Fi i d within three years at city to expen th the of their works, upon the city granting them total exemption wi ension 1906, the Locomotive company agreed In January, IN 1905 THE LOCOMOTIVE WORKS EMPLOYED 500 HANDS AND PAID OUT TO THEM least $250,000 in the improvement and ext $225,000. for ten years. TO-DAY THE COMPANY EM- PLOYS 630 MEN AND ARE PAYING THEM AT THE RATE OF are now proposing to expend within two years at least $300 from taxation on their property, except school purposes, provided the city will limit the % t from them into the hands of the landlord, the merchant, in * mo 18 a The Company ULD MEAN AN AN $400,000 A YEAR. 000. Do you realize what it means to the city to have th ,000 in further extensions and improvements ir assessment, except for school purposes, for a term of years to $100,000. ty of the shops and will enable the Company to This exceeds the amount paid by all the other urches, the schools and the charities of the city. Every , with the total sums paid out annually by the government ,000. THIS INCREASE WO ,000 A YEAR! 700, floor space and the capaci OF NEARLY § NUAL PAY ROLL connection with A and B_ Batteries, the Penitentiary, the 'Rockwood Asylum and the Royal Military the mechaiic, the laborer, the professional man, the ch College added. of money paid out every year to the men and passing one is directly or indirectly benefitted. $7 increase THEIR EMPLOYEES FROM 630 TO 1 industrial establishments in the city combined These extensions will double the WHAT IS THE CITY ASKED TO GIVE IN ORDER TO SECURE THESE EXTENSIONS? t as ABLE to pay 2? bility onthe ground does not apply to the 1a All the Company ask is that to tax to a fixed assessment of $100,000 and even that limitation school tax 'which will be levied on the whole NOTHING. It will actually receive at least $2,500 additional taxes each year. the city limit its right as secured in recent years too poor to pay taxes Guelph, Peterboro and other towns and cities to that Welland has secured in the past four years too poor increased value of their property. If it were a feeble concern too poor to pay taxes it would probably be too poor a thing. to be ' worth having. Are the 24 flourishing industries We all know they are not but that they have secured concessions because they are strong, pros-- But some man will say the industry is making and will make profits that make perous concerns able to benefit and build up the cities and towns w full taxes as the rest of us. Granted. The Company don't ask a limitation of their | Can any one deny that this will be a pretty advantageous deal for the city? stride ahead in the past ten years, while we have been barely doing more than marking time, too poor to to pay taxes? Are the great industries that Hamilton h Are the industries that havé caused Brantford, Berlin, of poverty. pay taxes? Can any , enjoy x Ifish, and I can see that the ~ here they are located. THE LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY OFFER THE CITY A SIMPLE BUSINESS PROPOSITION. They say we are able, as you see and know, te by limiting our assessment to $100,000. BUT WORST OF ALL THEY CAN, WITHOUT LOSS, PULL OUT FROM KINGSTON AND LOCATE EL to confer large benefits upon and help materially in building up while I am not blind and can see as wel! as the next man the great advantage and the fairness of the deal, yet I am a little shrewder and perhaps a bit more se DON'T RUN AWAY WITH THIS IDEA MY FRIEND. They can of course stand still . But some man will say, Company have already invested so much here in land and plant that they cannot move away, and we can get. one doubt the wisdom of the city's accepting such an offer. all they offer and give nothing in return, the city, in exchange for this we ask you to reciproca their total exemption and neglect to expand. e SEWHERE. The majority of the stock and. incurred See' imit timental attachment" to it 'and don't The most profitable and advantageous point to secure such a large and prosperous industry and that will adequately compensate for any cost or loss ts on taxing the Locomotive Works, to the | moving to Welland could save on power, taxes, light, &c., SOME $50,000 A YEAR. This amount at 5% represents a capital expenditure of Kingston insis € anxious thousand, seven railroads entering the town and cheaper and they offer a free site and a fixed assessment of $10,000. Take the item of The Locomotive Works now use about 600 horse power and if enlarged as proposed would ngston, have no "sen i in re Owing to their proximity to the Falls they can offer power at $10 per horse It costs them here $40 per horse power as against $10 at Welland, an advan- er the works are here or elsewhere. 1 ow live away from Ki Take for instance the Town of Welland which has already made offers to the Company. ria on raw mate bout 1000 horse power. tage of $30,000 a year in favor of Welland. 'If some of them are able to hold out inducements require a is all that concerns them. Now other places ar power. They have natural gas at about 20 cents a it is a conservative estimate that the Company care a ten cent piece wheth . 4 freight, &c., majority of the directors n what advantages they can give, by removal. freight rates power alone. hinery and certainly not be out of industries. Other cities are alive to th if mac sell their land and buildings here for whatever ring ife for your city and for your own pocket. | , remove the 's work of your | i ,0000 They could, therefore, rebuild on a free site at Welland en that the Company could sacrifice $1,000,000 in removal and be made whole st in favor of Hamilton and other places. It is an open secret that.one of the Company has figured out the cost of removal and selected the city, he con- siders the most favorable place for the works. © -law and help to drive the works away, would you not bitterly regret it and re'diot being fairly treated and that they could do better elsewhere, the way. Can the most selfish of us afford to take any chances. If you were to Consider for a moment the utter disaster it would be to Kingston if the offer of the Company were Cities cannot; grow except by the presence of manufactu by this annual saving of $50, pocket. ' Similar advantages exi most prominent officials of the rejected, and if feeling they we Company moved their works a mark your ballot against the By feel that you had done the worst day and are reaching out with offers a $1,000,000. Any one can see th they would bring, If we are to grow we must hold and nd inducements to attract them. y to secure others." tl encourage what we have by 'liberal and generous treatment, and strive earnes E. RYAN, President, By order of the Board of Trade, i OF NEWBORD! considerable local attrads tion. : THE COUNCIL WAS ELECTED BY ACCLAMATION, Local Option Vote in South Croshy «First Game in Leeds Connty Hockey League--Visitors to the 2.~Miss Mae Pin- past resigoed her position and : y for Yorkton, Sask. 6. has ssoured a position. Miss b school. , has been engaged to teach in the col- next year, The first game in the Leeds county * hookey ue will be played here on Year's between Elgin and New- Duting the continued soft is ho jee on the rink d the game will probably on the lake. The ohildven of St. Mary's Sabbath school. were entertained at a dinner in the court house on Wednesday afternoon and a vary enjoyable time was spent. by teachers and pupils. The children will hold a sleigh riding party soon. Lh Among the holiday visitors in town Fein Ho: Mela , Chicago; Allap i 1 ontreal; Mr. and Mrs, Ar thur Parish, Chicago; Williard Spi iogry Syracuse; Athens; : Kilmer p, Brodkville; Mr, and Mrs. R, Davidson, Syracuse; John Mooney, Tiagth; J. A. Moriarty, Ottawa; Miss E. Pierce, Elgin. je and Mrs, Henry Carty, Flgin, town on esday on business. R. Dier, Carleton Place, was re poling old A + in town. Migs Millie Greem, trained nurse; of WiniGpeg, arrived home for the holi: on Saturday, Miss Pdoa Ack was at home to a member of ing friends at an sujagable., little ety on Che 'might. arold By ps agent, the hoi town ent of his pa, Misa Aggie Cox pent Christ: at Ber home near Athens and ! town iy. ' a few days s Mra. oJ. Lew in T rs. dere Fo, and "Anabel © Camp | Braley, S R. J. Dargavel and family, Toronto, are spending the holidays in town. Mr. and Mrs. William Spicer and fam- ily, Brockville, ave the guests," this week of Jael Spicer, who continues eritically ill. Stephen Knolton, Ath- ens, spent the holidays, the guest of relatives in town, Misses Frances and Lena Tobin were the guests of rela- tives here on Sunday. A shower will be given Miss Lewis by the children and teachers of St. Mary's Sabbath school at the rectory on Thursday af ternoon. REAR-ADMIRAL BRA DLEY A. FISKE, Fifth division of the Commanding the Atl ntic fleet; At Blair Settlement. Blair Settlement, Dec. 27.--Quite a number from this place attended the entertainment at Salem and West. poet Thursday and Friday evenings. Henry Hell, who has been: quite ill, is some beiler. James Guvsline is oh the sick list. Mr. and Mus. John {flair have gone: to visit ds. They Tein ing the winter here, ing guest + Blair, Mim, Magis have came to spend guest of theie grandmother, 5 William Blair. © Mr. and Mrg, Oliver (iorsiine are home from the North« West and intend spending the winter here. Mr, and . i, Warren, New- boro, spent (hristinas us HH. Blair's. Miss M, Gorsline, at Mrs. William Blair's. Miss Lillian and Anna Me Cann, at Westport. Mr. and Mes, W. , 'spent Christmas at TT. J. Wi *.. Mr. and Mrs. S. Wha- ley, at T. J, Wattle', Foi t is annougced of Lond W , one of the richest peers in the Usited Kingdom, and Miss Margherita Van Raalte, a wealthy wosiet of twenty-one, The a -'oecurred &t the general hospital; Wednesday Ben afew hours olds Topper wT chaws improve sm BAR AND THE HOME ONE OUGHT SURELY ABOLISHED, TO BE What is the Substitute For It?---- Home Needs Attention--Men Must Go Somewhere _in Their Leisure Hours--A Very Great Issue. Toronto Mail, It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the value of the work done in this pro- vince by the social reformers enlisted in the movement for the abolition of the bar. The very extensive area in which the loeal option of suppressing the liguor traflic has been exercised has gained in every. way by the change, save only, it may be, in the matter of hotel secommedation. . Any shortcoming in that particular' can. however, be made good by a follow- ing-up icy for the lieensing of inns restricted to the business af providing travellers and transient traders with food and lodging. . " Dut while the abolition of the bar goes to the rool of many of the ills that 'social reformers are endeavoring to get rid Sf, it does not effect all the good that is aimed at. The blighting influence of the bar is largely due ito ita distinet character as a rival of the home. It is impossible for temperance workers to emphasise too strongly the fact that it is as a counter-attraction of the home that the drawing power of the bar is first felt. Afterwards it is by its grasp on a man through the drinking habit it establishes in him that it works. li temperance workers paid more attention to this vital faet, that the bar gets its first hoid on a man by its successful vying with his hone a€ the resort of his idle hours, wo believe they would make some change in their tactics. They would turn some of their efforts upon the great task of making the home a hap- pier spot than in so many cases Sit 18. It is to be remembered--apd this fact also seems not sufficiently insisted: u social "reform has: made very great strides slong paths other than that upon which the temperance workers have stccessfully led .it. One great improvement, for whith . the chief credit is to be remdered to the: labor unions, is the limiting of the {erm of 's work to a reason: HL HH 2 fi £ i 1 F 5 3 § 2 2 F il iil i § BF and home interests ? Is it always be- cause they are of a perverse and for- ward generation ? By no means. It is often because the home is made wretched by the woman in charge of it. Many fine fellows who naturally shrink from the environment of the bar are practically driven to it as a friendly haven from the storm and stress of domestic life. Nor is the misery of home in such dases always due (0 a propensity to shrewdishness or squalor on the part of the wife. - It' is more often due to lack of domestic gkill on her part or to a failure to realize what is requir- od of her as a helpmate. And this brings us to take account bf another gocial change of very large jmportance --that, namely, which has led ta the drafting of so great a proportion of the girlhood of the country into the factories and offices. When the girls who have been so employed become wives they are not usually ready- made housekeepers. It' is not, there fore, altogether the fault of the wo- men if homes aré not always the ideal places they ought to be. The Mail and Empire once before suggested, and it suggests again, tHat the large and very, helpful force of women workers in the cause of tem- perance organize themselves for the purpose of promoting and spreading proficiency in domestic economy. They should use their great influence for the schooling of all young women, to whom other opportunities for it are denied, in the arts and graces of housekeeping. They should get to know something about the homes of drunkards and should, where neces- sary, assist the wives of such men to become qualified to make . home at- tractive for their husbands and sons. By doing so the women engaged jn the temperance movement would im- mensely contribute to the radical so- hition of the problem of putting the out of business. : A Birthday Surprise. bo Friday, immediately after the closing exéreises in 'the schools a num: ber of children folks proceeded to the e of their little friend, Roberta (ince, Albert street, with greetings, it ing the occasion of her eighth birth- day. It was a pleasant surprise for little Roberta when on coming home from school she found her friends gaih- ered. to greet her. They plaved games, and Gladys {| Saunders; who is a clever 4 mus iclsn, entertained with = ul pe on the piano. While the candies were burming on the cake, Mr. and Mrs Vitioe served sandwich and cocoa; then the cake wae cut and the excitement height while gx . pede vears of age, NO MERCY FOR PERSIANS WHO OFFEND RUSSIA. Commanders Given Orders--Told to Destroy Places Where Resistance Might be Offered--Rule With Rifle and Sword. St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.--A semi-of- ficial statement says that the Russian government, in view of acts of "fool hardy aggression committed against the Russian forces and institutions in Tabriz, Reischt and Enzeli, sometimes followed" by brutgl torture of the wounded aod . base' 'oliffages | against the dead,' has decided that the sever- est punishment of the guilty is merit- ed, and Russian commanders, in con- junction with Russian consuls, are in- structed to adopt the most stringent measures, These measures, as set forth in the statement, include the arrest and trial by court-martial of all participants in the attacks, the disarmament of the Fidals and other troublesome ele ments, the destruction of places where resistance might be offered, and what: ever else is deemed necessary to re-es- tablish order and secure tae chastise ment of the offenders. Killed by the Russians. London, Dec. 29.-The Persia com- mittee, composed of prominent Eng- lishmen interested in Persian affairs, has received the following telegram from the provincial assembly at Tab riz, sent through the Persian Society of Constantiniple : . "On December 21st Russian troops attacked and seized the administration buildings. They trampled school chil dren under foor and killed and despoil- ed innocent wen and women. They al¢o looted the shops. The inhabit- ants, after extraordinary forbearance, began to defend thogseelves and forced the Russians to evacuate the govern- ment offices. the Rupsinng "On December 22nd, bombarded thi city until sunset, con stoernation' increasing hourly, On De cember 23rd; in consequence of orders from the central government to cease fighting, the inhabitants took no steps to defend themselves? but the Rus- sians renewed the bombardment, firing from the environs of their consulate at women and other innocent persons. hoy wounded or made captive the vives and children of many vespecta- le citizens and sel fire to numerous buildings and mosques. "The inhabitants | still fuiet on December 25th, but the feroc- ity of the Russians greatly incremsed They killed many: women and children and a large number of buildings were burned by t if to-morrow the don't desist fr their savage altacl the inhabitants will be compelled to defend themselves. ! hn hey i lh : am io rincipal newspapers and influential of Europe." Ls Vols & « E communicate this Mrs. William Dowsley, an old and respected resident of Trask on Wednesday, 'Imas. Arthur Kinney and wife, remained' 12 YEARS AND LEASH. Heavy Sentences Imposed ou Three Bandits. Winnipeg, Man, Dec. 28.--As a re sult of the 'wave of crime prevalentin Winnipeg lately, and especially to pus 8 stop to street hold-ups, the police magistrate sentenced three Galician bandits to twelve years in the peni- tentiary and twenty-four lashes each. -------- -- COL, BE. WALTER RATHBUN Has Been Elected Mayor of Deseronio by acclamation Bloomfield Budget. Bloomfield, Dec. 28.-- Herbert Cdoper and wife are spending Christmas in St, Louis. Adam H. Saylor and wife are spending Christmas holidays at Brie, Pa. Andther large canning fae tory will be erected here in the spring. A company composed of H. W. Bedell, Homer White, Edward Purtelle. Ben- jamin Leavens and H.-Y. Cooper have purchased the farm of J. Baxter, to gether with stock and implements, for $10,300, On this property they will build a factory. Burton Hayter, who has been in Saskatoon during the past year, arsed home to spend Christ. of Ke nora, and Charles Clinton and wile, of Hamilton, spent Christmas at John Clinton's. Miss Alma Swsyvior, of To ronta, spent a few days st home. Miss Gertie Mastin, of Toronto, visited at 8. Fedgar Mastin's. Nominations for the township of Hallowell: For reeve, J. Gerow aad Clarence - Mallory; deputy reeve, Hubert MeDonald (by aeclamationy; councillors, Jarvis Eagligh, Frask Malcolm Clanp and bride, of Wind sor, visited a few days ast Curtis Stanton's. J. M. Branscombe and family, spent Christmas at Johh Jones, Brighton. Wilirid Cronk spent Christrons st home Miss Philona Barker is visiting for s couple of weeks jm New York. Women, in two rasny bomen, are, in an ungrateful reality, the _ ajlent Lpartoer. aks Cupid doesn'd pay any "aliention to & fag of truce. ' ; "I Story and Willis Yerex. 'ren fighting EXPECT § OR A Lota New York, Dee. 28.--Notice of an in- ~ crease in the price of 'domestic' sizes of anthracite coal has led to-the dje- covery that the mine operators are gets ting ready for either a strike or shut down of the minds at the expiration of the union agreement om April Ist. The advance in prices here has bee gun with an increases of Ceol couts per ton on chestout size, Which is to be followed by an advance in prices on other sizes with the arrival of the next cold snap. x Editor Floyd . Parsons, of the Coal Age, said, to-day, that diligent study on his part had failed to reveal the reason for the advanoe except that of "seasonable"', advance, 8 term apply ing to cold weather raises. He alsa stated that it was genersily believed that the operators would have about seven months' supply on' hand: by the time that the uuion agree- ments expired on April Jet, and that the mines would then be closed inde finitely. "If-it isn't & strike, it will be a shut down," he said. A Charming Reception. : Picton, Ont., Pee. 28.~Mre. E. Mal oolm Young was the hostess of =» charming 3 at Clatemount this afternoon, to mark the debut of her daughter, Mise Bernice Young. Mrs. Young wore a robe of ashes of roses satin, with overdress of gold net, embroidered in gold Loses, yoke and sleeves of tissue of gold, de- butante wore the mn in whi she was presented to their royal highness. os, Governor-General and Duchess of Connaught at the Suse Suingroaks white charmeuse, punie white silk net, embroidexed In roses, cus cryatals amd seed pearl fringe. The ne- sistants were : Mrs, Bogsrt, Napames; Mre. G. FE. Boulter, Mise artin, Misses Rose, Allison and Wright, Snowballs at Auto Fire. St. "Louis, Dee. 20.+When Classes and George W. Wall, Fo Sik of axe Ju George W. R Cinyton it git by . cries of "help," they thought that some : one being mourdersd. i Oui m their pajamas they found wo og » a fire which od roe started in the body of a . towing car, with snowballs, whils two young women by. : The snowballs were pol effective and the mew then took their over- coats and endeavored to smother the tlaza. The overcoats proves as in- efiective and vanished in same way as fhe snowballs. The Wolff bovs put out the fire with water. Three years in | biary, the minimum ssntence, was mated out to C. M. Patmore, a Toronto mail olerk, Patmore worked in mail ears between Flora and Toronto, and ] itty to sar of mptetn, Ey la diamond ring and three gem stones, ° .