New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1924, Page 14

THE $00 BECOMES * THE BUSIEST CANAL Jack Frost Stos Business Tem-_T porarily During Cold Weather | Washington, D. C., *When the locks at Sault Ste. Marie elosed down for the winter a few weeks ago becausesJack Frost's fin- gers ware getting a firmer and firmer | hold on the north country, the world's busiest eanal went out .of business temporarily,” savs a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of » National Geographic s “Through this Joins the greatest of the Great Lakes to its sisters to the east and south,” eontinnes tha bulletin, “flows for eight months of the year a ‘marine parade’ of huge vessels that dwarfs traffic streams elsewhere, The 68 mil- Hon tons of freight sent through in 1922 was something like five times as great as the freight passing through the Parama Canal that year, and more than three times as great as that moved through Suez in its best | twelvemonth. “Jumping” Waters “The vast wheat fialds of Minne. wota, tha Dakotas and parts of Can- ada, and the great iron and cupper mines on the thores of Lake Superior are the chief factors that have built up this foland canal's tremendous business. Ore furnishes most of the weight ig,the year's freight total, but the grain handled 15 of greater value. ““The St. Mary's river, which“con- nects Lakes Superior and Huron, has on its banks at the raplds towns nam- od Sault Ste. Marie both in the United 'States and in Canada, each | with a population of about 12,000, ‘Thought the name is spelled ‘Sault’ it 1s pronounced ‘Soo,” and many Ameri- cans both in and out of the town | bhave insisted on spelling it as it is| pronounced. Letters addressed to *The Soo, Michigan,' have never fall- ed to reach their destination. 'The term means ‘the jump’ or ‘tumble’ of the Bt. Mary's. Tril Now Street. *The Banks of the St. Mary's at the rapids formed the site of a mission and fur trading post in the early days of the French settlement of North America. After the British regime the first lock wes built in 1797, a small affalr capable of handling only canoes and skiffs, H\'rn'yhns was de- stroyed by American sof@lers during the War of 1512 “For nearly half a centugy all freight was taken past the rapigs on the American side by portage, first in carts and later on a Thorse-drawn tramway. The American Sauit Ste Marie's principal business street of to- day grew up along this old portage st a8 Broadway grew ng the cow path of the New Amsterdamers. Frontier Color “Sault Ste. Marie is a typical mod- ern, wide.awake American town through the week, but on s?;.,m,.\,. it takes on & color that pro¥es that it | is nof'yet wholly out of tench with its virile frontier days. Then numer- | ous Indlans join its street crowds and everywhere one encounters booted lumber-jacks' wearing colored flan- | nel shirts, and if it i eold, generously checked mackinaw jackets [ “Near the 800, In the Taguamenon | river eounfry, among the Ojibway Ine dians, originated the Hiawatha leg end; and each fall redekine gather to enact the delightful story made fam ous by Longfellow “Even though the fall at the Eoo 15 little greater than twenty feet, o large volume of water passes out of Take Buperior and much water power is avaliable. Tt'g hydro.electric plants have b.en developed on both sides of the river and the towns are of grow. ing importance industrially While the throaty blare of the whistles on the lake steagers is silent in winter the water whaels stil! turn and keep woollen and lumber mills, carbide and ehemical factories, and numerous small enterprises busy " Held by Two Bricks Jan 29.— narrow g ) S —— | Pire which destrored a2 Lansing | (MIED.) factory. left a great plece of wall Manging In the air. The rup Porting it vof wall was only two | Brioks across at the parrowest point | / \ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, although a career in the arts and scleness looms for manv a co-ed at| the University of Washington, in Seat- | tie, most of them still balieve that | “woman's place {§ in the home.” | And so they are taking advantage of | the fact that it s leap vear to spur the matrimonial tendenies of hesitant males. Miss Lole Howard is here| shown pointing out a leap year bulle- tin posted on one of the university | buildings. | TOLAY NEWLINK | IN HARTFORD ROAD Public Works Board Approves: Pavement on “Shepard’s Hill" —e E. W. Christ 0. Rackliffe and A. P. Ma appeared 'bafore the | board of e works last night as a committee the Chamber of Com- meree and asked that the roadbed on Stanley street, between East Main and Hartford avenue, he placed in better condition so that traffic between this city and Hartford may be diferted from Hartford avenue. This sugges- tion has the heartiest approval of Highway Commissioger Macdonald, The cost of laying permanent pave- ment would be abon{ $37,500, City Engineer J. D. Willlams estimated, The board plans to wsk for an ap- propriation to put the northern end of the road, known as “Shepard's hill” in better condition This the Chamber of Commerce committee felr would be a good step toward the di- verting of traffic coming into the city The laying of perfanent pavement on Stanley street, as suggested, would be a link in a through road between Hartford and this eity. Commissioner Macdonald of the highway department has agreed to | For SURE relief from lay permanent pavement from the end of the present concrete highway on® Stanley streef to Elmwood, thu: doing away with a stretch of reaa | which has aroused the resentment of | automobile drivers since last spring. From Elmwood to Atwood’s corner in Hartford, there is a stretch of good road. From Atwoed's corner to Main | street Hartford, known as New Brit- | ain avenue, the surface of the street | 1s in unsatistactory condition. If the | Hartfgrd city goverament would ap- | propriate funds for a permanent pave- ment on New Britain avenue, the | rond from New Britain to the heart | of the business distriet In the Capitas eity would be satisfactory in every re- spect 3 ! At last night's meeting the bogrd of public works also decided to ask | $35,200 for macadain work and $21 600 for grading jobs. Ttems of $3,- 500 for a bridge on Linwood streer, | a like amount for a Monroe streee | bridge, and 37,500 for semi-perma- | nent pavement on Grove Hill are to be ’ sought. | Steam ., railronds 1n the United | States varried nearly two billion pas- | sengers last year, figures the Hu-; rean of Railway BEgonomics. | e———ree——————r Kills Colds~ " 4 Guaranteed Relief in 5 Hours | Why hang onto a FHead Cold for & | week when Dr. Platt’s Rinex Pre- seription is pwerenteed to knock It in b hours—or it costs you nn(hlnz, Rinex ’-tn at the termal cauns the biood and removes it Bo every trare voes—auick. 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