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and tripled water rates to cut consumption At Colchester Zoo in England, visitors were asked to bring leaves to feed its two baby elephants, Tania and Zola, because the normal feed supplies of willow, sweet chestnut, poplar and oak leaves had been destroyed in the drought Forest fires raged across southern France, Portugal and Spain; many blazes were set by arsonists In the Alps, 11 mountain climbers were killed after the high heat triggered avalanches New Owl Scientists in Oregon and Washington discovered two cases 960 km apart in which a rare northern spotted owl bred with the more common and aggressive barred owl, producing a new hybrid Biologists don't know if the cross breeding is an isolated quirk of nature or the first sign of evolution into a new owl species The barred owl is a very hardy bird, and there have been concerns that an expansion of its range could threaten the survival of the spotted owl, listed in June as a threatened species High Tide Environmentalists at the 21st meeting of the South Pacific Forum in Vanuatu warned that the world has to be convinced that rising sea levels caused by the greenhouse effect could turn the region's inhabitants into refugees Jeremy Leggett, science director of Greenpeace,
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Now, at least for the time being, host city Nagano is grappling with problems of too much. A major snowstorm forced the closing of the airport serving Nagano and led commuters to abandon cars on the sides of slippery roads. A winning combination On February 7, the 1998 Winter Olympics will open with the lighting of the torch in Nagano, Japan. Bring the magic of the Games into your classroom with The Gazette and Winter Gold, a new teaching package for Grades 4 and up. The package includes activities for language arts, social studies, math and media literacy. COST: $15, prepaid by cheque or credit card or $12 with an order of 100 newspapers during the Olympic period ($27 in the metro area). To order call 987-2400 Toll Free: 1-800-361-8478 Newspapers in Education. Have The Gazette delivered to your door and start your day INFORMED, STIMULATED and INSPIRED. The Gazette 987-2400 THE ACES ON BRIDGE BY BOBBY WOLFF "Good or bad fortune usually comes to those who have more of the one than the other."
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The telegraph lines are down in a score of places. BUNTFOIW, Ont, April 6 Last night a very high northwest wind with snow set in and continued blowing and snowing a perfect hurricane all day. Some buildings have suffered badly by part of the walls being blown in. The snow has drifted from two to four feet and travel is almost stopped. Kingston, Ont, April 6 The most violent snow storm of the season commenced this afternoon and up to a late hour tonight shows no signs of abatement. Watkp, Ont, April 6 A terrific storm visited this locality last night and today. Snow is from two to five feet deep, the east end of the large reaper and mower manufacturing establishment here was blown in, together with about 200 feet of the south side, and is partially unroofed, with other smaller casualties, business being entirely suspended.
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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. And they won't this fall, when a 25th-anniversary reunion show will be broadcast on CBS. Gazette TV critic Mike Boone picks the best of tonight's programs: Nightly Business Report (WCFE-57 at 6:30): Guest is Robert Reich. Entertainment Tonight (CFCF-12 at 7): Feature on Willem Dafoe. Over New England (Vermont ETV-33 at 8): Dazzling aerial cinematography. Big Ticket (MuchMusic at 8): Rod Stewart belts love ballads on Valentine's Day. Murphy Brown (CJ0H-8 at 8:30): Rerun of episode satirizing Senate hearings on Clarence Thomas. Masterpiece Theatre (Channel 57 at 9): Part 3 of Summer's Lease. Northern Exposure (WCAX-3 at 10): Chris gets a visit from his doppelganger. Fuji prime-time schedule, Page C7.
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15 Chretien, 21, faces three charges sexual assault, sodomy and illegally confining a 27-year-old woman in his Simpson St. apartment Chretien was arrested May 10, after a woman alleged that she had been bound and sexually assaulted NDP Quebec wing picks new chief Alain Tasse has been elected president of the Quebec wing of the federal New Democratic Party The 17-member executive voted unanimously at a weekend meeting to give Tasse the job until the NDP's Quebec wing convention at the end of the year Tasse replaces Paul Cappon, who resigned June 10 after a power struggle with Phil Edmonston, the only New Democratic MP from Quebec Cappon said Tasse was selected because he can be controlled by Edmonston, but the MP dismissed the suggestion, noting that the vote was 17-0 It's hard to say he's a puppet of anyone The right southbound lane of the Jacques Cartier Bridge will be closed for repairs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Montpak Ltd, the scene of the fatal accident, was filled with booby traps and safety hazards, Dionne wrote in his report. He said many of the company's 80 employees didn't know where emergency exits were located, oxygen masks were scarce and there was no alarm to sound in case of trouble. POORLY INSULATED PIPE The report also points out that the cooling system's main pipe could not be turned off to stop the leaking ammonia. When inhaled, the colorless gas burns holes through the lungs, which then swell and clog breathing. That's exactly what happened to Herculano Froias on March 21 last year. A poorly insulated pipe filled with liquid ammonia burst in the basement when someone dropped a heavy box on it. Froias, a Portuguese immigrant, was trapped in the basement electrical room with steel bars on the window. Several workers outside heard him screaming and ran across the street for help. They unsuccessfully tried tearing out the bars with metal chains attached to a nearby vehicle. Firefighters finally freed Froias more than 30 minutes later. He died of asphyxiation soon after arriving at the hospital. "Mr.
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THE STATE OF TRADE, An Unmistakable Decline in General Business in Romulus, New York, June 8, Special telegram to Bradstreet's show quite conclusively that general business now is on the whole declining rather than expanding in volume, May bank clearings total point unmistakably to a widespread subsidence of activity in general trade and speculation throughout the country. Total clearings at 67 cities were $4,810,254,833, a decrease of 1st per cent. New York city's clearings fell off 23 per cent, while at 66 other cities the decrease was 10.8 per cent. Total clearings at 68 cities for five months aggregated $22,776,368,480, a decrease of more than 9 per cent. There are generally quiet raw materials (except Cincinnati). Little doing in leather and hides. The demand for cotton is moderate, prices heavy and further restrictions ordered, continued depression in the iron and steel industries, nothing like the volume of lumber moving customary at this season and a drought in the lower Mississippi valley which restricts general trade and threatens growing crops.
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I ranted and raved and cried and told her if she couldn't decide after dating me for five years and him for a few months, then I was talking. No goodbye, no wish-you-well, no if-you-ever-need-a-friend, nothing. It was as if someone had ripped out the last chapter of a beautiful love story, no real ending, the main character left hanging in the wind. It's now been almost 20 years and both of us have had failed marriages. We've rarely spoken a word over the years, but I've thought about her a thousand times. We recently had our class reunion and, as we spoke, I felt emotions I hadn't felt in a long time. She gave me her phone number and told me to call her. I've had it for six months now and I've picked up the phone 50 times, but I can't bring myself to call. I'm not sure if it's because I'm still angry that she dumped me or afraid I'll fall for her again and it will happen all over again. They say time heals all wounds, but what about scars? CHICAGO TRIBUNE. If you had an unforgettable fight?
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19980109
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Binnie was often called in to rescue floundering cases on appeal - for example, last year he persuaded the Supreme Court to let three Nazi war-crimes cases proceed despite a secret meeting between a judge and a senior federal lawyer. "He's one of the best lawyers in Canada and he's the kind of person we need on the Supreme Court of Canada," said Osgoode Hall law professor Patrick Monahan. Scott sees Binnie intellectually as something of an iron fist in a velvet glove. "One should not confuse his very gentle appearance and approach as any timidity or absence of focus or purpose," he said. "He knows exactly what he's doing." STEPHEN BINDMAN OF SOUTHAM NEWS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT. The Montreal Urban Community Police Service has added extra police patrols around the dock patrolling our streets. Officers in their local community stations are helping local citizens handle crisis situations. The Montreal Urban Community Police Service is encouraging all citizens to be especially careful and vigilant when approaching non-functional traffic lights. Police officers will be paying special attention to those who are driving dangerously, speeding and not conforming to proper road ethics.
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Thunder
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PGA Tour veteran Lee Trevino, along with Jerry Heard and Bobby Nichols, were involved in the most publicized lightning incident in golf history during the 1975 Western Open at the Butler National course in Oak Brook, Ill. A week before that incident, Tom Watson caused a controversy when he walked off the course at nearby Medinah during the 1975 United States Open because of a threat of lightning which officials had deemed was not immediately apparent. As a result of such incidents, the United States Golf Association adopted Rule 6-8a (ii) in its Rules of Golf which allows any player to discontinue play if he feels lightning threatens. Montreal-area golf courses are far from a safe harbor from the storm when it comes to lightning. Montreal averages 25 electrical storms a year, but 20 of those are recorded during the most active golf months of June, July and August. "We've already had five, including Monday's of this week," said Steve McCuskey, weather information specialist at Dorval. "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.
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19900327
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A 12" Iraq rebuilds town from rubble of war There's no limit on funds but no jobs either CARYLE MURPHY WASHINGTON POST FAW Iraq There's no better place to see the determination of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the response his presidential whims receive than this desolate tip of southern Iraq Faw's marshy saline soil is not much good for growing plants and the summer heat is so bad locals say that it's hard to breathe The 56,000 souls who once inhabited this riverside town scraped a living from fishing cultivating henna and dates and pumping oil from storage tanks into long lines of thirsty supertankers Then Iraq and Iran went to war Situated at the mouth of the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway about a 10-minute speedboat ride from enemy territory Faw became a prime military target Fawians fled and eventually the Iranians arrived humiliating Saddam Hussein by occupying this town for 26 months Adding insult to injury the Shiite Moslem Iranians who regard Saddam Hussein a Sunni Moslem as a heretic renamed Faw Al-Fatimiyah after the wife of the Shiites' founder Imam Ali In April 1988 four months before a ceasefire halted the war Iraqi forces retook Faw in a 36-hour blitz When it ended the town was gone replaced with the debris of a battlefield One of Saddam Hussein's war communiques emblazoned on a huge granite block just outside Faw says 10 million shells exactly 6,890,609 of them Iranian rained on the hapless town during the eight-year war How anybody had time to count is unclear Last year Saddam Hussein ordered Faw rebuilt in six months It took four A gate of pale yellow brick spans the double-lane highway leading into town There are a hospital six primary schools two high schools a kindergarten two banks a fire station a supermarket a town hall a sports field bus stops government employee housing and a white-domed mosque where the acoustics are so perfect a whisper is heard across the room The reconstruction in which the army helped also brought something Faw never had before a large rectangular plaza bordered on two sides with a row of Greek-style columns Each row has 17 columns because Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Socialist Party took power in a coup on July 17 1968 At one end of the plaza which Information Ministry official Fuad Jassim said is for festivals is a large painting of a triumphant Saddam Hussein astride a white stallion Najib Mahmoud the official who oversaw Faw's rebuilding said he does not know how much it cost but according to the order of the president there was no limit on funds for the reconstruction of Faw The Iraqis are keeping some reminders of Faw's occupation as museums One is the old mosque which Jassim said the Iranians used as a troop mess and which still sports the graffiti of un- THE LARGEST and BEST EVER From March 26th to March 30th Road new loll 31 and II healed hot water equipped also 51 July 334-9741 GIROUARD spacious 41 near everything $400 must see 485-2195 GRAND Somerled 31 41 healed equipped Immediate 481-2733 GRAND Monkland Large 51 new kitchen clean quiet healed May HI 5625 489-1004 GRAND 41 heated equipped immediate 487-9918 466-2094 316-1434 GRAND blvd near Sherbrooke 71 fully renovated upper duplex 486-3349 Saturday all day weekdays after 7 p m GRAND Blvd 4620 Big 31 41 equipped freshly painted Immediate or later occupancy 486-3715 GRAND very clean 11 fresh paint 483-1583 HAMPTON Upper 61 duplex heated renovated (duals preferred) $850 484-0376 226 HAMPTON Sherbrooke 31 $390 Heated equipped newly painted 48-1485 935-7768 HARVARD corner Sherbrooke bright equipped 31 quiet building 481-668 484-3833 HEATED 31 hot water equipped immediate $390 481-5440 HEATED 51 hot water melrose hardwood floors washer April 1st basement 2058 Decarie Street $495 461-8176 767-4354 HEATED 41 hot water fridge stove balcony 4308 Marcil 484-8007 484-8007 evenings HINGSTON Sherbrooke 41 heated equipped 482-4148 HUGE 21 3 41 newly decorated semi-equipped 487-6076 JULY 1st Patricia Avenue large 31 heated hot water fridge stove laundry room near shopping centre Call 462-4071 KIND EDWARD Upper 51 Heated Balconies $565 484-8852 LARGE 2 3 bedroom apts large balconies fully equipped For info call between 10 a m - 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For appointment 697-3859 KIRKLAND Best value! 3 bedroom bungalow with garage bonus fireplace heat pump Great location asking $139,900 Joyce Clark 626-0753 620-9600 REMAX MCPAR BROKER KIRKLAND 121 Denaull 1986 Grilli raised bungalow quiet Crescent 3 bedrooms finished basement wet-bar deck garage Plus extras $169,900 694-9281 KIRKLAND Timberlea! 9 financing for one year 4 bedroom collage on 13,000 sq ft of land professionally finished basement heat pump and more! Must sell! Ross Lahave ReMax Royal Jordan Broker 694-6900 695-4079 KIRKLAND Ste Anne border beautiful cottage fireplace garage backing onto green space excellent mortgage transfer Simon evenings 457-2556 KIRKLAND Beautiful split fireplace and Much More! Reduced for Quick Sale! Mina Cianfagna 697-8522 Montreal Trust Broker KIRKLAND Timberlea 4 bedrooms very bright modern cottage Everything new! Maintenance free Double garage finished basement 2 fireplaces corner property on quiet street low taxes At $190,000 reduced by $20,000 below market value 630-0374 LACHINE 101 29th Avenue cottage 6 rooms $99,000 634-2352 No agents PIERREFONDS Bungalow 3 bedrooms heat pump air-conditioning air cleaner $112,500 626-5562 No agents PIERREFONDS Thivierge Street New construction Semi-detached house with basement 3 bedrooms fireplace Large Roman bath Garage and driveway Nice backyard Also available to rent with option to buy $132,900 Between 12 p m - 4 p m 327-1915 PIERREFONDS 1987 open concept cottage semi-detached 3 large bedrooms master bedroom with ensuite 1.5 bathrooms large living room with fireplace finished basement for family room garage $138,000 negotiable Diana 620-0480 620-0480 696-4818 Private PIERREFONDS super bargain! Inground pool central air oak kitchen garage $125,000 620-9038 620-9038 PIERREFONDS No cash liquidation $110,000 487-0073 PIERREFONDS West Extra sunny open concept split Larger rooms oversized garage (2-car) Melamine kitchen Birch parquetry throughout Walk to tennis and pool Bike to beach!!! $136,900 696-5442 No agents please 21 31 from $375 heated Laundry Quiet bldg Immediate 482-0611 UAU UnBHE H70 larat iu 31 41 heated 341-4663 evenings VAN HORNE 2475 Large 51 very bright equipped immaculate redecorated varalhaned balcony Near shopping Garage available April 1st 737-0119 6510 WILBERTON bachelor for April & July; 31 for May & July; heat & water tax included close to shopping transportation 738-7693 Cote St Luc 208 A 31 41 5707 Westminster Guelph Bright luxurious facing park equipped heated vertical blinds $475 $540 April 1st July 1st 273-3617 evenings ADJACENT Westmount 4855 C S 485-2JV5 SUBLET townhouse 2 bedrooms near mall 481-4499 or 486-8201 SUBLET Immediately beautiful 41 adjacent Cavendish Mall carpeted sauna outside pool Leave message: 481-6528 488-9053 WEST Broadway 31 41 Heated private balcony laundry immediate 488-1593 Downtown 210 A beautiful selection of apts in renovated charming well maintained older bldgs decorator features heated equipped Alwaler buy May 1 or later 11 to 51 $325 to $760 932-6941 A bright 11 heated equipped for one quiet person April $310 3611 St Famille 5 844-3110 A bright unique designer 51 Must see! Leave message: 932-4200 ABSOLUTELY beautiful 81 lower unheated redecorated Near Imperial Tobacco Dawson metro $660 745-4434 ADJACENT Vendome Metro-Sherbrooke Metro-Sherbrooke West 2220 Claremont Ave 11 21 reasonable modern heated equipped May July 40y-6 16 AMHERST near Berri metro 61 71 $550 $675 Ontario 61 71 $450 $500 744-3584 APARTMENT 31 close to Guy Metro 1444 MacKay 937-8174 APARTMENT 41 to sublet newly renovated kitchen and bathroom freshly painted fireplace within walking distance to downtown metro and schools $475 monthly heat included May 1st 931-5073 day or evening APARTMENT near Radio Canada 1 bedroom and office with separate entrance Ideal for professional private terrace $950 287-0990 APARTMENT fully furnished spacious 31 prestigious building pool sauna doorman valet parking short term 282-0703 APARTMENT large bright 41 Durocher Milton Call 982-0602 APT 31 near McGill University 3508 Jeanne Mance downstairs ARGYLE Guy bright loft triplex equipped $690 monthly July 488-7055 AT Peel and Sherbrooke 21 available May 1st ac exercise room pool sauna dishwasher storage space 1585 utilities included 284-5423 288-3173 1508 ATTRACTIVE Spacious 5? oak floors minutes to Beaver Lake May 1st $825-1900 Equipped heated 937-7748 ATWATER AREA Immediate 11 21 31 reasonable rent Fridge stove 937-2616 ATWATER metro Sherbrooke Street 41 renovated electric heating $725 939-0578 ATWATER-GUY metro 41 July $475 51 June $660 Equipped 989-1297 ATWATER Lincoln II 21 31 41 Immediate heated 937-8363 489-3736 ATWATER quiet street 41 51 furnished unfurnished $470-$675 2661 Delisle 935-9203 AVAILABLE one month free 11 31 heated $375 Fully renovated 3 min from McGill 495 Prince Arthur 843-6294 31 available now or May 1st $1470 monthly Garage included 845-1056 AVAILABLE May 1 91 in triplex 2 levels 1975 Deck parking $1 Antoine Greene 484-9376 AYLMER McGill 11 21 renovated 845-9557 982-9026 AYLMER 21 sublet May - September Renewable $405 1 month free 284-5632 41 2 bedrooms stone & brick walls convenient near Atwater metro $648 monthly May 1st 933-9346 after 7pm or weekends BERRI metro Immediate 31 hot water stove fridge $395 288-8959 BERRI Metro several large 31s renovated fridge stove 1465-1490 unheated Claire 276-0647 274-8865 ST URBAIN Near Sherbrooke 31-1 185 21-1250 Heated 481-1885 51 sublet on Durocher between Prince Arthur and Pine May 1st to August 31st option to renew clean furnished spacious minutes from Downtown and McGill Laundry facilities $700 284-6427 SUBLET May 1 luxurious studio everything included ac 24hr doorman 937-9813 939-5860 SUBLET very spacious 31 Quality highrise Guy Metro balcony pool sauna gym equipped $480 Furniture optional 937-4347 evenings SUBLET April 1st Large 51 71 baths heat and air-conditioning Drummond Plaza Drummond and Sherbrooke $1,250 Days 875-6767 evenings 843-5149 SUBLET May 1st 31 renovated carpets dishwasher option to renew 939-5888 SUBLET 61 May-August $1000 456 Pine 284-3102 SUBLET Or Penfield at Peel spacious 31 central air pool sauna fully furnished available May 1st $1550 negotiable 284-5298 284-5298 SUBLET May 1st 11 renewable clean laundry security building close to McGill and Steinberg's 499-0173 SUBLET 11 McGill area furnished $355 all included renewable renewable THE GAZETTE MONTREAL TUESDAY MARCH 27 1990 Quebec to prairies: Join us in telecommunications battle A 8 ELISABETH KALBFUSS GAZETTE QUEBEC BUREAU QUEBEC Quebec and Canada's western provinces could unite in bargaining with the federal government for more jurisdiction over the telecommunications industry Communications Minister Liza Frulla-Hebert said yesterday Federal Communications Minister Marcel Masse announced last fall he would move to take back control over communications after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in August that the federal government had jurisdiction over all telecommunications I think the other provinces are quite uncomfortable this time too with the federal position Frulla Hydro workers rally at GAZETTE QUEBEC BUREAU QUEBEC With a negotiating sprint continuing about 4,000 Hydro-Quebec workers yesterday staged a noisy demonstration outside the National Assembly to press for a contract settlement Carrying placards and banners the workers bused in from across the province stood in the cold to listen to their leaders denounce the government's attitude in the labor dispute now into its 15th month We can show once again that we can still stand together and that we won't let ourselves be run around union official Pierre Froment told workers as they drank coffee or beer and listened to rock music The house was not sitting Although the union provided its own crowd control officers police lined the steps and approaches to the assembly building Workers were restricted to an area behind crowd-control barriers well away from the building No incidents were reported The point of the demonstration is to remind the government that Homemade bomb blasts newspaper vending box THE GAZETTE QUEBEC A homemade bomb touched off an explosion and small fire in a Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper vending box Sunday night just three blocks from the National Assembly Quebec City police Const Yvon Barabe said no one was injured in the 10:15 p m blast on St Cyrille St near de la Chevrotiere St A smell of gunpowder came from the box which was sent to the Surete du Quebec in Montreal for chemical analysis Jean-Claude Desrosiers the Quebec City distribution agent for the Globe said a small medicine bottle of what he believed to be gunpowder had been set inside the box but CLIP AND WAVE In a very short while you're going to need this fan Because in Montreal the summers are always hot And humid And muggy Or you can have a Lennox central air conditioning system installed by the experts at Electro Aide With over 40 years experience Electro Aide can air condition ANY home And if you have your central air conditioner or heat pump system installed now you won't have to pay until August The choice is simple Clip and wave this fan or let your whole family be comfortable this summer with central air conditioning Call Electro Aide today for a free estimate LEfJPJDK Air Conditioning Heating For a Lifetime Hebert said adding that her concern over the new bill is more than just another move by Quebec in a 20-year struggle with Ottawa over communications They other provinces are going from a system where they ruled their own telephone companies she said In Saskatchewan it was going very well Their technology was quite developed Now they're facing a situation where they're losing it all The federal bill would bring the provincial telephone companies of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta under federal jurisdiction Two weeks ago Frulla-Hebert sent Masse a 13-page letter spelling out Quebec's concerns after almost five months of rotating strikes the employees of Hydro-Quebec want a signed agreement Froment told reporters later Conciliation aimed at settling the dispute took place all weekend and continued yesterday said Carol Mathieu She said Seguin has put no limit on the time allocated to conciliator Normand Gauthier Salary work hours job creation and subcontracting are the main issues Hydro's 14,000 technicians office and trades workers members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees have staged rotating strikes since November and have been without a contract since December 1988 They want 6-per-cent pay increases in each year of a three-year contract Hydro is offering 4 per cent for 1989 and plus 4 per cent a year for the next three years Hydro officials are to argue for rate increases before a committee of the assembly but those hearings don't start until today Philip Authier police were unable to tell him how it had been detonated He said language tensions frequently exacerbate the vandalism to the English newspaper's 150 boxes in the Quebec City region After the Supreme Court decision striking down sections of Bill 101 last year we had some painting graffiti on boxes Desrosiers said That lasted about a month and a half Police said they had no suspects or motive for the bombing Barabe said there was no reason to believe it was anything more than a random act of vandalism unrelated to any language tensions in the province Absolutely not he said It was an isolated incident W (283-8229) Le Tableau noir La Toile blanche 7 Oulmetoscope 1204 St Catherine St W (525-8600) Un film bred sur l'amour 7 Roselyne et les lions 7:10 Toni 7:30 Quand Harry rencontre Sally 9 Des enfants gates 9:15 Mon cher papa 9:30 Rialto 5723 Park Ave (274-3550) Roger and Me 7:15 Mystery Train 9:30 ETCETERA Comedian Michel Courtemanche performs at 8 p m at Theatre Maisonneuve Place des Arts Tickets $17.50 to $21.50 842-2112 View of Montreal from the Olympic tower from 10 a m to 6 p m Tickets $5 seniors $4 children and students 17 years and younger $3.50 252-8687 252-8687 Imai presents the films Grand Canyon and Benthos (Grand Canyon and The Deepest Garden) at the Old Port 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Dinning had been organizing his leadership for some four years and was perceived as the front-runner since the start of the campaign. Despite being out of government for almost a decade, he had the support of more than half the Tory caucus. The leafless branches of trees on Mount Royal were still cloaked with ice yesterday morning from the freezing rain that pelted the city. A light snowfall is forecast for the Montreal region today. Thousands still without electricity. Almost 44,000 households and businesses across Quebec were still without power at 9 p.m. yesterday after 37.6 millimetres of freezing rain hit the Montreal region and the Laurentians on Friday evening. Those included about 12,000 on Montreal Island. More than 250,000 Hydro-Quebec customers had been left in the dark at the peak of the disruption, at 8 p.m. Friday. Of these, 105,000 were on the island of Montreal. Hydro-Quebec official Flavie Cote said in an interview last.
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he had been standing on the same stage, dumbstruck, His speech had gone long, the microphone was cut off, music started - the speech of his life couldn't be finished, Stephane Dion looked on the verge of tears, But - surprising many, perhaps even himself - he would get another chance to make the speech of his life: a victory speech as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, The 24 hours in between, however, would be tortuous, full of dramatic twists and turns, all watched intently by 5,000 Liberals crowded into the Palais des congrès, and by Canadians following along on television, On Friday night, the speeches over, Dion's light seemed to fade again, Joe Volpe, the first to drop from the race, walked to Bob Rae, Did Rae have momentum? Perhaps, but just after midnight a sign of things to come: Dion squeaked into third place, surpassing Gerard Kennedy. Please see VOTING, Page A3 MORE INSIDE, CHRIS WATTIE REUTERS Stephane Dion: I'm so pleased, I'm so happy, I'm so honoured to have the opportunity to help my party and my country,
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The name of Aid. Stevenson, chairman of the inundation committee, was mentioned as having the thing in hand and learning that the City Hall was to be made the starting point, a Gazette reporter went there. Joe Vincent, the well-known boatman, was on hand and was ready to place himself at the disposal of Aid. Stevenson. That gentleman arrived in the Central Station, accompanied by Captain Beckingham, of the salvage corps, who, acting on instructions, had roused the colonel from his sleep and brought him down. The theory was that the deep navigation cutting was the cause of the jam, and that it was loaded about Thibaudeau at Longue Pointe. Col. Stevenson proceeded to investigate, and as a result came to the conclusion that any attempt, such as suggested, would be fruitless. In the first place, Vincent gave it as his opinion that the placing of dynamite would be a most dangerous work, and that after it was placed it was ten to one that it would not do any good. The scheme was dropped as of no use, and the chairman of the inundation committee got home again. NOW THE RIVER.
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About 8 million soldiers, police, students of military academies and civilians have been fighting the floods along the Yangtze river in Hunan and Hubei for days. Almost 4 million people across China had been cut off by flood waters, 810,000 homes have collapsed and 2.8 million homes have been damaged in eight provinces as of July 18, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. Food-poisoning foil rises ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO - The food-poisoning outbreak gripping Japan struck at young and old yesterday, killing a schoolgirl and an 85-year-old woman, and bringing the death toll to seven. The deaths came as the number of cases mounted to more than 8,400 and government officials promised to step up efforts to trace the cause of the outbreak and teach residents how to prevent further infections. The woman died in the western city of Osaka after about 10 days of bloody diarrhea, a key symptom of infection with E. coli 0157 bacteria, said Satoshi Nakamura of the Osaka prefectural Environmental Health Division.
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GALES IN GREAT BRITAIN, Hurricane damage to shipping, LOSS OF LIFE ON LAND AND SEA, London, January 27 The wind blew a hurricane all last night. Much damage was done here. Many persons were injured. The glass roof of the Westminster Aquarium was demolished, causing a panic among the audience, in which several persons were hurt. A printing office in the Haymarket was unroofed and a boy killed. Many vessels were wrecked off the coast, and a large number of lives lost. Reports from all parts of the kingdom agree that the gale was one of almost unparalleled severity. At Hastings the seas dashed over the streets, making walking dangerous. At Monmouth, the Wye and Monnow Rivers overflowed and the highways were flooded, and Southampton and Eastbourne suffered severely. At Torquay there were many casualties. Trees were uprooted and many boats swamped. Shops on the Isle of Wight closed early on Saturday owing to the hurricane. At Newry many houses were unroofed. At Leeds the roof of a dwelling collapsed, killing the daughter of a workman.
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while Dande Lenol, his precision outfit, provide a sumptuous accompaniment propelled by sweltering percussion Massamba Diop's mastery of tama, West African talking drum, in particular is a splendid counterpoint to Maal's explosive singing Much of the group's stunning music is based on traditional Toucouleur yella rhythms Loketo, which has raised the roof in Montreal on a number of occasions, is based in Paris and has been the toast of the town there for several years The band, led by vocalist Aurlus Mabele and guitar virtuoso Diblo Dibala, belongs to a raucous new gang of Congolese stylists who now dominate the African global pop scene On stage, Loketo group members roll, tumble and dance, willing participants in celebratory chaos At times, Mabele seems made of rubber, twisting and turning to keep up with Diblo's blinding speed guitar and the frantic attack of the drums Their bubbling soukous rhythm, with its roots in Cuban rhumba, has been Africa's most popular dance music since the 1950s The word soukous derives from the French secouer, to shake Tickets for Thursday night's 10 p.m.
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Work in Montreal, New York & Maritimes, If you like money, music & travel call now 514-934-2362, CV to [email protected], JANITOR COUPLE (Handyman), mature, required for building on Park Avenue, near Van Horne, 514-630-9636, WAREHOUSE HELP WANTED Apply in person: 2975 Deminiac, Ville St Laurent, General Help Wanted, SUPERINTENDENT COUPLE Bilingual (French & English) - Experienced - For highrise Downtown - Apt supplied salary Fax, WINDSTORM KNOCKOUT Freezing rain and strong winds create chaos on and off island, A9, MONTREAL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006, montrealgazette.com, SINCE 1778, SPORTS FINAL, STEPHANE DION 2,521 votes, MICHAEL IGNATIEFF 2,084 votes, From tears to cheers in 24 hours Red tide turns green as momentum shifts ANDY RICA and ELIZABETH THOMPSON THE GAZETTE Just 24 hours earlier, he had been standing on the same stage, dumbstruck,
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the agency said Christian Lambrechts, a policy and program officer with the agency's division of early warning and assessment, said this would expose more of the sea's surface to sunlight, rather than reflect it, contributing to continued and accelerated warming The peninsula - the tongue of land that juts toward South America - has been hit by greater warming than almost any other area on Earth AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE STARTS EARLY!
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K, iTMO, asked if the Board thought the unpaid capital could be collected. The Cashier replied that under the Act MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1880, the stock of all those who did not pay up their calls could be confiscated. Mr. Baebsac asked on what basis was the valuation of the real estate made. The Cashier said the property owned by the Bank was on St Joseph and Seigneur streets, and gave a return of 5 per cent. The valuation was its actual worth. Mr. Babeiac entered into a lengthy charge against the management, contending that the Bank had not sufficient capital to do a profitable business, and that the shareholders had not been sufficiently consulted. A general meeting, he argued, should have been called after the Paquet defalcation, and also when the fusion with the Jacques Cartier Bank was under consideration. Had the latter been accomplished the result, he contended, would have been ruinous to the bank. Hon. Mr. Thibaudac replied to the charges made by Mr. Barbeau. The argument of the latter in relation to the circulation and reserve fund of the bank was absurd. As to calling a general meeting of the shareholders after the defalcation of Mr. Paquet, that would destroy the credit of the bank, for the shareholders under the excitement of the moment when rumors were afloat detrimental to various monetary institutions, would have caused precipitate action. As far as the fusion with the Jacques Cartier Bank was concerned, no measure to that end could have been passed without the consent of the shareholders and without an Act of Parliament to authorize it. It was not customary in the consideration of such questions for the directors to call a meeting until they had the scheme fully digested. Mr. Bxiqcx stated that if the fusion with the Jacques Cartier Bank was not proposed to the shareholders, it was because the directors of the Hochelaga Bank did not consider the terms offered by the Jacques Cartier Bank satisfactory. As to Mr. Barbeau's complaint that the defalcation of Mr. Paquet was owing to insufficient precautions having been taken by the Jacques Cartier Bank, he might say that the Jacques Cartier Bank's system in this respect had been the same as those then followed by other banks, and that the City and District Savings Bank had adopted further precautions in relation to its officers since Mr. Paquet's defalcation had been discovered. The Hochelaga Bank had also taken greater precautions and measures since that incident. Aid. Labebgi said that he had entered this meeting with views opposed to the management of the Hochelaga Bank, but since Mr. Barbeau's speech, he had altered his views and considered that the directors had done all in their power to provide against losses. He was, therefore, fully satisfied with the conduct of the directors and considered they should be re-elected. After some further discussion, the President made a speech which fairly carried away the audience and enlisted their sympathies and support on behalf of the directors. He sketched a history of the Bank, which was started in 1873, just as the years of financial crisis were opening, and gave the Bank great credit for maintaining its credit while other institutions were crashing around it. Four Banks, each with much larger capital than this one, had been obliged to close their doors, and yet the Hochelaga Bank weathered the difficulty, and probably with careful management would, now that the crisis was over, succeed in recovering lost ground and causing its shares to be rated at par. But to do this, its shareholders should give it every support by giving it the support of their business instead of transacting their affairs with other banks; and in this respect he cited the example of the butchers, who deposited their receipts with it as one worthy of emulation. Aid. JXAXXOTTX said he had a delicate question to ask of the directors, and amidst a storm of hisses, asked the directors if it was true that they made their deposits with other banks. The President was about to reply, when Hon. Mr. Thibaudean said it would be an insult to a meeting of the respectability of this one, for the president to answer a question of this kind, and the answer was not pressed for. The Cashier, in reply to a shareholder, said the shares of the bank stood today worth 87 per cent. The usual votes of thanks to the directors, cashier and officers were then moved and carried, without dissent after which Aid. Grenier moved, seconded by Aid. Jeannotte, that the old Board be re-elected. This motion was also carried unanimously, after which the meeting was declared closed. The new Board of Directors therefore consists of the following gentlemen: Mr. DISABLED STEAMER. On Monday last the steamship Plainmeller, Capt. Ford, from Newcastle, England, and bound to New York with a cargo of pig iron, put in here in a disabled condition. She left Newcastle on the 9th of December, and on the 16th encountered a hurricane by which the two starboard boats were carried away and the cabin was stove in. On the following day, the wind still blowing with terrible violence, Capt. Ford was coming out of the chart room, when a tremendous sea struck the ship and he was carried overboard and disappeared almost instantly. On the 22nd another storm arose, and the sea swept the decks, smashing the bulwarks from the bridge aft, destroying the steering gear and carrying overboard a seaman named Anderson. Next day the storm abated and the ship's course was shaped for this port. The hull is much strained, and it is thought the cargo will have to be landed to admit of the necessary repairs being effected. We are once more reminded of the necessity of a graving dock in a port such as this, lying near the track of the trans-Atlantic steamers, which, as in this instance, are frequently disabled and require repairs. It is calculated that had there been a graving dock here, the S8, Arizona would have paid in dock dues not less than 2,000, and the Plainmeller would have added a handsome sum. CHRISTMAS Christmas Day is honored here by a strict observance by all classes and denominations. Nearly all the churches were open for service both morning and evening. Charity to the poor was dispensed with a liberal hand; family gatherings and quiet and sober enjoyment marked the festive season, and were in accord with the spirit of the day. Reviewing the year now gone, we have reason for thankfulness that a fair share of prosperity has been awarded to us; there is no great amount of poverty, and our working classes are in comfortable circumstances. THE S3, rXAraXELUR. The steamship Austrian is behind time, and I add a few particulars regarding the steamship Plainmeller, whose captain was unhappily lost overboard before she reached this port. Captain Ford, who was only 28 years of age, was a resident of Bristol, England, and, by all who knew him, was highly esteemed for his manly qualities, his courage and generosity. He was a fine specimen of a true British sailor bold, skillful, cool and self-possessed in danger. In November last he was mate of the steamer Fernwood, on her voyage from Baltimore to Liverpool, when she fell in with the ship Forest Belle in a sinking condition. By great gallantry and daring he succeeded in rescuing the crew, ten in number, by means of his lifeboat, risking his life in the midst of a heavy gale and stormy sea on this mission of mercy. For this gallant deed he received the Royal Humane Society's medal just before leaving on the present voyage, which unfortunately proved to be his last. In a tremendous gale, on December 16th, a heavy sea struck the Plainmeller, which shifted the cargo and gave her a bad list to starboard, so that the rail was under water, and the vessel strained and labored heavily. On the following day Captain Ford had just taken his observation at noon, and was returning from the bridge to the chart room when a heavy sea struck the vessel and carried him overboard. Only two men were on deck at the wheel, and on the alarm being given the steward threw a life buoy to the captain who was struggling in the water. The buoy was only 30 yards from him, and being a splendid swimmer he made towards it, when the force of the wind, as it rose on the top of the sea, carried it right away from him. He then turned towards the ship, but almost immediately disappeared. The sea was running mountains high, and nothing could be done to save him. He was to have been married on his return to England to a young lady in Bristol. The chief officer, Mr. Matthews, and the chief engineer deserve great credit for bringing the steamer safe to this port, after battling with a succession of fearful gales, with a wrecked vessel and such a dangerous cargo as pig iron. The Plainmeller now lies at the wharf of the Hon. A. Shea, agent for the Allan Co., who has entire charge of the vessel, and is pressing on the repairs with all due speed. The want of a graving dock to effect such repairs as she requires is once more demonstrated, and it is to be hoped initiatory steps will soon be taken to secure such a desideratum. Since a week before Christmas the weather has been unusually cold and stormy, the thermometer, on one or two occasions, having been four degrees below zero, a very uncommon occurrence so early in the winter. On New Year's Day we had a heavy snowstorm. OUB LONDON LETTER. A Christmas to The Sheffield election Conservative demonstration in Le Tlehnorne claimant Loss of the Borsnsln The small birds, from our correspondent LONDON, January 24, 1879. Christmas day has brought the densest and most disagreeable fog that we have experienced in London for some years. In this suburb St John's Wood which is generally comparatively free from fog, it is impossible at mid-day to make out even the outline of any object on the opposite side of the road, and the condition of the central parts of the metropolis, where the fog usually contains a considerable admixture of smoke, must be much worse. Diners out will have some difficulty in reaching their destination, for all traffic, except on the underground railway, is necessarily suspended, and few undertakings are so dubious as to result as the attempt to find one's way, in a dense fog, to a particular house in an unfamiliar quarter. Consequently there will be many vacant chairs at Christmas dinner tables today. The result of the Sheffield elections has been a surprise for most of us, not because the Liberal candidate has won, but because the Conservative party made such a gallant fight for the vacant seat. To poll within five hundred votes of their opponents in such a hotbed of Radicalism as Sheffield is unquestionably a triumph for the Government; and there can no longer be any doubt that a very large number of electors in the large constituencies who formerly supported Mr. Gladstone, are now followers of Lord Beaconsfield. It should be remembered that this is the first opportunity we have had of testing the relative strength of parties in the great boroughs since the Manchester election three years ago; and opinions were very much divided as to the effect which subsequent events have produced upon the minds of the independent section of electors whose votes decide every close contest. The Conservatives were by no means confident of making even a creditable spar, although they assumed a bold front to the last. They had been disappointed by the refusal of their most promising candidate, Mr. Mark Addy, to contest the seat; they had to put up with a young man, Mr. Stuart Wortley, a nephew of the Earl of Wharncliffe, of no local influence, without experience or distinction except in connection with a noble family; and on the other side was arrayed an organization which ever since Sheffield received the franchise, has monopolized the representation of the borough, and signally defeated every attempt to dispute its supremacy. Mr. Waddy, moreover, was a strong candidate. If, as a temperance man, he alienated the sympathies of the publicans, on the other hand he secured the adherence of the Permissive Bill party, who muster strongly in Sheffield. His opinions were advanced enough by securing the support of the Radicals to prevent the division of strength which has often been so fatal in Radical constituencies. He was especially recommended to the deluded idiots who still believe in the innocence of the Claimant; and on the Saturday before the election, the Irish vote, strong, was pledged in his favor. Three Irish members of Parliament Sullivan, Finigan, and Justin McCarthy strongly urged their fellow-countrymen to support Mr. Waddy. They said that he had given satisfactory assurances, that he had promised seriously to consider Irish questions, and to vote for an alteration of the land laws; and their exhortations were supported by a telegram from Mr. Parnell, calling upon every Irishman to aid in defeating the Government upon their chosen ground. The effect of all this was to throw the Irish vote en bloc into the Liberal scale at the last moment, and there can be no doubt that it decided the result of the election. How many moderate Liberals were disgusted by this coquetting with the Home Rule party we have no means of ascertaining, but it is probable that the loss was far inferior to the gain. Mr. Waddy owes his seat, therefore, to the Irish element in this constituency, and it is probable that Mr. Parnell and his influences will be able, as they had boasted, to influence the elections in about a dozen of our largest constituencies in the same manner. At the last elections in 1874 the Conservatives deemed themselves so weak in Sheffield that they ran no candidate of their own and supported Mr. Roebuck in order to keep out Mr. Chamberlain, now the radical member for Birmingham. They succeeded. In 1868 they started a candidate who only polled about 5,000 votes against a gross total of 42,000 on the other side. At the next general elections they may or may not be successful. The battle will then be fought on the new register, which has added some 3,000 votes to the Liberal strength; but there is a delightful uncertainty about the ballot which falsifies the most careful calculation. It is needless to remark that the result of the election has cast a gloom over the councils of the opposition. If they can only just manage to win in Sheffield, what hope have they of carrying the constituencies in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where, if public opinion has changed in the same degree as at Sheffield, their prospects must be well-nigh hopeless, with or without the help of the Irishmen. The Conservative demonstration at Leeds organized to give Sir Stafford Northcote an opportunity of replying to Mr. Gladstone's criticisms upon his financial policy, was successful, not only in point of numbers, but political effect. The Chancellor of the Exchequer showed himself thoroughly capable of defending his measures, and met Mr. Gladstone very fairly upon the statistical argument. It is significant, however, that he claimed the right to set off against the deferred extraordinary expenditures, which last April were already nearly four millions, the reduction effected in the national debt by the extended creation of terminable annuities and the new sinking fund, from which it is inferred that the Government will meet their difficulties next year by boldly transferring that portion of the floating debt for which they are responsible to the funded debt, just as the special appropriation from the Indian Exchequer for the Famine Fund has been recklessly expended upon the Afghan war. This would certainly not be an unpopular measure, for the taxpayers quake at the prospect of having to meet a deficit in the ordinary budget and the payment of deferred liabilities together, would otherwise be the case; and they will be thankful for relief in whatever shape it comes. The Tichborne Association propose to put the Claimant in candidature for Nottingham at the general election. That interesting criminal has almost completed seven years of his term of penal servitude, and his friends are endeavoring to upset the sentence upon a writ of error, and thus obtain his release. The objection taken is purely technical. The power of the Judge to sentence him to penal servitude for seven years is not disputed, of course. The contention of the Claimant's friends is that that term exhausted the punitive power: but inasmuch as the Lord Chief Justice passed the sentence, it will probably prove to be duly supported by legal authority and precedents. We have very meager accounts of the loss of the Borussia, the Dominion Line steamer which foundered in the Atlantic but it is suspected that she was not seaworthy, and more than hinted that the crew left the passengers to their fate. The statements of the survivors are conflicting, one of them admitting at first that there was a panic on board the ill-fated vessel, and that the crew lowered the boats without orders; the others earnestly asseverating that nothing of the kind happened. There were no passengers in the boat that was picked up. Her crew consisted of three of the officers and half a dozen seamen, a fact which points not so much to a save as the deliberate abandonment of the passengers. A Board of Trade enquiry is to be immediately held upon the disaster. It has been remarked that our stock of small birds has greatly diminished since last year. The hard winter killed a good many of them, and the survivors were again thinned by the wet weather in the summer, which, moreover, prevented them from breeding. The woods and hedges are now comparatively deserted. Last winter, too, during the cold weather, numbers of small birds were driven to seek for food in the gardens of the London suburbs, where ordinarily speaking nothing but smoky sparrows are to be seen. This year, instead of a small flock of linnets, finches, robins, thrushes, starlings and other winter residents, there is scarcely even a house sparrow. Perhaps our feathered friends took timely notice of the approaching frost and migrated to summer climes; but it is generally thought that most of them are dead.
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It is hard not to see in raiding operations the ideal solution to the problem of trying to get maximum prominence in the war at minimum cost. But approval for raids was not easily obtained. Ottawa was initial. Perhaps the last word on Dieppe, from the point of view of the men who were there, should go to Charles Cecil Merritt, who won a Victoria Cross for bravery. Born in Vancouver, Merritt was a lawyer who had served in the Seaforth Highlanders, a Vancouver-based unit, before his 1942 transfer to the South Saskatchewan Regiment. As lieutenant-colonel and commander of the South Saskatchewan, Merritt went ashore with his men. The official citation describes his bravery on the beach: From the point of landing, his unit's advance had to be made across a bridge in Pourville which was swept by very heavy machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire. The first parties were mostly destroyed and the bridge thickly covered with their bodies. A daring lead was required; waving his helmet, Lt.-Col. Merritt rushed forward shouting Come on over, there's nothing to worry about here.
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S Open with boyfriend Fedorov of the Detroit Red Wings, 10 years her senior. In Australia, she has been photographed with star cricket players. Kournikova may be 16 but looks and acts like 26. For the moment, though, she'd settle for 17 so she could play any tournament she wants. That won't happen until June 7. BRIEFS IN HOBART, Australia, unseeded Jana Nejedly of Toronto hampered by a sore groin and windy conditions, was beaten 6-2, 6-0 by seventh-seeded Barbara Schett of Austria in second-round action at the Tasmanian International women's tournament. WINTER SPORTS Canadian speed-skater Jeremy Wotherspoon swept the 500- and 1,000-metre events while teammate Catriona Le May Doan earned a gold and silver in the same events yesterday at a World Cup long-track speed-skating meet in Baselga Di Pine, Italy. Wotherspoon, from Red Deer, Alta, posted a track record in the 1,000 metres with a time of one minute, 11.68 seconds and another course record in the 500 in 36.34 seconds. Le May Doan won her second 500 metres in as many days and her fourth straight in 38.83 seconds, followed by Canadian teammate Susan Auch at 38.90. In the 1,000 metres, Franziska Schenk of Germany maintained a 10-point World Cup lead with a second straight win in 1:18.37. Le May Doan, second overall, followed in 1:18.43. Auch was sixth. The last pre-Olympic competition for the Canadian sprinters is the world sprint championships in Berlin Jan. 24-25. IN MILAN, Italy, Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, who have skated together only 18 months, won the European figure-skating pairs title, establishing themselves as Olympic contenders. It was the 31st time in the last 34 years that Russian or former Soviet skaters won the European pairs gold. OUTDOORS RON PINET From now to the end of March, the north branch of the Yamaska river is open to trout fishing. The combination of rapids and underground alkaline spring seepages helps keep the river ice-free for 8 kilometres downstream from its headwaters in Lac Boivin through the town of Granby. Rivers that flow through limestone have a higher pH, which raises its freezing point and supports more insects and crustaceans, such as scuds or freshwater shrimp, which encourage the fish to eat (and grow) year-round. The Association des Chasseurs et Pecheurs de l'Estrie, in collaboration with the Department of the Environment, have been stocking the river with over 60,000 brown, brook and rainbow trout since 1992, as well as undertaking stream-improvement measures. The $10 permit includes member the restless age-limit rule is. Anna Kournikova returns volley yesterday in loss to Lindsay Davenport from Aussie Open since suffering calf injury last month. The country also picked up the silver with Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev, who were third after the short program. Five-time French national champions Sarah Abitbol and Stephane Bernadis slid to third. SOCCER The Impact has traded midfielder Darko Kolic and future considerations to the Edmonton Drillers for midfielder Ziad Allan, who is expected to arrive in Montreal today. Ziad, a 27-year-old native of Kuwait, had 16 points in eight games with Edmonton this season in the National Professional Soccer League. He spent the last two seasons in the Continental Indoor Soccer League with the Houston Hotshots and was the CISL's second-leading scorer in 1997 with 35 goals and 29 assists. IN LONDON, Arsenal needed a penalty shootout to overcome modest Port Vale while Sheffield Wednesday edged Watford of the Second Division on a night of tense FA Cup games. Arsenal, held 0-0 at Highbury and then 1-1 at Vale Park, eventually subdued its First Division rival 4-3 on penalties while Sheffield Wednesday downed Watford 5-3 in another shootout at Hillsborough after the two teams had ended extra time tied at 0-0. Aston Villa struggled to beat First Division Portsmouth 1-0 at home in another third-round replay, while Wolves romped to a 4-0 win at Third Division Darlington. MISCELLANY The city of Indianapolis has reached a new lease with the National Football League's Colts that will keep the team in the city for at least the next 10 years. These collaborative ventures between clubs and the provincial government are becoming more popular, to the benefit of both. Is it necessary to add that you should call Tourism Granby at (514) 372-7273 for conditions? The Lower Canada Arms Collectors Association will be holding its first Arms Fair of the new year on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Place Desaulniers, 1023 Taschereau Blvd. in Longueuil. With more than 40 tables and exhibits, you'll find something absolutely essential that you had no idea you needed. Flies are artificial lures concocted of fur, feathers and synthetic material, which are tied to a hook and intended to entice or aggravate fish into biting them. Of the thousand or so patterns, some try to imitate actual insects in compulsive detail, while others are more expressionistic. No one has verified which the fish prefer, but the variety available offers the excuse that when the fish aren't biting, it's because the wrong fly is on the end of the tippet holding her back. The city will provide the Colts with about $8.9 million a year as part of a new lease. Team owner Jim Irsay had been negotiating a deal since last spring. He had never threatened to move the team, but said the extra revenue was vital to keeping the Colts competitive in the NFL. IN PHOENIX, baseball's executive council approved changes to the postseason format, giving more advantages to the teams with the best regular-season records. Teams with the top records - excluding wild cards - will have the home-field advantage in the first two rounds of the playoffs, under a resolution approved by the council. In addition, the teams with the best records will have the home fields in Games 1, 2 and, if necessary, 5. IN BERMUDA DUNES, Calif., Andrew Magee, seeking his first PGA Tour victory in more than three years, clipped seven shots off par on the front nine in a 9-under 63 that gave him the first-round lead in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. Fred Couples, Brad Fabel and Steve Lowery were a shot behind after the opening day of the 90-hole tournament held at four different courses in the desert resort area. IN LAS VEGAS, Nev., the former owners of the Houston Rockets said they have purchased one-quarter of the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings for $37.5 million and might consider buying a bigger piece of the team. Members of the Maloof family of New Mexico also said they took a look at buying into the San Antonio Spurs, but that those negotiations did not produce a deal. Lord Byron's arch comment on fishing - that it is an activity involving a fish on one end and a fool on the other - comes to mind for some reason, but who was he to criticize such a wholesome and benign pastime? One of its pleasures is the tying of flies. Usually many flies, because fly boxes look complete when packed hackle to hackle, and because of the worry that the one fly you don't have is the very one the fish will be elbowing each other out of the way for in their eagerness to impale themselves upon it. This is called equipment anxiety: the belief that more and better tools will produce better results. Peter Farago of the Boutique Classique Angler (414 McGill St. in Old Montreal, 878-3474) is offering 15-hour fly-tying classes for beginners on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays, from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The five-week course costs $50 and all equipment is supplied. He is also prepared to teach an intermediate-level course, if enough people are interested. This could be the beginning of a beautiful hobby. You can send E-mail to Ron Pinet at: [email protected]. Leagues affected by storm But there are ways to make up games. League members who missed a night of bowling as a result of the "storm of the century" can make it up in a number of ways. Bowlers can either play what amounts to a double-header at a later date, bowl on a different day, or have the season extended by a week. Another option is to drop the week completely. Fortunately, most sanctioned leagues have a rule in their constitution that dictates what steps will be taken in the event of power outages or storms. A number of tournaments also fell victim to the storm, including the second leg of the Canadian Tire Challenge at Centre 440, which has been postponed until this weekend. The final is slated for Sunday afternoon. The task of rescheduling will likely be the first order of business when leagues resume play this week, so be prepared to vote for the choice that you prefer, and hope that a majority of your peers feel the same way. Jocelyn Carre and Ghislain Renaud have dominated the field on the Canadian Tire Challenge telecasts on RDS. Both bowlers have won eight consecutive matches, while earning $5,500 and averaging 226 and 234, respectively. In the Canadian Tire Open at Laurentian Lanes, Bahjat Zoorob has also won eight consecutive matches on TV while pocketing $5,900. Jacques Hamelin remains in second place with five consecutive wins, while Eric Bourret has four wins to his credit. Qualifications for the final leg of the tournament have already begun and will continue through next weekend, with the finals slated for the evening of Jan. 25. The event should provide great drama, as always. The recently contested Montreal Youth Tenpin Association's team trios tournament at Pincourt Lanes saw the team of Bruno Hebert, Marc-Andre Daigneault and Patrick Roger beat the team of Josh Benoliel, Jonathan Marcotte and Michael Frascarelli by 106 pins to capture the handicap division. In the tightly contested scratch division, Mathieu Valliers, Amelie St. Onge and Frederic Fries tied the team of Daniel Skitt, Jamie Barnoff and Randy Ryan for the silver medal, falling 13 pins short of the gold-medal performance by Mathieu Valliers, St. Onge and Stephanie Hamelin. Gerry Auger captured the 440 New Year's Pressure Cooker tournament with a surprisingly low score of 205. To stay alive, bowlers had to roll a minimum of 160 in the first game, 170 in the second game and so on. Ross Hargrave, Leslie Kalapos, Paul Plasse and Hirsh Schnayer made it to the final round, but succumbed to the pressure and were cooked. Here are some of the interesting statistics from the recently published 1997 edition of the MTBAMWTA yearbook. Thirty-five sanctioned 300 games were rolled last year, while the nearly impossible 7-10 split was converted nine times. Bowlers who surpassed the elusive 800 mark last season included: Paul Plasse, Juan Roquebert, Donald Dagenais, Frank Buffa (twice), Kevin Jessiman, Frank Herriott and Gaetan Cusson. Finally, congratulations are due to the following bowler-of-the-year winners: A Class: Frank Buffa, Danyck Briere, Hirsh Schnayer, Celine Desautels, Debby Ship, Helene Brousseau. B Class: Robert Boutin, Stephane Larocque, Sylvain Thuot, Linda Fure, Patricia Humphreys, Jose Ladouceur. C Class: Michel McKenzie, Giuseppe Porco, Michel Racicot, Monique Lagendresse, Dominique Hadrill, Linda Bradley. D Class: Herman Lachance, Mathieu Grenier, Sebastien Desjean, Cindy Krupka, Francine Trudel, Gina Disalvo. E Class: Chantal Morrow, Michelle Bisson, Donna Glencross. Any bowlers who feel they have achieved scores that are worthy of recognition are invited to have their league secretaries submit the scores to their MTBAMWTA house representatives, who will then submit the scores to The Gazette for publication in the Gutter Talk column. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1998 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1998 WEG7 WEST END: THE STORM OF '98 G6WE MARIE-FRANCE COALLIER, GAZETTE Nelson Perez, 3, shows off by flexing his muscles at the shelter at Centre de Loisir in Cote des Neiges. Watching are his 11-year-old brother, Julio (far right) and the Naims, Oussama, 6, Hamza, 4, and Siham, 12. Emergency funding City makes aid available to help welfare recipients buy food ALLISON LAMPERT Special to The Gazette Loading stacks of microwave dinner-like trays into a van, Multi-Caf worker Fred Mehrabi is thrilled that the community food bank, for once, has too much food. The Cote des Neiges based organization helped feed residents of the 400-bed Centre de Loisir Communautaire - the area's largest shelter. "Today there's a surplus, tomorrow who knows," Mehrabi said as he transported the food back to the depot. Mehrabi anticipated the demand for food among people with low incomes would grow dramatically as they return home from shelters to refrigerators filled with spoiled food. "It's a big problem. One of our big worries is that people will go home, find that they have no money and eat whatever is left over even if it might be rotten," said Project Genesis worker Gary Saxe. "There's one family that has electricity at home but is staying here (at the shelter) just to have dinner," Saxe said. Like many local community workers, Mehrabi believed the freezing rain and power outages have been devastating for West End residents on low incomes. This is because many local welfare recipients are just finding out about emergency measures taken by the Quebec government in response to the situation, after what advocacy groups call a difficult wait. The province is currently issuing emergency cheques and payment guarantees to welfare recipients who have lost food during the storm, said Pierre Baraby, a spokesman for the Ministry of Employment and Solidarity. The amount of emergency aid is to be determined by welfare agents on a case-by-case basis, he said. A spokesman for Montreal's Revenue and Securities Department, Roch Corriveau, said these measures are allowing recipients to purchase food at stores with the guarantee that the province will compensate merchants later. Although Corriveau noted that there had been no publicity about the emergency aid since it became available last Monday, the city had issued 260 cheques on Tuesday alone. "In certain offices we've had huge lineups," Corriveau said. But local advocacy groups were angry that the measures were not better publicized. "We think it's unfortunate that the government did not make the news public," said Project Genesis lawyer Rick Goldman. "Unlike other areas of Montreal, in Cote des Neiges, a lot of people are still getting out of shelters," he said. "It's impossible for people to get any information. There were only three telephone lines for (350) people." Elvia Perez and her three sons had been living at the shelter for a week after their Van Home St. apartment lost electricity. Playing with her 11-year-old son, Julio, Perez remained optimistic even though she has no idea how she'll be able to buy more food. "It's alright, we'll get by, we're all really fat," the Mexican native said. But another resident, 41-year-old Abdi Elmi, is not as confident. He spent more than a quarter of his $360 a month welfare cheque on food, only to have lost perishables such as meat and chicken. "If I go home, I have nothing to eat," he said Tuesday. Other people on low incomes have to cover storm costs aside from food, said Project Genesis community organizer Jennifer Auchinleck. "A lot of people had to spend extra money on batteries, candles, transportation." While many shelters in the West End this week were nearly filled to capacity, few homeless people decided to spend the night. "We had one homeless person but he really didn't want help," Salvation Army worker Marilynn St. Onge said at the group's N. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1998 DAVID SIDAWAY, GAZETTE Master Cpl. Stephane Jodoin (left) peers through the window of a Carignan home to see whether residents inside are in danger. Above, Pte. Francois Duprercg checks house off his list after inspecting the grounds. Army marches in Blackout victims hail soldiers for patrolling neighbourhoods and bringing order to chaos LYNN MOORE The Gazette The best news in a "situation that has got worse at every turn" was the arrival of the Canadian Forces in her town, Carignan Mayor Renee Legendre told everyone who would listen yesterday. "The army's help is extraordinarily important. Everybody has to be told that," Legendre said as residents of her South Shore community streamed into the town's second emergency shelter, set up yesterday morning by the army. The cold snap, which began Tuesday, has increased the danger levels for those trying to remain in cold homes. Before dawn, "about 60 people, including children and whole families, were found trying to sleep in their cars" by roving patrols of Carignan security officers and volunteers, Legendre said. Those residents, trying to make do with woodstoves and fireplaces, probably had heard that there wasn't any more room to stretch out in the town's original shelter, she said. "But at least they could have found a place to sit (in the shelter) and be warm," Legendre said. "It's very dangerous trying to sleep in cars." By lunch yesterday, the army had opened Carignan's second shelter, for 170 temporary inhabitants, set up a camp kitchen, and - perhaps most importantly - established a presence, exuding a sense of order and calm amid chaos and confusion. "We need strong arms, equipment, firewood, hot food and we need to know what's happening," Legendre said. The mayor was highly critical of the provincial government, the provincial police and provincial civil-protection officials. "For seven days, until Monday, there was a total absence of communication and information," she said. When she heard Monday night that a "turf war" had erupted because the Surete du Quebec or the union representing its rank and file felt its members should patrol storm-ravaged Quebec, Legendre spent half the night worrying that the army would be yanked out of her area, she said. Brig.-Gen. Christian Couture, who commands about 4,700 of the 9,000 soldiers deployed across southern Quebec in the aftermath of last week's ice storm, noted yesterday that the Surete is in charge of the overall coordination of policing efforts. "There may be some (jealousy and power-jostling between the army and Surete), but I have not experienced any of it," Couture said as he surveyed operations in Boucherville. Whether working with provincial or municipal police officers or members of their own unit, his men "feel privileged and have a sense of accomplishment in assisting their fellow citizens," Couture said. Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Carignan, a commandeered school bus full of soldiers lumbered around sinkholes in the thick ice that has consumed Lareau Rd. At various points, pairs of soldiers disembarked, boots with thick treads on their feet and smiles on their faces. "Our orders are to go door-to-door on the left side of this street and determine if the residents are adequately protected from the cold," Master Cpl. Stephane Jodoin explained. The soldiers were on the lookout for homeowners using dangerous fuels like kerosene to heat their homes. If they found any, their job was to convince the residents it was time to move or alert police to the situation. Many homes appeared empty and well-secured by departed storm victims, but the soldiers had to check them out and note their location for later patrols. That meant traversing yards that had been turned into skating rinks, jumping fences to peer into back windows and occasionally scrambling up garage roofs to peer into upper windows. "I like it that the army is here," said Nadia Guerin, whose family had remained in their home thanks to a dual heating system that uses wood and a generous neighbour who shares his generator. "I know a couple in Chambly who stayed in their home beyond the point when it was safe," Guerin said. "It was the army that convinced them it was time to get out." Clearing trend Work crews battle bitter cold, slippery sidewalks and fatigue to remove dangerous branches and ice YVONNE ZACHARIAS The Gazette Slowly, steadily, Benoit Laplante digs the picks strapped to the bottom of his heavy work boots into the bark as he climbs the tree. It rocks slightly with each step. So does the chainsaw dangling from his waist. But his eyes never waver from the branches above him. He studies them carefully, deciding where to loop the rope next. It's a decision not to be made lightly. It is the only difference between his perch in the sky and the hard ground - oh, say, a good 10 metres below. Reaching behind him, he swings the chainsaw to the front. Dangling at mid-branch, he yanks a cord. The power saw fires up, its racket splitting the cold, clear air. He slices through tree limbs, sending a constant shower of ice and branches crashing to the ground. A bird swoops overhead. Life in a pinched and bent-over city passes by on the street below. But Laplante does not give it a passing thought. He has too many other things on his mind - where the branches will fall, where the rope is, where his feet are. "There's no room for error," he said later, warming up in the cab of a truck. Just as no two trees are alike, he knows. He's spent 17 years dangling from them. Laplante isn't the type of guy to think of himself as a hero. Tell him that he's part of the minus-15 club, the army of tree acrobats, firefighters, Hydro-Quebec crews and others working from dawn to dark in the cold to piece together a broken city. Just try it and that chiseled face of his would crack into a crooked smile. But look up, look way up, and you'll see them there, clearing menacing branches, chipping ice from rooftops, grappling with the snarled electrical wires that have given a city so much grief. Things are never quite the way they look from the ground. Take the situation of the firefighters clearing ice from a street in Old Montreal. There's the cold seeping into their yellow rubber boots, into their heavy leather gloves. A spray of ice and snow swirls up. "It's freezing like hell," firefighter Robert Labelle says. "I don't mind because of the situation we're in," each time their axes fly into the solid sheet coating the ledge of a building. But life way up in a cherry-picker has another downside. It's the swaying. Some never get used to it, firefighter Robert Labelle says. Others hardly notice it after an hour. "You see up there," he says, pointing with his gloved finger up to where two other firefighters are swinging like madmen at a phantom enemy. "Look at how it moves." Then there's the fleeting thought that the supposedly fail-proof crane hoisting them into the sky could fail after all. "It's supposed to be mechanically safe, but you never know." With the same gloved finger, he points to the boom, or the bottom part of the crane. "Do you have any idea how hot the oil is in there right now?" In case there aren't enough reminders of the dangers, a huge piece of ice came crashing down on a fire truck yesterday morning. "It has a few things missing now, like the lights in the front," Labelle noted. The streets of Old Montreal were pretty much deserted yesterday, except for the army, the unmistakable red fire trucks that were there to make things safe for the clerks, the bookkeepers, the secretaries - the company men and women - before they return to their warm, comfortable offices. Labelle spots someone going into an entryway. Good. That means another place to get warm. "It's freezing like hell. I'm freezing my butt off," Labelle wasn't complaining, though. "I don't mind because of the situation we're in." Situation, now that's one way of summing up the rain, broken branches, downed power lines, falling sheets of ice. Hell freezing over. No wonder a Hydro worker from the Gaspe has a few words to say about the boss, "le patron." "The boss has targets to meet, a magic number of happy customers at the end of the day. Him and his objectives." The worker mutters something incomprehensible about the world and people being more important. "You have to block it all out," he said. "You have to concentrate on the job." Understand that he's been working 16-hour days. That the footing underneath has turned to solid ice, that no one has cleared the branches from the street and that all the equipment is freezing up in the sub-zero temperatures. Even the oil in the truck's hydraulic engine doesn't circulate properly in this kind of weather, he explains between deep drags on his cigarette. What's his name? He looks at the reporter as if she's crazy, then breaks into laughter. "Do I honestly think he will give his name after all that business about le patron?" Back at his tree-pruning operation near Dawson College, Laplante swings from branch to branch, giving himself a slight push-off each time, his chainsaw flying behind as an afterthought. On the ground below him, blood congeals on Jean-Guy Godin's face. Scratches from branches, he explains. He and Luc Prault catch them as they fall, then shove them into a maw that spits them out as wood chips. "Hell, no, they aren't cold. Even if they were, do you think they'd admit it?" French are urged to get out of the cold, doctors advise to provide warmth for crisis victims. Consider leaving home if indoor temperature plunges below 7C. Presse Canadienne PARIS - The Association France-Quebec issued an appeal yesterday to the French to provide financial aid to victims of Quebec's ice storm and power crisis. Donations will be collected by the association and turned over to the Red Cross in Quebec. "We received an enormous number of calls from our members, asking what they could do," explained Georges Poirier, president of France-Quebec. "Many French have close friends or relatives in the hardest-hit regions. They couldn't help but react." The Association France-Quebec, founded 30 years ago, is one of the principal organizations fostering close relations between France and the province. In France, it has about 5,000 members. An appeal for aid is to be published today in hundreds of regional newspapers. It is the first aid operation of its kind undertaken by the organization. French media, which rarely cover Quebec events outside elections and referendums, have been giving heavy coverage to the storm damage and power outages. JEFF HEINRICH The Gazette How do you survive in a cold house if it's minus-20 degrees Celsius outside? You don't, so don't risk it, public-health officials warned yesterday. "With temperatures where they're at now, if people are in their homes with no source of heat, and they haven't had any for several days, it's unthinkable that they stay," said Dr. Lucie-Andree Roy, spokesman for Montreal's environmental-health unit. "Trying to sleep in a cold house, when it's minus-20 outside - it's crazy. Our advice is, if the house temperature drops below 7 degrees, people should start thinking very seriously about leaving." Stay, and your risk of hypothermia - literally, freezing to death - increases. You'll know when it starts: although your breathing and pulse might be normal, you begin shivering all over, feel groggy and can't quite think straight. That's mild hypothermia. Beware of the danger signs that mild is turning to moderate and even severe, the Ottawa-based Canada Safety Council warns: With moderate hypothermia, the shivers get violent. You can't pay attention. Your breathing gets slow, shallow. Your pulse slows too, and gets weak. When the hypothermia gets severe, you stop shivering altogether. You lose consciousness. You breathe only a little, or not at all. Your pulse goes from weak to irregular to none at all. If you're stuck, how can you ward off the cold? Do the following: Wear a warm hat. Wear layered clothing. Protect your feet and hands. And don't fall into the traps of losing interest, going to sleep, or drinking alcohol or smoking - you'll just get cold faster. If you find someone who has hypothermia, here's some basic first aid: Handle the person gently; too rough, and his heart may stop. Keep him horizontal. Get him warm with clothes or blankets, including under him. If he's conscious, give him something warm to drink (not alcohol or coffee). If he's unconscious and not breathing, do artificial respiration. If there's no pulse, do cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Don't do the following: Don't rub the person's body to improve circulation; all you're doing is helping cold blood flow back to the body's core, making it even colder. Don't apply direct heat from things like water bottles; they can cause the heart to beat irregularly. Don't make the person exercise; exhaustion makes hypothermia worse. And if you really insist on staying at home, think again. If it's a shelter you're avoiding, or you don't want to impose on strangers or relatives with heat, you want to protect your house from looters, or you simply want to be there when the power comes back, consider the consequences. That home you cherish so much could be your last place of residence. Takashi Yamamoto, Japan, 1:57.26; James Hickman, Britain, 1:58.76; Stephen Parry, Britain, 1:59.57; Han Kyu Chul, South Korea, 2:00.26; Scott Goodman, Australia, disqualified. Consolation Final: Ugur Taner, US, 1:59.13; Stefan Aartsen, Netherlands, Anatoli Poiiakov, Russia, 1:59.98; Vesa Hanski, Finland, 2:00.30; Chris-Carol Bremer, Germany, 2:00.37; Pieter Horvath, Hungary, 2:00.73; Massimiliano Erok, Italy, 2:00.79; Xie Xufeng, China, 2:03.24. BY GUY THIBAUDEAU Things are slowly getting back to normal in the Laurentians and Lanaudiere while they are at a dead halt in the Eastern Townships and Montérégie. Here ski areas are under Hydro orders not to operate "until further notice." There is fear that this could extend to the end of next week if the South Shore situation remains as it is. Meanwhile Laurentian areas are restricted to minimal operation using lifts sparingly, not making snow or providing night skiing despite mid-winter conditions. Quebec and Charlevoix areas, however, are far enough away from the weather calamity and have no restrictions. They also were not affected by any freezing rain. Cross-country is excellent in the Quebec City region as well as in Lanaudiere and a few Laurentians centres such as Esterel, the Linear Park, Far Hills and the wider trails at St. Jovite-Mont Tremblant. NEW SNOW TOTALS: CHARLEVOIX 10-12cm; EAST TOWNSHIPS 0cm; MONTREAL 0cm; LAURENTIANS 10-15cm; LANAUDIERE 7-15cm; NEW ENGLAND 2-7cm. Jan. 2, Jan. 2, Jan. 13, Jan. 13, Jan. 13. ALPINE IMS: THIS SKI AREA OPEN TOTAL WEEK MAKING COM. QUEBEC-CHARLEVOIX Le Massif 18 (90) 10cm 42 MGPO; Le Relais 25 (100) 12cm 100 MGPO; Mont Grand Fonds 14 (100) 10cm 60 MGPO; Mont Santo Anne 49 (91) 10cm 85 MGPO; Stoneham 25 (100) 10cm 95 PPMG. EASTERN TOWNSHIPS: Bromont 0 (0) 0cm 85 CT; Mont Glen 0 (0) 0cm 0 CT; Mont Orford 0 (0) 0cm 85 CT; Mont Shefford 0 (0) 0cm 0 CT; Mont Sutton 0 (0) 0cm 60 CT; Owl's Head 0 (0) 0cm 85 CT; Mont Rigaud 0 (0) 0cm 100 CT; Laurentians Belle Neige 14 (100) 16cm 80 MGPP; Chantecler 16 (73) 12cm 85 MGPP; Cotes 40-80 6 (100) 12cm 0 MGPP; Gray Rocks 17 (74) 10cm 95 MGPP; Mont Avalanche 0 (0) 15cm 85 CT; Mont Ave 0 (0) 0cm 100 CT; Mont Brome 12 (34) 10cm 85 MGPP; Mont Gabriel 0 (0) 10cm 83 CT; Mont Tremblant 66 (86) 10cm 75 MGPP; Vallee Bleue 16 (100) 15cm 60 MGPP; LANAUDIERE Mont Garceau 15 (94) 15cm 90 MGPP; Ski Montcalm 6 (40) 10cm 75 MGPP; Val St Come 21 (100) 7cm 95 MGPP; NEW ENGLAND Burke Mountain 27 (90) 7cm 50 PPMG. LEGEND: CS: Closed for the Season; CT: Open May; FOs: Frozen Granular; OF: Granular; MP: Hard Packed; IC: Icy; Lf: Limited; GS: Machine Groomed; AIM: Machine Made; NA: Not Available; NOT: Not Yet Open; NP: New Powder; NS: New Snow; NT: Not Track Set; ON: Opening Tonight; OS: Opening Soon; OT: Opening Tomorrow; PO: Powder; PP: Pack Powder; SC: Spring Conditions; SP: Soft Pack; TS: Track Set; VA: Variable; WO: Wet Granular; WC: Wet Only; Wk: Wet Snow. For the latest ski conditions call The Gazette at 556-1234 and use the following code: 7669. SKATING Ukraine 110 6, KtnM awanfcM and On Ouaoi, Clth Hepuow, 11 6 6 mga No4kiaov and AiakMindr Aiwitenks, AiMBaitan, 116; II, Marsha PaluhiiwlMflki and Andrew iimet, sVrurn, 160 II, flam AsanMl and Jet McXeevM, OnMc, li 6; 11, Org 64lanhgova end Jel (Mian, tWvMia, I , II feMaierwa NearetMvi and (Nrldre MiMai, tswraa, 20, 14 atawy mata and AauanrM ChMUMh, Ayiatnt, 20,1 1 rWtrrr6hru)n), 1 0 No (and puemga, t Awaaavs OrMn, 26, J, Auibol aernedn, 10; 4, 2aaertk-6iuMti, 4 0; 6, Ichwari, MuM(, 6 0, 6 7enMrMrchrifca, 60, 7, OtertM-Paiamwciwe, 7 0, a, fVvanknv Ckaooia, 10 1 Maw Antchenk, 6 0, 10, PoMurtCheou, SabrMk. PAUL B. BRADING Lachine CJAD needs Duff back on staff. Bravo to CJAD's Jim Duff for understanding why, in extreme circumstances, it is necessary to put public service ahead of the bottom line. When CJAD went off the air Jan. 9, I immediately switched over to Mix 96 under the false assumption that, surely, programming staff would have moved CJAD's continuous news coverage over to its FM sister station. Under the circumstances, it was the easiest decision to make until CJAD had secured an alternate transmitter site. More importantly, breaking Mix 96's format would have been the easiest choice to ensure that Montrealers received the up-to-the-minute information they required. Instead, we heard almost continuous music on Mix 96 on the night of Jan. 9, when most of Montreal was plunged into darkness at the peak of the province's worst ice storm in history. General manager Rob Braide did a great disservice to Montrealers by not following Jim Duff's advice. Radio licenses are regulated to ensure that the public is properly served. The CRTC should respond when profits are put ahead of public service in times of crisis. Listeners will undoubtedly remember the night that CJAD management put profits and dance music ahead of public service. Sound programming decisions pay off in the ratings. CJAD's decision, in this case, was not sound. CJAD needs Mr. Duff back on staff. His judgment was sound and he put his professional reputation on the line to defend the best interests of Montrealers. Can the same be said of Standard Broadcasting's upper management? BRIAN BOYER Montreal recently despaired of our future, and who were saddened by the apparent lack of compassion of certain political and religious leaders, should take heart. We will probably never have political harmony unless we first have social harmony. So in the years ahead, when we look back on the way fellow citizens have come together in common cause, I believe that we will be able to say with real pride that these have been our finest hours. RICHARD TOBIN Share the Warmth Montreal Banks offend. It has been very refreshing to see chivalry, respect, decency, sharing and caring from individuals, drivers, small-business owners, community centres and shopping centres during this ice-storm crisis. However, I have yet to see a certain business sector that has declared huge profits and is dependent on the very tiny as well as the most well-off of people reach into its coffers and hand out a coin or two. I find it very offensive the banks are not prepared to help out by providing food to Sun Youth or a shelter or two, for example, or even offering to pay for daycare in certain areas where they operate. I'd boycott banks. Unfortunately, what alternative do we have? ANNETTE PANKRAC Cote St. Luc LETTERS WELCOME They should be signed and must include the writer's full name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be condensed, although care is taken to preserve the core of the writer's argument. Copyright in material submitted to The Gazette and accepted for publication remains with the author, but The Gazette and its licensees may freely reproduce it in print, electronic or other forms. We are unable to acknowledge receipt of letters or return unpublished letters. Send letters to: 250 St. Antoine St. W Montreal HZY3R7. Letters can be sent to our fax number at 987-2639 or E-mail us at: [email protected]. The revenge of Mother Nature Climate experts aren't blaming last week's ice storm on global warming. But you can't help but think that something very weird has been happening to Mother Nature and maybe, just maybe, she is paying us back. We've seen a lot of freak weather lately. In only five days, 100 millimetres of freezing rain - about two normal years' worth - fell on Montreal and in parts of eastern Canada. Last year's floods in Manitoba's Red River and in Quebec's Saguenay region were also caused by weather gone awry. Calgary and Winnipeg were devastated by hail storms in the summer of 1996. Vancouver is buried in snow and just last month in Edmonton, people were golfing and playing tennis outdoors. Outside Canada, the weather hasn't been any less extreme. Last month, snow fell and temperatures plummeted to minus-20C in parts of Mexico. The Pacific island of Guam was hit with winds of up to 380 kilometres an hour, the highest ever recorded. In Ecuador, there were flash floods. Last year, extreme drought caused fires that ravaged Indonesia and destroyed crops in Malaysia and the Philippines. It's almost as if extreme weather has become the norm around the world. Some climate experts blame El Nino, the recurring movement of warm water in the Pacific Ocean that produces warm air flows affecting weather around the world, including the weather that caused last week's ice storm. While we have known about El Ninos for about 500 years, there is little data about their intensity. But based on what we know - there have been 11 recorded in the past 53 years - there is evidence that El Ninos have been more intense, frequent and longer-lasting in recent years. Could the warming of the Earth's surface have an impact on the intensity of El Ninos? Eleven of the 12 warmest years of the past century and a half have occurred since 1980. Is there a connection between global warming, El Nino and the ice storm? JENNIFER ROBINSON "We don't really know," says Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips. No direct link can be made between global warming and the extreme weather we have been seeing in many parts of the world. While many scientists suspect that global warming has the potential to create extreme weather systems, no scientific link has been made between warming and climatic change, much less to disasters like last week's ice storm. "We know the Earth is warmer - a half a degree warmer than a century ago," Mr. Phillips said. "We suspect that burning fossil fuels, carbon-dioxide emissions and other forms of pollution have contributed to warming. What scientists don't know yet is how exactly it affects climate." For those who think that global warming can only be a bonus for Canadians who spend half the year in a deep freeze, last week should give us cause to think again. The warm air from the unusual El Nino that flowed into eastern Canada brought freezing rain instead of the snow that could have fallen if temperatures had been a bit colder. Climate-change experts predict that there could be more ice storms to come. This is the harsher side of what global warming may mean to Canada. But it is a possibility that federal and provincial governments have preferred to downplay. Canada is one of the world's largest contributors to increased greenhouse-gas emissions this decade. Despite a much-ballyhooed commitment in 1992 at a conference in Rio de Janeiro to cut emissions by the year 2000 to 1990 levels, Canada's carbon-dioxide emissions have increased 13 percent. The U.S.'s performance was worse. That country's emissions increased 15 percent despite its commitment at the Rio conference. Last month, there was another conference, this time in Kyoto, and another promise to reduce emissions, this time by Jean Chretien's Liberal government. Canada, like other countries, vowed to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2007 (for Canada, that represents a 20-percent reduction from current levels) and even further by 2015. Last week's storm should be enough to convince us all, including our political leaders, that not only must the promise be kept, but that cutting emissions is more urgent than we think. After last week's devastation, I don't need any more proof that when we hurt the environment, Mother Nature will pay us back. Jennifer Robinson is associate editor of The Gazette. Her E-mail address is: [email protected]. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1998 THE POWER CRISIS Officials mull fate of schools on South Shore Board chiefs, provincial authorities will debate when to resume classes A6 JOHN KINNEY, GAZETTE Striding along an icy sidewalk past the tangled debris of fallen tree branches, a young man on Walkley Ave. shielded his ears against the biting cold yesterday. Makeshift heaters blamed for poisoning 'epidemic' JEFF HEINRICH The Gazette Try telling a homeowner he can't heat his house if there's no electricity. The message isn't getting across to many of the 1.2 million people in the Monteregie. Firing up poorly vented generators, kerosene burners and hibachis in their homes, hundreds of people from Valleyfield to Sorel and the U.S. border have poisoned themselves with the carbon monoxide the devices give off. "It's a major epidemic," said Dr. Louis Jacques, spokesman for the Monteregie public-health unit. "People are trying to keep warm, they're desperate for heat, but they're paying the price." And the price is high. Since the ice storm hit last week, nearly 600 homes and apartments have been polluted with carbon monoxide from bad burners, poisoning more than 1,500 people. Four have died. (By contrast in Montreal and Laval, Urgences Sante has reported 165 cases, none fatal.) Those worst hit have been taken by ambulance across the river to Montreal's Sacre Coeur Hospital. It's one of only two hospitals in Quebec equipped with a hyperbaric chamber to save victims' lives with high-pressure oxygen. And it's been extremely busy these days. Normally, the hospital treats 150 people a year who have carbon-monoxide poisoning. In the last week alone, it has treated 43, mostly from the Monteregie. The 43 include five pregnant women, two infants under age 2, and seven other children and youths under 18. Fainting, headaches, confusion, loss of judgment, nausea and vomiting - the only thing they didn't suffer was a coma and, of course, death. How did they get that way? Desperation - and carelessness. In half the cases, generators had been installed in the basement or garage of houses. Others used hibachis inside, plus a variety of propane-powered devices to stay warm. Inside Sacre Coeur's hyperbaric chamber, a steel unit that seats seven people, the air is under a lot of pressure - six times normal, the equivalent of water pressure 50 metres below the surface. It takes about two hours inside to rid the body of carbon monoxide and replace it with oxygen. Without rapid treatment, survivors could have found themselves facing new, debilitating symptoms: memory loss, dementia, Parkinson's disease and psychiatric problems. Although gas poisoning is the most insidious of health hazards from the ice storm, there are others. Trauma on the South Shore has been a constant problem: fractures from falls on ice and falling ice, burns from candles and fuels, eye injuries from tree branches as people try to clean up their yards and streets. And as people return to their homes over the next few weeks, another problem looms: mental distress. "When they get back home, and see the extent of the damage, they will be alone and more prone to overreact," said Project Genesis community organizer Jennifer Auchinleck. "A lot of people had to spend extra money on batteries, candles, transportation." While many shelters in the West End this week were nearly filled to capacity, few homeless people decided to spend the night. "We had one homeless person but he really didn't want help," Salvation Army worker Marilynn St. Onge said at the group's N. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1998.
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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, minister says PEGGY CURRAN GAZETTE OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA It's perfectly natural for Quebec to avoid first ministers' conferences when it expects Ottawa and the other provinces to gang up against it, Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark said yesterday And he said it would be wrong for Ottawa to put Quebec in the awkward position of having to boycott a premiers' meeting on the constitution, knowing it might appear spoiled or stubborn As a result, Clark said the federal government has to find other methods, no matter how unwieldy they may seem, to consult provincial, territorial and aboriginal leaders once the special joint committee for a renewed Canada files its report Feb. 28 Most of the people who follow these issues understand full well why the government of Quebec does not come to constitutional conferences, 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,
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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. Moi has long used the prospect of inter-tribal warfare as an argument for maintaining a one-party state. But according to many credible observers, including Kenya's Roman Catholic bishops, the violence is hardly spontaneous. They accuse the authorities of fomenting the violence, which seems to have been sparked by members of Mr. Moi's small Kalenjin tribe who attacked members of the Luo and Luhya tribes. Many prominent members of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy, the major opposition group, are Luos or Luhyas. Mr. Moi seems to be looking for an excuse to delay holding multi-party elections indefinitely. Presumably, he fears he would lose. In addition to banning political meetings, the authorities have resumed their old habit of cracking down on public protests. Earlier this month, police viciously attacked a group of women hunger strikers and their supporters in a Nairobi park.
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In fact, many of those hiking on the mountain in the afternoon had no idea the park was officially closed. Jason Cohen and Luc Lavoie emerged from a dense canopy of trees, cameras in hand. "We are taking disaster shots; we took photos of the same trees last fall and they were so beautiful," Cohen said. Sean McCutcheon was walking his two dogs on the mountain yesterday as he does every day. The crashing all around him did not seem to faze him, although one of his dogs was obviously skittish. CALCULATED RISK "Nobody stops me. I come here every day. I love these trees. I love this forest," he said. He said he had a couple of favorite old trees he wanted to check on, to see how they were doing, and was willing to take a "calculated risk" to do that. He said he was being careful not to walk directly under the trees, and listened carefully for that telltale, warning crack. Paul Richardt, strolling with a companion as night fell on Mount Royal, said it was painful to see the trees breaking.
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There is a washout on the Northern and Northwestern between this city and the beach. Several docks have been carried away and vessels damaged and part of Walton's ice house was blown down. CARTWINSUR, Ont, April 6 A heavy gale struck this village about noon and carried away the south end of the building formerly known as the Royal Exchange hotel, owned by James Flake, of Toronto, and smashed in the front window of a tailor shop. Toronto, April 6 A heavy gale has been blowing here since early this morning, accompanied by snow. It is feared that considerable damage has been done to the island and breakwater. About nine o'clock the scaffolding was blown from Manning's arcade, King Street, and struck John Green, coal carter, who was driving past at the time, on the head, knocking him off in front of the wheels. The cart passed over his right leg and abdomen, breaking his leg and inflicting internal injuries that may prove fatal. Exbtkii, Ont, April 6 The worst snow and wind storm of this year has been raging here all day.
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THE SMITHFIELD SHOW: Details of Leading Markets The Putchers' Boycott Canadians at Glasgow (From our own correspondent) Liverpool, December 11 With fierce gales off the land and off the sea, with torrential showers, hail and rain almost daily, we have had a rough time of it during the past week. Business has not benefited thereby; quite the contrary. Our country markets have been filling up with cattle and sheep in anticipation of the Christmas demand, while the usual attractive shows and sales of Christmas fat stock have kept many buyers away from Birkenhead, who will, however, probably find their way back after the festive season is over. While the country demand has thus been cut off to a considerable extent, our London customers have been buying pretty strong, the supplies at Deptford for the past ten days having been below the average. The worst of this London trade, however, is they want to buy all our choice beef, and when they get served, there is some difficulty in selling out the secondary and third class bodies left. Still, things keep moving along, and salesmen would not feel comfortable if they had nothing to grumble about.
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Please apply in person at: 6312 Notre Dame W (Mon Thurs, 9-2) or by fax 514-932-3047, DRIVERS (class 3) and helpers needed for Lachine based local moving company, Call 514-637-0303 or 514-651-3826, DRIVERS wanted with minivan or larger, PT or FT immediately, Earn extra money for the holidays, call 514-630-3360, EDUCATOR with ECE qualifications needed, bilingual, Fax CV 514-273-5533, email [email protected], HIRING Exotic Dancers, Busy entertainment bar in Alberta, Free accommodations, paid shows, travel cost, for more info email: [email protected], Phone: 780-707-0418, HOLIDAY RUSH 4 positions available now, Make $800/wk, 5 days paid training, Work in Montreal, New York & Maritimes, If you like money, music & travel call now 514-934-2362, CV to [email protected], JANITOR COUPLE (Handyman), mature,
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Marley confronted Dennis about his bet with Jake to break up her and Jamie Marley ran off when Dennis accused her of being afraid of rejection Jamie and Kelsey broke up to avoid gossip at the hospital When Hannah moved in with Jake and Paulina she put a crimp in their romance Tony Rhodes who plays Jesse Lombard on Days of Our Lives had an inkling about what soap-opera life was all about even before he came to the Burbank studio where the show tapes The actor's old friend Kari Kupcinet who played Julie Sanderson on The Young and the Restless helped him learn the ropes Kari and I have been friends for a long long time Rhodes said The two of us went to Birmingham High School together in Los Angeles We even did a play there starring opposite one another in a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream When Kari got her role on The Young and the Restless she invited me down to the set to visit her but I never made it he said It was just one of those things Anyway when I was cast on Days I called Kari to tell her the news then I said So what's it like?
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LOCAL SNOW FALLS Weather Is Turning Colder and Big Drop to Follow Toronto, December 3 An important area of high pressure, accompanied by decidedly cold weather, has spread over the Northwest Territories and Manitoba. It is moving eastward and the present indications point to a general cold spell throughout the Lake and East districts, and freezing up of the ports on the Upper Lakes. There is a depression developing over the Mid-Atlantic States, which is likely to cause stormy weather in the Maritime Provinces. Minimum and maximum temperatures: Victoria, 35, 44; Kamloops, 30, 34; Prince Albert, 12 below, 0; Qu'Appelle, 10 below, 0; Winnipeg, 4, 8; Port Arthur, 10, 22; Toronto, 34, 40; Ottawa, 36, 38; Montreal, 32, 38; Quebec, 32, 36; Halifax, 36, 50. Lower Lakes Strong winds or gales from the North and West; fair with local snow flurries, turning much colder, and colder still on Tuesday.
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yesterday 8.9 measured in mm) 0.5 Month to date 1: Oct 2 to date Year ago today 10.4 0.7 Month normal 89 31.4 Normal this date 8.4 1.0 Today's normal 3.0 Today's Record Max 1948 21.7 1951 Temperature Yesterday 8.5 Partly sunny High 8 Low 3 Friday Partly sunny High 8 Low 2 Sun & moon 36 p.m. Moonset 12:30 a.m. Sunrise 6:41 a.m. Sunset Total daylight: 9 hrs,
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I'M, August 5 Full details are published of the adventurous voyage of Harbo and Hsmnelsen in the row boat Fox, which reached Scilly last Saturday. Harbo reports that they left New York at 5 p.m., June 6th, and proceeded under oar with variable weather until June 18th, when they sighted the North German Lloyd steamer Pruitt Bismarck, bound to New York, the master of which vessel offered to take them back again, but they declined. Owing to strong winds they were driven northward to the Banks of Newfoundland, and July 1st they spoke the schooner Leader and requested the master to report them all well. July 7th they encountered a heavy gale from the west, and had great difficulty in keeping the boat free, the sea continually breaking on board, keeping one of them bailing. The gale continued with more or less force until 9 p.m. of July 10th, when a heavy sea struck and capsized the Fox, throwing them into the water. After a few minutes they succeeded in righting her and getting on board and bailing her out. All their provisions, anchor, cooking utensils, signal lights, and several other articles which were not lashed to the boat were lost. After the accident they suffered severely from the cold. Shortly afterward the weather moderated, and the wind continuing fair they proceeded eastward. On July 15th they boarded the Norwegian barque Gito, from Quebec for Pembroke, and were supplied with water and provisions, and again, when about 400 miles west of Scilly, on July 24th, they spoke the Norwegian barque Eugene, from Halifax for Swansea, and obtained from her a small supply of bread and water. Both men are in good health, and look weather-beaten by long exposure. They pulled two pairs of sculls during the day, and at night kept watch of 31 hours' interval, one man pulling while the other man slept. S. Bache & Co., New York, report the closing prices of American stocks in London, with the New York equivalent, as follows: London prices, Atchison 11, Can. Pacific 65, Erie 131, Kansas & Texas 111, Louisville & Nashville, a Northern Pac., pref 12, Central 92, Ont. & Western 122, Reading 65, St. Paul est, Union Pacific 81, Wabash pref 18. LONDON, August 5 - The Stock market today was lifeless and featureless. The position in America, and the weakness of the Paris Bourse, dominated all the speculative markets. Gold was in strong demand for the Continent. An increased supply of American bills is offering here, but they are not at present traceable to the special syndicate operations. CATARRH CURE, Catarrh positively cured. Are you willing to spend 50 cents for a cure that positively cures catarrh by removing the cause of the disease? If so, ask your druggist for a 25-cent bottle of Munyon's Catarrh Cure and a 25-cent bottle of Catarrh Tablets. The catarrh cure will eradicate the disease from the system, and the tablets will cleanse and heal the afflicted parts and restore them to a natural and healthful condition. Munyon's Liver Cure corrects headache, biliousness, jaundice, constipation and all liver diseases. Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneumonia and breaks up a cold in a few hours. Munyon's Cough Cure stops cough, night sweats, allays soreness and speedily heals the lungs. Munyon's Female Remedies are a boon to all women. Munyon's Headache Cure stops headache in three minutes. Munyon's Pile Ointment positively cures all forms of piles. Munyon's Asthma Cure and Herbs are guaranteed to relieve asthma in three minutes and cure in five days. Price, 50 cents each. Munyon's Blood Cure eradicates all impurities from the blood. Munyon's Vitalizer imparts new life to weak and debilitated men. Price, $1. Personal letters addressed to Prof. Munyon, 11 Albert street, Toronto, Out., will be answered with medical advice absolutely free of any charge. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS Liverpool. Aug 8, daylight, Aug 5, 9 a.m. Aug 12, daylight, Aug 15, 3 p.m. Aug 22, daylight, Aug 22, 1 p.m. Aug 27, 2 p.m. Aug 30, 9 a.m. Ottoman Aug 22, daylight, Aug 22, 1 p.m. Mannor Aug 20, eastbound, Aug 21, 3 p.m. Rates of Passage - First class - from Liverpool or London return, $100; second class, $75 and $50; third class to Liverpool, London, Londonderry, Queens-iv, including outfit. For further information apply to DAVID TORRANCE & CO., General Agents, or apply to other agencies. DONALDSON LINE Weekly GLASGOW SERVICE Sailing from MONTREAL, every THURSDAY. July 17 88 Alcides, July 21 88 Warwick, July 31 88 Concordia, Aug 7 88 Tritonia, Aug 27 88 Anamaryotilltw. KEPT S AGENTS Glasgow Donaldson Bros. THOMSON LINE London and Newcastle carries, sailing from Montreal via Messrs. From Newcastle- From Montreal only, to London. July 17 88 Turona Aug 7 July 30, 88 Freinona Aug 18. All the London steamers will take cargo for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. EAST COAST SERVICE ABERDEEN, LEITH AND DUNDEE AT INTERVALS. Aug 1 88 Queensmore 15 88 Megantic 20. And regularly thereafter. Cold Storage accommodation provided on all Bristol steamers. For rates of Freight and other particulars apply to ELDER, DEMPSTER & CO 219 Commissioner St., Montreal, and at 711 Queen Square, Bristol; 4 St. Mary St., London; 1 Castle St., Liverpool. JOHNSTON LINE REGULAR SAILINGS, MONTREAL TO LIVERPOOL Rossmore Aug 14 Barrowmore Aug 25 Parkmore Aug 30 A Steamer Sept 9. For rates of freight, through bills of lading, and full information, apply to all Railway Agencies: Wm. Johnson & Co., Limited, Chamber of Commerce Building, Boston; 211 La Salle street, Chicago; 208 Railway Exchange Building, St. Louis, or to WM. LIMIT ISO, MANUFACTURERS OF REFRIGERATING MACHINES For Cold Storage under our latest Patent Dry-Air Circulating System, Machines for Breweries, Packing Houses, Food Factories, Etc.
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B. Keefer, of Hamilton, agent, to act under the direction of the business committee to visit the various counties and forward the adoption tickets via the Canadian Pacific railway, as they have four trains daily for the capital, leaving Montreal 7 a.m., 8:40 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and returning leaving Ottawa 5:25 a.m., 8:20 a.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:12 p.m. In the suit Delaney vs. Kirkpatrick and Rogers of Kingston, in which plaintiff sued Speaker Kirkpatrick and his partner for $2,500 loss through alleged negligence in transacting a loan, the jury brought in a verdict to-day for defendant. The ballot-box stuffing case against Wiggins, returning officer, and Franks, polling clerk, has been postponed till next week at the request of the prisoners' counsel. A true bill was returned by the grand jury. The ice bridge ram of the Slew Mining Company - Molt Ar Mililoaa, Quebec, January 27. All the defendants in the ice bridge case were before the recorder's court to-day and proof was extended to 10th February waiting the decision of the Court of Appeals. It K.P. Crawling, Principal Lobley, Rev. Archdeacon Duroe, of Guelph and Canon Hamilton, of Toronto, Eight ballots were taken, necessary to a choice 28 clerical and 27 lay votes. Rev. Chan Hamilton was elected, securing 11 clerical and 21 lay votes, Dean Carmichael coming next with 11 clergy and 11 laity. Naraska, Ontario, January 27. The official returns reduce the majority for the Scott Act to 1, Knox and Addington. Ahm'liion, January 27. The following is the result of the election in South Renfrew to fill the vacancy in the Ontario legislature caused by the unseating of Mr. Dowling (Liberal): Dowling, Harvey, Harrot 31, 17, 41, 54, Brudenell 31, 8, Adamston, No. 178, Adamston, No. 177, 4, Malistleld, 1, 1, 4, 9, Horton, No. 1, 3, 3, Horton, No. 1, 47, 0, Gralton, No. 1, Total 180. NOVA SCOTIA M:HS, total gunillugnarrMml-Pir in Sydney Mines, Halifax, January 27. A man named Tupper, residing at Tor-wu, met with an accident on Sunday evening that resulted in his death. He started alone on a shooting expedition in the morning and it is supposed that while returning towards home in the afternoon his gun was accidentally discharged and its contents passed through his body. When his remains were discovered near the Methodist camp meeting grounds it was found that a bullet from the gun had entered at one side beneath the arm and come out about the shoulders on the other side. Fire has been discovered in a passage in the Sydney coal mine, leading to an unused room about a mile from the pit mouth. Efforts have been made to check its advance by isolating the burning portion of the mine by banking and shutting off the air supply, and it is thought to be under control, but, should this course not prove successful, the mine will be flooded. A PLUMBING FOR A WINDOW, How Two Engineers Shot and Curved Each Other, Utica, January 27. Particulars of a desperate encounter between two rival suitors are coming to light. It seems that two young men in well-to-do circumstances, one a foreigner and the other an Irishman, became enamored with a blooming middle-aged widow who keeps a restaurant in the lower town. The fair dispenser of liquids seems to have divided her smiles about equally between her two admirers, as they became desperately jealous of each other, the hatred between them finally culminating a couple of days ago in a bloody fight. By agreement the two men, accompanied by friends, met in a country locality near Levis and opened operations by firing at each other with pistols at the regulation distance. This they found too slow and drew knives and hacked at each other in true wild west style until separated. The foreigner is now in the hospital with a bullet hole through his hip and several knife thrusts in his body. His opponent, it seems, escaped with lighter punishment, having received only a few slight cuts. A magisterial enquiry has been opened, which will throw more light on the affair. THE FLIT TO RECKON, Quebec, January 27. Bigaouett's hotel, at Lake Beauport, which was burned on Saturday morning, was insured for $2,000 on the building and $300 on the contents in the National of Ireland. The loss was total. Brooklyn, January 27. Leon Hardt's morocco factory was burned this afternoon; loss $100,000. The employees narrowly escaped. THE WEATHER, Toronto, January 28, 1 a.m. A depression from the southwestern states is now passing south of the lakes with snow. Light snow falling in Southern Ontario, but it is fine elsewhere. Very cold weather continues throughout the country, except in the extreme Northwest, where it is much milder. Cautionary signals have been ordered up at the Maritime ports. Probabilities: St. Lawrence, Upper Increasing easterly, shifting to northwesterly winds; cloudy weather, with snow, stationary or slightly higher temperatures. If you are going up to Ottawa for the opening of parliament be sure to secure your tickets in advance. The driving park - Opening of the Toronto Bleu Tobogganing Slide - The Ice structures At the Rink - Incident of the Day, in which the chief thought of the city present that it is a full of novelty and charm, in a mild and limitless way, in which the thousands of visitors who come in from all sides. In the daytime a constant procession of handsome sleighs occupied the roadways, whilst on the sidewalk the ever-recurring figures of skaters, cold and queued young people of both sexes lent a picturesque brightness to the sight. At night these same streets appear to be a constant blaze, where the flash would be the sparkle of the lights, the dazzling effect of the ton, if pyrotechnics, on the island a glaring volcano with a serpentine trail extending across the boulevard to the city streets, formed by the snowshoe procession as it wended its way from the starting point on the island; in the squares, on the Champ de Mars, the ice structures, balconies, condors and lions, all aglow with light; at the tobogganing hills more light and bright picturesque continue, all forming an ensemble to be equaled nowhere else on the face of the earth. Yesterday the visitors had a taste of cold Canadian weather, the thermometer being way down below zero, but in the bright bracing air no one thought of cold. The program for the day was carried out most successfully and the different features were full of interest. Today the chief event will be, of course, the storming of the ice palace, which takes place this evening, and is the crowning glory of the carnival. The snowshoe race over the mountain, which took place yesterday afternoon, did not attract as large an assemblage to witness the sport as in previous years, a state of things due to a great extent to the mistake in the first edition of the official program, and very largely copied, in the effect that the event would be held on Wednesday afternoon. There was, however, a fairly good crowd at the foot of the lavish sheet and all along the route to witness what proved to be the fastest race ever run over the mountain course, and for such a cold day a most remarkable event. A few minutes past four the following racers took up their positions: K. Larkin, H. D. Jones, W. Wray, Kniciald snowshoe club; H. McTaugart, I. Starke, W. Kerr, Montreal; A. H. Graham. Their Excellencies expressed great pleasure on their arrival at the foot of the slide, but were evidently feeling the effects of their drive across the boulevard and return. A laughable episode at the time of His Excellency's arrival at the top of the slide was an American gentleman with a huge snowball, which he applied occasionally to his nasal appendage, which had been frozen early in the afternoon, and which he said needed "keeping in trim" so long as he continued to slide, and that "I mean to keep it up till supper time, I swear." A lady attempted to cross the slide and was knocked down but not badly hurt. A very large number of spectators and sliders were present, but the arrangements were perfect and everybody happy. THIS TOQUE BUCK, The formal opening of the Tuque Bleue toboggan slide took place last evening and was a most successful affair. A number of gas lamps of the new style have been placed on the sidewalk on St. Catherine street opposite the foot of the slide, while the fence was beautifully decorated with Chinese lanterns. Inside the fence a large bonfire was kept blazing, which was surrounded during the evening by the cold and shivering crowd who were not sliding. The chute was hung across with rows of Chinese lanterns, while another row ran down each side of the slide. The effect was most beautiful. The slide was illuminated at night. A'ehh-k hv twn Ini-tra! FINANCIAL, Tuesday Evening, The New York market was firmer, the lead rate being advanced 1/8 to 4 7/8. Actual rates were 4 7/8 for 60-day bills, 4 7/8 for demand bills, 4 7/8 for cable, firmer. Money remains easy and dull in New York at 1 percent on call. The New York market was strong in the main today, prices ruling higher all along, and closing at an advance on yesterday's figures, in spite of downward turn toward the close. Advices from Wall street yesterday were to the effect that the average impression among traders yesterday was bearish and lower prices were expected, especially for the main and trunk lines. Advices from Philadelphia this morning do not announce any new cut in rates by the Pennsylvania company. People who are usually well informed and conservative in their views say there is no doubt of the critical condition of the coal combination, and they declare that they would not be surprised to see Lackawanna break to 60 before the middle of the week and a still greater decline in Delaware and Hudson. Morgan is reported to have quit trading in Lackawanna and has switched into Northwest, on which he is very bullish. It is reported that Higgli A. Pine have bought about 70,000 shares of Lackawanna from 80 down. Russell Wage states that he is doing very little in stock at present and is selling unstock privilege. The Gould people warn their friends against selling good stocks short at the current price, and they declare they are as bullish as ever and have not changed their views on the situation. Gould says that prices are already too low, and so many sound securities have passed from weak into strong hands that there is no margin for profits on short sales. Private Washington advices regarding the Southern railroad matters are regarded as very unfavorable for the prospects. The Judiciary committee's report upon the Union Pacific 11-year extension is expected to pass almost unanimously, and if the decision of the court of claims on what constitutes net earnings under the Thurman act is favorable, Union and Central Pacific are considered big purchases. The earnings of Northwest for the third week in January were $114,000, a decrease of $45,000. Vice-president Hyke says the heavy snows obstructed the traffic and the severe cold caused blockades and loss of business. The closing prices, compared with those of yesterday, show an advance of 1/2 percent on Western Union, Jersey Central, Union Pacific, Kansas & Texas and Pullman Car Co., 1 on Lake Shore, 1/4 on Northwest preferred and Northern Pacific common, 1 on Omaha common, 1/4 on Missouri Pacific and Chicago, B. & Q., 1 on Illinois Central and West Shore Bonds, 1 on Manitoba, 1/2 on Lackawanna and Delaware & Hudson, Central Pacific closed 1 percent lower. Messrs. Maclver & Barclay, 150 St. Francois Xavier street, report the range of fluctuations as follows: Jersey Central, 32 1/2, 33, 33; Central Pacific, 29 1/4, 29 1/2, 30; St. Paul, 71, 73 1/2, 73; Northwest, 89 1/2, 90; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, 86; Lake Shore, 60 1/2, 61, 61; Louisville & Nashville, 24, 24 1/2, 24 1/2; Kansas & Texas, 15 1/2, 15 3/4; Missouri Pacific, 93, 94, 94; New York Central, 86 1/4, 87, 88; Erie, 13, 13 1/2, 13; do seconds, 64, 64 1/2, 54; Northern Pacific preferred, 38 1/2, 39, 39; Oregon Transcontinental, 12 1/4, 13, 12 1/4; Pacific Mail, 64 1/4, 54 1/4, 54 1/4; Union Pacific, 48 1/4, 49 1/4, 49; West Shore bonds, 32, 38, 31; Western Union, 67, 58 1/4, 67 1/4; Northwest preferred, 12 1/4, 15 6; Delaware & Hudson, 63, 69 1/4, 70; St. Paul & Omaha, 26 1/4, 26 1/4, 26. The transactions were: 7,700 shares Western Union, 7,900 Lake Shore, 800 Pacific Mail, 100 Erie, 10,700 Northwest, 26,600 St. Paul, 11,400 New York Central, 113,100 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, 400 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 1,900 Oregon Transcontinental, 6,400 Union Pacific, 1,200 leading, 800 Kansas & Texas, 4,400 Northern Pacific preferred, 600 Louisville & Nashville, 6,000 Texas Pacific, 12,100 Central Pacific, 800 Missouri Pacific, 2,600 Jersey Central. Local markets: The money market presents no new feature, the position continuing one of dullness and ease. Commercial paper is discounted at 7 percent, and loans on stocks made at 4 percent. Sterling exchange is steady at 84 3/8 premium for 60-day bills, 1/2 premium for demand bills between banks; counter rates 1/4 higher. Drafts on New York range from par to 1/8 premium. The stock market continues to be absolutely void of interest. Neither investors nor speculators are operating at the moment, and as a consequence prices are for the most part nominal, such fluctuations as occur from day to day scarcely covering the commission on a transaction. On the whole the tone was steady to firm this morning. Bank of Montreal fell off 1/4 percent, to 18 1/4 for buyers, 18 9/10 for sellers, merchants ruled steady at 110 1/4 and 111. Commerce moved up 1/4 percent, to 118 bid, 119 asked at the close. Ontario, after selling at 107 1/4, closed with buyers at 107. Telegraph was up 1/4 percent, to 116 bid in the early dealings, but at the close the stock was offered at this figure, and asked for at 116 1/4. Richelieu Navigation Company inactive and unchanged at 68 and 69, City Gas Company quiet and steady at 182 and 183. Canadian Pacific was firmer in sympathy with the New York and London markets, advancing 1/8 percent, to 41 bid, 41 1/4 asked. The transactions were: 100 shares Bank of Montreal at 189, 100 at 188 1/4, 50 Ontario at 107, 50 at 107 1/4, Merchants at 110, Commerce at 118, Canadian Pacific at 41. Macdongall Brothers, Stock Brokers, 69 St. Francois Xavier street, report the closing prices on the Montreal Stock Exchange to-day as follows: Stocks - Bank of Montreal 60, Ontario Bank 67, Banque du Peuple 60, Molsons Bank 60, Bank of Toronto 60, Jacques Cartier Bank 60, Merchants Bank 60, Exchange Bank 60, Quebec Bank 60, Banque Nationale 60, Eastern Shipping Bank 60, Union Bank 60, Canadian Bank of Commerce 60, Federal Bank 60, Imperial Bank 60, Dominion Bank 60, Bank of Hamilton 60, Standard Bank 60, Hochelaga Bank 60, Ville Marie 60, Intercolonial Coal Co. 60, Montreal Tel. Co. 60, Western Union 60, Dominion Tel. Co. 60, Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. 60, City Pass Railway Co. 60.
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"M. Calloway, Killed by Lightning - Jsuico, Tenn, June 19 A heavy thunderstorm passed over this section yesterday At Williamsburg, Ky, Mrs. Brown and her two small boys were on the bank of the river when the storm came up They were struck by lightning and Mrs. Brown and one of the boys instantly killed The other boy was badly injured and his recovery is doubtful Plot to Burn a House of Refuge Cincinnati, Ohio, June 19 Yesterday, at a meeting of the directors of the Cincinnati House of Refuge, evidence was heard in the case of a plot of about a dozen of the inmates to fire the building and escape The three leading conspirators were taken below and punished By Leala Bvpnolales the Census St. Louis, June 19 Complete returns of 244 of the 288 enumerators for this city, and the incomplete returns of the remaining 44, indicate the population of the city is 430,000 The enumeration is generally denounced as incorrect Bucket Shop Dealing Gambling Louisville, Ky, June 19 The Court of Appeals yesterday rendered a decision which makes all bucket shop dealings gambling The court holds that option dealing is gambling within the meaning of the Kentucky statute"
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"At the conclusion of the examination he was taken to prison. His arrest was due to his inability to furnish guarantees to the amount of $220,000, lacking in the accounts of the bank. STARVING PEASANTS THREATEN OFFICIALS: MOSCOW, February 22. Peasants in the famine-stricken districts along the Volga, made desperate by hunger, are threatening officials with violence. In one village two officials had a narrow escape from lynching because they refused to relieve peasants who were not needy. In other places the people threaten to plunder landowners. THE FRENCH CRISIS CONTINUES: PARIS, February 22. The Cabinet crisis and the excited feelings growing out of it show no sign of abatement. It is rumored that the Chamber will be dissolved. FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIEF: The Neue Zeit says Prince Bismarck will attend the coming session of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet. The picture representing the sitting of the Alabama Claims commission, a present from America to Queen Victoria, has arrived at Windsor castle.
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Pelletier said that the Municipal Council of Verdun could refuse to allow ice taken from places within the municipality where sewage collects to be stored within the limits "Sire," exclaimed the mission of the King of the Caledon Islands, entering the royal hall with precipitation, "the head chef is just bringing up dinner He desired me to state that an entire turnverein came in this evening, and he is serving them with a filling of oysters" "In that case," observed the savage potentate, hurriedly seizing a knife and fork, "we will go to meet him, I would not keep him waiting when" he playfully poked his secretary in the ribs when he is looking for me with a stuffed club Hi w 1"-New York Press Clai lie What did you see at the theatre last evening?
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alette SECTION E AU U u WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1997 Best to avoid things that go bump in the road r r r 1 "" v n n tc j i I F JO 1 1 W"" J M VlJ 55 Rue Gince Voxe St-Laurent 334-9910 Bargain Wheels 3 lines, 7 days Ad limited to a single vehicle Certain conditions apply Ad limited to a single vehicle, we ask that the above-mentioned ads be prepaid Ads are not refundable Taxes not included All we ask is that the price of your vehicle appear in the ad Private party advertisers only 987-2311 Commercial advertisers please contact your sales representative or call 987-2321 Transportation e3 800-863 Antique Classic cars 800 Cars under $2000 803 Cars under $6000 Cars for Sale Lease Pickup Trucks Sport Utility vehicles 4X4S Sports Cars for Sale Sports Car Parts services 821 Trucks Commercial Buses 824 Vans 827 Vehicle Parts Scraps 830 Vehicles Wanted 833 806 810 813 816 819 Accessories 835 Alarms Remote Starters 837 Announcements Events 839 Auto Miscellaneous Auto Servicing Car Telephones Drive-a-Car Insurance Financing 850 Internet Addresses Painting Bodywork Parking Storage Rentals Rustproofing Tires 841 843 846 848 852 855 857 859 861 863 RV now the worst of the pothole should be over It's been a particularly bad year An exceptionally long winter, a hot and cold spring, and even a late April snowstorm have all taken their toll on the condition of our roads Commuters driving on Highway 10 in the Lachine area were treated to an experimental road surface that self-destructed as it was being driven on Potholes the size of beach balls appeared all over the place and our car wheels, tires and suspension systems took the brunt of the blows All in all, a tough time for cars and car owners alike For a few years now the cities and province have benefited from a provincial law that frees them from responsibility for damages caused to your car by roads that are in poor condition So if your wheel fell into a pothole - flattening your tires, bending your rims and throwing your wheel alignment out of whack - you get the privilege of paying for the repairs But don't forget that if you have a series of potholes in your driveway and invite someone to the house, you would be responsible for any damage incurred by your guest's car as a result of that driveway The general rule of law is that people are responsible for the damage caused by objects under their control If you were moving your piano up a hill and it slipped, rolled to the bottom and punched a new entrance into Peter's Bar & Grill, you'd be responsible and would have to pay Peter for the repairs A government is not above the law That is, not unless it wants to be If the government owned and operated the piano that punched a hole in Peter's Bar & Grill, it would undoubtedly be responsible to pay for the damage So if the city's road caused damage to your car, one would think the city should pay for it It should, but it won't because of the special law the government passed exempting itself from the usual rule of law What if you left your piano in the middle of the road and Peter hit it with his car? You would be responsible to pay for the damage caused by your piano, which should never have been there in the first place But what if the city had hired a contractor to renovate Peter's Bar & Grill (so that the city could sell it at a loss) and the contractor left a piano he was installing in the middle of the road, causing an accident? Normally, people who hire other people to work for them are responsible for damages caused by their employees in the normal course of their business Unless, of course, you're the government There is a special law which leaves the city safely protected from all liability caused by the builders or contractors hired by them for the entire duration of the work! (Cities and Towns Act, paragraph 604) You would be forgiven for thinking that since you pay a lot of taxes, you can expect the government to keep the roads clear of objects and debris You might think that if you hit a rock, or even a construction sign that had been left in the middle of the road and was not moved out of the way by the city, that you could sue the city for damages Think again The same law has a section in it that specifically exempts the city from liability for damage caused by the presence of any object on the road It doesn't matter where the thing came from If it's on the road and you hit it, don't expect the city to pay to repair your car So drive carefully and don't hit any stationary objects Montreal lawyer Jordan Charness is a partner in the firm Charness, Charness & Charness Please send your letters to: ""STEERING YOU RIGHT"" AutoPlus Section The Gazette 250 St. Antoine St. West Montreal, QC H2Y 3R7 U"
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1993 H3 BOOKS Our two books examine the conduct of Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948 By Patrick Brode University of Toronto Press, 290pp $39.95 Conduct Unbecoming The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy By Howard Margolian University of Toronto Press, 268pp $34.95 JAMES MENNIE The Gazette If war is hell, it's a hell we've decided has to have rules. These rules were first established informally, promulgated on the battlefield by soldiers who realized that only those in the rear echelon seriously expect an army to fight to the last man. The quality of mercy may have been involved in the process, but it's more likely that pragmatism was the dominating factor. Propagandists notwithstanding, no one nation is favoured by the fortunes of war, and commanders who gave quarter to an enemy who raised the white flag might be reasonably certain their troops would receive the same treatment once they had to wave it themselves. It wasn't until warfare stopped being a face-to-face affair, and millions could be killed on the battlefield (and off), that it was decided this code of military conduct needed to be formalized into international law. The Geneva Convention and Conference at The Hague in 1899 and 1907 distilled soldierly pragmatism into a moral code ready for use (along with machine guns and mustard gas) in time for World War I. Henceforth, killing prisoners of war was no longer merely professionally unsound or ungentlemanly, it was morally wrong—a crime. And between June 7 and 17, 1944, crimes were committed. It was then that 156 members of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division were captured and systematically murdered by members of the German 12th SS Panzer Division as both units clashed in the days following the Allied invasion of Normandy. Why, You Had To Be There An Intimate Portrait of the Generation That Survived the Depression, Won the War, and Reinvented Canada By Robert Collins McClelland and Stewart, 309 pp $32.50 DAVID HELWIG Special to The Gazette This book could be seen as the world's longest letter to the editor. Robert Collins seems to have been annoyed at remarks made by those two or three decades younger, and to have set out to explain the lives of an older generation. One generation telling its story to another is how he might put it. Now, myself, I think the word ""generation"" is one that we could pretty much do without. There is no doubt that the changing economic circumstances make a difference in how men and women organize their lives, in the nature of the challenges they face, but thinking in terms of generations leads quickly to thinking in generalizations, and all generalizations are untrue. Except that one, of course. What Robert Collins did, in his attempt to explain his own time, was interview a great many people of more or less his own age, and the best part of his book is the recounting—sometimes in his words, sometimes in their own—of the stories they told him. The most apparently ordinary lives are astonishing, at least in moments. That's the source of the fascination of oral history—narrative that has the directness of simple speech and is without the false sophistication of journalism. There is a story about how the Kleeberger family of Saskatchewan packed everything into two canvas-covered old wagons and a car and moved to Alberta. Another tells about how the Schienbein family lost their farm to creditors, including two greedy doctors who sent the RCMP after the family to collect a hand-turned curtain rod, the one memento that the father, who had made it himself, had carried off with him. One of the best stories in the book is about the attempted baptism of a boy named Wendell who didn't take to water. Great stuff, but it is punctuated with preachy asides that make the book infuriating, until you learn to ignore them. There are lines about how the Depression tempered their souls, gave them real values. Now, I was born lucky, at the end of the Depression, but my parents were hit by it at the worst possible time, the beginning of their working lives. I don't believe, and I boys' shot in cold Brigadier-General Kurt Meyer of the SS (centre) stands ramrod straight in court in December 1945, with Major Arthur Russell to his right and Captain Elton McPhail on his left. Most of the killings took place well behind the front lines and appear to have been carried out as part of a ""no prisoners"" policy adopted by the 12th SS, whose recruits were culled from the ranks of the Hitler Youth. An investigation by Canadian military authorities resulted in the arrest and prosecution of Kurt Meyer, commander of the 12th SS and a man suspected of having also ordered the execution of prisoners while he served on the Russian front. Meyer was sentenced to death by a Canadian war-crimes tribunal but saw his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Within a decade of his arrest, he was repatriated to Germany, a free man. How Meyer not only cheated the firing squad but also the justice sought by the families of the men whose murders he apparently ordered is now the subject of two books. Jobless men swarm boxcars for the stock-market crash of 1929, they don't think they believed, that it did anything good for them. It was, in the phrase Barry Broadfoot made the title of his book about the period, 10 lost years. It was a bad, bad time, and I'm glad I didn't have to go through it, but it's also worth remembering that it wasn't the first occasion when working people went through hard times, though the Great Depression was exacerbated by the drought on the Prairies. Though Collins's account of World War II begins in defensiveness, a lot of talk about how younger people don't understand it or know about it, the section is less preachy than the pages about the Depression, but it still makes no attempt to be an accurate history. The book is like a stone skipped across water, bouncing lightly from point to point. Its version of history is personal and mythological. Don't expect an account of the importance of the battle of Stalingrad. Collins gives a good sense of how the war began a process of social change in Canada, which led to a more mobile class system, new sexual attitudes, and a readiness to explore the comparative riches of the years after the war, but given his love of generalization, we are soon into a quick explanation of what sociologists like to call the end of deference, being told that most children were spoiled, one way or another, and turned into the self-indulgent creatures that the young are. How not, one might ask, in an era of economic growth and overproduction? Or did it in my day? Canadian war-crimes prosecutions In Conduct Unbecoming, Howard Margolian traces the steps taken by the men of the 3rd Division and the 12th SS that would lead them to their meeting in Normandy. He then analyzes, sometimes in graphic detail, each of the incidents where Canadian troops were slain by their captors. Some were simply murdered where they stood and their bodies thrown into a street to be pulverized by passing tanks. Others were slaughtered like cattle, either bludgeoned or shot as they entered the garden of a Norman chateau. A total of 35 were machine-gunned on a country road, Meyer was tracked down by Canadian authorities and stood trial before a war-crimes tribunal composed of officers equivalent in rank to the accused. He was charged with five counts stemming from the murders, but convicted of three—one count of inciting his troops not to give quarter to the enemy. ""On to Ottawa"" protest shortly after the beginning of the Great Depression, happen at all or in such a universal way? Perhaps ideas, human eccentricity and traditional class loyalties sometimes stand outside the forces of economic life. One would hope so. We seem to live in an era of generalizations. The voracious daily and weekly and monthly pages of newspapers and magazines, the empty screens of television, demand constant commentary, quick analysis of everything, premature wisdom. Robert Collins is often aware of the precariousness of his sweeping statements and will offer exceptions. He knows that trying to write for a whole generation is a difficult business. When he says ""we,"" as he usually does, he is sometimes speaking for himself, sometimes attempting to catch the tenor of an ensemble of opinions, and sometimes quoting statistics. From time to time, he offers the expertise of a single man or woman. One of these he talked to was Gildas Molgat, the speaker of the Senate. As always, the individual voice is the most interesting. You read a letter to the editor, and sometimes you agree, sometimes not. The conclusion of Robert Collins's long letter to the editor of the world is a suggestion that people now in their 70s can offer a certain amount of wisdom and idealism that should be attended to. OK, I'll drink to that; I'll be there soon enough myself. David Helwig is a writer in Prince Edward Island. CP emy and two of being in command of troops who had killed prisoners of war. Condemned to death, Meyer had his sentence reviewed by the senior Canadian officer in charge of the war-crimes prosecutions and commuted to life imprisonment. Margolian, who spent seven years as an investigator for the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the federal Justice Department, suggests there is evidence to support the theory that the commutation resulted from British pressure not to antagonize the Bonn government, a potential ally on the eve of the Cold War. However, author Patrick Brode, who chronicles the Meyer case and other war-crimes prosecutions conducted by Canada, suggests another reason. A member of the legal department at Windsor city hall, Brode writes that Major-General Chris Vokes, the Canadian officer in charge of deciding the truths at the heart of madness Stories zero in on the men and women we tend to shy away from on the street Desert Thirst By Margaret Gibson Exile Editions, 170pp $19.95 MONIQUE POLAK Special to The Gazette Readers will recognize the characters in Margaret Gibson's short-story collection Desert Thirst. They're the kind of people who, when we see them, make us want to cross to the other side of the street, or change metro cars, or firmly grasp our children's hands and say, ""Don't look at him, honey. Just keep walking."" A former psychiatric patient and the author of two acclaimed books, Gibson unflinchingly—and unapologetically—portrays the world of mental illness. There's Suzy Tan, a schizophrenic, whose drug cocktail leaves her mouth permanently parched; Rhoda, who hopes to meet her Other Self on the streets of downtown Toronto; Barbara-Ann, who can't speak above a whisper because she used up all her screams during episodes of unthinkable childhood abuse; and Edward, who looks back with some nostalgia at his days in a mental institution where ""you got three square meals and all the de-caf you wanted."" The title story, Desert Thirst, is the most compelling of this volume. Its lyrical language is at once poetic and slightly mad. Suzy Tan's tongue is likened to ""a dry spiky cactus pushing, pushing, pushing struggling its way up out of hot desert sand with a very few drops of water given to quench the cactus's thirst."" Married to a hardened ex-con, Suzy's life is hellish. Relief takes the form of apple juice she likes to sip from a baby's training cup—until her husband cruelly tosses it in the garbage. Only the couple's daughter, 13-year-old Kee, a musical prodigy, provides an angelic beneficence to temper her parents' misery. When she plays the harp, her father ""feels his soul."" Innocently, but with an irony that won't escape readers, Kee is grateful for her ""wonderful parents."" The Button Factory is the tender and tragic love story of a couple who meet after World War II. Whether to commute Meyer's sentence, was himself a veteran combat officer who had led his men through the bloody Sicilian campaign and is reported to have observed to a fellow officer that he didn't know ""a general or a colonel on the Allied side who hasn't said 'Well, this time we don't want any prisoners.'"" Brode also writes that some of the senior Canadian officers who convicted Meyer may have realized that by making a commanding officer responsible for the actions of his troops—and backing that responsibility with his life—they had written a new page in the rulebook of war. ""There were serious implications to this decision to shoot commanders whose men had breached the laws of war,"" writes Brode, adding that Vokes aired his concerns about the effects such a ruling could have on commanders ""in any future war."" Brode also notes that there was evidence—much of it anecdotal, but nevertheless disturbing—that Canadian and other Allied troops may have themselves killed prisoners of war. Some such actions might have been carried out in retaliation for the murders committed by the 12th SS, but other incidents—cryptic references to ""huddles"" on the beaches of Normandy that occurred before those killings—place those bloody days after the landings in a grim perspective that casts a pale light on both sides of the battle lines. Nor does Brode limit himself to the Normandy killings. Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments also examines war-crimes prosecutions for the murder—sometimes by German civilians—of downed Canadian pilots. Two chapters are also devoted to the trials of Japanese soldiers and officers involved in the battle for Hong Kong as well as the running of prisoner-of-war camps, shedding overdue light on a chapter of our history that has been overlooked for far too long. Brode notes that while 4 per cent of those Canadians captured by German troops died in enemy hands, 290 Canadians—20 per cent of those captured—died through malnutrition or ill treatment in Japanese custody. James Mennie is a reporter at The Gazette, at work on an assembly line. Edward is a psychotic who has trouble controlling his violent impulses; Cynthia remembers being told by a guidance counselor that she has a borderline IQ. But Cynthia is ""smart enough to know what that means. That means she's stupid."" The story demonstrates that IQ has no bearing on the ability to love. In spite of his flaws, Cynthia loves Edward without reservation: ""Oh that cool green light, its softness and sweet bruise in her heart that is Edward."" In A Slipping Away Kind of Life, readers eavesdrop as the narrator confides a childhood trauma to her psychiatrist. She's haunted by the memory of a burning seagull she stoned to death. A heartless boy had doused the gull in gasoline and set it on fire. The bird ""had gone wild, mad, out of his mind with the pain. Whirling wings of fire."" These words are not restricted to the bird's anguish; in Gibson's stories, madness, too, is born from unbearable pain and suffering. Not all of the stories in this collection work so well. Though the narrative voice in Stalker is tense and intriguing, the story, about a pregnant woman stalked by a mysterious shadow, is insubstantial and inconclusive. And the story's mood is broken by clumsy lines like this one: ""Sometimes she suspected it could be otherwise but did not like to think about that too much so did not."" There's little that's uplifting in Gibson's stories. Hope comes only in strange small glimmers. Rhoda, the protagonist of The Empty, takes comfort in a ""slippery bit of orange peel."" Yet Gibson can't be faulted for the bleakness of her vision. Rather, she succeeds in capturing the torment of mental illness. Her stories force us to meet the people we'd prefer to turn away from. And though her characters live in rooming houses, line up at food banks, and wander through alleys littered with cigarette butts and broken bottles, their struggle to make life meaningful is also our own. Monique Polak is a Montreal writer and teacher. MAY 2, 1993 MR EAElTiH MATTERS Fierce flooding Heavy El Nino rains that lashed northern Argentina during much of April have led to the worst flooding in the region for decades. At least 18 people have died in surging waters that are also putting a dangerous strain on a strategic dam. The Argentine-Paraguayan Yacyreta hydro-electric facility in Misiones province is now holding back more water than it was designed for. At least 35 people were killed by heavy floods that have struck eastern Afghanistan since the weekend, while heavy rains also raged across western and central parts of the war-ravaged country. The inundations were made worse by a rapid spring melting of a heavy snow pack that accumulated during a very stormy winter. Deadly hailstorms Hailstones the size of baseballs pounded the central Chinese city of Changde, killing nine people only a day after a similar storm killed 12 people along the country's eastern coast. The Changde hail was accompanied by high winds and a tornado that wrecked houses in the city and destroyed crops in surrounding areas of Hunan province. The hail rained from the skies for 30 minutes, pounding deep holes into the soil and destroying a 16-kilometre-wide stretch of cropland. Cyclone disaster Late reports from French Polynesia tell of extensive damage and several deaths when cyclone Alan tore through some remote islands. At least eight people are known to have perished in the torrential rains and winds gusting as high as 105 km/h. Such storms generally strike this region only during years of strong El Nino ocean warming. Brazilian drought Officials in drought-stricken northeast Brazil are accelerating efforts to provide food and fresh water to areas where starving farmers are migrating into population centres. The severe dry spell has wiped out all of the crops and livestock in some areas, and severely damaged agriculture in surrounding districts. The plight of some subsistence farmers has become so grave that they have resorted to raiding local grain reserves. Earthquakes Japan's Izu Peninsula, south of Tokyo, was shaken by several more tremors—part of continuing swarms of earthquakes that have occurred since mid-April. Earth movements were also felt in eastern Indonesia, northern Afghanistan, southern Greece and the Los Angeles area. Conflagration's end Most of the huge wildfires that have raged across Borneo for the past several months have finally ended. Recent rains have helped to douse some of them, but officials say there are no more fires—mainly because there is nothing left to burn. Volcanic activity Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano continued its recent eruptive phase with another blast of ash and gases that soared 2.5 miles above the suburbs of Mexico City. Ash rained down on nearby villages, and a series of high-frequency tremors rattled the area. The Japanese Meteorological Agency warned that an increasing number of volcanic earthquakes at Mount Iwate in northern Japan could lead to a possible eruption. A total of 281 tremors have been detected since February. New bird Researchers in Brazil say they have discovered a species of bird in a forest 680 kilometres southwest of Rio de Janeiro that was previously not known to exist. A team from the Federal University of Parana heard the song of the bird before it was seen, and knew they had stumbled across something very rare. The tiny gray-black bird they captured with a net is a member of the Scytalopus genus—the lowland tapaculo. Its new scientific name will be published later this year. The Dodgers have played numerous exhibition games in Asia. NEW YORK - Catcher Ivan Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers and pitcher Chuck Finley of the Anaheim Angels have won American League player and pitcher of the month awards for April. Rodriguez led the American League in batting average (.446), slugging percentage (.707) and on-base percentage (.495) for the month. His 41 hits and 12 doubles were second in the league and he had four home runs, 20 runs batted in and 21 runs scored. Finley went 4-0 and posted a league-leading 1.54. He had 44 strikeouts in 46 2/3 innings and held opponents to a .208 batting average. Other candidates for the player award were Juan Gonzalez of Texas, Hal Morris of Kansas City, Tino Martinez of New York and David Justice of Cleveland. Also nominated for the pitcher award were Aaron Sele and Rick Helling of Texas and Mike Jackson of Cleveland. BALTIMORE - Ozzie Guillen, batting only .063 in his first season as a utility player, was released by the Baltimore Orioles. Catcher Charlie Greene was recalled from Triple-A Rochester and Renteria singled to right and Zaun scored standing up. San Diego left the bases loaded in the 10th and the 11th against Jay Powell (3-2). Red Sox 5, Rangers 3 At Boston, Troy O'Leary hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers for their 16th American League win in 19 games. Aaron Sele (5-1), who spent his entire career in the Red Sox organization before a trade to Texas last November, entered the game with a 2.00 ERA and two complete-game shutouts in his previous three starts. Yankees 2, Royals 1 At Kansas City, Mo, Hideki Irabu combined with two relievers on a two-hitter, and Bernie Williams drove in both runs as New York beat Kansas City for its 17th win in 19 games. Irabu (1-0) gave up both hits and struck out eight in 7 innings, lowering his ERA to 1.47. At 18-6, the Yanks are off to their best start since 1958. Angels 7, White Sox 1 At Anaheim, Calif, Darin Erstad hit his first major-league grand slam and Paco Martin ended an 0-for-17 drought with a tiebreaking RBI single as Anaheim beat Chicago. Shigetoshi Hasegawa (1-0) earned the victory with four perfect innings in relief of emergency starter Omar Olivares, who got the call after Jack McDowell was placed on the disabled list Thursday with inflammation in his right elbow. Athletics 5, Blue Jays 2 At Oakland, Calif, Tom Candiotti pitched six strong innings. A THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1993 A 25 WORLD Ex-Rwandan PM pleads guilty to genocide Historic plea includes vow to co-operate FREDERIC BLASSEL Associated Press ARUSHA, Tanzania - The prime minister who led Rwanda's government during the 1994 genocide of more than 500,000 Tutsis pleaded guilty yesterday and promised to testify against other alleged ringleaders of the slaughter. The United Nations said Jean Kambanda was the first person in history to plead guilty to such charges before an international tribunal, including the one at Nuremberg. It also marked the first verdict for the tribunal, which was set up in November 1994 and has been criticized for being slow and bumbling. His voice clear and steady, Kambanda, 42, admitted to four genocide charges and two charges of crimes against humanity, the Swiss-based Hirondelle Press Agency reported. After each plea, murmurs rippled through the packed courtroom in the northern Tanzania town of Arusha. Many Rwandans, their memories of the massacre still fresh, welcomed the confession and hoped it would unleash more convictions. UN prosecutors hoped it would foster reconciliation in Rwanda, where Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-led army continue to fight. In the Arusha court, tribunal president Judge Laity Kama asked Kambanda if he understood the charges, and whether he had made his plea under threat or pressure. Kambanda replied that he made his plea ""consciously and voluntarily,"" and assured the court ""My plea is not equivocal, I have understood,"" Hirondelle reported. Kama then pronounced him guilty. The gravest penalty the tribunal can impose is life in prison. A pre-sentencing hearing was scheduled for Aug. 31. Deputy Prosecutor Bernard Muna said Kambanda was willing to testify against others accused of genocide. The tribunal has another 22 people in custody and has indicted 35 in all. The tribunal has agreed to give Kambanda's wife and two children special protection, but has not guaranteed him a reduced sentence in exchange for his co-operation, Muna told Hirondelle. But under the tribunal's rules, he cannot be tried again in Rwandan courts for the same crime. On April 24, the Rwandan government executed 22 genocide convicts by firing squad, the first executions for the slaughter. Hirondelle, a Swiss charity, is reporting on the genocide trials in an effort to provide Rwandans and others with unbiased information from this remote town. Canadian judge Louise Arbour is the chief prosecutor of the UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She said Kambanda's plea could help heal the genocide's wounds. ""I hope that this admission of guilt will begin to bring some solace to the survivors,"" Arbour said at her headquarters in the Netherlands. The tribunal has been severely criticized for its slow progress. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to visit it next week, and on Thursday, the Security Council approved a third courtroom to try to speed up trials. Kambanda is the highest-ranking former political leader in the tribunal's custody. He led a hard-line Hutu government after the assassination of Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana on April 7, 1994. She was among the first killed in a bloodbath sparked by the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane the day before. The indictment said as prime minister, Kambanda controlled government ministers and military officers during the massacres. The killing stopped only when Tutsi rebels seized power in July 1994. STAH LEHMAN Associated Press AFogados da Ingazeira, Brazil - The corn had withered long ago when Sebastião da Silva's parched fields at last produced some food: a rodent. Da Silva held up the fur-covered prey, an animal the size of a small rabbit, and a grin cracked his face. ""At least tonight, my family will have something to eat,"" he said. Here in the country's vast northeastern outback—which has been without rain for six months—there isn't much else to consume. An estimated 10 million people are at risk of going hungry—and some have turned to looting government warehouses. SOCIAL UNREST DEEPENS Droughts occur here every few years, but this year's has been exacerbated by El Nino, a phenomenon that affects weather patterns, creating dryness in some areas and heavier-than-normal rain in others. The drought also has created friction between the federal government and peasant groups backed by the Catholic Church. As social unrest deepens, the misery takes on political tones. Cattle carcasses dot the dusty scrubland near Afogados da Ingazeira, a town 2,000 kilometres northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Officials say 60 per cent of Pernambuco state, where the town is located, is without water. Desperate families try to stave off starvation by eating cactus—and by looting. Last month, 700 men, women and children raided a government warehouse, carrying off almost 13 tonnes of rice, beans, flour, manioc. Simpson's former neighborhood, but police said the knife cannot be linked to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman. ""The evidence that we have is basically that there is no detectable evidence to show that this knife was related to any particular crime whatsoever,"" said police Lt. Anthony Alba. The latest knife was found encased in mud April 24 by a residential construction crew in the area of Rockingham Estates, a small section of Brentwood that includes Simpson's former house on Rockingham Ave. The precise location wasn't disclosed. Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman and then-partner Brad Roberts said they saw an empty Swiss Army knife box in Simpson's bathroom while they were investigating the killings. with 120 packages of pasta and 73 of corn meal. Mrs. Nascimento said she kept half and gave the rest to neighbours who also needed food. ""I was scared, but if I have to, I'll do it again,"" she said. Local authorities are reluctant to prosecute. ""There may have been one or two agitators among them, but most of the looters were honest, hard-working people who had nothing to eat,"" said warehouse manager Carlos Alberto Jose Brasil. The Landless Rural Workers Movement has endorsed looting as a tactic to pressure the government for aid, and the Catholic Church was quick to defend the action. ""It is not a crime to resort to this kind of action when in extreme need,"" Catholic Bishop Francisco de Mesquita Filho of Afogados da Ingazeira told a meeting of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in Campinas. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso called the remarks ""immoral,"" but the bishop's words had an effect: The government announced it will distribute one million food baskets in 1,236 cities and towns hardest hit by the drought. The estimated $123 million U.S. relief program also will finance projects to dig wells and build roads, dams and bridges. The food handouts have calmed things down for now, said Mayor Maria Giselda Simoes. But with no end to the drought in sight the situation could get uglier. ""Handing out food is a palliative,"" she said. ""The government must have the political will to solve the problem. And this, unfortunately, it doesn't."" MORE WORLD NEWS Battles mark May Day, Page A27 ""Considerable stretching"" need for breakthrough: Israel, Page A28 Canadian firm to foot bill for Spanish spill cleanup, Page B7 Astronomers detect galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away, Page B8 Less drinking, more fighting follows bar smoking ban, Page E8 IRA pressed to disarm, Page G11 Ex-Panther Cleaver dies, Page G13 Thousands of Cambodian refugees head to Thai border, Page G16 Renovating Safely Spring will soon be here and you're probably already thinking about this year's outdoor renovation jobs. Be sure to play it safe, though! Seemingly simple jobs can be very dangerous if they're done within 3 metres (10 feet) of any medium-voltage power lines. Don't put your life on the line, Call Hydro-Quebec. Call on a professional if you have any trees that need trimming, because power lines are often hidden by leaves. One-third of all electrical accidents happen to people trying to prune or cut down trees. If you're working on the exterior or roof of your house or cleaning your chimney, make sure that you, your workers and anything you may be handling (including tools, ladders, scaffolding, materials, poles, etc.) stays at least 3 metres (10 feet) away from any power lines. Always apply the golden 3-metre rule. If you can't, call Hydro-Quebec and arrange to have the necessary work done to make your worksite safe. If you're installing an outdoor antenna, keep it well away from the power lines. Sometimes it's best to call on a professional; accidents can happen so quickly. If you're installing a television antenna, and the wind catches it and blows it toward the power lines, don't try to grab or retrieve it. If the antenna touches the wires, the current will pass through your body on its way to the ground and you could be electrocuted. Be careful with power lines when you are cleaning your swimming pool with a long pole. There must always be at least 4.6 metres (15 feet) of vertical distance between a pool and the power lines connected to your house. Be careful of wires when you are playing, too! Keep kites and model airplanes away from power lines. Never climb into a tree to recover a ball or kitten if there are any wires nearby. Always stay well away. To find out more about what precautions you need to take when working inside or outside your home and what to do in case of electric shock, ask for your copy of the new Renovating Safely brochure, by dialing 1-800-363-7443. OBJECTIVE DrT? 7 tnMii f i iT'liTinMraniJ mm a Hydro-Quebec, In co-operation with its partners in the construction industry."
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like this 21.2-pounder from Prince Edward Island PAGE C1 Showers Today's high 21 The forecast for southwestern Quebec today calls for mainly cloudy skies with showers PAGE C14 Auf der Maur A2 Births Deaths E7 Boone C12 Bridge E5 Business F1 Doug Camiili C14 Careers F7 Classified D1 E5 I Comics B4 Computers F4 Crossword E5 Dear Doctor C8 Editorials B2 Farber E1 Hadekel F1 Horoscope E5 Johnson B3 Landers C10 Legal Notices E6 Living C1 Macpherson B3 Movies C1 Needletrade E6 Probe C7 Schnurmacher C9 Scoreboard E4 Show C12 Sports E1 TV Listings C13 Wonderword E5 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 521-8600 0de 3234 Philippines volcano explodes Thousands flee 'atomic bomb' of ash and lava AP REUTER MANILA Mount Pinatubo volcano exploded today in a mushroom cloud of ash and molten lava,
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THE EHOWSTOBX, The delay to the train service stranded bound passengers. The snowstorm which began on Thursday evening and which did not abate until Saturday was one of the severest that has been witnessed in this part of the country for many a year. The train on the Canadian Pacific Railway which left Montreal at seven o'clock on Friday morning managed to reach Ottawa at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, being three hours behind time, but strange to say the fast express which left the city at 8:45 the same morning did not get any further than St Martin's Junction and the passengers were obliged to return to Montreal on Saturday night. The departure of the fast express from Ottawa on Friday afternoon was delayed for an hour, and at 1:20 a start was made, two engines being attached to the train, and a snow plough having been sent on ahead to clear the track. Before the latter reached Buckingham, however, some twenty miles from Ottawa, it had been so badly damaged that it was useless to send it any further. With the train everything went well until L'Ange Gardien was reached, being then a quarter of an hour behind the regular time limit. Here several of the passengers, fearing that the train would not be able to reach Montreal that night, as the train which left Montreal in the morning had not yet been heard of, alighted and stopped overnight. The train then proceeded on its way but got stuck in a snowdrift within a mile of St Augustine. The shovellers were at once set to work, and after a delay of three hours and a half, the train got through and proceeded until St. Andrew was reached. Here another delay occurred, which was accentuated by the fact that the snow-plough which had been left at Buckingham was observed struggling in the snow-drift through which the train had just safely passed, and it was thought that it would be better to let the plough go ahead of the train. After waiting for over two hours, however, it was evident that the plough was not equal to the task, and the train actually got under way but had only seen a couple of miles when a most annoying snowdrift was encountered, it being then about two o'clock Saturday morning. The drift at this point, which was heavily packed, was five or six feet deep and extended for over a mile, so there was no help for it but to camp there overnight. In the morning, the conductor, Mr. Dwyer, drove to St. Therese, a distance of about five miles, where he secured an additional gang of men, who at once went to work and shortly before twelve o'clock they had sufficiently cleared the track to permit the train to proceed. On reaching St. Therese, however, still another drift was met with, which took the shovellers about four hours to get rid of, when the train again proceeded on its way and reached St. Martin Junction about six o'clock, after having experienced several short delays on account of minor drifts. At St. Martin the passengers on the train which left Montreal at 8:45 the previous morning were taken on board and the train again got under way. Before coming to the bridge across the Back River at Sault aux Recollets, another drift was encountered, occasioning a delay of about an hour, and the train came in contact with another very heavy snow drift within about two miles of the Mile End Depot, which occasioned a delay of about four hours. At this point several of the passengers discussed the advisability of attempting to walk to the city, but all finally decided to remain on board. About eleven o'clock the shovellers had cleared the track and the train again proceeded, reaching the Dalhousie Square Depot about 11:30 on Saturday night, having taken thirty hours to make the journey. Much credit is due to the conductor, the engineers, and the other officials of the train for the manner in which they acquitted themselves under the circumstances, the opinion of all being that it was one of the worst storms they ever had experienced. Many of the shovellers were completely exhausted; in fact, some of them were so fatigued that they were unable to work when the last snow-drift was reached. The snow in several places blew into the railway cut almost as fast as it was shovelled out. ON THE CANADA ATLANTIC, matters were not much better. The trains which left the city on Friday did not reach Ottawa until early Saturday morning. The early train from Ottawa on Saturday was cancelled or rather its departure was delayed until eleven o'clock, when the conductor expressed a belief that he would make the usual time to Montreal. Everything went well as far as Glen Robertson, the track being clear and the regular time limit being observed. At that point it was ascertained that the train which left Montreal in the morning was stuck a short distance west of St. Polycarpe. The train going east got orders to meet it, and, if possible, help it through. About halfway between Glen Robertson and St. Polycarpe a serious snow drift was encountered, the snow being heavily packed. The shovellers went to work, and after a delay of about an hour and a half the train got through and proceeded until it reached within about a mile of St. Polycarpe. At that point the locomotive of the train which had left Montreal in the morning was found frozen stiff in the drift, which it had attempted to break through, and to do which it had left the passenger cars at the station at St. Polycarpe. The drift at this point was six or even seven feet deep and packed very heavily. The shovellers had been at work and had so far cleared the track that the locomotive of the eastern bound train was able to get up to the other, but that was found to be so firmly frozen that it took fully two hours to move it, several ropes being snapped in the operation, and at one time the prospect being that nothing could be done until greater locomotive power was obtained from Montreal. By dint of perseverance, however, the track was at last cleared, and each train was enabled to proceed on its way, that for Montreal reaching the city about 8 o'clock, having taken nine hours to make the journey. All the testimony of the railway hands is to the effect that no such storm has been experienced for years. Another train was despatched from Ottawa at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, arriving here at two in the afternoon, so that the road is now clear, and the regular trains will be run today.
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C. Mrt, of this city, has been appointed vice-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The voting was by letter ballot by members all over the continent. This was as high an honor as could be conferred by the society upon a Canadian. Last evening His Excellency the Governor-General presented a number of the workmen at Rideau Hall, including the police and employees of every description, with a New Year's gift. The recipients were summoned one by one and received the presents from the hands of the Marquis. The presents took the shape of fancy pipes, tobacco, clocks, etc. It is generally understood that Parliament will meet for the dispatch of business on the 25th of February. It is said Mr. Patry will also succeed Mr. Johnston as commissioner of customs, a position which he has held for many years. The country roads are reported to be badly blocked with snow. The family of a prominent lumberman in town have been scandalized by one of its youthful scions eloping with the cook, rather a prepossessing young woman. The Deputy Minister of Marine is preparing a circular for distribution among the agents and others on the Atlantic coast, instructing them in the details of a scheme which is being perfected by the Prince of Monaco and the French admiralty, by which it is hoped to determine the direction and force of the Gulf Stream. It is proposed to have constructed a number of buoys, of iron or some such material, which will be launched at intervals in the Gulf Stream, and as they are likely to be washed ashore by the current and the action of the wind and sea, the Marine department's agents are instructed to be on the lookout for them, and to report each one found at once to the department. It is thought this scheme will furnish some valuable data upon a subject on which there is a wide divergence of opinion at present. When the lighthouse and fog signal at Cape Race, Nfld, pass into the hands of the Dominion Government on July 1, all light dues will be abolished. The Imperial Government, by whom the lighthouse is now controlled, has a surplus of $90,000 from the collection of past years, and this will be handed over to the Dominion authorities. LATENT FROM QUEBEC Proposed Address to the Pope The Electoral Election Baseless Rumor Employees Discharged. Quebec, January 22. The Roman Catholic citizens are to present an address to His Holiness Leo XIII on the occasion of the encyclical Immortale Dei. A committee has been appointed to draft the address and the following gentlemen have been elected members of the committee: Hon. 35 W, the steamer Sarnia, with her steering gear disabled. Governor of Eastern Soudan. London, January 22. Gen. Sir Charles Warren has started for Suakin to assume the office of Governor of the Eastern Soudan. The Murdered Prefect. Paris, January 22. The Soleil says Madame Darrein, widow of the prefect of the department of the Seine, who was assassinated in a railway carriage while en route from Paris to his home, has denounced one of her relations as the murderer of her husband. The Bulgarian Salon. Sofia, January 23. The Bulgarian Foreign Minister has left for Constantinople to negotiate with the Porte for the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. A Formidable Plot. Dusseldorf, January 22. The Judge, in opening the trial, commented upon the lamentable list of desperate crimes against property and persons to engage the attention of the court. Died in Prison. London, January 22. Madame Louise Montcy, who, with Mr. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and others, was convicted in November, died today in Millbank prison of Bright's disease. Gone Back to Balbirnie. London, January 22. The Queen has returned to her palace at Osborne, Isle of Wight. Minor and Personal. Madame Bernhardt will start for America on April 15. Typhus fever is prevalent to an alarming extent in the Government of Jarorda. Continuous snowstorms, accompanied by floods, which threaten the destruction of the crops, are reported in Southern Russia. The French army is agitated over a rumor that Gen. Boulanger, minister of war, intends to dismiss from the service all officers who are suspected of being in sympathy with the Monarchists. Colonial Inquiry Promised by Lord Randolph Churchill. London, January 22. The Times' Mandalay correspondent says: A Burman, who was suspected of being connected with a conspiracy, was placed among the corpses of five Dacoits who had just been executed. The provost marshal then threatened the man with instant death by shooting if he did not confess all he knew of a supposed conspiracy in which certain Burmese ministers were alleged to be implicated. A squad of soldiers were drawn up in line and presented their rifles at the man. This frightened him into making a confession, in which he implicated several of the Burmese ministers. His testimony was written in a book borrowed from a newspaper correspondent and was taken to Mr. Bernard, the British chief commissioner, who, after learning the circumstances under which it had been given, indignantly declined to receive it. Col. Sladen, the British police inspector, has made a report of the affair to the chief military official. Advices from Mandalay say that Lord Dufferin has ordered the publication of a circular warning Europeans not to expose themselves either singly or in small parties. London, January 22. Lord Randolph Churchill, secretary for India, was asked in the House of Commons this evening what truth there was in the story of the cruel treatment of a Burman by British soldiers at Mandalay. He replied that he was unable to believe that the provost-marshal had been guilty of the monstrous and inhuman conduct charged against him. He said an immediate inquiry would be made, and if the story proved to be true, exemplary punishment would be meted out to the provost-marshal. VINCINC. Railway Generally Blocked and Delays in the Coldest Weather Ever Known. Marshaltown, Iowa, January 22. A blizzard struck this section at 2 o'clock this morning and everything is snowed in. The thermometer at 6 a.m. was 21 below zero. On the railroads the cuts are all filled and the snow is packed hard and solid. No trains can reach here for twenty-four or forty-eight hours. Des Moines, Iowa, January 22. The mercury here is 12 to 15 degrees below zero and it is still falling. The railroads are blockaded worse than at any previous time this winter. No trains on the Illinois Central here to Sioux City were moving. The snow blizzard and blockade, particularly on the western half of the road beyond Fort Dodge, was the most severe ever experienced. The passenger train which left Sioux City on Thursday evening was caught near Remsen in a drift, 3,000 feet long and 20 feet in depth. Its engines are ""dead"" and no provisions for those on board the train are obtainable. The thermometer in that portion of the state is 23 to 25 below zero. Along the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul a passenger train and three freights are in the snow near Winona west of McGregor. Two passenger trains are blockaded at Calmar. A negro minstrel company is snowed in near Marcus, and are giving performances on the train. The snow has fallen to a considerable depth, but is very light in weight and has drifted easily. Buffalo, January 22. The thermometer has gone down to 12 above zero and is falling rapidly. The wind is blowing forty miles an hour and increasing in velocity. Sioux City, Iowa, January 22. The mercury here was 24 degrees below zero this morning. Trains on nearly all the roads are several hours behind, and the Illinois Central is still blockaded. Elkndale, Dakota, January 22. Last night came the coldest weather this winter. It snowed all night, with a strong northerly wind, drifting the snow badly. The thermometer this morning was 40 below zero. The storm has now passed and it is clear. St. Peter, Minnesota, January 22. Another storm has been raging since last night and all the trains on the Winona & St. Peter road have been abandoned. The thermometer is 30 below zero. Austin, Minnesota, January 22. The worst storm of the season is raging here, commencing early this morning. Travel is entirely cut off by drifting snow and trains are abandoned. The mercury stands 33 below zero. Sioux Falls, Dakota, January 22. Last night's blizzard let up today, though the temperature has fallen from zero to 25 below. The snow drifted badly and packed hard. Fargo, Dakota, January 22. The mercury this morning stood at 33 below zero. There is no wind. Trains were delayed but little by last evening's storm. St. Paul, Minnesota, January 22. The blizzard, which has been raging since last night, is the worst known among the railroads for years. In every direction it is very cold and blowing at a terrific rate, filling cuts and in the southern part of the country making it impossible to keep them clear long enough to run trains. Trains on the Southern Minnesota division of the Milwaukee road have been abandoned. It is 57 degrees below zero at St. Vincent. The Burlington and Northern is also badly blocked. Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 22. For suddenness and severity the present blizzard has no superior and few rivals within the memory of the oldest inhabitants. At sunrise this morning the mercury was 33 degrees lower than at 1 o'clock last night, or 23 degrees below zero. At 9 a.m. it reached its minimum, 28 below, and at noon it had returned, under the influence of the sun, to only 22 below, making the extreme for twenty-four hours ending at noon today 3 degrees. The protection afforded by the buildings of the town reduced the sensible force of the blizzard considerably, but a few farmers who fought their way in from the country reported the storm to be one of terrible severity. Chicago, January 22. Although no snow fell in the vicinity of Chicago today, the drifting of very fine snow was such as to make railroading very hard and to delay trains. The same state of affairs, from dispatches received by the railway mail service, exists in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the signal office predicts that tomorrow's mails from the West and Northwest will be from ten to fifteen hours late. The mercury at 11 p.m. was 10 to 12 below zero, and still falling. SWEEPED AWAY BY SNOW. Disastrous Results of Snow. Slides in Colorado Many Persons Killed. Denver, Colorado, January 22. Specials from Aspen, Colorado, report numerous snowslides. On Tuesday an entire party of eight men and eighteen mules were engulfed in snow. At Bertsloper, Ira Hall, James Hungerford, David Patten Hall and two others unknown were taken out dead. Salt Lake, January 22. A miner named Therstrom was caught in a snowstorm near Park City last night and was killed. This morning another slide near the same place swept away a cabin, killing A. O. Patterson and wife. Ouray, Colorado, January 22. A huge snow-slide struck Dutton mine and four miners were swept away. The houses and machinery of the mine were totally wrecked. A miner on the Genesee mine was also carried away. The Gilpin County Mining Company's buildings are gone. Five feet of new snow has fallen in the mountains since Sunday. The loss of life and property will be great. OBITUARY. Toronto, January 22. Prof. Kingston, late director of the Magnetic Observatory here, died last night. He was sixty-nine years of age, and retired from the position at the observatory in 1870, owing to ill health. A popular clergyman recently related the following thrilling incident: A gentleman shaving cut off his nose; startled at this mishap he let his razor fall, and in falling it cut off his toe. A doctor was summoned, and in replacing the dismembered limb he made a mistake, putting the nose on the toe and the toe on the nose. This transportation is now causing the man much inconvenience; when he has need to blow his nose he is obliged to take off his shoes. Shoe and Leather Reporter. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 303, and for Canada 26, or a total of 329 against 332 last week and 336 the week previous. More than two-thirds of the whole number are reported from the Southern, Western and Pacific States. A Double Chicago Tragedy. Chicago, January 22. Charles A. Clowes, secretary of the Biverton Alcohol Works, a wealthy and handsome young married man, murdered his sweetheart, Blanche Grey, in a house of ill repute early this morning and then shot himself, both dying almost instantly. There was no witness to the deed and no motive is assigned. Clowes was intoxicated. In Favor of Reciprocity. Washington, January 22. The National Board of Trade has adopted a resolution favoring reciprocity treaties with Canada, Mexico and San Domingo, provided they are mutually reciprocal in their provisions. Good Palace Weather. St. Paul, January 22. Today is the coldest day of the present season. The mercury this morning ranged from 28 to 35 degrees below zero, and at noon marked 20 to 35 below with a high wind blowing. The railways are experiencing a loss in traffic from drifting snow. The Tariff Question. Washington, January 22. Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, a member of the Ways and Means committee, will today state that no tariff bill would be reported till late in the session. About 100 bills relating to the tariff have already been introduced and referred to the committee. Chinese Want Damages. San Francisco, January 22. A number of Chinese have begun suit against the city of Eureka for $132,000 damages sustained at the time of their expulsion from that city last February. Minor Items. New York, January 22. The Farmers' Union meeting broke up yesterday in a scene of wild disorder. The organization is practically dead. Colonel Sprout, of Prince Albert, is making a survey of the lands occupied by French half-breeds at Batoche and his colleague de Landevin. A survey will be made on a plan satisfactory to the half-breeds. Mr. Buck, of the land department, is also at Batoche taking evidence in support of the half-breed claim for patent to land held by them. Donald Grant, a well-known railroad contractor, is in the city in connection with the preparation of estimates for the construction of the Hudson Bay road. EXTRACT FROM THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Yakima, January 22. The county of Prescott Agricultural Society met on the 20th instant, when the following officers were elected: President, Albert Hagar, M.P.; Auditor, Elisha Hargreaves. After the farmers had rested a little the prizes were distributed by Mr. Troke and Mr. Shields, and then the evening was devoted to amusement in the usual jolly snow-shoeing way. TORONTO SNOWSHOE CLUB. Practically the first tramp of the season of the Toronto Snowshoe Club took place last evening. The members were out on what proved to be such hard going to make snow-shoeing a mockery. Last night the boys had a rattling time. There was a large muster, the gun in the park being the rallying place. From the ex-Russian artillery piece Archie McKinnon, the leader, showed the way over to Rosendale and thence to Eglinton. The snow was rather soft, making the tramping somewhat heavy. From Eglinton, after resting at John Gilcott's, the boys snowshoed it back again, arriving downtown all aglow, but yet apparently able to recover the distance if time had permitted. George, the secretary member of the club, was whipper-in. WORLD SKATING. Say the Ottawa Citizen, The Frontenac Snowshoe Club will be four years old tomorrow, having been established on January 22nd, 1882. Tonight the club will tramp to Gatineau Point, where the anniversary will be celebrated by a supper. The start will be made at 8 o'clock from the club hall corner of York and Dalhousie streets. THE HUDSON YACHTS. A Poughkeepsie despatch says: The race for the Challenge pennant of America is the next great ice yachting event on the Hudson. It may be sailed any day within the week if the weather should turn out favorable. The first contest for the flag took place March 6, 1881, competing yachts being the Magic, Phantom, Snow Flake, Halcyon, Zephyr, Sophia, Flyaway and Meteor, of the New Hamburg Club, and the Bolus, Avalanche and Oracle, of the Poughkeepsie Club. It was a very unsatisfactory race, a sort of push and sail contest, the Phantom winning over the twenty-mile course in 67 minutes. On February 6, 1883, the pennant was raced for again and was won by the Avalanche, of the Poughkeepsie Club in 57 minutes. The boats of the Shrewsbury Club came up the Hudson to compete for the trophy in 1884 and the race was sailed on February 10. The Haze, of the Poughkeepsie Club, won in 1h 8m 30s. The last time the flag was raced for was on February 10, 1885, the New Hamburg Club having challenged the Poughkeepsie Club for it, and sending to the starting point the yachts Quickstep, Whiff, Whistler, Phantom, Zero, Zephyr, and Mischief. The Poughkeepsie yachts defending the flag in this race were the Haze, Avalanche, Icicle, Northern Light, Jack Frost, Grade and Jessie B. The Zero fouled on her first trip up the river. The Haze won, and after the race the sailing master of one or two of the New Hamburg boats put in a claim of foul against the Haze, as also did the master of the Jack Frost. The Regatta committee disallowed the claim and awarded the prize to the Haze, which resulted in the rupture of the Poughkeepsie Club, out of which grew the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club, which now has fifty-seven members and owns twenty-six first-class yachts. The coming race for the ice yachts' challenge pennant of America will be between boats of the Poughkeepsie Club and those of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club, the latter having formally challenged the Poughkeepsie Club. The Hudson River Ice Yacht Club has also challenged the Poughkeepsie Club to sail for the Poughkeepsie challenge pennant, the next prize of importance, which was presented to the club in 1872 by General W. Kid I, of New York. The challenge has been accepted. A MATCH FROM IRELAND. There is a man in Nevada named Angelo Catelli, who claims to be the strongest in the world. He is part Italian, aged 31, and stands five feet ten inches, weighing 275 pounds. His spinal column is double the ordinary width, and his bones and joints are unusually large and genuine. He has lifted a man of 250 pounds with his middle finger of his right hand. The man stood with one foot on the floor, his arm outstretched, his hand grasped by two prods to sustain his body. Catelli stooped down and pierced the third finger of his right hand under the man's foot, and with steady perseverance raised him to the height of four feet and deposited him on a table near at hand. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. The Brooklyn Athletic Association has decided upon the following dates for next season's outdoor games: Spring meeting, May 31; Summer meeting, July 10; Fall meeting, September 11. The six athletic events are expected to be prominently interested next summer in all kinds of outdoor sport, including track and field athletics, baseball, lacrosse and football, with the possibility of a first-class all-star team. The membership is rapidly on the increase, and in the point of athletics the club promises to be exceptionally strong. Among those who have applied for membership is Mr. Malcolm W. Ford, the amateur champion runner and jumper. At the last meeting of the Board of Managers it was decided to do away with the initiation fee until the limit of 500 members is reached. Y., January 23. The score in the walking match at 12:30 o'clock this morning was: Guerrero, 130 miles; Golden, 122; Hoagland, 110; Gaughen, 105; Driscoll, 95. Khtite left the track after completing 12 miles. Smith, Cyr the giant Frenchman appears at Gu Lambert this evening in his marvelous feat of strength. A SYRACUSE DISPATCH. The Courtney-Ross programme has been temporarily broken up by the serious illness of the Union Springs sculler, who took a bad cold at Lockport on Monday. Their last appearance with Courtney's new rowing machines was at Auburn last evening Ross and Courtney rowed a two-mile race, Courtney winning. The latter was so sick that he was obliged to go to his home in Union Springs. Ross came to this city. Their manager says that Courtney is a very sick man and cannot resume work for several weeks. They will carry out their engagements at present by putting the pedestrian Hoagland against Ross. They have telegraphed to Teemer and Plaisted to get one of them to substitute for Courtney. MIXED ITEMS. The Caledonian curling club of Buffalo will play a match in Toronto on Wednesday next with the Toronto curling club. Four rinks of Toronto curlers played a match at Brentford yesterday with the local curlers, the Torontonians winning by 10 points. Under date of January 20, Mr. J. I. Case writes from Racine: ""Ed is giving Jay-eye-see and Phallas gentle exercise in the snow, and they seem as sound and smooth as they did before being put on the track. I intend to put Jay-eye-see in training when spring opens, and hope to see him lower the magnificent record of Maud S. Phallas will be in the stud at Hickory Grove, Racine."" THE LIBERAL CHRISTIAN UNION. Lecture on ""Socrates"" by Rev. Mr. Williamson Last Evening. Last evening the first of the series of lectures under the auspices of the Liberal Christian Union was delivered by the Rev. John Williamson in the Church of the Messiah. The subject chosen by the lecturer was a discourse on ""Socrates."" Mr. Alexander Manson occupied the chair, and there was a large audience. The rev. gentleman, after referring to the life of the great philosopher, concluded as follows: All classes of citizens felt the power of a mind that unmasked their hypocrisy and exposed the half-truths which they held as whole truths, and the miserable prejudices which in their sublime conceit they mistook for knowledge. Socrates, however, was more than this. Although he left no system of philosophy, like his illustrious disciple Plato, his work was more than critical. He made havoc with ideas which had never been passed through the fire of the mind and formed into a man's moral and spiritual nature. But it was with the further aim of having what elements of truth they contained reset in a higher form. Socrates was a great doubter in order that he might become a great believer. He was the first to attempt to get behind the vague general terms and hypotheses that were afloat regarding good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong, etc., to the principles beneath them. In an especial sense he was the first philosopher; he attempted to bring men from the dim, uncertain light of the ordinary uncritical thought, into the strong, steady light of a clear self-consciousness. Life, he said, was a whole. There was an end to be realized, though he did not clearly define what that end was. Hence ""Virtue is knowledge;"" the only virtuous life was that not guided by the impulse of the moment, but by one well-defined principle, which as an end it would seek to realize, and which would give it unity and completeness. The result of his teaching to himself was inevitably accusation, trial, death. The charges against him were trumped up for the occasion. He had been laying up for himself a store of angry feeling which would some day recoil upon his head, and he was bound to become a martyr to the bigotry and intolerance he denounced. That he was innocent was beyond question. Socrates had studiously observed the current religious forms. To his master mind the symbols of the popular faith were, no doubt, instinct with a life and meaning which the common eye had not seen, and pointed to a far-off transcendent reality which they attempted dimly to shadow forth. Yet it was wholly untrue that he neglected the gods of the city and introduced new ones of his own. The second charge was equally false. Through his influence, young men would, doubtless, come to think differently from their fathers, but it was a baseless calumny to charge him with being a corruptor of Athenian youth. In the development of Greek thought, Socrates exercised a profound influence. He was a center of intellectual life and activity, and, through Plato and the school of philosophy that followed him, his influence had become a permanent factor in shaping the thought and life of the world. A Carlyle had well said: ""The great man is always lightning out of heaven; the rest of men mustered for him like cattle, and then they, too, would shine."" Socrates was a leader for the truth, and his life in this respect had a universal bearing. In life was his philosophy. More than that of any system was the influence of a man's life, when the energies of his nature had been transmuted into action, and produced a vital force in the great life of the world. Systems rose, grew old, decayed and perished with the ever rushing tide of life and thought, but the spiritual force of a great life never died. It was so with Socrates. D. Parker, Miss Mercer, Miss De Witt, Miss Warren. Medical adviser Dr. Molson. Solicitor Mr. Leo H. Davidson. The meeting then adjourned. DEATH OF A PIONEER. An old Northwest pioneer, Mr. John Glenn, has just passed over to the majority. He was a native of Ireland and entered the Northwest from British Columbia in 1871 and was the oldest settler in the territory. Mr. Glenn's farm at Fish Creek was a model one. The Marquis of Lorne and other distinguished visitors to the Northwest were always taken to see John Glenn's homestead. The deceased was 64 years old and leaves a wife and five children. THE INTEREST OF THE FARMERS. The following interesting letter, exposing the business methods of the secretary of the Farmers' Union of Manitoba, appears in the Winnipeg Free Press of Monday: ""Sir, I understand the annual business meeting of the Farmers' Union is to be held next week in Winnipeg, and I ask your permission to publicly state what I consider gross mismanagement on the part of Mr. Purvis. The facts are these: In the month of September I met Mr. Purvis in Brandon, and told him I had a quantity of wheat for sale. I showed him a sample of it, and, after some conversation, arranged to consign a carload to him. He told me he thought it would realize about 62 cents. On my return to Alexander, Mr. Billiard, a grain buyer from Ontario, offered me sixty-five cents for the carload. As there was some uncertainty as to the exact price Mr. Purvis would give me, I immediately wired to him that I was offered sixty-five cents at Alexander, saying that if he could not do better I would sell at Alexander. His reply was: ""Disposed to pay higher than anybody. Ship as arranged, you will find it satisfactory."" Writing, ""As a member of the Farmers' Union wishing to support its work, and having confidence in Mr. Purvis, I decided to transact my business through the union. It is now more than three months since I shipped my wheat, and though during that time I have written repeatedly to Mr. Purvis pressing for information regarding the disposal of this wheat, he has not deigned to reply. To say the least I consider this most extraordinary conduct for one holding the position Mr. Purvis does. Through the treasurer of the union, Dr. Fleming, I have drawn $100 on the wheat. Within the last few days I learn from Dr. Fleming that Mr. Purvis can only pay me 50 cents in final settlement, which means a clear loss to me of 14 cents per bushel on a carload of 1,000 bushels, or about $90. In the light of the telegram I received from Mr. Purvis, and considering I cannot get any information from him, the transaction appears to me to be a deliberate fraud. For my own sake and the sake of others, I ask you to give publicity to this letter. It may elicit information. I am a member of the Farmers' Union, and wish it every success, but I protest against such collusive transactions as these being carried on in its name."" John F. Hiesl, Haluton Farm, Alexander Station, Man., January 10, 1888. THE WEATHER. Toronto, Ont., January 23, 1888. The depression, which was near Lake Superior last night, has developed into an important storm which now central over the Ottawa Valley. The anti-cyclone is moving southeast, and is central over Iowa. A westerly gale prevails in Ontario. The weather is cloudy and mild in Quebec, and heavy rain is falling in Nova Scotia. The temperature is rising in the Northwest Territories. Probabilities: St. Lawrence Valley: Fresh to strong westerly winds, fair very cold weather, with a few snow flurries. MONTREAL'S RECORD. OBSERVATION TAKEN AT MONTREAL, JANUARY 22. Wind: Weather: Cloudy Overcast, N, 7, was 1, till Snowing. Height of snow level, 17 feet. Barometer reduced to sea level and to temperature of 32. Relative humidity 100, maximum temperature of the day was 0. Minimum temperature of the day was -15. Total rainfall on the 21st was 0.1 inch. The barometer at 11 o'clock on the 21st was 29.5 inches, not much wind yesterday. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1886. THE PREMIER IN LONDON. Interesting Sketch of the Banquet at the St. George's Club. London, January 6. Londoners have had this week a rare spectacle, an event to be met with only once in a blue moon or so. Not since 1881 have we had such a downfall of snow and even then it remained so long with us in the present instance. The consequence in the let in the town has been covered for only a few inches and our many vestries and public bodies are at once thrown into a state of great excitement and confusion in their attempts to deal with the unwelcome visitor. What has happened this week happened in 1881, and will be again whenever snow next visits us. The snowfall having ceased, our local governors, in their respective districts, sent out a few small boys with brooms and pans and a few carts and by a gigantic effort the snow, which has by this time been a brown dirty slush, is cleared from the middle of some of the principal roads and heaped up on each side. Thus ends the first day in misery alike to those driving and a king. Then comes a frost and the streets become a kind of pea soup and crossing a road is like fording a swampy bog, like in the old days crossing the Wandsworth Main street, where the mud is thickest. The second day brings with it a slow thaw best. And thus the third morning dawns and the streets become mere slimy ponds from which the soupy substance is exuded upon the passers-by as each vehicle ploughs its way along. Meanwhile the ever active officials cause what once was snow to be carted in a leisurely way from the mounds to the river, and thus after three or four days' continuous labor, a few only of the principal streets are made just fit to walk in, the rest and nearly the whole of the great part of London outside the city boundaries remaining in a state of indescribable filth. And this is London, supposed by other than tourists to be the very heart of civilization. Surely if aught were needed to show the utter absurdity of our present system of metropolitan government, the experience of the past few days has amply supplied that want. One thing is certain, the sooner we get rid of these meddling little vestries and petty vestrymen and place all London under one supreme control the better it will be for all concerned. D. of Logan Co., Ohio, says: ""Allen's Lung Balsam not only sells rapidly, but gives perfect satisfaction in every case within my knowledge. Having confidence in it, and knowing that it possesses valuable medical properties, I freely use it in my daily practice and with unbounded success. As an expectorant it is most certainly far ahead of any preparation I have ever yet known."" WHITMANIA. All hail the snow! Crystalline, gelid, henceforth hailing from the Arctic! Offspring of the zero, dandruff from the head of the too warm poet! All hail! And yet, come to think of it, not any hail, but just snow, hoary, frigiform, tossed from the wind in winter, around January! Boasting of continuations and generally epidemic scenarios of goods, and general of the disorganizing snow-shovel, I greet thee! I greet thee with mouth, arms, hands, feet, and all, including overshoes and umbrellas! I greet thee as the herald of the toiling, the boasted and the exorbitant, every mile! And also of the chilblains, catarrh, bronchitis, lecture season and other adversities, for which and kindred reasons not set forth in this indictment you are especially besought not to hum yourself too much during the season of ""B."" Yonkers Gazette."
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A Mormon threat, Kai, Lakh, February 3, President Taylor spoke at the Tabernacle on Sunday. He said the saints were being persecuted in Arizona and sent to the American Siberia for living up to their religion. He characterised the federal officers as sneaks and tramps. He did not want blood to flow, but there would be a change before long. Youthful train wreckers, Grafton, V, Va, February 3, Charles Kowau and Win Barker, each aged 18, have been arrested on a charge of wrecking the St. Louis express in December last. The engineer and fireman were killed. Stephen Hii ke, aged 10, informed on other boys and implicated himself. He is also jailed. Kowau belongs to an excellent family. Tonnage tax on lake vessels, Washington, February 3, The president has issued a proclamation directing that the collection of the tonnage tax shall be suspended beginning today as regards all vessels arriving in any port of the United States from any port in the province of Ontario. Ontario, To save the exposition, New Orleans, February 3, The state commissioners to the cotton exposition have resolved to send a delegation to Washington to ask Congress to appropriate $100,000 more to save the exposition from ruin. Minor Item, The Humboldt Safe Deposit Co., at Erie, Pa, has closed; capital $200,000. General John W. Thelps, of Guilford, Vt, was found dead in bed on Monday morning. Win Cooper, alias Arten, has been charged with stealing $75,000 worth of jewellery from a firm in London. The mercury fell to 30 to 46 below zero in New England on Monday night. It amuses one to hear Canada described as an Arctic region by American newspapers, which seem to forget that a large portion of the United States has a climate very similar to that which sometimes holds high carnival in the Dominion. Iowa is as cold as Ontario; so is Michigan and Wisconsin. Minnesota discounts Quebec, and Illinois and Nebraska are not as salubrious as New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The effects produced by the respective climates of Dakota and Manitoba are much the same, and as for Montana and Oregon, the snowfall in either is generally heavier than in the British possessions to the north. The Arctic regions of the United States really comprise the most progressive and healthiest portion of the Union. Arctic Canada is also healthy and progressive, and it is not too cold to live in as many wealthy Americans have recently found out. Canadian-American, The field for intelligent and skilled labor in this country is large and poorly supplied, while that for accomplished imbeciles is small and terribly overstocked. San Antonio (Texas) Light, SPORTS AND PASTIMES, The residents of St. George will hold a meeting on Sunday next for the purpose of organizing a snowshoe club. The St. George snowshoe club tramped across the mountain trails during the recent carnival. Considering the hard work put in by the boys during the carnival, the muster was very good, upwards of sixty turning out. A number of American cousins, guests of the Windsor, were present, and entered heartily into all that was going on. The famous horseman, Fred Archer, was introduced to the club by the president, Mr. C. D. Monk, and was duly initiated into the mysteries of bouncing, which he acknowledged in a short and characteristic speech. He expressed himself so pleased with the manner in which he had been treated while in Canada that he has resolved to pay Montical and the St. George's club a visit next winter. During the evening the president announced that the club steeplechase would come off next Tuesday. He thanked the members for the support afforded him during the past week, and also called for cheers for Messrs. KAVD TICKS WEST, J. E. Hunsicker 626 brls flour; McL Moore 130; McBean 80; Ogilvie 125; R. T. Routh 140; J. K. Hunsicker 250; C. A. Baird 125; Ogilvie 125; W. Ewing & Co 400 bush wheat; A. I. Thomson 1200 bush Indian corn; order 208 dressed hogs; K. O. Halg 600 bush barley; JAR Ksdaile 600 do; W. K. Wing & Co 100 do; J. Kerr 400 bush peas; Magor Bros 400 do; J. A. Guy & Co 100; Shaw Bros 1 ear leather rolls; D. T. Ut, 1 tin can. K. K. T. B. C. X. EAST, Magor Bros 109 brls fish; JAR McLean 64 do; order 60 do. "Repetition is sometimes the only way to impress a truth upon the mind." Accordingly take notice that Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets (the original Little Liver Pills) continue to be wonderfully effective in cases of sick and nervous headache, constipation, indigestion, rush of blood to the head, cold extremities, and all ailments arising from obstruction of the bodily functions. Their action is thorough yet gentle, the ingredients being entirely vegetable, they can be taken with impunity into the most delicate stomach. All druggists. H. H. Super furnishes two pictures representing "Morning" and "Evening." The scenery in both is very much alike, but while the one exhibits the cold grey colors of early morn, the other is bathed in the gorgeous hues of a setting sun. The chief beauty of the picture is in the coloring which is simply exquisite and the shimmer on the water is shown to perfection. The last of the pictures is an old farm house by Mr. J. Adams, Henry. The farm house is just such a one as may be seen anywhere in England, with thatched roof and old-fashioned appearance. Great accuracy is shown in all the details and the figures are well drawn. Mr. Pell is getting out a number of other high-class paintings which will also be exhibited in his store, 1711 Notre Dame street. THE ENTERPRISING BURGLAR, A daring robbery at Longueuil. The safe of Dorais' hotel stolen intact - $300 and other valuables missing. Since the daring burglary at Lefebvre's Jewellery store scarcely a day has gone by without the announcement of some house or store being entered into and robbed, but it is questionable whether for boldness and originality a robbery which occurred at Dorais' well-known hotel, Longueuil, on Monday night, has ever been surpassed. Not only was the house successfully broken into, but the large safe weighing several hundred pounds was lifted bodily and carried nearly a mile from the house, broken open and finally left on the ice. The hotel had been closed, as usual, about midnight on Monday, when the householders had gone to bed and heard nothing during the night. When the stable man went to the house in the morning he found the back door broken open, the lock having been drilled and the bolts pushed back, an operation which must necessarily have taken considerable time. He at once gave the alarm, and roused the inmates, who shortly after wired the news to the Central police station, where a short time previous information had been received that a farmer from Pointe-aux-Trembles had reported at No. 11 station having his passage stopped by a large iron safe on the river road to Longueuil. Chief Detective Cullen and Acting Detective Proulx at once set off for Longueuil, which was in a state of great excitement over the affair. An inspection of the premises was then made. It was evident that the burglars had taken their time, for glasses and decanters were lying around in a state of great disorder. The safe seems to have been carried bodily from its place, as there were no marks of the castors along the floor as there would have been had it been moved in the usual way. This naturally led to the conclusion that there must have been a number of men engaged in the burglary. The detective afterwards proceeded with Mr. Dorais to the ice, where, about a mile from the hotel, just opposite the city limits, they found the safe battered about, as described by the farmer. The contents of the safe, consisting of upwards of $300 in cash, besides some notes and securities, were missing and the safe itself was smashed almost beyond recognition. Lying around the safe were found some sledgehammers and a number of other heavy tools, which, it was subsequently discovered, had been stolen from a blacksmith's shop at Hochelaga. The entire detective force was at once put on the affair, with the result that four men were arrested in the afternoon at 1504 St. Antoine street. The police are very reticent about the affair but it is understood they consider these arrests as important. The men arrested are alleged to have come from Toronto, and in one of their trunks, seized at the time of the arrest, was found a dynamite cartridge, eight inches long by one inch in diameter, and marked "Hercules." Montreal, February 3, The severe cold weather of the past two days has materially retarded trade at the grain market, and today the attendance of buyers and sellers is small, primarily owing to the above-mentioned reason. The offerings of produce, consequently, were considerably lighter than on Friday, and business generally was quiet. In grain, oats have advanced owing to the small supply. Flour and meal were quiet and in average request. Flour, 100 lbs, $5.00; wheat, $1.00; corn, $0.50; oats, $0.30; barley, $0.40; peas, $0.60; buckwheat, $0.50; flaxseed was quoted at $1.00 per bushel. Business in vegetables was slack owing to cold weather, which prevented many dealers from attending the market. Prices are steady, however, no change having occurred. Potatoes, 4 bags $1.40; cabbages, 4 dozen $1.30; scallions, dozen $0.50; Florida grapes, 4 brls $2.00; pineapples, 8 for $1.00; lemons, per case $4.00; oranges, per dozen $3.00; apples, brl $1.60 to $3.00; bananas, per bunch $0.50; beets, 4 bushel $0.90; celery, doz $0.40; Hubbard squash, each $0.75; Brussels sprouts, 4 boxes $1.60; rutabagas, 4 bushel $0.60; tomatoes, per box $0.00.
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C, members had an interview with the Minister of Marine and Fisheries today, and protested against the employment of Chinese cooks on the Government steamer Quadra. Hon. Sir Tupper promised to enquire into the matter, but wanted to know what the cost of white cooks would be as compared with Chinese. FAIR TO CLOUDY TODAY, With Strong Winds, Local Showers and Higher Temperature. Toronto, April 27, 11 p.m. Since last night the storm centre has moved northeastward from Nebraska to the northward of Lake Superior. The area of high pressure has moved southeastward from the lake region to the Atlantic, and another high area has set in over the Northwest territories. A northwestern blizzard has prevailed in Alberta since yesterday and now extends as far east as Manitoba. The weather has been cloudy with light local rain in Ontario and fine east. Minimum and maximum temperatures: Toronto, 3d, 52; Montreal, 30, 64; Quebec, 30, 54; Halifax, 34, 50. Lake Strong winds and gales, northeast to northwest; partly fair and warm, with local showers or thunderstorms today, turning cooler again tonight and tomorrow. Laurence Strong winds and gales from south; fair to cloudy, with local showers or thunderstorms; higher temperature.
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With seven tricks already scored, South exited in diamonds, not caring where the missing red-suit honours might be. Now, regardless of what the defenders did, South had to score three trump winners to bring his total to 10 tricks. Why try to guess where key cards are when you can make the enemy guess for you? BID WITH THE ACES South holds: 4KJ62 ?4 0AQJ6 J1097 NORTH SOUTH 17 14 27 ANSWER: Two no-trump. Invite game; the singleton heart is not a plus factor. Questions on bridge can be sent to Aces on Bridge, c/o The Gazette. 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 !
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A discount of at least 20 percent on all grades of cigars, 40 brands to select from. Michael, 248 St. James Street. Chicken and hog cholera is prevalent at several places in Connecticut. With Doin's Salad Vinaigrette, there is a wave of disappointment - you are certain to produce a great salad. It costs less than Limonade, and is, besides, a good little drink. LATEST CABLE DESPATCHES France Sounding the Powers In Regard to Egypt. D. Waters shot and killed his father yesterday. The young man was just starting on a hunting excursion when his father ordered him to shoot a neighbor's dog. The boy refused and a quarrel ensued, when the parent got a pistol and fired at his son, who returned the fire with fatal effect. The worst thunderstorm of the season visited this section this evening. Rain fell in torrents, the wind blew a hurricane, and hail as big as marbles fell. Pan Surer's trimmings store was struck by lightning, and the roof partially torn off, and the damage amounted to $10,000 worth.
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LTD, Board of Trade Building, Telephones, Bell Main Merchants. SPARHAM FIREPROOF CEMENT ROOF Protected by Trade Mark and Patent. The only reliable roof for our climate. Advantages, in filling drains (spouts), smooth snow blows off it. Any defects local, easily repaired. Guaranteed 10 years, price per square. Roofs guaranteed 6 weeks. Guarantee that the Sparham Fireproof Roofing Company, capital $100,000, will give a written guarantee with the roof and limits substantial. Apply 305 St. James Street. HALIFAX SNOW BOUND. Bulletin, November 27. The worst storm experienced for years in this region prevailed all this afternoon and evening and was still raging at a V. The storm began with a couple of inches between daylight and noon, when rain, mixed with snow and wind began to blow a furious gale from the east. The Allan steamer Parisian, due from England with the Canadian mail, and the Halifax, did not arrive. DOWN CANAL. November 26. Down Schooner Oliver Mitchell, lost 60 to 80 tons.
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A PARALYZING TRANSITION, The great diminution in the exports of grain from this port is exciting much attention. In October 1880, we shipped nearly 13 million bushels; in the same month of 1881, less than 5 million. It would pay now to buy grain in Liverpool and ship it here if present prices continue. All the warehouses and elevators are full, and every canal boat and barge available is filled with grain awaiting the chance to ship. The vessels in port awaiting cargoes are getting tired, and some are leaving in ballast for other ports. The corner is expected to be broken shortly, however, and large shipments in November are hoped for. Immense stores of grain have accumulated along the railroads in the West, the report being that the corn in cribs on the Northwestern line exceeds by 3 million bushels the quantity there at this time last year. The shipping trade of the port is suffering in consequence of this state of things, as is shown by the fact that only 410 vessels arrived from foreign ports during October as compared with 683 in October last year. THE WATER FAMINE, The water famine scare has abated, thanks to the copious rains of the last few days. The fears of city people have been only prospective, but the suburbs really suffered for months. In some places, water had been bought at one dollar per barrel, a severe tax on the poor, and nearly all the cisterns and shallow wells having dried up, washing was fast becoming an expensive luxury. Water for drinking purposes of decent quality had become one of the real anxieties of life with many when the welcome rain came to their relief. New York City proper had only ten days' supply in hand when the rain came, so it was getting to be a near thing, and the problem of how 1,200,000 people were to be supplied when the rain came was looming up rather unpleasantly before the powers that be, absorbed as they are in the coming election. Even now the city is not out of the woods as the weather is mild enough to suggest a renewal of the drought. THE WISDOM OF THE FUTURE, It is manifest that the Croton River cannot solely be depended upon much longer, and it will be well for the authorities to begin to look up new sources of supply. It is simply a question of money, and there is plenty of that. Strange to say, the best watered city the writer has seen is in droughty Australia, where there are hardly any rivers and precious little rain, and no snow, but the necessities of the case stimulated the people, and the result is that Melbourne is plentifully supplied at all times from the mountains 40 miles away by aqueduct. The work was done at vast expense, but probably no city in the world is so fully and evenly supplied. The main streets have gutters three feet wide, which are kept constantly flooded and running, the water eventually reaching the sewers and the sea. The capital city of Australia, hardly 40 years old, with 300,000 people and a dozen parks, could teach some lessons to America and Europe well worth the learning. THE RACE OF AN ELECTION, It is not often that two millionaires run for Congress in the same district against each other. Mr. W
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There is a lot of variety on this album, which is proof to me that variety isn't always such a good thing. Several songs are great and others I can't bear to sit through. Chaka Khan is a wild woman. When she sings, she lets go and displays enormous amounts of emotion, but the music is just far too disco, boppy and button-pushing mechanical to do her talent justice. Reviewed by Carina Crawly, 17 Videos STAN MEISSNER River of Fire This is an exceptional song, a most catchy country and western kind of tune. The clip is not as spectacular, but I think it was meant to be simple. First there are some shots of the desert, then some grassy countryside, followed by castle ruins till sunset. Only one problem: I can't figure out the symbolism behind the continuous line of candles giving off a reddish gleam. ALAN JACKSON Midnight in Montgomery The man is a country legend and this is a country music classic. I don't think anyone should deny Midnight in Montgomery its place at the top of the country music circuit, especially since for a long time now, there has been room for improvement in this category.
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The match between the Victorias and the American collegians will begin at 8 o'clock sharp, as the Victoria club have down on their programme a little social supper which will take place after the match. Heretofore there has been some misunderstanding as to the composition of the American team, but the men who will play in tonight's match will be: Goal Larned (Columbia), Point Jones (Brown), Cover-point Chase (Yale), Right-wing Clarkson (Harvard), Left-wing Matteson (Brown), Forwards Meiklejohn (Brown) and Foote (Yale). The match will be two half hours, the first American style and the second Canadian style. Practising at the Victoria, There were three very interesting practice matches at the Victoria rink last night. The Montreal team put in some good work from 7 to 8 o'clock, and they were followed by the Victoria intermediate team. 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.
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Louis PCloudy 25 14 Nassau PCloudy 28 24 San Francisco PCloudy 22 14 Old Orchard PCloudy 21 11 Washington Cloudy 24 19 Virginia Beach Rain 26 21 Videotape shows damage to QE2 more extensive than believed REUTER BOSTON A videotape recording of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2's hull seems to indicate damage to the vessel, when it ran aground off Massachusetts last week, was more extensive than earlier believed. Capt. John Hadley, the pilot aboard the QE2, said yesterday, in his first public remarks since the accident Friday, that he believes the ship was being navigated safely when it scraped bottom off Cape Cod. I had no idea what it even hit. It was a big bump in the night, he said. A marine source in Boston, familiar with a video survey of the ship's bottom taken Tuesday, said the damage appeared to be far more extensive although the worst still seemed to be six gashes, the longest measuring 23 metres by about eight centimetres.
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He was given an extension until July 20 to pay the debt. The $1 million debt owed by Borg's former business partner, Lars Skarke, was personally guaranteed by the 1970s-era tennis star. Skarke was managing director of Borg's clothing company that collapsed last year. Borg's lawyer, Henning Sjostrom, said the debt payment was being arranged from Italy but had been delayed. He said Borg planned legal action against Skarke aimed at getting the money back. The retired tennis great also is negotiating with creditors of his failed company to pay off millions of dollars in outstanding debts. Richardson slightly hurt as winds topple tent EASTBOURNE, England Julie Richardson of New Zealand was injured slightly yesterday when high winds toppled a tent pole as rain washed out play at the women's grass-court tennis tournament in this south coast resort. Richardson sustained minor cuts and bruises when a pole supporting the players' tent at Devonshire Park blew over in winds of more than 50 kilometres an hour. She was treated on the site. CANADIAN PRESS, ASSOCIATED PRESS scoring ability Stevenson. "They've always had a big team.
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Thanks. Also special is big picture: 1) overall view of an issue or matter 2) lofty rationalization that managers use to justify their inflated salaries and the need for their direct reports to do all of the actual work on a project; also conveniently relieves them of the responsibility of having to think about details. See also 30,000-foot view. How about hundo? 1) slang: one hundred 2) like one hundred is so hard to say. Dork. Beckwith brings new meaning to the phrase: I'm a people person, which she translates as something often uttered by extremely green job applicants who have no experience in the work world, as anyone who has ever spent time working has learned that most people are intolerable and annoying at best or just plain stupid at worst. Her take on we is priceless, too, and gets right to the crux of it all: 1) pronoun, meaning the speaker and the person or people spoken to 2) you, as in, We really need to make sure this doesn't happen again or We're gonna have to put in some long hours to meet this deadline.
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MEASURED FOR SAGGING Every day the tension of the cables holding up the stadium's roof is measured with a specially designed instrument to make sure no part of the roof is sagging under a dangerous strain. As of yesterday, all the cables registered well under the danger mark. "It's hard to say how long (the cleanup process) will take because this is an exceptional situation which involves many variables," Olympic Installations Board spokesman Francine Saucier said yesterday. "We have to consider things like how strong the wind is blowing, how much more frozen rain is still on the way, or will the rain turn to snow?" None of the workmen were available for comment yesterday, but Saucier said they use nothing fancier than plastic shovels to get rid of ice on the roof. No chemicals, just shovels with edges rounded to prevent perforating the flexible roof. 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.
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Bassist Brian Hurley quietly herded the proceedings along and contributed thoughtful solos, especially on the ballads. Pianist Steve Amirault, at first overwhelmed by the sound mix (and the company?) gained enough confidence to turn All Blues into a slalom course of block chords and single-note runs. "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC Off the Deep End "Weird Al" Yankovic is the universal musician. Anyone can love his music because "Weird Al" does not discriminate he makes fun of everything and anyone. After almost three years, Al's back, and as weird as ever! Off the Deep End will be no disappointment to Al's old fans and it will certainly recruit many new ones. This is his fifth album and it includes his beloved parodies, insightful originals, and, of course, a traditional polka medley. You have surely heard of, if not seen the great video Smells Like Nirvana, a brilliant take on Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Well if you find that funny, wait till you see the album cover!
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L J NOTES OF THE SESSION, Government Inquiry Into the floods Proposed, THE NORTHWEST REPRESENTATION Mr Job introduced the Remuneration Bill and Resolution Opposition sometimes in Supply-Payments to the High Commissioner, OTTAWA, April 22, Pursuant to arrangement the House adjourned at 6 o'clock to-day, to allow members to leave by the evening trains for their homes for the Easter holidays. The attendance was small, many of the members having anticipated the adjournment by going away earlier in the day. The only discussion of interest took place on the Government bill and resolution to give representation in Parliament to the Northwest Territories. Sir John A. Macdonald, who was in his place for a short time, introduced the bill and explained that it was proposed to give two seats to Assiniboia, and one each to Alberta and Saskatchewan, the other, the Territory of Athabasca, not being sufficiently populated as yet to entitle it to representation. The resolution, which was also moved by Sir John, was for an address to the Imperial authorities to empower the Parliament of the Dominion to give such representation, there being no provision in the existing Imperial act whereby this can be done in the case of territories. The resolution was reported and concurred in with little debate. THE OPPOSITION OBSTRUCTION, The remainder of the sitting was spent in supply and on the single item of contingencies, which even was not passed. Mr Blake was absent, but his followers wasted hours objecting to petty laundry bills and gratuities to telegraph messengers, in violation of the distinct agreement on which the adjournment was arranged that there should be some progress in supply. Sir Hector Langevin reminded the Opposition of this arrangement, but it was all to no purpose and the house adjourned without a single item having been passed in supply. PAYMENTS TO THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, The Toronto Globe of March 2 makes the following estimate of the payments to the High Commissioner during the year: Salary, $10,000; contingencies, $1,611; travelling expenses (immigration), $250; travelling expenses (Antwerp examination), $487, a total of $14,348. To arrive at the sum received by the High Commissioner for salary and contingencies, according to the Globe, there should be deducted travelling expenses (immigration), $230; travelling expenses (Antwerp), $481, when there remains $13,611. Deducting the amount for salary, $10,000, there remains for contingencies, according to the Globe, $3,611. To arrive at the actual sum paid to the High Commissioner for contingencies the undermentioned payments made by official cheques must be deducted from the last estimate of $3,611, viz: 18K, October, W. Hall, water rates on official residence (before High Commissioner moved in 1884, October, T. Raynolds, insurance on official residence 31 December, W. McVoy, purposed 11 rates v lfeHS, January, B. E. CHAMPOTON, CUDLING'S STOVES Section Damaged Goods the Flood, The subscribers have been instructed by M. e, to sell at No. 101 Metcalfe street, on FRIDAY, the 23rd instant, a large lot of goods damaged by the flood, consisting of part of Hitlem tree, Combs, Cases, Shirts, Blankets and Household Goods, etc. TERMS-CASH, Sale at 11 o'clock, BENNING & BARSALOU, Auctioneers, Damaged Goods by the Flood, We have been instructed by Messrs. B. T. H. & Co., to sell at their store, corner of St. Catherine and St. Antoine streets, on Saturday Morning, 27th instant, a very large lot of goods damaged by the flood, consisting of Checks, Sheetings, White and Colored Cotton, Woolen, Cotton Yarn and Wraps, etc. Terms cash, Sale at 10 o'clock, BENNING & BARSALOU, Auctioneers, Damaged Goods the Flood, The subscriber will sell at their stores, No. 118 and 120, near St. Antoine, ON TUESDAY, the 27th instant, a large lot of Royal goods damaged by the flood, 40 rolls of Checks, 5 pieces 1 yard wide, White and Colored, 1 pair of fine Shirts and Trousers, Miscellaneous Goods, etc. Terms cash, Sale at 10 o'clock, BENNING & BARSALOU, Auctioneers, Damaged Goods the Flood, The subscribers will undertake sales of all descriptions of goods damaged during the flood, Moderate commissions charged only, Prompt returns, Advance made when required, without the necessary qualifications and without naming any financial obligations in this province. M. & M. U. are plaintiffs' attorneys, St. Jean Baptiste, At a largely attended meeting of St. Jean Baptiste Society, held on Wednesday night, it was decided that owing to the recent epidemic and the more recent floods, no public demonstration take place this year, but the members should rather try and relieve some of the distressed families. The next annual demonstration will take place in June, 1887, when it will be celebrated with great pomp. A HANNISSE, THE THEATRES, In the afternoon yesterday ""Engaged"" was produced, and both the play and the way it was produced were worthy of better patronage. Gilbert and Sullivan have become so Damon and Pythias-like in matters theatrical that it is almost with difficulty one realizes that he is listening to Gilbertian dialogue and not have wafted to his ears from afar off some little bit from ""Pinafore,"" ""Patience"" or the rest of them. It is difficult to place this production in any category of dramatic nomenclature. Like most of Gilbert's works, it depends for its attractiveness on the wild absurdity of what, from lack of another word, may be called plot. This absurdity requires to be presented in a peculiarly nice manner, for which no guide can be found for comparison in the flood of modern plays, with which all are familiar. If not done enough the thing falls flat; if overdone it is made ridiculous, but not in the sense in which the ridiculous is funny. As the performance went yesterday it was a very fair interpretation indeed; but some of the dialogue left the auditor in doubt as to the nationality of the speaker. It is not often we have an opportunity of becoming acquainted with Gilbert's own work, and it is a pity that a greater number did not avail themselves of the performance at the Royal yesterday. In the evening ""As You Like It"" was excellently presented, with Miss Pomeroy as Rosalind. THE RECENT INUNDATION, What the Relief Committee are Doing in the Aftermath of the Flood - The Health Department on the Qui Vive, In the districts recently inundated many deplorable sights are still to be seen, though the inhabitants have been very hard at work to put things in their former shape. Everywhere the sidewalks have been displaced, and it will be some weeks perhaps before these are replaced, and the cost to the city will be heavy. The warm weather will soon dry up those streets that are still in a muddy condition and, with the exception of the displaced sidewalks, matters will soon resume their wonted appearance. The water in the river is now fully a foot below the wharves and navigation will probably open to-day or tomorrow by the running of the Longueuil ferry, though reports have been received that the Longueuil and Laprairie have been somewhat damaged at Boucherville, but these will soon be repaired. Water still remained yesterday in some of the very low-lying portions of Point St. Charles, where the sewers are partially choked. Men are engaged in removing the ice on Commission street and the wharves. At the Point the schools will all be opened by Tuesday next. The St. Gabriel village school was very badly flooded, the water having reached to the tops of the desks. The Health department are watching very closely in order to prevent any evil results from the floods from a sanitary point of view through the sale of damaged flour and meat. Already nearly 6,000 pounds of meat which had been under water has been seized and carted away by the dead animal contractor. Parties whose houses have been flooded will be supplied with disinfectants by application at the Health office. Relief measures have been pretty fully carried out, and it is safe to say that little, if any, suffering now exists. Merchants and storekeepers on Craig street report an aggregate loss of nearly $11,000. On Mill street the loss is reported as not at all heavy. The Richelieu & Ontario company's sheds at the canal basin are demolished. The Great Northwestern Telegraph company have five wires down on the south shore, and poles are down and wires broken between Brosseau's and Laprairie. Men are repairing the damage. The wharves will no doubt require considerable repairing, and the revetment wall has been damaged in several places. The ice is fast disappearing under the effect of the sun and wind. Mr. B. Brown says that more than fifty years ago, standing with Mr. Tulloch, then an old man, at the bottom of St. Lawrence Main street, he said: ""I remember a great flood when a man went with a bark canoe from this point to Lachine."" He added: ""There was then a small mill at the east corner turned by water from the mountain, and whenever they excavate for new buildings there they may find the old foundation."" The ravine, now Ontario street west, may have been the mill pond. The late Captain Brush used to tell that in the year 1817 he wintered near Boucherville, when the spring flood submerged all the country up to Longueuil to a depth that has never been known since. The ice shove of 26th April, 1836, filled up the lower end of St. Francois Xavier street to the height of a three-storey building. Above Port street, where there was then no revetment wall, the ice stove in part of the front of a three-storey store and buried a one-storey dwelling house adjoining to a great depth, crushing a family inside. A gentleman who has copious notes in his diary on flood matters, in conversation with a representative of this paper, mentioned the following incident, which he called: At 2 a.m. this morning the water was still falling, though at a very much lessened rate, and, as far as could be judged, it is probable that the water will maintain its present level for a few days. The next rise in the river will occur in about a month, when the waters from the wood come down. This usually occurs between the 24th May and the 1st June. A FLOOD CATASTROPHE, So many of Montreal's spring floods have occurred in the month of April that, after the fashion of ""Old Moore's Almanack,"" a calendar prepared for Montreal might well bear the stereotyped phrase in the month named, ""About this time look out for flood;"" thus, for example, we have April 18, 1836; April 14, 1861; April 4, 1878; April 27, 1885; April 17, 1880, and a few others of which we have not the exact data at hand. Our object at present is to recount an accident which occurred on Monday, April 18, 1898, during the flood of that year. The following disaster, caused by an ice shove on that day, occurred on Common street, a little west of Port street, just above Kilbride's. The whole family was overwhelmed. About mid-day the ice shoved, and the Lake St. John, president of the St. George's society, said: ""There is great interest being taken in the proposition now before the house at Ottawa to construct a levee or dyke from the south bank of Victoria bridge to the Pavilion Road and to place a railway on this dyke to connect with the Grand Trunk at Point St. Charles and St. Henri, so as to utilize that dyke in some manner."" It is said that among business men there is an idea that the proposed railway along the bank of the river between the Victoria bridge and the Pavilion road is intended by its promoter as a connecting line between the Grand Trunk railway and the Canadian Pacific, which it will meet eventually at or near the point selected for the site of the bridge across the St. Lawrence. However this may be, if the embankment will protect the city against floods, and at the same time prove of service to any or all railway companies, so much the better. INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD, An incident that might have had a very deplorable ending occurred to one of the employees of Messrs. Rogers & King, who live in Crétin town. It seems that he and his mother were seated at the supper table when the water rose so rapidly that they were obliged to take refuge on top of the table previous to making their way upstairs. To do this necessitated the securing of several chairs from the water to step on to reach the stairs. He stopped to the end of the table to do this, when the table tilted and he was plunged into the water, which in rising had lifted a trap door. Through this he went into at least ten feet of water, and with great difficulty managed to get out again, as the trap door was small and it took some time to find it under the water. Mr. B. Brown, of St. Lambert, lost by death on Wednesday a son of great promise, who was only 18 years of age. The deceased caught a severe cold while endeavoring to save some of his father's property during the recent floods. His death is much lamented by a large circle of friends. Not less true are those reductions on the origin of the American nation: ""The history of America does not really begin with the colonization alone of the Atlantic coast; the line of her Eastern families settling in the far West in one sense begins a history then; but no small part of what led to it and shaped the new life grew up in the place left behind; and there are ties still kept unbroken. So we in the New World, Norse, German or Italian, all one in kindred back in the past, look to an old home over the sea where a part of the race tamed for a look while, where another part has lived longer, and read its stone chronicle."" Let us now see how Mr. Hunnewell has done the reading that he set himself. He begins as near the beginning as any hope of deciphering the ancient characters could justify. But with Early Britain he did not find much excuse for lingering long. After a comprehensive survey of the physical features of the island, he gives a brief account of Stonehenge and the other Celtic or pre-Celtic remains of the ancient Britons. He then turns his attention to Roman Britain, of which the treatment is much fuller. ""The scattered fragments of the Roman work that are now known, and scanty histories, show that the conquerors spread their arts and institutions through the country; that the population was considerable or was large; that there was peace, and a prosperity sufficient to support it and produce degrees of luxury. The native races, wild or slightly civilized, were Romanized, imperfectly, it may be, but made not unwilling or unprofitable subjects of the empire. Many of the ruling race were mingled with them and maintained the Roman usages and manners. Extensive forests and marshes that abounded were diminished, and the fields for crops or herds increased. Good roads for military or civil use reached to numerous points. There were strong forts, large towns and country seats. The great requisite was military strength and strong works were erected at intervals along the eastern and southeastern coast. Of these were Regnum, Fortus Adurni, Teveni, Lyne, Dover, Richborough, Heculver. Of some of these stations, the ruins are grand and impressive, and both, by letterpress and illustration, Mr. Hunnewell tries to convey a just notion of what they are and were. The Roman wall is described in its various details and the relics of Roman towns and villas have also due attention from the author's pen and pencil. A map of Britannia from Hubner the Vallum Hadriani being presented on an enlarged scale enhances the beauty and interest of this part of the work. ""Eagle and Swan in England"" is discussed rather summarily there being few visible memorials of unquestioned authenticity of the 600 years from the departure of the Romans to the Battle of Hastings. This scantiness of the record is in marked disproportion to the influence of that period on the ""making of England."" The centuries of Saxon and Angle predominance and of Danish power were not, says Mr. Hunnewell, ""times when the arts could flourish or that, as has been observed, produced enduring material monuments. Like far greater events that have transformed the structure of the world, they were those of preparation, showing, when ended, that, from the flood and fire and agitation, a superior place for man has been formed. No cathedral, wall or castle of importance now dates from them. We grope through their dimness; but we find that then an English people had been gathered and established in its home, and that the deep foundations of their character and power had been laid. What greater monument could rise from all the struggles of these six centuries? Mr. Hunnewell is much more moderate than Lord Macaulay in the share which he ascribes to the Normans in the civilizing of England. But, though he does not indulge in such glowing panegyric of the invader as, coming from the pen of that brilliant historian, offended Dr. Vaughan, he believes that to them the Saxons were indebted for that improvement in arts, letters, and manners which distinguished the later from the earlier England. Other writers of eminence hold, nevertheless, that the progress in those respects was due quite as much to the Saxons as to the Normans, and that the latter had gained as much by intercourse with their unwilling hosts as these by contact with the aggressors. They maintain, on the other hand, that whatever of excellence the Normans produced in either art or literature was posterior to their arrival in England, with the older settlers in which the credit must be shared. Possibly also hardly enough has been made of the effect of the Roman sojourn in Britain among the people whom the Romans, they largely dispossessed, also largely intermarried with. This is well brought out by the Rev. Prebendary Scarth in his excellent little volume on Roman Britain. Mr. Hunnewell has some interesting pages on the military architecture of the Normans who even, he says, surpassed the Romans by the grandeur of their mighty towers. He gives detailed descriptions of Pevensey Castle (a marked example of the manner in which they made the works of their Roman predecessors subservient to their purposes), Rochester (whose history reaches back into the years of fable), Dover (another adapted Roman work), Colchester (dating from about A.D. 43), and a copious index will also be appreciated by the reader. (Boston; Ticknor & Co.) A Story of the West, Mr. William O. Stoddart, whose story, ""The Talking Leaves,"" charmed the hearts of so many boys, again offers his hand to the adventurous lovers of western life and scenery, and invites them to set out, under his guidance, for the mountain wonderland where the Indian still roams in cherished freedom. He assures us that there is still plenty to see and learn, and he takes it for granted that we are curious enough to wish to be of his party. He carries us at once in media res that is to a camp of very hungry Nez Perce Indians. They had been searching for their stampeded ponies, had failed and were in despair. Only one of the band had retained a spark of fortitude, and he, a boy, would not yield to circumstances. Instead of sinking into despondency, he went off on a hunting expedition, all by himself, and had the satisfaction of shooting two fine buffalo, and winning for himself a name. And it is after him that the book is called ""Two Arrows: a Story of Red and White."" The white actors in the drama are not far off. By a coincidence, a mining expedition was just then nearing its destination, and what more natural than that Kyle Parks, the judge's son, should come face to face with Two Arrows? Their intercourse was to the advantage of them both. Kyle's apprenticeship in the mountains was followed, in response to the Judge's generous invitation, by Two Arrows' apprenticeship in civilized life, his sister also shared his advantages, and there are still others, we are told, in every band among those tribes of the west, ready to follow the example if only they are asked in the right spirit. (New York: Harper Brothers; Montreal: Dawson Brothers.) A Story of Atlantis, Mrs. Gregory Smith, of St. Albans, has for years been a diligent student of ancient races and creeds, which, with the aid of vivid imagination, she loves to clothe in the flesh of actuality for the instruction and entertainment of the modern world. In a work, once reviewed in this journal, ""Dawn to Sunrise,"" she gave a series of sketches of the different types of religion which in various ages have swayed the human mind. In ""Atlantis: a Story of the Lost Island,"" she raises from the depths of the legendary past that long submerged continent of which we read in Plato, and to which, a few years ago, the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly attempted to give real existence on the grounds of science and history. What matters it, reasons the latter author, that for thousands of years the legend was considered a mere fable? So was the tradition as to the burned cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and sceptics cast doubt on narratives of Herodotus which modern discoveries have confirmed. There is nothing improbable in Plato's story; it is paralleled by what Vericott says of Peru. Mrs. Smith has a still ampler faith. She is convinced that in the far-off past there throve a civilization of Atlantean or American origin to which even our latest inventions such as the telephone were familiar things. Of this abandoned civilization she has endeavored to present a picture in the book before us. The story of Atlantis begins in the closing years of the reign of Kronos and ends with that awful cataclysm which, according to Hindu geology, took place eleven thousand four hundred years ago. It is told with considerable skill and, though it is not easy to be interested in parties so utterly shadowy, even from the standpoint of fiction, Mrs. Smith has managed to make unreal stage with a great deal of probability. The plot is well worked out, and some passages show a good deal of power. On the whole, ""Atlantis"" is not unworthy of a place in that library of mythopoeic romance of which the works of Lyton, Kingsley, Melville, and Ebers may be deemed the masters. Mrs. Smith has the distinction of having written earlier than any of her predecessors for the creatures of her fancy to act their parts in. (New York: Harper & Brothers; Montreal: Dawson Brothers.) THE BOARD OF CHAIRMEN Blame the Harbor Commissioners for Causing the Recent Flood, A Deputation of Aldermen to Interview the Government - Ald. Granular's Opinion of the City's Committee, A meeting of the Board of Chairmen was held yesterday afternoon, when there were present A. P. W. Renton (chairman), Stevenson, Dubuo, Holland, Gray, Hennville, Beauvallet, Laurent and Eulrbalm. The Chairman, at the opening of the meeting, said it was a painful duty to call their attention to the fact that within the past twelve months the city had been flooded three times. The council had not done their duty in the matter. Though his firm was one of the sufferers, he was not speaking from a personal motive. He was of the opinion that before the legislature at Quebec closed, the City council should go to them to borrow money enough to forever put a stop to the floods. He also thought that a commission of eminent engineers, independent of their civic officials, the engineers of the C.P.R., the U.S., and the Harbor Commissioners should be appointed. What was needed was the best engineering talent of the age. He was pleased to see that in Parliament Mr. Curran had introduced a bill in connection with the floods. He was convinced that the parties to blame were the Harbor Commissioners, who had put obstruction in the form of wharves, etc. This question had more than a local aspect; it was a federal one. The City Clerk then read the following communication: OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, Montreal, April 21, 1886. I have been instructed by the Board of Trade to inform you that, at a meeting held yesterday afternoon, the destructive overflow of the river St. Lawrence here was the subject of very earnest consideration. It was very gratifying for the council to know that the Mayor and aldermen had taken some steps towards alleviating the personal suffering and destitution which have been caused by the distressing calamity, but the council of this board, in representing commercial interests, naturally gave special attention to the other consequences of the unparalleled and disastrous overflow, involving as they do untold loss to the business men of the city, and seriously interfering with our manufacturing and commercial industries. The council therefore begs most respectfully to recommend, as formulated in the annexed resolution, that His Worship the Mayor and the aldermen take prompt action in the matter of the portion of inquiring as to the cause of these consecutive inundations, and for the devising of a remedy against their recurrence. While the council is aware that economy in managing the finances of the city has to be carefully considered by the Mayor and Aldermen, it considers that in the face of such a calamity as has happened to the commerce and industry of Montreal liberal expenditure for its future prevention is an absolute necessity, and the council is convinced that it reflects the sentiment of the business community, when it says that any increased taxation, consequent upon such expenditure, as may, after mature deliberation, be decided upon, will be cheerfully borne thereby. I have the honor to be, sir, Your obedient servant, W. J. PATTERSON, Secretary. The Chairman quite concurred in the petition of the Board of Trade, and stated that he had been blamed for opposing the blowing up of the river by Dr. Thayer. (Laughter.) One thing the council must face was the immediate borrowing of about four millions of dollars to stop these floods. Ald. Laurin thought $500,000 would be sufficient. Ald. Fairbairn had been inquiring for half a century, and was convinced that the flood was caused by the accidental jamming of the ice. Ald. Gray moved that a report be made to council that a committee of three eminent engineers be appointed to investigate the cause of the floods and prepare a report thereon. Ald. Holland thought that Messrs. Lesage, St. George and Champagne had been taking information. Ald. Gagnier said these men had reported for years, but had never devised any remedy. The only thing possible was an independent committee. Ald. Stevenson referred at length to what the inundation committee had done, and to the success of their pumping operations. Ald. Usher suggested that a delegation of the aldermen be sent to interview the Dominion Government, as he held that the prevention of the floods was a matter for the whole country and not particularly for the city. He was of the opinion that the only remedy would be a system of piers on Lakes St. Francis and St. Louis. The Harbor Commission must also straighten the channel of the river; the Long wharf was a great obstruction and must be done away with. He was of the opinion that the civic engineers were perfectly competent to deal with the matter, but they had enough to do to mind their own business. Ald. Laurin moved that a Joint committee, composed of aldermen and members of the Provincial Parliament, be appointed to interview the Federal Government on the subject. Ald. Beausoleil said that the committee of chairmen were the most intelligent aldermen and that they ought to form the deputation. They ought to at once go to Ottawa and get an answer direct. The Chairman said it was no use going to Ottawa unless they had a good case against the Harbor Commissioners. He for one was not prepared to be laughed at. He was of the opinion that the most sensible proposition was that of Ald. Gray. Ald. Dorval said it was a well-known fact that the level of certain streets was too low, and the best method was to raise them. He thought that they should meet the Harbor Commissioners and together draw up a grand scheme and then approach the Government. Ald. Gagnier was convinced that the first thing to be done was to have a competent body of men to advise them. Ald. Stevenson said the members of the Harbor Commission were only mortals like themselves. There was one competent member on that board, the one appointed by the council. The Chairman was of the opinion that all other members of the board, except those appointed, were generally useless. He protested against the committee wasting their time in useless talk. The vote was then taken, and Ald. Laurin's amendment carried. Ald. Gray referred to a report in one of the papers where a reporter was stated to have quarreled with Dr. Larocque at the City sergeant's committee, for not producing the new provincial health bill. The doctor was perfectly right, as the bill had not yet come before the Legislature, and the copy in his possession could not be made public without the permission of the Government. The Chairman said it would be his duty at once to put the proceedings of the City committee in the City hall. They had always been a nuisance and more than ever. It was two or three individuals trying to run the city, and he trembled they would be bolder at home tampering with their own business. It was resolved to petition the Legislature to give the Council power to regulate the liquor traffic. The committee then adjourned. Communications, and supported by Mr. Lawson, and was carried unanimously, as was also a resolution authorizing the chairman to sign a petition to the House of Commons in favor of the bill. BLOCKED AGAIN, Washington, April 22, In the house Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, again attempted to secure the adoption of his resolution declaring that the house sympathizes with Mr. Gladstone and his associates in their effort to secure a free Parliament for the people of Ireland and congratulating the people of that country on the prospect of an early and successful termination of their long and patriotic struggle for local self-government, but Mr. Swope, of Pennsylvania, interposed the fatal objection and though he subsequently withdrew it a demand for the regular order prevented action on the resolution. SERIOUS ANECDOTE IN THE AIR, Denver, Col., April 22, A special from Trinidad says: The steady rainfall of the last few days has increased the volume of water in the Purgatory river that it broke through the bank, flooding the lower portion of the town and destroyed many dwellings, the occupants having barely time to reach places of safety in their night clothes. One Mexican was drowned. The water works were flooded and the city's water supply cut off. The loss to property is $18,000. Father Ryan Very Ill, Louisville, Ky., April 24, ""Father Abraham J. Ryan, the poet priest of the south,"" is lying critically ill with brain fever at St. Boniface church in this city. VIGER & CO., Wine Merchants and Grocers, 1718 St. James Street, INJURED BY THE FLOOD! Pictures of Ortranni damaged by the flood must be removed without delay to save such cut and damaged works as that of 1886, J. K. ATWATER, for Insurance. The longer they are allowed to remain water soaked, the less chance there is of their being repairable. DR. ZOF, A. ATWATER are at 3 Heavener Hall. Their Telephone number is 101. ATLANTIC RAILWAY, Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Canada Atlantic Railway Company will be held at the head office of the company, 892 Bridge street, city of Ottawa, on THURSDAY, the 30th day of MAY, A.D. 1886, at the hour of TWO o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year, and for the transacting of such other business as may be brought before the meeting.
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Guertin said it isn't necessary for photographs of the scene or damage to be taken since appraisers will do this, usually within three days of the first call. The appraisers must look at any damage before repairs are made, in order to determine how much money the insurance company will pay. Practically all comprehensive insurance packages offer compensation for damage caused by falling objects, or for car windshields and windows that break under the strain of ice scrapers. All deductibles must be taken into consideration first. So, if a person with a $400 windshield repair has a $500 deductible, he's out of luck. C has been suffering from asthma and a lung infection that hampered his performances during the trials which concluded on Wednesday. He is listed to race the 5,000 and as a substitute in the 1,500. NAGANO, Japan - At first, Olympic organizers feared there might be too little snow for next month's winter Olympics. Now, at least for the time being, host city Nagano is grappling with problems of too much. A major snowstorm forced the closing of the airport serving Nagano and led commuters to abandon cars on the sides of slippery roads.
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"Aid. Conroy said he had given way to Aid. Cunningham, who had more property in St. Ann's ward than any of its representatives. Aid. Nolan: By what right does Aid. Conroy give away the rights of the people of St. Ann's ward? I'm astonished to hear him talk thus. He must have felt that he was incapable. Aid. Wilson said he did not object to the gentlemen suggested, but he did to cumbersome committee. Aid. Stevenson said if anyone had a right to complain it was himself. He had been systematically ignored in connection with it. He recapitulated the work he had done in preventing floods and continued that as soon as the work was completed, he would be relieved. They had done his working on his ideas. The question then dropped, Aid. Nolan giving notice of motion to have the formation of the committee reconsidered. The Board of Health for the city was appointed, and the assessment roll for grand and petit jurors was approved of. The council then proceeded to settle the financial question at the Mayor's suggestion. Aid.
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The settlement, originally on He Sainte Croix, was the earliest in North America. The king of France had given de Monts a monopoly on the fur trade in exchange for colonization of the area. Among the passengers aboard the Jonas were Marc Lescarbot, the first historian of working from home I am not making up this report. The dough landed on the Wards' home on St. Patrick's Day, with what Doug Ward described as a horrendous crash, like a sonic boom. I spoke with Paula Ward by phone a couple of weeks after the incident, and she said it remains a mystery. An astronomer took a sample, and he said it was just regular bread dough, she said. The religious people think it was a sign from God, because you know, in the Bible, God dropped manna. But it doesn't look like religious dough to me. We still have it, and it hasn't risen yet. It's looking kind of slimy.
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MAIN LINE Stonewall Plenty of rain lately Crops are looking splendid and well advanced Farmers and merchants are feeling good over prospects Selkirk St. unilace and Rosser all say plenty rain Crops never looked better at this time of year Farmers feeling jubilant Marquette A large quantity of rain has fallen during the past three weeks Crops are reported to be in excellent condition This has been the most favorable spring ever known in this district Reaburn Poplar Point and High Bluff Sufficient rain Crops looking exceedingly well Farmers rejoicing over present indications Portage la Prairie Plenty of rain of late Crops looking splendid and farmers looking forward to a large yield Burnsldd and Bagot Four inches of rain have fallen this week Crops look splendid Farmers very jubilant and look forward with grand prospects Austin Farmers say the present season is all that could be desired Crops are looking magnificent Sidney Plenty rain for all purposes Spring crops looking splendid Farmers expecting bountiful harvest Catberry Plenty fine rains during last two weeks and farmers say splendid prospect for good crop Hewell and Cuater Heavy rain fell during the past ten days Crops of all kinds are in magnificent condition Farmers looking forward to large crop Brandon Abundance of rain for the last ten days It is universally said that crops have not been as far advanced or looked so well for three years as they do now and every farmer is satisfied with prospects Alexander and Urlswold Abundant rain fell during the last few days General feeling is that good crops are certain Oaklake Two or three good heavy falls of rain during the last ten days Crops never looked better for this time of year JMkborn and Flemming Rain has fallen since first of month Crops looking splendid Feeling among farmers and others is good Moosomin Plenty rain Crops are looking splendid Farmers are in good spirits Whitewood Frequent heavy rains Crop prospects were never better Farmers and others in good spirits Broadview Rain has fallen in abundance during the past ten days we have had six hours heavy rain and thunder showers within the last twenty-four hours and it is again raining All root crops are coming on well and grain looking excellent Farmers highly elated over prospects and say the season thus far excels even that of 1882 Grenfoll Plenty of rain in this vicinity Crops looking fine good feeling prevails Prospects are bright Wolsuley Abundance of rain Crops never better at this season of year Farmers and others jubilant and confident of good crops Indian Head Never in the history of this section of the country was the condition of growth more favorable Abundance of rain has fallen and the general outlook is splendid Qu'Appelle Plenty rain and still raining Crops look fine There is every prospect of good harvest Balgonie Abundant rain so far Crops looking splendid All are rejoicing at prospects of good harvest Regina This district is being well supplied with rain The perfect yield in all crops is now beyond doubt Farmers are satisfied with outlook and everything is in thriving condition Moosejaw Abundance of rain this season Crops are looking good Farmers are very hopeful Parkbeg During the past two months there has been rain in abundance and not too much Crops in fine condition Chaplin Several heavy showers this week Farmers say crops are in fine condition Rush Lake Abundance of rain Crops are looking first class Farmers satisfied Swift Current One and a half inches of rain fell here since Saturday Crops of all descriptions are in excellent condition Maple Creek Several brisk showers during the week and crops looking well A general feeling of contentment reigns among all concerned in this vicinity Walsh Rain to spare here Crops look fine General feeling is that yield will be unusually large Irvine Heavy rain during past week Crops looking well General feeling among farmers is good Dunmore Good rain this and last week Crops looking well Farmers hopeful Medicine Hat Plenty rain Crops are in excellent condition Farmers are confident of good results Gleichen Considerable rain has brought the crops forward Farmers are hopeful now of having good crops Calgary Plenty rain during last week Farmers say crops are looking fine and anticipate good yield Cochrane Plenty rain Crops looking fine in this vicinity Money Plenty rain here Stock doing well General feeling is very good Winnipeg, June 12 Since the above reports were compiled there was during Friday night and Saturday morning another rainfall which extended throughout the whole of Manitoba and the Northwest territories and was followed by warm weather Reports from all sources are unanimous in saying that the crops never looked better since the country was settled Wheat in some places is seventeen inches high Farmers and businessmen never felt more confident of a good crop than they do at present THE LINE OUT OF HOME More Exciting Scene at the Bodyke Eviction on Saturday Dublin, June 11 The evictions at Bodyke were further carried out today The first house visited by the evicting force was that of Timothy Collins But as it was announced that a daughter of Collins lay dying inside the work of eviction was abandoned The eviction then proceeded to the house of Michael O'Callaghan where they met with a terrible resistance The bailiffs and police were deluged with scalding water and meal Col. Turner who was in charge of the evicting party implored Father Hannan who was again in attendance to endeavor to persuade the people to cease resistance and thus prevent bloodshed Father Hannan then entered the house and the inmates ceased their attack on the force which entered and carried out the work of eviction Five women who had been extremely violent in their attacks were arrested The police threatened to arrest Michael Davitt if he interfered with their work A THIRTY CORPORATION From the Speech of Senator Emery of Pennsylvania There have been about 316,000,000 barrels of oil produced in Pennsylvania since 1812 which has realized $729,000,000 Adding the manufacturers' profit on the oil exported which has been $237,000,000 the grand total is about $1,000,000,000 that this commodity has earned for itself Since 1872 the Standard has made a profit of $300,000,000 This great profit grew out of the exclusive right of transportation since 1872 by the immense rebates granted that company by the railroad companies and the extraordinary profit obtained by the transportation to the seaboard by pipeline since 1878 The Standard company has admitted that the cost of transporting a barrel of oil to the seaboard is 20c yet the open rate is 80c leaving a net profit of 60c and last year they moved 25,000,000 barrels of oil This and other practices enabled the company to declare a dividend of $20,000,000 last year on a capital stock of $70,000,000 FAIR AND WARM Another Pleasant Day Promised by Old Prob Toronto, Ont. June 13 1 a.m. The pressure is slowly giving way everywhere especially in the Gulf district Generally fine warm weather prevails throughout the Lake and Eastern districts In the Northwest the weather is fair and becoming warmer and local thunderstorms are reported from Alberta St. Lawrence south and southwest winds fair warm weather
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CANWEST, COM LETTERS K 1 Ice-storm spirit proved to be as fickle as the weather. Ice alone won't change nature. If it's true, as your headline states, The ice storm has changed us (Gazette, Jan 5), why are people still running around trying to find the last bargain instead of cocooning with their families? Why did a letter-writer this past week lament (sob, sob) that she couldn't find a restaurant open for her after New Year's? Why has a lack of courtesy when driving mushroomed? We had to adapt during the storm and we were creative about it, but 10 years later, is it really true things have changed internally for most of us because of this? I think not. Elaine Creighton Beaconsfield All excuses, no work Re: Did you abandon this car? (Gazette, Jan 4), Is it any wonder our streets are such a mess after a snowstorm when every single authority abdicates its responsibilities to keep them free? A car is parked in a no-parking zone that is a bus lane and part of the time a no-stopping zone for a week or more; it is neither ticketed nor towed away and everyone has an excuse: The police didn't have it towed because nobody complained, the snow-clearing crews didn't tow it because they hadn't put the appropriate signs up and I can just guess it didn't get ticketed because clearing snow from a license plate is likely not written into the parking inspectors' union contract. What do all these people get paid for? Satu Tolvanen Pointe Claire Forget vitamins, just eat right Re: Vitamins: one a day or one too many (Gazette, Jan 5), Anyone who wants to have endless energy, stay healthy and fight off disease should read Dr. Richard Beliveau's book. His is a simple yet scientifically proven prescription for incorporating a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and other cancer-fighting foods into our daily diets. Eating for pleasure and for health means most of us would not need to supplement with additional vitamins. For the last 35 years, I've made fresh fruits and vegetables the focus of my diet and I have never been deficient in vitamins or lacked energy. I have passed this way of eating onto my children. If people would look at the Canada food guide and take the time to prepare a variety of meals from scratch, instead of stuffing overprocessed pseudo-food down their throats, they wouldn't need to wash it all down with a vitamin cocktail. Then they could take all the money they spend on supplements and purchase organic fruits and vegetables. Marlene Eisner Montreal Columns expose city mismanagement Re: Handling of mega water-meter contract raises questions; Two companies involved with repairing city's water system had cozy relationship (Opinion, Jan 5), Well done, Henry Aubin. Please do not stop probing the black hole that is the city of Montreal's finances. As a resident of the West Island for more than 30 years, the major reason I did not want to be part of Montreal is its complete lack of accountability with respect to taxpayers' money. Aubin's work, which I have been following closely since the merger-demergers debacle, has helped tremendously to bring flagrant mismanagement to light. It's unfortunate it hasn't changed voter apathy. Dan Miller Kirkland Don't ignore nuclear watchdog Re: Government poised to fire nuclear watchdog (Gazette, Jan 8), While a government can legislate whatever it wishes within the law, it is expected to respect the rules it has established. Example: the mandate and responsibility of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to oversee and approve the licensing and operation of nuclear reactors at Chalk River. That commission has deemed the Chalk River facilities to be dangerous and the last thing the nuclear industry needs is a nuclear accident. For political leaders to overrule their own safety commission and behave like the mayor of a city overruling a traffic ticket properly issued by its police department (a trivial analogy by comparison) is so wrong. And then to ask the president of that commission to explain her and her commission's actions (under the veiled threat of dismissal), while ignoring the fact unqualified politicians have placed expediency above safety, is so wrong. Alex Brown Pierrefonds It's our money Re: Harper government takes wrong turn on tax policy (Gazette, Jan 4), I have a bit of a problem with Peter Hadekel's claim the reduction in the federal GST is an awful waste of $12 billion, which is the estimated annual cost to the federal treasury. I fail to see how leaving money in taxpayers' hands can be considered wasting it, when it is their money. A recent Gazette article reported the government had little to show for the $12.4 billion it spent on African aid, and another cited a report showing the government has wasted up to $125 billion or more of taxpayers' money. Now, that's real waste! The Fraser Institute, whose study exposed the details of the $125-billion loss, used the words examples of mismanagement and incompetence. Until governments implement sound management fundamentals and oversight fundamentals, the $12-billion GST reduction (plus a lot more) should be left in taxpayers' hands. Frederick Sneider Montreal Welcome reminder of our humanity Ehab Lotayef's recent article (Why I share the guilt for Aqsa's death, Opinion, Jan 4) is a reminder for us of how dangerous generalizations can be. Muslims, Jews, Catholics and Protestants are diverse groups, comprising a whole range of attitudes and opinions, from moderates to extremists. Lotayef's article proves we must look beyond religious and ethnic labels and relate to individuals rather than to representative organizations that claim to speak for entire communities - an utter impossibility. Lotayef's is a human voice that should be heard more often. Yakov M. Rabkin Montreal O Box 11061 Montreal, QCH3C4Z8 Payments: We ask that ads be pre-paid, and we accept credit cards. Business owners may establish an account upon credit approval. Deadlines: To place, change or cancel most ads, contact us before 2 p.m. the day prior to publication. For Saturday edition: before 11 a.m. Friday. For Sunday and Monday editions: before 4 p.m. Friday. Please check your ad the first day it runs to ensure it is correct and call us if an error has occurred. The Gazette's responsibility, if any, for errors of any kind is limited to the charge for the first day of publication. The 2008 Infiniti QX56 is a pleasant drive that comes with supple leather on the seats and doors, deep-pile carpets and real wood accents. Infiniti QX56 is a big, thirsty joy ride. While it consumes large amounts of fuel, the passenger cabin is simply beautiful. CLARE DEAR CANWEST NEWS SERVICE The market for gas-guzzling land yachts such as the Infiniti QX56 is shrinking, but it hasn't vanished yet. With all its luxury, spaciousness and comfort, plus enough power under the hood to haul eight people, their stuff and more than 4,000 kilograms hitched behind, it's a wonderful experience to cruise the open road in this big SUV - at least until you check the fuel gauge. It's understandable. After only a week with the 2008 Q-ship, I can see why even the well-heeled, full-size SUV owners feel the pain at the pumps. You'll kiss more than $100 goodbye every time you have to refill the QX56's 105-litre fuel tank, which happens too frequently. Officially, the QX56 is rated at 18.2 litres per 100 kilometres in city use and 11.8 on the highway, with pricey premium gas preferred. However, the 320-horsepower, 5.6-litre V8's real-world consumption is even more robust. During my stint with the QX56, I logged more than 800 km, with fuel consumption averaging 17.8 L/100 km. In fact, it was averaging more than 20 L/100 km until I took a 180-km highway run to return the vehicle. No wonder demand for these brutes is declining. Still, it's not difficult to see why those who can afford to peel off $80,000 for a QX56 are reluctant to change. This SUV might be big, but its cabin is beautiful. There are rich appointments everywhere - supple leather on the seats and door panels, deep-pile carpets, real wood accents. And it's loaded with luxurious features to make the driving experience supreme. Both front bucket seats are power adjustable. They're heated, of course. The second-row bench also gets the heat treatment. Please see INFINITI, Page E3 E 1 Winter challenges aplenty for Quebec car owners I admit it. When it comes to winter, I'm an absolute curmudgeon. With what appears to be record snowfalls and non-stop winter storms right across the country, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has already had his fill of the fluffy white stuff smacking him square in the face and making driving, walking and getting around treacherous, distasteful, annoying, irritating, exasperating, aggravating and just plain cold. While it's tough on us humans, winter is even tougher on our automobiles. One winter storm dumping 40 centimetres or more of snow in less than one day plays havoc with our entire transportation system. When a storm hits, those of us with a possibility to do so head for the nearest warm shelter and wait out the storm, praying that electricity does not cut out. Our cars, on the other hand, are, for the most part, stuck outside braving the storm without even a little bit of shelter. Car shelters in Canada tend to come in three varieties: 1) none at all, 2) a temporary little outside shelter, 3) or a nice warm toasty indoor garage. Each of the shelters comes with its own legal problems and issues. No shelter means your car sits outside, slowly turning into a great white igloo that only vaguely resembles a car. More than one unfortunate car owner has cleared off the snow from his or her car with nothing more than hands and a credit card only to find that the car they thought was their own was not. All igloo-shaped cars look pretty much alike. While legally there is a principle that no one else is allowed to benefit from your hard work without paying you for your efforts, the chances of collecting on this type of debt are about as likely as a snowstorm in July. The same snow-covered vehicles are easy prey for accidental clipping by snow-removal vehicles who fail to differentiate or navigate between your car and the snow bank they're trying to clear. In general, if your car is damaged by a snow-removal vehicle, the entity in charge of the snow removal is responsible to pay for damage caused to your car. If your car has to be towed away in order to facilitate street snowplowing, the city is responsible to make sure its contractors do the job without damaging your car. I'm told that after a major snowstorm, several thousand vehicles are towed by the city so workers can properly clear the streets of snow. While this drastically hampers snow-removal efforts, it's probably a lot easier to let the city tow your car away and pay the tickets than it is to dig it out. Some municipalities allow temporary parking shelters (which kind of look like overgrown tents) to be erected on private property. While the shelters are not legal everywhere, even when they are legal, they do present their own problems. I recently heard of the case where there was a common driveway between two houses used by both owners. One of the owners put up a temporary car shelter on his half of the driveway. The other owner was parked next to it using the none-at-all method of car sheltering. During the last big storm, the car shelter collapsed, tipping over and landing on the neighbor's car, causing $3,000 of damage. The owner of the shelter tried to avoid paying for the damages by claiming the storm was an act of God and therefore was not his fault. While the storm might not have been his fault he is responsible for any damage caused by items he owns, including collapsing car shelters. A heated garage, of course, might provide you with a toasty-warm car to get into, but you still have to navigate the snow-covered driveway to reach the street. In many municipalities, it is illegal to clear the snow from your driveway and dump it on the street. Instead, you have to blow or push all that snow onto your property where it creates a giant mountain that hides your house until the snow melts many moons from now. Explain it to me again: Why do some people like winter? Montreal lawyer Jordan Charness is a partner in the firm Charness, Charness & Charness. Please send letters to Steering You Right, Driving section, The Gazette, 1010 Ste. Catherine St."
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The key to this success lies in the independent position of these officers. They have a certain work to do and are actuated by feelings of justice and honor, backed by the unlimited power of the Government. These qualities are those best understood by savages, though they do not practice them. We cannot in justice to American officers avoid saying that if they were treated by their Government as we treat our officers, with regard to influence and power, they would doubtless also bring their Indians into a corresponding state of repose; but American officers have not a fair chance. Major General Hango and his friends appear to have made a fair start. He writes with regard to his undertaking: ""Half the stock is taken up and 25 percent paid in, and I shall be glad to have more. I believe there are very few young fellows with little capital who will lose it on this continent in all sorts of swindles and mad schemes. Cattle raising is slow but steady. I would not wish to be the means of inducing old officers to take to such a life; but young fellows with capital who join me will, I believe, do well.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1900 C7 NATIONAL OUTDOORS Yellow perch restrictions necessary The day when Quebec anglers will be saddled with a limit and season on yellow perch is only a few years away. Yellow perch are among the most prolific and widespread of Quebec game fish, so much so that they've invaded and claimed many trout and walleye lakes. Until lately, they've been regarded as little more than nuisance fish which take a lure well and give a respectable account once hooked. Trouble is that yellow perch are also one of the best eating fish to be found in Quebec waters and their white, flavorful meat is sought by both angler and non-angler alike. And, in the absence of any restrictions, a surprising number of fishermen have turned professional and are supplying the demand for fresh perch fillets. It's a lucrative business, provided you know what you're doing. A good fisherman can usually fill three buckets with perch in a day; once filleted, each bucket is worth between $50 and $65. That comes to between $150 and $195 per day, no questions asked. The money is even better during the last two weeks of April and the first week of May, when the perch are massed into immense spawning schools. Peddling the fish is easy since the buyers make their rounds on a regular basis throughout the winter and spring, often visiting the fishermen at home to buy the day's catch. Most of the perch are being resold to restaurants and stores in eastern Ontario. The toll on Montreal-area perch populations is so great that sports fishermen have noticed not only a decline in the number of fish caught, but also in the average size. Montreal-area anglers noticed a change in the perch population as much as five years ago and, in response to their concern, the Montreal office of the provincial fish and game department initiated a perch tagging program on Lac St. Louis three years ago. The results so far, unfortunately, have been largely inconclusive; less than one percent of the 10,000 spaghetti-tags attached by biologists each spring have been returned, and that's not enough to draw concrete conclusions. Yet, while biologists look for proof of the decline in yellow perch locally, the fish are being caught faster than nature can replenish their numbers. Provincial authorities maintain that there are no plans for either a limit on yellow perch or a closure to protect them during the April spawning period. At the regional offices of the fish and game department, however, such a move is being discussed. Unless evidence surfaces to prove that local perch populations are in better shape than indicated, anglers in the Montreal area will see daily and season limits along with a spring closure within the next two years. And not a second too soon. According to Linda Tilden, one of the lucky souls who get to live on the shores of Lake Tremblant year-round, the ice on that lake is still about a foot and a half thick. As recently as a week ago, snowmobilers were able to cross the lake freely, though rain has put a damper on their activities. The latest bout of mild weather will no doubt start the spring thaw in earnest, but at this stage it's a case of too little, too late. It would take an equatorial heat wave to prepare the lake for next weekend's trout opener. Tremblant fishing guide Wayne Johnson estimates that breakup will happen somewhere around May 3, and that bodes well for the spring fishery. After guiding on Tremblant for better than six years, and fishing the lake when he's not guiding anglers, Johnson has noticed that the best landlocked salmon and lake-trout fishing takes place during those years when ice out comes late. Anglers headed for New Brunswick's Miramichi River this weekend to take advantage of the spring salmon fishery will find the river in a flood state. The ice went off the Miramichi last Sunday and since then, the river has been running about six feet above seasonable levels. Fortunately, the runoff abates quickly on this massive river system and, by the end of next week, the Miramichi should be at its prime for spring salmon. Bear in mind that these fish are spent salmon on their way back to salt water after spending the winter in the river. They're ravenous and will hit almost any large fly presented in front of them, but the fight is less spectacular than that of a fresh run summer salmon. ON SALE Monday & Tuesday Only - April 23rd and 24th Canadian Commercial is a government agency that contracts on behalf of Canadian suppliers with foreign governments. THE GAZETTE, ALLEN MCHENRY Martineau Walker partners Stephen Cheasley, Brigitte Gouin, Jean Lafleur and Francis Fox can look beyond the Montreal skyline for business. LAWYERS JAN RAVENSBERGEN THE GAZETTE ALTER CANADA'S LEGAL LANDSCAPE Law is now more a big business than a profession. The big-league law firms in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are going through a quiet revolution these days. Veteran law-firm partners have begun to peer out from behind their panelled doors to unleash a rapid-fire series of affiliations and mergers involving some of the most prestigious names in law in Quebec and across the country. Vancouver firms have made or are looking for alliances in the east. Montreal firms have made or are seeking allies in the west and elsewhere. And firms in Toronto, Canada's legal centre of gravity, have become part of law-firm networks extending into both Quebec and British Columbia. In addition, like their counterparts in almost every other business these days, the biggest wheels in the law business have started to think globally. In short, with the cementing of dozens of new alliances during the past six months, Canada's legal landscape is being transformed to an astonishing degree. ""Lawyers have seen more changes in the last five to seven years than ever before,"" Jean Lafleur, chairman of the executive committee of Martineau Walker in Montreal, mused this week. At the end of January, 114-lawyer Clarkson Tetrault of Montreal announced it was combining in a newly constituted partnership with McCarthy & McCarthy of Toronto, to create Canada's largest single law firm, with 450 lawyers among a total staff of 1,300. Now renamed McCarthy Tetrault, the old Toronto-based firm played the lead role in knocking down barriers of provincial jurisdiction that until about a year ago prevented precisely this kind of merger. The most recent of the changes was announced only last Wednesday when Lafleur, Brown, de Grandpre of Montreal and Kronstrom, McNicoll, Desjardins & Villeneuve of Quebec City announced a merger to create an 83-lawyer firm. It will be known as Lafleur, Brown, de Grandpre, Kronstrom. Along with the new matchmaking, the bigger law firms are focusing ever more strongly on the business aspects of their professional practices. That's not surprising, because the largest half-dozen Montreal law partnerships alone easily generate total annual revenue exceeding $200 million, according to Andre Gagnon, publisher of the Quebec-oriented legal periodical Le Monde Juridique. Just how big is the law business in Quebec? There are 12,502 members of the Barreau du Quebec of whom 3,809 are women and a total of 3,302 notaries in the province. Including support staff and public employees of the justice system, Gagnon figures there are at least 50,000 jobs in Quebec's legal sector. PLEASE SEE LAW MERGERS, PAGE C2 For Rent signs will soon flood downtown office buildings. Among the important questions in Montreal today such as whether the Canadiens will beat the Bruins or when spring will finally arrive is who will be renting all the new office space downtown? In case you haven't noticed, the skyline is dotted with construction cranes. Montreal developers, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to build a bunch of major projects at the same time, flooding the market with millions of square feet of unleased space. At least 11 office-development projects are coming on stream in 1990 and '91, adding about 4 million square feet of new space to the office market, according to an analysis by Devencore Realties Ltd. But only 40 percent of that space or 1.7 million square feet has been leased so far. Some projects such as The World Trade Centre near Old Montreal and the Bank of Nova Scotia tower on Sherbrooke St. have leased less than a quarter of their available space. The timing of development obviously isn't great. Interest rates are surging, the economy is slowing and political uncertainty about Meech Lake is thick. The result is that tenants are taking a ""wait-and-see"" attitude. Office relocations are often spurred by expansion, but there aren't many companies expanding right now. In an effort to lease space more quickly, developers have resorted to offering big financial inducements to prospective tenants. The value of these inducements, which can include building improvements, cash allowances and rent reductions, sometimes approaches $100 per square foot in the first year of a new lease, says Montreal broker Harry McKeague, president of Leonard, McKeague Realty Inc. ""There's a lot of space being built and people perceive the market as soft,"" explains McKeague. ""We are entering a tenant's market,"" adds Rodney Birrell, vice-president of marketing at Devencore, which is building the World Trade Centre and has so far leased only 18 percent of the space mostly to governments. Birrell argues that now is the best time for tenants to cut a deal because the market will get a bit tighter by autumn as tenants renew leases that come due this year and next. Right now, Birrell says, developers are willing to discount by 15 to 20 percent on rents, which typically range between $25 and $34 a square foot for class A space. The relative glut of new office space will push Montreal's vacancy rate up to 13.3 percent, Birrell figures, still lower than in Toronto but sharply higher than this city has seen in several years. The development industry moves in cycles of feast and famine. Last year was a lean year, with few new projects delivered and the vacancy rate on class A space tumbled to 4.8 percent by the end of December. But over the next two years, there will be more supply than the market can absorb. Another complicating factor is the rising cost of relocation. Rental rates on new office space have moved up considerably from those charged in the late 1980s. ""This is a factor that has affected virtually every major Canadian city during the past three years,"" says Birrell of Devencore. The increase is a direct result of higher land prices and the rising cost of construction and financing. And costs could move even higher once the goods-and-services tax takes effect next year. The tax will be applied not only to rent charged, but to any financial benefits included in the lease package. Companies moving into new premises will also have to pay the goods-and-services tax on design fees, furnishings, office equipment, telephone systems, etc. In the event of a continued business slowdown, companies may resist the higher rents being asked on new space and opt instead for space in existing buildings. And that could pose quite a problem for developers sitting on new space. They would have to become even more aggressive in ""moving the product."" After all, nobody wants to sit in a half-empty building. It's bad for business. Tire dumps The toxic fire which burned for 17 days at a Hagersville, Ont., tire dump could have happened in any one of the 123 tire dumps in Quebec. The fumes from the Ontario fire spewed poisonous smoke into the atmosphere, harming livestock, contaminating farmland and produce and causing the evacuation of nearby residents. In St. Amable alone, the rubber mountain contains between 4 million and 15 million discarded tires. Conservationists worry that security at tire sites is lax and provincial authorities admit that regulations concerning the storage of such potentially toxic material are still being drawn up. They've called for $5 million to improve security at 19 used-tire dumps and they're looking for ways to divide tire mounds into smaller piles to lessen the risk of large-scale fire. The Quebec firefighters' union says tires can be shredded and burned as fuel in cement plant incinerators and conservationists are urging that the proposal be studied. Recent visitors to La Verendrye Park describe certain sections of the once lush tree-filled reserve as desert-like. Yet Quebec is signing contracts some in effect until 2013 allowing companies to cut even more trees. The provincial government will not reveal how much will be cut as a result of its new forestry policy, which permits companies to cut trees on Crown land throughout Quebec. The Barrier Lake Algonquin Indians fear that the wholesale logging of trees in their area will not only seriously harm wildlife and flora of the region, but also their own way of life. Quebec's department of resources argues that the so-called clear-cutting of trees will be followed by extensive replanting and that little harm will be done. But conservationists say the resulting cultivated forest will be made up of trees of one species only and wildlife needs diversity to thrive. Toxic river Millions of litres of industrial waste are being unceremoniously dumped daily into the St. Lawrence River, the main artery of Quebec's ecosystem. The Cornwall area of the river, just west of the Quebec border, has been particularly fouled. Companies such as Alcoa, Reynolds, CIL, Domtar and Courtaulds are filling the system with a wide range of acids, metals and contaminants. More than 50,000 pollutants have been identified. The toxins have invaded fish, making them dangerous to eat, and corrupted the farmland and cattle of the region, destroying the traditional way of life of the native Mohawk Indians there. Meanwhile, environmentalists say that some companies are dragging their heels, ordering studies and denying responsibility for the problems while the river keeps filling up with poison. James Bay hazard Hydro-Quebec is performing radical surgery on the body of this province with the mammoth $50-billion hydroelectric project at James Bay, initiated 18 years ago and now in its second phase. Environmental experts charge that the utility is cutting with a dull spoon. Yet, even as Quebecers face increasing charges for electricity, it appears Hydro's proposed contract with the Vermont Public Utilities Board effective until the year 2020 and worth close to $8 billion will be ratified. Recognized environmental hazards attributed to the project include: Mercury poisoning: Caused by the release of bacteria after the flooding of land to create reservoirs in Phase I of the project, mercury now inundates the fish of the region and the Cree have been told to limit their fishing and fish intake. Their way of life is compromised as a result. Flooding: There are potential threats to every form of wildlife in the area freshwater seal, beluga whales, caribou, shore birds and others as flooding and drastically altered waterways tamper with the way these creatures breed and feed. As well, thousands of acres of forests will be razed to accommodate the development, contributing to the greenhouse effect. Conservationists and the local Cree warn industry is effectively sacrificing nature on the altar of commerce. Beluga whales are dying in the Saguenay River and with only 400 left, their survival as a species is in doubt. Industry is laying waste to the elegant white mammals by poisoning their food supply with chemicals and debris and by altering their habitat so drastically that they are mutating and developing cancers and ulcers. Autopsy reports on belugas read like a compendium of poisons: PCBs and more than 20 other chemicals have been found in their corpses. Dead belugas are so contaminated, in fact, that they are treated as toxic waste. In less than a year-and-a-half, 27 belugas have come to die on the shores of the Saguenay, victims of the effluents dumped in the river by pulp and paper plants, power companies and mining concerns. Ironically, the flourishing tourist industry which has sprung up around whale sighting is jeopardized as a result. Nova Scotia's toxic brew A kraft mill paper plant is pumping 87 million litres of toxic brew daily into rivers flowing through Pictou County, N.S. INSIDE Weather F8 Cars for Sale 525 Montreal's largest Cars for Sale 525 Cars for Sale 525 Cars for Sale 525 CELEBRITY EuroSport station-wagon 1981, 10,000 km, fully equipped, air, tires, very good condition, $1,900 private CELEBRITY Wagon 1983 V-4, air, 4 door, very good condition, $1,500 private Cars for Sale 525 Dodge 600 SE 17 4dr champagne lotting fender Auto 624-4000 DODGE 600 16, 4 dr, A1 $4,450 BUICK Regal Ltd 14, 4-dr, A $4,950 Kerlest Auto 4el 340 DODGE Ram 1945, 4 door, auto, low mileage, $3,400 H.K. Agio, 339-1630 facilities in Nevada, for supersonic top-gun dog-fighting practice, live and dummy bombing ranges, and other high-tech military training. ""Finally in 1986, an EARP was belatedly begun on both low-level flying and the NATO proposal. This required DND to submit an environmental impact study to an independent panel. In theory, the process allows governments to make objective decisions on development projects, in keeping with policies of environmental protection and social development. But the environment involves humans, and perspectives of various human groups. For aboriginal people, the land is not a wilderness, but their homeland. ""Understanding the impact of development means understanding human values and perspectives. The panel tried to get DND to see this. It told them the aboriginal perspective must be included in the study. Instead of asking that all low-level flights be cancelled, the panel asked for the number of flights to be frozen at the 1986 level. DND refused, and the number has increased every year since. The Innu were thus left to seek an injunction to end the flights entirely, one of their arguments being that no prior environmental clearance was given, as required by law. ""Now the environmental impact study has been released, the panel has found it seriously inadequate and in need of further work. They have again asked for the cap on flights, which DND has also rejected under the absurd pretext that this would close down Goose Bay. And the public is asking why a $6-million study is effectively worthless. ""The study has problems on every page. Its description of the proposal is inadequate, not even identifying the vast areas for bombing, target and supersonic flight practice, which effectively exempts them from assessment. Its use of existing scientific data, particularly on noise, is distorted. It has failed to cite a wide range of existing studies, or to conduct its own research where data are not yet available. It proposes 'avoidance' of people and sensitive wildlife by the military, without demonstrating that this is feasible. And the aboriginal perspectives are totally avoided. ""This is not just my opinion, but that of numerous specialists. The study's errors and distortions cannot be explained as poor research. They show a pattern of distortions which consistently minimizes the negative impacts of the project. ""A major problem with the present process is that DND had total control over who conducted the study and how it was done. It is common knowledge among the subcontractors that the results of many component studies were never included in the final report, while in other cases results were included only selectively. The consultants involved cannot legally complain publicly and if they did, would gain the unwanted reputation as troublemakers. ""The only checks against such distortions are the public interest groups who were allowed to criticize the report. However, the funding available to them was minuscule compared to that spent by DND. Due mainly to the ability of the Innu to find independent scientists who could critically examine the report, and to the independence shown by the panel, a sham has been exposed. ""But this is not a victory for environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Last Tuesday, for the 10th year, the low-level flights were due to start screaming over the heads of Innu hunters and the wildlife. The EARP process has yet to offer them any real protection. BLOCKADE Moscow accused of diverting food sent from Cuba CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 rioters planned to storm the building. The troops, some using their clubs and others using their feet and fists, forced the guards and 400 employees out of the building, the witnesses said. ""They threatened to kill us,"" said a civilian guard, Romouldas Sulio-kas, whose nose was bleeding and who said he had been beaten in the stomach and kicked in the back. ""Some of us threw ourselves down to the floor, but we were dragged along."" About 4,000 Vilnius residents, who heard radio reports of the clash, converged on the plant and began singing nationalist songs and jeering at the soldiers. Twelve people were injured and three were taken to hospital. It was not immediately clear whether the troops' movement into the building was ordered by Moscow or by the commander of the Vilnius garrison. About 15 unarmed Interior Ministry troops had been watching the building for three weeks without incident. Troops beat some Lithuanians last month as they forcibly rounded up army deserters. But in takeovers of about half a dozen Communist Party buildings in Vilnius since the Lithuanian parliament declared the republic independent March 11, there has been no violence. Gorbachev, however, has been increasing the pressure on the Baltic republic in the past week in an effort to persuade Lithuanian lawmakers to rescind pro-independence legislation. Moscow cut off all oil supplies and 84 percent of the republic's natural gas supplies. And yesterday, according to Deputy Prime Minister Romualdas Ozolas, the Lithuanian leadership received telegrams ""that confirm that not only oil and gas but also food products have been diverted from Lithuania."" Two ships from Cuba carrying raw sugar for Lithuania have been diverted from the Baltic republic's port of Klaipeda as have supplies of fish from neighboring Latvia, Ozolas told a news conference. ""We cannot speak about some misunderstanding,"" he said. ""I am sure this is a part of a complex of measures that can be called a blockade. I also fear that the range of these measures can be expanded."" In Norway, Lithuania's prime minister yesterday suggested a trade of farm products for oil to help the Baltic republic survive the Soviet blockade. Kazimiera Prunskicne visited the west-coast oil town of Stavanger to meet managers of the government Statoil company. The Norwegian government told the Lithuanians they are welcome to buy its North Sea crude, but it has given no promises of aid. In Moscow, Lithuania's permanent representative to the Soviet capital shot down a BBC report that Lithuania will offer to repeal its declaration in exchange for a two-year timetable for independence. Egidius Bickauskas was quoted on Radio Moscow's Interfax news service as dismissing ""rumors that Lithuanian leaders will be ready to rescind their decision"" if Moscow agrees to a two-year separation plan. The representative's office aides said a Lithuanian delegation is coming to Moscow on Monday for consultations with Soviet officials. But Bickauskas said the talks were not linked to Moscow's economic sanctions and had been scheduled before the energy embargo was imposed on Wednesday. ""I decided to give you my resignation,"" Leveille wrote. ""For the nine years that I sat on the bench, I achieved the objectives I had set myself. It is with regret that I now take this course of action."" At 5 p.m., Remillard's spokesman, Anne Lebel, said Remillard was in his courthouse office but had not yet seen the letter. She said he would have no comment in any case. Leveille had stepped down temporarily Feb. 21 pending the Judicial Council ruling on the two accusations of wrongdoing against him. He had continued to draw his $92,000 annual salary. Lapointe said yesterday that Leveille has also decided to withdraw his appeal of the massage parlor conviction. The appeal process was set to start in Quebec Superior Court April 25. ""We're turning the page,"" Lapointe said in an interview, ""My client is very shook up. He's going to try to get over all this."" Lapointe added his client is angered that all three complaints against him have surfaced anonymously, and always first in the media. ""The judge has come to the conclusion that obviously someone doesn't want him to sit as a judge,"" Lapointe said. ""We don't know who that person is."" Police arrested Leveille in the massage parlor in August, but did not charge him until after the story appeared in La Presse early this year. Lapointe said the drunkenness complaint came out Wednesday at the Judicial Council's monthly meeting. A committee appointed to examine Leveille's case was set to examine that charge next Tuesday. The Journal de Montreal reported yesterday that the crown prosecutor in the 1987 sexual assault case had complained to his superiors about Leveille's state during the hearing. The complaint was forwarded to the Justice Department in Quebec City but nothing was done, the newspaper said. POLLUTION Recycling drive instigated in PSBGM schools Continued from page A1 done with it. Most simply were glad that a drive they had instigated last fall has been recognized by their schools and put into action in a concrete way. This is how it works: A Laval fine paper collection firm, Carod Inc., distributes 3,084 blue boxes to the board's 67 schools. Into each box go about 15 kilograms of waste computer paper, looseleaf, note paper and photocopy paper. The schools use 50 million sheets of paper a year a total of 250,000 tonnes. Recycling one tonne saves 17 full-grown trees, Domtar says. Carod Inc. separates the paper by type and sends it to Domtar's Montreal East recycling centre, from there, Domtar ships the paper to its various mills throughout Canada to be recycled. The process costs the schools nothing; indeed, it saves some of them the cost of garbage disposal. The PSBGM is the only board in Montreal to institute such a program in all its schools. The Montreal Board of Trade provides free business advice and contacts. And it's all thanks to the students themselves. ""The impulse came from the kids, saying: We want to start recycling in our school; what are you going to do about it?"" said Gaby Ostro, the PSBGM consultant behind the project. ""I'm really into the environment,"" said Alex Tempier, 11, a Grade 6 student at Roslyn School in Westmount. ""When I see kids I want to show them the environment is precious and you shouldn't fool around with it."" The only problem, Domtar representative Dan Miller said, is finding a market for the finished product: colored recycled paper, which is 10 to 20 percent more expensive than regular white paper. ""In offices especially, there's been a lot of reluctance to use colored paper,"" Miller said. ""So how about lowering the price for a while, taking a cut in profits, to encourage consumption? That's one question the Domtar man wasn't able to answer."" ""I don't deny this is good public relations,"" he said. Outback floods strand thousands ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY An elderly woman drowned in flood waters, and 30,000 people in Outback areas remained isolated as heavy rain continued across much of eastern Australia, police said today. Ngari Roberts, 64, drowned at Mudgee in central western New South Wales state when her motorcycle was swept downstream as she tried to cross a swollen creek. The town of Charleville, in western Queensland state, was under water and officials said 4,000 people, many stranded on the roofs of the flooded homes, would have to be rescued by helicopter or boat. Queensland state Premier Wayne Goss declared the central and western areas of his state a disaster area and promised financial aid for victims of the flooding, caused by three weeks of heavy rain. Meteorologists said the rain was the heaviest in 40 years. A number of usually placid rivers were overflowing, killing thousands of sheep and cattle. 250 St. Antoine W., Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3R7 PRICES Single copy price in metropolitan Montreal $0.50 $1.00 $1.25 Outside metropolitan area Ottawa & Quebec City Area (MONTHLY Payment in advance Monday to Sunday Saturday and Sunday Montreal $13.00 $6.50 Payment in advance (7 days week) Annual $139 Semi-annual $74 Payment in advance (Saturday and Sunday) Annual $75 Semi-annual $38 Carte delivery only, rates for out of town delivery and other services available on request. TELEPHONES Accounting Service 282-2621 Advertising 282-2750 Circulation Service 282-2929 General Information 282-2222 West Island Boutique 894-4989 Community Relations 282-2790 NEWSROOM Business Section James Ferrabee City Desk - Ray Brassard Ombudsman Bob Walker Sports Section Pat Hickey West Island Bureau - Karen Sedman 694-4981 CLASSIFIED Regular Classified 287-2311 Auto 282-2327 Real Estate 282-2351 Careers-Jobs 282-2892 The Gazette, Second Class Mail Registration number 0619 USA Registration number USPS 003556 Second class postage paid at Champlain, NY 12919 For Convenient home delivery call 282-2929 The Gazette is a member of the Quebec Press Council. Everything you need in an XT-type business microcomputer, yet more attractively priced than you would have thought possible. If value is your first priority, the OPC-1000 Package features 8088 turbo processor, 10 MM clock speed, 20 Mb Hard disk drive, Phoenix BIOS, 766 Kb Random access memory, 5.25"" Floppy disk drive, Enhanced keyboard, 14"" Amber monitor, MS DOS 3.3. With all these features together with an unbeatable two-year parts and labour warranty, you know why the OPC-1000 is the best value for your PC dollar. A THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1990 QUEBEC'S CREE TAKE PROTEST INGRID PERITZ THE GAZETTE NEW YORK He lives in a land of crystal rivers and an endless horizon, but today Joseph Petagumskum's world is squeezed between a murky waterway and a clump of glass-and-steel towers in Lower Manhattan. It is a long way from home. The Cree don't have words for highway, highway or even car. But to Petagumskum, his voyage here was worth taking. A powerfully built man with skin weathered by a lifetime hunting and fishing, Petagumskum travelled 2,000 kilometres with fellow villagers from northern Quebec to press his case against Hydro-Quebec. The giant Quebec utility wants to build a project that would reduce Great Whale River to a trickle, and flood a land that Petagumskum reveres. ""God gave us that land. It's our garden,"" the 54-year-old says through an interpreter. ""White people wouldn't like us to destroy their garden. Please don't destroy ours."" As the world marks Earth Day tomorrow, the province's Cree and Inuit are asking Quebecers to turn their attention to a piece of the planet in their own backyards. Hydro-Quebec's colossal James Bay II would divert eight rivers and flood huge tracts of land in northern Quebec. The project marks the culmination of Premier Robert Bourassa's dream of tapping the power of Quebec's rivers for energy. In the process, the Cree's ""garden"" would be transformed into the biggest generating complex on earth. ""If this project is built, the Cree culture will cease to exist,"" says Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come, leader of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec. ""It will drive away the animals, and if you drive away the animals, you drive us away too."" After public pressure, Quebec decided to subject new hydro development to public scrutiny for the first time. Hearings are set to begin soon. ""Quebec has taken steps to protect the environment around James Bay in the past; and Hydro-Quebec says it can manage the impact of James Bay II. But the Cree are dubious. ""The original James Bay poisoned their fish, killed their caribou and threatened their birds with extinction, they say. ""Look what happened the first time,"" Petagumskum says. ""Why should we trust them any more? Our land will be underwater. The burial sites of our ancestors will be flooded."" It is 11 a.m. in New York's Battery Park and Mina and Billy Weetaltuk look bewildered. The elderly couple from Great River have never strayed far from their home of 2,000 souls before. Today, they saw a tangle of highways leading into New York that resembled a demonic snake; they saw towers reaching toward the heavens in a way they never dreamed possible. Now they are seated on a park bench with two homeless men sleeping beneath a blanket of newspapers nearby. ""This place is scary,"" 70-year-old Billy says through an interpreter. ""I would rather be home. But we have to be here. This is where we must fight."" For the past month, Billy and Mina have joined 60 Quebec natives in a battle on U.S. soil to protect their land from the Great Whale project, which they say amounts to its first step toward becoming a major energy exporter, long regarded as a vital component of Quebec's economic future. Robert Brunette, vice-president of Native and Inuit Affairs at Hydro-Quebec, says that flooding from Great Whale would affect only a fraction of the territory covered by the James Bay Agreement. ""For the Cree, I don't hide it: It will disturb some people, especially the trappers and people who live from traditional means,"" Brunette says. ""But it won't be disastrous for their lives. Their fears are exaggerated. There are ways of controlling and correcting the impacts."" Hydro-Quebec says its projects have respected the environment and provided health care, education and other benefits to Quebec natives. Brunette said the Cree from Great Whale could derive such new benefits as jobs at Hydro sites and a road to join their isolated community with the rest of the world. But the Cree say they don't want money. They don't want roads. ""We just want Hydro,"" Petagumskum says, ""to leave us in peace."""
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Q. 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, COPPER 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.
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authorities deserve the thanks of civilization, can hardly be overestimated. The object in view, as Prof. Maury says, was to study the atmosphere as a unit. ""Nature's forces respect no national frontiers; and, if their mighty play is to be watched by science, its observational corps must be expanded to cover every accessible part of the globe."" Some of the results of this combined research are very remarkable. In examining the data of 20 months, Prof. Loomis found that in that time 28 storm centres had travelled eastward across the Rocky Mountains, having scaled that barrier as easily as a steamship overrides a wave. In July, 1878, the Signal Office at Washington began to publish regularly a daily weather chart of all the observations taken simultaneously in the northern hemisphere, which brings ""within easy comprehension of the student's eye"" the atmospheric phenomena of the whole field of research. Among the questions of which the solution is sought by these charts are ""the translation of cyclones from the Asiatic waters over the North Pacific Ocean to the Pacific slopes of the United States and the kindred question of the transatlantic passage of American storms to western Europe.""
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Rogers, a bachelor, is also caretaker of St. Philip's Anglican Church. He's still a cub leader, and some of his cubs also collect badges. "I love to work with kids," he said. "Hopefully what we try to give to them is a good way of living." Badgers Club members from across Canada will meet in Montreal on April 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Scouts Canada headquarters, 2001 Trans-Canada Highway, Dorval (eastbound service road). The meeting is open to all. Call Rogers at 486-6850. Cleanup resumes after Easter Street cleaning in the Notre Dame de Grace and Cote des Neiges districts, which was interrupted by the April 1 snowstorm, will resume April 13, following the Easter long weekend. "We expect to have the street sweeping operation to be completed by April 23 at the latest," said Daniel Fleury, district manager of road maintenance.
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"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. There is another feature which is commendable, as it is rare in variety performance an utter lack of anything approaching vulgarity. It is an entertainment that a lady can enjoy. It opens with an overture, which the audience spoiled by taking all through it. The turn of Josie and Eddis Evans was decidedly funny, and it had an encore, but then encores were a matter of course. Fulyoia, the transfiguretor, is a novelty, his lightning channel of costume in full view of the audience being very ingenious. Falke and Simons are a pair of original musical comedians, who really make D-nalo as well as nonsense. Miss Eva Bertoldi, the ventriloquist, is another act worth seeing. 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.
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Whitfield Mills of his journey across the centre of the continent, from Belvano to Northampton in Western Australia, illustrates the hardships and perils to which explorers are oftentimes exposed. He must have undertaken his trip after a prolonged drought, for spots which preceding explorers had reported as furnishing good supplies of water he found to be quite dry. His travels covered a distance of 1,000 miles, and all along the route there are only three sources of water to be relied upon in a dry season as affording a permanent supply. Mr. Mills passed over some well-grassed and splendid salt-bush country, and speaking of an extensive desert of spinifex between the Warburton Range and the Lilyth Watershed, he says if the spinifex were replaced with grass, which it would if the spinifex were burnt, it would form for a considerable distance one of the most magnificent pastoral districts in the world. But all this was of little avail in the absence of water. The constant record is of dry creeks, dry lagoons, and dry rockholes; the camels had one drink in twenty-one days, and they tottered along, staggering against the trees, too thirsty to eat. With these ships of the desert, however, they were able successfully to cope with all the difficulties which had been brought about by a period of unusual drought, and which they never dreamt they would have to encounter.
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The minister had said a decision on the plans would be made in June, and then said two weeks ago he expected a decision in the next few weeks. David Birnbaum, executive director of Alliance Quebec, said the delay means the English community is left without effective access plans, since the 1989 plans now in effect were drawn up long before the massive changes to Quebec's health-care system. When lightning strikes, they're ready to repair damage total, blamed on thunderstorms. Levasseur said the amount of time it takes for power to be restored to an area depends on the circumstances of the blackout. Levasseur acknowledged that however sophisticated the utility's damage-control policies become for dealing with lightning, so far there's been no breakthrough in the war against freezing rain, which left some North Shore Hydro customers without electricity for days last winter. He said the utility is working on a system that could monitor the weight of freezing rain forming on power lines, but the technology was not yet in use across the power distribution network. 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.
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The Canadian dollar closed down 0.06 cent at 68.98 cents US on Thursday. The U.S. dollar stood at 1.4496 Cdn, up 0.11 cent. Pound sterling was worth $2.3636 Cdn, down 0.22 cent and $1.6305 US, down 0.28 cent. Quotations provided by the Bank of Montreal. Closing Rates US Dollar Thursday, Wednesday 1.4496 1.4485 1.4473 1.4498 CURRENCY based on the amount of transaction. This symbol ) indicates official or restricted rates. TORONTO (CP) - Here are the exchange rates a consumer can expect to pay when buying relatively small amounts of foreign currencies. They were provided mid-morning Thursday by the Bank of Montreal. Rates fluctuate during the day, vary at each bank and may change. 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.
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THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN, Camp Dewey, July 26, via Hong Kong and Paris, August 1, Torrential rains continue. The men encamped are exposed to the weather, and unless a forward movement occurs soon much sickness is inevitable, as the camp is on low-lying land, not easily drained. According to the present plans it is probable a demand for the surrender of Manila will be sent to Captain-General Augustin. If surrender is refused the fleet will attack in front and the First and Second brigades, under General Anderson, will advance southeast through San Pedro, Macatu and Wanduolayon, upon the Spanish positions at Santa Mesa and Santa Anna. If Captain-General Augustin surrenders, the American troops will land at Manila, the troops at Camp Dewey holding the insurgents in check. General Anderson will not co-operate with the insurgents. General Greene, commanding Camp Dewey, has established outposts entirely regardless of the position of Aguinaldo's soldiers. Orders have been given to impress on the natives whatever is desirable, regardless of the dictator's prohibition upon the sales of horses and supplies to the Americans. The troops have begun to build with bamboo a corduroy road from Camp Dewey to Pasig, via Pasoy. THE PHILIPPINES, No Negotiations Between Great Britain and United States, London, August 1. In the House of Commons today, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, Mr. Geo
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COMMERCIAL. Gazette Office, Tuesday Evening. The wheat markets in England today did not evince much improvement, cargoes off coast being quiet but steady, and cargoes on passage and for shipment were inactive. There was more inquiry for Liverpool offerings at the opening, but later advices quoted the market flat. Maize was very dull, depressed and lower; mixed maize for shipment during present and following month was down to 29s 3d, and off coast to 30s. Spot offerings in Liverpool were dull and 2d per cental lower, mixed maize being down to 6 8d. Canadian peas were quiet and steady at 7s 9d. The weather in England continues cold and snowy. The following were the stocks in Chicago on the dates named: March 17, March 10, March 18, 1883, 1881, 1882. Wheat, bush: 5,087,421, 5,811,182, 8,760,870. Corn, bush: 5,445,915, 4,006,461, 6,281,500.
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The plant will lay off its 800 employees and lose production of more than $500,000 of newsprint per day. The losses still haven't been determined, but Dallaire said it will be more than $10 million. "It's probably closer to $20 million to $25 million," she said. Alcan Aluminium Inc. officials said they couldn't put a value on losses, but had suffered extensive damage to their rail network. Rain keeps people of Jonquiere on edge JONATHON GATEHOUSE THE GAZETTE JONQUIERE - Weary and flood-shocked residents of Jonquiere were left in the dark again last night, after a new storm hit the community, knocking out power for several thousand people downtown. The heavy rains, which dumped more than 10 millimeters in less than half an hour, weren't expected to significantly affect the still-swollen Riviere aux Sables, but they were an unwelcome reminder of the weather-driven devastation of the last few days. Municipal authorities said they expected power would be restored by midnight.
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"It's difficult to tell how long this is going to take, the weather is really working against us," said Ontario Hydro spokesman Al Manchee. "It could be a matter of hours for some and a matter of days for others." In Ottawa, more than 30,000 of the 110,000 Hydro customers in the city were without power yesterday morning, and the storm was again blamed for wiping out progress made earlier in the week. "We're right back in the thick of things now," Hydro spokesman Dan Ralph said. City officials declared a state of emergency, and Ralph said it will be at least another 24 hours before the damage is repaired. The weather and Ottawa airport delays have forced Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the provincial premiers to postpone from Saturday to Sunday their departure on a trade mission to Latin America. While storm-struck people in Ottawa and Montreal scramble to find flashlights and friends with electricity, people living in the surrounding countryside are facing other challenges, like helping their animals survive and dealing with isolation.
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the Princes Christian, and we have reason to believe that the volume will contain some additions of considerable interest. Messrs Wilson & McCormick, of Glasgow, will publish next month "Geology and the Deluge" by the Duke of Argyll. Under the title of "The Sagacity and Morality of Plants: a sketch of the Life and Conduct of the Vegetable Kingdom," Dr
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Municipal authorities said they expected power would be restored by midnight. For most of yesterday, however, bright sunshine and warm temperatures attracted hundreds of curious onlookers to the city's downtown. As the river's waters slowly receded, it was an opportunity to survey the damage caused by the worst floods in Jonquiere's history. "It's a phenomenon of nature and we can't do anything about it," said resident Simon Hebert. "We're powerless in the face of this." Hebert was marveling at the remains of a downtown apartment complex on the river's heavily eroded east bank. One building tumbled into the frothing waters 20 meters below on Sunday afternoon. The only trace of the structure are its front balconies and one wildly tilted living room that dangles over the cliff face. A portrait of Christ hangs on the wall above a tartan sofa, and vertical blinds still cover the picture window. Two neighboring apartment buildings in the St. Jean Baptiste complex are perched precariously on rapidly disappearing foundations, large parts of their facades lost in the seething brown waters. A short distance downriver, the Soucy St.
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James T. Brady, his bondsman, captured him near Peach Island yesterday, and lodged him in jail last night. This morning Brown was brought before Judge Brown for sentence. Brown said: "I was working at the fishing ground, near Peach lie, in Canada, when Brady, my bondsman, disguised, and four other fellows rushed on me with revolvers and shotguns. 'Get into this boat,' yelled Brady, and before I knew it I was in jail here." Brown was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $300. "One Day's Shopping", Husband: "More money? Why, my dear, I gave you $100 this morning for shopping. What did you get?" Wife: "Oh, lots of things. We were absolutely suffering for a pair of socks for you; they were 25 cents. A necktie for you; that was 60 cents. A perfectly lovely tie worth twice that; it isn't the right color, and I don't suppose you will wear it; but it was such a bargain.
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But the real beneficiaries of the work-at-home trend are the employees themselves. I work at home, and I have found that this arrangement has a tremendous potential for personal growth. She takes a turn at the table in a lay way (5) 29, A good one is of assistance (9) Down 1, Full of ill-will and disease (9) 2, There's a place for Belgians up in Rumania (5) 3, David's weapon in a famous 12 (9) 4, Take in (sounds like a fun thing) (6) 5, No big culinary event for little people (5) 6, Invent a small company in money (4) 7, Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! And for an undemanding of one in the other you may have to (9) 8, Far from svelte (5) 14, So be it.
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Please see VOTING, Page A3 MORE INSIDE, CHRIS WATTIE REUTERS Stephane Dion: I'm so pleased, I'm so happy, I'm so honoured to have the opportunity to help my party and my country, DRAMATIC FINALE Quiet deal struck with Kennedy called key to win ELIZABETH THOMPSON GAZETTE OTTAWA BUREAU Everything is possible in Canada - even the greatest of dreams, With those words, Stephane Dion took centre stage last night after he realized what many had thought was an impossible dream and won a dramatic fourth-ballot victory to become the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Dion, whose leadership ambitions were initially written off, moved past presumed front-runners Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff in multiple rounds of voting to garner 54.7 per cent of delegates to 45.3 per cent for Ignatieff on the final ballot, The key, say strategists from all sides, was a deal quietly struck between Dion and Kennedy over the past few weeks, The two men had talked extensively and realized they were on the same wavelength on many issues they cared about, Dion organizers explained, Divided, both were destined to fail, they realized,
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leading the Major League All-Stars to a 5-0 rout of the Japanese team in the final game of their tour in Tokyo. The major-leaguers wound up the eight-game series with three victories, four defeats and one tie. Finley, of the California Angels, fanned five and walked three in five innings. Johnson, of the Seattle Mariners, struck out four and walked two in finishing. Playing at the Tokyo Dome, which was packed with 56,000 fans, Olson of the Atlanta Braves ripped a home run off rookie Hideo Nomo in the second inning. Ken Griffey Sr. of the Mariners and Kelly Gruber of the Blue Jays smashed RBI doubles in the third to widen the lead to 5-0. Darryl Strawberry said yesterday that he has not fallen off the wagon and that the N.S. ROTHMAN-BEMIAIM Cote St. Luc Have we gone mad?
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In conversation with a Gazette reporter last night Mr. Chase was not slow to recognize the beauties of the Canadian game, but he still thought that the American style had some points worthy of consideration. As far as playing a match with the Shamrocks was concerned he was not quite sure, but it was quite possible that it might take place on the return trip. He says our style of hockey is practically a revelation to him, judging from the practice matches he has seen. The American collegians are typical front men; they are here to spend a pleasant time and they are not above taking a hint as to the improvement of a game that they admire, but spectators will notice this evening that the distance between goals has been modified. This will be a distinct advantage to the visitors, as to a great extent it will do away with some of the benefits of foot skating, whereat Montrealers shine. The match between the Victorias and the American collegians will begin at 8 o'clock sharp, as the Victoria club have down on their programme a little social supper which will take place after the match.
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They may have breathed in a dangerous combination of chlorine fumes and carbon monoxide, a Montreal Children's Hospital doctor said. Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, who treated four girls aged 8 to 12, said, I think it was chlorine inhalation. We've never seen anything like this before, he said. We've had isolated cases of kids drinking bleach. The carbon monoxide was the icing on the cake, Roumeliotis said blood tests had showed above-normal levels of carbon monoxide in the blood of the four girls. Katie Sheahan, director of the YMCA on Hampton St., said a car probably had been idling in the parking lot beside the intake vent of the air circulation system. It's the kind of day where parents leave the car running and listen to the radio and read a book while waiting, Sheahan said. The girls spent five hours in hospital and were released after blood tests and examinations for respiratory burns. Two girls and a boy taken to St. Justine's were also released, Sheahan said. One of them had gone home from the YMCA and then had been taken to the hospital. The children began to vomit at about 10:20 a.m.
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When I was growing up in New Brunswick, Roy Rogers was just the king of the cowboys, recalls Bonnell, who moved to Montreal in 1970. My cousins had ponies and we'd all ride around pretending we were Roy. And, of course, the ultimate was going to the movies for a Saturday matinee featuring Roy. Sure, there was also Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack, but they were a poor man's Roy and Trigger. Davy Crockett was a wimp compared to him, he continues, and Gene Autry was just a little too fat in the saddle. Needless to say, Bonnell knows all about Roy's beginnings. He can tell you Roy's real name: Leonard Slye. And how he was discovered: crooning cowboy tunes. He can even tell you about Trigger's roots: When Roy spotted Trigger in the studio corral, I don't think he realized he was the same Palomino who had previously starred in Lady Godiva's Ride. Bonnell's kids son Mark, 24, a member of the Canadian and other because nobody will notice if you eat as many as 20 lunches per day.
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01 SECOND RACE: Trot, I Mile Purse: 11,000 5 Prime Saliora (M. Lalonde) 9.70 5.10 5.70 3 Bidou Fio (R. SimarrJ) 5.30 4.40 1 Livinwwed (R. Ginsras) 6.50 Trifecta: 5-3-1,1391.50 Exacta: 5-3 152.20 Also Ran: Rhell Windswept, G G Carney, Lady Or-Wex, K R Pierce, Blackie Aibear Times: 29.2, 1.00, 1.31, 2.32, THIRD RACE: Pace, 1 Mile Purse M FEBRUARY 4 1992 Public networks should run issue-advocacy commercials Optometrists' ad won't be seen on CBC; 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;
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C and Katherina Kubenk of Kitchener, Ont, placed 13th and 16th, respectively, in the preliminaries and failed to qualify for the five-woman final. Lucie Barma of Lac Beauport and Nancy Wankling of Winnipeg, Canada's top medal contenders in ballet, were both sidelined with injuries. Five-time World Cup ballet champion Jan Bucher of the United States, the co-favorite with Kissling, fell halfway through her performance in the final. Bucher, who led after the preliminaries, slipped after landing a jump. She strained knee ligaments and was taken from the course on a stretcher. "It hurt me to see Jan fall like that. We're competitors, but we're good friends," said Kissling, who was second to Bucher after the preliminary round in the morning. "It happened so quickly. I've never seen her hurt like that before," Kissling, a 28-year-old from Messen, a tiny Swiss village near Berne, speculated that Bucher's fall was the result of icy conditions caused by Thursday's heavy rain and yesterday's cold temperatures. Kissling skis in all three freestyle disciplines (moguls and aerials are the other two), but said this will be her final season in the combined. "I'm getting a bit old to do all three," she said. "After this season I will concentrate on just the ballet." Kissling voiced displeasure over the decision by the International Olympic Committee to grant official medal status only to the moguls event for the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville, France. "Freestyle is three events and all three should have been accepted," said Kissling. She conceded that ballet, similar to figure skating, was the most difficult event for people to understand. "It's a legitimate sport, but because it's not one where the fastest time wins, people have a problem with it. When time is the only important thing, you have problems with doping of athletes. Ballet demands athletic ability and creativity." The final four will be down to the final four after this weekend's action. Unfortunately for the National Football League, two of the best four teams won't be there. That's because the four National Football Conference teams involved in this weekend's NFC semifinals—Vikings, Giants, Rams, and 49ers—are better than the four American Football Conference participants—Broncos, Steelers, Bills, and Browns. Either of the NFC games—Vikings at 49ers today (4 p.m., CBS) or Rams at Giants tomorrow (12:30, CBS)—will feature better talent than the AFC games, which see the Bills playing at Cleveland today (12:30, NBC) and the Steelers at Denver tomorrow (4 p.m.). in confidence to: Gary Nichol NICHOL FINANCIAL SERVICES 3441 Stanley St, Montreal, Que, H3A 1R1 Professional Help Wanted 405 PLANT ENGINEER To manage multi-discipline project, 5-15 years experience. ComamH, 676-9586 PLANT ENGINEER Manufacturing plant located in the East End requires services of a bilingual person to fulfill the following functions: Technical support to production, R & D on machinery, manager of machine shop, knowledge of dyes and cold metal stamping an asset. Write The Gazette, Dept. 1021, 321-4610. MACHINIST minimum 3 years experience on milling machine, lame. Call Jimmy at 1-348-9588. Mecaero Canada Inc has openings in the following positions: Tool maker - Hot cold forging, Lathe operator - Grinding, drilling, etc. Please submit your resume in strict confidence to: Human Resources Mecaero Canada Inc, 2250 Cohan St-Laurent, Que, H4R 9Z7 Skilled Help Wanted 410 HYDROPONICS Technician needed to develop and maintain hydroponic systems in a commercial environment. Neat appearance, driver's license and minimum 1 year commercial experience required. PLANT-TECH LTD 43929 - GENERAL MACHINIST Wanted by medium sized machinery builder in the Cote de Liesse area. Min. 5 years experience on lathe (not N). 3 bedroom cottage, separate dining room, 2 cold rooms walking distance to school, church, etc. No reasonable offer refused 648-7537. 1-3 Mm n n 0' CbC&HCttl, Montreal, Saturday, January 6, 1990 Finding the best snow requires careful planning By HUGH NANGLE Special to The Gazette CHAMONIX, France - The Alps have a special magic for skiers that no amount of bad publicity can kill. Despite last winter's horror stories about the scarcity of snow on the slopes, for example, more than 200,000 North Americans packed up their boards and headed to Europe for a ski holiday. And it wasn't because they were stupid. They knew the horror stories were only partly true and that no matter what you read in the newspapers, it's nearly always possible to find snow somewhere in the Alps if you plan carefully. It's true that some traditional ski areas have weathered the last few winters looking more like golf courses. And flying all the way to Europe only to end up in a resort that has no snow can put you off the Alps for life. But such disasters can be avoided. There's plenty of good skiing in Europe if you pick your centres carefully. At the top of your list put Val d'Isere, Chamonix, La Plagne, and Les Trois Vallees in France; St Anton, Kitzbuhel, Innsbruck, and Saalbach in Austria; and Verbier, Zermatt, and St Moritz in Switzerland. They've all had ample snow in the last two years and most of them are either on or close to glaciers. But don't base your destination on the lowest price or the fame of the skiing centre. Instead, know the type of holiday you want— all-out skiing and nothing else or a more laid-back vacation. And be absolutely honest about your skiing ability. Some of the lowest priced trips are not really suited for people who aren't at least intermediate level skiers and a few are suitable only for advanced intermediate or even experts. Chamonix is a good example. There are a few trails for skiers with average ability but most of the really good skiing is for people who want 12 days of hard skiing down challenging runs or through off-piste powder. The Val d'Isere-Tignes complex and Val Thorens are for the same kind of people and so are St Anton, Kitzbuhel, and Badgastein in Austria, and Verbier, Zermatt, and Saas Fee in Switzerland. Skiers who want a nice mix of pleasant skiing with good food and some disco outings and shopping trips to round it off will be happier in older centres like Val d'Isere, Les Arcs, La Plagne, Alpes d'Huez, Les Deux Alpes, and the Les Trois Vallees complex in France; St Moritz and Klosters in Switzerland; or Solden, Salzburg, and Innsbruck in Austria. For instance, Les Trois Vallees (encompassing the centres of Val Thorens, Les Menuires, Meribel, and Courchevel) is one of the largest ski areas in the world with more than 500 km of groomed trails and over 200 lifts to serve them. Everyone, beginners and experts alike, can find something to test their skills as well as some chic nightlife in Courchevel, an old and charming village at the bottom of the hills, and Courchevel 1850 (that's its altitude, not its vintage) at the top. Ski magazines aren't the best guides for beginners or even intermediates. Their articles are often written by excellent skiers whose standards have little to do with the abilities of mere mortals. When you go is almost as important as where you go. Resorts are generally less crowded in January, late March, and April but they fill up at Easter and during the European school holidays in the latter half of February. To guide you in selecting the right destination and time, find a travel agent or tour operator who knows what he's talking about. He should know which centres have good snow and the dates of school holidays in the different countries, and if he doesn't, find someone else. Your agent should also have detailed, four-color resort maps you can look at or even take away. These maps mark all the lifts and have standardized color codes for the trails: green for very easy, blue for easy (intermediate), red for difficult (advanced intermediate), and black for very difficult (experts). If you learned to keep your skis parallel just last month, avoid resorts with a lot of black in them. Most maps make it easy for you by summarizing the number of trails in each category. For instance, of the 75 runs at my favorite resort, Les Deux Alpes, 19 are very easy, 30 are easy, 16 are difficult, and 10 are very difficult. If you have a low frustration level, you might prefer one of the newer resorts that make getting from your hotel room to the slopes quick and easy. Places like Les Menuires, Les Deux Alpes, Tignes, and La Plagne in France come to mind. They may lack the charm of older centres but they were designed solely for skiing. The terrain and runs were selected first. The lifts were positioned and then accommodations were built around them. Again, the importance of knowing the type of vacation you want will help decide between the convenience of a modern, concrete-dominated resort or one with atmosphere and style. Snow and altitude invariably go hand-in-hand. Resorts at higher altitudes generally have more reliable snow conditions, although heavy storms up there can also make for unskiable days. Look for centres that are between 2,000 and 3,000 metres above sea level. Most tour operators offering group outings have selected centres where the snow is reliable, the accommodation has been checked out for North American standards, and their prices generally can't be beaten. The sheer exhilaration of skiing off-piste or in the powder bowls is unparalleled but don't try it without a guide. Too many skiers have died after they ventured into territory that was beyond them. If you do get into trouble, there's no free service for injured skiers so you need insurance to cover the cost of getting to hospital. In France, Carte Neige coverage costs only about $25 a week and can be purchased from either the local national ski federation office or local tourist office. Skiers going to Switzerland and Austria should have out-of-country insurance, whether Blue Cross or Lloyds of London, to cover unexpected medical bills. Also check to see if your tour operator's insurance covers emergency flights home. One last tip: living at 1,800 metres or more above sea level and skiing at 3,000 metres can take its toll no matter how fit you are, so take it easy for the first few days. Swiss Alps offer picturesque villages and deep snow, if you know where to look. Package Total FRANCE Val d'Isere Club Med $1,233 Jet Tours $1,083 KLM $1,389 Sportsmania $1,159 Chamonix Club Med $1,066 Jet Tours $1,126 KLM $1,545 Sportsmania $989 Swissair $758 AUSTRIA St. Anton Adanac $1,229 CAI $1,230 DER $1,289 Sportsmania $1,365 Swissair $758 Kitzbuhel Adanac $939 CAI $1,161 DER $1,132 KLM $1,535 Proto Tours $999 Sportsmania $1,419 SWITZERLAND Verbier KLM $1,555 Sportsmania $1,359 Swissair $758 Airfare, Bus/Train transfer, Lodging, Ski pass, Ski lessons, Meals, Ski Insurance Included in price. Prices do not include taxes. SKIERS WHO want to go to Europe this winter have a lot of choices. Nearly all the major centres are covered by tour operators, along with some of the less well-known, at truly reasonable prices. For instance, Val d'Isere, Europe's most famous ski centre and one that's really popular with Canadians, is available for less than $1,100 for one week from Jet Tours. And that includes most meals, accident insurance, and ski tickets. Similarly, Kitzbuhel, one of Austria's best-known ski resorts, is also available for less than $1,100 from Adanac Tours. As with everything in the world today, there's no free lunch. You pay for what you get and there are lots of variables that affect the eventual cost so it's important to know what's included in the package you're buying. Ski passes, for example? If they're not included, find out how much extra it will cost. Are meals included? Which ones? If not, is there a kitchen with your accommodation? And is there quick access to grocery shopping? Are guides or lessons included? Air France's subsidiary, Jet Tours, generally comes out ahead of all others in their prices for French resorts simply because ski passes and ski insurance (Carte Neige) are included in their packages. Other operators do not cover these costs, thus pushing up their overall costs. Sportsmania, the most competitive, comes in at $989 for its seven-day package to Chamonix, but the additional $140 for a ski pass and about $25 for the essential Carte Neige insurance brings the total cost in at $1,154 compared to $1,126 from Jet Tours. However, Sportsmania includes two meals a day in its package and that could make it a better deal, depending on how much you spend on food. Club Med comes in at the top end of the price range in the centres where they operate. However, their packages are apparently all-inclusive. Three meals a day, along with wine at lunch and dinner, a ski pass, and ski lessons are included in Club Med's price. To help skiers get an inkling of who is offering what, the attached comparative table is based on the cheapest package for each destination. St. Anton and Kitzbuhel, in the Austrian Tyrol, and Chamonix in the Savoie region of France emerge as the three most popular destinations among the tour operators. An additional week can normally be added to packages at a reasonable cost, ranging from about $300 and up, depending on what is included. The level and quality of accommodation are the primary guidelines in establishing price. Bed and breakfast living is markedly different in price from a four-star hotel. There are a broad number of packages offered by operators. Prices vary on what is included in the length of the trip and what is included. While the table reflects prices for short trips, there are many longer trips offered. The longer trips are a better on a cost per day basis. Some are for 10-day periods. Others are for two weeks, and yet others are for two weeks, taking in two different ski centres. Some have guides accompanying a group. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about Disney World. I fly to Florida at 4 o'clock this afternoon with my 11-year-old daughter Sarah, which means I've been rushing around all week and haven't had much time to write this column. And I still have a lot to do before I can abandon my desk and my wife for a week to go exploring the marvels of Walt Disney World. But I think Sarah has been ready since last Tuesday. Her bags are packed with her lucky unicorn tucked under her pyjamas and a swimming suit wrapped in a towel just in case we get to a beach. And she has read all that teensy type on the back of the ticket to make sure there's no way Canadian Airlines can squirm out of its commitment to fly her (and her dad) south to Orlando. It's really astonishing just how many people have preceded us on this pilgrimage to the Land of the Giant Mouse. Ever since I first started writing about this trip in my column two weeks ago, people I barely know have stopped me on the street, in the supermarket, and on the bus to recount their own Disney experiences. Typesetters in The Gazette's composing room, reporters in the business department, and even my parish priest have been giving me tips on what's worth seeing and what's not. Most of this has been pretty positive stuff but one man phoned to tell me he thought Disney World was a ripoff. He TRAVELLING LIGHT Paul Waters went in October and found it cold, crowded, and overpriced. "The food!" he said. "And the souvenirs! You want a Coke, it costs $2. Minimum." But Sarah and I? We're not discouraged. For one thing, the weather down there seems to be getting a little warmer after that nasty cold snap before Christmas, and for another, we have your letters and they seem pretty reassuring. It's still not too late to send your tips and suggestions to me at The Gazette, 250 St. Antoine St. W, Montreal, H2Y 3R7. I'll run the best ones in my column Jan. 20, the Saturday after we get back. Here's a little tidbit you can use the next time your flight home from Denmark is delayed. Frequent Flyer magazine rates the food at Copenhagen Airport as the best airport food in the world. The oysters and champagne get a big cheer from the American magazine but it's the oven-fresh delicacies at the bakery that really set the airport apart. I got a phone call last week from Gabor Nagy, a chartered accountant who was born in Hungary but who has been living in Canada for years. He wasn't terribly happy with the story we published on Budapest two weeks ago. "Do you realize," he asked, "that Budapest has two opera houses and that for $1.50 you can see productions that are every bit as good as those in Vienna?" There are 20 theatres as well, he said, and while serious drama may be beyond anyone who doesn't understand Hungarian, there are usually three or four big musicals on at any given time. "They're mostly Western," Mr. Nagy said. "Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and for musicals it doesn't matter so much if you don't understand the language." Mr. Nagy also said our story ignored the best pastry shop in all Budapest—the Cafe Vienna in the Forum Hotel where the cakes and tarts are better than anything you can buy in Austria. And he suggested that anyone serious about spending time in Budapest should avoid the big hotels—they're as expensive as the ones in Montreal and New York—and get Ibusz, the government tourist office, to organize lodging in a private home. "They have hundreds of houses on their list," he said. "You can get a room for $10 or $15 a week. And the people will love you." Mr. Nagy's call got me thinking. The story on Budapest was pretty good. I ran it because I liked it and it made me want to visit the city. But Mr. Nagy's right in a way. All travel pieces are subjective—they pretty well have to be—and no journalist has the time to try all the pastry shops in Budapest. The result can seem frustratingly incomplete to anyone who knows or loves the place we're describing. So in the future I'll tell you several weeks in advance about at least some of the places we'll be writing about in the Travel section, much as I've done with the Disney venture. Then if you have any tips or hints about what to see and what to avoid, you can send them to me here at The Gazette and I'll publish the best ones. Those ever-romantic folks at British Airways have cooked up a promotion scheme to get you to take the love of your life to London for Valentine's Day, which is OK if you like theatre, concerts, and cold rainy streets. Anyway, if you go to London on business or for fun between Feb. 11 and 14 and buy a ticket at "an established fare," you'll be able to buy your travelling companion a return economy ticket for $199. Both passengers must travel on the same flights to and from London, stay in Britain at least seven days, book their trips at least 14 days before departure, and pay within 48 hours of booking. You have to come back before March 7 and there's a $30 surcharge for Saturday flights. If that sounds too cheap, consider instead the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. It's offering a romantic weekend for two from Feb. 16 to 18 that's designed for the man (or woman) with a decent-sized heart and a really huge wallet. Just $20,000 U. B-2 - tlx OXfCtta, Montreal, Saturday, January 6, 1990 DAVID W. PERKS BOB RICHARDSON NORMAN WEBSTER MEL MORRIS JOAN FRASER Publisher General Manager Editor Executive Managing Editor Editorial Page Editor Justice in Kahnawake Canada's justice system has poorly served native peoples. But the federal and provincial governments have taken a highly progressive step by opening talks about judicial autonomy with the Kahnawake Mohawk. Any arrangement reached there would set a precedent that could serve as a model for other native groups across Canada. Traditionally, the Mohawk system of justice differs substantially from Canada's. The Mohawk system is non-adversarial and consensus-oriented. In theory at least, emphasis is placed on making everyone winners and, for most offences, rehabilitating wrong-doers within the community. It certainly could be an improvement on Canada's system of letting even non-dangerous offenders rot in prisons where they teach each other how to be better criminals. The governments seem prepared to allow the Mohawk to exercise much greater judicial jurisdiction than they do now. (Kahnawake already has local justices of the peace to judge misdemeanors and settle small disputes.) Mohawk judges would try and sentence offenders whose crimes were committed on the reserve except perhaps those who committed the most serious offences and would settle civil cases according to their own custom. That would imply greater legislative jurisdiction for civil matters and possibly for criminal matters as well. But Mohawks who committed crimes outside Kahnawake would still be tried in Canadian courts. Many details remain to be ironed out. And in Kahnawake, where an armed and powerful group of self-declared traditionalists does not recognize the authority of the elected band council, it will be important that all parties recognize the legitimacy and authority of whatever judicial apparatus is set up. Appropriately, the consultations so far have included both main groups. Other traditionalists, who recognize neither the band council nor the Nation Office-linked Longhouse as legitimate, should be included as well. As things stand, the Nation Office-linked Longhouse does not seem likely to recognize any legislation passed by the band council. Longhouse supporters already are ignoring efforts by the band council to dissuade them from continuing their high-stakes bingo. So long as fundamental divisions remain within Kahnawake, it is hard to see how a new system can function effectively. Still, the talks are welcome. They can help defuse the tense stand-off between the bingo promoters and provincial authorities. And they raise hopes of a mutually beneficial expansion of native autonomy. If it works, that could be an important step to broader self-government. Incompetence may cost lives According to a law passed Jan. 1, Quebecers should be belting up in the back seats of their cars. But few Quebecers know there is such a law. The law officers whose job it is to enforce the law don't know how to enforce it because they haven't been told. And the ministry responsible for both the police and the traffic code seems to have washed its hands of the problem. Because the public doesn't know the rules and police forces are unsure of how they apply, the police are refusing to enforce the back seat belt law. And as long as this bureaucratic bungling goes on, people may die or suffer serious injury who could have been saved by seat belts. The problem starts with and can only be resolved by the Regie de l'assurance automobile du Quebec. It has the responsibility to inform the public and police about changes in the traffic code. It has conspicuously failed to do its job. For example, how do the regulations cover the fact that in most cars, three people can sit in the back seat and, in most cars, there are only two seat belts? The plan was that the RAAQ would launch a major publicity campaign before the law came into force to inform Quebec drivers and the police about the seat belt legislation. That never happened. The official reason is that the RAAQ decided instead to mount the campaign in April or May when, it said, more drivers were on the road. Only after a sharp statement from the Surete du Quebec has the RAAQ agreed to push forward the advertising campaign. It will now start in the next few days. Quebec is the last jurisdiction in Canada, and one of the last in North America, to legislate mandatory seat belts for the back seats of cars. Sadly, as well as being late in passing the life-saving law, the RAAQ has managed to pile confusion on incompetence in applying it. Bouquets and brickbats Bouquets and brickbats are awarded this week: To Canada's national junior hockey team, for scorning the easy way. It won the world championship Thursday when, in its final game, it defeated Czechoslovakia 2-1; but the gold medal wasn't certain until Sweden, in another game, knocked the Soviet Union out of the running by tying the Soviets with a goal with one second remaining. To the Soviet Education Ministry, for seeing the light. It no longer will require university students to study Marxism-Leninism to qualify for a degree. To Charles Turner of Anaheim, Calif, for tasteless and perhaps dangerous showboating. On New Year's Eve, the 64-year-old physician used anesthesia and then forceps to thwart nature and ensure the delivery of a baby just into the new year. The idea was to present it as a newborn at a midnight religious service. The baby was duly born 15 seconds into 1990, whereupon Dr. Turner ran 150 feet with it to the service next door. To Rick Gibson, a Vancouver artist, for dubious aesthetics. His latest work involves, at last report, using a 25-kilo block of concrete today to crush a rat named Sniffy in front of the city's main downtown library. Mr. Gibson dismisses the protests of animal lovers: "Why do they want to save Sniffy? Why don't they go down to the local pet stores and save the rats that are offered to the fangs and throats of snakes? This rat has been raised to die prematurely as living pet food." To Poland's Lech Walesa, for generosity. He is donating his 1983 Nobel peace prize money, about $240,000, to help provide emergency help for health services, social welfare, and education. To Maj.-Gen. Ramon Montano, for seeking the silver lining. Gen. Montano, the national police commander in the Philippines, says that coup attempts in his country, though unwelcome, are an effective means of reducing crime. He said car thefts, for example, declined to 1½ a day from the usual nine in December, when army mutineers launched a nine-day coup attempt. ALL OUR YESTERDAYS The tuque is yet to be beaten for efficiency. With the coming of cold weather, the tuque has made its annual reappearance in Montreal. It is not only one of the simplest, least expensive, and most effective means of keeping the head warm, it is also one of the oldest. The tuque seems to be a French Canadian creation. In Webster's dictionary, it is one of the very few words identified as French Canadian in origin. Webster defines a tuque as "a cap consisting of a knitted cylindrical bag with tapered ends, worn by thrusting one end inside the other." Early visitors to Montreal from other countries had never seen a tuque before, and were at a loss how to describe it. They groped after something they knew that might seem comparable to it. Often they called it "a nightcap." The comparison was not unreasonable. Many men wore nightcaps in bed to protect their heads in cold and draughty bedrooms. The tuque, like every other article of the rural French Canadian's winter clothing, was homemade. French Canadian households, with their family industries, were almost entirely self-sufficient. Wool for tuques was provided by sheep on the French Canadian farm. It was made into yarn on the family's spinning wheel. From this yarn, tuques were knitted, and cloth was woven for the long winter coats. Hides from cattle were tanned and made into moccasins or high boots. Another household product for winter wear was the sash, the ceinture flechee. These sashes, in brilliant colors, were often many feet long. They were tightly wound around the waist, two or three times, with the fringe falling down to one side. Making these winter costumes was carried on by the women of the household. Much of the work was done in the summer, in preparation for the inevitable winter. The Irish traveller, Isaac Weld, saw the women at their spinning wheels on his way westward from Lachine in the summer of 1796: "We again set off on foot partly for the pleasure of stopping occasionally to chat with the lively French girls that sat spinning in groups at the doors of the cottages." The homemade winter costume, with its tuque, was so well adapted to the needs of the winter that it became almost a national costume. It was standardized into a sort of winter uniform. These winter costumes continued to be made in French Canadian homes even into the 20th century. Such family industries, however, had survived only in more remote areas, as in the north country, or along the Lower St. Lawrence. By the 1870s many French Canadians living near cities had been giving up homemade clothing for the machine-made products of the big factories. The change had been noticed in 1871 by a writer in the American magazine, Scribner's Monthly. "Home-made clothing has given away considerably to the cheapness of mill manufacture; the growing taste for finery and colors tempts a more frequent visit to the village or city shops; and with the growth and development of the country, the French Canadian family imbibes a love for better apparel than their own humble ingenuity and industry can produce." But the French Canadian winter costume found a new future when it was adopted by Montreal's snowshoers. For the snowshoe clubs, it was the ideal costume for their long snowy tramps on cold winter nights, when they went over Mount Royal and back, or on long-distance tramps to Lachine or Sault au Recollet. The Montreal Snow Shoe Club, oldest of them all, became known as "the Tuques Bleues." It was founded as early as 1840. What its costume was in its early years is uncertain; but at the annual meeting on Dec. 4, 1869, it adopted "a uniform cap, viz, blue 'tuque' with scarlet tassel." The snowshoe club costume (though generally machine-made) was closely modelled on the old French Canadian pattern—the "blanket coat," the moccasins, the sash. But the chief symbol and identification was the club's blue tuque. As other snowshoe clubs were formed in Montreal, they, too, adopted tuques, but the tuque of each club had its distinctive color. Tuques of the St. George's Snow-shoe Club were white with a purple tassel; those of the Emerald Snow-shoe Club (mostly young men of the St. Patrick's Association) were green; those of the YMCA Club were cardinal. When the Snowshoe Union was formed in 1908, its 34 clubs displayed tuques of 34 different colors or combinations of colors. Members of the Montreal Snow Shoe Club, with the prestige of their seniority, had become not only the "Tuques Bleues," but the "Old Tuques Bleues." In all the club's hearty snowshoe songs, its tuques were extolled. One chorus, for example, went: Now chant a rhyme, while the words keep time To the tramp of our swift snowshoe And we'll sing a song, as we march along In praise of our old Tuque Bleue. From time to time the Montreal Snow Shoe Club gave a concert in one of the city's principal halls, with the proceeds going to charity. The halls would be crowded to their "utmost capacity." Ushers were members in the club's costume, with their "tuques bleues." They went "flitting about, imparting a variety and brilliancy to the scene never surpassed." At one of these concerts, members filed onto the stage and opened with a solo by one of the group, with everyone joining in the chorus of the "Tuque Bleue" song. The audience demanded an encore. During the last chorus, "Hurrah for the wearing of the bright tuque bleue," all the snowshoers took off their tuques and waved them—a crescendo of music and motion. Even when snowshoeing in Montreal declined as a sport, the tuque found ways of survival. It was often preferred by skiers, skaters, tobogganers, and by those who worked outdoors or did winter walking. This endurance of the ancient tuque, through all changes of time and fashion, was far more than a taste for tradition and the picturesque. The tuque, functional from its beginnings, remained so. The natural suitability of the old tuque for the rigorous Canadian winters was commended by one of the most prominent Montreal doctors of the 19th century, Sir William Hingston. He praised it in an address on "The Climate of Canada," delivered to the Montreal Natural History Society about 110 years ago. The rural French Canadian, he said, was always comfortably and suitably clothed in his homemade apparel. Above all, he did well to wear the traditional tuque. The tuque, in Sir William's medical opinion, was the ideal head covering in cold weather. It was "light and porous," keeping the head "sufficiently covered and warm and, at the same time, dry." It was far preferable to some other types of headgear that keep the head "hot and moist." Members of the old Montreal Snow Shoe Club would have agreed. They had put their tuques to severest tests in the worst of storms. When the club gave its concerts, fridge stove, heating and hot water included, extra high ceilings, 937-2190. 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Road, excellent location, 484-5885 A sunny, newly renovated condo on L'Esplanade, to share with male or female roommate, balcony, washer, dryer, $350, 274-1713 BEACONSFIELD bright house, handy person, no smokers, drinkers, drugs, $250, 844-5651, 695-9583 APARTMENT 8x3' i cold flats, PARK AVE, 6 units, commercial with Finished Offices FOR RENT, 1 i completely electric, new aluminum potential, Richard Douare 722-1 Self-Contained, Ground Floor, 300 num thermal windows, Revenue 2727 ReMax Immobilia Broker Private Front Entrance K Rear ATTRACTIVE new building for 303 '?" price H20'00", 279-1104 pTeFreFONDS 3olex $189000 Shipping, Choice of Drive-in or lease, 7,000 to 21,000 sqft, 23' after 12:30pm, E ES h, r, :unm 1 1 Truck-Level Dock, N, 24 very large apis, cold nets, excellent opportunity, PIERREFONDS, 2 - 10 unit buildings, each has (3x5'i, 3x4li, Kj, umcreie, cold nets, can be sold individually, O, 5x4'i, electric cold flats, local for live-in investor, PIERREFONDS 31 Units, extremely well maintained, Excellent mortgage until 1994 Fully rented, TOM VYBON 626-4801 l Mr 738-2212 LAVAL: Land, 1 million sq. ft, rapidly developing sector, unserviced, Will sell below market value, NORMAN COHEN B8SM349 ARLEEN McGRATH ReMax N, INC, 735-4286 Mon, Tues, Wed, 10-4; Thurs, Fri, 10-8; Sat, 10-5; Sun, 12-5 Master Card A Visa BOKHARA carpet, top quality, 13x9, rust, 5 years old, perfect condition, $2,500, Days 874-2472, after 6p.m. 769-4762, BRAND new, beautiful black queen-size bedroom set, $850, 934-3225 BRAND new L shaped sofa, grey black only $1,399, Call Mandl 482-1100 CHOICE furniture from fine Westmount home, Easy chair, sofa, tables, etc, 932-5757 evenings until 10:00 p.m. COLONIAL sofa and chair, very good condition, Best offer, 465-8997 DINING ROOM, rosewood, eight chairs, buffet, excellent condition, $1,200, Living room, three pieces, $300, 337-0992, DINING ROOM hutch Spanish style in good condition, $490, After 6 p.m. 457-6919 DINING ROOM magnificent older style, solid oak, walnut finish, $2,500, 620-4752 DOUBLE bed, Italian desk and chair, only 3 months used, new bike, remote control TV, everything only $980, 982-4705 ENCYCLOPEDIA set for sale, 25 books, good condition, 481-3970 GIRL'S and boy's bedroom sets, excellent condition, Reasonable price, 481-5505 HIDE A BED with matching chairs, $150, a set, or best offer, Call 439-0760, INDIAN rug $500, and other carpets, tables, lamps, dining cabinet, color TV with converter 739-3535 ITALIAN furniture, 6 dining room chairs, glass table, chesterfield, 4 pieces, 484-3305 Tuesday Saturday 10-5 pm, KITCHEN, living room set, average condition, $650, Leave message 453-5921, KITCHEN set, sofa, stove, fridge, etc $795 takes all, 384-3747 LIVING ROOM set, $250, Also new living room, grey, modern, $1,211, 489-4860, 488-344 MAHOGANY dining room, 4 pieces, 6 chairs, old rocking chair, very good condition, leaving town, Must sell! $3,000, Negotiable, 335-4372, MALCOLM mahogany bedroom suite, $450, Light oak bedroom suite, $250, Continental bed (long), $75, 2-piece couch, $75, Negotiable, After 6p.m. 695-6424 MASTER bedroom set, good condition, pieces can be sold separately, queen size, 487-1052, MATCHING sofa and chair, off-white, green chair, good condition, 425-1470, MODERN furniture and appliances in excellent condition Reason: moving overseas, 432-2084 MOVING sale; must go, Wall unit, 3-pieces, bedroom-white sectional, modern, living room-leather sofa and armchair, more, Daphne; 24-2591, MOVING: Drexel bedroom, side-by-side fridge, washer, dryer, air-conditioner, oak desk, 694-6507, MOVING sale, fridge, stove, washer, dryer, sofa set, 3-piece, double bed, kitchen articles, 748-5946, 748-4019 MOVING: New waterbed set, living room set, kitchen table, etc, 733-5090, MOVING sale, All household furniture and appliances, wood stove, etc, 424-2309 MOVING Sale, Soft-touch sofa and loveseat, beige, $1,000, 14" color TV, Filter Queen Vacuum, air conditioner, ladies wooden dresser, other miscellaneous stuff, 487-9989, 483-3985 MUST sell: bedroom set, dining-room table 4 chairs, freezer, carpets, books, 688-4701 PERSIAN kilim 41x81, 46x83, $300 and $350, Call 9-12 noon 848-1102 10-PIECE Pine bedroom set, coffee, end, and patio tables, record cabinet, loveseat, leatherette chair, rocking chairs, lamps, stereo, verticals, 481-8190 QUEEN SIZE waterbed, black, brand new, $150, 489-7945, REFRIGERATOR side-by-side, 34" wide, with ice-maker, cold water dispenser; sofa, single beds, desk, many more items, 457-7204 47 Lombardy, Baie D'Urfe, SALE OF THE CENTURY Quality modern household furniture, TVs, VCRs, stereo, microwave, fridge, stove, washer dryer, living room, dining room, bedroom set, wall unit plus much more, Everything less than 3 years old, Unbelievable sacrifice prices, everything must be sold by January 14th, Open house daily, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. 1171 Gohier, St. Laurent, 332-6548 SOFA bed, new, teak dining table, 4 chairs, matching bookcase, EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT DOWN DUVETS, And how Linen Chest offers the very best prices in Canada. 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For the finishing touch, a beautiful duvet cover! Linen Chest carries the largest selection of duvet covers, matching sheets, and accessories at savings of up to 50%! Rockland Centre 341-7810 or outside Montreal call toll free 1-800-363-3832 Our year-round price policy guarantee. If you can find the same merchandise elsewhere at a lower price, we will gladly meet that price and give you an additional 10% off! NON-FICTION 1. Dance on the Earth, Margaret Laurence (McClelland & Stewart) (1) 10 2. The House Is Not a Home, Erik Nielsen (Macmillan) (2) 18 3. Birds of a Feather, Allan Fotheringham (Key Porter) (4) 5 4. After the Applause, Colleen Howe, Gordie Howe and Charles Wilkins (M & S) (6) 2 5. The Science of Everyday Life, Jay Ingram (Viking) (5) 12 6. Roseanne, Roseanne Barr (Harper & Collins) (8) 2 7. Home Game, Ken Dryden and Roy MacGregor (M & S) (7) 2 8. Inventing the Future, David Suzuki (Stoddart) (-) 4 9. Ottawa Inside Out, Stevie Cameron (Key Porter) (9) 6 10. 'This Is New York, Honey!', Michele Landsberg (M & S) (3) 4 frenetic riff that's punctuated with the murder of a porn mogul and underscored with the beat of a cocaine-smuggling operation. Toronto's Festival of Festivals and an alternate film festival figure cleverly in the story, giving Crang and his girlfriend, CBC Radio commentator Annie B. Cooke, the opportunity to rub shoulders with real-life characters such as actor Daniel Day Lewis and the Globe and Mail's film critic, Jay Scott. There's a behind-the-scenes visit to an after-hours booze can, and an introduction to a larger-than-life drug kingpin called "Big Bam." Although the story eventually degenerates into an old-fashioned good guys, bad guys, car-chase-foot-race-and-leap-across-a-chasm sequence, it never loses its punch. domestic politics, suggesting that the country could run itself; his interest was in foreign affairs. Patton was his favorite film, Teddy Roosevelt his favorite former president. He envied the dash and charisma of the Kennedys and ordered the tapping of his brother Donald's phone. Ambrose's book is an accounting of such facts: a well-researched, blow-by-blow description of Nixon's political life. That Nixon: Volume Two is vaguely unsatisfying is not entirely Ambrose's fault. After all, most of what Nixon did in office has been explored and dissected by other writers, by Nixon himself, and by almost everyone who worked at the White House. Nixon was largely without a private life; there were no rutting scandals, no private intrigues. Ambrose presents BEST-SELLERS FICTION 1. Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler (Viking) (1) 9 2. Spy Line, Len Deighton (Little, Brown) (2) 10 3. The Dark Half, Stephen King (Viking) (6) 9 4. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) (3) 6 5. Daddy, Danielle Steel (Dela-corte) (7) 6 6. Straight, Dick Francis (Michael Joseph) (4) 12 7. The Russia House, John Le Carre (Penguin) (5) 27 8. Caribbean, James Michener (Random House) (8) 2 9. Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (Macmillan) (9) 15 10. The Sorceress of Darshiva, David Eddings (Random House) (10) 3 Jack Batten has invented an iridescent tale. He's infused it with sparse, acerbic dialogue and he's filled the book with a host of memorable characters. Straight, No Chaser even makes Toronto seem like a hip place. Be warned: Maj.-Gen. Richard Rohmer, perhaps the last professional cold warrior in the country, is at it again. This time the Toronto QC and retired officer bludgeons readers with Red Arctic (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 167 pp, $22.95), the latest in his growing arsenal of abominable fiction. Red Arctic is based on the highly dubious proposition that the Soviet Union would lay claim to Canada's Great White North after the body of a Russian explorer who sailed the high Arctic 250 years ago is unearthed from the frozen tundra. That's as silly as suggesting that Iceland has a territorial claim to Newfoundland because Vikings settled at L'Anse aux Meadows in the 11th century. Never mind. The thin premise merely enables Rohmer to engage in a diatribe against the Mulroney government's cancellation of an $8-billion program for 12 nuclear-powered submarines. Or, as one of the protagonists so eloquently puts it: "Of all the dumb things, not to go for a nuclear-powered sub." The people in the book, as they say in the movies, bear no resemblance to characters either living or dead. They include a Ukrainian-Canadian Mountie; a female Russian academic (she's there for a perfunctory lust interest); a duplicitous, foul-mouthed Canadian prime minister; and a United States president who is given words to say the political Nixon, the only Nixon, and there is a sense of deja vu at most turns. Ambrose's book is a balanced account, according Nixon credit for his successes and exploring his failures, but its strength lies in the context it provides. Politicians are formed by events (or, latterly, by public relations) rather than the opposite, and Nixon: Volume Two is a deconstruction of Nixon's presidency, his tenuous route to the White House, what he promised and what he failed to accomplish. The same could be done, and has been, with other presidencies. Every president is guilty of failed promises, random vulgarities, even minor crimes, but no one has ever looked as guilty as Dick. Despite the listing of Nixon's many failings and a detailed analysis of his vengeful, feudal governing style, Nixon emerges as a stubbornly sympathetic character. How can that be? Perhaps it is because Nixon, awkward, funny-looking, and academically undistinguished, triumphed with little other than ambition, energy, and will. It's not a Hollywood-fashioned triumph of the little guy, more a vindication of the American middle class: fundamentally decent and hard-working, if narrow, humorless, and self-righteous. And Nixon was fundamentally decent, despite his opposition to civil rights, his use of thugs to control hecklers, his warring instincts. Well, that's the problem with Nixon: you can't take flattery very far. Still, there is a streak of decency in him, a brittle, Quaker rectitude that surfaces on occasion, usually a political occasion. Ambrose has rounded up the usual warts, but he has dragged some of the man into the light as well. It is a queasy thought that Nixon may need several more volumes to catalogue his political life. Don Gillmor is a Montreal writer. The list of this week's French-language best-sellers in Quebec gives the title, author, publisher, and whether the book is fiction (f) or non-fiction (n). 1. Les peregrines, Jeanne Bourin (Bourin-Lacombe) (f) 2. La maison Russie, John Le Carre (Laffont) (f) 3. L'agenda Icare, Robert Ludlum (Laffont) (f) 4. Sire Gaby du lac, Francine Oucllette (Quinze) (f) 5. Dors ma jolie, Mary Higgins Clark (Albin Michel) (f) 6. Le premier quartier de la lune, Michel Tremblay (Lemeac) (f) 7. Anne au domaine des peupliers, Lucy Maud Montgomery (Quebec-Amerique) (f) 8. Le guide des vins '90, Michel Phaneuf (de l'Homme) (n) 9. Trudeau le Quebecois, Michel Vastcl (de l'Homme) (n) 10. Le chemin le moins frequente, S. Beck (Laffont) (n) Rohmer Growing arsenal of bad books like: "Canada's nothing more than a colony of the U.S."
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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. Then in September came McNaughton's famous press conference when he boldly proclaimed that there would have to be an invasion of the continent and suggested that Canadian forces would be at the centre of this effort. As he put it, the Canadian corps was a dagger pointed at the heart of Berlin. The next spring, after a trip home, the general was back in England, deprecating Britain's war effort and seemingly joining the American campaign for an immediate Second Front: You don't win wars by sitting in defensive positions, no matter how important they are, he declared, ignoring the fact that this was what Canadian troops had been doing since the start of the war. Nor could McNaughton afford to sound too cautious. After all, war has ever been associated with its commanders maintaining a confident, aggressive state of mind, for without such an attitude troops lose their fighting edge and commanders lose their credibility. Not surprisingly, McNaughton's subordinate commanders entered the fray with enthusiasm. When Gen.
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he said Once rescued, the woman was "shook up" but her male companion was very calm, Barsalou said About a half-hour after the rescue, all the ice broke away from the shore and drifted out into the St. Lawrence River, he said Barsalou advised people to learn from the couple's close call and not go out on the ice now "It's a very bad time of year," he said "With the mild weather we've been having, the ice is breaking up about three weeks earlier than usual."
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Oflerdahl said he'll wait a couple of days until the swelling in his arm goes down before doctors decide whether an operation is required. Cleveland Browns wide receiver Hassan Jones has changed his mind and decided not to retire. The 29-year-old announced his retirement three days ago, saying he no longer felt capable of handling the day-to-day rigors of the game. The six-foot, 202-pound Florida State product was the third Browns player to retire this season. Miscellany Football Injury-plagued linebacker John Oflerdahl of the Miami Dolphins Florida businessman Les Alexander completed his $85-million purchase of the Houston Rockets yesterday and announced he had a major trade in the works. Alexander, who has promised to play a part in running the National Basketball Association team, called the deal significant, but declined to give details. Alexander, of Boca Raton, Fla., pledged to return the team to pro basketball glory. Robert Braknis of Chateauguay won his second gold medal at the Corel Canadian Summer Nationals swimming championship last night in the 100-metre backstroke to earn a berth on the Canadian team headed to the Pan Pacific championships in Japan, Aug. 12-15.
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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. "The French are managed by a Frenchman, the Germans have a German in charge and the Italians have one of their own," said Charlton, failing to note one key difference between those countries and England - they've had vastly greater international soccer success. And besides, I seem to remember that Charlton, an Englishman, was the Irish soccer manager for several years in the 1980s and '90s. "What's sauce for the goose?" It was Paul Hayward of the London Daily Telegraph who put matters into the proper perspective when he wrote: "Only if we keep repeating the discredited mantra that England is a great footballing power will Eriksson's appointment continue to be seen as an outrage." FOREIGNERS IN - Many Italian players and coaches, not least national team coach Giovanni Trapattoni, are advocates of strict limits on foreign players, even ones from other European Union countries, on Italian league teams. They feel that the use of too many foreign players hinders the development of Italians.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1995 B4 Moscow heat wave sets record REUTERS MOSCOW - As much of northern Europe shivered in unseasonably cold weather yesterday, Muscovites suffered in a record heat wave that sent tempers flaring and people rushing to polluted, muddy rivers and ponds to stay cool. It was the hottest day in June in Moscow for a century and the longest heat wave for more than two decades with average temperatures of 29 for the last three weeks. Meteorological officials said yesterday's temperatures of 30 were the highest since a previous record of 30 set for the same day in 1895. ""Today we've had the hottest day in 100 years,"" said Alexander Golodyev, an official at the Russian capital's meteorological centre. He said temperatures in recent weeks have been way above the June average of 20. ""We've had countless calls from the public asking when the heat wave will be over. Russians aren't used to hot weather."" Occasional showers Sunday brought only temporary relief. Officials expect the heat wave to last until the end of the week. Traffic jams in the centre of Moscow resembled battlefields, with abuse flying at the slightest provocation. Cars broke down left, right and centre, spewing out exhaust fumes that only added to the pollution, heat and general irritation. City officials said they are carrying out health checks at grocery stores and cafes. Two people with cholera have been taken to a hospital in Moscow, city medical authorities said. As Moscow suffered in the sizzling heat, much of Europe was hit by unusually cool early summer weather. Paris was wet and gloomy while London was dull and overcast. Britons were even forced to switch on their central heating. The Finns also took advantage of the baking temperatures to dive into the normally nippy Baltic Sea. The sun has shone so brightly in northern Lapland that some are forecasting a bumper crop of cloudberries, a rare fruit which is a local delicacy. Grandson aims to restore Stalin image REUTERS MOSCOW - Josef Stalin's grandson launched a movement yesterday to restore the image of the former Soviet dictator - and help prepare the way for another Man of Steel. Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, joined in his bid by a communist member of the Russian parliament, Omar Begov, argued that only a strong ruler can cure the country of its ills."
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"My line of play succeeds wherever the trump queen might be." The losing South took dummy's club ace and started trumps. He led a low heart to his king and another back toward dummy. When West discarded to reveal a trump loser, South played for the diamond ace to be with East. Unfortunately, neither red suit behaved and South's game went one down. How did the other South make his game? Since the opponents had remained silent during the bidding, he expected no unusual distribution in the side suits. This led him to a cross-ruffing plan. After winning dummy's club ace, South cashed his spade ace and ruffed a spade in dummy. After cashing dummy's club king, he ruffed a low club, and ruffed his last spade in dummy. After another club ruff by South, dummy held the A-J of trumps and four diamonds while South had the K-10-9 of trumps and three diamonds. With seven tricks already scored, South exited in diamonds, not caring where the missing red-suit honours might be.
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IAEA waste specialists say that Russian nuclear submarines off the coast of Norway are rusting badly and that their propulsion systems and torpedoes may start releasing plutonium into the sea over the next four years. The Group of Seven plan to spend $700 million helping clean up Soviet-built nuclear plants was stillborn because the United States and Japan argued for spending the money through bilateral programs, while the European countries wanted a multilateral pool of funds managed by the European Community. Only recently, the industrial powers agreed that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could disburse $70 million for nuclear safety programs. The United States, in the Russian aid package announced in Vancouver on Sunday, allocated $15 million for those tasks. For the past six months, the industrial powers have directed some aid toward Russian nuclear safety plans, but they have resisted providing more grants until they can control how the money is spent. has stormy start this morning and all scheduled tours have been moved to today. 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.
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But to focus on them almost exclusively is to treat the symptoms without treating the disease. Serbian forces control about two-thirds of Bosnia and Croatian forces control much of the rest. Only a few enclaves are left under Bosnian control. The situation presents agonizing choices, which perhaps explains why the UN's resolution focuses primarily on humanitarian issues. If nothing is done, or if a ceasefire a real one is negotiated, then Serbian forces will effectively have triumphed. The territorial status quo, or something like it, probably would suit them well. But it should not suit the UN, whose charter rejects the acquisition of territory by force. Writing off Bosnia would not only be an injustice, it could encourage aggression elsewhere. But what to do? Economic sanctions against Serbia haven't been effective. Using force, however, has obvious messy consequences, and it might not work, either. A Desert Storm II would not turn out anything like the original. UN casualties probably would be heavy and the war could well be long. Limited air strikes against Serbian artillery in Bosnia, and against military targets in Serbia itself, could help.
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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. There is a good deal of speculation as to whether he will again be able to assume the burden of his position. It is said the reason for the urgency of his movements was to enable him to escape the Wall Street broker and other agents who have given him no peace in their incessant demand for something to be done to relieve the market by anticipating interest, or making a new bond call. Folger was scarcely less importuned by the Custom House broker in their efforts to obtain rulings on the new tariff law. Unclogging the fund. New York, March 20. It is reported that some fifteen million dollars are stuck up by a broker who is in trouble. The Manhattan Elevated Railway declared a quarterly dividend of 1 percent, to be paid on the preferred stock, payable April 1st.
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