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St. Croix Courier

Jan 6/1910

St. Andrews Booming

By Mayor DeWolfe: During the year five residences have been completed at a cost of $50,000. Several residences have been enlarged at a cost of $5000. The Algonquin Hotel concrete building for power and other purposes was completed at a cost of $20,000. The Algonquin concrete annex (at work on a third story), $35,000. Two new residences are being constructed at a cost of $23,000. A deep-water wharf is completed for the CPR at a cost of $20,000. A deep-water public wharf is completed at a cost of $16,000. Indications are that several first-class residences will be built during the coming season and improvements on business properties. Water supply and lighting are being considered.

Description of R E Armstrong's daughter Edwina's wedding at Greenock church to Randolph Churchill of Hantsport, NS

Beacon

Jan 6/1910

Sir William Van Horne and his son, R. B. Van Horne, were in town last week. Sir William came down to inspect the improvements being made on hi summer residence.

Water committee to prepare estimates of piping town for water.

Campobello —- Today and Yesterday

The following series was published [weekly every Tuesday] in THE EASTPORT CITIZEN [Maine] January 11, 1910 through February 22, 1910. I only had numbers 37, 42 and 43 to work with.

Excerpt:

After the Admiral's death, Campobello fell to his daughter, Mrs. Robinson-Owen, who remained with her family on the island for some time, so that, although the strength of the house of Owen lay in the churchyard, the name still figured at the head of affairs and was still revered by the islanders. Mrs. Robinson-Owen, too, carefully followed the Admiral's policies and carried on the good work which he had set a-rolling with so much impetus.

  But in 1881 the Owen heirs left the island, selling the entire property to a party of Americans, who organized a company which seems to have had for its aim the making of Campobello into a summer residential spot of the highest order. Presently Campobello underwent an unexpected metamorphosis. Two great hotels sprang up on the slopes overlooking Friar's Bay. At the same time summer cottages began to peep from the trees and were tenanted by families whose names figure in social dictionaries. Also there appeared a public library in Welshpool and a recreation room and a ballroom as an annex. Despite the fact that Campobello is a beauty spot of the sea, being, as has already been written, like a piece of the Adirondacks or the Maine woods dropped in the sea, the scheme did not wholly succeed. Possibly that mysterious disease "Campobello enthusiasm," exhilarated the chief movers of affairs to begin, like the Owens, in crescendo. It would seem that the progress was in diminuendo.

The island was finally sold by the first company to an equally ambitious but more slow-going party of Americans, who are now engaged in the work of developing the place. Its policy has been to preserve the island, its timber and its natural beauties. The hotel business is not of primary importance, but for the visitors every comfort is provided for at an inn which stands around the Admiral's house on Deer Point. It is a quiet, simple place, a delight to the imaginative mind and the old-fashioned home instinct; for the Admiral's quarter deck is still out under the trees, the old brass dialed clock ticks on the stairway, the pollock fish still school in the bay and the Indians come to the front door with their seal skins, grass-bound pipes and baskets. To hear the musical twittering of the flag coming down at sunset is to conjure the ghost of the dead Admiral. One sees him plainly in the dusk, gravely saluting the flag which he always saluted, even when it was but a shot-torn ribbon at the peak.

Beacon

Jan 13, 1900

Lord Strathcona has cabled $25,000 for the Montreal emergency typhoid hospital and says he would gladly contribute $100,000 more to eradicate the causes of the epidemic. What a pity men like Strathcona cannot live always!

By falling from a ladder at Sir William Van Horne's summer dwelling, on Friday, Mr. Charles Horsnell, contractor, was badly shaken up. He fell a distance of about nine feet, striking the ground heavily. No serious results are apprehended.

Beacon

Jan 20/1910

Canada and Britain gearing for war with Germany

Death of Dr. James Hannay, editor, historian and poet, in Saint John Wed.; Had only recently completed history of New Brunswick.

Ad for Glenelg Dark Porphry Quarries, R. A Stuart and Son. Monumental stone. [Glenelg Road, the road to Steen Lake and the old Hanson and Stuart Quarries]

Beacon

Jan 27/1910

Artesian well tests at Algonquin. One yielded 144,000 on 24-hour test. Shaughnessy's 16,000. "The new well at the power station has been pronounced a failure, but good results are expected from the well on the site of the hill overlooking Katy's Cove."

A Good Old-Fashioned Time

Eastport Citizen—The days of Admiral and Mrs. Owen were recalled by the older residents of Campobello recently, when the old Owen homestead was thrown open, and Mr. and Mrs. Merriman tendered an old fashioned housewarming by the people of the island. The height of good cheer prevailed. Fred and Henry Mulholland with their fiddles kept all hands on the move, for when a Mulholland fiddles, to keep still is impossible. Fore and afters, contras, and step dances followed in rapid succession until midnight when the dining room was thrown open and the fiddlers and dancers stopped long enough to feast first their eyes, then the inner man, on long tables laden with whole roast pigs, fowl and other good things. Richard Farmer on behalf of the guests presented Mrs. Merriman with a handsome piece of Wedgwood, and three rousing cheers were given for host and hostels. After supper dancing was resumed, and continued until the wee small hours.

Some very satisfactory tests have been made of the artesian wells at the Algonquin Hotel by Mr. Kent. The well immediately in the rear of the hotel yielded 144,000 gallons on a 24 hours test, and the Shaughnessy well, 15,400 gallons for 24 hours. The new well at the power station has been pronounced a failure, but goof results are expected from the well on the side of the hill overlooking Katy's Cove.

St. Croix Courier

Jan 27/1910

Mrs. Allerton's dancing party Thursday evening at "The Inn" was a most brilliant and highly successful social affair. About 30 couples were in attendance and Mrs. Allerton proved, as usual, an ideal hostess.

History of Journalism in St. Andrews

Paper Read Before Canadian Lit. Club by R. E. Armstrong

Feb 3 and Feb. 10, 1910

The sum of accessible information with regard to the early history of St. Andrews is of so meager a character as to afford little material for the historian. The late Joseph W. Lawrence of St. John, of whom I have many kindly recollections, in his Footprints says that the St. Andrews Herald was the first paper published here. It appeared in the year 1819, 36 years after the first settlement of the Loyalist refugees in St. Andrews.

            It seems a little strange to us in these days of modern journalism, and "hustleism," if I may be permitted to coin a word—that a town of such promise and prominence should have existed so long without a local paper to give voice to the ambitions of its people, more particularly as many of the first residents were men of culture and refinement, and were accustomed to newspapers in the homes that they abandoned in the United States. It is not the way that towns are built and boomed now-a-days.

            But it should be remembered that the conditions which prevailed then were vastly different from what they are today. The early journalists of St. Andrews labored under many disadvantages. The country was young. Coin was scarce. There were few roads in the province. They could not call to their aid, as can the journalists of today, such scientific and mechanical agencies as the locomotive, the steamship, the telegraph, the ocean cable, the telephone, the wireless message, the bicycle, the automobile—and may I also say the aeroplane. Most of these were unknown, scarcely dreamed of, 90 years ago.

            They had no typewriters to expedite their work in their sanctums. Short hand was not in the general use that it is today. Everything had to be written by the slow, laborious hand process. Ninety years ago the method of setting up type had changed little from what it was in Gutenberg's time. Indeed, the linotypes, the monolines, and the other type-setting and type casting machines, which are employed in the larger printing offices, have only been perfected within the last twenty-five years. Stereotyping was unknown 90 years ago in general newspaper work. The printing presses were of the most primitive character, usually a Washington hand-press of an Army press, from which not more than 200 or 400 copies could be produced in half a day, and that usually by the expenditure of a good deal of perspiration and profanity. Today the perfecting presses print editions up to 400 pages or more, turning them out folded and complete at the rate of 10,000 or 60,000 per hour. What perfection will be reached in the printer's art during the next 90 years I would not attempt to predict.

            Ninety years ago, the postal accommodations at St. Andrews were very incomplete. Mails were few and far between. They came here very irregularly, an occasional mercantile craft or man-of-war bringing a batch of letters from the old world. Under these conditions can you wonder that the town was so long without a paper!

            Concerning the first paper Mr. Lawrence says:

            "The St. Andrews Herald was the property of a Company. Its editor, John Cochran, early retied and was succeeded by David Howe, brother of the Hon. Joseph Howe. In 1822, Peter Stubbs, a merchant of St. Andrews, purchased the Herald. His foreman was John H. Storey. In 1831 he sold it to his son John; the paper shortly after was discontinued. From 1820 to 1827 Mr. Stubbs was one of the members for Charlotte County. In 1832 he returned to Scotland, and died in 1840 in his 57th year.

            Mr. D. Russell Jack, editor of Acadiensis, to whom I am indebted for information, says that David Howe removed to Halifax, and is buried in the old historic graveyard there.

            A few copies of the Herald are still preserved. One of these, of date April 24, 1821, has been in my possession for several years. It was called the St. Andrews Herald and Commercial Advertiser. This paper is No. 20, vol. II, which would make the first issue about October 29, 1819. It is a four-page paper, four columns to the page, the column measure being a little wider than that which now prevails. In length each page is 15 inches. Under the heading it is announced that the paper is "Printed and Published by Howe and Storey every Tuesday morning." The subscription price is "15 shillings per annum."

            At the head of the first column is the customary publisher's announcement, as follows:

            "SAINT ANDREWS HERALD, Printed at No. 5, South side of the Market Wharf, where Subscriptions, Communications, Advertisements, or Job Work of any kind will be thankfully received and promptly attended to."

            "Communications and Orders for Printing of any kind, arriving through the Post Office, must be post-paid, otherwise they will not be attended to."

            The early publisher did not consider it any part of his duty to mirror the doings of the townsfolk or to devote any part of his paper to chronicling local happenings. He had no editorial opinions on any subject or if he had he did not give expression to them. Indeed were it not for the few local advertisements the reader would scarcely know that there were any inhabitants in the town. It was regarded then as little short of impertinence to make mention of the movements of people, the only persons who were thought worthy of mention being some prominent official or someone of unusual importance. Today, the newspapers have reached the other extreme.

            The first page of this Herald of April 29, 1821, is largely taken up with a letter dealing with "a scheme to promote the rural economy of the Province." The writer alludes to "the benevolent measures adopted by two of my townsmen who are erecting a Poor-house." "The mode of farming the poor to the lowest bidder," he tritely observes, "as adopted in this province, is not only rendering charity disgusting and abhorrent to its object but is also a radical evil, and alike offensive to humanity and to every principle of national policy. As the Poor House building has the advantage of, I believe, at least 20 acres of good land attached to it, I am induced to lay before the public the following interesting extracts (here follows a lengthy report of the Alms House at Salem).

            The fourth column on the first page contained a mathematical proposition of some intricacy; an extract from the Baltimore Gazette referring to a contrivance to stop runaway horses; a clipping concerning the Royal Society, in which reference is made to the discovery of a volcano in the moon and a short paragraph on American Flour, which commodity was found to keep better in the W. India Stations than British flour.

            On page 2, there are several communications, A. Armstrong, deputy-treasurer for West Isles and Campobello, calls attention to the fact that "the duties received at West Isles and Campobello, for the year 1820, on articles entered for exportation, amounted to £10,810 shillings 3d." A letter dealing with County Debt bears the signature of "A Superannuated Parish Pauper." There is another letter on the same subject signed by "Brunswick." "Philo," of Deer Island, propounds an algebraic problem. The rest of this page is taken up with English and European news.

             Page 3 contains a description of the celebration of His Majesty's birthday. I quote the following extracts:

            "Yesterday being appointed, (by Royal ordinance) for the celebration of the Birth of His Most Gracious Majesty, George IV., was kept here in a manner worthy of the occasion, and evincing in the highest degree, the loyalty and affection of the inhabitants of this part of His Majesty's American domains. About half past 12, the troops of this depot, under the command of Captain Thomas Jones marched down King Street, and were drawn up in the Market Square, where they fired a feu de joie in honor of the day, with a regularity and precision we have seldom witnessed. The Militia Artillery Company, under Captain Hatch, with the two companies of the first Battalion Charlotte Militia under Major C. Campbell, commanded by Capts. Jack and McMaster, assembled at their usual parade ground and after performing several evolutions, proceeded to Water Street, and at 4 o'clock fired a royal salute in very good style; after which the music played up, and three loyal cheers were given until the hats of all present waved in the air. . . . The officers of the Militia, with Magistrates of the town, then repaired to McFarlan's Hotel, where a celebration was provided. The festivities of the day were closed by a ball at McFarlan's Hall, where the most respectable of both sexes were present. The room was handsomely decorated with festoons of evergreen, and in one part was placed the crown, and underneath, the well-known motto 'Dieu et Mon Droit.' The dancing continued to an early hour, and all appeared to enjoy the scene, in the highest glee."

            "His Majesty is now in the second year of his reign, and we trust he will long hold the scepter of the British realms, secure alike in the affections and loyalty of a free generous and brave people."

            In another part of this paper appear the speeches at the prorogation of the legislature of Lower Canada. Earl Dalhousie, who prorogued the House, expressed "Regret that the expectations of His Majesty, which, by his command, I had the honour to express to you at the opening of the session, have not been realized. . . . I think it a duty which I owe to you and to your country, to call upon you to consider during this Summer, the result of the discussion in all its bearings. You will see the administration of the civil government left without any pecuniary means but what I shall advance upon my own personal responsibility; you will see individuals suffering under severe and unmerited hardships caused by the want of that constitutional authority that is necessary for the payment of the expenses of the Civil Government. You will see the interior improvements of the country nearly at a standstill; you will see, in short, the Executive government in a manner palsied and powerless. w/hen I shall again summon you to meet here in parliament you will come to decide the important question whether the government shall be restored to its constitutional energy, or whether you are to deplore the prospect of lasting misfortune by a continuance in the present state of things."

            A gloomy picture this, but fortunately for the struggling colony, the threatened misfortune did not prove the "lasting" one that the noble Earl feared.

            The advertisements of the Herald of 1821 are not very numerous. Thomas Wyer, auctioneer, offers to lease two lots on the Northeast side of St. Andrews church. As deputy provincial treasurer, Thomas Wyer publishes a notice with respect to the payment of provincial bonds. Elisha Andrews, Sheriff, offers for sale John Craft's farm in the parish of St. David. Thomas Sime asks all those indebted to him pay up and "save themselves the cost of a suit." Benj. Carlow advertises a small kedge anchor picked up in Cookson's cove. Thomas Johnson and Benjamin Byram announce that they will take possession of that large and commodious House at the head of the Market Wharf, commonly known by the name of Currier's boarding house." Margaret Crafts offers for sale a farm at Oak Bay. Jerome Alley, secretary of the Charlotte County Agricultural and emigrant Society, asks for tenders for the purchase of certain livestock. Henry Hutchings advertises cable, herring nets, etc. which "will be sold low for cash or bartered for West India produce or Fish. The officers of the First Battalion Charlotte County Militia are informed that they can be supplied with very handsome caps, swords, belts, Plates, et., at less than sterling cost without charges, by applying to the Quarter Master. Colin Campbell, auctioneer, offers a saw and gristmill and 400 acres of land on Digdeguash river, commonly called McFarlane's Mills. James Boyd informs the person who passed a counterfeit dollar on "the subscriber's apprentice" that "unless he supplies a good dollar and pays for the advertisement that his name will be made public. Harris Hatch, clerk of the peace, announces that "the assize of bread, set by a special Sessions of the Peace" is as follows: "The sixpenny wheaten loaf to weigh 2 lb. 11 oz., rye do. 3 lb. 14 oz., and other loaves in proportion. Hannah G. Goss, administratrix of the estate of John Goss, late of the Parish of St. George, publishes an estate notice. John Frick, St. Stephen, announces that he has received a license to act as auctioneer. Kelliher and Rankin advertise hay for sale." Under the heading "Naval Intelligence" is recorded the arrival of the brig William Pitt, Capt. Mowatt, from Barbadoes, 22 days consigned to Andrews and Frye.

            There are no editorials. If the editors ever took "their pen in hand" it must have been to write letters to each other. The little local items, which form such a conspicuous feature of the present day newspaper, are entirely absent. There is no personal news. If there was any moving about from place to place it was done without the public knowing anything about it. Mrs. So and So's bridge whist party, the meeting place of the sewing circle and such charming little functions that the modern editor has to keep tabs on - not one of these little affairs is deemed worthy a place by the newspaper chronicler of 1821. There is not even a "pretty wedding" although I doubt not that there were pretty and winsome brides in those days as there are today. (conclusion next week)

History of Journalism in St. Andrews

Paper Read Before Canadian Lit. Club by R. E. Armstrong

Feb 10, 1910

(continued from last week)

A second copy of the St. Andrews Herald is before me, bearing date March 16, 1824. I note that in this number the name is changed to St. Andrews Herald and General Advertiser. Peter Stubs is now the editor and the price of the paper has been advanced to 16 shillings per annum. Mr. Stubs was a member of the Provincial Legislature and in the report of its doings his name frequently appears. In this report, allusion is made to the death of "His Honor Ward Chipman, the late President of the Province."

            One of the bills under discussion was a road law. The Herald, commenting upon it, says: "The time does not yet seem to have arrived for the legislature to make a road law suitable to the different classes of the community." The road committee of the legislature recommended 7000 £ "for the further improvement of the great roads of communication throughout the province." From Fredericton to St. Andrews 700 £ was to be used, and from Saint John to St. Andrews, a like sum.

            A bill was read a first time "to provide for the permanent interment of the remains of the late Lieutenant Governor Smyth, within the walls of the Parish Church of Fredericton." In a note the editor says that the lieutenant Governor was buried within the walls of the Church at Fredericton by permission of the Church Wardens and Vestry (the rector being dead). A law of the province makes the interment of any corpse within the church walls illegal and the present bill is to legalize the interment in this instance.

            At this session 200 £ was granted for the St. Andrews Grammar School.

Among the items of news appears the following: "We understand that Chevalier Jouet, Esq., of St. Mary's, in the County of York has been appointed by His Honor the President, Deputy Collector at West Isles, in place of R. E. Armstrong Esq., appointed Surveyor and Searcher of His Majesty's Customs at Saint John, and that George Pigeon, St. Stephen, Esquire, of Fredericton, has been appointed his Majesty's Receiver General."

            Local news was still an absent quantity in the weekly newspaper, but it is noticeable, that there is a slight growth in local advertising. One advertisement states that "one shilling per bushel will be paid for all good hardwood Ashes delivered at Mr. Samuel Connick's at Waweig." James Parkinson advertises a Chemical Embrocation and Opodeldoc. Dr. McStay announces the receipt of a supply of fresh Vaccine Virus. He states that he will vaccinate adults and children at his shop on the Wednesday of each week, free of charge. Maxwell Rankin has a Sleigh to let. Samuel Watts advertises "Ladies real and Roan Morocco Dress and Walking Shoes, etc. Patrick Kelliher acquaints the public with the fact that he has fitted up a commodious sleigh to run between St. Andrews and Saint John. Colin Campbell, Thomas Wyer and John Wilson, commissioners of beacons, advertise for tenders for hemlock logs with which to erect a pair of beacons on the Sand Bar to the eastward of St. Andrews harbor. Thomas Bibbar announces that "the Lord Nelson Packet now sails regularly between St. Andrews and Eastport." John Kimball, Eastport, advertises staples and domestic goods. James Parkinson says he has for sale, "Rum, gin, brandy, port and white wine, gunpowder, tea, coffee, chocolate, stream loom shirtings, sheetings, shoes and boots, women's shawls, men's and boys' morocco caps," etc.

            Among the ads, is one announcing the "The Youth's Instructor" will be published monthly at the Printing Office of the Saint John Courier and subscriptions will be received at St. Andrews by Mr. Miller, Madras School.

The Ven. Archdeacon Raymond, L. L. B., of St. Mary's Church, Saint John, has very kindly furnished the following extracts from copies of the Herald in his possession:

(extract from St. Andrews Herald, Jan. 1824)

            "On the evening of the New Year the Scotch Church was opened. The front was brilliantly illuminated by wax lights tastefully arranged. Several appropriate selections of sacred music were executed and a great number of the most respectable people of both sexes were present. The outside of the church is finished in the Doric order: extreme height of steeple, 120 feet. Inside is executed in Ionian order. The gallery is supported by ten columns of the most beautiful bird's eye maple. The pulpit and precentor's box are of mahogany supported by six columns of the same in Doric and Ionian orders. In the rear of the pulpit is a Venetian window with four mahogany columns in the Ionic order. The ceiling is finished in ornamental stucco work, forming a large and handsome panel supported by an elliptic arch. The whole has been planned by and executed under the immediate and constant superintendence of Mr. Joseph Stevenson , and every part bears the most ample evidence of his skill, fidelity and attention. It is one of the most neat and substantial places of public worship throughout British America. The Church and Manse will cost about $16,000 and by this the public may form some idea of the magnitude of the benefaction of C. Scott, Esq., who has thus generously made the most acceptable present to the disciples of the Church of Scotland and their descendants which man can offer; and for which his name will be held in grateful remembrance long after the edifices themselves shall have yielded to the relentless scythe of time."

(St. Andrews Herald, July 1824)

            The commerce of this town has labored for some years past under great inconveniences for want of a Bank. To remedy this inconvenience we understand that Christopher Scott, Esq., has determined to establish a Bank himself and will appropriate £15,000 exclusively for that object. Until the establishment of the Bank at Eastport it was necessary to negotiate bills of exchange at Boston or New York and the returns in specie were uncertain and precarious. The business of the Bank at Eastport is, however, so limited that the merchants cannot realize funds with that dispatch and to that amount that the business of St. Andrews port requires."

ST. ANDREWS SECOND PAPER

The St. Andrews Courant was the second paper published in St. Andrews. It made is appearance in 1831, Colin Campbell being the editor. He died in 1843.

            I have been unable to discover any copies of this paper. Mr. Clarence Ward, president of the New Brunswick Historical Society, has sent me the accompanying interesting reference to the Courant, copied from the Saint John Courier of January 7 1832:

            "St. Andrews Courant"—This paper, we understand, is now printed by three lads, the oldest eighteen years of age last Saturday (December 1831)—the others sixteen and twelve, without the aid of foreman, journeyman, or apprentice to conduct the mechanical part of the business—and it is a fact that they have struck off the paper at an earlier hours, and performed double the quantity of job work for the last five weeks, than has been done in the same time since the commencement of the paper, and while a practical printer was employed. They are all sons of the Editor, Colin Campbell, Esq. and neither of them ever saw a type set till the 19th of May last (1831)—The first number of the Courant having been printed on the 12th of that month. We mention this as being a novel circumstance, highly creditable to the genius and industry of the young men, and well worthy of imitation in other quarters."—Courier January 7, 1832."

             Mr. Ward says that Colin Campbell was the son of Colin Campbell, who came from Scotland to New Brunswick in 1748, with his wife and two sons, Colin and Alexander. Colin the younger was born in Glasgow on the 10th of May 1783. He was Sheriff of Charlotte County for a long period. Mrs. Samuel Hallett Whitlock of St. Stephen was his daughter. Colin Campbell married a Miss Campbell, a sister of the last Postmaster Campbell. He died in St Andrews of Aug. 31, 1843. The three "printer boys" who assisted him on the Courant have long since passed away. John Campbell, father of Miss Annie Campbell, of this town, was one of them. The other two died at sea when quite young. A stone is erected in the Kirk yard to their memory.

THE STANDARD APPEARS

The third paper to enter upon the field of journalism in St. Andrews was the Standard and Frontier Agricultural and Commercial Gazette. The last-named high-sounding appellation was dropped in later years and it became known to the public as the Standard. It was established in 1833, Mr. George N. Smith being its first publisher. It has an unbroken and triumphal record of almost half a century. Mr. D. Russell Jack says it was probably one of the best New Brunswick papers of its day. The correctness of this observation I can fully endorse, it having been my privilege to inspect many of the earlier editions of the paper from the files now in possession of Mrs. Charles S. Everett, a grand daughter of the first publisher. That its inception was not unattended with the tribulations incident to the early life of most papers is shown by the following circular which has fallen into my hands:

            St. Andrews, November 23rd, 1833

            "Sir—When I undertook to publish the Standard I found the press and materials in a situation, from which it was not thought advisable to remove them. That situation, however, will not suit for carrying on the work during the Winter, therefore a fit place has been selected in which the Establishment will in future be conducted. The removal has interrupted this day's publication, for which your indulgence is most respectfully craved."

            "The difficulties attendant on my new occupation are disappearing, and I not only look confidently forward to regularity of publication, but can promise a series of original articles on the local concerns of this County, as well as the general affairs of the Province, which will be found to embrace those liberal views how so widely entertained."

            "I am Sir,

                        Your most obedt. Servt.

                                    Geo. N. Smith"

Mr. George Smith, the first editor was a man of more than usual ability. In addition to his other accomplishments he was a land surveyor and an artist of repute. He was one of the surveyors who laid out the route for that brilliant but unfortunate project the St. Andrews and Quebec Railroad. He retired from the newspaper in 1839 and removed to Saint John, the editorial mantle descending upon his son, Adam Smith, who was well qualified by education and attainments to carry on the work of his father. He maintained the paper at a high degree of perfection considering the business condition which prevailed in its later years, until 1880, when he retired from the activities of life, resting upon the laurels which he had so well won as the Nestor of the Press of the Province. He died thirteen years ago, leaving behind him many beautiful memories.

            The first issue of the Standard contains the announcement of the death in London on July 29, 1838, of Christopher Scott, whose name will ever be linked with the Presbyterian church of St. Andrews.

            A glimpse of the Standard file for 1840 shows that St. Andrews was a port of considerable importance. On the 1st day of January of that year, the paper states that there were ten square-rigged vessels, manned by 140 men, loading with deals and timber in the harbor, besides numerous smaller craft. The editor also remarks upon the weather conditions which prevailed that season. There was no snow until after Christmas, the temperature being almost summer-like.

             A copy of the Standard of Sept. 12, 1877, has been handed me by a friend. The leading article, written in that trenchant manner which characterized Mr. Smith's writings, refers to the 44th anniversary of the paper. I quote a few of the opening lines:

            "Last Monday, viz. on the 10th September, 1833, the Standard first appeared before the public and amid many discouragements has continued to the present date. Through all these long years the writer has been at his post "in summer's heat and winter's cold" with a exception of a short time at the beginning of the present year."

            I have here copies of two Extras issued by the Standard. The first one bears date of June 9, 1836, and conveys the glad tidings of the granting of £10,000 by his Majesty's government for the preliminary survey of the St. Andrews and Quebec Railroad. It was evidently an occasion of great rejoicing in the old town. But, ah me! what bitter disappointments were in store for the promoters of this brilliantly conceived scheme!

            The second "extra" bears date July 22nd, 1868, and was published in lieu to the regular edition of the paper.

            [Extracts from the Standard files of 1869, with reference to the Saxby gale, which destroyed almost all of the wharves at this port, were here read.]

THE CHARLOTTE GAZETTE

The Charlotte Gazette made its bow to the public on the 10th of June, 1846. The Standard bidding the newcomer welcome, said: "It forms a respectable addition to the periodical literature of the Province." The paper continued for a number of years. John McLachlan, a Scotchman, was its publisher. He died I am informed in 1854 or 1855. William Gibson, afterwards stationmaster at Woodstock, was foreman. Mr. McLachlan lived in a house which stood upon the stie of the present summer residence of Rev. H. Phipps Ross, immediately under the shadow of Chamcook Mountain. This house was the scene of a tragedy, his housekeeper having been burned to death within its walls. After the tragedy McLachlan deserted the house and for years it stood along and abandoned upon the mountain side. It was alleged that on the anniversaries of the woman's death weird, uncanny noises would be heard proceeding from it. It got the reputation for being "a haunted house," and as such it was known for many years. The house stood until Mr. James Townsend removed it to make room for the present stately building. With the removal the old housekeeper's ghost seemed to have been effectually laid for nobody has seen or heard of any spooks in that locality since that time.

THE PROVINCIALIST

The Provincialist, published by Patrick Clinch, must have followed close upon the heels of the Gazette, though the years of its earthly pilgrimage I have been unable to obtain Mr. clinch was a son of Capt. Clinch, the original grantee of 7,700 acres in the town and parish of St. George. He was a man of importance—like most St. Andrews editors—and sat for a period in the Legislature of the Province. One old resident of the town told me that the Provincialist was published in a building opposite the Grimmer store. She said she went to a school upstairs in the same building, taught by a R. Peteson. When our present Sheriff was master of the Madras school in St. George in 1865 the old editor was living there with his son. One day the old man wandered int the woods and was lost for some time. Everybody quit work and went out to seek for the lost. After a long search he was found, deep in the forest. Though very weak he was not beyond cracking a joke with his finder. When the latter called out to his comrades that he had found him, the old man replied, in a thin, weak voice, "Yes, and it isn't much of a gain you've got." He died not long afterwards.

THE BAY PILOT

The Bay Pilot first saw the light of the day on the island of Grand Manan; the late John G. Lorimer was its publisher. This was in the year 1876. It was a bright little sheet containing considerable local news. But Grand Manan proved too small for the venture and the paper and press were removed to St. Andrews, the plant being set up in a store on Water Street, adjoining the Bradford Hotel. On the 30th day of May, 1879, a company composed of John S. Magee, John Wren, Robert Robinson, W. D. Hartt and RobertGlenn, became proprietors of the paper. Mr. Magee was appointed editor and Mr. Wren manager. These are the only two of the company who are still living. The new proprietors removed the plant to the office on King Street, on the site occupied by the Andraeleo Hall, and owned by the late Harris Hatch. The paper was subsequently taken over by Mr. Magee, who bought out the owners. George Mitchell, now of the Woodstock Dispatch, and the late Frank Howe were successively foremen of the Bay Pilot. Both Mr. Lorimer and Mr. Magee possessed considerable ability as editors. After severing his connection with the paper Mr. Lorimer was appointed a messenger in the House of Commons at Ottawa. He corresponded with a number of newspapers while there. He also compiled a brief history of the island which is frequently quoted. Mr. Magee sold out his plant in 1889, and on the 21st day of March that year ceased publication. In his "valedictory" Editor Magee concluded a very flattering reference to his successor by remarking: "The editor of the Bay Pilot, having steered his craft safely though the storms that sometimes beset here, until The Beacon is within measurable distance, cheerfully resigns his charge, with best wishes for the prosperity of the new craft." Mr. Magee is now spending the evening of his life, with his son in Boston. He is in good health and takes an active interest in all that is going on in this town.

THE BEACON

Of the Beacon other hands than mine will have to write its history. Suffice it for me to say that it began publication in the Land Company's building on May 2, 1889, and that up to the present moment it has never lost an issue, never failed to appear at the appointed time. It was the first paper to introduce a steam power plant in St. Andrews. The Beacon was originally known at the St. Andrews Beacon, but as its horizon widened it adopted on the present title.

As showing the progress that has been made in the printing art in Charlotte County there is among the accumulations of the Beacon office, the remnant of an old Army press, which was used by Robert Grant, the first printer at St. George. It is a very primitive and yet a very effective machine, consisting of an iron bed 12 x 15 inches, with a conical funnel-shaped cylinder attached to the head of the bed. After the form had been "rolled" and the sheet attached to the tympan, this cylinder was then swung across the type, giving it the required impression. This press bears a patent date of July 29, 1856. This old St. George printer was evidently as peculiar as his press, judging by the inscription prepared by himself to be placed upon his tomb and which may be read by any one visiting the beautiful little cemetery at St. George:

            "Here after a life of much trouble rests in peace the body of Robert Grant, the first printer in St. George. An honest man, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, died here in 1869."

            He saw whatever thou hast seen;

            He suffered all that troubles thou;

            He was whatever through has been;

            He is what though wilt be.

            "Reader, whatever may be thy feelings, circumstances or contemplations, thou canst always safely say this also shall pass away."

In concluding this somewhat imperfect and rambling sketch of St. Andrews newspapers and editors, I would take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to Rev. Dr. W. O. Raymond, of Saint John; Mr. Clarence Ward, President of the New Brunswick Historical Society; Mr. D. R. Jack, Editor of the Acadiensis; Mr. John S. Magee, formerly editor of the Bay Pilot, Mrs. C. S. Everett and others who have assisted me by contributing information upon the matter in hand.

Engineer's Report on Water. He estimates it would cost 60,000 to pile the town from Harriet Street and provide 40 hydrants.

Engineer's report on proposed Chamcook pipe. If artesian well tests at Algonquin prove adequate, CPR may back out of Chamcook scheme.

CPR now has 3,000 more miles of track than any other railroad company on the continent. Almost 2,000 added last year.

Beacon

Feb 10/1910

In spite of its nationally circulated literature, St. Andrews seems to be up against a wall of silence on the ocean port business.

Campobello people are worrying over the fact that the new proprietors of the Island are stripping it of much of its forest growth. They say that if the denudation proceeds at the present rate for a few seasons longer three won't be a tree left on the island for firewood, or anything else. Here is a subject that the recently formed Campobello board of trade might take up with profit.

The Ladies at Elm Corner acted as hostesses recently for the Canadian Literature Club.

Beacon

March 3/1910

Work continuing on F. W. Thompson house and Jeremiah Smith house.

Town Council—Considers Water and Schools

On Feb. 17 the Chairman of the committee had an interview with Mr. W. S. Painter, representing the Algonquin Hotel Company and allied interests, when the latter stated that the recent dynamiting and deepening of the artesian wells connected with the Hotel and cottages had resulted in an abundant flow of water, so that it would not be necessary for the Company to take up the propose Chamcook Lake extension. This announcement leaves the Town water situation practically in the same position as it was when Sir Thomas Shaughnessy suggested to your committee that the experimental tests at Hume's Hill should be deferred until his Company had had an opportunity of making a survey to Chamcook lake, with the exception that the Council is in possession of an approximate estimate of the cost of piping the Town and also the proportion of the cost of construction the Hotel Company would expect the Town to be as should connection to be made with Chamcook Lake.

            The recent tests of the artesian wells in connection with the Algonquin Hotel and cottages have, your committee has been informed, disclosed the following conditions:—The well immediately in the rear of the Hotel has capacity of 100,000 gallons per day; the well at the top of Cemetery Hill road, 72,000 gallons per day; the Shaughnessy well, 16,000 per day; the well alongside the power station, no appreciable flow. The well at the foot of Cemetery Hill has become brackish, but it is thought that this can be remedied when the supply from it again becomes available.

            Omitting from consideration, the two latter wells, the total capacity of the available wells is about 190,000 gallons per day, while the estimated consumption of the hotel and contiguous cottages ill scarcely reach 100,000 gallons, leaving surplusage of 90,000. It must be apparent from this condition, that if these wells continue to yield their present supply throughout the season, it will be some years before any necessity will arrive for a connection with Chamcook Lake.

            As it is useless to expect the town to develop either commercially or residentially, without an adequate water supply your committee feels that further action on the part of this council is necessary, and would recommend that the committee be authorized to resume its deferred tests at Hume's Hill, so that if a sufficient flow of good water is obtained, the question of bringing it into Town might be submitted to a vote of the rate payers.

            Respectfully submitted, R. E. Armstrong, Wright McLaren, C. S. Everett

Jeremiah Smith cottage overlooking Katy's Cove almost finished.

Lubec Herald

March 2/1910

Photo of dining hall of "The Inn." Campobello.

Beacon

March 17, 1910

Sir William Van Horne and Mr. R. B. Van Horne came down from Montreal on Saturday to inspect the new work that is being done at Covenhoven. They returned the same day.

Beacon

March 24/1910

Van Horne further improving his summer home.

The summer kingdom of Sir William Van Horne in St. Andrews Bay is an engaging spot. Locally, it is known as Minister's Island, and between tides can easily be reached by carriage. Just now the fields are bare and brown and the garden patches empty, but when one steps into the big hot-house or vinery the scene is changed. The "Sunny Southland" could breathe no sweeter, warmer atmosphere; and when one looks around upon grapevine, fig tree, peach tree, and the many other fruits, and flowers, and plants that are found therein, it is not difficult to imagine that the Southland has indeed been reached. Mr. Clark, who presides over this branch of Sir William's estate, has a busy time looking after the thousands of plants and vines. Just now he is getting ready for summer, so that every waking moment is occupied.

            At the mammoth stock barn, Supt. Oastler has two large herds of Dutch belted and French-Canadian cattle to look after, besides the Clydesdale and hackney horses, Tam worth pigs, and poultry galore. A French-Canadian bull, recently added to the farm, is said to be the best-bred animal in Canada. The two cattle herds now number twenty-two each. They are all in fine order.

            At Sir William's summer residence many changes are being made. A new wing has been added to the eastern end of the building, about 40 x 45 feet on the ground. It will provide room in the basement for a large wine cellar. On the ground floor it renders an enlargement of the music room possible, besides adding a large studio and a billiard room. The bathroom facilities on this floor are also being increased. On the second floor are two large bedrooms, which will be used by Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Van Horne, besides storerooms, wardrobes, etc. Above this there is a chance for another sleeping room or two, with an observatory which commands a wide sweep of the bay and the surrounding islands.

            The walls of the first story of the new wing are composed of island sandstone, corresponding with the old building. Above this they are of wood. The carpenter work is being done under the supervision of Angus Rigby and Sons, and they are doing a good job. Mr. Charles Horsnell is doing the mason work and Mr. Goodwill Douglass the plumbing. The new wing will be ready for occupation by the first of June.

            In addition to this work the entire roof of the old structure is to be covered with asbestos shingles, so as to make the building as near fireproof as possible. There will also be a number of important changes in the interior of the old building

            The grounds are to be further improved this spring by the addition of a private walk along the shore from the spring to the lower end of the island. This will be enclosed by shade trees.

St. Croix Courier

March 24/1910

A Railway Scheme. Talk revived of a line from Calais to Mattawamkeag for the CP.

Campobello: Large lumber operations conducted by John Hastey. Corporation has installed modern water system. . . . Mr. Hastey carried on his operation on land owned by the Campobello Corporation, and contrary to a popular report, the Island is not being denuded of its growth, and the timber cut was of full growth and fine quality. The company is cutting timber on a practical and scientific basis, along the line of up-to-date and approved forestry and with true regard for the proper conservation of the forest.

            The Corporation has installed an up-to-date water system to supply their hotels and cottages, and the houses nearby. They have sunk an artesian well, and are about to erect a large reservoir with a capacity of 100,000 gallons, and are putting in hydrants at convenient distances so that the hose can be coupled on and used in case of fire. In appreciation of this, the people have inaugurated a firefighting brigade, and have raised by subscription 350.00 dollars for the purchase of a chemical engine, ladders, buckets, hose, etc., so that Campobello will have fire protection second to no place of its size on the continent. The Corporation very generously donated 100.00 towards this, and the president, A. Buchanan, and the secretary treasurer, H. M. Merriman, contributed 25.00 each, thus helping in a practical way.

Beacon

April 7/1910

The Great Treadwell Mine at Alaska. Long Article on a St. Andrews boy who made good. Other pieces on Treadwell people in California earlier in this year.

"The fresh water fish found in this country include landlocked salmon, salmon, trout and pickerel." "The country's famous for its root crops, its turnips and potatoes having almost a continental reputation. There are many fine orchards scattered over it." Its mineral resources include undeveloped areas of magnetic iron and coal and several copper mines are in process of development. In the country lying between St. Andrews and St. George there is the finest red and black granite in the world." [The Passamaquoddy Bay area] "is well supplied with churches and schools, has connection with the outside world by the tracks of the CPR, the New Brunswick Southern, the Washington County (Maine) railway, and also by several small lines of steamers . . ."

Sir William Van Horne has purchased a large block of land at Santiago, Cuba, and will erect a magnificent hotel thereon. Sir William has a weakness for islands.

Since there is no room at Saint John for the GTP, and to develop Courtenay Bay and keep it open for traffic will cost millions of dollars, why not solve the difficulty by coming to Charlotte?

Beacon

April 7/1910

The Algonquin Hotel annex is being hastily pushed forward. Last week interior plastering was begun. . . . The new wing gives 96 additional bedrooms, and 56 more bathrooms. In every room there will be steam heat and hot and cold water. Will open June 20 to Sept. 30. Manager Allerton.

St. Tourist Association guidebook: "On the Bay of Fundy, are many places which have special charms for the tourist. Chief of these is St. Andrews, with its famous Algonquin Hotel, the finest summer resort in Canada, managed by the CPR, a guarantee that it is of the best, and Chamcook Lake, with its gamey landlocked salmon. The beautiful island of Campobello with the Campobello Inn, is another popular and well conducted resort. The island of Grand Manan also is worthy of a visit and those who desire salt breezes will find these places unrivalled both in the beauty of he scenery and the attractiveness of he surroundings.

Beacon

April 14/1910

Beautiful Summer Home—Mr. F. W. Thompson Will Have Fine Estate. Detailed article.

What Mr. F. W. Thompson, President and General manager of the Ogilvie Milling Company, does he does well and thoroughly. This has marked his whole career, from the time that he began life as a humble bank clerk in one of the Eastern Township banks, supplementing his modest income by doing business printing on a small foot power press, until now that he has become the head of one of the biggest manufacturing concerns of Canada, a director in many of the leading industrial institutions, of the Dominion, and one of the most prominent financiers of the country.

            This spirit of thoroughness - this desire to excel - he has manifested in the stately summer residence that he has erected near the Algonquin Hotel and which he will occupy with his family during the coming month of June. Not content with having one of the most beautiful dwellings in the place, he proposes that the grounds shall be as beautiful as landscape artists and labor can make them. He has a battalion of men and teams engaged on his place now, digging drains, building terraces and grading up for the pergola which is to be erected at the end of his flower garden and which he expects to be one of the most striking features of his estate. This pergola will be semi-circular stone structure with pillars and open sides and roof. It will be 40 feet across. Flowers, vines and shrubs will be trained up its walls.

            The residence has a frontage of almost 100 feet and commands a beautiful outlook. On the lower floor, entering from the broad verandah on the southwest corner, there is a wide hallway which communicates with the large living room. Adjoining the living room, with an eastern outlook, is the library. The dining hall is a splendid room 17 x 30 feet, with a beautiful western prospect. There are two large guest rooms, with baths, on this floor. In the rear are the kitchen, servants' dining room, etc. On the second floor are six large sleeping rooms every one with a fine outlook. There are also two bathrooms on this floor. The floor above contains four servants' chambers. The building will be heated by steam and lighted by either electric lights or acetylene gas.

            A large barn, with living rooms for coachmen and stable help, is now in process of erection.

            The plans for Mr. Thompson's residence were prepared by Messrs. Maxell, of Montreal, who have entrusted the carrying out of them to Mr. Wright McLaren, carpenter. The mason work is being done by Mr. Olssen, of Calais; the plumbing by Mr. Goodwill Douglass, and the painting by Mr. Albert Shaw.

Sir William Van Horne, Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne came down from Montreal on Saturday to inspect the improvements that are being made on Minister's Island. They expressed themselves well pleased.

(wrong date—probably 1908) *Piece on C. R. Hosmer's humble beginnings as a telegraph operator and rise to position as head of Ogilvie Milling Company, "one of the biggest manufacturing concerns of Canada." Told by himself—a story with a moral. Try hard. One of the nouveau riche.

Beacon

April 21/1910

New Summer Cottage—The Summer Abiding Place of Jeremiah Smith. Jr. Details.

One of the most comfortable, if not the most pretentious, is the new summer dwelling at St. Andrews that is owned by Mr. Jeremiah Smith, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass, and which occupies a sightly situation on the hill overlooking Katy's Cove. The house is a two-story wooden structure, with the main entrance and a broad verandah on the southeast side. It is one of the colonial order, the architect being Mr. Ames, of Boston.

            One the ground floor are located parlor, hall, dining room, butler's pantry, kitchen, laundry, lavatory and coat room, and help's pantry. Upstairs there are four principal bedrooms and a bathroom, with two bedrooms and a bathroom for the servants.

            The building will secure water and electric lights from the hotel system. Wright McLaren did the carpenter work and supervised the erection of the dwelling. The mason work is being done by Charles Horsnell, the plumbing and electrical connections by Ira Brown and the painting and paper hanging by Albert Shaw. Mr. Smith expects to occupy the dwelling in June.

Details on construction of Algonquin addition. Good on the construction methods of the day. Also orientation of wing. And: "It is said that next September a further concrete addition will be made, with the object of having the entire hotel fireproof and of a permanent character."

Enlarged Algonquin Hotel

Contractors Say Everything will be Finished by June 1

A Big Noise—a Great Big Noise—a noise as if of "something doing,"—comes from the eminence overlooking the town. It has been coming ever since last September, when Mr.  Robert Clark, representing the C. P. R. hotel department, laid the foundation for the concrete addition to the Algonquin Hotel. It increased appreciably when a few weeks later the contract for the superstructure was awarded to Mr. C. E. Deakin, on Montreal. But the noise was on in earnest when F. J. Jago and Company, of Montreal, was given the concrete sub-contract. Then was heard a din only equalled by the tower of Babel,—carpenters hammering forms together and putting them in place; teams hauling oceans of gravel from the beaches; steam mixers turning cement, gravel and water into the finished article; barrow men hustling the liquid cement on to the walls; steam elevators lifting men and barrows as the walls began to leave the ground. Nor did the Noise cease when the three stories of concrete walls were erected. Then Mr. Deakin's carpenters fell into line, and under the direction of such experienced men as William Stewart and Joseph Wilde, the roof timbers were hurried into position.

            The roofing was done by Mr. Reed, of Montreal; the plumbing is being put in by Ald. Thos. O'Connell, of Montreal; the mason-work by Mr. Charles Horsnell, of St. Andrews; the electric connections by Mr. W. M. Dietrich, of Montreal. The mill-work came from the wood-working factory of Haley and Son, St. Stephen. Messrs. Mason, St. Andrews, have the contract for the spring mattresses.

            Mr.  Robert Clark is looking after the work in the C. P. R. interest. There is a great deal of work yet to be done about the building, but June 1 will see it pretty well completed. The annex is connected with the old building at the north-east corner. It runs north between 80 and 90 feet until it strikes a bay, then it angles off in a westerly direction until it connects with the 80 foot water tower. The addition will give 96 sleeping rooms and 56 bathrooms, with hot and cold water in every room.

            It is said that next September a further concrete addition will be made, with the object of having the entire hotel fire-proof and of a permanent character.

Beacon

April 28/1910

Ideal Summer Play-Ground

As a summer playground for the dweller in the crowded city, Charlotte County offers more inducements than probably any other district of similar size in Canada. There is such a diversity of out-door recreation obtainable; there is such a wealth of scenery; there are so many opportunities to get away from "the madding crowd' and get in close communion with Mother Nature,—what wonder is it that this region should have an almost continental reputation!

            Take the district of about St. Andrews, for example. History has woven about it a romance as fascinating as ever appeared in written book. The incidents connected with the visit of the French voyageurs to St. Andrews in 1604, and their settlement of St. Croix Island impart a charm to the locality that is to be found in few places in the new world. Then there is the further historical fact that the Town was founded by Loyalists in 1783, and that some descendants of these sturdy Britons are still in the flesh. The old forts and block-houses which were built to resist raids from Indians and other "hostiles," and which remain as mute evidences of the struggles that the early settler had to contend with,—these help to enhance the interest of the place. Again, it might be mentioned that it was from St. Andrews that the first railroad in Canada was projected. Here, too, many of the noblest sailing ships that sailed the seas were built.

            But this is all past history, and, perhaps, does not interest the modern man so much as the knowledge that at St. Andrews may be found the finest summer hotel in Canada; that it possesses a golf course that is unexcelled on the continent; that its lakes and streams abound in land-locked salmon, trout and other game fish; that in the proper season and under certain restrictions moose and deer, partridge and woodcock may be killed in its woods; that it is particularly inviting field for the yachtsman; that it possesses most attractive drives, and that it is the most healthful spot on earth.

            Then there are other district of the County that possess charms peculiarly their own,—the island of Grand Manan, with its awe-inspiring cliffs, its rugged scenery, its beautiful roads, its splendid fishing; Campobello the beautiful, within almost a stone throw of Uncle Sam's territory; Deer Island, possessing many attractions, and which has yet to be developed as a summer breathing spot; St. George, with its red granite mountains, its splendid lakes, fishing, its beautiful river coursing through broad-spreading intervales, its gorges and cataracts; New River, with a stretch of bathing beach that has no equal on the coast; the harbors of L'Etang, Beaver, Blacks' Back Bay, Letete, and many others, possessing individual characteristics. All these impart a charm to Charlotte County which make it one of the most attractive summer playgrounds in North America.

The talk of a sardine factory in the vicinity of St. Andrews has been revived. The promoters expect to have it ready for packing this season.

Beacon

April 28, 1900

The material to be sold by tender at the Town Home Farm includes about 12 cords white birch firewood.

Beacon

May 5/1910

A Great Man, A Great Road.

Montreal Star. In laying down the chairmanship of the board of directors of the CPR, Sir William Van Horne retired with the reputation not only of having accomplished the most difficult feat of railway building ever recorded, but of being the most successful railway man that the continent has produced.

            His connection with the CPR dates from 1881. At that time the line was in process of construction, 163 miles having been laid on the prairie westward from Winnipeg. There is no need to go into the history of the undertaking up to this date. Sufficient to say that the difficulties and opposition met with had been such that when William Cornelius Van Horne, then the superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, came over as general manager of the CPR, it was felt that upon him mainly rested the answer to the question as to whether the undertaking would be a success or a failure.

            The new general manager was not long in making his presence felt. Many who had been opposing the building of the line were decrying the building of the section along the north shore of Lake Superior. William Van Horne promptly advocated the retention of the original plan, and insisted that an all-Canadian line was absolutely necessary. His opinions, backed by the extraordinary influence he had begun to exercise over his associates, were endorsed by the directors, and he plunged into the work with all the strength of his iron stature. Thus the first big task to which he set himself was to attack the wilderness north of Lake Superior.

            It was no blind driving ahead upon which he entered. He knew from the first the tremendous nature of the task that lay before him, for in his preliminary and personal survey he had found what he afterwards characterized as "200 miles of engineering impossibilities." The country it was necessary to cross was a waste of forest, rock and muskeg, out of which almost every mile of road had to be hewn or blasted or filled up. There must have been times when his stout heart almost failed him, especially when to the extraordinary physical difficulties of the route were added the depressing accompaniments of rain and cold and flood. But he would never admit the possibility of failure. When at length the steel was connected through to "Winnipeg it was generally acknowledged that if he did nothing more this victory over engineering difficulties would give him fame enough for one man.

            But a still more stupendous task was already engaging his attention. The Rocky Mountains, that formidable barrier of interminable snow peaks, had to be pierced. The obstacles that were here encountered made those of the north shore pale into insignificance. A vast army of Chinese and Indians was organized, and under the direction of intrepid and skillful Canadian, English and American engineers, they set to work to conquer the forces of nature with pick and shovel, dynamite and blasting powder. At the head of this army was William Van Horne enduring the hardships and the toil with a fortitude and an optimism that inspired every man engaged in the work. It is related that sometimes after nightfall the strains of some class aria would float out over the wild mountain passes. The Chinese and Sewash laborers knew what that meant. It meant that the Big Chief was satisfied with his day's work, and was expressing his satisfaction in music on his violin.

            Under his direction, the last rail on the Transcontinental was laid in fifty-four months from the commencement of the line. This was in November, 1885, five and a half years before the time, allowed by the terms of the charter. That same year Mr. Van Horne was rewarded by being elected president of the company, and in 1894 he was knighted in recognition of his services to the Empire in providing the great all-British highway to the Orient by way of Canada. Thus under Sir William Van Horne's direction by Canadian pacific was created, and under him it has developed into the greatest transportation company in the world, with a continuous line of railways and steamships that reach half round the globe.

            In 1892 Sir William resigned the presidency of the CPR and became chairman of the board of directors, which position he has held down to the present time, gradually relegating more and more of he direction of the company's affairs to president Sir Thomas Shaughnessy.

            Sir William was born in Will County, Illinois, on February, 3, 1843. When he was 14 he lost his father, and entered the service of a farmer. while on the farm he learned telegraphy, and in 1857 he secured employment on the Illinois Central Railway, going over in the following year to the Michigan Central Railway, with which he remained till he was 21, when he became ticket agent and telegraph operator on the Chicago and Alton Railway. Serving afterwards as dispatcher, superintendent of telegraphs, and divisional superintendent of the road, he became in 1872 general manager of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway. Then he was successively general manager of the Southern Minnesota Railway, president of the same company, general manager of the Chicago and Alton and general superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee at St. Paul Railway, from which he passed to the CPR.

What a pity that men like Sir William Van Horne who have done so much and who can do so much for the country and their fellow men, should ever grow old, or that they should ever be called upon to consider the possibility of withdrawing from the activities of life!

The Montreal Herald suggests that Sir William Van Horne's retirement from the chairmanship of the CPR is done for the purpose of helping Sir Thomas Shaughnessy into politics. Sir William has never given evidence of holding such a serious grudge against Sir Thomas as this would imply, and we don't believe that the latter is capable of doing anything so profoundly foolish as to descend from the high place he occupies in the esteem of the people of Canada as the head of the greatest transportation company on the continent, to become the trouble centre for any political party.

Sir William Van Horne Talks

New York, April 30—In discussing the prospects for reciprocity negotiations between the United States and Canada, Sir William Van Horne declared that too much stress has been laid on the importance of the action of the Province of Quebec in prohibiting the exportation of unmanufactured wood pulp that had been cut upon the Crown lands in the province.

            "The Dominion Government is in no way responsible for the action taken by Quebec," declared Sir William. "The province bears the same relation to Canada as an individual state does to the United States. At the same time Quebec's action was not aimed at any country. The decision was simply the result of a national desire to make the most out of its property. Ontario did the same thing some years ago, and there is no reason why the course taken by Quebec should be construed as being against a harmonious tariff agreement."

            Sir William arrived in the city yesterday to take up the business of the Cuba Company which is building 195 miles of new track in Cuba. It is expected the new roadway will be completed in June.

Well at Hume hill giving good tests. Perhaps sufficient for town use. Testing at present 24,000 gallons per day.

Town Council Meeting

Ald. Armstrong read a letter from President Hays, of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, in which he stated that his engineering department had been considering the question of using St. Andrews as a terminal port, but found that proper grades difficult to obtain and the port too far from the main line.

Beacon

May 12/1910

Edward VII dies.

Beacon

May 19/1910

Water System

In the boring of the test well at Hume's Hill the people of St. Andrews have made the beginning of a water system for the town. The flow secured, it is true, is scarcely sufficient for town purposes, but there can be little doubt that an ample supply can be obtained by drilling a little deeper. This will be a subject for the new council to take up.

            The town needs a water system, as does every town with any pretensions toward progress. There are but two sources of supply available to us. One is at Chamcook Lake, the other is from an artesian well. The C. P. R. having abandoned consideration of Chamcook connection, because of an ample supply of artesian water for their hotel and cottages, the town is likewise compelled to drop the consideration of a supply from this quarter. Of itself the Town cannot afford to bring water from Chamcook and it is even doubtful whether it could afford to pay the two-thirds cost of construction which the C. P. R. people thought was a fair proportion for them to pay. But at all events, the Chamcook connection is out of the question. The only other alternative is a supply from an artesian source. This is the reason why a majority of the people of the town and of the town council voted in favor of having an experimental test well. One great advantage of the well at Hume's Hill is that the water can be brought in by gravitation to any part of the town.

            Now that a beginning has been made, the matter will have to be pushed through to a determination of one kind or another. We believe that the Council would be justified in appropriating a sufficient sum to sink the present well to a depth of at least 500 feet. Then, if the supply was appreciably increased, the council might proceed to enquire as to the cheapest method of conveying the water to the town. The engineer's estimate of piping the town and providing hydrants [40] was $60,000. This contemplated pipes on several of the cross streets as well as on all the other streets. There might be a saving made in this particular. The subject is one that requires careful and cautious consideration, having in view the necessities of the town and the capabilities of the people to bear further financial obligations.

            In this connection, we have been told by one who is in a position to know that it will not be long, unless a water system is procured, before the town will be called upon to expend a lot of money in repairing or renewing the fire tanks. This would furnish a reason why the subject of a public water system should be kept to the front.

St. Croix Courier

May 20/1910

Halley's Comet. King Edward dies.

Beacon

May 26/1910

Some have objected to need for water system, as St. Andrews once had mills, factories and shipyards without one. Armstrong says they left for places where water could be found. Water may bring them back again.

"Last week the big steel tank was placed on the tower in the rear of the new wing."

Beacon

June 2/1910

Sir William Van Horne May Settle Australian Puzzle

Montreal Star—The report is current that Sir William Van Horne will shortly leave on a trip to Australia, to advise the Commonwealth with regard to the construction of a railway across the continent, with the object of settling the interior, which is without inhabitants and devoid of civilization.

            Two transcontinental railways have been proposed—one running from east to west, and the other partially built from north to south from Adelaide to Port Darwin. Both would be gigantic undertakings, especially that proposed from the southern boundary of New South Wales to join the railway system of West Australia at Coolgardie.

            It is understood that it was Chief Commissioner Thomas Tait, of the Victoria Railway system, who recommended Sir William as the most competent railway authority, whose hands were sufficiently free to advise the Government of Australia and those of the various states upon a matter of such importance as the practicability of transcontinental communication with extensive irrigation as an auxiliary feature.

            Sir William is at present on a trip to Cuba and it is consequently impossible to ascertain his views regarding the mission.

Beacon

June 16/1910

". . . the golf course, which has no superior on the continent . . ."

Beautiful Garden—Mr. Harry Clark, gardener for Sir William Van Horne, Minister's Island, makes a splendid show with his field beds and hot house plants this season. His cucumbers are perfect wonders. The new vinery is like getting a glimpse of Dreamland, with its great clusters of grapes and other tropical fruits.

St. Croix Courier

June 16/1910

Friends of Harry Haley McClaskey the well known singer, a native of St. Stephen, who for some years has been located in New York, will learn with interest of his wedding to Miss Celia Eloise Niles, which was solemnized at the church of the Incarnation, New York, on Monday, June 6. The bride is a resident of New York and the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. McClaskey, of Saint John.

Sir William Van Horne and R. B. Van Horne have just finished tour of inspection of Cuba railroad system, 1500 miles of track.

Beacon

June 23/1910

The New Algonquin

Opening Marks Another Era in Summer Resort

This year of grace—1910—marks another step forward in the summer resort history of St. Andrews, in that it has witnessed the opening of an enlarged and more permanent Algonquin Hotel.

            The old Algonquin is a wooden structure, and, of course, lacks the permanency of stone, or brick, or concrete. The new wing, which was opened to the public for the first time on Monday last, is composed of concrete. It is three stories in height, and contains within its massive walls 96 additional sleeping rooms and 56 new bathrooms. This in itself is quite a large hotel establishment.

            The old wing, with its magnificent dining room, parlor, drawing room, bathrooms and guest chambers, still remains, but it is the intention of the Hotel Company to gradually work into a concrete structure, so that every possible element of instability would be removed. To build the new wing cost the Company $160,000, and to furnish it will require at least $36,000 more. Mr. C. E. Deakin, of Montreal, was the general contractor. He sub-let the concrete work to the Messrs. Jago, of Montreal; the plastering to Charles Horsnell, of St. Andrews; the plumbing to Thos. O'Connell, of Montreal; and the electric fixtures to W. N. Dietrich, of Montreal. Mr.  Robert Clark was the C. P. R. superintendent. . . . Manager Allerton is looking forward to a good hotel season, notwithstanding that over one hundred of last year's guests are booked for the continent this season. The staff of 1910 will be composed of:—

Andrew Allerton, Manager

Spencer Farmer, Chief Clerk

Miss Nora Gaynor, Stenographer

William Wood, Steward

Mrs. H. E. Banks, First Housekeeper

Miss Fisher, Second housekeeper

J. S. Hobbs, Chef

Cecil W. Clark, Head Waiter

Miss Hazel Maloney, Tel. Operator

Miss Eva Burton, News Clerk

Thomas Hogan, hairdresser

Ira Brown, Chief Engineer

Fred Purton, Second Engineer

 Robert Tennant, Head doctor?

Lester Struthers, Head Bellman

Miss Gately, Head Laundress

Several changes have been made in the rooms on the ground floor, with a view to increased comfort and convenience. The general scheme of the drawing room is a most beautiful landscape tapestry effect, which harmonizes most charmingly with the external landscape. All the furnishings of this room are of the same order. The chairs are of antique pattern, made of an old "rush" chair, which was passed down from a previous generation to Mrs. Hayter Reed, who supervised the hotel decorations. Adjoining the drawing room a gentlemen's smoking room has been provided. Another room on the ground floor has been turned into a very comfortable ladies' toilet. The gentlemen's writing room has been made over into a lounging room. Writing rooms for ladies and gentlemen have been provided in the rooms opposite the news stand.

Beacon

June 23/1910

Canada's Summer Port

The opening of the enlarged Algonquin Hotel is an event of considerable importance to St. Andrews. If the great advantages we have to offer as a winter port for the Dominion are not receiving the recognition that they deserve, it is at least satisfactory to know that the standing of St. Andrews as the great summer port of Canada is recognized and assured. The enlargement of the C. P. R.'s mammoth summer hotel and the promise that is held out of a still further enlargement indicate the absolute confidence that the heads of this great railway corporation entertain for the future of the town as a summer resort and place the position of St. Andrews in this respect beyond peradventure."

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy told a Saint John reporter that the new passenger ships of the CPR would use Halifax as a terminal port and the freight steamers would naturally continue to Saint John , or to some port in its vicinity. Sir Thomas has just completed an inspection of the DAR in Nova Scotia and of Halifax. At the latter place he me the board of trade and had a business talk.

Description of features in new and old parts of hotel. .

Albert Buchman, New York, has purchased the George Batson house at Welshpool, Campobello. The Inn at Campobello has re-opened for the season. It is in splendid shape, having undergone a lot of repairs.

Moving Pictures—Wilbur A Shea's Acme Theatre Moving Picture Co., will be the attraction at Andraeleo Hall this Thursday evening. June 23. Among the interesting pictures will be the one now creating so much profound interest all lover the word, "The funeral of King Edward." "The Sardine Industry" showing the process of manufacture form the weir to the consumer is a picture of local interest as many familiar scenes and faces are shown, the picture having been made down about our local water and the great factories at Eastport.

St. Croix Courier

June 23/1910

Under the summer schedule of the CPR, which came into effect this week, the town is given a very satisfactory train service, freight and passenger trains beings run separately. Passenger trains leaves at 7:40 am and 6:15 pm, and arrives at 11:05 am and 10:00 pm. It is such a service as this that the people demand throughout the year and which there is now an implied promise on the part of the officials, to maintain. If this is done, one great cause of complaint will be removed. St. Andrews has two trains each way every weekday and a Sunday train arriving at 11:00 am and departing at 6:30 pm.

            Commencing Monday, the Eastern Steamship Co. inaugurated its summer service of six trips a week between Saint John and Boston. There are three direct trips and three coastwise. (Best schedule ever for this company.)

Beacon

June 23/1910

The CPR recently purchased the D.A.R. Company's outfit in Nova Scotia. The purchase met with general approval, not a newspaper entering an objection. If the same line had been acquired by the Dominion government, we can just imagine the howl of protest that would have gone up from a certain section of the press.

St. Croix Courier

June 30/1910

Department of Public Works Keeps its Promise

Modern Dredging Plant Sent to St. Andrews to Finish Work Here. Will Begin at Once.

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy was in Saint John on the occasion of his inspection tour of the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia, of which the CPR will have direct control within the year. Sir Thomas declined to say whether the Company would build a great hotel at Saint John, and contented himself with saying they would do whatever the business warranted. The Dominion Atlantic system includes a daily steamer service across the Bay of Fundy from Saint John to Digby and CPR control is expected to develop a large tourist traffic through Saint John.

Beacon

June 30/1910

To the summer visitor. Don't ask why we haven't got this or that, with our air, scenery, beaches, good roads, yachting, sea and lake fishing, golfing, hotels and churches: "It isn't everywhere that you will get such a splendid combination as can be obtained here."

The World's first Passenger Airship. The first regular airship passenger service was inaugurated today when Count Zeppelin's great craft, the Deutschland, carrying twenty passengers, successfully made the first scheduled trip from Friedrichshafen to this city, Düsseldorf, a distance of 300 miles, in nine hours.

Many improvements have been made at The Inn, Campobello. The house has been entirely redecorated and several suites with private baths added.

St. Croix Courier

July 7/1910

Campobello—Travis Cochrane of Philadelphia has opened his cottage for the season and placed his yacht Mavis in commission. Franklin Roosevelt's yacht Half Moon has arrived from New York, and Mr. Roosevelt is expected to open his cottage this week. (More details on cottagers.) Many improvements have been made at the Inn. The house has been entirely redecorated and several suites with private baths added.

Beacon

July 7, 1910

Sir William Van Horne is spending a few quiet weeks with brush and canvas at Covenhoven.

Obituary

Walter B. Morris

Though it was known that Mr. Walter B. Morris was not in robust health, few were prepared for the announcement of his death which occurred on Saturday noon. Death was due to enlargment of the heart. The deceased was 74 years old and was a native of England. After having been in the China service for some years he came to St. Andrews as a young man. For a period, he was station agent of the New Brunswick Railway Company. Afterwards he took up the insurance auction and brokerage business, and was engaged in that at the time of his death. He was a prominent member of the Church of England, and for forty-six years sang the praises of the church in the choir of All Saints. He is survived by his wife (who was a Miss Jack), and two daughters, Misses Lillian and May Morris, for whom deep sympathy is expressed.

            The funeral was held on Monday afternoon. Among the mourners were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Greathead, of San Francisco, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred. P. MacNichol, of St. Stephen. The body was first taken to All Saints church, where an impressive service was held by Rev. George H Elliott, the choir rendering the hymns "I heard the Voice of Jesus say" and "Alleluia," and also the Nunc Dimittis. The pallbearers were Messrs. T. T. O'Dell, J. S. Thebaud, G. H. Stickney, C. S. Everett, W. E. Mallory, and G. D. Grimmer. Interment took place in the rural cemetery.

Name Morris, Walter Barter

Sex     M

Age     74

Date of Death           1910-07-08 (Y-M-D)

Residence     St. Andrews

County of Residence           CHARLOTTE

Place of Death          St. Andrews

County of Death       CHARLOTTE

Place of Birth England-Somerset-Hartbridge

County of Birth          —

Microfilm        F13391

Reference      C1d , Page 50, Line 28

Name MORRIS, WALTER BARTER

Sex     M

Age     74

Date    1910 | 07 | 02 (Y-M-D)

County           CHARLOTTE

Registration   2952

Volume          

Reference      C4/1910

Microfilm        F18725

St. Andrews Rural Cemetery

Walter B. 1836 - 1910 / His wife / Maria 1832 - 1911 / Walter E.1870 - 1873 / Lilian Hope 1872 - 1953 / Marian Margaret 1874 - 1962 / Bessie E. JACK 1865 - 1903 / MORRIS

Beacon

July 14/1910

Fairly frequent reports of gasoline engines exploding on boats.

Biggest crowd ever seen in St. Andrews for annual July 12 Orangeman's parade.

Beacon

July 21/1910

The Beauties of Fair St. Andrews

As Told in the C. P. R. Company's Summer Guidebook

New Brunswick, one of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, possesses a wonderful charm and attractiveness during what is called the heated term elsewhere. There are many pleasant resorts along the Atlantic coast of North America, but nowhere exists a more delightful spot than St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, where the conditions in beauty of environment, salubrity of climate and healthfulness of locality reach perfection. With pure salt sea air, the life-giving breath of the pine, a wondrous scenic splendor and many facilities for the comfortable housing of visitors—it is an incomparable resting-place and retreat, and so pleasant that many make it their summer home.

            St. Andrews-by-the-Sea is located on the south-western part of New Brunswick, where the St. Croix River dividing British territory from the State of Maine, pours its flood into Passamaquoddy Bay, a long stretch of water completely sheltered from the ocean's storms and fogs by a great barrier or large and small islands. On a peninsula reaching far into the bay stands the town which has attained supremacy in the East as a rare summering place. The site of St. Andrews-by-the-Sea bears the same relation to the bay and river that Newport News does to the waters of Hampton Roads and the James.

            The glamour of historic association envelops the entire region. Over three centuries ago—in the summer of 1604—the adventurous Sieur des Monts, piloted by Samuel Champlain, whose name and fame as an explorer are so intimately connected with the discoveries of the northern half of the continent, came from France with a patent royal of all the territory in America between the 40th and 46th degrees of north latitude. This first expedition to these waters crossed the Bay of Fundy and ascended the Schoodic (Now St. Croix) river to a small island three miles above the present site of St. Andrews, which was fortified against the forays of the Indians who then occupied the land. This is the Dochet's Island of to-day, but during the long-disputed boundary question between the United States and the dependencies of Great Britain in North America, it was called Neutral Island from the fact that it was mutually admitted to be neutral ground and enjoyed all the rights and privileges of No Man's Land. On the establishment of the independence of the United States, a number of United Empire Loyalists came across the border and settled at St. Andrews, and there are houses now standing in the town whose frame were brought from Castine, Maine, and set up anew here, while in the Episcopal Church is displayed the royal coat-of-arms brought by the stanch Loyalists from Wallingford, Connecticut, in their flight. Later, St. Andrews was a garrisoned town, and the site of old Fort Tipperary, and the Block House, with their grass-grown redoubts and earthworks, are quaint reminders of the ancient means of defense of this border town; but they now only serve to recall the fact that this peaceful retreat has been the theatre of stirring events during the past three hundred years.

            Another connecting link with the early part of the last century is Greenock Church, with its quaint, high-towering pulpit and old-fashioned box pews. The edifice, which has an interesting history, was completed in 1824.

            St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, apart from its many attractive scenic and other features, can be said to be noted for its health-giving climate. The mean daily temperature is 68 degrees during the entire heated term, and the charts show that the belt denoting the driest atmosphere passes through Passamaquoddy Bay. Fog at St. Andrews is practically unknown, and fever, epidemic and malarial disorders, are absolute strangers. The peculiar formation of the soil allows no surface water to remain, the underlying sandstone providing a natural filter through which the water passes, taking with it all deposits on the surface, and the tides, twice a day, rising and falling twenty to thirty feet, carry all waste far from shore. Flies and mosquitoes and other insect pests are unknown at St. Andrews.

            The town itself is quiet and peaceful, and many of its quaint, old-fashioned streets and by-ways are embowered in trees, making fragrant shady resting places for those whose only glimpse of nature during the greater part of the year is caught in the cities' small artificial parks. Surrounded on three sides by the sea, one sees in all directions an encircling line of coast, while higher up toward the Chamcook Mountains the eye is charmed by the view seaward. Roses and hawthorn hedges and every other variety of bright-hued flowers meet the eye and charm the sense in all directions. Wild fruits—strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries—grow in the greatest profusion, and in the gardens are the finest flavored cultivated fruits.

            It is not alone as a health resort and resting place, however, that St. Andrews-by-the-Sea is attractive. The water trips among or in the neighborhood of the islands of the Coast; the boating and sailing and fishing in their waters; the adaptability of the beaches for warm sea bathing in Katy Cove [sic]; the countless diversions of riding, driving, motoring, wheeling, walking and exploring on the shores; the camping parties and improvised "settlements" and outing for dulse; the opportunities for golf, tennis and other pastimes—these all combine to make this a perfect paradise of summer delights.

            Out from St. Andrews-by-the-Sea in all directions, are perfectly constructed roads, forest-lined and shaded, reaching sheltered sports by ocean and inland lake. The roads are excellent, and there is no mud or dust to annoy the pleasure of the drive. The favorite drives are to Chamcook Mountains and lakes, and to the Glebe and Bocabec (seven miles) at the head of Passamaquoddy Bay; the shore road bordering the river; the Bar road to Mowatt's Grove, and at low water across the bar to Minister's Island, the drive to which presents the novelty once experienced by the Children of Israel—that of going through a passage in the sea which had fallen back on either side. This drive takes one through the bed of the ocean twenty feet below sea level at high water. There is the drive through the Cedars past the golf links to Joe's Point, beyond which is Smuggler's Cove, a noted hiding place of those having utter disregard for customs, laws and coast guards in past and gone days. Another drive is around Indian Point, at the extreme end of the peninsula, where, from the boulevard at the water's edge, a sea-view embracing the entire bay is commanded. Delightful excursions can be made either by land or water to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine, up the St. Croix; to St. George (where there are extensive granite works and quarries) crossing (if the excursion be made by land) the Bocabec and Digdeguash rivers—two famous trout streams—where are the Magaguadavic (pronounced Mag-a-davey) Falls, a cascade of remarkable beauty, and to many other interesting points in the locality. Horses and carriages are obtainable at moderate rates, there being several liveries in the village.

            To visit the summit of Chamcook, the horses are left at the base and the ascent accomplished on foot, with a taste of Alpine excitement, although the climb is a perfectly safe one. Owing to the fact that the tidewater washes its base, the views from its heights are far grander than those obtained from greater heights inland.

            The excellent roads rob motoring of all its discomforts, and there are many long stretches in which automobiles may be speeded with out danger. [Cf. Complaints by the locals about speeding tourists]

            Splendid opportunities are provided for those who are fond of fishing and shooting.

            For sea-fishing, excellent craft—from the sloop-rigged "pinkie" to the schooner—with experienced skippers, can be procured in the harbor. Cod, haddock and pollock can be caught in large quantities, and to those who have ever indulged in the sport of deep-sea fishing, nothing need be said concerning the excitement and pleasure of it. The expense of such a fishing trip, including the skipper with his boat, lines, bait and provisions, will be from $3.00 to $5.00 per day, which amount is usually divided among four. In the inland lakes and rivers in the vicinity of St. Andrews-by-the-Sea the fishing is excellent. There are about twenty lakes within a radius of fifteen miles. The fisherman can go to nearly all the best lakes and streams in the morning, returning in the evening. In the lakes, during June, land-locked salmon and lake trout may be readily taken with the fly. In July, August and September, in deep water, the same fish may be taken with line bait, or by trolling. In the smaller lakes, higher up, quantities of trout, weighing from a quarter of a pound to a pound, may be taken with fly, worm or live bait. All the streams abound in the smaller but equally delicious species of trout.

            Great enjoyment may be obtained in fishing for tommy cod and smelts off the wharves and the operation of seining the weirs after sardine herring have been impounded and spudging for them, is very interesting to strangers. The weirs are spread around the shores of the bay and fishing can be viewed from the shore, but the best way is to go out in a boat around the weir while the fishermen are catching the fish. The weirs are built so that at the rise and fall of the tide the fish flow into them; then the man on the watches closes the mouth of the weir, the fish are then held in the weir until the arrival of the buyers from the sardine factories. The fishermen then go into the weir and take the fish out with seines. There is considerable excitement at times in weir fishing. The fish are sometimes chased by the huge horse mackerel, silver hake, squid, skulpin and dog fish.

"The register at the Algonquin Hotel shows a large increase over the season of 1909, due in large measure to the confidence inspired by the new concrete wing."

St. Croix Courier

July 21/1910

The Beautiful Isle—Campobello Attracting Summer Visitors from Far and Near.

Campobello appears to be coming to its own again. At one period the resort of large numbers of visitors, who thronged the corridors and verandas of the Tyn-y-coed and Owen hotels, it appeared for some years and until within a very short time as if its career as an abiding place for the tourist during the sweltering months had ended.

            But a change has come.

            Under the capable management of the Campobello Corporation the present owners of the hotels and of a large portion of the island, a new era in the summer life of Campobello has opened. Large sums of money have been expended by the Corporation in the work of preparing of the seeker after rest and recreation, recuperation and refreshment, and, while the half is not yet accomplished enough has been done to enable a large number of guests to be received at "The Inn," the splendidly appointed summer hotel, which is now starting on its second season under the new regime.

            With the experience of the previous year as a guide, those in charge of The Inn this year have succeeded in making it well-nigh ideal in its appointments, its service and cuisine. A new manager, with an efficient staff, is looking after the comfort of the guests, a new chef is presiding over the destinies of the culinary department, while a capable outside service provides horses and carriages for riding and riving, boats for sailing, equipment for fishing, and affords opportunities for golfing and tennis and croquet ad limitum.

            And what shall be said of Campobello itself, the enchanted isle, with its magnificent roads, its lovers' lanes, its deep forests, its shady nooks, its magnificent surf on the Atlantic side, its placid coves deep nestled between overhanging cliffs, its view of the sea and of headland and island and river from every vantage point?

            And what shall be said of the opportunities it affords for every species of summer recreation. Its climate has been a matter of comment by physicians as well as visitors. Visitors are delighted at the clearness, crispness, dryness, and sparkling color of what has come to be called "A Campobello Day." The thermometer seldom reaches eighty in the hottest months. Cruising, boating and fishing are, as might be expected, at their best here. The lies off the coast of Maine and New Brunswick and is a port of call for steamers making excursion trips to Saint John, St. Stephen, St. George, "Calais, and all other points of interest along the mainland. At Campobello private parties can hire, at very moderate rates, motorboats for a day's outing. The steamers that make excursions to Grand Manan and through the beautiful outer islets of the Bay of 'Fundy, touch at Campobello for passengers. Eastport and Lubec, both ports of call for the Boston steamers, face Campobello on the mainland side, and arriving passenger for Campobello will find the steam ferry for Campobello awaiting them, or the Corporation's motor launch.

            Shooting is one of the minor sports on an island where the fishing is par excellence. Nevertheless, it is there for those who wish to go gunning. In the spring and fall ducks are plentiful, although a duck is to be had all the year around. The greatest shooting around Campobello is Labrador seals. A recent article in Outing Magazine, describing the sport at Campobello, places it high from the sportsman's standpoint.

            Drives, rides and walks need never be repeated on Campobello. When the main roads have been explored, the drives taken to the Narrows, the Wilson's beach, Head Harbor, Herring Cove and Southern Head, there remain dozens of enticing trails for the pedestrian.

            Indoor and outdoor pastimes are provided lavishly by the Corporation. There is a good golf course of nine holes, which is kept in excellent condition, and is shared with the summer cottager. Tennis and croquet courts adjoin the Inn, as does a Casino, where concerts and dances are held. Adjoining the Casino is "Bachelor's Hall," a billiard and smoking room in the most modern fashion. The Inn itself is equipped with large, airy rooms and baths, wide verandas, cool corners and a fine reading room.

            And with it all the island has the story of Great Britain and the United States carved on its every stick and stone. At every turn the visitor is reminded of the past. The Inn is built alongside the old manor of the Admiral, who held his private island against all comers on the firing line of the 1812 contestants. The quiet coves and ark forest-capped headlands suggest the blockade runners and the tall ships that belched fire and shell.

            In the olden times they said, "See Rome and Die!" Today there is a saying, "See Paris and die!" Why, die at all? "" See Campobello and—live!" While welcoming to its hospitable roof the people of the big cites, the Inn is becoming a very popular resort for people who live nearer, who find it always a desirable place for a sojourn of long or short duration, and who from the towns of New Brunswick and Maine are drifting thitherward in ever increasing numbers year by year.

Beacon

July 21/1910

Sir Thomas in New Role

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy has played many parts—and played them well—but it is doubtful whether he ever acted the role of a Boniface until the 12th of July. He was seated on his broad verandah at "Tipperary," enjoying the warm sea breezes which waft across the peninsula, when one of the excursionists from up country meandered in and took a seat alongside him, remarking that he felt pretty tired. Sir Thomas was sympathetic and the stranger prattled on. Presently he discovered that he had a thirst. "Can I get something to drink?" asked the stranger. "Why yes," was Sir Thomas' courteous reply. "Will you have a glass of water; or perhaps you would like some cool lemonade?" "Guess I'll have the lemonade," replied the thirsty one. The lemonade was brought and speedily disappeared. The stranger smacked his lips with great gusto, then plunged his hand into his pocket and offered to pay for the drink. Sir Thomas, who saw that the man was under the impression that he had struck a hotel, smiled affably and courteously refused the proffered dime.

St. Croix Courier

July 28/1910

That peculiar fruit or berry known as the "brake apple" has been largely in evidence this past week. The wet spring and the absence of heavy frosts have caused the heath lands of Campobello to produce large quantities of the berries and hundreds of quarts have already been gathered. No mention of this peculiar fruit is found in the botany, the dictionary or the encyclopedia, but it is evidently a species of the mulberry family, and has a flavour not possessed by any other native berry, partaking of the nature of the apple, the cranberry and almost any other fruit suggested by the mind, when they are being eaten—Lubec Herald.

Beacon

July 28/1910

Big Tourist Traffic. "We have never had such a rush of people in July before," said Manager Kennedy, of Kennedy's Hotel, when asked by the Beacon as to the condition of the summer tourist business. "They are coming by boat, by train and by auto, and it wouldn't surprise us if we had them coming by flying machine before August is out. Every room in the house is filled up, and we are sending them to outside rooms." Just then someone exclaimed, "The Campbells are coming," and there was a rush to the door to greet an auto load of Fredericton folks, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell and their two daughters. Right after them rattled another mud-stained car from the capital, occupied by Mr. Blackmer and wife. The two autos left Fredericton on Monday and had run into a heavy storm and bad roads. It was 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon when they drew up at the curb in front of Kennedy's hotel. They were all tired and travel stained, but the folly greeting and the goof are soon elevated their spirits.

Automobile Party Found Road Very Bad

St. John telegraph.

Three automobile parties left the city Saturday, for St. Andrews. From Lepreaux they took the shore road buy way of new River mills and Pennfield to St. George. From there they followed the post road to St. Andrews. A member of the party said last night that they had a delightful trip. In some sections where the road machines had been used, the roads were in pretty bad shape. The sods and rock had been thrown out of the ditches into the centre of the highway. Those were left there and very naturally in the wet weather the water could not drain off, and the road was turned into a stretch of bog. It was a pity, he thought, that those stretches of road could not be properly repaired. (Stayed at Algonquin)

Beacon

Aug 4/1910

Barracouta under charter to William Hope of Montreal. Capt. Robert Maloney sailing master.

A Grand Old Man. Alexander Gibson celebrates 90th birthday.

Mr. Alexander Gibson, Sr., of Marysville, celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of his birth of Monday. Mr. Gibson is still hale and hearty, and is expected to see many more such anniversaries. Mr. Gibson was born at St. David, Charlotte County, on August 1st, 1820. He lived in the county of his birth until a young man when he went to York County, and began to lumber on the Nashwaak. The founder of the town of Marysville and the village of Gibson together with the building of the railway now known as the Gibson branch of the CPR, the construction of the Canada Eastern Railway, now part of the system of Canadian government lines, the building of the Marysville Cotton mill and the erection of the railway bridge across the Saint John River at Fredericton, were all the results of the activities of Mr. Gibson. He has been recognized not only in this province, but all over Canada as one of the Dominion's industrial giants. For some years past Mr. Gibson has not been actively engaged in business, some of the numerous enterprises with which he was formerly connected having been taken over by an English syndicate. By the latest arrangement, Mr. Gibson is to be given a yearly allowance of $5,000 for the rest of his life and the use of his residence in Marysville.

Continued low catches of sardines in area. Some blame it on noise of motorboats.

Drowned Off Minister's Island—Arthur Irwin Falls Overboard from Sir William Van Horne's Yacht. The Body Recovered. Details.

About noon on Tuesday, while Sir William Van Horne's yacht Covenhoven, with Mrs. R. B. Van Horne and her young son, on boards, was approaching her mooring at the island, Arthur Irwin, one of the crew, who was standing forward ready to pick up the mooring rope, fell overboard. He made no noise, and it was only when Mrs. Van Horne saw him floating astern that the accident became known. Capt. O'Halloran, who was in the engine room at the time the accident occurred, pushed off in the small boat as quickly as possible but before he could reach the drowning lad he went down, crying out "Save me" as he disappeared beneath the water.

            The young man's brother, Daniel, who is employed on Mr. R. B. Van Horne's yacht Uvira, saw his brother floating on the water and tried to reach him with the yachts' boat, but he also failed.

            Grappling parties sought for the body all Tuesday afternoon. About 5 o'clock it was found by Theodore Holmes and Wheeler Mallock not far from the mooring. The body was brought into town and taken to Rigby's undertaking establishment. There were no marks of injury upon it.

            Irwin was the youngest son on Mr. and Mrs. Edward Irwin, Bayside, and was a bright young fellow about 23 years old. He was a prime favorite with Sir William's family and his tragic death has cast a gloom over the community. Great sympathy is expressed for his family.

The Inn, Campobello, has never had such a run of guests as it has had this season.

Roads—Party of tourists from Quebec heading for St. Andrews upon reaching Woodstock advised to go through Maine, as New Brunswick roads bad. No good record for the province so far.

Sir William Not In It

New York, July 29—Dr. F. S. Pearson, engineer and promoter, today said that neither Sir William Van Horne, William McKenzie, nor any other Canadian were members of his $50,000,000 syndicate. Canadians had not put a dollar in it. London and Paris were the financial centres chiefly interested in the purchase of the syndicate. The audacity of the transaction whereby Dr. F. S. Pearson, Perry Farquhar and associates hoped to get in control of a United States transcontinental railroad system, stands out in even bolder relief as the result of more of the fact becoming known.

            The syndicate's operations were on an even greater scale than at first reported. Altogether, the syndicate long before its resources became impaired, bought stocks of the roads in the proposed system to an amount certainly in excess of 950,000 shares, and representing cash payments of quite $50,000,000.

            These figures only hint at the magnitude of the undertaking, for, in the course of the development of the scheme, the syndicate must perforce have encountered every big group of financiers, and most of the powerful railroad systems in the United States.

            As the transaction stands, now, though Pearson and Farquhar retain a diminished interest in them, Kuhn, Loeb A Co., have absolute control of the securities, and Otto H. Kuhn the banker who was Harriman's most trusted adviser and confident, is sitting on the lid of the strong box, wondering what he will do with them.

Beacon

Aug 11/1910

Arthur Irwin's Funeral

His Tragic Death Enlisted General Sympathy

The funeral of Arthur Irwin, the young man who lost life so tragically from Sir William Van Horne's yacht, took place from the residence of his father, Edward Irwin, Bayside, on Thursday afternoon last. Though the weather was stormy, the procession was the largest ever seen at Bayside. The foresters of Bayside, to which the deceased belonged, attended in a body. Sir William Van Horne showed his sympathy for the stricken family by his presence. The casket was literally buried in flowers, the gifts of tender sympathizers. Rev. A. W. Mahon held a most impressive service at the house and at the grave, being assisted by the choir of Bayside church. The solemnity of the occasion was enhanced by the crashing of thunder and the flashing of lightning which continued throughout the service.

F. W. Thompson now has 65 foot water tower holding 5,000 gallons. Same guy who did Van Horne's. 400 foot well.

Armstrong blasts town for doing little to help itself, while CPR has spent much on accommodations, etc. Favors establishment of Board of Trade.

An Agent's Suggestions—To help Boom St. Andrews as a Tourist Resort.

W. T. Robson, advertising agent of the CPR:

. . . He referred to the formation of a Tourist or Improvement Association, to the need of a water system, to the improvement that might be brought about by the planting of trees, the cleaning up of the beaches, the removal of unsightly garbage, the keeping of the streets and sidewalks in good order, the encouraging of excursion parties, etc. He thought that a pavilion for such should be provided, also that a public park should be maintained at Indian Point, so some other place. Amusements should be provided for visitors. He thought St. Andrews had a great future before it as a summer resort and that it was to the advantage of the place for the people to assist. The CPR were greatly interested in the future of the town and he felt sure that they would willingly hep the townspeople if they showed any disposition to help themselves.

Beacon

Aug 18/1910

It is reported that Mr. C. R. Hosmer of Montreal has bought the Julius T. Whitlock property known as Elm Corner and that the present occupants, Misses Mowatt and Campbell, are to be permitted the use of it during their lives. The purchase price is said to be $5000.

Beacon

Aug 25/1910

The Algonquin Orchestra is arranging to give a grand concert in Andraeleo Hall on Sept. 1st.

A feature of one of the coast resorts is an "oxomobile" for hayrack parties. It is very popular with the young folks.

Beacon

Sept 1/1910

Close Call at Bar. Andrew Reed Almost Drowned while Crossing. (Reed coachman for Van Horne. Details)

The Bar leading to Minister's Island, came very near being the scene of another tragedy on Thursday last. Andrew Reed, second coachman for Sir William Van Horne, was delayed in getting his mail and did not reach the Bar at noon until the tide had begun to sweep over it. He tried to drive across but got into deep water, the horse losing his footing. The animal broke the whiffle tree and broke clear from the wagon, dragging Reed with him. The horse was able to swim ashore, but the man was not so fortunate. He succeeded, however, in grasping a tide pole that was standing in the water and to this he desperately clung with the tide gradually sweeping over him until Messrs. Edward Odell and Frank Pye, who had seen his predicament, succeeded in dragging a boat, down the beach and rowing off to him. The water was up to his shoulders when the rescue was effected.

Mr. Markey, barrister, of Montreal, is negotiating for the purchase of the Parker lot, opposite the "Donald MacMaster property.

Beacon

Sept 8/1910

On water question: the artesian well system at Algonquin has proven to be insufficient. The CPR's engineer has been here, looked over the proposal for Chamcook, and departed hence. Will know in a few days whether Shaughnessy will cede to wishes of town or opt for summer service alone. Should Company submit proposal to town taxpayers should carefully consider advantages of permanent system—listed here.

Since the above was set up we have had an intimation from an authoritative source that the CPR will proceed at once to lay a permanent underground pipe from Chamcook Lake to St. Andrews, with a view to supplying their own needs and of furnishing water to the town, if a satisfactory arrangement can be effected.

Sir William Van Horne's island kingdoms are prospering. On Minister's Island, his barns are almost bursting with the rich harvest from his fields. On Cuba his railroad shows increased earning of $157,000.

Yacht Sold—The handsome yacht Barracouta, one of the finest of the St. Andrews Yacht Club, has been purchased by Mr. William Hope, of Montreal. This boat was built in New York by the late Mr. Kuhn, and cost in the vicinity of $3,500. Last season she was bought by Mr. Howard Rigby. This year she has been under charter to Mr. Hope, who has now purchased her. Capt. Robert Maloney will be her master.

St. Croix Courier

Sept 8/1910

The cups given by the Algonquin Hotel were played for last week and were won by Miss E. Smith and Mr. Henry. The lady's foursome was played on Wed. and was won by the Misses McLaren of Saint John, who are occupying the Anchorage this season.

Beacon

Sept 8/1910

Messrs. Albert J. Gregory and James Robinson were in St. Andrews on Thursday discussing Grand Falls scheme with Sir William Van Horne.

At Town Council: "It was moved that the meeting agree to support a by-law granting a bonus of $1,000 per year for 25 years to the C. P. R. to meet the cost of bringing water from Chamcook Lake to Harriet Street." (Engineer estimated 60,000: this barely more than one-third total cost of trunk line)

St. Croix Courier

Sept 15/1910

The Algonquin closes on Thursday of this week. Several of the guests will tarry a little longer at other hotels.

Beacon

Sept 15/1910

Apparently the CPR is to formally announce its control of the New Brunswick Southern Railway. For upwards of three years past the CPR has been the actual power in control of this road, but the old name was continued.

Wheeler Mallock and his son Sumner have had great luck the past fortnight with the sardine weir. During that time they have captured over $2,000 worth of fish, while nearly every other weir in the locality has been going empty.

Edwin Odell considering home on Montague. Maxwell preparing plans.

Chamcook line reservoir probably to be placed on F. H. Grimmer property, opposite Mr. Elliott Hume's residence. Line will follow road from Mowat Hill to Thompson property, then head for Algonquin.

St. Croix Courier

Sept 20/1910

The Eastern St. Stephen Co, which gives such splendid service between this city, Boston and Maine Coast ports, has, a report says, a desire to make St. Andrews a port of call, the coastwise steamers running there from Eastport, and returning to Eastport before continuing their journey. Mr. W. F. Todd, MP, is now in Ottawa endeavouring to arrange for dredging at the CPR wharf. It will not be surprising when the need of St. Andrews is met, if they get even better steamship accommodation than is foreshadowed, for the CPR itself is likely to take advantage of the growing importance of St. Andrews as summer resort and to give it steamship connection with the outside world—Globe.

Beacon

Sept 22/1910

C. P. R. Water Plans

Town Council Grants Authority to Open Up Streets

A special meeting of the town council was held on Saturday night to take action upon some matters arising in connection with the projected water system from Chamcook Lake. The Mayor [R. E. Armstrong] stated that he had had a conference on Wednesday with Engineer Lumsden, of the C. P. R., and that the latter on behalf of his Company had requested that the Council give permission for the opening up of roadways for the laying of pipes and that some other necessary preliminaries be arranged. These matters, he said, were covered in a resolution which he would ask the Council to consider and adopt. [Motion here follows] . . . A motion by Ald. Everett that the clerk correspond with Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, asking him to submit at the earliest possible date a proposition whereby the Town may be enabled to share in the advantages of the projected water system, was also adopted.

Sir William Van Horne proposes erecting another large vinery on Covenhoven Farm. It will parallel the vinery erected last year.

Strathcona at Ninety

Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, for years known throughout the British Empire as Canada's Grand Old Man, though born in Bonnie Scotland, celebrated the other day the 90th anniversary of his birth.

            His career is certainly one of the most wonderful in the annals of modern times. Born at Forres, Scotland, on August 6th, 1820, as a son of a saddler, he made the prediction, as plain Donald Alexander Smith, to his cousin Lord Mount Stephen, then a herd laddie, that as there were no lairds in Canada to lord it over man, he would leave for British North America to tempt fortune and win a competency.

            Accordingly, as a raw youth of 18, he set sail for the west, years before Horace Greeley was known, as has done better on this continent than any man from the east who ever crossed the western main.

            Arriving at Montreal, he at once entered the services of the Hudson Bay Co., and for years was immersed in the solitudes of Labrador. He endured terrible hardships, but finally became superintendent for that company, whose sphere of influence extended 3,000 miles.

            Afterwards, in company of his cousin, now Lord Mount Stephen, he advocated, against strong opposition, the building of the CPR. He was told that the receipts of the road would not pay for the axle grease of the trains. He had faith in the proposition, however, and has lived to see it the greatest transportation company in the word. Carrying passengers from Great Britain to Hong Kong over its own lines.

Lord Strathcona is today the world's oldest multi-millionaire, Canada's greatest philanthropist, optimist and financier, the British House of Lords second oldest peer, Great Britain's most prominent railroad builder and Canada's high commissioner at the seat of empire.

Beacon

Sept 22/1910

Town Council grants authority to open up streets for water lines. .

Beacon

Sept 29/1910

Eastern Steamship Company considering step between Boston and Saint John if CPR wharf available.

Oct 3 Founder's Day. R. E. Armstrong now mayor. CPR has agreed to make a water arrangement with town.

A Minister's Vacation—Moralizes on the Rough Roads of Bocabec

Eastport Citizen—Arriving at Bocabec we put up for one night with our good Baptist brother, Mr. Charles Hanson. He showed us his granite quarry on the hill above his farm that has proved to be a source of profit in the days gone by. The view from the hill as the sun was going down was something grand. Starting the next day for St. Andrews, we had all the way a lesson of Patience for the roads were in awful condition. These rough, rocky roads in New Brunswick compared with smooth and beautiful highways in Maine certainly show that somebody is at fault. The good roads plank seems to have fallen out of the party platform in Canada and traveller by carriage and automobiles cannot take any pleasure in riding over the most part of our provinces. The reason that men and women, tired to death of forms and conventionalities, choose the heart of the forest and the cool avenues and lanes of the country is not far to seek. They are seeking for rest as well as recreation and nothing is more helpful than a quiet drive through our own province if the roads are in good order. But when jolted about on loose rocks and tripped first one way and then another by the ruts and gullies of a driveway the weary traveller feels more tired than if he had gone afoot, and recuperation for man or beast is out of the question. I am glad to say that as we neared St. Andrews the roadways improved and in every direction around that fine little town it was a pleasure to ride or drive.

Sir William Van Horne went to Montreal in his private car on Saturday night. He will return to St. Andrews this week. He has spent the greater part of the season here in rest and recuperation. [unusual length of stay, related to retirement?]

New Buildings

A double dwelling house and a large stable for Sir Thomas Shaughnessy's coachmen and horses are to be built during the next few months on the lot of land immediately to the north of the old R. C. burial ground. The work is being done by Wright McLaren.

St. Croix Courier

Oct 6/1910

Whales continue quite numerous in Quoddy and surrounding waters, several having been shot at and wounded more or less seriously, but none as yet have been captured. Their frequency in the bay is said to account for the scarcity of line fish in and about Quoddy this fall. (another later article mentions local whales being shot at and/or hauled up on the beach to die—and sold for oil.)

Beacon

Oct 6/1910

Good Season—the season at the Inn, Campobello, just closed is said to be the most successful since the company opened the house, the business having been 40 percent greater than last year. The cottagers still linger and probably will for some time yet. Eastport Sentinel.

Beacon

Oct 13/1910

The chemist in his report says: "This clear, colorless, odorless water [from Chamcook] is very soft, and for boiler purposes should be treated with about four ounces of soda ash per 1,000 imperial gallons. . . . This water is a very good one for drinking purposes. It has been examined bacteriologically as well and is quite free from contamination."

25 horsepower gasoline engine, pumping 24,000 per hour, will be used to pump water to reservoir to be built this year. Will hold 250,000 gallons. Should town join with Company another chamber will be constructed.

Beacon

Oct 20/1910

Distinguished Canadian Engineer Dead

Montreal Star—The death occurred in San Francisco on the 11th inst., of Mr. M. J. Heney, the well-known railway and mining engineer. Mr. Heney, although only 27 years of age, had attained the prominence and status in the railroad world. Born in a backward part of Ontario, 50 miles above Pembroke, Mr. Heney had an obscure beginning, but had barely entered into manhood when he showed his friends that he was destined for a future that the simple companions of his early boyhood never dreamed of. At Merrickville, a little Ottawa Valley town, some railway work was in progress and there Mr. Heney was attracted from home in the capacity of a jobber. Before long he was convinced that only in the larger field could he find scope for his enterprise. Going to New York, Mr. Heney met wealthy railway magnates and it was not long before he was given the contract to build the White Pass and Yukon Railway. This was a big project and out of it the young contractor made half a million dollars. With this fortune he returned to Ottawa and dealt magnanimously with his less successful brothers starting them on farms or in whatever calling they preferred. Mr. Heney's father died four years ago in Pembroke and since then his mother has resided in Ottawa. The young railway man was last in the Capital about ten months ago. He was expected back on a visit soon, but a contract which he had entered into detained him. His present contract is a line to run from Cordova to Copper River and thence through canyons and along the river to the mouth of the Taznun and Nabasa Rivers, which embraces a rich copper area in Alaska.

Beacon

Oct 27/1910

Maritime Union in the air. See editorial. CPR plans to complete water line, now under construction, by May 15/1911.

St. Croix Courier

Nov 17/1910

(from 30 years ago—1880)

Approaching the town of St. Andrews from the Harbour there is seen towering above the adjacent buildings a new structure of large dimensions. It is the new hotel being erected by Angus Kennedy, the genial landlord of the long-established Kennedy's hotel. The former structure was burned some years ago, since which time he has been occupying a building which was altogether inadequate to the requirements of his large patronage. Some time ago he purchased the site of the hotel formerly kept by Michael Clarke, which structure was also destroyed by fire several years ago. The hotel has a frontage of 48 feet on Water Street, and the main building extends back 42 feet. The ell is nearly of the same dimensions, being 42 by 37 feet. In height the building is 3 ½ stories. A piazza 8 feet wide will run across the front the height of 2 stories. The building when completed will be an ornament to St. Andrews as well as a credit to its enterprising proprietor. Our talented townsman, Leonard Markee, is the architect and superintendent of the building, and when we state this, our reader will know that it cannot be otherwise than "approved." Mr. Kennedy expects to move into his new premises about the first of May next. (The builder and the original proprietor have both passed to the silent majority, but so late as last winter the present proprietor, Angus Kennedy's son, [Frank] stated to the writer that, so well had the building been put together, that not since it was build had even a shaving made to be taken from a door or window in the house. That was the kind of work that was done in those days.)

Beacon

Nov 17/1910

Settlement Suggested

Between Town and Parish of St. Andrews

All the town aldermen with the exception of Ald. Everett, who was called to Fredericton, were in attendance at the conference convened by the mayor on Thursday evening to take up with the parish representatives the disturbing questions of Western commons and school lands. From the parish there were present Couns. Grimmer and Greenlaw and Mr. James McBride, secretary of the highway board.

            Mayor Armstrong occupied the chair.

            After explaining the object of the conference, he called upon Mr. F. Howard Grimmer, County Secretary and town treasurer, to recite the facts in connection those two questions. Mr. Grimmer gave the history of the matters from the period when the commons land grant was made in 1786 down to the present time. With respect to the western commons, there were 800 acres in which the parish enjoyed a common interest with the people of the town of St. Andrews up until the period of incorporation in 1903. The revenue from these lands up to that time had been applied to the maintenance of the poor of the parish. When the Town became incorporated there was cash on hand from this source belonging to town and parish of $5132. Since 1903 this had been increased by sales and rents by $2071, making a total cash on hand of $7203. To effect an equitable arrangement it had been suggested that it should be based upon the relative taxation of town and parish as it existed at the date of incorporation. Prior to 1903, the whole parish had paid $8.70 on every $100. By a careful calculation it had been shown that of this amount $7.45 had been paid by the people who resided within the incorporated district and $1.25 by the people resident in the parish. Approximately it meant six-sevenths by the town and one-seventh by the parish. It would be upon this basis that he suggested a settlement should be reached with the parish, both with respect to the cash on hand and the land still unsold. In this connection, he pointed out that the Parish owes the town between $400 and $500 for the care of certain parish charges in the Alms House, the care of that property having been assumed by the townspeople after incorporation. . . .

Road Folly—There is but one verdict in connection with the out-of-town roads—they are simply awful. The folly of spending money in roadmaking in the fall is shown in connection with the road between Bayside and Waweig Bridge. In many parts of this road, it is like driving through a ploughed field. Near St. Stephen, the stretch of road in front of the slaughterhouse, is even worse. At this point there is a dangerous hole in the culvert.

Sir William Van Horne has laid plans before the Metropolitan parks Commission of Montreal, looking to a removal of the congestion in certain parts of that city. One plan covers a four-track subway under the St. James Street, and the other a three-track tunnel under Cote des Neiges hill. The commissioner looks with favor upon the plans.

grammar check 1910 begins

Stuart Black Granite quarries still operating. Local cemeteries using it.

Beacon

Dec 1/1910

The Montreal Standard has been publishing some beautiful illustrations of St. Andrews scenes. They are from photographs taken last year by Mr. Townsend. Some of the, notably those from Sir William Van Horne's estate, look like scenes in sunny Italy. [We have these pictures in the CC Archives]

St. Croix Courier

Dec 15/1910

St. Andrews as a West India Port

The representative of a large West India importing firm was in St. Andrews last week, looking over the commercial possibilities of the place. He examined the CPR wharves, looked over the available building sites, talked with representatives of the town with respect to rates of taxation, etc., and before he went away stated that he was very favorably impressed with the port, and with hits advantages. He intimated that he might establish a branch of his business here. We hope he will. We believe . . .

Some believe there should be moratorium on sardine fishing in the area. Armstrong disagrees.

Rumour that CPR and Maine Central may swap tracks—CPR to take stretch between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro, over which they now pay heavy toll; and Maine Central Shore line from St. Stephen to Saint John, which with connection from Calais to St. Stephen would give direct line to Saint John. For Maine Central the Mattawamkeag line ends "in the woods" at Vanceboro.

Beacon

Dec 29, 1910

One of the most interesting social events of the week will be the wedding of Miss Lottie Hartt, only daughter of Mr. Thomas A. Hartt, MPP, and Dr. J. Fred. Worrell, dentist. They are both popular, hence their marriage has more than ordinary interest. Madge Rigby and Percy Hartt will be there. Latter bride's brother.