Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 3, 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press Winnipeg Friday May p if Iii i 3i or l a i published every Iho Manitoba free press at Thel of acc Corner of Portage Avenue Ana Garr Street is inn ppr. B. H. Macklin. Vice president and general mama Jer Telephone Calls. Advertising department main 543, department main 290 editorial department main 664 City editor main 664 see Telephone directory for add Tlona numbers. Chicago office Henry Declerque. 800 mailers build Lorr now York office Louis Lebuhn. Room 506. To. 1 Wes 34th Street. Eastern Canada representative Edgar j. Guy. Canada life Toronto thursday May 2, 1912. To protect the lakes and St. Lawrence Levels. The protest by the Canadian gov a Franen against the proposal that the amount of water from Lake Michigan flowing through Chicago s sewage Channel to the Mississippi shall be in creased to cubic feet per second sets Forth with admirable clearness Force and conciseness the Case against that proposal. The matter is one of the most serious importance to the navigation and Commeree of Canada. The protest is in the form of a me Morial by the special commission appointed to Deal with the matter addressed to the Secretary of War at Washington whose department has jurisdiction Over the navigable Waters of the United states together with the argument and Brief submitted by or. Mullin k.c., for the Domi government arid the statements of the representatives of different boards of Harbor commissioners and boards of Trade and of the shipping interests. All these documents have befell issued by the department of Marine at Ottawa and form a com plete record of the whole matter. The volume of water represented by to figures cubic feet per second can Only be realized by comparison. It is about the Quantity passing Over the United states fall at Niagara. Needless to say the tapping of Lake Michigan to make such an immense flow go Down the Mississippi Valley to Tho Gulf of Mexico instead of out through Lake Huron Lake brie Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence Over Niagara. Falls into Lake Ontario and Cut the St. Lawrence into the Atlantic would mean a considerable Perma nent lowering of the Levels of what is the most extensive navigable Inland waterway in the world. Western can Ada has a. Direct interest of incalculable magnitude in this question. The Western states Are likewise specially concerned. So Large a diversion from Lake Michigan would injuriously affect the navigation and Commerce of both nations. The need for conserving the Levels of Ihu great lakes has Long been recited in both countries Nad was in 1909 made the subject of the bound Ary Waters treaty which provides that no diversion from Tho Boundary Waters shall be made without the express authority of the governments of both countries. Thus it is that the present question has become a subject t or International consideration. It has Arisen out of the scheme entered upon some thirteen years ago for applying what is known As the dilution method to the disposal of the sewage Chicago. The drainage canal a Large artificial Channel thirty two Miles Long was opened in 1900. As the result water from Lake Michi Gan flows through the Chicago River whose flow was reversed by the open ing of the drainage canal into the Ijes Plaines River and thence into the Mississippi. Mora than has been expended on that great scheme. Says the memorial of the Canadian com Mission of conservation in summing up that portion of the subject had they adopted a Channel of More moderate size they would have effected a very considerable Economy and had the Money thus saved been expended on sewage sterilization works the City of Chicago would not now applying for a permit for the diversion of additional the Quantity of water authorized to be diverted fron. Lake Michigan into the Chicago drainage canal now is cubic feet per second. A special Board of United states army engineers under the chairmanship of maj. Gen. W. H. Bixby chief of engineers made an investigation lately however and found that the actual Quantity of water being diverted was some cubic feet per second the authorized Quantity thus being exceeded by More than cubic feet per second. It was on february 5 last that application was made for leave to withdraw cubic feel per second Tho ground set Forth being Whitt cubic feet per second was the least amount of water necessary to Render sewage innocuous by the dilution method for every present popu lation of Chicago being stated As up wards of there Are included in the volume water from fort William to Montreal and for vessels of 30 Montreal to Tho sea. Every Inch a attracted from the available depth resents a loss of capacity and a loss of income which is aggravated during Low water like 19il." there Are various other aspects of. The matter apart from the interests of navigation All of which Are fully dwelt on. The Case made out against the Chicago application is so Strong typical Telephone transaction How the Telephone commission bought the Melita Arthur system paying More than the Law Good political stroke. Owing to the Pressie of business towards the end of the recent session that it otherwise of the provincial legislature Tull jus the matter can Ond than in the refusal Otloe was not Aone a of that application. This will impose correspondence Between the Manitoba upon Chicago the necessity of Metal i ? commission Ling a modern system of sewage disposal in place of the present system development will be seriously injurious to this navigation and com Merce of both Canada and the United. States. The ways of the lawyers. Railway Arthur. Telephone company this re turn was asked for by t. H. Johnson the Mem Ber Lor West Winnipeg at the beginning of the session but like Many other returns asked for Early it was not Down till towards the close. The correspondence shown in the return is worthy of some study for it throws a vivid Light on the present position of the Manitoba Tele phone system and the relation be it and the government it also leaves More unaccountable than Ever on annl 16 was heard for the last Ltd statement of the Telephone time that old familiar denial by rail Way lawyers and railway officials tha Tho rate Iri the West Are higher than the rates in the East. On that Day or. M. K. Cowan k.c., counsel for Saskatchewan and Alberta in the West Ern rates investigation did the Best half hour s work Ever done for West Ern Canada and secured the ruling Tho commission that As he has prove the Western rates to to higher the rail ways Munt now allow Why they should not be jut Down. On apr l 16 when or. Cowan against Che railway lawyers who might and main to sidetrack him was making his fight to he Heaird the Able counsel opposing him denied valorous y that the Western rates were higher he Date deserves to be commemorate a As of historic interest. Serials were the last. Those valorous they were so o speak a Swan s Hong. They live Low Only in memory. The railway awyers strange to relate now that the Ulins of the commission has improved eyesight Are Able to see quite Istl Nutly the excess of the rates in he West Over rates in the East. They Are taking the attitude now that of course the rates Are higher in the West. Here is the Lucid explanation made by or. Chrysler k.c., for the ., before the. Ball Way com Mission at Toronto the Day before yes the Commenced operations rot in Eastern but in Western Canada. Rates were then adopted with reference to conditions then prevailing in the West and in the country adjacent in the United states. When it started its. Road in the East it found in existence other railways having tariffs on a Dif Ferent Oasis to those in the West. The tariffs were ready made for the com Pany in the Hist. No fair decision can be made which does not go into the whole quite so. This is a very interesting and in Ligh Tennis account of How and Why the in the West Range so much higher than the rates in the Bast. Or commissioners that politics did not enter into their of minis traction. From1 the Public Treasury of Mani Toba the shareholders of the Melita Arthur Telephone company received itt june 1910, a Cheque for the government receiving from the com Pany a Cheque for for unearned rentals. This of course was merely a matter of adjusting books and did not affect the Price actually paid for the system. What was the system Worth on april 1910, c b. Construction Engineer of the Telephone commis Sion re ported to the latter that he me Lita in sub mitting this estimate or. Handco Cli wrote in part we have taken the actual Cost of the Plant As it would Cost us to construct it today and deducted there from 25 per cent for depreciation the not Tho estimated the value of the Arthur system at amount deducted however does mean that the actual value of Plant to us would be equal to 75 per cent of the original further in the same letter Mir. Hand cock wrote the inspector. In going Over this work states that the Plant in general is in very poor Conat Ion owing to the manner in which it was constructed poles being placed eighteen and Twenty to each mile and Only a Small portion of the Plant could used As nearing our Standard of construction immediately after the Purchase of the Melita Arthur system the Tele phone commission spent Between free and four thousand dollars in pulling Down a. Portion of this system for which it had paid the Lues on arises to a did the Tele hone commission come to consent to dying for a Plant which. Its in Engineer estimated to be Worth n the basis of renewal at the outside that was the estimate of he commission s Engineer on april 1910. Just two months later the commission forwarded to the com any its exec due for a letter dated april 20, 1910, and written to the Melita Arthur company by chairman Paterson of the Tele phone commission purports to explain the Price paid. Iri part or. Paterson wrote As follows a representative from the Tele phone commission has during Tia past two weeks made a thorough examination and valuation the whole Plant Vas it stands today and we find i it will be necessary to rebuild and re As for the whole Field or Chrysler i Palm a Lal be portion of those lines must have been speaking in a absent mindedness. Strange Thabi although Tho actual value of the material and construction is far below the Yasuo. You have placed upon the system we Are wiring to make a Tonsic tenable Ailo Waitice for the Plant a Goins that its Pur by the government will enable the commission to Etemi and debt lop. The Telephone construction in the municipalities of Arthur Edward and it is not necessary to comment up on this except to say that by the Telephone act of 1906, the Manitoba government was empowered to. Acquire Telephone systems in the pro Vince on the basis of their physical value plus 10 per cent. On this basis the. Melita Arthur system would have been Worth less than the most interesting and important lie should have forgotten that or. In that broadside of his on. April 16 by which a turned the tables on the railways and put them in the posit n of having to defend instead merely Oto by did cover the whole Field. He presented among other things the Cost of. Operation Section by Section proving that it is less i the Prairie provinces t i in the East. The railway lawyers before the com Mission strove strenuously on Ciao to have the scope of the investigation Nar owed Down so As not to in clude any question of the reasonable Ness of any rates. Now there Are two ways in which it is1 possible for a rate to be unreasonable. It May b e too Low in which it is unreasonable to the railway company or if May to High in which Case it is unreasonable to the Public. In View of of fact that there a a Only these two Vays and no other i which it is possible for a rate to be ii areas Onawa it not significant tha the railway sewyers should flight hard against the. Unreasonableness any rate toeing investigated Point s till remains. What indu cd feet per at mean issued by the department of Marine at Ottawa charts and which set Forth exhaustively the effect of the abstraction of different quantities of water from Lake Michigan in lower ing the Levels of the flakes below and the St. Lawrence. For example the withdrawal of cubic second at Chi ago causes water a lowering of 3 inches in Lake Ontario. Which Tho wit hdrajwa.1 of 10.000 cubic feet would increase to 4u inches. The reductions of the Levels would be increased at Low water thus during 1911. Th-5 stage of lakes Michi Gan and Huron was lowered 51. Inches by the diversion of the 7000 cubic feet per second at Chicago and the stages of lakes Erie and Ontario and of the St. Lawrence were Lowr red correspondingly. Vessels Are loaded As deep As the channels will carry. The calculations by maj Oen. Bixby s Board growth of autocratic government. The Whitney government is coming m for and deserved criticism for securing from the provincial Legisla Ture a Blanket of five million Dol Lars t0 be spent a the development of Northern Ontario in Advance of the formulation of any definite plan the outlay of such a Large sum of Money without the checks supplied by specific instruction from Tho legislature in the form of particular votes May easily re sult in extravagance or other expenditures still More indefensible the old theories of the subordination of the executive to tha legislative body. F which it derives its Power Are now Garden As altogether out of data. There was a time when or. made the rafters ring in the Halls of. The Mani Toba legislature because the Greenway government Askea legislature to vote Money for the erection of Public buildings in Advance of the preparation the plans. We have travelled far since those Days. Draught of 3 inches will be of 20 feet of 12 the at the freight rate hearing m Tor onto air. Whitla the Legal represent Uve of the Dominion got behind or. Cowan the representative of Alberta and Saskatchewan and shoved hard. This was the sen Suwa thing to do because or. Cowan had already pointed the Way to Victory. Nothing can deprive him. And his principals of the Honor of making the first actual breach in the railways ramparts. The. Defeat of senator Bourne in the senatorial primaries in Oregon will toe disappointment to the Radical forces of the state. The senator who is an ardent believer in advanced racy to make a. Campaign for re nomination. He did not open head quarters and spent no time or Money in stumping the state. He a ballot and bested the Telephone commission to pay the Price it did for the system was there any particular reason Why negotiations which had been begun at least a year previously should have oscillated with greater frequency in the Spring of 1910, to the con summation of the Deal in the month of june that. Year. We leave it to the Reader to judge whether Tho fact that a provincial election was then in full 4t actually took in july 11, and the further fact that the opposition candidate in Arthur was holding the seat by the narrow majority of three votes had anything to do with Tho hurried settlement. A. A Lyle the government candidate in Arthur was a shareholder in the me Lita Arthur Telephone coi Sipany and or. interested himself very considerably and very. Prominently in tha negotiations Between the company and the Telephone Commisso on. On april 17, 1s09, a. B. Bistlin presi Dent of the Melita Arthur Telephone company wrote to chairman Paterson of the Telephone commission stating that he had been in communication with or. Isle and that. Or. thought the government should acquire the Melita Arthur system and extend in reply to that letter or. Pater son wrote under Date of april 20, 1909, n As follows As to the government being asked to Purchase the Plant of the Melita Arthur Telephone company i am ready to take the matter up in any i can but some kind1 of proposition will have to be presented to he minister before a e will be Aske l to take any replying to Furtner letter from or. The the chairman of the Telephone com Mission wrote under Date of May -17, 1909, in part As follows 3, still of the impression that iome kind of a proposition -Wil-1 have o Corse from you to the government n older that we May take action hereon i cannot say whether the government is prepared to take the Plant Over or not. To will i presume depend larg Ely upon what Price is sited for it and what it consists of. However you May have Soma other Vay in which you desire to introduce he subject to the the last remark of or. Paterson is Ery sententious. Shortly afterwards Arthur through offered to sell out to the Oyer ment for replying to his offer under Date of july 9, r. Paterson wrote in part this the offer wow receive the ration Telephone Corn who kill i turn submit ase for re nomination wholly by a to the usual support. Even the 4 i turn subset the Namex to toe government to deter mine further action in connection with in this inspection As had already been 4suftebae i Mit women s this special grouping of women s and misses Spring suits is comprised of Many of our h i mixed tweeds striped flannels and fancy weaves in Navy Grey Etc. Coats Nicol i some trimmed on lapels with Etc., and lined with silk Serge in Plain models panel Back and front. Years 34 to 40 bust. Regular values up to special . Women s stylish Coats in Plain cloths mixed tweeds and Good styles. Some smart tweeds strictly tailored and trim med with buttons to match. Other s Are Plain cloths Collar. All Sines in Stock. Prices ranging from women s wac chg skirts these skirts Are stylish models with a novel insert on either Side of front panel of velvet trim med with silk Oraid and buttons of self colors. Colors Are Black drown and Green. Sizes 36 to 42 inches Long waistbands 23 to 28 inches., splendid Quality and very Low in Price. Saturday Only for see window Friday yes. Dress muslims and Irish Bim itys at half Price the Dimity in a Nice Range of coloured grounds with neat hair Cord muslims White grounds with Small Floral Erfe ots. A full colors. Regular 1co and 12o, Yard . O c White. Muslin blouses two specials for saturday come in these Lawn and Muslin blouses. One style has Yoke of eyelet embroidery and trimmed with clusters of tucks and lace with High neck and three Quarter sleeves. The other style is of allover eni Broider in Dainty design. Square neck a wished with Torchon lace. Short sleeves edged with lace in All sizes. Regular to . Special. Boys1 3-piece Navy Serge suits selected from our own Stock these suits Are a snap for any boy requiring a smart looking everyday suit. Good Quality Wool Serge in. Single breasted style Only pain Vest and Plain knee1 pants. All thoroughly lined and tailored. Sizes 28 to 38, fitting boys of from 10.to 15 years. Only about 30 suits in the lot so first come Best regular up to saturday Only.-. Infants and r natural color Pongee Coats win dered trimming to match and months to 2 years for Anni in Cream Cashmere lined braiding and embroidery. To 6 months to 2 years. This line is priced saturday. Women s wrap sri in Good Quality print made on Ami lining fronts trimmed with form Yoke effect with narrow j Lar. The skirt is finished with a flounce. Sizes. 36 and s8 Only-i1 Navy Cadet Blue Cardinal Mfd Black sateen. Rug blur Price up Akk to saturday by eclat. A hover laces Worth up to Selling saturday these in a variety of Nice embroidered nets and Guipre. Colon Ecru and Black. Regular Selim Sis Yard. The first saturday in our May shirt Sale new Spring and summer shirts both soft and starched cuff the latest in men s summer shirts with soft lounge Collar and double together with a Marvel omit t of the latest colourings and patterns in Spring Negligee with starched cuffs and Neckband ast Oniskin values in cloth qualities values that ordinarily demand double the Price. All sizes in All colors hoi lounge Negligee styles All coat shirts. Saturday May Sale show 75c new accordion knitted hobble neckties saturday.i.-., the tie of to Day is the famous hobble knit Ted with Aii accordion effect that works out two color combination that is a Marvel of Beauty. Nearly every two tone idea is Here in abundance.--. Come. To Morrow when the assortment is Complete. Just arriving k York this week. May tie special saturday Vij c . R. Soft lounge collars Tooke s and .r, starched collars 2 for in fact we sell collars , lounge style any color size to Gether with our regular Collar stocks in any shape in any size in any height at the popular Price of 2 for ----.25c pairs of men s fancy Florenza silk sox saturday. These famous socks retail from to 75c per p a or Evon who vol Lucky Purchase enables us to offer you this sock bargain just beginning of the summer hosiery season. All colors in latest hosiery novelties. Selling saturday 3 pairs . To men s Collar attached summer Outing shirt saturday. Tes values you. Expect to find in most a Torch at Douws the the Best cloths and newest colouring fancy Cord and Plain cloth in . All this season s designs. Most shirts Rev collars. Special. Saturday _ to 45 c ladies kid gloves saturday morning 8.30 to 12, for 45c pair. Pairs ladies kid gloves sell saturday morning Iri a splendid a Quality with two dome fasteners. Colors Tan s Grey Black. Sizes 5% to Sale Price. Phone orders or . S not filled. Fancy Silks 33c Many Odd pieces of fancy silk that to Are making up from broken lines into one big1 line for saturday s Selling. There Are quite a variety of designs for ene to make a Good Choice. Among the Best patterns Are to be found Black and White checks and plaids Navy and White stripes in Pallette and Tarn Aline coloured Satin stripes striped washing silk and others. Regu Lar up to 75c. Saturday per Yard o t c House furnishings department special Sale of port heres 50 pairs Green Only. Tapestry fringed. Regular value saturday pair roman Stripe Portieles. Regular value saturday pair. Lace curtains 2ys Yards Long. White Only. Regular 75c. Saturday pair .----.49c 200 pairs lace curtains assorted designs White Cream and Cru. And 3vs yes. Long. Regular value up to pair. Saturday pair. 98o Sale of carpet samples. 200 pieces Wool carpet ends Yards Long. On Sale saturday each special Sale of Small bedroom tables in mahogany and Golden Oak. 22x22. Satur dressed dolls 39c a collection of our regular 50c and 7ec dolls nicely dressed. Have sleeping eyes and curly hair. To Clear saturday at. Japanese China 75c saturday we intend Clearing All our Stock of japanese China at less than manufacturer s Cost. We need the room for summer goods. Choose from chocolate pots Bis Cuit jars Tea sets celery trays Setio. Regu Lar values to or of saturday Sale. See main Streat window Robinson s hosiery news Complete assortment of All the wanted kinds for present and at prices that should interest every woman. Saturday s list women s pure Wool Cashmere , medium Quality full fashioned with seamless feet. Sizes 8% to 10 in. Saturday Price pair. Women s Light weight German Cashmere Hose in a Beautiful line elastic Quality full fashioned with High spliced heels and toes. Sizes by to 10 in. Robinson s special women s silk Lisle Hose in a Light weight with 6 in. Garter tops and double Herms Dorf dyed. Sizes 8% to 10 in. Robinson s or 3 pairs for. Women s pure in a Gauze weight with deep Lisle double knit soles. Col ors Tan White and Black. All sizes. Robinson s Price pair. O c women s heavy English silk Hose in a Beautiful Quality with flume tops and have Cash Mere feet a stocking that will give Comfort and Wear. Sizes 8% to 10 in ;