The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—DatLy, 60c per month, or $5.00 WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. OUTSIDE CANADA—Daily, $8. $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—650 cents per inch. Contract rates on application. HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98, BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New YorkK—Natioual Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. Lonpon, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. aR A TALK ABOUT PRINCE RUPERT r year, in advance, per year; Weekly, DAILY EDITION. SATURDAY, JUNE 17 The first difference between the present talk about Prince Rupert and other talks about Prince Rupert that have appeared in this column, is that in this case the accent is on the word Prince. For the time we eschew polemics and civics and dip into history. And the original Prince Rupert was almost as interesting as the lively town which ensures the perpetuation of his name and fame. The superficial historian jumps to the conclusion that Prince Rupert had a great deal to do with the shaping of events in British _North America. Was he not the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay company, this roving nephew of Charles the First? Is there not a great territory called Rupert’s Land in his honor? Nay, did he not give his name to the great ecclesiastical province—once one great diocese, but now comprising half a dozen dioceses—extending from the Western boundaries of Ontario to the Eastern boundary of British Columbia? Did the railway company in its god-parentage, when it bestowed the name Prince Rupert upon this infant city, fall into the trap of the superficial historian. The cold truth, achieved by the diligent historian, is that Prince Rupert never set foot upon Canadian soil. The Royal Charter granted to “our illustrious cousin, Prince Rupert and seventeen noble gentel- men,” incorporating them as ‘‘Governor and Company of Gentlemen Adventurers trading into Hudson’s Bay” and giving them absolute monopoly of all trade and commerce over “‘all those seas, straits and bays, rivers, lakes creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonlycalled Hudson’s Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts. and confines of the seas, bays, etc., aforesaid, that are not actually possessed by, or granted to any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of any other Christian Prince,’ was in the common parlance of today just a piece of graft. It was part of Prince Rupert’s reward for his allegiance to the Royalist cause. This gignatic monopoly was for all time to come. The only consideiation in return was that a Royal fee of ‘‘two elks and two black beavers” was to be given to the King whenever he might happen to visit the territory. Our friends at Victoria, could not do the thing more hand- somely to their friends, than did royal Charles to ‘‘our illustrious cou- sin’’ and his band of seventeen gentleman adventurers. And yet in the face of all that British North America offered him, even to calling a diocese in his honor, Prince Rupert preferred to live most of his years the life of a sea pirate, bucaneering with his brother Mauriceon the Spanish main. Not until poor Maurice and his men sank in an equatorial storm off the West Indies did Prince Rupert settle down to an honest life ashore. to his competence of four hundred and seventy pounds of British money invested in the Great Company.: it was to the pension of four thousand pounds a year that his uncle had secured for “our illustrious cousin.’’ At that time, 1660, it was worth ten times what it would be today. But pirate and bucaneer though he was, Prince Rupert was a gentleman at heart. He discarded the superficial things, and liked manly and serious pursuits. He followed science and art and trade. He joined the Royal Society. He perfected gunpowder. He introduced the mezzotint to England after in had been revealed to him by a German soldier. When Governor of Windsor Castle he spent most of his time in the laboratory. Brave, courageous, rash, cross grained and arbitrary; talented in mathematics and chemistry, scrupulously polite to all, haughty and brutal to these he disliked. No wonder Brett remarks: ‘He seems woefully out of place in the circles of water-flies at court, and most of the courtiers fear and shun him.” No wonder the Court went to the theatre on the night of his burial. Van Dyck has a portrait of the Prince painted in youth, showing the famous swashbuckler and thinker as a tall man with a girlish face, dimpled chin, shapely lips, perfect eyebrows and lavish curls. The hands are remarkable for the catrotty fingers graduating to a point, out-tapering the orthodox well-tapered fingers of blue blood. Perhaps it was a flattering picture. Miss Sealey quotes it in her ‘The Champion of the Crown,” but she is an avowed admirer of the Cham- pion of the Blood-Royal. Brett describes him as possessing a hard favored face even when trying to please. A bullet wound in the head, received while fighting with the French against the Spaniards in the Netherlands hastened his end, though not till after a few years of suffering. So, far from aged—he _was only fifty-one—he died, leaving only his son Dudley who perished in battle soon after and his little daughter Ruperta ‘‘whose mother was an actress” the historians succintly state—to mourn him. Swashbuckler, sea-dog, gentleman adventurer, ‘scientist trader, Prince Rupert might well qualify to be the patron saint of the city whose shores he never touched. and H. F. McRAE F, R. C. BROWN H. F. McRae & Co. Real Estate PHON# 205 SECOND AVE., PRINCE RUPERT 7 Read Carefully and Phone NOW If Interested $1500 Cash will buy a eae right in the centre of the city ‘where you can make it a revenue-producer at once. THE cheapest double corner in section one—one block from McBride— can be handled for $5,000 WE have a number of lots within a stone’s-throw of Hays Creek Park at $25 a month, This is where the Drydock workers wilkjlive. Even then it was not{ THE DAILY NEWS What ‘kind of railroad is it? What kind of country has the new road opened up? What does the scenery look like? These and many kindred questions are being asked about the first one hundred mile stretch of the G. T. P. out of Prince Rupert, that was opened to the public this week. The local curiosity about the trip seems to make us forget for the moment the larger significance which the openeing of the section to traffic portends. For while one hundred miles in this land of transcontinental roads is but a small portion of the whole road, the first hundred miles out of Prince Rupert has meant more in engineering problems, heavy toil and enn than many hun- dreds offimiles of prairie track. The line that skirts the foot of tthe mountains for a hundred along with the millions of tons of rock to blast out that winding way across its surface. For the millions that have been speni on it, that winding strip of solidly built road, almost as level as the proverbial billiard table, will reap a harvest of dividends in years to come when the commerce of the East and West is carried over it. On its solid level bed, the hauling power of a Great Mogul! would be. practically unlimited. An Interesting Trip Yesterday, through the courtesy of General Superintendent Mehan a small party consisting of the editors of the local newspapers, | Mr. A. J. Morris, President of the Board of Trade, and Super- intendent McNicol made the jour- ney in Mr. Mehan’s private car. Unfortunately Alderman Smith who was to have come as a rep- A TRIP BY _ TRAIN INLAND Scenery is of Great Magnificence a and Ensures It Being a. Resort for Tourists---Road Bed Constructed at Immense Cost is in Splendid Condition---Opens Up a New Fruit District ging up by the side of the line are all promises of larger industries to come. For the first fifty or sixty miles the land is rocky, and |seemingly fit but for timber. Be- |yond that the soil deepens, and the valleys which open between mountains are fertile. For forty miles each side of the line at Kitsumkalum, in the Kitsumkalum and Lakelse valleys fruit farms will yet be seen. As the line pro- gresses further more fertility is found. After Hazelton is reached, a great productive area will be found. A Touch of Speed Along the line gangs of men are jat work ballasting and tuning up the track. Very soon it will all be done, and then the order permitting the road to be operated at a greater speed will be given. At present the official speed per- (re PN D Secithesmaiitae at A PIECE OF ROCKY ROAD-BED A piece of railroad grade leading out of the city, after a big shot has been fired. Notice the size of the men. road of level road bed. But the result is’ magnificent. A_ solid shelf of rock skirting the foot of the mountains a few feet above the water’s edge: a road bed of enormous boulders and huge rocks taken from the cuts cross the fills between the mountain flanks, mak- ing a solid bed impervious to the force of the waves of the turbulent Skeena that beat against its sides, or the force of the thundering trains which will hammer their miles up the Skeena, always within a few feet of the river bank, and as nearly level to grade as the surface of the river which it parallels, has meant a prodigious expenditure. resentative of the city, was ui1able through illness to join the party. To those who had the opportunity to make the trip, it was a thorough- ly enjoyable and interesting jour- ney. Some Scenic Grandeur For the whole of the journey, the trip is one moving panorama of Nature’s untouched handiwork. Mountains, snowfields, glacial tor- rents stretching to the distance, all set off by the wonderful fore- ground of swiftmoving river. ‘There's nothing to see but scen- ery,”” remarked a prosaic musher some months ago, to a_ small Prince Rupert audience in describ- passenger trains. a portion of the road is still skeleton track. But to what could be done, intendent out a few notches on the miles where the track is all finished and perfectly true. The ten miles reeled off in twelve minutes, which is “going some.’ But the train held steady and smooth. It | was a taste of what can be done on a solid road bed with a level track and gently winding curves, Rushing the Bridges At all the river crossings, and these eight in the just show the general super- let last ten had his ‘special’ were are number, Road-bed of Rock The bill for powder and dynamite alone, cost in the neighborhood of a million and a half dollars. der were blown to Kingdom Come, Nearly five thousand tons of pow-|the lines of fishing boats in SUPPLIES FOR UP THE LINE ing the country as he has deen it. The Promise of Labor But it was not quite exact. The busy canneries that are passed, the Skeena, the little settlements sprin- abot TS he 5, he ss Rails and lumber are unloaded from the ocean ships and transferred quickly up the line to the builders, gangs are at work putting up the steel bridges, which will relieve the weight now on the pile sup- ported bridges. The bridges come from the mill ready to be assembled on the ground. __. |rapids bridge . . . | > (re are i mitted is twelve miles an hour on | ‘he others are in progress This is because The Best Procurable. Absolutely pure ee, a WE - HAVE - FOR - SALE (CROWN GRANTED) Township 1 mint, NECHACO VALLEY PRICE:—$15.00 PER ACRE, EASY TERMS Section 9 This is an excellent section and was one of the first to by staked in the Valley. Samuel Harrison & Co, Brokers and Financial Agents, Prince Rupert ee VA } MUSSALLEM & COMPANY +++esGood Fresh Groceries at City Prices... KEEP SMILING—And the only way to t | do that is by buying your Groceri i? | from us. We handle first class goods | only at prices that cannot be beat. i To Residents of Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8--We deliver promptly, our goods are fresh, at prices not to be beaten in the city : zs ms MUSSALLEM & (0, st tx wiv ne Telephone i is completed, Building Snow Sheds The past winter, one of the| TODAY'S heaviest in local annals proved | valuable to the company, because BEST BUYS it showed them where the snew- slides are liable to occur. At 7 several points between miles 42| Lot 47, block 34, sect wines and 46 where the mountains aré Eye howe iggy a. very steep, staunch rock and tim-| one-half cash. ber snow sheds are now be ing | Lot 6, block 36, sect = built. eens i'Two Lots, facing both /at ne Beyo | Ninth, with three two-roomed ca yond the End | $2,000. j Beyond the end of steel at | Lots 21 and 22, blor h ection 6 @ ne d Copper City ain neti arts a stumps remo PI ity, gangs are at work a A b driving the last of the three tun-| $640 pair. d nels at Kitselas. Then the road | | Lot 12, block 21, sect “ becomes easier i ( ear Onin. \ 1 to build. nly | | Lots 18 to 17, block 8, the steel bridge across the Skeena| each. r pre vents the march to Hazelton. Choose selected investment’ all prices, such as these, 4# | quicker and more cert “If the for the ready | will bridge can be end of the got year, we keep on track playing through the | winter till we reach Hazelton,” \WESTENHAVER ‘ri says the General Superintendent, |p HONE 100 the opening of the first | miles comes as a satisfaction, to whom hundred Heart in His Work LAND PURCHASE NOTICE The son of a railway man, Mr. a Mehan has been in railroad work! won Chats’ since his schooldays principally euTaice baties that Cotherive Ha vor, of Ca with the Grand Trunk. He knows i nabaatee’ ce pore hase thi (lowing 8 railroad work from the ground up. Ian as at a post planted abet Uf It is his life work. “A work that ot iitenlay Pinas rare. - demands all a man’s time and | Heme so ene, tet, th oe thought, and exacting work, but | and epmnatoing 160 sores ' ror or with a fascination about it,’ hb even eer! arHRRINE WAR will tell you. He, with Superin- Ten Aes ¥- wan tendent MeNichol to assist him, Skeena Land Dist has been in charge of the track- ie Ee og, agheee deo ere laying work on the Prince Rupert iw. fail end, since it started in May of {| and tao cheine south from the sou last year. He is proud: of the are? dane, gent ¢ ‘chains. 0 line, and of the praise that was Seer es Ces cnn! maining ; given it by the railroad chiefs |" % ™ mrs. souN (Lotti cont who toured it last week. In that Pak Apr, ac 1011, pride, the citizens of Prince Rupert trict of OS feel they share. The first hundred Cee et cary qoesnas tel @ miles out of Rupert is worth aol, it peinon 9 1° Pon A described lands: being proud over, Just in Time! lo get a good custom tailored Commencing at @ post ee of Guose Bay, about thre ‘ cf the mouth of the Be on the easterly oun: tary 85281 or No. 362 the sesterly i or No, 86280 40 chains, | thene Goose Bay, a distance of at 0 The Zanardi| Block Basement, Sixth street, thence northerly along ' ly 40 chains more or lem, meal on more or leas to point of 160 acres more oF less. Dated March 7, 191). Pub. April 7. suit for the first of July. Go to Rudnick and Sweder, Helgerson commens perry Q¥8