_PAGE SIX™ " 15. MANY OF CANADIAN CASUALTIES WERE CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS - - Londen, March 23.-A to a 'the Canadians,' Canadian officer writing friend in "We, are occupying trenches on the left of We not en that action except to supe by staff London Bays Neuve Chappelle. were gaged in port the attack tillery The with great spirit by jhe infantry and the enemy s trenches were subjected to terrific tire Many of the Canadian infantry and ar- fire. altack © was made ye HE LAW REGARDING PROP. ERTY QUALIFICATION To Remove Handicap on Municipal Capdidates--The Poolroom Li. cense Question Under Discussion. Toronto, March 23.--The anomaly in the present law which requires no property qualification for members of Parl ament or the Lezislature, but vet demands _ that cand. dates for cipal offices have such qualification, was pointed out in the Legislature vesterday afternoon by Row - ell, in urging upon the Government from them and we have been com- mended by General Alderson. > War Tidings. A decree was promulgated in Paris on Monday exténding the moratorium as applied to rents until July 15th. Col. Rousset, the French military expert, has affirmed the report that the Germans destroved ninetv-five towns and 5,500 villages in Belgium, France and Poland during their in- vasion. ROWELL ASKS CHANGE mung | E aston- telegraph in Canada is summarized in the career of Mr. James Kent, whose retirement from the man- agement of the C. P. R. Tele graphs is an- nounced, after long and faith- ful 'sepvice gx- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MARCH %, 19 James Kent LIVE STOCK MARKETS The Prices Paid ag Centres. Toronto, March 22. -- Butcher cattle, choice, $7.25 to $7.50; butch- er cattle, medium, $6.60 to $6.75; butcher cattle, command, $5.25 to $6.25; butcher cows. choice, $5.75 ito $6.00; burcli®F cows, medium; $5.26 to $5.75; butcher cows, can- ners $3.75 to $4.25; butcher balls, $5.50 to $6.25;; fedings steers, $& to $6.55; stockers, choice, $6.00 to $6.50; stockers, light, $5.50 to $5.75; milkers, choice, each $65.00/ {to $90.00; springers, $50.00 to $85;! i sheep, ewes, $7.00 to $8.00; bucks] land culls, $5.25 to $6.00: lambs, | $9.50 to $10.70; hogs, fed and 'wa- CANNOT CRUSH SPIFI OF LITTLE BELGIUM--ENEMY AGAIN DELUDED. the Various ---- Heart Of the People as Sound As Ever--Germans Try to Comt Fa yor With United States Reliel Party, Amsterdam, March 22. ---The Ger- mans are finding themselves in a desperate position in Belgium. I do mot refer to the fighting lines, although they are not exactly en- joying themselves, hut to the terri- tory they first destroyed and are the adoption of the principle of the bill of Joseph Ham (South Brant) to lower the qualification, so that what enabled a man' to vote should quali, him to hold office. The Liberal lead er referred to the request made to the Government by a deputation re presenting the labor organizatinns some time ago, which presented the! thought, with con He believed the on the public mn- qualifications _ were and it was un a man to exer franchise on would exercise casualties were caused by the care of the men exposing tiem. After 3 month in the trenches have u f weeks' respit same oliver comments on the re- mar a b: way the ¢ «iian population EL as 2 invade the fighting He siys obtaining supplies of Wélsh coal. that two shells bmst within one hans All the German warships lost dur- dred yards where he was standing ing the war have been replaced by surrounded by nen, omen and: chil. the rapid completion oi new vessels, dreg and that thy merely tarned [it was officially announced to-day. ® chair headr, being so gecastomed Thirty-two Dritish vessels have been the speetaele that the children as well | destroyed by the Germans sitice the ns the women have little realization declaration of their "blockade" of their danger, Feb, 18th, making an average of Sergt, Walter Cow, of the second most a ship a day, infantry brigade, writing to Immigra The Dritish Prize Court has ordered tion Commigsioner Of ed Smich, under paid £600,000 on American shipments date of March 18th, says that the +P of flour and wheat detained on baard tilery in the last engagement the Norwegian steamer Alired Nobel, evirythiog, including the ground, to Kim and Bjornstjerne Bjornson and pieces. 'We feel,' he adds, "that we the Swedish steamer Fridland So are superior at all branches of the 'far as is known, this is the first fighting game, So far the Canadi- money to be paid out by the Prize ans have done all that was expected Court on American foodstulls selzed. tending over a period of twenity-nine years, Mr, Kent, who has been identified with telegraph work all his life, was born in Montreal in A854, and when, old enough he entered the services of the Montreal Tele graph Com- pany as a messenger, Since that time Mr. Kent has : - had the unique experience of having occupied every conceivable position in connection with telegraph service, from the lowest to the highest, and it was only hard work and faithful service that gained for him these merited advancements. ! It was in the year 1886, when Mr. Kent was officiating as wire chief to the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company, the C. P. R. opened up its telegraph service from Montreal to the coast, that he was invited by Mr.'C. R. Hosmer, then manager of the company, to join the service as chief operator at the Montreal office. At that time the company worked in a somewhat delapidated building situated on the same site as the present one at the corner of St. Francois-Xavier Street and Hospital Street, and the staff consisted of six operators, where to-day there are over one hundred. Subsequently, the office was transferred for a time ~ BCTOSS the street, and in 1900 the C. P. R. purchased the old site and erected the present subsfantial telegraph offices for the down -towny business. » ' In 1890, Mr. Kent was appointed superintendent of the Eastern Division, which extended from Fort William to Louisburge, Cape Breton, and nine year later, on the retirement of Mr. C. R. Hosmer, he was advanced to the position of mapager of the C. P. R. Telegraph - Service, from which he now retires. Ever since its inauguration the telegraph service of the Canadian Pacific has not only been used for the dispatch of tratns, but for commercial work, too, and has grown to such an extent that it 18 now practically the largest dispatch service in the world, controlling és it does, in addition to the telegraph wires, over six thousand miles of track passage by telephome. The tremendous increase in the wire mileage has come about during the last five or six years. Great strides have been made in the dispatching of trains by telephone. The first experiment was made between Farnham and Montreal and it was attended with such success that the telephone is used all over the system at the present time, During the management of Mr. Kent every improvement in telegraph Science that has seen the light of the world has been tried, and, if success. ful, introduced. Prior to the opening of the through line between Mont. real and Toronto messages were transmitted 'through Ottawa. but to-day through wires are installed which are operated by means of the printing arrangement, which is the latest improvement in telegraph sclence!. This method is also used in the receipt and dispatch of messages from Montreal: to Winnipeg, demonstrative of the great strides that have been made for improving the telegraph service throughout the Dominion of Canada by the Canadian Pacific. The extersion of thé telegraph throughout Canada has 'been. far ahead of railway construction, and the service between Winnipeg and Edmonton was in operation for twenty years before the rallway was bullt, At that time ¢he only way to reach Edmonton by raid was via Calgary, : PRA ins rn AR TN THE The Italian Government has char- tered wm large number lof Dritish and other vessels 10 transport coal fro the United States to Italy, It is said this step was due to thy diffieulty of selves i we shall 1 Ihe y ease of labor, he victim and force. move was entirely terest, Vropert, fast passing away, onakble Lo expec Parliamentary he to on al i grounds than a _mupicipal vote, Premier Hearst. expressed svmpathe with the proposal. He would not attempt to discuss the merits of the kill Before tore ) orders of the day called, Rowell secured the ment ym Hon. W. J. Hanna legislation would be introduced present session to settle bevond doubt that wmunicipalities had the contre] of poolroem licenses. This means that where there is 168al sen- against the granting of a pooltoom license the municipality cannot be overridden hy a Provincial charter. There fave been several mstane s brought to the attention of the Government lately where this was done, and the Provineial 'Secretary intimated that gdequate power would | be vested in the municipal anthorities to regulate 'the poolroom business. the Mr fro were state- that this a | Montreal Cattle, Montreal, March 22. Trade at the West End cattle market to-day was fair with firm prices all round,' while hogs were deeidedly higher. Receipts: Cattle 700, calves 250, sheep and lambs 50, hogs 1,000. Prime beeves, 73% to 7% cents; med- ium, 6 to TY cents; common, 4% to 5% cents. Calves, 5 to 81% cents. Sheep, 6 cents. Lambs, 8% to 0 cents, Hogs, 9 cents. A A AAA A NAAN ct ct Sar is Ain QUEEN'S MAN WRITES OF SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES AT THE FRONT, Shells Flying About Them--They Work At Night In the Trenches-- Commended By the Commanding Officer, A - sapper with (he Queen's Engi- neers writes from the front on March Yth to a iriend in Kingston. Among from met He South Ashford, twelve miles Dover, immediately I have Walter Hird times stationed in Salisbury, doing the pay work of the R.CH.A. | have also met Frape a few timew He has a ferry-boat ticket hétween here and Havre. Fowler and Borland also blew in. The R.C.H.A., however, has now moved to Uxbridge in Sus- sex. Frank Lee turned . up here about two weeks ago. He belongs to the Princess Pats, and had been sent back from the front oh account of having his feet frost-bitten. 1 . have not seer him since so I suppose other things je, says; busy. We had | Me is in hospital. Self is over here a rest of two days afer arriving up How. W 2 are protsy busy every day, here. Our company was then sent to | Sundays included. a town about three miles north of SHEEIS04EIIIIIIIEIEIIIINS * here along with the it, Cahadign Brigade, to whith we belong. Wa SRAYED "ARE A RY 5 A OF weir billeted. in a school, ag as it |# "WE WANT PEACH BREAD was a large town, we enjoyed our 4g gras stay very mich. Every night we had to go out ' to the trenches to 'per- form." Of course, it was impossible to do anything near the enemy's line | in the daytime. At first we worked along with the Royal Engineers, but now we do everything under our own officers, "I've First Brighde remained at this place for one week, but after they left, our company was attached to one of the English Brigades and kipt for five days longer. We decided that they liked our work. - When we Ipft the gencral in command mid hat he Was SOITY to see us . e 'hac hard work "to. do. nd hod done it WW » "Our o ny came away without geveral is. timent Chicago Cattle. Chicago, March 22. Cattle: j Geipts 5,000. Market steady. Native! { steers, $5.80 'to $8.65; western | steers, $5.35 10°$7.40; cows and heif- ere; $3.25 to $7.75; calves, $7 to. $10.50. Hogs: Receipts 23,000. Market | slow, Light, $6.60 to $6.90; mixed, $6.60 to $6.90; heavy, $6.35 to $6.- 87%; rough, $6.25 to $6.60; pigs, | {$5.50 to $6.65; bulk of sales, $6.65 to $6.85. Sheep: Receipts 14,000. Market steady. Sheep, $7.10 to $8.15; yearlings, $7.85 to $9.15; lambs, na- | | tive, $7.60 to $9.90. Re- SPRINGTIME IN RENFREW The Whig Receives a Letter From 2 Renfrew Enthusiast Remévrew, March 22.---This pro- | gressive little town is putting on its | spring appearance. Already the street sweeper ig the job and| the garbage which gathers after! months of winter weather is being! carted away. .' Everywhere are seen! the signs of cleanliness ahd thrift. | The busy housewife is also at it] hammer and tongs with windows | up, carpets on the line. The rug| and broom meet the eyé of all as| they ¢ross the doorstep, and woe be-| tides the man or inmate who fails to u#e either of these, The Robin! sings in the orchard; the ladies are! selecting their Easter bonnets, the young gallants are selecting their! spring suits, the 'tailors are busy, | the milliners are busy at their work! {attempting to suit the most fastidl-| _ | ous of tastes in the selection of rib- | Hetie 0404.00 04 4 HOMO hons and laces to set off the faces ot SUCCUMBED TO FEVER the pretty young sweethearts an any casualties, and, so 'far, we have | Te ay nen tame tea ee to Bid those nendtal FG emnads. ki A up this record. There have becn | Belleville Man and Young Brother-| yj a1) this because the sun has : {on the other hand, to our patriotism py DArTOW escapes. One man was | in-Law Died. {again done as it has done--cr ssed | Berlin and Vienna | in connection with loading more tax- hit in the foot by a spent bullet, | Blleville, Maroh 323. Charles H. the line and "spring is here." { atien on to the country, fits illy with and, twice, an infantryman has been | Cracknell, aged twelve years, and, The ' sérceching whistle from ayo Have a Limited Meet. the fact that, op the other, the coun- |: ah ha Sin men were werking: 'be. | Arthur Phillips, twenily-two years! many factories eall their employees | Public boxing exhibitions allowed try is being robbed by a lot of ear- side him. As we have to go to and of age, respectively son and son-in- te labor, the merchants Bre Drosper-|, 1 by-law Ine assed by the rion in the shape of army contract- from the trenches sometimes along [low of Mr. and Mrs. John Crack-| ous, the people are happy; the labor-| oy Conn will Ag inan a ors and middlemen. roads covered by machine guns and nell, of this city, died on Sunday er, the mechanic, the lawyer, BO oxt Saturday night, when wpe Canadians are all willing to pay | snipers, and where there is no cover within a few minutes of each other. about their way whistling S0me | yooh world's champion lightweight | whatover it is in these places we | Both had been ill for some time | pleasant notes of a familiar BONE, | wit meet Max Lustig, 4 New York | { run the "greatest risks. One night, from an attack of fever. Phillips | and all greet you with a friendly | gop ew fighter n'a "10-rouind bout when jecombunying our officer along | Was married in September last to nod. The great and generous M. J. | : ' a road, we on Paris, March 23.---A des- patch to the Temps from Copen- hagen says that a crowd of 3,000, consisting mostly of wo- men of the poorer classes, gath- eivd in front of the Reichstag in Berlin last Saturday and shouted to the Deputies, "who gathered at the windows: "We want peace and bread." The Berlin press, according to this despatch was ordered to make no reference to this de- monstration, Is i A Sincere Indictment. aturday Night, There is all the evidence to prove | that, in item after item of expendi-| Iture, the "'patrictic" middlemen, who | [ have the ethics of a turkey buzzard | | on a' battlefield, all presumably duly | "introduced," as was the drug clerk, | have skinned the Ottawa treasury to . {the bone. There will be no truce AT AN AAAS AAA AAA ne | 50 far a8 Saturday Night is con- SPORT: ¥ REVIEW pietty well put an end to the ideas | cerned with this sort of thing going dad i of lacrosse for the present, 'unless | oD: If everyeme is to pay who gets the purchasers would do as they did through what Is familintly known in Ai de : in the case of the Nationals, and per- | Ottawa as the "toll gate," and par- THE ENGINEERS MAY PLAY RUG. | mit the association to use the | ticularly in times like this, the soon- | er the public are aware of it the bet- BY AT OTTAWA. grounds for another year, is no , doubt one of the questions to be con- | tF- The Hon. Mr. White's appeal, Announce Racing | sidered. : In May-- French Horsemen May | DOW trying to revive! In this pro- | tered, $8.35; hogs, T.o.b., $8.00; cess of revival they are naking cv. | calves, $10.50 to,$11.00. {ery effort to color all 1lifé there 3 | with German views. In the eastern . Buffalo Cattle, { and central parts of the country, East Buffalo, N.Y, March 22. -- | where the Allies' guns cannot be Cattle, receipts, 2,000; active; prime| heard, every effort is made to get i steers, $8.50 to $8.75; shipping,| the business and social life going $7.50 to $8.25; butchers, $6.00 to) again. $6.70; heifers, §7 to 7.25; cows, In this process, it is, of course, $3.50 to $6.50; bulls, $4.50 to' $6.50. Necessary to relax 'to some extent Veals, receipts 1,000. { the iron rule by which they: hither- Hegs, receipts, 1,500; active: | to had kept order among the popula- heavy, $7.50 to $7.65; mixed, $7.65] tion. But it takes much more than to $7.70; yorkers, $7.65 to $7.75; the substitution of German for the pigs, $7.50 to 7.60; roughs, 6.35 to! native language to 'hange a nation's $6.50; stags, $4.50 to $5.50. | feelings, and, though outwardiy Sheep and lambs, 5,000; receipts,/ Belgium, or the greater part of it, active; lambs, $6.50 to $11.35; May appear to be a German pro- yearlings, $7.50 to $10.25; wethers, Vince, the heart of the people is as $8.75 to $9.25; ewes, $4.50 to $5.25 sound as ever and no one is deluded sheep, mixed, $8.25 to $8.50. by the apparent slackening in sever- ity of the German rule. If it was a hard task to subdue little Belgium by the crushing weight 1of armament, supported by brutali- ties, whose character and number are not nearly all known yet, it is still harder to crush her spirit. It the Germans think they are succeod- Ing in this they are. once again de- luding themselves. In Brussels and Antwerp, German officers and sol- t-diérs, are never for i moment ad mitted to the social life the Belgians sufcead in maintaining among them selves. Though the Germans take every possible opportunity to in Eratiate themselves with the peopie in the cafes, they are always given a very cold shroulder. The appear- ance of 'an offC6r 1h a Chile ik Lhe sighal Ter every little group of Bel- gians to turn Ms back on 'the in- truder. Indeed, Germans are open I 1y snubbed. "It it had not been for the food supplies sent from America the Be. | Blan people miust have starved to death," is the opinion of a frequent visitor to that country. The Ger- mans are doing their' very best to | Win the .good opinion of Americans { In Belgium, who engage in distribu- ting this food. Even Belgians are {allowed to walk about the streets wearing little American button flags in their coats. Similar buttons, with portraits of King Albert and his Queen, are 'also openly worn, and When Americans are about there is Do attempt on the part of the Ger- mans to stop patriotie. exhibitions, and thus, between the desire to pun- ish the Belgians and show themasel- ves to Americans as kindly con- querers, the Belgians are beginning to have a little easier time, FRPP PPP ESF E ELSIE BEEP PP FL ERE E PISS } -- Owner Livingstone of the Sham- | rocks returned yesterday from Cle- | veland, where the Torontos and {Shamrocks had' played a series of | {three games, beginning Thursday | land ending Saturday night. | "It was the first time that profes- cional teams have visited Cleveland." | said the Shamrock magnate, and they | were very much enthused over the | six man style, the teams playing to Costs Very Eastly Prepared -- Little, but is Sure . | pret from ny rug wy lr £ { oO I pt : | 16-0unce. bottle" ang" Mth "porti 0 & What The Angel Said. Igo tt » my sin gram r he - rections with Finck Korps portortly and A little girl was rather given to ating, and would tell wild stories of her adventures, for which was duly i on the By making this old-time cough » on not only save about as the case, if we can help it, and woe betide the Government that contin- | wonder. i : 24 of ! : | ! ) capacity houses each night, with the hoopi ymin exee u. yoni Shick we Nere or, a | cannot reach their homes over Sun. | adian 'Henley Regatta Association largest crowd of the season on hand day follows night. Roo for fp iti brone ia Germans just took a chance one some- |" . ? ag The Reichstag 50 they go | tions. This matter will come up for {is likely that more professional hoe- | of by ths Germans and while we wer! To E | War Many regret that the genial C.P.R, Siscussion tater. | Ke}. foams will artange a series of ; -- ready. e k t ery way Jo every way. ues to allow such procedure, for it | overcomes the usu he, x day, jeome to Renfrew. All look! 2'® Said to be in favor of not hold- | Saturday night. body being on the road at the time. | § | conductor has disposed of his pro. | ee {exhibition games there, The arena R a their shot in this war of wars, but | we will not be robbed, as has been | & + Mont ' avdly got into the open | Miss Mary Cracknell. \| {OBrien culls this his home, and no, in Montreal. ors s the 'coughs, throat and all t to =i und | - pr-------- a nice place to 0: RL will fall, as a consequence, be it Lib- | chest col n before bullets started fing aro! | » list Ask | The travelling salesmen, those who .@0ite a few members of the Can eral or Con rtg just as sure as | rho a" ling this year's regatta at St. Cathar-| Now that professional hockey has | : bein Shy won the. happy a ad ey Yass ut ines, owing to the present war condi- | been introduced to Cleveland fans it! » own at which we first saw! { { com. the firing line had been heavily shell | there an occasional one dropped in . {The latest festio of Deutscher | management are already talking of party ad foe iu, one ly | Sport, the Berlin sporting weekly, to | increasing their seating accommoda~ the town. We left there over a weeks | ago and came to this village, about tastes good. You can-feel - } three miles way. | "The we arcived here the place | was, shelled, and again Sunday und | yesterday the shells were dropping in the village. Yesterday we stood out side our billet watching the shells bursting 'about four hundred yards away, just behind the officers' quar, | ters. Last week our section 'was | ont # wight. This week we are | working du the day constFucting | LR actu taken out to. the | trenches @% night hy some of the | to night work again." : - fy Conk sound. har: wet and. I dov't sea how an po - vance will be possible before it dries . Several times every night when - are worl in mud and water foot : Germans send up atarlights | luminating the fields for ~ hundreds of yards around. We stand without mo UtiR io: Tight. fain open fire on us, but 'we have not been # 4 ready to drop ia the mud mot get very much more mud on. Ws | (Special to the Whig.) Amsterdam, March 23. Stormy Scenes were enacted in She Sora ad Reichst when the Socialist Seheide: | co mann od that the Government - at | dealer, élaims . business good. No once take steps to end the war, ac- less that four cardoads of = horses cording to private advices from Ber- Passed through his hands last month. lin today. At the same time to! The tragic death of two of Ren- Socialist Lebedour who recently eriti- | frew's brave lads at the battle front, cized the army measurés in Poland, | Where they went withthe first con- delivered a bitter atfack upon other | tingent, cast a gloom over the sur- features af the government's war rounding country, hut they died like oliey. oq heroes and gentlemen. i protested {with him the best wishes of all those iwho know him best. Mr. Stafford, the horse breeder a; Sheidemann hitterly | reach England, announced a progra- {mme for the resumption of racing in | courses. - | | Young Ahearn, holder of the Eng- lsh middleweight, championship, easily defeated Italian Joe" Gans, in a ten round bout in Brooklyn. Ahearn was the aggressor through- out, Gans covering up and holding | | vefy 'frequently. The bell saved. | Gans in the seventh round. May at both the Berlin and Vienna beginning _ concerning the cessation | Paris Lg Sport Hippique of | tion. Frénch owners and breeders fe to revise their opinions of racing, and it is possible the sport will be te sumed on a limited scale without awaiting the end of the war. Thus March a(n says: "A meeung of thé syndi- cate of breeders, which includes a- mong its members M. Edmond Blone, the Comte de Nieslay, M. J. Prat, the {Comte le Marois, M. Jean Joubert and M. Hh Socialist | the misfortune to sprain ! minion Hotel two webks' now qiite ih fashion wit but are: i even Lhis rinst--th crvernTIeNt EH tion in placing the ban on Th speeches; 1 "Now, when we are strong and vie' torious, is the time to tell the coun- try, through the press, that we favor peace on. a re a basis," was quoted as saying. Washington team. M a high-salaried Mike Mitchell, the hall player, who | as. heen add winter in the mutuel department. has announced that he had retired from the diamond. Mitchell was a great favorite with Cincinnati fans, and last season played great ball for the itchell has been of years, and is thrifty. In future hie probably will be a regular atten- dant at the Kentucky tracks, for a number = ore than 500 owgers of thorough- bred stallions, : "The Teastbility of He resumption of racing was discussed jad the general opinion prevailed that it was not ab- solutely necessary to await the com- Plete liberation of territory and the cone i A unique intercollegiate football contest is proposed at Ottawa if the "Mike" Gibbons took $1,000 Fuar- MeGoorty at Hudson vevently. | Goorty decided to gamble on | @rawing power of the pair and that fercentage of the : i sion of peace in order to re-| field neers, infantry and artillery brigades now mobili there remain or _pain- in is take hold of a sough she punished hat i of 5.0 t unds of telling naughty stories. i howtos See day after her walk in n she ran to her mother, exclaiming, "Oh, mummy, as nurse 1 were walking in the park a great big lion sprang owt, amd would have eaten me WI urs had not Jia 'me aside." "You naughty child" said her mother. "Go to your room und stay there until you are sorry for telling such wicked otien and ask Your good a +10 ive $ou for telling such EL ed story about mother went up and ound her look- I ATR od "have you asked your good angels to forgive you ?" ~ "Yes, mummy, was "1 did ask and he said, it, Miss Brooks; 1've | tion of bes. nes is nex is most, va ret of ED sac, Jing. extract, healing Wi Montreal Herald.