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Pilot
June 21/1888
Second part from Saint John Daily Sun
"The St. Andrews Land Company, of which Sir Leonard Tilley is president, R. S. Gardiner of Boston, secretary, and Eugene F. Fay of Boston, treasurer, comprises a coterie of American business men among whom may be named, in addition to these officers, Mr. Claflin of the celebrated mercantile firm of Claflin and Co., Boston; Mr. Lord, banker of Bangor; J. B. Coyle of the International Steamship Co.; Mr. Connors of the Old Colony Railroad; F. E. Boothby of the Maine Central; D. J. Flanders of the Boston and Maine, not forgetting F. W. Cram, general manager of the New Brunswick Railway, who has been one of the moving spirits in the affair. The company have already invested a large sum of money in the purchase of sightly lookouts near the village proper, and have in fact secured possession of most of the available property of the plateau adjoining the town, as well as the two large islands in the contiguous waters. Corner lots in the village have not been overlooked, and although operations have been here and there retarded by the anxiety of landowners to obtain considerably more than the present market price for their property, the company have every reason to feel gratified at the manner in which their advances were generally met by the townspeople. Joe's Point, where the camp was held last year, and much of the land in that vicinity, is now held by the company; and at almost every turn on the sweep around the point, and down past the terrace to Indian Point, the eye of the spectator is greeted with the sign: "Trespassers on these lands will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law." Of course, there have been some purchased by parties not connected with the company. For instance, T. Wedlock, Esq., of Shanghai and formerly of Windsor, N. S., has bought the McRobert s farm, a mile and a half out from the town and facing the St. Croix River, (this is Strathcroix, Willa Walker's property) for $3,000, a price far in advance of what was asked for the property before the land boom had assumed its present proportions. Mr. Harding (later C. R. Hosmer lot) of Harding and Smith, Saint John, has purchased for $950 a lot on the Victoria Terrace range of about two and three-quarter acres, and also a part of the Peacock farm at Joe's point for $5,000. As a proof of the reality of the boom, and that the extravagant stories one hears one the streets of St. Andrews have some foundation in fact, we give the following extracts from the records in the office of the registrar of wills and deeds:
Deed dated 23rd February, 1888—James Haley to S. L. Tilley, Three town lots in St. Andrews.
Deed dated 23rd Feb, 12888, Richardson Haddock to S. L. Tilley two town lots in St. Andrews.
Deed, George S. Grimmer to S. LO. Tilley. Give town lots in St. Andrews. Deed, William Rollins to S. L. Tilley. Four lots of land on the road leading from the Bar road to the rural cemetery, each lot having a frontage of 11 rods and 7 links, and 10 roads and 1 ½ links wide.
Deed—John McFarlane to Tilley, Certain lots in the parish of St. Andrews, near the Bar road, containing 22 acres. Deed dated May 20, 1888, Thomas E. Gibson to St. Andrews Land Co. A lot in St. Andrews.
Deed dated March 3, q888, Charles O'Neill to Tilley. A town lot in St. Andrews on Prince of Wales Street.
Deed dated Feb. 28, q888, George Mowatt to Tilley. About 25 acres in the parish of St. Andrews of the George Mowatt farm. Deed dated 5th March, 1888, N. G. D. Parker to Tilley. A portion of the Tompkins farm so called in the parish of St. Andrews, also two town lots.
Deed dated March 1st, 1888, Bishop of Fredericton and other to S. L. Tilley, ten acres in the parish of St. Andrews, also three acres in the town of St. Andrews. Deed Julia Whitlock to Tilley. Eight town lots in St. Andrews. Also, a part of the Joe's point property.
Deed dated March 5th, 1888, Daniel McFarlane to Tilley. Two lots in the parish of St. Andrews, nos. 10 and 20.
Deed dated March 6th, 1888, N. G D. Parker and Henry Moody to Tilley. Twenty-four lots in the town of St. Andrews.
Deed dated March 16th, 1888, Church wardens and others of All Saints Church to Tilley. Seven lots in the town of St. Andrews.
Deed dated Feb. 28, 1888—B. R. Stevenson and others to Tilley, Two lots and one-half in the town of St. Andrews.
Deed date 28th May 1888, Emma Robinson to St. Andrews Land Company, town lot in St. Andrews.
One of the most important portions of the work undertaken by the Land Company is the introduction of a good system of water works by piping from the Chamcook lakes in the nearby highlands. A charter for a water company was obtained at the recent session of the provincial legislature, and the work will be carried on with such dispatch that ere the grand rush sets in, St. Andrews will rejoice in a perfect system of sewerage and water supply. The Chamcook water is perfectly pure and of the very best quality. The elevation gives a sufficient head to supply much of the ground to be covered, but for the higher portions of the town a pumping station will be necessary.
The town of St. Andrews, as before stated, has given the company a free grant of the strip of land lying south and east of the New Brunswick Railway, known as Indian Point, containing about 55 acres, on condition that the company will make not less than ten acres into a public park for the perpetual use of the town, under the usual regulation for the government of parks and squares.
On Tuesday of this week, E. A. W. Hammatt, a prominent landscape artist, arrived from Boston for the purpose of examining the park and preparing plans for its adornment according to the rigid laws that govern modern landscape gardening. Mr. Hammatt, who received much valuable assistance during his stay from Mr. Maxwell, C. E. of St. Stephen, at present engaged surveying the land company's property, informed 'The Sun' that it was his intention to make haste slowly and as far as possible to utilize such trees now in the park as are worth preserving. He will introduce groups of mixed evergreen and hardwood trees, lay out walks, erect band stands, refreshment booths, etc. The company proposes spending about $5,000 this season on the park and its surroundings.
A fine building for the offices of the company will be erected in the center of the town this summer, and a few typical cottages will be put up, but so far as can be ascertained, the moving spirits of the enterprise are not the men to rush matters with undue haste. They desire lasting returns on their investment and aim to make St. Andrews the superior summer resort of any watering place on the North Atlantic coast. The volume of travel to this point in recent seasons, the favorable attitude of the railway corporations whose lines stretch out to this region and its accessibility from New York, Boston, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec, make its future as a resort an assured success. Before the opening of another season the Canadian Pacific Railway will have placed the leading cities of the Dominion in direct communication with St. Andrews by through train. Briefly summed up, the attractions of St. Andrews comprise unsurpassed scenery; beautiful climate; freedom from fogs and mosquitoes, magnificent yacht course; rustic lanes; diversified carriage dries and bridle paths; fine bathing; tide water, stream and lake fishing with woodland glades and mountain slopes hungry for the crack of the sportsman's gun.
A confident feeling that St. Andrews will soon be the great winter port of Canada, warms the hearts of many of her residents. Some when spoken to on the subject, nod their heads with a knowing smile; others give tongue freely.
What on earth do you suppose the Land Company want with all the ground they have secured own near the New Brunswick Railway track, unless the C. P. R. are behind them? And then the speaker proceeds to demonstrate that St. Andrews is the port in the maritime provinces nearest to Montreal, that its harbor, open all the year round, is deep enough to float the great eastern as far up as Joe's Point, while in the landlocked bay the united navies of the world could cast anchor on a clay bottom that never 'drags.' He further established to his own satisfaction at least, that the C. P. R. want the harbor all to themselves; that Saint John having no wharves and no enterprise is out of the race altogether, and that he I. C. R. and the imperial authorities have a practical monopoly of Halifax waters, and that consequently St. Andrews is the only spot on the coast fitted to meet the requirements of the great trans-continental line. Free sites for wharves and elevators, free stockyard privileges, etc., are, of course, to be had for the asking. Even many of the more conservative citizens, who are the Kilkenny cat side of the summer-pleasure-resort-ocean-freight-terminus combination, are convinced that the C. P. R. money is at the back of the boom; and that Sir George Stephen et al. have as keen an eye for ducats that spring from a fashionable watering place as they have for the wealth that exudes from the golden grain of the far western prairies. The fact that Adam Smith, the patriarch of New Brunswick journalism, has never doubted the selection of any other port by the C. P. R. is a force that serves to strengthen the weak-kneed against all pessimistic sneerers. Time, however, will soon show how near these enthusiasts have stood to rock bottom.
St. Croix Courier
July 26/1888
We are very glad to report that the hotels are in a very flourishing condition. Visitors are pouring in by every steamer from the west, and Mr. Barker, the manager, informs, us that never before, at this early stage of the season, has he had so many guests as now.
Pilot
June 28/1888
Detailed description of Argyll's interior.
On approaching the 'Argyll' the first thing that attracted our attention, was its outside adornment, consisting of a new coat of paint - color, on the main body of the building, a light shade of Greek grey; the mansard, straw-color, and the trimmings a rich gold olive. On entering the main doorway, evidence presented itself on every hand of the very thorough work done in the interior; the floors of the spacious hall, noble dining room and gents' parlor, had been carefully scraped and oiled until they shone like glass, the walls and ceilings newly colored, and the woodwork painted. Accompanied by the proprietor, Captain Herbert, we ascended the stairway, which is of such easy grade as to make walking upstairs a pleasure, until we landed on the fourth flat, which, when we last visited it, was an unfinished attic, merely studded off, where now we found 12 spacious bedrooms, with ceilings fourteen feet high. Five of the rooms are connected one with the other by inside doors, so that when required they may be used en-suite to accommodate a family party. A door from each room leads into a roomy hall which is lighted through a large dormer window on the roof. Looking out of the windows of the rooms on the north east side the eye feasts on a birds view of St. Andrews or Passamaquoddy Bay, a second Bay of Naples, taking in Chamcook narrows and harbor, Minister's Island, big and little Hardwood islands, one of which in days long past, was used as a quarantine station, and beneath whose sod lie the ashes on a large number of the sons and daughters of Ireland, who fled form the Emerald Isle during the famine that scourged the unfortunate bounty during the years of 1847 and 1848. . . . These rooms are furnished alike: the carpets two ply, woollen, ingrain colors, the bedsteads, dressing tables, washstands, bureaus and clothes presses are of ash with walnut trimming, of neat design and finish, and were furnished by the firm of J and D Howe, furniture manufacturers of St. John. The bedsteads are fitted with the celebrated wire wove mattresses, while the bed linen is of the purest white, and finest texture obtainable. In a word these rooms are, in our opinion, the most desirable in the house, and like all the others, are first class in their appointments. We may here state that each of the seventy-five odd rooms in the house is fitted with electric bells, and from each hallway and corridor there is telephonic connection with the office. We are pleased to state on the authority of Capt. Herbert, that the applications for rooms so far this season, are in advance of previous ones, and anticipating a rush of summer visitors this year, he is prepared to meet such an emergency. . . . The grounds around the house have been very much improved, provision has been made for a lawn tennis court, and baseball players, while the underbrush in the woods lying in front of the hotel, has been cut out and the roads, swamped with the intention ultimately of making a park which will rival in natural and artistic beauty anything of the kind on the continent. In conclusion we have only to add, that Capt. Herbert will during the present as he has done in past season, provide a band of musicians for the entertainment of his guests, and that he will do all that can reasonably be expected of mortal man to do, in an effort to make his guests comfortable and happy.
Pilot
June 28/1888
The erection of a mammoth hotel building at Indian Point, is one of the possibilities of the near future. Mr. R. S. Gardiner and Capt. W. B. Sears of Boston arrived here Monday last and are registered at Kennedy's Hotel.
The St. Andrews Land Co have decided to commence forthwith with the erection of a two-story brick building with basement on the lot corner of Water and Prince Streets. To be used as a club room and offices. The specifications for the erection of the first house on Indian Point are now in the hands of contractors for tenders.
[July 2/1888—Eugene Fay to B. R. Stevenson MS 3Y-411: "The natural curiosity regarding our movements and operations, and the liability of postal card communications furnishing food for gossip, leaves me to suggest that all communications to us be under the seal of an envelope."]
Pilot
July 5/1888
Eastport lighted by electric light July 4.
St. Croix Courier
July 12/1888
Poles for the electric lights are soon to be put in place by the gas company. The general impression has been, until very recently, that the St. Croix Cotton mill would be the first to give the city electric light, but the gas company have pushed matters more rapidly and will be the first to occupy the field. The inactivity of the cotton mill is suggestive of the conclusion already arrived at by many that the latter corporation will not erect poles this season. This gives the gas company the monopoly on both systems of light, gas and electricity. How reasonable they will be in their charges is a matter yet to be ascertained. Neither as individuals nor as a city can this community afford to pay a fancy price for light.
Pilot
July 12/1888
Plans for Indian Point; need for hotel larger than Argyll. Work on park at Point proceeding at rapid rate.
St. Andrews' Future
"Knowing something of the plans and purposes of the St. Andrews Land Co., we recognize the wisdom of the initiatory steps it is taking in its own interest, and for the good of the town. Composed as it is of businessmen, they do not seek at the outset to advertise the place as a 'grand summer resort' until something beyond climate and natural beauty of location exists. A substantial basis being laid—Indian Point Park with its cottages and bathing beach and bath houses completed, one important step will have been accomplished, for in this regard we hardly believe our citizens have appreciated the almost unanimous wish of visitors, that proper facilities for bathing might be found here, and that a pleasant, shady resort for ladies and children near the water's edge existed.
The plans for a modern brick and granite building to be erected on the Robinson lot, corner of Princess Royal and Water Streets, will be in the hands of contractors for tenders this week. The high studded basement of the club is to be fitted up as a club and billiard room, thus providing a place of amusement and entertainment for gentlemen who enjoy such social intercourse as a private club affords. The Co.'s lands, beyond the limits of the town, have been in the hands of surveyors, and plans of the same are now being completed, so that the Company will soon have accurate knowledge of what it owns, and be in position to decide upon the most desirable locality for a large hotel, for until greater hotel accommodations can be had, it would be folly to attempt attracting the multitude to St. Andrews.
The 'Argyll' is an exceedingly pleasant and well-kept house, but even with its 75 rooms it cannot accommodate more guests than will naturally and without any effort, come to it this summer. The boarding houses will as usual have as many as they can care for, therefore it seems not only desirable but absolutely necessary that an hotel than will care for 400 or 500 people should be erected, and as in the case of the 'Ponce-de-Leon,' opened at St. Augustine, Fla., last winter, it will attract such crowds of people here that the hotels which already exist will do a larger business than in the past.
To this end the Land Co. is now working, for it recognizes the fact that its property will only be made valuable according to the demand for it which may be created, and such demand will only arise through a large number of people being attracted here. The gentlemen interested in the Company have determined upon methods which seem to them most likely to result in permanent good, and to their own advantage, and when it is stated that voiding the usual course of 'Land Companies,' which upon small investments issue certificates of stock representing one hundred times the value of property purchased. The St. Andrews Land Co has not issued a share of stock or place encumbrance of any kind upon its property; it can be readily understood that as its members are furnishing every dollar necessary to carry out their purposes, our citizens will we are sure appreciate that these gentlemen whose efforts . . . ."
Pilot
July 19/1888
We called at the St. Andrews Foundry recently, were the gentlemanly proprietor, M. M. McMonagle, showed us a fine assortment of stoves, both imported and of his own manufacture, also root cutters, of which he has sold and expects to sell a large number to the farmers. Our attention was called to the iron railing for ornamental fencing, coping, and for enclosure of lots in cemeteries, which embraces a number of neat designs and are manufactured at the foundry. Mr. McMonagle has orders for railing for several lots in the cemetery and is prepared to offer his patrons special designs to select from.
The excavation for the foundation of a town cottage, to be erected at Indian Point for the American syndicate, was commenced on Tuesday last. John McPherson of Saint John has secured the contract for the building and will commence work at an early day.
Mr. W. E. Mallory has moved back to his house, the extensive alterations and improvements on which have been completed. The house now presents a most attractive appearance externally, while the interior has been so changed as to add additional rooms and make the house very comfortable and convenient.
Pilot
July 26/1888
Land Co offers prize for essay on St. Andrews as summer resort. and below.
"The St. Andrews Land Company, desirous of affording an opportunity to persons of literary ability to demonstrate their talent, propose offering a liberal cash premium for the best article upon St. Andrews and its vicinity from the standpoint of a place of summer resort. The article must not contain over 6,000 words, and should embrace briefly, early history and tradition. Geographical and topographical description. Healthfulness with data corroborating same. Scenery drives, bathing, salt water and inland fishing, shooting, yachting, local conveniences, and routes by which St. Andrews may be reached. The subjects need not be taken up in the order here given but are left to the ingenuity of each writer to weave the topics in the most pleasant, readable and attractive form. A committee of gentlemen, interested in the Land Company, will decide upon the merits of each article and award premium to the best."
Pilot
Aug 2/1888
The Agamont House, the first hotel erected in Bar Harbor, Maine, was destroyed by fire last week.
James Starkey's yacht "Crusoe" being used for local visits around the Bay and as far as Digby. "The Crusoe is a good seat boat and a fast sailer."
From Dominion Illustrated:
"We are promised a new Atlantic port on Canadian soil. St. Andrews, at the northern end of Passamaquoddy Bay, will probably rise from its decay, and becoming connected with the Canadian Pacific system, may turn out the Canadian Atlantic shipping point nearest to Montreal. A large amount of capital is being invested there, with a view of making St. Andrews a watering place as well."
Mr. Magee has left for Ireland.
August 7/1888
George Stephen resigns as president of CPR.
Pilot
Aug 9/1888
Land Co intend erecting 3 stores on lot bought by them corner Water and King.
Work suspended on excavation of office bldg. Discover ledge; leave excavation for contractors.
From New Jersey Banner, July 12/1888:
"One word to our friend, the 'Banner,' about this quaint little place, with the delicious air and the beautiful views, and last but not least, the well-kept hotel. Few people can realize the charm of this old town or it would be crowded. The St. Croix River makes it beautiful on one side, while on the other is the Passamaquoddy Bay, dotted with its lovely islands. From the top of Chamcook Mountain one has a most extensive view spread before them, including the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, which is plainly visible. The sailing and fishing are exceedingly fine, the drives are varied, over well-kept roads through a most charming country. After having tried many places in the summer, this seems to us one of the most attractive."
St. Croix Courier
August 16/1888
Henry Osborne and family will sail for England on the 25th inst.
Pilot
Aug 16/1888
"The failure to devote two hundred dollars to the constructing of culverts on the Queen St. extension, thereby permitting the Land Co., to continue work upon the Park roads, has cost the labouring class of St. Andrews about 500 dollars in wages which they otherwise would have earned."
"The importance of good roads to summer resorts. Article from Boston Herald. . "It is also one of the special attractions of a town which is largely dependent for its prosperity upon its summer visitors, that it keeps its road in excellent repair."
"There is no investment for the city or town that is surer to give good returns to its citizens than the laying out of its streets and highways in substantial thoroughfares that furnish adequate facilities for travelling and for business. The best street in the town, the one that is best constructed, is the one on which the best houses are built. It commands the lead because it is the best laid out and prepared.
This principle has been generally understood in the most thriving of our New England towns. The select men have given their firs attention to the roads, and if the town has approached the city in importance its roads have been macadamized and prepared for the most thorough service. It is here that the attractiveness of the place has been established at a vital point. This feature has been well understood on the north shore, where a large proportion of the residents of Boston make their summer homes. The towns in which they have built residences have taken plains to keep their streets in excellent order, and there has been an increasing encouragement for others to purchase land and erect attractive homes in the neighborhood.
It is also one of the special attractions of a town which is largely dependent for its prosperity upon its summer visitors, that it keeps its road in excellent repair. Indeed, at all places where the local authorities are aware of the importance of giving their locality the lead, especially where it is possible to attract to the country the summer visitor, one of the first things that they have provided for is the care of the highways, and they have found that those roads, offering pleasant facilities for driving, have been an unfailing source of benefit to themselves. One of the first things that you hear of at any place by the seashore in the country, after the special attraction is mentioned, is, if there are carefully graded highways, that the roads are good. Any town that fails to watch its interests in this respect does itself more harm than its citizens can easily appreciate."
Argyll has 104 permanent guests at this point, and more coming.
There is a local cricket club, and others in the area. A popular sport.
Contract for the Land Co office awarded to McKenzie and Stevenson , St. Stephen
"His Honor the Lieut. Governor, Lady Tilley and family have returned to Saint John after a short stay at the Saratoga of New Brunswick."
Pilot
Aug 23/1888
America to the Front
Some of our American summer visitors have been indulging among themselves in their good natured fun, and shown us some of the means they take at home and abroad to work off that surplus nervous energy which has made the American character what it is: an enterprising and successful race of people, as well as a people luxurious their tastes and habits. They must do something, and if it is not business then they go for fun.
The low dead axletree wagon or dray, called with us a sloven or truck cart, being an object of interest and having caused considerable comment and wonderment among the guests at the Argyll hotel, it was suggested one day last week by some of the leading spirits that they take a drive in this wonderful production of luxury, in imitation of the buck board so much in vogue at other summer resorts. The ladies, not to be outdone in fun, thought if they were to ride in this luxurious vehicle they ought to dress in keeping with the name sloven, so to the surprise of the gentlemen, some thirty or more ladies and children attired themselves in all kinds of fantastic and amusing costumes, and when the team drew up to the steps of the hotel, marched down—not in beauty arrayed—but certainly as their friends never anticipated seeing them, in other words, the ladies outwitted the gentlemen (as they always do) and three two-horse teams loaded with laughing humanity, started on the road for Joe's Point, with blowing of horns hurrahing, singing and waving of bannerettes, etc. After half a day spent pleasantly the Point, they returned to home and were photographed.
Friday night was to bring to the hotel some R. R. officials and other friends by special train, and in order to give them a suitable reception, two gentlemen at the hotel were dressed up fantastically to imitate hackmen. Upon the arrival of the train at the depot, the hackmen with a dinner bell, and all manner of shouting in true Jehu style, gave the new comers a hideous reception, while others on the hotel plaza added to the general uproar by firing guns, blowing horns and beating drums, etc., which must have impressed the new arrivals with the feeling they were approaching a palace of demons or infernal spirits.
Saturday night a collection of trees, refuse wood and branches gathered in clearing out Indian Point, having been arranged in huge piles along the shore, were saturated with kerosene and set on fire lighting up the bay for miles. The following bill of fare was served at the hotel, and as one would suppose from reading, provoked considerable mirth. the local hits on a number of our local citizens are particularly good, as well as those on the visitors at the hotel, and matters that are discussed on the street.
Bill of Fare
R. Gile's Hotel,
St. A. (y) Harbor, La Grande Saratoge
N. B. (take notice)
(Note: —the village lamps would be lighted every evening but for the expense)
Rain of Augustus XVIII. I ate three times.
Hugh Bert, Captain
ME AND U
Potage
Corned Cobb Soup,
Cram Chowder
Whalebone Stew-Osborn's too!
HORS D'OEUVRES.
Pickled Chicken's Ears.
Bell's Poultry Dressing,
Capers, sloven style, Balm a Gilead Buds, raw.
POISSON
Fishing Efforts, Gardiner's' catch
B and M Flounders,
Seals Liver, Indian style
Queen Street Polly-wogs, Glenn sauce
Little folk's Pouts, spanking gravy
Friend Eel's feet, Sheldon dressing,
Codfish bones, Yankee style
ROTI
Booth-bay Mutton without Capers
New Brunswick Polly-Ticks, brain gravy
Custom House Duck, Gove Style
Coyled Sausage in Portland Fat
ENTREES
Indian Point Park Ornaments, devilled with cow tracks
Scalloped Kidneys, a la Fay
Law Point, Stevenson , Grimmer and Cockburn brand
Single Cunner, Old Colony dressing
LEGUMES
St. Andrews Cricket Club beets
St. Stephen catch-up if you can, Let us,
Local Government salary,
ENTREMENTS
Claflin Tarts, Mugwumph style, Straight Pudding, Forster sauce,
Miss take Pie, Rare-bits, Pitch pine sauce
NOIX ET FRUITS
"Chestnuts," Tipperary Grapes,
Lord and Mayor's Bangor peaches
CAFÉ
Church Sociable Liquids, Cat-nip Tea, Magee's Pilot Bread,
Steeped Wormwood, H. Oars Risford Cheese
VINS
S. Leonard's—Royal Vintage
P. S.—Food will be charged extra
Guests furnished free with sham Cook-water from Herbert's Hogs-heads.
All side dishes furnished by Stickney
*Guests wanting to find fault, will please consult the Lightening Doctor in the office chair.
"Parsons' on grace before meat" can be found in the town library.
R. A. Supply Co., would be printers.
Cows at Large
To those of our citizens who have within the past week observed the work being done by the Land Co., upon the public park at Indian Point, it must have occurred that a stage of progress has been reached where the roaming cow can in one day undo the labor of two men. The banks of the pond are being formed, the fancy pieces jutting out into the water graded and lined up, and to the gentlemen whose money is being spent upon what is designed to be the most attractive spot in our midst. It is to say the least rather discouraging to find that they must day after day make good what has been trampled and torn down by cows. Furthermore, it must be apparent to every man and woman that the genus cow meandering over the gravelled road and sidewalks of the park, creating nuisances every few yards, is scarcely in keeping with a public pleasure ground or private park.
It is no answer to the above truism to say the "fences would keep them out." Fences and parks went together 20 years ago, but in the more modern landscape gardening the combination of green sward, flowerbed, driving road, and pedestrians path is not marred by dividing fences.
We feel confident that it is only necessary to appeal to good judgment of our citizen to put a stop to this annoyance, for it will add to the cleanliness of our town and remove an unsightly nuisance which residents and visitor stake occasion to openly complain of.
"The Tilley Park and grounds are now assuming a pleasing appearance; since the timely arrival of Mr. Horton, which was a boon to the company, the works have been carried on in a most systematic and thoroughly efficient manner. The drainage is thoroughly practical and complete, every precaution has been used in avoiding the covering of the same with all substances impervious to water, whereby accelerating the absorption by porous substances which greedily absorb all moisture. The roads also are tastefully laid out with the same care, and the evergreens along their borders carefully preserved, giving a most pleasing effect to the eye, as you drive along their graceful meanderings. Their gradings have been so carefully studied and carried out, that the eye can scarcely discern an undulation or rise from the beach to the summit a distance of twelve hundred feet and with a rise of 20 feet. This gives it the most perfect drainage and beautiful slope; at the same time wells of pure spring water can be obtained by sinking down in the strata which is met with from one to three feet deep from the surface at almost any point on the lands of the co'y. The same vigilant eye is on the park and to all appearances will be carried out with the same taste and precision under such thorough practical guidance and management as former works bear testimony, this will also prove a most pleasing success."—Pedestrian
On Saturday last was held by adjournment to the Argyll Hotel, the annual meetings of the St. Andrews Land Co and The Chamcook Water Co; the last of the stockholders having arrived by the late train Friday night, accompanied by their families and friends, among whom was A. S. Hanson, General Pass. A'gt of The Boston and Albany R. R. and T. R. George, Electrician of Boston. The meetings were fully attended, there being the largest number present that ever met together at any one time.
The President, Sir Leonard Tilley, Lieut. Governor or New Brunswick, came down by the noon train Saturday and occupied the chair.
There were also present Vice President Robt. S. Gardiner, Treasurer Eugene F. Fay, D. J. Flanders of Boston, General Passenger Agent of the Boston and Maine Railroad system; Fred E. Boothby, of Portland, Me. Gen'l Pass. A'gt of the Maine Central R. R.; F. W. Cram, of Saint John, New Brunswick, manager of New Brunswick Railroad; Charles V. Lord of Bangor, Maine; President Veazie of the National Bank, Bangor; Daniel B. Claffin, of Claflin, Larrabee and Co., and Roscoe A. Cobb, oof Ross Cobb and Co., both of Boston.
The executive officers presented their annual reports and a very detailed consideration was given to the past operations of the companies, assisted by elaborate plans hung upon the walls, showing in detail, lands purchased, properties surveyed, laid out and improved, and further assisted by consultations with, and facts presented by Messrs. Henry Osburn, the recent Local Manager (who soon goes abroad on private business and could not continue to serve the company here) by Mr. L. M. S. Horton, of Boston, the present superintendent and by Mr. D. F. Maxwell of St. Stephen, the engineer locally in charge. Mr. A. W. Forbes, (of Crafts and Forbes, of Boston,) engineer on water supply, furnished elaborate plans of the proposed water system from Chamcook Lakes, and E. A. Hammett, of Boston, Landscape Architect, sent sketches in detail for the proposed improvements of Indian Point, including the Indian Point Park, as it will look when completed.
The Directors at their meetings discussed future plans very fully and all who were present, as stockholders, as directors or as guest of the company, expressed great satisfaction with the plans, with the work already accomplished (so far as it has been possible to move safely, from a business standpoint) and all were in hearty accord in agreeing to continue developments as fast as the laws, the sentiment of the people and the action of the town authorities warrant the company in doing.
The water question cannot be taken up until some action is taken by the Fire Wards of the town, and that is what the company is waiting for and why no work is being done by the Water Company.
The Indian Point Park must await completion until the Queen St. extension grade and culvers are established. The crossing for Queen street over the New Brunswick Railroad and the culverts under the railroad will all be put in order by the Railroad as soon as the town authorities complete their part of the work now necessary to be done on Queen Street, and all the Park roads entering Queen St. will also be completed ready for use, as soon as the town authorities do their work. The final ornamentation of the park and park drives and walks has been and must be delayed until the running at large of cows is put a stop to.
Many plans for the continued development of St. Andrews as a summer resort were placed in the hands of special committees, but until consummated, it would be unwise to publish them. One, however, the purchase of a steam yacht for pleasure parties next summer, there is no harm in mentioning.
Pilot
Aug 30/1888
Importance of shade trees:
"Two years ago while visiting Bar Harbour the Hon. James Blaine learned much from the lips of our Lieutenant Governor Sir Leonard Tilley of the many beauties and attractions which St. Andrews offers as a summering place, and doubtless the impressions then formed were well inwrought upon the memory of the great American politician, for he has taken advantage of this his first opportunity since then, to visit and see for himself what St. Andrews is and the attractions it offers." Guest of Cram; reception at Argyll. "His opinion differs not from that of ordinary men in the matter of St. Andrews being among the most attractive spots on the continent of America for a summer resort."
Pilot
Sept 6/1888
Gardiner and Cram catch 48 specked trout at Horse Lake.
No action from Chamcook Water Co. Contract published to provoke discussion. and below.
"We publish in this issue a copy of the pamphlet submitted to the Fire wards of this town for the consideration by the Chamcook Water Co. What action, or if any, has been taken by that body in respect thereto, up to the present time of writing, has not transpired. Considerable talk has been made regarding the action of the Co. in not commencing the work as was intimated would be done the present summer. We feel that by publishing the foregoing it will give the public some tangible ground for discussion, and perhaps in some way lead to a solution. The Co. are, in a spirit of fair play, entitled to some answer for or against the plan. We do not propose at the present time to make any reference as to the merits of the case but would be pleased to throw open our columns for a public discussion of the matter."
A Copy of the Contract the Chamcook Water Company proposes to make with the fire wardens of St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
—basically 30 hydrants at 70 dollars per year, 50 dollars per additional hydrant.
This indenture . . . between the Chamcook Water Company, a corporation duly and legally organized under the laws of New Brunswick, party of the first part, and the Fire Wardens of St. Andrews, in the Province of New Brunswick, party of the second part,
Witnesseth, That whereas the said party of the first part proposes to build, maintain and operate a system of Water Works in the parish of St. Andrews, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants with an adequate supply of pure water, for domestic, manufacturing, and other purposes, including the extinguishment of fires.
Now therefore, by and in consideration of the premises, covenants, and agreements hereunto written, it is agreed by and between the parties hereto that the said patties shall enter into and be bound, each with the other, by the following agreement, for a period of ten years, from and after the date of the completion of said Water Works by said party of the first part.
First, the said party of the first part agrees to furnish an ample supply of pure water for all purposes hereafter specified.
Second, The said party of the first part agrees to furnish, lay, set, and maintain a thorough and complete system of cast iron street-main and distribution pipes, including necessary valves, gates, and other appurtenances of every kind necessary for the proper working of the system, to be laid in and through the streets and highways of the said town, in order to obtain in the best possible distribution of water for protection against fire, manufacturing purposes, domestic services, and all other purposes required within the said town. The said pipes, ranging from eight inches in diameter to four inches in diameter, all properly coated and thoroughly tested before leaving the foundry to a hydraulic test pressure of three hundred pounds to the square inch of inside surface, and to be properly laid to a depth of not less than five feet below the surface of the streets in which they are intended to be laid.
Third, The Said party of the first part agrees to furnish, set and maintain thirty improved fire hydrants at points to be designated by the said party of the second part on the said line of pipes before laying the same, and the said party of the first part shall agree to keep and maintain said fire hydrants in good repair and ready for active service at all times during the period of ten years, and for such further time as the same may be rented by the said party of the second part. during such period the said party of the first part agrees to furnish through each of said hydrants an efficient supply of water, for fire protection, under a pressure sufficient to throw at least two steams, though not less than two hundred and fifty feet of hose, over the highest building within the pipes' district, or that may hereafter be piped under the terms of this contract, and the party of the second part hereby agrees to pay the said party of the first part, during the said term of ten years, the sum of seventy dollars per annum for each of said thirty hydrants, payment for same to be made semi-annually, on the first days of January and July of each and every year during the said term of ten year, the amount due on the first payment to be estimated pro rata from the time the water is turned on for effective service and thereafter as above
Fourth, the said party of the first part agrees to furnish , set, maintain, and keep in repair under the same regulations as agreed relative to said thirty hydrants, all additional hydrants required during the said period of ten year, the annual rental of each of said additional hydrants to be sixty-five dollars a year, for the remainder of the period of ten years, provided same are located on the line of pipes already laid.
Should, however, the whole number of hydrants located and used by said party of the second part reach the number of fifty hydrants, then the price of reach of said hydrants to be paid by the party of the second part shall be sixty dollars per annum. In like manner, should the number reach 75 hydrants, the payment shall be fifty dollars per annum, and for 100 hydrants, forty-five dollars per annum. In either case for the unexpired portion of said to year' term.
Fifth, The said party of the second part shall, on all necessary occasions, have the right to use said hydrants for the purpose of testing the same, or the fire apparatus, without extra charge therefore, and the said party of the second part shall have the right to have the location of any hydrants changed upon the line of the pipe agreed upon, by paying the actual expense of the same.
Sixth, The said party of the first part agrees to furnish water at its street mains free (in lieu of any taxation which may be levied upon any of the said Water Works property), for the following purposes, Viz: for display fountain, in "Indian Point Park," for one public school house along the line of pipe, for all churches situated along the line of pipe, for one improved watering trough or drinking fountain, for man and best. The said water company guarantees that such supply shall be full and adequate at all times.
Seventh, it is mutually agreed that no charge for said hydrant rental hereinbefore referred to shall begin until the water is turned on for effective fire service, and thereafter as above. Evidence of such completion, so far as applies to this contract, shall be an effective flow of water from any and all of said thirty fire hydrants.
Schedule of Rates for Water Company
Dwelling Houses:
private dwelling house occupied by one family for one faucet, $8 dollars. for each additional faucet, to be used by same family, four dollars.
For first water closet, six dollars.
For each additional water closet, three dollars.
for each hopper water closet, without self-regulating faucet, twenty-five dollars.
When a house is occupied by four or more families, and but one faucet is used for all, for each family, six dollars.
When a house is occupied by more than one family, each family having water carried into their part, the following rates shall be charged:
for one faucet, eight dollars
for each additional faucet, not heretofore specially rated, four dollars,
For first bathtub, six dollars,
for each additional bathtub, four dollars,
for first water closet, six dollars,
For each additional water closet, four dollars,
When bathtubs and water closet are used by more than one family, for each bathtub and each water closet, each family, five dollars
For first self-closing urinal, four dollars
for each additional self-closing urinal, two dollars
When two faucets are used, one for hot, and one for cold water, both emptying into one bowl or sink, but one charge will be made for both.
Whenever the rate for a dwelling house and stale shall exceed $40 per annum, a special rate will be made by the company.
Boarding Houses.
When the average number of boarders in each family exceeds four, it shall be rated as a boarding house.
For first faucet, twelve dollars,
For each additional faucet, five dollars,
for first water closet, ten dollars,
for each additional water closet, six dollars,
For first bathtub, ten dollars,
for each additional bathtub, five dollars
Hotels
For each bed for boarders and lodgers, (not including water for bathtubs, water closet or urinal) four dollars
For each bathtub, twelve dollars,
for each water closet, twelve dollars
for each self-closing urinal six dollars
Stores, Warehouses, and Offices, not including manufactories and workshops
for first faucet, eight dollars,
for each additional faucet, five dollars
When two or more tenants are supplied from same faucet, each tenant, six dollars,
For water closet when used by more than one tenant, each tenant, five dollars,
for each additional faucet or water closet, half the above rates additional will be charged.
For each self-closing urinal six dollars
Markets
For first faucet, fourteen dollars
For each additional faucet, eight dollars
Bakeries
Bakeries will be charged according to the average daily use of flour, viz:
for each barrel of flour, per day, the sum per annum, five dollars
Provided in no case shall a bakery be charge less than ten dollars
Saloons and Restaurants
for first faucet, eight dollars,
for each additional faucet, five dollars
for first water closet, eight dollars,
For each additional water closet, five dollars,
for each self-closing urinal, five dollars
Workshops
for first faucet, ten dollars
For each additional faucet, five dollars
for first water closet, eight dollars
for each additional water closet, five dollars
for each self-closing urinal, five dollars
Stables
For private stables, including water for washing carriages, ten dollars,
for each additional horse over two, three dollars,
for first cow, four dollars,
for each additional cow, two dollars
Livery, Club and Boarding Stables
Livery stables, for each horse or other animal, including water for washing carriages per day, two cents
Truckmen's Stables
For first horse, five dollars
for each additional horse, three dollars,
for hose, first horse, ten dollars,
For hose for each additional horse, five dollars
full rates will be charge for water closet run by waste water form sinks
Hose
For hose, not over three-eighths inch orifice, for sprinkling streets, washing windows, and similar uses, to be used on premises and street opposite one hour each day, five dollars
For one sixteenth inch jet or less, ten dollars
for one-eighth inch yet, twenty dollars,
for three-sixteenth inch jet, thirty dollars,
large fountain sill be charged special rates.
Steam Engines
for each stationary engine working not more than ten hours per day, for each horsepower, ten dollars,
For manufacturing purposes, with daily use of over 10,000 gallons per day, per 10,000 gallons, twenty-five cents,
Very large amounts subject to special contract.
The Cottage for the American syndicate at Indian Point is well underway; it is Queen Anne style and promises to be a pretty building when completed.
Mallory: Barouches (Extension and camp top), Buggies and Phaetons. Picnics and other parties furnished with teams. Hacks from the stable attend at steamboats and trains. (The St. Andrews annual picnic party at Mowatt's grove has been a popular event for ten years at least; train there and back)
Pilot
Sept 13/1888
Megantic Hotel, sold to Calais syndicate, on Water St., being repaired.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 6/1888
The erection of the first cottage of the American syndicate at St. Andrews has been commenced by Mr. McPherson, of Saint John. It will be a very pretty building of the Queen Anne style. Contractor James McKenzie, of St. Stephen, has commenced the erection of the bank building and club house of the American syndicate.
I don't suppose there are twenty of the many thousand readers of the widely circulated Courier who have not heard of the genius of the affable manager of the St. Andrews foundry. Within the last few years, he has made inventions that established for him an enviable reputation. His latest achievement is the modelling and construction of a handsome and solid iron fence. Its design is complete and in appearance it can hardly be excelled. It encloses a lot forty feet square with an additional space of 14 x 16 feet. The gates bear with pleasing effect a representation of the weeping willow. The height of the fence is 3 feet, 3 inches, and provision is made that no part of it will be displaced by frost upheavals. The fence is to be placed in the cemetery at Richardsonville, Deer Island, to enclose the lots of the Richardson family of that place. Mr. McMonagle has more orders for fences of that kind than he can conveniently attend to just now.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 13/1888
The electric light has been in use in St. Stephen and Calais during the evenings of the past week, with most satisfactory results. The Electric Light Company was incorporated last winter by act of legislature. The provisional directors are C. H. Clarke, Frank Todd and G. W. Ganong, F. N Davis is agent, and A. Relish superintendent of works. The company is at present supplying forty-three lights of 200 candlepower in Calais and St. Stephen. Their station, situated at Union Mills, contains a sixty-five light Brush Dynamo run by waterpower. They have two water wheels ready for use, but at present are using less than half the power of one wheel. They are not yet prepared to furnish power for electric motors but have the matter under consideration. The streetlamps have been placed by the company at is own expense, and the light is for the present given free of charge in the expectation that both town will adopt it instead of gas.
Repairs are being made on the Megantic hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Horton, of Boston, are guests at Kennedy's hotel.
Pilot
Sept 20/1888
From "A Visit to St. Andrews," by Athos (Dr. Frisbie in Newton Graphic):
Principal exports potatoes, oats and turnips. $80,000 per year to farmers. "The view [from Fort Tipperary] from this ridge is simply magnificent for so slight an elevation; bordered by water on three sides, to the east and south dotted with islands as far as the eye can reach . . ."
"One other inducement I have not referred to—it is said to be a locality which is a sure cure for that pernicious and semi-fashionable disease, 'hay fever.'"
Summer season in Bar Harbour over. Maine Central says its trains more patronized than usual.
Wall of Land Co. Bldg. almost completed. Work on Park at standstill last two weeks from bad weather. J. S. Magee has left Ireland for home.
"We understand there will be a meeting held in Boston this week of a number of hotel capitalists interested in a project to build a large hotel at St. Andrews the coming winter to accommodate the large rush anticipated for the summer of 1889."
Megantic to be run as first class hotel.
Pilot
Sept 27, 1888
Mr. E. L. Andrews laid on the editorial table a turnip which weighed 12 pounds. Mr. Andrews understands farming so as to get the best results for his labor. He is shipping large quantities to the Boston market by every steamer.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 30/1888
An attempt is to be made to boom Robbinston, as a summer resort.
Pilot
Oct 1/1888
Granite for foundations of Land Co bldg. being hauled from ledge quarry.
St. Croix Courier
October 14/1888
The Tyn-y-coed hotel at Campobello have closed for the season. Notwithstanding this has been a very dull season for summer resorts generally, the Campobello hotels report the best results financially ever experienced there. They had a large number of guests the entire season.
Pilot
Oct 18/1888
J. S. Magee arrives home. Masons and bricklayers forging ahead on Land Co office. To be covered before snow.
The erection of the proposed hotel at Joe's Point will be commenced immediately. We have seen the plans; it will be a very sightly and spacious building and will contain 83 sleeping rooms.
An American hotel syndicate has purchased a building lot from the Land Co. at Joe's Point, on which they propose to erect a large summer hotel. Work will be commenced the last of this month and the building will be completed for the anticipated rush of visitors next summer.
Pilot
Nov 1/1888
County Council to be authorized to make a contract with Chamcook Water Co. for erection and maintenance of 25 hydrants for St. Andrews.
Nov 15/1888
Cure for hay fever advertised. .
Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness, Hay Fever
A New Home Treatment
Sufferers are not generally aware that these diseases are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrane of the nose and Eustachian tubes. Microscopy research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result is that s simple remedy has been formulated whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness and hay fever are 'permanently cured in from one to three simple applications made at home by the patient once in two weeks. N. B.—for catarrhal discharges peculiar to females (whites) this remedy is a specific. A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is sent on receipt of ten cents by A. H. Dixon and Son, 303 West King St., Toronto, Canada. —Scientific American
Pilot
Nov 22/1888
Short Line progressing
Pilot
Dec 6/1888
St. Andrew Bay Pilot
Dec 6, 1888
"Over the Pottery Bridge" (re Slab town)
On the evening of Saturday, 24th, Mr. Samuel Graham left St. Andrews to drive to his home at Dumbarton. Mr. Graham got along alright until he got outside the town limits, then it being pitch dark, and finding it difficult to keep the road, he dropped the reins and trusted to the horse finding his way. The horse instead of turning the corner at the shore road kept on through Slabtown and was making the circuit towards town. Graham, discovering that the horse was travelling in the wrong direction, took hold of the reins and while attempting to turn backed the wagon and horse over the Pottery Bridge (which is not protected by either rail or parapet) to the bed of the brook, eight or ten feet below. Graham, tremendously surprised, having been pitched out of the wagon, scrambled to the road and made for a light which was found in the house of Mr. Robert Peacock. Mr. Peacock's son lighted a lantern and proceeded with him to the scene of the wreck. After some exertion the horse and wagon were extricated and got upon the road. Strange to say the horse escaped uninjured, the harness was broken, and the contents of the wagon, parcels of groceries, etc., were badly broken and mixed up. Having with the aid of Master peacock tied up the harness, Mr. Graham got into his wagon and proceeded towards home.
First mention of Algonquin by name. CPR officials are shown the hotel site by L. M. S. Horton, Manager of St. Andrews Land Co. and below
"Thursday last Mr. D. McNichol, general passenger agent, and Mr. C. E. McPherson, Boston passenger agent of the Canada Pacific Railway arrived in town by train. They were met at the station by Mr. L. M. S. Horton, Manager of the St. Andrews Land Co., who invited them to be seated in a carriage in waiting, and drove them to the different points of interest in, and in the immediate vicinity of the town, including the site for the Algonquin Hotel. The gentlemen expressed themselves as well pleased with all they saw, and of the facilities St. Andrews appeared to be possessed of, not only as a summer resort, but for that of a deep-sea terminus as well. The objective point of their visit was to see what arrangements can be made as to the running of trains next summer to and from St. Andrews in connection with the C. P. R. It is proposed to afford all possible facilities for the residents of Montreal and other Canadian cities to reach St. Andrews, to place it on as favorable footing in reference to rates, car accommodation and speed, as other points. The run from Montreal to St. Andrews will be made in less than twelve hours, the fare the same as to Orchard Beach or adjacent points thereto in Maine. The gentlemen were hospitably entertained at Kennedy's hotel. They left town by special train at 8:00 p. m. en route for Saint John. "St. Andrews is all right."
Pilot
Dec 6/1888
Corner stone of Algonquin laid. Copy of St. Telegraph containing description of construction of bldg. placed in cavity along with Bay Pilot. and below.
Laying the Corner Stone
Monday last the 3rd inst., the foundation stone of the 'Algonquin' hotel was laid by Miss Carrie B. Horton, the accomplished daughter of Mr. L. M. S. Horton, Manager of the St. Andrews Land Co., in presence of a number of gentlemen of St. Andrews, interested in the work. In the cavity prepared for the purpose, was deposited coin of the Dominion and of the United States; a copy of the Saint John Telegraph containing a description of the building in the process of erection. We purpose at an early day to publish an engraving of the hotel as it will appear when completed together with a full description thereof and its surroundings.
Pilot
Dec 13/1888
Work on the A hotel is being vigorously pushed under the superintendence of Mr. Robert Stevenson , master carpenter. . . . Upwards of forty men are employed.
Rural Cemetery Burial
Moses Stewart
95 years, 6 months
Lot 26B
Farmer
Dec 17, 1888
Pilot
Dec 20/1888
The oldest resident of St. Andrews at the date of his death on Friday last, was Mr. Moses Stewart. He was the last pureblooded Negro born in this vicinity. The late Mr. Stewart was a most exemplary man, and during the long period of his pilgrimage of 95 years, led a most harmless life. He retained his sight and hearing until nearly the last. He was a member of the Church of England, and until failing health prevented, was a regular attendant at its services. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon. His remains were taken from his late residence, Queen Street, to All Saints Church and from thence to the rural cemetery and were followed by a number of relatives and friends.
Mr. McKenzie has awarded Haley Bros. contract for door and window frames, William Lewis and Son ironwork. Both of Saint John.
The hay fever ad is running every issue.
Pilot
Dec 27, 1888
Prisoners' Escape
Gallagher and Walker, the latter known by the soubriquet of "shy Walker," recently committed to the county jail from St. Stephen, escaped from that institution on Wednesday evening 19th, and found their way to Calais, Maine. The jailer after putting a hod of coal, for the night's use, into the corridor, omitted to fully bolt the door, which being discovered by the above-named prisoners, they opened it and stood not upon the order of their going. Walker was captured in St. Stephen on Christmas day by deputy-Sheriff Robinson, brought back to St. Andrews yesterday, and put back in his old quarters again.