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Park Commission Means Business-Work to be Gone on With at Once-Improvements Outlined
[Welland Tribune, 26 April 1910]
Welland’s new park commission are an energetic body.
They organized on Friday night, and on Saturday they were all out on the park site, looking it over and discussing as to the best action to be taken.
If the park is to become one in reality this summer, Mr. Plumb of Brown’s Nurseries says the trees and shrubs must be planted within two weeks.
The commissioners on Saturday found there was considerable yet to do in getting the site ready.
Mr. Beatty, who had looked the site over previously, pointed out the defects.
The southeastern portion of the site in front of Magistrate Burgar’s residence is too low and will have to be filled in, and then there are considerable hog’s backs which will have to be taken off the centre. There is a lot of earth away up at the far south end of the site, which, with what is scraped off the centre, will about do this, and the cost will run about $250 to $300.
The council will be asked to extend the sidewalk on the west side of Muir street all along the park, and the Bell Telephone company will be requested to remove a number of poles which are in the way.
The planting will cost three or four hundred dollars, and altogether the park commission may require a thousand or twelve hundred dollars this year.
The result will be an oasis right in the heart of busy Welland, and as nice a park as one could want.
Some other spots about town, such as the foot of Hellems avenue on the river, will be looked into by the commissioners.
Watch Welland grow beautiful.
[People's Press, 24 June 1919]
NOTICE is hereby given that the law partnership existing between German & Morwood is dissolved on and after the 30th day of June, inst., after which date all accounts owing the said partnership will be paid to Mr. W.M. German who will continue his present office in partnership with Mr. A.L. Brooks of Toronto.
Beatty & Sons Machine Shop Booming
[Welland Tribune, 22 March 1895]
After a long season of depression, greatly prolonged by the high tariff, Beatty & Sons’ shops are rushed with orders for contractors’ plant.
The firm’s splendid equipment, long experience, and reputation for turning out the finest work in the Dominion must always command a share of work if there is any in the country. But during these years of high protection there has been but little work for machinists, and like all others, our town shops have languished.
The last few weeks, however, Messrs. Beatty & Sons have been successful in closing two or three good solid contracts. The first two-a submarine drill outfit and a dredge-have been mentioned in our columns.
On Saturday last the firm closed for a steam shovel to be constructed for the Messrs. O’Leary Bros. of Ottawa. The shovel is to be used on section 3 of the Solanges canal, and is to be finished by June 1st.
In order to rush these orders the Messrs. Beatty have between thirty and forty men at work, and will increase the staff still further. The force will also be worked over-time in order to turn out the machines as quickly as possible.
Welland looks upon the renewal of business at the Beatty works with great satisfaction. With a wider market to cater to, this enterprising firm might build up a business in our town in extent second to none on the continent. As to the quality of its output, it already ranks unexcelled.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 20 November 1923]
W.J. Best & Son yesterday took over from A.A. Perry & Co., the book and stationery business established on East Main St. sixteen years ago by the late Mr. Perry and which has been conducted by Mrs. Perry since his death two years go.
Of the new organization, the senior member, Wm. J. Best, is one of the city’s oldest and best known business men, he having for many years been the proprietor of a meat market, retiring from that line a number of years ago, since which he has devoted his time to his extensive private interests. He is now a member of the Welland Hydro-Electric Commission, and has served the city as a member of council and in the mayoralty chair.
His son is also well known among the younger element of the city, and the firm boasts a personnel that should insure a continuance of the successful record the business has shown in the past.
[Welland Tribune, 4 April 1902]
“Riverside Mills” is the very pretty and appropriate name given to Cooper’s new mills here. We understand the name was the choice of Mr. Cooper’s father.
Mr. John Walker of Chatham, a leading milling expert, has been here the past week inspecting the mill. Mr. Walker worked for Mr. Cooper’s father some 25 years ago, soon after he came from his native heather.
The flouring apparata are about all running, and supplementary machinery for buckwheat, cracked wheat, etc. is being placed. When all is done, the Riverside Mill will be one of the best and most up-to-date mills in every respect for their size in the world.
[Welland Telegraph, 22 January 1897]
It will be a surprise to many to hear that Mr. W.J. McCoppen did on Tuesday last dispose of the Mansion House. It has been known for a long time that he wished to retire from hotel life, but very few believed he would do so. However, on Tuesday he closed a deal with Messrs. Bristow & North, who took possession yesterday morning. Mr. John A. Bristow, the senior number, has been for some time connected with the Grand Central hotel, St. Catharines, and is a thorough business hotel man. Mr. James North is from Waterford, and recently has been engaged on the T.H. & B., residing in Welland, and during his residence here has made many friends. There is no doubt but what under their management the very high reputation that the house has always enjoyed will be maintained by the new proprietors. The first wise step was to secure the services of Mr. John Stewart as wine clerk, he being a well known and trusted employee in Welland.
[Welland Telegraph, 10 September 1910]
With the growth of the town, it is interesting to note the desire on the part of the citizens to improve the grounds surrounding their residences. Until recently the great majority of the people have planted out a shrub, or a tree or two, in a haphazard way, and as long as they had plenty of shade, no thought was given as to the varieties selected. This has changed. With the large nurseries located nearby, people are bestowing more thought as to the varieties of trees and shrubs planted. This is as it should be. There is as much taste and thought to be used in planting the grounds surrounding a residence as in planning the house itself.
Brown Brothers of Browns Nurseries have anticipated the demand for ornamental stock and have a complete assortment of all trees, shrubs and perennials such as can be grown in this district. You can drive out some day and see their stock, or phone them for a copy of “Beautiful Landscapes Quickly Produced.” Brown Brothers have in their employ a competent landscape engineer and are making a specialty of laying out parks, cemeteries, school grounds, public and private grounds of all kinds. If you are going to do any extensive planting, it will cost you nothing extra to have the work properly done. Call up this firm through the Ridgeville exchange. They will be glad to make suggestions or have their landscape architect call personally.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 23 January 1923]
Those present at the demonstration of modern telephony in this city last week and every telephone user of Welland, which includes practically every one able to talk, whether subscriber or not, would be interested in a small volume bearing the date of November 1896, and comprising the Subscriber’s Directory of the Eastern Exchanges of the Bell Telephone Co., of that year, which marked the inauguration of local telephone service.
This diminutive volume, it being but 41/4 x 71/2 inches, contains 151 pages and lists the subscribers in the area from Collingwood to Belleville, saving Hamilton and Toronto. The type is large and the names are set single column on the pages, a good proportion of their size being occupied by advertisements.
Under Welland Agency, we find that the central office is located on East Main street with B. Lundy as local manager, the office being open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. week days and 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
There are nineteen subscribers, a list of whom follows:
M. Beatty & Sons, Machinists; Canadian Express and G.N.W. Telegraph; Court House; German & Crow, Barristers; Dr. S.H. Glasglow; Grand Trunk Station; Alex. Griffiths, Harness, Hides and Coal Oil; Harcourt, Cowper & Maccomb, Barristers; Dr. J.H. Howell; Imperial Bank; S.D. Raymond, Manager; Industrial Home; B. Lundy, Books and Stationery; Mich. Central and T.H.&B. Station; Raymond & Cohoe, Barristers; Registry Office; F. Swayze & Son, Insurance and Ticket Office; Taylor & Cooper, Flour and Seed; Telegraph Printing Co.; Tribune, J.J. Sidey, Prop.
No telephone numbers are attached to the names. In those days you asked for the subscriber wanted, and the operator identified the connection on the switchboard without the present day numerical aids.
Time has wrought many changes in this list. The Court House still stands as does the Industrial Home and the Registry Office, but the last was not the edifice of today. But the two railway stations are with us in the same primitive beauty they exhibited then, and who knows but that they will still be standing thusly when time is not?
The two newspapers are combined in one, and another manager’s name follows that of the Imperial Bank in the current directory; while of all the rest, but one name appears in the book we scan today just as it did then, Dr. J.H. Howell, and even in his case the “West Division St.” then following his name has been merged in that of the Bald St. we know.
M. Beatty & Sons has passed out of existence as a firm name, although the business flourishes as that of the Canadian Mead-Morrison Co., Ltd. The names of the legal fraternity are familiar names today, but differently grouped. Dr. Glasgow and Alex Griffiths have passed on; the insurance field knows not Swayze & Son, but the name of Cooper is still identified with our own source of flour and feed. Books and stationery and his duties at the switchboard, for he combined his managership with the job of central handled by the pulchritudinous damsel of today, no longer weigh upon B. Lundy-all has changed in these six and twenty years.
And the telephone business has changed too, and changed mightily. The 19 subscribers of that day have swelled to the present 1737 on the Welland exchange, with 482 more at Ridgeville, which is closely interrelated with the city operating boards. The staff of one man in the office and the switchboard, with probably a single lineman, has increased to the 46 now on the local pay roll.
But there is one thing of which the old days has the present beat to a standstill-that book of 1896 was equipped with a string to hang it up by!
Street Committee Will Blot Out “Drive Fast and See Our Beautiful Jail.”
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 15 February 1923]
“Silent Policemen” are again to make their appearance on the city streets. The streets are to be flushed in the night instead of in the day as done now, and the “welcome” signs standing at the various entrances to the city are to be “house-cleaned” and re-worded.
Such are the recommendations that are to be made to city council as a result of a meeting of the Streets Committee held Monday night. These recommendations will be incorporated in the committee’s report to the council and will probably be discussed at tomorrow night’s session.
The silent policemen are to be installed on Cross and East Main streets, Hellems avenue and East Main, Burgar and East Main streets, North and West main streets, Ross and East Main streets and Cross and Division streets. They will be substantially built with concrete base and will last for a number of years. The silent policemen will be made in Welland.
This committee claims that the flushing of the streets at night will be much appreciated by the business men in the business sections of the city.
Visitors to Welland, if the recommendations go through, will no longer be greeted with the words: “Drive slow and see our beautiful city; Drive fast and see our beautiful jail.” Instead the signs placed at the various entrances to the city will say, “Welcome to the City of Welland,” and as the visitor leaves he will read, “Thanks, come again.”
The signs which are to be placed upright and painted anew will be erected on North, East and West Main streets.
RAILWAYS WILL HELP BEAUTIFY CITY
In co-operation with the Horticultural Society’s scheme for the beautification of the city, the Grand Trunk Railway system will in the near future send to Welland an official who will confer with the Society relative to the beautifying of the company’s grounds here. D. Ben Coleman, president of the society, had also received word from the Michigan Central Railway that it intends to improve its grounds.
Their Old Home Made New
Premises Enlarged and Remodeled to Accommodate Increased Trade
[People's Press, 2 December 1901]
Progress and improvement are the order of the day in Welland. To those who have not visited the town for several years the place seems to have assumed a metropolitan air quite different from the usual atmosphere of Canadian towns of its size and status. The gentlemen who have formed the town councils of the past few years are largely responsible for this. Our new permanent walks, the vast improvements in our streets and splendid municipal buildings have given an impetus to private enterprise of all sorts, and every day we notice some change for the better and the result of the movement is very gratifying indeed.
One of the latest improvements, and one that is of great material benefit to Welland and the surrounding country, is the metamorphosis of The Ross Co’s store on East Main street.
In view of this, the latest step in the progressive career of the Ross Company, a short resume of the company’s history will not be inappropriate.
David Ross, the chief of the firm, was like so many successful business men the world over, born in Scotland. He came to Canada when a mere lad, and has worked his own way up ever since. In the year, 1875 he came to Thorold and became a partner with Wm. Bull. About 1880 he came to Welland to manage one of the firm’s four stores, the other two being at Merritton and Port Colborne. Read the rest of this entry »
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