HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-5-23, Page 6PROVINCIAL POLICE REPORT
During Half Year 70 Per Cent, of the
Cases Were Convicted
A despatch from Toronto says:
In the half -yearly report of Super-
2,tateident of Provincial Police for
the period iron November 1 "to
April 30, some 820 eases were- hand-
led, which is a decrease of twenty-
nine riser the corresponding period
of a year. ttgo. Of these practically
seventy per cent., ter 507,were con-
vieted, 101 persons were diseharged,
in the ease of ten the charges were
-withdrawal, .and ninety-six stood
awaiting trial. Of this latter num-
ber -most of the -eases have since
been disposed of by Judges on cir-
euit. There were 220 persons prom
wetted tender the liquor license
eel, wbieh is an increase of nay -
,
lag eozaviettons were seeeared,
nn inerease oi' forts` -five; seventeen
ci:,al•°;es were (dismissed and three
withdrawn, ` The seizoires show' an
interesting eollectioaa, viz„ 5,3a•1
mottles of whiskey, MN gallons of
whiskey in various receptacles, 141,-
ra0 bottles of beer, 172 barrels :and
cases of beer, forty-eight bottles of
wine, thirty-eight bottles of brandy,
sixty-eight bottles of gilt, and forty-
two gallons of wines in different re-
ceptacles. Under the offensive
weapeans act, the sale of 514 revol-
vers and pistols has been register-
ed with the department, Under the
game and fisheries act there, were
seventy prosecutions, fort} -seven
convictions and thirteezr cases dis-
charged. Only ten remain to be
dealt with at the present time,
During the half year officers sta-
tifpned at frontier points have hand-
ed .over 340 persons to the Immigra-
tion Department for deportation,
or 183 more than in the cor•respond-
.ing period last year, Mr, Rogers l
emphasizes the fad that this is an
important branch of the police
work, and Points ant that the
charges of vagrancy have been re-
duced nearly fifty per cent,
t1s a result of the prosecutions
ed some $14,000 has been
fines.
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li DIES FROM RAT BITES.
if teriaus Case of a Little Girl at
London:
despatch from London, Ont.,
says; The Miller baby which was
bitten by rats at the home of Mrs.
George Haslett, fork Street, where
't was being bearded by its mother,
who is now in Berlin, died as a re-
sult of .its injuries at Victoria Hos-
pital on Thursdays morning. The;
child was left ill its cot in the din
-
ilag-r lawn on the nights of ,April 25,
wizen thirteen dais old, and when
direovered by Mrs. I Iaslett in the
morning was in a very serious ctan-
dition. The hedelothing was satur-
2tNI with blood, and one .of the in-
lanes nostrils, ., i s
of
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1a.1
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crtionsof
its ears
d leifi cheek had
been bitten to b•
GE.
hundreds Killed by a 1..n -dilute
Cyclone in lin-nary.
.1 despatch from. Vienna says; In
idle district of Szolnock, Central
Hnangaay, a tornado wiped out four,
tatarrkt:t towns within fifteen min -
s, on Thursday. In Balvany os
4:a1•alja 340 'looses were swept
away, leaving hundreds destitute
and burying dead and dying in the
ruins. It, the Village of Szasruate
L10 ,houses were blown. away,. Of
this Town of Inaba 'Gjfalu, with hun-
dreds of houses. nothing remains.
In one place' 170 houses form a great
heap of debris. Military detach-
ments have been sent to help the
destitute population, It is .impossi
Tier to estimate the loss of life, but
it is feared it must reach several
hundred.
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PRINCE OF WALES' 'PLANS.
Going to England for Birthday. and
Then Returns to Paris.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Prince cf. Wales, after the manoeu-
vers of the French fleet in the Medi-_
telranean in June,which he will
witness from the battleship Blanton,
will g, 1 n
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1 to England t for his bi •
-, s birthday,
Junel elHe will return to Paris
immediately after and will continue
his studies until the (:owes regatta,
the first week in. August. The
Prince goes then to Scotland and
will remain there until October,
when he will enter Oxford.
TITANIC FUND IS TOO BIG.
Lord Mayor Dates Not Know What
to Do With Surplus.
A despatch from London says:
The Lord Mayor foresees consider-
able
trouble as to what he is to do
with the subscriptions to the . funds
for the titanic sufferers. He says
quite enough money has already
been subscribed to relieve all dis-
tress, but the donations are ; stili
corning in. There will be a surplus
of a considerable amount, to which
consideration must now be given.
aeI IFI OF •REFOItESTA1'1kON.
More Tree -,Planting Will Be Done
?l#: Guelph..
A des ateh from Guelph says
Commissioner Rya n, accompanied
by Manager Foster of the Water-
works Department and Prof. Zavitz
of the 4< a't, College, paid a trip of
imspeetion to the park at the source
of Guelph's water supply.near Ar
kelt, on Thursday. It was decided
t_Itat more rel'orestinc should he
4lon e this fall, Already ten thou-
sand trees have been ;planted' to in-
sure a steady water supply, and in
the future to be a valuable asset to
Guelph.
1,1., S 1'Iti,1 N I'1tEMI .I -.R I31;IN I).
Sudden Malady Likely to Precipi-
tate Crisis in the'abil t.
(, to
A despatch from Vienna says:
The Austrian Premier, Count'
Stuergh, was suddenly stricken 1.
with blindness on Wednesday, and ,1
the attending physicians fear he
may not recover his .sight, Tho
Emperor has asked the Minister of t
the Interior, Dr. K, Ifeinoldl
D'Udynski, to act in the interim.
The Premier's retirement probably
will involve a Cabinet crisis,
IIANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN.
^^- western, No, 3, 511.2 to 52c; do., extra
ROYAL PALACE OF DENH.ARR, THE LATE KING AND HIS QUEEN.
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE
CENTRES OF 41me4i1CA.
t'lige s of Cattle, Crain, 1 heo$a and Other
Produce at Homo and Abrl ad,
111 EADSTtil PS,
Toronto. May 21.- -Flour-•-'Winter wheat,
90 per eeut. patents, 54.05 at seabaard,
and at $4,10 to $4.20 for home eousurnp-
tioin. Manitoba flours--)`irat patents, $5.,.
70; second patents. 5520, and strong bak-
ers', 55, on track, Toronto,
3lauitoba Wheat -No, 1. Northern, $1.-
10 1-2. clay ports; No, 2 at 51.07 1.2, and
No, 3 at 51,041-2, Bay ports. Feed wheat,_
68e, Bay .ports. Ontario wheat --No. 2
whit', red aztd wired, $1.05 to 51.06. out.
side,
Peaam-No. 2 shipping Peas, 51.25. outside..
Oats -Car lots of No. 2 Ontario, 49e,
and No.. 3 at 47e, outside, No, 2 Ontario,
51 to 52e, on track, Torouta. No. 1 extra
W, C. f* ed, 49c. Bay ports. and N. 1' at
48c, Bay porta,
e:Pra-No, 3 Amerman yellow quoted at
821.2q, .Say ports, and at 860. 9u trach
�,raM41tP.
itye -Prices nominal,
Bue wheatT7Q to 72e, outside.
Bran•- t."�uiteba 11ran, 525. lit ba s, TO
rout* freight,
Shorts -527,
COUNTRY PRO/MICE,
Angles -$3 50 to $5 ,per barrel,.
l3eaua-Swa11, lots of :handpicked, 52.70
to $2.75 per bushel; primes, 52.E+0 to $2.-65,
/Toney -Extracted. in tins. 11 to 12o per
U. Contb9 52,50 to 52.75 a dozen,.
Baled a --N �
a ed il; a, ,. ]8
S to 519 a tan. Clo-
ver, C
G
cr mixed. 14to
x 515.50, on track.
Baled Straw --411 to 511.50, on track, To.
ionto,
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontnrios, in bags,
51.75 to 51.80, and Delawares at $1.85 to
51,90, Out-or.store, $1.95 to 52. Imported
po,ataes, 51.60,in ear lots. and 51.60. out -
of -store.
Poultry --wholesale prices of, choice
dressed po'altry:-Chielteny, 15 to 17o per
1h.: fowl, 11 to 12o; bucks. 12 to 14e: tur-
keys. 20 to 21e., Tawe poultry, about 2e
ewer than the above.
BUT F,R, Ear,S, CHEESE.
Butter --Thiry. choice, 25 to 26e ' b37tcrs•,
nforior, 21 to- 22e: creamery, 29 to 30e, for
roils, and 28 to 29c for solids, o
Etrgx�-- 7ew•1aid, 22 to 23e per dozen, in
eaRe IotR.
Cheese -New Sheese, 141.2 to 15e Iyer
pound.
MONT11LtL MARKETS.
Montreal. May 21. -Oats -Canadian West-
ern, No, 2, 551.2 to 56c; do.. Canadian.
No. 1 feed. 521.2 to sac. Barley-SIan. feed,
5 to 66e: do., malting, $1,05 to $1.06, Buc1t-
outhern Express Co. Decline In -:6
wheat• -•No. 2,. 74 to 75e. Flour-Man.pring wheat patents. firsts 55.80; do.,
ecouds, $5 30; do.. strong bakers', 55.10;
do. Winter patents choice, 55.25 to 55.35;
do.. straight rollers. 54,80; do., straight
formation as :to Losses.
A despatch from New Orleans s
says; Southern Express Company
officials here declined to vouchsafe r
any information as to the amount
of money secured by robbers, who
early on Wednesday held up .a
Queen & Crescent .flyer south of
Hattiesburg and dynamited the ex-
press car. It is denied, however,
that the robbers obtained a sum
approxirnately $140,000, the losses
reported.
RAILWAY TROUBLE SETTLED.
Sir William Mackenzie l/laide Terms
%'Vith Trainmen.
A despatch from Winnipeg
says:
It is announced that Sir Wm. Mac-
kenzie has arranged an amicable
settlement with the Canadian Nor-
thern Railway trainmen, and that
the American crews which have
been running,Northern Pacific and
Great Northern trains from x the
boundary will in future not oper-
ate the trains in Canada,`
WORK STARTED ON T.I,'\T1EL.
C.N.R. Expect to have `500 'Ceti .at
Work at i1Lontr ea 1.
A despatch, spa ch• from Montreal .says
Work on thebig
C.N:R.tunnel un-
der the Mountain. has 'started, and
in a day or two the company expect
to have 500 men at work. 'Macken-
zie & Mann state that trains will be
running through the tunnel in two
years.
ROYII4TY WATCH CkVkbff
King arid- Queen's Interest in the Manoeu
vres at Aldershot
A c.;patch from London . says
Icing George )v"atehed the cavalry
manoeuvres at AIdershot from
horseback < n t,ha' hilitop, whither
the Queen had gone in an'automo-
bile to join him, on Thuraday. Ti e
Qitem] carne. out of the aaitornobile,
but was harcll} able to stand." the
boisterous gale,. She was obliged to
grab her hat to hold it from the
wind and the dust of the, galloping
horses, whish together raised
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i1 t
z t clouds5 which hrf'
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n
n
hid thesoldiers. AYterwal-db there
'Was an arduous mimic. artillery bat -
tie. The airmen tried to ;co-operate
in the manoeuvres, butwere:pre-.
vented by the terrible gale. King
George purposes spending ' four or
five days in the field with the troops,
ruai oeuvring,,, at Aldershot about
the last. week of this nnonth.,. Ex-
cept that lire will lodge at the pala
tial' Royal pavilion, the visit will be
informal, The King will`. spend the
days in the " saddle :like an oitiina -y�
trooper. He will ills) thoroughly
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the 11
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aviation school
and Y 1 „tory.
oilers, bags. 52.25 to $2.35, Itollei oats -
Barrels, 55.85; do„ bags. 90 lbs„ 52.55.
Bran -$25.00: shorts. 527,00; niiddlinus,
529 00; mouillie, $30.00 to $34.00. Ray -No,
2, per tong ear lots, 518.50 to 519.00, Choose
-Finest Wcstern5. 133.4c; do.. finest East -
erns, .13'1-4 to 13 1-2c. Butter -Choicest
creamery. 261-2 to 27e do., seconds, 251-2c
to 26c, Errs -Fresh. 23 to 231-2c; do.. No.
2 stock, 18 to 20c. Potatoes -Per bag, car
1ets, $1.70 to 51.75.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis. May 21. -Wheat -May, $1.-
14 1-8; July, 1-2;81.14September, 51.057-8
to $1.06; No. 1. hard, 1.17; No. 1 Northern,
$1.16 to 51.161-2; No. 2 Northern, 5114 to
81.14 1-2; No. 3 whaat, $1.12 to 51.121.2. No.
3 yellow corn, 771-2 to 781.25. No. 3 white
oats, 55e, No. 2 rye, 874-2c. Bran. 523.50
to 524.00. Flour -First patents, $5.50 to 55.-
75; second patents. , & P $5:15 to $5A5; first
clears. $3,90 to 54.15; second clears, 52.80
to 53.10.
Buffalo, May 21. -Spring wheat. No, 1
Northern, carloads, store. 51217-8; Win-
ter, No. 2 red, 51.22; No. 3 red, $1.20; No. 2
white. 5121. Corn; steady. Oats, No. 2
white. 60 3.4c; No. 3 white, 601.4c; No. 4
white, 59 1-4c. Barley, malting, $1.17 to
$1.8D. .
LIVE STOOK—MARI{ETS.
Montreal. May. 21. -Cattle -Prime beeves,
71-2e to 8c; medium, 53.40 to 71.4e; com-
mon, 41-4c to 51-2c; milch' cows, 530 to
570; calves, 21.2c to 61-2c; sheep. 5c to
61-4c; spring'lambs, 53.50- to 56.50 each;
hogs, 9 1-2c. ,
Toronto, May 21. -Cattle -Extra choice
heavy -steers for butcher and export, $7.-
30 to 57.50; good medium to choice butcher,.
loads, 56.40 to $7.30; mixed light butcher,
56 to 56.25; common, ' 53.50 to 55.60; tau
ners, 52 -to 83: choice butcher cows, firm,
at :$5.25 to 56.50; :bulls, 55 to 56.25. Stockers
-Steady demand at 55.25 to $6 for good
quality; extra choice heavy feeders 56.25
to 56.50. Calves -Good, veal, 53 to $7.50
bobs, 51.50 to $2.50. Sheen -Choice ewes,
55 to 56: bucks and culls, 54 to 85: spring
'Lambs. 54 to 57 each. Hogs $8.90 to 59,
fed and watered, ' 58.65 f.o.b.
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PUN. FOR1
Iz '.l'IIIID�4, l I0N
Three 1[onths .:for Seven Industrial
.W o.z leers of the World.
A despatch from Kamloops, B.C.
says: Seven' Industrial Workmen.
of the World, found .guilty of inti-
midation in connection with the'.
strike on the Canadian Northern,'
were sentenced at the Assizes here
on Thursday to three months in pri-
son. Four of the men—Quirk,'
Miscinen. Olson and Schoulder-
-were Portree guilty of assault and for
this , received : an additional six
months each, In passing sentence
Chief, Justice Hunter said : "You
are free to join' any °organization
you wish;,, but when you act as you
did in this' ease; you, may .get into
the grip of the law. The people of
'.;his Province are• law-abiding and
en infringernentof the law will not.
be tolerated."
The Sasicatcheivan. Department of
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p
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seeding
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carnpax,sW6.11 with other years.
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The large building 211 this picture
represents the Danish royal palace.
The figure inset above is that of the.
latthate Kinof Qug.Ji'reeenderiek;Alexandthatrbelow hios
ine, w
now becomes the Queen Dowager,.
^1•a k Truckle Shoots His Wife in
;a Jealous kit.
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despatch
from. 1-iailailtonn. says;
A shocking- erime was committed in
the heart of the city on Saturday
morning M
but rut 1
1ocl
ock
a when
r
Frank Truckle shot and almost in-
stantly killed his wife at the corner
of Park and Market streets, The
shooting was witnessed by a num-
ber of persons, who chased the mur-
derer, After pursuing him for
about a 'mile he was surrounded
at the corner of Park and Duke
streets, and, seeing .that escape was
impossible, turned the revolver that
caused his wife's death on himself,
and indicted a wound from which
he died an Sunday morning. , He
was hurried to the City --Hospital
in an unconscious state, but recov-
ered econseiottsness during the af-
ternoon. Jealousy is the cause of
the tragedy.
STEAMER 13 URNIl1).
Iona Sinks Fifteen iti1es Out on
Lake Ontario.
A despatch from Kingston says:
The Montreal -owned steamer Iona,
coal laiden, took fire shortly before
midnight it Lake Ontario on Sat-
urday and was burned to the'
water's edge, subsequently sink-
ing. The captain and crew of
twelve men took to a lifeboat and
were driven before a violent gale,
finally landing on Sunday morning
at Henderson Harbor, N. Y. The
vessel was fifteen miles north of
Oswego when fire was discovered
near the boiler -
loom and, after an -
effectual attempts to,,
it, the
men left the vessel. They were
thoroughly exhausted on reaching
land.
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ItEPLY TO GERHANY.
Supplementary Estimates to be
Presented by the Admiralty.
A despatch from London says : •
5
Ms. Winston Churchill, First Lord
of the Admiralty, announced in the
.ForuGA of Commons on Wednesday.
that in view of the additional sums
to be expended by Germany on na-
val, construction 'under the new
German naval bill, avhich passed its
second reading in the Reichstag on
Tuesday, he would certainly have
to present supplementary naval es-
timates this year; as he : had inti-
mated in
nti=mated'in his speech when introduc-
ing in the naval
rt
< va1 budget.
t
.
.A Chinesee
leper at 11Iontreal is to
be deported. `He must be quaran-
tined the whole journey home.
THE NEWS .IN A PARAGRAPH
HAPPENINGS FltOM ALL OVER
THE GLOBE IN A
NUTSHELL.
Canada, the Empire and the World
in General Beforo Your
Eye%
0A AD.A:,
Harold Legg wits drowned while
canoeing at London, Opt,
Newrlanswick eleetioT}S. will be
held about June 1sth,
E. T, Mott is the new president.
of Winnipeg Board of Trade.
Five stowaways were found on the
steamer Montcalln at Quebec.
Stratford's tax rate will be 20
mills, an.inerease of one-half mill,
Guelph radial railway- employes
still get 1X, cents all hour increase.
Tag day in Berlin and 'Waterloo
re lized ,$2,400 tor hospitiid purpos-
es,
One thousand men from northern
Ontario will make an excursion to
Toronto on June 21,.
Two hundred thousand tons of ice
have been stored for use in Toronto
this summer..
Over 12,000,000 acres has been,
seeded to wheat in the three west-
ern Provinces.
Fire did $100,000 damage to the
Royal City Mill at New Westmin-
ster.
Farmers in the Temiskaming dis-
triet Caro going in for;potato cul
-
The
The bodies of three Titanic Vie-
tilns in a boat were picked up by
the Oceanic and buried at sea.
Contracts have been let for the
C,P„It. s - million -dollar irrigation
work in Alberta.
A company is negotiating with
the Montreal City Council with the
object of providing an autobus ser-
vice. ”
Mrs. Julia '.Buchanan of Pem-
broke has been acquitted of the
charge of attempting to poison Da-
vid Moldy.
It is reported at Ottawa that
Hon. W, J. Hanna has been offered.
the Chairmanship cif the Railway
Commission.
The steamer Ames ran into the
swing bridge at Hamilton on Fri-
day, damaging the structure and
effectively blocking the harbor.
The Canadian Car & Foundry
Company is to establish new shops
at Fort William with a capacity of
seven thousand wood and steel cars
yearly.
The Carney Lumber Company's
mill at Owon Sound. was burped on
Saturday, entailing a loss of $150,-
000. The main building of the Ham
ilton,Glass Works was also destroy
eel,
A work train with twenty- w otic
men, droppedthrough a bridge at .
Bassano, •73,C a distance of 40 feet,.
Barry Smith was killed and ,L R..
Constantine and M, F, Ogden fa-
tally injured,' "
GREAT BRITAIN.
The second reading of the Welsh
dis-establishment bill was passed by
a majority, of $7 votes.
The people. of St. Kilda, Scotland,
are threatened with starvation. A
warship has been sent to the rescue,
The British Government may buy
Penryhn Castle, near 'Bangor,
North, Wales, for the Prince of
Wales.
A Board of Trade committee was
appointed; to advise as to best meth-
ods of increasing safety of ships at
sea.
Sir Cosmo Duff -Gordon denied
the eharge that he had objected to
going to thee rescue of the Titanic
victinns after the vessel sank,
UNITED STATES.
Counsel for the United States
Steel Corporation have refused to
produce certain "papers demanded
in the government scut to dissolve
the trust,
GENERAL.
Rome restaurants miist not S
bread and rolls not wrapped in
per -
Thirteen were killed and forty-
five injured in a railway collision In
Paris.
A. Munich "loan shark" who .'
charged 350 per cent .interest, has
been given five --years in prison.
The negotiations regarding terms
in connection with the proposed.
loan to China were suspended ow-
ing to Russian 4abjeetions,
The, 'Italian naval and military
authorities succeeded in reproduc-
ing the humanan voice in a message
by wireless telephony, at 1t distance
of 160., utiles,
Women in Berlin refused to at-
tend theatres, where, by order of
the police, they had to remove
their hats. So theatre managers
have secured a court order allowing
the hats to be worn.
Two French aviators, Capt. Belie -
mer and M. L. ,Beauvais, were kill -
cd and another one. M, L"Holl
paean; ; badly injured in two acci-
dents. Nine French airmen have
beon."killed in two weeks,
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MINIRS 'TO RESUME WORT,;.
Ratify Agreement Entered Into by
the Officers.
A despatch from Wilkesbarre,
Pa., says: By a vote of 323 to 1.1t
the anthracite brine workers in con-
vention on Saturday ratified the
agreement entered into by their
sub -committee with the coal oper-
ators, and ordered the 170,000 men
and boys employed in and about
tho mines to return to work on
Wednesday, The ,suspension, which
is thus ended, began March 31, or
seven weeks ago, when the agree-
ment entered into in 1909 expired,
"ALEXANDRA. DAY" Il JUNE
Novel Idea Has Peen Put Into Effect By
.Society Ladies in London
A despatch from London ,says:: A
number of well-known society ladies
leave hit upon a very bright and no-
vel idea in which to holier Queen
Alexandra, and .at the' same time
benefit the many hospitals, homes
and charities in which her Majesty
is interested. On a certain day at
the end of June -to be called . "Al- matters the Countess of Wilton be -
has always taken the greatest per-
sonal interest, while, of course,
others will be natural looms, most-
ly from the sellers!,Own hat -houses.
Roses will predominate, and next
to the rose will come Queen Alex
andra's favorite flower, the "lex
andra" carnation.. Already a com-
mittee has tet ars been formed to' a.rrangc
exandra Day"—a. band of society
leaders, with many' willing helpers-,
wi l self in the streets; of London
flowers of all sorts, and the honey
so collected; will be handed to Queen
Alexandra for diStribtotidn among
herPe
t charities.
,Some of the
flowers will be a,a tifiicial made by
those clever little'cripple -children
ing the president, while nxember alnon the
g
s, who are all rporking hard -
enrolling helpers
ardenr•olling.helpers and arranging the
hutidred,,and one details, are "the
Duchess o£"Marlborough, the Mar-
chioness of Dufferin and Ava, the
14iarcl i
Uri 5
of (Jac w c,' and many
others 1\ c tillers to add, Queen Al-
exandra herself is taking a keen in -1
in whose work ..'Que.en Alexandra 'terest in the arrangements.
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