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City Engineer Believes That Amount of Buildings in Welland Next Year
will Amount to Three-quarters of a Million.
[Welland Telegraph, 31 December 1912]
D.T. Black, town engineer, is optimistic of Welland’s possibilities next year. Mr. Black is confident that the amount of building will reach, if not exceed, three-quarters of a million dollars.
“From what I know at the present time,” he stated, “the coming year will surpass all former years. Every where there is talk of expansion, not only in business houses, but in manufacturing industries as well. The fact that the streets will be paved will help wonderfully, also.”
H.A. Rose is contemplating a new brick block on East Main Street, and A.J.J. Brennan is figuring on adding another storey to his block.
Four Other Factories Have Decided to Make Extensive Additions-
Next Year to See Great Development of Town
[Welland Telegraph, 31 December 1912]
That the Plymouth Cordage Company has definitely decided to spend $350,000 in the enlargement of their Welland plant is the information which has reached The Telegraph.
The new building will be built north of the present plant and will exactly double the capacity of the mill now in operation. Officials of the company will give no information but it is understood the work will be started in the spring.
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Chief Health Officer of Province Advises Municipality that No More Sewage Should be Emptied into Provincial Waters. Septic Tank Must be Built.
[Welland Telegraph, 30 July 1912]
Dr. J.W. McCullough, the Chief officer of Health of the Province, has sent to City Clerk Boyd a notice which, if dealt with by the Council, will likely mean that civic septic tanks for the disposal of sewage of the town must be built.
The communication is in the form of a notice to municipalities and quotes section 91 of the Public Health Act, as follows:
“No garbage, excreta, manure, vegetable or animal matter or filth shall be discharged into or be deposited in any of the lakes, rivers, streams or other waters in Ontario, or on the shore or banks thereof.
“The owners and officers of boats and other vessels plying upon any such lake, river, stream or other water shall so dispose of the garbage excreta, etc., as not to create a nuisance or permit of its gaining entrance to or polluting any such lake, river, stream or other water.”
Dr. McCullough concludes by advising that the Provincial Board of Health requires that any municipality now discharging sewage into any lake, river, stream or other water of the province shall, as expeditiously as possible, provide for the treatment of its sewage to the satisfaction of the Board. He asks the municipality to govern itself accordingly.
The town of Welland empties all its sewage into the Welland River. If the Public Health act is observed the town will have no other option than to install a septic tank.
[The Welland Telegraph, 27 February 1912]
Welland’s ambition to take in a section of the township of Crowland, from appearances at the present time, will end in a dismal failure.
W.M. German, town solicitor, is said to have informed the Mayor a few days ago that the proposition was “all off.” He did not make plain his real meaning, but it is obvious that the town’s aspirations are not to be crowned with success.
Another movement is on foot to form a police village, but the most likely thing to happen is that the town will take in the property of the township, this side of the railway tracks. Crowland has no objection to this procedure. Ald. McKay intends to bring it up at an early meeting of the Council.
O.H. Garner Closing Near a Half Century in Those Services
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 29 December 1925]
With a service record of nearly half a century-forty-nine years to be exact- O.H. Garner, Welland’s veteran telegraph and railway ticket agent, has resigned his agencies with the C.P.R., M.C.R. and T.H.& B.
He will shortly open an office from which he will handle the sale of ocean steamship tickets and a real estate business.
Mr. Garner entered upon the line he has handled these many years in 1876, when, with the late E.R. Hellems, they became agents for the G.N.W. telegraph and the Canadian and American Express Companies. Their office was located in a small frame building on the south side of East Main Street on the site now occupied by the Rose Block. Welland was then a village of some 1,500 people, and, it is unnecessary to say, lacked many of the features of the city today. Mud was then, probably the most prominent feature of the landscape at certain seasons of the year, although it may be that the numerous village taverns were a close rival. The mud is gone and so are the taverns, or at least the tavern bars; and the hand of Mr. Garner may be traced in the elimination of both, for he has probably paid about as much in taxes as the next man in the city, and his activities in the field of temperance and moral reform are too well-known to require comment here.
At the time he started business no downtown ticket offices were maintained. The railways then in operation were the old Canada Southern, later absorbed by the Michigan Central, and the Welland Railway, running from Port Colborne to Port Dalhousie, and in due course amalgamated with the Grand Trunk and now forming a part of the Canadian National system.
Mr. Garner’s real estate ventures have been many, one of the earliest and most extensive being his purchase of what was then known as Orient Hall, built by the Oddfellows, which building was for many years the only scene of Welland’s dramatic enjoyment and the centre of much of its social activity.
Residents East of G.T.R. Claim They Are Not Liable
Say Meter Kept Right on Ticking Whether There was Any Gas or Not
[Welland Telegraph, 16 February 1912]
Incensed because the gas pressure had been very low, a number of citizens residing east of the G.T. R., refused to pay their gas bills to the Industrial Natural Gas Company for the month of January, when the collector called.
It was stated on Wednesday that the total number of those who refused to pay was probably about twenty-five or thirty, and that there were about seventy users. They claimed that several times there has been practically no gas, but that the meter kept right on ticking off the feet with as much energy as before. Therefore they issued an ultimatum that as there was no gas there should be no money.
An enquiry from T. Coulter of Port Robinson, manager of the company, on Wednesday morning, elicited the information that the affair was not as serious as stated. He claimed that those who refused to pay did not run up to anywhere near the number mentioned.
Canadian Steel Foundries will Acquire More Land
[Welland Telegraph, 30 January 1912]
The Canadian Steel Foundries will likely commence shortly alterations to their rolling mills, which will enable them to use this part of their plant again.
Although the company have plans for a million-dollar addition to their works here they do not intend to commence extensions for some time yet. They will, however, purchase a piece of property adjoining their plant, so that they will be in a position to proceed at any time they so desire.
SIX WEEKS’ JOB HERE IN PROVIDING MORE FLOOR SPACE
ATHERTON WOODWORKING CO. TO SUPPLY THE CABINET WORK
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 19 November 1931]
Bert Timms, 122 Dorothy street, has been awarded the contract for renovations to the Welland postoffice, and the contract figure was stated by Mr. Timms today to be approximately $2,000. Other local contractors who tendered for the job were the R. Timms Construction Co. Ltd., and the Gardner Construction Company, Ltd. The Atherton Woodworking Company has the sub-contract for supplying the cabinet work such as the wickets, mail boxes, brass grills, bevelled windows and other other similar features.
Work commenced yesterday, and Mr. Timms is superintending the job, the postoffice building superintendent, William Jarvis, giving him the fullest possible co-operation.
The intention is to erect the money order and registration offices at the north end of the building, and to provide office space where the north side hallway now stands. This will eliminate the hallway there, and will give the postoffice staff considerably more space for their work, something Postmaster W.H. Moore states, had been badly needed for a long while.
The mail boxes will be removed from their present position to the south side of the building, and will be fewer in number, The Tribune was informed. The package and stamps wickets will remain where they now are.
Mr. Timms hopes to have the job finished within the next six weeks.
R. Winter of Toronto, district architect for the Federal Government, is expected in the city late today to confer with Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Timms.
Owners Have Spent Over $10,000 in Improvements
Business Section Laid Out in This Sub-Division
[Welland Telegraph, 20 February 1912]
The Telegraph has just had an interview with the manager of the Canadian General Securities Corporation, Limited, of Toronto, the owners of the Welland South estate, a sub-division at the south end of Welland adjoining the factory section.
The company reports that they are as rapidly as possible developing Welland South into a workman’s high class residential district. Recently they have taken over the Alfa Hanna property, lying between the canal and the Michigan Central Railroad. They have had built as entrances to this property two very handsome concrete pillars on Broadway, just across the canal from the steel plant and immediately adjoining Welland South station on the electric railway.
The company spent a great deal of money, in the neighborhood of $10,000, during the past season in grading streets, laying sidewalks and doing general improvement work for the benefit of their clients who are purchasing property through them, and for the benefit of the workmen in the factory section who will eventually live on this property.
Only a few homes were built on the property before winter set in, but the residences which were erected are good, and if the buildings built in this sub-division in the future are in keeping with those already there, then Welland South will surely be the choicest section from a residential standpoint in the factory district. We are informed that several lots in this property have been sold to Toronto contractors, many of whom have already gotten out plans and commenced active preparations for building houses and stores in Welland South this coming season.
One street running through the centre of the property has been made ninety feet wide and is named Young Street. This street is intended for the business street of the district, and no lots are being disposed of on this thoroughfare except to parties who will agree to build a store thereon within a reasonable length of time.
County Council Wants Equal Charges in All Parts of County.
[Welland Telegraph, 26 January 1912]
A motion was passed in County Council this morning instructing the Clerk to communicate with the Dominion Railway Commission in an effort to secure uniform telephone rates in all parts of the county. The motion was introduced by Stamford’s representatives who claim that their township was unjustly taxed.
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