tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33022420429494856122023-06-20T05:49:52.660-07:001876 in Hamilton1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-66026982641910935622022-06-23T12:55:00.003-07:002022-06-23T12:56:50.375-07:001876 April Drowning Death of Thomas Ireland<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27vA68BI0DT_bus7znhm9MpxROCxqzO_oYkIq3ohiH0LVQjezja1S5119PLT6IvVSZlOHOZsIxEMD-WTw7J2lZjk4TKfgJvqz-0ci79yD8c5LmlrNz_k5N-HKMebnIPBHL4nunL6T7VlJBAUcF81Q74rNP3R1w2FmzN6jiYj7W4TNUkrhWux9lMsy/s503/!-1-1a1876Fresheta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="503" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27vA68BI0DT_bus7znhm9MpxROCxqzO_oYkIq3ohiH0LVQjezja1S5119PLT6IvVSZlOHOZsIxEMD-WTw7J2lZjk4TKfgJvqz-0ci79yD8c5LmlrNz_k5N-HKMebnIPBHL4nunL6T7VlJBAUcF81Q74rNP3R1w2FmzN6jiYj7W4TNUkrhWux9lMsy/s320/!-1-1a1876Fresheta.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Spectator April 15 1876</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally a tragedy took place in Dundas, a story which
would continue to dominate local newspapers for some time to follow.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The first article on the tragic event as written by a
Spectator reporter follows : </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“An accident which cast a gloom over the whole town of
Dundas occurred on Thursday afternoon, between five and six o’clock, by which
Mr. Thomas Ireland, formerly a resident of Beverly, but at that time a resident
of Dundas, was drowned. Mr. Ireland, with a number of other men was engaged in
placing brushwood along the banks of the creek which had swollen to a fearful
extent, and while in the act of pulling some brush into place, the branch he
held in his hand snapped, suddenly precipitating him into the stream, upon
which he was whirled down the swollen current at a rate of twenty miles an
hour. About two hundred yards from the point where the deceased fell in, there
is a bridge and to this several gentlemen ran, and one of them, a Mr. Wilson,
lying down on the bridge, caught the unfortunate man by the coat as he passed
under, but the current was so strong that the body was wrenched from him,
leaving part of the coat in his hands. At the next bridge, the head of the
unfortunate man was seen to be dashed against the timbers, upon which he was
seen to suddenly sink out of sight. The last that was seen of him was when he
was passing the Cotton Mills, when he was observed floating with his arms over
a stick of wood. All day yesterday and today, parties were dragging for his
body in the creek and canal without success. The deceased was formerly a
resident of the Township of Beverly, and was highly respected there for his
talents as a gentleman and a businessman. He was the proprietor of a large and
valuable farm, but left it some two years ago to enter into partnership with
Forsythe and Co., machinists, Dundas. He leaves a wife and two little children,
besides a host of friends who will never cease to mourn his untimely end.”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Spectator April 19 1876 </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
weather was helping searchers for the remains of drowning victim Thomas
Ireland. As reported in the Spectator :</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The
grapplers have given up searching for the body of the late Thomas Ireland. They
intend to wait until the creek has fallen to its usual level. The water has
already fallen eight feet so that the shallows are easily discernible.”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Spectator April 20 1876<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">On
a sadder note, the search continued for the body of Thomas Ireland :</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“It
is proposed to let down a net at the west end of the canal for the purpose of
catching the body of Ireland should it float that far. It is believed, however,
by the best grapplers in the city that the body is lying near the head of the
canal. A boat containing two men engaged in the search upset last evening in
the canal. Had it not been that one of them was a good swimmer, they would both
have been drowned. “<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spectator
April 27, 1876<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">That
day the Spectator copied an item which had appeared the previous day in the
Dundas Standard concerning the search for the remains of Thomas Ireland :</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“All
the exertions made to recover the body of the late Mr. Ireland have been so far
fruitless. Every spot in the creek has been searched over and over again.
Torpedoes have been called into requisition, but all useless. If the body be
free, it will come to the surface of itself in a short time through the
generation of gas resulting from decomposition, but if covered there is not
much hope.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">That
day the Spectator copied an item which had appeared the previous day in the
Dundas Standard concerning the search for the remains of Thomas Ireland :</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“All
the exertions made to recover the body of the late Mr. Ireland have been so far
fruitless. Every spot in the creek has been searched over and over again.
Torpedoes have been called into requisition, but all useless. If the body be
free, it will come to the surface of itself in a short time through the
generation of gas resulting from decomposition, but if covered there is not
much hope.”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Spectator June 21 1876</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: #FFF9EE; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“A brief dispatch from Dundas
yesterday informed our readers that the body of the late Mr. Thomas Ireland,
who was drowned in the Dundas creek on the 13<sup>th</sup> of April, had
been found in the Desjardins canal. The body was brought to the surface of the
canal by the motion created in the water by the steamer Transit which was on
her way from Dundas to the Brant House. The body was perceived by two boys who
went out into the water and brought it to the bank of the canal near the basin.
One of the youngsters went up to Dundas with the news, and the other remained
with the body. In a short time, a number of friends of the deceased gentleman
came back with the messenger and identified the remains as those of Mr.
Ireland. Dr. Thomas White of this city was immediately telegraphed to hold an
inquest. Dr. White proceeded to Dundas and summoned a jury, and held an
examination. The jury went down to the bank of the canal and viewed the body,
and after hearing the testimony of a number of witnesses, returned a verdict of
“Accidental Drowning.” After the body had been viewed by the Jury, it was taken
to the Town Hall, where it was coffined. This morning, the funeral took place
and was very largely attended by the residents of Dundas, among whom Mr.
Ireland was deservedly held in high esteem.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: #FFF9EE; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: #FFF9EE; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Finally a poignant item – a lengthy and heart pen poem
written in honour of Thomas Ireland whose long sought after corpse had at last
been recently located:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“ Poetry : Lines : On the death of
the Late Mr. Thomas Ireland, who was drowned in the Dundas Creek on the 13<sup>th</sup> of
April, 1876, and whose remains were found on the 20<sup>th</sup> of June”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Not with wasting, lingering
sickness,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Watched
by friends and kindred dear,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nor with warning of the quickness,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Of
his finished work here.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But with future prospects
gleaming,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Bright
and hopeful to his view,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Many hours of blissful
dreaming, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Many
joys and sorrows few.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These are thoughts he well may cherish,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> In
the strength of manhood’s prime,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Years of future active business,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Seemed
most suited to his time.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wife and children claimed his presence,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Friends
and kindred cared for him,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To our human view and knowledge,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> His
quick summons seemed all dim.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The swift waters bore him onward,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Heedless
of their precious freight,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">No strong arm could stay his progress,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He
had gone, it was too late.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In his lonely home are waiting,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Sad
and anxious hearts to hear,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If the bruised and broken remnant</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Could
be found to bury here.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now at last, when hope seemed over,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> And,
as days, and weeks passed by,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Comes the tidings they have found him,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> All
rejoice to hear the cry.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now kind hearts will bear him gently,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> From
his home, and loved, away,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And a quiet grave remind them</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Where
in death rests his cold clay.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To the God, who sends the waters,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Roaring,
surging from the hills,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We can trust His own wise purpose,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> And
submit all to His will.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He can cheer the broken-hearted,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He
will bind the bruised reed,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If in Faith you ask His presence,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> To
support in time of need.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When life’s trials are ended,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> And
the river’s bank we near,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">May we pass through death’s dark waters,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> With
bright hopes and not with fear.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Mrs.
A. J. Rossell</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Spectator June 29 1876<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
was the style of newspaper reporting at the time, the full details of the
appearance of the body of Thomas Ireland were detailed:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “The <i>Dundas
Standard </i>gives the following particulars of the appearance of the body
of the late Mr. Ireland :</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> The
appearance of the body, which was on its back, does not indicate that it had
been completely imbedded, but that the feet and perhaps one of the arms may have
been covered. The right wrist seems, from the reddish appearance of an oval
spot on the back, about three inches by two, to have been exposed for a time to
the action of the sun, while that hand and the other are white. The head and
face are not recognisable, the hair having completely disappeared, and the
scalp coming off in patches. The flesh on the face is more perfect, and some
remains of side whiskers and of a beard under the chin may be discerned. The
eyes are swollen and the mouth distorted, showing the teeth. One tooth is
wanting in the right front of the upper jaw. The coat and vest are clean gone.
There is a checked white and black flannel shirt which does not appear to be
the least torn, and it is somewhat strange how the coat and vest could have
been torn off by the action of the flood, without injuring the shirt more or
less. When he fell into the water, Mr. Ireland had on his person a valuable
watch. The pants are also in good preservation, and the boots are still on the
feet. There is no reasonable doubt of the identity, as several parties
immediately recognised different portions of the clothes, and Mr. Russell, one
of the firm of which the deceased was a member, identified him by the absence
of the tooth above alluded to. The body was buried in Flamboro yesterday.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Times
June 21 1876<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally,
The WeeklyTimes gave extensive coverage on the inquest into the death of Thomas
Ireland whose body had just been recovered in the Desjardins Canal Basin:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“In
our Tuesday’s issue, a brief telegram appeared announcing the finding of the
body of the late Mr. Thomas Ireland, who, it will remembered, was carried away
during the recent floods and drowned in Dundas Creek. The facts of the case
are, doubtless, still fresh in the minds of our readers, who will also remember
that the most tremendous efforts were made to find the body, and a large reward
was offered for the recovery, but it could not be found. Tuesday afternoon,
however, about one o’clock a teamster named George McDermott was down with some
other parties watched the steamer Transit coming into her wharf. They remained
there till she left, and after her leaving, McDermott saw something in the
water on the south side of the Canal. Thinking it was the body of a man, two
people went over and discovered that it was and brought the body over. There
was no coat or vest on the body – only the shirt, pants and boots. In the pants
pocket was a knife, a small key and ten cents. The body was terribly
decomposed, but it was recognised by his brother, Mr. John Ireland, by his
partner, Mr. William Russell, and several other reliable witnesses. The
peculiar circumstances of the case are that there were no bruises or any marks
of violence on the body which would account for the loss of coat and vest. The
deceased had on him a watch and chain also when he fell in, but these, of
course, have disappeared with the vest.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #FFF9EE; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
the evening, an inquest was held at the Town Hall, Dundas, before Coroner
White, when the body was fully identified and the following verdict given :
“That the said Thomas Ireland came to his death accidentally, on the afternoon
of the 13<sup>th</sup> day of April last, by falling off a flume and being
drowned in Dundas Creek.”</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Aerial",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-64602219308621154392022-05-28T07:43:00.002-07:002022-05-28T07:48:19.057-07:00May 1876 - Death at Westlawn<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LNUlyBYer5A04c-BwNZfkptou8SP4b-mNEF26goIugJeH8uEIHOz1mPMRlHQ5ah2CYe1naJai7k40_2qKrXX11aK26S6UtpiKnK8rFnnv-9NU1FQOlKY75xS15_mvnSRg2P3e70ZuDZPIkhEv_15xsyHcu172shrQI2-YZeeHtSTqR2xb64PC4YX/s471/!-1-1a1876MacraeMurderStory.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="471" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LNUlyBYer5A04c-BwNZfkptou8SP4b-mNEF26goIugJeH8uEIHOz1mPMRlHQ5ah2CYe1naJai7k40_2qKrXX11aK26S6UtpiKnK8rFnnv-9NU1FQOlKY75xS15_mvnSRg2P3e70ZuDZPIkhEv_15xsyHcu172shrQI2-YZeeHtSTqR2xb64PC4YX/s320/!-1-1a1876MacraeMurderStory.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
“At West Lawn, Hamilton, on the 11<sup>th</sup> day of May inst., Georgia,
wife J. Octavius Macrae, Esq., and second daughter of the late Edmund
Ritchie, Esq.</span></span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Funeral
at 3 p.m., Sunday, the 14<sup>th</sup> instant.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Friends
and acquaintances please accept this intimation.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Hamilton Spectator. May 13, 1876</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">At
first blush, it seemed a sad, if not overly unusual, death notice.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Westlawn
was one of the city’s more magnificent homes of the day, a stone mansion at the
end of a long carriageway which entered the property at the corner of Queen
street north and York street. It had been built for Colin Campbell Ferrie,
Hamilton’s first mayor, when Ferrie was at the height of his business success.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbT76aexkBlOTm4gU5E4tqECID_ZcnZTcuvsxoJIyYxumi87bBR5j5OVcW-A2o_iq49Nl_bmdeftJ9ZmeI4ilriIfFn8vkOaM_xF4LQwP9nsS50Nf3Q1OMTozMD_XLCY0Ma0RmCFZ_v2_z2_roDOQESwMCJ6F6ud7RIj85g0-pUQnx5bbihKloQ3rD/s1944/!-1-1a1876MacraeMurderStoryy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1517" data-original-width="1944" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbT76aexkBlOTm4gU5E4tqECID_ZcnZTcuvsxoJIyYxumi87bBR5j5OVcW-A2o_iq49Nl_bmdeftJ9ZmeI4ilriIfFn8vkOaM_xF4LQwP9nsS50Nf3Q1OMTozMD_XLCY0Ma0RmCFZ_v2_z2_roDOQESwMCJ6F6ud7RIj85g0-pUQnx5bbihKloQ3rD/s320/!-1-1a1876MacraeMurderStoryy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></b></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Little
was known about Georgia Mcrae when the death notice first appeared, but over
the next few weeks much more would be learned.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">A
hint of what was to come was carried in the following short item which appeared
in the Hamilton Spectator of May 13, 1876, the same day Georgia Mcrae’s death
notice and funeral announcement appeared:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">“At
the request of Mr. Macrae, an inquest is to he held upon the body of his late
wife. The jury viewed the body this afternoon, and adjourned awaiting the
result of the <i>post mortem </i>examination. “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">The
jury summoned to the inquest touching death of the late Mrs. Macrae met at the
City Hall at 10 o’clock this morning, when a further adjournment was made until
eight o’clock this evening.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Hamilton Spectator . May 15, 1876</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Nothing
had been made officially public about the death of Georgia Macrae but rumours
were swirling. Dark stories about life at Westlawn were being circulated
everywhere.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Finally,
some details concerning the death of Victoria Mcrae were made public in the
following report of the public session of the coroner’s inquest into her death:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">“The
adjourned inquest on the body of the late Mrs. Macrae was held last evening in
the Police Court. The room was crowded, and the deepest interest was displayed
in the proceedings. The same counsel appeared as on the previous sitting. Mr.
Osler, Q.C., watching the case for the Crown.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">The
first witness was Dr. Geo. MacKelcan, M. D., recalled, sworn : Have attended as
family physician to Mr. Macrae’s family for about five years; no other
physicians that I know of attended the family; the first visible effect of a
violent blow on the temple would be first of all swelling and dark
discoloration, which would depend upon the violence of the blow; the next
change would gradually fade from purple or dark blue to green and yellow;
the yellow colour would set in in about two weeks in a severe bruise; I would
judge of the age of the bruise by the amount of yellow in the rim of the bruise
and by the general color; the effects of a blow would disappear internally by
absorption or suppuration; if suppuration is to take place, it would show
itself in about three weeks; the term organization means that the fluid is
being absorbed and the fibrin becomes a living part of the body; organization
in a blood is incidental to the process of absorption; suppuration had not set
in in this particular instance; the first symptom of blood being suffused on
the brain is loss of consciousness, which takes place sometimes immediately,
often after some hours and sometimes not for several days; I know of no case in
my practice where unconsciousness is delayed more than 24 hours after an
injury; on examination after death, it would be difficult to judge how long
suffusion had been going on; it depends very much upon the size of the clots; I
have seen very small clots that have remained in the brain for some time; if
the clot is organized in the way I have described, on examination after death,
I would imagine it had been there for some time; in case a man received a blow
on the head, and became gradually unconscious in twenty-four hours, I could not
distinguish between the clot formed at the time of the accident and that formed
immediately before death; the exterior wound in deceased was about an inch to
the centre of the clot internally; the clot formed more immediately over the
eye extending back and the bruise was more the templar muscle; the clot
extended from the central line of the head in front and gradually extended back
till one inch and a half behind the ear; the clot was thicker in some places
than in others; the thickness depended on the consistency of the brain, that is
to say, it would be thicker where the brain was more easily compressed; from an
external blow, the clot would be thickest where the brain would most easily be
compressed and not immediately under the bruise; a blow capable of producing an
external appearance of a bruise on the head would be capable of producing the
internal appearance; in this case, I would not further for a reason for the
internal appearance; the age of the outside bruise on the head of the deceased
precludes the idea of the internal injury being caused by it; I am not able to
swear that both injuries in deceased’s head were not caused by the same bruise;
it is possible but not probable that the internal clot was caused by the
external injury; that clot was formed by the rupture of a vessel contained in
the membranes of the brain, that is between the skull and the brain; we were
not able to find where the rupture had taken place in the brain; this was
caused by the vessels giving way in taking off the skull cap; there were twenty
or thirty places where the membranes gave way and the blood oozed out; the
brain itself was healthy; that would not necessarily indicate that the blood
vessels leading to the brain were healthy; did not particularly examine the
tissue of the brain vessels; the blood vessels gave way because of their
adhesion to the skull; they must have been weak else they would not have given
way; I did not make any particular examination of the veins, I merely noticed
that they were weak; the first time I noticed the external injury was on the 30<sup>th</sup> of
April; I speak from memory and notes taken afterwards; the notes were
taken after death, so that I would be prepared for the inquest; I jotted the
notes down on Sunday or Monday last; as a rule, I do not take notes; it was my
own idea to take these notes; I wrote them all down at one time; I fix the 30<sup>th</sup> by
an effort of memory; it was either a Saturday or a Sunday I noticed the injury
first; as a matter of memory, I would not swear it was the 30<sup>th</sup>; the
next day I brought my father with me to consult about the injury, as I did not
know what to make of it; I called his attention to it, and that was the reason
he went with me that day, and on looking over my visiting list, I fix the 30<sup>th</sup> as
the day before my father accompanied me to consult about the injury; my father
saw the effects of the blow twice, if not more; there was no discoloration of
the wound when I first saw it; there was nothing to indicate its age; there was
but a slight change in the wound from day to day; at the time of death, the
want of discoloration would show that the wound was more than a day old; the
absence of color would indicate to a medical man that the wound was an old one;
there was no change in the color of the wound from the first time I saw it
until death; there was no external guide to the age of the injury; there was
suffusion of blood in the cellular tissue; my theory is now that the color had
disappeared before I noticed it; the immediate cause of death was the suffusion
of blood on the brain; I had given it as my opinion that no other disease would
cause death; on taking the matter into consideration the appearance of the
injury internally it had all the symptoms of apoplexy; if the blow had been of
longstanding I would have supposed that the death was caused by apoplexy; had
the deceased received a blow at four o’clock on the day of her death, producing
such a clot as I found, it is possible that there would be no external mark of
violence; there was no other physician with me except my father at the <i>post
mortem </i>examination.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">To
Mr. Martin – My opinion as to the cause of death remains the same as I
expressed last evening.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">No
further evidence was taken.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mr.
Osler said that several jurymen had asked for further medical evidence, and he
asked for an adjournment to take this into consideration, and, if necessary, to
have further medical testimony.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mr.
Robert Evans, foreman of the jury, said that it was the almost unanimous wish
of the jury to have further medical examination. There was considerable talk in
the city about the affair, and they could not conscientiously give a verdict on
the testimony already heard.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Coroner
White then adjourned the inquest till 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Following
the inquest, steps were taken to gather more detailed evidence as to how and
why Mrs. Mcrae met her death:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">“This
morning, Mr. B. B. Osler, County Attorney, went to Toronto ad consulted with
Attorney General Mowat as to the investigation following the demise of the late
Mrs. Macrae. The Attorney General must have taken a serious view of the matter,
as at noon, Mr. Osler telegraphed the Chief of Police to have the body exhumed,
which is being done as we go to press.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">The
investigation into the suspicious death of Georgia Macrae took a macabre turn :</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">“Yesterday,
the body of Mrs. Macrae was exhumed and placed in the dead house in the
Cemetery, when Doctors MacDonald, Mullin and Malloch held a <i>post
mortem </i>examination. This afternoon the results of their labours will
be heard at the adjourned inquest to be held at the Police Court at 4 o’clock.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;"><br />
“The adjourned inquest on the body of the late Mrs. G. O. Macrae was held
Thursday afternoon at the Police Court, before Coroner White. As before, Mr. E.
Martin, Q.C., watched he case for Mr. Macrae, and Mr. Osler, Q.C., appeared on
behalf of the Crown. Mr. Carscallen, who is watching the case for the friends
of the deceased, was unavoidably absent”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">Hamilton
Weekly Times May 25, 1876</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">The
following full transcription of the testimony heard at the inquest into the
death of Georgia Macrae appeared in the Weekly Times – a difficult read then as
now:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">“DR.
MACDONALD was sworn and examined by Mr. Osler : I am a practising physician in
this city and have been for the last twenty years; I performed a <i>post
mortem </i>yesterday evening on the body of the late Mrs. Macrae, in
company with Dr. Mullin, and Dr. Malloch who took notes and occasionally
assisted; I reduced the writing of the observations of the <i>post
mortem </i>, and we all three agree; I produce the notes; we were
altogether when these were transcribed; acting under the orders of Coroner
White, I proceeded at 6 o’clock yesterday to the cemetery of this city for the
purpose of conducting a <i>post mortem </i>examination on the body of
the late Mrs. G. O. Macrae exhumed for the purpose of being thus examined; the
coffin was conveyed into the mortuary chapel in the cemetery, and the body,
having been removed from it and placed on a table, was identified by Dr.
Mackelcan and Dr. Geo. L. Mackelcan; the body is that of a well-nourished woman
of upwards of thirty years of age, with marks of incisions from a
previous <i>post mortem </i>examination; skin and white of eye were
jaundiced, and there was also the green colour of decomposition on the abdomen,
and the back and dependent portions of the limbs livid from gravitation of the
blood after death (hypostatic congestion); several livid marks were seen on the
front of the body, and these had the appearance of and were proven by incision
to be produced by extravasations of blood (bruises), namely one above and
towards in the inner side of the right nipple; two others above the left
nipple; one on the front of each leg, a little above the ankle, and one on the
upper surface of each foot; on the left side of the chest, the coagulated blood
was found above the gland substance of the gland substance and behind it; on
one of the bruises on the leg, there was a point of abrasion; on throwing down
the scalp; extravasated blood was found above and beneath the temporal farcia,
and in the substance of the temporal muscle of the left side; the area of this
clot was about two inches square; the skull was examined, and no fracture
discovered; both hemispheres of the brain had been sliced, and the lateral
ventricles opened into; no abnormal appearances were detected on opening the
chest and abdomen, and extending upwards the incision which had been made,
extravasated blood was seen at the upper end of the breast bone, extending also
on either side beneath the collar bones, and into a substance of a portion of
the large muscle of the breast; the margin of the extravasation extended
upwards a little above the upper end of the breast bone; the throat, gullet and
windpipe were found to be healthy; both sides of the heart had been cut into;
the remainder of the organs were healthy; liver large, friable and fatty; a
portion of the outward edge had ben ruptured, apparently by a former
examination; the gall and bladder were empty, the kidneys soft, dark colored
and congested; the stomach contained a small quantity of dark, yellowish fluid,
and the vessels of the lining membrane were a little injected; the abdominal
cavity contained a considerable quantity of serous fluid; many small livid
spots were seen about the shoulders; the posterior surface of the body had been
carefully inspected, and no marks of a particular nature observed, except the
small, dark spots already mentioned.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">From
our examination, we could not say that the appearances we saw were sufficient
to account for death; we did not think that death had actually occurred from
the clot which was on the brain and which has been spoken of by Dr. Mackelcan;
the brain was a little injected with blood; there was a small remnant of a clot
on the right side of the brain, which we were told by Dr. Mackelcan was the
remains of the clot; taking the appearance of the body and hearing Dr.
Mackelcan’s evidence, I believe the clot was the direct cause of death; the
liver was not sufficiently diseased for me to say for certain that she died
from it; from the appearance of the skull inside, we could not distinguish what
extent the clot had covered; the part of the clot we found must have been there
before death; we noticed a wound on the outside of the left temple; we could
not come to an exact conclusion as to its date owing to the body having been
dead some days, and it was partly petrified; concluded from its dryness and its
colour that it was not a fresh clot at the time of death; this was the
only external mark of violence on the skull; the marks on the body seemed to
be <i>ante mortem</i>; there were marks of bruises, two on the left breast
and one of the right, with clots of blood, the one on the left breast being
very large, extending above and beyond the gland; the one on the right did not
extend to the muscles; the injuries on the leg were not serious; the bruises
had been produced by some blunt instrument; a blow from a fist would do it, or
a fall; there was no indication of striking against furniture or there would
have been an abrasion; the small clot we found in the brain was almost opposite
the external mark on the temple; from the evidence given, the clot must have
arisen from violence, or if the veins had been in a softened condition, it
might have arisen from a rapture of those vessels but we did not find tem in
that condition; as far as we could see, the veins and vessels were in a healthy
condition, both locally and bout the heart; I think the clot found in the brain
must have been the result of violence and not from disease, as far as we
discovered; it could not have been produced by a blow of the fist under
ordinary circumstances; it must have been a blow by some hard implement; such a
clot might have been forming for 8 hours; no clot could form without coma,
which would set in immediately upon the effusion; the blood inside was a more
recent effusion than the blood and injury outside; I cannot account for their
being no external mark of the same date as the clot visible; it is possible a
blow might have been given over another blow without producing any extensive
mark; I believe that in this instance such was the case; as the clot was
recent, the blow must have been so too; my opinion is that death was caused by
the clot on the head, which was the result of violence, and that that violence
was recent.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;"> To
Mr. E. Martin – The purple spots alluded indicate no condition of the blood
vessels, but show disease of the capillaries; you would not expect to find them
in a perfectly healthy person; I do not think the blow could have been
inflicted with a fist – that is to say, the inside clot could not have produced
it; it might have been caused by a fall; there was nothing external to show
there had been a mark there during life; I do not think the gathering outside
the skull had anything to do with death; if the deceased was of intemperate
habits, and had been suffering from the disease she had, one of the veins might
possibly have been ruptured, but it is not probable, and we found no trace of
the diseased condition of the vessels; from the appearance of the liver, I
would not thought that she could have lived long; coma would have set in long
before the clot assumed the size it did if the suffusion was slow; it would set
in almost immediately; I observed no other marks about the skull; I removed the
dura mater from the base, and found no blood.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Osler – We found no marks of inflammatory action of the brain; we did
not discover that any of the vessels had been weakened.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Dr. Mullin, sworn – Have been practising in this city 14 years; assisted Dr.
Macdonald at a <i>post mortem </i>examination of Mrs. Macrae; I
concur in the written statement produced and read by Dr. Macdonald; I do not
entirely concur with Dr. Macdonald’s deduction; I have not been able to arrive
at a conclusion whether the clot was the result of violence or disease; from
the symptoms of the case I have heard, I think the clot came on suddenly as it
might have from violence, but that on the other hand it might have been caused
by a small rupture of the vessels; the larger vessels we examined were
healthy, but there were ski indications which led us to believe that the
capillaries were diseased and that rupture could easily occur either from
disease or violence, and from intemperate habits; there would be a tendency to
haemorrhage either from disease or violence; from the nature of the vessels
around the heart, it would indicate that the large vessels were healthy; if the
vessels are weakly, a very much lesser amount of violence would produce the
haemorrhage than if they were healthy; a blow not even producing external marks
of violence might produce the haemorrhage.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin : Haemorrhages from small vessels frequently happen to those of
intemperate habits; I am unable to state whether the clot was produced by
violence or disease.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Osler : More deaths occur from apoplexy among men than among women.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin : A fall might produce the internal clot.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Dr. MALLOCH, sworn : I am a practising physician in this city, and have been
for five or six years; I assisted at the <i>post mortem </i>last
evening on the body of the late Mrs. Macrae; I concur in the written statement
read by Dr. Macdonald; I concur rather with the evidence of Dr. Mullin, than
that of Dr. Macdonald; my opinion is that death might have occurred from
disease or violence; I believe that there was a tendency to haemorrhage in her
condition; the large vessels of her heart were healthy; I was taking notes and
examining closely at the same time.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To a Juror – I did not detect any disease in the vessels of the brain.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Osler – I cannot form any opinion whether death was caused by disease or
violence.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
ADA MACRAE, sworn – I am twelve years of age; the deceased was my mother; I was
in the house all the time for the few days before my mother’s death; my mother
died on Thursday; my father was in the house the whole of that day and the day
before; my two sisters, the nurse, myself and my father were in her room the
day she died; the doctor was there twice, I think; my mother became insensible
in the afternoon; I do not know what time in the afternoon – about the middle,
I think; I went upstairs and my father told me she was insensible; he said so
when Annie went in the room; prior to that, my father was walking up and down
the room my mother was in; he had been there all afternoon; I had been in and
out; I heard something going on while I was out of the room on Thursday
afternoon; I was in the study room; I heard my mother scream; I heard my father
say something; he said, “now, take that;” it was said in a low tone; I heard
another noise immediately before the words were spoken; I thought from the
noise I heard he had struck her with his hand; the scream was before the blow;
there was not more than one blow; my mother said nothing; it was about half an
hour after that I heard my mother was insensible; my mother had been in bed two
or three weeks, except when she was up in a chair; I told Sarah Young what I
heard; I never saw my father strike my mother; I saw my father before the blow
was struck and before she became insensible; I went down and told Annie Hand; I
went into the room shortly afterwards with Anne; I went for Annie Hand because
I thought my father had struck my mother; when I went upstairs again, my mother
had got out of bed and was in the hall; I think my father was in the room; she
was at the head of the stairs; I do not know why she was in the hall; there was
nothing unusual about her appearance; she had not been in the habit of going
into the hall while she was sick; Annie Hand took her away to her bedroom, and
I went with her; I saw m father when we took her back to bed; he said he had
been trying to make a cup of beef tea; he said she would not take it; I spoke
to him about what I heard; I said I thought he should not have struck her; he
said he did not; the conversation with my father was after she became
insensible; I did not hear my mother speak after the blow; she appeared
sensible when she was in the hall; she walked into the bedroom.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin – my mother was standing at the door to the bathroom when I saw
her; her hand was on the door when I went into the room; the beef tea was
standing on a tray; some of it was spilt on my father’s night shirt; the cup
had not been upset in the saucer; I heard no talking in the room before I heard
my father say “take that;” if I had, I could have heard it; I will not swear it
was a blow I heard; the noise might have been produced by the upsetting of a
cup; I saw no blow struck on that afternoon.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To the Coroner – When I saw the cup of beef tea, it was about half full; there
was none in the saucer.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin – Had seen my father give my mother beef tea and medicine during
her illness.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Osler – The impression the noise gave me was that of a blow.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
The inquest was then adjourned until Monday morning at ten o’clock.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Macrae was arrested on Thursday night on a warrant from the Coroner,
charged with feloniously killing his wide, Mrs. G. O. Macrae.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Monday, May 22.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
The adjorned inquest concerning the death of the late Mrs. G. O. Macrae
commenced at 10:30 this morning before Coroner White.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Osler, Q.C., appeared on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. Martin watched the
case for Mr. Macrae.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
The first witness called was</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
ANNE FOSTER sworn, said I live at Mr. Fitzgerald’s hotel now, and I do
housework; at the beginning of the year, I lived at Mr. Macrae’s – between the
3<sup>rd</sup> of January and the 3<sup>rd</sup> of April – as cook;
I left on the 3<sup>rd</sup> of April; I slept two rooms from where Mr.
Macrae slept, and on the same flat; there were two rooms between; from the door
of the room I occupied one could see into the room occupied by Mr. Macrae; the
hall is square, with rooms round it; I have heard Mr. Macae use threats towards
his wife.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
The coroner overruled the objection.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Martin requested the objection to be not as not applicable to the cause for
which Mr. Macrae had been arrested, and irrelevant to the enquiry.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Witness continued – I heard threats frequently; I heard them more than twice or
three times; I cannot say the day; the words used were “By God, I’ll murder
you, Georgy !” In the second month of my service – it was in the breakfast
room, while they were taking tea – I heard him swear that he would murder her;
on the same night, after I heard this, deceased got up from the table and ran
towards the kitchen, calling “Annie ! Annie ! Save me !;” I came to where she
was , and Mr. Macrae came and ordered me back to the kitchen; I went back, and
went by the other door upstairs, and Mr. and Mrs. Macrae went into the library;
as I was going upstairs, I heard Mrs. Macrae scream and say, “Don’t strike me !
Don’t strike me !” as I got to the top of the stairs, the two children – Miss
Ada and Miss Katie – ran out and cried, “Annie ! Annie ! Papa is beating Mamma
!” I came part of the way downstairs, and Mrs. Macrae came out, bleeding from a
cut on her head; I asked Mrs. Macrae to come upstairs to my room and I would
dress the cut; she came in, but in a short time afterwards went out, as she was
afraid of Mr. Macrae catching her in my room; she then went into her own bed
room from mine, and I followed her in; she had her hand to the wound and the
blood streamed down from it on to her collar and waist; she told me to go down
and get some water; she said Mr. Macrae had struck her and used her shamefully;
she showed me the cut; I went and got the water, and told her to go to bed;
after she had undressed herself and put on her night dress, she came into my
room and showed me marks on her legs and on her body where Mr. Macrae had
abused her; after Mr. Macrae came up, I heard loud talk; the next morning being
Sunday, Mr. Macrae went to church; I took her up some breakfast and found the
pillow all covered with blood; Annie Hand came into the bed room, took some
scissors and cut the hair from round the wound; she took the pillow case off;
Mrs. Macrae begged her not o touch any of Mr. Macrae’s clothes, as he would
know someone had been in the room and would beat her; the wound was on the side
of the head , under the ear; I could not repeat how many times I have heard
sounds of violence being used from Mr. Macrae to Mrs. Macrae; on one occasion,
I dressed myself three times during the night, at the sounds of the screams
from her saying, “Don’t kill me; don’t murder me,” and he, swearing, “My God,
Georgie, I’ll murder you ! “ I thought Mrs. Macrae would be brought out dead; I
told Mr. Macrae next morning I did not want to stay as I did not want to be a
witness at an inquest.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Martin objected to any remarks of Mrs. Macrae being admitted, as it was not
a dying declaration, and some were not even said in the presence of Mr. Macrae.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Osler wished for no evidence of what Mrs. Macrae said, unless Mr. Macrae
was present.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Witness continued – Mr. Macrae was present on the night I have spoken of; I
heard the sound of blows, and for two weeks from that night, Mrs. Macrae never
left her bed room; I do not remember the month; it was some time before I left;
during this time, when Mr. Macrae was in the house, the house maid would take
the meals to the door, and the two children took them in; Annie Hand would go
in when Mr. Macrae would go in; Mr. Macrae’s orders were, when anyone called,
to say “Not at home;” no doctors attended deceased during this time; about two
weeks after this, the house maid said we wanted to leave on account of Mr.
Macrae’s behaviour, and we sent up one of the children to tell her so; she came
out to the door, and one eye was swelled and black, and along the side of her
cheek to her neck was black, and there was a black mark across her hand; after
I gave that warning, Mr. and Mrs. Macrae asked me to stop, and I said I would
remain another month; this was in my second month.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To a Juror – During these disputed, Mr. Macrae always spoke loudly and very
angrily.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To another Juror – Mrs. Macrae was sometimes under the influence of liquor
during some of the disputes, but on the occasion of the dispute when she
received the blow on the head I could not notice any liquor upon her.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To the Foreman – When I left Mr. Macrae’s house, she was well, all except the
marks; I never saw Mrs. Macrae without some marks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To a Juror – I never saw him actually strike her.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin – Mr. Macrae during the time I was there was sometimes under the
influence of liquor; I do not think he was generally under the influence; I
never saw him drinking; he was always able to come in the kitchen and give an
order; I have frequently seen Mrs. Macrae under the influence of liquor; I have
known Mrs. Macrae to be free from the influence of liquor for a week; I would
say that they drank to excess, as I did not see them drink liquor; if I had
seen them drink the liquor, I would have been able to swear that they were
drunk; I consider a person drunk when he is out of his mind and does not know
what he is doing; a person might be drunk and still walk about; on the night
that I dressed myself three times, Mr.Macrae might have had some liquor.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
EMMA HATCHER sworn – I live at Mrs. Mackenzie’s on the corner of Bold and
Macnab streets, and am a house maid; I lived with Mr. Macrae from the 18<sup>th</sup> of
December, 1875 till the 18<sup>th</sup> of March, 1876, as house maid; I
slept in the same room as Anne Foster; I heard Mr. Macrae use threats towards
his wife</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Martin formally renewed his objection.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
The Coroner overruled the objection and noted it.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Witness continued – There were scarcely two days passed without hearing a
threat made; I heard Mr. Macrae say, “By God, Georgy, I’ll kill you!” The
threat was always the same; it was spoken in a very vicious tone; I have seen
Mr. Macrae strike his wife; on one occasion, I heard screaming; it was in the
evening; the screaming came from Mrs. Macrae and the children; the breakfast
bell rang for me to clear the tea table; as I went, Mrs. Macrae was in the hall
between the kitchen and the breakfast room; Mr. Macrae was standing in the
hall; the children were in the room; Ms. Macrae was going to the kitchen, and
Mr. Macrae brought her back and kicked her through the back hall door towards
the front door hall; it was a hard enough kick to send her through the doorway;
he said, “I will not have you go in the kitchen;” they went upstairs and I
heard screams in the bed room; I heard the children say, “Don’t pa! Don’t pa”
and Mrs. Macrae screaming; the screams continued about an hour an a half; Mrs.
Macrae kept her room for two weeks after this; I did not see her; no doctor or
visitors saw her; we were told by Mr. Macrae to say, if anyone called, there
was no one in; I have seen him strike her again after she came out of her room;
I was shutting the shutters in the drawing room; it was dark; I heard her
screaming in the library; I heard him say, “By, Georgy, I’ll kill you;” she ran
to the drawing room door from the library; he struck her with his open hand and
she fell; it was the blow that felled her; she was perfectly sober; those were
the only two occasions on which I saw blows struck; I have heard screams in her
room during the night; on one occasion, Anne Foster and I were kept awake all
night; I could hear him say, “By God, I’ll kill you;” I did not get up; Anne
Foster got up three times she was so frightened; I sat up dressed till after
twelve; I was afraid Mr. Macrae would murder deceased, and then come and murder
me; on the last night I was there, which was the 17<sup>th</sup> of March,
I was sitting in the kitchen; I heard screams from the library from Mrs.
Macrae, and from the children saying, “Don’t papa;” after that, the bed room
bell rang, and I went upstairs; Mrs. Macrae wanted me to bring up some warm
water to bathe a cut which was on the left side of her head; it was bleeding
very much; her neck was covered with blood; before this, Mr. Macrae told me I
was not to go up, that Miss Ada could attend to Mr. Macrae better than I could;
I said Mrs. Macrae had rung the bell, and that I had a right to go up; I went
up and Mr. Macrae caught me washing the blood from Mrs. Macrae’s head; he told
me to leave the room directly; I left and went into my bed room; Mrs. Macrae
followed me in, and Mr. Macrae came in and dragged her into her own room; Mr.
Macrae told me that the cut was caused by Mrs. Macrae being drunk and hitting
her head against the sofa while he was carrying her there to place her on it;
he told me in an undertone, so that Mrs. Macrae should not hear; it was about
five minutes after; I think, on this occasion, Mrs. Macrae was drunk; Have often
heard Mr. Macrae threaten to murder her; Mrs. Macrae was able to walk into my
room without assistance; I think she was drunk from the amount of liquor I had
brought up; she was perfectly sensible; she was not under the influence of
liquor when she was kicked through the door, or when she was knocked down in
the drawing room.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin – I only remember seeing Mrs. Macrae under the influence of
liquor once; Mr. Macrae was under the influence of liquor nearly every day.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
MARY POLERY, sworn – Am employed at Mr. J.O. Macrae’s as housemaid, and have
been so for the last two months; I never saw Mr. Macrae strike his wife; I have
heard quarrels going on; they were of frequent occurrence, and were continued
up to three or four o’clock on the day on which Mrs. Macrae died; that was the
last occasion; on that occasion, I do not exactly remember the words used; I
knew there was a quarrel; I heard Mr. Macrae’s voice in a loud tone and
passionate; I do not know which room it was in; I cannot say whether it was in
her room or not; I heard Mrs. Macrae say, “Hold your tongue;” I heard nothing
but words; I was in the lower hall; it was between three and four; it was about
five when I heard Mrs. Macrae was insensible; the occasion was the only time I heard
quarrelling in the afternoon; I did not see or hear Ada Macrae come downstairs;
at the time Mrs. Macrae was insensible I heard what Miss Ada said; I cannot
remember any exact time before this I heard violent quarrelling; I do not
remember the exact time before this I heard violent quarrelling; I do not
remember exactly what Mr. Macrae said, or even the substance; I do not remember
any threats; I never heard anything more than words at any quarrel.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To a Juror – I have heard quarrels often.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Osler – I have seen marks of violence on Mrs. Macrae, on her head and on
her eye; I am still living at Mr. Macrae’s house.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin – I roomed with Sarah Young while I was there; it is on the same
corridor as that occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Macrae; it is the third door from the
room occupied by them; the marks on Mrs. Macrae were upon her when I came; Mr.
Macrae drank frequently to excess while I was there; I have frequently seen
Mrs. Macrae under the influence of Liquor; during Mrs. Macrae’s last illness, I
never heard cries of “Murder” nor at any time when I was there.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To the Coroner : I never told anybody I did.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr.Osler : Mr. Martin has spoken to me about the evidence I have given.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Martin : I merely asked the witness as to what she could say.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Mr. Osler : Certainly.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
Witness continued : No one else has spoken to me.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222;">
To Mr. Martin : If the cries of murder were loud enough to have been heard by
Sarah Young, I must have heard them too; I went to Mr. Macrae’s on the 24<sup>th</sup>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p>
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The inquest was here adjourned until Tuesday evening. “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /></span></b><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Thursdays were the day that the Weekly Times was published.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">June 1, 1876 was a Thursday and the highlight of the issue was a full summary of the coroner’s inquest sessions investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of Victoria Macrae in the mansion near the intersection of Queen street north and York street,</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">The Weekly Times summation included many recounts of testimony given and the full text of the Coroner’s charge to the jury.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">“The adjourned inquest upon the body of Mrs. Macrae was resumed at seven o’clock on Monday evening.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Osler, Q.C., appeared for the Crown, and Mr. E. Martin, Q.C., for Mr. Macrae.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: large;">Mr. Stuart of the Consolidated Bank of Canada was the first witness called. He produced the ledger and turned to the banking account of the deceased. He said on the 25<sup>th</sup> of April, the account in our ledger produced shows that Mrs. Macrae had a cheque debited to her account of $134.00; on the same day, Mr. Macrae had the same cheque deposited to his account; there was a transfer of Royal Canadian Bank stock which stood in Mrs. Victoria St. George Macrae’s name of twenty-one shares of the par value f $40 each to J. O. Macrae; the transfer is dated May 9<sup>th</sup>; the power of attorney was sent from here to Toronto on the 8<sup>th</sup> May; cannot give the date of the power of attorney; it is now in the head office of the Consolidated Bank f Canada at Toronto.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">JAMES HONEYORD, sworn – Am an engine-fitter; live in the lodge at West Lawn, the house occupied by Mr. Macrae; have lived there a year and ten months; often saw Mrs. Macrae, but never spoke to her but once.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Martin objected to the witness being examined with regard to occurrences of a year or two ago.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Osler said that he intended to cover a period of five years in order to prove habitual ill-treatment.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Witness continued – About five or six weeks before Mrs. Macrae’s death, I saw Mr. Macrae drive through the grounds; my little girl called my attention to him; after getting out of the carriage, Macrae struck his wife several severe blows on the back with the thick end of the whip; I called out, “You brute! What are you at again?” Macrae then tore off his wife’s hat or bonnet, and he caught her by the dress and dragged her into the house, and I saw no more; there had been many quarrels between the Macraes; have heard the deceased cry out, “Leave me alone! Leave me alone!” Never saw any blows struck, only the one time mentioned; never could tell what Mr. Macrae said; he was always pretty drunk from ten days to a fortnight after I saw Macrae strike the deceased with the whip; I saw D. Mackelcan coming to see her; it is forty-seven yards from my front door to Macrae’s front door; have quarrelled with Macrae; the reason that he pulled my childrens’ ears; this was some time ago.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To a Juror – Mrs. Macrae did nothing but cry when she received the blows I saw; Mr. Macrae took her by the dress and dragged her into the house.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To another Juror – I heard as well as saw the blow with the butt of the whip; it was a kind of blow I should not liked to have had.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To Mr. Martin – I measured the distance from the gate today; nobody suggested it to me; I had a disagreement with Mr. Macrae about the locks; I did not threaten him with anything; I did what I told him; I shoved him out of the gate; I made no threats; I have only had two rows with him; I have never heard him quiet yet; e is not a quiet man by a long chalk; I am not very good at hearing; when he was speaking to me, he generally kept out of arm’s distance; I do think I was the noisier of the two; I do not know whether he was drunk; I never saw him sober; I could not say whether he was sober or not in the carriage the day he struck his wife; I never moved off my door step; I cannot tell whether he struck her before St. George’s Day or not; the horse was not taken away for half an hour; his man took it away eventually; I do not know whether the horse was tied or not; it stood there fully twenty-five minutes; I did not see whether any one met them at the door; the door was open; he pulled her in, shut the door, and the carriage remained outside; on the occasion I took the revolver from him I did not know it was unloaded; Mr. Macrae was drunk at the time.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">HENRY CARSCALLEN, sworn – I am a barrister practising in this city; and was employed some time last November by the late Mrs. Macrae; she consulted me in a professional matter, which I do not think I am bound to disclose; it related in a manner to her relations with her husband, and as to changes in her relations with him; I decline to answer any confidential communications made to me as her solicitor; I know of nothing from her as to the immediate cause of death.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">F.E. RITCHIE, sworn : I am a brother of the deceased, Mrs. J. O. Macrae, she was married in October, 1850, I think she has had five children; the youngest living child is about 10 years old, and the youngest, if living, would be about 8; during the last five years, the deceased and her husband have not lived very amicably; I know nothing at all of their relations during that time; Mr. J. O. Macrae and myself have not been friends; during that time, my sister has left her husband; last November, she left him and came to my house; she came there very much bruised and hurt for the purpose of obtaining protection from me against her husband; it was about seven in the evening when she came; she told me she had walked and ran; she was in an ordinary indoor dress, not one for a walk on the streets; she stayed with me from Saturday till Monday; I had some words with Mr. Macrae on the Sunday; he accused me of harbouring his wife, and I said I did and would do so while he treated her as he did; she went back on a note being written by her husband to herself; the last time I saw it was in her hand; she consulted Mr. Carscallen on the occasion before she received the note; she went back of her own accord; she was bruised on the face and head; they seemed like bruises inflicted by manual force; the injuries were apparently very severe; I know of no troubles between deceased and her husband till a little time before her death; prior to November, I knew of no specific act of ill treatment, owing to my not visiting the house.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To a Juror – I observed no cuts, but only bruises; the face was much swllen and very black.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Osler said he had no further witnesses to all.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">The Coroner asked the jury if they wished to call any further witnesses.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">After consideration, Mr. Osler said he proposed to call one more witness, viz. :</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">MARY KENNEDY, sworn – I have been living till last Thursday with Captain Roberts’ family; since then I have been home; I lived with Mr. John Macrae till the Saturday before Christmas as cook; I noticed quarrelling all the time between Mr. and Mrs. Macrae, with the exception of one night; I never saw any blow struck, but in November last I saw a wound from a pen knife, which had been inflicted in the side of the neck near the ear; the neck was swollen and her hand was cut, it looked like a stab; there was some thick blood on her collar and on her shoulder and cuff; there was a small but deep cut on the thumb; it was bleeding at the time I saw it; it was about ten at night or a little before when I saw it; it was on a Sunday evening in November; I do not know whether at the beginning or end; I heard quarrelling before I went out; I heard Mr. Macrae cursing and swearing at her; I heard oaths; I did not hear Mrs. Macrae say anything; I have heard Mr. Macrae use threats to his wife; I took her to her brother’s in November; she wanted to go in the afternoon; Annie Hand would not let her; prior to this he had said By God, I will kill you!” the words were spoken angrily; when Mr. Macrae came in, she came to me and asked me to save her; thought she was in danger of being killed; I opened the door and shoved her down our steps; Mr. Macrae was looking for her; I shoved her down the steps in order to prevent Mr. Macrae’s seeing her; she rapped on the outside, and I sent the washerwoman out to her; she said she wanted me; I went out and she asked me, for God’s sake, to take her to her brother’s; I took her; only had a scrubbing dress, and, I think, one shoe; this was on a Saturday; Dr. Mackelcan brought her back on the Monday; when she returned, there was a change in his treatment of her for one night; after that he continued to abuse her; he beat her on the Wednesday night after she came home; the towels in the room were full of blood; we heard the sound of the blows; Mrs. Macrae told me she was sorry that the taking of her away had not done her husband any good; about a week previous to my taking her away to her brother’s, er husband beat her so that she came to my room with two black eyes and blood in her hair and hair all torn; I hid her from her husband, and she slept with me for three different nights.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To the Coroner – At the time of the stab in the neck, Annie Hand asked me to wash the blood off the collars and stuff as she did not wish the washerwoman to see it, as she might talk.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To Mr. Martin – The stab was inflicted about two months after I came there; it was on a Sunday evening; she went to her brother’s the Saturday following; I saw no stab inflicted; from the mark, I know it to be a stab; I will swear to that; the mark was not quite so visible when I brought her to her brother’s; she was perfectly sober at the time; I never saw her intoxicated but once, when she acted a little strangely; I have never seen Mr. Macrae unable to walk or talk although I believe he was always more or less under the influence of liquor; when the quarrels occurred downstairs the nose was always bad enough to awaken us; if he was going to beat her, he would always shut the door; whenever he had a row, it was generally at the dinner table or in the library; Mr. Macrae was in the habit of speaking loudly; I heard cursing when the door was shut; when I was carrying dishes to the housemaid at dinner time, I have heard them quarrelling; Mr. Macrae was not always in the habit of speaking in a loud tone of voice; if he got in a passion, he would speak loud; when I took Mrs. Macrae to Mr. Ritchie, I thought she was sober.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">To a juryman – I saw the mark of a stab on the neck; a short time before that, I heard before that, I heard Mr. Macrae threaten to kill her; about seven or eight hours before.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">This concluded the evidence for the crown.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Martin said he understood no more witnesses would then be called.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Osler said certainly not, unless he had to call any evidence in rebuttal.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Martin said he proposed to call witnesses, but he could not do so tonight. Anytime which was suitable to the coroner, the jury and the Crown would be agreeable to him.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Mr. Osler said that he had hastened the case for the Crown as much as possible, as the defendant was in prison, and could not obtain bail. As he had finished, the onus of the delay was now on Mr. Martin, he had no objection to any length of delay.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">The inquest was adjourned till 10 a.m. on Friday morning next.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The inquest on the body of the late Mrs. J. O. Macrae was resumed Friday morning at 11 a.m., before Coroner White.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Mr. Osler, Q.C., appeared for the Crown, and Mr. E. Martin, Q.C., watched the case for Mr. Macrae.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The first witness called was</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: large;"> THOMAS WILLIAMS, sworn – I am coachman to Mr. J. O. Macrae; I came there on the 4<sup>th</sup> of April, the day after Sarah Young came there; I had other duties besides that of coachman; I had to attend to the fires, boots, shoes, etc. ; I was in the habit of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Macrae daily up to the time Mrs. Macrae was taken sick; Mr. Macrae during that period was most of the time under the influence of liquor; Mrs. Macrae was in a similar condition; I was in the house in the morning and in the evening; I have heard quarrelling between Mr. and Mrs. Macrae in a loud and boisterous tone from both of them; when I say under the influence of liquor, I mean, seriously under the influence, and it was quite perceptible; they were intoxicated most of the time I was there up to Mrs. Macrae’s sickness; they were more under the influence of liquor in the afternoon than in the forenoon; I never saw Mr. Macrae strike his wife, or she him; I never heard either threaten one another with violence.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Osler – I would see Mrs. Macrae several times during the day, either in the kitchen or through the house,or in the library; I attended to all the fires; I very seldom got orders from Mrs. Macrae, except to on a message; I live at the house, in the west corner, away from the main part of the building; I could not exactly say how often during the day I would be in the house; it was frequently; I was there twenty days before she was taken sick; I saw a black eye when I went there on Mrs. Macrae; you may say she had two black eyes; one was more discoloured than the other; they appeared to get better while I was there; I cannot say I saw Mrs. Macrae everyday I was there; I saw her everyday except for a few days; she was able to give orders; I heard quarrelling of an evening when I was locking up the house; I never heard screams; the quarrels took place in the library, with the door shut; I could hear the sound and not the words; it was not nearly a daily occurrence – it was more like weekly; I heard it three or four times; all I heard was in the library and with the door shut; Mr. Macrae was usually able to give me orders, and was not staggering drunk except on a few occasions; on each occasion, before I heard the words, I had seen Mr. Macrae drunk a short time before and had noticed it; I noticed it because he gave me the orders three or four times over; I have seen him as drunk when he not quarrel with Mrs. Macrae; he did not quarrel with me and the other servants when he was drunk.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> O Mr. Martin - On the day of Mrs. Macrae’s death, Mr. Macrae sent out for Dr. George Mackelcan and his father; I drove Dr. George Mackelan up and then went back for his father; Mrs. Macrae was equally as intoxicated as Mr. Macrae during the quarrels.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To a Juror – I heard no row between Mr. and Mrs. Macrae on the day of her death; I was there in the morning and between one and two in the afternoon; when Mr. Macrae sent me for the doctor he was under the influence of liquor; Mr. Macrae had a doctor attending him a day or so previous to Mrs. Macrae’s sickness; it was Dr. George Mackelcan; I do not know the cause of the sickness</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To another Juror – When Mr. Macrae gave me orders to go for a doctor, I was in the stable, and one of the girls came out and told me to go for a doctor; I went into the kitchen to put my boots on and saw Mr. Macrae, who gave me the orders I have before stated; he did not say whether the doctor was for himself or his wife; after Mrs. Macrae was taken sick, I saw Mr. Macrae frequently; he drank as much as ever after she took to her bed.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: large;"> JOHN PATTERSON, sworn : I am a tailor by trade; I lived with Mr. Macrae from the 22<sup>nd</sup> of September, 1874 till about the 7<sup>th</sup> of June, 1875; I was coachman and general man servant round the house; I had the knives boots, fires, windows, etc., to attend to in the house; I was in the habit of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Macrae daily except once; I have frequently seen both of them under the influence of liquor; I was requested a great many times by Mrs. Macrae to get her brandy.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Mr. Osler objected and requested to know what Mr. Martin proposed to prove.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Mr. Martin said he proposed to prove the exact cause of death.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The Coroner allowed the evidence.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Witness continued – I began to supply her in December, 1874; brought her five dozen of Hennessey’s quart bottles between that time and the time I left; the greater portion was supplied during the latter period; I gave it to Mrs. Macrae in the hall; she generally took it to the bath room; I have taken as many as two dozen empty bottles from there; Mr. Macrae was always much drunker on the day that Ms. Marae was so than on any other day; he was not aware I supplied the brandy to Mrs. Macrae; I have heard them quarrelling; I hav heard them both talking at first moderately and then increasing in noise; between December and June I have seen them both frequently under the influence of liquor, particularly during the latter part.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Osler – Have heard no blows or threats; I have seen Mrs. Macrae with black eyes once or twice; I cannot tell how long, as they staid so long black when she got them that I did not notice; I slept off the furnace room; the quarrelling generally went on in the library.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To a juror – The bathroom is at the head of the stairs, and has trunks in it.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To another juror – I cannot swear that Mrs. Macrae drank the five dozen of brandy herself; she was always worse when I brought the brandy to her.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Osler – I know the number of empty bottles I removed.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To a Juror – Mr. Macrae could have got in the bathroom himself; I always removed the bottles when Mr. Macrae was out.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Martin - never went unless to get the bottles; Mrs. Macrae sent me; I have brought two bottles in three days; at first, I only brought one a week; I would take the bottles away in a basket; it was in January or February, 1875, that I took the bottles away.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To the Foreman – I commenced bringing brandy in December; I brought about four bottles a week.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To a Juror – I would not swear whether Mr. Macrae drank the brandy or not with her.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To another Juror – I left of my own accord, and had given warning other times, but had had my wages raised through Mrs. Macrae.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To a Juror – I have seen Mrs. Macrae so drunk that she could not stand up; I have seen her lying on the sofa in the library, and tried to wake er, but could not; I cold tell the number of times I smelt liquor on Mrs. Macrae.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> DR. GEORGE MACKELCAN, recalled, was examined on his former oath : Since I gave my evidence before, I have attended the <i>post mortem </i>made by Drs. Macdonald, Mullin and Malloch, and have heard their evidence given in court; I saw nothing in the second examination to change my opinion as expressed in my previous examination respecting the cause of death; from the pretechnical spots I judged that the blood vessels were in a diseased state; during the last illness of Ms. Macrae, she vomited blood from the stomach on one, if not two, occasions; she also complained of excessive menstruation.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Mr. Osler objected, and said if Mr. Martin produced any statements of Mrs. Macrae, he would produce all her statements, which, perhaps, Mr. Martin would not care for.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Mr. Martin pressed the question, putting it to what the doctor observed.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Witness continued – I observed the vomiting of blood; on the night Mrs. Macrae went to Mr. Ritchie I saw her, she was under the influence of liquor; I saw her on the Friday after her return; I was called to see her; she was laying on the bed, apparently asleep; I awoke her with great difficulty and found she was intoxicated; on the occasion of her last illness, I expressed an opinion to her husband that she was very seriously ill, and that it was impossible for her to recover; she might not live two or three weeks, but she might live two or three months, but not longer; I said this one more than one occasion, and I told Mrs. Macrae so; there is no doubt that intemperance produced disease of the liver, that disease, with continued intemperate habits, produced haemorrhage, which would tend to produce the clot in the brain which was the cause of death; deceased was of quick temper and liable to excitement; a fit of temper would increase the tendency to haemorrhage; during her last illness, I have seen Mr. Macrae give her nourishment; he did so in his ordinary manner, such as you would expect anyone to treat a sick person; in my opinion, if Dr. Macdonald’s evidence – saying that the clot must have been produced by a blow from some hard instrument, and not from a fist – is correct, I should expect to find external marks of violence; I agree with Dr. Macdonald that the gathering outside the skull had nothing to do with death; if a blow had been struck on the old blow, such as Dr. Macdonald describes, I should have expected to find a fresh effusion; if a blow as violent as Dr. Macdonald describes had been dealt to Mrs. Macrae a few hours before she died, I do not think one would have been able half an hour later after that to get up and walk; I would expect to find, in the great majority of cases, that a blow that produces a clot in the brain would leave outward traces; it is possible, but not probable, for there to be no mark; I was sent for about five o’clock on the day of Mrs. Macrae’s death.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Osler – The tendency to haemorrhage was very great, and very slight causes would produce very great effect; my theory corresponds with that of Drs. Mullin and Malloch in a great measure; I am of the opinion that the tendency to haemorrhage was so great that a blow of the fist could have possibly produced the clot internally; before examination, I thought deceased had died from effusion of some kind, compression of the brain, etc.; I had not made my mind up what to find when I made the <i>pot mortem </i>; I will not say the clot was a surprise to me; in my former examination, I have said that before I made the examination, I thought death was caused by the diseased condition of the liver; I removed the clot when making the <i>post mortem </i>examination because it was usual; it was accidental that it was not replaced; I did not consider it necessary to take special care of this clot, the actual cause of death; I do not consider it as necessary as to preserve the contents of the stomach in a case of poisoning; it is a matter of very great surprise to me to hear of Mrs. Macrae’s getting out of bed, and going into the hall in the condition she was in by herself, as I heard she had to be assisted in and out of bed; I cannot say whether there was any unusual cause for it; I may have been mistaken as to her state; there must have been something unusual for her to do so, or some exciting cause; I do not know whether she was capable or not; the fact of her getting up would lead me to suppose that she was stronger than I thought.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Question by Mr. Osler : Supposing Mrs. Macrae was in the condition you knew to be in immediately before her death, and that you were present and saw a severe blow struck with the fist on the side of the head, and that about half an hour afterwards insensibility set in, and death took place in the course of two or three hours, and that upon a <i>post mortem </i>examination you found recently effused blood on the brain corresponding to the location where the blow was given, would you say that the effects of the blow were the immediate cause of death?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> Answer : Yes; I would qualify this statement by saying a blow of that violence would stun, and I would ordinarily expect to see external evidence of the blow</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Martin – When I arrived at the bedside of the deceased at 5 o’clock p.m. on the afternoon of her death, I did not see any recent marks of violence on her head; I observed no smell of liquor on her.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Osler – I saw no signs of opium taking as a habit.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Martin – Mrs. Macrae was a person of confirmed intemperate habits; I had seen her in a state of bordering on d<i>elerium tremens </i>just before her last illness and at other times.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To a juryman – I was sent for to attend Mrs. Macrae at her brother’s house; I found her excited and under the influence of stimulants; she had both eyes black; the injuries did not appear recent.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The jury adjourned at 1:30 for one hour.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The inquest was resumed at 2:45.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: large;"> DR JOHN MACKELCAN, recalled and examined on his former oath – I have been fifty years in practise next September, and had a large experience in dissecting while a student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, Eng.; I have been in constant practice, and have attended Mr. Macrae’s family for the last five years; I was frequently in the habit of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Macrae during that time; I recollect attending Mrs. Macrae for a severe illness in July, 1875; she was ill from the 12<sup>th</sup> till the end of the month; the illness was produced by intemperance; it commenced with pains in her feet, and then I noticed the spots on her face; after that, she had all the symptoms of <i>delirium tremens</i>; to produce this, she must have drunk for some time; either my son or myself attended the family from that time; I first saw her in her last illness on the 23<sup>rd</sup> or 24<sup>th</sup> of April; she was then suffering from enlarged liver and dropsy; I attributed this to intemperance and high living; both would tell upon the liver; intemperance would affect it the most seriously; I went most of the days with my son to attend to Mrs. Macrae after the 24<sup>th</sup> of April; I first noticed the outside clot on Mrs. Macrae’s head on Monday, 1<sup>st</sup> of May; I saw her again the day before her death; when I first saw her on that day, he seemed brighter and better; I was leaning over her speaking to her, and I noticed she spoke thickly, and I thought she had more stimulant than had been ordered. Native wine had been ordered to be given her; I was present between five and six o’clock the day she died; particularly examined the condition of her eyes to see what was the cause of the coma; I did not remain until her death; I was at the first <i>post mortem </i>examination, and also apportion of the time when Drs. Macdonald, Malloch and Mullin held their examination; I witnessed the whole examination of the head; I saw no marks of violence on the head at the second examination, or at the former one, or on the day of her death; if the clot of blood inside had been caused by a blow from a hard instrument, I would have expected to have found external marks of violence; if it had been caued by a blow over the old spot, it would have left external marks of violence; in Ms. Macrae’s state of health, if she had been struck by a blow with an instrument such as Dr. Macdonald describes, she could not have walked to the door of the bathroom; she would have been stunned; on the second <i>post mortem </i>examination, I noticed a petechioe on the back; petechioe marks indicate a disease of the smaller vessels and a disorganised state of blood; it would affect all the smaller vessels of the body, either in the brain or stomach; I noticed in some fluid which was shown to me as having been vomited by deceased some dark streaks of blood; this would show a weak state of the vessels of the stomach; Mrs. Macrae was a woman of excitable temper; the immediate cause of her death was the pressure on the brain through extravasation of blood; this might have been produced in three ways, either spontaneously, by disease or by excitement from a fall or a blow; I anticipate haemorrhage would take place in some part of the body from the disease from which she was suffering; I expressed an opinion to this effect to Mr. Macrae some ten days before the deceased died; I told him distinctly from the beginning of her illness, there was no hope of recovery; I was not altogether unprepared to find haemorrhage n the brain causing death; I would sooner have expected serious effusion; some days before her death, my son spoke of coma coming on through the blood poisoning without either effusion I agreed with him; I have seen Mr. Macrae during the deceased last illness attending to her wants.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Osler – You would be more likely to find serious effusion as a result of the disease in this case than sanguineous effusion; a blow would not bring on serious effusion, but probably sanguineous; if there was evidence of a blow iven shortly before coma set in, I should think that, with the excitement caused by it, it would be the cause of death in the state deceased was in; there is a great difference in force between a blow struck on the head when it is supporting itself and when it is resting on something; a black eye remaining a long time would indicate a weak state of the blood vessels; deceased’s circulation was not strong; a bruise would appear more easily on a person I n her condition than on one in a healthy condition; the clot was not altogether a surprise to me; it is not possible to tell when a person dies in a state of coma what to expect; I agree with the other doctors that internal haemorrhage is possible from violence without external marks.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> To Mr. Martin – A blow from a hard instrument would produce a mark, and a person in deceased’s condition would be peculiarly liable to show a mark.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> DR. KITTSON was called and gave evidence corroborative of DR. Mackelcan’s.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The Coroner, in charging the Jury said :</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> MR. FOREMAN AND GENTLEMEN – We have come to the end of a very long and painful investigation – one the like of which I have never been called upon to hold, and hope I shall never be called on to hold again. I have to thank you for your careful attention to the evidence of the different witnesses, and think that, from that attention, it will not be necessary for me to say much to you about the evidence, as it would only take up unnecessary time, and you already have lost enough of that, I am sure. It is conclusively proved, in my opinion, from the evidence, that the immediate cause of death was the clot on the brain. The medical evidence shows that this clot might have been caused either by violence or disease, and the evidence of Dr. Macdonald goes to show that, in his opinion, it was occasioned by violence. In my opinion, by the evidence of Ada Macrae, a blow is shewn to have been struck shortly before insensibility set in, by the accused, and the appearance of the body shows that a great deal of violence had been used to the deceased, not only by the external bruises and marks, but by the evidence of the medical men who made a <i>post mortem </i>examination on the body. I refer more especially to the amount of violence and to the bruises on the chest. If you believe the evidence of Ann Foster and Emma Hatchard, it shows plainly that the deceased was being subjected to a systematic course of ill treatment by the accused, that murderous attacks had been made frequently on her, and that threats of murder were frequently made. If you believe this evidence, it appears to me that it is clear evidence of malice; and, taking it in connection with the medical evidence, it points very strongly to the death of the deceased being caused by violence at the hands of the accused. If the jury find that the deceased came to her death at the hands of the accused, and that there was malice, the verdict should be one of wilful murder - if without malice, manslaughter. I will now leave you, gentlemen to bring in the verdict according to your discretion. If you wish any of the evidence read over to you, I shall be happy to do so. I would remind you that twelve jurors must agree before a verdict can be given.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> The Court was cleared at five o’clock, and at 11:30, the jury brought in the following</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> VERDICT :</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"> That the said Victoria St. George Mcrae came to her death from the effects of injuries inflicted on her by her husband, John Octavius Macrae.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;"> The above verdict was concurred in by 12 of the 16 juro</span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">rs.</span></span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-19940592004101732002012-06-29T09:44:00.005-07:002012-06-29T09:44:51.190-07:00June 29, 1876 - Part Two<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“And now the youth of the land bask in the sunshine of
happiness. No more tasks to learn – no more frigid high school marms to pester
the lives out of them in the days of calm serene delights afforded by the long
midsummer holidays.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Dundas True Banner <span> </span>June 29, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In a timeless burst of joy among school age children
(an undoubtedly their teachers as well, June 29, 1876 was the first day of
summer vacation, no more school until September.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While noting the glee as schools shut their doors for
July and August, the editor of the Dundas True Banner had a few pointed
recommendations as to things the local municipal powers should address’</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first one related to the aromas encountered while
walking through the town’s principal streets:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“We call the attention of our local
rulers to the necessity of appointing efficient health officers to enforce the
cleansing and purifying of the streets, lanes and backyards of the town. The
stench with which the olfactory organs of our citizens is saluted in passing
along some of our streets is simply horrible, and if something is not done soon
the public health must suffer.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The second problem in need at attention related to
conditions in the Desjardins Canal which was owned by the Town of Dundas at5
the time:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Friday
afternoon, the steamer <i>Transit </i><span> </span>on
coming half way up the canal for the purpose of making her usual excursion from
Dundas to the Beach found that the way was completely blocked by some of the
masts and large timbers which have floating around in the Basin and Canal for
about two years past, much to the annoyance and inconvenience of parties who
wish to get up and down in either smaller or large boats. Between two and three
hundred excursionists were waiting for the boat and the excursion would
probably have been the largest one yet barring special excursions and the
business of the boat will certainly suffer if people have to be disappointed in
this way. The proprietors of the boat or the Town Council should do something
to compel the owners of the logs to take them out of the Canal or at least
confine them in a boom, as in their present state they are nothing more or less
than a public nuisance. The <i>Transit </i>succeeded in making her usual trip
on Tuesday and will be on hand without fail tomorrow.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An usual
natural phenomenon was observed by a Dundas resident while passing through
Beasley’s Hollow on the way to Hamilton Market</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally a
poignant item – a lengthy and heart pen poem written in honour of Thomas
Ireland whose long sought after corpse had at last been recently located:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“ Poetry : Lines : On the death of
the Late Mr. Thomas Ireland, who was drowned in the Dundas Creek on the 13<sup>th</sup>
of April, 1876, and whose remains were found on the 20<sup>th</sup> of June”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not with
wasting, lingering sickness,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Watched by friends and kindred dear,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nor with
warning of the quickness,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Of his finished work here.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But with
future prospects gleaming,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Bright and hopeful to his view,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Many hours
of blissful dreaming, <span> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Many joys and sorrows few.</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These are thoughts he well may
cherish,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>In
the strength of manhood’s prime,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Years of future active business,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Seemed
most suited to his time.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Wife and children claimed his presence,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Friends
and kindred cared for him,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To our human view and knowledge,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>His
quick summons seemed all dim.</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The swift waters bore him onward,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Heedless
of their precious freight,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No strong arm could stay his
progress,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>He
had gone, it was too late.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In his lonely home are waiting,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Sad
and anxious hearts to hear,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If the bruised and broken remnant</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Could
be found to bury here.</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now at last, when hope seemed over,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>And,
as days, and weeks passed by,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Comes the tidings they have found
him,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>All
rejoice to hear the cry.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now kind hearts will bear him
gently,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>From
his home, and loved, away,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And a quiet grave remind them</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Where
in death rests his cold clay.</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To the God, who sends the waters,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Roaring,
surging from the hills,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We can trust His own wise purpose,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>And
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He can cheer the broken-hearted,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>He
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If in Faith you ask His presence,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>To
support in time of need.</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When life’s trials are ended,</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>And
the river’s bank we near,</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">May we pass through death’s dark waters,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>With
bright hopes and not with fear.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mrs.
A. J. Rossell</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-47313264602832423562012-06-28T16:35:00.000-07:002012-06-28T16:35:01.526-07:00June 29, 1876 - Part One<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For the past
two weeks, Mr. Dimmick has been travelling through the eight different
townships contiguous to this city. The crops have a most promising appearance.
In conversing with many of the farmers, they tell him that their spring and
fall grain have not looked so well at this season for a number of years. The
fruit trees also appear to be well loaded, and we believe there will be an
abundant harvest. With such cheering prospects, all have reason to thank God
and take courage”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Hamilton Weekly Times<span> </span>June 29, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Thursdays were the day of the week
that the weekly papers from Dundas were published. As the audience for those
papers included many more rural subscribers that the two Hamilton daily
newspapers, it was only natural that more stories of interests to farmers and
others living outside would appear in those papers.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weekly Times featured an item that spoke optimistically of all farm crop
prospects, an item in the Dundas Banner was less optimistic about one of the
crops:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“The spring crops in all parts of the
County of Wentworth look exceedingly well and promise to be the best we have
had in many years. In some sections, especially in clay land, fall wheat is
likely to prove a very inferior yield, it having been badly killed during the
winter.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Stories with
reference to the Hamilton Market were usually of keen interest to rural
newspaper readers. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two of those
kind of stories follow:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thursday last,
two of the finest fat steers which have been offered in the market for a long
time were brought in by Mr. Michael Duffy, of East
Flamboro, and purchased by our enterprising friend, Mr. Thomas
Lawry. They were bred by Mr. James Campbell, of East
Flamboro, and turned the market scales at 3,090 lbs. The animals
had been driven seven miles yesterday and twelve miles this morning, but looked
little the worse for the long walk.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“For several
weeks past the farmers on the Governor’s Road and the Brock Road have had
frequent visits from midnight thieves, who have carried off large numbers of
chickens, turkeys, etc. The thieving seems to have been carried on in a
systematic manner, and it is believed that the depredators dispose of their
surplus stock in the Hamilton market. Farmers should be on the lookout and it
is just possible that the thieves may yet be caught.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 1876, rural
residents were still required to spent some time working on public projects,
particularly roads:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“In many parts of the country, the yeomanry
are now busily engaged in doing their statutory labor, and we will guarantee
that a trip in a lumber waggon over the “clods” which are being piled up so
carefully on the Governor’s Road near Dundas, will effect, for the time being
at least, a radical cure for dyspeptic ailments.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As was the
style of newspaper reporting at the time, the full details of the appearance of
the body of Thomas Ireland were detailed:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The <i>Dundas
Standard </i>gives the following particulars of the appearance of the body of
the late Mr. Ireland :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The appearance of the body, which was
on its back, does not indicate that it had been completely imbedded, but that
the feet and perhaps one of the arms may have been covered. The right wrist
seems, from the reddish appearance of an oval spot on the back, about three
inches by two, to have been exposed for a time to the action of the sun, while
that hand and the other are white. The head and face are not recognisable, the
hair having completely disappeared, and the scalp coming off in patches. The
flesh on the face is more perfect, and some remains of side whiskers and of a
beard under the chin may be discerned. The eyes are swollen and the mouth
distorted, showing the teeth. One tooth is wanting in the right front of the
upper jaw. The coat and vest are clean gone. There is a checked white and black
flannel shirt which does not appear to be the least torn, and it is somewhat
strange how the coat and vest could have been torn off by the action of the
flood, without injuring the shirt more or less. When he fell into the water,
Mr. Ireland
had on his person a valuable watch. The pants are also in good preservation,
and the boots are still on the feet. There is no reasonable doubt of the
identity, as several parties immediately recognised different portions of the
clothes, and Mr. Russell, one of the firm of which the deceased was a member,
identified him by the absence of the tooth above alluded to. The body was
buried in Flamboro yesterday.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>A major meeting of fishermen and
others concerned about preserving the fish stock on Coote’s Paradise and
Burlington Bay was held on the locally renowned Fox and Hounds Temperance
Hotel, strategically located on the Burlintgton Heights overlooking both bodies
of water: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“In pursuance
of an extensively circulated handbill, calling “ a meeting of all parties
resident in the vicinity of Burlington Bay and adjacent waters interested in
the preservation of the said fishery,” such gathering took place Thursday
afternoon at the hall connected with Mr. Anderson’s Fox and Hounds Temperance
House, Burlington
Heights. The attendance
was large and respectable. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Thomas Bain, Esq., M.P., Dr. McMahon,
M.P.P., and some thirty or forty others were present.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The meeting unanimously chose Mr.
Chipman Cummins chairman, and Mr. David Bickett consented to perform the duties
of secretary.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The CHAIRMAN made a few introductory
remarks with respect to the object of the meeting, which he said was known to
all present, therefore he would not detain them but at once proceed to
business. He called upon the Secretary to read the minutes of the previous
meeting held in Dundas, at which a resolution
was passed to the effect “That<span> </span>no gill
nets or scines should be used in Burlington
Bay.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Dr. McMahon, M.P. was then called upon
to address the meeting. He said that he was not a member of the Dominion
Parliament, where the Fishery regulations were framed, but he had given this
matter of the way in which they were administered on Burlington Bay and
adjacent waters a little consideration and failed to see that justice had been
done to those residing on the north side of the Bay, all of whom had been
deprived from taking fish, while those on the southeast were extended the
privilege. The subject had been brought to his attention by Mr. Wm. Hopkins,
and he (the speaker) had put him in the way of returns brought down through Mr.
Bain, M. P. in the Dominion House. These having been printed. In his opinion,
those having such grievances should lay them before the Minister of Marine and
Fisheries and have them redressed.<span> </span>Mr.
Bain, he was pleased to say, would be in the Hall in a few minutes, and then
they could obtain more information than he (the Doctor) could possibly give
them. He regretted the absence of Mr. Kerr, and proceeded to remark that it
certainly was an unfortunate circumstance that a person holding the position he
held, as Inspector of Fisheries should occupy the Deputy Reeve’s chair in any
municipality contiguous to where his duty in the former capacity called him. Mr.
Kerr held a municipal position in Barton township, and the circumstance gave
them residing elsewhere to suspect that the favouritism might be shown with
regard to fishing privileges. He thought that resolutions should be drawn and
forwarded to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, properly setting forth what
they complain of, and the redress sought for. The doctor’s remarks were
applauded.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. Bain, M.P. , having arrived, next
spoke. He confessed that he was not a fisherman; the only time he had ever attempted
was in company with two others one Queen’ Birthday some time ago, and between
them they managed to land three fish – thesew ere not more than two inches in
length (Laughter). He thought the matter deserved consideration on the part of
the authorities. When he was asking for the return of correspondence to be
brought down in the House (which has since been published in the TIMES) he was
not aware of the difficulties which residents on the north side were suffering
under, otherwise he would have asked for a return of the answers to the
Department as well. They wanted fair play, and although he had nothing to
charge the present Fishery overseer with, still he thought that the Department
never intended some of the regulations to be constructed as they had been in
this quarter. At present, the Bay was practically a reserve for those on the
south-east side, who were allowed to sweep out the fish with nets and seines,
while those on the north shore were deprived of all such rights, and the sport
of angling was destroyed. He would use all of his influence to have the proper
authorities place those on this side of the Bay and Dundas Marsh on the same
footing as residents on the other shore. (Hear, hear.)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. SIMON STIPE, of Barton, defended
Mr. Kerr, and remarked that the business way to go about a redress of their
grievances was to apply to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. BAIN asked how it was that gill
net fishing had been allowed by the Department on the south side, and not on
the north side, or any other place on the Bay, or adjacent waters? He (Mr. B.)
did not know Mr. Kerr in this matter at all, but wanted to see justice done.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. STIPE replied that he believed the
Hon. Commissioner of Marine and Fisheries would defend the Fishery Inspector in
this action.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. JOHN BLAINE said that he had asked
Mr. Kerr why those on the south were granted priviledges they enjoyed, and he
(Mr. Kerr) told him that it was because those in the south were a poor lot of
people who had nets, and when these were worn out that would be the end of it.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>It was then moved by Mr. CLINE,
seconded by Mr. L. Mills, That this meeting is of the opinion that no nets or
seines should be drawn inside of Burlington Bay or Dundas Marsh, nor within one
quarter of a mile of the entrance to the Burlington Canal, and that the
Chairman be authorised to memorialise the Government to have the Fishing
regulations so amended.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The mover and seconder spoke to the
resolution, the latter referring to the inconsistency of the Fishery Inspector
in his action towards the people. One time Mr. Kerr gave them leave to destroy
the pike, other times he refused to let them take one.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>After some further conversation, the
resolution was adopted.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>It was then moved by Mr. WILLIAM
HOPKINS, seconded by Mr. JOHN BLAINE, that a memorial be prepared and forwarded
to the Hon. The Minister of Marine and Fisheries (through Thos. Bain, Esq.,
M.P.) setting forth the injustice of the present fishery laws and enactments so
far as the Burlington Bay and adjacent waters are concerned, and that the same
may be amended so as to render justice to all parties. That this meeting nominate
the following gentlemen to compose said Committee : Messrs. William Hopkins,
Dr. McMahon, Henry Binkley, David Bickell and Joseph Cline.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>It was arranged that this Committee
will meet at Bamberger’s Half Way House some evening shortly. Carried</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The meeting then shortly after six
o’clock dispersed, after votes of thanks to the members of Parliament, the
Chairman and the Secretary.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-5615597091909870952012-06-26T13:22:00.000-07:002012-06-26T13:23:00.558-07:00June 27, 1876<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As Dominion Day approaches, extensive and varied
preparations are being made among the people of the city for observing it in
true holiday style.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator June 27, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even though it was only the ninth national holiday in
Canada’s history, Dominion Day was already a well-established and enjoyed
holiday in 1876, and nowhere less so than in Hamilton.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the following article, the Hamilton Spectator
describes the main options for Hamiltonians wishing to celebrate the holiday:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“So far it seems that excursions, society picnics and
games will be the order of the day.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THE
CALEDONIAN SOCIETY</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">have decided on holding a grand excursion to St. Catharines, which will
doubtless be one of the most attractive affairs in that line in which the
public will have a chance to participate. The splendid steamer City of St.
Catharines has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave McIlwraith’s
wharf Saturday morning at 7 o’clock sharp. The fine brass band and string band
of the society will accompany the excursion. During the day there will be a
grand parade of firemen in St. Catharines and the Caledonian Society of the
city will hold their annual games in the Montebello Park. As every effort will
be made by the branches of the Caledonian Society of this city to secure the
comfort of the excursionists, a good time is to be expected.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THE FORESTERS</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">celebration, which is to take place in the Crystal Palace grounds, will
be one of the principal attractions in the city. The demonstration will be held
under the auspices of the different Courts of the Order in this city. A large
and interesting programme of games will be carried out, consisting of archery,
athletic sports, etc., for which valuable prizes will be given .A lacrosse
march will take place on the grounds in the afternoon, and in the evening,
there will be one of the grandest display of fireworks ever seen in the city. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THE
RAILWAYS</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">are also offering inducements to those who feel inclined to take a trip
by rail on Dominion Day.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The Great Western will
issue tickets at a single fare valid only on Saturday, with the exception of
those to Buffalo, which will be issued to and from all stations, according to
time-table at one and one-third fare, good to return up to midnight of the 3<sup>rd</sup>.
</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The Hamilton and North
Western Railway will issue return tickets at a single fare good to return on
Saturday, or on the Monday following. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THE
OCEAN HOUSE</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">at the Beach will no doubt attract a large number of pleasure seekers on
Saturday. Arrangements are being made. To afford a pleasant time to all who
chose to spend a portion of the day there. In the way of sports there will be quoits,
billiards, bowling and boating, and there is to be a grand ball in the Ocean
House Music Hall in the evening. Steamers will ply between the city and that
place every hour during the day.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> With the above choice of
amusements, it is probable that the masses of Hamilton will be enabled to spend
a pleasant day on Saturday.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During the evening of June 26, 1876, a very enjoyable
evening was spent at a festival organized to financially assist a downtown
church:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The strawberry festival given last night by the ladies
of the Park street Baptist Church was, in every way, pleasant and successful. A
goodly company of friend assembled, and after doing ample justice to the
strawberries, ice cream and cake provided, they were entertained with music,
readings, recitations and brief but appropriate addresses. The pastor, Rev. W.
Stewart, presided, and announced that the object of the festival – to provide
funds for the renovation and decoration of the lecture room – would be fully
realized. Such gatherings are very beneficial as tending to cultivate a
friendly feeling among the members of the congregation.” </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The afternoon edition of the Spectator reported on the
somewhat disappointing circus parade which wended its way through Hamilton’s
downtown streets to promote the circus which was to take place that evening:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“This morning at an early hour, Cole’s great racing
hippodrome, menagerie and circus arrived in this city from St. Catharines. From
about nine o’clock in the forenoon, the streets were crowded with people of all
ages, who anxiously awaited the appearance of the grand procession, which, it
was announced would parade through the streets. The crowd in the neighbourhood
of James and King streets, near the Gore, must have numbered several thousands.
At about half-past ten, the procession appeared marching down John street to
Gore, then across to James, up to King, and through others of the principal
streets. The procession was headed by a brass band in a chariot drawn by a
number of dromedaries. This was followed by equestrians, and after them came
the cages containing the animals. The procession was scarcely as gorgeous as
expected, but, from the flattering notices which Mr. Cole gets wherever he
goes, we may be sure that the best of the show is inside the canvas. Thousands
of people visited the circus this afternoon, and it is probable that the
immense tents will be crowded this evening.” </span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-36664053578745243222012-06-25T15:38:00.003-07:002012-06-25T15:38:47.158-07:00June 26, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The game at the Crystal Palace grounds on Saturday
afternoon ended, as was generally expected, in the defeat of the home club, but
after the rather respectable show which the Standards made in Guelph, few
expected they would be so badly beaten as they were.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Hamilton Spectator.<span> </span>June 26, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even with the build up of anticipation, no knowledgeable
Hamilton baseball fan expected the home side to beat the champion Maple Leafs
of Guelph. But their low expectations were not only met, but exceeded :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The game commenced at 3 o’clock, the Maple Leafs going
to the bat. In the first inning they scored 1, and the Standards followed with
a whitewash. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The next inning for the Standards resulted in the same
way, and at the end of the fifth innings, the score stood – Maple Leafs 16,
Standards 0, the former having scored 7 in the second, 2 in their fourth, and 6
in their fifth innings respectively.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It seemed at this stage of the game as if the Standards
were not going to make a run, and there were long and disappointed faces among
their friends. In their sixth innings, however, they succeeded in scoring1,
which was repeated in the seventh, and the Maple Leafs having only obtained one
in their sixth and nothing in their seventh, the score at the end of the seventh
innings stood – Maple Leafs 17, Standards 2. Then followed two more whitewashes
– one for each side – and the Champions took the bat for the ninth innings.
Much to the astonishment of many present they succeeded in adding eight to
their score. And here it may be said that the secret of the Maple Leafs scoring
so heavily was in the habitual muffing of the Standards. Had it not been for
the wild throwing and very bad judgment on the part of some of the Hamilton
players, the Guelph team would never have made runs in their last inning. It is
useless for the Standards to attempt to play such clubs as the Maple Leafs and
Tecumsehs unless they procure some new and superior material who about a very
decided improvement in what they have. Some of them did very well, but others
did the very opposite, and the game was in reality lost and won long before it
was finished.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The play of the Maple Leafs was very much admired, their
playing, generally speaking, being of a high order.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the same afternoon edition of the Hamilton Spectator,
the following item was included:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“As we go to press, the Hamilton Field Battery is on its
way to the Crystal Palace grounds for the performance of the annual drill. The
corps presented a fine appearance as they marched up King street, headed by the
band. “</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">However, a previous City Council decision to deny the
militia unit use of the Crystal Palace grounds had to be reversed as explained
in the following::</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“A special meeting of the City Council was held in the
Council Chambers on Saturday evening to reconsider the application of the
Hamilton Field Battery for the use of the Crystal Palace grounds for the
performance of their annual drill, and also to make arrangements to attend the
funeral of the late ex.-Alderman Mullin.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Members
present : The Mayor in the chair, and Ald. Kenrick, Morgan, Kent, Fitzpatrick,
Chisholm, Magee, Crawford, Barr, Humphrey, McLellan and Field. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Clerk
read the following :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Hamilton :</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">SIR AND
GENTLEMEN : The Hamilton Volunteer Field Battery of Artillery having been
ordered to perform its annual drill for this year at some convenient place near
its headquarters, respectfully request the use of the grounds and some of the
stables connected with the Crystal Palace for that purpose.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These
grounds, together, with the stables, and the unlimited supply of water are, by
far, the most suitable spot in the neighbourhood of the city, and I earnestly
trust that your honourable body will kindly grant the Battery the use of them
for their annual drill which commences on or about the 26<sup>th</sup> inst.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>G.
R. Smith,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Captain
Commanding.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Per
W. F. McMahon,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Lieut.
H. V. F. Battery,</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton.
June 6<sup>th</sup> 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Hamilton,
June 24<sup>th</sup>, 1876.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MY DEAR SIR
: Permit me to inform you of the death of the late Mr. James Mullin; the
funeral will take place from his late residence on Monday the 26<sup>th</sup>
instant, at 2 o’clock p.m.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Respectfully,</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>John
A. Mullin.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Moved by
Ald. Chisholm, seconded by Ald. Kilvert, that Capt. Smith, of the Hamilton
Volunteer Field Battery be heard in regard to the petition for the use of the
Palace grounds. Carried.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Captain
Smith addresses the Council and pointed out that no injury would be done to the
grounds or the buildings. He said it was not the intention of the Battery to
perform any gun drill on the grounds. Should any damage be done, it would be
paid for.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Moved by
Ald. Field, seconded by Ald. Crawford that the vote of this Council at its last
meeting refusing the use of the Crystal Palace grounds to the Hamilton Field
Battery be reconsidered. Carried.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Moved by
Ald. Kilvert, seconded by Ald. Chisholm and resolved : That the Hamilton Field
Battery be allowed to occupy the stables, and to pitch tents and use the cook
house, in the Palace grounds during their annual drill, it being understood
that the Battery are not to drill with their horses and guns inside the
grounds. Carried.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Moved by
Ald. McLellan, seconded by Ald. Field, that the City Council attend in a body
the funeral of ex-Al. Mullin, on Monday, the 26<sup>th</sup> inst., and that
His Worship intimate this resolution to the family of the deceased, with
expression of regret at the death of the gentleman. Carried.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Council
then adjourned.” </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Police
Magistrate seems to have been in a relatively forgiving mood at the morning
session of the Police Court of June 26, 1876 :</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Wm. O’Neil
was arrested by Constable McFlagan at the Palace grounds on Saturday for
climbing on the sheds attached to the grounds. He was fined $2.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>COWS AT
LARGE</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Patrick
McGrath and George Pfann were charged by Alfred Myles with having cows at
large. Mrs. McGrath and Mrs. Pfann gave a satisfactory explanation of the
delinquency and the cases were dismissed.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>INSANITY</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hugh McKay
was arrested, on complaint of his wife Agnes McKay, with insanity. Mrs. McKay
stated that she and her children were in danger of bodily harm from him. The
case was adjourned to procure medical testimony.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>DRUNK</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Charles
Rathmore was found drunk on York street by Constable Williams about half one
o’clock on Sunday morning. He was fined $2.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>VAGRANCY</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jno. Dunn,
Chas. McKay and Jas. Donohue were picked on Bay street yesterday morning by
Constable Littlehales. The prisoners said they had come from St. Catharines,
and were making their way to Toronto. As this was their first appearance at the
Police Court, they were let go on a promise that they would leave the city without
delay.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>THREATENING</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mary Nixon
complained of her husband having threatened to beat her. John denied the charge
and promised to be on his good behaviour for the next 12 months. He was let go.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>ASSAULT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mary
McKenna, a rather hard-looking specimen of an Irish woman, was arrested for
brutally ill using another, Kirkpatrick on George street, yesterday morning.
The case was adjourned.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-37742735216279163752012-06-23T16:06:00.005-07:002012-06-23T16:06:49.513-07:00June 24, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The game
between the Standards and the Maple Leafs of Guelph is proceeding at the Palace
grounds as we go to press.”</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Hamilton Spectator <span> </span>June 24, 1876 </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When the afternoon edition of the Hamilton Spectator hit
the streets in the later afternoon of June 24, 1876, the big baseball games
between the Hamilton Standards and the Maple Leafs of Guelph was underway, but
readers were provided with some news about the pre-game activities:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The Maple Leafs drove from Guelph this morning,
arriving at the St. Nicholas Hotel at about one o’clock. At two o’clock a
portion of the XIII Battalion band serenaded the Guelph men at their hotel,
shortly after which they escorted them to the grounds. The game commenced at
three o’clock. A full report will be given Monday.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another game at the very same baseball diamond at King
and Sophia (now Strathcona) streets took place the previous afternoon:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“A game of base ball was played at the Crystal Palace
grounds yesterday between a nine from the Wanzer Sewing Machine Works, and a
team from Tuckett & Billings’ Tobacco Manufactory. The Wanzer men were victorious
by a score of 52 to 27.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An accident on the street in front of the Spectator
office drew attention from the reporter at work at his desk:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“As a one-horse wagon, driven by a woman, was proceeding
along Macnab street opposite the SPECTATOR block, a heavy waggon loaded with
hides collided therewith, breaking both shafts of the lighter vehicle. It is
but fair to say that building operations have blockaded the street very much at
the point where the accident occurred, so that the collision was hardly
attributable to carelessness.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally, evangelical services organized by the local
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“These meetings which are held daily under the auspices
of the Young Men’s Christian Association are attracting large and deeply
interested audiences. Last evening an open air service was held at 7:30 in the
Gore, where earnest addresses were given by Messrs. Crombie and Simpson, after
which a largely attended meeting was held in the Y. M. C. A. hall, where the
services were of a most impressive and solemn character, the singing of lively
and beautiful Sankey hymns, which are largely made use of, never fails to touch
the heart and produce salutary impressions.<span>
</span>Addresses were delivered by both gentlemen mentioned, and the Rev. J. C.
Smith led in prayer.” </span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-39276034653828080812012-06-22T15:19:00.002-07:002012-06-22T15:19:30.973-07:00June 23, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span lang="EN-CA">“Yesterday
afternoon the trotting race between Owen Nowlan’s big St. Patrick and R.
Wilson’s Tempest for $2,000 a side came off at the Hamilton Riding and Driving
Park.”</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>
</span>Hamilton Spectator<span> </span>June 23, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The much-anticipated horse race, pitting Tempest against
St. Patrick, took place in front of a large throng of interested observers:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The great interest which had been manifested in the
race for weeks culminated in one of the largest crowds assembled to witness it
that was ever seen at any event of the kind in Hamilton. From about 2
o’clock<span> </span>in the afternoon, citizens were
pouring into the course, and when the time arrived for the race to begin, there
must have been fully two thousand people on the ground. Pool selling conducted
by Mr. W. H. Cooper, commenced about 2 o’clock. Betting was lively up until the
time of the call for the horses, the odds being $10 to $6 in favour of St.
Patrick. The following gentlemen were selected to act as judges : John
Eastwood, Peter Blaicher, Thomas Gillespie, of Hamilton, and John Scott, of
Galt, timer, J. Patterson of Hamilton. At 2:35 o’clock, the bell rang for the
horses, and in a few minutes, St. Patrick made his appearance, looking in splendid
condition and moving in fine style up to the stretch, driven by Mr. Pete
Curran. The whole turn-out presented quite a dashing appearance, Curran being
dressed in regular jockey style: light pants, little jacket and green cap. Soon
after, Tempest jogged up to the stand, driven by Mr. Cope Stinson. She too
looked all over a trotter and from the looks of admiration with which she was
viewed by the backers, it was evident that they had full confidence in her
ability to hold her own in the race. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>FIRST
HEAT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After three ineffectual attempts at starting, the horses
were sent off to a good start with Tempest at the post and St. Patrick on the
outside. A very nice race ensued to the quarter pole, the horses keeping about
even. At the half mile, the relative positions were slightly changed , St.
Patrick being about half a neck ahead, which he gradually increased to three
lengths before reaching the three-quarter pole. The race was hotly contested
down the home stretch. About the distance pole, the mare (Tempest) acted badly
and broke, her driver unable to get her to trot again before reaching the
score, which she crossed running. St. Patrick came in three lengths ahead of
the mare. Time : 2:36</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>SECOND
HEAT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During the intermission between the first and second
heats, pools were again organized, the bets being $5 to $1 on St. Patrick. On
the second attempt, the horses got away for an even start with St. Patrick at
the pole. From the commencement of this heat it was evident that the colt had
it all his own way, and when the quarter pole was reached, he was ahead by
about two lengths, which he had increased to ten before reaching the half-mile,
and which lead he maintained to the three-quarter. On entering the home
stretch, the mare got down to her work and did some excellent trotting, closing
the gap considerably, notwithstanding which, however, St. Patrick came in three
lengths ahead. Time : 2:39.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>THIRD
HEAT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The horses got away at the first attempt, St. Patrick
again at the pole. On rounding the first bend in front of the ladies’ stand,
Tempest broke badly, and consequently was five lengths behind at the quarter.
On nearing the half-mile, Tempest again broke and started to run which she kept
until the three-quarters was reached, at which she was eight lengths behind,
St. Patrick all the while trotting beautifully. The remainder of the heat was a
very tame affair, the mare running down the stretch, St. Patrick jogging home
an easy winner of the heat and the race. Time 2:43.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>AFTER
THE RACE</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the conclusion of the race there was, of course, the
usual amount of congratulations among the friends of the winning horses, and
despondency among the losers. St. Patrick was the admiration of everybody, and
the opinion was freely expressed among the sporting men that he could have made
the mile in 2:30 yesterday had it been necessary to urge him. Competent judges
declared also that he was the finest five year old colt in Ontario. It is a
matter for congratulation that everything in connection with this race passed
off so satisfactorily. The judges evidently did their part to the satisfaction
of all concerned. The pool selling was managed in a fair and square manner by
Mr. Cooper who is quite at home in that kind of business. Pools were paid off
at the St. Nicholas last evening.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The St. Patrick victory Tempest was not the only race
held at the Hamilton Riding and Driving Park that afternoon:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yesterday afternoon at the
conclusion of the trotting race between Tempest and St. Patrick, a foot race
for $10 a side took place between M. Wren and T. Martin. The distance run was
one hundred yards. The race was run easily by Wren.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The only other local news
story which got extensive coverage in the Spectator of June 23, 1876 concerned
the plight of a young offender which came to the fore during his court appearance
that morning:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the Police Court this morning, a boy, who had been
arrested for stealing, told a rather interesting story of his wanderings up and
down the face of creation for some time past. The boy, who is remarkably
intelligent, gave his name as William Barnes, and his age at 13 years. He was
accused by Nehemiah Cory, a fisherman at the Beach, with having entered his
house and stolen a double-barreled shot gun, a quantity of ammunition and some
fishing tackle. When questioned by the Police Magistrate, the boy said that he
was born in Buffalo, in which city he lived with his parents until about three
years ago when the family moved to Wisconsin. His father was a music teacher
and his mother a dancing mistress. The former he states is in Indiana going
about from place to place trying to make a living; while his mother is pursuing
her business. His father and mother he states had a disagreement about six
months ago, and separated in consequence. He himself had left Wisconsin to come
to Ancaster, where his grandmother lives at the home of an uncle of his, Mr.
Moss Dempsted. Before leaving the States, however, he had paid a visit to his
father, who had bought him a suit of clothes and sent him on his way. Young Barnes
reached Ancaster about a month ago, but he states that his relatives would not
have anything to do with him in any way. This was pretty hard on him, he says,
after travelling so far, but he searched round and succeeded in getting some
little odd jobs of work with the farmers. For this, however, he got no pay,
only his board. Becoming tired of this kind of life, he made up his mind to get
back to his father. For some time recently he has been dragging a precarious
existence around the city, and yesterday he committed the theft for which he
was arrested, in order to raise money to take him home. It is too evident that
the poor boy has no home to go to, and probably it is the best thing that could
have happened to him that the Police Magistrate sentenced him to 4 years at the
Reformatory, Penetanguishene.</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-43802218078234679102012-06-21T16:10:00.003-07:002012-06-21T16:10:35.889-07:00June 22, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Last evening the fine band of
the Caledonia Society, played in the Prince’s Square, and in spite of the
threatening aspect of the weather large crowd of people assembled at the resort
for “Auld Lang Syne.” And certainly none who went with the expectation of
enjoying the promenade and the music were disappointed.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Hamilton Spectator<span> </span>June 22, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>For
the most part, it was a pleasant evening of sitting to listen, or promenading
while listening, to the music of the newly-formed Caledonian Band</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>As
reported in the Spectator, the open square off Main street, in front of the
Wentworth County Court House was the pleasant locale for the concert, but there
was an incident which marred the event:<span> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The band
under the instruction of the Messrs. King have made splendid progress, and the
excellent music which they discoursed last evening stamps them as a highly
efficient organization, and a credit to the Society to which they belong. The
only thing which occurred to mar the pleasure of the promenaders was that at
one time some parties threw a few stones into the Square. This is a dangerous
practice, and it is hoped that on similar occasions in the future there will be
no more exhibitions of such carelessness.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The same
society that the band represented, the Caledonian Society, was anxious <span> </span>to organize an excursion for its members for
the following July 1<sup>st</sup>: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“There
is to be a meeting of the Caledonia Society this evening to discuss the
question of having a grand excursion to Queenston Heights on the 1<sup>st</sup>
of July. The idea is a good one, and we hope that the decision will be
favourable to it. There is no grander or romantic spot in Ontario for
excursionists to visit than the place mentioned. The Caledonians could scarcely
spend Dominion Day more pleasantly than in sailing across the lake, and up the
Niagara River, with its high and rocky banks lined with trees , and then to
spend a few hours on the heights where Brock’s monument<span> </span>stands, which have associated with them so
many historic memories, and in close proximity to which is to be seen a
picturesqueness and sublimity of natural scenery, unsurpassed in Canada.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
long-awaited horse race, between Tempest and St. Patrick was underway when the
Spectator’s afternoon edition of June 22, 1876 hit the streets:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“The
sporting fraternity is assembled at the Race Course in strong force this
afternoon to witness the much talked of race between Tempest and St. Patrick.
Pool selling took place at the St. Nicholas Hotel last night with St. Patrick
as the favourite, betting about $5 to $2. A considerable number of pools was
sold. Both horses were in fine condition for the race. A full report will be
given tomorrow.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Five short items also
appeared in that particular newspaper:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not a bad day for ice cream.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Garden party at Miss Reid’s
grounds, James street, this evening. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Standards and Maple Leafs,
of Guelph, play at the Palace grounds on Saturday.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Livery horses were given to
understand that it was a delightful day for driving in the country.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The garden party by the ladies
of St. Paul’s Church, takes place this evening at Miss Reid’s, James Street
south.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thursdays
were the day of the week when the weekly edition of the Hamilton Times was
issued. The issue of June 22, 1876 contained many of the same stories which had
appeared in their daily editions over the previous week, but often with
significant details added because there were more pages, and hence more space
in the weeklies.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For
example, the dinner in honour of new Judge Sinclair was significantly longer
than in the Daily Spectator, to the point of even including the menu:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Friday evening at the Royal Hotel, the members of
the Bar of the County of Wentworth welcomed His Honor Judge Sinclair to his new
high position with a complimentary dinner. There were a large number present.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Myles O’Reilly, Esq., Q.C., occupied the chair, and on
his right were seated the guest of the evening, Judge Sinclair, and Mr. Greer,
Registrar of the county, and on his left, His Worship the Mayor, Deputy Judge
Smart, and Mr. Alexander Secord, foreman of the Grand Jury. There were present,
Messrs. Robertson, Q.C., E. Martin, Q.C., Pringle, Barton, Waddell, Duff,
Spohn, Lazier, Carscallen, Jones, Macdonald, Haslett, Gwynn, Gibson, Crerar,
Ghent, White, Wink, Boultbee, H. Mackenzie, Gage, Bogue, Bell, Kilvert, Lemon, A.
Bruce, Barker, Parkes, Darcy, Chisholm, and Laidlaw.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The vice chair was occupied by Mr. W. F. Walker.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The table was very prettily laid, and the whole
arrangements reflected the greatest credit on the Messrs. Hood, proprietors of
the Royal Hotel, The following was the bill of fare :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>SOUP</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>St. Julien. Mock Turtle</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>FISH</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Boiled Salmon Trout, Madiera Sauce.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Baked White, wine sauce.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>ENTREES</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Chicken Patties a la Creme</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Lobster Currie with French Toast</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Fricandeau of Veal Larded.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Lamb Chops. Green Peas.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>COLD
MEATS</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Buffalo Tongue, German Salad,
Spiced Beef.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span><span>
</span>Campbell’s
Sugar Cured Ham.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>BOILED</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span><span>
</span>Campbell’s
Sugar Cured Ham</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Boiled Leg of Mutton, Caper Sauce.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Ox Tongue. </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>ROAST</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Surloin of Beef with Horse Radish.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Turkey Red Currant Jelly.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Spring Lamb, Mint Sauce. </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>VEGETABLES</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes. Spinach.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Peas. Asparagus.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>PASTRY</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Plum
Pudding, Brandy Sauce. Rhubarb Pie.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Peach Pie. Cocoanut Pie. Blanc Mange.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Lemon Ice Cream. Wine Jelly. Lemon Jelly.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Strawberries and Cream.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">DESERT</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Apples. Layer
Raisins. Fresh Figs. Oranges.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Naples
Walnuts. Soft Shell Almonds.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Filberts.
Cocoanut Cake. Fruit Cake. Coffee.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Siliced Pine Apples.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>WINES</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Fueeheerd’s Port. St.
Julien Claret</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Sparkling Moselie</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mackenzie’s
Sherry. Barton & Guceteer’s Claret.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Louis Roederer Champagne</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After the
cloth was removed, the Chairman, with a few appropriate remarks, gave “The
Queen.” The toast, as usual, was drunk with enthusiasm, the National Anthem
being sung.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Chairman rose and gave the toast of the evening. In doing so he said, he
believed that the appointment of Mr. Sinclair had given general satisfaction to
the Bar of Wentworth and the profession generally. He himself individually
welcomed the Judge, and was sure his fellow barristers did the same. </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
health of Judge Sinclair was drunk with enthusiasm.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Judge
Sinclair, who, on rising, was greeted with tremendous cheering, said ; “Mr.
Chairman and gentlemen, I have to use the old hackneyed phrase that words
cannot express my feelings on this occasion. I cannot tell you how I thank you
for this grand, and I might say, splendid reception, of which anyone might feel
proud. If I had known that my reception was what it has been, I should have
been content to speak the few hurried words I have strung together during
dinner. I thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the gentlemen present for the very
handsome repast given to me tonight. All here, till lately, were strangers to
me, and I feel on that account all the more the congratulations extended to me.
I little thought when I was here six months ago, conducting the Crown business,
that I should be so soon among you as Judge. Several of my friends around this
table know that I did not seek this Judgeship, and I may mention among them Mr.
Robertson, Mr. E. Martin and Mr. B. B. Osler. I thought, however, it was my
duty to accept the position when it was offered me, and I feel prouder having
accepted the Judgeship of the County of Wentworth
than of any other county in the Dominion. The gentlemanly and kindly feeling
which characterises the Bar makes me feel that I have done right in taking the
Judgeship. Though it was hard to sever old connections, yet the new ones I have
made will, to a certain extent, make up for them. I hope soon to be a resident
and a taxpayer rand help Mr. Mayor pay off some of the fines and penalties
which are said to be hovering over the city. I admit, gentlemen, that like
others, my failings are numerous: but I can assure you gentlemen, that I shall
strive to correct them. When I came to this city, I met with the kindest
reception from all, no matter what their political opinions were, and I hold it
to be a duty of a man, as soon as he becomes a public officer, to cease from
all party connection. (Applause.) The Americans said that our judges were
elected on account of<span> </span>personal and legal
attainments. I hope it is so of Miles O’Reilly and Judge O’Reilly, and I only
hope that I shall be able to emulate his example and be as bright an ornament
to the bench, and carry out all my dealings and perform my duties in the same
manner he did.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Judge
Sinclair resumed his seat amid loud applause.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Hon. A. McKellar proposed the toast of the Bar of Hamilton, and referred to the
two Judges who had recently been appointed from its members, viz.,
Vice-Chancellor Proudfoot and Mr. Justice Burton; also to the Q.C.’s lately
created. He called on Judge O’Reilly and Messrs. Martin, Robertson, Mackelcan
and Osler to respond.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Judge
O’Reilly briefly responded, and said that he would leave a more lengthy
response to Mr. Robertson. </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
Robertson, in returning thanks, said that he thought the Bar of Wentworth and
the inhabitants had reason to congratulate themselves on the appointment of
Judge Sinclair. He knew that great persuasion had to be used, before Mr.
Sinclair would accept the position, but no one was more pleased than he (Mr.
Robertson) that he had done so. It was a difficult position to be placed in and
the work was hard, but he was sure Mr. Sinclair would be equal to it. As
regarded the Bar of Wentworh, Mr. Justice Strong had said that it was second to
none in the Dominion and he was sure that all the members would lend their
heartiest co-operation.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Messrs.
Martin, Mackelcan and Osler also returned thanks.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
E. Martin, Q. C., proposed the health of<span>
</span>the Sheriff.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Shreriff responded, and said that he was a stranger among them, but had been
most warmly welcomed. He had been absent for some little time, and, no doubt, a
great many people would be glad if both he, and the gentlemen around the table
would be absent altogether. (Laughter.) He was glad to be present to welcome
judge Sinclair.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
Robertson proposed the health of His Worship the Mayor. He said that he had
known him for 27 years, and that he thought he was the right man in the right
place.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>His
Worship responded and said he had no ideas that he would be called upon to
speak to such an individual toast. He thanked them for the way they had
received it. He was very much pleased to be present to offer his
congratulations to the Judge, and hoped he would be spared to fulfill the
duties of his position.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
Gibson proposed the health of Deputy Judge Smart.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Judge
Smart responded in suitable terms. </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Judge
Sinclair proposed the health of the Grand Jury and the officials of the County
of Wentworth,
speaking of them in the most flattering terms.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
A. Secord, Foreman of the Grand Jury; Mr. Greer, the Registrar, and Mr. Ghent,
Clerk of the Court, replied.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
toast of “The Press” was responded to by Mr. G. Mainwaring, of the <i>Times.</i></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The party broke up at a late hour.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>There
was a little more detailed coverage of the fire in Carlisle in the Weekly Times
than had appeared in the Daily Spectator:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“About
two o’clock Tuesday morning, a fire broke out in Readhead and Sons general
store at Carlisle, which resulted in the total destruction of the building,
together with the stock and outbuildings. The inhabitants of the village turned
out <i>en masse </i>and succeeded in confining
the flames to the building and outbuildings in which they originated, but
several of the houses in the vicinity suffered from the intense heat evolved by
the burning mass. The loss is estimated at from $6,000 to $7,000. The losers,
we learn, are insured in various companies in this city for about $4,000 or
$5,000.”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
proceedings of all the cases at the latest session of the Wentworth County
Court were reported fully in the Weekly Times of June 22, 1876. As well the
full Grand Jury report was reprinted in full, plus the indictment filed against
the County of Wentworth by the Wentworth County Court House</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The Court opened at 2 p.m.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>THE
QUEEN VS. AARON KING, an INDIAN, BURGLARY”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Case
for breaking into the house of Obed Howell, of Jerseyville, with intent to
commit a felony.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>As
it appeared that the window had been left open, and that there was,
technically, no “breaking,” the Crown did not press the case; in other words,
the case broke down. Indians will please notice that this case is not to be
taken as an authority for entering farmers’ houses in the night time, by any
windows which may have been left open.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
Osler for the Crown; Mr. Begue for the prisoner.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>BAINS
VS. JOHNSTON</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Appeal
against a conviction for selling whiskey after lawful hours. The prosecutrix
swore that she knew it was whiskey, as some of it spilt on her dress and froze
there, and she knew from the taste of the ice that it was whiskey. The
appellant contended that the material was vinegar, the word being used in a
Corktonian sense.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Appeal
sustained, and conviction quashed with costs.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr.
Osler, Q.C., and with him, Mr. Gage for the respondent.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>SEVENTH
DAY</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Grand Jury came into the Court at 5 p.m. with no bill in the case of The Queen
vs. Carpenter, nuisance and the following:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>PRESENTMENT</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><i>To His Honour the Judge Presiding:</i></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We, the Grand Jurors for Our Lady the Queen, beg to make
this presentment:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>That
having disposed of all the business given us by the County Attorney, we are
happy to state that our duties have been light, as but few cases for the Crown
have been submitted, and none of a very serious character. We have to express
our thanks to Mr. McKellar, the Sheriff, also to the Crown Attorney, for their
attention to us and advice so readily accorded when required, thus aiding us
very much in the discharge of our duties.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
have visited the gaol and have much pleasure in reporting that everything
connected therewith being in good order, and under the management of Capt.
Henery, the Governor, is perfect in every detail.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
found the number of prisoners to be fifty-three, twenty-three males and thirty
females.: males under sixteen, one; males over sixteen, twenty-two; females
under sixteen, one; over sixteen, twenty-nine; under sentence, seventeen males
and twenty-six females; waiting trial, two males; on remand, one; default of
sureties, one;: insane and idiotic, two males and four females, whom the Jurors
would suggest should be removed to the Asylum.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
also visited the Insane Asylum lately penned for incurables, under the able
management of Dr. Bunk, Medical Superintendent, and Dr. Covernton, Assistant,
who showed us great kindness and gave every information as regards the internal
management and accommodation.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>There
are now one hundred and twelve female, and sixty-eight male inmates. The doctor
informed us that those lately from the London Asylum are very troublesome and
destructive to the property where they are confined.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
also hear with regret that the County Council and the City of Hamilton are about making arrangements to
take a portion of the Court House for city cells, which, in our opinion, should
be a place separate from all other buildings.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
also visited the Orphan Asylum, Mr. Wilson of the institution, showing us
through all the different departments, and have much pleasure in reporting that
everything connected therewith is in good order. The number under his
instruction are; - boys, twenty-four; and, girls, six: total, thirty.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
also visited the House of Refuge, Mrs. Sievile of the institution, showing us
through all the different departments, and have much pleasure in reporting that
everything connected therewith is in good order, except the building. We would
recommend a more suitable building before next winter. Number of persons’
thirty-one.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
also visited the institution under the care of the Sisters of Charity, and are
happy to report that the institution is in a highly creditable condition.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
beg to recommend to the attention of the County Council the necessity that
exists for the erection of a County Poor House.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>ALEX.
A. SECORD,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Foreman.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We
beg to congratulate Your Honour on your elevation to<span> </span>the Bench, and the County on the appointment
of Your Honour as Judge.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>ALEX.
A. SECORD.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Foreman.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>(Signed
on behalf of the Grand Jury.)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>His
Honour then thanked the Jury and relieved them of further duty.”</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The County is not going to get off any easier than the
city in the way of indictments, as the following is the one brought against the
County on account of the Court House –</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>COUNTY
OF WENTWORTH: The jurors of Our Sovereign the Queen, upon their oath, present
that from a date prior to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord,
1874, there was, and still is, a certain public building called, and known as,
the Court House of the County of Wentworth, situate in Prince’s Square, City of
Hamilton, in the said County, used by the Court of Assize, and general jail
delivery for the said County of Wentworth, and the County Court of the County
of Wentworth, and by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the said
County, and by the County Judges, Criminal Court, and by the Court of Chancery
for Ontario, and as and for the place and house of holding for the said several
Courts, as and when the same are by law appointed to be held from time to time,
and for long spaces of time to sit in use and occupy the same many of Her
Majesty’s Justices of assize, the Judges of the Courts of Chancery, and the
Judges of the County Court and the Grand and Petit Jurors summoned to serve at
the sittings of the several Courts, and the several suitors, counsels,
attorneys, and witnesses engaged or interested in the causes and matters
brought before the said several Courts, at the various and several sittings
thereof, and the sheriff, deputy-sheriff, crier, constables and other officers
connected with the said Courts and each and every one of them.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>And
that the said Court House, on the said First day of January, in the year of our
Lord, 1874, and continually afterwards until the day of entering this inquisition,
was, and is, in a foul, noxious and unwholesome state, for want of due
reparation, ventilation, cleansing, and amendment of same, so that the judges
and jurors and other persons as aforesaid, are obliged by law to come, be and
remain therein for the purposes aforesaid or any of them during the time inst.
Aforesaid, could not come, be and remain therein without danger to their lives
and injury to their health, to great damage and common nuisance of all Her
Majesty’s liege subjects coming, being and remaining therein for any of the
purposes aforesaid.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>And
that the Corporation of the County of Wentworth, in the said County of
Wentworth, the said Court House, as aforesaid, and as aforesaid, being foul,
noxious and unwholesome, ought to repair, cleanse, ventilate, and amend when
and so often as it should or shall be necessary.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>B.
B. Osler,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Crown
Attorney.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally, The WeeklyTimes gave extensive coverage on the
inquest into the death of Thomas Ireland whose body had just been recovered in
the Desjardins Canal Basin:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“In our Tuesday’s issue, a brief telegram appeared announcing
the finding of the body of the late Mr. Thomas Ireland, who, it will
remembered, was carried away during the recent floods and drowned in Dundas
Creek. The facts of the case are, doubtless, still fresh in the minds of our
readers, who will also remember that the most tremendous efforts were made to
find the body, and a large reward was offered for the recovery, but it could
not be found. Tuesday afternoon, however, about one o’clock a teamster named
George McDermott was down with some other parties watched the steamer Transit
coming into her wharf. They remained there till she left, and after her
leaving, McDermott saw something in the water on the south side of the Canal.
Thinking it was the body of a man, two people went over and discovered that it
was and brought the body over. There was no coat or vest on the body – only the
shirt, pants and boots. In the pants pocket was a knife, a small key and ten
cents. The body was terribly decomposed, but it was recognised by his brother,
Mr. John Ireland, by his partner, Mr. William Russell, and several other
reliable witnesses. The peculiar circumstances of the case are that there were
no bruises or any marks of violence on the body which would account for the
loss of coat and vest. The deceased had on him a watch and chain also when he
fell in, but these, of course, have disappeared with the vest. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the evening, an inquest was held at the Town Hall, Dundas, before Coroner
White, when the body was fully identified and the following verdict given :
“That the said Thomas Ireland came to his death accidentally, on the afternoon
of the 13<sup>th</sup> day of April last, by falling off a flume and being
drowned in Dundas Creek.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-84211765412704787182012-06-20T11:37:00.000-07:002012-06-20T11:37:06.678-07:00June 21, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There
were only two items of note in the Hamilton Spectator issue, dated June 21,
1876. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Both items concerned events not in the city of Hamilton
itself but in other parts of Wentworth County:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A fire broke out this
morning at an early hour in the store of Redhead & Son, Carlisle, in which
were also situated the village post office and telegraph office, the whole
being completely consumed with nearly all the contents. The loss is heavy.
Insured in the Farmer’s and the Canadian Mutual Co.’s for $2,000 each.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The other story involved the steamer
Transit, but in a very different context than summer night excursions on the
bay. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Transit had steamed into Dundas to pick up
passengers. At the Dundas end of the Desjardins canal was a large area of open
water which gave enough space for large vessels to turn around in order to
return to the bay via Coote’s Paradise.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Presumably, given
what happened, it was the Transit’s first trip into Dundas:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“A brief dispatch from Dundas yesterday informed our
readers that the body of the late Mr. Thomas Ireland, who was drowned in the Dundas creek on the 13<sup>th</sup>
of April, had been found in the Desjardins canal. The body was brought to the
surface of the canal by the motion created in the water by the steamer Transit
which was on her way from Dundas
to the Brant House. The body was perceived by two boys who went out into the
water and brought it to the bank of the canal near the basin. One of the
youngsters went up to Dundas
with the news, and the other remained with the body. In a short time, a number
of friends of the deceased gentleman came back with the messenger and
identified the remains as those of Mr. Ireland. Dr. Thomas White of this
city was immediately telegraphed to hold an inquest. Dr. White proceeded to Dundas and summoned a
jury, and held an examination. The jury went down to the bank of the canal and
viewed the body, and after hearing the testimony of a number of witnesses,
returned a verdict of “Accidental Drowning.” After the body had been viewed by
the Jury, it was taken to the Town Hall, where it was coffined. This morning,
the funeral took place and was very largely attended by the residents of Dundas, among whom Mr. Ireland was deservedly held in high
esteem.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-169210174906440612012-06-19T14:31:00.001-07:002012-06-19T14:32:18.202-07:00June 20, 1876<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The excursion to the Brant House last evening by the
Transit was one of the most successful of the present season.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Hamilton
Spectator June 20, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The steamer Transit was frequently referenced in the
pages of Hamilton newspapers as its excursions to various pleasure grounds
around the bay and its partnership with entertainers were proving to be very
well received.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The excursion on June 19, 1876 was a good example:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The Brant House grounds were brilliantly lighted and
the very large crowd of visitors were entertained in a most acceptable manner.
The display of fireworks given by Professor Hand, the feats performed by
Professor Jenkins, on the tight rope, and the excellent music by the Maple Leaf
Band served to make the time pass away most pleasantly. The Transit excursions
are evidently highly appreciated.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The sport of baseball was rapidly increasing in
popularity in the Hamilton area in 1876, both at the professional and amateur levels,
as indicated by the following brief items:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> “The famous
champions of Canada – the Maple Leaf club of Guelph – will play in this city
next Saturday afternoon. We feel certain that an immense crowd will witness the
game.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“As the Waterdown junior boys of the Eureka Base Ball
Club have been organized under the leadership of Master A. L. Robson, they are
prepared to accept a challenge from any club of boys under 15 years of age, in
the Dominion, to play a friendly game of base ball on their grounds on the 1<sup>st</sup>
of July, as they are so situated that they cannot go away from home on that
day, and they will play a return match at any time.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The proceedings at Hamilton Police Court during the
morning were entertaining as usual both for those who attend the police court for
entertainment, and equally of interest for readers of the Spectator in that
paper’s afternoon edition :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Tuesday June 20</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> BREACH OF BYLAW</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">George Helley was summoned for not putting a fence
around building material on the street, and placing a sidewalk around same.
Fined 30 dollars.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> DRUNKS</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ellen Quinn was picked up drunk on York street by P. C.
Fitzgerald. She was assessed $5 or forty days.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thos. Anderson was drunk at the G. W. R. depot, and was
arrested by P. C. Cornelius. He was fined $2.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> VAGRANCY</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">James Langmoore, Issac Gordon and Edwin Newcomb, were
arrested, as vagrants. The men, who were strong and able-bodied, told a story
that they had come to the city yesterday to look for work, but had not been
successful in finding any. They were fined $5 or 90 days each.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> THREATENING</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Patrick Corbett, sr., charge Patrick, jr., with
threatening him. Patrick, jr., was bound over to keep the peace in two sureties
of $50 each.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> REFUSED
TO PAY WAGES</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mrs. McAllister was charged by Nella Dixon with refusing
to pay her wages. She was ordered to pay a week’s wages and the costs.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Assault</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Arthur Arkel, a boy of about ten years, was arrested on
complaint of Mrs. Ainsworth with striking her little girl with a stone. Fined
$2. </span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-81890174278160295502012-06-18T15:09:00.000-07:002012-06-18T18:24:11.106-07:00June 19. 1876<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Saturday evening the Standards returned home from
their visit to Guelph and Toronto.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Hamilton Spectator. June 19, 1876</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was the first road trip of the season for the
Hamilton Standards, a trip both Guelph and Toronto. The Spectator carried
coverage of the games involved from the local newspapers in each city:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On account of the rain on Saturday, the game with the
Torontos was not finished, only five innings being played. When play was
stopped the Torontos were 2 runs ahead. The Standards speak in the highest
terms of the treatment which they received in Guelph, both from the President
(Mr. Sleeman) and members of the Maple Leaf Club, and the citizens generally. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Guelph <i>Herald </i>gives
the following account of the match in that town on Friday :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The match between the Standards of Hamilton and the
Maple Leafs of Guelph, played on Friday on the Maple Leaf grounds, being the
first match for the championship played in Guelph this season, exited
considerable interest, and there was consequently a good number of people on
the ground, many of them being ladies. When the Standard boys came on the field
, they were received with vociferous cheering, those present being evidently
being disposed to wish them well in the pending contest, and when, during the
game, the Standards made good play, which they did in most instances, if not throughout
the game, the spectators applauded them heartily, which was but just, for we
have seldom seen a young club, after showing such pluck as to play with such
clubs as London and Guelph, sustain the fight so creditably and persistently,
in the face of evident defeat, as the Hamilton boys did, and though we cannot
say that we wish they had been the victors, we do say that their gallant play
deserved a better return than we made, and but for the heavy batting of the
Maple Leafs, the score might have stood differently. Altogether we are bound to
say that it was a well-contested game, and we wish the Standards every success
in the future, believing as we do that the club has in it the material to give
some of the older clubs some hard rubs before very long. Considering the
circumstances, some very fine play was made on both sides, and had it not been
for the high wind, which at times would have been termed by nautical men a gale, preventing the fielders from judging
where the balls would fall, there would not have been as many errors as there
were.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (Final score Guelph 12, Standards 2)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the evening, Mr. Geo. Sleeman and the members of the
Maple Leaf club, entertained the Standards at the Royal Hotel, and the Guelph
brass band entertained them during the evening. Altogether a most agreeable
time was spent, and the Standards carry with them the warmest wishes of the
people of Guelph, on account of their gentlemanly demeanor and the plucky manner
in which they took their defeat.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following account of the playing at Toronto is from
this morning’s <i>Mail </i>:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“A more unsatisfactory day for outdoor sports than
Saturday could not well have been, raining as it did from early morning till
late in the evening. The match, therefore, between the Standards of Hamilton
and the Torontos was but a very partial success. Some four or five hundred
people were present, who sturdily sat out the whole match, in spite of the
atmospheric dampness. The two teams were known to be pretty evenly matched, and
under other circumstances, there would have been a good muster of lovers of the
ball and the bat to see an interesting game. The time appointed was three
o’clock, at which hour, with commendable punctuality the Hamilton nine were on
the field, but owing partly to the weather and the wet condition of the grass,
but more to the dilatoriness of the Torontos, the game was not called until
4:15. When play did commence, however, both clubs showed a praiseworthy desire
to compete the contest, at the risk, it is to be feared, of some severe colds.
The grass in the southwest corner being least in want of the mowing machine,
that portion was chosen, the result being more balls knocked over the field
than into the field.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Torontos commenced their sixth innings, but the
rain, which had been falli8ng almost without intermission, came on so heavily
that the umpire wisely decided to catch the match, leaving the Torontos the
winners be five to three.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The fielding of both teams, with one or two exceptions,
was very weak; the pitching, of Smith, for the Torontos was excellent, and the
catchers of both nines left nothing to be desired; but the pitching for the
Hamiltons was rather shay. The Standard nine are an active, light set of young
men, who should, in the course of time prove formidable antagonists. The Torontos
who only made their <i>debut </i> on Saturday week, contain the material for a
first class nine; but they require to play more together, and must practise
incessantly. Mr. Powers, of the Tecumseh club, of London, made a most
satisfactory umpire.”</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The militia unit of Hamilton which dealt with artillery,
the Hamilton Field Battery, announced on June 19, 1876 its intentions for a training
locations ::</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“We understand that the Battery goes into Camp on June
26<sup>th</sup>. Application has been made for the Crystal Palace grounds,
where the Battery will be in camp for ten days, when they will move to the
Beach for practise for a similar period. “</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sometimes, there was space available in the Spectator of
1876 for even the smallest of matters, as the following two items from the June
19, 1876 issue indicates:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The lady who took a purse from street car No. 14 on
east King street this morning stating that she would return it to the owner, is
requested to leave it either at the Spectator office or at the office of the
Street Railway Company. “</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Will the person who took the <i>wrong</i> hat in a mistake from Mr. Peace’s barber shop, Hughson
street, between five and six o’clock on Saturday, return it to Mr. Peace’s or
46 Hunter street west, and get the right one.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-43258251953146548122012-06-16T17:25:00.003-07:002012-06-16T17:28:47.608-07:00June 17, 1876<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Yesterday afternoon a party of gentlemen from this city had an excursion
to the Beach by the yacht, Mary Jane, for the purpose of testing Paine’s long
range shot cartridge.” </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Hamilton Spectator June 17, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was a new kind of cartridge for shot guns, and it had
just arrived in the city of Hamilton. Anxious to test the Paine’s Long Range
Cartridge, a group of prominent Hamilton sportsmen got together and made a day
of camaraderie and sport.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“To make the affair more interesting, a match had been
arranged and valuable prizes offered for competition. The match took place at
John Dynes’ hotel. And the result of the shooting was such as to prove that
Paine’s invention is quite as valuable as it is claimed to be. The target used
was a piece of inch board, 13 inches by 23 inches in size, and from the record
of the shooting at the different ranges the great advantage there is in the use
of the shot cartridge will be apparent to all sportsmen.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The invention consists
principally in combining the two halves of a longitudinally shot case of zinc,
a confining cord wound round the same. Upon leaving the gun, the cord will be
unwound by the current of air caused by the rapid motion of the case, after
which it will burst and its separate parts fall to the ground, leaving the
charge of shot free to perform their office. The cord being wound around the
case in short sections so as to come off at equal intervals, it will be seen
that, upon the number of pieces will depend the length of time consumed in
unwinding the same and liberating the charge of shot; and in correspondence
therewith will be the distance traversed by the Case before bursting, so that
by increasing or diminishing the number of cords a longer or short range will
be obtained. As it is intended that Case should not burst until within some 25
feet of the target, it is, of course, necessary to be the best success of the
sportsman that he exercise good judgment in calculating distance; for if he
shot a cartridge marked 75 yards at an object only 50 yards away, it would be
nearly equivalent to a rifle shot. But if he calculate his range will tolerable
accuracy, he may rely upon success , mas the Case will not fail to burst at its
appointed time and place.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The arrangements made for the shooting yesterday were
such that each marksman should fire two shots at each range. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The party enjoyed their trip very highly. After the
shooting all partook of supper at “The Poplars,” which, it is scarcely necessary
to say, was served in first-class style. The party arrived in the city about 11
p.m., well pleased with their trip, and thoroughly convinced that Paine’s long
range shot cartridge is one of the greatest sporting inventions of the day.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Also in the Spectator of
June 17, 1876 was the first of a series of articles newsworthy in terms of
announcing an upcoming event that many Hamiltonians would want to know all
about. But the articled were also shameless promotion for the event: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Every decade brings prominent to the surface genius of
the human family. Blood will tell where true genius lies, no matter what the
calling. The most wonderful caterer in the amusement line that has shown up in
the last few years is W. W. Cole, manager and sole proprietor of the late
successful New York and New Orleans Circus and Menagerie, now proprietor of the
largest show establishment ever conceived of, known as “W. W. Cole’s Great
Concorporation” – a brand new outfit, that has been quietly in course of
construction the past three years – getting a good ready for the Centennial
season. Mr. Cole, although quite young in years, has already a veteran’s head
on his shoulders, having secured capital sufficient to enable him to carry out
his ideas of magnitude and magnificence in show business. The Great
Concorporation embraces every kind of exhibition curiosity, novelty etc. ever
seen under canvas. A very important feature is a well-graded race track, 30
feet wide, eight times round making a full mile, so constructed that thorough
can race, with safety, make their best time. There will be trotting and walking
matches and racing of every conceivable kind. The enormous tent not only covers
a race track, but also accommodations for a double circus troupe and an immense
menagerie, aviary, museum, etc., etc. We advise our readers to “not stand on
the order of going, but go at once.” It will exhibit here on the 27<sup>th</sup>
June. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Similarly, an article
appeared concerning a rivalry between two local horse owners wishing to race their horses, but it was also the beginning
of a built up the event.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“It seems that matters are in such a shape now that the
much-talked of race between Owen Nowlan’s gelding St. Patrick, and R. Wilson’s
chesnut mare, is really going to take place. The date set for the race is
Thursday next, June 22<sup>nd</sup>. There has been considerable discussion as
to the distance to be trotted, but there is every prospect that this will be
settled satisfactorily to both parties. The $1000 a side stake money is in the
hands of Simon James the stake holder. Great interest attaches to this race
among the sporting fraternity, as both horses are known to be animals of good
speed and a close and interesting race may be expected. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (Since the above was
written we have learned that the race will positively eventuate on Thursday
next, good track and good day permitting, mile heats, best three in five. The
trot is exciting much attention among the sports of the city and promises to be
every keen and exciting.)”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Judge Sinclair, who had
very recently been appointed to the Bench at the Wentworth County Court House,
was honoured in a very special way on June 16, 1876 :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> “The members of the Bar of
Hamilton and Wentworth entertained His Honor Judge Sinclair at a dinner at the
Royal Hotel last evening. Mine host of the Royal catered to the company in a
most acceptable manner, and a very pleasant evening was spent in consuming
choice viands, which were garnished with all the exchange of courtesy and good
feeling characteristic of such occasions.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some more very positive news appeared concerning the
start of construction of the northern branch of the Hamilton and North Western Railway:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> “Mr. Thomas McDowell,
contractor for Division No. 1 of the Hamilton & North Western Railway,
started work yesterday at the east end of his section near the waterworks, with
a large force. They will have 1,000 feet ready for the ties this evening. We
are pleased to hear that Mr. McDowell is pushing forward the work so rapidly”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A very interesting encounter on the Market Square
earlier in the day received some detailed coverage in the late afternoon
edition of the Spectator: </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> “This morning shortly
before nine o’clock there was considerable excitement and amusement near the
corner of MacNab and Market street, occasioned by the efforts of several
policemen to arrest Tom Brick. It appears that Brick was up before the Police
Magistrate for some offense and a fine of $3 imposed. This occurred some time
ago, but up to this morning Brick had not troubled himself any about paying the
fine. He was in his cart attending to a job on MacNab street, when two police
officers approached him and asked him about paying the fine. Brick was
pugnacious and would give satisfaction. Seeing this, this policemen mounted the
the cart, when the driver, believing himself to be master of the situation
drove off up Market street, amid the cheers of a large crowd that had
collected. Before the cart had proceeded far another policeman appeared on the
scene, and jumping into the back of the cart and seizing Brick’s arms from
behind, succeeded in getting the reins out of his hands. He was then conveyed
to the police station, and on paying the old fine he was allowed to depart in
peace.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Last evening the members of the Field Battery turned
out in strong force and marched through the principal streets, headed by their
new band.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Hamilton
Spectator <span> </span><span> </span>June 16, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Friday June 16, 1876 was definitely a slow local news
day. The Field Battery on the march was worthy of attention in the press, but
even more so was the militia unit’s new band, and their appearance as they marched
in the falling light:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The men of the battery presented a very attractive
appearance, while the band, the members of <span> </span>which had each a small lamp burning on the
front of his cap, was the object of much attention. The band numbered
twenty-two members on the march last night, and their music was much admired.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Spectator of June 16, 1876 was filled with stories
not from the immediate Hamilton area, although it did pick up two items from
Dundas:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Dundas ‘Banner Items"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">NEARLY BURIED ALIVE – On Tuesday afternoon a Frenchman
named Sissons who was engaged extending the mains of the Gas company on King
street, was very nearly buried by the excavation he was working in. Fortunately
he was standing erect at the time, and his head and part of his body being left
uncovered, he made sufficient noise to attract attention from the houses close
by, and was relieved as soon as possible. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ACCIDENT – On Friday last, while Mr. Flatt, son of John
I. Flatt, Esq., of East Flamboro, was sitting on his wagon on a spring board,
the board slipped and he was pitched under the wheels of the wagon, one of
which passed over him and broke one of his legs below the knee. Drs. McMahon
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Proceedings at the Police Court were few in number:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There were four parties up for the above offence – Mrs.
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Moore and O’Neil 41 each and Fitzgerald, 50 cents.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>ASSAULT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Wm. Nicholson was charged with assault by John Hall.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An advertisement for the Ocean House touted the new
facility at the popular hotel on the Beach Strip near the Burlington Bay Canal:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Ocean House – Music Hall. This new and magnificent
Hall will accommodate two hundred persons dancing at the same time. There is
attached to the Hall large refreshment and ladies’ dressing rooms. Excursion
and dancing parties can arrange for the above, with or without music, admission
by tickets to be had at the Ocean House. W. A. Nevills, Manager. </span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-70928299464273071142012-06-14T15:53:00.001-07:002012-06-14T15:53:14.981-07:00June 15, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The summer night’s fete at Rock Bay was a complete
success.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator<span> </span>June 15, 1876 </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>After
considerable promotion in the press, the much-anticipated evening of fireworks,
rope walking, and music at Rock Bay was a well-attended and much appreciated:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The attendance was much larger than on the previous
occasion, besides the large crowds who crossed the bay by the steamers, a
considerable number drove over, while a great many pleasure boats were brought
into requisition. All present appeared to enjoy themselves highly. The display
of fireworks was very fine and quite worthy of Professor Hand, who furnished
them. Prof. Jenkins gave an exhibition of rope walking, performing a number of
astonishing feats in a manner which proved him to be no novice in the perilous
business. The Maple Leaf brass band was in attendance and added much to the general
enjoyment by their performances.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not to be outdone, the owners of the steamer Transit
also organized a special fireworks event on the bay:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“There will be an excursion around the bay tomorrow
(Friday) evening, per the steamer Transit, which promises to be an enjoyable
affair. The boat will be handsomely illuminated with Chinese lanterns and
Bengal lights, and during the evening, those on board will have an opportunity
of witnessing the most beautiful pyrotechnic display offered this season – a
grand flight of one hundred rockets at one time. The Maple Leaf brass band will
be in attendance. The Transit will leave her wharf at 7:30 p.m. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was a short item but very important:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Contractor Thomas McDowell has commenced work on
Division 1 in the vicinity of the Water Works. The division extends from the
city to the Beach, and the contractor is determined to push forward the work
with all possible dispatch.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The issue of the Hamilton Spectator on June 15, 1876
also carried the following brief items which gave a flavour of life in Hamilton
as spring was about to end and summer begin:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A subject of very general remark – the hot weather.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An ice wagon collapsed on James street yesterday. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Caledonia band play in Prince’s Square tomorrow
evening.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An immense drove of swine passed through the city this
morning.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Garden party at the residence of Mr. John Stuart
tomorrow evening.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And now the average small boy in defiance of parental
authority ducketh himself in the Bay. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On June 15, 1876, the Times issued its weekly edition
which contained some items that had appeared in the Daily Spectator, sometimes
in more depth, or with a different focus.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A very public funeral of an leader of the Loyal Orange
Association was reported in the Weekly Times:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Sunday afternoon, the remains of the late William
Stephenson, for many years a prominent member of the Orange Institution, were
interred in Burlington Cemetery. The brethren of the various lodges in the city
met in their lodge rooms at two o’clock, and then proceeded to the late
residence of the deceased. The body was dressed in the full regalia of the
order and placed inside of a handsome casket, trimmed with the silver emblems
of the order. After the arrival of the brethren at the house, they entered the
room and took a last farewell look of one who, in life, had sat with them in
their Lodge rooms for many years. The lid was then screwed down, and the corpse
carried into the hearse. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The bands played suitable mournful airs on the way to
the cemetery. The streets along the route were lined by an immense concourse of
people, and the funeral was one of the largest seen in the city for a long
time. The Rev. Canon Hebden read the solemn funeral service of the Church of
England at the grave, after which the brethren formed in a circle around the
grave, when Bro. S. Fuller, D. M., of 286, read the impressive service of the
Orange Order. The brethren then passed round, and each in turn, dropped a piece
of orange ribbon in the grave, and thus ended the last solemn rites and
respects of the Order to a departed friend.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another remarkable funeral was also covered in the issue
of the Weekly Times:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Saturday afternoon, at three o’clock, the last sad
rites were performed over the remains of the late Re. John McColl. Long before
that hour, the Central Presbyterian Church was crowded. Most of those present
were in mourning, and from the sad look on the countenances of all, it was
evident that it was no mere outward mourning. The church, pulpit platform,
organ, gaseliers, and the vacant chair were draped in black. On the right was a
beautiful broken column made of white flowers, and on the left, an anchor, with
the words, “Bible Class,” in darker flowers, written on it. This was the gift
of the Bible Class. Both of these beautiful floral offerings were the workmanship
of Mr. Townshend, the florist on the corner of Park and Vine.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before the service commenced, all the clergy, elders of
the church and friends, went to the house to take a last look at their deceased
pastor and friend. Shortly after three o’clock, the mournful procession began
to move from the Manse to the church. The pall-bearers were Messrs. Hugh Young,
Wm. Hendrie, George Rutherford, John Bell, Robert McKay and John M. Gibson. As
the solemn procession entered the church, the choir, who were all in deep
mourning, sang most feelingly “Palestrina.” As soon as the coffin, on which
some lovely wreaths of flowers were placed, had been laid on the catafalque
prepared, the Rev. A. Grant, the Moderator of the Hamilton Presbytery, who
presided, commenced the solemn service by reciting a portion of the 90<sup>th</sup>
Psalm, which was afterwards sung by the choir. The Rev. L.C. Fraser of Thorold
read a portion of the 15<sup>th</sup> chapter of the 1<sup>st</sup> Corinthians.
The Rev. Alexander Dawson, of Beamsville, led in prayer, in which earnest and
affectionate petitions were offered up on behalf of the widow, children and
friends of the deceased, and also on behalf of the congregation. The Rev. D. H.
Fletcher, of the Macnab Street Presbyterian Church, was called upon to give a
short address. The Rev. gentleman said :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have been asked to say a few words on this solemn
occasion. Although there are older members of the Presbytery present who have
been most intimate with our deceased brother, there is, perhaps, a propriety in
my saying a few words, for I have known, more or less intimately our departed
friend for the long period of eighteen years. I have been closely associated
with him in various departments of Christian work during the last four years. I
have enjoyed the privilege of speaking to him of our Blessed Saviour, and of
praying with him during the few days it pleased the Lord to spare him to us
after his return home. This is not the time to speak of the valuable services
which the deceased rendered as a member of the Hamilton Presbytery. The members
of that body know and appreciate the faithfulness, wisdom, and diligence which
characterised him in the discharge of the duties committed to him. The afflicting
hand of God hath been severely laid upon us as a Presbytery during this year.
The removal by death of Mr. Rennelson and Mr. McColl so soon after one another
hath made a sad blank in our number. We bow in humble submission to God’s will
and pray that this afflictive dispensation may be sanctified to us all. I will
not speak of the labours of our friend as a pastor of the large congregation
which worship in this sanctuary. The members of the congregation know better
than I do with what faithfulness, affection and success, he discharged his
numerous pastoral duties; neither will I speak of the willingness, readiness
and ability with which he responded to the calls upon him by the various
benevolent institutions of this city, suffice it to say that he was always
ready to oblige and benefit his fellow citizens. I shall content myself in
saying a few words about the close of his life, which to those who loved him
were beautiful and comforting. Last fall, on the advice of his physician, he
left us to spend the winter in the milder climate of California. Although the
communications received from him from time to time were far from being
encouraging, yet we fondly hoped the Lord in His great mercy, would bring him
back to us greatly restored to health and strength. But it hath pleased Him who
doeth all things wisely and well, to bring him back to us to die in our midst,
not to labour again in His vineyard, but to pass away from scene of his labours
to that blessed rest that remaineth for the sons of holy toil. I saw him soon
after reaching home. He then gave me to understand that he felt sure his life
was ebbing fast away, that there was no hope of ultimate recovery. Among other
things he said, “This will be a sad disappointment to my dear people, who have
been so kind to me. I should feel thankful if God would enable me to preach the
Gospel to them again, but he hath evidently ordered otherwise. Well, there are
no disappointments with God. His plans and His ways are all perfect. I wish you
to speak to me of heart religion and the wonderful love of Jesus.” After
praying together, he said, “Come and see me as often as you can and speak to me
of Jesus and His love. On Monday morning, after giving him at his own request,
the substance of the sermons I preached on the preceding Sabbath, he said, “O
brother, what a wonderful privilege it is to preach the gospel of God’s grace.
O what honour, God confers on feeble imperfect men when he calls them to be
co-workers, together with him, in saving men. I should rejoice to preach the
gospel of God’s love again, but, let God’s will be done. His will is the best.
Death hath made sad blanks among our dear friends since I went away. It is
still at work. Oh, what a glorious reunion awaits the friends of Jesus in the
home above, where there shall be no death and no parting! Early on Wednesday
morning, while we were praying with him, pleading with the Blessed Master to
strengthen and comfort His servant in the valley of the shadow of death, he
fell asleep in Jesus. There is one remark which I wish to say, and it is this,
during my interviews with our departed friend, I felt that his long illness was
greatly blessed to him – that in his affliction he was greatly sanctified, grew
much in heavenly-mindedness, ripened for glory. It is sad to see one,
comparatively young in years, taken away in the midst of his numerous cares,
usefulness and responsibility, and leave a sad blank behind. It is sad to see
the reaper laying down his sickle and called home to rest, while the harvest is
ripe and heaviest and the day requires every worker to be up and doing. To us,
the death of these seems strange and mysterious, but to God, it is precious,
and we could draw aside the mysterious veil which conceals the future, we
should see that God hath made everything beautiful in its season, and that no
believer dies an untimely death. While we express our tenderest sympathy with
the sorrowing relatives and friends in their sad loss, we bid them remember
that their cup of affliction is mingled with mercy, inasmuch as God hath
brought back their beloved one to die in his own home, surrounded by his
nearest and dearest friends. We bid them feel thankful that they are not let to
mourn as those with no hope. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A hymn was sung, and after that the Rev. Dr. Topp, of
Toronto, a former pastor of Mr. McColl, delivered a very feeling address. The
Rev. J. C. Smith, of St. Paul’s Church, closed the mournful service with the
benediction. The funeral <i>cortege </i>then passed down the aisle. As the
procession moved out, the organist, Prof. Garret, the organist, played “The
Dead March in Saul” in the most touching and thrilling manner, and a glance
round the large church showed that there was scarcely a dry eye in the
building. On reaching the cemetery, the Rev. J. C. Smith led in prayer, and the
mortal remains of the Rev. John McColl were consigned to their last home.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His Worship the Mayor, A. T. Wood, Esq., M.P. B.
Charlton, Esq, John Winer, Esq., and a large number of prominent citizens were
also present, and the funeral was one of the largest ever seen in the city.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There was a major transition in the Wentworth County
Court with the welcome<span> </span>and installation
of a new chief judge. The lengthy Weekly Times account of the occasion also
included an indictment against the City of Hamilton:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To His Honour James Shaw Sinclair, Esquire, Judge of the
County Court of Wentworth :</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The members of the legal profession practising in the
County of Wentworth desire to take this opportunity, at the opening of County Court
and General Sessions, to extend to your Honour a cordial welcome, and to tender
to you their congratulations upon your appointment to the Bench.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the same time, they feel that they must congratulate
themselves, and the County of Wentworth upon their good fortune in the
selection which has been made of a Judge so fully capable of doing justice to
the varied and important interests which have to be dealt with in the exercise
of the jurisdiction of the civil and criminal courts over which you now preside.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The additional duties and responsibilities which have of
late years been thrown upon the Judges of the County Courts render the position
you now occupy as the judicial head of the local courts of the City of Hamilton
and County of Wentworth almost, if not quite, equal in difficulty to that of a
Judge of the Superior Courts; and we trust that the Government may duly
appreciate the value of the services which the Judge of this very large
district is called upon to perform.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The short experience which the Bar has had of your
Honour’s judicial administration has given them the highest satisfaction, and
while your impartiality, learning and ability have earned the respect of the
profession and the public, your courtesy and consideration under all
circumstances have won their hearty good will, and they confidently hope that
the cordial good feeling which now exists towards your Honour on the part of
both the public and the profession will continue unbroken.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The members of the
profession will deem it both a duty and a pleasure to render to your honour
every assistance in their power in the discharge of your onerous and responsible
duties, and trust that they may always be found ready to do their share of the
work and that by united forbearance and consideration they may relieve you as
far as possible from all difficulties that are not necessarily involved in the
decision of the cases which come before you.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>On behalf of the legal
profession of the County.<span> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>M.
O’Reilly, Q.C.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Thos.
Robertson, Q.C.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>F.
Mackelcan, Q.C.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>E.
Martin, Q.C.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Committee</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The Hon. John Hillyard
Cameron, Q.C., who was present, desired to add a few words. He said that, as
head of the Law Society of Ontario, he congratulated Judge Sinclair on his
elevation to the Bench. He felt happy that he should be here by accident to
listen to the testimonial just read. He had been associated with Mr. Sinclair
for some time as a Bencher, and he felt proud that he should be elevated to
such a high position, inasmuch as he was qualified to fill it.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>REPLY</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>In reply, Judge Sinclair
said :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><i>Mr. O’Reilly and
Gentlemen of the Wentworth Bar :</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I thank you sincerely for the kind expressions of good
will in the address which you have presented me, and I receive with much
pleasure the kindly welcome which you gave me, and your congratulations on my
elevation to the Bench, on the opening of my first sittings of the County Court
and General Sessions in this County.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am pleased to know that my appointment has given hat
satisfaction which you express: and it shall be my earnest desire to maintain
that confidence in my administrations of law in this county, which, in the
address you have just read, you say already exists. As you remark, the
interests which I have in charge<span> </span>are
varied and important, and, so far as in me lies, I would strive to consider
these interests by a fair, and I hope, an impartial administration of law The
duties of a Judge of this County, no doubt, are onerous but, if spared my
health, I hope to be able to fully perform them.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am glad to know that my judicial career so far has
given the satisfaction you mention, and if my conduct on the Bench has been
characterised by those virtues you speak of, it is to me a pleasing
satisfaction to receive such a commendation from gentlemen, among whom are so
many lawyers as are to be found at the Bar of the County of Wentworth. I am
also glad to know that courtesy, which should always be the characteristic of
those in a judicial position to the profession and the public, has been
experienced at my hands. I shall strive to continue it, and by a kindly
forbearance on the part of the Bench and Bar, the cordial good feeling which
now exists between us will, I hope, continue. I feel doubly pleased that the
Hon. John Hillyard Cameron, the head of the Canadian Bar – a Bar which ranks
first among the nations of the world – should pay me so high a compliment, and
I thank him most cordially for the kind words he has said, regarding me. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Sessions then adjourned till tomorrow at 9.30.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">INDICTMENT AGAINST THE CITY</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following is the indictment against the city of
Hamilton on account of the cells and for which a true bill was found this
morning:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">COUNTY OF WENTWORTH, TO WIT</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The jurors for our Lady the Queen, upon their oath,
present that, from a date prior to the 28<sup>th</sup> day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1873, there was, and yet is, a certain lock up house, situate
on King William street, in the city of Hamilton, in the said county, used by
the police officers and other authorities of the Municipal Corporation of the
city of Hamilton as a and for a lock up house or place of confinement for the
detention and imprisonment for not more than ten days, under any by-law of the
Council of the said city, and of persons detained for examination on a charge
of having committed any offence, and of persons detained for transmission to
any common jail or house of correction, either for trial, or in the execution
of any sentence, and that the said lock up on the 28<sup>th</sup> day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1876, and continually afterwards until the day of
inquisition, was and is in a foul, noxious and unwholesome state for want of
due reparation, cleansing and amendment of the same, so that prisoners and
persons placed therein in the course of administration of the law for any of
the purposes aforesaid during the time last aforesaid, could not remain therein
without great danger to their lives and injury to their health, to the great
damage and common nuisance of any of Her Majesty’s liege subjects placed
therein in the course of the administration of the law for any of the purposes
aforesaid, and that the Corporation of the City of Hamilton in the said County
of Wentworth, the said lock up house as aforesaid, so, aforesaid, being foul,
noxious and unwholesome, ought to repair, cleanse and amend when and so often
as it should and shall be necessary.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>B.
B. Osler, Q. C.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Knights Templar event which had been reported in the
Spectator during the previous also was covered in the Weekly Times with some
additional detail:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Thursday, the Knights Templar commandery, No. 1, of
Detroit, arrived at the station on their homeward journey. They were met there
by Right Worshipful Brothers Brierley, D. D. G. M.; E. Mitchell, P. D. D. G. M.
;<span> </span>J. J. Mason, Grand Secretary; Hugh
Murra, P. G. J. W.; V. W. Bro. W. T. Munday, F. G. Assistant Secretary; and
other Masons of the city, with the band of the 13<sup>th</sup> Battalion. The
meeting was a most cordial one. A procession was formed at the station, the
ladies of the party being driven in cabs, accompanied by several of our leading
citizens. The 13<sup>th</sup> Band followed, and a number of the Lodges of the
city were represented in the procession. Garner’s Flint City Band headed the
Knights, and, with their very handsome uniform, presented a really fine
appearance. “The Knights Templar,” in their cocked hats, black coats and pants,
and handsome accoutrements, looked extremely well, and the manner in which they
had been drilled, as shown by their different manoeuvres, called forth loud
expressions of praise. The route taken from the depot was up Stuart street to
Bay; along Bay to King, down King and around the Gore, where after a short halt
in front of the fountain near the College, they marched up John street as far
as Prince’s Square, then along Main and down James to the Mechanics’ Hall. Here
the Hamilton Masons opened out and saluted their brethren as they entered the
hall, the band meanwhile playing. About an hour was spent in the hall, and the
Knights expressed themselves charmed with the building and arrangements. Time
being short, the procession was reformed and a start was made for the station.
A large crowd accompanied the Knights and the platform was thronged. While
waiting for the train, the bands played alternatively, and a good opportunity
was given to judge of the comparative merits. The American band is an excellent
one, but, without flattery, we can say the 13<sup>th</sup> Band held its own. It
would be discourteous to our visitors to say anything else. The special train,
with the Knights and their friends on board – under the special care of Mr.
Domville, Locomotive Superintendent, G. W. R., Mr. Edgar, General Passenger
Agent, G. W. R., Mr. Vardy, and the Conductor, Thomas Meston – drawn by two
engines, moved off amidst running cheers, when the 13<sup>th</sup> Band played
“Auld Lang Syne” and “Yankee Doodle.””</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally two stories relating to fire events in Hamilton
in June 1876 received attention in the Weekly Times:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Some time during the early part of this week, the
Italian Warehouse, on James street, had a very narrow escape from being burned
to the ground. The facts are briefly these: Mr. Sewell’s employees are in the
habit of cleaning the counters in the establishment with oiled rags, and on
Saturday night last, as usual, placed the rags in a small box in the cupboard
or small room underneath the stairway. In the box, which fortunately was
closely covered, was also a pint bottle of turpentine, and a quantity of
linseed oil. The rags ignited, burned through the bottom, and half through the
shelf on which it had been placed, and neither the turpentine nor oil took
fire: if that had, a disastrous conflagration might have resulted, because
below the shelf was a large can full of coal oil. It is thought that the fire
was extinguished for want of air. It is very fortunate that matters turned out
as they did, and if the occurrence will have the effect of preventing others
from leaving combustible and inflammable materials and fluids in such close
proximity, it will not have happened in vain.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Saturday evening, between7 and 8 o’clock, a tramp
called at the residence of Mrs. Henry Beasley, 81 George street, rang the bell,
which was answered by the servant, and demanded something to eat. The girl said
all they had was bread and butter, which the fastidious gentleman refused to
take, but said he preferred bread and meat. The girl said there was no meat
cooked. The cool scoundrel threatened in the most blasphemous language that if
bread and meat were not given him, he would burn the house down. The door was
closed and locked immediately. About twenty minutes later, the neighbours warned
Mrs. Beasley that the wood shed was on fire, and it was discovered that the
wood had been saturated with coal oil. Fortunately there was plenty of water on
hand, and, after considerable exertions, the fire was put out. The man who
undoubtedly did the deed is about 5 feet 10 inches, hair cut close to the head,
sandy whiskers, and a fresh scar on one of his cheeks. He wears a dilapidated
overcoat and a worn out hat. It is to be hoped the scoundrel will be caught.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-41902427217558888672012-06-13T09:59:00.003-07:002012-06-13T09:59:18.074-07:00June 14, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“This
morning our reporter interviewed an Indian from the Reserve who is attending
the sessions here as to the whereabouts of the Youngs”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator June 14, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
escaped, condemned murders, the Young brothers, were still on the loose. As it
was firmly believed that the Youngs could well try to hide in the immediate
area, <span> </span>Spectator reporter interviewed a
man from the Six Nations reserve who was in the city about the matter:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“He firmly believes that the escaped murderers
are still in the country, and asserts that at no distant day they will make
themselves heard as the chiefs of an organized gang of desperados. No effort is
being made to find them, and the sheriff of the county appears to be perfectly
indifferent as to whether the Youngs are recaptured or not. In the States if a
man steals $3,000 and escapes, the sheriff has photographs of the man attached
to posters, giving an account of the crime and a description of the criminal’s
personal appearance. These posters are distributed among the police officers of
the States and Canada, so that it is hard for a man to pass undetected. It was
this dodge that secured the capture of Schoolby, the celebrated express robber,
in this city some time ago. The sheriff of Haldimand has made no such attempts
in the case of two of the most important escapes that ever have occurred in
this country. The very idea that two escaped murderers under the sentence of
death should be at large in the country is terrifying to some and incomprehensible
to others, and that there should be no obvious attempt to capture shows a very
lamentable state of things in our courts of justice. The Government has
certainly offered a reward of $1,000 for these men, and the sheriff has added
half as much more, but what inducement is this for a man to risk his life in
searching for such desperate criminals? Why not pay two or three shrewd
detectives so much a week to work up a clue and then double the reward for
their capture? Something must be done to recapture these men as the country is
becoming impatient and the people in the neighbourhood of Cayuga and Brantford
more especially. The poor Indians are beginning to dread the highway at night. “</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Spectator, ever vigilant about matters which the Health Inspector should deal
with had two to suggest in the issue of that newspaper dated June 14, 1876:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The drain
carrying the slops and excrement from the Lunatic Asylum empties from the side
of the mountain into this city, causing an undesirable nuisance in the
neighbourhood of the drain. This is a subject for the Health Inspector.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On the vacant
lot on the corner of Park and Maiden Lane street there are large heaps of
rubbish, etc. thrown there by persons living in the neighbourhood, from which
comes a most offensive smell, and is dangerous to the health of the
neighbourhood. Will the Health Inspector see to its removal at once?”</span></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally,
the Spectator carried a lengthy account of a court case involving some
individual from Dundas who were trying to get around the liquor license issues
of the day: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Yesterday
afternoon at three o’clock, the trial of Mr. Charles Moss, the Steward of the
Dundas Union Club, charged by Mr. McMonies, Inspector of Licenses for North
Wentworth, with selling liquor contrary to the law, took place in the Police
Court before Mr. Cahill. A large number of the members of the Club were
present. Mr. B. B. Osler, Q. C., County Attorney, prosecuted; Mr. Frank
Robertson appeared for the defendant.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Evidence</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">James McMonies, sworn: Am Inspector of Licenses for the
North Riding of Wentworth; the defendant lives in the riding; know his
premises; they were formerly occupied as a public house for the sale of
liquors; he appeared for a license for the present year; I inspected his
premises; he had all the appliances for the sale of liquor; I found my charge
because on visiting the place on the 30<sup>th</sup> of May I found the
premises were changed somewhat; the bar had been changed into a reading room;
on my first visit I found no person in; I came back in half an hour and found
no person in the house; I came back a third time and found no person in; I went
out and called on Mr. Mackenzie, the secretary of the club to whom I stated my
business, and he invited me in; we walked through the reading room and at the
far end I found a recess in which I found champagne bottles, bottles of brandy
and other liquors; I am not positive whether or not there was a counter; Mr.
Mackenzie asked me what I would take; I took a pop and he took ale; a lady
served us who I took to be Mrs. Moss; I can’t say that I saw any money paid for
it; we went into the sitting room, when some other parties came in, among them
Mr. Thos. Hatt, who called for drinks for the crowd; I took a glass of beer,
and the rest took cigars; I did not see any money paid for the cigars or
drinks; the same lady served the refreshments; this was on the same premises
which the defendant occupied and for which he applied for a license.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cross-examined by Mr. Robertson – I went on the invitation
of Mr. Mackenzie; I found myself in a reading room; I walked through that into
a little bar; the pop was handed to me; the recess might have been an ordinary
sideboard; when I met Mr. Mackensie I told him that my business was to look
after the Club House, and then he invited me in and treated me; I only saw the
lady who waited on me once before when I inspected the house; she was not at
the sideboard when I went in but came when called; did not see the defendant at
all; when Mr. Hatt came in, he said he was a member of the club and called for
drinks.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To Mr. Osler. There was no sign outside; there is no
other club house in my district.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Charles Moss sworn : Up to the first day of this year, I
kept a saloon and billiard room on the premises I own on King street, Dundas, and
on the premises on which I now live; It was a licensed saloon; I was an
applicant for a license this year; the license was refused; I still occupy and
own the premises; I do not continue to sell liquor; I serve liquors to parties
in that house; after the first of May I returned my stock of liquor to Mr. R.
T. Wilson; I did not buy it back from him, the club bought it back; the liquor
never really left the premises; it was measured and priced by one of Mr.
Wilson’s men; Wilson took the liquor for a debt I owed him; the secretary of
the club bought the liquor I think for the same amount Wilson paid for it; some
of the furniture in the house belongs to me and some of it to the club; my wife
and I serve liquor to the club; it is served when called on by members and it
is paid for; strangers drink there when brought in by members of the club.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cross-examined by Mr. Robertson – I occupy the premises
as usual; when my license was refused I was indebted to Mr. Wilson for $2000
and he took my stock as a valuation; I was released and the debt was
transferred to the Club a short time afterwards; I did not in anyway take part
in the buying of the liquor back by Mr. Mackenzie; the old counter is used for
holding papers and books; the old refrigerator is used as a sideboard to hold
the liquors; the club was organized about the 11<sup>th</sup> of May; it was
before that date that I returned the liquor to Mr. Wilson; I am there as
Steward of the Club; I receive a salary of $2 a day for my services, and $300 a
year for the rest of the premises; it was shortly after the club was organized
that I moved the bar back; no one but members pay for anything; when liquor is
paid for, suppose four drinks, he gives me twenty cents, and I give him a
cheque for that amount, which he deposits in a box, the key of which is held by
the secretary; the secretary takes out the checks, counts them and puts down
the money in the cash book, charging it as money received by me, and hands me
back the checks which I use over again; I own no liquors in that place; if I
don’t take in my wages and my rent I suppose the club would make it up among
themselves; the bargain was made with Mr. Gwynne, Mr. Wink, Mr. Walker, Mr.
Mackenzie and others; there is a written agreement, but I have not got it with
me; if I had received a license, I do not know that the organization of the
club would have taken place; all the money I have received so far has gone into
my pocket; Mr. Mackenzie collects the entrance fee ($1) and the yearly
subscription ($1); we have rules governing the club; if a stranger is proposed
by a member, and seconded by another, and pays 50 cents, he is a member for one
week, but if he is not balloted for at the expiration of that term, he is no
longer a member.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cross-examined by Mr. Robertson - The Club has regular
meetings every week; I paid some accounts for the Club; we have not come to a
settlement as yet; I keep all I get until the Club demands it.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This closed the case for the Crown. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">DEFENSE</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Geo. Mackenzie, sworn : Am Secretary <span> </span>and Treasurer of the Dundas Union Club; the
document handed to me is the Constitution of the Club; (Mr. Robertson read the
Constitution) I bought the liquor for the Club from Mr. Wilson; Mr. Moss had
nothing whatever to do with making the bargain; the liquor belongs to the Club,
and is charged to the Club; no one is allowed to buy liquor except members; Mr.
Moss is there in the capacity of steward; we give him $2 a day and $300 a year
for the rent of his premises; when we have a settlement the steward is
accredited for the money in his possession; there is a written agreement with
Mr. Moss, which is in Dundas; in the first ballot, there were admitted 73
members; only 19 paid their dues, of which Mr. Hall is not one; on the second
ballot, 20 were elected, of which 5 were paid; and on the third and last ballot
12 were elected, of which one paid; the liquor was taken over from Wilson’s for
the exact amount of Wilson’s account against Moss, and an error of $2 on Moss’
account was taken off when the liquor was transferred.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>This closed the defense.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. Robertson pointed out
that the Steward had not been selling his own liquor but the property of the
Club, which had been purchased by the Club, the liquor is delivered to them by
the Steward as their servant, who receives money for it as their servant, and
is accountable to them for it as their servant.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. Osler said the
evidence showed that the organization was a mere subterfuge, or evasion of the
law; it had only a capital of the clear sum of $12, and yet this organization
pays a steward $2 a day, $300 a year rent, and makes the bold purchase of $200
worth of liquor – on the capital of $12.00. This Club differs from Clubs in the
city which are substantial. They are not organized on the ruins of a saloon.
Mr. Moss has organized a transparency, and if it will hold water, then the
license had better be done with. No club can give a Steward power to buy or
sell liquor, wholesale or otherwise, without a license, hence the Steward is
acting on his own responsibility, and is guilty of an infraction of the law.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. Robertson contended
that fraud must be proved by the party alleging it.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>His Worship believed that
an infraction of the law had been committed, and fined Mr. Moss the sum of $40
and costs. He remarked that the case could be heard before a higher tribunal.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-59331561267755135872012-06-12T09:31:00.000-07:002012-06-12T09:31:03.242-07:00June 13, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Bradley
and Flatt’s enormous raft, containing over $75,000 worth of square timber,
leaves this port tomorrow morning for Quebec. “</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Hamilton Spectator<span> </span>June 13, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other than
a final reference to the major rafting effort of the past few months on the
bay, the June 13, 1876 issue of the Hamilton Spectator was dominated by stories
about crime and criminals in the city and vicinity.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Out
Jerseyville way, a robbery was interrupted in progress and the perpetrator was
taken to the jail on Barton street, which was mandated for city and county
criminals:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Sunday
morning an Indian was committed to the county jail in this city on a charge of
committing a robbery in Jerseyville. On Saturday night, a Mr. Obed Howell, of
Jerseyville, shortly after retiring, was awakened by a noise downstairs, and on
going into the parlour, was surprised at finding a strapping Indian there, who
with an axe and club was preparing for an attack on the safe which stood in the
corner. Mr. Howell tackled the Indian and taken him taken before Mr. Sexton, a
Justice of the Peace, who committed him to Hamilton jail, where he arrived
early on Sunday morning.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That
aboriginal man probably encountered the subject of the following item:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“There is
no individual name since the days of John Henry Livingstone, that appears so
often in the Police Calendar as the above. He and his wife and the miserable
crowd who live in their neighbourhood are constantly in trouble, and almost
constantly before the Police Magistrate, charged with drunkenness, disorderly
conduct or assault. They are always drunk when they come to the Police Court,
and are very seldom sober when they are out of it. This morning Searles was
sent to jail for assaulting Mrs. Fink and destroying her property, and there
will be more quiet in the neighbourhood of the Searles estate, for at least the
next 30 days.” </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As reprehensible as Searles was, even he was outdone in
rascality by the man described at length in the following:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Perhaps there is no character in Corktown so much
dreaded, and in reality, so much to be feared, as Wm. Thornton, <i>alias </i>Poney
Spriggs, the subject of this sketch. He is a man of powerful frame, broad
shouldered and well knit, a small bullet head covered with short bristly hair,
a low retreating forehead, piggish eyes, flat nose, heavy jaws, dull, sensuous
mouth, swollen and discoloured by the use of tobacco, a big brutal neck, and a
shuffling gait, is the make up of a man who has never been known to do an act
of humanity, and who is quite capable of doing the most brutish and cruel
things. In days gone by, Poney was the bully of Corktown; peaceable citizens
shrank from him as from a reptile on the sidewalk. The rowdies of the city
either cultivated his friendship or kept aloof from him altogether. Everyone
shunned Poney, and perhaps it was as well for them. During the last ten years,
Poney has been convicted of thirty-five crimes, including some of the worst –
rape, arson, robbery, house-breaking, and murderous assault, and has served
terms of imprisonment for each. At the Fall Assizes he was tried on the charge
of brutally assaulting a poor wretch whose name does not now occur to our
reporter, and disfiguring him badly. The Chief of police made out a record of
his crimes, and pointed out to Judge Burton, who presided, the necessity of
having Poney withdrawn from society. Judge Burton, with remarkable leniency,
only sentenced Poney to six months in jail. He had been but a short time
released from durance vile when he commenced to show his hand in Corktown once
more. He commenced his antics on Saturday evening by entering a house occupied
by a man named Egan and his mother, an old and decrepit woman , who is not only
blind, but deaf. He struck the woman in the mouth, and when the poor creature
was lying on the floor he kicked her savagely on the ribs. The woman cried
murder, and her son who was sleeping on the floor was in the act of rising to
defend her, but had hardly gained his feet when he was knocked down and
brutally beaten. Flushed with victory he entered another house, turned the
inmates out, smashed the stove, and threw the tea kettle threw the window.
Being somewhat exhausted, and as it was too late to conquer other world, he
went to rest. In the morning, early, he opened the campaign by throwing stones
at a young man named Canary. Canary, not sufficiently appreciating this,
stepped across the street, and put a head on him, to use a fighting phrase.
Canary followed the matter up by having Poney arrested for assault.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-28731139511418071382012-06-11T16:00:00.003-07:002012-06-12T09:32:45.825-07:00June 12, 1876<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span lang="EN-GB">“On Saturday afternoon, the
match game of baseball between the Tecumsehs of London and the Standards of
this city, came off on the Crystal Palace grounds.”</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator June 12, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The game had been rained out and postponed twice and
possibly that had an effect on the gate. Those who did make their way to ball
park off King street west probably regretted that decision.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> “The attendance
was not as large as it ought to have been, still there were about 900 people on
the ground, who seemed to take a deep interest in the game. There were a number
of ladies on the ground who showed their appreciation of manly sports by
watching the game closely. The weather was very sultry and must have tried the
muscle and pluck of the players to the full extent. The playing throughout was
all one-sided, and therefore not so interesting as it otherwise might have
been. Although the field of the Standards was splendid, they could not strike
the balls which Goldsmith gave, while the catcher never let a ball past
him. The Standards were well encouraged
by their friends, who cheered them vociferously when they made a good play.
Myers catching deserves special mention. In his position at left field, he made
four beautiful catches on the run and fielded in nice style. McMullen, the
short stop, muffed and fumbled several balls, but redeemed his character by
making some nice play, especially in catching a hot one from Dinnen. Ennis’
pitching, and Fairburn’s catching were creditable. In fact, the latter’s
catching was fully equal to Powers, of the Tecumsehs. During the third innings
an accident happened which threw a cloud over the game and rather discouraged
the Standards. McLean struck a high foul which promised to fall midway between
the home plate and first base. Ennis, Fairburn and Crofton tried for it, and
rushed together, striking violently, Crofton’s cheek bone being smashed in by
Fairburn’s brow. Both fell senseless to the ground. Fairburn soon recovered,
but Crofton lay still upon the ground, his eyes staring and his lips covered
with froth. He was carried into the shade where restoratives were applied, and
in about half an hour he was restored to sensibility. Dr. Leslie was sent for,
who had him conveyed to the caretaker’s place on the grounds, where it was
found that his jaw was broken. He was too badly injured to be removed to his
home. About dark, he fell asleep, and yesterday was somewhat better. Fears of a
concussion of the brain are no longer entertained. A young man named Hermiston
took Crofton’s pace on 1<sup>st</sup> base and played the remainder of the game
without an error. Mr. Latham of the Maple Leaf club of Guelph umpired the game
to the dissatisfaction of the friends of the Standards, who believed that he
did not give the boys a fair chance, in calling strikes on them when they did
not deserve it.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Spectator’s continuing promotion of the Rock Bay
resort continued with the following article and advertisement concerning a very
special upcoming evening at the lovely spot at the head of the harbour:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Wednesday evening there
is to be another grand summer night’s fete and promenade concert at Rock Bay
pleasure grounds. Prof. Hand will be on hand with one of the grandest displays
of fireworks ever given in Canada.
Prof. Jenkins, the Canadian Blondin, will also be present, and will perform
some of his daring feats in rope walking. The music will be supplied by the
Maple Leaf brass band, and facilities will be afforded for dancing. The first
entertainment of this description held at Rock Bay
this season was a complete success, and the extensive preparations that have
been made for this one on Wednesday evening justify the anticipation that it
will be greatly superior. The steamers Florence,
Transit and D. Bowen will make trips every half hour during the evening.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> For particulars see advertisement in
this issue.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (Advertisement)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rock</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Bay</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Pleasure Grounds</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">SECOND GRAND SUMMER NIGHT’S</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">FETE AND PROMENADE CONCERT !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Will Take
Place</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> in the above grounds</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Wednesday Ev’ng, June 14<sup>th</sup></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Prof. W. Hand begs to announce to the public generally of
Hamilton and neighbourhood that he has made arrangements to give a GRAND
PYROTECHNIC FETE accompanied with Balloon Ascents, on the above date, when
nothing will be wanting on his made to make it the grandest display ever given
in the Dominion. The Maple Leaf Brass Band, Prof. Stares leader, Prof. Hand has
secured the services of Prof. Jenkins, the Canadian Blondin, who is
acknowledged by the press to be the best rope performer in the world, and
challenges the world for his equal. Mr. Hand will introduce a grand
representation of Niagara Falls
in fire. The FIREWORKS will consist of 112 pieces, including grand set pieces,
fiery pigeons, rockets, shells, mines, maroons etc. The concluding piece will
be accompanied by a flight of 100 colored rockets at one time, being the
grandest sight ever witnessed. There will also be an ascent of 20 balloons,
with fireworks and other novelties attached. Novel race between a pig and an elephant.
The grounds will be lighted with Chinese lanterns. Come and see Prof. Jenkins
crossing the Niagara Falls
on fire. Refreshments will be provided on the grounds at reasonable rates.
Strict order and decorum will be maintained. Parties are requested to retain
the check they receive at the gate, as Mr. Hand has made arrangements with the
proprietors of the ground, in case of unfavourable weather, to open the grounds
on the next evening, when parties having checks will be admitted free; and any
person or persons found on the grounds without a check will be prosecuted
according to law. The steamers Florence,
Transit, and D. Bowen will make trips every half hour during the evening. Fares
(including admission to the grounds) 25 cts. Parties not holding boat checks
will be charged 25 cts. To the grounds. The steamer D. Bowen will carry
passengers to and from Wellington
Square and Rock Bay
and back for 40 cts. (including admission to the grounds). Dancing will take
place at the close of the fireworks, in the large ball room attached to the
building, for which a first-class quadrille band has been engaged. No extra
charge for ballroom. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Tickets can be had at all the principal stores and hotels
in the city.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">WM. HAND, Head street, Hamilton.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">God Save the Queen.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The last item of note in the June 12,
1876 issue of the Spectator was brief, but it concerned the beginning of a
long-awaited project:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Work was commenced on the Hamilton and North Western
railway, upon the land of M. Benjamin Eager, at Wellington Square, by J. D. MacDonald,
contractor for division Nos. 3, 4 and 5. The same contractor will have a force
at work between 12 mile Creek and Milton on Wednesday.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-88950184619761618542012-06-09T14:26:00.003-07:002012-06-09T14:26:51.545-07:00June 10, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Last evening
the steamer Florence carried a large excursion party on a moonlight excursion
to the Beach.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator<span> </span>June 6, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After much
anticipation, the moonlight excursion on the bay finally took place, and was a
great success:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The boat was
well filled, and the splendid band of the Caledonian Society enlivened the trip
with some choice music. One arrival at the Beach, some strolled off along the
sands, a number found their way to the bowling alley and billiards room, but
the majority procured tickets for the Music Hall, where they tripped the light
fantastic toe till half past eleven to the music of a fine string band. The
evening was spent most delightfully, Messrs. Neville and Birely doing all in
their power to make the evening enjoyable.<span>
</span>At a quarter to twelve the boat moved away, the band playing “Rule
Brittannia.” Fortunately the B. B. Glee Club was on board and favoured the
company with several beautiful glees and choruses. These young men sing with
much taste and keep very good time, and we hope some day to see them before the
public. The boat arrived at this port at 12:30.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While the
excursion itself was popular, the participants surely shared the Spectator
reporter’s views on the state of the vicinity of the wharves of the pleasures
steamers:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The wharves leading up to the
Transit and Florence are often enveloped in a very unpleasant smell. Dead dogs,
cats and fish lie rotting on the edge of the water, making it very unpleasant
for delicate nerves. The evil should be remedied in some way.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An extensive article was carried
in the Spectator of June 10, 1876 concerning the state of the Crystal Palace
and grounds, three months before the 1876 Provincial Exhibition to be held at
that location:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On the 13<sup>th</sup> of
September and the four following days the Provincial Exhibition will be held on
the Crystal Palace grounds in this city. The Parks Committee, Ald. Waddell,
chairman, are making strenuous efforts to have the grounds and the Palace put
in first place order, in anticipation of the event, and no stone will be left
unturned to make the Provincial Exhibition of 1876 the most successful ever
held. Yesterday afternoon at two o’clock, the Parks Committee, composed of Ald.
Foster, Lockman, Waddell, Crawford and Kent, visited the grounds in company
with his Worship the Mayor, Messrs. J.M. Williams, M.P.P., John Proctor, Thos.
Stock, F.M. Carpenter, Reeve of the County; Dr. Miller, Reeve of West
Flamoboro’; A. Brown, Reeve of East Flamboro’; Thos. Lawry, Reeve of Barton;
Hon. David Christie, Ira. Morgan, President of the Agricultural and Arts
Association; H.C. Thomson, Secretary of the same Association; Stephen White, -
Wilmot and John A. Bruce.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Palace</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The party were driven up
in five cabs and were disgorged at the main entrance to the Crystal Palace.
The old floor of the building has been completely taken away and a new and
substantial one substituted in its place. The posts supporting the roof and galleries
has been raised and placed on stone foundations. When originally built they
were placed on wooden foundations, and when these decayed the posts sunk as a
matter of course; in fact, it is a wonder that no accident happened during the
late Central Fair. The four winding stairs leading into the galleries are to be
taken away and two immense straight stairs, each twelve feet wide, substituted
in their places. Each stair is to be partitioned by a rail at the center, and a
policeman will be stationed at the bottom to direct visitors to go up one side
and come down the other. This is a great improvement, and will prevent that
jostling which is so disagreeable at fairs. The stairs will be quite straight
and the decline graduated so that the ascent will not be fatiguing. The winding
stairs were altogether too steep, and their shape was not fitted for the
purpose. The inside is to be painted, and the roof to be thoroughly repaired so
that nothing will suffer from rain should there be unfortunately bad weather at
the time of the fair.</span></b></span></div>
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building north of the Palace, and formerly used as a poultry shed, is to be
devoted solely to the display of field roots. The building is 25 x 70 feet, and
will hold an enormous quantity of produce.</span></b></span></div>
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directly west of the Palace, and formerly used as a sheep pen, is to be used
for the display of carriages and poultry. The pens are to be taken out and 150
feet at the south end of the building are to be used for the display of
poultry, and 400 new coops have been provided.</span></b></span></div>
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building entirely. It has been put up for the exhibition of machinery in
operation. Its extent is 32 x 150 feet. Several members of the committee
remarked that the structure looked frail.</span></b></span></div>
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horse stalls have been fitted up with sound floors, safe mangers and good
walls. All the cattle sheds on the east side of the grounds to the left of the
main entrance, and where the Durhams were shown last year, have been
transformed into horse stalls.</span></b></span></div>
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hundred and fifty sheep pens, 8 by 8 ft., have been built, and are in a very
convenient part of the grounds.</span></b></span></div>
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old pig pens will be used, with a few added to make the number one hundred and
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that the old hay barn will do with the addition of a granary 13 x 16 feet.</span></b></span></div>
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cattle rings are to be prepared in the back portion of the grounds, and no
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Visiting Committee expressed themselves highly delighted with the way things
appeared, and expressed the belief that we now had the best Exhibition Grounds
in the Dominion. At half past three, the party returned to the Royal Hotel
where, after partaking of lunch and finishing several bottles of champagne, the
company separated.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span lang="EN-CA">“This morning by
the nine o’clock train from the east, the Knight Templar of Detroit and
Michigan, accompanied by Gardiner’s Flint City Band, arrived in this city from
Philadelphia <i>en route </i>for home.” </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator <span> </span>June 9, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Just as they had done while on the way from Detroit to
the Centennial Exposition in Philadephia, the famous Knights Templar of Detroit
and Michigan marching band stopped in Hamilton on its way home.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This second visit was covered in some detail in the
Hamilton Spectator of June 9, 1876:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“In response to the call of the D. D. G. M. a few Masons
belonging to this city met the Knights at the station. It was a matter of
remark, however, that their numbers were few, and that the XIII Batt. Band, who
accompanied them , formed the largest part of the procession. The following was
the order of the procession :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Deputy
District Grand Master</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>XII
Batt. Band</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Members of the Masonic Order in this city</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span>
</span>Gardiner’s Flint City Band</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The
Knights Templars of Detroit
and Michigan</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Carriages</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The procession marched
from the station up Stuart street, to Bay street, up York to Park street, up
Park to King street, down King street to the Gore, where the procession marched
round the lower fountain then up John to Main, from Main down Hughson to the
Gore, and thence down James street to the Masonic Hall, when the Knights filed
into the Blue Room and D. G. M. Briely bid them a cordial welcome. Refreshments
were then served to the Templars and their ladies, after Mr. Brierly, D.D.G.M.,
conducted his guests through the building. At eleven o’clock, the Knights were
conducted back to the station, where they took the train to home. The
appearance of the Templars drew forth the admiration of everyone, and the
precision with which they marched<span> </span>and
the military evolutions through they went on their way uptown showed that they
had been severely and critically drilled. Flags were hoisted above the City
Hall and the Royal Hotel in their honour, and the corporation allowed the fountains
in the Gore to play. The morning was excessively hot, but fortunately the
streets through which the procession passed were well watered, else the march
would have been very fatiguing. While the procession was in motion, Gardiner’s
Flint City Band played the Pearl Grand March<span>
</span>and the Montanan March, the 13<sup>th</sup> band playing the Belphegor
and Superba Marches.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There was another visitor from Detroit in Hamilton, but
her story and the attempts to get her some needed medical assistance were very
sad:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last evening, a young and respectable looking woman was
driven from the station to the American hotel in a cab. Taking the proprietor
to one side, she said she had just arrived from Detroit and that she wished to go to a
lying-in hospital at once. Mr. Bearman replied that there was no such
institution in the city, but instructed the hackman to drive her to the
hospital. The hackman – well known in the city as Curly Sam – replied that he
would have to get a pass from the Mayor. Mr. Bearman insisted that he should
drive at once to the hospital, and as quickly as possible, as the woman was
very sick. The hackman, however, stopped at the Mayor’s house, and asked for a
pass into the hospital for the unfortunate creature under his charge. This was
refused. Bewildered at the peculiar and delicate position in which he was
placed, Sam was going to drive to a private house where he thought he was
acquainted when he thought of Dr. White, and immediately drove there. The
doctor took in the case at a glance, and springing into the cab ordered the
hackman to drive to the hospital as quickly as possible. Unfortunately,
however, before they reached the institution the woman was confined. She was
carried into the hospital as gently as possible, but it is feared that the poor
creature will never thoroughly recover.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The oft-delayed baseball showdown between London and
Hamilton teams was scheduled for the following day:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Tomorrow afternoon, the championship match between the
Standards, of this city, and the Tecumsehs, of London, will take place (weather
permitting) at the Crystal Palace Grounds. The disappointment which these clubs
met with last week was an expensive one for both of them. It is hoped that
there will be a large turnout to see the match tomorrow, and that they will be thus
compensated for the untoward occurrences on Friday and Saturday last. Ladies
will be admitted to the grounds free.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The moonlight excursion of the Transit was just hours
away when the afternoon edition of the June 9, 1876 Spectator hit the streets:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Mr. Colwell, the proprietor of the Transit, is making
preparations for a trip around the bay in the evening. A band will be on board
and fireworks will be let off. It is the intention to fire six hundred rockets
from the hurricane deck”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As mentioned in the article, the arrangements for the funeral
of the popular Rev. John McColl were published in anticipation of a large
number of people who might wish to pay their respects:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We are requested to publish the arrangements for the
funeral of the late Rev. Mr. McColl, so as to avoid confusion or disappointment
to those who desire to take part in it. The remains will be in the library of
the manse this evening from 5 to 8 o’clock , and tomorrow (Saturday) from 10
a.m. till 1 p.m. A committee of session and managers will be present at those
hours to attend to those who call. It is hoped that all who have a desire to
look upon the face of their late pastor for the last time will come during the
hours named. The church will be opened at half-past two o’clock, and it is
specially requested that all will be seated not later than 3.15.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>At 3.30 promptly the
members of the Presbytery will take their seats, and the remains will be
brought into the church, followed by the office-bearers, when the services will
be commenced. After the benediction is pronounced, the congregation is
specially requested to <i>remain seated </i>till
the first part of the funeral procession passes down the centre aisle, in the
following order : the coffin, borne by pall-bearers; office-bearers of the
church; members of the Presbytery and other clergymen; the Bible class; the
congregation can then fall in behind. As many as can make it convenient are
requested to pass out by the McNab street door, and others who do not intend to
accompany the procession may remain seated till the aisles are cleared, the
object being to avoid crowding at the front door of the church. Carriages and
other vehicles should form on McNab or Main streets, east of McNab, leaving Maiden Lane free for
societies and pedestrians to form in line. The route of the procession is from
the church to Charles street; Charles street to King; King to Park; Park to
York; thence to Burlington Cemetery.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The warm weather of the
summer months was imminent and the desire for a refreshing swim in the bay was
sure to follow. The shoreline of the bay below the Burlington Heights in the
vicinity of the GWR station and main line had long been a popular locale for
swimmers but the railway company wanted to put an end to their presence:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The recent issue by The Great Western
Railway authorities of an order, strictly forbidding the use by bathers of any
portion of their premises skirting the bay, has caused a deep feeling of
disappointment in the bosoms of the youth of this city. That stretch of bank
lying along the track as it runs from the west end of the yard to the
Desjardins Canal was a famous resort. It was the rule, rather than the
exception, to see scores of men and lads, day or night, there enjoying all the
delightful sensations of <span> </span>a plunge into
the clear cold water, and reaping the exhilarating effects of a bath. But,
though frequent bathing is eminently healthful and ought to be enjoined upon
everyone, it should never be indulged in at the manifest expense of common
decency, as was too frequently the case in that locality. Instead of being
content to visit the place, exposed as it is to passing trains, in the shades
of the evening, many persons made it their resort during the day. This season
the custom had grown greatly over previous ones, and stringent measures had to
be taken to check it, and no doubt very properly, at least so far as daytime is
concerned. It is to be regretted, however, that the instructions were not
relaxed with reference to the evening, for it was then that those who bathed
for bathing sake sought the place. As for the vagabond boys, who spend hours
and hours of daylight there, for to anyone passing it was plain they, as a
general thing, were only killing time. The Company had, of course a perfect
right to close up the grounds, but we would be glad to learn that some means
had been taken to suspend the complete enforcement of the order so far as it
related to the evening.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>We understand the City has now only
two stretches of water within the limits which can be used for bathing
purposes. The one is a lot abutting the bay, immediately west of the hospital
and near the spot where the disabled Osprey lies. The other, and far better,
ground is immediately east of the hospital and alongside Messrs. Murton and
Reid’s coal wharf. We are informed by officials who say they know, that the
locality is uncommonly well adapted for bathers of all ages, being shallow for
a considerable distance out, very safe and possessing an excellent gravelly
bottom. It has been highly recommended and should be officially brought into
use without delay.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It appears to us this is a
question coming so especially within the jurisdiction of the chairman and
members of the health council that they cannot ignore it unless they are
willing to be charged with neglect of duty. Frequent and proper bathing is as
great a sanative measure as can be used in the interests of bodily health, and
is nowhere of greater importance than in a crowded city. During the hot weather
it becomes an imperative necessity, and we do not hesitate to say that it is
the business, if not the first business, of the sanitary authorities, to</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">provide
suitable bathing grounds for the public, even if in doing so, they are
compelled to put the citizens to some expense. Other cities have proper sheds
anchored inside their bays, or rivers, and in Montreal
and New York,
considerable annual expenditure is incurred, but it is a thousand times repaid
by the beneficial result reaped by the population at large. Hamilton is placed in a peculiar and by no
means satisfactory condition. She has the finest bay in the Dominion, but, for
want of proper municipal forethought and management, her youth are practically
shut out from using its waters in the best way conducive to health and
pleasure. The season is now fully commenced and we trust that the provisions
which will be made, render it unnecessary to refer again to the matter.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-24170701730729688492012-06-07T11:31:00.004-07:002012-06-07T11:31:31.688-07:00June 8, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At eleven o’clock today, the Railway Committee of the
Privy Council – the Hon. Messrs. Mackenzie, Scott, Smith and Lettelier – met at
the Public Works Department for the purpose of hearing evidence for and against
the application of the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway Company to permit the
building of a bridge across the Burlington Bay Canal.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Hamilton
Weekly Times<span> </span>June 8, 1876.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There was only one local story of note in the June 8,
1876 issue of the Hamilton Weekly Times concerns the final decision on the
route of the Hamilton and North Western Railway out of the city. Would the
route be across the Beach strip, and the Burlington Canal, or a totally
overland route through the west end of the city?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“J.M. Williams, Esq., M.P.P., appeared on behalf of the
Railway Company, in conjunction with Mr. Thomas McKeown, the Company’s
Engineer.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">B. B. Osler, Esq., Ald. Mitchell and J. K. Griffin,
Esq., accompanied by Mr. Leather, Civil Engineer, appeared in opposition to the
Company’s application for permission to cross the canal.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Buckingham, the Premier’s private Secretary, invited
the deputation to enter, who were severally presented to the Premier and seated
when the Hon. Mr. Mackenzie read the clause of the Railway regarding
proceedings in such matters as they had met to consider. The Company had made
application for the bridge, and a protest had been entered by Mr. Roach and
others, who had also deposited plans, etc., to show that the city could be
reached another way. This was not the question for the Government to consider,
it was for them to decide upon the merits of the arguments, whether the
intended would be dangerous to public safety, or would injure the water route
over which it would pass. The Committee would not be influenced in either way
by considerations out of their duty as plainly defined by law. They would first
hear the parties opposed to the bridge.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler said he appeared for the parties opposed to
the construction of the bridge, and contended that it could only be in a case
of absolute necessity that the bridge should be built at all. It was against
public interest and against the public safety, and would be injurious to the
trade of the city. If it could be shown, as he was prepared to show, that
another practicable route could be found, this would be the very best reason
why the bridge should not be allowed to be built. He would call the attention
of the Committee to the fact hat seven very serious accidents had occurred from
railways crossing navigable water courses in Canada, and they were of very
frequent occurrence in the United States. He also called attention to the fact
that the Company chartered by special Act of the Ontario Legislature was, in
fact, two companies – the Construction Company and the Working Company – and it
was te individuals composing the Construction Company who desire to cross the
canal.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie – The Directors who support the swing
bridge are also contractors?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – Yes. The other Directors, two of them, the
Mayor and another, who are not members of the Construction Company, are strong
opponents of the crossing of the canal. The view of the Mayor ought fairly to
represent the views of the city as to the work. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Smith – That is, assuming that the city has an
interest in the road?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – By the proposed bridge the country, within
ten miles of the city, has no interest. By the other way – the western entrance
it would be largely benefited.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Scott – What bonus has been given by the County
of Wentworth?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. J. M. Williams – Not a cent.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – They have never been asked.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Williams – They have repudiated the small bonus of
$20,000 once voted to assist a road which would have formed a portion of the
Northwestern.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In reply to Mr. Scott, Mr. Osler stated that the city
had given two bonuses of $100,000 each. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Williams – Conditional on crossing the canal.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – Only conditional as to one of them, and that
was not fairly understood. When the city was canvassed, the west was canvassed
in favour of the western route.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr Scott said the By-Law clearly indicated it was a
foregone conclusion that the road should cross the canal, otherwise the bonus
would not be given.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ald. Mitchell, as one who assisted in framing the
By-Law, said it was not at that time understood that there would be any other
approach to the city.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – Now the Railway Company say if they cannot
go by this route, they cannot go by any other way, even if the other way took
but $20,000 more to pay for it.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Williams – Will you say that $20,000 is all the
difference between the cost of the routes?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – If the Company is in such a financial
condition, it was very dangerous to entrust it with a work endangering life and
property. He referred to the sacrifices the Great Western Railway had made –
representing $120,000 – to close their swing bridge across the Desjardins
Canal, a fact that shows conclusively that the proposed swing bridge, with more
than double the span, was a practical impossibility, or, at least, would be
dangerous to the public safety. The opposition, he said, contended that the
western entrance would serve the interests of the city of Hamilton better, and
that the swing bridge would injure its trade – the very name of the bridge
being there would prevent vessels from coming to the city. The petitions of the
mariners before the Committee showed their opposition.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Smith – The mariners who were before the
committee did not object to the bridge.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – The petition was largely signed.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie – Many of the signers were not
mariners at all.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – Shippers.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie – Not even shippers.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – As to that branch he could add to nothing to
what Mr. Hope had already laid before the Committee.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Smith – You admit the only ground of objection
is that it would interfere with navigation?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – Yes; that it would interfere with
navigation.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Smith – And that it would serve the trade of
Hamilton better by the western entrance?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – That the western entrance would serve the
public interests better.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie went over the mariners’ petition,
pointing out that many of the signatures did not fairly represent the judgement
of persons who were qualified by experience to give an opinion.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler then referred to the experience of the
Desjardins swing bridge, upon which some discussions took place. The plans,
profiles, etc. were then examined and discussed by the Engineers, and some
reference made on both sides, to the number of streets to be crossed by the
respective routes.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. J. M. Williams wished to know whether these
gentlemen represented the City of Hamilton, or merely themselves.<span> </span>Mr. Mitchell, as well as Mr. Roach, whose
name had been so freely used, had both voted for the By-Law , which had been
carried by the rate-payers by a majority of between seven and eight hundred.
The opposition did not represent the city at all; they represented only the
interests of certain western men, inside and outside the city, whose property
would be benefited </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Mitchell was proceeding to reply when the Premier
hinted that they were wandering away from the subject.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">M. Osler then resumed explaining that there were five
western routes, involving an increased cost of from $80,000 to $245,000, according
to the one which might be adopted. The western route was two miles shorter than
the eastern. These surveys had been made at the instance of Mr. Roach, Mr.
Mitchell and seven or eight others.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Smith - Then it was not at the instance of the
Corporation.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler – The citizens never fairly voted on the
question. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie – The By-Law is entirely in favour of
the assumption that it was passed with the understanding that the road should
cross the canal. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler would simply put the case before the Committee
that it was not a matter of necessity that the road should cross the canal, and
therefore the canal should not be bridged. They had shown a western entrance
two miles shorter, whereas the eastern route would bring Toronto eight miles
nearer the Suspension Bridge, thereby virtually taking the city’s bonus for
cutting off the city’s trade.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ald. Mitchell desired to offer some explanation in
regard to his position on the matter. As to what had been said by Mr. Williams,
as to his having voted for the By-Law, he did so believing there was no other
route possible, but it had been shown that a better route could be had from the
west. He had come there as a representative of the City of Hamilton, and it was
of the utmost importance to the trade of the city that the western route should
be chosen.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Smith again called his attention to the wording
of the by-law, and the fact that the city had taken no official action in
favour of another route. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie – You had six weeks notice of the
meeting, Mr. Mitchell, and time enough to have taken official action if so
disposed.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. McKeown said Ald. Mitchell himself had brought up a
motion in Council to send a deputation before this Committee, but it fell
through for want of a seconder.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Griffin, representing Waterdown and Dundas, said
that the country around the northern part of Hamilton were united in opposition
to the bridging of the canal. He entered into a lengthy explanation of the
advantages to be gained by the western route.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr Williams – Did the Corporation of Wentworth
contribute anything towards the road?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Griffin – They were never asked.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(This question and answer were repeated several times,
and Ministers appeared to enjoy the joke.)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Williams – Would just say that no one ever supposed
a road could be brought inform the west except ay an enormous expense. It was
said he had been in favour of the western entrance himself, and he was so still
if it had been possible; but the only western entrance within the company’s means
was an independent line over the Great Western Railway Company’s road, and
that, he had been assured by the Directors, they could not obtain. If
Burlington Canal were not crossed, the Company would forfeit $100,000 of the
city bonus and $65,000 of the County of Halton. It seemed to him that it came
with a very bad grace to attempt to buck the whole undertaking, which was
evidently the design of the Opposition.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler suggested a delay until Mr. Bodwell,
Superintendent of Canals, should give his opinion.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie said they already had the opinion of
the heaviest ship owners in favour of bridging the canal.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler then suggested that the estimate for the
western route be submitted to the judgement of one of the Engineers of the
Department, and if the excess of the cost of the western route exceeded
$50,000, the opposition would accept the bridging of the canal as a necessity</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Williams said it would be unfair that there could be
any longer delay, as it was only endangering the success of the whole
undertaking. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Osler next proposed that an expression of the
opinion of the Wentworth County Council should be obtained.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Williams – The Council has already repudiated the
only vote it ever gave for a railway. (Laughter).</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hon. Mr. Mackenzie said the county had no standing with
regard to the question, beyond that of the general public. The effect upon the
trade of Hamilton and the surrounding villages should be taken into account.
But the principal consideration for the Government was, whether would the
bridge endanger public safety. On this point, it was important that the
evidence of the captains who already had been examined before the Committee
should be read.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Buckingham then read from his notes the testimony of
Captains Jackman, Kent, Johnson, Lewis, Brown, Harbottle, etc. , whose
testimony has already appeared in the <i>TIMES</i>, was decisively in favour of
the building of the bridge – at least, none of them saw any danger to
navigation in construction.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some further discussion of an informal and
conversational character then took place, when the Committee thanked the
Ministers for their courteous attention and withdrew.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Hon. Mr. Mackenzie informed Mr. Williams that the
Government would take the matter into consideration immediately, and that the
Company might expect to learn the decision arrived at on Monday next.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">OTTAWA, June 5 – The Government has decided to allow
Burlington Canal to be bridged by the Hamilton and North Western Railway.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(Please note that the June 8, 1876 edition of the
Hamilton Spectator was incompletely microfilmed, probably because that issue
had not been properly filed and retained in June 1876)</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-135428435972711352012-06-06T14:21:00.003-07:002012-06-06T14:21:38.144-07:00June 7, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Friday evening, there will be
a moonlight excursion to the Beach by the favourite steamer Florence.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>Hamilton Spectator<span> </span><span> </span>June
7, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Not to be outdone by the
proprietor of a rival pleasure steamer, the owner of the Florence also decided
that a special after sundown cruise on the bay:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>“The
fine brass and string band of the Caledonian Society will be in attendance. The
Florence will leave her wharf for the Ocean House at 7:30 o’clock p.m. An
enjoyable time may be expected.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>The newly-enlarged Ocean
House on the Beach Strip near the canal also advertised in the Spectator of
June 7, 1876:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This new and magnificent hall will accommodate two
hundred persons dancing at the same time. There is attached to the hall large
refreshment and ladies’ dressing rooms. Excursion and dancing parties can be
arranged for the above, with or without music, by tickets to be had at the
Ocean House. W.A. Neville, manager.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton’s beloved poet</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">had sent a copy of her first</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">collection
of her poetry to Canada’s Governor-General and received a reply:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His Excellency the Governor-General has written an autograph letter to
Miss Harriett Annie Wilkins, thanking her for the receipt of a copy of her new
volume of poetry entitled “Way Side Flowers,” and speaking very warmly of its
merits. The graceful manner of its acknowledgement is as creditable to His Excellency
as it must be gratifying to the gifted authoress”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was sad announcement, not only for the congregation
of Central Presbyterian Church, but to all Hamiltonians who had met their
minister:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last evening the worst fears of the friends of the Rev.
John McColl, of the Central Presbyterian Church of this city, were realised.
Early last fall, the lamented gentleman was taken with a bad cold which settled
upon one of his lungs, causing its congestion. He was disabled from attending
to his ministerial duties for several weeks in consequence, but at the end of
that time he had so far recovered that his medical advisers were of the opinion
that a winter spent in a mild southern country would effect a permanent cure.
He consequently went to Southern California, and so much improved in health
that the hopes of his congregation of his final recovery were very high. On
Tuesday of last week he returned with the intention of resuming his pulpit, and
many went to his church last Sabbath with the hope of hearing his familiar
voice again, but it was only hear that he has a relapse upon the journey which
prevented him from preaching. It was hoped, however, that it was but the
fatigue of the journey which had prostrated him, and that a few days’ rest would
restore him. The few intimate friends who could be admitted to see him held a
different opinion, and to them his death will be a surprise only in its
suddenness.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>It is about five years
since Mr. McColl, then a little over thirty years of age, became pastor or the
Central Presbyterian Church, in which position he succeeded Dr. Ormiston, on
that gentleman’s departure to New York. There were some misgivings at the time
that so young a man could be a suitable successor to Dr. Ormistion, but these
misgivings speedily vanished as the congregation became acquainted with his
pleasing powers of pulpit oratory, his broad common sense and the affectionate
interest which he took in all the members of his flock.Few ministers have ever
succeeded in inspiring the warm regards of his congregation better than Mr.
McColl did. There was no sacrifice which they would not have made to affect his
restoration, and their kindly treatment of him in his illness must have
smoothed his dying pillow, and it will be looked back to with satisfaction.The
great disposer of events, however, had ordered it otherwise, and the only duty
they can perform for him now is to follow his remains mournfully to the grave.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Mr. McColl was born in
Oban, Argyleshire, and came to this country when quite young. He received his
early education in St. Thomas, and subsequently passed with honours through
Knox’s College, Toronto. After his call to the ministry, he laboured for some
time in the back districts of Canada, and then was called to the pastoral charge
of the Presbyterian church in Dundas, in which position he was when he received
the call from the Central Presbyterian Church of this city.</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-20765759822948706252012-06-05T11:51:00.000-07:002012-06-05T11:51:15.483-07:00June 6, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“This morning Hugh Bartliff Smith lost a four dollar
bill in the market which at the time was crowded with people.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator<span> </span><span> </span>June
6, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Somehow the bill was lost but found and returned by an
honest young lad.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“In about an hour he (Hugh Bartliff Smith) missed it,
and suspecting where he had lost it, returned to the market and was looking
anxiously round him when a bright lad stepped up to him, and enquired if Mr.
Smith had lost anything. Our stout friend replied that he had. The boy then
asked if it was a four dollar bill, and on receiving a reply in the
affirmative, handed the money over to Mr. Smith. He said he had found the money
on the ground, and knowing that someone would return to look for it, had
remained in the neighbourhood. The lad’s name is Martin and he comes from
Albion village.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The seemingly cursed baseball match between Hamilton and
London was still being attempted to be played”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The match between the Tecumseh’s of London and the
Standards of this city, which was unavoidably postponed on account of the
weather last week, will be played on Saturday next. Should the day be fine, a
lively game will take place as the Standards are determined to do their level
best on the occasion.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>An interesting
demonstration of a new Hamilton-produced industrial product drew a large crowd,
and the demonstration did not go totally as planned:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On Hughson street today, we witnessed the trial of one
of Messrs. J.H. Killey & Co.s hydraulic engines. A considerable concourse
of people had gathered together to see the novel sight of twelve men being
pulled along the sidewalk by the engine, each man holding on to a rope attached
to the barrel or drum of the machine, and hauling with all his might against
it; but it dragged them along as if they had been so many pygmies. All at once
the rubber hose gave way, and lashing about right and left, scattered the water
in all directions, giving many of the sight-seers an involuntary shower bath,
and causing mush merriment until the water was finally turned off at the
hydrant. The engine is one of J. H. Killey and Co.’s Patent Hydraulic Hoisting
Engines, and has been manufactured expressly for the Montreal Harbor Board, for
the purpose of conveying passengers from the bottom to the top of their new
offices in Montreal.
It consists of three cylinders made of brass, three and three quarter inches in
diameter, attached to a band of the same metal. It has a cast steel crank to
which the three plungers are attached, and this is geared direct to the drum,
which has a metal frame with wood and grooves to receive the wire ropes that
lift the cage in which passengers are raised and lowered. We were struck with
the case with which the engine was manipulated, a slight turn of the valve
being sufficient to start it, stop it, or reverse the motion altogether, while
the novelty of such a power being derived from the city water pressure was to
us a new feature.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was thought that Rock Bay’s days as a favoured summer
resort had been eclipsed by new places, but, at least on June 5, 1876, it was
well attended:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last evening, near one thousand people were present at
the <i>grand fete </i>at Rock Bay. Star’s band was present and their delightful
music was very much enjoyed. The affair was quite a success and will shortly be
repeated.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>An
oddly scheduled marriage took place on June 6, 1876 – not in a Hamilton church,
but in the city’s best hotel of the day, the Royal Hotel on James street north:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“When
Caesar said “Man should marry in his old age, for in his youth his hand, head
and heart are soft,” he had a different idea than Mr. Geo. M. Lee, of Toronto, whose marriage to Miss Nixon, of Manitoba, was solemnized
this morning at three o’clock, in the first parlor of the Royal Hotel. This is
perhaps the earliest marriage, in one sense of the word, that was ever
consummated in this city, and was brought about not by the caprice of the
parties interested, but by the force of circumstance. It appears that Mr. Lee
has been engaged to be married to Miss Nixon for some time, and arranged to be
married in this city, and to start away from Hamilton on a tour by the nine o’clock train
this morning. Miss Nixon was to bring a clergyman with her, the Rev. George
Young of Manitoba, and the bridegroom was to have the license ready so that
there would be no delay whatsoever. Unfortunately the train which bore Miss
Nixon and her clergyman was late, and did not arrive in this city until
half-past two this morning. The meeting between the two at the Royal Hotel was
very touching, Mr. Lee had the license in his pocket, Miss Nixon’s clergyman
had his prayer-book in his hat, and after a short conference, it was agreed
that the marriage should take place at once, and have the agony over. They,
therefore, adjourned to the parlor where the solemn rite of matrimony was gone
through in due form, and the old story was told again at three o’clock in the
morning. The urbane proprietor of the Royal did his best to make the party
comfortable, knowing full well that he, too, would have to go through the
ordeal at no distant day. After partaking of refreshments, the party retired to
the marriage chamber from which they reappeared at eight o’clock, and shortly
after nine o’clock were in a Pullman car for the suspension bridge.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An
observation of the results of the poor way the municipality was maintaining
Hamilton’s sidewalks was shared in a letter to the Spectator by well-known store
owner :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“To the
Editor of the SPECTATOR :<br />
<span> </span>Hamilton,
June 4<sup>th</sup>, 1876.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Will you
kindly insert these few lines<span> </span>in your
paper and oblige:-</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One evening
last week, as I James Reid, was standing in the door of my sanctum sanctorium,
two ladies, going westward, were standing looking in at the carpets, etc., when
another two ladies, going east, came from the west. The first remarked, “have
you been in to get any of the carpets in here, one of my friends bought two and
they say Reid was selling them about 25 per cent less than they could be bought
in any other store in Hamilton. The answer by one was “if I had a house of my
own I would, as he has some beautiful carpets, and very cheap.” No sooner had
she made that most truthful remark, when in moving round the outside one’s foot
next to the gutter, caught a broken plank standing up, and although I rushed
over, she went before I could get hold of her. No doubt she could have regained
her footing if her dress had not been pinned back so tight. She uttered two or
three epithets about the corporation and when I got her up on the square, I see
by her face she had got up to the swearing point. I did like to say much to her
in that state of mind, but believe a portion of the back of her knee was
confiscated by her undergarment. When I looked after suffering humanity, I saw
she had burst her bands asunder and was holding the front to the rear. I wished
in my heart my religious friend John, the chairman of broken sidewalks had seen
the accident, I am sure he would have fixed it at once. Not being accustomed to
such scenes, it was an awful shock to my nervous system.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Yours
faithfully,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span><span> </span>James Reid.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-53294939516029063942012-06-04T09:37:00.001-07:002012-06-04T09:37:18.344-07:00June 5, 1876<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yesterday morning, the
Countess of Dufferin sailed out on Burlington Bay on her way to Toronto.” </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Hamilton
Spectator <span> </span>June 5, 1876</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">She was only in Hamilton
overnight, but large numbers did head down to the bayfront to see the Countess
of Dufferin:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The yacht house flag was
dipped three times in her honor, and the crowds on the docks and headlands
cheered lustily as she passed down. She reached Toronto at half-past twelve o’clock and after
staying there about an hour, left with a spanking breeze for Cobourg. On her
arrival at Quebec, new masts and spars will be put in her, as the ones at
present in use were never intended to carry her through salt water.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">First it was a countess, then
it was an emperor. The countess was a yacht, but the emperor was a human being,
and a real emperor.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His name was Dom Pedro and he
was the Emperor of Brazil:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This afternoon at three o’clock, Dom Pedro and suite arrived at the
G.W.R. station in this city, the party being in two handsome Wagner cars – the
Plymouth and the Metropolitan. Pedro travelled incognito, and the authorities
made no fuss about him. However, it got noised about that he was to arrive, and
in a short time over two hundred people had gathered round his car, peeping at
him from the top of trucks and flattening their noses against his window panes.
Dom and his suite appeared considerably amused and a chronic grin added to the
beauty of their swarthy countenances while they remained. Pedro wears
spectacles, has a white beard and very much resembles a prominent citizen of Hamilton engaged in the
iron trade. Some of the suite left their seats. The mob passed their little
jokes on the appearance of the party, which was anything but striking. After a
delay of ten minutes, the train moved out for Toronto.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another item connected with the Great Western Railway
station was carried in the June 5, 1876 issue of the Hamilton Spectator :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“On Saturday
evening while Mr. Thomas Killen, a well known tobacco dealer of Montreal, was waiting for the five o’clock train for Toronto, his pocket was
picked of $3,417.<span> </span>The money was in the
breast pocket of his coat and must have been taken by experts. Very little
effort was made by the proper authorities to detect the robbers, who have
doubtless by this time got out of the reach of Canadian law. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This morning, Mr. Killen had an interview with Mr.
Broughton in regard to the robbery, the result of which has not reached us.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On the previous Saturday, an incident involving a house
of prostitution, a client of that place and that client’s wife was reported in
the Monday paper:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On the north east corner of Robert and Catharine
streets is situated a house of ill fame. On Saturday evening, a married man
well known and respected in this city, was seen going in. The news was conveyed
to his wife, who came down with a revolver and stood quietly awaiting his
coming out. He not being in a hurry, she commenced pelting the door with
stones, and finally threatened to fire through the window. In the meantime, the
man had been let out by a back door and succeeded in escaping, and the lady
being informed of this, returned home, there to “raise cain” with her lord and
master on his return.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Another Saturday incident reported in the Monday edition
involved two boys at the Desjardins Canal:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On
Saturday afternoon, a boy named Barr, one of the SPECTATOR carriers, while
standing on a raft in the canal, lost his footing and tumbled into the water.
After a few minutes’ soaking, he was fished out by a companion.”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>Those
boys, and children of all ages across the city would have read the following
item with some pleasure: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr.
Charles, the active advance agent of W. W. Cole’s grand hippodrome circus and
menagerie, arrived in this city on Saturday evening to make arrangements for
the coming of the concorporatim , which will be on the 27<sup>th</sup>. Mr.
W.W. Cole has no connection whatever with Sam Cole, and is running his show on
entirely new principles. Mr. Charles brings with him some splendid specimens of
colored posters which will soon be scattered over the town.”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
baseball game involving the Standards of Hamilton and the Tecumsehs of London
which had been halted because of rain, resumed play, for awhile, at the Crystal
Palace grounds:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Saturday afternoon, the Standards and Tecumsehs
repaired to the Crystal Palace grounds for the purpose of playing the adjourned
match game of base ball. Hardly had they reached the grounds before the rain
fell in torrents, and the umpire, Mr. Smith, of Guelph, ruled that no game could be played.
The match was therefore postponed till some day this week, when, it is hoped,
the weather will be more favourable for a game.”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was a very moving service at the Wesley Methodist
Church on Sunday June 4, 1876 as the church’s long-time leader made his last
sermon to the congregation:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A very large audience assembled
in Wesley Church last evening – entirely filling it – to listen to the Rev. Mr.
Stephenson’s last sermon as pastor of the congregation worshipping there. The
rev. gentleman selected as his text John VI, verse 40, “This is the will of him
that sent me, that everyone that seeth the Son and beliveth on him should have
everlasting life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” He dwelt touchingly
on the last days of States, dispensations, dynasties, home life and of
individuals. He spoke also of last days of ministerial association, and the
tenderness of the ties, which hold a true-hearted minister’s love to a true and
loving people. The text, however, referred to <i>The Last Day, </i>the day for which every other day is tending, in
which every other day will terminate, the day with whose tremendous
transactions and irrevocable decrees, every other day is involved. He alluded
to the promised resurrection to everlasting life, the elements of heaven’s
blessedness, and the blissful reunions where separations will be known no more.
He would meet them at the final tribunal. He had not shunned to declare the
whole counsel of God. He urged his hearers to prepare to meet him in heaven.
Many in the congregation were deeply moved, and a very large number remained to
partake of the Lord’s Supper once more with their beloved pastor and friend.”</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was a relatively short session at the Police Court on
Monday June 5, 1876. There was just one drunk but several cases involving
animals:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>“DRUNK</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thomas Berry was found drunk by Constable Nixon. Fined
$4</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>LARCENY</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thomas Jenkins and William Murphy were charged by John
Hay with stealing a dog. The case was dismissed.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>KEEPING
A FEROCIOUS DOG</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">E. Gorman was fined $1 for keeping a ferocious dog.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span> </span>COWS
AT LARGE</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mrs. Carroll, Mrs. Lynn, Dennis McCarthy, Anthony Murray
and Mrs. Flanders were fined $1 each for having cows at large.”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Very summery temperatures usually were the case in early
June in Hamilton, and so the owner of the pleasure steamer, the Transit decided
to organize a special outing on his vessel:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“On Wednesday evening, the steamer Florence will convey
a party on a moonlight excursion around the bay. There will be two brass bands
aboard. Tickets 25 cents.”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Finally, a local storekeeper unveiled a new product
which would be most welcome throughout the heat of summer in the Ambitious City”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“During the hot summer, weather, nothing can be so
delicious as Stevens ‘<span> </span>Temperance Cream
Nectar Powders, which form a beautiful as well as refreshing beverage, very
superior to ordinary temperance drinks, and for a rich, refined temperance
beverage, it cannot be too highly recommended. They are put up in packages in a
very convenient and portable form for family use. The cream nectar will also
prove a very valuable addition to the comforts of sick rooms, to allay the
frequent thirst of feverish patients and convalescents. The powder of a package
is dropped in an empty tumbler, and add to it two thirds of a tumbler full of
cold water, stirred immediately with a teaspoon. Parties then can take their
time drinking it. On the surface rises a beautiful cream, which remains,
retaining the strength of the nectar till it is all used. It is certain that it
contains nothing injurious to health, even if freely imbibed, and its use will
assist those who have been accustomed to alcoholic beverages to form a simpler
and more unexceptionable taste. Mr. Stevens’ headquarters are No. 8 McNab
street south.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302242042949485612.post-39899759448907598742012-06-02T17:32:00.002-07:002012-06-03T01:17:36.204-07:00June 3, 1876 - 10th Anniversary of the Battle of Ridgeway<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last evening the splendid band of the XIII Battalion
gave their third concert of the season. The attendance was very large and
select showing that this style of amusement is getting popular with our
citizens. </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hamilton Spectator
June 3, 1876</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The concert presented by the Thirteenth Battalion Band
included more musical selections of a military nature than were usually
included in the band’s repertoire:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Under the able management of Mr. Robinson, the band
played several difficult selections in beautiful style, keeping good time and
blending their notes well. It being the anniversary of Ridgeway, the selections
had a martial tone, which was very acceptable. The next concert will be held on
Friday evening next, when it hoped a still larger audience will be present.”</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was only ten years previously that Hamilton soldiers
were involved in a battle not very far from the city itself.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Shortly after the conclusion of the American Civil War,
Canada was actually invaded by members of the Fenian Brotherhood, based in the
United States. The purpose of the Fenian Raids was mainly to influence England,
by attacking one of her colonies, to withdraw from Ireland, allowing it to
become an independent nation.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Approximately 600 to 700 Fenians were confronted at
Ridgeway a tiny hamlet, west of the community of Fort Erie,by members of the
volunteer militia units of Canada West, including Hamilton’s own Thirteenth
Battalion.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Battle of
Ridgeway, there were observations marking the Fenian Raids and the following
account of the battle by one who participated in the effort to repulse the
invaders:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the celebrated
fight of Ridgeway. All day long a flag floated from the staff on the drill shed
and little knots of men stood at the street corners discussing the time when
they, unexpected volunteers, marched against an invading horde who intended the
destruction of their country. It does not seem ten years ago since the alarm
swept like wildfire over the country, to the effect that the Fenians had
crossed the borders; it does not seem ten years ago since the XIIIth left to
meet them, or when the news came home that they had been routed at Ridgeway and
a number of them killed and wounded.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last evening a number of the veterans assembled at a
popular rendezvous in this city, and over a dish of salmon chowder, discussed
the now celebrated campaign.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The clever sketch of the campaign by the campaign by the
pen of Lieut. MacMahon, of the Field Battery, was read, and from this we obtain
the following details of the action : -</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Early on the morning of the 1<sup>st</sup> of June 1866,
the alarm spread through Hamilton. The greatest excitement prevailed, as the
numbers of the enemy were exaggerated, and more than that, three hundred of
Hamilton’s men were about to leave to meet the invaders. At seven o’clock, the
Battalion mustered (<i>in one hour’s notice), </i>unfurled their colors, and
marched away to the station with the best wishes of every good citizen of
Hamilton. A special train awaited them at the station by which they were
conveyed to Paris, thence down the Grand Trunk Railroad to Dunnville, where
they arrived at 2:30 p.m. The troops were immediately billeted throughout the
town, there not being sufficient hotel accommodation for all, and the men were
just beginning to feel at ease, when the assembly call sounded, and the boys
had to board the cars once more. They crossed the Welland Canal at Port
Colbourne, and at daybreak next morning the train halted about six miles from
Ridgeway. Here they were joined by the Queen’s Own Rifles, and together the two
battalions marched upon the enemy. They had marched about one hour and a half when they suddenly came
upon the enemy , when the fight commenced. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following graphic sketch of the fight is clipped
from Lieut. McMahon’s interesting article :</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The right wing of the Queen’s Own was immediately thrown
out into skirmishing line. This line extended out to the right and left of the
road, and presented a front of about two hundred yards in length. The left wing
of the same corps was to act as supports, and formed a short distance in rear
of the line, while the 13<sup>th</sup> stood in close column, in reserve, half
a mile further back. These movements were the work of but a few minutes.
Directly after their execution, the order was given to the line, by a bugler,
to “Fire and Advance ! ” and then the fight began. The line opened independent
fire in a lively manner, and the enemy, as soon as he had collected his senses,
returned the compliment with a vengeance. The firing was kept up pretty
steadily for fifteen or twenty minutes, our line having advanced over a couple
of fields. The air began to fill with smoke. The smell of powder, the whizzing
of the enemy’s bullets and a sight of a bleeding dead body of an officer of the
Queen’s Own, as it is borne to the rear, together with the intense excitement,
almost made the heart stand still and awakened a new and strange series of
thoughts in the minds of the young participants. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Our line continued to advance over the fields, keeping
up the fire, and the enemy was forced to fall back towards the woods on the
right of the road. Assistance was asked for from the right of the line, when
the Highland company of the Queen’s Own was despatched to take up position on
the extreme right. The companies in support, and the reserve, of course, kept
following up at their proper distances in the rear of the skirmishers, to be
ready for any other emergency. It was plainly to be seen from the start that
the enemy by far outnumbered us, was disciplined in the kind of warfare he was
engaged in and was composed of a hardened and desperate class of men. It was
well known that the Fenian army consisted chiefly of old soldiers collected
together out of recently disbanded regiments of the U.S. Army, and, although it
was looked upon over there as a rabble, yet they were not the pleasantest sort
of people to meet on an occasion of this kind. They were well armed, h plenty
of ammunition, and evidently had the benefit of a substantial breakfast that
morning, for, as we advanced over the ground from which they had been driven
and upon which they had camped the night before, we found the ashes of their
camp fires still hot on the ground, strewed about with cooked and uncooked
provisions. A number of rifles, a few officers’ swords and various other
articles of a like nature were also left scattered about. The fighting had now
continued half an hour or more; we had lost three or four dead or wounded and
had advanced about a mile under fire, when the report “ammunition expended”
came from the front. One company of the Queen’s Own had been armed with
repeating rifles, which were capable of discharging twelve shots per minute,
and it was this one company which had sent back the report. The reserve was
immediately ordered to the relief. The 13<sup>th</sup> doubled up in splendid
style and quickly took up the ground occupied by the Queen’s Own, the right
wing composing companies 1, 2 and, relieving the skirmishers, and the left wing
– companies 4, 5, and 6 – the supports. The Queen’s Own doubled into close column,
fell back and took up position in reserve half a mile in rear, where the party
in charge of the colors was located. No. 1 was now on the right, No. 2 in the
centre, and No. 3 on the left of the skirmishing line. The company of “Rangers”
doubled out to the extreme left, while the Highland company was peppering away
on the extreme right. These changes
were, of course, executed without interrupting the fire, and the new line went
to work like men. The smoke became so dense at times that nothing could be seen
anywhere about. Field after field was crossed, and the only available shelter
our boys could have against the enemy’s bullets was an occasional rail fence.
The main body of the Fenians had by this time gained the woods, which were now
but a short distance to the right of the road, and continued to fire and fall
under the cover of the trees, having left some of their dead in the fields
behind. Luckily for us, we advanced so rapidly as to keep pace with the enemy’s
range, and the bullets went whizzing through the air, mostly over our heads. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A portion of the Fenians had entrenched themselves
behind a farm house, a barn, a pig-sty, and a stone fence, and were making a
desperate stand to maintain their ground. The firing now became hotter than
ever, and the excitement for a time was awful. Several of our men were wounded
here, among others Lieut. R---. of the left wing, and Private S----. of No. 3
company who were shot in the breast and neck respectively. A few, my near rank
men included, actually fell down through excessive fatigue, and had to be
carried to the rear.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Fenians were finally driven from their stronghold,
and, amid a loud hurrah from our side, rushed off to join their friends in the
bush. Meantime, the left of the line ad swung round over the stone fence behind
the barn, through an orchard and down a slightly sloping hill, while the right
remained stationary near the house. This movement slightly changed our front to
the right, and gave a better range against the enemy. The Fenians were falling
well back into the woods, and many were getting out of the way as fast as their
legs would carry them. Two or three mounted officers could be seen moving about
in the bush, and some of our boys amused themselves by sending the leaden
messages towards them, but there were too many trees for direct communication.
The Fenians kept up the fire, and their bullets came whacking against our apple
trees and among our limbs, dropping the leaves like autumn frost. The day had
grown insufferably hot, and, not a drop of water could be had to quench the
burning thirst. Wet with perspiration, covered with dust, and faces and hands
blackened by powder and smoke, our boys presented a ghastly appearance. The
fighting continued, and the woods in front and on the right were alive with
Fenians. From the enemy’s fire, we discovered that we had advanced too rapidly,
and although the Highland Company had been working like Trojans all morning,
still the woods on the right had not been thoroughly cleaned out as the line
advanced. This was about the position of things when, about noon, that fatal
order was given, “Retire, form square and prepare for cavalry.” The order sounded a third time before the
left of the line acted upon it, when No. 3 Company doubled together, formed
square on its own ground, fixed bayonets and awaited the approach of cavalry.
We had been standing about five or six minutes when a terrible volley was heard
behind, in the direction of the reserve. Soon after No. 3 Company doubled
through the orchard, up the hill and around in front of the house, when – oh,
horror of horrors ! – we were struck dumb with amazement. The widest excitement
prevailed. Far down the road, in the fields, everywhere, we could see our boys
falling back in the utmost disorder. The reserve had formed a solid square, in
obedience to orders, and the enemy in the woods nearby, having understood our
bugle call, immediately rallied and fired a volley of bullets into the solid
body. Four or five brave fellows of the Queen’s Own dropped dead at the feet of
their comrades. There was no cavalry; but the mistake was discovered too late,
another movement and another volley of deadly bullets, more terrible than the
first, might be expected. The only safety was in separation, and the quickest
way to separate was to break the ranks, and then the band of brave Volunteers –
which had fought so nobly all morning, which had advanced so steadily under
fire, which had driven the enemy before it, and put him completely to flight –
dissolved and fell back. A panic set in, which soon became universal. A few
minutes later the whole force was scattered and moving back to Ridgeway. I
lingered a few minutes about the place looking for friends, some of whom I had
not seen since the engagement began, but meeting with poor luck in this
respect, I finally concluded to follow the crowd and sauntered along at the
tail end of the retreat. The enemy, following up for a short distance,
continued the fire. A little way down the road I fell in with a few members of
the Highland Company, one of whom had a Fenian rifle which he was carrying back
as a trophy. We were all examining the weapon, and I had just taken t into my
hands when a Fenian bullet from the rear struck the poor fellow who had handed
it to me, and he fell dead at our feet. His friends carried his body along with
them. A little further on, Private P---, of the No. 3 Company, 13<sup>th</sup>,
was shot in the leg, and in many a fence corner along the road, a poor fellow
might be seen stretched out, completely used up. The farm houses along the road
had all been deserted, and nothing in the shape of edibles could be had at
Ridgeway, so that the only alternative was to go to Port Colborne, some twelve
or fourteen miles distant. I had now met with several of my acquaintances, and
after expressions of natural disgust with the termination of the day’s
struggle, we decided to take the railway track, and jogged along together.
Being in an almost exhausted condition, our progress slow. About half way down,
we were met with a locomotive and a baggage car, and when the man in charge
learned the state of things, he determined to take our party on board, and
backed down to Port Colborne, where we arrived late in the afternoon. A large
number of the volunteers had reached there before us, and hundreds of people
had collected about the station. Wrapping my overcoat about myself and rifle, I
lay down upon the front platform, and, amid all the tumultuous excitement, fell
asleep. A couple of hours afterwards, I was awakened by one of my comrades who
had discovered a hotel where refreshments could be procured. Later in the
evening all the companies reformed, and the 13<sup>th</sup> was once more in
shape. The school house at Port Colborne was given up as a barracks, and the 13<sup>th</sup>
immediately took possession. At twelve o’clock the same night, the Battalion
was ordered out, and paraded on the bank beside the canal. Shortly after, the
citizens arrived from Hamilton with provisions for the men. It was then
generally understood that the Battalion was to leave at once to join the main
brigade under Col. Peacock, and that a battle was to take place that (Sunday)
morning. After waiting several hours, the senior who was now in command,
received orders which resulted in the battalion being ordered back to barracks,
where it remained for the next twenty days guarding the mouth of the canal.”</span></b></span></div>1880s Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13253455167112693975noreply@blogger.com0