: ; 3 " enters IS PLEASED WITH THE WORK IT . s+ _ HAS DONE. It Ends the Year. Almost Within Its Appropriation -- Thirty-Nine Men . Working in Stone Quarry, + The Board of Works yesterday fin- ished 'its business for the year, which las heen a very jatinfnstory one. In ving a 'resolution of appreciation t work of the chairman, Ald Fair stated that no man could have done more than AM. Litton had done as head. of the works department, for Re had sherifioed much valuable time and accomplished much, Ald. Litton in replying, intimated that the board had saved the taxpayers a good deal the manner in which it the Princess street pole It had secured easements poles without ex: one dollar... Ald. Hughes re ma that it was an howor to be » member of the Board of Works in the year when Princess street was paved If no quarry work had beep.under | taken to keep men employed during December and no | snowstorm had come, requiring street cleaning, the board would have finished the year within its appropriation, but owing to the two things mentioded, it 'was deemed advisable to ask council to place another 8500 at, the works de partment's Credit, paft of which may not be required. 4 + The city engineer r ported that therg have been about thirty-nine men em- ployed in the stone quarry, and that the last pay. sheet showed an expen /ditare of $190 in wages. One man was making an average of $1.75 a day. There was a discussion as to wheth- or the hoard should pay the hill of I. F. Reid, of Windsor, for repairs made to the asphalt block pavements, which had been torn up last winter by the Utilition department. ' The | hill amounted to $1,025.66. The opinion prevailed that the Utilities Commis sion was responsible for putting the pavements back in repair, and the city clerk and the auditor were instructed to bring the matter before the. com- mission at ifs meeting on Monday next. The engineer reported ghat no deci sion had yet been reached with re gard to the control of all street ex cavations, as the manager of the Util ities wanted his department (o be re gponsible for service repairs. ! The complaint of the Forwarders Limited, about the impediment caused the industries ip that section by the ergction of a ferice 'across the joot of Gore street for the benefit of the mili- tary stationed in the Cereals buflding, was 'referred to the chairman and the engineer to-adjust. ¢ In attendance at the meeting were Alds. Litton (chairman), Couper. Fair, Hughes, O'Connor, Peters and Sutherland. PORTSMOUTH COUNCIL Final Meeting Of Year Was Held On Tuesday Night. The final meeting of ile year of the Portsmouth council for year 1914 was held on Tuesday night, but there was very little business on the slate and as a result there 'was a short session. Reeve James Halliday presided, and all the mem- bers were present. The financial statement which was presented was regardedyas a most satisfactory one, there being ample funds to meet all the Mabilities The usual grist of accounts were passed. 4 Marine Notes. ted | The steamer Port Colborne which discharged a cargo of grain at Richardson's elevator cleared for Partsmouth on Wednesday morning and will be laid up for {he season there. The steamer Mapleton has beer laid up for the winter near Richard- son's elevator. The vessel discharg- ed grain at 'this elevator. The tug Shanley which was re- Cautly destroyed by fire is being re- built. ' Vaudeville at Grand. A large audience was present at the vaudeville entertainments at the Gfapd Opera House last evening. Kaino, the Hawaiian instrumen- {8t, delighted the audience by the sweetness of his playing on his dif- ferent. musical instruments and was obliged to réply to encores. The tiioto play, "Laughing Gas," was the cause of much. laughter. At Thursdays matinee and evening en- tertainments an entire change of programme will be presented. i iE a Ea I portations tor ma ' department consisting of. { a-- Rev. J. H. H. Coleman, Merrickville, ien home from the residence of Dr.|and passed the portrait A KINGSTONUAN WRITES ENGINEERING DINNER ABOUT GALLANT WORK OF HRIT-| HELD IN GRANT-HALIL OX TUES: ISH AT FRONT. DAY. NIGHT. Small Forcé Held Large Number of Presentation of Oil Portrait of Prof. Germans in Check, and Left Big! William Nicol -- Tributes Paid To Pile of Dead -- German Soldiers! the Minerology Professor. Are Beasts. The eighteenth annual digner of the 3 : Engineering Society of Queen's Uni- N No. 1 y t Capt. A. D; McConnell, of No | versity was held on Tuesday nig Field Ambulance Corps, has sent the, "7 d Aah , A {in Grant Hall and was certainl Whig s Jeter irom Salisbury Plain, | decided success in every way. There 4 "Phe aye boys are well and) was a large. number of the iten of airly comfortable under F existing' the Sth company, 'Cagadian En- ot conditions. The food is! iineers present in their servic? uni- forms of khaki. a ood and plentiful. Officers Tnd| "4 r0r y dinner for which the com- nen have been; given three days| ,ittee in charge deserves great eave of absence to.visit any place in| oraqit, the president of the society, ingland. - The majority of them go|R 1, 'Dunsmore, read the regrets of 0 London. There are-seven hun- several noted people who were in- lred men at work building huts, t0/ vited but were unable to be present, 6 used as winter quarters by theland proposed the toast (6 the king. anadians. There are five hundred Prof. W. Ii Grant jn proposing Jewfoundlanders camped near _ us:.| the toast to 'Our Country," said Ve were visited by three Belgian #ol-| that our country had done nobly in ilers. Two were convalescents re-! the defense of the empire. The pre urping to the front. One assed through Kingston from the men who go to the front cannof be 'engo, and was for a time suspected | spoken too highly of but the men f being a spy. They told us that| who stay must immediately become he British soldiers were doing won| lerful work at the front. They des-| ribed low a village outside of Mons, eld by a few British, two hundred n number, was attacked by a large" urce of Germans. The British sol- liers barricaded. the streets with - sagons just before the Germans started pouring in one street, They then placed their caps along the top of 'the fence, and learning that the village must be taken, left five men at the barrier. They were well sup- plied with ammunition and held the enemy back till the little force could take a safe position eutside the vil- lage. When the five finally retreat- ad, they left a p'le of dead over three feet high. | "The Belgians say that the nan soldiers, in many cases are yeasts, Belgian women have, in many occasions, suicided, in order to avoid the atrocities of the Germans. | "Some of the medical units have heen sent on to the front, but 'we do not know when we will be moved." Capt. McConnell was a member of | the Whig staff, | | Who Examinations at Tete Ger-! PROF. WILLIAM was presented w himself hy his NICOL { th an el Hke- | IN MILITARY CIRCLES. The R. S. A. de Pont Barracks. The officers -of the R.S.A. at Tete | tle Pont barracks are trying examing- tions every day. On Wednesday morning "the examination was in rid- ing in which subject they are in- structed and examined by. Sergt.-Ma- jor Brown. The examination on Wed. nesday afternoon ih map reading was conducted by the instructor in that subject, Lieut. Ringwood. All of the examinations will be completed by coming a If we are Saturday. . There . ate already nine | "protect 0 accepted applications for the January | 0, eggs,' course, farms, woods, country. Ex-President, Sergt-Major McRae, ! of the s6eity, made a presentation of a compdss from the faculty . to Capt. Lindsay Malcolm. Capt. Mal-| colm thanked the society in a few | words lopksbe token. Prof. O. D. Skelton proposing the} toas( #0" The Profession" spoke on | the gpeat value of practical science { the value of engineering in war and | in the building of nations. | G. G. 8S. Lindsay, K.C. president of the Canadian Mining Institute, | responded by remarking on the number of men in khaki. He fone | on | | | nce we of the greatest hel ) | 1eir ¥v. Dr. Frank D. Ad-! Dean of the Faculty of Ap- Science of McGill , ivening | to t} ams, plied responde : at some length, dwelling on the friendship between MeGill and Queen's Universities. He spoke} of the immediate need of '"'onserva-/ tion" of our natural resources and showed that this was quickly | 1den : | fishe , in our| On Wednesday night, in the militia Y.M.C.A., Rev. T. T. Shields will give \ short address to the soldiers at seven o'clock. At eight o'clock Dr. J. G. Evans will give an illustrated lecture on 'Cities and Countries in the War Zone." = This will be fol- lowed by the usual moying pictures. was given The right half battalion field on a parade to the ericket Tuesday - afternoon, VICAR OF NAPANEE, : a high tribute to the good work done by the engineers. He then spoke at sone length on the "Business Ethics . of the Profession," showing that it The Rishop of Kingston has offered iis unwise for the engineers to specu- | the position of vicar of Napanee 10|141e in stocks and made other valu- | Rev. J. H. H. Coleman, M.A., rector | shle suggestions. i of Merrickville, who has accepted it.| Messrs. W. Mack, M. Shields, G.| Mr. Coleman has served in the diocese | Driver, S Driver, H Donnelly and for twenty-one years, since his ordina- | Dixon gave the faculty song. | tion, with faithfulness and distinc- Probably the most impressive part having graduated first class in class- | of the programme was the presenta- ics at Trinity, as well as securing the | tion to Prof. William Nicol. Prof Prince of Wales' prize for 'classics, and M. B. Baker in speaking of the Bishop of Toronto's prize, an in-| Nicol said that thirty-four years ago | teresting and instructive preacher, and | a young man had matriculated from a zealous parish priest. Ie has been | the Kingston Collegiate Institute. | for the past nine years rector of Mer-| That man was also a volunteer in| rickville, ofiwhich the church, owing | the Northwest rebellion in 1885 and | to efforts inaugurated and carried | 1886. After spending some time in through by him, is one of the most | Europe he came to Queen's and made | handsome and best equipped in the | a member of the staff. He spoke of | diocese, the splendid work that Prof. Nicol! had done particularly in miner- | ology and then presenied him with Child Died Suddenly. an oil portrait of himself, a master- | The infant son of Mr. 'and Mrs.' piece; by J. W. Forster of Toronto ' F. Emmons, who live a short dis-| Prof. Nicol received the presenta- tance from Westbrooke, died in the! tion by thanking them for the high arms of his mother when being tak-| honor they had hestowed on him to the uni- Malee, Odessa, The doctor say that | versity with the desire that it be was suffering from pneumonia, | hung iin some old place." and ordered it home at once. Dean Goodwin, a long time col- {league of Prof, Nicol, spoken on the | splendid work that the recipient of the portrait had done in Has Accepted Position, Only One Bromo Quinine. a hitiever you fesl sold TAXA ogy. "Prof. Nicoi nas an enormous LIVE BROMO QUININE Look: for appetite for mineral specimens," t SW "Gr 2 box. Be | said the speaker, and he showed how signature. of E. W. Grove on box. 25. j this has influenced in a beneficial minerol- | way the mineralogy at Queen's. He {read two telegrams of congratula- tions to Prof. Nicol, one from gradu- ates in the geological survey at Ot- tawa and one from Clifford E. Smith. Dr. Willet G. Miller, provincial peplogist, then spoke in glowing terms of ~his twenty-one years of {acquaintance with Prof. Nicol and {of the svlendid work he had: done and "is doing. zl Robert Crawford, KA. vice chair- Iman of the Board of Governors, | proposed In.a few good words the! {toast to "The Kugineers," whieh ! was responded to by Capt. Lindsay { Malcolm, who spoke of his amprecia- tior of the help the faculty had 'given the engineers. He paid a high tribute to Major Alexander MacPhail, who is in England with {engineers of Queen's {Queen's was the only student body revresented at Valcartier and the speaker mentioned ' the splendid showing that would be made in the: Second contingent .as well. + 4 D. G. Brown pronosad ihe toast! to "Sister. Universities," "and this was rezponded to hy renresentativo oresent from McGill. Toronto and | the Royal Military College. Dr. William Spankie will be a can- didate for the reeveship of Wolfe Is. land for 1815 and it ix undergigod that there will be no opposition of feréd to his candidature, a [teresting session, as 'family "quar- chao! sent need now is for producers. The |g. . wrangled for some minutes until fin- | sociationand {smoker during the first week in Janu- {some cattle on his ranch at the head Prof. } {distance of sixty or University. 1.45 ENQUIRY TO BE MADE REGARD: ING THE FINANCES. Commandant Chisholm Assevted That He Was Fighty-One Years of Age, and Could Not Attend Drill. The Veterans Association meeting on Tuesday evening in the City lCouncii chamber was a decidedly in- rels were thresaed out. Command- ant A. M. Caisholm refused to al- low Secretary J. G. Evans to read the resignation of Lieut. Col. G. H. Hunter as vice president, and pro- ceeded to read it himself. Then he 2sked the meeting if it would accept tie resignation, but the secretary ob- jecied to the method of procedure, and the constitution. was read to uphold' the contention of the sec- retary. Eventually, it was decided to' ask Col, Hunter to reconsider his decision to resign. Then a dispute arose over finan- la) matters, the commandant, the retary and the treasurer having a warm debate. A commitee con- {sisting of Willlam McCammon, Rev. { W. Forster and Rev." William Craig was appointed to adjust the diffienlties. A AQiscussion over the non-sppear- f "the veterans at the church on Sunday called for some explanation whith brought - forth many hot comments. It was finally disnosed of 'by several members as- serting that a repetition will never occup-again. Instehd of these mat- ters being decided certain in- d*vidnals on the street corners they will have to be ratified by the vet- er-ns in session. William Moberley, one of the veter- ans presént, called upon Commandant Chisholm to explain" why he did not make his appearance at the armour ies on Thursday evenings for drill. As commandant, Mr. Moberlev stat ed that Mr. Chisholm should he on the scene as well ns others. The two Lightning lly they each compared their ages. Mr. Moberley tried to make out that the commandant was not much older than he was. However, Mr. Chis- holm told him that he was eighty- one years of age, as against fifty- nine years for Me. Moberlev. The lag' ter told about the injuries lie had re- ceived during his life. These, assert el Mr. Chisholm, do mot compare with a bad attack of pneumonia, which might develop if he attended these drills in the cold drill hall. On Monday evening a contert_js to held in Ontario Hall by the as- the following officers and committee were elected : Decora-' tion committee, A. M. Chisholm and H. Atwood; reception committee, .J. (i. Evans, W. H. Godwin, J. 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