PACES1-8 | 8 PAGES Sesser eh he 1 SIR SANDFORD FLEMING - IS DEAD AT HALIFAX, N.S. Great Canadian Engineer Passed Away Thursday ---- IN HIS G9TH YEAR itish W aily' KINGSTON ONTARIO, THURSDAY JULY 22, 1915 big \ LAST EDITION BIG RECRUITING MEETING HELD IN ARTILLERY PARK Thousands of People Heard "Supposing We Fail" i What then? : rg The future would be too horribls to contemplate. "Who lives, if England dies?" And just as sure as Germany wins, England will die. It has been the fe Spee : Teuton boast to obliterate their hated rival: If Germany wins, England will be another Belgium. All the murder, OR. MICHAEL CLARK the rapine, the arson and the nameless, numberless brutalities that marked induce young niem to enlist, them I almost despair of saying anything to prepare them to de so. "The greatest pleasure I had of | Coming here was that I.should be able to offer evidence that at this mo- ment, all 'political : papites have | KTasped the fact that there is one | paramount duty before the British ¥ WAS CHANCELLOR OF QUEEN'S SINCE 1880, jas The Father of 'Standard Time--The | C.F. Ro and Intercofoninl Stand | As Monuments To His Engineering | Ability. "1 Sir Sandford Fleming, K. C. M. G., Chancellor of Queen's University, died at the home of his daughter, | J} Mrs. T. O. Critchley, Halifax on | Thursday morning A telegram an--| nouncing the death of the aged Can- adian engineer and Empire builder reached the Whig office shortly be- | fore noon. . A few days ago 'Principal Gordon received word that Sir Sandford was suffering from an attack of bron- chitis, but no fatal turn was appre- hended more serious, and on Wednesday evening physicians announced that Sir Sandford was merely holding his own, Owing to his advanced age, little hope of recovery was held out, With the advent of warm weather, Sir Sandford had left the capital and gone to Halifax to spend the summer with his daughter. Kingston heard of Sir Sandford Fleming in the seventies as a great railway engineer, but became more intimately acquainted with him in 1880 when he was elected Chancel lor of Queen's University, in succes sion to the late Dr. John Cook. Thats position 'he held until the time of his death." Queen's loved him and had reason to do so for he was its greatest champion." He founded scholarships In every faculty and al #0 the Chancellor's Lecturship in Connection with the Queen's Theo- logleal Alumni Association. It was the late Principal Grant who Intro- duced him to Queen's and the Uni- versity on "The Old Ontario Strand" was ever dear to the man who was its honored chancellor for thirty-five Years, "Sir Sandford Fleming, C.E., LL.D., | C.MXG.; was born at Kirkcaldy, Fifes- shire, Scotland, fn 1827, where aleo | was born Adam Smith, the famens pioneer of the sciences of political | economy. He early displayed pow- er in the acquisition of the sciences ==eapeciatly that of Winthematies, Me Legan the business of engineering and surveying, under articles, at a comparatively early age and display- | ed the promise of his lecture high | «attainments while serving his time. | In 1848 being dissatisfied with his home prospects he emigrated to Can- | ada and for some years lived in To- ronto. At first nothing offered of a suffi-, ciently important character to'satis- fy 8 man of Dr. Fleming's energy and high qualifications, but in 1852 he waa appointed one of the en- | However, the ailment grew | ~ ~ . : gineers on the Ontario, Simcoe & | Haron Railway, in the construction! imporfagt.| LATE SIR SANFORD PLEMING of "which he played an part, being afterwards chief-engineer of the line. $ pointment he held for about eleven years, the company having mean- while changed its name to Northern Raflway Coripany, ~during this time being engaged .m other important works ;'.among wthers, the Toronto Esplanagle. Dr. Fleming also. sur-| veyed the Red River territory re- specting the practicability of con- appointed necting that country with Canada by, a direct line of rail without passing threugh the territory of the Uiiited States Subsequently after a wisit to England and-more effort on Dr.| Fleming's part the projéct formed part of the great Canadian Pacific| Rallway. Dr Fleming: upomshis re- turn to Canada in 1863 was appoint- | ed to make a preliminary survey for a line of railway to connect the Mari- time Provinces with 'the upper,! which undertaking "was afterwards | carried cut under Dr. Fleming's sup-| erintendence and the Intercolonial! Railway was opened on July 1st 1872, | 1 Connection With the C.P.R, | Having so ' successfully accom™ plished this great enterprise Dr! Fleming was appointed to make the preliminary surveys of the Canadian Pacific, which work he began in the, year 18727" Accompanied by trust-| worthy and experienced assistants he left Toronto on July 16th, and! reached Victoria, B.C., on October 9th, following: travellipg via Sault Ste Marie, Nipigon, Tifander Bay, Winnipeg, Forts Carlton and Ed-| moaton, theRRocky Mountains, Kam- | loops and Bute Inlet, Rev. Principal Grant, who was secretary of the ex- pedition, wrote a pleasing book an- ent the journey called 'Ocean : tol Ocean™ and the redults of the expedi- tion from the scientific and engineer- (Continued on Page 6.) RUSSIANS TURN ON FOES T0 STOP THEIR DRIVE (Special to the Whig.) London, July 22.----A series df great battles, the result 'of which | will seal the fate of Warsaw, Is be- ing fought to the north, west and south of that city. Having success- | fully retired tr positions on the .riv-| ers, and being well flanked by fort- | resses, the Russians have turned and | are fighting desperately to stem the | Austro-German onslaughts. § To the north, on the River Narew, | they deliveredyyesterday three fierce | counter attacks from the fortresses | of Rozan, Pultusk and Novo Geor- glevsk. The Germans, who had tak- en one outwark of Roszan, repulsed these counter attacks, according to! the official report received from Ber- | lin last night, but spparently have been unable to make any further progress southward. ! Immediately to the west of War: | saw, on what is known 8s, Blonie- | Hn -- Tt was predicted in Wednesday's Whig that four machine guns would be oo the 59th Battalion, but this number will be ex: W is nu exceeded. on merchants ken hold gh de Ewen ho SS Sate | an 5 ; even Most | Hever expected. | Ofcors of ,Grojee line, the Russians have suffer | ed a reverse and are retreating to- ward the Vistula. ing progress toward the same river, which has been reached at ene point. | | | { This ap-! | the Letellier family, To the south the | {army of General von Woyrsh is mak- | dore | dresses yesterday to the occupation of the litt British Isles. Only with ten-fold in hates the Anglo-Saxon race, provoked Belgium's fate. If we fail there will be no civilizad' British society. The enemy mean r most in the world. They have | ; W to destroy us utterly, as taken no pains to disguise this fags With England destroyed, Cai The United States would | seives--as France was in 1870. To the t democratic ideas and ideals, life v queror. in such an cvent, is_too efforts. More men and same sentiment. This calamity can only be 2 told us this, not once, but several me Every Canadian officer and soldier re the race awful to contemplate re by more supp What are we going to do about it? Whatever we do, must be done now--to-day ! To-morrow may Every available ---- ~~ THE LINBR BENALLA Proceeding To Port Is Out. 3 (Special to the Whig.) Durban, Natal, insular and *Ori Is proceeding slowly toward port with her 600 passengers, ac- cording to wireless messages to-day She is being convoyed by the Ply- mouth steamer Otaki. It is thought the fire is out, Paris Paper--$4,400,000. | Paris, July 22.--It is understood that the Journal has been sold by ' whieh has' owiled 'the newspaper since it 'was founded 20 years ago, to a syndicate headed by Francois deWendel, dep- uty for Meurthe-et-Moselle. price Is said to have been 22 000.000 | francs ($4,400,000). { | | | nh ~Fhou ght Fire July 22. The Pen- ental liner Benalla, | reported afire in the Indian Ocean; | this | delirium of trig ell The | too late. an should enlist now. ~ . A Forecast of the War In Germany London, July 22.--Frederick Har- rison's book, "The German Peril," published yesterday contains the fol lowing passage: .° "Let us not think that any kind of words, or any kin f agréement or compromise' or mediation, can avail us in this fiercest trial of our Eng- ish 2 in his 'spare us one pang which We can tnflict on us & "It is my firm belief that when we have driven him back to Wis own land (and we shall drive him back | ==We must, unless we are to be for- SEPP GS ELEM EBS E Pb 40404 | SVE TUNED), scenes of horror, al- NOTE SENT OUT. *! Washington, July 22.--The #| & German note was sent forward + | # from Washington to Berlin at & | # nine o'clock last night the State + ¢ Department officials announced * | + to-day. It is believed that prac- + ® tically all of the note had | # reached Berlin by ten o'clock + # this morning. * Raise Your Boy to Be Soldier Says Roosevelt (Special to the Whig.) necisco, July 22.--Theo- Roosevelt delivered two ad- the Panama- * + * + To the south of Ivangorod Field | Pacific Expositiyn, one vigorous in Marshal von Mackensen, who is di- recting the offensive Lotween the Vistula and at the one peint. To the south of Ivangorod Field Marshal von Mackensen, who is di | recting the offensive between the Vistula and the Bug, has reached the Russian lines, and here the greatest of all the battles is being fought for the possesston of the Lublin- Cholm Railway. . On the resistance the Russians are able to offer along this front, where the Austro-Germans are mak- | {Ing their biggest effort, probatly de- | the | pends the success or failure of Austro-German operations. . » astic over. the the Bug, has' reached | 'work, whichthey is a icusure The merchants nave never 80 generously to any | tone on military preparations, and | the other, a brief, personal talk to Be men on the line," soldiers, sailors and marines, at the Enlisted | Mens Club. | ity to be soldiers to be desirable at- | tribnites of 'good citizens. He told | the enlisted men "a man afraid to { fight is not fit to vote," and "a mo- | ther who is not willing to. raise her boy te bea soldier is not fit for cit- iBenship.' Before the address at he house he planted a poplar | "War and Peace" was the topic of 1 Roosevelt's address to an | Immense audience gathered in. the Court. of the Universe. He held both willingness and abil- |' most of mutual extermination, will take place, exceeding anything we bave yet known In ferogity, destruc tion and blood." & War Tidings. The Germans .- have brought up their heavy siege guns to batter down the forts around Warsaw, The Rus- Sian held strong on Wednesday. No submarineings of British ships have been reported for four days. It is thought the 'Admiralty now has control of the situation. forces at their disposal, but owing to the nature of 'the country, cannot employ more than four army corps at one time, whilst the Austrians have great superiority in natural de- fences which multiply their resour- Ces, making certain forts almost im- pregnable either to bombardment or assault. This is delaying the Ital- ian advance. The Kingston Jamaica, Daily Glea- ner advocates raising 5,000 men to aid the Allies in . Burepe, drilling them here and despatching them in | is estimated that this would cost $2,- The Italians have overwhelming | )ecause Germany | "would fall as a ripe prize to the con- | } powerless to save us--or them- | fréedom-ldving Anglo-Saxon, with his be worth the living. The fature, the putting forth of still greater urgently required. Kitchener has | * Kipling has repeated the warning. mrmng trom the "front has voiced the | | | { batches, the colony to pay their pas- sage, and to maintain reserves to keep the ranks filled overseas. It 000,000, which could be borrowed if Bonar Law, secretary of the colonies, would give thé necessary assenf, , A large part of the shipments of American cotton held up by England probably will be condemned by the prize court. t All leaves of absence from the Ger- man army have been stopped. It is believed that this order foreshadows important developments in the west. The Greek Government sent a com- munication to Constantinople threat- ening to sever relations with Turkey: bless rhe Torks Greek citizens. Ee Thanks to the smariness of a Can- adian soldier in London, a German spy has been discovered and sentenc- ed by a British magistrate to six months' hard labor, A GREAT SWEEP, Edmonton, July 22.~The % 4 Province of Alberta carried - # hibition by a majority of about + % 15,000. . + The Russians ~~ Are Parsuing Turkish Troops (Special to the Whig) Petrograd, - July 22.--The alse of several strong Turkish atigeks in the region of the Muss was reported in an official statement deal ing with the Caucasus fighting. The enemy was thrown back, and forced to evacuate his positions 'at Kur mindy. Russian troops are {n pur suit. DONATE iin, A MACHINE 6 . Be gston Commercial Trav- |. TRAVELLERS teased prosecuting | Ba DELIVERED AN ADDRESS THAT STIRRED EVERYONE He Called Upon the Young Men To | Join the Forces--W. B. Northrup, M.P., Called For Men To Handle | the Machine Guns. | "Men cannot fight without ma- | chine guns, but much less can ma- | chine guns fight without men," -- | Dr. Michael Clark, M.P, | "Let the only trouble be in the | selection of the men, instead of hav. ing to beg for them. 1 know we will not have to do this. Everyone will be proud to do his 'bit. "--W., B. i Northrup, M.P, } "There-is the point of the parent. If you have sons, do not stand in their way of tendering their services. Your sons are no dearer to you than the soms of those who have already | gone."--Mayor Sutherland. i Dr. Michael Clark, M.P., for Red Deer, Sask., travelled two thousand miles so as he would be in Kingston Wednesday night to atiend the big recruiting meeting held in Artillery Park, under the auspices of the local | branch of the Speakers' ~<Patriotic' League. He arrived, and délivered his message with trip-hammer force, pointing out the great need for. men to serve King and Country in the Present great struggle. Three thous- and people aftended the meeting, which was presided over by Mayor Sutherland. The speakers were ayor Sutherland W. B. Northrup, .P., Belleville, and Dr. Clark. J. G. Turiff, M.P., of Assiniboia, also occupied a seat om the platform. A special feature of the evening, was the presentation by the Com- mercial Travellers of Kingston, to the Department of Militia and De- fence, of one fully equipped machine gun, for use. of the 59th Overseas , Mayor Sutherland, in his opening Temarks, referred to the ation of the Speakers' Patriotic League, and shen dwélt on the responsibility her share in the great fight. It was not fear or lack of patriotism that was keeping many at home to-day. The distance from the scenes of con- filet had tly dulled the sen- ses of some, and prevented them from seeing the conditions exactly as they are. It was up to eich one to make a sac- rificey Parents who had sons should not put anything in their way to pre- vent them from enlisting. Such one had his duty to perform, and no per- son should stand in his way. Wo- men who held back their husbands did not realize what injury - they were doing, not only to the Empire, but to those .they shielded. W. B. Northrup, M.P., after, read- ing the letter of the Kingston Com- mercipl Travellers Association, do- nating a machine gun to the 59th Battalion, said: *¥ wish to say d few words is Ww who and what we Canadians are," continued the speaker. "There is one point we appear to be ignorant of, and that is who and what we are. We do not quite recognize who snd what we are." Canada owed her independence to the Motherland. She was ever pro- tected by the Motherland. And it had been said that Canada would be willing to break away from the Motherland in this great war. By each one doing his or her "bit," it would Showa, that Canada was not willing reak away. "Po what you can on behalf of humanity. This is the side of the wah we are fighting on. There is a uty for every man and women to Dr. Clark addressed the vast ga- thering, wearing his stiff hat, and in to be. resting upon everyone to do his.or! Sid that he aid p ; an H | . | Empire and before Canada, and that le European Kingdom will be re-enacted in the msity and bitternos- whereas it was annoyance rather than hate that is to bring this war---the greatest war in history----- to a successful is- sue. That is the paramount duty of every man woman and child at the present moment. ~ "And if this will alt get Pecruits, I do mot know what will, Until the issues involved in this war are set« tled right, and '1 hope settled for: ever, Canada cannot pay attention to the peaceful development of her own history, resources and destiny. -- "This fight is being waged to de- termine whether this world now and | for many years, shall be ruled by an autocratic government or by a dem- ocratic government. This fight is as to whether the ideals of force or freedom ought to prevail among the nations, x "Upon the issue of this fight de- pends the future history of the world--the coming history and much more the Immediate history -- whether in this history the methods of barbarism are to prevail, or the methods of Christian morality. { These are the questions wrapped up in this great struggle." Dr. Clark, at this stage, launched into a resume of all the events lead- Jog up to the war, remarking that Austria-Hungary had started the "racket." He referred to the Ger- mans as a machine, as like goods and chattel, and added: "You will never run Canadians that way. And I will tell you why. You will néver run Canada on the 'machine method." © And the reason for this is thal there gre tee miany Irishmen. (Loud laughter and cheers). "If for nothing else, Germfny has to be condemned for Joining with Turkey. Every woman knows about Turkey. If a child misbehaves the mother refefs to the child as 'yeu little Turk." Well, the mothers of the future will have a choice. They will not be called upon to say 'you little Turk,' If their maternal vo- cabulary runs short they can say 'you little German'! (Laughter). . as An thie RUM. "The Buipits to & mah believes that we are in the right, but we have not alyays been in the right. At one time we tried to bolster up Tur- key. (Continued on Page 3.) . m---------- Russians Expect Complete Vietory. Moscow, July 22.--Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian Sommander-in- chief, received a .deplitation repre- senting the municipality here yes- terday. He spoke enithusiastically on the spirit of the Russian soldiers, all of whom, he said, Were confident of final and complete victory. i ------ United States Seetetary Lausi on Wednesday afternoon admitte that the United States was open to ships of any belligerent pation arm- ed simply for defensive purposes. DAILY Vaudeville, Grand, 3.40 and 7.30. oEake Ontario Parks véudeville, 8.16 ge f right hand corner, for Drovaviiiies" ST: (R.C.HA. band eoncert, Maodonald Park, § pm, Limestone e #1, AOUW, meets to-might ren. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Fy Following City Stores: 'BAVARY-CHUTE--On find. My Wolvll