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New Hollinger Dry ; _ 20â€"YÂ¥earâ€"Old Showers The assault charge against Stanley Beninger, 38, was withdrawn by the complainant, Dominic Colantonio. Mr. Colantonio said it was a misâ€" take. Mr. Greene opened another. It also contained a bundle of clothes. He opened antcther. The clothes in it were hanging down. He pulled up a chain. Whot‘s that for? The <chain, he explained, is for a man‘s boots. The chain is long, so that the boots are hung well beneath all the clothing. Also, the miner‘s hat is neatly racked beneath the lid of the boxâ€"locker, just the same as a hat under a theatre seat. Old Showers ‘"Now the miner is stnpped "â€" Mr. ‘"He," said Mr. Greene, "has just thrown his clothes in there. He will learn when he comes back and finds they are not dry.. I‘ll show you anâ€" other. . ." The new lockers cre simply boxes on the floor, rows and rows of boxes. Each box has a lid. No box has a bottom. Each box is ‘"open‘"‘ through the floor, into the room â€" beneath. There are couple of hooks around the inside of the box. The minter hangs his clothes on the hooks. The clothés drop trough (90 percent) and hang in the room beneath, where warm air dries them out. "Now, You See . . . ." This. Mr. Greene explained is how they work. To illustrate, he opened one of the new lockers. The heavy underwear and pants were not hangâ€" ing Cown‘ at all. They were bunched: upon the hooks. The dry contains cupsidors, with running water, affixed chest high to the walls. And it contains a new kind of locker: _ come on up." i Normn Greene, Hollinger public ratlions: official, led the wty to the new dry which, he said, was designed entirely by Hollinger, will accomodate 1,750 and cost $210,000. Dry?" YOU CAN‘T GO HOME AGAIN The results will be announced later. The examinations vary from grades one to ten, and are comâ€" prised of ear tests," sightâ€"reading, scales, technique and pieces. Most of the ‘pupils are girls. During the year all pupils averâ€" aged about half an hour per day. During the last three weeks many pupils averaged three hours per day. There are many other budding musicians, taught by the Sistens of Providence, who take examiâ€" nations under another examiner. Eighty â€" five Timmins music pupils are tcking examinations this week, Frank Welsman, a seâ€" nior teacher of. the Royal Conâ€" servatory in Toronto, examining: "I am not interested in writing what our potâ€"bellied members of Rotary and Kiwanis call a ‘good show.‘ I want to know life and interpret it without fear or favor. This, I feel, is a man‘s work and worthy of a man‘s dignity. Life is not made up of sugary, sticky, sickening Edgar A. Guest sentimenâ€" tality. God is not always in His Heaven; all is not always right with the world. It is not all bad; but Jt is not all good. I will got to the end of the earth to understand it, and by God, I shall, though they crucify me for it. I will put it on paper and make it true and beautiful. I will step on toes. I will not hesitate to say what [ think of those people who shout; ‘Progress, progress, progress‘â€" when what they mean is more cars, more Rotary clubs, more Baptist ladies social unions. We are not necessarily four times as civilized as our grandfathers because we go four times as fast in cars, because our buildâ€" ings are better. What I shall try to get into their dusty, pintâ€"measure minds is that a 85 Budding Pianists Take Examinations That is too bad. But what would seem to warrant more emphasis is this. The libâ€" rary is staffed with obliging girls. It contains over 25,000 books; daily newspapers from Vancouver to Halifax, the New York Times, and magazines varying from the massâ€"popuâ€" lar Post to the stiffâ€"necked Atlantic monthâ€" ly. What more could anyone want? There are old books and new books. Most of them are good. Many are unread. Alâ€" though the library must have paid for them, no one seems to know that they are there. There are, for instance, three volumes by Thomas Wolfe, the finest writer who ever tickled a typewriter in America. Said he: Mr. John Blackshaw, library chairman, reports that during 1949 the board spent over $800 more than it received from all sources; that the Council is responsible for the underestimate, and that, consequently, the board was compelled to draw upon its reserve fund, “Yqu want to see the new Hollinger A. H. Purdy, district representaâ€" tive of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of Toronto, will address a imeeting of the farm commumty in the St. John Ambulance ° Hall, Birch KStreet South, on Saturday, at 8.00 "We urge," says Mr. Spooner, "all our friends in the farm community to_zcttend the meeting. We believe it will be most worthwhile. There will be no charge. Father Theriault, of, Notre Dame ce Lourdes,. will write, a sermon for the Advance next week. J. B. Ballantyne, commissioner of agricultural ~development ~for Norâ€" thern Ontario, and L. H. Hanlan, will both also be present. p.m. J. W. Spooner chairman of the agriculture committee announced toâ€" day. ‘Mr. Purdy has a Master of Science degree in Agriculture majoring in the field Husbandry at the Agriculture College at the University of Saskatâ€" chewan. The‘"new dry contains a bus wai‘dr)g room, long lamp rooms anG a numbeér of "boss‘s" wickets. And at the Schuâ€" macher end of the building there is a big, bright, largeâ€"windowed â€" conferâ€" ence room.. _Adjacent to this is a small office. Upon the wall} painted upon a black board: "Mine Rescue Timber Squadâ€" the following. men are available in cose of accident: a truck can be quickâ€" ly called. Cotnam,‘ 11 Borden,. 1193â€"J." Also: ‘"Rescue Teams: The following trained men:; Adamson, W; 33Sâ€"B. . ." Double ‘Capacity The new dry, which is built on top of and beside the old dry, has about doubled capacity. All miners are now using the new dry. Those working in remote shafts are conveyed to and from by bus. Near the front door the miner: reâ€" ceives his lunch box, which he had previously handed in, and then he checks out. Also, near the door, is a smart clean first aid room. containâ€" ing an emergency operating table. After a shower the miner emerges into another room containing other lockers, quite ordinary, for street clothes. Greene said. "He takes his towel and [goes to the showers, which are part of the sid dry. > , How old are the showers â€" about twenty years? â€" "Aproxipiately," said Mr. Greens. ~ There cre no windows in the shower room. The room has recently had a frgsh cost of white paint. Separate Engineers‘ Showers There are plain lockers and separâ€" ate showers for "the engineers." The lockers are the ordinary overcoat size upright lockers: and the showers are individually partitioned and curtainâ€" ed, whereas the miners showers are comprised of jets from everywhere everywhere in one big room. * Agriculture Experts to Gather Here on Saturday A‘ccldents? In the near future this paper will review something by Wolfe. Meanwhile he simply stands as one example of what the Public Library containsâ€"read by ten people since ‘"You can‘t go home again, back to your family, to boyhood, to a young man‘s dreams, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from strife and conflict; back home to the girl that you have lost, back to someone who ran help you, save you, ease the burden for yoa. You can‘t go home again. You must go onâ€"to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing, to leave the friends you had for greater friends, to find a.land â€"more kind than home, more large than earth . ... a wind is rising and the rivers flow ... ." That is exactly what he did, and, in our opinion, his work is the finest ever written on this side of the Atlantic. One paragraph which, he said, summed up almost all he learned, is this: full ‘belly, a good car and, more, does not make them one whit better or finer; that there is beauty in the world, beauty even in this wilderness of ugliness that is at present our country, beauty and spirit which will make us men instead of cheap Board of Trade boosters. I shall try to impress upon their little craniums that one does not have to be ‘highbrow‘ or ‘queer‘ to know these things, to love them, and to reargze they are our common heritageâ€"there for us all to possess. In the name of God, let us learn to be men, not monkeys. When I speak of beauty I do not mean a movie closeâ€"up where Susie and Humphry meet at the end of a clinch, and all the gumâ€" chewing ladies go home thinking husband is not so good a lover as Bogert. That‘s cheap and vulgar. I mean everything that is lovely and noble and true. I will go everywhere and see everything, meet all the people I can, and I will write." Thereâ€"were a number of highlights to the observance of Baden â€" Powell Week at the weekly luncheon of Timâ€" mins Kiwanis at the Empire hotel on Monday. ‘Chairman Harry Kuzyk, Nick Basciano and the rest of the Kiâ€" wanis Boy Scout committee were commended on the success of the feature, while to District Commisâ€" sioner Norman Greene, Cubmaster Mrs. Grace Gorrie, Scoutmaster Cliff Varin, and the other leaders and Varin, amn, the other ) aders ino preciation is given for their part in the event. ; â€" . Even before the opening by the Naâ€" tional Anthem, the Scouts andâ€"Cubs added a special touch to the day by their "breaking of the flag‘‘ in effecâ€" tive way. i Then in the community singing the Scouts and Cubs showed the club members how to sing with vim and enthusiasm. COCnly Scout songs were used, special song sheets being proâ€" vided for the occasion. Leader and accompanist could both claim their The trip will be completed by visitâ€" ing various parishes in the north west part of the Diocese before returmng to Timmins about May i1st. \Welfare Dept. Costs 17 Per Cent On Easter ~Sunday morning the Bishop will preach in Christ Church Cathedral, Vanccuver, where he was a former rector. Badenâ€"Powell Extolled; Scouts Upheld at Party The Rt. Robert J. Renison, M.A, D.D. Bishop of Moosonee, and Mrs. Renison, are leaving today for Caliâ€" fornia where the Bishop will preach at noonâ€"day Lenten Services in the Cathedrals in San Francisco, Los Anâ€" gelés and Stockton; and also lecture at The School for Prophets in San Francisco. Bishop Renison Leaves Today for California , $17,000 â€" Children‘s Aid Society, charges, expenses for children being kept as wards. $16,000 â€" Inctitutionail care: home for the incurables, the deat, blind. $7,000 â€" VON Grant. $85,000 â€" Relief. $€,600 â€" Welfare and Relief Adâ€" ministration: $5,700 in salaries the rest in Cperating expenses. $6,000 â€" Reform schools. $1,500 â€" One car. These amounts total $129,200. The relief grant from the government is $32,000; and the Children‘s Aid Soâ€" ciety grant is $4,000. Subtracting the sum of these two from the $129,000, leaves $93,200. $5,500 â€" Qutside Children‘s Aid Soâ€" ciet, expenses outside town proâ€" per but within the Timmins‘ district. The Welfare Department cost the Town $93,200 for the year of seven teen and oneâ€"half peréent (17%). â€" Children‘s Aid Society, a grant. The expenses of the department are comprised of the following: (the figâ€" ures are to the nearest hundred). THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd 1950 _ the number had grown (to 110,000. And progress continued. Urgent Need for Trained Leaders T h e District Commissioner reâ€" gretted that many boys who wished the advantages of the Boy Scouts could not be taken in, and packs were already too large to asâ€" gure the lads receiving the full value of Scouting. In this connection he mentioned the fact that Timmins should â€" have at eight more Scout Troops to do the work effecâ€" tively. The difficulty was in securâ€" ing competent leaders. Suitable perâ€" sons could help by taking the reâ€" quired and available training and qualifying for the arduous work of leadership. Answering his own question, Comâ€" missioner Greene read a series of deâ€" finitions of "A Boy," each one of which brought down the ‘house, apâ€"~ pealing particuhrly to thoae who had boys of their own, proved, as one of (Continyed an page five) : in‘ the Scouts and Cubs. _Another guest speaker for the day was Gorâ€" donâ€"Burnett, of CKGB. Purpose of Badenâ€"Powell Week In his brief address, Nick Basciano _ explained the aims and purposes of Badenâ€"Powell Week. Not only was it to commemorate the memory. of a great man who had founded an orâ€" ganization that had given remarkable aid in the building of better citizenâ€" ship, but it was also hoped to make known morée widely the programme of the Boy Scout movement, and so enlist greater interest in the work adults. Further it was hoped that the effect would be to stir greater zeal in Scouting principles among L)th leaders and boys. * The Scouts are on the March District Commissioner Greene, in opening, said he knew he was sure of a sympathetic hearing from the Kiâ€" wanis for anything that would. help build better men and women,; The progress, as well as the results of the Boy Scout movement showed the vielue of the ideas behind the plan. Thirty years ago there were only 28,000 Scouts in Canada, while today Ben Varin and Geo. Richens, Patrol Leader John Morrison,â€" Troop Leader Earl Nagle, Patrol Leader F r e d Krome, and the following Scouts and Cubs: Dennis Freeman, Jimmy Este, Monte Cripps and Dino Leggio. Secâ€" retary W. H. Wilson introduced: the District Commissioner, while the other guests were introduced by Nick Basciano and Harry â€" Kuzyk, both® of whom spoke of the good work of thie leaders in the Fifth Kiwanis Troop and the progress made by the ‘boys right at the event ‘Nick,Basciano being a former: Scoutmasbcr "of ‘the Fi#th Troup, and also a former Disâ€" trict Scoutmaster, whileâ€"Secretary W. H.. Wilson has <played the pigno for so many Scout and Cub events that 4 * he is recognized as:2an honorary and honored member. Thirteen a Lucky Number There were thirteen special: guests for the day, including: District Scout Commissioner. Norman Greene, Cubâ€" master Mrs. Grace Gorrie,â€"Scoutmasâ€" ter Cliff Varin, Assistant Cubmaster Jack Hassett, Assistant Scout Leaders Mine supervisors will conduct visiâ€" tors through the dry. There will be a display of equipment and safety deâ€" vices held in the dry "Open house" will be held at Holâ€" linger from 1.00 to 5.00 p.m. on Sunâ€" day. Busses from the gate will convey visitors to the new dry, at Hollinger. A salute to another newly club ‘at Cheminis, Britisfi Columb.a was given by memb Mr. Charron Co The next meeting, Monday Februâ€" ary 27th, will be addressed by George Charron, local manager of the Nationâ€" al Employment service, and his subâ€" ject will be: "UNEMPLOYMENT Inâ€" surance." Also Bill Shields, local D. V. A. officer for Veterans‘ Welfare will give vital facts. Hollinger Will Hold The initiating officers were: Préesiâ€" dent Erick Lamminnen» Past Presiâ€" dent Bill Wellac® and Os Carter, asâ€" sisted by Ron Jones Carl Ashenâ€" hurst, and Des Mapplebeck. ' $250 Waiting . Prior to the colorful ceremony; Kinsmen heard reports on the introâ€" ducticn of the Mattagami River proâ€" ject, which starts this week. A prize of $250 will be awarded theâ€"person or persons who register the Approximate correct time of the “iogobreakup _: Proceeds will go towards ;!urther deâ€" velopment of the Gillies‘ Lake Kin recreational activities. i Seven membersâ€" were inducted into during impressive ceremonies which took place on Monâ€" day evening, initiation night. The new members are the followâ€" ing: Eric Brown, ‘ John F. Townend, Kin Riley, George Waye, Herb Langâ€" don, Ken Asselmont, and Doug Manâ€" ning. House" on ‘Sun. the â€"person or e @proxlmate ‘"ceâ€"breakup." ds further deâ€" ies‘ Lake Kin newly formed tish Columbia, berg. ' 0 i 4 ‘ {onday Febru-; Opening day, July 1. known ‘in other parts of Canada as Dominion Day, but in the North s Firemen‘s Day, will bring the annual tournaâ€" ment of the Temiskaming Firemen‘s Association to Cochrane. Memberâ€" ship in the T.F.A. number 33 brigades in Northeastern Ontzrio and Northâ€" western Quebec, and most of them will compete in the J‘uly 1st events. A full week of varied entertainment will follow. There is probably no community in Northern Ontario or Northern Q@uebec, and few centres elsewhere inâ€"Canada, where former residents of Cochrane are not living. It‘s the joint result of being removed by only a few years from the frontierâ€"with its calls to the adventuresome and footlcose, who in their thousands piomreer in one spot and then move on to anotherâ€" and of being a railway town, whose residents by nature of theirâ€" work. move frequently from place to place. Life Begins at 40 j Cochrane‘s first settlers arrived on the of the: railway survey parties in1908, and it was incorporatâ€" ed zs a town in 1910.. Slogan for Old Home Weekâ€"its 40th birthday celebrationâ€"will be "Life Begins: at 40," Cochrane to Play Host To The World in July \By way of celebrating its 40th birthday the Town of Cochrane,. plans to ~sentertain all ~its former citizens,, and all others who wish ‘to be there; in the week‘ July 1 to 8, 1950.. The men were working in a bucket in the new internal shaft below the 5150 level of the Hollinger Mine. The men were arranging a chain bloclk in the corner of the shaft. and Ralph Rickey fell from the bucket to a platform eight feet below while Hirâ€" cm Groulx was struck on the head and collapsed in the bucket. _â€"_Two Hollinger miners, H i r a m Groulx and Ralph Rickey are now in St. Mary‘s Hospital as the result of an accident which occurred yesterday afternocn about 4;:00 pm. Groulx is suffering from a skull {fracture and Rickey has a serious batk injury. Exactly, what happened to tihe two men s not been yet determined. But afiinvestigation will pe mads into the accident, said Norman Greene, of the Hollinger Public Relations. Bill Oliver and George Metcalfe gave progress reports on the current projects which the club.is promoting. George reported that there were‘ 17 }girls typing letters for the .Club over the weekâ€"end at the YMCA. Bill and ‘his committee have replied to all the Agents‘ letters re.. name Bands and ‘are investigating a proposed series of _ engagements. The program committee was authâ€" orized to proceed with plans for the celebration of the Club‘s Forth Anniâ€" versary in April, and more informaâ€" tion was recgived about the Interâ€" national Y s Men‘s convention to be held in MexiCo in August. At this week‘s meeting of the Timâ€" mins Y‘s Men‘s Club, three of the newer members, John Canipbell, Russ Fortin and Roy Howlett, were, invited to give the club a brief impromptu address on their personal histories and vocctions... The talks proved to be very entertaining, witty and inforâ€" mative and were very much enjoyed by all the members. [ The speakers were introduced by Earl Milne and thanked by Basil Howse. New Members At Y‘s Men‘s Qutside it was very quiet. The Social workâ€" ers reaffirmed complaints from neighbours. One said: "It may seem qwiet now; but you better watch out, Bub." Pretending deparâ€" ture, Mr. Van Camp drove down the street, around the corner and switched off the car lights. Five or six minutes later indescriâ€" bable bedlam broke out: yells, pattering feet and breaking glass. Mr. Van Camp drove the carâ€"around the corner and switched on the lights. ~A crowd swarmed the street. A. man broke a beer bottle over the forehead of anâ€" other, inflicting a gash which later required 28 stitches. A woman struck a man with a heavy bar, breaking his leg. Another man thigh. The poliae came. night Mr. Van Camp drove with another Social worker. They entered the house and found Gloria, 44, blonde, drunk; three chilâ€" Iren, 4, 6, 7; no father; and plenty of evidence â€"which they soughtâ€"of neglect. Gloria wore a kimono. Two men disgraced the house. In the dark hallway one of the men, from beâ€" hind thrust a knife through Mr. Van Camp‘s clothing and into his flesh. Said he: "Brothâ€" er, if you go any further with those chilâ€" dren, this knife is going right on through.‘" CASE 13 High Life in Darkness Donald Van Camp, Children‘s Aid Society supervisor, received a hurried call one night. Neighbors complained about a house on Xâ€" Street East. They said that the occupants this house neglected its children, disturbed t e peace and disgraced the street. That Hollinger Miners Are Seriously Injured THE NEEDIEST An exhibition of paintings "from Hamilton opened in the Rainbow Room yesterday. Some of them are dull, some very excellent and some tempting to be walked off with. . There is one in particular of a girl. White hat, by Rae Hendershot. She is sitting sideways on a chair. She wears a plain white dress and a plain. white hat. She is looking straight at l you. She looks healthy, wholesome‘ and honest. She 16oks as though she could not do a mean thing, however smf¢ll. There is nothing about her which even insinuates "Come hither: I am pretty smart, am I not?" She is not posed. She is And she is a pleasure to contemplate. Noel, by A. M. Banting (ACCA), portrays a young colored boy in a tattered strew hat â€" a nice little fellow, very comforting to look at. The accxdent entailed m;urmg a small boy.n ow in ,St. Mary‘s Hospiâ€" tal. The <‘boy is the son of Hubert Beadman, 79 Way Street. . Splendid Paintings _ â€"_â€" _ At Goldfields Hotel That the Council take over the management of the Pubhc Cemetery for 1950. Aubryâ€"Bartleman. , MINE AbSEbeENT | Thot W. J. Grummett be requested to have special mines assessment reâ€" port prepared by Messrs. W. Rowâ€" lands and; C. Colvin tabled for ‘conâ€" sideration of the members of the proâ€" vincial legislature. Bartlemanâ€"Del Villano. Eugene Levesgwe, who.faces a deâ€" fective brekes charge after an acciâ€" dent on Tuesdgy, has been remanded until . Tuesday «_next; The following moions were carried this week by the Town Council. (The first name is the proposer; the second. the seconder). NO ACTION TAKEN ; That as a result of a petition signed by» hundreds of Timmins citizens, protesting against (the restrictions contained in the Lords Day Act, this council urgently request the Deâ€" partment of the Attorneyâ€"General to take â€"no action on receipt of comâ€" plaints, regarding violations â€"of the Act, to the detriment of the good reâ€" laions existing between the citizens and the small store keepers. Bartliemanâ€"De Villano MINES REPULSED That the brief by Judge G. W. Morley be endorsed, and that the CGlerk stress in his letter â€"of transâ€" mittal the amending of the Assessâ€" ment Act of Ontario to €liminate the exemptions and concessions granted to mining companies. IMPERIAL BANK That the banking business of the town of Timmins be carried with the Imperial Bank of Canada Del: Villanoâ€"Bartleman. TCACâ€"1950 That the following be appointed to the Timmins Community‘. Activity Committee for 1950;: W. B. Brewer, J. D. Elliott, Archie Dillon, Jack Sulliâ€" van, Jules Badeski, Jack Downey, Lee: Partridge, Mrs. K. Johnson, ~Fred. Jackson and Councillors Del Villano.‘ Aubry and Barkwell. Aubryâ€"McDermott - | Against. Del Villano, Bartleman. â€" â€" Graceful Edwin Stefte _ Enraptures Full House A fish appears alive. It is about to COUNCIL NOTES d _ in Timminsa. Ont., EVERY THURSDAY The children had been bad‘y beaten time to time, arnd utterly neglected. Gloria ;recejved one year for this. One of the men nine months, another five. The Society took charge of the children who, after two months, became most presentable in appearâ€" ance and behaviour: The police attended to the men. Mr. Van Camp went around to the back of the house and into the kitchen where Gloria lay on the floor. The cop on duty at the back suggested that Gloria be revived. A bucket of what appeared to be rather dirty water stood on the floor by the stove. Together they slosned the contents of the bucket upon (Gloria‘s face and torso: It contained tea leaves and coffee dregs and a couple of old tomators. Gloria â€" wore rouge, mascara, lipstick and plenty of face powder. The onslosh of dirty water and coffeeâ€"dregs washed away her eyveâ€" brows, glutted her k:air and eyes with leaves, her cheeks and neck streaked with leaves, her brown dirt. The police secured a warrant to search the house and, together with Mr. Van Campâ€" whose ‘knifeq wound had been bandagedâ€"they all later returned to the house. As they enâ€" tered, the children, led by an older sister, absconded through a small rear window, and were not found for two months. Gloria, with a number of others in the house, stood preâ€" pared to fight, holding brokerf beer bottles, chair legs, sticks, in hand. The police drew their revolvers. ~Gloria retired to the kftchen where she â€"fainted, falling flat on the wet muddy floor. The Mercury Neighborhoodâ€"Y ‘Club of the Porcupine Community YMCA celebrated the second anniversary of the Club‘s organization with a véery enjoyable party and buffet supper at the Goldfields. Music for dancing wes provided by Neil Pooley‘s band. Prizes were won during the evenâ€" Ling by Shiela Sloman and Gino Puriâ€" |ficatt.i and Alice DeMarchi and Fred Zupancic. Patrons at the party were Mr. and Mrs. Gower Markle. The exhibition is comprised of some 40â€"odd paintings. It will open today, tecmorrow and on Saturday. About 160 attended the opening. ~‘There is another girl, a blonde, very young, sad â€"and beautiful, very casuâ€" ally dressed, holding a bougquet of red roses: in. her lap. She looks natural. She looks bewildered, as though she had just reached that time critical in a young girl‘s life when she realizes that she must grow. The sun is chining on one side of her face. The other side is ‘in the shade, very nicely done.. (Shadows, by Alice Cooper Fisher). leap. And the fish appears to be reâ€" moved from the painting. altogether One could almost grasp that fish â€" from the wall. It is as though there was a hole in the wall, and the fish right there. livid., (Study of a fish, by Rae Mead). During the evening Alice DeMarchi made a â€"presentation of $5.00.â€" to the YMCOA, and also announced that. the Club planned to reorganize as a Phiat Club. Markle spoke briefly to thank the girls for the donation and to congratulate hem on heir successes. was in a little place in New Mexico, at 7,500 feet above sea level. Timmins air is wonderful." Dcoes he practice often? "Every day. I came down to the theatre and practiced with the pianist before the show, try the piano, check the lights. . . ." Bu}; does he préctice every day, show or no show? "Every day.‘‘ # Everything in the program was well done, beautifully done, particuâ€" larly two of the encores, The Lord‘s Prayer and Water Boy. Zero? Piffie. Does the chill of the Porcupine affect his voice? * Mercury Nâ€"Y Club Anniversary Party Single Copyâ€"Five Cents b A SJJ h c d "Not at ali.” he | said aftrprward, ‘"The only time I ever had any trouble Grace of an Artist He was well trained. He made it seem easy. Even at the extremities of his wide range, his intonation was perfect, and produced with ease. And he was dramatic. Together with the /pianist, Collins Smith, who was very good throughout, Mr. Steffe setimes evoked pictures, carrying the audience away, so to speak, to live the song with him as he sang it. A full, rich baritone voice resoundâ€" ed throughout the Palace theatre last night. Mr. Edwin Steffe had just about everything: a wide range, tripâ€" ping diction, a pleasant mannerâ€"and a magnificent voice, which withheld the full house half an hour overtime.