Published Dally and BSemi-Weekly bY THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING ©00,, LIMITED, +... President Dizastor c.- Treas . GO. Blliott .. A Guia .. "Managing E Telephones: Business office .: ied Fis sine sera suse - eens ess ave snes 393 TT RATES (Dally Edition.) : pata i in city ...... $6.00 f paid In advance . 5.00 by mail to rural offi € Sear, to United States ad three months, pro rata. (Bemi- Weekly Raition. 3: year, by mail .. year, to United States and three months, pro r best is one of the job ttached ting offices in Canada, TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE: BE. Smaliplece 32 Church St. 4 VU, 8. REPRESENTATIVES: Mew York Office ...... 326 Fifth Ave. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. "ee see .". I'ribune Bldg. Frank R. Northrup, Manager. AN INDUSTRY FOR KINGSTON. The council, after a careful reading, and serious scrutiny, has passed the agreement between the city and the 'company which proposes, as soon as ible, and certainly without any , to commence the manufacture of 1iron piping. Several considerations have wen be- the mayor and aldermen. Ome the bona fides of those who are gPprojecting the enterprise. Do they | mean business ? Well, it appears that ; leading spirits are men who have © "an experience in the iron business, and y ave backing that experience in ; city with a large investment of l. They know that Canada absorb all that the present mills produce--last year to 'a value of $5,000,000~and that the demand tated the importation of for- manufacture to the vedue of $1, t the council has established facta: That the mill will be the city; "that it will pay rates for the electifu y and water it will require; that will raise $200,000 of the half = ion dollars in capital, and invest 60,000 in site and buildings and t before the city will be called to do anything, and that for civic securities, given when the 4 is runaing, the city will have and sufficient protection in a mprigage to the extent of $100, tks ring pouncil has given its approval 'the agreement, and a by-law, has pon this agreement, will be sub- fo the people for their vote approval at a special election. | eity, without much trouble, and t considerable competition, to secure ap industry which ses well for it and all who have is . The evening classes, largely techni pl, in Buffalo, are attended by 14- persons. These, in their voca- , discover that they lack in some , and they seek to acquire the ial knowledge that will increase 'usefulness. There are many in on who will realize their wants have them supplied in (he evening it is proposed to open. x onpor'pa H@alykieo lo oipf GER PUBLIC LIBRARY Council voted $300 to the pub- library, and by that act came to timely relief of a most worthy in- jitution. The library, as it is recog- to-day, is a development from Mechanics' Institute, which, many ago, represented all that the could afford for technical and in- ual training. one time, in conection | with the there were classes in which wg men of the day acquired a deal of useful Knowle and d was of a high and 'oxcep- ity. With the passing came a change in the de ths people. The young men ~ found technical training , and under other aus the library came to a time to broaden out and take 8 of activity. "of the reading-room to . location was certainly a ie fight direction. It is cen- conveniently | located, and ig its patrons many who te its advantages. These # not confined to any class. they have beem has ly disposed of. All the library are' free, except as "fiction," of add which is '| has those who can afford the fees which are imposed. : The library, as now situated and constituted, does not reflect the ambi- tions of ite They realize that Kingston is city in Ontario which has not a large and splendid public library. It is true that some of the municipalities, if not all of them, are indebted to Andrew Carnegie: for a bountiful con: tribution, under fixed and unalterable conditions. One is that of public mon- ey there must be spent a certain sum per annum, indefinitely. Kingston longs for such a library, and Kingston will some day have it. Towards it some contributions have heen promised, but a free site is the first desideratum. Some day a citi- zen, of large heart and gencrous dis- pogition, wil "provide this site, and the building will Jollow as a matter of form. Perhaps seeing this, will open the way to an early realization of civic dream by offering and the rest will fol directors. perhaps the only some one, this library, site, low speedily. sr---------- An examination of the reports from fifty-six cities in Canada, according to the Labour Gazette, shows that Kings ton is the cheaper centre in which to live. Here is something of which the city can boast to advantage. With plenty of work--as well as cheap living--the working element should suc- ceed, and ite prosperity means the prosperity of the city. some RESENTING INDIFFERENCE. Toronto will have its municipal de partments examined by experts, and these reports will probably be from the Bureau of Research, New York. This was established some years ago by a number of gentlemen who felt that the people's business, like the business of the individual, needed "toning up," that its methods and routine could be improved from time to time, and that men should be em- ployed whose skill in municipal man agement might be made effective. H Toronto gets from this bureau the results it has a reason to expect--if the men who are paying for the in. quiry, the business men of the city, at a cost. of several thousand dollars, are enlightened as they expect to be the experiment will redound to the oredit of all concerned. It should not be necessary for the citizens to be come concerned in this way, and yet it is To their credit that 'they are, for it is municipal indifference that is re- sponsible for all the crosses and all the losses in civic government. One gets confirmation in this con- clusion from a reading of B. B. Cooke's articles in the Canadian Cour- ier." The first of the series deals with the serious consequences that have at- tended municipal mismanagement in many Canadian cities. The average citizen does not know how the money collected from the people in taxation is spent. Mén are elected to office on personal and political grounds. They do the people's financing. They may realize only $17,000,000 on the $20, 000,000 of debentures they sell, and he is a rare one who knows how it hap pened. In five years over $215,000,000 n loaned to Canadian muni: cipalities, and in the floating and ex- ploiting of this large sum $20,000,000 a year may have been wasted, and the average man and taxpayer does not see how this affects him. Of course not. That is the evidene of municipal indifference, the spirit that broods community and lets anything go rather than be es. teemed "knocker." Mr. Cooke cites several wonderful experiences in Vancouver where engineers came and went because they ran up against the big wigs, of the Tammany brand, who differed with the officials, their bureau over a a re- put lay opinion against expert opinion, and defeated the plans. that were for the good of the city. In a city nearer home a man was elected to high office, because he needed the money, not be cause he was fit for it or the for which he called. The average citizen will sometimes approve of anything in the interest 'of the party or the man that is interest- ed. He will make a great noise, will storm and protest, tem and society, and council and oi- ficinls--but he will vote for anybody occasionally when that anybody needs the money. Toronto may get a great' revelation, as a result of the inquiry which it will order, will probably ex- duties press surprise and chagrin, and even correction of ali that | undertake the may be wrong, but eventually the community will calm down and the old order of things will be restored. EDITORIAL NOTES. Home Rule for Seotland will follow Home Rule for Ireland. They should, in the opinion of some people, have been comeurrent. If a legislature is a good thing for Ireland, for the di: rection of local affairs, it should be a good thing for all the other divisions of the United Kingdom. With a gen, eral plan there would have been less objection to the Irish bill. The government of Ontario plans to give, in thé next distribution of seats, which it will make as soon as possi ble, two more seats to Toronto. To be sure. It cannot be too good to the city which gives it a solid delegation, and without considering its deserts. If Toronto were a little more indepen deat, or divided politically, it would will denounce sys-| THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, be better for both the city government. and the A man in Syracuse, Max Blanck, in whose factory 150 hands, men, perished in a fire, was prosecut- ed for criminal negligence, because the locked and these women out. That indictment a charge that he did the factory doors, he mostly wo- doors were could not get failed, but on wrong in locking was fined $20. A small atonement fn the lives of 150 persons. It ease it may may his conscience, and not. The health authorities of New York recommend the of school children aw a protection against ty- phoid from infected milk. The innocu- lation of the army recruits in America with the anti-typhoid serum has been pronounced a sure guard against ty- phoid, and the perfected vaceine can be used with perfect safety. It may use, but nothing efforts of all com- and vaccination come into general should relax the riunities to secure pure milk. water A manufacturer said a few days ago: "I would be glad to take electric or hydro power from the city if I coulg get it at the cost of my fuel, or #25 a horse-power." The Hy- dro-Electric Commission has deposited in Ottawa its plans for the supplying of Eastern Ontario with electric en- ergy Waddington's Falls, N.Y. Kingston liberty to remew its negotiations for cheap power, and it or about from is at is the first consideration in counting on new industries. PUBLIC OPINION Sure Thing. Hamilton Herald. Such marvellous feats are being per! formed hy the French aviator. Pe- goud that the next thing we may hear of in aviation is an unfallable aeroplane. One Consolation. Toronto Star % Rev. John MaoNeil says the modern church is full of Pharisees. Oh, well, there are compensations. There are very few scribes im it. Give Him Time. Toronto Globe. Must Crothers go so soon ? Why not let him stay till the whole gov: ernment goes ? That won't be long, judging from the rate at which it is making enemies. Hastening a Charge. Ottawa Journal As the Winnipeg Tribune points out that women's fancy for wearing few: er clothes will not last much longer in Canada. The man behind the coming change in fashions is John Frost. A Surprise For Them. Ottawa Free Press It must be cold comfort for some conceited men to learn from these great scientists in convention that the perfect type of man hasn't been evolv- ed yet. Wake Up, Canada. Montreal Herald Canadian exporters are said to be apathetic with regard to the United States tariff. Canadian exports to .the United Kingdom in some im portant lines have been falling off steadily for some time. Wake up, Canada ! would be a pretty good motto for us to adopt just about now. Where's Bob Rogers? Montreal Herald Honorable Martin Burrell, minister of agriculture, is inviting suggestions as to how hest to spend the ten million dollars voted him at the last session of parliament for the encouragement of agriculture. H the Honorable Martin can't find a po liticiah, past qr present, in Ottawa, who can tell him how to disppse of ten millions, there is no use in his going anywhere else for suggestions. Kingston Events 25 YEARS AGO. The pupils in Louise and Queen stroet schools had to be dismissed to-day as the schools were too cold. | James Robinson has the work of graining the doors and , woodwork in the city buildings. Capt. Booth says there have been more marine disasters this season ithan he has ever known to occur in lone vear, taking all things into ac- count. There ave 158 members in the Young I Men's Christian Association. Unrest of Labour. London Mail, Labor in treat Britain is restiess and dissatisfied precisely at the moment when parliament is most studious of its supposed inter- ests, when the national conscience is more keenly alive to, and most eag 'erly hent on, remedying social and economic injustices ana inequalities, wnen the philanthropic spirit is most clearly in the ascendant, and w the "condition of the people," the master-issue that confronta all mo- ern cies, is receiving an umn- precedvnted amount of skilled and anxious thought. The Bar-room Is Doomed. Toronto Globe. Wore 'the liberals of Ontario ready to haul down their flag because of anything that happened in the bye elections, they would prove them selves not champions of a cause but short-sighted 'seekera for affice. The real campaign is yet to come. The cost has been counted. Liberal jsm will not fail. The barroom is doomed. The choice for it will be most | Wise and Otherwise Women, we are assured by a doctor will all be bearded in'another century safety razor, As a general thing those who pay as they go are always trying to turn back. himselt con- from can make anyone who something Even a grouch very agreeable 1 templates buying him, 0 Of course it may be true that stay- ing at home makes a woman morbia, but how do you account for so many more morbid women than women wha stay at home. There may be microbes in kisses but no girl has ever seen one, The man with high ideals doesn't ai- take it out in high living. Don't talk about other people 1 is just as well to be too busy talking about yourself. ways The Unhonored Prophet. "What is a genius, Ma?" "Your father ought to know; ried one." 'But I didn't know that Pa had been married twice." he mar- No Room te Kick Texas stage Manager--How do the chorus like their new skirts? Wardrobe Woman--Oh, kicking, sir. they're not The Best They Could Do. She: "I why they hung picture?" He: "Perhaps they couldn't catch the artist."--Boston Transcript, wonder that And She Had Been Warned. "All men are .plike. They're de- ceitful and selfish." "How do you know?" "A married friend of mine told me so and warned me against all of them "But Fred." "Of course 1 you're go'ng to \ marry am He's different." who overdo things need- if they have to do The people n't be surprised them over. investment; but, it doesn't always Experience is an like lots of others, pay good dividends The world is almost as full of peo- ple who wear themselves out as it Is of people who rust If Cowper Had Known Slang. the main squeeze of all that 1} lamp, I've a cinch that no guy can dispute; I boss everything in this dump, Things scatter whenever I toot; But lonesome! Gee whiz, how I'd like Once more in a car track to skid; I'd swap all I've got for a glimpse Of a skirt--do vou followme, kid? I'm Daniel's Lions. "Faith, you wufless, ones, mus' hab faith!" shouted the colored preach. er. 'Look at dat ar' Dan'l! Dey drap ped 'im in among We lions an' did dey eat 'im? No, sah; he jes squelched 'em He done had faith! Dem dar lions--" One of the younger up and inquired: "Say, pahson wuz dem lions big as d¢ kind we has now?" "Co'se not, co'se not," retorted the preacher, "Dey wa= B.C, meaning befo circuses,'--Exchange. $ vou negroes rose Caught in His Trap. A student had been bragging of his various accomplishments until one ot the company trying his patience, said: "Now we have heard quite enough ot what you can do; just tell us what you g¢an't do and I'll undertake to do it my. self." "Indeed; well I can't pay my bill, and am very glad to find that you can do it," replied the student Amid the hilarity of the company the guest redeemed his rash promise. --Ex- change. Similar Occupations, At the circus Reansley nudged his friend and pointed to the strong man who was holding a large dumb-bell on ton of which wera seated two hand- some girls in tights. "Odd," he observed, "but that's just what my wife is doing at home" "What's that?' asked the friend. And Beansley, the wag, repliefi: "Putting up peaches" --Youngstowa Telegram. Judging by Smell. Pat and Jim were trudging along the dusty. road when a blg touring car passed them with a whiz like a roar of a gigantic rocket, disapearing in a cloud of dust . "Gorry!" exclaimed Pat "thim chug wagons must cost a hape av cash. The rich in this country is fairly burnin' money." "Indade, thin" replied Jim, "be ths smeM av it, it must be that tainted clear amd definite in the next Omtario election. money we do be hearin': so much " about." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER One more thing to quarrel about--the 80, 1913. 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