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THE

DAILY

MIRROR

January 1, 1913

B0 SCOUTS AS TWO NEW PEERS IN THE HONOURS LIST F I R E RESCUES ventions include the gun-carriages which made it jwasihle BY A BOT. BEAL "FIREMEN." Seven Baronets and Eighteen to take nava! 4.7 and 6in. guns up country during the
South African war.

Knights

Appointed.

NEW KNIGHTS.
Rowland Bailey, Esq., . Has been Controller ol H.M. Stationery Office and King's Printer of Acts of Parliament since 1905. Ho was Controller ol Stores at H.M. Office of Works from 1883-1905. T . B. Eowring, Esq. Senior London director of C. T. Bowring and Co., Ltd., shipowners, and is also connected with the oil laei industry. Frank Brown, Esq. 'An accountant, of Stockton. la an alderman ol the Durham County Council and chairman of the Teehnical School Oommittee. Francis Darwin, B.A. Third son of Charles Robert Darwin. Was born in 1848, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St. George's Hospital, London. Did not practise medicine, but became assistant to Wis father, after the latter's death settling at Cambridge, President of the British Association in 190S, R. W. Ksscx, M.P. Liberal M.P tor Stafford since 1910. Born in 1867, he entered on i business career .early in life. He has been pcincipallyfioncernedin the wall-paper printing industry, and was active in municipal affairs in Wandsworth and elsewhere. John Arthur Godwin, Esq, la head of the flrm of J. B. Godwin and Co,, merchants, of Bradford. Arthur Holland. Esq. Head of the firm of Arthur Holland and Co., shipowners. Was Mayor of Wimbledon in 1906. Arthur Lasenby Liberty J.F,. the founder and chairman of the famous ellk and tapestry firm in Regent-street wiiich .bears his name. He IS chairman ot the Advisory Committee of the Royal School of Art Needlework and vice-president of the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland. Richard Mathias, Esq, Member of the Srnt of J* Mathias acd Sons, shipowners, Cardiff. A. H . Pettigrew, Esq. Chairman of the big Glasgow firm of drapers, Pettigrew and Stephens, and of Stuatt and McDonald. Robert W; Philip, Esq.. M^D. Professor of botany at the University College of Sorth Wales, ho was educated at Bangor Normal College and St. John's College Cambridge. He was formerly president of the North Wales Congregational ^Jnion, Frfink Ree, Esq, General manager of the Landon and North-Western Kail(vay since 1909, He is a member of the War Eailway Council. He entered the London and North-Western service in 1873, and was successiuely district manager in Liverpool and chief goods manager in London, J. Dods Shaw. Esq. Has been manager of the,House ol Commons official Btaff for recording Parliamentary proceedings since 1908, and editor ol the Commons Dehates. He was associated for many years with various provincial newspapers, and represented the Press Association in the Parliamentary Loobies: Stewart Stockman, Esq., 'M.R.C.V.S. Has been Chief Veterinary Officer ot the Board of Agrieultnre since 1905. Frederick Williams Taylor, Esq, Manager ot the Bank ot Montreal, William Henry Wilkinson, Esq, His Ma,jesty's Consul-General at Mukden. Corbet WoodalJ, Esq, Governor of the Gas, Light and Coke Company and president of the Institute of Gas Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel Horatio Yorke, C.B. Chief Inspecting Officer of Bail ways. Board of Trade, since 1900, Was born in 1848, educated at Charterhouse, and passed first for Sandhurst in 1865, and first tor Woolwich in 1866. Served in the Afghan war 1879-80, aud the Nile Expedition 1881-85. Was created C.B, In 1901.

Lad of Fourteen Escapes to Roof with Parish Young Child in Each Arm. ,
A fourteen-year-old boy, named Lazarus Kaiser. .bravely saved two childrenSarah Kaiser, aged six, and Israel Kaiser, fivefrom fire last night at

Council Appoints Village Lads as a Brigade.

MANY BUSINESS MEN.

Barony for Sir G. KempKnighthood for Head of Liberty's. SIR J. SIMON PROMOTED.
The customary list o NeW Year's honours, issued last night, contained the names of many men distinguished in business and commerce. There are two new peersSir George Kemp, ex-M.P. for North-West Manchester, and Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay. ^ The list of new baronets contains some interesting names. Amongst them are those of S i r Percy Scott, the intrepid sailor who went to tjie relief of Ladysmith with his handy m e n ; Mr. T . G. .Ta'ckson. the great architect; and Sir Frank Crisp, the well-known solicitor. Among the new knights are Mr. Arthur Liberty, of the famoiis firm of silk and tapestry makers, and Professor Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, {Photographs on page 1 ) .

ENTHUSIASTS OF NINE.
( F r o m Our S p e c i a l C o r r e e p o n d e n t . ) YALDING, Dec. 31,Boy scouts of this Httle Kentish village have been set a task of honour that will make all othet scouts go green with envy. ^ They have been appointed the official " firem e n " of Yalding and four neighbouring hamlets, and they will be ready to carry out theii' duties as soon as the necessary apparatus arrives. It will be no mere make-believe, the fire-fighting of the YaJding scouts. The boys have been duly and solemnly appointed by the Yalding Paiisli Council, and they mean to apply themselves to the business end of a long hose-pipe as earnestly as any wearer of the brass helmet. The youngsters, wiio are from nine to sixteen years of age, will be just as much " officials " of the village as the policeman or parish clerk. Only they wi!l never receive any reward for putting out firesit will just be part of the " good turn " which they have to do for somebody every day, How the 1st Yalding Scoutsthere are hist thirty-four boyscame to be appointed to tneir p/esent responsible position is something of a comedy. . Yalding has never had a fire brigade of its own. Although there are dozens of dry old farmhouses and barns in the district, the people have had to rely on the Maidstone brigade, nearly seven miles away, in cases of fire. VOLUNTARY "FIREMEN." On the last occasion when the Maidstone brigade were called out the exhausted horses' dropped down tired out just by Yalding bridge, Mr, W. C. Killick, scoutmaster, and Captain S. Reid, secretary, of the Yalding scouts, then proposed to the parish council that the scouts should act as voluntary firemen if the necessary hose aad apparatus were obtained for them, The council have just agreed to this proposal with enthusiasm, and some 300ft, of hoselhc boys all desired a "very l o n g " hosetogether with other apparatus will arrive at the village in a few days. To-day I have had a chat with Mr. Killick and some of the boys about their plans and preparations for putting out fires. " I thought we were to have a fire engine with a fire in it and a bell and galloping horses," said one small "fireman." "Instead of an engine we shall have trek cartsbut they will be nice little carts, though," When the alarm of fire is given by some terrified farmer or housewife at Mr, Killick's house he fires a maroon. " When the maroon goes off at any time of day or night run to the scoutmaster's house," That is the order which the scouts will most cheerfully obey.

an outbreak in a furrier's shop at 28,, KIder-street,

Bishopsgate. The three children were alone in the house when the outbreak was discovered, and the boy Lazarus, carrying a child in each arm, rushed them upstairs towards a skylight on to the roof, Here he calmed them and held them till the firemen arrived and rescued themhe himself escaping down the skyJight'of the next-door house, " I heard noises all aroimd m e , " said the boy last night, " and found tHe room full of smoke. Looking through the window I saw flames, so I picked up the two children, one in each arm, and took them upstairs, " I managed to open the skylight and got the children out on to the loof and started crying for help. " I could not open the skylight of the next door house, but I kept On kicking it till a young man broke the glass and came up. Then the fire escape arrived,"

MR. ISMAY TO

RESIGK.

NEW PEERS.
Baronies of the United Kingdom have been conferred upon: Sir George Sydenham Clarke. Has been Governor of Bombay sinco 1907, and is now about' to tetire. He has had a distinguished iiiilitaTy career. Waa Secretary of the Commitleo ot Imperial Defence in 1904 and Governor of Victoria, Australia, 1901-4, Sir George Kemp. M.P. (L.) for North-West Division of Manchester, 1910-13, when he resigned. Botn at Eochdalo in 1866, ho ia managing director ot KelsaH and Kemp, Limited; He was educated at Shrewsbury and Cambridge, and was in the Cambridge cricket eleven-' 1885-1886, 1888. and in the Lancashire eleven from 1888-93. Served in the South African wiir.and was mentioned in dispatches.

NEW PRIVY COUNCILLORS.

The Earl of Desart. Was Director ot Public Prosecutions from 1894 to 1908, and Solicitor to the Treasury and King's Proctor from 1894 to 1909. British Plenipotentiary at the Naval International Conference of London, 1908'9,' and a British member ol the Internationai Court ol Arbitration at The Hague. Sir John A. Simon, Solicitor-General. Has represented Walthamstow in the House of Commons Eince 1906. He was born in 1875, the eon of a Congregational minister, and was educated ^t Fettes and Oxford. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace in 1910.
IRISH PRIVY COUNCILLORS.

MB, SANDERSON. MR. ISMAY, Mr Bruce Ismay, who is resigning the position of president of the International Mercantile Marnie Company in favour of Mr. Harold 3a"nderson, the change to take effect on June 30. Mr. Ismay. it will be remembered, was a passenger on the ill-starred Titanic

LONDON'S WELCOME TO 1913.

L i b e r a l M . P . S B r i n g in t h e N e w Y e a r w i t h H a g g i s a n d " A u l d L a n g Syne,'* Scotsmen and othersLondoners from north, south, east arid westand folk of many nations celebrated Hogmanay, the coming'in of the New Year, in St. P a u l ' s Churchyard this morning. As the n\idnight hour struck the skirl of the pipes was heard and the customary scenes ensued, each wishing his neighbour or neighbours a " good New Y e a r . " On the whole the crowd was a very orderly one, and it was noticed that many children accompanicd their parents, The passing of the old year was celebrated at most of the principal London hotels with a series of brilliant festivities. Kverywhere balls and suppers were held, and thousands of guests assembled to participate in the various amusements and entertainments. The guests at the supper given by Mr, Percy Itlingworth, the Chief Government Whip, at the Hotel Cecil last night to the Scottish Liberal members included the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, Mr. McKinnon Wood, the Lord Advocate and Mr. Tennant. Scottish dishes, including haggis, figured "on the menu, and at the close " A u l d Lang S y n e " was heartily sung.

Edward Archdale, Esq. The Hon. Mr. Justice William Huston Dodd.

NEW BARONETS.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. F . Bagot, M . P . Has been Unionist M.P, for the Kendal Division of Westmorland since 1910. He was Parliamentary Private Secietaiy and Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1897, and to the Homo Secretary in 1698-99.' H . H. Bartktt. Esq., Is a partner in the firm of Percy and Co., the wellKnown contractors. Has interested himself keenly in the development of university education, especially in London, and has been a Beneroua benefactor to the London University. James Key Caird, Esq. A well-linowii Dundee millowner and philanthropist, who last year gave 10,000 to the British Association, loliowing on a scries of benefactions to his native city totalling many thousands. * Sir Frank Crisp. A senior partner in the legal firm of Ashnrst, Morris, Crisp and Co., of 17, Throgniorton-avenue, E.C. He served on the Board ot Trade Committee foe Amendment of Companies Act, 1862. Ha was formerly hon. secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, and vice-president of the Linnean Society, He was created a knight in 1907. T, G. Jackson,'R.A. The well-known Osilord architect, who restored the Bodleian Library and executed tjie new buildings for many Oxford colleges and several public schools, Mr. JaclcEon has also restored many chuiches, among them Winchester Cathedral. Sir Maurice Levy, M . P . Has represented the Longhboroueh Division of Leicester> Ehiro as a Liberal since 1900. He is a ,I.P, for Leicester , and president of the' Harborough Division Liberal Association. Sir Percy Scott, Inspector of Target Practice in the Hoyal Navy and Q famous gunnery expert. He was born in 1853. His in-

TO BE K.C.M.G.'s.
The following are the promotions in anil appointments to the Order of St. Michael and St. George: Frederick Jackson. Governor of Uganda. Sir Edward Morris, Premier of Newfoundland. Sir James Whitney, Premier of Ontario. Major John Clauson, Lieutenant-Governor of Malta. Kdward Brockmau, .Chief Secretary to Federated Malay States Government. William Tyrrell, private secretary to the Foreign Minister. Robert Kennedy, lately Minister at Montevideo. Henry IJowther, Minister Designat* at Copenhagen.

FIRST STRIKE
5,000

OF 1913?
Be

Fewer Taxicabs Expected T o R u n n i n g in L o n d o n T o - d a y .

NEW K.C.B.'s.
The following promotions were announced in last night's GaseUe:To be K.C^B. r Vice-Admiral Frederick Tower Hamilton. C.V.O. ; InspectorGeneral of Hospitals and Fleets Duncan Hilston, C.B., M.D, (retired); Sir John Anderson, G . C . M . G . ; Lewis Amherst Selby Bigge, Esq., C.B. To be K . C I . E . : Major-General George John Younghusband, C.B. TO-DAV'S WI-ATHER.

THE DANGER OF ST. PAUL'S.

The Cathedral is overloadeti; it is a^itually moving and cracking, and now a proposal is brought forward Avhich can in no way contribute to its safety, but may at no distant date bring alMut serious injury, Sir Francis Fox, one of the greatest'engineering experts in the world, makes the above grave statement in a report to the Dean and Chapt-er of St, Paul's as the result of an examination of tho great cathedral. H e is of opinion [hat the tramway subway which the London County Council propose to run from Cannon-street to Peel's Statue. Cheapside, should on no account he permitted in such close proximity to the cathedral. Sir Francis also declares that immediate remedial m-easures are imperative to secure the safety of St. Paul's.

Our special weather forecast for to^lay is: Fresh south-westerly and westerly winds; cloudy generally with occasional rain; mild. Lighting-up time, 5,0 p.m. High-water at London Bridse, 8.14 a.m. LONDO.v OnsERVATroNS; Holborn Circus, City, 6 p.m.Barometer, 30.15in.. steady; temperature, 47deg; wind, 8.W.. gusty; weather dull, Sea passages wiU be rather rough.

Londoners to-day will probably find that mora than half the total number of taxicabs in the metropolis are not running, Nearly 5,000 drivers decided last night to refuse to pay the increased charges demanded for petrol. This is tantamount to a strike declaration, and it is expected that 5,000 taxicabs will be irtissing from the streets this morning, The issue is a very simple one. The demand of the owners is that from January 1 the drivers shall pay Is. Id. per gallon for petrol, being an increase of 5d. The drivers offered at first to pay Id, more, and the terms were refused. Another offer ol lOJd. made by the executive was declined, hence the ballot. The result of the ballot was declared late last night at two mass meetings held by the men^ The figures were: Total number of votes oast 4,891 For refusing to pay Is. 1<1. PW gnHon .,,, 4,695 Against 177 Spoilt ballot papcra 19 The result was acclaimed by the laxicab-drivcrt with loud cheering, and they passed the following resolution unanimously: That tills meeting of London oab-drivcrs. after hearing the report of the executive runeil and tho result of the ballot re the price to he paid for petrol during the year 1913, endorses their action and unanimously pledge tliemselves not to return to vmr'k until instructed to do so by them. The total number of taxicubs on the I.ondoa streets is about 8,000.

ME. BOWRING,

MB,- LIBERTY,

Ma. HOLLAND. COLONEL YORKE. MR. MATHIAS, MR. ESSEX. P o r t r a i t s of e i g h t of t h e n e w k n i g r h t s . P a r t i c u l a r s of t h e i r c a r e e r s a r e e i y e n o n t h i s pajire.

UK. TAYLOR.

MR, PETTIGRKW.