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Beacon

Jan 19, 1918

Mr. R. E. Armstrong, of Saint John, was in town this week to confer with the Councillors.

Minister's Island Bar Blocked with Ice

The milder weather of last week which followed the severe cold spell, caused the ice between Minister's Island and the mainland to break away, and it was carried by the tide onto the Bar. Every winter there is more or less blocking of the Bar with drifted ice, but on Saturday last and on Sunday the Bar became impassable for all vehicles on account of the enormous blocks of ice that had piled up, not only at the ends of the Bar, as it usual, but in the center as well.

Beacon (f9823)

Feb 2/1918

Withdrawal of morning Boston train from Saint John by C. P. R.: "We can assure the C. P. R. management that if they will do a little more for St. Andrews both the Town and the Railway will benefit."

Beacon (f9823)

March 9/1918

Improvements at Algonquin. Partly obscured. Laundry and boiler house

Beacon

May 4, 1918

Sad Drowning Accident

Two men from Bayside, Daniel Irwin and Samuel McFarlane, left their homes on Wednesday afternoon to go fishing in the first Chamcook lake. They told their wives they would be home before dark. About five o'clock Messrs., Howard and Oscar Rigby saw them on the Bayside shore of the lake. They have not been seen since. When at dark they did not return their wives became uneasy and had search parties sent out. Their boat, a canvas one, was found floating, upside down in Bartlett's Cove.

            Daniel Irwin, who was Capt. of Mr. R. B. Van Horne's yacht, Uvira II, leaves a wife who was a Miss Maxwell, and four children. Samuel McFarlane, a farmer in Bayside, is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Mary Mowatt, and four children. This is only the second drowning that has occurred in 1st Chamcook Lake. The other happened so many years ago that only the oldest inhabitants remember it.

Beacon

June 8, 1918

Obituary

Andrew Lamb

On Friday May 31, at 8 pm Mr. Andrew Lamb died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. P. G. Hanson. He had reached the advanced age of ninety-one years.

            Mr. Lamb was born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1827, and came to this country in his fourteenth year. In early life he followed the calling of ship smith, and was employed in the shipyards of St. Andrews and at Robbinston, Maine. In 1877, accompanied by his son, G. Herbert, he made a trip to South Africa, and spent some time in the Diamond Fields. On his return he acquired the ownership of the St. Andrews Foundry, which he conducted successfully for a number of years; and later he was interested in a local sardine canning plant. At one time he participated in shipping enterprise, and was owner of sailing vessels.

            For years he was an Elder in Greenock Presbyterian Church, and he served for several terms as County Councillor, and as a member of the St. Andrews Board of School Trustees. In all his business, and public spheres of activity he commanded the esteem of his fellow townspeople. In the later years of his life he lived in retirement, making his home with his devoted daughter, Mrs. Annie L. Hanson.

            In 1851 Mr. Lamb married Miss Jane Aughterton, who predeceased him last year on March 4. From this union there were born four sons and three daughters, and all except one son, Claude, survive. The surviving sons are Warwick A. Lamb, of Boston,. Mass; G. Herbert Lamb, of St. Andrews; Joseph D. Lamb, of Woodstock. The daughters are Mrs. Charles Matthews of Auto Rest, California; Mrs. Douglass, wife of Alderman Goodwill Douglass, of St. Andrews; and Mrs. Hanson, widow of P. G. Hanson, of St. Andrews.

Beacon (f9823)

June 15/1918

The two hotels open next week:—Kennedy's that ever popular and most comfortable hostelry, on Monday; and the Algonquin, which is probably the finest summer hotel on the continent and certainly the most beautifully situated and most efficiently managed, on Thursday. . . . winter months, and if it were not for the influx of summer visitors trade would languish and the permanent population would further diminish. So the people of the Old Shiretown, as we like to call it, are grateful for the summer season and the summer visitors. But there are those who would like to see the animation of the Town which the summer brings, made permanent throughout the year; and that such a desirable consummation can be brought to pass if the right course to attain it is pursued, is the firm conviction of those who have made the subject a matter of study and investigation. These people will be heard from before long, it is to be hoped.

Beacon (f9823)

June 22/1918

Algonquin opened Thursday. "There had been only one large change in the Hotel this year, an American soda fountain has been set up in what was formerly the bar. At it the thirsty one may obtain any known soft drink.

            Allerton still manager.

The advent of summer is of vast importance to the people of St. Andrews, who derive pleasure and profit in catering for the large number of summer visitors who come annually in steadily increasing numbers to this delectable place, to enjoy its salubrious climate and beautiful scenery, and to participate in the pastimes which the Town and the district so amply afford. The number of summer visitors this season promises to be the largest on record.

Visitors requested to send notice of arrival to Beacon.

Beacon

July 6, 1918

Mrs. Fred Dreyer, and daughter, Muriel, arrived here on Saturday last, from Montreal, and will join her husband at Minister's Island.

Beacon

July 20/1918

Let St. Andrews flourish.

Another summer season is well advanced and the old Shiretown as it is called in terms of endearment by many is once more thronged with visitors who revel in the natural beauties of the place and enjoy the salubrity of its climate and the endless means of enjoyment the locality affords. All these attractions have been described many times by enthusiastic admirers and graphic journalists, and the fame of the place has extended throughout the world, from all corners of which visitors find their way here summer after summer. The magnificent summer residences of the large number of wealthy persons of Canada and the US who come here annually testify in the most impressive way to the permanent interest taken in the place by some of the most prominent people of the American continent.

            While it is eminently satisfactory from many points of view that St. Andrews has become a renowned summer resort to possess a residence in which is a hallmark of distinction, a thoughtful consideration of the present day condition of the Town must create a feeling of regret that the natural advantages of this famous old seaport and shipbuilding centre are not now being utilized as in former years, and that its commerce and industries have been allowed to decay and vanish. In the spite of the business created for two or three months in the summer by the influx of many hundreds of summer residents and hotel guests—a business which is certain to expand year after year—there is a present lethargy in the Town which is due entirely to the indifference of the permanent residents, a lack of public spirit, an entire absence of cooperation for the general welfare of the community, and an utter failure on the part of those directly concerned to interest themselves in the material, coal and educational development of the Town. One need of the community is paramount - a leader to bring the people together and to direct their efforts towards the accomplishment of things which are essential to progress and without which the present stagnation will continue or will degenerate into a condition so much worse that it is painful to contemplate.

Mr. T. A. Hartt exhorted to join St. Andrews Board of Trade. Member of Parliament for Charlotte County. .

St. Croix Courier

June 27/1918

Mr. and Mrs. Harry McClaskey have concluded their visit with their parents in St. Stephen and returned by auto to their home in New York last week. It is a matter of general regret that no opportunity was afforded of hearing the famous singer during his visit here, his trip having been made for the purpose of securing a much-needed rest as well as enjoying a visit at his home.

St. Croix Courier

July 18/1918

Tourists from States Will Have No Trouble

Report Regarding Registration of Visitors Officially Denied

The volume of tourist traffic from the United States this year has been considerably lessened by misleading press despatches appearing in American and Canadian papers regarding the Canadian Registration Act. It was unwarrantably stated that visitors to Canada from the United States would be compelled to register at a Post Office before they could secure accommodation at a hotel, that passports were absolutely necessary, and more recently the absurd rumour was widely circulated that women from the United States would not be allowed to return home.

Beacon

July 27/1918

Let St. Andrews Flourish!

As we pointed out last week, the need of industries in St. Andrews is very great. While the country is at war and so many of our men are engaged either as combatants or in collateral war work, the time is not propitious for undertaking new enterprises of any great magnitude; yet even while the war is in progress plans can be formulated and preparations can be made for beginning work at the earliest moment when men are available for carrying it on. The town at the present time is practically without industries, if we except the fishing industry (of which St. Andrews secures only small portion of benefit) and the summer hotels. And without any exception, there is not a single industry of any kind in the place that gives all the year-round employment to a dozen men or women.

            . . . If a number of handicraft industries, employing mainly skilled work people, were started here in a small way they would soon expand; because they would receive the most effective kind of advertising by means of the large number of wealthy people who come here every summer and who would be customers for all articles of superior quality made in the place. This is being verified in an impressive way by the enterprise of Miss G. Helen Mowatt, who has inaugurated the Cottage Craft industry within the County, and by means of the patronage of the summer visitors to the Town is enabled to dispose of a very large quantity of useful and artistic fabrics and articles made by the women folk in cottages throughout the County in time that might otherwise be wasted, or less profitably employed.

            It must be borne in mind, constantly, that the chief (and the most profitable industry of the place is catering for summer visitors; and in developing new industries they should be so chosen as to be harmonious with what has already been done towards beautifying the place and making it attractive to those looking for pleasing summer resorts.

            Where could a better place be found for the manufacture of golf clubs and tennis racquets? The material (most of it) requisite for their manufacture is at our door, and if the enterprise were started in the right way the golf clubs made in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, would soon become as famous and as much sought after as those made in St. Andrews in Fifeshire, Scotland, of which town Nelson's Encyclopedia says: "The industries are fishing and the manufacture of golf balls and clubs."

            The situation of St. Andrews fits it in an eminent degree for carrying on the boat and yacht-building industry, yet at the present time there is but a single boat-building shop, and only one or two men are employed therein. If an effort was made to revive boat-building in this place the necessary skilled workmen to carry it on could be found within the County, if not in the town itself, at the present time. A cooperative for the manufacture of barrels for packing fish is another industry suitable to the locality and which would flourish if properly conducted.

            As we pointed out last week, the Old Shiretown is sadly in need of leadership and of an awakening to its possibilities, and we sincerely trust that those who desire to assist in the needed regeneration of the place will give expression to their views in our columns. . . . The Town needs waterworks, street lighting, an extension of its sewerage system, and much improved methods of roadway and sidewalk maintenance. These needed public services are difficult to secure and to maintain with the present small population—very small in proportion to the great extent of streets. But if many of the vacant lots had residences built thereon and occupied by the families of well-paid artisans, and the community were as prosperous as it could soon be made to be with the needed energy properly directed, then the requisite improvements would come as a matter of course and their cost would cause no anxiety but, on the contrary, would be easily we might say automatically, provided. Again we call on the St. Andrews Board of Trade to come out of its hiding place. Let it get all the merchants, mechanics, and professional men in the Town to join the Association, and let them all pull together in a huge effort to replace St. Andrews in the position it once held relatively to the other Towns of New Brunswick.

Town Council

Moved by Aldn. Douglass, seconded by Aldn. McLaren, that whereas Sir Thomas Tait has made application to this Council for permission to close and discontinue the old watering place on the Bayside road, just above the entrance to his estate and to erect and establish a new watering place at a point some distance below said entrance, also to improve and beautify the road opposite his estate, and in accordance with a plan prepared by Mr. Edward Maxwell, architect, and submitted to this Council, and whereas Sir Thomas has agreed to provide all material and labor, and assume all the expense in connexion with proposed work; Resolved that permission be and is hereby granted Sir Thomas Tait to close and discontinue the old watering place aforesaid, and to establish the new watering place in accordance with Mr. Maxwell's plan.

Beacon

Aug 3, 1918

May Seize Walker Estate

Details on American holdings in Detroit.

Beacon

Aug 10/1918

To His Worship the Mayor,

Dear Mr. Greenlaw:

It has been suggested to me by the Manager in Chief of the Canadian Pacific Railway's hotels, that it might be possible for the Town of St. Andrews to be willing to exchange the Poor House, situated on the Farm and which is rented by us for Golf Links, for the property known as The Inn and Indian Point. This building is in thorough repair, with out houses consisting of large carriage shed, 3 horse stalls, 3 cow stalls, large hen house, coal and woodshed, with very large accommodation for hay and straw etc. in the loft of same, and also excellent storage on the floor above the coal shed. There is also an acetylene gas plant and the whole house is in good shape. There are 20 rooms in the house, 2 bathrooms with all fixtures. There is a large attic which would accommodate from 15 to 16 people and the whole is thoroughly equipped for lighting with acetylene gas, even the attics. There is a large water tank in the attic, which holds 5000 gallons; there is also a good artesian well and soft water system with leaders from the roof; this is solid brick and holds about 10,000 gallons of water, and will at all times insure sufficient water for domestic purposes.

            The original part of the house is piped for hot air heating, with registers in all the principle rooms of that part of the house; this could be used in the summer time exclusively, and if it was necessary to close off this part of the house in the Winter time, the extension, which includes the kitchen, contains eight bedrooms, sitting room down stairs and a large kitchen, and can be closed off so that one stove upstairs will do the heating and the kitchen range will heat the lower portion. There is a three-section range left in the building, which is in good order.

            It has occurred to me that the exchange of buildings might be more suitable for Town purposes, at the same time the Golf Club have found it imperative that the Golf Club House be extended and on the present site of which the Golf Club house stands there is no room without interfering with the layout of the Golf Course. There is a possibility that we might be able to use the present Poor House with extensive alterations, make same available for the Golf House, as the intervening section of land between the two courses is very essential to us for the purpose of teaching golf. At the present time we find it necessary to do the teaching on the Fairway of the 18-hole course, which of course is a detriment at all times to the players, and at the same time embarrassing to the people who are being taught.

            I should esteem it a great favour if you would kindly take this proposition up before the Council and advise me on what basis the transfer could be made, keeping in mind the fact that we will still continue to pay the rental of the farm grounds, which at the present time is leased on a ten year lease, four of which is still to run, with the option of the renewal at the expiration of this time. I shall be glad to have this lease renewed at the time when the present lease expires.

            Your attention to this matter personally, with an early reply, would be very gratefully received by,

            Yours faithfully,

            A. Allerton

100th anniversary of founding of Charlotte County Grammar School.

Mr. Mortimer Davis and Mr. Philip Davis are at the Algonquin.

Mr. R. B. Van Horne arrived last week in his splendid auxiliary yacht Uvira II which was docked in Boston last winter to undergo extensive alterations. She is new a model craft replete with all conveniences and more comfortable than ever.

Mrs. Ayscough delivers a lecture on Chinese painting at Casino in aid of Red Cross. at Casino. Long article reprinted here.

Beacon

Aug 17, 1918

Centenary of Charlotte County Grammar School 1818-1918

The celebration of the Centennial of the Charlotte County Grammar School was held in the Assembly room of the Prince Arthur School on Friday evening, and a full report will appear in our next issue. We have been supplied with an advance copy of the "Historical Sketch" by M. N. Cockburn, Esq., K.C., which is as follows:

The Friends present tonight must suffer a disappointment, if they are expecting from me anything that could be at all regarded as a proper history of the Charlotte County Grammar School. It was only ten days ago that I was asked to take part in this very important and most interesting event. It can therefore be readily understood, that a great injustice would be done to this institution, whose traditions bear such unmistakable marks of age, distinction, and importance, to speak of the few disconnected facts and incidents to which I shall be able to refer tonight, as "A History of the Charlotte County Grammar School."

To prepare anything that would approach a real history of an institution such as the Charlotte County Grammar School, covering a period of one hundred years, in ten days' time, would be a task far beyond me and would palpably fail to do justice to the school; to its antecedents, to its splendid accomplishments and to the noble army of great men and splendid women, who have for a whole century aught and studied in that school. It is regrettable in the extreme, that a proper history of this School has never been written, and even more regrettable, that all the records and data from which such a work might have been compiled, have not been preserved.

The Acts of the Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick dealing with this School, and some records still to be found in the Office of the Board of Education at Fredericton, give some small degree of information respecting the establishment and working of the Charlotte County Grammar School, but the events and facts that would have been most interesting to records in a properly prepared history of the school, have been allowed to perish and be forever lost, in the passing of the older generations of St. Andrews' people, without in any form leaving behind them a record of the knowledge they had on that subject; which is quite as painfully true of many important events connected with the Town of St. Andrews, its first settlement, its commercial growth and development, its ups and down as an industrial centre, and its transformation into Canada's greatest summer playground.

Any attempt at this date to gather material for a proper historical sketch of the Charlotte County grammar School, convinces one very forcibly of the fatality of delay, and it is surprising how very little information is now at hand from which to complete a connected tale of this ancient establishment. Records that give any information along the required lines are indeed very scarce, and the older people from whom so much valuable information could have been obtained and preserved have passed along to that Country, from whose bourne no traveler ever returns.

            From the best information I can obtain every pupil who attended the School, under the teaching of the first school Master, and, with very few exceptions, all who attended under the Master who was Brunswick show that this School was established by an Act of the Legislature, passed March 11th, 1816, entitled, "an act to Establish a Grammar School in the Town of Saint Andrews."

The preamble of the Act reads oddly enough, to those who live in these advanced days of educational advancement and necessity, in these days when education constitutes one of the indispensable necessities in the life of every man and woman. The preamble sets forth—"Whereas education of the youth is of the utmost importance in society, and public attention to that subject has by experience been found to be attended with the most beneficial effects."

            The Rector of St. Andrews Church (as it was called in the Act referred to), in the Parish of St. Andrews, for the time being, together with Robert Pagan, John Campbell, John Dunn, Colin Campbell, David W. Jack, Harris Hatch, Thomas Wyer Jr., and John Strang, were named as the first Board of Trustees and Directors of the School, by the name of "the president and directors of the public grammar school in the town of Saint Andrews." It was also provided that the Rector was always to be the President of the Board. And those were substantially the conditions, under which the School was conducted until the coming into force of the Free School Act in 1872, when by the new Legislation, the St. Andrews Grammar School, in common with the Grammar School then existing in all the other Counties in this province, was merged in and became a part of the Free School system of the Province, since which time it has been known and legally designated as the Charlotte county Grammar School.

Until the adoption of the Free School Law, which was passed by the Legislature on May 11th, 1871, and by the terms of the Acts, came into operation on the 1st day of January, 1872, the Grammar School, in St. Andrews seems to have been entirely distinct from the other School system then in vogue so much so indeed that Patrick Clinch, who was the first school Inspector for Charlotte county appointed by the Government, and whose home was in St. George, when making his annual report to the Government in 1854, expressed his appreciation of the great courtesy that had been shown to him by "the president and Governors of the Academy at St. Andrews," in permitting him to pay a visit to the aforesaid Academy.

            The Act of incorporation provided that the Government grant of 100 pounds should be made annually, in aid of the Grammar School, towards the support of a Master, and 200 pounds to aid in the erection of a school building. But it was provided that as soon as the annual income of the said Grammar school should in whatever manner the same might arise, amount to 600 pounds, then the annual Grant of 100 should cease.

There is now no available source from which to learn the exact date when the erection of the Grammar School building was commenced but inasmuch as the Act authorizing the erection of such building was passed in 1816 and the School was opened in the year 1818, it would seem to be a fair inference, that the Old Grammar School building was erected about 1817.

            The building as originally erected, or the first Grammar School, was a square building in form, with a hip roof; from the centre of the roof arose a bell tower of the same form as the main building, and that was surmounted with a peaked roof, from the apex of which a flag staff with a ball on its top pointed skyward. The door opened into a hall, on either side of which was s classroom, and at the end of another door opened into the school room. Just opposite the last-mentioned door in the main room, and against the wall, was a sort of pulpit, with a reading board on the front, into which the Master used to ascend when hearing his classes, and especially for the hearing of classes in translation of Greek and Latin.

            At some subsequent time, the date of which I have not been able to ascertain from any source, an addition was made to the original building, on the end facing on King Street. All present will know, that the old Grammar School building stood on the same site now occupied by the Prince Arthur School building. The addition referred to comprised the space afterwards occupied and known to the present generations, as the cloak rooms and classroom, as the same were at the time the old building was abandoned. In making the addition referred to, the interior of the building was changed in form, and a "V" roof put thereon, with the gable end facing on King Street. A small bell tower was placed on the eastern end of the building, from which for many generations the old Grammar School bell, which is in evidence here tonight, rang out its call to summon the Grammar School pupils to their daily tasks. The old building when enlarged and remodeled increased the size of the main school room, by the removal of what were originally the hall and classrooms referred to in this description. In that enlarged and remodeled condition, the old Grammar School building served as a school building, under whose room many bright minds were trained and developed, and many who afterwards became prominent and distinguished men and women, passed their graduation.        

In 1912 the old building was removed from its original site, after ninety-four years of service, to a place on the lot below that on which it sat so many years, and is now crumbling into decay, a standing witness of the work of the iconoclast, and if its inner walls could be made to speak, much that would interest and amuse could be learned, which now, alas, can never be known.      

In 1811, the Rev. John Cassills, a Presbyterian Divine, was sent out from Scotland to teach the Academy at King's College, Nova Scotia. That was then a denominational school, under the management of the Anglican Church, and the governing body did not feel altogether comfortable about a Presbyterian clergymen moulding the minds and lives of the youths of their faith, and a knowledge of the existence of that feeling caused the teacher to chafe slightly under the cords that bound him to a school, and to a people who loved and honored the man, but had doubts as to the soundness of his theology. The opening of the Grammar School at St. Andrews, and the need of a teacher to take charge thereof, afforded Mr. Cassills, an opportunity of relieving his mind on a difficult problem, against which he had fought for seven years; and at the sacrifice of income which in after years he must have sorely needed to rear and educate a family of twelve children, with which God blessed him in his married life, he accepted the appointment to the principalship of what was then the St. Andrews Grammar School.

            In 1818 Mr. Cassills moved from Windsor, Nova Scotia, to St. Andrews, and took up his residence in what was afterwards known as the "Donaldson House," which occupied a site on the upper part of the block immediately above the Grammar School building, which Block is now the property of Lady Tilley.

The reminder of Mr. Cassills' life was spent in Charlotte County, and during that time he built and occupied a dwelling on Minister's Island, on site that is still spoken of, by some of the older people, as the "Cassills' field." He also built and occupied the dwelling house on the Saint John Road which was lately owned and occupied the late Mr.  Robert McLaren and his family. He also owned, occupied, and died in the dwelling house at Vardon's Point, Bocabec, which has lately been remodeled and is now owned by Mr. Angus Holt.

            At the opening of the school in 1818, it was exclusively for male pupils in the advanced grades, and Mr. Cassills' pupils, for the first years of his term, were very largely made up of sons of the United Empire Loyalists and their descendants. That splendid class of men who, three quarters of a century ago, were the very life-blood of all St. Andrews' industries, whose enterprise and industry placed St. Andrews, in their day, at the head of the commercial Towns of New Brunswick; lined the water front with wharves and warehouses, and taxed the same to full capacity with shipments to and from; filled the harbor with ships which carried on a very large trade between here and the Old Country and between here and the East Indies; who promoted and built the first line of railway in New Brunswick; whose ability, integrity and enterprise placed them foremost among the men of New Brunswick, and who set a place for the commercial life of St. Andrews, which their descendants failed to maintain, were graduates from Mr. Cassills' school.

            How interesting it would be if we tonight could read a list of the names who responded to Mr. Cassills' first roll call, on the opening of the Old Grammar school in 1818. Unfortunately there is no such record extant, and I have been able to ascertain their names of only a few who were his pupils during the twenty years that he was Headmaster in that school, from 1818 to 1838. During that period, however, the late Honourable Harris Hatch raised and educated a large family. There were five boys whose names I remember, from information given to me years ago by some of the older people. They were Harris, Wellington, Christopher, Edward, and Charles. Mr. Cassills took delight in telling of an incident that occurred in connection with the Hatch family, while the boys were in his school. Perhaps there is only one person living today who remembers hearing Mr. Cassills relate this tale, and that is Miss Jane Kaven, who now lives in Bocabec, who has seen ninety summers, and whose recollections of Mr. Cassills are still very distinct. The honorable Mr. Hatch, was, of course, solicitous of the welfare and future of his boys, and in discussing their possibilities with Mr. Cassills, said he felt that Harris, Wellington, Christopher, and Edward were boys of strong intellect and would easily make their way in life; Charles, however he thought to be of weaker mental caliber, and he asked Mr. Cassills if he did not think he had better educate Charles for the Ministry. Whether it was because of the views expressed by Mr. Cassills in reply to Mr. Hatch's inquiry or some entirely different cause, Mr. Charles Hatch never attained the sacred calling which was then his father's ambition. Another pupil who attended the school under Mr. Cassills, was the late Mr. Thomas Thompkins Wyer, who was a familiar figure on the streets of St. Andrews half a century ago. Mr. Wyer was a godly man, and did much good in the community, in his own way, but like Mr. Charles Hatch he could not be classed as a man of strong mental powers. For the purpose of this narrative, I am assuming that colonel Wyer, the father of Thomas Thompkins Wyer, like his son, Charles, thought it would be his paternal duty to place his son in some occupation where brain power would not play much part. He, therefore, educated his son, Thomas as a lawyer, and Mr. Wyer became a member of the New Brunswick Bar, but his mind and thoughts ran in too saintly a groove to continue long in that profession.      

            The last two survivors among the men who attended Mr. Cassills school, were the Late Honorable Senator Arthur Hill Gillmor and the late Mr. Charles O'Neill.

In 1836 the Rev. Mr. Cassills resigned his charge of the Grammar School, to resume his work in the ministry, and assumed charge of a Presbyterian circuit in this County, with churches at Bocabec, Whittier's Ridge, and Mascarene, wherein he labored faithfully and well until his death on July 18th, 1850. His remains rest beside those of his wife, under the shadow of the spire of Greenock Presbyterian Church h in St. Andres.

            Mr. Cassills bore the reputation of being a man of strong scholarly attainments. His sermons and writings, many of which are still in existence, show he had a profound knowledge of, and took a deep interest in, astronomy. While in the Grammar School he successfully taught navigation, and many a sea captain who afterwards sailed on the five oceans, obtained the whole of their theoretical education while in his school. He spoke fluently and wrote freely in seven languages. He certainly was himself a scholar of a very high order, but the opinion did prevail among some of his pupils that he did not possess the ability to impart knowledge to the same degree as possessed by some of his successors in the school.

            In 1838 Mr. Daniel Smith Morrison succeeded Mr. Cassills as Headmaster of the Grammar School. As far back as that time we have evidence of the fact that nick-names were as common as they are at the present day, for history records that this new Head Master was given the name of "Long Morrison," of "Sugar Tongs," from the fact that he was very thin, had long legs and a very short body.

            Mr. Morrison continued in charge of the School from 1839 to 1849, when he went to the United States, became a citizen of that Republic, entered the legal profession, and was appointed a Supreme Court Judge in the State of California, which position he held at the time of his death. Some years before his death, and after his elevation to the Supreme Court bench, he was visited in California by our worthy and much esteemed fellow townsmen Mr. Henry O'Neill. Mr. Morrison really taught the Grammar School only ten years, as he spent one year from 1845 to 1846 in England, on leave of absence, and during that period the school was in charge of Mr. Charles Bliss St. Stephen, who afterwards became an Anglican clergyman During the time that Mr. Bliss was in charge of the school the number of pupils in attendance sensibly decreased, as it is said he lacked the magnetism and personality of Mr. Morrison. Upon Mr. Morrison's return, however, the vacant seats were speedily filled and the attendance became so large that an usher had to be engaged. Many changes were made in the management of the school and in the system of instruction. Trial by jury was instituted, so that no boy accused of misconduct should be unfairly punished.

            I have obtained the names of some of the men who were students under Mr. Morrison, and no doubt many of them will be familiar to some of those present tonight. The list includes: Stannus Jones, Mortin Jones, Vernon Jones, the Hon. B. R. Stevenson , Dr. J. F. Stevenson , Rev. Fletcher Pickles, George Miller, John Miller, Robert Miller, J. Sydney McMaster, J. Ambrose Street, Arthur Streets, George W. Street, W. H. Street, W. D. Aymar, Matthew J. Elliot, Andrew Elliot, William Austin, George Buckstaff, John Smith, Henry O'Neill, Rev. Francis O'Neill, James O'Neill, Hugh Stoop, James Stoop, Darius Ingraham, Patrick Quinn, Thomas McVay, Daniel McStay, John Dunn, B. O. Hathaway, John B. Balsom, John Boyd, James Maloney, E. S. Polleys, R. Melville Jack, John Lochary, Charles Eaton, Fred Eaton, Donald Berry, Fred A. Morrison, John Campbell, George Mowat, Thomas Berry, Alexander Berry, Robert Stevenson, Capt. Nelson Clarke, Capt. John Wren, Alexander McGill.

            Very few indeed on the above list are still living, but we are glad to number among our citizens in St. Andrews three whose names have been given to me in the above list, and who are with us tonight, Mr. Henry O'Neill, Mr. James Stoop, and Mr. E. S. Polleys.

            I could give some slight account of those whose names are above given, in their after life, but that would be personal history, not history of the Grammar school, to which I feel I must limit myself in this narrative.

            One incident, however, which is directly connected with the school and has been given to me from a reliable source, may be worthy of touching upon as I pass along. It is connected with the late Fred A. Morrison, who as a pupil at the time. He afterwards went into the legal profession, in which he distinguished himself during the short time he lived, and was a law partner with the late Judge King of the Supreme Court of Canada. At the time referred to the late Dr. Jerome Alley was the Rector, and as a trustee of the school, was paying an official visit. Dr. Alley was a short and very fat man, and while examining the school at the closes of the term he asked Fred Morrison to spell the word "Fatally," and Mr. Morrison proceeded to divide the word in syllables and spelled it thus: "Fat, fat; Ally, Ally." Dr. Alley was wise enough to take no notice of the play that had been made on the letters of his name, but the story is worthy of repeating, as evidence of the remarkably swift wit on the part of young Morrison, who as that time was scarcely fourteen years of age. This incident may have occurred n the School of Mr. Smith, rather than the school of Mr. Morrison.

            Mr. Morrison was succeeded as Headmaster in the School by Mr. Randal E. Smith in 1849. Mr. Smith at that time was a young man, fresh from King's College, his home being on Prince Edward Island. One of his pupils has spoken of him in this manner: He was then about thirty-five years age, and was what would be truly called a fine-looking man. His hair was brown, face full with side whiskers, average height, and a form inclined to fullness. His step was light and sprightly, and tradition told how he had put to flight two big loots who, for a fancied grievance, had treacherously taken him unawares. His learning was of the first order; he was an excellent English scholar, a good French scholar, and was proficient in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; he was a capital arithmetician and mathematician, and taught navigation to many a youth who afterwards was destined to command the ships that sailed the briny deep. While playful and jolly at recess or before session he was a strict disciplinarian, once the bell had announced the hour for work. He was noted or impartiality, and the son of the aristocrat would "catch it" just as quickly as the poor scholar who was getting his classics for making the fires or brooming the floor, if the rules had been infringed and a castigation was required. It was the custom in Mr. Smith's school to begin the morning session by reading a Chapter from the New Testament, each pupil continuing the text as his name was called, and the Catholic boy was obliged to bring his Douay for that purpose, though it would have been handier and cost a small sum of conscience to use his neighbors King James Version. He disliked anything that smacked of bigotry, and no fault would meet with more severe retribution than the one of sneering at another's religion.

            In 1855 Mr. Smith was ordained a Deacon in the Anglican Church, and acted for some years as assistant to the Rev. Dr. Ketchum, but continued teaching the Grammar School until 1868, when he left St. Andrews and became the Rector of St. Marks Church in the Parish of St. George, in succession to the Rev. Mr. McEwen. He died in July 1899, much regretted not only by his own flock, but by all dominations. A young man just from college he at first had pretty hard work controlling a rather rough and pugnacious lot of pupils, who had been brought up to believe that truth and pluck would always win out, and his hasty punishments without proper investigation, soon precipitated a revolt, which happily resulted in a very much better understanding between scholars and teacher. Mr. Smith had severely punished one of the older boys for a slight offence, the others thought the punishment entirely out of proportion to the offence, and thus the trouble came about. During recess Mr. Smith often went to this lodging, only a block from this school, leaving the doors open. On this occasion one of the boys, named Grant, had left his cap in the building, and finding the door fastened on the inside, started to climb in the window; there he was repulsed by a boy named Smith, a brother of the Master, who spat upon his head. However, he managed to get in and looking about for a way to punish his aggressor, bethought him of the cellar under the building. This cellar was entered by heavy trap door in the floor, and being only used a receptacle for fuel during the winter, was consequently filled with cobwebs and black dust; and as there were no windows it was perfectly dark when the trap was closed. Opening this trap door, he caught Smith and thrust him down, then closing the door, left him a prisoner. When the Master returned and had taken his place at his desk, loud cries of "let me up!" were heard coming from the cellar. "Who is down there?" the teacher said. "Me," was the response; "And who is me?" "Smith"; "Who put you down there?" "Grant." "Go and let him up Grant." Grant went to the trap, threw it open, and seizing Smith, whose head reached nearly to the floor, by his long hair dragged him out. His appearance, covered with dust and cobwebs, was too ludicrous, and a roar of laughter greeted his arrival. Smith told his tale, and Grant was ordered to take off his jacket, when he received such a horse-whipping, as would be looked upon with horror at the present day, and which left long white wales across his shoulders and around the arm stretched out to protect his face and body. After school was dismissed Grant proceeded to take it out of Smith for tattling, and for which all the other boys each gave him a box on the ear. They had made up their minds that if the Master undertook to thrash the lot they would take the horsewhip away from him, and upon his attempting to do so the following day they did take away his whip. Of course there was a struggle, and the small boys ran out crying "They are killing the Master!" and the excitement was rather intense. Not a blow was struck, but the whip was simply taken away, as the Sheriff and constables were on their way to the scene of riot. The boys retired to the shades of "McFarlane's Woods" till after dark, when they returned each to their own home. There was a trial for assault afterwards but nothing came of it, and eventually all the boys engaged in the affair returned to school. Here credit must be given to Mr. Smith for acting like the Christian gentleman that he was; there was no difference made in the treatment of the rebels, and everything went on as usual—minus the horsewhip. To the pupil who thus related this incident Mr. Smith shortly afterwards said "I think I made a mistake with you boys, and that I was too severe. I am going to try a new tack and trust to your honor to be a little trouble to me as possible, but rather an assistance." He stuck to his part of the contract, and the boys stuck to their as far as it was possible for boys to do so. The gentlemen from who the above account was obtained, was the late Mr. R. Melville Jack. The late Mr. Charles Campbell once related the same incident, but told it in a more sanguinary way. In Mr. Campbell's account he stated the boys wrenched the wooden frames from the slates and struck the Master with the sharp corners and edges, and much blood was spilt in one way an another. He further related that both sides were so infuriated that some tragedy might have happened, but fortunately one of the younger boys thought of the bell, and rushing to the rope rang out a peal, which echoed over the Town. Immediately the inhabitants rushed up to find out what was the matter, and the row was stopped. The larger boys who even then supposed that they had killed the Master, fled to woods, and it was some days before they were all safely returned to their homes.

            This, Mr. Campbell stated, was a lesson to both parties, and from that time the school was most successful and efficient—indeed so thoroughly was he grounded in classics and other branches, in that school under Mr. Smith that on his arrival in England, he took an exceptionally high position at College for a boy of his age, to the astonishment of the Masters and ushers who examined him, and who were all under the impression that he had come from an uncivilized country.

            There were many able men graduated from Mr. Smith's school, and afterwards became prominent in the world and industry. I regret I have not a full or more perfect list of those men, but it has not been possible for me to get a list that would be at all complete. I have however, been furnished with the following list of names of men, who at some time were pupils in Mr. Smith's school: Elbridge Hannah, William E. Polleys, Thomas Munroe Hannah, Eber S. Polleys, William Sydney Smith, John Algar, Owen Jones, Martin Law, Harry Gove, Isaac Kennedy, Edward Foster Law, Charles Campbell, Howard Campbell, John Treadwell, Jarvis Stephen Law, James Coldwell, Henry Quinn, Edward Jones, Thomas Miller, James Chandler, Vernon Nicholson, Joseph A. Wade. Arthur Whitlock, Claude M. Lamb, Robert Chandler, William Smith, George Treadwell, Edward S. Waycott, James Brennnan, J. T. Whitlock, William Whitlock, Edward B. Chandler, Guthrie Treadwell, Charles Ketchum, Warwick A. Lamb.

The names that I have thus obtained, are from the best available sources possible but neither myself nor my informant desire to be responsible for the complete accuracy of the list. I think the late Hon. Dr. George J. Clarke also was a student in Mr. Smith's school, for a short time, but the short period at my disposal has made it impossible for me to verity that as a fact.

            In 1868 Mr. Francis Partridge succeeded Mr. Smith, and I think it was during his term that the school was opened, for the first time, to female pupils. Mr. Partridge was held in high esteem, not only by his pupils, but by the entire community among whom he moved, and after his term as teacher in the Grammar School he was ordained in the Anglican Church, wherein he labored with great success and ability.

            Mr. Partridge was succeeded as Headmaster in the Grammar School by Mr. Charles M. Sills, now the Rev. Dr. Sills, who began his work in the Grammar School in 1872, and from then until the present time has maintained a strong and friendly interest in St. Andrews, in its people, and in all its institutions. For many years he has been a regular visitor to St. Andrews during the summer season, and none who come among us are more beloved or more welcome than the distinguished gentleman who has spoken to us tonight, as the oldest surviving teacher to the Charlotte County grammar School. It is fitting, too, that Dr. Sills should retain a kindly feeling and recollection for this old town of Saint Andrews, as it was by his association with the Charlotte county Grammar School that he became bound by sacred ties in the family of the late Reverend Dr. Ketchum, who for so many years filled the sacred post of Rector of All Saints Church, and who during all those years, endeared himself to the hearts of the people, in a way and to a degree that few men in any walk of life have ever succeeded in doing. To very many of us his memory is a bright spot in our lives; the good that he did in his sacred calling and the deep interest that he ever took in the public schools, and especially in the Charlotte county Grammar School, will cause his memory to linger lovingly in our thoughts, so long as there remain any of the people who were privileged to know him.

            Dr. Sills' term and work in the Charlotte County Grammar School can be discussed with so much more correctness and so much more interest by him, than it could by any other person, and as we enjoy the great privilege of having him here tonight, I simply pass on, without further referring to his tenure of office in this venerable institution.

            I am not able to give the dates, lack of time has made that impossible but the names of the teachers who followed Dr. Sills in succession are: Dr. J. A. Wade, Dr. James F. Covey, Mr. Arthur W. Wilkinson, Mr. Horsman, Mr. William Brodie, Mr. Colpitts, Mr. Fred L. Day, Mr. J. A. Allen, Mr. George J. Trueman, Mr. George, E. F. Sherwood, Mr. S. A Worrell, Mr. William Woods, Mr. William H. Morrow, Mr. George B. Carpenter, Miss Edna L. Giberson, and Miss Salome Townsend.

            Dr. Wills was the first teacher to take charge of the Charlotte County Grammar School after the New Brunswick Free School Law came into force, and many changes were put into effect in the administration of than school.

            I might be permitted in closing to say, that in my investigation I am led to believe that, previous to 1833, Parish Schools existed only by the grace and at the option of the inhabitants, and the same were under no restrictions by, and received no sanction from the legislature or from any governing body. A teacher's qualification for the position consisted solely in his willingness to assume the duties of the position, and as a result Mr. Lorimer, who succeeded Patrick Clinch as the second School Inspector, for the County, should have found it necessary to say in his report to the government as late as 1862, that he found the Parish Schools in a most deplorable condition; that the teachers were for the most part, a lot of illiterate and ignorant females, having no qualification for the work outside of being of fairly good character.

            Many years have passed since the New Brunswick Free School Act came into operation. The Charlotte county Grammar School has remained perpetually under the best obtainable teachers, but looking back over the past decade or two decades, one must sometimes wonder if the system is at fault, or if the material is deteriorating, or it, as a matter of fact, the graduates from that institution during the past twenty years have measured up in point of ability with the graduates who passed through the school, during the first three quarters of a century of its existence.

Beacon

Aug 24/1918

Description of Sunday concert at Algonquin.

Beacon

Sept 7/1918

Carried: "That the exchange of buildings [Inn for Poor House] be made on the basis of a bonus of five hundred dollars per annum to be paid the Town in addition to the payment to the Town of the present rental of 250 dollars per annum on the land known as the Poor-Farm; also the rent of 80 dollars per annum on the land at "Indian Point" on a portion of which the "Inn" is situated, the foregoing to be subject to the approval of the rate-payers of the Town."

Beacon

Sept 14/1918

the Algonquin Hotel closed today after a fairly prosperous season considering the wartime conditions prevailing. It is to be hoped that the war will be over before the Hotel opens next summer. the weather in July left much to be desired, from the point of view of those seeking rest and recuperation at a seaside resort, but August as delightful nearly throughout.

Beacon (f9823)

Sept 21/1918

The Renowned Shops in Charlotte county

Hill's Linen Shop in St. Stephen

Stickney's Wedgwood

The other enterprise of which we wish to speak is the famous Wedgwood House of Mr. G. Harold Stickney, in St. Andrews. Mr. Stickney's father, the late G. F. Stickney, was a working jeweler who came from Saint John many years ago and opened a jewellery and hardware store. Those who knew the store forty or fifty years ago, and up to the time of the late Mr. Stickney's death in 1892, will remember the wonderful stock to be found there, not always displayed in elaborate show cases, but produced, in request, from drawers and receptacles beneath the counter. Mr. Stickney was a man of artistic tastes, and by a fortunate chance he became interested in the products of the famous Wedgwood pottery in Etruria, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Gradually, year by year, Mr. Stickney increased his purchases from this famous pottery, and in the course of time his store became known throughout America as the place where Wedgwood ware could be found in greater variety than in any other place on the continent, and often people came here for the sole purpose of buying one or more pieces of "Wedgwood" that could not be obtained elsewhere. On the death of Mr. Stickney, senior, the business was taken over by his son, the present proprietor, who has gradually dropped out of the hardware and jewellery business and devoted most of his time to the business of pottery, of which the products of Etruria form the most conspicuous part. We speak whereof we know when we say that not even in London itself can be found such a collection of "Wedgwood" as can be seen any day in Wedgwood House in St. Andrews. The stock is not entirely the product of the famous Staffordshire pottery, but wares made in other renowned English potteries are also carried. Nobody visits St. Andrews without making at least one purchase of the famous Wedgwood tableware or ornament, and it ever afterwards remains a valuable souvenir and household possession

            We may repeat a story of Wedgwood pottery that some readers may not have heard, or having heard, may have forgotten. A daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the pottery at Etruria, was married to Isaac Darwin the father of the more famous Charles Darwin. Isaac Darwin was a physician, and in the course of his practice acquired the belief that most human ills had their origin in the stomach and were caused by people bolting their food without proper mastication. To impress this fact on his family and guests he had his father-in-law make for him a dinner set on every plate of which was displayed the admonition MASTICATE, DENTICATE, CHUMP, CHEW AND SWALLOW. We do not think Mr. Stickney happens to have any replicas of those plates in stock.

Charles Bonaparte has left St. Andrews for the summer

Beacon

Sept 28, 1918

Mr. A. C Van Horne, of Joliet, Ill., who has been spending the summer with Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne at Covenhoven, Minister's Island, left on Thursday evening on his return home.

St. Croix Courier

Oct 3/1918

The two-story brick building occupied by the Post Office and Beacon Press Company was sold by auction on Saturday. W. F. Killen of Woodstock purchased it, being the highest bidder, at $1150.00

Beacon

Oct 5/1918

Wake UP St. Andrews!

The Post Office Building was sold by auction at noon on Saturday last, the purchaser being Mr. W. S. Skillen, of Woodstock, the price paid was $1150, probably not half the original cost of the material entering into its construction. The lot is a corner one, is 80 by 70 feet. The property belonged to the St. Andrews Land Company, whose holdings passed to the CPR some years ago. The sale of the landmark in St. Andrews, and to a non-resident who bought it on speculation, give one an opportunity to moralize a little on the decadence of St. Andrews as a commercial centre, the unfulfilled expectations of the Land Company that started with such a flourish of trumpets and whose big schemes were to revolutionize the place and the disappointed hopes of holders of vacant lots to reap the unearned increment in values.

            But moralizing is not much use, especially on the subject of the failure of the people of St. Andrews to make more of their opportunities, to make the place what it should be—one of the most important ports in the Dominion of Canada. It would have heartened the people of the Town if the CPR instead of selling the building, had made the necessary repairs upon it, and held it till the good time comes for which we are all looking, and which the grey beards among us may not see.

            Another nail has been driven in the coffin of the Old Shiretown, and it is a matter of regret that this undertaker's work has been performed by the CPR. The funeral, however, will be deferred for the old Town is not quite defunct, or perhaps even moribund. It is just sleeping, and its awakening may yet come before Gabriel blows that blast which has been foretold, and which is to wake the dead.

November 11/1914 WWI ends

Beacon

Nov 16/1918

The Boom that never Came

Letter from D. Arnold Fox, eminent musician, of Saint John. "Whilst going through some papers the other day, I came across the enclosed verses. They may be familiar to you, and, on the other hand, they may not be, and you may deem them sufficiently to publish them. How I got hold of them I cannot remember. You will observe the verses are brought up to 1898. A great deal of water has ebbed and flowed in St. Andrews Harbor since then, and probably the march of events in the Shire Town has been of sufficient significant whereon to build an epilogue." The verses were familiar to us, and to many of our readers. they were attributed at the time they first appeared to the late Dr. Walter Osburn, a native of the town. We have great pleasure in reprinting them below, and we repeat the suggestion of Dr. Arnold Fox that someone might write additional verses and bring the subject of the "Boom" to the year 1918.

St. Andrews Celebrates

The glad news of the signing of the armistice reached St. Andrews at 7:30 on Monday morning, and immediately the Town Bell began to peal, and was soon joined by the several church bells, all of them being rung at intervals throughout the day. All day the citizens were hard at work decorating their premises, the streets and public buildings in preparation for the demonstration on Tuesday, which was proclaimed a Public Holiday by the Mayor.

Tuesday was a glorious day, in every sense of the word, the sun shining brightly in a cloudless sky from rising to setting, and the night was equally fine, the weather being unusually mild for the season of the year. The ending of the long and bloody world war, in which so many of her brave sons had borne a gallant part, and alas! So many of them had sacrificed their lives, brought great rejoicing to St. Andrews. Every heart was filled with joy, and it was manifested in the most remarkable demonstrations ever held in the Old Shiretown or in any other place in Charlotte County. The decorations of the streets, public buildings, stores, and private residences and grounds were on an elaborate scale, and most artistic. Where all were so fine it would be invidious to particularize, but the windows of the stores of Mr. Edwin Odell and Mr. G. H. Stickney are certainly entitled to special mention. The illuminations at night were particularly fine, especially on Water Street, the colored electric lights festooning the streets by the Market Square being the most conspicuous. The lights were furnished from the dynamo of Mr. Davis's Picture show, and Mr. A. W. Mason is entitled to much praise and thanks for their beautiful installation.

The following is the Official Programme of the day's celebrations, with lists of the several committees who had charge of the arrangements:

Programme

12 O'clock

Royal Salute at Block House

Ringing of Bells, Blowing of Whistles

1:45 pm

Raising of Victory Loan Honor Flag and Band music on Market Square

2 pm

Parade

1. Town Marshall

2. Autos Mayor and Council, Clergy, school board

3. Autos—With civilians, carrying flags

4. Naval Float

5. Band

6. Returned Soldiers. Car and on horseback

7. Fenian Raid Veterans. Car.

8. Floats—Nations, teams, Red Cross, teams

9. Fire Engine

10. School Children

11. Hobo Band

12. Khaki Club Float

13. Float—peace. Bicycle Parade on both sides.

3:14 pm

Thanksgiving Service

Doxology by Band and United Church choirs.

Lords' Prayer, by Rev. Father O'Keefe

Psalm 67, by Rev. G. H. Elliot

National Anthem

7:30 pm

Selections by Band

Exit of Kaiser

National Anthem

Members of the Committees

T. A. Hartt, M. P., Chairman

F. L. Mallory, Secretary

Parade

W. J. McQuoid

Wellington Carson

W. F. Crane

Music

Dr. J. F. Worrell

Rev. Gilman

R. D. Rigby

Finance

T. A. Hartt

G. W. Babbit

F. L. Mallory

D. W. Stinson

Goodwill Douglass

Decoration

P. E. Odell

W. F. Kennedy

Fred Young

Fireworks and Noise

G. H. Lamb

Wright McLaren

W. F. Kennedy

Joe Handy

S. J. Anning

E. A. Cockburn

R. Davis

A. W. Mason

While the ringing of bells and the tooting of horns and steam whistles, went on almost continuously Tuesday morning, the general observation of the day began at noon with the firing of a Royal Salute of twenty-one guns at the Block House. The old cannon there was requisitioned for the purpose, after many years of disuse, and it was aided by a little salute cannon belonging to Mr. G. H. Lamb, which made a louder report than its big brother.

            Fifteen minutes before the great procession began to move, the Victory Loan flag was raised on Market Square, thus indicating that St. Andrews had already "gone over the top," in contributing more than its allotted portion, $100,000 to the Loan.

            At 2 pm the procession started, headed by Mr. W. J. McQuoid and Mr. W. F. Craig, general directors, on foot, followed by Marshall Sinne; and Mr. Edwin Odell mounted on spirited chargers. Immediately behind were a number of returned soldiers mounted and they were followed by automobiles conveying the School Trustees, the veterans of the Fenian Raid, the Mayor and Aldermen in shiny new silk hats. There were many other vehicles in the procession besides the various floats to be described. A body of schoolgirls carried the new school flag donated by Mr. E. Atherton Smith. There were many horseback riders and a large number of men, girls and boys on gaily decorated bicycles. Here were many floats, all of them displaying great taste and skill in their construction. It is impossible to describe them all in detail, but mention must be made of the O.U.U. boat of Mr. Thomas Pendlebury, the submarine chaser of Mr. Elmer Rigby, and the "Tank" of Mr. Hector Richardson. It was marvellous that such splendid representations could have been produced at such short notice, or even at all. The float of the Y. W. P. A. represented the Allied Nations, Mrs. A. B. O'Neill personifying Britannia; Mrs. W. V. Lamb, Serbia; Miss Marjory Babbitt, Belgium; Miss Freda Wren, France; Miss Mattie Malloch, Canada; Miss Madge Rigby, ?; Miss Alice Holt, Australia; Miss Mary Hannagan, Scotland; Miss Viola McDowell, Japan; Miss Bessie Thompson, Italy; Mrs. Warren Stinson, United States; and Mrs. Ralph Goodchild, Russia. The team was driven by Mr. Martin Greenlaw, who figured as John Bull. The Y. W. P. A. was also represented by an automobile with a large banner on which were displayed the initials of the Society.

There were two Hobo Bands, one of boys all of ages in grotesque costumes and unfamiliar faces preventing recognition; and the other of young ladies who have been identified as the Misses Bessie Malloch, Annie Ross, Phyllis Cockburn, Hellen Young, Carol Hibbard, Dorothy Lamb, Gladys Thompson, Francs Thompson, Marie Douglass, Annie Halliday, and Marjorie Hanson; and Messrs. Arnold Mears and Hope McQuoid. A most realistic Kaiser was dragged along at the rear of their conveyance.

            Mrs. Thos. Coughey had a most artistic float, a large rowboat filled with children, with herself as Britannia. The Red Cross Society portrayed most beautifully and impressively the "Greatest Mothers in the World," the ladies, who were all dressed as Red Cross nurses, being Mesdames G. H. Stickney, G. H. Elliot, S. Shaughnessy, Percy Hanson, W. F Kennedy, Richard Keay, E. A Cockburn, and R. D. Rigby. Four little boys, Joe Finnigan, Harry Higgins, George Higgins, and Rolland Dixon followed as stretcher-bearers.

            The navy was represented by a decorated buckboard filled with sailors in most attractive naval uniforms: Mrs. Charles Mallory, and the Misses Anna Outhouse, Elsie Finnigan, Hilda Finnigan, Fern McDowell, Ethel Cummings, Alice Anderson, Ina Rankin, and Muriel Davis; Mr. Caddie Norris, Captain.

            The Khaki Club had a pretty red-and-white float, Miss Maud Greenlaw, as Peace, was particularly charming. In a phaeton drawn by a white horse, Willie O'Neill, as Khaki, led the horse, while little Jimmie O'Neill, as a cherub, blew a golden horn. A bevy of young girls on rose-trimmed bicycles, surrounded by Peace.

            Mr. Warren Stinson was a very realistic Uncle Sam, and Mrs. W. F. Kennedy, an an equally realistic hobo, preceded the Band. Two knights of Phyhias, in most fantastic costumes, occupied another float and attracted much attention. We fear we are overlooking some other prominent features of this most gorgeous and realistic pageant, but our readers must kindly bear in mind that our reporter and others members of the staff took part in the procession itself, and thus were not in a position to view the procession as a whole.

            The parade, which was at least a mile in length, formed at the Market Square and proceeded up Water Street to the head of the Town and across to Montague Street, and down this to the lower end of the Town and across to Water Street to the Railway Station, where a turn was made, and thence along Water Street to the starting point.

            At the Market Square, a short thanksgiving service was conducted as indicated in the programme, closing with the National Anthem, of which two stanzas were sung. After this three hearty cheers and a ? were given for the King, and then the same for "Our boys Over There." The Band then played several selections.

            The evening's proceedings began by the "Exit of the Kaiser," who was burnt in effigy and so that there might be no mistake about the exit, the dethroned and fugitive fiend was burnt in effigy a second time. From eight to nine o'clock the Band gave a concert which was much appreciated by the very large crowd assembled. Unfortunately the fireworks ordered for the occasion did not arrive in time, but there were several bonfires in various parts of the Town, and the glowing illuminations of the streets, and especially the brilliant-colored electric lights at the Square, made up for the lack of fireworks which were really not missed at all.

            Never before was there more enthusiastic or successful celebration in the Old Shiretown. A feature, a conspicuous as it was commendable, was the absence of speech making. Just before the great parade started, Mr. T. A. Hartt, M. P., speaking from the bandstand, made a few remarks appropriate to the occasion, but beyond that there were no speeches whatever.

            No DESCRIPTION THAT WE CAN WRITE OF THE DAY'S CELEBRATIONS CAN DO IT AMPLE JUSTICE BUT OUR ACCOUNTING THE HISTORICAL EVENT WOULD BE ENTIRELY INADEQUATE IF WE FAILED TO BESTOW OUR TRIBUTE OF PRAISE UPON THE COMMITTEE WHO HAD THE ARRANGEMENTS IN HAND. NEVER HAS OUR POPULAR M. P. WORKED HARDER OR MORE SUCCESSFULLY THAN ON THIS OCCASION, AND AS HE WORKED SO DID EVERY OTHER MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEES. THEY HAD THEIR REWARD IN THE ENTIRE SATISFACTION WHICH THE PROCEEDINGS GAVE TO ALL WHO HAD THE PLEASURE OF witnessed THEM.

            To those who participated in the spectacular display unstinted praise is due. Visitors present who had seen parades and pageants in other places—in large towns and cities on great occasions—confessed to having seen nothing to surpass Tuesday's display in St. Andrews. We speak whereof we know when we say that in London at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 9, 1901, there were no groups that surpassed some of those in the parade on St. Andrews on November 12, 1918.

            We conclude our account of a great and historical demonstration by expressing—and we are sure the whole community joins us therein—our very great appreciation of the services rendered by the Band, which did more than any other single feature to make the celebration the great success it was. With but little time to practice and several of the old members now serving overseas, Bandmaster Gilman did wonders in getting together such a number of skilled musicians, two of whom, Mr. Newton and Mr. Roy, are recent comers to town, and one, the veteran cornetist, Mr. G. H. Stickney, has not played in a and for years. But the perfect harmony of the Band, and the splendid selections played to freely during the afternoon and evening, gave no indication of lack of practice or of only recent combination. They played like musicians associated together for years and in constant practice, and the townspeople were delighted to hear the town Band once more.

Beacon

Nov 16, 1918

Lady Van Horne and Miss Van Horne have closed Covenhoven for the winter and left for Montreal in a private car on Tuesday evening.

St. Croix Courier

November 21/1918

Decision in Case of St. Croix Gaslight Co. (seems as though St. Stephen went for gas instead of electricity)