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TUESDAY. SEPT. 14. 1954

speaking of Storm

Hurricane Edna was indeed no "lady"; but in destructiveness the celebrated Yankee Gale of October 3-4, 1851, far outdid the storm experienced here over the week-end. On that occasion seventy vessels engaged in the Gulf fisheries were wrecked on the rocks and sands of the North Shore. The lives lost were estimated at one hundred and sixty. Nineteen of the vessels hailed from Gloucester. Commencing at the east of the Island and continuing westward to Savage Harbour, fifteen vessels were driv- en ashore, besides a large barque from Europe in ballast. From Savage Harbour to Richmond Bay the stranded vessels num- bered seventeen; in Richmond Bay there were twenty-four, and from the latter place to North Cape seventeen came to grief.

As described in newspapers of the day, the afternoon of October 3rd was "warm and still; the sky was heavily clouded, but as yet no indications of the approaching tempest were apparent, except a lurid, brassy appearance to the north and north- west about sunset. The moon had passed her first quarter, but the dense canopy of clouds, and heavy rain, rendered her light hardly perceptible. About an hour after sunset the wind blew from the north, and soon increasedto a heavy gale, which then continued with unabated violence until near- ly noon on Sunday."

On shore the tide flooded areas never before seen under water; fields where har- vests had been recently gathered were in- undated; bridges and milldams were carried away, great forest trees blown down, and for days the roads were made impassable by windfalls. On the beaches, the windrow of wreckage was truly appalling. Many of the vessels were so completely broken as to be indistinguishable. Some vessels came ashore with bodies fastened in their rig- ging, their clothing in shreds. About fifty corpses were driven ashore between Brack- ley Point and Cavendish-a distance of only about 20 miles-within 24 hours after the storm had abated. Several were washed up weeks after the storm.

The care given to the survivors was noted gratefully in the New England press. The Lieutenant Governor had issued a pro- clamation directing ”all officers of the rev- enue, magistrates and other subjects of Her Majesty" to render all aid in their power the storm victims. But, said the Glouces- ter News of Oct. 29, 1851, "it appears from what we learn of our fishermen who have returned from the scene of the disaster that this proclamation was unnecessary, for they all speak in the warmest terms of grati- tude of the universal hospitality and kind- ness they and all the shipwrecked men re- ceived at the hands of these generous and humane Islanders."

No doubt, with modern meteorological knowledge and equipment, much of the destruction of the Yankee Gale could have been averted. But it stands as the most tragic event of its kind in our history, re- lieved only by the examples of warm com- passion and sympathy it inspired.

Pmlclont Eisenhower's Proposals

To give a proper balance to atomic de- velopment, President Eisenhower has pro- posed that quantities of raw uranium and of fissionable materials made from it be set aside to form an international pool on which all the member nations of the new agency could draw for their peaceful needs. He also proposes that a school be set up in the United States to train technicians of friendly nations in the building and use of reactors-the atomic "furnaces" for the generation of power-and that non-military atomic information be exchanged through the agency. Formal negotiations to this end have started in Washington, involving the United States and Canada first and oth- er nations of good will later.

But forone thing, and one thing only, comments the Hamilton Spectator, the fis- sion of the atom would already be harnes- sed for hcgoe and not for fear, for the bet- terment of human life and not for its de- struction. The one thing is the obduracy of the Soviet Union, on the reef of which, for nearly a decade now, every attempt to find a workable way of ending the threat of atomic warfare has been shattered. with utter cynicism the Russians have hammered the world's ears with cries of "Ban the atom bomb" while refusing to accept the system of lntemationsl inspection without which any ban would be meaningless. In conse- quence the world has beenplunged into an atomic armament race which has tum- ed attention and effort away from the oth-

thst 'are poulble in industry. medicine and almost every phase of human life.

The Eisenhower plan is a step in the right direction. If we cannot today find a way of stopping the nuclear armament race, at least every effort should be made to bring humanity the vast blessing which this gigantic new field of science is capable of offering. - '

Mr. mun And Mr. Attlso

Arthur Deakin, head of the powerful Trades Union Congress in Great Britain, evidently does not think very highly of the visit of former Prime Minister Attlee to Russia and China where, in Mr. Deakin's words, "people go and get indoctrinated". Whether the trip was wise or foolish is, of course, a matter of individual opinion, and Mr. Deakin is within his rights to call it foolish if that is the way he feels about it; but no one who knows anything about Mr. Attlee and his political record will doubt his good intentions in going on his goodwill mission or question his readiness and abil- ity to uphold the integrity of free political institutions in any controversy with the proponents of Communist totalitarianism.

It is incrediblethat Mr. Deakin or any- one else should imagine for one moment that the former Prime Minister could pos- sibly be led astray by Russian or Chinese propaganda. Even Pravda, the official Sov- iet newspaper, knows better than that; in a recent issue it attacked Mr. Attlee for suggesting that the Russians should prove their oft repeated protestations of peaceful intent by cutting down on their armaments and granting political freedom to the coun- tries they now hold in bondage.

It does not appear likely that the visit of Mr. Attlee and his entourage will do much towards creating a better feeling between the Communist powers and the free nations; for, evidently, the Commun- ists are bent on keeping the world in a state of turbulence. That does not mean. however, that the visit was a waste of time. It can do no harm for the leader of a great political party in a free country to see for himself just how the Communist philosophy works in regions where it has been converted into political action.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Finance Minister Harris seems to be following in the footsteps of his predecessor in being an optimist. Canadals economy, he says, "has nowhere to go but up." He also can be as close mouthed as Mr. Abbott, however, for he declined to tell reporters whether any tax reductions are in prospect.

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A preliminary summary of a study by the Canadian School Trustees' Association shows there are 19,996 one-room schools in this country, about 66 per cent of all school buildings. Nearly half the schools in this Province consisted of one room, compared with 16 per cent in Ontario and eight per cent in British Columbia.

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The world has been enjoying a period of remarkable stability", reports 11,0 News. The organ of the International Lab- our Organization notes that 44 countries reported consumer price increases or de- creases of 2 per cent or loss for periods of a year or longer, and 56 countries, less than 4 per cent.

The first Viscount Cecil, long known as Lord Robert Cecil, was born this date 1864. He was long an advocate of women's suffrage and was author of the bill which made women eligible to sit in Parliament. He assisted in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations and atterided the first Assembly of the League as represent- ative of the Union of South Africa. His writings include "The Way of Peace", "A Great Experiment”, "A Real Peace" and "All the Way.”

In preliminary discussion which led to the drafting of the SEATO treaty for the protection of Pacific countries it turned out that the United States was reluctant 'to go as far in the way of automatic guar- antees as some of the other governments. A commentary by W. N. Ewer is to the effect that it might have been expected that the nations directly threatened would want the more binding guarantees. In any case it upsets the Communist idea that SEATO is a mere manifestation of ."American Imper-

ialism." , . O O 0

Seasonal unemployment worries, the Canadian Construction Association as it does many people in this country. At the Maritime regional meeting the president made an eloquent appeal for having pro- jects carried out in the winter months. Much repair and maintenance can be done as readily in winter as in summer and Mr. Raymond Brunet pointed out that against some higher costs of winter construction can be balanced lower prices for off-season contracts, better supervision, availability of

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The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow

Across the barn or through a rut Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated -'him: Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her dladem.

-Emily Dickinson.

"Tugboat Annie"

News of Norway

Thousands of Americans have enjoyed reading the ”Tugboat Annie" stories created by Norman Reilly Raine. However. many may not be aware that '"l'ugboat An- nie", later made into a popular movie with Marie Drosslcr in the title role, was based on the life of I Norwegian immigrant. Ar- riving virtuaily penniless. Thea Foss and her carpenter husband Andrew, laid the foundation for the large tugboat company de- veloped by their sons.

"The Sons of Tugbont Annie." as told by Alfred L. Gehri in "Sat- urday Evening Post", reveals how Norwegian skill, thrift and hard w.ork have contributed to the de- velopment of the Pacific North- west. The story bcgan when An- drew Foss arrived in Tacoma, a stranger. with about two dollars in cash, and no credit. His main as- sets were a carpenter's tool chest, and his wife, Thea. Salvaging two huge cedar logs for floats, they beachcombed drift lumber and built themselves a float shack. They moored it at the foot of a street, near a small creek spilling: into the bay. For years this was to be home to the sons, Arthur. Wedell and Henry. and daughter Lilian, of "Tu.gbz.)at Annie.”

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One evening, a casual acquaint- ance rowed up to the float shack and asked Thea: "Know anybody who wants to buy a float cheap " "How much?" "Ten doll'::s." "Five dollars is all I'm able to offer you." It was a sale. Thus. Thea Foss began to buy, sell and rent rowboats. using the slogan.

Health:

"Always Ready," which today is the copyrighted slogan of the Foss Tug Company of Tacoma, Wash.

Complementing his wife's sngac-, ity with his own skill, Andrew: Foss started to turn out sklfts and clinker-built rawboats that were; praised as "easy running." While competitors furnished their boalsl with heavy factory-made oars of; oak or ash, Andrew equipped his with homemade oars nf feather- weight spruce. Tl'- knack of rlv-i lng his car material from llv whole log. instead of using smvrr! lumber. he had lrzirned in Nov- way. Thus, the finished spsu” oar lnmrporatcd all the strcngt" of-the natural grain of the wood.l

When the boats were finished Thea painted them green an'l white. and these are still the col- ors.of the Foss Company. The sons of The: and Andrew carryl out the color scheme in religious detail. All their tugs, barge-5.2 buildings and equipment are painted green and white. Their stationery is printed green on white, typewriters have green rib- bons and green ink is used for bookkeeping. Mother Foss was the banker. nnd her original led- gers are still treasured by her sons. She paid no stated wages, but several successful Northwest- ern businessmen got their first stake from the hands of Mother Foss. Doing all the cooking for her crews, she kept a large hen- house. pigs and a cow,

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The host business expanded as the three sons and the daughter grew up. Father Foss. as he was called. invented a balanced type of rudder which greatly facilitat- ed the handling of tugs with awk- ward tows. As they grew older. This and Andrew Foss gradually surrendered the cares of their booming business in their sons. When Mother Foss: lII('l'I. in 1927. the attendance at her funeral serg- ice set a new record for Tacoma. Father Foss passed on in 1937.

Log towing still amounts for the greatest volume of the Foss business. In the company stor- age basin. there ar, millions of

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I NOTES BY

Great mlnlng cities envisioned for Canada's northland. Now is the time to lay out parking spaces -London Free Press.

The bride of last June who used to get. her oosmelsicsyat. the drug- store is discovering she can get the same tcffcct over the kitchen stove. -Kitchener Record.

And then there was the girl who found the summer-vacation boy friend didn't look half so at.- tractlve when she saw him in

town-minus goggles, snorkel and

flippers. 5 -Hamilton Spectator.

. A 14-day reducing diet for dogs is on the market, having first been tried out on human beings. It re- mains to be seen how Towser goes for lettuce and skim milk. - Cornwall Standard - Freeholder.

Tea is being grown in Canada. This fact will amaze Canadians, says the Fort. William Times - Journal. Our primary education has pin-pointed tea as being grown in Asia, in India, China and Japan, in warmer regions than we are ac- customed to think are contained in Canada. ”Yet, it's true an 80- year-old ex-magistrate in British Columbia, last. year grew, proces- sed and packaged a thousand pounds of palatable tea which he marketed. He tried tea plants from India, but they wouldn't grow, so he is making five varieties of tea from leaves of trees native to Bri- tish Columbia. The best variety is being made from leaves of a black walnut tree. British Columbia is noted for its fruit farms and orchards. Now, another great horti- cultural industry may be in the making. Arthur William Jervis, is looking forward to the day when British-Columbia-grown tea. will supply the nation's requirements." -Sydney Post - Record.

ish -Columbia, the mast of Oregon. and as far north as the panhandle waters of Alaska. The Foss tugs tow these huge booms to the storage basin and from there to their final destination. '

The Foss Launch and Tugboat Company today owns 150 large tugboats and '70 frelghters, in ad- dition to extensive shore facilities. The sons of Tugboat Annie- Arthur, Wedell and Henry Foss, now In middle age, play a prom- inent role In business and civic life. Among their many notable achievements is laying the ground- work for the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge. linking Tacoma with the Olympic Peninsula.

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The trouble with retail food prices is the consumer. when mak- ing a purchase. is buying more than calories. Rents, taxes and labor costs have, the habit of re- maining firm or moving upward. -Farmers Advocate.

The American tourist will not come here just to look at scenery if he can find scenery Just as fine and accommodations much better in his own country or on other continents. -Victoria Times.

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PICTOU STEAMEB SERVICE

"Agreeably to requisition, a meet- ing called by the Sheriff of Queens County was held in the Court House on the evening of Tuesday

last, for the purpose of consider- ing the expendlency of forming a

company in this Island to purchase

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Jrbsro has been A good deal of 59"-Dlslnlns in tbs American press about the nuns system used by the Weather Bureau in designating hurricanes which, in- cidentally. seem to be roaming fur- ther afield that they had been in the habit of doing. (There has been I feeling abroad for some time that stmnlc and hydrogen ax- plosfons have had something to do with the increasing frequency of tornadoes and hurricanes and other atmospheric abnormalities. Hitherto the experts have repud- iated the theory, but now the pos- sibility is being discussed by me- teorologists at an international gathering in Rome. If it should turn out to be a- valid theory it would not be the first time that lay opinions have led to scienti- fic discovery.)

One paper in a community where the third hurricane of the season- Carol, by name-did considerable damage called the practice "lnap- prcpriabe and facctlou.s". Another said that meteorologists should know better than to cast unneces- sary "slurs" on the female of the human species.

There is some evidence, too, that young ladies generally don't. like the implication that seems to be involved. They argue (in letters to the editor and other orthodox media) that if the big storms must be given the names of persons it would be better, and certainly more logical, to give them boys' names. since everybody (except, presumably the weather experts) knows tha boys are more likely to be obstreperous in their tem- pera. i

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That. of course. is a matter of individual opinion; it is a very debatable point and could be ar- gued pro nnd con for hours with- out any possibility of bringing it to an amicable up cment. Just the same it does seem a bit un- chivalrous to associate the weaker sex-so-called, at any rate--with one of the most cruel and destruc- tive weapons in the arsenal of na- ture.

(Here I recall that I well known philosopher, who must remain nameless, said once that this "weak- er-Iex" business is one of the very ludicrous myths of history. Even so, it has been on the go for a long time and. because of its age, if for no other reason, is entitl- ed to respect.)

In taking note of the expruslons of indignation in the press and elsewhere, Mr. Ivsn Tsnnanhlll. a high official of the United States Weather Bureau. said that, while he had much sympathy for the viewpoints of the critics. it was a mistake to assume that the designation was a matter of whim, much less of lacetlousness. on the contrary, according to Mr. Tcnnen- hill. it. is a matter of expediency and the result of long scientific research.

a steam boat. to ply between this , , ,

port and Pictou, and if practicable, to Mlramichl. The meeting was respectably, although not very numerously, attended. The Chief Justice having been called to the

chair, several gentlemen addressed

the meeting.

"But one opinion prevailed as to the absolute necessity of keep- ing up a regular intercourse by steam with Pictou, in order to secure the advantages of a speedy communication with the parent country: but as no plan had been matured. a committee was appoint- td to ascertain, as correctly as they could, the expense of procuring I bust of not less than fifty horse- power, sdequate to ru twice a week between Charlotte wn and Plctou, and also the additional out.- lay that would be necessary to pro- vide s boat. of sufficient power to make, in addition. Miramlchi within the week. The following gentlemen were appoint- ed a committee for this purpose: Hon. T. H. I-lavlland, Messrs. Young, F. Longwnrth, Duncan, Coles, Tremaine. Bet-rs, 13:. Palmer and Capt. Swsbey."

-Royal Gazette, Sept. 22, 1840.

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