Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-14

extensive than those of any single road 81
Chicago elsewhere.
There is very little manufacturing done
here at present. but the winnfpegers are
beginning to grind their own wheat. The
city now has two mills with combined
capacity of $500 barrels a day. / UNDER
stand that another and even larger mill Is
soon to be erected. The city has hopes OF
sometime being great manufacturing as
well as mercantile center. because of the
enormous undeveloped water power In the
Winnipeg river between the Lake of the
Woods and Lake Winnipeg. which is estI-
mated at 25o,00o horsepower. There are
seventeen miles OF asphalt pavement six
teen miles of block pavement thirty-three
miles of macadam and sixty-five miles of
boulevard already completed and the coun-
ell has authorized ten more miles of pave
ment which is now under construction.
Winnipeg Is headquarters for 1.-The Com
pany of Gentlemen Adventures in Hudson's
Bay, which was Incorporated In 1870. and
was originally a fur-trading enterprise only,
but that Is row only very small part of
Its business. The company originally con-
trolled the entire northwest but when the
dominion was organized In 1867 II was al
lotted one-twentieth of the land. which IL
has been selling to settlers on long time
with interest at and per cent. From this
source alone its stockholders have received
so much money that the management Is
constantly raising prices to discourage
rather than encourage buyers. Its trading
posts. throughout the entire British pos
fax to Alaska. and from the arctic circle to
the northern boundary of the United
states. have gradually developed into
general Merchandise and department
trade. The head of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany as 1t is Familiarity known f. Lord
Strathcona, who also represents the inter-
ests OF the dominion before the British gov
eminent In London. C. c. Chapman of VIM
nipeg Is The business manager.
Scarcity of Labor.
Labor is very scarce and wages are very
high al Winnipeg and through all the sur
rounding country, notwithstanding the
rapid immigration. The construction camps
OF the new railroads are attracting large
numbers of laborers from the United States
because of the high wages offered
various schemes for supplying the lack
OF Labor have been suggested and are under
discussion. one of them being the importa-
ton of able-bodied men from the crowded
sections of London. Liverpool. Birmingham
and other large cities of England. 1t would
seem that this might be practicable. and no
greater charity could be conceived, although
the selection of immigrants would involve
considerable risk One plan is TO have the
British government establish board OF
immigration to select the immigrants and
supervise their transfer from English cities
to Winnipeg and other cities where labor
is needed; and for the Canadian government
to pay the expenses, which have been esti-
mated at not more than 800 per capita.
If the immigrant prefers to be a farmer in
stead of laborer. he could take up land
under the homestead law.
Mr.. Rider Haggard, the novelist, who has
recently been making investigation OF
the colonization work of the Salvation Army
In the United States, recommends that the
government intrust the work to that or
ganization and authorize General Booth to
select every month certain number of
able-bodied and respectable mechanics and
laborers from the tenement house districts
of London, and at public expense find them
employment through agencies located in Diff
ferent parts of Canada
DR.. Barnardo's Good Work.
The late DR.. Bernardo of London,
who was genius in the manage
ment of such affairs. before his re-
cent lamented death, had already placed
10000 boys, girls and young men and
women in different parts of the do
minion. and kept record of every one of
them-what they were doing, how they were
succeeding, how they were behaving. His
agents made it point to pay personal
visit to every one of the 5000 at least once
year, to keep posted as to their cireum-
stances, to encourage them and to give
them what assistance they needed DR..
Bernardo himself came over three times
and met large number of his children,
he called them. No man ever did more
good among his fellow-men. His Canadian
headquarters were at Toronto under the di-
rection of Mr.. E. A. Strouthers and Mt.
owen. He mad an agency IN winnipeg also,
under the direction of Mr.. Davis, who is
looking after between four and five thou
sand men and women who have been placed
in Manitoba during the last twenty years.
A majority of them are prosperous, few
have achieved prominence in commercial
and industrial affairs, and although many
of them have failed and more have not adj
vanced beyond mediocrity, DIR. Barnardos
work has demonstrated that the plan of re-
moving people from the tenements of Lon
don to the prairies OF Canada Is both prac-
ticable and profitable.