About a month ago a new type of street car was introduced by the Montreal Tramways Company. These cars are known as the one The Bell Telephone Ca. of Canada is another public service corporation which is coming in for its share of criticism these days, This has resulted from a proposal by the company to increase the rates to subscribers on account of increased operating charges and the necessity for capital expenditure on plant and equipment. Before the new ratex can be imposed the company has (o make good ity case before several Dominion Commissions and hearings have been taking place in different cities. At present the work is being done in Ottawa where the permission of the Railway Commission is being sought. High officers of the company and assessors Jare being cross examined by the Jcounsel for the government board, Col. Geary. The Bell Ca. officials are being put through a searching test and have been asked to answer some dificult questions, The methods of big corporations in the conducting of biz business ave being.
very clovely and to the, ct itis bewildering, contemplate, the intricate maze methods of doing waking estimates, The utter ies in this —the Bell Company—must prove that it is going to cost more n the future to render the same service to the consumers, This, they are having a avd time to jai Conference Suspect The Imperial Conference has been having reports from the Fores try Commission ut recent meetings and the information given out, as fur as Canada is concerned, isnot very cheerful for us to contemplate, According to the estimates of experts, there is only enough soft wood in Canada to supply the needs of present markets for about 26 years. Of the original forest there is only about 27 per cent, left jin Canada. When we think of the rate at which the lumber is being cut and of the annual loss by forest fires, it is hard to be very istic about the future, Tt is not always safe to rely entirely on statistics, but in this case it is cer~ tainly true that the supply of soft wood is being cut at a very rapid. rate and that adequate measures for reforestation have not yet been seriously considered, It is to be hoped. that the government will take measures before it is too Into so that we will not be in the plight in which, China now finds herself in regard [to forests. man ears, because they only require one man' to operate them. The usual practise in Canadian cities has been to have two man _street jears. The introduction of the one!
We are asked to state that there is no truth in the rumour that the proprietors of White Hors whisky are amalgamating with other whisk. concerns in the home country.
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