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THE DAILY EXAMINER.
18387.
ea SO AD UR VRS CT CREE Bee Death of an Esteemed Citizen.
W. MILLNER, ol
Counarp Roy AJ Mip-Ocran, Sept. 6, 1887. Youn readers are, | am aware, always} reste in the welfare of Islanders
Mr. Gro this city, Lie trddenly last night. Mr, Millner had t well fe the last ten days, and = last |
eve it eight o'clock calledat Dr. Tay. |
1 nsulted him for the first
ti He was then very ill and breathing |
with great dificulty, although he was able |
se W h le Dr Taylor was |
“it instructions how to use the!
e Mr. Millner suddenly rose trom |
his sud said | could not hve und |
Ww twenty nutes after was dead. |
th i h was probably iwestion | I lunes
i leceased was a good citizen and a 1 ‘ \ tic was an artist of c nsider : ‘ 3: ins paintings ol the late | Hoi J G P pe and the pre sent Sheriil
Curtis will be testimony to that fact and stand close scrutiny. As a platform speaker i lilluer had few equals in Charlotte-
wn; his speeches being w ell delivered and
wavs to the point In early years he was a Conservative in politics and a strong supporter of the late Hon. J. C. Pope whom he much admired. In later years he
r, joined the Liberals and became
an ardent supporter of the Blake party.
Mr. Millner was also a consistent temper.
} } } ince men and a power in the ranks of the
Dominion Alliance.
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The P. E. Island Exhibition. 1887.
luis annual display of the products of
soil andthe industry of the people, which is to be held at Chariottetown on the Sth and 6th of October, will embrace some
h cannot fail to make this
A Terrible Experien oe.
i he Dey
FATE OF THE LILIAN BAXTER.
Man Drowned, Others Rescued.
(ine the!
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Islanders Among the Number.
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Mar Sreamsuir | MBRIA, |
road. and an account of the rescue of @
THREE MONTHS ABROAD.
England, Scotland, Wales and Norway,
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As Seen by a Tourist
INTERVIEW WITH MR. E. HH. NORTON,
Mr. UL. ti. Norvron yives an interesting account of his three wonths trip abroad. In conversation with an EXAMINER repre- sentative he said that he Jeft the Island on the 2ist June last, and crossed from Rimouski to Liverpool in the 8. 8. Pari- sian. The run across, which took nine days, owing to fog, was uneventiul. The
} woke yaw ) » hy : lew- ° ‘ . : . pw reckKe d crew on the banks of Ne Ww Parisian is, he says, a splendid ship, first-
four of the crew being from P. E. Island—cani scarcely prove other than interesting. We left New York on the Umbria, of the Cunard Line on Saturday morning, Sept. 3rd at 6 o'clock, and, drop- ping our pilot off Sandy Hook lightship at 8 o'clock, started on our Atlantic voyage under peculiarly favorable circumstances, bluest of skies and a placid sea. Little did we imagine that at that very time, away & thousand miles to the eastward of us the poor fellows whom we afterward rescued were passing through a hurricane or cyclone which came within an ace of engulfing them all. We earried fine weather with us, and at noon Sunday were 501 knots from Sandy Hook, and at noon on Monday we had run 436 knots further, and this to your readers who are acquainted with ocean travel will show that the fastest boat in the werld was making an effort to break the record. On Monday afternoon abvut half past three o'clock word passed quickly around the ship that there was
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SOMETHING STRANGE ON OUR STARBOARD BOW,
new teatures wii Ship life is a hum-drum sort of existence, a Exhibition excel predecessors. First | follow-on each day of unbroken expanse among the new features may be mentioned | of water, with now and then a _ passing . exhibits of the Canada Pacific Railway. | Steamer or sailing vessel, and when any- mite aa : ** | thing of the nature of a wreck appears the Mor this display their agent at Montreal! ..-icement grows simply intense. In a few 1s applied for 120 feet of wall space, with | moments the course of the Umbria was y tables in fi This indicates on the | changed, and we gradually approached the
srt of the Company a laudable desire to object w hich pow assumed the appearance rs Marit | of a small vessel with the American tlag up-
“eT side down, as a signal of distress. All this Provin sup tie 1U is of the ime one of the ship’s boats had been got- Northwest , ne no Pro-| ten ready, and was hanging on the davits
| Ey nines Sp her | Over the side, awaiting the word to lower
. ' away, which was given, and soon the
Marit c FOWIC : 5 ; schooner was under the lee of the big
y4 decided to show their exhibits at | Qunarder. We could count thir Provincial Exhibition, which will} teen men. on the deck of the schooner
of the kind ever
iaryest
held.
The travelling arrangements with the P. E. Island Railway, the Steam Naviga- tion Company and the Intercolonial Rail- vay ne exceedl igly lay rable, cannot fail t ring iarge numbers from the ont- vil ts the Island, and also tend to lt many of the people of our two S18 7 Dn to embrace the facilities fi y way of Point du Chene and Pic- tou Landimg to pay L visit to the grand rat! f the products of the soil of the (ral Guill, which we thir | compare favorably with those to } ited by the Great Pacitic Rail* way pit »° iy
L, ir farmers only go to work in good earnest and exhibit their grain and vege- tables and we have no fears as to the result of th Olpa©rison.
Let the exhibitors of Prince aud King’s
Counties. who will be prize winners at the
County Exhibitions next week, forward to
the General Exhibition their prize grain and other prize produ ts, and thus con tribute towards the Grand Provincial Show of 1837. Another feature of the Exhibition this year is separating the competition between nported and Island bred horses—as speci- tied in the prize lists. This is a step in the it will tend to increase Island-bred stock,
the owners of which heretofore had to enter
right direction, as
the competition, among
their horses in the same sections with im- ported horses, where, as might be reason- ably expected their chances for winning prizes were comparatively small.
the show
in the Drill Shed are now in
T usual preparations on
grouwes and progress, and as far as the limited space will admit, they will, we have no doubt, be
well tilled in all classes and sections, with one of the largest and best exhibits ever witnessed at any of our shows
Railway Improvements.
Tae old wooden railway bridge which has spanned Curt Creek at Mil m, since the . [sland R v irst built has
en replaced by a substantial iron structure mstructed at le railwy hops in Ch town. r} new bridve has three mans, each 26H teet in length, the columns and girders, each built of old rails braced With rails and plate iron,
ind laid on a very stroug foundation of stone, whieh has been sunk from ten to twelve feet belew the bed of the rive: Ihe bridge stands twenty feet from the bottom of the stream, .ad its total length over all is eighty-one feet. Jt is covered with pitch pine plates, and the sleepers are of red pine. <A strong guard rail 1{ wood plated with iron, for safety in case ot
ident, is pl iced on each side “of the track.
ill the wood and iron work is painted. ine whole structure presents a very strong and pleas ng appearance | is sal l DY com petent juiiges to be the best bridge on the Is-
oe ’ . land?railway. It is very creditable to the
Mechanical Superintend: n*, and those under whos iperinténdence the work was com- plet
A nunber of other improvements have been rena mg the lin \ new stone culvert has
r Sherwood Cemetery, and an-
ot bei built near Tignish. Other stoi ily 5 e also » be built where need-
l ' STs lve Sos station lave | b re paired ant repainted, and ata Lai ge some OT Munty hus bern vxpentl: ed Un Uallasting.
in their ojlskins, all ready to be taken off. No time was lost, and our boat quickly rowed ever tothem and with the help of two of the schooner’s dories, the men with their effects -were on. the. Umbria. (me of their dories was hoisted on our deck
» be taken to Liverpool as a curiosity, the ther one was turned adrift, and we steam- ed off on our course, having saved the lives f thirteen men aid lost only 40 minutes of
soon
our time. The last man whe left. the schooner set fire to her down below, and “aS we le ft her behind the fi WuCs
were coming out of the forward companion- way, a sad and thrilling sight. In conver- captain | gained the fol- The schooner was
sation with the intrormaction ‘STILIAN BAXTER,”
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f. and from Gloucester, Mass., 91 togs, which place she left on Friday, August 12, ona cruise to the Banks of Newfound- land for halibut. She had been fairly suc- cessful up to the day;of the disaster. Saturday morning, Sept. 3, about 6 o'clock, «» heavy wind began to blow; in the words of the sailors, ‘‘at 6 it blew fresh, at sit was a gale, at LO it was a_ hurricane, and after that 1don’t know what youcall it.” One and all of the reseued agree that in their various experiences at sea they never saw the wind blow so hard. At 11 o’clock the three men on deck on watch were D. McQuarrie; Alonzo McMaster and Randall Purch, and fortunately all the rest were be- low, when an enormous wave struck the schooner and sent her right on her beam ends. The three men went overboard, and as the vessel righted the main-mast broke off short at the deck, and the fore-mast about ten above the deck, and went over the side on top of the men. The Capt. thinks the seaman, Purch,*of Canso, N. 5., was probably struck by the main mast and killed, as he was not seen afterwards; the other two, though badly bruised, managed to get out from beneath the rigging and masts, and catching ropes were hauled on board. The next care was to cut away the debris from the side of the schooner as they feared the broken masts would knock a hole in her side, and then they were com- pletely at the mercy of the gale, which raged for three more hours and then grad- ually subsided. When the gale began there was another large fishing schooner in sight, and when it subsided she had
fO THE BOTTOM WITH
To show the fearful force of the
Tone
GONE ALL HANDS,
gale it is
only necessary to state that when the vessel went..on her beam ends the only canvas. set was a reefed topsail.
The schooner was now so completely ai the mercy of the waves, not having any means f rigging a jurymast, that all the captain
suld do was to remain patiently where he was (fortunately onthe line of the New York outgoing steamers), and wait to be picked up. The accident happened in latitude 43.12, longitude 51.18. The names of the Islanders aboard were James A. Mc- Kinnon (Captain), of St. Peter's; Alex. and John Nicholson (brothers), of East Point, and George McKay, of Murray Har- bor, seamen. The Nicholsons are relatives of your townsman, Mr. Henry B. Smith, who will, no doubt, be pleased to hear of their rescue. The captain and sailors will all be put to a good deal of loss, as they go oat on these fishing cruises on speculation, recelving as their wages a certain per- centage of the catch of fish, and now it will take them some time to get back from England and get to work again. They speak in high terms of their treatment on beard the Umbria. It is said that Island-
ers are to be met with anywhere. Well, I nust confess that thig is.the first time I ive met them coming on board an ocean
stealper in the meddle vf the Atlaatig
class in all her appointments,and passengers are treated with every kindness. After re- maining in Liverpool a few days and seeing everything possible, he set out on a trip across the country to Wales, He remained in Wales several weeks, ‘* doing” the principal watering places and visiting the various points of interest. He says that in Wales the crops are very short owing to the extensive drouth, and everyone. is praying for rain. Wales isthe great tin- plate centre, about nine-tenths of the world’s output being from Swansea alone. A visit to these works, he says, is very. in- teresting, especially to the P. E. Islander. Those of the manufacturers and farmers throughout Wales as well as in England and
Scotland, whom he interviewed on the subject, are all ery ing out against the free efitrance of
goods from America, Russia, Germany and other places. The manufacturers almost all state that unlessthe desired protection is given, their industries nimst ma few years, go the wall. THROUGH ENGLAND AND GLASGOW.
From Wales he went through England to Glasgow. The complaint about a shortage in the crops owing to drouth was also heard
there. He remained in Glasgow just one week. He says that perhaps the most in-
teresting place to the tourist is St. Mungo’s Cathedral. The Cathedral was erected in the twelfth century, and its crypt as well as the windows are, he thinks, the finest in the world, The last window was put in by Queen Victoria, and cost £1500, The organ, which is a magnificent one, was pre- sented to the chureh, and cost £2,500. However, the great attraction there’ was the ‘*Scotch Fair,” and, as in daty bound, he was one of who attended and enjoyed themselves. He next went down the Clyde to have .a look at the famous shipyards. Many of these yards, he re gretted to say, were idle. In one yard he noticed two steamers in process of coastrue- tion forthe P. & 0. Co, steamers will average about 8,500 toms, and when finished will, he thinks, be the finest passenger steamers in the world.
those
ON TO EDINBURGH, He returned by rail through Paisley to Edinbugh. He considers Edinburgh the most beautiful city he ever saw. Among
the places of interest he visited while.there may be mentioned Holyrood Castlé and Palace, the Princess Park, the Bridge of Leith, Sir Walter Scott’s birthplace, graye and movument—the latter 202 feet in height, and pronounced one of the most beautiful in the world. Here also are the cottage in which Scotland’s bard, Robert Burns, for some time lived, and the monument which marks his grave. The cottage, he says, is still in a good state of preservation. The house in which John Knox was born is also in good repair, and on the front, in old English characters, can be read the words: ‘*t Love God above all, and your neighbor as yourself.” The grave of John Knox is inthe middle of the street, and is passed over by hundreds of people daily. WHAT HE THINKS OF NORWAY.
From Leith he took the Norwegian steamer Kong Olaf,andafter a rough passage of three days landed at Stavanger in Nor- way. Stavanger, he says, is a quaint old wooden town, and like most of the towns in Norway, contains little of interest to the traveler. Norway itself, is however, es- pecially interesting. The mountains rise right out of the water toa height of be- tween 3,000 and 4,000 feet. The water is clear and bright, and is in what the natives call fjoirds or inland lakes, some of which are hundreds of fathoms deep, The moun- tains appeared to him to be of hard granite, and he did not notice any signs of vegeta- tionupon them. The tops are covered with very deep snow, through. which the traveler must pass even in the. month of July. The valleys by the edge of the lakes are simply beautiful. The waterfalls, al- though nothing in — size compared with Niagara, are much more picturesque, rush- ing, as they do, out of the’ mountains at a height of from 2,000 to 3,000 feet.
TRAVELLING IN NORWAY.
When the traveller shakes the snow of the mountains from his feet, and descends to the villages in the valleys below, the change is great indeed. These villages each boast of at least one good hotel at which English is spoken. ‘Travelling on the fjoirds is done chiefly in small steamers, although in some cases, such as across small lakes of nine or ten miles, open row buats are used, as there is not wind enough for sails. Over the mountain roads, which he was informed were constructed at an enormous cost, the travelling is all done on carioles. The cariole is a small seat nicely padded with leather, and set on wooden springs between two wheels after the manner of au old-fashioned gig. These vehicles carry but one passenger, and the driver sits ona wooden bar across the back behind the seat. The carioles are drawn by small, sure-footed mountain horses.
RETURNING TO THE OLD COUNTRY.
After a drive across the country, Mr. Norton took the steamerat Bergenon return to Scotland. After a few days pleasant-
several weeks at the chief watering-places, At Swansea he met Captain Richards, of Prince Edward: Island, by whom he was
Uovan. Rvvers
cotdinily révelved, He abst spétiky very
Each of these’
ly spe in Scotla 3 proceede ) yt i i, a Pe y spent yn Scotland, he procec ded u the ' Prince County Exhibition. South of Wales, where he enjoyed himself
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highly of the treatment he received at the ! hands of the captain’s brother. IN LONDON.
From Wales he went to London. While there he visited the American Exhibition to which Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show is at- tached. He speaks favorably of the Exhibi- tion proper, but thinks with many others, that Bill’s show is calculated to give the Englishmen a terrible wild idea of life in America. Bill himself admits that his show is a big fraud, but as it is successful in drawing about $10,000 a day from the gullible Briton, he says he can stand it, at least as long as the people can. The other great sights of London were also seen but as they are already well known to most of our readers they need not be gone over here.
FROM LONDON HOME.
Leaving London he visited Southampton, Bournemouth, Salisbury, Bath and Bristol, and passed through the Severn tunnel (which is four miles in length) to Cardiff. From Cardiff he went to Sheffield, Bir- mingham, Malvern, Derby and Manches- ter; and took in the ‘‘mammoth” exhibi- tion there, with which he was very much pleased. After a pleasant sojourn in Man- chester he returned to Liverpool, and sailed thence on the Polynesian for Rimouski. The Polynesian left Liverpool twenty-four hours after the Oregon with the English mail,and was at Rimouski nine hours ahead of the latter steamer—thus showing a gain of thirty-three hours over the mail steamer. From Rimouski Mr. Norton proceeded home direct, arriving on Monday evening
as already stated,
NEW YORK THE ST&AMBSHIP
“MIRANDA”
ie intended to leave
CHARLOTTETOWN FOR NEW YORK,
VIA HALIFAX,
ABOUT THE
6th OCTOBER.
HORSES and CATTLE carried at through rates to Bermuda and West Indies.
Through Bills of Lading issued to Philadelphia, Baltim re, Savannah, Bermuda, West Indies, Londen, Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Hamburg, and other European Ports.
For freight or passage apply to FENTON T. NEWBRERY,
Ch’town, Sept. 20, 1887.
Auction Sale.
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House and Premises.
I AM iastructed by the trustee of the estate of John Hughes to sell by Auction THURSDAY,
September 22nd, at 12 o’clock, noon, on the premises, that conveniently situated Two Story Dwelling House, with Mansard roof on Svduey Street, opposite the residence of W. H. Figdes, K.sq,
Good title with immediate possession will be given.
Terms at sale, A. McNEILLL, ; Auctioneer. Sept. 15, 1887.
TAMARAC
Alderman RE, Elbeck, Kingston, Ont., says: ‘‘Tamarac Elixir” is the best medicine on earth for Coughs and Colds. In my own case it produced rapid and gratifying results. I caught a severe cold which it seemed inipos- sible to break up, but continually became more thoroughly seated. Finally a hacking cough set in which troubled me day and night, causing soreness of the.Lungs. Hearing your ‘*Tamarac” highly recommended, I procured a bottle. The first dose eased the cough, and one bottle completely cured me. It is a splen- did preparation, pleasant to the taste, and should be kept in every house.
Sept. 21, 1887—ecd & wky
PE ISLAND RAILWAY,
County Exhibitions,
REtTU RN TICKETS at one first-class fare will be issued by this Railway, as under, in con- nection with the Prince and King’s County Exhi- bition :
From all Stations East of Royalty Junction to Summerside, by Forenoon Tra‘ns, on Sept. 27th inst.; from Charlottetown, Cape Traverse and Intermediate Stations by Forenoon ‘Trains on September 28th. and from ‘Tignish and Interme- diate. Stations by Special Train and Forenoon Regular ‘Train on September 28th, all Tickets being good to return up to and on 3uth inst., in connection with Prince County Exhibition.
From Stations on Souris Branch to George- town, by Afternoon Train, on Sept. 2*th inst., to partics in charge of exhibits; frum all stations west of Royaltv Junction to Georgetown by the Tignish Accommodation Train, on 5 -pt. 22th, and from Charlottetown, Souris and Intermediate Stations by Forenoon Trains on Sept, 29th, all tickets being good to return up to and on Oct, Ist, 1887, in Connection with the King’s County
Exhibition. . 5 J. UNSWORTH., Acting Superintendent.
Railway Office, Ch‘town, Sept. 19, 1887. —ex pat eod wky prs 1 wk
PE ISLAND RAILWAY.
Prince County Exhibition.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER
SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Tignish for Summerside at 4 45 a. m., on Sept. 2%th inst.; ! returning will leave Summerside at 5.15 p. m., | carrying Passengers and Exhibits to and from |
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. Retarn Tickets by this train at one first-class . are. i J, UNSWORTH,
Acting Superintendent. |
Railway Officy; Churlottetiwn, Sept. 19 1887. , ~&X pat eo wky prs lwk
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