Ks ' _PAGE EIGHT THT NATI.Y RRITISH 2 . WHIG, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915. The coming out. time for Spring--a day when everyone, be. he saint or sinner, likes to be togged out in the best he can afford. Unusual values such as are now here offer many men a chance to be better dressed this Easter than ever before-- and at less cost. ih Let Us Help You There is a eertain dash, snap, stvle about the clothes for men at 'this store that is hard to deseribe--harder vet to get away from after you gee them. © Artistic touches plus sat- , isfaction, quality that makes you smile every time you think about your new suit, Special styles for stout men--extra long sleeves A 5 and legs for tall men. $15.00 and $18.00 Come and get acquainted. Emer Tr ree . ' Livingston's Brock Street. A Little Out of the Way, But It Will Pay You To . Walk ¢ --- -- Wa | 3 Makes Of Black Silks a p-- -- AT 'Special Prices. fT ee, st d not to cut or-gloss, Regular $1.36 quality, special for A AL = a Idron's| } A GUN CARRIAGE SENT TO PRESCOTT FOR THE FUNERAL | OF AVIATOR SHARP. Deserters Arrested---Napanee Posse | Is Chasing a 47th Regiment De- serter From the Overseas Battalion Company Mobilized There, A gun carfiage and team from "C" Battery, R.C.H.A., left at noou on Friday for Prescott to be used in the military funeral of'Aviator Sharp, | who was killed when his machine | capsized in England. The remains | will be buried on Sunday mormng, with full military honors. One unmue | | difference in the order of the fumeral | will be the ahsence of a saddle horse with boots reversed. Major Crocker, 12th Battery, New- castle, N.B., who qualified as a field | officer in the second R.S.A. course, | has been given commantd of the 28th {Oversea Battery, Fredericton, N.B. Pro. Lieut. Donovan, 2lst Battery, | | Lethbridge, who is taking the R.S. | {| A. course, had the misfortune on | | Thursday to have his right foot badly injured while handling a fuse during a lecture. » -- A deserter by the name of Miller, | "C"" Battery, was arrested on | Thursday morning and returned to his | battery. He is formerly a New Or- leans man. A man named Davis, who deserted |from the 22nd Battery, was arrested {in Brockville and brought back to | {the city on Friday, He will be" | court-martialed and probably trans- {ferred to some other oversea unit. | -- t Dean Starr has invited the {bers of "C" Battery {legture, on the war, at { Hall, on Friday evening. mem- to attend a St. George's Sergt. McKay is actidg battery sergeant-major in the absence of B. | S.M. Peppiatt, who is / confined to pis house with a cold. QM.8. Slater leaves on Saturday | for Belleville on militia business, One of the 47th Regiment volunteers for overseas * service with the 38th | Battalion at Napanee has deserted. | The commanding officer has a posse | of three men heavily armed search- | ing the country for him. When last seen the posse was driving along gt | a stiff pace in an automobile, * A field-officer's certificate has been | granted .ta Major R. Crocker, 12th | Battery, C.F.A., 'having qualified at Battery, C.F.A., having qualified at | the R.S.A., . and to Capts. Wai Jones, T. WH. Fimitt, H. W. Cdopei| and E. C, Southey, 2ist Battalion, they having qualified in the P.S.1. here. . # Lieuts. R. L. Shields, W. A. Smith, | B. B. Kelly, BE. 'V. Frederick and | J. Po Quigley, Army Medical Corps, | have beem granted captains' certifi- | cates by qualifying in the School of | AM.C, here, ; . ! Lieul. C. 0'Connor-Fenton, 40th | Northumberland Regiment, is at- | tached to the 39th Battalion, C.E.F. i Lieut, F. J. Delaute, 43rd D.C.O.R., | is attached to the 38th Battalion, C, E.F. ' The Methodists of the 21st Batta- | lion will attend divine service in | Princess street church on Sunday ev- | ening, A fine musical programme Seas put | on in the militia Y.M.C.A. hall on | Thurssday evening, under the direc | tion of Mise Bessie Rodgers. Vocal solos were given by Miss Fearne wand Miss King. W. McFedridge and M. Blake read selections; and a mouth organ selection was given by the Routley brothers. : Lance-Corpl. .F. C. Roberts, AM.C., | has been promoted to corporal. The municipality of Prescott is paying the expenses of the military funeral of the late Lieut." Sharpe, avistor., EF The officers of the 21st Battalion played inst the sergeants in a very exciting game of indoor ~ base ball, at the armouries, on Thursday the officers being defeated A | tingent. | The Deficit is Likely to Be About|in the trade referred to. | ers, as published in "the Montreal Her- { ehipe did considerable financing last | ness of ae | whose earnings have i ter than 1914. | the SMALL BOATS Lieut. Flavelle is on the sick-list. foo. ; : vry yaluable man in seetion. BIGGER VESSELS TO BE "IN OCEAN TRADE. Lieut. Bowerbank has been trans- ferred from No. 2 company, 21st Bat- talion, to the depot company, as sistant to Lieut. Spriggs. Great Bulk of Business Will Pass Down the St. Lawrence.to Mon. Sev, i i s have az- | oo Several pairs of binoculars have ar tral. rived for the use of the R.S.A. staff | on field work. Oswego, N.Y., March 17.--Capt. -- John Larkin, of Ogdensburg, lake A report from Ottawa staies that captain for the last twenty years, is Lieut.-Col.f John Hughes, a brother | registered at the Hotel Danio. Cap- of Major-General Hughes, will be in | tain Larkin is here getting a renew- command of the second Canadian con- | al of his papers. Speaking of condi- tions on the lakes in general Cap- {tain Larkin said: "Many of our | boats are going to the Atlantic trade | this season, which should have a | tendency to help the smaller boats Can on the lakes. It is many years IN SHOWING OF THE CANADA gince they built boats of the Wel- STEAMSHIP LINES. land canal size and now all of these ' boats that desire are finding places That $545,000--The Figures While Ap- means that boats of the largest type, which have gone to'Oggdensburg, Os- proximate Are Regarded as Aboutt.y co and other ports oh hake On- Right. tario, will not be as numerous as in The forecast of the showing to be past years and a smaller made by Canada St ship: Lines at | boats will take their place. the forthcoming meeting of sharehold- A VERY HEAVY DEFICI It wid not be possible to send a larger | typé, because ° they can't come {through the Welland. ' The resuit will be that the smaller hoats that {have been finding business in out : " A " 4 of the way placps on the upper lakes BE What figure, wore Sones 4 may come to Ontario with profit 3 | the coming years." ing, although a more thorough: ap-| Captain Larkin says that he looks preciation of the conditions prevailing! ~ ho =i for great improvement in commer lt serton ight hate prepare] the ion Lake Ontario in a few years level of 1913 y hence with the completion of the en- > hie < larged Welland canal. Ogdénsbury, The estimate of a debit balance of| Kingston and all the river towns are ¥521,200 contained in the forecast willl 501 for an increased business, . provesr7in all probability, to be some & , ? . "and Oswego, too, with its harge ca what under the mark when the bificial | *° be TE figures are available and will, unost | nal, will no doubt benefit largely by : : 3 the new eanal, but the great bulk o! Likely, be is the Boighiborhotd of Hii | the business will probably continue ON), so that the met result of thei, gow, the St. Lawrence river to year's operations of the consolidation will show fixed charges barely earn Montreal. of the 600-footers coming. to Lake Ontario," said Capt. lar kin. "Think of the harbor®facili- ties that will be necessary to ac ald-Telegraph, caused widespread in- terest. The net earnings of $925,000, or ap- In the absence of the official figures showing exactly what interest charges amounted tq in the twelve months | oom nrodate them. Is Oswego ready apd the sinking fugd necessary lo. he a: py for" this business, which Canadian: provided for, the report is, of Deces- | 'onvernments reporis say, is not sity, an approximate one. Steamn-| ora than five or six years away!' Where are your elevators, or the corporations to build them?" Wxen is the work to begin? These are! grestions that vesse' masters are : 3 : asking, whenever they discuss condi- either confirm or deny the coreect-! yong here, for the reason that these . the forechst, although ome ynines 1, whieh I have referred can diregtor stated that the figures, while not he constructed in a day, or approximate, were "pretty © nearly month, or a year. The samé ques- night. : . : {tions and 'the same conditions are n discussing the showing to be! found in other places besides Os- submitted to the shareholders' onl wego. 'The problem is, how are we Phursday of next week, the president. going to care for 600-footers? How of Canada Steamship Lines, James | are they going to get to Montreal, Carruthers, said that, while the re-!grawing 20 feet of water, when the sult of the year was disappointing to | canals are only passing boats draw- the consolidation's executive, he re- ing 14 feet' It's going to take a garded the result of the 1914 opera- | good 5 years to deepen these ca- year, some of which was of a semi-| private nature, so that these charges are diffieult to estimate closely. Officials of thé company refused to! tions as distinctly satisfuctory in the' pals dix feet, and until then Oswego face of the adverse conditions pre- apd ingston and Ogdensburg are vailing. ~~ | going to benefit, and how long af- I know," said Mr. Carruthers, "of | ter, no one can tell, because vendi- a number "of steamship | tions. are changing all of the 'time. whose net earnings last were | The future of Oswego, however, scarcely one-third .of those of 1913, 100ks bright to me" hut I have not heard of any concern 7 aged in the navigation business| ON ACCOUNT OF WAR Id as well as -- ours. : s | Tourist Traffic Will be Diyerted to "With a number of. large i me i Kingston and River Ports. freighters chartered 'for | monthsg when trade on the great | That the tourist trade will be lakes in quiet, and the lookedfor in- 00d in Kingston and all tffé river crease in the crops of Western Can- : adh, the current year should be bet- | Of many Kingstonians, : Every effort is being | Their reason for believing that) 'made to meet the unusual conditions | business will be good is that there! and the result of ecomomies, eonse-| Will not be so many Americans visit-| quent upon the merging of the difier-| Ing the old cofintry this year, on ac-| ent companies | forming Canada ©0Unt of the war, and that they will | Steamships, will .be felt more this head for Canada's great beauty spot. | | season than was the case last year"! The Thousand Islands." There is no doubt that the 'wa. | will be the means of preventing quite | +a number of tourists ng to Eng , | land, but it will not the means! {of holding back those of an adven-! | taresome nature. i { There are many who will « be| | anxious to take their holiday trip] lin order to view conditions in the {old land, in times of war, no doubt, | . | but the majority will be content to/ -- | yisit more peaceful parts of the The Late Mrs. George C. Wylie. | 'world. Mrs. George C. Wylie, 63° Ri { street, died very suddenly on a Three Weeks St morning, in the Hotel Dieu, from an | Supply of the best Malaga grapes, | acute attack of Bright's disease. She | also pineapples, bananas, cocoanuts, | was taken to the hospital on Thurs- | grapefruit, seedless lemons amd or- day night in James Reid's ambul- | anges, etc., at Carnovsky's. i Kodak films," atUfbson's. [ A farewell party in Honor pf Mr. and Mrs, H. Gi. Tann, Westpoyt, who | ance, = The deceased was. formerly Filen Hackett, and was born in ton sixty-four years ago. She Lad al- | On i 4 Hie | i i il of i sees g i S------ ON LAKE as- | Looks For 'Improvement--Believes | type 'of. ports this. summer, is the opinion { John To-Morrow Will not be one day too early to prepare for Easter. 2 | We are showing New Spring Suits. | and. Coats, new Neckwear, new Veil | | | | | ings, new Gloves, new Blouses, and many, many other things you should : « w hdl Women's Tailor- | ed Suits Springtime 's Smartest Styles These are well worth seeing and whether prepared to buy or not we ask you to come and see the display we now have ready OURO J RO I a OR) ep Women's Easter "Gloves I RURU RUSS Za Le Prémier, a geuine French Kid Glove. 3 ; . WHITE WASHABLE KID GLOVES with + pearl $1 25 domes . .. : ~~ WHITE WASHABLE CHAM. serviceable | OISETTE GLOVES, a | and stylish spring glove at 50c Dns EUR pair . 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