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SATURDAY, DECEMBER – 19, 1925.

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BARQUE'S LONG-

VOYAGE.

WRECKED AFTER 40 DAYS ORDEAL.

.of

The majority of people in Having taken 40 days instoud London who do not buy a house of the usual 14 on her voyage or rent a house or an apartment from Halifax, Nova Scotia owing because of the "address"-wish to tempestuous weather, the that the name of the street they fourmasted harque Paul, live in was something else. Hamburg, recently wont ashore Looking at the situation from the an dangerous sands known as viewpoint of alarity, they have a Cefn Sidan, in Carmarthon Bay, very good kick coming, but while trying to make St. Davids. otherwise their complaints do not seem to boar much weight.

A Stuto

She was scon to send up flares during the night, and carly the London is really a little United next morning flow signals of dix. States, with twenty-three tross, but, owing to huzy weather, Borough Councils, which have those were not soen till 9 a.,

The lifeboat at Ferryside (as certain rights in their areas very the mouth of the River Toway! much the same Legislature. Controlling it all, was launched, and on reaching the the wreck it was found that 11 to a certain degree, is

the London County Council, which of the crow, including in many ways conforms to stewardess, had taken to a small Congress. These Borough Coun-boat, which was drifting to the cils have given names to the open bay, into a position of grave

district they danger, streets in tho

The fobouimen took thin

control, and all of them seem to have at some time or other into their boat, and then returned. great weakness for the names of to the barque and saved the ro Church, Victoria, George, mainder of the crew, numbering Grosvenor, Queen, King and 16 in all. All were Germans ex- one, Dane, and the others. The result has been utiar cept confusion, and when one wants stewardess, who is a Canadian.

The burque had lost all her

to get to an address in any part sails and was at the mercy of the

of London in ⠀ stroot with

any of these familiar namos, it is weather.

She was laden with

first necessary to distinguish the 2.000 tons of timber. borough.

The London County Council has

the a department called Streets Names Commitée, its business boing to attempt tu rectify inappropriate names of London's throughfares. This committee now is changing the names of streets on the average of thirty a year, and through what it has done and what it has not done has raised the ire of a goodly percantage uf the population.

street

ONE MAN SAVES 49,

REACHES ROCKS WITH

LIFE LINE. Making his way to some rocks by means of a life line, the second mate of the steamor Cairnavon, which went ashore on the Aber- deenshire coust, was able to rescue the drew of 48 and one-passenger.

crew

A vessel of 3,000 tons, belonging For instance, if a murder is to Newcastle, the Cairnavon was committed on any street in which bound from Leith to Montreal live respectable people and the with cargo, and grounded in fog name of the street is emphasized about half a mile south of Buchan in the report of the trial, the Noss Lighthouse, near Potérhead. residents on that

Seeing that the vessel was in a immediately apply to the com-dangerous position, the mittee in an effort to have its lowered a rope ladder from the name changed. Then, again, the bows, but it was too short to reach name of a street may fall into the rocks. It was then that the disrepute, whereupon the more socond mate, although in danger: substantial citizens want the of being swept away by the waves, name of the street changed. had himself lowered by a life-line, Protests on these grounds, and managed to reach the rocks. however, do not get very far with He was then able to help the rest! the committee, because members of the crew of 48 and the pa believe that no name should be senger ashore.

changed without very definite

reasons, and they usually send however, became a throughfare. these householders back dis-and now is known as "Cheap- gruntled with the admonition side."

that they themselves should see. Even in those days, however, to it that the pust good reputation the tradespeople were to a large

of the street should be restored

by their own efforts.

extent exclusive regarding other people in their same walk of life. Just after the war began the For instance, there is an offshat counnittee was fondled with from Cheapside called" Poultry." applications to change names of not Poultry street, but just plain streets that had any inkling of "Poultry. In the old days any the German language. In most one with fowls to sell, would cuses this was done because the have to employ a stall in that protestants wore usually backed section. up by a protest from their Bar- And then, again, shooting off ough Coune.

from "Poultry," are some most

It is difficult to discern just interesting little lanes and why so much fuss should be marrow streets named Milk. nude over the changing of names where all the dairy products used of the streets of London, so many to be sold, and Broad street. of which are only two or three where formerly all the bakers blocks long and are little known held forth, and another called to any one except the residents Friday street, where all the fish. of the immediate neighborhood. Hollers hud their stalls, Tho Broadway developed from a story is told that they did not cow path, and it is said that some want to name this little short of London's streels grow UP street. Fish," so, us Friday was around the meandering of their big day, they decided to animals. The cows that made call it by the day of the wook thun the product

Three Sandy Macs Please Broadway seem to have had a rather

There were three of them.

The Raw Young man was determined, at great personal inconvenience, to do The Right Thing." He bellowed Double Scotch."

And tried to enjoy it.

The Florid One was there for a whisky. Any old- whisky. He called for a Scotch and Soda."" He had done so these many years.

And he enjoyed it.

Came the Third Man. Who had Seen Life. Knocked about a Bit. He called quietly for a "Sandy Mac." And he revelled in it-drinking slowly, critically, Admiration, tinged with awe, overspread the faces of the other two.

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In this sort of cases and in a which are said to be re-good many others in London it sponsible for many of London's would be difficult to change the streets a thousand or more years name of streets because if ono ago Blust have bcon very wants to delve into ancient) eccentric, because they travelled history regarding the names of only very short distances in one one of the oider streats it soon direction and left to posterity can be ascertained that the unne confusion of highways that makes means something to the coin-

it very easy for the uninitiated to munity or to the history of that ket lost even in the central pari aron.

of London.

The London County Council: Consequently it is rather Committee dove not attempt to diflicult to understand why the get itself into trouble by changing changing of the, names of these such names, but thore ure: small byways should be taken so thousands of little streets in Koriously..

London and its suburbs, the

now

But there are some streets in names of which mean nothing. London the names of which could Those the committee is attacking not be changed, not for any at the rate of thirty a year in an particular reason except "endeavour to eliminate the con- could not be done, you know." fusion of names

which For instance, down. in the exists. financial section there is a very In making these changes the important street called Cheapside.committee 14 trying tti gol That name was derived from the picturesque titles. Some of the markot place that about five new ones are Foxhole road, Vale centuries ago flourished in. that Royal, Greenway, Plumo Place, section. In those days the word Dovedale road and King Alfred cheap" meant an open market eventie. It Hoons that this place whore the lower classes commitac, concerning protty purchased thoir provisions. It namos, could touch something to was nover patronized by the the American individuals opening Suppor classes because they would up suburban residential sections not deign to have, even their who erect attractive gatos at the

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