The Standard., 18 novembre 1905, samedi 18 novembre 1905

[" = ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT \u2014\u2014\u2014 mr a \u2014\u2014\u2014.ce Ce se eee me ee me \u2014\u2014 The Standard.- - TFT rw = SECTION NUMBER ONE VOL.1.No.9.MONTREAL, CANADA.171 ST.JAMES STREET.H.M.S.\u201cNatal,\u201d the Last Armored NN REAR-ADMIRAL ROBERT ARCHIBALD JAMES MONTGOMERIE, C.B., C.M.G., A.D.C.TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING, ALBERT MEDAL.Late Commodore of the British North American fleet.Admiral Montgomerie was succeeded as Commodore of this fleet by Commodore Paget, who was created a K.C.M.G.by the King on Nov.9th.The former is well known in Montreal,;Quebec and Halifax.HE FIRST-CLASS CRUISER \u201c NATAL\u201d was successfully ry launched recently at Barrow-in-Furness.The Duchess of Devonshire, who performed the ceremony, was pre- | ÿ sented with a souvenir of the occasion in the shape of a seal consisting of a miniature harp set with diamonds and surmounted by a ducal coronet, the whole being enclosed in a beautiful enamel case.Several directors of the shipbuilding firm of Messrs.Vickers, Sons & Maxim, including Mr.Albert Vickers, Mr.Douglas Vickers, Mr.J.M.Hay, Lieutenant A.T.Dawson, Mr.James McKechnie, Mr.J.H.Boolds, and Mr.A.Miller, were present.The Duke of Devonshire, in response to the toast of \u201c Success to His Majesty's ship \u2018 Natal\u2019 and the Health of the Duchess of Devon- shire,\u201d congratulated Messrs.Vickers not only on the successful THE LAUNCHIN (MOF H.M.S.NATAL\u201d The cruiser settling down in the watdrs off Barrow-in-Furness.stays will be noticed floating on the top of the water.The « fn Ee ns oo aaa dot launching of the vessel, but on the extent and interesting character of the great works they had established in Barrow.They had been the designers and builders of one of the most powerful vessels that composed the Japanese fleet ; and, while all would sympathize with England\u2019s ally in the loss it had sustained of the noble battleship \u201c Mikasa,\u201d their regret could not be blind to the fact that a great part of her life\u2019s work was done when with her gallant officers and sailors she took a leading part in achieving the greatest naval victory of modern times.It was a happy inspiration that led the Admiralty to give to the ship launched that day the name of one of Britain's great South African colonies.Natal was one of the first of the colonies to recognize the duty of contributing to the support of the Royal Navy, which afforded protection not only to this island, but also to all parts of the Empire.The Lords of the Admiralty had asked him to state that they had received the following telegram from the Governor of Natal : \u201cOur Ministers, on behalf of the colony, wish every success to H.M.S, Natal,\u201d and we request that this may be made public.\u201d On behalf of the Duchess, he thanked them for the honor done her, and reiterated the wish that the « Natal\u201d might have a long, successful, and glorious career.Mr.Albert Vickers, in replying to the toast, \u201cSuccess to the Firm of Vickers & Maxim,\u201d said that it was a satisfaction to them to have built a cruiser which marked a great stép in respect of gun-power.Indeed he was inclined to look with something of pathetic interest on the \u201cNatal,\u201d because it was just possible that with the demands of naval strategy she would be the Cruiser Which the British Admiralty Will Build From photographs presented to THE STANDARD by Col.Vickers, Chairman of the shipbuilding firmof Messrs.Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Barrow-in- Furness.§ last British cruiser, the type in the future being merged into battleships, where high speed would be combined with great powers of offence and defence.A movement is on foot at Durban to subscribe for a service of plate for presentation to the officers\u2019 mess.The dimensions of the \u201c Natal \u201d are \u2014Length, 480 ft.; breadth, 73 Ît.6 in.; mean draught, 27 ft.; displacement, 13,550 tons.The indicated horse-power is to be 23,550, and the speed 22 knots.The armament will be as follows: Six 9.2-in.guns, four 7.5-in.guns, two 12-pounders, twenty-four 3-pound- ers, five Maxim guns, two 18-in.submerged torpedo tubes, one stern torpedo tube.The side armor and the barbette armor is 6 in.thicko> THE IMMENSE GOST OF BRITISH MEN-0F-WAR Some very interesting comparisons in cost of British men-of-war have lately been made public.For instance, the vessels of the \u201c Empress of India\u201d class cost on an average £949,636.Of these vessels three were built by the THE LAUNCHING OF H.M.S.\u201cNATAL.\u201d The scene after the stays had been knocked away, allowing the cruiser to take the water.The photograph represents the vessel just after the signal \u2018* Let her go!\u201d had been given.NORTH RIVER RAPIDS, ST.JEROME, QUE.THE STANDARD Prize Competition.(Photograph by E.A.Gallet, Montreal.) dockyards, four by contract.The average cost of the dockyard-built ships was £926,927, the four con- tract-built ships being much more expensive.In the same way with the \u201c Duncan\u201d class, the two dock- yard-built ships averaged £1,063,- 242, while the four contract-built vessels cost about £1,096,203 each.With the \u201cFormidable\u201d class, all of which were built in the public ~ establishments, we get the following results:\u2014Devonport built three ships at an average cost of £1,092, - 004 each, Chatham built three ships at an average cost of £1,156,- 205, while Portsmouth built two ships at an average cost of £1,100,- 369 each.With the \u201c King Edward VIL\u201d class, again, publie and private yards were in competition, with the result that, The scene on the temporary platform immediately preceding the christening of the cruiser.whereas the © New Zealand \u201d and \u201cKing Edward VIL\u201d, the two dockyard-built ships, cost £1,481,- 203 on an average, the \u201c Hindustan,\u201d \u201c Dominion,\u201d and \u201cCommonwealth \u201d were built by private yards at an average cost of £1,458,- 364.The armored cruisers being mainly built by private contract, it is interesting to compare the prices paid to each of them.lowest average is that of the London and Glasgow Company, which built two of the \u201cMonmouth\u201d class for £731,883 each.Next comes Armstrong, who built the \u201cLancaster\u201d for £765,612, and then \u2014a long jump\u2014the Fairfield Company, which built two \u201cCressys,\u201d a \u201c Drake\u201d and two \u201c Mon- mouths \u201d for an average price of The £820,485 each.VIEW OF SALMON CREEK, MELBOURNE, QUE.THE STANDARD Prize Competition.THE LAUNCHING OF H.M.S.« NATAL\u201d Tram of the vessel by the Duchess of Devonshire, who named the vessel.(Photograph by A.H.Hall, Montreal.) The bottle of champagne about to jbe broken on the \u2014 \u2014\u2014 es is es | _S 2 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.The Longest Bridge-Span in the World; Grand Trunk Railway Survey Party at Work CL AT THE LONGEST BRIDGE-SPAN IN THE WORLD.The new bridge, near Quebec from the south shore, showing the pier and a portion of the bridge on the north shore\u2014a mile distant.The arrangement of the false work underneath and the giant crane on top of the bridge are also shown.(Photographed for THE STANDARD by Shaw, of South Quebec.) PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE IRON-HORSE Pw -\u2014 > Railway Building in the Lone Wilderness-\u2014The Arrival of the Construction Gang.(The writer of this series of special articles for \u201cThe Standard\u201d took an active part in railway construction in the wildest part of New Ontario.) I UT of the twenty-four million DO passengers who travel over the railways of Canada in a year, how many give a thought to the conditions under which the roads were built?How many, as they look out upon the miles of rough land extending from North Bay to the north of Lake Superior, give even a passing thought to the manner in which the men lived who felled the trees on the right of way; who piled up the dump which raises the line high and dry above the muskeg, and makes a solid road through the swamps; who cut the path through the rocks, and who hewed the timber and built the first bridges by means of which the iron road could be constructed from the one ocean to the other?Yet for years these wilds re-echoed to th: songs and laughter, to the sighs and groans of an army of men; the rock shores of the lakes heard the scream of the saw-mill long before they echoed to the whistle of the locomotive; and the hills felt the pressure of the hand drill and were riven by the blast of dynamite months before they trembled under the weight of the heavy engines and well-laden freight cars.The construction of another great Transcontinental Railway has just been commenced, and on it thousands of men will be employed in the northern portions of Quebec and Ontario.7 means of passage from one part of the country to another.On the east the river suddenly opens out into a wide lake, studded with islands green with and vinous undergrowth.Immediately below us there is a winding cleft in the bluff down which a numerous small rock-pines the right of way which finds its exit again through the trees on the west.Running almost on the edge of the bluff a rough road has been cut which is known as the \u201ccadge-road,\u201d and which is to serve the teamsters employed to haul freight, camp fixtures, etc., to the scene of operations.RP The Arrival of a Construction Cart.Up this road from the east comes a construction cart, laden with a tent and accompanied by a gang of men, One of these is the storekeeper in charge of the advance freight; and the his camp stove, and arrange his new home to his liking.2% te Meagre Comforts of the Construction Camp.ee Comforts there are none, necessaries are hardly to be found; but the storekeeper and his men proceed to make a very hearty meal off cold boiled pork and bread, washed down with some tea brewed over a camp fire.The meal despatched, the men set to work on the freight-shed, clearing the ground, raising the uprights cut by the axemen, and making a rough wood stage just high enough from the ground to allow of carts and sleighs being easily unloaded and loaded from it.The roof may be of tree-trunks or canvas hay-covers; but long before night the shed is ready for the reception of freight and the nucleus of a new construction camp has been made.Probably the same night, but if not, certainly very early on the following morning, teams begin to arrive with stores for the freight-shed.Here come barrels of pork, bags of oats, trusses of hay, sacks of flour, caddies of tea, and tobacco in plugs to suit all tastes.THE LONGEST BRIDGE-SPAN IN THE WORLD.Side view of the Quebec Bridge, taken from Chaudiere Bridge, one mile distant.(Photographed for THE STANDARD by Shaw, of South Quebec.) structed a small landing place at the river's edge where boats will be able to discharge cargo, and so save miles of team work round the hills.This landing will not only serve as a stage but also will be used by the men as a place from which to draw water, for though good water, or passably so, at any rate, may be found in pools on the opening of a camp, yet the presence of hundreds of men, and the casting out of refuse from the cooking tents soon serve to make such supplies absolutely unavailable.Another gang has been busy making a road round the bluff to a point running out into the river, about half a mile away from the camp.Here, too, men are felling trees and preparing to erect a stage, for as soon as the boats can commence running a portable sawmill is to be brought up and erected here, so that the timber for the bridges across the river may be cut and made right on the spot; whilst lumber will be wanted for the storehouse and for the engineers\u2019 and officers\u2019 quarters during construction.To-morrow will see the gangs at work on construction, beginning at the point where the line will cross the river A FEW SPECKLED BEAUTIES.small stream has worn its way and carried each spring the water of the melting snow into the river.East, and south and west grow innumerable trees of soft woods, rising out of the soil from between huge granite boulders.Through the trees on the east is cut AN EARLY MORNING START.As \u201cone half the world knows not how the other half lives,\u201d many readers will probably be interested in sketches of railroaders\u2019 life such as will be enacted on the new line.BR RR XH The Beginning Of a Great Work.The survey has been made, the line located, the right of way chopped out, leaving a broad swathe, among the trees, up which the line is to pass; and all is ready for the construction gangs to commence operations.We are standing on a high bluff, descending precipitously to a broad river on the opposite and northern bank of which stands another bank as high as that from which we view the scene.Until the survey party came up, the foot of white men had never penetrated these wilds and only stray bands of Indians had used the river as a men with him are moving him up to this point, which in a few days will be a centre of construction.The storekeeper walks to the right of way and inspects the ground.Then he quickly points out to the men a spot, lying a little back from the right of way and near the \u2018\u201ccadge road,\u201d on which to pitch his tent and raise the freight-shed.In a few minutes out of the cart have come axes and picks, and men are at work felling trees and stripping them of their branches, whilst others are employed in clearing the ground on which the tent is to be pitched.Very soon walls about four feet high have been built of logs around the space, and a floor of corduroy has been laid about six inches above the ground.Then the tent-poles have been raised, and the ridge-pole placed in position, after which the tent itself is lifted from the cart, spread upon the ground, and then hoisted over the ridge-pole.The axemen cut away the log wall at the opening of the tent, and fix two uprights, whilst others make a rude door.Then the camp bed is taken in and a small table.Blankets and other necessaries follow, and Mr.Storekeeper himself proceeds to place in position Mr.Storekeeper is busy receiving all these things, checking the teamsters\u2019 bills, and directing the placing of the goods.Before night other gangs begin to arrive, and the air resounds with the sound of axes felling trees, whilst the men composing the gangs put up their tents, one for each gang, with possibly a small tent for the cook, whilst the odor of cooking arises from open fires in all directions.XE BX RR various A Busy Scene in The Wilderness.What yesterday was a wilderness, to-day is a scene of the busiest activity.Here men are building a blacksmith\u2019s shop where tools will be sharpened and spikes made for laying the track; there a carpenter\u2019s shop is being built, and yet in another place a store is being constructed where, as soon as the camp is fully going, all sorts of things, from needles to ready- made clothing, and home tinned meats to fresh meat and bread, will be on sale.Before night there are probably fifty tents fixed, and the men are all ready to commence grading on the morrow.Around the tents are lying an indiscriminate mass of picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, hammers, and drills, which have all been brought up with the men engaged in the different kinds of work.Whilst many of the gangs live in tents and board themselves on a kind of club principle, large numbers of men live in boarding houses maintained by the company, who deduct so much per week from each boarder\u2019s pay at the end of the month, or whenever pay day comes.To accommodate these men company\u2019s camps are being raised, whilst for the numberless horses engaged in the work, either drawing scoops or in teams, stables are being constructed.A little apart from the main camp men are at work building a rather better kind of shack where the Doctor will take up his abode, for every man has to contribute to the maintenance of the Doctor, and all minor complaints are treated without extra pay.Meantime down the course of the little creek a roadway has been made by one gang of men, and others have con- MESS TIME IN CAMP.and continuing for miles up into the wilderness, for many gangs will have to walk two or three miles to and from work, unless arrangements are made for them to camp close to the spot.RE RR XR Growth of a Canvas City, Already some gangs of pick and shovel men are moving up, so as to be nearer their allotted stations; and in the immediate vicinity of the camp, engineers are busy driving pickets for the grade of the line, in order that there shall be no delay in getting to work at the regular hour in the morning.Looking round, we see that the scene which last evening was one of wild desolation, is to-night covered by a canvas city, inhabited by men forming the advance guard of civilization.\u2018What the future may have in store for it, is not yet made plain.Here may be the site of a thriving mining town, or a centre for some not yet discovered trade.How the men live, what are their dangers and what their pleasures can only be shewn by incidents which will form the subjects of sketches that will follow.YELME DENE.THE LONGEST BRIDGE-SPAN IN THE WORLD.The giant travelling crane on the Quebec Bridge, said to be the tallest ever erected on any bridge in the world.The distance between its top and the surface of the river is 400 feet.Two men have already fallen into the river from its dizzy platform.(Photographed for THE STANDARD by Shaw, of South Quebec.) THE LONGEST BRIDGE- SPAN IN THE WORLD lt HE honor of having the longest C span, which was wrested from the Brooklyn Bridge by the Forth Bridge on completion in 1890, is shortly to return to this con- its tinent, as work is now in progress on the great cantilever bridge across the St.Lawrence, near Quebec, the main span of which will exceed that of the Forth by fully 90 feet.The structure is of characteristic American pattern, being pin-connect- ed throughout.The central span, of 1,800 feet, extends almost from bank to bank of the river, with a central suspended girder 675 feet long and 130 feet deep at the centre, while the anchor spans are each 500 feet wide and the approach spans 210 feet wide.The following data are from an article in \u201cEngineering.\u201d \u201cThe site selected is some six miles above Quebec, at a point where the river narrows to less than 2,000 feet at low water.From this point upstream to Montreal, a distance of 165 miles, there is no bridge now existing, while below Quebec the river widens out so much as to make the bridging of the river below the city very improbable; so that this bridge will, when finished, be the only one between Montreal and the sea, a distance of very nearly 1,000 miles.It will afford direct connection between the Great Northern Railway of Canada, the Quebec and St.John Railway, and the Canadian Pacific Railway on the one side, and the Grand Trunk Railroad, the Intercolonial line, and the Quebec Central Railway on the south side of the river.The bridge will also form a link in the projected Grand Trunk Pacific Transcontinental line.In addition to thus facilitating the exchange of railway traffic, the new bridge is also intended to accommodate road and tramway traffic, which will be provided for on roadways carried outside the main trusses by cantilever extensions of the cross-girders.Two tracks for railway traffic will be provided between the trusses, which are 65 feet apart.The clear headway provided is 150 feet, which, owing to the height of the river-banks, is attained without an excessive length of approach viaduct, and with a gradient not exceeding 1 per cent.\u201cThe height of the post over each river-pier is 315 feet, corresponding to about 350 feet above the level of ordinary high water.This post is 10 feet wide by 4 feet in depth, and rests at its lower end on a pin 24 inches in diameter.Pin connections have been used throughout, the usual size of the pins on the main and anchor spans being 12 inches, though, as stated, the main pins over the river-piers are double this.\u201d No castings, we are told, are used for any portion of the bridge, even the main shoes and pedestals being built up of rolled plates and angles.FELLING THE FOREST KING.A HUNGRY LOT\u2014BEFORE DINNER.i.TR SURVEY PARTY AT WORK The six photographs here shown were taken for \u201cThe Standard\u201d in October last by the son of O.H.Lambart, of New Edinburgh (Ottawa), who is one of Party No.8, located at or near the Bell River.This river is situated about 300 miles north of the Ottawa River, in a not too thickly populated country.The pictures will give \u201cStandard\u201d readers an excellent idea of the topography and scenery of that particular section of the country through which the Grand Trunk Pacific will pass.They show the bresent day appearance of the streams, lakes and forests thereabouts, and at the same time vividly portray a few of the characteristics of a survey party's life under canvas in a hitherto unsurveyed country. THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.3 Gentlemen for Many Years Connected with McGill; Snapshots in Down Town District SKETCH OF LONDON'S NEW THOROUGHFARE London remains century after century in a continuous state of transition.The Norman city had its grim, silent monasteries, the Plantagenel capital its ornate friaries, and Tudor London its playhouses and street pageants.The Stuart city was as famous for its taverns as for Inigo Jones's classic designs, and with the Restoration came Pall Mall, St.James\u2019s Square and some of the big Piccadilly houses.After the great fire, timber fronts were condemned, and a city of stone and brick with Wren\u2019s dome and spires piercing the gray sky reappeared in a maze of winding alleys and narrow streets.That was a crowning opportunity for reconstruction on stately lines, and Sir Christopher had a splendid plan, with thoroughfares nearly a hundred feet in width, crossing one another at right angles, and a spacious waterfront from the Temple to the Tower.That design would have laid the foundations of an imperial city and have dispensed with many costly schemes of improvement during future generations, but staid, prosaic merchants and members of guilds were frightened by it, and old lines were retained.XR wR XR Additional Vulgarities.Next came Queen Anne\u2019s sham-clas- sic churches, marvels of ugliness and vulgarity, like the four-legged Church of St.John the Evangelist, Westminster; and the West End of the time of the Georges was as solid and gloomy as dull architecture could make it until the Scottish Adams introduced light decorative effects and promoted a revival of public taste.Wirth the nineteenth century one improvement scheme followed another.Belgravia was created; Regent\u2019s street, with the Quadrant, was opened from St.James's to Regent\u2019s Park; the Houses of Par- Tiament were built on a large scale from a pattern of unrivalled splendor\u2014 the Henry VII.Chapel; Cannon and Queen Victoria streets followed each \u2018Other; the Thames Embankment was reconstructed at high cost; and now a new thoroughfare not unlike Wren\u2019s projected north-and-south avenues was [DR.T.G.RODDICK, EX-M.P.Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University.Great Queen street, itself a memorial of Stuart London, since it was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.REast- ward there is a passage into the upper quarter of Lincoln\u2019s Inn Fields, which were laid out before the reign of Charles I.Lower down there is another entrance into the Fields by a triple archway, and a broader passage has been forced above the Bear Yard, on the edge of the abandoned Clare Market.The sites of Sardinia, Vere, Stan- hope, and other squalid streets are passed before Aldwych is reached, midway between Drury Lane and Hough- ton street.The oldtime saunterer by this time needs to rub his eyes and try to guess where he is.One curve of the broad crescent sweeps over the sites of New Inn and Clement's Inn, where hopeful literary genius once wrote all night by the light of a tallow dip and solaced itself in the morning with a > Dr.Donne were entertained and where the glasses used to clink when \u201cYou meaner beauties of the night\u201d was sung.A broad island cleared for business sites now separates Kingsway from Dr.Johnson's church, in front of which a new and rather spirited statue of Gladstone is to stand.The spire and the picturesque facade of the Law Courts are the only familiar landmarks.wR RE RE Slums Give Way Before Progress.On the westward curve of Aldwych the public houses, dark alleys and slimy slums have disappeared, and a new order of progress has been established.On the inner side two theatres with a large, handsome hotel between them fill the space between Drury Lane and Catherine street, and further on is the site of the new offices of \u201cThe Morning Post\u201d at the entrance from the Strand and Wellington street.Opposite, on the outer rim of the island, the new Gaiety Theatre and restaurant are resplendent in the full glitter of French Renaissance; and down the Strand in line with the Kingsway is Gibb\u2019s beautiful church, St.Mary le Strand, a brilliant exception to the usual order of ecclesiastical ugliness in Queen Anne's reign.Altogether, an excellent beginning has been made in the architectural decoration of Aldwych, and, while there has not been an active demand for ROBERT CRAIK, M.D, LL.D.Ex-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University.little street while he was starving for bread; Hogarth sketched the saunter- ers and the mob; and DeQuincey pulled down his curtain and described with passionate ardor the revels of opium eating.XR 2, &e 2, = J R&R » & Royal Name For New Street.The selection of names for the two thoroughfares has been arranged by the London County Council with sound judgment in accordance with precedent.Royal names have ordinarily been preferred when conspicuous London improvements have been ordered, as is shown by the principal Stuart thoroughfare, Great Queen street, which crosses Kingsway, as well as by many modern undertakings, such as cism for allowing large masses of French Renaissance to come into sharp contrast with the Strand front of Somerset House and the two\u2019 island churches; but these structures lose their value when an open minded spectator approaches Aldwych from Char- ing Cross.BR XR RY The Strand Has Been Improved.The Strand has been greatly improved by the new theatres and restaurants; and if the remaining sites in Aldwych and on the Strand side of the new crescent shaped island are built up with equal taste and judgment there will be a most artistic and dignified approach to the New Law Courts.Kingsway has been too recently tun- pense of the general taxpayer.The act authorizing it would have been thrown out by the House of Lords if there had been any clause providing for special taxation on any betterment principle.When the work is completed the values of property in adjacent streets in what was once a squalid and woebegone quarter will be raised, and landowners will be materially benefited without being forced to contribute to the cost in special assessments.The unearned increment, of which Socialist agitators have so much to say, comes in whenever any great improvement scheme is adopted anywhere in Great Britain, Equity requires the charging of a portion of the expense of a pavement or SNAPSHOTS IN DOWN TOWN DISTRICT MR.R.B.ANGUS Leaving a meeting of the directors of the Bank of Montreal.a sewer or a park against property which is directly benefited.This cannot be done while the House of Lords assumes a general protectorate over \u201cthe interests and privileges of landowners.Property owners are fully compensated for all losses caused by the demolition of buildings and the in- A Ae terruption of busines along the line of Aldwych and Kingsway; but no charges are levied against them for special benefit.This is a reform against which British conservatism is so solidly intrenched that any change in the method of financing local improvements seems hopeless, I.N.F.LOVE-MAKING IN ONTARIO.A couple of Harvard students and their Canadian sweethearts.(Photograph by Claude H.Church, Cambridge, Mass.) \u2018\u2018O happy love, where love like this is found, O heart-felt rapture, bliss beyond compare ; I've paced this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare\u2014 If heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, \"Tis when a youthful, loving pair, - In others\u2019 arms breathe out the tender tale.\u201d \u2018\u2018 The Cotter\u2019s Saturday Night.\u201d\u2014Burns.AAA SNAPSHOTS IN DOWN TOWN DISTRICT ISLE OF ORLEANS LIGHTHOUSE BY MOONLIGHT.(Photograph by Fred.C.Wurtele, Quebec.) BIT OF THE ISLE OF ORLEANS.(Photograph by Fred.C.Wurtele, Quebec.) opened by the King last month from sausage purchased in the stalls of the historic Strand to High Holborn.RR Ê XR A Remarkably Fine Street.The Kingsway is a highway a hundred feet in width opening into a crescent equally broad, with approaches from the Strand.For many months it has been a barren moraine of bricks and crumbling mortar and timber; but the ground has been cleared, the subway for trains constructed, and the shells of ancient warehouses and dwellings cut away on either side with sharp lines of cleavage.At High Hol- born it divides the huge Holborn Restaurant from the site of a new railway station.Beyond Holy Trinity Church and Craven House it is intersected by Clare Market and fried in chambers.Mr.Hall Caine will tell the story if anybody asks for it in America, for he is not ashamed to recall the days when he was unknown and very poor.RR ee XR Old Landmarks Have Vanished.Wych street, where there were picturesque rows of bookstalls, which literary idlers never succeeded in passing without rummaging among the shelves, has vanished.The old Globe Theatre and the Theatre Comique have also gone, and opposite the Kingsway not one stone remains to mark the site of the Olympic, itself a decrepit trespasser on the preserves of ancient Drury House, where Izaak Walton and THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.(Photograph by J.A, Irvine, Halifax, N.S.) OLD BLOCK HOUSE ON ST.HELEN'S ISLAND, MONTREAL.(Photograph by M.M.Mitchell, Westmount.) na TE {ma ge ~~ building sites on the line of Kingsway, it is evident that with rigorous supervision of designs and with the exclusion of structures which do not conform with the lines of dignified architecture the thoroughfare will become in time one of the handsomest in London.In this way it is expected that the cost of this enterprise, which has been heavy in the first instance, will ultimately be reduced below five million dollars.EE ORR RR A Traditional Name Restored.The name of the crescent has marked a reversion to the traditional name of Drury Lane, which was Aldwych; and that long, rambling street, where the famous theatre has commanded popularity for generations, gives local color to the broad section through which Kingsway passes to High Holborn.Duels have been fought in this street over actresses, spurs and gaming debts; the best known among the fashionable coffee houses, Will\u2019s, was between Drury Lane and Covent Garden; Nell Gwynne tossed her pretty head at the window of her lodgings; poets lived in the dingy houses; actors had their liquor there after the play; Chatterton strolled through the stuffy Queen Victoria street, Victoria street in Westminster, and the Victoria and Albert embankments.King Edward VIL street was happily rejected as too big a mouthful even for the most loyal subject and Kingsway substituted for it as a more euphonious and convenient compliment to the sovereign.Ald- wych, with its direct appeal to antiquity and characteristic local color, has also been wisely accepted in preference to Gladstone Crescent, Bea- consfield Parade, or any other name of distinctly political significance.The improvements committee of the Council have secured the condemnation of property and cleared the ground for new streets and building sites.They have been subjected to captious criti- a nelled through old houses and wretched slums to have definite form and architectural pretensions; but as the committee are taking exceptional pains with the reinstatement contracts and building schemes, and are excluding public houses and low and inferior structures, the thoroughfare which King Edward opened amidst general rejoicings will ultimately be a fine street with substantial buildings, theatres, banks and insurance offices.RR ee RR Paid For By The Taxpayers.This London improvement, like all the costly projects which have preceded it, has been carried out at the ex- MR.KLECZKOWSKI, The French Consul, enjoying a morning walk and smoke.A FISHERMAN\u2019S VILLAGE, NORTH-WEST ARM, HALIFAX, N.S.The birthplace of many world-famous champion oarsmen.(Photograph by J.A.Irvine, Halifax N.S.EL pri \u2014\u2014 EEE Te \u2014 22\" 2 TY TC CIE TTT re ee en \u2014\u2014\u2014 cms v \u2018 \u2019 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014- - _- / Pi q- _ 2 4 THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.itl Ae RE AN IMPORTED MODEL IN CHIFFON AND VELVET.One of the marked fashion features of the season is the combining of velvet and velveteen with very sheer fabrics like chiffon or net.of the costume.flounce and sleeves.The velvet is not used simply as a trimming fabric, but rather as a part In the elegant gown illustrated, the velvet forms the front and back panels and the deep Great plus dots like buttons and a design in the heavy plush fabric are applied.The skirt is of extreme width, and shows in its foundation skirt reeds of featherbone to give it the fashionable new spread.A chemisette effect and a deep cuff of cream lace are the finishing touches.A white felt hat of the picture variety, draped with cream lace, and bearing two beautiful ostrich plumes of white and blue, is a fitting finish for this toilet.THE DRESS PARADE.dl ed Novelties Seen at the New York Horse Show\u2014-Cloth in | High Favor for Evening Gowns\u2014Velvet Trium- phant\u2014The Hat and the Decollete Gown\u2014Pretty but Trying Lace- Draped Chapeaux, æ. personages was anciently greeted == by ringing the church bells.In- MONUMENT AT LOUISBURG FORTRESS.Erected by The Society of Colonial Wars in 1895.THE ROMANGE OF CHURCH BELLS CHURCH BELLS are of very ancient origin.The ancients, as we learn from the direct and incidental mention of them by the old historians and other writers, had bells for both sacred and profane purposes.By Strabo we are told that market time was announced by their sound, and by Pliny that the tomb of an ancient king of Tuscany was hung round with bells.The hour of bathing was made known in ancient Rome by the sound of a bell ; the night watchman carried one, and it served to call up the servants in great houses.Sheep had them tied about necks to frighten away wolves, or, rather, by way of amulet.In our own day this custom, like many others, serves to remind us of former times.Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, is generally considered as the first person who introduced bells into ecclesiastical service, about the year 400.And we are told by ancient historians that in the year 610 the Bishop of Orleans, being at Seno, then in a state of siege, frightened away the besieging army by ringing St.Stephen\u2019s Church bells, which is a clear proof that they were not at that time generally known in France.The first large bells are mentioned by Bede, in the year 630.Before that period the early British Christians made use of wooden rattles to call the con- , gregation of the faithful together.Hand bells probably first appeared at religious processions, and were afterward used by the seculars.The small bells were not always held in the hand ; they were some- LESLIE HOUSE, DUNDAS.Once occupied by Wm.Lyon McKenzie.at THE SMALL HEADSTONE MARKED x POINTS OUT THE GRAVE OF WM.LYON McKENZIE.gulphus, abbot of Croyland, who died about 1109, speaks of them as being well known in his time, and says that \u201cthe first abbot of Croyland gave six bells to that monastery\u2014that is to say, two great ones, which he named Bartholomew and Beladine ; two of a medium size, called Turkebullum and Beterine ; two small ones, denominated Pega and Bega.He also caused the great bell to be made called Gudla, which was tuned to the other bell, and produced an admirable harmony, not to be equalled in England.\u201d The bells used in the monasteries were sometimes rung with ropes having brass or silver rings at the ends for the hand.They were anciently rung by the priests themselves, afterward by the servants and sometimes by those incapable of other duties, as persons who were blind.In the early days of the Church bells were actually baptized and anointed with the chrism, or holy oil.They were also exorcised and blessed by the Bishop, from a belief that when these ceremonies had been performed they had the power to drive the devils out of the air, to calm tempests and keep away the plague.The ritual for these ceremonies is contained in the Roman Pontifical and is still used in Roman Catholic countries, where it is usual to give bells the name of some saint, as was formerly done in England.The saints\u2019 bell was not so called from the name of the saint that was inscribed on it, or of the church to which it belonged, but because it was always rung out when the priest came to that part of the service, \u201c Sancte, Sancte, Sancte, Domine Deus Sabbath ;\u201d purposely that those persons who could not come to church might know in what solemn office the congregation were at that instant engaged, and so, even in their absence, be once, at least, moved to lift up their hearts to Him who made them.Bells at one time were thought an effectual charm against lightning.The frequent firing of abbey churches by lightning confuted the proud motto commonly written on the bells in their steeples, wherein each entitled itself to a sixfold efficacy, viz :\u2014 Men\u2019s death I tell by doleful knell, Lightning and thunder I break asunder; On Sabbath all to church I call ; The sleepy head I raise from bed, The winds, so fierce, I do disperse, Men\u2019s cruel rage I do assuage.Whereas it appears that abbey steeples, though equipped with bells almost cap-a-pie, were not proof against the sword of God\u2019s lightning.Yea, generally when the heavens in tempests did strike fire the steeples of abbeys proved often their timber, whose frequent MONTREAL, CANADA.sociations for Readers of The Standard NAN PAPINEAU\u2019S HOME AT MONTEBELLO ON THE OTTAWA, QUE af~-~~~THE SPIRIT OF AUTUMN THOMAS S.JONES, JR.AAA s â .+ £5 00° pu Rd à = % 4 + ¥ © = .Wen wR + PR LA > aE 4 yo sa, ER = = \u20ac « se AN ee cata | ; .Se a à = RA Frond $M .qn Fe TR , wg a Ta ; Conde Lied nk : +: .\u2014 ie | burnings portended their tinal destruction.It has anciently been reported, observed Lord Bacon, and is still received, that extreme applause and shouting of people assembled in multitudes have so rarefied and broken the air that birds flying over have fallen down, the air not being able to support them, and it is believed by some that great ringing of bells in populous cities has chased away thunder and also dissipated pestilent air.There is a bell at Washington, D.C., whose history dates back to the beginning of modern civilization on this continent.It is a trifling affair as regards size, its dimensions being only 8x61 inches, yet its notes have sounded to call the great discoverer Columbus to prayer and worship.It was brought from Spain in December, 1493, and set up in a church at Santo Domingo.It was the special gift of King Ferdinand, and bears the initial of his name, \u201cF,\u201d in old Gothic characters upon its surface.When La Vega, the new City of the Plains, was founded, church and bell were bodily removed to it.Among the largest and most complete chimes in the United States is the one hanging in the bell tower of Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia.Most chimes are made up of from eight to a dozen bells.The one in Holy Trinity, however, is composed of no less.than twenty-five of the bronze- throated musical instruments.These are hung upon horizontal bars located one above the other, the first holding seven, the next.five, the next seven and the next three, while three others, two large and one small one, swing from an independent frame situated higher | up in the belfry.Christ Church, Philadelphia, also has an interesting set of bells.They are more than a century and a half old.I Where the winds low list and the But a spirit haunts in the moon\u2019s Ah, that song\u2014-tis sweet as the £2 leafless trees pale glow.pipes of Pan, == Stand gaunt and gray \u2019gainst| And all is changed as she sings Or faint lutes sounding in == the sullen sky, à strain, Arcady The naked boughs whisper melo- | While the night winds harken and Thro\u2019 the purple dawn-\u2014yea, far A eu dies lightly blow sweeter than Of Summer spent and of Spring Her loose-bound hair in a raven The music.that wafts from a gone by\u2014 rain\u2014 Southern sea ! Of days once glad that are gone And bear her song \u2018to the distant Beneath its spell the wastes bloom forever, closes in flowers Of lips once true that will answer Where many a longing heart re- And back again come the vanished never, poses, hours\u2014 Of life and love that are but as Waking old love-dreams that over- For she who sings to the soul of these flow man ; Dead leaves of Autumn, grown In a rapturous joy and wistful| Is the Autumn spirit of mem- | withered and dry.pain.ory.| | 34 .ai OLD CHURCH OF THE JESUIT MISSIONS AT TADOUSAC.The bell in this church is over 300 years old.LOUIS RIEL'S GRAVE IN ST.BONIFACE CEMETERY, WINNIPEG.CATHEDRAL OF ST.BONIFACE, WINNIPEG, Riel\u2019s grave under trees to left of sidewalk.Liz - -_\u2014-\u2014-\u2014 _ ; oo Lo Tym ar LL a 02 1 .A oo = \u2014 ; "]