wi DAY REGINALD DENNY in "WHERE WAS I" The we aily British Whig } THUR } FRILL SAT. "BEHIND THE FRONT" spss ~ YEAR 08; No. 122. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926. LAST EDITION. PRESENTS E * fon. Charles A. Dunning Says tional Railways This Year to Charges With Good Harvest Ottawa, May 26.--In presenting the raliway estimates for the fiscal year 1926 in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Hon. Charles A. Dunning, Minister of Railways and Canals, stated that he viewed with «as confidence the future of the Canadian 1 $ rational Railways, © "Given a reasonably good harvest 4 and freedom from trafic losses due 40 labor difficulties, it may be pos- sible," 'sald' the minister, "for the National Railways this year to meet their entire interest charges due the HON. CHARLES A. DUNNING This, needless to say, would ea a remarkable and wel- Sa public. hs a qeg d I.would like the ouse to 'With me it is not meraly a case of the wish. being father to the thought. I have Been able to secure operating results of the Cana- jan National lines Jor the first four onths of the present year. They "indicate net earnings of $9,689,217, as compared with $5,774,782 for the same period last year, an Increase of },014,435. It is on this outlook that I base the confidence that 1 ¥ have you share. Our railways excellent barometers so far as siness is concerned, They reflect, accurate measure, the trade and 1 pce of the country. Last Year's Results, "Last year's operating results were so far in advance of previous years that I feel that my first duty should be tha altogether happy one of con- gratulating the chairman and presi- dent, the board, the responsible of- ficers and the rank and file of the _ National Railways on the results achieved. To have done more busi- . ness at less cost is an accomplish- . ment which has brought commenda- tion from quarters ordinarily inclin- ed to bold that such things were not really possible under public owner- ship. The figures indicate roughly that while two-thirds of the year's improvement of fiftesn millions in net earnings was the result of in- ereased business due fo a good harvest and improving trade, one- third was due to deer: costs of And Sir Henry Thorn- ~ improvement | ployees. "" therefore, © ment, to acknowlés ge of officers en usiasm and re-organization and ns the National System 41 place until late in six-year background judge of ; res . an operating The extreme Not to Publish (range Secrets Chief Justice Meredith Makes | Injunction Against Freder- ick Sexsmith Permanent. Meet Their Entire Interest and No Labor Troubles. was $66,000,000, the total of the |annual increase in fixed charges over [that period was but $26,000,000, or 1$40,000,000 less. At the Supreme Court sitting om | Wednesday morning, Chief Justice | | Meredith heard the case of the | | Grand Orange Lodge of British North America, plaintiff, and Fred | Sexsmith, defendant. The plaintiff asked for an injunction restraining | the defendant from printing or pub- | Mshing a work entitled "Orangeism Unfolded." Plaintiff was represent- | ed by Cunningham and Smith, and | Ambrose Shea acted for the defence. | Justice Meredith, after hearing | counsel, made the injunction per- manent. | Counsel for plaintiff, in present- | ing his case, argued that Mr. Sex-| smith's information that had been | received for the proposed book con-| tained descriptions of degrees, signs, | {guaranteed or otherwise. This im-| grips, etc. Mr. Sexsmith had belong- | {proved state of affairs appears to| ed to the Orange Lodge and had {have been made possible by a num-| taken fifteen degrees in it. Counsel | {bér of circumstances. The railway | argued thal defendant understood | was itself able to provide 80 per | that he had taken an oath to keep | | cent. of its interest requirement dua | the secrets of the Order and it was {the public. That supplied the chief | on the strength of the oath taken by The Estimate for 1926. "A year ago Parliament was asked {to provide $50,000,000, to meet ex- penditures made and indebtedness {incurred by National Railways dur- ling 1925-26. At that time the im- | mediate outlook for the railways was {not very bright. It transpired, how- lever, that of the $50,000,000 voted {a year ago only $10,000,000 were {required of the Government, and there were no bond issues, either | was decided to recommend to comn- CHURCHES T0 PLACE BOOKS WITH QUEEN'S Along With Historical Sketches of the Various Circuits. 10 ELECT PRESIDENT Of Bay of Quinte Conference on Thursday--Rev. N. B. Top- ping, Perth, a Veteran. At a meeting of the Historical Committee of the Bay of Quinte Conference - of the United Church held at Sydenham street United chureh on Wednesday morning, it J ference that the following sugges- tions be followed out. That all old and valuable books | the Bay of Quinte conference, which | S0PPOPOIINSOESIOITYIY +» * + QUEEN MARY IS 59 > TO-DAY # + re + # London, May 26--Her Ma- # # 'jesty, Queen Mary, is fifty-nine # # years of age today. Flags are + # flying trom all the Government # # buildings in observance' of her # # birthday. : * CEE 0 000000929023 PETITION WAS TABLED. Ontario Celery Growers Asked for Ban on Imports. Ottawa, May 26.--In the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, J. Armstrong (Conservative, Lam East), read a petition the celery growers of his constituency, asking that an embargo- be placed agaimet celery entering the Domin- fon from the United States, covering the period October 1st to February 1st each year, "similar to the em- bargo placed on this product going into the United States from Canada," The petition was tabled without com- ment. DONALD ROSS-ROSS DEAD. Secretary-Treasurer of Montreal Telegraph Co. Forty Years. Cornwall, May 26.--There passed away at his home at South Lancas- ter last Monday evening, Donald |in connection with the churches in| p cs Ross, at the age of eighty years. He was born in Rosshire, {reduction in the estimated require- | him that the secrets of the Order were revealed to him, Despite these | obligations and this oath, he had | proposed to publish this book, "Orangeism Unfolded." iments. Nothing, {more indicative of the rapidly-im- | proving situation of the National {lines than the fact that a Minister of {Railways finds it necessary to explain {why $40:000,000 voted were not re- {quired to be forthcoming. It is a ivery much more agreeable task than | would have been the necessity to ex- {plain why the railways had required {$40,000,000 mora than had been esti- mated. "The budget amount required for the present fiscal year, 1926-27 is $31,000,000, distributed as follows: Interest on funded and other debt .$36,540,598.34 Grand Trunk Pacific guaranteed interest Sinking fund pay- ments: .. +. os +» Equipment principal 1,108,000.00 165,133.33 C.P.R: 4% guaranteed stock a Retirement o obligations 2,433,333.33 f capital . 808,000.00 re- ..$48,452,546.00 , 34,379,829.00 Net financial require- ments .. +. ..$14,072,716.00 General additions, bet- terments, including new equipment Discount on securities to be issued .. Total financial ments . Less resources 15,727,284.00 1,200,000.00 Total estimate ... .$31,000,000.00 «phe gross capital expenditure proposed is $19,127,284.00, includ- fng Central Vermont. Retirements {recoverable through operating ac- {count reduce this figure to $15,727,- 1284. This year's vote is intended ito provide for the following: | Betterments to road...$13,047,211 1,325,000 | New equipment .... Betterments to equip- ments .. " Coms. telegra press .. Electric lines Hotels .. .. Miscellaneous Central Vermont .. Sahn aw 1,500,000 ph and ex- 795,000 336,300 637,013 736,760 Gross capital expendi- ture .. -. +. +. +-$19,127,284 Less retirements recov- erable through oper- ating accounts .... 3,400,000 Net increase in invest- : ment account .. +. ..$13,727,284 ---- Solution of Railway Problem: "We hear various proposals, from time to time, 'intended to relieve our railway ills. My own view is that the solution of the problem must be found along the line of greater density of traffic. bered that, so far as the Canadian National is concerned, we have sev- eral thousand miles of purely colon- {zation railways. They are necessary to the development of the country, but they reduce the general good older established ines. Qreater density of population will provide greater density of traf- fic where most needed, and when we perhaps, could bs 750,000 | It must be remem- | ® For The Defence. | Counsel for defence stated that he | was not satisfied that his client had taken any oath. There was no written word to that effect. In ad-| dition, counsel claimed that enough | had not been shown to cause an in- | junetifon., No injury or irreparable | loss had been suffered. It was the onus of the plaintiff to establish these things. Judge Meredith, in summing up the case said that it was a simple | case of breaking a contract that had | been entered into. This was a] break of a contract of promise made between the two parties In the case. Det Lordship said bat he now intended to break these promises, thus breaking the contract that had been made by the oath. The injunetion, which had some time ago been made a temporary re- straining injunction, was made a perpetual injunetion by the. Judge, and Mr. Sexsmith is restrained from 'publishing the cecrets of the Orange Todge at any time. A STIR OVER MAKING OF CHEESE ON SUNDAY Makers Unable to Handle the Big Milk Supply In 8ix Days. » A problem which many of the cheese makers and the, patrons of the factories in this part of the province have to decide is whether or | not they will have cheese made on | Sunday during the summer months. G. G. Publow, chief deiry in- spector for Eastern Ontario, when | spoken to by a representative of the | Whig over the telephone, stated that there was more cheese being made in the Kingston and Brockville dis- tricts than any other places in the | province. ! A few years ago eome of the| makers decided to operate their | factories on. Sunday during the sum- | mer months, and from the present indications a larger number of! factories will bd running seven days | a week this summer. 3 In some of the communities, which have been visited by a Whig repre- sentative, many people were found | at the present time are not in-use, | gootland, a son of Donald Ross-Ross, be sent to Queen's University or and came to Canada when about 16 | Victoria University libraries for safe | years of age, and, with the excep- | keeping. 4 tion of a few years in Prescott, spent That a brief sketch of the history | lof the different church circuits be | forty years he was secretary prepared amd deposited along with the books at Queen's University. That a board of trustees, compos- ed Of the president of the confefence | the secretary, Dr. C. D. Baldwin, Dr. | Malcolm Macgillivray, Rev. J. D. { Boyd and Rev. Andrew McLachlan | be appointed to hold the documents in trust and not be released with- out permission of the members of the committee, For many years there was a com- mittee in connection with the Pres- byterian church which had charge of collecting historical documents, which has resulted in a large num- ra Lore oF the Historical committee will be in a great part to get the former Metho- dists circuits tosdeposit their books and also sketches of the history of their churches. Rev. J. D. Boyd, Kingston, and Rev. Andrew MeLachlin, Lindsay, are the joint conveners of the His- torical committee. Will Elect President, The election of the president for the Bay of Quinte Conference will be one of the first items of business at the conference on Thursday morn- ing. Rev. C. W, Barrett, is the presi- dent at the present time. One of the first delegates to re- gister at the conference was Rev. N. B. Topping, Perth, ome of the oldest ministers in the former Met- hodist Church. Mr. Topping when speaking, to the Whig, refused to ae- knowledge his age, but stated that he thought that he had only missed two annual meetings of conference in the last forty years. He stated | that he could not afford to miss this | gathering and made his way from his home at Perth. . During the years that Mr. Topp- ing had labored in work of the Met- hodist ministry, he had been posted for the most part on mission work. He has two sons, one on a mission field in China and the other in edu- cational work in western Canada. Nothing To Announce. Rev. Dr. W. T. G. Brown, Chair- man of the Settlement Committee when asked on Wednesday after- noon if he had any report to ans nounce regarding the meeting, stat- ed that there was nothing to be made public at present. He did not' know whether there would be a first and second slate of changes of min- isters in the conference. we Bishop Williams to Preside. - "A special session of the Synod of Ontario convenes on June 2nd at noon in St. George's hall, for the election of a successor to Right Rev. E. J. well, to the bishoprie of Ontario. Grace, the Archbishop of who for somé time has not joying good health, has Bishop Williams, of London, to i ns his life in Montreal. -troas- urer of the Montreal Telegraph Com- pany, holding the position at the time of his death. -------------- A MURVALE RESIDENT IS AGED NINETY-TWO Michael VanLuven Enjoys Fishing--Sowed His Garden This Spring. ---- Michael VanLuven, who is ninety- wo years of age, and who resides ¢ Murvale, is one of the most ac- tive mén of his years one would want to meet. Recently when a re- esentative of the Whig was pass- ing through Murvale, he saw this old gentleman standing on the bridge fishing. The Whig man stop- ped for a few minutes and had a very interesting conversation with him. Mr. VanLuven certainly does not look a man of ninety-two, especially if one were to see him walking from his home to the creek, where he spends a good part of the time with his fishing rod. He is not like one of those fisherman who go and never get anything, far he told The Whig man to come hack that night and he would get a nice pike, but un- fortunately for the newspaper man he was unable to return that way as his business called him elsewhere. Mr. VanLuven, like hundreds of others, has been taking The Whig for over half a century. He states that he has taken it for fifty-five years, never mi ading it a single day, and hopes to be able to read The Whig until he dies, This spring, this veteran Murvale resident saw to it that his garden was put into first class condition and he did the sowing himself. Last fall he helped his son, Frank, in the fields during the threshing season. Aten. Wedded Fifty Years, Havelock, May 26.--Guests from Peterboro, Campbellford and Keene, ar well as from other plages in the district and from different parts of Canada and the United A will gather here next Monday to join in the celebration of the fiftieth anm- v of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Barnett, who have lv. ed here for over 12 years, but whose long lives began in Otonabée town- 8! | Dunning Views With Confidence Canadian National Railways™ Future "THE MINISTER OF RALWAYS STIMATES FOR YEAR It May Be Possible for the Na- » FURTHER CUT FOR CONSUM The Public Utilities Commission N GAS PRICE RS IN KINGSTON Reduces Rate From $1.70 Per Thousand Cubic Feet to $1.60, With Usual Tea Per Ceat. Off---Street Railway Power Question Up Again. A further reduction in the price {of gas for the Kingston consumers {was decided on at a meeting of the {Public Utilities Commission held on Tuesday afternoon. At the present time, the rate is {$1.70 per 1,000 cubic feet, with ten | per cent. off, while the new rate will be $1.60 with ten per cent. off. The new rates will go into effect for the June accounts, and the com- mission will inaugurate a campaign {for the purpose of securing new cus- tomers. : For some time, the members of the commission have had under con- sideration the question of a reduc- tion in the rates, and after giving the matter further discussion at the meeting on Tuesday, it was decided by a unanimous vote to make the reduction as already stated. This will {be good news for the gas consumers lin the city ,and the members of the commission believe that the publie- ity campaign which is to be carried | on, and the reduction in the rates, | |will mean a substantial increase in {the number of consumers. | The commission will also seek an {interview with the Ontario Hydro- {Electric Commission, regarding a re- {duction in the rates for electricity, land also the rates for additional power for Kingston. It is expected that in a very short time the Ontario Commission will have an announce- ment of interest to this city along this line. \ Power for Street Railway. At a recent meeting of the com- mission the cost of power for the, on CEPI GPFSIPPOOSS * * + PERMIT TAKEN OUT FOR + 1 NEW RANDOLPH HOTEL + On Wednesday morning, Mr. 4 Michael Sullivam, contractor, # secured a permit at the office # of the city engineer, for the # erection of the new Randolph # Hotel. The valuation of the # new hotel is placed at $100,- + 000. LJ (TX XERXES 22 8 884 CALL FROM COOKE'S T0 ARNPRIOR PASTOR Rev. i. W. Cliff the Unanimous Cholce of Cooke's People. At a congregational meeting of Cooke's United Church, held foliow- ing the evening service, on Sunday, 2 unanimous call was extended to Rev. H. W. Cif, M.A., BD, Am- prior. It is learned he will accept and the matter wil be finally dealt with by the presbytery this' week. Mr. CHff 4s a young married man with a personality that has made him very popular with all acquaint ed with him. TRADE IN CATTLE. At Toronto Was Good----Prices Gen- erally Steady. : Toronto, May 26 --Cattle trade on the Toronto Livestock Exchange. Heavy steers brought $7.75 to $8.50 with choice near heavies at $7.50. cows were firm at $5.50 to $6.50. There was a good enquiry for feed- inging steers. : Calves were firm at $11 ¢o $12 for choice. Hogs were unsettled with salesmen asking $15 off car. SEPP 040094 opened steady with a moderate run |® street railway company was fixed at .65 cents per killo watt hour. The price was sent on for the approval | of the city solicitor. The latter ap= proved of the price, but in his letter stated that .65 cents could not bs taken on the basis of costs, and it 4s on this point that the street rails way company has taken objection. The price was arrived at as a result of a conference of representatives of the company &nd the commission. 5 The commission decided to refas the matter to the city solicitor. The former rate charged the street ratls way was 1.20 cents, A communication was 'received from the city clerk, enclosing a Te commendation of the fire and light committee, that a new hydrant be placed at the corner of Collingwood and Earl streets, and another on Montreal street, between Russell and Rideau streets. The matter was left with Manager Folger for a report. Manager Folger will also report on the recommendation of the City Council, to have a'two-way wall hy- drant installed in front of Peter Lee's cafe on Princess street. The tender of the Northern Hiee~ was accepted, and the manager was instructed to call for tenders for & supply of coal. The commission decided to pure chase a supply of cast iron pipe from = Isaac Cohen, at $60 per ton. The chairman, R. N. F. McFare lane, presided at the meeting, and also - present were Commissioners James Halliday, James Harris and J. M. Campbell. WILL SUPPLY FROM CANADA Ottawa, May 36.--In the ' Commons yesterduy afternoon, J. Woodsworth (Labor, Wh " North Centre) asked Hom. J. C. Mott, Minister of Labor, for & ment tn respect to the application © the Labor Department for f trom Europe to be employed in mines of Nova Scotia. Mr. Diliott stated that an thon had been received for in some of the mines én Nova The department had asked its We fous agencies for information as the extent to which they cou ply the demand. The informs given to the department was to effect that there were ticle workers in Canada to meet the | ing in workers from Europe. ---------------------- Acclamation in Moose Jaw. Regina, May 26.--Thomes Wi dell, Mossbank, was elected by clamation yesterday in Moose WOULD HAVE CHAIRMA ATTEND CONVENTIC tric Company, for a'carload of dues, =