"Blossem Out" on Thanksgiving in a New Livingston's. Suit or Overcoat You'll head the procession of good clothes on that day, if you let us get you ready now. Thanksgiving is a day when we are given to think- ing of the year's prosperity. Zhe 'occasion carries with it , the spirit of prosperity, and how much better you will enjoy it if you are in tune with the day and season. There is no better way to feel prosperous, to feel that the future holds more prosperity for you, and to look prosper- ous than to be prosperously- dresséd, and that means well dressed. iT Be Prosperously Dressed Buy Livingston's $15.00 or $18.00 Suits or Gvercoals LIVINGSTON'S BROCK STREET A Little Out of the Way, But It Will Pay You To Walk A New York maker decided to his worried look for ready cash. I "these splendid g rarments was a big arising for the maker. There fas never been such a good chance to buy a suit at the price before, 89 New Fall Suits In all the new fall shades, silk and satin lined. Goods made to sell in the New York at $20.00 and $25.00, all sizes and exchange ie price we paid for stores colors, Saturday $12. 50 9] New Fall Rain Coats All the latest shades and styles, Raglan sleeve, set in sieeve, belted and plain backs. Gdods sold regularly in New York stores at $3.00 and £10.00. We will re- place any coat, if there is any complaint, avithin six months. This is the American guarantee that goes with this oat. All sizes in the lot. Saturday $4.98 von DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1914. JUDGMENT RESERVED IN THE DAM AGE AC ACTION OF MES. JULIA OSKEY. Experts On the Stand -- Defence Claimed Voltage Not High Enough to Kill -- Plaintiff Claims Negh- gence. (See also Page 9.) Additional expert electrical Tines was given i case; when it was resumed on day morning. I.. W. Gili, professor of electrical en- sineering at Queen's University, was placed on the stand and for over two hours was questioned concerning dif- ferent points at issue. A feature of his evidence was that of a test he made before the opening of the court; at a tree near the tile works, where 1t had been claimed that wires had been touching the tree. He had risked a test at this point where both the high avd low voltage wires run close together, and could barely receive a shock, showing that a man could not have been killed by a high voltage in- side the tile works. Prof. Gill said he had made an ex- amination of the wires and transform- ers from the stone quarry on Montreal street to the works. He found th: transformers in first class condition, showing that they would only carry the normal load. 'The line outer station into the tile company plant was in good condition. Mr. Whiting asked Prof. Gill as to what had,' in his opinion, caused th: death of Oskey He said he believed his death had been caused by shock re- ceived irom the ordinary alternating current. Questipnied by Mr. Godfrey, wit- ness said that he did not regard 110 volts as dangerous for a normal man. He had himself several tim- es received 110 volts Mr. Cunningham: *"Oskey died from shock received through the wire guard on the lamp That means that the wire or guard was charged with electricity?" "Yes," said the witness "If there had been a paper hand) and paper guard on that lamp could he have received that shock?" 'No, he could not." John Cornelius, undertaker, em ployed by 8. S. Corbett, who prepar ed the body of Oskey for burial sta ted that there were no marks on the body William C. Rogers, the city's elec tricion, was recalled, and Dr. G. W Mylks, who was called to the tile works when the accident occurred also gave evidence. - He said that no post mortem had been conducted on the body, and for this reason it was not known whether deceased suffer- ed from heart failure It was hi opinion that he died from shock Edward Phillips, another expert, of thirty years' experience, was called by Mr. Whiting Asked for a probable cause of Oskey's he said that if his de 34h had heen caused by electricity, had been from 110 volts, He. had made a test of the line leading to the tile works, and stated that it was built of standard equipment and was i good condition. In the case of Oskey, it was his opinion that he had di ed from heart failure. Ordinarily, a man would not die from receiving 110 volt: He had seen meén knocked down with } 110 volts { John G cal engineer, evidence along in the Oskey Thurs- Jackson, another electri gave it as his opinion [ that Askey had died from a shock ! received from the ordinary current, | He believed Oskey suffered. from | heart failure. Questioned by Mr Cunningham, witness said he did not think de ceased would have received a shock had the lamp been equipped with proper handle Prof. Herbert Kalmus was re called He differed with other wit who stated that the wire were not close to the tree referrer to He said one wire wa an inch of the tree and | tines sway against it To say Oskey was not killed by a high volt { age, it must be shown that the en tire system was in first-clabs condi | tion Giving his opinion on the bagis that Oskey was a normal man he would say that deceased met deal by receiving a high voltage shock. nesses, tha Argument of Counsel. This closed the and My Cunningham then addressed his lord ship. He said that against the tile was based onthe workmen s ant the factory act. Lhe John Oskey, should have been given: proper protection. 'The handle on the lamp used by, Oskev lacked the proper ap plinnce, and this in itself dence of negligence on the part' of the tile company. The fact that might have suffered from 1 heart, would not exomerate the pany. : \s to evidence his case company compensation act deceased, WAR ev) Uskey weak the liabHity of the ity, at could not be stated just where the ne gligence had ocourred be said was that Oskey a high voltage. | Mr. Godirey, for the tile company, daid' that on the evidence he would ask his lordship to find that Uskey had met death as a result of receiv. ing more than 110 volts, It | mitted by all electrical men that under {ordinary ~~ eircumstances 110 | volts | would pot kill a man. It he had | Been killed by 110 volts, then he must have been in ill-he ealth, "and no evidence of this Kind! { found that Oskey had met death as a result of a high voltage, then the city 'of Kingston, { liable. ~~ : i Mr. Whiting, for the city, stated {that the evidence had established "no negligence whatever, in the part 'of the city. plaintiff had been based on supposi- "tion. It was said that Oskey was |a normal man, and thal there was inothing constitutionally wrong with him. The plaintiff had no right fo, £0 on supposition killed by was i it was up to the plaintiff to PrOxep this to be the case, and it was not proven. Oskey may have looked j well from an ontward appearance, hint at the same time he may have siiffered from a weak heart. The | transformer of the city was found to be in good condition 4nd was not broken down. This had been prov- en... The system was examined and found to be an from th= death, | within would at; | | a boy Lin their All that could ! dishurse was ad- | there was | If it was io supplying the power was | guard, The entire case of the | poles and cross bars of type. Since this accident there had been no further complaints about the line, and surely if there was something defective, it shown itself in the nine months fol-| lowing this accident. After hearing the argument, his lordship stated that he would re- serve his decision and the court+ad- journed at one o'clock until two o'clock. There is but one.more case left son vs. Anna Field. The claim is to have thereof declared and carried into executive. - FRENCH TOWN TAHITI IN PAPEETE "BOMBA RDED GERMAN SHIPS. BY Two Killed and $2,000,000 Damage Done at Papeete -- Business to Capture Supplies in City. San Francisco, Oct. 8.--Two lives were lost, $2000000 damage done, two vessels were sunk and two blocks of business. houses and residences were destroyed by the German cruisers Scharnhorst and' Gneisenau in their bombardment « last month of the French colony of Papeete, I'ahiti. Refugees from the island - told: the story on their arrival here yesterday aboard the Union Steamship com- pany's liner Moana, from Australia, which 'touched at Tahiti. I'he dead were one native and a Japanese chaufieur, who was cut in two by a shell while bringing his car into town from the hills for another load ot refugees. No landing was made and no sup- plies of stores were captured. ha French set fire to a 40,000-ton vile to prevent the Germans replenish ing their bunkers, When the Woana leit the natives had not yet returned from the hills. Mod- ern shell fire was something new to { them, "The two coal (Germans hove in sight, i flying no Hag, about seven o'clock in | the morning ran the composite nar | tative of the Moana"s passengers. "lj | the harbor were lying the French gun j boat -Zolee and the German merchant | man Walkurie, the Zolee's prize. An- | ticipating the possibility of a raid the , French had stripped the Zctee and | mounted her guns ashore. | ""As soon as the strangers were re cognized the fort opened fire. The Ger {mans then hoisted their battle flags | and began a hot reply. We estimated {that in all more than 100 eight-inch shells fell in the town, besides a rain [of small projectiles from the secondary batleries. Jeing defenseless the crew of the Zolee scuttled for shore at the first shot. Not long afterward the little unboat began to sink, riddled with | holes. Her prize, the Walkurie, flew no flag, and the Germ@ns, ignorant of her nationality and' that her crew were prisoners on the island, sank her too. "The bombardment lasted about two hours. Those houses surrounding 'the American consulate, over which ° the | Stars and Stripes were fiying con spicuously, were not damaged, but th y water front and mercantile district were utterly wrecked. | "About ten o'clock the baud Gneisenau steamed oft -- to westward undamaged. 'The fire the little French fort had been [and fallen short." PHILADELPHIA WAITS | FOR OPE} GAME WORLD ! BASEBALL SERIES | Scharnhorst the from feeble Afternoon -- Crowds Al All Night | On Friday ready Collecting For An | Wait At the Bleacher Gate. yv Hal Sheridan Pinladelphia, Oct. 8. In the of scrambles for tickets and threats. oi the weather man, Philadelphia came (up with a jerk to-day to the realiza tion that Connie Mack had put some thing over. | "Stufiy"" Meclnnis, star first baseman of the Athletics, is injured. He has not played a game September 27th, and is nursing a bruised right ' hand 'which was hit by a pitched ball | Melnnis his hand bandaged yes ! terday, after o'clock, when shadows were beginning to fall ovr | Shebe Pork, he was on the field with to-piteh to him, and was trim 18 1g { ds l mad | since but five ming up his batting lamps. He practice with the Athletic today, and though his team mates declare "Stuliy " will be as sound 'as a doll for the opening game to-morrow, there anxiety over how that hand { acts under pressure. | In the Braves' eamp i was nothing but absolute confidence ability to down the Athletics Melnnis or po Melnnis. Stallings and 18 some to-day ther: , his men say the Mackmen wallop sev eral yards of lining out of the Yanks vestérday, peeling off twelve hits, tor a total of eighteen bases and runs, but not a Brave flinched. the boys that make the noise aid the cash. for the series ar mob Lizing. Ski mishers are already on the scene and the investment of Shebe Park will be complete by noon to-day." Edward Lynch, aged nine- teen, appeared at the bleacher gate at two o'clock, yesterday after noon He brought' a soap box with hign and will be there when the gates Pn at Friday noon. Doon after Edward established "himself 'a &ocond [TY | Young nan arrived, and by midni_ht fifty The growing to-day. There was an overwhelming demand for reserved seats to-day, despite thé fact that the sale closed vesterday while pearly 10,000 rabid fans were still standing in line. 'The only way late comers could get tickets was tg, hand over #25 or so {6 some gilict spoken ment. in an hotel lobby. Such JMents rare. called speculators, and thé appeit"to be well supplied with w hats they want to sell, and the fans want to buy Weather Man Bliss was 4% non-com- mittal as the wae censor to-day in his communique as 16 the operation m clouds. ai trae warmer and there was a sl t from the skies carly to-day, at hie. i a was not Prepared to Joy.» whether would be pl men and boys on was there "were line constantly enforce the provisions of a deed; to | standard | on the docket, that of Sarah M.Joha- | ! { thousand | that GENT TO BE DONE At Headquarters in England -- Val cartier Is Too Cold and Wholly Unsuited For Winter Mobilization. Ottawa, Oct. 8.--~The new French regiments, expected, to be five strong, will be incorpora- {ted in the second contingent. The new British Columbia rough-rider | corps, which is being raised by Col. | Jim MacDonnell, and authorization or which has already been given, will also be included, as well as the machine gun battery being rais- ied by Col. Smart, of Montreal, and other independent corps. It is likely the new army division will contain a larger. proportion of cav- alry and less artillery 'than the first + division. The' crack artillery regiments of Houses Wrecked--Cruisers Failed ('anada went in the first contingent. arm of the ser- technical, and longer to . train The artillery is an vice which is highly for, which it takes Loth officers and men. With a larger proportion of cavalry it is likely that the recruiting will he heavier in Western Canada. The Western Rough Riders and Frontiersmen who were disappointed because they were not allowed to accompany the first con- tingent will now have their oppor- tunity. It is likely that the Cal- gary mounted regiment of 500 men, offered by the city, will be included in the second contingent. the point of embarkation at Hali- vet determined, but what is consider- ed wholly probable is that in place of being concentrated at one camp the different units will be got togeth- the headquarters of the dif- when ready moved directly to divisions fully equipped there embarkation at mali- or at and ferent the point of fax. In the cold season, Valcartier is unsuited: It has no buildings. At Petewawa the camp is well equipped in that line, and at other centres ihere' are grounds and buildings which might be utilized, Toronto Ex- hibition park being' one of them. The likelihood, however, is that the units will 'be concentrated divisional lv and moved to Halifax only when ready to board ships. The tactical training would be carried out at the headguarters in Fngland where the Canadian division now en route is to be handled. } Xa CITY COUNCIL AMENDS The Paving 'Contract Of the Kingston Construction Company. The special object of the Council meeting 'on Wednesday ening was to amend the contract of the Kingston Construction company with regard to the pavement being laid on Princess street, between Clergy and Barrie streets. It was decided on motien of Ald. Graham, seconded by hy: O'Connor, to am- end the spec ations by making the sub ballast six inches of con- crete, instead of four, and to lay a iion of fine stone under the just as was done on the oth- paved blocks of Princess street. I'he Board of Works was instructed to report at next meeting of coun- cil why. the contract with Foley and Gleason for the paving of * the above-mentioned bloek -was not ecar- ried out In attendance at. the meeting were Alds. Graham, Gillespie, Hoag, Lit- ton, Kent, McCann, Newman, Nickle, O'Connor, Stroud, Sutherland and White, who just constituted a quor- um In the absence of the mayor, Ald. Kent presided. City ev- Ahead." Russell Motor l'oronto, was mn of the con the Cana that had signalled ahead," keeping a full The managers feel and sales that this Canadian car will meet with fair and impartial considération from thé buy- I'he 'company will, be in the market for. 82000000 of raw materi als, and will pay $LOOOOOO in wages wwain this vear., Its material list that it bought from 1,013 Ca- companies during the past "Full Steam \. Sharpe, of the West Speaking company, the city to-day cern he said it was 'ope of dian companie "full steam itafil of employees from early inquiry shows nudian vear Injured In Accident. J. Cousineau, of the Hotel Royal, ind Allan Lemmon, of Lemmon & Sons' plumbing firm, while driving in i-buggy up York street, met With an weeident last Friday. Mr. Cousineau was dragged over twenty feet along the round before the horse got away from him, and he had two ribs broken, hesides his limbs and body being bad- ly bruised. He is progressing as rap- idly as can be expected. Blue ( Grapes fof wine making: baskets for 25¢, at Carnovsky's. twa TACTICAL TRAINING would have, OF/SECOND CANADIAN CONTIN- BLACK VELVETE FOR HATS - Just placed in stock the better makes of English velvets and: velvet- eens for millinery purposes. BLACK VELVETEEN at . BLACK VELVETEEN at BLACK VELVETEEN at. These you will find exceptional values BLACK SILK VELVET at $1.00 BLACK SILK VELVET at ....$1.25 Buckram for hats, black | or white. At $1.50 The New Corsets The new corsets for fall have al- ready had a fine reception. These come" in several models, made from imported Coutil in medium and low bust, both embroidery and lace top and finished with 6 hose supporters. -$1 50 Now Ready-- NEW KID GLOVES NEW VEILINGS NEW HOSIERY NEW NECKWEAR NEW DRESS MATERIALS NEW CLOAKINGS --For Fall- John Laidlaw & Son Ps. Now is the time to choose your evening slippers. very choice assortment in pat- ent, satins, suede and dull calf All new lasts We have a een, Cor your Satin Sigpers to match your Tew fom ith ew dp