THE LATE FRANK J. HART

Ex-Alderman. 1900-1.

élections générales de février 1900, il a été élu par acclamation pour représenter le quartier Saint-Antoine. Durant son terme de deux ans, il exerça parmi ses collègues une influence prépondérante, comme membre de la commission des finances, Ses connaissances financières, son expérience et son jugement furent, à maintes reprises, d'une grande utilité dans l'administration des affaires municipales.

M. Faucher a épousé, en 1870, Melle Virginie Chartrand..

The Late FRANK J. H ART.

On Thursday, March aytli, 1902, the announcement of the death of ex-alderman Frank J. Hart came as a peculiar shock to the citizens of Montréal. Mr. Hart died of a stroke of apoplexy, in Colorado, while on his wa}' home from a flying trip to California.

Mr. Hart served only one term of two years in the City Council, being elected by acclamation, with ald. Ames, in St. Antoine Est, in February 1900. At once appointed chairman of the Fire Committee, alderman Hart set himself to the task of placing the brigade on a satisfactory basis. Though at ail times hampered b}^ the lack of funds, lie succeeded in doing a great deal. The economy effected in every brandi of the department was appréciable, being evidenced by the fact tliat in neither of the years, during whicli lie held control, was the appropriation of the department overdrawn one cent.

Mr. Hart, before his élection to the municipal council, was a meniber of the Roman Catholic Board of School Coin mis sioners.

At the time of his death, Mr. Hart was 51 years of age^

CHARLES F. SMITH, Ex-Alderman. 1900-J.

In 1870, he commenced an active business career, in the then widely known grocery house of David Crawford, on St. James Street. Some years later he was taken into partnership, but this association did not last long. Mr. Hart then formed a business connection with another clerk in Mr. Crawford's store, and two years later started business on his own account.

During the twenty years preceding his decease, Mr. Hart succeeded in building up, probably, the most extensive wholesale fruit business in the Dominion, and he acquired large interests outside his own particular business.

Besides a widow, who was formerly a Miss Saunders, and whom he married about twenty-five years before his death, Mr. Hart left three sons, viz : Charles M. and Frank, who were associated with their father's business ; and Thornley, who is employed in the Canada Paper Co.; also a daughter. Miss Muriel.

Mr. Hart was a Roman Catholic, and in politics, he was a conservative.