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TOWN PROPERTIES
[Welland Tribune, 10 June 1898]
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE- That eligibly situated property on corner of Hellems avenue and Division street, comprising butcher shop, double and single dwellings and barns, &c., will be offered for sale by auction at court house, Welland, on Wednesday next, at 1 p.m., by John R. Dowd, auctioneer. The property is situated in the best part of town, and offers a first-class opportunity either for lucrative investment or business opening. See adv’t elsewhere in this paper.
HAMILTON PUTMAN, who last week sold his property on Albina street to Mrs. Robins, has bought a lot on Merritt street from Mr. Misener of Wainfleet. The property is opposite A.O. Beatty’s residence. Mr. Putman intends building on the lot. In referring to the improvement to be made in the house bought by Mrs. Robins, in Tuesday’s issue, we were misinformed as to Mr. Cutler having the contract, as it had been awarded to Geo. A. Ellsworth.
TOWN NEWS
[Welland Tribune, 15 July 1898]
Our town narrowly escaped contributing a victim to the Burgogne disaster, in the person of Geo. Stalker, Jr. Mr. Stalker is in the employ of Mundell & Company of Chicago, and it was expected that he would go via the Burgogne to Paris, to purchase goods for the firm. For some reason or other Mr. Stalker did not go, but the trip was undertaken by Mr. Wright, formerly of St. Catharines, who perished on the ill fated French steamer. Further reference to Mr. Wright is published elsewhere in this paper. Mr. Stalker will now, in all probability, be sent on the Paris trip as originally intended.
BICYCLE PATH
[Welland Tribune, 15 July 1898]
The bicycle path is being rushed along as rapidly as possible and the workmen are now on the Page road. The work is being expedited by the use of a road scraper and plow. A mile of the path from town has been completed as far as can be until a good heavy rain, when it can, then be smoothed down. The men will be out to the Quaker road by Saturday night. The piece to the end of the sawdust road will be cindered this summer and probably all the rest will be gravelled this fall. The committee are receiving very generous offers of help from residents of the country. The other day one farmer who lives nearby three miles from the route offered to help draw gravel as soon as the necessary work on the farm is done, and yesterday another man who lives a short distance from the path handed in a dollar, saying it would be a great convenience to him. The committee will be glad to receive all the help they can get, and hope in this way to have most of the gravel drawn free, as to pay for hauling it would be out of the question this year. There will be a meeting of the club in the town hall this evening to talk over important matters in connection with the work.
ACCIDENT
[Welland Tribune, 7 June 1898]
A railway accident took place at the M.C.R.R. station on Friday night last, in which about fifty men were jammed in a pile together and five of them were so seriously hurt that they had to be sent home. The men were all standing on three hand cars, packed like sardines, and were coming back from work. The cars were being propelled at a high rate of speed and were following each other closely, when the first one jumped the track and turned over, the one following dumped its heavy load of men on top of them, and then the third car crashed into the other two. Nearly every one was injured more or less. All the men were from St. Thomas and Hagersville.
NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, GORGE RAILWAY
[Welland Tribune, 7 June 1898]
We enjoyed a trip to Lewiston and return on the Gorge railway on Sunday, and found it a wonderful experience. One never knows how beautiful the cliffs on our own Canadian side are until they see the tree-covered talus and jutting crags from the American shore. This is the line from which to see the miles of wild rapids and whirlpool, for the cars, soon after starting from the soldier’s monument at Prospect park, make the whole journey of seven miles along the American shore of Niagara river, twenty feet above the wild waters, to the pretty village of Lewiston. The whole view enroute is wild and grand, and cannot be equalled anywhere. Fine views of the Falls, whirlpool, bridges, devil’s hole, and Brock’s monument on Queenston Heights can be obtained from the comfortable trolley cars. The line is double-tracked, and protected by guard rails. Close connections are made with the Toronto boats and Youngstown electric railway at Lewiston, and with all the railways and Buffalo electric cars at the Falls, the visitor cannot really “do” the Falls without seeing the rapids-all of them: and the Gorge railway is pre-eminently the “rapids route.”
Through the Gorge by Trolley, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
The trolley on the Great Gorge Route is passing the Giant Rock beside the Devil’s Hole Rapids. Today, Devil’s Hole State Park has picturesque hiking and nature trails. Remnants of the trolley lines on the Niagara Gorge Trail remain.
GRAND TRUNK DENIES MR. McCLEARY’S STATEMENT
[Welland Tribune, 27 May 1898]
In reply to the statement in the house by Mr. McCleary, member for Welland, to the effect that the Grand Trunk railway were persistently substituting American officials for Canadians on their road, Mr. Logan made the following statement on behalf of the G.T.R. Management. – “The statements made are so broadly indefinite that is is difficult to see just what the accusations are. It is quite true that certain American officials have been given positions on the Canadian portion of the Grand Trunk railway, just as it is true that there have been several Canadians who have been placed on that part of the road which lies in American territory. But to say that it has been the policy of this railway to persistently import alien labor is not a statement of the facts.”