nd who is having difficulty
in getting me to understand the case."

The suggestion was that the solicitor for the railway who had made a
special study of the Board of Trade's argument for the sake of
demolishing it, should himself present that side of the argument in the
clear, concise English of which he is a master; that wherever necessary
the French counsel should correct the statement; and that afterwards
Mr. Beatty should proceed to demolish the argument which he himself had
put up. The counsel was agreeable. Mr. Beatty rose to the occasion.
His statement of the case was so satisfactory to the counsel for Trois
Rivieres that he afterwards wondered how Beatty was ever able to
demolish it and win the case.

Beatty has no hobbies. He cares for no art, collects no curios, has no
great house, drives no big cars; cares not at all for society; thinks
more of the Amateur Athletic Association and the Navy League and the
boys of the Y.M.C.A., the athletic equipment of Queen's University and
the success of Sir Arthur Currie as President of McGill. He never
travels for pleasure. When he goes over the C.P.R., expect results.
The average Montrealer does not even know where he lives. He is said
to spend forty minutes a day, indoor weather, at basketball. In summer
he camps. Snapshotted in a sweater he looks like a compromise between
Babe Ruth batting a home run and Hofmann playing the piano.

When Beatty was first a young lawyer in Montreal he was so lonesome for
the city he came from that he used to go down to the station to see the
Toronto train pull in. He did not dream then that some day he would be
the man that pulls all the trains in; that from his desk he should have
a periscope on the world--every day--the greatest intelligence
department in America. When he was a school lad in Thorold, afterwards
at the Upper Canada "Prep." (where he got so bad a report that his
father was advised to take him out of school), he had no idea that he
would be Chancellor of Queen's University.

The system and the man. Determining which most affects the other is
like the old problem of the hen and the egg. But here, anyhow, is a
great system. No man venerates it more than Beatty. He does not even
consent to call it a corporation; prefers to think of it as an
association, imbued with enthusiasm and loyalty. Now and then he
publicly discusses national ownership; none can do it better. He did
it at Thorold soon after he was a