gays | te 3\" ip the paper to buy a T » 5 ; i H Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist AILY NEWS yoL. Il, NO. 111 PRINCE Rupert, B.C., FRIDAY, May 10, 1912. MAYOR AND COUNCIL FACE NEXT MAILS For South Princess Royal......Sunday, 6 p.m. PRICE FIVE CENT? THE MONEY MATTER Tue KING WANTS 10 FLY AFTER SUBMARINE TRIP Grave Question Arises as to Whether His Majesty is Entitled to Risk His Life in Such a Perilous Experience—London is Wondering son, who several wonderful flights, with the daughter of the commander-in- chief of the fleet as passenger. The King was so impressed with submarines, the apparent safety and ease of ion minutes below the control of the machine that he is \eroplanes soared over the royal} quite willing to intrust himself it to greet him, to the amuse-/as Commander pas- + of the monarch. senger in hydro-aero- ondon, May 10—Now that the] plane or ordinary aeroplane, His hing has experienced a sensat-| Majesty believes he would be per Special to Daily News. today made Eng., May g—— who is here, today Weymouth once King George, ok a trip under water in one of spending surface. the new Samson’ vacl Samson's either a pal trip of several miles un-| fectly safe in Commander Sam- » water in one of the largest}son’s hands, but the question varines, he is credited with|arises whether a reigning sov- desire to take the risk of flight] ereign is entitled to take the the air with Commander Sam-| risk of such a trip. IATE.C. M. HAYS KEPT PLANS FOR 6. T. P. VERY PRIVATE REPORTED THAT HIS OWN ORIGINAL IDEAS FOR THE CAR- RYING ON OF THE WORK IN IMMEDIATE FUTURE HAVE PERISHED WITH THE BRAIN THAT CONCEIVED THEM Montreal, May 9.—The death| they were sufficiently developed { Charles M. Hays, president of| approval. ho Grand Trunk railway and the The oply man who was fam- Grand Trunk Pacific, has so dis-j|iliar with his plans was his sec- arranged the plans of these com-| retary, and he perished along panies that it is believed the di-| with Mr. Hays. rectors have but little idea what Calamity to Dominion hi " 4 nad ; ; ao cao es for His untimely death was a cal- ess eee amity to the Dominion as a twas the intention of Mr. whole, and especially to western es hig return from ENg-/Ganada, in the development of ind, to aly his plans before the which he was just beginning to p19) approval, but what) jae such an active interest. The these were and the Snancial ar- possibilities are that KE. J, Cham- angements he made in London) yerjain will be appointed presi- will never be knownfi- as they dent of the Grand Trunk Pacific, rishec i for the time, at least, of the con- with his brain. Months to Gather Threads struction of the main line and It w take months to gather|the branch lines in western Can- gether the threads of his con-j| ada. ruction policy. A successor to Mr, Hays in \s a rule he kept the details|the presidency of the old Grand plans to himseif until | Trunk system will not likely be vefore the directorate for} appointed for some time, | STORM ON PACIFIC B. C. RIFLEMAN 8.8. Sado Maru Nearly Swamped| Canadian Bisley Team by Seas Their Names Includes (Special to Daily News. Special to Daily News. Victoria May 10-——The steam-| Ottawa, May 10—-The person- ; Sado Maru has reached Yoko-| o}) of the Ganadian Bisley team lama three avs late ot Vet : { days late, with five lannouneed includes the names f Of water flooding her dining | I four “itis O mbians, om, and her deek and upper} °! foul British olumbia works badly damaged as a result|Viz., Lieut. Maggs, Capt, Selater, of heavy weather on the voyage | of Vancouver, Sergt..Major Mac- from Victoria, according to let-| Dougal? and Sergt. Richardson, ‘ers received here today, Her]! Victoria. ‘TKO 1s also damaged, - . * Mr. CG. _N. Pring has returned TOURIST BOAT WRECKS to town from a visit to Ketchi- —- kan, All Passengers of the ss. Arcad- lan Believed Safe The Princess Royal arrived London, May 10 with passengers, mail and mail The Royal ro Steam packet company has CCeivead ao : "lved a cablegram from Colon freight at about 2 o'clock. For a quick lunch, Royal Cafe. today announcing the str . on Salinadiana padi: eee ees mere Om aot a! whee steamer Arcad- o~ South Amer, ee FREE! FREE! FREE! tourists tt ia Be ports with me *enBers are sail RRR ML Babe A big beautiful 88 key soa ei electric player plano, worth A most suee Pi acpaiad $1,200 given away to the Biven by the Peau smoker was pool players in the Base- "ght. A full neonate ony last|$ ment pool room, Empress 'N tomorrow's issue, Will appear) 3 ‘Theatre building. 3 ==... I roe oe ny, ein question is how much money is there for the in the Bank of Montreal. at lpg: Minis( er proudly refuses to shut perpendicularly 1 Nayar Of Alderman Clayton or anybody else. E, Lo Jericho ms 8 the Bank will fall among theives on the roae Merely ane that there will be no Good Samaritan, ; Rupert hse remarks that its a jolly good thing Prince Here ip f to bother any old bank for sunshine. Vaise pe py ay and Gone Tomorrow’ as the cily clerk's ‘marked while it yanished with Mr, Vance’s. Oop ae, | POOP OO LOO OOO POLL OIIL OL OL OLE SPDT | BASEBALL SCORES | Soast Angeles 1; Frisco 0, | Vernon 4; Oakland 2. Portland 1; Sacramento 0 Los American Chicago 7; Washington 2. Boston 7; New York 4, Phil., 4; Cincinnati 3. National Pittsburg 5 ;Brooklyn 6 Chicago 1; Boston 2. St. Louis 3; New York 8. | | | | Old Reliable Arrived The Camosun came in 12.30 some hours ount of the heavy freight ifest for way potrs. this afternoon for Granby She A, EK agent, went Matthew Dow, dry left on the south, tractor, the late, on George about ac- man- leaves Bay. MeMaster, G.T.P, general south this morning, dock con- for Chief Engineer B. B. Kelliher of the Grand Trunk left ¢« George, yn the FRENZiED FINANCE The shore waders in the waters of deep thou- ghi, Mayor and Aldermen, met to finance and econo- mize jast night. Their ac- complishment was a say- ing of $48.33 per month in the salaries of Woods and Vance. close to Mr. J. H. Kugler will leave for the south on the Prince Rupert. RETRENCHMENT MEASURES "ARE ADOPTED AT CITY HALL Pending the Solution of the Financial Problem, Mayor and Council Proceed to Reduce Salaries and Curtail Undertakings ---Citi- | citizens assembled} quite a few to see the city fathers face the situation, With the reading of the let ter from Mr. Claney, of the Bank of Montreal, which was quoted vesterday, proceedings began. The mayor explained that he had| approached the bank for certain | had been wiped off, He failed to understand why the bank should shut down on the council, Ald. Maitland felt certain that the bank had not lost confidence in the city, however it may feel about the council, “This council came into oftice with a bankrupt treasury gotten into that state through the offi- ces of two preceding councils, whose members were not men} enough to offer themselves for | re-election to face the situation they haye gotten the city into.” These words contained the pith of Ald, Morrissey’s exoner- ation of the city council in the matter. For some time then there ensued a much mingled discussion which crystalised continually into the question “How much money is there ac- tually in hand?” It was Alder- man Maitland who most persist- ently voiced in plain unvarnish- ed words this question which everybody, from the mayor down wards seemed anxious to have answered, The answers to it propounded by various aldermen were inter- esting, as showing how darkly or S?O0O for hydro-electric: all. But there are sums ifrom this for pipe supplie possibly also for plan Nobody seemed very clear the those ways Ald. payment for Eventually sey announced — his that thers worth of standing accounts to be This stage having been the question of was opened, agent chasing some $4826.33, As predicted yesterday, the! have been working on the finan- city council meeting called lJast|cial affairs of the city. night to discuss the civie prob- rhe finance minister wearing lems occasioned by the refusal of} a worried expression figured out the Bank of Montreal to make]with a struggle that the city has further advances to the city|$50,000 to work on for Section meantime, was a public one, and|Qne improvements, and $450,000 10 In to deduct s, and kways. about plank- Morris- figuring of ? are out- met, reached | retrenchment | zens Assembled to See the City Fathers Face the Situa- tion, Hear Several Snappy Sallies lensions, ‘phone extensions, sidewalks.” I move that the city council be reduced to four members,” said Ald. Morrissey. “You may reduce them out of existence al- together if like,” returned the finance minister affably. ‘But Mr. Claney said to me him- self ‘You must shut down.’ ” “T should not have blamed him a bit if he had even also sug- you gested that you might in addition shut with a perpendicular mo- tion,” remarked Ald. Clayton, It took a full minute for that }forts will be made to have every- Jone, workingmen as well as large jowners of lots, approached for signatures in support, “I am in said the mayor, “of throw ling these debentures on the mar- } favor,” “Shut her down,” said the Fir|,ets of the world and letting the nance Minister. works immediately in hand. The cemetery road, the electric Re ee SSS ‘Majestic Theatre James Hammock known as the VICTOR SONGSTER change of programme times a week monthly Gold : Prize : Drawing for $100.00 Prices as usual. Admis- sion 10c and 15¢ | how clearly their various minds! dee 3 ex- “Shut down all|pank go plumb straight to Jer- icho,” A motion to shut down pre- lsent works in hand was carried. Bulloeck-Webster moved that ithe mayor and aldermen do iwithout their salaries until the |bwlaws are passed, Ald, Clayton had no use for this motion at lall, It seemed to him small, Nei- had sympathizers at for the motion was “Tt would have meant $300 a month more in hand,’ remarked the mover, Later the council consideration of the city hall pay-roll and decided to reduce the salaries of the city clerk and Mr. Vance back to their origina! rate, to depute the purchasing agent to assist the assessor, and to ask the city engineer to con- sider reduction of his staff, This meantime is all that is proposed to be done, lost. set about ther had Ald, Douglas, and they} the board! Steam Shovels on the Way on Waterfront and M. Rich denies the report that his firm which took the contract for the excavations for the G.T. P. terminals here is retiring from the contract. Entirely contrary to this, he states that the steam tug Escort which left here recently with a large railway transfer barge, will return to Prince Rupert in about a week, bringing with her two steam shovels which Mr Rich will to work at once on the grading of the railway reserve lands on both sides of the sent depot site where the yards are to be. set pre- | M. RICH DENIES REPORT THAT HE IS TO RELINQUISH Now for Grading of Rail- way Yards—Contractor Promises a Busy Scene Reserve Very Soon |} An enormous amount of exca- {vation has to be done here, and lthe excavated materia) will be dumped towards Hays Cove, where the ship yards are to be, and wherever fill is there re- quired. Cars will be run along lthe permanent tracks already | laid for a considerable distance in that direction, and within a few weeks there will be large gengs of men employed both on the railway depot site, and on | the dry-dock and shipyard sites. Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners. Phone 4. GRIM SHOCK FOR THIS MAN Gruesome Discovery of Titanic Victim—Embalmer Recoznizes the Body of His Own Uncle in Corpse Assigned Him For Preparation Halifax, May 9.—Out of the si- lence of death that hung over the huge ‘temporary morgue where the bodies of the Titanic victims lay in long rows, a sud- den deep-throated “Oh, my God” rang huskily, when George New- ell, an embalmer, discovered that Mr. L. Cartwright, Miss Ina Cartwright, J. Caldwell! and J. P. Slevin, left for the south on the City of Seattle, Wanted—Smart girl to clerk in store, Address “Business,” e-o Daily News office. J, R. Talpey, formerly of Rup- ert, is in Tete Jaune Cache. Mr. |'Talpey expects to take the first } from the Cache to Fort George, which leaves on May 15. steamer he was working on the body of (GIRL BOXER WINS BY KNOCKOUT Myrtie Havers Becomes Female Champion of Michigan, Beat- ‘c. %pponent in Seventh— Bout Held in Private Gymnas- ium. | Saginaw, Mich., May 8—In a private gymnasium, fitted up in one of the most prominent resi- dences of Flint, with only one woman and one man as referee present, Myrtle Havers, 19, of Flint, knocked out Mabel Wil- liams, 22, of Grand Rapids, in the seventh round of a schedul- ed ten-round fight and won the lfurther advances for the hydro-/it. He put the cash in hand) hard one to get home to the coun his uncle girls’ championship of Michigan electric scheme, the sewers, the|clear at $96,000. feil and audience. Then they my . last night. The two fought with telephones, city hall completion,| Ald, Dybhayn had a shot at it.) got loose and laughed. Not until Newell was one of the under-/eight ounce gloves and under electric light extension. That let-|and his caleulation came out at! five minutes later did Ald. Doug- takers brought here from Yar-|straight Queensbury rules, and ter was his answer. It was ad-| $144,000, and then up got Ald.|jas suddenly realise what they] mouth to aid the local undertak-; Miss Williams, who had been dressed to himself personally, Maitland like another mathema-| were laughing at. Then he hit}ers. He was on the watch that|known as the best woman boxer not to the mayor and council as|tieal pupil with the answer to|pack good and hard. “Ald, Clay-| worked through the night pre- in Michigan, was knocked into printed in error yesterday, and|the sum neatly solved to $62,000! ton may be very sarcastic about| paring salt-strained, sea-worn dreamland with a stiff uppercut, this point was remarked by Ald.jcash in hand with everything|{he finance minister,” he said,} bodies. Through the early part after she had severely punished Bullock-Webster. Briefly the} pais. “but let me tell him that the fi-| of the night he had worked Miss Havers in the early part of mayor stated that there remain- Then everybedy paused while|}pance minister has stayed with] swiftly and had prepared two the seventh. | ed now only money lo Carry the | the city clerk ran over his state-| pis duty, and hasn’t gone stra-|‘codies, About midnight, Newell, TD lwater scheme to Shawatlans| ments of the finances. Mr Woods} -aging all over the country seek-| moving down the tier of coffins, AT THE THEATRE Lake, and for Section One. im-|worked it out that the city has} jng political support. Nor has | with his assitsant, was assigned Sees provements, roughly $60,000 in actual cash| he retired in a huff from the| a new body. He reached out and| “Are You a Mason?” by the Ethel To Ald. Bullock-Webster it{in hand, less wages for this! eouncil board and been prevail-| lified a heavy, weather-beaten Tucker Co. Made Good seemed as if the matter would}month, and certain other char-|ed upon to return by petition.” canvas that hid the face. The Thoroughly be easily settled by the passing] ses. Cheers). 1ext moment he clutched his as- -_-__ of the bylaws now proposed, and Again the discussion circled The little tiff led to the bold] sistant by the arm and in a In ‘Are you a Mason?” last being petitioned for, This he|the board, questions were asked) | neement by both Ald. Dou- husky whisper announced, “My night the Ethel Tucker Company thought would supply the “au and calculations made, oe ba cia asi thas God, that is my unele. Phe} again seored a top noteher, They thority” without which Mr Clan- Eventually a final detailed es-|8!as and Ald. Clayton tha *®Y! stricken embalmer was _ led lid excellently with the highly ey cannot advance the money,|timate of what seems to be the| were ready that very night to re-| away, He examined the effects _ was eal 9 me ; ° ane But the mayor did not see the} actual cash in hand was arrived) sign with the whole council and| taken from the body and confirm-| !™us!ng subject in their hands. matter in that light. To his view} al mainly through =the city|!go to the people for their yer- ed that it was his uncle A, L.| Few funnier plays exist than the “authority” required is with-| clerk's calculations, and a re-|dict. The suggestion was not|Newell, who had sailed on the| \re You a Mason?” and with all in the Bank of Montreal, port of the finance committee. seized upon with any degree of| Titanie from Southampton. cinds of opportunity for the dis- It was Alderman Glayton who} The result was to the effect that|alacrity by the mayor or the genet eee play of their powers each and struck the note that there seem-| there is at the city’s eredit in ac-| yest of the council, LOCAL JOTTINGS every member of the company ed to be a want of confidence in} iual cash $16,209.44, which will] -phe mayor now began to take ——— pleased and thoroughly amused the city council on the part of all be consumed — by standing | 4 hand in the discussion more “Amateur Night’ at Westhol-|a full house . There is no doubt the bank. Never had the city|charges in about two months.| freely, He suggested that the|™me Opera House tonight. Great|that this stock company has seemed more prosperous. Things|The city's monthly payroll 18} nj, “thing to do was to get the boxing contest. “Lightweight”| ‘ade good at the Empress Thea- were improving. Even the city’s] about $7,100 at date, and Ald.|})\jaws passed. Petition forms champion,’ England vs, Scotland,|tre, and the genial management first indebtedness. to the bank] Douglas discovered from the pur} wij} be at the city hall, and ef- Don't miss this. is to be congratulated. Tonight's drama, ‘Across the Desert,” is a departure, and an intensely in- teresting one. Great Feats One of the great feats in con- nection with the newspaper bus- iness is to get a $5 bill changed in the local room—Detroit News. And another is to raise a dol- lar in the telegraph room.—Cal- gary Albertan. We've known even the old man to fall back on the adver- tising department. 4 THE E MPRESS THEATRE Change of Play Nightly TONIGHT | ETHEL TUCKER AND COMPANY IN FOUR ACT SENSATIONAL MELODRAMA “Across the Desert” 50c., 75c. and $1.00 ? lad al