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Cars Will Not Cross Canal Bridge-Passengers Will Take Transfers
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 5 May 1921]
“The street car service on the west side of the canal will be inaugurated on Wednesday of next week,” so stated Alex. Griffiths, one of the prominent shareholders of the Niagara, Welland and Lake Erie Railway Company, to the Tribune-Telegraph yesterday.
“The contractors tell us,” continued Mr. Griffiths, “the tracks will be completed to the bridge next Tuesday. The cars are ready, and the motors which were found to be defective have been replaced.”
The car service on the west side has been long deferred, and not a few have given up all hope of ever seeing it in being.
At the council meeting on Tuesday night Mayor Diffin brought in a report that indicated he was entirely without hope.
Ald. Scott in view of the general symptoms was somewhat more hopeful and the proposal to apply to the Railway Commission for an order to compel the Company to inaugurate the service was laid over to await developments.
In view of the statement of Mr. Griffiths, immediate action seems likely.
It will be of interest to patrons of the trolley to learn that cars are not going to run over the canal bridge. North ward cars will stop at the bridge shanty. The bridge is thought to be too narrow and traffic too congested to permit of operation of cars on it.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 5 May 1921]
A motion was passed at the meeting of the City Council on Tuesday instructing the City Engineer to get estimates on the cost of paving North Main Street from West Main Street to Mill.
Alderman Scott stated that it was an injustice to patch up the road as the city had been doing in the past. The majority of the citizens in the city would get the benefit from the road. Concrete was the only system.
“Welland has fallen behind in permanent paving,” continued Alderman Scott, “and the residents of this part of North Main Street are very much in favor of paving the section of the road.”
He favored putting down a concrete pavement and indicated that he would take action to have future pavements put down on the 100 per cent basis.
Solicitor Gross explained that to do this a vote of the people would be necessary.
Operations Resume This Week-Forty to Sixty Men To Be Employed
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 3 May 1921]
“Building operations on the new theatre will begin this week,” said S.L. Lambert to The Tribune-Telegraph yesterday. “We expect,” he said, “to have from forty to sixty men employed shortly.”
This looks like the most important building operation of the year, and will do something to help the unemployment situation.
The Lambert theatre and hotel building will be by all odds the largest, most expensive and most imposing building in the city.
British-American Drug Co., Capitalized at $300,000 to Manufacture Drug Supplies
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 3 February 1921]
George Day, Industrial Commissioner, announces the location of another industry in Welland-the British-American Drug Co., Limited, Manufacturing Chemists.
This company has been incorporated under a provincial charter, with a capital of $300.000.
It is the intention of the company to manufacture patent medicines, drug supplies, and among many other things, Van’s Ointment, which has proven so wonderfully successful in all skin disorders.
A board of directors has been elected, consisting of Col. B.J McCormick, Dr. H.D. Cowper, W.G.Smith, the prominent Welland druggist and D.B. Coleman, barrister.
The charter just secured covers the manufacture of all lines of drugs and druggists supplies. The company is linking up with the druggists throughout Canada.
The factory location in the city has not yet been determined but the company has fully decided that its manufactory is to be carried on in Welland.
Line Runs Direct East From Welland to The River-Bridges Are to Have Foot and Carriage –way.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 1 February 1921]
There was filed in the Welland Registry Office last week the land plans of the Niagara Bridge Co., and it is one of the most important and interesting railway documents the registry office has seen in many years.
The bridge company will not only span the Niagara River but as well will construct and own a railway which will connect the Michigan Central System at Welland with the New York Central System New York State.
The new line will tap the Michigan Central, just east of Welland, at a point half a mile north of the Cook’s Mills Road. The direction is direct east striking the river about two miles, north of Black Creek. The line crossing the first bridge to Grand Island at Sheerwater Park.
The company has purchased two Willoughby farms at the approach to the bridge and the rest of the property for right of way will be acquired under the railway act.
The Tribune and Telegraph understands that the M.C.R.R., C.P.R., and T.H. & B., jointly control the new company. The plans were filed by E. D. Cahill, solicitor for the T.H. & B.
It is of great interest to note that the company is required under the charter to maintain a foot and carriage-way on its Niagara River Bridges.
Mayor Diffin and W.M. German Get Assurance From Dept. of Railways and Canals.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 11 January 1921]
That Welland is to have a new passenger and vehicle bridge is now almost certain, by the statement made by Mayor Diffin and W.M. German, after waiting upon Hon. Dr. Reid and W.W. Bowden, Chief Engineer of Department of Railways & Canals. They were received very favorably and every indication goes to show that the coming bridge is a reality. Mr. Bowden stated that he would build us a new bridge at either Lincoln or Regent street. He stated further that the bridge would be built this year providing the price of steel and other building materials came down to a normal figure again. The new bridge is to be of the very latest type and will be up to date in every detail. It will be built in jack-knife style. It will also have a walk on both sides
The present Alexandra Bridge will be rebuilt to conform with the new canal.
O.H. Garner Has Been Appointed Manager
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 27 January 1921]
The Canadian Pacific Railway, The Canadian Pacific Ocean Steamship Company, and the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Co., considering the growing needs of Welland City and vicinity decided they should be well represented in this district, should have an office of their own and they have rented No. 62 East Main street opposite the Dexter House for their use. W. Fulton, Assistant District Passenger Agent representing the Railway, J. Neal Spt., the Telegraph representing that department and J. B. Tinning, Travelling passenger Agent of the Steamship department have been in the City arranging matters.
They have appointed O.H. Garner who has had a wide experience in Telegraph and Rail and Steamship Ticket business as manager here.
Lookout Point to Be Made Famous Golf Centre
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 24 May 1921]
The success which has attended the Lookout Point Country Club in the aim to establish a country club and golf course on Pelham Heights has been so encouraging that last week the club decided to alter its plans. Now, instead of a nine-hole it will be eighteen. This decision will increase the capital outlay to nearly one hundred thousand dollars and it is the intention to increase the present membership of one hundred and fifty to three hundred.
The highest authorities have pronounced the projected golf course upon which work is not going forward as one which for its landscape beauty, its contour and its soil, as one having no superior and it is the expectation that Lookout Point will be the mecca of the golfers of the continent.
Stone Aqueduct, Long the Glory of Engineers, to be Taken Out
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 7 June 1921]
The concrete work on the Welland Ship canal will total two and a half million cubic yards-equal to a concrete wall six feet wide, twenty feet high and one hundred mile long.
The above was one of the many interesting statements made by Capt. Allan German, M.C., in an address at the Rotary Club yesterday.
He stated that 1600 acres of land west of Welland will be flooded as a result of raising the river level six feet. The immense stone aqueduct at Welland is to be torn out, and a large dam constructed at Port Robinson to take care of the river flow.
At the Lake Erie and Ramey’s Bend is to be cut off and a lock inserted to maintain a constant water-height in the canal. The raise here above Lake Erie level will be 3 to 4 feet. The harbor depth will be 30 feet.
It is the intention to fill in the area at the lake front between the government elevator and the shore, to be utilized for industries.
Three bridges are proposed for Welland-one to replace the present bridge, one at Division Street, and one at Lincoln Street. All will be of the Jack Knife type.
A feature of the Rotary luncheon was the presentation to Frank C, Hesch of a handsome travelling bag. The presentation was made in a neat address by D. Ross. Mr. Hesch,, before his departure from Welland, ably filled the position of secretary.
Cars Will be Run on a One-man, Pay –as-you-enter Basis
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 7 June 1921]
“Der Tag!”
Today is the day. After years of patient waiting, and months of watching and praying, today is the day that the car service will commence on the west side of the canal.
Mr. Waters, manager of the Niagara, Welland & Lake Erie Railway Co., told The Tribune and Telegraph yesterday that the company were still firm in their plan to put the service into operation today.
Questioned as to what time the cars will start operating, Mr. Waters stated that he was not in a position to state, neither was he ready to state whether a twelve minute service will be put into operation. Just how far up North Main street the cars will run it is also important to find out.
The cars will be run on a one-man basis, pay-as-you-enter system,-enter in the front.
At the present time only one car will be run, the other will be added in a short time.
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