16 PAGES YEAR 82 N 0 142 in sb errs P ~~ LE TO Su PEOP ort Re PA FOR ELECTR Under the New Rates of the Utilities Commis: sion Which Go July 1st. | The Whig Gives the Rates That Some Residents Will Pay Into Effect on ---The Householders Generally Will Get Cheaper Electric Light Than They Have | Before. | The Whig asked the General Man ager of the Publie Utilities to figure Out a comparison of the present elec- tric rates charged in Kingston with the new schedule to go into effect on the first of July. Five houses were selected at random, and in each cage Mr. Folger showed that the consumer would pay less than he is paying now. Here are the cases : House on Barrie street with 1,000 feet floor space; paid for six months n 1914, $9.10; will pay under the new tariff, $6.45, or $2.55 less. House an St. Catharine street with | 1,000 feet floor space; paid for six | months In 1914, §4.30; will pay un- | der the new tariff, $4.05, or 25 cents | less. | House on Rideau street with 1,600 | feet floor space; paid for six months in 1914, $15.80; will pay under new tariff, $10.28, or $5.52 less. { TWO ALDERMEN 70 ACTION OF COUNCIL Ald. W. J. Fair was interviewed by the Whig with reference fo the Utilities Commission question, and | he was surprised that the members | of the City Council who were re. sponsible for the referendum being | put to the people have failed to en- | lighten the people on the matter, There should have been a ful] dis- | cussion upon the relations of 'the | Council and the Commission before | the people were asked to express tifemselves. Ald. Fair said he was | out of town 'when the by-law was | presented to the City Council. He | further gaid that there was no need for any trouble between the Council and the Commission over the excava.- tions in the streets. The City En- | gineer had authority over the roads, | and only needed to exert it. Ald. Clugston #8 another member of tha City Council who was not at the meeting when the referendum was ordered, and does not think the Commission has been given fair play, | Promte Kingston's Good. Ex-Mayor- Abraham Shaw writes | to the Whig: ! "I notice with pleasure that the | paperg are taking an interest in the | i House on University avenue with | 1,600 feet floor spa®e; paid for ix | months in 1914, $13.90; will nay un- | der new tariff, $9.3, or $4.57 less. House on Harrie street with 3,200 feet floor space; paid for six months in 1914, $18.90; will pay under new ! tariff, $315.16, or $3.74 less. | The Hydro-Electrié Commission | estimates that, the reduction in | Kingston by reason of the new elec- | trical rates coming into effect on | July 1st will be between $18,000 and ! $20,000, all of which will go into | the pockets of the consumers. | It will thus be seen that the new rates are going to be a benefit to the | householders, whose homes wil] be | lighted cheaper under the new sche- | dule adopted by the Utilities Com- | mission, Everybody should, there- fore, vote in favor of retaining the Utilities Commission, ie OBJECT by-law fo be voted nupon Monday. Permit me to say that the Commis- sion was elected January, 1914, The gentlemen on the Roard were men who had no interest to serve except that of the city, and who gave their undivided time, free of expense, to promote the most important objects that any city could consider--water, | gas and electricity. 'What have | the Commission done? Saved the | eity heavy expenditure in connec- tion with the pumping house, placed a sixteen-inch artery for water pur- poses through the heart of the city, which will be there for the coming fifty years, reduced tho cost on toi. lets by fifty per cent., which affected every consumer in the city, and now have arranged a basis for serving electricity which will enable the smaller homes to enjor such at a minimum cost. The city's experience of the past vear ought to make the citizens con- sider the advisability of having all departments in charge of Commis- sions. Do not let any opinion of the internal management cause you to vote for the abolishing of the Commission. Vote for the Commis sion and promote the good of Kings- ton, . War Bons to the Mechanics From t Dominion, London, June 19.-- Walter Run- ciman, referring to the recruitment of mechanics from Canada to help sustain the demand of munitions and supplies of war, stated that the Ca- nadians would be paid at British rates, plus the war bon and that no mechanics would be ruited from the United States. Under the reorganization of the Cabinet, Mr. Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, speaks as one of id - Women. HR m Graduates; , The Ministry of Marine also an- the big ship owners of England as well as former financial secretary and Minister of Commerce and for mer member of Parliament from North Shields. He is the id of the firm of Walter Runciman & Co., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and owners of the Moor Line of steamers, EVERYBODY BOMBARDING. Austrians Attack Lighthouse--Ital. _ lans Bomb Trieste Depot. (Special to the Whig.) Rome, June 19---The Austrian fleet bombarded the lighthouse at Tagliamento and al ted to set fire to the naptha reServoir at Mo. nopoli. nounced to.day that an Italian diri- gible bombarded the Austrian depot at Trieste. 'War Tidings. The German await the arrival from nd consult Dr. tentio \| the" LAST EDITION n ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, KINGSTON. " Of Utilities Commission i ERMAN SUBMARINES FOR ST. 'LAWRENCE This is the Boast of the Huns. Britis Fooled in Regard to Submarines Reaching the Dardanelles. 'Hamburg Merchant Says There Are Lots of Opportunities "| For Under-Water Craft in St. Lawrence and New Hundreds of officers now serving in the armies of the British Empire in various parts of the world were trained at this coll ge. BUOYS NOW REPLACED Navigation Is Now Safe On Rideau River. the buoys and All lights which were swept away last year have been | | replaced on the Rideau River, and navigation is now safe. e Last year on account of the illness and death of Capt. Noonan, who was in charge of the buoys and lights on! the Rideau, a number of those at dangerous spots-on the course which had been moved or destroyed by the ice shove were not replaced and number of minor aéeidents occurred However, the buoying and lighting | of the channel will henceforward be under the care of the Marine De- partment itself. Mr. McPhail, the commissioner of lights, has charge of the work and recently the whole course from Ottawa to Kingston was gone over and buoyed according to the charts. The work has just been completed. The most difficult part channel is on the Long Reach, be- tween Wilson's Bay and Beckett's Landing, and especially around Mud Island. * All the missing been replaced. ii BERR STOLE AN AUTOMOBILE. Stealing a motor car from Fin kle's livery at an early hour on Sat urday morning, a man took a "joy ride" around the city at a furious rate of speed, so it ig alleged, and, after running the car against a tele- and Montreal streets, and wrecking it, mada his escape The police are endeavoring to get trace of the man in the case. ARE OPTIMISTIC "OVER SITUATION No Importance Attached to Lem- berg as a Military Centre, Says Russian Staff. (Special to the Whig.) Petrograd, June > Though the enemy's forces have approached to within fifteen miles of Lemberg, the War Office took an optimistic view of the situation in Galicia to. day. it was pointed out, offers a natural defenge against the Austro-Germans, who must waste great supplies of ammunition and thousands of men if they are to succeed in breaking through. The Russian General Staff at- taches no importance to Lemberg as a military centre. It was stated to. day that should the Austro-German drive make it advisable for the Slavs le the city, it should not be accepted @s a serious réverse. The whole scheme of the Grand Duke's 1 Fy Mid Galician fighting is to compe! neral Mack- ensen to make progress only at a tremendous loss of life and a heavy cost in ammunition. . This was par. ticularly proven at Przemysl, where Russians made a stand with comparatively light losses, and fore. ed the enemy to reckless expenditure of liveg and ammunition. . al of the! buoys mye WEE OIG, | And Had Lively Early Morning "Joy | Ride." graph pole near the corner of Broek | The country around Grodek, | - -~ WONDERFUL THINGS THE FREAK PRANKS OF i AND SHELL, | | to his friends his coat, cut into a fan- | tastie shape by shrappel splinters. | He was wounded in nineteen differ x "| ent places. SHOT 3 iy soldiers tell of prayer books, | watehos, buttons, leckets or other ep | souvenirs which they treasure as Bullet Parts & Man's Hair--Shrapnel | saviours of their lives. 'A dent in Outlines Man's Initials On His | a cigarette case or a hole through a Back. | pocket book seems to give rise gen- ' «t |erally to graver thoughts than do London, Jufie 19. -- Many interest. actual wounds: ing stories ate told of the idiosyn- | Gt crasies of ghot and shell in land and | sea fighting slice the beginning of | TO NEGOTIATE CONTRACTS the war. - Second Officer Harper of | the British ship Harpalion, torpedoed | A Welsh Colliery Owner Has Been by a "German submarine off Beachy | Ap ted. Head, deseribes the attack on his | (Special td the Whig.) ship while it was proceeding down | Londcn, June D.. A. Thomas, the channel at a rate of about' 11 |, prominent Welsh colliery owner, knots. "We had Just sat down to | 4nd one of the survivors of the Lusi- tea," he sald, "and the chief engi- | (anis disaster has been named by heer was saying grace according to |the British Government to go to the our custom. He Had just uttered | ypiteq States gnd Canada to negoti- the words: "For what we are about [ate war munition contracts. | to receive may the Lord make us| | thankful,' when there came an aw- was the torpedo." FEE mens Gu F - tb) 'A Red Cross surgeon deseribes a man named Williams, who had his | initial "W"' plainly outlined upon his | | back b® a fragment of . shrapnel which finally settled in his boot. The , man was very proud of his wound, | {and declared he wouldn't have miss- || a led the distinction for a re nia | chohp apparatus" which he believes { bank note | will entirely counteract poisonous A King's messenger serving with | Bas. Elaberate tests In the yris- the British troops in France is an-| ence Bim italy aut o es eo | thority for a remarkable account of | (18 made to-day. «Trenc He a piece of shell which hit a trooper | been built and a miniature bat Ravan i the latter was mounting his | being acted wherein the attackers To Neutralize Them. London, June 19.--8ir Hiram Max- as invented "a very simple and horse. It eut round the top of his | i to use Eas, the Qofenderg Mr trousers like a pair of scissors, di-| i ram pparatug. Whoot the ely: viding the leg part neatly from the the me an a rl in voay. {acture hai bess utrustss maiges cent ERE sous. nd emt | Suen the es re Dostponed: ga {its 'career up the street, eventually | Hext week. iam sa lito. | going through another house, . Bach | yas reaches the trenches it is | dwelling: was opguapied by a family very slightly heavier than air, yylien v e {in a pure state at one atmospheric uring Esa ts O%,he | Bressure Jt weighs 13% thes a8 much sank the Emden writes: "A shot cut | 38 8iF, but escaping from a high pres- | sure to atmospheric the gas necessar- away the port signal halfards, | ith. th i til bounded through the range finder-- | lly rises, mixing wit 2. al AN | ! when it reaches the enemy there is | about six feet of brass--blew oft ihe | one hundred times as much alf as { range takers leg, cut a rail in two, | oo My invention will force the [cams through the hammocks lining |p 11. over the heads of soldiers In {the inside of the bridge through | ye 'trenches.: This is the only way {screen and through. the ship's awn- |," \iralize the effects. Respir- {ing, which was .tied outside the|.iq.s are useless. I don't think the |screen, and then burst. One Iump| puiieh could descend to use poison- of shel] hit the deck only a foot away ous gas, and I am convinced when from me, missing my head by inches | 10 Germans' see how easily cheaper --1 have the piece, Another piece fumes can be dispersed they will dis- hit the deck and glanced up through continue its use." the bridge%screen, taking exactly half of the captain's binoculars with it. Not bad for one shot, was it?" A wounded man returned from Northern France to London exhibits Miss Elsie J. Walker, Perth, nurse- in-training at the St. John's River- side hospital, Yonkers, N.Y., grad- uated last week with honors. father is | York Harbor---Calls Them "Arrogant | People." i . Pr -------------------- London, June 19.--A widely-trav- about elled Hambyrg shipping authority | discussing future development of | German submarines with a neutral [business man *who has just arrived {in England after a fourth visit to A | Germany says according to the Daily Jantic | Mail: t i "The English are an arrogant peo St | ple. They, thought they knew all out 1 | vidently did not bmarine; nel tliough aware the Belore ire we At opportun mouth of , and PE -------------------- WAS NOT A CANADIAN, | Italian Force Has Silenced | Malborget o Whig.) 10 ftalian artitlory silenced the Austria fortress Malborget, dominating important passes and peaks in the Carnie Alps, Gen. Cadorna reported to the War Office to-day that the Italian shells fore great holes tn thie outer works Of Malborget and 'sant part of the Stone defences tumbling in. ruins. The bombardment continved for | several days, the explosion of ammu- nition magazines inside the fortross | adding to the work of destruction. Complete reports to the War Office showed that the Austrian bombard ment of Fang and other Italian sea ports terday morning resulted in practically no .damage. ! | Warneford Was Born in Cooch Be. { har, India, New York, June 19 ---The New York Timeg received the following letter, writtem before the news of Lieut. Warneford's death had reach ed this city: "You may be willing to make the following important correction in the interests of accuracy. You errone- ously stated in an editorial a week ago that Lieutenant Warneford, performed the most efficient and Spectacular feat of the war hy de. stroying a. Zeppelin single handed, rq c 1 Sh ob, NAS diam, L y remar "here was born 'Behar, India, in 1892. His at present in India. His nother is a daughter of Captain A. Campbell,- D.8.0., ofthe Indian Ma rines, His family is from Wilt- shire, England. Before the war, Lieutenant Warneford served on the transport steamer Somali, of the P | & 0. 8.8. Line, and before that he | was employed on British Indian steamers plying on the India and Persia coast, He arrived in Eng-| land from India in 1913. { "He, however, has cousins in Can ada, They are Dr. Warneford, of Hampton, N.B., and the Rev. C. A. Warneford, rector of the Anglican Church, Johnston, N.B, "The Canadians are the bravest of the brave, but this time the credit for Warneford must be given British blood, and that peerless ser vice of the British in India. 1 have lived many years in the tropical Ori ent, and know how terrifically vere the clmate is. Yet the Saxon blood successfully endured such climate, and produced guch men as McLeod's ¢ Lord Roberts and Lieut. Warneford. | pay ie "I make no reflection on Cana Prouse's dians by this correction. ~ The ger Valleau's vice of the little Canadian army of 30,000 men at Langemarcke and Ypres, where they held back 120,000 and saved the British line, speaks for itself as unparalleled in courage and success. | "(8Signed) John Stuart Thomson, author ef 'China Revolutionized,' AMOK INE 'The Chinese,' and go forth." Jersey n Ju th, Gordon n of George Motionnel vith City. Mar ITE, to ry Bella McKeon rege McKenzie (8pe tome, June halt has of FE ye DAILY MEMORANDUM. Vaudeville Grand, top f page 2.30 'and 7.30 J, right hand corner, [or Brobasi , THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depot ..205 King Bt to Clarke, J. W. & Co «263 Princess Colle 30 Sloré 16% Princess Coult Gr ar Princess Cullen's Grocery, & Alfred Frontenac otel "eee Ontario Bt. Gibson's I re ..Market Square J veee Portsmouth f Cor. Prin se Union St 260 ( University Princess Pripcess Monlireal Ns Ac re sve eB KAN Patrick's 3 i Fr BC Capt.Lawson, in charge of the Salvation Army in Tweed for the past «.several months, has been trapsfer red to Kamloops, B.C. DIED. |BULL-~1n Bloomtiel, Sunn tih, Eliza { Wife of Eellick Bull aged . London, June Wi nother, - ty-four hours of fighting in Galicia : fas developed nothing to stem the Se, i pot minimizing the importance of 5 ustro-German' rm le TE ston, me OWN FRONTIER dune Ist, Miss 'oly, eldest danghter of Mr i Isnae Cole, Sophi asburgh ARNRIKE--In Amellasbiy 1 June Selim Caenrik A aged and BRI od * from his late on Mone fire re- to atlenad, of the Galician capital. Wigan Three great nfasses of Austro-Ger- J mas thus are sweeping from the The Yeading Undertaker, capital ¢ity, and tue Phone 577 230 Princess Street. is made that the decisive if one is fought, will take JAMES REID in the vicinity of Grodek, The Old Firm of Un E the British military observers 254 and 236 PRINC 8S Br the Russians should benefit | Phone 1°% for Ambulance lake country. | ORR ERA Rg British newspapers although! REFRIGERATORS, From $2 to $7, while they last, at in Turk's. Phone 705 an successes tyled acclaim what is sty BB | Nm vrs ----------y Grand Duke Nicholas' elusive egy in shifting his front from | o south to northwest and i ; { -- 3 Thiss manoeuvre, it eflected the Austro-|, tower's Lime Juice to some extent and| - Seower's Lime Juice Cordial me denied to them &| Montserrat Lime Juice i Welch's Grape Juice Wagstaafe's Grape Juice Gurd's Ginger Ale Tported Ginger Al Imported G e Gurd's Caledonia Water Jas. Redden & Co | Phones 20 and 990. n retreat is char-| London as strikingly | Allies' retreat. in the which culminated in on the Marne. the ter and ; considered ; & which side is more astute in the present man- veg