Daily Colonist (1904-12-01) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1904-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

DON'T cxpcrlaent with oihcr end Inferior miakcs 'i.|'' USE EDDY'S PARLOR MTCjiES

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"King Edward," i.ooos "Hcadllf.ht," 500s " Eagle," lOos and 2001

Victoria " " LIUle Comet."

FORSAUE EVERYWHERE

) Jqmes Mltcbeil, /Jgent, Victoria. |

vTtcrrORi^i daxly coloiNist, Thursday, decemjber i, i904.

VIOKV L.vriiHAJiLK.

■A'ictnii;; Mai-iiu! Mi'ii tli'OiUly xieklcJ Over Ainiisi!!;,' Keport.

l,;iiii.''anT l">t'li loud nnd deep is ring-i-ouiul Vicloriii m'atci'frout bwSause of the foUowiug comic sketch iu the Sc-uttlo rost-lntelHgencer. It is ouo of

the wronpt-heiidedest statements , ovur piililislied cvoii iu a liorse wnrine:

Tlio rect'ut iiccidont to the United-Stiitos oaljlesliip Burnside on Ripple j-oclc, iu Seymour utti'row;s, lias so acceu-•tttatod the tn6t th'at 'the rock is cm? ol >tiie greatest dangers in Nortlioru waters that an effort is about o bu niado liy linvii-'alor.s to have it dyiiaiuit t'li. The job will rriiuiri- an iiiuuensc aiiumnt nf cxpbisivc. and as it is iu 10iii_'lish waters llii' lli'ili^li uoviTiuni'Mt will have to imiii-si'Ul l" the nbst met ion lieiii;,' reiniivcil. ThiM-e is. liowi'ver, little ilillii'iilty autii^i-pateil nil this si'iu-e, ami the inatlei' will ])ri>bably snoii lie br()ii;;ht in i lie attiMi-liiiii of bolb t'lio AiiieiMcaii ami the Cnu-adiaii (.'eveniiniMits by leeiil mariiuM's. 'riie iiiiiuac-le has alniinly eause,! several V(>ssels to meet disaster, mid as 00 per eeut. ol the sliippiui,' through the narrows is Amei-ieau, loeal innriners coii-si<ii'r that as a proteetiou to them^fflyos something shouki ,be done. As au'iutcr-natlonal courtesy, Canada will be asked to co-operate in the movement.

Kiitplc rock lii's nearly in the centre ol' Seyniotir narrows. It is 500 yards .'-outhwest by soutli frcu! the northwest point of Claude island oud nearly 400 yords from the western side. Tlie rock is 800 yards long !n a nortli-iiortliwost and south-soutlicast diroitinn. Its least depth is two fathoms, or iwelv(> feet, and is four falhnuK. or i v, . i;;y-four I'lM't, in deptli at its seuili end. ("lose .iroimd the rook llo^ ileptlis vary from j twtdveto forty tatliouis. I'ixeeptioually | (laiijjorou.'s swirls and overfalls oeoar i about KIO yards in tlie wnko of Bipple roek when the current is nninias strongly.

It is .stali'd by tho-e emivi-^a ni will. | the work nf eleariiiL: clianne!-, .i ' eli- ; sUMClioMS thai Uiiiple roek iioild b lejivi'd w <-ii!ty. Ar lior. an iiiiiiieii threi' A-eiirs ; 'tide. Kilipl have twelve

Charles iransea, l)otU ves.scle belnj; opcral-I'd by i!ie saiuo eoiieern, were iniwllDii:^' to ^-lve up siieli .1 price, and Clilef Mii(;liioer I'lU-ter Alt' tlie 01^'a, I'liuliiin'il In a lUvill^' .jUlt, olTeri'il to ilowu and si (■uri' tlu'

whale. He (Irfieoudeil to tUo bottom of the Aretk- ocean twelve times ami fastened lio<))i.s OIL tlie whale. Knl when It came to /■-olstlui; It to the surface It -was found to be «n linpo.<sll,iliiy on account of the Ice. TJie lUvia- fouiul that tlu? whale laid amder a slielt of luo, and that the was foi;t.v-flvo feet la •tblckues.s. The crews oplodod GOO poinnis of powiler lii an olfort to break thi> Ice. After trylii;;,f(n- (df.'lit (lays thi'V were coniii.'lleil to ■.'ivi' up. The Charles 'Hansen hrou.L'lit down U.

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