The daily witness, 31 mars 1911, vendredi 31 mars 1911

[" ICE of BF s- Ia er- 00 pril 3 you nly ese | a roux ' atti oF ° eo SY 2 ° = IS ; > ® Mure > 4° page six.+ RY ~ 3 oss > & 40tose00006 \u2018Witness\u2019 Reporters Found Building By-laws Violated.A FIRE OR PANIC WOULD TRAP AUDIENCE LIKE RATS IN A HOLE Exit Law Complied With Technically But Close Inspection Demonstrates it is Not Observed in Practice.Some of the results of the investigations made by \u2018Witness\u2019 reporters Into the emergency exits of the Montreal moving picture houses ire given below.In several theatres the doors refused to open.Here it might be well to sav that in these cases there were vecasionally sufficient exits opening to comply with the law: the danger, how- vver, can be seen in the fact that inese barred doors were marked \u2018exit\u2019 with red lamps, and that in the vent of a fire or panic, the audience would Immediately move towards the -earest of these, and would be unable to get out.Those nearest the | doors would then ba crushed to death in all likelihood, as has happened In stmilar cases.Other theatres also do not comply with the building by-law\u2014except theoretically.For instance, building by-law, section 99, paragraph \u2018b\u2019 says: \u2018There shall be at least two independent exits from each division, compartment or gallery.Every exit shall have a width of at least 18 inches for each one hundred persons which the division, compartment or galery, to which] it leads is capable of containing.\u2019 \u2018No exit shall be less than five feet in width, and the doors of all such exits shall open outwards only,\u201d is if one of the moving picture thestres in Montreal wholly complies with it.Nearly every section of the building by-laws affecting theatres is violated) by a number of these places, but those quoted above could be easily enforced.In one theatre the reporters went throuzh the emergency exit to immediately find themselves hovering over an open trap door.What would have happened in the event of a number of people suddenly driven through the same exit by the force of paniq?In many cases the-exits opened into small yards from which there was practically no escape save by climbing walls or fences into other backyards and escaping through the houses of neighbors, The details follow: WINDSOR STAR.Accommodation for 250; 5 exits totalling 252 inches; law requires 60 inches.: In the Windsor Star, previously known as the Bijou Dream, Windsor Street, there are emergency exits all round the hall indicat- - ed by lights.Properly kept this would be the best provided hall in the city.The doors are of the double variety, and opened inward.some of them had chairs so close that they prevented them opening to the full extent.When the first doors were opened it was found that they gave directly on to another patr of ouble doors kept in place by a large wooden bar resting on hooks.When the bar was removed these outer doorg refused toe open.The reason was discovered on an inspection of the outside building, when it was | found that they were: blocked with snow and ice.The tops of the doors could only just be seen above the snow.Probably there was not less than seven feet blocking these outlets.One dorr opened into a small shoe shine parlor.The main doors were free.FAIRYLAND.Accommodation for 327, four exits, totalling 132 inches; law requires 80 inches.The emergency exit of Fairyland, Notre Dame street W., is to the right of the stage.Yesterday afternoon it was covered with a curtain, and the door kept closed by a hook at the top.The reporter pushed it, and found it blocked with snow.Pushing harder, he managed to get it sufficiently open to squeeze through, He found himself in a yard knee-deep in snow.At one side was a small gate with snow almost up to the top.At anather side was a passage leading into a backyard, but also blocked with snow, the-{pps -of barrels and ladders showing ahdve it.indicating the obstacles which would be met with in any attempt to pass through that way.A flight of steps led to the roof of the building, and so to the backs of the houses over the stores.In the event of a fire, these, of course, would have been leading to the top of the burning building.There was no possible means of exit, and the reporter wag forced to return through the theatre, es KING EDWARD PALACE.Accommodation for 233; exits total 168 inches; law requires 60 inches.In the King Edward Palace there were two extra exits, one on either side of the stage.A sign onsone of there emergency exits proclaimed the fact that it was fqr use \u2018in case of fire only.\u201d No objection was offered to the reporter leaving the theatre by means of this exit, but on passing through to the first door an open trap door was encountered, and some care was necessary in order to walk past this without falling in.THE NICKEL.Seating capacity 715, exits total 140 inches; law requires 180 inches.When a \u2018Witness reporter entered.the Nickel, at the cormer.of Bleury and St.Catherine Streets, he ran righ* into Mr.Conovan, the nager.who asked what campaign the \u2018Witness\u2019 was engaged in now.\u2018That is a.real good sensible idea,\u2019 he said, when it was.explained to Him that emergency exits and fire escapes were on the suspected ligt.; The Nickel hag ten: exits, comprising 60 feet of space for g seating capacity of less than 800.The public, Mr.Conovan stated, were invited to use these exits at all times in order to make themselves acquainted with them.\u2018There is little danger of fire in a Berle.Bl | .7 moving picture theatre\u2019 -he declared, \u2018the danger is.in a panic; and patrons of moving picture theatres should always make a point of acquainting themselves with tha various exits of any place they hal one day the panic \u2018It is a great \u2018that the conduct milly visit in case \u2018es.pity,\u2019 he continued, L duct, eo the moving picture theatré: proprietors muke it necessary for the FW tncas to have to carry on such cat igns, put long as the causa\u2019 is \u2018there, more power to thelr elbiw.\u2019 Mr.Conovan also pald ag tribute\u2019 io the Children\u2019s Ald Soclety, whiclk\u2019he said he had generally been abl to endorse as being for the good \u2018©f.the.public and the elevation \u201cor thé moving picture theatres.5}, The.exits here aty easy of access, and lead to Bleury hd St.Catherine Streets.and to a yaïd at the back of the theatrè; during Winter.all these extra exits baye been kept free from snow anq.obstructitm:.M, or ar Th nl pr \u2014 - : , NAMIORAL BIOGRAPE.Beatin capadit 700, exits total 261 inches; law Fequiret TH, inohen At the National Blograph, 1280 Notre Dame street west, largest moving picture theatre in-Ste.Cunegonde, there is a seating cépacity for about 600 persons downstairs, and a small gallery adjoining the operating room holds another fifty.On either side of the ticket office, in the brightly lighted portico, were the .usual array of entrance doors, but when a \u2018Witness\u2019 reporter tried to open one or two of these and found them unyielding, he was directed to the one\u2014and only\u2014 door to the theatre, -where an agent Was receiving the tickets.On each side of the stage could be plainiy seen a curtained portal bearing the words, Exit\u2014Sortie, just above each, but an attendant informed the \u2018Witness\u2019 reporter that the latter were for the use of the actors only.After watching the show.from the body of the house fora few minutes, the reporter was about to leave the building by one of the Notre Dame street doors, when- he\u2018 Was intercepted by an usher and escorted to the same door by which he had entered.It was then learned that this was the only means of egress for the downstairs audience.The newspaperman then asked for a ticket to the gallery, which was reached by a separate door on Notre Dame street at the bottom of a short wooden staircase.Up in the gallery an attendant said that the two red-curtained exits already mentioned were always kept locked, the likelihood of a fire occurring being so remote.so & Ca, OUIMETOSCOPE.Accommodation for 912; exits total 320 inches; law requires 200 inches.In the Ouimetoscope, on the corner of St.Catherine and Montcalm streets, the gallery is built in two sections, with a wall or partition about five feet high separating.them.At the another paragraph, and it is doubtful CHARGED WITH _ MANY CRIMES \u2018Erricone\u2019 Camorrist Leader Who Defied Italian Police Arraigued in Court KING OF DESPERADOES, His Arrest in Brooklyn by Lieut.Petrosino Led to Latter's As- sassination\u2014His Career.Viterbo, Italy, March 31.\u2014Enrico Al- fano, commonly known as Erricone, accused of being the real head of the Neapolitan Camorra, perhaps the most powerful and certainly the most feared man in Italy, was called for interrogation in the Court of Assizes to-day.The crimes laid at this man\u2019s door are numberless, and the machinations with which he is credited almost be- vond belief.\u2019 The court room was crowded to the doors on the long awaited day, and the interest was intense.Those familiar with the history of the dreaded society found it difficult to realize that the man who had so long escaped the law had at last been brought to book.Even now there are grave doubts that the jury will convict him.Under the gruelling to-day Erricone maintained the insolent assurance which if not disarming suspicion, repeatedly saved him from arrest.At his headquarters in the Cafe Fortunio, where he received his agents, his victims and the police, Erricone was wont to smile blandly upon those who mentioned the Camorra.and say, \u2018Do you really believe there is such a thing?Why, those are stories of other times.The prisoner was well prepared for to-day's examination, which was a thorough one.He denied every accusation made against him, and ridiculed the tradition of his power.Erricone began his business career as an errand boy in a flower shop.Early in life he had a place of his own, Then he established a grain market and speculated in cattle, bargaining with the farmers who visited the\u2019 fairs.He grew wealthy, and became a usurer.with an office in the rentre of the city.He wore fine clothes, and his carriages and Horses attracted much attention as he drove through the streets of Naples.CONTROLLED VOTES OF LOWER CLASS.Some six Years ago he surrendered the highest place in the Camorra, the head of the heads of the society, to Tmuigi Zucci.but it is charged that he continued in control of the organization, His nominal office was head of the Vicarin, the most populous and troublesome district of Naples.He wag repeatedly charged with responsibility or complicity in crimes of burglary.the white slave traffic, fraud ngainst the election laws, and business corruption.Several times arrested, he was invariably discharged because of lark of evidence, or at the worst re- rived light punishment.These escapes are sald to have heen due to his Influence with the authorities.many of whom owed their offices to his control over the votes of the poorer classes, for Erricone was a \u2018good fel- nw\u2019 in a way, for if he robbed the rich he as often helped the poor.It was left to Lieutenant Petrosino, the New York deteqtive, to arrest and bring to justice this man who had defied the police of Italy.Following the murder of Gennaro Cuoccolo, he was priest, Ciree Yifozii, \u2018the guardian angel of the Camorra.\u201d Fleeing to the United States, he was rearrested In Brooklyn by.Petrosino, and has never since been a free man.That arrest was the first practical move in the breaking up of the Cam- orra, and few here doubt that in apprehending Alfano, the Italian-Ameri- can detective signed his own death warrant.Abattemaggio, the informer, has tes- tifled that Erricone approved the sentences of death imposed upon his traitorous associate, Gennaro Cuoccolo and his wife Maria, and after the deed was done, distributed sums of money among the assassins.These allegations.as well as that concerning his position in the Ca- morra, Erricone stoutly denied, in reply to the questions of President Bianchi and the Crown prosecutor, Cavaliere Santoro.to-day.pue retire + ë SHELDON WILLING.3 > Pittsburg, March 31, + + Sheldon willing to come back.4 2 Must wait until local charge is % + heard.Looks good.+ ë McCASKILL.3 & [The above telegram was received by the Provincial Detec- «+ © tive office from Chief McCaskill 4 2 this afternoon.] > 4 > EE FIRE SWEEPS KELSO Hotel, Bank \u201cand Two Stores Destroyed\u2014Loss $100,000 North Bay, March 31.\u2014Fire vhich broke out at Kel2o at two o'clock tus morning assumed large proportions.The Miller Hotel, a three-story building with 200 rooms was destroyed, also the Bank of Ottawa and two stores with large stocks.The loss is stated to be one hundred thousand dollars.The fire is now under control.\u2018 \u2014\u2014prmme PAYS $17,000 FOR BABY .Child of Prominent Lady Recovered From Kidnappers.Las Vegas.N.M., March 31.\u2014 The baby of Mr.A.T.Rogers, a prominent lawyer of this city, wae kidnapped a few days ago and held for ransom of $17.000.The money was paid over by Mr.Rogers at midnight last-night - at a remote spot in the mountains surrounding this city, and the child was returned to him.INVITED TO CORONATION.King Honors Sir Richard and Lady Cartwright.Ottawa, March 31.\u2014Sir Richard and Lady Cartwright have heen honored by recelving an invitation from His Majesty the King to attend the coronation in June.The invitation is a very elaborated and beautifully designed affair.It is improbaple that Sir and Lady Cartwright will be able to accept.LORD STRATHCONA.Consents to Preside at Dominion Day Banquet in London.(Canadian Associated Press.) London, March 31.\u2014Lord Strathcona has \u2018consented to preside at the Dominion Day dinner, but has intimated that this will be the last occasion he will occupy the chair at this function.arrested and charged with instigating ) DAT the crime, put 4 way to his release was | ; ORDS- | {dN Solely e se: {astimony of the ST yg Lr ; BME \"OF SALOON-KEEPEK 2 CS | R License Commissioners Deny Reported Agreement to Take-no | {Appeal Against Mr.Justice Bruneau's Decision in the Michaud Couse.There appears to be no foundation whatever for the statement published in an evening paper yesterday to the effect that the Attorney-General and the License Commissioners had jointly agreed not to take to appeal Judge Bruneau\u2019s decision ordering the restoration of Ferdinand Michaud\u2019s license.Mr.Recorder Weir emphatically states that the Commissioners have not so agreed, but have laid the matter before the Attorney-General, with whom it rests.Sir Lomer Gouin is inquiring into the case, and has not yet come to any decision.: Tremendous pressure is being used by Michaud\u2019s counsel, Mr.Honore Ger- vais, K.C., M.P., and every ounce of influence he is capable of exerting is being manifested to prevent any ap- | peal being made.A curious sidelight is thrown on the case, and on the keeping of records at.the Court House, by incidents which transpired to-day.This morning Mr.Justice Lafontaine, president of the Anti-Alcoholic League, and Mr.John .H.Roberts, secretary of the Dominion Alliance, went together to the prothonotary's office to examine the Court records of the.case, so that ~ they might understand the reasons for Judge Bruneau's momentous decision more fully than the newspaper reports permit.They were informed that the dossier in the case was in the hands of Mr.Gervais, Michaud\u2019s attorney, and that the Attorney-Gen- eral had asked for it, and could not have it on that account.This will raise a serious buestion in many minds as to the proper custody of such public documents and their safe-keeping when allowed to be taken away from thé Court House and detained in lawyers\u2019 offices.- The License Commissioners have not yet received a copy of the judgment, and on asking their secretary if he had yet had it this morning, Mr.Roberts was informed that he, the secretary of the Commissioners, was writing Mr.Gervais asking him for it.Mr.Roberts's comment on this to a \u2018Witness\u2019 reporter was: \u2018It surely indicated a serious condition of affairs at the Court House when the License C-mmissioners have to write to a saloonkeeper\u2019's lawyer asking for the judgment of the Superior Courts in any matter.To be compelled to do so must lower the Commissioners au- thority and certainly not enhance their dignity.\u2019 .PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF CITIZENS ASSOCIATION RESIGN l-Beaith Obliges Ex-Mayor Laporte to Retire\u2014A Third Resignation is Also Expected at Next Monday's Meeting Four months ago ex-Mayor Laporte indicated to the Citizens Association EX-MAYOR LAPORTE.his wish to rosign as president, but he was induced to remain a little longer by the directors.Now, now- ever, h:ls resignation and that of.the secretary, Ms.E.J.Chapleau; will be presented at a meeting of the board of direcicrs to be held on Monday afternoon.It is on account of the state of his health.that Mr.Laporte is resigning, his physician asking him to give up all connection with activities outside of his own business, and give himself a good rest.Mr.Laporte also wants tv spend more time at his office.This «#8 the third association whose presidency be has resigned within the last few months.He is abcut to take a long trip to Europe.In speaking to a \u2018Witness\u2019 reporter Mr.Laporte strongly emphasized the fact that the recent election in Lafontaine Ward had nothing to do with his resignation.His relations with the other directors are of the most amicable, and the association ix stronger to-day than ever.He thought that the Hon.Senator Dandurand, tne first vice-president,\u2019 might be selected for the office.: Mr.Chapleau is: resigning on account of his business interests and thinks that someo with more time to give to the dutles of the office should ke appointed .: \u201cAt Monday's meeting the resignation of a third dircetor is also expected.\u2019 Mr.J.W.Kneeshaw, of the Detroit branch of the Grand Trunk purchasing.department, is now in town, con- ferring with the clyjef officials of that department.AŸ- MARCH :31, 1911.LE EE EE \u2018ting.Cymblug out t a A CONTROLLERS DISCUSS .SHOWS.The report in the \u2018Witness\u2019 yesterday afternoon regarding insufficient fire protection in some of the local theatres and moving picture buildings, was the subject of discussion at the meeting of the Board of Control this morning.The result of their conference was not made known, but it is believed that as a result the fire chief and building inspector will be asked to keep a keen outlook on these places.; WIG PERODINI oils lodpd to led drdulodpdnd VOPONPPDOPH POPP Ld extreme end of the gallery is an exit w leads to the roof of the build- of here it is \u2018possible to grasp.the fire escape, the only drawback \"betng that nét more than one petson can get out at a time.On the west side there are two exits, leading on to the fire escape, and the doors open outward, being fastened on the inside by hooks.On the east side, however, there is no means of getting down except by a winding stairway.Down stairs there is a large lobby in the front of the building, but a porch is built out, and the doors so arranged that only two persons cam go out abreast.As in the gallery there are two exits on the west side, opening on to Montcalm street, while two boxes at each side of the theatre have exiis leading into the back yard.AH the exits open outward, but are each fastened by a hook.\u2014 THE IDEAL.Seating capacity 210, exits total 744 inches; law.requires 80.inches.Several performances are given daily at this house, on.Notre Damme street, where the operating room is located almost at the entrance to the theatre.If an explosion or a fire occurred in this room almost all access to the - only door in the house would be cut off.The hall will hold 400 persons : Between acts last evening a \u2018Witness\u2019 reporter made his way down the only aisle in the theatre in the direction of the stage, to one side of which was the uaual door with the notice, \u2018Exit\u2014Sortije.\u201d Passipg behind curtains, he found \u2018himself looking through consecutive glass-doors: fronting on a lane in rear of the theatde.Both of these doors were locked and bore the appearance -of being seldom if ever used.The \u2018reporter had to make his way \u2018eut \u2018of the theatre\u2019 by the same doors he had entered.* When visited duting the afternoon.the door of the \u2018Exit\u2014Sortle\u2019 was found unlocked, and the reporter was able to pass out into a backyard surrounded by a fence, but of:insufficient size to accommodate the large audience: inside, should they seek the yand to a.rr a MUST: BE PLANNED Now is Time for Municipal Problems te be Formally Decided ca.» 4 sd = STATES W.D.LIGHTHALL, K.C.In Address Before Empire Club, To- ronto\u2014Evils of Cities Increasing.Toronto, March 3L\u2014Mr.W.D.Light- hall, K.C., of the Metropolitan Parks\u2019 Commission, Montreal, addressed the Empire Club yesterday._ \u2018The next ten years,\u2019 said Mr.Light- hall in part, \u2018will probably see the greatest period of formative growth in our larger municipalities this country will ever see.Obviously the first i : i ; MR.W.D.LIGHTHALL, K.C.years of that period are much more important than even the last, so that if our cities are.to be planned it is a matter of urgency.now.\u2018The question is not one of beautification merely, its essential character is one of necessity for a working popu- \u2018lation in an industrial city.In all large cities of modern natigms, \u201cwhich have not been planned, c in very great evils have beén found to result from size.The poorer people find their work in the centre of the mass, their buildings and habitation become congested and undesirable.Light, air -and space for recreation.are absent and the health of fhe peaple is lowered.and an alarming death rate develops.The children, having no playgrounds, die rapidly; juvenile crime develops, the growth of population is stopped and efficiency\u2019 is immensely lowered.The enormous problems of the slums and degenerdcy arise.Much has been done to remedy: these evils by sanitation and education, but it \u201cs thoroughly.recognized \u2018in Europe that nothing can\u2019 replace good original planning.\u201d Not only are :playgrounds and parks necessary; in-the céntres of: cities, but ampler: parks -furthér-out are netestary, and escape: to them is provided by cheap rapid, comfortable.transit facilities.\u201d : to, Co primer | TL TOOK OVERDOSE OF MEDICINE.Alfred Bussiere, a barber by trade, residing at 22 Bishop lane, was taken to the Notre Dame Hospital last night guffering from an everdose of pare- gorie.\u2018His\u2019condition to-day wes reported as serious Lo .escape from.fire.not find a way out of the back, and returned through the theatre.The reporter could THE PRINCE OF WALES Accommodation for 312, exit total, 124 inches, law requires 80.At this theatre, the reporter walked straight through the hall, up a flight Vf stairs beside the stage, through the emergency exit, along a passage and out of an open door into a lane without obstruction.The place in front of the door was free from snow.The only improvement suggested is that the exit door in the passage might be indicated by a light.THE CROWN.- Accommodation for 260, exits total 166 inches; law- requires 60.inches.\u2018The Crown,-at 20 St.\u201d Lawrenusi Boulevard, was crowded last night at ten o\u2019clack.The place appears to ba run as 4 minstrel and mov.picture show, by rolored people: at any rate the ticket sellers, the ushers and the actors are of the African race.There is a large aisle in the middle of the hall, and doors leading to the street are swinging doors.In front of the hall, near the stage, there is am exit marked \u2018Keep out; positively no admittance\u201d Examination last night by a \u2018Witness\u2019 represenative, showed that it led to a door on St.Charles Borommee street, which door was bolted inside.In case of a panic or fire this extra outlet would not be of much use, if any, as it would take too long to unbolt the door.THE VARIETIES Accommodation for 212; exits total IGATED 120 inches; law requires 60 inches.The \u201cVarieties,\u201d which is situated on Bt.Lawrence Boulevard, near Pine HE STILL BELIEVES IT.No\u2014You are right: the people should be allowed to speak; and speak they will, apd-a great des] more, before.any Stars and Stripes takes the place of the grand old.Union Jack, that has braved a thousand \u201cwars, and is ready to brave threefold more if nesd be.British -is that British does.' There is nothing British in your reciprocity, or in other words, annexation.\u2014J: H.\\ HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT.Yes\u2014We are for open markets.Our roducts are second to none and can hold their own anywhere Against \u2018competition.The annexàtian talk does .not\u2019 frighten the farmefigdin the least.We know it for what 7 \u20181s,, hot\u201d air.We favor reciprocity bepques itrjpçen \u201cWilder Mx 1rirhts and- betser.pr our produce.do not {he maris.facturers : eome- out as brani par own up.they aré against it because to reasonable prices with their goods.\u2014R.E.M, MARITIME FEELING.Yes\u2014Away down here by the deep- sounding sea, where the principal business is fishing, we want free trade with those who take our smelt in win- mer.The Far East of Canada joins with the great new West in the cry for freer trade with Uncle Sam.We are not traitors to our country, but we do not use the old .ag to cover up greed and selfishness.Laurier has done much for Canada, but never such a work as this, if he is successful in getting freer trade with the United States.\u2014A.G.W., NOVA SCOTIA.FLASHES.Yes\u2014] have been a reader of the \u2018Witness\u2019 for over 56 years, and I would like to hear that every farmer in the Dominion read it.I shout hurrah! for the efforts it is making to gain information on reciprocity.1 would further say long life to Sir Wilfred and his Cabinet! for breaking down some of the walls of high protection, and 1 hope he will go on to free trade.\u2014S.R.Yes\u2014If I had a thousand votes 1 would go for reciprocity.\u2014A.A.McR,, ONT.Yes\u2014I believe the reciprocity pact a wise and progressive move of the Liberal Government, in the direction of broader commercial relations between the two countries.The consumer has not only be individually eager to also, and they have without delay.record their votes on paper and address and separate natures, so that there they fear they will have to cdme down } ter and salmon and mackerel in sum-} avenue, had only one extra exit, which was open, and led on a lane deep in snow.No objection was raised to the use of this exit.THE GEM.Accommodation for 230; exits total 132 inches; law requires 60 inches.In the \u2018Gem,\u2019 formerly known as Olympia, there was only one exit in addition to the entrance doors.This was down a steep flight of stairs and thence to the strect.- THE MOULIN ROUGE.- At the Moulin Rouge on St.Cathe erine street east, the main doors open inward.There is a railing about twe feet high, which makes an obstruction to any hasty exit by the front; this railing is for the purpose of separating the holders of 5 cent and 10 cent seats.The steps leading te the gallery are narrow, being about three feet wide and very long, at either end of which there is a post jutting on the stairs, making it ime possible to pass two abreast.On the east side from the gallery there is one narrow exit, and this was f.und to be fastened inside with hooks.The stairs leading to the gale lury are very steep.There were twé stage exits lighted.THEATRE DES NOUVEAUTES.Accommodation for 805; exits total 250 inches; law requires 180 inches.- At the \u2018Theatre des Nouveautes, ; Catherine street east, the emergency exit at the back of the building was evidently in frequent use.A flight of stairs ran from the top gallery to the ground floor, and the emergency exits from the gallery, dress circle and orchestra seats opened on to thim, In the case of the dress.circle the exit opened on a fire escape.The entrance doors Were also used as exits.THE BALLOT * The People Should be Allowed to Speak.\u2019 rT had to pay for protection log enough.We admire the stand taken by the \u2018Witness,\u201d which is always on the side of progress.\u2014w.M.LT \"Yes\u2014I\" send.you herewith enclosed two votes: in: \u2018favor \u2018of reciprocity, I forwarded my owu votes When the poll was first opened.| 1° sincerely hope that the treaty .will.be ratified and become law, .and.firmly believe that it will be.It-seeme strange that one of these howling opponents ewpr discovered that \u2018théy did not \u2018 rel procity when the Conservativé : cts were trying so long to obtain it J.B., QUE.Clee Yes\u2014I think about ni of 4e farmers in this locality are in favor \u201creciprocity, and I can\u2019t sec that it in- dé us any harm\u2014we w§nt more Made \u2014A.M.N., NEW SRUNSWICK.\u201cYes \u2014Witen - William Ficlding shook out the reins, and handed them to George Murray, he said \u2018You have à good team George and a straight course.Just head them straight, don\u2019t pull and you don\u2019t need.to whip.\u201d They have been well cared for ever since, and are as full of mettle as ever, and can keep the same gait.They don\u2019t shy, but are docile and spirited.Annexation bogies don't count in Nova Scotia.The majority of the people are positively, absolutely and essen- \u201ctially in favor of reciprocity with the United States.Sir Wilfred has excelled himself.May his shadow never grow less.\u2014J.F., NOVA SCOTIA.Yes\u2014I enclose my ballot in favor of reciprocity in natural products with the United States.It may not be good for the classes, but it will be a boon for the masses.Any farmer that votes \u2018No\u2019 is either blinded by partisan bigotry, or he is deficient ia what is called \u2018good common sense.\u201d I am old enough to remember the old Teciprocity tréaty with the United States from 1854 to 1866, and I can safely say that Nova Scotia pro- £ressed more in that time than in any twenty years of her history.Every man should have the privilege of selling his goods in the dearest markets and buying in the cheapest markets, subject only to the demandg of revenue.The time is coming when ve shall have not an increased British preference, but free trade within the Empire.When that time arrives then it will soon be \u2018free trade with the ontreal and suburbs within a radius of fifteen miles oR vot ballots cut from the radius -may paste one of the ballots at the top of a sheet of foolscap or letter rule the sheet so as to have separete n columns for \u2018Yes\u2019 and \u2018No\u2019 opposite the people's zæig- will be no possible uncertainty as to how each desires to vote.Any uncertainty cancels the ballot.world,\u2019 as it is in Great PBritain\u2014 BLUENOSE, | cod WAR, de \u2018CATCH YO UR PAL\u2019 - ted that protectionist anti-Reciprocity voters will Te de only de analyses vote but will be sure to get others to vote ROY the.advantage of splendid organization.Al the mors devolves on the individual in vor reciprocity to \u2018ca\u2019 en street car or elsewhere, and urge him to register his opision m \u2018Witness.\u201d People beyond Phat columns for the names and SPL EF SLE EL AIBN IIIREEISIENG ss SS » 3 » \u2018WITNESS\u2019 COUPON VOTE.«+ Cs + The question is: Are you in favor of reciprocity?* # Answer it by making a cross in one of these spaces: 5 | : » Name E00 08 668 CED OPES OSS ORs - * YES .8 CETTE » TT +.¥ Address s.+.».00e.oe .5 » * AN NO $ » $ 8 6 © 060 00 OQ 6600000 ® 8 ° = L Ballots must be properly signed and the address filled én or » #_ they wil not be counted.Return immediately to The Editor's # æ BaHot Box, \u2018Daily Witness,\u201d Montresl = USSR YE 4 4 34 3R Enclose coupon in sealed envelope and be sure to fully prepay postage at letter rates.Address: THE EDITOR'S BALLOT BOX, 7 7 \u2018Daily Witness,\u201d Montreal 4 hl Sr Ad) 2 li a ne wif aX 5 Mae - IW pe Fre est hn © rd pesS ramet pe PR NS AEE EST ras Cents bis ef AA ES A Lu A A ToS i + TATA ea ne ns THE MONTREAL ¥ #1 T5 : DAILY WITNÉSS, FRIDAY,-MARCH 31, 1911.PE ; >, \" re EE > voue 4 RE EE OA nt rer RICHELIEU AT HIGH FIGURES : -CPR.AND S00 There was an exhorbitant demand for Richelieu stock this morning, which carried the price up to 122.The late Tumor news was the stimulating factor in ceusing such phenomenal activity.Canadian Pacific and 'Soo' were fatr- ly active, both on a decline, which is considered as signifying nothing of importance.Crown Reserve was slightly lower, but buying orders were numerous around the $3.00 mark.There was a good market for bonds, the demand for Quebec Railway bonds being particularly heavy.CLEARINGS FOR MARCH ARE LOW : Montreal clearings for March, issueu at noon to-day.compare as follows with corresponding perlods:\u2014 \u2018 Total for week ending March 31lst, 1911, $146,516,213.dos 1 responding month, 1910, $170,437,- 00.London Consols, Stocks, : Sliver, Money and Rates ~ London, March 31, 4 pm, closing\u2014 Consols for money 81 11-16; do.for @ccount, 81 11-16.C.P.R.228 5-8; G.T.R, 28 3-8.Rar silver steady at 24 1-4d.per oz.Money.2 1-2 to 3-4.Discount rate, short bills, 2 1-8 tn 3-16 percent.three Monthe\u2019 bills, 2 1-8 te 3-16 percent.Toronto Customs Receipts .for March Show Fair © Increase-Total Reveneu \u201cToronto, March 31.\u2014Customs receipts dor the port of Toronto for the month of March will be approximately $1,480,- 000, against $1,456,000 for the same month last year, Total revenue for the fiscal year, which closes to-day, will be $14,500,000, jor about $2,000.000 ahead of last year.Unlisted Securities | Following are this morning sales and j Quotations of unlisted stocks reported by W.P.O'Brien: Bid.Asked.Dom.Canners com ., hu 5% Pref .+.+.++ es ae 8 Price Bros, bonds .86% 87 Læchine 5 p.c.bonds .101 103 Breweries pref .92 95 Bonds .Cees 101 102% , Can.Power stock .581-8 58 82 824 a Cereal com, .+ + 0.2 \u2014- 19 Pref .++ 22 ve vase B14 2 Hillcrest com.44 48 Pref .+.80 84 West.Can.Power .bi 55 ch ce ee 00 es 813 88 Mex.North Power .313-8 2 Steel Co.of Canada .31% 32 SALES.North Ont.Exp.700 at 825.Canners, 25 at 63, 100 at 6314, 300 at 64, 125 at 6434.100 at 64 3-8, 25 at 64 7-8, 135 at 65, 20 at 64%.620 at 65, 2°5 at 64 7-8, 50 at 64%, 50 at 64 7-8, T5 at 65, 15 at 6 4 7-8, 15 at 65, 30 at 65.Dobie, 50 at 435, 100 at 415, 900 at 400, 100 at 398.Cerea} pref., 75 at 81%.Steel Company of Canada, 100 at 2°?\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014t\u2014\u2014 Porcupine Prices Following are quotations of Porcupine etocks furnished the 'Witness by Gordon and Shorey: Pore.Quotations: Gt.Northern, 22\u201422 3-4, , HoHinger, 9.70\u20149.80.Teston, 45\u201445 3-4.orc.Gold, 6414 \u201465.Dolde, .80.Dome Ex, 6514 \u20148686.TORONTO SALES Toronto, March 31.\u2014Sales: \u2014 Cereal f.25 at 81, 100 at 81%, 50 at 82, 95 t 81%, Richelieu 25 at 120, 25 at 121 -4, 2b at 132, 100 at 122%, F.N.Burt ?at 110, 10 at 109 3-4, do., pref, 22 at 81-8, 30 at 118, Penmans pref.24 at 9, Steel Corp.10 at 87%, Can.Salt 1 at 60, Twin City 1 at 108%, Dom.Steel ref.60 at 100 7-8, Pac.Burt pref.10 at 6, Sao Paulo 7 at 163, 145 et 163%, 50 et 183% 10 at 183 3-8, Crown Reserve 500 at 300, La Rose 10 at 450, Rio 50 at 306 7-8, 235 at 107, 150 at 106 7-8, do, bonds 87500 at 100%, Toronto rails 38 3 d A m %.Dul.8up, 65 at 83, at 115, City Deiry 10 at Black Lake 135 at 15, do, bonds $3,- w.-Mass.35 at 3114, t 198 74.87, 060 Con.Gas 5 at 199, 30 a STOCK WAS SOLD.The stock of Mr.L.E.Clement, of Cookuhire, was sold for the curator, Mr.John M.Hains, at Sherbrooke, yesterday, and realized seventy-three and a half cents in the dollar.R.& 0.PROPOSAL IS LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED NOW Furness Co, Sald to Have Cabled Acceptance-New Stock Issue -Meeting on Monday The meeting on Monday moming next, of the Richelieu and Ontario vfficials with the Furness representatives from Ontario, will probably decide the conditions of the proposed merger deal in the big Inland navi- sation proposition.The \u2018Witness is informed that at the meeting of the R.and O.diréctons held on Thursday, a proposition was made by the Furness interests.This was not altogether satisfactory to the Richelieu people, and they made a counter proposition which was cabled to the Furness head office in London vesterday afternoon.It is understood that a reply has been received, which practically accepts the terms of the R.and O.board Should the deal be consummated on Monday it will leave the Richelieu concern with ita present idemtity.It is proposed, in the event of the merger being agreed upon.to issue a new block of Richelieu stock to \u2018the value of $2.000.000.This will be taken up by the London end of the deal, and it is expected that there will be no special offering made to the present Richelieu shareholders.The merger will mean the formation of a very large and progressive corporation.while the value of the stock should be much enhanced as a result of this rearrangement.It is proposed to reorganize the finances, and to place the stock on a higher dividend paving basis.The metging of the interests concerned will pract- fcally glve control of inland mavi- gation from Niagara to the sea to the new cancer.CANADA TO GET MORE CAPITAL Correspondence received from London Greenshields, intimates that Mr.J.N.C4, who ls at present in England, s meeting with splendid success, as\u2019 regards large amount of capital that come to Canada this year for immediate purposes, as a direct result of the visit of the eminent King's Counsellor, to the great financial metropolis.Mr, Greenshields, along with other Montreal! financiers, has played a prom- nen ar uring the past ear op Mr.Greenshields.two in inducing English, as well as Continental capitalists, to invest in safe and profitable securities in this country, and the flow of this capital has been largely instrumental in bringing about a new era of industrial and corporation activity and expansion throughout this province.It is expected that Mr.Greenshields will not return to Montreal before May next, as he has much work to accome lish before he can conveniently leav he other side.; .Toronto Clearings Show Large Increase Clearings of the Toronto banks as passed through the local clearing\u201d house during the past week, including vesterday.totalled $34,134,763.Last week clearings totalled $32.964,687; during the corresponding week last ear, $23.191.817.and $23,097.508 Rdur- ng the similar week of 1909.- FINANCIAL PrrsoNAES Mr.J.H.Plummer leaves to-day for Sydney, C.B.Sir Wm.Mackenzie returned to Toron to last evening.Mr.Wm.Rockefeller was in New York yesterday.Mr.C.L.Edgar, president of the Edison Electric Company, salled from New York for the Continent.Mr.D.Lorne McGibbon will leave for New York early next week.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BERLIN MONEY RATES.Berlin, March 31.\u2014Exchange on London 20 marks 43 pfennigs for cheques.Money (for settlement) 61% percent.Private discount rate 3% percent.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PARIS BOURSE AND RATES Paris.March 31.\u2014Prices were generally firm on the Bourse to-day.Cloging\u2014Three percent rentes 96 francs 47 1-2 centimes for the account.Exchange on London, 25 francs 30 cen- times for cheques.Private rate of discount, 1-8 lower, at 2 1-4 percent.PORCUPINE TISDALE MINING G0., LIMITED Capital, $2,000,000.One-half Treasury Par Value of Shares, $1.00.PERTIE (90 acres) in Deloro Township.LOCATION \u2014DELORO GROUP adjoins group adjnins Timmins and Porcupine Gold Tisdale group is near Armstrong-McGibbon and Gold Mines, Limited, properties.Present Selling Price, 106.The 8hares are Non Agsessable and carry No Personal Liability.$5 claims (200 acres) in Tisdale Township, and 233 claims one Tisdale properties; the other algamated Porcupine properties; Timmins Ridge Am.DEVELOPMEWNT\u2014The assessment work done up to this Spring has uncovered 1 showin all three groups.Poti, aclarge Boros, of den is at work on the largest vein yet The proceeds of the present sale of Treasury Stock will be used completion, and found.solely for development work.Four camps are now nearing The properties are still only prospects, though their extent and favorable location make them particularly good ones.Company is under honest and efiiclent management prospect price, and as the We offer the shares @t a fair you run.only those risks which are inseparable from gold mining.For maps, prospectus, full infor mation and application forms, apply to J.F.McKENZIE & CO., Brokers, MERCEANTS BANK BUILDING, MONTREAL, P.Q.EE Dominion Canners, Limited 67 BONDS .\u2019 Authorized, $2,500,000.2° Maturing April 1st, 1940.Mentresl, Issued, $1,000,000.Interes t Payable Half Ye at the Bank of ontreal, Toronto, Hamilton and London, Easy Earnin Company over 8 ix times amount required -to.-Bené - Smtorest.Bonds Issued to Rhe extent o f 2-3 value of fixed assets.pay Price: $100 and Accrued Interest oo C.Meredith & Company, Limited i BE LISTED ON LONDON EXCH.Arrangements are being made to list Richelieu and Ontario Navigation securities on the London Btock kix- change.The gentlemen behind the big merger deal have already approached the London authorities with this object in view, and it is understood that they have received assurances of favorable consideration.President Forget, M.P., of tae Richelleu Company, stated this morning that it was the intention to list R.& O.in London, but to what amount he was not in a position to state until the present merger nego- tations were settled one way or the other.$19,000,000 FOR BI3 POWER Co.Hamilton, March 31\u2014At a conference to-day with the city about street railway matters, it developed that the price the Dominion Power & Trans- migsion Company sets on its plant.including the Decew Falls system and all the electric lines, is nineteen mil- li.n dollars.The dity was trying to have certain tracks moved off Main street.The only way it can be done is by buying out the company.! OTTAWA CLEARINGS Ottawa, March 31.\u2014For the month of March bank clearings in Ottawa totalled $17,090,385, as against $15,7-0,- 385 in the same month last year, an increase of $1,366,998.LAND VALUES RISING Winnipeg, March 31.\u2014Western Can- Tada lands are certainly increasing in value, and it is quite evident that there will soon be no more $15 an acre land.Whether it is through reciprocity talk, railroad construction, or the natura.law of supply and demand, reasonably priced land, as measured by former standards, is certginly vanishing at a wonderful rate.Tt was learned to-day that the Hudson's Bay Company have put into effect a remarkable increase in price of their lands ranging from $5 to $10 per acre additional.Lands along located lines, which three weeks ago were generally quoted at $14 and $15 per acre, cannot now be purchased from that company at less than $20 and $25 per acre.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 MINING STOCKS Following are sales on the Montreal Mining Exchange reported by Gordon & Shorey: Co Crown Res., 100 at 300.U.P.pref., 1000 at 19, 1500 at 18%.West Dome; 100 at 318 Pear} Lake, 600 at 72, 300 at 73.3 Étendaré, 100 at 35, 700 at 33, 1100 at Temisk., 1000 at 68%.La Rose, 50 at 440.Scotia, 1000 \u2018at 13.Reddick, 1000 at 4 3-4, 1500 at 5.Silver Leaf, 2000 at 4 5-8, Apex, 1000 at 25.Dome Ex., 200 at 66, 1000 at 654.Hollinger, 100 at 990, 125 at 975, Dobie, 100 at 420, 100 at 400, 100 at 405, 300 at 400, 500 at 335.\u201cToronto Cobalt Saloa Toronto, March 31.\u2014Morning Sales\u2014 \u2018Bailey, 1000 at 4 3-4, 2000 at 5.Béaver, 2000 at 381, 650-at 39, 2200 at 38, 1,- 000 at 37 3-4, 500 at 37%, 500 at 37%.Crown, 100 at 305, 100 at 300, 100 at 304.Cobalt Lake, 1000 at 19, 2600 at 19%.Foster, 1600 at 544.Great.Northern, 1000 at 23, 3700 at 221%.Green Meehan.5000 at 3 1-8, 7000 at 34.Gould, 2,- 0000 at 2.Hargrave, 1500 at 17%, 2000 at 18.La Rose, 10 at 445, 100 at 440.Littie Nip.200 at 5.McKinley, Nipissing, 50 at 10 5-8.Peterson, 3000 at 10.Rochester, 1000 at 3%.Temisk., 3500 at 68%, 1500 at 69, 2,- 500 at 68, 500 at 68 3-4.Tretheway, 1,- 500 at 93, 500 at 90.Apex, 700.at 23 1-4, 3500 at 23.Dobie, 300 at 406, 100 | at 400, 300 at 390, 100 at 383.Dome Extension, 1500 at 66, 1500 at 65%, 10,- 400 at 6534.Hallinger, 100 at 970, 15 at 985, 200 at 975.oneta, 300 at 25, 200 at 24%.Preston, 2400 at 45%.Pearl Lake, 1000 at 72%.1000 at 734, 500 at 72, 500 at 73%, 4100 at 73.Tis- 700 at 10.Swastika, 500 at 56.50 at 67.250 at 65%, 800 at 66, 85, 2400 a.is at 34% , 1000 a , a 4.Standard 340 at 320, 100 at 319, 800 at 317, 100 at 318.: BAR SILVER IN NEW YORK.Rar silver was quoted at 52 1-2 cents per ounce in New York to-day.RICHELIEU AND STEEL LOWER The local market was steady this afternoon.Steel and Richelieu were the only active stocks.\u2018Both showed a slight decline.The rest of the market was firm.Wall 8t\"Closed Weaker The New York stock market closed weaker this afternoon, with C.P.Rat 21 1-8.1-8, Union Pacific 17¢ 1-2, and U.8, Steeel 77 5-8.: nbsp a 0 \u2018 AFTERNOON BOARD.Royal Bank\u201432 at 238, 2 at 238.128, Crown Reserve\u2014100 at 300, 100 at 302, 100 at 302, 90 at 302, 10 at 302.Toronto Railway\u201490 at 128, 25 at 128, 25 at 128, 25 at 128.East Com.\u20145 at 43, ; Cement Com.\u20141 at 22, 1-4 at 23.Cement Prd.\u201425 at 86 3-4, 5 at 86 1-2, Banque d'Hochelaga\u2014! at 168 3-8.Quebec Ry.\u201425 at 60, 4 at 60, 25 at 61.Ottawa\u201425 at 133 1-2.Steel Corp.\u201425 at 58, 25 at 58, 25 at 57 3-1, 100 at 57 3-4, 25 at 57 3-4, 26 at 57 3-4, 25 at 57 3-4, 25 at 57 7-8, 50 at 57 7-8.5 at 56, 25 at 67 3-4, 75 at.57 8-4, 5 at 57 3-4, 10 at 57 7-8, 25 at 57 1-2.Textile\u201410 at 72 1-2, 25 at 72, 25 at 71 1-8, 10 at 72.Power\u201410 at 149, 26 at 149 1-3.Ehawinigan\u201425 at 118 3-4, 18 at 114.Detroit\u201425 at 69 7-8, 25 at- 69 3-4.25 at 69 7-8.Molsons\u20143 at 208 1-4.Porto Rico\u201410 at 58, 10 at 58 1-2, 5 at 58 1-2.Ogilvie\u20142 at 124, 1 at 124, 3 at 125.Scotia\u201425 at 88.C.P.R\u201425 at 222 8-4, 25 at 222, 10 at 221 5-8, 35 at M1 1-3.Richelieu\u2014lg® at 132 (B.B.).100 at 121 8-4, 25 at 121 3-4, 25 at 181 3-4, 26 at 121 3-4, 26 at 121 3-4, 2 at 120, 20 at 121 8-4, 5 at 121 3-4, § at 121 1-3, 26 at 121 1-2, 75 at 121 1-4, 26 at 121, 26 at 120 7-8, 25 at 121, 10 at 120 1-2, § at | 120 8-4, 25 at 120 1-2, 50 at 120 3-4, 75 at 120 3-4, 10 at 130 1:2, 07 Rio\u201425 at 108 3-4, 106 at 106 7-8.\u2014mmm HQUITABLE TRUNT STOCK.It is reported that the Equitable 14fe 13 negotiating for the sale of its Holdings of the itable Trust Co.Reading 156 7-8, Soo, 146 | be - vid.LA ; OFFER $65 FOR ILLINOIS COM.TO SUN LIFE CO.\u201cMr.T.B.Macaulay, who returned from Toronto, this morning, confirmed the report that a powerful syndicate of United States financiers is very anxious to secure a controlling interest in the Illinois Tractfon Company.It is evident that this syndicate, which is largely composed of St.Louis and Chicago bankers, fully appreciate the future possibilities of Illinois Traction, especially from a financial point of view, and under the circumstances it is not surprising that they should make an offer, it is said, of 366 a share, to the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, for a large block of the common stock held by the local institution.; It is belleved that the majority o the common stock is held by Montreal interests, and in this holding the Sun Life plays a prominent part.It 18 not surprising that officials of the Sun Life should turn down the offer notwithstanding its tempting nature.It is said that the Sun Life holdings amount to at least $5,000,000, and that realizing the future of Illinois Traction it is a pretty nice asset to have locked away in the safe.Money in Strong Demand In Londen-\u2014-Stecks Were Imegular With Weak Close London, March 31.\u2014Money was in strong demand for quarterly requirements to-day, and discount rates were steadier.The stock market continued irregular.Mexican rails advanced three points on extensive buying, and home rails were steadily bought by investors at higher prices; but the rest of the markets were quiet and easy.; .American securities opened steady and a fraction higher.The Erie shares led an upward movement until noon, when prices eased off an realizing.Later Canadian Pacific broke two points on local New York selling, and the rest of the list declined im sympathy.The market closed weak.S404 EPH + The failure list for the week + is a light one, seven district in- + + + + + solvencies being reported, with + t liabilities of only $57,000, + + LONDON COPPER PRICES.London, March 31.\u2014 Copper.steady spot, £54 7s 8a.Futures, £55, up 13.3d.Pin, easy, spot, £187 10s off 128 64.Futures, £185 156s, off 128 6d.Lead, £12-18s 8d.unchanged., .\u2014prr ¢< 800\u2019 RIGHTS ADMITTED.New York.March.31.\u2014 Admitted to dealings \u2018Soo\u2019 rights.\u2014\u2014 meet ILLINOIS CENTRAL.Illinois- Central \u2018&rosa earnings for February show an (ncredse of $232,- 329, and a net gain of $78,300.Eight months\u2019 gross shows an increase of $2,957,200.and met of $2,447,781.ponent § JAH aad \u2018At last\u201d some light is thrown on this navigation merger,\u2019 said a local stock gambler.~ \u2018I thought,\u201d he added, \u2018that the Richelieu Company would come into it\u2014though not as a small addition, or a sort of afterthought.It is the most important factor in these considerations, and will rightly have a \u2018ruling voice.: 1 The rapid recent rise in the price of Crown Reserve, was due, says a local contemporary, to information given ous by it relative to the mining compaæy = position and prospects -in- Porcupine.| It might almost be inferred that the decline which immediately succeeded therise was due to a wider realization of the source of -the news, The stock market is holding up well Leading brokerage and financial interests continue to control it absolutely.They are laying the foundations, if indeed such fou tions have not alread, been laid, for a broad bull movement a little later on.Nature is with them.An ideal crop position and outldok, though seed.for such big harvests as corn and oats and spring wheat Is not yet in the soil, is insured by plenty of water in the ground.That has not been the case at this date in several years.But this fact {s merely in keeping with other fundamental conditions furnishing a basis for confidence, such as our trade, the strength of the country's banks, huge credits abroad and revival of business at home.Pay-as-you-enter Preferred Dividend is Declared The directors of the \u2018Pay-As-You- Inter\u2019 Car Corporation have declared a quarterly dividend of one and three- quarters percent on the preferred stock payable April 15, to stockholders of record at the close of business, April 10, 1911.Cheques will be mailed hy the Stan- \u2018dard Trust Company, of New York.: » one Charles Head & Co.\u2014We advise buy: higher prices.safest position to take at the present time is the long side of the market on all reactions.In a very short time present uncertainties will disappear, \u2018and a spring rise in the market will follow.\u2019 ; i \u2014\u2014{prm BALED HAY STEADY, No.1 hay, $11 to $11.50; No.2 Extra quality, $8.60 to $10; No.2 hay ordinary, $8.50 to $9; -No.3 hay, $6.60 to $7; clover mixed, $6.60 to $7.' \u2014\u2014e\u2014mreseemmprmareemtmm=uree BUTTER MARKET EASIER.The market is easier.The new make 1s increasing.and buyers tako that class whenever they can secure New milk creamery, 25¢ to 25 1-2c; finest held creamery, 24c to 25¢; seconds, 23c to 33 1-2g; thirds, 22c to 22 1-2¢; dairy Western, 20c to 2c; rolls, fresh.20c to 21.SOC OLD CHEE FINISHED.The market for old cheese is virtually over, and prices are nominally quoted at 12 1-4c to 12 1-2¢ for Weston and 11 7-8c to 13 1-8c for East- © : me eqs pee EGGS ARR ACTIVE.Prices show a deeHine for round lots 1-2-to 1e per dozen.sales being made ing discriminately -on all reactions for J.S.Bache & Co\u2014 We belièvé the © mt \u201c MAS BEEN MADE AT POWER PLANT Offilals of Canadian Power Co, Just Returned, Report Yery Favorably on Conditions Mr.H.R.Mallison, secretary of the Canadian Light & Power Company, Teturned this morning from St.Timo- thee, where he has been looking over the power plant and other matters apper- taining to it.Mr.Mallison was accompanied, in his In- | spection, by the |: chief engineer of |: the company, and | the results of his examination are of a character to give much encouragement.\u2018We went over the ground thoroughly,\u2019 said Mr.Mallison to the \u2018Witness,\u2019 \u2018and examined minutely all the details in connection with the construction work.I was very much pleased to find that this had progressed rapidly and satisfactorily, in spite of the severe weather prevailing during March.\u2019 \u2018Two of the generators are already erected,\u201d he continued, \u2018and are just undergoing the finishing touches.And we are now working on a third.The switch board and switching apparatus \u2014the latest perfection in this kind of mechanism js already installed.\u2019 \u2018Work along the canal and at the intake at Valleyfield is also very well in hand.The gates at Valleyfield, through which it is proposed to control the flow of water into the canal, are being placed in position and this section of the work is, to all intents and purposes, completed.The engineers calculate that they will be able to turn water into the canal by the first week in May, and that power will be turned on towards the middle of th: same month.\u2018The terminal station in the city,\u2019 he added, \u2018is farther advanced to completion than the main works at St.Timothee.This building is located on the canal bank, just opposite the Cote St.Paul bridge, and is to be used as an auxiliary steam plant, as well as the main receiving station for the St.Timothee current.\u2019 Mr.Mallison.BIG NEW FACTORY AT ST.TIMOTHEE.Mr.R.G.Toimie, the organizer of Cotton Prints, Limited, was with the inspecting party.His object in visiting the works was to select the site for the new factory and make preliminary arrangements with regard to the building of the mill.This company intends to erect a large factory at St.Timothee, where : secured favorable terms from the Canadian they have and conditions Power Company.\u2014prmenmh .BERLIN BOURSE DULL.\u2018Beritn, Maroh 31.\u2014Trading: was dull and prices were weaker on the Bourse to-day.: - The produce trade is looking for lower prices in butter next week.The prolific supply and the cheapness of the product in the United States markets makes oheaper butter inevitable, it is Local fruit dealers are optimistic as regards the coming season's business.They state that the fruit crop of the Niagara district promises to he much larger than last year, judging by samples of buds produced at the grower's convention at St.Catharines.Dry goods merchants are not fully sa- tisfled with the state of trade this spring.They staie that business has not been as active this month as for the like period last year.March opened well, but trade has fallen off during the last week or #0.A yaer ago retallers bought freely in anticipation of the advance in cottons and woollens.The weather was finer, too, than this March, and retailers were further advanced.There is to be a rearrangement of the grain quotation board in the Grain Exchange room, by which the Winnipeg section will occupy the section of the board formerly given to the Chicago pit.The growing importance of the Winnipeg.market warrants this alteration, Mr.Wm.H.Noyes, of Chicago.wes introduced on \u2018Change to-day by Mr.T.H.Reeves.- - pe OAT MARKET FIRM.The oat market is quiet and steady.Car lots of No.2 C.W.have heen sold at 38 1-2¢ in store.No.2 local 36 1-2%c; No.3, 35 1-éc; \u2018and No.4, 34 1-4c.INVESTMENT SECURITIES We offer Government, Municipal, Public Utility and Industrial Bonds yield- \u2018ing from 4 to 6 per cent.All offerings carry our recommendation.Send for our list of investments.Royal Securities Corporation, 164 8 James Shree, Heatrest | Toronto Quebec Halifax) London, Eng.LAKESUPERIOR PLANT BOOMING RUSHING WORK Mr.T.J.Drummond, president of the Lake Superior Steel Corporation, is in New York City, in connection with interests closely allied witlf the big Canadian concern.Mr.Drummond is of the opinion that the Lake Superior plant is destined to enjoy a very active career, and he reports that the huge extensions and improvements to the works in all departments are being rushed \u2018to completion while the plant at present is operating at full capacity.Work is also progressing steadily, according to Mr.Drummond, on the extension of the Algoma Central Railway from the \u2018Soo\u2019 to the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.The Helen, Magpie, and Josephine iron mines will thus be connected up both with the Canadian Pacific Railway and with the furnaces of the corporation at Sault Ste.Marie.About one thousand men are employed on the work, and notwithstanding the wintry weather the reports from the various districts are excellent.The Algoma Central will upen up a large section of new country rich in mineral, especially in iron ore, and tens of thousands of acres of pulpwood, besides pine, birch, and maple lands will be thrown open to cultiva- ton and manufacturing purposes.Te my WEST REPORTS TELL OF GREAT \"CROP RESULTS Winnipeg.Man.March 31.\u2014Care- ful investigation by local grain exchange members, by mill men.and reports from different points.show the most satisfactory agricultural conditions in the Canadian West to-day.Fall wheat is reported in excellent shape in both Northern and Southern Alberta, having come through the winter well.There is considerable increase in acreage.Experiments with fall wheat in some parts of Manitoba are also promising.The open character of last fall resulted in a hig amount of fall ploughing, though this would have been still further Increased had it not been for continued drought.But heavy and frequent snow falls, which have had a chance to soak well in, have removed this danger.It is difficult to estimate how much new land was broken last year ready for seeding this spring, but the area must have been very considerable, especially in Saskatchewan, where entirely new districts have been brought under the plough.Speaking by districts, estimates of increased acreage to be seeded to spring wheat run from ten all the way up to fifty percent, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 FLOUR PRICES UNCHANGED.Spring Patents, bags, $5.60; apring patents, Seconds.do.$5.10: ong Bakers, In bags, $4.90.winter patents, bris.$4.75, winter patents, do 90 percent.$4.26.do.in bags, $1.75 to $1.85; Extras, $1.60 to $1.70.\u2014\u2014\u2014p\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 FARMERS MARKET PRICES, Mar.31.The Bonsecours market iad a rathe: February appearance this much more so than llke the March.ast oO \\ aa === ENGLISH PEOPLE READILY TAKE UP OUR OFFERING London, March 31.\u2014The deman: popularity of Canadian securities aan local financial market.continues 10 a:.tract favorable attention here.and 11.investing public eagerly accepts on zu.recommendation practically all Teal, Canadian flotations offered for subsrri; tion or purchase.ï \" English and Canadian bankers have Just purchased $2,800,000 4 percent debentures of Vancouver, B.C, at par.Offering of $1,250,000 Bell Teiep one Company\u2019 of Canada was subscribed twice over in London.A considerane amount was awarded in ¢anada.This Is the first Canadian Bell issue 3nale in London.0 stiumulate building of god reac: in Manitoba, a movement is now on foo: looking toward provincial guarantee oc municipal bonds for building roads The proposal that British consnlg he Issued in small denominations ac st r.[red up discussion as to the advisabhili'y of the Dominion doing likewise Ties are.it is said, at least $1.000 000 000 2, posits of savings with Canadian banks and the government.TRADE VOLUME IS ON AVERAGE -COLLECTIONS Complaint is heard among © 1 re tailers of dry gonds and kindred vz with regard to weather cond tie se, vhich have as vet been Unlavorapie © any active spring shopping, and e- erul trading in the cauntry diktr.s is not of a very brisk character at - moment, but collectinns as a who'e continue to rule on the slow side.In wholesale cireles the Bituats-s Is not changed since sa week ago.Dr goods \u2018ravellers are not dong ve: reach as vet in a sorting wav.Place orders have not heen up to those .last spring, but the volume oF tra i has been about a fair average.As vices are to hand from manufac! rer.of carpets in Ktdderminster giving v.- tice of a general advance in pres, In groceries there is rather n,ne GOINg, and all values are steady, Calfskins are advanced two cents, No.1 being now bought by dealers at fourteen cents.Receipts of beef hid« = are light, and quality is poor.Two largest shoe factories are shit dewn at present, and niost of the aih- ers are pretty well through the,r spr.ng run, =o that the local demand for leather is not of an active character, but there is a fair business doing in job- ting leather with the country.The iron market shows rather more activity, and some good lots of Eng- lisi iron will arrive by firet incoming steamers.Owing to the large accumulation of stocks in English iron- masters\u2019 hands prices will be come paratively low, and business ia report.al at $16.50 to $16.73 ex dock for No.> English.Receipts of Seoteh iron will be comparatively small.English Representative of European Capitalists is Impressed With Canada Mr.Percy Garratt.of Jondon.England, has been making a tour of Western Canada in the interests of Fnglish and French capitalists.He spent =mev- eral days in Montreal, where he calied of Marwick, Mitchell & There were not many farmers from a distance with sleighloads for sale, but the were out strong, and large quantities of seasonable truck, especially cabbages, were offered for ssle at about forme: rates.There were half a dozen loads of grain, and 95c per bag was the price asked for the oats, and 581.20 the bag for buckwheat.potatoes, 8hc to $1 80° 1b.bag; beets, $1.25 to $1.35 do.oarrots, 90c do.; parsnips, 70c.do.onions, $1.30 do.: cabbages, $1 to $1.50 the barrel; celery, 90c the dozen; rhubarb and lettuce, 76c to $1 do.; leeks.15c to 20c do.There were no pork carcases or beef quarters offered by the farmers, but pork pieces were very plentiful up in the market hall, the prices ranging from 10c to 15c per Ib.: dead turkeys.22¢ per lb.; geese and chickens, 15c to 18c do.; tub butter, 23c to 25c do.: print butter, 25c to 30c do.; roll butter.2ic do.Eggs were plentiful at from 27c to 30c the Foren.but a few sold at 35c do.: cream, 30c to 85c the quart: apples, $4 to $7 the barrel: Valencia oranges, $1 \u201che case; California oranges, $2.75 the box: lemons, $2.76 do.bananas, $1.75 to $2 the bunch: tomatoes, 50¢ the small basket: hay.$7 to $9 the 100 bundles of 15 Ibs.: straw, $4 to $5 the 100 bundles of 12 \\bs.: REINSTATEMENT ee OF \u2014\u2014 APRILDIVIDENDS We own and offer a number of high grade bonds and\" stocks to yield from 5 to 8 per cent, and will be pleased to forward our April investment list on request.of produce We have special facilities for furnishing reports upon any of the securities listed on the Montreal | and Toronto Stock Exchanges.McCUAIG BROS.& CO.(Members Montreal Stock Exchange) 157 St.James Street.46 Elgin Street MONTREAL OTTAWA, ONT: W.GRAHAM BROWNE & CO.DEALERS IN BONDS.222 St.James Street, Montreal.MARWICK, MITCHELL & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, OF SCOTLAND, 11 Place D'Armes (Quebec Bank Bldg.) stock to a bank syndicate.involving | this week at 196 to 19-1-20., with à Resident Partner, a cash payment of over 36,000.tendency to lower prices.RENE David 8.Kerr, Cov (Boot).194\" Main RES ct rs re ES 8 a fT Sn mn ) ei fe is de x à a hs market ga:idenrers .- upon a number of banking institutions and business houses.Mr.Garratt 15 a member of the firm Co, chartered accountants.The progress made in Canada since his last visit impressed him greatiy, and he is most sanguine with regarao to the future of the Dominion CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.Chicago, March 31 - Cattle receipts, estimated at 1000.market 1Nc higher heeves, $5.25 to $6 30, Texas staevr, at $4.50 to $5.80, western steers.$4 90 to $5.80.stockers and feeders $i.u0 to $5.85; cows and heifers, $2.75 tn $6 NN; calves, $5.00 to $6.75, Hogs receipts estimated at 23.000 market steady to a =hade higher: light, $4.55 tn $6 95: mixed.$6.20 10 $6 C0 heavy, $6.10 to 868 65: rough.$£.:0 to $6.30; good tn choice heavy, $6.30 to $6 65.niger, $6.45 to $6.90, hulk aor sales, $6.40 to $6.60.Sheep receipts estimated at market steady.native.western, $3.25 to $5 00; vearlings.5 to $5.60; lambs native, $5.00 to $6 SR: western, $5.20 to §6 45.enon NOVA SCOTIA STEEL & COAL DIVIDEND NOTICE An Interim Dividend of TWO PER CENT.on the Preferred Shares, and ONE AND ONE-HAZF PER CENT.on the Ordinary Shares for the Quarter ending March 31st, 1911, has been declared, payable on Anril 15th, 1811, to Shareholders of record of the 31st of , 1911.Mee Transfer Bonks of the Company will be closed from March 22nd to March 29th, both days inclusive.By Order ef the Directors.THOMAS GREEN, Cashier.THE SHAWINIGAN WATER AND POWER COMPANY.DIVIDEND NOTICE.Notice is hereby given that a Dividend of One and One-Quarter Per Cent, (1% p.c.upon the paid up capital stock tue SHAWINIGAN WATER & POWER COMPANY has been declared for the quarter ending March 81st.1813, pava- ble April 20th to shareholders of record Apr] I f the Board O er © \u2019 wy or w.8.HART, Secretary.Montreal, March 22nd, 1911.CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED, uarterly Dividend on the Pre- tetes\u201d Shares of the Capital Stock of this Company has been declared, payable April 1st, 1911, to Shareholders of record of March 18th, 1811.Also, a Quarterly Dividend of One Par Cent on the Common Shares of the Capital Stock of this Company has been declared, payable April 1st.1911, to Shareholders of record of March 18th, 1811.WALTER BINMORE, Secretary-Treasurer.THE ONTARIO SECURITIES - COMPANY, LIMITED * We Own and Offer CITY OF WINDSOR, Ont.4% and 57.INSTALMENT DEBENTURES At especially attractive yield rate.Particulars gladly sent on request.\\ -\" Io \u2018brou Youre arre Le : at F ceed \u2018Chr state prof tend ihe and com ew As The Airs rd pen tae | en Crp stor REN \u2018a { ( A ve OPP - Pres ~~ 4 I % \"se- tp Bb / 4 / 0 1 .î me\" ~~ 7 oR d * i > me \u2014\u2014 INSPECTOR DEW SUES London \u2018Chronicle\u2019 Must Pay for Libellous Story From Quebec tl'anadian Assoclated Press.) London.March 31.-A libel action, \u201crought by Inspector Dew, of Scotland Vard, who figured prominently in the arre, A.Lewthwaite, Mr.J.Mackay, Mrs.H.MacKenzie, Mr.T.M.Mathews, Mr.A.McFarlan, Mr.J.F.A.Mervyn, Mr.A.Morris, Mr.J.P.Morton.Mr.8.A.Mowatt.Mr.N.T.Paterson, Mr.R.Perrott, Mr.and Mrs.N.Ormesby Scott, Miss R.V.Scott, Master R.D.=.Scott.Mr.S.A.:8locock, Mr.HO.Smith, Mr.L.Strauss, Mr.8.W, Stuart, Mr.R.H.hittaker, Mr.P.Willie, Mr.F.§, Winser.MONTREAL REPORTED.Cape Race, March 31.\u2014SS' Montreal.London and Antwerp, for Halifax and St.John.N.R.in wireless communication here when 220 miles south at 8.15 a.m.- LONG AERO FLIGHT.Frenoh Military Aviators Flying From Pau to Paris.Pau, France.March 31\u2014Captain Be- langer and Lieuts.De Malherbe and Derose, the French military aeronauts, started at seven o'clock this morning in an attempt to make the flight of about 500 miles from Pau to Paris, by way of Bordeaux.Derose's aeroplane led the way.HAVE REACHED - LIMBOURNE, Limbourne, France, March 31.\u2014 The military aeronauts reached here this morning.110 miles on their way from Pau to Paris, and 20 miles from Bordeaux.Derose was in the lead, Lut not liking the way his machine was performing.descended on the manocu- vre fleld here.He found that some of the wire guys had become losser.ed and that a little time would he required for repairs.Beiinger and Ie Malherbe brought their wachine down to see what was wronz with Derose.but learning that he need-+d no \u2018«ssi-t- ance, continued thei: \u2018ligh* toward Paris.Captain BE:anger made the trip from Paris 0 [aa in recorl time last month.pt IMMIGRATION INCIDENT.Macedonian Hustled Off in Auto.to Serve Term in Jail, Toronto.Marc 31\u2014The mysterry surrounding the alieged kidnapping of the Macedonian, Angelo Antanoff, from King street east, was solved this morning.The kidnapper was Fred Dillworth, who is an immigration inspector at Bridgeburg.Antanoff had sent his passport to a fellow countryman in the United States, who later turned up at Bridgeburg.Mr.Dill- worth suspected the fellow, and questioning him closely got him to admit the passport was not his and whose it was.The immigration officer promptly came to Toronto, inquired at 362 King street east for Antanoff, and when the latter came to the door hustled him off in a taxi-cab and then by train to Bridgeburg, where the Macedonian will have to do three months in jail if he cannot produce $200 and costs.Such summary arrest, it is understood, is within the powers of an immigration agent, whose appointment gives him wide authority.; \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AID FOR EMPIRE.Australasia\u2019s Naval Policy Praised in London.(Canadian Associated Press.) London.March 31.\u2014Mr.Alfred Lyt- tleton, M.P., at a meeting of the Bank of Australasia, spoke of the increased energy shown by the Commonwealth in promoting immigration and in providing for a fleet unit at an ultimate cost of £750,000 a year, while both the dominions are arranging to maintain a unit in Australasian waters in time of peace.Eventually they aim at manning them with Australian and New Zea- land seamen, and placing them at the disposal of the Admiralty in war time.These measures, Mr.Lyttleton said, were of great Imperial signi- .ficance, as they tested the strength and vitality of Imperial aspirations.PP \u2018Laxative Bromo Cures a Coldin One Day, LICITATION SALE On the 17th April, 1911, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon.shall be sold at tie of-\" fice of KE.R.Decary, Notary, 232 =.James street.Montreal, that certain lot of land, measuring two hundred and forty feet in width by about seventy-five feet in depth, forming part of Jot Number Sixty-nine (69).upon the Official plan and Book of Reference of tiie Municipality of Montreal, hounded in front by Cote St.T,ue Road in rear and on the last side by a portion of Lot No.69.belonging to Benjamin Decarie, Jr., and on the West side by another portion of lot No.69, belonging to F.X.Decarie, said lot being distant 350 fect from the Eastern line of Lot No.69.Said property 10 carie.For conditions of sale, app!y to the undersigned Notary.belongs Marc De- Montreal, 31st March.1911 IZ.R.DECARY.Natary.FOR SALE, (COTTAGE, 120 IRVINE avenue, Westinount.Seven rooms, bath and w.c., furnace, ble and harness room.Anderson street.two stall sta- Apply, No.73 TARIFF REFORMERS.Some Complaints and Fears Aired.(Canadian Associated Press) London.March 31.\u2014The Tariff Reform Commission has further considered the reciprocity question.It cem- yhasizes the complaint that no information is yet available regarding the instructions given to Mr.James Brvcr, the British Ambassador at Washington.The only mention in the publigh- ed papers of any item specified for reciprocity refers to fish, and reiterates the contention that reciprocity makes any extension of the Canadian preter- ence extremely difficult.It fears that Canada will be compelled to scek r.- lease from the most favored nation obligations through pressure of the United States.The British Government has not vet given out any information in regard to a Canadian-United States international joint commission.DYNAMITE IN POCKET.Exploded, Seriously Injuring Farmer and Wrecking House.Brockville, March 31.-Wi'h one les and an arm shattered, John Miller.farmer, living near Brockville.lies in the hospital here in a critical condition.A dynamite cartridge exploded : in his trousers\u2019 pocket.causing a wreck of the man and his house.Two sticks of dynamite being thawed out : under a stove a short distance away remained intact.Besides the fracture,\u2019 Miller is injured internally.FILTRATION PLANT.\u2018 1 Engineers: Report on Contracts\u2014No Sunday Work to be Allowed.The report of the engineer-in-chief regarding a contract for the construction of a filtration plant was referred by the Controllers to the city attorneys for examination and recommendations of any additions or modifications.Tenders for furnishing and installing pumping machinery, rotary blowers and cranes in and ahout the preposcd low lift pumping station of the filtration plant will be received up to May 15th next hy the Board of Control A certified cheque for $6.000 will have to accompany each tender.and the successful contractor must deposit ten percent of the total cost of the work bearing interest at four percent as a bond, and $20 a day for every day hy which he exceeds his contract.The Controllers anticipate that the whole of the work will he completed by September or October, 1913, ready for the initial tests.No Sunday work will be allowed on the contracts.es Ouly One \u201cBROMO QUININE,\u201d that is uinine à Days | FLY UNION JACK EVERY DAY.| Ottawa, March 31.\u2014The Hon.Wm.Pugsley.minister of public works is issuing an order to the effect that the Union Jack must be flown from every public building in the Dominion owned by the Federal Government on every day of the year except Sunday.A short time ago an order was issued authorizing the flviny of the flag on public buildings of border towns and seaports, and this has now been extended over the whole Dominion.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DIED.IN MEMORIAM.GIFFORD \u2014 In loving memory of the late Manliff M.Gifford.Esq.wlho passed away April 1, 1910.\u2018Gone, but not forgotten.EP 5 ET gp 2 a MONDAY SVENING \u2018Bhareholders of this Bank will be hela Montreal, March 31st, 1911.20m ee TME MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 3I, 7 91% Weekly Calendar ART GALLERY SPRING EXHIBITION WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY APRIL 1st Daily, 9to6 25e.Monday and Thursday Evgs.8 to 10, 10¢ Special Rates for Schools.Lion Congregational Church The Baily THitness 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Toronto, March 31.\u2014No more felicitous tribute or send-off could be paid | any man than that which was tendered the Rev.Dr.William Patterson, on the occasion of a farewell meeting in his honor at Cooke's Presbyterian Church last night.Dr.Patterson has accepted a call to the May street Presbyterian Church in Belfast, Ireland.He left last night by a late train for Philadelphia, and will sail this week.His Honor Lieutenant-Governor Gibson presided at the meeting, and Dr.Patterson delivered a most entertaining farewell lecture.On the motion of Lieutenant-Gover- nor Gibson, seconded by the Rev.John Neil, a message to the session and congregation of May street Church, Belfast, was enthusiastically passed.It recited that Cooke\u2019s Church, in conjunction with many other citizens of Toronto, desired to felicitate the session, members and adherents upon the settlement among them of a minister so distinguished among his brethren, so fully equipped by Christian grace, and so capable d fruitful in the exercise of his minfstry.GEORGIAN BAY CANAL.Civil Engineers\u2019 Resolution to be Considered.After considerable discussion a large meeting of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers last night decided to reconsider any action towards the Government with regard to the construction of the Georgian Bay Canal or the enlargement of the Welland (\u2018anal.At the last meeting a resolution was adopted requesting the council of the association \u2018to urge upon the Government the importance of study and report before any cominitments are made in reference to the damming of the St.Lawrence or the carrying out of any other great scheme of canal transportation.\u2019 The last few words were taken as a direct move by the association in opposition to going ahead with the plans of the Georglan Bay Canal scheme.This led \u2018to a general discussion, and it was finally decided to reconsider any further action at the next m.eting of the suciety.The Council have been instructed not to approach the Government until the matter has been further discussed.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 INDUCTION TO-NIGHT.New Minister of Fairmount Presbyterians Has Arrived.The congregation of Tairmount Presbyterian Church will see their new minister, the Rev.H.S.Lee, tonight, when the induction service will take place.Mr.Tee is a native of Ottawa.and his father, the Rev.A.Lee, of St.Elmo, is minister of the famous Gordon Church, of which Ralph Connor writes in his Glengarry stories.The new minister of Fairmount is a graduate of McGill, and his first charge was at Grand'Mere, where a mission to which he was sent developed into a church while he was there.Four Years ago he went to Applehill, and the congregation there parted with him with great regret.At the induction to-night.the Rev.W.R.Cruickshank will preside, the Rev.Peter Walker will preach the sermon.the Rev.A.S.Ross, Montreal West, will address the minister, and the Rev.C.W.Shelley will address the congregation.1 T\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Mr.Harry A.Price.assistant gen- ers} passenger agent of the Intercoio- | 1} 2} 6] 7} 8|/ 9/1 14 |15/16/1 21|22/ 23/2 28 | 29/30/83 .e» e.© ee SDP on a .° ° a FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1911.Mr, Borden is about to \u2018beard the \u2018lion in his den.\u2019 He is coming, we are told.to Montreal to-morrow, and will remain here 3everal days.Friends here are preparing to give him a cordial welcome, and to assure him of tHeir allegiance.There is no \u2018J'y suls, \u2018jy reste\u2019 about Mr.Borden's attitude.It his followers generally thought well to depose him he would: serve then where he could.But he is not content to be deposed by a little Nationalist-high-protection Montreal and Quebec clique.While in Montreal the position will be threshed out by the chief party representatives here, and the \u2018Witness\u2019 expects to be able soon to publiah a statement of what is actually effected.In speaking to a \u2018Witness\u2019 representative, Mr.Borden was inclined to think that matters will be amicably adjusted in this province, and | he was good enough to say to our representative that if he decided to make any pronouncement he would only he too pleased to give it to the \u2018Witness,\" \u2018because,\u2019 he sald, \u2018I appre- \u2018clate its fairnesa and impartiality in \u2018all matters, whether of a personal, * political, or national character.\u2019 pme Different reasons are given in different quarters for the attempt to unseat Mr.Borden.The \u2018Globe\u2019 puts it down to a movement of the high protectionists of Montreal to force the party to nail high protection to the mast.This is hard to understand, as our imagination has never ceased to see that standard proudly floating there.1t is true that that flag has begun io cause serious embarrpssment.The \u2018Globe\u2019 quotes some of the party newspapers as having said as much as a year ago that the alliance between the Censervative party and the high protectionist wing of the manufacturers was at an end, and that the Opposition party at Ottawa was free to promise the west tariff reductions.As for Mr.Borden.however, whatever be his con- vietions as to high protection.we were under the impression that, loyal to th2 traditions and alliances of his party, he had wrapped its colors round his) breast.Even when peregrinating tha west, and talking socialism, he said, so far as we Know, nothing in any other sense.Nor did he achieve.in dealing with it, the miracles of ambiguity which Mr.Balfour brings to bear on a similar embarrassment.If there is any lowering of the banner, we have vet to know it.But it would reveal an astounding lack of perspte- acity on the part of such a clear business head as that of Mr.Forget, who is quoted as a leader, not to sce that that standard will pretty soon have to be lowered.Another theory that comes from Ottawa is that the revolt was a French-Canadian movement\u2014that fis, a spasm of the Monk, or Natlonalist, wing of the party to get the upper nial, has returned from a trip to Monc- ton.- ea 7 hand.In some quarters it has been seven-eighths, are women.who would take Mr.Borden\u2019s place._Thig is still harder to adopt.Nothing could be more obvious than that such a change would smash the party to \u2018smithereens.\u2019 \u2014et\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Those who are searching the horizon for causes of separation betweon Canada and the empire have found new joy for their souls in the va- porings of a German jingo fire-eater.who says the object of the United States in offering remarkably favorable terms to Canada is to disconnect Canada from Great Britain.and set her up as an independent repuh- lic.Here is something entirely new.Herr Kanitz has disgorged it from his own anti-British fnwardness, for even our own bogey hunters never thought of it.The queer evidence Herr Kanitz, \u2018the leader of the German squirocracy, offers for his conclusion, is what he calls the enthu- sfasm with which Champ Clark\u2019s annexation speech was welcomed by the House of Representatives.Curious this, that annexation enthusiasm should be an evidence of desiring our independence! We are well aware that Champ Clark, Herr Kanitz's alter ego, being the leader of the old squirocracy of Dixie's land, fell into a little \u2018episodin.\u2019 as Samanthy Allen used to call it, in the century-old but somewhat trite spread-eagle vein, and that the lapse waa -greeted with: a semi-fronical cheer of.the traditional sort.The oldest man living heard in his childhood how every fourth of July, from the village liberty pole the eagle soared and soared until with one foot in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific, it spread its mighty wings from the Gulf to the Pole \u2014quite a remarkable \u2018squirm\u2019 that tickled our early risibles.But for statesmen to found theories of policy on such antique flourishes as that ls either silly or disingenuous.-\u2014_p_ Germany is frankly the obstruction in the way of the universal arbitration.But we can readily understand the difficulty of her position in entering into any pact with a country which has ceaselessly claimed supremacy as a condition of her existence.\u2018If England,\u2019 says the German Chancellor, \u2018came to a world's \u2018congress with such a programme \u2018she would have to reckon on an \u2018almost certain rebuff.\u2019 That was indeed just what Great Britain did do when Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man was premler.That conciliatory statesman could only say that of course all would acknowledge that it was with none but beneficent Intent that Great Britain maintained per no- cessary power.It seemed like a lame excuse; but there was more in it than that; for everybody knew, that wanted to know, that Britain, least of all nations.could afford to attack any other.and that her fleet was purely for defence.But that whole argument is neutralized by the ineolent and constantly repeated worq supremacy:-which we Have always deplored.Métthew Arnold used to say that the English :were honorable towards other, and towards \u2018dependent, peoples, but that they were not amiable.This saying, and the Anglo-Saxons\u2019 Teutonic lack of the dramatic sense which teaches men how a word will strike others, are vividly illustrated by this continued insistence on supremacy.which means a challenge to the whole world, and implies dictation to all other powers.Would it not be better for Britannia .to keep» as the Scots say, \u2018a civil tongue In her \u2018head,\u2019 and talk defence, not deflance?It is poetic to call the whole of the oceans Britannia\u2019s realm, and to call her mistress of the seas, but unde- mably it is insolent.This attitude of Germany should give Tanudlans to 3ee the value to thie world of the development of amity between Great Britain and the United States, and their own large responsibility and large interest in the matter.pm OUR SCHOOLS IN -1910.The report of the Superintendent of.Public Instruction for the year 1909- 10 contains a bewildening amount of statistical and other information Te- garding every educational establishment in the province which receives any measure of government support.Two features force themselves on the attention again and again.One 3 complished.the other its serious limitations.The total number of schools, including universities, classical colleges and special schools in the province 18 6.780, with a teaching staff of 14,000, Of these teachers, 5.805 are ecclesiastics and 8,195 are lay teachers: of the last number, 6991.or nearly The pupils number 394,915, an increase of 7,552 over the preceding year.This number includes, however, 7.238 boys and girls over sixteen, and 20,398 students in the universities, classical col- Jeges.normal schools and special schools: so that the net total of children of school age (from five to sixteen) attending school is 367,179; while we And that tHe full number of children between these ages in the province is 440,152, showing the startling numben of 72970 children between five : and sixteen years of age who are growing up without schooling.Educationiate, philanthropists and statesmen have for generations heen telling us that we need a compulsory education law, but if we are to judge by official silence we are no nearer than ever to that consummation.Bishop Blanche.in speaking of the educational situation on the north ghore of the Gulf of St.Lawrence, says: \u2018The popula- \u2018tion.poor and scattered, takes little \u2018interest in education.There has cer- \u2018talnly been a great change within \u2018the past few.years, and, with the \u2018help of God, I hope it will become \u2018more and more marked, but the peo+ \u2018has received mo education one does | \u2018not desire.it for one's children.Many \u2018fathers - and mothers pay but ttle \u2018heed to the regular attendance hinted that it would be Mr.Bourassa \u2018their children at school, they easily Ne CS a Sar PROM + SU AV nn the really great scope of the work ac- |.\u2018ple have to be educated.When one | ofl.\u2018allow them to absent themselves, and \u2018take no trouble to ascertain what \u2018progress they make.The little girls \u2018continue to attend school, but when \u2018the boys have made their first com- \u2018muniori they think their education ie \u2018finished, and the parents are easily \u2018brought to have the same opinion.It is to be regretted that there are too many parents in the province like- minded, though with much less excuse than the poor fisher folk of \u2018the Gulf.In the course of the various inspectors\u2019 reports we find the devotion and faithfulness of the teachers commended, but side by side with this are complaints, that they are so frequentiy young and inexperienced that they teach only for a while, and that fresh, inexperienced recruits have to , be sought for every year, that ther are often hardiy more than children themselves, and that in many cases they teach without diplomas.Mr.J.M.Turcotte, of Ste.Famille, reports that out of 117 teachers in his district twenty-three are only seventeen years old, and one hundred and eight are not over twemty.\u2018In the Protestant \u2018schools of the province of Quebec last year,\u2019 says Mr.Sinclair, head of the School for Teachers at Macdonald College, \u2018there were 502 teachers with- \u2018out certificates.À fpumber of these \u2018teachers may -B#tVe done fairly good \u2018work, but the fact temains (and if \u2018is a fact capable of scientific demon- \u2018stration) that as a rule, a year of \u2018professional training would increase \u2018the efficiency of each of these teach- \u2018ers fifty percent.When the loss of \u2018time of the children is considered, the \u2018question from a business standpoint is not can we afford to pay trained \u2018teachers, but can we afford to do \u2018without them?\" One of the Roman Ca- thoité inspectors, Mr.G.8.Vien, of Lauzon, eays: \u2018The mental attitude \u2018of several teachers Is also wrong/ \u2018They teach while awaiting something \u201cbetter, and school is merely a pas- \u2018time.\u2018This is very far from what \u2018Guizot says: \u2018The teacher should be \u2018 \u201csustained by a profound appreci- \u2018 \u201cation of the importance of his work.\u2018\u201cThe austere pleasure of having \u2018\u201cgerved mankind and secretly con- \u2018 \u201ctributed to the public welfare should \u2018 \u201cbe the worthy reward that his con- \u2018 \u201cscience alone can give him.\u201d\u2019 Like the poor clergyman who to the charge of preaching for salary and not for souls, retorted that \u2018he couldnt \u2018eat souls; the teachers might say that, great as the sustaining power of their appreciation*of their work may be, and preciotts as is the reward of conscience, there is hardly enough in these alone to provide food and clothing and a Tbof to cover them.No one \u2014except now and then a pupil\u2014ques- tions the fact that teachers are angels, but that even an angel can subsist on less than a hundred dollars a year\u2014which is well above the limit of many of our \u2018angels\u2019\u2014is a miracle of, the first water.Mr.Sinclair; after insisting on the value of trained teachers, says that there is not sufficient discrimination made in regard to salary between teachers with training and those without.He asks very pentinently: \u2018Why should a young \u2018woman \u2018spend #everal hundred dol- \u2018lars and two of the best years of her \u2018life in attendange at Macdonald Col- \u2018lege if after graduation she receives \u201c\u2018only the same salary as she would \u2018have received without such training?Speaking not from any coun- \u2018sel -of perfection, but from the wretched conditions that actually prevail, we get advice in the reverse sente from Mr.\u201cMcOuat, of Lachute, who believes that the supply of teachers will never come up to the demand until some cheaper diploma can be provided for some parts of the province than that now obtainable.1m view of the very low standard of equipment required this admission is tragic.We aro glad to see that in Montreal and Westmount the average salary has been considerably Increased.Speaking of Montreal and Westmount, it is curious to note that we have only forty-two Macdonald graduates upon our educational staff, while we have secured the services of.a score of teachers from England, Nova Scotia, Ontario and the United States.In spite of many handicaps which retard our educationa) progress, we are not blind to many excellent features in the principle and practice cf our schools.Several of the inspectors note that nearly all thelr teacaers have given up 'the old method of teaching, which consisted in making the children learn lessons without heeding whether they understood them or not, and are, instead, aiming at the stimulation of the mental activity of the children and/æt teaching them to make use of the knowledge already acquired to discover what they do not yet know.As query one knows the mental activity of children does not usually require much stimulation.Each one of them is usually.a living little Interrogation point.This heaven-sent hunger for knowledge the old system used .often to destroy.In: stead of teaching children the mean- hg of things it forced thelr minds into an attitude toward things, and especially toward books, which saw in them no meaning at all.We note that in Hull Normal School one of the things most enjoyed by the pupils during the evening recreation is conversation in English.\u2018Divided into \u2018small groups around their teachers, \u2018who are very familiar with the lan- \u2018guage, says Principul Corbell, \u2018they \u2018chat on past and present matters, \u2018and at the end of this first year they \u2018have become somewhat proficient in \u2018the Anglo-Saxon tongue.\u2019 This is a method that showld be extended as far as possible.It, ASwever, requires different teachers from most of those in our schools, It ts Interesting to find the import- | ance of antl-alcabolic teaching insisted on in several sections of the report.The Honorable Mr: La Bruere, Super- intendent- of Public Instruction, deals affects instruction in the schools.Süch instruction is given systematically In many Roman Catholic schools.In some instances the Franciscan missionaries used the interesting and effective medium of magic lanterns and moving pictures to impress these ies- sons on the minds of the childron.Mr.Filteau, of the Isle of Orleans, places the loss which \u2018the abuse of alcohol entalled upon his district last year as five hundred thousand dollars.This is an enormous amount in a rural division.He expects nothing but good from the decrease in licenses and Lhe instruction in hygienic temperance, which the children are receiving.We understand that a petition for anti- alcoholic Instruction in the Protestant schools will shortly be presented to the Protestant Educational Committee.The splendid work now being accomplished under the Roman Catholic auspices should certainly provoke us to emulation.On the whole the educational outlook for our province ls not discouraging.We have devoted teachers, we have bright pupils, we have excellent facilities for teacher training, we have educational leaders who are anxious that we should forge to the front on educational lines.We Have \u2018Indeed everything except the money and we hardly think, as the gravity of the situation is borne in upon the minds of our people, that this necessity will.be denied.MISS CAVERHILL-CAMERON'S CONCERT.One of the most pleasifg\u2014and, in some Tespects, the most pleasing\u2014of the invitation concerts given this season at the Nordheimer Hall, was the pianoforte recital of Miss Jessie Cav- erhill-Cameron, last evening.It was a programme calculated to please an audience of a popular character with a large admixture of connoisseurs, and it did so completely.How the audience revelled in the number bY Beethoven, which has long been entitled \u2018Rage over the lost penny, vented in a caprice.\u2019 and in Grieg's \u2018March of the Dwarfs\u2019 MacDowell\u2019s \u2018Shadow Dance, the Gluek-Brahms \u2018Gavotte,\u2019 and the Bach-Saint-Saens \u2018Gavotte,\u2019 as well as in other delightful numbers, such as Chopin's \u2018Valse Op.34.No.3\u2019 and Liszt's \u2018Albumblatt\u2019 The hall was crowded with admirers of the player, who has won the esteem and liking of musicians and music- lovers by sheer ability and a modest personality.TUNNEL THROUGH ALPS Remarkable Work Completed To-day \u2014Cost $20,000,000\u2014 Over Five Year's Work Berne, Switzerland, March 31.-Tho final obstruction to the Loetschberg tunnel through the Berucse Alps, was plerced by the laborers at 3.50 this morning, after five and a half years work and the expenditure of twenty million dollars.The tunnel, which is the third longest in Europe, measures 14,500 metres, or approximately nine miles.With the completion of the Loc:sch- berg tunnel, which was planned to g've the Simplon tunnel rallway \u201cne a direct connection with the railways which traverse Switzerland from north to south, there will \"bé a direct through route from Milan to Berne, thence to Caluls and Bontagne.The distance from Milan to Calais, by this route, will be about 875 miles, or nearly eighty miles less than the existing routes.The tunnel will be double-tracked throughout., FOUND HARMLESS \u2018BOMB\u2019 Was Its Purpose to Warn Judge in Chambers ?Chicago, March 31,\u2014Somebody slipped into the Federal Building yesterday, escaped the watchful eyes of the numerous special agents in the building and deposited a harmless \u2018bomb\u2019 within a few feet of the chambers of Judge Landiss court, on the sixth floor.The murderous-appearing parcel consisted of a big shotgun shell which had been emptied and filled with a substance that looked like hardened mucilage.It had been deposited in the vicinity of Judge Landis's chambers, beneath a newspgper.Charles De Woody, tchief special agent for the government, who is investigating the \u2018Black Hand\u2019 outrages in Chicago, used his knife on its outer coating and finally uncovered the mucilage.\u2018I don't know why it was placed there, said Mr.De Woody.\u2018It may have been a joke, or possibly a warning.At any rate I do not care to talk about it.\u2019 JAPAN'S NAVY EXPERTS.Five Will Study Construction of Battleships in England.Victoria, B.C., March 31.\u2014Five Japanese naval architects, on their way to England to study naval construction arrived here lost night on the SS.\u2018Empress of Japan.\" They are to be attached to the Vickers-Maxim & Sens\u2019 shipyards during the construction of the 28,000-ton battleship being built for Japan, which will have in its armament ten fourte-n-inéh guns.The Japanese Government, it is =aid, has in view the construction of tarce similar Dreadnoughts in Japan, RELIEF FOR CHINESE.Transport \u2018Buford\u2019 Arrives With Supplies at Shanghai.New York, March 31.-News has heen received here by cable of the arrival in Shanghal yesterday of the United States transport \u2018Buford,\u2019 whicn is carrying 1,200,000 tons of foodstuffs for the relief of the famine sufferers, The *Buford\u2019 will proceed to Chin Ki- ang to discharge her cargo, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GIVES $300,000 TO SCHOOLS.Chicago, March 31,\u2014Dr.D.K.Pearson, of Hinsdale, a suburb, will celebrate his ninety-first birthday.April 14, by the distribution of $300,000 to schools and religious organizations.This will.make his total distributions of recent years nearly five million dol- larg, most of which has been given to small colleges.\u2018I will celebrate my birthday by getting out of debt.\u2019 said the nonogenarian.\u2018A young man of my age has no right to be in debt.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE REV.W.D.REID RETURNING.The Rev.W.D.Reid, B.A.B.D, Superintendent of Missions of Albor- ta.will be in Montreal on Sunday.re he will speak in the forenooon the St.Giles\u2019 Presbyterian Church on the subject of \u2018Missions In Alberta.In the evening he will speak with last year's Temperance Congress a | 7 1 0 rm ES AIL 2000 a patate ay in the Maisonneuve Presbyterian Church on the same subject.y in the City of Quebec, especially -as it We reproduce above the Arms which have been assigned by the King to the Prince of Wales.They consist of the Royal Arms differenced hy the Prince's label, and charged in the centre with an escutcheon of the Arms of Wales surmounted by the Prince's coronet._ The inclusion of the Arms of Wales in the achievement of the Prince is an idea happily conceived and admirably carried out.It is obviously fitting that his Royal Highness should bear on his shield the Arms of his Principality, the more so that the precedent I8 now to be revived of investing him with the insignia of his princely Jurisdiction.The legitimate aspirations of the Welsh people are at the same time amply fulfilled.The new Arms are further interesting owing to the substitution of the Arms of Wales for those of Saxony, which have been borne hitherto by the Prince of CONSERVATIVES UPSET Party in Montreal Divided as to Leadership Dissatisfaction galore and increasing distrust seem to be the appanage of the Conservative party in Montreal, especially among the young element, which, for obvious reasons, is known as the Monk wing of the par- (From the London ty.The conspiracy to oust Mr.R.L.servative clans, as there are two well- defineg wings of the party here.Now, it is sald, that the belligerents want the head of Mr.Charles P.Beaubien, as treasurer of the Conservative organization, taking for granted that there is one In existence for the district of Montreal.Speaking of the matter, a well- known Conservative lawyer, and writer, erplained to a \u2018Witness\u2019 representative that owing to his state of fortune (Mr.Beaubien is considered a wealthy man), the present treasurer of the organization here is not in a position to understand the situation.That is why, following an example given at Ottawa for the past week, local Conservatives here are having internal differences that are difficult to patch.| Another thing is a potent factor in the present entanglemene.While the local Conservatives went en masse Lo hear Mr.Sifton speak against reciprocity, then can not accept him as chief: in fact, they would rather keep Mr.Borden as it is than accept Mr.Sifton, and the chances thut would follow.oo On the street to-day, and in Ton- servative circles, the idee prevails that Messrs.McBride and Monk would make an ideal team of leaders, and hope Is still entertained that the British Columbia Premier will make up his mind .0o make an alliance with the member for Jacques Cartier.This, It is said, Is what Mr.Bourassa has been trying to arrange for some time.On the other hand it is stated by cooler heads that Premier McBride has too much of A bright political future before him, to attach the vehicle of his fate to that of Mr.Monk; besides, it is quoted there is a Jong way between the Premiership of British Columbia and that of the Dominion.WANT SIFTON AS LEADER.The \u2018Soleil\u2019 Discovers an \u2018Imperial istic Conspiracy.\u2019 Under the caption of \u2018The True Situation,\u2019 the \u2018Soliel\u2019 (Quebec) publishes the following in its issue of vesterday: \u201cThe attempt made to oust out poor Mr.R.L.Borden from his leadership.an attempt which is now an avowed one, even by Tory ncwspapers, does not only Interest the Conservatives: it is, first of all, a very certain indication of the schemes which go beyond the lines of party interest.It is the thrust of the imperialistic Tory element that has just displayed itself.\u2018Unless one is blind.he cannot fai: to acknowledge the existence of a strong movement in the campaign which has been going on for some time against reciprocity.The rupture of Mr.Sifton from the Liberal party, which, as a matter of fact took place a few months ago: his starting on a campaign on the question of reciprocity, are not mere accidents, but the result of a long pre-conceived plan of action.\u2018Mr.Sifton is the protectionists, manufacturers, and the imperialists\u2019 man.If the coalition ever succeed in ousting Mr.Borden, take it for granted that Mr.Sifton will be the candidate of its succession.And the advent of Mr.Sifton te the leadership of the Opposition will be the signal of an uprising en masge of all the fanatical clements in Canadian politics.It is probable that the Conservatives have no illusion on this subject, and that is why they rally around Mr.R/ TL.bBor- den, even with the little confidence they have in him as a party leader.Most of them are aware of the dangers which would follow the triumph of a Sifton-\u2018Star\u2019 clique.It would mean for our country the signal of disturbances and fits which would throw us fifteen years behind.and the consequences of which would be threatening.\u2018How long will Mr.Borden withstand the attack?Jt is hard to tell, but what §8 to be feared is that Mr.Ror- SE TY en Tin IT rn NS den, frightencd by this conspiracy.Borden as leader of the Opposition \u2018 has had its boomerang in local Con- | THE ARMS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.\u2018Times.\u2019 Wales in common with th.Fe descendants of Queen Victoria and Loe Prouble 101 - Special heels aud 000 i \u2014 Double eo\u201d - Black and °¥ -.All sizes CAS tr A SERA a SHR A An ar diet i.= - 05 RS VOS ES REASON EN PE a M cna a \u2014\u2014F Fo NOS) gem EE eee re EEE JT ae 8 5.30 y moss, plum.la3es.feta > vd.and >, TOWN.Rose.gun.\\hite.js.41 isle , with | toes: EN \u2014\u2014 an \u2014 | keepssilverware 1 just like new === (nal, illuminating and cook- nz gas quickly tarnishes your gold, silver or plated-ware.i + WONDER-SHINE regularly.Te beautiful lustre of your favor- vo will delight you.WONDER- SHINE keeps them just like new and no rubbing.Simply dip Levies in WONDER-SHINE, -ns and drv with a soft cloth.Removes tarnish instantly\u2014a few minutes\u2019 work.Try it.[J At vour dealer's, 23¢c.a package.Household Convenience Co.Limited 2703 ee TORONTO, ONTARIO Of all the Col- oredGemsnowso much in demand, - the Amethyst, by virtue of its rich purple color, is the most clearly associated with Easter.Of our Easter offerings,a pair of Amethyst |R4A and Pearl Ear- 3 rings, set in 14 | karat gold, at iÿ $1 2.75,are most attractive.& Sons, Limited CHILLIES SQUARE T0 HAVE WINDOWS PROPERLY CLEANED | Phone Main 1203.NEW MAPLE SUGAR and SYRUP, THE FIRST OP THE SEASON, QUALITY VERY FINE, At WALTER PAUL'S \u201c Queen Mary from | British Empire! up \u201ctheir minds.' pied and their bodies kept in good con- -; the nerves.coming on, got busy, and \u2018work it off STORER: 461 ST.CATHERINE ST.WEST, ANDY AT 80 UNIVERSITY ST.EXCURSION TO WESTERN | CANADA, APRIL 4th.\u2014 | + The Grand Trunk Railway have ar- | ranged for a special excursion nnder the patronage of the Heverend Father tniellette, Duminion Colonization Agent for the Province of Alberta, from Montreal tu points in Alberta.In connection with this excursion, through | tourist sleepers and through colonist sicepers will be operated, leaving! Montreal 10.30 p.m., April 4th, to run through to Winnipeg, Vegreville, Ed- | monton, and other points In Western | \u2018arada without change.The accom- inudation in these cars is very com- tortahle.thers being large double berths, mattresses.linen, blankets and Pillows provided in tourist cars, there emg a small charge for accommodat'on in these tourist sleepers.In the rolenist sleepers there are upper and Inwer herths, accommodating two people.which are also very comfortable, but passengers must provide their own bedding, 2.d there is no charge for accommodation in these cars.There are regular cooking ranges in the cars, and passengers ! ve the free use of same, and they will, therefore, be able to do their own cooking.and make coffee, tea, heat milk, ete.~ this date.April 4th.the first .omeseekerg\u2019 chap excursion will takr place, and persons intending to travel may obtain full particulars from their nearest rallway agent, or bo writing to the Rev.Father Ouel- Jette, Ki 1-2 St.Antoine street.Mont- \"4.or Mr.J.Qui.lan.District Pas- 8énger Agent, Grand Trunk Rallw: 4, Montreal _ .i [SE EN if she has Of Interest to Women.B The \u2018Witness\u2019 THREE NEW HAT MODELS.Daily Fashion Mint.st ce etre * > \u20182 WOMEN'S MEETINGS 2 + TO-MORROW.2 Seefeld Storage etre Lecture on the \u2018Care and feeding of infants\u201d by Miss Phillips, superintendent of the Foundling and Baby Hos- vital, at the Y.W.C.A., at 8.15 pm.GIFT TO QUEEN MARY.In urder \u2018to reach everyone interested.the aldermen have been asked to bring before the people in their wards the subscription from the Marve of Montreal to the coronation gift to the Marys of the A meeting was held at the residence of Mrs.James Robinson, wife of AMerman Robinson, 626 Sherbrooke street west, vesterday, when the following ladies were appointed to canvas in 8.Lawrence ward, and to accept contributions at their home:\u2014 Mrs.Lnddington.90 Iaval avenue; Mrs.Thurston, & St.Famille street: Miss Eglaugh.733 Cadieux street; Mrs., Dunlop, 92 St.Famille street; Mrs.Bagg.17) Nt.Famille street; Mrs.Norris.146 Hutchison street: Mrs.Barlow, 52 Park avenue; Miss Dar- ragh.175 Bleury street: Mrs.W.Paul, 33 Park avenue; Mrs.Earle, 96 Shuter street: Mrs.W.Kearns, Bi Park avenue: Mrs.W.Scott, 115 Hutchison street: Mr, A.H.Bastien, 247 St.Catherine street west; Mrs.Charles Fyfe.111 Shuter street: Mrs.W.J.Egan, 80 1-2 St.Famille street.STOP THE RUNAWAY NERVES.{ow often we meet womer who complain of being nervous.What they really mean is that they have not con- :trol of thetr nerves, but let them run away.A woman ma) be of a nervous temperament, and vet have such good control of her nerves that she never complains of being nervous, writes.Dr.Edith B.Lowry, in \u2018Woman's World\u2019 for March.Lo .Many women need a hobby to take their spare time and to occupy If their minds are occu- goon will T£ you dition by proper care.they gain control of their nerves.find yourself getting nervous, make up\u2019 your mind to overcome it by filling vour life 80 Mill of work and play that vou will have no time to give way to When you feel an attack Ther: is a class of women who possess comfortable homes, with a maid to do the work.whose home duties are not confining.and who find themselves with a great deal of extra time on their hands.To these women the days are lonz, and they endeavor to pass away the time by doing nerve- racking fancy work, or by \u2018fussing\u2019 around the house.They are not happy and contented, chiefly because their minds are heing neglected \u2014are growing up to weeds like a neglected gur- den.For such 2 woman club work is a boon.she should take up some especial branch of work and devote several hours a day to the study of it.At first this will be hard.for a mind that has fallen into lazy ways is not easily aroused to continual effort.the deeply rooted weeds are not easily destroyed.No woman should allow hér mind to grow up to such weeds.If the circumstances of her position, her education, or her environment seem to make it unwise that she should take up any work that would bring a monetary reward.she easily can find some chari- tahie work that needs all the energies #he can devote to it.If such a woman would take up some especial branch of philanthropic work she would be amply rewarded.notBonly by the con- aciousness of the gnod she had done, but by the improvement in her own health and happincss.There is another phase to this lack cf nerve control shown in a nervous tension, an inability to relax and en- Joy life.Some people go through tha day on such a nervous tension that they are nnable to take cognizance cf their surroundings.A woman who, a few spare moments, can He down and relax absofutely, ner.haps even drop tn sleep.has a better chance to stand the stress and strain nf business or of housekeeping than the one who finds it impossible to dn so.Plenty of sieep is imperative.and yet ss many neglect this great restorer of the nervous gystem.Frequently they complain of an inability to go tn sleep easily.and spend long hours of the night Iving awake and entertaining worry thoughts, This symptom of disordered nerves should not be neglected.A warm bath before retiring, followed by a gentle massage, especi- aliy along the spine, will, by relaxing the nerves and muscles, produces ve-y good results.A hot, foot bath.by drawing the blond way from the brain.often will he heneficlal.A glass of hot milk or cocna taken just before retiring may have the same effect.If the sleeplessness is a result of indigestion a plain diet will relieve.Sleeping upon a hard bed without a pillow sometimes produces the destred effect.Always have plenty of fresh air in the room.Keep the mind free from the cares of the day.If they will intrude.crowd them out by repeating some soothing: sentence.Never take any #leeping powders except upon the advice of a physician.Treatments to tone up the nervous system and to improve the circulation often are indicated in these cases of \u2018nerves.\u2019 | Control your nerves, do not let them control you.A CALLING WITHOUT AMBITION Making all due gllowance for the flood of incompetents that give some color to the housekeepers eternal plaint about servants, it may be asked what is being done to make domestic service attractive.What fleld does it offer to intelligent, capable girls or; women\u201d As 4 matter of fact.in spite of the Jokes in comic papers as te the modern servants\u2019 exactions, there has realy been retrogression instead of progression in the position of the domestic servant\u2014she has fallen from being as she was so often in the olden times, a member of the household, one with interests in ity joys and its sorrows and its fortunes, to being a mere machine, declares a student of \u2018he \u2018problem.\u2019 In many houses.from the time a girl gets up in the morning at six o'clock, until she goes to bed at ten or later.there is never an hour sha can call her own.Ang there is no incentive towards progress\u2014there is a rate of wages which fts competent and incompetent alike.The girl who has done her hest to save her mistress in anxiety and money will find herself at the end of a year in just the sam= position pecuniarily as if she were the moat careless and extravagant of her class.The effort to keep up appearances beyond the means of the family, in a certain class of household, adds to the difficulties.How often can | it be told with truth that the displuy in the drawing-room is counterbalanced by economy in the kitchen?With all conditions of domestic service there is discontent.Perhaps it is that modern ideas of life are against anything which subordinates the whole of one individual's time and tastes and necessities to the control of another.And this really is the case if we come to consider hetween mistress and servant: that there dye easy pia- ces and \u201cconsiderate misty®: \u201cMas nothing to do with the gereral,principle! Some sort of readjustment must be made n° fe near future.There must be a definite regulation as to hours of work, and the personality of the Jdo- mestic helper must be considered, to the extent at least of providing her: with comortable surroundings.Wher= domestic service is so regulated as tou! make it an attractive Hvelihood for in- | telligent, capable, well-educated girls, | who will bring brains and scientitic Knowledge to all departments of housework, the incompetents will soon Le forced to quit, and comfort will reign im the land.BOWS IN MILLINERY.Ribbon hows, and bows of silk, velvet, supple straw.etc.play a considerable part in the adornment of the spring millinery, particularly the tailored hat.Big bows with very wide loops pulled out to their full width and posed on edge are set on the top of the crown in some hats of which it is desired to add to the height.Large bows of soft silk or satin are sometimes posed at the side front, hiding almost all of the hat crown.Enormous tulle and lace bows are promised for summer hats.The bow of upstanding loops posed against the crown, usually at one side of the back, is a popular trimming on high- draped turbans.The big bow in the back comes Ir with the hat turned squarely up in the back, a one time favorite that is here again this spring.The hat turned up in the back and down in front does not sit up high on the coiffure and tilt forward at a sharp angle Ab it once did.It has ample head size, sits comfortably low and the back is usually filled in with some sort of large bow of silk, satin, tulle, or velvet.A model of this class was of very fine supple straw in bright soft red.It had a medium crown and wide brim.the latter turned up sharply in the back.plaited a little and held by a band of very wide velvet coming from under the crown, passing diagonally across the upturned brim and through a slit in it and then being brought around to tie in a big flat bow on the tight side of the crown.while over the top showered big silky pop- ples.LET THE BOY DO HIS SHARE.In an address before \u2018parents and guardians\u2019 a while ago.the head mistress of a girls\u2019 school for advanced classes called attention to the handicap that girls have to contend against in their home duties.as compared.with boys.It was not that she thought girls should be entirely exempt from helping in the household\u2014rather a certain amount of housework and the performance of some home .dutles are good training in more ways than one, But this teacher complained that boys were not made to do their fair share.but allowed to spend their time in their own way.In some families there was always something for a girl to do in the house.and her time for study was seriously curtailed, but it was understood in most households that a hoy should have everything done for him.This was bad for the boy as well as unfair to his siater.Even when the children were older and working for the same examination, such as the matriculation, the girl always had more outside duties than the boy.NEW FASHIONS HEALTHFUL.With the new fashions in dress the ola ailments are disappearing.Surely now, if ever, women may Carry on their duties in some degres of comfort.and with leas risk to their healt, The cult of the large waist and collarless neck has more, however, than mere comfort back of it.It has tmbedded in its depths the germ of health.If one doubts this, look at the It is not necessary to reiterate the evil effects of tight collars.The collarless blouse, let it be criticised as it may, has much to do with the well- being of the modern girl.Add to the collariess blouse an unrestricted waist and skirt of convenient walking length.and one has a structure upon which to build for health.1t is with relief that the feminine world realizes that the compress- { ed waist of other days is as unfashionable as it is unhealthy.No mod- corr woman would tolerate the torture of tight stays.And now we are told that the corsetless figure is to become the fashion.So it would seem that wonien., so far as dress is concerned, are at last started upon the road that leads to health, \u2018 A DAILY COOKERY RECIPE.Codfish creamed\u2014Clean four or five pounds of codfish, and cook it in boiling salted water.to which a tablespoonful of vinegar has been added, till the flesh separates easily.Drain, let cool, then remove the skin and bones.and pick the fish apart in flakes.Sprinkle well with salt and pepper.Make a rich white sauce.Put a layer of fish on a platter, cover with the white sauce, letting the flsh soak up all it will; then another layer of fish and sauce.Maisten a cup of cracker crumbs in meld butter, and spread them over the top, Set the platter in the oven over a pan of hot water, and bake till the crumbs are brown.Garnish with parsley.\u201d To make the sauce, heat a pint of milk in the double boiler.Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, stir in quickly two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, pour on the milk gradually, stirring to make it smooth and free from lumps.Let it boil to thicken, season with salt and pepper, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley.and a \u2018few drops of onion juice if the flavog As desired.% THE \u2018WITNESS\u2019 DAILY PATTERN.The home dréksmaker should keep a little catalogue scrap book of the dally pattern cuts.\u201cThese will be found very useful to refer to from time to time.8894-2884.\u2014A FASHIONABLE GOWN.Blue marquisette with order of Persian colors and pattern was used for this design.The waist is made with a vest outlined by plaited portions, in front and back.The sleeve is cut in one with the waist portions.A tucker (that may be omitted) supplies the under sleeve, The skirt is gored and finished with a tunic.The waist pattern 8894 is cut in five sizes: 34, 36 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure.The skirt pattern 8884 is cut in five sizes: 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30 inches waist measure.It will require nine yards of 36- inch material, with 1 1-2 vards for the tucker of 27-inch material, for the entire gown.This illustration calls for two separate patterns, which will be mailed upon receipt of 10 cents for each in silver or stamps.RARARARNRARN NER RAD PATTERN COUPON, Please send the above-men- tioned pattern a8 per directions given below.No.srsncceues size erçocceo ses 01100000 0c0007 Name Address in full crsescvssestsesPrsnnsnnne ecccs000 11200000 0000000000U000û BLE BBL TRELB TREXLER RE XEE SESE REL EBL BREE RELI À à À set0eresssstenBeettctattstsnere N.B.\u2014Be sure to cut out the illustration and send with the coupon carefully filled out.The pattern can- pot reach you in less than 2 week Price 10 cents each.in cash, postal or stamps.Address: Witness women and notice how much fresher | and healthier they look now than they did a few seasons agd, _ note rads Department, \u2018Witness\u2019 Blook, on oo THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS, FRIDAY.MARCH 3t; I9it.mou ue UW srl ud Sts = Je For btoisrenss .IMPORTED DRESSES Easter ; S ® are ample rewards in soon to buy for Easter displays.Raised and natural waist lines, kimon and tailored sleeves, plain and fancy skirts.FINE CASHMERE, FRENCH SERGES, ETC.$20.00 + $100.00 485-487 ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST, MONTREAL.Toronto.IMPLE, pretty, wearable frocks, full of charm and individual character.Truly there the woman who realizes it is not a day too good selections for from our complete SOFT SILKS, Winnipeg.MANAGER OF MURPHY'S Mr.F.M.Johnston Has Had a Fine Business Career.\u2014 Mr.F.M.Johnston, who has recently arrived in Montreal to take-charge of the business of The John Murphy Company, Limited, has been associated with the Robert Simpson Company, of Toronto, for about ten years.It is not his first experience with Montreal, as he was sent here six years ago as buyer and manager at the time his firm bought out the John Murphy Company.He remained two years in Montreal before being sent to London, England, as resident buyer for the company.Later he was called to Toronto, where he has been department buyer and manager until the present change.His experience with the firin not only in Toronto,, but in Montrea: and London, Eng., wil} be a most valuable asset to the company\u2019s.business in Montreal.and to thé large army of customers who are supplied by them.A MISS CERINI LAID TO REST.The funeral of Miss Louise Cerini.who died on Tuesday morning, took place vesterday afternoon.from her father's residence, 61 Beaver Hall Hill Besides friends of the family, many who had known and esteemed the deceased attended the funeral service, which was conducted by the Rev.Malcolm A.Campbell, of the First Presbyterian Church, and the Rev.L.Lattoni, pastor of the Italian Methodist Church.Feeling reference was made to the good work which Miss Cerini had accomplished by her untiring efforts in the missions among the Italian people and in other church and philanthropic duties, always cheerfully performed, while her life im itself had been an example and an in- fiuence for good.The ohief mourners were the father and mother, Mr.and Mrs.G.M.Cer- ini, three brothers and one sister: Beautiful floral tributes were received from Mrs.T.Sterry Hunt, Mrs.w.J.Logan, Dr.F.Watier, the Misses Kin- loch, the Rev.L.Lattoni and family, Mrs.Theodore Labatt, Miss B.Coch- rane, Migs Wheeler, Mrs.E.A.Bay- nes.Miss Baynes, Mrs.Hubert Bur- mester, Mr.and Mrs.J.Orgill Norrie, Italian Methodist Church, Lega Cris- tiana Settembre, Mrs.E.Kyle.Missy Beckingham, Mr.and Mrs.Guiseppi Vincelli, Mrs.Corio and family.Miss St.Germain, Mrs.Bremner, Mr.and Mrd.Lanzilotta Mandorino, Mrs.Atkinson and family.Mrs.H.Heathcote, Mrs.Jack W.Armistead, Miss Swen- son, Mr.Bromley.A MEMORIAL TO MRS.PERLEY.Ottawa, March 31.\u2014 A tablet to the memory of Mrs.Perley, wife of G.H.Perley, M.P., erected by her friends in the county of Argenteuil.was unveiled at Grace Church yesterday afternoon by the Arehbishop of Ottawa.assisted by the rector, Rev.J.F.Gorman.GUARANTEÉED/oREDUCE #071/0 GD. \\ : k l iq: = om PE vag \u20ac y tm eer - ary pu i ) me ÿ pe Rt a vestes + pre *y LE 7 SE a SEE ry db) SH AN / | To fi 1° 200 5 © to their duties.12 r + Tooke\u2019s 2% Inches (THE \"MONTREAL DAILY \u2018WETNESS.FRIDAY.MARCH 3: 1H.Deep Made in Quarter Sizes 12/2 CENTS EACH.R.J.TOOKE, Limite St.James and St.Catherine Sts.ie PROROGATION MOTION LOST Effort to Have Parliament Adjourn Until Later in Year Fails fRADE WITH WEST INDIES.Commission's Report Discussed But Trade Agreement Considered Unlikely\u2014Western Miners\u2019 Strike.\" Ottawa, March 31.\u2014The greater part ef vesterdar\u2019s session in Commons was spent In committee of supply on the estimates of the department of railways and canals.Mr.Foster caused a short discusion on the trade relations between Canada and the West Indies by reviewing the report of the Imperial Commission which recently inquired into the sub- Ject, and recommending that the Government take action on its recommendations.Mr.Fielding pointed out that there were difficulties in the way, but that the Guvernffient proposed to do its best.In reply to a question by Mr.Borden.as to whether the Government had anv information as to the armament of the nine vessels which the United States Government maintains on the Great Lakes, Sir Wilfrid Laur- jer said he was under the impression that the Government had some confidential information, but he was not sure, Major Herron inquired of the Minister of Labor as to the strike situation in Southern Alberta.The Hon.Mackenzie King, in reply, r°ad the telegram he sent on Wednes- da) to the leaders of the cofl miners, asking them to use their best efforts to avert a struggle.His telegrain, he said.had been acknowledged by Mr.Carter, secretary of the district union at Fernie.but no reply had yet been received from the other labor leaders to whom the telegram had been addressed.The minister added that the department proposed to do its best to avert a strike.At the present time an official was endeavoring to induce the interested parties to arbitrate under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act.At the moment, however, he could not bu: regard the situation as critical.Mr.George Taylor asked if it was not so that a couple of years ago, when a strike was on in the same district, the miners had defled the Minister of Labor and the department to do anything.Mr.King pointed out that when tha mine at Hillcrest locked out its men the law was invoked, and the company was fined.The law could be taken advantage of by either side.Mr.Richard Blain wanted to know if it was the policy of the department to favor free or organized labor.Mr.King said that # was the policy of the department to watch the general interests of the working people, and not to tzke sides ome way or the other.' On the motion to go.into supply.Mr.E.N.Lewis moved an amendment to the effect that owing to the existence of typhoid, aud the frequency of oul- breaks of smallpox and other diseases ip Ottawa, the House, after voting supply, should adjourn till the early autumn, .The motlon was to have been seconded by Dr.Chisholm, but he did not happen te be in the House, and when it was rea?there wag no seconder, and it was declared lost.The ppenkeer named Dr.Daniel as seconder, ut the medical man fr st I N.B., declined the honor.Joan, CHARGES CIVIC MISM ANAGEMENT.Before moving his amendment, Mr.Lewis kad a number of rather hard things to say about the administration of civic affairs for the city of Ottawa.He described it as a \u2018cosmopolitan hodge-podge.\u201d The civic authorities, he declared, did not attend The sewage system of tha capital would not be tolerated in most towns of four or five thousand population.It was not so much a cage of afzuirs being mismanaged as not being managed at all.On the whole, he thought it was high time for the Federal Government to take over the management of the capital.After dilating on the danger of a renewal of the typhoid epidemic in the fly season, Mr.Lewis moved his jll- fated amendment, The Hon.George Foster then entered upon a speech dealing with the trade relations between Canada and the West Indies.He reviewed the work and recommendations of the Imperial Commission which inquired intn the matter, and of which the Hon.W.8S.Fieldinz and the Hon.Wm.Patterson were members, emphasizing the fact that this commission was initiated by Canada.and not by Great Britain.The report, he said, was explicit in its recommendations, and all the members of tte commission agreed as to the desirability \u2018of preferential trade relations existing between Canada and the West Indies.Resolutions passed ty public bodies in the West Indies also indicated an improved sentiment in regard to closer trade relations with this country.Mr.Foster stated that conditions for a big trade interchange between Canada and the West Indies were ideal The West Indies had most pleritifully what Canade could never raise hut must have; Canada \u2018had what the West Indies needed but coulé not raise The West Indies had limit of develop- like not reached their ment, as many supposed, but, Canada, had a great future.\"MAY OPPOSE TRADE AGREEMENT.The recent report of the West Indies Commission was excellent.In fact, Mr.Foster said, there were many excellent things embodied in the reports of commissions and in blue books.i3at it was like ashes in the mouth when a commission did good work and en- bodied it in a report, and then found the report getting old in pigeon holes without being acted upon.It was the temptation of governments to let cuwn- mission reports go this way; it was the glory of governments to see that good recommendations were acted upon.He suggested in this conncc- tion that the Dominion numbers of the Secretariat published by the Colonial Office in England, be obtained in quantities for use of members and Canadian Board of Trade.\u2018Mr.Fielding agreed with Mr, Foster for the most part, and he complimented him on his able review of West Indian-Canadian conditions since Mr.Foster visited there offictally in 1890 to the present time.Mr.Fielding, however, did not think that .the reciprocity agreement with the Unitel States would have the serious effrct that Mr.Foster and others had esti-, mated.The two trades did not conflict except on a few points.And fruit was already on the free list, this Le- ing the principal export of the West Indies.Jamaica had recently, through her governor.taken strong grounds against any reciprocity trade arranse- ment with Canada.which went to show that an arrangement with these islands would not be as easily arranged as some thought.However, it would be the duty and the pleasure o° ihe \u2018Government to do all that it could in making any trade arrragement wirh these British possessions.Mr.fielding spoke in agreement with Mr.Foster's idea for the most part.Mr.R.L.Borden urged the importance of this trade both because it was a natural trade: one nation\u2019s exports fitted in with the other.Moreover, it was an Imperial step, as both belonged to the same big Empire.He also questioned Mr.Fielding as to the steamship arrangements between the two countries.British Guiana\u2019s trade was most important, and it was looking Canadaward, which statement Mr.Fielding agreed with.; Mr.Fielding stated that when he was in England he had spoken of an arrangement whereby the West Indian mail would come to Canada and would be forwarded from Canada to its destination by fast steamers.But the islands desired the direct mail as has been the custom in the past, and only a few days ago he had received word that the British Government could not enter into the contemplated arrangement on account of the desire of the islands for the direct route.This was rather a disappointment, as it took away the British assistance in the matter of a fast steamship communi cation.What the Government would ultimately do would later be announced.The House then went into committee of supply on the estimates for the Department of Railways.FOUND GOLD IN MORTAR.How Every Gravel Pit Around Cochrane is Staked, Cochrane, Ont., March 31.\u2014 While taking down the chimney of the Coch- rane Hotel in the last fire, a plumber named Earle saw a shining speck of metal in the mortar.He took it to a prospector friend, who pronounced it to be gold.Search was made as'to where the sand came from, and it was discovered it originated from a pit where gravel had been dug out for grading.As the news spread there was an- exodus from town, headed by Mayor MaManus, and the whole of the gravel pits in the vicinity are staked on.On the chance that the wrong pit had been found, others staked the other sand pits in the vicinity.They are now busy panning the gravel., -\u2014\u2014j-\u2014\u2014\u2014 PROF.FERRER\u2019S EXECUTION.Government's Course Defended by Spanish Premier.Madrid, Mdrch 31.\u2014Premier Canale- jas in the Chamber yesterday explained the government's attitude in the case .of Professor Ferrer, founder of the modern school, who was executed 1909.The debate on this subject is dragging along practically without incident.The Premier said that the government's first duty was to uphold the administration of justice and to maintain order.He recognized that the military code law might be modi- fled with advantage, but he declared that the sentence of Ferrer was jus: tifled.The government, he oxplained, could not examine into the trial, for its functions are limited to ensuring execution of the laws.He feared that the present campaign was only the prelude to a series of acts which they all would have to reprove.i | \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SINNER A PLAGUE SPOT.Father Frere's Address to Penitents \u201c Who Renewed their Vows, \u2018Wherever the sinner goes he is a plague spot.\u201d With these impressive words the Rev.Father Frére cond- demned wrong-doing.Sin meant \u2018a poisonous atmosphere he said, and much of the cvil done was beyond repair.The address was given last evening 'n the Church of St.John the Evangelist at an impressive service, at which members of the congregation renewed their baptismal vows, ) An address was also given by the Rev.Father Seyzinger.who dwelt upon .the longing of the human soul which no human relationship oould satisfy, and upon ita realization in the Christian life.To-day is the last of Rev.Father Frere's addresses to men at noop in the Beardmore Bulldin St Peter Sareet.1 ons, mn .INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED Argument Heard in Charges Against Mr.Adelard Lanctot, M.P.REPORT ON TUESDAY.False Pay List Covering Workmen's Time Charged by Mr.Blondin\u2019s Counsel \u2014 Method of Committee Criticised.Ottawa, March 31.\u2014The and Elections Committee, which has under consideration the charge made against Adelard Lanctot, M.P., by P.E.Blondin, M.P., that he had been guilty of fraud on the government + the painting of his House at Sorel, heard the addresses of counsel for and against the accused member \u2018yesterday, and adjourned until Tuesday next, when the report to be presented to the House will be decided upon.Mr.J.M.Macdougall, K.C.counsel for Mr.Blondin, presented the case against Mr.Lanctot.He said that Mr.Lanctot, in making arrangements with a foreman instead of Mr.Papi- Tmeau, the superintendent of the naval stores at Sorel.had intended to get Privileges work done by \u2018understrappers\u2019 for which he did not propuse to pay.Hae contended that Champagne.the foreman, had not the right to hire out men belonging to the government ser- ice.Champagne, Page, and Lanctot had made an agreement to do an illegal thing, but even if it was an innocent transaction, they had done it ille-, gally, and in either case they were guilty of conspiracy.The means by which the men were obtained was fraudulent, end a false pay list hadi béan\u2019 e to cover the transaction.They were represented as doing government work, and the paymaster, -the supefintendent and the Department at Ottawa had been deceived.painters, Mr.Lanctot had got a government laborer, and laborers could) easfly have been got in Sorel, STATES ACCOUNT WAS INCORRECT.3 Mr.Macdougall declared that the account rendered was incorrect, not te say false.One man was represented, as having worked fifteen days during September and October, whereas it was proved that he had worked for eight weeks during July, August, September and October.Mr.Lanctot hag declared that he could not get \u2018the work done by men not in the government service, but the evidence showed that two contracting painters had spoken to him about doing the work.The reason was simply that by getting government men he got the work done, cheaper.When Champagne sent the account of $37 to Lanctot this was the first intimation that Papineau had concerning the transaction.* No mention was made of the materials which had been taken from the stores.This was on Nov.22.Lanctot seu.4 cheque next day, and Papineau kept) it until Dec.2.Meanwhile the storm had burst, and affidavits were sworn! out on Nov.30.The Minister of Marine and Fisheries received copies of these or Dec, 5.On Dec.12° Lanctot] met Papineau, and the latter arranged to purchase materials to the same amount and value as had been takerÿ away, and replace them.Papineau paid for these himself, Lanctot to refund him, but there was no mention in the government books of the $81 these cost.Yet Lanctot wrote Mr.Brodeur on Dec.8 sayihg that he had paid for the material, whereas it wan not got until Dec.12 and was paid} for by Papineau later on.Experts called by the defence swore that the least charge they would have mada for the labor alone would be $400.Int addition to this there would be the materials.As regards the last point, the breach of the independence of Parliament, Mr.Macdougall said that the act had been broken in that Mr.Lanctot had made an agreement with officers of the Government for work for which \u2018the pablic money of Canada was paid.In these circumstances Mr.Lanctot\u2019s seat should be vacated.DECLARE FULL VALUE WAS PAID.Mr.J.K.Laflanmme, K.C., for Mr.Lanctot, said the charge was not that of conspiracy, but of fraud, the theft of material and the theft of labor.There was, however, no proof of conspiracy to defraud.There could be no conspiracy.for the work had been done in broad daylight.It was intended that the Government should not lose one cent.Mr.Lanctot had asked that an account of the time of the -men should be kept, and offered money, but was told that it would be better to wait until] the work had been completed.The evidence showed, he said, that the Government did receive full value for the materials and wages.They had nothing to do with the question as to whether: the foreman had authority to hire out the Jabor or not.Even though the pay lists were false, this could not affect Mr.Lanctot.\u2019 .Mr.Laflamme combated that charge that Lanctot had been whipped into returning the materials by saying that if there had been any intention of defrauding the Government.of the material, why should Mr.Lanctot pay for the labor, distinctly so stated, on the day after he received the account.It had been agreed that Papineau should pay this with his own cheque, | and he would he refunded; Mr.Lanc- tot could not pay for this meterial until he knew what it would cost: _ Counsel for Mr.Lanctot said he was Besides La + Mr.C.W.Coates Retires From the Montreal Book Room and Mr.D.G.Ridout Succeeds im.- MR.C.W.COATES, -Who Retires.After 36 Years\u2019 Service, After thirty-six _ years as manager of the Montreal Methodist Book Room, Mr.C.W.Coates will retire from that important post at the end of this week.There is no store in Montreal better known to the reading public than the \u2018Montreal Book Room at 298 &t.Catherine street.just around the corner from Phillips\" Square.For many years it has been headquarters for church and Sunday-school reauisites, including music\u2019 books, lesson helps, theological college text books, and serious reading matter in various forms.Pernicious literature, however popular, has always been avoided.The new manager is Mr.Denzil G.Ridout.He is already on the ground.and takes over the husiness imme- is diately his predecessor steps out of office.It may Almost be said that with the new manager comes .new book Teo; for the premises occupied by Mr.Coates since 1895 will be vacated on May i, and the new home of the - Book ' Rooju.s gfter that date will be at No.33 MbGill Cellege avenue: This property will.be transformed during the month of April from a residence Into.a -store, with an attractive front, \u2018and an intéfior larger than the present St.Catlierine street premises.The old Book Room has a frontage of only seventeen feet, with a depth of about thirty-five.But the ceiling is high, and the \u2018shelving arranged so as to permit the convenient placing of a lurge number of volumes.The window also contains a modest but quite attractive display of the latest publications in the lines carrièd.The new premises will include a store on the ground floor and several upstair rcoms, one of which will be fitted up for a board room.When Mr.Coates came to Montreal in 1875 he established the Book Rqom in St.James street, just east of St.Peter street, and quite close to old St.James Church.His first move from that site was to premises just west of the Mechanics\u2019 Institute.From here the Book Room was removed to the Burland block, at No.3 Bleury sorry that the case had been ducted like a prosecution.No matter what the decision of the House would be there would be a blot.on a man\u2019s life for ever.It: had been like a regular indictment against a common highway robber.\u2018vie declarations bore falsehood on their face.Mr.Blondin should have made an investigation, and he would have found this to \u2018be so.Howëver.\" he hrad-closed his eye to what might exonerate Mr.anctot, and had opened his eye to ght incujpaté him.© lérigth the quest : pos the independendærof \u2018Parliament.He cbntended To 1 piles money contract, and that no eo vs reqiiired to He Voted for the work done for Mr.Lantetot.- - .\u2018Mr.Macdongall: resented being accused of \u2018conducting the: case like a prosecuting officer.He said.he had simply adduced \u201cthe evidence and left the matter with the committee.Mr.German, the chairman, said there.had been .mneither prosecution nor persecution, Counsel \u2018for: both sides had conducted the cage with moderation.This concluded the presentation of the case.AGAINST INFORMERS Reward for Infdfmation sgarding Pollution of ecides Sefiate \u2014 Ottawa.March 31.\u2014In the Senate, the Comm-~ns blll amending the Canada Medical Act, the bill respecting the Western Central Raflway Company and the bill to incorporate the Banque Internationale du Carada were given third reading.Ll Senator Davis moved to strike out of the bill penalizing the pollution of atreams.the vision giving formers one-thirf of the peraity, He said that there were now professional informers in Montreal, and with thle No Reg act in force the country would be-cov- \u2018is widely known.con- the act woirld be an instrument in the -far reaching in Hs provisions, in his \u2018Would.be nore sffeétualiy applied ., to \u2018in- street, where it .remained.for fourteen years, when the present St.Catherine | street premises ° were secured.This property having recently changed hands, the lease could only be renewed for sa -year or so, and it was decided that the present was an Op- portuhe time to move, it is hoped, into permanent quarters.Mr.C.W.Coates was born of English parents in the Township of Augusta, Ont.,.in 1835.His home was within half a mile of the old Blue Church burial ground.in which le the remains of \u2018the pioneer Methodis.s, Paul and Barbara Heck.He was a sturdy and ambitious youth, and at the age of sixtéen years left the farm tor learn the printing business in the office of the Prescott \u2018Telegraph.\u2019 At the end of four years he left this office , with\" an excellent recommendation from his employer.Mr.S.B.\u2018Merrill.In addition to reading during all his \u2018leisure time, he took a commercial course at an evening school, all .of which aided in fitting him for the im- portunt duties ahd responsibilities of his future career.In 1858 Mr.Coates left.the printing trade to become \u2018periodical\u2019 clerk in the Methodist Book Room at Toronto.In due time he was promoted.to be head salesman, and in 1875 was se- léctéd \u2018bY the book commiltiee to \u2018be | manager of the Montreal: Book Roon, where \u2018he has been ever since.Being a gifted singer.Mr.Coates was chosen as the director of several musical events in Montreal, and.was leader of the choir of Sherbrooke Street Methodist Church for several years.He was also superintendent of Sherbrooke Street Sunday-schoo! for ten years.His musical culture and talents fitted him for the task of assisting in the compilation of several social and Sun- day-school hymnals and also the Methodist hymn and tune book.He also independently published the \u2018Musical Fountain\u2019 and Canadian Anthems Nos.1 and 2, all of which attained wide circulation throughout Canada.His familly inherit his musical pro- ' pensities, His only surviving son, Mr.W, A.(Coates, waa for fifteen years organist of Knox Church in this city, and is at present in tem- sur 7 porary charge of the American Pres- \u2018byterian.CKRurch Choir, the organist and choir: leader ha sing recently resigned.\u2018A granddaughter, aged sixteen, 1s a mysician of considerable apility, is a \u2018member of the Ladies Morning Musicale, and played receut- \u2018ly .before that organization: The Rev.H.H.Coates, M.A, D.D., of Tokyo, and the Rev.E.W.S.Coates, of Waterloo, Que., aFe nephews, It is doubtful if there is another layman so well-known throughout th¥, Montreal Conférence Ws Mr.Coates, and he is as \u2018highly esteémed as\u2019 he : | Thorough in the details of business, honest.in all his transactions; courteous in manner and genial in disposition.Mr.Coates has won for himself a warm spot in the ! hearts not \u2018only of Methodists, but ' goad people of all denominations, and many will miss his familiar face and .cheery, musical, voice, and regret the change that\u2019 tifne has brought about in his retirement into private life.\u2019 Nearly every mail brings him letters of appreetation for his services to the ministers and to thé church at large during thé many years that he has been in charge of the Book Room, ! and wishing him yet many years of health and happiness in the eventide | of life free from business cares.| In Mr.Ridout, Mr.Coates will have © -\u2014 ered by them.: \" Senator Belcourt said he did nat desire to rroamote the cless of informers But ho did desire to make the bill effective and put an end \u2018to Stream po- lution.To obtain reports on offences he thought informers had -to be rec- warded.> Senator McMullen said that unless Senator David's amendment carried bands of every spiteful person, in Canada; He was against the practice of dividing ines\u201d with informers.Sir Richard Scott.declared that an effective law against stream pollution was demanded by conditions in Can- \u2018ada, and he thought the proposal made by Senator David would greatly weaken the bill.; - Senator Thompson declared himself against dividing with inforiners, and thought that the bill sho:ld be carefully lookad over.He thougnt it tuo opinion, almost every farmer on the St.John or any other river in Canada would be liable io be fined as drainage from barns was bound to eventually find its way to rivers.Senator Cloran thought Senator David was doing a public service by mov- irg ta do away with rewards for informers.\u201d who were a class which should not be promoted by legislation.Scriator Domville thought the bili a proper ons, and preferred it in the form in which.it had been introduced.Sir \u2018Mackenzie.Bowell sald he had had a good deal of experiences in administering laws qf the character, notably the Customs act, and he thought the act would not amount to much if Saznator David\u2019s motion carried.Senator Edwards thought that to make such à law effective provision had to be made to reward informers and thereby bring to iight offences.If wen did not Wd they need ript fear.Senator Beljue thought the focal officérs were 1.8 i informers, .wers .gpecifiel as officiël +a.reward Tor the in- abet formation provided mest mien would-l hesitate to.lay.a leint thou they might know ot offences, à) {sient complain of them: if they wsuld -not lay - themselves open.to the charge of doing ao for money, Offtelal informe - < > saules, Choquette, Riley, .pubtished at No, 140 n the MR.DENZIL G.RIBOUT, The New Managér.a worthy successor.Up-to-date in business methods, bristling with ideas, brimful of energy, ambition and optimism the new manager stands where Mr.(Coates did forty years ago, but with the advantages that modern experiences and systems have evolved in his favor Two and a half years ago, Mr.Ridout came to Canada for a vacation, and while in Toronto accepted a position at the Book Room there.He had previously heen in charge of the advertising and publicity deparc- ments of the Methodist Publishing House in City Road, London.This developed many excellent qualities, and placeq him among the front-rank business nien of the rising generation.He is a leader in Sunday School and young people's work, and an earnest and capable local preacher.He comes to Mont- : a } THE MONTR EAL BOOK BOOM, 298 ST.CATHERINE STREET.real for Montreal's good.and will belong to the city as a whole.The Mottreal Book Roem will cater primarily to .the readers of theological and Kindred literature, and tv the requirement: of all\u2019 students, All of the better class of literature will be carried in stock, and the needs of the reading vublie- from the child's toy book to the larze volumes of close typed pages-\u2014will be amply met.Montreal Lcok lovers will no doubt mike fhe Rook Room their headquarters, ang from Mr.Ridout they will reccive a most hearty welcome, Mr.J.F.Carleton will be Mr.Rid- out\u2019s assistant.He is already in the store re-arranging things and prepared to wait on the public in the beat possible mauner during the transition period.Mr.Carleton was a theological student, and has done probationary work In the Canadian West, after taking a partial course at Victoria University.Indifferent health compelled him to seek a change \u2018of work.so he comes to help shape the destinies of the Montreal Book Room.Mr.Carleton is in the forefront of Church 2006 ang as an organizer has had wide experience.He is arrang- | Ing to edit a local Epworth Leaguers\u2019 Magazine, which will be issued by the Book Room as soon as plans are matured.-\u2014 crs would have the justification of dutv to warrant them takirg action.\" Senator David propesed later to m~ ke the provision sug;rested.Senator Wilson declared the country neaded the law.anc i* should not he weakened by the sori of amend-.mnt propo ed.Senator David's amendment was adopted by 32 to 11.Yeas\u2014-Ellis, Power.\u201coffcy.Domville, Costigan, Beique, David, McMullen, Watson, Jaffray, McM\u2018lan, Thompson, dones, Mitchell.King, Lavergne, Yeo, Campbell, James Ross, Boyer, Mc- Sweeriy, Baird.\u201cMcKav (Truro), Des- Beith, Clor- an, Douglas, Wilson\u2014s2.+ \u201c Nays\u2014Cartwright.Scott Dandur- and, Belcourt, Rowell, Lourheed.Macdonald (B.C), Gillmor.Reche, Farrell \u201410.- -Senator David then offered an amendment empowering the government to name local health authorities as official wificers to.enfrree the law.This was adopted, as wax an amendment \u2018by Scnator Bely designed to make it certain that the government should have authority to bring the act ifito fect by localitiss, and not ne cessartiy for the whole of Canada at one time.SENATOR BEVERIDGE IN OTTAWA.Ottawa, March 31.\u2014 Senator Albert J.Beveridge, of Indiana, one of the greatest advocates of reciprocity on the other side of the line: Mrs.Bever- idge, and a private secretary, arrived unheralded ip Ottawa yesterday.and vujetly took a suite of rooms at the New Russell.He refused to be interviewed.In the afternoon he visited Parliament and saw the ministers.THT \u2018DAILY WITNESS is printed anq Peter Stree City of Montreal, by John Red path Dougall and Frederick Eugene Dougall, both of Montreal.All bu-iness communications should be addressed John Dougall & Son, \u2018Wit- 1 I\u201d Office, Montreal, and ell lettery : to the Editer.shou'd be addresses \u2018Editor\u2019 of the \u2018Witness.\u2019 Prices OF PINE BEACH LOTS Increase ( Ist April Take advantage of this last chance to secure some of them at ndiculous- ly low fist offer- Ings.improvements to be 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