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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-04-15, Page 7the stater ill the river wotthl NIAGARA RivER rti,8li „titt:,. ,,ild ,,„ tu the lesel of the Vella before it could lit any wey interfere -,( CH KED Pin . ins.. i,,,,, Tn.,onta been in dan- with their production of power, end that e ger ef hitting it supply ot eleetrieity front !he Eleetrieal lievelopment Com Ontario Power Plant EntMr irely Out PI" eit'L uff' . e.yotes added that tlio Eleetrieal • of Business. Great Damage Dont to the Gorge Railway Track au 4 Poles. Electrical Development Compony Goes to Its Rival's Ai Niagara Vallia. April IL- Extending from the foot of the Valle dowa to Niagara -on -the -Lake an expanse of lee over twelve ruilea long Ilea stationary la the Niagara River., This vast field is broken only at the Whirlpool Rapids. 'rhe water in the river is Nom thirty- five to forty feet above the ordinary level, and from Queenston to Lake Oa- taiio the glftciat formatted is still rising. From the bend in the river at Foster's Flats almost to Lewiston, a distance 01 six. miles,the traeks of the Gorge Rail- road are buried under twenty to thirty feet of ice, and all the poles and equip- ment are broken down. The lower rapid, whieh ordinarily rivals in terbulence the waters of the Whirlpool Rapid, is to -day a turgid stream, winding its way slowly through vast eavittens'ef iee. The condi- tion -of affairs has no precedent, Since Friday every industrial plant that de- pends on electricity for motive power has been cloaca down, and the whole city is in darkness, Early on Saturday morning the water at the .foot of the Falls rose forty feet above the normal level, flooding the power house of the ()Atari° Power Company and the hy- draulic plea below the bank. Conditions became so bad at the Ontario Power house that all the machinery was stop - sed. The water and leo broke throngh the windows and doors, which are. built thirty-five feet above the normal level, and flooded the power house to a depth of nearly twenty feet. Ice is piled ."( fifty feet high in front of the power house. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The famine. statement given by the Ontario Powerr'Company corers the sit- uation so far as they are concerned; the other power companies tiro still work- ing: "The unprecedented accumulation of ice below the Falls, extending for nearly nine miles to Lewiston, caused. the water to rise about forty feet above normal. The maximum record? of high water in the past is about twenty-eight feet above normal. The power house is designed with its windows about seven feeb above the highest known height of water. Last night, however, the water exceeded this previous reeord by about twelve feet, and the water and iee poured through the windows and south door of the power house at once, causing a stoppage of the machinery. • "Temporary connection is being made, through the courtesy of the Electrical Development Company, with their works, and the steam reserve plants at Roches- ter, Syrtteuse, West Seneca and else- where are being used to supply a por- tion of the load in the State Of Nev York. "The intention is to supply the public Berviee corporation*, first, such as rail- roads and lighting companies, and after- wards the manufacturers and private taws, No permanent damage is done to the power house or its macbinery. As soon as the water has been pumped out of the power house it will only be heees- wiry to dry and clean .the machinery before resuming hill operations. The money loses is extremely smell, but the inconven:ence .to the customers is, of eourse, serious. A 'recurrence of the Accident is impossible, as the windows twill he built up solid to a height of any possible rise of water in the future." itIAID OF THE MIST. - Diving the rise of the water the Maid of the Mist was tipped off its berth and the landing washed away. It is dated that considerable damage has been done to the alintments of tha upper steel arch bridge, but the officiate of the Interna- tional railway say they are intact. Conditions are far Worse lower down the river. The Gorge Railway for eix .ruiles is burled in lee, and in places is mid to be broken away. The damage to thist road will amount to $200,000, it is thought, for though the extent cannot at present for, it is not con- ceivable that the roadbed can have wttbstood the battering of gigantic ice Coes it has been subjected to. For a itength M five miles a new road mey have to be built A HOTEL TflItF,ATENED. The boiler 'louse and lower structures of the Cornell House at Lewiston have 'been carried awassts, and the Cornell House itself is threatened; Already the is about the supports of the build- ing and a slight rise svill bring it top- pling into the water. A large peach orchard between Qtteenston and the lake has been submerged and torn away, and at Niagara -on -the -Lake the dock and pomp house at the M. 0. It. station were shifted. The bathing bouses at the Queen's Royal and all the small piers have been swept away, and sum - 'fuer houses on the shore have been erumple& up by the devastating ice grip. Tito residents along the lower river are watching it with an anxious eye. There are expensive shipping facilities and costly docks which may be swept away in it minute. . NATURR, NOT DYNAMITE. ,Experts looked over the situation yes- kereley, with it view to employing dyna- Mite to break the ice up. The party in- todrd nmnber of engineers from the power eorepanie% le was ileeidee that xiymtmite would have. little effect, and pat nature must; be allowed to take its course. The sun readiest the gorge only for a few hones in the day, and ha % but llttIe ktfoet on the ice that ordinarily Aceumulatea there. V the lee does not break away in a day or two a desperate effort will be made to break it up with a powerful explosive. And it is not the voiee of the pessimist that says condi- tions may yet be worse. About the Valle, extending nearly to 13tifittio, the river is packed -with enillions of 'tone of See. If the ice jam does not break away at tha mouth of the river before this Mass comes rushing over the Palle the iee will pile up higher and higher; it fauna find an outlet under the present jam. Only it Annan in the wind. and 'Warmer weather will ward off the dan- gers whieh threaten valuable property Along both banks of the .Niagara giver. TORONTO'S POWRII SAM. 'Arr. Mary Symes„ of the Electrieal Pevelopniont, Company,. eteted to -night that the plant was in no danger froM the risingwater in Niagara River, and thi at any nterrnption of transinissieu ar power to Toronto by their line coat not &elm under any ieiremustailetS, Mr. !Ls .1)evelopment Company was supplying the Ontario, Power Company with 25,000 horse power electrie energy and that his etnnpany Was the only one able to do this in the present emergency, It Would eontinue this until the Ontario Power Company could supply power. About 1 wen ty thousand people eame to the Valls to -day to look at the un- usual conditions prevailing in the Niag- ara. River. The international Railway ran it fifteen -minute service to Lewiston. hundreds of people walked on the leo formation in theriver at Lewiston, and many crossed over 'from shore to shore. The blur, flowing stream, of summer is a white, still streant of winter. Ail the way front the Whirlpool to Lake Ontarioa glistening mass of snow and ice crowds either shore, It is• it wonder fill color Wallies as it bursts upon the view from Queenston Heights, a mightY water artery suddenly turned to a. seem - big white death, its frozen contents, ensiled and high -piled In paroxysms of forced movement. Bits of 'white snow lie upon the bordering trees, catching the eye with their purity, and then the brown earth, the blue woods and the distnnt lake line, many -shaded as Lite sky itself, ON THE LOWER RIVER. A sight; of the lower river in its grip of frost is a sight indeed, Niagara is it capricious waterway,ever surprising the oldest inhabitant with its vagaries, but on this 1909 Easter nature is ex- hibiting a new and terrible illustration of ner power. A great ice bridge stretches from the feet of the falls to the lower suspension bridge with only a bit of open water hero arid there re- vealing the under rush of the impetuous stream. In front of the American fall the giaantie mounds of frost overlook it tong and narrow placed pool; the vent of the tunnel muter the upper bridge forces a way throughthe iee, but every- where else the great 'hummocks are piled high, showing the agony of arrested motion la their contorted masses and serrated ridges. The lower fapidg have also succeeded in maintaining an open path, the mad- dened waters bejng turned into a soupy thickness by the crumbling of iee floes, but at the Whirlpool the ice has won over the waters, .and with its winning has entered upon its drstruetive work. Scarce a manonado structure is to be seen Mons" the banks of the lower river. For two •miles the Gorge Rail- way ie buried niftily feet deep. Item a trolley pole is staggering in an angle of helplessness. there its top protrures above the mountain of hummoeks as if a walking cane had been placed therein, but for the most of the way poles and wires are buried ns diltbply as the road- bed. ON FOOT ACROSS THE NIAGARA. In the narrowest river space be- tween Niagara Olen and the Devil's Bridge, where in summer the water is heaped. high in mid -stream, there is to -day it high-backed spine of ice, and men may Cross with comparative safety, until the mass, regulated by some unseen law of force, resumes its journey, and when that happens it were well Mat man leave no Lure to solve her own difficulty. • Poor old Queenstown is dockless and Mindless, with many feet of water and ice on her timbers, Lewiston has been similarly treated, even to the overturning of boathouses and shore structures of every kind. And this is the tale"that will probably be told all along .the stream to the lake itself when this winter invasion sludl have passed. When will it pass? 11 woul(1 seem as if nature herself would have a Titanic task before her, for no hanwo 1 maculation can estimate the countlesi billion tons of ice squeezed in the ten miles of canyon. Mighty will b'e the movement required to disintegrate the solid mass,ebut in the meantime Niagara is ice -gripped 'as rarely, if ever, before. TORONTO ALL REMIT, Toronto, April 12. -There seemed :sra ve grounds in Toron to on So 1111 des-. morning for real, that the Eleetrical eclopment Company's plant above tho Falls might share the fate of the Ontario Power Company. Mr. J. J. Wright, meneger of the Toronto Elec- tric Light Company, evidently thought so, and ordered that the obi deem power plant 'of the -company should be revived and kept in readiness in case he Niagara dynamos should fall them. Hokever, Mr. W. 13. Boyd, chiRf engin- eer of the Etectiical Development Com- pany, went to the Valle end reported that uniese an abnormal iee jam took tibiae above the Falls their plant was tate." lle thought it would take two weeks tatty the jam breaks and the water goes down for the Ontario Power Company to get into shape. J. 'Homing, manager of the Toronto lta i 1 way Company and th.s glectuical Development Company, Said that the station and nmeldnery 11 the Development Company Were tale because of their position above the Moet of their machines were too high for the water to reach them. Mr. A. F. Lobb, solicitor for the .itydro-Electrie Power- Commtssian, said that this event would have no af feet on the Beek power by-law scheme, lite occurrence was un- avoldehle, mid the best ,reply to critics Wit5 that for three and it half years the Ontario Power Company Iittil been handling forty thousand horsepower a day anti that they had never had a chtlin laia againet them for lack of power. WRECK ON ERIE No Trace Yet ef the Ten Missing Men. ••••••••••10.=• Detroit, April II. --Only additional bits of wreckage Witielt wasbed ashore to -day bear mate .evidencenf the fete which befell the maven mem- bers of the erew and .the three pase- engersof the fishing tug Centel! A, Floss, which foundered in last I-Wed- nesdeay'e storm, So far the waters of Lake Erie two reined to give up any of the bodiee of the men, who now are belieVed to have perished. Only small parts of the ..tug have been Nulled upon the Welt by the era. The shore mat of here Was patrolled for nearly one hundred miles 10 --day, but the seareh wins unavailing. The wivee and ehildren of the missing, men ire frantic with grief. -Most of tham have given up all hope. Mariners say it, may be several days before Lite bodiee of the men are washed ashore. Sono bAleve the men were carried down with the haat ('aught, to that .tio'ir bodiee may never he teeovercit The. exact sei.m. of the .digniter may never be Unowil.' CUT OUT THE -GAY TIME. "The Night Life" of Madrid Now a Thing of- the Past. Mosic Halls, Clfes, Etc. Closed at Midnight. The All Night Revelry Suppressed by Alfonso. 3fadrid, April 12. ---The old "night life" of Spain, the 111.11Sie and dancing that has been welt an attraetive fea- ture to foreign :tourists to Madrid anti southern ebb.); of Seville, Cadiz and Bareelona, is it thing of the past. A few years ago the tiovernmea decided that night bohemianiem was demoralise- ing the youth of the country, and King Alfonso issued a ro'Yal decree closing music halls, cafes and other places of amusement at 12.30 a. in. Formerly these places never closed their doors. Is.tigite serenetung pavties of cloaked and. turbaned students, who marched through tee streets like tron- batters, 'strumming their guitars and singing love songs at their sweethearts' windows until daylight, also Were Pro- hibited after midnight. The orders erditsed much hostility, but were strict- ly enforced, with the result that muclt of the old-time gaiety which the Span - ants loved disappettred. 'The Spanish music halls became as lifeless as after- noon tea parties. Itut even this cluing° has not satisfied tho King, and the Gov- ernment and a new royal decree designed to raise the tone of the music halts has been issued. The women of tho stage are prohibited- hereafter from entering that part of the building intended for the imbue, or from addressing. or other- wise coming in contact with the audi- Mee. They are not allowed to lodge in the same or 'adjoining buildings, and private rooms are forbidden. The fines for infractions are heavy, and three of- fences forfeit the proprietor's license. • • MORRISE HELD. Charged With Murdering His Brother and Firing Shack. Milestone, Sask., April 11. --The in- quest following the death of Charles Mortise, whose charred remains were found itt the ruins of his ehack on a homestead south of here last Tues- day morning, indicate that be was foully murdered, audathe crime is likely to be laid at the door of his brother, Ernest. The fire did not quite. obliterate all traces of the murder, as the .skull of the deed man told a tale, IV had' been crushed by a blow. Ernest Morrisenves it most unsatisfac- tory witnesss at the inquest,. his evi- dence revealing peculiar financial trans -- actions with los dead brother. He ttd- Mated having sol4 a team of horses belonging to Charles, and having re- tained the proceeds. The dead man had depended upon being able to secure money, by mortgaging .these horses to obtain seed grain for bit claim. 11 is 'lammecl by the police that this may have led to it quarrel in the lonely shark on Monday night, as Ernest had his tronk packed preparatory to leaving for Lite south m it somewhat hasty eurener when detained by the police. : 'The post-mortem revealed the feet that the men had boon deed before he fire tonehed his body. Ernest has been pineed under arrest, charged with !our - der rind arson. STRUCK ON HEAD. -- Montreal Jury Exones.tes Teacher From Death Which Followed. Montreal, April 11. --The coroner held an inquest on Saturday afternoon on the remains of a led named Gabriel Picotte, 8 years•ohl, son of Dr. Picotte, whose death, it was claimed, resulted from a blow given by the brother at one dr the Marist Brothers, schools, in this city. It was shown tint the boy had been struek eve: the head with it wooden pointer and that he was af- terwards attacked by, tuberculosis, from whieh be reeently died. The jury exon- ernted the teacher, but recommended net teachers should not use such forms of relnishment. 4 • G. T. REPORT. Net Profits of /960,427 For the Half Year. ••••••••.10....• London, April 11. -The Grand Trunk half -yearly report shows gross receipts of 43,382,841 rtgainst 43,703,240 last year; working expenses, 42,422,413 against 42,710,034 last year; net profits, 4900,427 against 41,04312; while fur- ther net revenue and credits bring the total to 41,004,312.- The total available for dividends is 4443,078. A half -yearly dividend is recommended on the 4 per cent. guaranteed stock, 5 per cent. for the full year on the first preference and 2% per cent. on the second preferente stock. Twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds sterling was carried forward. The Amount ite debit in the engine, and expense mama was 4644,119. SOO WATER POWER. ...0•••••••.. Result of Mr. Aylesworth's Visit to Washington. i••••*•••• Ottawa, April 11.---Ifon. A. IL Ayles- worth has returned to Ottawa, after it brief visit in Washington, where be W0111 to diseuss the rider placed upon the wirterweye treaty by the rutted Statee Senate. The rider is rather in - dandle, but appears to exempt the Culled States front the provimione of the original treaty for an equal vestals. - lion upon Canada and the United States; in reepeet to th.1 diverting of water nt - the Soo 'for power purptaiee. it was td obtaimt an offieial interpreta- tion r.f Ole eider that Mr. Ayieeworth went in Wasbingion. While there be had isoufetaneea with the Seeretary for War, Ittr. Diekenson, and. with the late Seeretary of State. Setiater Mut Root. 14 is learned that Mr. Ayiesworth Wei 10 that to protset aesioation ttud to toutrol all the polypr devtqoptneut at the Soo the Vulted States proposes te acquire the alriolute alio 10 all the property along the rapids en 1.1:, Anuelean side, nnit far 11114 ,tputpose a hill was out through VoligrP44 411 the last i ittauthorizing Ow Government to acquire this pro- perty by expropriation, and dollars was voted to be expended; for this purpose,. The administration .of he proposes to acquW the proraly at mite. -With the jurisdietion over the Soo power taken from the State of Michigan III plated la the hands of the United Slates Government the eituatbm as re. gards the Soo is nuteh simplified. A statement will be Jttitl before*the Gov- ernment here by Mr. AyleSworth, and Cenada will then decide whether or not it will give approval to the treaty with the Soo rider, . , "PLL FIX HIM." Joseph Ward Charged With Mur- dering Alex. Warwick. The Fatal Pusb That Resulted in Death, London, Ont., April 12. --Joseph .Wara was given Imis preliminary hearing this morning before Magistrate Love ou 0. charge of murdering Alexander War- wick, in the allorkin House, on Satur- day. A.pril afit, and the case was ad- journed for it -week. The evidence Wni to the effect that Ward was notice- ably drunk and Warwick sober. War- wiek suet Ward. at the hotel door and asked him if he wanted to fight. Ward said, "Yes, fight you," anti tripped him. This angered. "Warwick, and when Ward went into the hotel be followed him, saying, fix him." Ile stood in 1110 doorw" "sailing to the basement, and when Ward pushed him he foil down. , The evidence .showed that other persone have fallen down the stairway at different (Wee end have been Nur- SELLING TO INDIANS. CORNWALL HOTELKEEPER PAYS TWO FINES OF $100 AND $50. Other Charge Against Him Dropped When He Threatens to prosecute Informers for Buying Liquor for the Redmen. • Cornwall, April 11.- J. A. Robert- son and C. A. Ramsay, two officials of the Indian Department at Ottawa, have been in Cornwall for the past couple of weeks, collecting evidence against the keepers of local hotels, and the result of the visit has been that one hotelman was charged with selling liquor to Indians. The case came before Police Magistrate. Danis on Saturday when the proprietor of the hotel in question was arraigned on several separate charges.. Two wore disposed of, in one of which the hotelman was fined $100, and the other $50, with costs in each case. Other charges wore laid at the hotelman's door for violation of the Indian act, but it was shown in the evidence that the officials had themselves violated the not by treating Indians. ••• Mr. Gogo, the lawyer for the defence, threatened to enter. an action against them, but it compromise was 'cached be- tween the parties, whereby the defence agreed to defer proceediugs ifithe pro- secution would drop the remaining charges. Iltis seemed to satisfy the officials, and the case came to it, rather abrupt ending. FARMS FOR, SPINSTERS. Too Few Men to Go Round in Mas- sachusetts. Boston, Mass., April 12.-Srnalt subur- ban farms will be supplied by the State to 100,000 spinsters in. Massachusetts if the plans of three score business and professional women of Boston are carried out, Because of tlte scareity of men in the State it is recognized that something must be done to aid this army of women, and an organization has been formed for theiiUrpose of wining State aid iu sea curing small tracts of land near large cities where Women can engaged in pro- fitable agricultural 'enterprises. The Women's Massachusetts Home- stead Association plans to encourage the many thousands of women of all ages who are forced to struggle to gain a livelihood to raise flowers, herbs, plants, mushvoome, strawberries, vegetables, squabs, chickens, bees and pigs. *6 4 NIMBLE -FINGERED TYPISTS, Toronto Girl Wins Prize in Contest at Providence. • Providence, R. T, April 12.- A typewriting contest, announced to be for the world's championship, ended to -night the twelfth annual conven- tion of the Eastern Commercial Teach- ers' Association. The championship was retained by Miss Bose L. Fritz, of New York, whose average was 86 2040 words it minute, L. H. Cumbes, of New York, finished second with /7 5-12. In the school championship type- writing contest, the winner was Miss Maude Linker, Springfield, Mass., Avith an average of 54.3. Miss Corinne Bour- don, of Toronto, Ont., was second with 64.2. 4 * * CONSTRUCTION CAMPS. Alleged That Conditions Are Worse Than Slavery. Winnipeg, April 11-A. charge of malt - slaughter is likely to be prefAred gatnst*the foreman of the Northern Construction Company's eamp mttIttish- e.bowie, as he is alleged to hey° caused the death of a man named George Say- -elle by ordering him to leave the camp Avhile sick arid destitute. Information has beeti laid by two former .employees of the crimp, named G. McNab and G. Neith, who have engaged A. B. coto es solicitor. Mr. Cole says the condition of n.ffairs in many of the cusps, as re- vealed by the Stories of the men, hidi. cotes something worse than slavery. • ••- To Elect Two Prelates. Winnipeg, Man., Apra 11.-A meeting of the House of Bishops of the Provieee of Itupert's Land, Outwit of EIngland, will bo held at 10 o'clock ott Wednea- day morning. Tile object of the meet- ing is to elect A• bieltop for the Diocese of Moosonee in place of Bishop Holmes, who recently resigned, and also it bishop for the Dioceso of Athabasca, The Italian Government eonmlission to report on the question of female suf. info imn derided to postpone granting the right to vote in eIeetions of Cham- ber of Commerce in written engaged in trade, FOR WARSHIPS AND AIRSHIPS. Great Britain Still Agitated by Question of Defence. •••wi.1.01 Beresford Has Refused Nineteen Invitations to Parliament. .....•••••••* Suggestion That London Build a Derigible Balloon, London, April 1i. -(Globe) -Easter has brought it hill in the storm that has beaten around the bead of the British Government -over its alleged incapanility to salegvard Britain's supremacy at sea, and the attacked and the attackers alike are reeking holiday as If there had. never been a ripple on the surface of their complaeeney, The naval agitators, how ever, mean to return to the charge af- ter the recess with redoubled vigor, and the Imperial Maritime Leap() Is pee. paring to make- a, enmpaiga throughout the country Web, in On words of the chattier just, issued, will "induce the nation to fling out the Coverninent whielt betrayed. it, for so only can Brit- alti bo sliveel-lal Tho ls. affect to regard these threats with serenity, for they consider that the naval agitation lost its most dangerous aspect When it was pressed into service by the Unionist party, Tide in a great measure is a correct diagno- sis of the political situation, more es- pecially as it is becoming universally understood that Mr. Asquite, the Pre- mier, and his colleagues will take no ebances of being left behind in the race for navel supremeey and will lay down within the year the four extra Dread- noughts which were in the "conditional" ships. of 131.r. MeKenna's programme. TIFIRESFORD HIDING 111S HAND, Some of the extmnists in the naval agitation, however, have gone so far as to damage the cause they have at heart. For instanee, Carlyon Bellairs, M. P., supported by a number of other politi- cians, called upon the Premier to insti- tute an inquiry into "the (scope and ef- fect of the changes introduced into the navy during the last forty years." This is a direct challenge to the system in- augurated by Sir John Fisher. For once the imperialist Daily Mail is found in agreement with the Liberal Westminster Gazette, which says: "So tong as this agitation is confined te politicians and conducted on political grounds tt will do no harm to the navy, but the moment, it is eularged to in- clude the. Admiralty and administrators ittvi11 at once threaten mischief to the eiscipline and efficiency of the ser- vide.,,Lrd Charles Beresford, who • holds more trump cards in this navalspolitical game than any other man in England, meanwhile refuses to disclose his hand. He has received no less than nineteen invitations to stand for Parliament, but has (issued it statement saying that he is, accepting none at present. THE AIRSHIP SCARE. The patriotic ferment has been taken advantage of by those who hold that Britain does not tato her proper place in the contest for the supremacy of the air. The reply given by Mr. Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, in the Commons last week to the question re- specting the progress made by .the War Office in the matter of airship building and experiments was not considered sat- isfactory. It developed during the dh- -nate that the Frenek Ocivernment pro- posed to have five stations for dirigible balloonsand that in Germany six mili- tary balloons had been built and•niere were reported building. Then the fset that the Zeppelin airship on its last round of voyages was in exclusive charge of military officers, who conducted it through the manoeuvres with remark- able precision, showed that in Germany at least there is a serious intention of employing the balloon in military oper- ations in any future war, -and the fur- ther fact that secrecy was enjoined by the military authorities regarding the details of the experimeotal voyages add - .l significance. MEN 01? "HISIIIY" NERVES. This Was enough to start an Aerial scare in England among those whose nerves are , 'jumpy," to tise the `word employed by David Lloyd-Geoege to L. 3. Masse, when Ufa Chancellor of the Exchequer returned the cheque for 4200 which the editor of the,National Beview had sent as it contribution toward build- ing Dread notigh ts. Ai onee it meeting WaS held .at the Atension House under the auspieee of the Aerial League of the British Em- pire, which is deseribed as "a non-politi- cal organixation to secure and maintain for the empire the same supremacy in the air as it now enjoys ori the sea." Some speakers at the meeting recogniz- ed that England had a lot of ground to make up before she contdlay any claim .to supremacy, in the air„ but the Lord 'Mayor contriboted a note of optimism by remarking that some of the greatest movements ever 'seen had had their en - gin in the city of London. SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR AN AIRSHIP. One and the only suggestion at all rraetieal made at the Mestsion House meeting was that the ‘ekty of London should subscribe funds for the construe - tion of a dirigible balloou and present it when eompleted to the nation. This idea is to be developed by the Aerial League of the British Empire into a national subscription. The officials of the league profess their ability to raise 420,000 or 430,000 with which to Wild. the airship. Lord Northcliffe offers a prize of 000 for the first aeroplane flight of one mile it machine entirely of British in- vention and construction. FIGHT WITH MANIAC London SuffraEettes Preparing For Encounter With Police. New Vawk, April 12..-- A thrilling struggle to save a mad woman from suicide took plat to -night on a ledge of n fifth -storey window of the hos- pital for women nt Engitteentli street and Seemul avenue, The woman, Mrs. Nora Illekey, twenty-eight years of age, WITS finally saved from jumping to the street through the pluek of a doctor and it nurse, and with the help of the fire deportment. Mrs, llieltey, who bed been a patient, for several weeks, becanut suddenly in- sane to -night, and, itt the temporary eh- fqq100 of the 71111140, thrust ber feet through the heavy plate glass tvirulow panes in hor ward. Through the jogged hole tints made the woman imbed her betty, tutting herself frightfully, mid ertipt to the till, fltity feet above the sidewalk. She was about to jump when Hr. Cranston Conklin and Neree McDonald, who itad come running with the crash of glass, naught her by the, arms. The woman struggled, sereamed and bit, but they pluekily held on. Other doetors nod nurses mine to their aid And 511Peti Were twisted abeitt the struggling, screaming 'woman, who was now dangl- ing in the air. The doetors and nurses, five In num- ber, could do nothing but hold the wo- Man and someone in the erowd of thou - sande who had gathered In the street below realized this, for an alarm was limed la and tlto fire apparatus mute clattering to the scene. Ladders were run up and the mad Welleali. Wits ear. tied to safety by sturdy firemen. • - -4 • 4,- • ADVICE TO GIRLS. •••••••.•••••••• • Diet and Blouses Share Attention With Dreadnouxhts. London, April 11. -Notwithstanding the exacting labor necessitated by the new territorial army Scheme, and the efforts to satisfy the demands caused by the production of "An English - mints Home," the War Office has found lime to investigate the question of proper diet for its girl "typists." The War. Office claims that the sick leave taken by girls eompareS unfavor- ably with that taken by men. It de- clares there ean be no levelling up of the sexes ar regards remuneratioa until the girls have teamed to consider their health. At the same time the War Office has sent a circular to all its girl em- ployees warning them against excessive tea drinkina, especially between meals and with th°eir lunch. It enjoins them to wear warm clothing, and points out that ebort sleeves and transparent late fronts are dangerous traps without rule - finale safeguard. 111 regard in food, it reenrnmends itotittopa, eereitla 'frail% and vegetables in preference to meats, as these will make the girls better able -to resist colds, influenza and headaches. LEARNING JIU-JITSU. Struggle to Keep Woman From Committing Suicide. London, April 1L -The latest move of the militant suffragists' is to learn the arts of jiu-jitsu, with the object of resisting the police. Twenty-five of them are studying under an instruct- ress., who maintainthat some of her pupils have already punished rude men. Lady Constance Lytton, who has the proud distinction of being the first wo- man to shed her blood in the mine of wen= ,suffrage, gave it curious exposi- tion it Ow days ago of the reasons for the faith that is in her. When she first saw suffragette processions in the streets she had been interested by hear- ing onlookers shouting to the marching women, "Go home to your washing." She had always been food of washing. Even when it child she had found some- thing fascinating in makipg dirty things clean and crumpled things smooth and nice -looking. But she felt that there were people whose lives were continual- ly at that process, and she said to her. self, "Well, that giver; me a lead. I am going to belong to' that movement if only because of my sympathy for wash- ing end the washer." 4-4 4.. CREPE ON ALL DOORS A Ghastly Joke Perpetrated in Grand Rapids ^ Detroit, April 11,-A repulsive form of practical jolciug caused several women to ,faint and others experienced a. shock that they will not soon get over, at Grand Rapids last night. The "joker" pinned a bunch of black crepe of the regulatien style used by under- takers to almost every doorpost in two Weeks. In one instance an aged lady, who was passing the home of her daughter, saw the crepe and fainted on the sidewalk, euttleg her head in the fall. Another man with it weak heart saw the crepe pinned to the door of his brother's house and. was overcome. He had to be taken to a hospital. The police were notified, and observed a man trying to pin the sombre design to another house and gave chase. The Man, made his escape. 4 '4 NO WOMAN MAY ENTER, • Washington Law Bars Them From Places Where Liquor is Sold. Spokane, IVaela, April 12.- After June 1 no woman can legally enter any saloon in this State. The new criminal code makes 11 a misdemeanor for the owneror employee if "any drinking saloon or music hall where in- toxicating liquorsare sold" to "know- ingly permit to miter such saloon or sell or give any intoxicating liquors to any female person." The same rule applies to any common drunkard or any person in an intoxicated condition, or any felon, TRADE WITH WEST INDIES. Conference Will be Held in London Regarding Relations With Canada. Montreal, April 11. - Mr. F. W. Thompson, of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, who returued to -day from the Bahamas, annottuces that the Gov- ernor, Sir Valliant Grey 'Wilson, stated that a conference of West Indian offi- cials will be held ie Loudon in June, when a committee will be formed to study the question of better trade re - Idioms between the British 'West Indies and Canada. It is expected that a dole- gation front the islands will visit Ottawa during the summer to interview the Can- adian Government on the subject. The Montreal Board or Trade will urge the establishment of a steamship service be- tween the St. Laweenee anti Nassau. 4 New Steamers. Montreal, April 11. ---The neW, stouter built for the Western Navigation Company, Limited, of Fort Williem, Ont., has been chartered, through T. 11. McCarthy, of this city, to load in April a cargo of pig iron rii Mithilesbro-on-the-Tees, England, for For( Willient and Montreal. Tide steamer 14 of full venal dimeneions, and is in- tended for trade on the upper lakes. Mr. MeCarthy luts also ehartered it new steamer, now building at Sunderland, England, for the Mathews Steamship Coiripeny, Limited. tit' Toronto, to loed n. full cargo of pig iron at MithIlesibro-on- Tees, England, for Fort William in July next, 'Ibis steamer is Alse of full canal 111MM/sten% Awl 15 intentlea for the trade lietWeen itnni real and the upper Wes. NURSO MISTAKE Pert> Led to Death of Patient in St. Louis Hospital. Former Toronto Girl Gave Poison Instead of Medicine, St. Louis, Aftt, April .6,4 -Miss Jean- nette Ifarkuess, formerly of Toronto, a nurse in the City Hospital, to -day fleet, dentally killed Benjemin Iliaters, a pa- tient. Miss Harkness gave Waters it large dose of formaldehyde instead of a sOlution of salts. Ile died an hour and a half later. From the ;moment she covered her, mistake and called. Super- aciid Iilesroasasilisytants Miss 1Jaukuess riedltle) slphysmviani ititnine etieVnafteentlieeir ils. edll:ea‘.vd1"?srltie Waters was biought to the haipital on Jen, 1.7, suffering from a rare, skia disease, whieh attused himto be eavered with scales like those of it fish. lie itlso suffered from a spinal complaint. 11 was Miss Harkness' duty to ntbninister medicine to a nturiber of patients at 5 as in. She went to a medicine eebinet to get it salt solution for Waters. The medicine was in it large brown bottle. Another bottle standing beside it con- tained formaldehyde_ poeition itt these bottles had been aceidentally imi- Lereharmgt'11 by another nurse without 1131is4rskuesIsfatrolsoniecssI'vita. tkitschsevletdhgoe.MLat ugut the medicine bottle. ln the darkness of the early morning she could not see the label. Site poured a quantity bite it glass and gave it to \Vetere, Ile swallowed it and in it moment writhed in pain, "It's burning me apt" lie cried. Miss Harkness scrutinized the bottle and saw the label. "I've given you poison!" she -cried. "Stmeriutentiont Kirchner says he placed more confident:0 Ot Mies Harkness than in any other aitirse in the hospital. She entered the institution four years Ago, letving come trent Toronto with three other girls who wished to be nurse At N.10 ellowed exceptional skill and completed her three yea rA' training entir50 with much s,rctitirago.ilstalle beeinno a graduate a )e HOLLAND HOLIDAY. ...••••••1./Ol An Heir to the Throne Expected This Week. The Hague, April 11, -The birth of an heir to the throne of Holland is confidently expected this webk, and if all goes well the outburst of popular enthusiasm will be such as has seldom been witnesset among the placid Dutch. There has been no royal birth in Vie Netherlands since that of Queen Withal- rainit herself, twenty-seven years ago. The constant fear of the Duteh has been that the House of Orange would die out with a childless sovereign, and that Flolland would pass under the rule of it German prince, and would thereby pos- sibly become a German vassal state. This partly accounts for the extraordinavy eagerness with which the event is await- ed in every town and village of the Neth. erlands. Demonstrations on it gigantic scale Imo been nrranged, and Feces - :lions, concerts and fetes will be held the country over. ACCUSED OF THEFT. A G. T. P. Sub -Contractor is Ar- rested in Montreal. Montreal, April 11.- Omer John Dubois, who is wanted on a charge of the theft of $10,000 from farmers and laborers along the rout of the Grand Trunk I?acific in New Brunswick, and for whom the police have been looking for since last December, was arrested by Iwo detectives. from Chief Carpenter's staff atid lodged in jail here on Satur- day. Later on Ile was brought up to po- lice headquarters at the City Hall and identified. Ile admitted his identity, but stoutly denied that he was guilty of any misappropriation of funds. Dubois was a sub -contractor on the Grand Trunk Pacific. Last December he left Fredericton owing, it is al- leged, local merchants and 'storekeepers and farmers along the construction line about 510,000 in all. The specific charge. under which he is now held here is that of forging the name of the firm of Mc- Coy and Wilford to it cheque of $806. Major Massey, the manager of the Bank of Montreal, at Fredericton, through whose hands tke cheque passed, sent McCoy here immediately to see if he eould identify Dubois, whom he had em- ployed previously. . Dubois is a Belgian, who came to Can- ada' some time last summer. The Bank of Montreal, McCoy and Wilford, and the differentamerchauts in New Bruns- wick intend to talce actions against HEAD CUT OFF. American's Headless Body Fonnd en French Railroad. St, Raphael, France, April 12.-A mid- dle-aged, well dressed American, Emil Amy by name, was killed on the rail- road tracks here yesterday afternoon. Die headless body was found near the station, but it has not been definitely es- tablished whether the men was a001 - dentally killed or committed suicide. 4*, - JOAN OF ARO STATUE gtmoveo. ••••*••••=.• Precautions After Violent Demonstra- tAn by Paris Students. Paris, April en order issued by Minister of Public Instruction Donmergue, the equestrian statue of jean of Are by Pant Intboie, that NIS stood in the Louvre for fifteen years, was removed seeretly and le now install- ed in the Pantheon. Signifietince at. bodies to *this net on neeount of the tweet violent, demonstrations of Roy - Mist etudents at the Sorbonne against Prof. Thitlamas, the author of it book alleging that the history of Joan of Are is largely mythical. BIG FUNIRAL Ottawa, April 1!L -More than 2,11A0 persons Attended the funeral here of Brakeman Henry T. Afulligan, killed in shunting Accident on tho t. I'. R. at Kemywille Ionetion lost Pride:v. Mulligan, was very popular. The B. of It. 'P.' A.O.U.W. end. Prentice boys attendedin it body. lbutlop & Company's hardware store, Fenton & Smith's storehouse, and it temple of regiilenee5 n t Pembroke were burned. The ltobitailie vinegar work et Iltiehee were also destroyed, 1118I MINUTE IN ,111:.:011elilone, an Italian laborer, touelpd ings for March amounted to $513,000. in signs of unrekU. the Torooto retail field. gill Mullahs. -of Somaliland are sl ow - The I'rench Government has decided The Intereolonial freight traffic earn- unitrilok Apt r Joitillt;etrros 1;:eealuddedstratoli ai:(11e. to7rehxepeplaCplipisrtiatizorolCnaestli:aionnt pBotzrd anned for work in the eitiee and New Ontario, Aalfreeittitug1laelsocre nwttreitazeilsItloju tetinTtiontreenra tn on . young woman. The Attorney -General's department 14 Inve%tigatting a eupposed Black 11,and sinarage tit Aurern. A convention. of ''Cliristians gathered unto the riatne of the Lard Jesus Christ" 18 in progress in Toronto. The ceremony of blessing the oils and the ehrism in St. 3liellad's Cathedral, Toronto, was largely attended. The Swise. Government has presented tlieintehout:gr onverment of the Unittd States fitl.eltellgornolinieteonlbl'eAall•Pdin.oef ecbo4nntlr:lis..Sleeided ants to the four hospitale ,ititntisletroi bie.tclosti.Of,00r00xtfni o xi hce 01$11e50ge, 0011 theyia lng stilitno(tild be made without conditions. Toronto Presbyterians have already a Through the cleverness of it eleauffeur at Toronto, four mon charged with stealing an automobile werearrested in thIe3rNe'enhtk3ie. lefouse, Beentford, where Nell. Gwynn lived aaid (Merles IL rode up the h (Mid on horeeback, is to make r000ni for modern villas. The Argeu tine overnmen b will shortly place orders with a foreign ship- building firm for two Dreadnoughts and Live torpedo-boat destroyers. . It is announced that the Northern Pacific Railway wit enter Winnipeg over the Great Northern linee, under it partnership arrangement. . The Supreme Court Martial Ili St. Petersburg has rejected. the appeal of seven peasants of Irbit, svito were sen- tenced to death for attacking the police, Members of the Young Turk party have proposed the erection of a grille in the Torkish House of Parliament, in or- der that Turkish women may listen to the debates. Of the 2,507 horses bought for the British army last year, 702 were pur- chased in Great Britain, 1.,003 in Ire- land, 58 in the colonies, 71 in Egypt and 1 1 ill North China. A special commission, composed of the Board of Public Works, has gone to Messina to investigate and submit a plan for clearing the ruins and burying the dead still remaining in them. Coast erosion has caused the difap- peartmee of the seaward half of Espin- ha in Portugal, and the inhabitants are. asicing the Government to take prompt measures to save the remainder of the town.tE an Allan Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents McKinley and Boosevelt, died at Washington, aged 74. Hehadbeenseriously ill for several days, and his death was not un- ex.:nn Peeteeci; 1pty balloon crane down *near Conti, Italy, and grave apprehension is felt for the three aeronauts who sailed away in the airship from Paris. They are Captain Mayer, Lieut. Gardiot, and it 1:1\cringillet'tditevins:d11,. it is said, may pity it visit to Naples soon, and meet Ring Vietor Emmanuel there. Tho date of the visit has not been fixed yet. Should tho British monarch visit Naples, he may go also to Messina. Brakeman Charles 3. Reade was sen- tenced to three months in jail at Co- bourg for criminal carelesenese in con- neetion with the Sandbank wreck, and Steegion Foreloan :Ralston was acquit - The law library of tho Essex County Bar Association at Windsor was on Fri- daytl ispossessed of its quarters for non- payment of rent, and the valuable law books and reports were carted away to a storage warehouse. Alfons Ahrens, a Hamburg shipowner, has been arrested on it charge of having incited sailors to Mel: vessels on the high seas with it view of realizing the insurance money. Three ships are said to have Ivey sunk in this way. an elephant in the winter quarters of the Yankee Robinson circus, at Des Moines, ran amuck last night, and, seizing his keeper, Charles Bellow, hurled hint high into the :lir and. then trampled hint to death. A chair used by the Earl of Richmond on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth Field has been bequeathed to Athev stone, Warwickshire, and will be placed in the parish church, where Irony VII. took the saerament before he defeated Bithard ITT. Mr. E. Strachan Co; the Toronto stock broker, is confined to his home at 8 Wellesley street sufferins,0 from it stroke of paralysis. 'Mr, Conearlyon Friday morning had a slight hernorrl.age of the brain, and this was followed by partial paralysis. Albert Baker, the Englishman now tinder arrest at Toronto on it charge of attempted murder, will probably escape a more serious charge. Bertha Aug - stifle, the young Avornari whona he at- tacked with a hatchet in her room Thursday night, is expected to mover from the terrible irtiliries she received. The body of Helena Modjeska, the actress, who died at Bay City, near Los Angeles, has been brought to that city, itecompanied by her husband, Count Bo- zenta, tuttl-lier son, Ralph Modjeska. will be &tem in a antult there, where it.. will remain until it is taken to its final resting place in Cracow. Poland. A speciai last night from Pitt-in-llay, 11hio, sera With the waeltitig esthete tn. day of the cabin at th tug George Floss it is practically _eertain Chat the boat wont down in 1,Vednesday's gale, witn tire loss of it .erew of seven men Anti three passengers, Isaac Fraser, forty-four years old, Of 'New York city, aPtillinart ear porter, nag- found lying dead in his ear at the Union Station, Toronto„ on Prida.y. Ap- parently be had ;assisted his 'passengers to alight and had then ..gone back 11114 the sleeper, where he eellepsed front heart disease, ITOIV TITIlNATSER WAR SILENCED. (Ihroniele.) NoW that the fieriwarriors ntTorento have been heard from, .Clertnatty will please effttee itself es nuieldy as Degiale. What Awe has Raiser Wilhelm rigning t Mond Donitort's 1'ivwfittlist01