16 PAGES The Baily Britis > YEAR 82 NO, 136 fr. -- pH LX Dojeors Borasom ee 5 The Duke a } wellington Wezler/oo Comm rasrrder or the Xr erich (Zor arm V7 Brrr) On June 18th, 1815, Famous Battle Was Fought On Belgian Soil. The famous Battle of Waterloo, | which, took placa. a century ago, was fought solely for the purpose of end- ing thé career of Napoleon Bona. parte, the greatest military genius the world has ever known When tha news of Napoleon's return from Elba spread wver Europe consterna- tion reigned among the powers wbo had been wrangling at Vienna, and they vowed his destruction, declar ing that the peaca of Europe rested | upon his downfall. For fourteen years Napoleon First Consul and Emperor of France had played a part which developed every phase of his character. The military party of that nation idol. ized him, He had fed them with glory, and. plunder. and they-repaid him with a dsvagien such as never been shown by the French for any othor man, and when he return. ed from Elba the army at once ral- lied to his standard and restored him as ruler of the empire, determining to cast their destiny with him. He was anxious to strike a decisive as | has | Napoleon, preparation, and many writers de- clare that his old fire of militarism was gone and that the Napoleon of Waterloo was a far different man Wagram. of age, had grown corpulent, and was easily tired out. The reckless ex. posure and intense labor of sixteen | ier campaigns had told upon where he once slept too little. He nowvhesitated to order the death of & traitor, where in the early days a man was shot on suspicion. fhing unheard of in times gone by), and had many conferences with the patriot Carnot. "When one has | had misfortunes one no longer has | confidence, which is necessary to sue- | cess," he told the old warrior before { leaving Paris to join his army. Na- | poleon felt that he was working at a | disadvantage he stood at bay blow before the allied armies-eould § against a world in arms. be collected tn formidable arkay be- | fore'him, Feeling sure that the best troops of England were still in America, and krowing that the Ger- man forces on the Rhine were weak, and that the Rugsian armies were in Poland, he hoped to work on the feelings of his father-in-law, the Em peror of Austria, and to rouse the anger of the Emperor Alexander against the allies and thus reduce his enemies to England and Prussia These hopes, however, were not ful- filled, for.the allies had worked to- gether with great energy and before his schemes had been completed he found himself compelled to begin the war, 'Wellington. The Duke of Wellington, the hero { of the Vienna Congress,who had baen | surnamed the "Iron Duke" on ac- count of his physical strength and inflexible will, was to lead the united forces against the French. like the majority of the English generals {of note he was of Irish birth. He first fought the French troops in Portugal and in Spain, where he of. | fered them strong resistance, and, in 1814 he fought the battle of Tou- louse at Soultz, His career in Spain made him a hero and resulted In" his selection by the powers to | "save Burope." = Although he had - ™ SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES | Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. ~y ~The Carslake Hotel Deal | 3 Ottawa, June 12.--A return, mov- ed for by the Honorable Rodolph Le- mieux and brought down to the House of Commons last session, gives a thrilling, albeit fragmentary, story of the Carslake Hotel site; bought re- cently by the Government for a pos- tal station. The property, which comprises Nos. 571, 678 and 675 St. James street, Montreal, and has a small frontage on Windsor street, is con- veniently situated opposite the Bon- aventure railway station, in a part of the city where growth has reached its limit and values are fixed. It has an area of approxi twenty thousand feet and was under expropriation proceedings, © the Government for $325,000. Its amazing rise in value surpasses the romance of western real estate. Nothing that town lots did at the height of the frenzy in Winnipeg or atoon 'or Calgary or Vancouver | tried with what this Montreal _across at the tail in 1913, with the of Canada as a Going up. ber 16th, being a ell, | 1913 pany and Carslake turning the real estate into the company for $90,000 cash, This was how the property stood early in 1913 at the top of the mar- ket for Montreal real estate. It was not till after the bottom had fallen out of prices that the Government got iuto the game, but that made no difference to the Carslake Hotel s'te ~it went on soaring just the same. It flashed across the real estate sky like a comet burning with impatien- ce to get home to the Hon. Mr. Pelle- tier who was Postmaster General at the time. It had taken the Carslake Hotel site fourteen years to appre- ciate in value four hundred per cent. but in one year after that, with the sun shining at Ottawa, it doubled its previous record and come Wilong an- other eight hundred cent. Which goes to show what Government could do with the crops if they really from the Napoleon of Austerlitz and | - He was forty.seven years | the «unbounded confidence qf KINGSTON ONTAR 3 who Cornrnenced" the Znblisha? There is much discussion as to his | Wellrmbior & Weglervoo army, the warm admiration of most Englishmen and the esteem of the sovereigns of Euorpe, it is doubtful hours out of twenty-four in his ear- | whether any Human being cver real. | his | sealth, and he often slept too much | geMish, and never known to laugh. ly loved him. Always austere and he conducted everything after a military fashion, and resented any reforms of any kind, especially in n He Lthe-army, tig' fad féw intimates and even sought the-adviee*of others (a | was exacting even in the smallest matters. He was about the same age as Napoleon, and like the "Little Corporal," a teetotaler, Blucher, Field Marshal Blucher, the com- mander of the Prussian forces who saved the day at Waterloo, was of a | totally different make-up---seventy. three yearg of age at the time of the | battle, a hard drinker, headstrong. | boisterous and iron-willed, yet true- | hearted and fearless, a bprn fighter, | who could not be discouraged, for po | matter 'how things went in" baptle | he 'was sure to "come back." Al- ways ready {o take the field, and adored by his troops, he was eager to go himself wherever he had sent them--shirking nothing. With all these rough qualities he was a de- voted husband and a loyal subject. His hatred of Nanoleon was intense, and knowing this Wellington felt gure that he could count on Blucher in tha Waterloo fight if he could hold out against the French until the ar- rival of the Prussians, Such were that way and demanded "independ- | ent valuations." These valuators, | og experts and owing it to their position as independents to disagree, | naturally disagreed. They disagr- eed as much as one hundred and nine teen thousand dollars, The A. F. 0. Ross Realty Company said $284, 000; J. Stevenson Brown & Co, sald $325,000; and J. Cradock Simpson & Co., sald $403,000. These three valuators furnish the comic relief of this financial tragedy. They had a hard time getting their bills paid. The return includes an extensive cor- respondence with Charles H. Hunter, the purchasing agent of the Public Works Department who had employ- ed them, in which they keep asking him why the Government doesn't come across with their modest fee of one-tenth of one per cent. on the amount of the valuation. Charles forbears to urge the obvious argu- ment that a valuator should charge a fixed fee and not a percentage on the valuation, otherwise it would be dn object to make valuations large and Joo 30 Sarrespan d; but he. 20% ur work was very simp - that they cut their rate. Being low man the Ross Realty npany 'refuses; being J adock Simpson, being high x a valuation of $403,000, Orde rir & Chere (FP mroorm vr Va Loria CE J his the three men who led the forces in that battle which sent Napoleon to | St. Helena. ' At the beginning of June, 1815, Napoleon had raised an army of 276,- 982 men, of whom nearly 200,000 were ready for battle, But threatencd on all sides by the enemies, he could not bring all his | cannon, bayonets and sabres to bear upon one-point. He wanted to sur- | prise the allies, but their spies pre- vented this. Things did not move to his liking, but intsead of keeping in touch with everythging pertaining fo his army as he was wont to do in former campaigns, he frequently left the task to a subordinate and went off 'to take a nap, and only a day or two before the battle he reviewed his troops seated in a chair, And fell asl betas. they, + 'passed. His Resto Dd invasion of Belgium was a masterpiece, for he wag able to concentrate his en- tire army on the frontier before the allies were aware of it. Marshal Ney bad:joined the army, and this naturally added to the patriotism of the soldiers. : The 'energy and resolution of the allies were shown by the immense forces directed against France, al- though the Duke of Wellington com- plained bitterly of the inefficiency of his army. 'I have an finfamous army," he 'Wrote to Lord Stewart, "very weak and ill-equipped, and an inexperienced staff. In my opinion ! they are doing nothing in England." required to complete the acquisition of the said property." - This was on February 20th, 1914. Parliament, aided and abetted by the Conserva- tive majority of forty-seven, did as was recommended and by June 10th the assistant manager of the Canad- lan Bank of Commerce at Montreal was writing to 'the Department of Public Works at Ottawa, submitting his power of attorney and authoriz- ing the Department to pay into the bank any monies due by the Domin- ion Government to the Carslake Ho- tel Company Ltd. As it was not till two months later that the Hon- Robert's deputy' wrote to the Justice Department asking if it would pre- judice the expropriation proceedings before the Exchequer Court if they made a payment of $175,000 on ac- count to the Carslake Hotel people, it looks as if there might have been some stage play in between which the bank knew nothing about. At all events it was a very decent thing to do to accept the compromise valua- tion because the middle of the road is a highly plausible position for. a statesman to be found in. The Hon- orable Bob's eagerness to hustle things along and make the Carslake H swallow an instalment A. not reveals him an patriot of the age "when none was for the party aid all were for the state." The Justice ' Department | were under the command of | Printe of Orange. | the French and Prussialy T! 10, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915 a) Che er Ze Def erse of | By the middle of June Wellington | ined an army | of a littlg over, 105,000 men and 196 | a heterogeneous | British and Continental | I have them, these English!" Their greatest virtue was | tneir implicit faith in their comman- | der and their willingness to carry out | from all sources had guns, ey 'were mass of Lro ps. his orders on the minute. . Blucher in June had 120,000 men and about 300 guns. The men were all Prusians--an attempt to make use of 14,000 Saxons came near be- ing fatal to the commander as they mutinied and attempted to slay Blu- cher at his headquarters. The Prus- sians were well trained and eager to 'get at" Napoleon. The Dutch. Belglans--a splendid body of men-- the On June 15th, m'igh at Charleroi, the ~{ Mig one thousand nten. Nothing was known of thig encoun- ' , ter' by the Duke of Wellington, who was in Brussels until the next day, although he was aware that the French had crossed into Belgium. The Duchess of Richmond gave a ball and supper on the night of the fifteenth, to which all the notables of the city were invited. There was the wildest sort of revelry, and all went well until neanly midnight, when the rumor spread that an ac- tion had taken place between *the given to the rumor at first, but gra- dually the officers began to disap- pear from the ballroom and the guests learned the truth. Charleroi had been taken by the French, who -~were advancing on Flueries, At one o'clock on the following morning the bugle cal] summoned all the sol- diers tb their rospéctive regiments, and before daylight Wellington's men were on the march, The battles of Quatre Bras Lingy followed, Du 1h Wellington narrowly pad. b made a prisoner, Pru fell back on Wavre and the British and allied troops on Watérloo, where Wellington took up his headquarters in a house opposite the village church, A part of the army occu- pied the house and garden of the Hougomont, a spacious chateau which included a number of build- ings enclosed by a stone wall. There was a dense woods about the place, making it an ideal one for soldiers to hide. Blucher remained at Wa- vre. Napoleon was surprised when the dawn broke on the morning of -- and satisfactory, the cheque for $175,000 was made out to the order of Mr. Morgan, attorney for Mr. Carslake and the transaction was ¢ ed as per instructions of the Justice De- partment. The trial was pulled of in October and went against the Carslake Hotel as was . There were no hard feelizigs on ei- ther side and on October 20th, 1914, the keys of the hotel were handed over to the Superintendent of the Montreal Post Office by the Président of the Carslake Hotél Company. Two months later another cheque for $45, 000 was paid on , brings the tran A end of the year and the end of the return psked for by Mr. Lemieux. There remains $105,000 to be paid, whieh, no doutt,_wilt reach the shot unless it gets split on th the cheques for Sir ay Mec- Bride's submarines. --H.F. 6G. [Th ow lh "Please shut the door," netice the Lampman Clarence street door. ons As the door it = h Whig had a skir- | ussians los- | Prussians and Freneh.-Ng eredit-was | ~ 1 fast. Mr. Carslake's cable reply was JHouornorat : ( From ar ald Drirf) the eighteenth and he saw through the drizzling rain the allied armies. Raising his arm he pointed toward the Hougomont and exclaimed, "Ah, The sun came put about nine o'clock, and later the French opened with a ter. | Pp | French and succeeded in cutting up | two battalions of the French Guards. infantry under command of Jerome | the | Hougomont, shouting as they came-- | rific attack on the Hougomont. Af. ter considerable firing avdivision of Bonaparte advanced toward "Vive I'Empereur!" but they were soon forced to seek shelter. the'orchard fell into the hands of the tempts to enter the building. army harassed the centre, hoping thereby to break the British centre sian army, which was on its way to the field. Defence of the Hougomont. From noon until three in the af. ternoon the fighting around 'Hougo- mont continued, and at that hour Na. poleon, seeing that the British could not be ousted, gave orders that the chateau be set on fire. Many of the wounded perished in the building be. fore they could be moved. After this the French commander turned his attention to the right. wing of the British forces, The Hanoverian. Dutch and Bruns- wick squares made a stubborn re. sistance, although many of the men were mowed down by the French guns. 'Bonaparte remained at, La Belle Alliance "walking about in deep thought and occasionally taking a pinch of snuff" He anxiously scanned the British lines and gave his orders rapidly. The Prussians had not arrived, and he saw the al- lies falling like flies before his guns. The Duke of Wellington, too, saw the carnage among his troops and 'exclaimed to ono of his officers, 1 "Would to God that night or Blucher would come!" It was 430 in the afternoon when the promised aid arrived. The roads were almost impassable owing to the storm of the night before, and the Prusstans had been on the march | since four o'clock in the morning. | The trained eye of the Prussian Field | Marshal at work took in the serious situation and he hursied his two brigades into battle without waiting for the arrival of his whole force. oid Napoleon 'sent hig reserves against | the new arrivals, declaring that his men would yet eat their supper in Brussels. The Marquis of Anglesea when the Roman Catholics, a small minority in Saskatchewan, can put it over the Presbyterians and the other fairly large denominational bodies in the west with regard to school legislation, the Lampman takes off his hat to them. "The 'better the day the better the deed," appears to be the motto of the new Board of Visitors to the Royal Military College. The Lamp- man learns that the devout mem- bers of the college staff were very much disturbed over being summon- ed to meet the Board last Sabbath morning to discuss business, and be- ing taken from public worship. The Lampman thinks that the A Difference to be Considered { the same time. made a brilliant charge against the Napoleon Defeated. At seven in the ovening the fight. | ing was furious all along the lines, Later | which were very close to each other. { Napoleon still believed thai he would French, and they made desperate at- | In | the meantime the other part of the | win, and pointing to the farm of he Sacred Hedge hg said to his men-- "There, gentlemen, is the road to Brussels!" Hetween eight and ten | at night Wellington ordered the Brit. and get between them and the Prus- | Napoleon knew | ish to advance,'the Prussian army performing a similar movement at This threw the French on the defensive, and they were forced to flee. The cries of "Vive I'Empereur!" died away and the al- lied forces were soon on the ridge be- hind La Belle AlMsnce, which had been the stronghold of the French, At the village of Plancanoit, where the reserve of Napoleon's old guard were stationed, there was some re. sistance, but after they were storm- ed by thePrussians the rout was com- plete. All night long there was a general stampede of the French. They were followed for a time by the Prussians, who came up after the battle was over, and at one time they were s0 close to Napoleon that he was compelled to defend himself with his pistol. 'He abandoned his car- riage and rode horseback to Charle- rol, and then took another carriage to Paris, which he had left but a week before confident of victory, Numbers Napoleon had 74,000 thd is guns in the fleld; © ton had ¥7,000 Ton abd 18K una, Miliary men Who hats gong the fleld de- clare that the Brit ition was especially strong dnd Napoleon's at. tempt to break the centre of the Eng lish army so well ed as it was has been compared to Lee's effort to storm the heights of Gettysburg. No battle was ever fought with more ob. stinacy and courage. © The losses in all were about 40,000 men--6,000 men of both armies dled in the at. tack on the Hou ont dlone. Twenty-five thousand horses perish- ed Such was the price Burope paid at Waterloo for the defeat of Napo- leon. Town Council of 19156 « has really more nerve than the body which sat in 1914, for he hedrs that some of the councilmen .actually suggested that the Mayor declare the munici- pal summer vaca on the 7th of June, before the school youngsters got theirs. --THE TOWN WATCHMAN, Modesty. He--Why are you always remind- ing me that you might have married some one else? She--1 don't recall that early error of judgment so much on your account as on my own, 1 want to preserve in myself a proper intellectual hu- milty, Er ---- ----