EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 5

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS.

— «. A COLONEL DEFIES THE MILITIA AUTHORITIES. 8j Telejr^ph.T- Press Association.— Copjrlgnt. LONDON, 9th September. Defying the Canadian Militia Department, Colonel Labelle, of the 651h Regiment at Montreal, has ordered his corps to attend the Eucharistic Congress procession on Sunday. Sir Frederick Borden, Minister for Jlilitia, has placed the responsibility ou the commanding officer. | CRYSTAL PALACE, ♦ AN INTERESTING SUGGESTION. Bj Telegraph.— Prest Aisociation.— Copyrl/tht* LONDON, 9th September. Lord Plymouth, who was Commissioner of Works in the Balfour Administration, has made an interesting suggestion for the preservation of the Crystal Palace as a memorial to King Edward. The Crystal Palace Company is in liquidation as the result of heavy financial losses, and there is some danger of the building being sold to be broken up Lord Plymouth's idea is that the Palace should .be transformed into a huge Imperial Club, the funds to be provided by the enrolment of 750,000 life members, who would each subscribe a guinea. He proposes that the Palace should be made a centre for Imperial sports, for technical education, and for British and colonial .art and industrial exhibitions. Each oversea Dominion would be allotted a permanent pavilion. Tho profits of the enterprise would go to the King Edward Hospital Fund. FATE OF THE PALACE. Mr. H. M. Winearls, the assistant official receiver, declared at a recent meeting of the shareholders and creditors of the Crystal Palace Company that unless a favourable scheme of reorganisation was brought forward the famous f'leasure resort would disappear before ong. Mr. Winearls said that the failure was due, among other things, to the following causes : — The cost of ren'oval from Hyde Park and re-erection at Sydenham was £1,500,000; the company losfc £45,000 in litigation with a firm of refreshment contractors; frauds and forgeries perpetrated by n clerk cost them £28,000 ; a disastrous fire in 1866, a great storm, and two landslides ; .difficulties with railway companies, and the competition of more accessible places of amusement. Mr. Hussey, the receiver for the debenture holders, said that they had entered into a very advantageous agreement with the Festival of Empire directors, and they would have an added benefit from any surplus which might remain after all expenses had been paid. The Palace, a building of iron and glass, was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton. The nave is 1608 feet long, tho central transept 390 feet by 120 feet, and 175 feet high, uud £be south transept 312 feet long.