L. ALFRED D'AMOUR

M. D'Amour est né à Montréal, le 12 mai 1866, du mariage d'Alfred D'Amour, notaire, et de Georgiana Pelletier. Il a d'abord fréquenté les écoles de la commission scolaire catholique de Montréal, puis a suivi les cours de médecine comparée de l'Université Laval. Il a reçu son diplôme de médecin vétérinaire en 1890. C'est un studieux et il a lui-même complété son instruction.

Entré au service de la ville, en 1882, comme attaché au bureau de M. Champagne, inspecteur des chaudières, il est, depuis 1888, secrétaire de la Commission de l'éclairage et du service des incendies. Il est aussi secrétaire de l'Association de Bienfaisance des Pompiers.

M. D'Amour a fait la campagne du Nord-Ouest en 1885, avec le 65e, il était sergent porte-drapeau. Il reçut son baptême de feu, à la Butte aux Français, et à son retour de l'Ouest, fit six ans de service dans la batterie de campagne de Montréal.

Il a été professeur de matière médicale à l'Ecole de Médecine Vétérinaire de Montréal.

De son mariage avec Mlle Marie- Antoinette Pépin (24 novembre 1892) sont nées trois charmantes fillettes.

FRANKLIN HODGKINS BADGER,

Ex-'Surintendant du Département du Télégraphe d'Alarme.

Photo. J. A. DUMAS, 121 Vitré, coin Saint-Laurent, Montréal.

The Late FRANKLIN HODGKINS BADGER.

The annouiicement of the deatli of Mr. F. H. Badger Superintendent of the Fire Alarm Department, which occurred in Portland, Maine, on the 30th of Jul}^ last, was received with much regret at the City Hall.

The late Mr. Franklin H. Badger was born in Salem, Massachussetts, in 1835. He was the son of Stepthen Badger, by his wife, Clarissa Caldwell ; his father was shipwright. In early manhood he went to Boston and entered the service of the Fire Alarm Office. When Montréal established its fire alarm System, in 1863, he was chosen as its snperintendent, a post he worthily fiUed to the close of his life.

Mr. Badger, many years ago, saw that electricit}^ would work a révolution in the world of industry ; it was his good fortune to enjoy the friendship of many leaders in that révolution. Among his associâtes in Boston, were Moses G. Farmer, a prolific inventor of télégraphie apparatus and electric motors ; and Joseph B. Stearns, whose instruments for sending two telegrams, at the same time, in opposite directions over a wire, brought him famé and fortune. In the three mémorable 3^ears ending with 1878, the téléphone, the incandescent bulb, and the arc lamp were brought to perfection. Their inventors found in Mr. Badger an all^^ and trusty adviser, with a thorough mastery of mechanical détails and a firm grasp of broad principles of construction. At that time he narrowly missed becoming a millionnaire. In its original form, the téléphone of Prof. Bell had a tone so feeble and wavering as to be little else than an interesting toy, the inventor offered a half interest in his patent to Mr. Badger