The Standard., 3 avril 1909, Cahier 2

[" - \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 mm ww + 5 \u2014 ss rte = ga te SE The Standard, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT VOL.V.N°- 14.MONTREAL, CANADA, APRIL 3, 1909.171 ST.JAMES STREET.er etre tn, Te yy ONE OF MONTREAL'S CHOIRS IN FANTASTIC DRESS\u2014The members of the Men\u2019s Own Brotherhood Choir of Calvary Congregational Church as they looked on the occasion of the Pierrot Concert given last week.(Photo by Gordon, St.Catherine Street West.) ~~ LUB FOR 1908-09, INCLUDING ABE.WOOD, WHO MADE SUCH A GOOD SHOWING AT THE ARENA MEMBERS QF-THE GORDON HARAIER at the names are:\u2014Back row: T: Betts, H.M.Gore, A.Cartwright, W.Showers, F.S.Gales, A.Welham, E.G.Smith (Secretary Harrier Club), J.C.Whalen.Middle row: A.D.Carmichael, W.Kerr, A.H.Thomson (Secretary Gordon A.A.A.), H.T.Diplock (President Gordon A.A.A.), A.C.Wood, F.T.Bown (Vice-President), S.B.Ward (President Gordon Harriers), E.Cote.Front row: D.R.Jones A.W.Morrison, B.George, E.C.Brinson, E.H.Martin, T.Aspell, E.Cook, H.Cook.The Gordon Trophies are in the foreground., ., + (Photo by Gordon, St.Catherine Street West.) At The Clothes Show Held recently in the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, many smart styles were shown\u2014none smarter or more admired than these two of the eighteen 20th THE STANDARD, MONTREAL, CANADA.TORONTO Century city and town in Canada.The Lowndes Company, Limited 142-144 West Front Street, Toronto.\u2014-TAILORED BY\u2014\u2014 Brand overcoat styles for Spring, which we have pleasure in submitting to the critical judgment of good dressers.Agents in every y Canada as the World's Granary.HE centre of gravity in the world's wheat market shifted when the United States found that our people consumed all the wheat raised in our territory, leaving none for exportation, says the Literary Digest (N.Y.).Yet even now this country raises more wheat (634,000,000 bushels) than any other single country in the world, and about sixty times as much as our neighbor on the north.Canada, however, 1s looked upon by some Italian economists as the coming bread-giver of the civilized world, although at this moment Italy itself is producing nearly twice as much wheat as the Dominion, According to a writer in the Minerva (Rome), the help of the Dominion in giving bread to the hungry is now urgently needed.This supreme cereal, although at present cultivated so widely and so plentifully, says this Roman weekly, is beyond the reach of such multitudes that \u201cmany economists have published statistics of an alarming character, as they tend to prove that the human race increases so fast that it is in danger, in the near future, of meeting the fate of Count Ugo- lino.\u201d The writer tries to reassure these alarmists by pointing to Canada: \u201cFortunately, the cultivation of wheat has for the jast few years been developed to a phenomenal degree in the fertile and boundless plains of Western \u2014_\u2014 \u2014_\u2014 = Canada, and the production is all the while increasing.The day is not far distant when Canada, cultivated with eager industry by the robust arms of the immigrants who are crowding in, will become the granary of the world.as Egypt was of the Roman Empire.\u201d \u201cWhen it is considered that 25,000,- 000 bushels suffice for the home consumption of Canada, it will be seen how vast a Quantity of wheat is available for exportation.It has been calculated by Canadian staltisticians and publicists that in twenty-five years the area of the wheat-fields in Western Canada will amount to 6,000,000 acres, As the average production of each acre is 18.98 bushels, which is 50 per cent, more than the average productivity of the rest of the world, Canada will be able to put upon the market an amount of grain equal to half of the ROBERT HARRIS, C.M.G,, R.C.A,, one of the exhibitors at the Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal.NN NAN Se, NN om mm MISS HELEN G.McNICHOL, one of the exhibitors at the Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal.a world's total production, which at the present moment does not exceed 1,500,- 000,000 bushels.\u201d \u201cThe harvest of last year brought $100,000,000 to the farmers of Canada.This success in the cultivation of grains has inspired the movement wiich eventually must result in the abandonment of every other department of agriculture, in order that every effort may be concentrated on the production of wheat.\u201d only Genuine BEWARE hl OF if IMITATIONS | SOLD ON THE MERITS OF MINARD\u2019S LINIMENT SPR VUE wa = = = 4.3 ©: Ia, Lak Eo yc wera - ¥ "]