THE BERMUDA COMMERCIAL AND GENERAL ADVERTISER AND RECORDER. Vol LXXXIV—No. 114 HAMILTON. BEBMUDA., THURSDAT, SEPTEMBER 21. 1911. 20s. PEB ANNUM. Building Bigger Battleships. NEW SCHEME FORDEFRAUDING Pre-Adamite Bermuda. SPONGE FISHING INDUSTRY IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S DONKEY BANKS. «*. _. THE BAHAMAS. High Cost of Living. Wben Queen Victoria was at .Aix- Nobody seems to explain, in the Ia aa effort to warn the bankers To the Editor of the Royal Gazette. From October until July the spong­ les-Bains in 1892 she found great diffi­ ing season in the Bahamas is in full culty in walking and complained that comment on the launching of the of the country against the opertions Sr,—The long expected dredger is RIOTS IN PARIS AND VIENNA. Rivadavia at Quincy, Mass., what of an audacious band of swindlers who swing. There are several thousand she had no means of locomotion fit doing its work well'and effectually not men and boys engaged ia the fishery, for easy and immediate use. One use Argentina expects to have for the have devised ao entirely new scheme only in deepening the channel entrance, biggest battleship in tbe world. Ia of getting funds illegally from banks, each schooner carrying a crew of from afternoon as she was driving by Labour And Socialist Demon­ known here as "the Cut," but also in five to seven. The sponges are found the edge of the Lac de Bourget she met fact, the recent activity of South Mr. William B. Joyce, president of the adding to our knowledge of what strations. American countries as .Argentina, Bra­ National Surety Company, recently all over the banks, which vary ia a peasant jogging along in a small cart was Bermuda of old, the only unsub- depth from two to four fathoms. drawn by a donkey. The animal was zil, and Cl.il?. in building and equip­ made public the methods by which merged mountain peak of the Lost ping huge warships is a phenomenon banks et this city have lost $20,000 Arrived on the ground, the small still young, but so thin and so ill-groom­ PARIS, Sept. 18.—The numerous Atlantis of Plato, which hitherto has ed that be was very littl± to look at. meetings of Labour Unions in various which must stimulate surmise in more within a fortnight. The fraud has been scant, and confined to a but im­ boats, of which each schooner carries directions than one. It is not long two or three, put off, manned each by Tbe Queen stopped her carriage and parts of Paris to protest against the made necessary a change in the policies perfect geological study of its prevailing high cost of living had heavy police since Brazil's Navy mutinied and written by surety companies to protect rocks. I kave just examined a small two men, one of whom sculls, while beckoned to the fellow. "Would yon nearly caused a revolution. Is the guards yesterday. banks. boat load of very large twisted cedar the other, armed with a thirty-foot care to sell me your donkey?" she flocking of these bristling sea-monsters roots in a fair state of preservation, a pole, bearing at the end a double hook, asked. Not knowing to whom he When the manifestants left the in southern waters a safeguard or a The methods consist of forging checks meeting places they often made demon­ and, after having the same certified remnant of what was evidently the lies extended over the bow; and exam­ was speaking the peasant replied, with menace to peace among the South ines the bottom through a "sponge- strations in the markets. Disorder by the banks on which they are drawn, trunk or very large bough bearing the usual distrust which country people American States? When the Rivadavia strong marks in its charred condition of glass," of bucke; with a glass bottom. entertain for those who come from the prevailed in Menilmpntak Market. was launched, ea August 26, from the having them cashed on other banks Laying this upon the surface,, he sees Manifestants who proceeded toward here or ia other cities. Thus far some fire having ravaged it in its growth, towns, "AH depends." Fore River Shipbuilding Yards, Presi­ probably caused by lightning. When everything below as clearly as if no "How much did you pay for him?" another market found the way barred dent Taft sent to the Argentine minis­ ei the checks have been cashed here, water intervened. by a strong force of police. while others have been turned into asked what I supposed its age to be asked tbe Qneen. "A hundred francs, ter a telegram of congratulation in I replied some 60,000 years, basing The sponges when found arc hooked and he was cheap at thc price." "Ill Rioting followed, in the course of which he exprest the "sincere hope" money ia Canada. which three men and two women were "The very audacity of the thing, my assertion oo the supposition that up, and as soon as thc schooner's deck give you two hundred. Will you take that "your country will find her useful it was co-eval with thc age of the is filled she sails away to a "ranchc." it?" After some hesitation the bargain arrested. The women were particularly only for the peace she insures and never the going to the one place ia the world violent at CHchy, and troops are aiding which one would think would be the Admiral Milne stalagmite. My asser­ where she deposits her evil-smelling was struck. in hostile engagements.'* tion was also backed by ascertaining the police tbere. last at which a forger would present load in a "crawl," or enclosure of Wat­ .After the donkey became the Queen's that the specimens in question were ties in shallow water, where it remains More arrests were made at Oriel Argentina's monster super-dread­ paper—the bank on which it was drawn" property it was set to draw Her Majesty nought also inevitably arouses the old dredged from 12 to 16 feet in the for a couple of weeks, during which thc along the little roads and Barrow walks as the result of the dear food rioting said Mr. Joyce, " is responsible for the sub-soil of the tide water above them, crew are fishing for a fresh cargo. OB Wednesday. There were demon­ question. Where is this building of success of the scheme." No New a carriage could oot enter, and Jacquot, some 15 feet at high tide. In verifica­ as he was named, led an easy, gentle strations also to-day in various towns bigger and bigger warships going to York baok teller or cashier would On their return, all hands enter the tion of the great age attained by the crawl and beat out thc now rotted and agreeable hfe. When the Queen and cities of the Provinces. lead? The Rivadavia fa 585 feet long, cash a big check without identification— while the Arkansas and Wyoming, cedar family, I quote tbe following fleshy parts of the sponges, which, was about to return Jacquot should they are far too careful for that; in extract from a report by Professor when first gathered, present the ap­ be taken up with her on the journey. VIESHA, Sept. 18.—Many persons thi ships of our Xavy whkh most near­ fact, they are the most careful in the ly approach her in size and type, are Dudley of the Leland-Stanford Uni­ pearance of round masses of dark India On tbe day of Ms arrival at Aix were killed or wounded here yesterday, country; but when they have been versity which I have in my records rubber, freely perforated. when troops fired on a mob which start­ 23 feet shorter. Like the Arkansas asked to certify checks that seem to be the rogue proved that he had a good and Wyoming, she is to have a main oa the .great age of the Sequoia ol When the fleshy part has been memory. He broke loose from the ed rioting in protest against the high all right, they have oot hesitated to California one of which was cut down thoroughly removed, and thc market­ waggon in which he was carried, sniffed price of the necessaries of life. Barri­ battery of twelve 12-inch guns, but do so. That is why the crooks have these are to have a radius of fire of in 1890— a .sacrilege now forbidden by able skeleton washed, the heap is laid the air of his native land with delight, cades were erected in the streets and 120 degrees as against 90 degrees in tlie succeeded in doing as they have. law and the few remaining trees of on shore in a secluded spot, and the took his bearings and scampered away there was a fierce exchange of bullets American vessels. Newspaper reports According to Mr. Joyce's statement the grove are aow protected by law. schooner .starts again for the sponge- before aay one could lay a hand upon and the soldiers were pelted with all of her displacement differ consider­ a man who appeared to be a prosperous He says hi his Report: banks. At length,* when enough sponges him making straight for the stable, sorts of missiles. ably, but the authoritative Army and Western merchant, entered oae of thc have been gathered and cleaned to where he had been so well looked The rioting followed a huge Socialist Navy- Journal places it at 27,500 tons, most conservative national banks down­ "This tree whea cut dowa in 1890 load the vessel, they are sorted by thc after in the previous year.