the year were larger than last year, being about 10.18% of the Paid-Up Capital and Rest.

The Staff situation, due to the large number of enlistments, is a serious one, but all are working together, early and late, giving faithful war service. Since 1914 the volume of business has increased at least 50%. The total number of employees on the staff at the outbreak of the war was-Men, 254; Girls, 15; Total, 269. At the present time-Men, 165; Girls, 102; Total, 267. The girls who have been taken into the service for the most part have given very good satisfaction, and are being employed as tellers in some of our smaller branches.

Mr. Thomas Long and Mr. C. M. Gripton both spoke briefly, expressing the satisfaction of the Shareholders and complimenting the management upon the Statement presented. It was then moved by Mr. Thomas Long and seconded by Mr. Frank P. Lee that the thanks of the Shareholders are due and are hereby tendered to the President, Vice-President and Directors for their careful attention to the affairs of the Bank. Carried. Moved by Dr. J. A. Todd, seconded by Mr. J. B. O'Higgins, that the thanks of the Shareholders be tendered to the Acting General Manager and the other officers of the Bank for the efficient manner in which they have respectively discharged their duties during the past year. Carried.

Moved by Mr. L. V. Dusseau, seconded by Mr. W. J. Green, that Mr. Sydney H. Jones be re-appointed Auditor of the Bank for the ensuing year. Carried. The following Directors were then elected for the ensuing year: Messrs. C. A. Barnard, K.C., H. J. Daly, R. P. Gough, M. J. Haney, c.E., John Kennedy, Hon. A. Claude Macdonell, K.C., Brig.-Gen. the Hon. James Mason, J. Ambrose O'Brien, S. Casey Wood.

At a meeting of the new Board of Directors held immediately after the adjournment of the General Meeting, Mr. M. J. Haney, C.E., was re-elected President, Mr. R. P. Gough, Vice-President, and Brig. General the Hon. James Mason, Honorary President, of the Bank. Lieut.-Colonel J. Cooper Mason, D.s.o., was also appointed General Manager.

THE BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM

Francis Grierson, the Famous English
Litterateur and World Traveller,
Visits This Great Institution

For many years, during my travels in Europe, I had heard of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. In Germany I was often asked if I had ever visited the famous institution and at all the leading health resorts in England and Scotland I was asked the same question.

One day, at Carlsbad, an eminent Russian scientist said to me:— "America has given the world two ideas that will never die—the Declaration of Independence and the Battle Creek Idea." I became deeply interested and decided I would some day visit the Sanitarium and see, hear and experience for myself.

On my arrival I was struck by three things-the beauty of Battle Creek, the size of the Sanitarium Buildings, and the superb appearance of the trees and lawns surrounding the buildings on all sides. The Battle Creek Idea is the most vital and biological ever put into practical form. It did not take me long to realize this. In Europe I saw failure resulting from the fact that some one tried to establish a practical, working institution with nothing to work on but notions and fads.

BATTLE CREEK NOT A Fad.

The Sanitarium has passed from theory to realization, from the local idea to universal application. It is no longer in the pioneer period. As I have just pointed out, it is known to the remotest limits of civilization. Here guests are not treated sentimentally, but scientifically. Here there is no place for guess work and makebelieve. There is no dallying with whims and vagaries.

Every University in England and America has its simple-life enthusiasts here. In the dining room, I was introduced to a young Russian who told me more about present-day life in Russia than I ever knew. One evening I was surprised to meet some acquaintances from Florence, Italy, and while I was talking with them, some friends came up whom I had known in Paris.

The climate is remarkably equable, and the position of the town, one thousand feet above Lake Michigan, in the centre of the stage, at the top of the great mound which forms the State, insures pure, cool lake breezes from all sides-from Lake Michigan on the West, Lake Huron on the East and Lake Superior on the North. Summer heat is less here than on the lake shore, because the town is on a greater elevation and during hot spells it is even cooler in Battle Creek than it is at the northern resorts.

"It is cool in Michigan," is a phrase that draws tens of thousands of people to this part of the United States from Texas and other southern States, every summer season. There are two hundred small lakes in the vicinity of Battle Creek and several thousand in the State, and the beauty of the walks and the public roads, can hardly be adequately described.

The beautiful maples, elms, lindens and catalpas which line the streets and fill the numerous lovely parks, are the home of hundreds of big black and grey fox squirrels, which scamper about the trees and play with children in the parks.

THE MEDICAL STAFF.

The Battle Creek Idea embodies all the most improved and most scientific methods of combating disease. There are no violent heroic measures, no empirical formulas, no secret methods employed. The system is simply a rational plan of leading the individual out of suffering and inefficiency into health, comfort and useful activity.

The medical corps of the Sanitarium comprises more than thirty physicians and from three to four hundred nurses and attendants, the number varying with the season of the year. The leading physicians of the Battle Creek Sanitarium have been connected with the institution for ten to forty years and all of them have been especially trained for the work in the best medical institutions of this country and Europe.

The most popular breakfast foods originated here. Toasted cereal flakes are a Battle Creek Sanitarium idea which has won favour throughout the world.

It is interesting to note the ever increasing appreciation of the work of the institution on the part of the medical profession. This is clearly shown in the fact that the family of patients always includes many physicians and from inquiry I learned that a large proportion of the patients are referred here by their family physicians.

In looking over the annual report I found that among thousands of others admitted last year as patients there were one hundred and fifty-six attorneys; one hundred and eight bankers; ten judges; three hundred and thirty-six students; twenty-one publishers; one hundred and eighty-one teachers; four senators; seven editors; twenty-eight presidents; two hundred and twenty nurses, and two hundred and eighteen physicians.

Provision is made for the care of the sick and poor, as well as for those who are able to pay. The case of the poorest sufferer receives the same painstaking, careful investigation as that of the wealthiest patient.