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Old Street Wharf

Beacon
April 13/1905
Old Landmark Gone
The Street Wharf Goes Down with Buildings
Thursday last was a day of local sensations. First came a threatened fire, which drew everybody out in the rain storm. Then a few hours afterwards followed the collapse of the old Street wharf and the two warehouses thereon, owned respectively by the Glenn estate and H. O’Neill. The wind, and tide and ice we responsible for this catastrophe. The latter loosed the under pinning of the wharf, and the tide and wind did the rest. Both building will be complete wrecks. The Glen building contained a carload of shingle and a quantity of pine lumber, while the O’Neill warehouse had abut 50 tons of hard coal on the main floor. The contents of both buildings will likely be saved. Both buildings were very old—older, probably, than the oldest inhabitant. Postmaster Stevenson says that forty years ago he was employed as an office boy with the late James Bolton in one of the buildings; it had been standing for over half a century.  For many years, while St. Andrews was to the fore as West India port, the firm of James Street and Co. used these buildings as warehouses for rum, molasses, sugar and the other products of the West Indies that cam this way.  By their down fall two of the oldest land marks of the place have been swept away.