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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1906)
TITE OifAIIA ILLUSTRATED BEE. . 5 T ? Early Day f I -w l'V0 n-W '!. t,muh Rr feW In scores of citizens wnu tan loos; back over the years wnica marked me giowtn of the ciiy from a village of lite truimer t.e to a city of tne inuiruiiullUku ciass, and picture in their mica's eye the develop ment of the city's lire deuaitmcnt iroin a small coterie of eint volunteers to the presont paid department of Uu men with equipment whicu would have made tlie Are laddies of .ye olden days iinna they were suclng things. In ttiuse d.is long since gone, but of which the old guard loves to talk of when they fcat.i.r every three months in Chief Salter's otlice, or ut their annual banqut-ta, the lireman ww, in a way, a privileged character. By an es pecial act of the leislaluie he was ab solved from Jury duty and poll taxes; was prominent In social ulialis and a cynosure of all eyes on gala days. Notwithstanding the lire fighters of the early days volunteered their services, they were Inspired with a pride which was .no table. They took pride In the maintenance of their equipment and quartet's and were heroic when the town bell culled them to a Are. As the city &rew and the needs for better ftre protection became necessary the volunteer department received recruits, dis sembling as an organization on May 25, 1SS5, after Just twenty-five years of service. That the old associations and memories might be kept alive members of the old volunteer company organized In December, 1887, the Veteran Firemen's association of Omaha, which Still exists, and which meets quarterly In the fire chief's office In the city hall. Omaha's First Flre Company. The early volunteer fire department was known as the Pioneer Hook and ladder company No. 1. Along In 1800, when the little colony of people making up the Til lage was agitating the establishment of a flre department. Ben Stickles, James W. Vanstrand and V. J. Kennedy constituted a committee to circulate an agreement, the signers of which pledged themselves to suport the proposed volunteer fire de partment. In a few hours the committee secured thirty-three signers. On the sec ond day of May, 1S0O, Mr. Stickles called a meeting at the office of J. S. MeCormlck, on Farnam street where the Postal Tele graph office is now located. The company was ' organized two days laer under an especial charter from the leslatiire, which empowered the company to own $2,ono worth of apparatus. The certificate of Incorporation was signed by the late J. Sterling Morton, then territorial governor. The leaders In the organization of the Pioneer company were Ben Stickles, W. J. Kennedy, 3. C. MeCormlck, Henry Gray, i Henry Z. Curtis, M. II. Clark, A. J. Simp son and P. W. Hitchcock. Among those Joining the company during the first five years were Fred Krug, J. E. Market,, Jos eph F. Sheeley, P. Wlndhelm, Samuel Burns, J. O. Megeath, L. S. Reed. W. L. May, George Glacomlnl, Frank Murphy, John M. Sheeley, W. P. Wilcox, P. J. Karbach, D. C. Sutphen and Henry Pundt. Many of those mentioned are still living In Omaha, while not a few are active In the community. A. J. Simpson, who con structed the first flre truck used In Omaha. Is still In business. Parade on July Fourth. The completion of that truck was quite a news Item In those days. The vehicle was finished In time for the appearance of the company on parade July 4, ISfiO. Th occasion waa one that It Is still cherished Americanization of (Copyright, 1906, by Frank. G. Carpenter.) 1NNIPEG, Feb. 22. (.Special Cor w respondence of The Boe.) Are we to have an Americanized 101 Canada, In the British northwest? -"')' Will those vast territories now fettling some time be a part ot the United States? Or will they, as they grow, rise In their might and make a live, up-to-date Canada of their own? They are now the tall of the dominion. WU1 the tall not wax fat, like that of an angry cut, and wag the body at the other end? ' ' Shall John Bull, that great grown-up golden calf, have the worship of the mil lions to come as ho has had that, of the eastern Canadians, in the past; or will the latter also unite with these new men of the west to cast him down from his altar on this North American continent, and install there the Goddess of Liberty instead? These are some of the questions which are slumbering here in this fast growing country above our international boundary. Aa Americanised. Canada. , As for me, I have no doubt but that western Canada will eventually be Amer ican. It has already 150,010 of our citizens who are old enough to vote and there are me thousands more who are very close to t ears of age. Eighty thousand new United States citizens are expected to settle In the wheat belt during the coming year, and American Influence Is every where growing. The population of west ern Canada, Including Manitoba, is prob ably now Just about l.OuC.OOO, so that these Americans if they become naturalized will more than hold the balance of power. Tbey are, moreover, the live element of the Canadian west, that which is bound to control things and do things. 1 -!. :. -V: :.":''...'.' . :';VV'-,'.VV f-'"..i ,v-v-;riK . . St ''Vv-. V.-- : --T-;.;-vV V" ' f .'WivJ'V. i5v t- v :,v 4. - s . t-T i! :.-.v ' ! v-.;A:,cAv. ;N-4.'.''.rv--'vr;:vV.--... :,.';..- Fire Fighters of Omaha and the mmor1! of those rn'mlxri till In the annals of the early fire fighters wai questions askd. The firemen had police llvir.g. There were thirty-three men In red shirts, white duck trousers, black belts and small glazed, caps. On the truck were ladders, hooks, axes and wooden buckets. The buckets were Important Implements In the life of a fireman In those stirring times. The appearance of the 1'luneer boys on that bright Fourth of July day, wltn their glased caps gleaming In the sun shine and their pretty wooden buckets, nice enough to hold lemonade at a Sunday school picnic, was such as to draw nearly every woman, man and child to the route of the parade, which was nearly all on Farnam street. The brand new apparatus was placed In a building on the west side of Twelfth street, between Farnam and Douglas streets, after the parade, and the thirty-three members of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder company No. 1 weht to their evening meal with the feeling they were real firemen and ready for any case of combustion which mlxht coma along. Inm Early F.sperlence. The method of giving an alarm of flre In the very early days was by ringing the bH on the Methodist church, then located on the present site of the Omaha National bank. The church belfry was of such an elevation that the bell could be heard all over town. Later the Congrega tional church people sold the firemen their old bell. The chief water supply those days cime from cisterns which were located at convenient places. Wells and creeks were often drawn on, as the occasion arose. During the month of February, 1881, the volunteers used up a large snowdrift while putting out a flre In the home of Fred Krug at Eleventh and Harney streets. Not long after that flre the city council waa Induced to build cisterns with a capacity of 1,000 gallons each, at various Intersections. In ltoifi the citizens began to feel the need of more fire protection so A. J. Simpson was delegated to go to Daven port, la., where he bought a hand flre engine, known as the "Flre King." The engine was received by steamboat and was welcomed with much acclaim. Colonel Lrrln Miller, the mayor, took much In terest In the flre department. He requested the. citizens to assemble at the town hall and view the new engine. The belles of the town gathered In their best bibs and tuckers, while the beaux wore their best. Speeches were made and a test of the ma chine was witnessed. About a hundred feet of hose was attached to the engine and Chief Simpson was at the nozzle. The mayor was twenty foet away In his white trousers. When the water was forced through the hoze the nozzle became un controlable and the mayor's Immaculate garments were bespattered with muddy water. W. J. Kennedy made a speech of apology on Behalf of his comrades and the mayor promised to forgive and forget. "Flre King" was placed In the flre house on Twelfth street, between Farnam and Douglas streets. The first members of that company were A. J. Simpson, Charles Goodrich, Martin Donahue and Fred Ken nick. During 1867 the first steam engine, other steamer was secured to replace the old "Flre King." The second steamer was called the "Fire King" and It was placed In a house on Tenth street between Far nam and Dougla streets. , In 1870 the third steamer, called "Nebraska," was bought and located at Twentieth and Izard streets. In 1870 the apparatus consisted of two steamers, one hand engine and ona hook' and ladder truck.; The first sensational Are to be recorded Indeed, our Institutions are in many re spects the Ideals of the Canadians. Noth ing succeeds like success. We have taken a raw country and made a great nation. Canada hopes to do the same. The people here believe In the American tariff and in American business methods. Tha opening up of this new country Is largely due to our citizens, and the other Immigrants who are coming In look up to and model their ways after them. As It Is now one-third of the new settlers are com posed of slow-acting eastern Canadians, who lack Initiative and push. A second third Is made up of Europeans who are largely Ignorant and must be educated and assimilated before they will make good farmers or citizens, while the last third Is composed of bustling, energetic, pushing sons of the United States, the most of whom have come here with money in their pockets and constitute the cream of the country. The native-born western Cana dlamls aa like his American brother as one pea Is like another, so that the native west erners and new Americans will work to gether. Both are united in their desire to build up a new country and both care so little for the old that they will smash the Images at the slightest provocation. If It pays them to stay with eastern Canada they will do so. If It seems advisable to separate and have an Independent West they will do that, and If the time comes when their pocketbook Interests are with the United States they will drop Great Britain and the east and go for annexation. These are possibilities which may be real ized In the future, and the natural condi tions are such that they will probably bring about striking changes within not many years. Eastern vs. Western Canada. It is doubtful whether eastern and west THE CAX.T COAL JHINE3 IN ALBERTA, the burning of the W. R. King grocery store at Thirteenth and Farjiam streets. While fighting the flames the men cams across the dead body of a clerk, said to have been murdered by a porter named Baker. Baker was said to have hidden 15.500 of the firm's money In an oyster can and then killed the clerk before setting fire to the building. While the flre was yet raging the Watchman, an evening paper, came out with a story roasting the firemen. Editor McDonough was located on the street by some of the men, who frightened him by getting a rope and going WILLIAM" A. ALTSTADT. a O. HUNT. through a kangaroo lynching. Then the editor was pressed into the fire fighting service and made to help put the finishing touches on the King fire. After that the Watchman was a staunch friend of- the volunteer firemen. Getting; Aboot Under Dlfflcaltles. For a long time all the flre apparatus was moved about by the firemen, except on days when the roads were muddv or other special occasions, when any passing team could be pressed Into service and no - 'tt a British Northwest-Outcome of ern Canada can pull together. The con trolling political influence In the east Is French. The premier. Sir Wilfred Laurler, Is a Frenchman, the party now ruling Is bossed by the French and the French hold the balance of power In the federal legisla ture. The west Is Anglo-Saxon and the French are comparatively few. The French-Canadian wants no change. He loves Canada as an annex to Great Britain, and he would fight for It as such. He looks upon the Anglo-Saxon almost as a foreigner and prides himself as being the real Canadian who antedated him and Is indigenous to the soil. His element Is not confined, as some suppose, to Quebec. There are French In every eastern prov ince. Seventy per cent of the citizens of Montreal are of French descent, there Is a large French element In Toronto and in every town east of the Great Lakes. Tha largest newspaper in Canada is French, and there are towns in Quebec and On tario where French is better understood than EngllBh. Mannfactarea and Farmers. Another wedge which sooner or later must split apart eastern Canada from the west, is the tariff. Just now the sentiment Is In favor of high protection and a wall of duties against the United Slates. This Is so because eastern Canada, which con tains about five-sixths of the population, is largely devoted to manufacturing. It is naturally fitted for a great industrial empire, and the tariff is bringing Ameri can plants from across the boundary and adding to the working population of the towns and cities. Western Canada, on the other hand, Is to be composed almost altogether of farm ers. The wheat belt, which at a low esti mate comprises something like 100,000,000 acres, Is to bs one of the granaries of the questions asked. The firemen had police authority and occasionally pressed by standers Into the service, although the rule was there were many willing hands about whenever a flre was on. For several years before the Pioneers got gay with their own team of flne horses engine company No. 1, Twentieth and Isard streets, frequently would hitch a small team of white mules to the line and the little fellows would go to the flre like veterans. Dan P. Beard, now working In Charles Hunt's paint shop, owned those mules and took great pride In them. Though not much larger than Jack rabbits the JUT JUS TP JTTTSC HKB. 3 ' JOHN BATTMER. mules cut quite a figure In several years of Omaha's flre fighting history. Initiating; a Sen Fireman. A glance over the rosters of the early volunteer . flre companies, will show the names of many of the city's .foremost business men. To get on the members!) Id toll required passing an examination, not so severe In Itself, but sufficiently exact ing to lend ' dignity to the organization: When the city could afford 'to pay some of the firemen the engineers and stokers received an honorarium and lived In quar- world, and the men who work it will nat urally be free traders. ' They will have to buy what the people of the east make to sell, and they must now pay, not only thi' high prices caused by the tariff, but also the enormous tariff in freight to the rail road which must carry these goods to them, a distance of thousands of miles. The time will come when such things can be more cheaply furnished from the United States, and when our great factories of the west can supply them at nominal freights over the roads built north and south. Politics Is generally supposed to be a matter of sentiment. There was never a greater mistake. Politics is based on self interest; and whenever the western Cana dian finds he can add a dollar to his pile or an extra pound of feathers to the pillow on which he rests his weary head by Join ing the United States, he will do It. In this I speak not of the conditions of today when there are 6,000,000 In eastern Canada and only 1,000,000 in the west. I speak of the time, soon to come, when there will be an equal number here, and of that, a little farther on, when western Canada will have Its 10,000.000 or 30,000.000 and east ern Canada, In all probability, but little more than now. Reciprocity sentiment Growing:. As it is ncjv the manufacturing east claims there is no reciprocity seuiimeut in Canada. This is not so. I hear . fre quent complaints here in the west against the high tariff, and there are some things in which both countries could be benliled if a reciprocity treaty were made. One of these is coal. There a.e big mines in Nova Scotia and also In the Rockies of Albtrta and British Columbia, but prac tically nothing between. The Nova Scotian coal is largely used In Loatun, and our Boston consumers have to pay, I think, 67 cents per ton as a tariff on all they con sume. In Ontario the Canadian manufac turing establishments are dependent on our Pennsylvania coal, and they are charged a tariff of 03 cents a ton on all that they buy. The same Is true In the far west. Our copper smelters at Anaconda and Butte bring down their coal and coke from west ern Canada and British Columbia coal Is largely used In Washington, Oregon and California. It all pays a tariff. On the cold prairies of Manitoba and Saskatche wan It Is almost necessary to hav? anthra cite coal, and that from Pennsylvania bost suits the requirements. It is brought up the great lakes and over the railroads and furnished the settlers at $11 and upward per ton. In Winnipeg every householder uses Pennsylvania anthracite at a cost of 110 73. of which 53 cents Is charged for tho tariff. There Is a great north and south trade here in the west. The most of the fruit comes from the United Ctates. The " or chards of Oregon, tW1hlnet,, and Califor nia are now runr!yin- British Columbia and the Canadian prairies, whereas the most of the tropics 1 fruits used In the do minion are exported by us. As It is now Canada is buying about tl'.OnO.OCO worth of our agricultural products every year. Caanrks Like Onr OiiiiiU. Even with our own manufactures these people cannot get along without our spe cialties. They buy irore of us than of any other country, and far more than they do of Great Britain. In 1904 the trade bet-t-en Canada and the United States amounted to 134. a 000, Willie that between It and Oreat Britain was UK.000.OfO less. This was o notwithstanding the bulk of the lattav .. A Some of ters over the houses. The paid hands do- ters over the houses. The paid hands de- Vised an Initiation which consisted of toting a heavy Iron wheel up n (light of steps and to the center of n room. If that feat was performed without stops on tho way the applicant was recorded for strength. The next test was climbing a ladder, which lucked some of the rounds and with some rounds as frnil as match boxes. The applicant would then be re quired to slide down the ladder. The thltd number was to blow long and hard and try to All a small bag which contained a tiny hole unknown to the candidate. Then the applicant would be requested to draw P. IT. KOKSTKK8. J. P. BEHM. through a hose which was connected to a pall of water prepared for the occasion. The last test was the blanket tossing which was performed with considerable vigor. If the applicant passed that ex amination In good form he was registered as a full fledged fireman. One of Little Bismarck's Jokes. When William Altstadt was secretary of Volunteer Engine company .No. 2, a young man. Just In from the farm, called on Mr. Altstadt and made a clean breast of the fact that to be a fireman . had been the trade was made up of sales ' to Great Britain, whllo the large bulk of theormer was composed of American goods bought by Canadians. Indeed, Canada Is one of our best custom ers. We sell It more goods than we do to almost any country of Europe, with the exceptions of the United Kingdom and Germany, and It Is buying more and more every year. Its foreign trade Is three times as much now as It was a generation ago, and It has Increased more than J90,000,0no within five years. The country has on its seven-league boots commercially as well as Industrially, and every atom of Us body politic Is Increasing In a geometrical ratio. The people are growing richer and richer s.s the years go on. They are today 'worth ft more per head than ourselves of the United States, and the volume of trade per capita has more than doubled since the days when Grant was president. Canada and American Trade. Indeed, Uncle Sam can afford to pay considerable attention to his Canadian trade. He Is sending embassies to Africa, special commissioners to South America, and is getting down on his knees and kotowing to the old empress dowager to get rid of the boycott In China. The trade of all these countries is a bagatelle com pared with that which lies across our northern boundary. Canada's foreign com merce now amounts to almost 1500,000,000. She bought $259,000,000 worth of goods abroad In 1904. and during that year she paid us no 'jrh to give $2. BO to every man, woman and child In ft United States and leave 4,000,000 over for gmi. sasura. As it Is now her trade is worth flvs it- e much to us as our trade with South America. It is worth five times as much as our trade with Japan, and ten times that of our salen to China. Indeed, the Canuck is one of the richest men on the 47 4 ' - ...i " V I" H - 'A 'i t ! ':. ' ' " 'III. I $ . w- r t . if': ' " , 1 WWW . m -z- Their Experiences ambition of his life. Mr. Altstadt told the left dangling to the unncr side of a young man to be on hand that evening and then summoned the members of his company to assemble at the lire house to transact Inirnrtant business. The members of company No. S wt re on hand soon after milking time and lh young aspirant was at the flre house eager for the fray. Young Man From the Coun try was told to partly undress, which he did; then the firemen filed past hltn. pla cing pieces of Ice on his bare body as tlicy walked. Instead of flinching or remon strating the candidate on that occasion called for more Ice and declared ho did not care how much he might suffer so long as he became a fireman. Ills name was entered on the roll, he became one of the best men In the service and later rose to prominence in business affairs. Recalling that Initiation one day Inst week Mr. Altstadt said that young man was tho happiest person In town when a flre bud go waa pinned on his coat. First Paid Fireman. J. F. Heli in, now president of the Veteran Firemen's association of Omaha, returned from the war In 1SS0, and Immediately be came Identlllcd with tho "Flre King" com pany. He fired the first steamer used for flre purposes in tho city. That machine was located on the present site of the Board of Trade building. Mr. Eehm re ceived $26 a month for his services as fireman, and was the first paid fireman In the city. He stayed at the flre house all the time, and received an additional Income by repairing harness. Mr. Behm, who would about as soon talk of the old flre days as he would play a game of pinochle, told ihe other day of a long run his company made one night to Council Bluffs. It was In li8, when a big flre, for those days, broke out In the Bluffs. Behm's company went over to help. Nearly 100 Omaha men took hold of the towllne and pulled the stenmer to the ferry boat which was quickly fired up In the dead of night, and the steamer quickly placed on the other side of the river. Tho men hurried for five miles and reached the flre in time to be of assistance. Council Bluffs citi zens had dammed the Ixiwsy creek and so vigorously did the firemen work that the dam was pumped dry several limes during the flre. Fnn with Charley Ciomlrleh. While Mr. Behm was stationed at Six teenth and Farnam streets some of the town wags would give a false alarm of flre, particularly on Saturday nights Charles Goodrich lived near the flrehouse In question, and It was the delight of many to watch. Mr. Goodrich rush down the Farnam street hill with the small hose cart which could be pushed by one man on a dry day. It Is said of Goodrich that sometimes the cart would get away from him going down the hill and he would hang on, although his feet might not touch ground for 1OT feet at times. One Saturday evening Behm heard the boys talking down at Wlndhelm's Inn, and expected a false alarm before the evening was half spent. Mr. Behm then hurried back to the flre house and secured the bell rope In a manner "bo that the alarm could not be given unless he would give It. Sure enough some of the boys dropped around and tried to ling t,lie bell, but the "curfew did not ring that night." Ones When Altstadt Settled. To refer to the time William Altstadt Presenf Movement face of the globe. He lives well and dotes on luxuries. He knows what he wants, Is quick to buy and he always pays his bills. What Canada Bells. I do not wonder that the eastern Cana dians are strong for protection. Under the present high tariff its industries are every where growing. ' There are now more than 300,000 workmen employed in Its factories and the goods made Bell for almost (600, 000,000 a year. All the large cities are growing. Montreal has now about $60,000,000 employed In manufacturing and is paying out $18,000,000 annually in wages. Toronto has $52,000,000 worth of capital so Invested and other large manufacturing centers are Hamilton, Quebec, Winnipeg, London and Ottawa. In Quebec there are mors than 600 manufacturing establishments of one kind or another and the town of. Hamilton has 230, many small, but some large. Can ada now sells abroad more than $13,000,000 worth of minerals and manufactures every year. The country la going into the cotton business, and it now has twenty-two cotton mills. It has $10,000,000 Invested In wood pulp factories and is doing a big business in the dlfferet kinds of provisions. It is a big dairy country. It sends butter to Eng land and it Is exporting cheese to the amount of $18,000,000 a year. It sells millions of dollars' worth of eggs and In the shape of fish it draws more than $10,000,000 out of Its oceans and rivers every twelve months. Talk about your gold In sea water I Canada gets It. Uncle Bam vs. John Ball. In the meantime, notwithstanding this, Canada continues to coquette with John Bull, throwing bouquets at him in the shape of preferential duties. When it comes down to real business It buvs of Unci Sam. The truth Is we make better and cheaper goods than the English, and the . r.Z ' . lt r . .. v . ' t was left dangling to the upper side of a hand pump Is to make any of tho old firemen laugh. In the days of tho hand pump one side of the mechanism went up while the other went down. After a lira at a barrel factory at Sixteenth and Chi cago streets John llutler, then chief of the department, and a few others got up a Joke on Mr. Altstadt. By some hook or crook the Judge was left alone, hanging by his hands from the raised side of the long and high handle- cf the pump. As Fin-man Altstiuit was not "wery pig oop umlt down" his plight caused him soma consternation and his comrades much mer riment. To drop from the handle to the "gallery" was not easy, so Mr. Altstadt closed his ryes and released his hold to land In a tub of water. Then Utile Bis marck took the boys around to Fred Heltzke's place, where they gathered around the stove and warmed both tha outer and Inner man. i Company With (load Record. Going back again to the beginning of things, it is a mutter of record that during the twenty-five years of tlm Pioneer hook and ladder company's existence not ona member was killed, although the company attended every tire during the quarter of a century from May 6, ls60, to May 5, 1SSS. A. J. Simpson wus the first chief of tha flre department to perform that service without pay. He served from kstW to 1863 as chief of the volunteers. J. K. Market, while conducting his bakery, was the first chief to receive a salary, which was at flist $100 per year. Then as the city grewr the flre department grew and the "good .old days" passed away as a dissolving view, to be recalled only In memory's halls. On May 5, loi5, the Pioneer company met for the hint time. Tho paid department having been well staliiished it wus deemed wise to muster out the old guard with dua honors. The dlsbandment was marked with exercises cf a civic character, John M. Thurston, being the orator of the day. The Pioiers closed their books with $3,009 in the treasury and 133 members on the roll of honor. Itlrth of the Association. As a living monument to tho old days, tha Veteran Firemen's association of Omaha was organized In December, 1887. Frank: It. Koesters, who was the secretary of tho Pioneer company, became secretary of tha Veteran association at Us organization and has held that position to date. He has been one of the chief mainstays of tho Veteran body and was one of the active ones in the days of volunteer flre fighting. Julius Treltschke, the present treasurer of tho Veteran's, is another of the old guard, who was always on the hose line wfien the bell rang. D. P. Beard, who owned those while mules, Is now first vice presi dent, while Charles Hunt Is second vica president. Hunt and Beard are both In active business at present and remarked the other day they believed they could make another run with the old machine if Fred Behm would pull the bell. John Baumer, who has lived for forty ears at his present address, Nineteenth, and Cuming streets, was In close touch, with the old fire house at Twentieth and Izard streets. For years he waa an officer of that company and can recall hitching up many times with Beard's mules for a trip down town. And after the organization of the Veteran association came modern history. Canadians like our fashions and novelties. Our people understand the market and, with a little courting on our part, the trade might be greatly increased. I have before me the items of Canada's foreign com merce in 1904. They show how we com pete with Great Britain in the markets of the dominion. Of the goods covered by the tariff 62 per cent came from the United States, and only 30 per cent from the United Kingdom, notwithstanding the preferential rates. As to articles which paid no duties we furnished 71 per cent of them and Great Britain only 18 per cent. - . It Is Interesting to look at the figures. In manufactures of iron and steel Unci Sam then sold $17,000,000 and John Bull $3,000,000. In hardware Uncle Sam $3,000,000 and John Bull less than $600,000. In coal Uncle Sam $9,000,000 and John Bull $330,000. In farming Implements Uncle Sam about $3,000,000 and John Bull $22,000. The same proportion exists as to many other items. During that year the United States sold Canada $2,600,000 worth of elec trical machinery, while Great Jtrltaln sup plied only $62,000 worth, and in vehicles our sales amounted to $1,600,000 to Great Brit ain's $27,000. Indeed, the percentage Is al together on our side of the ledger. American Capital In Canada. 'JJrfe'truth is the Canadians like American goods better than English goods. And away down in their souls I believe hey ika Americans better than Englishmen. I over heard one of their commercial travelers talklns to a group of his fellows in tha hotel here last night. The subject was tha Invasion of American capital and of Amer icans, which had been denounced by ona of the papers. Said the drummer: "This opposition to Americans makes ma (Continued. on Page Six.) .. .i 1- -if I '.J 'fa: L.U J "Jl -. rJ :rrtt r.:.t :.3.t -.if! si i.13 -f i:os 1 . 11 r I ..ins I .i-i :J ni ti.i v ,,.! STREET IN WINNIPJSO,