The daily witness, 29 décembre 1910, jeudi 29 décembre 1910

[" Ne Aa, BIN CN CA ETES Eee Mt = Troon.quar hairy ersit nris! ation ttaw: rter arte\u201d on © und y i p.m .ce 1 : trorn ] Ê 1d I 1 po a Gaz AN.aster 20p- Tro: Ful pre tr\" Iroc Fus > ++.\u2018 4 2 4 e 2 Bolipds ip dplytv Qo lindo loin plop Gly SNOW Leeé+ts SPO aa IN EXPLOSION Boiler in Ice Company's Plant Suddenly Burst OVER TWENTY INJURED.Workmen Were Gathered in Boiler Room When Accident Occurred.Pittsfield, Mass., Dec.29.\u2014Thirteen men are reported to have been killed, and 20 injured to-day by the explosion nf a boiler at the plant of the Maorewood Ice Company on the shore nf Morewood Lake, about two miles mutside of this city.Two of the dead have been identified as William Dunn, engineer, and Edgar Allen, an em- plovee.The other victims are believed \u2018 to have been Italians gnd \u201cPgles.\"The explosion was terrific.ine body was thrown 150 feet, another 100 feet.Owing to the rainy weather of the past few days, harvesting the \"crop was delayed until to-day.Wihile waiting for the summons to begin active operations on the ice, and while most of the men were either inside the boiler house, to keep warm, or near the building, the boiler burst, with a terrific noise and a shock which wag felt for miles ; The boiler house was demolished in a fraction of a second, and pieces of the boiler, timbers and human bodies were hurled through the air.The cylinder of the boiler was found in & sree on the edge of the lake, more than 100 \u2018feet away, while a large Diece of iron was picked up 200 yards from the spot where the boiler house stoed.The boiler was used in furnishing the power to drag the cakes of ice up the inclines into \u2018the ice storage houses.HONDURAN REVOLUTION General Lee Christmas Leads Battle Along Nicaraguan Frontier.and New Orleans, Dec.29.\u2014Advices received here late last night say that a revolution has broken out in Honduras and fighting is going on along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, 20 miles below Cape Gracias, Nicaragua.The forces are being led, according to wireless reports,\u2019 by General Lee Christmas, who was to have met 1,600 men, on tthe Nicaraguan border, with forty days\u2019 provisions.It is known that the Davila Government moved $55,000 in silver from Puerto Cortez to Ceiba, and the flatter city is believed to be the objective point of the advancing revolutionists.The reports indicate that the gregfe purt of the fighting 1s about twéhiy m\u2018les from Cape Gracias, Nicaragua, but on the Horduran side.It is understood that the plan of attack is for Christmas to force his way inland while General Bonilla attacks Caiba [rom the Puerto Cortez side, leaving the \u2018Hornet which is said to be now heavily armed, at Puerto Cortez while that port is held under her guns.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014pr\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HALF A LIFE IN JAIL Inebriate Died in Prison After Serving 35 Years There After having spent over half of his life in jall, Charles Hanson, aged over seventy, died In the local lock-up yes- \u2018erday.He was serving a \u2018two months\u2019 sentence for doitering.The tause of his death was alcoholism.Tne lining of his stomach had been aimost burned away by ardent spirits.During his lifetime he had practically made the jail his boarding-house, and was one of the most frequent dnmates tnere Oftentimes he would only be free a day or so before he was sent CE.,kin Martin, aged 22, also died in tite jail.The cause of his death was chsumption.He was serving a three Months\u2019 sentence for being intoxioat- el Both cases were disposed of by «ie corouer without a jury.GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.Tenders Invited for New Departmental Block.Ottawa, REY Dec.29.\u2014Tenders for the deparimentul building on Mac- wenzie avenue will be received by the Cublie Wirks Department till the end t'ebruary.The new plans provide ora narrower building than was first \u201c \\22csted and for one story less.This \u201c1 eonsiderably reduce the cost, \u201chich will, however, exceed two mil- Jon dollars.AIRMAN'S BODY FOUND ?Remains of Cecil Grace Reported to Have Been Washed Ashore.Tandon, Der.29.\u2014The \u2018Daily Ex- Mess\u2019 ig responsible for a report that fin holy of a man dressed In English \u201cthas, believed to be that of Cecil \u2018mce, the aviator, who was last while 4 empting to make a return flight *\"m France, has been washed up at 2 'nkerke, near the Franco-Belgian Frontier.4 EAS RELATIVES HERE.The Rev.Father Joseph Felix Brouillard Dead.Winnipez, Dec.29.\u2014The Rev.Father Inseph Felix Brouillard, died yesterday, In Superior, Wis.after a month's Mness.Te was born in Quebec prov- nee in 1852, and was ordained in Partland.Oregan, in 1888.He had heen with the Superior diocese since 1895, His mother and three sisters live in Montreal.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WIDOW\u2019S SECOND CLAIM.Dame B.Forget has entered an notion against J.B.Baillargeon \u2018for £2000 for the death of her husband a \u2018arman named Bezzini, who, while driving an express van for Balllargeon, ahont a month ago, was killed by a falling har of iron from a building \"onstruction, at the corner of St.Catherine and St.Urbain streets.of \u201chirh Messrs Peter Lyall & Sons vere the contractors.A week or two X20 Aan action for $10,000 was entered SGralnst the contractors.ar | L THIRTEEN DEAD The fléating dry-dock which it has been definttely decided will be constructed for Montreal, is one of the greatest steps that the Harbor Comm.issioners have taken towards making the harbor the most complete in every facility on the continent.The above plan, dated Dec 17, two days before Mr.C.C.Balläntyne \u2018announced that a first-class dock is to be built, ig the latest, and it is the.plan which tH being followed ir the werk row going on.\u201d It shows the * proposed works, 4 cross-section of the manner o° operating the floating dock, and inserted is a key of the actual position of .the dry-dock works in the harbor.The site chosen is in a natural bay opposite Molson's Creek, or just opposite the Malsonneuve toll gate.The distance from the shore in that bay to the ship channel is nearly 2,500ft., -sions and the dry-dock works, will all the, dock An + PRICE ONE CENT.4 + and the dry-dock site and protection works will praf-ct out from the shore only half that distance.The reclaimed land of ebout 30 acres, which will be used :in connection with the Harbor Commissioners railway exten- be made from materials dredged from the basin: and the approach from th ship.channel.* approach from the .Ballan tv ; sa _ tyne tho tost of tha ock and ship repair- Ing plant will bé\u2018 in the neighborhood of $4,000,000.Thirty acres of land will be reclaimed from the bottom of the river for the purposes of the dock.It will be built and operated by.a British ship-building firm, and will be.ready for operation at the end of the-season of 1911, or the opening of the season \u2018of thé Wonks, as £ .is of very \u2018great interest.The app nel is easy, and Fs AE a = The croés-geatiin of\" the \u201cdock is shown as 130 feet, and #t is understood that the length is to be in the meigh- borhood of 650 feet.It is to be built in sections, so that smaller ships may not require the whole dock, \u2018and.so that when sections of the dock require to-be painted one may be \u2018docked at a time with the other sections.At \u2018L'Ile Mysterieuse,\u201d the sit of the A | ts, Zfuwn in this plan.3 *iver-shore between the tpwn.of Mai.dock, an area of 5 or 6 acres of reclaimed land, is already completed, so | that the Harbor Commissioners do not propose delaying their part of the work, consisting.of the protection \u2018works and site.The plan is signed by Mr.L.E.Geof- frion, acting president, and Mr.Fred- ky ii~erick.W, Cowie, chief engineer.» * The exact location of the drydock It is on the sonneuve and the pañkelr.of Longue Peinte, or \u201cmiore particulatly between the Forsyth shoal and the natural shore, and is all on Harbor Commissioners\u2019 territory.tI is apparent from a glance at the plan hat the site 1s well adapted for docking purposes.It is below the St.Mary's current, so that any ship, however disabled, that is capable of bein tgowed, may, with perfect facility, be brought up the river to the dock.It is well protected both by the Forsyth shoal and the artificial works.It is in a site which is not wanted for harbor purposes, and: is inside the future bulkhead line of harbor extensions, which may In, \u2018future be required at that place.That dock will mot in any way interfere with Notre Dame street; nor will it in- tierrupt time Harbor Commissioners\u2019 railway traffic or noadway down the arbor Carve 2 \u2018*Dhe site \u2018Is directly - edjoininæ thé most convenierit part of the Montreal Street Railway system, and will therefore be very advantageous with respect to labor conditions.\u201che new location for the Montreal Steel Works, already commenced, are directly adjoining the proposed works.At the request of the Trembers, these plans have been placed on exhibition + lon \u2019Change.NEW STYLE \u201cSKY PILOT Montrealer Obtains Certificate to Pilot Aeroplanes and Airships.STUDIED IN EUROPE.Mr.St.Croix Johnstone Will be Instructor at King Edward Park Flying School.to The first Canadian to obtain an air- shif.pets certificate in Europe is a Myntrealer.Last night the following ci legram was received by the King Edward Park Company: .\u2018Obtained certificate; sail Saturday.\u2018ST.CROIX JOHNSTONE\u2019 Mr.Si.Croix Jchnsione was engag- el for sume time at King Edward Park before going to England this summer to study aviation.He is returning to take up the post of instructor at King Edward Park Flying School.LARGER DEATH RATE Recent Annexations dre Ap parently Responsible for this Increase, meer Ît appears that the new annexations have raised the city\u2019s death rate as well as its tax rate.Last year, 8,705 deaths occurred in Montreal.To date this year the number is 10,446.This laïge increase is, of course, accounted for by the addition of the nine new wards.According to figures compiled at the City Hall, these have increased the city\u2019s population by 54,357.Therefore the ratio of the deaths last year was 21.6 in a thousand, and this year, the added population being considered, the rate is 22.9 par thousand.According lo the health officials, this does not, mean that the city is less healthy than formerly, but it does in- dirate that the new wards, for all that they afford so.much fresh air, are not as sanitary as many other parts of the city.CENTENARIAN DEAD.Louis Lariviere, Aged 101, Lived in Montreal Before 1831.Winnipeg, Dec.29.\u2014 The oldest resident of the Northwestern provinces, died this week in Louis Lariviere, aged 101 years, Born at St.Phillippe, Man., in 1810.He went to Montreal in 1818 with his father, who was à soldier.In 1831 he returned to the West in the Hudson Bay Company's employ, for whom he worked: twenty- \u2018of the Lutheran Church in the Peter- five vears.He had over one hundred descendants.Latterly he ls resided , at Olga, N.D.- GAS POISONIN G IN WESTMOUNT | Break in Main Rendered Many Houses Almost Untenable.CAUSED MUCH SICKNESS, Burton and Prince Albert Avenue Residents Had Disagreeable Experience.Gas escaping from some place which could ngt be discovered by the occupants of over a dozen houses on Bur- ten and Prince Albert .aves., West- mount, yesterday, created a large amount of discomfort and some sickness.The gas fille] the houses, but no leaks could be found in the cellars.The escape_ started yesterday morning early, and the cause was not discovered and the break repaired until four o'clock this morning.The houses affected were almost untenable.All the windows had to be left wide open from yesterday morning until the disagreeable odor had disappeared this afternoon.On account of the gas poisoning several children and some older.people were made deathly sick.In addition to the unpleasant smell, the cold caused by the necessary ventilation was an added source of discomfort.The Montreal Heat, Light and Power Company were notified soon after the leak became nauseatingly noticeable.They sent a gang of men to investi gate and remedy the state of affairs.IL was not until four o'clock this morning that they discovered the break in the gas main on the street.They proried trom the time they were acquainted o t break un managed to find it.tl they One of the mains supplvin - luminating medium - ro En fair probably on avcount of the cold.It may have been that ithe settling of a sidewalk caused a movement of the earth in the immediate vicinity of the fracture, which had the effect of breaking the pipe.While several of the fami i called their own medical eaves had Power Company sent a doctor around o eve ouse to-day t entente y to find out the É sickness caused ! ister to those affected.and to min- te ELDER\u2019S FATAL ERROR.Three Communicants Dead and , Twenty-nine IN, St.Peteraburz.Dec.29.\u2014Three communicants hava died and- twenty-nine others are seriously ill, as a consequence of a mistake made by an elder hof district, who last evening filled g communion cup with a mixture of sul- Phurated chromete instead of wine, | 4 vince of Quebec, shall be printed in RAIEWAYS WILL \u2018 IGNORE DUAL LANGUAGE ACT | They Hold that Provincial Legislature Has no Authority to Dictate How Their Business Shall be Done\u2014Will Appeal to the Throne if Necessary.The Lavergne Dual Language Act, which provides that passenger tickets,.baggage checks, way-bflls, bills: of lading, telegraph forms, and various notices issued by railway and other transportation companies in the Pro- French and English, comes into force on January 1.It is understood that all the companies concerned have decided to continue doing business exactly as in the DEATH OF SCHOOL DOCTOR.The death occurred yesterday.of Dr.Raymond H.Phillimore, medical in-~ spector of the city schools.He had been in falling health for some time and suffered much from malignant tumor in the throat, but up to the THE LATE DR.PHILLIMORE.time of his death he-kept &t his duties.The \u2018 funeral will take place to-mor- row, at 2.30 p.m., at Cookshire, Que~ bec.'The death of Dr.R.H.Phillimore, of the city school inspection staff, leaves a vacancy which Dr.J.B.La- berge, -head of the department, says will he filled by an English-speaking Protestant.A number of applications for the.position of inspector.are already on file, but only ome of these is from a Protestant.* © STRUCK BY A CAR.Theodore Jodoln, aged 35, of St.Leonard, Port Maurice, was struck by a car at La Salle avenue and Ontario street, at 7 o'clock last night, and sustained a fractured collar bone and cause 1s unknown.\"uated that the immigration during the PROBABLY past, paying no attention to the action of the Legislature, which they maintain to be ultra vires.They hold that as all their powers are derived from federal charters, the Provincial Legislature has no authority to dictate how their business is to be done.In other words, their policy is to \u2018stand pat,\u201d and leave it to the Legislature to enforce its enactment.Any attempt at compulsion will be strenuously resisted; even to the steps of the throne.DELAYED FIREMEN \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 | Collision \u2018Damaged Ladder Waggon and Injured Driver.While going to a fire at 66 Youville square at 8.28 ocicck last night the ludder waggon of No.20 fire station collided with a street car, got badly ssnashed up, and the driver, Dasjur- duns, was palnfu.y hurt, ; The outfit was put out of commission, and ihad to return to the fire station.The driver was thrown rom his seat, and his leg and arm wele brutsed, and he wes considerably shaken up.The collision took place at Bleury amd Craig streets.Tihe car was cn the Ontario line.The cause of the fire is unknown.À hay shed and stable were burned, and three harses narrowly escaped sulfo- cation.Sub-Chief Mann was in charge of the firemen.P.Daigneauit was the owner of the property.The BALFMILLION IMMIGRANTS Are Expected in Next Twelve Months\u2014Many From United States Ottawa, Dec.£9.\u2014While the returns are nct yet complete it is estimated at the depantment of immmmigration \u2018that the total armivals.In Canada for the year about to close has been approximately 350,000, of whom 150,000 came from the States.tI is esti- next twelve months will touch the hulf-million mark.rt : LIQUIDATOR APPOINTED.The Economical Drug Company, of Canada, Limited, is to be wound up in accordance with an order this morning by Mr.Justice Lafontaine, in which Mr.- John H.Davy was nom- minated liquidator.The petitioner was Mr.Arthur Maxime Larose a Mont- numerous contusions.He is in the Notre Dame Hospital Lun \u2018The Canadian company\u2019s real accountant.- Co \u2018 | out for themselves._ _ QUEBEC BRIDGE DISAGREEMENT Engineering Experts Again to be Called by Commission, POINTS IN DISPUTE.Two Members Favor St.Lawrence Company\u2019s Tender and One an English Firm, Ottawa, Dec.29.\u2014For the second time since the Quebec Bridge Côm- mission has had the plans of a new bridge \u2018under consideration, experts will probably be chlled in to settle a difference which has arisen between the members of the board on engineering points.The appointment of experts is provided for in the terms of the order-in-council, and experts were named on a previous occasion, when Mr.Henry Holgate and a prominent American engineer were asked to report on an important difference of opinion.The present trouble is, that Messrs.Modjeska and Macdonald, of the board, favor the giving of the contract to the St.Lawrence Bridge Company, a combination of the Dominion Bridge Company and the Canadian Bridge Company, of WalkerŸ#lle, while Mr.Vautelet favors the acceptance of the tender of the Empire Bridge Company of Engand, which is based on the board\u2019s plans.tender is based upon its own plans.Apparently the only way out of the difficulty is for the board to avail itself of the provisions of th2 order-in- council appointing them and cal] in experts.IS SERIOUSLY ILL.N.B.Colcock, Ontario Agent at London, Stricken, Toronto, Dec.29\u2014A cablegram to the Provincial Department of Agriculture yesterday announced the serious illness of Mr.N.B.Colcock, Ontario Government agent at London.Mr.Colcock is stricken with pleurisy, and grave anxiety is felt as to his condition.HATPIN FINES ORDERED, Kansas City Adopts Law to Have Points Sheathed.Kansas City, Mo.Dec.29.\u2014Women, here must sheathe their hatpins, or they will be liable to a fine of from $1 to $500.The upper and lower houses of the city council passed the hatpin ordinance on Tuesday night.Mayor Brown has said he will sign it.How the hatpins are to be made harmless is nor stated in the new ordinance.The women must figure it _\u2014 MAKE DEMAND FOR NEW TRIAL Death Sentence Was Imposed Upon Labor Leader in & France.GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED | Many Members of Chamber of Deputies Sign Petition\u2014 Demonstration.Paris, Dec.29.\u2014Omne hundred and fifty members of the Chamber of Deputies have united in a petition to the government for a new trial for Du- rand, the secretary of the Coal Hand-~ lers\u2019 Union, who was convicted of ine ; 0g: the -wmunder.of foreman) | Donge during the stnike on the docks in Havre last December, and sentenced to death.The plea for a re-open- ing of the case is based on a claim that a judiclal error was made at the trial.The General Confederation nf Laibor has arranged for a big demonstration in front of President Fallleres\u2019 residence on New Year's Dav, and threatens to call a general strike teny days latter unless the request for a new trial for Durand is granted.Durand was convicted on evidence which showed that he had supported a resolution of the union declaring that Donge should he gotten rid of.FIRE CHIEF'S WISH New Year Message to the Men of the Brigade.Chief Tremblays New Year message to the officers and members of the Montreal fire department reads: On tbe occasion of the coming year I wish to extend to wou all my most sincere thanks for the excellent work performed by every member wf the brigade during the year now ending.I hope that vou will continue, as in the past, doing your best to properly protect the life and property of our fellow-citizens.A Happy New Year to vour famili- lies and to yourselves, hoping that God may ever protect us is the earnest wish of, yours truly, _ \u2018JOSEPH TREMBLAY, hier of the Montreal Fire Department.EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE Violet Shock Causes Damage.Great Athens, Greece, Dec.29.\u2014There was a, violent earthquake in the province -|-6f Elis to-day, causing heavy damage Ite buildings.The government help.ATTEMPTS LONG FLIGHT.has dispatched Airman Starts on Return Trip to Brussels From Paris, Paris, Dec.29.\u2014M.Lanser, another competitor for the Auto Club's prize of $20,000 for the first flight made by an aviator carrying a passenger from Paris to Brussels and return, started at 9.27 o'clock this morning.He piloted a biplane.Lanser, landed near forty-five miles northeast of Paris, at 11.50.At 12.45 he continued toward Brussels.Compiegne, MAIL CONTRACT.Atlantic Service Agreement Expires Next Year.Ottawa, Dec.29.\u2014Mr.Andrew Allan has been in Ottawa this week con- ferning with Sir Richard Cartwright, in respect to the Atlantic mail contract, which expires next vear.The matter of letting new rontracts is not likely to be disposed of for some time yet, and has not yet been considered by council.THUGS SENTENCE.Six Months\u2019 Imprisonment for Assaulting a Policeman.George Murray, without any kmown domicile, was sentenced to-day to six months in jall by Recorder Dupuis, for asseult on the police.Early this summer Constable Maisonneuve, while making the arrest of one Joseph Dube, on Ontario street east, was brutally assaulted by tçreee or four thugs.The accused was ohbe of them, and while eluding capture Yor afew months, he was finally caugilit on Dec.16.AS OTHERS SEE US.(The \u2018Beacon,\u2019 Stratford, Ont.) The Montreal \u201c Witness has celebrated its semi-centennial by a 68-page number which, among other things, records in letterpress and illustrations the progress of Montreal during the period of the journal's history.Mr.John R.Dougall, the son of the founder of the \u201cWitness,\u201d is still at the helm and directing it with the | same sense of public duty that has characterized the paper from its initial number.The \u2018Witness\u2019 has taken on renewed life in the last couple of years, and 1s now better than ever before in its history \u2014 a splendid newspaper, covering the full scope of human interest and with an editorial page which has long been marked by ability and high character, Long continued success to tha * Witness,\" .- a 4 oe iii Suis self \u2014\u2014 2 pat LIE \u201cry SR + | Ï ! 1 $ i ! - EC A s wv RCA Th SS mi _\u2026 5 \u2014 1 PET es 7 Lo.Saw (THE MONTREAL DA ILY WITNESS, THURSDAY.DECEMBER 29, 1910.\u2014 SENTIMENT IS GOVERNING THE STOCK MARKET to Confidence is Required Strengthen the List\u2014 Leaders in Demand The general situation to-day is 5@- erned more by sentiment than by actual conditions Evidences continue to accumulate that those factors which finally control the tide of financial and commercial affairs are improving.Those people who prophesied all manner of disturbing features with the year-end, have been singularly Wrong.Tlie great many people in this country have been living in fear of calamities, as it were, and this has caused a céssation of stock market activity.But the very duiness has givén the opportunity for needed rest, and besides has resulted in more economy and more conservatism.The time -will come, and it may be nearer than he- lieved now, when confidence will be gnickened, and confidence is what is most needed at the moment.Among the leaders to.be.in evidence this morning, on the Stock_Exchatige- was Detroit United and.the -Milling.issues.The former was quite active, and held well -round 69, on the prospect of news from Detroit.Ogilvie was in demand, and advanced three points on foreign buying.Lake of the Woods also participated in the activity, and held strong around 159 1-2 to 14).Both concerns are financially in strong positions.The rest of the list was quiet, but quite firm and \u2018scatltered sales were made at fracticnal advances.\u2018 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014p New York, Der.29.\u2014The market maintained a decidedly strong tone all through the first (hour, and advances over the cpening were made in nearly all the active speculative 1xsues.Steel common reflected good support.from the start.An advance of over one point: was recordel in Smelting, and in Readirg, the latter which was one\u2019 of the most active issues, with a large part of the buying coming from commission house sources.Union Paciñc was strong, confirming reports that have been current for some time that ihe stock was accumulated by Important banking \u2018interests on all reactions.Canadian Pacific opened up one and three-quarters on European buying There was a wide divergence of opinion about the character of the demand at the higher levels established.Government's, bonds firm.Sales to noon,\u201d 163.670.Consols Are Off With General Market Quiet unchanged.Other Lordon, Dec.29.\u2014Consals are off an eighth at 70 3-8 for money, and 79 7-16 for the account, while American stocks - in Lordon were quiet, rather above parity.London settlement continued to-day and concludes to-morrow.The general market quiet with unimportant changes.} Bank Clearings Show a Slight Decrease The weekly bank clearing ended today, although they show a substantial increase over those of the same week in 1908, mark a slight decline when compared with thise of the same week -Of last year, as follows: Total for week ending Dec.29, 1910 .$34,360,452 Corr, week, 1909 .37,036,028 23,961,172 Corr.week, 1908 .BANK OF ENGLAND The Bank of England weekly state: ment, issued to-day, compares as fol- lows: 20° This week.Last week, Circulation .£28,610,000 £28,643,000 Public deposits 11,707,000 10,639,000 Private deposits .44,255,000 38,232,000 Gov.securities.15,899,000 15,899,000 Otter securities 36,633.000 28,064,000 Reserve.21,196.000 22,670,000 Proportion.37.86 46.35 Bullion .31.165,000 32,673,000 LONDON MONEY RATES.London, Der.29\u2014Money on call 3 8-4 at 4 percent; Discounts\u2014short bills at 2 5-8 percent; three months 3 1-2 at à 9-16 percent.BAR SILVER STEADY.Bar silver was quoted in New York this morning at 53 7-8 cents per ounce.: i.PITTSBURG COAL PFD.- Regular dividend on Pittsburg Coal preferred ls 1 1-4 percent .Books close January 14.: NORTHERN OHIO TRACTION.Northern Ohio Traction, and Light; November earnings show a surplus after charges of $35,620; an increase of $3,250.Surplus for eleven menths is $524,612, an increase of $99,241.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 C.P.R.IN LONDON.The Canadian Pacific Railway stocks sold at 199 3-4 in London to-day.+4444 Ee +++ DETROIT RUMOR DIRECTOR-NEWS A private despatch recelved in the eity from Detroit intimates that an important announcement is likely in the near future as a result.of the meeting of directors of Railway in the Michigan City this week.The question of a dividend is not be- discussed, but reports on tHe position of D.U.R.are under consideration, showing favorable progress in all departments.Probably the most interesting gossip in connection with puétroit United is at a change or an.addition in the directorate is \u201cprobable at the coming \u2018Annual meeting, which will likely be held in Detroit on Feb.7 next.It is said that certain New York shareholders favor the apointment of Mr.J.W.McConnell, of this eity, and that his name is likely to be submitted for election.Then again the report says that Mayor Thompson is much more kindly disposed towards the Detroit United people than \u2018Mr.McConnell.when he formerly occupied the Magigs- bhiy terial -ehair, ahd when.hé Jamen failed in his attempt to inaugurate a 2- cent fare-on the D.U.R.Company.Canadian Pacific Places Large Orders forNew Cars and Heavy Locomotives | \u2014\u2014 Canadian Pacific has placed orders for over $7,000,000 worth of new cars and train equipment, all to be delivered by \u2018next summer.The order includes 2000 refrigerator, coal, box and other class of freight cars, and! 200 coaches for passenger train equipment, including baggage, express, Sleeping, dining, parlor and observation In addition, orders have been placed with-outside firms for 2000 steel frame box cars of 80,000 pounds capacity, as well as for 500 stock carë and $00 flatcars.Seventy-five heavy locomotives will also be constructed at the company's own shops, as well as at the Canadian and Montreal locomotive works.FHL IEEE E PEt e New York, Dec.29.\u2014 The: grand jury this afternoon handed down an indictment against Joseph G.Robin, whose financial transactions are alleged to be.responsible for the olosing of the Northern Bank of New on Tuesday last.The indictment specifically charges Robin wi e larceny of 000 from the Northern Bank \u2019 +4444 4444444 Ë Cobalts Forgotten There was scarcely any intere fyinced in Cobalt securities this ichiol ng.Following are this morning's sales reported Ly Gordon and Shorey: British Amer, 2000 at 2%.Hollinger, 400 at 398, 100 at 400.Mr.W.B.Dickson, of the United States Steel Corporation, has resigned from the board -of the Butte Coalition Mining Company.Mr.F.C.Armstrong, of New York, is the new president of the Tisdale- Mining Company.Mr.Eugene Foss has resigned as director of the Massachusetts Electric Company.Mr.I> B.Martindale, of New-York, has been elected president of the Chemical National Bank.Mr.W.Porter had joined the firm of J.P.Morgan & Co.\u2014 Unlisted Securities Following are this morning's sales and quotations of unlisted securities furnished the \u2018Witness\u2019 by Mr.W.P.O'Brien: Bid.Asked.86 864 Price Bonds Asbestos Bonds .«.67 70 Brewery pref J.90 96 Bonds .101 10344 Tachine 58 .++ +.102 03 Canadian Power .\u2018.3 54.Bonds .ce ee.T9 80 Cereal com .18 20 Pref .24 ,.oo on \u2014 79 Hillcrest com .374, 37% Pref 2.22 .+.oo .853 Ki West.Can.Power .51% 524 Bonds .' 84% 85 io SALES.Can.Power, 5 at 53%, 25 at 623%, 75 at 52%.' T.achine 58, £1000 at 102%.Hilerest, 50 at 35, 68 at 37, 50 at 37% 25 at 37%, 50 at 38.15 at 37.\" Hill pref., 30 at 85.Mex.N.W., 100 at 50, 5 at 51.Sherhreoke, 10 at 25.Price bonds, £1000 at 8644.Paid-up Capital, $6,000,600.Reserve Fund.and Undivided Profits, $4,999,297 ESTABLISHED 1864.THE MERCHANTS\u2019 BANK OF CANADA.A General Banking Business transacted.SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO COLLECTIONS City Offloes\u2014205 St.Jamss Street, 1255 St.Catherine Street East (corner Fullum), 320 8t.Catherine Street West (corner University), 1330 St Lawrence Boulevard, and 1866 St.Lawrence Boulevard.R.RG T, Stock Broker, 83 Notre Dame Street West.Montreal.Paris Office: re ES Po f Upon request, 1 will send full particulars 8 5 Per Cent.Real Estate Bond Carrying a bonus of common stpck.Bonds are in denominations $300 and $100 Interest payable semi-annually.F.WILSON FAIRMAN, 2 5 Imes Si.Montreal Can TO THE INVESTOR WITH LIMITED = 60 Rue de Provence.the Detroit United resumption of a.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 - 5 RGHELED PLANNING BIG Report that Foreign Capital Is Ready to Invest Heavily In this Concern.Has the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company in contemplation =a scheme for the enlargement and extension of its service?The \u2018Witness\u2019 understands that the management has in view ar elaborate plan of operations which will be participated in by foreign capital.The \u2018 statement is made that with the success financially of the past season, outside interests have proposed a -gigantic concern and overtures have al- \u2018ready been made, it is sald, by well- known financiers to enlarge the scope and service of the R.and O.Offers of financial assistance from London, Paris and New York have been made to the Richelieu people, and the whole proposition is to receive hte attention of the directorate.When asked.this morning, for a con- \u201cfirmation of the report that foreign ioapitalists are anxious to ass at in en- \u2018largi Richelieu opération, th = dent, Mr, Rodolphe Forgèt, M:P., stated that he would prefer not to discuss \u2018the matter.\u201cThen It is true that something of the kind 1s possible?Mr.Forget was asked.\u2018It is quite likely that scmething of importance to Richelieu will be announced hefore long.Along what lines this will take, I cannot say at present.rte Pennsylvania Railway To Lay Out $15,000,000 Tha board of directors of the Penn- svivania Railway have decided to spend fifteen milllion dollars for improvements and enlargement of the Broad street station, in Philadelphia.LAKE SUPERIOR STOCK IN BIG DEMAND TO-DAY The demand for the stock of the ke Su tor Corporation is steadily Le per augmenting as the prospects of the \u2018Solo\u2019 institution brightens.This morning a the stock were made at 29% won the Philadelphia stock market, and at the close of the dred shares at 29%, while the Incomes were being asked for at 62%.The public rec- .ognition of the \u2018work which is be- ing done by Mr.T.LJ.Dfummond and his board of directors, is evidence of the growing popu- Jarity of the stock.Mr.Drummond.|.The big \u2018Soo\u2019 plant and its affiliated.dommparies is being prepared to engage in a huge amount of trade.The improvements and extensions mow in progress will, when oompleted, cost be-.|'tween ten and twelve million dollars, and wil] make the Lake Superior Cor- pcration one of the largest and most aggressive steel concerns in the ¢oun- try.Wall St.Closed Strong .The New York Stock Market closed \u2018strong to-day with C.P.R.at 195 1-4.Soo 130.Reading 150 3-8.Union Pacific 170 1-4, and Steel 72 1-2.Boston & Maine Ry.New Common Stock Boston & Maine directors yesterday voted to cffer 106,637 new common shares to all preferred and common stockholders of date November 2, 1910, Each stockholder is entitled to subscribe on or before January 10, 1911, for one share of new stock for every three shares now held and has the cption of paying in full therefor on or before January 10, or in four equal instalments payable during the year.CALL MONEY EASIER, New York, Dec.29\u2014Money on call, easier at 314 percent.Prime mercantile paper, 4 to 43% percent Exchanges $336,465,047, 327,539.ttr\u2014\u2014\u2014 CAPITAL INCREASES.Chicago, Dec.29.\u2014Iroquois Iron Co.has certified increase in capital stock from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000.the addl- tional $2,000,000 to be issued to stockholders at part in immediate future.Proceeds from sale will in part go toward construction of new $2,500,000 plant.balance $13,- partent RAILROAD FINANCING.New York, Dec.29.\u2014Ann Arbor Railroad Company has sold $600,600 of p\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 1910 COAL PRODUCTION, New York, Dec.29.\u2014The \u2018Coal Trade Journal\u2019 says that the 1910 c6al production wil lamount to 500,000,000 tons, a new high record.Of this amount, 80.000.000 tons represent the anthracite output, while 420,000,000 tons is bituminous.The latter shows-an increase of 50,000,000 tons over 1909.et CHARLES W.MORSE.Washington, Dec.29.\u2014Friends of Charles W.Morse have decided to concentrate efforts for his release on a plea to President Taft to commute his sentence.All hope of securing an unconditional pardon with a restoration of civil rights practically has heen abandoned.termine WINNIPEG WHEAT CLOSING.Winnipeg wheat market closings fol- tows: \u2014 Dec.May.July.Open.« « « + p01, 94 54 955 High.915% 957% 9674 Low.90% 945% 95% Close.: 91% 95% 96% BANK DIVIDEND 2 P.C.Boston, Dec.29.\u2014 The Commercial National Bank declared a quarterly dividend of 2 percent., payable Jan.2 to stock of record Dec.28.This is an increase from 3 percent semi-annual.rap EGGS IN DEMAND.Despite the high prices prevailing, | the demand for eggs is considerable.Receipts to-day, 380 boxes, as against nil last year.Selected, 33c: No.1 stock, 27c.ard No.2.24c to 25c., eer MONEY BY-LAWS.Edmonton, Dec, 29.\u2014The City Coun- * cil provisionally passed debenture laws totalling.$456,000, which will be voted upon by the ratepayers on January 2.They include $167,000 for a hridge over Saskatchewan, $175,000 for a stock pavilion at the exhibition greund.$9,000 for the purchase of Industrial sites and $12,000 for the Jasper Avenue subway.eguipment notes to J.S.Bache & Co, dona ot I eure this issue, ddl sl SC SDS AGAINST CEREAL 00;BY CREDITORS Detroit, Dec.\" # The rumors re- ga.ding financial difficulties culminated in the flling of a petition for involuntary bankruptey against the Mélta Vita Food Co, of Battle Creek, by Ohio stockholders.The petition was precipitated by a $100,000 bond issue.made.by the com- on the plant at Battle Creek, and on \u2018a factory situated in Montreal, to se- \u2018and according to bankruptcy law this mortgage would become a p.eferred clflm after being on file for four moths.The Ohio creditors, ini consequence, filed a petition to avold being \u2018frozen out.\u2019 : Production at the Granby Mines in November Exceeds Previous Month At a cost approximating 110.20 cents a pound, Granby produced in November 1,410,361 pounds \u2018of capper as compared with 185 4 attres in SEE Pr us ° :Mefa) - contèn a: od\u2019 36,22 of fale r E17 ounces of gold.In November i he six furnaces of smelter were in blast.\u201d Early in December another furnace was blown in, and soon after Jdn.1 the eighth and last will be started, so that the entire battery will be in operation.For some time earlier in the vear the smelter was running but half capacity, but in October orders were wired to blow in Immediately two additional furnaces.When the entire plant is running 4500 tons of ore can be treated daily.: ; The company\u2019s copper product, by months, in pounds, follows: January .2e +6 eres 2,077,985 February .++ «+ .1,958,294 March .+.vo +42 64 00 +0 2,059,257 April .+.+.42° 40 se 00 1,915,475 Mary .242 2e es Nee es 1,8668,625 JUNE ©.cv vv + vs er vu 00 1,677,257 July 24408 20 ee 10 esas 1,671,000 August .+.+0 ++ ++ 00 1,430,315 September ., .+.+5 ++ = 1,120,732 October 2 ++ ++ 00 ve os 1,184,234 November .Eleven months .Mr.Hill says that people are too extravagant.As.passenger earnings on western roads show a decided falling off the advice of James J.is being ollow- ed; but does he like its application?Certain financial writers have yet to learn that there is a difference between a shareholders\u2019 meeting and that of the directorate, particularly as regards ue- bec Street Railway.To judge by reports from Wall Street this \u2018week one is compelled to believe that the brokers\u2019 Christmas celebration reflected the absence of the public from the speculative marts.Many houses omitted the Chrstmas celebration, and some*gave one-half or less than half the distribution of previous years.One leading commission house cut salaries, another discharged clerks, bul a third leading commission house made the most thoughtful Christmas gift, for it sent letters to its employees assur: ins, them of their employment durina 1 ¥ To Mr.Wm.Whyte,vice-president of the Canadian Pacific \u2018Railway, assures us front his office in.Winnipeg that Canada is going on splendidly, and that she will continue to astonish the world as to her commercial growth and financial development.Mr.Whyte has another opinion on the samé subject, and he declares that so long'as trade.moves from East to West, things.will prosper, course South, and we go bankrupt.Mr.Whyte ought to know.Mr.George Smithers is.as a rule, a pretty cheerful man.Dull markets, tight money,and poor business makes no difference to him.He has the happy faculty of seeing sunshine when there is rain.A visit to his office during recess of the stock exchange is helpful?\u2018How ls the market to-day?asks a friend.\u2018Very quiet, but looks good to me, T admit comes Mr.Smithers\u2019s answer.\u2018Why, look at conditions.money is tight, at least for stock purposes: people are more or less pessimistic: securities have been low and depressed; reports are current here and there as to poor and indifferent business.1 don\u2019t believe a word of it.I cannot fall into line with such statements.Take a broad, view of Canada.The whole sltuation gives promise.Poor market, sure, but watch the future) \u2018Clapping his friend on the back, he advises him to join the optimists.and instead of continuing to see bad times.declining markets.tight money, and like incidentials.he will picture to himself a happy situation and a time ot money making.\u201c A group of brokers and business men were discussing the market situation this morning.when the recent announcement of a proposed deal between two well known concerns came up for some expression of opinion.\u2018I.think,\u2019 said one of the group, \u2018that the offer ôf \u201cSwitch\u201d fs a fair one.from another; \u2018a\u2019 square deal.Well, well; Just here the p arty was joined by Mr.Meighen.The latter is not a friend of mergers.he had mot studied the matter.Turning to a friend he whispered: \u2018T never bother about merger plans or terms.1 want to\u2019 know how the water tank stands.\u2019 \u2014ommmmprprmmmemempame BANK RATE THE SAME.London, Dec.29\u2014The rate of discount in the Bank of England remained unchanged at 4% percent to-day.is STOCKS IN LONDON.London, Dec.29.\u2014American stocks in \"London were quiet but firm, showing advances in active issues of 1-8 to 1% on parity.\u2019 Consols were steady and foreign bonds rather firmer.Mining stocks were irregular, but coper issues gained ground.; Foreign houses expected to buy a little stock on balance.ere - | PINGS: H.L.Horton & Co.\u2014The business world has all the elements necessary for the gradual development into a prolonged period of activity and general prosperity with the single exception of courage.J.8.Bache & Co\u2014The feeling around New York amongst traders iz bearish in spite of the fact that underlying conditions are slightly im- roving.There seems to be a feeling revailing due to the tariff agitation that business may become extremely dull throughout the country in the early part of 1911.This is simply a surmise, and anything of a favorable nature would change the feeling and temper from pessimism to optimism.E.& C.Randolph\u2014Railway earnings for November are showing up \u2018better than expected, particularly in the net results.The improvement in the bond market holds.Ladenburg, Thalman & Co.\u2014We expect a lower market in the early new year.J PETITION FILED.pany recently.A mortgage was given but change the: \u2018What doy you say?came the query | Asked for his ovinion he replied that oe \u2014\u2014 NIP AND LA ROSE HAVE PROFITS OF $3,400,000 The Nipissing Mines Company and the La Rose Consolidated Mines Company for the year ended Dec.3! will have yielded toial net profits approxi- matin $%$3,100,000.During the year Nipissing has paid $2,100,000 in dividends, while La Rose has disbursed to stockholders a total of $599,451.The following shows monthly returns Di pet carnings of both companies for Nipissing.La Rose.- January .$ 176,516 $- 65,659 February 179,756 50,740 March.178,421 73,59 April .179.018 51,911 May .ve en oa.185,416 121.767 June .+.185.847 83,286 July 1.+.++ 0.185.027 112.963 August ve oo.188,775 93.163 Sept.44 .185,219 89,745 Oct.22 44 ee = 185,250 138.572 November .200,861 153.560 xDeec.+.300.000 190,004 Year .« .2,228,092 1,138.240 x Estimated.State Banking Department Takes Charge of Washington Savings Bank\u2014the Position New York, Dec.29\u2014The State Banking Department has for the present assumed charge of Washington Savings Bank.of which J.G.Robin Is president, pending further examination linto its condition.Mr.O.H.Chemey.superintendent, in a statement issued this morning, gives that this step is deemed necessary by reason of the bank's relation- snip to the Northern Bank of New York, ! According to a mecent repont the bank had the deposits of $1.141,480, and surplus and undivided profits of $20,620.It \u2018held $270,170 \u2018bonds and other securities and had $190,610 cash on hand and exchanges due from other banks.DIRECTORS OF Q.R.L.&P.T0 MEET A meeting of the directors of the Quebec Street Railway, Light, Heat and Power Company will take place to-mor- row.The object of it is simply to review and discuss the work during the past year and to make plans for the future.The company has accomplished much during the year, but the fleld of work before it is so large and its activities so varied and multiple that the best results for the ensuing vear can only be assured by the serious application of th directors to the work of immediate importance.; The profits are now sufficient to warrant à small dividend on the stock, but it is pretty certain that the directors will not move in this respect until the beginning of the new year.Tisdale Mining Company Directors Eminent Men A despatch from Wall Street says that Mr.F.C.Armstrong, of New! York, has been elected president of the Tisdale Mining Co.E.P.Earle, president of Niplssing Mines Co., has been elected vice-president, and D.L.McGibbon, of Montreal, and S.J.Do- bie, of Haileybury, directors.This company takes over properties of the Armstrong-MoGidbbon syndicate, in) Tisdale Township, Porcupine mining district.GARD 06 CARR, A number of the members on Change are taking a few days\u2019 reprieve from tusiness at this opportune time.There is not much doing in the hall, and will not be until the New Year's jollification takes place on Saturday, when there will be plenty to be seen and heard.Earnings of Armour & Company for this year amount to about 29 percent on the capital stock.Looks as if the middlemen were not getting all the profits, in spite of official assurances to the contrary.Following are Wednesday's receipts of grain at Fort William and Port Arthur, in car loads.Wheat, No.1 Northern, 16; No.2 Northern, 27; No.3 Northern, 47; No.4 Northern, 14; No.5 Northe.n, 3; No.6 Northern, 6; other grades, 13, and winter 1.Total, 129 (as against 119 last year); oats, 20; barley, 2, and flax, 7.Mr.George Goldie, of Toronto, was introduced on \u2018Change by Mr.H.W.Raphael and Mr.E.DeWolf, of Balifak, by Mr.A.E.Cook.Pennsylvania Dividend Philadelphia, Dec.29.\u2014Pennsylvania Co.declared a semi-annual dividend of 4 percent.A year ago b percent was declared, and six months ago 5 percent was declared.; The dividend is payable Dec.31 to stock of record Dec, 28.Pig Iron Production According to statistics just Ppublsh- ed by the department of mines of tha.Dominion of Canada production of pig iron is confined to three provinces, mamely, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, total output for 1909 having amounted to 757,162 net tons, valued at $9,581,864, or $12.65 per ton, as compared with an output in 1908 of 630,- 835 tons, valued at $8,111,194.panneau Toronto Cobalt Sales Toronto, Dec.29.\u2014 Morning sales: \u2014 Bailey, 500 at 7.Beaver, 1200 at 26, 1000 at 25%.600 at 251%, 1300 at 25.Chambers.100 at 154, 1000 at 1414, 600 at 15.City, 1500 at 30.Lake, 3000 at 12%, 700 at 12%.Hargrave, 100 at 24 future.400 at 23.La Rose, 25 at 452, 75 at 450.Little Nipissing, 100 at 1314, 7700 at 13, 1500 at 12 7-8, 500 at 12%.McKinley, 3250 at 125.Nip- issing, 100 at 1050.Otisse, 2500 at | 1-2.Peterson, 2000 at 16 1-8.Right of Way, 1500 at 23, 1500 at 22, 500 at 2114, 1000 at 21.Rochester, 2000 at 4 1-8.Leaf.500 at 5 1-8, 50 .Temsk., 600 at 79.500 at 78 7-8, 2100 at 171%, 100 at 77, 1000 at 75%, 50 at T», 200 at T6, 1100 at 781%, 200 at 753%.Trethewey, 100 at 119.Wetlauffer, 50 at 107, ' CHASED A KIDNAPPER An attempt to kidnap nine-vear-old Julienne Lamoureux, of 667 Wolfe street, last night, was frustrated ' by the arrival of her brother, M.Adrien Lamoureux, who chased the ravisher, but could not catch him.The detectives have a good description of the man._ BE - ROYAL-VICTORIA UNDER CONTROL OF SUN LIFE CO.Agreement Reached Which Brings Companies Tozether -Some Figures The management of the Sun Life Assurance Company announres that an agreement has been completed between the Sun life and the Reoval-Victoria Life Insurance Companies son a satisfactory basis, wherébyithe Sun Life takes over the business of the Royal- Victoria.This arrangemer.: is the outcome of negotiatiogs which have been going on between fe two institutions for some time past.The Royal-Victoria has neen doing a conservative business since 1897.but during the past few years (lhe increas- Ing competition in the restricted Canadian field made it evident \u2018! at it would take many years of arduvus work to bring the company to anv degree of prominence, and when the Sun Life officials made approaches looking to amalgamation, the Royal-Yictoria officials were disposed to consider the matter.\u2018 The Sun Life guarantees the policies of the Royal-Victoria and places the participating policyholders on an equitable basis in regard to future profits.In so far as the policyholders are concerned, the transfer will not entail the slightest disturbance.The shareholders will receive 20 percent of the amount paid in ar a liquidation, dividend, and are guaranteed against there being any further calls made on the capital stock.The following statement of the business and resources of (he two companies will be of interest.The figures are from the government returns.Royal-Victoria Sun Life Income .$ 178,131.65 $ 7,799,366.47 Assets .706,658.03 32,804,996.77 Liabilities.694,434.06 29,391,462.24 HM.$%0, & 3%0, HM.2%% & 4 Gr.surplus © thE REIT Business in force .4,609,890.00 129,913,669.52 New paid for business.734,500.00 21,609,273.16 Payments to Po- Heyholders.51,822.21 2,824,029.01 Western Loan Companies and Second Mortgage Winnipeg, Dec.28.\u2014 Several local loan companies have decided to engage in loaning on second mortgages, which 1s a new departure in Western Canada.The loan companies heretofore have been confining their business to first mortgages.This field has been greatly neglected, and expectation is considerable that a profitable business ¢an be worked up all over the provinces.STEEL MEN TO MEET.Cleveland, Dec.29.\u2014The \u2018Iron Trade Review\u2019 says: \u2014 \u201cThe long-expected meeting of iron and steel manufacturers to consider prices and other matters, has been called.There will be a dinner at the Wal- dorf-Astoria on January 11.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE TORRINGTON CO.Stockholders of the Torrington Company at a special meeting held in Portland, Maine, voted to increase the capital stock from $2,000,000 par value to $2,200,000 by the issue of 8000 shares of new common stock of a par value of $25 a share.TORONTO CATTLE MARKET.Toronto, Dee.29-\u2014Trade firm, 20 loads in to-day, including 470 cattile, 310 sheep and lambs, 130 hogs and 21 calves.Export cattle choice, $5.50 to 35.75 : do.medium, $5.25 to $5.50; bulls, at $4 25 to $4.75.butchers choice, $5.60 to $5.85; medium, $5.00 to $5.23; common, $4.50 to $4.75; choice.$4.75 to $5; common to medium, $2.25 to $4.25 ; bulls, $3.75 to $4.25: short keeps feeders, $5.40 to $5.60: steers feedings, at $5.25 to $5 40: stockers choice, $4.70 to $5.00; light.$4.00 to $4.25; canners, $2.00 to 2.50; milch cows, choice.$40 to $60: common to medium, $25 to $40: springers, $40 to $60.: sheep ewes, $1.23 to $4.60, steady: hucks, $3.00 to $3.30, steady: lambs, $5.50 to $5.85, steady; calves, $3.50 to 38 25, steady.[Hoss f.o.b, $6.75, fed and watered, at 4.est CHICAGO CATTLE PRICES.Chicago, Dec.29.\u2014Cattle receipts estimated at 7500; market slow: beeves, $4.65 to $7.25; Texas steers, $4.20 to $5.55; western steers, $4.00 to $5.90; stockers and feeders.$3.40 to $5 S0 cows and heifers, 3.50 to $6.25; calves, $7.25 to $9.25.Hogs receipts estimated at 24,000 : market dull.3¢ to 10¢ lower; light.at $7.40 to $7.80: mixed, $7.50 to $7.82: heavy, $5.45 to 87.80: rough, $7.5 to $7.60: good to choire heavy, $7 60 to 7.80: pigs.$7.15 to $9.75; bulk of sales, $7.65 to $7.75.Sheep receipts estimated at 15.000 : market weak: native.$2.60 to $1.55 : western.$2.75 to $4.30; vearlinegs, $4.7% to $5.80; lambs native.$4.25 to $6.50: western, $3.75 to $6 50.\u2014mn{premmentenannnnnçnnt Invesiment Securities We offer Government, Municipal, Public Utility and Industrial Bonds yielding frem 4 to 6 per éent.All offerings carry our recommendation.Send for our list of investments.Royal Securities Corporation, Limited 164 St James Street, Montreal Toronto Quebec Halifax London, Eng.Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited Notice is heréby given that a Quarterly Dividend of one and three-quartersy per cent.on the Preferred Shares of the Capital Stock of this Company has been declared, payable January 3rd, 1911, to sharholders of record of 27th December, 1910, and ° THAT a quarterly dividend of one percent on the Common shires of the Capital Stock of this Company has been declared payable 3rd January, 1811, to shareholders of record of 27th December, 1910.By Order of the Board.WALTER BINMORE, Secretary Treasurer.NET PROFITS OF THE C.P.R.SHOW A STEADY GROWTH The November statement ef earning, of the Canadian Pacific Railway gives à very gratifving record of work 4nne \u2026 : profits earned, by that progressive « poration.The gains in the net profits aver lan: year's resulis were not suhstantial ¢ - company of the Canadian Pacific 1a.ways magnitude, but if the increas, had merely equalled those of lart \u201cae (which were particularly large: the rectors would have been well wat gficd November gross earnings were \u2018+ 43.28%, working expenses , $3R76 À and net profits, $3.737,122.From July 1, gross earnings $47,082,868: working expenses, $7.74.194, and net profits, $19,330,174.-In November, 1909, the net pros, were $3,692,239.85.And from Ia + tn Nov.30.1909, there was a net vr-4 of $16,954.452.91.The gain in net profits over the Wesk Ending Dec.31, 1910.Cc.30 7.45 a.m.St.Louis, American.*30 6.00 p.m., \u201cSupplementary.\u201d #¢50 10.30 a.m., I'mp.of Ireland, C.P.R.*Letters may be posted up to 6.00 p.m.Other matter should be postad before 5.Spm seParcels are forwarded by these steamers; latest time of mailing is 9.30 a.m.-on Friday.Letters for the above malls may be pasted at Station \u2018B' up to within 15 mirutes, and at Station \u2018C\u2019 up to within 8 minnies of the above-mentioned ours of closing.*Matter for regictration close at 5.15 p.m.*Letters for Registration should be posted three-quarters of an hour before closing of mall.DE baRadaanaa asa tats ans ans: * LETTERS FROM + + : READERS + + FHP 440444 H EEE PIE P 44444 1 SAUSAGES.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.') Sir \u2014My attention has been caled | .to your issue of the 12th inst.in : which you reproduce and apparently andorse the cry of the \u2018Pharmaceuti- ral Journal,\u201d \u2018Dont Eat Sausages\u2014 Don't Buy Sausages.\u2019 Some mnews- papers are vicious.Would you there- tare approve of the action of \u2018the noralist who would cry \u2018Don\u2019t read lewspapers\u2014don\u2019t buy newspapers?\u201d Does it not occur to you that it would ve more to the Interest of your read- \u20182rs and the community generally if your advice were \u2018Eat good sausages \u2014don\u2019t buy bad ones\u201d , As a member of the Government Joard of Food Standards, it has been ny duty during the past year to look nto the mode of putting up sausages ind other prepared meats in the >acking houses.I have made nunie- ous visits to the plant of the Laing Packing & Provision.Company, and lave some knowledge of the way in which the meats are handled.This ompany Co 1as to pass two distinct inspections, At the time of slaughtering the vari- us organs of the animals are care- \u2018ully inepected by competent veterin- irians employed by the Dominion 5overnment.Then the meat goes the sausage department; it \u2018has >a88 a sécond inspection by Govern- nent officials.Then the sausages :hemselves are subject .to a third in- ipection hefore they are shipped.Now, Mr.Editor, as a fair-minded nan, is it just for you to wage war 1gainet the use of such carefully in- pected goods?Sausages are popu- \"ar with certain classes, because they tre easily cooked and furnish at the ame time a very palatable article of \u2018ood, Why not then advise the pur- \u2018hase from the large packers, all of Nye goods are so carefully imspect- » J.T.DONALD, T.L.C.Montreal, Dec.14, 1910.Note.\u2014Far from endorsing the ar- idole in question, gv! DECEMBER $721 S|M|TIW|T|F]|.| 11 2 5| 6; 7 8 9 12 |13/1415,16 19 20 21 22) 23 26 27 12829] 30 ju DO He pt CN OC ps pn © CoO Ht =e =O WO THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910.The transportation companies affected by the recent act of the Quebec Legislature requiring all their tickets and announcements to be printed in both French and English, which was to have come into effect at the New Year, have agreed to offer passive resistance.They are advised that the \u2018law is beyond the powers of the Legislature, as they \u2018have their charters from Parliament.Some steps are indeed being taken in the direction indicated, but the companies are careful to explain \u2018that this is being done on purely business considerations.Much of their printed matter has long been issued in French, and this is being added to as business Interests seem to demand.Their business is to please their public, and they would count themselves foolish should they fail to do so in any way open to them.\u2018The requirement.of the law, however, would enormously increase their expenses, and would render valueless heaps of matter already printed, none of which requirements are they ready to admit until the courts endorse the law, should the Government or any one see fit to carry it there.Onè argument which is sald to have heen used against this law by a railway official is an obviously unwise one, namely, that if this demand i$ granted on the part of the French language, it will presently be made by the Jews, Germans, Galicians, and so forth.This argument is purely thec retic and mot practical.To expect such action of a Legislature made up almost exclusively of French-speak- ing members, and in which these languages have not a single representative, is not within the bounds of common sense.Moreover, it is wrong in theory.The demand for the French laengugge is made chiefly on the theoretic ground that that language is one of the recognized and Offlolal languages of the country.To put foreign languages on a par with it is only to intensify this theoretic demand, which is a very natural one, ag all English speakers would recognize if it was their own language that was ignored and losing ground.Prrepemettrpe There is a great deal of natural sympathy in Canada with a person.claimed by Russia as a murderer, but alleged to be a political refugee.Probably none of the sympathizers khow how far the man is a patriot or how far he is a criminal.Their sympathy, ls based on abstract grounds of - ab- \u201cmerits, It is sympathy with Russian which the protagonist is an \u2018American\u2019 | stories.In this connection, Mr.Frank- | minuté for every hour of the twenty- | four hours in a day.\u2018above where \u2018ties have brought on local option con- dorrence of Russian ways of government.The fact that, whatever are its Jews makes M, for Canada's Wwéll- being, a very wholesome sentiment, as, nothing is\u2019 more desirable and necessary from a national point of View than that our various peoples should learn to feel for and with one énother.There are some Russian fiends, with United States alles, in London, who arè doing their best to rob Russian Tevolutionists in Canada and everywhere of the sympathy so readily and so generally accorded them.An anarchist den has been uncovered, in and the under demons Russians, from which British royalty 1s being traduced and vilifiad, and where plots for the pverthrow of the throne after approved Russian methods are to all appearance being concocted.It would be hard to do anything more effective than this to rob Russian revolutisn- {sts and their abetters of sympathy.the world over.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014(\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 When a bare majority of the City Council tried to dismiss Dr.Laberge because he was a \u2018freemason,\u2019 Commissioner Wanklyn, in the liberal; enlightened way that is to he expected of him, proclaimed to the Council in uneompromising tones that the Commissioners would never dismiss a man for his speculative opinions.At the meeting of the Controllers yesterday that determination was lived up to.In palliation of the persecution of the pious \u2018fifteen,\u2019 it is said, however, that éven they do not find the job of persecuting a man\u2019s religious attitude altogether to their taste.but that they.are moved by pressure from behind.It is said that to-morrow the aldermen will again try to oust Dr.La- berge, although nothing can be said against his éfficiency as a health officer, or against his moral character; and (it is also said that one of the aldermen who is most active in his desire to destroy Dr.Laberge as a public servant is after his position, and feels sure of it if Dr.Laberge is discharged.If that is so, it will hardly be accounted an act of unmixed plety or of decency if he records his vote against the man whose office he is seeking.FIRE.Mr.Croker, the chief of the New York Fire Brigade, says that if he were given police powers, to enforce the orders for prevention of fires, he could cut down the loss by fires in New York by 25 percent for the first year and indefinitely more the second year.Most city fires, he says, are caused by rags and refuse; inside stairways, and dumb-waiters spread most of them: while tall buildings, more than anything else, hamper the fighting of fires.He would limit high buildings to about 85 feet, or seven lin HH.Wentworth, secretary and treasurer of the National Fire Protec tion \u2018 Association, has issued a warning that the possibility of a holocaust the greatest in history is always present in Néw York.He says there are at least a thousand factory buildings in New York so.dangerqus in case of fire that if the workers in them realized it they would refuse to enter.The fire waste each year in the United States is $250,000,000, or $500 a As Mr.Went- worth reiterates, this affécts everyone in a subtle way as indirect taxation.The trouble with us is,\u2019 he says, \u2018that \u2018we are overcome with the idea that \u2018the insurance companies pay this.\u2018They don\"t.How could they 8nd re- Smain solvent?Insurance companies \u2018are merely the collectors ani dis- \u2018tributors of this tax on the people, \u2018which is borné by all\u2014rich and poor \u2018alike.\u2019 This should be elementary, \u2018but evidently, it is not.He might have added that there is a very considerable loss in the process which the public also bears, share and share alike, Mr.Wentworth finds in the present situation matter of psychological interest.The mind is numbed by the repetition of disastrous fires and also to ever-present danger in, for instance, the huge sky-scrapers, where there is always possibility of fire rushing through the upper foors water is readily available.The consequences would be appalling.Some of those buildings in New York have a population in office hours equal to that of a large town, ali of which is practically dependent on the elevators for exit.Matches are a frequent cause of fires.In Europe matches have defined places where tliey are kept, to which one must go if a match is wanted; but both in the United States and Canada, matches are often to be seen lying about in every room, and they are very generally kept loose in the pocket.A thousand fires were started in Chicago alone by.matches last year.The great point insisted on by Chief Croker, Mr.Went- worth -and others is that fires are preventible., \u2014\u2014\"mprntremnnnntnmnn=e THE YEARLY BATTLE.When New Year's Day is being celebrated throughout the Dominion next Monday, the citizens of Ontario will mingle their holiday-making with\u2019 the strenuous stir and bustle of their municipal elections.As usual, many local considerations will make the various municipalities bubble and boil, but one question which will be dealt with by eighty-one cities, towns, villages and townships will be of more general interest to the whole Dominion.Seventy-eight municipali- tests, and in three others, Beverly, Goulborn and McKellar Townships, endeavors are being made to repeal the by-law, as our readers have been informed.Out of the eight hundred and sixteen municipalities in Ontario, there are already four hundred and ten under local prohibition, leaving the smaller half-\u2014four hundred and six\u2014unider license.This majority lis, however, in number only, ag it is the smailer municipalities that gain the day first, The steady inareasa \u2018of dry territory is due to the steady work of the friends of law and arder during each year, and culminating at the polls each succeeding January.A certain amount of misunderstanding etill exists in some quarters regard- ing- the Ontario local option law.It is sometimes supposed to be much the same as the Dunkin Act and the Scott Act, and the fact that after trial those were generally repealed Is urged as a reason why the operation of the present law, should not be extended.ab : The Dunkin Act and Scott\u2019 Act were good laws, and their working was excellent wherever there was any attempt at enforcement.They were bitterly opposed by the liquor people.The trouble with them was that there was no provision for their enforcement.The Scott Act was enacted, by Parliament, which had no means of enforcing it.That was left to the provincial authorities and to private initiative.All the drinking that followed the adoption of the act was, of course, attributed to its ineffectiveness, though there was probably mo more law-breaking after its passage thar before.And.so when it came again in question the people would not turn out to vote for it.\"To Sir James Wihitney's Government must be accorded the credit of making the local option law effective through enforcement.So that even were it a worse law, it would be bet- \u2018ter worth adopting.The local , Piche, tte.er fron Te iv - jury ty of stine à diten house, he care- cecording ties are irer zces is hoa be re.ceilings oof only , and in ra ce, 1 to the r.ps.Mer or da\u2019 to S1R2, itor ang ted claims > Teceix- orne av- ding in- ollowing Teceived Conumis- s Of the \u201ceting n° bility of inspec - nsidere!, tre whe- Ould take | SUQh a as thers s.Tha of ahii- n Outre - Teaks of Sy Wold, ome a- 1 supor- therefa: a our ¢.1- ER.asurer.ooke the H.Shaw, heols of he ques- ie stree: A =sug- extension as Park that in- Hall: had the ii riate tha se with- rorization that tiie n Lajnie Durocher .W.A.ot.The rchase a le and a from the 1vestmeut me street, - Bernard tuart av- ention of from the s on the art of the to be au- for the ft in the \u2018eux who his lot at cents per ention to umber nf less Inn the zs which had not ro planks n trench.east four i side by contrac - crossing ictors did ssing the the cons of the the Town av night, on of the into two ir discns- list, ape Mayor Bessette, DRS.opted on utremont ard, 983; 130.CO.pa, \u2014 The ordered more pa- a hattlr be merelv ement in for three gerinus d the inhere has only offi- JONES.rd, MY Lrnational ed away at the acts Of A ha son \"f he of tha Jd.Th?treal for +++ De) Le R or 0\" ee otre becasiona 1 turning ME Mnimurm ] led t7°7 ern pr\u201d ere we\u2019?\u2018onditior - region know AT ities.ast.\u2014 ; brn NET snow Frida\u2019 th win *® or sno ™ er; m® to mort\u201d ps oe remen \u2014 THE CRADOUK SIMPSON OMPANY Established 1873.REAL ESTATE AND MORTGAGE LOANS Loa negotiated on First Mort- sage on City Real Estate.[Low Rates of Interest for Large Amounts.Expenses kept down in all cases.Loans put through quickly when - \u201crequired.THE CRAD8CK SIMPSON COMPANY 205 ST.JAMES ST.MONTREAL.DUKE OF CONNAUGHT \u2014 Appointment to Canada is Stated to be Indefinite \u2014\u2014 London, Dec.289.\u2014The Canadian Associated Press has reason to belleve that the whole question of the Duke of Connaught and the Governor-Gen- eralship of Canada is still under consideration, no definite decision having yet been reached.When the Duke ar rived in London he had received no intimation of any such change in the plan as has been intimated from Ot-> tawa.He returned to England in the expectation of proceeding to Canada as soon as he can be spared after the coronation.ARMENIAN PERSECUTION.Mass Meetings Called to Protest Against Russia.Providence, R.I, Dec.28.\u2014Massi meetings to prôtest against the persecutions of Armenians, which it is alleged, are now being carried on In the Caucasus by \u2018the Russian authorities, will be held by the American branch of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Troy and New Haven, foltow- ing the conference of the federation which is now in session here.Measures were discussed for the alleviation of the distress of the Armenians in Turker, the Caucasus and elsewhere.It is sald that mo Tevolution- ary plans, however, have been considered at this meeting.The federation was organized In Turkey in 1890, and 200,000 Armenians are now connected with it.The federation took a prominent part in the movement which resulted in the overthrow of Abdul Hamid in 1903, and the establishment of the constitutional government in the Moslem Empire.DIVORCE COURT, Establishment Urged by Ontario Bar Association Committee, Toronto, Dec.20.\u2014The establishment of a divorce court in Ontario with the same powers as the divorce court of ' England and power to grant marriage similar gréunds to those obtaining in the Motherland was advocated in the report of the committee on law reform, which was rcad by Mr.H.M.Ludwig, K.C., of Toronto, before the Ontarid Bar Association yesterday.It was pointed out that it would be dissolutions on .much more satisfactory to have suits for divorce heard before competent judges instead of as at present in the Senate, by men mot learned in the daw, ST.GEORGE'S SOCIETY.Free Distribution of Christmas Cheer to the Poor, Chrigtmas cheer was distributed this vear ag usual by St.George's Society, many an English family in straightened clrcumstances receiving a good, old-fashioned dinner free at the expense of the society.Venison and plum pudding vied with turkey and chicken im satisfying the cravings of foodless families and succeeded In their efforts better than dry bread ever pretended to do.Coal and wood and even money was contributed in very needy cases, and over three hundred homes were cheered by the efforts of the workers.Among those who assisted the officers in deciding how to dispense Christmas cheer ta the best advantage were the Rev.E.McManus, James Patterson and Dean Sanders.The officers who took an active interest in the matter were Mr.(enrge Hodge, chairman of the charitable committee; James Mitchell, president: F.W.Richards, Capt.R.S.lift, Geo.Haysey, and the secretary, Alfred Griffin.i \u201ctravelling THE MONTREAL DAILY de r IS ACCUSED OF SEDITION Arrest Made in London Foltow- ing Circulation of Paris Paper ROYAL FAMILY ABUSED, Ed F.Mylius Taken Into Custody \u2014FEditor is wealthy U.S.Lawyer Resident in Paris, London, Dec.29.\u2014Startling developments are expected in connection with the discovery by the police on Tuesday of a store of weapons, ammunition and explosives, and also Ingredients and appliances for making bombs, in a house on Gold street, which has been occupied for nine menths by à Russian named Morount- zeff, who wag accidently shot and killed by fellow burglars in the fight with the police in Houndsditch on December 16.The police were on a hunt for clues to a man who killed three constables in the fight referred to when they made the discoveries in the Gold street house.In addition to the ammunition and explosives.they also found a number of scientific books deallng with explosives and some anarchistic leaflets.\u2019 It is said that letters which were found In the house reveal a sensa- ticnal anarchist plot.It is also stated that Morountzeff had been visited in thie Gold street house by a well-dress- ed American.Edward F.Mylius was arrested here yesterday for selling a paper called the \u2018Liberator,\u2019 which advocates republican principles.The paper printed an article containing virulent abuse of England and the Royal family.The stery rehashed the old report that King George contracted a marriage at Malta in 1890.The editor of the paper is said to ba a wealthy American lawyer now residing in Paris.PUBLISHED IN PARIS.Mylius was arraigned before Sir Samuel Evans yesterday, charged with sedition.Prior to the arrest of Mylius the police raided his lodgings in Courtnell street, where he has lived for two years, and took away a number of copies of the paper.They also confiscated about 300 more which were found later.The \u2018Liberator\u2019 is published in Paris by the Ponroy Company, and its publisher is Edward Hilton James, said t> be a wealthy American lawyer now in Portugal.He is a nephew of Henry Janes, tle novelist.It is described as an .international journal, devoted to the extension of rzpublican principles, and its contents are mainly virulent abuse of England, its government, its ruler, and the Royal family.The police have been watching it closely for some time, but no action was taken until the November issue appeared.A colored leaflet was issued with the June issue, setting forth in large type: \u2018France and America salute thee, England\u2014long live Keir Hardie\u2014hail to the revolution\u2014down with the classes\u2014up with the proletariat\u2014long live Egypt, India and Ireland\u2014hall to.the people and long may they reign.\u2019 A virulent attack on the consort of the late Queen Victoria, and statements concerning an alleged morgan- aile marriage of King George caused the raid.\u2019 DIED AT THROTTLE, Engineer Stricken With Heart Failure, Stops Train.Lancaster, Pa.Dec.29\u2014Attacked with heart faiiure, with his hand at the throttle, H.C.Beck, engineer on the Pittsburg express which left Philadelphia at 8.40 yesterday morning, brought his engine to a standstill at Witmer, a few miles east of this city, as he lapsed into unconsciousness.The sudden stopping of the train attracted Fireman Moore, who rushed to Beck's side.The engineer was hanging out of the cab window, and in another moment would have fallen| headlong from the cab.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 TURKS FOUGHT DRUSES.Constantinople, Dec.29.\u2014Telegrams from Damascus report a conflict between Druses (Syrians) and Turkish troops last week.The former lost 450 killed and injured, and 600 of their men were made prisoners.The Turks lost 80 in killed and injured.rentree KINGSTON ELECTIONS.Kingston, Ont, Dec.29.\u2014Captain Robert Frazer, of the Montreal Transportation Company, has been elected alderman in Cataraqui Ward for one year by acclamation.Ex-Alderman Wm.J.Fair was elected in Sydenham: Ward, and Alderman R.E.Kent retained his seat in Ontario Ward.® Crullers, All Cakes, Biscuits, Hot Breads More Tasty, fn Economical, Absolutely Healthful a tors JOINT RAILWAY COMMISSION Negotiations for International Board are Progress- ing- \u201c WOULD CONTROL RATES.Judge Mabee Attends Conference In Washington\u2014Foreign Terminals Difficulty.Washington, D.C., Dec.29.\u2014As a result of conferences between Judge Martin A.Knapp, Interstate Commerce Commission, and Judge J.P.Mabee.chief of the Railway Commission of Canada, an agreement has been reached to recommend to the governments of the United States and Canada the creation of an International: Railroad Commission, which shall have supervisory authority over the railway rates between the two countries.\u2018 Mr.Mabes arrived in Washington from Ottawa on Tuesday night, to discuss the dstalls of an agreement he had reached w\u2019th Judge Knapp last August, and yesterday the two offi- clals who were designated by their respective go\u2018\u2019ernments to consider the subject and make a report upon it, Were in conference.Their report has not been compieted, but will be in a day or two.No details of the report are yet commends the establishment of the international commission, upon which shall be conferred certain defined regulatory powers.Whether the commission is to ba created by treaty between \u2018the two governments or by joint legislation cannot be announced at this time.CONTROL OF FOREIGN TERMINALS.For ea considerable period it has been realized that the increasing traffic, both passenger and freight, between the United States and Canada was likely to render control over rates in the future difficult unless some international action were taken.The acquisition by American rafl- roads of Canadian terminals and by Canadian railroads of American terminals and lines present increasing difficulties.In the existing clrcum- stances it is not possible to \u2018compel either railways or express companies to establish joint through routes and rates to and from points in the two countries.In other words, neither an American nor a Canadian carrier may bs required to furnish to a shipper a through bill of lading to any point in one country from any point in the other.The reasonableness of the international rates, which ordinarily are a combination of the rates local to each country; can Le determined omly by a circuitous preceeding instituted before the commissions of both countries.No power at present exists that can require carriers engaged in international transportation to establish what may be regarded officially as reasonable through joint rates, and to apportion those rates among the par- tlcipating carriers in the event they cannot yeaeh an.agreement among themselves.TO PREVENT FIRES New York Chief Requests Police to Enforce Protective Laws, New York, Dec.29\u2014 Edward UF.Croker, chief of the New York Fire Department, told the Merritt joint legislative commission yesterday afternoon that if his department wera granted by legislation the powers he wishes, he could cut the loss by fires in New York city twenty-five percent the first year, and he did not know how much the second year.\u2018What powers would you suggest?asked M.Linn Bruce, counsel for the commission.\u2018Police powers,\u201d said Chief Croker.\u2018Bower to enforce the orders for prevention of fires, which the department issues.\u2019 Rags and refuse in tenement cellars, he said, caused most city fires, inside stairways and dumb-walten shafts spread most of them, and tall buildings hamper the department in fighting them more than anything else.About 85 feet, seven stories, he thought, should be the limit of height for any buildings, and dumb-waiters ought to be done away with everywhere.OPPOSES INVESTIGATION.Of New Brunswick Telephone Company by Utilities Commission.St.John, N.B., Dec.29.\u2014The complaint of the citizens lodged through the St.John Board of Trade, against the New Brunswick Telephone Company, promises to result in a long- drawn-out legal war, in which the aiblest lawyers in \u2018the Maritime Provinces will participate.The complaint, swhich wos filed with the Public Utilities Commission, recently appointed by the Hazen Government, alleges that the company\u2019s rates are exorbitant and unjust, and asks the commission to revise these rates and reduce them.The company, in answen to the complaint, claims that the Legislature had no authority to appoint the Utilities Commission, a charge looked upon as ludicrous by counsel for the complainants, and that If it did have authority, the commission itself has no authority to investigate the company\u2019s charges.They also claim #hat if any.such investigation takes place it must be conducted by the Dominion Railway Commission, but that, in the opinion of the company, this commission does not have the authority to investigate, as a previous act of the Legistature gives such authority only to the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor-in-Council.) COLLEGE EXAMINERS.Joint Board for Western Divinity Institutions.Saskatoon, Sask., Dec.20.\u2014 At the meeting of the Board of Emanuel Divinity College, Saskatoon, it was «decided to take the initial steps in the direction of securing a joint board of examiners for the different divinity colleges of Western Canada, from Winnipeg to Vancouver, which would have the effect of establishing a standard for courses to be conducted in the different colleges.Principal Lloyd makes the statement that the curriculum ofêthe college here will be on a par with that of any of the eastern colleges, and an effort will be made to bring all the colleges up tu that standard.chairman of the WITNESS, \u201cTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910.BRIBERY WAS \u2018WIDESPREAD Indictments for Selling Votes in Ohio Election Number 998.FARMER BRIBED THREE TIMES Woman Sold Her Son\u2019s Vote\u2014Dis- franchisement; Fines and Workhouse Sentences.West Union,Ohio, Dec.29.\u2014 Two new features in the line of vote traf- flcking -developed at yesterday afternoon\u2019s session of the special grand jury investigation of wholesale buying of votes in, Adams County.One was that of a woman's.sale of her son\u2019s vote, and the other concerned a voter who was bought three times at one election.The woman is a widow Lving at \u2018Peebles.She is accused of having ac- cepteid $5 for her son's franchise.Both mother and son were indicted, but neither has been arrested.A farmer in Jacksonville precinct, who came in from Meighs Township, told the jury he was bought three times on election day.For his promise to vote the straight Republican ticket he said he received $12.50; on a.contract to vote the straight Democratic ticket he was paid $10, and the price for agreeing to wote for a certain Democratic candidate was $3.He available, beyond the fact that it re-{pleaded guilty when arraigned, and f was disfrancbised for five years, fined $5 and costs, and given six months fn the workhouse, with the prison sentence suspended.One hundred and six indictments were returned yesterday, which brings the total up to 998.There are indications that the number will reach 1,500, as predicted by Prosecutor Stephenson.Judge Blair's methods in listening to the pleas of guilty are extremely informal.He knows a large proportion of the voters of the county by their first names, and when they come into court the scene is rather a social one.The judge sits on one side of a plain table, the indicted man on the other.\u2018How about it, John, guilty?\u201d asks the judge.\u2018I reckon I am, judge,\u201d is the usual reply./ \u2018All right, John; I'll have to fine you $10, and you can't vote any more for five years, and I'll just put a six months\u2019 workhouse sentence on top of that, but I won't enforce it as long as you behave.\u2019 » \u2018All right, judge; you've got the goodsn me.\u2019 \u2018And say, John, you've been keeping liquor in your house and inviting your friends in, haven't you,\u2019 the judge will sometimes ask.\u2018That\u2019s wight, \u201c$udge,\u201d says the accused.- ; Well, you'll] have to cut that out, John.Remember there is a workhouse sentence hamging over you if you don\u2019t walk straight.'All right, judge, good-bye,\u201d and the penitent goes over to the clerk to pay the fines.Adams Coumty \u2018is \u2018dry.\u2019 zu EARTHQUAKE ANNIVERSARY Italians Commemorate Dead in Messina and Calabria\u2014Gov- ernment Meets Expenses.are\u2019 you Rome, Dec.29\u2014Yesterday was the second anniversaiy of the earthquake in Calabria and Sicily.Religious services were held in Regglo Di Calabria.The graves of numerous victims and the ruins of buildings in which many dead remain had wreaths and candles placed on them.In Messina the bishop blessed the dead.There were many [pathetic scenes.Afterwards the bishop laid the foumdation stone of a monument to the victims.An incident occurred in the Via Angeli, Messina, which caused a panic among the superstitious.Faint cries were heard coming from beneath a pile of ruins.Ignorant people thought the cries were produced by a ghost.The officials ordered a search, and there were found the decomposing body of a man and an 18 months\u2019 old child.The latter was unhurt, but was half starved The body was identified as that of i laborer who was killed five days ago by the collapse of a tottering wall.The child was his son, whose marvellous escape recalls many similar escapes at the time of the earthquake.The Senate yesterday discussed the anniversary.The president, on De- half of the senators, expressed gratification that two new towns are arising to replace Reggio Di Calabria and Messina.The statement\u2019 evoked cheers.Premier Luzzatl said the Government thus far had met the expenses of the calamity, totalling 138,000,000 lire, out of the budget surplus.It was a matter of congratulation, he added, that while other mna- tions raised loans to cope with such catastrophes, Italy was able to meet the expense by using her ordinary resources.\u2018SABOTAGE\u2019 AND \u2018MILITARISM° | May be Used in Italy's Threatened Railway Strike.Rome, Dec.29.\u2014The leaders of the railway employees declare that their unions include 146,000 members, and that they are now ready to begin a strike for dn increase of wages.They add that \u2018sabotage\u2019 will be applied in such a manner as to msure the com- Dlete success of the movement, The government officials declare that they are ready to adopt extreme measures, the militarization of the railway men.DESECRATION OF GRAVE.James McSorley to be Placed on Trial at Jarvis, Toronto, Dec.29.\u2014Jolm McSorley, of Jarvis, charged with desecrating the remains of Matthew Johnson by taking the body from the grave and ship- pine it to Montreal labelled \u2018poultry, will appear before the magistrate at Jarvis to-morrow.The local authori- \u2018ties have taken charge of the case.The inspector of the provincial police will not he present.rer BUILDING PERMITS.Mr.Z.Aubertin has secured a.building permit for three houses to contain cizhteen dwellings.to be erected on [ork ave., in l.aurier Ward, at a cost ci $24,000.; joseph Martet will build three dwel- Ings at the corner of Marie Ann and Mentana streeis, at a cost of $11,000.\u201che \u2018permit was issued yesterday.TS\" SES AY Sy gy wo IR 73 ER Ta ai TERS van ES i 0 A A bbe vi po 2 3 | The Clearance of HOLIDAY GOODS A Few Opera Coats Ladies\u2019 Holiday Boots At Halt Price $1.98 Sixteen opera coats for clearance Friday; The buyer says they are as nice a lot as beautiful broadcloth ones with collars of he has ever put on sale at this price.white Thibet fur or silk; some too in self material; correct pastel shades, of course\u2014 light grey, light drab, heliotrope, sky blue, burnt orange and old rose; marked prices $20.00 to $50.00; Friday, in each case.Half Price (Second Floor Up.) \u2014Button and Blucher styles; \u2014Dongola kid, patent, gunmetal and velour calf leathers; \u2014Not all sizes in each style, but all styles representing all sizes 21/5 to 7; \u2014$3.00 and $3.50 values; \u2014Friday.$198 Clearance of Ladies\u2019 Untrimmed Hats \u2014Black Beaver shapes\u2014 \u2014Black Velvet shapes\u2014 \u2014Black Silk shapes\u2014 Medium and large sizes; high class styles; clearing at.$2.49 (Second Floor Up.) Have you seen the special line of new boots which we have had made on \u2018\u201c Queen Quality \u201d lasts to sell at.\u2026.$3.00 > (First Floor Up.) Lingene Waists Below Half Price But not more than 100 of them in all, therefore, come early before your size is sold out.Mooirette Petticoats 8 o'Clock Special There are only 65 petticoats, and the price is to be.2.22 Le: It is for you to decide how promptly should be here at 8 o\u2019clock.The moirette is silk finished, designed in plaid patterns of green or blue with white.| ) Fine lawns they are, neatly tucked and nicely trimmed with lace and insertion, and all in good condition.As a matter of fact, they have been but a couple of weeks in stock.All sizes 32 to 42 for the first half hour\u2019 selling or so; rightful prices $2.00 and $2.50; Fnday, each.95 you .98 A Few White Silk Dresses For Girls 6 to 12 Years Eight of them priginally $11.50, reduced to 875.Friday.$2.98 Three of them originally $11.00, reduced to $5.50; Frday.2.98 One of them originally $9.50, reduced to $4.75; Fnday.2.98 One of them originally $8.00, reduced to $4.00; Frnday.2.98 Two of them originally $6.50, reduced to.$3.25; Fnday.2098 (Second Floor Up.) Hockey Caps Women's and children\u2019s sizes; white grey and scarlet; special at, each.These are Scotch knitted; full sized and made with double roll.These petticoats are $3.50 quality, selling special at $1.95 up to now, and put out as an 8 o'clock special Friday at, each.22 22 00 .(Second Floor Up.) Sample Kid Gloves For Men Extra fine Mocha gloves with good lining; worth $1.50 to $1.75 per pair; Friday.«.$1.25 | KNITTED GLOVES For Women and Children 250 pairs for women and children; plain and fancy; Friday, per pair.(Ground Floor.) 95 13 55 Determined Clearance of Diaries and Pocket Belis PTT ES Vaseline Memo.Books À table of belts made up by our- Cheesborough vaseline: small selves from the latest novelty jars; Friday.\u2026.3 for .10 Twenty only; regular values from belting, and neat stylish buckles; \u2014 .25 to $1.25; Friday.Half Price values $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00 Toilet Water Piano Drapes each; boxed; Friday, each.88 Williams\u2019 Alpine Rose, Swiss Violet; I i 59; i Shoe Pockets oo pour price .59; Friday, 4 Various colors; regular values Mad PE line ith th Tort tr rr or ee te .5.00; Frid Half Price ade of colo n wi © $1.98 to $ Friday, Ha re word \u201cshoes\u201d neatly embroidered; Soap Boxes green, blue and red; Friday, B k vo each.ov oe ie er 1 2.(19 Colluloid or metal soap boxes, each | Poots | .containing one case of Lever Bros.Containing reproductions of photos Cushion Tops Buttermilk soap; regular LT value .35; Friday.19 taken by ne en Mother; Tinted cushion tops; regular regular price .35; for, .50: ; ,Ç .each._ 19 price -50; Friday.19 Brushes _ Pyjama Cords Good quality: light colored backs; : - regular value .48; 1 only; Hat Pin Holders In white only; each.25 Friday at, each.yi 25 Made of cardboard, also shaving Jewellery Military Hair Brushe paper pads; regular value di \u2014 .15; Friday, each.05 A table of jewellery oddments; Genuine ebon backed, finest values up to .98; Friday, bristles, hand drawn; also a few .each.22 «iv «+ +o 2e 10 rose and light colored wood back B i UT TT military brushes; regular value arrettes Face Powd from $1.25 to $4.25 each; Vv d hell F'opder Friday, each.88 arious styles an sizes, shell, .\u201d .Al f ladies\u2019 hair b \u201c t face powder in so a few ladies\u2019 hair brushes amber and black; regular values sant al price 25; ebony back and real bristles; $1.48 .15, .25 and .35; for; Friday (8 to 9 a.m, only), per value each; each.-.'.10 box.2.22 12 24 22 2140 Friday.198 è | Virgin Castile Soap, per dozep cakes.22 24 22 oo .(Ground Floor.) sq CWA So Na) Lee Jewellery, Toilet Goods and Fancies aly CS rn as ee, A ae ae mn ; +.ca M cuis .- .By RL ar \u2018 .mer Em MET REET UR F { 4 ~ A el i THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910.+ \u2018 THE CHARITY BALL Splendid success attended the Charity Ball, which took place at the Windsor last night, when it is estimated that some seven hundred guests participated.The large hall, which was used for the dancing, was decorated simply, in Keeping with the policy of the committee, to incur no extra expense, leaving as much as possible for the object for which the ball is held annually, the Maternity Hospital.The lights shaded in yellow and twined with smilax, and the bank of palms and ferns, intermingled with bright red blooms along the platform, gave a festive touch to the dom.Th: wide corridors and the Ladies\u2019 Ordinary, where tickets were exchanged for programmes, presented an animated appearance up till after nine o'clock, when a general movement was made to the ball room at the first gay strains of music from the orchestra.Mrs.James Ross, Mrs.R.W.Reford, Dr.Cameron, and other members of the hospital committee received at one side of the ball-room.The proceedings were pleasantly informal.The usual quadrille of honor was omitted.Supper was served just before midnight, in the rose banqueting hall and in the green room adjoining.In the procession \u2018to the banqueting room, His Worship the Mayor, with Mrs.James Ross, led the way.The dance programmes, marked with the crest of the Maternity Hospital in gold on white, dances, as follows: 1.Waltz.My Cavalier 2.Two Step.\u201d.Grizzly Bear 3.Waltz.Midnight Sons 4, Two Step.Arcadians 5.Waltz.Tales of Hoffmann 6.Two Step.Shaky Eyes 7.Waltz.I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now 8.Two Step.Amina 9.Waltz.Songe d\u2019Automne 10.Two Step.Bud Rag Extras\u2014 1.Waltz.The Girl in the Train .Honey on Our Honeymoon 2.Two Step.3.Waltz.The Druid\u2019s Prayer 11.Waltz.Balkan Princess 12.Two Step.Cotton Babes 13.Waltz.\u2026.Espana 14.Two Step.Put on your Old Grey Bonnet 15.Waltz.Vision of Salome 18.Two Step.Yankee Girl 17.Waltz.Flower of Japan 18.Two Step.Mirella la Jolie The lady pationesses of the event were: Mrs.Angus, Mrs.Burland, Mrs.Chipman, Lady Clouston, Mrs.T.J.Drummond, Lady Graham, Mrs.Wm.Ga:dner, Mrs.Hays, Lady Hickson, Mis.Hector Mackenzie, Mrs.Meighen, Mrs.Major, Mrs.David Morrice, jr., Mrs.Peterson, Lady Shaughnessy.SOME OF THE GOWNS.Mrs.James Ross was gowned in white satin, trimmed with bands of gold embroidery.Mrs.R.W.Reford was wearing emerald green satin over white, the overdress drapery caught at the left side, corsage and sleeves of white tulle embroidered in silver.Lady Allan wore a gown of soft ninon, with gold-embroidered tunic in panel effect, and lace embroidered in gold threads, veiling delicate pink satin, the round length skirt bordered\u2019 with a band of sable.Mrs.Farquhar Robertson wore a black gown relieved with beaded em- sroldery in black and shaded blue.Mrs.A.A.Sandeman was gowned in gold colored satin, richly embroidered in gold, and wore a narrow gold fillet in her hair.Mrs.J.K.L.Ross, in a rose-colored gown of embrolderesd chiffon over satin, with gold embroidered fillet in her hair.Miss Guerin was gowned in black Chantilly lace over white satin, veiled in chiffon.Miss Carrol Guerin, pale blue chiffon, with pink rosebud garniture.Miss Margaret Angus wore light green satin draped over white, with fine white lace corsage and sleeves.Mrs.W.F.Angus, pale blue satin, with white lace corsage and sleeves, the drapery caught with roses of pink satin ribbon embroidery.Miss Alice Shaughnessy wore pearl gray chiffon trimmed with sllver embroidery over pink, bordered with dark fur, and pink satin sash.Miss Edith Shaughnessy was in dainty white chiffon, with silver embroidery, and trimmed with white satin ribbon.- Miss Elizabeth Burnett wore pale blue satin, with beaded gauze tunic and sash of petunia-colored velvet ribbon.Mrs.Allan Mackenzie wore white \u2018satin, with pale pink chiffon drapery embroidered in silver.Miss Estelle Holland was gowned in rose-colored chiffon over white satin.with trimming bands of fur.Mrs.D.Lorne McGibbon, in white satin, with black Chantilly lace draped in short tunic with scarf ends at the side.' Miss Mary Hickson, pale blue crepe de chine trimmed with gold bands.Mrs.Ernest Shepherd, champagne- colored satin, embroidered in gold threads and spangles.Mrs.Sheldon Stephens was gowned in silver gray satim, with overdress of chiffon embroidered in silver.Mrs.Herbert Marler, in pale blue ninon edged with bugle fringe, over dull blue satih.Miss Grace Cassils, in white satin, with white tulle on the corsage.Miss Sybil Joseph, pale blue chiffon hordered with gold-colored lace and fringe.Miss Winifred Stamway was gowned in white lace, with touches of pink satin.Miss Corstance Sutherland, in he- lotrope satin.Miss Lucie Dodge, in heliotrope chiffon draped over white, with narrow sash of darker velvet ribbon.Mrs.Howard M.Church, white chiffon with blue chiffon tunic embroidered in white porcelain beads.Mrs.Thornton Davidson was gowned in white satin, draped over white chiffon.Miss T.ouise Harrower, nile green satin veiled in ninon, with pearl ornaments.Miss Louise Hays, in wine-colored chiffon, draped over Persian satin, with silver lace on the corsage.Mrs.Ross Sims, in white satin charmeuse, the tunic outlined with silver embroidery.Miss McLennan, in cream-colored satin, with goid dotted net tunic.Mrs.de Hann was wearing a black chiffon robe, embroidered in jet, and a d'amond tiara and necklet.Mrs.H.J.Fuller was gowned in mauve charmeuse satin, the corsage of gold tissue, with gold lace trimming.Mrs.Charles Fergie was gowned in Nattier blue chiffon velvet.Miss Lisette Cole wore corn-flower blue satin, veiled in ninon, with silver trimmings.Miss Flora Taylor (St.Catharines, Omt.), white satin, embroidered in silver.Miss Dorothy Prown wore an em- proidered white dress of directoire tissue, with panel front, over satin.Miss Elizabeth Brown, pink Liberty eatin with pink chiffon overdress and trimming of white fur._ > called.for eighteen Miss JuHNet Payette wore peacock blue satin, veiled in ninon, trimmed with embroidered bands of a darker shade.Miss Elsie Ives was owned in peach-colored satin, with overdress of | dark blue chiffon and marabout trimming.Miss Esther Aird, in pale blue gilk, covered with pale blue net.Miss Good (London, Eng.), white crepe Liberty satin, with old gold lace garniture.Mrs.J.P.Black wore a pink satin gown, with overdress of net, and touches of black.Miss Kathleen Black, white embroidered chiffon over white satin.Mrs.Cleveland Morgan was gowned in rose chiffon over white satin, bor- {dered with embroldeny in crystals.Miss Lilian Bender, In yellow satin veiled with Dresden chiffon.Miss Muriel Telfer wore a white satin gown.Mrs.Wynne Robinson wore pale blue satin, with overdress of net.Persian bead trimming: Miss Gear, embroidered sea-green chiffon, over pimk setin.Miss May Shanly, white silk gown, with veiling of embroidered chiffon.Mrs.B.McNally wore pearl crepe de chine, embroidered with the same tint in silk.~~ .Miss May Snead, pale blue satin gown.; - Miss Jessie Ramsay wes owned In hand-embroidered met over blue satin.Miss Leds Ramsay, in green chiffon embroidered in gold over green satin.Mra.Vachell Koelle was gowned in black satin, covered with overdress of steel and blue.Mrs.H.C.Stone wore a black gown relieved with jet.Miss Rosalind Stone, hlue satin with overdress of pink chiffon.Miss Rose Smith, pink Liberty satin velled in gold tissue, with trimmings of pearl and silver.Miss Beatrice MacDougall, pale blue eatin, with overdress of dewdrop chiffon, and bead trimming.Miss Violet Somerville wore a blue satin gown with overdress of beads.Mrs.Grant Morden was gowned \u2018in white satin, draped with old Honiton lace, and pear! trimmings.; Miss Kathleen Moore, white satin, veiled in old rose ninon, with touches of velvet and large roses in \u2018the same shade., Miss Alice Thompson wore a white net robe, with dark blue trimming.; Miss Helen Thompson, pink Satin, with overdress of coral beads.Miss Dorothy Macpherson, blue dewdrop net over white satin, with jewelled trimming.; Miss Wallace Watson wore pink satin with cerise ninon overskirt wud bugle trimming.Miss Florence Watson, in pale blue satin, with overdress of chiffon.Miss Spancliffe, of Cheshire, England, was gowned in pale pink satin, veiled in painted chiffon.Mrs.Watson wore a handsome satin ibrocade with lace garniture.Miss Davida Wigmore, in spangled net, worn over chiffon veiled in yellow satin.| ; Miss Marjorie Burké wore a white satin gown, with overdress of dewdrop net, and pearl trimmings.Mrs.W.G.Warner was gowned in! black satin.; Miss Marguerite Warner, in white satin, veiled in lace and ninon, with silver trimming.Co Miss Marie Oulmet was wearing a yellow chiffon gown over yellow satin.Miss Isobel Fitz-Gibbon, black satin, trimmed with gold tissue.Miss Molly Fitz-Gibibon, white crepe de chine over white satin, With trimmings of gold.Miss Beatrice Caverhill wore a Tose chiffon gown, over white satin, Miss de Lisle wore a pale blue gown, with embroideries of gold.Miss Beatrice de Lisle, hand-em- broidered white chiffon, over white satin.Miss Meeker wore a pink net gown over pink satin, with roses.Miss Avice Meeker, gold tissue veiling yellow satin, caught with violets.Miss Rita Macdonald, White and gold sequin tunic, over yellow satin, Miss Ethel Macdonald, white satin with overdress of white chiffon, and pearl trimming.Miss Muriel Moffat wore pale pink Liberty satin, veiled in marquisette, tanded with fu, with pearl trimming, and bouquet of pink roses.Miss Evelyn Mooney was gowned in Dresden brocade, with overdress of turquoise blue ninon.Miss Gladys Goodwin, pale pink marquisette veiling messaline of the same shade, trimmings of pearl and rnuslin rosebuds.Miss May Riley, pale blue satin, with overdress of net, embroidered in pearl and gold - Miss Edna sSclater was dressed in net veiling yeliow satin, and pale blue chiffon flowers.Miss Tinling wore a pink satin gown with chiffon overdress, and crystal trimmings.Miss Cherry Riepert, white net veiling white satin, embroidered in pearl and gold, touches of pastel shades.Mrs.Walter H.Spencer was gowned in white satin.trimmed with Brussels lace, and embroidered in pearls.Mrs.W.A.Murray wore a white satin empire gown, silk embroidered, with Brussels iace trimming.Miss E.Massey was gowned in cream crepe de chine, with ribbon ornamentation.Miss G.Massey, in cream crepe de chine, with trirnming of silk lace.Mrs.J.Folsom Johnson was wearing \u2018pale blue satin with hedvily beaded tunic, and trimming of silver bugles, corsage bouquet of lilles of the valley and orchids.: Miss Beatrice Whyte, dewdrop net tunic over white satin, with silver fringe, bouquet of American beauty roses.Miss Madge Law was gowned In white satin, with overdress of whita net and silver spangles.Miss Isabel Starke, in yellow satin, veiled in marcuisette, wilh crystal trimming.Miss Marion Thomson, pale pink satin charmeuse, trimmed with lace, and pearl embroidery.Miss satin with trimnring bands of fur.Mrs.Simpson Garland, white satin with silver embroidered trimming.Mrs.HuntlyWard Davis was gown- od in white satin draped with Honi- ton lace.Miss Gwendclen Bagg, in rose flowered pink chiffon over pink satin.Miss R.A.Brock was gowned in pale pink satin with over-drapery of chiffon.\\ Mrs.P.B.Mignault was gowned in black lace over white satin.Miss Hazel Allan wore rose-colored chiffon trimmed with silver lace and dark fur.\"Miss Brenda Molson, pale blue.satin with net panels embroidered in gold.Miss Muriel Stikeman, old rose satin with pale grey chiffon tunic embroid- red in silver, Miss Mimi Baumgarten, peach-color- eu satin over white chiffon, the drap- erv caught with knots of rosebuds.Mrs.C.F.Sige was wearing white satin with green chiffon tunic embroidered in silver.Miss Phyllis Baker, white crepe de chine, the corsage trimmed with bands embroidered in gold.Miss Peck, in green satin draped over white.} Miss Jill Johnson, in mauve silk pop- SETA DE PSE RS rg lin embroidered in the same shade.= | The \u2018Witnes Ruby l\u2019amsay wore pale blue| s\u2019 Fashion Mini A DRECOLL MODEL.This elaborate afternoon party gown is a Drecoll model.The material is gold-colored velvet in the new chiff on-soft quality, with .trimmings of small buttons and fisher fur.The sid e sash is of gold-colored chiffon, and is weighted with large gold ball ornamen ts.Miss E.Fetherstonhaugh, Dresden silk tunic over pink satin.Miss Dorothy Adams, in pale blue crepe de chine trimmed with \u2018 wide bands of white lace.Miss Marjorie Binks wore old-rose satin.LIiss Doris Trotter, old gold satin, with brown border, and chiffon over- \u2018dress.Miss Marjorie Shorey; in yellow chiffon, the drapery caught with motifs embroidered in jet and silver.Miss Emma 3 acDougall wore light green chiffon over satin, the drapery caught with motifs of gold and Oriental embroidery.Mrs.Willie Hope wore a black gown with ornamentation of jet.Mrs.H.Budden was gowned in white satin with silver trimmings.Mrs.Vassall Delmege was gowned in white satin, trimmed with embroidery.Mrs.F.Lane, in jetted net over white satin.Mrs.Douglas Armour wore pale blue chiffon over bliie satin.Miss Florence Ekers wore a shell pink satin gown with crystal trimming.Miss Beryl Fenwick, white satin with overdress of white net, with gold trimming.Mrs.F.Backus Williams, of Hartford, Conn.pale pink satin, with gold garniture.\u2019 Miss Graham Watt, white satin, with silver overdress and bugle trimming.Miss Dorothy Robinson, pale pink messaline veiling satin, trimming, bouquet of pink roses.Miss Bryson wore gold tissue veiling brown satin.with sable fur trimming.Miss Baby, blue chiffon over satin, embroidered with amber and pearls.Miss Jeanne Baby, white chiffon veiling satin, with opalescent pearl embroidery.Miss Marguerite Strathy, pale blue satin, with overskirt of satin; trimmings of gold and Persian embroidery, with gold tassels.\u2018Miss Isobel Strathy wore a peacock green gown spangled with sequins.Miss Alison Strathy, white satin with seed pearl embroidery and pink roses.Miss J.Cruikshank, pink satin, with overdress of pink chiffon.Miss Esther Kerry.pale rose marquisette, velling satin of same stade, silver embroidery.Miss Mason, gold sequins over ivory satin.Miss Florence Fortier, in pale blue dhiffon draped over white satin.Mrs.Gilmour was «.wned in wht e crepe de chine trimmed with silver sequins.Miss Vivy Mudge wore peacock blue satin.Miss Muriel Bell wore pale pink satin with blue chiffon overdress.: Miss Leslie Bell, rose-colored satin with chiffon drapery on the corsage.Mrs.Henry Joseph was gowned in white satin with silver lace garniture.Miss Gladys Dunlop wore pink satin trimimed with bands of silver embroidery.Miss Nora Prentice wiore pink satin ,wilh pale grey gauze tunic embroidered in silver beads.\u201ciss Mona Prentice, pink flowered chiffon over pink satin.Miss Violet BouthiMier, gold-color- ed satin with corsage of gold-beaded nel - \u2018 Miss Jeanne de Crevecoeur, pale yellow ninon draped over yellow satin.Mrs.Jolm Gibb Carsley wore night- blue satin with tunic of blue net em- tr~idered in silver.Miss Adkin (London), chifion edged with over blue satin.Mrs.W.G.Macraughton was gowned in Satin brocade with overdress of pale blue head embroidery dotted blue net and pearl garniture.Miss Marguerite Macnaughton, in peach-colpred satin with lace applique.Miss Beatrice Weir, pale pink chif- fer embroidered in rose color on the corsage Nis- Lotise nn over satin Miss Glays Davis, light blue chiffon, h r.lered witli silver embro'\u2018dery, over white satin.Miss Grace Bell, Starnes wore white ni- pale 'lue nlnon embroidered in crystals, over blue satin Miss Greenshields, pale blue with en broidered trimming.Mrs.Thomas H.Jordan, pale pink with satin, messaline satin, overdress of with pearl | | hon.treasurer Mrs.H.8S.| Abbott, ninon, trimming of pearls and latticework (cf satin.; Mrs.C.C.Ballantyne was gowned in pale pink satin, veiled in chiffon, and vrimmed with ermine.Miss Nancy Dawes white eatin gown.wth veillng of lack rei, and fur trimm.ngs Vis.W.Mackay Hislop, of St.Johns, Quebec, handsome ivory duchesse sa- tn, draped with ro¥é pointe lace, embroidered with s\u20acéd pearls.Miss Aline Mignault,- dainty satin, with veiling &f chiffon.Miss Evelyn Archibald, -gowned in oid rose satin, with\u2019 overdress of grey ninon, and trimming of marabout.Miss Paterson, in white satin with lace and sequin overdress.THE COMMITTEES.The commiteas in charge of the varicus arrangements, s2 successfully carried out, were: i Chairman, Mr, J.K.L.Ross; gerr- eral convener, Mrs.R.W.Reford; hon.secretary, Mrs.A.A.Sandeman; .Holt.Floor committee \u2014 Mr.Maurice Burke (convener), Mr.H.Stikeman, Mr.C.Stephens, Mr.F.Shaughnessy, Mr.Austin Ekers, Dr.Little, Captain Ncwton.Viusic and Ventilation\u2014Mr.Benson, Mr W.Morrice, Mr.Maurice Burke.light Press\u2014Mrs.A.A.Sandeman (convener), Mrs P.F.Mathias, Mr.J.K.L.Ross, Mr.A.A.Sandeman.Subscriptions\u2014Mr.J.K.L.Ross (convener), Mr.Mathias.Peception\u2014Mrs.Ross Mrs, W.R.Miller, Mrs.R.W.Reford, Mr.J.K.I.Ross.Col.Whitehead, Principal Peters:n, Dr.Shepherd, Dr Cawneron, Mr.W.Morrice.- Suppers -Tady Allan, Mrs.Yates, «J K., L.Russ (convener), Mr.Wianklyn, Mr.Gep.Hooper, Mr.R.W.Reford, Mr.David Law, Mr Henry Joseph, Mr J.M.McIntyre.Mr.W.J.Mwwrrice.Decoration and sittinz-out rooms \u2014 Mrs.Fayette Brown (convener+, Mrs.\\' igmore, Mrs.Stone, Major Dodds, Mr.T Hart, Mr.T.Papineau.Dressing-Tooms\u2014Mrs.Benson (convener), Mrs.Johnson, Mrs.Guy Ross, Mrs.Lachlan Gibb, Mrs.Wigmore, THE SUBSCRIBERS.The list of subscribers included: \u2014 Rir Montagu and Lady Allan, Mr.and Mrs.H.B.Ames, Mr.B.J.Allan, Mr.H.T.Allan, Mr.R.Adair, Miss Belle Miss Adkin (London), Miss Esther Aird, Miss Hazel Allan, Mr.Arch.Allan, Dr.¥, D.Adams, Mr.and Mrs.W.F.Angus, Miss Angus, Mr.J.Angus, Judge and Mrs.Archer, Mr.and Mrs.Archer, Mr.Kenneth Archer, Mr.E.B.Archibald.Miss and Miss M.Andrews (St.Lambert).Dr.and Mrs.Blackader, Mr.and Mrs.Benson, Mr.R.H.Bryson, Mr.Wm.Rirks, Mr.Arthur Browning, Mr.John Rlizard, Dr.W.G.M.Byers, Dr.and Mrs.Birkett, Mr.W.Brymner, Miss Muriel Bell, Miss Leslie Bell, Miss Lilian Bender, the Misses Baby, Mr.A.Baby, Mr.J.and Mrs.Bell, Miss Marjorie Binks, Mrs.Brock, Mr.G.C.Baker, Lieut.-Col.and Mrs.Burland.Miss Hazel Brownlee, Mr.and Mrs.C.C.Ballantyne, Mr.and Mrs.W.R.Baker, Miss Violet Bouthillier, Miss Elizabeth Brown, Miss Dorothy Brown, Mr.Edward Beatty.Mr.and Mrs, Blaylock (London), Mr.and Mrs.J.P.Black, Miss Black, Mr.G.M.Bryce, Mr.H.W.Beauclerk- Sir Edward and Lady Clouston, Mr.and Mrs.Colin Campbell, Dr.amd Mrs.Chipman, Mrs.George Caverhill, Mr.R.Percival Campbell, Mr.and Mrs.George Cantlie, Mr.Douglas Cowans, Mr.and Mrs.P.P.Cowans, Miss de Creve Coeur, Mr.and Mrs.Geonge Cains, Miss J.Cruikshank, Mr.R.Papineau Couture, Mr.J.M.Cavanagh, Mr.and Mrs.Francis Cole, Mr.A.R.Creelman, the Misses Creelman, Mrs.Russell Cowans., Mr.and Mrs.J.Wilson Cook, Mr.Charles Cassils, Mr.and Mrs.John Gibh Carsley, Mr.G.R.Coghlin, Mr.W, C.Cairns.Mr.and Mrs.de Hann, Mrs.Douglas, Miss Gladys Davis, Major and Mrs.Dixon, Mrs.Douglas (New York), Mr.and Mrs.Vassall Delmege, Mr.and rs.A.D.Durnford, Mr.and Mrs, T.J.Drummond, Mr.and Mrs.Huntly Drummond, Mr.and Mrs.T.C.Davidson, Mr.and Mrs.A, J.Dawes, Mr.and Mrs.A.J.Dawes, Mrs.A.H.Duggan, Miss E.Darling, Dr.J.S.Dohan, Mr.George A.Dempster, Mr.C.K.R.Dempster.Mr.D.de Carteret, Mr.H.T.Douglas, Mr.and Mrs.Harold FEadle, Lionel Ekers, Miss Florence Ekers, Austin Ekers, Dr.Evans, Mr.Edgar, Mr, R.P.Edgerton.Mr.: Mr.and Mrs, G.Foster, Mr, and Mrs.Farrell, Mrs.H.J: Fuller, Miss Fyshe, Mrs.Charles Fergie, Miss Florence Fortier, Miss Beryl Fenwick, Miss A.E.Faulkner, Mr.Howard Foster (Ottawa), Mr.J.L.Ford, Mr.J.Fletcher, Mr?A.V.Ferreira.Dr.and Mrs.William Gardner, Mr.and - Mrs.A.Hamliton Gault, the Hon.Lionel and Mrs.Guest, Mr.and Mrs.C.B.Gordon, Mr.George Graham, Mr.Gaudet, Mr.and Mrs.C.S.Garland, Sir Hugh and Lady Craham, Col.and Mrs.Grant, Mr.D.Graham, Mrs.Green, Mr.H.Gatehouse, Mr.C.Grier, Mr.A.Grier, Mr.Griffith, Mr.W.I.Gear, the Misses Gear, Miss Green, Miss Good (London), Mr.and Mrs.E.B.Greenshields, .Mrs.R.A.E.Greenshields, Mr.Good- hue, Mr.Cecil Gardner, Mr.and Mrs.Ww.Gilmour, Mrs.Archie Glassco.Lady Hickson, Mrs.C.M.Hays, Mr.and Mrs.C.M.Holt, Mrs.George Harrower, Mr.and Mrs.H.S.Holt, Mr.Andrew P.Hoit, Mr.and Mrs.Charles Hosmer, Mrs.Knox Henry (Chambly), Mrs.Willie Hope, Mrs.A.E.Holt, Miss Haultain, Miss Hazel Hannan, Mr.T.Harte, Mr.Hayden Horsey, Mr.Robert Howard, Mr.O.Hastings, Mr.J.W.Harding, Mr.George Hadrill, Mr.and Mrs.W.Mac- kay Hislop, Miss Elsie Ives.Mr, and Mrs.Henry Joseph,Mr.Johnson, Miss Sybil Joseph, Mrs.J.Folsom Johnson, Mr.F.S.Jackson, Mr.R.Lloyd Jones, Mr.J.T.Johnson, Mr.and Mrs.Thomas H.Jordan.Mr.and Mre.H.Vachell Koelle, Dr.W.B.Kennedy, Mr.Fred Kennedy, Mr.Kavamagh, Mr.David S.Kerr, Mr.W.King.\u2019 + Mr.anid Mrs.J.Law, Mr.and Mrs.Lansing Lewis, Mrs.Robert Lindsay, Mrs.L.T.Leonewens, Dr.and Mrs., H.A.Lafleur, Mr.Percy R.Law, Mr.David Law, Mrs.James - Law, Mr.E.H.Lemay, Mr.Labatt, Mr.Languedoc, Dr.Lockhart, Mr.V.G.Lloyd, Mr.B.Le Blane, Mr.N.Lehmann, Mr.de la Bruere Lamothe, Mr.and Mrs.W.R.Miller, Mr.and Mrs.Herhert Molson, Mr.and Mrs.Maighen, Miss Jessie McDou- gall, Mr.and Mrs.W.A.Murray, Mr.D.C.S.Miller, Mrs.D.Lorne Mc- Gibbon, Miss Annie \u2018Morrice, the Messrs.Morrice, Mr.and Mrs.J.L.Marler, the Misses McLennan, Mr.and Mrs.W.R.MacInnes, Mr.and Miss Molson, Mr.James Morgan, Mr.Colin Morgan, Mrs.J.T.Molson, Mrs.Wm.McLennan, Mr.and Mrs.P.F.Mathias, Mr.and Mrs.Vincent Meredith, Mr.F.A.A.Mackenzie, Mrs.Mackenzie, Mr.and Mrs.F.E.Meredith, Mr.and Mrs.A.A! Mackenzie, the Misses Meeker, Mr.Philip Mackenzie, Mr.J.Malcolm McIntyre, Mr.and Mrs.David Morrice, jr.; Mr.and Mrs.MacTier, Mrs.Mignault, Mr.amd Mrs.Edgar Mec- Dougall, Miss E.Massey, Miss G.Massey, Miss Zeta Myers, Miss M.Matheson, Mrs.W.G.Macnaughton, Miss Mason.Mr.G.Massey, Mr.P.Mason, Dr.J.L.D.Mason, Mr.S.C.McEvenne, Mr.A.R.Matthews, Mr.Hugh Matthewson, Mr.and Mrs.B.McNally, Mr.and Miss Mignault, Mr.R.McMurtry, Mr.and Mrs.Cleveland Morgan, Mr.Sterling Moyse,Dr.C.F.Martin, Mrs.Fred Meredith, Mrs.Hector Mackenzie, Miss Emma Macdougall, Mr.and Mrs.Clarence McCuaig, Mr.and Mrs.Herbert Marler, Miss Vivy Mudge, Mrs.E.S.Macdonald, Dr.Richard Monahan, Mrs.Robt.Mac- Kay, Miss Macfarlane, Mr.L.G.Mc- Leod, Mr.A.G.Mackay.Miss Neelands (Guelph), Miss Edy- the Nelles, Mr.E.FE.Norsworthy, Mr.VW.F.Notman, Captain D.C.Newton, Dr.J.T.Novinæer.Mr.G.H.Nares.Mrs.W.W.Ogilvie, Miss Alice Ogil- vie, Mr.and Mrs.À.E.Ogilvie, Miss Lena Orkin, Mr J.E.Openshaw, Mr.and Mrs.John D.Oppe.Principal and Mrs.Peterson, Mr.and Mrs.Paton, Mr.and Mrs.Pangman, Miss Powers, Miss Constance Pinhey, Mr.and Mrs.Paterson, Mr.E.W.H.Fhillips, Mr.G.M.Papineau, Mr.Bau- man Peck, Mr.John B.Payne.Dr: and Mrs .Roddick, Mr.and Mrs.Farquhar Robertson, Mr.and Mrs.R.W.Reford, Mr.Maurice Redpath, Mr.Frank Redpath.Mr.and Mrs.James \u2018Ross, Mr.J.Redmond, Mr.P.E.Ranger, Mr.Norman Root, Mr.David Russell, Miss Edith Robinson, Miss Cherry Riepér:, Miss Leda Rarisay, Miss.Dorothy Robinson, Mr.J.Richardson, Dr.Ruttan, Mr.D.Rod- dick, Mr.H.Percival Ross, Mr.Ryan.Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Sande- man, Miss Scoit, Miss H.Scott, Miss Stikeman, Mr.and Mrs.FF.C.Scott, Miss Shaughnessy, Mr.and Mrs.G.Ross Sims, Miss R.Stone, Mr.E.A.Scott, Miss May Shanly, Mr.C.F.Smith, Miss R.Smith, Dr.Lapthorn Smith, Mr.and Mrs.W.H.Spencer Miss May Snead, Miss Helena Smith, Miss Violet Somerville, Mrs.Andrew Shearer, Mr.Scelsi (Italian consul), Mr.H.F.C.Stikeman, Mr.and Mrs.F.N.Southam, Mr.Edward F.Sige, Mr.H.Meredith Smith, Mr.E.de B.Strathy, Mr.W.Strathy, Mr.George Smithers, Mr.G.©.Smith, Mr.and Mrs.Stavert, Mr.T.N.Skelton.Dr.W.G.Turner, Mr.and Mrs.John Turnbull, Mr.Thomas Taylor, \u2018Captain Tarhourdin.Mr.G.A.Turner, Mr.B.G.Todd, Mr.H., D.Tooby, Mr.F.W.Thomnson, the Misses Thompson, Miss Tinling, Miss Marion T homson, Miss Armorel Thomas, Miss M.Tel- fer.Dr.Throshy, Mr.R.G.Tolmie, Dr.and Mrs.Wylde, Mrs.E.A.Whitehead, Mrs.and Miss Warner, Mr.Stewart Watt, Miss Graham Watt, Mr.John A.Walker, Mr.N.C.Wight, Mrs.F.Backus WHlllams (Hartford, Conn.), Miss Beatrice Whyte, Mr.and Mrs.J.H.Wallace, Mr.M.J.Walsh, Mr.G.P.Wilson, Mr.F.T.Wanklyn, Mr.R.M.Watt, Mr.O.Weber.8 Mr.and Mrs.K.D.Young.THE TRANSCONTINENTAL.Work in the Province of Quebec Proceeding Well.The construction of the Transcontinental Railway in the Province of Quebec is proceeding apace.The contractors for over four hundred and eighteen miles west of the city of Quebec, as far as the Ontario boundary line, are Messrs.Macdonnell & O'Brien, who have about two thousand men working on the roadway.Of this total mileage two hundred and twen- ty-seven miles of track are alreay lai, and the comiractors are running regular trains for the accommodation of the construction parties.Those who have passed over teh newly-laid line speak of it very favorably.Still farther west grading is being pushed forward, and, as there is a good deal of reek work, a large number of men can be employed right through the winter.Most of the men engaged in this work are Italians, Poles and Slavs.On the Quebec Section north of the St Lawrence a great pulpwicod country thas been found, and doubtless mills will spring up all along the line La Tugue a hundred and twenty-four miles west of Quebec, which is so far the last town on the road already possesses an extensive pulp plant, and is a growing centre of the industry.The large bridges in the Macdonnell & O'Brien contracts include one lover the Batiscan three over the St.Mau- Tice.and gone over the Vermillion.All of these are being pushed forward rapidly.There is also a smaller bridge over the Gatineau, not far from its source.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 MR.MONK AT Y.M.H.A.On Monday evening Mr.F.D.Monk, M.P., will deliver an address at the the Y.M.H.A.club rooms, navy question.upon Raw Furs John : out of the 2,375 persons he had chairman, Mr.W.G.and Skins- WE ARE BUYERS of all kinds of RAW FURS and SKINS We Guarantee Honest Assortment, Highest Market Priees and Quick returns.WE PAY EXPRESS CHARGES Send for our PRICE LIST FREE REVILLON FRERES 134 et 136 call) St, Montreal.[ THE BEST GIFTS ÿ are fhose which last.For this reason gifts of silver are always appreciated.To distinguish the best, look for the trade mark [847 ROGERS BROS.Handsome presents may be selected In spoons, knives, forks, or fancy serving pleces.\u201cSilver Plate that Wears\u201d* MERIDEN BRITA CO.OLD RY LEADING DRATERE MEN AND THE CHURCH The Bishop of Montreal Gives Cheering Figures, Optimism about th> future of the men of Canada was expressed bv the Bishop of Montreal in responding to the toast of \u2018The Church,\u2019 proposed by Lieut.-Col.Gault, at the first annual dinner of tne Trinity Young Men's Association, in the Place Viger Hotel last night.He had been told that in the United SSiates it was difficult to get men to zo to church, hut con- the see of men in his tenure of 45 percent.had been firmed Montreal, and boys.He paid a warm tribute to the Rev.J M.Almands work in Trinity Church.The toast of \u2018Trinity Church\u2019 was proposed by Lt.-Col.FT.W.Hibbard, to which Mr.W.S.Campbell Te- spended.Mr.James Mitchel proposed \u2018Trinity Young Men\u2019s Association,\u201d and Mr.H.L.Butteris responded.Mr.T.Morgan proposed \u2018the ladies,\u201d and Mr.G.P.Lumley responded.Songs, musical solos and a sketch entitled \u2018The Actors\u2019 Club\u2019 were rendered during the evening.The Idler, proposed the health of the King.TARIFF BOARD CERTAIN.Washington, Der.28.\u2014Carrying out his programme of informal conferences with the Republican leaders in Congress, President Taft had a long talk to-day with Representative Payne, of New York, floor leader of the House.The President discussed with him various features of the legislative programme for the current session.Following his interview with Mr.Taft, Mr.Payne made the important announcement that he was quite sure a hill for a permanent tariff commission, acceptable to Congress and to the President, would be put through the Senate and louse before March 4 mext.et THE \u2018WITNESS\u2019 DAILY PATTERN.The home dressmaker should keep a little catalogue scrap book of the dally pattern cuts.These will be found very useful to refer to from time to time.i | i | f | | PUBLIC NOTICE 1s héreby given that, urder | trie Qu Companies\u2019 Act,letters patent \u201cuen.THY Fo isgued by the Lieutonant-Govern * Province of Quebec, bearing ant sixteenth day of December, iv n + porating Mersrs.Alvin Ernest worth, accouniant: Arthur 4e, bookkeeper: Willlam James = Hessy,advocate: Thomas Sargent: Cra student, and Alfred Boreham wr, clerk, of the City of Montren.following purposes: ' To carry on the businesses n° are and publishers and manufactnre.and dealers in and contractors for - manufacture or sale of lituogr: electrotypes, engravings, prints, n graphs, dies, stationery, bindines.hoards and papers, and all artiv]es , character similar or analogous 1 foregoing and the materials used - manufacture thereof or in conn.therewith, and to produce ur repro, or to act as dealers or contractors the production or reproduction, by process or processes, whether now _n istence or not, of works of art mn other publications whatsoever, ii.ther for commercial purposes or wise: To carry on any other Lusi.which may seem tu the company .ble of being cunveniently carrieÿ connection with the above, or cale ed directly or indirectly to entan:e value or render profitable anv 4° company's property or rights,\u2019 To purchase, take on leuse, or + .change, hire or otherwise acquire lands, hereditaments, property pr mises, or any interest therein, vu.of freehold, leasehold, or anv otne: ure, and any buildings, servitudes .ments, rights and privileges, un and personal property of any kin.Suever necessary or convenient i.company\u2019s business, or for des.\u2026 or utilizing any of the compan: , perty.To sell, let, exchange, develo, pose of or otherwise deal witii : | dertaking or all or any part af © perty, rights or privileges vf i\u2026 pany upon any terms, with pos.» cept in payment or part payment , for, and thereafter to hold, sell trap guarantee or otherwise deal shares, stock, debentures or we - of any kind, whether fully or p- paid; Ta pay for any property acquire the company In shares, stocks.[no debentures or obligations of tne .pany, whether fully or partly pai To purchase, subscribe for np wise acquire, and to hold the vu stocks or obligations, whether full: partly paid, of any company in United Kingdom or elsewhere, or stock or securities of any govern or state, whether British, Colonia! foreign, which it may seem condi to the interests of the company tn .quire, and to sell or exchange the san or, upon a distribution of assets or vision of profits, to distribute anv =.shares, stocks or obligations amonez- the shareholders of any class or class.of shareholders of this company or specie; To purchase.prolong, renew, sell, let or deal wi: any patents, patent rights, \u2018brevri d\u2019inventions,\u2019 or licenses;.or other rig: or privileges capable of being conven entlv or profitably acquired, used \u2026 dealt with in connection with any the objects of the company; To lend money or give credit, with n without security.to any person, firm company, and in particular to any pe: son, firm or company having dealine with the company, and to guarantee 1 due performance of contracts by an such person.firm or company, und 1- carry on any financial or commercin\u2019 business or operations which may seem acquire, use, protec likely to advance the interests of t- company; To acquire and undertake the whals or any part of the business, and liabilities of any person or company carrying on any business similar analogous or subsidiary to any of t!- objects of this company, or capable «° being conducted so as directly or ind rectly \u2018to benefit thix company, or possessing any property suitable for {he purpose of this company: To promote, facilitate aw: suberri!e to any public work or undertaking nf fering facilities and advantages for tle purposes of this company, and to aec- quire and hold and to dispose af shaves or other interests therein: To amalgamate or enter into partnership, or any arrangement for sharin profits, union of interests, co-operation joint adventure, reciprocal concession or otherwise, with any person, firm, n- sociation, authority or company carr - ing on or engaged in or about to carry on or engage in any business or tran - action which this company is authori - ed to carry on or engage in, or any hus - ness or transaction capable of bein: conducted so as directly or indirect! to benefit this company, and also to lend money tn, guarantee tl:e contrac: - of.or otherwise assist any such pers or company, and to take or otherwi-r acquire shares and securities of am such company, and to sell, Hold.veissur with or without guarantee or otherwisr deal with the same.To promote any other company fer the purpose of acquiring all or anv f the property and liabilities at this con.- pany, or of advancing directly or ind - rectly the objects or interests therecol, and to underwrite, guarantee the suh- scription of, take and otherwise acquiv» and hold, sell and deal in shares, stoi proper\u2018 etes a Pot ER SRE PPT TPE pr Smi Fow civa Per umr G ITO 4 .DINE IN ~~ DD 30-13; 218 2 PP eee «oe.+ à ee eee te debentures, debenture stock or secur ties of any such company, and to gua- Ww rantee the pavment of anv debentures Bou or other securities issued by any suen ton, company, Gi To make, accept, indorse and execute Huh promissory notes, bills of Juding., bilis mins: of exchange and other negotiable © struments; to secure any debt or abl gation of the company by mortgas: hypothee, pledge, assignment or an: Tw legal form of security: min To accumulate funds anid invest ar?COrT deal with the moneys of the compar: G) not immediately required in the r em, demption of its own bonds or debr tures or upon such securities and such manner as may from time 1n tin _ Re be determined; to distribute among Part shareholders any of the assets or r- fran perties of the company in specir, a ine either by way «af dividend cor upon ary Cheb return of capital: =am .To grant pensions or compensation ne s ON > to any officers, employees or servan\u2019- + 5865.\u2014ONE OF PRE SMART BLOUSE of the company, or thelr wives, widow od ; \u201c Am.children or relatives, and foi that pr or ol This model is made with body and pose to make reserves and subscribe t Sa sleeve in one, and provided with a wards insurance and to contribute a J \u2018tucker\u2019 that may be omitted if the Make donations to exhibitions, ost ver blouse is used for a dressy occasion.als And other public or cnaritable =, Net, voiles, crepe de chine and other To do all fe any of the foreæn.\".irda soft materials, combined with silk or things as principale or agents, nv ht lace will develop this design effective- partnership or conjunction with = rg ly.Or, cashmere, poplin, cloth or vel- person, firm, association, authority wa 2 vet may be used.The pattern is cut company, ; ; T= in 5 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 inches bust | re do all such things as Are nt twee oui 2 v Gi al or conducive to e attainim' ; or measure.It requires yards of 36-inch the above objects, under tle name Seed material for the blouse and 1 5-8 yards .ppq Knapp Company, Timited\u2019, w= Hou for the tucker for the 36-inch size.a total capital stock of ter 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You Have Always Bought zross cernings showed a decronse, man $1,071, while the net decreased + Vert Bears the 287.Surplus decreased 883,740.T° 1 Ÿ July 1 there is a gross increase 4 ba Signature of $329,971, net decrease of $S4,590, AD \u201cde a sunplus decrease of $259,437.oa.jh Ts en ne be SEG ge / J : 0 I rinters rers for t.Brapths.phot.Cars es of to t - int.nactfe rodur Ors fo.by an in ex Or an d wie.otie Inesse >lopir 'S pre D, dis he 11.- 18 pro 3 von to +.there ANS! n an uritie pari red h boned - > COIN aid.other share: ly or in t or t- nmer al er ducive to a sams, or di- v such non gst \u2018lasse ny in rotect wit revet- right.nveni- ed oi ny of ith o- irm ner Vy _per- aling ee tir y ans md tn 1ercial y seem Df tiré whole opertv com- milar.nf th» ble ef ro indi- r pos- IT tha serile shares rtner- harins \u2018ation.ession m, as- carry - carry trans- hori=- busi- beinz rectiv so tr tracts persnn rwise f any eissin ATWiSF v for ny of com- indi- ereof.sub- -quirr stoc!.ecuri- gua- tures such cecute bills 3 3q1- obli- gage.any t and pany es Tre- eben - nd in time aker.John t of Tr, Ir.ghts y © iret udga blic- y BAD MARKSMANSHIP CAU Grand'Mere Defence Superb\u2014Gauthier Good Goalkeeper\u2014 Procession to Stool of Repentance Feature.of Poor Game.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\u2019_É RESULT, TWELVE GOALS TO FOUR.Paye for Canadiens\u2014Fred.Whitcroft Takes a Wife \u2014 Hoekey News and Pars From All Quarters\u2014Lesueur Will Captain Ottawa Here on Saturday.A very disappointing game was seen at the Arena last night between tirand *Mere and Westmount, by close upon one thousand spectators.The ice was in poor shape, but on the argument that the conditions were as bad for one \u2018team as t.12 other, Cannot be put forward as an excuse for.the easy defeat of Westmount.It was quickly obvious that the visitors meant business, as to the dis- romfiture of the home team and their supporters, goal after goal was netted until the first half ended.Srand \u2018Mere, 8; Westmount, 0.The visitors appeared to be by fan the \u2018fitter\u2019 crowd of the two, lack of condition being plainly evident on the part cf the Westmount boys, several f whom were flying \u2018signals of distress\u2019 before the game had gone far.An unpleasant feature of the game, snd wlrich undoubtedly temded to its mediocrity, was the large number of venaltles handed out.Over an hour vas the aggregate of time spent on inestool of repentance by offending nlayers, although some of the penal- ries were a trifle harsh.Grand \"Mere put up a superb defence, Gauthier, whom Messrs, Le- «ours and Kennedy were making anxious inquiries about a little while à back, playing a splendid game in goal.Westmount were very weak in front of the net, missing many opportunities of scoring.The only accident of noté was Newton, who fell so heavily as to necessitate retirement from the game.Cornell came on in his place, taking up the right wing position, Bowie falling back to cover poit.When the teams came on after the interval, Westmount gave a flicker of ope that they were going to accom- rlish something, but the visitors were not being taken on so easily, and to prove the assertion scored a goal.Almost from the face Smith scored, and immediately afterwards White repeated the operation.The Westmount fans eaw a ray of hope until Lay made a sparkling Tun.Westmount played up well keeping Gauthier busy, when Uorton, with a fast, low rasping shot from the left pierced the net.Grand \"Mere scored two more goals, but a good wind up to a poor game was the clever work of Smith, who, tricking oth defence men.beat Gauthier with a sensationai shot.The officials and players were:\u2014 Westmount.Grand\u2019Mere.Boyce.«+.Goal.Gauthler Smeaton ., .Point.Dostaler Newton .C.Point.Lay Norton ., , .Rover., .Hubbard Smith, ©., , .Centre.Church White., .L.Wing.Ritchie Bowie .- .R.Wine .Bordeleau Referée, R.Bowie, assistant, R.Percival.Timekeepers.K.A.Andrews and | Percy Blinco.Penalty, K.Dawes.Goal.\u2019 umpires, Messrs.Kirkham and Baxter.Goals scored: \u2014 FIRST HALF.1.Grand'Mere.Ritchie .3.20 2.Grand\u2019Mere.Ritchie -3.10 3.Grand\u2019Mere.Hubbard.3.30 4.Grand\u2019Mere.Ritchie .2.00.5.Grand Mere.Huhbard.3.15 $.Grand\u2019Mere.Lay.9.30 7.Grand\u2019Mere.Hubbard.1.00 #8.Grand\u2019Mere.Hubbard.3.00 : SECOND HALF.9.Grand\u2019'Mere.Hubbard.2.00 10.Westmount.Smith.1.00 I'l.Westmount.Whita.1.30 12.Grand\u2019Mere.Lay.1.30 3.Westmount.Norten., .15.00 1#.Grand'Mere.Church .0.30 15.Grand\u2019Mere.Hubbard.4.30 18.Westmount.Smith.2.30 PENALTIES.First Half.7 Westmount\u2014White, 8 mins, 2 mins.; Bowie, 5 mins.; Newton, 2 mins.; Smea- ton, 3 mins.Grand'Mere-\u2014Church, 5 mins.2 mins; Hubbard, 3 mins, 2 mins.; Ritchie, 3 mins.; Dostaler, 3 mins.Second Half.Westmount\u20148meatpn, 3 mins, 3 ming; White, 5 mins.;, Bowie, 3 mins.; Cornell, 3 mins.\u2019 Grand'Mere-\u2014Church, 5 mins., 2 mins., 2 mins, 3 mins.Renfrew, Dec.28.\u2014President George Barnet announced to-night that the Ren- raw Club had refused the request of 1e Quebec Club for the cancellation ot \u2018lëlr second series of home and home ames, each on the first ronnd to count #8 (wo.It was thought for a time that i would not be nessary to make a sec- \u201cnd trip to Quebec.but as the local mag- Lites figure out that they might lose to \u2018Ynebec next Monday, they wish to take nn chances on having two defeats chalk- \u201c1 against them right at the com- ,encement of the seaéon.Consequent- - \u2018\u201d The Renfrew team will leave on Sat- irday night and play at Quebec on Mon- \u201cat evening.stopping off and clashing .with Wanderers at Montreal the follow- ng Wednesday, and then meeting Otta- \u201cA ar Renfrew on Jan, 10.There may be big developments be- \"wasn now and Monday, but at present Ariring it looks ag though the Renfrew (Trnce would coñsist of Lindsay, Gil- monr and McNamara, with Jordan,Rowe >Prague, Cleghorn and Smith on the Te, Currie and Oddie Cleghorn also \"ring possibilities.There have been J=velopments in the Lake-Taylor rae, Tavlor ramé up here Tuesday even- nz.his appearance causing the circnla- ton nf a rumor that he had decided tu \u2018\"Mme hack and play here, Fred him- =a'f said, however, that he was just up !\u201d Tind up last season's contract with resident Barnet, Nevertheless it ir =\" believed that he will surprise ev- \u201cTne by rejoining the Renfrew Club.\"ith is doing its best to carry ont ifs \u201c\u2019Aimises and thus satsfy the Listowel PU ne, Bertin, Ont.Dec.28 \u2014The opening 5 game of thé season of the Jarin professional hockey league was 4 =1 here to-night between Galt ana © 4, and resulted in the one sided f 11 to 4 in favor of the locals.m2 was plaved in twenty minute she Nliver Serbert, of Berlin.Mais + satisfactorv referee.Line up: , Be Position.Galt.>.Dann .Goal Moussk PEéRaS LL Point .Cross pOThaau 1 LL Cover .Murphy Tamu 1s CL Rover Dumphy 'IMart Le Centre .Cochrane Lond Left .Engel Andersan.Right .Seibert 2 Pemirake, Ont.Dec.28.\u2014 The first _ OTA\u201d Zame of the season was played Joos night between Brockville and Pemtrove The score at finish was # \u201cAVANT of the home team.\u201ca fax, Dec.28 \u2014Neddie Weaver,the fAptaln of the Halifax professional 207877 team, received a telegram this 0RI75 from Manager Éllison, of ths AT tram offering him $35 a week if he Tod sizn on with the (alt team for men.intec season, 'Neddie' refused the \u201cToro thinking fr mere profitable to re- Tan \\n Halifax, where he has a good 00m and is alsa sure of making a 0m \u201802 side by chasing the n\"ek.11° 77/75 Aid decide to wo it would be n 11007 to the professions! league in practising faithfully for the opening of the league series.The opening games of the amateur league will take place in Halifax on Tuesday night, when the Ramblers, of Amherst, and the Crescents, of Halifax, will face each other.St.Mary's.Ont., Dec.28 \u2014The first game in the primaries of tle O.H.A.intermediate series for this group was played here to-night between Stratford and St Mary's, resulting in a victory for the visiting team by a seore of 6 to 3 Line up: ?St.Mary's\u2014Goal, R.Liver: point.Cunningham: cover point, Wilson: Riddell; centre, Strucke; left wing, Wilson; right wing, Lee.Stratford\u2014Goal, Dillon: point, Stan: down; cover point, Fobes: rover, Ver- ner; centre, Easson: right wing, Harvey: left wing, Easson.es Referee, Mr.Kinder, \u2018 Watford, Ont, Dec.28.\u2014 \"Phe first game on local ice in District No.9, Intermediate O.H.A., was played here tonight between Strathroy and Watford, resulting in a score of 3 to 1 in favor of Watford.\u2018 .The half time score was 3 to 0 in favor of the local team.In the last half Watford was unable to score, while Strathroy landed their only tally of the game.\u2018The ice was heavy, but nevertheless the game was fast.and if anything a little inclinea Trenton, Ont., Dec.28.\u2014In a fast and exciting exhibition game of hockey played here this evening, Treaton professionals defeated Belleville by 8 goals to 3.Line up: Trenton\u2014Goal, M.Téboze;, pont, E.Debeau; cover point, James Doran; rover, Don Smith; centre, James Mallen; right wing, Charles Lightfoot; left do., H.Burgoine.Belleville-\u2014Goal, Cross;; point, Duffy: cover point, Sandford: rover, Dusome; centre, Crossett; left wing, Macdonald;; right wing, Stoddart.Referee, G.H.McGaw, Trenton.re\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AMATEUR HOCKEY.Y.M.C.A.and District League Match.Melville and Aloha opened the schedule for the Y.M.C.A.and District Hockey League last night (Wednesday) at the Crichton Rink.On account of the soft weather and a light fall of snow, good combination work and shooting was very difficult, and although the game was very closely contested, when time was called it was.found that no goals had been sco.ed by either sidé.À Although the going was heavy, very good hockey was played by both opening game, it looks as if the Stan Strike referred the game in a very satisfactory manner.The following was the line-up: Melville (0).Aloha (0).Bremner.Goal.Ogilvie Hetu.Point.Woodburn Bery.Cover.Lunn Millier.Rover.Morrison Latin.Centre.Crawford Giroux.R.Wing.r.Laing N.Beardsell.L.Wing.Churchill The league schedule has just been received from the printers\u2019 hands, and will be published in the course of the next day or so.The next game of the league will take place on Friday, January 6th, when Comets will visit Y.M.C.A.on the Crichton Rink.mien KINGSTON\" TOO GOOD.\u201c M.À.À.À.Juniors Lose 14 to 4.Kingston, Ont.Dec.'2$8.\u2014Fronteñac Junior Hockey Club, champions of Ontario, fo-night deféated the Quebec junior champion Montreal A.A\u2019 A.-teain, 14 to 4 \u2018The ice Was soft añd In the second half became quite sticky.The Frontenacs were strong-in all departments and worked .like a senior aggra - gation, Chaucer \" Eflfott reféreed a most impartial gamé, and has a likely team of yourigsters.The teams lined up as follows: .M.A.A A.\u2014Goal.Blumenthal; point, Copeland: cover, Reid: right wing, Pev- erlv; left wing, Slater; centré, Eves rover, Clements.: Frontenacs\u2014Goal.Marchand and Wil- iams; point, Davidson; cover, McCam- mon: left wing, Millan; right Wing, Boyer and Summervlle; centre, Hunt; rover, Brouce.Referee, Chaucer Elliott, PREFERS MATRIMONY.Fred.Whitcroft Marries and Retires From Hockey.Dec.The marriage Edmonton, 28.\u2014 \u2018 took place here to-day of Tred, Whit- croft, the well known hockey player,and Miss Francis Boswell, formerly of Pe- terborough, Ont.,and now of Wabamum, west of this city.=~ Whiteroft has retired from hockey circles, and is now, engaged in ranching and farming.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NEGROES FORM LEAGUE.Eight Cities Organize in Baseball.29.\u2014The Négro Na- League, with eight was formed here, in-.Chicago, Dec.tional Baseball cities represented, yesterday.The league plans -to corporate in Illinois and headquarters in Chicago.The cities represented at the nreeting were Chicago, Louisville, New Orleans, Mobile, St.Louis, Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City.Kas., and Columbus, Ohio.Felix H.Payne.of Kansas City, Mo., was m'ecteid temporary chairman.An executive committee was elected and wilt meet in New Orleans Mardi Gras week, not later than Feb.15.RELAY RACE ARRANGED.Will Attempt to Lower Canadian Record.Toronto, Dec.18.-\u2014A special racé Has been arranged between the West End's Medley relay team, holders of the American indoor relay record for 220, 440, 880 end mile of 7.41 3-5, and the New York Irish-American team, which held the old record of 7.44 1-5.until It was broken by the Canadian lads at Buffalo on Nov.4.Phe rate will come oft at Troy, New York, on Feb.16._ The West Fnd team will be Charlie Watson, 220 cards: M.J.Fôlinsbee, 440 yards; M.Brock, $80 yards.and Jack Talt.the mile.On Feh, 18 Tait goes to the Néw York A.C.indoor meet, and his team- te Ma-\u2018tme Provinces.The hockey CL2TS nf Nova Scotia, both in the pro- are lestscnal and amateur leagues, mates may go along and compete In various events rover, to roughness, Line up: Strathroy.Position.Watford.Jarvis.Goa .Brown McCoig.Point .Elliott Haveck.s.Cover .'Lodds H.Parvey.Right .'.Thorner McCandiess.\u201cCentre Stapleford McKellar.Left .Roach Prangley.:.Rover .L.Dodds Referee, McDougall.teams, and fram the results of the league would be a well-contested one.\u2019 maintain THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910 WESTMOUNT EASILY BEATEN.| SE JAPANESE BASEBALL Frank Bancroft Will Invaed Japan.Cincinnati, Oho, Dec.29.\u2014Business Manager Frank Bancroft, of the Cincinnati Nationals, who baseball clubs to foreign countries, expects to add another country to his list after the next world\u2019s series.Ja- Pan is the country Bancroft expècts to storm, and his army of invasion Will consist, he says, of the Philadel- Ehia Americans.The members of the Philadelphia team are anxious to take the trip to Japan next year, said Bancroft.\u201cThey have heard what crowds the American college teams have been drawing in that country, and are certain that they will prove a greater drawing card.The team will start for the Far East immediately after the last game has been played, and the meén will keep in shape by light practice on board ship > NOTES and COMMENT ¢# DODD DIDI IPN os \u2018Nineteen is the mystic number.Laz.Rubenstein's famous curling gin- Eer was responsible for 19\u20144.Ask La- chine, They did not get any! \u2019 Percy Lesueur will captain the Ottawas, on Saturday, against the Cana- dians, Payan, a Rockland discovery, was given a try-out to-day.To-night's practice will decide whether his inclusion on the French-Canadizn squad will take place or not, Canadiens are still one p.ayer short, and are not too anxious to fill the vacancy with the first one that comes ng.Fred, Whiteroft has retirsd from hockey, having taken unto himself a wife, and gone in for ranching and farming.Chasing the steer may be more strenuous than chasing the puck, but will he find it as congenial?\u2018Get a toe-liold on him, shrieked a.\u2018dead sport\u2019 at the wrestling match last night, just at the crueial moment when Hack had Steurs\u2019 shoulders almost in the desired position, and was straining every ounce of his great strength to gain the fall, and the style was Graeco-Roman! O Yoa Wrestling Sports! The champion heavyweight wrestler of the world had a check on his triumphal march last evening, but there would have only been one wrestler in it, catch-as-catéh-can.Hack doés not and never did like the &low and stodgy style of Graeco-Roman, a style only fit for fat and beefy wrestlers.: ANOTHER CHAMPION.Gehring Added to the Multitude.Cleveland, O., Dec.28.\u2014Henry Geh- ring, of this city, won the middleweight wrestling championship of the world to-night from Walter Willough- by, of Buffalo, N.Y.He won in two straight falls, the first in 32 minutes and 20-seconds, and the second in one hour and five minutes.Both men weighed 158 pounds and were in ex- cellént condition.Prior to to-night\u2019s contest both men had laid claim to tha world's championship.: WALKING MATCH ARRANGED.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Ernie Webb and Geo.Goulding Fix Up.Toronto, Dec.38.\u2014Geo.Goulding and, Ernie Welsh, the imtérnatiomal walkers, are booked to start in a three- mile race at Hamilton, in the International Harvester A.A.games, on Jan.26.Both will resume training after the first of the year and will likely participate in a race at Buffalo before they go to the Ambitious City.CHESS TOURNAMENT.Toronto Champion Ahead of Dr.: McArthur.Play continued throughout vester- day in the chess tournament being held in the Victoria Hall.Westmount, end athotueïh Morrison, the Tomonto cham- pian, leads he is only half a point ahead of McArthur, of Montreal.In the adjourned game between the Terento adhämpion, J.8.Morrison, end.the Dominion champion, Jos.Sawyer, which was resumed with 4 pawn behind for the Toronto plaver, the game was regarded as lost, but it was drawn yesterday.In the adjourned game between Dr.McArthur and W.C.Eddie, the former followed up the advantage be possessed at the point of adjournment and secured his mate.The results for the fourth round showed Blake beat Short, Cartier beat Downs, Morison beat MeArthur.In the fifth round Morrison beat Anstey, Eddis beat Cartier, Short beat Powrs.MéArthur beat Freéland.Games played off yesterday after- neon and evening gave the following victeries: McArthur from Freeland, Eddis from Cartier, Morrison from Anstey, Short - from 5, Sawyér from Downs.Short frem -Eddis, and Me- Arthur from.Cartiér.Games were adjourned bettveeén Blake and Sawyer, Anstey and Blake, and Freeland and Morrison.The scdre now stands: / : Won.Lost.Morrison (Toronto).\u2026.54 14 Blake (Witmipeg).2 1 McArthur (Montreal).§ 2 Freéland (Toronto) .2 3 Anstey (Montreal).2 3 Short (Mc eal) .¢ 3 Downs (Moatreald., .2 5 Cartier (Montreal) \u2026 114 54 Sawyer (Montreal).\u2026.\u2026.3 2 Eddis (Torénto)' .2 4 rem U.S.BOWLING TOURNAMENT.$30,000 Will be Given at Congress.S: Louis Mo., Dectmber 28.\u2014The entry lst for the American Bowling Congress.tournament, which beging hers on Jan.21, will be closed on Jan.28, ac¢ording to an announhcenient to night by Mr.A] Langtry, the secretary.Mr.Langtry said all entries must be in by the date set.The entry Het will be the largest in the history of the congress.and the has taken I prize lst is expected to reach nearly thirty thousand dollars JACK CURLEY \u2018SCEPTICAL Thinks Report too Good to bo True that Gotch Will Come Back, HAS POSTED $500.Hackenschmidt and Steurs Wrestle One Hour and a Quarter Without Result.Bea:ding the lon in his den was the expérience of the\u2019 writer last evening.If all lions were as harmless as Georges Haokenséhmidt is, and their dens so seductive ds this prince of wrestlers tastéfully photo decorated | room was, then the expression which commences the story, would cease to have the térrifying significance usually attributed to it.= = The champion heavyweight wrestler of the world has beett -Written up so often and imaginary = interviéws so woeful, that a Yew Interesting and authentic facts from the pen of one who saw him make\" his\" first public (and private) appearanve on the mat, and: who has seen him.win all his big wrestling matches &Xxéepting the Gotch flaseo, are strictiÿ,aæ necessity.- For a man of his phenomenal strength and wrestling.scientific skill, Georges Hackenschildt is one of the most kindly naturéd and unassuming men it is possible to meet.Some tén or twelve years Hack was weight lifting with some distinction in Paris (France), when a certain theatrical manager named Peter Watson, who was at the time, and possibly is now lesseé and manager of the Manchester Palace of Varieties, conceived the idea that this handsome Russian weight \u2018lifter had \"th¥ general contour and physical formation of a wrestler.His opinion being endorsed by a certain Jack Smith, himself a wrestler of no mean order, Hack was taken in hand and quickly proved himself to be an adept pupil in catch-as-catch- can wrestling, and nightly threw every and anybody who came along.Madrali, the Terrible Turk, was lecoming large nn thé horizon of championship wrestling, and a match for the title of heavy, weight champion wrestler of the on d was arranged.It is ancient history how Hack, with.irresistible impctuosity, picked up this \u2018terrible\u2019 mountain of flesh like a doll, and the championship of the world wag won inside twe minutes.There is one thing that stands out to Hackenschmdt's credit.He has always accepted a challenge, amd will ta-day wrestle anybody who possesses claims to have their challenge considered.i But this is a diversion from the avoresaid bearding, etc.Hack was dressing for the bout when the Sporting Editor of the \u201cWitness\u2019 \u2019phoned up Rooms 1513 to*1615 at the Windsor, about 7.30 last evening, and was invited up.\u2018Where have { seen you before?\u2019 said Hack.\u2018Give a guess, as the reply.\u2018Not Boston or Chicago, not here at al! except at Sohmér Park.Ah, I know; Manchester and London! The supposition being correct, and a gitort \u2018chat of the days for both, gone never to return, the object of the in-| terview was quickly reached.\u2018Will you wrestle Gotch?' \u2018I want to\u2019 was the big fellows answer, \u2018But I don\u2019t think the report can be true.I wish it was.Sèe Mr.Curley, my manager; he will give you ail the particulars.I do the wrest- Hug,\u201d he Bald, with a smile, \u2018and he does the business.Will ses you at the Park.Au revoir\u2019 Jack Curley was the next move, as this Gotch business is apt to get on one's nerves.He was in the bureau \u2018at Sohmer Park, and opened fire as follows:\u2014 \u2018For every dollar that Gotch will put up.I will put another.I don't believe the report Is true.George Hackem- schmidt will wrestle him for $20,000 or any part of it, George likes money, so do I; but we don\u2019t worship it, and George will wrestle Gotch anywhere, being just as willing it should come off before 100, newspaper men in a gymnasium as hefore a crowd.That is how we feel.We mean business, and hope that Gotch is of the same mind, although it looks queer that he should only deposit $500 for a $20,000 stake.I have wired this amount.anyway.on the off chance, and if vou go to the telagrapn fellow at the Windsor ycu can see a copy of the wire.\u2019 Mack and Steurs mat last night in a wWredtling handicap, particulars of which weré previously announced.Steurs won ihé toss, and elected.to commence with the Graeco-Roman style.Hackenschmiät, it was plain to ssé, was mot comfortable in this style, and after wreetling the time preserib- ed\u2014one hour and a quarter\u2014without a fall being siven, Steurs won the handicap.Both men seemed anxious to wrestle to a finish.but Dr.Roller and Schnabel were billed for the best two out of three, and furthermore, as Tlackenschmidt made the match, it Was not fair to Steurs or the man- agèment tè continué the bout, much as the excited crowd present would have liked fit.Hackenschmidt was in far better shape than the Belgian.but the latter was very clever, and at times not too particular in his tactics, which made him exceedingly unpopular.The Gotch challenge was eagerly discussed, and much scepticism expressed ag to its genuineness.New York, De¢.28\u2014J.HH.Herman, of Buffalo, manager for Zybsco, the Polish wrestler, posted $1,000 here tonight as a guarantée that his man would meet Frank Gotch, the world's éhampion.Herman's statement accompanying his forfeit follows: à \u2018Replying to thé published challenge from F.ank Gotch to meet any wrestler in the world for a $20,000 side bét and the best purse obtainable, the winner ta take all, I hereby accept on behalf of Zbysco.The only stipulation I maké 1s that the side bet be $10,000 on a side instead of the $20,000 suggested by Gotch.I hereby post $1,000 to bind my agreement and as a guar- antes of good faith, the balance of $9,000 to be posted upon signing articles.\u201d * \u2014 | plane \u2018derby ever run.| beat Eugené Ely, ALLIES BEAT AMERICANS England and France Win Aero | plane Derby.Los Angeles, Cal, Dec.29.\u2014 England and France defeated the United States yesterday in the first aero- James Radley, in a Bleriot monoplane, driving a Curtiss racer, and Phil Parmalee, in a baby Wright, in an eight and three-quar- ters mile race.He established a new record for the Los Angeles field, his the Briton, ' time for the 8 3-4 miles being 9 13-15, ox an average of about 57 miles an 4 hour.\u2018Mere exhibition flying 1s about to pass into the realm of commonplace,\u2019 said Glenn H, Curtiss last evening.\u2018The novelty has.worn off, and henceforth racing will be the thing.The day is at hand when aviation meets will consist solely of racing.\u2019 .Lincoln Beachy, the newest recruit to the Curtiss staff of aviators, met with disaster yesterday, his machine being completely wrecked.New Orleahs, La.Dec.29.\u2014 Rene Simon, the French aviator, at the aviation field yesterday, broke the world's record for monoplanes, when he circled the mile track in a twenty- mile an hour viñd in 57 seconds fiat.\u2018This is rezarded as the fastest mile ever made by a monoplane under any conditions on a mile course.The n™r chine used Was a 50 horse-power Ble- riot, 147 MILES IN FOUR HOURS.Aviator Ogilvie\u2019s Effort in Michelin Cup.London, Dec.28.\u2014An aviator named Ogilvie made a record flight for the British Empire Michelin Cup, at Rye, in Sussex, to-day.He flew 1471 miles in three hours and fifty-nine minutes.The Michelin cup for the British Empire is valued at $2,500, and carries with it a.cash prize of the same am- out.eee CACIE TO FLY OVER ATLANTIC.German Aeronaut Will Utilize New Balloon Invention.Berlin, Dec.29 \u2014 Joseph Brucker, who has announced his intention of attempting, in March or April next, to cross the Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands to the Barbadoes or Trimidad, in the airship \u2018Suchard) will utilize a novel system to keep his gas cool and prevent loss from radiation.sprinkiers constructed at the top of the envelgpe, which will spray water over the surface of the balloon.water supply will be v-hand-drawn from the ocean in torpedo-shaped cylinders, offering a minimum resistance to the waves, anid after being taken on board will he pumped through a hose to the sprinklers.Brucker proposes to carry a crew of six on his craft, which will be equipped with two motors each of 100 horse-power.A non-sinkable lifeboat will be taken along.He hopes to arrive on the other side after four or five days and six nights of the air, taking advantage of the trade winds as far as possible.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTED TENNIS PLAYER DEAD.London, Dec.29.\u2014Reginald F.Doh- erty, elder of the brothers of the noted English tennis team, died to-day.te had been in ill-health for some me.\"RUSH OF AMERICANS G.T.P.Officials Looking Forward to Heavy Im- migratior, Inquiries from the States indicate that next spring will see a very large immigration of Americans coming to settle along the GTP.line.A great increase of travel is anticipated Wdur- ing 1911, when a pasgenger service will be established over a number of branch lines in Saskatchewan and Alberta, affording considerably better facilities to immigrants from the Western States.Work is also pro- cedding on the malin line towards the Yellowstone Pass, which will render the Jasper Park country accessible to tourists and mountaineers.Towns are springing up amid level- oping rapidly along the line, especially at the chief divisional points.Some of these have added at least a third to their population during the year.Others showing active growth are situated in rich agricultural districts.The company has aldded largely to its rolling stock during the past year, the additions including both passenger and freight locomotives, passenger coaches, dining, library, and baggage cars.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE LATE MR.R.H.LANE.Resolutions of Sympathy From Montreal Organizations.The Charity Organization Society of Montreal has received a number of resolutions of sympathy from the committees of city charities, aided by the organization, on the death of Mr.Richard H.T.ane, late secretary of the organization, and for many years actively connected with its work.The sympathizers include the Ladies\u2019 Com- mittée of the Industrial Rooms, the Lades\u2019 Commttee of the Montreal Foundling and Baby Hospital, the Ladies\u2019 Committee of - the Montreal ward Institute, and the Sisters of the Hospital for Incurables, Notre Dame de Grace.A Physical Wreck Sufferad Tortures frôm Nervousness.Miss Marguerite Lees, 91 Robert St, Hamilton, Ont, writes: \u201cI was a wreck, reduced In body, and despondent.I suffered tortures from nervousness, and was tatally unfitted for work.A friend recommended Hood's Sarsaparilla.I commenced taking it and by the time the second Bottle was consumed I knew that I was mending.Gradually I grew well.I have used Hood's since.I would not be without it on any account, and do most enthusiastically endorse every word in its favor.\u201d Get Hood's Sarsaparilla today.Sold by all druggists everywhere, This will he accomplished by.The.FRIENDLIES SUCCESSFUL Against Scientific Curling, Ice Very Soft.CALEDONIA LEAD MONTREAL.St.Andrew\u2019s President Wins Against Lachine by Nineteen to Four.The conditions où th ice at all rinks last night owing to th soft snap which came on Tuesday, was all against scientific curling, and which accounted for the extraordinary results from directions least expected.That the friendly games are a great success is unanimously declared, giving a zest and spirit of friendly rivalry to the sport.It was extremely difficult, in fact at times impossible, to get the stones anywhere near the point played for, many skips failing in an astonishing manner, the most noticeable being that of the St.Lawrence Club when playing against Outremont.St.Andrew's president\u2019s rink scintillated on the home ice, defeating Lachine 19 to 4.Nineteen is a mystic number at St.Andrew's.Montreal put up a good performance on their own ice against Caledonians.scoring 40 points to 18,but did not shine so brightly on Caledonia ice.Outremont have a lead over St.Lawrence of 29 points, whilst Heather lead Thistle by four.Th ice was good at the Montreal rink in spite of the thaw, and some clever play was witnessed.Montreal established a lead of 22 points, Mr.McMur.try leading the way by getting the advantage of his opponent hy no fewer than 11.At the Caledonia rink Montreal players were by mo means-so fortunate, and here they had to admit defeat by 15, thus leaving them seven points to the bad on the night's play.Scores: Montreal.Caledonia.J.8, Lewis w.P.Currie E.Darling J.Ward C, W.Dean J.Curire S.A.McMurtry Skip\u201417 Sktp\u2014 6 P.Schaefer F.Burgess Dr.J.J.Ross H.M.Stanway W.W.Walker H.G.Punnett G.P.Walker W.L.Thom Skip\u201410 Skip\u2014 7 T.Drummond K.D.Church C.Routh J.H.Gordon C, Saxe W.Morrison w.M.Taylor J.Wilson Skip\u201413 Srip\u2014 5 W, H.Galt A.B.Parker E.Stanger D.Finlay J.A.Bucknell Col.Busteed Skip\u2014 4 F.J.Laverty W.IAvermore H.B.Mussen H.Ross J.W., Pyke mn.Cameron R.A.Dunton Ww, oon Skip\u2014 8 Skip\u20141n ¥2 45 While the Ice at the Thistle rink was good, the same cannot be sald for the sheets at the Westmount Club.It ers to make good play.and much interest in the games was lacking.The score is as follows: Thistle, Heather.t A.D.Smith A.Scott ves R, W, Barcla C.A.Peters A.H.Foss y ww.H.C, Mussen D.H.MéCallum R.J.\u2018B.Chapple Skip\u201410 \u2026 Skip\u2014 8 C.¥.Dale G.Milroy W.H.D.Murray TR.F.Smith RH Angus R.# Smith .A.Hutchison J.air A À Skip\u2014 28 Skip\u201418 G.FE.Cheese Dr.Watson G.H.W.Birch Prof.Caldwell E.Liersch Dr.J.T.Finnie G.H.Cornell X.Bernard Skip\u201412 Skip\u2014 6 W.P.Crites J.G.Morrison W.Grseer Rev.M.S.Oxley G.Holland J.'W.Anderson WwW.B.Hutchison Capt.Clift Skip\u201411 Skip\u201413 F.A.Moore 3, Napier H D.Dwyer J.Cleghorn IA.Odel Dr.M.C.Baker WwW.E.Cushing WwW.Mowatt SkIip\u201412 Skip\u2014 4 53 49 Three rinks from each club played at the game between St.Lawrence and Outremont Jast night: though the Îce proved heavy on account of the thaw.Score: \u2014 Outremont.N.R.Tomlinson TH.W.Norton St.Lawrence.A.FH, Campbell J.W.Richards Dr.W.Fisk A.W.Bremner H.Drysdale R.À.Nixon Skip\u2014 5 Skip\u201415 J.N.Bales IW, H.S-ars WwW.G.Laing W, E.Ramsay J.Morison Ww.B.Ghnmmow G.A.Forbes Dr.McKechnie Skip\u201412 Skip\u2014 9 J.McCrudden FE.Richardson A.Bremner W.Vass J.V.Clearfhue WwW.C.Hall J.Johnston W.Drysdale Skip\u2014 7 Skip\u201413 R.W.Lufthart W.Sangster R.Allan T.J.Stevenson J.Roy G.A.Robinson D.Guthrte R.C.Binning Skip\u2014 6 Skip\u201416 J.Ettenverg F.C.Peterson C, D.Anderson J.H.S.Parke J.H.Gallagher H.Mackenzie D.Anderson J.Anderson \u2018 Skip\u2014 7 Skip\u201414 37 66 The soft weather made the curling conditions at the St.Andrew\" and La- chine match rather poor.On the night's play St.Andrews are two up with another four rinks to play, so that they cannot be sald to have altogether the worst of the deal.Scores: \u2014 Lachine, W.F.B.Henry F.Shackell St.Andrews.Major Rodden J.H.Armitage az.Rubenstein A.McLean = Kearns G.S.A.Oliver Skip\u201419 Skip\u2014 4 G.A.Slater J.B.Fullo J.Tanner A.C.Frye D.B.Swinton WwW.R.Duckworth H, M.Watson L a.Amos Skip\u2014 7 Skip\u201411 L., B.McFarlane W.Obert L.Martel WwW, Major H.Fortier Rev.Hewton A, Milne E.Strathy Skip\u2014 6 Skip\u2014 5 cis F.Pauze x Pare TW, Halford J.Baird h R- Baby J.B.Kinghorn .5 ! Skip\u2014 4 Skip\u201414 36 34 THE CHEESE RINK BUSY.The first of the many matches whirh the \u2018Cheese\u2019 rink of the Montreal Club engage in every year, was played yesterday, their opponents bhe'ng a rink skipped bv Mr.A.Ramsay, and the stakes.a barrel of meal which will be donated to one of the hospitals.Next week they haev issued a challenge to the Doctor's rink of the Montreal Club.Yesterday's score was:\u2014 .D.Carr E.H.Hodgson Hi H.Birks \u2018 W.A.Reid T.Willlamson P.W.Macleaan A.Ramsay A.Hodgson Skip - Skip r\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AN ANONYMOUS GIFT.Will you be good enough tn make a note in the Montreal \u2018Witness\u2019 that the trustees of the Muskoka Free Hospital have received 34 from a citizen of Montreal, who signs himself \u2018M.T.H; Weather Conditions Altogether | seemed at times Impossible for the play-, Do it Now Tomorrow A.M.too late.Take a CASCARET at bed time; get up in the morning feeling fine and ' dandy.No need for sickness from over-eating and drinking.They surely work while you sleep and help natu- help you.Millions take them and keep well.CASCARETS 10\u20ac a box for a week's su treatment, all druggists.Biggest seller the worid Million boxes a mouth.MARRIAGE LICENSES MONEY TO LEND.CUSHING & BARRON Notarics and Commissioners Liverpool & London & Giobs» Insurance Building 112 St.James Street.JACKSON & CO.CARPENTERS, BUILDER: znd CONTRACTORS ¥aluations made.Jobbing p mptly attended to.129B to 335 HIBERNIA ROAD.ARONSON & RUTENBERS, PAWNBROKERS, fh No.115 Craig Street W.Money to lend on Diamonds Watches, Jewellery, Clothi and Dry Goods.Furs sto g summer months.ARONSON & RUTENBERG, Pawnbrokers and Jeweilers ENGINEERS.Tel .Main 7021.The DUCKWORTH-BOYER Engineering & Inspection Co.Limite d Inspecting and Consulting Engineers _ Main Office : 1718t.damesS8t., Montrea Synopsis of Canadian North-Wess Land Regulations, -\u201d Any person who is the sole head of a family, or any male over 1% rears old, may homestead a quarter section of available Dominion land in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta.The applicant must appear in person at ths Dominion Lands Agency or Sub-Agency for the District.Entry by proxy may be madg at any agency, on certain conditions, by father, mother, son, daughter, brothes or sister of Intending homuasteader.Duties.\u2014Six months\u2019 residence upon and cultivation of the land in each of three years, A homesteader may live within nine miles of hig homestead on a farm of at least 80 acres solely owned and occupied by him, or by his father, mother, san, daughter, brother or sister.In certain districts a homesteader in good standing may pre-empt a quarter- section alongside his homestead.Price $3.00 per acre.Dutles.\u2014Must reside six months in each of six years from date of homestead entry (including the time required to earn nomestead patents),and cultivate fifty acres extra.A homesteadar who has exhausted his homestead right and cannot obtain a re-emption may take a purchased Pomestead in certain districts.Price.$3.00 per acre.Duties.\u2014Must reside six months in each of three years, cule tivate fifty acres, and erect a house worth $300.00.\u2019 WwW.Ww.CORY, Deputy of the Minister nf the Interior.N.B.\u2014Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for.TENDERS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES SEALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned and marked on the envelope \u201cTender for Indian Supplies,\u201d will ba received at this Department up to noon on Wednesday, 18th January, 1911, for the delivery of Indian supplies during fiscal year ending the 31st March, 1912, duty paid at various points in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.Forms of tender containing full particulars may be had by applying to the undersigned.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted, Newspapers inserting this advertisement without authority of the Department will not be paid.J.D.McLEAN, Asgt.Deputy and Secretary.Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa PUBLIC NOTICE ig hereby given that application will be made at the next session of the J.rgis- lature ôf the Province of Queber to ab- tain an act of incorporation under the Cities and Towns Act, to detach from the Village of Pointe Claire, and from the Parish of &t.Jonchiin de Pointa Claire, those certain lots of land known as cadastral numbers 39 to 49 inclusive, and cadastral number 94, and a part nf cadastral number 99%, the property of one, W.8.Clouston, said territory being bounded on the north hy cadastral lots numbers 130 and 108, and on the south by Lake St.Louis, and on the east hy cadastral lot number 50, and on the west by the remaining portion of cadastral lot number 98, not herein included, and cadastral lots rumbers 93 and 95, together with all the sub-divi- sions of the said cadastray numbers, and form the same into a separate corporation to he known as \u2018Cedar Park\u2019, said corporation to be constituted a municipality under the Cities and Towns Act, with such modifications as to taxation of property and other provisions of the said act as may be deemed advisable.Montreal, December 6th, 1610.H.A.HUTCHINS, Attorney for Applicants, NOTICE is hereby given that THE MONTREAT, STREET RAILWAY COMPANY will apply to the Legislature of the Province of Quebec, at its next Session, fqr the passing of an Act amending the Acts relating to the said Company, tn increase the number of its directors.and generally for all powers necessary fur the above purposes.\u2018 THIBAUDEAU RINFRET, .Attorney for Applicant Montreal, this 14th of December, 1210.Province of Quebec, 0 ville St.Pierre./ PUBLIC NOTICI-.Public notice is hereby given hv te undersigned that on December the 20t,, 1910, a petition was delivered 10 me.signed hy more than thirty municipal electors of Ville St.Pierre, requesting a poll to decide if the municipal electors of the Town will adopt or not the fnl- lowing by-law; \"The sale of intoxicating Jiquora, .and the issuing of licenses ther: - \u2018for, are by the present hyv-law, \u2018prolibited within the municipality \u2018of Ville St, Pierre, under the an- \u2018thority and for the enforcement nf \u2018Section Fifteen of Chap Fifth, of \u201cthe fourth title of the Revised \u2018Statites of the Province of Que- \u201cTec, 1909\u201d In consequence, 1 give notice that nn January the 21st, 1911, next, at 19 o'clock in the forenoon in the Town \u2018Hall of Ville St.Pierre.a meeting of the municipal electors will he held in order to hold a pal] to decide whether the said by-law will be approved af or not, as may he the case, by the electnrs so assembled.Given under m+ seal at Ville Et, Pierre, this 2ist dav of December, in the year où our ILord, 1910.P.I HAMEL, Tr, Secretary-Treasurer.\u2014\u2014 a er?DE eee ae pa cin BATE SR 5 gg? Wer Wor Pr ce re SY.75 qe JO ; i He THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910.BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS Notices of births.msrriages and deaths.must invariably be cndorsed with the name and address of the sender, ot otherwise no notice can be à tor them.Birth notices are inserted on 28¢; marriage notices for 50°: oon notices for 25c, prepaid The to nouncement of funeral appended death notice, 25c extra; othor ex oh sions to obituary, such as stort ske A -{ Hfe, two ~ents per word extra, ex cept poetry, which is 50c per line extra, prepaid.Nhual subscribers, whosa names Av- near on our lists, may nave announcements of bj: 'h, marriages and deaths (without extended obituary or verses occurring in their immediate families.free of chrrge, in whicn case name and address of subscribers should invariably be given.BIRTHS.CARSON \u2014 At Grand'Mère, Que, on Christmas Day, 1910, tn Mr.and Mrs.Harold J.Carson, a Son.LAMB \u2014 On Dec.5.1910, at \u2018The Oaks,\" Grove Park, Kent, England, the wife of E.F.Lamb, of a daughter.RICKABY\u2014On Dec.Moscow-mansions, Kensineton, S.W.London, England, to Mr.and Mrs.Tom Walton Rickaby (Gold Coast Corlony), a daughter.MARRIED.HARTWELL \u2014 BAIRD \u2014 At the residence of the bride's mother, Orms- town, on Dec.28, 1910, by the Rev.D, W, Morison, D.D., Lorne Hart- well, Osnabruck Centre, Ont, to Ethel Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr.Samuel Thomas Baird.LUCY \u2014 GWYNNE \u2014 On Dec.14, 1810, at the Methodist Church, South Lake, Ont., by the Rev.J.H.McConnell, B.D., Jennie Florence, daughter of Mr.Geo.Gwynne, to Frederick Johu Lucy, of Joyceville, Ont.McEACHREN \u2014 AITON \u2014 At Edmonton, Alberta, on Nov.29, 1910, by the Rev.Dr.McQueen, Presbyterian minister, Mary M.Aiton, daughter of Robert Aiton, of Highland Creek, Ontario, to D.A, McEachren, of Pine Cre, k, Alberta, formerly of Erin, On- ario.PTKE \u2014 ALLISON \u2014 On Dec.26, 1910, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev.Dr.Topping, assisted by the Rev.W.N.Sinclair, Grant Pyke -to Miss Emma Allison, all of Wolfe Island, Ont.PERRIN \u2014 BEGG \u2014 At St.George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ont.,, bv the Rev.Canon Gront, on Dec.27, 1910, Jessie Marker, only daughter of the late George L.M.Begg, to Henry H., second son of C.C.Perrin, of Oakwood, Ont.WORDEN \u2014 GAMBLE \u2014 At Calvin Manse, Wemyss, Ont.by the Rev.H.J.McDiarmid, on Wednesday, Dec.28, 13, !£10, at 15, 1910, Walter E.Worden, Vermilion, Alta.to Mae Victoria, youngest daughter of Andrew R.Gamble, of Bathurst, Ont.DIED.AITON \u2014 On Dec.17, 1910, at his late residence, Lot 9, 2nd Con.of Scar- boro, Ont., Robert Aiton, a native of Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in the 80th year of his age.BALLARD \u2014 On Dec.7, 1919, at No.72 Richmond Road, Earl's Court, London, England, Peter William Ballard.undertaker, and Freemason, in his 46th year.BELLASIS\u2014On Dec.11, 1910, at Nice, Major G.M.Bellasis (reiired), of the Bengal Staff Corps.CLINT \u2014 At 89 Esplanade, Quebec, on Dec.24, 1910, John Henry Clint, in his S0th year.HUTCHISON\u2014On Dec.25, 1910, at 281 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, Agnes Faulkner, widow of the late Dr.George Hutchison.McMASTER \u2014 At Garden Island, Ontario, on Dec.27.1910, Andrew Mc- Master, aged 78 years, Born on April 25, 183%.PERRY \u2014 In this city, on Dec.28, 1910, \u2018Albert George Perry, only son of Mr.George Perry, 741 Cadieux street.Funeral from the above address on Saturday, Dec.31, at 2 p.m., to Trinity Church, thence to Mount Royal Cemetery.Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend.TORRANCE\u2014At her late rosidence, 173 Madison Ave.Toronto, cn Dec.23, 1910, Baty Maria, widow of the late John Andrew Torrance, and mother of Mrs.Robert Cassels and Mrs.R.W.Powell, of Ottawa.Dcceased was in her 87th year.Those sending notices for the above column may send with them a list of names of interested friends, together with a one-cent stamp for each address, and marked copies of the \u201cWitness\u2019 containing the notice will be promptly malled.Lor æddresses in foreign countries three cents will be required EES & CO.Funeral Directors 9812 ST.CATHERINE W.Phone Up 1652.(Note change of Addrees) \u201cMARCIL'S MAGAZINE\u201d for E 6 mos.Illustrated.Shows HOW Fortunes are made in Montreal 0 land.Write Geo.Marcil & UNS Co.DoptW.Montreal, Que { The Art Emporium Finest Art Store in Canada.Artists Materials, Pyrography, China for Decorating, Brass Goods, Pictures and Picture Framing.| 23 McGill College Ave.J UNIQUE SERVICE, Swiss Artist's Drawings Used to Illustrate Parables, A large congregation assembled at the American Presbyterian Church last night for a service that was as unique as it was Impressive.The drawings of the eminent Swiss artist, M.Eugene Burnand, were used to illustrate the parables of Scripture.The words of Seripture, with the drawings thrown upon a large screen, carried the message both to ear and eye.The Rev.Dr.Johnston told of the eminent place which M.Burnand occupied in the artistic world.M.Bur- nand\u2019's illustrations of the parables, regarded as the artist's greatest work, when exhibited at the Paris Salon, were accorded the high honor of having a separate hall assigned them for their display.At that time these drawings produced a profound impression in Paris, and to-day the artist's painting \u2018The Holy Saturday,\u201d now on exhibition in Paris, is attracting much attention.The service was rendered still more effective by a few appropriate selec- \u201ctions from Gospel songs by Mr.Rit- chie Bell.arrete JAILBIRD CAGED AGAIN.Henri Piche, vithout any known ad- Gress, was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary yesterday by Judge Lanctot, upon being convicted of entering and stealing from Payette\u2019s haberdashery store, on Mount Royul ave.on the night of Dec.24.Piche tiad an exceedir gly bad record.Since 1'm3 he has been sentenced eleven times to jail, on different accusations.-\u2014\u2014 THE CANADIAN ALMANAC .For 1911, Bound in paper, 60 cents; Cloth edition, 75 cents.; LETT'S OFFIGE DIARY AND ALMANAC For 1911, \u2014Price, 81.80.\u2014 MORTON, PHILLIPS & CO.118 Notre Dame Street W., Montreal.BRODIE\u2019S SELF-RAISING BUCKWHEAT FLOUR For PANCAKES is the Bes! At all Grocers.NEW LAID EGGS For the Million.Over 300 Dozen received bv Express every over Ontario morning from all and Quebec, greatly reduced in price.Walter Paul 461 ST.CATHERINE WEST.And at 80 UNIVERSITY BT.Cor.Burnside.Pandandy Loaf a sweet, nutty flavored loaf baked inside as well as outside.Ask your grocer for it or \u2019Phone Main 1025.AIRD\u2019S BREAD.HAVE YOU GOT A GOLD Get a pox of Harte\u2019s Grippe Wafers, Cures a cold in twenty-four hours.Price 25c.HOW ABOUT THAT COUGH?Try à bottie of Harte\u2019s Cough Mix- ture.Price 25c.WINTER FLUID.For Chapped Hands and Lips; fifty years a favor- rice 256.J.A.HARTE, Druggist 150 Notre Dame Street West.ite remedy.READABLE PARAGRAPHS A FACILE EDITOR.Some facility in trimming sails to the passing breeze was very useful to the newspapers of a hundred years ago.This is how one of the Paris papers announced the arrival and advance of Napoleon after his escape from Elba: \u2018The Corsican \u2019brigand has landed at Cannes\u2019; next day, \u2018The rash usurper has been received at Grenoble\u2019 Then the tone changed: \u2018Gen.Bonaparte has entered Lyons'; a few days after, \u2018Napoleon is at Fontainebleau\u2019; and, finally, \u2018His Majestey.the Emperor alighted this, evening at his palace of the Tuileries.\u2019 C.F.Warwick recalls the incident in \u2018Napoleon and the End of the French Revolution.\u2019 cet) A GERMAN POSER.That the German authorities can so far unbend as to propound conundrums is only another proof of how little we know our Teutonic relations.In the census papers now being distributed, however, they ask, \u2018If you do not know the date of your birth, how many years old are you?Which is more humorous and at least as intelligible as \u201cWhy is a mouse when it spins?\u201d \u2014 London \u2018Black and White.\u2014_\u2014 .OUT OF COLD STORAGE.A young man, who had not been married long, remarked at the dinner table the other day: My dear, I wish you could make bread such as mother used to make.\u2019 The bride smiled and answered in a voice that did not tremble: \u2018Well, dear, I wish you could make the dough that father used to make.\u2014 \u2018Red Hen.\u2019 \u2014 A MARKED MAN.- The descriptive reporter of a certain midland daily paper in describing the turning of a dog out of court by order of the bench recently detailed the occurrence .as follows: \u201cThe ejected canine as he was ignominously dragged from the room cast a glance at the judge for the purpose of being able to identify him at some future time.\u2019\u2014London \u2018Tat- ler.\u2019 \u2019 Children Cry FOR FLETCHER°S CAS TORIA.Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA A PARDONABLE TUN.Most\u2014if not all\u2014of the deep-sea sounding now done is done with steel wire.Prof.Silvanus P.Thompson, in his recent \u2018Life of William Thomson,\u2019 better known as Lord Kelvin, says that that scientist was one of the first to recommend the abandonment of the old hemp-rope system.In connection with this use of steel wire the story is told that Joule, visiting White's shop, found Bir William surrounded by coils of wire which he was inspecting, and on inquiring their use was told that they we e pianoforte wire for sounding.\u2018For sounding what note?inquired Joule.\u2018The deep C; was Sir William's reply.\u2014' Youth's Companion.\u2019 prenante NOTES AND NOTICES.\u2018Empress of Ireland\u2019 Steamship Special.\u2014 For the accommodation of first and second cabin passengers sailing by \u2018Empress of Ireland\u2019 from St.John.N.B., Friday, December 30th, holding reservation in standard sleepers and tourist cars, a special train will leave Windsor Street Station on Thureday.December 29th, at 8.00 p.m, running to the ship\u2019s side at West St.John.Passengers holding first and second class coach transportation should leave Thursday, December 29th, at 7.25 p-m.for St.John, NB.para re TE Stationers.Blank Book Makera,Printers, AR aga eT Se CATARRH OF THE STOMACH TORTURED HIM FOR 25 YEARS \u201cFruit-atives\u201d Brought Mr.Jones Quick Relle*, Sarnia, Ont.\u201cI have been a sufferer for the past twenty-five years with Constipation, Indigestion and Catarrh of the Stomach.1 tried many remedies and doctors but derived no benefit whatever.Finally I read an advertisement of \u2018Fruit-a-tives\u2019 in which Hon.John Costigan (Senator from New Brunswick) stated that he had been cured of Constipation by \u201cFruit-a-tives, so I decided to give it a trial.It is the only medicine that does me any good.1 recommend \u2018Fruit-a-tives\u2019 and cannot praise it too highly.\u201d PAUL J.JONES.\u201cFruit-a-tives\u201d dis the only medicine that will actually and completely cure chronic Constipation and effectively regulate the bowels to move regularly and naturally.\u201cFruilt-a-tives\u201d is also the only medicine In the world made of fruit that acts directly on the liver \u2014and the only possible way to cure constipation is to make the liver healthy .and active.If you suffer with Constipation, do Just as Mr.Jones did\u2014take \u201cFruit-a- tives.\u201d 50c a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25c.At dealers, or from Fruit- a-tives Limited, Ottawa.STREET LIGHTING New Lamps and More of Them to be Installed by the First of Next May.Good ess is being made with the \u2018installation of the new six ampere electric street lamps.Four circuits have been equipped and work is now being done in St.Henri, Ste.Cunegonde and St.Gabriel wards.New lights are also being put up in the leading.commercial and residential streets in different parts of the city.In addition to replacing the old style of lamp three hundred and fifty additional lamps of the most approved pattern, authorized by the present City Council, will be installed and Mr.Parent, \u2018the superintendent, expects this will furnish ample lighting for the year.All the gas lamps will be done away with after Jan.1 next.The contract with the Gas Company expired last May, but an arrangement was made by which they were to remain in use till the end of the year.By' May 1 next it is expected the city lghting service will be in first class order.CHRISTMAS AT COLLEGES.Examination Results at- Theological Institutions.The results of the Christmas examinations at the various local theological colleges have been issued in part.At the Montreal Diocesan Theological College the results were: - Dogmatics \u2014Withey, 86; Payne, 80 ; Lofthouse, 79; Berman, 75; Robinson, 64; Inns, 59.: Cathechism \u2014 Bradbury, 92; Show- bridge, 88; Withey, 82: Payne, 77, Roberts, 62; Bolt, 60; Findlay, 80; Macpher- son, b8; Brown, 50; Henson, 44; Makins, 36; Chambers.At the Congregational College the results were: Old Testament, English Bible\u2014Clags 1\u2014Sleep, Cushing and Moule and Tucker, equal; Hindley and Mackenzie, equal.Class 2\u2014Carr, Orr.Greek Exegesis\u2014Class 1 \u2014 Tucker, Orr, Cushing, Moule.New Testament, Theology\u2014Class I\u2014 Tucker, Moule,and Hindley, equal; Sleep.Class 2\u2014Mackenzie.Class 3\u2014Carr.Church History (The Reformation)\u2014 Class 1\u2014Tucker, Moule, Hindley, and Mackenzie, equal; Sleep, Carr.Church History (Ancient)\u2014Class I\u2014 Sleep, Mackenzie, Hindley, Carr.Theology\u2014Class 1\u2014Cushing; 2, Orr.Preparatory, Greek\u2014Class 1\u2014Jones and Steed, equal; Watson, Mackenzie.Class 3\u2014Kirk.Post Graduate Course\u2014The Rev.S.W.Anthony, first class in Old Ttesta- ment English Bible/Greek Exegesis, New Testament Theology, Church History.Following were the results of the Christmas examinations at the Wesleyan College: English Bible, O.T.\u2014Class 1\u2014Wor- nell, Smith.Class 2\u2014Mathews, Eyre, Guy, Dustin.Class 3 \u2014Bradford, Brown.lee, Grand, Mick, Brown, Willlams, Burgess, Tredinnick, Oliver.co English Bibles N.T.\u2014Class 1\u2014Ful- cher, Brown, Evre.Class 2\u2014Bradford, Mitchell, Stanton.New Test, Intro.\u2014 Hong, Mathew.Class 1\u2014Brownlee and Burgess, equal.Class 2\u2014Mick, Buston, Dustin.New Test.Exegesis; Epp to Timothy \u2014Class 1\u2014Eyre.Class 2\u2014Mick.Class 3\u2014Williams, Dustin, Grandy, Davidson.Hebrew Exegesis Class 1\u2014Eyre.Class ?\u2014Hatcher, James, Wilson, Armstrong, Mick.Class 3\u2014Fulcher, Quig- ley.Allnutt.Hist.of Dootrine\u2014Class 1\u2014Burgess and Eyre, equal.Class 2\u2014Hatcher and Smith and Wilson, equal.Class *3\u2014 Stanton, Wornell, Mathews, Mick, Tre- dinnick, Williams, Grandy.; Church History Class 1\u2014Eyre and Smith, equal; Millson, Burton, Brown.Class 2\u2014Stanton, Wornell, Burgess.Class 3 \u2014 Mitchell, Tredinnick, Williams, Armstrong.Grandy.History of Religion \u2014 Class 1\u2014Ful- cher and Halpenny, equal; Eyre.All- nutt.Class 2\u2014Bradford and Brown- lee and Mathews, equal; Mitchell.Class 3\u2014Dustin.: Paychology\u2014 Class 1 \u2014 Wornell.Burgess.Class 2\u2014Smith.Class 3\u2014Brown, Tredinnick.PHARMACY EXAMINATIONS.The following are the results of the December sessional examinations of the Montreal College of Pharmacy, held on Dec.19, 20 and 21 last, the successful students in each subject being named in order of merit, namely: Botany, English Class\u2014W.J.Casey, E.PBelinis, G.H.Jassby, M.Ginsburg, Paul Mendelshon and N.F.Jensen.Botany, French Class\u2014Miss Georgi- ana St.Georges, L.J.E.Leduc, Willie Lessard, Ubald Guibord and O.Laroche.Materia Medica, English Class \u2014 E.Belinis, A.M.King, A.H Jassby, A.Weinfeld, Paul Mendelshon, L.G.Hil- born, J.Eidlow, Harry Gould, N.F.Jensen, M.Ginsburg, P.R.Thomas, and W.\u2018Loebel.Materia Medica,French Class \u2014Jacques de Corialis and Jos.Des Rosiers.Chemistry, French Class-\u2014 Alphonse Murray, Ellas Rivet, L.J.E.Leduc, and Hector Forget.Chemistry, English Class\u2014M, burg and A.H.Jassby.The points obtained at this examination will be added to those of the March examination, and the names of students receiving the number of points necessary to pass will be given as the results of the combined examinations.Gins- WHISKEY SALE DECREASES.° Trade For Past Year Shows Severe Shrinkage.London, Dec.29.\u2014Statistics of the Scotch whiskey trade, published yesterday, show that dealings for the past twelve months have been the worst for many years.The shrinkage in all departments is severe.The total production is the lowest for sixteen years, having declined over two million gallons in the twelve like that.\u201d months.' ui ma dw re dogs pet iT .Le ~ SUMMARY OF THF PRECEDING CHAPTER.- .John Price, editor and Iransger-in- chief of the Ct ant \u2018News\u2019 at the th of twenty-nine, holds his peeition a he trim energy and forcefulnens e of has carried him to it from the Dace, \u2018oo the boy of all work in its compos} room.Harda-headed and practice oo i= nevertheless in love With win Everett, apd determined to hex, The girl herself him with amusement and a the trition as a friend and conquest © ent previous summer, which shs had SD With a girl friend, Electra Chalmers When Archie Dean, Vivian's ledged \u2018chum\u2019, had been also C0 Par:y.Through the influence of re Evans Price had succeeded to his P 8 carious position on the \u2018News.By In practical control of Carthage Doilll- cal affairs, had given him this chance in order to crush a political opponen a Bleeker, the head of the town street rallway, the new franchise Of vien Price energetically opposed.Na perett, connected with Bleeker, nol\u2019 8 growing importance, suades Vivian fo use her influence with © young editor.Dean hotly reset her treatment of Price, and also being handed over\u2019 by Vivian to Electa Cha mers, who is visiting her.Electa trie vainly to warn Price, who is her, cous a, against Vivian, although Vivian's way perplex him, He has flatly refused to b¢ ought off, by Bleeker, and, is trouble at the revelation of Tom Bvahs's plans, but his refusal to join the reform move ment against Evans, a move Of persona animosity, forces Everett to come 10 terms with Evans, who promises to bring Price round, He finds the youn editor determined to carry on the figh and to run for alderman against Evanss nominee on the franchise question, and, determining to break him, Evans instructs Dean to sell out the \u2018News stock to get rid of Price as its editor, while somehow Price should be prevented from securing nomination.Vivian overhears the plot, and appeals to Dean to cover Price's option by a loan from her, but he refuses, 2nd the deal goes through.Her distruss is great, and meeting John Price when the blow is fresh upon him, her heart goes out to him and her love gives him strength again.\u2018He smiles at her warning,however, \u2018that he is in -danger, and goes to the political meeting at which he was booked to speak.little con- \u2014\u2014 CHAPTER XIX.FOUL PLAY.Thomas Evans met his subordinates, Fagan anë Driscoll, in the back room of the Sphynx saloon, to compare notes over the chances of success at the Seventeentl Ward caucus that evening.The reports were all reassuring.Price had a very strong minority in the ward itself, but arrangements had been made to vote over a thousand outsiders, which seemeld doubly to assure machine victory.\u2018The only danger lies in the mass meeting,\u201d said Driscoll, \u2018but \u2018there is little to be feared from such a disorganized rabble.\u2019 \u2018Much, with a leader like Price,\u2019 as- serteid Evans; \u2018we cannot afford to take any chances, gentlemen.\u2019 \u2018If vou will have our good friend, Inspector Burnham, on hand, with a squad of twentyf nen, with instructions to arrest all disturbers of the peace and detain all onlookers as witnesses, we will have some of the boys meet Price just before he arrives at the meeting and pick a quarrel.\u2019 Such was Fagan's \u2018elaboration of Evans\u2019 original idea, and.the scheme seemed to meet the emergency nicely.\u2018I'll attend to my part of it; Burn- ham shall be on hand,\u201d promised Evans.\u2018But be careful that your men don't zo toû- fan; won't have one hair of that £2 man's head injured.\u2019 \u2018Don\u2019t: be afraid, promised Driscoll, \u2018we couldn't afford to do anything \u2018Of course not,\u201d chimed in Fagan, \u2018though \u2018IT admit that I would like to.give him a \u2018black.myself,\u2014he slings a nasty pen.\u2019 \u2018Never mind that; no violence, remember.All the fraud you please in this business, but no violence,\u201d com- mandeid Evans, \u2018as he left his asso- ciatés, to seek out the chief of police.Inspector Burnham owed his position to Evans, and could refuse him nothing in reason.The task assigned him was simple.He was to have several officers arrive at a certain street cor- mer, at a certain.hour; they would there find Editor Price and several others engaged In angry altercation and fisticuffs.All hands were to be placed under arrest and the Dpatrol waggon summoned.It would be in waiting a short distance up the street.When the party arrived at the police station, Price was to be released with profuse apologies; but he wouldn't have a chance ta speak at the caucus; that was all that was wanted of Burn- ham.; He carried out his instructions to the letter; but, when the party of brawlers his men had arrested were brought before him, he was astonished and chagrined not to find the editor among them.\u201cWhat does this mean?\u2019 he whispered in dismay to Lieutenant Finnerty.\u2018There was two or three flights goin\u2019 on, sir, and 1 took the bunch nearest the corner.\u2019 \u2018But where was Editor Price?\u2019 ; \u20181 wasn't paying no attention, sir pleaded the lieutenant.\u2018You said, sir, the party as would be rioting at the corner of Blake and Winter streets, them wag my instructions; I wasn't to break up no other row but that there one.\u2019 \u2018You fool, it wasn\u2019t the corner of the street you were to lay your hands on; it was the editor.\u2018At the corner of Blake and Winter,\u2019 persisted Finnerty; \u2018you said that yourself, the corner of Blake and Winter; I'll leave it to Al Conners if that wasn\u2019t the corner you said.\u2019 \u2018You know what you were sent for.\u2019 \u201cBut he Wasn't where I was sent, and I wasn\u2019t sent nowhere else; I'll leave it to Al Conners, muttered Finmerty.\u2018Shut up,\u2019 roared his superior officer, wondering how he could square himself with Evans.He had wished to avoid being personally involved in the matter, and had been foiled by the stupidity, or well-concealed cunning, of his subordinate,\u2014he couldn\u2019t quite make out which; but # made small difference in the final result.Meanwhile Fagan and Driscoll had apparently managed better,\u2014at least they did not mince matters, but made their wants and wishes known to fitting instruments, of thelr malevolent purpose.They collected a gang of thugs at the Sphynx (this was Fagan\u2019's particular part of the programme) and he had the very men required among his workers, political brawlers who had done him many a brutal service in his long career on the seamy side of Carthage politics.The leader of Fagan\u2019s motley crew was a prize fighter dubbed by the devotees of the ring \u2018The Red Spider,\u201d a huge creature with brawny arms, covered with red hair, and a face that usually bristled with flery stubble.\u2018A dangerous beast,\u201d whispered Dris- coll, doubtfully, as the bruiser enter- \u2018Gentle as a lamb,\u201d assured Fagan, \u2018though a bit of a devil when he's in liquor,\u201d whereupon the \u2018Alderman from the First\u2019 ordered the drinks, and proceeded to inflame his chosen emissaries with \u2018fire water\u2019 and enmity for John Price.Neither task proved very difficult, for the editor was no friend of the manly art of self-de- eye and the Dragon j if By ALEXANDER oTIS ; == \u201c\u20ac remembers D ALL RIGHTS RESERVED fence, as practised in the Carthage dives, one of the worst of -which was conducted by the \u2018Red Spider\u2019 himself, and Price had several times called the attention of the police to the sort of \u2018joint\u2019 he conducted.In short, the bruiser had a grievance of his own, and was only too willing to undertake the adventure under promise of immunity from the consequences, given by hie good friend and political superior, Patrick Fagan.\u2018Of course,\u201d warned Driscoll, \u2018you fellows understand that there must Le no violence.\u2019 .\u2018Oh, we will be ag gentle wid him as his own mother, when she puts him to sleep,\u2019 assured the \u2018Red Spider with an ugly leer.\u2018That's right, that's the idea,\u201d approved Driscoll, and the politicians left the prize fighter and his gang to their own devices, turning them loose to.do what they would, so long as John Price was prevented from addressing the mass meeting at the Seventeenth Ward caucus.Driscoll didn't like the bruiser\u2019s looks, but he assured himself that the police would be on hand to prevent any serious mischief in any event.Archie Dean had sat in his office in the same attitude in which Vivian had left him, for fully half an hou, a Prey to no very pleasant reflections.The reproaches which had \u2018been heaped upon him by Miss Everett rankled in his soul, and the scorn of John Price, no less evident because suppressed, crushed his spirit; for he admired the editor sincerely, was drawn to the man in spite of himself and the financial interests with which he was allied so closely.Dean felt injured and abused, at odds with himself and every one else.The brunt of all the disagreeable, dirty business had fallen upon him, and he felt that he had been placed in a position altogether false and unworthy, without any serious fault or wrong-doing on his pant.It all seemed distinctly unfair.\u2018How can I ever look Electa in the face again?he sighed.At last he made an effort to pull himself together; amd, taking out his watch, found that it was long past his usual dinner hour; but he had lost his appetite and resolved to proceed at once to the Seventeenth Ward caucus, \u2018I have \u2018ho stomach left for eating and drinking; but there ig going to be a jolly row,\u201d he muttered, \u2018and it may shake me out of myself to be on hand to see it.Jack Price will be in the thick of it; and if he talks to the mass meeting as he did to me, he will stir the crowd up to a riot before he is done with them.He is in a dam- forpus mood and will make the fur So Archie Dean closed this office an walked rapidly in the direction 0: Blackbush Square, where the Seventeenth Ward meeting was to \u2018be held.On leaving Vivian, John Price had Preceded Dean in the same direction.His thoughts were in such a tumult that it was extremely dificult for him to collect them, and concentrate his ideas on the speech he wag to deliver.An hour before, fired by the sense of injury and outrage, he could, without Preparation, have poured forth a torrent of fierce, angry words, well- calculated for the purpose he had in view\u2014which was to make every hearer a voter in his interest at the caucus This was to be held In a building on one of the corners of the square: and this method ofifighting the'enemy with their own weapons.and packing a packed caucus, though novel, he felt assured was not only justified, but ve Likely to be successful.\u2019 Ww, all his anger w and even the sense of injury which remained was so softened by the memory of Vivian's tender caresses and sweet whispered words of love, that he vainly tried to amouse himself to that pitch of anger and resentment almost esential to the occasion.e was still some distanc Blackbush Square, and \u2018was just ane proaching the corner of Blake street when he came to a spot where there happened to be no electric lights, and where vacant lots fronted on either side of the street.It was one of those smoky fall nights, when everything seems hazy and indistinct, the very trees along the roadside seeming a row of giant sentinels.?_As he was making his way along dubiously, a rough-looking fellow, who seemed half intoxicated, stumbled against him in the darkness.\u2018Look out, my friend, called Price \u2018look out; I'm in a hurry.\u2019 \u2018In a hurry, are yer?retorted the fellow, insolently; \u2018better wait untii yer hurry\u2019s over.\u2019 \u2018Come, come, get out of the way!\u2019 sald the editor, impatiently.; All right, mister, I just wanted to ask you a question; don't get so huffv.Stand aside, please; I've no time to talk with you,\u201d commanded Price.But now another man, a big, buriv fellow, whom Price at once recognized as the noted bruiser and dive keeno the \u2018Red Spider, stepped up to hun from somewhere out of the darkness and stood directly in his pathway.\u2018Sée here, young feller,\u2019 said the newcomer, \u2018don\u2019t you go to fussing wid my friend here; can't you see hes drunk, boss?\u2019 \u2018AU I want is to proceed: let me pass, please, I'm in a hurry, said Price, with what patience he could muster.\u2018Now, don't yer get gay wid me.What's yer fighting weight?queried the pugillst, doubling up his fists anil evidently determined to pick a quarrel.The editor squared himself and fixed his eye \u2018on the fellow.\u2018My fighting weight is just one hundred and eighty- five pounds,\u201d said he.John Price wus too ready for an encounter of any sort -\u2014a fact upon which his enemies had cunningly relied.The bully slunk back, with the look of a sneak.and Price started to proceed lon his way, when he felt ine shock of a blow from behind.It came from some soft, heavy thing, which Price always believed to have been a sand bag, a favorite weapon with the thugs of Carthage.It made him stagger forward, but did not hurt him.(To be continued.) OLD COUNTRY ADVICE.\u2018Financial Times\u2019 Urges Canadian Registration of Companies, London, Dec.29 \u2014 The \u2018Financial Times\u2019 advises the Canadian Government to do its utmost to encourage Canadian registration of companies to enable Britons non-resident in the Old Country to assist in Canadian development without being pestered by English revenue authorities.+ \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ICE HARVEST STARTS.Several of the big ice companies began harvesting operations yesterday.The ice on the river at Nun's Island, Hudson and Valleyfield, where a large proportion of that commodity {a secured, is ncw about fourteen inches thick on the average.The mild weather of the past couple of days has made littie difference to the operations of the dealers, though a week of stro weather would be welcomed by them just now.In fact, colder weather must come before the companies which obtain ti.eir supply from below the city can do much, OPEN .LATE .: EVERY .} 284 St, Catherise St, W.EVENING 9 THE HOME OF FASHION UNTIL .Breaking all records fin New Year price culling NEW YEAR in Ladies Garments WE ARE GIVING REDUCTIONS in BLOUSES, SKIRTS, \"SUITS and COAIS for which vou usualln wait until February.Tho BUY NOW.mean a saving of 107% 1o 35°.Marchand 284 St Catherine Street West The Largest Ladies\u2019 Ready-to-Wear Store in Canada.: 10 to 50° Toys Dolls Baskets Blocks Books Baby Sleighs Sleighs GT hand ESon(e ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST (Between Peel and Stanley Streets) pv RR R hd T pcs Pos i + 5 AeA Yo (A711 SOCKS DARNED FREE! ; It certainly does feel uncomfortable to run your foot into a &ock or stocking and find holes.Perhaps you are gning ont for the evenin':, are in a hurry, and discover that every pair of socks are in the same condition, Provoking?Well, rather.The patrons of the TOILET LAUNDRY \u201cTHE LAUNDRY THAT KNOWS HOW,\u201d do not have this trouble.They are sure tn find their socks or neatly darned when returned home.We Do It Free of Charge.PHONE UP 3480.425 RICHMOND STREET.stnok nga Winnipeg, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver.Saskatoon.PARKYTE (Registered.) Sanitary Chemical Closet NO WATER.NO SEWER.NO PLUMBING.High-Class Chemicals and Disinfectants Write us about it and we will look after you.PARKER & WHYTE, Limited So'e Inventors and anufacturers.Telephone, Main 7934.CHOICE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS SEVERAL APARTMENT HOUSES Well Situated.Well Rented.WY SPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE RETURNS ON INVESTMERTS Values rapidly increasing.Prices from $13,000.00 to $125,000.00.BENJAMIN BURLAND, Real Estate and Investments.303 BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING, MONTREAL.Main 3C8% wanted to sell the \u201cCanadian Pictorial,\u201d Canada\u2019s lead: Ing illustrated magszine.Splendid premiums cr e- erous cash commission.Hundreds of boys busy lighted.Room for hundreds more, profit?A postcard will secure full and or Why shouldn't » particulars,prem'n- ps list and a package to start on, if vou live ous!\u201d Montreal and suburbs.If insi& the city, phone us or drop in a\u2019 see what we have to offer you.Address, Boys\u2019 Sales Dept, J.» Dougall & Son, Agents for the \u2018Canadian Pictorial,\u2019 Montreal.\u2018Witness\u2019 Bi.g Temporary Address, 61 St.James St.Ë à # R 5 » 1 TE ES PE Te | kes Cr AB te eB PO aE AE A TAAL emma 00e, amas ee Pre smn SU re Aros - va Te de | CI Ç \u2019 \u201c = THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.THURSDAY.DECEMBER 29, 1910.ity + adh By BESSIE MARCHANT Copyright by Cassell & Co.Limited.Erslusive Canadian rights secured by the Montreal itnesa, THE ADVENTURES OF PHYLLIS | > CHAPTER XXXII.\u2014Continued.\u2018That is the matter with him now?asked Greg as Salto shriexed and shrieked in the frenzy of his delirium.\u2018I think it is the hunger fever as they call it in Peru,' replied Jean.\u2018He scemad all right that day when he nla us, though nearly starved, and he sald that he would go, to San Fernando next day, and ask for help for us.Then he had a big feed of raw mule flesh, and when morning came he was raving as you hear him now.since then each day has been more dreadful than the one before it, and my hope had so nearly gone that I wus meaning when to-morrow came to crawl out on to the snow and let the end come quickly.\u2019 \u2018I wonder you have not been frozen tn death here,\u2019 said Greg, who was doing what he cquld to make poor Pierre more comfortable.\u2018We could not freeze in her; put vour hand against the rock wall behind Pierre and tell me how it strikes you,\u201d said Jean.\u2018Why, it is warm!\u2019 exclaimed Greg.\u2018Sometimes, senor, it is hot, and there are more reasons than one for calling this gorge the Hot Pass,\u2019 Jean answered.Greg sent Tambo and one of the men back to San Fernando for help, as three such invalids were more than their small force could carry so tar; then he and the other man stayed with the three sufferers, who were in such a parlous plight.It was evident to Greg that Salto Moritz was dying.As the hours went by the raving delirium sank to feeble moans and half-inarticulate cries.Greg, bending over the fierce, wild- looking figure, caught here and there a familiar word.Salto was living over again that time when he and Sappho had set upon Jack Lyster in the valley of the pass.\u201cDon\u2019t kill the fellow, Sappho,\u201d he sald eagerly.\u2018If we do for him here there will be his blood on our hands, and I can never marry Lilias with that between us.Take him down to Est- fenda, and she will see that he dies a natural death in his bed.\u2018So that was the secret of why Jack was not killed outright! exclaimed Greg to himself In great surprise, not a whisper of Salto\u2019s infatuation having reached him before.But the end was very near, ¥ tore night came again in the high gorge Salto Moritz was dead.Yet black as his record had been there was one white streak at the end, and and bethe men whose lives he had saved mourned him sincerely.CHAPTER XXXIIL THE LOVE THAT RULES.The weeks and months had slipped away, and it was just a year from the : «Li time when Phyllis had set out for San Martin to meet with such strange ventures at the start.; ne keen anxieties and perplexities cf those first days had subsided into the unbroken peace and cheerful monotony of life in the country where one busy day succeeded another, and night after night found her too weary for aught but sleep.: The Maurices were pleasant people to live with; the children were healthy, unspoiled, and lovable.Even Freda, fhe littl& invalid, was under a firm discipline which gaved her from wayward pettishness, and made it possible for outsiders to love her as well as pity her for the misfortune of her firmity.re Garborg had never been caught, but Sappho Moritz was back in San Martin driving cattle and horses over the cumbre as of old, only now he lived with his wife at the lonely little estancia in the high valleys, for Est- fénda was dead, and at.Salto\u2019s death he had taken the whole of the property for himself.The dead Basque still ; ; ] plied his avocation of genera carrier, and still made .intense- but as people ; id mistakes, lv stub him they accepted the are used to 1 blurr inevitable, and provided blunders as accordingly.; Jack Lyster was at the San Martir post-office now, and the Maurices no longer sent their mails to Retaino.Lilias kept house for Janet had married Greg Torrance thre= months previously, and had gone; to live at Meitdoza.But Lilias hated housekeeping, and prayed fervently every day that Jack would soon get married.But the prospect of matrimony for him was not especially rosy.He had \u2018nade a blunder at the beginning, and there seemed only a scanty hope that tae blunder would ever be rectified.It had occurred in this wise.Images of Phrllis tending him in his delirium had come baci: to haunt him during the davs of his slow eonvalescence, and Janet and Lilias were only too willing to talk to him of the girl who hid saved him, with the result that the poor fellow speedily became hope- leesly in love with Phyllis, who never ance went to see him after he came tise to consciousness.The first thing he did when he was strong enough to walk so far, was to go out to the Maurices\u2019 estancia to thank Phyllis for all that she had dene for him, which, of course, was culy his dutv.and\u2019 the most proper tung he could do.; But the troubie was that he lost his head as well as his heart, and not content with thanking Phyllis, he went {uriher and bazged her to marry him, tr which request she returned a crush- Inr refusal, and he had never sum- ned courage to ask her since, al- \"hugh in the «queer perversity things they had become outwardly Guite good friec ds.; Phvllis was thinking of the irony ot i* 211, when on the anniversary of her llaving Buenos Ayres, to take her Tange into the unknown, she sat Lider the orange trees in the lower frrhards, watching the children at tier play.A letter had come to her that morn-, In term her riother-a very.disquiet- Lil rnissive, for it had bidden her re- tir te the old life of luxurious ease T eh had palled upon her so much LL che past.Mr.Talbot was rich Brain Investinent after investment had :vned out right.The Chilian vent Ny which had spelled ruin for Wa Tear ago was now in a fair way to return cent percent as Mr.Kester- ton had prophesied, and he was thank- Ing his trky stars that the letter to Jack, because of | SE i EES Senor Escaldo had gone astray and shad never reached him.\u2018 But thé trouble was that Phyllis did \u201cut want to go home.Perhaps to her own heart she admitted the real reason of her dislike to leave San Martin, for to-day she was in a mood for facing facts, and calling things by their right names.She had not teld Mrs.Maurice of the wish for her return, which had come almost in the guise of a command.But that lady, seeing the cloud on the girl's brow, immediately leaped to the conclusion that fresh trouble in the home had brought it there.When Jack I.yster happened along in the evening, as he did at least three times a week, Mrs.Maurice took upon herself to give him a scolding, although no one surely deserved it less than\u2019 poor Jack.: , Have you come to see me this evening, or Mr.Maurice, or whom\u201d she demanded, asperity in her voice but a twinkle in hér eyes, which, however, the young man did not see, because he did not look at her.\u2018I\u2014I\u2014well, te Le quite honest, it wag neither you nor Mr.Maurice.1 thought Miss Talbot would like to seé the sunset fron Grant\u2019s Beacon; and we could take the youngsters up too; they would enjoy the climb,\u2019 he said, flushing hotly.for it was disconcerting to have this keen-eyed little woman putting a name to his aspirations in this fashion.\u2018Send the children home; they are in the lower orchards among the orangs trees.You can tell them their father will take them for a drive with the four-in-hand,\u2019 she said, impatiéntly.\u2018Then you can take Miss Talbot to see the sunset if you like, though I am not sure that she will care to go, poor girl; she has peen horribly depressed all day owing to a letter from her mother that came this morning.I expect that stupid father of hers has been flinging away his money again, and he was poor enough before.\u2019 Jack nodded, then strode away down through groves of fruit trees to the lower orchards, He was wondering if he dared ask again for what he wanted so very badly.The knowledge that Phyllis was in trouble was something of a help, since it robbed him of some of the diffidence which had come ta him since her refusal to marry him when he asked her before, .He found her seated on a bench under the orange trees, but she looked 5) pale and sa\u2018 this evening that, forgetting all about the walk to the Beacon which had been his object in coming, he sent the children home for the drive suggested by their mother, then sat down beside Phyllis, silent for a time from sheer sympathy.It was because she had so unflinchingly faced the truth all day that Phyllis had no weapons of defence at hand just then.Ever since her mother\u2019s letter had come her heart had been aching because in a moment of girlish pique and disdain she had flung away har chance of happiness.She was angry with Jack because he had asked her too scon; she was still more angry w;th herself because of the manner in which she had treated him; and now, to add to her discomfiture, even her pride seemed desert- Ing her, and she was ready to cry like a baby over the prospect of having te go east to her own people.Two great tears did somehow manage to evade her vigilance; and.rolled .down her êheess before she had time to stop them.: It was the sight of those tears which unlocked Jack's tongue.Stretching out his hand, re took both of hers into his clasp, and if his voice was not quite steady, at least he knew what he wanted, and atked for It straight out.\u2018Phyllis, give me the right to take care of you.There i¢ no need for me to tell you that I love you; you've known that this long time past.\u201d - : \u2018Did you really love ine, then?\u2019 she demanded, facing him with a start of Joyful surprise \u2018I thought you asked.me that time only because you were impelled by some mistaken sense of gratitu le.\u2019 : \u2018Was that why you treated me in such an unkini fashion?he asked.\u2018Of course, did you think I should be likely to marry anyone just because fre happened to bé gratéfül?\u201d she asked him with a nervous laugh.\u2018Well, anyhow I'm not ungrateful,\u2019 he answered.But you will havé to marry me now if it is only for- the sake of letting me share your burdens.\u2019 \u2018What burdens?\u201d she asked in surprise.\u2018Haven't you a rather heavier load than you can stagger under comfortably?Mrs, Maurice gave meé a hint that you were in trouble; I mean that fresh money troubles had come to your people, he said, with a \u2018horrible dread of hurting \u2018her feelings hy speech that was too plain, yet at the same time anxious to make her understand how willing he was to make her difficulties his own.\u2018Was that why you asked me?\u2019 she said, blushing rosy red while her heart beat fast and furiously.+ \u2018Yes, T should not have dared otherwise, I am afraid,\u201d he answered, adding with a laugh: \u2018You were rather unapproachable, you know.\u2019 \u2018Please, forgive me,\u201d she pleaided, looking at him with shining eyes, then \u2018her gaze dropped, and her cheeks crimsoned, for Jack took her tn his arms, and printed his forgiveness on her lips.(The End.) \u201cBED-TIME STORIES \"\u201d KITTY'S TIGER-LILIES.Kitty lived in New Orleans, and when she went to visit grandpa and grandma who lived in the country, she was told that the tiger-lilies would soon be in bloom, and she asked grandpa and grandma as many questions as a little girl five years old could.\u2018Are they like tigers, grandpa?\u2019 asked she.; \u2018Well, perhavs they are a very little bit,\u2019 sald grandpa, smiling.\u2018They are brownish or vyallowish, but they don\u2019t bite or scratch, as tigers do, so, my dear, you need not be afraid to pick the first one you see and have it for your very own.\u2019 Kitty had always lived in the city, and this was her first visit to the country, but she had séen pictures ôf tigers in a large book, which nurse wculd hold on her lap and shéw her when she was tired playing with her dclls.Nothing interested her more than thé pictures of the tigers.She now began to watch the lily bed faithfully.Rows and rews of tall green lly stalks stood at the bottom of the garden, and every morning Kitty would walk up and down\u2018 the path which bordered the lly bed, looking for a tiger-lily blossom.\u2018Oh, how I wish it would .come! But it will come, won't it, grandpa?she asked every morning at breakfast.\u2018Just as sure as the sun shines and the rain falls, answered grandpa.And one bright morning, Kitty saw something among the green lily leaves which grew close to the ground.\u2018There it is!\u201d exclaimed Kitty, trem- bilng with delight.\u2018It's lovely, and I nkt hE bec.IU (WAY.TRE \u201cInternational - Limited\u201d CANADA\u2019S FINEST AND.FASTEST TRAIN Leaves Montreal every day in the year at 9.00 a.m.-for Cornwall, Prescott, Brockville, Kingston, Belleville, Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, London, Detroit and Chicago.7/ HOURS MONTREAL TO TORONTO Four Fast Trains Daily Between Montreal, Toronto and the West, Leaving Montreal 00 a.m.945 a.m, 7.30 p.m, \u2018and 10.30 DOUBLE TRACK ALL THE WAY pm.FASTIDIOUS PEOPLE TRAVEL GRAND TRUNK CITY TICKET OFFICE, > 128 St.James Street, \u2018Phone Main 6905, or.Bonaventure Station.TT SYSTEM NEW Y£AR HOLIDAYS.Round Trip Excursion Tickets will be sold from Montreal \u201cto ail stations in Canada, including the undermentioned points, Also from stations in @anadà to Buffalo, Suspension.Bridge, Rouse\u2019s Point, Massena Springs, Island Pond, Vt, as follows:\u2014 - uebeo.TT\u201d .« $490 Toronto .$10,00 herbrooke .320 Hamilton, .10.65 Ottawa .3.35 London .14.95 Detroit .« 1470 Port Huron .14.60 SINGLE (FIRST-CLASS) FARE.Going December 31st, January lst and 2nd.Return limit, January 3rd.FIRST-CLASS FARE AND ONZ- THIRD, Good going until January 2nd.turn limit, January 4th.EPIPHANY, January 6th.Round trip tickets will be issued between all points in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Ottawa and east thereof, at single first-class fare for the round trip.Good going January bth and 6th.Return limit, January 9th, MONTREAL-OTTAWA Leave *8:30 a.m., **3.55 p.m.*8.00 p.m.MONTREAL\u2014SHERBROUKE \u2014 LENNOXVILLE a Leave.*8.00 a.m., **4.16 p.m., *8.15 p.m.(*) Daily.(**) Daily except Sundays.Re- Blegant Dininæ and Parlor Car Service on Day Trains and Pullman Sleeping Cars on Night Trains.FINEST SERVICE, DOUBLE TRACK, COURTEOUS EMPLOYEES.CITY TICKET OFFICE, 128 St.James Street, 'Phon: Main 63905, or Bonaventure Station.54 RAILWAY BONAVENTURE UNION STATION.NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS Return Tickets at Single Fare, good going Decamber 21st to Jsnuary 2nd.Returning until January 4, 1911.i EPIPHANY Excursion tickets will be sold At One Way First Class Fare between all stations in Province of Que- Good going January 5th and 6th.Good to return until Jan.9th, 1911.\u2018 TRAIN BERVICE.- co \u2018 For St.Hyacinthe, Dram- 7.40 a.M.| mondville, Levis, Que bec, and intermedia Except stations Connections, for Sund Riv, du Loup an - u ay mediate stations.MARITIME EXPRESS 12.00 For st Hyacinthe, Le- neon vis, Quaebec,Riv.du Loup.DAILY Ste.Flavie.,.00 For the above-named sta- 12.00 tions; also Moncton, St John, Halifax and Syd- Except ney.Connections for * Prince Edwz.à Isiand and Saturday Néwfourdiand 4 p.m.EXPRESS for St Hye- Except cinthe, Nicoist and inter- Sunday imediate stations.CITY TICKET OFFIOB) 128 Bt.James St.Tel, Kelil M, 615.H.A.PRICE, GEO.STRUBBIM, Asst.Gen.Pass.Agt.City Ticket Agt 2 found it all by my lcne self.Oh, I'm so glad, I'll pall it right off and take it into ihe house.It's mine\u2014it's mine! Now.this tiger-lily Kitty had found was quite small.and she held it in her li*tle hands until she could gather up her apron and drop it in, then she ran as fast as she could to the house.Grandpa was standing on the back piazza.- ; \u2018I got it, I got it, grandpa!\u2019 exclaimed Kitty.\u2018Here it is in my apron \u2014a lovely tiger-lily, and it won\u2019t bite one bit! .\u2018Well, my chlid, you'll break it if\u2019 you farry it in your apron,\u2019 said grandpa.\u2018Better hold it in your hand.\u2019 \u2018I can\u2019t, grandpa, it squirms so, but I car hold it in my apron,\u2019 said Kitty, almost out of breath, as she climbed the piazza steps.\u2018Oh, do look, grandpa! Just look at it! and she opened her apron for grandpa .to see, \u2018Well, Kitty, you bave got a rare tiger-lily!\u201d and then grandpa laughed so loud that grandma came running to ger what was the matter.And what do you think was in dear little Kitty's apron?10 Grandma held up her hands in astonishment, and said, \u2018You dear baby! and did you think that was a tiger- lily : + ; \u2018Why, yes, grandma,\u2019 answered Kitty, opering wide her blue eves.\u2018It's brown and yellow, and it\u2019s mine! Look at it, grandma, how pretty it.ts! And, true enough, it was a pretty little brownish lizard with the sharpest black eyes that lcoked like heads.Grandpa took the harmless little creature in his hand and told Kitty about it.And he to!d her about other little lizards that \u2018.ived in the Alleghany mountains and in Australia and Africa that had rings and spots on them, until Kitty's blue eyes opened wider than ever.Then he put the lizard on the floor, and it ran about, to Kitty's great delight.She was not afraid.of the lizard, but the lizard was very much afraid »f everyone, and after a while grandpa carried it back to its home in the lily-bed.A little later the tiger-lilies did bicom, and Kitty picked \u2018the first splendid blossom and put it in a vase.She would not tell which she would like the best, the lily or the lizard.atid would.say, \u2018They are both so pretty, hut one can run about, can\u2019t it, gréndpa?And after Kitty's visit grandpa and grandma always called the little lizards they saw in the garden 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Patent Office records and report on patentability.Special agents in 500 cities and towre ini CLC07 while Acting Commissioner of Patents had full charge of U.8.Patent Office.GREELEY & MeINTIRE, Jatent Attorneys, Washington, D.C.$7 ue | TES 4 TRIN ore LR MONTRE PATENTS THAT PROTECT FETHERSTONHAUGH & CO.W.Taylor, B.Sc.late Examiner Ches Canadian Patents Office.- CANADA LIFE BUILDING, - MONTREAL INVENTIONS PATENTED IN ALL COUNTRIES OWEN N.EVANS Morchants Bank Building, Montreal.you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.\u2014The God of our Lord Jesus Christ.the Father of glory, .give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eves of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe.Eph.v., 17.I.Thes.iv, 3.21.John xvii, 3.I.John v., 20.i, 9.Eph, i, 17-19.fparemttttmeeçenrmint PATENT REPORT.Owen N.Evans, Solicitor of Patents, Merchants Bank Building, reports the following patents on inventions recently granted to Canadlans:-\u2014Canada\u2014No.127,519\u2014O0re breakers, W.A.Clerihue Col.and R.T.Hopper: No.128,480\u2014Gar- ments, G.H.Hamilton; No.128,922\u2014 Électric switches, Monarch Electric Company; No.129,505\u2014Dump cars, The Hart Otis Car Company, Limited; No.129,795\u2014 Track sanders, W.A.Pitt and S.8.Underwood; No.129,824\u2014Dump cars, The Hart Otis Car Company, Limited; No.129,848~\u2014Mechanism for oscil- Job xxii.ALLAN LINE.ROYAL MAIL SERVICE TO LIVERPOOL.SHORTEST OCEAN PASSAGE.Fram.St John.Halifax TUNISIAN .Deo, 31 \u2014 CORSICAN .Jan.6 Jan, 7 GRAMPIAN .: Jan.20 Jan, 21 HESPERIAN .,.Jan, 27 Jan, 28 Saloon passage, $70.00; Turbiners, $80.00 and up.Second Cabin, $47.50, $50.00 and up.London, $2.50 additional.Belfast and Londonderry, $30.00 to $31.25, according to steamer.TO GLASGOW.From Boston.Jan.6 20 LAKE ERIE .,.PRETORIAN ees woe ve eee.Jan $42.60 and up; Third Class, $22.00.TO HAVRE AND LONDON.MCDERATE RATE SERVICE.From St.John SARDINIAN.y -Dec.28 POMERANIAN.Jan.11 One Olass\u2014Seoond Cabin.Rate \u2014 Lon- $42.50; Havre, $45.00 and up; $3.65 additional.Third Class $29.00; Havre, $30.00; Paris, All the steamers on the above services, Liverpool, Glasgow, London and Havre, are fitted with cold storage.H.& A.ALLAN, MONTREAL.7c BERMUDA Round Trip $20 and Up Fast Twin Screw 8.8.\u201cBermudian\u201d 5530 tons sails from New York 10 a.m.Jan.4th and every Wednesday thereaftef.Bilge keels; electric fans: wireless telegraphy.WEST INDIES NEW 8.8.\u201cGUIANA\u201d and other steamers fortnightly from New York for 8t.Thomas, 8t.Croix, St.Kitts, Antigua, Guadaloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbadoes and Demerara.For full information apply to W.H.Henry, 286 8t.James st.; W.H.Clancy, 130 James st.; Thos.Cook & Son, 530 St.Catherine st.W., L.J.Rivet, 13 Ave.St.Laurent, or J.G.Brock & Co., agents, 211 Commissioners st., Montreal, or QUEBEOUS.S.Co, Ltd., Quebec.= PROFESSIONAL CARDS ADVOCATES, BARRISTERS, 4c, ELLIOTT & DAVID Advocates, Sarristers and Solicitore: Commissioners for all the Province And for the States of Massachusetts and New York danada Life Bullding,189 St.Jamas SL Henry J.Elliott, K.G L.A.David, SMITH, MARKEY, SKINNER, PUGSLEY & HYDE, ADVOCATES, BARRISTERS, etc METROPOLITAN BUILDING, 179 8T.JAMES STREET, ROBT, C.SMITH, K.C,, FRED.H.MARKEY.K.C.WALDO W.SKINNER, WILLIAM G.PUGSLEY, @, GORDON HYDE F.S.MACLENNAN, K.C.Advocate, Barrister and Solicitor Quebec Bank Bullding, Montreal Tel.Main 4703 Tel Main 3960 PATTERSON & JENKINS, Advocates, Barristers & 8olicitors, City & Distriot Bank Building, 180 St James Street, Montreal.W.PATTERSON.J.JENKINS.MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED BY JOHN M.M.DUFF 167 St James Street.40 Crescent Street NOTICES.PUBLIC NOTICES \u2014 THE UNDERsigned, personally, as well as in his\u2019 acity of testamentary.executor of oy Ly will and testament of Alfred Roy, junior, in his life-time of the City end District of Montreal, here- ives oy, Bl egislature of the Province of Quebec, at Its next Session, for the passing of an Act powers Of the testamentary executor Eppointed by said Will, authorizing said testamentary executor and administrator to help the children and randchildren of a testator, and authorizing said executor to raise the rent paid, by virtue of said will, to old testator's children for their own aads and usefulness, \u2018and the useful- and needs of the grandchildren.ness RED N.ROY, Jr., Testamentar ADR or.Montreal, December 7th, 1910.IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOTICE Routhier, Physician and aur- geon of the City of Montreal will, at the mext Session of the Quebec Legislature, ask for the passing of a bill authorizing the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, to admit him amongst its mem- pers, and grant him the necessary Ni- cense to practice Medicine and Surgery and obstetrics in this Province.Montreal, December bth, 1910, WILFRID BESSETTE, -Attorney for the Petitioner.MISCELLANEOUS.TYPEWRITERS \u2014INVESTIGATE RE- manufactured Typewriters.Type- © writers repaired, rented, exchanged.Highest grade.Ribbons, Carbon, Papers, etc.CHAS.B.WALSH & CO.30 St.John street, Montreal.ANY ONE NOT BEING ABLE TO GET a \u2018Witness\u2019 at his newsdealers will oblige the publishers by notifying the Subscription Department by tele- hone, Maln 4090, postcard POHN DOUGALL & \u2018Witness Building, Montreal or by SON, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, DISTRICT of Montreal.No.3306, Superior C'ourt.S.(\u2018roysdill, Plaintiff, versus W.Young et al, Defendants, On the Tth January, 1911, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the domicile of the Defendant, Arnold.20 Cathcart street, in the City of Montreal, will he sold by authority of Justice, all the goods and chattels of the said Defendant, seized in this cause, consisting of Furniture, Piano, etc.(+.A.LAFONTAINE.B.S.C.22th Trecember, 1910, Montreal, lating objects, JJ.BE.Dalemont; No.129,925\u2014C'ard clothing, The J.C.Mc- Laren Belting Company; No, 129,944 \u2014 Wire drawing machines, J.F.and James Pender.United States-\u2014No.978,- 8368-\u2014System for land draining, E.W.Bowslaugh; No.978,983-\u2014High and low water alarm, C.Brent: No.979,053\u2014 Hand truck, W.H.Archibald; No.979,.367\u2014Tooling machine for hook bindery, T.V.Bell: Reissue Nou.12,184\u2014Meter, R.L.Rickman.One Class Cabin, called second cabin, notice that he will apply to.determining.the\" BITUATIONS VACANT.WANTED.IMMEDIATELY \u2014IN WEST.mount; family of three; companion help; who understands light house work.None.but refined person need apply.References required.State Box W.1.30, \u2018Witness\u2019 Of- NTIID \u2014 COOK-GENERAL: MUST @ good plain cook; no washing or oning; another maid kept; reference equired.Apply, evenings, 147 (lan- debove avenue.WANTED \u2014 FARMER AND WIFE with Canadian references.Write, stating age, wages required, and capabilities, to F.W.S., No.16, 297A St.Antoine Street, Montreal.OFFICE JUNIOR WANTED, WITH station two years\" experience.y salary expected, PATON MANUFACTURIN PANY.Sher pro QC G COMPANY, Sher- 212\" WANTED, A COMPETENT MANAGER for a good 100 acre farm on the Is- fnancin Tontreal; one that could take la! interest preferred.A 2 to Box T5, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.pois School Boys Wanted who can Interest other scholars 1 n A.1.straight honorable business proposition.In which parents and teachers approve.Address, The Man r P O Rox 2234.Mantreal.nage EMPLOYMENT WANED WANTED \u2014 EMPIOYMIINT RY A laboring man, sober and willing, Reference, by permission, to tlie Rev, G.0.Troop.Telephone Kast 25.WANTED.BY TRAINED NURSE, Car, of Invalid or mental case: terms moderate, Apply, NURSE, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.: TEACHERS WANTED.WANTED, ON¥ QUALIFIED TEACHER (Protestant) for school in East Templeton, Que, for the nd January, 1911: salary $25 a month: average attendance 16.Apply ts ll.Reau- champ, Sec.-Trear, Ste.Rese de Lima, Que.} \"ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN.CHARLES COOMBES, THE VENTRILoquist, ete.Address, Shaw's Music Store, or 342 Charlevoix street.PERSONAL.c PERSONAL \u2014 POST CARD CO - tors, join the Union.10c.You oan exchange cards from all parts.List of exchangers, Your name in, list.Post Card Union of Canada AE Stitwell, Rougemont, P.Q.CT FINE OFFICE AND SHOW ROOM TO 1.et.Apply to A.L.SMITH 58 Bleury street.MITH, 458 ROOMS TO LET.TO LET, A CLEAN, UNFURNISHED room heated.= $2.00 per month.Ane ply at 3024 Mance st, Annex, Co 2\" 1; ST.DENIS, 672, NEAR ROY, CLISAN warm reom,.double and single, Aer light, hot water, phone; recommend- e y Prof.Cameron, Orphe - dre, uty, pheum Thea WANTED TO PURCHASE.WANTED TO PURCHASE ALL CASToff Clothing, Furniture, Silverware Plated Ware, Old Gold, Pawn Tick: ts.Te RARES dy elses prices paid by A VK, East Crai 5 Tel.East 4067.§ Street.mm VETERAN LAND GRANTS.HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR all kinds of Veteran Land Grants, located or unlocated.LEO L.LEET, 15y St.James street, Montreal.tT VETERAN LAND GRANTS WAN Ontario or Dominion, located or oD located.MULHOLLAND.& CO.Toronto.: FOR SALE FOR SALE, \u2018WITNESS\u2019 PICTURES Framed for Nmas, at 75 cents each.Latest patterns in mouldings.HEAS- LEY'S ART STORE, 315 Bleury \u2018St ORGAN FOR SALE-\u2014IN.G(:OD CONDItion, fine tone.Suitable for Sunday School.Apply.065, Soivenir Ave, ty.MACHINE TOOLS FOK SALE\u2014Owing to changes in our plant we have the following machines for sale:\u20141 Automatic screw machine, taking up to 8-8 Inch stock, with collets and cams: 1 three spindle drill, 24 inch table, 6 inch centres; 1 two spindle drill, 18 inch table, 8 inch centres; 2 Garvin Millers, 30 inch tables; 1 Garvin Miller, 18 inch table; 1 4-foot Epeed lathe; 1 18-inch Lap wheel.These machines are all in first class condition, and may be seen at any time.Ad- dross, THE MANAGER, P.O.Box 2234, Mo oo HOIST FOR SALE, CHEAP .One Dou.\u201c\u2018ble.belted floor type freight hoist.with cage and - wheels | platform, 5 x b feet; fully 1500 lbs, capacity.Counter shaft, pulley and splendid H.P.motor;110 D.C.include od, it desired.Apply to 142 St Peter atree MACHINE TOOLS ~~ FOR SALE.Owing to changes in our plant wa have the following machines for sale: 1 Antomatic sorew machine, taking up to 3-8 inch stock, with collets aud CAmS.Three Spindle Drill, 24 inch table, 6 inch centres.Two Spindle Drill, 18 inch table, 9 inch centres.- Garvin- Millers, 30 inch tatles.Garvin Miller, 18 inch table.4-Poot Speed Lathe.18 inch Lap Whesl These machines are all in first class condition, and may be seen at any time.Address, THE MANAGER, P.O.Box 2234, Montreal eB Hee LOST, STRAYED AND FOUND.LOST \u2014 A LADY'S MINK MUFF, from Branch Post Office, Victoria avenue, Westmount, via St.Catherine street car to Drummond street Finder will be rewarded at 308 Roslyn avenue, Westmount., LOST, BETWEEN MAY AVENUE AND.Paris street, On Wellington street, Silver Watch.Finder kindly return \u201cit to 37 Paris street and he fewarded.T2 Ao WANT ADS.For The *\u201cWITNESS\u2019 MAY BE LEFT WITH pr.Chapman, Bookseller, 513 St.Catherine st.West, or with R.Turner, Grocer, Point St Chaæles, 801 Welling- \u2018ton street, West of Subway; J.W.Mathews, 103 Church Avenue, Verdun.CLL.\"IFIED À RTISEMENTS, CASH TARIFF.tion Vacant, Situation Wanted, Py.Sits Wanted, Rooms To Let, erticles Found.Second-hand Articles Wanted cr For Sale.Prop:rty For Sale or To Let Other Articles For Sale.20 Words for 10c.c for each additional word.Six 1n- sertions for the price of four.A NOTICE PARTICULARLY.Postage Stamps Wil Be Accepted The above rates are Cash with order When not prepaid numerous cntrieg have to be made, and the rate ig, in consequence, much higher.No charge made in our books \u2018or any advertisement of less, than five ag te nes space, _ \u2014 \\ Nw ap | Baal a wre ga \u201c.mp mele a. .+ A Coe a Ti oni is, 4 Le », \u201cte LS = an ww grat eas ng A ge RL Pa\u201d AR a yy Eee Ae aa od Cee ATR a I Pin dics ee \u201c = amiens A tonn pn rs rere emt ee oe SL ea hy A tees es.ale a LETTE FE A AR 10 THE\" MONTREAL DAILY wes, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29.1910.TOOKE'S LYCEUM 21; inches deep 12/:c Each The Exhilaration Of Giving can be distinctly added to in the next few days, if you secure a few presents for New Year's Day.We have still a splendid assortment of things men like, such as Neckties, Handkerchiefs, Braces, Jackets, Bath Robes, Collars, etc.R.J.TOOKE, LIMITED Gloves, Mufflers, Waistcoats, Smoking Shirts, 177 St.James Street 493 St.Catherine St.W.473 St.Catherine St, E.+++++++essss-é ; + : MONTREAL SOUTH ; SEPP EHH The Municipal Reform Club held an important meeting on Tuesday night at the residence of Mr.E.Lapointe, Marquette avenue, the chair being taken by the president, Mr.Alfred Boire.In view of the decision arrived at at the last meeting\u2014to further by every legitimate means the candidatures of Messrs.Kilgallen and Lapointe for seats on the Municipal Council\u2014a working committee was formed, consisting of Messrs.Glennie (chairman), White, Boire and Pipe.It was further decided to communicate with every voter and invite them to be present at a meeting to be held at Mr.Labonte\u2019s on January 3rd, when final arrangements regarding the election will be made.The election takes place on January 9th.An important meeting of the A.A.Association was held in the annex of the Methodist Church last evening, under the chairmanship of Mr.J.W.White (president).The reports of the various committees were received and- adopted, and a large number of bills will be to the store, - MAIL ORDERS ORDERS Mail orders \u2018receive prompt and careful attention, We want to assure our out-of-town customers of every attention, and you can rest assured that shopping by mail with this house be just as satisfactory were ordered to be paid.It was further decided that complimentary tickets should be given to the conductors of the Electric Railway for their kindness.The meeting closed with the president wishing each individual member and the association a Happy and Prosperous New Year.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014r\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ST.ANTOINE STREET SCENE.Passersby on St.Antoine street were treated to a free entertainment yesterday evening.The amusement provided took the form of a boxing bout, in which two residents of a boarding house took part.The verandah fronting the house was the ring, and spectators outside the grass plot railings had an uninterrupted view.The fight was waged in approved style for a few minutes, during which the antagonists seemed to be evenly matched, but at length one of them got the upper hand and succeeded in flooring his opponent.The victor then appeared to suddenly lose his temper and his self-control, for he raised his foot to Kick the prostrate form of the fallen man, but a shout of protest from the rapidly swelling crowd stayed the cowardly boot.Again he raised his foot, but now too late; the enraged onlookers had burst across the as coming SENSATI FUR OP grass plot and strong hands pushed him away, while they raised the defeated .pugilist.Neithe- of the combatants seemed to be much the worse for the encounter, and stranger still, neither of them could give a coherent rl, HOR of the cause of the quarrel.DIED FROM BURNING.Fatal Result of a Gasoline Stove Explosion.Mr.E.T.Ford, who was burned in a fire last Friday, died from his in- Juries in the General Hospital last night.A gasoline stove exploded in the plumbing shop of M.Walsh & Company, Vitre street west.Another man, Michael McGrath, was also burned, but he is recovering.Mr.Ford was 36 years old and lived at 70 Beaver Hall Hill.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ST.GEORGE\u2019S MEN\u2019S DINNER.The annual dinner of St.George's Men\u2019s Bible Class will be held this evening in the Edinburgh Cafe, St.Catherine street west, at 8.30.\"The Bishop of Montreal will address the members.COMMISSIONERS POSTPONE CASE OF-THE HOTEL METROPOLE |Lawyer in Support of Application for Renewal of License Says Place is Frequented by \u2018 Respectable Married Women.\u2019 ned a 4 + After four police officials had sworn to allegations of a very serious nature against the Hotel Metropole, at the corner of-St.Catherine and St.Charles Borromee streets, before the License Commissioners yesterday, Mr.Perron, K.C., was asked if he had any evidence to produce in favor of the Metropole Hotel Company.He could get witnesses, he said, who would establish that the place was frequented by respectable married women; but it would be useless to go to the expense of prgcuring a number of witnesses, if the Commissioners had decided to use their discretionary power, which was absolute and independent of proofs, in cancelling the license.Judge Choquet reassured him.not decided,\u201d he said.Mr.Recorder Weir then asked the lawyer if the evidence he would produce would refute the very strong and serious testimony of the police.It would be idle to continue the inquiry if the witnesses could merely establish that the place was frequented by respectable people.No doubt a great many of the people who went there \u2018It is were respectable.Judge Choquet said it was proved by the evidence beyond doubt that the place was entered at night by women of ill-repute.Constable St.George had testified that he had entered the place twice\u2014in July and in August, and found street-walkers there.He could not, however, say whether the proprietors knew what sort of people they were.Constable Martin said he arrested three women who came out.of the place.Lieutenant Gagnon and Special Constable Daoust gave corroborating evidence.The Commissioners announced that they would settle the matter at the next session on Friday.The case of the Oval Cafe, 333 Craig Day.She met with a reception, the NAL ORTUNITY \u2018 street, owned by Abraham Gould, was postponed to the same day, as the Commission is waiting for news from Ottawa to confirm letters from the License authorities there produced at a previous session by the applicant, testifying to his good conduct as a hotelkeeper in that city.Judge Choquet also announced that he had received an affidavit, which the applicant could see, alleging that the proprietor had kept a man drunk in the place for six months, so causing his death.The case of William Allen\u2019s.restaurant at 345 Wellington street, Point St.Charles, was postponed till Wednesday next.Mr.John I.Roberts said he had no specified objection to the place.Without further deliberation a license was granted to F.X.Paquette for a hotel at the corner of Atwater avenue and Workman.Before the public meeting was held a prigate session took place in Judge Choquet\u2019s room, when O.A.Rozon, of the Blue Bells Hotel on Craig street, which was investigated at \u2018the last session, produced his register, and the case, together with those of the Stanley \"Hotel, of which the proprietors are I.P.Godin and T.Hamelin, and the Kingston House, 235 Craig street west, owned by James Lowry, was taken en delibere.{rss PRAISED MISS PARLOW.Even the huge Metropolitan Opera House was none too large for the audience that filled it to overflowing to hear Miss Kathleen Parlow, the young Canadian violinist, on Christmas cordiality and enthusiasm of which far exceeded even that of her first greeting with the Russian Symphony Orchestra.The New York \u2018Herald\u2019 says: \u2018Miss Parlow showed exceptional mastery over her difficult instrument, ahd played with such musical feeling and beauty of tone as to delight a large audience.This sale offers a really wonderful opportunity to buy furs of the highest quality and most exclusive and correct style at prices unheard of before this sale.We are thoroughly satisfied with our season\u2019s profits, and with our season\u2019s selling we have not the slightest complaint.\u2018We have only one thing in view now, and that is to make a clearing of our entire stock, and we are going to attain our object by reducing the prices to such an extent that it will be impossible for the furs to remain in our store.This is the greatest sale Montreal has ever known, and we doubt if there ever will be one like it again.Remember, furs are getting more scarce and more expensive, and opportunities like this sale very seldom come your way.PONY COATS, bright glossy skins, 50 inches long.black satin lining, shawl collar.Regular $75.00 to $85.00, for $55.00 BLACK FOX MUFFS, animal style, trimmed with head and large bushy tail, black satin lining.Regular $30.00, for.cvvvun.PERSIAN LAMB COATS, No.1 quality bright glossy skins, shawl collar and cuffs.black satin lining, 40 inches long.Reg.$285.00.for.NEAR-SEAL COATS, extra quality, shawl collar, large crochet buttons, brocaded satin lining, 50 inches long.Regiular $100.00, for.$75.00 mings.$20.00 $204.00 PERSIAN LAMB CAPS, wedge style.black satin lining.Regular $13.50, for.OPERA CLOAK, in the finest quality of cream velvet, beautifully braided.with genuine Royal Ermine trim- Iceland lamb lining.$250.00, for.PERSIAN LAMB MUFFS, large pillow style, bright glossy No.1 skins, black satin lining.Regular $30.00.for.ane PERSIAN LAMB CRAVATS, trimmed with heads and paws, black satin lining.Regular $13.50, OP.0 a a 0 aa aa a a a a a a ee ee ea aa a ee aa aa aa à Regular .\"$9.95 $155.00 $22.50 $995 Ha EN trade Cen \u201cThe Largest Exclusive Fur House in the British Empire\u201d .280 St.Catherine St.West, Montreal :: = The Sellers-Gough F ur Co.Limite = Zz (T] ov (T] > OQ _\u2014 THE BEAUTIFUL { NEW SUMMER RESORT .Lots are NOW SELLING at from $50.00 up and on EASY TERMS Open Evenings he Call, Write or Phone 517 ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST Phone Up 2990 GROUND FLOOR NOTE\u2014See our landscape Beautiful Pine Beach in our display wind on artist now painting view (1 in On- I The local option campaign tario waxes warm as January election day\u2014approaches.In a large number of municipalities voting for and against the bar-room and its evils will take place.In this connection the \u2018Pioneer.the organ of the Ontario Dominion Alliance, publishes the following: \u2018There is only one province in the Dominion which has general prohibition, and that province has a marvellous showing in regard to sobriety.During the ten years ending in 1908, the total number of convictions for drunkenness recorded throughout the Dominion increased from 31,089.During the same period the number of convictions for drunkenness in the Province of Prince Edward Island fell off from 320 to 184.11,090 to RECORD OF DRUNKENNESS The total increase in cans 1 - drunkenness througnout the was 180.3 percent, while the qv in Prince Edward Island wus 4 cent, \u2018The actual number of, tions for drunkenness ang the tion of convictions population in the different pr during the vear 1908 is shown following table.\u2014 1 bo Tren per thousand fo.Convie- Tartar Province j po Yukon .* .ver je British Columbia.ee 2.900) ; \u201c, Manitoba ,.vee 3.639 ce Atberta.ee se + 1,900 co Nova Scotia ve 2 Son pr New Brunswick ce ae 7.887 2 Ontario ,., \u2026.ee ea 417 1 Quebec .a.6.543 \" Saskatchewan ce 1,518 a Prince Ed.Islung .\"154 Yn Canada ~r es .31.089 MORE MASONS INSTALLED \u2014 Cowansville Members Select Officials for the Coming Year.Since former lists were published, the following Masonic officers have been installed: \u2014 NO.3.\u2014ROYAL ARCH MASONS, COWANSVILLE.First Principal Z., Frank T.Curley; I.P.Z.,, H.E.Mitchell, M.D.; Second Principal H., A.L.McLatchie; Third Principal J., John H.Bartlett; treasurer, Jas.I.Gilbert; Scribe E.Geo.E.Short; Scribe N., Edward J.Ruiter; Prin.Soj, Edwin E.Hall; janitor, Geo.Doherty.The nominative officers will be named in January.A RICHMOND MASON, MR.DONALD M.ROWAT, Recently Elected Worshipful St.Francis Lodge, A.F, Richmond.Master, and A.M.CORNER STONE.37.\u2014COWANSVILLE.W.M., Howard M.Taber; ILP.M., Isaac H.Kerr; S.W.\u2026.Walter J.Bell; J.W., J.Irving McCabe; chaplain, the Rev.W.P.R.Lewis; treasurer, C.-P.Taber; secretary, Geo.I.Short: S.D., Arthur Macfarlane: J.D.Landon E.Scott; D.of C., M.B.Judson; organist, C.Landon Hall; stewards, Frank F, Taber, D.M.Lockhart: IG, Curtis R.Manson: tyler, Harry Whittick.NOte LET DOGGIE COME IN.New Year's visitors may bring their poodles to Montreal now.On Tuesday the city controllers announced the re- mival of the ban raised some months ago against dogs being brought into Montreal from Ontario, where rabies were reported as being prevalent Dr.Laberge some days ago reported to the controllers that rabies had been stamped out in Ontario and dogs were again at liberty to go out for their constitutional leaving their muzzles hanging on the back door of the ken- ne \u2014\u2014 RAILWAY APPOINTMENT.Mr.A.F.Gogo has been appointed t.avelling \u2018passenger agent of the Rutland Railway Company.with headquarters at 220 St.James street, Montreal, P.Q., to succeed Mr.J.M.Ferris, resigned.Mr.E.F.Major will succeed Mr.Gogo as city ticket agent, 29 St.James street, of the New York Central Lines.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014ra\u2014\u2014\u2014ra\u2014\u2014 ACCIDENT AT CROSSING.While driving his team over the Terminal Railway crossing at Viau- ville last night, Theodore Jodoin, a farmer.of St.Leonard de Port Maurice, was struck by a train.The sleigh was smashed, while Jodoin sustained a compound fracture of the right arm and some internal injuries.He was conveyed to Notre Dame Hospital.» \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NEW SUB-POST-OFFICE, A new sub-post office, to be known as \u2018Montreal Sub Post Office No.51} located at the corner of Bernard Stand Asplanade avenue, has been opened under Dr.C.LaRocque as sub-post- FIVE DEAD; MANY INJURED Blasting Powder.Accidentally Exploded in Texas Smelter Burying Workmen, El Paso, Texas, Dec.28.\u20141va gm - Sons were killed, a score injured a: an extensive property damage resi ed yesterday when workmen at t Plant of the American Smelter and R.fining Company endeavoring to d stroy a slag > piles accidentally os.ploded 2,400 pounds of blasting Dawe der, The explosion partially wreck: the plant and many small houses in the vicinity, while windows ihr, miles distant were hroken.The nen were tunnelling under th mound of slag when the explosion o - curred.Eight of the wWorkinen in to tunnel farthest away were taken uni alive, bruised and lacerated, but non.seriously hurt.Last night tro bodir- had been taken from the tunnel nenr- est the scene.Three other workmen are Known to have been in the sam tunnel and could not have escapr1 death.In other tunnels imprison : workmen are signalling to the rescu- master.This office for the present will be for the sale of postage stan ps and registering of correspondence.ers and the work of digging into thes is Proceeding.Bing 0 thee All the dead are Mexicans, REAL ESTATE.COTE DES NEIGES.\u2014The Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dan have sold to G.W.Farrell a block of land comprising the greater par: of lots 150, 48 and 213, Cote de Neiges cadastre, having a tots rea o 252,584 it $250.000.Square feet, {ir LESPERANCE STREET.\u2014The Dan- ville Lumber Co.has sold to J.I Abel & Son Co.fifty-eight vacant lots, between Lesperance and Beau - 0 streets, in D ' 299.995 an.Hochelaga, for SIMARD AVENUE.\u2014J.BR.Dupie he sold to Joseph Comtois lots 1:! 163-1 and 1:3- 165-1, in Delorimir ward, with buildings on Simar! avenue, for $9,800, The emplace ment measures 40 x 100.LAURIER AVE ENUE.\u2014Mrs.J.T Beaudry has sold to Hector JF tier and others part of lot 32-1-5 in Outremont, with buildings fron:- ing on Laurier avenue, for 89,501 PAPINEAU STREET.\u2014IT.1.niers has sold to Jean of lot 153-160, (\u2018ote Visitation - dastre, with the tenements 1407 1411 Papineau street, for $8000 CHARLEVOIX STREET TT =J 1.I gon has sold to J.B.Beaudry 1: South-west part of lot 4333-4 à 9, Montreal cadastre, with ings 423 to 427 Charlevoix Dega: Naud part apr Stree for $5,000, ARGYLE STREET \u2014The estate of 1] late George B.Burland has son! © William T.Kodden the vacant I 282-147, 148 and 148, in Westrone with buildings fronting on \u2018re avenue, for $11,250.The cpio ment has an area of 28.12% ganar feet.The same property hos to sold by William T.Rodden 1 11 Williamson, for $14,062 50 ANDRE STREET.- Mrs po0 Dumont has sold to PN AL lots 7-533 and 534.Cote =1 1.cadastre, with the flats \u201c180 1.St.Andre street, far {7.000 NOTRE DAME STREET.- Mrs, 1 Laflammme, jr.ana others, 1 sold to Albert Vian part oi 1817, in St.Henrwvs «var.buildings on Notre l'une