12, Section 44, Reg. Map No. 964. Victoria District and flows underground in nn Easterly direction. (4) The water is to be diverted from the stream at a Bpring about 600 feet in a southwesterly direction from the north east corner of the said Lot 12. (5) The purpose for which the water will be used Is domestic. (6) The laud on which the water ls to be used 1b described as follows: Lot 12, Reg. Map No. 954, Section 44, Victoria District. (7) The quantity of water applied for is as follows; One thousand gallons per day. (8) This notice was posted on the ground on the 16th day of September, 1913. (9) A copy of this notice and an application pursuant thereto and to tlie requirements of the "Water Act" will be filed in the office of the Water Recorder at Victoria, B.C. Objections may be filed with the said Water Recorder, or with ♦he Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B. C. MRS. ELIZABETH MARY TATLOW, Applicant. By Arthur O. Noakes, Agent sept 20 oct H VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT— DISTRICT OF GORDON HEAD. TAKE NOTICE that Arthur Perciva! Proctor, of Gordon Head, occupation Doctor, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described fore- slibre:— Commencing at a post planted at the intersection of the Westerly boundary of Lot 12, Section 44, (Registered Map No. 17, Victoria District), with high water mark of Haro Strait. Thence north thirty-eight degrees and seventeen minutes east (N. 38deg. 17mln. E. ast) three chains and eighty-seven' links thence south fifty.one degrees and forty-three minutes east (S. 51deg. 43min. E. ast) twelve chains and nineteen links (12.18 ch), thence south thirty-eight degrees nnd seventeen minutes west (S. 38deg. 17min. W. ast) two chains and fifty links (2.50 ch) more or less to high water mark, and thence along high water mark to the point of commencement, containing four acres, moro or less. ARTHUR PERCIVAL PROCTOR, Arthur Onwhyn Noakes, Agent. Dated August 18th, 1913. aug 30 oct 25 .LAND REGISTRY ACT IN THE MATTER of an application for a fresh Certificate of Title to Lot 2 of part of Sub-lot 34, Fernwood Estate, Victoria City, Map 397. NOTICE is hereby given of my intention at the expiration of one calendar month from tlie first publication hereof to issue a fresh Certificate of Title is. sued to Mary Edith Angus on tlie 22nd dny of July, 1S92, nnd numbered 1441IA which 1ms been lost. DATED nt Land Relgstry Office, Victoria, B.C., this 5th dny of September, 1913. S. Y. WOOTTON. Registrar General of Titles. Bepte 13 oct 12 DEPARTMENT Or WORKS NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Metchosin School •Sealed Tenders, superscribed "Tender for Metchosin .School.'' will be received by tlie Honourable the Minister of Public Works up to noon of Monday, the 13tll day of October, 1913, for the erection and completion of a large one-room school-house at Metchosin, in tlie Esquimau Electoral District. Plans, specifications, contract and forms of tender may he seen on nnd after the 25th day of .September, 1913, at the office of Henry H. Neild, Esq., Secretary of School Board, Happy Valley, and the Department of Public Works, Victoria. Intending tenderers by applying to tlie undersigned can obtain one copy of plans and specifications for tlie sum of ten dollars ($10), which will be refund, ed on their return In good order. Each proposal must be accompanied by nn accepted bank cheque or certificate of deposit on a chartered bank of Canada, made payable to tlio Honourable the Minister of Public Works for a sum equal to 10 per cent of tender, which shall be forfeited If the party tendering decline to enter Into contract when called upon to do so, or if lie fail to complete tho work contracted for. The cheques or certificates of deposit o" unsuccessful tenderers will be returned to them upon tlie execution of (he contract. Tenders will not be considered unless made out on tiie forms supplied, signed with lhe actual signature of tlie tenderer, and enclosed in the envelopes furnished. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. .T. E. GRIFFITH, Public Works Engineer. Department of Public Works, Victoria, B.C., September 25th, 1913. oct 4 oct II Coal mining rights of the Dominion, In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and in a portion of tlie Province of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $1 an acre. Not more than 2.6G0 fie res will be leased to one applicant. Applications for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub Agent of the District in which the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must ba described by sections, or legal sub-divisions of sections, and In urisurvoyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by tlie applicant himself. Each application must ho accompanied by a fee of ?!"■ which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five cents per ton. Tlie person operating tlie mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returni accounting for the full quantity of merchantable coal mined nnd pay the royalty thereon. If the coal mining right! are not being operated, such returni should be furnished at least once a year. The least will include the coal in in ing rights only, but tlio lessee may bo permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working of the mine at the rate of $10.00 an acre. For full information application should be made to tlie Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lande, W. W. CORY, Deputy Minister of the Interior, N.B.—Unauthorized publication of thll advertisement will not be paid for. juno 2S WATER NOTICE For a licence to Take and Vie Water NOTICE is hereby given that Victoria Chemical Company, Limited Liability, of Vietorin. British Columbia, will apply for a licence lo take and use one cubic foot per second of water out of a well bored on the smith Shore of .lames Island about JB0 feel east from the southwest corner thereof, about the line of high water mark, The water will be diverted nt the well and will be used for industrial purposes on the land described ns .lames Island. This notice was posted on tbe ground on the l"th day of September, 1913. The application will be filed In the off ice of the Water Recorder at Victoria, B.C. Objections may he filed with the said Water Recorder or with the Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. VICTORIA CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED LIABILITY. (Applicant) Wm. G. Rommel (Agent) seid I*? oct 18 LAND REGISTRY ACT In the mutter nf an application for n fresh Certificate of Indefeasible Title to Lot 22, Block 11, nf pnrt of Lots 2 nnd :t, of Section 4S, Mnp 885, Victoria City. Notice Is hereby given of my Intention nt the expiration <>r one calendar month from the first publlcnilou hereof to Issue 11 fresh Certificate of Indefeasible Title in Men uf the Certificate of indefeasible TltlO ISBUed to Henry Hunter on the 14th (inv of February,: IDI81 nnd numbered 6807 which hns been lost. Dated at l.ntid Registry Office, Victoria. British Columbia Ibis Hlth dny of .September, 1913. 8. Y. WOOTTON. Registrar General of Titles, sept 27 oct 25 YOU HAVE HEARD OP THE FAMOUS BULKLEY VALLEY, which contains one of the largest and richest bodies of agricultural land in BRITISH COLUMBIA. You have heard of tlie tremendously rich BABINE, HUDSON BAY MOUNTAIN and COPPER RIVER mining districts. The GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC is now operating trains from PRINCE RUPERT to a point 301 miles east. The trade centre and future city of this wonderful section is HUBERT—located in the very heart of the Bulkley Valley, and from where branch railroads must be built to open up the great surrounding country. HUBERT is located three miles east of tlie old towns of Telkwa and Aldermere, both of which will move to the railway. HUBERT is the recognized location for the future city, and has behind it tlie same organization that created and made FORT GEORGE famous. WRITE TODAY FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FUTURE CITY. MAPS, PLANS AND PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE SENT FREE NATURAL RESOURCES SECURITY COMPANY, LIMITED George J. Hammond, President Sixth Floor, Vancouver Block Joint Owners and Sole Agents FORT GEORGE and HUBERT Townsites VANCOUVER, B.C. Page Eight THE WEEK CREMATION (Continued from front page.', the permission granted was a concession to the religions views of tho Hindus, or was based npon some other consideration, Tlio Week does not know, but the fact remains that a popular residential district, one of tho best in the city, was subjected to the annoyance of being compelled willy-nilly to witness the cremation of a Hindu, in broad daylight, within a few yards of the front doors and in thc presence of n crowd of several hundred curiosity-mongers. There were incidents which it would be indelicate to refer to more specifically, but there can be no difference of opinion that a gross breach of good taste was committed by the authorities, whoever thev may be, who sanctioned such an irregular and objectionable proceeding, and it should bo impossible for it to be repeated. Sooke 6on tracts THE discussion in the City Council last Monday on the subject of the letting of the contracts for concrete pipe and steel rivetted pipe for the Sooke Waterworks was exceedingly interesting. This matter was first ventilated in the columns of The Week, which still maintains that it would be a great mistake to commit the construction of the concrete pipe to the Graaf Company for reasons which are well understood. It is not a question of $20,000 in the original cost; it is a question of entrusting an inexperienced firm with the manufacturing of a highly technical article, and one which, if not perfectly constructed, will be a permanent source of loss and inconvenience to the city. The Week knows nothing of the Pacific lock Joint Company, beyond the fact that it has successfully manufactured concrete pipe for some years past. It also has an excellent patent design for the individual locking of sections. Now that Mr. Rust has endorsed the stand taken by The Week and recommended the giving of the contract to this firm, there should be no hesitation in acting on his advice. As to the rivetted steel pipe, The AVeek favours giving this contract to a local firm. Of course, if McDonald, Godson & Company of Vancouver, who are the lowest tenderers, will agree to erect works here and construct tlie pipe "in situ," that would settle the matter; but The AVeek maintains that under existing circumstances, unless they do this, the contract should be given to Jones & Rant. Whether the Council realizes it or not, Victoria is face to face with a dull period; it may not last long, and it will terminate all the sooner if the City Fathers have sufficient wisdom to conserve for local workmen and local firms all the work which is to be had. "SOTTO VOCE" By the Hornet That if it became a choice of evils they would prefer the original nuisance. THAT the dwellers on the Dallas % Road did not know that the Clover Point range was to be eon- . verted into a crematorium, or they tlnued* there shoi,ld be a clml'Se for would not have petitioned the Gov- admission, nnd the proceeds might eminent to abolish rifle shooting. be devoted to purchasing a scren. That if the custom is to be con- That a correspondent of The Victoria Tniies who asked for public sympathy for the prisoners in the Victoria gaol should live on the other side of the line. That British Columbia has not yet reached llie slage when candies and bouquets arc thc order of the day for men who have committed outrages. That a bottle of Condy's Fluid would bo a very much more valuable present in most police cells. That professional lacrosse is evidently sioing from bad to worse, wlien tht' champion team mobs its own referee. **• That if some of the apartment houses now being built in Vietorin comply with the building by-laws, the latter are badly in need of alteration. That the provision of ventilation is totally disregarded, and in some cases the lavatory ventilates (?) into the kitchen. H* That even an alderman has no right to allege graft, unless he is prepared to go further and to prove it. That the police should keep the sidewalks clear—even when baseball results are being bulletined. *,, That the curtain has rung down on races in Victoria, which will now be transferred to Sidney. Hi That there is every probability of a change in the Miller Act still further limiting the length of race meetings. That it is not neccsnry for Thc A'ictoria Times to offer any explanation of Mr. Brewster's "omissions." He is quite able to take care of himself. W. That The Colonist had its rival on the hip, when it explained Mr. Brewster's studied avoidance of any reference to the prosperity of the Province. H. That Shakespeare's obscurities are nothing to the obscurities of some present day writers who might be mentioned. FOR the opening of the musical season in A'ictoria Mr. C. H. Gibbons is providing no less important an attraction than Mme. Frances Alda, one of the principal prima donnas of the Metropolitan Opera* Company, New York, who will come to the A'ictoria Theatre for one eon- cert, Friday evening, October 17. This is the only city in Canada that will be visited by Mme. Alda on the short tour that she is undertaking before the opening of the grand opera season, during which she will sing at ten concerts. Ciutin Cassini, who will be heard on the same occasion, is a youthful 'celloist, who created somewhat of a sensation in Eastern Canada and thc United States last season. Frank La Forge, the pianist and accompanist with the party, has beeii heard in Victoria before, when he accompanied Madame Gadski. Those who heard him on that occasion will remember what a sensation his splendid artistry created. The uniform policy of this management pursued in bringing musical attractions to A'ictoria will be fol- buved in the present engagement, and the usual Victoria Theatre prices will prevail, giving al patrons an opportunity to hear the best artists at the ordinary scale of admission. ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION The Island Arts and Crafts Club will hold an exhibition at the Alexandra Club, October 16, 17 and 18. Members are reminded that Monday, October 13, is the last day for receiving exhibits. The exhibition will be opened on Thursday, October 16, at 3 p.m., by the Bishop of Columbia. Victoria, B.C., October 11 TO LET—Por the winter months, a delightful country bungalow, comfortably furnished and containing cosy living rooms, with open brick fireplace, two bedrooms, kitchen and all modern conveniences, including electric light and city water. Three minutes from car line. Rent, $40 per | month. Apply to The Week, P. O. Box 789, Victoria, B.C. LADIES and CHILDREN Your furnishings problem will be easily solved by simply paying a visit to The New Idea Store, 648 Johnson Street, near Douglas. While quite a considerable saving may be effected by purchasing here, a very pleasant half hour may be spent by looking over the many new and original garments which wo believe are to be found only at THE NEW IDEA STORE 648 JOHNSON STREET NEAR DOUGLAS A DICKENS PILGRIMAGE A lecture will be given at the Y. M. C. A. this evening at 8 p.m. on the above topic, by Mr. John W. Ijcthaby. Some unique slides have been obtained at considerable trouble illustrating some of the scenes made famous by Boz. Mr. Lcthaby has for several years devoted a deal of time to Dickens matters, and has visited many of the disappearing landmarks of Sam Weller's London. The proceeds of the lecture will be handed over to the King's Daughters for Iheir Rest Room—and Dickens would have been the first to aid so worthy an object. Dr. Clay will take the chair. Tickets may be obtained— price 25 cents—at the Y. M. C. A., at the Rest Room, at the Booklovcrs' Library, and from officers of the Cub. Surveyors' Instruments and Drawing Office Supplies. Electric Blue Print & Hap Company, 214 Central Building. Phone 1534. hat house: won't need Painting Again for another five years. Because it's just been repainted with Bapco Pure Paint the purest, most permanent and economical paint on the market. Only pure'white lead, pure linseed oil and pure oxide of zinc are used in the making of BAPCO. Every portion of each ingredient is most carefully analyzed and weighed. Every operation in grinding and mixing is performed by automatic machines. Thus every can of BAPCO PAINT is UNIFORMLY PERFECT. For Sale by all Hardware Stores Examine the Map and see why Fort Fraser has the Greatest Location of Any Town on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in B. C, Of late there lias heen much written regarding the wonderful agricultural districts surrounding Fort Fraser. A casual olwervnnce of the above map will prove conclusively that Fort Fraser has thej geographical location to control all tlie trade of lhc vast agricultural areas of the interior. Fort Fraser to-day Offers More Inducements to Either the Large or Small Investor than any Western Canadian Town Has Ever Offered. FORT FRASER HAS THE LOCATION, bARMING LAND, AND IS AN OLD ESTABLISHED TRADE CENTER, NO BETTER INVESTMENT CAN BE FOUND IN WESTERN CAN-I ADA THAN EITHER A LARGE OR A SMALL INVESTMENT IN FORT FRASER PROPERTY TODAY, LOOK TO FORT FRASER FOE YODR FORTUNE AND FUTURE HAPPINESS, Dominion Stock and Bond Corp., Ltd. ^anTSuve^c"2
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BC Historical Newspapers
Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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