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000 homes on the South Shore were without power Francois Lebrun, chief of Hydro's South Shore section, said power should be restored by 2 p.m. Rail link to South Shore opens today The Missing Link bicycle path, joining Montreal and the South Shore, opens to cyclists today The 500-metre path under the Victoria Bridge will link existing paths from the southwestern tip of Ile Notre Dame and Seaway Park in St. Lambert An inauguration ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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Under the terms of the agreement with Guadalajara, Lowe could choose to leave if he was unhappy. "(My decision) had nothing to do with the money. Money wasn't the issue. It's just that for now I feel more comfortable here," Lowe said. Because of commitments with the Jamaican national team, Lowe actual Bangers gamble on Berg Oft-injured forward gets a new deal APCP NEW YORK - The New York Rangers agreed to terms on a new contract with free-agent forward Bill Berg, the team said yesterday. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Berg, 28, began last season with the Toronto Maple Leafs before being traded to New York in February, along with Sergio Momesso, in exchange for Wayne Presley and Nick Kypreos. Due to a broken leg suffered in October, Berg appeared in only 41 games during the 1995-96 season, registering three goals, two assists and 41 penalty minutes. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla - Only a month after the Florida Panthers played in the Stanley Cup final the team might be looking for a new arena.
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Mr. Ethier, assistant city attorney, gives it as his opinion that every policeman has the right to take cognizance of such a nuisance. The city by-law provides a penalty of $20 or two months for depositing dirt, dust, refuse, etc., in any vacant lot or public square or street. Those who have suffered damage by their property being flooded by the melted snow can recover from the owner of the lot, who can also be obliged to remove any refuse that may have been deposited with the snow, besides being prosecuted for causing a public nuisance. A MEETING OF THE PROTESTANT MINISTERS Meeting of the Ministerial Association Yesterday. The regular meeting of the Protestant Ministerial Association took place yesterday in the V.O. Crout. TOM BOULT A BOURNE, Agents, 7 St. Francois Xavier St., Montreal. ""WHERE ARE THE POLICE?"" TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE Sir, May I ask of you the favor to insert the following few remarks: 1. Where are the police? and 2. Where are the poor foot passengers to walk?
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Friday. Of these, 105,000 were on the island of Montreal. Hydro-Quebec official Flavie Cote said in an interview last. Public health care wins PRIVATE FACILITY WON'T BILL PATIENTS Urgent-care centre in Vancouver agrees to compromise with provincial government ELIANNA LEV CANADIAN PRESS Vancouver - The British Columbia government won a showdown with a new urgent-care clinic, reaching an agreement with the facility that will bar the clinic from charging patients. But for the first time in Canada, the private clinic will also allow patients to get treatment for which they would normally have to go to a hospital. The high-tech False Creek Urgent Care Centre, which opened Friday, now will operate like any other walk-in clinic. It will charge the B. KOK. Trade Technics ELECTRICIAN Industrial, for a co-located in Lacnme, good salary and benefits, forward cv to Stuart Rosen, 514-634-4258 or call 634-3131 ext. 223 CAD Railway services inc., 155 Montreal Toronto Highway, Lacnme, que MACHINE shop in Pointe Claire requires qualified maintenance mechanic and bench machinist.
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INTERNATIONAL CALL IN YOUR QUESTIONS CODE 7777 OUR ENVIRONMENT 8733 Today's Environment Tip 1991 Newspaper Education Program 1234 Recycling Depots City of Montreal 3000 TODAY IN BUSINESS 6800 WEATHER 6849 HOROSCOPE 6850 Aquarius 6851 Aries 6852 Taurus 6853 Gemini 6854 Cancer 6855 Leo 6856 Virgo 6857 Libra 6858 Scorpio 6859 Sagittarius 6860 Capricorn 6861 Pisces 6862 Your Birthday Today MONTREAL HISTORY 6872 Sulpician Seminary 6873 Chateau Ramezay 6874 Notre-Dame de Bonsecours Chapel 6875 Rue de la Commune Old Port 6876 History of The Gazette 6877 Old Montreal Heritage Network Forecast issued at 5 last night covers high for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow Click Low 14 Montreal High 27 Low 19 Sunrise 5:22 Sunset 1:32 Today's high 27 Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius Montreal Today Sunny skies are expected this morning, Today's low 19 but a disturbance in central Quebec will spread some clouds and a few scattered showers into the area this afternoon Almanac Record Max Min 1963 33 1976 10 Average Yesterday 30 13 Year ago today 26 17 Normal this date 27 16 Variable cloud High 27 Low 15 Variable cloud High 27 Low 15 Cloudy few showers High 27 Low 16 Abitibi Lac St Jean High 18 to 20 Low near 12 Cloudy with scattered showers Laurentians High 22 Low near 14 Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon showers Eastern Ontario High 27 Low near 19 Sunny this morning then partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the afternoon Southern Ontario High 26 Low near 13 Mainly sunny Quebec City High 23 Low near 15 Variable cloud with a chance of afternoon showers Eastern Townships High 24 Low near 14 Sunny in the morning with variable cloud with a chance of showers in the afternoon Northern New England High 30 Low near 12 Sunny Gaspé High 21 Low near 14 Cloudy with clear periods and scattered showers Lower North Shore High 21 Low near 17 Cloudy with clear periods and scattered showers Partly cloudy High 26 Low 15 Sunny High 27 Low 16 WARM FRONT STATIONARY FRONT HIGH THUNDERSTORMS COLD FRONT TROUGH LOW FREEZING RAIN Canada Iqaluit Sun 13 4 Yellowknife Sun 28 15 Whitehorse Cloud 24 9 Vancouver Sun 27 15 Victoria Sun 27 12 Edmonton Sun 30 13 Calgary Sun 30 12 Saskatoon Sun 28 11 Regina Sun 28 11 Winnipeg Sun 24 10 Thunder Bay Cloud 23 10 Sudbury Sun 24 13 Toronto Sun 26 19 Fredericton Cloud 27 14 Halifax Cloud 26 14 Charlottetown Cloud 25 14 St John's Shower 22 12 United States Atlanta Cloud 35 24 Boston Sun 33 22 Chicago Cloud 28 13 Dallas Cloud 36 23 Denver Shower 21 13 Las Vegas Sun 39 24 Los Angeles Fair 25 17 New Orleans Cloud 33 23 New York Cloud 31 22 Phoenix Fair 42 28 St Louis Cloud 29 18 San Francisco Cloud 21 12 Washington Cloud 34 23 World Amsterdam Athens Beijing Berlin Copenhagen Dublin Hong Kong Jerusalem Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Nairobi New Delhi Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Sydney Tokyo Fog 23 8 Cloud 34 26 Cloud 34 22 Cloud 20 9 Shower 18 13 Rain 18 13 Shower 32 26 Sun 30 18 Mist 28 18 Cloud 24 13 Cloud 33 17 Fog 23 13 Shower 23 14 Sun 17 8 Haze 36 28 Cloud 27 13 Rain 29 19 Mist 30 21 Rain 13 9 Shower 31 25 Resorts Acapulco Cloud 34 27 Barbados Fair 31 26 Bermuda Fair 31 27 Daytona Beach Cloud 35 23 Honolulu Cloud 32 23 Kingston Cloud 34 26 Miami Tstorm 32 24 Myrtle Beach Cloud 36 25 Nassau Cloud 33 24 Tampa Cloud 33 24 NEW YORK Continued from C6 MH Stock Silt High Low Clarification NISml 30 26 25Yl-ll Navistar 29 3'4 3' 3H- Newell 30 22 Wt V 31 JtV- NwntlO IS 33 96 Wt 31 NwlMf M 164122 41 394 41 NiiMP 361132 15 15 15A V Ni4Mcf 3 I4S0 42 NinSh 40e 679 15'4 MCO NoWAI 2J4 11 327 42 45 42 15 15M1 Vt 41'l 41! n 16 23 297 13 13 13 NflkSo 1 60 152266 SO1 41 41- Noriek 03i 112 1 I I NoeilUI 1 76 101311 20'1 20' 20- NorTel J2 201349 u3l 37 37- NlhMl g 360 I" 1 1 Nortrp 1J0 I 715 29 2 21- Norwst 92 102494 29'1 21 2- NOV! g 52 llOSO 6 6 6 NvoNUk 60e 21 x6 70" 00 N 50 91 20 88 50 91 10 86 40 94 00 9570 93 00 94 90 90 50 96 10 93 00 8750 84 50 96 00 120 96 00 99 70 93 50 99 50 95 00 101 00 101 50 101 00 101 50 99 50 103 00 102 60 barley (Western): Aug 80 50 8050 SO 50 SO 50 80 00 Nov 79 SO 12 50 79 50 92 50 79 50 Feb 96 00 9300 May 17 50 15.00 Commodity exchange cash prices: Feed Oats 1 cw 17 50, 2 cw 17 50; 3 cw 17 50, mixed grain oats, 77 50, Feed Barley (Thunder Bay): 1 cw 71 00; 2 cw 77 00, mixed grain barley 41 00, Rye 1 cw 77 80, 2 cw 75 80, 3 cw 47 10, Flax: 1 cw 114 50, 2 cw 112 50; 3 cw 149 50, Canola: In store Thunder Bay No 1 Canada 249 70, in store Vancouver No 1 Canada 264 41, Feed Wheat 3 red spring: 99 M; Can red 97 01, Expert wheat, St Lawrence: 1 cw 13 5 pct, 153 M, 1 cw 11 5 pct; 143 30, 2 cw 13 1 pct; 14 30; 2 cw 11 5 pct; 138 30, 3 cw 138 30, 1 durum 157 15, 2 durum 152 5, 3 durum 14 85, Malting barley (domestic), Thunder Bay: Special Select 6-row; 115 00; Select 6-row 194 00, Special Select 2-row, 119 N, Select 2-row 191 50, CURRENCY The U.S. SvantessonG Van Emburgh TRANSACTIONS Baseball Chicago (NL) Placed pitcher Dave Smith on 15-day disabled list, recalled pitcher Steve Wilson from Iowa of the Triple-A American Association Pittsburgh Placed catcher Don Slaught on 15-day disabled list retroactive to July 22; purchased contract of catcher Jeff Banister from Buffalo of American Association San Francisco Activated shortstop Jose Uribe, optioned infielder Mike Bentham to Phoenix of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League; purchased contract of pitcher Paul McClellan from Phoenix Football LA Rams Signed linebacker George Bethune; released wide receiver Michael Thomas and defensive end Mark Steed Miami Signed running back Aaron Craver and safety Liflort Hobley NY Giants Signed tight end Howard Cross and wide receiver Ed McCaffrey CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Eastern Division G W L T F A P Toronto 2 2 0 0 76 36 4 Winnipeg 2 1 1 0 46 35 2 Ottawa 2 0 2 0 51 75 0 Hamilton 2 0 2 0 27 64 0 Western Division G W L T F A P British Columbia 2 2 0 0 87 62 4 Saskatchewan 2 2 0 0 74 58 4 Calgary 2 1 1 0 60 62 2 Edmonton 2 0 2 0 53 82 0 Today's Game Calgary at Ottawa 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow's Games Winnipeg at Toronto, 7 p.m. Edmonton at BC 10:30 p.m. Friday, July 26 Hamilton at Saskatchewan 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 19 BC 26, Winnipeg 23 (OT) CANADIAN SOCCER LEAGUE G W L T F A P Vancouver 17 11 2 4 42 21 37 Montreal 17 8 4 5 26 19 29 Toronto 16 7 4 5 29 20 26 North York 16 6 3 6 27 19 25 Hamilton 16 7 7 2 22 26 23 Nova Scotia 16 5 5 6 19 20 21 Kitchener 17 1 10 6 13 35 9 15 0 10 5 12 25 5 NOTE: Three points for win; one for tie Today's Game Nova Scotia at Winnipeg 8:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21 Toronto 2, Montreal 1 Hamilton 1, Kitchener 1 Vancouver 3, Winnipeg 1 North York 0, Nova Scotia 0 (Suspended at 58-minute mark because of lightning and thunderstorm: ruled official Monday, July 22 by league) Friday, July 19 Nova Scotia 2, Toronto 1 North York 3, Hamilton 0 QUEBEC NATIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE G W L T F A P LaSalle 9 6 1 2 18 6 14 Dollard 9 5 1 3 12 9 13 Cortinium 9 3 2 4 16 10 10 Luso 8 3 2 3 14 13 9 Racing 8 3 3 2 10 11 8 Ramblers 9 2 3 4 11 10 8 Croatia 10 3 5 2 19 25 8 Hampstead 8 0 4 4 3 10 4 Jean Talon 8 1 5 2 5 17 4 Saturday, July 27 Ramblers at Racing 6:00 p.m. Luso at Jean Talon 9:00 p.m. Sunday, July 28 Croatia at Hampstead 7:00 p.m. LaSalle at Dollard 8:00 p.m. Sunday, July 21 Croatia 2, LaSalle 1 Saturday, July 20 Ramblers 2, Luso 1 Jean Talon 1, Hampstead 0 asm BLUE BONNETS ENTRIES TODAY'S CARD Post time: 7:30 p.m. FIRST RACE: Pace 1- Elaine Senter 2- Ciboulot 3- Sebel Forever 4- Blast 5- Heatwave 6- Mariner's Borne 7- Beattle Vision 8- Enchanted Merit 9- Ao Extra SECOND RACE: Trot 1- Miss Sun Post 2- Super Cool Deal 3- Rustico Sunset 4- Tantalon Joker 5- Out On Too 6- Malther's Crow 7- Neveks Spirit 8- Zabaslione 9- Soaring Action THIRD RACE: Pace 1- G T G 2- Jomuille 3- Yeslero's Dream 4- Business Vision 5- Full Design 6- Abeille Lecrand 7- Tiffanny DavrH 8- Ituklear Lolla 9- Ao Kerulu Turenne S Brosseau Y Filion F O'Reilly A Boucher C A J Charron 8 Cole S Ouellet G Gendron D Martin R Seaman S Mendelson P Grenier Y Gaulhier R Zeron G Lamy 8 Cote purse: a.m. 3 5 8 4-1 5 7 5 2 I - 3 3 5 7 6 - 5 1 3 4 5 5 i i ; PURSE: ISJM 2 3 5 3- G Lamv M BdiHaroeon J Charron A Demise M Trudeau A Cote M Bourgeois P Desjeuriers S Ouellet PURSE: (3JO0 4 - 1 7 1 5 6 7 8 4 4 7 6 4 t - 5 3 4 3 7 2 7 4 3 Hippodrome Jtk Blue Bonnets FOURTH RACE: Pace 1- Gamma Hanover D 2- Farm9iri Hanover M 3- Belraved M 4- Bianca Bianca R 5- Sontra R 6- Express Gale B 7- Diamond Almatiurst D 8- Ladonna Blue Chip G FIFTH RACE: Trot 1- Glencoe Prides Boy R 2- Madish Baillargeon Lachance Gingras Zeron Cole Jones Parkway purse: a.m. 111 S-2 3 3 I S-1 1-7 3-1 3 3 4 H 1 6 S 10-1 112 4-1 6 2 7 !-1 2 2 1 1-1 2-1 Addie 3- Diamond Jim 4- Mario Williams 5- Matcher 4- Martial Arts 7- Maggie's Kale 8- Mr Jubbki 9- Stienango Irv Zeron Bant Gendron Lachance Baillargeon Cole Gingras Blouin Filion PURSE: HMO 2 3 2 2 2 1 5 2 - 4 I 1 1 4 5 2 5 2 1 2 4 i 3 - 5 12-1 SIXTH RACE: Pace ELECTRONIC MAIL CAN BE LEFT ON MASS BBS (514) 286-7546 Graphics firm sells low-cost simulation Company produced the liquid monster in Terminator 2 ANDREW POLLACK NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO The liquid-metal creature that easily changes shapes in Terminator 2 is a creation of sophisticated
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IN TBNNBH4K8 AND TEXAS, Memphis, Tenn, January 17 The blizzard which set in Saturday morning still prevails and business is almost entirely suspended. A L Davis, a drummer of this city, was found frozen to death this morning in his lodgings. Fort Worth, Tex, January 17 Saturday's storm is abating and five deaths from freezing are reported. Communication with the cattle regions has not yet been opened. The Colorado River, for the first time since the settlement of the country, was freezing over yesterday. Stockmen fear great loss on the plains and prairies. At Belleville, Tex, Chas Jones (colored) was found frozen near his house.
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Lord Carlingford has taken the post of Lord President of the Council in the Imperial Cabinet, also assuming the duties of Minister of Agriculture. The New York State Senate has passed a bill compelling all telegraph and telephone companies to place their wires underground in the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Mr. O'Donnell, M.P., at a meeting in Glasgow, repudiated the charges of Mr. E. O'Connor against the Land League. He also advocated the organization of the Irish people in England and America for the attainment of their demands. Dominion News. OTTAWA, March 20. In the Supreme Court today the case of Worthington vs. McDonald was argued, judgment being reserved. There is now on exhibition in the Library of Parliament the series of models sent in for competition in response to the invitation of the Government for designs for the proposed statue of the late Sir George Cartier. The models number eighteen, and are the work respectively of L. W. Gooderham, President of the Credit Valley Railway, Mr. S. Barker, solicitor of the North & Northwestern Railway, and Mr.
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Cloud unable to proceed. A Peculiar Tragedy, Chicago, August 2, A startling phase of the mystery surrounding the death of Mr. and Mrs. Hesch was developed today. The parties were ardent believers in treatment by electricity. Hesch was a sufferer from rheumatism, and both he and his wife were in the habit of taking electric baths and being treated by electrical appliances. Investigation at the house of the dead couple revealed an electric battery charged so heavily that a shock from it given by an experienced hand would produce death. It is now supposed that on Saturday night after the Heschs reached home and were about going to bed, having in fact undressed themselves, Mrs. Hesch asked her husband to treat her with the battery. This he did, and in an unfortunate moment accidentally turned on the battery at full strength, giving his wife such a shock that she fell back dead. Realizing that he had been the cause of her death the frantic man took his own life.
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This hasty action was occasioned by a secret communication from Treasurer Huston. He informed the committee that $100,000,000 in gold and silver is stored in one vault, and over $100,000,000 in silver in another vault, while in a third vault is... Some time ago Treasurer Huston secured the services of a man to commit amateur burglary. In eighteen seconds the man drilled a hole in the vault containing $250,000,000 of paper money, and in exactly sixteen minutes he had a bolt made large enough to admit his body. This exhibit scared the appropriations committee, and in about five minutes a bill, drafted by Huston, making an appropriation for the building of new vaults was approved. No doubt the cracksmen throughout the country who have been laboring so long and earnestly to penetrate first-class modern safety vaults will feel infinitely disgusted when they learn what a haul they missed by not attacking the national treasury. NEWS FROM DOWN EAST. The Nova Scotia Council Won't Commit Suicide - A Halifax Alderman in Trouble - The Hawkesbury Fisheries Trouble. Halifax, April 15. The Legislative council has refused to abolish itself.
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THIS CHOPS IN QUEBEC, A Current Account of Farming Done by the All-Continuous Rain, Huntingdon Gleaner To what extent the crops have been injured by the broken weather of the past fortnight will not be known until threshing is general. The loss has been so serious that the harvest can no longer be spoken of as an extra one. During the storm of Sunday morning many fields of dead ripe grain were threshed by the wind. That losses by lightning have been few is gratifying. The same paper's Athlone correspondent says: A good many farmers have suffered more or less from the sprouting of grain as well as shelling, the seed in many cases being left on the ground. A few along the river had small patches floated away entirely. It is hoped that what promised to be an abundant harvest will yet be an average one, although somewhat damaged. Err'ord Times Harvesting is very much retarded by the continued wet weather. Considerable grain will be lost in consequence, and the straw will be a poor article of fodder the coming winter, which must have a tendency to raise the price of hay. On Saturday morning last, cut grain was found in many places lying in pools of water, and the grounds so saturated with water as to invite it too soft for a team to move on. Not for twenty years have I seen so wet a harvest season. This is not a prophecy, mind you now, ""Coming events cast their shadows before,"" but these events leave a shadow behind, for at this writing it is still overcast, with heavy shadows, and no appearance of fair weather. Hit 1,1110ml Cuanliun; It has rained 21 days during this month, and it was getting alarming. All round the grain has badly lodged when it was fully ripe; though fortunately, a good deal of it is only ripe now. Some unharvested hay has been out in cock for three weeks and of course is spoiled. Farmers have been very busy in the field for the past three days (Thursday) and it is more to be hoped that we shall not get any more rain. It has been the wettest season for twenty years. Waterloo Advertiser, The weather for the past three weeks has done incalculable damage to the crops. Just as harvesting was beginning, the rain came on and there have not been two fair days in succession since. The grain that was cut is practically ruined by the prolonged wet and standing crops have been injured to a deplorable extent. The damage extends to wheat, oats, barley, corn and potatoes. Three weeks ago the crop prospects were excellent and the farmers in capital spirits. The unparalleled rains since have changed all that and the harvest will be much poorer than was confidently anticipated. There would be some hope were the weather to come off fine now, but it is not settled yet and more rain may be expected before harvesting operations can be advanced a great deal. Altogether the prospect is not a pleasant one. St. Johns News, Continuous rain has done much damage to the crops. Even in high and well cultivated lands serious loss may be counted upon, while in the low lands and in the more poorly tilled farms the destruction is sad to contemplate. Whole fields of wheat, oats and peas have been submerged by the water, and in other cases grain has sprouted badly or more or less injured in quality. It is also feared that potatoes will rot, but fortunately these fears are not yet realized. Everywhere in the province the ground is like a sponge, and unless there is soon a change for the better many tillers of the soil will have a hard time of it this winter. CROWLEY IS DEAD, The Famous Chimpanzee In New York Succumbs to Pneumonia, Crowley, the famous chimpanzee of Central Park, died a little before noon yesterday of pneumonia. As the end drew near weakness compelled him to lie down. He rolled over on his back, drew up his legs, clutched his lower jaw by the teeth with both hands, uttered a farewell cry of anguish, and his day was over. Next to Crowley's cage is one occupied by his chimpanzee sweetheart, Miss Kilty O'Brien. Kilty knew that Crowley was sick, as was evident by her tender regard for his welfare as manifested by her conduct at the bars. She would sit there by the hour with her face pressed against the cold iron and she would cast sympathetic glances at her miserable lover while he rolled in convulsions on the floor. Kilty did not give a sign that she knew of Crowley's death until his body was being taken away. Then she began to whimper and moan and shed tears in a way that was almost human. She remained in a melancholy mood all day. Today Crowley's body will be transferred to the Museum of Natural History, at Eighth Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street. There it will be prepared by Prof. Richard, son and casts made of the head and shoulders. An autopsy will be made by Dr. THE CROPS' CONDITION, The Weather Generally Favorable for Harvesting in the States, WASHINGTON, September 2, The weather crop bulletins for the week ending September 2 state that the weather during the week has been unusually favorable in the greater portion of the corn belt, but too much rain occurred in the extreme southern portions of the states bordering on Ohio. Reports from Kansas indicate that the corn crop is secure and past possible injury from frost. Light frosts occurred in the upper lake regions, probably causing some damage to the cranberry crop in Wisconsin. The weather has been too cold in Michigan to favor a rapid growth of corn, but no injury is reported to the crop in that state and cutting will commence next week. Reports from Kentucky show that the heavy corn crop in that state has been somewhat damaged by recent rains and that the season has been sufficiently favorable to secure an average tobacco crop. The heavy rains have damaged the growing crops in cotton and sugar regions. Chicago, September 2, The Farmer's Review says it is now possible to arrive at a fairly definite conclusion regarding the yield of winter wheat and oats as shown by the strong returns which we have been receiving from our crop correspondents during the past two weeks. Our reports do not, however, tell the whole story of the returns for in some localities, as parts of Dakota, Minnesota and Northern Iowa, but a portion of the crop has been threshed. The report received to date may, however, be taken as fair evidence of what will be found to be the average yield. Yield of winter wheat: Illinois A full summary reports of threshing place the average yield at 18 bushels per acre, the highest average yield is 29 bushels per acre; Wisconsin, 21 bushels per acre; Indiana, 12 bushels per acre; Ohio, 11 bushels per acre; Missouri, 18 1-3 bushel; Kentucky, 13 1/2; Kansas 20 1/2. H. Johnston and Elijah Beckler, president, teller and solicitor of the Savings Bank at Roseland, have disappeared. About $30,000, comprising the entire funds of the bank, are also missing. Minor Items, The heavy rain has ruined the crops in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss. Window glass workers throughout the continent will resume work on Tuesday. It is estimated that the reduction of the public debt during August was $7,700,000. A waterspout caused much damage on the Cincinnati & Southeastern railway on Friday. Over 1,000 children are reported to have died from measles in Santiago de Chile in the last two months. The Field Biscuit and Cracker Company of San Francisco has assigned. The liabilities are $100,000. The Department of State has not as yet received any information confirming the reported rejection of the Chinese treaty. Word has been received at Pueblo of the drowning of six cowboys northwest of Pueblo County just west of Pike's Peak, Colorado. A collision occurred a few days ago between a band of Utes and the Piutes in the Paradox Valley, Col., and several on both sides were killed. Jay Gould has ordered the construction of a new union depot at St. Louis, to take the place of the old sheds that have been a disgrace to that city for years. The building is to cost $100,000. The Chicago, Santa Fe and California has cut the rate on dressed beef from Kansas City to Chicago to 13 cents per 100 pounds. The tariff rate is 20 cents. This action is the direct outcome of the war in livestock rates with the southwestern roads. THE PLAGUE SPREADING, Terrible State of Affairs at Jacksonville A Refugee Stricken in Philadelphia, New Orleans, September 1, The Times-Democrat's special from Jacksonville, Fla., says Eleven new cases of yellow fever up to 1 o'clock and one death is what Dr. Neal Mitchell reports by telephone. This is a big report for so early in the day and it rather scares people as generally the forenoon list is light and the larger portion of new cases are reported from 5 to 6 p.m. The peculiar weather is driving the infection all through the city, and it is feared few will escape a touch of it. There will be so few people in town in a few days from now that hardly one can hope to escape the disease. Tomorrow an excursion train will leave here for North Carolina, in accordance with Surgeon-General Hamilton's suggestion and permission, and it will be filled, too. This is especially urged, now that the women and children are got out of the city, and great efforts are being made to send them off. The rush to Camp Perry continues, and those who intend to stay will be rather lonesome by next week. Jacksonville, Fla., September 2, Following is the official bulletin for the twenty-four hours ending 6 p.m., September 2: New cases of yellow fever, 24; deaths, 2; total number of cases to date, 258; total number of deaths to date, 34. A moderate cyclone passed over the city this afternoon. After the vortex went by there was a gale from the southwest accompanied by loud thunder, keen flashes of lightning and a heavy rainfall continuing several hours, clearing the atmosphere wonderfully and lowering the temperature, washing the surface of the streets perfectly clean, as well as carrying several hundred barrels of lime which had scattered abroad into the river. ""The effects of the storm,"" said a leading Cuban physician today, ""will probably be excellent, on the whole tending to lessen materially the infection, but will be bad on the sick unless watched with great care. Many patients may have a serious backset in consequence of the change of weather."" It is still raining. Clear, bright moderately cool weather is hoped for tomorrow. Washington, September 1, Surgeon-General Hamilton has received a dispatch from Philadelphia informing him that a case of yellow fever has been discovered there in the person of a Florida refugee, who passed the inspection at Waycross, Ga. The patient was sent to the municipal hospital. Philadelphia, September 1, In reference to the supposed case of yellow fever in this city it was impossible to obtain any information from the Board of Health as the office had been closed for the day before the news reached here from Washington. At the United States Marine Hospital it was learned that the refugee had been taken to the United States Marine ward in charge of Dr. Bailbacho and Dr. Heyer. Dr. Heyer, it is reported, found the case a doubtful one, with some indications in favor of the theory of yellow fever and made a report to the health authorities at once. Upon this report the patient was ordered to be sent at once to the municipal hospital.
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"They would do more when the (Claude) Ryan bill goes into effect and provides less money to municipalities." John Gardiner, vice-chairman of the city's executive committee, defended his party's track record on housing. But Gardiner also said the federal and provincial governments don't do nearly enough to help. "If they put the money forward, it will contribute to some very important needs in Montreal," he said. Gardiner mentioned that it was the MCM which convinced the province to put an end to condominium conversions in 1987. At one point, Gardiner was challenged by Gaudreau to admit the MCM had made a crucial mistake in allowing the controversial Overdale development project to proceed in 1987. Gardiner declined to do so. Plans to build a condominium complex at the Overdale site near Mackay St. and Rene Levesque Blvd. were abandoned by developers this fall, but not before housing in the area had been flattened into a parking lot. Poverty-stricken Montrealers will keep flocking to the streets unless officials from all levels of government stop ignoring their plight and find them housing, a tenants' lobbyist warned last night.
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The United Nations estimates 500,000 people face starvation in Mozambique's central provinces. Charles Bassett, the Canadian high commissioner in Zimbabwe, said Thursday that people are already dying in Zimbabwe as a result of malnutrition. And the worst is yet to come. The dry season is at its peak in July and August and the already critical water shortage will become dire, Bassett said. "Already there are many communities that are 40 kilometres from the nearest water. It is going to be a massive task to take water to isolated communities," he said. The Zimbabwe government has a $40-million plan to buy 600 water tankers and to drill 2,600 holes, but it's uncertain the plan can be activated quickly enough. The crisis has led to corruption, profiteering and petty jealousies between government departments throughout the region. Hoarding of sugar, cooking oil and mealie meal is rife in Zimbabwe and the black market price of a 20-kilogram bag of meal has doubled beyond the reach of rural people.
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One of the largest environmental organizations in the world is going for the jugular in a fight against the proposed Windy Craggy copper mine in northwestern British Columbia. The World Wildlife Fund boasts 2 million members worldwide. It says it is targeting a group believed to be a major shareholder in the project, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. The Windy Craggy mine could generate 600 jobs and contribute one per cent of the world's copper production. But its location, surrounded by Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park, the Wrangell St. Elias and Kluane National Park, has spawned opposition from international environmental groups. They say Windy Craggy ore has a high sulphur content, which could devastate the Tatshenshini River salmon fishery with acid rock drainage. They say that the firm is relying upon unproven technology for prevention of an ecological disaster of major proportions. A recent article in the Globe and Mail stated that the Ontario employees' pension plan owns about 25 per cent of Geddes Resources Ltd., the company behind the Windy Craggy proposal. The environmental coalition could delay the project in the courts for 10 years, he said.
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Local 301 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is demanding an 8-percent raise for its members who earn an average of $16.70 an hour this year and a 35-hour, four-day work week. The city's final offer is a 5-percent wage hike in 1991, another 2 percent next year and 40 hours of pay for 37.5 hours worked over five days. The current contract expires Dec. 31. City officials are asking residents to keep their household wastes inside until curbside pickup is back in operation once the strike ends at 10:04 a.m. Friday. After preparing for the first big snowstorm yesterday, many Montrealers are ready for the worst. "We were expecting up to 10 centimetres of snow, but it was mostly rain and ice pellets most of the day," said meteorologist Phil Sigouin from the Dorval weather station. Sigouin said weather warnings were issued because of high winds of 40 to 60 kilometres per hour. "With winds like that, even a little snow can cause problems," Sigouin said. Still the false alarm served as a warning.
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Marcos trails along with Senator Jovito Salonga and Vice-President Salvador Laurel. Recent surveys show Santiago and Ramos deadlocked with a slim lead, but with Cojuangco gaining strength after his endorsement last month by the Iglesia Ni Cristo, a 700,000-strong Christian denomination that votes as a bloc. A victory by Cojuangco would be a clear rebuke to Aquino, even though he is her first cousin. Cojuangco fled the country on the same plane that took the ousted president into exile in Hawaii in 1986. He returned here in 1989, outmaneuvered Marcos and gained control of most of her late husband's political network. He has also attracted support from some "anti-Marcos" figures who believe the country needs a strong leader with business skills. There is no single candidate to draw the anti-Marcos vote. Five candidates - Mitra, Ramos, Santiago, Laurel and Salonga - all served in Aquino's cabinet. Aquino endorsed Ramos, but Mitra is the choice of most pro-administration politicians, including most of the president's relatives.
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rPFTilfnir e i w -Lii tra i?n Finn ft3 It M t f 1 IM 3 r lie sview INSIDE Editorials Macpherson B3 1 1 S Water, water Is Canada quietly preparing the plumbing for a $100-billion plan to sell northern fresh water to the Prairies, the United States and Mexico? Global warming, droughts and depleted water reserves make the project inevitable, advocates of such sales say. Although it has been stalled by the timidity of politicians, the fears of environmentalists and the lack of vision of bureaucrats, individual pieces of the whole may be coming together, and Canadian water will find its way to those parched areas of Canada and the U.S. It is obligated to continue those sales as long as there is American demand. The federal government dismissed such interpretations, but it tried to calm fears by introducing legislation excluding water as a commodity under the agreement. That legislation died when the 1988 election was called. It was not reintroduced. It also announced a water policy in 1987 that stated large-scale water diversions to the United States will not be considered by the Canadian government under any circumstances. That policy has never been backed with legislation, Gamble noted, and glacier-fed abandoned mill town of Ocean Falls, 500 kilometres north of Vancouver. Each day, 5 billion litres spills over a falls higher than Niagara into the Pacific Ocean. Capturing just a small fraction of that to help slake the perpetual thirst of the United States is a dream held by Annett, president of 5-year-old Western Canada Water, and several rival entrepreneurs. American contract None has yet landed an American contract, but they claim that it is a few years at most before an armada of supertankers begin plying the West Coast, dousing drought-stricken California with B.C.'s most plentiful resource. Western Canada Water is the largest of six companies holding provincial licenses allowing the bulk export of water from isolated inlets along the province's mountainous coast. Spurred by the potential of California's four-year-long drought, the provincial water-management branch has been inundated with a further 19 license applications. Western Canada, and rivals Aqua Source of Vancouver and Sun Belt of Santa Barbara, Calif., recently lost out on a contract to supply fresh water by tanker to Santa Barbara, one of the cities hardest hit by the drought. Santa Barbara council voted instead to install an ocean-water desalination plant, if it passes a strict environmental review this spring. Western Canada already ships Link Lake water by tanker-barge to a Vancouver suburb where it is bottled for export to the U.S. demand, they claim. Native claims They say other issues have not been considered: the impact on nearby fish-spawning beds and water quality, native claims in some watersheds, and the setting of an adequate provincial royalty on water sales. I'm not against water exports, said Gamble. But I don’t understand why we don’t sit down and think it through from the beginning before we start to engage in this. Export proponents claim their critics are short on logic and long on emotion. There is a growing thirst. There is a world tanker fleet, hungry for business as its single-hulled vessels grow less acceptable for oil transport. We can wait, said Annett. We know it’s something of the future. Water is going to move globally, like oil does. Ocean Falls, an abandoned mill town at the base of Coast Mountains. CP Southern California's lush life: it's a facade hiding a desert KEN MacQUEEN SOUTHAM NEWS LOS ANGELES The headquarters of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California stands out like a green thumb on this particularly bleak stretch of Sunset Blvd. The front of the block-long building is a veritable oasis of lush greenery, a stand of fat palms, reflecting pools and fountains as befits the world's largest municipal waterworks. It is an illusion. A mirage. A lie. The lie, in fact, that built Southern California. By comparison, the false fronts of movie sets are mere fibs. Southern California itself is the great green lie: it is a facade hiding a desert. After four years of drought, 27 million Californians find the illusion increasingly difficult to maintain. Green fades to brown. Hot, dry Santa Ana winds howl through the cracks. The desert leaks in, relentless in its efforts to return these stolen lands to the grave. In some parts of the state, farther north in Santa Barbara and up to San Francisco, a madness set in this summer. People bought locks for their outdoor taps to curb water rustlers. It is already part of California folklore that the rich in Santa Barbara paid $200 a pop to have water trucked in for their lawns. The medium-rich paid $50 to have green vegetable dye sprayed on their brown grass. But what happened to the poor, the Latino gardeners, was not amusing at all. They were thrown out of work. Many were also evicted from their multi-family apartments as landlords tried to cut their soaring water bills. A Santa Barbara man with a leaking toilet got a water bill of $2,725. A gallon of drinking water at a California corner store costs more than a gallon of gasoline. It is also a California lie that gasoline is the lifeblood of the state. Bob Gomperz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Water District, turned on the television news and sees the usual forecast: sunny and dry. The weathercaster says Today is another perfect California's thirst unquenchable In a relentless effort to hold the unforgiving desert at bay, the largely arid state of California has been laced with aqueducts and water canals to help supply the sprawling, densely populated major cities. Shasta Lake Dam, Aqueduct, San Luis Aqueduct Reservoir. CALIFORNIA California Los Angeles Pacific Ocean Santa Barbara Colorado, Metropolitan Water District service area. PAUL PERREAULT Southam News Graphics day in Southern California. Well, asked Gomperz, what does that really mean? On this day, it meant the water district was scheduled to deliver 2.63 billion U.S. gallons, almost 10 billion litres, of water to its 27 wholesale customers. These agencies, in turn, would use the water to meet just some of the needs of 15 million people in a dense, thirsty crescent that stretches from Ventura County north of Los Angeles to San Diego at the Mexican border. They live in an area where the average annual rainfall in a non-drought year is about equal to Kabul or Marrakesh. Yet they plant Kentucky bluegrass lawns and English country gardens. They look upon golf courses as essential and swimming pools as mandatory. Yes, we live in a desert, that’s one of the reminders we try to give everyone, said Gomperz. We made it artificially green. We made it artificially a paradise. Sustaining paradise is causing Metropolitan to set annual delivery records, even as the water table drops, reservoirs shrink and hundreds of kilometres of aqueducts strain to squeeze every drop out of a stone-dry state. Metropolitan showered enough water on the region last year to flood one million hectares to a depth of 30 centimetres. This year it will top that, abetted by the annual influx of 350,000 new residents into its five-county service area. The crunch will hit the Los Angeles-San Diego region this summer. Even if winter rains materialize, said Gomperz, It's not going to save us for next summer. It's just a question of how close we'll get to meeting demand, and who is going to have to take the cuts. In December, Metropolitan conceded defeat and imposed water rationing on its wholesale customers, a 10-per-cent cut. This comes on top of a voluntary 10-per-cent cut in 1989, a massive conservation program, a water studies course in the school system and a $220-million program in which Metropolitan underwrites more efficient farm-irrigation methods in exchange for the water saved. Rationing has already hit other water districts, including the San Francisco and Santa Barbara regions. San Francisco's water utility ordered a 25-per-cent cut in water consumption. Among other measures, it imposed a per-person ration of about 63 U.S. gallons (238 litres) per day. If that sounds plentiful, consider that shaving with the tap running would use one-third of a daily allotment. A full washing-machine cycle would use it all. In plush Santa Barbara, Mayor Sheila Lodge achieved national notoriety with her pledge to bathe just twice weekly until the rains returned. Hundreds of millions of dollars of landscaping were damaged by a ban on watering a ban that was only lifted out of fear, after summer brush fires destroyed 400 homes. Santa Barbara is an exception in California: it has always played close to the line, deliberately limiting its water supply to kill off unwanted urban growth. The drought, however, has triggered a frantic search for new water sources. Plans for an ocean desalination plant are currently before an environmental review. If that proves unworkable, at least three companies have proposals to use supertankers to carry British Columbia water to the city and elsewhere. But the real growth region of California, the Los Angeles-San Diego area, refuses to be stunted by a lack of water. The south of the state has relied since the drought of the 1930s on money, clout, deception, even armed confrontation to create a spectacular network of dams, reservoirs, pipelines and pumping stations. They carry the rains, snowmelt and rivers of northern California 1,000 kilometres south. They draw the Owens River 350 kilometres into Los Angeles water mains. They siphon off much of the distant Colorado River. But such engineering feats are the product of different times. The Pacific Northwest is no longer willing to surrender its remaining undeveloped rivers. Arizona is asserting its right for a greater share of the Colorado. Hard questions must be confronted. California's population is projected to hit 40 million within 20 years. If urban growth is sacrosanct, what about agriculture? About 85 per cent of the state's water, all subsidized, is poured onto the huge central valley and the arid Imperial Valley in the southeast. While it is the leading agricultural state and a major food source for Canadian tables does a desert really need to grow such thirsty crops as rice and cotton? California has long since faded to brown and olive-drab when a plane begins its descent from the north into Los Angeles. The freeways are a gray tangle of squid-ink pasta. Swimming pools flash through the haze like diamonds in the bank. The only bold color is the undulating ribbon of an aqueduct; a thin, blue line separating prosperity from chaos."
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2003 REVIEW E3 ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO Racegoers, wearing traditional top hats and tails, watch from the Queen's Stand at Epsom, southern England. The Derby race meeting is one of the main events on the English social calendar. Class: The accent gap CONTINUED FROM E1 The price one can pay for a regional accent in Britain is not nearly as high as it was in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. But as people size one another up, they still listen for indicators of class and geography as subtle as whether a speaker uses the words napkin or serviette; sitting room or lounge; lavatory, toilet or loo. Many scholars have concluded that class doesn't matter anymore, which seems rather odd, David Cannadine, an expert in the social history of the British upper classes, wrote in his book The Class in Britain. Class is still essential to a proper understanding of British history and of Britain today, he said. Class is undoubtedly a British preoccupation. Class intrudes into debates over fox hunting, state vs. private schools, democratic reforms in the House of Lords, taxes that fund the royal family, private vs. state-run hospitals, the huge amounts of land still owned by aristocratic families, and the freedom to walk public footpaths near private property. British TV capitalizes on class sensitivities by creating comic characters such as the pretentious Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced ""Bouquet""); Basil Fawlty, who grovels to a guest pretending to be a lord; and comedian Harry Enfield's Tim-Nice-But-Dim. But the traces of class generally are much more subtle in real life. A non-Brit could easily miss the body language of class disapproval - or perhaps even be exempted. Another challenge is distinguishing between put-downs from above and resentment from below. Katy Johnson, an administrator at the London School of Economics who graduated from Oxford University, says reverse snobbery was what had impressed her at college. Some of the wealthy kids - the titled, the upper class - muddied their backgrounds and accents in public to hide their wealth, unless they were talking to their equals, she said. One friend didn't even tell me she was a baroness and didn't use her posh accent with me, a middle-class person, to avoid put-downs from below. It's been years since the BBC stopped requiring its radio and TV staff to use the posh accent associated with the upper classes. Many now use regional accents with no apology. But Ivan Reid, a sociologist at the University of Bradford in northern England, said that doesn't mean judgments aren't made on the basis of accent, word usage, sentence construction and speed of delivery. As a boy, Reid said, he was given language training at a state school to shed his Cockney accent. His daughter, however, had to use both. She knew she would be teased by locals if she used her posh accent in the north, a region long considered inferior to the south. As a teenager, she paid the price for that confusion while visiting Cambridge University in the southeast as a prospective student. When she asked a question at a school presentation, the official on the stage replied: Do I detect a northern accent? She walked out and never went to Cambridge, Reid said. Some argue that every country inherits prejudices from its history that take a long time to shed. What caste is to India and race is to the United States, class is to Britain. But Britain's last three prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair, all came from the middle class, and all have preached the virtues of merit, not birth. To some observers, that means the vestiges of class are fading fast in Britain. Richard Sennett, a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, said that thanks to the global economy, class is now more a matter of education, employment and consumer power than heritage. Class is still more than a vague remnant here, he said. But the old-fashioned England sold by the tourist trade - the Evelyn Waugh version, the born-to-rule mentality - is gone. Decline: Move follows discussions CONTINUED FROM E1 The cheese is still available at the abbey store, along with a range of delicacies still made by monastics and religious articles. The Trappists still engage in some farming, look after an orchard and make fruit cakes, candy and jellies. There are now 31 monks at the abbey, more than half of them over 70. Mailhot said the historic peak of 177 monks was reached in 1947. At 43, he is one of three monks under the age of 50; another is just younger than him and one is 28. Another 28-year-old and a man of 43 are to enter soon. The decline was quicker than anticipated about a decade ago, when the monks carried out their most recent renovation of the existing premises. Now they hope the work will at least make the property easier to sell. Mailhot said the decision to sell followed a consultation among the monks, which was in its most intensive phase in the first four months of this year. He said the abbot, Yvon-Joseph Moreau, estimated the current premises is manageable with at least 30 monks - one fewer than the current number. In a statement issued May 5, the abbey said that the decision to relocate in order to favor the contemplative dimension of the community's life is the fruit of a long process of reflection and discernment. The statement expressed regret but said 31 monks are living in a building intended for almost 200, which is becoming more and more difficult to run. It said urban growth around the Oka site is threatening the atmosphere of silence and solitude vital for the monastic life. Our desire is to invest the best of ourselves and our energy in what lies at the heart of our vocation as monks and Christians, instead of in the upkeep of a heritage, beautiful and historic as it may be. Mailhot, prior of the monastery (the No. 2 monk, in the Cistercian system), said the monks would like a new site in the Laurentians, preferably in the diocese of St. Jerome, like the current site. Failing that, it might look at something around Joliette, or north of Trois Rivieres. The monks at Oka are contemplatives, who give priority to offering God a sacrifice of praise and interceding with him for the salvation of the world. They do this especially through the liturgy of the hours, communal prayers nine times a day. Cistercians resulted from a 12th-century reform in France within the Benedictine tradition; Trappists, in turn, resulted from a 17th-century reform among Cistercians. The term Trappist is officially played down now but still loosely used for the Oka monks. Some of the strictest rules of the monastery have been relaxed in recent decades. For example, while still avoiding unnecessary chitchat, monks no longer use hand signals instead of words in necessary day-to-day communication. It's too hot. The 24th Montreal International Jazz Festival started Thursday as the city sweltered in a heatwave. Temperatures hit the low 30s Celsius, air conditioners were in short supply and a smog warning was issued. A changed man. More details emerged late in the week about the former Montrealer accused of killing Holly Jones, 10, whose slaying and dismemberment shocked Toronto. Michael Briere used to be witty and easygoing, but he changed into a sullen introvert, obsessed with horror movies and violent computer games, according to his ex-wife and other people who knew him. Radwanski goes. Embattled George Radwanski resigned as federal privacy commissioner Monday after various allegations including extravagant expense-account lunches and foreign travel. Robert Marleau took over as interim commissioner as Prime Minister Jean Chretien sought to restore credibility to the job. Alternative grad. Parents at a private school in Pierrefonds organized their own graduation ceremony after the official gala was cancelled because of bad behaviour by some of the students. Among other acts, students sent a death threat to College Charlemagne's education director. Labatt goes dry. As high temperatures make Montrealers thirsty, 950 workers at Labatt Breweries are on strike, which could create beer shortages. Rival Molson stands to gain market share. Just like Canada The U."
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Lachance 1 Omaha Station G. Lacharile 2 Gunner Goodall Y. Poirier 3 Big Bucks Bomber M. Barrieau 4 Passenger J. Hebert 5 Virgute Jo A. Deguise 6 His Campbell Y. Gaulhier Purse: $11,600, 5 3 3 9-2 113 5-1 3 6 7 4-1 2 4 2 5-2 3(1 3-1 1 3 (6-1 Purse: $13,300, 6 3 4 9-2 10-1 5-2 4-1 5-1 8-1 3-1 5-1 6-1 Purse: $9,300, 4 (2 5 5 2 FOURTH RACE: Pace, 1-Diamond Back M. Lachance purse: $10,300, 2-Beniamin Seelsler J. Lareau 3-Noroem Franc M. Baillargeon 4-Sherwood Abe M.
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GREAT LOSS OF LIFE Hundreds of Seamen Perished in Numerous Wrecks PROPERTY LOSS IS IMMENSE The Storm Is Described as Being One of the Worst in Many Years Part of London Flooded London, November 20 The latest reports from various points along the coast show that the gale which swept English waters yesterday and last night and which had not abated its fury up to noon today was one of the worst storms of recent years In many places it was almost cyclonic in its violence and the long list of disasters includes a large loss of life, many wrecks of large vessels and the loss of scores, if not hundreds, of smaller craft, with serious damage to property ashore at many important towns In the north the wind was accompanied by blinding snow and hail that hid the lights and immensely increased the difficulties of navigation Many ships are known to have foundered, in most cases, it is feared with all on board Scarcely a town on the coast has escaped without more or less injury, falling walls and flying debris adding to the loss of life There have been rocket and lifeboat rescues almost without number Stories of thrilling escapes come from all points On the Norfolk coast, between Bacton and Happisburgh, five vessels, as yet unidentified, went down and the crews of all perished A number of bodies have been washed ashore near Yarmouth The British brig Ruby was wrecked off Hemsby The coast guard service made desperate efforts to save the crew and succeeded in getting a line on board A dying woman was ""rocketed"" to safety; and then the brig capsized, all the rest of the ship's company perishing A large steam collier dashed upon Flamborough Head, the famous promontory on the North Sea coast, floated off and then foundered with all on board A steamer not yet identified was wrecked on Bridlington sands with her entire company Last evening the ship Rose of Devon, Captain Davis, went on the rocks near Redruth, Cornwall, where she pounded all night long, her crew of twelve perishing This morning the bodies of the captain and five seamen, all wearing life-belts, were washed ashore Phenomenally high tides are reported in many localities The district near the mouth of the Thames has suffered severely, several townships being partly submerged, The Sheerness dockyard and the Woolwich arsenal were inundated At Scarborough, the fashionable watering place, the sea wall was washed away At Yarmouth, Lowestoft, and other coast towns of Norfolk, the esplanades were flooded At Liverpool, the squalls blew off the roofs of several houses, threw down chimneys and tore up trees The Mersey flooded its banks on the Chester side and deluged the shore district for miles Similar disasters occurred at Holyhead where a number of valuable yachts were sunk at their moorings Scarcely a vestige remains in sight of the wreck of Lord Nelson's old flagship, the Foudroyant, long fast in the sands off Blackpool There is a great deal of wreckage near the Goodwin Sands The British ship Larnica, Captain Burgess, was driven ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance of Morecambe Bay, about eighteen miles northwest of Preston The crew were saved, but the position of the vessel is dangerous She left St John, N.B., on November 1 for Fleetwood The scenes at such popular resorts as Yarmouth and Margate were of great grandeur; but the damage done was terrible Tremendous seas still invade the gardens of the hotel and residences wrecking the parades and buildings, while debris is floating about Immense damage has been done to the Government property at the Sheerness dockyard, and the Woolwich arsenal Seven thousand troops were hurriedly ordered out today to remove thousands of pounds worth of ammunition and stores from the wharves and sheds to places of safety The tide continued to rise and invaded almost all the workshops, quenched the engine fires and stopped the electric lights The workmen were obliged to go home, wading knee deep Despite all the precautions, damage to the amount of many thousands of pounds has been done At Sheerness and Queensborough, two miles away, hundreds of acres have been submerged, scores of cellars flooded, and 200 yards of the Sheerness pier have been swept away The boom of distress guns from Goodwin Sands has been almost continuous Below London Bridge, the low-lying houses and cellars are flooded and all work is temporarily suspended along the Thames, even as high as Charing Cross The continual rising of the river is looked upon as ominous, though as yet no damage has been done above London Bridge Six vessels were wrecked between Yarmouth and Bacton, only a few miles apart, on the Norfolk coast, and twenty-five lives lost The brig Vedra, stranded at Bacton, The storm tore out her masts; and when the rocket line was fired the crew were unable to haul it in Finally, the line dragged them into the surf and three out of seven were drowned Rochester and Strood on the Medway, about thirty miles southeast of London, have suffered severely At Rochester, the gas works are flooded and the town is in darkness, The gale is now travelling southward and traversing various parts of the continent Very rough weather is reported along the north coast of France 1893 Smith drew $9,220.74, but he only deposited part of this money in the Banque du peuple During the last illness of Smith, defendant was obliged to see to the completion of the buildings which were being put up on the lot, and the only amount she had drawn was to provide for payment on these buildings Defendant pleaded that she was not accountable to the heirs of Smith, but that the latter were accountable to her as Smith had drawn much more than half of the money The court held that it was incumbent on plaintiffs to establish that the money or some portion hereof belonged to them, and that defendant had control of the same in some capacity which rendered her accountable to Smith, the plaintiffs' author The plaintiffs had utterly failed to prove that Smith, personally had any right or ownership in the money in question, or any right whatever therein save in so far as a presumption of right thereto or therein resulted from the fact of the same forming part of a joint deposit to his credit and to that of defendant, made in the bank Smith had drawn more than half of the money, and plaintiffs would be bound first to account for the larger portion drawn by Smith, before bringing the present action Action dismissed Menard vs Monk et al The plaintiff, by the present action sought to revendicate a promissory note for $250 The defendants severed in their defense, and each pleaded a demurrer to the effect that there was no obligation on their part to return the note; that it had not appeared that the note had ever been discounted, or any claim thereto made on plaintiff Proof had been ordered before adjudging on this law issue It was further pleaded by Monk that the note in question was never delivered to him, but to the other defendant, as plaintiff's agent, to be discounted for the accommodation of the estate of the late John Monk; that defendant Monk never had possession of the note; that it never was discounted, but remained until past due in the hands of the other defendant The other defendant, Hetu, pleaded that the note in question was not delivered to him as plaintiff's agent, with instructions to have it discounted for the accommodation of the estate John Monk; that he had not succeeded in discounting it; that he was always willing to return the note to plaintiff if requested, but that he had never been so requested, and he had not considered it of any value The court held that plaintiff had a right, in the event of defendant's failure to return the note to ask that they be condemned to pay the face value thereof, or to ask for a complete indemnification for any liability for the amount thereof, and that he could only be completely indemnified by the payment of the amount of the note But the note in question being now prescribed, the defendants should not be condemned to pay the face value thereof, but they might be condemned to pay a certain amount by way of penalty and to indemnify the plaintiff for any trouble to which he might be exposed from the non-return of the note The court gave judgment against the defendants jointly and severally, ordering them to return the note to the plaintiff, or in default of doing so within 15 days from the present judgment, to pay the sum of $50 with costs of the present action, as brought De Beaujeu vs Shallow The plaintiff claimed the sum of $281 on an account, composed first, of a sum of $31 for printing an issue of the Journal, the Moniteur du Commerce, and, secondly, $250, amount of deposit in the hands of defendants The defendant set up a number of circumstances which he pleaded relieved him from liability The court held that the defendant had refused to pay plaintiff the amount due unless the latter would deduct from the account a sum of $50 for advertising in the Journal in question from December, 1895, to June, 1896 The defendant's pretension was that plaintiff was liable to pay this sum of $50, which represented advertising done by the Desmaulniers Printing Company which had previously printed defendants' Journal The court held that plaintiff was not subject to any liability incurred toward defendant by the company which previously did the printing, and judgment was given in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $281 claimed by the action Rateau vs Robert This was an action against the drawer on a draft which it was alleged that the drawee had refused to accept The plea was to the effect that there was no allegation of protest or notice, or that there existed any reason for dispensing with such protest and notice The plaintiff answered that a protest was not necessary as against the drawer of the draft, and that notice of refusal to accept had been verbally given to the defendant by telephone It was admitted that the draft was dated and made payable at Montreal and that the drawee resided in the city The verbal notice of non-acceptance of the draft, alleged by plaintiff, even if proved, could not avail as replacing protest Therefore in the absence of a protest for non-acceptance and notice to defendant, drawer of the draft, the latter was discharged from liability and the action was dismissed Rose et al vs the City of Montreal The plaintiff claimed damages suffered in consequence of her premises being flooded by the bursting of a water pipe on the 29th of March, 1896 It was alleged that the bursting of the pipe was due to the action of the frost, and that this should have been foreseen, and the pipe should have been placed at a sufficient depth to protect it from the frost The court maintained the plaintiff's pretensions and gave judgment in her favor for $100 By Mr Justice Archibald Cossette vs Desjardins The evocation to the Superior Court in this case was held to be unfounded, and it was ordered that the record be remitted to the Circuit Court By Mr Justice Da Lormier Foos vs Irvine Judgment for $305.72 on an obligation By Mr Justice Oulmet
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"You need a chief librarian if you're going to entertain these major changes," Beverly Chandler, Vanier College's head librarian, said in an interview. "You need someone to make the judgment calls." The librarians at the meeting complained the multimillion-dollar proposal has major faults, mainly because it is currently being overseen by a city hall steering committee that does not include a librarian. Among their concerns: Staff rooms and reference desks shouldn't be placed in isolated areas. Secluded washrooms near the children's library and the staff room are potentially dangerous because they could attract loiterers. The library should have one entrance, not two. A proposed new entrance would be too far from the circulation desk. A two-storey glass wall on the north side of the new annex will make it difficult to regulate heat in the library. The audio-visual department should be placed on the ground floor rather than the second floor to make it more accessible. Considering the number of complaints, some of the librarians said renowned architect Peter Rose, who designed the current proposal, might not be the best person to work on the final plans.
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Words matter TODAY'S FORECAST The Weather Network Make the right call Montreal area; Today's high J Tonight's low -7 Mainly cloudy with a few flurries in the morning, flurries in the afternoon. Winds light. Tonight, variably cloudy. EXTENDED WEATHER: Tomorrow Variable High -2 Low -13 The Weather Network thtwtatMrntlwork.com Regional synopses Tuesday Partly cloudy High -5 Low -10 Wednesday Abltibl-Temltcamingue High -7 Low near -16 Light snow Laurentiani High -3 Low near -10 Flurries Forecast issued at 5 p.m. yesterday covers highs (or today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow. Quebec City Flurries -4-8 St Jovile, Flurries -3-10 Trois Rivieres; Flurries -3-7 Montreal, Flurries -1-7 Sherbrooke Light snow -1-6 Ottawa - Flurries -1-9 The Weather Network 2006 NORTH AMERICAN WEATHER SYSTEMS Variable High -1 Low -13 Thursday Partly cloudy High -7 Low -12 Sun & moon Sunrise 7:16 a.m.
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ST. PAUL STREET, between McGill and St. Francois Xavier Street, where the level is very low, was soon covered, it flowing into the cellars of the stores alone, filling them, coming as high as the window sills in some cases. Carts and express wagons were brought into requisition, and such goods as were exposed to danger and had not already been ruined were removed, some to higher ground and others to the upper storeys. On H'ALL STREET the water came up past St. Ann's market, which was surrounded, though the floor was not reached, and no damage was done in the battle of the building. The cellars, as well as those along Foundling and Grey Nun streets, were filled. So also were those in the blocks to the south. The Custom House stood like an islet and the clerks had to make their way out in carts and cabs. The Allan steamship office and the Harbor Commissioners' building were in the same fix. About 2 o'clock or a little later a slight fall took place and the water retired somewhat, but it was for a short time only.
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The environmental coalition could delay the project in the courts for 10 years, he said. Our message is we're tying this thing up and don't think we don't have the ability to do it on both sides of the border. I'll win vote in spring '93 - Mulroney. CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney says he'll lead his party to victory in a spring 1993 election because other parties offer voters no viable alternatives. In an interview in Ottawa, he told a Toronto newspaper the government will probably call the election before the Tories' five-year mandate runs out in November 1993. It looks like spring 1993. We'll see how the party is in Toronto (at the party's national convention) in August (1992). Mulroney said he has no intention of resigning, despite the unpopularity of such measures as the goods-and-services tax. Two years before the last election, the NDP were at 44 per cent and we were at 18 per cent to 19 per cent, he said. We're just about the same.
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WHARVES SWEPT AWAY; Trois Pistoles, Q, November 6 We suffered much damage here by the rise of water. Three yachts were partly destroyed and a schooner damaged. The wharf is nearly all destroyed; all that part made of stone and sand has been swept away, and the bridge and a lot of wood washed off. The loss is estimated at between $20,000 and $30,000. Green Island, Que, November 6 A heavy wind and snowstorm visited this place yesterday. Up till this morning about two feet had fallen. No casualties are reported. AT LITTLE METIS; Little Metis, November 6 A most severe snow and windstorm visited this coast yesterday, clearing everything in its way. All the houses along the shore have been carried off, also boats, fences, bridges, etc. The shore today is strewn with debris and household effects. The suffering will be intense from cold and hunger to those left destitute. L'Islet flooded; L'Islet, November 6 The damage by yesterday's storm is considerable, amounting to nearly $7,000.
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Newsweek photographer Bill Gentile, Jon Snow, Central America reporter for ITV of Britain, and Edith Coron of Paris's Liberation is Canadian Raymont chose an American network Bernheim said his group had already received unverified reports from prison sources that questioned whether an escape attempt was indeed taking place when the shooting occurred and whether the use of firearms was justified There might be a coroner's inquest, maybe some other investigations, Bernheim said But people should be allowed to ask authorities questions Penitentiary officials said Irenee Bouchard, 35, was shot once in the back with a bullet from a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle as he attempted to scale the second of two 20-foot fences which form a buffer zone around the penitentiary Correctional Service Canada would not identify the guard who did the shooting from a tower, saying he was being debriefed psychologically and the investigation is not complete Bouchard was one of three inmates who had scaled the first fence to escape another group of convicts who had attacked them with sticks, iron bars and workshop tools, prison officials said Two inmates were seriously injured and two others suffered minor injuries in the fight which broke out in the exercise yard shortly before 7 p.
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Tigrisi 9)00 12 2 IJ Respb 27700 350 340 350 5 Title tch 3530 62 62 62 -6 Rhino 2000 48 48 48 6 Tottec WO 59 52 52 Rhvsinds 5500 45 44 45 Joodog 10000 8 8 8 1 Ridoeway 9500 65 64 65 7 Joscana 4000 26 26 26 Riley 14325 65 61 63 3 Tourngnl 25000 3 3 3 Rivaoele 79250 83 76 79 5 Tract pty 18300 129 175 128 -2 Rvieraex 4000 57 50 57 Tridonoil 1500 5 IS 151 Rcklres i200 0 0 0 Tnune 100000 6 16 16 Roxanars 3500 99 99 99 9 Trove mv 1250 185 180 180 Rvlbavg i500 0 0
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The Defence Agency, in a recent white paper, for the first time cited a potential threat posed to Osaka and Kyoto by new missiles being developed by North Korea, which is also suspected of creating a nuclear arsenal. Development of a means of delivery for nuclear weapons could have "a critical impact" on Japan, said Haruo Ueno, Defence Agency counsellor, in explaining the policy paper to foreign correspondents. Ueno also expressed an elevated level of concern about China, saying: "We had thought that China's military power would not become the kind of threat that the former Soviet Union was. But now, China is modernizing its armed forces, especially its naval power, is advancing into the Spratly Islands and recently revised its law concerning territorial waters. We hope China will not become a factor of uneasiness in the security of the region." While downgrading Russia from a "potential threat" to an "element of instability," the Defence Agency's white paper said the massive Far East forces of the former Soviet Union remain "a cause of uneasiness." "I don't think the will to attack other countries still exists (in Russia), but the capability continues to exist.
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forcing thousands of Filipinos and American troops at a nearby base to flee The cloud looked like an atomic bomb and could be seen as far away as Manila, 95 kilometres to the south, reporters at the scene said Raymundo Punongbayan, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, described the explosion as a big one He warned people within a 19-km radius to flee Even 30 km to be safe, he said Officials had no immediate reports of casualties after today's eruption But the daily Manila Bulletin reported that a 3-year-old boy died yesterday of suffocation from the volcano's fumes The eruption the volcano's first in 600 years began at 8:51 a.m. with a tremendous explosion Reporters at the scene said a huge mushroom cloud which looked like an atomic bomb billowed from the crater Threats of an eruption prompted nearly PLEASE SEE VOLCANO, PAGE A2 Volcano refugees jam navy base PAGE E8 top-intensity solar flare will lash the Earth today Heads up, Hydro-Quebec Utility companies are being warned that a major solar flare will lash the Earth today with an intense geomagnetic storm Solar forecasters at the U"
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16 9 Hong Kong Shower 28 26 Jerusalem Cloud 28 14 Lisbon Cloud 23 15 London Shower 19 12 Madrid Cloud 27 16 Mexico City Cloud 29 14 Moscow Cloud 24 12 Nairobi Sun 26 15 New Delhi Haze 36 31 Paris Shower 19 11 Rio de Janeiro Cloud 22 18 Rome Cloud 23 14 Sydney Rain 17 15 Tokyo Rain 26 22 Asserts Min Wo Acapulco Fair Barbados Cloud Bermuda Cloud Daytona Beach Sun Honolulu Kingston Miami Myrtle Beach Nassau Tampa Sun Fair Cloud Cloud Fair Cloud 30 31 30 31 31 34 32 32 29 32 27 25 22 21 21 26 24 21 24 23 MUSIC Organist John Stephenson performs works by Sweelinck, Vierne, Bach and Mendelssohn at 8 p.m. at the Church of St John the Evangelist, corner of President Kennedy Ave and St Urbain St Freewill offering Organist David Palmer performs works by Bach and Messiaen at 12:30 p.m. at the Christ Church Cathedral,
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Revolts, partly inspired by Roman Catholic opposition to the reformation, were suppressed. Irish resistance culminated in the rebellion of 1641 and was not suppressed until Oliver Cromwell invaded in 1649. Water rushed through the streets in the town of Rennes-les-Bains near Carcassonne, where an elderly woman drowned when her house collapsed and two people were missing. Mayor Jacques Ortola said the Sal river rose 6.5 metres in less than two hours on Saturday, cutting roads to the town and bringing down power lines. "The river overflowed. It was a catastrophe. Everything was carried off. Homes, campsites, tennis courts, restaurants, everything was damaged," he told France-Info radio. "Every able-bodied man has been mobilized to clear the wreckage from the streets." The towns of Narbonne and Beziers were on all-night alert when the Orbe river overflowed its banks. A woman was missing in Corsica where rivers burst their banks, flooding campsites and destroying bridges and a house. LIQUIDATION OF EZltaXler?
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Provincial police believe the slaying was the result of a two-year-long feud between the two men who live on a stretch of Highway 201 just outside of Franklin. "The men were in cars, and it appeared one returned to his house and fetched a gun and shot the other," said McConnell. Soon-Yi breaks silence on Allen affair NEW YORK In the cacophony of dueling acrimonies rising from the Woody Allen-Mia Farrow imbroglio, the one crucially silent voice that has been that of the young woman at the heart of the storm, Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow's Korean-born adopted daughter who has become the new love in Allen's life. The romance became public last week after Allen sued Farrow for custody of their biological son, Satchel, 2; their adopted son, Moses, 14; and their adopted daughter, Dylan, 7. Connecticut police are reported to be investigating allegations that Allen sexually molested Dylan.
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-K-A, BK mm, ilV KB mm n, n We all take water too much for granted. We use it as if it were an endless resource. But imagine if you turned on the tap one day and nothing came out. Or if our water had to be boiled and purified before drinking. I'm not talking about the situation in many countries where clean, drinkable water is a precious commodity, and even usable water is scarce. Water shortages aren't only happening in desert regions. Even on the North American continent there are places where reservoirs become low enough to require summer water rationing. Those of you in many Montreal Island municipalities have only to think back to last summer to remember the garden watering restrictions imposed in the middle of the season. All this in a province that prides itself on water as a renewable resource, and in a country that holds nearly one-fifth of the world's fresh water. I'm not suggesting that we're going to run out of water right after your next shower, but there will be more and more limits to our consumption in the future, and as gardeners we may be part of the problem. We waste a lot more water than we have the right to, and it's not necessary. What we have to do as responsible gardeners is set things up so less water is used, less is wasted, but plant growth is not adversely affected. Save rainwater. It's not difficult. It all depends on how you irrigate, what type of soil you have, using mulch properly, and your choice of plants. First, try to save rainwater in a barrel. And don't waste what's called gray water, the leftover from washing or rinsing. Use what you can, as long as it's not full of grease or detergents. Using a sprinkler is the least efficient way to irrigate a garden. It's a good distributor of water to a lawn, but it's very poor for anything else. Much of what sprays out is lost to evaporation or the wind, particularly if it's a fine spray. You can make better use of it on the lawn if you turn down the pressure until the jets are rather thick streams and you can keep them from going too high. Garden beds with plants need the water delivered where it will do the most good to the roots. This means gently applying it on or reduce moisture to cut Q. Our turn-of-the-century townhouse has two very large skylights. One is about 4 by 4 feet and the other is about 8 by 12 feet. They are both in good condition. They each have a ventilating pipe in the center. In the winter, moist air rises through these pipes and condensation drips down onto the glass below them. The amount of water that can accumulate is very significant. Certainly they do not work very efficiently to remove hot air in summer. Can you recommend a remedy? This is a tricky question. Some experts have long been in favor of blocking off the vent; others are in favor of keeping it open as the vent does work to keep air circulating. The Victorian skylight serves two functions. The first and most obvious is that it allows light to enter the dark upper reaches of buildings that have complete walls on two or more sides. The second is that it provides a certain amount of air circulation; it provides a way for the pressurized air that builds up in a house to escape. Normally what should happen is that with one or two windows open on various different floors during North Hatley antiques show set for weekend Rare antiques as diverse as cabinet doors and art-deco jewelry will be featured at the North Hatley Antique Show and Sale this weekend. The show will officially open tomorrow night with a collectors' night that offers a preview and sale for serious buyers. Showing their one-of-a-kind collectibles will be 27 dealers from the Eastern Townships, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. A pair of early 19th century doors, shown by Peter Baker Antiques of Huntingdon, have glass panels and hand-forged iron hinges that resemble a curved rat-tail. Also going up for sale at his booth will be two Quebec armoires, one of which Knowlton church host of Festival of Flowers and Music party-summer flowers will be on display in the 150-year-old St. Paul's Church in Knowlton, on July 14 and 16 as part of the current celebration of the 150th anniversary of the gray stone Anglican church. A long-nose watering can is among STUART ROBERTSON GARDENING under the soil surface. You can soak the surface with a long-nosed watering can that has a rose on the end to make a gentle spray, or you can use a hose with a soaker nozzle on the end that splits up the spray into lots of tiny streams. Both of these methods will apply plenty of water but not in such a way as to disturb the plants or erode the soil. Don't use a pistol-grip or fogging nozzle for the same reasons as the lawn sprinkler. The latter is not efficient, and the former is downright dangerous with its strong jet. Delivering water underground directly to the roots needs a bit more planning, but is even simpler once installed. You'll need some form of irrigation tubing that can be buried a couple of inches beneath the surface and snaked around the plants. Several systems are available for easy home installation that are made of recycled plastic. They have thousands of tiny pores in the tubing that allow a slow and steady flow of water to garden beds. In the summer, the air circulates up to the skylight and zips out through the vent. Of course, for this to happen, the skylight windows should be open. Even in extremely large skylights, there should be one or two sashes, or individual windows that open by a rope and pulley mechanism. Unfortunately, with time, the ropes often go missing in action. I strongly suspect that this is what has happened in your case. If this is so, try propping them open, or reinstalling the sash cord through the pulley and leaving them open during the day and night, to help vent off the hot air. While you are working in the skylight shaft, you may find it worth your while to throw two or more coats of a high-gloss alkyd paint. The other is circa 18th century in its original blue color. Obsession Antique Ltd. of Montreal specializes in jewelry and this year features some very elegant finds, such as an art-deco group consisting of a brooch, necklace, earrings and bracelet. The European set is delicately crafted in 15-karat gold and silver, and set with diamonds. Another stunning set is a Victorian-styled brooch and earrings. Crafted in Italy, the jewelry has an 18K gold setting studded with lava stone. The theme of the flower arrangements will be the four stages of life: birth, adolescence, maturity and old age. And there'll be music - it's called the festival of flowers and music. Limits are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., both the most efficient methods for delivering flow of water to the root zone whenever you turn on the tap. Most allow for the addition of organic fertilizer into the stream. Over the course of a few hours you can efficiently deliver a measured amount of water to the critical part of your garden, keeping the surface quite dry and robbing small weeds of the moisture they need to flourish. And new electronic timers turn the water on and off even if you're not around to supervise. However, the efficiency of an irrigation system depends on the type of soil you have. In clay soil the water is absorbed slowly and spreads sideways but doesn't penetrate very deeply. The surface evaporates quickly and turns into a hard cake. In sandy soil it flows downwards quickly but doesn't spread over a very wide area and some can even be lost to the depths. Moisture and nutrients are soon depleted. In a sandy loam you get the best of both worlds, with water penetrating to a good depth but also spreading and being absorbed for later use. Working on your soil to get it to this consistency is obviously the best goal if we want deep-rooted plants that can last much longer in dry spells without showing ill effects. Mulching is the third essential. If you're applying the water efficiently, the next objective is to keep it from being lost to evaporation by the wind and sun. Covering any exposed soil surface will considerably reduce this loss, and will also deter skylight condensation preferably white, onto the skylight shaft itself. This will help reflect more natural light into the house during the winter, and protect the wood or plaster of the shaft. As to the condensation itself, I can't really think of any perfectly good solutions. You shouldn't try blocking the vent with something like foam rubber or glass fiber; this would only lead to the moist air being trapped in the shaft and condensing on other nearby cold glass surfaces. Probably your best way to deal with the situation is to caulk the lower windows, the ones that should be operated by a pulley, in place with a strippable caulk, this should stop the air from reaching the upper, colder reaches of the skylight and condensing. However, warm moist air might still find a way of infiltrating the skylight and condensing. For that reason, the vent must remain functional to allow this moisture to go outside. Check all the caulk in the skylight, and the putty holding the window panes in place on the skylight and the bottom window. Replace any that is rotten. In the process, you may want to install a new thermopane, or glazed insulating glass unit in the bottom. North Hatley Antique Show and Sale will be held in two buildings on Capelton Rd (Highway 108), the main street of the town: the North Hatley Curling Club and the Community Centre. Admission for the collectors' night (tomorrow from 6:30 to 10 p.m.) is $20, which includes a party of food, wine and beer. Advance reservations are recommended; call (819) 842-2179 or (819) 842-2637. Tickets can also be purchased at the show. General admission for Saturday (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) is $5. Annabelle King days. There is no admission charge and visitors are welcome. To reach Knowlton, take the L'Acadie townships route (10) to Route 90 and follow Route 243 to the village. For more information, call (514) 243-5787. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO. Mulch can be anything that does the job. Dark plastic film, sheets of newspaper, a thick layer of straw or even gravel will do. Perhaps a bit more elegant would be compost, dried manure, leaf mold, dried grass clippings, shredded bark or wood chips. The organic mulches mentioned decompose to help the soil structure and most of them add nutrients as they do so. This blanket over the soil also maintains a consistent moisture level around the roots so growth is steady and not interrupted every time there's a slight drying of the soil. The last essential to a water-wise garden is to use the right plants in the right places. Areas that are heavily exposed to the sun will suffer the most from water loss, so they should have plants that are deep-rooted and slightly drought-tolerant. Try annuals such as arctotis (African daisy), cornflower, dwarf morning glory, dimorphoteca (Cape marigold), California poppy, gaillardia, mirabilis, nasturtiums, annual phlox, portulaca, salvia splendens and zinnias. Also such perennials as achillea, anthemis, coreopsis, dianthus, echinops, gazania, gypsophila, phlox, potentilla or rudbeckia. If you position these plants properly you can also make sure the foliage of each grows to meet its neighbor, therefore providing a kind of living mulch or cover to keep the moisture in the soil. All in all, setting yourself up this way to use less water should give better results in your garden. But all this work should really not be necessary: it should function reasonably well without the new glass. This leads me to believe that perhaps your household is producing too much moisture in winter, and that reducing the amount produced is the key to the solution. Do you have a humidifier running during the winter? Is your clothes dryer vented to the outside? Is there a kitchen vent? Do you take a lot of hot showers without leaving a window open to vent off the steam? I would examine my winter living patterns before going to the trouble of installing a thermopane or rebuilding the whole skylight. And if all else fails, all you should have to do is open a window for a bit to vent out the moist air causing the problem. A 2 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1992 The elephants and The closest to the experience of real thirst that I can imagine is a hangover dream. You know the kind. Deep in an alcohol-induced sleep, you crave ice-cold water and dream you're drinking gallons and gallons of the stuff and still get no relief. It was grim reading recently of Zimbabwe's millions of thirsty and starving people because of the worst drought in this century and the resultant culling of 2,000 elephants in Gonarezhou National Park to help feed them. I saw figures that said as many as 30 million people could die in the whole of the southern African region before the winter. I have just come from my parents' farm in Northumberland County, about an hour or so's drive west of Kingston near Lake Ontario. It's difficult to fathom, since we seem to be living through Nordic monsoons here in Montreal, but they also have been experiencing a drought. Well, drought is a relative word here. My parents haven't had rain for many weeks. Their gardens drooped; their soil was hot and dusty underfoot. The lawns were like shredded wheat. And the old well was low. We had to be very careful with the water. That was more of a nuisance than anything else, what with the mob of people there. Bathwater got shared several times (shaving of legs forbidden). We flushed the toilet only every third or fourth time. We never could run the tap to brush teeth or wash gritty lettuce leaves or have the hottest water to fill the kettle or rinse dishes for the dishwasher. Yes, the dishwasher. Isn't that ludicrous? In the middle of a dry spell, we still used the dishwasher. Well, we have 11 people at meals, we said. We have to. The fact is, we're spoiled brats. We know very little about conserving, really, and even less about deprivation. We cannot even begin to comprehend what it's like to depend for our survival on something that is well and truly gone. Like water. Like crops and cattle. Like northern cod. In the middle of the lush Montreal summer, I've been trying to fathom the agony. What's chilling is that it is the killing of the elephants that has sharpened the blade of the African tragedy for me. I've been reading for months of the drought and sighing, despairing, clucking my tongue as I do for almost everything that is they believed I must be an important person and told her she would be allowed to fly with her children. The current rescue is far from complete. Due to political and military restrictions, Berjan's husband can't leave Yugoslavia. Berjan herself knows she will have to return, but has no idea how or when. Berjan's mother Zarifa, Kabilio-Greenberg's childhood playmate, is hiding out in a village near Sarajevo. It's been a month since anyone in Jerusalem has spoken to her on the telephone. Still alive and hiding in a basement of a Sarajevo house is Berjan's disabled grandmother, Zejneda Hardaga, now 73. It was Hardaga and her husband, Mustafa, who sheltered the Kabilio family in Yugoslavia during World War II. Zejneda and Mustafa Hardaga lived across from a German police station in Sarajevo when they took in young Tova Kabilio, her mother Rifka and father Joseph and brother Benjamin after the Kabilio house was destroyed. Kabilio-Greenberg remains astonished at the courage of her family's rescuers because a sign on the German police station warned that anyone caught hiding Jews would be executed. When Kabilio-Greenberg's father was taken to an Italian-run work camp in Yugoslavia, the Hardaga family tracked him down and sent him food. Katsarkas now is testing Gyura in the lab to try to find out what's causing his problem. Most dizziness problems, Katsarkas said, are caused by defects in the body's vestibular system, which is situated near the inner ear. The system tells the brain how the head is moving in relation to the rest of the body. For example, the system allows us to keep our eyes fixed on something while our head is moving. It also monitors the pull of gravity and sends signals to muscles to keep our balance when we are moving. When you lose your vestibular functions, you have less posture control, you cannot control your eyes and you have all sorts of other problems. Katsarkas has identified more than 40 diseases that cause dizziness, but he said he still can't diagnose 25 percent of the patients who come to his lab. While the lab is mainly used to treat patients, Katsarkas also deals with legal and insurance cases. TELEPHONES General Information 987-2222 Circulation Service 987-2400 Advertising 987-2350 Business Office 987-2250 Advertising Invoice Inquiries 987-2220 Advertising Payment Inquiries 987-2240 Community Relations 967-2390 NEWSROOM Business Section James Ferrabee 987-2512 City Desk -Ray Brassard 987-2505 Ombudsman Bob Walker 987-2560 Sports Section Jack RomarwRl 987-2522 West End Bureau Marian Scott 481-5753 West Island Bureau -Alyua AmbroM 694-4981 South Shore edition Harvey Shepherd 987-2487 CLASSIFIED Regular Classified 987-2311 Auto Real Estate 987-2327 Careers Jobs 987-2351 Credit Payment Inquiries 987-2230 The Gazette publishes daily. Publications Mail Registration Number 0-219 USA Registration Number 0-0031 Second class postage paid at Champlain, NY 12919 987-2400 1(800)361-1479. The Gazette is a member of the Quebec Press Council. In the middle of a dry spell, we still used the dishwasher. Well, we have 11 people at meals, we said. We have to. The fact is, we're spoiled brats. We know very little about conserving, really, and even less about deprivation. We cannot even begin to comprehend what it's like to depend for our survival on something that is well and truly gone. Like water. Like crops and cattle. Like northern cod. In the middle of the lush Montreal summer, I've been trying to fathom the agony. What's chilling is that it is the killing of the elephants that has sharpened the blade of the African tragedy for me. I've been reading for months of the drought and sighing, despairing, clucking my tongue as I do for almost everything that is they believed I must be an important person and told her she would be allowed to fly with her children. The current rescue is far from complete. Due to political and military restrictions, Berjan's husband can't leave Yugoslavia. Berjan herself knows she will have to return, but has no idea how or when. Berjan's mother Zarifa, Kabilio-Greenberg's childhood playmate, is hiding out in a village near Sarajevo. It's been a month since anyone in Jerusalem has spoken to her on the telephone. Still alive and hiding in a basement of a Sarajevo house is Berjan's disabled grandmother, Zejneda Hardaga, now 73. It was Hardaga and her husband, Mustafa, who sheltered the Kabilio family in Yugoslavia during World War II. Zejneda and Mustafa Hardaga lived across from a German police station in Sarajevo when they took in young Tova Kabilio, her mother Rifka and father Joseph and brother Benjamin after the Kabilio house was destroyed. Kabilio-Greenberg remains astonished at the courage of her family's rescuers because a sign on the German police station warned that anyone caught hiding Jews would be executed. When Kabilio-Greenberg's father was taken to an Italian-run work camp in Yugoslavia, the Hardaga family tracked him down and sent him food. Laidlaw denies cleanup liability Antoine Landry, communications manager of Laidlaw Environmental Services Ltd, said yesterday that a story in The Gazette on Tuesday could have been misleading. The story dealt mainly with the fact that the Quebec Environment Department had sent a letter to Laidlaw about contamination of lagoons beside the company's toxic-waste incinerator in Mercier. In the story, Landry was quoted as saying that the government shares responsibility for a cleanup. This suggested that Laidlaw accepted some responsibility for the problem at the lagoons, but Landry said yesterday that he had been talking at the time about a different pollution problem. He said that Laidlaw denied all liability or responsibility for the problem at the lagoons. Landry also insisted that the headline was misleading. It said, ""Multimillion-dollar waste cleanup ordered."" Landry said the letter from the government merely had asked Laidlaw to submit a cleanup plan within 30 days. Landry said that the company had so far been given no order from St. Lambert. In fact, Letendre is from St. Lambert. The Gazette regrets the error. On human fragility CELEBRATES MONTREAL'S 350th Fire destroyed hundreds of homes and left several thousand homeless. Today is July 9. On this date in 1852, The Gazette reported: ""Yesterday morning between nine and ten o'clock, a fire broke out in St. Catherine St., St. Lawrence Suburbs. Within half an hour a hundred houses were on fire. They were generally the dwellings of poor artisans and laborers, and it was a heart-rending spectacle to see the poor people gathering their few household goods together and carrying them to perhaps some place where the fire reached them a few minutes after, perhaps to a place of safety. The St. Lawrence Suburbs were centered on the corner of Ste. Catherine St. and St. Laurent Blvd. More than 600 houses were destroyed by the fire. ROBERTS- Est. 1948 ON ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING Featuring J3ALLY Footwear Handbags & Accessories. THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! LOCATIONS: Fairview Pointe-Claire 695-2940, Place Bonaventure 866-5410, Centre Carrefour Laval 681-8227, St. Catherine St. 288-5040, Les Promenades St. Bruno 653-1651, Centre Westmount 931-4622. Roberts Footwear & Accessories Inc. Retailing from 22 locations across Canada. Toronto Montreal Ottawa Calgary Edmonton Winnipeg man. Regardless of how superior we might feel we are, we are servants of nature. It controls us, not vice-versa. And ironically, destroying nature increases our dependence. When we encroach on it through overpopulation, overdevelopment, overuse, we pay by becoming needy. We always realize this in crisis, when it's too late when we've mismanaged, upset the balance. When we face loss. In this land of plenty, we don't think much about loss. Most of us have what we want as often as we want it. We fill our baskets at the supermarket. We run our hoses for hours to wash our cars, water our lawns. We invade sparkling lakes with our bodies and our noisy boats. But we are always on the brink of loss of some kind. I'm thinking, for example, of the St. Lawrence River, whose vision I'm privileged to live with every day. From my study window, its elegant sweep belies its deadly reality. How we continue to take it for granted! The loss of the Newfoundland cod-fishing industry is Canada's drought. It is a hefty and poignant cry for awareness to us all how the loss of a resource threatens - not only individuals, but a region, a country. The destructive implications are far-reaching. But greater than their cost which is partially reparable, for now is the ineffable shame of the situation. We have once again tipped the balance of precious nature and may ourselves be forced to eat elephants. As this city's oldest newspaper, The Gazette has been recording Montreal's history since 1778. Watch this space every day in 1992 for brief extracts from our archives. And on Saturdays, read our special full page about Montreal's past as seen by both Gazette writers and readers, and up to 4,000 people were left homeless. Sparks from it ignited two other considerable fires elsewhere in the city."
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"and Monsieur Senac, the Paris champion of the art of fencing, has been teaching Laura Schirmer Mapleson, and in a recent interview in the New York Herald, declared the accomplished prima donna to be one of his best lady pupils, and expressed the opinion that she would astonish the public with her skill in the great duel scene in the Fencing Master Jarbenn Makes a Hit Last evening's weather was not in any way calculated to draw people to the theatre, but Madame Jarheau and her company made such a hit on Monday evening that their second performance was greeted by a well-filled house, much larger, in fact, than could have been expected Starlight is a success, and should be seen by everybody who desires to exercise their risible faculties Lawrence Hanley A Special dispatch from Boston announces that Lawrence Hanley, the talented young American actor, who appears at the Queen's next week, has scored a great hit in Blanche Marsdea's new drama,
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It begins with the savage murder of a nomadic clan, which leaves only one 16-year-old boy alive. Not only must he survive, he also has to warn others in his tribe of the warriors who are chasing him. The subtitled adventure, nominated for Best Foreign Film in 1988, was shot in Norway's frigid tundra, and the bone-chilling cold will keep your mind off the heat. Bambi (1979) Schmaltzy, maudlin and sometimes laughable, the tale of a beautiful young ice skater who goes blind in a horrifying accident is bound to choke you up if you're willing to give in to its contrived story. The best scenes come in her small Iowa town; the movie captures the despair of the adults and the urgent need of the teens to escape. At its finest, the movie is quiet and gentle. In the silly finale, it asks for a lot of suspension of disbelief. It also features a young Robby Benson (this guy did the voice of Beauty's beast?!) and the film debut of Lynn-Holly Johnson. Remember her? Didn't think so.
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A3 SHC CSASFTTC HTIT EAIL TODAY The Joan NiH'I Desmarais Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1379 Sherbrooke St W, presents 12th to 19th century European art. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission. CITY EDITOR: BRIAN KAPPLER (514) 987-2505 Calm after the storm THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 39.6 cm snowfall breaks record set in 1959 DEBBIE PARKES The Gazette One January snow record has already been broken and another could soon melt away. As snow-removal operations went into full swing yesterday, Environment Canada confirmed this latest snowstorm set a record for a single snowfall in a month of January. And meteorologist Guy Borne said it will take less than 8 centimetres more snow to set a new mark for total accumulation in a month of January. A total of 39.6 centimetres fell between Thursday evening and early yesterday, as measured by the Dorval weather office. The previous record - 37.4 centimetres - was set in 1939. Remarkably, in both years the storms took place over the 14th, 15th and 16th of the month. The weather office's records go back to 1942. 12-HOUR SHIFTS So far, 86.3 centimetres of snow has fallen this month, only 7.7 centimetres short of the record 94 centimetres that fell in January 1954, and there's still another two weeks in the month to go. As of 7 a.m. yesterday, 2,800 people had been called in to work on snow-removal in the city of Montreal. About half are municipal blue-collar workers; the remainder are workers with companies who have snow-removal contracts with the city. Charles Couture, a spokesman for Montreal's public-works department, said they'll be working 12-hour shifts until the snow has been cleared away. That's expected to take until Wednesday at the earliest, he said. The city is asking motorists to cooperate by respecting no-parking signs and parking their vehicles parallel to curbs, not diagonally. Anyone whose car has been towed from a city street can call (514) 872-3777 at 7 a.m. A tourist snapped a picture while riding in a calèche through the snow-covered streets of Old Montreal yesterday. Traveling around town should be easier today: forecasters predict a high temperature of minus-1, and no more snow is expected to fall until tomorrow. JOHN KENNEY, GAZETTE to find out where it's been left. For the duration of the current snow cleanup, there will be no special garbage pickups of oversized objects. Residents are asked not to put such objects by the curbside. Also, the city reminds people that dumping snow from private driveways and walkways onto the street is not permitted. Couture said snow-clearing operations are going well and crews had managed to clear away the last of the snow from last weekend's snowstorm by about noon Thursday, just hours before this most recent storm started. The first step is always to clear snow off streets and sidewalks, he said. Once it's stopped snowing and the storm is declared over, dump trucks and snowblowers move in to take the snow away. This latter part of the operation costs the city about $1 million a day, he said. Today's forecast is for partly cloudy skies with a high of minus-1C and a low of minus-8. But tomorrow is expected to bring snow mixed with freezing rain, possibly changing to rain later in the day. Borne said it's a good idea to remove large snow accumulations from roofs to avoid problems from the added weight of the rain, if it does fall. Air Canada resumed full scheduled operations yesterday morning, but said that given the winter conditions, travelers are still advised to call in to verify the status of a flight before heading for the airport. FLASHBACK ICE STORM 1998 ONE YEAR AGO Premier Lucien Bouchard pledges that Quebec will have more elaborate emergency plans in place the next time disaster strikes. Hydro-Quebec says Jan. 26 is the target date for having most of the Monteregie hooked up again. Of the 265,000 Quebec homes and businesses still without power, 253,000 of them are in that region. More generators are flown in from the U.S. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1999 A3 NATION Officials knew of sex abuse by coach: suit REG CURREN Canadian Press Internal Canadian Hockey Association documents show the governing body for hockey in Canada has been preparing for months for a lawsuit filed by a former Swift Current Broncos player sexually abused by ex-coach Graham James. The victim, whose name cannot be published, is one of two people James pleaded guilty to abusing between 1982 and 1994. The other was former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy. The suit, filed Friday in Regina against James and 23 other parties, claims hockey officials knowingly ignored James's actions for years. In the statement of claim, the plaintiff names 23 individuals and organizations who could have prevented James from coaching in the Western Hockey League because they are alleged to have known that James sexually assaulted, molested, harassed and abused his players. Ed Chynoweth, a former president of the Western Hockey League, and current president Dev Pley said they want to see the contents of the suit before they comment. ""Any comments on this kind of action should be done in the confines of the courtroom,"" Pley said. Documents obtained by the Canadian Press suggest Pley, Canadian Hockey Association president Hob Nicholson, and David Branch, commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League and president of the Canadian Hockey League, had knowledge of the lawsuit's details for several months. Nicholson acknowledged Friday there had been some hint of what was to come, and the association has held legal strategy sessions. ""I'm not exactly sure what's in it. We're going to have to look at all of the information,"" he said. In a letter dated Sept. 29, 1998, Nicholson wrote to the CIA's Ottawa lawyers, asking them about possible liability and seeking guidance for a defense strategy. It also asked how the CIA could be affected by the presence of Chynoweth and Barry Trapp on the board and staff. Chynoweth now owns the Kootenay Ice, Trapp, now director of scouting for the CHA, was general manager of the Moose Jaw Warriors, where James briefly coached before going to Swift Current. Chynoweth, Trapp and the Warriors are all named in the lawsuit. ""I didn't think anything was going on,"" Chynoweth said yesterday. ""I have a son who played in that league, so I'd have been more cautious if I knew something was going on."" The player's parents also filed a lawsuit, naming many of the same organizations and individuals. They want $50,000 in damages and demand that those involved acknowledge their responsibility in the James scandal. ""From the league and team's perspective, it was like (the abuse) never happened,"" the player's mother said in an interview. ""We've never received an apology from anybody."" She contended her son, now 21 and playing collegiate hockey, told Bronco team officials James was abusing him but nothing was done. The player's suit claims non-pecuniary damages in excess of $1 million, along with damages for mental suffering and lost economic opportunity. James was sentenced in January 1997 to 42 months in prison for sexually abusing ex-Bronco Sheldon Kennedy and another player hundreds of times during eight seasons with the Broncos. He was also convicted in February 1998 of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old Winnipeg boy in 1996. James is now on day parole in Quebec. WINTER IN TORONTO Floods leaving city as snow scare eases GILLIAN LIVINGSTON Canadian Press TORONTO - As residents eased out of a snow-induced temporary hibernation, Canadian Forces troops were to head back to their base today, thanks to a snowstorm that didn't pack the punch expected. Because 25 centimetres of snow was expected to have hit the city Thursday or Friday, it was best to have troops on hand rather than six hours away in Petawawa, said Capt. Doug Allison, a public-affairs officer with the forces. ""We deployed as a precaution,"" he said. ""We were there if we were needed. Fortunately, we weren't. ""I mean, I think we're all pretty glad that we didn't get dumped on."" Troops were scheduled to begin heading back to CFB Petawawa first thing this morning. However, snow-removal equipment and their operators from the base were to remain, as were four Bison armoured vehicles that have helped with emergency services. This was a test run for the troops, as they'll be heading for the Arctic for winter-warfare training in a few weeks, Allison said. ""The presence of the army made the people feel safe,"" Mayor Mel Lastman said. ""They came immediately when we needed them."" About 300 reservists also helped unclog the city over the weekend. It's been Toronto's snowiest January in 128 years, with more than 120 centimetres - about 4 feet - of snow so far. Environment Canada said rain is expected today, with a chance of freezing rain, which is expected to turn to light snow tomorrow morning. Snow clearing has been complicated by the presence of parked cars, and many streets remain snow-clogged. Beginning this morning, city workers are to go door-to-door giving residents four hours notice to remove their cars so streets can be plowed. But clearing all streets could take three to four weeks, depending on the weather, a city official said. Toronto Transit Commission work crews continued to clear snow from the subway tracks and clean ice from the third rail that supplies power to the trains. Shuttle-bus service replaced the subway in some locations. Bob Brent, of the transit commission, said it could be mid-week or later before the entire system is back on track. The commuter GO Train canceled service for the weekend so tracks could be cleared and readied for tomorrow morning's rush hour. Via Rail was on a modified schedule along the Windsor-Quebec City corridor over the weekend and had fewer trains running. Officials are hoping good weather will mean the schedule would be back to normal by tomorrow. Pearson International Airport had no delays or cancellations yesterday, officials said. While the roads and rails are being cleared, panicked Torontonians whose roofs are leaking or caving in under the record snowfall are swamping roofing contractors' phone lines. Warmer temperatures over the weekend caused the massive snow loads accumulated over the last two weeks to begin thawing, turning them into heavy loads that strained roofs and overflowed eavestroughs. Residents in a row of five townhouses in the city's west end had no time to call a roofer early yesterday before being awakened by the terrifying sound of the roof and outer walls collapsing under the weight of snow. No one was injured but damage to the houses was severe. Bedrooms and living rooms were bared to the elements when the structures collapsed. Venezuela open for business: president-elect Brings message to Ottawa meeting JULIAN BELTRAME Southam News OTTAWA - If you hadn't heard of Hugo Chavez, you might have wondered how this stocky, freshly elected president of Venezuela was able to fill the spacious Drawing Room at the Chateau Laurier hotel for a breakfast address yesterday morning. But an hour into his speech, delivered with passion and without notes, it probably dawned on the more than 300 business executives and diplomats assembled that they were witnessing the start of something special in Latin American politics. ""About every 40 years in Venezuela, some messianic person comes along and wants to change everything because the whole system has fallen down. This is the guy,"" said James Kelly, president of the Venezuela-Canada Chamber of Commerce. Still two weeks away from his swearing-in, Chavez gives every impression of a man itching to get his hands on the levers of power. He didn't even wait for the Feb. 2 inaugural before embarking on a whirlwind tour of Europe, which he is wrapping up with brief stops in Ottawa and Havana. A former military officer and published poet, Chavez took Venezuela by storm in December with a grass-roots campaign fought against the entrenched interests that won him 56 per cent of the popular vote. But Chavez is an unusual populist: while he wants to improve the lot of Venezuela's poor, he wants to do it by modernizing and expanding the country's business environment. ""He has changed his discourse as time goes on and now he's a born-again capitalist,"" said Kelly, who lives in Caracas. ""And he has a chance because he has tremendous political capital. There are very high expectations in him."" For Canadians, Chavez had one overriding message - Venezuela is open for business. ""Some of you have investments in Venezuela already,"" he said. ""We want to offer you our territory, our country. If any of you have any ideas, any projects, come on over with them."" Chavez later met with Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who noted the Canada-Venezuela fit is ideal because both countries are blessed with abundant natural resources. ""It's a country with great potential, and many of the areas of investment - mining, transportation, telecommunications - so it's very evident we can invest,"" Chretien said. Venezuela is already Canada's second-largest trading partner in Latin America, with significant Canadian investment in the petroleum industry, mining and telecommunications. But it is in Venezuela and South America that Chavez will be carefully watched. His goal, as laid out during his Ottawa speech, is nothing short of transforming his country, politically, economically and socially. He promised that his first major act once he becomes president is to set the stage for a national referendum to reform the constitution and begin his five-prong national-development program. The program calls for fiscal stability by cutting government spending, promoting free trade within the Americas, avoiding devaluation of the currency and renegotiating Venezuela's foreign debts, which now swallow about 40 per cent of the annual budget. It also calls for revamping of the economy by diversifying the economy beyond oil with investments in agriculture, small business and tourism. As well, Chavez said he will launch an ambitious infrastructure program, including a railway connection from one end of the country to the other, and two new deep-water ports. Ontario man taking steps to enter record book Canadian Press LONDON, Ont. - Nearly 8,170 kilometres down. Only 105 to go. That's all that separates John Davidson from the Pacific Ocean and history as he steps onto the Trans-Canada Highway near Nanaimo, B."
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First ministers will meet again Wednesday in Charlottetown to go over legal texts of the tentative agreement. Details, PAGE A4. Hurricane aims for Florida; 4 die in the Bahamas LARRY R0HTER NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI A ferocious hurricane slammed into the Bahamas yesterday afternoon and swept toward southern Florida, prompting the authorities here to order a million people along the Florida coast to leave their homes in what might be the largest evacuation ever in the United States. Meteorologists said Hurricane Andrew would strike the coast at dawn today with winds of about 240 kilometres an hour. "This is a killer storm. You need to leave now," said Fred Taylor, an emergency worker for Dade County, told people on the coast. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles issued a state of emergency. Yesterday afternoon, Andrew was a Category 4 storm, the same as Hurricane Hugo, with winds of 240 km/h. Forecasters expected it to reach Category 5, the worst, as it crossed the Gulf Stream to Florida. In the Bahamas, Jimmy Curry, director of production for the Bahamas News Bureau, said he had reports of four deaths on either Abaco or Eleuthera.
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A couple out in yesterday's rainy, windy weather stroll past a mural of a smiling sun on Mount Royal Ave Stranded for hour on a chunk of ice SUE MONTGOMERY The Gazette Two fishermen spent more than an hour adrift on a chunk of ice on Lac St. Louis yesterday before two police forces, the fire department and the Coast Guard scrambled through dangerously high winds to rescue them Once rescued, the pair - a married couple in their 40s - were treated for minor shock at the scene but weren't taken to a hospital, said Andre Champagne, an Urgences Sante spokesman "People are a little stupid, especially with the winter we've had," Champagne said, alluding to yesterday's record-high temperature of 10.4 C The two were fishing with another couple about 250 metres out from Thompson Point in the Beaurepaire district of Beaconsfield when the ice began breaking up, said Andre Barsalou, chief of operations for Division 12 of the Montreal fire department "The ice broke and one couple got separated from the other and were swept out into the lake by the wind,
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S Department of Energy and the CEOs of major firms pay you to review a spa So I use the travel writing not only as a great thing to do but also as a way of researching some of these larger questions that I'm interested in My travel writing is more about Ufa in other countries than which beaches to visit In your book, you talk about the developed world's mistaken belief that it won't be significantly affected by climate change What do you see happening in Quebec? One question will be what happens with the St Lawrence Seaway If we see big reductions in the levels of the Great Lakes then the St Lawrence Seaway may reduce in level That could mean a few things one, that the big ships can't get up into the Great Lakes anymore and Montreal can become a bigger port, another might be the salt-water front in the St Lawrence could move and we'd have to push back our water nitration plants And with more mild winters and increasing winter precipitation, it's possible there will be more ice storms You mention the ice storm of 1998 in your book What are the lessons to be learned from the ice storm here and Hurricane Katrina in the U To read a longer version of this interview, go to montrcalgazetta.
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yesterday, gusting to 76 kilometres an hour by 7 a.m., Environment Canada said. By 10 a.m., they were still being measured at 63 kilometres an hour. Montrealers in residential neighbourhoods were left picking up the pieces, in many cases literally, often with the power out. In Notre Dame de Grace, a mature tree snapped off close to the ground and fell across Marcil Ave., shattering the rear window and damaging the trunk of Eric Longtin's BMW. The fallen tree completely blocked traffic near de Maisonneuve Blvd. A few blocks north of Longtin, several of his neighbours awoke with the same morning-after headache. Another mature tree, also at least 10 metres long, had been ripped out by its roots. That tight race to replace Klein SUPPORT SURGES Second-choice votes DEAN BENNETT CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton - Former Alberta finance minister Jim Dinning pulled away from his rivals in early vote returns in the race to replace Premier Ralph Klein, but appeared to fall short of the majority needed for a quick victory.
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The combination of clear, blue skies, an idyllic concert site on Ile Ste. Helene, and eight hours of non-stop live rock'n'roll made for some of the hottest musical fun this town has seen all summer. More than 21,000 folks showed up for the rock event, and, judging by the T-shirt sales, Adams was the top draw. Dawson College students Laura Ieraci and Patty Fagiani are major Bryan Adams fans, and even though they'd already seen the Canadian rocker at the Forum this year, he was the main reason they were at the festival yesterday. But both said they were having a great time soaking up rays and rock music while waiting for their idol to take the stage. "It couldn't have happened on a better day," said Ieraci. "It's the first day of summer. This is Montreal's party spirit at its best." In true rock-festival fashion, music was just one of the attractions at the outdoor site. There were long lineups at the beer and soft-drink tents, and the most energetic fans were tossing footballs and frisbees. "We came for the whole atmosphere," said Tom Willoughby from Kirkland.
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Hydro-Quebec told The Gazette Wednesday that power had been restored to the 10,500 homes that lost it earlier in the day. However, Hydro spokesman Claude Rocray said, "Yesterday, everything was changing very quickly." Rocray said Wednesday's thunderstorm was especially tough on repairs, since Hydro employees do not work when there is lightning. McPherson said she finally had power restored at 11:30 a.m. yesterday - 22 hours after her home blacked out. Tragedy was avoidable Ammonia plant full of death traps, coroner says Ice-storm hiring called 'big show.' STELLA TZINTZIS The Gazette An ammonia leak that killed a 33-year-old worker and injured 22 others at an east-end veal-packing company in March 1997 was the result of carelessness by their employer, coroner Paul Dionne said in a report issued yesterday. Montpak Ltd, the scene of the fatal accident, was filled with booby traps and safety hazards, Dionne wrote in his report.
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The plaintiff's proof indicates that the extra costs under this head would amount to between $200 and $400 per annum. If this be the case, and the defendant has led no evidence to contradict it or to show that remedy could be applied to avoid or diminish such extra cost, I cannot think that the sum demanded by the plaintiff is excessive. I therefore grant the plaintiff the sum of $1,000. The next item, namely, for damages from flooding, for which the plaintiff claims $2,500, must be understood to refer to the costs of cleaning after the various floodings, as the other damages by water have been already taken up. I am disposed to think that this item has not been satisfactorily proved, beyond the sum of $100, for which the plaintiff must have judgment. There remains the item of $1,000 claimed by the plaintiff for half the value of the mitoyen wall used by the defendant. The proof offered by the plaintiff brings this item up to $195.50. The defendant has offered proof on this point, which reduces this item to $116.97. I am disposed to adopt this latter figure.
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An immense amount of livestock and lumber is swept away. At Carlinville, bridges and houses have been swept away and great damage done to farms. A sleet and wind storm extended all over Iowa, Missouri, western and southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Ohio and Canada. Telegraph lines are greatly damaged.
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Ruben Wiki (centre) leads the New League World Cup match against Wales in Cardiff. Kiwis dominate rugby Crush Wales to capture group in League World Cup Associated Press LONDON - Canberra winger Lesley Vainikolo scored three of New Zealand's 11 tries in a 58-18 Rugby League World Cup crushing of Wales in the Millennium Stadium yesterday. Halfbacks Stacey Jones and Henry Paul repeatedly unlocked the Welsh defence and the powerfully built Vainikolo terrorized them with his fast bursts in the style of All Blacks winger Jonah Lomu. The result maintained the Kiwis' expected perfect record with three wins from three group games in the competition as all three powerhouse teams made it to the quarter-final. Australia crushed Russia 110-4 at Hull on Saturday and England scored a 66-10 victory over Fiji at Leeds. The defending titlist Australians will now meet Samoa, which beat Scotland 20-12 in Edinburgh yesterday to reach the quarter-finals.
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By 1991, Iacocca had become a caricature of the boorish plutocrat. His salary exceeded $4 million. His blustering performance during and after President George Bush's Tokyo trip was a national embarrassment, especially in light of Detroit's continuing failure to build right-hand-drive cars for the Japanese market. Give Iacocca credit for his triumphs: He developed the hugely successful Mustang during his days at Ford. He pioneered the minivan. He led Chrysler to profitability after the federal bailout in the early 1980s. He repaid government-backed loans seven years early. And with several new models ready for introduction, analysts say Chrysler is now well positioned to profit from the economic recovery. The new chairman will be Robert J. Eaton, who headed General Motors' successful European division. Even after Eaton takes over, however, Iacocca will continue to lurk around corporate headquarters, where he will carry the title of executive committee chairman. The coming months should reveal whether he has the good sense to let the new boss run Chrysler in his own style. St.
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He stood through most of the mass and delivered his sermon in a strong voice as he put the 21 new "blesseds" of the Roman Catholic Church one step away from sainthood. The ceremony marked his return to what is expected to be a normal schedule after 10 weeks of convalescence. Beatification which requires one proven miracle except in cases of martyrdom means the candidate for sainthood can be honored in a limited way during the liturgy. The group of beatified included 17 Irish martyrs four bishops, six priests, a monk, a housewife, three sailors, a baker and a merchant killed between 1579 and 1654. The killings took place during a political struggle to establish and consolidate the Protestant power of England in Ireland following the split between Rome and Henry VIII in 1534. The subjugation of the Irish became an aim of the Tudor monarchs. Revolts, partly inspired by Roman Catholic opposition to the reformation, were suppressed. Irish resistance culminated in the rebellion of 1641 and was not suppressed until Oliver Cromwell invaded in 1649.
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Well, in her anger, Connie threw the whole tray of gingerbread men off the floor, and then I, enraged, countered by stomping on them and kicking them around the kitchen. It was pathetic. All these poor, innocent gingerbread men - decapitated, their arms and legs scattered all over. By the time we went to bed, we had made up, and we laughed hysterically. The next morning, Connie baked a new batch of gingerbread men. Guess what I found while sweeping under the refrigerator six months later? Yes! A torso and two legs. Him or me. Victor: I was going with a young lady for almost five years and had every intention of marrying her when I found out she was dating someone else. I gave her an ultimatum: him or me. She said she was trying to find out if our love was the real thing and she had to date others to be sure. 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.
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R were late today in consequence of the heavy snowstorm last night. Toronto, February 21. The snowstorm early this morning did great damage. The wires of the Toronto Telephone Company were blown down from the JO ail building. Their losses alone will amount to $1,000. Thorold, Ont, February 21. A storm of rain and sleet set in at midnight last night, covering the ground about three inches thick. Travel not impeded. Peterborough, Ont, February 21. Snow fell last night and this morning to the depth of four inches. A snowstorm set in at three o'clock this afternoon. Sleighing good; travel unimpeded. Brampton, Ont, February 21. A wild storm set in last night. The roads in the country are said to never have been worse. Chatham, Ont, February 21. Weather very stormy today. Heavy northwest wind, with snow. Roads muddy and almost impassable. Grimsby, February 21. The most violent storm of the season is now prevailing here.
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OSS, McGill, ca He can be heard every Sunday from 3-4 p.m. on CJAD [email protected] January It was a frigid month, with three cold snaps and the largest number of days in which the temperature did not rise above minus 20 since the 1940s. On Jan. 23 it was minus 19C to minus 32C with the windchill. Snowfall was below average at 29.4 centimetres. February February blahs came early with a 20-centimetre snowfall Feb. 4 and winds of up to 80 kilometres an hour. The result was highway havoc - 270 cars slid off the road or collided with others. March An early taste of spring warmed the city's frozen soul when the thermometer hit 7C March 1 and icicles began to melt. It lasted but a few days, however, as winter returned toward mid-month with below zero temperatures, only to rise again to incredibly mild, mid-teens weather as the month ebbed. Daily temperatures Highest daily temperature Lowest daily temperature 30-year average (1961-1990) April The weather began to improve gradually, then provided a taste of things to come in mid-month with the thermometer hitting 22C. The high point came at month's end when the mercury rose to 26.7C, smashing the previous record of 25.6C set in 1970. In Quebec City, it was 25.8C. May June May was a little duller. Many felt June was chillier than usual with 217.6 hours of sunshine, but in fact the weather was in the normal range. The average high for the month of 229 hours was 23C. The mean temperature of 18.5C was in line with the average normal for June in this city. The hottest day was June 13, when temperatures hit 30C. There was less rain but the winds were stronger than usual, which is why some felt it was a bit on the cool side. July July, considered the prime holiday month, turned into the year's soggiest, with 139.4 millimetres of rain. That's a good 50 per cent above the average of 90 millimetres. The month ended in a downpour when 30 to 80 millimetres fell over the Montreal area. Three tornados with winds of up to 180 kilometres per hour hit the Chateauguay area. August We avoided a heatwave in August. Over most of the province, temperatures were near or below normal. It was a month of contrasts for rainfall. Rain was spotty across the province with some areas getting much more than usual, and some a lot less. Thurso was hit with a force one tornado Aug. 10. It was the eighth tornado of the season in Quebec. September While it was one of the sunniest and driest Septembers on record for southern Quebec, the northwestern portion of the province endured severe thunderstorms with heavy downpours in the Mauricie and Quebec City regions. Most of the precipitation fell Sept. 9 and 10 as a result of Hurricane Frances. October Ideal fall conditions prevailed over the whole province, with the mean monthly temperatures above normal for all regions. Around Montreal, the mean temperature was 8.9C, a degree above the average. There were 156.1 hours of sunshine, up from the average of 140 for the month. It was also the ninth-driest October on record. November There was more rain than usual, but less snow than is normal. The 86.6 millimetres of rain was a little more than the average of 70.9 mm. Snowfall, less than half a centimetre, was dramatically less than the normal 22.6 cm of snow for the month. The mean temperature of 2.2C was a little more pleasant than the normal 1."
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I, "KNt M'rrk'a production fit Minneapolis Murl) follow the Average", Minneapolis, December 12, The North-M'ernltm North-M'ernltm Miller says: "As everybody was prepared to expect the flour output last week dropped off heavily and was the lightest for a very long while. There were only 68,000 barrels made, against 61,208 barrels the previous week, and 130,000 barrels for the corresponding time in 1887. More mills are running this week, but still the production promises to go considerably under 100,000 barrels for the six days. There were nine mills in operation yesterday, which were milling about 14,000 barrels a day. Anchor ice, however, began to bother last night and before morning nearly every mill in operation was choked off. This difficulty was partially overcome later and the weather having moderated may not cause serious obstruction very long. Nevertheless, cold weather is long past due, and a hard freezing would doubtless cut off the greater part of the water supply. One mill is using steam power at present to enable it to run up to full capacity while in operation.
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P. Bowes, contractor, broke through the ice opposite the Montreal Rolling Mills on Saturday and was lost. Patrick Hanley, 150 Young Street, was struck by a piece of ice falling from a roof on Notre Dame Street on Saturday morning and received a severe cut on the head. Mr. Thomas Robertson, M.L. Light, Chief Engineer of Railways of the Province of Quebec, in a letter to the Chronicle, favors the construction of a bridge to span the St. Lawrence near Quebec. He says recent surveys with modern inventions having proved that the River St. Lawrence could be bridged near Quebec at a reasonable cost, without detriment to navigation, I would suggest that the time has arrived for the construction of such a bridge, and that the Federal Government, on behalf of the Intercolonial, should unite with the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railways to effect this object by means of which the traffic of the Grand Trunk and Intercolonial Railways should be enabled to enter the city of Quebec, and a winter outlet be afforded to the Canadian Pacific over the Intercolonial Railway. Regarding the cost of the bridge, I have no doubt that for such an object the money could be borrowed at 4 percent, with a Government guarantee, as in a presently similar case at St. John, N.B. Several offices in the Departmental Buildings are being converted into committee rooms in anticipation of the meeting of the Legislature. Mr. Francis Eden has been appointed Vice-Consul for Sweden and Norway. There is a report current that Almi will give two concerts in Quebec next summer. Two French frigates from the Newfoundland station will visit the St. Lawrence next year. The first mails from the country parishes since the great storm which set in on the 1st instant reached town today, the bags having to be carried in on snowshoes. Such a complete stoppage of communication in the country has not been known here for twenty years. The markets today were consequently but very slightly attended. The cold here is not so intense as reported West, and the thermometer has not yet, up to tonight, reached zero. Madame Verier, boarding house keeper, Garneau Street, dropped dead last night at her residence from apoplexy. Quebec, January 6. The weather was excessively cold today and for a time, there was an ice jam right across the river, the boats having great difficulty in keeping the bridge from forming. THE WEATHER Toronto, January 7. The area of highest pressure extends from Manitoba southeast to the middle Atlantic coast, and there is a disturbance covering Texas and the adjacent states. Throughout the continent the weather has been unusually cold, the temperature falling to 20 degrees as far south as the State of Mississippi. The lowest temperatures reported in Canada have been 20 below zero at Parry Sound, 33 below at Corkliffe and 21 below at Quebec. The excessive cold which has prevailed for some days in the Northwest Territories is beginning to moderate. Forecast: Winds gradually shifting towards the eastward; generally fair weather today; snow areas tomorrow; not much change in temperature. St. Lawrence: Moderate to fresh winds; fair, continued very cold weather. Maritime: Moderate to fresh west to northwest winds; fair, continued very cold weather. At Chicago the thermometer at 7 AM on Saturday was 27 below zero. Batavia is still partially paralyzed. There were a number of fires last night, and the endurance of the firemen was taxed to the utmost. The Interviage flats caught fire, and a number of people were compelled to seek the street in their night clothes. The severe weather caused a great many needy people and tramps to besiege the relief agencies. At St. Louis the thermometer registered 22 below zero; the lowest since 1640. At Kansas City it was 29 below, and many miles were frozen to death on the Pacific train. At Louisville, Kentucky, it was 18 below, and several deaths are reported from freezing, and much suffering occurred among the cattle. At Fort Wayne, Indiana, it was 24 below, at Elkhart 23 below, and at New Albany 21 below, the coldest known in thirty-five years. In the South the heaviest snowstorm in years prevailed over almost the whole of Virginia, extending to South Carolina. NORTHWEST WHEAT QUESTION: A letter from General Van Horn on the subject to the Winnipeg Free Press. We find the following important letter from General Manager Van Home in the Winnipeg Free Press of the 31st December, 1883: To the Editor of the Free Press; So I have watched with deep interest the discussion of the wheat and elevator situation in the newspapers of Manitoba, and as it had taken such shape as to injure the country abroad, and as much that has been said reflects upon the policy of this company, I beg permission to say something on the subject, but first I wish to remark that the discussion, as it has been carried on, would impress one not conversant with the facts with the belief that the entire wheat crop of Manitoba, instead of a small percentage of it, had been ruined by frost. The general question of rates is too wide to admit of clear discussion within the limits of a communication of this kind, but a comparison of the prices paid for wheat at our stations with those paid in Minnesota and Dakota will prove conclusively that our farmers are as well off, and generally better off, in this respect, than their neighbors to the South. It is not the rate between two local stations that should be considered, but the through rate that the company is able to offer and on which the local grain markets are based. Just now the chief cause of complaint seems to be the prices offered for damaged wheat, of which there is a large quantity in some localities. The Canadian Pacific Company will gladly do anything within its power to enable the farmers to dispose of this wheat at good prices; but as it does not answer the purposes of the Manitoba millers, one of two things must be done with it. It must either be held for spring shipment via Port Arthur, or it must be shipped through by rail to eastern points. The all-rail rates will leave scarcely anything for the farmers. We have used our best endeavors with the eastern lines to secure a reduction in rates, but without avail. We have reduced our own rates on the damaged wheat one-third, but were we to have it free over our own line it would not afford appreciable relief. The damaged wheat is very uneven in quality, and among the millers everywhere there is a wide difference of opinion as to its value. The shippers cannot know what prices it will bring on reaching the eastern market, and for safety they are obliged to allow large margins. It appears, therefore, that the all-rail shipment of this wheat must result in sacrifice either to the farmer or the shipper. On the other hand, there is good reason to believe that the damaged wheat, if stored in large quantities until the opening of navigation, would heat, and buyers are not disposed to take this risk. They would require very large margins to justify them in doing so, and they cannot reasonably be blamed for exacting them. Nor are the Manitoba millers to blame for not buying this wheat. They have a special market for their shipping flour, and have endeavored to secure for it the highest standing in the eastern and foreign markets, already with considerable success, but they must have the very best wheat from which to make it, and it is certainly to the interest of every farmer in the Northwest that the reputation of Manitoba flour, as well as of Manitoba wheat, should be put above all the rest of the world and kept there, as it can and should be. I know that it will pinch many farmers who have much damaged wheat to hold it until the opening of navigation, but I believe that if they can and will do it, and will in the meantime guard against its further injury by keeping it dry and giving it light and air, they will have little cause to complain. As to the so-called elevator monopoly, I beg to say that none exists on our lines. Every person who likes may build an elevator on our grounds without charge for ground rent, and on as liberal terms as are given to anyone, and no individual or corporation will have any advantage over him in rates. Our requirements in the way of elevators are not severe. The stations are graded for buildings of 10,000, 15,000 and 20,000 bushels minimum bin capacity, according to the prospective business. If any company or individual should build an elevator at a cost of $10,000 at any station it will not prevent the building by any other party of one costing less than half that amount, if it comes up to the required capacity for that station and is provided with the usual appliances for handling and cleaning grain. In this matter we have followed the practice of almost every railway company in the grain-producing States, a practice which long experience has shown to produce the best results for all concerned and to be absolutely necessary where grain is largely produced. Some railways provide elevators of their own, and require all grain to be handled through them, but this plan has never worked satisfactorily, as it has a tendency to breed a crop of irresponsible buyers. A grain buyer in an ordinary warehouse, buying two or three kinds of grain and several grades of each kind, has little chance to grade it properly, and when it is coming in freely he cannot grade it at all. Wheat is then wheat, and must all go in the same pile, good and bad, ""goose wheat"" and ""hard rye."" Such a mixture does not bring the average value of the different lots, but only a little more than the value of the lowest grade, and the buyer can only pay for the best about the value of the worst. The buyer is unable to clean his grain, and he must ship it, dirt and all, and must leave a margin for that. Again, a flat warehouse costs but a few hundred dollars; and where they are permitted they multiply until the station ground is covered, and until there are more buyers than the market will supply at a reasonable profit. If they compete, they are driven to cheating in weights or grades. If they do not compete, they divide their purchases and take a sufficient margin to afford a living for all. The usual margin among a lot of warehouses is from 10 cents a bushel upwards, unless they are able to make the nominal margin less by taking the difference out of grades or weights. At the elevator the margin is usually between three and four cents. This is according to my experience on grain roads, which has covered a period of more than twenty years. It is true that the elevator men sometimes take wider margins, and sometimes cheat, but they are more easily watched and controlled, and they have too much at stake to justify the risk. A threat on the part of the railway company to withdraw their protection has never failed, so far as I know, to have the desired effect, and to straighten out anything crooked. The elevators are provided with separate bins for the different kinds and grades of grain and with cleaning apparatus, and are able to handle grain more cheaply, and to get more value out of it, than can be done by means of any warehouse, and I feel sure that every farmer who has had experience with both systems will agree with me that, notwithstanding the original abuse of their system by the elevator men, the elevator benefits the producer as well as the consumer. The only way to secure the elevators is by providing the necessary facilities. An elevator exists, if he will build it, and an elevator in connection with the railway is the best way to sell his grain to advantage. Our elevator contract requires us to receive, store and load grain at reasonable rates, and the principal rates for handling are two cents per bushel, as low as anywhere in the western States. In conclusion permit me to say that this company has as great an interest as the farmers themselves in the payment of the highest possible prices for grain and other produce and that it is making every effort at Port Arthur and elsewhere to provide the cheapest possible outlet for the products of the Northwest, and no expense will be spared to that end; but the value of Manitoba wheat will depend largely upon its general reputation abroad, and this is within the control of the farmers. They must plough early and not wait until the verge of winter. They must sow good seed and of the kind most wanted, and they must sow it early; and when they have secured a crop, they must stack it carefully and keep ice and snow out of it. Fine particles of ice and snow in wheat marketed in winter cannot be detected, and one lot containing them may ruin ten times the quantity in an elevator bin. This increases the risk of the buyers and is certain to widen their margins, the careful farmer suffering with the careless. Neglect in those particulars has contributed largely to the present causes of complaint. Respectfully yours, W.
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Clear skies this evening and tonight. Winds northeasterly 15-25 km/h. Almanac Record 1896 1902 Temperature Yesterday Year ago today Normal this date Max Min 32 -5 19 20 17 14 9 7 Regional synopses Abitibi-Lac St.
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Yesterday afternoon one of the boarders came home early and was considerably astonished to find the new man going through a trunk belonging to one of the others. He detained him until the owner of the trunk came in, which he did at 6 o'clock, rather the worse for liquor. On his asking the new man what he was doing in his trunk, the only reply he got was a punch on the nose. A row ensued and the new man was mastered and Chief Detective Cullen sent for. On arrival they wanted the trunk riller to be arrested, but said they would not prosecute, so Cullen refused to make the arrest, the trunk's owner then settled matters by kicking the other man into the street. THE SNOWSTORM Again Demoralizes Railway Travel on Certain Routes A Slight Accident. With the exception of the Delaware & Hudson and Central Vermont trains, all incoming trains arrived nearly on time last night. The Delaware & Hudson is stuck between St. John and Rouse's Point. The Central Vermont is reported an hour and a half late. The Canada Atlantic ran off the track on the way in, and one of the cars was upset in a snowbank.
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PAGE C1 Incoherence continues to bedevil Montreal-area transportation while politicians feud. Russia should take a lesson from Yugoslavia before dealing with Checheno-Ingush. PAGE B2 Partial clearing Today's high 2 Tonight's low -2 Clouds are expected to gradually clear away as a major storm system continues to move to the northeast. For free weather information, updated four times a day, please call the Gazette info-line at 521-8600, code 6800. A Births/Deaths D14 Boone B4 Bridged 2 Bryan E1 Business E1 Classified D1 Comics F6 Crossword D12 Dear Doctor C7 Dunn A2 Editorials B2 Hickey F1 Horoscope D3 Info-Line D16 Johnson B3 Landers C7 Legal Notices D13 Living C1 Macpherson B3 Movies B6 Needletrade D13 Outdoors F5 Probe C6 Scoreboard F4 Show B4 Sports F1 Todd A3 TV Listings B7 What's On B7 Wonderword D3 PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER This newspaper, including inserts, can be recycled. Use your recycling boxes.
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Moonset 12:30 a.m. Sunrise 6:41 a.m. Sunset Total daylight: 9 hrs, 53 min 0000 Nov 11 Nov 15 Nov 25 Dec 4 Full New Abltlbr-Temlscamlngue High 7 Low near 0 Mainly sunny Laurentians High 7 Low near 1 Variably cloudy Eastern Ontario High 8 Low near 4 Partly cloudy Southern Ontario High 10 Low near 2 Mainly sunny Quebec City High 5 Low near 2 Cloudy Eastern Townships High 6 Low near 2 Cloudy Northern New England High 8 Low near 1 Showers Gaspe High 6 Low near 3 Cloudy Canada today mm, World today m,
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16-PAGE SPECIAL SIM SECTION Looking back on days of freezing rain and chaos: the stories of people caught in the tempest MONTREAL SINCE 1778 SPORTS FINAL JANUARY 24, 1998 $1 Weather expert Pommainville is one of the lucky. Power was restored to his home on Tuesday afternoon, even before he left the office. His house is warm and bright. Some of his colleagues, by contrast, have turned into surprised refugees. Worried employees huddle for a smoke in the lobby of the St. Laurent building. They expected dramatic weather. But they never anticipated weather powerful enough to snap Hydro pylons like chicken bones. The meteorologists are scrambling to keep up with the demand. As well as their regular forecasts to the general public, the media and the region's airports, they are now providing special forecasts to Hydro-Quebec. They also begin to make regular calls to the premier's office. By 11:17 a.m., the outlook has changed. It now seems clear that Wednesday will bring relatively little freezing rain to southern Quebec. Still, the new bulletin warns: A more important system will affect most regions tonight and Thursday. It will give important additional quantities of freezing rain. Bombardier Eric Steinkey brushes up THE ICE STORM OF '98 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY Rene Levesque Blvd, near Bleury St, on ties of freezing rain. Like Cassandra in the Trojan War, the weather forecasters can predict the ravaging future. But they're powerless to change it. Hydro launches a massive de-icing and repair operation of its distribution network. More than 770 crews, including those from private companies, are sent out to remove branches from lines and to chip ice away from wooden electricity poles that are still standing. The work proves frustrating to many linemen: ice-glazed branches continue falling on lines that have just been repaired. ""It's going to take a lot more than 24 hours to fix this,"" Millette says. ""We need additional manpower."" Millette calls Ontario Hydro, but that utility has run into the same problems in the Ottawa region and can't afford to send linemen to Quebec. He tries utilities south of the border and manages to recruit some crews. On Montreal Island, the number of disrupted lines has dropped to 100. At the police operations centre, the crisis committee has continued to survey the situation on the island and to develop a series of contingency plans in the event the blackouts are complicated by other problems. Because nearly all of the island has gone dark, the committee is authorized by police chief Jacques Duchesneau to declare a state of emergency. The Police Brotherhood is called and told that as per the collective agreement, management now has the power to change schedules, cancel vacations, and call in officers on any form of leave - even medical. A telephone network that transmits orders to all of the department's 4,100 officers is activated and off-duty personnel scrambling with the rest of the public for candles and batteries are told to report for work. There is surprise and some worry on the part of the rank and file, particularly when it comes to leaving their homes in the middle of a disaster that does not distinguish between those in uniform and those out of it. But this reaction is not entirely unexpected; after all, the MUCPD has not been completely mobilized since 1971, when a strike by Montreal firefighters left the city under the threat of being burned to the ground. The crisis committee orders all stations able to function to do so on a 24-hour basis until further notice. Meanwhile, Montreal's downtown continues to cast a pale glow on the rain clouds that hang but a few hundred feet above it, and a veteran police constable named John Parker looks around him at the lights flickering on the storefronts on Ste. Catherine St. He will recall later that if there was a feeling that existed at the moment in the neighbourhood, it was that nothing could possibly go wrong here in the city core. EARLY EVENING Craig Goral dons a hard hat and fluorescent vest to buy milk at the depanneur. The walk turns into an Indiana Jones expedition as he navigates among fallen tree branches, snapped wires and crashing ice in his N.S. weekdays. Gourmet dinner for two and continental breakfast included. Jacuzzi tubs, fireplaces, and fairy tale bedding. 1-888-525-3644 www.riortrflerrjfiouse.com SMUGGLER'S NOTCH Save money! Rent directly from home-owner of equipped condo (fireplace, deck, HBO), in award-winning family resort. Large unit sleeps twelve, efficiency available for four. Pool, hot tub, alpine, cross country skiing on site. Minimum two nights stay. Book early for January Specials. Call (514) 488-3521 Fax: (514) 489-4368. Canceling flights can lead to penalties TRAVELING RIGHTS PAUL UNTERBERG Many airlines, even charter airlines, are being pretty lenient with Quebecers who had to cancel or change their travel plans because they were too busy chipping ice off their cold, dark homes to catch the plane. Most are letting their passengers re-book without penalty, but the chaos of the last couple of weeks makes this a good time to review what your rights as a traveler are, as opposed to what the airlines are willing to do for you as a goodwill gesture. To know who is entitled to what, we must first examine the kind of contract and the type of product. A full-fare airline ticket on a regularly scheduled carrier is almost always fully reimbursable. APEX tickets or any other reduced fare tickets might have a cancellation or change-of-date penalty, but it's usually not very much. SEVERE RESTRICTIONS Charter flights and packages are very different. In exchange for a lower price, severe restrictions apply. These may, in cancellation cases, equal the total purchase price. Such severe penalties are valid on the condition that the traveler was made aware of them when he bought the ticket or package. These penalties are applicable against the traveler even though he has the world's best reasons for canceling - a death in the family, job loss, freezing rain and an icy home or other acts of God. Those who were prudent enough to have bought cancellation insurance will be happy to know that many (but not all) such policies have a clause allowing cancellation and the collection of a refund if the insured's principal residence becomes uninhabitable. Read your policy carefully and if necessary call your insurance agent for info. Don't forget that there may be delays you have to respect. VACATIONS CUT SHORT What about people, happy in the sunny south, who had to cut short their vacations because their home in the black triangle is without heat and light? The same principles apply. Package contracts have a clause stating that unused portions are not reimbursable. Such clauses are valid. Often cancellation-insurance policies have a clause covering trip interruption for things like the principal residence becoming uninhabitable. This might cover return airline tickets and perhaps even reimbursement of the unused portion of the package. Read your policy carefully. When you buy a package or a cheap ticket, you have to keep in mind that any cancellation penalties mentioned in the contract are legal and valid regardless of the reasons for canceling. That's why cancellation insurance is so useful. Such policies don't cover everything, but they often help. Paul Unterberg is a partner in Unterberg, Labelle, Lebeau, a law firm that specializes in class-action suits and travel-related legal problems. If you have such a problem, you can write to Unterberg at The Gazette, Travel Section, 250 St. Antoine St. WBE: $2,800. 1-Ruse Hanover G, Lamy 8 2-Gala Fantasia AMacdonald 6 8- 1 5-1 5- 2 4-1 6- 1 10-1 12-1 9- 2 3-1 3-EvrtezLa G, PtOurOe 1 4-Au Revon Contrme S, Feion 8 5-Seductnn De Mars G, Gagnon 5 6-Thalasso Queen M, Bameau 8 7-Tropical Rain A Cote 9 S-Conditonal Charm D, Stpierr 4 6 7 9-Armbro Nukette M, Baillageon 8 3 8 ncaxi-i-i, 1-O Centa G, Plourde 2-M I Premier M, Lalonde 3-Pnncetown Clipper S, Fkion 4-Vikage Advocate M, Bameau 4- 1 8- 1 6-1 9- 2 5- 1 5-2 3-1 Accent N, Bardierir STurenne M, Baikargeon 2 rHdrxl-74, G, you can phone the Eco-Quartier there and give your time to clean the parks. Mount Royal was still off-limits yesterday as tree-pruners sawed off dangling branches in the midst of a snowstorm. The parking lot near the chalet and small refuges or other places where animals might be suffering. This is not the SPCA, Bercovici said. She is just an incredible lady who loves animals. More help is on the way. The mission is sending bunk beds to house volunteers. And a foundation that helps poor people is trying to start a government program to pay welfare recipients to work at the refuge. The area was filled with thousands of branches, stacked in piles as high as 10 feet. The Parks Department estimates that about 160,000 trees were damaged by the ice storm this month. At least 2,000 were destroyed. Those figures don't include the damage to wooded areas. In the next three months, city crews plan to carry out an exhaustive inventory of the damage in all parks and streets. In total, Montreal has about 445,000 trees in public spaces. City officials were unable to give the number of trees damaged on Mount Royal. But Peter Howlett, president of Les Amies de la Montagne, said that 75 per cent of the park's 200,000 trees suffered minor to severe damage. About 35 per cent of them, or 70,000, were destroyed, he estimated. Freezing rain had coated branches with ice up to 2 inches thick, causing them to snap. The trunks of some trees even split in two. ""It's light-years beyond any stress, any damage, any experience that natural areas such as this have ever been exposed to in our lifetimes,"" he said. ""It is only obvious to realize that it is completely beyond the responsibility of the city services alone to take care of this. The community has to step up. It's going to take a lot of collaboration from the public to make this work."" OTTAWA - The city of Ottawa will look for ways to replace or restore thousands of trees damaged by this month's ice storm. ""One of my duties is to protect and preserve Ottawa's natural legacy,"" Mayor Jim Watson said yesterday. ""The ice storm has put that legacy at risk and steps must be taken immediately to ensure that future generations will know a green and healthy Ottawa."" Watson announced the creation of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, now entering its eleventh year, is an award designed to further the tradition of liberal journalism and commitment to social and economic justice fostered by Joseph E. Atkinson, former publisher of The Toronto Star. It will be awarded to a full-time journalist for a one-year research project on a topical public policy issue, culminating in the publication of results in a series of articles, which the journalist is then free to develop into a book. The Fellowship includes a stipend of $65,000. As well, a budget for research expenses up to $25,000 is also available. The research year begins September 1, 1998. Application forms will be available January 17. The closing date for entries is March 13, 1998. Sponsored by The Atkinson Charitable Foundation, The Toronto Star and the Beland Honderich Family. For Application Forms: Christine Avery Nunez, Coordinator Atkinson Fellowship Committee, One Yonge Street, Fifth Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1P9 Telephone inquiries (416) 368-5152. To that end, Les Amies will launch a fundraising drive next week to restore Mount Royal's flora, Howlett said. The group also plans to organize a cleanup after the park is reopened. The city hopes to reopen sections of Mount Royal - Beaver Lake, the Belvedere along Camillien Houde Way and the chalet - by next Saturday. Among the districts that were hardest hit are St. Henri, Point St. Charles and Ville Emard (94 per cent of the trees were damaged); Notre Dame de Grace and Cote des Neiges (89 per cent); and Rosemont and Petite-Patrie (77 per cent). COST UNKNOWN Claude Jean Lapointe, commissioner of the Scouts du Montreal Metropolitain, said his troops will continue volunteering after the Angrignon Park cleanup. ""It's all part of our values; games, teamwork and nature,"" Lapointe said. ""During the ice storms, some of the older Scouts helped out at some seniors' residences. After the freezing rain, we have to concentrate on the cleanup and we will be involved until it's all over,"" Bourque said he doesn't know what it will cost to repair and replant the trees, but Quebec will foot part of the bill under its disaster-relief program. A task force of environmental and community representatives to look at the options available to replace and maintain the city's trees. A preliminary survey indicates that 45,000 of the city's 60,000 on-street trees suffered significant damage. It is estimated that 6,000 of those trees will have to be cut down because of the severe damage they suffered. It could cost millions to replace those trees, the city said in a statement as it announced a fundraising campaign to help pay for tree replanting. Andre Martineau is jolted out of bed when the phone rings. It's the overnight foreman at Hydro-Quebec. He's to report to work. Now. All hell is breaking loose. Freezing rain is still pounding on the windows of his Laval West bungalow as he dresses. It's pitch black, the street lights are out in places and the roads to the west sector's offices on Henri Bourassa Blvd are a sheet of ice. The morning shift isn't scheduled to start until 7 a.m., but there are dozens of teams already at their trucks when Martineau, 38, gets in. Others are still awaiting work orders. There are power outages all over the place. Wires down everywhere. Where to start? Fellow lineman Bernard Dagenais doesn't stumble in until after 8 a.m. He'd gotten a middle-of-the-night call, too. But he's been off on Christmas holidays and this is no way to get back in the groove. So the 17-year Hydro veteran rolled over and went back to sleep. But there's no avoiding this ice storm. It hits him like a ton of bricks. Schools across the island have canceled classes. His daughters, 6 and 8 years old, are romping around the house, celebrating. Ice and snow blanket the trees on Mount Royal around the Women's Pavilion of the Royal Victoria Hospital on THE ICE STORM OF '98. His wife books off work. By midday, Dagenais has climbed a dozen trees and dragged hundreds of ice-laden branches and downed wires from the middle of streets across Hampstead, LaSalle and Pointe Claire. It's gray and gloomy and the freezing rain still hasn't let up. He's getting pretty dexterous with the chainsaw. But it's impossible to keep dry, even with the big raincoat he wears over his Hydro Quebec parka. Behind the wheel of his Mazda, Millette glimpses signs of the devastation: ice-laden branches crashing to the ground, high-voltage transmission towers buckling under the weight of thick ice and loose wires dangling in the wind. In Montreal, Millette alerts Quebec's civil-protection authorities. ""We have to mobilize our resources,"" he says over the phone. ""We don't know how long the freezing rain is going to last."" THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 1998. On the 16th floor of a downtown office tower, Millette and his team work the phones all day long, dispatching linemen from across Quebec to the stricken areas. But the number of blacked-out homes and businesses keeps rising. The forecast was right, but Pommainville's home in Laval is still bright and warm when he leaves for work under a starless sky. His children can sleep late; their classes have been canceled. Soon after the scientist reaches the office, his house goes dark. The atmosphere in the Environment Canada office is tense. Pommainville and his colleagues sense that an exceptional weather event is underway. But the more unusual the event, the greater the pressure to come up with an accurate forecast. Their work, as a result, is not only scientific; it's also linguistic. If their words seem exaggerated, the forecasters will be criticized. But if the words appear to minimize a problem, the forecasters will come under equal attack. On the fifth floor of Montreal Urban Community police headquarters on Bonsecours St, in Old Montreal, about a dozen police officers file into a warehouse-like room filled with computers, electronic monitors and banks of telephones. The group consists of representatives of the MUCPD's planning, logistics and emergency-measures departments. Telephone hook-ups have been established with Hydro-Quebec and local fire departments. Two hours earlier, Hydro-Quebec had warned that its power-distribution system in Montreal - as well as that serving southwestern Quebec - was in imminent danger of collapse in a freezing rain storm. Reports are already coming in from two dozen precincts on the western side of Montreal Island that power has been lost and whatever traffic hasn't skidded off the road is beginning to tangle. But the police high command is hearing a different story from its precincts in the east end. Power is being maintained, and while the roads are slick, no one is hitting the panic button. One senior officer will later recall that the gist of the message sent from the east side of St. Laurent is that ""this is not the first time we've had freezing rain."" The downtown core remains lit. The media are concentrating on the devastation wrought by the freezing rain on the South Shore, but Montreal, while battered, has not broken down. The operations centre monitors the situation until midnight, then closes. By now, more than 800,000 Hydro customers in the Monteregie, Laurentians and Montreal Island are without power. Near Drummondville, a high-voltage line collapses, blocking Highway 20. The weather bulletin this evening tries to give a ray of hope: ""The south of Quebec will experience a respite Wednesday, Jan. 7, this evening and tonight, as very little freezing rain is predicted."" But, the bulletin continues, ""Another disturbance coming from the Great Lakes will give the south of Quebec more sustained freezing rain on Wednesday."" A day earlier, 9 millimetres of freezing rain had fallen on Montreal - more than the usual amount for the whole of January. Today, the total will be 15.6. Tree branches are starting to buckle. People are starting to flee their homes. In the evening, when he leaves the parking lot outside his office, forecaster Pommainville has to scrape a thick layer of ice off his car. DAY 4 THURSDAY, JAN. 8 GAZETTE: Here comes Round 2 LAPRESSE: Encore du verglas LE JOURNAL: Un courant de solidarité LE DEVOIR: La météo fait craindre le pire. The precipitation ends, but not before dumping another load of freezing rain over parts of southwestern Quebec, creating even more havoc. As the crisis deepens, Premier Bouchard accepts an offer from the Canadian government to send in the army. The first 2,500 soldiers arrive at night from CFB Valcartier near Quebec City. They are joined by more than 800 tree-trim and line-repair workers from the northeastern U.S. It warns, ""will give many types of precipitation to the above regions into the night, and again on Friday."" In the Montreal region, a mixture of freezing rain and ice pellets will persist until tonight and will resume on Friday after a brief period of calm. The forecast would prove correct, up to a point. Even so, it seems clear in retrospect that Thursday is the day when Montreal dodges a bullet. Over a 24-hour period, Montreal receives only 2.8 mm of freezing rain. In Ottawa, by contrast, the total is 19.6; in Saint-Hubert, 22.7. These totals are preliminary. Among the minor effects of the freezing rain is its ability to clog the sensors of the meteorologists' machines. MORNING The temperature in the Goral home has dropped like a stone overnight. THE ICE STORM OF '98. They get Marilyn Monroe, We get Mother Nature. Weaker wood pylons are only temporary. HYDRO Continued from Page A1. There were 6 kilometres of line left to connect before the Saint-Cesaire substation can be restarted, said Hydro spokesman Jean-Claude Lefebvre. Saint-Cesaire's intricate network of wires, pylons and transformers act as power brokers, breaking down the electricity that snakes into Saint-Cesaire along 230-kilovolt lines from a Boucherville station into the more manageable voltage of 120 kv. The 120-kv lines from Saint-Cesaire then supply the neighbourhood. Saint-Cesaire is dually important, Cliche said, because while it provides electricity straight to the Saint-Cesaire area, it also sends 230-kv lines out into wide swaths of the Monteregie, to be further broken down and then shipped to neighbourhood transformers. While freezing rain in the first days of the storm took a toll on lines leaving Saint-Cesaire, Cliche said, the real catastrophe for Saint-Cesaire came with the last dump of ice, which came Jan. 9. The final day of the ice storm killed Saint-Cesaire's power supply, which comes down from Manicouagan along 735-kv wires before passing through the Boucherville station, where its voltage is stepped down to 230 kv. Under normal circumstances, the work of repairing the lines from Boucherville down through the Monteregie and across the Richelieu River to Saint-Cesaire would take between three and four months, Cliche said. To complete the task in under three weeks, Hydro has had to do more than just import skilled help from south of the border. Wooden rather than metal pylons are being used to hold up the lines because they are faster to build. ""Normally, this would not conform with Hydro standards,"" Cliche said. ""Right now, we will use wood, and then later we will replace them."" Compromising standards also means compromising reliability, Cliche admitted readily. ""What will the performance be? We can't assure people it will be 100 per cent."" ""Thunder is an enemy, wind is an enemy. Today we have wind,"" Yvan Cliche said. The odds of major blackouts because of the new system's relative flimsiness ""can be reduced if people reduce their consumption of power,"" he said. Mild weather would also help, he said. ""It's like a hockey player with an injury - you send him back out there and you see if he can stand it."" For now, reconnecting the lines is like sewing, but with heavy wires rather than thread. The linemen are slowly pulling the wire through the pylons - some newly constructed out of wood to replace fallen metal ones - to link Boucherville and Saint-Cesaire. Atop the last pylon, across the road from the station, two linemen spent hours in the blizzard yesterday getting connections ready for the final pull. The wires feeding into the last pylon are hooked to a pulley system, which is controlled by a tractor on the ground. When it's time, the tractor will pull the whole Boucherville-Saint-Cesaire connection taut, and ""juice,"" as the Hydro workers call it, will return to the triangle of darkness. It won't happen all at once, Cliche cautioned. Power will be reclaimed by Saint-Cesaire's control centre very slowly to make sure the equipment, which has been frozen and out of use for two weeks, can handle the flow. It will also be phased into the distribution system to avoid trying to warm up tens of thousands of freezing households all at once - a sure way to get another good power failure going, Cliche said. Even once the power is on full blast, between 60,000 and 70,000 Quebecers will probably still be in the cold because their distribution network is damaged, Hydro cautioned this week. But with the energy flowing, Hydro will have an easier time pinpointing local problems and fixing them, according to spokesmen. While Saint-Cesaire was still waiting for juice yesterday, the station itself was ready to go, chief Leo Quenneville said. It wasn't badly damaged by the ice, and workers were just fine-tuning operations yesterday. Hopefully, they'll get around to the light-bulb in the downstairs station bathroom. It seems to be out. IRWIN BLOCK OF THE GAZETTE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT Clinton plans public response TAPE Continued from Page A1. Lewinsky's deposition scheduled for today before lawyers in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment civil suit against Clinton, 52, was postponed indefinitely. Lewinsky's lawyer suggested she is in no condition to be making public appearances or precipitous choices on her legal options. ""She is devastated, concerned, upset and fearful,"" said Ginsburg, adding that Lewinsky was in hiding with her mother. ""She does not know what the future holds."" Lewinsky's options are constrained by a signed affidavit stating she did not have a sexual relationship with Clinton. Starr, a special prosecutor, is also restricting her choices by threatening to indict her if she does not cooperate with his investigation of Clinton. If Lewinsky stands by her affidavit, then she would also be admitting to inventing her allegations of an affair with Clinton, allegations captured in secretly recorded audiotapes of conversations with her co-worker Linda Tripp. Lewinsky's options include showing up for a deposition in the Jones sexual-harassment suit and using the Fifth Amendment to refuse to testify on the grounds that her answers may be self-incriminating. She could also choose to testify as a prosecution witness before a grand jury, but that would only happen if she is granted immunity from prosecution, her lawyer said. That could be lethal to Clinton's presidency, but any testimony would be vulnerable to attack by the president's lawyers. Transcripts of taped conversations posted on a Newsweek magazine Web site suggest Lewinsky cast doubt on her own credibility. ""I have lied my entire life,"" she is reported to have told Tripp, according to the transcript. A Los Angeles Times source who listened to some of the tapes yesterday told the newspaper that Lewinsky said Clinton frequently telephoned her at home late at night, engaged in telephone sex with her and eventually devastated her emotionally by becoming involved with several other women. The source said Lewinsky is heard saying that she engaged only in oral sex with the president, and that Clinton told her he did not consider such an act to constitute a sexual affair. Yesterday, Clinton's press secretary, Mike McCurry, said the president feels ""empathy"" for Lewinsky and hopes to publicly explain his relationship with her before his State of the Union address Tuesday night. McCurry said presidential lawyers and aides are working to assemble the information that Clinton needs to explain his relationship with the San Francisco native and to answer any follow-up questions that might arise. McCurry said Clinton would ""be better off"" if he could address the nation prior to the State of the Union address and a trip the next day to Illinois and Wisconsin. White House officials said Clinton is weighing a variety of nationally televised formats to try to clear the air. A storm is approaching southwestern Quebec. The precipitation associated with this system will begin in the form of rain mixed with ice pellets, which will eventually change into freezing rain. The message goes out to the usual clients: radio and TV stations, airports, police. Gosselin glances up at one of the maps of Quebec that adorn the walls of the big, open-plan office. Soon, people all over the province will wake up to the forecast of what the heavens have in store for them. But no one - not even Gosselin - has any idea how catastrophic that low-pressure system will prove to be. DAY 1 MONDAY, JAN. 5 DAY 1 of the Great Ice Storm of '98 - and the first day back at work from the holidays for hundreds of thousands of workers in southwestern Quebec. It begins innocently enough - with freezing rain and the predictable morning traffic chaos. ""A nightmare,"" says one radio traffic reporter. But the real nightmare is only beginning. Road crews are out all day salting and sanding, and the streets and sidewalks of the city of Montreal look like mashed potatoes. The city never cleared away the snow that fell during the Dec. 30 snowstorm. Tuesday, Jan. 6: Notre Dame de Grace's Hingston Ave. Isabelle Guibert of Outremont is framed by ice-covered branches as she and the freezing rain has begun to form a layer of ice on city sidewalks and poorly plowed side streets. Pierre Bonin, an official with the city of Montreal, says mild temperatures are forecast for Montreal this week. ""But if conditions deteriorate, and we get more snow in the next few days, then we'll probably begin a snow-clearing operation,"" he says. Famous last words. ""We're in a state of alert. There are some blackouts and we have to follow things carefully,"" - Pierre Millette, director of emergency plans for power failures. The highway down from Laval is crammed during a wet, slippery rush hour, but Pierre Pommainville pulls into the St. Laurent weather office by 7:30 a.m. His three children are on their way to the first of five days of school. PIERRE OBENDRAUF, GAZETTE John Abcarius cleans car windshield with shovel on Lincoln St. Or so they believe. At the young age of 37, Pommainville is the shift supervisor among all the meteorologists in the office. That means he's in charge of a team of scientists, most of them casually dressed, all but one of them men. With his big glasses, eager manner and thinning hair, Pommainville looks the part; he'd be only slightly out of place in Flubber. Sipping a coffee, he glances at the morning's papers. A front-page headline in La Presse announces: ""Ça va aller mal!"" But the article has nothing to do with the miserable weather; it describes the fears of Quebecers for 1998. Now he studies the information in his computer. The data swirl there like a windblown cloud: air movement, temperature, humidity, pressure, fronts, precipitation. To a layman, the patterns would be hard to decipher. Fielding Ave. is blocked by fallen trees. As she scrapes her car's windows on Tuesday, Pommainville understands their meaning. He doesn't like what he sees. A high band of warm, wet air is moving northward from the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, northeast winds have sent a mass of cold, dry air down the St. Lawrence Valley. Montreal looks fated to be the prime battleground between these two streams of air. The latest bulletin had gone out at 3:47 a.m., just as the battle commenced. ""The precipitation,"" it announced, ""has begun in the form of snow mixed with ice pellets, and is rapidly changing into freezing rain. This zone of freezing rain is already affecting the Outaouais and the Montreal region. Over the morning, it will spread to the Eastern Townships, the Beauce and the centre of Quebec. The freezing rain will become intermittent in the afternoon."" It's the conjunction of two distinct air masses - a higher, wet one and a lower, dry one - that serves as the catalyst for freezing rain. The moisture starts as snow in the highest clouds, melts into rain as it falls, but then solidifies in the final stretch down. Complicated, but not in itself abnormal: freezing rain affects Montreal a few times in most years. What concerns Pommainville is that such a conjunction usually has a short life span: one air mass or the other tends to get blown away. This time, however, the opposed weather systems look like they're settling in to stay. In the afternoon, Pommainville and his staff issue a new weather alert. It warns that although the freezing rain, ice pellets and snow may be weak this evening, they're expected to intensify overnight and Tuesday. JOHN MAHONEY, GAZETTE Jan. 6, South Shore. In Chateauguay, freezing rain topples a power line, cutting off electricity to 2,000 households. At 9 p.m., Millette calls Rejean Le-vasseur, Hydro's coordinator of maintenance crews. ""We're in a state of alert,"" Millette tells Levasseur. ""There are some blackouts and we have to follow things carefully."" Across the St. Lawrence River, near Jarry Park, Marcel Simard is working the night shift at Hydro's nerve centre for Montreal Island. Simard, a distribution operator, is monitoring computer screens that give him updates, every five seconds, of the power grid. DAY 2 JAN. 6 GAZETTE: More weather mess on the way LA PRESSE: Encore plus de verglas LE JOURNAL: Un temps de chien. By sunrise, large pockets of southwestern Quebec, the Outaouais region and eastern Ontario are without power as the freezing rain has turned into an escalating ice storm, downing thousands of tree branches and hydro lines. Every school board in and around Montreal closes. In Papineauville, east of Hull, the ice storm claims its first victim: 82-year-old Rolland Parent succumbs to carbon-monoxide poisoning while running a gas generator in the basement of h
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Mary met large quantities of ice; passed several vessels in the Gulf bound up. Pilot A. Gohell reports three barques and two tugs above; also other vessels in the river. SILVER FREIGHTS. To Montreal: Salt, 50c per sack; coal, 80c; iron, $1 per ton; selling scrap iron, $10 per ton; lumber to Burlington, $1.50 to $3.00 per 1,000 feet board measure, 50 cents. Lumber to Whitehall, $1.10 to $1.75 per 1,000 feet; lumber to Plattsburgh, $1.70 to $1.70 per 1,000 feet. To St. Johns: Pig iron, 13 cents per sack. Lumber from Shuisco to Burlington, Plattsburgh and Whitehall, $1.15 to $1.70 per 1,000 feet. To Three Rivers: Salt, 1.5 cents per bushel; coal, 75 cents per ton.
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To Three Rivers: Salt, 1.5 cents per bushel; coal, 75 cents per ton. From Montreal: Flour, 8 cents per barrel, 4 cents per bag; pork, 10 cents per barrel; heavy goods, 6 cents per 100 lbs and charges of 0 cents free. FREIGHTS TO LIVING PORTS. From Quebec to Gaspe and Perce, 50c per barrel and per ton; per steamer to Summer, side, Charlottetown, P.E.I., and Pictou, N.S., etc., 40c per barrel and $1 per ton; per schooner $1.50 to $2.00 per barrel. THERE LIVES SACRIFICED. The Protestant Hospital struck by lightning and set on fire. Narrow Escape of Inmates. (From our own correspondent) Ottawa, June 6. The worst cyclonic thunderstorm ever known in this section burst over the city and vicinity about noon and lasted nearly an hour, doing enormous damage and causing the loss of three lives so far as known.
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VESSELS ASHORE, LONG BRANCH, COLD WEATHER. That Is What the Probs Say of Today's Weather. Meteorological Office, Toronto, Ont, February 12, 11 p.m. The storm which was developing in the Lower Mississippi valley last night has divided into two parts, one moving to the lake region and the other to the middle Atlantic coast. Gales with heavy snow are prevalent in Ontario and decidedly colder weather is general in the Dominion. Minimum and maximum temperatures: Esquimalt, 32, 42; Calgary, 12 below, 18; Edmonton, 16 below, 8; Qu'Appelle, 20 below, 4; Minnedosa, 2 below, 40; Toronto, 7, 10; Montreal, 2 below, 6; Quebec, 4 below, 6; Halifax, 6, 18. Lake fresh, to strong northerly to westerly winds; cold weather; gradually clearing. Upper M. Lawrence fresh to high winds; cold weather. Lower St.
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For weather information, updated four times a day, please call Gazette Info-Lino, 521-8600, code: 6800. 35 95 30 68 25 77 20 68 15 59 10 50 5 41 0 32 -5; 23 -10 14 -15 5 -20, -4 25 -13 C Qf Sunrise 5:13 Sunset 8:45 Almanac Record Max Min 1982 32 1969 -7 Average Yesterday 25 16 Year ago today 24 8 Normal this date 26 15 Sunny High 30 Low 18 Canada.
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"We have put on hold any further work on the layout of the library until a manager is hired," Trent said Tuesday. The city hired a recruiting company last month and hopes to hire a professional librarian to run the library and oversee the culture and recreation departments by July 1, he said. Won't delay construction But the mayor insisted the decision won't delay construction, which is slated to begin in the spring of 1994. Westmount fired chief librarian Rosemary Lydon last month, setting off a storm of controversy among users who launched a campaign to get her re-hired. Two weeks ago, the city called a meeting to get input on the renovation and expansion of the library from 50 librarians who live in Westmount and work in libraries across the city. They told the mayor the city can't move ahead with its plans until someone is put in place to take charge of the library. "You need a chief librarian if you're going to entertain these major changes," Beverly Chandler, Vanier College's head librarian, said in an interview. "You need someone to make the judgment calls."
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"MANITOBA'S HARVEST, The crops will yield an even better average than last year, Winnipeg, August 2, Crop reports have been received from thirty places in the province and indicate a much larger harvest than anticipated. The area sown is vastly increased, probably about twenty per cent. The yield will not be smaller than the abundant one of 1887. Little or no damage is reported, and although harvest is about a week or ten days later than last year, with favorable weather it will be safely garnered. The probable yield of wheat will be from 20 to 40 bushels per acre, barley 33 to 50, and oats 65. Skin-grafting a Failure, Moilha Eugan, the young Cheshire girl whose scalp was torn off in consequence of catching her hair in a revolving shaft in the shop of the Cheshire Manufacturing Company about a year ago, and who has since been in the New Haven hospital, has recently suffered a relapse, and the physicians do not expect her to recover. The skin-grafting process which has been tried in her case has not proved successful, owing doubtless to the fact that her scalp was torn completely off.
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Five candidates - Mitra, Ramos, Santiago, Laurel and Salonga - all served in Aquino's cabinet. Aquino endorsed Ramos, but Mitra is the choice of most pro-administration politicians, including most of the president's relatives. Peruvian police take rebel cell block ASSOCIATED PRESS LIMA - Rebels in Peru's top-security prison surrendered last night after police stormed a cell block the inmates had held for four days. Police entered the block through a hole they blasted in a prison wall, and some 300 were involved in the final assault, authorities said. There was no immediate word on casualties. Violence at the prison began in the morning and began to grow throughout the day. Shouting, gunfire and strong explosions erupted inside the prison, and reporters listening to a police radio said the police were trying to knock down the jail walls. Rebels armed with acid, machine guns and homemade bombs first clashed with police Wednesday when officials tried to transfer 130 female prisoners from the Lima complex to another jail. At least 13 were killed and dozens wounded. An Interior Ministry communique said 11 rebels gave up yesterday but the others' refusal to surrender made more aggressive action necessary.
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I'm little trouble! It is proverbially the one that can cause the most worry, annoyance and distraction. But what are sometimes considered little troubles, if left to themselves, can magnify into grave evils, producing disastrous results. This is especially true of a cold in the head. The sufferer looks upon it as a trifling annoyance that needs no treatment and will speedily pass away. This is a grave mistake. There is not a case of catarrh in existence that did not have its origin in a neglected cold in the head, and the longer the trouble runs the more serious the results. A cold in the head, developing into catarrh, renders the breath foul, causes a loss of the senses of taste and smell, partial deafness, distressing headaches, constant hawking and spitting, and in many, many cases ends in consumption and death. No one may have all the symptoms indicated, but the more the sufferer has the greater the danger. It is obvious, therefore, that no case of cold in the head should be neglected for an instant, and that to do so is courting further disease, perhaps death. Nasal Balm, in the most aggravated case of cold in the head, will give instant relief, and speedily effects a cure, thus preventing the developing of catarrh. No other remedy has ever met with the success that Nasal Balm has, and this is simply because it does all its manufacturers claim for it. As a precautionary remedy, a bottle of Nasal Balm should be kept in every house. Sold by all dealers. At a meeting of the committee appointed to act on behalf of the citizens of St John's, in relation to the question of French treaty rights in Newfoundland, held on the 15th of January, a resolution was unanimously adopted to the following effect: Resolved, that this meeting desires to express its grateful appreciation of the interest taken by our fellow-colonists of the Dominion of Canada, in our behalf, for their manifestations of sympathy with us in the hardships of our position, and for the active and valuable support afforded us by the various boards of trade, and other members of public opinion and sentiment throughout the Dominion; and the committee considers this sympathy and cooperation a source of strength and bond to secure the people of this colony to make their rightful effort in the future. THE MODERN TOURNAMENT. Long ago (so legends tell us) to uphold his lady's beauty many a knight at joust and tourney laid his trusty lance in rest; or in chivalrous compassion, as the soldier's dearest duty, championed first the fame and safety of some damsel distressed. Then the air grew faint and trembled to the shock of lances shivered, while the shouts of scorn or loud acclaims rose high and shook the land; and the guerdon of the victor was the damsel delivered, or the smile vouchsafed by beauty's queen as he knelt to touch her hand. Long ago? Not so. The ages, as they fling their shadows onward, bring but change to outward seeming, while the world remains the same; still the arm of flesh strikes fiercely, still the spirit struggles sunward; still we thrill to martial story, glory nobly and shrink from sting of shame. Still imperious duty claims us as her servant on life's journey, points the way with torch and finger on the slenderest march of truth; bids us buckle on our armor for that modern tilt and tourney where the lance is but a pencil and the lists a polling booth, while for queen of beauty, bending from her balcony embowered, or for love-lorn maidens' fortunes on the lances point that wields, see our country watching, trusting, while the sons whom she hath dowered with the power to make or mar her, hold the balance of her fate. Strong and proud she stands before them, their liege lady, queen and mother; on her brow the dawn of power, on her stalwart limbs no chain; shall they, sworn unto her service, draw the sword for any other? Oh, Canadians! free-born children! shall she watch and trust in vain? Will ye falter, faint and weary in the trial's stress of the morning? Barter birthright for a pottage that shall prove but bitter food? Peddle for silent alms, and shirk the work of brain and muscle, scorning to gain with toil and patience that which you have bought with blood? Do dishonor to the fathers' graves whose sacred names you cherish? Leave your sons a coward's heritage when ye yourselves are dust? God forbid! Not so have nations won the name that cannot perish, who have climbed, and fought, and striven to the watchwords, work and fruit. Up and gird you, sons of freemen, for the fight that lies before you, tip the lance with steel of honor, not with gold though burnished bright; with the emblems of your lady on your breast and waving o'er you, do your devoir bravely, purely, as did ever belted knight. Knights and champions are ye truly if ye fall, ye fall with glory, as the soldier in the inmost trench, truest hero when he dies; if ye win, your names are written in your country's annals' story as her saviors in her danger, and her highest good your prize. Annih Both vkm, Kingston, February 17. Ace Bolelbitu, this city, has absconded. The police found his safe empty. His amounts to 600,000 francs. Heavy Timber Failure. London, February 25. Prior, Wc Co, timber merchants have failed, liabilities X320,000. Foreign News In Brief. Large number of Dervishes are moving forward from Kasaala to assist Osman Thebel. The order has decided to sell the contents of the great painter at auction. FAI1C AND COLD WEATHER Promised for Saturday, with increasing westerly wind. Toronto, February 25, 11 p.m. The storm center is moving eastward north of the St. Lawrence valley with diminishing energy, and higher pressure is spreading over the lake region from the west and northwest. Tonight the weather is mild and rainy in Quebec and the Maritime provinces, fair and a little colder in Ontario, and fine and cold in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. Minimum and maximum temperature - Calgary, 20 below, 6 above; Battleford, 1 below, above; Regina, 10 below, zero; Winnipeg, 6 below, above; Toronto, 40, 49; Montreal, 38, 44; Halifax, 3, 4. Lake Ontario fresh to strong northwest winds; fair and colder. February 25. Mr. Cotter this morning, on behalf of Mr. Penlston Starr, applied for an order to wind up the corporation of William Parks & Son (limited). Solicitor-General Pagsley, who appeared for the firm, requested an adjournment of the application, as he had not yet had an opportunity of consulting the directors in reference to the matter. Justice Palmer said that, while not wishing to be understood as having made up his mind in reference to the matter, he had been looking into the questions involved and his present opinion was that it would be preferable if this matter stood over till the hearing of the general case, when all parties interested would be given the fullest opportunity of presenting their various cases to the court. Another question which had presented itself to his mind was whether or not it would be proper during the pendency of the general suit to permit winding up proceedings, but he did not wish to be understood as giving this as his decided opinion in the matter. He would postpone the hearing on Mr. Coster's motion until Monday next. He Hit Xitnole Saw. An alarm was given this morning at 1 o'clock from box 85, for a blaze in a stable in rear of 267 Papineau road, belonging to Joseph Quenneville. A horse was burnt and the stable totally destroyed, the damage being about $500. OCEAN STEAMSHIP WORLD. Arrived February 25. At New York this morning, New York. MoHthaniptn's World. State of Indiana, Authorised. Hael, Fremeti, New York. You will live longer if your cook only uses Imperial Cream Tartar Baking Powder. Always reliable, purest and best. MARSH STEAM PUMP. Absolute Actuation and Regulation without the use of Tappets, Levers or other Mechanical Connection. If you want a thoroughly reliable, durable, independent Steam Pump, self-governing and economical, we can supply you with the best in the market. The exhaust steam is mixed with feed water and returns to the boiler. Arranged for Yacht, portable, Traction and other small Boilers that require feeding before steam is raised. This pump affords the steadiest and most reliable feeder for boilers and fuel oil-burners that has ever been produced. The pump will feed steadily to a boiler from one to twenty horse power supply. Dimensions: Twelve inches long. Weight: Twenty-three pounds. Pumping Attachments can be supplied on request. A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE. Meeting of the French Cabinet Regarding the Empress Frederick's Visit. Paris, February 25. The League of Patriots has violently denounced the visit of Empress Frederick of Germany to the palace of Versailles. The league has decided to hold daily meetings of protest until the Imperial visitor leaves the city. It is known here that in Berlin it was expected President Carnot would call on Empress Frederick, but after a special cabinet meeting had been held and the question had been fully discussed it was decided that, as Empress Frederick was travelling incognito, the French Government could compromise the matter by sending the chief of the present military household, General Bittiger, and M. Ribot, minister of foreign affairs, to call on the Empress. This was accordingly done, General Brugere and M. Ribot calling at the German embassy and inscribing their names in the visitors' book. This question of etiquette was undoubtedly the cause of much anxiety and worry to the members of the French cabinet and was made the subject of a long and earnest discussion before it was finally concluded that the Government could not dare to risk the verdict of public opinion if President Carnot called on the imperial visitor.
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REPUBLICANS ALARMED Hint the President will take them at their word and enforce the Retaliation Bill Wasiiington, August 9 In the Senate today Mr Evarts resumed his argument against the fisheries treaty The position which should be taken by the United States was, he said, to insist that the United States had always rejected the headland theory, and did not tolerate the claim of right on the part of Great Britain to make a bay by calling it a bay, and to shut out of it American fishermen; and then there might or there might not be an opportunity to find out what Great Britain meant That would not mean war or fear of war As to the complaint made on the Democratic side that publicity was given to the discussion of the treaty, Mr Evarts said that the initiation of such publicity was due to the Executive in recommending the treaty and all communications connected with it to be given to the public As to the complaint made by the senator from Alabama (Mr Morgan) against the majority of the Committee on Foreign Relations, for stating in its report that the time for negotiations had passed, Mr Evarts read the extract in question which reads: "On the 19th of January, 1887, Congress came to the conclusion that the period of negation and unavailing remonstrance had passed" So that it was Congress itself, he said, and not the committee which had come to that conclusion As to the same senator's charge of servility against the committee, Mr Evarts failed to find anything offensive or servile in the paragraph referred to In conclusion he said that he would prepare a comment upon the terms of the treaty itself and he hoped not an unfair one, but he would forbear to proceed with it at present President Grant's Policy Mr Evarts ceased speaking at half past three and then the discussion turning on President Grant's message to the Senate with a proposed treaty on the same subject was taken up by Mr Morgan, who declared that the President had on that occasion given counsel in favor of a true and wise policy, and now spoke from his grave better than any senator had done on this discussion Frye Wants Frozen Fish Timed Mr Frye represented the manner in which the payment of duties on preserved fish is evaded, that is by having the fish frozen solid and introduced duty free as fresh fish for immediate consumption While in fact such frozen fish could be kept for months He argued that a construction should be placed by Congress upon that provision of the law or else that a duty should be imposed on fish preserved by freezing, just as if it was preserved in any other way Making Campaign Capital Mr Morgan said that the object of destroying the treaty at once was nothing more nor less than political and was connected with the presidential election One of the senators from Massachusetts had pronounced him (Mr Morgan) a silly man because he had alluded to the fact that war might grow out of the question He might be silly, but he had seen enough of war to be afraid of it; perhaps the Senator from Massachusetts had not The President and Retaliation Mr Hoar disclaimed having spoken of the senator from Alabama as silly What he had said was that if he had not so much respect for that senator he should pronounce the suggestion that war with England might grow out of insisting on the rights of American fishermen as supremely silly Mr Morgan said that the Democratic party had in it the backbone of Andrew Jackson, that it was not going to make a foolish quarrel, but that if the quarrel came it would stand by the country right or wrong When this negotiation would fail then the Democrats meant, as the President meant, that the retaliation act, which then and not before would become mandatory, would be obeyed, and yet, when it was expected that that law was to be obeyed there came a howl from the Fishery association because the President would not pledge himself in advance to limit the retaliation to the fishery business Afraid of Their Own Creation Mr Blair, whose resolution had been alluded to by Mr Morgan, declared sarcastically that if there was to be no war with England or Canada until the discussion on the treaty ended war would be postponed until the destruction of the world by fire or till a deluge came again He supposed that the object of the senator from Alabama in talking war was for effect on the political campaign at home He did not know of any Republican who talked about war as a result of the rejection of the treaty The resources of diplomacy were all open and had not yet been exhausted A recalcitrant, obstinate and pigheaded executive was not going to take the responsibility of inflicting on the American people needless injury, mercantile distress and the destruction of business unnecessarily and simply because he had the power When it was intimated to the Senate that the President was going further and would destroy the industrial fabric of the United States simply because he and his party were in a pout, it appeared to him (Blair) that the whole party might as well be banished from the country as being too ignorant, too foolish or too unpatriotic to exist properly under the protection of American laws Mr Hale criticized Mr Morgan's position and that of the Democratic party on the treaty as being in the interest of free trade There was no demand in any American quarter for free fish It was only within the last year that an American administration was to be found that was willing to trample American interests under its feet and to make long homilies and have its friends in the Senate make long speeches in favor of "our enemies, the British people" He congratulated the country on having seen in this debate what the animus of the Senator from Alabama was Compliments Exchanged Mr Morgan denied that he had made any statement to his desire or expectation to repeal the duty on salt fish, nor had he intimated that in consideration of the tariff bill soon to be entered upon he or any senator on his side proposed to make such a motion Proceeding to pay his compliments to Mr Blair, he said the country would not go to that school to learn lessons of wisdom and would not receive instructions from a senator who had talked such a batch of nonsense as that senator had talked this evening What credit could the British Government give to that set of resolutions or to the American Senate, in which they had been offered and debated, except to say that the senator from New Hampshire did not know what he was talking about and that his party was not responsible for what he said The senator had spoken of President Cleveland as pigheaded Mr Cleveland was not pigheaded and was not a fool He had been wise enough to best the Republican party every time he came in contact with it and he was going to do it again so easily that the Republicans would not know how it happened Mr Cleveland was the truest representative of American character that stood on the continent and the people knew it and intended to sustain him Mr Blair said that he had used the unfortunate adjective "pigheaded" in reference to the President's anticipated conduct as foretold and proclaimed by the senator from Alabama He had no wish to qualify the expression, he did not want to interfere with the senator's adoration That senator was at liberty to worship any fetish he chose, and would naturally select such a god After some further interchange of like compliments between the two senators, the two days' discussion came to a close, and the Senate at four o'clock adjourned
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AUGUSTI'S POSITION He Cables the Madrid Government That It Is Grave HEKMED IN BY INSURGENTS Difficulties of Defence Are Increasing Provinces Are Deserting to Join the Insurgents Many Men Sick Madrid, June 28 The Government has received the following despatch from Captain-General Augusti, dated from Manila on June 23: ""The situation is still grave I continue to maintain my position inside the line of block houses; but the enemy is increasing in numbers, as the rebels occupy the provinces, which are surrendering. Torrential rains are inundating the entrenchments, rendering the work of defence difficult. The numbers of sick among the troops are increasing, making the situation very distressing, and causing increased desertions of the native soldiers. It is estimated that the insurgents number 30,000 armed with rifles, and 100,000 armed with swords, etc. Aguinaldo has summoned me to surrender but I have treated his proposals with disdain, for I am resolved to maintain the sovereignty of Spain and the honor of the king to the last extremity. I have over one thousand sick and 200 wounded. The citadel has been invaded by the suburban inhabitants, who have abandoned their homes owing to the barbarity of the rebels. These inhabitants constitute an embarrassment, aggravating the situation, in view of the bombardment, which, however, is not seriously apprehended for the moment. The Governor of the Visayas and Mindanao Islands cables that he has defeated the insurgents in an engagement during which Chief Arec, Aguinaldo's representative, was killed. He adds that tranquility now prevails throughout these islands, and he further asserts that the principal Malay chiefs of the Mindanao group declare they desire to fight on the side of the Spaniards. Madrid, June 28 Advices from Manila state that Captain-General Augusti's family is still in the hands of the insurgents. General Pena, with a thousand soldiers, has surrendered. His soldiers, most of whom were natives, joined the insurgents. A majority of the detachments in the Island of Luzon have surrendered owing to their lack of food, though some succeeded in escaping. Numerous Spaniards, including the Governors of Uatanga, Laguna and Dulacana, have taken refuge at Cavite. The rebels who are besieging Manila exceed 25,000 men. The city is completely isolated, and the arrival of the Spanish squadron is anxiously awaited, for the position of Manila is untenable. Small rebel craft navigate the bay, conveying prisoners to Cavite.
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of course, easily survive the ice storm, just as the man who dreamed up the stadium, Jean Drapeau, deftly survived the debt storm to win two more mayoral elections But as did Drapeau, Hydro-Quebec will become an ex-icon, humbled, no longer entitled to a widespread assumption that it knows what is best for the people Both the Big O and Hydro have become symbols of a naive infatuation El Nino: you're looking at it As power returns, ROSEMARY SPEIRS Toronto Star Climate experts are hesitating to blame the worst ice storm in recorded history on global warming But members of Jean Chretien's federal cabinet are privately conceding that this is more than a freak of nature It is weather of our own making We've had a year of evidence: last winter's floods in Quebec's Saguenay region, the rising of the Red River around Winnipeg in the spring, out-of-season forest fires in Alberta early this winter, and now a crushing ice storm across the east of the continent Common sense is forcing even the cabinet's doubters to admit climate patterns are changing and the so-called greenhouse effect is upon us At yesterday's cabinet meeting,
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71 72 73 ItmtMrnim - inflMMk - tea 75 76 77 78 79 64 85 i 186 jj7 iau - jjif - vi H r-Ui ! sr&yr Hsrp J-rsr MTV: m 101 jio7p3 i04 105 mim sbu ittou 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 EARTHWEEK: A DIARY OF THE PLANET Ted Horning THEORY VERSUS PSYCHOLOGY Today's hand has a correct theoretical answer. It isn't easy as it requires that one know the concept of a Scissor's Coup and to make matters worse, we must analyze theory versus psychology. None vulnerable North deals NORTH 3 ? A 108 76 0 QJ 104 A62 WEST EAST A 107 98 VK95 3 9? J 42 0 K 976 0 A832 93 KJ84 SOUTH KQJ 6 542 V Q 0 5 Q 1075 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1? Pass !
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"B, September 8 General business has been quite dull the past week, there being an apparent falling off in all directions. Flour is firm; sales moderate; quantity coming in is small, and dealers find that offerings are only for two or three weeks hence; the quotations are: spring extra $6.50 to $6.60, fancies and superiors $8.60 to $8.75, choice superiors $6.90 to $7.00, patents $7.50 to $7.75. Cornmeal is firmer and higher in sympathy with the advance reported elsewhere; sales, which are light, are at $3.75; dealers are inclined to hold for another move upwards. Oatmeal is unchanged, cheese has stiffened, and is 1c higher. Pork has taken an advance, and is now $23. There is a decided advance in raisins; there are no new in the market, and the old are almost out. Beans are scarce, and stock is in the hands of two or three dealers. Molasses and sugars continue unchanged, with trade fair.
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E. I. Mr. Ruteman will attend to all Hydrometallurgical questions, and Mr. Clark to all railway work, surveys, etc. M City & District News, reported at the Montreal railway wharf, where water was brought above level, March 20. Wind: 1, 3. Weather: 7, 18, 2D, 888, 12, 3 (67 degrees N), barometer reduced to sea level and to temperature 820 Kahr. Thursday relative, npiut, n, u, h. Maximum temperature of the 20th: 7. Total snowfall of 23rd and 24th: 3 inches. STUART, MARLER & McLENNAN, Notaries Public and Commissioners, 115 St. Francois Inviter Street. W. Henshaw, President of the Board of Trade, and Messrs. Allan, Murray, Torrance and other shipping firms, are moving in the matter of obtaining an increase of the Harbour Police, and a memorial to that effect will be prepared and forwarded at an early date to the Minister of Marine.
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At least 13 were killed and dozens wounded. An Interior Ministry communique said 11 rebels gave up yesterday but the others' refusal to surrender made more aggressive action necessary. Given the situation, it has been decided to increase the use of force to clear out the cell block, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. In the final four-hour battle, police could be seen firing and throwing dynamite into the cell block from the roofs of buildings within the prison. The rebels responded with gunfire and dynamite charges. Six powerful explosions rocked the crumbling cement-block homes. Soldiers said a tactical police team charged through a hole in the cell-block wall. A red rocket flew up above the prison, a signal that police had taken control of the cell block, they said. An official speaking through a megaphone directed the rebels to come out with their hands behind their necks. Armenian fighters take Azerbaijani stronghold LOS ANGELES TIMES MOSCOW Armenian militants captured the last major Azerbaijani stronghold in the strife-torn enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday in a pitched battle, fought street to street and with heavy artillery exchanges that left dozens of people reported dead.
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CHOI'S IN MANITOBA - Vegetation Retarded by Heat Drought - The Condition Generally Encouraging - WINNIPEG, July 10 The crop correspondents of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture are now sending in replies to the second series of questions addressed to them during the current season. A large number of reports have already been received at the department, many of which show that the dry weather of the past few weeks has been a serious drawback to the crops in this province, and that the bright prospects offered in the early part of June have not been fully realized. Coupled with the drought, the heat has been excessive and vegetation has consequently been much retarded. Considering both those serious drawbacks, the condition of the crops in most instances is encouraging. Though no rains have been general for some time, still a number of local showers fell which had the effect of preserving the crops from more serious results than otherwise would have been the case. Of the several crops, the wheat crop is generally at this date in the most flourishing condition. This is owing to the fact that it was sown at a very early date, and that the great bulk of the crop was put in on ground prepared last season. The Hennas Comes to Fleera - The first Fare of the Season Prince Edward Island Elections Precaution (from our own correspondent) Halifax, N.S., July 12 The steamer Hennas, ashore at Cape North, is now breaking up. The tug which went to her assistance from North Sydney was unable to render any assistance and returned to port. Rev. Dr. Phelan, a distinguished Catholic divine of St. Louis, is on a visit to his brother, Consul-General Phelan. Dr. Phelan is a native of Cape Breton. An American herring schooner arrived at Port Mulgrave today from North Bay with 410 barrels of huge fat mackerel. This is the first fare of the season. Mackerel are reported in very large schools on the Prince Edward Island shore. They are reported in St. Peter's for the first time in one hundred years. CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I., July 12 Today was declaration day in Prince and Kings counties. The result of the election is unchanged. In Queens, McKay (Conservative) and Whelan (Grit) are equal and a scrutiny is probable, when McKay will undoubtedly be returned. There were Orange celebrations in several parts of the country but none in the city. All quiet. IS A remarkable experience of a Brooklyn Priest Taken for Dead, yet Fully Conscious Ottawa, July 12 The Rev. Father Smith, of the Society of Priests of Mercy, popularly known as the Fathers of Mercy, a native of Ottawa, left here for Brooklyn on Saturday after a visit to his mother and family. The reverend gentleman has had a unique experience recently. He had been seriously ill and fell into a trance which was taken for death and the news of his demise was wired to his family. While lying awaiting interment he fully realized the preparations that were going on around him, but was unable for a considerable time to signify that he was still living. Happily, however, he recovered and among others who called upon him to congratulate him was a brother priest who had been summoned from another city to preach his funeral sermon.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007 I A3 KILLER WEATHER Intense heat, torrential rains plague Europe TT9 FOREST FIRES RAGE GLOBALLY Thousands of Pakistanis removed from coasts ahead of possible cyclone ATHAR HUSSAIN REUTERS PAKISTAN - People take shelter during a heavy rain shower in Islamabad yesterday (left) while a boy watches the downpour through a car window in Karachi (above). Authorities in Pakistan and India evacuated low-lying areas after weekend storms killed more than 350 people. GERMANY - That umbrella might come in handy, as a storm brews over the water at a beach at Norderney yesterday. DANNY GOHLKE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES ALBANIA - Hold the hot wax finish: A boy ducks under a tree to avoid the water at a car wash in Tirana, where temperatures reached up to 42 degrees C. ENGLAND - No need for a car wash after driving through the floodwaters in Hull yesterday. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS Athens - A heatwave has claimed four lives in Greece and Cyprus and killed six more people in Romania as temperatures soared to 46 degrees Celsius in parts of southeast Europe. Turkey also reported deaths blamed on the intense heat, while three people drowned in Bulgaria swimming in unsupervised dams and beaches during the weekend as temperatures climbed well above early summer averages. Greece, which has seen some of the highest temperatures, is set to record its hottest June. Athenians emerged from the city's subway clutching newspapers over their heads to try to stave off the blazing sun, while tourists with bottles of water took shelter under the few trees in the city centre. In Turkey, Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said pregnant and disabled public servants would be given days off today and tomorrow because of the extreme heat. Twenty-five people have died in Romania during the recent hot spell, health ministry data showed yesterday. Hot weather is expected to last throughout the summer, affecting cereal crops and hydropower production, officials said. Forest fires were also reported near several prominent tourist spots on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. In Britain, torrential downpours left three dead and hundreds stranded yesterday as storms continued to batter Russia and a heatwave in southern Europe led to further deaths and sparked fires. Several hours of effort from rescuers including police divers was not enough to save a 28-year-old man in Hull, northwest England, who died after becoming trapped while trying to clear a flooded drain. Local police in nearby Sheffield said later they had recovered the body of an unidentified young man, though his body was found downstream from where a teenage boy was earlier reported to have been swept up by the floods. In Italy, helicopters and specially adapted aircraft joined firefighters on the ground yesterday to fight a series of fires in Calabria and on the island of Sicily, as a heatwave there continued. The situation was particularly serious in Sicily, where media reports said a number of hotels near the northwest coast had to be evacuated. In Pakistan, thousands of people were removed from southern coastal areas yesterday ahead of a possible cyclone, two days after a storm killed at least 235 people in the port city of Karachi, officials said. The meteorological department issued an alert saying a tropical storm forming in the Arabian Sea 150 kilometres south of Karachi was likely to intensify into a cyclone in the next six to 12 hours. Fishermen were advised to stay ashore until Thursday in some areas because of the likelihood of ""extremely"" rough seas. At least 10 fishermen have been missing since the weekend, officials said. Karachi is still reeling from a deadly thunderstorm on Saturday, with parts of the sprawling port city of 12 million people still without electricity or drinking water. The shortages have led to several riots. In China, at least 155 people have died in flooding so far this year mainly in the south, while about 2 million people are suffering from drought in the north, the government said yesterday. Flooding has caused more than $1.3 billion in damages. SPORTS I TENNIS THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007 OPEN COURT WIMBLEDON Retractable roof for Centre Court won't help much STEPHANIE MYLES It only seems as if it rains all the time during Wimbledon. The statistics tell another story. The centerpiece event of tennis averages less than one complete washout every four years (one day in every 50). Of course, that's a rather dodgy number, since a rainout (meaning the very expensive tickets must be refunded by the All England Club) means less than one total hour of tennis in a day. The first year Wimbledon's Centre Court opened in 1922, the opening match was delayed nearly two hours and the tournament itself continued until Wednesday of the third week. The forecast for yesterday's opening day was terrible going in, and indeed the weather was awful around Britain. Yet, somehow, they got a lot of tennis in, even if the start of play was delayed 90 minutes on the two biggest courts and 2½ hours everywhere else. The weather supposedly gets much better as the English summer wears on; even a few weeks would make all the difference. But the tournament will never change the dates; instead, they'll have a retractable roof on Centre Court in 2009. That means fans with tickets there will get their tennis, but it won't do much for the seemingly annual backlog from which the event must recover. Yesterday, of 32 men's matches, seven were suspended because of darkness and 12 weren't started at all. Of the 32 women's matches, 14 never got on court and four were suspended. All of those, plus first-round matches in the bottom half of both draws, are scheduled for today. Here's the forecast from the official Wimbledon site; draw your own conclusions: ""Some areas dry for a time (Monday) evening, but rain soon returning, some heavy and prolonged. The rain gradually clearing eastwards with all areas becoming dry by morning with some cloud breaks developing, but becoming very windy. Isolated showers (today) but most places dry with sunny spells developing, the strong winds slowly easing down."" That narrows it down. It's all being blamed, in that deadpan British way, on an ""incredibly persistent"" ridge of low pressure. First on, first out: Aleksandra Wozniak, the only Canadian woman in the main draw, was scheduled first on Court 15 and, despite the late start, got through her match without a stoppage in play. Unfortunately, for the second time in two weeks, the Blainville native came out on the losing end, 7-6 (4), 6-3, against American journeywoman Laura Granville. Wozniak was up a break in the first set, gave it back when serving to go up 5-3, then had a set point while serving at 5-4, only to be broken as Granville converted her first break opportunity of the game. She fell down early in the first-set tiebreaker, got it back on serve, then gave up two straight points on her own serve to lose the first set. In the second set, serving to stay in the match at 3-5, Wozniak was broken at love. In tennis, love is nothing: Martina Hingis was always considered the ""black widow"" of tennis. Every male player she dated, it seemed, immediately found his career going down the drain - coincidence or not. Remember Magnus Norman and Ivo Heuberger? Didn't think so. But now, since her engagement to veteran Czech pro Radek Stepanek shortly before the New Year, it seems she's turned the tables on herself. Rarely injured in her career, she has struggled with a left-hip injury that's still only 60-per-cent healed, missed the French Open because of it, and barely squeaked through her first-round match at Wimbledon yesterday saving two match points in the second set before rolling through the third against local favourite Naomi Cavaday. Hingis did well at the Australian Open, won a tournament in Tokyo right after that, but is 6-5 since, typically losing in the second round without putting up much of a fight. Nadal's good-luck charm: The first time the very private Rafael Nadal brought his girlfriend to a tournament was at last year's Wimbledon, where he reached the final. Francesca ""Xisca"" Perello, a 19-year-old student also from Mallorca, is there again, hoping history repeats itself once more. No more knicker-picking: Speaking of Nadal, fans of the ""gaucho-pant"" look might be in for a shock today when the No. 2 seed and French Open champion takes the court for his first-round match against American Mardy Fish. At an exhibition last week, Nadal ditched the clamdiggers in favour of more classic white shorts, thus sending Nadal fashion fans all over the world into conniptions. If you thought the young man had twisted steel for arms, wait until you see the quads, heretofore hidden underneath the knee-length pants. The good news is that one of his most annoying habits, that of ""disengaging"" his ubiquitous wedgie before every single point (which has led the British tabloid press to anoint him with the most-unflattering nickname of the Knicker Picker), may be history with the looser shorts. smyles thegazette canwest.com TENNIS Chairs were finally provided for players in 1975 CONTINUED FROM CI In 1946, play resumed at Wimbledon and by 1949, the grounds were fully restored to their prewar state. The U.S. cursed his luck when he was drawn in the same half as Federer, but the big server was in fine form when he took the first steps toward a possible semifinal showdown with the top seed. He fired 16 aces en route to a 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (3) win over compatriot Justin Gimelstob. A decade from her 1997 title triumph, Hingis seemed to have forgotten her status as ninth seed and twice came within a point of losing to a woman who had won only two Tour matches in her career. In the end, Cavaday lacked the energy to pull off the biggest win of her tennis career and bowed out 6-7(1), 7-5, 6-0. Hingis's chances of adding to her tally of five Grand Slam crowns looked rather bleak when she faced two match points. ""It was never on my mind that I'm going to lose,"" said Hingis against the 232nd-ranked Cavaday at 4-5 in the second set. Cheered by a partisan crowd on Court 2, Cavaday's nerves got the better of her when it mattered. She scooped the ball into the net on her first match point and was outclassed by a Hingis winner on the second. Hingis appeared bemused by her great escape, but then showed her ruthless streak, rolling over Cavaday in the decider. Upon turning professional later that year, the LTA voted overwhelmingly to open the championships. In 1968, the first ""Open"" championships were held, with Laver and Billie Jean King the first such champions. The following year saw Laver win the singles for the fourth time and - in one of the greatest matches of all time - Pancho Gonzales and Charlie Pasarell contesting a first-round match containing 112 games. The match was all the more remarkable given that it was not until 1975 that chairs were provided for the first time for players to rest when changing ends. In 1977, the championships celebrated their centenary, with Virginia Wade memorably providing a home triumph. ""It was never on my mind that I'm going to lose,"" said Hingis, who missed the French Open with an injury. ""I know Court 2 is a graveyard of champions, but I've never lost there. I'm still in the draw. It's all that matters."" Justine Henin and former champion Serena Williams overcame dank and distracting conditions to progress. French Open winner and top seed Henin began her bid to complete her set of major trophies with a 6-3, 6-0 humbling of little-known Argentine qualifier Jorgelina Cravero. Williams proved equally unstoppable and shrugged off a hamstring strain to overwhelm Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino 7-5, 6-0. Drizzle delayed the start of Federer's match by almost two hours. Once he stepped on to a chilly and roofless Centre Court, he seemed to be in a rush to slip back into his stylish new cream blazer and trousers. Federer ended 86th-ranked Gabashvili's Wimbledon debut in 93 clinical minutes. As shadows crept over Centre Court, Tim Henman made home fans run through the usual gamut of emotions before fading light forced postponed play with the Briton locked at 5-5 in the fifth set vs. former French Open champ Carlos Moya of Spain. Ladies' singles, the centenary of which was of course not celebrated until 1984. Two years later saw the introduction of tiebreakers at 6-6 in all except the final set of a match. Umpires also were issued stopwatches to ensure players did not exceed time limits when changing ends thanks to their new comfortable seats! An electronic service-line monitor - later known as Cyclops - was introduced in 1980, but did not prevent Bjorn Borg from winning the title for the fifth time in succession. The Swede was the first to do so since William Renshaw in the late 1880s, when there was a challenge round. Records continued to be broken almost every year, both on and off the court. ""Kaizen"" is the philosophy of continual improvement. Let us show you how we do it. 3303 Cote-de-Liesse Saint-Laurent 514-747-7777 www.jabriel lexusca Lexus Gabriel - Winner of the 2005 and 2006 Pursuit of Excellence Award Top 10 moments on grass ALL ENGLAND CLUB. From wild Ivanisevic to skin-tight catsuit SPORTS TICKER London - Wimbledon has given the sports world some unforgettable moments. The following is a list of the top 10 occurrences at the All England Club: 10. White Out: Anne White caused an uproar when she turned out for her first-round match in 1985 in a full-length, skin-tight catsuit. Her match was postponed because of fading light, giving the authorities their chance to ban her attire for the following day's conclusion. 9. Giant Upset: The opening day of the Championships in 2003 delivered a huge upset when defending champion Lleyton Hewitt was hammered by 6-foot-10 Croatian Ivo Karlovic. ""There wasn't a whole heap I could do,"" Hewitt said. 8. Bare Facts: The 1996 final between Richard Krajicek and MaliVai Washington was delayed when a female streaker raced across Centre Court during the pre-match photographs. ""She put a smile on my face and broke the tension,"" said Krajicek, who went on to win. 7. Henman's Heave-ho: Tim Henman was hardly living up to his clean-cut image in 1995 when he was booted out of the men's doubles competition for inadvertently battering a ball at a ball girl's head during a moment of frustration in his match alongside Jeremy Bates. 6. Gorgeous Gussie: ""Gorgeous"" Gussie Moran caused scandal at the 1949 tournament when she stretched the dress code to the limit by sporting clearly visible frilly knickers beneath her skirt. Organizers might have been in uproar, but Moran made the front page of newspapers and magazines across the world. 5. Magic Martina: At the age of 46, Martina Navratilova broke an eight-year title drought and drew level with Billie-Jean King by winning her 20th Wimbledon title when she teamed with Leander Paes to claim the mixed doubles crown in 2003. 4. Cliff's Chorus: As if a lengthy rain delay wasn't bad enough, spectators braving the elements on Centre Court in 1996 were subjected to an impromptu sing-along by Royal Box guest Cliff Richard, backed by an implausible choir of female tennis stars including Conchita Martinez and Pam Shriver. 3. The Tiebreaker: The fourth set tiebreaker of the 1980 final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe ranged over 34 points and 22 minutes and is regarded as one of the finest passages of play in the sport's history. McEnroe took the set, but Borg went on to clinch the match. 2. Tarango's Tantrum: American Jeff Tarango blew his top after a series of disputed line calls in his 1995 match against Alexander Mronz, storming off court and defaulting before his wife, Benedicte, marched up to umpire Bruno Rebeuh and slapped him in the face. Tarango was barred the following year. 1. Goran Wins: Hampered by a chronic shoulder injury, three-time runner-up Goran Ivanisevic arrived at the 2001 tournament with few expectations. After an unforgettable ""People's Monday"" final against Pat Rafter, he became the first wild card to win the title. 5770 Taschereau Blvd Brassard 450-923-7777 www.prestige lexusca I fit it IIIJJJU Ill IIIIIIMI J II 1 J!- j ! r- ! ' ) I -V C ""A MUSICAL DESTINATION Montreal loves Marillion singer Steve Hogarth, so he's headed our way for a special solo gig next week. Hear him sing songs by Marillion and Leonard Cohen and read a complete transcript of The Gazette's interview. TECHNOCITE YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US Technology reporter Roberto Rocha examines the state of customer support in Canada's banking, telecommunications and wireless industries in his new series: To learn how your stories will shape his reporting, visit his blog, TechnoCite. UNDER THE HIGHWAY: Rust, rubble and lots of trouble. In our online video special, McGill engineering professor Saeed Mirza takes The Gazette to Montreal overpasses in need of repair and explains why the city needs to act fast to prevent further deterioration. ALOUETTES THE SNAP No one knows the Alouettes like Herb Zurkowsky. A Gazette sportswriter for more than 25 years, Herb is known for his football and boxing coverage. Read his new blog, The Snap, where he'll give you the latest scoop on Montreal's CFL team, on and off the field. CAST YOUR VOTE: Do you agree with the Anglican Church of Canada's decision not to allow priests to bless same-sex marriages? You can cast your vote in our daily poll all day long by logging onto montrealgazette.com. Your answers will appear in tomorrow's Gazette and on Global TV's evening newscast. Yesterday's question was: Are you satisfied with the fact the Canadiens selected only one Quebec-born player in the 2007 NHL draft? Yes: 78 of votes No: 22 LOTTERIES TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007 Quotidienne-3 $-5-8 (in order) Quotidienne-4 5-8-6-9 (in order) Banco 1-2-4-5-10-14-16-18-19-22-23-34-36-45-53-55-57-60-66-69 Extra 5-8-2-8-5-1-4 (in order) In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list of Loto-Quebec, the latter shall prevail. Please recycle this newspaper. ""Everything's flying in there, frying pans. When you're spinning inside, you're wondering when and how it will end,"" Ron Muskx, on a Manitoba tornado. Weather-beaten Manitoba warned: It's not over yet. RESIDENTS COUNT THEIR BLESSINGS About 80 tornadoes hit Canada every year, causing an average of two deaths. LARISSA LIEPINS CANWEST NEWS SERVICE WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Winnipeg - As residents in Manitoba counted their blessings and tallied the damage yesterday after a spate of weekend tornadoes, Environment Canada warned more severe weather was headed their way. Large hail, high winds and a ""torrential rainfall"" of at least 50 millimetres or more was forecast overnight to pound the southern part of the province, where hundreds were still without power. Torrential downpours throughout the province have already resulted in several high water-level advisories, including the Red River in Winnipeg. Environment Canada said it received five reports of tornadoes touching the ground on the weekend. The twisters left a swath of heavily damaged cottages and downed power lines across the southern part of the province. Ron Mustek and three friends were on a weekend camping trip at a trailer park in southwest Manitoba when the tornado hit Saturday night. ""It hit without any warning,"" said Musick, who was inside his camper with a friend when he felt the winds. ""We started feeling the trailer flipping over. We hit the floor and tumbled for about 30 seconds. It was unbelievable. It rolled two complete revolutions, about 25 to 30 feet. Everything's flying in there, frying pans. When you're spinning inside, you're wondering when and how it will end."" Each man sustained cuts that required stitches at the hospital, and Musick said his trailer is a ""total write-off,"" but he's hoping his insurance covers it. While they were inside, Mustek's friends Scott and Brian Baldwin were outside, trying to get their canopy down. ""Something hit me from behind, I have no idea what,"" Brian Baldwin said. ""I slammed into something, it was probably the ground. Then, when I looked up, I was about five feet away from a tree, so I crawled over and grabbed it. It was so fast, so quick, you had no time to even think. We're just lucky to be alive."" Manitoba Hydro crews were still working to restore power to hundreds of homeowners and businesses. As many as 600 cottages in Whiteshell Provincial Park remained without power after a tornado touched down in the area. It could be ""still a couple of days"" before it's restored to the eastern area about 140 kilometres east of Winnipeg, said Manitoba Hydro spokesperson Glenn Schneider. It could take the utility company until the weekend to replace 200 hydro poles destroyed across the province. In the province's southwest about 11,000 homeowners and businesses went without power for varying lengths of time, Schneider said. About 200 rural homeowners in southwest Manitoba were without power yesterday. Costs not covered by private insurance might be picked up by the province's disaster financial assistance program, although it does not cover damage to vacation homes such as cottages that aren't principal residences. In Canada, about 80 tornadoes occur every year, causing an average of two deaths and 20 injuries, plus tens of millions of dollars in property damage, says Environment Canada. These are the reported numbers, but many more tornadoes strike unpopulated areas and go undetected. The odds of dying from a tornado are 12 million to one, but more than half of tornado deaths occur inside mobile homes. The coming downpour wasn't likely to help the situation. Early yesterday the Red River was at 4.5 metres in downtown Winnipeg, more than 2.5 metres above normal summer levels. Flooding is expected in some low-lying areas between Letellier and St. Jean, Man. Like it really hot? Here it comes. Today's forecast could break record. An oppressively hot weather system will be hovering over southwestern Quebec today and tomorrow. Environment Canada issued a high heat and humidity warning for Montreal and Laval yesterday that extends through tomorrow. The agency is forecasting a high of 34 Celsius today, which would break the record of 33.4C set in 2003. The Weather Network forecast a high of 32. A 30-per-cent to 40-per-cent chance of rain tomorrow could cut the humidity. The heavy, humid air could cause problems for anyone suffering from chronic illness, such as heart and respiratory ailments. Heatstroke, cramps and exhaustion are also possibilities for anyone who spends a great deal of time outdoors in this type of weather. Environment Canada suggests drinking lots of water, staying where it is air conditioned and avoiding physical activity outside. 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Send it to: [email protected] Previous columns can be read online at: www.canada.com/topics/technology/columnists/stachiew.html TODAY'S FORECAST The Weather Network Make the right call Montreal area Today's high 32 Tonight's low 22 Mainly sunny with cloudy periods Winds westerly 15km/h becoming southwesterly 20km/h Humidex 35 Tonight, clear Forecast issued at 5 p.m. yesterday covers highs for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow Quebec T-showers StJovite Showers 31/21 Trois Rivieres T-showers 30/20 Sherbrooke Montreal Partly cloudy 32/22 Partly cloudy Ottawa Sunny 32/22 The Weather NORTH AMERICAN WEATHER SYSTEMS Edmonton 10 is v Toronto 1 New York Chicago (7 H Rain Warm Front Occlusion Cold Front High pressure Storms Low pressure Trough TEMPERATURE CONVERSION At 30 7 35 1 Los Angeles -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 C I I I I I I I I I I I I -13 -4 5 14 23 32 41 50 59 68 77 86 95 F UV INDEX Low Moderate High 17 minutes to sunburn Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius ALMANAC Today's Records 2003 1970 Temperature Yesterday Year ago today Normal this date Max Min Precipitation 33.4 (to 2 p.m. yesterday 7.2 measured in mm) Yesterday 16 179 Month to date 41.8 20.0 Month normal 83 14.6 Today's normal 28.5 26 25.5 Josh Freed starts your weekends with a smile, Saturdays in The Gazette CLARICA Sunny days are here Clarica advisors are now known as Sun Life Financial advisors Sun Life Financial advisors represent Sun Life Financial Distributors (Canada) Inc, financial services firm (for insurance of persons, group insurance of persons and financial planning), and Sun Life Financial Investment Services (Canada) Inc, firm in group-savings-plan brokerage (for mutual funds) Both companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, one of the Sun Life Financial group of companies EXTENDED WEATHER: Tomorrow 40 chance of thundershowers High 30 Low 15 Thursday Variable High Low 25 12 Friday Mainly sunny High 22 Low 12 Saturday City 26/9 Partly cloudy High 22 Low 11 Sun & moon Swirls 5:07 a.m. Sunset 8:47 p.m. Moonrise 5:33 p.m. Moonset 1:50 a.m. Total daylight 15hrs 40 min June 30 July 7 July 14 July 22 Full New Canada today Max Min Iqaluit Sunny 10 3 Yellowknife Cloudy 24 14 Whitehorse Cloudy 18 7 Vancouver Sunny 20 13 Victoria Sunny 20 13 Edmonton Showers 20 9 Calgary Sunny 19 8 Saskatoon Cloudy 12 3 Regina Cloudy 15 5 Winnipeg Sunny 21 10 Thunder Bay T Showers 26 12 Sudbury Sunny 31 17 Toronto Sunny 33 22 Fredericton Sunny 27 18 Halifax Cloudy 24 16 Charlottetown Sunny 25 16 St. John's Rain 22 8 United States today Max Min Atlanta Cloudy 32 20 Boston Cloudy 32 22 Chicago Cloudy 30 22 Dallas Thunderstorms 26 22 Denver Showers 25 14 Las Vegas Sunny 40 23 Los Angeles Cloudy 26 15 New Orleans Thunderstorms 30 23 New York Cloudy 31 23 Phoenix Sunny 43 28 St. Louis Thunderstorms 30 21 San Francisco Sunny 18 12 Washington Showers 32 23 (Halifax) Atk 'A terms shown VL Snow Rain 0 Extreme Cooling Degree Have to 5 n m Yesterday 5.2 May 1 to date 88 A Clarica has become Sun Life Financial A bright and optimistic forecast if ever there was one For in bringing two Canadian success stories together under one brand, we have created something of significance for the people we care most about You, our valued customer Care to learn more? Please contact your advisor, or visit www.sunlife.ca Sun Life Financial The Weather Network Regional synopses Abitibi-Temiscamingue High 27 Low near 15 T-showers Laurentians High 31 Low near 21 Showers Eastern Ontario High 32 Low near 22 Sunny Southern Ontario High 33 Low near 22 Mainly sunny Quebec City High 26 Low near 19 T-showers Eastern Townships High 31 Low near 21 Partly cloudy Northern New England High 34 Low near 20 Sunny Gaspe High 22 Low near 13 Sunny World today Max Min Amsterdam Rain 18 13 Ankara Sunny 31 13 Athens Cloudy 41 27 Beijing Sunny 36 31 Berlin Rain 17 14 Dublin Cloudy 13 8 Hong Kong Showe
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But Joe Deer, his wife, Josie Deer, and other elders of Kahnawake figure that the storm has provided a set of opportunities that might come once or twice a generation. "It's getting the people back together and it reminds people of their relationship with other people," Joe Deer told visitors to his Kahnawake home yesterday. An estimated 60 to 70 percent of Kahnawake's homes and businesses were without power yesterday afternoon. Evidence of the enduring storm was inescapable in the region. 200 COTS READY In Chateauguay, ice-laden trees partially blocked some riverside roads while Longueuil officials warned motorists, especially truck drivers, to avoid secondary roads and low-hanging, ice-laden power lines. Kahnawake's emergency shelter provided about 300 suppers last night and 200 cots were at the ready to serve as beds. "We are prepared," community-services committee member Rheena Diabo said. And word of the shelter had been spread. About 15,000 notices had been distributed, advising people of the shelter set up at the Knights of Columbus hall.
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Catherine St, accused the city administration yesterday of breaking a promise to regulate such signs The issue arose at council when Valerie Shoffey used the question period to ask what was being done about large, offensive signs outside strip clubs City executive committee member Lea Cousineau answered that the city will suggest ways in the fall to limit sexually explicit signs But Shoffey said the administration has been promising action for three years Councillor Nick Auf der Maur, whose downtown Peter McGill district includes many of the places Shoffey mentioned, said he agrees a bylaw is needed And I don't see why it should be so difficult Sex case hearing set for November A preliminary hearing of sexual assault charges against Michel Chretien, son of former Liberal cabinet minister Jean Chretien, has been set for Nov. 15 Chretien, 21, faces three charges sexual assault, sodomy and illegally confining a 27-year-old woman in his Simpson St.
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ONTARIO DESPATCHES, early Killed while Coasting Floods at Belleville, Belleville, January 23, The water in the river is rising rapidly, and not only extending the area of the flooded district but causing great inconvenience to merchants, many of the cellars on Front and Bridge streets having been flooded to such an extent as to put out the fires in the furnaces. The city buildings suffer the same inconvenience. Hamilton, January 23, Norman Counsell, the 12-year-old son of C.M. Counsell, banker, was coasting down the mountain today, when, in passing a team, one of the horses kicked out and struck the lad, fracturing his skull. The boy is not likely to recover. An agitation is being started to do away with coasting in the city limits. D. Sylvester, who left Halifax, N.H., early last week, having a number of unpaid bills, had received and accepted a call to the trusteeship of St. Luke's Church in this city. He had begun work here when his credentials were withdrawn by the Bishop of Halifax. Bishop Paret prohibited him from further work in this diocese and he will take the next steamer for England. He admits leaving a number of unpaid bills in Halifax, but says his salary was small and his expenses heavy on account of sickness. Fire in New York, New York, January 21, The firehouse of the West Shore Railroad Company and of the Weehawken Ferry Company at the foot of West 2nd Street was destroyed by fire this morning. Though the two-story building was entirely covered with corrugated iron, it was entirely consumed. The fire originated in the boiler room. The smoke was notably dense, and almost as soon as the fire was discovered the employees in the building were forced by the smoke to flee, leaving clothing, tickets, money, and everything else behind. The ferryboat Oswego was in the slip at the time but she steamed away before the flames reached her. Had she remained she might have furnished a vantage ground for the firemen, for the fire started on the riverside, and a stiff breeze from the west forced men away from the building on the land side, by sweeping the smoke and flames to the street. Hook and ladder companies stormed the building, but were driven back. Two lines of hose were lost and James H. McGowan, one of the hook and ladder men, suffered a broken leg. The weather was intensely cold, and the men and engines soon became coated with ice. The building, despite the fire inside, became sheathed with ice and when the interior fell there was a remarkable spectacle, as though a conflagration was going on inside an iceberg. A tank of naphtha at the works of the Manhattan Oil Company adjoining was also destroyed. The total loss is placed at $75,000. An adjoining slip is being used by the ferry boats. Seven Insane Brothers, St. Louis, Mo., January 21, Seven brothers, all raving maniacs, en route for the Jacksonville, Ill., asylum, passed through this city yesterday. The commissioner in charge of the lunatics states that prior to the war a wealthy farmer, by the name of Anson Arnold, settled in Hickory County, Md., with a large family. The acquirement of money seemed to be their highest aim in life, and the whole family of seven sons and five daughters deprived themselves of the necessities of life in order to gain it. About three years ago a stranger visited their home, and after convincing them that they could in a short time largely increase their wealth, imbued them to invest their all in what proved to be a mythical silver mine in Nevada. After months of anxiety they learned that they had been imposed upon, and all seven of the brothers, upon receipt of the news, immediately became afflicted with a violent form of insanity, which is the cause of their present trip to Jacksonville. The Florida Crops Damaged, Jacksonville, Fla., January 23, The Times-Union says from reports received, authenticated by a personal investigation, it appears that the actual money value to the growers of oranges rendered unmarketable by reason of being frozen on the trees is about $1,100,000. Young nursery stock in the northern part of the state is badly damaged. Bearing orange and lemon trees nearly down to the line of the South Florida Railway are injured to the extent of losing a large part of the fall growth on which the bloom comes, so that the crop of 1846 will be largely reduced. Pineapples in the same region, with guavas and other tender tropical fruits, are killed to the roots and will require a year to recuperate. Early vegetables have been badly damaged, but can be replaced. The whole spot money damage to the fruit and farm interests of the state will not be less than $2,000,000. The Colliery Catastrophe, Newburg, W. Va., January 23, It is now stated that there are thirty-nine men imprisoned in the mine in which the explosion of firedamp occurred yesterday. The bodies of Daniel Miller, Isaiah Timmons, acting pit boss, and his son were taken out of the shaft this morning. Their faces were badly blackened. Newburg, W. Va., January 24 Since yesterday the bodies of eleven more victims of the mine disaster have been recovered, making fourteen in all. They have been identified. A Fatal Boiler Explosion, Madison, Wis., January 23, The boiler of a locomotive in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul depot exploded last night, wrecking the roundhouse. He leaves a large family. Two others were injured, two seriously. No reason can be assigned for the explosion. The roundhouse and several engines were damaged more or less. Heavy Floods Predicted, Bismarck, Dak., January 23, Hunters who have been in the Rocky Mountains several weeks report in many valleys snow over twenty-five feet deep. Trappers and hunters who have been in the mountains for years state they never saw as much snow before. They predict heavy floods in the spring and an immense rise in the Missouri River. Fatal Fire in a Workhouse, Jackson, Mich., January 24, The county poor house was almost entirely destroyed by fire at one o'clock this morning. There were forty inmates and all escaped but five, who perished in the flames. The Apaches Driven Out, Albuquerque, FLOODS IN CALIFORNIA, A Great Storm Does Much Damage to Life and Property, Los Angeles, Cal., January 23 The rains of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, supplemented by a cloudburst in the San Fernando Valley on the last named day, caused the Los Angeles River, almost without warning, to become a raging torrent and soon flooded the southern central part of the town. The water also covered 2,000 acres of orchards and vineyards, and rose two feet higher than the flood of February 1884. Over fifty houses were washed away or completely wrecked. Every bridge across the Los Angeles River was swept away, also several hundred feet of the track of the Southern Pacific and local roads. For three days the city was cut off from telegraphic and railroad communication with the rest of the world. Mrs. Kate Lyttle and Theresa Whitney were drowned while being taken from partially wrecked houses. It is thought a number of other lives were lost. A large quantity of livestock perished. Later telegraphic dispatches say that a woman and two children were drowned. The first train from the east arrived on Thursday night, via Denney. It will take a week longer to get trains north. The damage to the Southern Pacific Railroad is $150,000. There is no connection yet with San Francisco, where a heavy storm is raging. All the telegraphic wires between San Francisco and San Jose are down. The destruction of the wires is much worse than in the flood of 1884. The persons drowned were Theresa Whitney, aged 6; Mrs. Kate Lyttle, aged 33; and a Mexican named Refugio. Mrs. Lyttle had left the house, but went back after her jewelry. A floating house struck her, and she was drowned. An old rag picker named John Blank, living near the river, died of fright when the flood came down. Several hundred families had to leave home, but have mostly moved back. The damage has been done to the surrounding country. MARINE INTELLIGENCE, A NIKAMMIIIR HtVI, THE BRIGADE SHORT OF HOSE, Is it the case that for some days after the fire most of the reels had only about 200 or 300 feet of hose instead of 500 feet, the remainder being frozen up? I don't see how that could be as we have more than a double supply of hose, but at that time there were two or three fires every day, and the hose had to be properly thawed out before it could be used. In the new station we are to have a tower heated by steam pipes, and we will be able to thaw out and dry hose almost immediately. Do you think a water tower would have prevented the St. Dizier Street fire from spreading? Not at all, the water towers have been condemned by good authorities as utterly useless, for, although they may flood a room, they can only throw the water in a straight line, and cannot wash the ceiling as the men can do with the hose. If they had had No. 12 engine they could have got four good streams from it which would have been much better than a water tower. The streams the men had could not reach the flames as too many streams were taken from the one main. But the firemen are not altogether to blame in that affair. The fire took in an ugly spot and buildings are so high in some places that an 85-foot ladder, the longest made, cannot reach to the top. There ought to be iron fire escapes outside all high buildings with landings on each flat, the same as at the Gazette office. Then there should be water pipes running alongside the escape up to the roof with couplings on each flat. This system has been found very successful in Chicago. But the insurance men should not grumble whenever they have to pay out anything. They must expect to meet a few losses. They want to have everything their own way, and if they don't get it they say, We will put you down in class B, which would add considerably to their revenue. They have invited me to attend their meeting tomorrow, when I will give them every information in my power. They will send a petition to council in the afternoon asking (From the Tribune), We have very lately had a clear exemplification of the truth of an old saying, One must go from home to learn news. To our friends in the older provinces, we must long ere this have become a source of much uneasiness if not positive alarm. The eastern papers have for some time past been teeming with articles all more or less calculated to create the impression that the Blackfoot nation is on the verge of rebellion, if indeed the law has not already been set at defiance. All this cannot but be received by us as something more than news. In many quarters it has created much amusement. We too should crack our little joke, lunch and pass on to other matters which at first sight would appear to have more legitimate claim for consideration. But we cannot forget that the subject has been discussed in downright sober earnest; and as it affects us much more than the older provinces, we feel bound to give it full and public ventilation. In doing this, we presume and not, we think, without reason that our views would carry more weight and be accepted as more authentic than those expressed by the eastern press (not excluding Winnipeg, which have accepted the statements of unreliable correspondents). Our readers will be surprised that a reverend and possibly well-meaning gentleman residing at Winnipeg has asserted that the Blood and Peigan Indians can at a moment's notice put 20,000 warriors into the field. If this were the case what enormous proportions the Government returns would have assumed, and how mercilessly the Canadian ratepayer would have been taxed for the payment for Indian supplies. The residents of this southern country might well tremble in their shoes in momentary fear of total annihilation. There is no space for jocularity on this point and we would express, with all earnestness, our pity for our uninformed eastern contemporaries. A newspaper which, merely for the sake of making political capital, prophecies an Indian outbreak, is criminally culpable and so too is a correspondent, who to gain notoriety makes false statements of a sensational nature. Mr. Thomas R. Clipsham, formerly a teacher under Rev.
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Binnie has extensive constitutional experience. Besides arguing numerous cases involving the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he recently represented Newfoundland in its bid for constitutional reforms to its religious-based education system and was counsel to a Senate-Commons committee on the Meech Lake accord in the late 1980s. Chief Justice Antonio Lamer said Binnie will be sworn in Feb. 2 and will spend the following few weeks preparing for the hearings on Quebec's right to secede unilaterally, which will proceed as scheduled on Feb. 16. He said Binnie's appointment from private practice will help keep the court in touch with the society it serves. Chretien defended the appointment even though there are only two women on the top court - Claire L'Heureux-Dubé and Beverley McLachlin. He said Justice Minister Anne McLellan recommended a lawyer from private practice to replace Sopinka. "It's not a question of numbers. We do not select based on sex and language and religion and color. We try to have the best person available," said Chretien, who as justice minister appointed Bertha Wilson as the first woman on the top court.
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Gay Line, for English-speaking callers, is at 866-5090. Gai Écoute, for French-speaking callers, is at 521-1508. Bouchard accepts Canadian Forces aid BLACKOUT Continued from Page A1 Environment Canada is forecasting another 10 millimeters of freezing rain for Montreal today, but they expect it to end in the late afternoon. Tomorrow and Sunday, it will be cloudy with a few sunny breaks and a 30- to 40-percent chance of flurries. Monday's forecast calls for up to 5 centimeters of snow and Tuesday is expected to be cloudy with a chance of flurries. Municipal authorit
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But the centre goes beyond touchy-feely self-actualization sessions, Lacolle's director says. PAGE G7 SHOT CTT 1 GAZETTE, MARIE-FRANCE COALLIER Stan Rogers displays some of his Scout badges. Badges of honor: MONTREAL WEST - Stan Rogers can't remember the name of the woman who crept into his tent and kindled his grand passion for collecting scouting badges. It happened 30 years ago at a Wolf Cub camp, where Rogers, a cub leader, was staying with his pack. He came back to his tent to find his epaulet badge missing, and a different one pinned in its place. Later, the cub leader who swiped the badge explained she wanted it for her collection. Since then, Rogers, 52, has collected more than 3,000 scouting badges. He specializes in district badges from across Canada. "It's much like collecting postage stamps," he said, "it's a challenge." 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.
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MO - is JT: &S7 I -s GAZETTE PHOTOS, GORDON BECK Police diver drops through Lake of Two Mountains ice, as search for missing 29-year-old man continues Snowmobile discovered under ice near Oka ALYCIA AMBROZIAK THE GAZETTE Police divers plan to resume their search today for a 29-year-old Oka man believed to have died when his snowmobile fell through the ice into the Lake of Two Mountains. Divers yesterday found a snowmobile they think was driven by Terry Tewisha, who was last seen in Hudson at about 11 p.m. Saturday. A leader of Kanesatake's Mohawk community said the snowmobile accident will hit his community hard, as it comes a week after a resident died when a van plunged through the ice. Police, however, were unable to confirm yesterday that the snowmobile was Tewisha's. Seret du Quebec spokesman Gerard Carrier said visibility under the water ranged from zero to six inches, making it difficult for divers to verify the license-plate number on the sunken snowmobile.
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Telephone: (514) 496-3388 SERVICE Tender Call No. 3921-030-1 Interior cleaning and ground maintenance Government of Canada Building 2020 Girouard Street St. Hyacinthe, Quebec Tender documents may be seen at the following post offices: Acton Vale, Granby, St. Hyacinthe and St. Liboire, Quebec. Closing date: October 22, 1992 Deposit: Nil General Info: (514) 496-3409 Technical Info: (514) 496-3602 INSTRUCTIONS Payment for the tender documents must be in cash or by cheque made to the order of the Receiver General for Canada. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. CALLS FOR TENDERS for 2:00 p.m.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2000 NATION At least five dead in Alberta tornado Canadian Press PINE LAKE, Alta - At least five people were killed and 38 more were injured last night when a tornado touched down at a central Alberta campground. ""I can confirm at this time five fatalities,"" said Jim Squire, public information officer for Red Deer County, adding that the numbers ""are obviously not final yet."" Alberta Premier Ralph Klein was en route to the scene, joining fire, ambulance and emergency crews that flooded in from as far away as Calgary. ""We have all of the fire services in the area headed out there,"" Squire said. ""There are also police and EMTs (emergency medical technicians)."" Andrew Schultz, a weatherman for a Red Deer TV station, described the devastation. ""There were hundreds of people walking around with scrapes, bruises - people being carried out on stretchers,"" Schultz told CBC-TV. ""The fatalities are countless at this time. It looks like something of a rescue camp right now."" Several hundred trailers have been flipped upside down. ""The injured were being transported to Red Deer, 60 kilometres to the northwest."" Fire chief Gordon Stewart said the city had sent two buses full of medical supplies. ""The area that was hit was a summer camping trailer park,"" he said. ""These are small RVs and there was a lot of damage to them."" Chaos erupted as soon as the tornado hit about 7 p.m. at the Green Acres campground on the southwest corner of Pine Lake. After hitting Green Acres, the tornado apparently moved diagonally across the lake and finished up in a forested area on the far side. Injured people were seen wandering at the side of the road, while others ran around frantically looking for friends and relatives. ""I have heard that the (Green Acres) owner's house is in shreds and that there are trailers strewn all over the place, up in trees,"" said Carole Sawyer, customer service manager at the nearby Leisure campground. ""We got the hail and the rain and some wind, but we didn't get anything like what they got."" Pat Yates was visiting her mother-in-law's cabin on the opposite side of the lake from Green Acres when the tornado touched down. ""Power lines were knocked down,"" she said. ""I wasn't sure what it was, but a lot of ambulances were coming, cars were lining up in the ditches. It didn't look real bad until we kept going."" ""When you looked in the lake there was a lot of floating debris, like wood - and it looked like parts of trailers."" ""It was crazy - the wind was just incredible,"" said Doreen Jorgensen, operator of Scotty's campground near the Green Acres site. ""It was just white. I don't know if it was sheets of rain or hail or what it was, but it was just wild, the wind."" Jorgensen said the intense storm lasted about 20 minutes, but did not do serious damage at her campground. Witness Lee Urquhart said RCMP were not allowing people anywhere closer than four kilometres from the site. ""There's three city buses (at the campground) to try and transport some of the people who are less seriously injured into the Red Deer Regional Hospital,"" he said. ""There's uprooted trees, there's these great big 1,500-pound hay bales that look like they've been tossed around like matchsticks."" Sawyer said ""everyone within a 30-mile radius"" has flooded the area in an attempt to help. ""Farmers have their tractors and are doing what they can,"" she said. ""Everybody just pulled together and went down to do what they could."" Rescue divers and police dogs from Calgary were called in to search for missing people, and a phalanx of tow trucks and ambulances descended on the area. Emergency officials from as far away as Calgary, as well as all those available in nearby communities, were called in to extricate people who were trapped in overturned vehicles and campers. Blair Morrow of Environment Canada said the weather system that spawned the tornado could be seen from Calgary, 150 kilometres away. ""Right now, we have two things,"" he said. ""There is an upper low, and Red Deer has been moist and humid for the past couple of days, enough to give us a kicker for some convective action. That's like your boiling pot. This upper low, that is what kicked it, then blew the lid off."" Morrow said a tornado warning had been issued for the area around the same time the funnel cloud touched down. A 1987 tornado in Edmonton killed 27 people and injured 300. BRIEFS Cabin a Trudeau memorial Fund would erect alpine hut where ex-PM's son died NELSON, B.C. vs Samoa At Markham, Ont Canada vs Japan RUGBY CANADA SUPER LEAGUE Today's Games E Ontario at The Rock Nova Scotia at Toronto Manitoba at Edmonton Valley Venom at Crimson Tide BASEBALL AROUND THE LEAGUES EASTERN LEAGUE (AA) Yesterday's Games New Britain 5, Harrisburg 1 Portland 8, Erie 6 New Haven 7, Bowie 3 Altoona 2, Norwich 0 Reading 3, Trenton 0 Binghamton at Akron, ppd, rain Thursday, July 13 Harrisburg 8, New Britain 4 Portland 4, Erie 1 New Haven 2, Bowie 0 Altoona 6, Norwich 5 (19) Reading 3, Trenton 1 (16) Binghamton 2, Akron 1 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Yesterday's Games Calgary at Tacoma Iowa at Albuquerque Las Vegas at Tucson Memphis at Colorado Springs Oklahoma at Nashville Omaha at New Orleans Salt Lake at Edmonton Fresno at Sacramento MAJOR-LEAGUE As provided by the American and National League, with position and effective date. Players are on the 15-day disabled list unless noted. (Through July 13) American League Anaheim: Michael Colangelo, 60-day, of, March 20; Jeffrey DaVanon, 60-day, of, March 20; Gary DiSarcina, 60-day, ss, May 9; Kent Mercker, lhp, May 14; Jason Dickson, rhp, May 15; Scott Schoeneweis, lhp, June 17; Tim Belcher, rhp, July 3. Baltimore: Brian Falkenberg, 60-day, rhp, March 22; Eugene Kingsale, 60-day, of, March 26; Rich Amaral, of, June 15; Calvin Madura, rhp, June 22; Cal Ripken, 3b, June 28. Boston: Tom Gordon, 60-day, rhp, April 2; Juan Pena, 60-day, rhp, March 29; Bret Saberhagen, 60-day, rhp, March 18; John Valentin, 60-day, 3b, May 31; Trot Nixon, of, June 24; Michael Coleman, 60-day, of, June 27; Darren Lewis, of, July 1; Mike Stanley, dh, July 5; Rod Beck, rhp, June 29. Chicago: Brian Simmons, of, March 31. Cleveland: Jacob Cruz, 60-day, of, April 30; David Riske, 60-day, dip, April 26; Charles Nagy, rhp, May 17; Ricardo Rincon, 60-day, lhp, May 17; Jaret Wright, 60-day, rhp, June 3; Tom Martin, lhp, June 13. Detroit: Seth Greisinger, 60-day, rhp, March 13; Gregg Jefferies, inf, May 30; Robert Fick, c, July 6. Kansas City: Orber Moreno, rhp, March 24; Jose Rosado, lhp, May 1; Carlos Febles, 2b, June 5; Christopher Fussell, rhp, June 8; Carlos Beltran, of, July 4. Minnesota: None. New York: Luis De Los Santos, 60-day, rhp, March 25; D'Angelo Jimenez, 60-day, ss, March 23; Roberto Kelly, 60-day, of, April 19; Nick Johnson, 60-day, inf, March 25; Ramiro Mendoza, rhp, June 25; Allen Watson, lhp, June 29; Shane Spencer, 60-day, of, July 10. Oakland: Omar Olivares, rhp, June 17. Seattle: Dan Wilson, c, June 15; Tom Lampkin, 60-day, c, June 26; Francisco Rodriguez, rhp, July 1. Tampa Bay: Wilson Alvarez, 60-day, lhp, March 25; Tony Saunders, 60-day, lhp, Feb 18; Damian Rolls, 60-day, 3b, March 25; Juan Guzman, 60-day, rhp, April 8; Dave Eiland, rhp, May 24; Jose Canseco, of, May 25; Bobby Smith, ss, July 6. Texas: Justin Thompson, 60-day, rhp, March 25; Mike Simms, 60-day, of, April 19; Mike Munoz, lhp, April 27; Tom Evans, inf, May 11; Danny Kolb, 60-day, rhp, May 27; Ruben Mateo, of, June 3; Darren Oliver, lhp, June 17; Ryan Glynn, rhp, July 2. Toronto: Joey Hamilton, 60-day, dip, March 21; Dewayne Wise, 60-day, of, June 6. TENNIS AROUND THE COURTS $600,000 UBS OPEN At Gstaad, Switzerland yesterday Doubles SECOND ROUND Jerome Golmard, Fra, and Michael Kohlmann, Ger, def Adam Peterson, U.S. Garage Sales 685 Computers ANSWERS TO PC PROBLEMS While taking my Masters in Computer Engineering, I'll solve your configuration problems, crashes, install software; and supply set up a personalized system, 24/7 in your home. G Delonffi 514-489-0941 PENTIUM board $39 333 MMX $79 Laptop $225 84 gig $169 VGA $19. Complete Pentium $249. Laser $99. 691 Garage Sales BAIE D'URFE July 15 & 16, from 8-4 pm 20770 Lakeshore, Gibbard mahogany bed, head & foot board, fridge, washer dryer, Hauser patio furniture, Panasonic computerized typewriter, tools and more, 514-457-3173 BEACONSFIELD 209 Antoine Vigeray (off James Shaw), Saturday, July 15, 9-3 pm, Toys, games, furniture, clothing, and other crazy stuff! C U THERE! Rain or shine. BEACONSFIELD Moving Sale, Entire contents of house for sale, Antiques, living room, dining room, office furniture, etc. 98 Celtic, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 9 to 4. BEACONSFIELD 87 Midland, Garage estate sale, Everything must go, Entire contents of senior's home to be sold between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. CARTIERVILLE 7830 Albert Lesage, moving sale, household goods, glassware, books, toys, gym equipment, patio furniture & much more, Rain or shine Sat & Sunday, 9 to 5 pm 514-335-6397 CARTIERVILLE 7790 Henry Dufresne Ave, North of Tuppin, Sat & Sun, July 15, 9 to 4, Patio screens, furniture, lamps, misc. BIG SALE! Ping pong table, bicycles, camping equipment, electrical items, clothes, books, etc. Saturday, July 15th 9-4 pm 2986 Avenue des Saisons, CHOMEDEV 1416 Eraser, corner Atlantic, bargains, housewares, toys, jewelry, Sunday only, 10 to 5 pm. 691 Garage Sales SENNEVILLE 19 Philips St, Sat Sun, 9-4 pm immense; Antiques, tools, wood stoves, furniture, small tractor with snow blower & trailer, old single iron bed, cast iron tub/sink, bric-a-brac, Rain or shine All must go. SNOWDON Sat Sun, Rain or shine, 10-2 pm, 4470 Circle, knick-knacks, fur coats, furniture, rugs, antiques, No early birds. 87 Viking Place, Saturday & Sunday, July 15-16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Multi-family garage moving sale Great bargains! GREENFIELD PARK 906 Watson (cross street Money) Friday and Saturday run 9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Great buys! Rain or shine! HAMPSTEAD 33 Cleve Road, Sunday, July 16, 9 am-2 pm, Toys, clothes, electronics, and more, No early birds, please. HUNTINGTON 1843 River Road, country Pack-Hat turns Arctic nomad Antiques, collectibles, Gramophone, war ration books, large freezer, etc., Saturday, 15th, 9 am-4 pm, Rain or shine. KIRKLAND Moving Sale! Lacey Green, 11 Ennmore St, Sat, July 15, 9 to 3, 630-9516, Kitchenaide top of the line, fridge/stove, unique dining room set, patio set, toys, and much more! LA SALLE 7688 Edward, Fri, 10 am-9 pm & Sat, 10 am-5 pm, Mega store front sale, Furniture! antiques, household items, etc. Piano, sofa-bed, books, games, etc. Saturday, July 15, 9-2 Rain date Saturday, July 22, 6595 Duncan (corner Prince of Wales, just south of Terrebonne), 484-9340. 4977 Coronation, Sat, Sun, June 15-16, 9-4, Rain or shine, Household items, jewelry, Knitting yarn, fabrics, etc. 5230 Coronation between Fielding & Chester, Sat 9-3 pm rain day Sun, household items (electric typewriter), quality men's suits 42 tan, women's and children's clothing, Books, toys, furniture. Williams, James Andronica, (2:00) 858001 (44) Movie Powder (1995, drama) Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, The head of a Texas school for troubled boys takes interest in a pale-skinned teen with highly evolved mental abilities. (2:00) (CQ 79827 B Nature Alaska's intense Iditarod sled-dog race involves teamwork. (CQ 489001 GEE) Biography Diahann Carroll. (CQ 971399 IAPTN) From Hawaii The American government changed Hawaii from a sovereign nation to a state. (BID Sparks (CQ 986339 mm Book Television (CQ 331865 (SB) Histoires de lamer On ques-bonne les causes de la mutinerie sur le Bounty entre le premier officier et le capitaine. 4055827 (S) World Today (CQ 190317 (HHyTJSCTV 3085020 (CV) Cinema Dans les bras d'Oma (1997, drame) Louis Gossett Jr, Lonette McKee. (2:00) 5025310 CHS Wild Discovery Exploring the elephant (CQ 498643 (MSD Movie Love Leads the Way (1984, docudrama) Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint Blinded athlete Morris Frank acquires a German shepherd guide dog from Seeing Eye founder Dorothy Eustis. (1:40) (CQ 8750914 (FOOD) Emeril Live 4071865 (fjGTSD Garden Architecture (CQ 9965952 (BED It Seems Like Yesterday Fords; Marilyn Monroe; air-raid drills. (CQ 6395907 (HE) Things We Do for Love 6677469 (MMAX) Musicographic 5003198 CMP) ConcertPlus 245136 CNVV) Foreign Assignment Don Murray; Patrick Brown. 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(2:15) 3341952 (COM) Just for Laughs Jimeon; Chris Finn; Richard Lewis. 3071827 (BSE) Pools, Patios and Decks 9951759 (BSD Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed. 7840092 CLTO life's Weddings 6689204 (TOONE) Angela Anaconda (CQ 9545420 rnSSSF) Angela Anaconda 9545420 CTREE) Tekrubbles 3896117 CM) Ecrans du monde 586372 CZE) Judaism: A Quest for Meaning 9948285 COB Boy Meets World Cory changes his hairstyle and falls in with a new crowd. 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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Playing God Cordelia investigates a young doctor; the doctor is found stabbed to death in his car (Part 1 of 2) (R)(CQ 4592681 CQ Frasier (CQ 326952) Si Nova A year inside a beehive shows an organized social life, rival queens, colony scouts and the defeat of enemies (CQ 409865 GB) Jungreb Show 49136 (A&E) Murder One A deranged fan of Avedon's confesses to Jessica's murder; Annie confronts Hoffman with a disturbing rumor (CQ 828653 CAPTR) Contact CBETJ Comlcvlew 409865 CCD) Biographies La vie de Frank Sinatra 4068391 (CUD) Larry King Live (CQ 295961) JOHN MAHONEY, GAZETTE Pointe Claire Canoe Club members (from left) Peter Mant, Anthony Toteda, Ross Martin, Ryan MacLean and Michael Hesletine swim a leaky banana boat back to shore off the club's dock yesterday Experts say the quality of water around Montreal Island has improved Hold off on the beach party Water's cleaner - but we still can't swim whenever and wherever we want JANE DAVENPORT The Gazette Mary Richardson remembers when a typical summer day for kids growing up in Pointe Claire automatically included a dip in the lake ""I used to swim at the bottom of the street, where they put the boats in at the launch,"" she said ""We used to go down every day and swim Where we were there was a beach, and there was sand; you could see to the bottom"" West Island beaches are a part of Montreal Island's yesterdays, long since replaced by a rocky shoreline and piers stretching out into the waters of Lac St Louis During the 1970s and 1980s, bathing in those waters - and any popular bathing spot in the Montreal region, for that matter - became less and less of a possibility Eventually, the practice of pumping raw sewage from homes into the waterways sent the fecal coliform count in waters around the entire island soaring, turning them into little better than cesspools But for the first time in years, evidence suggests that water quality around the island is not only improving, but may be acceptable for swimming in places And with water samples drawn from 132 sites offshore getting consistently high quality ratings in weekly tests by the Montreal Urban Community, it's hard not to wonder if a return to beach culture is far behind Sandy beaches crowded with bathers once stretched along much of the West Island shoreline, Richardson, who is in her 50s, said ""Everybody would go down to the bottom of their street, and they had swimming lessons,"" she said ""At the pier, they had stairs, and swimming off all the different areas It was a daily activity for most of the kids that lived around here"" In the summer of 1981, only seven of 49 public beaches in the area passed provincial government tests required to stay open for the summer Today, only three - Cap St Jacques, Bois de l'Île Bizard, and Parc Jean Drapeau - exist And although the region was once rich in beaches, there are a number of obstacles to their return The first is that while the water around some areas of the island appears cleaner, it isn't clean enough yet to allow people to swim and wind-surf whenever they want Scientists who conduct the MUC testing program have cautioned that a single sample drawn once a week from a former watering hole is not sufficient to declare the site clean or safe Second, although the water- and waste-treatment plant at the east end of the island has had a major impact on contamination of water around the island, there is still a good deal of troubleshooting to be done For example, Daniel Green, an anti-pollution activist with the Société pour Vaincre la Pollution, pointed out yesterday that water contamination can increase sharply the day after a rainfall ""Water quality can vary according to various factors, including rainfall,"" agreed Jean-Philippe Lafleur, one of the scientists responsible for the testing program ""That's why on our website, we post the weather conditions if the samples were taken when it was raining, if it was one or two days after the rain or more than two days"" Some West Island municipalities have separate drainage systems for rainwater and sewage, he added Rainwater is pumped directly into the river, while sewage goes to the treatment plant ""In sectors where all the water goes through one system, there are overflow mechanisms When the volume of water is too great (after a rainfall, for example), the overflow will spill directly into the waterway,"" he said Overflow after heavy rain can affect municipalities with separate drainage systems for rainwater and sewage, he said, but not as often A final problem with the notion of beaches on the island is that the sandy stretches that graced the shores in the '50s just aren't there anymore, and creating new ones would be a complex undertaking Creating a public beach first requires a permit from the Régie des Bâtiments, said a spokesman at the Quebec Environment Department Facilities and supervision must meet the legal requirements stipulated by the Régie A new beach must also be tested and found to be safe for public use Finally, if the beach alters the natural environment in any way prospective beach-owners must prove that the alteration won't endanger existing fauna and flora before getting authorization from the Environment Department to proceed PEGGY CURRAN Questions crop up Bourque deaf to worries about China garden Pierre Bourque must have felt right at home opening Montreal's newest green space this week For one thing, he was, as he so often is, several thousand miles away, back in his beloved China, inaugurating the $5-million Montreal Garden, a park that the overwhelming majority of his constituents and taxpayers will never get to see And, again as usual, he brushed aside anyone who threatened to rain on his parade - in this case, by questioning living and working conditions of the crews who built the project ""They work and they have food, they live very well,"" Bourque said of reports migrant workers had lived eight to a room in leaky thatched huts with dirt floors ""The weather is perfect there They have tables, benches In Shanghai, that's the way they do that"" It was a predictable refrain from the mayor, who has made a political career out of nebulous replies When The Gazette's Linda Gyulai visited the site with Bourque a year and a half ago, she reported the mayor appeared to be blithely unaware of the stark conditions endured by workers, who were then - it was January - living in tents or makeshift lodgings sectioned off with strips of plastic sheeting ""We have followed all the bylaws,"" he said in a conference call with reporters Thursday ""The working conditions in Shanghai are the best in China"" The mayor may be right Perhaps working conditions really are better in Shanghai than they are in the rest of China Yet for all its historical allure and economic bustle, Shanghai is still part of a country stained by the legend of Tiananmen Square, where human rights are for other people Activists here and abroad argue, with good reason, that a project that bears Montreal's name, and which has been funded with $3 million in federal, provincial and municipal money, should have set a better example ANKLE-DEEP MUD According to the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong-Kong-based agency which monitors working conditions, crews on the Montreal project worked 12 to 13 hours a day, had to provide their own food and lived eight to a room in huts where rain transformed dirt floors into ankle-deep mud Carole Samdup specializes in globalization issues at the Montreal-based International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development Substandard housing, low pay and poor working conditions are a common problem in the developing world, she said But that's no reason why a project paid for with public money and purportedly promoting Canadian business interests must do the same ""If we don't do something about it when we have an opportunity, nothing will change What happened to the trickle-down economy?"" 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APRIL 27 A BREAK AT QUEBEC The Ice in Front of the City Passes Out THE CAP ROUGE JAM First Report Said It Had Also Broken But This Is Doubtful Quebec, April 26 (Special) The two remaining ice jams in the river gave way tonight, and now everything goes so far as obstructions to free navigation are concerned. All yesterday and all today, while the ferry crossed to and from Levis in perfectly clear water, a sheet of heavy ice from above jammed into the Quebec narrows of the river, extending right across from under the Citadel, just above the ferry crossing, to nearly a mile upstream. It was an object of much concern to shippers and of great interest to spectators and promenaders on Dufferin Terrace, thousands of whom were watching it at 7:15 tonight, when it suddenly broke and moved out with the falling tide. The ferry steamer Polaris had to run before it to seek shelter at Indian Cove, and the tug Spray was immediately dispatched downstream to meet the steamship Vancouver, which was then about due at that point, providing it had continued on its way upstream, and to warn it of the danger of the heavy ice, which it would thus have had time to avoid by turning about and seeking shelter downstream. Mingled with the ice that passed down for an hour and a half in front of the city was a large amount of debris of various kinds, and quite a quantity of logs, indicating that it had come, in part at least, from the Chaudiere, where so many bridges, houses, and logs were swept down into the St. Lawrence some days ago. It made a grating sound against the riverside wharves and dashed up lots of water, and some fear was experienced for the safety of the gas buoys on the Government wharf, but they were fortunately untouched. Everybody was engaged in discussing the probability of the ice jam at Cape Rouge still holding for some days, when at 9 o'clock telegraph and telephone messages came in from the Cape that it had given way, and from New Liverpool, Etchemin, Sillery, and Bridgewater Cove, to the effect that the lake ice and that from the Sillery jam were passing down together. This ends the blockade in the river, and though there will be floating masses of ice of considerable size carried up and down the stream in and about the harbor here for the next two or three tides, summer pontoons will be in their places in a day or two, and summer ferries to Levis, and the Island and the Montreal and Saguenay steamers will find no obstacles to contend with after a couple of days more. Ocean steamers will be able to ascend the river on Tuesday without any fear of damage here from ice. The fruit ships now in Indian Cove may not leave their haven there tomorrow, and it will altogether depend upon the manner in which the tides dispose of the ice whether the Vancouver will be able to round the point and make the Louise dock tomorrow. Had she arrived up during this afternoon before the jam broke, everything was ready for her entrance into the basin. The steamship Loughriggholme, previously reported here, with coal for Webster & Co., came up today from Indian Cove, and went into Louise Basin, where she will discharge tomorrow. The placing of the buoys in the river will commence on Tuesday. The first of the Cap Rouge and lake ice passed here shortly before midnight. The steamship Vancouver is anchored at Baie des Aulnaies. The steamer Spray, that left here just as the ice did, with Mr. Ramsay, of the Dominion Steamship Line, aboard, to intercept the Vancouver, had a narrow escape in getting out of the basin. She just cleared it as the descending ice struck the wharf. The Spray is now in shelter at St. Laurent. It is reported that portions of a lighthouse from some point between here and Montreal have been found, with other wreckage, in the ice, and Mr. S's immigration staff arrived here today for the season. Cap Rouge May be Solid Yet Quebec, April 27 Ice that passed here about midnight is not Cap Rouge ice at all, but Chaudiere Basin ice, Cap Rouge ice not having yet reached here. Experienced river men believe it has not moved at all, but that New Liverpool, Etchemin, Sillery, and Bridgewater Cove, who report it on the way, have all mistaken Chaudiere Basin ice for it and reported accordingly. There is not a telephone at Cap Rouge, and the telegraph company cannot raise their operator there. Being on 3 o'clock now, the non-arrival of ice from Cap Rouge casts doubts on original reports of the break of the jam. It is too late for correspondents to reach Cap Rouge over present roads in time to ascertain facts and get back here early enough to transmit intelligence. The Loughriggholme's Trip Up Quebec, April 25 Capt. Millican, of the steamship Loughriggholme, has forwarded to the Chronicle, of this city, the following report, which will prove of considerable interest to Montreal shippers: ""We left Louisburg at 6 a.m. on the 19th instant, with coals for Quebec. When off Cape Sottari found the ice close packed and heavy from the land to the north and east, as far as we could see from the masthead. Stood E.E. along the southern edge of ice for thirty miles, and so got round it and made for Cape North. At dark, finding the ice ahead, hove to for daylight. Started at daylight, 20th, and had to keep more northerly for St. Paul's. After passing through six miles of loose ice, stopped at Atlantic Cove and had a visit from the signalman and his friends, who were anxious to have a late paper, as the last one they saw was of the 1st April. He reported heavy ice at the Magdalen Islands, but had no news of the ice off Anticosti. The ice seemed close packed from St. Paul's to Cape North. After passing north of St. Paul's found clear water for quite a distance west of that Island, in which were two American schooners halibut fishing. Made Bird Rocks, but could not get near them, as the ice was pretty close for eight miles north of them, saw one three-masted schooner and several small schooners amongst this ice. Skirted round this ice and, dark coming on, hove to. At midnight a fresh gale sprang up from the northwest. Started at daylight against the still strong breeze and many short head seas. Saw Bird Rocks 14 miles off W.W. of us, but no ice was to be seen. The breeze dropped down to nothing, and we made Anticosti at daylight on the 22nd. Thence had fine weather; no ice. At 8 a.m. on the 23rd, got pilot at Bio and proceeded to River du Loup, where we anchored at 1 p.m., to keep the company of the Fremona and Flumoro, steamers bound for Montreal. After communicating with Mr. Harold Kennedy, and consulting pilot, we decided to start for Indian Cove, which we did at 7 a.m. this day. It seemed to us very pretty work to watch the way Pilot Joseph Larochelle picked his way along the banks by the lead, more especially was this observable coming through the Traverse, where the shore marks are so distant as to be hardly made out. Everything went well, and we made our way out safely, met no ice till we reached St. Laurent, but thence to town met quite a few large pieces, one of which gave us but bare room to pass it and keep clear of the ground. Spoke steamer Contest, who said he had got out of the Lachine, which gave us hopes of reaching that much-desired haven. We accordingly made for the entrance at 8 p.m., and hailed the shore for an opinion of our being able to enter, and the answer came, yes. We, however, did not get our rope ashore, when we were hailed again with the news the ice was coming down, and we had no time to get in, so there was no help, but we must run for Indian Cove, which we reached before the ice, and so made fast to await the breaking away of the ice. Steamships Reach Port The steamships Tiber and Acadian arrived in port on Saturday, from Sorel, to commence their season's work. The Tiber is in command of Capt. John Delisle, but the Acadian, which has recently been purchased from the Allan line, is in command of Capt. Joseph Delisle, the son of Capt. John Delisle. During the winter months the Acadian has been thoroughly overhauled, and she has now some first-class passenger accommodation. The Acadian will leave about Wednesday with a full general cargo for the Lower Provinces. Notice to Pilots Mr. Robertson, the Secretary of the Harbor Commissioners, received the following letter on Saturday from Mr. Gregory, the Agent at Quebec for the Department of Marine and Fisheries: ""I am notified that several lights above, notably Pointe aux Cèdres, near Batiscan, front light Contrecoeur, front light Les Raisins, front light L'Islet, Richelieu, front light Grondines, and probably others, have been more or less injured and cannot be relied upon as being in operation at present. Every effort is being made to remedy defects. Please notify pilots to be cautious."" Notice In re Buoying of Channel The principal buoys are now planned between Montreal, via the Lavaltrie (or North) channel, and Three Rivers. Two boats will leave Sorel early tomorrow morning to begin placing the most important buoys below Three Rivers. First Arrival at Kingston Kingston, April 20 The schooner Annie Minns was the first sailing craft to arrive here from across the lake. She sailed Friday from Oswego, having left there on Thursday with a cargo of fresh mined Scranton coal. Capt. Savage is again on deck. He says that on the trip across much ice was encountered. The schooner was obliged to round up at Pigeon Island and sail back to the upper gap, entering the harbor by that route. An Obstruction In Lake Huron Colchester, Ont., April 25 The steam barge Teutonia, with two consorts, ran foul of a wreck two miles west of here, and almost directly in the channel, last night, and is still fast. The obstruction is supposed to be the remains of the schooner Gibbs, sunk about three years ago off Bar Point. It was brought down by the ice last winter. The vessel is being lightened. For Coal Service Portsmouth, N.H., April 25 The Dominion Coal Company has chartered four large schooners, the Sarah E. Palmer, Mary E. Palmer, Augustus Palmer, and Win. L. Palmer, to carry coal from Nova Scotia to Boston. Disasters London, April 25 The steamer Bushmills, from New Orleans for Dromon, has arrived at Plymouth, where she landed the crew of the American schooner Eunice L. Crocker, Captain Croaker, from Fernandina, March 10, for Boston, which was abandoned at sea April 10, waterlogged. The schooner's crew state that they remained on board the wreck of their vessel for a week after she lost her masts and became waterlogged, and that when they abandoned her they set her on fire. London, April 25 The British barque Mozambique, Captain Strachan, from Rio Janeiro, for New York, was spoken April 13 in lat. 5 S, long. 3'W. Signalled that five of her crew had died from yellow fever. London, April 25 It has been found unnecessary to dry dock the German steamer California, before reported damaged by collision at Hamburg with the collier Tyne-mouth. The work of repairing the steamer will be completed by Tuesday next. The British barque Maiden City, from Liverpool, previously reported ashore at Santos, in an exposed position, will prove a wreck. The Swedish barque Marianne, Captain Tjernberg, from London, November 27, for Darien, which was towed to Dover, December 7, in need of extensive repairs, has been sold and her hulk dismantled. San Francisco, April 25 The British ship Craigmore, bound from Newcastle, N.S., to San Francisco with a cargo of coal, is out 83 days, and not a few shipping and insurance men believe she burned at sea. The ships Nairnshire and Prince James, from Newcastle, are also causing a good deal of alarm. The Nairnshire is now over 130 days from Burmoh and the James is out over 100 days from South America. All three carry cargoes of Cardiff coal. St. John's, Nfld, April 23 The British steamer Clenlivet arrived here today from Cadiz, laden with salt. Her bow plates were crushed by her coming in contact with ice and she is leaking badly. She reports meeting heavy bodies of ice 150 miles off the coast. One hundred and thirty-eight icebergs of various sizes are in sight off Cape Race and are floating in the southern track of shipping. Detroit, Mich., April 25 The steamer Philip Minch, bound down in tow of the tug Thompson, collided with whaleback No. 101 in the river here yesterday. The pumps of the whaleback kept her free until Lake St. Clair was reached, when the water began to make very fast and the barge sank near the lightship; wreckers are working on the sunken vessel. She is laden and owned by the American Barge Company and is valued at $75,000. 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McMinnville, Tenn., December 27, Three inches of snow fell here yesterday afternoon, the thermometer registering 29. The storm was general throughout the South. Baltimore, December 27, Snow, sleet and rain, alternately throughout the night, filled the streets with slush and impeded traffic. Portland, Me., December 27, A blizzard prevails here. The streets are practically deserted. Hazleton, Pa., December 27, The storm raged furiously here this afternoon. Traffic is at a standstill, freight and coal trains having been abandoned and passenger trains running two hours behind time. All collieries have suspended, throwing 20,000 men idle. Telephone and telegraphic service is paralyzed. Shamokin, Pa., December 27, At 7 o'clock last night a snowstorm of blizzard proportions began to rage, and has done so continuously through eastern Pennsylvania ever since, almost as badly as the great storm of seven years ago, when this region was blockaded for nearly a week and therefore isolated.
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Highways were closed and powerlines toppled. Less than a week later, temperatures climbed into the mid-30s. May 15 Canada introduced football to the United States 118 years ago today in 1874. Montreal's McGill University was invited to Cambridge, Mass, to play a game of football with Harvard, only to discover on arrival that Harvard played a version of soccer, not rugger. The matter was resolved by playing two games, one with soccer rules, the other with rugger's. Harvard passed the rules for rugger on to Yale, and the first American football game followed later that year. May 16 A British order-in-council admitted British Columbia as a province of Canada 121 years ago today in 1871. The order was effective on July 20. The 12,000 settlers of the new province agreed to join on the condition the federal government built a transcontinental railway linking British Columbia to the east. The CPR was completed in 1885. But Paula Ward has a more chilling theory involving another alien life form, one that is even more menacing to human civilization.
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$104,500 or best offer 802-524-3101 MASTER CATALOGUE AVAILABLE Canada's largest stock of: Model V, Model A, V-8, 1948-1956 pickup parts, Antique and modern whitewall tires, automotive books, buffing supplies, body solder tools and supplies, 264 fully illustrated pages, $13.00 Specialized catalogues: Pick-Ups $4.00, Tires $2.00 George Motr Antique Auto Paris Ltd, 11308 - 142nd Street Edmonton, Alta, T5M 1T9 403-454-2113 MERCEDES Benz 250 CE, 2 door coupe (2), 1971, both running but requiring restoration, package $3,200, Days 699-0457, evenings 482-1360 private MERCEDES 260 SL convertible 1968, 4-speed, fully restored, Perhaps the finest of its kind in Canada! $35,000 270-1159 CRISTOFARO MGA 1959 1600CC Roadster, very good condition, serious inquiries only, $11,500, 455-4204 Private MGB 1967, BRG,
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"Bolsean would, and let the committee choose. This was not approved of, and he said he would do himself the honor of resigning in favor of Aid. Holland. (Cries of ""Hear, hear!"") He was being demoted instead of promoted in doing so, but he hoped that good feeling would be preserved and that Aid. Hurteau would still remain in the Finance committee. It looked as if the affair was going to be arranged harmoniously, but Aid. Cunningham raised a lot of hard feeling unnecessarily. He said he was opposed to Aid. Holland as chairman of the Finance committee, and gave as a reason that he was from Hochelaga ward, and so was Aid. Prefontaine; a strong team, he said. Aid. Holland would continue to be a representative of Hochelaga ward, for he did not own a brick or a shingle in St. Antoine ward. (Cries of Order, order!) Aid. Voleau objected to Aid. Villeneuve remaining, and so did Aid. Grenier. Aid.
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all the houses there were gone," she said, "There are only rocks, sand and water," The sound of boulders crashing down Mayon's slopes "were like thunder and the ground shook," she said, "We thought it would be our end," The Red Cross appealed for food, tents, water, blankets, mats, mosquito nets and body bags, Canada donated $1 million, while Japan said it would send the equivalent of about $200,000, the Philippine government said, Across the Philippines, at least 2,892 people have been killed and 909 are missing in storms between 2001-05, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said, Damage has totalled the equivalent of $595 million, The calamities came despite preparations and measures to mitigate the damage, Anthony Golez, the council's deputy chief said the people of the Philippines need to be better informed about disaster preparedness, He said Filipinos should be "bombarded" with disaster information, "They have to get scared, or else," he said, But beyond preparedness, Golez said too many people live close to danger zones like mountainsides or riverbanks,
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S (snowstorm), March 13-14, 1993 9,720 $18 million Southern Ontario (flood) Jan 16-17, 1994 -4,331 $13 million Southern Ontario (snowstorm) Jan 28, 1994 2,360 $6 million approximate Source: All figures provided by Insurance Bureau of Canada. Dollar values denote money paid by insurance firms for property and automobile damage. There were just 6,461 insurance claims made after those floods, compared with 116,311 after the Calgary hailstorm. This province's most costly winter storm was a raging blizzard that dumped 41.2 centimetres of snow on Montreal the night before the St. Patrick's Day parade in March 1993. Unlike this week's ice storm, the 1993 blizzard - which ran up an insurance bill of $18 million in Quebec, Eastern Ontario and Nova Scotia - seemed to end as soon as it came and the parade went ahead as scheduled the following day. Medza said the worst damage being caused this week is by tree branches falling on cars and homes.
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The surging waters again jumped their banks leaving a second dam without purpose. The structure was built at a cost of $6 million and had been in service for less than a month. In an interview, Jonquiere Mayor Marcel Martel estimated the cost of repairs would easily exceed $2.5 million. He said even though the province has already agreed to help with the reconstruction, the city stands to lose $800,000 in revenue it hoped to earn from the sale of the electricity. Despite the abundant evidence of the destructive power of nature, not all onlookers were awestruck. Chantal Lavoie, visiting from Quebec City, said she was slightly disappointed. "On TV it looked a lot worse than this," she said. Mazda's 026 with the performance-driven 160 horsepower, 2.5-litre 24-valve DOHC V-6 puts a whole new spin on the term family sedan. For years people had to settle for a family sedan. Efficient, but boring. The Mazda 626 V-6 changes all of that.
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8oz Filet Mignon FROZEN NEW ZEALAND RACK OF LAMB 2 for $18 because of scorching temperatures. In California, more than 100 people have died because of intense heat in recent weeks. An appeal to reduce power usage was issued in Ontario yesterday as its electrical consumption set a one-day record - 27,225 megawatts by 5 p.m., breaking the record of 26,160 megawatts on July 13, 2005. Marie Archambault, Hydro-Quebec spokesperson for exports, said the provincial power utility was selling about 100,000 kilowatts per hour to Ontario yesterday and the same amount is expected to be exported today. That's equivalent to the power needed for about 20,000 households. For New York state and New England, Hydro-Quebec is selling about 1,425 kilowatts per hour to each region. Although there was a high heat and humidity warning for Montreal and surrounding regions yesterday, temperature records were not being broken, Environment Canada spokesperson Andre Cantin said.
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Leave on a couple of lamps and don't touch the fridge or stove. Once power has been restored, restart your appliances one at a time at 30-minute intervals. Avoid using your fridge or freezer unnecessarily. If you keep the door closed, food will keep up to 48 hours. Never try to restore power yourself. Hydro maintenance officials tell grisly stories of customers who thought they could re-trip 25,000-volt circuit breakers with a couple of 2-by-4s or aluminum poles normally used for swimming pool nets. Even during a blackout, electrical lines remain extremely dangerous. "Tune in. Now the acclaimed Audi A4 has more room to zoom than ever before. Introducing the newest A4 2.8, with a 30-valve V6 engine that's 190 horses strong and ready to run. With an optional Tiptronic transmission that lets you cruise in automatic or shift for higher performance. And a luxurious interior loaded with such niceties as a driver eight-way power seat and genuine burled walnut trim-all standard. Any players?
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The next round of voting is to be held next Sunday in Beirut and adjoining Christian and Druse Muslim areas, and the final round is set for Sept. 6 in southern Lebanon. The winners in yesterday's first round, which was to fill 51 of the parliament's 128 seats, are to be announced today. A Christian coalition has sought for weeks to persuade the government to put off the voting until 35,000 Syrian soldiers evacuated Beirut and the rest of Lebanon. The Christians are also protesting against the government's refusal to permit voting by the thousands of Lebanese who fled the country during the civil war. President Elias Hrawi, a Maronite whose government is backed by Syria, cast his vote yesterday in his hometown of Zahle in eastern Lebanon. In a statement, he said he still held out hope that the elections would demonstrate national unity. "This is the only guarantee of the country's survival," he said.
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Bonds are in stock demand. The railroad situation is hopeful, but the announcement that the Rock Island will reduce its dividend rate one half had a bad effect. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) continue relatively free, aggregating 2,697,464 bushels this week, as compared with a smaller quantity in the like week of 1890, and three-fifths as much in a like week in 1889 and in 1888. For forty-nine weeks of the cereal year exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) from the United States exclusively have amounted to 62,427,428 bushels, indicating that about 100,000,000 bushels are to be exported in the cereal year, against 104,684,000 bushels in 1880-00, and 85,831,000 bushels in 1888-89. Telegrams from Montreal and Toronto report general trade throughout regions tributary to these cities as dull or of moderate sorting-up variety. Rains have favored the crops and collections are a little more satisfactory. Exports of wheat and flour from Montreal have grown quite noticeably within a few weeks.
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A2 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1990 There are times I'd do anything for 40 winks, or even 20. Good morning. Many of you probably spent last flight doing something boring, like sleeping. Not me! I was too busy. I read books, I planned the guest list for my 1991 Halloween party; I counted odd numbers backward starting from 10,000. I was trying to sleep, fighting off a bout of occasional insomnia I've suffered ever since I was old enough to climb out of a crib. I don't sleep when I'm too unhappy, or when I'm too happy. I don't sleep when I eat too late at night, or when I eat too early. In truth, I haven't slept like a baby since I was one. I have always envied you people who sleep well. You sleep lying down, sitting at your desk and standing in the bus. You sleep through fires, floods, earthquakes and bankruptcy. I don't know how I do it, you say, with a sleepy smile. I just close my eyes and Zzzzzz I'm asleep. In fact, I'm having a hard time staying awake right now. Fortunately, I'm not a full-time insomniac, one of those people with bags under their eyes deep enough to pack luggage in. I just stay up part-time, several times a month. I'll sleep like a log for 4½ hours, then wake up with my mind in high gear, eager to worry about everything from Gorbachev's wheat shortage to the fact I forgot to floss. Unfortunately, the middle of the night is the worst time for me to worry. Routine chores seem like Herculean tasks: picking a wedding present for someone is a life-and-death choice. An unpaid telephone bill of $17.56 seems certain to lead to Bordeaux jail. At 4 a.m., I'm sure it will destroy my credit rating, cause Visa to cancel my card and the bank to repossess my house. I'll be homeless and searching the gutter for orange rinds. And then there's that unpaid parking ticket! Oh, God! I could get the chair! Once my mind starts buzzing I am like the princess who couldn't sleep because there was a pea under her mattress. My blanket seems too thick and my blinds too thin, my sheet too prickly and my mattress too stiff. And why is the fridge humming so loud? I wrestle with the blankets until they're a hopeless mess, and everything seems to conspire against my sleep. As Gilbert and Sullivan once wrote in a song about insomnia: The bedding all creeps to the ground in a heap and I pick it all up in a tangle. Then my pillow resigns and politely declines to recline at the usual angle. I know I could always just give up and get up. Edison, Churchill and Napoleon rarely slept more than four hours and it didn't do them much harm. But I wonder whether they looked like me at the breakfast table, so sluggish I can't get cereal into my mouth without hitting my cheek. No, as any insomniac knows, the key is to stay in bed, STOP THINKING and go back to sleep. But how? I've tried buying sleep tapes with hypnotic voices ordering me to RELAX! I've listened to New Age soundscapes of waves, waterfalls and animals going: Chicicicicicica-oooooo, Chicachicacacaca-ooooo ooooo oooooo. It's like the stuff they play to relax you on Air Canada flights these days. I call it Radio Whippoorwill. Many insomniacs have their own tricks. Some sing tedious songs like 100 bottles of beer on the wall until they bore themselves to sleep; others repeat mantras like I am what I am what I am what I am. One person I know falls asleep by imagining he is falling downward, forever, in a variety of ways. He falls out of planes, buildings, cable cars and double-decker buses; down cliffs, elevators, mine shafts and wells. Sounds like a nightmare to me, a sure-fire way to stay up. In the early '70s, I lived in a student co-op on what is now Dr. Penfield Ave, with 10 other people, ranging from a European ambassador's daughter to a male psychiatric intern who wore a skirt. The only thing we all had in common was insomnia. Every night at 4:30 a.m., we would gather in the kitchen for an informal insomnia clinic. We read aloud long poems like T.C. Frontenac. S6 Tuyo (Qc) 4pm Foufounes Electriques S8 $ Pierre-Andre Arcand (Qc) ZGA (USSR) 7:30pm Spectrum S25 Sylvain Cote -Jean Filion (Qc) Test Department (G.B.) 10pm Foufounes Electriques $10 Pois Z'ont Rouges (Qc) Lost Leg Coro-Reichel (USA Germany Qc) 12:00 Bibliotheque Nationale SI 2 Gaetan Leboeuf (Qc) 4pm Foufounes Electriques S8 Claude Lomothe (Qc) Alain Trudel (Qc) 7:30pm Spectrum S25 The Residents (USA) ""Cube E"" ENVENTECHEZ (314) 522-1245 INFO FESTIVAL (514) 499-1990 obsession believer and jammed it out on blues covers and the odd Woody Guthrie and Prince tune. The album was recorded in just one day, and was never intended to see the light of day. Because it did, you can hear Zevon singing more loosely than on any of his own records, even doing an exhausted Elvis in Junko Pardner. Raspberry Beret is a great cover of a great throwaway Prince song, and the authoritative slap-crash of Bill Berry's drums reminds us what a solid band REM has become. Everybody's job should be this much fun. AN EMOTIONAL FISH An Emotional Fish East West WEA Comparisons to U2 will flood in, and justly so, when fellow Irish rock band An Emotional Fish plays Club Soda Sunday night. Here are three reasons why you should be there: First, not even the overtly messianic U2-ishness of Lace Virginia, the droning rhythm of All I Am, or the positively Bono-like impressionism of these lyrics can obscure the band's self-assuredness. Second, there's an earthiness grounding all the guitar atmospherics. Finally, An Emotional Fish has a sound and a presence that imply Sunday night's show ($8) could be one of the year's turning points. TOMMY CONWELL AND THE YOUNG RUMBLERS Guitar Trouble Columbia CBS If there is something authentic about the cut of Tommy Conwell's Levis, there's something manufactured as well. Conwell's first album was prefaced by a story PR coup in Rolling Stone two years ago that made Conwell seem like the latest bogus rebel-product offered by a cynical industry. Conwell makes an album's worth of heartland rock'n'roll worthwhile with a dead-on anthem called Seventeen. Seventeen, I'm seventeen and I am slack I'm seventeen, get off my back. Remember? Also, two Toronto bands The Skydiggers and wild soul R&B revue Bourbon Tabernacle Choir are coming to Club Soda Nov. 18. Tickets cost $7.98, on sale now. Fri. 9 to Sun. Nov. 11 8pm Chapelle du Bon Pasteur SI 7 Theatre UBU ""Contrôle Grise"" Texts of Samuel Beckett Directed by Denis Marleau Music by Jean Derome 10pm Foufounes Electriques S10 LeRoy Jenkins' Sting (USA) 12:00 Foufounes Electriques free Groupe d'Animation Musicole 2:30pm Pollack Hall SI 2 SMCQ conducted by Walter Boudreau 4pm M.S. following, 80 per cent of which is used in furniture manufacturing and as building material in the construction industry. One example of how Canada is supporting rainforest depredation is through the annual purchase of $10 million in hardwoods from East Malaysia, where seven square kilometres of tropical rainforests are destroyed daily, the highest rate of logging in the world, according to the Malaysian chapter of Friends of the Earth, an international environmental watchdog. But the Canadian role in rainforest destruction is not being played out solely by consumers. An official with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) whose mandate includes supporting ecologically sustainable development admits Canadian funds are contributing to forestry practices in the state of Sarawak in East Malaysia. Ralph Roberts, CIDA's Forestry Sector Chief, says funds for developmental assistance to East Malaysia, intended for forestry management, are channeled in an indirect way through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which approves funds for projects initiated by member nations. Richard Baerg, a forester with CIDA, notes that ASEAN methods of forestry management are increasing the depredation of rain forests. Indeed, many tropical countries have provoked timber booms by assigning harvesting rights to concessionaires for royalty, rent and tax payments, according to 1987's Our Common Future: the World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. Efforts to provide assistance in finding methods of management to make rainforests renewable resources are futile, Forsyth contends. No one knows the most beneficial way to manage tropical forests. No one invests in management and future. Every tree has to be cut as fast as possible. Indonesia, at present, has a $2-billion wood export and would like to see it increase to $10 billion by the middle of the decade. The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), formed in 1978 under the auspices of the United Nations, is responsible for regulating tropical timber trade between producing and consuming nations as well as finding ways to conserve and develop the tropical forests. Canada is one of the organization's 43 members. Environmentalists such as Peggy Hallward, director of forestry research for Toronto-based Probe International, have criticized the organization for its failure to take steps in halting the pillaging of the forests. They are not concerned with forest protection, Hallward said. They are concerned with maximizing timber output. They could protect the primary forests and try to reforest already degraded land, in Sarawak, for example, but they aren't doing that. Dave Boulter, one of Canada's two delegates to the ITTO, says the organization does not see rainforest management as an imperative, despite ITTO findings that less than 0.125 per cent of all tropical forestry is managed on a sustainable basis and that the tropical timber trade is directly responsible for 25 per cent of tropical deforestation. Canada has no overall policy on the importation of rainforest woods, and officials with the Department of External Affairs say a policy is not forthcoming. Canada imports over $40 million in rainforest wood annually from Indonesia, its main source of rainforest wood. But it's not necessary to import these types of woods, said Forsyth. If consumers want a hardwood floor, we have oak. If people want to buy a dining room set, we have maple. Instead of using tropical plywood, we can buy plywood made from coniferous trees which are native to Canada. What may be luring shoppers to buy wood products originating from rainforests where workers are paid less than one dollar an hour is their affordability on the North American market. The effects of forest depredation are numerous and colossal: rainforest depletion has been linked to the greenhouse effect (the warming of the earth's surface and lower atmosphere which intensifies with an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide), erosion of land where forests once stood which leads to massive flooding, and the displacement of native gatherers and hunters who use the forests without contributing to their destruction. In 1988, Friends of the Earth published a 200-page book listing names and addresses of businesses selling rainforest products that originate from countries contributing to deforestation and those that do not. Titled the Good Wood Guide, the handbook was distributed to businesses and environmental groups throughout Great Britain, which then was a major consumer of rainforest woods. The effect of the publication was astounding: consumers boycotted companies which carried products from culprit countries, forcing the businesses to find alternative products to attract environmentally-conscious shoppers. Forsyth says Canadians can take a stand to halt the destruction of the rainforests by pressing the federal government to implement stricter quotas to limit the importation of rainforest wood and by purchasing non-tropical wood products. Canadians can ask for legislation to invest our money to better ends and write to their MPs, he said. Why don't Canadian consumers buy pine, oak, or cherry? Then they can be assured it didn't come from the rainforests. Prairie farmers struggle to survive against all odds VANCOUVER Springwater is a tiny cluster of houses in Saskatchewan an hour and a half drive northeast of Saskatoon. Springwater is a symbol of what's happening throughout this farming province; it is becoming deserted. The few remaining inhabitants around this ghost town cling to a value system that seems anachronistic but really informs us of the enormous changes that we have undergone in urban Canada. I recently met with a few families of the Springwater area. They were third and fourth-generation Saskatchewan farmers determined to stay on the land. Within minutes, they were telling me of the town's demise from high interest and low market prices. The people who remain have to drive more than 32 kilometres to shop at Biggar, their children spend hours in school buses and young people often must leave to find jobs in a big city. In its glory days, Springwater was a bustling hub for farmers in the area and boasted its own bakery, butcher shop, hotel, restaurants, school, pharmacy and hardware store. The town of some 200 people once had police, firefighters and a doctor. Five grain elevators beside the railway dominated the prairie skyline. On weekends, Springwater was crowded with people drawn from the surrounding region to put their cattle and hogs for market in the railway stockyards. Families came to shop, visit at the cafe or go to a movie. Life was simpler but no less meaningful a generation or two ago. Today, the grain elevators are gone and all that's left of the railway is the trackbed. Boarded-up houses and buildings crumble to dust, two rusting gas pumps guard the main street and only three families remain. And yet people hang on against all economic common sense. 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A business called Eco Ventures formed an International Ecotourism Society to encourage ecotourism as an economic incentive for conservation in host countries. The telephone number is (703) 549-8979. Responsible tourism Two months ago, the Los Angeles Times news services published a syndicated interview with Virginia Hadsel, director of the North American Coordinating Centre for Responsible Tourism. As a result, the organization received 600 letters of inquiry. We've been flooded with requests for information, said Betty Stott, a volunteer coordinator at the centre in San Anselmo, California. The centre's number is (415) 843-5506. Complete Travel Service, your money's worth, and more. It's a growing trend. Another company in San Anselmo publishes a book called Specialty Travel Index with 146 pages of listings on exotic travel to the far corners of the earth. The magazine includes articles on: Kayaking With Creature Comforts, On Safari in India, White-Water Rafting in Ecuador, Galapagos By Yacht and Venezuela: Adventures in the Lost World. For more information, call (415) 459-4900. After reading all the listings, you almost shudder, Betty Stott said, because there's an urgent sense of, hurry and visit such and such a place before it's spoiled. One who travelled afar recently was Rhoda Cohen who lives in Cote St. Luc. While on a Questers Nature Tour to Australia, she visited the offshore barrier reefs. Though the trip was not labelled an eco-tour, she said guides pointed out local ecological concerns, including acid rain, poaching and development. For some tour operators, the impact of intense hotel and resort de- 1 week 2 weeks Dec. 2390 $999 $1449 Dec. 3090 $999 $1239 Jan. 6-2791 $719 $1099 Feb. 3-1791 $789 $1189 Feb. 2491 $899 $1189 HOTEL TAX & SERVICE CHARGE INCLUDED ASK ABOUT CHILDREN'S RATES! 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"Everybody watched the sight with great interest. Finally the suspended column of water and the ascending came together and immediately they did so the whole mass fell with an almost deafening crash. No harm was done to shipping. Later information from Penzance shows that the steamer lost off that port was the Violette, 660 tons, bound from Rotterdam for Liverpool. The body of a man has been thrown ashore by the sea at Penzance. It is supposed he belonged to the lost steamer. The terrible weather prevailed in St. George's channel last night. The French steamer Trigano foundered off the Scilly Islands and three of her crew were drowned. A Flushing mail boat stranded at Queensborough during a heavy fog last night. Her signals of distress were heard at Ubeurne and the British warship Scout went out in search of the vessel, but when she arrived at the place whence the signals were heard the vessel had vanished. A despatch from Gibraltar states that during the storm the Italian barque Nina Schallino went ashore at Cape Spartel and was wrecked. Seven of her crew were drowned.
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