The Passin to 12 PAGES 1 Che Daily British Whig | " PAGESS12 Sr-- YEAR 84. NO. 57 EINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MARCH 8, 1917 Fort Henry is soon to lose'its pres- ent population war and close another chapter of its interesting history This old fort was built protect Kingston from Fenian invasion, and within its walls of 300 prisoners of to es for the pas ed their liv in the same three years quar Healthy, es were taken appointed by the The authorities and with a ser-. Keeping the Their physical t care of hy doctors Militia Department lected three room In 1838 Von Shultz, an enemy of | gaunt iy charge a small hospital was Canada, was hanged It has been ! constructed. In serious cases the the home of between 200 and 400 | patients have been brought to the foreigners who were in Canada when the great war started between Great Britain and Germany, ' the and among them are men who were leaders in To keep the patients out of the Canada's mercantjle life hospital was u fare placed upon the y shoulde aron Polenz, one o When the war began preparations he iors. aro! by Vv ue Ih his were immediately made to intern all} title was recognized as leader. He aliens who attempted to léave the organized physical training classes, country. There were a few who got | 4nd to prevent laziness he had every out with the assistance of friends' Mat go through certain exercises and trgitors, but hundreds wege every das This has proved to a caught at the border and placed in] Breat extent responsible for the low safe keeping. Montreal was parti- | Percentage of hospital cases that cularly prominent, because of its cos- | have been treated : mopolitan population, and in that Among other things the prisoners |' city alone there were enough men ar- | ave spent taeir time at wood-mak ) rested "fo form a camp, and Kapus-| ing. Almost any man. can adapt asing, away up in the wild north | himself to this interesting work 374 woods of New Ontario and miles, he has the time. With nothing to do | away from every habitation, or even and a lot of time on their hands one | the National Transcontinental rail-|©f the commandants conceived the] way, sprang into being Officers, | 11ea of keeping the prisoners minds | men and supplies were taken away | employed with this work: He opened | up there and clearing of the forest |® room as a carpenter shop, and se- was started. -- One of the First Chosen, 1 Fort "Henry was one of the first | camps to be selected. It was ideally suited for interning prisoners, being $0 placed that there was small possi- bility of their escaping.! In tae west, the camp at Lethbridge has been sausing a greal deal of trouble by the foreigners diggings tunnels through the soft clay, and some of these attgmpts were suceessful. At the local' camp there was no such prospect The ground is of shelly limestone, and while efforts have been made, they have not been re- warded by success. Because of its lay-out Fort Henry was adapted for a prison camp. There is an upper court about as large as a city block. Tis is sur rounded by a series of low buildings, and in these buildings the guard has been quartered and the commandant and his staff "have their offices. This court has a commanding view of the country, and trouble in. daylight could be thus avoided. The inland end of the fort is some twenty feet ' below the level of the upper court. It is also surrounded by rooms built into the walls, and these rooms were used for the prisoners. In each room there are from fifteen to twenty men. The commandant had each room elect one man as its leader. He Is the one respomsible for the good behavior, and all com- plaints must be made to the proper authorities through him. The.men ate and slept in these rooms and liv- Arne city hospitals, but for minor troubles cure process was within the walls. The smi] hospital is a model of cleanliness of Fort enry ' 1 curing tools soon got the men read Newspapers were also sent and {that included everything from ath : 1 ed TheTidea caught on splen- by eans 'the prisoners were | 'cello to a base drum. With his usual | unbe : and to-day every room at tiie kept in touch with-the war events. |organizing talent, Baron Polenz was | guards, who littered with wooden momen- In this connection it is interesting to | the man to take on his shoulders the | loyal even in t toes of the prisoners' interment. yeport myersation with a Whig work of sbringing the band into be-j tat ons, at last They have made picture frames, representative, who in spite of 'offi- | ing. Hetelected the best players for | was the only solution o maps, designs of the German crest, jal orde to.the contrary, had an |each instrument, had them given mu-| That was not correct and even furniture elaborately carved. | opportu of making an inspection. | tual instruction, and then selecting a Taking what is ce ! n conversation with one | bandmaster was able to see as a re ary Kettle and u 1e11 Gardening and Reading. - { n offic asked for an |sult of his efforts a very fine mausi- instrunients, bandsmen in Another way of spending the 10024 6pinon the war. The reply was | cal aggregation that was capable of | their spare time had made an alr hours was by gardening. There are p,q stic of the speaker, who [playing anything from grand opera ct "still In this '*still" th prisoners who would certainly now | said: 1 Government haslto rag-time. re placed properly prepared apples, give interesting talks on ntensive gy) your papers and all the United The "finale" of this band is a story | raising and potatoes, and after dis- farming who before thelr internment giates pape weil, nearly all--gor-|in jiseM, and the Whig is the first to {tillation a wine was produced that were sailors or business men who nto saying what they want|pu the story into print had the desired effect appar- never gave such work a { ght. The There are two names that seem to | atus was seized and now th the ground upon ch the fort is built rhyme with. German--one is 'band' | Possession of Lieut.-Col. P. G. C Is searer to being Solid Fock thas * Band Got Drunk. and the other is "beer." It was al-| Campbell Hiliable soil Nevermeless Ie pu the many ways in |lowable to have a band, but naturally The fact that .these men had per- soners had a garden that probabis 5 rinans passed the long |enough beer was not on the menu. | sonal means and if they wanted lux- not equalled in the 5 t nde two.years and a half [ The prisoners, however, were not 10} uries they should have the liberty of the 20% of a nign wal on iy 2 lat enfo d idiene~s the German band | be deprived of their luxury even on buying them was solved in quite a constantly ig a SSOLY, ne one | the uld not be forgotten. |this account, and it was their inven- | gatisfactory way Every man has a ta macen SE as Germans are naturally musical, | tive genius that brought them at least | bank account with the Government m was supplied with its product. |and le the wi though not } one drink during their residence at| When work was being done outside Reading also came high in thelist alae us many times heard | Fort Henry : . of the walls the pay for It was placed ¢f ways in which the men whiled German ands playing on the street One day when the bandsmen had to his credit If friends sent him away the hours The German Am-|corner The ily Ger nan band that heen practically active during the money it went in the same place erican Club of New York City collect- | has p aved 1 8 district since ws fcrenoon and strikingly quiet during}! Each prisoner had cheques on this ed thousands of dollars for this pur-| Was declare 1914 was that at the | the afternoon one of the staff be accouty and two canteens sold him pose alone. They purchased books in fort came curious and went to the room to tobacco, so drinks, et aking eve known language, and these By permission of the commandant, | investigate. He found them stretc h-| these « heques in ex hange S SYS- were sent, after-an inspection, to the |the German-American Club was per- ed out on the floor and most of the m tem had to be slightly' changed a fort, where they were read and re-|mitted to send musical instruments) dead drunk. In spite of the smell of | short time ago when it was found r A A AAA ANN. AE AAP APA At. * | pe | *- Ottawa Glimpses BY H. F. GADSBY J ' Ottawa, March 7.-- People round |eat The food pirate reminds one here keep asking what the Borden | of that grim old song about the un- Government is doing with the War | dertaker, "I'll nail you at the last." Measures Act to curb the high cost of living, Under the War Measures Act, passed unanimously by both Houses of Parliament, the 'Govern- ment can do anything it wishes with the laws, customs, precedents and business arrangements of Canada if the emergency arises, So far as peo- ple can see that's about where it ends, The Government has power to do what it likes, but it doesn't like to do it. Gaaden With prices soaring as they are in Canada most governments would be thinking of regulating exports with a view to enabling the people who live in this country to get their fair share of the products of the soll at reasonable rates, But far from reg- ujating exports the Borden Govern- ment looks on while its particular pets, the cold storage barons, bring on a coal famine by using cars, that might be employed carrying coal as warehouses for their food products until they can find ships to carry the stuff across the @vean, In other words, the whole trans- portation equipment of this country is, by grace of the Borden Govern- ment, at the disposal of the food barons who can use it or not in such a way as to throw the whole econom- ic scheme out of gear. It is surely bad enough that they should use their own warehouses to manipulate prices, but when they proceed to commandeer freight cars to make it worse, it looks as If the War Meas- ures Act ought to take a hand in. But that will not be while the Bor- den Government is in office, Its ap- parent object is to hand all the money in the country over to its friends the fod pirates. The mun- lon workers hay get high wages, but what's the use when they have to shell it nearly all out for food. to | Royal Commissions looking The Borden Government is not in a position to deal with the high cost of lving in a thofough root and branch way, There are two rghsons for this. One is that the Zorden Government is itself responsibile for the high cost of living through its fiscal poljey. The other is that it was put where it is by a combination of greedy fore-stallers and nervous financiers who stil] have it under complete control. The Borden Gov- ernment daren't do anything to mi- tigate the high cost of living. Its masters won't let it. If it regulafed prices it would be regulating its own friends, ~ If it regulated exports it would be putting a crimp in some ot} its chief benefactors' profits The Borden Government has been at pains to avoid any run-in with the cost of living that would prejudice its friends. Its idea is to go through the motions but not to do anything that will hurt. With this object in viéw there have been some half dozen at the cost of living from as many different angles, They are encouraged by the Borden Government to take a good long look and not to be in a hurry to make upstheir minds. The longer they can postpone their conclusions the wiser they 'will be--for the Bor- den Government. In the last two years and a half it must have cost the Borden Government at least a quarter of a million dollars to pay economic commissions of one kind and another to string out the debate on the righ cost of living until the next general election is over. In spite of this some of the com- missions have simply had to report. They couldn't hold it any longer. They didn't want to expire as it were by effluxion of time. Most of them had other work to do. So they re- ported and the Government did noth- ing about it. These were the more active commissions, The other com- missiong did nothing at all and con- sequently made no report, which course, on the whole, suited the Bor- den Government even better, . A number of thege high-cost-of- living commissions harbored a joker in the shape of the Cold Storage King of Canada who was planted in their midet so he could see what was com- ing and head it off. ' This is how earnest the Borden Government was about the high cost of living. It placed the Chief Operator at all the strategic spots where the news might be expected to come first, To all these commissions another has been added lately which is to go at the high cost of living from the scientific end. A distinguished scientist has been appointed at a dis- tinguished salary to begin a research right away. Evidently he hag a life job. He need not report for a long time yet, He has asked a thousand other scientists to help him at noth- ing a week but glory galore and al- most anything is sure to come of it ~--except an imniediate report, This is a great concentrated effort on the part of science not only to help the Borden Government out of a hole, but, eventually, as we take it, to Feed the Poor Without Giving Them Anything to Eat. This scientific inquest will, of course, go at it both ways. It will not only point out all our natural and unnatural resources, but it will no doubt suggest substitutes for staple articles of diet which, under the Borden Government, have be- come too expensive for the masses, These substitutes, one may hope, will be somewhat more palatable than, say, sinking one's teeth in the furniture to satisfy a hearty appetite, As a matter of fact even biting the furniture costs too much because, under a forty-five per cent. tariff, furniture becomes too dear to act as a food substitufe, Hay as a substitute for bacon and eggs is out of the question, be- cause the army uses all the extra hay, Bran is cheap yet, and raw bran taken with hot water is said to be good for the digestion, owing to its capillary action. But the moment Premier Borden's food barons get the idea that bran is in popular de- mand it will shot up in price, as rice has done already, somebody having mentioned rice in their hear- ing asa substitute for potatoes. And 80 it goes, Nothing the public flees to as a refuge from the high cost of living but the food barons get there first and make it more precious than rubies. The War Measures Act is about as useful to stop these greedy fellows as if it didn't exist at all, The Borden Government has it in its mind that the vacant land preb- lem is going to solve the food prob- lem---bring the untitled soil and the returned soldiers together and = the origin sequest Bennett, M.P., or some other large would be glad to sell to the Govern- | ment at a good swingling price the Hall's Family Pills for constipation. which the Borden Government will not let him sell where he pleases, --H., F. GADSBY, the routine is to have different child- ren tick out the dots and dashes a words are pronounced by the er, rator of prairie lands, who teach broad, idle acres which produce Spelling Lessons Pleasant Pastime. SE ------------ nothing now but taxes The only Boptiar- Medan ' drawback to this scheme is that the ft is a well-known truth that a Baby 8 Own Tablets returned soldier prefers the city, child learns more quickly through : > No lonesome, prairie farm for him | yo odium of play .than through Used Ten Years ~---- "g| dull hours of tedious instruction To | Catarrh Cannot be Cured make play of work is the endeavor of | Mia C. EB. Stilwell Winthrobe 3 ne ¢ f . . ¥ , ope, With 'LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they | almost all really successful tut rs Of | Sack. writes: have used Bay bes cannot reach the seat of the disease. {little tots. A teacher in one of the| wp Tablets. for the past- ton : Catarvh is a local disease, greatly in- SC 3 3 b sO ¢ dl. i) as yeag: fluenced by constitutional conditions, public St hools at ¢ plymbus, ir found and have found them go good for my and in order to cure ft you must take a way of making her pupils look an little ones that | always ROOD. 5 bo an internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh|xiously forward for the daily 'spell- fin the house." Mrs Stilwell is one rE aR Spterhaly i a ing lesson. Her plan of teaching is|of thousands of mothers who alway faces of the system, Hall's Catarrh|2 most novel one and has proved =o | keep the Tablets on' hand Sprays Cure was prescribed by one of the bes effective that i has been adopted bY | mother has used them for her little clans in thig country for years It} a . s i the elementary | ones she ' hs mposed of some of the best tonics other instructors J Is ii Shes she would use 'nothing else known, combined with some of the|&rades of the city schools. hey are absolutely free from opiates best blood purifiers. The perfect com- A telegraph key and receiver are land injurious drugs and cannot pos ind Ba) TE mounted on the teacher's desk. The tsibly do harm to the youngest child at ™ e I'S p , 8 - - rR Eo a a . . " wonderful results in catarrhal condi- (children have been taught the Morse | They are sold by medicine dealers tions. Send for testimonials, free. code, and wh a word is ticked off bor by mail at 25 cents a box from FO GIBNEY & TO. Props. Toledd, O.1in dots and da¥es they inscribe the| The Dr. Williams' Medicine (Co AN Druggists, 7c. ; characters on th& blackboard and | Brockyille, Ont. AA AA in SECOND SECTION s Fine Internment Camp that the men were play poker | with the cheques The Commandant, Fort Henry was one of the first { war institutions to open in the cit 1t came even before the 21st Battal ion was authorized in November of 1914 H. J. Dawson, then a p sor of the Royal Military Colle and a major in the 14th Regiment, 'was the first commandant. On shoulders fell the work of organiza tion, and he made a suce though needles® to say unpopular among his guests through his his strict ideas on liberties When the 59th Overseas Battalion was au thorized he was given the rank of lisutenant-colonel and the command The' position as commandant was then taken by Lieut.-Col. J. J. H. Fee a Lindsay man, who was a personal friend of the ex-Minister Militia Col. Fee was very satisfactory as commandant and inaugurated the system now in use of having one man in each room made responsible for the conduct of the men in that room Col, Fee took the command of the of 109th Battalion and was succeeded at the fort by Lieut.-Col. PGC Campbell, who in turn relinquished the position on taking over the com mand of the 253rd Queen's Univer sity Highlanders The present and last commBndant fs Lieut.-Col. H. I Date who has been engaged work since the war began, 5 been commandant at Spirit Lake, Kapuskasing, Lethbridge and other camps. Before closing this article there should be some reference made to United States Consul F. SS. John- | son, who acted for Germany and worked in-the prisoners interesis all matters that they wished him to | take up with the Government, Per iodical inspections had to be made when the prisoners would line up, | before him and state their cases These caused an immense amount of detail work but with characteristic . All packages and mail to the prison ers was opened, examined and a knowledged hy him This work alone took up a great part of his time, Nevertheless he also.handled thoroughness Mr. Johnson continued it to the best of his ability The removal of the prisoners from the fort will cause many great changes, The greatest of these is that the 14th Regiment Guard will be © almost completely sbhanded he Kingston regiment has heen one of the greatest recruiting agencie for overseas units here Men have been taken out of eivilian life and | trained in the guard and then by re i | stant & THE FORT HENRY GERMAN INTERNMENT CAMP W ILL SOON BE CLOSED. | A Pi - ---- -- in the bright mind of R. B. | where he can toilsomely grow wheat lthen translate them \ variation ot } i quest allowed to transfer to an over- sea unit In this way the guard "has been valuable beside doing con« work of keeping watch over alien enemies in their pricon camp its the BAGS UNDER WEIGHT, Farmers Were Fined $2 In Ammprior Court . March 6 T from the to dispote of at a good price came Wednesday and were successful in selling at the price of $2.75 a bag Ona purchaser suspected light weight Quebee Arnprior, hailing 1nxious iree farm Quebec ide, their potatoes to town on ers and on investigation he found that he wax paying $2.75 for 80 pounds instead of 90 pounds The case was laid before Chief Hunt with the re sult that the three farmers. were ar raigned before Magistrate Grierson They pleaded guilty but claimed that 50 pounds was the standard weight in Quebec, They were fined $2 each ~ind costs and warned that the next offence would prove much. more costly At Harrisville, N. 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