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A Short Description of the Buildings and Their Equipment
[Welland Telegraph, 30 August 1907]
Probably the best building record made in Welland in the past two years, and that covers the record period, is that of the Robertson Machinery Company. Their large foundry building has been put up in just fourteen days and it is well constructed at that. The manufactured output in now being sent out and not a day was lost in moving the equipment from the Beatty foundry to the new buildings. Of course, it must not be supposed that in the new shop everything is shipshape at this early date, in fact it will be a month before everything is squared away.
The large building is 70×112, but is so well-lighted that even on the darkest days it is quite bright in all parts of the building. The machine ship is situated in the southern section separated from the moulding shop by a fireproof brick wall, and is equipped with two gas engines of 41 horse power, and the following machinery: 54 inch radial, two 16×20 inch shapers, 28 x8 inch planer, 30×15 foot lathe, 36×6 inch lathe, 18×6 inch lathe, 16×10 inch lathe, 14×10 inch lathe, 56 inch gap, 14×6 inch lathe, 3 drill presses and in the woodworking department a buzz planer, band, cross and rip saw.
Two offices, 16×9 and 16×11 are found in the southeast corner, and adjoining is the tool and stock room. The 36 inch cupalo, one manufactured by the company is in a separate brick building, 16×16 at the northeast corner adjacent to the coke house, 14×10.
The main building is fitted with one of Sheldon & Sheldon’s blowers. All the lower sashes are double-glassed, one of the sets of glass being prismatic. The new plant cost exclusive of equipment, $8000.
The Telegraph wishes the Robertson Machinery Company a long and prosperous career in the new works and hopes that very soon an addition will be found absolutely necessary.
Enlargement will Make Best Hotel in Peninsula
Modern Refrigeration Plant Will Supply Three Hundred Pounds of Ice a Day
[Welland Telegraph, 4 August 1914]
Great progress is being made by Contractor Diffin on the new addition of the New Dexter Hotel. The new part, which is constructed of solid brick and tile, is three stories, all the walls of which have been completed and the roof on. The interior of the structure means the most work. The second floor rooms each have a private tub and shower bath. The balance of the rooms, fifteen in number, are to be finished in the most modern style. The walls between each room are absolutely sound deadened. The most modern fire fighting appliances are also being installed throughout. The wiring has all been placed in conduit pipes and a return call bell system is in each room. E.A. Spachmann has the electrical work. For the greater convenience of commercial travellers four sample rooms are on the first floor of the new addition. The greatest feature of the enlargement of this hotel is the refrigeration plant, and is the first one in Welland. By this plant all the boxes in the bar and kitchen are refrigerated and will be constructed so as to freeze three hundred pounds of ice a day for house use.
[Welland Tribune, 8 February 1912]
It is now freely admitted that the Welland Business College is the most popular and high-class business school of the Niagara district. Owing to it being a link in a chain of seven high-grade schools and being affiliated with the Commercial Educator’s Association of Canada, its graduates enjoy a prestige which gives them the best positions available. Thousands of young people, who cannot attend in person learn while they earn through our Home Study department. Others study at home for a time and then finish at the college. Any young person, who is desirous of success in life, should write to the Welland Business College, Welland, Ont. For particulars.
[Welland Telegraph, 20 February 1912]
Welland this year will not only sustain its reputation as the fastest growing town in Ontario, but it will also set a new record for industrial development in the Dominion. This is a very broad statement but present indications are that at the close of 1912 will see its full justification.
Negotiations are on for the location of several new factories here early in the spring. A two hundred thousand dollar hotel will be erected by the Henrietta Hotel Company and a street railway system will be placed in operation about the first of March.
WILL PAVE
Early in the spring the Council will commence the paving of the Main Streets. All eyes are now beginning to be turned on this town and this year it will be “Watch Welland Grow!”
The plant of the Automatic Transportation Company will be placed in operation in a few weeks and within a short time the Page-Hersey Iron, Tube & Lead Company will be taking on several hundred additional hands.
MANY RAILROADS-MORE COMING
Although Welland at the present time has more railroads than any other town in Canada, the prospects are that it will have more. In the very near future the C.P.R., and the C.N.R., will build branches to Welland. The statement is authoritive as the respective companies have admitted that such is their intention. At the present time Welland has seven railroads and forty-six passenger trains run through the town every day. The city is within easy access, therefore, to all the principal commercial centres of America.
HOW WE HAVE GROWN
A brief word of the past growth of the town will serve to show what has been going on here. Five years ago the town had a population of less than 1800. Today, with the people living on the outskirts, it is over 6000.
NEW BUSINESS BLOCKS
Immediately after the opening of spring a number of new business blocks will be erected. H.A. Rose will put up a three storey block on East Main Street, and A.J.J. Brennan will add another storey to his block. S.P. Gourlay has plans out for a new block on Cross Street and A.J. Morris of Guelph will build a new two storey business block on East Main Street, east of the G.T.R. S.L. Lambert will erect a new block on North Main St., for which plans have been gotten out.
The County Council are considering the enlargement of the Registry Office, or the erection of a new building, and it is very likely that this will be gone on with this spring.
JOHN DEERE
One of the biggest booms Welland will receive will be the erection of an immense plant for the John Deere Manufacturing Company. According to the original plans of the company, they will put up a plant here that will cost in the neighborhood of $1,000,000.
OUR ADVANTAGES
Welland’s unequalled advantages are almost too well known to need elucidation. The town has cheap gas, cheap electricity, unequalled rail transportation and it is on the banks of the great Welland canal.
Should the Welland canal be enlarged it would mean that Welland will be the centre of the great industrial development which is bound to follow such a project.
HOTELS
The Dexter House is now being remodelled and when completed will present a very attractive appearance and will be thoroughly modern in every detail. Welland has long been in need of better hotel accommodation.
NEW WATERWORKS PLANT
By the first of May a splendid new waterworks plant will be completed and in operation. This plant is erected on The Island, and water power is secured from the canal. It is one of the best contracted waterworks plants in Ontario and it will provide water for the city for many years.
AN EXTENTION
The street railway is to be extended next spring. A west side line is to be built to connect with the east side line and to meet all cars on the N.S.& T. Work on the laying of the track will be started early in the spring.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Municipal improvements area also planned and will undoubtedly be carried out. A new Carnegie Library is to be erected and a new central fire hall may be built.
President D. Ross of the Board of Trade may erect a new brick block on Muir Street, but he has not decided definitely concerning this matter.
AN ARMORY
Local military men are making an effort to have a handsome new armory erected in Welland this spring, and a meeting of local officers will be held to consider the matter.
MORE PARKS
Welland’s Park Commission has been active in the beautification of the town and will make further improvements to the park next year. They may also acquire additional property for park purposes.
CHURCHES
Both the Episcopalians and the Catholics are preparing to build handsome edifices in the spring.
The Salvation Army will erect a new barracks in the spring They have secured a site on the corner of Hellems Avenue and Cross Streets.
Tuesday, April 30th
[Welland Tribune, 26 April 1907]
The formal opening of this new and beautiful rink will take place on Tuesday, April the 30th, when the following program will be offered: J.H. Crow, mayor of Welland, has kindly consented to act as chairman. Short and pithy speeches will be be given by the following gentlemen- William Mitchell, reeve of Grimsby, and J.A. Livingstone of the same place, W.M. German, M.P., George W. Sutherland, warden of the county of Welland, L.C. Raymond, Robert Porter, and members of the town council. The Welland band and the Forty-fourth Regiment band will be in attendance.
Arrangements have been made for a special G.T.R. train from Grimsby and intermediate points connecting with a special trolley car at Merritton, leaving Niagara Falls at 6.30 p.m. Car will await the return train at Merritton returning to the Falls at once. Trains will stop at all stations between Welland and Hamilton on return. Tickets can be purchased on the car. Return fare, 75 cents. Skating will commence immediately after formal opening. Rules and regulations will be strictly observed. Admission for this special event, 25 cents, skates 25 cents. Doors open at 7.30.
Regular prices and hours hereafter will be as follows.
Morning session from 10 to 12, including skates, 15 cents.
Afternoon session from 2.30 to 5, including skates, 20 cents.
Evening session from 7.30 to 10, admission 10 cents , skates 15 cents.
No pains will be spared to insure the best of instructions to skaters and everything possible will be done to make this popular resort attractive. Everybody come.
God save the King.
A Continuous Service Probable
[People’s Press, 6 February 1906]
We hope to be able in a few days to announce another and a most important step in the progress of our town city-ward, viz.:Continuous telephone service. If the revenue from the telephone service in town can be raised in a reasonable proportion the company is prepared to grant an all-night seven days a week service.
Mr. T.H. Ashley, assistant general agent of the Bell Telephone Company, is in town and is meeting with good success, both in securing orders and changes from the ordinary to long-distance equipments.
The advantage of an all-night service as a protection against fire, securing medical attendance and in many other respects are too obvious to need recapitulation here, and are well worth the small additional revenue required to secure them.
Friends Give a Farewell Dinner In His Honor
[Welland Telegraph, 4 September 1917]
Thirty-five or forty friends of Thos. W. Bell gave a dinner on Thursday evening in his honor. The affair was a mark of appreciation from a number of close associates in business and socially in view of his departure from Welland for Pittsburg, where he has taken an important position with a large independent pipe mill. In his four years residence in Welland, Mr. Bell has won a place for himself in the affections of many and he is very highly appreciated for countless good qualities. The feature of the dinner was a presentation made to him of a handsome pipe and three valuable pipes. There were many brief and bright little speeches in which the life and works of the guest of honor were given due recognition, and this note was sounded by each one that Mr. Bell had made himself in every respect a good Wellander and that he was to be sorely missed in the social sphere and in the activities with which he had been identified. Among those present were:-W.G. Somerville, Reeve Best, B.L. Booth, C.R. Hagen, Gordon P. Somerville, Mr. Ogg of the Guelph plant of the Page-Hersey Co., Bert Muckler, Mr. Steinson, J.F. Thorpe, Chief Laing, L.B. Duff, Hayward Robinson, Harry Somerville, A.J.J. Brennan, Charles Collins, J.C. McVicar, Dr. McBride, George T.T. Sawle, L.B. Spencer, Roy Fries, Jay Diffin, Dr. Godwin.
[Welland Telegraph, 4 September 1917]
Hickey’s Department store opened this morning in a new home, and this event gives occasion for comment on one of the most successful retail enterprises in Welland. Hickey Bros. began business in a very small store and with a very small stock eight years ago. In fact, the stock was worth only $600. This morning the public was admitted to a big and beautiful store with a stock of eighteen thousand dollars.
The new building on East Main street was built by W.J. Hickey and is one of the largest and most attractive business places in town. There is frontage of 25 feet on East Main street and a depth of 124 feet. All of this building is devoted exclusively to the Hickey Bros. business.
The interior fittings and cases are in walnut. An immense array of goods has been handsomely displayed.
“We are going to follow the old policy,” said Hickey yesterday, “with the exception that we have extended all the former lines we carried, and we have added many new lines. The additional space our business has been demanding for some years is now available and we are taking full advantage of it.”
[Welland Telegraph, 15 December 1885]
The supply on the market yesterday was a very large one. Farmers’ wagons occupied the market and Main street as far as the corner of North Main street. They were supplied with everything suitable to the holidays. The fatted turkey, geese, chickens, and even lamb, porker and beef and veal, dressed and quartered, were in bountiful supply. The demand was good, but the opposition in meat supplies at the regular butcher shops was too great, and the supply was displayed to greater advantage than that of the dealers on the public market.
Best Bros.’ large shops in Griffith’s block were dressed for Christmas in evergreens and artificial flowers. Their display of beef was a fine one, largely from animals fatted specially for their wants at this season. Mr. Jesse Steele, of Humberstone, supplied them with a pair of fine steers. Mr. James Moore supplied a pair of the great fat sheep, and the whole county was tasked indirectly to make up the supply of fatted animals slaughtered for their Christmas trade.
The old reliable meat market of W.F. Guest was not behind, but in the two establishments on East Main Street and corner of Hellems Avenue and Division Street, had a supply of everything that could tempt the gourmand or epicure in meats.
Wood Brothers, on West Main Street, displayed a large supply of meats in all kinds, fatted by them for the holiday trade. Quarters of beef, whole sheep, small porkers, turkeys, geese and fowl of all kinds, tastefully arranged, filled the shops, and as soon as sold, place was filled by surplus supplies from the refrigerator and store rooms.
[Welland Telegraph, 14 September 1917]
The F.W. Woolworth 5-10-15 cent store opens for inspection this afternoon and evening and at eight o’clock on Saturday morning it opens for business. Thirty-eight years ago the Woolworth idea was born. Today in the United States and Canada nearly one thousand stores are the embodiment of that idea-and the latest of these is in Welland.
“The Welland store plant is the best we have in Canada,” said R.C. Walker, superintendent. And the statement may well be believed. The block was built especially for the purpose by Wm. Swayze, under plans furnished by the architect for the Woolworth Company. The entire ground floor of 4000 square feet is devoted to store purposes, and a splendid basement of the same size is devoted to storage. The store has a handsome front and the interior fittings are very pleasing to the eye.
On Saturday morning at eight o’clock thirty clerks will be ready to meet the buying public of Welland. This store is under the direction of W.R. McNeil, resident manager.
A wonderfully large and varied stock has been placed upon the shelves. “We asked the manager to give the new store the right of way on all orders,” said Mr. Walker. “The result is we are going to open in Welland on Saturday morning with a more complete stock than we have in any other Woolworth store.”
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