A BANK BOOK ;ifR:: BOY OR No time like the present to il start them saving. $1 and upwards received in | the Savings Department of this | | Bank, and Interest paid 31st |i May and 30th November. | { BANK OF TORONTO | corte 1455 CAPITAL ... . $4,600,000 | x1wesTON BRANCH | | 107 PRINCESS SP | GEORGE B. nek AY, BRASS 600DS | FOR CHRISTMAS The nicest line of Brass § Goods ever. offered in Kings ton, ' Brass Fenders from $6.00 to both Black and Brass, from $3.50 to $156.00. Brass Andirons from $3.00 to $10.00, Black Andirons from $3.00 to $6.00, ) See our large DPrass Jar- dinjer for $1.49. Best value ever offered in 8 Kingston. -- W. A. MITCHELL HARDWARE, 85 PRINCESS STREET, TO gone. fl {town for the last ili | would be forgotten. ll overcome this the newspapers of the {| city started the Santa © il | which bas met with such | response. /MANY POOR = HOMES " THROUGHOUT THE CITY. ' ll Poor Mothers Were Profuse in Their Thanks--Some Very Uncomfort- able" Homes Were Visited. Santa Clans has been here and His workshops in Santa Clans twelve months have been humming. Taere is one method fn particular in which Santa fi Claus has been building up his busi- ness during all the years gone by. That method fs the practice of a slogan of the founder of Santa Clans town, "It 15" nore blessed to give than to receive." And Santa Claus' business bas been bulll to an enor- mous size through this method. It was so large this year that he was afraid some of his little boys and girls In order to aus; fund, lenerdus A great deal of work was connect tied witn 4. Bat willing hands soon came *forward and arranged all do- tai's. 'But among ail this work of gathering the letters from the child- ren to Santa, the purchfising of the presents and the sorting and tying them in parcels and addressing thém ll ino part was such a pleasure as the i delivering | might not be able to cover all the the little of presents. Santa was a afraid lie city this year in so short a time, a0 he asked that some of the young men from the newspaper offices would help him out, which they. were ) only too pleased to do. $i They started gut from the Y. M. C. A, building at two o'clock Satp:- day 'afternoon, and the two rigs de- livered about one hundred parcels around the city. | Aud what receptions these assist ants of Santa received! As well as the parcels, which contained presents for every child in the family and dandy for each, oranges were given. At some places the children could hirdly wait for the parcels to be opened so anxious were they fo see what Santa had sent them, As soon &s Santa's rig was seen in the streets little faces were seep at all) the windows, and if Santa had for- got them how sad they would have een Most of the gifls were looking for dolls, and judging from the delivery of hockey sticks Kingston will surely have some star stick-handlers in the future. There were sleighs, books, soldiers and everything imaginable in the parcels, At most houses it was imposisble to keep the presents a secret until Christmas Day, and the children started right in. then and o io OLECT THAT TOBACCO With the "Rooster" on It Is crowing louder as he goes slong. Only 4be per pound. For chewing and smoking. AT A. MACLEA AToniarle Pires. | Coat 33 1-3¢c On system of undigested food, foul gases, excess bile in the Tiver and waste matter in the bowels will impair your health. The best system re- gulator is FIG PILLS. At all dealers 3 and 50 cents or The Fig Rill Co., it t Thomas, Ont. 16 Sold apa recommiended in Kingston J.B MeLBOD, Druggtst, Sale | The Dollar 1 To Clear the Balance of Our Coats. We will sell them Saturday at 1-3 t in stock; no reserve. All new 'goods bought for of the price. This takes in every this Fall's trade. Reversible cloths, heavy tweeds, velvet coats, fur collar coats, | ete. ete, : $6.00 for $2.00, 30.00 for $3.00, $12,00 for $4.00; $15.00 for $6.00; $18.00 Tor $6.00, a . & Dunn's Shoes 25.9 Off | Our complete stock of American Shoes for Saturday selling 25 per off. i a . 20 Per Cent. Off A ig oe od 8 ~ £2 i 27 RYE , Afterhoon my and enna, $25.00, $30.00, $30.00 For Saturday, $14.98. Tite of Corset. Covers, Night Gowns, Drawers, and Skirts, all now goods for 1912. For Saturday selling, 20 por cent, off. '¥ Dresses pink, blue, ete, ete, Ten on - Our Complete Stock of Nets, - Silk © Tuesday $198 and Silk Blouses See Window Display. also * | wrecked 3 / : ran DAILY BRITISH we, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1011. ants say that &ll those - who had worked so hard to get these presen:s ready for delivery would have been doubly repaid if they could have seen the faces of the little ones brighten u? when they AAW those wonderful toys. a) Some of the places visited were certainly not very comfortable, to say the least of them. Many widow women gtruggling to raise a family by the wages for their hard labors, and had it not been for the assist- ance ta got in Kingston this year their little ones might have been for- gotten. Many of the .homes were not well kept, the parents being careless, and the children being brought up in these distasteful sur- roundings. But perhaps, worst of all, was the home where one of the parents, or both, were edicted to the use of strong drink. The happy Christmas spirit in these homes was afar off, a One case 'which should, perhaps, be specially mentioned was that of a house in one of the downtown streets, where Santa's assistants found the father of the family lying on the sofa in a drunken stupor. The floor was bare of carpet and the furniture scarce. Four or five young children were playing*¢around the floor, apparently used to this wretched state of affairs. But pro- bably the saddest part of the affair is that it appears that the mother was at the Same time at a neighbor- ing saloon #Mkely 'layig in a store for the holliday. The route of Santa's assistants lay over 'he entire city, from the Baih road down to Ontario street, and from the penitentiary to the outer G.T.R. depot. Santa's assistants were heartily receivad by all the parents, who were profuse in-their thanks for the gifts, Among the many happy people at this festive season none were more happy than those who were engaged fn assisting Santa, And why? Be- cause they were making somebody else happy. STREET CAR UPSET AND TWO PEOPLE MET DEATH IN TORONTO. Fifty Were Injured--Motorman Chargéd With' Manslsughter--Caf Ran Into Open Switch. Torontoy Dee. 26.--Two persons wera killed and fifty more injwged, at 6.55 o'clock, Bunday evening, when King car, No. 13502, west bound, crowded with passengers, ran into an open switch in front of the King street barns, jumped the track and upset. Various passengers said the car was going from twenty to thirty miles an hour, After the accident Motorman William J. Mopre, 28 West Market street, was arfested and charged with man- slaughter. The conducter on the car was P. Benjamin, 29 Kintyre avenue. The 'dead are : A Mrs. Jessie Deacon, thirty-five years old, of Plymouth, Eng., visiting at 25 Flmor avenue, instantly killed; internal injuries and = lower limbs badly crushed. Mrs. Jane Mary Williams, thirty- three years old, 7 Fenwick avenue, succumbed to shock and internal in- ries about twenty minutes after reaching the general hospital, The switch on the new Don was over, and. the car passed down the incline town King street, going at a good speed, with all the mo- mentum of its load. Some one had left open the switeh which is used for diverting cary down St. Lawrence street into thy car barns. No, 1,502 passed the barns, and jam the St. Lawrence street switch, left the rails, and crash- od over on ils side, pointing south. The lights went out at once, with the arm leaving the trolley wire, and con- fusion and terror reigned in the dark- oned and upset car. For a moment the ill-fated passen- gers were too stanned too ery oud, and then screams rang out and all was uproar. Nearby residents rushed out of doors at the crash, and em- loyees of the railway ran out of the bridge vy this time the imprisoned sengers were smashing windows elimfing over the prone forms of their fellows out of the upside of the car. Nobody knew who was un- derveath or who was hurt. Every- | vhing 'was darkness, and the thought uppermost in most minds was to get fout of the car as quickly as possi: ble. : The telephones at the barns were pul into use with all possible speed. message went through first do the central police station with an order fof every ambulance that was to be had, Then ss many doctors as could be called up were asked to come down, and in this way, though many of them were absent from home, sev- eral were reached. ° pas and "Coroner Graham _yesturday epgegel | two ponsutting engineers, Wyse, one of the Ontario rafirond hoard , and James Bannon, of the Toronto city engineer's department, to report, om thie condition of car's equipment. i iH Lett if! 158k; ¥Frie fe Ajtheir vessel foundered there to enjoy, them. Santa's assist- THE DAY'S EPISODES LOCAL NOTES--AND THINGS IN GENERAL. ' ~~Other B VEasily Read and Remembered. Leather goods, half price. Uglow's. A.B. Samphetl, of the firm of Camp- bell & Wrig Tuesday noon, § oy Garnet Aylesworth, son of A. Ayles- worth; has gone out to - Uso on fishing trip. 'Norman Newlands, af Yonkers, N ing the holidays. in the city. The fire 1oes at the store of 1. A, loss 'amounted to $2,069. Miss Grace Pringle, of Watertown, N.Y, stopped in the city, Tuesday, on hoe why to her parents' home in Mar) It was Thomas Mills, the retired merchant, and not the insurance ag- ent, who was nominated for school trustee in Victoria ward. Maybe the steamboat, company will put on an excursion among the Thou- safid Titand on January 1st, 1912, About 850 worth of crockery was smashed on Saturdiy when a team of "A" Battery horses ran away at Artillery Park, ? William McCammon, the harbor mas- ter, reports 'the water in the har bor to have rigen three inches with. in the last ten days. Drs. Stewart &ity 'avenue. York Tuesday morning. Although Tuesday "nothing doing." pacity, The noon trains were on the platforms: The tabla lamps, which make Fintmay presents. Drop in t fine specimens picked on strect. age, n' most remarkable thing this time of the year. of leaves of PITH OF THE NEWS. Over the World. Mrs. Susan Watkins, Toronto, died ut the age of ninety-seven, fatal collision on the Grand railway, at Belleville, on Saturday wight, will be investigated by a jury. Harry Lauder, the Scotth comedian, had a narrow escape from death. on Monday, while attqupting to cross the Clyde iw a row boat from Gour- ack to Dunoon, One thousand Trunk dollars sent by the Northern Elevator company, of Winni- peg, on Saturday, to their agent at Duforest, Man., was duly received by the acting postmaster. Neither money nor postmaster have been seen since, The John Wool M#mufacturing com- pany, of Conshohcken, Pa., distribut- ed $2,000 at Christthas among 266 of their men, who have been out on a strike for ten weeks at their plant, This is something "unique in the strike ne, Robert: Waltham, a life prisoner in the Oklahoma penitentiary, was grant- ed a thirty-day "leave of absence' by the governor of the state, so that he might. spend Christmas. with his fam. ily, This is the third time he has been granted this privilege. be The emperor of Germany has cop- ferred mpon Herr Von Kiderlin-Wap. chter, seoretary of foreign affairs, the lirilliants afd oak leaves of the Order of the Red Eagle of the first class. The secretary alrendy possessed the order, : es CAPTAIN AND FIFTEEN MEN Were Drowned After Vessel Had v Founderead. Lisbon, Porvugul, Dec. 26.--Captain James Benson and fifteen of the crew of the British steamer Guillemont, from London to Genoa, were drown- od in the Bay of Biscay on Christ- mas day, after being knocked about in an open boat since Thweday, when . Seven others of the crew on rafts and wreckage were picked up by passing vessels, two having died from starvation and ex- haustion, ---------- Farmer's Heavy Loss, John N. Truesdell, a farmer resid- ing near Rockfield, in Fscott town- od by fire. When, the firs was Occurrences in the City and Vicinity Brief Items of Interest t, went to Ottawa on Y., returned on Tuesday, after spend. Christmas with his parents Weese has been adjusted. The total and James Polson, and John Alden, of New York, spent Christmas 'with N, C. Polson, Univer. They returned fo New was a market day there were no rigs on the Square at any time during the morning, Be- ing so close to a holiday there was The trains leaving the city on Tues day were packed to their, fullest ca- ; 80 crowded that people had to 'stand out W. Newman Electric Com- pan.- have just reodived a_ splendid as- sortment of dining room domes and splendid and see em. Thomas Baird, King street, shows lilacs Dee. 26th on Pembroke The tree is green with foli- for The Very Latest Culled From AD The circumstances surrounding the 1g and Mrs. 8 PERSONAL AND: SOCIAL. ---- (Continued from Page 3.) James Leckie, Montreal, was ih the city over Sunday. G. Oldrieve, New York, came home to Christmas festivities. 8. J. Kilpatrick is ill with pneu- monia at Foxboro, Ont Prof. Wiliam for Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday. Earl Ashley, of Brockville, spent the week-end wit. Fitudy in the city, William Lytle, Montreal, spent the holidays at his home on ning street. Mr. and Mrs. F. Phillips, Toronto, are with Miss Spangen , Johnson street. : Brice Rescorin, Smith's Falls, spent on Nelson street. Leo Mallen, of Ottawa, spent Christ: mas with his parents, on Wellington street, Perry Burns, of Buffalo, N.Y,, spent the week-end with his parents on Fron- tenac street. ~ Maj. L. Shannon, of London, Ont, spent Christmas at his home on George street. Miss Laura Harris is visitin her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John a Garden Island. Joseph Jaquith and wife, of Stuart street, spent Christmas with relatives in Gananoque. ; H. C. Fowler, Toronto, spent Christ- mas with his mother and sisters on Brock street. Prof. W, L. Grant left for Buffalo, N.Y, to attend tHe Historical ciety convention. William MeGall, of Rochester, N.Y, visited his mother, on Queen street, Sunday and Monday, Rev. Father Mea left on Monday to spend a few holidays with his sister at Smith's Falls. Miss E. Phelan, Johnson street, has gone to Montreal to spend some weeky with her aunt, Mrs, Kavanagh, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm B. Parks, Pic ton, are visiting Mrs. Parks' parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. Sloan, Sunbury, Miss Eva M. Staley, R.N., of Chi- cago, arrived home on Saturday, to spend a few weeks with her mother. A. G. Phelan came from Sudbury to spend Christmas with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. I. Phelan, Johnson street. Thomas Lindsay, of the Whig, spent Christmas with his brother, J. (i. Lindsay, city engineer of Belleville, Prof. 0. D. Skelton has gone ta Philadelphia, Pa., to attend an econo- mic conventpon being held in that city. Mr, and Mrs. W, H. Coates and fam- ily, Napanee, are spending this week with Mri. E. J. Marshall, Albert street. Dr. and Mrs. James Gallivan, of eterboro, were in the city, Tuesday, attending the funeral of the late Helen Lawless. ; ' Mr. and Hrs. F. C. Jackson, of Sud- bury, spent Christmas with Mrs. Jack- son's sister, Mrs, I. I'. Branigan, firock street. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shepherd, of Pickering, spent the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Rea, Nelson street. = James King, of Montreal, chief stew- ard of the steamer Rapids Prince, Jspent the holidays with his mother on Queen street. Canon Almon Abbott, Hamilton, has been installed as dean of the diocess of Niagara, which office has beey, va- cant for some nwonths, : Oliver Prevost returned to Montreal on Tuesday after spending Christma with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Z. Prevost, Earl street. John A. McKay returned to New York, Tuesday afternoon, after spend- ing Christmas with his father and sis- ter, 58 Clergy street. Charles Livingston, Jr., Toronto, is home for the holidays, and is with his parents, Mr, and Mrs, Charles Liv- ingston, Barrie street, Leo of Toronto, *'Jack" of Ottawa, and "Ken" Williams, of Montreal, all spent Christmas with their parents. on University avenue. Rev. James R. and Mrs. Urquhart, of New View, Ottawa, spent Christ- mas with Mrs. Urqubart's parents, Mr, and Mrs. C. H. Cooke, Alfred street, P. D. Macarow, Ottawa, H, W. B, Soulsby, Almonte; John C. 1. Ed: wards, Brockville, have been appoint- ed navy cadets. Archibald Gates, B.Sc, of Peter boro, spent the week-end with his fath- er and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gates, Princess street. 3 Miss Cora Harris has returned to Toronto after spending Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, Garden Island. Dr. T. V. Daley, of Pascoag, Rhode Island, is spending his Christmas holi- days in the city, the guest of his parents on Wellington street. Dr. and Mrs. E. J. P. Williams, of Brockville, were guests of the latter's parents, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs, Spooner, Glenburnie, for Christmas. Miss Nicholson, of Stonewall, Man, So- Jarrived in the city, Saturday morning and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. George Coward, Albert street. Some--of the injured received cuts, ighip sustained a serious loss when |Tieut -Col. Cooper went on to n L. Fell, of Pres cott, and their two sons, 0. E. and H. N., of New York, t Christmas with Mr. and Mra. J. W. Corbett, | Lower Alfred street. iat ol | Arthur Sparham, chiel stew \ the housasid Taland and River St. Lawrence Steamboat company, re- turned to Brockville, where he will spend the winter at his home, The ma: of Miss Gertrude Blanche U , da of Mr. Mrs. J. Campbell, street, J, Gammon Taggart, Toroito, place, 28th Nicol, of Queen's, loft |' John Laidlaw & Son. If You Are 'About to Make an Evening Dress Start with a right Corset. The arment fitted over a New Corset will look right just . as long as the Corset holds to the lines over which the fitting was made--no longer. The wise wowan in selecting the Corset over which her Evening Dress is to be worn sees to it that the New Corset not only looks right and feels right at first, but is going to stay right, and this is the strong point in our "French Model Corsets' At $2.00 and 2.50. Z Corsets for Young Girls 75c and $1! Pair These have points that will appeal to every mother, who wants the correct Corset for her growing daughter. Women's Black Cashmere Stockings Fine All Wool Cashmere, seamless feet, durable toe and heel and just the right weight for this weather. Special at 39¢ pair or 3 Pairs for $1.00 I Boys' Ribbed Wool Stockings A complete range 'of sizes at oO) 9 25¢ pair. 2 i 1a Boys' Scotch Yarn Knit | Stockings All sizes, 3b¢, 89¢, 43¢c, 45¢, 49¢. Boys' Ribbed Cashmere Stockings 4-Ply Heels, Knees, Toes, . 40¢ to 66¢ Pair. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cooper, To-| SRS Party Shoes For Children Patent Pum . 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