The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-21
The PlrrssuRc OF CANADA
On the Eastern Point Of North
Editorial trip articles; No. 4

Island. was partially by rail but
from two in the afternoon until
evening the trip was through the Bras
dor lakes, which rival any part Of Can
ada in scenery. For about fifty miles
the waters are sheltered from the ocean
of which it is part and in this distance
the lake expands into bays, inlets and
romantic havens-peninsulas, broken
coast lines and islands combining TO
make scene of surprising beauty. The
width from shore to shore varies from
less than mile to eighteen miles and
also in depth, being 700 feet in one
place and the hills rising the same dis
lance above the water The land is also
beautiful, there being but very small
part under cultivation-in fact the
rocks cover it-2, 500, 900 acres on Cape
Breton Island with less farming land
than in this county alone There are,
however, coal mines covering $50 square
miles and much of the island has not
been developed. The district is the
most primitive in parts Of any in North
America and furnished the humorous
writers with much material for their
stories.
Reaching st. AIMS bay the party are
really on the broad Atlantic and many
realized it as the windy point above
Sydney was reached-for here many of
the party had the first touch of sickness
of any unfortunately, however, the
run was short and the last few miles
quiet so that when Sydney was reached
all were able to go ashore and here
again we found genuine welcome
practically every inch of space on the
dock being occupied by cheering citi-
zens and band welcoming us from the
hotel steps. AS we entered the bay the
men on the French man of war Chase
loup Laubat cheered and sang national
songs while our party responded with
three cheers for France. The harbor is
safe, capacious, easy of access and navi-
gable at all seasons-opening into the
ocean and is nearly two miles wide at
the entrance-making it sheltering
place for any sized craft or any number
Sydney with a population of 10000 was
a little village in 1899 but doubled and
redoubled in population so fast that
there were not houses to live in-shacks
were built in all directions and finally
the general result of such work came
and the city was destroyed by fire and
then rebuilt on modern plans. Across
the harbor is North Sydney and
Sydney mines
Here again we found indications of
American enterprise and hustle BY
boat the party were taken to the steel
mills-one of the most complete plants
in the world costing millions of dollars
and running "a hours every day in the
year-grinding out steel rails and tele-
graph, telephone and power wires at
such rate as it would. seem few
weeks run would furnish a supply to
last year. Immense furnaces eighty
1 five feet high and eighteen feet in dia-
meter giving out the molten metal
which is cooled in blocks about feet
long and Is inches square and then
heated red hot and run under lengthen-
ers until the piece is rail length and
width turned over and over automati-
cally and finally whirled on end and in
to the cutter where the steel is sawed in
two as easily as though 1t were the soft
est pine-the sparks flying in all direc-
tions and so thick that it seemed some
one had touched off Roman candle
A short run was then made to the
Marconi wireless telegraph station on
an elevated spot few miles out of Sgd
ney. Here large number of very high
poles are erected from which in every
direction are strung wires running into
the ground and also into the station,
number of miles of the wires being
buried under ground-an explanation
of the system was not made except that
each wire is tuned to certain sound
and when struck every wire within the
radius which the machine is intended
to cover that is tuned the same will re-
ceive the message-the sound waves be-
ing like those made by dropping peb-
BILE into the water, except that the
sound wave travels over 1885, 900 miles
per second.
BY special train the Dominion Coal
Co. took the party to Glace Bay to vi sit
the coal mines and furnished lunch
which included broiled live Holsters
the Holsters being caught during the
forenoon. This company claim they
have the largest colliery in the world
and that the supply is unlimited that
is will last thousand years at the rate
the coal is being taken out today-eight
acres day, the vein being eight feet
| thick.
After returning to the city we went
on French territory by visiting the
French battleship Chasseloup Laubat,
lying in the harbor and if you have
choice of visiting a French man Of war