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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936.

MY LIFE-STORY: BY

T

C.P.R. CHIEF

Log-Cabin

Days

With Bride of 19

By MARGARET LANE

husband worked late at night in the white-washed shed on the water-

first front that was the

C.P.R. office on the Pacific, she used la sit by the Bre and laten to drunken Indians turching along the wooden aldewalk, and falling into the mud outside her door.

THE world of transport is to lose one of its giants. Sir George McLaren Brown, European General Manager of the Canadian Pacific

"He worked so hard in those days," Railway, and now 71 years

she said, "the rallway was always his old, is to retire early next great love, you know. I ran it pretty year after half a century in close when we were Brsi married, the service of the great smile--"after a few years of competi trans-continental railwaylon I finished up a very bad second." that has been the love of his life.

but"-with a wry. down-slunting

HIS SECRET

Stage manager Herr Farkas, who produced the Japanese fim "La They have no children, which has Bataille" is the famous German now been a disappointment and a grief, producing a similar fim, entitied

the beautiful Star, Korin Hardt, but by now they have learned to bePort Arthur." The picture shows philosophical about it.

Lady Brown for more than forty years has devoted her great liveliness und energy into supporting her hus- band in his career, on his travels, in the cementing by human contacts the Great Britain and

Fifty years ago he saw the completing of that tremendous four-and-a-half years' struggle of plonecring, the driving of a rail- way through the Rockies, from the Atlante to the Pacific const.

Forty-six years ago he took a 1-bond between years-old bride out to the timber Canada which is so near to the hearts house he had built for her in Vancou-of both. ver (then a hard-drinking, living pioneer trable forests growing over what are "the ability to fight tooth and nail now its skyscraper sections and main against his rivals and adversaries in time to shopping street) and embarked with business, and at the same her on the long and arduous carcer

hard-- And the great man's secret

of

Dreams

And The

town, with impene-success? According to his wife, it is Blind

that has made him, in the Inst 30 the greatest years at least, one of Agures in the railway and shipping world.

A LITTLE DISMAYED

Now, facing retirement after a long life of almost heredible activity, Sir George and Lady McLaren Brown are a little reluctant, a little dismayed. At the same time they look forward

the whole of their: whal, In to tasting married life, they have never known -leisure to relax and take holidays treasured other's and enjoy cach company to the full.

retain them all us friends." He him- Curious Points Revealed By self refuses to be called a great man, claims no man, even in the C.P.R., is indispensable.

tetirement is going to be wrench," he said, "but I

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Inquiries

Nearly everyone dreams striking- can ly clear visions sometimes of friends,

face 16 My life won't sudden- of landscapes long since visited, of ly become empty, you know. I almost forgotten Incidents. But what

Do they dream? have many friends here in England of the blind? whom I shall never be able to bring What does the man. born blind myself to leave. Though I'm dream of? Doca e "are" in his Canadian, I believe the English dreams, or are only those ACHECH people are the kindest as well as which he used when awake-hearing. the sanest in the world,

touch, and smell-reproduced sub- "And" with a sideways twinkle at consciously when he sleeps? his wife, bustling about with a bundle of library books"I still have wife, Be, you know. She always has been, They are a remarkable pair.

most delightfully six four, still finely handsome, and still

foot

personality, sin-stimulating companion I have ever

a gentle yet powels, and of his known."

cere 10

lover of

fellow men She, slight, brittle-

looking, lively,

an excellent talker

and an endlessly resourceful mind-

is, the

the kind of woman with whom it is Real Life

possible for plencers to become,

to remain, great.

ind

"Yes, it's been an exciting life," she said, to me with a touch of regret, "but oh! how we're looking I haven't forward to the rest known what It was to rest for the last forty-six years.

"And now we have a new life be- fore us, tremendous plans to make Whether to make our home in Cariada, or in England, or between whether to go round the will take us a long time

it

Robinson

Crusoe

DIES IN, N, Z.

4

Blind people with whem a reporter discussed these questions agreed that without sight most of those born dream, but differently from people On the other hand, who can see. those blinded in the war dream very clearly.

Captain Sir Jan Tenger, M.P., the warblinded chairman of St. Dun- stan, says that he can see perfectly in his dreams, no Idea of blindness cuters his mind.

Those born blind, It seems, do not dream visually. They cannot, for Instance, visualise coloara. Colours

only with them are conveyed

in terms of heat--red is hot, blue 19

cold,

Mr. P. 5. Phillips, of Pinner, Middlesex, who was for 51⁄2 years an instructor of Braille shorthand and of typewriting at St. Dunstans and was born blind, described his dreams.

Andrew Swan, uble seaman and real life Robinson Crusoe, is dead.

"They have gothing at all to do Some months ago he left Letchworth with sight," be said. "I do not 'fee' to visit his property in Australia, but anything when dream. My sub- died in the Seamen's Home at Auck-conscious mind recalls my work or inland, New Zealand, following careereation or similar impressions and

operation. He was about 67.

the two. world.... to decide."

"What ever we do, my husband Ile has too much will never be idle. energy, loo many vital interests "life for that:~~-

"We first met, you know, when I was six and he was about 13. 11 was at a children's party in Hamilton, Ontario, where we were both born.

noticed

tall, handsome Scots Canadian boy in a kit, staring at me.

Presently he came over to me and said, quite politely, 'D'you know think girls are no what I think? good at all!

"It was scarcely an auspicious first inceting, was it? But he modified his opinions later, for he proposed to me when 1 was only 17. married when I was 19 and he was 25, and we have been together ever

since.

Here is the story of this real hie told by his Robinson Crusoe as cousin, the Rev. Dugald Macfadyen, of Letchworth, to an Evening News representative:-

"As, boys, Andrew Swan and I used to go boating on the Clyde together. Andrew went to sea. For about 30 heard nothing of him. I years thought he was dead." Then one St. Andrew's Day a few years ago, with- out any sort of warning, he turned up on my doorstep at Letchworth, We sending in his birth certificate to prove his identity. I invited him in, and afterwards obtained lodgings for him in Letchworth. Bit by bit) get his story from film.

At 19 Mrs. McLaren Brown tas she was then) had a hard time run- ning her first log-cabin homestead Vancouver. While her young

In

Troops Drive 'Leopard Men' From Liberia

to

that is all.

"But twice i myfe-I~~have dreamt that I could see. That was dreamt I was many years ago. I going to Waterloo Station and saw name. Stockton and Co., cool merchants, but the printing was a curious jumble of Braille and Moon types. I do not, of course, what ordinary printing looks like.

know

"On the other occasion. I dreamt I was in a schoolroom and 'saw' i pen on the floor, but it was such a describe it. But I shall never for- vague impression that I can scarcely get those two dreams when I saw', two have been mental and not visual All my dreams except those Impressionk,'

MLP EXPERIENCE "While working as a sailmaker in

Captain Sir Ian Frazer says that, sailing ship bound from Brisbane Honolulu the ship took Are, and

enough, irrutionally

although he Swan and Ave companions were saved in a boat that funded them un dreams that he can see, yet he is an island about three miles long and somehow vaguely conscious that he

is blind. In his dreams he is chiefly. threequarters of a mile wide. The is-impressed by the fact that one should land was about two days sal frum be conscious of the idea that one is the Equator, and the survivors of the blind. At the same time, one is able buning ship who reached it besides

Another man blinded in the war Andrew were the cook, the carpenter to see every detail perfectly. (both Scotsmen), Norwegian says the same, and adds that it is sallor, an Irishman, and a ship's buy. curious that although an enthusiastic The boy is now married and living reader of Braille for many years, in in Melbourne or Sydney.

his dreams, when he is rending he is "When they left the ship there was always perusing a book with or- no land in sight. Five of them were dinary print, the characters of which Cape Mount, Liberia, Oct. 20.

in one boat and the others in the he sees perfectly.

He has also dreamned more than smallest boat, which

was Liberia's "Human Leopards," ship's

steered behind them. They look once that he is in the air, looking dreaded secret society of the tinned meat, biscuits, and other pro- down, and can see the landscape below perfectly, although he never African bush, have been scatter-visions.

new before being blinded. ed by soldiers sent by the Liber- ian government.

Murders and attacks on human beings had been reported from the Grand Cape Mount district, and the militia at Monrovia were sent to the bush to disperso the attackers.

Island

the "When they reached

and E they found plenty of wood spring of water, and they made a sort of square encampment with a sloping roof. For food there were birds eggs and fish. Even so, they would probably have perished but for

Yet another man saya. he 'can see perfectly in his drenins, and recently dreamed that he was on a cliff and could see the passing ships quite clearly.

The Jate Sir Arthur Pearson, founder of St. Dunstans, used to say that after losing his sight he could, see quite clearly in his dreams.

COLOUR QUESTION Discussing those people who were born alghtless, the superintendent of the Londen Society for Teach- ing and Training the Blind said: They undoubtedly have dreams, but they cannot dream visually. Their dreams are based upon their senses of smell, hearing, and touch."

a providential circumstance.

hen the ship burned itself out the hull came drifting towards them. at first was! It would have gone past the Island, The government sceptical of reports that these oc- but they towed it in, and were able currences were the work of "Human to obtain tools, batties of soda water, Leopards," but finally was forced to and other things that the fire had not take action when several paramount destroyed. There were some seeds, chicts went to the capital and de-which they planted. There were manded help.

coconuts on the island, and once they On arrival of the militia and killed a sharks.

"Several weeks after their arrival government officials in the district, the "leopards" fed to the jungles of they found traces of a previous in- Mr. Sutcliffe, deputy organiser of the interlar, taking with them two habitant-the siteleton of a man. By the greater London Fund for the small children as their final toll of him were the remains of his dog. Blind, who has been blind for many human life.

They it fires on the top of the high- years, said, "The educated blind read This terrible cult was once power-est rock of the island and rigged up a great deal and their dreams are The problem of

But

ful throughout Africo, but is said to Bags to try to attract ships. Event- fairly accurate. for Üliem. exist only in. Liberia now. Clad in ually they were rescued by a ship, space is simpler leopard siding, the killers became so the San Christabel, which had drift- those born blind are not able to bold that they recently crept out of ed out of her course. They were on visualise colour."

"By the way," he added, "uns it a bush and killed a boy on a govern- the island for the period of the Boer ment school compound. United war, about which they heard noth-ever occurred to you whether peo- Press.

ing till they were rescued."

ple with sight dream of colours?"

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