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Beacon

Jan 5/1905

Judge Cockburn covered the distance between St. Andrews and St. Stephen the other day in 2 hours, 2 minutes. He wasn't driving for a record, either.

Beacon

Jan 12, 1905

Supt. McQuoid, of Covenhoven farm, has been reducing the porcine population of the island. Twenty carcasses of Tamworth bacon pigs were brought into town recently to be cut up and cured, and there are sixty more on the farm awaiting similar treatment.

Beacon

Jan 19/1905

No Light Wanted

St. Andrews Citizens Vote Against Lighting the Town with Electricity

Details.

Town meets on 16th to consider taxation for electric lighting.

The Governor General of Canada. By the Duke of Argyll in Youth's Companion. (General remarks on the nature of the job)

Andraeleo Club Ball—One of the Most Brilliant Successes of the Season. (List of those attending)

Beacon

Jan 26/1905

When we hear men say now a days that the outlook for the town is gloomy and that they cannot see any hope in the distance, our imagination is carried back to that brave little band of loyalists who landed on these shores upwards of a hundred year ago, and who set to work without murmuring to build for themselves homes among the lonely pines and the cedar swamps which at that time covered the site of the present town. If ever there was occasion for gloom it was then, but those heroic spirits did not show it. They labored earnestly and manfully, and they built for themselves and their sons a town that for beauty of situation and symmetry, of design cannot be excelled anywhere. Elegant streets were planned; a system of sewerage, primitive perhaps to us, was devised; wharves were built; churches and other public buildings were erected; communication was opened up through the forest to those settlers who chose to make their home outside the limits of the town; a railway was even dreamed of. Yet we who have fallen heir to this magnificent heritage, who have not had to lay out one street or highway, or erect one public building, or build one wharf, cannot muster up enough courage to carry on the work that our forefathers so well began. We grumble when called upon to make public improvements, and fear to take a step lest it may involve us in the expenditure of an extra dollar. What is the matter with us? Are we degenerating? Can it be that the men of 1783 possessed more pluck and enterprise than do the men of 1905? We can hardly think that the pluck is lacking, but we are certainly wanting in some of the attributes that public spirited citizens should possess. We have become selfish and narrow-minded; we do not spare ourselves luxuries or comforts when they are within our reach, but the public weal is little considered. If we are to succeed as a community, we must come out of our narrow shells and take a livelier interest in the progress of the place as a whole. We must endeavour to keep in line with the march of progress about us. To do this may involve some personal sacrifice, yet we ought not to fear to make this sacrifice when the occasion demands it. Let us be true to the traditions of our race, true to hose brave empire builders from whom we have descended. Then and not until then can we hope to succeed.

Editor agrees with the opponents of electrical lighting that the water system is more important. "In many places of greater pretensions than St. Andrews the artesian system is being used with much success. The experience of these places might be enquired into. We are satisfied that an abundant flow from such a source could be obtained in St. Andrews and at a much less cost than if the supply was obtained from Chamcook Lake. The chief objection would be the hardness of the water."

A "Light Club" in process of formation in town. Digby has electric lights. Wants to improve service even.

One of our upriver editors played in hard luck the other night. Just as he was about to step into his new $5000.00 car, two of his bed slates broke and he woke up.

Beacon

Feb 2/1905

The Alms House Commissioners of St. Andrews have organized with N. Treadwell as chairman, and Albert Thompson as secretary.

A Hasty Burial

A Kodak fiend stationed himself alongside a deep "cut" near the station on Friday last, to get a snapshot of the snow plow as it plunged through the drift. Presently the plow came along at a thirty mile-an-hour gait, with two big puffing locomotives pushing it along, and struck the drift a mighty blow. When the Kodak fiend had been dug out the train had been at the station for several minutes.

Schr. Aldine, Capt. Carson, arrived on Saturday, after an absence of almost eleven months. The captain and crew are in good spirits. It is Capt. Carson's intention to put in a new and longer foremast, cut down the deckhouse and make other alterations.

Seekers after Light—We, the undersigned, being residents, or non-resident rate-payers, of the town of St. Andrews, agree to form a club to called (provisional) The St. Andrews Light Club, the object of which shall be to promote the establishing in the Town of an electric or other modern system of lighting for public and private use. (List of members follows)

Beacon

Feb 9, 1905

St. Andrews bay is frozen from the Bocabec shore to Hardwood Island. Mr. Acheson Carson, who has a good memory, says he can't remember this happening before.

Beacon

Feb 16/1905

Meeting re electric lighting. Resolution to open communication with one of the electric light companies, send an engineer to look over the place.

Beacon

Feb 16/1905

Sir William Van Horne's Farm at East Selkirk

Twenty-one miles east of Winnipeg, on the main line of the CPR, is located one of the farms of Sir William Van Horne. Until quite recently his farm was used almost exclusively for grain growing, but now, under the management of James Yule, says the Farmer's Advocate, a change has been made and pure bred livestock, rich in pedigree, backed by individual merit, graze contentedly, or thrive in sheltered comfort, as the case may be, at the Selkirk farm. Although several breeds of pure breed are kept—namely, Shorthorns, Dutch-Belted, and Clydesdale—yet it is the magnificent herd of the first mentioned that has already won high distinction for the owner and manager. The Canadian male and female champions of the breed make the home there, namely, the roan three-year-old Prince Sunbeam (imp.) and Mayflower 3rd. Sunbeam is compact, smooth, well fleshed on the back, has an ideal Shorthorn head, and strong masculine neck, free from coarseness, well blended into his massive yet smooth shoulders. Shorthorn character is prominently conspicuous in every line and detail of his make-up. He stands on short legs, is thick, deep, and naturally well fleshed—just the type of sire in demand. He was got by Prince of Archers, dam Sunbeam 4th, by Seneca. Mayflower 3rd, got by Imp. Royal Sailor is a handsome, low-set, thick fleshed roan five-year old cow, of sweet feminine character and almost perfect conformation. At the Dominion of Canada Fair, Winnipeg, in the past years he won the female championship of the breed; also the silver cup, for best shorthorn on the ground (male or female). At Toronto last year the female championship, in exceedingly strong competition, 20 herds competing, and amongst them one of the crack herds of the United States, was again awarded her.

This herd is headed by the far-famed Spicy Marquis (imp.) noted both for his show-yard performance and ability to transmit like qualities to his progeny, and is ably assisted by Prince Sunbeam. It would be almost impossible to get a better bull than prince Sunbeam to follow Marquis. In addition, the cows can be mated to suit their peculiarities or conformation better than would be the case were only one bull available. Spicy Marquis was bred by the late Mr. W. S. Marr, sire "Spicy robin (69638), dam Maud 37th, by High Commissioner. In 1902 and 1903 he won sweepstakes at Toronto, in the hands of W. D. Flatt. Promising yearling daughters of the Van Horne farm are Nonpareil, Miss Pearl, Amanda, and English lady. The last named has the blood of Scottish Beau, Royal Sailor, and Silver Plate coursing through her veins.

In Clydesdale, six registered mares of good type and excellent size are kept; also several promising young stallions, besides Prince Niddrie, a Winnipeg winner this year. The workhorses are a well-bred lot of large drafters, showing considerable Clydesdale blood, and in excellent condition.

A new cattle stable 122 by 58 feet, with concrete floor and modern fittings, water in front of animals, etc., has just been erected. It has a very artistic appearance from the outside, and is conveniently arranged with double stalls, box stalls and root cellars within. It is exceedingly well lighted, which adds greatly to its appearance and usefulness. The loft above is roomy, and well constructed for convenient use of hay fork. The walls, roof, angles and leans-to are all shingled, as all the farm buildings are. An up-to-date piggery has also been built recently, 106 by 32 feet, with two additional leans-to full length, 8 feet wide. There are twenty pens in all with cement floors and troughs. A cement drain, with a steep incline, runs under each row of pens and directly over it is a lien of movable, perforated planks. Where the drain leaves the building it is 6 feet underground, and has splendid fall to a near-by creek. The lean-to portion can be used as exercising pens or filled with straw, and would answer as sleeping pens equal to the best straw stacks. This piggery is also well lighted b an ingenious arrangement of windows over the lean-to. The horse-stable, granary, and other buildings are conveniently arranged and of good size. An excellent waterworks system is being installed, and before long a stationary engine will e in use for cutting feed, and the many other useful purposes for which power of that kind can be utilized on a farm.

Beacon

Feb 23/1905

If early enquiry for cottages is any evidence of a successful summer season then the season of 1905 ought to be a very prosperous one for St. Andrews. The representative of the CPR summer interests here says that he is being besieged with inquiries from people in both the United States and Canada for summer abiding places.

F. W. Thompson and C. R. Hosmer have already secured the same hotel cottages as last summer.

Beacon

March 2/1905

The flames of revolt are springing up all over Russia.

Beacon

March 9, 1905

Forensic Eloquence from the Prisoner's Box

A Student of High-Class Literature Convicted of a Crime Makes an Eloquent and Successful Plea for Clemency

In the case of the King vs. William Cripps, tried before the Count court last week, the grand jury found a true bill and a verdict of guilty was returned by the petit jury. The Solicitor-General, Hon. W. P. Jones, appeared for the crown and the prisoner conducted his own defense.

After the verdict of guilty was returned, the prisoner was given a chance to make a plea for clemency on his own behalf, which he did in a most clever and pathetic manner. His reference to the sorrow of his aged parents in their declining years, should he be sent to prison, to his beloved sister now upon her dying bed, and to the many temptations against which he had to fight, were truly touching, and stowed away down in the heat of hearts of that young criminal, there was at least a keen perception of the good side of life, and a knowledge of the advantages of abstaining from sin. He referred to his previous conviction in the county court and penitentiary. Since his return from that institution, he said, he had been besieged and sought after by the lowest and the most unclean elements in the town of St. Stephen and had received very little recognition or encouragement from the better class in society, which had made it doubly hard for him to resist the temptations which were thrown across his path almost at every turn he made. "I want," said the young prisoner, "to be a good and an honorable man. I have higher and better ambitions than to be a criminal. My parents are very old, both over seventy, and I want to spare them the great sorrow they would feel should I again be sent to prison, for I am their only boy. My sister, too, is now on her dying bed, I know she cannot recover; I want to spare her grief also. If your Honor will show me the clemency for which I now plead, I will show your Honor that your mercy and your confidence have not been misplaced."

His manner, although cool, was earnest, and carried with it evidence of sincerity and evidently touched the heart of the learned Judge, for after a gentle reprimand His Honor said he would suspend sentence and discharge the prisoner on his own bail.

In an interview between the Solicitor General and young Cripps after court had adjourned, Mr. Jones congratulated him upon his escape from a severe sentence and asked him where he had obtained his education. "Oh, I was educated in the public schools of St. Stephen," was the prompt reply. "but," continued the Solicitor General, "you seem to have a great command of language and express yourself very fluently, how did you acquire that art?" to which the precocious convict blandly replied, "Oh that would naturally be gained by reading such authors as Scott, Thackeray and Dickens."

Beacon

March 16/1905

A new golf club house is to be built on Cedar Lane, near where the Brickson House stood.

Beacon

March 23/1905

The universe received a staggering blow the other day when it was announced that the price of golf balls will be advanced to $12 a dozen. Since then it has been revealed that the old price will prevail. Humanity can breathe freely again.

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy practically admits that St. Andrews' winter port arguments are all right, but that is about all the comfort that we can get out of him.

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy has written a letter to Mr. George Robertson, of Saint John, stating that the winter port facilities there are wholly inadequate and intimating that unless necessary facilities are supplied, the CPR Company may find it necessary to send its trade to other ports. He does not say who should provide these facilities. He does, say, however, that the CPR will not provide them and that they would cost too much for the city to undertake. The inference is that the facilities should be provided by the federal government. He does not say what other port the Company might use, but there are many who think that Boston is the port intended. One paragraph in his letter possesses a significance for St. Andrews: "With all that may be said upon the subject the Canadian winter port, must, of necessity, be at Saint John, or in that immediate vicinity. There are one or two other points quite close to Saint John that could be utilized but at either of these it would be necessary to start anew and build up a port where there would be none of the advantages of a city of considerable size like Saint John."

Beacon

March 30/1905

The Summer Outlook

St. Andrews was favored with a visit last week from Mr. Hayter Reed, manager in chief of the CPR Hotels, and Mr. John P. O'Leary, CPR hotel superintendent. They came here for the purpose of looking over the hotel and arranging for any necessary repairs. Very little will be done in this direction this year. The palm room will be painted an a few other small repairs done. Mr. Stoop will do the painting.

Mr. Reed told The Beacon that the general hotel outlook was good. He had no doubt that the Algonquin would share in the general prosperity that the other hotels of the CPR were enjoying. As this was practically the first year for the company to manage the Algonquin no alterations would be made, but it was altogether likely that improvements would be made the succeeding year. The hotel will open about June 15 under the managership of Mr. Houston, who has been here for two or three seasons past.

While here last week, Mr. O'Leary arranged for the building of another Golf Club House on Cedar Lane. He expected to do some cottage building this spring but it is now too late of this season.

Artesian wells are being suggested for Fredericton's water supply. The test made there by the Gas Company was very satisfactory.

Beacon

April 6/1905

Montague, P. E. I., population 750, now lighted by electric lights "of the incandescent pattern," installed by a Toronto Company at a cost of $4,000. $550 per year upkeep.

Smallpox in McAdam; typhoid in Fredericton of late.

The Street wharf goes down with buildings. Very old landmarks in town. Details.

Mr. D. Blakely Hoar is carrying out many improvements at Risford. A new barn and carriage house have been recently erected, a bathroom provided and other additions made. The carpenter work is in the hands of Mr. Wright McLaren. Mr. Thomas Kent is drilling a well for Mr. Hoar and he will no doubt find an abundant water supply. Mr. Goodwill Douglass is attending the plumbing.

To Manage Sir William's Farm

Winnipeg, April 13—Prof. Oastler, of the Minnesota State Experimental Farm, Crookston, formerly of ex-Premier Greenway's prairie Home, Stock Farm, Crystal City, Manitoba, has been appointed manager of Sir William Van Horne's stock farms at St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Mr. Oastler has left for the East.

Beacon

April 13/1905

The Most Perfect Canadian Resort

From the Montreal Gazette:

Money is to be spent by the C. P. R. to make St. Andrews-by-the-Sea one of the most attractive seaside resorts in the world. This announcement was made yesterday by Hayter Reid, manager of the company's hotels. St. Andrews has for some time been patronized as a most congenial spot to spend the summer months, and so certain is the company that it can be made vastly more alluring to the leisure-loving public that they have decided not only to beautify it further, but to advertise the spot as a perfect summer resort. This means that more attention will be paid to St. Andrews as a place where Canadians can find all the pleasures of an Atlantic coast resort without going to the United States. Up to the present time visitors to St. Andrews have been from Boston and New York very largely, but the desire of the C. P. R. is to have people from all parts of the Dominion spend their summer months at a Canadian resort, and St. Andrews-by-the-Sea is held to be the most delightful spot that Canada can offer. In speaking of the efforts to be made, Mr. Reid said the company is ready to place every attraction at St. Andrews which the public could wish. Golf links would be made a feature of the resort and beautiful drives, bathing and hotel accommodations were to be given their proper attention.

The old Watson foundry property, which has not been used for manufacturing purposes for several years, has been purchased by Capt. N. M. Clarke, who will remove the old buildings thereon and beautify it.

Old Landmark Gone

The Street Wharf Goes Down with Buildings

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

Beacon

April 20/1905

Maine is fast becoming a dry state. Not only is the liquor business being stopped, but patent medicines containing a large percentage of alcohol are also being confiscated. Truro has started a war against saloons.

Beacon

April 27/1905

The people of Saint John have replied to Sir Thomas Shaughnessy's letter respecting the lack of accommodation for ocean steamers there by deciding to build another new pier. The government will do the dredging and the steamship companies will pay a tonnage tax sufficient to provide interest and sinking fund for the proposed new work.

Sir William Van Horne's new farm superintendent, Mr. J. R. Oastler, has got his coat off, and hopes to be able to make a good showing for the farm this year.

Beacon

May 4/1905

Artesian wells for Dalhousie.

Beacon

May 4/1905

Man Who Made Canadian Pacific

Sir William Van Horne, the builder of the Canadian pacific Railway, is described by Cy Warman: When I saw him last he was full of the story of Cuba and since that time, I am told, he has gathered up the scattered provinces, threaded them with a thread of steel, bound them up and brought them together just as he did the far-flung provinces of Canada. He will do for Cuba as he did for the Dominion. He will make it habitable.

Sir William Van Horne is no schemer or stock manipulator. He is a builder, a creator. He is above all else a public benefactor, for he causes two locomotives to go where there was only one mule, and sometimes, as over the Selkirk Mountains where there was not so much as an Indian trail. And with all his Napoleonic power to command he is approachable, affable, gentle and just. If the love of one's fellow workers, the respect and loyalty of all employees, is worthwhile, then it pays to be just.


The electric light expert who visited St. Andrews has sent an estimate of the cost of steam and water electric plants, including buildings, engine, etc. His figures are over $13,000 in both cases. To provide for such a plant would require close upon $20,000, which is beyond the town's resources at present.

Beacon

May 11/1905

Mgr. Houston has 80 advance bookings for the Algonquin this summer, far in advance of any previous season. All cottages leased. Season never looked better.

Reid in town—from Indian Commissioner to Manager of Frontenac; to present post, says extensive renovations to Algonquin in future.

The Frontier Line S. S. Company do not propose waiting of the St. Andrews electric lights. They will install a light of their own at their wharf, connecting with the steamer's dynamo whenever she is here.

In conversation with a Sun man, Mr. Reed said that extensive improvements would be made to the Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews and no effort or expense would be spared to make St. Andrews a popular and fashionable summer resort, which would, he hoped, rival the watering places of the United States.

Rev. Dr. McWilliams and wife, of Cleveland, O., whose visit to St. Andrews was so greatly enjoyed last year, have taken the Smith cottage for this season.

Mr. Allen R. MacDonnell and family, of Montreal, will occupy "Hawthorne Hall" this summer

Mr. and Mrs. Hooper, of Montreal, will occupy the Grimmer cottage alongside the Algonquin Hotels as usual.

Mr. George Hopkins, of New York expects to occupy his summer residence this season.

The occupants of the cottages attached to the Algonquin Hotel will be: No. 1, Mr. Henry Josephs, Montreal; No. 2, Mr. Mortimer Davis, Montreal; No. 3, Mr. C. R. Hosmer, Montreal; No. 4, Mr. F. W. Thompson, Montreal.

The Gardiner cottage will be tenanted by Mr. Percy Cowans, Montreal.

Obit on Thomas Wyer, died Feb. 25, 1825, 80 years old. Late deputy treasurer of that place, and one of the justices of the inferior court of common pleas, and of the peace for the country of Charlotte. Customs officer at Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), prior to the revolution. One of founders of St. Andrews and first Sheriff of Charlotte County.

Beacon

May 18/1905

At Chamcook Mountain

Many changes and improvements are being made to Rev. H. P. Ross's beautiful summer abode at Chamcook. New walls and new sills are being placed beneath the dwelling. It is further intended to supply the house with a complete plumbing arrangement, gasoline engine and furnace. Five bathrooms with the most modern appointments are to be put in. In addition to these improvements, the house is to be painted and paper throughout. A barn, with living apartments for the coachman's family, will be erected. Charles Horsnell has the contract for the mason work

Letter by R. E. Armstrong to Canadian Gazette on its having claimed Saint John as only viable winter port ice-free year-round. Good summary of failure of St. Andrews railway.

A Belted Bull

A splendid animal is "Nicholas," the kind of Sir William Van Horne's "harem" of Dutch belted cattle. He weighs over 2000 pounds. He has a tremendous neck and shoulders, with a body as huge as a puncheon. He is very correctly marked. This beautiful animal is very docile. He was raised on Minister's Island and is a fine example of what can be done there in the growing of stock.

Beacon

May 25/1905

Summer Outlook at Campobello

The prospects for the coming season are very dull, writes a correspondent; as yet the Tyn-y-coed has not been leased, and only three of the cottage families are coming. The Owen Hotelwill open again under the management of Mr. Alexander.

Sir William Van Horne's Ambition

A report comes from Havana, Cuba, to the effect that Sir William Van Horne, as president of the Cuban Central Railway, proposes to erect on Nipe Bay, on the northern coast of the province of Santiago, a city which will rival Havana. The work of building it will be done by British capital. The first step in the undertaking is said to have been taken. A petition has been presented to President Palma, by Sir William Van Horne, to open Nipe Bay, and it has received the support of petitions from planters, farmers and merchants along the line of the railway.

Shaughnessy and Hoar properties' wells not getting good flows, though drillers down several hundred feet.

Beacon

June 1/1905

Sir William Van Horne and an artist friend arrived by Wednesday's train from Montreal. After visiting his Minister Island farm he took a special train out again.

Covenhoven Farm

Sir William Van Horne is very proud of his four-bull Dutch belted team and has given orders to have their "pictures taken." He has decided to add a herd of French Canadian cattle to his Minister Island stock farm and they will arrive in a few days. During his recent hurried visit here, Sir William gave instructions for a lot of new work to be done. A terraced driveway will be constructed around the upper end of the island and the ground in that vicinity beautified in various ways.

Beacon
June 8/1905

Mr. Charles Bonaparte New Secretary of US Navy

Details

Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, who is to be the next Secretary of the United States navy, has been such a frequent summer visitor to St. Andrews that we feel as I the president had bestowed this honor upon one of our own people. I fall the members of Roosevelt's cabinet are composed of such splendid timber as Mr. Bonaparte the United States people need have no occasion to be either ashamed or afraid of the men who direct the nation's affairs. President Roosevelt is to be complemented upon the excellent choice he has made.

Senator Mackay Buys Bleakney Property.

Senator Robert Mackay, of Montreal, one of the wealthiest and most energetic of Canadians, has purchased the Bleakney property, consisting of 350 acres, also the shore properties adjoining, belonging to the George S. Grimmer estate and the Christina Bolton estate. In all, about 400 acres have been taken over by Mr. MacKay. The purchase price has not been made public, but it is reported to be in the vicinity of $10,000. The deal was put through by Mr. F. H. Grimmer.

Beacon

June 15/1905

The opening of the Algonquin Hotel under the direct management of the CPR is an event worthy of recognition and one fraught with great possibilities to the town. It is to be hoped that the anticipations of the company with respect to the future of the place as a summer resort will be abundantly realized. That St. Andrews possesses many advantages in this respect is very clearly demonstrated by the splendid class of people, Canadians as well as Americans, who have selected this beauty spot for their summer abiding place.

A new water tank of 3000 gallon capacity is being placed in the Algonquin Hotel. (note the "in.")

New golf club house built by Angus Rigby now ready for occupation.

Algonquin Hotel to Open Under C. P. R. Management

The Canadian Pacific Railway does nothing by halves. It has established a trans-continental railway in Canada that has no parallel; it has inaugurated a steamship system on the Atlantic and the Pacific that has few, if any, equals; it has provided a system of hotels that will compare favorably with the best modern hotels anywhere.

This year, for the first time, the Algonquin Hotel of St. Andrews will come under the direct control of the C. P. R., and as success has attended the efforts of the railway company in every other venture they have undertaken it is reasonable to expect a like success so far as the hotel is concerned.

Mr. H. S. Houston, resident manager of the Algonquin, has been in town with several members of his staff for the past week arranging for the opening of the hotel on the 20th inst.

To the Beacon, Mr. Houston stated that the outlook for the season is all that could be desired.

"Our bookings," said he, "are larger than ever before in the history of the hotel. They include not only many of the old patrons of the hotel from Canada and the United States but many new ones as well. All the cottages in connection with the hotel have been leased, and if there had been a few more we could have found tenants for them.

"Does the Company propose any additions in the near future?" Well, that I cannot say. I presume a good deal will depend upon the result of this season. If we have a fair measure of success I have no doubt that the cottage system will be enlarged upon, as the cottages have been found to be very desirable adjuncts. The erection of more cottages means the providing of larger waterpower and possibly the introduction of an electric lighting plant, as the present plant [acetylene] is now running to its full capacity."

The Algonquin will open this season with many of the old officials at their former positions. Mrs. H. E. banks continues housekeeper; Hubert Stinson, head bellman; James Halpin and Fred. Lyon, barbers and billiard markets; James Morrison, porter, and H. H. Bryant, chef clerk. The orchestra of last season will also be here. Its members are Mr. Auguste Suck, Miss Day and Miss Winn. The new officials are W. J. Saunders, Montreal, second clerk; Miss Ethel Parsons, at news stand; A, B. Currier, from Hotel Empire, Boston), head waiter; Richard Frazer, Rockingham, Portsmouth), chef; J. E. Nielsen Parker House, Boston), baker, Ira Brown, McAdam, engineer. . . The hotel advertises to keep open from June 20 to Sept. 15.

Beacon

June 22/1905

Dr. J. F. Worrell, a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College of Dental Surgery, has associated himself with Dr. Hodgkins for the practice of dentistry. Dr. Worrell comes well and favorably recommended.—Eastport Sentinel

Reported Senator MacKay and C. R. Hosmer to build summer homes in St. Andrews. Hosmer has cottage four this summer.

New Dairy Herd on Van Horne Farm

Prof. Osler, superintendent of Sir William Van Horne's farm, returned last week from Quebec, bringing back with him a herd of the best French Canadian cattle he could find in that province. It consists of ten cows, a bull and two calves; one of the latter being dropped on the train. The animals are somewhat smaller than the ordinary cow and are of a brownish, black color, the hair being as soft as silk. They are the descendants of cattle brought from France by the French aristocrats who first peopled Quebec. They are a distinctively dairy type of cattle, being persistent milkers, with a rich flow of creamy milk. All the herd are registered cattle. One of the cows is a championship winner and cost $200. Her record is 80 lbs. of milk per day. The bull is a handsome animal. His name is Denis.

Beacon

June 29/1905

Monday's Montreal Pullman had as passenger lady Van Horne, Lady Shaughnessy and family and Mr. F. W. Thompson and family. They are here for the season, occupying their respective summer residences.

Our town council does not seem to awaken to full appreciation of its responsibilities in connection with the development and improvement of our harbor. It is certainly an asset that is of considerable importance and its interest should be as carefully watched as that on shore. Two years ago, the government placed an appropriation in the estimate for the dredging of the inner harbor and the widening of its entrances. The work has not yet been carried out or begun. It is just possible that if the people of St. Andrews through the council urged the desirability of this work being promptly performed the government might hasten the action. While the people most interested are apathetic the government can scarcely ex expected to be enthusiastic. If a huge yachting fleet can be induced to come her here in the summer season it would be of the greatest possible benefit to our townspeople while there are many other advantages to be gained from an effective system of harbor improvement.

Prosperous Railway Town, McAdam, Grows Apace. Details

Beautifying the Algonquin Hotel—Thanks to the exquisite taste of Mrs. Hayter Reed, C. P. R. hotel superintendent, the interior of the Algonquin Hotel has been greatly beautified. The palm room, which greets the eye of the guest immediately upon entering, is particularly effective in its arrangement and decoration. A color scheme of red and green, with large posters pictures of English hunting scenes, has been carried out, and the effect is very pleasing. In front of the fireplace against the wall is a broad old-fashioned, square-armed lounge, with seat and cushions of red, just such a one as might grace one of the baronial halls of old England. The palms are very effectively displayed on wooden stands built after the "arts and crafts" style, and the pieces in these stands are mortised together and held in place by wooden pins and wedges, in place of nails. The floor of the parlor room is covered with warm rugs of green, while its windows are curtained in red. In the parlor the color scheme is blue and green, the furniture and curtains harmonizing beautifully. The walls have been hung with very attractive pictures. The card room will be in red, and comfortable lounges disposed here and there. The dining room appointments have also been beautified by the addition of candelabra. Outside the hotel, along the edge of the verandah, flower boxes will be placed between the rail panels. On the lawn, a clock golf is to be added. This game is played somewhat after the manner of ordinary golf, with the exception that the holes are arranged as the figures on a clock dial.

Guests at Algonquin: of Montreal, Mrs. Hayter Reed, Mrs. Douglass Armour, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Thompson, Miss Thompson, Miss Alice Thompson, Miss Helen Thompson, Senator Mackay, Mrs. Mackay. Of Liverpool—Miss Mildred Dobell. Of St. Augustine, Florida—Dr. and Mrs. Andrews Anderson, two children and governess. Of Boston—W. J. Windram, Miss Windram, Mrs. R. N. Allen, Miss Allen.

George R. Batson Suicides at His Campobello Home

Details. Once the "king of Campobello"

Land tax assessments. Algonquin Hotel Company, St. Andrews land Co at 117.00. Van Horne's estate second at half their value.

Details of this season's improvements at Algonquin. and above. Interiors by Kate Reid described. Clock golf explained.

Beacon

July 6/1905

Algonquin ad: under direct management of CPR stressed. Telegraph, telephone, bathrooms en suite, spring water at tables, bathing, boating, fresh and salt fishing, golf. .

Fresh and salt baths no longer mentioned—still no hay fever.

First Saturday dance held. Senator MacKay in town to look over his 400 acres along railway and shore. W. J. McQuoid to be farm superintendent.

The Owen Hotel at Campobello is open. So is the Marathon at North Head, Grand Manan.

Schooner Bluenose arrived last week from Perth Amboy with 317 tons of hard coal for Grimmer and Keay.

Forgan of Chicago to occupy Park cottage this summer.

Prof. J. F. Sumichrast, of Harvard, and wife, are staying at Elm Corner. Prof. Sumichrast is a Canadian who has won a continental reputation as an educationalist.

St. Croix Courier

July 20, 1905

Arrivals: Sir William Van Horne and his guests, Dr. Flint, daughter and niece, New York

Visitors to Minister's Island, on which are situated the farm and residence of Sir William Van Horne, are unanimous in their praise of the beauty of the gardens in the approaches to and surrounding Sir William's summer residence. Those who take in the barns, stables, cattle pens, piggeries, fowl houses, etc., are pleased with all they see, especially with the herd of French Canadian dairy stock. They look very much like the black Kerrys and are said to be good milkers. They came from St. Berthiers Junction, Quebec.

Beacon

July 13, 1905

Ocean Prize Yacht Built by St. Andrews Man

It is not everybody knows that the schooner yacht Atlantic which recently won Emperor William's cup for trans-Atlantic sailing, was built by a native of St. Andrews. Mr. James A. Townsend, formerly of Chamcook, was the builder of this splendid vessel. She was constructed on the same blocks as the Kaiser's famous schooner yacht, and was as fine a type of vessel as could be built. The New York Sun, in its report of the great race, says "The Atlantic won the race because she is a good boat, well built, scientifically balanced and has power to drive her fast in all weathers." This surely high praise for the builder, but no more than he is deserving of.

Beacon

July 20/1905

Many kodaks were snapped on the Dutch belted four-ox team from Covenhoven farm, when they appeared on the town streets for the first time last week.

CPR Hotels. Algonquin One of Them

Boston Transcript

Calgary, Alberta, July 4—

"Who owns this hotel?" asked an Irishman on his arrival at the Frontenac, in Quebec.

"The CPR," was the reply. He continued his journey through Canada, asking who owned the steamboats that he saw crossing Owen Sound, and the huge grain elevators which towered above Fort William, and the stupendous irrigation ditches of Calgary, and the mechanisms by which he sent his telegraphic messages and his express packages and in such instance the reply was the same—"the CPR." Finally, he met some men on the street one day and asked if they would be kind enough to tell him what time it was.

"Do you mean the CPR time?" they asked.

"For Heaven's sake," the amazed Irishman asked, "does the CPR own the very hours of the day in this country?"

This incident suggests, but not fully sets forth, the extent of the operations allied with the CPR. It owns fourteen hotels along its line and is building two more, a system which proves extremely satisfactory in England, but has not perhaps been a striking success in the US. The CPR constructed its hotels to encourage tourists to use its transportation lines, just as the Swiss Government makes railroad rates which will reverse the process, and make business for that country's hotels. But the CPR hotel system has now become profitable, independent of the advantages that it brings to the railroad. It also owns and operates its own dining and sleeping cars, and an extensive line of refrigerator or and other private cars, on the theory that what it pays the Pullman company to do it would pay the CPR to do.

[Clibrig coming—also Van Horne influence]

Senator MacKay and Mrs. MacKay came down from Montreal last week and took a look over the property recently purchased by the Senator here. It includes 400 acres of land along the railway and shore, and affords unexampled views at a score of points. The senator will probably remove the present building on the property and erect a larger and handsomer residence for himself. He has engaged Mr. W. J. McQuoid as farm superintendent.

Algonquin now has larger number than ever before.

SG to have street lamps. Would have preferred electric lights, but cost too high. To have 11 oil lamps.

The Owen is fast filling up with tourists, yet the Tyn-y-coed habitués will be missed by very man here. (I suspect the Maes has not opened for some years; nary a mention of it past two or more years)

Drs. Hodgkins and Worrell, of Eastport, intend to fit up an office in St. Andrews, which they will probably have open about a week out of each month. This will be a great convenience to the townspeople who have always had to go out of town for dental work. Dr. Worrell was in town recently making arrangements for a rent. The office will probably be in the rooms over the Post Office [old Land Company office]

B. F. DeWolfe moving to Portland, Oregon.

Beacon

July 27/1905

Mr. Charles Delong is negotiating for the purchase of the Lansdowne Hotel property, opposite the Beacon office. It is his intention to establish a hotel.

Holmes Moving Picture Company gave two performances in Andraeleo Hall last week. They have a good show and the picture gave general satisfaction. The singing of Miss Brophy was an interesting feature of the entertainment.

William Carson, mate of the schooner Aldine, spent Saturday and Sunday with his family in St. Andrews. The Schooner is loading deals at Saint John for New York.

Autos Coming—An invasion of automobiles is looked for before the season ends at St. Andrews. Their advent will not be very joyously welcomed by owners of teams. To prevent, if possible, any accidents, Mr. F. H. Grimmer has caused to be posted up a number of cards requesting drivers of motor vehicles to exercise great caution in approaching and passing teams on the road. (cows still roam the sidewalks—ref in earlier month of same year)

Golf Notes—The Algonquin golf ground offers an inspiring picture for the artist on a bright summer day, when it is dotted with scores of merry players of both sexes and of all ages. Almost every profession and calling in life is represented on the green at such times,—clergymen, lawyers, doctors, railroad magnates, etc. On Saturday, the Cacouna golf players were defeated in both singles and foursomes by the Algonquin players. There are many crack golf players among the Algonquins, but Major Bigge's score of 74 for the eighteen holes has not been beaten. The Saturday afternoon golf teas are becoming very popular.

Beacon

Aug 3, 1905

A little winter port blended with the summer port we are now enjoying would make a splendid "bracer' for St. Andrews. We would commend it to the consideration of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy

Mr. F. W. Thompson is laying out a tennis court on his recently acquired property near the Algonquin Hotel. He may erect a summer residence later on.

Lansdowne hotel has been taken over by Charles DeLong [Windsor House] When redone will be known as the St. Andrews Exchange.

Beacon

Aug 10/1905

Place Names

Here are a few of the place-names about St. Andrews, with the names of the owners or present occupants:

Covenhoven—Sir William Van Horne

Dalmeny—William Hope

Rossmount—Rev. H. P. Ross

Cedar Croft—Rev. A. T. Bowser

Resthaven—F. W. Thompson

Bide-a-Wee—C. R. Hosmer

Lazy Croft—G. B. Hopkins

Park cottage—D. R. Forgan

Tipperary Fort—Sir Thomas Shaughnessy

Top Side—T. R. Wheelock

Kings Brae—D. MacMaster

Chestnut Hall—Mrs. Simpson

Linden Grange—Lady Tilley

Clover Bank—Miss Ottie Smith

Ainslee Villa—F. P. McColl

Maplehurst—C. S. Everett

Red Cliff—A. P. Young

Beech Hill—George Mowat

Elm Corner—Miss Mowatt

Rose Bank—R. A. Stuart

Ifield—Rev. Dean Sills

The Anchorage—Mr. F. G. Andrews

Sea View—Mrs. John Robinson

The Owen, Campobello, has had quite a number of lunch parties from this side the past week or so. It is a beautiful place for private parties; the place itself is historical and lovely, an ideal quiet spot with a book for companion, or just as ideal for a number who can be as jolly as they wish ton the broad verandas or extensive grounds. The table is good, the glower arrangement unusually artistic, the views always charming, and the host genial and attentive.—Sentinel

The Owen is being highly patronized this season and all speak highly of the management.

Details on auto visitors to town.

New owners of Lansdowne repainting and renovating it. Details of improvements at Rossmount.

New barn with dwelling for coachmen and farm superintendent to be built at "Rossmount".

"These are merry days on the golfing ground. From morn till eve the ground is occupied with light-hearted players, arrayed in all the costumes of the rainbow, but all with that free and easy way about them, that is characteristic of the golf enthusiast."

Beacon

August 17/1905

The Algonquin is still enjoying a large measure of success. Indeed, the entire season has been a highly successful one. (contrast with Tyn-y-coed, etc.)

Beacon

Aug 24/1905

It is to be hoped that the success which the CPR Co have met with in this their first year of their hotel management here will encourage them to branch out. The boom has started and the Company must keep it moving. The way to do this is to build a larger hotel, erect more cottages, and let the fact be known far and wide that they will be for everybody who desires to spend their summers here in the future.

The Algonquin Hotel—A Successful Season

"This has been the best season the hotel has ever enjoyed," said Mr. Houston, resident manager, to The Beacon, on Tuesday. "The people came earlier, they are staying later and we have had a larger number of guests than ever before. We intend closing the hotel on the 15th of September." (contrast with Campobello)

The St. Andrews Exchange will be ready for business in a few weeks. The building has already been greatly improved both inside and out. When completed it will be a very creditable structure. C. S. Delong, who is to be manager of the new hotel, The St. Andrews Exchange, is in Saint John.

Beacon

Aug 31/1905

Approaching and putting competition: William Shaughnessy wins men's prize, Miss Mackay ladies prize, and Robert Bowser boy's.

One-club match won by F. P. McColl.

(All the sons and daughters of money. Private competitions obviously)

(Motorboats—that is, gasoline—seem to have come on the scene earlier than motor cars. Still anomalous in town—mentioned for their problems.

Beacon

Sept 7/1905

To the CPR

The stock market poet of Toronto sings thusly:

Twinkle, twinkle, CPR,

How we wonder what you are,

Up above the world so high,

What a peach you are to buy.

To which the more conservative sweet singer of the Montreal Exchange adds:

Twinkle, twinkle, CPR,

How we wonder what you are,

Up above the world so swell,

Will we buy or will we sell.

The Beacon would add this doggerel:

Twinkle, twinkle, CPR

Won't you tell us where you are?

What's in store for old St. Andrews?

Tell us, please, without delay?

New Province of Alberta enters union.

Beacon

Sept 14/1905

Hon. A. G. Blair was the guest of Sir William Van Horne this week.

Excellent herring catches in the Bay the last two years, so no to take too seriously fear-mongers claiming we are ruining an industry.

Hope Young's Case, Hanging at St. Andrews

The Digby correspondent of the Halifax Chronicle, discussing the probable fate of May Hope Young, sentenced to be hanged on December 22, said,

"Sentiment is strongly against the execution of a woman. The Maritime Provinces have never sent a woman murderer to her death. They have on record but one other case, where a woman was tried for murder. That was in New Brunswick in the '80s, when the woman was found guilty as an accessory before and after the fact but her sentence was commuted and she served but short term in prison."

The Digby correspondent is quite right in stating that no women have been executed in the Maritime Provinces. In the old colonial days, however women found guilty of murder were hanged, and sentiments of chivalry or regard for their six did not county in their favor.

On the 12th of August, 1826, Richard and Marie Stewart, a brother and sister living at St. Andrews, were arrested for the murder of their illegitimate child. There were no delays in the execution of justice in those days, and on August 16th, just four days after the arrest, Judge Chipman passed a sentence ordering them to be hanged. They were given twelve days in which to prepare for death, and on the 28th of August were executed at St. Andrews. In the quick space of sixteen days this unnatural pair was disposed of.

On the 17th of September, 1784, there was a row in the home of John and Nancy Mosely, and Nancy, picking up a fork, threw it at her husband. He was struck on the temple and died a few days. Mrs. Mosely was arrested and tried for murder. As it was a domestic row, the court did not think Nancy guilty of murder, but convicted her of manslaughter. For punishment she was branded with a letter M on the left thumb. The Moseleys, who were colored people as were the Stewarts, were among the original grantees of Parrtown.

A case since Confederation, that may be the one referred to by the Digby correspondent, was that of Mrs. Thomas E. Ward, who was tried in 1879 with Thomas Dowd for the murder of her husband at new River. Dowd was convicted and executed at St. Andrews, but Mrs. Ward, who was adjudged an accessory, was reprieved after being sentenced.—St. John Globe.

[The Stewart couple resided in a shanty not far from the present golf club house. The hanging took place in the public square alongside Kennedy's hotel. While they were imprisoned in the jail here, a prisoner named Greenlaw made his escape. Though his feet were shacked and a ball and chain attached, he crawled through the sewer to the shore. He was afterwards captured near Joe's Point.]—Ed Beacon

Algonquin opened earlier and closed later than usual. One of the best seasons yet. Kennedy's also did well. The St. Andrews Exchange, of which Messrs. Delong and Coakley are proprietors, is receiving its furniture this week. The premises have been nicely fixed up and the hotel will be one of the best.

The jail is empty. This does not mean that there are now law breakers in Charlotte County—not by a jug full.

Beacon

Sept 21, 1905

Mr. R. B. Van Horne arrived in the city on Tuesday from St. Andrews, New Brunswick. After paying a western visit he returns to Cuba about the first of October.—Montreal Star.

Beacon

Sept 28/1905

The CPR and L'Etang

Railway Officials Give L'Etang Harbor a Quiet Visit

Col. MacLean says the Trip has no Significance, but Many think Differently

Sir William Van Horne Interviewed

A representative of the Beacon called upon Sir William Van Horne on Monday afternoon and interviewed him with regard to the CPR and port matters in general. Sir William had just risen from luncheon and was in the best of humor.

Asked as to whether there was anything in the report that the CPR intended utilizing L'Etang as a port, he wanted to know where that port was. He pooh poohed the idea that L'Etang would ever be used by the railway.

"There's nothing in the story," said he, "I'd be willing to bet one hundred dollars to one that there's nothing in it. Of course, I am not taking as active an interest in the railway as I once did, but I am quite sure that the Company has no such scheme on foot."

When asked as to whether any offer to purchase shore interest at L'Etang had been made on the Company's behalf, he replied that that story had probably been started by the man who had set the other report in motion.

"We are continually being pressed to use one port or another on the Atlantic. The port of Castine was one of the places that were urged upon our attention. It was represented as being an ideal port. But the CPR has no intention of going into a Maine port."

"Not even into Stockton?" interjected the reporter.

"No," said Sir William. "Saint John is capable of doing all the business that the road will do for some time to come. Though somewhat congested at present, there is room for considerable expansion. The railway is not eager to carry grain in the winter anyway. It would prefer to warehouse it and hold it until navigation on the St. Lawrence opens. You may not believe it, yet every ton of grain that is carried to Saint John in the winter season by the CPR is carried at a loss. We prefer to dump it as quickly as possible. A great deal of our winter grain is dumped at Port Arthur and finds its way to New York. Very little comes east."

Asked as to St. Andrews' chances of being utilized as a winter port, he said that steamship people did not regard St. Andrews favorably, as the beaches were so shoal that the building of wharves would be very expensive. This was the chief objection they urged. . . [this is the first time a reason has been given for not utilizing St. Andrews as a port]

When asked as to whether the CPR had purchased or intended to purchase, the New Brunswick Southern railway, he said that some time ago they had been asked to buy it, and they said they would. But the New Brunswick Southern people withdrew their offer and no further effort was made to obtain the road.

Sir William said that the time would come when the people of the Maritime Provinces would wake up to the mistake they had made in not accepting the CPR offer to take over the Intercolonial Railway.

"We would have had an Atlantic fast line running years ago," said Sir William [to Halifax, no doubt]. "And we would have had a system of hotel in the provinces that would have brought in a hundred thousand strangers. Just wee what that would have meant! We proposed putting up another large hotel at St. Andrews, one at Saint John, one at Halifax, another at Sydney, and another at the Narrows, CB, with auxiliary hotels between. These would have brought many thousands of tourists. Quebec is being enriched by the tourist traffic and so would the Maritime Provinces."

Sir William was inclined to take a gloomy view of things Canadian, while of things Cuban he had nothing but words of praise. He is very enthusiastic over the future of that island. The people there know how to do business, he says, and they are doing it. He had found them to be people of integrity, who respected their obligations. They have used his company well and his company were using them as well as they knew how. In his dealing with the Spanish Americans, whether in Cuba or elsewhere, he had found them to be a particularly fine class of men and it was a pleasure to mingle with them.

Digby, like St. Andrews, is awakening to the fact that a community cannot live on the summer tourist along, and that some other industry is necessary to keep the town moving.

It is stated that $160,000 was left in the town of Digby by tourists this season. An exchange says that if twelve other towns in the province did equally well, the income from this source would exceed $2 million per annum—Digby Courier.

Beacon

Oct 12/1905

A Pair of Kids

Captured by Judge Landry on Tuesday

A pair of immaculate kids, indicative of an absence of criminal business, adorned the desk in front of Judge Landry when he stood up on Tuesday last to address the grand jury "of the body of the County of Charlotte."

His honor, after thanking the jury for their attendance, commented upon the good old-fashioned custom of presenting the judge with a pair of white kid gloves. It was a custom little honored outside of this county but one that should be maintained. The gloves did not always fit, but they stood for purity and for this reason were appreciated. Another old custom that gave him pleasure was the ringing of the bell at the opening of court. This was a custom that was followed in no other county. Another laudable custom which was observed here was that of the Sheriff meeting the judge at the train and escorting him to the courthouse. The judge in his own person represented no more than any other member of the court but as the presiding officer of the court he was entitled to respect. These old customs, which were more honored nowadays in the breach than the observance, all tended to add to respect for authority.

There were some features of the juror's oath, particularly that part which says that they will do their duty "without fear, favor or affection, gain, reward, or the hope thereof," that were full of instruction and that contained food for wholesome reflection. There was a tendency nowadays towards dishonesty in high places, particularly our neighbors. He instanced the insurance frauds in the United States, which he characterized as disgraceful. Human nature is the same everywhere and it might be that if the lessons taught by this oath were not impressed upon our own people, human nature on this side of the line might finally yield to temptations. It was important in this new country to have these examples before our eyes that we might avoid the errors other communities have fallen into.

The jury was discharged.

Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne among the few summer visitors who still linger among the autumnal delights of St. Andrews.

There is the possibility that Prince Louis will visit St. Andrews on Saturday, Oct. 28, as the guest of Sir William Van Horne.

The CPR does not display its usual astuteness in dealing with St. Andrews. Instead of encouraging travel to and from the town after the tourist season has closed by providing a first-class train service, travelers are sent out in a slow train at an inconvenient hour and in an antiquated coach that has been doing duty for many years. Monday nights train had a large number of passengers who were crowded into a stuffy combination car in a most uncomfortable fashion. It is not thus that "fields are won" or trade developed.

Ball at Owen to celebrate visit of Canada's flagship "Canada." Details.

Beacon

Oct 19/1905

[SG Correspondence Calais Advertiser]

. . . Sir William Van Horne's airy dismissal of the future possibilities of Saint John and St. Andrews as winter ports . . .

Senator MacKay's Plans

A Handsome Residence Begun on New Property

Senator Mackay, of Montreal, who recently purchased the Tupper-Bleakney property on the outskirts of the town, is losing no time in the development of his new estate. Already he has begun the erection of what will probably be the largest and most complete summer residence in this locality. He has selected as the site for his new summer abiding place a piece of ground about one hundred yards north of the old Bleakney dwelling place. The outlook from this point is one of the most beautiful imaginable, covering an extensive view of St. Andrews Bay with all the country round about. Had he sought the Dominion over he could not have fallen upon a spot which embraces so much that is beautiful, as much that is varied and pleasing to his eye.

The dwelling house, for which ground has now been broken, will be 93 x 45 feet on the ground, with a forty-foot ell. The first story wall will be composed of rough field stone, cemented together. Above this there will be a story and a half of wood, the general design of the building being very handsome as well as comfortable and summer-like. A broad verandah will be constructed around the main dwelling. The contract for the stonework has been awarded to Mr. Charles Horsnell, who has already begun work. The carpenter contract has not been given out. It is Senator MacKay's intention to have the building completed in time for occupation next season.

The Senator has in view a comprehensive scheme of development, with a view to enhancing the many natural beauties of his estate. Large part of this scheme has already been worked out in the establishment of a pretty little pond or lake to the right of the driveway. Many years ago, the late Capt. James, who owned this property, had a skating pond at the same place. Senator has renewed this dam, making the water area much larger than before. A driveway to the railway will also be laid out. It is the intention next season to remove Supt. McQuoid's dwelling place to another part of the property.

Response to Beacon article on liquor war on Campobello. Ref to Owen and Welshpool Hotel. "The Welchpool Hotel, which was formerly the Byron Hotel, has been used as a public house for many years. This house was a few years since purchased by one Owen A. Batson, or members of his family. The price paid would seem to indicate that he expected to enjoy all the rights and privileges of its former owners, and which are now accorded to the hotels I have previously named (in St. Andrews). The application of the Temperance Act to this case is now a matter of public record and it has been as harsh as blind prejudice can make it. (would seem to indicate that only these two hotels still operational)

Beacon

Nov 2/1905

A Trip to the Maritime Provinces. (Tourist recollection of visit to St. Andrews and other towns in New Brunswick)

Armstrong complains that St. Andrews no farther ahead than 25 years back—It is becoming more apparent every year that if this or any other community is to develop it must be done by the exertions of the people themselves, and not by any railway or steamship company or outside corporation. For a quarter of a century and more the people of St. Andrews have been cherishing the hope that when the development of our great western domain began the many natural advantages of their harbor would lead to its utilization as a port for trans-Atlantic commerce. This idea has been strengthened by assurances from statesmen, from men prominent in the great railway and steamship corporations, and by people of light and leading from all quarters. But today, St. Andrews is no nearer the goal of its ambition than it was years ago. It is still the sport of the transportation jugglers, as are the other ports on the Bay of Fundy. All this emphasizes the fact that in our scheme of progress we must cut ourselves adrift from the craft that we hoped to float into success upon and strike out for shore on our own account. We must leave railways to play their game along. We can best help ourselves by placing our town in position to attract population and by aiding in the development of those projects, which are nearest at hand. Some years ago, when a deep-water wharf scheme was afloat, the provincial government made an appropriation for a wharf here; a similar appropriation was made for St. Stephen. The latter place used their appropriation to erect a public wharf, which has proved a source of income to the town. As St. Andrews spent none of the money that was set apart for it, we might be able to get a sufficient sum now to extend the Market Wharf to a deep water point, and repair the other wharf that belongs to the town. With these wharves in shape the town would be in a good position to encourage the further development of our fishing and clamming industries, while it would also give the river and island steamers a landing place that would be convenient for them and for everybody else. Then let us turn our thought to a water and sewerage scheme. No town ever prospered without an ample water supply, nor can St. Andrews hope to prosper until she has one. It is our belief that s system of artesian wells could furnish all the water that we would require, and that the quality would be adapted for general purposes. The Algonquin Hotel and adjacent summer cottages obtain their supply from artesian wells; why not the town? The water has been used in the hotel boilers and though perhaps not so good for commercial use as lake water would be, yet it has filled all requirements. With a water system the town could make a bid for industrial enterprises and it would also aid greatly in the development of the town as a place of residence. The modern bathroom will soon become a menace to the health of the town if we do not get a sufficient supply of water to flush the sewers, and it would not be good of us to wait until the danger point has been reached before taking action.

The CPR has put a first-class car on the St. Andrews train in place of the antiquated "combination coach." Thanks.

Rev. E. W. Simonson, of Carleton, Co., was in town last week and registered at Kennedy's hotel. Mr. Simonson proposes in the near future to locate in either Cuba or the Canadian North-west, and it was for the purpose of interviewing Sir William Van Horne on the point that he came here. He spent two hours with Sir William and returned home to Carleton County the same night. Between 25 and 50 Carleton County families, chiefly of the Anglican denomination, will accompany Mr. Simonson wherever he should decide to go.

Princes' Visit to St. Andrews.

Princes Louis and Alexander Guests of Sir William Van Horne.

Prince Louis of Battenberg came and saw and conquered St. Andrews on Saturday last—or rather the small portion of it that gathered about the railway station when he took his departure that evening. The prince and his nephew, Prince Alexander, came to St. Andrews as the guests of Sir William Van Horne. They left the capital city in Sir William's private car Saskatchewan at ten o'clock, arriving at the Bar Road station at 1:25. Sir William and his son, Mr. R. B. Van Horne, were on hand to welcome them to St. Andrews soil. Accompanying them were Capt. Pamphlett, engineer-commandant of the cruiser Cornwall, and flag lieutenant Sowerby, of the cruiser, Berwick also Mr. W. B. Brown, train master of St. John. Conductor Costley was in charge of the train, Mr. R. H. Purton being the river.

The tide had not left the bar when the princes' party arrived, so that they had to be boated across to Minister's Island. Reaching the island shore, they stepped into Sir William's buckboard and in a twinkling were toasting their shins before the blazing logs in Covenhoven.

Luncheon was served soon after arrival, and after a few hours spent in the enjoyment of Sir William's generous hospitality, the prince and party took a hurried glance over Sir William's estate. Then the party re-crossed to the mainland—the tide having sufficiently receded in the meantime—and drove out to Senator MacKay's new property. The examination of this beautiful spot, with its entrancing scenery, occupied a short time.

The prince having expressed a wish to see St. Croix Island, where that other great sailor, Champlain, spent the memorable winter of 1604, the party hastened off to the shore road. This occupied so much time that it was dark before the party reached town, so that the prince had little opportunity of seeing the town itself or the bunting that was floating to the breeze in his honor, and the people of the town were also deprived to a great extent of seeing his serene highness's smiling countenance.

It was after six o'clock when the word was brought to the waiting crowd at the station that the prince and party were approaching. Torches were hastily lighted and under their glare the people had a good opportunity of seeing the royal sailor. He acted very graciously, moving about among the crowed, shaking hands and chatting pleasantly with everybody. To the Beacon representative he expressed regret that he had not been able to see more of St. Andrews. "It must be a very beautiful place in the summer," said he. A pleasing incident was the presentation of a beautiful bouquet to the prince by little Marion Law, daughter of station master Law. Clad in sailor costume she approached the prince with the flowers, saying "This is from Marion." The prince accepted the bouquet very graciously, and seizing the little tot in his strong arms he gave her a hearty kiss. Overhearing a young lady saying, "Why, he's a real live prince, how I'd like to shake hand with him," the prince laughingly pushed his way through the crowd and extended his hand to the young lady. He said he felt a little tired after his experiences in Saint John and Fredericton. "We danced in Fredericton," said he to an interested young miss, "until three o'clock this morning, and at Saint John the night before we had a busy time of it." His pleasant affability won all hearts, so that it was with a will three rousing cheers and a tiger were given him as he stepped on the train. He thanked the crowd. Then someone began singing the national anthem, and in a moment it was taken up by the crowd. Meanwhile, the two princes stood on the car platform with uncovered heads. Then, with the strains of Britain's grand old hymn ringing, in their ears, and the glare of torches illumining their faces the princes gave a parting wave of their hands, the train moved off, and they disappeared in the night.

The Prince Pleased—Delay Explained

The accompanying note from Sir William Van Horne explains itself:

Coven Hoven

Minister's Island

St. Andrews

29th October, 1905

Dear Mr. Armstrong:

In a telegram from Halifax today His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenburg asks me to tell the people of St. Andrews how much he and Prince Alexander appreciated their hearty reception last night, and to beg that his kind message be communicated through the Beacon.

Sincerely,

W. C. Van Horne

I expected the Prince would drive through St. Andrews before dark but some unexpected delays and the early darkness resulting from the thick clouds prevented much to his disappointment and the disappointment of everybody else. The party started from here quite early enough to make the drive as planned and reach the station by daylight. W. C. V. H.

General Doherty, of the USA, who with Mrs. Doherty has been the guests of Sir William and Lady Van Horne at Minister's Island, left last week by CPR for their Western home.

Beacon

Nov 9/1905

Prince Louis has received many demonstrations of good feeling since leaving this province, but we doubt if any of them was more hearty or spontaneous than the one he received on the little railway platform at St. Andrews.

If the CPR or any other road is to use L'Etang as a port we hope it will lose no time about it. We would not have any other community remain on the tenterhooks of doubt so long as St. Andrews has. Hope deferred has a tendency to make the heart sick—if it is not a very strong one.

A Good Hotel

The new hotel—the St. Andrews Exchange—of which Messrs. DeLong and Coakley are proprietors, is now in thorough working order and has been receiving guests for several weeks. The hotel is not a very extensive one at present, but what it lacks in size is made up for in equipment. On the ground floor are the hotel offices, parlor and reception room, kitchen, etc., while the upper flats are devoted to sleeping rooms. On the second floor is the bathroom. Everything about the house is of the best description, the rooms being of comfortable size and splendidly furnished. One thing that strikes the eye in connection with the hotel appointments is the cleanliness and good taste everywhere apparent. Manager DeLong evidently knows what the public wants and is ably seconded by Mrs. Delong, who gives all the rooms her personal attention.

Beacon

Nov 16/1905

Royal Secret Revealed

King George IV was Married Secretly and Had a son

Was That Son the Late Charles Briscoe of St. Andrews?

London, November 11. By permission of King Edward the Daily Chronicle asserts, a package of papers consigned to the care of Coutts' Bank, by Mrs. Fitzherbert (Maria Anne Smythe), under the stipulation that it was not to be opened for a long period, has now after seventy years been opened and proved to contain the marriage certificate and other indisputable proofs that George IV was actually married to Mrs. Fitzherbert. Mrs. Fitzherbert became the wife of the Prince of Wales, afterward George IV, in December 1785. The marriage of the Prince was invalid under English law, though it was sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church, of which Mrs. Fitzherbert was a member. It was expected that the papers in Coutts' would settle the question which as agitated the British public for over a century, as to whether there was issue from the marriage, but there is nothing in the foregoing despatch to indicate that he question has been solved. It has long been reported that there actually was a male child, and that this child, emigrated to the United States and settled in Washington, where he died some years ago, after living quietly, but in good circumstances.

DID THE KING'S SON LIVE AND DIE IN ST. ANDREWS?

The above paragraph may furnish a clue to the mystery surrounding the life and death of Mr. Charles Briscoe, who resided in St. Andrews for many years and was commonly reported to be the illegitimate son of King George the Fourth. Mr. Briscoe was connected with the Imperial customs while here. He left several daughters as issue, one of whom was married to the late David Shanks Kerr, of St. John. It was thought that before he died he would clear up the mystery connected with his birth, but he carried the secret to the grave with him, leaving directions that after the lapse of many years his grave should be opened, when the secret would be found revealed. His wishes were carried out a few years back, but the papers that were supposed to contain the hidden secret had crumbled into dust.

THE GRAVE REFUSED TO YIELD UP ITS SECRET

In the issue of the Beacon of July 24, 1902, the following article bearing upon the opening of the Briscoe grave was published. The names of those who were present at the exhuming of the body were the deceased grandson, Mr. John Kerr. Of St. John, and the late Rev. Canon Ketchum, and the late Dr. S. T. Gove:

1842

Here awaiting the final resurrection

Rest the mortal remains

Of

Charles Joseph Briscoe

And

Elizabeth Ann

His wife

To whose memory this

Tablet has been erected

By their children.

This corruption must put on incorruption and this mortal put on immortality.

In a sheltered corner of the ancient burial ground of St. Andrews, protected by narrow wooden palings, stands a plain white marble table, which tells the above simple tale. Weather-beaten and moss-grown the stone is, but it still stands erect—in marked contrast to many others about it. The inscription is plainly discernible. To the wayfarer who knows nothing and cares less of the early history of St. Andrews and of the occupants of this humble tomb, the story told by the marbled page has little of interest, yet beneath the grave there lies hidden from mortal eyes a romance of real life such as the novelist's pen has seldom written:—a romance in which no less a personage than a king of England is alleged to have played s leading part.

The story has been closely guarded for many years, but with the death of the immediate members of the family the necessity for further concealment has been to a great extent removed.

Charles Joseph Briscoe was an Englishman by birth and was the reputed son of King George IV, his mother being said to be one of the ladies of the court with whom he had fallen in love. In order probably that he should be out of the reach of gossips of the court—for there were gossips in those days as there are now—he was appointed to a position in the Imperial Customs at St. Andrews, Capt. Grant being at the same time the chief officer here.

There are a few people now living who can remember Mr. Briscoe and who can recall him riding around the streets of St. Andrews in his scarlet hunting coat. He was a tall man, of an autocratic disposition; would brook no interference and kept himself aloof from the common people. His wife was a lady of much culture and refinement and had been at court in England before coming to this country. Upon her husband's demise she was under the necessity of supporting herself by teaching school. Some of the old people of the town were among her pupils. They can easily recall the stately, dignified figure of the old lady as she appeared in her schoolroom, with a white ruffed Elizabeth collar about her neck and gold-headed cane in her hand.

It was generally expected that upon Mr. Briscoe's death the mystery surrounding his life would be revealed, but the secret was hidden in the grave, where so many secrets are hidden. In his will, he left instructions that upon the death of the last of his children his grave should be opened, when papers would be found upon his body, which would reveal the history of his life and make clear all that was doubtful concerning his birth.

It was nearly sixty years afterward that the last of the name passed form earth. Then, in the presence of two St. Andrews gentlemen, who have died within a few years, and a grandson of the deceased—who holds a responsible position in St. John—the grave was opened. But the precaution of enclosing the papers within a metallic or other suitable casket had not been taken, so that when the light touched hem they crumbled into dust, and the secret that had been so jealously guarded still remained the property of the tomb.

A medallion portrait of the deceased's wife was found in the coffin and is now among the priceless treasures which the deceased's grandson has in his possession. It is somewhat dimmed by its long imprisonment in the grave, but the features are still recognized by those who knew the old lady.

W. E. Mallory's father stricken with paralysis at Jacksonville, Car. Co.

Beacon

Nov 23, 1905
New CPR Steamer of 20,000 Tons

Montreal, Nov. 17

The passenger traffic manager of the CPR Robert Kerr has just received from Glasgow, Scotland, details regarding he successful launching at the Fairfield Shipbuilding works upon the Clyde of the first of the new passenger steamships which the company intends adding to its Atlantic fleet next season. The new liner is called the Empress of Britain and will make her first trip from Liverpool to Montreal in May next. The Empress of Ireland, a sister ship, is now receiving its finishing touches in the Fairfield years and will be launched in January. She will make her first trip from Liverpool to Montreal in June next.

The Empress of Britain is the largest vessel ever launched from the Fairfield yards, has displacement of twenty thousand tons, and ranks as one of the largest leviathans upon the North Atlantic. It is now six years since the CPR ceased to be nothing more than a transcontinental railway and began the creation of an all British route from England to China, Japan and Australia under a single management. The first steamship line to be established was that between Vancouver and the port of Yokahama, Kobe and Nagasaki, in Japan and Shanghai, and Hong Kong in China. Then followed, in 1903, the establishment of the steamship line between Vancouver and Australia. The same year the company acquired the Atlantic fleet of the Elder Dempster line consisting of fourteen vessels, and thus completed the last link in the chain of communication between England and orient. The two new ships which will be added to the company's Atlantic fleet next season will be the fastest vessels between Great Britain and Canadian ports. They will have a speed of twenty knots, and will make the run between Liverpool and Montreal is six days.

Beacon

Nov 30/1905

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy is determined that St. Andrews shall become a leading summer resort, if money can make it. In furtherance of that idea he has given instructions to proceed with the erection of a dam across the mouth of Katy's Cove, so as to imprison the tidal water and make of the cove a comfortable swimming area. [Contracted to D. C. Clark, Saint John wharf builder] . . . . Work will begin at once and will be pushed through without delay. The dam will be erected outside the line of track. It will be made of a strong cribwork and will give ample opportunity for the imprisoning of the tide and for its release when required. This will be the third attempt to enclose Katy's Cove with a dam. The old Land Company, in which F. W. Cram was one of the leading spirits, had two dams constructed, but the tides forced their way through the shifting sand, and the company did not feel warranted in expending a larger sum of money thereon.

Pursued by Wolves. A pack of hungry wolves pursue Laurence Dyer into farmyard. Details

Drowned at Minister's Island Bar.

While almost everybody else was enjoying the balmy sunshine of Sunday morning last, two young men were battling for life in the remorseless tide which at times sweeps over the Minister's Island bar. One perished; the other was rescued almost providentially.

The two were George Henderson, Jr. and George Buhot.

Young Henderson, who was employed in team work on Sir William Van Horne's farm, had driven over from home that morning to look after his horses on the island. Having attended to that duty he was returning home, accompanied by George Buhot, when the disaster happened.

The bar was only partly covered with water, but at two points the rising tide was sweeping over it with more than usual strength. After crossing the first gulley safely, the horse began to work down in the deep water on the upper side of the bar so that when he reached the second and larger gulley he was in no position to stand up against the tide. Fearing the worst, the occupants of the wagon jumped out. They were unable to strike bottom with their feet before the tide had swept them into deep water.

Mr. Southard, Sir William's hostler, who had noticed the peculiar behaviour of the horse as it started to cross the bar, and who had been watching its progress, saw the accident and summoning Supt. Oastler the two launched a boat and rowed with all haste to the scene. Not more than eight minutes, they say, could have elapsed from the time the men leaped from the wagon until the rescuers were on the spot, but in that time Henderson had sunk from sight. Buhot was found about 100 feet from the bar, floating on the surface with only his forehead out of the water. He was unconscious. The heavy coat he wore had imprisoned the air at the back and it was the presence of this air that was supporting him. He could scarcely have remained afloat for another minute. After landing Buhot on the bar and pumping some of the water out of him, they left him and went out again in search of his companion, but they could not find him. Meanwhile, the horse had emerged from the tide, and reached in the dry portion of the bar started to walk back towards the island. Meeting the tide again the poor brute was carried into deep water once more and after floundering around for a moment was dragged down by the carriage.

While the boatmen were seeking for Henderson, Buhot recovered consciousness and dragged himself up the Bar Road to Mr. Chapman's and asked them to send for a doctor. Mr. Chapman came into town with the sad tidings and Dr. Gove went out and ministered to Buhot's wants. He found him chilled, but otherwise uninjured.

When the news of the accident reached town, a search for the body began. Several boats were employed in the search during the afternoon, the efforts of the searchers being watched by a large number of people gathered on the bar. About four o'clock, James Craig and Daniel Craig, of Chamcook observed the body in about four feet of water and lifted it into their boat.

Supt. Oastler, in talking with the Beacon, said that they had often crossed the bar when there was a foot more water on it than there was on it that day. Mr. Southard did not regard the crossing as particularly dangerous at the time. They were inclined to attribute the accident to the horse, which seemed to lose its head the moment it touched the water. Buhot, when questioned, said that they did not think there was any danger at the time; otherwise he would not have started out.

Henderson was 20 years of age and was a quiet, industrious young fellow. He was insured for $500 in the Canadian Order of Foresters. The horse and wagon were found near the Stickney weir on Tuesday.

Beacon

Dec 14/1905

Wolves at Chamcook. Details.

Beacon

Dec 21/1905

Various reports of wolves in area. One young man attacked on his way home

Beacon

Dec 28/1905

Between 20 and 30 men and half a dozen or more teams have been employed lately in the building of the dam at Katy's Cove . . . . About six feet of crib work with ballast has been laid the entire length. On Sat. the strong tide caused serious curvature of the center of the dam. The structure was carried dangerously near the trestle-work of the railway bridge. At other points the tide has worked through underneath the dam, causing some trouble but the damage, it is said, can be easily repaired. Another tier of logs is yet to be placed on the structure. Inside of the dam there will be a facing of birch planks which will be driven down several feet to the clay. The outside of the dam will be graded up with heavy stone.