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Unknown Youth Jumps from a Hack into the Niagara Rapids
[Welland Tribune, 23 April 1897]
Niagara Falls, Ont., April 17- A stranger 21 years of age, opened the season of suicides by jumping off the upper Suspension bridge at 12. 15 today. No one seems to know who he was of where he came from. A hackman named Dave Nickerson drove him to the Canadian side to see the sights. When about the centre of the bridge the man jumped out of the hack and with the words, “Here goes, good-bye,” he leaped over the bridge railing into the abyss below. The Hackman jumped off his hack and saw the man strike the field of floe ice that was being carried down with the current. The only evidence left by him was a brown Derby hat with the maker’s name inside, “Hall,” Boston. Nickerson says this man was well dressed and was tall, slight and fair of complexion.
LATER-The man who jumped from the Suspension bridge last Saturday has been identified as Ernest F. Markham of Boston, a member of the Boston Journal staff, Photographs of Markham received here today were at once identified. No reason is known for the fatal jump on Markham’s part.
First Commercial Paris to London Airplane flight
International News
Jack Dempsey defeats J. Willard for heavyweight boxing crown
Lady Astor first woman elected to British Parliament.
Treaty of Versailles signed formerly ending World War One.
Benito Mussolini forms new Facsist Party in Italy.
Local News From the Welland Tribune for 1919
Jan 7 Seven masked men hold up a house at the corner of Lincoln and Burgar Sts.
Harold Lloyd was playing in “Komedy” at the Grand Theatre on East Main , Admission 10 cents.
Advertisements for neckties at 19 cents; men’s shirts for 87 cents.
Coffee .40 cents a pound, port wine 35 cents bottle; Ladies skirts $3.85; cornflakes 27 cents box, sugar .12 cents a pound; new McLaughlin Roadster for $1,925.
January 14 Tribune reports that robberies, hold ups, fires and violent deaths have been caused by illegal importing of liquor, due to prohibition under the Ontario Temperance Act.
April 6 The newly installed organ at Holy Trinity Church, Division St. was played for the first time.
April 24 “Veterans Desire cheaper Divorce”
Reed’s Electrical shop, east of Dexter Hotel suffers $5,000 fire loss.
Man fined $200 for having bottle of liquor in his pocket.
June 3 City to rebuild Niagara St. from Elm St. Employees of British American Ship building Company on King St. returned to work with an eight hour day.
City needs a full time industrial commissioner. Grand Theatre playing Charles Chaplin in “Police”
Tender for new fire hall let at $43,851. to Gardner Construction
Peach tree curl very bad here.
Woman grabs axe and chases Crowland police officer.
August 19 The towpath Road from Welland to Port Colborne will be 23 feet wide.
New home on Wilton Ave. destroyed by fire.
September 2 Welland Street Railway to run to Parkway Drive.
September 4 Council approves YWCA. Welland Club bowlers victorious.
October 21 Liberal Robert Cooper wins in election..
Contracts Let
[Welland Tribune, 9 April 1897]
Buffalo, April 5- The Fort Erie Jockey club has let the contracts for its track. The contract for the grand stand has been awarded to James Stewart & Co. of Buffalo and St. Louis, at a price close to $50,000, but the steel work will be done by the Hamilton Bridge company. The stables, fences and smaller outbuildings will be built by the Coleman Lumber company of Hamilton and Burlington, and the grading and construction of the track will be done by Craig & Craig of Buffalo. The erection of the stables, fences and grading are to be completed by May 15, and the grand stand within 60 days. The grand stand will be 311 feet long by 115 wide; it is to face north at an angle with the track, an innovation which the new Pacific Jockey club in San Francisco has found works very successfully. There will be eighteen terraces of seats. These terraces are to be unusually wide, and will be supplied with folding chairs also of extra width; in the front of the stand there will be 24 boxes, each containing eight chairs. The press stand will be built out from the grand stand close to the judge’s box. Immediately in front of the stand will be a granolithic promenade; this will be covered by the roof of the grand stand, which extends 35 feet beyond the front seats. There are to be four flights of stairs in the front, but the principal entrance to the stand will be from the balcony promenade in the rear. On the east end will be the buffet and restaurant. The buffet will be 45 by 50 feet and the restaurant 36 by 50 feet. Ladies’ and gentlemen’s cafes will be found there. Joining this part of the stand will be the house of the superintendent of the track. It will contain eight rooms. Underneath the stand will be the betting ring. This is to be 210 feet long by 68 feet wide. This will have an arched roof, thus doing away with columns. On the south side of the betting ring and ten feet above it, will a gallery or balcony promenade ten feet wide.
LATER- Work is progressing despite the bill before parliament to limit the number of days for racing per annum. An effort will be made to have the bill modified so as to permit of 30 or 40 racing days during the year, which would meet the views of the promoters of this track. The course has been staked out, and grading will be begun in a few days. The numerous contractors who are doing the wok are building houses for the men to sleep in while the work is going on, and the grounds look as if they had hurriedly been occupied by squatters.
[Welland Tribune, 26 March 1897]
Geo. A. Bowman has purchased the two lots adjoining his property on the west, from Mrs. Robt. Campbell. Mr. Bowman also intends remodeling his residence, adding a cellar under the main part, bay window on the east side, and a large plate glass window on the south.
[Welland Tribune, 5 March 1897]
Clarence Doan, who delivers milk for Bald Bros., and who had an arm broken in a runaway a short time ago, met with another bad accident last Friday morning. He and Dais Bald were on the delivery wagon driving past James O’Neal’s when the hind axle broke and the wagon turned over, catching the lad’s leg under the box and breaking it. Fortunately Mr. O’Neal was just coming out of the house when the accident occurred, and grabbed the horse as it was about to take a lunge and run away with the two shut in the covered wagon. Without any other assistance Mr. O’Neal managed to get the horse unhitched, get the boys out, send Dais for a doctor, and carry young Doan home.
[2 October 1891, Welland Telegraph]
Prof. Anderson will visit Welland with his big whale on Tuesday and Wednesday next, the county fair days. During the Toronto fair it was viewed by thousands. Those who never saw more of a whale than in pictures and have any curiosity respecting the animal who made a mouthful of Jonah, will have a good opportunity to get the sight of a life time.
[Welland Telegraph, 25 September 1891]
The Board of Health was called together on Monday night to receive the report of the medical health officer, Dr. Howell. In respecting the contents of the “frog hatchery.” The reports states most emphatically that the existence of such a place is highly dangerous in health, and strongly recommended that it be filled up at once. Some time ago the council had passed a resolution to the effect that if the evidence did not abate the nuisance it should be done at town expense and charged up against the property. At the board meeting on Monday night the council was recommended to carry out their resolution, which has been done, and now, no more will the sweet effluvia of the still green waters be wafted on the breeze, no more will the bullfrog’s tuneful voice echo from the depths, and suffering humanity can once more breathe a little fresh air.
He Viewed the Falls Yesterday- When He is Thinking of Doing.
[Welland Telegraph, 4 September 1891]
Carlisle D. Graham was in town yesterday afternoon. He is the man who was not daunted by the sad fate of the late Capt. Webb in his final effort to swim the rapids of the gorge, and so he constructed a barrel and successfully made the trip that killed Webb and Flack.
Graham’s first effort in rapids conquering was made on July 11, 1886. He also made successful trips on August 19, 1886, June 15, 1887, and August 25, 1889… His trifling with the waters of the gorge extended over a period of more than three years, and even if by the time of his last trip, the feat had become quite common, it must be admitted in justice to Graham that after his first trip he was recognized as a great hero, in fact a man of great nerve, to undertake and perform such a perilous feat. It can be also said of him that he always kept his word with eh people, every time he advertised to make a trip he went.
Since he left Niagara Falls he has travelled to several countries and earned a living on the reputation made at Niagara. His home is now in Rochester. He came to the Falls yesterday in search of William Coventry, and “Jack” McMahon, who it has been stated intended to go through the rapids. He didn’t fine them. He said yesterday that he had not ended his feat at Niagara and he was still trying to conjure up a way to conquer the great cataract. For $1.000 he will make the trip.
Heretofore Graham’s rapids trips have always been made in barrels, but he now has a six pound suit in which he thinks of making the journey down the rock gorge to Lewiston. While in Europe he traveled considerable with Tommy Burns who he is expecting over here to swim the rapids. If he comes Graham said they would go through together whether there was any money in it or not.-Niagara Falls, N.Y., Gazette.
An Immense Exhibit and Large Number of Special Features
[Welland Telegraph, 4 September 1891]
The wheel of time has again revived and in a few days Toronto’s Great Industrial Fair for 1891 will be open to the public, and people will be again flocking to it from all parts of Canada and the adjoining States. The harvest has this year been good, and the attendance of visitors to the great Fair may therefore be expected to be very large. The entries in all departments are sufficient to completely fill every building on the grounds as well as the new ones that have been erected during the summer. The Dominion and experimental farms re each sending very important exhibits, showing the various departments in which the farming community are especially interested. British Columbia and Manitoba re also sending much larger exhibits than heretofore. The livestock exhibits will be very fine. The list of attractions as announced in the official programme issued by the Association is a very long one and cannot fail to please the visitors as there will be something of interest to see every minute of the day of the Fair. This Fair will be opened by Major General Herbert on the 8th of September, and closes on the 19th. The usual low rates and special excursions will be given on all the railways.
[Welland Tribune, 7 January 1908]
Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Sidey are now comfortably settled in their new home on Dorothy Street.
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