want to see special meetin - LON CHANEY in "THE PENALTY" NE SS NU ki NORMA SHE ARER | "The Waning Sex YEAR 08; No. 251. $ RUMAN Ul KINGSTON; NTARIO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, LAST ENTION. Jas UTILITIES COMMISSION 38 Are Kiled In Sip Ep '10 BE ALWAYS ON THE JOB Commissioner James Halliday Is Strong Opposed to a Long| Vacation and Criticizes Chairman arlane for His Me- thod of Calling the Commission's Meetings. A¥ a member of the Public Util 3 Commission, James Halliday . the regular meetings held at @ specified time He does mol gs called within two or three days of the reg- ular meeting days, unless the busi- ness is ot a very urgent nature, and furthermore, he does not believp in the members of the Commission Tak- ing a long vacation. He holds that the Commission should be "on the job" all the year round, and stated that he would oppose a long ad- urament of the Commission. Commissioner Halliday made his views quite plain to. Chairman. R. N FP. McFarlane and the other mem- bers, at the first regular meeting of that body held on Monday after noon, following adjournment in ! midsummer. Commissioner Halliday brought up the unch of accounts, 142,000 came up for passing by the members. Commissioner matter J. M. Campbell checked over the various amounts | and in so doing remarked, "this is quite 8 spending department." Never Again. "I will never agree to have a jong adjournment again," said Com- missioner Halliday. "There necessity for it." "We would have had our regular | 'meeting last Monday but for the fact that this was the day set for! the meeting of the City Council, and we always try to meet on the Mon- day the council is mot in session,' sald Chairman MeFarlane. "But we should have held _f'rst meeting on Oct. 11th" ommissioner Halliday. "And why was a special meeting held three days before the regular meeting?" asked Commissioner Halliday, who pointed out that he had to leave the city. The Chalrman remarked that the sting had been called to deal with some tenders and that the business was |mportant, He wanted the meet: ings to proceed, even if some of the members were not present. #But that has not been the rule your case. said Commissioner Halliday. to the Chairman. Qur gald when a | totalling abou: | is no | "1° want the meetings to go on whether you are here or not. Let u§ do our work according to our by- laws." "I have never seen a by-mw yet that was workable in every case," sald the Chairman. Says It Is Ridiculous, It is ridiculous to carry om the business in this way," Commissioner Halliday. the public business like way." "But there has been nothing done | béhind you," remarked the Chalr- man to Commissioner Halliddy. "The regular meetings have not | been held at the regular time dur | ing the past year," declared Com- missioner Halliday. "I hope th's| { matter will be improved from now on." { And with this the discussion was | dropped ! Commissioner Halliday then asked the minutes of the las special meeting of the Commission { read, and when he found that it had been decided to have the man- ager submit a new schedule of rates for electricity he remarked, | "You are getting back to my origi { mal idea.' "We were all of the same. opin- { lon," said the Chairman. "You were | not alone in that" The manager will have the 1 | | in a busineas- 1to have new the schedule of rates ready for next meeting. Fight For a Light. The fight for an electric light on Frontenac street, between Johnstor and Earl, continues. The City Coun- cil sometime ago, passed in favor of the light, but in view of strong op position to the placing of a light at this spot, the matter has been held up. At the last meoting of the civie fire and Nght committee, the ma'- ter was again discussed and a depu- tation both for and against the light, was heard and the matter wis them held in abeyance. Frederick Bibby, who says the light is badly needed, appeared before the Commission and asked for actiow. He pointed out that twe (Continued on Page 7) W. T. Sampson, Gananoque, Praises Stand Taken by J. Arthur Jackson Who Resigned as Conservative Ferguson's Liquor Policy--The creased Efficiency to Workmen LS Gananoque, Oot. 25.The follow- ing letter was written by Mr. Walter T. Sampson, vice-president and gen- eral manager of the Ontario Steel Products Company, Limited, to Mr. Arthur Jackson, who last week as president of the Gana- us Conservative: Association be- cause of the liquor policy of Premier Ferguson: Dear Mr, Jackson: Would you permit me to applaud your stand on the O.T.A. As you know, my viewpoint and your's om tacturer, feel like the Irishman who, badly Meked in a fistic battle with one of his "friends," sald that it "was better than no fight at all" Certainly I know that under the O.T.A, bad or good, we have had increased efficiency at all our works my you TL ir aan tad, as 1 feel that, apart from any moral or fish standpoint, #t Is in the best interests of the majority of the citizens of "Ontario. You can use this letter, if you £7 il £ 8 iy Hi President Because of Premier O.T.A. Brought In- in Plants. chanics or lower the standard of comfort of their families.' Canadian manufacturers are placed in a dificult position because they are located beside a populous nation, whith is more thoroughly and sei- entifically organized industrially than any other nation in the world. United States manufacturers have also the great advantage of mass or quantity production, which we can not expect to meet in a generation. It is, therefore, )absolutely neces. sary for our manufacturers to make the most of each factor in the pro- } ductive process and it is tremen- dously and nationally Important, that we should develop labor of the greatest possible efficiency. Labor is one of the most perishable of commodities. The mere effluxion of time destroys it. The workman, who loses a day's work, or who per- mits anything to impair his effec- tiveness, suffers an irrecoverable loss, and the state also shares in this loss. Your letter goes to the crux of the situation, and your wide knowledge and outstanding position in the realm of industry give unus- ual force to your conclusions. Yours sincerely; (Signed) J. Afthur Jackson. He Mr. Walter T. Sampson is vice- president and general manager of the Ontario Steel Products Co, Ltd, manufacturers of springs, axles, shovels, irom castings and other {steal products, with bead office at Gananoque, and large branch plants at Oshawa, and Chatham. This com- pany is the largest manufacturer of automobile and vehicle springs in the Dominion. He is a director of Auto-motive Industries Ltd; a dir ector of the Ontario Wheel Co; a director of Canada Foundries and Forgings Ltd., a director of the Gan- anoque Water Power Co., and presi- dent of the Citizens' Coal and For- ed supporter of the Conservative The i plants of thse that | wanding Co., Ltd. He is a very valu-- } | | { i | | i continued | "Let us do [did not prevent Queen Victoria of | i p E losion Bordeaux, Oct. 26--A pilot reaching here aboard a coast- ing vessel last night reported that the Belgian freighter Cale Monier, which left Bordeaux October 12 bound for Hampton Roads, Virginia, blew up oft the coast of Portugal, several days ago. Ampng the crew of 43 only tour dagaved. A boiler explosion was The cause. A tragic aspect was, the fact that Captain Nappe, who had taken his wife and young child aboard for a trip.to the United States, is said to have perished with his family. Birthday in Haunted Palace. Loudon, Oot. 26.---Ghost stories {Spain from observing her thirty- {ninth birthday anniversary in the allegedly . haunted Kensington Pal- ace on Sunday. The palace is her | birthplace as well as that of Queen | [Marie of Rumania. The palace is said to be haunted is RSD INTO C CANADA Rumain's Queen Is Now Guest in Toronto. IN OTTAWA THURSDAY Winnipeg Is Preparing a Very Elaborate Reception for de Much-Beloved Marie. ------ Niagara Falls, Ont, Oct. 26. -- Queen Marie of Rumania, with Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana | and party, crossed the upper steel] arch bridge over the Niagara River, iby the ghosts of Queen Mary II wife of William of Orange, and the | the course of a sight 'seeing motor | {Queen Caroline of Brunswick. 9 on to Canadian soil this morning in| trip, which was undertaken immedi- FA Kitchener Lady Instantly Killed Cualbh, Oct. 26--Mrs. Sch- warts 'of Mansign street, Kitch- ener, was instantly killed at 8.30 o'clock this morning when a closed motor car in which she {| was riding was struck by a | Canadian National freight train | about a mile from this city. { Miss Irene Nichols, Kitchener, | and Mr. Clive Playford of the i Y. M C. A hotel, Ruffalo, also occupants of the car, were ser- | fously injured. f ! | Simpeon Trial Postponed. Toronto, Oct. 26.--Gordon Simp- | son's defence counsel obtained a { postponement of his retrial to No- | vember 3rd, when they made appli-| | cation belore Chief Justice Mere- dith. Simpson will be charged with rod- | bery with violence arising from the | hoM-up of the Oakwood branch of | the Bank 6! Nova Scotia in Septem- | ber, 1923. | SIR JOSEPH FLAVELLE OPPOSES BEER SALE i {ately after breakfast at Niagara Fa Is | : | (CANADA SOME DAY MAY CONTROL U.S. Hardy Northern Races Have Always Predominated Southern Ones. Winnipeg, Oct. 26.--The shoe was put on the other foect yesterday by Colonel A. E. Kirkpatrick, Tceronto, { Dominion president of the Empire | Club, tion of Canada by the United States | in the matter of the annexa- when he asserted in an address to the local club at luncheon, that Can- ada is prepared by virtue of climate and environment to, produce a race who within measurable time wili predominate the people to the south of them, as northern races Have the world over predominated southern ones, throughout history. This domination by northern races, intellectually and physically, Is due to the hardier manhood and stronger characteristics engendered by climatic and other conditions pe- culiar to the north temperature zone, the speaker argued. He deplor | ed the migration of so many voung people to the United States, and put the. blame on a lack of patriotic teaching in the Canadian schools. Colonel Kirkpatrick suggested that the premier of each province appoint a commission representa. tive of the church, agriculture, busi: ness and finance, having a youne lawyer (preferably) as secretary, to draft a questionnsire to send to as many hundreds of expatriated Can- N. Y., when her Majesty was welcom- | ed by Mayor William Laughlin, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Mayor H. P. Stephens, of Niagara Falls, Ont. The guests at the breakfast included, in addition to representatives of tho two | city councils and their wives, J. H. Jackson, general manager of the Queen Victoria Park and Mrs. Jack- son; Mr. and Mrs. F. H, Leslie and Dr. H. Y. Grant, of this city. Queen Marie's visit to Canada, be- ing unofficial, the Dominion and Pro- vincial Governments were not repre- | sented at the welcoming of the party to Canada. After viewing the scenic wonders of the Falls and the whirl-| pool rapids from the Canadian side, the royal party entrained for Toronto. In Ottawa on Thursday. Ottawa, Oct. 26:~-Civic authorities | ite a reversion to the private sale | know that he is to pay the supreme will join with the Federal Govern-| 'ment. in. Rumania to Ottawa on Thursday. When her train arrives in the morn-| ing, Hon. J. A. Robb, acting Prime Minister, and Mayor John P. Bal- harrie will head the delegation welcome. An address will at the station and the probably go direct to her Hotel. In the afternoon, Mr. Speaker Lemieux of the House of Commons, and Mrs. Lemieux, will give a reception in honor of the Queen at the Speaker's quarters in the House. The balance of the programme has not been an- nounced. Government House is en- tertaining the Queen, but details here also await announcement. ---- Preparations in West. Winnipeg, Oct. 26.-- Preparations now are under way for the welcom- of be read adians as could be reached, asking them what caused them to be willing to forfeit their citizenship In this country. Intghviews the speaker | had conducted with expatriated Can- | adians had invariably resulted In| their stating that had they worked | as hard in Canada as they had since leaving it they could not have help- ed making a success of things in this country. FIVE HUNDRED DEAD IN ARMENIAN QUAKE More Than 3,000 Wounded and Upwards of 75,000 Persons Homeless. Moscow, Oct. 26.--Five hundred persons dead; more than 3,00¢ wounded; upwards of 75,000 homer less: one town of 35,000 inhabi- tants and a dozen villages almost to- tally destroyed--ihi: summarizes latest report of the earthquake dis- aster in Soviet Armenia. Alexandropol. now cailed Lenin- kan, which was the capital of the former Armenia, appears to have been the centrs of the 'disaster, but the majority of Its Inhabitants warned by a light shock at 7.50 p.m., fled to the squares and gar- dens, with the result the severe shocks, lasting three or, accorfling to other accounts, seven minutes three hours' later, claimed com- paratively few victifns--ten killed and 183 wounded. The lower part of the town in the valley suffered less than the hill. side section, which now Is nothing more than heaps of stones. The mountain villages of Bova- dur, Daarli and Karailis, each about 3,000 inhabitants, suffered worse in proportion bacause the inhabitan's crouched panicstricken in the streets, and the second ahocks brought the houses down om their heads. Throughout an area of 1,700 square kilometers there were but few lightly-built stone houses tha! escaped destruction. Cattle were killed by falling harps. and the population now faces ing of Queey Marie of Rumania to Winnipeg-- the "Gateway to the Gold- en West." Her Majesty will arrive here on October 30, but her visit will be brief, the royal special train leaving at 12.30 am., the next day en route to the Pacific coast A tentative programme calls for dinner at which the Queen and her suite will be guests of the Women's | Canadian Club, and a reception at] the legislative building, in the even- ing, under the auspices of the Mani- toba Government. Official Denial. Bucharest, Rumania, Oct. 26. -- The Rumandan foreign office to-day categorically denied the reports that | the Government had asked Queen | Marie to ocuntail her América. An equally strong deaial was #ssued of the existence of anv telegram from King Ferdinand re- questing that the Queen return to Rumania. Both reports were re- garded at the Foreign Office as ab- surd and as coming from unauthori- tive sources seeking sonsationalism and to discredit Rumania. Fatal Football Practice. St. Catharines, Oct. 26.--Wind- sor Sandham, 18, pupil at St Cath arines Collegiate Institute, died In hospital here from Landry's par- alysis, the effect of being kicked in the hip two weeks ago when charg- ing 4 kick In a practice game of rugby. CNR. Will Soon Pay Al All Interest North Bay, Qet. Oct. 26.--sie Heary Thoraton, chairman abd president of the Canadian Natiomal Railways, speaking before the Cochrane Board of Trade yesterday, intimated that within a period of a few years the Canadian ratepayer would pot be cajled upon to pay any interest on the raillway's operation. Sir Heary stated thet he believed that within the next three years, the Canadian | Omario Steel Products Compuay empioy about 300 men. Nationa! Railways would be ahie to!was taken from the St. Mary's-on-the-! vi ived by his mother and father, five pay the interest on obligations which Lake Orphanage iz Kingston. He | sisters, Mrs. J. 8 the winter a an almost destitute con- dition, bas been assumed. Queen will | visit in North | "| National Rafivoads from Prince Ru-| In the Hotels of Ontario--Be~- | lieves It. Will Have Bad \ Results. i i » Toronto, Oct. 26.--8ir Joseph Fla- | | velle says that he might have hesl- | tated to oppose Premier Ferguson's {plan of government sale of liquor, bat |for the fact that sale of beer in ho-| | tels is included, a policy to which he is opposed. He said in an inter- i} view: { "I believe the proposal to sell beer | in this manner will lead to the {llegal | sale of hard liquors in many such houses of entertainment, and that fwe will have in an important mea- {sure a return to the evils of the past In consequence 1 will neither approve {mor will I support a policy which in- of liquors in public houses of enter- o. 1 the alas 1a fhave some knowledge, the wage {earner, the improvement under the | O.T.A. from the intemperate use of Nikjuors is so marked as to be revolu-| tionary. The appeal for aid for dis-| tressed wives and children of drink- ing men has to an important degree disappeared, and the irregularity of | service occasioned by drink is no] {longer a troublesome factor in indus- {trial activities." Canon Cody Favors Fagions Policy Of Liquor Control Toronto, Oct. ag 26--In 4 Sturement | to the Toronto newspapers last night, Rev. Canon' H. J. Cody, | prominent Toronto divine, and for-| { mer Minister of Education for On- | tario, expressed himself in favor of | Premier Férguson's policy: of gov- { ernment control of the sale of | liquor, which is the issue in' the] T| coming provincial election. He | vestigated government control | Western Canada last spring and the experiences of the people under the | legislation were such, he stated, as | to unqualifiedly commend the con- trol policy to his Judgment. ia-| in | Record Fish Movement. Winnipeg, Oct. 26. --Ingreased dhmand by eastern markets for Brit- lish Columbia halibut is resulting in {what is almost a record fish move- | {ment over the tines of the Canadian | post. YOUNG MAN DROWNED WHEN BOAT CAPSIZES John Bedore Meets Death at ' Falrfax--Formerly Lived in Kingston. / Johm Bedofe, aged seventeen, em- ployed by Thomas Gavin, Fairfax, six mies from Lansdowne, was drowned on Monday in Black Creek, his boat having been capsized by the high wind which prevailed. The body was recovered at daylight on Tuesday. Dr. J. W. Mackie, Lans- downe, is holding an inquest. On Monday John Bedore and Kem- seth Lappan went together to the | Cape Town | status is not pursued further at | Imperial Conference. Feeling among | Dominions to be practical | door all night long wh | he cannot understand | been arranged that three guards do | duty for a period | rectly | is understood that he goes to sleep { about | through until six in | which is certainly creek. Kenneth remained on shore while John went to a bridge and got | the bost. He was taking it to where | Kenneth stood, when the high wind | upset the craft and Bedore went nce | des. Kenneth did not see him | to the surface, aud after a litle wi he gave the alarm. Grapplice was | earried on until Tsueday morning, | when the body was recovered. : Jobn Bedore, about five years ago, | Iwas « fre. bright. good-aatured Jad. | SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALIST CHAIRMA IS JOINING SMUTS English-Speaking South Africans Reseat Premier for International Recognition of That Country's fy Status--Claimed Liabilities of Loca: Locarne Embrace Britain London, Oct 26 Despatches Treaiant vou really "differs on - essentials that Dan pr ul te views of those i Sithes i ; . n South rica or here, have ats Goetzee, chairman of the Nationalist | tempted to recompose the elements party led by Premier Hertzog, 6 of bitter differences." joining the South African party led| The Morning Post editorially obs by former Premier General Smuts, | serves that the Dominions' righ: ta feat ure the London morning papers | be fonsulted on empire affairs was "Except among the most extreme | wriften In blood at the Somme, Gals Nationalists," says a cable to the|lipoll, and in the desert of Mesopos Daj} ¥ Mail "opinion in South Africa |tamia, and was honored in the be content if Premier Hertsog's | Treaty of Versailles. The editorial claim of international recognition ol adds that consultation and agree- South Africa's Independent national | ment between the Imperial! Govern= the! ment and the Governments of the must be *As for in or contracting out,* is constitutionally lmne announcing English-speaking South Africans has | on general lines of policy hardened into one of indignant re-|contractirg sentment." { it The Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary | possible. The liabilities of Locasrne, of State for India, who heads the! t for good or evil, embrace the Bris Indian delegation at the Conference, | tish empire, whatever our statesmen does not believe that Premier Hert- | may say about it." Do Not Think That Thomas McCoskey Realizes That He Is to Be Hanged Those Who Have Come in Contact With Mim Say He Thinks He Is Going to Be Deported -- Difficult Work for Chap lain. It is the opinion of all those who have come into contact with Thomas McCoskey, who is to be hanged in the county jail on the morning o! November 26th, for the murder of a penitentiary guard, that he does no: says, "it McCoskey, it is understood, thinks that he is ging to be deported to Is home in Russia, and has stated that he does not want to go back as he has been away from his wife and family for fifteen years, and fears his wile is married again There is no question that prisoner knows right well that killed the late Guard Jenkins, for this he says he is very sorry. He talks about the judge and the jury who heard the case, tninks they are fine men. Rev. Hilyard Smith, chaplain at téntiary, man regularly, has a very trying exe perience. As McCoskey Is of a very low mentality, and cannot elthes read English or his own native tongue, it is' very difficult for the chaplain' to give him spiritual advice and to prepare him for the future. Several ways have been tried out, but tha one which appeals to the man most. is the Bible in ples ture form The singing -of the members of | the Salvation Army Corps, who visis the jail every Sunday morning, has attracted the prisoner greatly. Tha penalty. «ic NPTY sad. case, especially those in charge, as they are not permitted to talk to the prisoner about such matters. On several oc casions McCoskey has made the ree mark that he did not understand why they were watching him both ! day and night. He evidently .rea- lizes that 1t 18 &IFEHRt to watch him | in the daytime, as the guards do at the Portsmouth peniténtiary, bu: for a guard to sit outside his ce'l ile he sleeps it It has the aha the Portsmouth peni. of eight hours | each; powerful electric lights have been arranged and they shine . di- into the door of the cell, so} that the keeper in charge can con- stantly see .the prisoner Beveral reasons have been stated { why it is believed that McCoskey does not realize his position' among them being that he does not talk! Army choristers sing in the corrie about the future; eats well, and has | dors of the jail, no trouble sleeping every night. i: | distance from his cell, i hear them distinctly He has been taken with several hymns, that he has asked the death watch to sing to h One of tha hymns has been 80 impressed upon him that he attempts to sing it ia his broken English he is able to ten o'clock, at guards change duty, the time and the the | 80 up sleens | morning not the case ol | a man who realizes that he has only a month more to live, m way {Tames Douglas Gibiet Dies of Injuries Received in 1 Auto Accident. at Bothwell Son of Major and Mrs. W. H. Gimblett, Kingston -- Was Working With Road Con struction Company--J. E. Irwin's Condition Oritical. [#1 in Kingston, three brothers, { Judson, Ottawa; Willlam of Ottawa; Gim- . : | and Kenneth of Camp Borden blett) 179 Quecn street, that he: Mr. J. E. Irwin, who is not exe son James Douglas Gimblett, wkd | pected to live, left Kingston abou was Injured in an auto accident in 4 Bothwell, Ont, had died as a result | His wife and hiz two sisters, Missos of a fractured skull. J. BE. Irwin oon and Lorraine, Colborne street, of Toronto, formerly of Kingston, | Kingston. are at the Unatham hose who was also in the car, was a! |pital with him, He has iso threes first considered the more seriously | brothers, Dr. Robert of Elizabeth, njured, but though there is little | N.J., who graduated from Queen's hope held out for him, he is still | last year; Joha of Fort Willlam, living, but in an unconscious con- and William of Toronto dition. i Mr. Gimblett did not seem at | first to be seriously injured. and] the doctor had said that he couid leave the hospital. He took a turns for the worse, however, and be. came unconscious. After an X-ray had been taken of his skull it was found that there was a fracture ai the base. It was impossible to oper- ate owing to his weakened condi: ton. and he died Monday evening Douglas Gimblett was very well Xaown among the youmg peoples of | Kingston. He was born here, being |» soa of Major and Mrs. W. H. Gim- blett, and was educated in the King: ston Collegiate and also took one year in Arts at Queen's. Hs was twenty-four years of age. He is sar- Word was received 'at £.30 Monday night by Mrs. W. H ° | How the Accident Occurred The accident occurred in othe well, last Friday evening about $30 o'clock on Elm street, Both well, where an aute driven by fh. Bowman, of that lows, crashed ine to & buggy alleged to have bean without lights and driven by Charles Weise The spot where the | mi ishap took place is a well-lighted i part of the street. The bugzy was | struck fromi the rear and toppled jover. The occupants, Mr. and Mrs Weise, werq thrown out, aad the horse knocked down between the shafts : The motor was reduced (0 a sera) heap. An inquest is to be held to-night. Irwin and Gimbiest were emploved Leckey, Misses with a road construction gang teas Phronie; Frances, Jean and Qgeenie, | Bothwell, Hertzog's Claim who visits the condemned and although some ° Protestani six years ago to reside in Toronto. . #4