Cimino "HAD A VERY GOOD YEAR FINAL OF THE AND LIGHT COMMIT TEE, FIRE Committee Kept Wit Within "6 Appro. priation Set Down By Council -- To Confer With Utilities Commis. sion Regarding Lights. Fa final meeting of the year of the fire and light committee was held on Thursday afternoon, and the members had the satisfaction of knowing that they had kept within the appropriation set apart for them council in the civic - budget. Ald. R. D. Sutherland, the chair man, wasoteridered a hearty vote' of thanks for the able manner in which he had presided over the meetings and the capable way he had «con ducted the alg The chairman, in replying to the vote of thanks, stat- ed that the success of the work of the year was due to the co-operation given him by the members of his committee. The chairman said that as this was the last meeting of the year it would be in order for him to refer to the financial side of the "committee's work. He had been given some in- formation by the treasurer as to the different items... On the salary count the committee had of $85.39; on the general tion there was a slanos of the amount set apart ing, namely $17,000, end of November a balance 877.90. This amount would duced somewhat as a result lights, but at the end of the year it was expected that the committee would be able to hand back to the city $2,000 In view hy the \réport, the man regarded the year's work as a most successful one. This record has been accomplished in spite of the fact that the price of feed for the horses on the fire department had been given a big boost, the war scare being responsible to a great ex- tent. The chairman also referred to the improvements carried out at the two fire stations. In his e¢losing remarks the man thanked the members of committee for their loyalty the year, stating that the success of the committee had been due to the hearty co-operation given him by the members. He thanked the fire chief and "all the members of the depart- ment for the able manner in which they had carried out their duties. On motion of Ald. Stroud, chairman was tendered a vote thanks for the eapable manner which he had eonducted the business of the year. He said he was glad to know that the commiitee was closing the year within their appropriation. All the members of the committee Joined the chairman in _ extending ne a balance apeopris of & for wa ight. there of he of new chair chair- hid during the of mn thanks to the fire chief and his men for their work during the year. Un motion of Ald. Clugsaton chairman and Ald. (raham were pointed a committees wait civie utilities conmunission, at its meeting on Monday afternoon, in re- gard to proposed changes the lighting of Princess street. The chairman, Ald. was in the chair; and were Ald. Gillespie, Ald. Gralham and Ald. IN VERY SAD STATE. Thousands of Helpless Are Servia. : Rome, Dec, ~While the assists ance and gympathy of the entire world has gone out to oarry relief to the Belgians, to the French people, to the Poles and to the YZwople of Galicia, nobody seems to realize that in Servia disease and the cold wea- ther are to-day finding more victims than do the bullets of the Austrian soldiers. The conditions in Servia are such that the wounded die unattended on the battlefields and are abandoned in isolated villages. There is a lack of ambulance of doctors and of nurses, of medicines and of surgical instruments, even of bandages and disinfectants, In vernal Servian villages there are to-day over 14000 wounded in euch community In Cases one gingle docior has no fewer than 1,600 men in his care the apr to on the in Sutherland, also present Ald. Clugsion, Stroud Dying In some 100,600 LOSSES, Vienna Officially of Servian Defeat, Loudon, Dee. 18---A des the Exchange Telegraph from Rome says 'In Vienna it is officially admitt- ed that the Austrians Killed or wounded, in their defeat by the Ser- vians, numbered 100,000. Public timent and indignation are strong against the leaders in the attack peciallyagainst Field-Marchal Potior ek, who but eight days ago accepted from the emperor a high decoration after telegraphing that the Servians had been completely defeated and that he would be in Nish. in three weeks. "This telegram General Haal, tress at Sarajev ernor of Belg constrained to his arrival." CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Hears ths : 2. 2 Signature of Abs Announces Extent | pateh com es- also resulted in commander of the for- 0, being sent gov- rade, whence was flee five after as he days Suspenders in Gift Boxes 25¢, 50c, 75¢, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 For garments priced regularly at $25.00. Ten differ- ent models, fashionable fabrics, stylish colorings, the season's best. NA ti, rr, $16.75 Ee PN FUR-LINED GLOVES $1.75, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 AA I tPA Si, $14.75 Will buy any of the swell twenty dollar overcoats $14.75 BOYS' SWEATERS 50c, 5c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 $6.75 Bring your boy along. We have his size. Just pick out any overcoat ir stock up to size 33 and take 44 it home for pany | KINGSTON. WAR BULLETINS. An extremely severe battle is in progress near Warsaw, Each side, heavily reinforeed, is fights ing hand 0 hand along the Lowicz. Aeroplanes have done extensive reconnoitering work for both sides, Trieste officially announced the blowing. up by a mine and the sinking of the Austrian training ship Beethoven with the loss of the crew and all the cadets aboard. CREPE TOP RP EIS ERrP Allied Pusiinus at Lombaert- syde mud St. George have been strengthened. French advanced near Vertuelles, Successful artillery firing in Aisne and Champaigne district and Are gonne, Following the recent German bombardment of English un- fortified towns, a committee of six has been formed by the gov- ern It to. protest to neutral powers of German breaches of the laws of war. Shipping in Hartlepool har bor suffered severely from Ger man hombardment, but the Gere man steamer Dinebola, held i port, suffered most. . FREER APO RI NG IR Rhu h bbe It is now admitted officially that the German raid on Eng- lish coast towns cansed one hun dred deaths and four hundred injured. PRR declared a pro- Egypt and per- exiled the khedive. At Buenos Ayres, it is report. ed that the German cruiser Dresden has been sunk by H. M. 8S. Bristol. Britain has + tectorate over manently British admiralty reports that the light cruiser and de- > stroyer which attacked the Ger. man raiders, sustained - five Killed and fifteen injured. To ge te ol oe ole ole fe eB Berlin official statement de- + clares that two British destroy- ers were sunk in the engage- ment off Se Srhorougl) on Wed- nesday. ¥ Chr batAtbd rd oo ode * 4 * * i Geoeols | ofeofebede desfesdesde desde de fe oe Many Relatives At Keene, Dee erborough, has fourtee tives at the front, and also" a the Canadian contingent at | Plain, Both of her graundl | fought in the Crimean war 18 Mrs. Phibbs, Y + rela on with Salisbury athers 50c 1/ 1/, 1 A 0 erings. BR Tt hh a a ht hh I eh ie hd ln TURES 5 BLAME GERMANS Accuse Them of Neglecting Defen. ces of Dardanelles, Constantinople, via Rome, Dee, 18 There was a panic here over the sinking of the batileship Messudiyeh by. the British submarine B-11. The destruction of) the warship has pro- {voked indignation against the Ger- mans, #8 they are accused of having neglected" ihe defences of the Dar- danelles, Theé Turks are openly blaming the Germans for the disaster' and are afraid of a repetition™of the exploits of the British submarine, « which would . result in the destruction of the Turkish navy, Many eitizeus are already fleeing into the®interior. The government has seized all {foreign owned merchandise in Sy- rian. ports and has refused to pay for it VILLA AND CARRANZA AT GRIPS 10,000 Men in Engagement Between Rival Generals. El Pasa, Tex., Dec. 18--The first battle between the Carranza and Vil- la factions of the Constitutionalist army is in progress near San Pedro de lds Colonias, a town east of Tor- reon. Several columns of Carran- za troops from Coahuila state, aggre- gating about 5,000 men, are being engaged by a Villa force of slightly superior number te-enforcements are being rushed for bath sides. The artillery is am ple and the fighting is described as desperate. The Carranza force is commanded by Colonel Ilifonso Vas- quez. General Villa is in command of the convention forces The Carranza advance long threatened movement to Torreon, railroad center of the in- terior, and shut off Villa's communi- cation with the north. marks a Skirt Loses City, Kin, a4 woman wears Tight Kansas When Suit, Déc. skirt a 80 tain an action for damages for per- sonal injury. The skirt, the dis- trict court holds, is contributory ne- gligence. Mrs. Delia Wilson brought for $5,000 damages against the cago Burlington & Quincy She alleged that in alighting train one of her feet caught ankle was broken. The defense alleged height of the heels on the tightness of equally at fault, was your for the railroad asked irty-two inches," she replied The jury deliherated a few minu and Hien returned the verdict t entitled to recover." : lot of suit Chi railway. from a and the of 'the shoes he v her her skirt wide skirt?" the SINNers pay pew rent NEWEST NECKWEAR Each Tie ina Fancy Box Men's Suits Men's Odd Trousers Children's Overcoats Children's Suits Boys' Reefers MUFFLERS 25c¢, 50c, 75¢, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 $10.75 Buys any $15.00 overcoat in the store. Just see our line of Chinchilla Overcoats at this price. Four of the season's best models, six best selling col- 1 AA A MEN'S SWEATERS take' / ! Coast 18-- | treal Wanderers, tight that it interferes with the free! use of her 'limbs she cannot main-|sented to face the puck for the char- that because | Special Discounts 4 Off 4 Off , Off off off 1, Off 1, Off THE SPORT REVIEW/ McGILL SUGGESTS INTERCOLLE- GIATE RUGBY CHANGES. Wants Legalized Offside Interference Eliminated, and . Scrimmage Rule of Two Years Ago Put In Force. The McGill representatives ite pre- paring several amendments to the playing rule of the Intercollegiate Rugby Union which will in their op- inion acd to tke interest and im- prove the game. It will be suggest- ed by McGill that the legalized off- side interference be eliminated and that they revert back to the. scrim- mage rule of two years ago. Anoth- er suggestion that will come from the local college is that the number of players on a team be reduced to twelve men in place of fourteen and that the ball be snapped back in place of being heeled out. S0 as to eliminate unnecessary piling up in the scrimmage after a player is tackled and downed, it will be 'suggested that the rules be amen- ded so that officials will have power to rule off any player who piles up on an opponent after he is tackled and the ball is dead. These changes will likely .be discussed by the gov- ernors of the Intercollegiate Athle- 'tic Union when they meet at Toronto on Monday next. Sporting Notes. "Tom" Phillips, formerly of Mon- treal and Kenora, has been appoint- ed one of the regular officials of the Pacific Coast League games. Preston has cancelled posed trip to Detroit for tion game with the its pro- an exhibi- United States i team. Ulricl, the deaf mute, last season with the Victoria team of the Pacific league, has reported to Mon- Sir H. Montagu Allen has con- ity hockey Arena mateh at the Saturday evening. Montreal Vezina, Dubeau and Lalonde are the Canadien players who will go to make up the All-Stars to play Wanderers in Montreal on Saturday in the charity game. Hall, Marks and Malone are the Quebec repre- sentatives. Toronto will witness ts first hoek- game of the season on Saturday » Arena, and the game will ~& worthy cause to be "oNer to the unem- The champion Toronto: will # combined team selected from rom the Ontario and Ottawa ployed née player tean It is understood that the Q.:R. F. 50c | Off Off off $ $ U. weyld like to adopt the svp-back! system and cut the teams doww to" twelve players. The Hamilton Tigers favor an amendment to the rule as touching upon the drop kick. Instead of taking the ball back to mid-field fol- lowing a successful field try, they would have it brought out only to the 40-yard line. This, they think, would encourage drop-kicking and make the game far more spectacular. Russian Royal Nurses. Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna,; daughter of Grand Duke George, says Russia's women are worth a second army. "We have an grmy corps of women worth at least an army corps of men." she declared when. opening her war hospital in the Michall Pal- ace. After being about other Petrograd and Tsarkoe Selo hospitals and see- ing women nursing the wounded, says a correspondent, I am sure the grand duchess is right. "Private Ivan Ivanuiteh," is being well looked after by his sister .and his sweet- heart. Russia's best hospitals are those founded and run by women. That is true of the great "Palace Lazaret of Tsargos Selo," the czarina's found- ation, It is conducted entirely by women and in it work the czar's eld- este daugthers, Grahd Duchesses Olga and Tatiana. The hospital is a new building, | splendidly equipped and capable of holding 500 wounded. Its women doctors' and nurses, nearly all from court eircles, work harder than:the roughest soldier nurses in provinelal towns. Good example given the czarina and grand duchesses, When the hospital was opened late in Au- gust Princess Gedroitz, chief surgeon and director, expected 10 see the us- ual royal dilettantism. But the czarina and her daughters at once asked for orders and set to work. Each grand duchess nurses a spe- cial group of "'soldatdki." Neithe, nurses officers, Both are pr when operations are perforp€d v Princess Gedroitz. The 88 submit to rigid disciplips" is by The Correct Address. Anna was always glad prayers, but she wanted be sure that she was heard in heavens above as well on earth beneath. One night, after the usual "amen," she dropped her head upon the pillow and closed her eyes. After a mo- ment's she raised her hand and wav- ing it frantically, shouted: "Oh, Lord, this prayer came from 243 Grant avenue." -- Harper's Magazine. Little say her to to the the as A good many timeés the difference Yn nan, | MEN'S SILK AND WOOL LINED GLOVES 75¢, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 between gambling and investing is too slight to be noticeable. READY FOR THE FRAY } WOMEN TO FORM HOME GUARD IN OLD ENGLAND, Right Hon. Henry Chaplin Justifies Arming Them For Their Own De fence. --To Seek Efficiency. London, Dec. 18--A meeting 'was held at the'Mansion House in aid of the movement for the formation . woman's volunteer reserve, the ject of which, according to the. mayor, who pesided, is "to a trained and highly Seticent of women whose 3srvices o4h be ; fered fo the state if requ - "* Such women, sald the lord could be trained for signalling, patch riding, telegraplbing, mo! and camp cooking and thus could re- place men who might be more se fully employed on the firing The Right Hon. Henry 'M.P,, explained that the corps op intended to be employed in the event of an invasion of this country. ; hordes of German barbarians." was not proposed to arm women f¢ aggression, he added, but "to them for their own defence im the last extremity, is very different sid entirely justifiable." Migpe ------' Shocking Fatality, & Lanark Era. 35 A sad fatality, owing to the n i perienced handling of 4d whereby Johu Ranger the 18: old son of Mr. and Mrs, Leon ger, (Green Mountain, lost his occurred at the farm of William" H Gibson, Dalhousie, last Wi A Ranger and John Molyneaux wei working at Gibson's splitting and near the finish of the work had a few gnarly blocks which the ed to use dynamite on. warned by Mr. Gibson of the ous nature of the explosive, and not to use it in his absence, Ranger Molyneaux went out together after supper to try their hand. Two sticks of dynamite were taken out which, in an attempt to thaw them out, caught fire. Two more were procured, cut in two and the half held by Ran- ger 'caught fire while being thawed, in an attempt to extinguish which it exploded with a sudden shock, blow ing Ranger's left hand off and huwj- ing the body a distance of twenty- two feet. The unfortunate. you fellow's knee cap was knocked and his body and face mutilated. He lived about four hours after the ae- cident. a i mh Other troubles are quite likely to come to the man who drinks to drown the particular one that's bo- thering him. There's never any trouble when fairness is in good working order on both sides of the line fence. A deaf gossiper has never yet been discovered. » we MEN'S "WOOLLEN GLOVES 25¢, 50c, 76¢, $1.00 Buys any $12.00 Overcoat $8.75 HANDKERCHIEFS Cotton, Silk, Linen, 5c to $1.00 A------ 6.75 $12.00. Just a few left. 9 Odd overcoats in men's sizes, worth up to $10.00 and $6.75 A $6.75 Boys' Suit Special. Boys' suits priced up to $10.00, now 12.75 Buys any $18.00 overcoat in the store. $6.75 Some lines priced up to $22.00 with this lot. $1275