irs: e stres fo. the. excellent offer for summer dressy looking, ose texture lets iseqiéntly makes of them, yet. so k that the varie- nomy too among {tall igetory chimneys, .and its sq tion ¢ See i «idle Jof aflieaytiful; city: Her varioud Ter G50 FATE "Where = "the lake and "river meet' stands , the old historic city of Kings- ton. Jywt i where that: noblest of rivers, the 'majestic St. Lawrence, . endircle "the matchless aves: the dear » Ontario, Kingston reds | its tapéfing church spires, its college towers into the deep blue of the Canadian laky. 'The city's situa pare | well INGTON 0 TODAY wright, Sir Alexander Campbell, Sir Henry Smith and * Hon. Géotge A. Kirkpatrick were graduates of Kings- ton schools. Kingston cah well boast of a great many publié¢ buildings and charitable institutions. Chiel among them. is the provificial penitentiary, a mamsnoth, hs galated iptition, mmo- sting between convicts. Rock aoed Hospital for - the Insane, tion" is one of beauty, «and its eleva: [ Ome of the most modern and efficient it" particularly healthy. « has ; many claims to the well"woodéd and carefully attended parks; her broad, clean streets shad: ed by rows of overarching and' inter Jacing maple branches, the substantial appearance her 'public. buildings and residences; the great quantity of limestone that: enters into the con: struction of these buildings, and their attragtive architecture--these are but a few of the attractions that make the "Limestone City" a beautiful place of residence. Perhaps the first = thing that ime presses the visitor as he nears the city is its military aspect. The long, sloping hill 'east 'of the city is crown- ed by grim-looking Fort Hen, built twenty years after the war of 1812 was 'concluded, or in 1834. Its heavy guns frown down from their, embra- sures, while a solitary warder guards the crumbling fort. Tall towers over Jeok the landings at each side of the old _fortifigation. A Martéllo tower, with its conical shaped roof and gre ling' wall,' bids 'defiance to those who enter the harbor. Juyt where Catfira- qui river pours ite Waters inte the lake' stands' Téte dw Pont Barracks, the headfusrters 'of "A" Field Bat- Canadian Artillery. * Tt 5 spot that" Couht De | [wessels, was built of huinane " institutions," shelters over 00 inmates. A government dey-dock, F which will shelter ithe largest of lake i ; \ by the Dominion Verniiignt at a Veost of $750,000. ded 10 these public buildings are the General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hos- ital, "House of Industry, House of Providence, 'Orphans' Home, Congre- ation de Notre Dame, Infants' Home, echanics' Institute, Court House, City Buildings, ete: Kingston is connected with four rail way lines--the Grand Trunk, the Ca- nadian Pacific, the Kingston & Pem- broke and the Bav of Quinte life. A well-equipped electric railway encircles the city and connects with the su- burbs. "Its harbér is large and: well- sheltered. During the summer season several lines of excursion steamers en- ter and, lave port daily. The R. & 0). 'steaibers, running ' between Toron- to and Montreal, make daily 'calls. Nearly every afternoon the "White Squadron" boats run, excursions to Thousand Island points. The islands are within easy access of Kingston. Nearby is the. Rideau, with ite bean tiful, unparalleled - chain of lakes, rivers and canals, leading to the capi: tal cit¥) Ottawa, These waters are traversed by two steamers built es pecially for the 'tourist. traffic, A-ferry rons twice daily between Cape' Vin- LwhS ; Fro ,- the chivalrous goyegnor of Newt Ibs 'established hig position when he "firgt "lan in Upper Canada Smore than two centuries ago. "About #1672 the origigal fort was re- fplaced under the direction of De' la one 'of " the rear stands Artillery Barracks, the home off "B" Battlfy, Royal Canadian "Ar tillery. In entering » harbor #he vigitoy ded; cl £4 » Royal Mili: fe the! i Point, i le, by a much stronger "Wort "Fron! 3 fo bodk- Joarn oF war Ia he te; Je the art war. In the city the new. drill shed, built for the adeolumadation s of "the city regiment, the 24th PW.0. Rifles, and just cdm- ted, stands as a monument to the Mw spirit of militarism and imperial: ism that has recently Sprung up+iin Canada. <I§ is a notable fact of history that the firpl teacher as well as the first Limestone City possess: 4 m of 'elementary schools. In { University was founded br DT r of clergymen and lay: "ol Presbyterian church. The "edMlege," "on old Ontario's strand," kas geown with the country. It has a wolile record, and its graduates fill honored positions the warld over. The Roy Wie Coll as turned out ® gn tes EES hos figured _ in ritain's foreign campaigns and won distinction in many a clime. Here, too; "are of Mini nd v » One of 'the finest Co utes 'fn the country, and and} cent, N.Y, and" Kingston, and an: other hétween Gananoque and Kings- ton. The fishing in the adjacent wa- ters is good, the scenery is unsurpass: od, the air is cool and invigorating and the people are hospitable, Taken all in all, the Limestone City is one of the cleanest, healthiest and most beautiful and desirable residence cities in Canada. -- A Toast To The Old Boys. We've drunk to the King--God hless him | We ve drunk to our miether's lund : We've drunk to our English brot (And we hope h#'ll understand). We've drunk as much as we're able, And the Cross swings low to the morn; Last toast--and yout feet on me inhie t-- A health to the Native-born | --Rudyard Kipling. ¥ 2 Sig oH yo MORGAN SHAW, : Old Hoys® Committee. rm A Of Home. Eugene Kisid, It comes 10 me often in silence, When the firelight sputters lowe 3 "the black, uncertain shadows A 'wraiths of the jon Always with « throb of ag ; riache vein, Comes the oid, unguiet longing ow Ror the peace of home stain. roar ol. tities: cold and strange; I know where there's wariuth of welcome And my yrarning fancies range Back 'to the dear old homestead + With nn aching 'sense of pain But there'll be joy in the coming - Ben | go Home again. When I go home a~sint roves music THY ever may dhe awdy, [ARG Bt scomy that the bands of afgels On a mystic harp at plav Have touched with a yearning sadness Am a beautiful broks on strain, To which in my ford hosel word an-- 7 When I eo home again ~ Outside of wy darkening dow Is the gréat world's dash andilin, And slowly the summer shadows Come driity drifting ih ' } Cobble: ihe might: wind wurmurs: the summer 'To the sdash of ib the ¥ £1 TON. ONT. SEPP PSVI0PI 20000008 EP P| RIO. SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1908. i 3 F tading post the fulfilled. and honor you. we welcome you home! be, your: portion. you. May no sorrow A GLIMPSE OF KINGSTON. Its Early History, Its Growth and Present Status. is an historic city. Its settlement is almost contemporane ous with that of Quebec, In 1673 count de Frontenac, governor of New France, made a voyage hither = with one hundred and twenty boats in great state, and established a fortified after his own name, with favor of the Iroquois tribe. Here La Sallé built a vessel, and sail: ed 'hénce up the lake, establishing a fort at Niagara, where aggin he built a vessel for navigation of Lake Erie, a part of his aim for a passage to Ching and by the Mississippi to Mexicor About Fort Frontenac, called by the Indians Cataraqui, colonists settled. The treachery of its next commandant, De Dennonville, towards the Indians, had its fruit in siege, capture and massacres. Frontenac, recalled from France, rebuilt the fort, and it had a tranquil existence till the British i ture under Col. Bradstreet in 1758. It again became important when the loyalists flocked over from the United States as a result of the war of in- dependence, and settled in and about it in great numbers, giving it the name the name of King's Town. In 1842 it was made the capital of Upper Can ada, and great building enterprise was undertaken, but within a few years the seat of government was withdrawn, dissipating the fortunes of the people, and giving the death blow to enter prise while that generation lasted. It settled down to the life and depend ence of a garrison town, fostered by extensive fort building under imperial policy. The British troops being with drawn and lake commerce being on the decline, Kingston roused itself in the sixties, and has steadily advanced from a population of 12,000 to one of 21,000, including the Canadian regu larg in garvison and suburbs of Ports mouth. Bo are Queen's College, with 700 students in-arts, science, theology, and medicioe, the Roval Military Col Lge, beautifully located and finely Kingston a miitary strength equipped; a college of mining and a ri vluive, ifcluding mining, dairy: ing, the Kingston operation siagce 1794. Various fortifications give the town second only to that of (hiebec, and its five armed martello towers possess an especial in terest for visitors. Here, in the days * by Navy Bay 'was filled with ves sl bf England; bat the war from dock yard is doing peaceful dut. site for the Military College. ~ ' pig fo Mika Colle, flag, it may It is good to remember and which you played as a boy. and is perhaps for the best. of a life well lived and the jewelled The Limestone City is yours. Bbe O1d British Whig's Greeting Go Ge Jlome Lomers. O THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS of our beloved city; to - those who have changed the skies above them but not the hearts that roam ; to tho:e who left our hoi in the days of long ago; to the dreamers, t have wooed, and oftimes won, fame and fortune under an alien be--to these, whom we delight to call '* Home- Comers," we bid you Welcome Home! ~~ You went forth from us, many of you, with the freshness and hope of | Fouts in your hearts. You realized how impetuously ttlefield of life. You longed to carve out a destin fields of activity. Your dream of the future has To-day you return to us bearing the tokens of success and happiness, of the undimmed honor of faithful service and a stainless name, honor honest men, and to-day we remember The boyhood home, where you spent many a happy day, still, stands with doors wide open to welcome your return. ; empty-handed from modest little homes, with only a mother's blessing. s But the memory of that litle home still abides; it is one of the imper- | ishable scenes in the vast storehouse of the mind. love of country has its rise, and your regard for and loyalty to the Land " of the-Maple had its origin in the love you felt for the threshold around In honor of these sacred and abiding memories, Death, self-interest and fortune's changes are every day breaking up many a happy group and scattering them far and wide. This is inevitable, ™ The germ of unrest was in yout blood and the | throb of adventure in your hearts. You but answered the subtle, inexplicable promptings within you. Time, which strews a man's head with" silver, sometimes fills his pockets with gold. While we wish that this may have been so 'in your case, we more ardently hope that the happiness and comfort | iadem of duty well done may to-day Po Because of all this; you are Seleome, Shrice eae We | que. come home, or 'ought to 'come ¢ dor a short \y--the long $7 @ its were small, § better." To hs have come--from the desk, the pulpit, the facto p-- ih ep "hil from the quiet repose of country homes-or from the busy marts of trade-- we extend a cordial greeting. Our homes and our hearts are open to receive | We delight in honoring you, and wijll do all we can to make your short sojourn at home pleasant and agrecable, i And when you leave us again this will our parting benediction be : " May the gates of plenty, honor and happiness be ever open to thee. Qistress thy days, may no grief disturb thy nights." 5 EDW. J. 8. PENSE, MPP. President Old Boys' Committes. before the era of railroads, was pre eminent in Ontario, due to its posi tion at the juncture of Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrence (with a land locked harbor easy of access), and to its being at the foot of Bay of Quinte and Rideau canal navigation. Extensive grain transhipment takes place froin lake vessels to elevators and river barges, rafting of timber is a vigorous business, and a fair lumber, coal and iron trade is dope in ves sels, A dry dock dinimed to be the beet on the continent, of its size, is conducted by the Canadian govern ment. Besides the (rand Trunk Railway, there is the Kingston & Pembroke, runfiing 120 miles north through the iron mining district, apd eonnecting with the Canadian system, the Bay of nte line running ninety miles northwest, The city's industries, indude. locomotive and engine works, 'which employ 500 i S00 patients, two very large hospitals, Business College, ! ghd _a Collegiate Institute in unbroken { afchitecture. Kingston is the seat of a men, a cotton mill, with 200 hands, a hosiery mill, machigety foundry, bis: cuit and broom factories: Its publi: institutions, inclide the Dominion penitegtieie, "with B00 in mates, a provincial "asylula, with two orphanages and two ~ homes Tor tle aged. The public. buildings and churches are all of stone, the city hall, court house, Anglican" and Roman Ca thelie cathedrals being models of stone Roman Catholic archbishop and Anghi: can bishop. The 6 Daeament of property. aggregates $8,000,000, In A of location, in legendary lore and poetry of romance, Ki towers unique among. the cities of this continent. Politically, Kingston is a fine example of a colonial city, of the the smperial Some of you went out | theourigin i and hearts 'wanderers who youth springs to the for yourself in foreign n many instances been In love of home 'the with which Great Britain has engirdled the world. Socially Kingston is one of the most hospitable of cities. The approach to it is pleasing. The sun rises golden over the high land. on the opposite shore of the harbor---the wide lake stretohing calm and glassy in the blue distaney to the west. The opposite islands stand out clear, Garden Island, with its cluster of shipping in front, hind it Simcoe 10. the wes! and to the south Wolfe Island, whos green fields and clumps of trees an seatiered farm houses extend down the river for twenty miles. The city risey. on its gentle slope, the cool grey buildings and slender spires catching the warm glow of the level sunbeams. Far to the right, beyond the long bridge, the winding Cataraqui shows a misty blug between the high een banks that end in the gorge at 4 ng dton mills. Across the upper Mathor rises the slope of Barriefeld, with its grey church tower, and the undulating 'common' rising gradually into the Fort Hill, while between this and the city runs out the long, level promon tory, on which--irradiated by the early «unshine--stand the old and new build- ings of the Miltary College. In sur: roundings asx in many other ways, Kingston is the pleasantest residence city in Canada. ---- pt ce A Chestnut. A Sunday school teacher asked the moetbets of his class to bring a «ol lection for the mission fund the fol lowing Sunday, and each be prepared to repeat' Kome motto or text when they gave in their money, When little Willie Smith Banded in his donation he accompanied it with the very ap propriate secheticn, "The Lord loveth a cheetbul giver. Jamie Jenting sani "I in 'better to give than to receive." As little Johunie Jones hold up his five cout piece, the teacher, with sn smile, said: Well, Johnnie, what is your text'? "A foal and his money are soon parted," was Johemies prompt reply. A Popular King. ! The most brilliant event of = this § year, will be the jubilee wof the aged § King Christinn iX.. of Denmark. On the throne of his little kingdom for forty years. All Europe 'will cele | brate this event and more crow ; Labout the city whic When dépression' and vailéd in livelier 'centres of 'trade, business, ment that the municipal 'and. commercial like «i : 4 Be rp a urate, ite Sydenham atradt | io i 2 Sek Sydenham » and one on | ocoupied. shout. 1510. by traders with the Indians, did business on the preceded formetly known as Gowids's butcher shop was built hy Hon. John Macau ley, Canada bank and sod hy on h ly. H for. bi , subsequently. He re moved to Toronto when appointed in. spector-gencral. Bon. John Kirby d business on the corner of Princes Ontario streets. (Ottawa hotel mutmerous. The Queens was the of them. foot. of hind cand a soli in La auldity, "Hien | pre. nts and in the development of Jor p In order to appreciate the advance: city has made in »4 . renpoct, one ust realize what Kingston looked: r, Brock's housd { "Jol elntyre, K.C., now lives); passed th illiant ; round. 1 it rive, of success, but little of wealth. Aetthiotni of! the aril 5 ward" 'eldéan fr cg fd Wt; now : rd seek | the western Hinit. The G.T.R. depot rests upon the Jang the sboges of COrer Wi r. Murney. The Hendry | the location 'of Burley's hiewsry. the... corner . of «Clarence ond and "in the centre 'of the next hlock {1 (where the city buildings now are) was | the main guard which bands of the regiment plavivl on Sunday until the people, Lursing re ¥ house, outelle of , rose bn their might aud saifl they woulda't' btand it any Tohger 'Oy, jaoeneg the corner where the ES Tost stapds ww the residence of | Thoms A Bnd; and Fors bers vibe and With +11, ny n- the | Noth / tou th heats on, ; pad ¢ ol il : brows. Tawrel of Scoot whether the : id HS " ? Brute foreé hiss never heen por . a ARCHIE, ARERNETHY. Treasurer Old Boys' Committee. te corner. An hospital g fire station. The building t for the Upper ardware nlerchand, built the Gaskin hat postmaster, The whartes in those days wort ae They weve located dt' ih, wa ire an thom, [Khe ex GEN otha was for 58 wn' doch November 15th he will have occupi | fhe