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St. Croix Courier
Jan 12/1922
Charlie Chaplin as Nail Polish. Uses for old film: artificial leather, varnish, patent leather on shoe caps, especially veneer on high heels; some liquid nail polish, anti-rust varnish. "You may therefore have been polishing your nails with that which, in a different form, bore the likeness of Charlie Chaplin, and Pauline Frederickmay have had something to do with the fascinating gloss on your shoe."
St. Croix Courier
Jan 19/1922
Halifax Herald: "The adoption of 'drive to the right' in BC leaves the Maritime provinces as the only section of the Dominion adhering to the law of drive to the left. In New Brunswick law passed but not yet in force; waiting on NS to decide. Counter argument: farmer's horses may not welcome the change. "The adhering of the Maritime provinces to the drive to the left rule has practically resulted in the isolation of the part of this part of the country, insofar as the tourist traffic was concerned," said R. H. Murray, president of Goodwill Road Association. "A. G. Watson, of the NS Motor League, was of the opinion that the change should go into force as soon as possible, so as to conform with the rest of the NA Continent. He was sure that the drive to the left rule would eventually be adopted, and he felt that there was no time like the present. He also stated that the present regulations were keeping away the tourist trade which the province needed. That he personally knew of many cases of tourists that had covered a great deal of the Canadian territory, but who refused to visit this part of the country on this account."
St. Croix Courier
Feb 1/1922
A jolly party of young and married folk drove to Spruce Hill Cottage, Chamcook Lake, on Friday and spent the evening there with music, games, cards and dancing. After an appetizing supper was served, they returned to their homes in town, singing, "Home Again."
Oppose Liquor Selling in New Brunswick. Prohibition forces begin campaign against proposed govt. policy "of liquor selling for revenue purposes."
Supreme Court has declared constitutional act establishing prohibition in seven Canadian provinces. Much rum running to "dry" States. (prohibition roughly 1916 to 27 in Canada, though varied from province to province)
St. Croix Courier
Feb 23/1922
Annual Knights of Pythias Ball at Andraeleo Hall. Cards and dancing. Prizes: cord of hardwood, half-barrel flour, 10 pounds butter, 50 pounds sugar, one barrel potatoes, in descending order of value. Dr. Worrell there, Hazen McGee, Thomas Pendlebury.
American drinkers now only 2 1/2 million; 18 million dry.
St. Croix Courier
March 23/1922
Back to the Days of Cottage Craft. The Story of Helen G. Mowatt and How She Succeeded in Expanding a Small Sum into a Great Undertaking. Photos. Pretty young woman. Gertrude E. E. Pringle in MacLean's Magazine for March. Original family farm 80 acres "has diminished in size, for insistent summer residents have acquired bits of it."
St. Croix Courier
April 6/1922
W. L. Mackenzie King says he favours temperance, not prohibition.
*New Brunswick's Fair Corner Stone—Charlotte County—Land of Natural Beauty and Resources. R. E. Armstrong. Excellent section on St. Andrews and tourism; state of roads.
Rural Cemetery Burial
Maria Norris (colored)
72. Lot A144
May 29, 1922
St. Croix Courier
June 8/1922
Cottage Crafts of Charlotte County. Miss Helen Mowatt Addresses Women's Canadian Club in Saint John and Exhibits Samples of Art.
St. Croix Courier
June 15/1922
CMA Convention in St. Andrews. Business combined with recreations in Sessions Next Week. June 21, 22 and 23. Special train from Montreal leaving 8 am June 19 arriving 10:30 pm (14 hours). Owing to business depression, Western Ontario and Western provinces would not be strongly represented. "Afternoons and evenings will be given over to recreation including golf, motoring, motor boating, deep sea fishing, bathing, tennis, dancing and similar amusements." "In the evening a series of lectures, illustrated by motion pictures and other views, will be delivered in the hotel. These will include a lecture on the British West Indies, one on the Maritime Provinces, and one, provided by the department of trade and commerce, on the industrial development of Canada."
St. Croix Courier
June 22/1922
Summer people arriving in force.
CMA convention 300 strong.
Algonquin staff: Manager M. J. Brennan. Chief Accountant O. W. Stinson. Chief Clerk, S. Farmer. Cashers Miss Mehan, Miss Fox. Mail Clerk Miss W. McCurdy. Accountant's Assistant Miss N. Grant. Golf Cashier Miss Varnum. Golf Matron Mrs. J. McFarlane. Housekeeper Mrs. P. Revers. Matron Mrs. R. Tennant. News Clerk Miss Ann McDermot and Miss Vines. House doctor J. D. L. Mason. Steward Mr. Webber. Rec. Clerk L. Worrell. Control Clerk G. Bailey. Head Bellman A. Cummings. Porter L. Luce. Golf Instructors J. Peacock and Mr. Pike. Bathing Beach Superintendent F. McCurdy. Casino Keeper B. McMullin. Head Waiter J. MacLean. Assistant Waiter Mr. Chidley. Chef Mr. Connor. Telephone Operators Miss M. Sheehan and Mrs. Anderson. Manicurist Miss Gertie Stickney. Chiropodist Miss Reeves, Mrs. Franks. Telegraphers Mr. Boyer, Mr. Emery. Engineer A. W. Mason.
St. Croix Courier
July 6/1922
Studebaker—touring car from $1,495; coupe from $1,925; 5-passenger sedan $2,425. J. Clark and Son, St. Stephen.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 3/1922
Editorial: Concerning Hotels.
There is dissatisfaction among members of the Commercial Travellers' Association with hotel conditions and hotel charges in Canada and the matter has been finding expression in the press. The Association has prepared a "chart" of what it alleges is a scale of reductions in the price of almost everything entering into the conduct of a hotel and showing all the way from 12 percent reduction on towels to 70 percent reduction on cooking fats. These may or may not be correct but the ordinary house-holder in inclined to question them when he sees the reduction on beef since the days of the war quoted at 45 percent. Certainly no such reduction has been found in St. Stephen.
IT is evident that the commercial travellers are men of short memory for they make no reference to the fact that with the high prices of war time came also prohibition, the elimination of the bar and the disappearance of a material source of revenue.
In conversation with the proprietor of the Queen Hotel, acknowledged to be one of the best small-town hotels in Canada, attention was called to the fact that the hotel business is one of the most precarious in Canada today and gives no promise of material improvement.
Table supplies are a considerable source of expense but not the heaviest. Coal is not decreasing in cost, nor taxes, nor insurance, nor wages. Wages of hotel help were never adequate before the war and having been somewhat increased will probably never be reduced. These figure in the upkeep of an hotel as surely as the cost of soap and towels and are continuous whether the rooms are full of guests or only one is registered.
Travel is always uncertain and while there may be many guests at mid-week, then for the week end the hotels have few commercial men because they have pulled out for their homes.
And the matter of special rates to commercial travellers is one that is causing careful proprietors much concern because they have other guests, not so rates, who come more frequently and stay longer and are entitled to consideration. And there is less to be expended for shortages of supplies for the rooms and for the tables after the latter class depart than frequently follows the departure of some of the present-day commercial travellers.
The commercial travellers write of forsaking the hotels in small towns and going to private houses and perhaps it would do no harm all around if the experiment were tried.
Hotels are maintained for the convenience of those away from their own homes and are not of special advantage to local people, but these would not be inclined to aid in a measure that would tend to operate against a well conducted and creditable hostelry.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 3/1922
New Brunswick a Magnet for Tourists.
By George A. Mackie, publication Manager Canadian Forestry Magazine.
This province is being visited by increasing numbers of tourists each year. The many beautiful streams, secluded lakes and camping grounds are made accessible by a net work of highways. The brooks and streams teem with trout and salmon and the forests abound with large and small game. Last year over 13,500 game and fishing licenses were sold, of which about 1000 were non-resident licences. And this does not include the thousands of local fishermen who do not require a license to fish. The annual revenue to the province from fish and game amounts to $100,000, but the actual benefits may not be measured by dollars and cents alone. It is impossible to determine the extent of the benefits arising from these recreation trips in the open. All one knows is that the recreation seekers, who, spending his holidays in the woods and forgetting the monotony of office work and routine or the drone of machinery, comes back with all the enthusiasm and joy of youth, his whole being as it were made over.
A Million on Roads.
Each year the province is being patronized more as a mere camping and recreation ground, due to a great extent to the wonderful improvement of late years to the highway roads, making the country accessible by automobile. Over a million dollars are spent in the maintenance and improvement of roads and bridges each year. And the roads of today will be greatly surpassed by those of tomorrow.
One may then realize that the province is being regarded as a great recreation ground which will be developed further as time goes on. The investment in improvements which will facilitate tourist traffic is great. The returns in money to the province merely cover the administration, and protection of the fish and game. But what of the losses? Every year, the loss to forests and property amounts to a quarter of a million dollars, due almost entirely to the carelessness of a few of the fishermen, picnickers and campers, unextinguished matches, tobacco, and camp fires spread through the forests and destroy immense quantities of timber and often property as well. Camp, hunt, fish and enjoy your holiday in the forest, but Be Careful of Fire. Don't be a kill-joy.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 10/1922
Value of Canadian Motor Highways. 167,285 autos entered Canada in 1921 for touring purposes. Total for 1920 only 93,000. Represents expenditure of approx. 107 million revenue produced by motor highways.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 17/1922
St. Andrews by the Sea. By Jessie L. Thornton in Industrial Canada. Long article on Algonquin, town and area. Photo of touring car with Algonquin in background, as from visitor's center.
St. Andrews-by-the-Sea
On the southwestern coast of the province of New Brunswick, very close indeed to the state of Maine, Passamaquoddy Bay is separated from the outlet of the St. Croix River by a hilly triangle. St. Andrews occupies the tip of the wedge. Deer Island faces it and Campobello and Grand Manan lie in the order named out in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of Maine. The protecting cover of these islands shelters Passamaquoddy Bay from the extreme storms of the Atlantic and its calm waters are warmer than those on the exposed coasts a little further south.
The Passamaquoddy Indians, a tribe peaceable enough now, in all conscience, have a legend that white men planted a cross on the edge of the bay and called the spot St. Andre. In this way, they account for the name of the town and also for that of the river St. Croix. Beneath the shadow of Chamcook Mountain, which is no mountain, but an abrupt hill four hundred feet high standing back of St. Andrews, a French ship dropped anchor on a June day in 1604. From it were unloaded cannon, implements, brick and provisions upon an island then and baptized it St. Croix. One gets an excellent impression of this island on the way up from St. Andrews to St. Stephen. The island is no longer St. Croix but is called, indifferently, Doucet's or Dochet's.
Historically St. Andrews is not without interest to those with a bent in that direction. From these, the canopied pulpit in the Greenock Church will evoke more than a perfunctory show of enthusiasm. The church building was begun one hundred and five years ago and completed a few years later by a well-to-do captain who determined to make it a monument worthy of the town and his own generosity. He ordered a carved oak tree to be embossed upon the face of the tower, in memory of his native Greenock, or Green Oak in Scotland. To the cabinet maker who fashioned of mahogany and bird's eye maple "The finest pulpit in the province" he gave a free hand. No nails were used in fitting the parts. Exquisite care was expended upon joints and panels, and the cost, according to St. Andrews tradition, was twelve thousand dollars. The first minister of the church is buried in the adjoining yard. Besides performing his clerical duties he had time and disposition to found the "St. Andrews Friendly Society" to which all the town's best born of a hundred years ago belonged. The members bound themselves to converse only "upon Religion, Morality, Law, Physics, Geography, History and the present or past state of nations." As this curriculum would keep their meeting-hours reasonable occupied, they agreed, Scotchmen all, to make pause for no other refreshment than "spirits and water."
Report has it that the old Scots families of the town have much fine plate and many heirlooms in mahogany. In any event, the frames of some of the houses were brought from the United States by United Empire Loyalists during the famous hegira which did so much to populate the Maritime Provinces. The Tories who settled in St. Andrews were especially noted for the fervency of their patriotism. One Scot who had seven sons recognized in them an opportunity to express his zeal for the Crown. Each new arrival was baptized George in honour of the reigning sovereign.
St. Andrews is one of the most delightful seaside resorts in the world and is to Canada what Newport is to the United States. As one writer has remarked "the social atmosphere is more rarefied in St. Andrews than in other provincial resorts. The writers of pamphlets like to call it the Newport of New Brunswick." Be that as it may, St. Andrews has its own coterie of admiring enthusiasts who never weary of singing the praises of this resort where one can really get a good night's sleep after the hottest summer day. These cool evenings are a feature of St. Andrews and everyone who has tossed and tumbled in a red-hot bed in an oven-like room, in an ordinary summer hotel knows what a heaven-sent boon a cooling night wind would be. In St. Andrews one doesn't yearn for such a gift; one simply takes it for granted.
The days are filled to the brim for those whose ambition it is to keep "on the go." In the first place, there are two golf courses, one of eighteen holes, the other of nine. Both these courses were laid out by John Peacock, whose professional skill is well known and justly admired by golfers the world over. Without exaggeration, let it be said, that there is no better or more sporting seaside course outside of Scotland. Tennis is another attraction for the athletic and bowling greens and alleys have their devotees.
At Katie's Cove is a splendid bathing beach. The water is of a pleasant temperature in this protected bay and the chute and diving boards afford endless sport. The Casino, with its organized entertainments helps to pass the time on summer evenings.
The neighbouring country is intersected with a network of beautiful drives which are attracting motorists in greater numbers each year. Within the earthworks of a dismantled fort above the town is the summer home of Lord Shaughnessy, while on Minister's Island, also Van Horne's Island, is the model farm which from the train looked like nothing so much as a giant checkerboard. A curious thing about this "island" is that at high tide it is accessible only by boat, whereas at low tide a perfectly good road connects it with the mainland.
Industrially, St. Andrews is almost totally dependent on the fishing facilities in which the district abounds. There are both salt water and freshwater fish in great quantities, and the canneries engaged in packing these products are well worth a visit. Clam factories are especially noteworthy while the sardine factory in the nearby village of Chamcook employs several hundred hands.
Not only has the Canadian Pacific Railway provided excellent transportation facilities to St. Andrews, but it has arranged for the most attractive kind of a visit by erecting and maintaining one of the most famous hotels in a most delightful setting. This hotel, widely and favourably known as "The Algonquin," replaced the old building of the same name which was destroyed by fire in 1914. This new structure is a thoroughly modern type of building, constructed almost entirely of reinforced concrete, hollow tile being utilized for all interior partitions. The building consists of four storeys and two basements with over two hundred guest rooms and maximum accommodation for three hundred and fifty persons. Ninety-seven of the bedrooms have private baths; the keynote of the furnishings is "simplicity," carrying out the idea of a purely summer hotel. Danger of fire is at an absolute minimum, as fire wells and automatic fire doors divide each floor into five sections which can be completely isolated from the rest of the building.
Both the comfort and inviting character of the place impress one to a marked degree. The general feeling is quiet and restful—largely due to the simplicity and good taste used in the appointments. This simplicity and good taste, in addition to its undoubted natural recreation advantages make it a much sought out place by an increasing number of better class patrons. It is altogether carefully planned, and built along sound and safe lines, and embodies in its equipment all the features of convenience necessary to a thoroughly efficient hotel service. In this it conforms to the present-day idea of a first-class summer hotel.
Its spacious grounds, which overlook the sea include one of the worlds' finest golf courses, and through the surrounding country stretches a network of fine motor roads that give access to some of the most charming scenery in Eastern Canada. Tennis and lawn bowling are also provided for, and sea bathing, yachting and fishing are sports for which there is every encouragement in the numerous bays that extend up and down the shore in the vicinity of the hotel.
From an article in Acadiensis, written by M. N. Cockburn several years ago, the following extracts dealing with the history of St. Andrews are taken: . . .
St. Croix Courier
Aug 24/1922
Tourists can Come as Often as Wished. Rule against re-entry with six months removed.
Tourist Community Camps in Maine
Charles E. Adams, proprietor of the tourists' community camps and auto rest, Carmel, Maine, while in Calais . . . called at the publicity tourist office and gave a brief description of his community camp. The camps, Mr. Adams explained, have been established with a few one-room cottages and tents, restaurant service a la carte, and a community kitchen where campers may prepare their own meals if they so desire. Also lots where they may pitch their own tents. As this is the first community camp in Maine we are now anxiously watching its growth and hope that more may be established next year.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 31/1922
Masquerade dance at Andraeleo Hall by Algonquin orchestra.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 7/1922
G. W. V. A. Bridge at St. Andrews. Sir Thomas Tait, Lady Shaughnessy, Lady Allen, Mrs. Hosmer, Mrs. F. W. Thompson patrons and patronesses. At casino, courtesy Algonquin. Raise $375 for Great War Veterans Association.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 14/1922
Automobile Trips Through Maine. Calais to Bar Harbour via Machias and Ellsworth. The road along the shore from Calais is the most popular route during the summer months, the travelling is excellent, the scenery of surpassing beauty. Approaching Mount Desert Island, the mountains of Lafayette National Park can be seen in the distance.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 14/1922
St. Andrews Boy Scouts in Fine New Home
Miss Van Horne Presents the Troop with New Bungalow Club House
Before a large audience gathered for the occasion, Miss Van Horne, daughter of the late Sir William Van Horne, presented to Scoutmaster Stevenson the keys to the new clubhouse built by Miss Van Horne for the use of the boy Scouts at St. Andrews. The structure is situated on Price of Wales Street and occupies two town lots.
The scoutmaster, who acted as chairman, explained several features of the scout law and was followed by Rev. William Fraser, minister of the Greenock Presbyterian church, in an address on the aims and principles of the order. At the conclusion of his speech, the presented to the scoutmaster an autograph photograph of Sir Robert Baden Powell. Accompanying the picture was a letter from the distinguished founder of the scout order. This letter, suitably framed, will be hung on the walls of the reception room.
Nothing was left undone by Miss Van Horne to make the structure modern and complete. It is a one-story bungalow type.
On the platform were Rev. William Fraser, Rev. Canon E. B. Hooper, Miss Van Horne, Rev. Mr. Opie, Charles R. Hosmer, Montreal, and W. W. Kennedy.
Taking a prominent part in the scout exercise was young William Van Horne, grandson of the famous railway magnate. The youngster is a member of the St. Andrews troop and recently won a medal in competition held under the auspices of the Winchester Junior rifle league.
A pleasing feature of the programme was the splendid concert given by the St. Andrews band. At the conclusion, a collation was given on the grounds where the visitors greatly admired the exhibition of work by the scouts. The citizens deeply appreciate Miss Van Horne's splendid gift.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 28/1922
Annual bowling match at casino. H. P. O'Neill wins silver ball. Wins again on Sat. Presented with silver cigarette case by Algonquin manager M. J. Brennan. Mrs. M. J. Brennan occupying cottage five for winter.
St. Croix Courier
Nov 23/1922
G. Horne Russell elected President Royal Academy of Art. Elected R. C. A. 1909 and 1919. Mr. Russell is well known in St. Andrews, where he has spent many summers. Although ranked among the foremost portrait painters in Canada, he is also famous for his landscapes, especially those of scenes around St. Andrews and Grand Manan.
St. Croix Courier
Dec 28/1922
New Queen Theatre (photo inside and out) replaces Bijou, destroyed by fire in march 18. Seats 594.