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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1914-1-15, Page 6• Tutrat.n,ttr, JAY, 15, 1911- -' Lumber and Building Material for sale in Iarga quantitks THE PAIIET GRAIN DOOR Co. are now prepared to ell ,ly all kinds of build- ing material, having a Lige stock of all kinds of lumber on hand, including Ontario White Pine, Shingles and T -ata. Hardwood Flooring and Inside Birch Finish a specialty. Call and see our samples of Birch Finish. Soft and Hardwood slates for sale by the cord. The Paget Grain Door Co., Limited GODERICH THE SIGNAL'S CLUBBING LIST 1914 The Signal and Toronto Daily Globe 8 4.50 The Signal and Daily Globe' to persons with rural postal boxes the price is. 3,50 The Signal and Daily Mail and Empire4.5o The Signal and Daily Mail and Empire to persons with rural postal boxes the price is 3.5o The Signal and Montreal Family Herald and. Weekly Star 1.85 The Signal and Weekly Sun (Toronto) The Signal and Toronto Daily Star 2.25 . 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The above publicat ins may be obtained by Sig- nal subscribers in an: :ombination, the price for any publication being the igurc given above less $t.00 representing the price of The Signal. For instance : The Signal and The Family Herald and Weekly Stmt SIMS Tbe Fortner'. Advocate ($a-33 lees $t.00l. I, =3>0 -making the price o. the three papers $3.20. Tee Sigma/ and The Weekly Sun .. ......... $1.75 The Toronto Drily Star iia se lams Vote r,ae the three papers for $;.o. $3.61$3.61to if the publication you want is not in above list, let us know. ' ' can supply al, lost any well-known Canadian pi ...kation. TSend subscriptions th • 'cal agent or by postofiice or ex-'•ess ordc ny bank t toque) to A. E. BR TWIN PUMLi*RRR THto ,IGNAL Goderich L Brio THE tMIGN AL : GODRRIQH ONTA RI O PLAIN TALK TO J. W. MOYES Chairman of Ontario Railway Board Hands Him Some Straight Language at Investigation of West Shore Railway -Air of Injured in- nocence Does Not Deceive the Board Some Interesting Developments. The affairs of the Ontario West Shore Rrilway rami under the probe of the Ontario Railway Hoard again last Meek, after • delay of several weeks. At the first sitting. an Tuesday, Mr. James R. Rtaf. banister, stated that, acting under the in.tructioos of Mr. .toyer. be procured the cbarter for the Huron Construction Company in which three were four duautt y" deree- torr. It was this consarnctinn com- pany which took over the building of the railway. which wort was never completed. Tbe chatter of the cum. pony is also among the missing papers and to this 11r. goat ridded the infor- mation that he had never yet been paid for some of the work he did for the cowpuany. Mi. Roof also informed the Board t hat he was tint consulted by Nr. Acton Patterson, who *aid he bad been »eked to advance money towards a railroad construction. Subwquently .lir. Root saw Mr. Moyes and Mr. Mnu.ke, thePo- licito. for the Railway. and was In- etructed to 1 r.ke out e. charter to form the Huron Conetuction Commas. INSTRUI'TIONS FROM 31UYES ••1\'bu finally gave yrs instructions to form the construction company inquired Ole. Pruudfoot. "Mir. Moves did. I precured the names of the necessary fiv., men. Tbi, w in September, 1111c. The people w rook o it the charter were the nisi clerk., sometimes trailed dum+ores." IThefive hued signed the' tomer' strength of wbicb the charter was terward1Rreu1Pd, dr,d each stibecrt-li for one share. The company was i corporated at. $10,1111. Mi. Itoars r collection ens that the check to coy Ali the expenses of taking out thecba ter cattle from John W . Moyes. "111 own check. for persona! services, w brought to him by 11e 3loyes, en bore the signature of the !futon Co struction Company. Outride the services of arrangin for this company's charter. with had very little to do for the compau but whatever he did for this orgy izatiou was done upon the instructio of .T. W. Moyes. \1-itness was unable to pr•xlr,ce an of the papers of the construction com pany, and it is the missing documen of this company as well as of the Wes Shore Railway which have greatl handicapped the board in their Inquiry So fat as the witness knew, howeve the Huron ('onsttuction Compan never consisted of any members oche tban the four described as "dummies, and 31r. Mayes. than bad hitherto been obtained. Mr. nail Sinclair, of the taw thouof Wat- son. Mmoks. Chisholm and Smith, a t:euten.•nt to the late Mr. bsooke, upon whom Mr. Moyes bad laid the coot Mote responsil.tlltr for the disappear- anceof the documents whicb would have shown the true state of affair*. declared that if Mr. Moyer bad said.e that he Rave all the voucbers, onoeots and papers soacu,tHHee e railway and the ronsu-uction nom rimy to. Mr. Smoke he 'Inuit have been mbtaken." Mr. Sinclair bad gone all through 11r. Smoke's pipets and could find out,' a minute book. stock b K.k, end a list of t rsnsfer►, These were product before the board. Mr. Sinclair bad himself been a direc- tor of the railway for some time. but he had no personal kaon ledge of its business. The ,minute hook 'Mowed a payment of 1111:450.1 for pre'tuotion ex- penses and services. NEEDS F.\ PL4 NATION. Mr. Sinclair produced slip what purpo,ted to be a draft interment of the contract tet ween the 11'est Shore Railway- and the Huron Construction Company. He had found it antt.ng 31r. Smokes papers. Ou tbe beck was endorsed. in 11,. Smoke's hand- writing: '•(lriwinal handed to Mi. Moyes.- Mr. Moyes objected to the as ho I 'r gal 1 0 on t af- rue grrement being placid In evidence. here had been several drafts and this me would nerd explanation, "You will he given an opportunity o make any rxplanatioh you dreier." id the chairman. "That is why we desire from you au explauetfoo. ' • "Thera gibs!. buy clients want. toe.- said 1Ir. Pruudfour, couusrl for the protesting wunicipalitiee, ••1'd like 13 see things cleatt•J up no unmet who ie. hurt.. it was also brought out that the agreement between the railway and rue cnnetruction company was sigued by our A. J. Patterson. but Patterson load rent in * swore statement that he heti never bad anything to du with theHuton Construction Co. Mt. Moyes could not tell Mr. Proud - foot where the hulk of the bonds had gone. Against this connect produced a statement made by Mr. Moyes to the Dominion Bank in which he had said he was the sole owner of the Hu Construction Company. Mr. Mo said be bed given this to satisfy baok as to hie right to use the po of attorney. MORE OF MOTES' NERVE. At Wednesday's sitting it dc%-rlo that J. W. Moyes had no the ;nevi(day applied for and taken from ed e- rr r- is as d n- g Ps o - u • u t • y r, y r $4u,1111, FOR CONTRACT. The directors held a meeting shortly after obtaining tbe charter. and a bv• law was tasted which permitted the construction company to buy- the con- tract f, r the building of the Weat Shore Rail VItry. The sale price was to b•r 810,155', but as to who held the cotrtract prior to that tine witness could not be sure. After this arrangement. Mr. Roaf s active connection with the Huron Construction Company ceased. As to what weenie of this charter and the other missing peters. witness was uncertain. He knew they had been giver[ to somebody present at the directors' meeting. poesibly Mr. Smoke or Mr. Moes. het be would not pos- itively haute either as the recipient. One of the 'lite, -tors was Thomas E. McCracken. student -at -law, who in- formed Mr. Pruudfoot he had sub- scribed for one/throe, but without any - intention ot ever prying the subscrip- tion. He was merely one of the five nien necessary, t,,wa,-ds the procuring of the charter CHAIRMAN SCORES MOYEti. 1 'Inc curinnie trinity of Jobn W. Moyes. the Ontario West Spore Rail- way, and the Huron Construction Cuiuoany, !Malty Lrokedown the pA- lienee of Chairman McIntyre and he fully and frankly wave his opinion of things as they impressed bine. "There is one thing 1 world like tie say," remarked Mr. McIntyre befog, the hoard took adjournment at t o'clock on 'Tuesday. "It IP nn(airthat the pe, mons interested in this inquiry should have to grope in the dark for tarts. A. a result of the evidence so far some things are petfrcily clear. (1netis t heArI1r. Moyes wasanlou, btrdly tbeauthor o7( three two companies-- tbe Ontario Wert Shore Railway Company and tee Huron Construetioo Company There can be no doubt of 1 ba t. "/urge sums of tnnt.ey for which the muni: ip.alitior interested in the construction of this road are liable," he cuntinued, "were paid over to these two a ptenle. ser controlled and fath- ered by Hoye.. The municipalities that hive guetenteedthese bonds and have incurred this Iitrge oyenniary 11a- irllity are entitle. ton file and candid and explicit accounting of these cote- penies from who Ir -r.eented these Mmpaoies and contrail tt them. "Hut the matter doe* not rest there. The disclosure* .how that some of these moneys firmed their way through Moira t 'Moyes private account. That raises, tinder the principle nt' moral law, an additional obligation upon Mr. Moo.* that these moneys Mat en reaebed his private areouot were properly divested and applied to the trust for which they were intended when they rates into this possession. LACK OF DIL1uKNCF. 'These b.lne andiaputoed facts there iw a river obligation ripen Moyes rte he seti•e in showing tbas OWN moneys were honestly apptid to ibis purposes for which tbey mese owe. ed. i don't think Ne, has . shown the diligence asd It 1. ' ss .ys awry `� thew et10e1yt see " t think Mr. Sleeve vor to eighty thie hoard mod the p.hi. that • these saoeeya were, eery applied, ' 7!e eeidwee at the -i ides tendo to threw seers light emir the Mere, i Me. Matra sad his two Asthma Catarrh worm axis tams latest 11•0110117111 taw. CMS ee►arrar beta • s.V` soft awl easOsee.rr est aw SAW SSW ..ria .a... ... 41.1%.11art RSA Mem liewhed war www .. .are trawn*, PAO11111Prell.ete•. a ~ANS w wswawea W.ar.swtitew,arwryse M/ .,r•.. o....r.0 t111 tsralsetw as gm/Wm eta ..ane Baader W a 119011 Y wha.w, Saw swam& ane wowsadiira swain ss.dsi► at,a, astwar..,. u.:4.wa1 sa�aIss "sYai4 RP Yaps Ceaseless Cm tkenahi. ILl. it t.uw.t, eta o'.i ••1 can't say." Mr. Mores teplted. "You cermet remember what you did even yesterday,- tbe ubuirrusn re- torted. "It seem• that we cannot get a plain anstber to a plain question on a matter whirl) occurtwt tseenoy-four hoot+i ago. Is that the ,state of your memory : '•11 worms that we cannot get any information from you what- ever. even on small Pointe. 1\'r will find our. anyway-. N'ac it after the morning erosion yesteidsy that you to..k out those checker' '.1'nesihly it was." ••Xetl, we'll find nut.' After some tboutthe Moyes declared the noon hour was the time of witb- drewel. "11 you had been tuore candid from the flr.•t" Mi. Mclntyre..plied, ••we would hive ieen a good deal further ahead." 1►Ir. Malcnyrenu, tepre.enting they municipalities intereotel• pressed to know whet had happened the checks• jj niter they weir taken f,om the tank. also where were the unsecured bonds. .1.. Moyes could .s0•say, also he pleaded physical ilaes.. "Every time the question cif those bomb. coeurs up,"• traa tbe lawyer's r. - ply, ••it is evaded in some such way." "You Amy some of *bent were w)J. To whom were they •olds' Noyes couldn't remember. He add- ed that his head was nct in shape to allow biro to give evidence. "INJURED INNOCENCE." "You needn't put on an air n( injur- ed innocens•e,'• Chairman McIntyre replied. •'Yon have been 'tardy.- and shitty all through. You hal the books of the company. You say you gate them 1oa men who is unfu.tuuasely dead. and whcae mouth is closed. We inn want an account of how thio money yea was spent and wr'te entitled to it." the "You'll get it. replied Moves. wet, "Von barn said that *repro, time+, but we are no nearer getting it now tban we were ot the (1r.t." "He knew two yeet•sago that. tbiugs ped were in en uneetrsfartory rendition - us fire -Chairman Ingrain adde.l. "One the would have thought that Mr. Moyer, Dominion Bank certain ssithdramal checks which were being held in t nauue of the Huron Construction Co pany, though be declared his name d not appear on the banks of that e,. pany lot representiug them in a capacity. The Beard was trying ce asrtain the relative condition of t finances of the railway company a the construction cprrrpany, and wi this in view Mr. Neville T. Mon secretary to the general manager of Tor.nto branch of the Domini Rank, was celled. He told the boa that the railway company's Acton was np. ned in July, 1908, with g11,(Jti(l.le. deposit. The total deposi reached the 51111 of 8-i85,113.41. which amount there is left 50.72. to what happened the balance, M Munro believed it had been paid of on check. These withdrawal cbte had been kept for a short time by t bank, but had later on beer, bend over upon the application of 1l 11oyes, so the witness wasyuite uoah to state to whom they were payahl board o trd was further handicapped i its enquiry by the announcement tha these withdrawal checks Are al among the many missing document he tie e td nl- f nv to t he nd t' th ro, c 011 rd nt an aa u t of x, As n r. it c les b he ct r. le II' e. Bs gi th t It so it ti de da co t w ex • 01 . Mr to clear bis own name, monk* have prepared a statement as to how the uni.ev was expended. - "I pupates srnrement. ' Moyes tit errt, '•ar soon as 1 em f11 to do al." ••Your only activity so far has hero o get your hands On certain checks tvr were aie'ut to obtain. You took her•ks from the hank yesterday at mon, which you learned lm tae fore! 40(1I1 we were dying to get.' the hairntan retorted. OUT THEY 00 IN THE NEW STORE Men's and Young Men's Overcoats In the shawl collar,; the ever Q.tpular conver- tible collar, double breasted, five times the assort- ment shown anywhere else, and every garment is unmatchable in quality and style. Overcoats with up to $10.01 for Overcoats worth up to MUM for ()Intranet* worth up to $U11,00 f e Overcoats worth up to MAP for Men's Trousers What man doesn't appreciate a pair ot Trousers, properly cut, Trousers that fit and hang- exacttl' right. 116.46 11.15 1u,43 IY,43 Trouser, worth up to SI IS for $1. le Trouser. worth .p to KM for 1.219 Trousers worth up to noir tor Iwo Trousers wortb up to 4.50 for 3.19 We also carry a full line of men's Hoots, Shoes and Rubbers. See our prices before buying else- where. M. ROBINS Clothier asd Gents' Feraiebsr Open Evenings THF. UNGUARANTEED BONDS. 1 r Continuing tbe diecussion about the le of the unsecured bonds. Mr. Moyes+ old Mr. Malcomson that some were Id through A broker, but he could ot reran hie name. Some "NOVO or Elii,111U wire returned to the het rnnpany under an arrangement made y 111r, timnke, and some of rbe trai- nee were pteoged on account of the instruction compeny. Nome time was epeot examining eo• les in the hooks of Are Dominion nk. Mr. N. T. Munro, secretary to e general manager. and Mr. F. Wes - y Morrow expleioed the entries. One, em of $:i was shown to have been Netted and withdrawn the some y on tbernnstruction company's ac- unt, and deposited also in the rail - y account. fore adjournment there was an tended controversy over the method making up engine..rs' certificates. Noyes explained that the certifi- cate repreeented the proportion whieh -) the work done bore to the entire con- tract. Probably nue-third of it was pro t. and Use remainder wnrk and I material supplied. of the amount of i BANK CHECKS MISSING. Following this came the statenen of the witneer that Moyee had also applied for and taken the withdrawal checks whieb almost depleted th funds of the Huron Cenetrueaoo ('ow pany. though his name had not ap- peared on the books as heil.g in an way connected with that concerti. There was a large number of cheeks against this latter company, two or three of wbich had leen withdrawn the previous day. nets Sesuunt in the name of the Huron Construction Company was opened in September. 1901, with a reedit of 82.lI9. Tbe name of Acton J. Patterson was connected with this, seeing that he signed the withdrawal check,. The books *bowed that the account was still open, with a credit of $110.9$. This again brought up the point as to who composed the Huron Cno*cructlon Company, the answer of the witness to this being that the only SAfae be knew wet that of Patterson. '.How did you come to make applica- tion- for those checker" waste de- mand of Mr. Kitmo, of the beard. The reply was that he wished to learn certain details of the accounts, though he had no power of attorney from Patfet•snn to withdraw the checks. All but the two or three cheeks last referred to, of smolt am - immix. bad bran taken out by Moyle earlier, but e. to where they are now he ea.ki not ear. They, too, are among the missing docnmeets needed to clear up the details of the transac- t ion* CHAIRMAN AGAIN IMPATIENT, This point seemed to 1.e an 'remo vs - lin one to the ...baseman of the board, time did you get those cheeks out ester•day r be tnquleed,. somewhat sharply. [bees certiflcetea, two -third, was re- Don't be satisfied with anything less_,lhan an Edison Phonograph Throughout the history of sound reproduction Mr. Edison has Weed the trail. Every important step has been con- ceived first to his mind He is the acknowledged master of 01:o0114es the world. 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