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Evening Daily (founded 1007) $1.50, 'tdollvarad or by mall) in Canada. and $2.00 for U.8.A. `
Saturday Weekly (founded 1887) 81.00 por annum by'
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ln fhe'niidst of the crash of the nations, the daily.
expenditure of billions of money, the death of thous- ands of'1rien'on the battlefields and the desolation of_ homes in_ei/,ery part of the world, the collapse of the Quebec Bridge span, the death of ten men and the probable loss of several millions of dollars, may seeni like ;i small thing comparatively. Yet the accident, as recorded in our telegranis yesterday, is nothing short of a national calamity. In addition to the re-_ grettable loss of lives and serious injuries to others there is tilt: failure in engineering skill which alone is ii calamity. The best scientific skill iii the world was consulted, the plans were laid with elaborate care, ev- ery precaution that human ingenuity could devise or-- suggest was taken and the feat of placing the span in ~ position was awaited with intense interest by the scientific ,world Tp the very moment of the collapse everything looked promising. Thousands of men and women iifatclied the stupendous structure rise from its floats on its way up to the supports, 150 feet above it, which were to hold for all time to come the ends of the steel chain connecting the lower and upper sides of the Sl. I._awreiice, the link iii the great Trziiiscontiiientzil Railway, when something
snapped and the skill and the energy ami the iiigenui- I ty of the ctigiiicers, the labor of years and the pro-
iluct of millions of money, plunged to the bottom of
the sea and the gap between the piers was spanned a
only by space and failure. It was a colossa‘ calamity and niusi have well nigh broken the hearts
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of the engineers whose child it was. I
Great as ivas the calamity and disappointment,
however, the span will yet be built, the missing liiik iii the Transcontinental will be supplied. Engineering skill, baffled it is true, will yet triumph over this dif- ficulty which only within our own day has ceased to be an impossibility. Iiiipossibility it has been up to the present, but the impossibilities of the present are the workable problems of the future and the spanning of the St. Lawrence will yet be accomplished. . The story of the Quebec Bridge is familiar to our
readers. The construction of the bridge was not or- iginally a part of the N. T. R. scheme. It has long been :i dream of Quebec people that the great river would be spanned near the Ancient Capital. Long
before the N. T. R. was thought of, the bridge was a
discussed and in 1899 the coiistruction wasundertak- cn by :i private company with a subsidy front the Dominion §iovernment,'the actual work being done. by an American Bridge Co. i One of the greatest disasters in engineering history
took place when this initial span collapsed on August 29, 1907; carrying with it more than eighty engineers and ii'orknieii_ The loss in money to the Govern - ment was enormous between subsidies paid out and guaranteed bonds. The total loss was about eight
_ _ sue ' ` ' ~ million dollars. ‘ Ceeded m Securing very credltablc Speclmens °f
_The Government then took over the responsibili- ties ofthe bridgeand after a Royal Commission had iiivestigated the failure, appointed a board of three' eminent engineers to prepare a design for a new struc- titre. Tenders were invited for the new bridge ini- ].une, 191o._ In response, thirty-five different proposi- tions were submitted from engineers in Great Britain, the United States, Canada and German _ After lon
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consideration the board finally recommended-the ac? tieptaiice of the design submitted by the St. Lawrence Bridge Company, of Montreal, a company formed-
specially for this work by two leading Canadian com- miiies, the Dominion Bridge Company and the Can- Jdian Bridge Company,
The bridge boasted ilic longest clear span in the
world. Its centre span was 1800 feet in length or ninety feet more than the longest single span of the famous Fort bridge, which hitherto had held the honor. Like the Forth Bridge it was built on the cantilever principle. Its total length is 3,239 feet, or about three-fifths of a mile. For a length of 760 feet over the channel of the river, the bridge would have a clear height of 150 feet over high water level, thtis allowing the passage of the largest ocean liners. The width of the bridge is 88 feel and it was to com- prise a double track railway and two sidewalks for
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,morality and indecency, so shameless in its open os-
_iturn their heads away in horior, and ask themselves
fort passengers. It was originally intended to iiiclude
finally abandoned at a saving of some two and a half million dollars.
To manufacture the' different parts of the super-
structure, the St. Lawrence Bridge Company put up special works a few miles west of Montreal. AS most of the parts of the work were of great size these works had been equipped for engineering 'business 011 a large scale and it is claimed for tlient that they are the best and most modern works of .tli"ei'r* kind.
The whole- substructure was compléted in 1914, by
the contractors, Messrs. M. P. and J. T. Davis, and the erection of. the superstructure was begun in that year. The nor-th anchor arm was erected first and in November when work was stopped for the winter, it 'was complete with the exception of part of two pan- els. Work was begun again in April, 1915, and rapid progress was made. While the superstructure was being erectdd the great central span 640 feet long, which was to be swung into position last Monday was being built at Sillery Cove, about three and a half miles below the bridge. The swinging of this span into position by the tide was regarded as a great piece of engineering skill and all Canada awaited with interest the completion of what was to_l_iave.been the triumph of engineering skill. The total weight of span was 5,500 tons. What happened, our tele- grams yesterday told in gruesome detail; why it happened, is not yet known. The proverbial “weak- Qsf link” in the chain will tio doubt be the explanation and the warning. . ,
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The attention of the ladies of Charlottetown is dir;
ected to the advertisement in this issue calling a meet- ing for the purpose of organizing a branch of the Ca- nadian Handcrafts Guild. A 'branch of the Guild has Jeen in existence in Summerside for several years nd has done excellent work, receiving wellldeserved conimentlation from the parent association in Montreal nd doing very much more than is generally kown in reviving many of the handicrafts for which our prov- nce was once noted. Tivo of the ladies who were argely instrumental in making the Summerside branch the success it is, Miss Mary F. Hunt and Miss Carrie Holman, will be present at the meeting here on Fri- day afternoon and will explain the purpose of the Guild, what has been accomplished and what is aimed at in the immediate future. Many_of our citizens were greatly interested during the recent session of the Summer School of Science in the exhibits shown liere by Miss Hunt of work done both in our own pro- vince and in the province of Quebec. No doubt sim- ilar exhibits will be shown at Friday afteriioon’s meeting, and our ladies will be givenanfopportunity of seeing the wonderfully artistic,(work;t_hatL.caii be done without the aid of elaborate- macliinery. The design of the Guild is to encourage this liandiwork, nd’ we feel stire_that the success attained in Summer- side will be an incentive to the establishment in this city of a branch of the Guild.
The work undertaken .by the different branches of
the Guild is varied and comprises weaving, rug-mak- ing, embroidery, needlework, &c., and this year toy- making is being added and generous prizes are being offered to .encourage Canadians to undertake not only the muufacture but the iiiveiition of toys. VVe uderstand that already the Summerside Branch has
toy-making, and we have no doubt that ,ere long the names of some ingenious Prince Edward Islanders will figure in they prize lists. The ideautiderlying the toy-making undertaking is to make a beginning which will-eventually_result in the manufacture in Canada of toys which heretofore have been--and never again shall be-received' from Germany. It is the intention also, we understand, to introduce clay moulding, the raw material for which we have in abundance and of .excellent quality. In the meantime, however, the mam thmg is I0 form a branch in Charlottetown and ive trust the ladies will attend, en masse, the meeting to be held on Friday afternoon.
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p The people are living a life of sucli repulsive im-
tentation and depravity, that soldiers returning home
why they should sacrifice their lives for such a peo- ple. Did these heroes know more of the secret of what is really going on, they would sec that, dark as the picture is on the surface, it is far blacker under-
neath.-Berliner Kruz-Zeitung.
“Am l growing in my spiritual life?" And you ,can hardly consider a matter
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E have noticed that whenever a
golf course is ns-ar an asylum fm’ the insane the some jokes are made It luis <remalned,however_ for the town of Elgin to turn the points of these jokes and to build a golf course at Itlie state hospital for the insane patients.
Only last week the opening of the
course took place and the result justl- fled Dr. Gohagan’s wisdom in provid- ing golf links for the insane under his care. for the making of this golf coiirse is the materiulization of lils theory of care for the sick minds. He says that it is absolutely necessary to get patients to think about somet.-hint! besides themselves.
Goi.i= oivEii1's THOUGHTS "Men and women *who rave afhout
nie, war. tear up their clothes and bretik the- furniture in their rooms are the kind we want 011! 011 me links," iiayii nie kindly siiirerlnteml-
ent.
The first trial of the 'links was
more than successful. Bild 9"-h° th" state had furnished a larS0 number of clubs, the supply ll 11°* eq““l “’ the demand.
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ed a good idea to use the Blllle °f golf to sweep the cobweha from dis- ordered' brains. ln cane of DhY_-| sical and' me/ntal sickness* it is ride-`| essary to avoid broodllll 0"’ Wins, and' troubles. and I think that any; one who has ever DlaY°d 80" WJ", agree that one of ita, IIOBWN Vlf' tue! is that it demands concentra-
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What can be more idol] f0\’ 01°' ordered brains obaeaoed with mail- abaorbing occupation in the open denlng fancies' than lh°5m’f“l 5"' air 'and untroubled 110;!! Wh” “U day ia ended. 'T0 9 7 8°" °\“' must e relax; -the mod' 3011011 "UNB norvoua tension. I‘ou|ll’\'ll\1ll\° Df- Gohpian on his good 'Drk ~
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