Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Oct 1924, p. 1

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PP Ee ns . 3 5 a CAPITOL @ : aL NOW SHOWING _ § . GLENN HUNTER in) P : "MERTON OF THE ] MOVIES" With Viola Dana 4 aily tish Wh a { CAPITOL "THE CYCLONE RIDER" 925 High Speed Ail + Melodrama. XEAR 91; No. 216. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924. ig LAST EDITION pr ------ -- BELIEVE NEW BE ERECTED IN KINGSTON HOTEL CAN The Hockenbury. System Reports Favorably-- * Would Get Necessary Patronage--Recom- mends Scheme At Minimum of Cost. Ata meeting of the hotel commit- tee held on Tuesday foremodm, the yeport on the survey recently made in Kingston for the proposed new hotel, by Mr. Franklin L. Campbell, eurvey representative of the Hocken- bury System Incorporated, Harris- burg, Pa., was received and accepted. The report was presented 'by Mr. Broest A. Btoll, vice-president of the Hockenbury System. Mr. [Camyp- bell, it will be remembered, spent several days in the city working on his survey. : Mr. Stoll had a very lengthy re- port and went into it in detail for; the benefit of the members of the committee, ' The report in brief showed that there was no doubt but that the pres- {Who remarked that he had been in 'favor of the Hockenbury scheme when it was first mooted. He said he would be willing to take stock In it. / Before the committee adjourned an operating committee was appoint- od, consisting of Chairman Ald. Peters, H C. Nickle and W. H. Craig. "\ The city, of course, is under obligation until the campaign raise money is. commenced. AM. Peters presided at the meet- ing, and also present were Mayor An- grove, Elmer Davis, B. N. Steacy, Capt. Donnelly,'D. H. Wightman, Ald. Ch Ald. Nash, C. A. Mac- 'pherson, H. C. Nickle, W. H. Craig, Ald, Kidd and Ald. Sargent, ---- Make Kingston a Centre. Mr. Stoll, in submitting the report lof. the survery, stated that he had no to ss FOREIGN TROOPS DEFEND SHANGHAI Marines and sailors from warships of Great Britain and other nations are assembled in the foreign cofeessions of Shanghai, ready to defend the white residents. Pieture shows French marines landing in the city. In the background is the cruiser Jules Ferry. Tatts Mooney, Formerly of Kingston, Seeks Fortune in Washington, D.C. ent hotel accommodation in Kings-j, oo the city about a year Ago, ton Is inadequate to meet the city's ang had talked over the hotel pro- weeds, but that the present hotels position with Mr. Leman A. Guild, are giving the best possible service of the British Whig, and also mem- bers of the cpumnocll. He emphasized with the facilities at hand. {the fact that the Hockenbury sys- The report further stated thal it (on, was not a promotion scheme by had been found that & new hotel any means, nor was it creating a would get the necessary patronage, Kingston will grow, that there | was need of the new hotel, but that the city did not peed a King Bdward udtel or a Mount Royal. "It needs something that commends itself to a city of this size," said far. Stoll, "snd brought down to the minimum cont." Can Be Built. "And we believe tha: the new lho- ol can be built, notwithstanding the iveness of your people." "But we do not 0 due "time, to! {job. It was interested only in a jcomimunity that found it had a hotel iproblem. The survey was to ascer- {tain if there was need of a hotel {and also ascertain if' the money is jevailable for the new hotel. Mr. 'Stoll gave considerable data regarding the commercial trade in Kington, both in winter and sum- mer, giving estimates of the time spent in the hotels, the amount of business in and out on the railways, steamboats, bus lines and business carnied on at the garages. Mr. Stoll declared that the good \ronds had revolutionized the hotel ness within a radius of aixtydive 'scheme. Before the miles of Kingston. Many commercial We want the of we want the public to no on deal. on the table. done if we get togeth- optimistic report Mr. to give to the members of committee, following up a lot of he, gathered from the received the coms; ings- hotel. ; recéived and «€. C/Nash, men would like to make this city 'their cemtre, all being equal with facilities" ' The report of the survey gave the result of interviews with business 'men and also the answers to _ the questionare put out to many busi- ness men. | The cost of the new hotel has been suggested at from-$350,000 to i$450,000, with one hundred rooms, and a fire proof structure has also begn, suggested. i Befors the meeting adjou v 'Mr. Stoll wis tendered & ' vote thanks by the members 6f the com- mittee, on motion of Ald. Chown. Refuses to Consent to Agins Seven Divctors of the Home Bask or TET y Toronto, Oct. 21.--Chiet Justice _B! M, Meredith in the assizes to-day refused to consent 40 & new bill of indictment, mted yesterday by K.C., be placed Jury scien D. L. McCarthy, Home Bank directors with offences under section 444 of the a in New Indictment Bill regular police court proceedings, un- less the defence waived its right to a preliminary hearing before a po- Moe magistrate. Mr. McCarthy in- formed the court that he had written jons from the attorney-gen- eral that the bill should go before the grand jury, Chief Justice Mere- dith then replied that if the attore ney-general was taking full respon {ot gent mature of Peter Smith as provincial [1 Martin, Near (Special to The Whig) Washington, D.C., Oct. 21.--Left a foundling in Liverpool in 1886 when his mother died there suddenly while en rope to Ireland and with only the memory of his childhood to guide him in his odyssey, James Mooney, now of Buffalo, N.Y., for- merly of, Toronto. and Kingston, {sim Washington today to search for the home "at the foot of Capi: tol Hill," where he has learned he was born. His father, who, he says, is Ar- thur Mooney, and his sister, Nellie, may still be living in Washington, he thinks, or they may have died and left him the sole heir to the Mooney property at "the foot of Capitol Hil" rs, now mar- tutions for -foundlings, the housed of foster parents and the homes he has e for himself in Canada and the United States, back to the place of his birth, From. the time he was shipped with a party of child immigrants from Liverpool to Oanada, he has ricked his memory and correspond- ed' with every person he believed could serve as a connecting link be- tween him and the information he desired concerning his birth, Receipt a few days ago of a cerli- ficats of baptism at St. Dominick's church, 'Washington, on April 21st, 1875, was the wind that turned his séarch to this city. Yi Became a» Fonndling. From the scraps of information that Mr. Mooney has now pleced to- Thinks He May Be Heir to Property in the Farm. Home of Mr. and Mrs. There--Was a Foster Son Alexander Kingston. gether he knows that he was born and baptized here, that his mother took him with Her when heswas elé- ven years old on a wisit to her sie- ter in Ireland, that she died in Liv- erpool and that he was taken as an inmate to the Kirkdale school In tLe British port eity.' : He remembers when he was in- cluded in the emigrant party that sailed for Canada, landing eventuilly in the House of Providence at King- ston. Later he was taken as a fos- ter son im the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Martin, who Hved on a farm near Kingston. He was moved abdut considerably in those early years, he says. and finally struck out for himself, be- coming & machinist and living at va- ! on of the Ca- Ee small fortune that had bean lefi'him, But another James Mooney answer- ed the advertisement and, Mooney says, inherited the fortune in Wash- ington. Again, a letter fro a Washington firm of lawyers was received by him in Canada, asking hm to return at once and the address waz lust be- fore Mooney ocpuld reply or come here. ; id "But 1 know that I was Horn in Washington and out of the memory of my childhood comes the address '600 B street'--I thifik it wes south- west--where my mother toll me I was born, and whe she lived imti] she took me to f Mooney said, W. N. Tilly Springs a Surprise At the Si arvis Consiray Tri Pypeccutor Produces Identification of Letters Diotated by Aemilius Jarvis, Sr., In Latter's Office, Written on Government Stationery an Toronto, Oct. 21.--Just before the adjournment of the Smith-Jarvis rial yesterday, the Crown, in the person of W. N. Tilley, K.C., special Prosecutor, sprang a surprise lu the § d Signed by Peter Smith. being official notification of the du- thority given to Andrew Pepall. The tifth was addressed to the Manager of the Bank of Montreal in London, tees ene Hy old country," |" CEPI FLIPSIRIREISIVES # LAST MESSAGE FOUND IN BOTTLE IN. RIVER Port Hurom, Oct. 21.--A # bottle found in St. Clair river # contained the last message from 4 the captain of the steamer Cluf- ¢ ton which went down in Lake & Huron on Sept. 22nd, the crew 4 of twenty-eight being drowned. 4 * * CPPIRPEERLAAITRIEY * * + $ + +, * 4 * + * * * * News off the Wires In Condensed Form Navy League's tag day in Toronto brings in sum of $10,160.92. Daniel ' Burt, former M.P.P., died ai Bt. George. : Manchudan Bandit Chang Tso-lin is winning against Chihli forces. An appeal for funds to build an English church at Ypres has just been issued. Eight persons injured in week-end auto accidents at Toronto, one of whom, a. child, may not live, AOTRESS GETS DIVORCE. Shirley Kellogg Named Edith Kelly Gould in Suit. London, Oct. 21.--Mrs. Edith Kelly Gould, divorced wife of Frank J. Gould, was co-respondent yester- day in a divorce suit which Miss Shirley Kellogg, the well-known re- vue actress, brought successfully against her husband, Albert de Cour- ville, the producer. Evidence of Miss Kellogg showed that she mar- ried de Courville in 1913, and that in 1919 she received some informa- tion concerning him and Mrs. Gould, since when she had not lived with him. es Last April de Cpurville wrote to her declaring that\lt was obvious that their tempepaments clashed, and Jaforming h how she could obtain the evidenge concerning Mrs. Gould necessary/for a suit for. di- vorce. A decree/nisi was granted to Miss Kellogg. Shirley Kellpgg has appeared in Kingston in | "Bunty, Pull the Strings," and pther Scotch plays. SEPP PPPIRPPRRIRERS + ; : > + WHIG TO ANNOUNCE * PLEBISOITE RESULTS us greatly if the deputy & tioers Or scrutineers in Kmg- #1 n and Frontenac would tele- # © or telegraph the resu't of vote at their respective poil- g sub-divisions. The Whig hone numbers are 243 and i L E58%Y - » The Whig has arranged to ve a special {elegraph wire will announce 'the resait of vote for the whole prov- EEE" a PEP PPPP9 08 * +> > * + + * + * * » * + * PPL 2SE9000 0S Believes That Science May Prevent Oriminality New York, Oct. 21---Establish- ment of neuropathic hospitals in all the larger cities of the country for selentific examination and treatment of youths to.save them from lives of crime was advocated by Judge John R. Caverly of Chicago, who presidsd at the Leopold-Loeb trial, in a state- ment issued in support of a drive for $2,500,000 to establish such an in- stitution in the Bronx, It will be the first institution of its kind in the country. : . "Who knows but that scientific at- tention to Leopold and Loeb might not 'have saved them from commit- ting a great crime?" said Judge Cav- erly in his statement.' 7 What Conservatives Wiil Do *° If Returned to Power -- London, Oct. 21.--1If the Couser- -vatives are returned to power' they PANPHLETS AND POSTERS PLAY PART IN ELECTIONS Most Convenient Method of Quickly. Reaching the British Voters--Liberal Posters H Tories. Also=--Labor Has A London, Oect. 21.--Posters and pamphlets are playing a greater part in this election than ever before. Consefvative headquarters claims to have sent out already twenty tons, the Labor Party talks of 40,000,000 pamphlets and fly sheets, and the | Liberals say orders are rushing in hourly. from the constituencies and are being filled as quickly as pos- sible. The rush to the printed page and pictorial appeals is ome of the | results of practical universal suf- frags. Nof a handful of voters go pear even a étreet corner meeting which the Socialists so greatly love and persomal canvassing is a super- human task in constituencies run- ping into 40,000 voters. But anyone sees posters as they walk along the streets, pamphlets can be shoved in- side letter boxes when the voters are not at home, and short and telling printed arguments can be left by can- stained Bolshevists of - the sings. point. The other is from a painting by Harold Speed and represenid a typical, elderly dock laborer looking ap from the Daily Herald, Labor's organ and exclaiming: "The Social- ists, they've done nothing for me." blood= usual caricature type are used over and Of course, be-whiskered, over again by the Tories. One poster shows a red coming back to Ruseia 3 with a sack of coin cn his back and ~ bundles of bank notes in his hands, "Bolshevik, Bolshevik, where have you been? Over to England, whers the réds: are still green," the artist In another an unemployed work- man watohes pounds sterling runn- ing across the sea to Russia, while 4 third, referring to the housing dif-' tioulty, portrays Ramsay MacDonald asleep on top of:a house which is built on a snail. Striking Liberal Poster. vassers to press home the points they have raised in conversation. i The Liberals have had special dif- Distribution is the problem which | ficulties dn that they have to fight worrles most election agents. It is | both Labor and the Conservatives. really skilled advertising work, and | Their poster, showing a dreary line they have neither the time nor the | of unemployed, would help the Tor machinery to place their literature |ies as much as themselves in a three- properly. 'Here the Labor Party | cornered fight. So they rely mainly | with declares it scores. The seal of it members and thetr facilities for reaching the homes of the working classes enable them, they declare, lo get far more value out of their pamphlets than the older parties. What The Tories Show. The Conservatives have struck - a pew note this year. They have issued two posters which are really fine photogravure reproductions. of copy- Tixht works of ants. One is'the fam- ous picture by Hubert Horkomer, Royal Academician, of a worker on strike. He stands with angry deter- mined face at his door while his wife her face' on his 2 bonny babe in her arma hides. ; shoulder on three panelled 'pictures represent: ing themselves as the happy meen butween the other parties. The best of these show a fine young man as @ Liberal who is labelled "It." On his Jett is a Coneervative, a"beautifully turned-out clubman with a bald head and gouty foot, who is declared "Past . It," and on his right a typical shab- by Clydeside sireet orator. who is pronounced 'Beyond It." Labor makes a clever appeal to the English love of football with a player "Heading" thie ball and the ak . : SF LORY. R.C.M.P. Notified of ¥. W. Waugh's Disappearance. Ottawa, Oct. 21.~The myster- fous disappearance of F. W. Waugh, attached to the Anthropological Di- vision = of the Victoria Memorial Museum, who was expected to re- port back to Ottawa four weeks ago after his summer work in the field, has been reported to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, At the completion of Ais work at Seven Islands, Que., Mr. Waugh re- turned with his don, Goldwin, to Montreal four weeks ago. Declaring that he had to visit a certain In- dian who lived outside Montreal, Mr. Waugh sent his son home, and has not been heard of since. - Killed Himself in Jail. New York, Oct. 21, -- Samuel Davidson, 40 years of age, a painter, committed to the Tombs for bigamy was found dead yesterday from strangulation. He 'had tied one end of a sheet to his cot and the other around hid neck and then reclined on his pillow to die. Girl Aeronaut Killed. Houston, , Tex., Oct. 21.--Miss Montfe Le May of St. Paul, Minn, parachute jumper, was killed here yesterday afternoon when she leaped from a balloon over a local amuse- ment park and her parachute tailed to open. Very TL, to' an appeal from officials of the E. B. Bady Match Company, where a strike is in progress, police have been placed on duty in front of the company's office, where Arthur H. Wood, superinjendent of the factory, and other gmployees, were seized by several score of the former girl em- ployees and forcibly prevented from ' entering the plant yesterday. At noon the girls and men had been moved away from the ocom- pany's offices, and police will re- 47 main on duty to keep the crowds away. Ee X. Charron, speaking on behalf of the former employees, admitted Rat the girls and men had prevent: ed employees of the company from entering the plant, because people. were "trying to take away the jobs of residents of Hull." 3 1t is apparent that the differences between the company and the form- er employees are not near an amis cable settlement, ---------- Lagointe Goes to W: i Fe

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