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MEAD-MORRISON MEN HONOR NEW FIRE CHIEF
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 15 March 1921]
“T’was not the bewitching hour of midnight when the clocks were striking the hour,” but at 12 o’clock noon on Saturday last, when C.F. Stapf was leaving his work at the Mead-Morrison works, when he was taken in charge by a force of the employees and placed before the tribunal at the office of the plant, and was surrounded and guarded so that there was no possible escape. But it was a happy gathering (mingled with regrets) and one long to be remembered in the historical reminiscences of the life of Mr. Stapf.
R.M. Beatty (Supt. of the works) was officiating in the chair, and when the captive was brought before the tribunal he was told that the charge was no less than that he was to be presented by his work associates in the factory with a memento for their many years of service and kind associations they had spent together, when Mr. Beatty, on behalf of the employees, presented Mr. Stapf with a beautifully engraved gold watch and address. The recipient was taken completely by surprise (as no secret had been divulged, and no sleuth had got on the trail) made a feeling reply and thanked his work associates for their beautiful and useful gift. The following inscription was engraved on the watch: “presented to C.F. Stapf, from the employees of the M.M. Co.-39 years in the empl0y of M. Beatty & Sons.”
Each one present wished for Mr. Stapf many years to live and enjoy life, and that the “time-piece” would ever remind him of the many happy and useful years he had spent with his associated at the M. Beatty & Sons plant and later the Mead-Morrison.
Mr. Stapf started his services with the M. Beatty & Sons plant 39 years ago and has remained with the firm continuously for that term of years.
After the presentation Mr. Stapf was met at the works office by the fire brigade with trucks and escorted to the central fire hall where he was received by Mr. Brittin of the Fire, Water and Light Committee and given in charge of the fire department as their new (old) fire chief.
Mr. Stapf commences his duty today as a fully paid fire chief for the City of Welland.
Long may you live “Charlie” to enjoy many years of usefulness to yourself and family and to the city-where you have lived to see it grow from a hamlet with a few old wooden sidewalks, no street lights, mud for pavements, and the famous “bullfrog” had to entertain the natives in their lonely hours-to a flourishing city with all modern improvements.
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