Show I I NAVIGATION IN WINTER The Tho possibility of winter navigation on at least a portion of the tho River St. St Lawrence is to bo determined the tho present season through a nt exhaustive experiments under the tho direction lion tion of Dr II T. T Barnes professor of physics at McGill university Tho Canadian department of marine manno and fisheries is rendering material aid aidin am amin in conducting the tho investigations such as defraying thc tho expense of of assistants providing necessary scientific ins ru- ru monts and furnishing accommodations on board government ice ico breakers Records are aro kept of temperatures of water and atmosphere th of ice observations of local conditions etc and nil other important factors which will bo be of assistance in arriving at an ultimate conclusion One of the thc government gov eminent ice breakers the is isnow s now nosy operating in the tho river in the tho vi vicinity vi enmity of Seven Islands about fifty miles below Rimouski Doctor Barnes is an authority on ice ico phenomena and his extensive researches into the tho nature and cause of anchor am anti frazil ice ico has resulted in time the adoption ofa of ofa a practical method of combating frazil so that sluices and flumes may bo be kept free front from ice during time thc most severe seasons of the year |