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DECUNE SUBSTITUTES. 



E.W.GILLETT CO. LTD. 

 TORONTO. 



WINNIPEG. MONTREAL. 



Hitch Your Sleeping Schedule 

 to Big Ben 



Big Ben will wake you early enough 

 for profitable before-breakfast action. 

 His gentle get-up call starts the day 

 with n flying start on thousands of 

 farms. 



For your accommodation he rings 

 TWO WAYS. He'll get you up by 

 degrees or in a hurry. Set him either 

 way you wish — to give one long five- 

 minute ring, or ten short rings at 

 one-half-minute intervals, until you're 

 wide awake. 



lie stands 7 inches tall; ia triple-nickel plated 

 over a tested implement steel coat, the handsomest 

 and truest tborouebbred in the clocJc world. He 

 has h\z. bold numerals and hands that show the 

 time pLiinly at a stance, large keys that anyone can 

 wind easily, and such a pleasant tone that you are 

 glad tc £ct up when he calls. 



Bit Ben makes early rising easy. He's the 

 leader of the early morning brigade. His cheerful 



good morning" ring calls millions of liyc wires to 

 action. Thousands of successful farms are run on 

 a Big Ben schedule. He starts you off right in the 

 morning and keeps you right all day. From "Sun 

 up" to "Lights out" he regulates your day. He'll 

 work for 36 hours at a stretch and overtime, if 

 necessary. The only pay he asks is one drop of 

 oil a year. 



He is sturdy and strong — built to last a lifetime. 

 Yet under bis dust-proof steel coat is the most deli- 

 cate "works." That's why his on-tbe-dot accuracy 

 has won him fame. 



Big Ben's wonderful sales are due to his having 

 "made good." His biggest bit has been with fcBks 

 with tbc "make good" habit. He sunds for suc- 

 cess — that's why you'll like him for a friend. 



When 3 million families find Big Ben a good 

 clock to buy and 20,000 dealers pnrve he's a good 

 clock to sell, it's evidence that he is worth S*,00 of 

 jmr money. Suppose you trade &1. 00 for him today. 



A community of clockmakera stands back of btm. 

 Their imprint, Madt in La Sallt, UJinois, h tf'est- 

 clox, is the best alarm-clock insurance you can buy. 



days goinff twenty-eight miles, twenty-two 

 days going thirty-seven miles, twenty-six 

 days going seventy-two miles, etc., through- 

 out the whole fifty-seven shipments. Simi- 

 lar reports to the foregoing were submitted 

 on the placing of carload shipments of fruit 

 after arrival at destination. 



In reply to Chairman Drayton's inquir\ 

 as to what rate of transit the fruit ship- 

 ments should be given, my suggestion was 

 ten miles an hour, and I am satisfied this 

 is not an unreasonable request, consider- 

 ing the freight rate, and the volume of 

 business we tender. For instance, between 

 New Orleans, La., and Chicago, for fruit 

 and vegetable shipments, the run is made 

 in fifty-five hours, a distance of nine hun- 

 dred and twenty-two miles ,or an average 

 speed of sixteen miles an hour, while the 

 actual running speed would be greatly in 

 excess of this. The schedule for banana 

 trains betwen these points is forty-seven 

 hours and thirty minutes, an average of 

 .twenty miles an hour. Fruit trains from 

 Southern Illinois are run from Centralia, 

 111., to Chicago, two hundred and fifty-two 

 miles, in ten hours and five minutes, about 

 twenty-five miles an hour, and this service 

 dates back as far as 1901. In the district 

 comprising Delaware and the eastern shores 

 of Maryland and Virginia, which ship pro 

 bably ninety per cent, of its production 

 north of Philadelphia, growers have the 

 accommodations of specially constructed 

 cars for fruit, and a service almost on pas- 

 senger schedule. 



FAST SF.RVICE EL8EWHEKE 



From Wilmington, N.C., to New York, 

 fruit trains average better than sixteen 

 miles an hour. Florida, like other southern 

 states, is provided with a special fast 

 freight service for the transportation of 

 fruits, trains making the run between Jack- 

 sonville and New York, including all de- 

 lays, at the rate of over seventeen miles 

 an hour. All through the fruit producing 

 states, we find similar service provided. 

 From the Jacksonville, Palestine and Tyler 

 districts in Texas to New York, one thou- 

 sand five hundred and twenty-three miles 

 in five days, and even to Montreal we find 

 deliveries of peaches and cantaloupes made 

 for sixth morning market. Between Sou- 

 thern California and New York, three thou- 

 sand and twenty miles, an average speed of 

 nearly thirteen miles am hour is attained. 

 Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, competi- 

 tive states in Western Canada with our 

 Ontario producers, also have a special 

 sechedule during the heavy movement, and 

 in some instances fruit shipments are 

 handled on passenger trains. 



To the great fruit industry of the pro- 

 vince, then, the decision of the Railway 

 Commission upon this problem means con- 

 siderable, as it is a stepping-stone to the 

 more important requirement — that of bet- 

 ter service in transit. 



We pay high rates because of the per- 

 ishable nature of our commodity and de- 

 serve, therefore, the service for which we 

 pay. The reports now coming in from 

 Ontario shippers are an improvement o-ver 

 last year, but show a serious state of affairs 

 vet. No company obtaining its right of 

 operation from the Government, which in 

 reality is the people, should be allowed to 

 so serve or humbug those who make their 

 operation possible. 



When the decision of the Board will be 

 given, I cannot say. I hoped it would be 

 in time to apply this season, but was ad- 

 vised under date of October 13th, 1913, that 

 it will be some time yet before the question 

 can be disposed of. 



