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8, I909 Horsesbocinl . o s a - - `Oct. ~L . 411 . " ' Oct. ' LU Trad biq an:iY II\.--. `It early _ 1513!} ; LETTER,` non tivlt T 31 hi; . Ertgl ets '< iced pkas |...- u uuuu ade When shown `positive and `reli.b1e _proof` that a` certain` l remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wou1dn t- `any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would 1 _.also benet her if suffering with the same .tr . unnn nun I-IIQA `:34-4-are tlvklhk !\f'f\\1Q~ G` .Vr|" sekq rcpu had Gianford Station, Ont,--1.` I hove taken. Ilydia E. PinkhaIn s, Vegetable Compound for ears and never found any medicine to compare with it. I had 1 cers and filling of the uterus, and doc-. ~ tors did me no good. I suffered dreadfu I . ly until I began taking your medicine. . It has also helped other women to whom! have recommended it.--Mrs. HenryClark,`Glan_ford Stntion, Ontario. ` e For Creek. N. B. - I have always had ains in the loinsand a weakness there," and often after` my mea mu1 ood.wonld.dis- tress me ajndcause soreness. Lydia E, `Pink m's Vegetable Compound has done me much good. I .am;stronger,.digestion is better, and I can walk with ambition. I have, enconrag - many mothers of families to takeit, as itis the best remedy the world for women. You can publish `this. `in- the papers." ,-`- Mrs. William'Bourque, Fox C`reek,N.`.' 13., Canada. - . 1 g -GIDU IIUIICLLI. 111...]. .u. aua.L\..s;|s vvgsan ygnu uuaapy ...vu.w- . Here are two letters whxch prove V the eicienc of Lydia" Pinkham s Vegetable Compound; _ _ L o 9 Another womah * says L di,a` E." Pink/hVaAm s Vetable fComp'o;und_ is the best` feme y in ;theV vyor}dLfot7 wome4 f\.'* % _ up biich. Jxl` . , r t .' . - a utmost" . , :'!V05J % T 7 I l construction. f His estimate at the . '_me izvas `regarded ' as extravagant ,1 and it was the general -opinion that` 1 the road :-'c-o u,ld `be ,constructed at? a_` . . cost between $30,000 and $40,000 per , mile. .At $4o,ooo.~,pe-r mile the road; j would 7 cot1'$72,0oo,ooo'-Lplust seven` 1 year's interest `at 3`. per cent. upon. this amount, say $15,000,000. To-day, ; we nd that the cost of construction including interest amounts to $260,-4 000,000." Nor is this all of it. A` Transcontinental road cannot end at. Moncton, N. B.,'any more than -it could end at Uxbridge, Ont., or Ri-_ mousji, P.Q,'M'oncton ,is fully eighty` miles from tide water and is largely. kept alive by the I.IC.R} shops and other Government- patronage. It _is nearly 200 miles distant from H!a'li+ fax .and nearly 300 -miles. distant from Sydney.` Before the Eastern section can be completed there will . have to be built from some point West of -Monc/ton, a railway extend- .`ing down the "St, John. Valley to the I! .~| harbour of.St. John, N.-B.` Already the Government is preparing to dredge \Courtnay Bay and to erect terminal facilities at St. John. Ten-~ ders received show that the mere cost of -dredging will exceed $3,000,- AAA still remains for solution: Why has the Eastern section_ cost so much?" Ordinary railway building runs from $12,000 to $3o,o00_a mile, but here is a road which bids fair to cost `$150,000 a mile. No- one speak- ing for the Government will esti-` mate thevmere cost of construction `at less than $100,000 a mile. ` It is said in explanation that the road is`t0 be unique in its high char- ,acter, with an average grade of four tenths of one per cent. `instead of one per cent., and,- that since` 1904, the cost of lablo-ur and `material has in- _creased enormously. As to the first .the road as projected was to have `this desirable and -expensivegrade the plans to account for the increas- ed cost. _u\s to the increased cost of material, many of thecontracts 130 that there hasbeen no change in `for building the road were let three point, it was always understood that` Howeverthis may be, the problem II I! .`ullu D.un any as any... ..-..-___.......` my dminuiohh eq .2` '..'.". .'r J iib {x aiiprice for the raiil-Sfias they 5:; ;;bounti`es `are paid in fa`dva;\nee fox; `with a. . little; foresight to , absolutely control he price. "As no` the ties, "many pgbple claim that they" not increased in price, ad, as to :'the' price of ,labpu'r_ _went up during a nancial panic, when the cities vwerecrowded with unemployed men. -9n-;;>iw!r*.1F9P*:*` ~i*.I.s-..;.~ :.*:1H - _w,--a~..-.-t-~ - .matma1s#,nsded` at~e.-`\:,*\-ml ,.'ria1ls.L' 9_dcI'l..\ _..;ti_e$,_- iGov;'ntn[ni, , 1`; ',nld1';jv`hawe; ,been able -.to:- virtualli` ; fgau in {purchased inf Canadaf. `and ifeat. their manufacture. It wo`uldno_t haven > diiculvt fbr `the Government ilabour, it is difcklt to believ that` As-~~~a .~n_I.at_te'.r * of V fact; no explana-' tion.` has been given `,or,-this line costi,n g'-'$Ioo,ooo,ooo- more j than the imo_S.t extravagant forecast, ever made "as to its_ probable cost` of construc- `tion. It is doubtful if the Commis- sioners in_;charg`e of the work could `explain it.` They are no `more-quali'-_ , l I. l L t t V V 1 s t [the Georgian ` -Bay `Canal. seems almost incredible that -so gi- ' n1_.amy.4millions of dollars should have. "-been entrusted .to. a Board not one- `single member of `which . had anyg. ` technical knowledge, or `training or : organized any large business` or con- Bo/ard was a capital blurrder because it left without supervision. might -have had the -Commission turned over th"e_` "-ed .to'build a Transcontinental Rail-, way than they are to build a navyitor Indeedxit gantic an undertaking imrolving so hadever-' administered, directed or The selection of this struction. the entire work absolutely This blunder whale enterpriseto some great` con-, struction. company or employed a corps of engineers of world wide" re- putation and with .records of _past achicvem.en'ts- in lines similar to this.`,\Nothing of the kind seems to have been attempted. Engineers `were employed no'doubt honest and {hard working men and the contract- ors piled up bills of gigantic magni- tude. A x ,een in part corrected` f C V r 9} a V E 1 l 1 Li 1 1 K -Some little light was thrown',u on this subject by the examinatio Major -Hodgins, district engineer for that portion of the `road running through New Ontario. It cannot be said that ' Major Ho gins himself had had any experie cc to justify his selection for so important a position, but he explained the system. A con- tractor does not agree to build any part` of the line for so Tmuch. per mile. He puts in a bid based on a schedule of prices. Thus, for excava- tion, he_ is to reI:e've so many cents per yard for san , for gravel, for common excavation, for solid rock. etc. The amoun.t of. his bill must depend largely upon how `his excava- tions are classied and" an engineer upon the line who is ignorant, timid or corrwt might certify that a con- tractor was entitled to a sum in ex- |cess of what he would.be allowed by ---.. _...._;.LA.-L - A x & n $ Q AI! Il\`l'\I`' of` CCSS .01 Wllal uc Wuulu uc aIIUvv\.u u_y a more competent "engineer jealously guarding tho interests of some great corporation. While the Hodgin s in- -quiry was strangled and the -Mlajor I himself quieted, enough came out to show that unless the contractors up- 4 A I I - Y_A=_..- '1` ..... .-..-.o:..-.n4n1 `SHOW {at unxcas tuc \;Ullucu.tu|a up- on the `Natnonal Transcontmental were angels, the`coun'try might` ex- pectto pay some fabulous sums be- ca-A OLA `II'l\I0" tirnc Of course some or the tremendous increase in the cost of the Eastern section may be attributed to bad luck orvbad management apart from the mere, work or construction. The fall of the Quebec gBridge necessitates an enormous outlay which is fairly chargeable to the account of the National Transcontinental` and there [will `be large expenditures for ter-_ rmnal facilities` at Quebec which-' originally were to be provided by the_Q'uebec Bridge Company. The purchase of land at Winnipeg from a middleman at a star_tling- advance on the price which he paid tor it a few days before justified the charge of stupid mismanagement . against the `NA. '1`. R. Commission, if nothing wbrsel jjjz Other outlays are still to be made for which the `original plan "itself is responsible. There will certainly have to be built a line connecting the N.T.R. with the _city of Mont- real. There will have to be built: a line through New Brunswick to tide water, andthose who have watched the development of the Intercoldnial can hardly dqubt that the Govern.- ment-`-iany government-will be for- ced to build lines extending respect- ively'from Moncton to Halifax and -through Cape Breton, to` Sydney. Moreover if this. road is to .be'~seri- ously considered as pa part ~ of the military system of thecountry there will have to be constructed a long` loop` to get awaygfrom the present route which comes at places within 100 rods `of the American frontier. l -It is not fair to charge up all these thincrs' past, present and future, against the Laurier Government. No Government Erobably would have gotten throug a bill to construct or sudsidize a transcontinental railway without providing that it should ex- tend to the Maritime Provinces and `not public work `is ever. likely to be V constructed by any government as` cheaply as it would be-constructed by .3: ptuvate corporation. But it IS a matter of regret that now .when . alarming conditions are so apparent. that .tl1ere,is no effort to save some-_ {thing and to makethe best showing p`os;sible. There .is` _no disposition to -.overhaul` thelvwork or to put a. great ; `expert -in charge `of it). The same .ol,d. Board ' is pgoingl, `along in ` the j same Lway; the costijs, increasing,in- gstefad of diminishing; and Prudent gmen `fear a --di-_a'ste r`i a \ . . * 4 -"vv"`l1ich"W.ill~not _iI`1y_.1'O$ferwihelml.o th`a;tio\{enment_ but .0 L la l*t c'>'_ ; hthe `_ I 4.}.-2a'1anhnAnrl\'gi-A fnel rails and PCCI 10 pay aunt; xauunuua fore the work was nished. `e'c;i;;:n;~:` Hon. George P.-' Graham sailed `for j_E`ut'-ope,g _A leaving behind him some '.i1i>.brt`a.` At ._prob.1'e'm_:sI `to be` . disposed :Vt';`,,l1,;iv`.% 'agb{enc, ._Ihe Govern~me.nt have ta Am ;{ will Oitwv J`>*-% xu ' .2 . ,1 , . nr%w4m2. :95t7: % % pug -hnd.7Ti*` an`-;:~-?: 3 ` xi: -_tI:e=. , `~Chief _ .Engineer*- is`. .h,ones't `an`n}7caD~` 'f-; ab!es~>-;oiciaI.t: but; he: has .tbe.ezyins the positionip'"_ a; a`ttempting'jito" ru'nj L a race `w itlr his". *fe-.15 =1tied * together *:in` a sack..= f1`hjom`m.ission dealt over " his `head _contractors `and `dist- rict engineers and virtually-,'reduced `him ,to _an otce manager. The Gov: ernment` suppo ters ace now: criticis._-. V ing Mr-. Lums en'because' he did not go.o_ut over the work. But he well knew that to do so .would- only sub- ject him to humiliation. -'W hen'he. did oieially inspect the work and. agree with other arbitrto'rsg`upon some r'natt\ex-s of". classication` he found himself embroiled with the % Commission `and ordered to do the wo`rk over again and virtually? to ; mgfke a different report. .Ordinary '~--~-A --A---3-...-I L15 unezrrnofz IIIBKC 3 ulucx Cut .1 Uyvt 5- 3 v . \h_In-vU- ,,,. self respect required his resignation and it is a fair surmise that his place WI be" lled by some submissive en- :a... - gineei of second or fourth rate abil- .5 III ` xty. Just before Graham left- he. `learned that his board of `experts could not agree `upon the site or plan for the'new Quebec Bridge; To meet this diiculty he has called in two `additional i experts to agree or dis- agree with the rst _three and the` prospect of real -"work being commenc- ed in theynear future is very poor. In the nature of things he should have, known that a board could never get togetherand work out this enormous lan and mass of detail I with one 0 them in England, the se- cond in France and the third in the ' United States. It begins to look as though the Government was in no hurry to complete this great under- taking, although until it is completed, , the -National Transcontinental Rail- "--- -.4 < - - L ----L-I-- ......(-`...2al.....-I UIC '.L\l_a(.l0Ila1 .l.I'aua\..u1u.uxcuu way must remam unnnshed. . I ` `There is a general impression that the trade of Canada is steadily in-L creasing: by leaps and bounds, as we are fondof saying. We are apt . to forget that trade is a slow steady ' growth and that too much leaping and bounding may result~in little ` permanent growth. Mr. W. T. R. 4 Preston of the Trade and Commerce ` Department has leaped` from Japan ` to `Canada and is about to bound across the `Atlantic to Holland. . He ` is one of a number of trade agents who write in letters from various parts of the world to be printed and distributed by the Government among the business men of Canada. As a rule these agents are not busi- ness men and in some cases do not understand a word of the languagi spoken in the various` countries to which they are accredited. How much real trade they work up is problem- atical but it is doubtful if many Can- adian manufacturers or farmers are guided in their business by these re- ports. The fac is that our trade is largely con-ne to Great Britainpand the United States, with our imports far in excess of our exports. A Iglance at the gures will show_'that ' oi-`no-gun `\Io\r`nIAt`c urn!` W llblt ylCCIILUu tub aunlnw ll\JllL .` all quarters of the world; if they not\discriminate in favor of Canada neither did they discriminate against her. But the tariff is there and it renders more important the develop- 'ment of our trade in` other direc- tions. `So far as our exports to the British Isles are concerned, they have increased enormously, butthe r'Canadian exporter` receives no pre- ferance in England "over the export- erslfrom anywhere else. We are `en- joying this_ market because our far- mers and dairymen have catered to it. -But it is a market for natural products exclusively and our manu- facturers 'can scarcely hope to com- pete in England with English made goods. One would think that a large market could be found for Canadian- . goods in` the British West Indies, . some trade `with the West Indies but . our exports to Mexico are _very small _ and we implort so little-`from. that _ .country that the _Mexican- Govern-A . ment. hasabsolutely. withdrawn all subsidies to` the Canadian-M.exican- _ Pacic line and has cut down to one_ half its `annual "contributions to the Atlanti service. We ane. doing vir- tually nothing in South America and but lately the`-Canadian-New Zealand direct. steampship `line went out of 5 business. . A ' gldllbc at` LIIC usunua .u manyhundreds and millions of dol'- lars a.re.owed by Canadian Govern- ments,municipalities and corporations to foreign" creditors.` This enables 'us to buy more than we sell and we do import from foreign countries more than we send abroad. In reckoning the trade of Cana_da'imports and ex- ports are added together so as to make an imposing amount. I Dll\lVV _ blllahv p The high tarit`: maintained by the United btates against the natural products of Canada is a handicap for which no Canadian Government can very well be` held responsible. The Americans have so far,had a tariff which- presented the same front `to -"1 4-uucn-On:-a A` `LAX IIfl\PH fhnlr These facts }nal quite important the position into winch we have got-. _te_n `V ourselves Awith "reference t`o the I` _ _ 4 . g g auminnb `gala nun 1: UllI'3ClVC`WlL|! ICICICIIUC LU I-IIC Gogman market. The facts are col- lated by Mr. Armstrong, MLP. for East Lambton, _are interesting and sqmewhat =startlmg. Thus `in 1907 'w'e exported to Germany less than $2,000,000 worth of -g0ods while Ar-I gentina exportedv to` that country over $106,000,000. . The following ta- vbletst will be: 05- interest z_- I` -,,..______ ,___._. __._;_-_.__ British VEast Iniis South Africa ,'.. n,o16_,ooo UJIC3 VV-III VIC \[X' Illl-BICJL 0 Imports by Germany `from! countries, I907 : ' _ A_u_stra_l_ia .. ...$ 42,075,000 196,040,000` various Brazil..`\ ..47.0o`o,ooo Ar en_tit'1e_ Republic. and KM ._, _ _ C1ifi`7'T7"fTI `I United States ' Great Brit ain 91`..`i`d3`... 7 " ' .1`, _(3_h'e::asj<':V_." " , '3 ' Moiur L742 Apples . . . . " M ~..82 vtth ad w0g..n.. .. . Oats % L894 `Whea;t,}%;he A',;i.3a1I2; '*$x3daf.%Ngn... ` Vail?`-lid Yo I I I I I _Ca.n;1d1an `farm % to Gfmany, I907 : l r'1.`...2.- . VVIIMCGL, UL l.I\._ *l_\J\I\\C\rIv_ -.14.; j%"C%.?!*=!F CI] I-Ill`: L` L atagonia. 1!: ~ 'i>;'bI'.t1'<:ts - "danger from the Nationals `continental or Grand .Trunk ,_ mixed up with politics-" that it is imp - tion of the railway and to actua `mated cost of the road, perhaps too . ITO` -C-v_v- V Ottawa, June 26.`; `There is a growing belief that the present Government stands in` great rans- aci-c scheme, and there are imany who` fear that the country will be serious`- .; ly'_emb come. This project` has been so portant to get at the real facts and] to" locate the true responsibility. It is no doubt that the people of._Can- ada in 1904 believed that the time had come for the construction of an- other. transcontinental railway. They knew in -'a general way that the" country was to finance the constri:-i y. build that portion of the line ex- tending from 'M`onct0n -to Winnipeg. They preferred that the Government- should not be concerned with the actual operation of so gigantic an enterprise and they undoubtedly a?p-. proved the decision of the Govern- ment to grant no land subsidies in aid of construction. As to the esti- much. stress has been laid upon" Sir` Wilfrid Laurier s saying $13,000,000. No person believed that` this road could be built from Mloncton to Winnipeg for any such amount. arrassed by it for years to` l I ")ff,\I\IU,\I\)ly 316,600,000 fll $Al\d\ _ _,- %="=34+2 i55I 1.959.891 .expqrted the. budget elaborated theae points! with telling effect. H`e poxnted Out. that in. I907 we sent: no horses orl `other animals to Germany but oth r nations did so to the value of $5 ,- 000,000. In the same. year "Germany imported, barely to the value of $57,- 000,000 and all that Caanda sent was $625 worth.. We sold oats to -Ger- many during the same year to the value of $1,894. but othernations sent her oats to the`value of $I8,ooo,ooo. Our export of apples` to Germany has? gone `down from $400,000 per annum n't_oA ` An ., -I . - - -- EI[II ICIII' I`, All this is "attributed to the tariff quarrel which put -Government rush- edheadlong a few years ago and which they have been unable to patch up, although trying to do so for: several years- `Governments can- not create trade, perhaps, but they can d_estroy`it. . `_ .. ' REX. ,A1Iiston. "Ar.thux3 ' .. . ...- ..B_u_xfk_ s`;J Falls . BA.R;1_?I Bracebridge .' B01-top `L. . . . . .. Brampton. .,.,. `Beaverton . Bradford . . .. flarksbufg .LC5>k$t9wn 4- 1-E;nda,1&1*. . . ,. `E!}I;`I{al._. . TOTHE MERCHANTS 0F BARBIE: .41. Ann`; Anna Ail nuns AND EXHIBITIONS. Dates for 19:59. The Northern Advance. nun rum-- en1nAL SIIBOPS BEST inven- tissue utnuuu . I ' `j'- -79 -V sew. 30, on. 1: A. Oct. 5, 5` Sept,s3o! . I\ The Live Business House: in all of our towns are wisely taking the cue from the methods of City departmental stores, whose trade has lirgely been built up by adver- tising, and Are Using the col- umns of TIIAIII` LOGEI Papers freely For Advertising pur- poses, thus availing themselves of the very power that has done so much to build up these outside concerns. complaining of dullness or loss of trade Gould-Improve his basi- ness very materially By Syste- matic Advorilslng. If An Advertisement has power to araw trade from a town to a city departmental stole, why will not a similar advertisement have power tq Retain and Build UpTrade in that, same town`? Buslnass Men of Barrie, Be Advised that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, in advertising as in everything else. ..Y"'!'.;Y"._ ~.Vh"--._L'. 11.. .;.;- ...s..;.;e 9.9. `nu. V}iJ.;}u}yAi n.;.;...:2.:s;;.... Germany`; amt 1;r1g.1n.no11an_.;1ra1y.48:-way,Ammiii, sweaon dud Switzerlafgd is stated on the .ee _t each they are `payable pt current rates. . - /. ' chequ. in -gther y The cheques and all information ohted at ~.aARm: nANH H. 1. GRASI-Z l`I'.\ Mdnaggr, ? ,_e'pt. [Quay 11 Merchant now I9!` I JULY (3, 29 ' [W. C. Andrew] STRICT -Pxnsouu. A1'mN'rxoN Pun ro I MANUFACTURER OF Buggies, Carriages, Wagons . ` Sleigh: and Cutters. The Government after the generali elections of 1904 wasgjustied iricar- V tying out its contract. with the Grand Trunk Pacic.` That contract in substance provided that the Govern-. ment would guarantee the bonds" of the Company to the extent of $13,- 000 per mile for the prairie. section and would guarantee its bonds for the construction of the mountain section. It; also provided that the! company should operate rent free, for seven years that part of the line to be constructed by the Govern- ment. The most startling develop- ment so far has been the enormous, cost of constructing the Govern- ment section._ Hon. A. G. 'Bla`ir`who was most violently opposed to the entire scheme and resigned from the` ~_Gover-nment rather thansanction it. estimated the cost at $139,000,000 including interest for seven'y.ears at 3 per cent. upon the actual costof` mo. 55 Bnvrmn SI.| 3 Ora.-ngeville ` Oro . . . . . . . . . . . Owen Sound .. Oril1ia' Powassan Parry Sound .. Suhdridge . . . . . Sturgeon .Fal1s Shelburne Sprucedale Schomberg `Toronto . . . . . . .Utterson . . . . .. _W.0odbri .. T UUICUI TUUUIO "'* 2 -~ .3 grant t `t as `!mIc=I- -nu; ."2..- .'.:.`it cw 39-.._el'Iables it to T9535` ~ `kw ! _x_t_rcme cold. . L OPPOSITE ROSS ST- JOHN BA,RR:S ow s1`A.\'I- -----?..___?j I --:--p You cannot ossibly I18 I,better' ocoa than gl o u o . . . . ' We will pay a hangsome. reward to, any person who will prove to use that these letters are not genu1ne.and trut ful -%-.-or that either of th`ese`rlwonije1ji were paid iiixigtn . wa }_fbr.; jg their testimonials,` `or. that the letters ;are~.publishVet'._wi}t 4c{i1:t' their i permisio,n_,% or that. the originalii letter from eaehe slid. ?C,.ln`o'tiecome :tc>"`tis`e_x1tirfe`lr uns`olieie!d`.:V A;i;.';;lf3'II f.A"`:"< f;V"f? l e 1 ewhat more;'pr6ofe cain'rany chi!akj?ii`il; e `V :1 _. `V; V` A - ..:-r:. V :: 9 `..6`,A;~`