"<a milion MADE BY THE BOARD OF TRADE PRESIDENT. Concerning What He Saw In the West -- Comments Upon the Ofl Well Excitement Around Calgary. _ The president of the Board of Trade when asked by the press for & statement with regard to his recent observations in the west, said that He had given, outside of his own business, most attention to school matters, and that he proposed to dis- cuss these questions at a meeting of the Board of Education. He sald he was in Calgary at the outset of the oil excitement. He beard discussions one morning With' regard to the manifestations of oil In the Dingwall well during the night, and by noon the Calgary newspapers were issuing extras and giving details with regard to the matter. Special correspondents had been sent up by automobiles, and théy were writing furiously respecting their findings. It was reported that oil gushed a couple of times during that first day, and with each announcement of this kind the feelings of the people seem-: on, ed to rise until, in the afternoon, there was practically a suspension of business in the down-town districts and everybody was talking oil. Out- side of the brokers' offices great crowds assembled, and they jostled and fought each other in their desire to crowd into the offices and get into contact with those who were selling and disposing of stock. The president of the Board of Trade sald he could resemble the ex- citement to nothing so much as the excitement of a crowd upon the close of 'an election day when everybody was excited and everybody was talk- ing: The value of oil stock advanced rapidly. Some was purchased at $5 and $10 per share. Some of it was purchased for as little as §1 per share because during the long period in which experiments were made the faith of the people seemed to have béen dying and stock was a drag on the market. Indeed, the sale of it was announced to have been with- drawn at one or two places just be- fore the well began to gush. During the two days the president was in Calgary the population rapid- ly swelled by the influx of visitors from other places, and he learned on the train coming east that the ho- tels were unable to accommodate the crowds, and that all Calgary was in a state of excitement. One of the young 'men who had ur- t of try ays, Fri- Ys Satarday and Sunday, said that aud a half dollars had in his office. He was the staff, but pressed into the service because he was a ready writer, and for three days he did 'nothing but write receipts for the money which was deposited for stock. 'He had invested a little of his own money,--had purchased stock at $26 per share, and sold it at $150 per share. With the earn- ings in his pocket he. concluded to leave the seat of excitement lest he might gamble on further chancgs and lose what he had made. There is an explanation as to the gushing of the well. At times the oil flowed from the ground and then, apparently, gas forced it out. When the gas ceased to escape the oil flow- ed back and had to be bailed out of the well, There is no doubt that through many parts of Saskatchewan and Al- berta there is oil. Gas is very plen- tiful in some places. One farmer near Pense informed the president that he could not get water upbn his farm, that every time he drilled for it he struck gas. Medicine Hat is the centre of the gas field, and for manufacturing purposes gas is sold at 5¢ per thousand feet. In Alberta gas has been touched at various points, but vil is sought, and, accopd- ing to Mr. Brock, of the geological survey, oil will be found evenutally in large and profitable quantitiees. Some Kingstonians are now in the west - prospecting with regard to oil; and as they must make their ia- spections carefully and slowly, the chances are that they will have reached definite conclusions with regard to the outlook before they reach home. 11 MILLION FEET OF FILM The Quebec Board of Censors Had a Psy Year, Montreal, June 2. -- Feet of film * amin 11,241,000; 9,399,000 feet without modification; S81E 000 feet prohibited, and confiscal 1,261 reels cut in 1,066 places wi a total of 38,528 teet eliminated; 9,853 subjects examined; 8,986 pass- ed without 'modification ; 506 passed with modifications and 361 rejected as a wholé. Such in brief is a resume of the first year's work of the province of Quebec board of censors apRol year ago to supervise all fi ys in the various maving picture halls in the province. Since the establish- nem of the board, the censors, Dr. . J. Lemieux, M. J. Walsh and GC. N Sinn report that a markéd im- pictures offered for examination has been noted. The film supplies, they say, have not bee: slow in ad- justing their wares to the standard set by the board, with the result that at the present time not oud whit of the difficulty met wih in the opening days of the board's activi- ties is encountered. The most frequent causes of pro- hibition, or of the cutting of films, were immorality, parodies of mini- sters and of the mys eries of religi- vulgarity, anti-patriotic scenes, representations of contemporary crime, suggestits stories, white slave films and the representation of the passion and bibical even 1 for com- mercial purposes. ULSTER GREETS CARSON, Mn Girls Thrashed Suffragettes Who Worried Him. London, June 2.--Ulster txtended a spontaneous and warm welcome to Sir Edward Carson on his arrival at Belfast on Saturday. The factory employees vied with the leaders of the city in demonstrating ecomfid- enct in the great leader Sir Edward 'stated to the press t he had come to complete the preparations. saying the time for speaking was past. Suffragette tacdes indulged in re- ctotly in London militants in regard to Carson were'violently resénted by the women engaged in the linen mills. When the sulfragettes at- tempotd to board the steamer Gra- phic, Irish girls mobbed them, sefz- ing one, to whom a sound thrashing was administered and again the militants had to be rescued by the police. BERT FAIRMAN DEAD -- Well Known. Cornwall; Ont, June 2-~Robett Fairman died hers Saturday. The de- ceased was born in Cornwall seventy. two years ago and was a son of the late John Fairman. He was unmar- ried and is survived by two sisters, Misses Bella and Jane Fairman. The funeral took place from. his late vosi- | dence to Trinity church and Woodlawn cemetery. Toronto Street Market. Toronto June 1.---Wheat, bush. $1.06 to $1.06; wheat, goose, bush. $1 to $1.02; oats, bush., 44¢ to 45¢; barley, bush., 60c to 62¢; hay;¥er 1, $19 to $21; hay, mixed, $16 to $17; straw, $16 to $17; dressed hogs, heavy, $9.50 to $10; dressed hogs, light, $11.25 to $11.75; butter, dairy, 1b., 25¢ to 30¢c; eggs, doz., 25¢ to 27¢; fowl, 1b., 18c to 20c; chick- ens, year-old, 1b, 22¢ to 25¢; ducks, 1b., 24c to 25¢c; turkeys, lb. 22¢ to 26c; potatoes, bag, $1.25 to $1.40; beef ferequarters, ewt., $10 to $12; beef, hindquarters, cwt., $15 to $16; beef, choice sides, cwt., $13 to 13.75; beef, medium, cwt., $11.50 to $12: beef, common, cwt., $9.50 to $10; mutton, light, cwt., $10 to 12; veal, prime, cwt., $13 to $15; veal, spring, each, $7 to $9. Diamond in Hen's Gizzard. Winchester, Ind., June 2.-- Miss Lillian Tharp, living northwest of Parker City, is exhibiting a fine dia- mond which she thought had been lost forever. About four months ago while doing chores about the house, she missed the diamond, and after a careful search failed to find it. A few days ago she caught a for cooking. When she opened the gizzard she was amazed and delight- ed to find the diamond sparkling in the hen's digestive organ. provement in the character of the J Deceased Was One of Early Pioneers | fat old hen and prepared to dress it'] THE INDELICATE STYLES WORN i BY WOMEN. i | English Clergyman's Comments on Fashions, Posters and Vaudeville Evoke * Reptiles -- "Hypocrisy," Says Actress. Loudon, June 2.--Rev. Richard Free, vicar of St. 'Clements church, Fulham, has revived the discussion modern fashions by a letter he has sént to the papers on "the wave of A indelicacy" which, he alleges, is over- spreading this country. He complains of the indelicacy of some vaudeville alts, the indelicacy of posters on the billboards, and the indelicacy of motion picture shows. "In a tramcar the other night," he adds, "a girl in her teens was sit- ting opposite me. She wore a blouse #0 inadequate that ker bage flesh was visible nearly to her waist." Only yes- terday in a high-class suburb, I found myself walking behind a fashionably Uressed lady, whose every movement uncovered her left leg to the knee." The woman manager at Paquin's indignantly replies to this that the dress of to-day is both artistic and beautiful, and Princess Bariatinsky, better known by her stage name for "Lydia Yavorska,"" who wears re- markable gowns in Anna Karlinina," Bays: "Must women be supposed to have only faces and hands? Poor man is being disturbed all the time--now by a girl in a blouse, now by a poster, now by the leg of a too daring fol- lower of the mode. What is more beautiful than the human body? Did not God make our bodies as well as our souls? Down with bypoerisy?" Mrs. John Hartness, secretary of the American section of the Lyceum Club, is one of those who have ex- pressed themselves emphatically in support of Mr. Free's protest, She says: "It is a real pleasure to find one man with the courage to lift his voice in condemnation of the shock- ing styles forced upon women by Parisian creators. "Woman's form has been always considered the most beautiful crea- tion in the world, but it should be draped artistically. The ancient Greeks had the right idea of dress with their flowing draperies that revealed every line with modest beauty. "Other women should do as we are now doing in America--study the French designs and take from them merely whatever is chic or original." Hinchinbrooke Council Piccadilly, Mdy 39.-- Council met for court of revisioi. "Members all present. Several appeals were read. Moved, Howes-Wagar, that the as- sessment of the Methodist parsonage be struck off the roll.--Carried. As- sessment of John Chalk for two dogs reduced to one, and Hannah Chalk assessed instead of Sarah. Assess- ment of Charles Cox changed to read one dog instead..of four George Raymond assessed for pt lot 24, con 3, instead of John Lowrey. Assess- ment of Frederick Hartwick for a dog be struck off the roll. Miles Sills jointly assessed with George Sills. John Scamlon's assessment re- duced fifty dollars. Court of revision adjourned and the reeve, assessor and ¢lerk ordered to examine the roll land correct any errors. ang ancl) met for gemeral business. Minutes of last meeting adopted. Bills and communications read. Com- munication of A. and R. Howes laid over. The reeve ordered to look af- ter all road crossings, etc., along line of the C.L.O. and W. railway, and have them put in proper condition. Reéve and councillors Peters and Wagar named as a committee to ar- range with J. Hartwick for road across lot 21, con. 5, and the clerk notify J. Hartwick to meet them at said lot June 2nd at ten a.m. The reeve and treasurer empowered "to borrow sufficient money for use of municipality for road purposes. The reeve and clerk be a committee to examine time books, pay sheets, vouchers, etec., of superintendents and issue order for work on roads. By-law No. 7 of 1913, for grants on colonization roads for 1914 read third t'me, signed and sealed. Bush received an order on treasurer for §11.37 for work on roads. Coun- cil adjomrrned to meet at Parham on Monday, June 29th. And Not- A Single} Word Was' Spoken A ted. A Big Increase in New York Insure New York, Jume 1.--Insurance companies in New York last year, says a report made public last night by the State Insurance department, wrote $7,099,095,836 of business, or an increass of $1,: 263.330, 780 over 1912, The excess of fire prewalums over fire losses and egtimated expenses on New York State business was $5.- 683,847, an increase of slightly over $2,000,000. Fire premiums increas- ed $1,200.00, while losses decreased $1,300,000. "The annual ash heap of this coun- try and Canada," the report says, "shows little sign of diminution § the amount of property loss involved. It was $225,000,000 in 1912, and in 1913 only about $500,000 less. The average for the past sir years is slightly less than $§227,000,000. "There can be no question that a very high percentage of the abnes-| mal and tremendous money loss re- sulting from fires in the United States and Canada is due to condi- tions that should no longer be allow- ed to exist; and, in addition is the attendant loss of life, of which the past year has had jts full share." Have Purchased Mills, Medicine Hat, June . 1.---Ogilvie Milling Co. has purchased elevators at Irvine Bow Island, Stirling, Warn- er, Magrath and Monarch, all in Al- berta. The company will builds one at Wilson's Siding, ten miles sth of Lethbridge, and three on the Suf- field branch of the C.P.R. These ele vators will bring Ogilvie's number to 27, total storage, outside of mill ele- vator, 825,000 bushels. Will Not Increase. New York, June 1.--The Illinois Ceniral is again earning over seven per cent, available for dividends on its stock, 'but it is not thought at all robable that the directors will take aby steps to restore "he seven per cent. dividend rate at least before the end of this year. If there is not another slump .in earnings during 'the mext fiscal year it is believed that (he highest rate will be restor- ed some time in 1915. Many Companies. Edmonton, June 1--The total am- ount of capitalization of .the forty oil companies that have been incor- porated since the strike of oil in the Dingman well, a few days ago, am- ount to exactly $35,820. The am- out of money collected in fees by KE. Trowbridge, the provincial regis- trar, is $12,715, companies been in- corporated as low as $10,000 and $25,000, 'while' the highest amount placed on the tion papers was $40,000,000. "For this 1incorpora- tion alone the fee charged was $2,- 157. Hold C. P. R. Stock. Moutreal, June doirestation and all pr.» pr tious 'hras been met, a balance of $100,337.26 was brought forward io the credit of the profit and loss taccount, Another Issue Fails. . Tondon, June 1.--The recent issue f $15,000,000 of New South Wales four per cent. stock has met with a poor response, 80 per cent. being left on the underwriters'. hands. A Big Coal Company. Montreal, June 1.--The Canada Securities Corporation, Limited, of Montreal and Toronto, will shortly offer for subscription on the Cana- dian markets $500,000 of the first mortgage d collateral trust thirty year 6 per oent. sinking fund gold bonds of the Pacific Coast Collieries, Limited. Financial News - George C. Miller, of Buffalo, has been elected a director .of the Dome | Mines company in place of Mr. Denni- son. Denial has been given to a report that the International Harvester com- pany has acquired control of the M. Rumely company. British admiralty will trol of Persian monopoly if parlia- ment sanctions government subserip- tion of ¥110,000,000 as new working capital, The Canadian Pacific's gross for the period from July lst last to May 14th was $11,877,551, a decrease of £6,715, 932 as compured with the same period last year. ' 'The entiré business of the United States Express company will be taken over by the Wells, Fargo company on June 30th. The N. M. Paterson Grain and Ele- vator company, of Fort William, have purchased thirteen grain elevators scattered throughout Saskatchewan The elevators purchased were former- ly owned by the Royal Elevator com- pany of Winnipeg. The Illinois Central has virtually closed for 3,000 cars, and the Union Pacific, it is reported, has ordered 900 freight cars and 180 passenger cars. The Great Northern will build 1,400 cars at its own snops. The St. Lou- is, Brownsville and Mexico has com- pleted negotiations for 820 cars and the Canadian Pacific has ordered 62 cars to be built in Canada; Holders of the $27,000,000 Boston and Maine notes maturing next month have been told that_unleéss they are extended nine months to give the management time ' to work out a re- organization plan, a financial crisis will come when the notes mature. Straw hats shipped . abroad from British factories during 1913 numbered obtain con- 2 THE STANDARD BANK KINGSTO H. E. Richardson, VENDING money to amy point mn N BRANCH, THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA INCORPORATED, 1889 Capital Paid Up $11,560,000 Reserve Funds 13,575,000 BANK MONEY ORDERS A safe and economics! method Rates: $5 and under ' Over $3, not excending $10, . Over $10, not exceeding $30, Over'$30, not exceeding $50, : of Temitting SMALL amounts, 3c. fic. 10¢. 13e. n excepted and Nf). at any Bank-in U.S.A Parable without charse in Canada Vuke ted) Nf st all princral cilies--and in Great Britain and treiand st over 500 pointe " KINGSTON BRANCH, We. E. E. NEWMAN, Manager. Offer Nova Scotia Steet and Coal Co. 6% Sterling Debenture Stock At 98 and Interest to Yield-61& P.C. Particulars on Application. F. B. McCURDY & CO. $8.88 BROCK nearly 5,000,000, value ¥3,500,000 AAA St Ww H. W. N PHONE 1935 Members Menton! Stock Exchange ES. Manager NAA AA a A 7 AA SAA At Ay number of shares held by each share- holder of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way is'75,17. This information was given to the Monetary Times this week by Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the railway company He' also states that the total number of shares at present outstanding 1s 2,600,000. These are held by 34,689 shareholders The distribution of this large nuniber of shares is as fol lows: / 9,466 hold under ten shares each, 17,473 hold under twenty shares oach. 26,834 hold fifty shares and under 30,203 hold under one hundred shares eachh. 32,699 hold under Th each. The stock of the Canadian Pacific Railroad company is probably the most widely held by any American road, with the exception of the Penn- sylvania, which recently reported 64,- 869 shareholders. two hundred Best in History Montreal, June 1.--The first office of the National Drug and Chemical company in the United States will shortly be opened at Buffalo, N. Y., where he company will conduct an active selling campaign in one of its specialties. The American branch of the company will do business under the name of No-Dru-Co. ,~Incorpora- Although mo detailed statement of the company's year will be given out for publication, it was stated by an official that after provisions for skipped worst possible condition. At the finish Baker stated: record practieally | the superb mechan could have stood the payment of dividends, bad debts, Baker's route included a 1,027.mile desert stretch of sand and cactus--the negotiation of stupendous mountain tralls--and dashes through roads in their "I could not have possibly cut the coast-to-coast half If 1 had not had under me sl equipment of the Indian. "By reason of the Cradle Sprisg ing all road shocks and vibrations, my endurance was trebled, and | was nise enabled to make speed over rough surfaces that no rigid-frame machine "And when | came to Black Canon pass, Arizona, "The Most Wonderful Record 'Breaking By Any Motor - Driven Vehicle the World Erwin G. Baker arrived in New York City at midnight, May 14, breaking all previous coast-to-coast records. He left San Diego, California, May 3rd at noon, Eastern time, and reached New York'll days, 12 hours and 10 minutes afterwards, covering a total distance of 3,378 miles Baker rode a 1914 7-H.P. Twin Two-Speed Electrically Equipped Indian . Motocycle WITH CRADLE SPRING cys He had no mechanical difficulties whatever--and from the Pacific to the Atlantic his motor never come across! "I consider LT he ii Achievement he Two-Speed gave an exhibition that surprised even an old motorcyclist like mywelf. Speed took me up a rise of without n minute's hesitation or trouble, the supreme test of the Two-Sp That Two. Theo Jest In 8 mile This w ced--and how It did this ride the supreme test of he Indian Electric System. | arrived In New York with frame absorb. of the F time the original electric batteries, and bulbs in their sockets, burning brig "1 especially want to emphasise that the Indian 1 used was a stock rode until 3 hours hefore | started on my Baker's ride was made under the omelai Susvices "s A. M., which checked and verified 'The previous transcontinental motoxcyele record was 20 days, ® hours and | minute. Do you wonder at the boys all wanting Indians when they do stunts like this? Treadgold Sporting Goods Co Can supply exact duplicates of this machine. tly. machine which 1 1 exer