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St. Croix Courier
Jan 4/1917
Stripping Campobello of its Big Timber
American Syndicate to erect three mills and cut black spruce and other trees—five years' work. Details
Beacon
Jan 6/1917
Lumbering Industry on Campobello
For two months the sound of axe and saw has been heard on Campobello Island and lumbering on a large scale has been inaugurated within its limits. W. B. Mason, of Lubec, Maine, who was in the city yesterday, a guest at the Dufferin, told The Telegraph that the splendid timber on the Island was at last being garnered in by the advancing step of civilization.
The island was formerly the property of a lady in New York, he said, but it had been sold to an American syndicate, and there are rumors afloat that this syndicate is, in turn, connected in some way with the Great Northern pulp interests. Since the month of October about 150 men have been steadily employed on the island chopping down the heavy forests. The lumbering gang is rapidly increasing according as the cabins and other accommodations are being placed on the island for the men. Mr. Mason said that a mill was to be erected on the center of the island, and one on either side, and that the logs would be cut up on the ground. Although no doubt large quantities of shooks would be turned out, the reports in lumbering circles, he said, would indicate that long timber would be made. . . . Mr. Mason said that the lumbermen at work on the island estimate that there is five year's continuous cutting on Campobello and some of very fine quality. Saint John Telegraph. Jan. 1
Beacon (f9822)
Jan 13/1917
Erection of building for help to go up on vacant lot opposite powerhouse. Two stories, 125 x 40 feet. Outside of stucco. [O'Brien House]
"The capacity of the Hotel has been taxed to its utmost during the past two seasons, and in order to provide more accommodation it has been found necessary to make alterations to the rooms on the fourth floor of the West wing. (kitchen wing) This work has been going on for some time, and when completed will relieve the situation considerably."
Beacon
Jan 20/1917
Letter from Campobello Estate protesting inaccuracy of Jan.6 article on logging on Campobello. Mostly permits for locals to cut firewood. Alfred D. Chandler and David Shaw.
James Murray 1917
Premier of New Brunswick
Conservative Feb. 1, 1917
Beacon
Feb 3/1917
The installation of the new system of waterworks at Covenhoven, at the Van Horne residence, is progressing in spite of the unfavorable weather which prevails. A monster tank measuring 36 feet by 8 feet arrived this week at the Bar Road Station and was roped to two slovens on which it was taken across the Bar to its destination on Minister's Island.
Beacon (f9822)
Feb 10/1917
Improvements at the Algonquin
The work on the new building at the Algonquin Hotel, which will be known as the Dormitory for the male help, is now fairly under way. The foundation work has been sub-let by the contractors, Messrs. C. E. Dakin Construction Company, to Mr. Chas. Horsnell, who is now running the concrete into the forms.
The plans call for a two-story building, size 126 x 30 feet, with a pitched roof and eight gables. The outside finish will be in stucco with half-timbered finish on the gables, similar to those at the Hotel. On the front will be a veranda seventy feet long, facing Carleton Street.
The interior will contain a large common room, and thirty-eight bedrooms. The officers' quarters are to be situated in the south end of the building, on the main floor, and will consist of eight rooms, each with hot and cold water. The plumbing on each floor will be of the latest type, and include baths, and shower baths.
The hot-water heating and electric lighting systems of the Hotel will be extended to the new building.
The C. P. R. Construction Department, under the direction of D. H. Mapes, Engineer of Buildings, will install the plumbing, heating and lighting systems. Mr. R. D. Rigby is the local superintendent.
The alterations to the rooms on the fourth floor of the west wing of the Hotel are progressing rapidly.
The large amount of plumbing made necessary by the change is well advanced; and that part of it between the floors and partitions has been completed, and the first coat of plaster put on. It is expected that everything will be in shape to start the putting on of the finish in two or three weeks. This work is being done entirely by the Hotel Construction Department.
Another interesting and important work going on at the Algonquin is the installation of a motor fan in the roof of the west wing for the purpose of ventilating the kitchen, with which it is connected by a direct passage. The fan is said to weigh nearly a ton and will be a useful addition to the already up-to-date kitchen.
The prospects of the Hotel for the coming season look very promising, and the bookings up to now far exceed those of any previous year.
Beacon
Feb 17, 1917
Mrs. Edwin Andrews entertained a number of her friends on Saturday last at a most enjoyable luncheon given at her residence on Minister's Island, for the pleasure of her daughter, Mrs. Oastler.
St. Croix Courier
March 1/1917
Hon. Dr. Clarke, Recent Premier of New Brunswick, Passed to Rest on Monday—Interment at St. Andrews This Afternoon—An Honourable Career of Public Usefulness
Beacon
March 3/1917
Hon. George Clarke laid to rest in cemetery here. Born in St. Andrews; in St. Stephen since manhood. R. E. Armstrong attends funeral.
Miss Marjorie Clark has been ill for some time at Mount Allison college.
Beacon
March 3/1917
Eastport Fisheries
Eastport, Feb. 24. It is reported in sardine circles that F. P. McColl, who has connected the business in this city for a great many years, is to again become active in the sardine packing business and will have his headquarters in this city. Mr. McColl was one of the live wires who came here with the promoters of the syndicate which took over about all the factories along the coast, but has not been connected with the business in this city for several years. His last venture in the sardine business was in connexion with the million dollar deal at Chamcook, New Brunswick, which proved a fiasco, but has lately been taken over by the Booth Fisheries and has been conducted successfully for the past two seasons.—St. John Globe.
Beacon
March 10/1917
Stinson's Cafe and Bowling Alley. Ira Stinson.
Beacon still doesn't have draft of bill to submit to Legislative assembly in Fredericton concerning proposed waterworks.
Walter E. Foster 1917-23
Premier of New Brunswick
Liberal Apr 4, 1917
St. Croix Courier
March 22/1917
Rumor has it that the Governor general of Canada and his family are to spend a portion of the coming summer in St. Andrews and that a cottage will be erected for them on the Algonquin Hotel grounds.
Beacon
March 31/1917
Improvements at Kennedy's. Details.
The Harbinger of Spring
Column on beauties of spring
J. F. Worrell, March 26, 1917
First item by Worrell I've seen in Beacon
Beacon
April 17/1917
The C. P. R. will erect this spring a "Play Pavilion" for the children of guests at the Algonquin Hotel. The plans have already been agreed upon, and the plateau above Katy's Cove chosen for the site. The estimated cost will be between $400 and $500.
Work on the Dormitory for the male help of the Hotel has been progressing very rapidly. The roof is now completed and is bright red in color, as are also the roofs of the Hotel and the new Walker residence. The general effect is a very cheerful one.
Beacon
April 21/1917
Some of the Town Council aldermen: Albert Denley, T. Caughey, Wright McLaren.
Booth Fisheries Company
The following directors and offices were elected at the annual stockholders' meeting in Chicago, April 10, 1917:
Directors—K. L. Ames, W. J. Feron, Andrew W. Lawrence, George F. Goodnow, P. L. Smithers, W. G. Weil, R. S. Tuthill, Jr., all of Chicago, and Herbert C. Wright, New York.
Officers—President, K. L. Ames; vice-president and treasurer, P. L. Smithers; secretary and assistant treasurer, W. G. Weil; assistant secretary, William F. Cochran.
The company is beginning to feel the effects of sane management. Their annual statement was the best they have issued. At the election of officers and directors for the among year there were no changes of importance, the same management continuing. during the week the common stock sold for 99, passing the preferred, a record only accounted for by the company's late earnings shown by the annual statement.—The Fishing Gazette.
Sardines Go Up in Price
Eastport, Maine, April 16. And now the humble Maine herring, masquerading under the name of sardine, is to contribute its bit to the high cost of living. On the opening of the canning season, today the packers are experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining enough workmen. They are also hampered by an unusual amount of damage to the weirs by winter storms. Leading packers estimate that the cost of production will be 50 percent higher than last season, necessitating increased prices for their output.—St. John Globe.
Beacon
April 28/1917
Work on Tait house begun.
Booth Fisheries Company
Directors of the Booth Fisheries Company have a plan under consideration to recapitalize the company by the issuance of new common shares of no par value in exchange for the present $5,000,000 common stock, consisting of 50,000 shares of $100 par value each says the Chicago New. It is understood that it has been practically decided to issue to common in the ratio of at least two new shares for one of old
Interests will informed as to the company's affairs says that the companies' assets in excess of the amount of debentures and preferred stock outstanding are worth $10,000,000, or double the amount of present common stock. When the company succeeded the old A. Booth and Co, in 1909 the properties were taken over on a very conservative basis of valuation. Since that time there has been a large increase in the value of the properties, particularly the real estate.
Booth fisheries common as a result of the proposed recapitalization has risen 32 points this month, while most other stocks have been declining. Today the price rose 6 ½ points to 111 ½, closing at 111.
Last year the company sold a tract of Detroit real estate to the Pennsylvania Railroad at a price well above the book cost. the company's real estate holdings are very large and have for the most part been held over a long period of years in growing cities. Although since 1911 it has charge off $1,900,000 for depreciation an official of the company recently said that he enhancement in value of real estate has been so large that no depreciation charge was really necessary. the company own branches in seventy cities, in many of which it owns land and buildings. Besides it owns four public cold storage plants. It marine fleet consists of 110 steamships, tugs, etc., and 571 sailing vessels. Some of the steamers are in ocean service. shipping, as it well known, has greatly increased in value since the outbreak o the great war.
The company has been taking over new properties at frequent intervals with little increase in capital liabilities. In 1915 it bought the canneries of Gorman and Co., in Washington State. In the same year it acquired the Mississippi Valley Warehouse Company, of St. Louis. In 1916 it took over the big New Brunswick Sardine Canning Company at St. Andrews, New Brunswick. A number of other sardine plants have since been acquired.—The Fishing Gazette.
On the Van Horne estate the seeding of oats and wheat commenced this week, and a slightly larger acreage will be down this year than last. All the grain is treated with formalin before it is sown, and the results of this treatment in previous years have been a 25 percent larger and a very much more valuable crop. The extensive use of formalin for grain is particularly desirable this year, as the largest possible crops are essential to the rational welfare. There will be no smutty heads of grain if a mixture of 1 pint of formalin and 40 gallons of water be sprinkled over the seed. The sprinkled seed should be covered with bags for two or three hours and then spread to dry before sowing. The cost of treatment per bushel of seed grain is very small. The drier portions of the Van Horne farm have proved well adapted to wheat, and it is hoped that wheat-growing in New Brunswick will become much more general than it is at present.
Beacon
May 5/1917
Mr. R. B. Van Horne registered at Kennedy's Hotel this week, having arrived on Tuesday from Montreal.
Bill "To authorize the Town Council of St. Andrews to provide a Public System of Water Works." Mayor G. K. Greenlaw re-elected some time back.
Editor applauds the war-time cost-cutting measure of abandoning the inefficient oil-lamp system of street lighting and hopes that "when the war is over and the Town enters on its era of prosperity which will follow the installation of the water works, the lighting of the streets can be taken in hand in a proper manner."
The Provincial Prohibition Law came into operation on Tuesday last, May 1, in all parts of New Brunswick not under the Canada Temperance Act. Details.
Beacon
May 12, 1917
Sir Thomas Tait was in town during the earlier part of the week and inspected the work now progressing on his Bayside property.
Beacon
May 19, 1917
The Montreal Herald announced that the will of the late Sir William Van Horne was recorded in Montreal on Tuesday. It is a notorial will, dated January, 25, 1915. The entire estate was bequested to his family, there being no public bequests of any kind. The total estimated value of the estate is not mentioned. The house and premises on Minister's Island were bequested to Miss Adaline Van Horne. Lady Van Horne, Richard Benedict Van Horne (the son), Miss Adaline Van Horne (the daughter), and the Royal Trust Company, are made executors.
St. Croix Courier
March 20/1917
Vice-Regal Lodge
A report comes from St. Andrews by the Sea to the effect that the CPR has decided to erect a vice-regal lodge there. It is said that the initial expenditure on the building will be in the vicinity of $50,000 and that the plans have already been prepared. It is evident from this that the CPR will invite the vice-regal party to spend the summer at St. Andrews. The people of St. Andrews are much pleased with the prospect of having the Governor general and his party spend the summer there. Those interested in that tourist traffic of the province point out that the erection of a vice-regal lodge at St. Andrews will be a great factor in the tourist activities in the future and will give the famous New Brunswick watering place an added attraction as well as place on a par with the finest and most fashionable summer resorts in North America. Details of the plans of the CPR have not yet been made known. –Telegraph
Beacon
June 2, 1917
Bartholomew Donoghue
On Wednesday morning May 23rd, Mr. Bartholomew Donoghue was found dead in his bed, at his home on Augustus street, by a neighbour who went to make a friendly call.
The late Mr. Donoghue was one of the old landmarks of the St. Andrews, and his name and works were closely associated with the earliest days of railroading from this town. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, in the year 1833, and came to Canada in 1836. He began his career as a railroad man in 1856, and from the humble position of engine cleaner, he rose to be one of the most \trusted and most popular of the railroad conductors, first on the New Brunswick and Canada Railway, and afterwards on the New Brunswick Railway and finally on the CPR. For sixteen years he most successfully and skilfully held the throttle, as an Engine driver, and for thirty years he served his employers most faithfully as a train conductors, and with that degree of courtesy which won for him the esteem and respect of the travelling public who had occasion to pass to and fro on the trains of which Mr. Donoghue had charge.
In the year 1904, after Mr. Donoghue had passed his seventieth birthday, he accepted from the railway company his retiring allowance, and has spent his life from then until the time of his death, in the rest and quiet of his own home.
The late Mr. Donoghue was married to Catherine Driscoll, and five children were born to them, three sons and two daughters, of whom William John Donoghue, of Herman Station Maine, a trusted and expert telegrapher, in the employ of the Railway, and Bartholomew Benedict Donoghue, his twin brother, now in the employ of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, of Boston, are the only survivors.
The deceased was 84 years of age at the time of his death, and his long life had been a striking example of honesty and industry. His remains were laid at rest in the Roman Catholic Cemetery on Saturday last, and the large attendance of citizens at the funeral showed the esteem in which the deceased was held in the town where he had spent nearly all of his long life.
Beacon
June 9/1917
The Algonquin Hotel is being put in order for the season. Some of the help arrived on Friday last and are engaged in cleaning the hotel. The new building for the male help has been handed over by the builders to the decorators. From the outside it is very picturesque, a long narrow stucco-covered building roofed in red, and trimmed with dark oak. On the north side facing the Powerhouse is a deep veranda supported by stucco pillars.
Beacon (f9822)
June 16/1917
Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne arrived from Montreal on Wednesday and are occupying Covenhoven, their summer home on Minister's Island. A new two-car garage with a dwelling above it is being erected on the Covenhoven grounds near the stables. The garage is for the car which Mr. R. B. Van Horne purchased last summer.
Details on completed renovations at Algonquin and Katy's Cove. .
Algonquin Hotel
The new building for the Algonquin Hotel male help will soon be ready for occupation. The work throughout has been admirably done; the plumber, Mr. A. Dobson, is specially to be congratulated on the efficiency of his part of it. The main entrance to the building is on Carleton Street directly opposite the powerhouse, the street has here been greatly improved and now makes a first-class driveway from which a lawn-bordered path gives access to the verandah, opening directly into the lounge or common room. This room will be very comfortably and attractively furnished with settees, writing tables, lounge chairs, etc. Its walls are tinted grey as are all the walls in the interior of the building while the woodwork is the natural wood varnished. A broad stairway leads from the common room to the upper story and to the right and left are corridors between two rows of bedrooms. Two men will occupy each room, the total accommodation being 64. Each room is fitted with hanging cupboards and provided with a hot water heating system. A central lavatory is conveniently placed and is an example of the most up-to-date plumbing. The eastern end of the building has been reserved for the higher officials and has a separate entrance with a flight of steps leading up to it. The rooms in this end are slightly larger and more elaborately furnished. Some very fine views of the Town, river and Bay can be had from the windows.
The Play Pavilion at Katy's Cove has been completed. It is approached by a rustic bridge over a small ravine and with its red roof and dark brown shingles is a very pretty addition to the landscape being a very useful shelter for nurses and children when the bathing season at the Cove is here again.
. . . The occupants of the Algonquin Cottages this summer will be:—No. 5 Cottage, Hon. Mrs. W. Shaughnessy, arriving next Friday. No. 2 Cottage, Mr. J. Herndon Smith, St. Louis, arriving Saturday next. No. 3 Cottage, Mr. Henry Joseph, Montreal, arriving June 27. No. 4 Cottage, Mrs. Russell Cowans, Montreal, arriving Wednesday next.
Staff: Andrew Allerton, Manager; F. C. Parker, Assistant Manager; C. M. Johnson, Chief Steward; O. W. Stinson, Accountant; Mrs. E. Revere, housekeeper; Mrs. Tennant, Matron; Jas. Connors, Chef; C. Hailer, Chief Baker; A. W. Mason, Chief Engineer; Miss Hewitt, Stenographer; Raymond Greenlaw, Receiving Clerk; Mrs. E. Watson, head Laundress; John A. McLean, Head Waiter; Wilfred Toad, Head Bellman; Laurence Lace, Head Porter, Cleveland Mitchell, Casino; John Peacock, Golf Club; Fred McCurdy, Bathing Beach; May Alrick, New clerk; Marjorie Pendlebury, news Clerk; f. Donald, Telegrapher; Miss Connor, head Linen Keeper; John Maloney, barber; Miss Ames, Orchestra Leader; t. Coyne, Kitchen Steward; F. McCloskey, Storekeeper; A. Dobson, Plumber; John McFarlane, Carpenter; Willard Stinson, Painter; T. Mason, Upholsterer.
LG: The Hon. Gilbert White Ganong (1851-1917) Born in Springfield, New Brunswick. Appointed 29 June 1917 at age 66 until his death (in office) 31 October 1917.
Beacon
June 21, 1917
Capt. N. M. Clarke has recently purchased an automobile.
Mrs. R. B. Van Horne and son, William, arrived last week from Montreal to spend the summer at Covenhoven.
Twenty-five "help" for the Algonquin arrived from Boston by Tuesday's boat. [CPR still hiring from US]
St. Croix Courier
July 19/1917
The Algonquin register contained the names of two hundred guests on Saturday evening.
Beacon (f9823)
July 21/1917
History of Cottage Craft and Miss Mowatt's philosophy
By F. W.
On the Saint John Road, half a mile from St. Andrews, lies Beech Hill, the cradle of Cottage Craft. There four years ago a modest beginning in the home industries was made by Miss Helen Mowat.
Firmly implanted in her mind was the idea that there must be certain amount of natural artistic talent tin the country where the surroundings were so beautiful. From her childhood she had admired the texture of the hooked rugs done by the farmers' wives, and she thought how much the rug industry could be developed, if only more artistic designs were chosen. With this idea in view she went around the countryside teaching the people new patterns and the artistic combination of colors. Then she bought the finished product which she placed with the Handicraft people in Montreal. The work found such a ready sale that she increased her business. In a room in her own home, she opened the Cottage Craft Shop, where she sold rugs and homespun.
From their attics and storerooms the people got down their grandmothers' looms and began to weave, first, homespuns and then rugs. Miss Mowat now began to enlarge her original plan. She thought if people would use native art on native materials that it would open up a new field in handwork. She told the women to embroider pictures of their everyday life.
Nature is the teacher. She shows grace of design and harmony of coloring. There are no stamped patterns for the work. The farmer's wife looks at the thing she is most familiar with and reproduces it on her rag mat or homespun bag. "The exalted ides of city life," says Miss Mowat, "accounts for the bad taste attributed to the country." When the country woman follows her own natural instincts when she creates a work that the city woman appreciates and takes back to her home in the ugly, sordid city as a reminder of the fresh, clean country.
From a small start Miss Mowat now has more than seventy workers. She has branches, each under the supervision of a competent woman, all over the county. Lately she has established a branch in Calais as a centre for Washington County. In the autumn she hopes to increase her radius of activities still further.
The other day I visited the Cottage Craft Shop at Beech Hill and examined the work for the year.
The first thing I noticed was the pile of rugs, both hooked and woven. There were many designs, roosters, bunches of flowers, ducks, fruit, winter scenes. The two that I admired most were a yachting scene, and a typical farm scene—a little house and a big barn. The bags, the idea for which originated with Miss Edith Townshend, are rainbow-hued; some are woven with bright wools; others have crocheted flowers and berries applied; while most fascinating are the cones with the embroidered pictures; one with a flock of chicken, another with a country village; a third an old fisherman rowing out to his weir. The most attractive was a farmhouse interior where an old couple sat winding wool, on the floor was a braided rug, a bird hung in a cage, geraniums were on the windowsill, and on the wall was the motto, "Bless Our Home."
On one table I saw two bedspreads that were really lovely. One was knit, the other crocheted. Beside them were the toys. Of these I shall mention only the block villages. In each box are ten pieces, houses, barns, a church and a schoolhouse. These were made by the country children during the long winter evenings on the farm. There was also a quaint pincushion, a potato basket of grey country wool with a bunch of woollen flowers on the side. The corsage bouquets of colored wool were also very pretty.
On account of the display or originality and character the work of Miss Helen Gillman stands out among the rest. The worker is a true artist. Space will not permit me to describe all her work; I shall take only two things—a set of luncheon serviettes and a tea cloth. Each serviette is embroidered with a different country scene. In one a farmer drives sheep down the lane. Another shows a sunset, a third is a farm in winter. No two are alike but they all depict scenes familiar to every native of Charlotte County. The tea cloth is so unique that it is almost beyond description. It is the Charlotte County Fair! Two sides represent the road leading to the Fair, the other side it the Fair grounds. We see the balky cow, the prize pigs, the crated fowl. As we turn the cloth we find the ice cream stall, the soft drinks stands, where two people are sucking pink lemonade through a straw. As we pass the man selling balloons to the children, we come to the fancy work and preserves, while near by the are the prize vegetables. Among the admiring spectators we can pick out the pastor of one of our rural parishes. The whole cloth is "a miracle of design.
On the financial side of Cottage Craft I have said nothing, but it is not because it is small. It is only that the onlooker loses sight of it in admiration of the work accomplished.
The value of Miss Mowat's efforts for the countryside cannot be estimated. She has opened a new life to the country women. She is training them to use their own ideas and to develop originality. She has put Charlotte County under a heavy debt of gratitude.
Guest list for Algonquin. Includes the members of the Whole Sale Hardware Merchants' convention for New Brunswick. total 240—record number for this time of year.
Beacon
August 4/1917
Montreal's Millionaires—The one hundred millionaires and near-millionaires in this city will, it is estimated, make Montreal the largest contributor to the income tax revenue of between fifteen and twenty million dollars Finance Minister White expects to get from his new income tax. The wealthiest men and firms in the Dominion are located in Montreal, and while no exact figures of how much will be collected by the city has been made, it is thought it will reach ten million a year. A list of Montreal's millionaires follows:
Sir H. Montague Allan, Merchants Bank of Canada; C. R. Hosmer, CPR tel. Lieut. Col. J. H. Burland, British American Note Co. J. R. Wilson, Thomas Robertson and Co. Sir H. S. Holt, Montreal Light, Heat and Power. Shirley Ogilvie, Ogilvie Flour Milling Co. A Haigh Simms, shirt manufacturer. Hugh Paton, the Sheddon Co. C. H. Gordon, Dominion textile Co. J. T. Davis, brother of M. P. (B?) Davis. George Daverhill, wholesale hardware. J. P. Black, manufacturer. Milton Hersey, analyst. Sir William Aiken, MP Royal Securities. George W. Stephens, Harbor Board. J. K. L. Ross, son of James Ross. J. N. Greenshields, lawyer and promoter. E. T. Gault, retired. J. E. Aldred, Shawnigan Water and Power co. Theodore Labatt, St. Lawrence Sugar co. W. Legear, with Reford Steamship "Agencies. Hon. F. Beique, Senator and lawyer. Lord Shaughnessy, CPR and R. B. Angus, Bank of Montreal. D. Lorne McGibbon, Canadian Rubber Co. H. V Meredith, Bank of Montreal. A. Baumgarten, St. Lawrence Sugar Refining Co. A. E. Ggilvie,. Rodolphe forget, MP. Henry Birks, James Morgan mark Workman. N. A. Terry. H. Timmons mining. Col John Carson, insurance. Huntley Drummond, Canada Sugar Co. Treffie Bosten, Charles Chaput. A Dalbec. Jaspard Dessines. J. O. Gravel. E H Leman. George Marcile; Alphone Racine.
New Steam yacht at Covenhoven called Uvira 2.
Mrs. R. B. Van Horne has just returned from Kennebunk beach, where she was the guest of her father, Dr. Molson
Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne entertained a number of their friends at luncheon on Sunday, and afterwards the guest enjoyed a sail in the new steam yacht Uvira 2.
Shocking drowning accident at Bar Road. Details.
A fatal drowning accident occurred on the Minister's Island Bar on Thursday evening. The news of the disaster to Hugh McQuoid and Miss Annie Murphy did not reach the town till early on Friday morning, when it was received with horror and dismay. Hugh McQuoid, who has been employed as gardener on the Van Horne estate for several years, had driven over to the island on Thursday evening, and was returning accompanied by Annie Murphy, a housemaid at Covenhoven, between the hours of 8 and 9 pm, when the disastrous accident occurred. The night was foggy in the extreme, and the tide was so far advanced on the Bar that before they started they were seriously warned of their danger by the people on the island; they, however refused to listen, with fatal results. Just how they met their fate, whether they wandered out of their course in the fog, or were drowned by the onrushing tide, will probably never be discovered. No cries were heart either on the mainland or on the island; but on Friday morning when William Mitchell, cousin of McQuoid, was tending his weir he noticed something unusual standing out of the water and on going out to examine it discovered it to be the shafts of McQuoid's wagon with the horse still fastened between them, but so tangled in the harness as to be completely reversed and facing the wagon. The horse was easily recognized, as it was a particularly fine one and well known on the streets of St. Andrews. A further search discovered McQuoid's body in Maxwell 's Cove with part of the harness from the horse's head clenched firmly in his hand. It is surmised that he got out of the wagon to lead the horse and walked into the deeper water and was drowned, while his companion was swept out of the wagon by the current and washed out to sea on the ebb tide. Throughout Friday continuous efforts to find Miss Murphy's body were made; every boat and man available were pressed into service. The day was particularly unfavorable; the fog was never entirely absent; and at time was very dense; while rain fell fitfully, and the water had no transparency. All efforts ended in failure.
Miss Murphy was a stranger in the town, and her place of residence is unknown. Hugh H. McQuoid was a St. Andrews man, 35 years of age, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McQuoid, and resided with his parent and sisters at their home on King Street.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 9/1917
The funeral of the late Hugh McQuoid, Jr., who was accidentally drowned in crossing Minister's Island Bar on Thursday evening of last week, took place on Sunday. Rev. Mr. Hicks conducting the services at the Methodist church and the grave. In company with Hugh McQuoid was a maid at "Covenhoven" who was also drowned; her name was Miss Annie Murphy, and up to this time, Monday, her body has not been found. It is needless to say that the whole community was sadly shocked when the facts became known on Friday morning, and the sincere sympathy of all goes out to the bereaved ones.
Lady Maud Cavendish, Lady Blanch Cavendish, Lord Charles Cavendish, arrived on Saturday's night train and are guests of Hon. Marguerite Shaughnessy, Tipperary.
Beacon
Aug 25/1917
Most Picturesque Golf Course in the World
What is said to be the most picturesque golf course in the world is St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, Canada. Three distinct views of the ocean are to be had from different parts of the course. It is flanked by mountain peaks and is the Mecca of many golfers in Eastern Canada. Nearby the country is wild and is fine hunting grounds for moose. A number of improvements have been made in the course preparatory to some events which are to be held during the season, proceedings of which will be devoted to war relief purposes. This course, as well as the other courses in Canada, is being more and more used. As the beginning of the war and for some little time there was not so much golf played."
—Golfer's Magazine, Chicago
Merrimans at homestead on Campobello.
Sir Mortimer Davis, of Montreal, is visiting Baron and Lady Shaughnessy at fort Tipperary.
Beacon
Aug 25/1917
Improvements at Covenhoven.
Under the direction of Mr. Angus Rigby extensive improvements are being made on the Van Horne estate on Minister's Island. A gasoline store house is being built on the beach below the look-out tower at the end of the island. The coachman's house is being altered and enlarged, and anew dining room is being built in it. The stables are undergoing thorough repairs, and a new workshop for mechanics working on the estate is in course of erection. This season the tennis court has been entirely remade, and an English expert was employed, who has achieved excellent results.
St. Andrews the Beautiful
Review of "St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick," by Betty Thornley and illustrated by G. Horne Russell, R. C. A. (Published by C. P. R.)
To paint word pictures and brush pictures of St. Andrews by the Sea that will be entirely approved of by the multitude who have a very warm spot in their hearts for their beloved town, that is task hard indeed to fulfil. So to describe with pen and colors the beauty, the history, and the life of St. Andrews by the Sea that those who have never seen it can fully realize its charm and allurement, that is perhaps a still harder task. The author and illustrator of the attractive booklet which the CPR has published under the title of St. Andrews by the Sea, New Brunswick, have in their pictures as pen and brush come as near to satisfying those who know and love the town so well, as it is humanly possible for them to do. For those who know not that town we cannot speak. Miss Thornley's short sketch of the town history, her appreciation of its natural beauties, and her enticing account of its many and varied opportunities of happy healthy amusement and recreation, makes the letter press of the little booklet will worth reading. We had searched in vain for the reason why the bathing cove was known as Katy's Cove, and are glad at last to know and to have one more mind picture to add to our store. Katy's Cove will henceforth always suggest the reluctant school boy bather being drawn from his ill-timed pleasure by the sturdy Katy McIntosh.
What shall we say of the reproductions of Mr. G. Horne Russell's exquisite paintings with which the booklet is very fully illustrated. We can but thank Mr. Russell again and again for capturing and putting upon canvas the picturesqueness of St. Andrews, the freshness of is breezes, and the joy of its life out of doors. Mr. Russell has painted as he alone knows how to paint the "Newport of the North," the most beautiful town in Charlotte County, which County excels all others in the Province in "scenery, history, cookery, and art." The paintings have been reproduced with wonderful exactness. No more pleasing souvenir of a visit to St. Andrews could be imagined or contrived than this booklet, which can be purchased at the Algonquin Hotel bookstand for the small sum of twenty-five cents.
St. Croix Courier
August 30/1917
The summer vacation of the public schools has been extended to September 20th. Had the schools opened August 27th, the attendance would have been small, as so many pupils are employed at the Algonquin, and on the golf links. The salaries of the teachers are made good by Mr. Allerton, the manager of the hotel and the trustees of schools. Miss Giberson principal of the schools has returned to her home in Bath, of the added two weeks' vacation.
Beacon
Sept 1/1917
R. D. Rigby, local superintendent of the CPR building construction at St. Andrews, has returned from Caledonia Spring, On, where he was looking after some work in connection with is department. Mr. Rigby says the Springs are very wonderful, but the places does not have the attractions as a resort that St. Andrews possesses.
Beacon
Sept 8/1917
W. F. Kennedy taken to Chipman Memorial Hospital with critical illness.
Beacon
Sept 15, 1917
R. E. Armstrong, Edwin Armstrong, James Patterson and Percy Tayte, of Saint John, motored to town on Sunday.
Mrs. Howard Pillow and Miss Pillow, who spent the summer in town, have returned to Montreal.
Mrs. Douglass Cowans and family, who were in town throughout the summer, left on Tuesday to return to Montreal.
Miss Maxwell, of Montreal, has been visiting her brother, Mr. Edward Maxwell, at his summer home on the Bar Road.
Mrs. E. N. Heney and Miss Marjorie Heney returned this week, to their home on Sherbrooke Street Montreal.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 20/1917
The result of the voting on Thursday last stood 111 for the Scott Act and 82 against it.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 20/1917
Alas, Poor Scott Act Passed Out Unmourned
Very few votes pulled for its retention in the Plebiscite last week.
The Scott Act, which had done duty as a temperance law since 1879, made its exit on Thursday last, and in a few days the New Brunswick prohibitory Act will be formally set in motion. (Results of voting below)
Beacon
Sept 22/1917
The Algonquin Hotel closed on Thursday at the end of its 1917 season, which has been the most successful of any since the Hotel was first opened. . . . The total capacity of three hundred guests was maintained during August, and frequently 380 guests sat down to one meal in the dining room. Powerhouse being enlarged; new boilers. Laundry enlarged—120-inch mangle, a machine washer, and large extractor for drying.
Mr. Albert Denley has achieved what the books say is impossible—he has raised potatoes from peelings. . . . They were raised by Mr. Denley on a field, near his residence on Water Street, which was newly ploughed this spring and which has a bright and sunny exposure.
The Misses Marjorie Clarke and Francis Thompson left on Monday evening for Ste. Anne de Bellevue to attend Macdonald College.
Mrs. R. D. Van Horne and her son, William, have gone to Montreal, having spent the summer at Covenhoven.
Beacon
Oct 6/1917
Yes, the summer has gone once more and the all-the-year-round population are reckoning up the profits of the brief season that is past and are beginning to make the preparations necessary for the long period of hibernation.
In retrospect, it cannot be said that the season which has just passed has been marked by any unusual occurrence, no conspicuous event has transpired to render it especially memorable. The big hotel has had more than its usual number of guests, the smaller one has been unable to cater for all the custom that has offered and there has been marked evidence that the summer attractions of the Town are becoming more widely known and are drawing hither a constantly increasing number of visitors. But some of the summer cottages were not opened this season, and a number of familiar faces were not seen among us. The absences have been mostly due to the war's demands; and some of those who would otherwise have been with us as usual have been kept away by one or other of the activities of the war, or by reason of a desire to be near the members of their families who are taking their part in the great conflict of humanity against the forces of militarism and ruthless barbarism.
The past season was not only lacking in events of outstanding importance, but it may justly be described as an unusually quiet one. Perhaps the most noticeable feature of the season's pleasures was an apparent revival of yachting, and the greater use of motorboat as a means of recreation and enjoyment. Golfing has maintained the premier position in the field of outdoor pastimes, and the magnificent golf courses have been in constant use by a greatly increased number of players the season through. Some of the most distinguished men in Canada and the United States have played on our links, and St. Andrews in New Brunswick is becoming almost as famous as St. Andrews in Scotland for the facilities it affords for the enjoyment of the ancient and royal game.
But after all that is favourable has been said of the past summer's activities, there remains a feeling of regret that St. Andrews is not yet occupying the relative position to which it is entitled by its geographical position and its extraordinary natural advantages. Our Town for years has not been doing—is not doing—any of those things necessary to be done before it can reap the full benefit of all the natural advantages it possesses. The need of the community is cooperation, a revival of public spirit, and a trusted and disinterested leader to take the initiative in the requisite enterprises and reforms.
Beacon
Oct 13/1917
Mr. R. B. Van Horne left recently in his new yacht Uvira, for Boston, where the vessel is to be docked for the winter and will receive some necessary alterations and additions to her equipment. The yacht is a new one, completed this year at Camden, Maine, ketch-rigged, with auxiliary oil engines. We regret that we are unable to give a detailed description of the handsome craft in this issue but can say that she is beautifully built and equipped, and has most commodious and comfortable accommodations for passengers and crews. She is a fine sailer, and will probably give a good account of herself in Passamaquoddy Bay in the not unlikely event of a revival of yacht racing.
BORDEN, Robert Laird
Prime Minister of Canada
Unionist 1917.10.12 - 1920.07.09
Beacon
Oct 20, 1917
Charlotte, County Cottage Craft
[Miss Mowat gives lecture on current progress of Cottage Craft]
Beacon
Oct 27/1917
Kennedy's Hotel Closes for the Winter
It is with very sincere regret that we have to announce that Kennedy's Hotel closes its doors to guest to-day, and will not reopen till early in June next year. This is the first time this famous and inviting hostelry has even temporarily ceased to cater to the travelling public since it was first opened on May 24, 1881, its then proprietor, Mr. Angus Kennedy, who began the hotel business on a site lower down on Water Street over fifty years ago, having moved into it on that date after his former premises had been destroyed by fire.
The occasion of the temporary closing of this hotel gives another opportunity to reflect and to moralize on the present decadence of the future winter port of Canada. As a port and a commercial and manufacturing centre, St. Andrews does not occupy anything like the position it did over fifty years ago when Mr. Angus Kennedy started in the hotel business in the Town. Many things contributed to the decline of the business and the place, and the same causes produced similar results in most of the coast towns of the Maritime Provinces. But other towns have introduced new enterprises to take the place of the lost lumber business and shipbuilding industry and have entered upon careers of expanding prosperity. St. Andrews is now almost entirely without any industry whatever, if we except the relatively small fish-curing and clam-canning establishments which together do not give daily employment within the Town to twenty men. The Town is situated in the most advantageous position conceivable for carrying on many industries; it is beautifully planned, and affords the greatest possible facilities for effective drainage and for the installation of electric light and a water-supply system; and the vacant lots in the Town are crying out for occupants, and the grass-grown and deserted streets plead eloquently for the traffic which lack of enterprise and of cooperation on the part of the townspeople is repelling.
In summer the place bustles with activity; the natives of the Town who have gone elsewhere to build up other communities, return for a brief season to the dear old Town they love so well; the hotels are thronged with visitors who come here to participate in the delights of scenery and climate which have made the place famous; and the wealthy cottages occupy for three or four months the comfortable summer homes they have built within sight of the ever-alluring Passamaquoddy Bay.
All this is very nice to think about and to write about and to participate in; but what of the other seven or eight or almost nine months of the year when there is "nothing doing," and "stagnation" is written large over the whole community?
The closing of Kennedy's Hotel this winter is lamentable from every point of view, for a town which is unable to provide the business necessary to keep open profitably all the year round at least one such hotel, must be regarded as an insignificant place. The remedy is not far to seek, it is within easy reach of the people here who have the means and ability, but lack the faith and the enterprise to grasp it. Those people who have benefited most by the community do the least for it in return; and an utter selfishness on the part of the a number of the permanent residents of the Town is the only reason that the place is lacking in those industries which would attract additional permanent population and retain all the young people who now leave year after year to seek their fortunes in more progressive centers. A word to the wise is sufficient, it is said; but only the blast of Gabriel's trumpet will arouse those whose selfishness and indifference have deafened them to the eloquent appeals which the Town's decadence puts forth.
Mrs. A. C. Van Horne, who has been making a long visit with Lady Van Horne, and Miss Van Horne at Covenhoven, left on Wednesday for his home in Joliet, Ill. He will make a short visit en route with Prof. and Mrs. Mavor in Toronto.
Beacon
Nov 3/1917
Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne returned on Monday to Montreal, and their summer residence Covenhoven, which they have occupied throughout the season, is now closed for the winter. Mr. R. B. Van Horne left on Sunday night for Montreal, travelling by automobile and taking the route via Eastport and Boston, the journey between Eastport and Boston being made by boat.
Beacon
Dec 8/1917
Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Borden
Supported by two "hide-bound" Liberals
Speaks in the interest of the Union government
At an enthusiastic meeting in Andraeleo Hall
Details
Beacon
Dec 15/1917
Halifax Explosion
Sir William Van Horne's Will
Ontario Estate is $44,603
The Royal Trust Co. has applied for ancillary probate of the will of Sir William Van Horne, KCMG, former president of the CPR, who died in Montreal, Sept. 11, 1915, leaving property valued at $6,331,374, of which personally valued at $44,603 is in Ontario. the inventory of the Ontario estate includes $883 due as director's fees from the Canada Northwest Land Company, 281 Brazilian Traction, $13, 893; 250 Barcelona Traction, $2,104,; 250 Canada Northwest Land Co., $11,592; 600 Mexican Northwester Railway, $1,680,210 Toronto Ferry, preferred, $8,400; 476 Toronto Ferry common, no market value, and 500 Mexican tramways, $5,000. Other stock owned by the deceased were 1,113 CPR $170,289; 380 Royal Trust, $152,000; 11 Bank of Montreal, $1,514; 3,000 Winnipeg Electric Railway, $360,000.
Included in the real estate, valued at $1.023,871, is Sir Williams home at 513 Sherbrooke Street, West, $180,000; property in Cuba, $395,000, and the farm at East Selkirk, Manitoba, 4,138,000. The summer home at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, consisting of 400 acres on Minister's Island, valued at $20,000, was transferred to his daughter, Adaline, in 1904, and by the will she is bequeathed all the furniture, livestock and art collections valued at $13,545 on the property.
Sir William's art collection at 513 Sherbrooke street is valued at $581,992, and the furniture is $13,235; the library, $4,490; furniture and livestock in Cuba, $20,844; and the livestock and machinery at East Selkirk, $25,015. Life Insurance amounts to $2,942; cash, $190,541; stocks outside of Ontario, $3,904,495; bonds, $237,262; and miscellaneous assets, $879,276. Lady Van Horne is left the use of the house on Sherbrooke Street, and an income of $30,000 a year for three years and after that one-third of the estate absolutely in lieu of dower. W. C. C. Van Horne, a grandson, $200,000 to be paid him at the age of 21; Richard Van Horne, five twelfths of the residue. The will provides that any part of the marriage settlement of $150,000 made by Richard Van Horne on his wife, Edith Molson, which remained unpaid, is to be deducted from his share of the state when the distribution is made, which is not to be until three years after Sir William's death. Should Lady Van Horne decide to take her dower, the property is to be divided equally between her and her two children.—Toronto Telegraph
St. Croix Courier
Dec 27/1917
Miss Marjorie Clarke is at home for the Christmas season. Miss Clarke has been attending MacDonald College, Montreal.
Sometime in 1918 Shaughnessy announces choice of Beatty as next CPR president
LG: The Hon. William Pugsley (1850-1925) Born in Sussex, New Brunswick. Appointed 6 November 1917 at age 67 until 28 February 1923.
Beacon
Dec 19/1917
New Words Coined during the War
Various references in 1917 to events being held at the "public hall" on Campobello. But nothing more specific.