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rerms:—Five DoLLaARs a YEAR.

NEW SERIES.

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| CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1886. i ; W ‘either side did not meet with their approval. SUB AY. | They thought in a great and substantial

sop.

6,500 HATS

Hail

4 terly. half-yearly, or yearly advertisements, = aie a E. PR 7e | ° 3 mI 9

WILL BE SOLD CHEAP.

ALMANAC FOR APRIL, 1886.

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THROUGH TICKETS |

Charlottetown Ticket Agency.

fie ROUGH TICKETS for sale to all parts of Canada and the United States, at the very lowest possible rates. Write for rates maps, time tables, etc. G. A. SHARP, Station Master and Ticket Agent,

P. E. I. Railway.

March 19—2aw wky 3mo

INTERNATIONAL S.S. CO.

Leave St. John for Boston, via Eastport and Port- land, every Tuesday and Thursday, at 8.00 a. m. Fare from Charlottetown to Boston, 86,50, 2nd cles 5-99.50, Ist class. , ‘or tickets and other information apply to G. A.SSHARP, F. W. HALES, ri. a de Be Bee P. E. L Steam Nav. Co. or to your nearest Ticket Agent.

Feo 8, 1886-—eod wky

L. ARTHUR & CO, GEN FERAL

0

JOST of this stock has been bought at about 30 per cent.

\ less than regular prices, given in every line.

therefore Big Bargains will be

For Style, Quality and Low Price we

leave all other competitors behind.

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Sign of the BIG HAT, 74 Queen Street.

> 0 4013 2, Ch’town, March 20, ’86—eod wky

ie

MOURNING GOODS a Specialty.

BLACK SICILLIENNE, BLACK GROSGRAIN SILKS, BLACK OTTOMAN SILKS, BLACK SATIN DUCHESSE, BLACK BROO’D VELVETS, BLACK LYONS VELVETS, BLACK LOUIS VELVETEENS, BLACK MERINOS,

BLAOK CASHMERES,

BLACK SERGES, BLACK CRAPE CLOTH,

BLACK GRENADINE, &c., &c., CRAPES (Cortauld’s) &., &., &e.

Ch'town, March 20, 1886.

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LOOO TAPE HATS and BONNETS

at 10¢c.

each,

This is a job lot of Ladies’ and Chil- dren’s Hats, Baby Bonnets, &., bought at @ great sacrifice and must be sold at once. Many of the Bonnets, with Tinsel Trg, are worth five times the price.

Hamburg Edgings, 200 Patterns to select from. Excellent Value.

LACE CURTAINS, ROOM PAPER,

CARPETS.

‘0:

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FLOUR!

WHOLESALE

Matchless, Kent,

FLOUR!

AND RETAIL.

70.

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We keep all the Choice Brands on hand, such as—

Victory, Forest City, Queen, Our Favorite, City Mills, brls. and half-bris, &c.

— ALSO —

vommission Merchants, oporoR PASTRY, in half-barrels.

12) ATLANTIC AVENUE,

BOSTON, MASS.

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CAUTION.

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Feb. 25, 1886 -2aw & wky

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IN BRONZE LETTERS.

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Oct, 2,

/

BOOKS A SPEVILALTY. aw A Share of Patronage Solicited.

JAMES

QUEEN

Ch town, Feb, 23, ‘86.4

BOOK-BINDING. PAPER-RULING

—-AND——

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D.

20:

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Seen ee ee A eal

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TAYLOR,

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W. WHATLEY, Produce and Commission Merchant,

1 PECIAL attention given to consignments,

‘ Large storage accommodation, — Satisfaction guaranteed,

269 Barrington Si.. Halifax, N. 8. March 24-~3mos eod

BARCLAY & U0. ~ ~GENERAL Commission & Shipping Mershants,

191 Atlantic Avenue. Boston.

a years’ experience in this market, Over fifty thousand bushels P. E: 1 potatoes received by us last fall. Oar patrons all. satisfied. Vessels chartered for potato freights at short notice. Write for market reports, : wa Specialties

ned Lobsters, Eggs.

March 17, 86 =

AE TO IRVE

I RAVE secured reserved space at the

Indian & Colovial Exhibition, Loudon,

Potatoes, Mackérel, Can-

8mo eod

and 1 propose to personally attend to an Exhibit of Models and Samples of Inventions and Manufactures I will sell patents or negotiate fer capital for those who wish to

start manufacturing; and general'y act as Agent for those who cannot attend personally.

To parties wishing patents, I can secure patents in Fngland, Canada and foreign coun-

tries, at low rates.

H. F. COOMBS:

& Patent Agent, 34 Dock St., John, N. B.

March 26, ’86—Imo eod

Inventors’ ¢

mn T : Executors Notice.

HE undersigned Executors of the last will

and testament of the late Hugh Perkins, of Charlottetown, ‘vader, deceased, hereby notify all having any legal claims azainst his estate, to exhibit the same, duly attested to them within six months from this date, and all persons owing said estate are required to make immediate payment to them, er to Mr. R. H. Crawford, who is authorized to collect and give receipts FRED PERKINS, RICHARD HEARTZ,

Executors.

persons

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> SAD BIE

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at 10 o’clock a.m.,(Stand

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must be made handed over to the'r Attorney.

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March 29th, 1886—mar31 2wks eod wy Imo

T) Lobster Packers, FOR > SALE.

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‘Senator Howlan's Speech

| |

THE

Gn the Second Reading of the Bill to Incorporate the Northumber- land Straits Railway Coe.

THE SCHEME DESCRIBED.

ee

ISLAND VINDICATED.

THE

Hon. Mr. How ian moved the second eeading of Bill (K), ‘An Act to incorpor- ite the Northumberland Straits Railway Company. He said—This is a Bill to con- struct a tunnel between Cape Traverse and Cape Tormentine. The Company is to have a capital of $5,000,000 in shares of $100 each. The Bill gives powers to amal- gamate with other lines of railway, either in Prince Edward Island or New Bruns- wick, and to build branch lines. The other conditions of the Bill are the usual and necessary conditious with regard to issuing stock, and fixing the time fur the beginning and completion of the work. Since I had the honor of addressing the House last year on this subject we have gathered a good dea) of information regarding the con- scruction of this subway, and I know that a great many hon. gentlemen here think it is a matter of very novel construction, but if we look back at the history of novelties since the commencenient of this century, we will (ind that a great many opinions on matters, that are now beyond any question of consideration, have settled themselves. For instance, on the introduction of rail- ways in England, in 1819, a writer in the British Quarterly Review stated :—

“Wecannot but laugh at an idea so impracti-

eable as that of a ey road of iron upon which travel may be conducted by steam. Can anything be more utterly absurd and laughable than a steam wagon propelled and moving twice as fast as our mail coaches.” {+ So again with regard-to the imtroduction of gas. Many anecdotes are told about William Murdock, in connection with his discovery, towards the close of the last century, of combustible air or gas, An English paper says :

“So little was the invention understood and be- lieved in by those who had not seen its use, that even great and wise men laughed at the idea. ‘How could there be a light without a wick?’ said a member of Parliament, when the subject was brought before the House. Sir Humphrey ridiculed the idea of lighting towns by gas, and asked one of the proprietors if he meant to take the dome of St. Paul’s for a gas metre. Sir Walter Scott made himself very merry over the idea of illuminating London by smoke, though he was gladenough, not so long after, to make his own house at Abbotsford light and cheerful on wintry nights by the use of that very smoke. W hen the House of Commons was lighted by gas the architect imagined that the gas ran on fire through the pipes, and therefore insisted on their being placed several inches from the wall for fear of the building taking fire, Tbe members might be observed touching the pipe with their gloved hands, and wondering.why they did not feel warm. ‘The first shop lighted in London by this new method was Mr, Ackerman’s, in the strand, in 1810; and one lady of rank was so delighted with the brilliancy of the gas lamp on the counter that she asked to be allowed to take it home in her carriage.”

More recently the building of the Suez Canal was locked upon as a matter that certainly was not. necessary to the age, and was scouted by the very best econ- omists in England, and on the Continent ; but we find now more than 25,000 tons of shipping pass through that canal daily, and frequently one or two days elapse before a steamer can get an opportunity of passing through. But in the matter of progress in that way perhaps nothing is more wonder- ful than

OUR RAILWAY SYSTEM.

At the time of Confederation, nineteen years ago, there was about 2,000 miles of railway in the Dominion; now we have some 10,000 miles of railway, and so it is with a great many other matters. Last year when I introduced this project to the House as a novel matter I had not consult. ed many able engineers on the subject. I have since done so and I shall trouble the House with a statement of their opinions as I proceed further. Since I last addressed the House on the subject we have surveyed four lines between Cape Tormentine and Cape Traverse and ascertained the character of the bottom, asample of which I have here on my desk. After we take off some six feet of sand and mud we come to some 60 feet of brick clay : nothing better could be found in which to lay a tunnel of this na- iture. In surveying those lines we took | soundings every 50 feet, so that we very accurately ascertained the state of the bot- tom, and we found rock at only one sound- ing, so that we have at the bottom every- thing necessary “for laying’ the tupnel. | Wejfound the?depths of water to vary from lone to thirteen fathoms. For about ten

‘miles of the way the water is over ten fathoms, and where the two tides come to- gether, as they doin the Straits from the East and the West twice a day, the salt which has fallen from the water has made a regular plateau under the Straits, bear- ing about the same comparison to a level ‘surface as the desk 1 am now standing at ‘does to the floor. Nature’ has, therefore, done a very great deal for us. We also found that the distance across was not 80 great as had been anticipated—that it was only seven nautical miles from shore to shore. I have prepared a working plan which shows that the distance between the |piers on the both sides is about five miles. |Last year the

' ESTIMATED COST OF THE WORK

‘was about $3,000,000; but when I placed this project before engineers, the idea of our continuing or making wooden piers on

Sincie Copigs Two CENTS VOL. 18---NO, 123

work like this the piers should be of iron,and

consequently it will cost more than was at

tirst estimated. One of the great questions which seemed to agitate the minds of many hon. gentlemen, and very properly so, waa with regard to theice. They feared the icebergs would come down through the Straits and sometimes ground, and if they grounded over the pipe they would entirely destroy the work. It was certainly a very important matter, and I have investigated it so as to be in a position to show the Howse that with regard to the ice there are no difficulties in the way... In the first place, the Strait of Northumberland is about 150 miles south of the iceberg cur- rent. The iceberg current comes down the St. Lawrence between Anticosti and St. Peul; avd is met by the Strait of Belle Isle current, and the united currents flow around the Cape North of Cape Breton : therefore no icebergs can be carried through the Straits of Northumber- land. I have here a chart which shows clearly and distinctly where the ice curren's are. It is clear therefore that

NO ICE WILL BE ENCOUNTERED

in that way, but if ice would be carried to the Straits of Northumberland the first shal- low water it wouli encounter is st a dis- tance of 25 or 30 miles from north of Cape Traverse* From Summerside to Shediac there is a depth of three to six fathoms of water less than where we propose to put this tunnel through. But so as to set the matter at rest | made further invegtiga- tions, and found that the Dominion Government had sent in 1879 a com- missioner, in the person of Henry F. Me- Leod, to examine and report upon the building of the piers, and to gather all the information he could with regard to the crossing of the Straits of Northumberland, so a8 to place the Government in a position to arrive at an intelligent opinion with re- gard to this question of winter. crossing. Mr. Mcleod was given some 36 questions to which he was to get answers from, _per- sons living inthe vicinity of the Straits, Amongst those questions are two, the 22nd and 23rd, that have some immediate bear- ing on the subject now under tne considera- tien of the house. The 2/nd question was ‘What isthe usual thickness of ice in the Straits?’ and the 23rd was ‘Have you ever known it to ground in mid-channel ? The first one examined was Thomas Allen, 5V years old, who hes had experience in the winter crossing all his life; was contractor for the English mails at one time, and had crossed as a hand in the ice-boats ; for the last twenty years had been employed im aiding the ice-boa‘’s, etc. In reply to ques- tion 22 he seye that the

THICKNESS OF THE ICE IN THE STRAITS

is ‘* from two to twenty feet,” and in reply to question 23, ‘* have never seen it ground in mid-channel.” The next evidence is from Smith McGlashing and David Mulls, the former of whom had crossed for fifteen and the latter for nine years. In reply to the 22nd question, McGlashing says, ** Field ice from two to three feet.” Then we have the evidence of Arthur Irving and Lewis Muttart, both of whom had long experience in crossing the Straits in

winter. To question 22 both reply, “From one foot to twenty feet,” and to question 23, ‘‘ Never.” Phil-

lips F. Irving, with fifty years’ experience of crossing the straits, says the ice is ‘‘ from two to twenty feet thick,” and in reply to question 23 says ‘‘ No.”

I think, therefore, that the matter is en- tirely set at rest. But to prevent injury to the tunnel from ice in any possible way, we propose to sink the tunnel in mid channel to such a depth as will afford ample protect- ion, and there is no difficulty in doing so. I may say with regard to the height of the waves in the Straits it is not more than 20

feet. Therefore, when we sink this tube, as we propose to do, to at least 36 feet below high water, there

will be no difficulty from either waves or ice. Another question which seemed to agitate the minds of hon. gentlemen last year was with regard to the ventilation. Some hon. members thought the tunnel would up with smoke, and as a conse- quence very unpleasant results would arise therefrom. That difficulty can be very easily met. I took the trouble to go and see a locomotive which

CONSUMES ITS OWN SMOKE,

and is thus described in the Ame ican Mail of November, 1885 :

“The Brook smoke-consuming locomotive, America, now being tried on the Boston and Albany Raiiroad, weighs forty-three tons, and is an odd-looking machine, with the smoke-stack immediately in front of the cab. The flues go forward from the fire box in the usual way, and then doubling upon themselves return to the smokestack. The heating surface is thus practically doubled, and twelve of the return tubes being above the water line and larger than the lower tubes, the steam is toa great ons superheated. The gases and cin- ders in their long course from fire box to smoke- stack are consumed. The inventor claims that the saving of fuel is at least 15 percent. Thus far the America has secmed to answer all rea- sonable requirements, and a machine of that nature is evidently the machine of the future.”

The question with regard to smoke in the tunnel can therefore be very easily dis- posed of. But to show that no difficulty is likely to arise with respect to smoke, it is proposed to put in two automatic steam pumps, working one at each end ; these are very like spring clocks. As soon as the indicator shows that there is impurity, they go to work and pump out the impure air, ao that no difficulty can arise in the direc- tion of ventilation. No doubt my proposi- tion last year took very many gentlemen by surprise, but when I tell them that the same proposition, with a very little altera- tion, is proposed in the Jron Age to cross from Dover to Cape Grisnez in France, 23} miles, the only difference being in the

thickness of the shell, and-@hat this has met with the approval of very eminent engineers in England, they will be no longer surprised. At the present time there is being built across the Mersey a

subway. ( To be Continued.)

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