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Phone 1177 George W. Boyd, 89 Earl Street. CARRIAC MARBLE HALL | Pure Ice Cream | | | 1 In | and | I Packel | of Bulk or 'Bricks. delivered to any part he city, GEORGE MASOUD, t Phone 980. '218 Princess St. Cohmmbia Grafonols's and records MADE. IN.CANADA A pt HA A A Ss Her -- Vinol | | PRESS GALLERY GLIMPSES | | 1 Whig Correspon Speci: | Com 8 & lence From the House of NOS, ° The Probe ag At Ottawa re (Copyrighted. ) i wash day | { | Cspnmiitt oe or ye, tht re eX arg tieularh ad rse trade rn kno a horse o what noOrees, that all's | Even per nto Wrong that v8 wonder if dem ane Frank chief" 0. Wr "transactions stigating the joh there nd ling ned ik mes are _ ne ervous cabinet than m Mer to see that he doesn't a mare' ly stated With the nest, the horse First Canudian vailphle to ich re newly purchased and 665 the Permanent For purchased in the west and mpanied by the proper descriptions vouchers The other 7.477 had escriptions and mo vouchers, and © aceepted, to penk, on thite H.A56 were horses, of w nged 7,818 to onght were 40 the we price of tor from average the more horses at but those which ahout its horse cast you get-brought an figure of 8173. Not that the were any better, perhaps, bH the vendors = were keener buyers more eager. Of the 8486 horses be sent only 7.620 erosséd the peenn Of the S66 left behind 466 vere gold ei Quebec for an average price of £51 100 have been heard of Rumor disposes of the Some Valcartier hiceanghs found or an from my io grows trade the 1" nd lable av to and never gince, missing 400 in varions-way died of advanced age at while, others who had the fit to cough their heads off, the romd the gue factory as mucilage, relly. articles © of merce inglorious. On the it sad ending for four Hun- dred horses that set out to! seek the bubble reputation at the campmon's mouth. , Althou 125 are canned Alt coms» whole to now chicken {hese hgurnng and calves useful foot are but Was a gh horse prices range from to $225 in various parts of Canada, the average price the Dom- inion over was $173. So that Canada! was ont of pocket on the 466 old crocks sold at Quebec for $564 each) sbmethimg like $56,000, and on the] vanishing 400 who made no return whatever to the Dominion treasury another $69,000 --a total discrepancy of $125,000 on the first batch of horses purchased. This does not re- present the total loss, because the prices quoted are f.0.b. 'at the point of purchase, and do not include freight and fodder. One witness tes- tified that there was a fine business done in slaughtering horses at Val: cartier, and that he saw as many as eleven shot and handed over to the knackers in a single morning. Cart- age to the glue. factory must have cost something, 'If the glue factory explained ev- erything the committee could rest! easy, but legend continues to gather] in a most embarradsing fashion | around the vamished four hundred. | Some say that they were on the list but never existed in the flesh--being | mere ghosts of horses, astral bodies of ,chargers that remained at home. where the cheques were paid, and | were present at Valcartier only in| spirit. Some say they were pali substitutes for horses that missod | the train to Valcartier, and that they | died sooner. than face the Auditor | General, Some day---but what's the | use of piling up donjectures, The fact | remains that nobody knows what be- came of them any more than you or I know where Moses is buried. The liorses are gone, and the vouchers, J descriptions, labels and other marks of identity aye gone with them. Without going further in pursuit of these wild, weird horses, the committee gets down to brass tacks in the shape of Mr. Arthur De Witt | Foster, M.P., who spent $72,000 for | 428 horses in Kings, Hants and An- boy and he looked elected on a temperance and ty platform, and was a orite with the Doreas So- It becay and banged hear, near" and the Opposition provocation He other lines, too 'gar with the corner of and' wore his hat at an ixty degrees counting from head. Ottawa is the geni and presently IFwas a broker, selling black and things like that at his Spark It was there you can learn from black or otherwise ina by. the time the war broke out he knew his round pretty well He knew it £0 well In fact that some- body high up said We want horses, Arthur Here's $72,000 Go out and do the best you can." Which Arthur did It is at this point that the Public Accounts Committee comes in It is only fair to say that they have nothing on Arthur he did his work well As | not etiquette to summon M. P before the Publie Accounts Committee, the inquiry centres around W. P. Mackay, who had desk reom along with Messrs Keever and Woodwerth in Mr. Foster's office in Spark treet; These four were all in the foxes evidence the part he ame reai politician Iris houted gely at lightest veloped oked a « along nouth leo i f ie of his ne hed ( ed Art of fox «tock office in he t street weeame a fancier 0 foxes, way t is young musketeers me business--black but according to Mackay's they really knew as little of each other as my right hand know: what my left hand is do ing. 'Probably less than that At any rate, we have Mackay's evidence that they did not exchange words more than once in two months and recognized each other by sight more than anything else. No doubt this Silence was due to the savage com- petition in black fox stoek at a per iod when the market for black fox was tobogganing, At all events they seldom spoke as they passed by. Mr. Mackay, who has a pair of stormy eéyes.and an undershot Jaw, said that he didn't care whether the commit- tee believed him or not Toward some things Mr. Mackay took that attitude, toward others he exhibited a loss of memory very alarming in a young man; However, the war did one good thing. It brought these four almost total strangers in the same office to- gether and presently Mr. Foster acting of " was as a fairly godiather to the party and signing cheques while Kee- ver was acting as director general and Mackay and Woodworth were buying the horses under proper veter- inary advice in Nova Scotia. They bought $72,000 worth, mostly using blanket. cheques for the day's pur- chases, drawing the money themselvey and distributing the cash personally to the lucky sellers. I'hey took re ceipts, of course, and fixed each card up with the name of the vendor, the pride paid and the description of the animal, but all these records they handed over to Keever, who is . nbt within summonsing distance. Keever's whereabouts are unkuown. He has most unfortunately left the country, taking the black-and-white evidence with him.. Woodworth is also absent in the body and as Mackay"s memory is poor the committee cannot go much further in that direction. Mr. Keever has vanished even more com- pletely than the four hundred horses which aré supposed to have wound up in the glue factory. However, spades turned 'up trump. Enter. Col. = Stoneman; late of the 13th Battalion, Hamilton, Ont., for- ty-five years a soldier, a gentleman of the old school, face like the sun- set, a thoroughbrec:. Although retir- ed for some years the calonel still takes a keen interest in military matters. He gives a little monologue on war as she was fifty vearsago and war as she is now. An entirely different matter, gen- tlemen,'" says the colonel, twisting his grey moustache. "A thing of spades and trenches." The word spade 'recalls the colonel spades T spades I carry my to communica- « Morrison, He officer, with me is Vorite came nie vears ay il once ted to I who has but $ a protege mine since hecomé ar his eure idea," blue tiller learned under the Thirte "The duces -l the Colonel "sas « much ftsman to whom notion was a could in pro Jm- proved hy I submits trench whith held be used as place by the tion or on-the mareh, rument when throw- an ar- parapet The * drafts- a hole in the through it. l incorporated it." years ago?' this from Mr. Cap "And you wrote about .it to Major General Hughes finee the war broke out?" "Exactly Doubtless the (eneral hag a lot to worry him. At events he didn't answer my letter.' "Did it ever ocenr to you to pat- ent ion pd make money onl bandaole fs and vn in king my as the ip thw mour shield to once it man oro was built iggested n middle and happy thought "That was six shooting your inver of it Make need?" "Bless your out of my country's The Colonel's eyes blazed hea Thé shield spade idea is ds old as the Crusades The only new thing about my little spade is the hole in the middle, anfl you couldn't patent a hole could you?" i Wherecat the committee and the colonel retired smile Just t ame, somebody values the dea more than he does himsel for the shield spade, liole and all, has been filed in the Patent Office at Ottawa, and Miss na Macada stenographer- in-chief to VN r General Hughes, holds the patent Moreover, an or- dér for /-five thousand shield: spades at $1.25 per spade is now being filled at the Midvale Stee; Company of Pennsylvania. The Colonel se to have served his country 1 calling Major General Hugl ntion to an idea that was ripe enough to pick HF. GADSBY None) no. laughed wreathed in Colonel's by VACANT LOT GARDENING. Hamilton City Clerk Has Inaugurated Big Movement In Canada. Once get a practical idea into the head of an emthusiast blessed with plenty of physical en ray and some- thing will happen. H. Kent, City Clerk of Hamilton, was passing through the eastern part-of that met- ropolis one day last summer when a bright thought came to him. It was the outcome of two observations which he made on that occasion. One was the lamentable extent of waste land, grown high with weeds and grass, an eyesore to the passer by; the other, the eramped condition of many of the poorer residents of the section. The idea that the city elerk's it would not be possible to bring these two conditions into relation- ship. There, on the one hand, was plenty of the best of garden land going to worse than waste. There, on the other band, were lots of strug gling families who, with the oppor- tunity, might be able to raise their own produce, and thus reduce the cost of living. All that was needed was some orgamization that would take the matter in hand, secure the temporary use of the vacant land for those who would be willing to culti- vate plots and geaerally see that the scheme was properly carried out. From Mr, Kent's inépiration there has sprung into being the City of Hamilton Garden 'Club, fathered hy himself and 'sponégred by the City Council. A committee of manage- ment composed. of the mayor, two aldermen, two private citizens, and the city clerk, bave the projéct in hand and they are prosecuting it with energy. Already several public mectings have been held In the dis. tricts affected at which members of the committee have explained the idea of the organization and urged the citizens to take out active mem- berships. As a preliminary step, a list of the land suitable for gardens Was pre- pared and letters were written to the owners asking for its use by the club. "To this appeal a most hearty response was made, with the result that the committee will have an abundance of land to allot to active members. These lots will ail be plow- S percolated brain, was through whether a whole j A] all. BUILDER: we want} GAH] LTR TTY) Eee go PREPARED FROM HIER Red HOME GROWN | | \ \ can make it worth your when you're FeAUY 1th en simply sthod get acquainted That we sre. Expert Plambe ers sad Steam Fitters, you vin canily lénrm by Investigntiou. LL YR DAVID HALL, THE FINEST OF SPICES Ya WRWOR. SEEM. GUARANTEED ER. ABSOLUTELY 2 V1=1: . Spi 3 New Orleans is to have a school of watiship for the benefit of e taking this to " Give the Countersign / Until you know the name "Black Cat" and all it stands for in cigarette quality, you cannot enter into the zone of complete smoking enjoyment. Black Cat Cigarettes are a good thing in your knapsack. Whe you're foraging tor smokes, don't be anything "almost as good." to have content with The name "Black Cat" is considered by British smokers everywhere as the countersien that signifies Trysmoking ~»Black Cat Cigarettes ~10 for 1I0Cents Yon'll find "comrades-in-war" gladly weleoming your open cigs "good smoking." eite-case and ready (0 votarn the compliment on all occasions, Every member of the Black Cat exclting Black Cat War Games. It's free--if you send 30 UPON to Black Cat Headquarters, Montreal. Army gets one of the new--nnd A A At AP ris iii ii | Dining Room Furniture ed and put in readiness for planting before the plots: willbe assigned To | the gardemers, thus making the pro- position an attractive one. Several other Ontario cities and towns have also adopted the vacant lot gardening idea, largely as a re- sult of the Government campaign to increase production. In Owen Sound, for instance, Mr. George Menzies, Secretary of the Board of Trade, in his annual report to hat body," di: , Hien OuBt of vacant land within the town limits, which might very well be put to pro- duetive uses by those without the necessary. property. The cities of Woodstock and Brantford have also fallen in line, In the former ease, the movement orig. inated at the pa m and produc- tion meeting beld there. In Western napolis counties, Nova Scotia. When | from his excursions on military tac I say spent I mean that $72,000 was tics to which the other eolonels---on plaved by Mr. Foster's credit in the | the committee have listened with be- Bank of Montreal and the young | coming patience. . He produces let M.P. issued cheques against this ac- | ters, a dozen of them, soft official count to three men who did the ac-{ answers from the President of France, tual buying--F. RB. Keever, a per- | the President of the United States sonal friend, T. C. Woodworth, of (both per secretary), the British War Halifax and W. P. Mackay, secre- | Office; Lord Roberts, and others, fary of John Stanfield, the ehief stating that they will look into his government whip. {idea of an armored spade. Another Arthur De Witt Foster, M.P. Kings | of these letters is to Colonel W. County, No. JeoNo- elation to Stri< Mor ok the - tEeorge==ir the youngest member in [Staff at Ottawa, 'written some six 'jthe House of Commons. Four | years ago, and another to Major- years ago next September, fortune | General Hughes, written since the marked him for her own and seizing | war lroke out. The colonel has ans. him gently by his foothall hair shift- | wers to all these letters oxeept the Jed him to Ottawa, where he made a one to Major-General Hughes. He great hit with his cherub face and | values most the letter --from Tord rab-rat manners. 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