rl DAVIES A Very Choice Lot of Spring Lamb Cut to order Al Sl, i a, | | Corned Beef (Useful Cuts) \ | 11c Lb. The Wm. Davies' Co. "Limited. Phone 597. AA ci GET OUR "PRICES gor piping. y us. Sat-| | For plumbing work, or Have your repairing done isfaction guaranteed A. AND J. JAMIESON, Plumbers and Gasfitters. MOTOR BOAT ||| FOR SALE. 2-cylinder, 8 h. p. en- gine. Good family boat. J! . Ch ~p. 'W.H. GODWIN &SON Real Estate and Insurance. | Phone 428 + « 89 Broo All the newest Talcums on the market you can get at Best's, TOILET WATERS Of delicate and ad dcighinl frag. rance, from 50c up. FACE POWDERS The finest rice powders, nice- ly tinted, and of pleasing odors, by the best makers. | 1 PERFUMES We think we have as fine a | « line of splendid true odor per- gi! fumes obtainable anywhere i foreign and domestic makers Ji well" represented. { ' Pon't forget. Get them | { At Best's The | Open Sundays | Holeproof Hosiery i For Men | SIX PAIRS GUARAN- TEED FOR 6 MONTHS § : | No More Holes Comfort and economy combined. Colors black, gun metal, tan and blue, $1.50 and $2.00 per box. Boys' Tong, Wear- well Stoekings, 18¢, 3 ' Soout J veTTTTTwYYw w | almost doyble that of last year. Hi We would like orn § every mam - mn Kingston, financial Commission since it was 'elected a than éne half the output was being + | but satisfactory. { to be held | i _THE DAILY E RITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1915. PAGE THREE CITY COUNCIL BANKRUPT THE GAS PLANT: | Utities Commission Putting it On Its Feet. GAS WOULD HAVE COST MORE UNDER MANAGEMENT Additional Reasons Are Given Why the Ratepayers Should Vote To Retain the Utilities Commission. "If the individual are not satisfactory to the people, do not re-elect them, but I would strongly advise the ratepayers not to THE PEOPLE COUNCH commissioners go back on the principle of govern- | ment of Utilities by Commission," said R. H. Toye, a member of the C ommission when interviewed by the Whig. "It would certainly bé a back | ward move to abolish the Commis- sion," he declared. "The people do not understand the end of the plant, The year and a half ago has heen trying | to get the plant into shape. people do not realize the condition ment of the gas and electric plants ended and that of the Commission began. over, in January, 1914. did not yield sufficient revenue permit of debentures being issued. The result was that the cost of these | balance and the ratepayers receive | * {| mains had to be charged against re- the output at actual cost. venue account, "In regard to the paviamg of Uni- | heped and believed that the adoption | ** versity avenue, the Commission ask- ed the City Council what kind. of | pavement it intended laying on that | | roadway. Its reason for deing this | was to find out the extent of the ad- COUNTY COUNCIL | The Agricultural Office To Remain) At Sydenham----Road Grants Re- commended By the Roads and | Bridges Committee, On Thursday afternoon the Coun, ! i ty Council passed a by-law fixing the | assessment pies as Tc of the gen- | eral nicipalities as follows: aL ie Aas Bedford .... Clarendon and Miller Garden Island, . Howe Island... Hinchinbrook. . Kingston .. Kennebee Loughboro .... Olden OBO "vs es vv vs Pittsburg .... Portland 735,872 Portsmouth. , 115,696 | Palmerston, North and South Canonto .. +... «. 63,586 Storrington .. .. .. .. 802,977 Wolfe Island .. .. 640,700 29.818 287,796 | 57.697 | 32,500, 101.545 212,352 416,441 57,322 521,051 136,298 100,796 030,172 ! Total ... tv. 6,842,517 AER Wala, i R. J. Bushell and J. | L. F. Sprogle representing, the Kin- | gston Industrial Agricultral Society, waited upon the Council and asked f tor a grant to the big fair which is in the Kingston fair grounds on Sept. 28th---30th. It was | pointed out that the prize list was Mr. Sproule also addressed the | Council with regard to the District gricultural representatives' office, Fo on behalf of many farmers asked | that the location of the office be changed from Sydenham to Kingston, the latter being more convenient for the rural population generally. There was no longer an agricultural class lat Sydenham and there was no rea- ll som why the office should be retained at Sydenham, which, Mr. Sproule | Said, was a much out-of-the-way place, He hoped the Council would agree to bringing the office of Mr. Main to Kingston. By-laws were read fixing the rates for peddling throughout the county and giving the warden and treasurer power to borrow $20,000 for current expenditure. The Property Committee recom- mended that these tenders be award- ed: Coal, S, Anglin & Co.,; cement, George ; sand, W. J. Me- Kendry. These recommendations were made by the committee on printing and education; That no action be taken on the request of the Salvation Army for a grant for jatl work; that the petitioh of Oxford County to the On- tario Legislature for the holding of municipal elections ev NEARLY services, If enly 'a temporary kind of pavement was to be laid, the Com- mission would require to expend omn- ly a few hundred dollars If a per- manent pavement was to be chosen, then the gas department would have to expend $9,000 in rround work, be provided by the City Couneil, be- cause the gas department has no, mo« ney for the work Up to date we have had no answer from the Coun- cil." "I would like the people to know this." said Mr. Toye: 'If the gas plant had been run another year as it was by the City Council of 1913, the people wouid have had to pay higher rates for gas , bécause the plant would have been run into the hole. It paid for seven years on dollar gas, but during the years 1912 and 1913 too many non-revenue pro- underg | any 'longer. ys the next year and ended this pe- licy. Now extensions are made un- | der the Local Improvement plan." Speaking about the electrical de- partment, Mr. Toye said that in 1914, the Commission found that sold. at less than cost. The plant] The | was being run at the expense of the | + An ad- & things were in when Council manage- | justment of rate has heen under con- | # domestic light consumers. sideration by the Commission for some time and the best advice avail-| + It certainly was anything able has been obtained with a view|® The gas end was [to equali*ing the financial burdens. |® practically bankrupt when we took it| The policy of the Commission is to! & The City so adjust rates that after 'all neces-|% Council of the previous year had put [sary precautions have been taken tof + | down $18,000 worth of mains which |insure the payment of fixed charges] + to |and depreciation and maintenance, (+ {the receipts and disbursements will|® This is | the principle arrived at and it is] of the rates proposed will bring about this result. The Commission wants no sur- | plus after its operations, but desires the profits to be returned to the] | ditions and renewals that would re-| pockets of the ratepayers'in the form |* | quire to be made to the mains and of reduced rates. | (EQUALIZATION FIXED 11 | {| FOR 1915 BY "THE FRONTENAC | TEN NOON | when the Council went into session. The Finance Committee's report | jrecommended that these grants be {nade to Sydenham High School in | accordance with the request made | by Joseph Duff, secretary treasurer: For maintenance, $4,626; for the| agricultural department, - $500. It also recommended that the caretak- | |er"s salary be increased $50 a year | to date from January 1st 1916, this | increase to be in leu of $50 pre-| viously granted the caretaker for] looking after the Kirkpatrick monu- | ment, and which was reported by the | | auditor and the solicitor as not leg- lal. An agreement between the Coun- ty Council and the Kennebec town- ship douncil was presented by Coun- eillor Reid. It provides for the pay- ment by Kennebec township of one- quarter the cost of maintaining the new bridge to. be erected by the Ontario Government over Cross Lake. The county will pay three- quarters the cost of maintenance. The Council adjourned until 2 p.m. to allow the committee work to be finished. r * | Napanee | June 17.--R, J. Cote, Kingston, charged on remand with driving an automobile in Napanee without hav- ing the proper markers, was fined $50.and costs by Magistrate Rankin in the Police Court yesterday. Early last evening an automobile party from Tweed had the misfor- tune to break an axle on the Selby road, but the eecupants, Miss Ray. burn, Miss Bateman and Mr. J. Tut- tle, escaped without injury. éarly this morning before they were able to continue their journey. George Hollinbeck, for whom the | Belleville police have been looking | for some time, was arrested by Chief Graham in Napance to-day, was | Waited on a charge of wife deser- | tion. The local Board of Health con- demned four dwellings to-day as un. fit for human. habitation. F. 8 Scott has purchased the bar. ber business and equipment of Loucks Bres., in the Lennox Block, and wil} continue: to carry on the business. Sellory and daughter, visiting Rev, and Mrs, Mrs: C. B, Hamilion, are 8. Sellery at Trinity Church parson- age. Clayton and Mrs. Stevens have left for Buffale, where they will visit Mr. Stevens' mother, Mrs. W. Bell- house and Miss Bellhouse, Kingston, are visiting friends ian town. A take and that money would have to ducing extensions were made to per-| : f mit of such a policy being carried on The Commission came | more | It was | place the Tatfer part of this month. Reeve David Darling and Deputy W. J. Wilson are in Brock- attending the session of the United Counties Couneil of ' Leeds and Grenville. Mr: and Mrs. Rob- D Soul, of New York have arrived in town to spend the summer. Ladd Ebr rhb rhb Pr be bbb eed + J WAR, BULLETINS, > leeve ville sident of the C.P.R., selected by Ldoyd = George make ammunition arrange- + ments for Britain in the Unit- 4 ed States and Canada, accord- ¢ ing to the London Globe. * * Ld * +> 4 -- » The British submarine, which 4 sunk with safely, after eluding mine fields + and four Turkish warships, Lient. Vincent Asquith, son of Premier Asquith, was seri. ously wounded in action. sesenerreenarsestesstries German official statement de- clares the Russians are retiring + | hastily from all defences of & Lemberg. Lient. Warneford, V. C., the + Canadian, who destroyed the ¢ Zeppelin recently, was killed + with Henry Beach, Needham, U. $+ S., magazine writer, when their aeroplane fell from. .a -ttemen- $ dous height on on Thursday, + * An, Austrian submarine has + torpedoed and sunk an Italian + submarine. This is the first + time in naval history that one submarine has attacked another. ¢ -- * The Italians are now in sight ¢ of Trieste. The railway sta- 4 tion at Goritz was Yostroyey by 4 Italian artillery. * | ----- 4 The French have captured # Steinbruck in Alsace, and Al- 3 tenof, near Arras, and have de- | feated a strong assault of a #| quarter milion Germans in a | stiff two-day's battle, + L¥ : | [oe 4 : -- * i% Lient,.Col. S. €. Beecher, ¢ | % London, Ont., Brigade Major of 4 the First Canadian Brigade, has 4 been killed in action, + [+ FFM Oe POPULATION. INOR! INCREASING i ------- { Faster Than Food Supply, Says Pro« fessor Coulter, Chicago, June 18 --Phere is grave | danger that a famine wil] descend upon the United States some time in the near future, according to Profes- sor John M. 'Coulter, head of the Department of otany of Chicago University, pulation | here, said the Professor, is imcreas ing twenty times faster than the food supply. 'We ought to have enough food. stuffs if this country te feed the world," said Professor Coulter, "In. stead, we goon shall not have enough to feed ourselves, This growing dis erepancy hetween. food production and population is the basis. of the high cost of living. "Four remedies present selves to prevent famine in the o - ed States. First we should develop | scientific methods of soll eultiva- tion. We must manipulate the goil properly, and farm intensively, as the Europans do. By scientific treatment of the soil crops can be increased 300 per cent. in the United States. "Second, we must. plant on every area the trop which will give the maximum yield in that section. Stop planting. wheat in corn land, and don't to raise potatoes in swamps, Too. many 'farmers plant their crops withqut knowledge of what their land \s suited for. "We must, in the third place, de- velop drought resisting crops. This is the work of the professional bot- anist, and is to be accomplished through experiment. "Then, at last, we must produce | disease-resisting crops, for, plants, {like animals, are subject to ills of | {the flesh, This, too, is the work of | the botanist. "If these suggestions are carried | out. with reasonable thoroughness the high cost of living will vanish, as concerns foodstuffs." Physicians recommend Perman- 'ganate of Potash throat gargle sold in 25¢ bottles at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store. A quiet marriage was celebrated in Belleville Wednesday evening, when Miss Minnie Sills beeame the 'bride of Myers Gilbert. Visit Dutton's Groeery Depart- ment---Cold Meat, Fresh Vegetables, ete., Dutton's. At Belleville, on Wednesday, Ver: na Mae, elder daughter of Sheldon Moran, was united Wn marriage to Robert Cameron Waldron, Trenton. "The Threat Gargle," ate df Potash is sold iw ofeial The British have made fur. ther progress near Ypres, eA Pe lO AlN Pt lt i city, | ---- Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, pre- & | has been & | to &| three Turkish transports # | 6,000 troops, returned # A « st in 26c bottles at Gibson's Red Cross Drog Store. ef Probs: Fine to-day. Saturday unsettled, showery. ad' & a a ¥ A Gala | 0 SATURDA | bi Silk Waists 15 doz. Jap Silk Waists, trimmed with organdie; reg. $1.50 value. Sat. 12 New York Lingerie Waists-- new this week; reg. £1.75, "Saturday . White Flannelette Remnants 1,500 yards purchased at less than cost and on sale to- morrow at less than the ac- tual wholesale selling price ~--in lengths measuring from 5 to 10 yards each; reg. price 15¢, 18¢ and 20e. Saturday, yard Corsets 25 doz. ""'Steacy's special"' --the best $1.50 Corset in | the trade. 89c Saturday ....... Napkins 25 doz. only Pure Linen Napkins--good value at $2.75 a doz. --Special for Saturday .... White Corduroy 300 yards extra fine English Cord--a regular 75¢ Saturday .... es Middies for Misses 10 doz. shag proof- Overalls--all sizes, in blue and black; reg. $1.25 In sizes 4 to 10 -- white with red and blue trimmings; reg. Toe. Satur- 5 doz. Working Shirts, extra strong make; reg. $1 and $1.95. Saturday, T5¢ BATHING SUITS FOR MISSES, In colors red, navy and black--sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 only; reg. $3 value. 10 only Raineoats --all sizes--reg. $6 | qualities, Satur- | day ... 51.98 | Use to a customer, $1.75 ralue. casa ."s en Goods dust Arrived eva eee Sport and Outing Hats, New York Neckwear, New York Déesies, New Waists, White Dress Materials, Summer Hosiery and Gloves, teste 1S | 50 Ew 47 a for Boys . * Bee our windews for extra vases in Boys' Boots, These are first. class shoes, reduced beeause the sizes are en, Dongola, Buff Bluehers, tor Tan and Chocolate Bluehers, for Regular hi values. Remember! Our Bing shoes pecials