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EVERYBODY’S COLUMN
EVERYBODY’S COLUMN
The Removal of the Band Stand
[Welland Tribune, 22 March 1895]
In my estimation, Mr. Editor, the Welland band stand is in a much better position now than when located near Gonder’s warerooms. The ‘point” is more isolated from buildings, and I am sure the music will sound vastly better. The small boy will have no old machinery to rattle in the very ears of the players, and those who still desire to remain on the west side and listen will find the music “from over the water” much sweeter than when close by. Your contention, Mr. Editor, that the crowds will “clog the sidewalk” I think hardly a serious objection. Crowded sidewalks one hour a week in a country town, after business hours at that, is, to my mind, a pleasure rather than an annoyance. I wish they were crowded every evening. As to frightening horses, I think one location fully as dangerous as the other and besides I wouldn’t give five dollars for a horse that would run away from music.
YOURS, SOLO
To the Tribune- I understand that in police court in your town, Mr. Philip Stirtzinger stated that I had told him, or someone else, that William Reece was a murderer. Now I want, through the columns of your paper, to emphatically deny making any such statement to anyone. Further, I have never had any cause for thinking or saying so, because I have never thought, nor do I now think, that he is any such a man.
J.R. PHILIPS
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