The literary digest . ring. Sir Wilfrid married Zoe Lafontaine,daughter of G. N. R. Lafontaine, ofMontreal, in 1868. Editorially the New York Times dwellsupon Sir Wilfrids brilliancy, courage, andpatriotism, declaring that—? If his good fortune had been quite equalto his rhetorical, literary, and personalcharm, he would have died at the end ofhis Ministry of fifteen years in 1911. Forthe extension of Canadian transportation,commerce, agriculture, for the develop-ment of Canadian national sentiment withan indefinite but strong imperial scope, noother public man in Canada did so prefere
The literary digest . ring. Sir Wilfrid married Zoe Lafontaine,daughter of G. N. R. Lafontaine, ofMontreal, in 1868. Editorially the New York Times dwellsupon Sir Wilfrids brilliancy, courage, andpatriotism, declaring that—? If his good fortune had been quite equalto his rhetorical, literary, and personalcharm, he would have died at the end ofhis Ministry of fifteen years in 1911. Forthe extension of Canadian transportation,commerce, agriculture, for the develop-ment of Canadian national sentiment withan indefinite but strong imperial scope, noother public man in Canada did so preference taiiff of 33 J^ per cent, infavor of British manufactiues in 1900 wasa great stroke for the imperial idea, sincegrown into a different and a nobler scheme,a commonwealth, we might say, of self-governing commonwealths. This French-Canadian, this first French-Canadian Premier, this bilingual orator,this personage of authority, suavity, dig-nify,.and distinction, has not left his likebehind. The UpS^Concrcte Ship. Dominant StrengthConcrete &?j^?5^^^ The Faith—built of the same dominant strength con-crete as should go into buildings and roads—is back from South America, Havana and New Orleans. Dry-dock examina-tion at New York proves that concrete wins the battle with the sea. Koehring-mixed concrete qualifies as the dominant strengthconcrete as the result of official tests of the strength of concreteas mixed by many mixers. By official test, Koehring-mixed isfar stronger than concrete mixed by othermixers—as much as 31% stronger—the resultof the re-mixing action found in no concretemixer but the Koehring. (1) Diag^onal blades cut through the materials with churning^action. (2) Blades carry material up with the motion of the drum,spilling part of material do\vn against motion of the drum. (3)Material carried up by blades is hurled across diarrv^ter of the drum.(4) Materials now brought to discharge side of the drum areelevated to drum top and projected down on reverse
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