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20 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, Mey 4, 1961 'Cave-Dwellers' Rush Started By BRUCE LEVETT Canadian Press Staff Writer The restless tide of renters, quiet during the long Canadian winter, begins running again in earnest May 1. With a surge like the ice go- ing out in the spring, the cliff- dwellers and occupants of other, men's houses begin the migra- tion that swells to a peak in the summer and dies away again in the fall What will the nomads find this year: The situation varies from province to province but if there is an over-all picture, it must be "little change from last year." In a cross-Canada survey, The Canadian Press found that for those wishing to put down roots, Year. The two-bedroom, modern) mortgage money appears easier to come by. However, house costs remain high in many|ing spread fairly evenly through na iment brought $75 to $80 15|place. areas and apartment rents held!the year, but with April 26 to a pind 8 from land| Rents have more firm despite an increase in the|May 3 the busiest period. Av-|y aie which he said is doublelin V brings $85 a month this year; last year it was about $95. Quebec City also reports a waning in the practice of mov- ing on the first day of May--the Quebec Power Company has about 4,500 orders for transfer of power compared with 6,000 last year and 7,000 in 1959 in the Quebec City area. "It's not hard to find a place," says Valmore Desjar- dins, city statistician. Last year 495 apartment units were added and the rents for a two-bedroom apartment held firm at $80 to $95 this year. hutments to be used as emer- gency shelters. "Fires have destroyed houses, properties have been purchased for business expansion and non- payment of rent has brought] evictions." | Newfoundland points report a gradual levelling-off of rents during the last four years and a housing shortage that remains despite the exodus of United States service families with the vacating of Pepperrell air base. Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation says that people Gets Big LONDON (CP)--A few steps from the tangled traffic of Pic- cadilly Circus, you can buy cig- arets at the oak counter where Lord Nelson's sea captains or- dered tobacco and Regency dandies sampled snuff. Fribourg and Treyer, last of are moving out of basements into the apartments left by the Americans. A two - bedroom apartment goes for about $125, not much changed from 10 years ago. | Halifax apartment - dwellers pay $115 for the same thing and those in Dartmouth bring $95. | In the Toronto area, June is| the big month for moving and| $120 is the average price London's ancient snuffhouses, was founded by a Swiss in 1720, when Canada was little more than a fur - trader's hunting- ground. The cramped, bow-win- dowed shop in the Haymarket is the oldest in London. Peter Fribourg's successor, Gottlieb Treyer, married Martha Evans, an English girl. Her descendants have owne Rents are higher in Montreat|brought by the two - bedroom! and run the shop for the last 180 {than they were five years ago,|unit. {but slightly down from last unit goes for $110 to $125. LAND VALUE HIGH An official of the Toronto| Real Estate Board says the| years. monton report about 1,000 units Saint John, N.B., reports mov-\pioh cost of rental--the samelunder construction in each number of apartments avail-| erage monthly rent is $80 to $90, at of Montreal, Winnipeg and|two bedrooms -- if you could able. Only in parts of Quebec and New Brunswick is there an im- mediate problem. Only there and, to a lesser extent, in Re- gina, is May 1 traditionally moving day. REGINA RENTS DOWN And Regina reports the prac- {a slight increase over last year.|yancouver. SHORT OF HOUSING | "For one reason or another, people are desperate in their ur- be Oct. | The traditional moving day in| Winnipeg, if there is one, would] 1. Rents there .have gency to find accommodations," | gone up five to 10 per cent dur-| says Mrs. David Hoyt, execu- ing the last five years. That as 40 per cent on the west coast [tive secretary of the Saint John|two-bedroomer costs $90 to $35'and sales are down also. Family Welfare Association. "We are almost as hard-| in Winnipeg today. Edmonton reports rents vary- tice is falling off. Rents are 1|pressed to find accommodation ing from about $50 for a shack to 15 per cent lower there than|as we were in the days whenito $225 for a 12-room mansion. for sale. In 1960. That popular yardstick the agency appealed to the city| The two-bedroom unit goes for but the p --the two-bedroom apartment-- fathers to purchase wartime'$95 to $100. Calgary and Ed-ifor sale." find such a thing--went for $60.|™ By 1955 the asking price was| $100 and this year it's $125 to $150. Home building is off as much! Said one real estate execu- tive "There are plenty of homes They can be bought, price makes them 'not than doubled | souval Since 'hen| ancouver since 1945 when oul "oho ic still a crafts. 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Tobacco is weighed in ancient brass scales. Leaden canisters and old brown jars contain some of the origi- nal snuff supplied to the Prince Regent, later King George IV. Royal warrants on rusty parch- ment line the walls. In a glass case, a leather bound ledger lies open at the account of Captain Hardy, in whose arms Nelson died at Tra- falgar. His favorite snuff was called Mr. Warren's Mixture. Downstairs, the barrel-roofed, sweet-smelling workrooms are steeped in history. Sacks of to- |bacco are propped in winding tunnels against the remains of | Today, as you EO Up WOIMiz Roman bath METHOD UNCHANGED | Two or three old men in long, grey aprons bend over work- benches. Today, cigarets are largely made by machine, but an's job. The method has changed little in 240 years. Four or five dif- ferent tobaccos can form the base of a snuff. They are mixed in an antique iron machine full of spiked rollers. Then they are ground to a powder, either coarse or fine, depending on the type of snuff. This used to be done on the rasp, which is the firm's trade- mark--something like a large wooden cheese - grater. Later, they used hand-operated gadg- ets resembling grandma's cof- fee-grinder. Now the job is done by electric mills. The powdered tobaccos are then hlended with perfumes from the south of France. An expensive snuff may contain up to 100 floral essences. This part of the job is done by the head of the firm himself (Coq? boxes in the Fribourg --courtly, silver - haired Roy Bridgman - Evans. Only he knows how to blend the rare oils, a secret handed down from father to son. After 10 to 14 days maturing, the snuff is sieved several times. The last sieving is done through a mesh finer than silk stocking. SNUFF TYPES VARY Fribourg and Treyer make 22 different kinds of snuff. They range from the moist, coarse Black Rappee of pirate days to Santo Domingo, a rare blend selling at 10 guineas a pound. It is made from specially-grown Havana tobacco and scented with violets. Customers in the Haymarket shop usually seem to be digni- fied, elderly clubmen in black Homburg hats. But Bridgman- Evans says young Londoners take to snuff as easily as their fathers. Cigars are a different matter. Their heyday was the Edward- ian era, when gentlemen of lei- sure would have their own cigar-rooms, tended by the but- ler. They would buy "y 44 cigars and lay them down like wine for smoking six or seven years later, Today, the names on the *'re- and Treyer storeroom are mostly those of City companies and advertising agencies. "Not like the old days," says Bridgman-Evans sadly. "Then you'd have seen the greatest names in the country." The Churchill family have been customers since the first Duke of Marlborough. But Sir Winston has not bought a cigar for 25 years He has been given more than he can ever smoke. mous clients was Beau Brum- mel, leader of Regency fasions. Once, Fribourg and Treyer for- got to reserve him a sample of a new type of snuff. The Beau turned on his languidly heel. "Very well," he said, "then I shall condemn it." Someone else's parcel was ra- pidly produced, and the new snuff duly became the latest fa- shion. The brass-fronted shop has had its share of stormy times. In 1914, an angry crowd threw stones at the German-sounding nameplate Swiftly, a temporary sign went up over the royal-blue door: "Evans and Evans, trad- ing as Fribourg and Treyer." Bridgman - Evans' grand- father believed smoking was an art for connoisseurs. When his son introduced Virginia cigarets in 1900, the old man stayed home for a week in protest. In those days a gentleman's cigar- ets were Turkish, Egyptian or Russian. Virginia tobacco was for pipes. 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