> A | PAGES 8-12 1 The Pail British Whig | 12 m---- A STRONG DEFENCE OF CITY ENGINEER A Citizen Ridicules Board of Works Over Ms Action in Calling Upon Engineer to Re- sign When He Is Not At Fault. Kingston, Oct. 21 (To the tor):--As 1 pay a goedly taxes into the city treasury each ID KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1918 SECOND SECTION EE DESPERATE THROW ~~ OF A GAMESTER Teutons Beaten Everywhere Are Making Last Attempt to Gain Victory--Russians Do- ing Glorious Work in Eastern Theatre After Recuperation. ditions have been "lax this year, I wonder if he means that the laxity lies with the Council where there Edi- sum in year, 1 understand that entitles me to express an opinion with regard to the civic government I wish, therefore, to make-a few remarks with regard to the City Engineer, having read in your issue of yester- day that the Board of Works want- ed to give the engineer the "bounce" I read your report of the Works' committee's meeting, but for the life of me I could not see why the alder- men comprising that committee wanted to get anbther engineer It has made no charges against the pre- sent official, and we must take it for granted that because Mr. MoClell- and is honest and industrious he is not wanted at the City Hall, Before the City Council could have the nerve to decide not to re-engage him I think it should ask the Board of Works to tell it what i# the matter, and perhaps when all is said and done, it will be found that the fault does net lie with the engineer. It is vwmtrue to say that Mr. Me- Clelland is not an engineer; for he is an associate member of the Cana- dian Society of Civil Engineers, an organization titat does not accept in- to its membership anyene who ap- plies. A man has to prove by ex- amination that he is qualified. of Course a man may become a quali- fied engineer through experience For instance there is John Campbell, the electrical expert, who is a sell- made elestrician. There is Ald. C J. Graham, Chairman of the Board of Works, once a grocer, who became known as the father of Victoria ward, and who qualified himself as & builder, and says he doesn't take a back seat to any builder in Kingston. But Mr. McClelland has the parchment to show that he has been duly examined and has been found qualified to practise the pro- fession of a civil engineer. I must say that -it was pretty * small business to try and make the engineer imagine that he was in a bad state of health and that continu- ed worry over his duties was likely to cause a breakdown. He ap- pears to me to be a pretty active man and not in need of medical in- spection. How can an engineer do satisfactory work when he is being continually nagged? No matter what the faults of the engineer may be the general impression about the pre- (sgnt condition of affairs is that he 18 determined to run his own busi- ness and not allow some members of the Board of Works to do it for him. When Ald. Couper remarks that con- are two road-paving cliques, one wanting tarvia and the 'other some- thing else. Because one side cannot have its way, then it re fuses to play. Is that not a pretty punk state of affairs? And yet we have Board of Works members, who act in that way, sitting in judgment on the City Engineer who has mo particular weakness I can see, All engineers have their faults. None Kingston ever had fully satisfied the Councils under which they labored, and what is more an engineer never will do that. I think that Mr. McClelland is giv- ing Kingston good value for the mo- ney it is paying him. The Board of Works proposes to get a higher-sal- aried man, and expend perhaps $2, 000 more in the city engineer's of- fice. And what good would that do? Practically no good. A high-salar- ied engineer would show the Council how to expend large sums of mofey that Kingston could not afford to spend That would be all I take the view that Kingston does not require an expert engineer for the work at the City Hall. All that has. to be done is to build sew- ers, walks and roads, and I claim that the present engineer can do that work just as good as we re- quire, Look at the roads he built on Aberdeen and William streets this year. Could you get anything better? And he did the work cheap, too. The Board of Works Chair- man acknowledges that, in fact brags about it. From the remarks of the engi- neer to the Board of Works last Tuesday, I deduce that the Board has been playing a pretty small game with him. The engineer appears to have asked for certain help and it was refused him. Something else was offered to him. The Board thought it knew better whai he should have. The engineer is not to decide what help he needs. If that is the case why does the Board of Works want his advice on anything else? Why does it not run the whole show it- self, letting each of its members take a week on the roads as engi- neer? The people have an honest man in the City Engineer, and in these evil days that should count for somethifg: The engineer of a city is in a posi- tion to do a whole lot of crooked things and wake profit. The present City Engineer is a safe man to have at the City Hall, and generally a safe man is better than a brilliant man.-- CITIZEN. A AA tatty VICTIM OF GERMAN BRUTE French-Canadian Soldier Commend- ed For Gallantry. London, Oct. 21.--A Freach-Can- adian, G. A. Morin; of the 22nd Bat- talion, who has just arrived at _a London hospital, was 'the victim of brutal and bully'ng treatment by a German officer. Morin was with a patrol at the front when they lost their way. While still undecided in which direction to turn, a German officer, leading a number of soldiers, sprang up apd covered them with a rifle. His interpreter asked Morin, who was the only one able to speak English, how many the patrol party numbered. Morin gave the number as six, instead of'a dozen, the actual number. At that moment more of the party appeared, and ds the offi cer realized that Morin had been mis- leading him, fired a bullet through the soldier's hand. His next ques- tion was: "How maav are in your re- serve trenches?" "I don't know," was Morin's reply, whereupon another builett was fired into his arm, a lit- tie above the wounded hand, the of- ficer at the same time threateningly advising him to speak the truth With the uninjured arm Morin pul ed out a pocket bomb gnd hurled it at the officer. The latter and his men jumped back behind a parapet, while Morin and one companion hed, took cover, and ultimately got back to their trenches. Later, Morin re- turned to the same spot and succeed- ed in picking up another compan- jon who had been wounded in the leg, but the others of the party. had been taken prisoners,. including Morin's_ brother. Morin received a gift of 75 francs from his command- ing officer, with a promise that his conduct would be brought before the authorities. Another brother in the 22nd died after a route march at Shorovidffe, while Morin's father is alio at the Iromt. Pa GUELPH COLLEGE CORPS. Military Training Wil Become Part Of Curriculum. Ottawa, Oct. 21.--Canadian offi- cers training corps is fo be estadb- lished at Guelph Agricultural Col- lége "as the result of an interview with the Minister of Militia, by a de- putation headed by the Hon. James Du Minister of amas The inception of the idea was in the action of the corps already in existence at the college in formifig themselves into a militia unit. In a short time every student was virtu- ally a member of the drill corps, and it was decided to take up the matter of establishing a such After discussing the matter Sir establish t of such a corps _ at Sam Hughes gave permission for the Whig Representative. SAYS HIS DEPARTMENT 'HAS BEEN IMPEDED BY DOM- INION GOVERNMENT. , Which Has Not Given It The Water Leases Of the Trent That It Asked -- Eastern Ontario Will Some Day Be Supplied. Sir Adam Beck, Ontario's Minist- er of Power, who was in Kingston Wednesday afternoon and evening, told the Whig that Eastern Ontario was not being neglected in regard to water power. He was sorry that the Hydro-Electric Commission could not have given the east a sap- ply long before this, as it had hoped to do but the Commission was not to blame, he said. "The Commission had in view two sources of supply for Eastern Ontario, one at Wadding- Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz: '"Where iss mein 'U' lambs ?--From N. Y. Sun. : The American cartoonist got his inspiration in the above from the fact that the British navy has gobbled up a number of Ger the lion in the offing smacking his lips. A -------- tna Nm STILL HOPEFUL OF GIVING CHEAP POWER TO KINGSTON » Sir 'Adam Beck Talks With ton, N.Y, and the other at the Trent. In both cases impediments had been put in the way of the Com- mission acquiring leases of the wa- ter rights. It had been claimed with regard to the Waddington pro- position that navigation he St. Lawrence would be affected, but Sir Adam did not take any stock in that claim. 'With regard to the Trent proposition, the Commission had of- fered the owners of interests there a fair price, but it had been rejected. Application had been made to the Dominion Government for the Trent water power leases, but these were not yet forthcoming. Sir Adam hintell that there were "powers" behind this matter that were other than water powers.' How- ever, he was hopeful that the Hydro- Commission would 3Qon acquire the Trent leases and be able to give as cheap power to Eastern Ontarip as they Had in Western Ontario. With regard to the High Falls, Sir Adam said that there were 20. 000 horse-power there, and 6,000 was being=suppi¥d to the city of Ot- tawa. ~~ "I have great hope in the radi- als," the Power Minister said, "These proposed lines will do a great deal man *'Unterseeboats" lately. Ontario. 4 ered with Zam-Buk. '| fest assured that our { Londen, Oct. 19.--The Telegraph throwing away thousands of lives in says: The Austro-German Balkan ad- venture is the despate throw of a gamester, who, beaten on the western front and with the Tsar's armies re- cuperated dealing smashing blows in Russia by withdrawing forces from theré to ensure victory in.the Bal- kans in the hope this will avert his ruin by shaking the resolution and weakening the unity of the Allies. The frustration of this scheme is {added to the tasks of the entente powers, which must not bé hamper- ed by attacks from mischief makers. Nothing the enemy can do in this | field of war 'can reverse the current | Note for the water power development in Eastern Ontario." Hopeful For Kingston. "Then you still hope to be able to | make Kingston a good power offer," | the Whig representative asked. "Most decidedly," replied Sir Adam. "Kingston has 'acted to- wards the Commission in a straight- forward and businesslike "wily and we Hope to meet it at the first op- portunity with an offer that will be as good as given places in western He thought .of it ear- lier, he would have arranged to have met the Utilities Commission here. and talked over matters. While the Whig representative was talking with Sir Adam, Mayor | T. L. Church of Toronto, who had | been religiously reading the Whig, | came forward with a copy of this! newspaper and handed it to Sir Ad- | am { | "Just look at that," exclaimed the! Toronto Mayor. The man who ade} that statement does not know what he is talking about." Sir Adam took the Whig into cus- tody for perusal. Mayor Church had reference to the remark made by « member of the Kingston Board of Trade at that body's meeting Tues- | day evening with regard to Sir Ad- am Beck being "a knight of prom- | ises," in having gtated several years | ago that this city was to receive cheap electrical energy shortly, Hut | never having made good his promise. | i of events now flowing against Austro-Germans. Only the disrup tion of the great allix. ¢e can do that. All is well in the west; Russia is doing glorious work in the east. The Allits hold command of the sea, tightening the coils in which it grips the enemy all along the line. the German hosts dwindled weekly, the THE BENDED BOW-- . CALL FOR RECRUITS. abo---- Yo A reader has called our attention to the following stirring stanzas by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which are applicable to the present-day call for men. War was anciently pro- claimed in Brifain by sending mes- sengers in different directions throu- ghout the land, each bearing a bend- ed bow. Peace was likewise an- nounced by a bow unmnstrung, and therefore straight. | There was heard the sound of com- ing foe; There was sent through Britain a bended bow; | And a voice was poured on the free winds far, As the land rose up at the sign of war. "Heard you not the battle-horn? Reaper! leave thy golden corn; Leave it for the birds of heaven-- Swords must flash and spears be riven! Leave it for the winds to shed-- Arm! ere Britain's turf grew red." And the reaper armed, like a free- man's son; And the bended bow and the voice passed on. ! "Hunter! leave the mountain chase--- Take 'the falchion from its place; Let the wolf go free to-day, Leave him for a nobler prey; : Let the deer ungalled sweep by-- Arm thee! Britain's foes are nigh!" And the hunter armed ere the chase 3 was done; And the bended bow and the voice passed on: "Chieftain! quit the joyous feast-- Stay not till.the song hath ceased; Though the mead be foaming bright, It was rather a coincident that Sir! | Adam should arrive in Kingston the | day after he had been the target of the Board of Trade for not having prophesied aright concerning a sup- | ply of electrical energy for this city. | but as he said, the fault lay not with his Depattment but with the Domin- ion Government in not giving the Commission the water leases it ask-| ed. peta, of 1 SAID CHILD COULD NOT LIVE. Mother Tells How Zam-Buk Worked Almost a Miracle. "I wish to let you know of & won- derful instance of the healing power of Zam-Buk," writes Mrs. A. hm, of West Northfield, N.S. "While my little daughter was playing around a bonfire, her clothes caught fire, and she was so badly burned that those who saw her said she could not live. We knew how fine Buk Is, and at once secured a big supply and swathed the child in bandages cov The soothing effect of the balm was sooh appar- ent, and the awful pain was greatly reduced. This treatment was 'con- tinued, and in a few days the child was on the way to recovery. Nat urally, we kept on using k until the pain was a n Healing went on rapidly, my child was quite restored to i . "After this yOu may ver be hout Zam-Buk, would Is there no child. no 3 your circle who would benefit from ZamBuk? Remember the balm is sure cure for eczema, 3 £ g 0 : i if: Es i 5 8 Arm thee! Britain's foes must fall." And the chieftain armed, hérn was blown. And the bended bow and the voice Passed on. and the "Prince! - thy told In the bower and in the hold, Where the goatherd's lay in sung, Where the minstrel's harp is strung! Foés are on thy native sea -- Give our bards a tale of thee!" father's deeds are And the prince came armed, like a leader's son, And the bended bow and the voice . passed on. "Mother! stay thou not thy boy; He must learn the battle's joy; Sister! bring the sword and spear-- Give thy brother words of cheer; Maiden! bid thy lover part; Britain calls the strong in heart!" And the bended bow ahd the voice passed on, And the bards made song for a bat- tle won. . WIFE OF TOMMY BURNS. Delirious Woman In New Orleans Hospital Identified. X New Orleans, « Oct. 21.--A fash- ionably dressed young woman, whose identity had puzzled police and au- oth- at all | thorities at a hospital here, to which she was admitted yesterday, in a de- lirous condition, weight his wife, recent serious ilihess. Mrs. Burns disappeared from her home here. . Sometimes we are called resolute when the word "muleish" would be nearer correct. 'After all, the man we differ with religiously may have the surest Favsctations never . nt to amou anything without the ald of realiza- tion. Pe With © A ta tat tsa A AE AN Serbia, and the power of the Allies growing in numbers, and continually asserting itself, there is only one end in sight--victory for the Allies. New York, Oct. 19.--A cable from London to the Herald says: The Daily Telegraph corroborates the contention of the European edi- tion of the Herald that the Austro- German Balkan adventure is the des- perate throw of a gamester, who, beaten on the wester® front and with the Tsar's armies, recuperated, deal- ing smashing blows in the east, is risking annihilation in Russia by withdrawing forces from there to en- sure victory in the Balkans in the hope they will avert his run by shak- ing the resolution and weakening the unity of the Allies. Nothing the enemy can do in this field of war can reverse the current of events now flowing against the Austro-Germans. Only the disrup- , tion of the great alliance can do that. ---- THE SPORT REVIEW . Earl Croft, of Picton, will be in- forged by the Ontario A. A. U. that a professional hockey player is pot eligible for reinstatement. Because of the fact that every one of their players have enlisted the Viec- toria club of the British Columbia Union, are unable to place a senior team in the field. Toronto Argonauts have already been eliminated from the running, that is unless Montreal or Ottawa hands the Tigers two defeats, which is quite improbable, and the remain- ing games for the Scullers will be poor drawing cards. © © Toronto Globe: The rowdyism of the senior teams in the Ontario Rug- by Football Union is bringing its own penalty. People are giving up going to their games. Hamilton's Canadian League Ball Club lost $2,000 during the season just ended, according to the Hamil- ton Herald. This amount, along with the setback of 1914, places the present owners about $5,000 behind. Pugilists competing in New York State will not be permitted to adopt the names-of-men whose reputations already have been gained in the ring, under a new rule adopted by the State Athletic Commission. Hamilton Rowing Club is going to make a strenuous effort to capture the senior O. R. F. U. honors, and in addition to getting out Jack Gray has secured two Dundas players in Lawson, 'a hall-back, and Souter. Before Bush, the Ottawa Rugby player who was placed under the ban by the Ontario ¥nion for participat- ing in a pro. wrestling match, can be reinstated, the National Registration committee will have to deal with his case. Bush played with the St. Pat- rick's last year agafust the Torontos, and was protested. CAN'T MASTER SWAMPS. Russians Are Constantly Frustrating uton on: To Plans, 21.--Unable to Petrograd, Oet. dislodge the Russians from Galicia by direct frontal attacks, the Ger- mans and Austrigns keep making un- successful attempts to penetrates through the swamp region to Sarny and Kovno and by outflanking the Russians here, compel them to with- draw their front froin Galicia. It is a hopeless bus ness and the slight successes won under the most trying topographical conditions inevitably culminate in defeat. One more or less acceptable reach of the Styr lies near Rafalovka and southward hence to Ciartorysk--i.e., Sarny Rai'way. Several times the enemy has secured a footing here, but whenever he seems on the point over again. © 5 The Russians have now recaptured four villages of the falovka, and taken in