id,date,time_period,weather_type,text,infrastructural_impact,political_impact,financial_impact,ecological_impact,agricultural_impact,human_health_impact
218,19900619,modern,Nan,"""S Supreme Court thinks she should have the chance to fight in court for royalties from her late father's country-music hits The high court, without comment, let stand yesterday a federal appeals court ruling that Cathy Yvonne Stone, 37, is entitled to have her legal fight put before a jury It also rejected an appeal by country singer Hank Williams Jr against an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that Stone is a legal heir Stone was born in Alabama in 1953, five days after Williams died at age 29 Her mother, Bobbie Jett, and Williams had signed an agreement months earlier acknowledging he might be the father Stone filed suit soon after marrying a lawyer in 1985 Checker, Revere turn back clock NORTH PLATTE, Neb - The bygone days of sock hops and greasy kid stuff returned at a weekend nostalgia concert by Chubby Checker and Paul Revere and the Raiders Checker (left) got the crowd of more than 4,000 swiveling with the invitation, Come on, baby, let's do the twist He was just 17 when he recorded the song that started a dance craze in the 1960s Revere and the Raiders wore tight white pants,",0,0,0,0,0,0
88,19960724,modern,Flood,"Alex Pacheco, with the Expos briefly, is 4-1 (1. AARON DERFEL THE GAZETTE CAPT MIKE FABR0 Cpl. Bernie Lanteigne, a flight engineer, holds an unidentified girl who was in the first group of people rescued by his helicopter crew yesterday. CANADIAN FORCES BASE BAGOTVILLE - Capt. Jonathan Bouchard, one of the top pilots of 439 Squadron, had already completed a rescue mission by 9:30 a.m. yesterday when he received orders to fly to Grande-Baie. ""It's a medi-vac,"" Bouchard said of the latest sortie as the CH-145 Griffon, a $6-million chopper, lifted noisily off the tarmac. Bouchard, at 23 the youngest member of the squadron, had logged more than 30 air hours during the previous four days carrying out evacuations of flood-ravaged towns in the Saguenay-Lac St.-Jean region.
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201,19920824,modern,Hurricane,"In the Bahamas, Jimmy Curry, director of production for the Bahamas News Bureau, said he had reports of four deaths on either Abaco or Eleuthera. The storm apparently spared the Bahamas' most populous section the brunt of its fury, but outer islands might have suffered more damage, according to preliminary reports. The storm passed over Nassau without doing major damage. In Ottawa, the External Affairs Department said there are 312 Canadians registered as residents of the Bahamas but the actual number is probably closer to 500. Not since 1935 has a storm hit Florida with such intensity, and the U.S. National Hurricane Centre in Miami said that the 1935 storm was ""the most intense ever to strike the United States."" The evacuation orders, which began yesterday morning, covered a 400-km coastal belt from Key West to Fort Lauderdale. They extended to low-lying areas and mobile-home communities farther north, and to areas along the southwestern coast as well. It is unclear how many people have actually left their homes. Many are staying, especially those born and raised in Florida. Others have taken to the highways, flown to other cities or moved in with friends or relatives.",1,0,0,0,0,0
83,20001106,modern,Nan,"The train came so close to the woman that its front coupling cast a shadow over her, police said. ""She was very shaken up, obviously,"" said Staff Sgt. Dick Shantz of Edmonton police. The woman suffered cuts and bruises and was undergoing X-rays to determine if she broke any bones in her 1.5-metre fall from the transit platform to the train tracks. Shantz said the attack occurred when a man ""ran up behind the woman and deliberately pushed her in front of the train"" at a transit station at the University of Alberta about 4 p.m. An eyewitness tackled a suspect and held him until security arrived. Gordon Bernard Merrick, 38, of Edmonton is charged with attempted murder. THE ACES ON BRIDGE BY BOBBY WOLFF ""With foxes we must play the fox."" -Thomas Fuller, M. D10 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2000 MONDAY SPORTS SOCCER ROUNDUP Udinese surprise Italian leaders MADRID - Alaves rolled to a 4-0 win.
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219,19900622,modern,Nan,"Nine go to post in North American Cup CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO The $1-million North American Cup might have to be renamed the Canada Cup if another Canadian-owned standard-bred horse shows up in the winner's circle after the seventh edition of the harness race tomorrow night. Nine talented sophomores will line up behind the Greenwood Raceway starting gate to contest this year's event. Canadian-owned horses have won five of six events heading into the seventh edition. Tomorrow, Apaches Fame will lead the contingent of four Canadian-owned horses which also includes Montreal-based Mark Jonathan, Road Machine and Shipps Schnoops. Apaches Fame has won five of six races this year with the only loss coming last Saturday to American-owned Beach Towel, another North American Cup starter. McGill-affiliated Psychiatric Research Centre is conducting specialized investigations with new medications in Depression. If you are feeling sad and hopeless, lack motivation and energy, have difficulty with sleep or concentration, or have other similar symptoms, you may be eligible for our program. Confidential & free of charge.",0,0,0,0,0,0
33,18830321,historical,,"Hurley鈥檚 troubles between union and non-union workers are reported at Limerick, N.B. Over two hundred arrests of suspected Nihilists have been made in St. Petersburg within a week. Von Waldeck, Minister of Worship and Schools, has been shot at Gotha by a disappointed applicant for office. The Governor of Moscow has received a communication threatening to blow up the Kremlin on the occasion of the Czar's coronation. The Grand Jury at Belfast has returned true bills against Nugent and twelve other members of the Armagh Assassination Society. A large employer at Birkenhead has discharged all his Irish employees, declaring he would not pay people who fostered assassination. The Dean of Canterbury has received a letter threatening to blow up the Deanery on the occasion of the enthronement of the new Archbishop. The North German Gazette confirms the recent statements of the Russian Foreign Minister regarding the relations between Germany and Austria. Lord Carlingford has taken the post of Lord President of the Council in the Imperial Cabinet, also assuming the duties of Minister of Agriculture.",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,Cetec 5000 55 55 55 Abacrs 7000 41 41 41 1 Chandlr 163500 52 45 41 6 Aooevt 1000 90 90 90 OWeju 10000 13 13 13 Academy 4000 8 I I Chanimex 8000 I 8 8-2 Adasrral 10000 15 15 15 -4 Chase res 6000 485 470 485 Adonosres 3000 M5 200 205 Chevydev 12900 71 73 71 4 Adrnresv 1500 65 62 62 -3 China eel 17500 350 330 340 AH auto t 332333 31 25 J7 -3 Chutmers 38000 10 10 10 -3 Alhanexp 10500 37 36 36 -2 City res y 5000 5 5 5 Aiexavn 8000 50 50 50 Ckearcdnf 835 825 25 JS 1 Almaden 1000 35 35,0,0,0,0,0,0
29,18981128,historical,,"According to Lieut. Harrington, the British military representative in Abyssinia, Menelek is still sitting on the fence, endeavoring to play off one European power against the other. Such a policy is elementary and probable. It is unlikely that Menelek will interfere with Marchand's expedition through his country, and it is equally and even more unlikely that he is meditating the immediate provocation of England. If Menelek's object is to establish a kingdom, any premature trouble with England, he well knows, will spoil this. Meanwhile, British policy is determined that Menelek must stay at home. Under no circumstances will the Abyssinian frontier be allowed to extend beyond the Nile. THE WEATHER Fair, With Stationary or Slightly Higher Temperature Toronto, Ont, November 27. A severe storm covers the Maritime Provinces, attended by heavy gales and snow and rain. Pronounced depressions also exist in the Northwest Territories and the west southwest States.",0,0,0,0,0,0
11,18920615,historical,Storm,"Cheat Faj, Mont, June 14 The Missouri River is higher today than ever known since the existence of this city. People along the shore are driven from their homes. Bridges are washed out so that there have been no trains over the Montana Central from Helena since Friday. All passengers for the West are held here, including many delegates to the National A.A.D. Dyer & Co, Montreal. Bishop's College Convocation The convocation of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, takes place on Thursday, June 30. The programme is as follows: Holy Communion at 7 a.m.; convocation service at 11 a.m., Rev. Provost Body being the preacher; conferring of degrees at 2:30 p.m. The athletic sports take place on Wednesday, June 28, and the """"old boys'"""" cricket match on June 28. The annual meeting of the Alma Mater Society takes place during the convocation. Haulage by the Storm Sunday's storm caused considerable damage at Saint Jerome. Two barns belonging to Messrs. Lajeunesse and Taillon, farmers, were destroyed and the steeple of St.",1,0,0,0,0,0
214,18900416,historical,Nan,"He states that bucket shops are falling all over the country, and those in this city have to depend on stock quotations, as their grain prices are worthless. Business on the board continues large. Collided With a Freight Car. Schenectady, N.Y, April 15. Train No. 34 on the Fitchburg railroad collided with a freight car last night near Glenville. The engineer was quite badly hurt. The engine, baggage car, and the sleeper were derailed, the first two being badly smashed. The passengers escaped injury. Interfered With Contract Labor. New Orleans, April 15. Ferdinand Brewer, negro laborer's agent, was yesterday convicted of unlawfully interfering with contract labor and fined $100. He was jailed in default of payment. This is the first conviction under this law, which was passed by the last Legislature. A Medal for Finding a Comet. Geneva, Ill, April 15. Professor Brooks, director of the Smith Observatory here, has just been awarded the medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his discovery of the comet now in the eastern heavens.",0,0,0,0,0,0
26,18940213,historical,Snow,"The cyclone was about a mile wide and everything in its path was leveled. A great many houses were swept from their foundations, trees twisted off, fences destroyed, several people killed and a great many seriously injured. KANSAS, KANSAS CITY, February 12. The worst snowstorm in years raged all over Kansas and Missouri last night and today, for not a single train was on time. The snow averaged from one foot to two feet on the level. High winds accompanied it, and at some points it is 20 feet deep. In many sections schools were closed today. In towns with street railways the service was paralyzed. The snow was dry and the telegraph service was not injured. TOPEKA, Kan., February 12. All railroads in Kansas are blockaded with snow and scarcely a wheel is turning in the state. VESSELS ASHORE, LONG BRANCH, COLD WEATHER. That Is What the Probs Say of Today's Weather. Meteorological Office, Toronto, Ont, February 12, 11 p.m.",1,0,0,1,0,1
107,19920330,modern,Nan,"Mr. Bourassa and Hydro-Quebec will also have to take better account of that aboriginal political clout. Patience and compromise will be needed to restore confidence in hydro-electricity, which remains Quebec's major economic asset. New York cancelled the long-term contract when Quebec refused to agree to a 30 percent cut in the price. Quebec was right to do that. This is not a garage sale. Hydro-Quebec has an excellent product, one of the cleanest and most economical sources of energy in nature. New Yorkers may live to regret their growing reliance on gravely polluting fossil fuels. Mr. Moi, meet King Canute. Under obvious pressure from Western aid donors, Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi has taken several steps toward democracy in recent months. The biggest was last December's legalization of opposition parties. But now Mr. Moi seems determined to make sure that things don't go too far. This month, the government declared a nationwide ban on political meetings, ostensibly in an effort to cool down the ugly inter-tribal violence in western Kenya that has taken about 60 lives in recent weeks. Mr.
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82,19980109,modern,Storm,"Giving your home that lived-in look: Inquire if your neighbor can park a car in your driveway. Ask your neighbor to make occasional verifications inside your home. Make sure all newspapers and mail are removed from the mailbox. Put away all tools and items that can help someone enter your home. Lock all doors and windows prior to leaving. We are asking that all Montreal citizens lend a helping hand and show a community spirit in this crisis! Please contact your neighborhood police station for further information. A message from The Gazette and your MUC police service. COMMUNAUTÉ URBAINE DE MONTRÉAL Police An advisory regarding your telephone service. The freezing rain storms have affected some telephone lines interrupting service in your region. Some further disruption is possible. Rest assured that we're doing everything in our power to provide service as conditions permit. Thank you very much for your understanding. DAVID SIDAWAY, GAZETTE Snap, crack, crash; Thousands of trees in parks across the island are succumbing to ice build-up and wind.
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189,20100125,modern,Ice,"go to montrcalgazetta.com components of modern life - our communications systems, our banking systems, our refrigeration, our heating, all goes So what is sustaining the way we live is actually very narrow and potentially very fragile I was lucky enough to be able to travel with the Canadian military during the ice storm and they did a phenomenal job - that really drove home the importance of having trained professionals who are capable of dealing with emergency situations, something that was visibly lacking in New Orleans There we saw that environmental change can create its own problems, but it can exacerbate existing problems So if you have a society that is already fragmented, where the resources are already stretched, where the emergency services are understaffed and under-equipped, if you have a disruption, everything gets very bad very quickly It's not just that the environment is changing, it's our reaction to that changing environment that really determines how bad the situation will be",1,0,0,0,0,0
245,20070113,modern,Freezing,"S' troops to Iraq? Yes: 16 votes No: 84 LOTTERIES FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2007 Quotidienne-3 1-0-9 (in order) Quotidienne-4 4-2-3-2 (in order) Extra - 3-2-2-3-9-4-7 (in order) Super? 13-17-22-24-34-38-42 Bonus: 27 Banco 1-3-9-10-22 24-25-26-28-31 34-42-44-46-48 50-53-59-64-65 Mini Loto 5-4-7-1-0-2 wins $50,000 4-7-1-0-2 wins $5,000 7-1-0-2 wins $250 1-0-2 wins $25 0-2 wins $5 5-4-7-1-0 wins $1,000 5-4-7-1 wins $100 5-4-7 wins $10 In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list of Loto-Quebec, the latter shall prevail Please recycle this newspaper A MARCOS TOWNSEND THE GAZETTE, Yves Girard, manager of the city's cleanliness and maintenance unit, with a map showing where the snow dumps and operations are located. He's tracking the best practices of various boroughs. As winter trends change, so does city planning LESS PLOWING, MORE SIDEWALK SALTING Montreal creates office to set standards, look at boroughs' most efficient efforts LINDA CYULAI GAZETTE CIVIC AFFAIRS REPORTER It isn't your imagination, Montreal winters have changed, the people who run snow-removal operations for the city say. And that means the city has to change the way it budgets for and executes snow removal to respond to a trend over the past few winters of less snow, more freezing rain and episodes of melting snow and refreezing, Montreal's snow head honcho, Yves Girard, said in an interview this week. Girard, who is in charge of the city's newly formed cleanliness and maintenance unit, said his office is studying the best practices of the 19 boroughs, from the type of salt spreaders they're buying to the blend of salt and gravel they use to the specifications in their snow-removal contracts. Each borough is still boss of its own snow-clearing operations, Girard said. But Mayor Gerald Tremblay's administration created Girard's office to establish standards. For instance, Girard's priority this winter is to get salt spread on sidewalks as fast as possible. The past two winters have been marked by freezing rain and cycles of unseasonably mild temperatures followed by sudden deep freezes. Girard's office also wants to better synchronize snow-clearing operations between boroughs along major public transit bus routes, he said. His office is also analyzing the boroughs' snow-clearing contracts, which are worth a combined $50 million. Should they still be based on 200 centimetres of snowfall? And most contracts expire March 15, even though snowstorms frequently occur after that date, he said. Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough has already started adjusting to the weather changes. The borough bought four new tractors designed to spread abrasives, borough spokesperson Marie-Elaine Ladouceur said. The borough has also created a snow-clearing unit that will attack snow as soon as it falls on streets where parking is always prohibited, like in front of schools, rather than wait several hours for public-works crews to put up no-parking signs across the borough before clearing any snow. ""It's so easy to say that you go in and clear the snow, spread some salt and it's over,"" Anie Samson, borough mayor of Villeray-St. Michel-Park Extension, said. ""But it's not like that anymore. The sidewalks are icy more often, chunks of ice block up sewers (and) it's hard to calculate whether it's best to spread salt or gravel or a mix because the temperature fluctuates so much."" Since you now get a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow in a single day, Samson said, the borough often spreads abrasives twice a day. The city also will have to rethink winter activities, Samson predicted. Her borough decided to forgo its February winter carnival after last winter's extreme temperature changes. She cited the number of outdoor skating rinks that have no ice this season as an example. ""We no longer have the winters we had 10 years ago,"" Igyulaithegazette, canwest. Josh Freed's column will be back next week HOW TO REACH US General inquiries 514-987-2222 Home delivery Montreal area: 514-987-2400 elsewhere: 1-800-361-8478 Advertising Classified, Automotive, Real Estate: 514-987-7653 Employment, Careers: 514-987-7653 Obituaries: 514-987-7653 Retail, National: 514-987-2350 Billing: 514-987-2250 Newsroom Reader Information and copyright permission: Phyllis Beaulieu 514-987-2610 Editor-in-chief: Andrew Phillips 514-987-2500 Contests, promotions: 514-987-2336 Newsroom fax: 514-987-2399 Privacy The Gazette is published daily by CanWest Media Works Publications Inc. The CanWest companies collect and use your personal information primarily for the purpose of providing you with the products and services you have requested from us. 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It's his opinions that drive traffic to his blog, rated No. 4 best blog by The Mirror's Best of V. CORDON BECK THE GAZETTE ve-Amelie Towner-Sarault (left), Claudia Sanche-Poulin, Kristy Franks, Nadia Ponce-Morales, Rachel Benoit and Isabelle Randria helped start the Canada World Youth Green Miles Project. Trees will not reach maturity—the seat to Nairobi can be offset by the planting of 20 trees. Over 20 years, those trees will absorb the atmospheric pollution generated by the participant's flight to Nairobi. ""The Green Miles Project is an optimistic, realistic solution,"" Franks said. ""There's a bigger picture than just this one seat on this plane. It's about making an effort."" The idea for the project was stimulated, in part, by the climate change conference held in Montreal in 2005. People from all over the world were coming to this city to talk about pollution and CWY decided to take action. Part of the organization's philosophy is promoting environmental sustainability. After CWY conducted an impact assessment during the summer of 2005, organizers found the majority of the pollution they generate was caused by air travel, one of the least environmentally friendly modes of transportation. So they decided to target the problem directly. Last year, when the green initiative was in its pilot-project phase, trees were planted on public and private properties across Canada by the travelling participants, who also raised the money to buy the trees. This year, the organization is trying to secure funding to implement the project more widely at home and branch out to plant trees in host countries. ""We need to be aware of the ecological footprints that we leave on the planet,"" Franks said, ""and we need to take action and be responsible for it."" For more information about the Green Miles project, contact Kristy Franks at kfranks@cwy-jcm.org. SUSAN KRASHINSKY THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2007 ""It's starting to look like winter will be something that comes and goes,"" jean-francois Grec SCRAPING UP SAVINGS Warmer weather has boroughs seeing green CITY SPARED COSTS OF SNOW-CLEARING But a few blizzards before the spring could melt cash savings, municipal officials warn. LINDA CYULAI GAZETTE CIVIC AFFAIRS REPORTER When the snowflakes are scarce, pennies drop from the sky. The lack of snow so far this winter has generated savings for Montreal's 19 boroughs. But there's no use in counting on a cash bonanza yet, borough mayors and public-works managers warned this week, as yesterday's rain and above-freezing temperature melted an early morning snowfall that had blanketed parts of the island. The four to five centimetres that accumulated temporarily was about as much snow as Mother Nature has been able to muster locally in one shot since the start of the season. On the other hand, it would take only a few blizzards to melt the savings and deplete the boroughs' combined $127-million snow-removal budgets this year, the officials said. ""I'm crossing my fingers that it continues like this without extreme changes,"" said Anie Samson, mayor of Villeray-St. Michel-Park Extension borough. ""But since it's extreme weather, we don't know what could happen. I'm worried."" The lack of snow is disappointing for the city's outdoor skaters and is fueling concern about climate change, but boroughs are hearing the ching-ching of savings ringing up as they close their books on the 2006 fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31. Ville Marie borough, which includes downtown and Old Montreal, estimates it saved $600,000 to $700,000 up to Dec. 31, spokesperson Jacques-Alain Lavallee said. The borough's 2007 snow budget is $8.75 million. But predictions for boroughs' 2007 budgets are as uncertain as a long-term weather forecast. The funds must last through the rest of this winter, plus November and December. Ville Marie's savings in 2006 were on payments to private companies, which handle half the snow removal, and on overtime for city blue-collar employees who do the other half, Lavallee said. Overtime costs shoot up during a snowstorm, as does fuel use, he said. The borough also saved on not having to call in blue-collar temps, as it usually does when the city has to dig out. On the other hand, the savings can only climb so high in any borough because of fixed costs, like employee salaries, orders for salt and gravel that get placed before winter, and minimum payment guarantees that are written into contracts with private snow-removal companies. Most boroughs contract out a portion of their snow-clearing work. Almost all contracts guarantee a minimum 50-per-cent payment. Boroughs base the contracts on 200 centimetres of snowfall and guarantee a minimum payment for 100 centimetres. For instance, the Southwest borough has $2.5 million in contracts with five companies and is committed to pay at least $1.25 million regardless of how much snow falls, said Ronald Cyr, the borough's manager of public works. The borough hasn't compiled final figures for 2006, but Cyr said it has probably saved about $100,000 on overtime for its 80 blue-collar employees and about $50,000 because it hasn't had to call in 20 temporary employees. As in other boroughs, Cyr said, Southwest's 80 permanent workers have been dispatched to do work normally done in spring, like cleaning streets, fixing roads and repairing benches and equipment. The story is similar for other boroughs: Cote des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grace: The borough has saved about $200,000, mayor Michael Applebaum said, and if the weather continues to be mild could save $500,000 on salting operations alone, and as much as $1.2 million overall on its $7-million snow budget. Applebaum already knows how he'll spend any savings. He'll funnel part of it into a snow reserve, in case the borough is short money during a future winter. The rest will be invested in services, Applebaum said. Plateau Mont Royal: The borough expects the weather relieved it of a chunk of snow-removal costs, spokesperson Marie-Eve Humbert said. But it is still calculating year-end figures. The Plateau, which spends DOM DE LA CATHEDRALS 514 282 9525 LAVAL (GALEMES LAVAL) 450 681 2202 KIWILAMO (CENTRE RIOCAN) 514 694 6276. ""All indications are (that) the climate system has a risk of being more sensitive than we previously thought,"" Cordon McBean. FLORA FOOLED INTO SPRING BEHAVIOUR Plants could suffer setback come April, May CHERYL CORNACCHIA THE GAZETTE The sap is running, magnolias are budding and crocuses are blooming in southern Quebec. It's definitely not like winter, but whether it's a welcome respite is debatable. Botanists and horticulturists caution that Montreal gardens could suffer later. Trees, shrubs and perennials are all being affected by the lack of snow cover and the warmer-than-usual temperatures. The full impact of this winter's wacky weather will only be known when spring arrives for real. ""Things are way too green,"" said Christina Idziak, curator at McGill University's Morgan Arboretum in Ste. Anne de Bellevue and a tree specialist. During a walk through the McGill tree sanctuary this week, THOMAS COEX AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Skiers get a bird's eye view of green runs in Wengen, Switzerland, where warm weather forced the cancellation of a World Cup race yesterday. Warm weather dampens Europe's World Cup action Dandelions sprout on ASSOCIATED PRESS Wengen, Switzerland - At many ski resorts across Europe, there's more mud than snow. World Cup race courses are flanked by dead, brown grass. Tourists twirl umbrellas in the streets rather than clump around in ski boots. In France, it's been raining at an altitude of 2,500 metres and most ski resorts are below that. In Chamonix, France, one of the world's top ski destinations, the temperature this week reached 12 degrees Celsius. Only about 60 per cent of the resort's slopes are open. Lean on snow and unable to make more on its World Cup course because of mild temperatures, Chamonix was forced to hand over its races to another French resort, Val d'Isere. Less than 40 per cent of slopes were open at the posh resort of Gstaad, Switzerland - known as the Beverly Hills of the Alps. At Wengen - a World Cup host - this should change during the coming week, when much colder air is expected in southwestern Quebec. The Weather Network's forecast highs and lows for Tuesday and Wednesday are minus 12C/minus 26C and minus 17C/minus 17C, respectively. From Jan. 1 to Jan. 10, the average temperature at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport was 2.4 T -1.2 80.4 30.6 2.1 44.8 4.4 Figures are estimates T: Traces of snow Figures until Jan. 10 SOURCE: ENVIRONMENT CANADA leaves or straw atop a garden bed - protects garden plants. The mulch helps keep trees and other plants dormant through winter by keeping the soil cold and preventing roots from waking up and sending nutrients to branches, leaves and buds. In the absence of mulch, she said, snow cover does the job. This winter, however, many gardens have been without either. As a result, Atkinson said, some perennials, especially those that are not well established, could fail to come back in the spring. She said her Dorval neighbour's crocuses came up just before Christmas - ""blooms and all."" Although her spring bulbs have not done the same, she said, Atkinson continues to watch for signs of premature life in her primrose garden. ""All we can do is hope for the best,"" Atkinson said. Outside the city, after days of above-zero temperatures during the day and freezing temperatures at night, the sap is running. Serge Beaulieu owns 23,000 sugar maples in Ormstown 50 kilometres southwest of Montreal, who plans to tap his trees in mid-February as usual. But some of his neighbours have already begun tapping their sugar maples and will be boiling the sap this weekend, he said. ""I've seen that once or twice before at the end of January, but never mid-January,"" Beaulieu said. As for going to a sugar shack, sit tight, said Jean-Pierre Bellegarde, a spokesperson for Quebec's maple syrup industry and its 7,400 producers. Most people want to go to a cabane a sucre in March or April, not January or February, and Quebec sugar-shack owners have no plans to change the annual spring rite, Bellegarde said. The cabane a sucre is a place to say a sweet goodbye to winter, said Bellegarde, of the Federation des producteurs acericoles du Quebec. ""There's no desire to change that,"" ccornacchia thegazette, canwest.com. He stressed the current mild winter is not necessarily the result of global warming. ""Just as I'm not going to say that this proves climate change, a cold winter next year, if it happens, doesn't disprove it, either,"" he said. ""We need to look at the trends, the ensemble of events, the statistics of it."" Climate scientists have predicted Earth could heat up by anywhere between two to six degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the 21st century because of the greenhouse gases that trap heat from sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere. ""Just to put that in quick context, the difference between now and an ice age, when there was several kilometres of ice over this part of Canada, is about five degrees globally,"" McBean said. ""So we're talking about a temperature change in the next 100 years that is of the same order, perhaps larger, perhaps a little bit smaller than what we had going in and out of an ice age. That's a big difference, and it's happening in 100 years, not in tens of thousands of years."" ONLINE EXTRA: The chairperson of Lloyd's, the world's biggest insurance market, urges a ""radical rethink"" of public policy in response to global warming. montrealgazette.com California shivers through state of emergency los angeles - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency yesterday as California shivered under a blanket of unusually cold weather. The cold snap has been caused by an arctic low-pressure system from Alaska that has swept south to California, sending temperatures plummeting to near record lows, officials said. Temperatures in Los Angeles were expected to reach 2 degrees Celsius overnight yesterday. At Lake Tahoe, temperatures hit minus 20C. The cold weather system dumped about three centimetres of snow and ice on mountainous areas in the San Diego region in southern California yesterday, forcing several schools to close.",0,1,1,0,0,0
83,20001106,modern,Rain,"The new bridge was expected to be operating after midnight, emergency measures spokesman Debbie Rudderham said. Weather forecasters weren't offering any immediate relief from the wet weather. The same three low-pressure systems that drenched the industrial Cape Breton area with nearly 200 millimetres of rain between Oct. 28 and Thursday continued. An additional 33 millimetres fell Thursday, seven millimetres Friday and 52 millimetres Saturday. Between 5 and 10 millimetres were expected yesterday. Environment Canada meteorologist Mike Battson said no more heavy rainfall was in the forecast, but the system will continue to provide regular amounts of rain (from five to 20 millimetres) until mid-week. Woman shoved into path of train EDMONTON - A 22-year-old woman was shoved into the path of an approaching transit train yesterday but escaped death when the train was able to stop without hitting her. The train came so close to the woman that its front coupling cast a shadow over her, police said. ""She was very shaken up, obviously,"" said Staff Sgt. Dick Shantz of Edmonton police.
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201,19920824,modern,Nan,"Heavier clouds or precipitation significantly reduce UV levels. Regional High 29 Low near 17 Sunny, windy and very warm. Laurentians High 28 Low near 15 Partly cloudy and very warm. Eastern Ontario High 28 Low near 20 Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Southern Ontario High 27 Low near 19 Hazy sunshine, warm and humid. Quebec City High 29 Low near 18 Sunny, very warm and humid. Eastern Townships High 28 Low near 18 Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Northern New England High 29 Low near 19 Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Gaspe High 27 Low near 15 Sunny and warm. Lower North Shore High 22 Low near 13 Cloudy with sunny periods. Partly cloudy High 29 Low 18. Vancouver High 22 Low 11. Weather systems. Police battle German rightists attacking refugee hostel REUTER ROSTOCK, Germany Two hundred young right-wingers, cheered on by hundreds of spectators, attacked a hostel for foreign refugees in eastern Germany and battled police protecting it, officials said yesterday.",0,0,0,0,0,0
15,18930830,historical,,"""000 toward starting the paper Its name will be Independence and will be recognized as the official organ of the Canadian independence movement for New England The paper will also advocate high license Nearly 3,000 subscribers have been secured in the New England manufacturing towns, where ex-Premier Mercier, of Quebec, recently lectured, and the projectors of the enterprise feel confident of success The Tariff Declaration Washington, August 29 The Committee on Ways and Means will proceed at once with the preparation of a tariff bill and will hold hearings in the course thereof to persons and parties interested One Hundred Poisoned Moscow, August 29 More than 100 persons at SheleanovodBs, a summer resort in the Caucasus, have been poisoned by koumiss The rest of the summer visitors have left in a panic But for a few persons too ill to be moved the hotels are deserted One of the most prominent physicians in Detroit writes I those who regularly drink Sprudel, the celebrated water from the Mt Clemens spring, will keep their system in such condition that there need have little fear of contracting any disease BAIN HIT THE BULLSEYE!",0,0,0,0,0,0
82,19980109,modern,Freezing,"The Montreal South Shore Transit Corp. cut 40 of its rush hour bus routes in the afternoon, leaving commuters with only the 21 major ones to get home. The transit system could no longer keep up after three days of blackouts at all three of its garages, which left only backup generators to provide power for lighting, vehicle-repair equipment and a few fuel pumps, communications director Raymond Allard said. The Sureté du Quebec reported fewer highway accidents than in normal weather conditions because most motorists chose to stay at home. ""The rush hour was quite calm,"" Constable Francois Dore said. ""Fewer and fewer people are taking to the road and we expect that to continue today."" Debbie Parkes and Claude Arpin of The Gazette contributed to this report. Storm bringing people together Kahnawake elders look on bright side LYNN MOORE The Gazette Gratitude for an ice storm that has walloped their region hard, knocking out power to about half a million South Shore residents, is about the last thing one might expect from residents.
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82,19980109,modern,Freezing,"And word of the shelter had been spread. About 15,000 notices had been distributed, advising people of the shelter set up at the Knights of Columbus hall. Local radio station K103, using an emergency generator, alerted residents to news of the shelter and conservation officers had traveled in trucks and all-terrain vehicles to outlying homes, offering those residents a lift into town. But about 55 elderly or infirm people who had no power or heat refused to leave their homes, Diabo said. ""They grew up during the Depression and take this in stride,"" she said. ""They are tough and they know what to do."" They do have wood-burning stoves and light sources, Diabo added. And authorities or family members check on them regularly, she said. Deer, who is pushing 76 and breaks out the ceremonial tobacco when visitors arrive at his home, understands the stand taken by his contemporaries. So does Kellyann Meloche, who turns 23 next week, and uses computers, cellular telephones and fax machines in her job as coordinator of emergency planning for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake.
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201,19920824,modern,Nan,"I mean it's just, it's just absolutely out of the question completely. Were you alone with Dylan on Aug. 4? Was I alone with her? No. I play with the kids all the time and I'm in and out of the house and there are always people around. Supposedly this took place in the attic. This is so laughable. First of all, I couldn't find the attic in Mia's house. I mean I have never been in an attic. I'm a famous claustrophobic; wild horses couldn't get me into an attic. Allegedly Dylan herself has spoken of sexual abuse by you. What do you know about that? I would rather not say things she said, and I'd rather not say them. But she's either been put up to it, or in some frightening way in an atmosphere rife with hostility toward me and lectures about how evil I am, this has crept into her psyche in some way. Beyond that, I can't say. Some people we've interviewed have said that you've been known for fondling these kids in various ways. Well, absolutely, but not in any sexual way.",0,0,0,0,0,0
94,19980912,modern,Rain,"I: Record floods The calamitous flooding across a vast area of the Indian subcontinent became more dire as monsoon rains battered the region and caused overflowing rivers to engulf areas previously unaffected by the worst summer flooding in history. Swollen rivers across eastern India and Bangladesh were still rising and posing even further threats to millions of residents weary of more than two months of incessant inundations. The massive floods have inflicted an appalling amount of damage across both countries, where more than 14 million people have been displaced by rising waters. Although floods regularly ravage the region, this year they have swamped vast areas far from the usual courses of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and their tributaries. Earthquakes Several regions of southern Italy were rocked Wednesday afternoon by a powerful temblor that killed two people and damaged numerous buildings. The quake struck near the regional capital of Potenza and was felt from Naples to Calabria at the southern tip of the mainland. In an otherwise quiet week for worldwide seismic activity, earth movements were also felt in northeastern China and Taiwan. Tropical storms Torrential rains and severe thunderstorms associated with developing tropical storm Javier unleashed flash flooding across southern Mexico on Tuesday that killed at least 31 people. Swollen rivers churning with mud and debris swept away houses, bridges and huge trees from Chiapas state in the south to Campeche along the Gulf Coast. Tropical storm Frances drenched the Texas coast with more than 12 centimeters of rainfall. Saudi water crisis Summertime temperatures soaring to almost 50C during the previous week along the Red Sea have caused a water shortage in the Saudi port of Jeddah. Prince Me-shaal ibn Majed ibn Abdel Aziz, governor of Jeddah province, called on the population to limit consumption, but said the water crisis might be almost over. Families in the city have been without running water for up to two weeks. Eruptions White Island Volcano in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty quieted down following several days in which eruptions made the island look like it was hit by a nuclear bomb, according to one tour boat operator. In Mexico, Popocatepetl produced another smoky eruption that sent a plume of ash soaring high above the suburbs of Mexico City. The Stromboli volcano, located just north of Sicily, caused tourists to scurry down its slopes to safety as an exploding lava dome produced a rain of incandescent rocks over the volcanic island. Monarch threat Poisonous caterpillars in an important preserve for the migrating monarch butterfly in west-central Mexico threaten to destroy part of the winter habitat of the distinctive butterflies. The plague began more than a month ago and has affected about 1,500 trees along the border between the states of Michoacan and Mexico, where the monarchs are due to arrive next month. Nearly 20 percent of the trees in the preserve have already been killed. The environment ministry plans to fumigate the forests before the butterflies arrive and to replant the affected trees. Monkey raids Singapore residents are complaining to officials about an increased number of attacks by marauding monkeys, which are breaking into condominiums and trashing kitchens. """"I am very worried for the children, because the monkeys don't seem to be afraid of humans,"""" Kimberly Brenner told the Straits Times. She recently had to fight off two monkeys that had invaded her balcony, while other residents in her 400-unit complex said the troublesome primates swing from windows and even show up in bedrooms. National Parks officials told reporters that the monkeys are probably living in a nearby forest and venture into the residential areas in search of easy food. The problem is probably being aggravated by some residents intentionally feeding the animals. A new map called Eco-Montreal is designed to make the city as livable as possible, as well as provide geographical and geological information. MARK ABLEY The Gazette Maps show us where to go. They prevent us from getting lost. They enable us to plan with confidence. These are truisms. But not all maps have the same goal. Some maps aim to educate; a few even aim to transform. Such maps assume that we are lost, that we don't know where to go, that we can no longer plan with confidence. Such maps hope to change our lives. One such map appeared this year in Montreal. It's called Eco-Montreal, and it's available in both a small-scale paper format and a more detailed version online. The creators of the map are affiliated with the School of Urban Planning at McGill University and are environmental idealists. """"The mapping is really a tool for citizens,"""" says Douglas Jack, the coordinator of the Eco-Montreal map. """"It's a means of layering a lot of different kinds of information - something that people across a whole range of disciplines can use."""" On their bilingual website, Jack and his colleagues express the desire to """"encourage a new vision."""" A vision of an economically sound, ecologically sustainable future in a livable city. """"Such a vision must transcend politics, language and traditional planning. It must be grounded in respect and knowledge of the bioregion, people, cultures and diversity of species that share this place with us. This vision can only come from the people that call this place home."""" That mention of """"the bioregion"""" is key. Behind the Eco-Montreal map lies a belief that the solutions to many of our problems must be locally based - that loyalty to the region we call home should take precedence over the more usual loyalties and enmities that fill our front pages. This belief is either very old-fashioned or very avant-garde; possibly both. As you scroll and click your way down the computer version of the map, some fascinating bits of information spring to life. In the event of a serious earthquake, it appears, you'd be better off living on Ile Perrot than in Laval. There are no fault lines crossing Ile Perrot, but no fewer than five cross Ile Jesus. A detailed geological map shows, too, that Montreal Island is built mainly on limestone, shale and dolomite. The geology a few miles west is entirely different: by the time you reach Hudson, you're standing on the gneiss and quartzite of the Grenville and Morin formation. But the map also shows what we have made of our inbuilt geology and geography: the patterns of sewage discharge, the toxic chemical sites and refuse dumps. """"We'd like to add more detail in terms of people's own back yards,"""" says Jim Banks, president of the map's sponsor, the Sustainable Development Association. """"We also want to raise the level of discussion at a civic level. The basic question behind it all is this: 'How can we go about making this a better place to live?'"""" While they want you to think locally, the mapmakers are also thinking globally. Their website is linked to a fast-growing worldwide network of Green Maps. A few more clicks can take you into electronic versions, or visions, of places from Copenhagen to San Francisco, Adelaide to Kyoto (where special icons identify the best vantage points for fireflies and cherry blossoms, not to mention the preferred habitat of the white-cheeked giant flying squirrel). """"The power of maps is certainly on the upswing,"""" says Wendy Brawer, director of Modern World Design in New York and a pioneer in the eco-map movement. """"Not only are they important for the discovery of new places, but also for their ability to change people's perceptions about a place."""" Brawer played a large role in designing the Green Apple Map - an inspiration for many other cities around the world. She emphasizes that green maps enable a lot of micro-ventures to join together in some larger sense of community: """"New York covers 321 square miles, so we've got a lot of everything. Through the map, we can see a lot of the small projects as part of an interconnected whole."""" Like so much that the Internet offers, however, the green map of Montreal needs to be taken with a few grains of salt. Its information, both visual and verbal, is imperfect. The map of water aimed at helping people make their ecologically and economically sound choices reveals significant differences between the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers - but it neglects to explain the units of measurement, leaving a viewer uncertain what the different colors mean. Jack is sensitive to criticisms of the Eco-Montreal map, some coming from environmentalists who have lamented the absence of various possible entries. """"Nine thousand hours of volunteer labor have gone into this,"""" he says. """"But in the environmental movement, I think we've been so critically focused on trying to stop the bad guys that even when people are doing good things, our first impulse is to attack."""" The Montreal map's list of """"green businesses and services"""" includes many firms that specialize in soil analysis, water treatment, decontamination and the like. But it also includes the corporate giant SNC-Lavalin - a company that has engineering projects in about 100 countries, and that carried out a feasibility study for China prior to work on the controversial Three Gorges Dam. Is its inclusion unfair? Hard to say. For SNC-Lavalin has also helped to create rapid-transit systems that are environmentally healthy. No clear standards exist on how to define """"green;"""" no consensus exists on where to lavish praise. """"The business issue is the toughest for all of us mapmakers,"""" admits Brawer in New York. """"You can say that everything represents a different shade of green."""" Despite the promise of green maps, it's debatable whether they really have the transformative potential that enthusiasts like Banks and Jack believe. John Tromp, a research scientist in McGill University's department of chemistry, was involved with the Eco-Montreal map at an early stage. A veteran of the Green Party and the Sustainable Development Association, Tromp says that the nagging question behind much of his activism has been, """"What can we do that's effective?"""" The green map is a good idea, he says. But it has not fulfilled all his hopes. Perhaps the hopes themselves were exaggerated? Tromp has gone back to the grassroots - literally. Today, his environmental activism takes the form of helping to run his local community garden. Wendy Gorchinsky is active in a community garden, too. She also teaches composting, sells organic food, distributes fairly traded coffee - and, with two like-minded colleagues, spent the summer working on a detailed eco-map of Notre Dame de Grace under the auspices of the NDG Community Council. The map, which should be ready by the end of October, will highlight about 35 businesses in the district that promote social justice or sound environmental practices. """"We want to build a sense of community pride in NDG,"""" Gorchinsky explains. """"There's a high concentration of these businesses here, and the public doesn't know about a lot of them. Of course, we also hope that the map will encourage other businesses to do the same thing."""" The NDG map is the most advanced in a series of micro-maps that Jack is keen to encourage. Mapping groups are active, he says, in Kahnawake, Vaudreuil, Pointe Claire and elsewhere. Their work may ultimately feed and enrich the larger map of Eco-Montreal. An example of the map's potential can be glimpsed from what happened in a literature class at John Abbott College this year. The students had been reading different versions of Utopia. Their teacher, Patricia Gordon, wanted """"to bring the issues down to our own locality, and have them imaginatively revisit the island of Montreal."""" Gordon asked the students to buy the paper version of the Eco-Montreal map. """"Then, as well as the creative writing, they had to redraw the map to match their vision."""" Some of the results were, in Gordon's term, """"magnificent."""" They revealed a keen sense of the city, not just in terms of its problems but also its possibilities. Gordon is now thinking about using the map in a wholly different course. """"I think it has a tremendously powerful use,"""" she concludes, """"and not just for nitty-gritty scientific stuff."""" To contact Douglas Jack, call 695-3845 or send an E-mail to eco-montreal@mcgill.ca. The website for Montreal is www.mcgill.ca/sup/EcoMontreal.htm. The website for the worldwide green-map network is www.greenmap.com. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Dolly Parton - Hungry Again evokes her beginnings and proves she's one of country music's best singer-songwriters. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1998 DOLLY PARTON - Hungry Again Ddcca/Universal INFO-LINE: 738-8600, CODE 8001 When she wants to be, Dolly Parton is one of country music's great singer-songwriters. Some of her early hits, """"Tennessee Mountain Home,"""" """"Jolene"""" and """"Coat of Many Colors,"""" remain timeless classics. Unfortunately, maybe two decades ago, Parton the artist lost out to Parton the larger-than-life personality. Since then, so much of what she's released has been ordinary and very forgettable; to the point that Parton herself now says she """"needed to write and sing like I was hungry again."""" """"Hungry Again"""" is one of the best records of Parton's career. Certainly, it's the best thing she's done since """"Trio,"""" her 1987 collaboration with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. As the title implies, Parton is again writing songs and singing them with the conviction of an artist with an innate need - rather than a contractual obligation - to express herself. Oprah starts 13th season on high note RICHARD HUFF New York Daily News NEW YORK - Amid declining ratings and a fall from her decade-plus perch as the top-rated daytime show, Oprah Winfrey kicked off her new season Tuesday with a new set, new theme music and a renewed vow to use TV in a positive way. Winfrey told viewers that after watching television this summer, she had seen inspired to go in """"the opposite direction of down the tubes,"""" and wants her show's 13th season to """"raise ourselves to the highest vision possible for our lives and those of you watching."""" Appearing in a long black dress on a set highlighted by candles and warm colors, Winfrey said the television world was getting """"stoop to sleaze,"""" """"crazier"""" and that she wanted """"to try to do TV that inspires us to make positive changes in our lives."""" The multiple Emmy-winner said there are shows on the air that are """"like mental poison,"""" adding, """"I ain't mentioning no names."""" She didn't need to. She was clearly alluding to The Jerry Springer Show, which last February - fueled by in-show fisticuffs - became the first program in more than a decade to unseat Winfrey from the top of the Nielsen ladder. Winfrey reaffirmed her vow not to stoop to the lowest common denominator. She's given her show a """"Change Your Life"""" title and intends to offer a series of appearances by self-help gurus. During Tuesday's show, which also included an appearance by soon-to-be-talk-show-host Roseanne, Winfrey gave viewers a glimpse of how she relaxes, complete with shots of her taking a bubble bath. """"Unlike every other show, hers has the most variety,"""" said Dick Kurlander of Petry Television, a company that advises stations on program choices. Of all talk-show hosts, he said, """"she is the broadest by far."""" Kurlander said Winfrey can comfortably remain in second place and still finish far ahead of Springer in quality. Annual Outdoor Art Festival presented by The West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped, Inc. featuring The Lakeshore Association of Artists September 12 & 13, 1998 Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Pointe Claire Cultural Centre Stewart Hall, 176 Lakeshore, Pointe Claire, QC (just off John's Blvd). An event for the whole family, rain or shine. Refreshments will be served on the veranda. COUNTRY COOKIN' MIKE REGENSTREIF One of the most moving songs is """"Blue Valley Songbird,"""" a beautiful ballad about a talented singer-songwriter who never hits the big time, but continues to make great music. The unstated subtext here is that the songbird is the artist that Parton might have been, had big-time show biz not intruded. Other highlights on this disc include a couple of almost-bluegrassers in """"The Camel's Heart"""" and """"Time and Tears,"""" and """"Honky Tonk Songs,"""" a woman's barroom lament. Here's hoping Parton's music stays hungry. MOLLIE O'BRIEN Big Red Sun Sugar Hill/Koch INFO-LINE: 738-8600, CODE 8002 Some of Nashville's superstars have proven time and again that it's easy to make insignificant albums with huge budgets. The antithesis, as Mollie O'Brien has proved before and does again on """"Big Red Sun,"""" is that it's also possible to make great albums on a small budget. O'Brien, like her brother Tim (with whom she's recorded several albums of duets), has a great voice with a natural sense of phrasing. She also knows how to pick strong material and the taste to not drown it in overproduction. Although her roots in traditional country music always shine through, there's a blues base to many of the songs that O'Brien has chosen for this disc. Some of them, like Memphis Minnie's """"In My Girlish Days"""" or Willie Dixon's """"Little Baby,"""" are from the classic blues repertoire. Others, like Steve Goodman's """"Looking for Trouble"""" or Randy Newman's """"Rollin',"""" capture the spirit of the blues. On the traditional """"Gambling Man,"""" O'Brien proves that she can tingle spines with the best of them and she turns in a spectacular Cajun-inflected version of Lucinda Williams's """"Big Red Sun Blues."""" 98V-5556 691: Garage Sales BAIE D'URFE 33 Oxford Road, Sept 12, rain day Sept 19, 9-4pm, Many interesting items, IBM 486 computer with color printer, Thomas organ, exercise equipment, stereo, electric snowblower & numerous household items. BAIE D'URFE Big garage sale, 43 David Kennedy, Sat Sept 12, 8-2pm, Furniture, paintings, clothes, and lots more. BAIE D'URFE 83 St Andrews, Sat, Sun 9-4pm, If rain, next weekend. BAIE D'URFE Corner Beachwood-Chestnut, Sat, 8-3, Multi-Family, Bargains. BEACONSFIELD 2 family sale, 234-240 Allancroft Cr, Sat, 9-4, Toys, bike, golf clubs, household goods, domes, carpets, books, hand-made crafts, lamps, more hidden treasures. No early birds. BEACONSFIELD 145 Hampshire Rd, Sat, 9-4pm, Rain or shine, Bedroom sets, kitchen sets, bicycle, fireplace screen, bed spreads, frames, jewelry & miscellaneous household items. BEACONSFIELD 3 family garage sale, Furniture, toys, adult & children's bikes, baby miscellaneous, clothes and much more Saturday, Sept 12, 9-2 pm, No early arrivals! 5883 Stephen Leacock, corner Mackle, Saturday & Sunday 9 to 4 pm, Rain or shine, """"Moving, Everything must go,"""" Fashion accessories, scarves, hats, gloves, bags, sunglasses, custom jewelry, cosmetics, bath & body products, nail polish, body products, Fridge, TV, video, kitchen table & 6 chairs. Yard sale, Sat, Sept 12, 9-4pm, 585 & 591 Smart Ave, via Radcliffe Rd, antiques, odds & ends, books, kids' clothing, collector plates, etc. No early birds. Rain date Sept 19. Saturday 9-3, rain or shine, 124 Evergreen (cross street Beautoro) 2 family sale, household and sporting goods, baby items, toys, records, furniture, clothes and much more. 8MB RAM, hd 334MB, 8, 4"""" color, modem 14 4bps, $450, Mike 489-5881. USED computers, Dell Notebook, 15"""", Notebook, desktops Win and Mac, Digital camera, Jason 862-6576. 233 MX loaded, $799; K6-300 With EPOX MB, $999; Pentium II, 350, $1499 or $50mo. PC zone Bkr, 685-4242. COMPUTER PROBLEMS? Call The PC Guy! Reasonable Rates, 10 years experience, 364-9506. FREE INTERNET 514-624-5038 www.amtekcenter.com. 'ASSAD' traced the cab - have the surveillance video, should I call the police? 284-2222 x 2553 BACK-UP HD to CD, Copy CD, set up & teaching, scanning, web design, graphics, Ron 488-6634. Garage Sales 691 Garage Sales HAMPSTEAD Sat & Sun, 9-4pm, 27 Glenmore Road, Moving, HUGE VOLUME SALE! Incredible designer clothes, household items, no junk, too much to mention, something for everyone. HAMPSTEAD 45 Heath Rd Sat 9 to 2 pm, Fridge, white, side by side; daybed, tables, oak card table, typewriter, lamps, small electrical appliances, clothing, knick-knacks, etc. No early birds. HAMPSTEAD 81 Finchley Rd, Sat-Sun 9-4 pm, Big Garage sale! Furniture, TV's, VCR, lamps, bikes, clothes and more, Rain or Shine. HAMPSTEAD Bicycles, skates, children's toys, clothes, and more, 8 Minden Rd, (cross street Fleet), Sun, 9-2:30pm. HAMPSTEAD Sunday, Sept 13 from 10-2 pm, Multi-family, wide assortment of merchandise, 5355 Dufferin. HAMPSTEAD All you can want garage sale, Sat, 9-4pm, & Sun 10 to 2 pm. HAMPSTEAD 5872 Femcreft, Saturday 8:30-5:30 pm, clothes; bikes, kitchen appliances, etc. HAMPSTEAD 91 Dufferin, Sat 9-2 pm, Kitchen set, portacrib, toys, lamps, etc. Great deals!!! KIRKLAND 196 Niagara cross Street House, Saturday, 9-3pm, Rain date Sunday, Everything must go, Furniture household, dishes, children's goods, skates etc. Bargains galore. KIRKLAND 15 Reginald Brown, (on Niagara) Sat, 10-2pm, stroller, exercise bicycle, bathroom wall unit, furniture, etc. KIRKLAND 105 Monsadel, Sat 10-4 pm, Clothes, desk, baby items, and much more. KIRKLAND 20 Saratoga (exit St Charles north), Sat, Sept 12, 9-5pm, Spectacular multi-family, Gigantic garage sale, Thomasville dining room set including: enma carpet skis, bicycles, skates, fur coat, toys, games, tiffany lamp, oil paintings, chairs & other furniture, computer & lots of other interesting pieces. KIRKLAND 25 Silverpine Rd (Timberlea), Sat, Sept 12, 9-4pm, Rain date Sun, Sept 13, 3 families, something for everyone. KIRKLAND 46 Charlevoix, Sat & Sun, 8-2 pm, Toys & preschool games 0 to 5yrs, very good prices, everything must be sold. LACHINE 255 56TH AVE, Sat 8:30-3pm Rain or Shine GREAT BARGAINS OLD & NEW AND DECOYS. LACHINE 392 51St Ave, Sat Sept 12, 10-5, Lazy-boy, antique dining room buffet, exerciser. LACHINE 710 47th Ave, Sun, Sept 13, 9-4pm, Toys, books, clothes, & household items. LACHINE 845 51st Ave, Sept 12, 9-3 pm, Rain date Sept 13, 9-3pm, Bargains galore! Little Tykes, freezer, clothes, toys, chairs, car storage unit, knick-knacks & more! LACHINE Moving Sale, Furniture, books, garden tools, and much more, 235 56th Avenue, Sat 9 to 4 pm If rains: Sunday. LACHINE Moving, Tons of bargains, Everything must go, Saturday & Sunday, 9-4 pm. LACHINE Sat, 8; Sun, 9 to 6, 593 5th Ave, Antiques, sports equipment, something for all. LASALLE 219 Gerald, Sat, 9 - 4 Household items, sporting goods, toys and crafts. LASALLE 7519 Oulmet corner Lachante, Sat, Sun, 8-2pm, Oxylite Oxymatic model 301 electronic portable oxygen system 3 mini bottles; 180 Litres, Medigras Pulmo-Aide, aerosol compressor model 5650C, TVs, furniture, kitchen & household. LASALLE 759 44th Ave, Sept 12 & 13, 9-4 pm, used printer, Mac computers, books, toys, etc. LASALLE Mega Sale! Everything must go! Fri 10-9pm & Sat 10-5pm, 688 Eglinton. LASALLE Moving sale: Everything must go! Books, kids toys, leather jacket, clothing, furniture, office desks, household articles, & misc, Sat-Sun 9-5pm (no early birds), 1456 Maurice. LASALLE, Moving sale, 9646 Jean Miiot on Des Bois, Furniture and household items, washer dryer, Kitchen set, tables, lamps, ceiling fan, records, etc, Sat 9 - 4pm. LASALLE Start your XMAS shopping early at the poor persons garage sale, 939 Bishop Power 11, Sat-Sun 12pm-9pm, Mon-Tues 2pm-9pm. Please, Thank you. MONTREAL WEST 89 & 91 Northview, multi-family garage sale, collectibles, books, ladies' & children's clothing, auto parts & many household items, Saturday, September 12, 9-3 pm, if rain Sunday. 685 Computers BUY -SELL -TRADE Mac M Notebooks Pbooks! PROGENI 855-9550 486 color, keyboard, mouse, $195, 386 color, Keyboard mouse, $125 Eddy, 374-5835, COMPAQ Laptop loaded, extended warranty, Paid $3500 Sell $2500, 434-4077 530-6538 COMPLETE 233 MMX $975 15"""" svga 56k Modem 32 SD Ram, Office 97, Games, W98, 487-6662 CYBERAGE PC 254-7700 300MMX multimedia, $3494, West Broadway. This is our first garage sale this season! You know what we have, like to see you again, Sat, Sept 12, from 9-3 pm, if rain Sunday. 4594 Hampton, Sun 9-2, Furniture, lamps, fireplace accessories, household items, CD's, books, etc. Rain or shine. 4616 Oxford Ave, (Somerled/Terrebonne), Sat, 9-3pm, Household goods, collectibles, china, cutlery, books, records, 2 electric sewing machines in tables and more. Rain or shine. ST. LAURENT Game boards, chess set, clothes, etc, 2515 Badeau (Bertrand), Sat-Sun 10-5. ST. LAURENT, mega sale, for kids 0 to 5 yrs, 80 Leduc corner de l'église, Saturday, Sunday. ST. LAURENT Moving sale, 930 Hills, Sat 10-4pm, Furniture, etc, Everything must be sold. ST LEONARD 3 family garage sale, moving sale, Everything must go, Dishwasher, books, household goods, etc, Rain or shine, Sept 12 from 9-4pm, 9052 Chambelle, near corner Honore-Mercier and Lacordaire. Sunday 9-5pm, Giftware, copper, brass, GE Mixmaster, baking equipment, dishes, cutlery, dressmaker supplies & materials, knitting yarns, paper products for X-Mas, beautiful fall clothing, size 12. WESTMOUNT Charity Garage sale, 3rd view, kitchen supplies, jewelry, books, posters, furniture, etc. Money used for research into Huntington's disease. WESTMOUNT Moving Sale! Saturday & Sunday, September 12-13, 9 am to 2 pm, Antiques, furniture, paintings, china, glassware & much more! 433 Victoria Avenue. WESTMOUNT moving, lots of great kitchen stuff, antiques, antique dining room, electronics, home office supplies, lots more, Sat ONLY 9am-5pm (No early birds) ALL MUST GO! WESTMOUNT Queen size waterbed, double bed, exercise bench and weights, aquarium, artwork, angel-wing begonias, clothes, books, housewares, etc, 156 Metcalfe, Sat 10-3pm. WESTMOUNT Adjacent 4660 Roslyn, near Sunnyside, Sat 8-3 Bargains Galore, Household items, toys, accessories, clothing, books, jewelry, and much more, come Make a Deal. WESTMOUNT 10 Bellevue Saturday-Sunday from 10-4 pm, Tables, Jennair stove, dishwasher, bicycle, dishes, clothing, books, drapes, many household articles. WESTMOUNT 44 Roxborough Ave, Sunday only September 13, 9-2 pm, Group Sale, Clothes, toys, books, sporting goods, all kinds of household items, and much more, Rain or Shine. WESTMOUNT 319 Prince Albert, corner Burton, Sat 9-3 Bargains in housewares, clothing, books, cameras, videos, birding and garden supplies, bicycle, toys, etc, Rain or shine. WESTMOUNT Adjacent 4779 Grosvenor, Rain or shine, Saturday, 9-1 pm, Household, clothes, books, toys, Nintendo 64 game, love-seat, ski boots, skates and much more! WESTMOUNT York St, 10 to 4 pm, Many items, Beanie Babies: Flip, paid $200, sell $75; snowman, $50, Zip, $50, and many more. WESTMOUNT adjacent 4641 Victoria Ave, Saturday, Sunday, from 10-6pm, Old furniture, household items, Reel cassette recorder, doors, etc. WESTMOUNT 485 Roslyn (above Sherbrooke), Sat, Sun, Sept 12, 13, 10 am - 3pm, No early birds, wonderful treasures for everyone at bargain prices. WESTMOUNT Moving Sale, Rain or Shine, Sofa, chairs, carpets, stove, beds, household items, tools, books and lots more, 315 Olivier, Sat 9-4pm. WESTMOUNT Tools, dishes, pots & pans, furniture, 484 Strathcona, Saturday 10am-4pm, No early birds. WESTMOUNT 148 Abbott Ave, (below St. Catherine), Saturday; 9-2 pm, Lots of good stuff in excellent condition, No early birds. WESTMOUNT 212-214 Prince Albert Ave, Sat, Sept 12, from 9-3pm, Clothing, lamps, books, antique trunk, skis & more. WESTMOUNT oriental rugs, many interesting items, 9-2pm, Sat, Sun, 4222 Dorchester, apt 1. WESTMOUNT Sat, 632 Victoria, 1-4pm Moving: Loads of everything for the house & more. Household Goods ABSOLUTELY DIMINISHED! Come and see our 20,000 sq ft of tables, mattresses, chairs, beds, wall units, sofas & anything you might be looking for! FURNITURE DEPOT 4036 Jean Talon W, Metro Namur, 343-0200. APT dryer, bdrm set desk, stroller, coffee table, treadmill, aquarium, wing chair, 624-3689. ARE you looking for a bargain on appliances? Free delivery guarantee we pay taxes, Electro usage Plus, 278-8314. ASH bedroom, 5 pieces, $625 Oak dining table and 6 chairs, $350, 672-0053. AT Westmount Thermador oven, GE oven, washer/dryer, Reasonable, 594-4444, message. ATTENTION ALL BUYERS (DEALERS) Here it is! On Thur, Sept 24, 10:30am, Canada's Biggest garage sale auction. Featuring: Antiques - furniture - paintings - coins - carpets - fixtures - lamps - trades - toys - watches - stamps - dishes - silverware - clocks - crystal - jewelry from a St. Catherine Street store Liquidation - sports cards - fountain pens - toys - TVs. All items will be sold, no items held back. No minimum bids. All items sold as is and where is. Your consignments are welcome and the commission to sellers is flat fee of $10 per lot. You get paid the day after auction at 2 pm. We also accept close outs, commercial & bulk lots (same commission). Viewing: Day Before Auction EMPIRE ARCADE 5500 PARE (downstairs) Ask for Garry Rouimi, 737-6586. BABY crib and mattress, white wood & brass, excellent quality. OUTINGS 400,000 visitors are expected to crowd Saint-Tite for bucking broncos, dancing, parades and music when cowboys turn the town into the biggest western rodeo in eastern Canada meets west. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1998 East MICHELLE GAGNON Special to The Gazette Linda Faucher and Luc Gauthier are getting married today. But it's not a private affair. At least 2,000 people will be there. Their wedding is one of today's main events at Saint-Tite's 31st annual Western Festival. """"I always told myself that if I got married, I'd do it at the festival,"""" Faucher said. """"We've been going for 10 years. We love western music, horses, the ambiance, everything."""" Faucher and Gauthier are not alone. Another 400,000 like-minded visitors are expected at the 10-day festival that started yesterday. Saint-Tite's Western Festival is one of Quebec's five largest festivals. With offerings as diverse as line-dancing lessons, two-step showdowns, a horse-drawn parade and country bands all day, every day, it's no surprise it's so popular. But in recent years, the rodeo has been the key attraction. """"This is the biggest rodeo in Quebec, and the second in Canada after the Calgary Stampede,"""" said festival spokesman Guy Berthiaume. """"We don't have the Stampede's prestige, but we've been improving the quality of the competitions by importing better livestock."""" Better beasts mean a bigger challenge, and that means more cowboys from other provinces and the United States stiffening the competition for Quebec cowboys. """"This is the rodeo of the year for us,"""" said Benoit Gauthier, a festival veteran since 1980 and three-time winner of the pickup race. """"It's the end of the season. The horses are in top shape, and so is the competition."""" The scenery on the way there shouldn't be too bad, either. Saint-Tite, located just north of Trois-Rivières, is a small town of 4,000 people. It sits in a picturesque region where the steep, craggy landscapes of the North Shore meet the Laurentians. So untouched is it that its rolling hills have figured as the bucolic backdrop for such celebrated Quebecois tele-romans as Les Filles de Caleb and Marguerite Volant. And just as the region is used for such historical fiction, the western festival is a result of the region's history. Traditionally, the town was the center of Quebec's leather industries. In 1967, cowboy boot makers G.A. Boulet ran a one-day rodeo as an advertising campaign. The company converted the town's baseball field into a ring, and although rain fell over the field all day, no one could be driven away. Today, the festival has its own bleachers, and represents revenues of $5 million for the town and $15 million for the region. But probably the best symbol of its size can be seen during the opening ceremony when Saint-Tite's mayor hands the keys to the city to the festival's president. """"The town doesn't exist once the festival starts,"""" Berthiaume said. This is what gives the fest all its allure. """"I've been to rodeos in all 48 continental states, and Saint-Tite is probably my favorite rodeo in the world,"""" said Jason Runfola, a 24-year-old professional rodeo rider from Tennessee. """"You take a small town and cram thousands of people in there. It makes for a real positive, fun, happy atmosphere."""" When you drive into town, everyone has their Christmas lights on, and you can feel everyone's behind it. That's special. Today's main event, the Extreme Rodeo, starts at 1:30 pm and features bucking broncos, wild horses, calf ropings, and pickup races. Country dancing competitions run from 6 to 8 pm, when a show by the US country music band Bl",1,1,0,0,0,1
83,20001106,modern,Nan,"Lazio also sent a letter threatening its own court challenge. Team owners love the verdict - increased competition will keep wages down - but Italian players were dismayed. ""If this ruling goes through, it would be absolutely crazy,"" said Parma's Diego Fuser. ""This will help neither Italian football nor foreigners. With an entirely free market there will be no reason for clubs to invest in the youth sector."" MARRIAGE MADE IN MERCHANDISING HELL - It was only a matter of time before Moneybags United - oops, that should be Merchandise United, no, sorry, Manchester United - got together with sportswear colossus Nike. The English kingpin signed a deal last week with the American company to supply its uniforms and kit, beginning in August 2002. That's when United's deal with England's Umbro runs out. The 13-year deal is worth up to an astounding $670 million Canadian. That eclipses the record deal between Nike and the Brazilian national team, worth a paltry $140 million over 10 years.
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123,19930708,modern,Heatwave,"PAGE D1 Partly cloudy Today's high 31 Tonight's low 20 Partly cloudy skies will be accompanied by continuing hot and humid temperatures PAGE C8 For free weather information, updated four times a day, please call The Gazette info-line at 841-8600, code 6000 Births Deaths E8 Bridge F8 Bryan C1 Business C1 Doug Camilli D10 Chambers B3 Classified E1 Comics F7 Crossword F8 Editorials B2 Gardening D2 Hickey F1 Home D1 Horoscope E7 Info-Line F6 Landers D5 Legal Notices F8 Letters B2 McBride A2 Movies D11 Needletrade E7 Probe D5 Scoreboard F5 Seniors D6 Show D7 Sports F1 TV Listings D8 Weather Map C8 What's On D10 Wonderword F8 PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER This newspaper, including inserts, can be recycled Use your recycling boxes Montreal residents can find out about the recycling station nearest them by calling The Gazette info-line at 841-8600, code 1234 Faniier Mi m Mai ton fire Manslaughter charges laid MICHELLE LALONDE THE GAZETTE JAMES SEELEY Provincial police escort Francois Bernier to court ARTHABASKA - The owner of a farm near Warwick where four firefighters were killed last month was charged yesterday with setting the fatal blaze Francois Bernier, 29, of Ste Elizabeth de Warwick, made a brief appearance in Quebec Court in Arthabaska, facing four counts of manslaughter, four counts of causing death by criminal negligence and two counts of arson Nine of the 10 charges arise from the barn fire June 27 on Bernier's property The second arson charge arises from a fire which damaged Bernier's home on Dec 16, 1991 In the barn fire, four men were killed and nine other firefighters and onlookers - including the suspect's brother - were injured when a 4,000-litre propane gas tank beside the barn exploded Warwick residents said the news that a member of a respected local family has been charged has made the sense of shock and loss in the community even more profound """"This just rekindles and adds to the pain that nobody was over yet,"""" said Mayor Andre Leclerc """"Every- PLEASE SEE FIRE, PAGE A2 HOTTEST JULY 22, 1955 HOTTEST YESTERDAY TODAY: 31 FRIDAY: 31 SATURDAY: 28 SUNDAY: 28 THE GAZETTE DAVE SIDAWAY Cyclist struggles up Park Ave in yesterday's heat One bike courier said heat is easier to take than icy blasts of air-conditioners Heatwave here to stay No relief before Sunday: experts GRAEME HAMILTON and GEOFF BAKER THE GAZETTE There's no end in sight The heat wave that has left Montrealers sweaty and listless since Monday is showing no sign of breaking, an Environment Canada weather specialist said yesterday The mercury crept to 30.5 degrees yesterday - it felt like 36 with the humidity - and the forecasters say the high temperature will be at or near 30 until at least Sunday The humidity will also remain high, though there will be a chance of showers most days Medical experts say that people who want to avoid falling victim to heat exhaustion or other conditions should, naturally, remain in cooler places They should also drink plenty of water and avoid exerting themselves with too much physical activity Dr Robert Foxford, a physician at the emergency room of the Royal Victoria Hospital, said last night that the number of patients seeking treatment has increased by about 10 per cent in the last two PLEASE SEE HEAT, PAGE A6 Carifete organizers defend police action ALEXANDER NORRIS THE GAZETTE Carifete organizers staunchly defended Montreal Urban Community police yesterday for their tough response after gunfire erupted at the end of last Saturday's parade Joined at a news conference by leaders of the Black Community Council of Quebec, they also denounced the rioting and looting that followed the event """"When people's lives are threatened, I don't think we have any lessons to give the police on how to handle things,"""" Gasha Masimango, the council's executive director, told reporters """"I think the police responded to the gravity of the situation,"""" he added, saying police """"reacted well"""" to the shootings Masimango and parade organizer Henry Antoine did express some concern about reports of police brutality at the parade But their generally supportive remarks were out of keeping with the bitterly critical remarks that have often been levelled at police by black leaders after clashes involving local blacks And they contrasted sharply with statements made by Dan Philip, head of the Black Coalition of Quebec, which sometimes rivals the council for leadership in Montreal's black community This week, Philip angrily accused police of widespread brutality at the Carifete He also said that by failing to inform parade-goers that a shooting had taken place - before charging them with nightsticks - officers helped spark the retaliatory bottle-throwing and looting rampage that ensued Masimango played down the significance of Philip's remarks """"Dan Philip is a citizen like any other citizen of Montreal,"""" he said """"Dan Philip doesn't represent the opinions of this organization Dan Philip is not a member of the BCCQ, and Dan Philip was not involved in organizing this parade"""" Antoine, the head of the Carifete organizing committee, stressed that he was at the end of the parade, PLEASE SEE PARADE, PAGE A2 No OK for pepper spray PAGE A4 Summit trade ministers hammer out access deal TOKYO - There's a possibility that summit trade ministers have agreed to a deal to get a trade deal The so-called """"market-access"""" package hammered out by the ministers of Canada, the United States, Japan and the European Community is being hailed in Tokyo as a big breakthrough It might be the largest tariff cut in history, as U""",0,0,0,0,0,0
310,18900120,historical,Deluge,"M. Brewer, of Charlottetown, IMS, preached both morning and evening. In the morning he took for his text: ""Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts."" He showed that his message to the Hebrew Prince was applicable to the evangelization of the world. Physical force was the lowest form of power, and in all countries it was superseded by intellect and later by moral powers. The speaker held that the time was coming when men would select the holiest man for a place of power and trust. There was a higher power in nature. Where men and horses were formerly used to convey news, we now use the telegraph and the telephone, but the network of wires over our country would be of no use if the electric current were withdrawn, so in the church all our efforts would be unavailing if not directed by the Spirit of God. God sometimes used physical means to show His power. The deluge brought men to their senses, and He drowned Pharaoh to make way for the escape of His people. But after all, there came the still small voice, mind speaking to mind, and this was the crowning means by which He would save the world. Men were to be reached through their hearts and consciences, and what was wanted was soul-saving power from on high. It was not the wise men of Athens or Rome that He sent to evangelize the world but fishermen from Galilee. In the 15th century, the son of a poor miner of Saxony, Martin Luther shook the foundations of Rome, and in the present day the great missionaries were such men as Carey, a shoemaker, and David Livingstone, a poor factory boy. It was to be regretted that man had tried persecution as a means of spreading the gospel, and it was the preacher's opinion that missions and churches were of no avail unless moved by God's omnipotent Spirit.",0,0,0,0,0,0
44,18860419,historical,Flood,"A room was impassable to foot passengers, and sundry express wagons, owned by enterprising drivers, ferried people across at the moderate sum of five cents per head. From halfway between Craig and Vitre, on Bleury Street, wagons were employed in transporting passengers to the higher ground on St. Peter, while a number of people were floating on improvised rafts, made from portions of sidewalks, on all the streets east from Victoria Square to Cote. At the corner of the latter and Craig incidents were numerous, some of which resulted in many people getting wet. Several photographers were observed taking views of the flooded streets. At night numerous boats flitted along St. Antoine, Bonaventure, McGill and other streets. AT POINT ST. CHARLES the suffering must be most severe. The water has risen to a height fully two feet higher than during the inundation last May. The wind is strong. At the Grand Trunk office the water came up to the desk at the innermost end. The works are, of course, stopped, only by last accounts communication is kept up.",1,0,0,0,0,0
157,18960529,historical,Storm,"H. Spencer, of the Merchants Exchange, was made chairman of the committee on distribution, and set to work at once to place the relief money. The roadway of the Eads bridge was cleared of wreckage at 11 o'clock tonight, and a fast engine and car passed over in safety. The Devastated District: A district in this city, bounded north by Chateau Avenue, west by Grand Avenue, south to the city limits and east to the river is virtually a mass of ruins. Not an electric light has burned, nor a car run, in that section, comprising 720 city blocks, since 5:20 p.m. yesterday. Within this territory scarcely a building has escaped injury, and thousands of them are in ruins. On surveying the desolate scene one marvels that the loss of life was not much greater. Beginning at the western boundary of the section is the handsome and exclusive residence quarter known as Compton Hill, the home of the fourth generation of the early French settlers of St. Louis. This aristocratic section is strewn with debris. Just east of La Fayette Park were the trees, shrubbery, fountains and statuary that have been the pride of the city. They were caught by the wind and the place is mowed bare as with a giant scythe. Further east and south to the city limits were the homes of thrifty German-Americans, who have given a distinct character to the district. Tonight thousands of them are homeless, many of them sharing the roofs of their hospitable and more fortunate neighbors. Interspersed in this latter section and out east to the river are mills, breweries and numberless manufacturing concerns. They were the targets of the storm, and they suffered severely. There are sixteen breweries within their boundaries, worth four million, and while none are destroyed all are damaged. After the storm had laid its heavy hand upon the southern part of the city, fire came to complete the work of destruction. Five columns of flames shot up, but thanks to the deluge of rain the blaze was mainly confined to its starting point. In three instances engines were unable to get nearer than a block from the fires. The storm was most destructive in force when it crossed Seventh Street from the east. The eddying currents of wind again and again returned to make that street a wilderness. At least forty people were killed along this thoroughfare and the streets immediately adjacent. House after house was totally demolished. Nally's saloon at South Seventh Street is a total wreck. When it fell it was full of men who had taken refuge there, and from fifteen to twenty were killed. The force of the wind was so frightful along here that the iron trolley supporting poles of the Southwest Electric Line are bent over on the ground. They did not break, but bent like copper wire. At the Vermont Marble Works, 1120 South Seventh Street, the wreck was complete. Harry Hess, a driver for the concern, was killed, being buried beneath tons of the great blocks of stone which were hurled about by the wind. House Turned Upside Down: The saddest place on this frightfully desolated street was on the southwest corner of Gutger Street. Here stood the three-storey brick saloon and boarding-house of Fred Mockenheimer. It was tenanted by twenty families, the full number of occupants reaching at least eighty. When the storm struck the building it went up like a dry puff-ball, burying the inmates. No one knows how many dead its ruined brick and mortar walls conceal; eleven persons have been taken out dead and more than a dozen more or less injured. Across the street, on the southwest corner, the wreck was as bad, but the number of people in the building was not so large. Several dead bodies and half a dozen wounded persons have been removed and others are thought to be there. In the same neighborhood many private dwellings were destroyed and their occupants either killed or maimed. The track of the storm across the river was from southwest to northeast, leaving the Missouri shore at the center of the southern half of this city and striking the Illinois shore in a path whose northern edge was the Eads bridge and extending south three-fourths of a mile. Within this were moored 25 steamers large and small. The storm fell so suddenly that none of the vessels were prepared. Ten large passenger steamers, five ferry boats, two transfer boats, two tug boats and half a dozen small pleasure barges were driven to the opposite shore or sunk outright. The steamer J.",1,0,1,0,0,1
107,19920330,modern,Nan,"However, Levy, the most openly enthusiastic supporter of the Arab-Israeli peace process in the hard-line Israeli government, said he will stay in the party and remain a candidate for a seat in parliament, although it is not clear what role he will take in the campaign. The announcement by Levy has left the party divided and perhaps seriously hobbled at the threshold of a campaign for national elections in June. ""I think the most satisfied person today is Yitzhak Rabin,"" a senior government official said last night. He was referring to the new leader of the opposition Labor Party, which recent opinion polls have given the edge against a Likud stumbling over an economic slowdown, difficulty in absorbing a tide of new immigrants and stagnation in the peace process. Levy's resignation as foreign minister came as a surprise in that his followers had been urging him to quit Likud, not necessarily the government, and form his own party. His resignation does not take effect until two days after he submits it to the cabinet, and that is not scheduled to take place until it meets next Sunday.
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89,19930731,modern,Rain,"Heavier clouds or precipitation significantly reduce UVB levels. P sgionsl syncpsss Abltlbl-Umiscamingue "" High 25, Low near 14, Partly sunny skies, Laurentians V', High 23, Low near 14, Cloudy with scattered showers, Eastern Ontario '""', High 25, Low near 16, Partly sunny skies, Southern Ontario 7- ''; High 26, Low near 16, Sunny and warm, Quebec City ' High 22, Low near 16, Cloudy with scattered showers, Eastern Townships iS'S High 22, Low near 16, Cloudy with scattered showers, Northern New England ' High 23, Low near 17, Cloudy with scattered showers, High 22, Low near 16, Scattered showers and thunderstorms, ' Lower North Shore High 17, Low near 14, Cloudy with scattered showers, lass Partly cloudy High 28 Low 16 Partly cloudy High 27 Low 19 Showers High 24 Low 16 Partly cloudy High 24 Low 14 ry v Rea r' S 1 Weather systems ilorecastforSp m this evening,
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155,18900428,historical,Deluge,"April 27 A cloud-burst struck English, Indiana, yesterday morning The water rose rapidly and flooded the streets and many houses to a depth of four feet Within fifteen minutes the water began to recede Much damage was done Cotton Plant, Ark, April 27 There was a destructive wind and rain storm in Woodruff County early yesterday morning The village of Yorkville was almost entirely blown away, and the disaster is very great: Houses, barns, fences and structures of all kinds were taken up by the wind and carried some distance Drowned in the Louisiana Floods Baton Rouge, La, April 27
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197,19911112,modern,Nan,"Low -2. Sherbrooke High -0. Low -3. High 2. Low -3. St. Jovite High 2. Low -4. Montreal (High 2. Low -2. Sunny skies are expected tomorrow. Almanac Record 1971 Max Min 9 Average Yesterday -4 1 Year ago today -2 -7 Normal this date 6 0. Abitibi High 0. Low near -1. Variable cloudiness. Laurentians High 2. Low near -4. Becoming partly cloudy this afternoon. Eastern Ontario High 2. Low near -3. Becoming partly cloudy. Southern Ontario High 5. Low near 1. Mostly cloudy. Quebec City High -1. Low near 4. Light snow ending in the morning, then mostly cloudy. Eastern Townships High 0. Low near -2. Mostly cloudy skies. Northern New England High 1. Low near -3. Cloudy with occasional sunny periods. Gaspe High -1.",0,0,0,0,0,0
202,19920928,modern,Nan,"Heavier clouds or precipitation significantly reduce UV levels. Regional synopses Abitibi-Lac St. Jean High 15 Low near 6 Partly cloudy with seasonable temperatures Laurentians High 16 Low near 5 Sunny with a few scattered clouds Eastern Ontario High 17 Low near 6 Morning sunshine, partly cloudy in the afternoon Southern Ontario High 16 Low near 6 Partly sunny, chance of a late-afternoon shower Quebec City High 16 Low near 7 Partly cloudy with seasonable temperatures Eastern Townships High 17 Low near 7 Partly cloudy with seasonable temperatures Northern New England High 19 Low near 8 Sunny with seasonable temperatures Gaspe High 14 Low near 6 Cloudy with sunny periods, windy Lower North Shore High 12 Low near 5 Cloudy, windy and cool Partly cloudy High 9 Low 2 Weather systems forecast for 7 p.m. this evening. Temperatures are today's daytime highs.",0,0,0,0,0,0
197,19911112,modern,Nan,"Gilles Raymond, president of the 2,100-member Syndicat des Pompiers du Quebec, said the firing was a feeble attempt by the city of Lachine to show the union who's boss. Raymond said firefighters have the right to refuse the extra work because they are paid to save lives, not to collect coins. ""This is not a firefighter's job,"" Raymond said in an interview. ""It's like asking a police officer to paint the lines on the street."" CPR training would save lives says instructor EVE KRAKOW SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE Frederic Giroux, a CPR instructor and Urgences Sante worker, is often frustrated with the number of people who die of cardiac arrest because people don't know cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Brain damage begins to set in only four minutes after the heart has stopped, often minutes before an ambulance arrives. That's why Giroux was at the Alexis Nihon Plaza yesterday, teaching CPR. Giroux is part of a cross-Canada tour organized by Actar Airforce Inc., a manufacturer of CPR mannequins, to promote widespread knowledge of CPR skills.",0,0,0,0,0,0
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It is full of sensational climaxes, with witty dialogue and comedy running all through it. Incidental to the play Miss Bindley will introduce her famous specialties, consisting of songs, dances and musical specialties. The supporting company is a most excellent one and one that was specially engaged for the accurate portrayal of their different parts. The scenic and mechanical effects are most wonderful in construction and the acme of stage realism. The company carries an entire carload of scenery. NEW YEAR'S DAY, The Great Festive Season With French Canadians Where to Purchase Goodies, What Christmas day is to the Britisher, New Year's Day is to the French-Canadian. It is the day when he throws care to the winds and when worry bothers not his mind; it is the day when he is contented with himself and the world in general; it is the day when he and his family reunite and make merry. But in order to make merry in the true sense of the word, something more is needed than the mere assemblage of the several members of the family, however pleasing in itself such a gathering may be.",0,0,0,0,0,0
265,18941218,historical,Torrential,"U1ASCE AND MADAGASCAR The French have taken the first step towards spending the recent vote of $12,500,000 by occupying Tamatave, and no doubt the news will be received at Paris with great enthusiasm, though this is only the first and simplest step in the undertaking. Evidently the whole nation has been smitten by the war fever. The legislative bodies could not withstand the pressure of popular excitement and passed the vote by large majorities. In their heart of hearts many members of the Senate and the Chamber probably know better, and would vote against the expedition if they dared. But France has got herself into such a position with regard to Madagascar that she must either go on or withdraw, and in the present state of public feeling withdrawal is impossible. What France is to gain by the expedition is not clear; and the loss she risks is not merely of money and soldiers' lives, but of national honor. No doubt France can crush Madagascar if she puts forth her energies, but the operation may be a very expensive one. The Hovas are said to have a reserve of 70,000 men, well supplied with rifles and modern artillery. The difficulty of the expedition is greatly increased by the nature of the country. Of the road from Tamatave to the capital, an English resident in Madagascar says: Speaking generally the route is an endless succession of hills. Here and there are short easy stages, but for the greater part the French troops will have to cut their way, two or three abreast at the most, in the beds of gullies made by the torrential rains. At other points they will have to cut their way through dense, fever-laden forest. Even with small parties it often happens that the porters have literally to drag one another out of the thick, red mud in which they sink to their waist. From the top of the hills and rocks a mere handful of Hovas could, without danger to themselves, seriously harass the troops toiling hundreds of feet below them. It is evident that the French force, which is to consist of 15,000 troops in the first instance, will have no easy task before them. If the Hovas have anything like the military discipline and modern weapons they are given credit for, they will offer a serious resistance, and it may be that the French will meet a more destructive foe in the malarial fever. Even if the Hovas give way and the expedition proves a success, what return is the French government likely to get for its expenditure? The island is said to be unsuitable for European colonization, and if it offered a good field, the French would not colonize it. The population of France is practically at a standstill, and the government has no need to seek room for expansion. It does so merely from a foolish national jealousy of England, whose small size and overflowing population make colonization and colonial trade an absolute necessity. The French of today have neither the circumstances nor the characteristics which impel young Englishmen to emigrate. The young Frenchman is happy at home; he thinks France the finest country in the world, and he looks upon emigration as exile. Before national feeling had reached its present fever heat, the oro spoke out plainly: France will never colonize Madagascar, and nobody wants it but those to whom the island will be the happy hunting-ground of functionaries, of exotic banks, and of railways without passengers or traffic. This is what will happen if all goes well; but if disaster comes, the story of Tonquin will be repeated, and the Government which is now keeping in power by yielding to the popular voice will be swept out of office amid universal execration. The news of the unexpected death of Robert Louis Stevenson will bring to many of his admirers the pain of a personal loss. His genial, beautiful, cheerful spirit endeared him to thousands who knew him, and in the passing away of such a gentle spirit English literature sustains a loss we can ill afford. Stevenson had none of the pessimism and cynicism which mark some of our modern novelists. He was thoroughly human, and it is his entire humanity that gives his stories their greatest charm. It is because of this quality that we follow with breathless interest the adventures of his freebooters and wild Highland men and simple Lowland youths or English sailor boys. He had also in high degree the gift of romantic imagination. For the first time in English literature he united the pictureness of Scott with the exactness of Defoe. Careful workmanship and distinction of style made his books as delightful to the literary critic as to the schoolboy. No greater boon can be given to the young people than to make them acquainted with his stirring tales and charming essays. The next move against the liquor trade in this province is to be for the purpose of separating the sale of intoxicants from that of other articles of merchandise. The host of petitions presented in the Legislature yesterday is evidently the reconnaissance in force that is intended to precede the real attack. There are such reasons in favor of the change asked for that it has been adopted in many places. The temperance element has been having so much to say in shaping the laws here of late, too, that it is not unlikely that Quebec may before long be among them. There will be a great outcry from the Lancashire cotton spinners at the renewal of the proposal to levy a tax on cotton imports into India; but so long as the theory is held that India is governed for her own benefit and not for the advantage of England, one does not see how for the sake of English interests the administrators of Indian affairs can be restrained from doing what they say is absolutely necessary for India's welfare. At the same time, it is a severe blow to the Manchester school of free trade delivered in their tenderest spot: their pockets. Sir Charles H. Tupper appears by the reports to have been subjected to a good many interruptions at some of his British Columbia meetings. Liberals, when they feel they are getting the worst of the situation, have a weakness for resorting to such tactics. One of the worst interrupted meetings ever held in Canada was that in the Montreal drill shed, called by the Conservatives, just previous to the overthrow of the provincial Liberals in 1892. Before it Montreal had two Conservatives in the Legislature; after it she had six. The conduct of the Toronto Street Railway Co. in employing detectives to watch the judge and counsel conducting the boodling investigation is, to say the least of it, most extraordinary. When suspected persons employ detectives to investigate the private lives of the magistracy it is getting things down pretty fine, and a boodler has been correctly defined by a Montreal judge as the meanest kind of thief. Mr. Gigault's report on the success of the dairy industry in Denmark shows that Canada has yet abundant room for expansion in that direction. Close attention to the peculiarities of the English market is the first condition of success, and on this head the report contains suggestions to which Quebec farmers will do well to give heed. A vessel from Canada has been refused a permit to land cattle at Antwerp because of the prevalence of foot and mouth disease in this country. Either the cable has made a mistake or the man who gave the order did. The Belgian authorities seem to be imitating the British in crediting Canada with faults it does not possess. Another British warship is on its way to China. There must be quite a powerful British fleet now watching the progress of events at the principal Chinese ports. If Great Britain should feel called upon to interfere with the contestants, she would be able to intervene to some purpose.",0,0,0,0,0,0
282,19910801,modern,Heatwave,"G, for instance (6265 Biermans Ave, 872-1 125), is free during the week and costs a mere $2 for adults and $1 for kids on weekends. In the swelter of mid-afternoon, it is full of divers, paddlers and folks just hanging on to the side, soaking up the chlorine. A trifle too crowded? Perhaps you would prefer a backyard pool of your own. This ultimate luxury will cost you between $3,300 and $5,000 for an above-ground pool and between $12,000 and $22,000 for a sunken variety. A trifle too pricey? How about a plastic wading pool in the shape of Big Bird's face for $24.88 (Consumers' Distributing)? Or a colorful inflatable version for $15.12? Be careful, though: as the package says, this is not to be used as a life preserver. There are scads of ways to drench yourself in the privacy of your own backyard, including squirt-gun fights, water-balloon wars, garden-hose dousings and miniature water slides. But for the ultimate in summertime goosebumps, nothing beats a sprinkler ($6.19 to $39.99 at Canadian Tire). Unlike the drench of a swimming pool, the slow arc of a good sprinkler teases the body with wet chills. Plus you can make rainbows with the spray. If you are apartment-bound and have no backyard to call your own, simply slip on your swimsuit and sandals and head for the nearest residential area where, in the late afternoon and evening, lawns are watered as far as the eye can see. As you skip merrily from sprinkler to sprinkler, you may be yelled at, but you will be cool. WBIPIPB Living room furniture Bedroom furniture Dining room furniture. Ron and Susan Wener seek and find Home Is Where the Heat Ain't. No residence is impenetrable to heat. Even if you close all the curtains and windows during the day and open them at night, your home may still need to be cooled artificially. Hardware and department stores understand this and consequently arrange displays of electric fans to cool you as you enter the store. They range from tiny desktop fans for $13 to swiveling multi-speed industrial strength blowers for $50. All types are effective to a degree but tend to be refreshing only when you stand in the direct path of air. Fans don't cool rooms; they simply circulate the air already present. An air-conditioner is a more effective but at around $500 a more expensive solution. The better alternative is to rent one from an outlet like Mid-City Rentals and Sales which will install it at the seasonal rate of $139. Of course, even an air conditioner can do only so much. If you put an air conditioner in your living room,"""" said Stan Schneider, owner of Mid-City, """"you can't expect the cool air to go down the hall, turn left into the bedroom and then right into the kitchen. But it can help lower the humidity in the house. A word of warning: if you install an air conditioner in a window, do not open that particular window. Schneider tells of one person who did this and sent the unit plummeting downwards, creating an instant sunroof in a neighbor's Mercedes. Nice Ice is cheap, easy to make and very satisfying. Here's what to do: take a tray of ice cubes, dump it into a washcloth and make a cold compress. Press it against your neck and let the melting ice trickle out of the cloth down your back. Roll ice cubes around in your hands. Cool off your mouth with one or two. Use your imagination. Think about the film 9 Weeks. Party-poopers who prefer their ice a little less wet can purchase icepacks for as little as $2.50. Popsicles are mostly sugar and water but they are still as good as when you were a kid and cost only 15 cents at Perrette's and Provi-soir. Eat, Drink and Be Cool. Here's some advice on cooking during a heatwave: Don't do it! Even boiling an egg can give a whole new meaning to the phrase """"Hell's Kitchen."""" Stick to light, cool meals, advises dietician and nutritionist Claire Friefeld. """"Refueling and keeping energy levels up are important considerations in the summer,"""" she said. """"In terms of food, the cooler foods such as fish, legumes, breads, crackers and yogurts are rich in carbohydrates for providing energy."""" As for drinks, Friefeld recommends wonderful, cold water and 100 per cent unsweetened fruit juices. She does not give thirst quenchers like Gatorade much credit. """"When you sweat, you lose potassium and sodium. Gatorade drinks aren't as high in potassium as food in the four food groups. A better choice would be orange juice or tomato juice."""" If you think a trough full of suds will cool you down, think again. While it may be immediately refreshing, beer, like tea and coffee, is a diuretic and actually steals water from your body. """"You should actually drink water while you're drinking beer,"""" Friefeld said. The Zen of Cool. You can manipulate your body temperature. You can splash water on it, throw air at it, pour fluids into it but perhaps, in the end, keeping cool is as much a state of mind as a state of body. In a convertible, one finds this essence of """"cool."""" """"I really feel good putting the top down, turning up the radio, even when I'm stuck in traffic,"""" said Ron Wener, a chartered accountant in his mid-40s. He has driven nothing but convertibles ever since he was a kid and once owned a 1973 Ford Mustang convertible, one of the last of the original-style ragtops. These days he drives a cream Dodge 600. """"It's not the snazziest car in the world but it is a convertible and that counts for a lot in the world of keeping cool."""" """"I enjoy letting the wind go through my hair,"""" the rather balding Wener said with an ironic grin. """"It's not for everyone,"""" he cautioned. """"My wife likes it in the city but on the highway she's not comfortable with the top down."""" Whether or not driving roofless is an effective heat-buster is practically irrelevant. A convertible echoes with Beach Boy fantasies and Jan and Dean dreams. It cries out smugly, """"I am just too cool to be hot."""" City Heat. You walk out of the artificial underground coolness of Promenades de la Cathedrale and run smack into a wall of exhaust-tinted heat. Immediately you are dripping with perspiration. """"It's hot. Hotter than a judge's tongue at a chili-tasting contest. Hotter than Satan's sneakers."""" As you walk down St. Catherine St., you pray for rain, for snow, for a magic carpet, anything to get you out of this crushing, sticky heat. """"Hey, man, can you spare some change?"""" asks a grizzled hippie bum with a dog. You check your pockets. """"Sure is hot, eh?"""" he says. """"Hey, do you know if the fountain is working at Place Ville Marie?"""" Hmmmmmmm. Now there's an idea! Bad mowing: can cut down on lawn's performance. Mowing, watering and feeding count most when it comes to lawn management, and good mowing practices can cut down on water usage. Proper mowing will help your lawn get through the heat of summer in shape to develop strong, new roots and growth this fall. Frequency and height of mowing vary by the season and condition of your lawn. At summer's hottest, though, mowing high, 2.5 to 3 inches, is best, as it leaves grass blades enough surface area to store extra food. Mowing benefits more than a lawn's appearance. As grass blades age they become coarse and spotted from disease and insect damage. Different grass plants also grow at different rates, so lawns soon become uneven in height. Mowing removes old, damaged growth and stimulates new growth of clean, green blades. It also evens out blade height to produce the carpet-like appearance. Grass plants cut too short won't root deeply, but if you have a thick turf and let the grass get too high, it will appear yellowish after cutting. This is because light can't reach the lower part of the blades, and the green (chlorophyll) inside the grass stays pale. The condition of your grass at mowing time also is important. While you obviously wouldn't mow when the grass is sopping wet, neither should you mow when it is too dry. Wilted or dry grass can be damaged by the mower's weight, showing up later as streak lines in the lawn. Apply fertilizers, weed killers and lawn insect controls after mowing. Many times, the apparent failure of these products is not in how you applied them, but the fact that the next day or so you mowed off the dandelions or clover plants just absorbing the chemical controls. Finally, dull mowers, or those out of adjustment, can lead you to believe your grass suffers from all kinds of ailments. Dull rotary mowers whip off the grass rather than cut it, thus the torn tops of the blades turn brown. Reel mowers not doing the job well will pinch the grass blades in several places rather than cut them off. These damaged blades will also turn brown. SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE""",0,0,0,0,0,0
92,20061203,modern,Nan,"223 CAD Railway services inc., 155 Montreal Toronto Highway, Lacnme, que MACHINE shop in Pointe Claire requires qualified maintenance mechanic and bench machinist. Send resume to: 514-694-3935. HOROSCOPE JERALDINE SAUNDERS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006 BIRTHDAY CAL: Actress Holly Marie Combs, born in San Diego on this date in 1973, may be best known for playing middle sister Piper on the TV series ""Charmed."" She also served as a producer for the popular teen adventure. This birthday gal also starred in the series ""Picket Fences"" and has appeared in such films as ""Dr. Giggles"" and ""Ocean's Eleven."" An avid animal lover, at present her menagerie includes three horses, five dogs, three cats, four rabbits and koi fish. VARIES (March 21-April 19): Rethink how you are handling a personal situation. Accept the circumstances that are outside your control. Minor frustrations will dissipate soon, so it isn't necessary to plan major changes. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Hold your head high.
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251,18870401,historical,Snow,"THE BLOCKADE RAISED The railway traffic which has been demoralized for some days past on account of the heavy snowstorm is again resuming its normal condition The block on the intercolonial has been raised and the first mail from the lower provinces for a week was distributed last night Ten engines and snow ploughs were employed clearing the track Mr Daley, the Dominion immigration agent, received the following telegram yesterday morning from Campbellton, N.U. Johnson, J. This was an action of damages against the railway company brought by the widow and children of the late Norman McDonald for having, by the fault and negligence of the company, caused the death of the husband and father, and a most distressing case in itself of course it is, though, unfortunately, what distresses and disturbs does not tend to give any one a clearer view of their right under the law This young man, now dead, and leaving behind him a young widow and several children, who say the railway company are responsible for his death, left his house on the morning of the 5th of April, 1886, and went with another man called Donald Smith, and a pair of horses and a sled to the woods where they loaded up with some heavy logs, and started thence to draw them to the saw mill, having on their route to cross the railway track, which they reached without much difficulty, though the snow in some places had disappeared The load was drawn up the incline onto the track, which was bare of snow; but there it stuck, and the horses could get it no further The train came down rounding a curve towards the spot where the sleigh had stuck on the track; and there is evidence that if the engine driver had shifted his seat from the convex to the concave side of the curve he might have seen the obstruction somewhat sooner; but it was a downgrade at that place; and he only succeeded in stopping the engine after it had struck the loaded sleigh The unfortunate man MacDonald would have had time to save himself, by getting out of the way after he saw the train coming, for he and his load remained on the track some ten minutes; but he put himself most unfortunately where he would have been in all probability sure to suffer if his load should be struck by the engine; and accordingly, when it was struck, it was dashed with tremendous force against him, and he was killed The action in the usual form alleged negligence and fault on the part of the company with all the other necessary allegations required by the circumstances; and particularly set forth that the accident was a direct consequence of the bad condition of the railway crossing which the company were bound by law to keep so that the rails should not be more than one inch above or below the level of the road, while they were alleged to be eleven inches above the level The conclusion was for $20,000 The defendants pleaded, first, an express denial of each of the allegations of the plaintiff, and they further pleaded contributory negligence by the deceased himself in respect of the bare state of the roads, the weight of the load, and the weakness of the horses; and that the deceased had resided close by, and knew when the train was due; and in spite of all this attempted imprudently to cross the track; that the bell was rung and the train was stopped as soon as possible; that it was running at an ordinary rate, and on time; and the deceased with common caution could have escaped, but placed himself behind his load so as inevitably to bring about his own death The issues of fact were tried at Sherbrooke by a jury, and they found on the evidence that there had been no fault or negligence on the part of the defendants; but that there had been negligence on the part of the deceased, to which his death was directly attributable This is the effect of the finding of the jury; and the plaintiff on the ground that it is against the evidence, moves for a new trial The several questions (thirty-four in number) submitted to the jury cover every fact of importance that can bear upon these two main points, viz: the fault and negligence of the defendants, and the fault and negligence of the deceased; and the principal particulars of negligence urged against the defendants were the level of the rails being above the legal limit; and the fault of the engine driver in not stopping sooner The jury found both against the plaintiff's pretensions, and though they were particularly told, as to the latter point, that if the engine driver could have stopped sooner by doing anything he had omitted to do, they found clearly in answer to the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th questions, that everything was done that could have been done; the bell was rung; and whether the driver had seen a few moments sooner or not would have made no difference on that descending grade With respect to the level of the rails, the law cited is in the statute 42 Vic, ch. 9 sec. 15, subsections 2 and 4 The provisions are very clear and easily understood It provides that on the highway or right of passage over the track to which the public is entitled, the rails must not be more than an inch above or below the level of the way, and as I understand the evidence, that was proved by the defendants' witnesses It is true that there was evidence on both sides The friends of the deceased on the one side, who made no measurements; the witnesses for the defendants on the other, who did take precise measurements, and it cannot be said, if the jury was to estimate and weigh the value of the evidence on both sides, that they have found against evidence by saying in effect that they prefer the proof of the defendants on this point to that of the plaintiff It was their right to say so; and I must say I agree with them The fourth subsection, which was altered by the second statute, does not affect the case at all Then, on the other issue, viz, the want of care and prudence in this poor man who met his death, this subject was spread over several questions, and the jury found in answer to the seventeenth and eighteenth, that the road was bare of snow and the men were driving a heavy load for such roads; and in answer to the twenty-first, that the deceased was familiar with the crossing and knew the time the train was due Besides this the jury found in their answer to the twenty-seventh question, in the most direct manner that McDonald was guilty of rashness, recklessness and imprudence in attempting to cross the railway at that particular time of the day and season of the year; and to the twenty-eighth they say also with equal plainness that the deceased did, by his own acts and negligence, contribute to bring about his own death It could not be maintained; it was not argued, I believe, that on this last part of the case (the fault of the man himself), the jury had found against evidence Therefore, upon the whole case, we are obliged to say the verdict should stand The plaintiff sued in forma pauperis, and the defendants, of course, though they have the right to judgment for costs, will not, we hope, exercise it under the circumstances David vs. La Compagnie de Jurisprudence et al Johnson, J. This was an action of damages for libel The defendant's journal, Le Monde, published in a paragraph on the 9th October that, on the day before, in the plaintiff's presence, he being then a candidate for Parliament, a sum of $2,000 had been offered to one Lemay, a supporter of the other candidate, Mr. Gravel, to get the latter to retire and so secure the vote of the workingmen for the plaintiff The judgment went against the printing company only, and exonerated the editor and manager personally The company now inscribes: It had pleaded to the action that the article was published in good faith and was true, and published for the public benefit If it meant anything it meant that an act of corruption was committed before the plaintiff's face, for his benefit, and with his approval The proof did not sustain that at all, but something very different and which in no way reflected discredit on the plaintiff The judgment gave $200 on damages There cannot be the slightest doubt that the defendants did not prove what they pleaded, the offer of the money for the purpose they had said They admitted the publication, and of course damages were due, but we are in reality asked to reduce the damages, that is all No pretext whatever was suggested for such a step on our part, it is not a matter of fancy or arbitrary will We have no right to touch a judgment of the court without a sufficient reason, and none whatever is alleged Judgment confirmed O'Connor vs. Grand Trunk Railway Co Johnson, J. The trial of the issues of fact in this case was had before a special jury: and they found unanimously a verdict which on the face of it clearly entitles the defendants to judgment dismissing the plaintiff's action; and accordingly they move for judgment in their favor; but the plaintiff comes with a motion for a new trial on grounds of misdirection, admission of illegal evidence, and of verdict rendered without evidence, and contrary to evidence The point of misdirection was not heard, as there was nothing of record as required by law to show what the direction was Therefore, the points are reduced to the evidence and the rulings at the trial The action was to recover $896 as the alleged value of a quantity of railway ties which the defendants were alleged to have permitted to be put where they were afterwards consumed by fire, attributed to their fault and negligence The defendants denied any such permission, and any such neglect or fault on their part, and said, on the contrary, that the plaintiff put his ties on the property of the railway at his own risk; and was in fact a trespasser, and had no right of action against them, if his ties were destroyed And further, the defendants pleaded that before action brought, the plaintiff had waived and discontinued his pretensions The plaintiff made answer to that part of the plea, denying all permission to him to place his ties on their property by setting up an alleged custom of the people about there, who had ties to sell, of placing them alongside the track on the railway property, and alleged that the defendants had acquiesced in such a custom The real issues for the jury were three: First the permission, secondly the fault of the defendants, and thirdly the waiver; and these questions were amplified and diluted into a number of minor particulars, according to the practice The jury found that there was no permission, and no custom of the kind that was set up They also found there was no fault or negligence by the company; and thirdly, they found the plaintiffs had withdrawn and waived, before they brought their action, all their claims arising out of this matter The plaintiff contends now that he proved this usage He cannot contend, of course, that he proved a permission, for the evidence is in the teeth of such a pretension There was evidence on the subject no doubt, but it did not satisfy the jury, that it amounted to a custom known to and tolerated by the defendants, still less assented to, or binding upon them A few persons may have had the bad habit of trespassing in this manner, as a few fools will still continue to jump on trains in motion, but neither in the one case nor in the other is the """"custom"""" so called, one in which railway companies can be assumed to participate without more distinct proof than there has been in this case The next issue was the fault and negligence of the defendants in setting fire, of course, the defendants as a railway company, will have some difficulty in running their trains, unless they may lawfully use fire to raise steam for their engines, and within the limits of their own property, I do not see that anyone can complain if he chooses to come without their permission, and, so to speak, bring with him a bundle of sticks, and poke them into the fires in use on the line if the sticks should be burnt up Therefore, unless the finding on this head were shown to be against evidence, we are not held to go any further into the other points, but may properly say the burning of wood placed on the railway property close to their track without any permission, express or implied, gives no right of action against the company, but is a thing occurring entirely by the fault of the person who put the wood there in a place exposed to fire But in point of fact the findings as to the defendants' negligence, or even as to the cause of the fire, excluding the idea of their negligence, are all in accordance with the proof, as the jury had a right to appreciate that proof There was circumstantial evidence that the fire might have come from the defendants' engines; there was a probability of such a thing in the absence of any other assignable cause, and the jury were so told by the court; but the fact was entirely within their province, and they found against the plaintiff; they found there was no proof, and unless we can say what is the precise amount of proof that ought to satisfy a jury one way or the other, it is impossible to find fault with the verdict in this particular; otherwise it is no longer a trial of the facts by a jury, but by the court But this circumstantial evidence of the possibility or probability of the cause of the fire was met by a most complete and careful, I may add, scientific evidence to show that that particular engine could not, on the two days alleged, have set the fire All that would remain would be the question of waiver, It is with respect to the admission of evidence on this head that the ruling at the trial is complained of; but it is unnecessary to proceed to that part of the case, either as regards the facts or the law, since the evidence of absence of permission or custom, and that of fault or negligence on the defendant's part amply sustains the findings on those points, and fully disposes of the case I ought, perhaps, to cite, in view of the abuse of the motion for new trial in almost all jury cases in this court, an authority of the highest description that ought to serve to mitigate the indiscriminate infliction of them except in cases resting on distinct principle It is the case of the Metropolitan Railway Company vs. Wright, decided last year in the House of Lords, and it is Lord Selborne's judgment What concerns the case in hand is this: """"In many cases the principles on which new trials should be granted on the ground of difference of opinion which may exist as to the effect of the evidence, have been considered both in the House of Lords and in the lower courts; and have always understood that it is not enough that the judge who tried the case might have come to a different conclusion from the jury, or that the judges in the court where the new trial is moved for might have come to a different conclusion; but there must be such a preponderance of evidence, assuming there is evidence on both sides to go to the jury, as to make it unreasonable and almost perverse that the jury, when instructed and assisted properly by the judge, should return such a verdict If this is the law of trial by jury we cannot properly interfere with this case The jury were unanimous and no injustice appears Therefore the plaintiff's motion is dismissed and the defendants' motion for judgment is granted with costs (To be Continued) ENJOY LIFE What a truly beautiful world we live in! Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means of enjoyment We can desire no better when in perfect health; but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worn out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfactory proof that Green's August Flower will make them free from disease as when born Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct causes of 75 percent of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart and other distressing symptoms Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect Sample bottles 10 cents Try it W. Mottutt, of our club, is in Montreal Parly you telegraph about must be Tom Molt'alt, a professional Have nothing to do with him In reply to this came a letter from which the following is taken: """"The committee of the St. George Snow-shoe club join me in expressing our gratitude for the prompt manner in which you answered the telegram re Moduli affair We found the fellow just what you predicted a professional and one of the worst kind It was very amusing to witness his seemingly honest display of indignation when he was requested to withdraw from the events, as we had undoubted proof for railing into question the met of his being a bona fide amateur, he doubted the authenticity of our being able to produce sufficient evidence to warrant any steps being taken to prevent him participating, and there being no other course left we had to return your telegram You can well imagine the look of consternation when it dawned upon him that he had been caught in his own trap Enclosed herewith you will find a copy of Moltut's entry, and memorandum attention of committee to the fact of his not being Tom Monatt, the professional, but T.P. for Selkirk Man, arrived in the city today from Montreal He will leave here tomorrow or Saturday for New York in connection with his Hudson Bay railway Mr. Sutherland will have two bills before the Dominion Parliament this session, one providing for an extension of the road, and another to consolidate the various acts relating to the Hudson Bay railway Work on the road will be resumed as soon as the snow leaves the ground The civic board of works have taken steps to introduce a system of permanent street paving during the coming summer As a start Daly avenue and Metcalfe street will be paved throughout with cedar blocks, unless the work be petitioned against by a majority of the property owners who, under the local improvement by-laws, would be taxed for it His Excellency the Governor General has issued invitations for a state dinner party on the evening of April 11 The Marchioness of Lansdowne will give an """"at home"""" for ladies the same evening Mr. MacdowelL M.P. for Saskatchewan, leaves today for Scotland via New York, on private business He has """"paired"""" for the time he will be absent VERY MIXED WEATHER Lynchburg, Va., March 31 A heavy snowstorm prevails here today Five inches of snow have fallen, and in the mountains it is ten inches deep Reports from Tazewell county say a terrible thunder, hail and snowstorm visited that section yesterday Hail stones an inch in circumference fell and the lightning was terrific Many telegraph poles were split to pieces and telegraph and telephone instruments were destroyed",0,0,0,0,0,0
197,19911112,modern,Nan,"Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), by Ann-Marie MacDonald, at 8 p.m. at the Centaur Theatre, 453 St. Francois Xavier St. A madcap Shakespearean scholar tumbles into Othello and Romeo and Juliet. La Trilogie des Brassard, by Michel Tremblay, at 8 p.m. at Theatre d'Aujourd'hui, 3888 St. Denis St. Voili ce Qui se Passe a Orangeville, by Miliar Lutoja, (in French) at 8:30 p.m. at Salle Fred Barry, 4353 St. Catherine St. Murder in Orangeville Ont. is the subject of this bizarre work making its French premiere. Tickets cost $15 and $18. 24-hour English theatre information hotline, presented by the Quebec Drama Federation phone T-H-E-A-T-R-E (843-2873). CLUBS Club Balattou, 4372 St. Laurent Blvd. Les Segum, 499-9239.",0,0,0,0,0,0
208,18810909,historical,Nan,"Ashes to Liverpool and Glasgow Pots, 17s 6d; Pearls, 25s; Butter and cheese 25s-30s per gross ton to Liverpool, and 35s Glasgow. 2 FAST FREIGHT TRAINS WEEKLY FROM MONTREAL One of the Steamers of this line will leave Sarnia every TUESDAY and FRIDAY night, at NINE o'clock (weather permitting) for Goderich, Kincardine, Southampton, Bruce Mines, Bault Ste. Marie, Silver Islet, Thunder Bay and Duluth. Connecting with the Northern Pacific, St. Paul and Duluth, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, and Canada Pacific Railroads, for all points in Manitoba, Dakota and Minnesota. Five dollars saved on each through ticket. Through Bills of Lading granted from all points. New and commodious steerage berths for second-class passengers. For further particulars as to rates, apply to any agent of the above Railways, or to HENRY B. RATTY, General Manager, 119 Sarnia.",0,0,0,0,0,0
207,18900410,historical,Nan,"The Bona encountered strong westerly gales on the passage and passed one iceberg in latitude 40鎺?4', longitude 48鎺? After discharging, the steamer goes to Baltimore. The disabled steamer Southgate, 1,108 tons, from Placentia, Nfld, in ballast for New York, whose captain declined assistance from the brigantine Alejo I, steamer Alpha and other vessels in the hope of reaching port without help, was towed into Halifax this afternoon by the steamer Coventry, 1,000 tons, Captain Wilson, from Coosaw, SC, bound to the United Kingdom. Rev. Thomas Angwin died this morning, aged 85. He was a superannuated Methodist minister. He was a native of England and was ordained in London in March, 1833, in which year he was sent as a missionary to Newfoundland, where he labored for 23 years. He came to Nova Scotia in 1856, and was stationed at Aylesford, Horton, and at Milltown, NB. In 1864 he retired from active work. Among his children are W.""",0,0,0,0,0,0
212,18880803,historical,Thunder,"The path it cut was over a mile wide and ten miles long. Great loss of property is reported. Near Rosemont mine a young man named Cummings was killed by lightning. Minnkai'oms, August 2, Specials from St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, Minn, state that a most terrific thunderstorm occurred last night and torrents of rain fell. Many houses were struck by lightning, but there was no loss of life. Whole fields of wheat are under water. A St. Cloud party going to a funeral was overturned in a washout and barely escaped drowning. Two persons were struck by lightning at Sauk Rapids, but recovered. Twenty-one houses were struck by lightning at St. Cloud. Two of Mrs. Klingert's children will die from the effects of the bolt that struck her house. Two horses are also killed. Three passengers riding on the Manitoba road are in the yards at St. Cloud unable to proceed. A Peculiar Tragedy, Chicago, August 2, A startling phase of the mystery surrounding the death of Mr. and Mrs. Hesch was developed today.",1,0,0,0,1,1
203,19930408,modern,Nan,"Couples has a victory and a runner-up finish this year, but said he's ""not even close to playing as well"" as he did in gaining player of the year honors the last two seasons. Faldo, the Englishman who scored consecutive Masters victories in 1989-90, and Price, the PGA title-holder from Zimbabwe, are the two top choices. Faldo, a methodical, grinding player who bides his time and awaits the mistakes of others, now has won five major titles and, like the younger Nicklaus, centers his golfing life on the Masters. LUC HAMPSTEAD MONTREAL WEST NOTRE DAME DE GRACE OUTREMONT SNOWDOM TOWN OF MOUNT ROYAL WESTMOUNT Pictures of the city Five-year-old David Dworkin of Notre Dame de Grace, who is fascinated by tall buildings, is among the winners of an art contest celebrating Montreal architecture. PAGE G3 INSIDE Calendar G8 Student Voice G6 More than touchy-feely Concordia University's Lacolle Centre for Educational Innovation is a place where almost anyone with an idea for a course can try it out - like one on rediscovering your inner child.",0,0,0,0,0,0
83,20001106,modern,Rain,"$12.35). Take advantage of our special combination buy today! Call a sales representative at The Gazette or Le Journal de Montreal today, 987-2351 or 599-5858. Source: NADbank 1999, Montreal CMA (Read yesterday: The Gazette, Le Journal de Montreal, La Presse, The Globe and Mail). DAVE KENOAU, AP Aston Villa captain Gareth Southgate (left) leads a charge by seven players for the ball after a corner kick in a soccer match against Everton played in teeming rain yesterday at Liverpool's Goodison Park. Aston Villa scored in the final minute for a 1-0 win. Story Page D10 Lone Quebec Tory runs into Bloc CANADA VOTES DAVID GAMBLE Gazette Ottawa Bureau VICTORIAVILLE - Fresh from a night at the bowling alley, Fernand Desy took a few seconds to size up Conservative MP Andre Bachand's shot at keeping his Richmond-Arthabaska seat after the Nov. 27 federal election. ""He is one of the good ones. But it will be hard for him. He's all by himself now,"" the 59-year-old plumber offered sadly.
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197,19911112,modern,Nan,"The drive is supported by the association of expatriate Haitian doctors and the Bureau de la Communaut锟斤拷 Chr锟斤拷tienne des Ha?tiens de Montreal. Vote set in PSBGM French sector Parents in the French sector of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal vote Thursday on their choice for two school commissioners. Voting will be done at all schools between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Parents should vote at their child's school. If they have children in both elementary and secondary school, they should go to the elementary school to vote. There are five candidates running for the two positions. Marc Arnold and Monique Begin are competing to represent the French-sector elementary schools; Marcel Cloutier, Jean-Elie Felix and Louis Lafleur are running for the position to represent high schools. Catholic schools hold open house Ever been curious about whether kids these days are learning the same things you did? If so, you might want to check out the open house at the downtown Sheraton Centre last night, where Montrealers grabbed seven of 10 spots available on the national fashion design competition. The event featured students from various colleges showcasing their designs.",0,0,0,0,0,0
204,19900318,modern,Nan,"All recovered dead penguins were found with empty stomachs, raising fears that something has entered the food chain. Biologists are carefully watching flocks of albatross who feed in the same coastal waters as the penguins. This has been a difficult summer for wildlife in New Zealand, where avian botulism killed thousands of ducks. Wild rabbits have overrun an environmentally sensitive basin, and threaten to destroy indigenous plants and birds, including the endangered black stilt. L Ralston somewhat caustically noted, McNaughton understands fully the value of publicity and has been widely publicized to the Canadian people. Indeed, McNaughton made the covers not only of Canadian weeklies but also of Time and Newsweek, all of which lavished praise on McNaughton of the Canadians. In July the press prominently carried news of McNaughton's promotion to lieutenant-general and the suggestion that he would command a mixed British-Canadian corps. By June 1941 reports were circulating that McNaughton was going to replace Churchill as minister of defence in the British war cabinet, a bit of impudence quickly denied by 10 Downing St.",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,$12V 2 2U Rapid cdn 8500 108 100 100 -8 Jechbyte 2 500 60 50 59 9 Rare earth 400 320 320 320 TcMacap 83000 56 50 56 1 Reach vn 4500 70 70 70 -1 Terylres 5000 14 14 14 Reefcomn 28300 238 230 230 -5 J 335925 B0 65 80 3 Reeservr 4000 9 9 9 Texas 500 54 47 SO 10 Reg res 33000 20 20 20 1 Jhios 3 500 3 2 2 Regentvl 2M0 21 21 21 Thumper 11000 8 8 8 1 Reogoidy 1000 202 202 207 1 Tigrisi 9)00 12 2 IJ Respb 27700 350 340 350 5 Title tch 3530 62 62 62 -6 Rhino 2000 48 48 48 6,0,0,0,0,0,0
88,19960724,modern,Nan,"For years people had to settle for a family sedan. Efficient, but boring. The Mazda 626 V-6 changes all of that. Not only is the Mazda V-6 engine a spirited piece of design, but consider what it's married to - our sophisticated Twin Trapezoidal Links rear suspension, stabilizer bars, rack-and-pinion power-assisted steering, and front-wheel drive. So handling is precise, controlled. And with the 626 LX Model, you can get the V-6 with a 5-speed manual stick. Talk about sporty! The 626 boasts the most interior room in its class, and, according to the US National Highway Transport Safety Association, the best frontal crash test results versus 4-door Camry, Accord and Altima. The 1996 Mazda 626 is also available with a 4-cylinder engine (our DX model). The Mazda 626 Only $1500 down 1 1 J month yTrl LI 24 months MAZDA 0raii3bteof'wrefati leases rww'patngfssioci'sart ANngMUtnli l?9SW!fwFWtrbT?
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195,19910612,modern,Nan,"the women said they are upset that rape is not considered serious enough to bring about a change in release laws The women, who met Monday at the Sexual Assault Centre in Edmonton, made an audiotape about their emotional scars because of the attacks One woman talked about the guilt she has carried for a decade because she told Takahashi to rape her and not kill her Another spoke of the anguish in new sexual relationships when she feels uneasy doing what I had been made to do at knifepoint Among the women's demands: time actually served should be more reflective of long sentences, different parole eligibility guidelines should apply to serial rapists, victims should have the right to know of changes in an inmate's status, such as parole or recreational passes, victims should receive resources for rehabilitation just as offenders do, mandatory perusal of victim impact statements at temporary absence or parole hearings Storms pound Saskatchewan REGINA Winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour flipped over a semi tractor trailer and tore up trees in Regina as severe thunderstorms pounded southern Saskatchewan yesterday Funnel clouds were sighted in the northwest part of the city and in the surrounding countryside, and a tornado was spotted at Gravelbourg,",0,0,0,0,0,0
145,18941228,historical,Nan,"After that the Royal Scots had their turn on the ice, so that the Victoria rink altogether put in a pretty lively time last night. Ottawa Defeats Montreal, Ottawa, December 27, (Special) The score in the first hockey match of the season tonight between Ottawa and Montreal ended in favor of Ottawa by 4 to 1. About 500 people were present and they seemed well pleased with the match, which was far from being up to championship form. There was slashing, bunting and interfering enough to keep the spectators in good humor, but on the whole the contest was tame compared to anything the teams can do when battling for the championship. The first half went off in grand style, but in the second want of practice told on both teams, which was to a great extent accountable for the quiet manner in which the battle was fought out towards the end. The match at all events was fairly won by Ottawa, but they had worthy opponents, particularly in the forward line, where honors were about even. On the defense Ottawa had the advantage of such old-timers as Young and Falford, who seemed capable of resisting any attack.
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15,18930830,historical,,"""if a slow one, toward better things The heavy arrivals of gold from Europe and the Pacific coast have had their effect in New York in checking the bearish sentiment to a certain extent, but for all that all eyes are turned to Washington and speculators are still playing a waiting game pending advices regarding the repeal measure Speaking of the course the New York banks have followed and still follow in some cases, the Commercial Advertiser says: It is greatly to be regretted that the Clearing House banks of this city still pursue the policy, at all events the nominal policy, of reserving for themselves the right to refuse cash to a customer in payment for a cheque There is absolutely no excuse at this present time for such a policy, and there is every reason for a public and formal reversal thereof The handle given to Chicago and other bankers by the continuance of the New York banks in a state of placid suspension may be put to very undesirable uses in consequence of the ignorance, perhaps something worse, of these country bankers It is all very well for New York bankers to laugh at or even honestly despise the remarks of Chicago bankers in the circular just sent out by them to their country correspondents,",0,0,0,0,0,0
33,18830321,historical,,"Qristc, March 20. In the Private Bills this morning consideration of the Montreal bill was postponed until tomorrow, owing to the non-arrival of an important deputation, known to be on board the delayed North Shore train. There were no meetings of the Committees on Privileges and Elections, Railways and Public Accounts, owing to the absence of quorum in consequence of the late hour at which the House adjourned this morning. Seven or eight witnesses, summoned from Montmagny, were, however, in attendance on the first-named committee to give evidence in the petition matter, the investigation into which was adjourned until tomorrow. Owing to the snowstorm, Crown Lands Commissioner Lynch was only able to leave this morning for Knowlton to attend his father's funeral. The Premier intends to move a resolution respecting the employment of official stenographers. He has also given notice of certain resolutions respecting railways. The possibility of proroguing this week is no longer in question, the Premier virtually admitting, towards the close of tonight's sitting, that the necessities of business still before the House might necessitate the prolongation of the session into next week. COMMERCIAL.",0,0,0,0,0,0
29,18981128,historical,Snow,"In some of the streets great drifts formed barriers across them, and in many instances filled up the trenches that were dug by the street railroads for the transforming of the motive power from cable to electricity. As soon as there were signs of abatement in the fall of snow, the street cleaning department went to work. But there was very little progress made. The street railroad ploughs had thrown up huge banks of snow on either side of the rails, forming an almost impassable barrier to anything but sleighs, very few of which were out. The street cleaning department, with its limited resources, removed a few thousand loads from the principal thoroughfares, but this made an impression on the banks that was scarcely noticeable. CAR LINES BLOCKED Today the cable roads were more fortunate than the trolley lines. Nearly every underground trolley line in the city was inoperative all day, owing to the filling up of the slot by freezing sleet, and then filling the conduit with snow and sleet, thus making the trolley wires unavailable. Hundreds of men were employed by the trolley companies to put them in condition, but their efforts were futile.",1,0,0,0,0,0
202,19920928,modern,Nan,"Approximately twice a month, prominent guest speakers share their expertise in order to keep members attuned to the needs of industry. Photo by Jeanie Trubiano DEA Executive committee in front DOUG YANAKIN 3 SPORTS A family oriented sports store selling and renting new & used equipment for HOCKEY, SKIING & CYCLING WE WELCOME TRADE-INS 454 BEACONSFIELD BLVD. 695-5700 GENERAL TRUST OF CANADA 955 St. Jean Blvd, Pointe-Claire Telephone: (514) 694-5670 well, all members are encouraged to give classification talks which explain the raison-d'etre of their organization. Weekly meetings, lead-sharing, brainstorming: That's only part of it. The board of directors, which is made up of members, ensures the cohesion of the association by meeting monthly. It's not all work and no play, however. Fellowship events such as golf tournaments and pot-luck parties also encourage spouses and children to mingle. And the friendships which ensue are often long-lasting, even among former members. CONTINUITY AND CONSISTENCY It's this spirit of continuity which has made the DEA a success.",0,0,0,0,0,0
203,19930408,modern,Nan,"Louis T-Storms 17 8 San Francisco Cloudy 18 11 Washington Sunny 21 8 World ii Man, Mtn: Amsterdam PCloudy 11 7 Athens PCloudy 16 10 Beijing Sunny 12 3 Berlin Cloudy 10 6 Copenhagen Cloudy 8 5 Dublin Cloudy 9 6 Hong Kong Cloudy 22 19 Jerusalem Cloudy 18 11 Lisbon Sunny 21 14 London Cloudy 12 5 Madrid Sunny 22 12 Mexico City Sunny 29 12 Moscow Cloudy 11 6 Nairobi PCloudy 27 16 New Delhi Sunny 35 23 Paris Cloudy 11 8 Rio de Janeiro PCloudy 34 27 Rome PCloudy 16 11 Sydney Cloudy 21 18 Tokyo Rain 13 11 resorts i Max, Mm,",0,0,0,0,0,0
135,19980109,modern,Nan,"Not every question can be answered, but all will be considered. Personal replies without a self-addressed, stamped envelope cannot be guaranteed. 19 Wmrnt Claire alrJeg--gg !( HmUYSi - i - - - BEUMTESSEN AM STUKHOUSE POINT-LEADER PRIZE top-ranking contestant of the week ""DANIEL PROULX MONTREAL RANDOM PRIZE to contestant picked at random BARRY MILLMAN LASALLE POINT-GAINER PRIZE to top point-gainer of the week SHARPSHOOTER PRIZE to top goal-getter of the week Wmk'l Total Prev Nama Ptl Pit Rank Rink Of PALMA",0,0,0,0,0,0
38,18950515,historical,Ice,"KOTES BY THE WAT' The depth of water at Borel on the 13th was 34 feet 8 inches; in the Montreal harbor channel yesterday it was 32 feet 8 inches. The steamship Ipsden, Capt. Cousins, has cleared for Glace Bay with mine supplies. She will return with a full cargo of coal. The steamship Wandsworth, Captain Watkins, arrived in port yesterday with a cargo of coal from Sydney, consigned to Kingman, Brown & Co. The Beaver line steamship Lake Superior, Captain Stewart, will arrive in port this evening with a general cargo and passengers from Liverpool. The steamship Kecalona, Captain Baxter, arrived in port last evening from Bordeaux and Charente with a general cargo, consigned to R. Reford & Co. The Allan line steamship Sarmatian, which sailed yesterday morning for Glasgow, had, in addition to a large cargo, 400 head of cattle and 113 horses. Before the steamship Rutherglen sailed for London yesterday morning, some standards of deals had to be taken off her deck load to keep her from being too heavy. The steamship Avlona, Captain Baxter, arrived in port late yesterday afternoon with upwards of 17,000 boxes of fruit from Mediterranean ports, consigned to R. Reford & Co. The Thomson line steamship Gerona, Captain Stooke, is making her way up the river from Newcastle with a general cargo consigned to R. Reford & Co. She is expected to arrive in port tomorrow. The Dominion line steamship British Prince, Capt. Freetb, arrived in port yesterday, just before noon, with passengers and a general cargo. She sailed from Liverpool with 50 passengers on May 1 and made a favorable trip across. The Allan line steamship Buenos Ayrean, Captain Vipond, arrived in port last evening from Glasgow with a general cargo. She sailed from Glasgow on May 2, and has made a good passage. She will probably sail on Sunday next. The steamship Ben Gore Head, Captain Brennan, which arrived in Quebec on Saturday last in ballast, is still moored there, taking on board a portion of her cargo. She will come to Montreal to complete loading, and will sail for Dublin on May 17, consigned by McLean, Kennedy & Co. The steamship Montevidean, Captain Fairfull, arrived in port yesterday afternoon with a general cargo from London. Captain Fairfull reports that he sailed from London on April 27, and had strong headwinds the whole of the passage, and was detained by fog in the channel and off the Banks. The first ice was seen in lat. 47, but no field ice was sighted until they were inside of Cape Bay. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS MOVEMENTS Arrived May 14, Steamer At Prom, KurrifRSia, New York Havel, Southampton, New York Teutonic Queenstown, New York Lake Superior Father Point, Liverpool Georgia, New York, Shelburne, Father Point, Hamburg Hardiulin Moville, Montreal PORT OF MONTREAL On the top of the Harbor Commissioners' building is a timeball which is dropped every weekday at 12 o'clock noon of 7 6 in meridian or Eastern standard time, which is precisely five hours slow of Greenwich time. Arrived May 14, steamship British Prince, Freetb, Liverpool, May 1, Torrance & Co, general. Steamship Montevidean, Fairfull, London, April 27, H A Allan, general. Steamship Avlona, King, Burranla, April 9, R Reford & Co, general. Steamship Kecalona, Baxter, Charente, R Reford & Co, general. Steamship Buenos Ayrean, Vipond, Glasgow, May 9, H A Allan, general. Steamship Wandsworth, Watkins, Sydney, Kingman, Brown & Co. Cleared May 14, steamship Ipsden, Glace Bay, Kingman, Brown & Co, mine supplies. Vessels In Port, STEAMSHIPS, Parisian, Kitchile, H A Allan, Memphis, Williams, F. Idor, Lembitier & Co, Sydal Holme, 12118, Brown, McLean, Kennedy & Co, Turonia, 3150, Yule, R Reford & Co, British Prince, Freetb, Torrance & Co, Montevidean, Fairfull, H A Allan, Avlona, King, Burranla, R Reford & Co, Kecalona, Baxter, Charente, R Reford & Co, Buenos Ayrean, Vipond, H A Allan, Wandsworth, Watkins, Kingman, Brown & Co. SNOWFALL AT NIAGARA As Keenly as the Small Fruit Crop Is Wiped Out but Little Damage Done in Quebec. Toronto, May 14, Special. From all parts of Ontario come reports of great damage done by the recent cold snap. In some parts frost was so severe that ice formed on standing water to the thickness of half an inch. Farmers and market gardeners who were in the city today said that, besides fruits and vegetables being destroyed, the pea crops in many places were badly nipped. Other grains have escaped. The weather that has followed the big drop in temperature is most favorable. The cold rain removes the chill, but had a hot sun followed, the crops that now look healthy would have turned black. Niagara Falls, Ont., May 14, Snow fell to the depth of four inches this morning, followed during the afternoon by drizzling rain. The grape crop in this locality has been almost totally destroyed, which means thousands of dollars loss. Strawberry patches look as if they had been swept by fire, and cherries suffered severely, as did the peach trees. Corn, potatoes and other vegetables are lying flat on the ground. The season being fully three weeks ahead of last year, the frost Sunday night means hard times for the fruit growers and farmers in the Niagara district. Edytk, Ont., May 14, The frost has done considerable damage to fruit trees, but grain, especially barley and peas, suffered the most. Plmhuokk, Ont., May 14, No damage to crops or fruit by frost in this locality. Smith's Falls, Ont., May 14, Very little damage has been done to crops or gardens by frost in this vicinity. Plantagenet, May 14, Heavy frost last night, but no damage to crops as yet done. Puslinch, Ont., May 14, No damage is as yet apparent from the frost, but it is feared it will do so in a day or so. Shawinigan, Ont., May 14, The frost has completely destroyed fruit and early vegetables of every description in this neighborhood. Fall wheat and barley are also badly injured. Snow has been falling for over two hours this morning. Avonmore, Ont., May 14, There was a slight frost last night, but nothing was damaged to any extent. Hawkesbury, Ont., May 14, Light frost here. No damage done worth mentioning. Bknfiusw, Ont., May 14, Frost has not damaged crops to any great extent. Fruit has escaped fairly well, not being far enough advanced to suffer permanent injury. The plum crop may be affected to some extent. Montkuf, Que., May 14, No frost here on Sunday night. Last night's will damage small fruit, etc., but grain is not enough advanced to have been seriously injured. Cameron Park, Ont., May 14, The slight frost last two nights does not seem to have done much injury in this locality. Aylmer, Ont., May 14, Frost has not hurt crops in this locality, not being sufficiently advanced, but grapes and fruits generally are very badly damaged. Thermometer fell to 28 degrees. St. Stanbridge, Que., May 14, Gardens were not far enough advanced to be damaged by the recent frosts. Some slight damage was done to apple and plum trees. Kazabazua, Que., May 14, Very heavy frost last night, but little damage done to crops around here. Wakefield, Que., May 14, The frost was quite heavy here last night but no damage reported, although fruit trees and tender plants must certainly have been nipped. Hemmingford, Que., May 14, Nothing was damaged by the frost here except cherry and plum blossoms. St. Isidore, May 14, There was a heavy frost in this vicinity last night. The fruit crop, if not lost altogether, is seriously damaged. Brossard, May 14, There was a heavy frost here last night which seriously damaged the fruit crop, if it did not ruin it altogether. Huntingdon, Que., May 14, Garden stuff generally suffered pretty severely from frost last night. Grape vines, cabbage and tomatoes are especially frost bitten. It is a question whether or not fruit trees will be affected. Vaudreuil, Que., May 14, Frost did no damage in Vaudreuil. Across the Lines, St. Paul, May 14, Reports indicate that there was another severe frost last night all over Minnesota and South Dakota. It is feared the damage was even greater than on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Omaha, Neb., May 14, Railway officials have been conducting an exhaustive search for damage done by last night's frost, and the damage is found to be insignificant; it is chiefly confined to orchards and garden stuffs. KpwNOFisiLD, Ills., May 14, Central Illinois was visited by a heavy frost last night. Grapes and other fruits were badly damaged, corn, which was well advanced, is bitten off close to the ground. Potatoes are killed to the roots and garden vegetables are generally badly damaged. Grand Rapids, Mich., May 14, Reports from various portions of the fruit belt of Western Michigan are to the effect that more damage was done by the gale than by freezing. AN ASSISTANT ENGINEER Knights of Labor Complain That Outsiders are Employed on the Improvement Works. Mr. Henry Bulmer, chairman, presided at the open meeting of the Harbor Commissioners held yesterday afternoon, the other members in attendance being Major Villeneuve, Messrs. Hudon, Hurteau, Morin, Torrance, Ogilvie and Allan. The sub-committee on harbor expenditure reported in favor of the chief engineer, Mr. Kennedy, being authorized to employ an assistant engineer at a salary of not more than $75 per month, and the engagement to be from month to month, so that should the development of the inquiries now going on seem to warrant it, he might be dismissed at any time without involving more than a month's salary. The recommendation was made on the statement of Mr. Kennedy that it was important, in connection with the efficient carrying on of the work, that he have such assistant at once. Mr. Bulmer did not concur in the report, and wished his objection to be recorded, on the ground of economy. He considered that the present staff was sufficient for the work to be done. The report was adopted. The chief engineer, Mr. Kennedy, submitted his monthly report as under: Openings in the winter ice on the harbor began to form in the main channel below the Victoria bridge on the 2nd of April, and in the current St. Mary somewhat earlier. The openings enlarged and joined, and by the 8th of April the main channel was clear from above the Victoria bridge to the foot of the current St. Mary, and a few shoves had taken place. Shoving continued at intervals outside the guard pier and at Windmill point until the morning of the 11th, when the main body of the ice moved off the greater part of La Prairie basin and the part of the harbor outside the guard pier. The space inside the guard pier, and the greater part of the river below Longueuil Point, remained covered until the 21st, when a final movement took place, leaving the whole clear, and navigation opened. Very considerable quantities of ice were left lodged upon all the wharves above the canal entrance and below Victoria pier. The following are the estimated areas and depths: Sections B and 7, Windmill point, 1,000 feet in length by 100 feet in width, was covered to an average depth of 1 foot. Sections 8 to 10, Windmill point, 1,600 feet in length by 75 feet in width, was covered to 6 feet thick. From the mouth of the canal, section 11, to the Richelieu pier, section 17, no ice remained except an occasional lump. Section 17, Richelieu pier, about half the pier, or 100 feet square, was covered to an average thickness of 3 feet. Section 18, Island Ferry wharf, about 800 feet by 100 feet of the pier was covered to an average depth of 1 foot. Section 19, La Prairie ferry wharf, about half the pier, or 60 feet by 180 feet, was covered to an average depth of 2 feet. Section 20, Victoria pier, the downstream end, 600 feet in length by 110 feet in width was covered to an average depth of 7 feet. Sections 21 to 22, a length of 1,000 feet from the Victoria pier downwards, by a width of 100 feet, was covered to an average depth of 5 feet. Sections 22 to 28, a length of 1,200 feet by 100 feet in width, was covered to an average depth of 8 feet. Sections 29 to 30, a length of 1,300 feet by 60 feet in width, was covered to an average depth of 4 feet. Sections 31 to 35, a length of 1,600 feet by 80 feet in width, was covered to an average depth of 6 feet. Sections 36 to 42, a length of 3,900 feet by 76 feet wide, was covered to an average depth of 8 feet. Section 43, new pier, the old pier, or 730 feet by a width of 20 feet, was covered to an average depth of 6 feet. Section 40, sugar refinery pier, on the outer end about half the pier, or 300 feet by 180 feet, was covered to an average depth of 4 feet. The usual clearing of the lodged ice from sites of the freight sheds and other parts of the wharf most urgently needed was commenced on the 17th of April with a force of 160 men, which was increased to 625 men by the 25th, and reduced to 60 men by the 6th of May, when the special work of ice clearing was stopped. Expenditure, including the cost of working a clam-shell derrick eight and a half days, $4,797. On the clearing away of the ice it was found that a piece of cribwork wharf, 194 feet in length, in section 9, Windmill point, built in 1864, was damaged by being undermined by the winter currents, and also that some of the top timber of the unfinished pier in section 44, Hochelaga, had been displaced and lodged on shore; otherwise the wharves suffered no material injury during the winter. The guard pier, although subjected to violent outside shoves, was unharmed; the derricks, locomotives and other working plant wintered upon it were untouched; there was no unusual shoving and no flooding on either south shore or north; the ice inside remained no longer than upon the ship channel, and the adjacent wharves were left practically clear. If HARBOR REPORTS The replacing of mooring posts was commenced on the 18th of April; roadway repairs were commenced on the 22nd; the ordinary cleaning of roadways and wharves was commenced on the 23rd, and repairs to the woodwork of the wharves was commenced on the 24th. The quarrying of macadamizing stone was finished on the 6th of April, and greasing on the 16th. The quantity got out and broken by the Commissioners' men during April was about 60 tons, and the total for the winter was 953 tons. NEW WORKS The making of some additional bents for the temporary trestle of the guard pier was commenced on the 16th of April, and the re-erection of the trestle was commenced on the 24th. A tugboat and two floating derricks, which were wintered in the lower new basin of the canal, were freed as soon as the ice cleared off, and commenced work on the 24th of April, one derrick being set to work to assist in clearing off ice from the wharves and the other to assist in erecting the guard pier trestle. On the 1st day of May the other vessels of the dredging fleet were released from winter quarters and brought into the harbor, after which they were fitted up with their spuds and set to work as quickly as possible. The building of the new tug is being continued by the contractors. At the end of the month the frames of the hull were all set up and the shell and furnace of the boiler were well advanced, but the engine remained practically the same as at last report. The new drill boat was launched on the 2nd of April, and the machinery is now about ready for work. As the contractors for the new drill boat were somewhat behind time with their work, the Chief Engineer was instructed to see into the matter. On the recommendation of the Chief Engineer it was decided to purchase, at a cost of $180, one of the steam winches of the wrecked steamship Naverton. C. Landre and Mr. Willett. Miss Georgie Learned was heard to advantage in """"Pierrot,"""" the pianissimo portions being finely rendered. Mr. Hodgson thoroughly caught the audience with his singing of """"In Night's Still Calm."""" Mrs. Landre gave a good interpretation of Tchaikovsky's """"Ave Maria,"""" and Mr. Willett acquitted himself well in his solo, """"Willow the Wisp."""" Gounod's """"Ruth,"""" the interpretation of Gounod's """"Ruth,"""" given in the Church of St. James the Apostle last evening, in aid of the choir fund, might justly be termed a musical treat, and to say that it was enjoyed by the large audience present is expressing the appreciation of its patrons very mildly. To Mr. Raynor, the organist, upon whom has devolved the training of the choir for the event, the result must have been very gratifying. The choruses went with a vim, that commencing """"Rejoice, for blessings round us fall,"""" being exceedingly well rendered; indeed, the entire interpretation of the cantata was such as to leave no room for fault-finding. The soloists were Miss Raynor, Miss Munro, Miss Macartney, Mr. Frank Ibbotson and Master Blair Russell, all of whom acquitted themselves finely. """"The White Squadron"""" will be seen at the Theatre Royal next week. One of the novel features will be a representation of the American Navy under sail and steam. During the action of the third act over 150 people appear upon the stage. L. HARKINS (88 years' practice), No. 1 1 St. James street opp. Post Office, Evening office, 489 St. Lawrence. Ladies and Gentlemen waited upon at their residence. FOR SALE Hotels, Saloon, Groceries, Dry Goods, Cigars, Confectioneries, Boarding Houses and all other kinds of business. Also, houses, stores, rooms and tenements furnished or unfurnished, to let in different parts of the city. Apply to L. HARKINS, real estate agent, 115 St. James street, opp. Post Office, Evening office, 43 St. Lawrence. GENTS MAKE $5 Daily. Marvelous Invention. Retails 50 cents; to 6 sold in a house; sample mailed FREE. FOR HICKOK & McMAKIN, Cincinnati, O. Rodgers' Cutlery, SPOONS FORKS, STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES, AND PLATED WARE, Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, etc. Special value can be had from H. A. IDIOICSON & CO. Articles for Wedding Presents in great variety. 1791 NOTRE DAME STREET, Cor. St. Peter. Delicious Ice Cream Soda and Ice Cream (fruit flavors), Water Ices, Phosphates, and many other Fruit drinks at WALKER'S St. James and St. Catherine Streets, JOHN H.",1,0,0,0,1,0
212,18880803,historical,Thunder,"Struck by Lightning, Mrs. Gravel, aged 35, residing in the parish of St. Vincent de Paul, was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm on Tuesday last and instantaneously killed. The electric fluid passed through her head and went out by one of her heels, leaving black spots on those parts of the body which it touched. Before entering her house, through the open window, the electric current had struck and reduced to splinters a tree nearby. Body found, About 8 o'clock yesterday morning the body of a man was found floating in the canal near the Wellington bridge. The body was that of a man apparently about 30 years of age and had been in the water a couple of days. It was dressed in black trousers, vest and jacket; fifteen cents and a knife were found in the pockets. There were no marks of violence on the body. The Coroner held an inquest at the morgue in the afternoon when a verdict of ""Found Drowned"" was returned.",0,0,0,0,0,1
2,18800121,historical,Storm,"FBOX OTTAWA, January 20 Sir Charles Tupper is expected to return tomorrow, Speaker Blanchard is expected to arrive on Thursday. Mr. Justice Fournier has extended the time for appeal in the Exchequer Court case regarding the Queen. Mr. Compton, Dominion arbitrator, arrived this morning from Montreal for the purpose of hearing the Barnard arbitration case. It is understood that during the session of the Board at Montreal last week, several Lachirje appeal cases were disposed of. Several applications for Island land cases were adjudicated upon, the evidence in which had been previously taken by one of the Board. Mr. Justice Henry has referred the question of allowing counsel fees in the Montmorency Section case to the rail Court, there being no precedent. The respondent appears in such a case; several cases have been inscribed for hearing at the February session of the Bailie Court. The Quebec cases are: McJ, Boomer, Dawson, McDonald & Larue, Bellechasse election, Chevalier, Couviller, Fuller. For the quarter ending December 31st, the line of goods exported from the port was $37,363.28; of this amount, $21,000 was in lumber. On Saturday evening, the Attorney General of British Columbia, Mrs. Jkem, Lieut-Gen. Sir Selby Smyth, and guests were invited to dinner at Government House. Earl Grosvenor was also present in the North Ontario election case, before Justice Henry. Mr. McTavish, for the appellant, this morning applied to have the case set down to be heard on the 3rd of February. There will be a special session of the Court on that day for the delivery of judgments; the application was taken into consideration. Mr. Andrew Holland has returned to the House from Quebec. He anticipates obtaining from the Quebec Government the rescinding of the cancellation of the location tickets for Wakefield by the Joly Government, and that landowners will have an opportunity of showing cause why the cancellation shall not be revoked. This morning, three young men named James Kennedy, Patrick Gallagher, and John Mahoney were committed for trial by the Police Magistrate for robbery of a farmer. Major Lewes, who has been in the Protestants' Hospital for some time past, ill with smallpox, is able to be out again. The funeral of the late Mr. Sloan, stationer in the House of Commons, who died suddenly on Monday last, took place today and was well attended. A heavy snowstorm is raging tonight. FBOX QUEBEC, January 21 It is likely that a severe snowstorm occurred here today. The Pope, confined to his bed, having taken a severe cold yesterday, is now suffering, it is said, from its effects and from a severe attack of nerves. SPAIN, The Abolition Bill, Madrid, January 20 The Spanish Cortes today adopted all of the clauses of the Abolition bill. AUSTRIA, Inundations have occurred in Holland and Poland. Somerville's Darkness in 3 straight heats, Scullen second, Hush third; best time 2:55. The meeting adjourned on account of the storm. J. Bray's lecture on ""Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Writings"" might fairly be called a very good one, the lower part of the church being nearly filled. The lecturer was warmly received on coming forward, and applause frequently testified during the course of the evening to the interest felt in the subject and appreciation of the able manner in which it was treated. The discourse was, as its title would indicate, a review of the life, character, and works of Scott, with quotations from his works being appropriately introduced at intervals. Referring to the habit of celebrating the anniversary of the birth of the poet Burns, the lecturer expressed his surprise that that of the great novelist was not marked by a special celebration. After reviewing many incidents of the author's life, his habits and manners, his love for Abbotsford, his grand abilities, the manner in which his writings were accomplished, and giving with much effect extracts from them, Mr. Bray went on to speak of the closing scenes of his life when his troubles fell thick on him; contrasting his noble resolve to pay in full the immense debt with which he was saddled, with the manner in which liabilities are so scientifically wiped out by the stair bannister. The strap broke instead of his neck, and thus he escaped. A heavy rain, snow, and hail storm, with thunder and lightning, has been raging all morning. At the meeting of the County Council today, the assets of Halifax County were shown to be $3,583,525, and the liabilities $2,256,686; estimates for 1880, $21,786. The annual meeting of the Insults' Home was held today, His Lordship Bishop Binney presiding. During its five years' existence, 266 babies have been snatched from baby-farms and from the arms of death. The committee made an eloquent appeal for funds for a new building, towards which Mrs. A. O. Railway from 1st January to 21st January 1880; also shipments from Montreal, European via Portland and Halifax (including Upper Canada through freight), by Grand Trunk Railway East, and Montreal & Champlain Railway, with comparative figures for previous years. WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE PRODUCE AND PROVISION MARKET, Montreal, January 21 The occurrence of very extraordinary weather has again to be recorded. There have been five or six periods of thaw during the present month, the latest of which may be said to have commenced on the 15th instant (Thursday), continuing until last Monday night, when a sudden change happened, the temperature beginning to fall rapidly and high wind prevailing, the difference between morning and evening being 22 degrees. A snowstorm set in on the afternoon of the 20th instant, filling the street and country roads with deep snowdrifts; but yesterday was milder, though seasonable and pleasant. The range of temperature between the 13th and 20th insts. was from 8.3 to 40, one mean of the observations being 28.60, the atmosphere for most of the time being more like that of early spring than mid-winter. On Monday, some portions of the ice-bridges were posted as dangerous; but the cold which followed made it firmer. Latest advices from Europe were by Atlantic Cable to date, and by mail per SS. Moravian and Gallia, dates from Liverpool being up to the 10th inst. BREAD-STUFFS Wheat lower; flour easier. PROVISIONS Pork steady; butter quiet; cheese firmer. ASHES Pots weaker; pearls nominal. Flour Receipts by Railway for week ending 21st January, 5,990 barrels. Total receipts from 1st January to 21st January 1880, 21,876 brls, against 23,766 brls at corresponding date in 1879, being a decrease of 1,890 brls. Shipments via Portland and other channels for the week ending 21st January, 1,036 barrels. Total shipments from 1st January to 21st January 1880, 8,659 brls, against 8,954 brls at corresponding date in 1879, being a decrease of 295 brls. The market has again to be quoted dull and inanimate, with a decidedly weaker feeling. Superiors are held at $6.206.25, meet little or no inquiry; Extra Superfine sold at $6.10 for a straight 100 barrels, with smaller broken parcels down to $6.00; Spring Extra quoted at $5.90-$5.95, there being one or two transactions at those figures; Choice Strong Bakers sold at $6.50; Middlings at $4.40 and Ontario Bags at $2.90. Grain, WHEAT Receipts by railway for week ending 21st January, 2,800 bushels. Total receipts from 1st January to 21st January 1880, 138,674 bushels, against 121,240 bushels at corresponding date in 1879, being an increase of 17,434 bushels. Shipments via Portland and other channels for week ending 21st January, 49,000 bushels. Total shipments from 1st January to 21st January 1880, 128,439 bushels, against 120,843 bushels at corresponding date in 1879, being an increase of 7,596 bushels. A few carloads of spring wheat sold about a week ago at $1.40, and since then there has been an occasional transaction at lower values, which are now quoted at $1.36-$1.37. Peas have sold at 80c per 66 lbs in store. Oats at 1c per lb along the line. Corn quoted at 70c, duty paid. Latest Western Advices (By Telegraph) Chicago, January 21st, noon No. 2 spring wheat, $1.20 for February. No. 2 corn, 42c for February. Milwaukee, January 21st, noon, No. 2 spring wheat, $1.20 for February. Provisions, BUTTER Local receipts, 1,037 packages; shipments, 2,984 packages. Market steady and quiet, former figures are given unchanged; outside values still continue to represent only fobbing trade. CHEESE Receipts, 1 box; shipments, 331 boxes. Advanced in sympathy with rise in English market; shipping lots of Fine are firmly held at outside quotations. PORK Steady and unchanged. LARD City rendered pails continue in fair demand at 10c-11c. DRESSED HOGS Values are easier; good firm hogs have sold down to $6.40, and during the thaw as low as $6.25 was accepted for some lots. General Produce, ASHES Values have been irregular and declining, sales averaging from $4.40 down to $4.25. PEARLS No transactions reported; prices nominal. Freights, Rates quoted from Montreal to Liverpool via Portland, are: for heavy grain 7s 0d per quarter of 480 lbs; flour, 3s 9d per brl; ashes, pots, 47s 6d; pearls, 57s 6d; butter and cheese, 50s per gross ton.",0,0,0,0,0,1
11,18920615,historical,Storm,"WRECKED BY A TORNADO Western Town Devastated by an Awful Windstorm Some Train Train Escapes GALESBIMA, Ill, June 14 The tornado passed through the northeastern part of this (Knox) county about eight o'clock last evening and ruin was left all along its path. It first made its appearance northwest of Galva. About 7:30 o'clock two threatening clouds were seen in the west approaching one another, and the tornado is thought to have resulted from their junction. Its course was south and east through that city, and the main body of the storm passed along the main business street of the city. It came with such suddenness that the citizens had no time to fly to places of safety. In the Free Methodist church there was assembled a congregation. In the rink there was gathering a committee to arrange for a Fourth of July celebration. The church was quickly a mass of ruins and the congregation was imprisoned. A number were injured, one dangerously. The rink also was blown down, but those inside managed to escape without injury.",1,0,0,0,0,1
89,19930731,modern,Nan,"The Star said the man turned over the letters and the picture to the Green Ribbon police task force investigating the slayings of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. Clarkson free for weekend in Jasper JIM FARRELL EDMONTON JOURNAL EDMONTON - A Court of Queen's Bench judge said yesterday that millionaire Geoffrey Clarkson can spend the long weekend in Jasper. As part of his bail requirements, the businessman hadn't been allowed to go beyond Edmonton's city limits. He was released from jail July 22. Clarkson's lawyer told Justice Marguerite Trussler yesterday that he thought a weekend in the mountains would be good for Clarkson's health and state of mind and said Crown prosecutor Gary McCuaig had agreed. ""He just wants to get out of the city,"" lawyer Sid Tarrabain said outside the courtroom. ""He loves the mountains. Next week, I'll be making application to get his passport back so he can take care of his businesses."" Clarkson was arrested July 16 as he left the Glenora home of Marilyn Tan, his 33-year-old Edmonton girlfriend.
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201,19920824,modern,Nan,"Their hard rock is classier than most, though, and it showed why these guys are known as the thinking metalhead's hard-rock band. Montreal belter Sass Jordan was in full rock'n'roll party mode as always and her '90s update of old Stones and Faces riffs was the perfect way to kick this rock picnic into high gear. Before her, local francophone rocker France D'Amour had the thankless task of opening the festivities, and the spunky up-and-comer did admirably well, considering most fans were still trying to find their way onto the site. Bryan Adams Psycho roles changed life: Dern NEW YORK Bruce Dern says he's paid a price for playing psychos all these years. ""It changes your life. It makes you look for the darkness in everybody you see,"" he told the New York Times in an interview published yesterday. Dern's roles also have touched his family, including actress-daughter Laura Dern, he said. ""One night when Laura was 2,"" Dern said, ""I got a call from her mother (actress Diane Ladd). She was screaming. She said, 'You've got to talk to your daughter.",0,0,0,0,0,0
208,18810909,historical,Nan,"2 spring wheat, $1.27 for October; No. 2 corn, 64c for October. Milwaukee, September 8th Close No. 2 Spring Wheat, $1.27 for October. Provisions Butter Receipts, 2,602 pkges; shipments, 7,333 packages. Under a good inquiry, a fair business has been done at the following quotations: Western, 17c-19c; Morrisburg, 21c-21.5c; Eastern Townships, 21.5c-22c; creamery, 23c-24c. A firmer feeling and more inclination to do business on the part of shippers have resulted in a larger volume of transactions. Cheese Receipts, 20,989 boxes; shipments, 10,416 boxes. The market has been characterized by a series of advances amounting to 5s and 6s in Liverpool, and fully 10c per lb on this side. Ingersoll market Reported offerings: 5,750 boxes August make, No sales; 12c-12.5c generally bid, and 14c for white.",0,0,0,0,0,0
15,18930830,historical,,"""no important change in tone being noted Pacific was somewhat firmer in the purchase of 100 shares at 71 and Cable also advanced to 124 123 Duluth common was firm and so was Bell Telephone, Colored Cotton and Street Railway, while Commerce and Molson for the banks were steady In fact the tone of what trading there was exhibited a rather better feeling MORSING BOARD 20 shares Commerce at 133 3 Molsons at 153 2 New Street Railway at 153 5 Bell Telephone at 135 100 Pacific at 71 10 Colored Cotton at 75 25 Cable at 124 At 123 5 at 123 50 Duluth at 61 Flawetal 9 Urn There were no advices from either London, New York or Chicago today Messrs IT WAS A GREAT FIRE The fire, which lasted about three hours, was one of the fiercest that has been seen in the city for years Smoke was seen issuing from the third floor at 6:15, and an alarm was at once rung in from box 321, at the corner of James and Place d'Armes, and as the fire looked threatening second and third alarms quickly followed,",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,"a plot that unraveled when customs officials inspected a docked container ship Christian Muhme, 30, blinked back tears as he was led from the courtroom Muhme, who faces a maximum of 10 years, will be sentenced Feb. 17 We spent the entire weekend reviewing all of the facts of the case, said Muhme's lawyer, Lee Cohen After a real extensive review we agreed that the Crown had sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Muhme Charges against a second German, Peter Wollny, 40, were dropped, but Wollny was detained by immigration officials until a deportation hearing this week Both Muhme and Wollny have been in custody since inspectors found the Sikhs crammed in a camper van aboard the Kazimierz Pulaski last Monday The Sikhs, who said they were fleeing political persecution in India, were cold and hungry after a 10-day voyage that began in Bremerhaven, Germany A million letters for Santa OTTAWA If letters were dollars, Santa Claus would be a millionaire Canada Post said yesterday it processed more than one million letters for Santa Claus, North Pole,",0,0,0,0,0,0
203,19930408,modern,Thunder,"""S Open champ, already the winner of two 1993 tournaments and the season's leading money-winner. On Tuesday, as he hit an 8-iron at the driving range, pain from a back spasm brought Kite to his knees and changed the tournament's outlook. While Kite's status was uncertain, the weather forecast seemed much more definite. Strong thunderstorms, packing the lightning that halts play and the heavy rains that change the nature and character of the course, are forecast for tomorrow's second round. Heavy rains early in the week had Augusta National playing exceptionally long and the greens much more forgiving in the practice sessions. ""With a few days of good weather, though, by the time the tournament starts the greens will be back to the speed you expect here,"" Norman said. Norman is on a roll, his two-year slump replaced by his old swagger. The Australian has finished a close second here twice to Jack Nicklaus in 1986 and to Larry Mize's playoff chip-in in 1987 and he considers winning the Masters his No. 1 priority in golf.",0,0,0,0,0,0
212,18880803,historical,Thunder,"Realizing that he had been the cause of her death the frantic man took his own life. Killed by Lightning, Jeffersonville, Ind, August 2, Julia Whalen, aged 14, and Alice Fleming, Mamie Hayes and Mamie Glasgow were on their way home from school last evening when a bolt of lightning descended, killing the Whalen girl and rendering the others unconscious. The Hayes and Glasgow girls quickly revived, but it was some time before the Fleming girl was restored. She is still suffering much and talks incoherently. The physicians think her reason has been dethroned. The body of the dead girl a few minutes after the electric current prostrated her was as black as clay. Cooked to Death, A New Albany, Ky, August 2, Mrs. Laura Crull, an inmate of the insane asylum here, was boiled to death yesterday. One of the patients in the female ward opened a hot water tap in the bathroom and allowed the tub to fill. Mrs. Crull entered the room, and seeing the tub full of water threw off her clothes and jumped in. She was cooked to death before assistance arrived.",0,0,0,0,0,1
107,19920330,modern,Nan,"His resignation does not take effect until two days after he submits it to the cabinet, and that is not scheduled to take place until it meets next Sunday. So there is a probable nine-day waiting period, and some officials and neutral commentators predicted that Levy would use it to wring concessions from his main enemy of the moment, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Levy has staked out a centrist position in the Shamir cabinet, the most right-wing government in Israeli history. Among ranking ministers, he has been not only the one most favorably disposed toward the peace process but also the most consistent exponent of restraint in the present tensions between Israel and the United States. Before announcing his resignation to a rally in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, he rebuked Shamir and other ministers for severely attacking Washington after the collapse of Israel's request for United States loan guarantees. ""Sometimes everyone is foreign minister,"" he said. ""They are all experts. Everyone is declaring war on America. This certainly was a fundamental mistake.""
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160,18830818,historical,Drought,"J. Beemer, the contractor, has commenced work on the Lake St. John Railway, Pensacola, Fla., August 17. Patients are in hospital here sick with yellow fever. One died yesterday. The cotton crop, Savannah, August 17. Specials from forty counties in Georgia and Florida state that if the drought continues, the cotton crop will probably be 30 to 50 percent short.",0,0,0,0,1,0
105,19970419,modern,Drought,"homes flooded Page A23 - Judge berates bully Page A24 Drought plagues Britain Page D16 Even if the Canadiens lose tonight's Game 2 of their series against the New Jersey Devils, they can't say the trip has been entirely wasted. First, Devils coach Jacques Lemaire talked to my great and good friend Red Fisher for the first time since 1985, in a morning exchange that went something like this: """"Hello, Red."""" """"Hello, Jacques."""" """"Long time, no see, Red."""" At this rate, over another dozen years or so, Lemaire and Fisher could string together an entire conversation. That's the social news. The hockey news is that for one night at least, the Canadiens shook off a dismal 77-point season and proved to themselves, if not to the world, that they can play a little shinny. Unfortunately, moral victories don't go up on the scoreboard, where it says that the Canadiens lost their fifth straight playoff game, even though they skated the Devils into the ground, matched them hit for hit - and should have won it if not for a couple of bad bounces and a Don Koharski no-goal decision that was right out of Every Referee's Guide to Really Dumb Playoff Calls. But Shayne Corson hit a crossbar, and Corson's goal was stolen by Koharski after Stephane Richer was pushed into the crease, and the Canadiens will skate into the Continental Airlines Arena tonight on the short end of a 1-0 stick. Bottom line? They win tonight or they start booking tee times. Oh, there will be lots of brave talk about how the Devils have to win four, and it ain't over till it's over - but the guys doing the talking will be buttered toast. Proving you can play with the Devils is one thing. Beating them is another kettle of cuttlefish, especially in New Jersey, where the light-bulb joke says it takes two guys to screw in a bulb: one to turn the bulb, the other to murder the witness. Before yesterday's practice in beautiful downtown Bayonne, where the rain turned horizontal at times and the wind blew up a 5-foot chop in the harbour, Mario Tremblay talked a little about how he plans to pilot the good ship Canadien through some stormy seas. """"We were physical in the corners,"""" Tremblay said, """"but we have to be."""" Please see TODD, Page F3 INSIDE Expos fall again The Expos pitching, which has been in a sorry state for much of this lengthy road trip, continued to struggle last night, but got no help from the defence, which committed three errors as the Philadelphia Phillies took advantage for an 8-3 win. Page F2 Hitting the Net In sports, as in every other facet of modern life, the Internet has taken hold, with hundreds of sites geared to the sports fan. In his Nothing But Net column, which makes its debut today and will run every Saturday, Mitch Garber scans the Web for sports sites of interest Page F6 TOM PIDGEON, AP Blues' Harry York (37) checks Wings' Vladimir Konstantinov (16) after knocking down Detroit's Kirk Maltby last night. Fuhr solved Wings score a pair in third period to tie series against pesky Blues Associated Press DETROIT - Call him a playoff animal. Call him lucky. It doesn't matter to Kris Draper as long as he helps the Detroit Red Wings win. Third-period goals 3:04 apart by Draper and Larry Murphy brought the Red Wings back for a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues, evening their Western Conference series at 1-1 last night. """"When you don't score too many goals, it's pretty exciting,"""" Draper said. """"I think it really gave us a lift."""" The best-of-seven series now shifts to St. Louis for games tomorrow and Tuesday. Draper, who underwent extensive surgery to repair his face after a vicious blindside hit by Colorado's Claude Lemieux in last year's playoffs, scored only eight goals this season. But he has 11 goals in 47 playoff games. Marc Bergevin scored for the Blues, a team that took Detroit to seven games in the second round a year ago. The Red Wings have gone 42 years without a Stanley Cup, the longest drought in the NHL. Draper finally ended five periods of dominance by St. Louis goalie Grant Fuhr with a short-handed goal at 4:05 of the third. Draper, taking a pass from Brendan Shanahan, skated up the right side, around Igor Kravchuk and snapped off a shot that got past Fuhr on the glove side for a 1-1 tie. """"As soon as I saw Shanny with the puck, I called for it,"""" Draper said. """"I knew I was going to get some kind of shot on goal. I had it on my backhand, then I shifted it and shot it and it went in."""" The goal electrified the Wings bench. """"We hadn't scored in five periods, and I can honestly say there was a little frustration,"""" said goalie Mike Vernon, who handled 23 shots. """"But the guys all said we can't quit. We had to keep skating hard and going to the net."""" That's how Draper got his goal. Murphy notched the go-ahead goal at 7:09 of the third. Fuhr blocked Martin Lapointe's shot from the right circle, but the puck went right to Murphy who put it over Fuhr's right shoulder. """"He was a little lucky on that one,"""" said Fuhr, who turned away all but two of 33 shots. Roy leads Avalanche Page F3 Senators loose for Game 2 Page F5 no-snow Penalties left flashy Finn idle RED FISHER The Gazette EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. and parts of Europe would disagree, but scientists say spring arrived a week earlier than usual in the northern hemisphere and that the greenhouse effect is responsible. Ranga My-neni of Boston University and colleagues said satellite observations showed plants in northern climes had started to spurt new growth seven days earlier than they did between 1981 and 1991. """"The regions exhibiting the greatest increase lie between 45 and 70 degrees north latitude, where marked warming has occurred in the springtime due to an early disappearance of snow,"""" they wrote in the journal Nature. Drought China warned that changing climate patterns across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau are threatening to dry up the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Reservoirs have fallen to record low levels and residents are being urged to use available water supplies wisely. Agriculture and industry in the region are said to be threatened by the shift in climate. Hydro-electric supplies in Chile were cut to accommodate a severe energy crisis caused by drought in the Andes. The extended dry spell might cost the country's key fruit exporters millions of dollars. Typhoon season The season's first typhoon in the western Pacific, typhoon Isa, formed over the Marshall Islands, then brought high winds and torrential rains to Guam. Earthquakes rocked western China's Xin-Ujiang region, killing nine people and inflicting further damage to quake-weary Jiashi County. Seven destructive quakes have struck the area this year. Earth movements were also felt in the southern Philippines, Russia's northern Lake Baikal, northern and central Japan, Taiwan, and the Mexican state of Colima. Hailstorm A shower of huge hailstones weighing up to 1 kilo each smashed property and destroyed crops worth thousands of dollars in eastern Nepal. Several villages in the Dhanusha district were pummeled by the storm, which left most of the houses damaged. """"Never in my life have I seen such big hailstones which did not melt for more than a day,"""" said one 70-year-old resident. Eruptions Thousands of people were ready to flee the area around the port of Rabaul, in Papua New Guinea, after the Tavurvur volcano began spewing ash and lava. An eruption in 1994 devastated the town and left the deserted port covered with a thick layer of ash. In Indonesia, a trail of lava more than 2 kilometres long flowed down the slopes of Merapi volcano. Residents around the central Java mountain were not considered to be in immediate danger. Radioactive boar Nearly 50 people living near the French town of Saint-Jean d'Ormont were tested for contamination after radioactive traces were found in wild boar caught in the region. The tainted animals were caught by a hunting party in February and were found to have three times the normal safety level of cesium 137 and strontium. The discoveries have caused concern that the nuclear cloud released by the accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 could still be affecting the region. Meteor impact A 1.5-kg meteorite tore through the roof of a parked car in the French Alps town of Chambery, setting the vehicle on fire. Police said the small molten-basalt rock fell from the sky around 3 a.m. on April 11. The car's owner refused to believe it was a meteor and insisted on filing an arson complaint with police. S14,000, Call 355-9097. Snowmobiles 886 SKI DOO Formula in '96, excellent condition, reverse, 4000km, 694-9382, 941-2600. Motorcycles 880 OPEN TLjnDXK VS 10etm TO 5pm. BRANDS of MOTORCYCLE IMMEDIATE FINANCING HONDA KAWASAKI SUZUKI ROYAL STAR YAMAHA. OVER 100 MOTORCYCLES NEW AND USED IN STOCK 6695 ST-JACQUES, MONTREAL. TOLL FREE - 1-800-471-6664. Parking Storage 857 DOWNTOWN Monthly parking Easy access $85.00 per month; Tel: 875-0530 ext. 0 WORLD Soggy England? Not this year But sun draws complaints, too WARREN HOGE New York Times LONDON There hasn't been a rainy day, much less a foggy one, in London this spring, but the extended spell of cloudless blue skies and warmth hasn't stopped the English from complaining about their weather. """"Beautiful day, isn't it?"""" an American arriving for an academic conference said to a local resident in sunny Oxfordshire. """"Too beautiful,"""" the Englishman replied. Behind the glum comment lay more than just cultural stubbornness. Temperatures are up, rivers are down and there is a sense of uneasiness over evidence that this famously wet place may be drying up. There is an intensifying drought in southern and eastern England, and if it continues, the tightly rolled umbrella as national symbol will have to make way for less elegant emblems like the wall-mounted water meter or the brick Britons put in lavatory cisterns to reduce the volume of water flushed down toilets. The last 24 months have been the driest two-year period in England and Wales since reliable record keeping began 230 years ago. January was the fourth driest in all that time, March saw only a third of the usual rainfall, and the London Weather Centre sees no likelihood of significant precipitation the rest of this month. This is the third consecutive year of alarmingly dry weather, and the Environment Agency warns that this may become a long-term phenomenon because of global warming. The early spring has produced floral bursts of forsythia shrubs, apple and cherry blossoms and flowering daffodils, tulips, azaleas, violets and camellias. Green-and white-striped canvas deck chairs have reappeared in Hyde Park, and in the surest rite of the London spring, pub-goers are taking their pints alfresco. But the soft April showers of which Chaucer sang that """"pierced to the root"""" the """"drought of March"""" have not showed up this year, and any delight at the leafy liberation from the clammy grip of the London winter has been undermined by fears of the creeping desertification of southern and eastern England. The Thames is so low that tourist boats can navigate the passage to Hampton Court only at high tide, and mud flats have appeared downstream in mid-river. In addition, Thames Water has been shown to have the worst leakage performance of any water company in the country, losing 4 of every 10 gallons of drinking water through the Victorian piping system under the city. The water crisis has become an issue in the national election scheduled for May 1. The Labour Party, which is far ahead in the polls, has said that one of its first acts in office will be to convene a """"water summit"""" to study the performance of the newly privatized water companies suspected of siphoning off excessive amounts of water from rivers while diverting excessive profits to themselves. One water company in Kent, in the most afflicted eastern part of the country, is building a desalting plant, the country's first. Another is insisting that people obtain permits to water their lawns and is sending up spotter planes to catch violators. The rainfall in suburban Essex is now down to 24 inches a year, the level of some Middle East countries, and the area has been officially reclassified as semi-arid. Rain still falls in great quantities in the north - the Lake District registers 130 inches a year - but the population has been moving south and east, and tap-water use there has risen 30 percent in the last 20 years. Water is heavy to move and cannot be compressed, so the deluge that washes across northern England is of no use to residents in the south. Such is the reputation of England for being soggy that water would seem to be the last thing that people around here would want more of. But statistically less rain falls on London than on New York, Paris or Rome, and lots of activities and concerns dear to the English depend upon water. Gardeners worry that the drought could bring about a ban on the use of hoses and sprinklers. People are being urged to water plants late in the day to reduce loss through evaporation and even to shift to Mediterranean plants more accustomed to subsisting on little rain. Animal-protection groups are upset that hedgehogs are going hungry because they cannot dig through the sun-baked soil to get at the earthworms they eat. Crayfish, lamprey and trout are disappearing from depleted small rivers and tributaries. This year's cereal harvest is threatened, and some vegetables are flowering early because of heat stress and will be lost or see their yields greatly reduced. English farmers have become more dependent on water supplies in recent decades as they have turned to irrigated crops that can be timed and grown to the kind of uniform perfection demanded by supermarket chains. Fires have run rampant across the dead gorse and heather of the heaths and grasslands in national parks, destroying insect, plant and bird life. Protected only by rural wardens whose sole recourse is to set up fire breaks, these areas lack the sophisticated aerial equipment found in places where forest fires have been traditional. Some people have been ignoring the doomsayers and celebrating the sunny and warm weather by going to English Channel beach resorts like Brighton and Bournemouth and running up their own records in purchases of tanning lotions, dark glasses and ice cream for this time of year. But doctors, citing rising rates of skin cancer, have pointed out that the harmful rays they encounter on their Spanish holidays are now beaming down upon them from their own friendly English skies. Bulgarian reformers poised for landslide election win Reuter: SOFIA - Bulgaria's anti-communist opposition was poised for a landslide victory today in parliamentary elections being held two years ahead of schedule as a result of a wave of unrest they led three months ago. Two opinion polls gave the Union of Democratic Forces around 50 percent support, enough to win an absolute majority and a mandate to press ahead with market reforms demanded by international lenders in return for aid to rescue the devastated economy. Gallup International gave the UDF 54 percent, compared with 24 for the former Communist Party, now the Socialists, which handed power to an interim government after a midwinter explosion of discontent at rocketing inflation and mass poverty. Bulgarian pollsters Sova-5 gave the UDF 47 percent and the Socialists 19, still more than enough to give the UDF the most deputies in the 240-seat parliament. Its outcome a foregone conclusion, the election has failed to ignite passions in the formerly communist country amid a demoralized public who in January and February besieged the Socialist-dominated parliament and took to the streets to demand a new election well ahead of schedule. The Socialists, who won the 1994 elections, stand accused of economic mismanagement that has fueled inflation of more than 2,000 percent a year. But they still command loyalty among many older people who lived most of their lives under Communist dictatorship until 1989. Support for the UDF, in contrast, is concentrated among the under-40s, Sova-5 said. A UDF victory is expected to herald a crash program of economic reform, years after most other east European countries took the same route. But the expected privatizations and closings of money-losing state firms will cause even more hardship among impoverished Bulgarians, at least at first. REFERENDUM POSSIBLE Also on the agenda might be a referendum on restoring the country's long-exiled monarchy, an idea bitterly opposed by the Socialists. King Simeon visited the country this week and lent his voice to reform. Monarchists are represented in one of three small coalitions hoping to attract more than the 4 percent of votes required to win a place in parliament. The National Salvation Union, which also represents the country's ethnic-Turkish minority, scored as high as 6.5 percent in one poll, while the Euro-Left, a new grouping including some defectors from the Socialists, registered as high as seven percent. The Bulgarian Business Block ranged between 4 and 5 percent. EB Rumours Ancestors Tracing genealogy via computer. Bob Vila's Horn Again Cabin: electricity; plumbing; creative use of materials; Adirondack cabin. Anlmaller Life With Pets Afghan hound; pet therapy; Norwegian forest cat; nail trimming; cockatoo. WD Fashion File Bill Blass; Jean Paul Gaultier; Romeo Gigli. Sports 30 Mag. Cinema Batman a jamais (2 hrs, 5 mins). Wonders of Weather Meteorological extremes; hurricanes; tornadoes; hail; flood; drought. Movie The Indian in the Cupboard (1 hr, 45 mins). SportsDesk. Teletourisme Journeys. The World Ahead. America's Funniest Home Videos. My Hometown The adventures of Thomas Thompson and family. Surprise sur prise Lise Dion; Pauline Martin; Dominique Levesque; Francois Morency; Stephane Rousseau. 60 Minutes. Dateline NBC. NHL Hockey Conference Quarterfinal, Game 3 (Live). America's Funniest Home Videos. Les Communiques En pleine nature Pour une période de trois ans, on suit la vie d'une population de cerfs au coeur du massif forestier des Landes dans le Sud-Ouest de la France. America's Funniest Home Videos Musical chairs; babies' hairdos; horseplay; birthday surprises. Movie S3 Snarl's Passover Surprise. Les Back Street Boys à Montreal. All Creatures Great & Small A breakfast of fatty bacon and piccalilli tests James' love of good food. Ancient Mysteries With Leonard Nimoy (Premiere) The origin of the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. Capital Gang Sunday 24 TV Times Discovery. Hosts Jay Ingram and Gillian Deacon. Dick Van Dyke Laura thinks a TV weather-girl is after Rob. Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures Combat des Clips Viewers vote for their favorite videos. Music video On the Urn With Patrick Conlon (Call-in). Le Monde ce soir. Course automobile Championnat Atlantique KoolToyota: Long Beach (Same-day Tape). Movie Rush (2 hrs). Movie Double Vision (1992, mystery) Kim Cattrall, Gale Hansen. An American poses as her wild twin sister, a victim of foul play in London.""",1,0,1,1,1,1
167,18930711,historical,Drought,"COMMERCIAL GAZETTE OFFICE, Monday Evening, Broadcasting, The Indian shipments to the United Kingdom last week were 37,500 quarters and to the continent 7,500 quarters, Canadian peas in Liverpool today were quoted at 6s 7d, The Michigan state report for July estimates the wheat yield at 20,815,000 bushels, The yield last year was 23,801,000 and the yield in 1901 was 30,100,000, The July report estimates the corn acreage at 64 percent of an average and condition at 14 percent under an average, The oats promise is good, The Chicago estimate of the visible supply shows a decrease of 497,000 bushels of wheat, 345,000 bushels of oats and an increase of 458,000 bushels of corn, The San Francisco Journal of Commerce says: The damage to the French wheat crop will not be as great as reported, a falling off in one section being made up by another, Then where the drought in England has affected most of the crops it seems to have left wheat unsettled, We shall have a good crop in the United States and a fair one in most other countries,
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107,19920330,modern,Nan,"W, Montreal, H2Y 3R7 All rights of publication reserved Publications Mail Registration number 0619: A lesson for Hydro New York's cancellation of its $17-billion hydro-electricity contract has rocked the Bourassa government back on its heels. The blow was hard, but far from a knock-out. Quebec's hydro development depends much more on domestic needs than on exports, and will for the foreseeable future. The New York decision may even have some salutary effects. It may force Premier Bourassa and Hydro-Quebec to undertake a much-needed review of the methods, timing and magnitude of Hydro-Quebec's projects. Conservation programs have been effectively reducing demand everywhere, while other energy forms (like natural gas) are giving hydro power stiff competition. That is why New York concluded that the 21-year Quebec contract, with deliveries to begin in 1999, would cost too much. Clearly, Quebec will have to begin thinking smaller in terms of projects, and larger in terms of their social and environmental effects. The government insists that the New York decision does not change its plans for the $13-billion Great Whale development.
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34,18870329,historical,,"Mr. McShane Yes. Mr. Faucher de St. Maurice - Does the Government intend to continue the publications of the Jugements et D茅lib茅rations du Conseil Souverain de la Nouvelle France, and of other important documents to be found in the Department of Registrar of the province of Quebec? Mr. Gagnon Under consideration. Mr. Nantel To what printer or printing company has the Government given the contract for the sessional printing during the present session? Did the Government ask for tenders before giving the contract to such printer or printing company? Mr. Mercler The sessional printing has been given temporarily to J.M. Another Windy Day to Add to Winter's Record. Toronto, Ont., March 20, 1 a.m. The depression central over Lake Erie yesterday is now over the Maritime provinces, where it is causing high winds and rain or sleet, and has also given during the day high winds, with snow, in Quebec. The pressure is now increasing in the Lake and St. Lawrence districts, with fair, cold weather.",0,0,0,0,0,0
218,19900619,modern,Nan,"It's a judgment TV newscasts wrestle with every night Deciding which stories get on and how long they run requires ruthlessly pragmatic editorial judgment an imperfect process that can result in distortion and misinformation The World Is Watching (CBMT-6, tonight at 8) gives viewers a cameraman's-eye perspective on television news The documentary offers an unprecedented look at the creative process behind ABC World News Tonight The World Is Watching focuses on Nicaragua in November 1987 a crucial month in the implementation of the then-current peace plan The documentary chronicles a few hectic days in the life of John Quinones, ABC correspondent in Central America A Canadian film crew followed Quinones and his producer, Paul Mason, out to a peasant village devastated by a Contra attack The World Is Watching shows how terror in the countryside is transformed into an ABC World News Tonight report that manages to ignore important political developments in Nicaragua Peter Raymont, a Toronto-based filmmaker with more than 30 documentaries to his credit, directed The World Is Watching, co-wrote the script with Harold Crooks and tried to sell his critique of TV news to the CBC For years, the network wasn't buying CBC policy excluded most independent documentaries,",0,0,0,0,0,0
271,18991018,historical,Torrential,"A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY, Calve's Carmen is a psychological study worthy of much deeper analysis; but perhaps what strikes the ordinary observer more is the extraordinary versatility and power of the actress. Carmen's torrential passions require an energy of expression within the capabilities of very few on the tragic stage today; her fierce blazes of anger cannot be expressed by poise and fury; they come from the very depths of her nature. With the startling suddenness of a summer thunderstorm, these outbursts of concentrated passion break in upon Carmen's gentler moods. One moment she is all smiles and witchery; the next a demon of malice and hatred. How Calve expresses all this and brings it home to the most careless observer cannot be told in cold print. Her lissome grace of movement, suggestive of the tigeress or the serpent, her wonderful play of feature, from her arch raillery in the first scene to the dumb horror and amazement with which she faces her fate as told by the cards, her last cry as she flees from death all this is beyond description, and it would be worse than useless to attempt it.",0,0,0,0,0,0
311,18941003,historical,Deluge,"THE GAZETTE MONTREAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 1891 EMOTIONAL LITERATURE, Section Place of Geology and History, Since his retirement from the position with which his name will ever be honorably associated, Sir William Dawson has not been idle. This is the third work that has left his hands in little more than a twelve month. The subject of it is of intense interest not only to men of science, but to all intelligent students of the origin and destinies of the human race. It is not the first time that the illustrious author has undertaken to elucidate it out of the fullness of his knowledge of the early earth and the embalmed relics of its prime. Though, from the historian's standpoint, it was a young world on which human feet first trod, it was, as the geologist views it, so hoary with age that imagination recoils, aghast before the reckoning. The poets feigned a Saturnian age to picture the simplicity, kindliness and content of that youthful mundi, and, as Saturn was the Greek Cronos, whom some deem akin with Chronos (Father Time), who again was fabled to devour his own children, they were, in a sense, wiser than they knew. Happily, this monstrous parent has not destroyed all his offspring of every generation, geologic as well as human; vestiges enough have escaped his maw to yield at least the outline of a biography, if only they could be found, discriminated and interpreted. To the uninitiated the sibylline leaves of rocky evidence, displaced and twisted and even torn into fragments to be scattered far apart, still seem chaotic and meaningless, and we can hardly wonder that to many long centuries passed away, yielding only vague and often misleading guesses, before the key to the mystery was found, and the riddle of the rocks was read. It would be bad for us, doubtless, if there were no enigmas to occupy the human mind. At any rate, there is still ample scope for enquiry, and men like Sir William Dawson, who have spent decades and scores of years in the effort to decipher the hieroglyphics in which the earth has written her autobiography, feel no abatement of interest in the quest, how many soever be the triumphs they have won. The title of the volume under consideration, ""The Meeting Place of Geology and History,"" invites our attention to the birth, cradling and childhood of our race. The object of this little book, says the author, is to give a clear and accurate statement of facts bearing on the character of the debatable ground intervening between the later part of the geological record and the beginning of sacred and secular history. In some of his previous works, Sir William Dawson has dealt with the origin and course of non-human life, and he has also dealt largely and lucidly with the beginnings of human history. We are not unprepared, therefore, for his treatment of a subject that has long been congenial to him. We have now, he says, very complete data for tracing the earth from its original formless or chaotic state through a number of formative and preparatory stages up to its modern condition; but, perhaps, the parts of its history least clearly known, especially to general readers, are those which relate to the beginning and the end of the creative work. In the early stages the monuments are obscure; in the later, they are few, and those few complicated with modern changes under human influence. There are, however, notwithstanding obvious difficulties, facts enough to link the human period to the period that preceded it. The author defines the two latest of the geologic periods as the Pleistocene and the Anthropozoic, the latter being again divided into ""early modern or Pal忙ozoic, sometimes called Quaternary, or post-glacial,"" and the ""Neanthropic"" extending onward to the present time. The Pal忙oanthropic, in Sir William Dawson's opinion, may coincide with ""the ante-diluvian period of human history."" Having promised so much, the author goes on to describe the world before man, a scale of twenty inches being taken to represent the twenty million years of the earth's history, that of man would be indicated by a thickish line at one end of the scale. As to man's age, it is well established that he was already in Europe immediately after the close of the glacial period, and contemporary with the formidable faunas of animals then occupying the land. Pal忙oanthropic man, with his industries and arts, is then described, the contents of caves and other finds being adduced as evidence for his condition. The author also gives vitality to the ante-diluvian genealogies and shows the relations of the early Pal忙oanthropic races to those that followed them. Several chapters are devoted to the Deluge, and the author endeavors by the aid of natural science to remove certain doubts that have been cast on the ancient biblical records. The Toldoth or generations of the sons of Noah are discussed as the grand work of ethnographical knowledge, and their value is proved by the results of recent exploration.",0,0,0,0,0,0
11,18920615,historical,Storm,"There is a continued good jobbing movement in pork and smoked meats at steady prices; but lard is slow. Canadian short cut, per brl, $18.50 $17.50 Moss pork, western, per lb, 14.60 St 15.00 Short cut, western, per brl, 17.00 a 17.50 Hams, city cured, per lb 0.10 0.10 Laid, Canadian, in pails, 0.08 0.09 Bacon, per lb 0.09 a 0.10 Lard, com, refined, per lb, 0.07 0.07 At Chicago pork closed stronger at $10.55 July, $10.77 September. Lard closed at $6.37 September. The Chicago hog market closed stronger today at the following: Light mixed, $4.00; mixed packing, $4.70 a $6.10; heavy shipping, $4.80 a $5.16; rough grades $4.60 a $4.80.",0,0,0,0,0,0
88,19960724,modern,Nan,"Parents' guide: extreme violence, language. Shadowy characters: Al Goulem (left), Jayne Patterson and Robert Burns star in Gunmetal Blues at Theatre Lac Brome. Hysterically Multiplicity isn't just one of the funniest films of the year - it's one of the best. MICHAEL KEATON indie mcdowell COLUMBIA PICTURES Check CINEPLEX ODEON CINEMA GUIDE & FAMOUS PLAYERS LISTINGS for locations and showtimes. Also playing in French version. A 12 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1996 Drinking tea might help fight cancer study says JOHN KALBFLEISCH THE GAZETTE Evidence is mounting that tea is not only good but good for you. A Health Canada study has found that tea might inhibit cell mutation caused by compounds known as heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). These compounds are linked to certain chronic diseases, including cancer. The study was conducted by four researchers led by Bozidar Stavric of Health Canada's bureau of chemical safety.
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44,18860419,historical,Flood,"In Point St. Charles the water was reported to be from 18 to 24 inches higher than during the late flood. The police have a boat mounted on a truck to be driven to fires. The Royal Electric Lighting Company's factory was flooded last night, and the water having entered the gas pipes the submerged district was almost in total darkness. Many of the principal buildings were lighted by lamps or candles. Dr. Thayer called on the Mayor last night and informed him that the water had backed up until it was flush with the head of the Lachine Rapids, and that there was great danger of its bursting over the banks and sweeping down over the flats. He urged His Worship to have the jam at Longueuil blown up with dynamite. The Mayor, who was very sick, gave his authorization to anything that could be done, and referred Dr. Thayer to Aid. Stevenson, who, however, found that the project was not feasible. At 2 o'clock this morning Aid. Stevenson was making a raid on the St. Lawrence Hall for provisions for the men working at the pumps.",1,0,0,1,0,0
83,20001106,modern,Nan,"John's Showers 9 8 Rio de Janeiro P Sunny 30 19 United States today Stockholm Cloudy 8 2 Atlanta Showers 17 12 Sydney Showers 21 8 Boston Cloudy 9 5 Tokyo Sunny 19 11 Chicago Showers 12 7 Resorts today Dallas Showers 21 9 Max Min Denver Cloudy 2 -7 Acapulco Sunny 30 22 Las Vegas Showers 17 6 Barbados Showers 32 23 Los Angeles Windy 18 12 Bermuda Showers 25 18 New Orleans Thunderstorms 25 18 Daytona Cloudy 25 17 New York P Cloudy 10 5 Kingston Sunny 31 27 Phoenix Cloudy 22 11 Miami P Cloudy 27 22 St.
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118,20070626,modern,Heatwave,"Scorching heat can put people - especially seniors - at risk of heat-related illnesses like heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Some tips for staying healthy during a heat wave: Drink more fluids, Don't wait till you are thirsty to drink, Avoid alcoholic drinks or drinks with caffeine or lots of sugar, Wear lightweight, lightly coloured, loose-fitting clothing, Limit the amount of time you spend outdoors, Avoid exercising outdoors. ""If people do not take precautions, we could be looking at a significant number of fatalities,"" said Gary Conte, the weather service's warning coordinator. ONLINE EXTRA: Despite an era of high energy costs, a small but growing group of consumers is willing to pay a premium to support renewable energy. Use or visit places - malls, movie theatres, libraries - with air-conditioning. A cool bath or shower offers temporary heat relief. Check on seniors who live alone. Seniors, especially those with health problems, are at higher risk of suffering from heat illness than healthy adults. Make sure children stay hydrated. The family pet is probably also feeling the heat. Don't forget to keep the water bowl filled. CANADIAN PRESS store only. At participating locations.
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12,18920223,historical,,"""The ease and grace with which she performed her many difficult feats drew forth a storm of applause, which was as much in season as snow in the winter time. The Allisons are a clever pair of dancers, and met with a hearty reception, while Duncan, the ventriloquist, whose act is not quite as original as it might be, pleased equally as well. Melville and Stetson, the vocalists, are old Montreal favorites, and it began to look as if the audience did not intend giving Kan, a juggler, whose feats place him heads above the ordinary juggler, a chance to appear. Golden and Unigg, a pair of comedians, were another good team, and the olio terminated with the wonderful head balancing of the Braati brothers. There is not a weak turn in the whole show, while there are several which are distinct novelties. If much count, there will be hundreds of people turned away at every performance this week. The Lyceum: """"Standing room only"""" was the announcement that met late arrivals at the Lyceum last night, on the occasion of the first appearance in this city of the """"English Gaiety Girls.""""",0,0,0,0,0,0
205,19900408,modern,Nan,"East thought for a while and followed with the four of hearts. A grateful South discarded his diamond and in time made four spades, losing only one club, one spade and the heart to West's five. We have a situation here where psychology prevailed but what if East had taken an obscure form of defensive safety play by following with the jack? Questions on bridge can be sent to Ted Horning, co The Gazette. Not every question can be answered, but all will be considered. Personal replies without a self-addressed, stamped envelope cannot be guaranteed. By Steve Newman Earthquakes The strongest earthquake to strike Britain in six years toppled chimneys, cut off electricity, and sent panicked residents into the streets in the English Midlands. The quake was felt from Scotland to London and registered 5.6 on the Richter scale. In southwestern Yugoslavia, a quake damaged old buildings and shattered windows in several villages. A strong 30-second temblor rocked Nicaragua and parts of Costa Rica, but no injuries were reported.",1,0,0,0,0,0
87,19980114,modern,Freezing,""" Larochelle said The outlook for tomorrow is more sun and cool temperatures - a daytime high of minus-10 and a nighttime low of minus-15 Friday should be partially cloudy and slightly warmer, with a high near minus-8, before the thermometer again drops to minus-14 during the night Saturday's forecast calls for clouds and a slightly milder day with a high of minus-6 and an overnight low of minus-14 Civil-protection authorities were urging those remaining in homes without power to move into shelters Premier Lucien Bouchard repeated his plea for people to use common sense and put their health and safety before their possessions ""We have not exaggerated the dangers,"" Bouchard said ""For God's sake, don't make what could be a fatal error"" Attempt to lay line by chopper fails AARON DERFEL The Gazette Hydro-Quebec crews inched along yesterday, rebuilding collapsed high-voltage lines,
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10,18930710,historical,Storm,"JULY 10 1893 8 CAPTAIN LEVIN Saturday's Storm Causes a Catastrophe at Lake St. Louis Many Thrilling Incidents, but Only One Fatality A Popular Citizen Meets His Death Lake St. Louis is in mourning and the flags on all the boat houses and many of the residences along the pretty lakeside road are at half mast. Commodore Charles H. Levin, of the St. Lawrence Yacht Club, is dead. He fell a victim to the storm which swept over the Montreal district on Saturday afternoon, and he will be regretted by all who knew him, for """"Charley"""" Levin was one of the best loved men in Montreal. Young, active and interested in all sporting events, an enthusiastic soldier, a loving husband and a kind father, his loss will be felt by many people, not in Montreal alone, but throughout Canada, from all of whom will go forth the prayer that his widow may receive that consolation from on High which it is not possible for her to obtain on earth. The sad occurrence took place on Saturday afternoon, which had been selected as one of the dates for the sailing matches of the St. Lawrence Yacht Club. The sky looked threatening all the forenoon and early afternoon, but with true British pluck the members determined that they would not be deterred by the weather. They loved their sport for its own sake, and were not to be deterred by such obstacles as a choppy sea and a cloudy sky. Accordingly at 3:40 p.m. the boom of the gun gave the warning to prepare for the race, and five minutes later THE YACHTS STARTED OFF in the scheduled race for class A, 30-foot boats, in the following order: Rita, Valda, Coquette, Molly Bawn, Eagle, Chaperone and Frolic. All went well for some time. Rounding the first buoy it was a toss-up between the Eagle and the Valda for preeminence, and they got well up towards Pointe Claire. When they were halfway between the upper light and the Châteauguay buoy the storm broke without warning, and quicker than it takes to write the words the magnificent fleet of yachts was scattered and engulfed in the lake waters, which had by this time become a raging sea. The wind blew with cyclonic force, the rain and hail fell in torrents, and, to use the words of one of the onlookers from the shore, the lake was covered as by a dark curtain, just as if an exciting scene in a drama had concluded and the drop had been rung down. The hurricane struck the yachts at the same time, for none had prepared for the storm, although old yachtsmen said yesterday that no one should have ventured out with such a threatening sky. The Chaperone, the Valda and the Eagle felt the effects of the storm at about the same time. THE EAGLE WAS THE FIRST TO GO DOWN. Laden heavily with pig iron ballast, she was unable to stand the strain of the unusually heavy seas, which were larger than have been seen on the lake for thirty years, and she consequently went down like a log. Her crew consisted of Messrs. Charles H. Levin, George and Carl Gabley, Robert J. Boss, J. Simmons and D. Robertson. Immediately there was a rush for the life belts, but Captain Levin kept his head, as he always did, and he was the last to leave the yacht. He was accompanied by Mr. Simmons, who behaved as a brave man should do under such circumstances. The crew were buffeted by the waves and struck by the hail, but the storm was too severe to allow assistance to be given them from the shore, and nearly half an hour elapsed before assistance could be rendered. Then was seen one of the most heroic acts ever witnessed in the Montreal district. Mr. A., was out on the lake in his naphtha yacht, the """"Idle Hour,"""" with a party of ladies. Just as soon as the storm broke he made for the shore, landed his fair passengers, and called for volunteers to assist in the work of rescue, for by that time it was known that the storm had been disastrous and that human beings were struggling for life with the waves, which had, to use the expression of a veteran member of the Yacht Club, assumed the proportions of an Atlantic storm. The request met with an immediate response, Messrs. Lyall Davidson, son of Mr. Justice Davidson; A. J. McCuaig volunteering their services. The task was a heavy one, for it was as much as a little launch could do to battle the waves, which swept her from stem to stern, and once it was feared she would not be able to weather the storm, which had by this time assumed the proportions of a western cyclone. However, the crew were brave men, and knowing that human life was in danger, they risked their own safety in order to rescue the perishing. It was a long and wearying voyage across the lake, and what made it seem longer was the fact that the two large Upper Canada steamers, which were within sounding distance of the victims of the squall, did not launch a lifeboat, or even throw off some of their surplus life buoys. THE FIRST VESSEL MET by the Idle Hour was the Rita, on which were Messrs. C. O. Clarke, T. Church, U. Lucas and W. Clarke. That yacht had been capsized, but, luckily, turned bottom up. Consequently its crew had some support, and they told Mr. Morris to go to the help of those who were worse off than themselves. It was not then possible to see the extremities of the crew of the Eagle, and Mr. Morris accordingly directed his attention to those on board the Chaperone, which floated for about ten minutes, and then her air tanks bursting she, too, sank to the bottom. Three of her men, Messrs. S. Clonston, manager of the Bank of Montreal, the owner of the yacht, B. Bogert and W. S. Clouston, were picked up by the Valda and escorted to the shore. The Frolic and Coquette got their sails down with difficulty and rode out the storm. Capt. Hamilton, the vice commodore of the club, who commanded the Frolic, put out his anchor and threw out buckets and life buoys but was unfortunately unable to render any assistance. The Molly Bawn, which was well handled by Mr. Walter Kavanagh, also rode out the storm. It must have been nearly half-past five o'clock when Mr. Morris and his assistant were able to reach the TRICOLOUR CREW OF THE EAGLE, which had capsized in about thirty feet of water some two and a half miles south of the Pointe Claire boat house wharf. By this time the crew had become much exhausted and it was with difficulty that they were able to maintain themselves above water upon the slight support afforded them by boards and other debris. Mr. Levin was resting upon the debris of the yacht in company with Mr. Simmons. About three minutes before the Idle Hour reached them K. H. Routh, the keeper of the Pointe Claire lighthouse, an old man with but one leg, put out in a flat-bottomed boat in the middle of the storm and rescued Mr. Robert Lucas. What Minor Hate Just Perish by It Upset by a Yacht in a Squall London, July 8. Despatches from Sheerness report a yacht accident. The persons drowned were railway builders, who, with thousands of other excursionists, had gone to the little watering place for a day's sport. The yacht Staunton, licensed to carry sixty passengers, took out thirty of them. When well out the yacht was overwhelmed by a thunderstorm. After the weather cleared the yacht was seen bottom upwards with three men clinging to her. The others had been drowned. An old fish boat, the only craft available, was launched and the three survivors were brought ashore; twelve bodies have been recovered. The three survivors agree that nobody was to blame for the accident, as the suddenness of the squall could not be anticipated. Another from Chicago, July 9. A furious wind and rainstorm swept over the city between five and six o'clock and caught many a craft on Lake Michigan. By the capsizing of the sailing yacht Chesapeake near the life-saving station nine people were thrown into the water and four of them were drowned. The dead are T. Frambolis. Frambolis, Wm. Y., July 8. The Tuxedo tennis tournament of '93 is over and Clarence Hobart, of New York, is champion in both singles. To-day he defeated Edward L. Hall, the previous holder of the title, who had twice won the right to have his name inscribed on the big cup, and thus deprives the latter from adding the trophy to his numerous prizes. GEORGE IN THE STORM The Bohemian Driven Ashore by Saturday's Wind. She Will Leave Tomorrow Morning Latest Arrival in Port. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company's steamer Bohemian, Captain McGrail, whilst on her way down from Kingston met the full force of the storm on Saturday afternoon. About 4:30, when near St. Dominique, the storm was so great as to blow her in on the shore, but fortunately she grounded on a good place and the 25 passengers who were on board at the time were able to reach Montreal by train a few hours later. It is fortunate that the accident did not occur lower down the river, as the rapids are in close proximity to where the Bohemian is now beached. A Gazette reporter saw Mr. Conley last evening, who stated that the Bohemian was not damaged, and would be got off by Tuesday. The steamship Avlona, Captain Baxter, arrived in port yesterday afternoon from Antwerp with a general cargo consigned to R. Rolord & Co. The steamships Sylvia and Petunia have both brought cargoes of coal from Glace Bay consigned to Kingman, Brown & Co. The steamship Lony, Captain Barker, has brought a general cargo from Havre consigned to McLean, Kennedy & Co. The steamship Beaver, Captain Masson, is discharging her general cargo from Gaspe, consigned to J. CAPITALS HEAT TORONTO. Playing Increase for the Western Championship Excelsior and Drumhead Football Zimmerman Still Winning; Baseball and Turf Scene. The oldest inhabitant had just started to tell what he knew in the old days when the boys played lacrosse as was customary, but grey-headed men of the present generation were in the majority, when a black cloud sent down milk-white rain and hail, the opaqueness of which mixed up perspective with oblivion and chaos. But the mild old gentleman of curlicue eye and snowy hirsuteness cared not what happened, and he started to tell the boys that he had seen nothing like it since the patriarchal deluvian days. And then the lightning flashed around in an aimless sort of way as if it wanted to strike the reincarnation of Ananias for a loan, and his audience, who knew enough to come in out of the rain, left him to do the Munchausen act all by his lonesomeness. This is not an exaggeration of a type; he is an absolutely real personality, who believes more than half what he says, and thinks he is several hundred years older than he looks. If you listen to him long enough he will tell you the pile of gold the Inca promised Pizarro was only a tip on the lacrosse match wherein the Aztecs had a mortgage on the thing, having fixed it up in a modern fashion with the Seminoles; he will tell you how the Knewka-pitels beat the Knewtor-on-tos by five goals to two, and feel it as if it happened in the days of the mound builder. And if you don't believe him he will get mad. He is to be found at every lacrosse match, and he was largely present on Saturday. He was there to the extent of about five thousand; the Shamrock Stand was not big enough to hold him and the rising generation of the lacrosse prevaricators found resting places in the trees and the telegraph posts. It was just one of the times when the person who does weather prophesying got square with the doubting public. He told them plainly enough in the morning papers that it was going to be a stormy day and with the natural contrariety of humanity everybody left their umbrellas at home, and accordingly got wet. The gate was considerably better than the game, for only in the fourth game was anything played like what we are accustomed to consider lacrosse. It was a championship match as far as schedules are concerned, otherwise it had no claim to the title. Why such an organization as the M. A. M. L. I. inspired, Hu(U Adam, Referee, V. to Pollock. The first game was very short and was all Valleyfield, McVicar scoring for them in one minute. In the second game the Huntingdon men, though much lighter than their opponents, played rings around Valleyfield, and scored after 20 minutes' actual play, D. McMillan doing the needful. The teams were forced to retire from the field for about half an hour in this game on account of a heavy thunderstorm. The third game was much the same, and after a six-minute siege, the Valleyfield goal was captured by a shot from McDonald. The fourth game was the longest and most stubbornly contested of the match. For some time Huntingdon seemed to keep up their winning gait, but failed to score, owing to the weakness of the home. Then the game became more even. Hayter was knocked down by a blow of a stick, the referee's whistle sounded, but Valleyfield kept on playing and scored. The goal was not allowed. Shortly after this McPherson hurt his leg, and again Referee Pollock's fog horn gave a melodious toot, but Valleyfield kept right on and scored. Of course this game was not allowed. Valleyfield kicked and talked of walking off the field, but the referee was inexorable and they lined up again. Huntingdon spurted and McMillan again scored after the ball had been in play 1 hour and 18 minutes. The Valleyfield team was fully 20 lbs. per man heavier than their opponents. They had a good defense and a fairly good home. Their stars were Loy, Bishops, Litre and Sullivan on the defense, and Loy and McVicar on the home. The Huntingdon team was anything but well balanced, the home, with the exception of McDonald and McMillan, doing little or no shooting. Hayter in the Hags proved a little wonder and made many clever stops. Cecil at point was a regular stonewall, and he figured largely in the Huntingdon's victory. Boyd, Wright, Elder and McPherson proved fast, reliable fielders and did good work. McDonald was the hero of the home and did splendid work. Contrary to all expectations the match was clear of fouls and Referee Pollock had an easy time of it. The game throughout was very exciting. After the match the Huntingdon brass band played several lively airs, while the Ormstown band, which had accompanied the Valleyfielders, played the """"Grand March in Saul."""" The Orients Win. The Junior Orients and St. Denis Lacrosse clubs met on Saturday afternoon to play for the championship of the Juvenile Lacrosse league. The game was a fast one all through as both teams were in the best of condition. It was a quarter to four when the referee blew his whistle and the teams lined up as follows: Junior Orients, H. Denis, W. Mullin, J. Mailloux, A. Christie; Point C. White, H. Parker; Cover point C. Hemskirk; Defence R. Day; W. Robinson. The race capsized within a short distance of the starting point, and the crews were picked up by the yachts Eclipse and Illawara, none the worse for their mishap. The two last named yachts were started in the 21-foot class, and as this delayed them considerably they dropped out of the race. The officers decided that the 21-foot class would have to be sailed over on another day, so as to give all competitors an equal chance. The Thistledown carried away her mast at the start and dropped out. Several others found the wind and sea too much for them and did not complete the course. The Hippie, of Rochester, was anchored on the bay side of the beach and when the storm blew up she was driven on some piles and sank. The Isle of Wight, of Hamilton, was tied up in the pier, when the schooner Tradewind, of Whitby, passed through the canal, crashed into her and sent her down. In the first laps the Vreda, of Toronto, and Onward, of Rochester, started, but the latter did not finish and the Vreda won. The Condor was the only starter in the 40-footers, but she did not complete the course and got no prize. In the 40-footers the Reelma, of Toronto, won, with the Dicaho, of Hamilton, second, and the Aggie, of Oakville, third. The Cyprus won the 30-foot race with the Alert second. In the 30-foot the Vedette won, Samoscona 2nd, Volunteer 3rd. The Frmo, Lotus, Echo and Nadia also started in the 30-foot class. The Knox of Rochester won blindly, Satoa, 2nd, Maud third. The Wa-wa, of Toronto, was leading in this race when she broke her spar. The 21-foot class had two starters, was declared off and will be sailed on another day. Britannia Beats Valkyrie London, July 8. The Royal Clyde regatta was sailed today. The Britannia won. The Valkyrie was second. WEEK FOR SOCIETY spoke, saying that he could not thank them for all they had done, and Rev. Mr. Boynton said they were the kind of young men who were dear to their hearts, and after thanking Montreal for all its courtesies he assured his hearers that if ever they visited the other side they would get a cordial, hearty reception. Then he called for """"God Save the Queen,"""" and the way it was sung was astonishing. It could be heard all over the city, and was listened to by crowds at every window of the Windsor. After the volunteers were dismissed at the Windsor a large number again formed up and marched to the Balmoral Hotel and St. Lawrence Hall, where they were again thanked by the delegates for what they had done. THE SECOND LEAGUE MATCH Good Scores Made Under Adverse Circumstances THE BATTERY INSPECTED At and do Exceedingly Well The Prairie Camp Dispersed. Montreal's shooting men had an experience on Saturday that they would not like to have again, and the result was that, although no accidents occurred, every one of the one hundred who went out to the Cote St. Luc ranges to fire the second match of the league series were wet through to the skin, and the last range had to be fired while they were in this condition. The storm first struck the ranges while the firing was going on at four hundred yards, and to the surprise of the men who were shooting on targets, thirteen and twenty of their targets went into the air and landed fifty feet away from the butts. This was not the worst; the markers had to rush for shelter, which they did not get, while the marksmen did the best they could with the mats. Captain Finlayson, who was the range officer of the day, in the absence of Lieut.-Colonel Massey, immediately ordered firing to cease, but as soon as the first storm had passed away it was continued at 600 yards. This had not lasted long before another storm, and far worse than the first, came along and in less than the time it takes to tell it the range was practically useless as far as shooting was concerned. The scores, which are appended below, show that some really good shooting was done in the league match, while the Victoria Rifles and Royal Scots, to the number of 20 each, did some Martini practice amongst themselves. At the opening the wind was a left rear strong and puffy; the light was dull and overcast, while the fouling was moist. These conditions continued to change for the worst as the shooting went on and at the conclusion of the day the marksmen could say that they had experienced almost everything in the way of weather. The scores stand as follows: SIXTH H'BII"""" IEKS (FIRST TEAM), 100 400 600 yds, yds, yds.",0,0,0,0,0,1
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26,18940213,historical,Snow,"LONDON, LONDON, Ont, February 12. The storm today was the severest that has visited this city this winter and was made up of wind, sleet and snow; it completely paralyzed business. The wind reached its greatest velocity about noon and prevailed with undiminished strength for the remainder of the day. Comparatively little snow fell, but what there was was blown into drifts about the sidewalks and pavements. On the eastbound railroads trains were running a little behind time owing to the storm. NIAGARA FALLS, Niagara Falls, Ont, February 12. The worst snowstorm of years struck town this morning. A regular northeast gale blew the snow in all directions. Towards evening the gale reached a terrific force, piling the snow up in piles eight to ten feet deep, completely suspending traffic on the streets. The horse cars to Drummondville shut down for the night early in the afternoon. The electric lines on both sides of the river, after fighting the storm, gave up in despair.",1,0,1,0,0,0
205,19900408,modern,Nan,"J 42 0 K 976 0 A832 93 KJ84 SOUTH KQJ 6 542 V Q 0 5 Q 1075 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1? Pass ! Pass 20 Pass 4 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: Nine of clubs South ducked the opening lead and East won his king. The return of the four of clubs was taken by South with the ten and the club position was clear. East had four clubs, West had two and there was an impending club ruff outstanding to give South a potential four losers one spade, one diamond, one club and one club ruff. If East held the ace of spades, there was nothing that South could do about the situation. East could win the first spade lead and give West a club ruff to defeat the contract. However, if West held the ace of spades, South had a chance as long as East could be prevented from gaining the lead. With that in mind, South continued with the queen of hearts, West covered with the king and dummy's ace won the trick.",0,0,0,0,0,0
219,19900622,modern,Nan,"Because of the expense, the only test for these cars is on the track when it counts. Action is for real right from the beginning. Professional classifications are Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock. Gates open at 7 AM today, tomorrow and Sunday. Qualifications start after noon. Fans are invited to roam through the pit and garage areas to meet the drivers and members of their crews. Last Sunday's Pro Tech Canon F 1600 results at Shannonville, Ont, were lost in the shuffle. After a tremendous see-saw battle among the top three, Mississauga, Ont, drivers Ian Wills and Stephen Adams finished one-two, with Jason McCann of Stratford, Ont, third. Beaconsfield's Greg Pootmans was fourth ahead of Daniel Heroux of Laval, and Michel Provost of Ste. Marguerite. L'Autodrome St. Eustache (Two Mountains) has scheduled a special holiday program. S U j k loto-quebec LT S Draw 900620 You can play up to 8:00 PM.",0,0,0,0,0,0
98,19901112,modern,Rain,"C rainstorms cause widespread flooding, close roads, rail lines CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER More than three days of torrential rain in southwestern British Columbia forced families to evacuate their homes, destroyed buildings and caused millions of dollars in damage to highways and property. The most devastated area was the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver where hundreds of hectares of prime farmland were under water and the Trans-Canada Highway was washed out. Highways Minister Rita Johnston toured the area by helicopter yesterday and said flood victims will receive emergency help. Ministry officials said it will cost millions to repair washed-out roads and bridges. While water levels in the Fraser Valley began to recede last night, a Labrador helicopter from CFB Comox began rescuing about three dozen residents in the Sayward area of northeastern Vancouver Island. The evacuees were taken from their homes along the swollen Salmon River to a recreation centre in Sayward. In Abbotsford, dairy farmhand Dan Gilding, 25, saw a wall of water break over nearby railway tracks Saturday and made a run for it. ""The railway tracks broke and it came over the top like a river,"" he said.
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145,18941228,historical,Blizzard,"At various points the temperature marked 12 to 24 degrees below zero, and light snow fell late last night. The mercury dropped 31 degrees in 24 hours, and tonight it is growing colder. Deaths by freezing in Western Nebraska among the destitute families are most certain to occur. Yaqui Indians' Bloody Work, St. Louis, December 27, A special to the Globe-Democrat, from Guaymas, Mex., says that a band of Yaqui Indians visited the ranch of Julio Cardenas last Saturday and massacred the latter and his entire family, consisting of a wife and two children. A detachment of Government troops went in pursuit of the Indians, and it is reported that they came up with them and had a skirmish in which several of the Yaqui were killed. Brooklyn County Treasurer Short, New York, December 27, The expert accountants who have been spending a month or so in going over the books and papers in the office of the Brooklyn County treasurer, will today report to the Board of County Supervisors a shortage of $89,649.
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214,18900416,historical,Nan,"April 15, The forest fire, which came near cleaning out the town Sunday, has broken out afresh five miles north of here. The flames are spreading at an alarming rate. The fire thus far is confined to the Doughty tract, which covers over 30,000 acres. A thunderstorm is looming and it is thought that if it strikes here with any force it will put out the fire. The loss by Sunday's fire was over $40,000. Sportsmen also are big losers, as pretty much all of the young game in the vicinity of Absecon and North Pleasantville was burned up, as well as old game, such as deer, rabbit, and quail. An earthquake and a shipwreck. San Francisco, April 15. The steamer San Juan, from Panama, brings advices stating that the severest earthquake shock experienced on the Isthmus since 1882 occurred recently. The shock lasted five seconds. On February 12th news was received in Guatemala that the steamer Shakharah, which left San Jose for Hamburg, went to pieces on the rocks near Acajulia.",0,0,0,0,0,0
181,19911204,modern,Nan,"5 cm of snow had fallen ""There was less snow than we had expected,"" she said Lagace, a weather specialist with Environment Canada, said some light flurries are forecast for this morning but no there will be no significant accumulation until Friday He noted that this year seems to be following last year's pattern In both years, there was no snow on the ground the first two days of December Last Dec 3, however, a storm dropped 15 cm of snow on Montreal Christmas a tough time for Marie and six children ALBERT NOEL THE GAZETTE Marie, 39, and her husband and their six children had some happiness and more than a little difficulty in their lives but they were scraping by Then her husband died of a heart attack, leaving no financial support Marie tries to feed her children as well as possible but after the rent and other bills are paid, she has no money for clothes One of the children, a 12-year-old girl, was born profoundly deaf Marie has to use part of her welfare cheque to repay money she borrowed to buy a second-hand stove,
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218,19900619,modern,Nan,"from Aug 14 to 19, will star Brazilian carnival group Loremil Macado, Boukman Ex-Peryans from Haiti, and in a free concert on the mountain premiere South African reggae sensation Lucky Dube Negotiations are also under way to secure the world's greatest qawwali singer from Pakistan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan And the beat goes on This may yet turn out to be Montreal's spiciest summer of worldbeat entertainment ever Author happy with Bradbury north drove how Canadians film his TV series GWEN DAMBROFSKY CANADIAN PRESS Ray Bradbury Toronto company shooting episodes in Alberta BANFF, Alta In plotting his return to series television, Ray Bradbury was determined that what happened to Alfred Hitchcock would never happen to him I was afraid, says Bradbury, who was a writer on the famed director's anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents I had seen how TV treated Hitchcock He didn't get the budgets he wanted, he didn't get anything he wanted I thought, My God! This is my hero; look how they're treating him! If Hitchcock couldn't get it, how would I get it?",0,0,0,0,0,0
195,19910612,modern,Nan,"but says that won't stop him from pulling off more hoaxes at the expense of the Quebec media PAGE C12 Moonlighting Supra captain Nick Albanis sells women's stockings for a living Most of his teammates also have day jobs they can't afford to quit In Canada, it just doesn't pay to be a professional soccer player PAGE E1 TSE gets after-hours trading The Toronto Stock Exchange gets approval for an extra hour of trading past its 4 p.m. closing Transactions will be at the day's closing price PAGE F1 Venturing east Reform Party leader Preston Manning tells a crowd of 2,500 in bilingual eastern Ontario that the constitutional debate doesn't need to start with Quebec PAGE B1 Fortier bows out D'Iberville Fortier, in his last appearance before the Commons committee on official languages, wades into battle for minority rights with his usual vigor PAGE B6 Ottawa has no choice but to crack down on cross-border smuggling The plight of Pascal employees should put renewed urgency into reforming the Bankruptcy Act PAGE B2 Island treasure Pearl Beaulieu's customers at Ocean Star Fish like big lobsters, like this 21.",0,0,0,0,0,0
36,18890408,historical,Snow,"A SPRING SNOWSTORM, Washington and Other Cities have an Unusual April Experience, Washington, April 6, A heavy snow, wind and rain storm has prevailed here since early this morning. The rain, which began falling some time before daylight, at about 8 o'clock changed to snow, and from that hour until after dark tonight the air has been dense, with great flakes driven before a strong north wind. But the weather being mild, it melted as it fell. Several times during the day heavy peals of thunder were heard and sparks of lightning frequently darted across the switchboards in the telegraph offices. The telephone and fire alarms throughout the city are more or less demoralized, and telegraphic communication with the South and West is wholly cut off. Washington, April 7, Yesterday's storm interrupted electrical communication. There are 84 poles down between Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Va. In other sections south, it is thought, the wires are in no better condition. CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 6, A snowstorm prevailed here last night and today. Heavy snow is reported from the mountains. PITTSBURGH, April 6, The heaviest snowstorm of the season prevailed in this section today. CHARLESTON, Va., April 6, A heavy snowstorm is prevailing here today. Raleigh, N.C., April 7, A driving snowstorm began here this afternoon at half-past four. CHARLESTON, Va., April 7, The snowstorm which began early yesterday morning continued through the night. The wires are down and all trains delayed. Richmond, Va., April 7, The worst storm of the season prevailed here today. It commenced with thunder and lightning and was followed by rain, hail and snow, augmented by high wind. At nine o'clock the snow and wind show no abatement and reports denote the storm general throughout the state. THE KAISER'S AMBITION To make Germany one of the foremost naval powers, Berlin, April 6, On Tuesday the Emperor will go to Wilhelmshaven to inspect the new naval vessel before that vessel sails for Samoa. His Majesty's letters to Admiral von der Goltz, chief of the admiralty, expressing confidence that the recent disaster at Kautz will not hinder the prosperous development of the navy do not represent the real state of his mind. He keeps the Admiralty busily engaged in supplying him with reports, minutely detailing the construction and condition of every warship. Since the English Parliament voted the addition of 70 ships to the navy, His Majesty's attention centers exclusively upon Admiralty affairs. The officials expect that the recently advanced scheme for the reorganization of the navy will be made and arranged. The Emperor firmly expresses a determination to make Germany a naval power of the first rank. LONSDALE THE LONELY, An Interesting Story of His Rambles in the Land of the Unknown, PHILADELPHIA, April 6, The Inquirer today prints the following interesting story of Lord Lonsdale's travels: The erratic Lord Lonsdale, who was recently reported dead in the Arctic regions, is on his way home to England again. The first authentic news from him in months was printed in the Inquirer yesterday morning. It was derived from a letter just received at Bethlehem from Mr. Wolf, the Moravian missionary stationed at Nushagak, near Fort Alexandra, on Bristol Bay, Alaska, in latitude 60° north, longitude west. Further details from the same source give an interesting account of the Earl's travels. Lord Lonsdale arrived at the Niohnauk mission December 15 of last year and after a long and tedious journey of 4,000 miles overland from Banks Land, in latitude 75° north. This was the furthest point north that he reached. He was hospitably entertained at the mission and remained there until January 14 of this year. His outfit at this time consisted of eight sleds and seventy team dogs in charge of Eskimo drivers and some Indian servants. He was quite exhausted from hardships and hunger. The country he had traversed from Banks Land was rough and open, with very little patrimony upon which to draw for provisions. The snow was terribly drifted, and the sledding so bad that most of the journey was made on foot, the dogs barely managing to drag the sleds loaded with the camp outfit and provisions. The cold experienced was intense. On the first of December the thermometer registered 105 below the freezing point. Men and animals were exhausted, and progress was very slow. Frequently stops were made for a week in favorable localities, and all hands went out to hunt hares and reindeer for food. Terrible blizzards swept across the country continually, and the utmost exertions were necessary to keep the sleds from being scattered and frozen to death. Eleven dogs died from overwork and many of the remaining seventy were in bad condition. Lord Lonsdale remained a month at the mission, enjoying the society of Mr. Wolf, who was the first white man he had seen for years, with the exception of the servant who accompanied him. He estimates that he traveled by dog sled and on foot all but 10,000 miles, from Winnipeg in a little more than a year. In the Hudson's Bay region, where the snow and ice were smooth, the dogs frequently carried them over 200 miles a day. The Earl had no particularly exciting adventures to relate other than those necessarily incident to Arctic travel. Of three he had his fill share. Cold, hunger, scurvy and other misfortunes beset him constantly, but his courage kept up all the time and he was in excellent spirits, notwithstanding he could not make the North Pole as he originally intended. He left the mission at Nushagak January 14, and with his dog train started across the peninsula to Katmai on the North Pacific. From here he crossed to Kodiak, on Kodiak Island, where there is a whaling station. From Kodiak he sent back a shipload of items to Mr. Wolf with his compliments. The Eskimo party were to start at once from Nushagak to their homes in the Unuk Bay country. The Earl sent word that he would sail for England at once, but no news has been received of his arrival at any American port, and it is possible that he has turned winter to escape some new experience. A JHO BULLETIN, Of More or Less Interesting News from our Prairie Country, WINNIPEG, April 7, A difference has arisen between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company. Mr. Brydges, the late land commissioner for the former company, agreed to give a block of land on the Hudson's Bay Company's flats, twenty acres in extent, for $10,000, and wrote a letter to that effect. Some time afterwards Mr. Brydges intimated to the Northern Pacific & Manitoba that the board in England had declined to ratify this arrangement and recently Macdonald and Tupper, acting for the company, wrote to the City Council, stating that no sale had been made to the Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railway, and requested that solicitors be consulted before any streets were closed in that section. The supposition is that the Hudson Bay Company have repudiated the transaction because the price was not large enough. The Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railway consider that Mr. Brydges was empowered to make the sale in question, and will fight the matter out in the courts. It is just possible that these developments may interfere with the prosecution of work on this property pending a settlement. A rumor is now current that Mr. Colcleugh, the member for St. Andrews, will succeed Treasurer Jones in the local cabinet, and that he will be opposed by Robert Bullock, a leading merchant of Selkirk. Gabriel Dumont, whose visit to Winnipeg was kept very quiet, remaining with friends up the Red River, has gone to see his brethren on the Saskatchewan. The number of immigrants arriving here in March was 6,015, the largest number in any month on record. Last week's arrivals numbered 1,403. At tomorrow evening's meeting of the City Council a resolution will be passed asking Mr. Hearth, W.T. has been incorporated as a town and polling for mayor and council took place yesterday. Bank managers report that money is not coming in very rapidly, but the financial condition is just what they expected it would be at this season of the year. The oldest son of Webb, who was hanged for wife murder at Brandon, is wandering about that place without anyone to look after him and is losing his reason, owing to the terrible affliction through which he passed. Mr. Cumming, of Brandon, succeeds Mr. Colcleugh as bursar of Selkirk Asylum. Land Commissioner Smith returned from the East today. The river is rapidly rising. A Hamilton Mystery Solved, Hamilton, Ont., April 7, Miss Louisa Mackelcan, whose sudden disappearance on Monday last caused much suspense among her relatives and friends and aroused considerable interest among citizens, was found on Saturday morning in A. Frid's brick yard, in the extreme west end of the city, by Mr. Leonard Foster. Mr. Foster was going through the brick yard when he was attracted near the kiln by his dog, who was making an unusual noise. He discovered the lady, who when questioned acknowledged that she was Miss Mackelcan and accompanied Mr. Foster without showing resistance. There is no doubt her mental affliction has caused her to wander to the brick yard and since Monday she has spent most of her time in and about the kiln. When found Miss Mackelcan talked rationally and said she had not tasted food since she left home and had lived in the kiln for three nights and the other night had slept out in the snow. She had on her feet only her overshoes and in the kiln near the warm ashes her shawl and shoes were found. Miss Mackelcan said she thought someone was pursuing her and she went to the brick yard to avoid them. She seemed to be in good condition physically and was taken home by her friends who were the recipients of congratulations from sympathizers from all parts of the city when the news of Miss Mackelcan's being found and well had spread. A PANAMA, April 7, Since the suspension of work on the canal over 5,000 laborers have been repatriated from the Isthmus. A consular investigation shows that there are still over 5,000 persons on the line of the works who are destitute. Some deaths from starvation have already been reported, and it is feared that many more will occur if prompt measures are not taken by the West Indian Governments to send the people back to their homes. Negroes and women and children are the worst sufferers. Despite the great distress good order prevails. GENEVA, April 6, The Meteorological Service report of the weather and ice in the river and gulf for the past week is as follows: The figures in brackets signify the number of miles below Quebec: TAIROUAC Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Northwest wind: clear. Wednesday and Saturday (W) warm with light south wind; no ice all week. From Monday to Saturday clear and cold; strong wind; light snow in store. Monday and Tuesday clear; north wind; no ice. Wednesday (W) east wind; rain; no ice. Thursday to Saturday clear; northwest wind; no ice. SUNDAY, THE 1st; clear; strong southwest wind; light open ice distant. Monday clear; north wind; light open ice everywhere, still. Tuesday clear; west wind; light close packed ice in shore. Wednesday snowing; strong east wind. Thursday cloudy; east wind. Friday clear; northwest wind; no ice. Saturday clear; northwest wind; light close packed ice inshore. PORT MAHONEY (40H) Monday clear; strong northwest wind. Tuesday snowing; east wind. Wednesday clear; west wind. Thursday clear; southwest wind. Friday clear; northwest wind. Saturday clear; west wind. The bay has been covered with heavy packed ice all the week. MANITOBA TO THE SEA, April 7, Monday clear; north wind; light open ice everywhere moving south. Tuesday clear; northeast wind; light close packed ice inshore. Wednesday heavy snowstorm; no ice. Thursday and Friday clear; north and northwest wind; no ice. Saturday clear; northeast wind; light close packed ice moving southwest. AKLONKETT Monday clear; variable winds; no ice at Death Point; light at distant off other stations. Tuesday cloudy; south winds; light open ice everywhere. Fox BAY closed. Wednesday snowing; strong north wind. Thursday generally light; open ice everywhere. Friday clear; north wind; no ice at West and Mouth Point; light open ice distant off other stations. Two sealing steamers were seen on Death Point on Thursday and Friday. HINDS, MANITOBA, April 7, The weather has been cloudy; north wind; heavy close packed ice everywhere. Tuesday cloudy; strong southeast wind; no ice; a large flock of harp seals close to Bird Rocks. Wednesday cloudy; heavy open ice off Bird Rocks close packed around Magdalen Islands, none on Meat Cove. Thursday cloudy; strong south wind; light open ice distant off Bird Rocks and Magdalen Islands, none at Meat Cove. Friday cloudy; north wind; heavy open ice off Meat Cove, light open ice at all other stations. Saturday clear; strong north wind; light open ice everywhere. The Newfoundland schooner Alouette was crushed by the ice on to Bryan Island reef last Saturday, but the crew were saved. CAYUGA, April 7, Sunday cold; gale from west. Monday northwest wind. Tuesday clear; southeast wind. Wednesday hazy; northwest wind. Thursday southeast wind. Friday clear; north wind; light open ice distant all week. Saturday clear; northeast wind; no ice. NAVIGATION, Chicago, April 7, The grain fleet will start out on its trip down the Great Lakes at the first favorable wind. The start has in fact been made by the schooner Kaimah C. Hutchinson, but the brisk northeaster yesterday brought her back to port. Up to last night the room chartered in the lift was for 200,000 bushels of corn, 230,400 bushels of wheat and 67,100 bushels of oats. The total corn capacity wintering here was about 1,000,000 bushels, and just half has been chartered. The rates have ranged from 1 cent early in the winter to 2 ½ cents yesterday on corn to Buffalo. In contrast with previous winters comparatively few boats have been loaded until along toward the opening of navigation. ABSOLUTELY PURE, This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 10H Wall Street",1,0,0,1,0,0
219,19900622,modern,Nan,"000 270-1159 CRISTOFARO MGA 1959 1600CC Roadster, very good condition, serious inquiries only, $11,500, 455-4204 Private MGB 1967, BRG, wires, good condition, 671-5766 after 6pm, private MUSTANG 1966, automatic, 289 V6, low mileage, never winter driven, A1 condition, turquoise, $8,000 can days 848-3857 (Linda), evenings 691-6486 private PONTIAC Parisienne 1964, 2-dr, hardtop, 283 auto, Beautiful condition, $2,500 or best offer, 623-8225 T BIRD 1966, 87,000 miles, $1,950, After 5 PM, 468-0692 private THUNDERBIRD 1969, brand new, $6,500, 493-4460 between 12:00-2:00 PM or leave message private message private Sports Cars for Sale 522 AC-COBRA contemporary 427 side oiler, 4-speed, Good value,",0,0,0,0,0,0
270,18990919,historical,Torrential,"NEW ARGENTINE RULES Details of the Leading Foreign Animals Markets - A Sheep Sale From our own correspondent Liverpool, September 9 Business has been bad, chiefly due to the sultry weather since greatly improved after a torrential downpour of rain, and a magnificent thunderstorm. Supplies on the open market still continue liberal, owing to prospects of Winter beef being so poor, but this premature disposal will probably now be checked, as in many districts there is quite a marvellous recovery of aftergrowth. A feature of the trade at Deptford has been the complete absence of South American cattle and sheep. This is attributed to the stringent rules and regulations enforced by the Argentine Government which came into operation on 1st August. It is said that shipowners object to the serious liability imposed by these regulations, and have refused point-blank to carry cattle at any price. So far Argentine shippers have not lost much, and as this is the quiet season with them, we presume shipowners and exporters are bluffing the Government a bit, and at the same time seeing what effect it has on markets this side.",0,0,0,0,0,0
44,18860419,historical,Flood,"George and Chenneville. On the upper side of Vitre Street a building, the foundations of which were completed, was filled to the level of the sidewalk. The water extended several yards above Vitre on St. George. In order to reach the western end of the lower portion of the city a detour had to be made by way of Palace Street to Cathedral, as the water covered St. Antoine to past Ste. Montpie, and fully flooded St. David's Lane. Driving along St. Antoine the stretch of water covering St. James West and the railway was clearly visible on passing every side street, and it was not till Fillfold Street was reached that a passage to Notre Dame Street West could be effected. On St. James Street West the flood almost reached the corner of Fulford, several yards of which latter street were under water, which flowed into many basements to the depth of four feet, covering the stoves and quenching the household fires. A room was impassable to foot passengers, and sundry express wagons, owned by enterprising drivers, ferried people across at the moderate sum of five cents per head.",1,0,0,0,0,0
202,19920928,modern,Nan,"yesterday covers highs for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow High: 16 Low: 7 Quebec St. Jovite High: 16 Low: 5 Trois-Rivi锟斤拷res High: 17 Low: 8 Ottawa High: 19 Low: 8 Cornwall Montreal High: 18 Low: 7 Sherbrooke High: 17 Low: 7 Sunrise 6:49 Sunset 6:40 Local forecast Today's High: 18 Tonight's low Sunshine with a few scattered clouds, partly cloudy with the chance of a shower late this evening and tonight, Winds southwesterly 15-20 km/h Ultraviolet index Today's UV level: 3 Minutes to sunburn 60 Almanac Record 1959 1875 Temperature Yesterday Year ago today Normal this date Max Min 28 1 19 9 17 14 2 9 The ultraviolet index applies under sunny skies to light cloud cover. Heavier clouds or precipitation significantly reduce UV levels. Regional synopses Abitibi-Lac St.",0,0,0,0,0,0
199,19920510,modern,Nan,"""But the payoff for Bonnell wasn't just financial. No, my reward was hunkering down at the campfire with Roy during breaks in shooting, he Flying bread dough TODAY'S CAREER QUESTION IS: Should You Work At Home? Working at home is an idea that is appealing to more and more people, such as George Bush. One day he got sick and tired of constant foreign travel and said: Barbara, I'm going to put a desk and a phone in the Oval Office and just stay home and veto legislation. Other famous people who work at home are Queen Elizabeth II and the American farmer. Of course the home is not the ideal place to do certain types of jobs, such as coal mining. But many modern employers are willing to be flexible. The Ford Motor Co, for example, recently started a pilot program under which employees who don't want to leave their preschool children may elect to build Taurus station wagons in their homes. Oh, there have been problems. Some cars wouldn't start because of what was Alan Richardson's Cryptic Crossword: No 213. A'mmxtv in parentheses after each clue indicate the number of letters in the word or words for the required answer.",0,0,0,0,0,0
44,18860419,historical,Flood,"The scheme was dropped as of no use, and the chairman of the inundation committee got home again. NOW THE RIVER. Saturday night's advices from down river ports were that at Three Rivers the lake ice was on the move since 2 p.m. Lachine reported a slight shove accompanied by a rise, and then a fall in the water. At Berthierville the ice was rotten and it was hoped the river would be clear by today. Looking down the river from Montreal at dusk no sign of a break-up was apparent; as far as the eye could reach was one stretch of rugged ice pack, unbroken except in one or two very small patches. Over towards St. Lambert the same view presented itself, the only extent of water visible being where Commissioners Street was five feet under water. Here the current swept along at the rate of four or five miles an hour. Many of the stevedores' offices, placed on the street for safety during the winter, have been upset and are liable to be crushed or carried off when the final rush takes place. The office and sheds of the R.K.O.",1,1,0,0,0,0
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346,19900411,modern,Cold,"LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES It doesn't take a lot of force to swing a golf club but swinging one accurately takes strength and flexibility attributes which, if lacking, can result in both errant shots and a host of painful injuries. Most golfers especially weekend players have no idea how damaging golf can be, particularly to unconditioned muscles. The truth is, golf is as athletic (if not as strenuous) as baseball or football. And while golf is not as bruising as other sports, it does often result in injured backs, shoulders, elbows and knees. For the once-a-week player or for the golfer who is just starting up after a winter of relative inactivity the risk is heightened, as underused muscles are suddenly compelled to perform. Q: I'm an adequate golfer, and I especially like to play on business trips with clients. What's the best way to improve my game? A: Weekend golfers interested in increasing endurance, accuracy and driving distance can do so by learning more about stretching and strengthening those muscles that play the most important roles in the golf swing. Walking 18 holes is not enough. Walking 18 holes and spending time on the driving range isn't enough. A simple program of stretching and strengthening exercises can help both pros and amateurs, young and old, to drive the ball farther, play with better consistency, develop strength, endurance and flexibility, and significantly lower the risk of injury. A specific conditioning program will improve performance at every level of the game and help those who do incur injuries to recover more quickly. The goal of stretching exercises is to loosen the muscles around the joints, enabling them to move through a great range of motion. Muscles tend to shorten unless stretched on a regular basis. They work more efficiently, and with less risk of strain or injury, when loosened. On days of course play, stretching exercises should be done 15 to 20 minutes before tee-off, because the value of stretching decreases when more than 20 minutes pass from the time of the exercise to the time of actual play. For maximum benefit, stretching exercises should be done every day. If performed regularly, improvements should be noted in two to three weeks; improvements will include less soreness after playing and greater flexibility during the swing. After finishing the exercises, try swinging a club 10 or 12 times so you use your body's improved flexibility through the range of motion you will use on the golf course. Shoulder muscles work as a group. Q: I've heard a lot of talk about the rotator cuff muscles; what exactly are they, and why are they important to a good golf game? A: The rotator cuff consists of four shoulder muscles that work as a group during all phases of the golf swing the backswing, during the acceleration into the ball, and on the follow-through. They are perhaps the most essential to an accurate swing; and they are also the most prone to injury. Research has found that the rotator cuff muscles need to be worked separately from the rest of the arm muscles to achieve maximum results and help prevent injuries. Two excellent stretching exercises developed from the research are the following: B The rhomboid stretch: This part of your back is difficult to stretch and susceptible to injury, especially with golfers. Standing or sitting, reach both arms around your chest and try to grasp the opposite shoulder blade with each hand. Drop your chin toward your chest. Inhale, holding onto your shoulder blades for a count of 10. You should feel the stretch along the border of your shoulder blades. The posterior cuff stretch: While standing, stretch the back portion of the shoulder joint by pulling the left arm across the body, under the chin and as far back as possible without rotating the torso. Hold for 10 to 15 seconds; repeat five to six times, then switch arms and repeat. Dr. Frank Jobe specializes in sports medicine at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. Among its patients are athletes from the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lakers, Kings and Rams. The first 18 holes of spring can be among the most dangerous for a golfer who is out of shape, specialists in sports-related medicine say. Fitness in problem? Education is solution, doctors say ROSA SALTER ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL ALLENTOWN, Pa. Just a few years ago, says physical therapist Gail Levine, when someone came into a doctor's office with an injured back, the doctor would probably send the patient back to bed. But now, she said, doctors are more likely to send the same kind of patient back to school. To back school, that is. With the growing emphasis on preventive health care and the risks and rising cost of back surgery, more doctors are prescribing education as a treatment for back injuries. And back schools are becoming the education of choice. Started in Sweden about 10 years ago, back schools are now springing up across the continent to help meet demand. An estimated 80 to 90 per cent of North Americans will seriously injure their backs at some point in their lives. Levine runs one such school as part of her Allentown physical-therapy practice, and others are conducted at doctors' offices, sports-medicine clinics and rehabilitation centres. While the techniques and structure of the individual back schools may differ, the courses have the same aim: teaching people more about the anatomical structure that stands them up, sits them down and bends them over 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The hope is that the patients' newfound knowledge will give them power the power to avoid reinjuring their backs. And for many people, going to back school turns out to be quite an education. ""It was good to show you the right way to do simple things, things you don't even think of, like how to vacuum a house, and shop and lift groceries and bend over,"" said Dennis Kochenash, 44, a former heavy-equipment operator, who attended back school after he hurt his back at work twice in eight months and required surgery. ""Like there's a right and a wrong way to get out of a car,"" he added. ""I never knew that stuff before."" ""Most people know more about their cars than they do about their backs,"" said Karen Graffman, director of the back-school program at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital in Allentown. ""It's so misunderstood because it's a complex system, and unlike the wrist or fingers or knees, it's made up of internal joints you can't put your hands on it and see if it's swollen,"" added Dennis Dougherty, a physical therapist who teaches back-school principles at a rehab centre in Bethlehem, Pa. ""If your knuckle is swollen, you can see it and rest it, but if one of the small joints in your spine is hurt, you can't see it and you probably don't know what to rest anyway."" ""There's an old saying that whoever designed the back must have been asleep."" According to Dougherty, adults of all ages can be affected by back injuries, but most frequently it is people between the ages of 35 and 50 who will have their activities limited because of problems. The spinal column Though called the column, the spine is actually more like a spring that is shaped. This curvy shape makes it a great shock absorber; you could never even walk on hard ground, much less run or jump, if your spine were a straight column because all the jarring would travel right up your back to your head. Back aches When your back hurts, it could be any number of things. Your discs may be at fault; they can deteriorate as a normal part of aging, giving you a mild backache or some stiffness. Or, they can rupture or herniate, which means the soft center of the disc protrudes through its fibrous casing and hits a nerve painfully. Or, the pain could be musculoskeletal, like a strain of your back muscles that causes spasms and inflammation. Nerve The spinal cord sends out 31 pairs of nerves between the vertebrae that branch and rebranch out to the rest of the body. This network of nerves is how the body communicates with itself, transmitting signals to and from the brain and spinal cord. Herniated disc pain occurs when a disc comes into contact with a nerve. Taking care of your back You can be kind to your back by staying within your proper weight range; obesity can stress your lower back. Lifting a heavy object can injure your back; you should bend at the knees rather than the waist to let your legs rather than your back do the work. High heels can throw your back out of alignment and put too much pressure on your lower back. Sitting for long periods of time is stressful to the back so get up once in a while and walk around. Four in five of us suffer some kind of back pain during our lives. No wonder! With 126 vertebrae, plus muscles, nerves and ligaments, there's a lot that can go wrong with their backs. But sooner or later, he said, just about everyone will have back trouble the result, some experts say, of man's decision to walk upright, even though his body wasn't designed for it. But rather than blame our prehistoric ancestors, Dougherty said, many experts today trace the overwhelming incidence of back pain to sedentary lifestyles that have weakened the muscles that hold the back in place. ""Actually, sitting is the worst thing you can do for your back,"" said Dr. Chris Lynch, a specialist in body mechanics. According to Lynch, a back injury may appear to come on suddenly a secretary may bend over to pick up a piece of paper that falls off her desk and develop excruciating pain; a weekend golfer may take an easy practice swing and have his back go into spasms. But a back injury typically has been many years in the making, the culmination of repeated, subtle abuse. ""It's from being out of shape and overweight and sitting badly and standing lousy and slouching all those things that your mother told you not to do that we hurt our backs,"" Lynch said. Even a habit like smoking because it causes repeated coughing, which can strain back muscles can be a culprit in back injuries, he added. Fortunately, Lynch said, only a few back injuries involve incapacitating damage to a disc, the back's shock-absorber system, and therefore are severe enough to require surgery. Most back problems, he said, involve either simple sprains or strains and will heal with time, exercise and proper rest. ""If there's anything that's happened in the last 10 years, it's that people have become more cautious in recommending surgery,"" he said. For patients, Levine said, back school provides reassurance that they can work up to doing certain activities again and gives simple tips on how to take strain off the back while standing, reaching, lifting, sitting or even sleeping. Students get to practice techniques while in class, and Levine's course uses a slide-audio program developed by a national organization, the American Back School, to teach anatomy. The program stresses the concept of the ""locked-in back"" as a means of safeguarding it from future injury. The idea, Levine said, is to maintain the back in the normal ""S"" shape it would have while standing straight with curves inward at the neck, outward in the upper back and inward in the lower back during activities that involve bending, reaching or lifting. The advice, she said, runs counter to what many people have been taught, especially about how to lift. ""People tend to lift with the load too far away from their body and they tend to hunch over and lift,"" she said. ""Or they will lift and twist with heavy weights, and twisting is one thing you just don't do. It exerts a tremendous amount of torque on the disc, so you have two kinds of pressure on the disc at the same time the regular disc pressure (from standing) and the torque, and that's going to enable the disc to herniate easier."" Dougherty, meanwhile, uses a different program designed by the Back School of Atlanta. The course stresses similar techniques but also underlying factors of diet, posture, weight and stress. ""The biggest thing is (being) overweight,"" Lynch said. ""For every pound on your stomach that's five pounds on your back."" Overweight patients with back problems, he added, are ""just kidding themselves"" if they think they can take care of the back injury without losing weight. The Atlanta approach does not stress the locked-in back because it seems awkward for some people to learn, Dougherty said. Instead, he said, the course uses a modified ""straight-back"" approach. Both Levine's and Dougherty's programs also use simple exercises specifically tailored to strengthen and relax the back muscles. Patients are also encouraged to strengthen other parts of their bodies like their arms and legs so they can use those muscles more when performing activities that might strain their backs. ""If you get rid of your (acute) back pain, you'd better start walking or swimming or whatever to maintain the muscle tone,"" Dougherty stated. ""Once you injure your back, your back is your Achilles heel and unless you exercise, it will come back to haunt you."" Correct treatment of burn varies with its degree JUDE LOGAN HEALTH & FITNESS NEWS SERVICE LOS ANGELES There are many kinds of burns, ranging from finger blisters to third-degree burns covering large portions of the body. In assessing the severity of a burn, physicians look at two factors: how much of the skin's surface is affected and the depth of the injury. First-degree burns affect the outermost layer of the skin, which becomes red and may swell a little. Because the nerve endings in this layer of skin are irritated, pain can be intense. Sun exposure and brief contact with a hot item are common causes of first-degree burns. Second-degree burns involve deeper skin layers, which ooze, blister and swell. Intense sun exposure, prolonged contact with a hot object, scalding liquids and gasoline are common causes of second-degree burns. Third-degree burns actually destroy all the layers of skin, which become white or charred. Because the nerve endings are destroyed, there is little or no pain. A small third-degree burn can be hard to distinguish when it is surrounded by a larger area of a second- or first-degree burn. These burns are usually the result of fire, electrical shock or contact with corrosive chemicals. Fourth-degree burns damage the underlying body tissues, tendons and connective tissue, in addition to destroying the skin. These burns are the result of fire, explosion or electrical shock. You can treat superficial first- and second-degree burns yourself unless they cover more than 10 per cent of the body an entire arm or the face, for instance. Then prompt medical attention is imperative. Generally, these burns heal well, without scarring or discoloration. Rapid first aid for burns is essential. Do not apply butter or other household remedies; they are ineffective and may cause infection. Applying cold water until the pain subsides can keep the burn from worsening. With a sterile cloth, gently pat the area dry; don't press down on the burn. You can treat first-degree burns with pain-relief lotions or sprays. Never open blisters or remove dead skin, especially sunburned skin. When in doubt, treat a serious-looking burn as a third-degree burn and get professional help. Third- and fourth-degree burns are physically devastating. Even with expert medical care they can be fatal. When the body's protective coat is damaged, there is danger of infection, acute ulcers, inflammation of the kidneys and spinal cord, anemia and pneumonia. If left untreated, the body could go into shock. There are some things you can do until the paramedics arrive: Remove restrictive clothing or jewelry. If clothing is stuck to the burn, leave it alone. Apply cold, wet compresses with a clean cloth. If the burn is less than two inches across, submerge it in cold water. Never use ice on burns this severe, because the sudden cooling can intensify the shock. Check to see whether the victim is having trouble breathing. You may have to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cover the burn with a sterile, clean cloth. Electrical burns come in twos one where the electricity enters the body and one where it exits. Look for two wounds and treat them both as third-degree burns. For chemical burns, remove any contaminated clothing, including shoes or socks. Shower or hose the area immediately with cold water not too forcefully. Water will dilute the chemical and flush it away. 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PIERREFONDS: S'l unheated, large backyard, garage. Call after 6 p.m., 684-0430. Lawyers, notaries go toe-to-toe over revision of law code CANADIAN PRESS Quebec lawyers and notaries are engaged in a war of words over a planned overhaul of the province's legal system. The notaries say they fear the impending revisions in the works for nearly 30 years will lead to a more litigious society and encroach on their turf. Jean Lambert, president of the Board of Notaries of Quebec, charges the lawyers are seeking to feather their own nests by requiring the services of lawyers to legalize every act and action. Andre Gauthier, president of the Quebec Bar Association, retorts that Quebec can get along without notaries. ""There's nothing a notary does that lawyers couldn't do."" Relations between the bar and the notaries always somewhat strained have reached such a low ebb that the notaries have taken their differences public with full-page newspaper ads. Unlike the rest of Canada whose legal system is based on English common law, Quebec is governed by the Civil Code of Lower Canada, inspired by the French Napoleonic Code. Under the system, notaries traditionally have handled matters dealing with the Civil Code, such as marital and family law, wills, contracts and mortgages while lawyers have busied themselves with the Criminal Code. But the distinctions between their activities have become increasingly blurred with lawyers performing many of the tasks traditionally performed by notaries. Both lawyers and notaries have law degrees but most notaries have not written bar exams that would permit them to do litigation. When the Quiet Revolution swept through Quebec in the 1960s, the cabinet of Premier Jean Lesage established a legislature committee to update the code which has undergone little change since its adoption in 1866. Last year, the Bourassa government decided the time had finally come to put the revisions into effect but ran into immediate opposition from both the notaries and the bar. The bar won changes to the revisions and has decided to support the government's plans to impose them on Aug. 1, 1991. The board of notaries left out in the cold began its advertising blitz against the revisions several weeks ago. It has collected from its members a war chest of $3 million to finance its fight. What the notaries want, bar president Gauthier contends, is an increase in their legal privileges and protection against competition from lawyers written into the new code. ""We will not agree to endanger the reform in order to preserve the raison d'être of the notaries,"" Gauthier said. Lambert replied that the proposed changes will lead to the Americanization of the provincial legal system and that will prove more costly for Quebecers. Quebec law is ""heading in one direction that of new ways to go to court,"" Lambert said. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1990 Quebec told to stay out of construction dispute GAZETTE QUEBEC BUREAU QUEBEC A coalition of construction unions yesterday urged the government not to be too hasty in using a decree to end their labor dispute with the Association des Entrepreneurs en Construction du Quebec. At a news conference, representatives of construction unions representing 100,000 workers said the builders' association has yet to start bargaining in good faith and is counting on the government to step in as it has in the past. ""It's clear they want the same thing as in the past, for Quebec to intervene in the name of the economy,"" said Yves Pard, a construction official with the Quebec Federation of Labor. ""But the construction (industry) isn't an essential service, it isn't a hospital. Construction workers are always penalized in the name of the economy."" The government decree currently governing work conditions of construction workers expires April 30. The coalition of unions affiliated with the QFL, the Confederation of National Trade Unions and the Conseil Provincial Internationale des Metiers de la Construction is threatening a general strike May 1 if it can't reach a settlement. The unions tabled their contract demands July 14. Labor Minister Yves Seguin named a conciliator last week. Pare said they aren't against working with the conciliator but don't feel the employers are taking the process seriously. The association represents 18,000 contractors province-wide. The unions want raises of 3 per cent above the cost of living in a two-year contract and a one-hour cut in their work week without loss of pay. No leave after adoption Rights commission to investigate firing CANADIAN PRESS HULL The Quebec Human Rights Commission plans to investigate a complaint by a city employee in nearby Aylmer who was fired for staying home with a newly adopted baby. Louize Rancourt says she would be satisfied with the return of her job as council secretary or with some financial compensation. Pierre Des Chenes, commission director for the Outaouais region, announced the investigation Monday. But he plans to try to mediate the conflict first. The 40-year-old woman was fired in August, three months after starting her $25,000-a-year job. When she asked for 17 weeks of unpaid leave, city manager Denis Hubert offered her a week. Rancourt had been waiting to adopt for 10 years. The city contends Rancourt was on probation when she adopted 6-week-old Daniel. Her request was not covered by the union contract. However, city officials acknowledged another employee was granted a leave after adopting. ""Right now, the commission can't force Aylmer to do anything because it can only make recommendations. But a new law that will come into effect this summer will change that,"" Des Chenes said. SUPER SATURDAYS JUST FOR KIDS SESSION: April 14-June 16 Ages: 18 months-16 years Registration: NOW in progress WE OFFER: Parent-Toddler Play Music-Orff Method Pre-School Gym Computer lesson-all levels English Clubs French Clubs Spanish Clubs Science Electronics Computer-Swim & Activity Judo Karate Tai-Chi Tennis Weight Training Ballet Jazz Dance Music & Movement Creative Dance Tap Dance For more information and registration appointment, call Monday to Friday 849-8393 local 767 Downtown YMCA Child Development Dept. MONTREAL Concordia UNIVERSITY MBA Information Session with the Academic and Administrative Directors Date: Thursday, 12th April, 1990 Time: 6:00 p.m. Place: Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Room H-763, 7th floor Montreal, H3G 1M8 Quebec R. 731-9268, 735-5331 VINCENT D'INDY 3't- May, June & July, 4, 4'i- July, fridge, stove, heating, elevator, janitor 737-8055, 735-5331 Nuns' Island 228 AbO2 featuring day care, schools, playgrounds, teen dances, and other activities Cross-country ski Jog Walk along the riverside, Ride bike paths, Or just enjoy the trees, birds, and acres of greenery, plus sports and recreational facilities. Shop, buy everything you'll need, it's at your door. Come visit Follow Ile des Soeurs Blvd for 2 km, then left to Structures Metropolitaines' rental office at 100 de Gasp. 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E 4 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1990 Spices liven up mini lamb patties In the region of France where I grew up lamb was widely eaten, and I still have a great fondness for it. In the Quick recipe below for lamb patties, the ground meat is seasoned with garlic and cumin and the patties are small, four or five to each dinner. To my taste, almonds have an affinity for lamb so the accompanying rice dish contains almonds, along with raisins and cinnamon. Lamb Patties with Mushroom Sauce 1½ pounds (600 g) ground lean lamb 3 tablespoons (45 mL) olive oil 1½ cups (375 mL) finely chopped onions 1 teaspoon (5 mL) finely chopped garlic 1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground cumin ½ cup (125 mL) finely chopped cilantro or parsley ½ cup (125 mL) fine fresh breadcrumbs 1 egg lightly beaten salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 1 tablespoon (15 mL) butter ½ pound (200 g) fresh mushrooms, finely sliced 1½ tablespoons (25 mL) finely chopped shallots ½ cup (50 mL) dry white wine ½ cup (125 mL) chopped peeled fresh tomatoes or canned crushed tomatoes ¾ cup (175 mL) fresh or canned chicken broth 1 teaspoon (5 mL) chopped fresh tarragon or ½ teaspoon (2 mL) dried 2 teaspoons (10 mL) arrowroot or cornstarch 1 tablespoon (15 mL) water Place the lamb in a mixing bowl. Heat two tablespoons (25 mL) of the oil in a small skillet and add the onions and garlic. Cook briefly, stirring, until wilted. Sprinkle with cumin and stir, blending well. Cool briefly. Scrape the onion mixture into the lamb. Add the cilantro, breadcrumbs, egg, salt and pepper. Blend well with fingers and shape the mixture into 20 patties. Set aside. For the mushroom sauce, heat the butter in a saucepan and add the mushrooms, shallots, salt and pepper. Cook on medium-high heat. How bubbles give Passover a lift There's a fascinating bit of history attached to using beaten egg whites in cakes for the Jewish spring holiday of Passover. Jews who fled from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago had no time to allow their traditional yeast breads to rise. In commemorating their arduous journey to freedom, the eight-day celebration of Passover still prohibits the use of products leavened with baking powder or yeast. So the masses of air bubbles in beaten egg whites become the basis of spectacular tortes and Passover cakes using matzo meal, nuts and various flavorings. The fine wires of a whip or blades of a beater stretch the delicate lattice of egg proteins and water to encase the captured air. Egg whites are more flexible at room temperature so they beat to greater heights than cold eggs. Thousands of large bubbles quickly become millions of smaller ones as the foam expands to six or eight times its original volume. Cream of tartar and salt are often called for. But wait until the whites have been beaten to the foamy stage. Adding them earlier delays foaming. Cream of tartar keeps the cake structure from collapsing before the foam sets in the oven. It's thought the acid coagulates the protein film that surrounds each air bubble, stabilizing the foam. It also imparts acidity to the batter, making the cake whiter and its texture finer. Sugar added slowly, starting when eggs are still at the foamy stage, also stabilizes the foam. Sugar travels to the walls of the air bubbles, keeping the water from Johanna Burkhard's New Waves, Is BRUNCH from 11 a.m. to DINNER from 5 p.m. to (WW $1 R95 Children 10 and under Half-Price Reservations: 878-4569 PWCEBONAVENTURE, 1,1 C 5 WlaneSI-ous effort to pinch a win over Phils ASSOCIATED PRESS THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1990 gives Cubs CHICAGO Marvell Wynne's pinch single with two out in the eighth inning saved the Chicago Cubs a season-opening 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday on a cold and windy afternoon. Ryne Sandberg",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,-20 Sunny skies with seasonable temperatures Snow High -10 Low -19 Cloudy High -9 Low -16 Snow High -6 Low -11 Cloudy High -8 Low -15 Canada Weather systems forecast for 7 p.m. this evening Temperatures are today's daytime highs 1992 MTI Inc WARM FRONT COLD FRONT RAIN SNOW STATIONARY HIGH FRONT TROUGH LOW PRESSURE THUNDERSTORM FREEZING RAIN LOW Max Min Iqaluit Snow -32 -36 Yellowknife Sunny -11 -18 Whitehorse Cloudy -4 -10 Vancouver Sunny 11 3 Victoria Sunny 12 3 Edmonton Sunny 5 -6 Calgary Sunny 10 -2 Saskatoon Cloudy 0 -9 Regina Cloudy 1 -8 Winnipeg Sunny -11 -16 Thunder Bay Sunny -13 -18 Sudbury Snow -9 -17 Toronto Snow -1 -14 Fredericton Sunny 15 -7 Halifax Sunny 8 -5 Charlottetown Cloudy 11 -8 St.,0,0,0,0,0,0
44,18860419,historical,Flood,"The Central fire station, on Craig Street, was surrounded by water, and the firemen had to go in and out for a boat. The water extended along to Victoria Square and up to Jurors Street, and even those driving in cabs did not escape without wet feet, for the carriages were nearly up in the shafts. On Honavenltir Street, a little west of Victoria Square, the water suddenly made its appearance and spread along as far as the eye could reach. The street was also submerged from HUGH beyond the American building to some distance past Craig Street. St. Antoine Street was in a similar condition, which was flooded up to St. Maurice Street and the gallery of the Albion Hall was crowded all day by visitors, waiting on the busy street. There were three feet of water on the ground floor of the main building. The water was literally covered with rafts, boats and debris of all descriptions, and the streets were in constant communication with the main roads and accidents were numerous.",1,0,0,0,0,1
192,19900816,modern,Ice,"After reviewing data provided by the federal Public Works Department, panel chairman David Barnes said yesterday that the proposed bridge would cause ice buildups that could threaten the fishery in the Northumberland Strait. Barnes said the 13-kilometre bridge could delay the springtime departure of ice in the strait by up to two weeks, delaying the lobster season and possibly altering the marine environment due to reduced water temperatures. ""The fishing community stands to bear the greatest risks,"" Barnes said at a news conference. The panel's report also rejected the proposed link based on damage to the marine environment during construction and the possibility of spills of toxic material being carried over the bridge. After reviewing the findings of the six-member environmental assessment panel, which is not binding on government, federal Public Works Minister Elmer MacKay said: ""I am disappointed that the recommendations by the panel do not provide a clearer indication of how the project can be improved to allow it to proceed."" MacKay, whose department ordered the assessment, said he and Environment Minister Robert de Cotret will now consult their staff, the federal Fisheries Department and the governments of all three Maritime provinces.
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145,18941228,historical,Blizzard,"Cuyahoga, N.G., Wilkins suffered much loss. Several small boats belonging to him were torn loose from their moorings and have not been recovered, while several of his steam launches were capsized or sunk. Other vessels in that locality had their masts blown away and were otherwise injured. Henry J. Cloesterman, a well-known businessman, was struck by a falling tree while walking along Broadway and had a leg broken. Sioux City, IA, December 27, An intense cold has prevailed here since yesterday morning, the mercury dropping from 60 above to 12 below. St. Paul, December 27, This was the coldest day of the winter in Minnesota, the temperature ranging from 14 below zero at 7 a.m. to 4 below at 9 p.m. In the state the range was from 5 below at Grand Rapids to 20 below at Stillwater. Not over two inches of snow has fallen at any point, and loggers are having serious trouble in the woods. No serious cases of suffering are reported. The cold is moderating rapidly.
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87,19980114,modern,Freezing,"000 megawatts Hydro chairman Andre Caille acknowledged last night that the grid is still fragile ""The equipment that we have operating is not something that is normal,"" Caille told reporters at Hydro headquarters ""It's more fragile than a normal system, obviously So we are managing the system with great care That's why we are asking people to reduce their usage of electricity"" The extent of the ring's fragility was made starkly clear yesterday when repair crews failed to reconnect a major line from the South Shore to southwest Montreal DOWNTOWN UNDERPOWERED Freezing rain in the morning prevented crews from laying a 315-kv line by helicopter from Beauharnois to the Aqueduc transformer station in Montreal Hydro had never tried this before and will give it another shot today That line can supply southwest Montreal with 400 megawatts Without the line reconnected, downtown and the west end will still lack adequate levels of electricity For the first time yesterday, Hydro officials were able to say when they will be able to reconnect the 735-kv links on the power ring: The line between the Chenier and Chateauguay substations should be reconnected today, Hydro transmission-line specialist Elias Ghannoum said The Chateauguay-Hertel line,
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82,19980109,modern,Freezing,"So does Kellyann Meloche, who turns 23 next week, and uses computers, cellular telephones and fax machines in her job as coordinator of emergency planning for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. ""They (the community elders) have been through tough times. For them, this is not difficult. And they have wood stoves. Now everyone is gathering around the stoves in their homes and talking. They like it that their children and grandchildren can come and sit around the fire and talk about things,"" Meloche explained. Among the items on Meloche's agenda yesterday were meetings with other emergency workers and council members to determine whether a state of emergency should be declared in Kahnawake. Another item was what the community's response would be to any possible offers of assistance from the Canadian Forces. It was a topic that Meloche approached gingerly yesterday. (During the 1990 Oka crisis, emotions ran high as armed Mohawks blocked the Mercier Bridge in solidarity with Mohawks in Kanesatake locked in a 78-day standoff against provincial police and the army.) ""These are certainly different circumstances,"" Meloche said.
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12,18920223,historical,,"""The picture representing the sitting of the Alabama Claims commission, a present from America to Queen Victoria, has arrived at Windsor castle. The Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfort and Königsberg Jewish relief committees will meet shortly to consider the refusal of America to receive Russian Jewish emigrants brought by North German Lloyd steamer. KICKED TO DEATH BY A HORSE: GAULT, Ont., February 22. William Huntberger, aged 27 years, employed on a farm of J. E. McBain, was kicked to death by a horse. MAN WHO CLEANS A SIDEWALK HAS HIS OWN STYLE OF DOING IT: Some Plow Down to the Pavement, Others Merely Level the Surface, and Others Cultivate the """"Hog's Back."""" """"There’s one thing about it,"""" remarked an enthusiastic Ottawan in the Hall a few days ago, as he and a companion were discussing the relative merits of the two cities, """"that’s in our favor; we know how to clean our streets, and we’re not content to ride let lumbering, refrigerating street cars, which are about as much on a par with the old stage coaches would be.",0,0,0,0,0,0
201,19920824,modern,Snow,"""Everything is flat to the ground. Normally, when we get a fall snow during harvest you only get one or two inches and it just sort of tangles everything. But the snow will have covered crops for nearly 48 hours before it melts and has likely caused profound damage,"" he said. The storm also caused power outages throughout most of southern Alberta with the thick clumpy snow clinging to lines causing them to droop and snap. Jack MacLean of TransAlta Utilities said crews worked around the clock repairing the damage and had restored power to almost all areas by early yesterday. But there is good news: the weather is expected to improve. Rick Shewchuk of the Lethbridge weather office is forecasting temperatures of 25 degrees C by Wednesday. Dog digging up skeleton - bone by bone CANADIAN PRESS CENTRE I PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. Outside the dimly lit engine room of the ferry Klitsa, a storm is raging. It's not a storm spawned by Mother Nature; today the sky is clear, the winds light and the waters of the Strait of Georgia smooth as glass.",1,0,0,0,0,0
219,19900622,modern,Thunder,"""We've entered the busiest time of the year for lightning."" Lightning is commonly described by laypeople as either ""chain"" or ""sheet,"" but both types present a risk. McCuskey explained the chain variety as the oftentimes spectacular jagged bolts from the sky towards the ground and sheet as the flash of lightning going from cloud to cloud. ""Chain is the more dangerous,"" said McCuskey, ""but sheet lightning can come towards the ground at any time."" It's also incorrect, for the most part, to say someone has been ""struck"" by lightning if they've lived to tell about it. A miracle aside, no one can survive a direct hit of the millions of volts of electricity in a bolt of lightning. What actually occurs is that they've suffered the effects of the bounce of the energy charge when it has struck something nearby. ""They may have received enough of the electrical current to experience a shock, but they certainly were not the main conductor,"" said Professor Geoff Austin of McGill University's radar observatory in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. ""If you are hit by lightning directly, you've run out of luck,"" said Austin.",0,0,0,0,0,0
204,19900318,modern,Nan,"""S' Department of Energy said that the explosion, code-named Metropolis, had a force of 20-150 kilotonnes, a vague estimate given to news media by the agency for almost all of its blasts. Seismologists said that the explosion registered 5.1 on the Richter scale. Volcanoes Alaska's Redoubt volcano erupted on March 14 with a vivid lightning storm and an ash cloud that drifted mostly to the north and northwest, away from population centres. The eruption was preceded by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake that occurred 80 km beneath Redoubt, and another comparable quake 270 km southwest of Fairbanks. Fairbanks, Bozvmvanny volcano, on the Soviet Far East's Kamchatka peninsula, erupted with a powerful explosion on March 10. Soviet volcanologists report that a column of smoke and stones rose 10 km above the crater, and that streams of lava flowed down the mountain. Earthquakes A rare East African quake rocked the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, but no damage or injuries were reported.",0,0,0,0,0,0
218,19900619,modern,Thunder,"was found sprawled across a picnic table in the exercise yard He had been struck in the back with a homemade pick We have 49 witnesses and at least one of them is guilty but we don't know which one, a Surete du Quebec officer said Thousands lose electric power as thunderstorms lash island Thunderstorms that hit Montreal Island yesterday left thousands of homes without power and felled tree branches that damaged at least 10 vehicles Hydro-Quebec estimated that transformers exploded or power lines fell in about 100 places in greater Montreal, cutting power to at least 20,000 customers Dozens of neighborhoods were blacked out Power was cut to 10,000 homes in Montreal, 1,200 in Yves Barrette of Hydro-Quebec said power should be fully restored to those areas by noon today About 2,000 homes on the South Shore were without power Francois Lebrun, chief of Hydro's South Shore section, said power should be restored by 2 p.m.",1,0,0,0,0,0
27,18980207,historical,Snow,"JANUARY WEATHER Some Official Facts and Figures on Temperature and Cold Waves The meteorological weather map for January says: The temperature conditions over the Dominion were, on the whole, decidedly abnormal, as in the Northwest Territories the mean for the month was from 11 degrees to 16 degrees above average, the greatest excess being in Alberta, while in the province of New Brunswick the mean was from 4 degrees to 7 degrees below the average. The change between the unusual mildness of Alberta and the abnormal cold of New Brunswick was gradual from west to east, and the Ottawa and Upper St. Lawrence Valleys, and also Vancouver Island, were the only parts of the Dominion where the mean temperature was just equal to the average. Referring to this province, the report says: The principal cold spells of the month occurred during the first five and last five days. The rest of the month, between the 6th and the 26th, was on the whole moderately cold, but the temperature seldom fell as low as zero; during this period, however, much snow fell, and two particularly heavy storms occurred. The first of these was on the night of the 20th, when nearly a foot of snow fell in Montreal, and in Quebec, where the snowfall was not so heavy, the wind reached an hourly velocity of 66 miles from the north. The other severe storm occurred three days later, on the 23rd, when another foot of snow fell in Montreal, and in Quebec five inches fell, with a northeast gale reaching 68 miles an hour. In Quebec the temperature fell below zero on 13 days, and did not rise above zero on 8 days; during the last few days the weather was very cold, and an ice bridge formed on the river in front of the city. FRACTURED HIS THIGH A sad accident overtook little George F. Stafford on Saturday afternoon, when he was enjoying that fun, dear to the hearts of all boys, jumping into the snow from the shed roofs. The little fellow, who resides with his people at No. 2065 St. Hubert street, was playing on a neighbor's roof. In jumping into the snow below he fractured his thigh, and it was found necessary to remove him to the Royal Victoria Hospital in the ambulance. TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH Passengers on the Toronto train arriving at Windsor street at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday reported that they had travelled through a continuous snowstorm all the way from Toronto. The meeting of the Gleaners' Union announced for the afternoon of Monday, February 7, will not take place, in consequence of sudden illness, at the house where it was to have been held. TRADE IN CANADA Reports From Different Cities Toronto February 6 Bradstreet's weekly trade summary says: Victoria and Vancouver The gold excitement continues to increase. Steamers are now leaving here almost daily, with passengers and freight accommodation taxed to their utmost in many cases freight space being booked several days ahead. One order, amounting to nearly two hundred thousand dollars, was recently secured by merchants here, from an Alaska company for shipment in May, and most dealers report January sales over 10 per cent higher than the corresponding month last year. Trade in the Interior remains quiet, with collections slow. Winnipeg Wheat has taken a drop and the grain market in general is flat. There has been quite a demand for shipments of felt shoes, moccasins, snowshoes, etc., but solely for the Yukon trade. Underwriting has been an unusual feature for this season, but the possibilities of it being taken from the free-list is doubtful. The manufacturing in hardware, paints, etc., is improving slightly, but no important change in prices is noticeable. Owing to the mild winter the country produce trade has been the largest on record. Grocery prices remain firm. The most disastrous fire in the business history of the city occurred on the morning of the second, involving the total destruction of the McIntyre block and two other buildings, with twelve large retail stores, the bulk of the travellers' sample rooms, and some of the principal law offices. The staggering loss, it is estimated, will reach four hundred thousand dollars, with an insurance of probably two hundred thousand. Halifax There is no improvement to report in trade circles, and the volume of business for the week has been light. Collections only fair. A heavy snowstorm blocking trains and delaying traffic was much felt all over the Maritime Provinces. St. John, New Brunswick, reports business for the past week rather quiet. The lumber trade in St. John is perhaps never in a more depressed state than it has been for some little time, partly owing to the large quantity of snow that has fallen lately in different parts of New Brunswick. A number of lumber contractors were compelled to leave their operations. The output of logs this winter is not expected to exceed 60 per cent of that of last year. Toronto Heavy snowstorms and extremely cold weather throughout the province have interfered with business this week. The weather conditions have been against any extension of trade, and the shipment of goods to retailers. But the conditions of trade may be said to have greatly improved. There are now good winter roads in all sections, and the prospects for large deliveries of grain, and a brisk demand at country points for staple goods, are better than at any time since the winter set in. Yesterday was the most important day of the year for payments on dry goods paper; it was attended with quite a few failures, but on the whole the paper was generally well met, and when the customers at a distance are heard from within the next few days, it is expected the results will be quite up to expectations. There were some requests for extensions, but the percentage of renewals was not as large as last year. The fourth of February in the dry-goods trade is regarded as a crucial test for country traders. The wholesalers are not anxious to ship goods for the coming season till it is found how payments are met, and now that the date has been passed, rather more satisfactorily than expected, trade will become more active in many lines. Wools are in good demand and firmer. Hides are firm. Leathers are moving out well and at good prices, and tanners say they have sufficient orders to keep them busy for two months. A better inquiry is experienced from Klondike parties for outfits both in the way of provisions and clothing, it being found that supplies can be bought cheaper here than in the west, and as these orders are for cash the result is that such business is bringing about the circulation of a good deal of money. Canadian woolen mills are busy on orders for goods suitable for the mining camps. The money market here is unchanged. Montreal Extra severe weather and a general blocking of country roads by snow has lowered the record for business. During the earlier part of the week, travellers were snow-bound, in the majority of instances, when off lines of railway. Remittances were sensibly decreased, and orders scarce. Towards the close conditions became nearly normal, and obligations maturing on the fourth were met better than last year, but, as usual, too many renewals were asked for. The failure list has also kept up the averages, but there were no very serious ones in this province. A steady business continues in paints, oils and glass, and retailers seem satisfied to pay an advance on last year's prices. Hardware fairly active, with a good general distribution, and in this trade the losses by bad debts continue light. Grocery firms are just now taking stock; some have inventories completed, and the general results show an improvement over the preceding year. In this trade short credits and a quick turnover, even with comparatively small profits, show that there is money in the business. Flour dealers report business quiet, the demand being largely local. Canned goods are also moving slowly, but at firm quotations. Railway earnings show handsome increases, with a likelihood of an early termination of the cutting of rates. The trade of Montreal city keeps up satisfactorily, and has not suffered to any great extent by snowstorms, the Street Railway having successfully overcome any opposition there may be from that source; in fact, the service is considered one of the best on the continent. The stock market has shown up well for the week, but there seem to be few spots that can safely be engineered to much higher figures. Quebec A slight improvement is noticed in general business during the past week over that of the preceding one. Wholesale dry goods and grocers report orders coming in better, but collections are not quite up to the mark. Local flour dealers report a better demand, and prices have advanced 10 cents to 15 cents per barrel. Shoe manufacturers appear to be busy. Hides are reported scarce and in active demand. THE FORTIFIED CITY Speaking of Quebec, the paper says: The fortifications are on the old Vauban bastioned system, adapted, of course, to the configuration of the ground, with steep escarps, counter-scarps, and deep ditches, with ravelins at intervals. The """"old lines,"""" or ordinary ramparts of the city, followed the windings of the ground, and encircled most of the city, having five ancient gates. In its good old times there used to be an officer's guard at each during the night, but in the peaceful days of 1870-71 the officer's guard was confined to the Citadel, and sergeants' guards were de rigueur elsewhere. However, there were plenty of guards and sentries, which were carefully visited day and night, by the officers and held officer on garrison duty. As the numbers of field officers were small, I had, when a captain, the honor of being on the field officers' roster for that duty, and as horses could not often traverse the snow-clad city in winter, we had to drive, with the orderly sergeant, in sleighs. The opposite shore at Point Levis, being within easy cannon range of Quebec, had its commanding ridges of country occupied by three bomb-proof casemates, pentagonal, and solidly-constructed forts, mainly on the German system of fortification. There was bomb-proof accommodation for the troops who lived in them, and the ditches, wide and deep, were flanked with saponiers. These three forts, one of which I superintended, as to its construction, occupy the high ridge of the land between the picturesque village of Point Levis and the Grand Trunk Railway depot. The pleasant summers of 1870 and 1871 were enlivened with practical joking of a unique, if a ridiculous, character. The exhilarating nature of the Canadian air possibly assisted matters, but the secrets were well kept, and the perpetrators never discovered. To such an extent was practical joking carried as regards dinner parties and dances, that it became almost necessary, in a delicate, round-about manner, to make private inquiries, after receiving an invitation, whether it was genuine or not. A TOBOGGAN INCIDENT Col. Mitchell refers to tobogganing, a sport now almost dead. At the Citadel ground a portion of the fence had been taken away, through which the toboggan could skim to the flat level ground. I am afraid that fence was responsible for a good many disasters to amateurs, who, instead of steering their toboggan through the gap, occasionally steered it into the fence. A broken leg, a broken jaw, contusions, and various minor accidents made up a good list of casualties at the end of the season. One casualty I disinter from the """"waters of Lethe."""" A widow, fair and fat, and said to be forty, was tempted by a Control Officer to try this novel motion. She was carefully packed up into the toboggan at the top of the hill, and the Control officer sat behind. They started and arrived safely as far as the fence. For some reason the widow availed herself of the opportunity to scream, and so disconcerted the nerves of the control officer that he steered badly, and he and the widow were shot out. In less time than I take to narrate the tale, the widow went head first into a heap of snow, the only thing visible being a pair of black boots. But she speedily emerged, collided with the control officer, and they playfully rolled one over the other, as some funny gentleman suggested like the """"Control cats,"""" to the bottom of the hill, where the toboggan had arrived before them. I am afraid that they received little pity, for the upset was unanimously voted to be the best toboggan incident of the season, and the story in various forms long rivalled the tale of the immortal pussy-cats. Finally, the control officer, to the sound of marriage-bells, led the widow up the nave of the local church to the altar. A TRIBUTE TO DR. SOME REFLECTIONS Quebec stands out in the world's history as a locality in which causes produced the most rapid effects, and in which in each case the effects were exactly opposite to what shortsighted mortals anticipated. In 1758 the French, in possession of certain provinces, attempted to wrest from England others. After a war, perhaps unequalled for cruelty and atrocity, both parties employing savages, who alternately tortured and burnt to death their prisoners, France lost all, and in 1760 had to surrender its own provinces to Great Britain. England's prosperity made the nation arrogant. She believed the colonies could not resist her imperious will, and imagined, as the French were chased out of Canada, America was all her own. So long as the French were there the American colonists had an enemy on the frontiers, and looked to England for support and protection. The American colonists gained their independence, which they probably would not have done had not France, irritated by the loss of Canada, aided them by sea and land. But the French King and his advisers forgot that each attempt by either party to crush the other resulted in the celebrated dictum of the Athenian Menelaus, who warned his countrymen against making rods for their own backs, a practice said to be by no means unknown in a certain branch of a State department high up in Pall Mall. France upheld American principles; the French people, their armies and navies, became imbued with the principles of equality, that seeds of revolution were sown, and resulted in mob law; and the King and Queen and many nobles ended their lives on the scaffold. STATE OF TRADE Stormy Weather Checked the Distribution of Goods New York February 4 Bradstreet's tomorrow will say: Severely cold weather, accompanied by high winds and heavy snow, has been a feature exercising considerable influence upon the movement and distribution of staple goods. The Northern and Eastern States appear to have felt the effects of the storm most severely and reports of checked distribution come from many points in New England, the middle States, and the Lake region. Some improvement in the retail demand for winter goods is, however, reported as a result thereof. In spite of this interruption a satisfactory trade for the season is reported in most lines, with special activity reported in the iron and steel trades and kindred lines. In the East, the distribution of dry goods and wool has been checked and the movement of produce greatly interfered with, but the tone of the cotton goods situation is, if anything, improved. The middle States and in the Central West the movement of iron into consumption is very large but nervousness as to possible overproduction anticipates the market. Steel is slightly lower at the East, but firmly held in Chicago, which also reports advances in iron bars, wires and nails. Western mills will not agree to deliver steel rails, billets or rods on new orders before July 1. Steadiness in prices has been a feature of the week, the only decreases noted being in wheat, corn and flour, on a speculative reaction, and in lead, while the prices of oats, pork, beef and coffee are higher. Print cloths show a further advance and the cold weather has affected anthracite coal production, with a consequent advance of 10 cents per ton. Business failures, though slightly larger than last week, numbering 293 against 188 the week before, are a little above the normal. They compare with the total number falling in the corresponding week of 1897, of 65, in 1898 of 31, in 1899 of 293; and in 1894 of 330. The total number falling in the first week of February, 1893, was 128. Bank clearings, totals at 17 cities, as telegraphed to Bradstreet's, with comparisons, show total clearances of 11,470,800,821, an increase of 40.6 per cent, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The clearances outside of New York city were 1,508,570,620, an increase of 14.7 per cent. They Are Against Zola Here is a letter, addressed to Zola, signed by ten mayors and two councillors of the Department of Aisne, and published in the Nouvelle de L'Aisne: You have insulted us by sending us your sickly lucubrations. We indignantly protest against your abominable work, which aims at the destruction of the respect which we owe to the army and to the nation. Sir, you are laboring in the interest of the Traitor. You are not a Frenchman. In that feigned emotion which is attached to hypocritical mercy, you dare to ask France to outrage the commanders of her army. Be assured that your appeal has produced profound disgust and that it is covered with an contempt which it merits. It is by the cry of """"Vive l'armée!"""" that we respond to your infamy. Accept, Monsieur, the assurances of our most profound contempt. IF YOU WISH TO BE WELL You must fortify your system against the attacks of disease. Your blood must be kept pure, your stomach and digestive organs in order, your appetite good; Hood's Sarsaparilla is the medicine to build you up, purify and enrich your blood and give you strength. It creates an appetite and gives digestive power. HOOD'S PILLS are the favorite family cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate. Free Book Weakness Book sent on request; it tells of my 30 years' practice in treating results of tuberculosis, nervousness, sexual debility, impotence, varicocele, etc., with my world-famed remedies. FLAMES SPREAD QUICKLY Were Hardly Noticed Before the Entire Building was on Fire Just how the fire did start is a question which nobody seemed to have any clear conception of. The men working in the building, about three in number, attributed its origin to something going wrong with the transformers. The firemen said that they had hardly time to realize that fire had broken out before the men were obliged to relinquish their post, owing to the quickness with which the flames spread over the woodwork of the building. They scarcely had time to realize that the building was on fire before the whole structure was ablaze. This is probably to be accounted for by the quantity of oil which, in every place where similar machinery is used, soaks into the floors, and gets spattered over the walls, causing them to be excessively inflammable. It was about 7:45 o'clock when the fire broke out, and although the Cote St. Paul fire brigade was quickly on the scene, the flames so quickly assumed threatening proportions that no hope of saving the building was entertained for the first. Still, the men set themselves at once to their task, and two teams were diverted from the hydrant at the corner of Notre Dame street, (just at the terminus of the Street Railway) and Cote St. Paul road, and directed onto the burning structure. Just in the rear of the power house, and directly adjoining it, there is a small wooden building, the property of the Dominion Government, used by the lockmaster as a dwelling-house, and the firemen directed their labors at once to save this property, which they succeeded in doing. There was also a collection of buildings, about fifty yards away, opposite the power house, the safety of which the work of the firemen, no doubt, ensured. Owing to the fact that there was but little wind blowing at the time, there were but few sparks emitted from the blaze, and what did rise fell into the snow-covered vacant lots surrounding the property, and did not threaten any of the other buildings in the vicinity. The St. Henri fire brigade also sent a detachment of men with a couple of reels, to be present in case of emergency, and also to assist in beating down the flames in the burning building, and an engine was afterward sent from the city. These firefighting facilities, however, were practically of no use so far as saving property was concerned, for, as already stated, the flames had pretty well marked out their work of destruction even before any of the firemen arrived. Nobody unfamiliar with the valuable nature of an electrical plant and apparatus would have had any idea of the extent of the damage done last night, by a mere sight of the fire. The power house, although a valuable structure in itself, seemed a comparatively small building, as seen amid its fiery envelopment. The building, a solid structure with an iron roof, was erected in 1901 for the Citizens' Light & Power Company. It was not so much by the building itself, however, that the loss was to be estimated, as in the valuable plant and equipment which was destroyed with it. Among the machinery with which the power house was fitted, there were 5 arc light machines, 2 two thousand light incandescent, 1 one thousand light incandescent, and 1 seven hundred and fifty light incandescent light machines. There were also 2 synchronous motors, 4 exciters, 3 engines, 11 boilers, switch-boards, shafting, belting, wiring, lamps, etc., together with other expensive items of equipment. 75 25 II tW Overcast 80 t)!W 80 91 Snow a imz ai 1 ill! KM 23,001 to KU aa'e! Height above sea level, 1,187 feet. Barometer reduced to sea level and to temperature of 8° Fahrenheit. (Humidity relative, saturation boiling 10). Below zero. Maximum temperature of the 6th February. Maximum temperature of the 61st February 1903. OFFICE FOR MR. McMULLEN Offered the Lieutenant-Governorship of the Northwest Territories No Black Diphtheria Minor and Personal Ottawa, January The drawing-room held in the Senate chamber last evening by their Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Aberdeen, was the most brilliant function which has graced the halls of Parliament since the memorable historical ball of two years ago, and was the most numerously attended drawing-room held for many years. The reception proper lasted exactly one hour and thirty-five minutes, and during that time 378 ladies and 359 gentlemen made their curtsey and bows to their Excellencies. All of the Cabinet ministers were present in uniform, and there was a large number of members of Parliament present. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright and Sir Oliver Mowat wore the baldric and cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. There was a brave show of smart gowns by the ladies, and ostrich feathers and veils were almost universal. Your correspondent, who is of a statistical turn of mind, being only able to discover 23 ladies, mostly young girls, who were not thus adorned. The graceful plume and snowy shimmering veils mingled pleasantly with the many-colored hues of the headquarters' staff uniforms, and the brilliant costumes of the ballet knights, and by the time the floor had become filled, there was to be seen one of the most gorgeous aggregations of youth, beauty, fashion, and harmoniously-blended color which has assembled in the Senate chamber for many a long day. The preparations were over shortly after half-past ten, but for an hour longer receptions were held by Madame Pelletier in the chambers of the Speaker of the Senate and by Mrs. Edgar, and her charming daughter, in the chamber of the Speaker of the House of Commons; both of which were attended by His Excellency and the Countess of Aberdeen, and at each of which light refreshments were served. Amongst the ladies present from Montreal were Madame Horace Archambault, Mrs. Jeffrey Burland, Mrs. A VETERANS' NIGHT The Red Cross Knights Spend a Pleasant Evening A SPLENDID FARE-FOR-ALL Victoria Defeat the Ottawa at Hockey Other Matches Bowlor Busy at Quebec General Sporting Sing a song of snowshoe, A sleigh and two score men All fell into a snow bank, And then fell out again. This is not poetry, as Ben Jonson would say, but it is true; so true that if anybody cares to take the trouble he may go up in the neighborhood of Churchill avenue and count out the snow mask of twenty-four Red Cross knights and some American visitors who had done honor to the veterans, and who, on their way home, were incontinently dumped into about ten feet of the nicest, whitest and coldest snow that is produced in this neighborhood. A moment before the party was as full of warmth as furs, a good dinner and congenial company could generate. When it was all over they were trapped, just huge specimens of what one might have expected to see traveling round in the glacial period. They were all rosen up, everything except language and that was of a kind to prove that there was considerable caloric left on the inside. And the heat soon wore through the crust, for even Montreal's best brand of snow could not withstand the igneous eruptions that took place where snowbanks sunk as it cues, big sleighs and other things should be. Fortunately there was nobody hurt, and no barbed wire reached out its hand to gather in any bits of superfluous clothing. There were some gloves left in the capacious maw of that snowbank, a job lot of assorted rubbers, a few eyeglasses, and other small things easily replaced, but there was tumultuous laughter and it was a romantic wind-up to one of the jolliest and most enjoyable functions that ever graced the hospitable halls of the St. George Snowshoe Club. The only anachronism in the whole thing was a middle-aged gentleman, clothed in gold-rimmed spectacles, an incipient Italian moustache, several coon skins, and a quantity of easy dignity that glued him to his seat. When the sleigh toppled into the ditch he objected to leave it; he was the only one who recognized the usefulness of the immediate propinquity of the sleigh; he even refused to leave it when willing hands and strong arms wanted to put the sleigh right side up. He said he was the only man in the party who knew anything about staying in a sleigh under difficulties. There was no use controverting that argument, for he was in the sleigh, and the fellows were out; so the big vehicle got the runners right again without his moving, and then careful driving in the middle of the road avoided further catastrophes, so that at an early hour in the morning the veterans of the Veterans' night had scored another victory without a casualty being reported and no ambulance being called. At three o'clock in the morning, a jolly party of trampers left the Windsor; they had snowshoes with them. Some of the most daring strapped them on; a few others said they would put them on when they reached deep snow, and so lingered carefully behind. Then they manfully faced the drifts that spoil travel in the neighborhood of Peel street, and reached the clubhouse before the other fellows who had started earlier, but did not know the road so well. At 10 o'clock a comfortable looking sleigh left the same celebrated hostelry. It was filled to repletion with a couple of dozen men inclined for dinner and music. They got urns for dinner, and some of the music still lingers in the air. None of the dinner lingers; it was put away in unsearchable places, and pronounced good. The real fun began after dinner, for a musical programme had been provided that eclipsed all the records in the history of the club, and they are famous. Two hundred guests were present, and little time was wasted in toasts and responses. They were all duly honored with the soul of wit. The Harmony Band, the Zinaari Club, under the direction of Mr. Meredith Heward, Mr. J. Furnald, New York; W. Watts Hurt, San Francisco; George W. Stearns. They all enjoyed everything, and said not a word when told that being thrown into a snowbank was only an ordinary incident of snowshoe life in Canada, under the auspices of the St. George Club. OVERHAND SNOWSHOE CLUB STEEPLECHASE Westlake won again with McKenna a good second. The Overland Club steeplechase was run off on Saturday afternoon over the regular mountain course from the foot of McTavish street to the Club House. A large number of the members of this and sister clubs turned out for the occasion, and demonstrated the fact, by the interest they evinced in the race that snowshoeing is certainly not the back number which some people are led to believe. The track was very heavy, but despite the fact of a strong headwind and snowfall, the time was fast. The race was won by T. Westlake, the Canadian cross-country champion, with J. McKenna a good second. Bayers third. Peacock and Doherty put up a stiff fight for fourth place, but Doherty was beaten out at the finish. There were ten starters and the five prize winners were as follows: 1st T. Westlake; 2nd J. McKenna; 3rd W. A TRAMP TO BACK RIVER A large number of the old Tuaque Bleue Snowshoe Club tramped out to Back River on Saturday afternoon last, when a good old-fashioned snowshoe time was held. It looks as if there was to be a revival of the fine healthy old sport. SOME EXCELLENT RACING ON THE JACQUES CARTIER TRACK There was only one drawback to the races on the ice on Saturday, and that was that at an inopportune moment the snow came down in swirls, and while there was still plenty of daylight left, the falling snow, driven by a fairly stiff wind, interfered considerably with both drivers and horses. Some of the owners said they were being handicapped by the conditions, and requested the management to hold the finishes of both races over until today. A few there were among the spectators who were dissatisfied with this, but the great majority recognized the wisdom of the judges and the management, as all the horses taking part in these races are entered for the Ottawa campaign, and Monti Sal is the most convenient place to stay over at. Outside of the postponement, there was nothing to cavil at, for better racing has never been seen on the St. Lawrence. The free-for-all was a beauty from the word to the wire, and both heats were what is rightly known as real horse races. Heads apart was the order for the first three finishers, both times, and it was apparent to the veriest tyro that everybody was out for the money. It is anybody's race yet, or nobody knows the possibilities of the six horses in it. There is no doubt that before the race is over the heats will be pretty well split up. Canton got the first heat, after a hard drive, and it was nip and tuck all through the last half, but there seemed to be one horse not calculated on. That was Winfield, who had to waver all over the track. Perhaps conditions may be different today. In the second heat Canton finished first on a well-planned gallop, for which he was sent back to fourth place, and Nellie Sharper was moved up into first place, Dick French and Winfield being noses apart for second. Ada P. had a lot of followers in the pool room, but it did not seem to be the little mare's day and she served as a whipper-in. Dick French was also thought a lot about, but he did not realize his admirers' expectations. As before remarked, this race is only just begun, and anything may happen today. As to the forty class, there again was some excellent work seen, although Clay Lambert looked somewhat too good for his field, and after the first heat he sold for $10 against a field at $8.00, holding such good ones as Sir Oliver M., Johnnie P., Miss K., Hattie C., and others. When Lambert gets away first it is hard to overtake him and so on Saturday he never broke and got in two heats. The races will be finished this afternoon, beginning at 3:30. Inquiry into the cause of a little grumbling about the postponement traced it to a man who was expelled a couple of years ago for using foul language to the judges, and therefore it could be taken for what it is worth. One of the horses that started Saturday was the late Meadow Banks. This was in the 40 class. It appears that there is a mark of 29 1-8 connected with the name, and the owner will have to do some explaining today, for the penalty seems to be expulsion. The guideless pacing mare Josephine will again be on exhibition, and as the races are uncompleted ones, the management will only charge 25 cents admission. The purse of the free-for-all should be worth more than double that amount. Following is the summary: Purse $250; 1st Clay Lambert; 2nd Johnnie P.; 3rd Sir Oliver M.; 4th Hattie C.; 5th Miss K.; 6th Black Dan; 7th Minnie F.",1,0,1,0,1,1
205,19900408,modern,Nan,"Lachance 5 Daily Review D. Jean 6 Malhers Duff P. Grenier 7 White Song Y. Poirier 8 Joba M. Baillargeon 9 Oa Mel M. Barrieau SEVENTH RACE: Pace, 1 Le Promoleur M. Baillargeon 2 Portent R. Zeron 3 Martin Almahursl S. Filion 4 Bub M. Barrieau 5 Peters Chalkjnge K. Siier 6 Control Merest J. Hebert EIGHTH RACE: Pace, 1 Lord Zenith S. Bouchard 2 The Town M. Waior 3 Semalu Farouche H. Filion 4 Working Still M. Noble 5 George Urquhart M. Barrteau 6 Twentylhousand R. Zeron 2 3 I 2 1 l 3-1 5-1 6 2 4 1 1 6 7 Purse: $10,300,",0,0,0,0,0,0
214,18900416,historical,Nan,"New Haven, Conn, April 11. Wilkinson Bros. & Co. have attached the postal card works at Ansonia on a claim of $10,000 under instructions from Washington. The government officials have recently found fault with the cards made by contractor A. Daggett and he was forced to procure a new supply of paper from Lawrence, Mass. A lithographic trust. Philadelphia, April 15. The Press says a syndicate of American capitalists, said to have a backing of $200,000,000, is trying to buy up all the lithographic plants in the United States and form a lithographic trust. This scheme means that all forms of advertising outside of the newspapers will be in control of a rich trust. Bucket shops sold to the Wall. Chicago, April 15. President Baker says the right of the Board of Trade with the bucket shops has worked admirably. He states that bucket shops are falling all over the country, and those in this city have to depend on stock quotations, as their grain prices are worthless. Business on the board continues large. Collided With a Freight Car.",0,0,0,0,0,0
12,18920223,historical,,"""I used St. Jacob's Oil and it completely cured. I give it all praise. It's Wm. Kidder, Mr. Chalmers: What do you think of the free reform? Mrs. Whalen: Dire reform, is it? Sure it's a great saving. It's only J. I reformed the old man's pants to fit Dainty, and it's no small job neither. Judge: This town seems to be making great progress, said a visitor to a resident of I. O. H. village, Oklahoma. You are just right, stranger. Why, we've had to enlarge the jail to accommodate the influx. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. TALK OF THINGS THESPIAN: What Is Doing at Local Theatres During the Coming Week: """"I'ReleCelreiln"""" receives a dull failure at New York's Pvaetvr Theatre today. The Boston Howard Athenaeum Star Specialty company opened a week's engagement at the Royal yesterday to overcrowded houses. A long name, a brilliant reputation and decidedly good show are the distinguishing features of the combination.",0,0,0,0,0,0
219,19900622,modern,Nan,"""That's where his father and a handful of cabinet ministers and advisers hatched their most daring plot to seize Quebec's education system from the clergy. ""I maintain that my father's biggest battles weren't with political opponents,"" Jules said. ""They were PLEASE SEE LESAGE PAGE A2 Crash A 58-year-old Montrealer died of injuries yesterday after her car was involved in a seven-vehicle accident. Police said a 10-wheel truck, heading south on Chabot St, ran a yellow light at Jean Talon St. PLEASE SEE STORY, PAGE A3 A 1 SAAB 900 Turbo Convertible 1989, 13,000 km, Saab warranty, Fully equipped, Sale or Lease, HOLANDO LEASING 739-3601 SAAB 9000 Turbo 1986, 5-speed, 64,000 km, Beautiful condition, $13,750, Jerry: office 737-6255, residence 937-8817 Private SAAB 900S 1985, automatic, good condition, $6,500, 484-4022, Private SAAB 900 1987, 5-speed, 74,000 km, Days,",0,0,0,0,0,0
201,19920824,modern,Nan,"Her father died four years later. Sought Sinatra's eye Hollywood columnist Marilyn Beck remembers her first interview with Farrow, shortly after her TV debut as Allison Mackenzie on Peyton Place in the late '60s. ""She told me she'd had a romance with Salvador Dali in New York when she was about 17. She was a character, a wild, individualistic, very unique type of soul."" Beck recalled how 20-year-old Farrow later caught the attention of Sinatra in 1965 while both were on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. All who know her acknowledge Mia Farrow's devotion to her large family. ""I happened to be on the lot the day she went to wardrobe, got a negligee out and strolled onto Sinatra's set, where there were these hundreds of men in this prisoner-of-war movie,"" said Beck. ""You couldn't help noticing her."" Sinatra and Farrow wed in 1966. Their stormy May-December marriage lasted 16 months before Sinatra filed for divorce. Then, in 1969, along came married composer-conductor Andre Previn.",0,0,0,0,0,0
161,18830904,historical,Drought,"IBELAND AND ITS AFFAIRS The moderation of Parnell's speech in Dublin causes much comment The free-trader says if violence were not considered necessary to stimulate American sympathy and Irish electoral enthusiasm we might hope for the prevalence of a rational spirit among the Irish leaders, but unfortunately the men who go farthest and scream the most command American money and Irish votes Parnell limited agitation within constitutional limits, and his League arrangements promote great machinery at the next elections Parnell authorized a contradiction of the statement that some understanding is concluded between the Government and the Home Rulers In consequence of the rumors of the intended attempt to rescue O'Donnell on his arrival at Southampton, extraordinary precautions have been taken to guard the prisoner He will be taken to Millbank under military escort and tried at the Old Bailey Mr O'Shaughnessy, member of Parliament for Limerick, has been appointed registrar at Dublin Castle The Court will remain at Balmoral until November, when the Queen and Princess Beatrice will go to the north of Italy for the winter Diplomatic relations for an alliance between Russia, Denmark, Spain and Turkey in connection to the Austro-German League It is reported that the Prince of Wales has taken a villa at Cannes The impression is growing that the Queen has requested the Duke of York to accompany her to her private residence A rumor is that the Duke of York has been ordered to remain in England The unhappy person who suffers from catarrh and other ailments is Carter Little's Serve Pills, which are advertised for sale everywhere, are a specific for catarrh, dyspepsia and similar ailments Price 15 cents, all druggists ACCIDENT TO LORD HEADLEY Chicago, September 3 Special report that Lord Headley, who accompanied the Yellowstone excursionists, slipped down a precipice while hunting in the wilderness and was injured, but not dangerously Richmond, Virginia, September 3 The drought of the past two months is doing great damage throughout the south side of Virginia In some sections not more than half the crops of corn will be made and the same may be said of cotton and tobacco In some counties no rain has fallen since June Telegram consolidation New York, September 3 It is reported that the Bankers' and Merchants', the Southern and Rapid Telegraph Companies will be amalgamated this week The Rapid Company has been in the market for some time but this new combination has long been anticipated, it creates no special interest The report that the Rapid Company has abandoned the use of its copper wires and is now using common iron wire is taken as an indication that the Postal Telegraph's copper lines may not prove to be an overwhelming success The Vice-President of the Rapid Telegraph Company denies that the Rapid will amalgamate with the Bankers' & Merchants' and Southern The directors of the Rapid have just voted to extend their lines to Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Louisville Cincinnati, September 3 Shortly before three o'clock this afternoon fire from some unknown cause broke out on the first floor of the paper warehouse of Henry Grohman & Co, Walnut Street The flames ran through five stories of the double front warehouse, and communicated with the Times-Star building adjoining, and in less than fifteen minutes both buildings were a mass of flames A young girl, working on the second floor of the rag warehouse, jumped to the ground, breaking her leg and sustaining other injuries Gus Huber, employed on the same floor, got down the stairway, but fell unconscious on the first floor His head is burned to a crisp, and he cannot recover Mary McGingo and Stella Melrs were cut off from the stairway on the second floor, but jumped to the pavement in safety They said another girl on the same floor was afraid to jump Fears are entertained for the safety of Mrs O'Donnell, Rosa Liddle and Mary Burke, Annie Lynch and Nellie Kelly, employees in the rag warehouse They had not reported at their homes this evening, and it is thought they may be in the ruins Henry Garret, a spectator, was crushed against the wall by the hook and ladder wagon and fatally injured a portion of the wall fell while firemen were placing ladders against it, and one was knocked off and painfully injured Waterbury, Vermont, September 3 A receiver was today appointed for the Vermont Copper Mining Co, at Vershire, and also for the Goddard Mine at Corinth MONTREAL, CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER Page 1 Telegraphic Reports Domestic and Foreign, Page 2 Court of Queen's Bench; Police Matters, Page 3 City and District News Personal Intelligence, Page 4 Editorial: The One Milestone; The Union of the French-Canadian Race, Page 6 The Ill News; Communications, Page 6 Financial and Commercial Reports, Page 7 Our New York Letter, Page 8 Telegrams continued; Music and the Drama; Sports and Pastimes; Marine News SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS Fresh anti-Jewish and anti-Hungarian troubles are reported from Austria Drought in Virginia is doing much damage to the cotton, tobacco and corn crops It is said that the Bankers and Merchants, the Rapid and the Southern Telegraph Companies of the United States will shortly be amalgamated Two hundred residents in one province in Sicily have been arrested for brigandage, including the local priest and several municipal councillors At a meeting on Sunday Davitt declared that during the last three months 60,000 householders have been deprived of their homes in Ireland The Governor of New Caledonia has received a petition asking him to take possession of the New Hebrides, and two French war vessels have started thither The refusal of the Orleans princes to attend the obsequies of the Count de Chambord created considerable feeling at Goritz and some fears of an unseemly demonstration were at one time entertained The recent storms have done much damage to the crops in Ireland, and fears of the renewal of the anti-rent agitation are entertained The Irish Boards of Guardians have passed resolutions demanding the amendment of the Land Act The French Admiral has declared all the ports of Annam blockaded, and his commander of the troops has sent a demand for 10,000 reinforcements Chinese troops are said to be proceeding to Naiduong, and extensive preparations are being made at Shanghai At Provincetown, Mass, where many of the fishing boats belong, the reported large loss of life on the Banks during the late gale is discredited, it being thought that many of the dories seen broken up were washed off the decks of the schooners, not necessarily accompanied with loss of life Nothing in the mail The Salvation Army at the Okas Slew opera house Ottawa, September 3 A man named Hornidge, said to be a special policeman, has been arrested on a charge of stopping Her Majesty's mails The courier who carries the mails between the Station and the post office arrived at the latter place the other night with one small bag missing In a few minutes Hornidge appeared with the bag in his hand and demanded a dollar before giving it up Mr Bates, the clerk in charge, said he had no authority to pay him anything, whereupon Hornidge turned and walked off, taking the bag with him Mr French, post office inspector, was then sent for, and while the clerk and inspector were consulting at the latter's residence as to the best means of recovering the bag, Hornidge again appeared, and this time insisted on getting a dollar and a half before giving up the bag The money was paid to him, the mail matter recovered, and a warrant at once procured for his arrest It is understood that the Salvation Army will shortly make an attack on Ottawa business connected with the Indian Department A $100,000 building, which will include an opera house and music hall, is being erected opposite the Russell House It is said that before the present distinguished occupants of Government House leave for England, about the third week in October, a grand ball will be given The guard will be mounted at Rideau Hall on Thursday evening, and the Viceregal party will arrive here by special train the same afternoon Mann, the Little Rideau murderer, will be tried at the L'Orignal Assizes on the 17th of the present month Counsel for the prisoner will call witnesses from England to prove that several members of the family were inmates of an asylum The village of Alexandria is to erect a new Roman Catholic Church, which will cost, when completed, $50,000 Sir Wm",0,0,0,0,1,0
222,19980816,modern,Deluge,"THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1998 A9 WORLD Clinton signals he had affair with Lewinsky Will admit inappropriate relationship ZHANG YONGHONG, XINHUA Chinese news agency photo shows students from the Nanchang Military Academy working on the embankment for Jiujiang City on the Yangtze River yesterday. Catastrophe cover-up? Chinese flood toll much higher than officials are saying LIZ SLY Chicago Tribune JIAYU COUNTY, China - On the night of Aug. 1, a portion of the dike protecting the small town of Paizhou and half a dozen surrounding villages from the mighty floodwaters of the Yangtze River caved in, sending a wall of water cascading into adjacent villages. Moments earlier, citizens keeping guard over that portion of the dike had realized it was going to collapse and fled. Word reached the town's party secretary and mayor, who telephoned the army to send reinforcements. Then he hopped in his car and also fled. For those living in villages nearest to the dike, there was no warning. Many were submerged almost instantaneously. Between 8,000 and 10,000 people are missing, presumed dead. When the dike burst at 8 p.m., hundreds of the soldiers who were arriving to reinforce it also were swept away. Only one village was far enough away from the deluge for its residents to escape; a small group of them taking refuge in the county seat of Jiayu gave the above account of what appears to have been a major human tragedy in this flood-stricken corner of China's Hubei province. Two women rescued from the town of Paizhou told a similar story. Even though Paizhou was 19 kilometres from the spot where the dike burst, the waters quickly rose around it, turning the tiny town centre into an island surrounded by a vast lake. Zhang, one of the two women, also said that 10,000 people and at least 200 soldiers had died. On her boat journey to safety, she said she saw no sign of the six villages that had once surrounded the town. Although refugees' stories can't be officially confirmed, it seems clear some kind of catastrophe occurred. Yet there have been no reports of any such disaster in any Chinese news media. Newspapers have briefly reported that 13 people were drowned when a dike burst in the area, but an official with the local flood control office in Jiayu county insisted no one died when the dike burst. As millions of Chinese citizens engage in an epic battle to hold back the still-rising floodwaters of the mighty Yangtze River, another battle also is being waged, to hold back the truth about the human toll being exacted by the worst flooding in nearly 50 years. Foreign journalists have been denied permission to visit flood-stricken areas, and journalists attempting to visit without permission have been detained. Chinese media make no mention of disasters, preferring to focus on individual tales of heroism, such as that of a handicapped man dubbed ""the human sandbag"" by newspapers because he used his body to protect a hole in a dike. The government has announced with precision the number of hectares of farmland inundated (21.5 million), the number of houses destroyed (5.58 million), and the number of sandbags (2 million) and wooden piles (7,800) being deployed to protect dikes in one particular county in Inner Mongolia, also affected by flooding. The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Friday that floodwaters were threatening China's largest oil field and described how Heilongjiang, an industrial and agricultural province that borders Russia, mobilized one million civilians and soldiers for a ""round-the-clock fight"" against the flooded Nen and Songhua rivers. More than 200,000 people were reportedly fighting flooding in Daqing, where the oil field is located. About 20,000 people were evacuated from the breach in the dike, which expanded to 1,650 feet at one point, Xinhua said. But when it comes to human losses, details suddenly become elusive. Officially, the nationwide casualty toll in flooding stands at a vague ""more than"" 2,000 people. In the latest flooding near the oil field, miraculously, there were no casualties, even after a second dike broke yesterday, according to government media. Yet as floodwaters continue to rise along the river, it seems certain that the final toll from what is fast turning into a nationwide catastrophe also is going to rise. Water levels have now exceeded records set in 1954, when 30,000 people died, and with heavy rains forecast in the coming week, the situation is getting worse. Now, a major crisis also is looming in northern China. State media report that a 24-hour curfew has been slapped on the northern city of Harbin as the level of the Songhua River rose to 390 feet. The flooding on the Yangtze also threatens to worsen. As the season's fourth flood crest rolled downriver toward the sea, a fifth crest was barreling through the river's middle reaches threatening dikes and embankments already weakened by more than a month of flooding. A sixth crest was reportedly forming upriver. Though it is impossible to confirm officially the stories told by the refugees rescued from Paizhou, it seems clear some kind of catastrophe occurred. Some 24 kilometres away, a vast watery lake stretches as far as the eye can see. Only the occasional rooftop or factory chimney protruding from the water offers proof that not so long ago this seemingly placid lake was home to houses, factories and farms. ""The government told us not to say how many people died,"" said an elderly woman evacuated from her home alongside the dike, who is now living beneath a tarpaulin stretched between two beech trees. ""So I can only tell you that many, many people died."" Eventually, the waters will recede, allowing those who escaped to return home. The truth may never emerge, but it seems likely there are other Paizhous, other tragedies that have gone unreported. In the town of Shashi, 160 kilometres away, residents tell of 800 people who were swept away when a dike burst, engulfing a small village on the opposite bank in Gong'an county. A government official in Gong'an called the reports ""nonsense."" Shortly after the two-hour event, 1,000 anti-Nazi protesters gathered nearby. Police fired tear gas toward about 150 of them, who began throwing rocks and bottles and tried to pass police barriers to approach the Nazis. As the tear gas dissipated, bystander Axel Nielsen rubbed his eyes and said: ""You would think it was us who were the Nazis the way police treat us."" A clue to the government's coyness about civilian casualties is offered by a huge political poster that looms over the dike in the town of Shashi. It depicts Mao Tse Tung, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, the three generations of Communist China's leadership, standing shoulder-to-shoulder and gazing mistily across the Yangtze. ""Against the Floods,"" it proclaims. ""Bringing Happiness to the People."" A heavy toll in civilian life would represent a failure of that promise to the millions of people living along the banks of the flood-prone Yangtze River for whom happiness and combating floods are two sides of the same coin. The Yangtze River basin is one of China's chief sources of sustenance, supporting a third of the nation's population, supplying 40 percent of its grain, 70 percent of its rice and contributing 40 percent of its industrial production. ""The government told us not to say how many people died,"" Flood evacuee. But for a few weeks every summer, when the rains come and the river swells, it turns into China's biggest killer. Some 300,000 people have been killed by its floods this century. For hundreds of years, taming this unruly river has been a preoccupation of China's governments, and none more so than the Communist Party. ""The safety of the Yangtze River is tied to the state of the nation,"" the People's Daily sought to remind its readers in a front-page editorial Friday. Though the government can't be blamed for the extraordinary weather conditions that have caused this year's disaster, the devastation being wrought is also a symptom of the massive environmental problems looming over China after years of neglect. Erosion caused by deforestation on a massive scale along the once-pine covered banks of the river's upper reaches has increased the amount of silt the Yangtze carries on its journey to the sea, silt that is deposited along the way in the lakes that once served to hold its floodwaters and on the bed of the river. The pressure of population growth and the quest for improved yields has compounded the problem. Farmers have reclaimed land that properly belongs to the river, turning lakes that should serve as reservoirs for floodwater into farmland. The vast Dongting Lake has shrunk by more than half over the past century, to 2,600 square kilometres. In Hubei province, the number of lakes has declined from 1,332 in the early 1950s to 843 in the 1980s, the official Xinhua news agency said. Deprived of its natural sources of drainage, the swollen river seeks refuge wherever it can find an outlet, and this year its escape from its embankments appears to have been facilitated by the weaknesses in the crude earth dikes that offer the only protection against flooding for millions of people. Police detained about 20 Nazis and 31 anti-Nazi protesters for carrying slingshots, clubs or illegal weapons. Hess killed himself Aug. 17, 1987, at Berlin's Spandau prison. Past anniversary marches in Denmark, which was occupied by German troops from 1910-45, have ended in violence. ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton will acknowledge an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky when he answers to a grand jury Monday, two advisers said yesterday. For the first time, the president signaled he had a sexual relationship with her, the advisers said. The advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Clinton let his lawyers and aides know late yesterday he had a sexual relationship with the former White House intern. ""He may not have used the word 'sex' but he has finally broken through that barrier,"" said one of the advisers. ""He has crossed the Rubicon,"" said the second. The second adviser, a longtime confidant, said the president had already disclosed the relationship to his wife, Hillary, even as he steadfastly denied the relationship publicly. The advisers cautioned the president could still change his strategy in the hours before his testimony. The advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Clinton still intends to tell the grand jury only that he had an ""inappropriate"" or ""improper"" relationship, insisting further details should remain private. But his lawyers expect Clinton will be forced to tell the grand jury he had sex with Lewinsky, the sources said. If Clinton makes a public statement, he would likely admit to an inappropriate relationship or encounters but would go no farther, said the sources. Clinton's lawyers worried any sort of concession to a relationship with the former White House intern would increase the president's legal jeopardy. The unprecedented grand jury testimony tomorrow will be a dramatic culmination of months of sensational and titillating revelations. Clinton's testimony could be a huge step toward political survival - or deeper peril. One adviser involved in preparing the president for Monday said Clinton is having trouble focusing on the chore - distracted by world events, late-night card games and a hankering for golf. After several hours with his lawyers yesterday, Clinton, in shorts and sneakers, stretched his legs with a jog on the South Lawn of the White House and tossed a ball for his dog, Buddy. Two advisers who have talked with Clinton or his wife in recent days said the atmosphere is somewhat tense when the two are together but she has shown no obvious signs of anger. Landslide Brenner Pass closed, Reuter BOLZANO, Italy - At least five people were killed early yesterday when a huge rock and mudslide hit cars on the Italian side of the main highway linking Austria and Italy, police said. The five dead were found in two cars. At least two of the victims were believed to be German tourists. A rescue worker told reporters the bodies in the two cars were ""horribly mutilated."" The Brenner Pass highway, the main road linking Italy with Austria, was closed. Rail traffic and a parallel secondary road were also cut. Police said the death toll could rise if URGENT PUBLIC AUCTION CONFISCATED AND UNPAID CARGO NEW HAND-KNOTTED PERSIAN & ORIENTAL CARPETS Rare 5ct Round Brilliant Cut Diamond Ring est. Value $172,000.00 Location: Freight Warehouse In Old Montreal at 240, Ouest Rue St. Jacques Date: Sunday August 16th, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. Public Inspection from 1:00 p.m. Property taxes paid on sold items. Property identification required upon entry. Some reserves may apply. Additions of donations may vary. Legal sources confirmed Friday that Clinton was discussing with his advisers a possible strategy for describing an intimate, perhaps sexual, relationship with Lewinsky. These sources argued his sworn denial of ""sexual relations"" with Lewinsky is technically truthful under a tortured interpretation of the definition provided to Clinton during a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case. Under their scenario, Clinton would refuse to provide details he considers private but would signal to the grand jury and later the country that the relationship went beyond mere friendship, the source said. Early yesterday, it was learned the scenario had taken hold among the president's hardline advisers. Advisers said the language of a possible explanation of the relationship was being discussed. Indeed, there was concern about using the phrase ""improper"" because Clinton specifically said in January he did not have an improper relationship; some advisers have suggested the word ""inappropriate."" ""Going down this road creates another problem for Clinton: why didn't he acknowledge it sooner? That's why some advisers think Clinton must also express regret for prolonging the presidential crisis."" Rahm Emanuel, a top White House aide, refused to speculate about Clinton's intentions late last night. ""I only know that he will testify truthfully and completely,"" Emanuel said, echoing Clinton's earlier statement. Even if he provides the public little or no new information about his relationship with Lewinsky, a legal source who consults with Clinton said the president may well be forced to tell the grand jury more. ""It's one thing to wink and nod to the press. It's another thing under oath to refuse to answer questions and be evasive,"" the legal source said. The president's lawyers will accompany him tomorrow and could try to limit the scope of questioning because he will not be under subpoena. Many of Clinton's political advisers assume if he provides intimate details to the grand jury, the information will eventually leak to the public. Their hope is by the time the details emerge, the public will have already accepted Clinton's explanation and be eager to move on. A familiar pattern. Page D7 kills five rail traffic cut more cars were found under the thousands of cubic metres of mud and rocks. Rescue workers were using metal detectors and earth-moving equipment to search for other possible victims. At least three people were injured and taken to local hospitals, but according to first reports their condition was not critical. Police said it was not clear how many cars were hit by the landslide, which occurred in the middle of the night when traffic was relatively light. 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219,19900622,modern,Nan,"More than half the current field of Formula One drivers are direct graduates of Formula 3000. But Prouix needs results. Meanwhile, he is able to get some satisfaction from last week's race. After a brush with John Jones (Thunder Bay) on the eighth lap, he had to go out for repairs. From that point he made a great run to get back in the race. ""I lost a lap and a half while my nose cone was replaced,"" Prouix said. ""When I got back on the track I was 25 seconds behind the last car. I managed to move up a dozen positions but the suspension gave out."" Jones, meanwhile, is in the thick of the points race. He picked up four points with a third place at Donington and three points with a fourth at Pau, France. Most of the top drag racers in the world will be exploding from the starting line at Sanair International's strip today as qualifications in Le Grandnational Molson get underway. Because of the expense, the only test for these cars is on the track when it counts. Action is for real right from the beginning.",0,0,0,0,0,0
56,18911214,historical,,"The famous pianist, Von Bulow, is a victim of the disease and is in a critical condition. Graceful Anglican Church Scene, Dublin, December 13. St. Mary鈥檚 church, in Newry, a Protestant-Anglican place of worship, was today the scene of a very disorderly occurrence. While services were going on eleven velvety men advanced to the altar and seized the communion cloth, on which were embroidered the letters, """,0,0,0,0,0,0
145,18941228,historical,Nan,"On the defense Ottawa had the advantage of such old-timers as Young and Falford, who seemed capable of resisting any attack. M. Giraud, the excellent comedian, made the best of the unsuitable part of the Drum Major. La Fille du Tambour Major"" will be repeated this and tomorrow evenings, and ""Mlle. L'Archiduc,"" with Mlle. Bouitas prima donna, will constitute the bill for tomorrow's matinee. The Theatre Royal, For one week, commencing with Monday matinee, December 31st, the attraction at the Theatre Royal will be Florence Bindley in her sensational comedy drama, ""The Captain's Mate."" The play has, say the managers, received the unanimous verdict of press and public as one of the greatest successes of a dramatic lifetime. The plot is one of great interest, which is kept up from first to last. It is full of sensational climaxes, with witty dialogue and comedy running all through it. Incidental to the play Miss Bindley will introduce her famous specialties, consisting of songs, dances and musical specialties.",0,0,0,0,0,0
195,19910612,modern,Nan,"helping the kingdom pay its remaining share of the cost of the Persian Gulf war, Saudi officials and other sources in Riyadh told the Washington Post Saudis to increase output But the added revenue will fall far short of covering the approximately $25 billion Saudi Arabia still must find to cover its expenses this year, the sources said By increasing daily output to 8.5 million per day from 8 million, the Saudis could collect an additional $25.5 million each day, or almost $800 million a month, at the projected price levels The kingdom is in the midst of a five-year plan to lift production capacity to 10 million barrels daily The kingdom's debt to the United States will be paid off by June 30 as promised, government officials said Saudi Arabia agreed to pay the United States $10 billion to help defray the cost of Operation Desert Storm AFP Watching and waiting: Leyo Bautista, a Philippine seismologist watches Mount Pinatubo from Clark Air Base before the volcano erupted today With rumors rife that Escobar will surrender this week, town officials took possession on Monday of a mountain tree farm that has been converted into a high-security jail for him Situated at the end of a narrow, twisting dirt road,",0,0,0,0,0,0
217,19980522,modern,Nan,"You normally shop alone but find the extra pair of eyes useful. If it was up to you, you'd have ruled out that skirt, sure it made you look too hippy. But she insisted it looked great, and why would she lie? Perhaps because she isn't really your friend, just a not very well-paid employee anxious to keep her job, which hinges on selling a specific amount of merchandise per week, on good days and bad, whether it makes the customer look like Princess Diana or a beluga. And because she has no way of knowing that you aren't a spy, one of those mystery shoppers bosses hire to make sure staff are friendly, courteous and pull out all the stops to make a sale. ""Retail sales is a scam these days,"" said a veteran Montreal saleswoman disgusted with the hard-sell techniques which Canadian retail chains have imported from the States over the last couple of years. ""It's like being a telemarketer. You just keep pushing the customer until you hook her in.""",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,1 Amdres 19800 67 60 65 5 Comwltwy 14000 I 8 I Arwrfbry 1000 30 30 30 Comintelf 14800 87 7 7i Amerhijh 97500 60 55 60 9 Compass 7500 7 7 7 Amerpwr 12000 32 31 31 Concert 13500 100 9S 96 -I Ameritel 38200 160 150 160 Connects t 2000 67 67 67 -6 Anilech 4000 45 45 45 Cons acorn 25000 13 11 11 Annex expl 5000 12 12 12 Con doer 109000 65 60 62 2 Antilles 2000 24 21 21 Cons carina 8000 20 20 20 Antrimaw 16000 20 15 20 5 Conscvtl 17000 185 180 181 1 Antrimrs 20000 85 78 85 5 Cmeurcn 2100,0,0,0,0,0,0
216,19970716,modern,Thunder,"Carried out at the 16th-floor offices of Hydro-Quebec's maintenance division, a recent demonstration showed how so far there's been no breakthrough in the war against freezing rain, the public utility prepares to deal with bolts from the blue. As Poupart explained how the software for this lightning-tracking system was developed in Florida and purchased four years ago by Hydro, how the lightning strikes are detected by half a dozen antennae erected across the province that triangulate a lightning strike to within 200 metres of the point of impact, the counter on the screen behind him showed more than 1,000 strokes recorded over a 22-hour period. ""They haven't figured out how to make lightning-proof equipment at Hydro, but newer, sturdier, better insulated equipment has reduced the damage toll. ""We've spent about $138 million on upgrading our equipment and we've gone from having 12,000 transformers blown in 1994 to 450 as of this year,"" said Rejean Levasseur, who runs the utility's maintenance division, noting that Hydro's power distribution network uses more than 500,000 transformers. ""I guess you could say the investment was well spent.""",0,1,1,0,0,0
26,18940213,historical,Snow,"IN CANADA, Yesterday's Storm Paralysed all the Western Ontario Towns. TORONTO, February 12. The snow storm here was one of the worst recollected by the average citizen. The streetcar service was badly blocked early in the afternoon and electricity gave way to horse power in the outlying lines. Unchanged street electric cars were kept running with difficulty all day. Drifts were formed in many streets to the depth of several feet. Trains coming into the city were very late. Meetings announced for the evening were in every case very thinly attended, and the streets were empty tonight. No damage in the city is reported from the storm at present. ST. CATHARINES, February 12. A terrific wind and snowstorm has prevailed here most of the day and is still raging. The electric street railway car line is knocked out and traffic generally demoralized. LONDON, LONDON, Ont, February 12. The storm today was the severest that has visited this city this winter and was made up of wind, sleet and snow; it completely paralyzed business.",1,0,1,0,0,0
7,18830312,historical,Storm,"The tide is now falling and no more heavy weather is expected tonight, but in the morning, it is said by old fishermen and observers of the weather, with the incoming tide the wind will rise again and blow with equal if not greater violence. The fishing schooners Kuntford, Josie M., Calderwood and Magic, of Gloucester, are reported at western ports of the Province awaiting the passing of the storm period predicted. Halifax, N.S., March 11, 1:30 a.m. At this hour there is a slight breeze blowing from the southeast, but it appears at times to increase somewhat in strength, and then subside. The high tide has gone completely down and the vessels ride easily in their docks. The steamer Sardinian, for Liverpool with the weekly mail, still remains in port. The effects of last evening's storm, reports of the violence of which are now coming in from all parts of Nova Scotia, prove it to have been not so serious as was expected.",0,0,0,0,0,0
216,19970716,modern,Thunder,"Lightning is a source of energy Hydro-Quebec cannot harness, and it is expected once again to blackout homes across the province this summer, as thunderstorms roll across southern Quebec. The lightning-tracking system might look impressive, but it only allows the utility to make an educated guess about where to deploy its repair crews. And even then, the only way Hydro can know if something as earthbound as windblown branches has knocked out power lines serving only a small percentage of their clientele, is when the affected customer picks up the phone and calls the problem in. In an effort to reduce the time customers spend waiting for repairs to be carried out, Hydro has publicized its 24-hour, toll-free number for reporting power outages - it's (800) 790-2424. It also provided several tips on what to do if your electricity is interrupted. They are: Turn off and unplug appliances, particularly sensitive equipment like computers or microwave ovens. Leave on a couple of lamps and don't touch the fridge or stove. Once power has been restored, restart your appliances one at a time at 30-minute intervals. Avoid using your fridge or freezer unnecessarily.",1,0,0,0,0,0
53,18841107,historical,Snowstorm,"Unfortunately, about a mile east of the first was another and far worse washout, the lower part of the road for about three hundred feet having been swept away, but there was nothing on the surface to denote that such was the case. The engines and two cars jolted over the place safely, but the remaining cars of the train careened into the river. A brakeman named Perrin and a telegraph repairer named Lefrere were injured, neither seriously. A gang of men immediately set about building a temporary trestle, while another gang bored the track inward at the western washout. About two this afternoon both places were fit to traverse, and the express train, after its long delay, pursued its way eastward in safety.",1,0,0,0,0,1
199,19920510,modern,Nan,this evening Temperatures are today's daytime highs 1992 MTI Inc WARM FRONT COLD FRONT STATIONARY FRONT HIGH FRONT LOW PRESSURE RAIN SNOW THUNDERSTORM Canada Man Min Iqaluit Sunny -11 -18 Yellowknife Cloudy 6 0 Whitehorse Cloudy 8 2 Vancouver Cloudy 15 7 Victoria Cloudy 16 7 Edmonton Rain 6 1 Calgary Partly Cloudy 11 0 Saskatoon Showers 12 2 Regina Partly Cloudy 14 2 Winnipeg Rain 14 7 Thunder Bay Partly Cloudy 18 6 Sudbury Sunny 20 7 Toronto Partly Cloudy 21 8 Fredericton Partly Cloudy 14 4 Halifax Partly Cloudy 15 5 Charlottetown Cloudy 6 1 St.,0,0,0,0,0,0
215,19920628,modern,Nan,"000 per group per year There is also $300,000 a year to support projects developed and executed by youth those under 25 for environmental protection Again there is a maximum of $2,000 per project In addition Mauzcroll says that $600,000 per year has been earmarked to support conferences and networks that will bring people from various levels of society at the local and regional level together to address their heritage or their environmental problems in a sustainable development fashion There is also increased funding for the Canadian Environmental Network a coalition of approximately 2,000 groups in Canada and annual conferences state for 2 cents an acre Arthur S. Kapfelnls Quiz Answers A On August 15 1971 the U.S. comforted Nikki who told him her parents never loved her Scott told Nikki's lawyer Jessica that he can't wait to get his law license reinstated Jessica and Scott made love after he suggested they'd make a good legal team John realized Karen's mother is an alcoholic and is always with different men Bill recalled being beaten and burned by a man when he was in jail The man who tortured Bill works for Simon Simon is convinced Holly knows the whereabouts of emerald mines in San Sebastian and where to find a jaguar statue that he wants Clay reluctantly",0,0,0,0,0,0
216,19970716,modern,Nan,"And a luxurious interior loaded with such niceties as a driver eight-way power seat and genuine burled walnut trim-all standard. Any players? Audi The new 1998 Audi A4 2.8 From $38,440 For the location of your nearest Audi Dealer call 1-800-FOR-AUDI. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of 1998 Audi A4 2.8, including 5-speed manual transmission. Taxes, licence, title, documentation fees, destination charge, PDI, finance charges, and other options additional. Actual dealer prices may vary. Audi, and the four rings emblem are registered trademarks of AUDI AG. ""A4"" is a trademark of AUDI AG. To find out more about Audi, call your dealer.""",0,0,0,0,0,0
97,20020821,modern,Rain,"A14 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2002 WORLD A flood of tears in Europe WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press ROTTENEGG, Austria - This is the summer of Rottenegg's discontent. Tight-lipped and teary-eyed, Henrietta Karl leaned on her shovel and pitchfork yesterday amid the tangle of muddy debris that trashed her home and offered this requiem to Europe's worst flooding in well over a century: """"Now the real work begins: rebuilding a life."""" As the waters ebb, the enormity of the destruction is starting to sink in. Hundreds of thousands of Austrians, Czechs and Germans are struggling to mop up an estimated $31 billion worth of damage and salvage what they can. """"It was very, very bad,"""" said Karl, 62. """"Everything, and I mean everything, was under water. All of my flowers, all of my shrubs - they're gone. I'm lucky I still have a house."""" It's what Ernst Strasser, Austria's interior minister, meant when he told the nation a few days ago: """"The worst hours are behind us, but the most difficult days lie before us."""" Germans know the feeling, as the swollen Elbe River continues to inflict fresh destruction on dozens of towns and villages. In Dresden and other places where waters were receding, residents crept cautiously back to their homes yesterday to examine their sodden belongings and determine which might dry out - and which were ruined for good. Sabine Wilmer's home in Dessau on the rain-engorged Mulde River was spared, but the 38-year-old teacher was blinking back tears after trudging through knee-deep water to the flooded school where her son studies. """"All the things that he loved there are under water,"""" she said. """"Who knows if any of this is insured?"""" Mingled with the despair was relief among some that it could have been much worse. """"I was so lucky,"""" said Nicole Aurich, 25, hauling debris from the basement of her four-storey apartment building near the Elbe, where the water line was still visible about a metre up the outside wall. """"I lost only a backpack, some books and things in the basement - nothing important,"""" she said. Heartbreak also played out across the flood-stricken Czech Republic, especially in Prague, where the worst flooding in 175 years has driven at least 150 families from their homes in the capital. Jitka Zichova, 60, who fled her Prague apartment with just a few clothes after floodwaters reached the second floor, spent yesterday rummaging with long, blue rubber gloves through a large pile of mud-caked trash containing her belongings. """"We lost our wedding pictures,"""" she said, bursting into tears. """"Now we are beggars. I never want to have any possessions again."""" A few houses away - down a foul-smelling street lined with mud-caked mattresses, waterlogged books and ruined electronic equipment - Karel Hajek, 73, stood in front of the home he built 40 years ago. """"I didn't have insurance,"""" he mused sadly. Back in Rottenegg, a sleepy hamlet of fieldstone houses and winding lanes fringed with geraniums about 220 kilometres west of Vienna, villagers pitched in yesterday to help Anna Gattringer gather what's left of her nursery. Twice over the past week, torrential rains pumped a nearby creek into a raging, snaking torrent that tore Christmas trees from the earth as though they were dandelions and peeled the asphalt off the parking lot like it was the skin on an orange. """"It was wild water, and it tore up my business,"""" she said, choking back tears. """"Look at this. I lost millions. I lost everything. You spend 30 years building a business, and overnight, a stream gone crazy sweeps it all away."""" Anton Cech, who runs a nearby stand that sells beer and bratwurst, peeled potatoes while waiting for an insurance agent to assess the damage to his stall. """"Am I afraid it will happen again? You bet I am,"""" he said. """"But it's hard to move. And it's so easy to forget what that little stream can do when it becomes a raging monster."""" It happened before, in 1954, when rain hung like gauzy curtains over Rottenegg for two weeks. The Rodl River - normally a placid trout stream - boiled over the same way it did last week, taking out everything in its path. """"But people are coming to help, even though they have their own problems,"""" Cech said. """"That's how we fight this catastrophe. It is the spirit of our people."""" CMSMLOMM On Gold & Diamond Jewellery 5 Net Interest ALSO We buy gold and diamond jewellery UNIQUE JEWELLERS 1255 Phillips Square, Suite 1111 281-6551 Chinese brace for flooding AUDRA ANG Associated Press BEIJING - Rising floodwaters in central Hunan province menaced embankments that shield more than 10 million people, as China's second largest lake swelled to the verge of overflowing, state media reported yesterday. Hunan has been one of the provinces worst hit by flooding, with 108 people killed this month alone. Across China, this year's floods have reportedly killed close to 1,000 people and caused $3.6 billion in damage. The China Daily newspaper said thousands of residents near Hunan's Dongting Lake were mobilized to bolster flood defenses. Water in the lake had risen to 32 metres by Sunday, 45 centimetres over the flood-warning mark. According to Hunan's water resources department, thousands of residents and workers have been asked to reinforce 1,800 kilometres of embankments and keep a 24-hour watch on dams along the lake and the Yangtze River. The embankments protect more than 10 million people and 1,648,150 acres of farmland. Flooding on the Yangtze and in northeast China in 1998 killed 4,150 people. SALE PRICES END SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2002 Great prices on Kenmore, KitchenAid, Frigidaire, GE, Maytag, Viking, Jenn-Air, Amana, Whirlpool major appliances and more! Registered Trademark of KitchenAid USA, KitchenAid Canada licensee in Canada 599.99 MAYTAG ELECTRONIC DISHWASHER Quiet Pack sound system, Automatic rinse aid dispenser, 97252. Also available in Bisque and Black now 899.98, SAVE AN EXTRA $30 WHEN YOU BUY TEAM KENMORE EXTRA-LARGE CAPACITY WASHER AND DRYER Save $100, 2.45-cu. ft. washer. Acquisitions fall considerably,"""" Nixon said on a conference call in May. Nixon, who earned $2.1 million last fiscal year, promised to cut $30 million in costs from RBC Dain Rauscher this fiscal year and another $30 million in 2003 to make up for the unit's losses. Royal Bank stock rose 2 per cent in the past year, compared with 6.5 per cent for the index of Canada's eight publicly traded banks. TODAY'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 59 Before 1 Patio block 60 Not be 6 """"No way!"""" swayed (2 wds) 10 Add brandy 65 Berg 14 Part of PABA 66 Diner coffee 15 Vessel 67 On a leash (2 wds) 16 A Karamazov 68 Evergreens 17 Carries on 69 Leprechaun's land 18 Stand up to 70 Wary 19 Null's partner 71 Mo's bill 20 Quick 72 Experiment temper (2 wds) 73 Curvy letters 22 Paris river DOWN 24 Made up one's mind 2 Bombay nanny 26 Monkey haven 3 Trattoria quaff 29 Paper quantity 4 Admittance 31 Caress 5 Roll-call lists 32 Ms. Thurman 6 Wave 33 Overindulge 7 Rushes off 34 Entertained 8 Hungry 38 Bugged out 9 Make bales 40 Hospital areas 10 Carouse (3 wds) 42 Window part 11 Shun 43 Dangerous 12 """"The Mutiny"""" 46 Have poison ivy 13 Ran its course 49 Rand of fiction 21 Dog parasite 50 Gazed upon 22 Hoax 51 Poi base 25 Acid rain 52 Howl at the moon watchdog 53 Hurries 26 Bantu language 57 Ugly cut 27 Shaman's quest 1 2 3 4 5 16 7 18 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 STEEL Trade body targets U NATURAL MAPLE FINISH DIMENSIONS: HEIGHT 36"""" HEIGHT 48"""" Sugg: 69 Sugg: 85 STUDENT DESK NATURAL MAPLE, NATURAL BLUE OR NATURAL GREEN FINISH UTILITY DRAWER DIMENSIONS: 40"""" W X 20"""" D X 28"""" H Sugg: 108.99 COMPUTER WORKSTATION AVAILABLE IN NATURAL MAPLE FINISH DIMENSIONS: 40"""" W X 16"""" D X 28"""" H Sugg: 144.99 COMPUTER WORKSTATION AVAILABLE IN AMBER PEAR FINISH DIMENSIONS: 38"""" W X 24"""" D X 36"""" H AVAILABLE IN BLACK AND ALDER FINISH KEYBOARD DRAWER 27"""" CPU SPACE DIMENSIONS: 48"""" W X 24"""" D X 5"""" H Sugg: 309.99 OPERATOR CHAIR AVAILABLE IN BLACK, BLUE, GREEN OR GREY PNEUMATIC HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT Sugg: 179.00 KNEELING CHAIR UPHOLSTERED SEAT AND KNEE PAD BLACK ONLY MANUAL HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT Sugg: 144.00 OPERATOR ARMCHAIR AVAILABLE IN BLACK, BLUE, GREY OR RUST PNEUMATIC HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE ARMS Sugg: 228.99 OPERATOR ARMCHAIR AVAILABLE IN GREY, CLAY, BLUE OR BLACK PNEUMATIC HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT ADJUSTABLE SEAT AND BACK ANGLE HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE ARMS Sugg: 339.99 STORES AND SHOWROOMS BUYING A li i ll OH QUEBEC 1415, CHAREST BLVD (418) 682-3113 ST-JEROME 291, DE VILLEMURE (450) 438-4111 ST-HYACINTHE 1312, DES CASCADES STREET (450) 778-1212 SAINT-LAURENT 3500, COTE-VERTU (514) 332-7883 SOREL-TRACY 126, FISET BLVD (450) 743-0084 72, DURIOT STREET (450) 742-2706 TERREBONNE 1348, MOODY BLVD (450) 471-8704 TROIS-RIVIERES 2450, DES RECOLLETS BLVD (819) 376-2538 MONTREAL DOWNTOWN 499, VIGER WEST (514) 878-3777 ANJOU LES GALERIES D'ANJOU (514) 351-1055 BELOEIL 329, DUVERNAY (450) 464-1072 BROSSARD 7503, TASCHEREAU BLVD (450) 656-4840 GATINEAU 120, DE L'HOPITAL BLVD (819) 561-5611 LAVAL 2990, LE CORBUSIER BLVD (450) 687-8682 LONGUEUIL 2255, PLACE ROLAND-THERRIEN (450) 468-6319 OTTAWA 2500, LANCASTER ROAD (613) 739-8900 POINTE-CLAIRE 2355, TRANSCANADA HIGHWAY (514) 428-8044 OFFER VALID UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2002 SOME ITEMS LIMITED TO ONE PER CUSTOMER WHILE QUANTITIES LAST NO RAIN CHECKS ASSEMBLY REQUIRED LIMITED AREA FREE DELIVERY EVEN ON SATURDAY HALIFAX FROM MONTREAL ONE WAY FARES STARTING AT: ST. 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194,19900812,modern,Storm,"1990 C1990 Chronida Feature Earthquakes Eight people were injured and about 500 houses destroyed by an earthquake that struck the Sino-Soviet border near Zaysan Lake, in Kazakhstan Another strong aftershock of the July 16 Philippine quake was felt in Manila and other parts of northern Luzon Island Earth movements were also felt in the Aleutians, Greece, western Java, central Japan, and in northern and southern portions of California Ironical Storms Frying debris from hurricane Diana killed two people as it slammed into the Mexican state of Veracruz Severe losses to coffee and citrus crops were reported by the state's disaster committee director Earlier, the storm had brought high winds and heavy rains to the Yucatan peninsula Typhoon Winona was expected to make landfall near the Japanese city of Hamamatsu late in the week, and tropical storm Aka was approaching Johnston Island Typhoon Vernon brought drought-stricken Tokyo its first rain in four weeks as it skirted the Japanese coast Tropical storm Cesar churned the Atlantic Winter Storm Torrents and high winds lashed Sydney and its outlying suburbs, killing one man who drowned in a swollen river, ripping the roofs off homes,",1,0,0,0,1,1
86,20080424,modern,Rain,"The kind of flood-relief compensation provincial governments offer residential property owners varies widely. But the comparison of Quebec with Ontario is interesting for what it says about political philosophies in the two provinces—and the bottom line for taxpayers. B0LL, 6 table and 2 chairs $7 MYNTA Terracotta Plant pot $16.99 032cm Saucer $4 034cm BOLLO series Brown Oiled solid acacia Folds flat for storage Table $29 L60xW60xH72cm Chair $25 W36D54xH85cm Lanterns RAMS & parasol its;-- M1 4, 1 jffi Ii fas 1 fr 1 i- ALSO series White Earthenware Frost resistant Want pal $13.99 026cm Saucer $5 032cm 14 days only!
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88,19960724,modern,Rain,"Sweden's next election is not due until November 1998. Queen Silvia has three children herself. Troops vs floods Soldiers line banks of Yangtze REUTER BEIJING - Chinese troops lined the banks of the mighty Yangtze River yesterday and factories deployed workers to plug leaks in embankments to prevent the rain-swollen river from bursting its banks, officials said. ""The Yangtze is now above the level at which the river broke through its banks in 1931,"" said an official of the Flood Control Headquarters in the huge industrial city of Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province. ""We are guarding the banks with our lives,"" he said. ""This is a critical moment."" Along the river, Asia's longest, troops, paramilitary police, and workers mounted a round-the-clock watch on embankments holding in the rain-swollen waters in check. More than 600,000 people were deployed at intervals of three people every 30 feet and with one person every three feet on most dangerous segments, the official said.
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7,18830312,historical,Storm,"SIBBALD, 3 WINDSOR HOTEL, MONTREAL Telegraph and Telephone Supplies, STEEL AND IRON BEAMS MIDDLETON & MEREDITH, 30 St John Street, Montreal Contractors Supplies Wheel and Draft Scrapers, Side Dump Cars, Wheelbarrows, Hooter and Hard Pan Ploughs, Clay and Rock Picks, Mattocks, Shovels, Morse Power Hoists, Wrenches, Derrick Castings, WOVEN FENCING, WIRE, COP and STEEL in STOCK, 14 SECOND-HAND WHEEL SCRAPERS Lowest Prices on application to JAMES COOPER, 203 St James Street, Montreal, STEEL RAILS TWO GREAT SHOW STORMS, One Extends Over America and the Other Over Europe, TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED In Western Canadian Cities, and at Many Points In the United States Disasters In England, Yesterday appears to have been most remarkable as far as storms are concerned, Sunday evening's despatches brought the news that a very severe blizzard was prevailing in Kansas, This storm has since spread all over the Western states, going as far south as St Louis, where the phenomenal fall for that latitude of four inches of snow was recorded, Chicago's winds never blew before as they did yesterday and from all points in the Western states come the same reports of unprecedented snowfalls and heavy winds, In Canada the storm, or another, appeared at an early hour yesterday morning, and by six o'clock the electric car services in all the important points west of Toronto had been completely paralyzed, This continent was not alone, The cable reports extraordinarily high winds as prevailing in Great Britain, attended by many shipwrecks, while reports of the same nature come from Europe as far distant as Austria, showing that the European storm was almost as widespread as the American, IN CANADA, Yesterday's Storm Paralysed all the Western Ontario Towns, TORONTO, February 12, The snow storm here was one of the worst recollected by the average citizen, The street car service was badly blocked early in the afternoon and electricity gave way to horse power in the outlying lines, Unchanged street electric cars were kept running with difficulty all day, Drifts were formed in many streets to the depth of several feet, trains coming into the city were very late, Meetings announced for the evening were in every case very thinly attended, and the streets were empty tonight, No damage in the city is reported from the storm at present, ST. Catharines, St. Catharines, February 12, A terrific wind and snowstorm has prevailed here most of the day and is still raging, The electric street railway car line is knocked out and traffic generally demoralized, London, Lowdon, Ont, February 12, The storm today was the severest that has visited this city this winter and was made up of wind, sleet and snow, it completely paralyzed business, The wind reached its greatest velocity about noon and prevailed with undiminished strength for the remainder of the day, Comparatively little snow fell, but what there was was blown into drifts about the sidewalks and pavements, On the eastbound railroads trains were running a little behind time owing to the storm, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls, Ont, February 12, The worst snowstorm of years struck town this morning, A regular northeast gale blew the snow in all directions, Towards evening the gale reached a terrific force, piling the snow up in piles eight to ten feet deep, completely suspending traffic on the streets, The horse cars to Drummondville shut down for the night early in the afternoon, The electric lines on both sides of the river, after fighting the storm, gave up in despair, The railways are having their hands full trying to keep their lines open for passenger traffic only, Passenger trains on all the lines are running from three to five hours late, freight traffic being abandoned, Hamilton, Hamilton, February 12, A genuine blizzard struck here today, A snowstorm, accompanied by a very strong northeast wind, has been raging nearly all day, The electric service is entirely suspended and street traffic generally is much impeded, Trains east and west are pretty well on time and from the north and south the service has been kept up fairly well so far, Windsor, WINDSOR, Ont, February 12, The Windsor, Sandwich and Walkerville street railway lines were tied up by the storm about 10:30 this morning, and the cars stand in the street where they were deserted by their crews, Traffic and business of all kinds is almost entirely suspended, The ferry boats are almost deserted and it is almost impossible to make a landing on the other side, The water in Detroit river is rapidly backing from the lakes below and has risen nearly three feet since yesterday, the current being at a perfect standstill, It is almost an impossibility to run the car ferries, and trains on all roads entering Windsor are several hours behind time, THE AMERICAN END, It Began In Kansas and Ended In the Atlantic, CHICAGO, February 12, The worst blizzard that ever struck this city, so far as the weather bureau records show for twenty-three years, is raging here, Street traffic is greatly impeded and walking is accompanied with great danger to life and limb, Many persons have already been injured by being blown to the ground, against walls and street posts by the wind, The velocity is eighty miles an hour, the highest ever recorded for this city and almost double the velocity of the wind which is blowing a blizzard in the Western states, The wind was so furious at the corners where skyscrapers are built, especially the Monadnock annex block, bounded by Jackson, Van Buren and Dearborn streets and Custom House place, that extra policemen gave all their attention to the pedestrians, Dozens of women were lifted off their feet and blown to the ground, or else pushed across the streets until they came in violent contact with walls, posts and other obstacles, Mrs. Brahany, of No. 361 South Clinton street, a charwoman at the Art Institute, was lifted in the air and dashed against the fireplug of the Dearborn and Van Buren street corner, Two of her ribs were broken, and it is believed she is internally injured, She lay in the snow drift until men rushed to her rescue, and the police ambulance took her home, The gusts of wind and blinding particles of snow frightened men as well as women from attempting to cross Dearborn street at Van Buren, The effect of others kept them within sheltering doorways, Civilians and policemen became a volunteer brigade, and on the principle that in union there is strength, they locked arms with the belated police workers and crossed in safety, At the stock yards there was a practical suspension of business all the morning, No buyers were to be seen, Stock trains were late, and when they did arrive were covered with snow, In the suburbs the storm was felt with rather more severity than in the heart of the city, One of the big front windows of the Leland hotel was blown in early this morning at the very beginning of the storm, The glass was blown clear across one of the parlors by the force of the wind, but the window was boarded up before any serious damage was done by the snow, The drifted snow and the high wind played havoc with the mail, Nearly all the mail trains were late, and from some of them no tidings were received until late in the day, All the roads suffered, both the eastern and western trains being from one to eight hours late, The driving snow made signals on the railroad tracks practically useless, and caused a collision between two freight trains on the West Shore tracks near 97th street and Stoney avenue about noon, Luther J. Webster, fireman on the second train, had his foot crushed, More accidents were reported to the police today resulting from the high wind, In spite of the fearful weather and the condition of the streets the ambulances were kept busy a large part of the day, BLOOMINGTON, Ill, February 12, A violent snow storm raged throughout central Illinois all today, The snow is ten inches on a level, and is badly drifted, Many trains are delayed, and one passenger train on the Big Four is stuck in a drift near Tremont, There are drifts here five feet deep, Indiana, Fort Wayne, February 12, The great blizzard reached this city at four o'clock this morning and is still raging, All street car traffic was abandoned at an early hour, Every railroad centering here is blocked and traffic is practically suspended on all lines, Wabash, February 12, The heaviest snowstorm of the season raged here yesterday and today, The wind blew sixty miles an hour, The thermometer was below zero and the suffering among the poorly clad and half housed people on the big prairie north of here is fearful, New York, SABANNA Lake, Y, February 12, The worst storm of the season is now raging here, The thermometer has dropped 42 degrees in four hours and now registers eight below zero, Snow is blowing and aided by a terrific west wind is drifting badly, NEW YORK, February 12, The city tonight is covered with a mantle of snow several inches thick, Travel of all kinds is greatly impeded, The storm is the most severe one of the season and is expected to last until tomorrow night or Wednesday morning, The thermometer is down to 20 degrees, and the wind is blowing from the northeast at the rate of thirty miles an hour, Railroad traffic is almost demoralized, All trains are behind time, and the mails from the south and west are greatly delayed, The ferry houses are blocked with belated passengers waiting for the overdue ferry boats, which are compelled to run at a considerably reduced rate of speed, The elevated railroad trains are delayed, The effect of the snow is felt on the outskirts of the city, and the markets are stagnated by the lack of farm produce, the roads being almost impassable on account of deep snow drifts, Sergeant Dunn, of the weather bureau, said tonight that this storm was but the advance guard of one more severe, which would be followed by a very cold wave, danger signals have been ordered up all along the coast and vessels have been warned not to leave port, At the rate the snow is falling tonight it will be a foot deep by the morning, Reports from all points throughout the state indicate that the storm is general and very severe and that traffic is greatly impeded, trains are badly delayed everywhere, Despatches from New Jersey report a similar state of affairs, The storm along the New Jersey and Long Island coast is particularly severe, A high northeast gale prevails, and the air is thick with flying snow, Mariners off the coast will have a hard night of it, It is probable that several wrecks will be reported tomorrow, The life saving crews have doubled their patrols and are on the alert so as to promptly answer signals of distress, One wreck was reported tonight, It occurred on Rockaway Beach, opposite the Arverne hotel, The Arverne life-saving crew cannot go to the relief of the vessel on account of the blinding snowstorm and the high and heavy sea which prevails, The vessel is stranded some distance off shore, and her size or the crew she carries cannot be ascertained, The fate of the crew is in doubt, but their position is an extremely dangerous one, Nebraska, Omaha, Neb, February 12, Nebraska is snowbound, For the past twenty-four hours a terrific blizzard has prevailed throughout the state, The fall has been about twelve inches and, following the eight inch fall of snow on Thursday, makes the depth at least twenty inches, The cold is extremely severe with few exceptions, Omaha traffic of every description is suspended, Trains in every direction last night were abandoned, The mail trains are being got through with difficulty, The high wind has been piling the snow in great drifts, Reports from the interior show stock is in good condition and farmers are pleased with the immense snowfalls, as it assures a fine winter wheat crop, Ohio, CLEVELAND, February 12, A severe wind and snow storm from the northwest struck this city this morning, Nearly all trains are late, Street car traffic is almost entirely suspended, FREMONT, O, February 12, In a blinding snowstorm, which had been raging all morning, freight train No. 40, westbound, and eastbound light freight No. 25, on the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad, collided two miles west of Bellevue about 10:30 o'clock, Both engines and several freight cars were smashed and piled up in confusion, Engineer Connell, of light freight No. 25; Fireman McMullen, of engine No. 25; Brakeman Johnson, of freight engine No. 28, and Engineer Samuel Stowell, of engine No. 28, were killed, Missouri, St. Louis, Mo, February 12, Without warning from the weather bureau a veritable Kansas blizzard struck this city at 11 o'clock last night and continued up to 6 o'clock tonight Rain, hail, sleet and snow alternately swept over the city before a high wind, At daylight the street railways had abandoned efforts to run cars till the tracks were cleared by snow plows, All the railway trains that were not abandoned entirely were late, the Alton express from Chicago being eight hours behind time, The snow is four inches deep, which is phenomenal for this latitude, as time passed the storm increased in severity and at 2 p.m. the wind had risen to a 30 mile gait, with the thermometer 8 degrees above zero and falling, The casualties are numerous, but none serious, The overhead wires look like masses of white ropes and many have been snapped by the weight of ice, Two horses were shocked to death by coming in contact with a broken live wire, Telegrams from all points from the South and West show that the storm is widespread and disastrous, Mississippi, New Orleans, February 12, Advices received here today and tonight indicate that a storm approaching in violence a cyclone is raging in Mississippi, and that the town of Newton has been wiped out of existence, but as the telegraph wires are all down full particulars cannot be obtained, MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 12, A special from Jackson, Miss, says: A terrible cyclone passed between Martinsville and Beauregard, 40 miles south of here, at a late hour at night within a few miles of a patch of the terrible cyclone of April, 1884, The cyclone was about a mile wide and everything in its path was leveled, A great many houses were swept from their foundations, trees twisted off, fences destroyed, several people killed and a great many seriously injured, KANSAS, Kansas City, February 12, The worst snowstorm in years raged all over Kansas and Missouri last night and today, for not a single train was on time, The snow averaged from one foot to two feet on the level, High winds accompanied it, and at some points it is 20 feet deep, In many sections schools were closed today, In towns with street railways the service was paralyzed, The snow was dry and the telegraph service was not injured, TOPEKA, Kan, February 12, All railroads in Kansas are blockaded with snow and scarcely a wheel is turning in the state, Vessels Ashore, LONG BRANCH, HAD STORM IN ENGLAND, Much Damage Is Done Both on the Sea and on the Land, London, February 12, The gale which set in in Great Britain late Saturday night continued to gain in violence during yesterday and in the afternoon the wind was blowing with hurricane force, Telegraphic communication has been greatly interfered with and details of the damage done are being received slowly, A peculiar feature of the storm was the destruction wrought among the churches, At Teignmouth, in Devonshire, a church in course of erection was entirely destroyed, The spire of St. Mary's church at Shrewsbury, county of Salop, was blown down, At Peterborough, county of Northampton, the pinnacle of the parish church of St. John was blown over and the glass roof of the Great Eastern Railway station was destroyed, The English Presbyterian church at Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, was also among the buildings wrecked, A boarding school and many dwelling houses in the town were also blown down, At Newport, in South Wales, the roofs have been blown off a number of houses, It is feared that there have been many wrecks along the coast, Several vessels have gone ashore off Margate and Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Devonshire, At Dudley, in Worcestershire, a number of factory chimney stacks were blown down, In two or three instances the falling chimneys struck the factories, causing great damage, In this town many persons were injured, Scores of houses were unroofed, Communication between London and the continent is completely cut off, The Yarmouth steamer Hesolven, bound for Cardiff, has been wrecked, The Hesolven went ashore yesterday, The Caister lifeboat went out to the wreck and succeeded in taking off the seventy-five persons on board of her, A broken lifeboat, with the word """"Liverpool"""" painted on the bow, has been washed ashore in Langlands bay, A lifeboat that left Swansea yesterday is missing, A tremendously high sea was running in the Channel and the steamers plying between England and France and England and Belgium were more or less delayed, Those steamers plying between New Haven and Dieppe did not venture out of port, The roof of a house at Iron Bridge, Shropshire, fell in, crushing the occupants of the house beneath it, The wall of a factory at Oldham, Lancashire, was blown down, Close beside the wall there stood three cottages, Upon these the huge mass of brick and mortar fell, crushing the buildings into splinters, Nearly all the inmates of the cottages were injured, but none were killed outright, Despatches are coming in from various places reporting the wrecking or stranding of vessels, Fortunately there has been thus far small loss of life reported, The schooner Brilliant went ashore at Cairnryan, county of Wigton, Scotland, It is thought she will be got afloat again, The fishing smack Favorite sank in the Thames, off Greenwich, Everybody on her got ashore, The Valisdoof is ashore at Silloth, on Solway Firth, The Prince of Wales' yacht, Britannia, which is to sail in the regatta at Nice, was compelled by stress of weather to put into Plymouth sound, where she will remain until the storm abates sufficiently to allow of her proceeding, Hartlepool, county of Durham, which is situated on an almost insulated promontory, was exposed to the full force of the storm, and considerable damage was done in the town, Tall chimneys on a number of dwelling houses in the town were blown down, The bricks crashed through the roof of one house falling upon the family, who were congregated in the top storey, Two children were instantly killed and their parents were badly injured, At Stockton-on-Tees, also, in the county of Durham, a number of dwelling houses and shops were unroofed, A despatch from St. Quentin, France, states that an unknown American ship is ashore there, A despatch from Greenock states that the Norwegian barques Bertie and Tancred have been wrecked there, A quay at Port Glasgow was carried away, The British barque Wilhelm Tell, from Calcutta, which was discharging cargo at the Alexandra dock, Hull, was sunk by the gale, In West Cork the gale has caused immense damage to property, Two girls who were in bed asleep at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, were instantly killed by a chimney falling upon them through the roof of the house, Five persons were injured by a falling roof, The wind overturned a tram car running between Wolverhampton and Dudley, Twenty passengers were slightly injured, Vienna, February 12, A heavy storm is sweeping over Austria, Many trains have been stopped by the trees blowing across the track, Berlin, February 12, Numerous accidents have been caused by the storm in Brandenburg, The Stettin railway station here has been damaged considerably and the stations at Helensee and Brummelsburg have been partly unroofed, Sixteen houses in Bepepparel, near Coblenz, are burning this evening and the wind is so high that the firemen are unable to prevent the spreading of the flames, HAMMURTO, February 12, The tide has run exceptionally high here today, and it has been blowing a gale, Many vessels broke from their moorings and numerous collisions were reported, Scores of small craft went to the bottom, So far but two deaths by drowning have been reported, but several men are missing from vessels in the harbor, Trees have been blown down in the parks, chimneys have been thrown down and roofs have been lifted, A despatch from Luebeck says the Town hall there has been damaged greatly by the storm, At Friedrichsrube much damage has been done to the forests and sheds, A HOME OUTRAGE, Twenty Persons are Wounded by Another Explosion, Paris, February 12, Edson Breton, 23 years old, threw a bomb in the cafe of the Hotel Terminus at the St. Lazare railway station this evening, The bomb exploded in the middle of the room and wounded twenty persons, An instrumental concert began in the cafe, which is on the ground floor of the hotel, at 8 o'clock, Shortly before 9 o'clock a pale, thin young man with a light pointed beard paid for a drink which he had taken at a table in the middle of the room and started to leave, When near the door he turned suddenly, drew a bomb from his coat and threw it towards a group of persons who had sat next to him, The bomb struck an electric light fixture, then fell on a marble table and exploded, The great hotel and station were rocked by the shock, The mirrors, windows and doors were blown to atoms, The ceiling and floors were rent and the walls were cracked, A dense, offensive smoke filled the cafe for a few minutes, and in the obscurity Breton escaped, When the smoke cleared away five persons were found wounded and 15 slightly injured, The bomb had been filled with bullets and rough pieces of iron, which had riddled the furniture and walls and inflicted most of the wounds, After leaving the cafe the bomb thrower started down the street on a run, Three policemen had just passed in an omnibus when the explosion occurred, They were going on duty and jumped to the street the moment they saw the fugitive, The young man turned on them as they called to him to stop and fired five shots, Policeman Poisson fell badly wounded in the side, Policemen Lenoir and Bigot, however, continued the pursuit and, with the help of Policeman Barbes and a waiter named Tibaier, overpowered and arrested the bomb-thrower, They took him to the police station in the Rue de Moscou, where after some hesitation he gave his name and age, The prefect of police, M. Laurent, chief secretary to M. Dubois, minister of the interior, and several other high officials, were summoned to the station, and the examination of the prisoner was begun, Police Commissary Gavrel taking the evidence, Meanwhile the sound of the explosion, the smoke and the cries of the wounded had attracted a great crowd to the Hotel Terminus, Doctors Sereno, Bouille and Thysun offered their services and dressed the wounds of the injured, At 11 o'clock only an incomplete list of the injured could be obtained, It was as follows: M. Herdere, both legs pierced by bullets and pieces of iron; Mine. Leblanc, shin bone fractured; Mine. Leblanc's brother, ear split and bruised; unidentified man, wounded in the intestines by a flying piece of marble; Messrs. Danne, Vanhest, Poquet, Fonbert, Raymond and Laustan, cut or torn by fragments of marble or glass, The United Press correspondent was admitted to the Rue de Moscou police station shortly after the arrest, Breton sat handcuffed between two policemen, He showed the effects of his hasty flight and tussle with the police, Otherwise he looks calm and comfortable, The removal of his outside coat revealed a collarless flannel shirt and the general garb of a working man, In his pockets the police had found a pair of brass knuckles, a dagger, a Swedish knife, a six chambered revolver, a gold half Louis, two franc pieces, eleven cents and a small silver locket containing a lock of brown hair tied with a ribbon, At first he refused to talk, telling the police that it was their business to find out who he was, After giving his name and age he again became silent, Eventually he added that he was a cabinetmaker and had arrived in Paris from Marseilles this morning, """"Yes, I am an Anarchist,"""" he exclaimed, irately, in response to reiterated questions, """"and the more of the bourgeois I killed the better it would please me,"""" Paris, February 12, An Anarchist named Boisson, one of the many arrested during the recent police raids on Anarchist haunts, was placed on trial today and convicted of having explosives in his possession, The judge sentenced him to four months' imprisonment Boisson stood in a defiant attitude while sentence was being pronounced upon him, As the judge concluded, the prisoner, who had a large piece of bread in his hand, drew back his arm and threw the bread at the judge, The missile struck the judge on the nose, As Boisson threw the bread he shouted, addressing his remarks to the court and attendants, """"You are a crowd of pigs, We will blow you all up, Long live Anarchy,"""" The act of the prisoner created great excitement in court, many of those present thinking the piece of bread was a bomb, Fragments of bomb indicate that it was a tin box, perhaps a sardine box, the explosive contained a chloritic powder, A man who saw the capture of Breton in the street described it thus: """"As Policeman Poisson fell, Breton stumbled; but to save himself, and almost instantly, fired again at the crowd of pursuers behind the other policeman, A woman sank dangerously wounded to the pavement Breton continued to flourish his revolver after he had emptied it, A policeman struck him with a sabre and Breton fell, but only to rise and struggle fiercely when the policeman laid hands on him, It was only with difficulty that the police prevented the crowd from lynching him, The police say that four persons, who were passing the Hotel Terminus when the explosion occurred, were severely injured, One of them may die before morning, FILLING ASSEMBLIES, A Heavy Fight Over the House of Lords About to Begin, GAUNTLET TO BE THROWN Down by the National Liberal Federation at Its Meeting on Thursday Mr. Gladstone Sanctions It, LONDON, February 12, The House of Commons reassembled today, Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary secretary of the Foreign office, in reply to a question, said British merchantmen enjoyed the same facilities at Rio Janeiro as were had by the vessels of other nations, The Government would neglect no opportunity to secure for the commerce of Great Britain the same advantages as were accorded to other countries, The business transacted today was entirely formal, The members expect that tomorrow the Government will make a declaration rejecting the amendments made by the House of Lords to both the Parish councils and Employers' Liability bills, A meeting of the Cabinet was held at the official residence of Mr. Gladstone in Downing street prior to the reassembling of the House of Commons, It is stated that Mr. Gladstone proposes to drop the Parish Councils bill and the Employers' Liability bill and make an appeal to the country within a month, After the Cabinet council was concluded today the executive committee of the National Liberal Federation obtained permission to put a resolution before the annual meeting of the Federation on Thursday declaring that no further mischievous meddling of the House of Lords shall detract from the work of charter reform, which the Representative House is authorized to carry out, It is reported that the delegates will be asked to approve a resolution declaring that the continuance of a house of hereditary legislators has become intolerable and that the House of Lords has been allowed to exist too long, The Duke of Devonshire, leader of the Liberal-Unionists, has called a meeting of his parliamentary party for Thursday, This meeting will be asked to decide whether or not the party shall support Lord Salisbury against the Commons, Joseph Chamberlain, Liberal-Unionist leader in the Commons, will advise the peers to surrender rather than provoke the decisive conflict, The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the re-opening of Parliament, remarks that """"There could scarcely be a more humiliating position for a popular assembly than is the case in Great Britain with the House of Commons belittled and insulted by a survival of medievalism which exists for no other reason under heaven but to afford a cover for every anti-popular reactionary and despotic sentiment,"""" The Liberal and Radical union at its meeting today passed a resolution denying the right of the House of Lords to return to the country the bills passed by the House of Commons, The resolution also condemned the institution of the Upper House as a danger to the State, LONDON, February 12, the meeting of the National Liberal federation of Portsmouth opened today, Robert Spence Watson, the president, said in his introductory address that he rejoiced in the recent conduct of the peers, They had acted in the manner best calculated to bring to the front the question not of mending them, but of ending them, The day for forgiving the iniquities of the peers, even if they should repent, had gone, Loud applause greeted this declaration of principles, COLD WEATHER, That Is What the Probs Say of Today's Weather, Meteorological Office, Toronto, Ont, February 12, 11 p.m., The storm which was developing in the Lower Mississippi valley last night has divided into two parts, one moving to the lake region and the other to the middle Atlantic coast, Gales with heavy snow are prevalent in Ontario and decidedly colder weather is general in the Dominion, Minimum and maximum temperatures: Esquimalt, 32, 42; Calgary, 12 below, 18; Edmonton, 16 below, 8; Qu'Appelle, 20 below, 4; Minnedosa, 2 below, 40; Toronto, 7, 10; Montreal, 2 below, 6; Quebec, 4 below, 6; Halifax, 6, 18, Lake fresh, to strong northerly to westerly winds; cold weather; gradually clearing, Upper St. Lawrence fresh to high winds; cold weather, Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf strong winds; gales, east and north; decidedly colder, with snow, Maritime strong winds and gales; northeast and east; cloudy with snow, Manitoba fair; continued decidedly colder, MONTREAL'S RECORD observations taken at McGill College OBSERVATORY FEBRUARY 12, H g K, -Wind-, If B """"Weather, d A : : : : T 2, S, 00 30, 457 3, 3 87 Clear, R. Forget, Mrs. Forget died about three years ago, The family will have the sincere sympathy of their numerous friends in their bereavement, Are free from all crude and irritating matter, Concentrated medicine only, Carter's Little Liver Pills, Very small; very easy to take; no pain; no griping; no purging, Try them, In Sicily it is claimed that fire will not burn nor snakes bite the person who was born on St. Paul's day (June 30), CABLE AND STEAMSHIPS, Mr. James Huddart, the energetic promoter of the Australian-Canadian Steamship company, returned to Montreal yesterday, having come over from Europe on the steamship New York, The passage across was very stormy, but Mr. Huddart does not appear to have suffered, He is in good health, When seen by a Gazette reporter Mr. Huddart spoke as follows in regard to his mission to the old country: """"I am glad to be able to say that several branches of trade are in a much better condition than when I arrived in England, As an example shipbuilding is looking up and I think there is a gradual improvement, What about the financial condition? Well, there is a better feeling, The trouble was that the financiers and bankers had lost confidence, and the same state of affairs existed all over Europe, but I could see before leaving London that a vast improvement had taken place, Confidence in fact has been in a great measure restored, and you will readily understand that this cannot but have a first rate effect upon Canada as well as upon her interests in the old land, """"In regard to the object of his trip to London, he remarked that the general belief was that the subsidy to the Canadian-Australian line would be granted by the Imperial authorities in due course, """"They had been doing all in their power to educate the public mind of Britain to the vital importance of such a service, not only to the colonies, but to the Empire at large, """"You have no doubt had valuable assistance while in London,"""" he was asked, """"Yes, Sir Charles Tupper has nobly seconded my efforts and I am likewise under great obligations to the agents of the Australian governments in London, These gentlemen thoroughly understand the situation both from a colonial and imperial point of view, and you Canadians should be proud in having such a man as the High Commissioner to look after Canadian interests on the other side of the water, """"Mr. Huddart is also much interested in the success of a fast At",0,0,0,1,0,0
88,19960724,modern,Nan,"Vazquez was 6-6 at this level last year and is dominating this season. The 6-foot-2, 185-pounder was scouted by Fred Ferreira, Expos director of International scouting. ""Vazquez is more of a natural than Powell,"" Sisson said. ""We keep reminding him of what to do but he has a natural feel for pitching and just needs to get stronger."" Ottawa Lynx (Triple-A International League, 38-58, fifth, 13 games out) - manager Pete Mackanin had a pep talk with the players Sunday, reminding them they still had a lot to play for over the balance of the season and had to play hard. Harrisburg Senators (Double-A Eastern League, 52-47, second, eight out) - Kirk Bullinger right-handed kid brother of the Cubs' Jim Bullinger is 2-1 with 16 saves and an ERA of 1.11 over 32 1/3 innings as the closer. Alex Pacheco, with the Expos briefly, is 4-1 (1.
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137,20071222,modern,Snowstorm,"A4 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2007 A UHT CD T U EI CTY D """"It's like a snowbank,"""" Michel Levesque said on his eBay auction of a snowbank. Dump sites are filled to capacity. Snow removal crews close Peel St. Rain could thwart clearing. ONLY 50 PER CENT OF WORK IS DONE. Warm weather, precipitation in forecast. ANNE SUTHERLAND THE GAZETTE If the weather holds steady with no more snow and we don't get significant amounts of rain tomorrow, most of Montreal's roads and sidewalks are expected to be cleared by Tuesday - Christmas Day. If, however, we get heavy rain followed by freezing conditions, all bets are off, as spreading abrasives will be the city's priority. This was the message from Marcel Tremblay yesterday in an update on the monumental job of clearing the city streets and walkways of snow. Michel Levesque stands on top of the snowbank he put up for sale online. The profits will be donated to Operation Enfant Soleil. For sale: monster snowbank. No refunds. Bidding on eBay hits $3,050. RENE BRUEMMER THE GAZETTE A St. Eustache man with a distaste for winter has found a novel way to get rid of the snowbank in front of his house: He's put it up for sale on eBay. Bidding for the two-metre high snowbank hit $3,050 last night. Proceeds will go to the charity Operation Enfant Soleil, which supports pediatric hospitals in the province. """"Magnifique banc de neige (magnificent snowbank),"""" the ad reads. """"Situated in St Eustache, only 15 minutes from Montreal. Ideal for ski hills, or for warm maple syrup in sugaring-off season."""" """"Winner of the auction must take possession of his winnings before the end of January 2008. Sold as is. No returns or refunds."""" Michel Levesque, a worker at the Bombardier aerospace plant in St. Laurent, came up with the idea after reading a column about Rene Angelil, husband of singer Celine Dion, complaining about the lack of snow in Las Vegas. Levesque posted his sale item on Tuesday at a starting price of 99 cents. There were few bidders until a Journal de Montreal story appeared Thursday, at which point the bidding """"snowballed,"""" as Levesque puts it. """"Reaction has been fantastic,"""" he said from his home yesterday. """"People just think it's a great idea."""" The Ville Marie borough resorted to using snowblowers instead of mini-plows on some sidewalks in the city, said Yves Girard, who oversees cleanliness and snow removal on city streets. There should be no problem with city workers off on holidays between Christmas and New Year, because supervisors have scheduled enough staff to handle the work, barring another huge dump, Tremblay said. """"And don't forget, 50 per cent of our trucks are contractors who don't have the same schedule,"""" he added. Tremblay bristled at some published reports that snow-clearing in Montreal was more efficient in the 1970s and '80s, when there was one centralized system, rather than the current setup where each borough is responsible for its own cleanup. He was a bit surprised by the amplitude of the reaction, he said. Emails from as far away as France have arrived to congratulate him for the notion. Since the proceeds will go to a charity that raises funds for sick children, Levesque said he's certain the bids were being given in good faith. He assumed corporations were getting into a bidding war at this point. The price grew to $3,050 from $1,000 during the afternoon yesterday. Operation Enfant Soleil contacted Levesque to confirm he was legitimate and welcomed what spokesperson Genevieve Lebel described yesterday as the """"most original item"""" that's ever been on sale for the charity's benefit. Money for the snow can be sent directly to Enfant Soleil. Lebel was uncertain if a charitable receipt could be issued for tax purposes, given the impermanent nature of the goods. A caleche makes its way along a street. """"The boroughs are helping each other, lending blowers and sidewalk cleaners,"""" he said. The city has 13 designated dumping sites and 15 other possible sites to use if the regular spots fill up. Part of the problem is that trucks are finding it more difficult to drive to the dumps because the roads are so congested, which adds time to trips and cuts down on the speed of removal operations, Tremblay said. """"Don't forget that in those 'good old days,' 80 per cent of the snow from downtown used to go into the (St. Lawrence) river,"""" he said. """"We now respect the environment,"""" he added, despite a statement from a TV reporter that video footage exists of a truck dumping snow into the river yesterday. VINCENZO D'ALTO THE GAZETTE Emails were being sent about the auctioned snowbank, but she was going to check with the agency's accountant. Levesque's daughters, ages 7 and 10, were dismayed at first to discover they would be losing their beloved snowbank playground. They perked up when they heard the proceeds would be going to sick children, and that chances were slim anyone would actually collect their prized snow. The sale will be a one-time affair, Levesque said. """"It's the kind of thing that can only work once,"""" he said. """"It's caught the imagination of the people."""" To take a gander at the offer, go to www.ebay.ca and type """"magnifique banc de neige"""" into the search query. The deadline to put in a bid is Dec. 28. rbruemmer@thegazette.canwest.com 7 7 sf i JOHN KENNEY THE GAZETTE partially cleared Notre Dame St. """"Tell us the name of the company,"""" he replied. """"We'll look into it. It's illegal."""" According to CRIACC, a weather monitoring system, 121.2 centimetres of snow fell at Trudeau airport between Sept. 21 and Dec. 20, setting a record for seasonal snowfall to that point. The previous record was 115.4 centimetres in 1983. The Weather Network is calling for a high of 10C and a low of 1C tomorrow, with a 100-per-cent chance of rain. Environment Canada's forecast for tomorrow is a high of 9C and rain. Monday's forecast is a high of zero, a low of minus 6 and snow flurries. asutherland@thegazette.canwest.com Centralize snow clearing: Opinion, Aubin, Page B7 Airports predict smooth flying over the holidays. Mild temperatures should help keep travel conditions manageable. CANWEST NEWS SERVICE Milder temperatures heading into one of the busiest travel weekends of the year had major airports in Canada reporting good travel conditions yesterday morning. """"Things are moving pretty well this morning,"""" said Trish Krale, a spokesperson for the Greater Toronto Airport Authority. """"We do expect extra traffic, so a few extra lineups are not really out of the ordinary. I just checked and actually there are very, very minimal delays. No cancellations so far today so I think things are looking great for the busy day."""" Krale said the weekends before Christmas and March break are typically the busiest of the year. """"Today and tomorrow we're looking at seeing about 100,000 passengers each day,"""" she said. Toronto's Pearson International Airport sees about 85,000 passengers on an average day. """"The weather is great here. No snow in the forecast, which is great because that keeps things moving nice and smoothly,"""" Krale said. A brush with inclement weather overnight in Halifax had cleared by yesterday morning and the city's airport was reporting only minor delays. """"Operationally, we are 100 per cent,"""" said Peter Spurway, spokesperson for the Halifax International Airport Authority. """"But it is the busy travel weekend. We're recommending to all of our visitors that they give themselves a little bit of extra time because lineups will be a little bit longer at check-in counters and pre-board screening."""" IRWIN BLOCK THE GAZETTE As Montreal continues to dig out from under this week's big snowstorm, its boroughs are running out of dump sites. The Quebec Environment Department is planning to notify Lachine that trucks clearing its streets are dumping snow illegally at two sites bordering the St. Lawrence River. Following a complaint from former Lachine mayor William McCullough, an inspector this week visited the borough and confirmed snow was being dumped at Rene Levesque Park and at the pier at 32nd Ave, adjacent to the Lachine Rapids. It is illegal to dump snow into areas bordering waterways or into rivers or lakes because the snow contains contaminants like salt and oil residue. Lachine could also be asked to remove the snow. The notice is a warning, and officials will check to see if the practice continues before a fine is issued. Lachine borough mayor Claude Dauphin was not available to comment. Such dumping is illegal, inspector Julie d'Avignon said, noting that Lachine never asked for a special permit to remedy emergency situations. The Cote des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grace borough made a deal with the Quebec Transport and Environment departments to use the Turcot Yards as an emergency snow dump, but only until Jan. 11. Dump sites are filling and snow isn't melting in snow chutes because of the sheer volume. Other boroughs and cities on Montreal Island have been invited to use the yards. iblock@thegazette.canwest.com Late last week, Halifax had to dig out from more than 20 centimetres of snow, followed by ice pellets and rain, topped by freezing temperatures, which wreaked havoc with travel schedules. """"Right now the forecast is good and we're just hoping it stays that way here and elsewhere,"""" Spurway said. St. John's, N.W., suite 200, Montreal, QC, H3B 5L1 montrealgazette.com 514-987-2222 TO INQUIRE OR COMMENT ABOUT HOME DELIVERY, OR TO SUBSCRIBE: Montreal area: 514-987-2400 elsewhere: 1-800-361-8478 readthegazette.com We guarantee home delivery by 6:30 a.m. weekdays in the greater Montreal area. INSIDE TODAY: JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES In this January 2006 file photo, Japanese whalers reel in harpooned cetaceans. Japanese whaling hunters won't target humpbacks (Japan's whaling fleet in the Antarctic will avoid going after humpback whales) for now, but will press on with plans to kill 1,000 others by early in the new year, a government official said yesterday. Details, Page A1. JVID suspended for comment. The Quebec College of Physicians has barred a Montreal doctor from working for a year for calling one of his patients a """"fat balloon."""" Neurologist Jean-Gilles Blain, 72, is also accused of falling asleep on the job. Details, Page A7. WEAPONS-GRADE URANIUM A RISK Critics say Canada's insistence on using weapons-grade uranium at its isotope-making reactor at Chalk River - enough to make a bomb - poses an unnecessary security and safety risk. Details, Page A12. BUSINESS BlackBerry drives RIM stock. Shares in Research In Motion Inc. surged more than 10 per cent yesterday, a day after the BlackBerry maker announced third-quarter financial results that blew past expectations. Details, Page C3. European airlines charged. The European Commission charged several airlines with price-fixing on freight services, with British Airways, Lufthansa, SAS and Air France KLM saying they were among those affected. Details, Page C5. SPORTS Latendresse gets back on track. It might be hard for some to fathom that sitting a player for one game will get the message across. But Guillaume Latendresse's two-goal performance Thursday answered the short-term questions. Details, Page D1. Habs' Huet deserves No. 1 spot. It isn't easy for an NHL coach to name his No. 1 goaltender. Thirty-four games into the season, the Habs' Cristobal Huet is 8-6-3, while rookie Carey Price is 9-6-2. Right now, Huet is Red Fisher's No. 1. Details, Page D3. CULTURE Oil crisis fuelled a movement. A new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture - 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas - examines how the oil crisis sparked research into Earth-friendly ways of living. Details, Page E4. Filmmakers' spiritual quest. Shaken by their experiences on Sept. 11, 2001, which yielded the documentary 911, Jules and Gedeon Naudet turned to an exploration of the meaning of life. Talking to a dozen religious leaders, they've made a new film, In God's Name. Details, Page E11. TODAY'S COLUMNISTS """"Brad Pitt's too busy for politics, he prefers to carp from outside."""" CAMILLI, CULTURE, E12. JIM MENNIE on Christmas Fund: 'Donna' finally found happiness at 29, Montreal, A6. JAY BRYAN on Christmas list of investment tips: Stocks offer fattest potential, greatest risk, business, C7. BEST RESTOS It's been a tough year for restaurants in Montreal, with some of our best closing their doors for good. But there are still so many gems worth celebrating, and that's exactly what Gazette restaurant critics Lesley Chesterman and Sarah Musgrave do online in audio slideshows of their favourite fine- and casual-dining establishments of the year. Watch the slideshows and read their respective top 10 lists, only at montrealgazette.com. CITY OF SNOW AN ODE TO MONTREAL THE NIGHT THE CITY SANG: This Christmas poem by Peter Desbarats is a lyrical ode to Montreal. Check out our audio slideshow of a reading of the poem, illustrated by photographs of our snowy streets, only at montrealgazette.com. 10 YEARS LATER ICE STORM MEMORIES Hydro towers toppled, trees snapped and the city was left in the dark. Do you remember where you were when the ice storm set in nearly 10 years ago? Share your stories of random acts of kindness, coincidence and sheer luck and tell us what you did to keep yourself and your loved ones warm. Plus, send any photos or videos you took at the time and we will post them on our upcoming special site. Go to montrealgazette.com to share your experiences. CAST YOUR VOTE: What do you think of the practice of regifting something someone else has given you? You can cast your vote in our daily poll all day long by logging onto montrealgazette.com. Your answers will appear in tomorrow's Gazette and on Global TV's evening newscast. Yesterday's question was: Have you cancelled plans because of the city's recent traffic woes? Yes: 41% of votes No: 59%. LOTTERIES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2007 Quotidienne-3 1-2-Min order) Quotidienne-4 1-5-7-3 (in order) Extra 8-0-8-8-4-0-3 (in order) Super 7 2-16-17-19-24-26-40 Bonus: 44 Banco 6-12-15-16-20 29-30-31-32-37 41-44-48-50-52 57-61-63-67-70 Mini Loto 2-5-1-0-3-2 wins $50,000 5-1-0-3-2 wins $5,000 1-0-3-2 wins $250 0-3-2 wins $25 3-2 wins $5 2-5-1-0-3 wins $1,000 2-5-1-0 wins $100 2-5-1 wins $10. In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list of Loto-Quebec, the latter shall prevail. Welcome to 21st-century winter, where tennis trumps traffic chaos. I've just lived through a major snowstorm of the 21st century - an avalanche of white that's reminiscent of our childhoods. Like then, the weather totally dominates conversation as people describe their harrowing, two-hour ordeal to get milk at the corner depanneur. Overnight, we've gone from the computer age to the ice age - and we are not coping well. How does a 21st-century snowstorm differ from a 20th-century one? Let me count the ways: Terrible traffic: In 21st-century Montreal, there are far more cars than back in the 20th. In the late 80s, our city was a happy basket case where half the population was unemployed - with nowhere important to go but the nearest cafe for a three-hour lunch. Now everyone's overworked and overloading the streets with cars. Back then, having two cars was like having two swimming pools - now it's as routine as having two TVs. More women are driving to work, while teenagers drive to CEGEP and kids probably drive to nursery school. When we're not driving our cars, we're parking them and clogging every street. If we really want less stressful traffic in snowstorms, we should all vote for the Parti Quebecois again. When they announce another referendum, Montreal will become just as quiet as it was in the 20th century - maybe even the 19th. During 20th-century snowstorms, Montreal was a mellow town where life stopped when blizzards started. People who were caught downtown often slept at the office or hotels, while only madmen drove downtown voluntarily. Now, whatever the weather, we're on the move. We rush for Christmas shopping, then race to abdominal crunch fitness class, then drop the kids off for tai chi-violin lessons, and drive 40 more crazed minutes to our zen meditation class. The city has more excuses for unplowed sidewalks than kids for not doing their homework. Christmas parties we can't miss and THINGS to do - and who is this Mother Nature person anyway to get in our way? Maybe we can sue? I'm no better. During last Wednesday's snowy mess, I drove to my weekly tennis game near Dorval at 8 p.m., figuring no one would be on the road. Wrong. The 20-minute drive took 97 minutes in traffic hell - and when I drove home near midnight, the Metropolitan was still locked up. Where were all these lunatics going? Why couldn't they stay home one night and miss their tennis? Snow rage: Our new century is an era of road rage, air rage and now - snow rage. We are mad at the airlines for cancelling flights to Halifax just because there was a massive blizzard and the pilots couldn't see. We are angry at the school boards for announcing a snow day - supposedly """"wimping out"""" on a day so bad the wind could have swept away a small child. We are angry at nature for promising global warming and delivering arctic chill. We live in a super-speed world where we do everything with the push of a button - and now we want to push the """"delete"""" button and erase the snow. When it doesn't happen, we get angry. I've seen countless drivers cursing each other, or yelling at pedestrians. I saw a taxi driver stop to let an old woman with packages cross a snowy street - and get thanked by a bevy of honking horns and cursing drivers. I've been attacked myself. In the middle of last Sunday's white-out, I stopped in front of Westmount Plaza for a moment in the only opening I saw in a blinding snowy desert. As I stepped from my car to check the parking signs, a well-heeled burgher in his 50s launched into an astounding string of curses: """"Get that car out of there, you goddamn a-hole. Who do you think you are, you f-ing prick? Get lost!"""" It turned out there was a pedestrian crossing concealed under all the snow - and instead of informing me, he went ballistic under storm stress. Above all, we are angry at Montreal snow crews, sometimes justifiably, sometimes not. The city could certainly do better - they have more excuses for unplowed sidewalks than kids for not doing their homework. """"There's too much snow. It's too dense. It's too white. Besides, the dog ate my snow plow."""" That said, I think we have some of the best snow removal troops on the planet and they just agreed to raise their emergency blizzard work week from 70 hours to 75. Yet even with improvements, there's only so much anyone can do when nature takes over. Our snow crews are a little different than they were in the 20th century but the roads are busier, the job is bigger and the citizens are much more demanding. We get mad at the workers when they're not out on the streets cleaning, and just as mad when they are out - and blocking traffic. Let's take a tip from Europe where there's a growing """"slow movement"""" that's trying to get people to chill out and slow down. The next few days, as the rain falls and the city becomes a disaster, let's all do our best to slow down. joshfreed@hotmail.com Chuck Norris cries foul over book. REUTERS NEW YORK - Tough-guy actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris is suing publisher Penguin over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of """"mythical facts"""" about him. Penguin published The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human in November. Author Ian Spector and two websites he runs to promote the book, including www.truthaboutchuck.com, are also named in the suit. The book capitalizes on """"mythical facts"""" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris's tough-guy image and superhuman abilities, the suit said. It includes such humorous """"facts"""" as """"Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried"""" and """"Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits,"""" the suit said, as well as """"Chuck Norris can charge a cellphone by rubbing it against his beard."""" 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The double-decker cars will increase the capacity of trains. BRITISH PULL OUT Britain formally handed over control of the southern Iraq city of Basra to local forces in a low-key ceremony. PRISON BREAKOUT Three men described as possibly armed and dangerous escaped from the Montreal Detention Centre, formerly known as Bordeaux jail, by using a ladder to scale the wall during Sunday's snowstorm. A fourth would-be escaper fell off the ladder and broke his leg. GLOBAL WARMING PACT Canada and the United States backed off in the face of international pressure to agree to a plan to combat global warming in meetings in Bali, Indonesia. The plan imposes deep commitments on the richest countries to reduce contributions to global warming, and softer targets for developing nations. LOTO LOSER Four Ontarians, allegedly cheated out of their loto winnings by a convenience store owner, got a cheque for $5.7 million, plus interest this week. The store owner was charged with fraud and theft. He allegedly cashed in their ticket, not telling them they had won. MILESTONE FOR QUEEN Queen Elizabeth became the longest-serving monarch Thursday when she eclipsed Queen Victoria by hitting the grand old age of 81 years and 244 days. There was nothing to mark the milestone. """"It's just a normal working day,"""" said a palace official. NOT HOME FOR HOLIDAYS It may be the festive season, but the Montreal Canadiens are no homebodies. Struggling to win at the Bell Centre, they continued their red-hot road form by strolling into Washington and disposing of the Capitals 5-2. SATURDAY """"Our people are capable of launching a third and fourth intifada until the dawn of victory rises up,"""" Khaled Meshaal, exiled leader of Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of supporters rallied in Gaza City to celebrate the terrorist group's 20th anniversary. SUNDAY """"It's my first time in Montreal. I've never seen snow like this. It's wonderful,"""" Tourist Lilliane Cortes, surveying a snowbound city. MONDAY """"I'm not spending my daughter's first Christmas in a frigging airport,"""" Sherry Halfe, carrying her two-month-old daughter, enduring weather-related delays at Trudeau airport as she and her husband tried to make their way from Alberta to St. John's. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2007 OPINION B7 Quebecers are in a Herouxville state of mind. Reasonable accommodations and wrangling for nationalist votes marked the year. This is the season for us in the media to choose news stories and newsmakers of the year. But instead of choosing an event or a person of the past year in Quebec politics, I've decided to choose a place. Because Herouxville isn't just the small village that put itself on the globe right at the start of the year by warning prospective immigrants, none of whom were likely to settle there anyway, that they would not be allowed to burn women alive. Herouxville was a state of mind, of which its code was only the most extreme representation, that extended far beyond its own municipal boundaries. It was to express itself again LEAVING BOROUGHS with the job leads to confusion, chaos. Centralize snow clearing. Montreal officials are offering a blizzard of explanations for this week's snail-like cleanup of last Sunday's snowstorm. Among them: Parked cars have impeded snowblowers, subsequent minor snowfalls have added to the task, busted water mains have diverted manpower, and equipment has been lacking. Each explanation contains some truth. But if you add them all up they still don't come close to excusing the city's appalling job in clearing streets and sidewalks. It's the worst performance in memory. Compare Montreal's showing to, say, Laval's. Laval's snow-plowing stage started Sunday night, enabling Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt's city to cease plowing and start snowblowing at 7:30 Monday morning. Meanwhile, snowblowing did not begin in six of Montreal's 19 boroughs until Monday evening. The remaining 13 boroughs started only on Tuesday. Motorists on some major arteries can see how snow clearance varies from borough to borough. Each has its own little plan. Some boroughs clear near hospitals and at bus stops. Others look the other way. If one borough has an ample number of workers, rules keep it from lending some of them to a neighbouring borough with a desperate shortage of workers. Nowhere are things quite so conspicuously awful as in the downtown borough, Ville Marie. Snow-clogged streets impede Christmas shoppers and delivery trucks. Even worse are the sidewalks. As of yesterday, five days after the storm, many remain unplowed. It's been a mostly confounding year, but far from all bad. Case in point: Andre Boisclair. This week, my car radio announced he will soon be teaching a course in public relations at Concordia. A year ago, he was the youthful firebrand of the Parti Quebecois, ready to lead a new generation to the promised land of sovereignty. Now? A footnote to a footnote. There's more. One of the astonishing revelations of the past year came, appropriately, the week of Canada Day, when La Presse published the results of a major CROP poll. It found not only that Quebecers would vote No to sovereignty by a crushing 62-38 per cent, but that fully 85.7 per cent of them were proud to be Canadian. Cheer up, doomsters. Quebecers are canny, calculating and (for good reasons) soaked in the history of survival. They also know a good deal when they feel it in their bones. Let's repeat that number: 85.7 per cent, proud to be Canadian. Bloody marvelous. Despite the brouhaha over reasonable accommodation for the government in Quebec since 1879 and that might also turn out to be a watershed of political realignment in this province, it was where politicians chased after votes by posing as defenders of the majority against threats from imaginary veiled voters or by trying to outdo each other with proposals of new restrictions on fundamental minority rights. Herouxville was wherever the Bouchard-Taylor commission provided a respectful hearing and province-wide attention for bigots to slander Muslims, Jews and immigrants. And in this season, it is where """"Merry Christmas"""" is spoken pointedly, with a slightly hard edge, as a slogan asserting identity. The Herouxville mentality has claimed at least one victim, in addition to the members of minorities who have become targets. All sidewalks? That's for mechanized municipal crews. On Thursday, Ville Marie mayor Benoit Labonte put two newly rented mini-snowblowers to work on some downtown sidewalks. He says these will be more effective than the familiar sidewalk plows. Let's hope so. But snow clearance is a city-wide fiasco. It requires a comprehensive solution. Barring calling in the army to deal with future storms - Poulin's sarcastic suggestion - what's to be done? We need an in-depth review of Tremblay's 2004 decentralization of power to boroughs. Last summer, Tremblay took back from boroughs the job of overseeing big projects such as the Quartier des spectacles and the Griffintown project. But centralization might go further. The central city need not yank back all the services (including zoning, parks and construction permits) that it ceded to boroughs. Richard Vanier, the director of Montreal's public works department during the Drapeau era, told the Journal de Montreal that snow clearance could - like policing and firefighting - be subject to a unified policy. It's something to examine before next winter. Nineteen different approaches not only makes for incoherence. They also dilute political accountability. You can't blame Tremblay for 19 borough mayors' performances. But you can hold him responsible for fragmenting this essential service in the first place. haubin@thegazette.canwest.com. Overall, what might be termed an outbreak of stability. To the surprise of many, when the March election returned a minority government, the pundits cried woe and predicted immobility with bursts of instability leading swiftly to new elections. Not so, it turned out. The National Assembly is working efficiently, with the government having to trim its sails somewhat to take account of the wishes of the other parties. What's so terrible about that? Compare it with the usual Canadian practice of elected dictatorships that pay little heed to others' wishes between elections. As for the rank politics of leadership, Mario Dumont is fading progressively as voters assess his suitability not just as the young man you'd like your daughter to marry, but as the leader of a party that has become an expression of hostility that has become more socially acceptable. Andre Boisclair has already become a forgotten man, shunned even by his party since he stepped down as its leader after losing the election. (His name surfaced briefly this week when it was announced he will be teaching a course at Concordia University in, of all things, public relations and crisis management.) But he is a worthy candidate for personality of the year in Quebec politics, in spite of himself. It was his weakness as leader of the Parti Quebecois that made so much possible, including the rise of Mario Dumont and the arrival of the first woman to lead a major party in Quebec as Boisclair's successor. Young, the first openly gay leader of a major party in North America, and sincerely committed to an inclusive, """"civic"""" Quebec nationalism, Boisclair proved to be ahead of his time in more ways than one. He was not ready for leadership, and Quebec was not ready for him. But it was a year for women in Quebec politics. In addition to the arrival of Pauline Marois as PQ leader, women gained parity with men in the cabinet Premier Jean Charest formed after the election, as well as some of the most important portfolios. Charest came within a few thousand well-placed votes of becoming a victim along with Boisclair because he blew the most important political decision a head of government in the parliamentary system has to make: when to call an election. But the luck that has kept his career alive for so long continued. He has lowered expectations. Marois needs time to rebuild and deal with the awkward question of another referendum, which no one wants except the caribou in the PQ. All in all, this minority legislature looks surprisingly solid - and next year, dominated by the festivities for the 400th birthday of Quebec, could bring more of the same. Stability just keeps breaking out all over. The same for Ottawa. Observers there have been expecting fresh elections for almost two years, but it hasn't happened yet. Stephen Harper's minority regime seems well stuck in. It might be with us for a while. This isn't what Harper really wants. He hungers for a new election, sweeping victory and totally unquestioned power at the head of a Tory majority. The Canadian electorate is obviously wary. Despite two years of mostly intelligent management, not to mention a strong economy, Harper still can't manage the polls so much that merely by avoiding blunders for a few months, he has pundits writing about a new Charest. He appears to have time and room to manoeuvre ahead of him. The PQ is broke and facing possible new ideological divisions. The ADQ, as the official opposition, has failed to show it has grown from a neo-Creditiste protest party to a government in waiting. And the two opposition parties are essentially trying to make gains among nationalist voters at each other's expense. So it might be a while before it is in the interests of both at the same time to defeat Charest's minority government and force an election. Happy holidays, everyone. dmacpher@thegazette.canwest.com. ALLEN MCINNIS THE GAZETTE up Sunday's snow, age the jump in the polls that would promise a majority. One poll last week even put him two points behind the despised Stephane Dion, whose quiet sincerity keeps making up for his lack of flash. It compares well with Harper's bitter partisanship, which recently had him accusing a career civil servant in the Atomic Energy of Canada mess of somehow being part of a Liberal conspiracy. Is no blow too low? So, why is Harper falling short? Glad you asked. Because people just don't want to hand their humourless, mean and arbitrary prime minister, with his contempt for anyone not as smart as he (i.e., most of us) any more power than he has. And they just might have it right. If only he would smile occasionally - a real smile, not that lupine grimace as he rises in the House to demolish an opponent - he'd be dynamite. But perhaps it's too much to ask.""",1,1,0,0,0,0
199,19920510,modern,Nan,"2, What is 29 feet, 2'h inches? 3, What is 28,250 feet (ignoring the latest revisions)? 4, What is 0.9144 metres? 5, What is 24,901.55 miles? 6, What is 4,145 miles, before the building of the Aswan High Dam? 7, What is eight furlongs? 8, What is between 9 and 9'1/2 inches in circumference (a standard unaltered since it was established in Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga, a British-held post in what is now upper New York state, was captured by American forces under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold 217 years ago today in 1775 during the American Revolution. The loss of Ticonderoga, and Fort Crown Point a day later, left Quebec open to invasion by the Americans. Crown Point was later retaken by British forces. May 11 The Hudson's Bay Co was paid 300,000 pounds by Canada for Rupert's Land 122 years ago today in 1870.",0,0,0,0,0,0
156,18920621,historical,Deluge,"who is very largely interested in real estate in and about Toronto, has obtained a five years' extension from banks on $800,000, on which he will have to pay an interest of $48,000 yearly In the case of the other lawyer his debtors took everything he owned or they could lay their hands on Reports from Welland and Lincoln counties are to the effect that wheat is full in the head and over five feet in height Harvesting will begin on July 4 and will be quite general by the 15th The yield will be exceptionally heavy and some farmers will be scarcely able to gather in the hay in consequence of its unprecedented abundance FAIR AND WARM TO-DAY, with Southerly Wind and a Shower or Thunderstorm Few Toronto, June 20, 11 p.m.
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118,20070626,modern,Heatwave,"Although there was a high heat and humidity warning for Montreal and surrounding regions yesterday, temperature records were not being broken, Environment Canada spokesperson Andre Cantin said. According to the Weather Network, which provides The Gazette with its daily forecasts, yesterday's high in Montreal was 34 degrees C but it felt like 47 because of the humidity. Today's high is forecast to be 27C. The humidity is likely to dissipate today, partly because of the rainy weather that is expected to flirt with the Montreal region. People feel discomfort in hot, humid weather because sweat has a hard time evaporating, so heat cannot leave the body as easily, Cantin explained. Drinking lots of water, reducing physical activity, and seeking air-conditioned areas are recommended. ""Like me - I'm freezing in my office at the moment"" because of air-conditioning, Cantin joked.
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180,18991204,historical,Nan,"Lower Lakes Strong winds or gales from the North and West; fair with local snow flurries, turning much colder, and colder still on Tuesday. Tuesday Georgian Bay Strong winds or gales from the North and West, with local snowfalls, turning much colder, and colder still on Tuesday. Ottawa Valley and Upper and Lower St. Lawrence Local snowfalls; turning colder; decidedly colder on Tuesday. Gulf Fair today; some snow by night; turning colder. Decidedly colder Tuesday. Maritime Strong winds or gales from South to West; some rain; turning much colder on Tuesday, with light local snowfalls. Manitoba Fine and decidedly cold. Submits a Curious Proposition London, December 3 A curious proposition has been made to Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, by Mirza Ahmid, a well-known Mahgiatan of Kadian. He wants the British Government to call a public conference of all the religions and submit them to competitive examinations, under two test demonstrations of the sublimity of their moral teachings by the performance within a year of some miracle.
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199,19920510,modern,Nan,"The CPR was completed in 1885. But Paula Ward has a more chilling theory involving another alien life form, one that is even more menacing to human civilization. I think it's college students, she said. We live right near a campus (Western Washington University). I think they figured out a way to launch dough. And people have the gall to say that our educational system is not getting the job done. Anyway, it appears that this is an isolated case, which should not be blown out of proportion. The truth is that if you work at home, the chances are less than one in two that you will ever be killed by any form of high-speed baking ingredient. The worst that's likely to happen is that, being alone all day, you might find yourself riding weird trains of thought. Believe me when I tell you this. Answers next week. South Korean students try to ward off tear gas fired by police during anti-government demonstration in Seoul. Korean students seize riot police ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL Protesting students seized about 20 riot police officers on a university campus and held them for several hours today, police said.",0,0,0,0,0,0
29,18981128,historical,,"There has been much wild telegraphing from Rome, Cairo and elsewhere about the mysterious movements of King Menelek. Most of these rumors come from Rome, where Menelek is somewhat of a bogey. The Daily Mail's correspondent at Rome says that Menelek has left Addis Ababa at the head of 100,000 men, which is an absolutely disproportionate force for the quelling of Ras Mangascia, who has only about 6,000 men. The suggestion, therefore, is that Menelek is making for Uuhr-el-Qhuzel. Menelek is certainly somewhat of a problem, but these stories are probably gross exaggerations. According to the best obtainable information, he has only 40,000 men in the field, while Mangascia is strong enough to find them employment. According to Lieut. Harrington, the British military representative in Abyssinia, Menelek is still sitting on the fence, endeavoring to play off one European power against the other. Such a policy is elementary and probable.",0,0,0,0,0,0
217,19980522,modern,Nan,"Currency Australia dollar Austria schilling Bahrain dinar Barbados dollar Belgium franc Bermuda dollar Brazil real Bulgaria lev Chile peso China renminbi Colombia peso Cyprus pound Czech Republic koruna Denmark krone Dominican Republic peso E Caribbean dollar Egypt Pound European Currency Unit. Volume 5652 Pin Day Volume 6 HQ Pin Open 29,246. Graduation ring available, transcript, diploma. Yes it's real, legal, guaranteed and accredited, call: 1-800-123-4567. FORD Thunderbird 1987, mint condition, no rust, will sell as-is, $1500 neg 426-9657. HONDA Civic 1988, wagon, manual, 4-door, under 160,000 kms, blue, $2,000 236-7987. CHRYSLER Daytona '91, $3,300 630-7659, burgundy, 148,000 kms, excellent condition $5,100 255-5053. PONTIAC Grand Prix 1990, 4-dr, 6-passenger, white, excellent condition.",0,0,0,0,0,0
212,18880803,historical,Nan,"Mrs. Crull entered the room, and seeing the tub full of water threw off her clothes and jumped in. She was cooked to death before assistance arrived. She knew the water was boiling, so it is believed she entered the tub with suicidal intent. Nettled by Marriage, New York, August 2, Steve Brodie appeared in the Supreme Court today with the mother of Gertrude Lord. The latter had consented to the marriage of her daughter to Brodie. The court proceedings were, therefore, dismissed and the officers of the children's society stated their willingness to release Gertrude now that Brodie was going to marry her. The marriage took place this afternoon. Minor Items, I applied to Mr. Justice Davidson for an order to have the warrant for extradition executed at once or withdrawn. Mr. McLennan opposed the demand, and the learned judge having expressed a desire to have authorities quoted as to whether or not a warrant can be issued and kept in abeyance, the case was continued until this morning. Caledonia Springs, Passengers leave Montreal by Pacific railway at 6 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.",0,0,0,0,0,0
218,19900619,modern,Nan,"he said, the guard fired several warning shots and there was even an exchange of words before the fatal shot The guard shouted at him Don't go over the second fence and the inmate shouted back I'm going, Faulkner said he was told Bernheim said his group wants guards to use firearms only in life-threatening situations It isn't a miracle solution, but one way to reduce the number of incidents is to limit the circumstances where firearms are used Faulkner said guards are caught in the middle If they don't shoot and the prisoner escapes they are disciplined and even suspended If they wound or kill someone trying to escape there's always somebody there ready to cast blame on them for that,",0,0,0,0,0,0
86,20080424,modern,Rain,"Residential home insurance policies do not cover water damage as a routine general risk. People who want to be insured for water damage have to purchase special water-damage riders, also known as endorsements or supplements. They generally cost about $50. The difference between water damage caused by sewer backup and water damage caused by floods isn't always clear, Chadirdjian said. Sometimes, people who live blocks away from a shoreline where there has been flooding will have sewer backup without any evidence of invading surface floodwater. Inspectors are very astute at being able to identify the factors, he said. Some of which means you can pick up beef bourguignon, cassoulet and lacquered duck on your way home and be eating dinner 15 minutes later. SATURDAY IN WEEKEND LIFE yesterday as the Rivière des Prairies Samuel Bernard, whose home sits alongside the Rivière des Prairies, said parking lots around several riverfront apartment blocks, like the Marina Centre on Gouin Blvd., are underwater.
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199,19920510,modern,Nan,"But I'm not unique. When Roy would come to the CNE in Toronto, he broke all existing attendance records. He had such an impact on kids then, says Bonnell, who last spoke to Rogers about eight years ago. The reason was and is what you see is what you get with Roy. Maybe he's too square by today's standards. No question, his movies were pretty tame and not very deep. But there was no major psychological trauma involved either. It was just old-fashioned morals with good triumphing over evil. Bonnell goes on: Roy never allowed drinking in his movies. And he only kissed one girl ever and that was Dale, one tough lady I might add. Who is this lady forever yelling at the king of the cowboys, I used to think when I made the TV special. Apart from Dale, though, there was no kissing, Bonnell pauses, before sheepishly adding: Well, almost none. Roy did give Trigger a couple of kisses on occasion. hazards of Stealth Fighter.",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,"Clark said They've come and they think they've been beaten up No other province would come under those circumstances either The public view may be that Quebec's absence is an indication of some kind of special status for Quebec, or an unreasonable position of Quebec We don't want to put the debate casually into a position where people are being interpreted that way, Clark told reporters the Conservative government is not enthusiastic about a suggestion from Ontario Premier Bob Rae to go ahead with a constitutional conference without Quebec I think we'd want to think very carefully, all of us, about whether we'd want to have a public event which, again, seems to isolate Quebec But Clark was coy about how the Tory government intends to honor its promise to consult Canadians on the deal Asked whether Ottawa would prefer a general election, a national referendum or provincial referendums, the minister simply said there were several options Clark said he wasn't alarmed by the way a constitutional conference in Montreal trashed the federal proposals for an economic union, dwelling instead on Rae's proposal for a social charter But the minister said he noticed delegates often seem more supportive of vaguely defined concepts, like the social charter, than they are for proposals that are well outlined Health Minister Benoit Bouchard, the senior minister for Quebec,",0,0,0,0,0,0
347,19900228,modern,Cold,"The world outdoor record for 1,500 metres is 3:29.46, by Said Aouita of Morocco. Elliott won the same event at last month's Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 3:33.39. Peter Elliott Indoor mark Oldtimers strike out Leo Durocher and Phil Rizzuto were among those left out in the cold as the veterans committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame decided, for the second time in three years, not to add any oldtimers to the shrine. Durocher not being elected may not augur well for Pete Rose. Many felt if Durocher had been elected, despite his one-year suspension for ties with known gamblers, then Rose might have hope when he's eligible. Now it will depend on the climate at the time Rose goes before the writers. The committee met for more than five hours in Tampa and took three ballots before adjourning without a consensus. The candidates needed 11 of the 14 votes cast to earn a selection to the Hall of Fame. That leaves infielder Joe Morgan and pitcher Jim Palmer, who were elected last month by the Baseball Writers Association of America, as the lone new members of the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Temperature conversion Sunrise 6:35 Sunset 5:40 Regional synopses Abitibi-Lac St. Jean High -15, Low near -22, The forecast calls for partly sunny skies. Laurentians High -15, Low near -22, The outlook calls for partly cloudy skies throughout the day. Eastern Ontario High -12, Low near -19, Clear skies with passing cloud and cold temperatures. Southern Ontario High -6, Low near -11, Cloudy periods are forecast throughout the region. Quebec City High -14, Low near -24, The forecast calls for partly sunny skies throughout the day. Eastern Townships High -13, Low near -20, Sunny skies with occasional cloudy periods. New England High -8, Low near -18, Clear skies are expected throughout the region. Lower North Shore High -7, Low near -26, Skies clearing this morning but a few cloudy periods are expected this afternoon. Gaspe High -12, Low near -23, Sunny skies with periods of cloud. Almanac Max Min Yesterday -3 -12 Year ago yesterday -4 -14 Average this date -2 -11 Whitehorse N/A N/A Yellowknife City -2 -15 Vancouver Clear 12 8 Prince Rupert Rain 9 -3 Kamloops Pcldy 7 -7 Edmonton Clear 8 -6 Calgary Clear 5 -9 Saskatoon Clear 5 -9 Regina Clear 4 -9 Winnipeg Clear -4 -10 Thunder Bay Clear 6 0 Sudbury Clear -14 -28 Toronto Pcldy -6 -11 Fredericton Pcldy -9 -21 Halifax Pcldy -3 -13 Charlottetown Pcldy -7 -19 St. John's City -3 -10 United States Atlanta City 18 4 Boston Clear -2 -11 Chicago Clear 1 -6 Cincinnati Clear 4 -7 Dallas Rain 13 5 Denver City 3 -7 Los Angeles City 23 11 New York Clear 3 -6 Phoenix City 26 11 St. Louis City 4 -3 San Francisco City 17 8 Washington City 6 -3 World Amsterdam Storm 6 3 Athens Clear 9 N/A Beijing City 6 -1 Buenos Aires Pcldy 23 14 Copenhagen Pcldy 9 -2 Dublin Rain 6 5 Frankfurt City 14 3 Hong Kong Rain 13 11 Jerusalem Clear 15 2 Lisbon City 19 12 London Pcldy 10 5 Madrid Clear 21 6 Mexico City City 23 7 Moscow City 15 7 New Delhi City 23 12 Paris City 16 6 Roma City 16 9 Sydney City 26 20 Vienna Clear 10 4 Resorts Acapulco Clear 33 23 Barbados Rain 28 24 Daytona Pcldy 21 16 Havana Pcldy 25 20 Honolulu City 26 18 Kingston Rain 31 24 Las Vegas Pcldy 22 8 Miami Pcldy 22 20 Myrtle Beach Pcldy 6 1 Nassau Pcldy 25 21 Tampa Clear 23 12 For free weather information, updated four times a day, please call Gazette Info-Line, 521-8600, code: 6800 North American weather maps by Weather Central. WEEKLY CLUB MED PRIZES Discover this week's Club Med destination and you could fly Air Canada to the vacation of your dreams! The weekly Club Med-Air Canada destination will be revealed day by day as we add pieces to the photo-puzzle. Check The Gazette every day for more information: letters, puzzle pieces and daily clues. As soon as you've guessed the answer, send in the coupon below for your chance to win. The sooner it gets to The Gazette, the more chances you have to win one of the prizes! CASH PRIZES DAILY Every weekday starting Monday, a drawing will be held from entries received for that week's destination. The first five correct entries drawn each day will receive $100. CLUB MED VACATION $500 AWARDED WEEKLY The 25 cash-winning entrants each week will be finalists in the drawing for the weekly dream vacation prize. The entry drawn at random from the 25 finalists on Friday will win a Club Med vacation for two plus $500 in spending money. The winner will fly Air Canada to the destination pictured in that week's puzzle. GRAND PRIZE Cruise for two on Club Med 1 Plus $20,000 cash! At the end of the six weeks, on Tuesday, March 6, The Gazette will award the contest grand prize a luxurious cruise for two on the new Club Med 1 (airfare via Air Canada), PLUS $20,000 in cash! To determine the grand-prize winner, an entry will be drawn at random from all entries received during the contest. Enter as often as you wish. Every entry you send in, whether or not you guessed the correct destination, makes you eligible for the prizes. DESTINATION 6: CLUE: Ponce de Leon claimed it for Spain in 1513 WINNER WEEK 5 MRS. A 2.5 kg (5.5-pound) slab of dark chocolate costs $11.63 to $13.50. That's about 50 cents per 100 g. Send your questions and recipes to The Gazette, Living Section, 250 St. Antoine II, Montreal H2Y 1R7. Personal replies cannot be provided. Pinto kKkido daylum Wopteno Mmv Johanna Burkhard dish pics. Spoon mixture into shallow casserole or deep large pie dish and top with a biscuit or regular pie crust. Bake in a conventional oven at 375 degrees (190 C) for about 30 minutes, or until top is light golden. 3 tablespoons (45 mL) butter 1 cup (250 mL) diced carrots ½ cup (125 mL) diced celery 1 onion, chopped 3 tablespoons (45 mL) all-purpose flour 1½ cups (375 mL) chicken stock ½ teaspoon (2 mL) dried basil ½ cup (125 mL) light or heavy cream 2 cups (500 mL) cooked chicken or turkey, cut into 1-inch (2.5 cm) cubes 1 cup (175 mL) frozen peas 2 tablespoons (25 mL) chopped fresh parsley Salt and ground black pepper. In a two-quart (2 L) casserole dish, combine the butter, carrots, celery and onion. Microwave covered at High (100 per cent power) for five minutes or until vegetables have softened, stirring once. Blend in flour, stir in chicken stock and basil. Microwave covered at High for five to seven minutes, stirring twice, until sauce is smooth and vegetables are tender. Add the cream, turkey, peas and parsley; season to taste with salt and pepper. Microwave covered at Medium-High (70 per cent) for three to five minutes more or until piping hot, stirring once. Serves four. If you have any questions or suggestions, write to The Gazette, Living Section, 290 St. Antoine II, Montreal H2T 1H7. Even bread rises earlier these days. Time was that when you wanted to bake whole-grain breads you had to wait around all day for the bread to rise. No longer. The quality of yeast has improved and so have the methods of baking bread. Although the most popular yeast used at home is fast-rising dry yeast, there is a newcomer called quick-rise instant yeast which lets dough rise in half the time. When making bread, be careful not to work in too much flour or the bread will be heavy. Depending on the humidity of the flour used, you may need to use less or more than the amount called for in a recipe. It's also important to measure flour correctly. Stir flours first, then spoon into a dry measure and use a knife or spatula to level the top. Temperature of liquid ingredients is also critical. Liquids that are too hot will kill the action of yeast and dough will not rise. Low temperatures will shock the yeast and it will not have its full leavening strength. A thermometer is the best way to ensure accuracy. For more information, call the Fleischmann's Yeast Baker's Help Line at 1-800-227-6202. Recipe pamphlets including 90 Minute Breads and Easy Bake Breads are available free of charge. Muesli Yogurt Bread 2 cups (500 mL) warm water (105 to 115 degrees F (40 to 45 C) 2 teaspoons (10 mL) granulated sugar 2 envelopes or 2 scant tablespoons (25 mL) active dry yeast 1 cup (175 mL) plain yogurt ½ cup (50 mL) vegetable oil ½ cup (50 mL) honey 2 teaspoons (10 mL) salt 4 to 4½ cups (1 to 1¼ L) all-purpose flour (approx.) 2 cups (500 mL) whole-wheat flour 1½ cups (375 mL) muesli. In a large mixing bowl, combine the warm water and sugar. Sprinkle yeast into water; let stand for 10 minutes until dissolved (mixture should be foamy). Add yogurt, oil, honey and salt. Stir in three cups (750 mL) all-purpose flour and beat for two minutes with electric mixer or vigorously by hand. Add whole-wheat flour and muesli; combine well. Stir in enough of the remaining all-purpose flour to form a soft, but slightly sticky dough. Transfer to a floured board and knead, incorporating only enough flour to prevent the dough from sticking to board, until smooth and elastic, about eight to 10 minutes. Place dough in greased bowl and turn to coat on all sides. Cover with plastic wrap and a dry towel; let rise in a warm place (a cold oven with oven light turned on, or place bowl on a baking sheet set over a large bowl of hot water) until doubled, about one hour. Punch down dough, divide in two and shape into loaves. Place in two greased nine by five-inch (2 L) loaf pans. Lightly grease tops of loaves. Cover and let rise again until almost doubled, about 45 minutes. Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F (190 C) oven for about 40 to 45 minutes or until loaves sound hollow when tapped. Remove from pans and cool on rack. Makes two loaves. Molasses Wheat Germ Bread with Walnuts 3 cups (750 mL) all-purpose flour (approx.) 3 cups (750 mL) whole-wheat flour ½ cup (125 mL) wheat germ 2 packages or 2 scant tablespoons (25 mL) quick-rise instant yeast 2 cups (500 mL) milk ½ cup (50 mL) butter ½ cup (75 mL) molasses 2 teaspoons (10 mL) salt 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 cup (250 mL) chopped walnuts Melted butter Additional wheat germ. Set aside one cup (250 mL) of the all-purpose flour. In a large mixing bowl, combine the remaining all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, wheat germ and yeast. In a saucepan, heat the milk with the butter, molasses and salt until butter melts. Let cool slightly; temperature should be 120 to 130 degrees F (50 to 55 C). Add liquid ingredients to the flour mixture. Stir in beaten egg; add enough of the remaining all-purpose flour to make a soft, slightly sticky dough. Turn out onto a floured board and knead dough until smooth and elastic, about eight minutes. Roll dough out into a rectangle and sprinkle with walnuts. Fold dough over and knead two to three times. Continue to work in remaining flour in the same way. La certe Aulo, 594-3729, 363-7387 FIREFLY 1989, 11,000 km, standard, radio cassette, $17,300, negotiable, Evenings 424-0818 Private FIREFLY 1989, lady driven, 14,000 km, 455-8834 eves, Private FIREFLY 1987, 5 door, automatic, radio cassette, best offer, Days 934-1787, evenings 672-8823 private FORD Escort GT 1983, New clutch, Good condition, no mechanical problems, Must sell, Joseph, 489-1942, Private FORD Escort L 1983, 4-door, automatic, 80,000 km, excellent condition, Must sell, Best offer, Evenings 626-6487 Private FORD Escort Wagon 1985, 12,500, Automatic, 683-2262 FORD Escort 1985, 48,000 kms, automatic, 437-9617, Private FORD Escort 1984, 83,000 km, manual 4 speed, 2 door, mechanics A-1, extra clean, $11,800, 328-1546 private FORD Escort 1986, 4-door, mint condition, automatic, low mileage, $2,950 negotiable, 342-8862 Private FORD EXP, 1986, 57,000 kms, very good condition, 2 seater, 2 sets of tires, fully loaded except air, Priced for quick sale, $16,500, 259-3271, Private FORD Fairmont Station wagon 1961, clean, body and motor in very good condition, radio cassette, roof-rack, Brakes, transmission and steering all ok, Starts well on cold days, $1,750, 481-9412 private FORD Mustang 1985, 103,000 km, standard, negotiable, 937-9429 private FORD Probe LX 89, auto, 7,000 km, $11,900, JCl Reg, 685-1386 FORD Ranger, 1985, 86,000 kms, manual, 437-9817, private SALE Due to excessive inventory Lachine Ford must drastically reduce all existing in stock models. For a limited time all new and used vehicles will be priced for quick sale. Sale to include all Festiva, Escort, Mustang, Tempo, Probe, Taurus, Thunderbird, Crown Victoria, Ranger, F-150, Bronco, Aerostar and Econoline models. HURRY! LAST CHANCE ONE DAY ONLY Wednesday, Today February 28, 1990 Due to the nature of this sale, complete presentation and test drive may not be possible. Deposit of $500, certified funds, cash or credit card required. Delivery must be taken within 3 days. Located at: LACHINE FORD INC, 3175 Victoria Street Lachine (corner 32nd Ave). FORD Taurus 1987, black, 2.5, 4 cylinder, 5-speed, fully equipped with mags and radio system, very clean, like new, only 52,000 kms plus guarantee until 1992, Asking $10,800, Don't miss out, 683-5770 private FORD Taurus GL 1988, air, 60,000 km, $9,000, Don Driver, 620-7583, 637-3238 FORD Taurus MT5 1987, 47,700 km, fully equipped, warranty July 1991, must sell, Transfer, 622-5471 private FORD Taurus 86, V-6, very clean, 55,000 km, fully loaded, $18,800, Days 252-1939, evenings after 6 pm, 648-6787 Private SUPER USED CAR SALE T-BIRD 1985, $4,200, 2099 private, 937 FORD Tempo, GL, 1986, very good condition, low mileage, grey, 62-065 private, FOX wagon 1988, 4-speed, low kms, Gilles or Marc, 455-7941, AUTO HELLARD GOLF 1986, 2-door, 5-spd, diesel, radio, Gilles or Marc, 455-7941, AUTO HELLARD GOLF 67, 4 dr, 5 sod Mini, 42,000 km, 5737 Sherbrooke, 483-1437 Chomedey, 4691 Samson, 688-6535. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Prices in effect until March 3, 1990. SUPPER Aksce power CONTINUED FROM PAGE 01 Fortunately, the dippers and spoons had long handles; the heat was so intense it spit-roasted the goose in three hours. The fire, a welcome sight as we arrived at the 1860-vintage Cook's Tavern during a snowstorm, posed other hazards. As teacher Carol Sargent put it, ""Oh, my aching back"" must have been a frequent complaint after a housewife had turned out a meal. And women often set themselves alight when cooking, she warned, as her full-length 19th-century costume brushed over some hot coals. The coals had been shovelled into a heap on the stone hearth so a cast iron ""bake kettle"" on legs could be set on top, an apple pie lowered inside, and more coals heaped on the lid. Apart from the goose, which had us all amazed because it cooked so quickly, browned to perfection and tasted so good, the cooking of the pie was the most surprising feat of the day. This task was assigned to Ottawa Sun food editor Sheridan Brace. Within 45 minutes her pie, filled with moistened dried apples, had baked as crisp and golden-brown as if it had come from a modern electric oven. Its only drawback: the handmade puff pastry was chewy. However, this didn't stop us from forking it up with gusto. Soup cook Cathy Thompson was first to finish her assignment, beef and barley soup which she served us in wide, china soup plates. Unknown to her, the fire was considerably hotter than the simmering temperature called for in the recipe from Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. Thompson, a Morrisburg Leader reporter, produced her soup in two hours, one hour ahead of the time given in the recipe. After a morning at hearthside, we became somewhat deft at adjusting temperatures. It's all a matter of how far you keep your pot from the flames, we learned. And that turned out to depend on the number of heavy, iron hooks you link together to suspend a pot from a swinging iron crane in the chimney. This was an era of few commercial food products. ""You couldn't go to the store for most foods,"" said Sargent, a teacher who has directed hearthside cooking classes for both adults and children for the past seven years. Ingredients such as white flour could not be taken for granted. Whole-wheat flour would be used for most baking, white flour only for special-occasion dishes such as a party dessert. Vegetables you grew would be stored in a root cellar, fruit in a cold pantry and herbs, dried, hung from the rafters. Three ingredients in my dessert raisins, sherry and a lemon flavoring called ""essence"" would have been bought at a general store, she said. I learned to proceed cautiously when adding this early version of lemon extract to my recipe for ""A healthful pudding sauce"" from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book, 1869. The flavoring looked innocent enough in its heavy glass jar. In centuries past, it would have been made whenever fresh lemons were available and stored. Menu from Upper Canada 1860 supper Barley Soup (Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861) Fried Oysters (Canadian Manual of Cookery, 1861) Roast Goose with Sage and Onion Stuffing (Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management) Seasonal Vegetables (Canadian Settler's Guide, 1855) Dried Apple Pie (Young Housekeeper's Friend, 1853) Baroness Pudding (Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management) A Healthful Pudding Sauce (Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book, 1869) Tea ESPOSITO PUBLIC MARKET 7030 ST MICHEL 722-1069 or 156. The pale yellow liquid turned out to pack a punch when blended with brown sugar, butter and sherry and simmered in a tiny iron pot over the fire. Still, it tasted perfect with slabs of my hot, steamed Baroness Pudding, moist with a diet-defying quantity of suet, or fat. One cooking method we were told to shun was the Victorian habit, as Sargent put it, of cooking vegetables ""right to a mush."" Varieties then were far different from our hybrid types, which require only a brief simmering or steaming. The second half of the 19th century saw the beginnings of kitchen gadgetry, Sargent said. Cornwall CBC broadcaster Valerie Marshall used an early metal apple corer in making her chunky apple sauce to go with the goose. Sargent showed us a ""clock Jack,"" a timer you wound with a key so it would turn a roast slowly over the fire as it unwound. Another version of this appliance was a ""roaster,"" operated by twisting yarn around a skewer. A hand-turned coffee grinder was easy to comprehend. A ""grid iron"" needed explanation. Its cast-iron grids were grooved to catch fat drippings and funnel them into a tray at one end. ""That fat would be used to make a pie crust or treat your iron pots,"" Sargent said. ""Never wash a cast-iron pot by submerging it in water,"" she warned. Pour a little water into the pot, scrub with a pot scrubber (we used a brush made of small twigs tied in a bunch), swish the water about vigorously, discard it and set the pot to dry, she told us. ""Otherwise your pot will rust. And you should treat it once a week with a little lard."" Sargent taught us respect for the cast-iron equipment. ""These pots get very hot and stay hot for a long time. It's one of the nice properties of cast iron,"" she said. ""Another lesson was the sparing use of ingredients. ""They didn't waste anything,"" said Sargent. As an example, she had Sandra Lee Johnston of the Iroquois, Ont., Chieftain set the giblets from the goose carefully aside before adding the sage-flavored bread-crumb stuffing. They would have been used to make a giblet pie for another meal. Soon after 1860, wood stoves came into wider use and cooking techniques became more elaborate and precise, Sargent told us. They started marketing it in late 1985, when they brought in Montreal businessman Peter Rona, who purchased the Canadian rights to the game. ""I thought I was finished,"" Rona said recently. ""I couldn't make a sale for a year and a half."" Bar and restaurant owners would ask: ""Who else has it?"" Nobody wants to be first. ""This is no get-rich-quick scheme. It's a very long haul."" But the system is off the ground, with 240 subscribers in the United States and 170 in Canada. And growing. NTN recently announced plans to expand into the home-viewer market, after a successful pilot project involving 16,000 homes in Dallas. Beginning in April, NTN will be offered through Bell Telephone's Alex videotext service. TACTICAL TEAM Experts to visit troubled hospital wards CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 it's not a new idea. ""It has already been done 10 times,"" Douville said in a telephone interview from Montreal. Officials with the Quebec Hospitals Association said they would issue a statement later in the week. Cote said both investigating teams are to cooperate with hospital officials to improve conditions but if hospitals don't conform to their suggestions, he's ready to step in. He would not reveal who was on the teams except to say they are emergency specialists. ""There is only one tactical team, dubbed the department's own SWAT team, for now."" Statistics made public by the Health and Social Services Department yesterday show occupation rates for emergency beds dropped from 1985 to 1988, but have increased since then despite the continued cash injections. For example, the occupation rate for beds in Montreal increased from 91 per cent to 97 per cent during 1988. Yet Cote believes 80 per cent of emergency-room patients don't belong there and could be better treated in out-patient clinics, community health clinics, or private clinics. Those areas stand a better chance of getting more money, he said. Cote said he wants to create an emergency system in which funding needs are based on cold statistics and efficient management, not how well one region is able to lobby the government or how loud they scream. ""It's with an instrument like this that we'll be able to give each region and sub-region (the service) it has the right to,"" he said. The Parti Quebecois, meanwhile, said the Liberals were playing for time and using the investigating teams as a smoke screen instead of addressing the heart of the problem. Blame budget woes: hospitals JEFF HEINRICH THE GAZETTE Hospital officials and watchdogs yesterday blamed budget problems and school holidays not mismanagement for staff shortages this week that have closed 1,000 of 11,000 beds in the Montreal region. Only in rare cases has mismanagement led to shortages, said Marcel Marion, who regulates bed closings for the Montreal Regional Health and Social Services Council. Marion rejected Health Minister Marc-Yvan Cote's suggestion yesterday that poor management has led to chronic emergency-ward overcrowding, contending most hospitals have streamlined operations in recent years to become more efficient. Jacques Maynard, who heads the 300-bed Cite de la Sante Laval Hospital in Laval, said 60 people were brought in to emergency yesterday ""and we have a capacity for only 32."" Forty-five beds have been closed. ""We already have a very congested emergency ward, at the best of times; it's certain that at times like this it gets worse,"" Maynard said. The Laval hospital is one of the worst off of several Montreal-area hospitals suffering from bed shortages, Marion said. Also hard hit by the vacations (when many doctors and nurses take time off to be with their holidaying children) and a March 31 budget deadline are the Centre Hospitalier Fleury, the Centre Hospitalier St. Michel and Jean Talon Hospital, Marion said. He said some ""downtown anglophone hospitals"" have contributed to the bed shortage problem by tying up too many beds for elective surgery. He did not name the hospitals. ""There are some where elective surgery counts for 55 or 60 per cent of all beds, with the rest for emergency. It should be the reverse,"" he said. Administrators at the Montreal General, Jewish General and Royal Victoria hospitals were not available for comment last night. 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""It's pretty hard, you know, to have 7 million people, one of the founding peoples, standing on that snowbank and say, 'Isn't it wonderful, aren't things terrific?' Well, of course, they are not terrific."" Mulroney wasn't ready to speculate on what will happen if the accord is rejected. ""I do not accept the view that the Meech Lake accord can be set aside without consequences. There will be consequences. I'm not capable of telling you what they might be, but obviously there will be consequences."" In Winnipeg, about 50 prominent Manitobans who fear those consequences knocked a chunk out of the province's anti-Meech wall yesterday by urging the accord be passed for the good of Canada. ""We believe Quebecers are holding out the hand of friendship and we should welcome them fully and generously,"" said Patrick Riley, a Winnipeg lawyer and founder of Manitobans for Meech Lake. ""Ratifying the accord will be a severe blow to separatism in Quebec,"" he told reporters packed into a tiny hotel meeting room. He said the organization came together out of a feeling of urgency, with the June 23 ratification deadline fast approaching and Quebec rumbling about separation in the event the Meech Lake accord isn't passed. The group plans a campaign of newspaper ads and public meetings, starting this weekend with a conference in Winnipeg of like-minded organizations, such as the Montreal-based Friends of Meech Lake and Canadians for Unifying the Constitution. The association includes: Roland Penner, Manitoba's former New Democratic Party attorney general; Yvon Dumont, president of the Manitoba Metis Federation; Jack Fraser of Federal Industries Ltd.; and Art Mauro, president of Investors Group Inc. and chairman of the 1991 Winnipeg Grey Cup committee. But the group faces some formidable opposition, with all three parties in the Manitoba legislature demanding changes to Meech Lake before they will ratify the agreement. Conservative Premier Gary Filmon wasn't impressed by the new organization. ""What they are doing and saying is an insult to all of those people throughout the province who have legitimate concerns,"" Filmon said. Manitoba and New Brunswick are the only provinces that haven't approved the accord; Newfoundland has threatened to rescind its ratification if amendments aren't made. The accord recognizes Quebec as a distinct society, allows all provinces to opt out of some federal spending programs and requires unanimous consent for Senate reform and creating new provinces. In Charlottetown, P.C. government says in a court action, PAGE B1 Higher jobless rate ahead? As interest rates rise and consumers tighten their belts, a chain reaction is rippling through Quebec's economy. Falling retail sales could mean we're headed for double-digit unemployment. PAGE El Seen in a new role Louis del Grande, the clairvoyant klutz on Seeing Things, reappears on CBC-TV as a wild-eyed lawyer living in a group home for de-institutionalized mental patients. PAGE C1 Down and wimpy on Broad St. The Philadelphia Flyers, the Broad St. Bullies of Bobby Clarke's playing days, are a mediocre bunch of wimps. And GM Bobby is getting the blame. PAGE HI Enough is enough. It's time that bus riders come first in Montreal's transit dispute. Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel's visit to Moscow is a triumph of symbolism. PAGE B2 These cooks had to be strong. It took muscle and resistance to scorching heat to cook a meal in 1860, Gazette food editor Julian Armstrong discovers at Upper Canada Village. PAGE D1 Sunny, cold High: Low: 12 19 The forecast for Montreal today calls for clear skies with occasional cloudy periods. Slightly warmer temperatures are forecast for tomorrow. PAGE El 2 Auf der Maur A2 Births Deaths H9 Boone C1 Bridge H7 Business El Camilli C5 Careers E8 Classified F1 G1 Comics C6 Computers E5 Crossword H7 Dear Doctor D8 Editorials B2 Hadekel E1 Horoscope H7 Johnson B3 Landers D8 Legal Notices H8 Living D1 Macpherson B3 Movies C3 Needletrade H8 Probe D10 Racing H4 Scoreboard H4 Show C1 Sports H1 TV Listings C2 Weather Map E12 The Gazette's CLUB MED contest PAGE El 2 Decision to examine options is not threatening, Mulroney says - PEGGY CURRAN GAZETTE OTTAWA BUREAU BECANCOUR Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said yesterday that it is normal and reasonable for Quebec to weigh its options if the Meech Lake constitutional accord is rejected. And he said he expects Canadians will warm to the 1987 agreement once they consider the alternatives. Speaking to reporters at the start of a three-day Quebec tour, Mulroney said he finds nothing ominous or threatening in the Quebec Liberal Party's decision to set up a committee to examine options if the constitutional accord isn't ratified by the June 23 deadline. ""What I understood was the Liberal Party in Quebec, a strongly federalist party, examining its alternatives in the event that Meech Lake was unsuccessful,"" he said. ""You would have to be reaching a great deal to read anything more than reasonable self-examination."" Mulroney said he still believes the deal can be saved. He said the federal government isn't ready to talk about life after Meech. However, Mulroney said it isn't surprising that Premier Robert Bourassa and others in Quebec are having doubts. ""I thought that he (Bourassa) was seeking, in a very rational and thoughtful way, to examine certain options that may or may not emerge,"" Mulroney said. ""I didn't think that he was threatening and I didn't think he was sabre-rattling,"" Mulroney said. The prime minister said, ""The best alternative for Quebec is to be found in a united Canada."" But he said if Quebecers see the Constitution as a source of division rather than unity, they may feel like ""pretty reluctant participants in the federation."" Mulroney said the Meech Lake accord was designed to PLEASE SEE MEECH, PAGE A2 Bourassa's trying to keep party intact: Parizeau, PAGE A6 Don't bet that premier is bluffing: Macpherson, PAGE B3 Meech revives ""colonial chic"": Johnson, businesses and labor organizations, is the latest in the battle of lobby groups over the Clean Air Act. ""NutriSystem helped me fit into a size 10 dress."" Another World Record! 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""The child just drank it straight down, probably in two swallows,"" said police Sgt. Mark Bigler. ""I couldn't drink it like that."" Police arrested the guest, Anthony Jimerson of Fort Worth, and charged him with injury to a child. They said Jimerson wanted the child to fall asleep so that he could be alone with the boy's mother. Jimerson was being held at Fort Worth County jail. Dog saves young master from freezing BOSTON GLOBE RAYNHAM, Mass. His legs and feet felt frozen. His clothes were sopping from the murky swamp he had stumbled into. Lost and confused, he lay in the snow for hours on a bitterly cold night. Yet Greg Holzworth, 12, refused to believe he might freeze to death in the woods. When the gnawing fear and minus-12 C temperature began to stifle him, he huddled under his dog, Shadow, for warmth. ""I was scared and I was wicked cold, but I wasn't thinking about panicking,"" said Greg. 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Is Robert Bourassa engaging in sabre-rattling over Meech Lake, as Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon says he is? Of course he is. There's no doubt that Bourassa intended to put pressure on Filmon and the other Meech Lake holdouts by having his party, at the meeting of its general council in Quebec City on the weekend, formally create a committee at this point to prepare ""alternative scenarios"" for the party's policy convention next February if the constitutional accord fails. A party that is capable of changing its language policy in an afternoon, as the Liberals did at a special meeting of their general council after the Supreme Court decision on the language of commercial signs came down in December 1988, shouldn't need a whole year to come up with a new constitutional option. It could have at least waited until after the fate of the accord is sealed, which the government's Meech watchers say will be in only another month or six weeks at the most, to begin the process formally. In fact, a committee like the one that the Liberals made such a show of creating last weekend has already existed informally since December, laying the groundwork for a review of the party's constitutional position on the instructions of the party executive. But it's precisely because the Meech watchers believe the accord can still be saved, but that time is running out on it, that the committee was formally created at this crucial point. The need for ""alternative scenarios"" wasn't apparent when the Bourassa government initiated the round of informal talks that resulted in the Meech Lake accord in June 1987. Back then, Bourassa and his minister of Canadian intergovernmental affairs, Gil Remillard, said that if it looked as though their proposals would not be accepted, Quebec would simply walk away from the negotiating table and wait for the rest of Canada to come around. In the meantime, it would continue to stay away from constitutional talks on other subjects, such as aboriginal rights, as it had already been doing since the rest of Canada had imposed a new constitution on it in 1981. It might seem illogical that, now that Quebec's proposals have been formally ratified by Parliament and the legislatures of eight of the 10 provinces, the Liberals apparently feel that boycotting future constitutional negotiations might no longer be adequate should the proposals be rejected by two or three provinces representing no more than 10 per cent of the country's population. But that escalation reflects the buildup in political tension in this province in response to what Quebecers see as an anti-Quebec and anti-French backlash in the rest of the country expressed as opposition to Meech Lake and bilingualism. When you boil off all the essentially meaningless though headline-grabbing rhetoric about ""not practising federalism on bended knee"" and vague musings about undefined ""supranational institutions"" that sound something like sovereignty-association, neither Bourassa nor Remillard has yet explicitly committed Quebec to anything beyond their original position. They've been quite content to encourage the media and for a while last Friday, until a gag order was apparently clamped on them other members of the Liberal cabinet and caucus to do their threatening for them. But it will not be Revenue Minister Yves Seguin who decides whether the Bourassa government comes out for Quebec sovereignty. That will be Bourassa's decision alone, and he will probably reach it the way he decided on his response to the Supreme Court's ruling on the language of commercial signs keeping open as many options as possible until the last moment, then doing what the results of Sorccom's public opinion surveys tell him to do. And that will probably not be until at least August, at the annual meeting of the Liberal Party's youth wing. Bourassa may try to manipulate public opinion by floating trial balloons to see how people react to them. But he doesn't try to lead it. Rather, he is led by it, responding to its shifts like a surfer constantly adjusting his position in a wave to try to find the best ride. That's what makes his response to the failure of Meech Lake unpredictable: because it is too early to predict how Quebecers themselves will react, and how intense that reaction will be. But are all the threats coming out of Quebec mere bluff? If Gary Filmon and the other Meech holdouts want to bet that they are, the stakes are nothing less than Canada. Clouds darken early hope of Open Sides Soviets start to show signs of cold feet CHRISTOPHER YOUNG SOUTHAM NEWS OTTAWA The Cold War must be over when senior officials start getting headaches from problems of peace. It isn't going to be easy, as we know from reading about the pell-mell drive toward unification of the two Germanys, or about several hundred thousand protesters jamming the Garden Ring Road in central Moscow. Viktor Karpov, chief Soviet disarmament negotiator, did a little moaning here Monday about peace problems. Take excess tanks. Talk about piles of burning tires, or mountains of last year's phone books: How do you get rid of 40,000 tanks that you've agreed to withdraw from Eastern Europe? Drive them home, but then what? The huge tank force in Eastern Europe was Moscow's answer to the overwhelming American superiority in bombers and missiles in Cold War days. ""The mentality was that if we were attacked we could occupy France or Germany,"" Karpov said, lifting a corner of the secrecy blanket that would have muffled any such remark in the past. ""We had 60,000 tanks,"" he added, telling a small round-table audience not to ask him why, because he had no idea. Now negotiations are virtually complete for the Soviet Union and the United States to slim the columns of tanks based in Western and Eastern Europe to a mere 20,000 each. Someone asked Karpov what his country was going to do with the 40,000 surplus tanks, seeking assurance that they wouldn't be sold to warring Third World countries. The question reminded Karpov of a story, a true one but so Russian that if it weren't about tanks it might have come from a 19th-century Russian novel. ""These tanks are a problem,"" he said. There are ""some very ingenious people"" in the new cooperatives, which are intended to rouse the sleeping spirit of business enterprise without the exploitation of man by man that Communist theory condemns. ""We discovered a while ago some tanks on the way to Novorossiysk, a port on the Black Sea. No one knew why. Investigation revealed that a tank factory had exceeded its plan in numbers of tanks produced. It sold the extras to a co-op, which intended to resell them abroad. ""These people are being prosecuted,"" said Karpov with a sigh, ""and that's not the way to deal with 40,000 tanks."" The right way to deal with them is still being sought. Experts say it's not practical to reprocess the heavy steel they are made of. The idea of removing their gun turrets and turning them into heavy vehicles for civilian use was abandoned because their giant tracks did so much damage. That was all very well for occupying France, but why rip up your own marginally passable roads? Karpov and ambassadors from other NATO and Warsaw Pact countries were packing their bags yesterday as the Ottawa phase of the 23-nation Open Skies conference ended in a mood much less buoyant than when it opened two weeks ago. Then, there was jubilant talk of historic opportunities, as the nations seemed anxious to negotiate a treaty giving each other open sesame to fly across the territories of former foes counting troops and tanks, air bases and missile silos as part of the Vienna security conference's efforts to build confidence and press forward the process of disarmament in Europe. But Karpov played spoiler at the end, refusing Western nations the right to fly their own planes and use their own cameras and sensor equipment, apparently fearful that Soviet technology could not match the stuff from Silicon Valley.",0,0,0,0,0,0
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89,19930731,modern,Nan,"Jeff Maggert made up for a first-day blunder on the way to a 6-under-par 65 yesterday and led John Daly by a stroke after two rounds of the PGA's $1-million St. Jude Classic. Maggert, who was at 10-under 132, could have had a piece of the lead Thursday but for a triple bogey on the par-3 11th hole after going into the water. He settled for a 67 that left him three shots off the pace of Michael Bradley. Yesterday, Maggert birdied the 11th, sinking a 20-foot putt. ""There was a little revenge there,"" Maggert said. ""Other than that one shot (Thursday), the past two days I've hit the ball really well."" Daly, a former Memphis-area resident, shot a 66 that included four birdies and an eagle on the par-5 15th hole of the 7,006-yard Players Tournament Club at Southwind. Daly put a 6-iron approach 20 feet from the cup on No. 5.
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191,19900320,modern,Flood,"The two dead and the badly injured man were all foreign nationals who may have been from the Philippines, Leclerc said. Seven others who included dock workers and other Alcan employees suffered minor injuries. Names of the dead and injured were not released. Emergency crews, fearing further explosions, evacuated people within a one-kilometre radius of the dock, said Sgt. Lou Muckle of La Baie municipal police. Carolle Gagn茅 picks up bits of broken furniture store window in La Baie. The injured were taken by ambulance to Chicoutimi but the dead were left on board because of the fear of further explosions, he said. The loud explosion broke car windshields and windows within a radius of several kilometres. The sound could be heard clearly at the police station, five kilometres from the dock, where some windows broke, Muckle said. ""We had calls from people who thought it was an earthquake."" The explosion caused extensive structural damage to the ship and damaged buildings in the port. Neither police nor company officials could say how many crew members were on board when the explosion occurred. Floods force families to flee homes Montreal-area communities spared by cooler weather.
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201,19920824,modern,Nan,"It's serious; I see it as a major, major situation. I see no limit for it at the moment. Is marriage a possibility? Possible, uh-huh. There are those who claim you're having a kind of midlife crisis that this is a classic case of a man having reached a certain age, who reaches out to a very young person to recharge batteries, and to restore a vitality and sense of self. Yes, one could speculate about those things. But people that have known me for a long time, and have known of the situation, and of Soon-Yi, have said to me: take Soon-Yi and run. They say, you're a lucky guy, she's delighted and happy, and you guys have terrific times together. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Want to be the coolest on your block? Just pop these videos in your VCR JOHN SINGH KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS It's not enough for you? It's nearly September, and here we are enjoying what seems like the first prolonged hot spell of summer. For some of you, in fact, it may actually be dare I say it, autumn.",0,0,0,0,0,0
277,19960726,modern,Drought,"A 6 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1996 We'll look at water management policies Cliche says ELIZABETH THOMPSON GAZETTE QUEBEC BUREAU QUEBEC - The provincial Environment Department will re-evaluate its water management policies in the wake of last weekend's disastrous flooding in the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean region, Environment Minister David Cliche said yesterday. """"It is now known that the planet is warming up and it is more and more probable that with the warming of the planet this kind of event, that is to say floods and droughts, are phenomena that we will have to learn to live with."""" This will perhaps allow us to rethink certain things. Cliche said he also will look at whether to force privately owned dams across Quebec to undergo periodic government inspections and whether the province should prohibit some Saguenay-Lac St-Jean residents from rebuilding too close to the waterways that flooded. Serious questions However, none of that would have claimed the lives of 10 people across eastern Quebec, including three children, Cliche said. """"When a catastrophe happens like this, when a disaster comes, after the shock people try to find somebody who is responsible for it,"""" he said. """"What I am saying today is we have done our best. We have minimized the impact. If we had not been there, it would have been worse."""" Cliche's comments come amid serious questions on the part of many Saguenay-Lac St-Jean residents who suspect Quebec's system of managing its dams and the water level in Lac Kenogami was partly to blame for the extent of the devastation. They charge the water level was kept too high prior to the rainstorm and officials were too slow to open the floodgates to relieve some of the pressure. Yesterday, armed with charts, graphs, maps and accompanied by civil servants, Cliche said Environment Department officials began opening the floodgates of the dams on Lac Kenogami wider last Wednesday once they received forecasts of heavy rains for the region. Although some have suggested Quebec should have emptied the lake, Cliche said it would have been impossible to empty the reservoir in less than 15 days. Fifteen days beforehand, nobody could predict that level of rainfall that in some places reached 280 mm over three days - the kind of thing you see once in 10,000 years, he said. Nor would it have prevented the disaster, because the rainfall was 1.5 times the total capacity of the reservoir, he said. """"Even if the reservoir had been completely empty we would have had the same disaster."""" Saved lives In fact the presence of the dams and the way the government handled them probably saved many lives, Cliche added. By not fully opening the floodgates immediately, they were able to reduce the maximum flow by 28 per cent and buy public security officials 21 hours to evacuate dwellings. However, Cliche also admitted that his department's management of the crisis was not without its problems. Yvon Gosselin, the Environment Department official in charge of the dams, said there was a mechanical breakdown of the upper spillway at the Portage des Roches dam as a result of the force of the water. At the Pibrac dams there was a short circuit when floodwaters reached the electrical system and prevented workers from opening the dam fully. Cliche also was faced with questions about the management of a dam owned by Stone Consolidated at the mouth of Lac Ha! Ha! During the downpour, water from the lake crushed one of the earthen dikes and destroyed houses in its path as it flooded into La Baie. Cliche said that while private dams have to be approved by the government when they are built, their maintenance and operation are totally in the hands of their owners. However, Cliche said, among the questions he plans to study is whether the government should begin inspecting private dams. While he rejected calls for a public inquiry, Cliche said he wants a review of Quebec's water management practices and to accelerate work on a province-wide water management policy. """"It has become apparent,"""" he said, """"that we should adopt a water policy. We are the Arabs of water."""" Quebec has 10 per cent of the world's fresh water reserves. Cliche said he also wants to re-evaluate the traditional boundaries of the waterways in the areas affected by the flooding and probably prevent some residents and businesses from rebuilding in the same spots. CP Homeless: Hugue Re Simard lived just behind the Jonquiere apartment block teetering on the river bank. Flood payout whets appetites Victims of earlier disasters yearn for more JONATHON GATEHOUSE THE GAZETTE The generous response of the federal and provincial governments to last weekend's devastating Quebec floods has raised questions of fairness and hopes for increased compensation among victims of previous natural disasters. """"It's not setting a legal precedent, but it's certainly setting a social and moral one,"""" Montreal lawyer Irwin Liebman said yesterday. In 1987, Liebman launched a class action seeking increased financial compensation for thousands of area residents whose homes were flooded after a summer storm dumped 102 millimetres of rain in less than an hour. The rainwater caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage across the city, but most Montrealers didn't qualify for assistance. The court challenge was dismissed in 1988. """"The current victims (in the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean region) deserve every penny, and I hope they get their compensation, but Montrealers were really done in,"""" Liebman said. On Wednesday, Premier Lucien Bouchard announced a special financial aid package for individuals and municipalities damaged by overflowing rivers in the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean and along the North Shore. The new plan more than doubles the previous maximum payout per household. Flood victims who have lost their homes will receive 100 per cent reimbursement of the first $100,000 of their property's assessed value and 75 per cent of the remaining value. The government also will pay up to an additional $15,000 to owners for the loss of furniture and personal effects and a further $1,000 for each other occupant. Municipalities will be reimbursed for 100 per cent of their emergency expenses and 90 per cent of the reconstruction costs of damaged municipal infrastructure. It is estimated that the new relief package will cost a minimum of $200 million, with the federal government picking up between 50 and 90 per cent of the tab. Under the province's existing emergency relief plan, offering compensation for natural disasters like last winter's floods in Chateauguay, victims are eligible for up to 70 per cent of the value of damaged buildings and essential goods, such as clothes and major appliances. There is no compensation for land and the maximum payout per residence is $50,000, with a $500 deductible. Municipalities ravaged by acts of God are reimbursed through a complicated sliding percentage formula based on the per capita cost of repairs. In an interview yesterday, Chateauguay Mayor Jean-Bosco Bourcier said he welcomes the more generous compensation rules and plans to press the government to apply them to outstanding damage claims in his city. More than 30 homes in the municipality were destroyed and 717 were damaged when the Chateauguay River overflowed Jan. 19. The flooding caused an estimated $2.5 million in property damage and the city of Chateauguay incurred more than $600,000 in emergency and cleanup costs. Bourcier said the city stands to recover only 50 per cent of its costs under the existing regulations. But he said it would be inappropriate to press the issue so soon after last weekend's disaster and he will wait until the end of summer before approaching the province. Marc Lavallee of the civil protection branch of Quebec's Public Security Department, which administers disaster relief, said the new flood compensation plan is a special reaction to an extraordinary disaster. He said the generosity of the package is greater than usual because of the increased participation of the federal government. Lavallee said he was unable to predict whether the new guidelines would be applied to claims arising from previous disasters. But he did note that government relief packages have become progressively more generous in recent years. """"For us this is a surprise,"""" he said. """"It's a whole new game. But what's going to happen next? I can't say."""" """"Nothing will ever replace what I've lost."""" CONTINUED FROM PAGE At Sept-Iles for a couple and their 18-month-old daughter who drowned when their car plunged into a washout on the North Shore. The $450 million repair bill includes the costs of rebuilding infrastructure like water mains and sidewalks, building new houses and repairing damaged ones, compensating flood victims for furniture and personal effects and providing financial assistance to small businesses. John Burke, a civil protection officer, predicted it could take up to two years to rebuild all the roads, bridges and shorelines in the devastated region. Premier Lucien Bouchard announced a $200 million compensation fund on Monday and has since come up with a more generous relief program. Flood victims who have lost their homes will be reimbursed 100 per cent of the first $100,000 of the municipal assessment value of their homes and 75 per cent of any amount in excess of that. The compensation program announced by the premier relies on Ottawa to pick up most of the tab under a disaster relief agreement. The Quebec government has pledged that evaluators will visit each home within days and residents will receive a cheque covering 50 per cent of the assessed damage almost immediately. More than 800 people have received advance cheques of $2,500 to take care of immediate needs. Among them was Monette Levesque, whose house in La Baie and the land underneath it were swept away. Levesque probably will be eligible for $90,000 in aid covering the full municipal evaluation of her property and her furniture. But Levesque, 59, was still in despair over the loss of the house she had lived in for 35 years, and the neighborhood that surrounded it. """"I cry every morning when I get dressed,"""" she said outside the town hall. """"Nothing will ever replace what I've lost."""" About 350 houses were destroyed, mostly in La Baie, Laterriere, Jonquiere and Chicoutimi. Another 200 buildings that remain standing will have to be condemned as unstable, Burke said. About 5,000 people are expected to return home today, bringing the total number to 9,000. But 2,000 are still homeless and might have to wait months before they can move into permanent dwellings. Construction crews continued working double shifts to repair bridges and roads in La Baie, the hardest-hit community. Long lines of heavy trucks rumbled into the town loaded with tons of granite and earth. Major industries such as Alcan have suffered tens of millions of dollars worth of damage. Last night, the aluminum company finished reconstructing a bank of the Riviere a Mars that supports a vital bridge. """"That project usually takes weeks to be completed and we did it in four days,"""" Alcan engineer Christine Tremblay said. Local tourist officials appealed to Canadians yesterday not to forsake the region - normally a popular vacation spot renowned for its fjords. The tourist industry has lost millions of dollars each day since record rainfalls last Friday. Public Security Minister Robert Perreault, who visited the region in the morning, said the government will reimburse municipalities for 90 per cent of the cost of repairs to infrastructure. """"The mayors have told us they are extremely happy with the swift response of the government and the support they have received,"""" Perreault told reporters when told that the mayors of some villages had complained. Authorities have not yet calculated the cost of rebuilding parts of the North Shore and Charlevoix regions, which also were battered by floods. But Jean Morneau, a senior civil protection official, said those regions suffered damage on about one-tenth the scale of the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean. ADDITIONAL REPORTING: CANADIAN PRESS How to help Here is a partial list of organizations accepting donations: Branches of the National Bank, Caisses Populaires Desjardins, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank of Montreal, Laurentian Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, Royal Bank, Scotiabank, Canada Trust and the National Bank of Greece. Cheques should be made payable to the Gift of Solidarity or the Red Cross. Jean Coutu pharmacies accept donations to the Red Cross. Independent gas stations belonging to Petroles Crevier, Petro T, Groupe Harnois, Petroles Ronoco, EKO, Olco, Sonic and Petro Act will be collecting for the Red Cross. The Sun Youth Organization is accepting new clothing for the disaster victims. Call 842-6822. The Loyola College, Sir George Williams and Concordia University alumni associations are collecting funds. Call Clothing, blankets and sleeping bags can be dropped off at Executive Forwarders in Old Montreal. Call 284-6134. The Societe des Alcools du Quebec will match all donations made at its outlets today and tomorrow. Have The Gazette delivered to your door and start your day INFORMED STIMULATED and INSPIRED 987-2400 What's worth watching? Check HIKER BOOHE'S TV PICKS every day. The Jewish Public Library invites you to the 82nd Annual General Meeting Monday, August 26, 1996 7:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Dr. Bernard J. Shapiro Principal and Vice-Chancellor McGill University. Topic: Libraries in an Information Age Joseph & Ida Berman Auditorium 5151 Côte St. Catherine Rd. Admission: Free Information: 345-2629 NATIONAL EXHIBITION fit Paper Money Tokens in Montreal - Open to the Public FRIDAY, JULY 26 - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. SATURDAY, JULY 27 - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. AUCTION SESSIONS GIFT TO THE FIRST 3,000 VISITORS CENTRE SHERATON MONTREAL 1201 RENE-LEVESQUE WEST Info: (514) 449-1888 or (514) 656-7756 Admission: loto-quebec Draw""",0,0,0,0,0,0
201,19920824,modern,Nan,"It also features a young Robby Benson (this guy did the voice of Beauty's beast?!) and the film debut of Lynn-Holly Johnson. Remember her? Didn't think so. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (1969) and RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (M4-7190) SECRETAIRE legale, bilingue, avec au moins 5 ans d'exp锟斤拷rience en contentieux pour 锟斤拷tudes moyenne au centre-ville. SENIOR Travel Agent required for mid-size travel agency, bilingualism required, Min 4 yrs experience. TF 997-1421, 11791. Sales Help Wanted 420 AMBITIOUS, self-directed people needed immediately to expand branch office. No French required. Will supply car and training. Career-oriented individuals, call 694-8361. A new Botanical Blend is sweeping the province by storm. I make $600 a week from my home. You can too. Ask me how. Miss Ava.",0,0,0,0,0,0
83,20001106,modern,Nan,"""What an awful mess."" Predictably, Gordon Taylor, a former manager who heads the Professional Footballers' Association, the players' union, and John Barnwell, head of the League Managers' Association, also condemned the move. ""I think it's a betrayal of our coaching structure,"" Taylor said. ""When they talk about we've nobody here, suddenly Terry Venables is not considered, because they have put criteria down that maybe the Archbishop of Canterbury wouldn't meet."" That might be the only time you'll see Venables, the former England manager whose shady financial dealings have landed him in frequent legal hot water, and the good archbishop linked in the same sentence. ""The appointment of a foreign coach beggars belief,"" Barnwell said. ""This is another example of us giving away another of our family treasures to Europe."" Then there was Jack Charlton, the former England player who was a mainstay on the World Cup-winning team in 1966, and a longtime manager in England and Ireland.
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44,18860419,historical,Flood,"The Allan steamship office and the Harbor Commissioners' building were in the same fix. About 2 o'clock or a little later a slight fall took place and the water retired somewhat, but it was for a short time only. By 3 o'clock it was higher in the streets than ever. McGill was covered as far as the Albion hotel, and the water had risen and covered the sections of Wellington, William and intersecting streets. At 10 o'clock the state of things was worse at night than on the city side of the canal. In Congregation, Wellington, Hacdalen, Consol, Forfar, Grand Trunk, Richardson, Patrick and other streets the water rose to a height of two or three feet, according to the level. The sidewalks floated round and were used by the inhabitants as rafts to keep up communication with each other. At the Point police station there was five feet of water in the cellar, and the policemen had removed their coal to one of the cells for safe keeping. The fire station on Centre Street was cut off by several feet of water.",1,0,0,0,0,1
218,19900619,modern,Nan,"to 3 p.m. Transport Quebec advises motorists to drive slowly across the span while the work is being done The right and centre northbound lanes of Highway 25 will be closed from the Lafontaine Tunnel to Hochelaga St, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.",0,0,0,0,0,0
82,19980109,modern,Storm,"Is it dangerous work? ""Men are working on a slanted, flexible surface which is slippery with ice. So far things are going well,"" Saucier said. Jagger, the Rolling Stones lead singer, canceled two shows this week - at Toronto's Skydome and in Syracuse, N.Y. The Old Brewery Mission is at 866-6591. A listing of food banks did not include the Share the Warmth Foundation, which operates a food bank in Point St. Charles, servicing Montreal's southwest sector Little Burgundy, Point St. Charles, St. Henri and Verdun. Phone 933-5599. As well, a single telephone number was given for the Gai Écoute and Gay Line listening services. Although the two lines share a phone-message system, each service has its own number. Gay Line, for English-speaking callers, is at 866-5090. Gai Écoute, for French-speaking callers, is at 521-1508.
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44,18860419,historical,Flood,"At Beauharnois on Friday night the lake ice began to move. From Vaudreuil on Saturday morning came the news that the ice was passing down taking with it wharves and buildings close to the shore. The mass, with the accompanying flood, piling up on an already jammed front of the city, continually aggravated the trouble, till the flood in Montreal exceeded anything in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, surpassing, it is estimated, by several feet that of the year 1861. The Lachine Rapids have obliterated, so high has the river risen. The country for miles on the south side of the river was covered. From the mountain top, far as the eye could reach, nothing could be seen on the south but a vast expanse of water spreading over the country. Prairie village must have suffered terribly though no detailed advices have been received as to the exact character of the damage done. It is said that over the low land between that village and St. Johns the whole country is covered.",1,0,1,1,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,II tl 5 lot Net change is from previous close of Coded 37000 11 115 115 S same lot type C arctic 3000 SO 50 50 Net Con crew 0000 65 M 64 3 Stock Volume Crotushy 11500 53 53 52 1 High Low Last Ch'ge Cdnimoer 33000 17 15 17 Cdnins 35000 35 J5 J5 -1 CdnmrDM 3179 105 100 100 -19 A n Cdnntncor 59500 45 40 45 5 Cdnwaler 4000 115 115 115 -5 Celtic rest 12500 Jl JO 20 -J Actind 1000 70 70 70 1 Ceoeda J4500 100 15 85 -10 A a foods I 3000 5H S'M Cetec 5000 55 55 55 Abacrs 7000 41 41 41 1 Chandlr 163500 52 45 41 6 Aooevt 1000 90 90 90,0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,"Germany A million letters for Santa OTTAWA If letters were dollars, Santa Claus would be a millionaire Canada Post said yesterday it processed more than one million letters for Santa Claus, North Pole, Canada HOH OHO Spokesman Jean-Maurice Filion said letters to Santa are up 39 per cent over the previous Christmas The 1,085,978 letters came from Canada and around the world in languages including Spanish, Polish, Italian, Inuktitut, German, Japanese, Russian and Braille Filion attributes the increase to advertising of Santa's address, word of mouth among children and the fact that when you look at a map, the North Pole is in Canada Mint strikers head back to work OTTAWA Striking Royal Canadian Mint workers in Winnipeg and Ottawa will head back to their jobs this week after accepting a three-year deal that includes annual wage increases of 3 per cent and a $600 signing bonus, the Public Service Alliance of Canada said yesterday Gay priest fights for job PAGE B8 m m m m A ark defends yuenec s conference ooyco Province suspects other premiers will gang up on it,",0,0,0,0,0,0
8,18940213,historical,Storm,"The pressure is decreasing over Ontario but is generally high eastward. The weather is generally fair everywhere, with somewhat higher temperature in the lake district. Minimum and maximum temperatures: Battleford, 28, 38; Qu'Appelle, 32, 41; Winnipeg, 32, 40; Toronto, 38, 52; Kingston, 28, 40; Montreal, 34, 44; Quebec, 20, 40; Chatham, 32, 40; Halifax, 40, 48. Lakes and St Lawrence Fresh to brisk southerly shifting to westerly winds; a few local showers, otherwise fair a little higher temperature. Gulf Southeast to south winds, increasing to brisk; fair weather. Maritime Winds shifting to south and southeast; fair; stationary or a little higher temperature, Manitoba West and northwest winds; fair weather; stationary or a little lower temperature.",0,0,0,0,0,0
103,19950630,modern,Drought,"90 MEXICO 2183, 53.9, 85 GOLD n v $388.50 60(t DOLLAR 72.70 0.05 Complete listings of today's stock trading will appear in The Gazette on Sunday. You can keep up-to-date by calling our Stock Quote Hotline at 841-8600, code 5000. THE GAZETTE FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1995 Weather hurts shipping at Montreal port JEFF HEINRICH THE GAZETTE Drought and draft - ship's draft, that is - sure don't go well together. More than two weeks of no rain over Montreal have lowered the water level of the St. Lawrence River, and ocean ships headed into and out of the city's port are faced with loading light or shedding cargo to avoid hitting bottom. The larger container ships know the situation, Port of Montreal spokesman Michel Turgeon said yesterday, as the city sweltered through its 18th day of dry weather, the second-longest drought in memory. """"The inconvenience is they can't make use of their maximum capacity."""" And that has meant a loss of potential revenue for the larger ships - as much as $200,000 per weekly trip these days. That's potential only, because not all ships are full at this traditionally slow time of year, Turgeon added. Officials of the port's major shipping lines - Canada Maritime, Cast, and Orient Overseas Container Line - were unavailable for comment yesterday or wouldn't say if the low water level has affected them. The level yesterday was 36 feet, three inches - one or two feet shallower than it should be. The level has been worrisome since April, because there was little runoff from the dry, warm winter. It has become more acute in the last two weeks, Turgeon said. """"We would like to be at 37 or 38 feet at this time of year,"""" he said. Last year, at the end of June, the level was abnormally high: 40 feet, two inches. These days, any ship that holds more than 1,800 containers - there are 11 calling at Montreal, some of them twice a week - is faced with leaving 100 to 120 containers behind in order to travel safely. Shipping companies typically charge clients at least $2,000 for every container they ship. If they have to load light by 100 containers, they forgo more than $200,000 in revenue. The port itself also loses out, as it charges the companies a """"wharf"""" fee for loading and unloading their vessels - on average, $22 per container. Ocean-going ships that carry bulk cargo also face shedding some of it before they reach Montreal. That's what happened last Sunday: a Fednav ship coming from China unloaded about 850 tonnes of magnesite in Trois Rivieres to be light enough to get to Montreal safely. Although Environment Canada is forecasting rain today and through the weekend, it expects it will fall north of Montreal and the river - in the Laurentians, but not in the city or upstream. """"The rain won't change the water level in the St. Lawrence,"""" said weather office official Daniel Chretien. So far, the drought is Montreal's second longest. The worst was in July 1947, when it didn't rain for 21 days. The other record was in 1967, when it was dry for 17 consecutive days in May and June. DOWNTOWN DECAY Montreal's city core is looking a little shabby in places these days. But there are bright spots on our urban landscape. First in a series FRANCOIS SHALOM THE GAZETTE The notice, forlorn and a bit pathetic, still stands: Sign up, Occupancy Summer 1991. But there has been no development by the commercial real-estate company Taillon, and certainly no occupants. Instead, the rundown, boarded-up lot in the heart of downtown sprouted four-metre-high trees and the underbrush behind the poster-plastered plywood is a jungle. Nearby, a once-thriving retail strip that included landmark theatres and a seafood restaurant awaits the wrecker's ball. A bit further east, Simpson's department store has stood empty for years. Neighboring merchants call these eyesores les barricades and many wonder whether they've become a symbol for a dying downtown beset by the usual problems of large urban centres. MONTREAL Montreal (Ville Marie) founded: 1642 Shopping arcades downtown, often called the underground city: 10 Workers: 225,000 Students: 100,000 Parking spaces: 35,000 Big companies with downtown head office: Alcan Aluminium Ltd, Bombardier Inc, Canadian Pacific Ltd Office space vacancy rate: 22 per cent City population: 1.02 million CALGARY HERALD DAVE SIDAWAY GAZETTE Margot Lavigne, marketing director for Montreal's downtown Eaton Centre, counters some of the pessimism about the city's core. She points out that her mall is 90-per-cent full and she's anticipating a big tourism season with the low Canadian dollar. Indigents live in formerly genteel downtown areas, beggars are a common sight, and former Montreal fixtures like Pascal's, Steinberg and Birks have disappeared or changed hands. Many middle-class wage earners have left for the suburbs, followed by industrial and commercial activities and, eventually, by the new breed of retailers to serve them: Club Price, Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Future Shop, Reno-Depot. It's easy to walk along Ste. Catherine St. between Atwater and Guy Sts. and despair at the boarded-up wasteland, the degradation of a once-vital neighborhood. But the long view holds that despite the blighted spots, Montreal's core is doing as well as ever, if not better. Visitors note the human and traffic jams on Ste. Catherine at 3 a.m. most days, the conviviality and feeling of safety, unlike most major North American cities. Poverty groups also note that not everyone shares in the festivities, that an underclass is growing downtown and swept under the rug, mostly out of sight. But economists, urban planners and civic boosters say retail trade is booming downtown and that the remaining 5.5 million square feet of vacant commercial space built in the 1980s is starting to be absorbed by paying tenants. PLEASE SEE DOWNTOWN, PAGE C4 DAVE SIDAWAY GAZETTE The downtown landscape in Montreal. This area of abandoned buildings is seen by some merchants as a symbol of a dying downtown. Compensation funded with taxpayers' money must show restraint. Politicians and central bankers live on a different planet from the rest of us, insulated from the grind of everyday life and blissfully unaware of what it takes to get by in the real world these days. Maybe it has something to do with living in Ottawa, a town that has never been accused of suffering a recession. The extraordinary insensitivity of these people is evident in a couple of recent decisions. This month, members of Parliament approved a new pension plan for themselves that is far more generous than most Canadians can ever expect to receive from their employers. Sure, the Commons voted to do away with some of the most egregious excesses of the previous plan, including the provision that allowed retired MPs to receive pension benefits while holding down a job in the public sector. But getting rid of double-dipping doesn't disguise the fact that MPs still have a retirement plan about four times more generous than the average private sector pension plan and seven times better than anything seen in the public sector. Their decision comes after a tough austerity budget from Finance Minister Paul Martin which asks Canadians to accept considerable reductions in public services. It was a courageous budget but support for it will be undermined by the pension decision. The MPs offered all the usual rationalizations for their behavior that they have to make big career sacrifices to go into politics: that the basic salary of $64,400 for an MP is a terrible injustice, etc. Only the Reform party seems to have understood that MPs are employed by Canadian taxpayers, who are already taxed to the eyeballs. For most Canadians, a $64,000 salary, plus perks and expense allowances worth more than $27,000, looks pretty good in today's economy. If they weren't baffled enough, they learned this week that the top executives of the Bank of Canada awarded themselves pay hikes of nearly 10 per cent last year. This came at a time when public sector wages were frozen. Never mind that the bank finally issued an apology and rolled back the increases yesterday afternoon. The damage to the bank's credibility has already been done. They don't seem to have a clue about the message they're sending to Canadians when they accept pay increases like these. These are the same people who not long ago were espousing zero inflation for Canada. Now they've loosened up a bit. Their current target range is 1 to 3 per cent for annual increases in the cost of living. But how does a 10-per cent salary increase fit under a 3-per cent inflation cap? How can the Bank of Canada """"dampen inflationary expectations"""" (a favorite phrase of theirs) when its own executives won't lead by example? Once again, we have been given a lame excuse for why the federal government is frozen by this decision. The Bank says that under a restructuring, Canadians in the private sector were getting a senior deputy governor and four deputy governors now share responsibility for monetary policy with bank chief Gordon Thiessen and should be compensated for the extra workload. Gee, I wonder how the thousands of Canadians who have already been affected by """"restructuring"""" in the private sector would react to that. Perhaps the bank isn't aware that many Canadians are being asked to work harder for the same pay. The unfortunate part of all this is that the Bank of Canada's inflation policy is the right one for this country. Sound money, stable prices and low interest rates are what we require, especially at a time when we are so heavily indebted. But it's a policy that is difficult to sell to Canadians at the best of times, especially when the bank leaders are caught lining their own pockets. Ray Mowling, Monsanto's vice-president (legal and public affairs), takes issue with Wednesday's column on the dairy cattle hormone BST. """"Contrary to what is written in your article, Monsanto maintains its position regarding its investment in Canada. We are not considering nor threatening to pull any research commitment in Canada related to Health Canada's decision on BST."""" CUSO, with a $30-million budget, sends money and about 300 Canadians a year to projects ranging from agricultural programs in Thailand to a corn-grinding mill co-operative in Nicaragua. CARE is different - and controversial - because of its size, its focus on emergency relief and its dependence on government financing. Critics call CARE an international ambulance chaser with a weak commitment to long-term development and an uncritical attitude toward the foreign policy of the Canadian government, which supplies most of its money. Defenders point out that the government turned to agencies such as CARE when emergencies proliferated during the 1980s. The non-profit agencies provided quick, effective help. Today, CARE International is a $600-million operation with branches in 11 countries. Last year, the Canadian division raised about $5 million from Canadian donors and received the rest of its $75-million budget from the federal government and international agencies like the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Disaster response, including running refugee camps in countries like Zaire and Kenya and drought relief in Zambia, accounted for about two-thirds of CARE Canada's 1994 budget. Sample of Canadian charities in overseas development: 1994 Agency Senior Money raised Money from Money from Other revenue Executive from Canadian Canadian international Salary public government organizations Canadian Refused to $738,000 $8.1 million 0 $3,482 Hunger disclose Foundation Mennonite $51,000 $8.6 million $8.2 million 0 $4.1 million Central Committee World Vision $90,000 to $80 million $15 million 0 0 Red Cross $90,000 to $7.5 million $41.3 million 0 $441,000 International Service $108,000 Sleeping Children 0 $1 million 0 0 0 Around the World Oxfam $65,000 $5.7 million $4.8 million 0 $400,000 Canada Interpares $36,466 $920,000 $12 million 0 $978,000 CARE Refused to $5.3 million $39.5 million $28.7 million 0 Canada disclose Foster Refused to $32 million $4 million 0 0 Parents disclose Plan CUSO Refused to $10.4 million $19.6 million 0 $406,000 disclose Developing $60,000 $185,000 $240,500 0 $1,500 Countries Farm Radio Network Agency description Canadian Hunger Foundation: Rural development projects including introduction of sustainable farming methods. Mennonite Central Committee: The development service of the Mennonite church in Canada has health workers, teachers, agriculturalists and emergency relief workers in 55 countries. World Vision: International Christian humanitarian relief and development organization. Almost all Canadian-raised funds dispersed from the head office in California. Red Cross International Service: Channels money for relief operations to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Sleeping Children Around the World: All-volunteer group that each year buys about 30,000 bed kits for children in poor countries. Oxfam Canada: Supports overseas development projects and does development education and aid advocacy in Canada. Interpares: Works with Third World groups trying to achieve social and economic change in poor countries. CARE Canada: About two-thirds of its $75 million budget is spent on emergency relief, the rest is used for longer term development projects. Foster Parents Plan: Funds raised from child sponsorship programs are used for development projects in the child's community. CUSO: Sends about 300 Canadian volunteers overseas each year to work with grassroots organizations in developing countries. Developing Countries Farm Radio Network: Supplies thousands of radio scripts containing agricultural and basic health information to developing country radio stations. In addition to being unaware of the wide range of charities doing international work, the public often has no idea about the cost of running such organizations, says Gordon Floyd of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. """"The church basement organizations still exist and they do extraordinary work,"""" he said. """"But over the last 30 or 50 years, the charitable sector has become much more sophisticated and complex and, as in every other part of our lives, it has become very much more expensive."""" Floyd says it surprises most people to learn it can cost 50 cents to raise a dollar. In the absence of a large volunteer pool, paid help is required to lick stamps and other administrative work. High-tech equipment like computers is expensive and requires trained operators. The growing number of charities has created a sophisticated competition for donor dollars. CARE spent $1.3 million to raise about $5 million last year. And World Vision, the most successful fund-raiser among the development charities, spent close to $20 million in 1994 on the administration and fundraising costs associated with convincing Canadians to donate $80 million. World Vision is sending out packages of carrot seeds to 500,000 Canadians and asking them to return the seeds with a donation to help families in war-ravaged Mozambique. Toycen says the $20,000 campaign is directed at new donors and will raise up to $1.50 for each $1 spent. While that seems expensive, Toycen says World Vision expects it will pay off in the long term because many people will become regular donors. But fundraising expenses are just part of the story. Floyd says Canadians also tend to believe the best charities are those with the lowest administration costs. OTTAWA CITIZEN It's an impression reinforced by Money magazine, which annually gives the best performance rating to U.S. charities with the lowest overhead. There are charities that operate on a shoestring. Sleeping Children Around the World, for instance, is a 25-year-old charity that each year supplies beds to about 30,000 children in developing countries. The Toronto organization is the creation of Murray Dryden, the 83-year-old father of hockey great Ken Dryden. Dryden runs Sleeping Children from his house. He takes no salary and does not ask the government for money. Volunteers travel at their own expense to deliver the beds and extras like pyjamas or mosquito nets to children in eight countries, including India, Bangladesh and Colombia. The $1 million a year spent on the beds is raised through word-of-mouth fundraising. """"I got involved in this because it's about people helping people,"""" said Tom Belton, an Ottawa businessman who has made five trips for Sleeping Children since 1989. """"Everyone is a volunteer and not one penny is overhead. It's a labor of love,"""" said Belton, who says the bed kits help children in many nations. Using the money to run a school, he argues, would limit the benefits to just one region and one country. But does Sleeping Children's non-existent overhead make it better than CARE or any of the others? Aid experts like Draimin answer carefully: """"A lot of excellent development organizations we have today began with the tremendous generosity of people. But what they did may have been more beneficial to the donor than to the recipient because it makes people feel really good about what they do. """"In developmental terms, however, they may not be contributing to dealing with the structural reasons why problems (such as poverty) exist."""" Ian Smilley, an Ottawa consultant and author of The Alms Bazaar, a forthcoming book on non-profit international development organizations, also says Canadians shouldn't be too quick to judge charities on the basis of overhead costs. """"The whole notion that development or emergency aid can be done for next to nothing is crazy,"""" he said. In addition to costly fundraising activities, aid work is a complicated business that requires the services of people with professional and technical expertise. And more than likely they won't be volunteers. Dennis O'Brien is a case in point. The 39-year-old engineering technologist is a member of an international CARE team coordinating emergency drought relief for 100,000 people in southern Africa. O'BRIEN, who works in CARE's Ottawa office, has done road and drainage engineering in Zambia. He has helped run a refugee camp for 30,000 people. And like Belton, he cares about the people he helps. But O'Brien doesn't work for free. He says his salary is in the $27,000 to $50,000 range, roughly comparable to the salary he would earn in the private sector. Smilley says there is nothing wrong with healthy salaries for people running multimillion-dollar operations. """"To be in charge of any of these agencies today is much more risky than it ever was. There's lots of turmoil among staff because you have to hire fast and get rid of people when the emergency is over. You have to deal with a government that is cutting spending and demanding more and more accountability. """"The developing world is more dangerous to work in. And you've got to try to persuade donors in a highly competitive situation that you are doing good work."""" Still, the executives of many of Canada's larger development charities are uncomfortable about disclosing their salaries. Although they receive millions a year in public donations and government grants, the Canadian Hunger Foundation, Foster Parents Plan and CUSO refused to disclose the salaries of their senior executives. CARE won't say what John Watson earns and for the past four years it has not listed the total remuneration for executives on its Revenue Canada charitable return. (A CARE official says the top pay scale for executives other than Watson is $70,000.) Watson defends the salaries and the professionalism of CARE employees, saying volunteers have no place in the agency's emergency work. """"You spend so much time dealing with their shock on entering these terrible places that it's just an inappropriate way to respond. You really need highly trained professionals in logistics and warehousing to work in war zones. Plus, what would be done by (unskilled) volunteers is really the type of work that refugees or local people themselves could do."""" Last December, experienced relief workers in Rwanda questioned the usefulness of some low-budget U. APRIL LINDGREN OTTAWA CITIZEN The spectacle of one of the country's most respected international organizations heading to court to defend its reputation has prompted unprecedented soul-searching in Canada's aid community. While CARE Canada's legal fight to clear its name could go many rounds, a deeper crisis worries the community. Many Canadians believe church basements are the nucleus of international aid efforts. In fact, providing emergency relief and development aid is a difficult, expensive and professional business. This misperception has created an ever-widening credibility gap. CARE categorically dismisses allegations made in a CBC report of financial mismanagement and lavish spending. But the damage lingers. """"The whole thing has been very damaging in terms of the public because it raises concerns about whether you can really count on your money getting where you want it to go,"""" said Betty Plewes, president of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), an umbrella organization of 115 non-profit groups involved in foreign-aid work. """"We've been getting calls from people asking if they can trust this or that organization and who they should give their money to."""" Charities must take a share of the blame for the misperceptions Canadians hold about relief work. Simplistic fundraising campaigns - the kind that bombard donors with images of starving children - imply there are easy, cheap fixes for people trapped in refugee camps or urban slums. There is the potential for misunderstanding when contributions are made to a longer-term development project that donors don't really understand. They might feel betrayed to learn from the nightly news that part of the money was used to fly a Canadian well-drilling expert to a country rather than to buy a pump for a village. The problem is most pronounced in the case of urgent appeals during drought, war or other crises. For instance, part of the recent CARE controversy arose because the agency used money raised for the Somalia crisis to improve refugee camp security and to hire an information officer in Mogadishu, leaving sister agencies to handle food distribution. """"The more human and direct approach (focusing on human suffering) means people feel they are making a contribution. That has more appeal than a reasoned, nuanced explanation of the origins of global poverty,"""" said Tim Draimin, a senior policy analyst at CCIC. """"I personally don't think CARE is an errant agency. It isn't the only one with the problem."""" PLEASE SEE POLICY, PAGE B2 Course shows how to fight for human rights 120 people from 30 countries have gathered at John Abbott College MARK ABLEY THE GAZETTE A LAWYER from Tanzania is debating the meaning of """"legal personality"""" with a young counsellor from Romania. A human-rights activist from Gambia and a leading Pakistani feminist are pondering the concept of """"effective remedy for violation."""" The phrases seem dry. But even on a sultry afternoon, the conversations crackle with energy. For at the International Human Rights Training Program, now taking place at John Abbott College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, words have power. When you're confronting an unjust, corrupt or abusive regime, words can be your only weapon. It's crucial to get them right. The intensive three-week course lasts until July 14, under the sponsorship of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation. Based in downtown Montreal, the foundation seeks to educate people about the nature and value of human rights. Some of its activities are aimed at Canadians. But for 16 summers, the last two in Montreal, it has also organized a bilingual training program that gathers participants from around the world - some of them from countries where """"human rights"""" are but a dream or a distant rumor. More than 1,500 people have graduated from the program, one of the few of its kind in the world. This year, 120 people from 30 countries have assembled at John Abbott. They are an impressive bunch. An 18-year-old student from Russia is the youngest participant, a 64-year-old Masai chief from Tanzania the eldest. Eastern Europe and Africa provide the most delegates, but a smattering have come from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the U.""",0,1,1,0,0,0
201,19920824,modern,Nan,"""One night when Laura was 2,"" Dern said, ""I got a call from her mother (actress Diane Ladd). She was screaming. She said, 'You've got to talk to your daughter. She just saw your head bouncing down the stairs on television and she wants to know if you're OK.'"" Burnett firing still riles co-star RADNOR, Pa. Vicki Lawrence has many good memories of The Carol Burnett Show, but she doesn't recall fondly the time she was dumped from the program because she was pregnant. In the latest issue of TV Guide, Lawrence said there was a ""deformity clause"" in her contract that allowed Burnett's husband, executive producer Joe Hamilton, to fire her in mid-season in 1975. Lawrence said she was fired when her pregnancy became obvious to the audience. ""He said, 'It's not this show's image.' It wasn't like I was some bimbo twit out of wedlock,"" Lawrence said. Lawrence later returned to the show, at Burnett's request, but the two never talked about the situation.",0,0,0,0,0,0
44,18860419,historical,,"At 2 o'clock this morning Aid. Stevenson was making a raid on the St. Lawrence Hall for provisions for the men working at the pumps. Early yesterday morning, while the employees of Messrs. Robertson & Co. were removing goods out of reach of the water, a case on which one of the men was standing upset, throwing him into the water. The case fell on the top of him and he would in all probability have been drowned had not his fellow man come to his help. A peculiar scene was witnessed by Constable Magill and Sergeant Khoe yesterday afternoon. While walking down William Street they looked through a window and saw a table floating around the dining-room. The table was covered by a cloth, and on it was a meal, a lighted oil lamp, the remains of a breakfast, a cat and two rats. The rats were quietly eating the fragments and keeping close together, fearing an attack from the cat, while the latter was apparently wise enough to know that in the event of a struggle the lamp would be upset.",0,0,0,0,0,0
83,20001106,modern,Nan,"in Cuba 40 Doctors' org 41 Les Etats 42 Base stealer Lou 43 Darned 47 Novelists Ferber and O'Brien 48 Feedbag fill Answer To Previous Puzzle SNUF FeTQfxFSMUDGE E fluteh""hehitage 49 Town square 51 Make a goof 52 Radio operators 56 Captain's journal 57 Important person 61 Bird that gives a hoot 62 French 101 verb 63 Aviator Earhart 64 Driving range peg 65 Calendar units 66 Stagecoach robber DOWN 1 ""Naked Maja"" painter 2 Spoken 3 Give the over 4 Pastry shops 5 When the French fry 6 Seized again 7 Toy that goes ""around the world"" 8 Santa, Calif 9 room (place to play games) 10 In an unprotected manner 11 Torso 12 Zone 13 Contradict 18 Oxen connector 23 Lanka 25 Halloween's mo 26 Shade of blue No 0925 27 Big garden size 28 Ascend 29 Top-notch lawyer 30 Chubby Checker's dance 31 Word repeated before ""Who's there?""
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205,19900408,modern,Nan,"Time: 30.12, 4.13, 2.58. SECOND RACE: Trot, 1 mile, Purse: $11,000, 3 Geneva Bambino (N. Masse) 2.80 2.60 2.60, 4 Pirate De Couroin (A. Lachance) 11.40 7.40, 4-fVK T Collins (M. Bourjon) 8.10 Exacta: 3-4, $157.60. Also ran: Dear Special, Laura Arm Scott, Discovery, Dermis Storm, New Look Bel, Gershwin Hanover. Times: 39.51, 1.34. Jacoues 7 Defiant Peg R. Gingras 8 Dream Of Grandeur M. Dessureault 9 Flos Stormy Night R. Simard THIRD RACE: Pace, 1 Beagle Bay M. Lachance 1 Omaha Station G. Lacharile 2 Gunner Goodall Y. Poirier 3 Big Bucks Bomber M. Barrieau 4 Passenger J. Hebert 5 Virgute Jo A.",0,0,0,0,0,0
182,19900103,modern,Ice,"Though the weatherman had promised warmer temperatures, even Saturday's sunshine failed to prod the mercury up enough to herald the start of the warming trend. It was cold out on the ice of Montreal-area waters, bitterly cold, and when darkness closed in, it grew colder yet. Few anglers ventured out to face a wind-chill capable of freezing skin in just minutes; those who did were able to endure the elements just long enough to set up their rigs, but once the warmth from the exercise had dissipated, the full measure of the cold hit home.
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87,19980114,modern,Storm,"estimated it had suffered at least $36 million THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1998 B3 COMMENT Like sheep, we Once every generation, Montrealers seem to stumble into a royal mess - a time when our collective ambitions and appetites get their comeuppance It's like one of those Greek myths in which the gods, resentful of people's hubris and proud pretensions, take them down a peg But ultimately, these woes are self-inflicted In the mid-1970s, it was the Olympic Stadium Acquiescent Montrealers let their mayor build it Intended as the most glorious sports facility of its day anywhere, it was meant to shine as a symbol of Montreal's modernity, sophistication and emergence as a world-class city Just as the edifice itself has proved a bust so has the city since slid toward provincialism Today, it's Hydro-Quebec The crown corporation has enjoyed a long and revered run as the symbol of our engineering know-how and as the prestigious flagship of Quebec's economy The Montreal-based company will, of course, easily survive the ice storm, just as the man who dreamed up the stadium, Jean Drapeau,
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107,19920330,modern,Nan,"As late as a week ago he had asked to stay on, but the board of directors declined. The members decided it was time for a change. Indeed, Iacocca has seemed increasingly out of step with the times. His controversial appearances in TV ads struck a discordant note; his message was tantamount to questioning the wisdom of consumers who bought foreign cars, a strange way to build goodwill for Chrysler. He has helped encourage the delusion that America's problems can be blamed on Japan. ""I'm a protectionist,"" he admitted in a published article last year. ""In any kind of competition, the first thing you do is protect yourself."" It was a startling admission, given that one person's protection is another's excuse for cousins. Make no mistake: Detroit profited handsomely at the expense of consumers from trade barriers imposed in the early 1980s. An International Monetary Fund study estimated that between 1981 and 1984, the artificial shortage created by import quotas cost consumers $17 billion in higher prices. By 1991, Iacocca had become a caricature of the boorish plutocrat. His salary exceeded $4 million.
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204,19900318,modern,Nan,"When King visited the troops in August 1941 he was loudly booed from the ranks of the assembled formations. Rarely, if ever, had a prime minister been so publicly humiliated. By June 1942 it was clear that Ralston was wavering in his support of King's policy of restraint. Ralston's speech of June 16, 1942, gives some indication of the tide King was swimming against: These troops shout for action. We all shout for action. The time will come for action; and when that time comes you can depend on it that Canadian troops will prove to be a powerful, hard-hitting fighting force worthy in every way of the spirit that stormed Vimy Ridge 25 years ago. King was in a dilemma. Any politician who was revealed as holding back the war effort would, in time, be gravely imperilled. King was certainly not going to let the situation deteriorate to a point where the public would echo the booing Canadian troops had given him.",0,0,0,0,0,0
15,18930830,historical,,"""in the midst of a driving rain storm and an easterly gale, waited until noon without firing a shot, and then the executive committee met, with the president, Major J THE FENCING MASTER The Mapleson Company Next Week Current Attractions This morning, at 10 o'clock, the advance sale of seats begins at Nordheimer's for next week's engagement of the Mapleson and Whitney Opera Company at the Academy of Music The Fencing Master receives its first Canadian promotion during this engagement, and a party of the New York jeunesse dorée are coming to Montreal on the opening night to witness the sensation of seeing Laura Schirmer Mapleson for the first time in this character They consider it the correct thing to do The original fencing girl students have been retained by Managers Mapleson and Whitney, and Monsieur Senac, the Paris champion of the art of fencing, has been teaching Laura Schirmer Mapleson, and in a recent interview in the New York Herald, declared the accomplished prima donna to be one of his best lady pupils,",0,0,0,0,0,0
33,18830321,historical,Snow,"Claiming fortune. Des Moines, March 20. Reports from this section show that the apple orchards have been killed by the severe winter. One farmer lost two hundred trees. The estimated loss on the apple crop in this county alone will be two million bushels. Small fruits are also damaged. Wheat crop impaired. Chicago, March 20. Reports from various parts of the State indicate that the frequent cold spells have injured the winter wheat crop 30 to 60 percent. Railway collision. Richmond, Vt., March 20. A snowplough collided with a train on the South Eastern road this afternoon. Several persons were badly injured. There has been no train from Montreal since Sunday noon. The Boston express is stuck here tonight. Secretary Klerr, New York, March 20. A Washington special says there seems to be a general breaking down of Folger's system. The stomach refuses to accept almost any kind of food, and there is a general inactivity of the vital organs. His friends are apprehensive that his health is much more impaired than he will admit.",1,0,0,0,1,1
199,19920510,modern,Nan,"But you can get a lot done at home. The key for me, in terms of productivity, has been my personal computer, which can be linked electronically via telephone lines to the newspaper. This means that, when I have a column due, I merely press a few keys, and within seconds, thanks to the miracle of modern microchip technology, I am playing F 1 1 7A SOLUTION to last week's puzzle (No 212) C0:N OLlD Ri iSILiKIIlCIH fclfllRllilliaRIJ SlHiAlUflOIT U OK flit I IKIHTIII lo!NsJLl''l'JMwirtjGli':is mTMEINlfl RjEjLTlJC SIS!KR fAW0MTFJR TlO!HHftlNiD :ftTiimHHi I KMTjMMTnji wwmm k mi 'M i, his joy production of TV tribute, National Ski team, and daughter Kimberly, 14, an up-and-comer on the ski hills may not be overly impressed, but many others were: My daughter thinks I have more cow pies crap buried in my head than anyone she knows.",0,0,0,0,0,0
4,18800403,historical,Rainstorm,"THE LM CROP, Eau Claire, Wis, March 30 A heavy rainstorm, which set in early Saturday morning, followed by moderate weather, has virtually suspended logging operations in the Chippewa Valley, and the camps, with few exceptions, have broken up, after having accomplished a good season's work. The rains have caused a rise of nearly two feet in the Chippewa and Eau, which is perceptible at this point, and there is a prospect of the ice moving out of the Dells reservoir and other dams above before the close of the week, leaving the river free for a resumption of raft and boat navigation. The improvement at the mills are about completed, and there is a possibility that several of the establishments having a surplus of logs from last season will commence operations this week. A large number of men were sent up both rivers this morning, so as to be in readiness for the drive, which is anticipated to take place earlier than usual. ON THE WOLF AND WAUPACA RIVERS, Waupaca, Wisconsin, March 30 The lumbermen, with their teams, are rushing out of the woods and spending a few days in the cities preparatory to going on to the river. The rivers are all open now, but the dams are frozen to such an extent that logs cannot be run through. On the Wolf, Little Wolf and Waupaca rivers are large crops of logs, and the present season will be a good one for rivermen. The Wisconsin Central Railway is running extra log trains daily, and there is said to be logs enough on their line north of Stevens Point to furnish business for the road all summer. The Weed & Gumaer Manufacturing Company of Weyauwega buys logs from one hundred miles north, saws them at their mills at that place, and re-ships the dressed lumber back to Stevens Point, forty miles north of Weyauwega. There are several new sawmills being erected at the small towns on the railroad, and a lively business will be carried on this summer.",1,0,0,0,0,0
174,18890128,historical,Freezing,"via Boston January 24, arrived at New York on Friday; The steamship Batavla, from Vancouver, via Yokohama, arrived at Hong Kong on January 23; The Dominion mail steamship Oregon, Williams master, sailed from Liverpool on Thursday for Cortland via Halifax; The steamship Abyssinia, Leo master, sailed from Yokohama on Thursday for Vancouver; Vancouver, MAIIIIte MISCELLANEOUS; WlI, Miyr, Tos, N
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03 4220 20 057 000 10 10 0 00 440 15 1140 45 990 0 00 132 - 02 2 56 - 01 410 38 0 80 0 00 140 0 00 088 - 04 190 - 02 1200 - 50 1025 - 10 0 28 0 00 6 05 - 20 4 15 - 05 155 02 295 000 6 S range - tax-free Oilers general manager Glen Sather has offered Ciger a three-year contract for $1 million Canadian a season to keep the 31-goal man Ciger, however, appears more concerned about his heart than his bank balance His wife and 9-year-old daughter would reportedly feel more comfortable in Slovakia I told Glen I would talk to him Aug 26 in Edmonton, when the World Cup exhibition game is on against Canada said Ciger who will play on the Slovak team along with NHL veterans Peter Bondra, Miroslav Satan and defenceman Robert Svehla, who just signed a three-year $3.8-million deal in Florida Nothing is 100 per cent yet, but it is pretty close said Ciger It's not finished, but I would like to stay home Ciger doesn't have to make up his mind on Bratislava for a while, even though their training camp begins Aug 1 He'll be at the World Cup camp which opens Aug 13 anyway Ciger said one of the attractions to signing in Bratislava would be the team's inclusion in the European elite league which begins play this fall Bratislava is the only Slovak team represented Sather said he'd be surprised if Ciger turned down the Oilers' offer, but he understands the winger's family concerns Part of looking after your family, however, is providing security for them said Sather If Ciger signs in Bratislava, he didn't rule out returning to the Oilers for the 1997-98 NHL season If he leaves, Sather will have an extra million dollars in his budget He still has to sign Doug Weight, Satan and Jason Arnott EDMONTON JOURNAL ieauchamp strong in GASCAB field IAN MACDONALD THE GAZETTE As a one-time ice-racing champion, Richard Beauchamp found overheating a difficult obstacle to hurdle But the 35-year-old businessman from the Valleyfield suburb of Ormstown has his late-model Thunderbird heating up under control now as he looks to tomorrow's CASCAR Canadian championship stock-car feature at Autodrome St Eustache Sixty drivers from across Canada have indicated they will be on hand to try and qualify for the final 26 spots in the Castrol 200 - the only Quebec event in which points count toward the national championship Late last month, Beauchamp had overheating problems with his brand-new Thunderbird in a major event at Quebec City where he was sixth-fastest qualifier but could not finish the race He figures he has the kinks worked out now Since that event, he's won the last two races at St Eustache and claims he's ready for an invasion of stock car drivers, which includes stars from Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia We have seven Quebec drivers taking part, Saint-Eustache director Jean Francois Decarie said, but the competition to get into the race is tough These are the best stock-car racers in the country It is the first time we have this calibre of field race here Action begins at 1 p.m. with time trials The field is then split into two groups, based on even and odd fastest finishers -1-3-5 etc., in one group and 24-6 etc., in the other The two groups then each have a 50-lap (four-tenths of a mile) race, with the fastest 13 from each race moving into the final 100-lap Castrol 200 The qualifying in this series is intense During a recent event at the half-mile Delaware track in London, Ont., the difference between the fastest 32 cars was 810ths of a second Beauchamp looms as favourite among Quebecers and possibly in the impressive field, because he has been fast lately For instance, last Sunday he was at the back for the start of the 50-lap weekly feature, but was in front after 29 laps After winning the Federation Automobile Quebec's ice-racing title in 1980-81, Beauchamp moved into dirt-track competition where he won rookie honors in the mid-80s Following lessons at the Spenard-David Racing school in Shannonville, Ont, Beauchamp tried asphalt racing in 1991 He won three events in each of the '92 and '93 seasons in the ACN series, even more impressively, earning 14 top-five finishes in 17 races during his second season Beauchamp began scoring points in the competitive ACT series in 1994 and last year had four top-10 finishes in just seven ACT starts i' mmm mmwm Qukldine ONLY 50 CENTS PER CALL i t mm ffliy mm contemporaries is perhaps to stretch reality Around this period, Soulages's art undergoes a major change, with the molecules of paint seemingly whipped into frothy motion In the especially beautiful painting of 29 June, 1956 (Soulages never uses titles but rather the dates of completion), the striatums and edges of the creamy black markings seem to crest, with the real light of the room bouncing off the pigment and back at the viewer as never before We might say that Soulages's art has three levels - the surface of the work, the space in front, and the virtual space within the canvas or paper For example, in the huge work of 15 December, 1962, the artist applies pigment so that it seems to soak into the canvas And increasingly, as in this beautiful painting, Soulages's art becomes more overtly distanced from personal feeling For those who insist that art tell the story of the soul, this work remains a mask The wide brush marks are too secure in their status as shape to refer to any moment in the artist's inner life Works from the early 1960s are somewhat declamatory, with thundering markings that are nevertheless well rehearsed In the late 1960s, the dark clouds expand to bursting The resonant brown deep within the monumental black mass in the painting of 20 October, 1967, appears ready to swell and to surge forward and over the viewer And in the monumental painting of 14 May, 1968, hefty, vertical dark shapes multiply into a whole row of outward pushing presences PIERRE SOULAGES, KINEMAGEMONTRE At 1996 Soulages work dated 29 September, 1967 In the long period between the late 1960s and 1980, Soulages's shapes alternately expand and deflate, sometimes to the point of anorexia, as in 3 June, 1971, with its tangled wreath of brush-work suspended, like a rope bridge, over an arid, almost clinical background Again, there is a kind of above-below effect; our sights move from deep pools of white to the textured, black ridges of the brushwork In the 1980s, most loopholes are closed, and black spreads across the canvases The formats also become increasingly horizontal, so that the shape of the works is aligned with the back-and-forth movement of the viewer As Soulages explains with gusto, We are in the space of the painting In transitional paintings like 27 February, 1979, a somewhat weak - though appealing - work, the image remains somewhat two-tone, with a subtle element of drama resulting from contrasts of textures that take away from the deeper import In short, the subtlety here is quite self-conscious and keeps the work from going further in meaning But such slips into elegance-for-its-own-sake are rare and are more than compensated by works, such as 7 February, 1985, a vast, black sweep of left-to-right striations In this powerful piece, the flow is checked by a series of thin, vertical lines But, in the end, this rudimentary grid in fact serves to accentuate the sense that the edges of the work are but arbitrary markers and that somehow the painting will break through its natural boundaries As we move around in front of the painting, the surface becomes activated by the shifting light on the tiny ridges of paint, that in this work, the brush strokes are stacked, not composed in counterpoint, only adds to the fascinating - if unsettling - sense of motion and instability radiating around us But, if we were hoping, through getting close, to better know the work - or artist - we may be sorely disappointed, for the force-field projected by the painting is constantly changing as we move along it Each seemingly secure element in the painting seems to intentionally self-destruct, so that, for example, the materiality of the thick pigment, with its ridges, is visually dissolved by the reflected light Soulages explains that Each person can get what they want out of the pictures In the minds and hands of lesser artists, this everything-is-beautiful concept becomes an excuse for bad art But, in the case of Soulages, the art holds its own, in part because he doesn't really abide by the saying but instead produces art that dramatizes it Soulages's art is not wishy-washy, but what it does do is - at its deepest level - articulate certain views on the current status of personal identity The built-in paradox is that, while affirming a supremely powerful identity on the part of the artist himself, Soulages's work represents a lifelong assault - in tandem with artists like Jean Dubuffet - on the very concept of personal identity Are we not in truth just elements in an endless hall of mirrors? Soulages, himself a jaunty man sporting a gray-on-gray outfit, ultimately does express something - a peculiarly Parisian pessimism about the nature of the self And in the last two decades, this darkness has shown through ever more brightly in paintings that have grown to vast proportions The bigger the work, the more we move around and stir up the light reflected off the surface In the process, it becomes difficult to grasp the art as a single object Perhaps in this age of I-love-me, when a popular magazine is titled simply Self, the fatal beauty of Soulages's work can be seen as a healthy antidote That the works are extremely uplifting, not depressing, is part of their greatness Pierre Soulages: The Black, the Light, will remain on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to Sept 15 Admission is five Henry Lehmann is an art and architecture critic Vancouver artist Stan Douglas makes shortlist for rich prize - ANN DUNCAN ART Stan Douglas, the Vancouver multi-media artist who had a 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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A rebel suicide squad blew up a naval gunboat yesterday and pinned down a squad of elite commandos, killing its commander in one of the fiercest battles of the 13-year war for independence Tamil Tiger rebels rammed a speedboat packed with explosives into the gunboat, setting it on fire, said military officials who cannot be identified More than 40 sailors were aboard Their fate was unknown It also was not known how many rebels were in the speedboat, which exploded as the gunboat fired at rebel positions, the officials said The 36-metre gunboat Ranaviru was off Mullaittivu, site of a land battle for a military base vital to controlling the northeast coast of the Indian Ocean republic The fighting, in its second day, was the most intense since rebels lost their stronghold, Jaffna City, to the Sri Lankan army in December Lt-Col Fazly Lafir of the Special Forces Commando Unit reportedly bled to death after being shot Brigadier Lawrence Fernando, commander of Mullaittivu camp, was among the wounded A collection of political cartoons by Aislin, with text by Hubie Bauch Available at The Gazette Lobby, 245 St Jacques (Place d'Armes Metro) during regular business hours Or take advantage of our convenient mail order service Mail this coupon together with a cheque or money order for $20.85 to the address below Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted Please allow three weeks for delivery Price includes $15.99 (item) $3.50 postage and handling $1 R Roy They were Loyola's first casualties of World War II Loyola High School has been in a number of locations during its long history Its antecedents go back beyond 1896 (the year when ""Loyola High School"" first became its name) In the 1840s, space was made for a school for English-speaking Catholic boys in the College Ste Marie, a French Jesuit school Rules were laid down Good behavior was required, especially in chapel Slouching, stretching, yawning were out Those early chapel services were a far cry from one described by Capt Maguire in 1916 He had just brought his cut-throats back from mass The chapel was a barn in France that had been converted into a theatre On the stage, a padre said mass In the orchestra pit, another padre, attired in boots and spurs and a Sam Brown belt, with a blue stole and a gas helmet slung round his neck, heard confessions Loyola High School's 100th-anniversary celebrations began with mass in St Patrick's Basilica earlier this year They end in October with a gala evening in The Windsor It is impossible to give an adequate idea of the storms in this country The first Anglican Bishop of Quebec, the Rt Rev Jacob Mountain, was describing a Canadian thunderstorm It was in July 1794 At that time, Montreal was part of the Quebec diocese On July 11, the bishop set out from Quebec to make his first visit to this city A week later, he and his party were within 35 miles of Montreal when a violent storm of thunder forced them to take shelter in a farmhouse The bishop drew a chair up to a window and gazed out Immense volumes of black clouds filled the sky Forked lightning zig-zagged across the clouds, throwing out bright purple flashes At one point, three or four of these zig-zagging lines joined together in a huge shaft of light that rushed furiously to the ground It was like nothing the bishop had ever seen at home in England He found it dreadfully, beautifully grand But what was beautifully grand could also be lethal When the storm cleared, the travellers got back into their carriages and proceeded on their way to Montreal They had not gone far when they came to a village where the people were in confusion and dismay Eight people in the village had been seated round a dining table Lightning had streaked in Two of those at the table were killed instantly On many occasions these magnificently awesome storms caused sudden death In 1830, the New Montreal Gazette (a short-lived rival to The Gazette) reported an instance of this kind Again, it was in July At a village just west of Montreal, visitors had come to call at a doctor's house They were sitting in the parlor with the doctor's wife when a great flash of lightning sped round the room When the doctor came home a few minutes later, he found everyone on the floor in a state of insensibility One man was dead In the words of that 1830 newspaper, the fatal fluid had removed him to a world of Spirits A child's birthday party ended in tragedy early in the present century It was being held at a farmhouse near the town of Cookshire, in the Eastern Townships It was about this time of year The birthday cake had been placed on the table The children were waiting for it to be cut Suddenly, fierce lightning darted into the room The young son of Ayton Cromwell, a Cookshire contractor, was nearest the window The lightning killed him His mother was to remember that we did not know anything was wrong until we realized he was not crying out in alarm like the other children Loyola High 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Quebec furniture-maker after girl killed by falling dresser GORDON BECK, GAZETTE Diane Pinsonneault says her farm's miniature vegetables are even smaller than usual this year because of the rainy, cloudy weather Southern Quebec farmers fed up with wet summer MONIQUE BEAUDIN THE GAZETTE Diane Pinsonneault glanced at the tiny carrots and peas in her Atwater Market stall in west-end Montreal They're supposed to be small, but they're much, much, much smaller than normal, she said yesterday It just hasn't been hot enough for long enough this year Pinsonneault, who grows miniature vegetables on her 40-acre farm in Saint-Michel-de-Napierville, said this summer's weather has been tough on farmers There's been too much rain and just not enough sun I'm hoping for a late autumn and frost, but even then, I won't have a great season, she said, wrapping up a small box of beans Farmers around the Montreal area have been dealing with weird weather this year After a late spring, they've had tornados in the Eastern Townships, floods near Huntingdon, and a lot of rainy days around Montreal Farmers say the growing season is at least two weeks behind normal and many crops are stunted because they haven't been getting enough sun It's not just farmers who are having a hard time with Mother Nature La Ronde is giving out free tickets for the first time to try to drum up business after a dismal beginning to the season For the rest of the summer, the Ile Ste Helene amusement park will give a second free ticket to people who show up on days when the MeteoMedia weather network forecasts a 50-percent or higher chance of rain The free tickets can be used on another day We decided to put the bad weather on our side, La Ronde spokesman Christine Mitton said Attendance is down 25 per cent from last year's record-breaking 1.2 million visitors, she said This summer's weather has definitely been strange, Environment Canada meteorologist Bill Horrocks said But part of the problem is that we're comparing it with last summer, which was a record-breaker for heat and sunshine Back then, most farmers were complaining about a drought The big difference this year is that we're getting a lot of unstable air that is leading to frequent showers or thunderstorms, Horrocks said Normally, southern Quebec gets high-pressure systems that bring sunnier, more stable weather This year, the high-pressure system is farther east, he explained This is just an anomaly that takes place from time to time, Horrocks said Concordia University climatologist David Frost said it's as if our weather has gone to England for the summer My wife was in England for a month Growing season is at least 2 weeks behind normal Almanac doesn't predict much relief from rain, cloudiness JONATHON GATEHOUSE THE GAZETTE An Ontario family is suing a Quebec furniture manufacturer and a national retail chain for negligence after a chest of drawers fell on a 2-year-old girl, killing her Seven family members, including two siblings and three grandparents, seek a total of $200,000 for the loss of Brittany Ward's care, guidance and companionship under the Ontario Family Law Act The companies have 40 days to file a statement of defence The allegations must be proved in court In a statement of claim filed in a Toronto court Wednesday, the girl's family contends the manufacturer, Les Industries de la Rive Sud Ltee of Saint-Croix, and the retailer, Leon's Furniture Ltd of Weston, Ont, sold a poorly designed and hazardous dresser for children Brittany was killed Jan 14 when the four-drawer dresser in her bedroom tipped over, pinning her underneath An autopsy determined that she suffocated beneath the weight of the 40-kilogram piece of furniture The exact cause of the accident is unknown, but officials speculated the girl was trying to climb up on the dresser After an investigation, a Toronto coroner urged parents to check the stability of their children's furniture Many safety experts recommend that heavy pieces of furniture be bracketed to walls to lessen the danger of similar accidents The civil suit contends the chest of drawers was susceptible to tipping and would easily flip when pulled forward It also contends the manufacturer and retailer knew or ought to have known of the danger posed by the dresser Ex-FQ minister gets Brussels post Company officials at Les Industries de la Rive Sud Ltee could not be reached for comment yesterday In a telephone interview from his Mississauga, Ont, office, Brittany's father, Harry Ward, said he decided to take legal action to warn other parents of the potential danger; and make sure his daughter didn't die in vain The idea is to get as much publicity out there as possible so we can prevent this from happening again, he said Ward said he and his wife, a former daycare worker, had gone to great lengths to childproof their home, putting latches on doors and buying only approved toys You try to think of everything, but you would never think of the chest of drawers, he said The family wants the federal government to enact safety standards for the weight and design of children's dressers! The only regulation now in place is a ban on the use of paints containing lead Francois Houle, a spokesman for Quebec's provincial coroner, said his office has no knowledge of any similar fatalities in the province He called the case exceptional and said the coroner has no plans to issue a warning to parents We always ask parents to watch their children closely, but there are limits to what you can do, Houle said If a kid climbs up on a piece of furniture, it doesn't matter what it is, it could fall over A Health Canada database that tracks children treated in 15 hospital emergency rooms across the country found injuries caused by falling dressers were extremely rare Such accidents accounted for less than 0.1 per cent of the injuries reported each year, and only three patients had required hospitalization in five years, GAZETTE QUEBEC BUREAU QUEBEC - Denis de Belleval, a former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister, has been named Quebec's delegate-general to Brussels He replaces Gerard Latulippe and starts Sept 2 From 1976 to 1981, de Belleval served as transport minister and minister in charge of the civil service In 1982, he left to work for Lavalin International Inc In 1985, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed him chief of Canada Ports Corp In 1987, Mulroney named him to head Via Rail From 1990 to 1995, de Belleval worked for the city of Quebec itl V ith the purchase of one a la carte meal you and your guest are invited",0,0,0,0,0,0
198,19920204,modern,Nan,"The Quebec Order of Optometrists has fired the latest round in its public-relations war against healthcare reform It was a shot heard around the television dial last night except on public networks: You may have caught the optometrists' TV commercial; it was aired by the province's private broadcasters, CFCF-12, TVA and T锟斤拷l锟斤拷diffusion Quatre Saisons - But you won't see the spot on Radio-Canada, CBMT-6 or Radio-Quebec The commercial contravenes the state-owned broadcasters' bans on public issue-advocacy advertising In a letter to Natcom, the advertising agency that created the commercials for the Quebec Order of Optometrists, Richard Bergevin, who administers advertising standards for Radio-Canada, stated that the public network does not sell air time for commercials that favor initiatives or a point of view related to a topic of public interest (my translation) Bergevin's letter added that a government of Quebec-sponsored commercial on the same issue would be subject to identical scrutiny and assessment Radio-Quebec's refusal to run the commercial was revealed in a letter to Natcom from Gerard Desroches,",0,0,0,0,0,0
196,19910707,modern,Nan,"There's a uniform and that's for you,"" Hoff said. ""Come out with our regular players today."" So after only two semi-pro games, Hoff was a big-leaguer. But his time in the majors would be brief. After spending portions of the 1911, '12 and '13 seasons with the Yankees, Hoff's career ground to a halt in 1915 with the St. Louis Browns, who were managed by Branch Rickey. When the rival Federal League folded in 1916, its players pushed out journeymen like Hoff. In his first appearance, Chet Hoff struck out Ty Cobb. In his last, he got Shoeless Joe Jackson to ground out. But Hoff's short stay in the big leagues, his contemporaries included Connie Mack, Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Walter Johnson and Smoky Joe Wood, was filled with experiences of a lifetime. Hoff said he once struck out Jim Thorpe, only to let him get a hit his next time up just so I could see him run.",0,0,0,0,0,0
203,19930408,modern,Nan,"Mulroney had planned to tour Bush's office while Mila was to tour the Texas Heart Institute. The Mulroneys' visit is part of the prime minister's farewell tour through the United States. This week they visited former president Ronald Reagan at his presidential library in California. A spokesman for Mulroney said the remainder of the Mulroneys' visit to the United States is private. She declined to give details or say when the couple is expected to return to Canada. At the table, West read it as a suit-preference signal and shifted to clubs. South won, drew trumps, eliminated clubs via a ruff and then put East on play with a diamond. East had no safe lead, and South lost only two diamonds and one heart. A diamond continuation at trick two would have a similar result, but a shift to hearts would defeat the game. East wins the finesse, cashes his diamond ace and exits in clubs, waiting patiently for the setting trick in hearts. Does West get all the blame for not finding the heart shift at trick two? Absolutely.",0,0,0,0,0,0
15,18930830,historical,,"""which is owned by Judge J 6, said, when seen last evening, that the insurance on each building was what companies usually placed, as the papers were locked up in his safe in his office which, by the way, is badly damaged by water Mr Mareotte occupied seven storeys, two of them facing on Fortification Lane, and all were stored with goods He says he had about $65,000 worth there and an insurance of $20,000, which was placed by his bookkeeper, Mr Gauthier, but as the latter was in Montreal, the amounts and companies could not be ascertained Messrs Mathieu Freres had a heavy stock of liquors, and their loss will be considerable Streams were kept playing on the ruins for several hours During the progress of the big fire a carpenter's shop belonging to Mr Lessard, at 106 St Dominique street, was totally destroyed The fire in the Enterprise Tobacco Company's works, at the corner of Fullum and Notre Dame, also broke out again last evening",0,0,0,0,0,0
107,19920330,modern,Nan,"Taylor off base about independent Quebec As a former student of Charles Taylor, I have followed with interest and admiration his increasing participation in the linguistic debate and in the debate about the future of Quebec and Canada (Gazette, March 24). I was dismayed, however, that Prof. Taylor has allowed himself to fall into the trap so carefully laid by many separatists who claim that English-speaking Quebecers would be better off in an independent Quebec because of the increased international attention that would be focused upon an independent Quebec and the pressure that would be brought to bear upon the government of the new state. I for one fail to see how international pressure, which fails so miserably in so many cases, would have any more effect on an independent Quebec than it already has. If there is one thing English Quebecers have come to realize, it is that they can depend only on themselves when it comes to protection of their rights. The federal government is prepared to sell us out to save the country. The Quebec Liberal Party has shown that it will sell us out to appease the nationalists, and brags of it.
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218,19900619,modern,Nan,"iron bars and workshop tools, prison officials said Two inmates were seriously injured and two others suffered minor injuries in the fight which broke out in the exercise yard shortly before 7 p.m The most severely injured got their wounds scaling the fence which is topped with wire reinforced with razor-sharp pieces of metal Bernheim said he felt the use of a firearm to stop an unarmed prisoner from escaping was unjustifiable The police are there, guards are there, they have dogs There's a regular motorized patrol around the penitentiary They could have caught him easily even if he had scaled the fence Faulkner said Bernheim doesn't know what he's talking about There's only one pickup truck for the perimeter of the pen, he said, and prisoners know the buffer zone between the fences is forbidden to them The inmates know the rules Even if they're in the buffer zone the guard won't shoot at them unless they start climbing the second fence In Bouchard's case, he said, the guard fired several warning shots and there was even an exchange of words before the fatal shot The guard shouted at him Don't go over the second fence and the inmate shouted back I'm going,",0,0,0,0,0,0
8,18940213,historical,Storm,"Yours truly, (Signed) Perival W St George, City Surveyor. The estimated cost of the Sherbrooke street sewer is $149,300; St Catherine street, $411,740; St James street, $103,894; de Levis street, $139,409, and $10,000 for the extension of the main sewer now discharging into Elgin basin, making a total of $414,403. The above has been forwarded to the council and Finance committee for immediate action. The City Council The regular monthly meeting of the City council will be held on Monday evening, when, after routine business, of which there is considerable, is disposed of, the orders of the day will be taken up. The first is for the council to go into committee of the whole and consider clause by clause the early closing by-law. When this is complete the by-law will be considered. On Tuesday night there will be a special meeting of the council to take up the gas contract.",0,0,0,0,0,0
92,20061203,modern,Storm,"About half the customers without electricity were in the Vankleek Hill and Winchester areas. The storms were also blamed for a mudslide in the Durham region, east of Toronto. In the United States, thousands of people were without light and heat yesterday after the Midwest's first big snowstorm of the season. The storm was blamed for at least 11 deaths as it cut a swath from Texas to Michigan and then blew through the Northeast early yesterday. Canadian Press and Associated Press contributed to this report. With the first round of voting last week, when 97,690 party members across the province marked an X, Dinning was first with 30 per cent, four percentage points ahead of Morton and double the total of Stelmach. Although lacking the campaign war chest and headline-grabbing quotes of his rivals, the 55-year-old northern Alberta farmer from a rural constituency north of Edmonton made up for it with a down-home appeal to honour, integrity and common sense that garnered supporters on both sides of the rural-urban divide. Dinning had been organizing his leadership for some four years and was perceived as the front-runner since the start of the campaign.
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198,19920204,modern,Nan,"like the social charter, than they are for proposals that are well outlined Health Minister Benoit Bouchard, the senior minister for Quebec, said Canadians should not read too much into the results of the constitutional conferences, which have been far from conclusive He said the handful of Canadians who took part in the conferences should not expect the federal and provincial governments to treat their recommendations as gospel That doesn't mean the federal government is going to closet itself in (the cabinet room) to prepare its response and say 'OK, it's finished, take it or leave it' We'll return to the provinces and some of the participants It's a difficult process However, Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard said the fate of the economic-union proposals proves that the federal government's constitutional strategy is in disarray He said even sovereignists are fed up with talk about the constitution but they can't move on to real issues, such as the economy, until the question is settled once and for all 2 languages must be recognized PAGE B3 The power of provincialism PAGE C1 Business groups unite for unity PAGE C2 Get deal, then ban talks for 15 years, unity panel told The country needs a rest,",0,0,0,0,0,0
205,19900408,modern,Nan,"feathers 43 Threshold 48 Unit of matter 49 Heights 50 Beat the daylights out of 52 Noble title 53 Mickey Rooney film 56 Like a bump on Answers next week 57 Very popular 58 Jet-black 59 Right as 60 Pick one's way 61 Dodo 62 Carbon copy 64 Lotion 66 Coat with black gloss 69 Bedding item 70 Ditto 71 Tax man at times 74 Author Waugh 75 Taylor-Newman movie 80 He 81 Run away to marry 82 Lessen 83 Storied lioness 84 for we be (Bible) 86 Sanguinary 87 Darth of ""Star Wars"" 88 Buenos 90 Indistinct 91 Throat sound 92 Withstand 95 Couple 97 one's laurels 100 Conditional freedom 101 Hair dye 102 Mubarak's city 104 Korean soldier 106 Cherish 107 Pacino movie 110 with (took the part of) 111 Frankenstein's assistant 112 Rich tapestry 113 ""Karenina"" 114 ""On Your"" 115 Speck 116 Unimaginative 117 Eager tourist 1 Gospel 2 Fluff 3 Make reparation 4 Kind",0,0,0,0,0,0
167,18930711,historical,Nan,"Kitchie, Q.C., and Hogg, O.C., for the Dominion, assisted by Mr. Newcombe, deputy minister of justice, and Mr. Courtney, deputy minister of finance.
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167,18930711,historical,Nan,"2 hay at $13.50 on track, no bid; 2 cars of No. 2 hay at $13.25 on track, no bid; 2 cars of No. 2 hay at $13 on track, no bid, There is decidedly better feeling in wheat so far as the local market is concerned, but there has been no advance, Manitoba wheat has been held here relatively higher all along as compared with the American markets, There is a little more inquiry for barley, as high as 45c being bid in some instances, The offerings of oats and peas are becoming smaller and there is a very fair inquiry for what there is on the market, Oats are unchanged, 40c; 44c, but sales appear to have been made as high as 75c No. 1 hard Manitoba No. 2 hard Manitoba No.
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76,18940612,historical,Flood,"FLOODS: A Good Deal of Damage Done and Thousands Homeless New York, June 11 A Herald's special from Vancouver, B.C., says: Mr. Lugene Tracey arrived here yesterday afternoon, coming through from Ashcroft on a hand car, steamer and a raft, twenty miles of the trip being made on a raft. He reports that cloudbursts have washed away the Canadian Pacific railway tracks at Pennys, Gladwin, and several other places, the greatest damage being done in the two towns named. Damage to the extent of half a million dollars has been done to Government bridges spanning the Thompson, Dow and Columbia rivers, in addition to wrecks along the Fraser. The Fraser river is still rising. It is estimated that eighteen thousand persons are on the hills homeless. Hehef steamers are running as rapidly as possible over farm lands and through orchards, rendering what succor is possible. Ottawa, June 11 From a telegram received by His Excellency the Governor-General yesterday from Lieut.-Governor Dewdney, of British Columbia, in reply to an enquiry as to the extent of the Red river flood, it would appear that the press despatches have been greatly exaggerated. Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney says that the effects of the flood had been overstated; that the greatest loss was in this season's crops; that no lives had been lost; that at the time of telegraphing there was little or no news of stock having been destroyed, and that the Lieutenant-Governor would wire to His Excellency any information that he might obtain. It is not, therefore, likely that the Dominion Government will think it necessary to ask for any vote for the relief of the sufferers, as the loss and danger would not appear to be more than the local Government can attend to. WMKAU, M li, 138 SU Dent street, Montreal. Secretary Montreal, May 10, 1894. """"B S"""" 375 ST. JAMES STREET, FOR THE FAMOUS RADJIT'S MICROBE KILLER. This remedy is now recognized the world over, as the only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER ever produced. It cures by destroying the disease germs in the blood and tissues, without harm to the human system. Beware imitations. Main Office for Canada, at Toronto, Ont. The Most Perfect Mill in Canada, Keewatin, 5,000 brls. per day, Portage la Prairie, 700 brls. per day. Elevator at all important wheat points in the Northwest. All grades of hard wheat flour in barrel and bag. Quotation and other information can be had on application, office, Board of Trade Building, Montreal. By Benning & Barthelou, BESHINO BARSALOC. At their salesrooms, No. 88 and 90 St. Peter Street, on Wednesday, the 13th June. Regular Weekly Sale of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, etc., in lots suitable to the wants of the City and Country Trade, COMPRISING Dress goods, Prints, Cashmeres, Flannels, Cottons, Shirtings, Cretonnes, Tickings, Housekeeping, Table Linens, Sheetings, Mantle Cloth, Lace Curtains, Cotton Hose, Shirts and Drawers, Oriental Lace, Brussels Carpet, Stair Oilcloth, Table Covers, Oatmeal, Damask, Hack and French Towels, Table Linens, Holland, Kilbons, Smallwares, Notions, etc. F. W. Thomas, Treasurer, Montreal, June 11, 1894. The Waters are Receding. Encouraging news was received yesterday from the British Columbia flooded district. In conversation with Mr. Thus. Tait, assistant general manager of the Canadian Pacific, the Gazette was informed that the water had fallen six feet in the Kicking Horse Pass and that the repairs to the road had all been completed in that particular section, except a small gap at Golden. On the Pacific division the water had also fallen in some places, while at other points it remained at about the same level as a few days ago. The company's officials here have been informed that all timber, piles and all necessary material for repairing the damaged roadbed have been delivered on the spot and work will be pushed to completion with all possible speed as soon as the water recedes. Mr. Tait likewise stated that a large portion of the Empress of India's cargo, which had got as far as Donald and had been held there, would be released in a very few days. Two Small Fires. The services of the Ste. Cunegonde fire brigade were brought into requisition at six o'clock last evening to put out a fire which had broken out in the store of Mr. Jos. Lalonde, tailor, at 115 Notre Dame street. Chief Hebert and his men worked hard and in about fifteen minutes had conquered the flames. It is estimated that the amount of damage done is about $700. At 3:40 yesterday afternoon an alarm was sent in from box 151 for a fire which had broken out in a bedroom at the residence of Mrs. Barry, 113 St. Monique street. The flames were put out by two streams and a Babcock. The Salvage corps of No. 4 station saved twenty covers. The loss on furniture alone is said to be $3,000, but it is insured in the Alliance Insurance company. Thirty Years a Newsboy. Yesterday """"Pete"""" Murphy, the veteran newspaper vendor, was the recipient of many congratulations from those who knew his history, for yesterday he completed thirty years of service outside the St. Lawrence hall selling papers. """"Pete,"""" in a chat over old times, told how when he was a boy of nine years it was a different scene around the corners then. The post office was opposite, and where the present Post office is the Bank of Montreal then stood. In his time he has seen many a paper, but, as """"Pete"""" says, the Gazette is still on deck and selling better than ever. """"Pete's"""" opinion is that the people read a great deal more now than they did in the past. Even """"the kids"""" in the offices had to see the daily papers. He had no objection, however. Hunkard-McDougall, Miss Alice Maud McDougall, niece of Dr. William Patterson, V.""",1,0,1,1,1,1
145,18941228,historical,Blizzard,"Try Southern Straight Cut Cigarettes, 10 cts per package, a dividend of 1? per cent, the market rallied somewhat, selling off a 11 on aids the closing, the bank attacking the Grangers vigorously. Try Southern Straight Cut Cigarettes, 10 cts per package, a blizzard in the west was used today as a bear argument on the Granger stocks, but as this is a periodical affair we cannot see why it should cut any figure. Cordage after opening weaker rallied somewhat, but people are as much in the dark as ever about this security. Reading was weak throughout; it was stated that the fours were coming in quite freely and that the Olcott-Karle committee would be sure to get a large majority of the 4 per cent bonds. Their success in this particular was responsible for the weakness in the stock at the close, inasmuch as should the plan be modified there is no doubt that an assessment will be levied on the stock.
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101,19900422,modern,Drought,"along with non-native trees and shrubs, is crowding out natural vegetation It's quantity, quality, distribution and timing, said Robert Chandler, new superintendent of Everglades National Park There's nothing that holds a candle to the Everglades in terms of needs It's beyond threats it's really in serious trouble The goal now is not so much to Flood control structures (canals and levees) prehistoric sheet flow Naples A huge marsh dotted with small islands and ponds, the Everglades once covered most of South Florida from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay During the summer rainy season, water lapped over the southern rim of the lake and flowed south in a solid, 50-mile wide sheet the river of grass But draining the marsh to supply water for farms and cities has severely disrupted that natural system Water levels in large parts of the Everglades are now controlled by a huge network of canals, pumps and levees Pollution from phosphorus, a naturally occurring fertilizer, is leaching into the water supply from huge sugar cane farms just south of Lake Okeechobee The fertilizer is feeding an invasion of cattails that, along with non-native trees and shrubs,
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202,19920928,modern,Nan,"Carleen Legrand, Fly Limite, Magnum A L, Bvrd Action, Times: 0:27.4, 0:59.2, 1:28.2, 1:59 Attendance 4,952; Mututl: 1844,184 Ad Tibo 2, Luna Power 3, Evermore E 1, Functionary 2, Amiral Cache 3, Ohtobe Quick 1, GM 2 Nirol 3, Straighten Out 1, Spandex 2, Natchez 2 Entry 3, Knight Lobeli 3, Alexei Alexei 1 Express Gite 2, Township Jill 3, Eclair de Feu 1 Lukes Merle 2 Denvils Storm 3, Jethro Lobeli TURKEY Trabzonspor 1, Aydinspor 0 Fenerbahce 1, Ankaragucu 2 Karsiyaka 2, Bakirkoyspor 1 Kaysenspor 1, Galatasaray 1 Bursaspor 4, Altay 0 Kocaelispor 5,",0,0,0,0,0,0
218,19900619,modern,Nan,"000 homes on the South Shore were without power Francois Lebrun, chief of Hydro's South Shore section, said power should be restored by 2 p.m. Rail link to South Shore opens today The Missing Link bicycle path, joining Montreal and the South Shore, opens to cyclists today The 500-metre path under the Victoria Bridge will link existing paths from the southwestern tip of Ile Notre Dame and Seaway Park in St. Lambert An inauguration ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m.",0,0,0,0,0,0
195,19910612,modern,Storm,"that day, two minutes after the lights went out Hydro vice-president Jean-Claude Roy told reporters that the utility had been warned about the storms one week before they hit and had taken precautions He said Hydro had followed recommendations that called for a 10-percent reduction in the power load carried by transmission lines from James Bay Power lines in British Columbia and Ontario were affected by that storm, but National Research Council scientists said Quebec's system was hardest hit because its hydro-electric system extends farthest north and because all its transmission lines are connected Senior Hydro-Quebec officials couldn't be reached for comment last night, but Pierre Goyette, working in Hydro's power-failure department in Montreal, said he knew nothing about the expected storms The U.S. agency said today's storms will be caused by intense flare-ups of a disturbed area of the sun that is about 50 times the size of the Earth AP, GALETTE I FINAL FIRE SALE $600,000 Value ALL CARPETS WILL BE SOLD BELOW COST! On a first come, first served basis! The Deals are Incredible: 10'5 $1,500.00 11' 850.00 10'2 1,700.00 13'7 2,",1,0,0,0,0,0
82,19980109,modern,Nan,"He is Chretien's second appointment to the high court - New Brunswick Judge Michel Bastarache was appointed in October to replace retiring Gerard La Forest. Mild-mannered and publicity-shy, the Montreal-born, Cambridge-educated lawyer has represented a wide variety of clients during his 30-year legal career, ranging from large corporations to Guy Paul Morin, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his neighbor. Binnie is also no stranger to Ottawa, having spent four years as assistant deputy minister of Justice in the 1980s, responsible for all litigation by or against the federal government. He has appeared before the Supreme Court more than 25 times, arguing both for and against the federal government on issues ranging from gay rights to cruise-missile testing. He has represented the media in several important cases, including challenges to the publication ban in the Karla Homolka case and to a law that restricts the reporting of opinion polls in the days before federal elections. Binnie has extensive constitutional experience.
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88,19960724,modern,Flood,"Telephone poles had snapped in two like matchsticks, roads lay crumpled, a bridge was collapsed and many houses had been flattened to the ground by the raging waters of the Riviere des Ha! Ha! The river, swollen only two days ago, had receded considerably yesterday, but it had dumped piles of mud on what PLEASE SEE COPTER, PAGE A2 Chicoutimi mayor says dam levels might have been too high PAGE A3 How you can help the flood victims PAGE A3 Rain keeps people of Jonquiere on edge PAGE A4 Insurance won't cover most losses PAGE A4 Time to pitch in: editorial PAGE B2 inning scan U Restricted SainWFidaie-de-Mont-Murrayf MK6"" at fk iEti' 7 "" Dangerous Sept-llesTf rg Arrows point to portions of the roads that are closed or have restrictions imposed, such as weight limits on vehicles. The dots on either side of the arrows indicate the length of the road affected.
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