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Beacon
Jan 2/1908
Maxwell brothers again win first prize. This time for new parliament bldgs. in Regina
Beacon
Jan 16/1908
St. Andrews is to have the best equipped biological station in the province.
Miss Van Horne was one of the guests at the recent vice-regal house party in Ottawa.
Poisoned by Wood Alcohol
Mr. Thomas McCracken dies Suddenly
Thomas McCracken, the well-known house painter, has died suddenly during the night. His death was caused by having drunk a quantity of wood alcohol in mistake for stomach medicine. He did not tell of his mistake until several hours afterward, when he was suffering intense agony. He was 56 years of age and is survived by a widow, one son, Herbert, with whom he had been living, and one daughter, Mrs. Harry Wiley. Obit Jan. 23.
The Campobello Corporation has about 20 men in the woods getting lumber out for box stuff.
Beacon
Jan 23/1908
The stock on Covenhoven is to be placed in charge of Mr. Bowden, a young Scotchman, whose father superintends the Reford stock farm at St. Anne de Bellevue.
Thomas McCracken Funeral. The funeral of Thomas McCracken took place from the residence of his son on Thursday last and was very largely attended. Mr. McCracken was born in Calais, served his time on the New Brunswick and C. Railway and was for 18 years foreman of their paint shops. He also served 3 years as foreman of the CPR paint shop at McAdam and one year on the W. C. Railroad. He was last employed by Sir William Van Horne. Besides his wife and family in St. Andrews he leaves one brother, who is at present in the Oakland hospital with a crushed foot.
Beacon
Jan 30/1908
Over 300 people attended the "phonographic symphony" in Andraeleo Hall. 2 gramophones and 2 phonographs. 40 selections played. Each announced by R. E. Armstrong. $30.00 in proceeds donated to hall.
Beacon
Feb 6/1908
R. E. Armstrong running on government ticket for St. Andrews
Beacon
Feb 27, 1908
The walls of he Agricultural Society room at Waweig have been adorned with a number of beautiful paintings contributed by Sir William Van Horne.
Beacon
March 12, 1908
Sir William Van Horne in London
Feb 16—Sir William Van Horne was smoking his longest cigar and wearing his broadest smile when I called upon him last night at the Savoy Hotel. London was suffering one of its habitual February drenches at the moment, but not rain, or mist, or even fog can dampen the obvious appreciation of the chairman of the CPR for the many phases of London life. Our talk ranged over a good many questions, and through it all there was the most resolute refusal to see anything but good things for Canada in 1908. Sir William Van Horne comes here full of cheerfulness, and one can well understand with what open arms he is being received in London financial and business circles. He brings just that sort of reasoned optimism which is most acceptable at present wherever there are Anglo-Canadian associations.
Two subjects especially figure in Sir William's mind when talking to Englishmen at this moment. In the first place he takes pains to disabuse the English mind of the idea that Canada has had enough emigrants. His own view of the emigration question is most decisive. He scornfully repudiates the idea that Canada can have too many British immigrants. He does not believe even in half closing Canada's door against the immigrant.
The other question upon which Sir William Van Horne expiates with candour is the question of Asiatic immigration. He firmly believes that Canadian public men are making a great mistake in listening overmuch to the anti-Asiatic cry. What British Columbia wants above everything else is rapid development, just the rapid development which Asiatic labor would bring here, and just the kind of development which outside the hoodlum element the people of British Columbia generally would in Sir William's opinion, cordially welcome.
Beacon
March 19/1908
Construction underway at Biological Station
John Douglass Hazen 1908-11
Premier of New Brunswick
Conservative Mar 24, 1908
Beacon
April 2/1908
Sir William Van Horne and several other worthy Canadians will be interested in the recommendation by Mr. Roosevelt that paper pulp be placed upon the free list of the tariff and that foreign manufacturers be compelled to reduce the price of their paper pulp products which are admitted free of duty into the United States.—Montreal paper
Beacon
April 2/1908
A. W. Mahon's "Literary Possibilities in the History of St. Andrews," which was read before the Canadian Literature Club, R. E. Armstrong also spoke on similar lines. Events up to 1812 noteworthy. Talking military and political history
Rumour of CPR ferry line from St. Andrews to Digby
Beacon
April 9/1908
W. H. Topham of London in town after leaving 50 years ago. Was "walking boss" for Walker and Johnson, who had contract for construction of the St. Andrews Railway. Met ex-conductor Donahue. Names of engines on line "Shamrock," "Thistle," "Earl Fitzwilliam" and "Star." Met Mr. Storr, vet mail driver, who was there when the navvies, fearful of losing wages during strike, quit and imprisoned a number of their bosses.
Manager Allerton "says that this year the policy of retrenchment is prevailing on the C. P. R. and that very little money will be spent on any of the C. P. R. hotels, except where it is absolutely necessary. There will be no new work on the Algonquin this year; neither will there be any electric light system. All the improvements will come "next year"
Armstrong won in St. Andrews but the opposition won in the county. Armstrong secretary of local Liberal party.
Beacon
April 16, 1908
It is a pleasure to note the increase in the winter shipment trade at Saint John. During the winter just closed the value of the exports shipped from Saint John amounted to sixteen million dollars against twelve and a half millions the previous winter. The increase was chiefly in grain.
One of Sir William Van Horne's big Clydesdale mares dropped dead on the road on Thursday last. She had been ailing for some time.
Beacon
April 30/1908
The work of re-modeling and repairing the Tyn-y-coed Hotel at Campobello, which unavoidable hindrances have delayed throughout the winter, is to be commenced at once and pushed forward to early completion in order to have the house in readiness at the opening of the summer season—Boston Courier. [the above statement is not quite correct. The Tyn-y-coed hotel will not be open this year, but the Campobello Corporation who own this hotel, have leased The Owen for a term of years (from J. J. Alexander?) and will open it this season instead. It is hoped that next year the Tyn-y-coed will be re-opened.]
Beacon
May 7/1908
Sardine Business
The sardine situation remains unchanged. Very few fish have yet shown up in the weirs, though some small lots have been taken out of contract weirs at Oak Bay. The Maine packers are declining to take fish from the Union weirs on the $6 basis. Frye's island weirs have been taking fish lately, but they have nearly all been bought by baiters. Connors Bros. have only been able to get about half the fish they want at their factor at Black's harbor.
There is a report that the CPR or some of the men connected with it, may take a hand in putting up fish on the Canadian side another season. [first ref. to future Canadian Sardine Company?] [over the last year the Canadian weir fishermen have unionized against the fixing of prices by Eastport packers, which the previous year brought the price of fish down to a non-paying margin; the Beacon championed the fishermen's move]
Wright McLaren builder of C. F. Smith's home, now complete. Grading by William McQuoid.
Beacon
May 14/1908
Miss Pauline Johnson, the famous Indian poetess and elocutionist, with Mr. Frederick McRaye, the great Canadian impersonator, will appear in Andraeleo hall on Wednesday, May 20. Brief review of performance May 28.
St. Croix Courier
May 21/1908
The Highway Act—Provisions under which the New Government Proposes to Establish Good Roads. See second part may 28 and third June 4.
Beacon
May 21/1908
Outlook Bright at Campobello
George M. Byron, who contested Charlotte County in the Robinson interest at the recent election . . . said that a large number of tourists are expected at Campobello this summer. The Campobello Corporation had leased the Owen Hotel from J. J. Alexander, and it would be run this year by that corporation. Owing to the fact that the corporation were unable, with the limited time they have had to prepare the Tyn-y-coed and the Tyn-y-maes, they were compelled to lease the other hotel for a season. New roads are being built on the property and the surrounding were being beautified for the summer's business—Sun.
Various complaints by Armstrong of lack of business in town, and lack of attention by CPR. On the other hand, the accommodations business does not seem to be suffering.
Beautiful Summer Home
Mr. Smith, of Montreal, is the Owner.
There are few summer dwellings anywhere more beautiful, or more complete, and certainly none more favorably situated than the handsome abode that Mr. D. F. Smith, of Montreal, has just completed on the crest of the hill overlooking the town of St. Andrews and the beautiful Passamaquoddy bay.
It is a wooden building with an ample porte cochere in the front and broad verandahs stretching around the greater part of it. On the main floor is a large hallway, 15 x 22 feet. The chief living room, 32 x 17 feet, is located on the southern side, opening out on the verandah. It is supplied with a large fireplace. The dining room, 16 x 22 feet, is located on the eastern side, and through its glass doors and windows may be seen Minister's Island and the bay beyond. A brick fireplace fills one end of the dining room.
Adjoining the dining room, on the southeast corner, is the "den," an octagonal room, finished up in old pine, with a comfortable looking fireplace. On the left of the main entrance there is a bedroom 12 x 15 feet, also a bathroom and coat room. In the rear are the kitchen, larder and servants' hall, also the children's dining room. On the second floor there are six large bedrooms having beautiful outlooks, also three bathrooms and a water closet. In the servants' quarters there are four comfortable sleeping rooms with a bathroom attached.
The workmanship about the building is first-class in every respect and cannot be surpassed anywhere. Much credit attaches to the carpenter, Mr. Wright McLaren, who has carried out the ideas of the architects to the smallest detail with a skill and accuracy most remarkable. The mason-work was performed by Mr. Charles Horsnell, the plumbing by Mr. Goodwill Douglass, and the painting and paper hanging by Mr. Albert Shaw. The grading about the residence is being performed very tastefully by Mr. William McQuoid.
E. Pauline Johnson and Walter McRaye appear in Andraeleo hall on Wednesday evening of this week in a good programme.
Beacon
May 28/1908
Miss Pauline Johnson, the distinguished Canadian poetess, appeared before a very select and appreciative audience in Andraeleo hall, on Wednesday night last, when she read extracts from her poems. She was costumed in Indian dress and presented a striking appearance on the platform. Walter McRay, the popular impersonator, divided the honors with her in his rendering of selections from Drummond. He has the accent of the habitant, an threw and energy into his recitations that made them very interesting.
Beacon
June 4/1908
Sir William Van Horne is looking pleasant these days. His Cuban railroad shows a surplus for ten months of $305,888, an increase of over $60,000 over last year.
About 20,000 feet of logs belonging to the Campobello Corporation went adrift on the back of that island last week. The most of them may be recovered.
Ambitious Company
Promoters Contemplate Big Things at St. Andrews
St. John Sun.
Mr. Clarke of Charlotte County introduced a bill into the legislature yesterday which is unusually broad in its scope and evidently contemplates taking over the business of St. Andrews and as much as rest of the world as possible. The title of the bill is "An Act to incorporate the St. Andrews Company, Limited," and the names of the incorporators are G. D. Grimmer, J. P. McColl, N. M. Clarke, J. T. Whitlock and George J. Clarke.
The capital stock is placed at $99,000 with the power to increase to $500,000 with the consent of the Lieutenant Governor in Council. The head office of the company is to be at St. Andrews. The powers sought for the company are to purchase or lease lands, water lots, etc., to purchase, acquire, alter or construct piers, docks, floats, ships, wharves, warehouses, fish canning factories, storage, cold store and frost proof warehouse, ice houses fish ponds, weirs, buildings, workshops, mills, factories, cranes, elevators, and other machinery and to carry on generally the business of wharfingers, warehouse men, shippers, transportation agents, contractors, fisherman and manufacturers.
They also seek authority to erect grain elevators, coal pockets and storage tanks for oil and gasoline, with the privilege of carrying on business in fuel and oil. They further ask for powers to enable them to buy, sell and manufacture logs, spars, timber, lumber, woods, stone and the products thereof, to deal generally in horse and cattle feeds, farm products and animals, and to erect barns and all other necessary buildings to operate a stock yard and a horse and cattle feeding company.
The Company further contemplate the production of electricity, compressed air, hydraulic power and gas, and want the authority to create and operate telegraph, telephone, and electric lines of their own property, and across and along highways, waterways, water and bridges, so far as may be necessary for the business of the company.
The construction of ships, steamers tugs, lighters, dredges and vessels of every description is also sought; also the power to carry on business of lighterage and towage and to make arrangements for the conveyance of goods over railway and steamship lines operated by other corporations.
They also seek power to enter into any arrangements with any authorities, federal, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, and to obtain from any such authority any rights, leases, licenses, privilege and concessions with the company may think it desirable to obtain.
There are several other lines of usefulness which the company proposes to enter upon, but enough have been stated to show the comprehensive nature of the charter sought.
[The bill subsequently passed the House with some slight amendments. What the exact purpose of the promoters is, is not known. Various schemes are suggested, one, that a line of freight boats to carry sardine and plate from and to Eastport will be put on; another, that the river and island steamer companies will be merged, another that a sardine factory will be erected at Chamcook, and so on. Time will probably disclose what is in the minds of the promoters.]
Town Council will Erect 20 Street Lamps. Details. Mayor DeWolfe
Beacon
June 11/1908
Edwin P. Mallory finally returns home from S. Africa, only person from St. Andrews to volunteer for Boer War. Given hearty welcome.
At the Algonquin a clay tennis court has been laid under the direction of Mr. Peacock, golf expert. The bowling green has likewise been improved. A new ice cream plant has been added, also additional machinery in the laundry. At the Inn the trees have been trimmed out so that the hotel guests will be able to get glimpses of the water. The grounds have been made more attractive.
The staff of the Algonquin will be composed of:—A. Allerton, manager; Mrs. Banks, house keeper; H. H. Bryant, jr., chief clerk; Miss Nellie Gardiner, stenographer; J. S. Hobbs, chef; Herbert O. Bunting, steward; Jas. H. Morrison, porter; Lester Struthers, head bellman; Miss E. Cummings, news clerk; Irving N. Linnell, head waiter; Thomas Hogan, barber, R. A. McDonald, engineer; Miss Margery, assistant house keeper; Miss Mellen, store keeper. At the Inn, Mrs. Allerton will continue as housekeeper.
The bookings for both hotels are larger than ever before. . . ."
At cottages: "1, Henry Josephs, 2, Mrs. John Hope, 3, Mrs. H. S. Holt, 4, Mr. F. W. Thompson. Guests at Inn listed. Mrs. Banks, housekeeper, and staff of assistants arrived on train from Boston
CPR has crew at work strengthening dam at Katy's Cove. Several train loads of rocks dumped to keep dam in place.
Beacon
June 18/1908
Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne are expected here this week from Montreal to open Covenhoven" for the season.
Six horses hauling road machine around
This season "There are more flowers, more trees, more paint and better roads"
Committee, including R. E. Armstrong, presents E. P. Mallory with silver cup. Speech made.
Beacon
June 18/1908
Hotel Owen at Campobello, for some years successfully conducted by John J. Alexander, Esq., has been leased to the Campobello Company and will soon be opened under the new management. The name of the hotel is to be changed, and will hereafter be known as "The Inn," a familiar name throughout England for high-class hostelries.—Eastport Sentinel
St. Croix Courier
June 18/1908
Description of silver cup presented to Edwin Mallory plus inscription.
Presentation at St. Andrews
R. E. Armstrong, Percy Hanson, Judge Cockburn, T. T. Odell, and others called at the residence of W. E. Mallory last week and made the presentation of a unique loving cup in silver; French grey finish, 14 inches high, with this inscription:
Presented to Edwin P. Mallory
2nd Can. Cont. S. A.
Saint Andrews
New Brunswick
Canada
Mr. Mallory was unprepared to make a lengthy acknowledgement of the gift as it was a great surprise to him; however his words were full of appreciation, kindly feeling and gratitude toward the givers and the people of the town generally.
Beacon
June 25/1908
Sir William Van Horne arrived at Covenhoven on Saturday and remained a few days.
Mr. Albert Denley has added another horse to his coaching stable. He has now got four horses. It is his intention to run both coach and buckboard this summer and he may possibly branch out in other lines.
Beacon
July 9, 1908
The Charms of St. Andrews
Acadiensis
Article
. . . Further to the north we may observe Minister's Island, where is situated the charming home of Sir William Van Horne. Here is a stock farm of which a knight might be proud, and stables fit for a palace.
Minister's Island is reached from St. Andrews by a lovely drive out by Mowat's Grove, and along the Bar road. At low water we may drive across upon the broad sandy bar or walk dry shod to the island. At high tide this bar is covered by twenty feet of water. The drive across it has been compared by a Canadian writer to the journey of the Children of Israel across the Red Sea, where the waters fell back on either side, while the Israelites passed through. . . .
St. Croix Courier
Nov 6, 1930
Charms of Campobello described in Tourist Booklet of Decades Ago. Corporation Headed by New York Architect Sought to Promote Summer Colonies.
By Chester Allen Dixon
The following interesting description of Campobello Island was taken from the souvenir booklet published in 1908, and which was kindly loaned The Island Courier by Capt. Thaddeus Calder of Welchpool, Campobello, the commander of Dexter P. Cooper's private yacht. Many changes have taken place at Campobello since the article was written but the charms of the beautiful island remain as attractive as ever.
"Campobello is an island about as big as Manhattan, fully ten thousand acres comprising about four thousand acres of the woodland game preserve, excellent stream and lake fishing, nearly thirty miles of waterfront for bathing, boating and yachting, as many miles of fine hard country roads for driving and excursions, and every possible advantage of an island that has its own little history of pirates and hidden treasure, an island famous for the natural and extraordinary beauty of its landscape as well as for the health-restoring qualities of its salubrious climate.
"The purpose of the Campobello Corporation is to stimulate a desirable kind of social cottage life for the proper kind of people to pass the summer pleasantly in ideal surroundings and a splendid climate, neither too hot nor too cold. We do not care whether you are rich or poor, whether you intend to build a manor house set in a private park, or just a bungalow or a log house on a crag, so long as you are a respectable and congenial citizen, satisfactory terms can be made for the purchase of land and the building of houses thereon. We feel satisfied that once you visit our island, which is so remarkably charming and of such home inviting aspect where you can hook our fish, shoot our game, sail our waters, canoe our rivers and gain new health breathing its sweet balsamic air, you are pretty sure to come back again as a summer resident. There is a capital little hotel on the island, The Campobello Inn, adjoining the residence of the late Admiral Owen's family, to whose ancestors the British Crown granted the island in 1767.
"At this Inn you can get most appetizing and nourishing home cooking and comfortable, modern room facilities, at rates extremely reasonable. The Inn grounds are eight acres tucked into a grove of firs on Deer Point overlooking the Quoddy Bay, dotted with minor islets and the gleaming sails of the fishing fleets: a piece of seascape that will get the laziest man on his feet in a burst of admiration. Two large and more pretentious hotels, the Tyn-y-Coed and Tyn-y-Maes, are about to be remodelled but they are not expected to be ready this season, so it is a case of "Campobello Inn or nowhere" for you the summer of 1908.
"The trip by boat to Eastport, Maine, is most exhilarating. Nowhere in the world can be found coast scenery more superb than the rock-bound shores of Campobello, which alternate for nearly thirty miles with quaint coves, clean and cool beaches gleaming between overhanging crags, weather-worn and mystic with folklore and legend; ideal little firths where the sea gets in a quiet game of pool to the infinite rattle of pebbles. Inland there are immense and undulating plateaus of dense birch and fir forests skirted by fertile pastures and idyllic glades, well adapted for cultivation, all intersected by sparkling streams.
"The heart of the island from Fox Hill to Bunker Hill is one huge game preserve, where the deer cannot run away and disappear as in Maine, and where shooting will be restricted to true sportsmanlike standards. On the historic Friar's Head, a bold promontory jutting out into the archipelago of Eastport Harbour, a golf course is now being constructed which promises to be one of the finest and most unique golf courses on the Atlantic coast. The island is ideally suited for excursions and camping. A boating trip up the St Croix or the Denny, both of which empty in the Passamaquoddy, will not fail to bring forth both pleasure and admiration. Everywhere one meets with touches of exquisite wilderness. A more beautiful bay than St. Andrews, or a more tempting stretch of bass fishing than in the seven miles along Meddybemps Lake, would be hard to find.
"Within a few miles of the island can be had the finest land locked salmon fishing in the world. A sail to Grand Manan, ten miles across the Bay of Fundy, to the Southern Cross, or to the Wolves, will satisfy the most fastidious. In addition to the Inn, where telegraphic communication can be had with the outside world, there is a public library and several churches, notable among which is the quaint little pile of St. Anne erected by Admiral Owen over a century ago. One of the very real benefits of Campobello Island is the absolute immunity from hay fever. Persons suffering from that ailment can be certain of instant relief as long as they remain on the island. The spring water on the island is another point that will be strongly appreciated by nature lovers. The famous Cold Spring, the temperature of which is several degrees lower than that of other springs, never registering above 44, is celebrated for its health-giving properties.
"The officers of the Campobello Corporation are: President Albert Buchman; treasurer, H. M. Merriman. Mr. Buchman was born in New York City and is a graduate of Cornell University. He is a prominent New York architect, and is a member of several fraternal organizations and prominent New York clubs. H. M. Merriman is a silk manufacturer of 15 years' experience and employs 500 hands. Mr. Merriman is a member of the Union League Club of New York City and of the New York Yacht Club. Both gentlemen are men of heavy interests and responsibility and since becoming identified with the present company have done much for the upbuilding of Campobello, and have the confidence and esteem of the entire community.
St. Croix Courier
June 18/1908
Description of silver cup presented to Edwin Mallory plus inscription.
Beacon
June 25/1908
Etching titled "an Arm of Passamaquoddy Bay
Same ad for Algonquin as last year. "Among early guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Todd and Mr. J. T. Whitlock, of St. Stephen, who came down by automobile."
More etchings of St. Andrews scenery
Mr. Hosmer's team of blacks made their first appearance of the season in St. Andrews on Thursday last, Mr. John Russell held the ribbons as skillfully as ever. Mr. Albert Denley has added another horse to his coaching stable. He has now got four horses. It is his intention to run both coach and buckboard this summer and he may possibly branch out in other lines.
Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association to hold annual meeting at Algonquin.
Mr. E. Holt new proprietor of Exchange hotel.
Beacon
July 2/1908
The Man Who Broke the Bank at St. Andrews
Makes a Desperate Attempt at Freedom While Marching to Georgia
Portland, Maine. June 5th. U. S. Deputy Marshall Charles E. Haskell, of this city, accompanied by Capt. E. R. Brown and Special Officer Stewart of the Portland police department, Captain of the Guard E. D. Daniels of the Maine State prison at Thomaston, and constable Fred. E. Stevens of Lewiston, who left Thomaston a week ago today with four federal prisoners whom they were to take to the United States government prison at Atlantic, Georgia, had rather a sensational attempt made by one of the men to escape from them while passing through Raleigh, N. C.
The officers reached home, this evening and this is the first that was known of their encounter.
The prisoners were William Phelps, who was convicted of breaking into the Post Office at Red Beach, Maine, William Huddle, who has served a sentence in a Montreal prison and who was sentenced three years ago for blowing a Post Office safe at Southwest Harbour, Maine, Paul Ritchie, a Massachusetts yeggman who was convicted at the recent term of the United States court for the burglary of a Post Office at Livermore Falls and a negro, Minot St. Clair Frances, who was sentenced for burglary with Huddle for the Red Beach Post Office break.
The men were handcuffed together, but by twisting the handcuffs, Huddle, who was handcuffed to Phelps, released himself and attempt to leap from his berth window in the Pullman car in which the officers and prisoners were travelling. One of the guards saw Huddle' attempts to leap from the train, which was travelling at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and as Huddle made no attempt to remain the guard fired a revolver shot at him, and this caused him to change his mind and turn back. It was two days later before the prisoners reached their destination.
[Huddle, who made such a desperate attempt to regain his freedom while marching to Georgia, was without doubt one of the men who despoiled the safe in the Bank of Nova Scotia at St. Andrews three years ago. The Pinkerton detective who was placed on the trail of the St. Andrews bank burglars, succeeded in finding sufficient evidence against Huddle to have justified his arrest had it not been for the fact that he was already in the hands of the law for the robbery at Southwest Harbor. Several articles that were taken from the bank safe here were discovered among Huddle's effects. He would undoubtedly have been brought back here for trial if it had not been for the mortgage Uncle Sam held against him for the part he played in robbing the South West Harbor Post Office. His companion in crime succeeded in eluding his pursuers. The burglary here not only displayed enterprise and skill, but it also tested the physical endurance of the burglar to a marked degree. After having robbed the bank they ran down to the railway with the plunder, and getting on to a handcar pumped it a racing speed a distance of almost fourteen miles. Then they lifted the heavy machine from the track and carried it down an embankment and through a wood road for about a hundred yards. A man of that stamp would be able to put up quite a fight for freedom.
report on 3 sewage systems. Last one proposed for St. Andrews—drainage into Bay "or Water Carriage System"—here the "combined" system, where rainfall flushes the system. "In towns so situated as St. Andrews, not having any public water works, only such houses as are equipped with private supplies could connect with the public sewers."
Ad for "The Inn," Campobello. Open from June 1st to October 1st.
Canada forty-one years old.
Beacon
July 16/1908
Etching of shoreline from Joe's Point
Between 80 and 100 guests now gather daily around the Algonquin board, and every day brings fresh recruits. Mr. August Suck is again leader of the Algonquin orchestra. He has associated with him Miss Ames and Miss Brandigee. The Inn has been filled for several days and many have been turned away. It is probably that an addition will be made to this popular hostelry.
Various picnics and parties at Chamcook listed.
Sir William Van Horne, Humorist
Sir William Van Horne is a man of many sides. One side, —the business side—has been much before the Canadian public during the past quarter of a century. Canadians have come to recognize him as a man of tremendous energies, whose mind is so engrossed in the great affairs of life that there is little room in it for smaller things; but those who know him best know that there is a deep in his nature that has never yet been sounded by the public. This omission has been supplied by Charlotte Eaton. In the Canadian Magazine for July she has a very readable sketch of Sir William Van Horne as a humorist, in which she relates many incidents in his inner life to show the humorous side of his mature. From what the writer says it is evident that Sir William thinks that "a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men."
July 23, 1908
Sir William Van Horne was at Covenhoven last week.
Beacon
July 30/1908
Sir William Van Horne Plans Park
St. John Telegraph:—Hon. D. V. Landry, George E. Fisher and W. W. Hubbard, of the agricultural commission, accompanied by H. P. Timmerman, industrial commissioner of the CPR, arrived in the city from St. Andrews, where they had been visiting the stock farm of Sir William Van Horne on Minister's Island. The herds of Dutch Belted and French-Canadian cattle were much admired, both as a picturesque group and as profitable dairy cattle. The French Canadians have proved themselves especially large and economical producers.
All farming operations at that place are carried on most skillfully for the combination of the artistic and the practical, Sir William being a firm believer in the value of beauty as a practical asset for utilitarian purposes, and when he has completed his plans for beautifying, improving and fencing the whole island it shall be one of the handsomest parks existent, and at the same time a highly productive and practical farm.
The large barn and stables are kept as clean and sweet as an old-fashioned dairy, the spray pump is frequently employed in whitewashing interior walls and ceiling while Tobique gypsum on the floors thoroughly absorbs all the moisture and odors as well as adds much to the value of the droppings of the stock.
Among the farm teams are some splendid young Clydesdales bred on the place.
Sir William expressed great interest the agricultural development of the province and tendered some valuable suggestions as well as unbounded hospitality to the commissioners during their stay. Speaking of St. Andrews, Sir William said "I consider this the best spot of any part of the world which I have ever visited, in which to live."
P. G. Hanson—golf coats: "Honeycomb golf coats, buttoned down the front, two pockets, navy, grey and cardinal. Golf coats, made of fine knitted worsted, fancy stitch design, in colors white, navy and oxford. Full sleeves with close ribbed cuffs."
Motor excursion party to Mack's Island. One to St. Stephen. Golf—"mixed foursomes, for prizes offered by Mrs. Egan"; "A croquet tournament is now in progress at the Algonquin. A large number of hotel guests and cottagers are participating."
Beacon
Aug 6/1908
Quietly, but none the less steadily, St. Andrews is going forward as a summer resort. The increase of cottage population is, perhaps, the best sign of growth, as it is the best kind. People do not begin to take an interest in a place until they invest a few dollars in it. Where the treasure is, there the heart will be also."
Beacon
Aug 6/1908
C. R. Hosmer soon to begin building
Who's Who
What Some of our Summer Residents Do at Home
Sir William Van Horne is first of all a good citizen; incidentally, it might be mentioned that the late Queen Victoria, of honoured memory, created him a Knight commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; also that he is chairman of the Canadian pacific Railway, Co., the head of the Cuban railway system, and is identified with a score of other enterprises of a more or less stupendous character.
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, K.C.V.O., is President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which ought to be glory enough for one man. In looking after the multitudinous interests of this great corporation his time is so fully occupied that St. Andrews sees all too little of him.
Charles F. Smith, who has recently become a permanent summer resident, is president of the James McCready Shoe Company, Ltd., of Montreal, a director of the Merchants' Bank, of the Laurentide Paper Co., and of other mammoth corporations. He is a man of charming personality and a welcome addition to the cottage population of St. Andrews.
Hon. Robert Mackay, of Montreal, is a Senator of Canada, and one of its wealthiest capitalists. He is associated with a large number of industrial and financial enterprises.
D. Blakely Hoar, of Brookline, Mass., is a member of the legal firm of Brandeis, Dunbar and Nutter, of Boston.
Mr. E. L. Pease, who is registered at the Algonquin, is the general manager of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr. George B. Hopkins, banker, broker, yachtsman and good fellow generally, is a citizen of New York, and a warm advocate of St. Andrews as a summer and yachting resort.
Mr. Thomas R. Wheelock is a retired merchant of Shanghai, China, who resides in Boston when he is not occupying his beautiful summer home in St. Andrews.
Mr. C. R. Hosmer is President of the Ogilvie Flour and Mills Company, a director of the CPR and of several other large corporations. A man of great energy, and of a winning personality. Regarded as one of the wealthiest residents of Montreal.
Mr. F. W. Thompson is vice-president and managing director of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company.
Mr. Leslie Gault is a member of the big dry goods house of Gault Brothers, Montreal.
Mr. E. B. Osler, M. P., of Toronto, is a lawyer of eminence, being a member of the firm of Osler, Hammond and Nanton, of Toronto and Winnipeg. He is a brother of Prof. Osler, of Oxford, whose jocular ideas on Oslerization at sixty have gained him considerable prominence. Mr. Osler is a director of the CPR and is associated with other large enterprises as well.
Mr. Henry Josephs, a member of the brokerage firm of Josephs and Co., of Montreal, is one of the wealthiest residents of the Canadian metropolis.
Prof. Jeremiah Smith, of Cambridge, by profession a barrister, is one of the professors at Harvard College. Of a kindly, genial disposition he is held in great respect by the guests of the Algonquin—where he makes his summer home—and by the townspeople generally.
Jeremiah Smith., Jr., is one of the younger members of the Massachusetts bar, with a bright future before him.
Rev. Charles Silis needs no introduction to the people of St. Andrews. At present he is rector of the Anglican Church at Geneva, New York. Was dean of the diocese of Portland, Maine, under the late Bishop Neely.
Rev. A. T. Bowser, a leading member of the Unitarian denomination, recently pastor of the First Unitarian church at Atlanta, Georgia, has been so long and intimately identified with the summer interests of St. Andrews that he is regarded as a citizen in full fellowship and not as a stranger within its gates. Of a most kind and loveable disposition he is respected by the community at large.
Among recent visitors was Rev. Dr. McShane, "The little Cure" of St. Patrick's church, Montreal. Fr. McShane is one of the youngest, as he is one of the most influential congregations in Montreal. A broad and liberal Christian gentleman he has many friends in St. Andrews. Outside his church work, he is best known as a Drummond enthusiast. His lectures upon the author of The Habitant are kindly remembered here.
Rev. J. A. McCallen, who is a guest at Kennedy's hotel, is a profound theologian of the Catholic Church and at present holds a professor's chair in the Roman Catholic Seminary at Baltimore. He hails from Philadelphia but was for a long period a resident of Montreal.
Mr. John P. Hudson, who is at the Algonquin with members of his family, is the clerk of the Supreme court of the State of New York. He is a native of St. Andrews, having been born in the little cottage fronting upon Fort Tipperary. At the period of his birth, Mr. Hudson's father was the officer in charge of the barracks.
Rev. Phipps Ross, proprietor of beautiful " Rossmount,' Chamcook is well known as a clergyman of the Anglican church of the United States. Hs been recently rector of the Anglican Church at Providence, R. I. He is a man of cultured mind, holds broad views on religious matters, and personally is very popular.
Mr. W. J. Wilson, of Ottawa, who is at Kennedy's hotel, is a member of the geological staff of Canada. He has been studying the fossils of the region.
Mr. Cawthra Mulock, of Toronto, who is at the Algonquin, is a son of Sir William Mulock. Mr. Mulock is probably the wealthiest young man in Canada at the present time. By profession he is a lawyer.
Dr. Ellis, who is at The Locusts, is professor of chemistry in the University of Toronto.
Mr. Edward Maxwell, who owns a charming little summer home near "the Bar," is a member of a leading firm of Montreal architects. This firm recently won the prize offered by the Dominion government for the best sett of plans for the new department al buildings, Ottawa. They also captured a similar prize offered by one of the governments of the new western provinces.
Mr. William Hope, whose beautiful cottage on the Bar Road is the envy and admiration of all who see it, is an artist who has already won fame with his brush. Some of his best work has been done in his atelier on his summer grounds.
Beacon
Aug 20/1908
It is the general opinion that the summer of 1908 has established a record for summer travel that will be hard to beat.
Summer Boarders and Their Hosts
Boston Advertiser. (Story of how locals don't bother with the summer pleasures of visitors, like sea-bathing, fishing, and clamming. )
Campobello
Recent arrivals at Inn. Good-sized list. Description of picnic, with canoe races, gasoline boat races, dory races and a swimming match. Indian band from Pleasant Point came over; chowder. Horse race, Mr. Merriman's winning. Baseball match. Dancing. Dance in Owen Hall, in evening. Everything passed off most pleasantly.
Beacon
Aug 27/1908
Sir William Van Horne has been enjoying some delightful August days at Covenhoven. He has as guest Mr. Snider, of Cuba.
Prof. Charles T. Copeland—"The Wit of Harvard"
(Now spending his summer in St. Andrews. Charming and vivid portrait of the man's intimate yet colorful relationship with his students in the off-hours)
A Racing Freak—"Tom Dick" makes old-timers sit up and take notice.
Story of a cigar-shaped boat that has broken all records in the bay. "The yachting expert of the Beacon was given a spin about the harbor in her on Saturday morning."
Empress of Britain smashed Quebec/Liverpool record.
Motor parties, beach parties, hay-rack parties, and card parties help to while away the summer days and nights.
Dr. Gibson of Houlton left home at 7:00 a. m. and reached Kennedy's at 4:00 p. m. by auto.
The summer of 1908 has broken the tourist record so far as St. Andrews is concerned. The town has never had so many strangers, and the hotels and livery stables have never had such a run of patronage as they have had this year.
Beacon
Sept 3/1908
Angus Rigby awarded contract for O'Dell House.
Wright McLaren for Hosmer
Beacon
Sept 10/1908
The Sardine Business
Lubec Herald
With the opening of September, and the shortage, according to estimates, of more than 300,000 cases of sardines, as compared with last year's pack, it is safe to say that the present season will be counted as an extremely poor one from the standpoint of weir owners, local merchants, and labor in general. Lack of raw materials, prohibitive prices, glutted markets, or a hundred other good and bad reasons have tended to interfere in the past with a prosperous season. It has been our policy to always look at things in an optimistic way, but we cannot disguise the fact that the great question of a known basis for the packing of America sardines has not begun to solve itself, even providing that the supply of raw material and cans in which to pick, it is available. "Poor years" has come to be the rule—not the exception. A desire to avoid arbitration (which cannot be successfully denied) is the particular thing that has affected the county of Charlotte and the town of Eastport and Lubec, this season. There is no remedy for this, except to arbitrate. Mutual concessions will do the business and do it quick, as it ought to be done.
Harry Clark, Sir William's capable gardener, has raised some wonderful plants on his island this season. His seedless cucumbers are unique. One, the Beacon noted, was quite two feet in length.
Beacon
Sept 17/1908
Photo on Shaughnessy's summer home
Sir William's stock farm well represented at Saint John exhibition.
R. B. Van Horne's speedy yacht, Uvira, from St. Andrews, took the Saint John yacht race Monday with the Possum a close second. The big yachts had a steady northeast breeze and made excellent time. The boats got away at 12 o'clock and finished within one hour of the time limit. The Possum was one minute behind the others in getting away with the exception of Glencairn IV, which lost five minutes at the start. The starters in their order of crossing were: Rena, S. Bauley Williams; Uvira, R. B. Ban Horne, Vagabond, R. A. H. Merrill; Louvima, A. H. Likely; Fei Yuen, Charles Elwell; Canada, Fred. S. Haine; Possum, H. A Robinson; Glencairn IV., W. B. Ganong. The salmon boats had just finished when the first of the yachts passed Partridge Island on the home journey, and watchers said the boat was Van Horne's. For some time the leaders were lost to sight from Reed's Point, the Uvira came skimming along past the Ballast wharf and crossed the line at 2:06 yearly one mile and a half ahead of the next boat. The Possum and Canada same in sight almost together and the spectators looked for a close race to the finishing line. The Canada had to tack below the Beacon, however, and the Possum, keeping a steady course, had a comfortable lead at the finish.
Beacon
Oct 1/1908
New and larger sewer from Algonquin to shore. Charles Horsnell doing work.
Beacon
Oct 15/1908
St. Andrews New Wharf
Government Ask for Tenders Plans at Post Office
The plans and specifications of the public wharf, to be erected at St. Andrews by the Dominion government, and for which tenders are asked in the present issue of this paper, are on exhibition at the Post Office. The new work will be 504 feet long, 458 feet of this being pile work, 24 feet wide, with a pier head of solid crib work 36 feet long and 70 feet wide. It will form an extension of the present Market Wharf.
Armstrong asks the electors of Charlotte to recognize the contribution the Laurier government has made to dredging the harbour and funding the wharf extension in the upcoming federal election. Ganong represents conservatives; William Todd Liberals in Charlotte.
Beacon
Oct 22, 1908
Sir William Van Horne is to build a vinery 178 feet long by 22 feet wide on his Minister Island farm. It will be constructed of stone, Mr. Horsnell has the contract.
Beacon
Oct 29/1908
William Todd elected for Liberals in Charlotte. Laurier returned fourth time. Not a member of government defeated.
Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne will return to Montreal for the winter this week.
Beacon
Nov 5/1908
A spark on the roof of Sir William Van Horne's summer residence on Minister's Island on Monday almost caused a serious fire.
A Building Boom. Several New Cottages Being Erected.
Mr. G. A. McKeen has completed the shelter house in the rural cemetery. It is a neat little building and is admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was intended.
Mr. McKeen has signed a contract with Mr. E. H. Cobb for the erection of s summer cottage on his lot near the Algonquin.
Mr. Wright McLaren is pushing forward the construction of Mr. Charles R. Hosmer's elegant summer home alongside Fort Tipperary. The frame is nearly all in place and boarding it has begun.
Mr. Alvin Haddock has Colonel's Hume's bungalow at Brandy Cove well advanced. It will be a comfortable little summer home.
The sound of the workman's hammer is being heard on Sir William Van Horne's summer estate. Sir William is having a vinery on an elaborate scale erected. The building will be of stone. Mr. Charles Horsnell has the contract for this building.
One of the most beautiful homes in St. Andrews is now in course of construction for Mr. T. T. Odell. It is framed and roofed, and the interior ready for plastering. Mr. Angus Rigby has the contract in hand. The architect is Mr. Neil Brodie, of Saint John.
RM. Robert Gill, of Ottawa, has purchased the Gardiner cottage overlooking Katy's Cove, and is having it repaired and improved. The work is being done by Wright McLaren, the architects being Messr. Maxwell, of Montreal. Mr. Gill will occupy the cottage another season.
In addition to these works it is likely that before another season opens, the Algonquin Hotel cottages will be enlarged and an annex made to the Inn.
Beacon
Nov 12/1908
What (Liberal—in recent local elections) Victory Means, Editorial by Armstrong
To most people the result of the recent election in Charlotte means nothing more than a triumph of liberal principles and liberal leaders. To us it means this and more. It means a long step in the direction of the accomplishment of an idea for which this paper has struggled in season and out of season since the first day it was published. For twenty years almost The Beacon has been championing the cause of St. Andrews as an ocean port. To the older residents of the town its labors in this respect are well known. In the early years we hoped to win recognition from the conservative government then in power. In the federal election in 1891 this paper took no part, hoping that the attitude of St. Andrews toward the government might be the means of hastening the end we had in view. But as the sequel proved there was nothing to hope for from that quarter. The conservative government, through Mr. George E. Foster, then Minister of Finance, absolutely refused to extend the slightest assistance. This was all the more galling because the local government, through the late Hon. A. G. Blair and the late Hon. James Mitchell, had made an appropriation for that purpose, and because there seemed every reason to hope that the Beaver Line steamship company would use the port if accommodations were provided for it. Failure also followed the effort to induce the CPR railway to develop the port, Sir William Van Horne, in the course of correspondence with the editor, stating that the experiment would be tried at Saint John, and that if successful there, St. Andrews might be considered. Finding that there was nothing to hope for from the conservative government, the Beacon renounced its independence immediately after Mr. Foster's curt refusal and took up the cause of the Liberal party.
Mr. Robert Meighen is a flour king.
Article from Montreal Witness. Well known summer resident in St. Andrews.
Algonquin cottage 1 to have a second storey added; No. 4 to have an ell added.
Beacon
Nov 19/1908
It is beginning to dawn upon the CPR people that there are trade possibilities at the port of St. Andrews that are worthy of spending a little money upon. For a long time the Company has been in need of a safe and commodious wharf at this port. It looks now as if that need was to be supplied. It can come none too quickly.
Is it Another Wharf?
CPR Engineers Surveying Lighthouse Wharf
St. Andrews was invaded with a small battalion of engineers last week. Two of these were government engineers, who were engaged in topographical surveys. The others were members of the CPR engineering staff, who took shore measurements and water soundings in the neighborhood of the light house wharf. It is said the railroad company have in view the reconstruction of this wharf, the present wharf being too small for the amount of work that is being done over it. St. Andrews people would welcome such a structure.
Additions to Frontenac will make it largest hotel on continent
Mr. R. B. Van Horne has offered a cup to the Kennebekasis Yacht Club, Saint John, for competition in Passamaquoddy Bay.
Will Plant English Grapes
Sir William Van Horne's Great Island Vinery
Sir William Van Horne is constantly devising something for idle hands to do on his Covenhoven estate. At present he had under construction an immense vinery. The stone walls have been put in place and just as soon as the wood and glass can be procured; the carpenters will get trees in position and the buildings under cover. Mr. Harry Clark, Sir William's capable gardener, is putting in the mould in which in a short time he will plant the English grapes that are to be grown in the building.
In addition to this work an English croquet ground is being laid out alongside Sir William's summer dwelling.
These undertakings, combined with the farm extensions which Sir William is constantly devising, make Minister's Island a very busy spot.
Sea eroding Indian Point. Sea wall needed.
Beacon
Nov 26, 1908
Town Home In Danger
Saved From Burning by Aged Inmate
But for the prompt action of Siah Craig, an aged inmate of the Town Home, St. Andrews might have been deprived of this very valuable institution on Friday morning last. About 8 o'clock, when Mrs. McCullough, wife of the caretaker, was in the barn feeding her poultry, she was surprised to hear lusty cries of "fire" proceeding from the dwelling. She hastened inside and found the mess-room filled with smoke and flames. Several articles of clothing belonging to Angelo, one of the inmates, were burning fiercely and a new quilt which Mrs. McCullough had about finished for the Home, was also burning briskly. She seized the burning clothing and thrust it into the stove before it had a chance to set fire to the woodwork. The fire is supposed to have originated from a pipe that the aged Angelo had been smoking. He was unable to give a connected account of the affair himself. Mr. Craig discovered the fire and lost no time in making an outcry.
[looks like the Poor House has had a name change]
Beacon
Dec 3/1908
Seawater cure for disease by injection. Photocopy
Biography of Alexander Gibson. Long Article
St. Andrews as an Ocean Port
Report of the Government Engineer Thereon. Expense of Equipment would be Light
In the year 1902, it will be remembered, a petition was forwarded to the government at Ottawa, by the people of St. Andrews, asking that this ort be selected as one of the winter ports of the Dominion. The matter was referred to Mr. E. T. P. Shewen, resident engineer at Saint John, whose report thereon was in part as follows . . . [details]
The Sea Water Cure for Disease
New York, Nov. 24
Mr. Robert -Simon, Doctor of Medicine, University of Paris, has recently arrived in this country from France for the purpose of spreading through the medical profession of this country a wider knowledge of the subject of subcutaneous sea water injections for the treatment of tuberculosis and certain other diseases.
The success of the treatment is announced to have been so great that two dispensaries exclusively for its application have been established in Paris, each of them receiving something like 300 poor patients each day.
The exponents of the treatment that has attracted so much medical attention abroad are emphatic upon the point that sea water, not merely salt water, must be used.
It is diluted, being too strong otherwise, and also sterilized before injection. Dr. Robert -Simon brings with him the records of a large number of cases thus treated in the four years or so in which he has been studying the treatment and experimenting with it. In his American lectures he will explain the discovery and the experiment of Quinton and will indicate the general effect of injections, which are declared to be a powerful tonic for all organs of the body that have become weakened or debilitated.
More in detail he will show the action of the treatment upon tuberculosis, but he will not stop there, for in his experiments he and other French physicians of standing have obtained excellent results in diseases of the digestive system, in anemia, Neurasthenia, general debility, enteritis (in which Dr. Robert -Simon reports more than eighty cures out of 100 cases), and especially in cholera infantum, where the action of the treatment has been found to be most remarkable in point of rapidity.
Should later experiments substantiate the earlier ones the importance of the treatment in cholera infantum is believed by the French physicians to be incapable of exaggeration, for in this city of 1901 more than one third of the deaths of infants under one year old were due to cholera infantum.
The sea water treatment is based upon biological discoveries by M. Quinton which led him to believe in the persistence of a vital marine in the cells of all living organisms. Upon this conclusion he based the theory that the injection of sea water would strengthen and restore unhealthy or weakened organs of the human body.
The sea water treatment is said to be employed already in France by a majority of physicians and it has been extolled in public by such authorities as Prof. Landousy, Dean of the medical school of the University of Paris, and Dr. Lesage, who delivered an address upon the subject at Montreal before the congress of physicians of the French language. Neither Mr. Quinton nor any of his collaborators asserts that sea water treatment is a panacea but in addition to the diseases already mentioned they do assert that they have had some remarkable results within the treatment of some skin diseases such as eczema, psoriasis, lupus, and tuberculosis wounds.
If the treatment does what is claimed for it in the case merely of cholera infantum, its discoverer and developers hold its value in the saving of infant life will be incalculable.
Beacon
Dec 10/1908
The Stately Homes of St. Andrews
Among the "stately homes" of St. Andrews none is more strikingly beautiful, or more comfortably and substantially constructed than the one now being completed near the railway station for Mr. Thomas T. Odell. The plans for the beautiful dwelling were drawn by Mr. Brodie, the well-known architect of Saint John, and they have been most carefully executed by the St. Andrews artisans who were entrusted with its construction. The style of architecture is of the colonial order. In front, facing the west, there is a pillared verandah of semi-circular pattern. Opening the front door, one enters a broad vestibule with tiled floor. Beyond this is the reception hall, 14 feet wide by 18 feet long, with a comfortable fireplace at the farther extremity. On the left is the library, octagonal shaped, which is likewise provided with a fireplace. On the right is the drawing room, whose bay window opens out on a verandah on the southern side. Connected with this apartment by folding doors is the dining room, which has also got a comfortable fireplace. The butler's pantry is located between the dining room and kitchen. Beneath the stairway is a lavatory.
On the second floor are five large bedrooms with two bathrooms. The attic, which contains sleeping rooms, storeroom, tank room, etc., is all finished. The house is piped for steam and acetylene gas. It is most substantially built, every care having been taken in the selection and placing of the timbers. The external appearance of the house with its tasteful railed and broad piazzas, its graceful dormer windows, and its classic coloring of canary and white, is very striking indeed. The views from the various floors are very fine, particularly from the upper rooms.
The carpenter work has been well carried out by Angus Rigby and Sons; the mason work and plastering by Charles Horsnell; plumbing by Goodwill Douglasss; painting by Albert Shaw, steel roofing by John P. Stoddard.
The home will be ready for occupation in the spring.
Sir William Van Horne proposes putting a copper roof on his St. Andrews summer residence. He has also given orders for placing interior furnishings of mahogany in his large dining room.
Beacon
Dec 17/1908
Delightful evening spent at Elm Corner by Literature Club.
Beacon
Dec 24/1908
Photo of Mr. R. E. Armstrong! Only one in Beacon.