PAGES 18 12 PAGES | BA tt ete rh -- LAST EDITION Che { aily British Whig YEAR 83-NO. 208 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1916 9 s fashion. But speaking as a consider- : able ratepayer, in spite of the very { 2 X ti "| heavy claims on me, I do not desire J i \ to be freed from 'my. share of the C Cll M g i | money owed to the Children's Aid | FRANCE HAS NO FEAR OF COAL FAMINE Ample Supply Says Minister of CPR. FREIGHT HANDLERS STRIKE, seis | Paris, Nov. 17,--Paris has no rea- son to fear a coal famine, Manufac- turers, including those working. for the National Defense, will have an ample supply of coay, according to a | statement made by Minister of public Works Sembat to the Chamber of Deputies, which adopted the first Al Toronto Although They Cal it Only a Holiday. clauses of a bill which would fix | maximam retail prices of coal and | other combustibles and regulate | ALL | thelr sales during the war. REPLIED TO THE , ADDR M. Sembat said the price of coal THE PRINCIPAL, had increased from 81 francs per -- | 2 ton in April, 1916, to 140 francs per x ive "isi 2 ! The Rallwaymen's- "Holiday" Ts an om so ot wre ayer ay A Luncheon Given the Visitors at the | Invasion of the Industrial Disputes | ever to economize on the impor- Frontenac Club--Business Trans. | 2 mr e-- | | ; : : . rs | Society, if it is legally due, in. any | { ¢ . ; =~ 3 | such way as that, and I gather from : --E {a letter from another citizen which ; 2% AR 5 x i 8 | appears in the press to-day that very ! J og aay 1493 Lo . many others feel the same, At least, [if an "Indignation" ti - f | ey oo Ea, Thor as wae re When Deutschland Had 4 Collision With i Tug Accompanying | numerous, who strongly approve of Her what the officers of the society have So -- ' SUBMARINE CAME BACK | done, should have also been notified. With regard to the shelter, I have AND IS NOW AT THE WHARF AT NEW LONDON, CONN. two observations to make. First, that every agent of the society when '1 was closely connected with it stated Capt. John Gurney in Command of the Tug T. A. Scott, Jr., Was One A Weicome Extended to Queen's nivrsy NARCHONESS OF BERDEN ESS OF | that it was the one most pressing need of the work, though none of them even in their wildest dreams | thought of such a sum as. $30,000; | and, secondly, that when they were {at their wits' end, as they sometimes | were, and applied to the council for HAS TIED UP SHIPMENTS OVER ONTARIO. \ct--Men Hefuse au Board of Arbi- tration. (Speci To The Whig) ronfo, Nov, 17 in the question in Canada occurred | to-day when 200 freight handlers] | and checkers of the C. P. R. here re- | fused to go to work following the dispute regarding wages. The men refuse to call their action a "strike," preferring the term "holiday," but! the effect is exactly the same, They refused the compuny"s suggestion that the difference be submitted to a board of arbitration appointed by | the Department of Labor at Ottawa.) The action of \the freight handlers | and checkers effectually ties up to- | day all general merchandise, fruit and vegetables and munitions of war handled by the C. P. R. company at the Torento freight stations, and in-| directly affects shipments all over | Ontario. The decision "of the men to call | their action a 'holiday and not a| "strike" is an evasion of the Indus- | trial Disputes Act, which makes a strike illegal without the differences first being submitted to arbitration. THE WORLD'S NEWS | IN BRIEF FORM. | Tidings From All Over Told In a Pithy and Pointed Way: Seven well-known young West | Zorra farmers are eharged with tar- | ring a neighbor, Edward Tracey, and | binding him and his wife to posts in | the barn. { Mayor Mitchel has made it clear that since New Year's Eve falls on Sunday, "which is something nobody tan help," no extension of time can | be granted for the sale of liquor that | night. A party of ten Mennonifes trom. the United States who pladned hold- | ing "revival" meetings in Huron | county to discourage young men from | enlisting was turned back from | Windsor. | The marriage took place Thursday | at St. Andrew's, London, of 'Capt.! Charles B. Lindesay, eldest son of | George Lindesay, of Toronto, and | Wanda Casimra, youngest daughter | "yy 8. Gzowskl, of Toronto. elopment already freight | | ¥rs. Mary Lily Flagler, widow of Hekry M. Flagler, one of the organ- izers of the Standard Oil Company, was married in New York on Nov. 15th to former Judge Robert Worth | Bingham, of Louisville, Ky. The deer hunting season around Utica, N.Y, elaimed six buman lives. Five of the victims were mistaken for deer and shot dead while hunting in the Adirondacks, while the sixth | wad killéd in an accident, Five National Guard regiments|, were ordered home from the Mexican border Thursday. They were the First . Regiment of South Carolina, Seventh New York, Third Indiana, Third Wisconsin and Third. Minne- sota; Iron ballast weighing 100 tons brought over on the German submar- ine merchantman Deutschland is to be converted into "Deutschland iron men" to be sold as souvenirs for the benefit of German widows and or- phans of the war, Police Magistrate Andrews, Clin- ton, decided that the 320 gallons of | whiskey bought by Jacob Weber, Sea- forth, to last him his lifetime, can- not be possessed by one man under! the Canada temperance act and con-| fiscated it. The Belgian Government has ap- peaied to the United States to inter- vene actively in its behalf to prevent! further deportation of Belgian work-| men into Germany. The United | States will not intervene, but is us-| ing its good offices in Belgium's be- | half. | i g Dutch Women Eligible. ela! to the Whig.) i Louder Nov. 1 ~The 'Duteh | Lower Chamber has voted to make . women eligible to membership in the | states-general (the Parliament, con-| sisting of two chambers), according | to Reuters. } ' WHIG CONTENTS t 1-sbvelght Handlers" Strike; f An's National Council: Bishop Surprise; utsch- Bread Too High. g of the Board Notes: oi 's Ald Society; Lo- | COMARG News. | mts Announcements; i " : of Random j { tation of coal to the extent of from | | 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 francs per) month, The production of French ficient and the supply 'was domin- ated by the question of labor. M. Sembat urged the sending from the trenches to the mines of the greatest number of miners possible, A Sea Monster Frightened Sub. (Special to the Whig.) New York, Nov. 17.-- Somewhere off the coast of New England there is a new type of made-by-hu- mans sea monster, a cross between a motor boat, whale back freighter and submarine and that mons- ter is responsible for the interruption of the Ger- man submarine freighter Deutsebland's return trip, with the loss of Capt. Gurney and four of the crew of the tug Scott, Jr., sunk in the outer waters of New London harbor he- --- acted at the Thursday Afternoon | Session. | | A goodly number of ladies from | erious de-| coal has been greatly increased, the | her who d cities assembled | serious | minister said, but it was still insuf- ot towns an ties assemble hi {Convocation Hall on Thursday moru-| ing for the meeting of the executive | of the 'National Council of Women. | Mrs. Torrington, of Toronto, presid- | ent of the national executive, pre-| sided, and beside her sat the Mar-| chioness of Aberdeen and Tanair, ad-| visory president the Canadian] Council of Women, who evinced the) in its proceedings | always maintained, long absence of jwarm interest «Which she ha notwithstanding her from Canada. Principal Gordon was present at the opening of the meeting, and ten- dered on behalf of the umversity a {most appropriate and inspiring wel- come to the hall in which the Kings- ton local councils was organized by Lady Aberdeen and the late Principal Grant twenty-two years ago. He pointed out the great and beneficial influence which the National Council of Women of Canada in its far-reach-| ing ramifications throughout the Do- minion can exercise in very many phases of its social life, and bade the National Council a hearty God-speed. Lady Aberdeen gracefully acknow- {ledged Principal Gordon's welcome to herself, and expressed her great pleasure in attending this meeting of the council in Kingston, SPANISH PRINCES As BOY SCOUTS LEARN WAR GAME. Prince Alfonso (left), the nine-year-old heir to the Span- ish throne, & deaf and dumb boy scouts at guest of honob. fancy, and by the vigilance in this re- spect of parents and teachers during childhood and also precautioned to prevent infection of, contagious com- plaints, f his eight-year-old brother, Jamie, who Is both| The photograph was taken at a meeting of ntadar, Spain, at which Queen Victoria was - t former years, but I have seen enough help/not a word was ever said about the arrangement with the Salvation Army by that body. I know that had the council informed us that they had |; made this arrangement they would have saved us many difficulties. 1I| cannot help thinking that the coun- cll itself did not know of it. Praises the Agent. As I have said, circumstances have prevented me from keeping in such | close touch with the work of the agent as I have been able to do in of it to know that he is a first-rate man for his work, and 1 very greatly regret the manner in which he has been lost to Kingston. The executive 6f the Children's Aid, who have been doing the work all these years, re- tain, I believe, the fullest confidence in him, and would certainly not have dismissed him. Surely they ought to know. One result seems fairly certain. It will hardly be possible for the future to get men to give their time and money for philanthropic work, for| which they neither get nor expect reward, if they 'are liable to be| thrown out at any time by a number | of people who hitherto have shown, | at any rate, no overt interest in the| work. Feeble praise of their past ef-| {forts hardly compensates for such | treatment. BISHOP BIDWELL One is forcibly reminded | of the well-known lines: } "Perhaps it was right to dissemble | your love, | But why did you stairs?" kick me down- of Those Whe Lost His Life--The Collision Occurred Twelve Miles Out, (Special tp the Whig.) New London, Conn., Nov. 17.--The German sub-freighfer Deutschland left here on her return trip to Bre- men, but owing |t0 a collision with the tug, which accompanied her, in which five of the crew were drown- ed, she returned to dock. The tug Was accompanying her out to the three mile limit. The tug was the T. A. Scott, Jr. The men of the tug who perished included Capt. John Gurney. At 8.30 o'clock this. morn- ing the Deutschland was back at Her dock. She was twelve miles out fn the Race when ghe collided with the tug. Capt. Hinsch, of the Eastern Forwarding Company, was aboard the tug and was thrown into the wa. ter. He was rescued by members of the Deutschland's crew. The Deutschland's cargo includes two million dollars worth of crude rubber, nickel, zinc and silver bars and several sacks of mall from the German embassy at Washington. The undersea boat's escort had or- ders to let her go it alone somewhere along the three mile limit off shore, as was done after she left her first trip to the American shores. Later this morning the report was circulated that a mysterious motor boat tried to ram the Deutschland, The president of the local . couneil, The afternoon's proceeding closed | fore daylight this morn- ing. Sailors of the tugboat Cassie and others, whieh were also on the spot, de- clare that they saw such a craft ereep up towards the Deutschland and her es- corts in the black dark- ness immediately before the crash that sunk the tug Scott Jr. Whether the mysterious craft was Brifish or a pri- vateer is not known. She carried no lights and ex- posed only a few feet of her huge black back above the water. To-day: the Deutschland is safely back in her slip in New London, herself and crew impris- oned by iron gates, while her plates are being ex- amined to see what dam- age has been done. OfMci- als are attempting to dis- credit the story, but New London despatches say it will be difficult to obtain crews for tugs to take the Deufschland out to the Miss Machar, on behalf of the Qings- {ton council, then welcomed the exe- cutive to our historic city, in which ishe pointed out the women of a cen- tury ago had banded themselves to- {gether to meet the various needs of ithe small community, and by. their | quiet aNd steady work for the needy {had founded all the leading charit- able institutions of the city. Miss Carmichael gracefully ac- { knowledged the welcome, and the routine business of the meeting was | then proceeded with, occupying most {of the morning session, with the ex- | ception of reports by Dr. Margaret | Gordon, of Toronto, on behalf of the {Canadian Suffrage Association and ithe Single Tax Association. Ile exe- {cutive adjourned at one o'clock' for {'uncheon at the Frontenac Club, where all enjoyed for an hour the | pleasure of social' intercourse over an excellent repast, which thé out-of- town visitors warmly appreciated and | comniended some appropriace speech- | e8 being made. The Afternoon Session, Several interesting matters came | up in the afternoon, causing prolong- | ed discussion, one being the endeav- | or, through the Order of Victorian {| Nurses to secure adequate medical | treatment for women in the sparsely i settled districts of Canada, where { such privileges are few and far be- { tween. - The relation of properly open sea again. | po "of Queen's: Coal, tw | Belleville, © | Sundays, "-- HOW IT HAPPENED, Rowell Fixes Blame For Loss of Cali fornia's Vote, San Francisco, Nov. 17 ~Chester H." Rowell, chairman of the Republi- can State Central Committee, issued a statement charging that the Repub- licans who undertook to look after Charles E, Hughes, during his trip through California, not only made a bad job of 'it, byt suppressed and disobeyed instructions from the east, "If the advice and practically the demands of the national managers of Mr. Hughes' campaign had not been defied and suppressed by those tem- rarily in charge of it in Califor- nia," the statement said, "Mr. Hug- hes would now beyond question be president-elect of the United States." ---- GRAIN PAYMENTS SLOW. Western' Farmers Fail to Meet Obli- o . gations. 2 ttawa, Nov. . 17.--The Govern- ment is Juding that + the farmers are * Sigg Ago. there was a drought 'and failure in Southern South-Western Saskat. th twelve ition doll and relief. So far there ly repaid # Joa dollars, alth ayant n better year than as repaid in October rrr Pach, Canadian Casualties, Killed in Wounded--R. Childs, P. Lamourie, Arnprior; J. G. Potter, Glengarry; Alfred Nunn ; J, O'Hara, WO years n--R, M. Logan, |4 ; | qualified practitioners to emergen- icles in the absence of a doctor was | fully discussed, though owing to the | nature of the case no practical state- | ments could at present be arrived at. | Some curious facts were elicited in { | regard to the legal provisions for the | | naturalization of women, showing in-| | equalities needing revision. The re-| | port of the conveners of the commit- {tee on matters relating to the care {of the blind excited special interest, | particularly as Prof. Dorich's report | was supplemented by an able-and ex- | haustive letter from Dr. Charles | Dickson, once well-known in Kings- | | ton, as the son of Dr. John R. Dieck- | son, once superintendent of Rock- | wood hospital. The report drew atten- [tion to the fact that there are be- lieved to be about 4,000 blind per- Sons in Cenada, for whose sad con- dition comparatively little has been done, until the return of blind sol- diers from tho front has excited spec- ial attention to their needs, al- though it is remarkable that among 80 large a number of 'returned sol- can with both fee Ey onfeuck. Ganano- | Wes! sale of cigars, sodas, papers, etc., on with another letter on the subject of the evil results of forcing the food | into the shape which unnatyral and injurious recent fashions have made popular and an appeal to the! National executive these vulgar fashisns. E N An informal evening reception was given by Lady Aberdeen in the Y. W.C.A. parlors to the National and local executives. Two or three hours were most pleasantly spent, and Lady Aberdeén in the course of an informal discus- sion, made a most effective and in- spiring appeal to her hearers to pro- mote -by the cultivation of a spirit of kindness and sisterhood the restora- tion of the fraternal relations that should exist between the civilized na- tions when peace shall be again re- stored, and the International Council of Women may help to restore and maintain the harmony among the peoples which is so necessary to the well being and progress of the world. to discourage SUBMARINE SIGHTED, (Special to the Whig.) ' Seattle, Wash, Nov. 17.--<The 4 Canadian government has been 4 warned that a hostile submar- # ine has been sighted off the + Pacific coast. tht a bh ll 2 Bid ddd dd REPUBLICANS HOPE TO NAME SPEAKER Count on Support of the Pro- gressives and an inde- pendent. Washington, Nov. 17.--Incomplet- ed éanvasses of the vote in several close Congressional districts tosday brought no changes in the unofficial election results, which indicate that 217 Republicans, 212 Democrats and six of the other parties have been elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress. Rep. Woods, chairman of the Repub- lican committee, insisted last night that the Republicans undoubtedly would control the organization of the House. A Speaker to be elected must receive a majority of the'House, or 218 votes. Although the unofficial returns show the Republicans to be one short of a majority, they are counting on the Progressive elected in Mi the ve-Re- L " bh nnesota, Publican 1 lodisiana, and the inde usetts to vote pendent Mann for Massach with,.them for James R. Speaker, ENLISTMENTS INCREASE At the Method Adopted to Oust the the country's future. S SURPRISE Chile- rea's Aid Executive, WILL HARDLY BE POSSIBLE TO GET MEN TO GIVE THEIR TIME AND MONEY For Philanthropic Work if They Are Liable to Be Thrown Out at Any Time, Bishop Bidwell writes as follows to the Whig regarding the Children's Aid Society: 8ir,--As I only returned to town! the evening on which the annual 'meeting of the Children's Ald 80- | they was held, I was unable to at-| tend. Had I been there I should have had some comments to make! upon what took place, and will ask] your permission to make them in your columns instead. For four years--1909-1913--1 was an active member of the society, and seldom missed a meeting. I was in| close touch with ali that was being ! done. . Since then, owing to my fre- | quent absences on Diocesan work, 1! have rarely been able to be present | at meetings, but I have seen a good | deal of the work of the agent, both ciety 'in Kingston and outside, In my time, and I understand that the same is the case since, the great difficulty was to arouse the citizens of Kingston to the exceeding import- ance of the work. They have steadily declined to be aroused, and have al- lowed a faithful few to spend their time and their monev on its support. For instance, at the last annual meet- ing, when d speaker of ene had come from R; ress the gathering, there were think, under twelve people sufficiently interested to come and hear him. It is, therefore, unfortunate, to say the least of it, that this sudden Increase of interest on " the part of certain citizens should even seem to be con- nected with the pecuniary tters. The work that the proces not possibly be reckoned in and cents. All careful know that it is of infinite value to An {cording to announcement in to-day's [an i Through my active association | submarine: Ring La piatect ie with them has preforce ceased in the | (hy path of the dere treaty in last few years I know that an €X-| and was herself hit and sunk ceedingly great debt of gratitude is The collision occurred i th due to those faithful men and Women | yro0ohanon stretoh of wate x a who have gone on with 'this work in as The Race, 250 feet A nown the face of many discouragements current makes it one or ht strong and much apathy on the part of the points in that ne of danger public. : A. Scott, § anit, The tug T. I trust, sir, that the new body Deutachiants aliemp! adie cross the which has so heroically voted itself] Douiachian 8 bows While the sub- into office is fully seized of the en-| TOF Fr ay er tugs were steaming ormous importance of the work, and | {PIE at twelve knots an hour. There has no intention of curtailing it, but | Was a splitting crash and a great hole rather of increasing its area. There| Wa8 torn in the Scott Jr's. side. She is no department of applied *Christ-| broke in two and sank within three lanity of greater importance, because | Minutes. The crew had no chance the work done with children aims at|t0 Teach the life boats. Capt. Gur- saving not thé body but the soul. So| Dey, in the wheelliouse, is believed to that one hopes that the result of this| have been crushed to death. Four controversy will be that those who | of the crew who went down with the have taken upon them this work will | Gurney were all below decks, trapped enlarge and extend its scope . In this|llké rats. They were the engineer, they will have public opinion behind | fireman, deckhand, and cook. them, and I am quite sure that those| Captain Hinsch, aboard the Scott, who Rave been ejected will cheerfully | r., was thrown into the water, Sail. submit to their ejection if the work ors from the Deutschland leapac is benefited thereby. That is all they | overboard and dragged him on to th: re about, and that is the only aim submersible. He. was nearly dead have ever had. Faithfully from shock and cold. The Deutsch- yours, EDWARD J BIDWELL, Bis-| land came back here under her own hop of Kingston. ipower. A hurried examination led . -- en | fhe oficials to believe she would be | ready for sea again in a few days at QUYNEMER | the most, T+ IS VERY BUSY | He Has Brought Down His Twenty-first German Battle Plane. ¢ cial to the Whig.) Paris, Nov. 1 Sieur Guynemer, France's aerial hero, downed his LIEUT. ---------------- Forty-five thousand men and wo- men paraded at Washington on Thursday night in honor of President Wilson's re-election. | ¢ WILL CONSULT BRITISH. twenty-first German battle plane, ac-| $ (Special to the Whig.) # London, Nov. 17.---In the % Commons on Thursday Bonar 4 Law, Secretary for Colonies, + sald Sir George Perley would 4 consult with the British govern- 4 ment as to the reorganization 3 of the Canadian forces, War Office statement. The official statement detailed an unusual amount of aerial activity in the Amiens re- gion, citing fifty-four aerial encount-| ers there. It was in this section that; Guynemer got his latest victim. The night was comparatively calm along the entire front. WAS NOT QUALIFIED For the Position of Overseas Minister of Militia. Special to the Whig. Ottawa, Nov. 1. sir x Aitken cabled Sir Sam Hughes that he was not oualified for the post of overseas minister of mika, "A large number of Canadians are gazetted in London for the Military Cross, As Secretary of Commerce. Washington, Nov, 17.--It is stated on what appearel to be excellent authority that Henry Ford will ac- cept the appeintment of secretary of commerce. Mr, Ford's name has as that of a possible several times. 22000920000 A Jewish Liberal Association was organized in Toronto, DAILY MEMORA YDUM See top VR 3. right band corner for probabf Remember sale of fruits kot , Saturday Cross. and pickles, Mar! morning, in aid of the BORN. ATRD~In London, rs 16th, 1916, to Mrs. John K. Afra, DIED BOY: "In Sy Vv. 16th, 1916, Rhee denna Ve: J, 14 Funeral from Saturday. Nov. 1808, ats po nd. on Nov, Lieut. and ughter,