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Beacon

Jan 2/1890

New hotel in St. Stephen (Windsor) not yet leased.

Maine Kickers At Work

The Maine papers are howling at the CPR because they say that company is violating the charter granted to it by the Maine legislature by discriminating against Maine ports in its new tariff freight rates. A uniform rate of 37 ½ cents per 100 lbs. has been fixed from St. Paul, Minneapolis, and other western points to Boston, Greenville and Mattawamkeag, Maine, and to Saint John and St. Andrews, and it is this that has caused the howl. A NY despatch to the Boston Herald says that "according to the new arrangements, the CPR is to deliver freight, destined for Saint John or St. Andrews, in the New Brunswick Railway to Vanceboro at a less rate per hundred than to the Bangor and Pictaquis railroad at Greenville, which latter station is 131 miles west of Vanceboro. This clearly a violation of the charter granted by the Legislature under which the CPR is operated across the state of Maine, and there is a decided kick against any such tricks on the part of the foreign corporation. The charter provides that the CPR shall deliver passengers and freights to and receive the same from connecting roads in the state of Maine without discrimination and make and maintain rate with such roads prorate according to distance. If the CPR should comply with the terms of its charter, through western freight in carload lots would be delivered to the Bangor and Pictaquis road at about $15 less per car than at Saint John, which would entitle Bangor to be made a hauling point, and thus greatly benefit the whole section."

Our Maine friends want the earth. They are not satisfied with having a "foreign corporation" open up a country for them which might never have been opened up, but now they want all the traffic that comes over the road. Surely, they must see the selfishness of their position. Besides, the CPR was not built to develop Maine; it was built to develop Canada.

Worth Millions

A St. Andrews Man who Made a Pile of Money on the Pacific Slope

There are few towns in the Maritime Provinces that can boast of possessing a millionaire. St. Andrews is one of the few.

Mr. John Treadwell, who arrived here last week, with his bride from San Francisco, and who is now spending his honeymoon beneath his father's roof, ranks among the wealthiest men on this continent. His wealth at the present time is estimated all the way from six to ten million dollars. Ye the is one of the most unostentatious men in St. Andrews. Remove the $8000 diamond from his finger and no one would imagine that the was the possessor of so much of this world's gear.

Twenty-five years ago, Mr. Treadwell left the parental roof and struck out for California. He had no idea of becoming a millionaire, yet he was determined to win wealth if hard work and honest dealings would do it. He had been a worker in wood before he left home, and when he reached San Francisco, he secured a job as a carpenter on a building that was being erected. Mr. Bugbee, who came from the east, and who was well acquainted with young Treadwell's family, happened to be architect of the building. One day, as the architect was inspecting the work, he overheard the foreman calling Mr. Treadwell's' name. He inquired where the young man came from, and on learning who he was, he opened an acquaintance with him. Recognizing that he possessed a considerable ability and was anxious to get along in the world, he appointed him as an overseer on some building that he was then erecting. He advanced so rapidly that in a short time he became a contractor. At first his contracts were small, but by degrees they grew in proportions. Some of the finest blocks in San Francisco were built by him. His wealth gradually increased until he had amassed several hundred thousand dollars.

Hearing of the Alaskan gold mines, Mr. Treadwell went thither on a prospecting tour. While he was examining some claims, the owner of the now famous Treadwell mine who was a trader, and who was in financial difficulties at the time, offered to sell out his claim for a few hundred dollars. Mr. Treadwell purchased it on the spot. He knew the ore was not of a very high grade, but he was convinced that the ledge as a large one, and that here was money in it if properly worked.

When he returned to San Francisco, he took several tons of the ore with him, and had it tested. The result was so satisfactory that Mr. Treadwell had little difficulty in organizing a joint stock company to develop the mine. One of the largest stamp mills in the country was sent to the mine and over a million and a quarter dollars were expended in machinery before an ounce of bullion was taken out. The mine had not been working a very long period before Mr. Treadwell's sagacity and foresight were amply proven. Not only did the quality of the ore improve, but the quantity also, and the mine the mine is now regarded as one of the richest in the world. Many thousands of dollar's worth of the yellow gleaming gold is now within view.

Mr. Treadwell will remain in St. Andrews a few weeks longer, with his bride. Mrs. Treadwell never saw ice nor snow until she came to New Brunswick.

Beacon

Jan 16, 1890

The directors of the St. Andrews Steamboat Wharf Company are W. D. Forster, A. Lamb, J. S. Magee, A. Kennedy, R. Glenn, W. Whitlock, B. F. Milliken.

Rural Cemetery Burial

B. R. Stevenson, Lawyer

Aug 55

Lot 14-16A

Jan 18, 1890

Beacon

Jan 23/1890

Hon B. R. Stevenson Dead

A Brief Sketch of his Career. Buried with Masonic Honors

The deceased was in his fifty-fifth year, having been born in St. Andrews, April 10, 1835. The grammar school here supplied him with his early education. In 1854 he graduated from the university of New Brunswick with the degree of BA. Six years later he was called to the bar of the province. In 1867 Mr. Stevenson resigned his position of registrar of probates for Charlotte County and accepted nomination for a seat in the Local legislature, to which he was elected. He was returned in 1870 and in 1871 he was appointed a member of the executive council of the province with the position of surveyor general. He occupied that important position until 1878, when he resigned, but continued a member of the executive council until 1879, when he resigned and accepted the speakership, a position he filled with ability and satisfaction until 1883, when he retired from public life with the office of Judge of Probates of his native county. The deceased was married in 1866 to a daughter of the late Mr. William Bolton, who, with a son and daughter, survives him.

In everything pertaining to the welfare of his native place, he took an active interest. For a number of years, he was president of the Charlotte County Agricultural Society. As a trustee of schools, he was largely instrumental in bringing the schools up to their present high standing. He was prominently identified with the Masonic body, having occupied the responsible position of Grandmaster. In the Anglican Church, he was one of its foremost men and was a constant attendant at the deliberations of the Synod and Diocesan Church Society. At the time of his death and for many years before, he was a warden of All Saints Church St. Andrews and contributed largely of his bounty to the support of the church. He was deeply interested in railways, being one of the largest stockholders in the Saint John and Maine Railway. In the schemes of the advancement of St. Andrews he took a leading part, being at the time of his decease solicitor for the St. Andrews Land Company. A man of sterling integrity, of generous, charitable disposition he attracted around him many warm friends who will sincerely deplore his all to early death.

The interment of the deceased took place on Saturday afternoon, being under the auspices of St. Marks' Lodge, of St. Andrews. . . . The procession was one of the largest ever seen in St. Andrews. The services in the church were conducted by Rev. R. E. Smith, in consequence of the illness of Re. Dr. Ketchum. The church was almost completely filled. . . .

Beacon

Jan 30, 1890

The Treadwell Gold Mine

Description of the Biggest gold Mine in the World

Portland, Oregon, West shore

In 1882 John Treadwell, a miner from San Francisco, came into South-eastern Alaska as a prospector. The Indians conducted him to the "Basin," just across from the island, where nuggets had been found. Not seeing what he thought would pay for working he went to Douglass, and among other properties was shown a location of one "French Pete." Being hard up Pete offered to sell for four hundred dollars. Mr. Treadwell made the purchase and returned to enlist capital in the enterprise. The next year he succeeded in erecting a ten-stamp mill. A year's run was so satisfactory that a one hundred and twenty stamp mill was put up. In 1888 this was enlarged to two hundred and forty stamp, making it the largest in the world. Here amid the deafening roar of falling stamps twenty thousand tons of quartz are ground every month at a cost of about $1.65 per ton. The mill runs day and night, rain and shine, Sunday and every day, the hands working alternately two weeks day shift and two weeks night shift, but the ledge is practically inexhaustible and the owners have a lifetime income.

The six hundred horsepower required to run the ponderous machinery is furnished by water from mountain streams. A ditch, running along the side of the "Ridge," has been dug thirteen miles in length, tapping Fish creek, Kawes creek, Eagle creek and numerous smaller mountain streams. Four years has this been in process of construction, and another year will be required to complete the work. By means of flumes across "the chasms and tunnels blasted through solid rock the entire water supply of the northeast side of the island is conveyed in one channel to a point five hundred and twenty feet above the mill. A hydraulic giant employs the surplus water to wash off the surface of the ledge preparatory to mining, while the main stream is conveyed in underground pipes to a Knight's water wheel attached to the machinery. The water supply available is about 6,000 miner's inches.

A long tunnel runs from the mill, tapping the ledge 300 feet below the outcrop. Shafts have been sunk from the surface into this tunnel and are used as chutes. The plan of mining is to blast the quartz loose and convey it by these chutes into the tunnel, where it is loaded on cars and hauled to the mill. Two great, yawning holes, seemingly bottomless pits, have been blasted out, and a third will be begun ere long. Electric lights illuminate the pits and tunnel, and the work never stops for darkness. The Burleigh drill takes the place of the sledge drill of other days. The drill is operated by compressed air, furnished by engines and conveyed by hose. Two men manage this apparatus: carrying it from point to point and drilling holes ten to twelve feet deep and two inches in diameter. Charges of Hercules blasting powder are placed at the bottom of these, and, and at regular times, when the change of hands is made, they are set off. As the heavy blasts are discharged immense masses are loosed and fall over into the pit. The sounds from the shots roll through the mountains and are reverberated back, furnishing the only thunder Douglass Cityites ever hear.

Iron cars, each holding one and one third tons, are pushed under the chutes, when a miner opens the outlet allowing it to fill. Twelve cars compose a train, and a small engine draws them to the end of the tunnel into the upper story of the stamp mill. The ore is dumped into bins from which it is fed automatically to the batteries. The batteries are heavy cast from mortars, onto which the shoes of the stamp falls. A constant steam of water running into them facilitates the grinding. The stamps are iron rolls, each weighing six hundred pounds, and armed at the lower end with a steel shoe. A peculiar shape of the shoulder which raises the stamp causes it to partially turn around at each oscillation, thus wearing of the bottom regularly.

After the quartz is sufficiently pulverized a fine screen allows it to overflow upon silver coated copper plates containing mercury, which seizes all the free gold, forming an amalgam. The fluid sand next flows over fluted surfaces into which the iron sulphates, in which this ore is very rich, sink by reason of their greater fineness and weight. As these surfaces are revolved they empty their sulphates into boxes arranged on the sunder side. These concentrators, as they are called, are cleaned up once a day, the sulphates being shoveled into cars and conveyed down an incline to the chlorination works. Here they are dried and shovelled into bins situated over the roasting furnaces and scattered regularly over revolving grates. Four frames are placed in each furnace, and each revolution loads the upper one with fresh sulphate and empties the lower of those which have been roasted. Wood is used for fuel its operation, it being the cheapest and furnishing a more easily regulated heat. A man called the salter, armed with a long spoon resembling a butter tester, empties a spoonful of salt on the lower grate at each revolution, through a hole in the furnace well. The oxidized sulphates, after being removed from the furnace, are stored in tight vats and chlorine gas seized the remaining gold and forms a chloride of gold, which is removed from the sand by rinsing with water. The chloride is an amber colored fluid, varying in tint with its richness. The gold is precipitated by the addition of sulphate of iron, made by pouring diluted sulphuric acid on old scarps of iron. The gas is made from common salt by addition of the acid. Work in the chlorination building is very unhealthy. The gas causes a ticking of the throat with a constant desire to cough, while the sulphur fumes escaping from the furnace kill all vegetation within its reach.

The copper plates in the stamp mill are cleaned up once a month. The amalgam, a bright looking paste, is placed in retorts and heated. The mercury rises as a vapour and is conveyed in pipes to a condenser and used again, being none the worse for the wear. The gold is refined, melted into bricks, and shipped in plain boxes to the mint at San Francisco.

Beacon

Feb 13/1890

Fred A. Jones retires. To be replaced as Gen. Man. by Charles V. Carter, connected with "The Raymond" in Pasadena, California, [is this the Raymond excursion?] "The Crawford" in the White Mountains, "The Putnam," at Palatka, Florida, "The Wentworth," at Newcastle, NH, and "The Eastman," at Hotsprings, Ark.

Want a cab, Sir? Be sure and ask for Mallory's if you do. He can furnish you with a nobby team at all times. W. E. Mallory. St. Andrews Livery Stable

New Brunswick Railway

A Great Increase in the Freight Carried West

Last year was one of the best freight years that the New Brunswick Railway has ever known. More freight was carried over the road than during any single year pervious, and had more cars been available the quantity could have been greatly increased.

Of last year's crop of potatoes, shipment of which began in August, 932,095 bushels were carried past Vanceboro up to December 31 against 425,073 bushels during the same period in 1888, and 593,126 in 1887. We might remark that under this heading turnips are also included. For the calendar year of 1889, no fewer than 1,470,770 bushels of potatoes were exported. From the 1st of January 1889 to December 31, 301,219 shingles were shipped. the number in 1888 was 251,744, and in 1887, 224,483. In starch there was also a great increase last year. the official figures show that 7,403,543 pounds were carried, while in 1888, the quantity was 5,978,409 pounds, and in 1887, 5,274,785 pounds. Of hay, 33,899,094 pounds were carried over the road to the west in 1889, against 27,481,329 in 1888; and 12,575,892 in 1887. Bark shows a steady decline in the three years. In 1887, the quantity exported amounted to 13,997 cords. the following year it dropped to 5,918 cords, and in 1889 it went still lower, only 5,684 cords being sent out. Sleepers also show a decline. The figures for 1889 were 130,314 ; for 1888, 227,605, and for 1887, 179,199. The figures we have quoted apply only to goods carried past Vanceboro. Local freight also good year.

Beacon

Feb 20, 1890

Routed by the Enemy

Mrs. Keezer is not Allowed to Narrate her Battle Experiences. Her Husband has an Exciting Experience with the Mob, and is Compelled to Seek Cover

"What means this eager, anxious throng?" was the first question a stranger would have asked if he had been in St. Andrews on Saturday night and had seen the crowd of men and boys that surged about the entrance to Stevenson 's Hall, between 7 and 8 o'clock.

The explanation of this unusual stir was to be found in the handbills that were posted about the fences and in the shopwindows, announcing that Mrs. David Keezer would deliver a lecture on "Experiences in the late United States rebellion." Those of the crowd who had a dime in their pockets—and there were few who hadn't that night—and who were eager to hear Ms. Keezer's thrilling war experiences hustled upstairs, dropped the aforesaid dime into the waiting hand of the lecturer's husband, who officiated as doorkeeper and then stepped inside the hall. By 8 o'clock there were probably one hundred and fifty persons in the room, all of them of the masculine gender, and all of them apparently expecting some startling "experiences."

The lecturer was on hand in good time and occupied a seat on the platform for half an hour before the lecture began. She was neatly attired and made rather a favorable impression upon those who had come to hear her. She had on a pretty black bonnet, and well-fitting black jacket, and a dress of brown material. In front of her on a small table, covered with a white cloth, reposed her back fur cape and pocket handkerchief.

When the hour came around for opening the lecture, Bradford Boone, Esq., was moved into the chair, and at once took his station on the platform. He was followed by a score of others, whose hearing appeared to be defective, and who seemed anxious to get as near the lecturer as possible in order that none of her "experiences" might be lost to them. After a little parleying, the chairman arose and called the meeting to order. He then introduced Mrs. Keezer as "one of the most remarkablest [sic] women of the age," and intimated that the audience would hear a lecture, the like of which they had never heard before and would never hear again. Vociferous applause followed Mr. Boone's brilliant effort.

Mrs. Keezer began her lecture very nervously, but in a good voice. She used no notes. She wasted little time in useless introductions, plunging at once into her narrative. In April 1861, her first husband, Charles Norwood, who was an American soldier, came home on a furlough. At the suggestion of the chairman, she went into particulars as to the period of the furlough. It was six weeks long. At the end of the six weeks, he persuaded her to go to the wars with him. She went as a nurse, and at the same time to look after her husband. She commenced to describe the battles she had seen, when some young scamp, in the rear of the hall, no doubt to give the battle sketches a realistic effect, began discharging firecrackers. Mr. Keezer at this juncture rushed in and threatened to "call her off" and "dismiss the meetin'" [sic] if such disturbances were not ended right there.

As soon as order had been in a measure restored the lecturer returned to her narrative and was describing with a master hand the "ghastly sights," "the terrible scenery" and "the wild demons" she had seen on the battle field, when another cracker exploded at her feet. She uttered a faint scream, assumed a tragic attitude, and then sat down, declaring she would not speak another word. Her husband, who had reason to be justly indignant, again burst into the room, and in a voice of thunder, said that "the meetin' was dismissed." He then called upon "Mary" to come off the platform. Instantly, there was a demand from a score or more that their money be returned to them, and to add to the bedlam the cracker fusillade was renewed. The fire appeared to be chiefly directed to Mr. Keezer. There were "crackers to right of him, crackers to left of him, crackers all around him." He boldly held his ground, however, and his cash, too, and declared that if they would call upon him the next day, he would give every cent back. He said he did not want their money. He could get along without it. Finding the atmosphere was becoming too hot he endeavored to get outside the hall, and after a good deal of jostling he got to the door. By this time an enormous crowd had gathered, and the noise they made sounded as if bedlam had been let loose. To go home, with such a howling mob after them, was madness, so they both very wisely decided to seek shelter in Miss Moore's saloon until the crowd had dispersed. Every effort was used to coax Mr. Keezer out by the crowd, some young villains even going so far as to bring his sloven down to the saloon door, but he refused to appear. Subsequently the sloven was thrown over the wharf. When eleven o'clock had come around, and the streets appeared quiet, they determined to start for home. A number of prominent citizens offered to accompany them as a bodyguard, which offer was accepted. Mr. J. T. Ross acted as advance guard, bearing on his shoulder a rusty sword, which he had fished out of somewhere. Immediately behind him came Mr. and Mrs. Keezer, hand in hand, determined to fall together if the worst should come. Mr. Arthur Moore and Mr. William McQuoid occupied the right and left wing. The rear was protected by Con. Lamb, Mr. Owen Rigby and Mr. B. F. Estes. Mr. J. M. Hanson did outpost duty with a lantern. Mr. Keezer and his chosen band had scarcely entered upon their dangerous march when the enemy appeared, every corner and every alley yielding its quota. Despite the sturdy efforts of the bodyguard, their ranks were frequently broken by some bold youth, anxious to get within reaching distance of Mr. Keezer. A few of them succeeded, but fortunately without doing him any serious injury. One cowardly scamp struck him square in the face as he turned a corner. The crowed did not molest them after they got into the home.

Mrs. Keezer declared that when next she lectured it would be in St. John, where she would be protected by the law. She said there was no law in St. Andrews. It certainly looked that way on Saturday night.

Beacon

Feb 20/1890

Ice for Algonquin now being harvested. Mr. Petrie has the contract for cutting it. About one hundred and fifty tons will be housed. Between fifty and sixty tons will be stored under the kitchen under the kitchen extension of the hotel. The rest will be stored at the barracks. Mr. Horton is arranging for the construction of another refrigerator in the lower floor of the hotel.

Summer Resort Business

We often hear people saying that "there is nothing in this summer business," but the development of the St. Lawrence River as a summer resort very clearly demonstrates that there is a good deal in it, when properly encouraged. The Toronto Mail recently prepared statistics showing to what a wonderful extent the summer business on that river has grown. There were in 1889, says the Mail, about 600 persons employed as oarsmen on the St. Lawrence River; in 1883 there were perhaps 100. There were last summer 36 hotels capable of accommodating 4000 persons. "Six years ago, the hotels could accommodate scarcely 1000 people. Besides these there are now 30 boarding houses with the capacity of 500 guests. There are between 600 and 700 cottages used exclusively by summer residents. From $1,000,000 to $1,250,000 was spent on the river last summer by tourists, exclusive of railroad fares. The people of St. Andrews ought surely to take fresh courage on reading these statistics. There are man pretty spots on the St. Lawrence, but there were Canadians here last season who declared that not one of them possessed the romantic charms which are to be found in such abundance around St. Andrews.

Beacon

Feb 27, 1890

Cutting Chamcook's Crystals

The Icemen hard at Work Preparing for the Harvest

The ice boom has evidently come to stay, and the boomers are getting in their work in this neighborhood in a lively fashion.

Once more the sound of the workman's hammer and the woodsman's axe reverberates through the forest glades of Chamcook, waking up echoes that have long been silent, while about St. Andrews station the shrieking locomotives and the rushing trains make pleasing melody.

Outside of the local people who are cutting for their own use, there are but two concerns operating there, one of them being Fisher Bros. of Saint John and the other Stetson, Cutler and Co. the former firm, as has been stated, have secured shipping privileges at Chamcook, and are making active preparations to avail themselves of them to the fullest extent. From the foot of the lake to the point at the head of Chamcook bay, where the firm intend erecting their icehouse and making their shipments from, there is a neck of land about 3500 feet across. Messrs. Fisher propose traversing this distance with a sluice, and they have a large gang of men now engaged in its erection. About one-quarter of the sluice is now in place, and by Saturday night it is expected that the heaviest part of it will be completed. Capt. Herbert is superintending the work. Mr. Angus Stinson, with a gang of men, is making the erections. The ice, after it is cut into blocks, will be floated under the railway track, and then, by means of an engine, hoisted into the sluice, when it will start on its "march to the sea." As the grade is pretty heavy, it is expected that the distance will be quickly covered. Next week, this firm will begin cutting ice.

Messrs. Stetson, Cutler and Co. are conducting their operations in a different manner. They intend shipping from St. Andrews; hence all their ice will be carried from here by rail Manager Cram with two engines and a lot of cars, and is doing his level best to give the matter a good start. Messrs. Cutler, of Boston, are personally superintending operations. They have a large crew clearing off the snow where they intend cutting while another crew, under Mr. Robt. Stevenson, is building a temporary platform, making the necessary sluices and arranging for the construction of storehouses at St. Andrews. The ice will be stacked here, and the houses built over it. A market will be sought for the most of it in the south. Messrs. Cutler say that they have about closed a charter of a steamer to load here. Besides this steamer they will have a number of smaller vessels. Next week both firms will probably have all their cutting crews at work. The New York people, who secured privileges, have not yet arrived, although Mr. McGrath, who represents them, is daily expected.

[a number of articles on the subject in succeeding editions]

Beacon

March 6/1890

Mr. Obadiah Conley has about perfected his fire escape, but he will not give it to the world until he has secured his patent.

200 railroad cars required to ship out last year's turnip harvest.

More Wharf Accommodation

Every day, the necessity of better wharf accommodation at this port is being forced upon us. As matters stand at the present time our wharf facilities are of the most meager description. This condition of affairs might be excused if it were a difficult matter to reach deep water, but there is no port on the continent possessing greater water advantages than St. Andrews. At almost any point between Chamcook and the entrance to the inner harbor of St. Andrews a deep-water wharf that would float the biggest ship could be erected at very little cost. A still better site for a deep-water wharf would be at Joe's Point, where the water is very bold. It would not be a difficult matter either to extend the railway along the harbor front to the Point. Such an extension would be a great help to the town, while the railway would also reap many advantages from it. We are assured that some, if not all, of the property owners along the harbor would give the railway the right of way free of charge. The additional expense of laying the rails would be not very great. This matter of wharf accommodation is a most vital one for this community, and no pains should be spared by our people to secure whatever one feels is so much needed.

Beacon

March 13/1890

Mr. and Mrs. John Treadwell, who have spent several very pleasant weeks among their kindred, left on Monday morning for their Californian Home. They are coming back to see us in the summer again. Mrs. James Stoop and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Treadwell accompanied them as far as McAdam.

First Algonquin Ad mentioned hay fever exemption. . "An absolutely exempt hay fever district"

Also piece on ice cutting at Chamcook Lake. Exports to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore by schooner.

On the summer arrangement with the CPR, a passenger train will leave Montreal in morning and arrive at St. Andrews the same evening. There will be sleeping cars outward two or three nights each week.

Beacon
March 20/1890

The St. Andrews Incorporation Bill. Excerpts. Prepared by B. R. Stevenson. Has passed two readings of the House of Assembly last session.

The Scott Act.

Inspector O'Brien Opens fire on St. Andrews.

He Gains Two Easy Victories but is Repulsed by Pop in Two Other Battles

Among the guests who have been gathered around the board of the International Hotel, the past week or two, has been a tall man, with iron gray hair and side whiskers, keen, yet pleasant blue eyes, and shaggy eyebrows, whose age might safely be placed anywhere between fifty and sixty years. More than usual interest has been taken in this stranger's advent, from the fact that he is none other than Mr. Edward O'Brien, the Scott Act Inspector for the County.

Although the general public were not expecting a visit from Inspector O'Brien, there were some people who appeared to know of his coming, and who were closeted with him soon after his arrival. It was not long before rumors of contemplated prosecutions were on the wing, and it became an absolute impossibility to obtain anything stronger to quench their thirst than plain pop or ginger beer.

Not until Friday was any positive move taken by the Inspector. Then two informations were laid, and summonses were issued for the afternoon of the following day. Mrs. Ann Hatch's case was the only one tried on Saturday by Justice Hatheway. Mr. Grimmer, the County clerk, appeared in the inspector's behalf, Mrs. Hatch being undefended. She pleaded not guilty and intimated to the court that "since the sneaks were going to run the town it was about time to put a fence around it and turn it into a goose pasture." Mr. Thomas Storr was the first witness. He did not know of Mrs. Hatch selling liquor for a period of twenty years. His business as truckman frequently called him to her store, and quite often he drank pop and ginger beer there. He never got any whiskey, or brandy, or gin there, and as for lager beer, well, his opinion of that beverage was not very high. Mrs. Hatch had a bar, with bottles on the shelves, but what they contained he did not know. As the other witness, Mr. Fearby, was not on hand, the further hearing of the case was adjourned until 8 o'clock. Mr. Fearby's evidence was no stronger against the defendant than that of the previous witness. He had been in the habit of visiting Mrs. Hatch's shop, but for six or more months past he had obtained nothing stronger than pop stuff or sarsaparilla. She had refused to sell him liquor, and he heard her refuse it to others. No intoxicating liquor was mixed with the pop or sarsaparilla he drank. He could have detected it if he had been there. At the close of this witness's testimony, Mr. Grimmer applied for a further adjournment until Monday afternoon, so that other witnesses could be summoned, but the justice would not grant it and dismissed the complaint.

The other cases were set down for Tuesday afternoon, the defendants being Patrick Donaghue and William Sheehan. The former acknowledged a violation and paid his fine. Sheehan pleaded not guilty, and several witnesses were examined without any evidence of guilt being disclosed. The further hearing of the case was deferred until the evening. The witnesses examined in the evening all drank "pop," so that there was nothing left for the court to do but dismiss the complaint.

The Inspector went upriver on Wednesday.

A very neat as well as complete circular has been issued by the Algonquin Hotel Company this year. Among other things it contains are testimonials from physicians and others showing the absolute immunity from hay fever which St. Andrews enjoys. The testimonies of a number of prominent people as to the excellent of the hotel, the healthfulness of the climate, the natural beauties of St. Andrews, etc., are also published.

Beacon

March 27/1890

A Miserable Business

Rev. A. Gunn Fires a Shot at "Pop" Drinkers

A Danger that Dorchester will Receive some of Our Citizens

When Rev. A. Gunn arose in the Presbyterian pulpit on Sunday evening to deliver his usual discourse, he stated that at a future day he proposed to make some remarks upon Sabbath desecration, a sin, he remarked, that appeared to be increasing rather than decreasing in this community.

There was another subject upon which he proposed saying something about, and that was "this miserable pop business." On previous occasions he had pointed out that the man who sells intoxicating liquor in the County of Charlotte violates the law of the land. He is a criminal. The man who buys the liquor and rinks it has also committed a grave wrong. He is an accessory in crime. In this case the law does not punish the accessory, but there are cases in which the accessory is very severely punished.

The facts, said he, which have come out at late trials here, show a low state of moral sentiment in certain quarters. They show that some men have lost much of the honor the Creator endowed them with. On more than one occasion, the preacher said that he had shown that drink demoralizes a man and deprives him of honor. If there was false swearing at the trails to which he alluded, he would not say, but this he would say—things do not look well. A man may afford to pay a liquor dealer's fine, but he cannot afford to get the dealer clear by swearing falsely. The price was too much. It was high time that the moral sentiment of this community was raised. If it does not, St. Andrews will lose some of her citizens, and the population of Dorchester will be correspondingly increased. There will be a short turn someday. He had raised his voice; he had given a warning. His remarks were not directed particularly to his congregation. We want a high moral sentiment here. It is time the moral sentiment was raised. If a man has done wrong, let him like a man acknowledge his wrong. The law does not punish the man who buys; it does not punish the accessory. The moral guilt remains, however. If a man is guilty, let him not attempt to conceal it by a greater crime. When a man takes an oath, it requires of him that he shall tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If he endeavours to conceal facts, or employs subterfuges, he has violated his oath, and punishment awaits him.

The reverend gentleman then proceeded with his sermon, the pith of which was that if men employed the same diligence in seeking after spiritual things as they do in seeking after gold, or silver, or hidden treasure, it would be better for their eternal welfare. During the course of his remarks, he stated that if he offered two dollars per day to people to attend church, he had no doubt that the church would be crowded, but, because he had something better to offer them, but few attended. Yet there were people who would accept a dollar and a half per day to go out on the lake at the Sabbath day and work. [directed at the Chamcook Ice business, it seems]

New hotel at Devil's Head, on St. Croix leased to Mr. Herb Gillis, of Calais.

Beacon

April 10, 1890

The Castine Terminus

The people of Castine, Maine, have not abandoned the idea of making their port the CPR terminus, although there are many persons on this side of the line who doubt that it will ever be accomplished. The Bangor News says the situation is this: the Grand Trunk Road is permitted to take freight originating on American soil, and rail the same to Canadian ports for shipment abroad. The Canadian pacific, desire to take the same class of freight from American points, haul it over Canadian soil, then across Maine, to Canadian ports, and then ship abroad, merely using the highway in Maine to its own advantage. The Castine syndicate says this is not right, claiming that the CPR should be obliged to establish their shipping port in Maine, as the Grand Trunk does in winter. Senator Hale has presented a bill looking to this end, and the Castine men expect it to go through. They hold the key to the situation in the shape of a charter and if anyone thinks they do not mean business, he should consider the fact that a syndicate has caused four surveys to be made, three from Castine to Bangor, and one from Bangor to Milo, at a cost of $19,500 and still has upwards of $2500 left for such purposes. Who are the men who have put out this sum, no one knows, save those who are on the inside; but these have assured the people along the line that the road would be built anyway, if $100,0000 was given them and $85,000 has been so pledged

Beacon

April 17/1890

Complete list of St. Andrews businesses by way of showing who like to advertise and who don't.

For Sale or Let

In Indian Point Park

St. Andrews, New Brunswick

The new Summer Villa Show Above

[drawing here of Park Cottage]

Parlor, dining room, library, and kitchen with cellar on ground floor, billiard room, bathroom and water closet upstairs.

St. Andrews Land Company, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, or Box 147 Boston, Mass

Postcard showing Argyll Hotel, W. H. Herbert proprietor. (this is the one I have)

Beacon

April 24, 1890

Gone to Blazes

St. Andrews Sardine Factory Disappears in Smoke

A fire with a very mysterious origin

The St. Andrews sardine factory, which started last summer with fair prospects of success, disappeared about four o'clock on Monday morning in a huge pillar of fire. The factory was located in the shed on the steamboat wharf. This building was erected about ten years ago by Messr. Merritt and Sons, of Houlton, Maine, who used it for three or four years as a warehouse for the storage of potatoes. Their lease expired in a month or two, and the building would have then become the property of Mr. Robert Ross, upon whose land it stood. How did the fire originate? That is one of the things "no fellow can understand," for there had been no fire in the building for several months. Landlord Herbert, of the Argyll hotel, says that he looked outside of the window of his house about three o'clock, and there as then no sign of fire. Brakeman Stinson, who lives about midway between the Argyll and the wharf, was aroused a few minutes after 3 o'clock by the shouting of Mr. William Storr, who had turned out early to make some repairs on the New Brunswick Railway locomotive, and his attention was attracted by the fire, as he was about passing Mr. Stinson's house. Looking out, Mr. Stinson saw columns of flame pouring out of the windows of the factory. He hurried out, and in company with Mr. Michael McMonagle, who had also been awakened by the noise, hastened to the engine room. Mr. Stinson rang the alarm, while Mr. McMonagle endeavoured to get into the room where the hand engines were. The firemen quickly responded to the summons and reached the engine to the fire. No 1 engine, Capt. William Burton, arrived first, No 2. Capt. Wm Whitlock, reaching the fire shortly afterwards.

Tide was pretty low, and the flames were rising in massive sheets from the burning structure, scattering clouds of sparks for many yards around. Seeing that there was no chance of saving the building or its contents, the firemen turned their attention to saving the wharf from destruction. In this they were successful, although the fabric was pretty badly scorched. Fire Wardens Burton and Stickney were on hand and directed the movements of the firemen.

In addition to the Sardine Company's plant, they had a large quantity of manufactured sardines in cases, as well as a great many empty cases. Stetson, Cutler and Co, also had their ice tools stored in the building. Everything was burned up. The Sardine Company had $2500 insurance in the Western office, but they estimate that their loss will exceed this sum by several hundred dollars. There was no insurance on the ice tools. They were worth probably $120. It is not known whether the building was insured or not.

The firemen left the scene of the fire about 8 o'clock, but were called out again at one o'clock, the wind having fanned some of the smouldering sparks into life, thus endangering the safety of the wharf.

Mr. James L. Thompson, of the Frontier St. Stephen Company, came down from Calais on Tuesday to repair the damaged wharf. Schr. Lugano, which loaded ice alongside the building that was burned, only moved away on Sunday. She was riding anchor in the harbor when the building was . . .

Beacon

May 1/1890

The Summer Business

There are indications that the season now approaching will be the most successful from a tourist point of view that St. Andrews has ever experienced. Scores of applications are coming in for rooms in both the Algonquin and the Argyll hotels, while many persons are seeking furnished rooms or board in private families. It is pleasing to not that our storekeepers are making preparations for the summer rush. It only remains for our farmers and market gardeners to awake to the necessity of raising suitable vegetables, meats, poultry, butter, etc., with which to feed our summer sojourners. There is no reason in the world why all such articles as these should not be supplied by our own people. It would save the hotel proprietors a vast amount of bother and expense and would be the means of enriching the cultivator of the soil and of keeping money in the place.

The "palace" car, which has been running on the St. Andrews branch during the winter, has been placed out of sight at McAdam Junction, and the bright summer cars are once running. Glad of it.

A Bit of History

Historical Sketch of Church of England in St. Andrews

What we owe to the Life and Labor of Two Good Men

Written by Rev. Canon Ketchum, Rector of All Saints Church

The circumstances attending the American Revolution, and the final separation from the mother country, form some of the saddest incidents in past history. From first to last, on the part of the British government, there was the grossest mismanagement. Now, that the remembrance of the bitterness of this deadly strife is past, the wise ordering of the Divine Providence can be plainly observed and this not only as affecting the state more than the church of England in the American colonies. All along the church had been weak in the disaffected Provinces. It met with no aid or support from the ruling powers in England. At the outbreak of the revolution, the Church of England, with its episcopacy and connection with the State, was regarded with intense dislike by the powerful Publican party; its members were classed with all those loyal to the crown, and were in most instances, treated accordingly.

The fearful struggle was over AD 1776. Independence was secured by those who had dared and suffered much. Then came about the most interesting incidents in that stirring time, the departure of the loyal refugees. They were, for the most part, members of the Church of England. Loyalty to the Great Head of the Church as well as loyalty to the crown formed the principle which led to this movement. They little thought that the foundations were being laid for one of the greatest earthly powers, and far less that in a century, that church, in behalf of which they were ready to suffer, would in the country they left, become one of the strongest of its branches, its members truly loyal to Him by "whom kings reign," maintaining the closest communion with the Mother Church in England and colonies.

Few fail to admire the self-denial and determination on the part of those who left comparative comfort and culture to form new homes, in most instances in a wilderness and in a trying climate. Loyalists in considerable numbers took up their abode in Saint John and King's country. Many went further up the Saint John and settled at Fredericton and Woodstock and at points along that river.

St. Andrews at that time, from its opportunity for trade and shipping, [why it was founded in the first place] was becoming a prosperous place, [before Loyalists?] as much so as any in the Province. Here came in 1783, several families of the loyal refugees, and soon occupied a prominent position in the place. Some of the earliest interments in the Province took place in the old church burial ground. Lately the gravestones have been carefully set up; the inscriptions on many are deeply interesting, going back in some instances a 100 years and more.

Almost coeval with the laying out of the town we find a record of a parochial establishment in connection with the Church of England. The Rev. Dr. Cook was then ecclesiastical commissary, under the Bishop of Nova Scotia, whose Diocese included the Province of New Brunswick. In November 1785 Dr. Cook visited St. Andrews. He speaks of its as "about 20 leagues distant from Saint John, the town well settled and consisting of 200 houses. There were no less than 60 children who had not been baptized, which gave," he says, "their parents great uneasiness." At the earnest desire of the Bishop, coupled with the request of the Governor, who had just been at St. Andrews, Dr. Cook undertook a long and perilous voyage. He set out from Saint John in a brig Nov. 6th, 1785. Owing to severe weather he did not reach Campobello until the 13th. He landed on the island, read prayers and preached to the settlers. He baptized a woman 40 years old, and 7 children. On the 16th of Nov., Dr. Cooke reached St. Andrews where he was kindly and hospitably entertained at the house of Robert Pagan. He "held service," he writes, "on the following Sunday and had a very decent and respectable congregation and performed 50 baptisms. He then crossed the bay to Digdeguash and baptized ten. Here, on account of the cold weather, he was detained three days. Returning to St. Andrews he baptized 12 more. Many parents were hindered from bringing out their children by the inclemency of the weather.

Many prominent clergymen, especially in the States of NY and Connecticut were ready to cast in their lot with the loyalists. Among them was the Rev. Samuel Andrews of Wallingford, Con. He was a graduate of Yale College and was ordained by the Bishop of London AD 1760. From the church at Wallingford, Mr. Andrews brought with him the crown and coat of arms, which are now placed over the west door in All Saints church. The parish and church he left are now among the most important in the Diocese. A celebration of the centennial of the parish will be held in June next. Here, it may be mentioned, that the relatives of the first rector of St. Andrews in the United States, have manifested a deep interest in this parish. From them were received the beautiful chancel windows in All Saints Church, as a memorial to the Rev. Samuel Andrews. They have also given generously towards the fund lately expended in improving the grounds and restoring and cleaning the gravestones in the old church burial ground.

The following is a copy from the minutes of the first meeting of the Vestry in the parish of St. Andrews, held August 2, 1786. Present, Rev. Samuel Andrews; Thomas Wyer, and Joseph Garnet, Ch. Wardens John Hall, Maurice Scott, John Dunn, Joseph Pendlebury, John Bentley, Vestrymen. William Gallop, esq., appeared and was sworn in a vestryman and took his seat accordingly. A letter was read by the missionary, of which the following is an extract:

"I have invited you here at this time to consult upon such measures as may be requisite in the settlement and enrolment of this infant Church. The first thing should be a letter of thanks to the Society for the propagation of the gospel for their liberal provision for the support of the gospel among you, for their interests with the government, and the conditions for the further support of the missionary. Your abilities at present are too slender to render that support considerable. You would do well to apply to the Governor for a charter of incorporation. The Society in England, together with the government have agreed to contribute towards the building a decent Glebe House. I wish to bring my family next spring, the cost of removing large family such a distance is very considerable, and in the service for the parish I am now spending for my board that money which the Society in England gave me to defray the expense of removing."

To this letter a kind and most courteous response was made by the vestry. Further on, in these interesting records, we find the judicious suggestions of the Rector were carried out.

From a valuable work by G. Herbert Lee, on the first fifty years of the Church of England in New Brunswick, it is said: On arriving at St. Andrews the Rev. Samuel Andrews found "a considerable body of people of different national extractions, living in great harmony and peace, punctual in attending divine service and behaving with propriety and devotion." The civil magistrate, ever since the town was settled, had acted as Lay Reader on Sundays, and set the people a good example.

In 1788 a church 55 x 40 was built and opene,d on St. Andrews day. Towards this a large allowance was contributed by the government. A bell weighing 350 pounds was given by Mr. John MacMaster, merchant in London. During the year ending June 1780, [sic] Mr. Andrews baptized 70 persons. In 9 months, Ad 1791 he baptized 110. In a distant part of the parish, in a lonely house, after due preparation he baptized the matron of a family, 82 years of age, her son of 60 years, 2 grandsons and 7 great grandchildren.

The church, which was among the first erected in the province, was afterwards enlarged by an apsidal chancel, and was in many respects far superior to many churches built at that time. Replaced by the present parish church 1867, the timbers and other materials of the old church were found on their being taken down to be of the very best description. In some instances, they had been brought from the US. The pulpit, doors and large portion of the inner roof of the present church are formed from the wood of the first church built in St. Andrews.

After the erection of the church, the parochial work of the rector of the parish was more concentrated, with regular services. . . . The work of Mr. Andrews was necessarily very trying. He was rector of St. Andrews, and the only missionary, for many years of the County of Charlotte. He performed all his arduous duties with zeal and ability. Old records tell of extended visits of adjacent islands and far up the country, in what are now the flourishing parishes of St. Stephen and St. George. Bear in mind the difficulty of travelling those days before even roads were made. . . . The death of Mr. Andrews occurred on the 26th Sept, 1818, at the advanced age of 82 years, thirty of which had been spent in the arduous work of a missionary in New Brunswick In a notice in the Saint John City Gazette, Oct. 7th, 1818, it is said: "This pious and amiable character has retired from the world full of years and of a admiration and esteem of all who knew him. . . . and while memory hold its seat the recollection of his virtues and of his worth will be consecrated in the hearts of all his parishioners.

Argyll hotel takes out pictorial ad for first time. Shows wing never completed.

No hay fever stressed. Railway passenger landing on the grounds. Steamboat wharf within 3 minute's walk. Surrounded by delightful beaches for bathing, balsamic groves and pleasant drives. Unsurpassed opportunities for lake and saltwater fishing or boating.

In June 1878 the first land-locked salmon were placed in Chamcook Lake. 5,000. Since that date several lots have been added. Lake is now well stocked with the fish, and this season they will give grand sport.

New steamship line between New York and Saint John. Steamer Valencia. Connecting with Frontier Steamship Co at Eastport. Beacon and Horton of Land Co at Eastport to witness first arrival. May add another steamer to Frontier companies' connections with St. Andrews if business good.

Beacon

May 15, 1890

The Scott Act. How it is being vindicated at the Capital.

An Alleged Lunatic

A "party by the name of Johnson"—John Johnson is the name he gives—was taken out of the Lansdowne House on Tuesday and placed in jail on suspicion of being a lunatic. When landlord Pendleton went to his room that morning, he found Johnson on the floor in "undress uniform," driving horses with the bed quilts, and having a jolly time all to himself. After going to jail, Dr. S. T. Gove made an examination of the man and concluded that he had better remain in confinement for a period until the Scott Act Rum had worked out of his system a little. Sheriff Stuart found in his pockets a tin whistle, six cents, a lot of crackers and cheese, and a cake of soap, which goes to show that in the matter of cleanliness his mind was sounder than a good many sane people we might name. Johnson says he belongs to Pictou. If crazy he is a very harmless lunatic.

Beacon

May 22/1890

How to Send Kisses By Mail

The incident that we are about to relate did not happen in Saint Andrews, but as it contains information which might be made use of here, we think it will not go amiss.

The plot is laid in the vicinity of Bangor. The young postmaster of the village was hard at work in his office one day, when a gentle tap was heard upon the door, and in stepped a blushing maiden of sixteen, with a money order which she desired cashed. She handed it, with a bashful smile, to the official, who, after closely examining it, gave her the money it called for. At the same time, he asked her if she had read what was written on the margin of the order.

"No, I have not," she replied, "for I cannot make it out. Will you please read it for me?"

The young postmaster read as follows—"I send you $3, and a dozen kisses."

Glancing at the bashful girl, he said, "Now, I have paid you the money and I suppose you want the kisses."

"Yes," she said, "if he has sent me any kisses I want them, too."

It is hardly necessary to say that the balance of the order was promptly paid and in a scientific manner.

On reaching home, the delighted maiden remarked to her mother:

"Mother, this Post Office system of ours is a great thing, developing more and more every year, and each new feature seems to be the best. Jimmy sent me a dozen kisses along with the money order, and the Postmaster gave me twenty. It beats the special delivery system all hollow."

Scott Act and Temperance

Rev. Henry W. Little, Episcopal clergyman of Sussex, who appears to be a conscientious temperance worker, recently gave expression to views rather unfavorable to the Scott Act, and as a result he is being attacked right and left, and all sorts of ulterior movies imputed to him. Mr. Little takes the ground that the Scott Act can accomplish no good, because it is badly drawn and unworkable, and because public sentiment is not yet ripe for the enforcement of such legislation. He thinks that the cause of temperance would be further advanced if the law was repealed, and moral suasion used as a factor for promoting personal sobriety. Mr. Little's views accord very closely with the views of this journal. As a friend of the cause of temperance, and as one who desires to see it prosper, it is our honest conviction that the Scot Act is proving an injury rather than a blessing, and is retarding the work of temperance. Ardent advocates of temperance, who have become impatient at the apparently slow growth of temperance sentiment, have sought the aid of legislation to hurry the work along. That it has not had the desired effect is abundantly shown by the fate which has befallen the Scott Act in Ontario. The repeal of the Act in that province cannot be regarded as an indication that the cause of temperance is retrograding, but rather that temperance men and women have had their eyes opened to the fact that it is not what they want, and that better results can be obtained from educating the masses to the belief that the drinking habit is a pernicious one, injurious alike to body and to soul, than from compelling men to be sober. This, we maintain, is the only sound view to take of the temperance question, and it is the view that it is bound to prevail in the end. When the masses fully realize that the baneful influence that the drinking habit exerts; when fashion has set its foot upon it, and the social glass is tabooed from polite society, then and not until then will the cause of temperance be triumphant. It is useless to say that public sentiment is in favor of the Scott Act. What better evidence of this could be obtained than the case of the imprisoned hotel keepers at Fredericton, who have been visited and sympathized with by hundreds of men and women, the majority of whom would scorn to visit or extend sympathy to a person imprisoned for any other offence.

Looking backward. Reminiscences of Old Saint Andrews. First of series by A. W. Smith

Beacon

May 8, 1890

A Charming Cottage

How Mr. Townsend has disposed of the Chamcook Ghost

Nestling beneath the shadow of Chamcook Mountain, within a few minutes' drive of St. Andrews, reposes one of the handsomest private residences in Charlotte County. A year ago, the site was occupied by a deserted, dilapidated building, which was known along the countryside as "The Haunted House." Mr. James A. Townsend, of Brooklyn, who owns the property, reached the conclusion last season that the most effectual way of "laying" the ghost was to pull down its old habitation and build a new house where the old one stood. And he has carried out his determination in no niggardly manner, as the new cottage is really a most charming one in every respect.

On the first day of last September ground was broken for the foundation. Ten days later, Mr. Levi Handy, Sr., had his men at work on the foundation walls. It was probably a month after that date when Mr. Walter Lane of Saint John, began the erection of the superstructure. Now, it is almost completed and is in the Queen Anne style of architecture. It is constructed of wood and has three habitable floors in the main building. A broad verandah runs around three sides of the building. This verandah is ten feet only a casual glance to show that the work has been done well.

The cottage is an adaptation of the wide, and its total length around the house is 1,270 feet. An easy stairway brings the visitor into a commodious vestibule, beyond which there is a hall twelve feet in width.

An old-fashioned fireplace, with tiled hearth, is built on one side of the hall. On the right side of the lower hall are the parlors, each of which are about 15 x 20 feet. There will be folding doors between. On the left the first room is the reception room, (14 x 16 feet) which is quite comfortable looking, being provided with a beautiful mantel and fireplace. Adjoining this is the dining room, 24 x 16 feet. In addition to two large windows, there is also a stained-glass window to be inserted in this room, which will enhance the effect very much. Between the kitchen and the dining room is the butler's room. The kitchen is large and airy. It is provided with a large range, hot and cold-water taps, stationary wash tub, and all other necessary conveniences. Attached to the kitchen is commodious pantry. At the extremity of the hallway, with doors opening into the hall and kitchen and out on the verandah, is the smoking room.

A broad stair, with handsome pine steps and walnut balusters, leads to the second floor, where the sleeping rooms are located. On either side of the hall are two large rooms, with dressing room attached. In front, with a door opening on to a small verandah, the most charming boudoir that a woman's heart could wish for. The view from this part of the house is really sublime, embracing as it does all the eastern waters of Passamaquoddy Bay with its numerous islands, forming a complete archipelago.

The servants' room and bath room are located on the second floor, and from the former there is a rear stairway leading to the kitchen. Four other large sleeping rooms, with a good change for a fifth, in case of an emergency, are on the third floor.

The house, both outside and inside, is well finished. There is no slipshod work anywhere from cellar to garret. The outside clapboards are nailed upon matched boards which, it is claimed, will make the house floor on the first story will be composed of narrow tongued and grooved birch boards. Electric bells are located everywhere throughout the house, all the wires leading to the kitchen. The bell in the dining room is on the floor, in such a position that the mistress can press the button with her foot. There are stained lights in several of the window, which will heighten the effect very much. The body of the building will be painted a straw color, and the trimmings a light brown. The room will have a maroon tint. An artesian well is to be sunk on the slope of the hill a few rods above the house. An abundant supply of water is looked for, with sufficient pressure to carry it anywhere in the building.

Nearly all the work about the house has been carried on by Saint John men. Mr. Walter Lane was the contractor. The plastering and chimney work was done by Messrs.. B. Mooney and Sons, the painting by Mr. Robert Barbour, the stair building by Mr. E. V Wetmore and the plumbing by Mr. James H. Doody, while Mr. Hedley V. Cooper has acted as superintendent. The cottage will cost in the vicinity of $12,000.

Beacon

May 8, 1890

It is the boast of Canadians that in Canada all men are equal, yet the boast is but an empty one when we find in a city like Saint John a high-bred, cultured Bermuda gentleman turned away from a hotel because of his color.

Beacon

May 8, 1890

A Backward Glance

Reminiscences of Former Days in Sa

Written for the Beacon

A "test-hole" that should have reached St. Andrews last summer, has not yet arrived, and no one appears to know what has become of it. We feel like offering a reward for its recovery.

Mr. J. B. Coyle, President of the International steamship Company, and a member of the St. Andrews land syndicate, was in town on Thursday last, with his wife and family. In company with Mr. Horton, they had a very pleasant drive in the suburbs.

Not all the wisdom of the world is contained in books. If you doubt this, go and listen to a nineteen-year-old youth while he instructs his pa.

Beacon

May 15, 1890

Some Old Tombstones

Rev Andrews and wife's inscriptions

Sacred to the Memory of

The Rev. Samuel Andrews, A. M.,

The first rector of this parish,

Who departed this life the 26th day

Of Sept. A. D. 1818

Aet 82.
Thus, after a well spent life and faithful

Ministry of 58 years

This beloved father of his flock

Has resigned his sprit

Into the hands of Him who gave it

Looking forward

To that crown of immortality

Which

The Lord, the righteous judge,

Shall at the last great day

Bestow

On all his faithful servants.

In memory of

Mrs. Hannah Andrews

Lates

Consort of the Rev'd Samuel Andrews

Who departed this life

Jan. first, 1816

Aged seventy-five years.

I pass the gloomy vale of death

From fear and anger free

For there his aiding rod and staff

Defend and comfort me.

Beacon

May 22, 1890

The CPR

A splendid showing for the road

Montreal, May 14

At the annual meeting of the CPR Company today, 343,848 shares were represented. The old board of directors was re-elected, with the exception of R. V. Martinsen, in whose place General Samuel Thomas of NY was elected. The report for this past year was highly satisfactory, showing

Gross earnings 15,630,660

Working expenses 9,024,602

Net earnings 6,006,056

Fixed charges 3,779, 132

Surplus 2,226,926

Surplus for year after payment supplementary dividend

1,570,026

Surplus from previous years 326,423

Making surplus carried forward

1,903,350

Increase in gross earnings over previous year

1,835,115

Decrease in working expenses

300,159

Increase in profits 2,235,285

The report attributes the decrease in working expenses to the large expenditures made for improvements during the past few years and indicates the intention of the directors to continue improvements with a view to the further cheapening of the coast of operation, and expressed the belief that the proportion of working expenses to gross earnings will soon be brought below 55 percent. The directors in the report express their intention to continue dividends at the rate of five percent, and their belief that there will be no difficulty in maintaining this rate. The bad harvest in the north-west materially affected traffic, for the last half of the year and earnings had to be made good from traffic of a leaner description than is usually sought by the company. The entire property of the company has been well maintained, and the railway has enjoyed remarkable immunity from serious accident and is the only one of the transcontinental lines that has been entirely free from a snow blockade in the mountains.

The report expresses the belief that there is no good ground for anticipating hostile legislation at Washington and that body like the congress of the US is not likely to be moved to such a course by false or exaggerated statements concerning the exactions, or policy of the company emanating from parties whose sole object is to check legitimate competition.

The report refers to the fact that it will be ten years on the 21st October next since the contract from the construction of the CPR was signed, and goes on to say that neither the government nor any one of those who signed the contract on behalf of the company had at that time the remotest idea that through trains would be regularly running between Montreal and the pacific coast by the month of June, 1886, five years before the date stipulated in the contract and up to a much later time but very few of even the best informed and most steadfast friends of the enterprise foresaw or believed that the year 1889 would see the company with over 5,000 miles of railway earning under anything but favorable circumstances more than 15,000,000, with profits exceeding 6,000,000, having at the same time the highest possible reputation, based on the prompt discharge of all its obligations from the beginning, and have attained a financial standing hardly second to that of any railway company on this continent, and occupying furthermore the unique position of having made a reasonable return to its shareholders from the outset, and in having repaid with interest, and long before it became due, every dollar borrowed from the government.

The shareholders authorized the directors to proceed gradually, and as circumstances might require, with the construction or acquisition of several local lines.

The company leased line between Montreal, and the Maritime Provinces was opened for traffic on the third of June. The local traffic along that line has increased rapidly, but through traffic has suffered from the want of due cooperation on the part of the Intercolonial Railway, the government line over which connection is made with Halifax and other points in NS and eastern New Brunswick. The directors, however, have the assurance that a satisfactory settlement of this difficulty will be reached immediately.

The meeting was unanimous throughout.

At a subsequent meeting of the board William C. Van Horne was re-elected president, and Sir George Stephen, Sir Donald A. Smith and Richard B. Angus were re-elected as members of the executive council.

Looking Backward

Reminiscences of Old St. Andrews

Part Two

A. W. Smith

The Border Town

A few notes about the Commercial Capital of Charlotte

A pleasant drive, and one that is becoming increasingly popular, is that between St. Andrews and St. Stephen. On a fine summer day the view to be obtained along the river, about Oak Bay, Waweig, and at other points on the road, is really enchanting.

The visitor to St. Stephen may not be much struck with the natural beauties of the place, although it possesses not a few of them, but there is one fact that is bound to be impressed upon him, and that is, that the border is well provided with enterprising citizens. We doubt if there is another town of its size in the Dominion where there are so many evidences of enterprise and thrift as in St. Stephen. This is not only apparent in the large manufacturing concerns which have their home in St. Stephen, but it is also to be seen in the handsome and well-filled stores which grace its streets.

Among its manufacturing enterprises none has been more successful than the St. Croix Soap Works. Starting very modestly, this concern, by supplying a good article at a reasonable price, has developed an immense business. Year after year, they have added to their works, and yet they continue to expand. This season they are contemplating adding another wing to their factory, so as to give them more kettle space, and next year will no doubt witness a further growth. The capacity of these works is about 25,000 boxes a year. Not content with supplying large portion of the maritime provinces, they are now pushing their goods in Ontario and Quebec and are meeting with very satisfactory results.

The confectionary works of Ganong Brothers and of Stewart and Co., the edge tool factory of Messrs. Broad; the wood and leather and water pipe works of Messrs. Vroom; the saw and planning mills of Haley and Son; the carriage factory of Mr. DeWolfe, are all establishments of which any town may feel proud.

The hotels of the border city in times past have been a bye-word—a delusion and a snare—but they are not so now. Through the enterprise of a few citizens a magnificent hotel has been erected, and all that is wanting is somebody to run it. It is said that no person will accept the risk of leasing it here because they cannot keep a bar in the house, and as the Scott Act appears to have come to St. Stephen to stay no one can see exactly how the difficulty is to be obviated.

Then there is the Queen hotel. Last season it was known as the "all-gone Queen," but there is no "goneness" about it now. Since Mr. W. S. Hall took charge of it, some months ago, it has been turned inside out and upside down and has emerged from this process quite a respectable hotel. A bright and cheery office has been fitted up, a ladies' parlor (what we never had before) has been added, the rooms re-furnished and renovated, and many other needful changes and improvements made. Mr. Hall has it in view to add two or more ample rooms to the hotel this summer.

Among its trades people, there have been some very acceptable additions lately. Messrs. Mitchell and Ross, two very enterprising young men, have established themselves as importers and dealers in crockery ware, glassware, Bohemian vases, and such like goods, and are doing a booming wholesale and retail trade. They have fine quarters not far from the railway station, and their stock is an unusually fine one. In dry goods, Messrs. Cameron and McTavish, Algar, Stewart and Webber, the Oak Halland White House may be named. Messrs. Cameron and McTavish, who are represented in the Beacon's advertising columns, and who deserve to succeed for that reason, if for no other, are located a short distance from the bridge. They have a commodious store, well stocked with staple and fancy goods. They are both very popular young men and well versed in their business. The leading feature of the Oak Hall is ready-made clothing, a fact which is no doubt patent to all readers of the Beacon.

Just now St. Stephen is wrestling with the Scott Act, but, though the sentiment is strongly in favor of the Act, many respectable citizens appear dubious as to whether it has been promotive of any real good.

The New Landlord

Mr. Charles V. Carter, the lessee of the Algonquin Hotel, and Mr. Eugene F. Fay, secretary-treasurer of the Hotel company, arrived in St. Andrews on Saturday afternoon. It was Mr. Carter's first visit to the Shiretown.

"I am completely carried away with it," was the rejoinder Mr. Carter made to the Beacon on Sunday afternoon, when asked his impression of St. Andrews. "I had no idea it was such a beautiful place. Not only has it pure air and unrivalled scenery, but the roads are so good, and there are so many pleasant drives about it! Why, today I visited Joe's Point and was driven around Chamcook Mountain, and I was delighted. I am sure it will become popular as a summer resort."

Mr. Carter was equally pleased with the hotel and its situation. Asked with regard to the season's prospects, he said they were excellent. He has booked between 20 and 30 rooms for the season and applications are continually coming in. Mr. Carter recently attended a Hotel Keeper's convention, and none of the hotels had such a good prospect to report as the Algonquin.

"There is one thing which surprises me," remarked the new proprietor, "and that is the scarcity of garden vegetables here. I have talked with a number of farmers since I came here, relative to hotel supplies, and I find that there is scarcely one of them who cultivates small vegetables such as parsley, lettuce, onions, and such like. There is always a great demand for such articles at summer hotels, and I think it would pay your farmer to cultivate them more extensively. I want to get everything that is possible to be got in the town. Wherever I have been it has always been my practice to buy from the town in which I was located all that I needed, and it is my intention to do the same here, provided I can get what I want at reasonable prices. This is one reason why I would like your farmers to raise such vegetables as those I have mentioned."

Mr. Carter visited Saint John on Monday, and remained there until Thursday night, when he returned to Boston. It is his present intention to come to St. Andrews about the 13th of June, so as to get everything in readiness for the opening on the 1st of July. There will be an orchestra, led by Mr. Ellis Ames, the celebrated pianist, at the Algonquin this season. There will be four pieces in the orchestra, vis., piano, flute, cornet and violin.

Beacon

May 29/1890

Hotel De Monts on Devil's head to open June 3.

Cottages on the Island—This summer will see several neat little cottages erected on St. Andrews Island. Mr. Clark, of Houlton, one of the syndicate who bought a portion of the island last season, arrived here on Monday with a lot of lumber, and is now making arrangements for erecting buildings. Two cottages will be put up immediately, one to be occupied by Mr. Clark and the other by Mr. Munson, of Houlton. They will be one story structures, 18 x 22, 10 feet post, and will have verandas 6 feet wide around them. Dr. "Walker, of Boston, is to erect later on a cottage similar in design to those above mentioned, and Messrs. Frisbie and Mansur, of Houlton, propose doing the same. It is expected that there will be quite a little colony of Houlton people visiting St. Andrews this summer.

Railway Men on the Wing

Sir George Stephen, president of the Canada Pacific railway, General Manager Van Horne, Mr. Meighen, one of the directors of the N. B. R. and Manager Cram, arrived in St. Andrews by special train on Tuesday afternoon from Edmunston. It was raining heavily when the train reached here, and their stay was very short. Manager Van Horne and Sir George Stephen were driven by Mr. Mallory to the Algonquin Hotel and made a hurried inspection of the hotel. From there they returned to the station, and the special started off again. The Canada Pacific magnates caught the CPR train at McAdam and returned to Montreal.

Streets of St. Andrews not in good repair. Townsman notes that in 1889 an Algonquin guest paid to have the loose stones taken off Carleton near hotel. Culverts in bad shape; streets poorly graded over them.

Great demand for furnished houses this summer.

On the door of the Queen hotel in Fredericton is a placard intimating that the hotel is closed to the public. In an adjoining window a motto is displayed, on which are the words "Praise the Lord." The coincidence has provoked many smiles from passers-by.

Beacon

June 5/1890

Our National Highway

The map of the CPR, "the world's highway to the Orient", which has just been issued, gives an excellent idea of the immensity of this great line of iron rails which enfolds a continent within its embrace. All the connections between the Atlantic and the Pacific are clearly shown, also the courses followed in crossing the Atlantic from Halifax to Liverpool, and the Pacific from Vancouver to China and Japan and Australia. The only sections of the road which do not bear the CPR name are those between Mattawamkeag and Halifax, — the Maine Central, New Brunswick and Intercolonial Railways, and if report be true it is only a matter of time—and a short time at that—when all these roads will be united under one system. We have heard it stated that the transfer of the New Brunswick Road would take place about the first of July. The recent tour of inspection of Manager Van Horne over the New Brunswick Railway gives strength to this rumor. On the map to which we refer the port of St. Andrews looms out quite prominently, and considering the admirable facilities it has to offer for terminal purposes, it is fitting that it would.

Chamcook Lakes. Home of big trout and bigger salmon. Article. First stocked 12 years ago. Up to within a recent period the people of St. Andrews and vicinity enjoyed a monopoly of these lakes, but as their reputation extended their circle of patrons became wider. Last year a great many Americans and upper Canadians fished in Chamcook waters, and from present indications the number of outside sportsmen who will favor the lakes with their presence this season will be far ahead of any previous year. There are now half a dozen fishing lodges in the neighborhood. Mr. Haviland, of New York, has a very unique log cabin in close proximity to the dam. Dr. Gove, Messrs. Odell, Glenn and others have also houses in the same vicinity. On the island, in the first lake, Mr. T. T. Odell built during the winter a neat little fishing lodge, and this season he will occupy it for the first time. Farther up the lake, Mr. William B. Hayford, of Saint John, has a very neat cottage erected. Its completion was only accomplished a few weeks ago.

The Algonquin Hotel. Mr. Horton is pushing forward the additions to the hotel. Several sleeping rooms have been added, and an extension will be made to the dining hall, which will increase its size about one-third more.

A New Livery Stable

The St. Andrews livery stable keepers, who have been trying with considerable difficulty to make buckle and strap meet during the winter, will have some of the cream taken off their summer business by the new livery stable which Mr. S. J. Watson, of Houlton, intends opening at the Argyll hotel on the 25th of this month. Mr. Watson was in town on Thursday and secured a lease of the barn attached to the Argyll hotel. He intends putting in about a dozen teams and doing a general livery business. Arrangements are being made to have telephonic connection with the Algonquin Hotel. We hope Mr. Watson will do a good business—but not at the expense of the regular stable keepers of the town.

To Be Laid off in Streets

The landscape gardener, who has been at work in the neighborhood of Fort Tipperary, has finished his preliminary survey, and has returned to Boston. All that he has to show for his work here is a number of pegs driven in the ground, but these pegs mean a good deal. They mean that the land which has hitherto been used as a cow pasture will soon be intersected by streets, with desirable spaces for the erection of dwellings. The work will probably be entered upon very shortly. There can be no lovelier situation for a row of cottages than on this ground, and we venture to predict that the lots will be rapidly taken up

Beacon

June 12/1890

It Ended in Tears

In the vicinity of Black's Harbour there lives an old man named Thompson. He has a daughter, who is married to a sailor lad named Wallace. Some time ago, during the absence of her husband on the briny deep, the daughter returned to her father's home to live. The old man raised no objection until the husband came back from his voyage, when he, too, announced his intention of making his father-in-law's house his habitation. The old man refused to give his consent to the arrangement, and the daughter endeavoured to influence him by means of a club.

But the club argument was of no avail, for as soon as the daughter showed her hand, the old man hitched up the mare and drove to St. George to invoke the aid of the law. The necessary legal papers were issued, and on Wednesday, father and daughter and son-in-law were before Justices Wetmore and Davis as Plaintiff and defendants in an ejectment suit. When the old man began to state his case, he burst into tears. The daughter's heart was melted by this display of feeling, and she, too, began to weep. Even the eyes of the justices began to grow moist. Fearing that the court might dissolve altogether, a reconciliation was proposed. The olive branch was eagerly grasped by both parties, and when court fees had been paid over, they all drove off together.

The details of the transfer of the New Brunswick Railway to the CPR will be arranged at Montreal this week, it is stated.

A Crying Want

One of the most crying wants that St. Andrews has at the present time is better wharf accommodation. It is true that we have wharves here, but they are not the class of wharves that is wanted. What we want is one or more deep water wharves, where vessels of any size can be afloat at any and all times of tide. The inner harbor offers very little opportunity for the erection of such wharves, the entrance being too narrow, and the water too shallow. But, in the outer harbor, there is abundance of room for them. Perhaps no better site for a wharf could be found than at Katy's Cove. The beach there is very bold, and the area to be built up would be small, as compared with site that might be named. Besides its nearness to the railway would give it an additional advantage. We think that the time is ripe for the people of St. Andrews to make a move in the direction of procuring better wharves. The railway company need better wharf accommodation here than they can now obtain, and there is little doubt that they would assist by their influence, and probably by their cash, too, in the erection of wharfs. The Provincial government, we believe, would give a grant to the work, and if pressure was brought to bear upon the Dominion government some aid might also be obtained from that quarter. The political influences that are at work may in a very short time impair the chance of procuring the provincial grant, hence the strongest reason why the matter should be pressed to a conclusion at once.

Eastern Summer Resort

Healthy Breathing spots in the Neighborhood of St. Andrews

"Quoddy" contributes an interesting and well-written sketch to the Eastport Sentinel on "Eastern Summer Resorts." We quote from it the following:

The map of Maine with its ocean fringe of headlands and islands resembles a curtain drawn away to the left. In the extreme lower corner dangling like a tiny tassel, is the little group of Isles of Shoals, only partly in this State, which though small in extent is still a noted summer resort. Higher up on the opposite extreme of the coast is Passamaquoddy with its tangle of headlands, inland waters, and island groups, a sort of crumpled rosette on the curtain's edge, bulging over into New Brunswick, with Grand Manan, a noble pendant just below. Thus, gather here is a remarkable group of summer resorts varied in character, already widely known and designed to greatly increased popularity in the near future. . . . Campobello, further in, is a large and picturesque island, its outer shore washed by the harbor, through which runs the boundary line to Eastport, and the shores of Maine. It is under the control of an American company which is developing it as a summer resort. The Tyn-y-coed, which with its mate the Tyn-y-maes, occupies an elevated plateau amid a group of petty private cottages, has a noble outlook and enjoys a reputation unexcelled by any house on the northern coast, and the place has proved attractive to a superior class of visitors.

Further up the on the mainland on the inner bay lies the old provincial town of St. Andrews. An American company has also taken hold here, undertaken various improvements an erected a spacious hotel, the Algonquin, on the heights above the town, from which a magnificent view is gained over the surrounding country The lovely Chamcook hills rise not far away and at their base begin a chain of pretty lakes stretching northward and well stocked with fish.

Some Railroad History. Transactions of the first RR. Company. Article.

Beacon

June 19/1890

Delving in the Past

How We Did our Business a Century Ago

Interesting Extracts from the First Court of Sessions in Charlotte

Among the books and documents in the custody of the County Secretary, there is none that possesses greater interest to the resident or native of Charlotte, than the record of the first court of sessions held in this county. Through the kindness of Mr. Grimmer, we are enabled this week to publish a number of extracts from this interesting historic volume, and it is possible that at a future date we may be able to take the matter up again.

The first court of sessions was established in Charlotte County, in June, 1785, but the first record which appears is that of September sessions of that year, the opening entry being as follows:—

"At the Inferior Court of common pleas and general Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King held at the Court House in the Town of St. Andrews in and for that County Charlotte on the first Tuesday in September being the sixth day of September in the twenty-fifth year of His Majesty's reign, Anno Domini, 1785."

The justices who participated in this first meeting over one hundred years ago were Robert Pagan, William Anstruther, Colin Campbell and Nehemiah Marks. Thomas Wyer was Sheriff, and as subsequent extracts will show his office was no sinecure.

Methods of punishment prevailed then which for many years past have been obsolete, as witness the following, which was copied from the sessions record of September 9, 1785.

"Dominus rex vs. Duncan McEachern—Bench warrant on complaint of the Grand Jury, for insulting and abusive language to them, on duty: the said Duncan McEachern being brought before the court and the charges alleged against him being proven to their satisfaction, Ordered, that he be set in the public stocks half an hour for the said offence. The Sheriff returns that he has executed the said sentence as by warrant commanded. Dominus rex. Vs. James Piercy—Bench warrant for disrespectful behavior, profane swearing, etc., in open court. Ordered that the said James Piercy be confined in the public stocks for one hour for the said offence. The Sheriff returns that he has executed the said sentence as commanded.

At the sessions of July 1786, the justices present being John Curry, Robert Pagan, William Anstruther, James Campbell, Jeremiah Pote, Nehemiah Marks, Hugh Mackay and Henry Goldsmith, the following license fees were agreed upon:—

Licenses to tavern keepers and retailers of spirituous liquors above one hundred gallons from the 18th July 1786 to the third April next, twenty shillings license and bond one and a half dollars, upon certificate by two neighboring justices.

HOW THIEVES WERE DEALT WITH

In the treatment of criminals, no morbid sentiment prevailed in those days. A prisoner was given a fair trial, and discharged if found innocent, but if he was adjudged guilty, summary and severe punishment was usually meted out to him. Here is an entry copied from the record of August 1786:

Timothy Houston was brought before the court in consequence of a warrant issued against him by Jeremiah Pote, on suspicion of petty larceny, and upon examination there appeared to be no foundation for the charge against him, ordered that he be discharged.

Also, Joshua Lock, on suspicion of the same, to wit, for stealing a pair of silver buckles from Phebe Webb, confesses the charge, ordered that he receive twenty lashes on the bare back at the public whipping post forthwith, and be banished the county for twelve months, and that a warrant be made out directed to the Sheriff for that purpose, and that the buckles be returned to the above-named Phebe Webb, the rightful owner.

A CHIMNEY ROBBER

Houses were constructed on a different principle then from what they are now, and it was not an unusual occurrence for a robber to enter a house through the chimney and make his exit in the same way. At the sessions of 23rd March 1787, a prisoner was indicted on a charge of having entered a house by the chimney route:—

Cornelius Ryan, who being apprehended on a warrant issued by James Campbell, on suspicion of going down the chimney of the dwelling house of Neil McNichol and stealing from thence sundry articles at different times, the property of the said Neil McNichol and John McPherson, upon the oath of Neil McNichol, ordered to be committed to the Common Jail till discharged by due course of law.

NAUGHTY WIDDERS

At the April session of the General Sessions, 1788, the grand Jury made a number of presentments, among them being the following: —

The widow Helms of the parish of West Isles, for keeping a disorderly house. The widow Polly, of the said Parish, for the same. Also, Peter McDougall, of the town of St. Andrews, Tailor, for harbouring and concealing William Bowers, an apprentice servant of Andrew Martin's of the same town.

The same jury rapped the magistrates over the knuckles for not paying "that attention to the laws in general of this Province, that they are required to, especially an Act passed in the year of our Lord 1786, entitled an Act to Prevent Nuisances, Hedges, Weirs, Seines, and other Encumbrances obstructing the Passages of Fish in the Rivers, Coves and Creeks of this Province."

FISHERY REGULATIONS

Regulations overseers of the fishery Saint Stephens, 2nd April 1788:—

The subscribers being appointed overseers of the fishery on Scoodiac river beg leave to propose to the honorable court the following regulations to be observed in the sessions:

1.1. that all vessels and craft shall lay as near to high water mark as possible, and that they shall cure their fish on shore.

2.2. that no boats, canoes, or craft of any kind shall be allowed to go above the middle landing after the 10th day of May.

3.3. That no seine shall be drawn at the point at the foot of the Saltwater Falls, nor to extend more than one-quarter of the breadth of any part of the river.

4. that all the offal shall be buried at last forty feet from the banks of the river.

5. that no fish shall be taken on Sunday, but be allowed a free course up the river. Samuel Mulberry, Michael Simpson, Benjamin Getchell.

THE GAOLER'S PERQUISITES

The Gaoler to be allowed at the rate of twenty pounds per year, to be paid as contingent funds of county will admit, in proportion with other allowances to be paid from them, and liberty for retailing spirituous liquors free, at the same time the thanks of the court to be delivered to him by the clerk of the court for his past services. Adam Smith was the name of the Gaoler.

SENDING PAUPERS BACK

The following appears in the record of sessions, 28th April 1788: —

Upon information of Robert Pagan, that on Saturday evening last a poor woman named Boyle, with two young children, were left in his absence within his dwelling house, attended with other circumstances of rudeness by a man who said he was a servant of Mr. Owen, of Campobello, alleging that he the said servant had brought the said woman and children from Campobello, and that he acted by his master's orders,"

—the matter was referred to the overseers of the poor, who reported that the paupers had no claim to a settlement in the parish of St. Andrews.

The court having taken into consideration the matter of right as the manner of sending and leaving the poor persons in question, within the parish of St. Andrews, and conceiving the power abrogated by the said servant and his conduct in consequence thereof in the premises, as an indignity offered to the authority of the County of Charlotte at large, and an injury to the parish of St. Andrews in particular, do order that the paupers aforesaid be sent back to the place from whence they came and that a copy of the proceedings in this business be transmitted to Mr. Owen to the intent that he may be informed of the conduct of his servant therein, which the Court cannot suppose Mr. Owen to have been heretofore acquainted with.

COMMONS REGULATIONS

At the court of sessions, first Tuesday in April 1789: —

Ordered that each inhabitant of St. Andrews owning a horse, cow or ox, be requested by the commissioners appointed for that purpose, to give a day's work of one for each, and every two under two years old, to be considered as one, and on refusal that their cow, horse, or ox be excluded the privilege of the said Common. And say inhabitant importing cattle for sale, who shall put any such cattle on the said Common shall pay to the Commissioners to be laid out for extending the Common six pence per month, after the first month, and that Colin Campbell, John Dunn, Capt. Pote, and Robert Pagan, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of carrying the above regulation into execution.

WHARF AND VESSEL BUILDING

On the 3rd of September, 1789, Robert Watson asked permission "to put out a small wharf and erect a store on it for the convenience of fishing on the beach of the river St. Croix, in the line of part of the road running through Morris Town," which was complied with.

At the same time John Campbell and Co. were given permission to use a lot of land to build a vessel on.

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ENCROACHING

At the session of the court held 8th September 1790, the following resolution was adopted:—

This court being informed that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have of late repeatedly discovered a disposition to exercise their jurisdiction over Moose and Dudley Island, to the great inconvenience of the inhabitants of this County in general, and of those islands in particular, therefore resolved, that Mr. Curry, Mr. Pagan and Mr. Campbell be appointed a committee to enquire into the particulars of the late conduct of the said Commonwealth respecting those islands, and after obtaining the necessary information thereupon, in the name of this Court to write an official letter to His Excellency our Governor respecting their situation and requesting that he will be pleased to adopt such measures as may be most expedient for securing the inhabitants of those islands and their property from the unjust encroachments of foreign power and for protecting them in their allegiance to His Majesty.

ROAD AND BRIDGES IN ST. GEORGE

In April, 1791, Donald McDougall, Gideon Vernon, and James McNabb, in behalf of themselves and other inhabitants of the parish of SG, urged the expediency of having "a good passable road cut through from one extremity of the parish to the other," in consequence of "the badness and danger of the navigation of the river Magaguadavic in the Spring and Fall." They also urge the building of bridges across the rivers Bonny, Little Digdeguash and Magaguadavic where the public roads cross the said rivers. It was pointed out that "a good and sufficient bridge can be erected on the main river Magaguadavic with a few days labor of the inhabitants for 25 pounds cash.

COMPLAINING OF RESERVES

Robert Pagan, Colin Campbell, and Henry Goldsmith were appointed a committee "to write to His Excellency John Wentworth, stating the great injury to this county from the large reserves that have been made on the Scoodiac and Digdeguash rivers, by which the settlement in that part of the county is impeded, also to inform him that the growth on those rivers is chiefly hardwood, and to request that he would be pleased to take off such reserves, where there is no growth of pines."

AFRAID OF ST. ANDREWS ADVANTAGES

Among the entries of the September sessions, 1791, appears the following: —

The Grand Jury, considering the peculiar situation of this County, being situated on the frontiers of this Province, that the last spring an unusual number of Savages assembled on Pleasant Point on the American shore, and some uneasiness has arisen respecting the claims of some islands on the frontier, we beg that a request may be made to the commander-in-chief that a sufficient number of troops may be sent down for our protection as may be thought necessary.

WHAT JOHN WISHED TO KNOW

John Ross, a seaman, was arrested in April 1792, for neglect of duty on the British ship "Queen." Evidently Jail life did not agree with John, for he presented the following petition: —

To the gentlemen of the court: I would wish to inform the court, that I would wish, as I have no friends in this place, and I should like to know, whether I am to lay in her and suffer or not, so no more at present from your humble servant, John Ross.

STARTING INOCULATION

The Grand Jury being informed that the small pox is about to be introduced into St. Andrews by inoculation, are much alarmed at the ill consequences that such a matter may be attended with to the public welfare in general at this time, therefore pray that the Worshipful Court will take such steps as may be necessary that the inoculation may be stayed until the Fall of year. The court concurred in this recommendation.

John McKenzie announced his intention of building a vessel of upwards of one hundred tons in St. Andrews and asked for a lease of land at the same time.

James Cristy, of St. Stephen, at the same court, prayed for a lease of land on the top of the hill, near John McCollum's farm, "for the purpose of erecting a house or houses and lumber yard to carry on a trading in lumber, and provide suitable accommodations for the traders who may occasionally come this way."

The "Waweig Ferry" was granted to Edmond Dougherty "on giving security to go from sunrise to sunset, 3d. per man, 1s. a cow, 1s. an ox, and 1s. a man to Oak Point Bay. Not to keep a passenger more than an hour.

CHIMNEY REGULATIONS

At the September sessions in the same year, it was ordered "that every householder within the town of St. Andrews shall once in three months at least sweep all their chimneys where constant fire is kept or burn the smut during rain or snow, and to enforce the said regulation they hereby order that every person whose chimney will take fire and has not been swept, or otherwise cleared within the time above mentioned, shall be subject to a fine of ten shillings for very such offence, to be appropriated to the county Funds.

A CLERGYMAN ROADMAKING

Rev. Samuel Andrews made a strong appeal to the sessions at that time "to devise a more certain and equal support for their poor." He also presented a petition for a road to Chamcook Island, stating that he had been proprietor of the island for seven years [since 1785 then, which would mean Osburn sold to him the same year he acquired the island, and the 1791 deed is post-dated, as it seemed to be] and had not been able to get a road from the town to it. "Much the greater part of the time he has been obliged to go to and from the island upon the seashore, and to cross the water of the Cove, which has been the occasion of much trouble and great delay to him and has sometimes been attended with personal danger to himself and others." He goes onto say that he had cut three roads through the woods but had been obliged to give up two of them as soon as made. "Finding finally that he must give up the island altogether, or aught of any land he could get for a road to it he has complied with the offer of the proprietors of the land about Chamcook bar, and by their friendly assistance has but a road through the woods, to a line between them from the Bar till it strikes the great road, which leads from town to the country. This has been an expensive undertaking, and tho' assisted by the others immediately concerned in the road with him, it has cost your memorialist at least six pounds currency, over and above his quota of work upon the public road." He asked for certain concessions, which were allowed.

A WINDMILL AT INDIAN POINT

In April 1795, Nathan Frink asked for leave to erect a wind-mill at Indian Point. The petition was complied with, twenty shillings per year being required as rent, "the building to be completed within a twelve-month hereafter, the toll to be what is commonly taken in this country, viz. 1/16th for grinding only and if bolted 1/16th, the preference of ground between him and John Campbell to be drawn up for by lots.

THE TWELVE COMMANDMENTS

The following regulations were ordained in 1793 with regard to tavern keepers and retailers of liquors: —

1.1. Tavern keepers shall lodge and entertain as their guests, all travellers, not being of bad report, who may request and tender, if thereunto required, a reasonable satisfaction for the same, and shall be answerable for the goods of their guests.

2. Tavern-keepers or retailers shall not harbor, under any pretense idle and disorderly persons of bad report, nor any person, not being a traveller, who is retained in any service, nor credit such retained person in any sum exceeding five shillings.

3. all tavern keepers and retailers shall observe and cause sobriety and good order at be at all times observed and kept in their respective house and shall not permit any persons not being their guests, or with whom their guests have just cause of intercourse to be or continue herein at such hours as are unreasonable on the Lord's Day.

4. All tavern-keepers and retailers shall sell by measures duly stated and shall render their customers particulars of what they may have received and shall not detail their goods for the reckoning.

5. No person licensed to retail spirituous liquors shall take any pawn or pledge, as security, nor shall they detain or receive wearing apparel, or tools of any kind or description for payment.

6. No person whatever shall be permitted to sit drinking in the house on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.

7. No liquor shall on any pretense whatever be sold or given in the house to anyone who is in the smallest degree intoxicated.

8. Tavern keepers shall keep a copy of the foregoing regulations hung or posted upon some place in the house.

9. Breaches of all or any of the foregoing regulations hall incur the forfeiture of their license, over and above the penalties and forfeiture to which they are liable in and by the Act for regulating inn holders, tavern-keepers and retailers of spirituous liquors.

2.10. No tavern-keeper shall harbor or conceal any idle or disorderly person of bad report.

From present appearances Vanderbilt may carry the "billy" at the Tyn-y-coed this season. It would certainly be advantageous to the Campobello Co. if he does.

It is stated that a cottage is to be erected on Mr. J. S. Harding's land at Joe's Point.

The bridge at Katy's Cove is being repaired for the traffic which the CPR is shortly expected to bring over it.

The agreement by which the New Brunswick becomes a part of the CPR has been agreed to by the latter company, and it is understood that the union will take effect from 1st July. Mr. Cram it is believed, will remain manager of the road in New Brunswick, and also of that portion in Maine from the boundary line to Brownville—Globe.

Those puzzling over the important question of where to go for their summer holidays, will find the little volume "Summer Tours," issued by the General Passenger Department of the CPR, a most useful advisor. It describes a delightful variety of tours by rail, lake and river, to popular inland and sea-coast resort, to the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Coast, Alaska, etc., from which attractive long or short trips may be selected to suit the wishes of all tourists. The book is published in pocket form, neatly gotten up and adorned with many handsome illustrations, and may be obtained free upon application to any of the passenger agents of the road. St. Andrews is referred to at considerable length in this neat little volume.

Beacon

June 26/1890

Ninety Years Ago

Extracts From the Record of the Sessions

The extracts which we published last week from the record of the first court of sessions held in St. Andrews having awakened a degree of interest, we return again to the subject.

A PROTECTING PRIVATEER

At a court of the General Sessions of the Peace held in St. Andrews, on the third Tuesday of September, 1795, a letter was read from the Brigade Major at Fredericton informing the board "that the privateer brig Union is ordered by government to proceed immediately to St. Andrews, Passamaquoddy, with directions to remain for the protection of that town, the Bay and settlement till further orders." The Board returned thanks "to his Excellency the Governor for the intended protection, with an earnest request for the continuance of the same, as in appearance so publicly necessary for the security of the inhabitants."

INDIAN MEAL TO BE SOLD BY WEIGHT

In consequence of representations made by the Grand Jury at the April session, 1796, regarding the inconvenience and dissatisfaction prevailing in consequence of Indian and other meals being sold by measure, it was resolved to sell it by weight "at the rate of fifty-two pounds per bushel of yellow meal and forty-eight pounds per bushel for white meal."

EXPORTING A PAUPER FROM ST. JOHN

In February 1796, the board was called upon to deal with a complaint from the overseers of the poor, which set forth at a poor man named William Matthews had been landed at St. Andrews from a brig belonging to Mr. Prince, of St. John. An order was passed to send the man back, and a copy of the proceedings was transmitted to Mr. Prince.

SHOT WHILE TRYING TO RESCUE CONTRABAND GOODS

Among the matters disposed of at the April sessions of 1797, was a case of homicide se defendendo. The parties implicated were John Robinson, Hugh Lamey, William Stewart and Sergeant Stewart. According to the evidence submitted it appears that on Sunday, the 2nd day of October 1796, these persons were on board a schooner at Grand Manan, guarding contraband goods that had been seized by Colin Campbell, searcher to His Majesty's Customs. At the hour of eleven o'clock at night a party, supposed to consist of from eight to eleven persons, "with force and arms," boarded the schooner and threatened to sacrifice the guardians of the smuggled goods, if they made opposition, "who, being hard pushed and fired at with three musquets, were unavoidably obliged to defend themselves by firing several guns in return, through which means William Newcomb, of Moose Island, fell dead on the forecastle; the others retreated in confusion, leaving the body of Newcomb on deck."

THISTLE DOWN

The "rapid increase of thistles in the county" formed a theme for the Grand Jury about the same time. The presentment was filed, with a letter from A. Botsford, of Sackville, in which the regulations of that county respecting thistles were enclosed. The contents of that letter are not entered in the records.

SUPPRESSING VICE AND IMMORALITY

Rev. Samuel Andrews requested the aid of the court in 1789 in suppressing vice and immorality. The Grand Jury replied: —

That they feel deeply impressed with the truths stated by the Reverend Mr. Andrews, particularly the profanation of the Lord's Day. They lament that the regulations heretofore made to prevent drunkenness on the Sabbath have not had the desired effect; they also beg leave to state that it would be proper for the Sessions to take some measure to prevent fowling and fishing on the Sabbath, which they are sorry to learn is practiced by some persons in town, likewise to prevent boys and servants playing in the streets in different parts of this Town, which has been long complained of as a nuisance. It is customary in many places for the church Wardens to visit public houses and different parts of their parishes during divine service and at other times on the Lord's Day; they believe such a regulation would be attended with good effect in this parish.

CLERK GARNETT'S RESIGNATION

At the April sessions, 1800, a long letter of resignation was read from Joseph Garnett, clerk of the peace and treasurer. He speaks of having been visited "with a malady dreadful in its nature and most grievous in its extent, with afflictions impossible to describe," which have compelled him to withdraw himself from the County and from his home, "in the view of obtaining relief from those excruciating agonies I am laboring under without intermission, and in the hope that with the blessing of God of my preservation eventually from an otherwise impending, a rapid, an alarming and a most loathsome dissolution." He asks that his faults may be looked upon with indulgence, "that my omissions may be attributed to the imperfections of human nature in general, and my variegated sicknesses, sufferings and new country difficulties," and "that it may always be remembered I left a beloved wife behind me, who merited every kind and tender return of conjugal love and affection from me, and three little innocents, the pledges of our mutual love, more near and dear to me than life itself." The closing sentences of his letter are worthy of reproduction:—

May the social unanimity of the County of Charlotte, in its state of infancy, be restored, and but one general competition of strife in who shall do most for its welfare and prosperity among you exist. May the Maker, Ruler and Judge of the Universe (to use the emphatical and memorable words of the Sessions records) continue the exercises of true religion and genuine morality in the land, and keep modern philosophy and atheistical principles at a distance, far removed from the enviable unenlightened, and may the friends of order and regular governments in all parts of the globe, have cause to rejoice forever victorious over their disorganized enemies and inveterate opposers, and finally (in the language I lived to hear adopted in the States) may all mankind discard the pernicious doctrines of modern liberty and Equality and place a just value upon civil subordination which protects property, and upon regular governments which secure the natural rights of Man."

Railroad History

How the St. Andrews Quebec Project Was Boomed

Railroad Wedding Postponed.

The twenty-third anniversary of the birth of this Dominion would have been a fitting time for the CPR to have obtained possession of the last link of road in Canada, which separates it from the Atlantic ocean. But, though the transfer of the New Brunswick Railway has been virtually agreed upon, a number of details yet remain uncompleted, which will postpone the "consummation devoutly to be wished," for several weeks and perhaps months to come. To the people of St. Andrews, the union of these two roads means a good deal. For years it has been looked upon as the one thing needful to start the old town once more on the road to prosperity. And, surely, there ought to be good ground for such a belief. In the port of St. Andrews, the CPR will have the nearest Canadian outlet on the Atlantic seaboard from Montreal. They will have a port easy of ingress and egress at all time of the year and at all times of the tide, and one where the opportunities for the erection of deep water wharves, elevators, etc., are unexcelled.

It seems scarcely reasonable to suppose that the CPR when they obtain possession of the New Brunswick road, will be content to allow their line to terminate in the woods at Edmunston. They will never rest satisfied until a rail connection with Quebec has been established either by the Temiscouta road, or by a line of their own. It is more than likely, however that the Temiscouta road will be secured. When this arrangement has been made and brought about, the CPR will then have a through line from ocean to ocean over Canadian soil, so that in the event of any difficulty arising between Canada and the US the traffic of the road will be not impeded, as it might be on the Short Line connection through Maine. It would also tend towards preventing the recurrence of trouble over the bonding privilege. This port ought then to reap still greater benefits from CPR connections, as it would almost be a direct line from Quebec to St. Andrews. This is the object which the far-seeing men of this town sought to attain fifty-five years ago, and though the conditions of thing have greatly changed since that time, there is still reason to believe that great advantage would accrue to this port from such a connection.

To the people of Saint John, the merging of the New Brunswick into the CPR system will doubtless prove advantageous, yet there will be tinge of bitterness with the sweet, for in other directions that town will be a heavy loser by the arrangement. Not only will they lose by the removal of the general offices and staff of the New Brunswick Railway to Montreal, but they will also lose a great deal in consequence of the supplies for the road being purchased in Montreal, instead of from them. This circumstance along will involve a loss, railway men say, of about $100,000 a year. If the CPR should improve the terminal facilities at Saint John, and utilize them, it would more than compensate for the loss of the New Brunswick Railway supplies. If they don't, well—the last condition of Saint John will be worse than the first. But we don't think Saint John people need feel blue over the future.

" For Adoption"

The three able-bodied men who compose the Alms House Commission for the parish of St. Andrews are in a stew just now, and all in consequence of a little blue-eyed babe that some cold-hearted mother cast upon the tender mercies of a cruel world. The little tot was found on a doorstep a few weeks ago. The Alms House Commissioners were requested to become guardians of the waif, but they made haste so slowly that the finder waxed impatient, and it was passed over to a childless pair, who expressed an anxiety to get it. The foster parents had their child christened in the Presbyterian church, and for a time were delighted with their charge. They soon tired and then the child was cast upon the commissioners. There being no nurse at the Alms House, the child was farmed out to a party in town, who were given $1.25 a week for its keeping. The Commissioners fear this modest sum is going to prove too serious a drain upon their resources, and now they advertise the child "for adoption." We hope some kind-hearted person will be found willing to become parent to this poor little foundling.

A well-known gallant (to spare is blushed we will not publish his name) went out for a drive on Saturday evening with a lady friend. When the drive was over, and the paternal abode was reached, the young man got out of the carriage to bid the lady adieu. The mare, either considering that she should be de trop at such a time or mistaking a sound she heard for an appeal to go ahead, at once started off, and never stopped until she had got as far as Minister's Island. Singular to relate very little damage was caused to the carriage.

The summer rush to Europe has apparently reached its height. Four steamers left New York on Wednesday, carrying nearly 3,000 first-class passengers.

There is talk of the international hotel being leased for club purposes.

The pasturing of cows along the streets is followed by too many annoying consequences to pedestrians to be persisted in.

"The New Highway to the Orient" is the title of a beautiful little work just issued by the General passenger Department of the CPR, descriptive of a tour to the Pacific Coast over the transcontinental line. It is superbly illustrated with many full page engravings and its forty-five pages of gracefully written material contain much useful information concerning the cities, towns and scenic marvels reached by the CPR system.

St. Croix Courier

June 18/1890

Addition to Kennedy's, which will give ten more rooms, nearly finished.

Beacon

July 3/1890

A New Terminus

A company of Boston capitalists, says a despatch from Ottawa, have undertaken the task of establishing a new Atlantic seaport. The company has acquired a large quantity of land at the east end of the Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia, with miles of waterfront where the new Liverpool is to be planted. 'Tis distant five miles from Port Mulgrave, the present terminus of the Intercolonial Railway. The company will connect their new city with Port Mulgrave by railway and have obtained an order in council from the government agreeing that the line will be operated when built as a part of the Intercolonial system. The terminal city is situated on what is described as the finest natural harbor on the Atlantic coast. Steamer will be put on the route between the terminal city and Liverpool, and it is calculated that passage can be made in four days, enabling passengers and mails to be delivered in NY or Montreal one day earlier than is possible at present.

The Summer Hotels

The Algonquin and Argyll Open for the Summer Visitor

The summer tourist season of 1890 has now fairly begun. Though it would seem too early to offer a prediction as to what the future has in store for St. Andrews, we can at least say with truthfulness that the prospect is decidedly encouraging. Many of last year's visitors, who were entranced with the beauties of the town, will come again this season, and will bring fresh recruits with them. The tide of summer travel eastward from the US is increasing year by year, and with the close connection from Upper Canada which the CPR now affords, the number of upper Canadian people coming to the lower provinces is gradually growing. As there are few places in the eastern provinces more charmingly situated for a summer resort, than St. Andrews, there is little doubt that we will receive a large share of summer visitors. Beside there is something more tangible in the fact that many persons have already secured rooms for the season in both the Algonquin and the Argyll hotels. . . . (Details on Algonquin and Argyll here).

Other Resorts: the hotel at Campobello is in full blast, and the cottages are rapidly filling up. A larger number of people will come to the island this year than last, if the weather is at all propitious. Summer hotels have been opened at Red Beach, and at the Devils' Head, on the Maine side. But they cannot compare with the houses on this side of the line.

St. George to the Front: For some time past a movement has been on foot to erect s summer hotel in St. George. Everybody who has visited the granite town knows that the scenery in its neighbourhood is of such a romantic character as to make it specially adapted for summer resort, that only the absence of a suitable hotel has prevented the development of the town as such. An American syndicate, of which Col. Neill, of Calais, is one of the leading spirits, has been negotiating with the owners of the Westmore property, and have almost concluded their negotiation for the purchase of a site for a summer hostelry. The location of this property makes it very suitable for a hotel site, and we hope that the idea may be carried out to it consummation.

Conquered by a Hair

On the CPR train from Montreal, on Wednesday last, there was a group of college students from Ohio, who were about to enjoy an outing in Cape Breton. They were up bright and early for breakfast, but for some reason or other the waiters on the train would not serve a meal for them. After coaxing in vain for some time a foraging committee was appointed whose duty it was to go out at each station and endeavour to purchase biscuits and cheese. Towards dinner time a special effort was made for a change in the bill of fare. Stopping at a station where it was thought another course could be added to their simple meal, one of the students allied forth, and before the whistle of the locomotive had sounded for a start, he rushed into the car, bearing triumphantly aloft a huge mince pie. "Rejoice and be glad," he shouted to his companions, "salvation has come." The boys hailed the change with great glee, and they all gathered around while the ceremony of dividing the pie was being conducted. One of the students, more eager than the rest, snatched up his piece, and put his teeth into it. A horrible expression of disgust overspread his countenance, as he yanked from his mouth a hair about a yard and half long. This discovery caused a general cessation of hostilities, for hungry as the youths were they were not hungry enough to masticate a pie that was held together by hairs like a section of wall plaster. Each one looked sadly at his piece for an instant and then with one accord the remnants of the pie were dashed through the open window and scattered to the four winds of heaven. The circumstance seemed to blight the hopes of the young men, for they abandoned their foraging, and never tasted a bite until they reached Vanceboro.

The incident afforded no little amusement to the passengers.

St. Croix Courier

July 3, 1890

We are glad to learn that J. Topping and Co. received an order this week for a beautiful cabinet upright Bell piano, to be used in the Algonquin Hotel, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. The piano will be made to order by the Bell Piano Co. and will be of superior workmanship and design. There is no doubt that the Bell piano in the leading piano of Canada and we notice with pleasure the great success Messrs. Topping and Co. are having with these fine instruments.

Beacon

Mr. Carter new manager of Algonquin. Formerly of Eastman House at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Prior to that in the Raymond at Pasadena, California. Young man. Suavity of manner.

Staff: H. H. Field, of Taunton, Mass. Clerk

H. Sterling Morrison, of Saint John, cashier and telegraph operator.

Elva L. Blanchard, Housekeeper

George Webster, Head Waiter

F. H. Knapp, Steward

S. C. Lawrence, chef

Arthur Wilson, second chef

Maria Kelly, pastry cook

George A. Lambert, Barber

The substitution of female waiters for males is a great improvement. The young women when on duty appear in pretty white costumes, and as they all wear becoming head-dresses, their presence lends an additional charm to the dining room.

The orchestra will not be the same as last year. Ellis Ames of Boston will be the leader, and there will be four instruments, viz., piano, flute, cornet and violin.

New England Passenger Agents coming. Special bill of fare prepared which will be quite unusual.

July 3/1890

Algonquin Ad:

AN ABSOLUTELY EXEMPT HAY FEVER DISTRICT

"1400 Guests in 1889 pronounced this delightfully new Summer Resort on Passamaquoddy Bay Excelling in Attractions its Published Descriptions."

Salt and Fresh Water Baths, Elevator, Steam Heat, Western Union telegraph, Pure Artesian Well Water, Gas, Steam Laundry, Billiards, Tennis.

[hay fever and well water new items

Dinner

Saturday, June 28/1890

Fish Chowder

Consommé a la Royale

Oysters a la crème

Boiled Salmon, Egg Sauce, Potatoes Julienne

Leg of Mutton, Caper Sauce, Beef Tongue, Tomato sauce

Ribs of Beef, Dish gravy

Spring Lamb, brown sauce

Loin of Veal, with dressing

Filet of beef, larded with mushrooms

Macaroni with cheese

Pine-apple fritters, Sauce Chablis

Mashed potatoes. Boiled potatoes

Stewed beets. String beans. Boiled onions.

Mashed turnips. Stewed tomatoes.

Lobster salad. Sardines. Lazenby's English pickles

Snow pudding. Apple pie. Cream pie. Charlotte Russe. Brandy Jelly. Angel Cake. Sponge cake. Frosted cake. Vanilla ice-cream

Assorted nuts. Layer raisins. Figs. Dates. Oranges. Bananas. Kennedy's thin water crackers. Cheese

Coffee

Fredericton Gleaner

July 9/1890

To St. Andrews

Bangor July 17. Attached to the train which reached Bangor at 3:05 this afternoon were two Pullman vestibule parlor cars, the Mignon and the Lavinia, and a dining car, occupied by as distinguished a party of railroad men as were ever in Bangor. They left Boston this morning and were on their way to the Algonquin at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, where tomorrow they hold the regular July meeting of the New England General Passenger and Ticket Agent's Association, at which several questions of great importance to the travelling public will be discussed, and united action arrived at, if possible. Conductor J. E. Rice had charge of the special section of the Pullman cars which the gentlemen occupied and to say that they were enjoying themselves would be expressing it mildly. After the business meeting tomorrow the time will be devoted to pleasure. (Mostly accompanied by wives.)

Allen, W. F. Editor, Traveller's Official Guide

Austin, Calvin. GPA. Bangor Line Steamers

Ayres, John W. Boston Journal.

Armstrong, George, W. President Armstrong Transfer

Boothby, F. E. GPA. Maine Central RR

Brown, Col. W. A. Waterville, Maine

Briggs, O. H. GPA. NYP and B RR

Burdick, J. W. HPDA and H Canal Co

Connor, George L. GPA. Old Colony RR

Estey, W. H. Boston Herald

Flanders, J. A. GEA. Clyde Lines

Florence, C. A. GEA. Illinois Central RR

Gardiner, R. S. Pres. New England Railway Pub. Co.

Gaither, C. P. GEA. TV and G Railroad

Hanson, E. P. GPA. Boston and Albany RR

Hazewell, Edward. Boston Transcript

Hempstead, C. P. GPA. NY, NH and H RR

Jordon, Oliver. NEA. Erie Railway

Johnson, O. L. GPA. Norwich and NY Trans. Co.

Judd, Emerson W. Boston Globe.

Kendall, A. C. GPA. NY and NE RR

Kingbury, F. H. GPA Cheshire Railroad

Lord, Charles. Asst. GPA Boston and Maine RR

McNicoll, D. GPA. CPR

McPherson, C. E. NEA. CPR

Manning, S. W. GEA. Atch. Top. and SF RR

Perrin, A. W. GPA. Housatonic RR

Pomeroy, F. L. GFA. Erie RR

Richards, E. J. Asst. GPA, NY, C and HR RR

Robert s, George, M. NEA. Pennsylvania RR

Smith, C. J. GPA. Canada Atlantic RR

Storer, George, NEA. Concord Railroad.

Taylor, Jas. L. GPR. Richmond and Danville RR

Taft, E. A. GM. Ny and Boston Des Ex. Co.

Tallman, W. C. NEA. Grand Trunk RR.

Watson, J. R. GPA. Fitchburg RR

Waite, C. A. GPA. CEO NE GR and Tagts Assoc.

Watson, E. C. GPA. Connecticut RR.

Wollverton, W. H. Pres. National Railway Pub Co.

Waugh, Wallace. Home Journal

Waters, M. B. GPA. People's Line Steamers

Gleaner

July 10/1890

Boston Excursionists Coming

The Raymond and Whitcomb [sic] Excursion party from Boston, leaving there today and due in Fredericton Wednesday next number about 50 persons. They will spend three days at St. Andrews before coming to the celestial, and from there will go down by Saint John by boat. [what was the celestial? not capitalized]

Gleaner

July 10/1890

Visitors Next Month

Should the present beautiful weather continue Fredericton will in all probability be the objective point next month of many American and Canadian tourists. Our little town has many attractions for the Americans, who are a most profitable class of tourists. Our authorities should seek to have our town looking neat and attractive, and otherwise in such shape as to more favourably than ever impress our visitors.

Beacon

July 10/1890

Among the Islands

The "Beacon" Special Commissioner on his Travels

He talks interestingly of Eastport and the sardine Industry

The tourists this year in visiting St. Andrews will have a new novelty to buy and carry away as a souvenir of their visit. John S. Magee has just received an invoice from the Belleek Pottery Works Co., Belleek, Fermanagh, Ireland, and the goods will arrive by steamer, Nova Scotia, which is due at Halifax this week. We might say for explanation of those who are not familiar with the goods, they are clear China of the most delicate nature, shaded blue, pink, Ivy green, in numerous and beautiful designs.

One notable circumstance in connection with this year's arrivals is that for the most part they are coming from longer distances than the guests of last year. Montreal will send this season more than double what it sent last season. The same is true of the West. Many guests have been booked from Minneapolis, Washington, Baltimore and other distant points west and south, while there are also a very large number from New York, Boston and other points nearer home. This shows that the fame and name of St. Andrews are spreading, and augurs well for the ultimate success of the town as a summer resort.

When the sun is hiding, and great drops of rain are falling, the guests gather with their novels, or their newspapers, or their knitting, or their games, around the comfortable-looking fireplaces, and enjoy themselves as they would around their "ain fireside." And those who have neither novels, nor newspapers, knitting or games to amuse them, assemble in the parlor, and listen to the rapturous music of the orchestra. And then when the sun comes out again, and the clouds disperse, and bay and river, and island, and mountain and forest are revealed more beautiful than before, everybody is so enthused that they have not the heart to grumble even though there should be any cause for it.

Mr. Carter has already demonstrated that he possesses the necessary qualities to make a successful landlord. Considerate of his guests, and considerate of his subordinates, courteous in his demeanor to all, ever watchful of the comfort of those who are under his care, he is esteemed by everyone with whom he comes in contact. In the selection of his help, he has been particularly fortunate. There is no jarring in the dining-room, no begging for "tips," everything and everybody moving along in perfect harmony. From clerk to bell-boy everybody is attending strictly to business St. Stephen, and there would seem to be no reason why this should not continue until the end.

Now that the orchestra have arrived, and the house is filling up, Mr. Carter is casting about for some in-door amusement for his guests. He has decided that on Saturday night next the first hop of the season will be held. No formal invitations will be issued to the townspeople, but Mr. Carter desires it be understood that all who may choose to come will be made welcome. These hops will probably become weekly features at the hotel during the season. Donkey parties, bean parties, and other amusements of a similar nature, will be gotten up from time to time, so that there will be no lack of entertainment inside. On the outside, there is the tennis court, and all the varied amusements which those possessing health and vigor can take out of the open air.

Hanson and Grady have made very neat uniforms for the Algonquin bell boys.

Gleaner

July 12/1890

An Accommodation

Wed. the manager of the Bank of Montreal reached Vanceboro by CP train too late to take the train to St. Andrews. So, he telegraphed to McAdam and succeeded in detaining the US Mail 2 hours, while a locomotive was dispatched for him. Calais people who were inquiring and waiting for the afternoon mail regard this as a joke that must not be repeated. No banker lives who is a greater man than Uncle Sam. –Calais Times

Gleaner

July 14/1890

Fishing on the Miramichi

Messrs. James S. Neill, R. Davies and Dr. Coulthard returned Sat. from their fishing trip on the Dungarron. They report the river high and fishing on that stream this season the best they have ever known it. In 10 days, the party took 29 salmon and grilse, Mr. Neill hooking the biggest fish—a 19 ½ pounder. A party of American gentlemen will go up to the Dungarron next week. There are a good many parties on the Miramichi at present, and the prospects are that there will be more Americans down this year than ever before. The fishing on the Miramichi is reported the best that has ever been. (also fishing by Americans on the Tobique: "Their equipment is so complete that the salmon and trout will have no chance whatever unless the emigrate to Saint John.")

Gleaner

July 15/1890

Cholera spreading alarmingly in Spain. The gas company intends having its own system of electric lighting in place by the fall.

Gleaner

July 17/1890

The River Traffic

The holiday makers of Fredericton are taking advantage of the fine weather, and the inducements offered for a breezy trip down the panoramic Saint John River. A great number of excursionists were passengers onboard the David Weston Saturday. (20 miles trip down river; brass band, moonlight dancing; leaves at 8:30, 350 eventually show up for event)

Beacon

July 17/1890

Among the Islands

Racy Reminiscences of Deer Island by the "Beacon" special Commissioner

Lots of details on goings on at the Algonquin.

An offer apparently made to purchase the Argyll. Herbert not interested.

The first hop of the season of 1890 was held in the Algonquin on Saturday evening. Dancing was carried on in the ample parlour of the hotel; the carpet having been removed for the occasion. The music was enchanting, and Mr. Carter did all in his power to start the ball a-rolling properly, but the majority of the guests being wearied after their long journey, retired early, and the dancers were not as numerous as they would otherwise have been.

Raymond Excursion this year 40 strong; last year only 10.

Fanciful account of dinner of the General Passenger Agents as though it were a general meeting, with the wives and husbands both taking up items on the agenda. Menu.

Gleaner

July 19/1890

Summer Visitors

The influx of visitors into the province this summer is said to be greater than ever before. The eastbound American boats and trains are crowded every trip.

Party of cyclists from Woodstock driving new safety bicycles, which can average 10 miles per hour.

The CPR in Charge: A meeting of the New Brunswick Railway is to be held on Sat. at which the transfer of the real to the CPR will be ratified and on Sat. the latter Co. will assume control with Mr. H. P. Timmerman as general superintendent, Mr. Cram having resigned. (Timmerman superintendent of Winnipeg-Port Arthur division)

Gleaner

July 23/1890

The New Brunswick Railway (edit: on hopes CPR will not take advantage of its monopoly in east; Cram resigned because assigned more duties with no increase in pay)

Gleaner

July 24/1890

Baseball: The Algonquin Club in St. Andrews are eager to meet the best amateur clubs in the province and would like to hear from the Thistles of Saint John or the leaders of the Fredericton league.

Mr. Cram's Retirement: the Bangor Commercial referring to Mr. Cram's retirement from the New Brunswick Railway, says: Mr. Cram's record in the railroad business is too well known here to call for special mention. He began 30 years ago in this city and worked his way up through the various positions of newsboy, freight clerk, ticket clerk, station agent, general freight agent, secretary, treasurer, assistant superintendent, superintendent, etc., to general manager, and in each of these position he served with success and credit. Before building up the New Brunswick Railway and placing it on a solid basis he did the same work for the European and North American and the stockholders in both corporations owe very much to him. It will suffice to say that the railroad which next secures Mr. Cram's services will be indeed fortunate.

The Summer Hotels: Inch Arran Hotel, Dalhousie, is not so well patronized this season as formerly. Two years ago, there were from 200 to 300 guests; this year there are comparatively few. The cause is chiefly assigned to the fact that visitors from Montreal are resorting to St. Andrews this summer as the distance is shorter, and the weather continues warm longer. The short line railway is evidently doing injury to the hotel.