KINGSTONS IMPOSING. CITY. HALL [Bema ERECTED ABOUT EIGHTY YEARS AGO taught Greek and Hebrew to the stu. dents of the General Theological Seni- linary, -- A Contag'ous Poem. he did not spend all his time ing and studying, for he loved to y with his children. And to help | make their Christmas merry he wrote in 18 he poem which we all love. It was ¢ d "A Visit to St. Nic} 5 but it is f "Twas The next year somebody sent it with qut his knowledge to The Sentinel, a newspaper p hed in Troy, New York. Very soon all the children in the country, knew it, just as they do to- day. In 1884 it was published in a vol- ume of his poems, for he could write bright and merry poems as well as serious Hebrew. He lived to be a very old man, loved by his grandchildren and even his great-grandchildren, as he had "been by his children. He diad in Newport, Rhode Island, when he was eighty-four, and was brought back to rest in the <ity of his birth. His pcem had been translated into nearly all the langudges of the world, and the child ren of many lands have learned to love him. { And then the minister prays to the | Lover of all children, thanking Him | for this servant of His, who personi- | fied, 'as a merry giit-bearer," the un- | selfish devotion of parents for their , children. They do not quite understand { what he means, these little people un- der the wintry sky, but bare boyish heads and feather-tipped hats are re- § | verently bowed. Every little heart, still MAYOR-ELECT T. A. ANGROVE ALD. F. J. O'CONNOR X{ JOHNSTON ALD. HARVEY MILNE ALD. HENRY RICHARDSON 2 ' fof police, R. Robinson; market clerk, j Royal Military A demy, Woolwich, | present Commandant, Major-General | Bank of Montreal branch there was a and harbor master, W. McCammon. jor in the latter chse, to the United Sir A, C. MacDonell, K.C.B.,, C.M.G,, | { saloon, and a thriving husiness was | States Military Academy at Wes'- { done there. Other" lines of business { were conducted in varioys of the oth- { er outer | parts. The two halls are each 100 feet long, wide and 20 feet high, and would have made two excellent cham- be r commons and senate: The hall 50 teet | in the west end was seldom used until in recent years. Now it is the city hall, while the hall in the east end is King- ston's memorial hall and recognized as one of the most beautiful in Canada. All the noted Canadian leaders have spoken from its platform in years gone by, and 'the Prince of Wales, Great Britain's future king, has dined and spoken in this chamber, The original market building, which forms the upper end of the city hall, | was extended up to near King street, | but this end was burned, together | with the cupola,and was not replaced. ALD. R, BE. KENT Kingston's imposing city hall * gompleted in the winter of 1844 ready for occupation. It originall ost about onc hundred thousand dol- tars, 'and the loan was floated by Ma or Counter who went to and af-| ter the Conime rcjal Bank here had fail- ed to hold out encouragement of the necessary loan. The fine structure! was reared with the idea that it would be used by the parliament of Upper band Lower Canada, Lord Sydenham having expressed the that | : Kingston was the proper place for the "seat of government. But the authori ties decided otherwise, because it was held that Kingston was too close to the American border, only a few miles | 'of land and water intervening, and the Fenian: raids being fresh in the meni- | ory of everyone. So Kingston had an | elaborate civic pile on its hands, but | varied uses were made of it. For in-| stance, in the end now occupied by the | opinion ALD.-ELECT. T. A. KIDD The original dome. was much smaller than the present one. It was rebuilt on lines almost identical to the present] dome, which replaced the second dome the latter being destroyed 'by fire in 1910. The late E. J. B. Pense, M.P.P., made an _effert to get the city pro- perty committee to erect a more im- posing dome after the fire, and offered to raise a ie Moetroiin to aug- ment the amount the city council thought it should pay. But the com- mistee decided that a cheaper dome would suffice. "The aldermen of these later years were not constructed a city 'hall * that lars. The city council for 1923 will have more Methodists than any other reli- gious body in its membership. Of the council-elect for next year nine are Methodists, six Anglicans, four Pres. byterians, two Roman Catholics and one a Christian Scientist. The tally is as follows: Methodists-- Mayor-elect Angrove and Ald.-elect Richardson, Milne, An- glin, Godwin, Nash, Chown, McCart- ney, Kelly- Anglicans--Ald.-elect Kidd, John- ston, Kent, Price, Laturney, Sargent. Presbyterians--Ald-elect Robertson, Peters, Body, John Holder. Roman Catholics--Ald.-elect O'Con- non and Driscoll. Christian' Scientist liam Holder There are only four members of the new council who have not served as aldermen before. They are Messrs. Kidd, Price, Boyd and John Holder While the Presbyterians are only four in number, one of them is a former clergyman, and another sits right down in front of the pulpit of the old Scotch kirk. Ald. Kent is the dean of the cBuncil, as he has been a member for twenty-six consecutive years and will enter upon his, twenty.seventh year, ' The city officials are: Clerk: W. W. Sands; treasurer, G. V. Bartels; engi- neer, Howard Dick; Mooers; tax collector, W. A. New- lands; solicitor, T. J. Rigney; chief ---Ald.-elect Wil- ALD. HOWARD KELLY the optimistic | i type who ruled in the forties and who | today could not be reared for a million dol- | assessor, E. Proposals ae again heard to h : the utilities collection office returife to the city buildings, and there is a | possibility that this 1 take place in | the near future, It is also proposed | | that the Board of Education should have its offices in the city buildings. | This€ould be arranged by putting the | police court chamber over the pres- lent market building, and giving the present police court chamber to the | educational offices. The Board of Education could use the council chamber for {ts meetings. The city hall surroundings have been greatly improved during the past two years by the paving of all streets a- | round it and the market square in the rear- Visitors to Kingston get an idea of a prosperous community when they view the city hall. Royal Military College. tarfo, is noted for its Queen's Uni- its age and its peniten- citizens might healthy site; tiary, though many have a word to say concerning its | other notable points. Of these five facts, the Royal Military College is |certainly the mos: widely known, outside of Canada, espechally, There are many old cities in the world, there are even more peniten- tiaries, while health is one of the chief assets cla'med by every town on earth. Queen's Uni\.rsity is cer- tainly one of the best of its kind any- where and its graduates are proud of its rd and high ideals, and in- cideptally of its football team. But still there are other universities fn the world, many of them much more famous, There is only one Royal Military College and that one is at Kingston, ' Perhaps, many old-countrymen or Americans may criticize this state- ment by pointing to the Royal Mili- tary College, Sandhurst, and the ALD.-ELECT. C. ANGLIN HE MADE SANTA FAMOUS | a a By Laura Croger. nement cookstove in mute witness to year hundreds of children all | the "hope that St. Nicholas soon will thro h the land read and recite the that! has made Santa Claus a personality. And oft Christmas hen "all through the house not ture is stirring, not evens e," hundreds of stockings hang ithe fireplace or before the te. Jou be be there" and. the faith that the au. ther of the poem has roused in child- ish bosoms But while the children throughout € country are paying him this uncon- scious homage, many little New York boys and girls are remembering Cle- ~ ment Clarke Mpore in a tangible way. Every Christmgas morning the Sun- day-school pupils pf the Chapel of the Intercession gather at the church at One Hundred and Fifty-Eighth street andgBroadway, carrying wreaths and flowers and bits of holly "for the man who knew Santa Claus." Led by the white-robed choir-boys they march the five blocks to One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Street and Riverside Drive. The windows of the apartment-houses along the way are hung with wreaths and filled with childish faces, for this It has been said that Kingston, On- | versity, its Royal Military College, its | NAN i i i, | point. The two English colleges are {splendid in their own way, the form- jer training officers for the cava ry and infantry, and the latter for the | engineers and artillery. But they are separate, remember. In the words jot a graduate of Sandhurst, 'the cadets of that institution look upon their college as a means of obtaining their commissions in their chosen branch of the service. They do not ilove their college In the manncr of {the Canadian R.M.C. ex-cadv'." As {far as Westpoint {s concerned, it is {a splendid military training depot for Uncle Sam's future officers, and there |i8 no question that its equipment far exceeds that of our own military col- [lege. But still it is different, and we never heard a Westpoint graduate speak of his alma mater in the same {tone of reverence that seems to fairly radiate from the Kingston graduate. |- Why is this? How is this spirit in- |stilled Into the mind of the young Canadian cadet, many of whom have KINGSTON'S IMPOSING CITY HALL. 1 jue intention of entering the army, and before entering Point Frederick | gate, have little knowledge of the traditions and customs of the institu- | don? How {s it done? The only man who knows the answ is the cadet himself, "Truth, Duty, Valour," the motto of the college, perhaps hints at the reason, he ex-cadet of the Royal Military College is endowed with a apirit of service and high ideals, and he leaves only after serving an ap- prenticeship in manliness, and receiv- ing a training tHat has provided a rerfect body and a clean mind. . The R.M.C. was founded by Hon. Alexander Mackenzie in 1875, ana was formerly opened one year later. Its first commandant was Major- General Hewett, and since that time the college has been presided over by many distinguished soldiers. The ALD. C. C. NASH ~ cl the "Old Eighteen," has done a the institution, and is merhaps the greatest of a 16ng line of predeces- sogs in his important position. Ang the principal officers on the | staff of the college are Colonel T. V. Anderson, D.S.0., R.C.E., General Staff officer; Major E. H. de L. Green- wood, Staff Adjutant; and Colonel H. J. Dawson, C.M.G., D.S.0., Director of Studies, Looking Ahead. Since the early days of its history, dating back to 1673, Kingston has been a military post of considerable importance and has assumed more or less consequence from that time up to the present. During both the French and British regime, quite a large garrison wag maintained here, and even now thére is quite a little force of regular troops, or '"perman- ent force' as they are called in Can- ada, stationed here throughout the greater part of the year. In addition, there are a number of militia units, composed of zealous officers and men, who devote a good deal of their time to the service with very little finan- cial reward. These men are not pRo- fessional soldiers, but train either in the evenings or at summer camps. This military page in our Christmas edstion is intended to acquaint the general public with the units com- prising the Kingston garrison and to show something of their activities during the year, Space will not permit an account of the history and traditions of these various units, and it is enough to say that the members of these regi- 'ments are justly proud of the part that they have played in the history of their country, The history of the 4th Hussars and the old 14th Regi- ment, especially the latter, now the Princess of Wales' Own Regiment, date back to the fifties or earlier, and their traditions are very interesting. It 1s the present and the future that we are more concerned with, however, and it is sincerely hoped { that the fabric of our famous Cana- | dian militia will not be destroyed by would-be pacifists. The estimates for the militia have been cut down great- ly, and all are working under a great handicap, but with the return of pros- perity, it is an assured fact that the militia will be again built up to its former efficiency and strength. In the meantime, everyone is carrying on to the best of his ability, and the officers, N.C.O.'sqand men of these units deserve the greatest of credit for sticking to the ship during such @ depressing period, In the Minister of MiMtia, the militiamen have in the Hon. George P. Graham a real friend, and a statesman who understands the peculiar difficulties of his depart- ment. This cabinet minister is a great believer in military training, ' ALD.-ELECT. J. D. BOYD part of New York is filled with the homes of the well-to-do. And the chil. dren in the windows: clap their hands and throw down flowers to the pro- cession in the street, for they know where it is going. Many of them are waiting to join it. Singing As They Go. At Trinity Cemetery it turns in, and winds down below the hill to the very foot of the graveyard. And there it halts before an ivy-covered mound as fresh and green as the memory of the poem. It has been there for fifty years in the shadow of the gray towering park wall, ever since their fathers and mothers, or even their grandparents were children, but loving hands have tended it. : : The procession breaks ranks and the j children stand about the grave and 1 sing "Traveler Tell Us of the Night" land "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Then the vicar of the church tells about Clement Clarke Moore, how, in 1779, he was born right here in New York City where he now lies. His fa i D.8.0,, himself an ex-cadet and one 5 : : rl great deal to improve and build up | 4 ALD, W. P. PETERS not only as a means of defence to the a healthy and vigorous young mlan- Lood. In the summer of 1923, this city will most certainly celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding In a large share in the staging of pag- eants and qther parades, History Is s0 closely allied to military aftairs, that a study or description of the one is hardly more than a repetition of the other--The General Officer Com- manding the district and other senior officery dre heartily in accord with the movelpent and it is equally cer- tain that operate in this important celebration, ALD.-ELECT. H. N. ROBERTSON er er cs. satay ther was a bishop of the Episcopal Church, and little Clement grew up in a houseful of children for there were not only his brothers and sisters to play with, but his nephews and nieces, the children of his brother Samuel, a physician who was twenty-five years older than he. It was with one of these nephews, | afterward a famons clergyman, that he went to Columbia College in 1704. He, too, meant to be a minister, but he became so interested in studying Hebrew that he became a professor country, but also as a direct road to | 1673, and the various military units | of 'the city will be called upon for | 11 military men will co- | | warm with the memory of the Christ. { mas stocking, echoes a "Thank God | for love--thank God for Santa Claus!" fl | And as they march past the grave they fadd their own little offerings to the | big wreath | A GREAT CHRISTMAS RHYME. | It Remains in | --Oft Told. { - Christmas rhymes are numberless, | { | | Nearly Every Memory but one remains in nearly every memory. That is | "Twas the night before Christmas, | when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. This year will be the centenary of this classic, for it was written by Clement Clarke Moore of New York on December 23rd, 1822. The pecul- { far part of his poem's history is that | it was written by a celebrated Orien- : | tal scholar, who might be supposed | to embody in personality all that the | humorists have said of the abstraét- {ed and absent-minded professor. It is scarcely believable that a mean | who published the first Hebrew and | Greek lexicon ever brought out in | America should be the author-of: | Now, Dasher! Xow, Dancer! Now, Prancer! and Vixen! {On Comedd On Cupid! On Donder and | Blitzen! [To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! 4 Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all! | Moore was born in 1779 in what | was then called Chelsea, a suburb | @f New York beyond what is now { known as Greenwich Village, At a | spot which is now approximately | Ninth avenue and 22nd street, there {was a hill, and on top of the hil [was an old-time mansion from { which the section took its name. It had been built by Moore's grand- father, an English army officer who { had come over to help the colonists [In the wars with the French and the Indians, and had stayed to make als home in the new world. The older Moore's daughter Char- ity married a young minister who afterward became a Bishop, and was the third President of Columbia Cole | lege. All around the big house on the hill were scattered the farms of the descendants of the Dutch set- tiers, and as a boy young Moore heard from one of the neighbors, a Dutch farmer's son working in the garden, the legend of St. Nicholas, | whose name the Dutch children had shortened to Santa Claus. Thus originated the famous poem, | which Moore wrote for the entertain- { ment of his own boys and girls, to { whom he had passed on the story of Santa Claus and his reindeer that he had heard in his own boyhood. | The poem was printed in the Tory Fen'inel just a year after it was writ- ten, and was soon copled all over the country, but it was years before the author could be Induced to fath- er it. Moore died at Newport, R.L, in 1863. | | | { \ RL ---- All Grades Travel by Congo Railway, The Congo railway 1s a remarkable piece of engineering skill. For 231 kilometers it climbs and twists like An enormous serpent - through the most exquisite scenery. At first, rocks stand up almost perpendicular- ly many feet above the line, on which little engines no bigger than mum of fuss and vapor. They pull fine saloon cars for the dons, simple | earrtages for the next white grads, | and open-side trucks, with hard | seats. for all and sundry. You ride iin .e first for comfort, the second | for skelter, the third for experience and excitement, Rock-facings one one side, deep | Borges on the other, give us glimpses of the whims and embroideries of | nature x : -------- | These dry days the dogs of war are | being called upon to chase the blind [tigers of the sea And that's no na- ture fake, either. Pon almost begins to look as if the (modern bride dd not think her {trousseau was complete unless it in- cludes a divorce suit. | Nature is too lavish sometimes. |Ehe has provided too many-waye for ithe poor boobs to make fools of | themselves. : "pugs" scream up and down a maxie I NL.