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A little out of the way, but it will pay you to walk: ug | | SPECIAL VALUES IN PURE BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, giiar- ) anteed all pure linen, in the newest and best desigus, VER BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK -- nches wide, at 60¢, 75¢, 90¢ and $1 yd. i} Will laun der white in a short time, 'the kind for real if bard wear . 1. ....85c, 40c, 50c, 80c and 75¢ a yard SETS OF CLOTHS AND NAPKINS to match, § in all sizes, at special prices. - ~~ # ¢ ODD CLOTHS AND NAPKINS in various sizes from broken sets, at 20 40 25% off regular prices. if | son also: | of horses he has brought THE DAILY BRITISH WHT: TUESDAY, JUNE 22 131: OF THE Z1ST BATTALION SUPERIOR ORGANIZATION 'Amy Book Expert Found Ee Was Not N Needed. A SPORTSMEN'S CORPS IS WHAT COL. HUGHES' UNIT IS TERMED, A Writer Says the 21st Is Superior In Organization and Equipment To Other Canadian Battalions Seng Overseas. | Writing in "Canada," under date of Folkestone, Eng., June 1st, Wil- | lam Blaynay says: Colonel W. St. Pierre Hughgg has ino less than seven relatives on ac- | tive service with the' Canadian Ex- | peditionary Force, either at the | | front or in England. = One of them is hig only son, and the other six { are nephews, each of them an only | The Colonel is a striet | | abstainer, a non-smoker, takes a | great personal interest in his men, | all of whom he séems to know indi. | | vidually, and delights in taking his friends to see the splendid "bunch" th him | to the camp. He knows a the twenty or thirty riding horses by | name. His favorite is "Loretta," { champion of Canada in the Hunters' | Class, and winner of the blue ribbon | {in many jumping contests in the | United States. This horse ig val- ued at $3,000, and was presented to | the Colonel by the owner. Presentations to 21st Battalion, | Among the many presentations | to the 21st Battalion during its pe- | riod of mobilization at Kingston, | Ont,, was $13,500 subscribed by the | people of Eastern Ontario for the | purchase of field kitchens and other | articles of equipment. When pub- | liely presenting $2,250 of this | amount as the donation of the peo- | ple of the County of Lanark to the | fund, the Warden of that county punctuated the presentation hy handing over to Colonel Hughes per- sonally a Union Jack, This flag | 'now adorns the Colonel's quarters | in a hut at West Sandling. The lacrosse sticks which the battalion has brought with it to England were presented by "Joe" Lally, of Corn- wall, Ont, proprietor of Canada's great lacrosse. factory in that city, and well-known from the Atlantic to the Pacific as a referee in all the great lacrosse matches . The ban- nerets which float from the dozen pipes. of the Regimental Pipe Band | were worked and presented by Miss | Lettice Tandy, of Kingston, Ont. The King's Color carried by the bat- talion, as well as the Regimental Color, were presented by the Vet-| erans' Association of Kingston, and | cost $700. A group of well-wishers in far.off Salt lake City, Utah, U.S.A., presented bales of knitted goods to the battalion, while some were sont by friendg in New York. A beautiful white goat, with silver | tips on its horns, was the gift al Kingstonian immediately prior to | the departure of the battalion for! England. The animal has beon ta- | kon on the strength of the battal. | fon and adopted as the regimental | "mascot." Of the six machine guns | with which the 21st is equipped, two of them were presentad by the offi- | c¢erg of the penitentiaries through- | out Canada. . : | T The Pipe Band, In addition to the pipe band above | mentioned, the battalion has equip. | ped and brought with it to England | a military brass band and a bugle | band. The pipe band is, however, the feature. Its equipment cost $2, 000, and it bas been described by a well-known authority on such mat. ters as the most properly and best equipped pipe band which ever left Canada: _As an act of courtesy to Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Colonel, the Macleod tartan has been adopt- ed in the nniforms of the bandsmen and the decorations of the instru- ts, Mrs | Hughes being a grand. i 1 It Sovg mot ontnn itself to Scottish m away at "The Wearin' of the Green" and {one could remember someone doing | {in the years agone; what many men (tg say nothing of offi-| cers) in the 21st who, with a la. | crosse stick, will throw that bomb right into a German trench 75 to a 100 yards away with accuracy and precision almost intredible. A day Or two ago I spent an hour or two | in "off duty" time among the offi- cers' of this battalion in their mess ut at Sanding Camp, whilst a prac. tice game of lacrosse wag going on among the men on the parade ground outside. It was interesting to no- tice that the general conversation | among the officers at that time had! nothing whatever to do with the | ever-important theme of war, but | Was concerned with lacrosse--what | | { another | knew so-and-so throwing the ball | from one goal into another, a dis- | tance of about 150. yards, with faultless accuracy; and finally, an order from a major to a subaltern respecting the care and safe-keep. | ing of the outfit of sticks which the! battalion had brought with. it to! England. { The sporting characteristics of the | 21st Battalion are, however, by no | means confined to lacrosse. The | battalion is able to put in the field | at any moment half-a-dozen good | baseball and several Rigby and As-| sociation teams. Lieut. McGee is one of the best centre hockey play. | ers in the world; Private Black is | the champion swimmer of Canada | and champion heavyweight boxer of | Ottawa; Corporal. Hawkie is the | champion wrestler of Canada; Quar. | termaster-Sergeant Fee is a mem. | ber of the champion rowing team of | Ottawa; whilst at the annua] shoot- | ing coljtest for the Palma Trophy the 21st numbers on its strength one | man who shot the highest scores in | three successive years, one who has secured the second highest gcore,and | one who has the third highest to | his credit. Superior Organization, | Here is one evidence which testi- | fies to the superior organization of | the 21st Battalion. When -an ex. | pert in the keeping of Army books, registers, etc., was sent from the Im- | perial Army to thig battalion at | Sandling to render assistance and | give advice to the orderly room staff | for a few days, he found ever hing | in such perfeet order and the Terk | | reportad that his. services were not needed. and left the same day. On each of the buildings which 80 to form the boundary of the square pa- rade ground of the 21st, at a foot or go from the ground and at close intervals, a row of small cardboard targets has been nailed to the walls. When practising musketry, on their rifles in ordinary evolutions on the drill ground, the men are by this means provided with something absolutely definite at which to alm, | instead of having to pick qut indie | criminately certain undetermined | objects for the purpose. Orderly | room, quartermaster's stores, com- | pany headquarters,and similar buiid- | ings in the lines of the 21st Battal. | fon are easily found and easily 1o- | cated by the fact that each one! bears an inscription in bold, black letters on white eanvas announcing | its purpose. These and other little evidences of organization and equipment are all to the credit of the 213t, and are neither jutended to imply or set up any diserimination between any of the battalions of the Canadian Expe. ditionary Force, each one of which Is spléndid in every sense of the word, and each one of which, after all, possesses exemplary character- istics of its own. The 21st i3 cer- tainly superior to other, battalions in organization and equipment, but 1 could also mention the number of some battaliong which, as a whole, are superior to the 21st in other di- rections, although, perhaps, direc. tions of less significance. Since the 21st left Kingston, On. tarlo, it has lost only one man from its strength. Company Sergt.-Ma- jor Latton ('who wore the D.8.M) was operated upon for appendicitis shortly before the transport, carry- ing the battalion, reached England. On landing, he was loft behind in hospital at the port of landing, and, vafortunately, died there a day or two afterwards, although up to the time of his removal to the hospital he was progressing satisfactorily to- wards recovery. During the past week the battalion has been taking a course of mus- ketry at the School of Mpsketry, Hythe. Pittsburgh, 4; Philadelphia, 3. American League. Boston, 8-5; Wi 3: . Philadelphia, 7-12; New York, 6-7. | 80 wel] posted in their work that he | using | sung, including the British national HE 1S STILL MISSING) NO TRACE YET POUND OF PRI- | VATE G. W. CLARK. Capt. George T. Richardson Pays | Tribute to the Good Work of the | Missing. Young Man--Other Let. | ters Received From Firing Line. F. W. Clark, 206 William street, | has received a letter from Captain | George T. 'Richardson, in which he | says. that they have no news about | his son, Private C. W. Clark, who has | been missing since the Langemarcke | engagement on April 24th. Capt. | Richardson, in referring 'to Private | Clark, says: "53 "He went into action with the | company on the night of April 22nd, | came safely through the assault on | the German trenches, and was safe | and well on Saturday afternoon, | April 24th, just prior. to the order to | retire to the new line. Our losses | had been fairly heavy before, but] the retirement added to them great. | ly. This is where we lost so many | of our good fellows. i *" 'Jude,' as they called him, was! one of the most intelligent and able | lads in the company, and a fearless and courageous soldier, Since he enlisted at Kingston he hag mever failed to give his whole-hearted sup- port to the cause he seems now to have suffered for." Private Frank Lee Writes. In a letter to his cousin, Mrs. T. E,_ Rescola, 7 Garrett . street, Prank Lee, under date of June Tth, says that he is in the fighting line again, and hag been for two weeks. He was in the big fight at Ypres. He adds: "Wa were just going in when the gas drove the French back, They came by us in droves, and we were held up for about three hours with the traffic on the road . We gtop- ped on the road until daylight, and then we galloped on into action and drove the Germans back five hun-| dred yards, cutting them down like hay. We held that place for sev- enteen days. We were taken out for a rest, but went into another po. sition: soon afterwards. A shell came near to three of.us in a 'dug- out," but it did not hurt anybody. | It is very quiet just now; but a few | are falling around us now and then. | hen a man is wounded you carry | him away to cover and them go on | fighting again." INSURANOE SUPERINTENDENTS Dined at the Fromntemac Hotel at Noon Tuesday. At noon on Tueéday all the Met- ropolitan - Insurance Company su- perintendents from New York States, Ontario and Quebec, who were at- tending the convention at Ganan- Oque, arrived in the city on the Steamer Missisquoi, and dined at the Frontenac Hotel. During the course of the event patriotic songs were anthem. After luncheon the one hundred visitors were placed in fourteen au- tomoblles, and taken on a trip to Fort Henry. At two o'clock the visitors again embarked on the steamer Missisquoi and proceeded té Gananoque, where the final session ok the convention will be held in the Gananoque Inn on Tuesday night, 'This is the first time that this con- vention has ever been held in Can-| ada, and W. G. Ferguson, the local | superintendent, said that it would] have been brought to Kingston had ample hotel accommodation been obtainable. J. EB. Kavanagh, Superintendent of Agencies for the whole Dominion of Canada and New York State, presid- €d at the dinner in the Frontenac Hotel, HORSEWHIPPED A CHILD, A Farmer Was Fined Fifteen Dollars and Costs, W. Lowery, Storrington, was fined $15 and costs 'or thirty days in jail on Tuesday morning when found guilty of hares whipping a child who was a ward of the ans' Home. Eight witnesses were heard by two associate justices of the peace,George Hunter and W. L. Allison, It was brought out that the defendant took the child to the shed, and, stripping him, cut his body in several places with a buggy whip. In such cases the fine is placed to the credit of the child, and when he is sixteen years old he can have the money. ; At 4 meeting on Tuesday morn- ing of the Incinerator Building and Equipping Committee, the contract for the erection of the stack was awarded to Cobourn & and that for the boiler the Allis- '| Chalmers, Limited, Toronto, DAINTY NEW NECKWEAR Dainty Swiss Muslin Embroidered Collars, with and without revers; Sheer Muslin Back Collars; Dainty Embroid- ered Low Collars; Sheer Muslin Em- broidered Collar and Cuff Setts. New Quaker Collars New Puritan Collars Vestees, Yokes, Guimps. new neckwear ranges in price 25¢, 39¢, 49c, 50c, T5¢. WANTED Just Now And all ready here. White Silk Tule Black Silk Tule White Wash Nets White Wash Nets White and Cream Bretonne Nets .... ; White Nets for Linings. Black Nets for Linings. White Shadow Lace Allover. 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