Show LIVES MENACED THROUGH STRIKE Hospital Patients Are re in Danger as Montreal i EnI En- En 7 T I gi Br nr Af l Pre 1 Montreal Jan 2 A A water CamIne famine Cam fam am- am ine Inc here resulting from a strike of engineers at the municipal waterworks waterworks water water- works worl s was relieved today after aCter lives of ot patients In steam-heated steam hospitals had been endangered b by lack of oC heat during zero weather and holes had been bored In the ice of or a canal lest firemen be unable to prevent a n conflagration conflagration con con- It If a serious fire started Toda Today a private company which supplies supplies sup sup- plies outlying g- g districts lIst turned Its surplus surplus surplus sur sur- plus Into the tile city mains and Mayor Ia or Martin be began nn to hire new engineers after an unsuccessful attempt to pla- pla care cafe the strikers who went o out odi t for i iI I higher wag wages g yesterday X New Strike Rumored Humored It was reported tonight tha that t the tIme en engineers of oC tho the private company campan contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- going out also Attempts to to Induce tho the police and the firemen to strIke in sympathy with l u. u I Po- Po I I u. u D 1 Icemen who were approached I b by strikers said that the they were far Car too busy tying ti to prevent conditions duo duoto duoto duoto to the time strike from Crom becoming becoming- worse worse JI t The meagre t supply of oC private water became me available a at tt hospitals toda today Just In time Water ater for Cor drinking purposes purposes pur pur- poses which whelm had been stored In bottles bottles botties bot bot- bot- bot ties before tho the strike was Hearl nearly exhaust exhausted ex ex- cx- cx haust hausted d. d A con conference rence of all the tho doctors docton Inthe in inthe the time city was wat In session at city hall haJJ on measures designed to prevent ent serious mortality when the faucets began to torun torun torun run again The Tho supply however was sll slight ht There was not enough to adequately ade ado heat tho the hospitals I |