HERBERT B. AMES

Alderman Herbert B. Ames, is one of the most prominent members of the City Council. He was born at Montréal in June 1863. His father was Evans Fisher Ames, originally a native of Massachusetts, and his mother, Caroline M. Brown,

HERBERT B. AMES, Représentant du Quartier Saint-Antoine Est, Maintenant Quartier Saint-Georges.

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from New Jersey. He entered Amherst Collège, Amherst, jMass, in 1881 and graduated in 1885. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Plii and the Phi Beta Kappa fraternities. In the Summer of 1885 Mr. Ames entered the wholesale boot and shoe manufactnring establishment of Ames, Holden & Company and retired in 1894. The death of Mr. Ames, senior, left the présent alderman snfficient property to enable him to live comfortably on its revenue. From that time Mr. Ames determined to dévote his time to public work. He was président of the Y. M. C. A., in 1896 and 1898 and served on its board for fourteen years. In 1894 he delivered a course of lectures before the Association, on Canadian Political History, and in 1895, another course, on Municipal Administration. He founded a mock city council in the Association in 1897.

In 1897, Mr. Ames compiled from personal investigation a sociological work entitled " The City Below The Hill " which received considérable attention from students throughout America, a résume of which under the title of " Incomes, Wages and Rents in Montréal " was prepared by request of the U. S. Commissioner of Labor and published in the Bulletin of the Department of Labor (January 1898.)

Mr. Ames organized, in 1892, '' The Volunteer Electoral League of Montréal." The league number about 350 and was a patent influence in the élection of the reform administration.

In February 1898 Mr. Ames entered the Cit}^ Council as représentative for St. Antoine Ward, the largest and wealthiest of the city constituencies. During the year which followed, he gave much attention to the revision of the charter of the City of Montréal, which revised charter being passed by the Législature, put an end to many abuses. At présent, Mr. Ames is chairman of the Board of Health of Alontreal, and member of the Police Committee, of the Water Committee and also

ISAAC H. STEARNS,

Représentant du Quartier Saint-Antoine Est,

Maintenant Quartier Saint-Georges.

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member of tlie Provincial Council of Public Instruction. Thèse positions together with the Y. M. C. A. and benevolent work fully occupy his time.

Alderman Ames married in 1890. He has no cliildren. He is a Presbyterian and an elder of the American Presbyterian church.

IvSAAC H. STEARNS.

Alderman Isaac H. Stearns was born on the 3rd of Alay 1837 i^ New Hampshire, U. S., and has been a citizen of Montréal for the last fifty years. He followed a commercial course, completing his éducation later on. He is al together a self-made man and if he to-day occupies, as a public man and a private citizen, a most enviable position it is due to his own persévérance.

He is the son of the late D. J. Stearns, who died in 1854. Alderman Stearns was at one time largely interested in the manufacture of Agricultural Implements. He was liquidator of the Exchange Bank Estate. He is treasurer of the Protestant Insane Hospital, and has been a member of the board of directors of that institution since its foundation. He is also président of the Montréal Dispensary, member of the Antiquarian Society, and member of the Protestant Schools Board. He was married in 1860. He was first elected alderman by acclamation for the West Ward in 1892 and 1893. He was returned also by acclamation in 1902 for St. Antoine Ward East, now St. George Ward. Ail thèse élections by acclamation show in what high esteem alderman Stearns is deservedly held by the citizens of Montréal. Alderman Stearns is a prominent member of the Masonic Order, being a Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Québec, A. F. & A. M.