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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1895-11-01, Page 2THE WINGITAM T1MES, NOVEMBER 1, 189, NE FORGOT, He was a fine handsome boy, tall, straight and manly, and with an honest look into your eyes. He was so bright and promising, too, and there was such a future before him, if only -- And jest at that point people al- ways sighed and shook their heads. Ah, that troublesome 'if!' How many a young man might have made something of himself but for an 'if' that hung about his neck like a millstone and dragged him down. You. could 'ttot have been with Roy Delton very long without find- ing out just hstat the trouble was. 11e was, alwaye. genial and friendly. It was no four of temper you may be sure. Sd}netirnes• his friends thought that his temper was too easy, and •in his ea.roless gaiety their uvarnil _s and itremonstarnees made Ylo impression ' ou him, and were forgotten as they were uttered. You see, that was R iy's trouble—he for- got, `Guinn flshing, Roy ?' his father said to him one morning. 'Well, be position. sure and shut the pasture gate as 'He is very young,' he said to the superintendent, 'but he is a bright fellow and understands his business. I think you mas'l trust him.' And so Royt found himself in charge of an office where he shipped and received freight, sold tickets and was express agenb,telegraph operator and everything. ;That is what he wrote his mother. The letter that came back was very kind and encouraging, but through it all ran an undertone of anxiety. The position was a great honor for a boy like him, but so much depended on being careful, and now he must not forget. 'They must ! think 1 am a child,' Roy muttered impatiently, The dignity of the position had made him more confident of himself and more restless under advice. He was not the first young man that ed Roy with adismayed look. 'I became arrogatnt over his own sue - fully intended *shut the gate, but I cess. Such t `'roganee sometimes mast have forgotten it.' needs a severe. lesson, and Roy's 'Roy, • did you fasten the door of lesson was comi ,g. the corn crib ?' asked his father one An excursion 'rain went down the evening, when he had come in from road one morning to a town forty • his evening work. miles below. where there was to be a 'Yes, sir—that is, I think I did,' great pic-nic. Half of the towns - was the ready answer. people at Roy's station joined, all in 'You had better go out and see,' holiday attire, and with a _tumult urged Mr. Deiton, but Roy replied in of happy talk and laughter. While his careless confident fashion : the young station " igent stood on the 'Ob, I'm pretty sure I closed it. platform looking:i up at the coach However, I'll go out :and see before windows regretfu ly—for he was bedtime.' young and he loved fun and holidays But the next morning, there was —sone one leaned out and slapped the crib door Wide open, and there him on the should* was one of the best horses in 'Roy Dolton, as Pm living!' cried the agonies of death because it had, a familiar voice, and Roy recognized helped itself to corn and bad eaten one of his old-time chums at school, too much. 'I don't know why father should be so angry with me,' Roy said to his mother. He ought to know that hands, the train ',began moving, but gave way, and he fell at the superin- 1 didn't do it.on purpose;. I simply the friend shouted back : tendent's feet. m_,ney. They cost human life. The railroad business is one of them.' Roy went away, but that little speech went with him. He thought of it all the way to town and. it was with hitu many a day afterwards, as he sat in the telegraph office at the station and learned to manipu- late the key, For once in his life he. remembered a warning, and it gave him a sense of his own responsibility that he found very irksome. And yet, strange to say, he felt quite triumphant because he made no mis- takes now. `Father was every impatient and never did me j sties,' he said to him- self. 'I suppose he sees by this time that I am not so bad a fellow after all,' He was so bright and so full of energy that learning was like play and he soon had the business master- ed, and. as he wrote to his mother, was 'only waitifig for an opening.' In a short time the opening came. A station agent was wanted for a little town up the road and Captain Sinclair recominended Roy for the you gu. through.. You left it open the last time, ydu remember.' 'Ali right, si',' he called back, with the frank ile that made his mother think h m the handsomest boy in the world; and presently his merry whistle was making the woods and valley ring. He came home that evening with a basket of fish, and cried enthusiastically : 'Ob, I've had the jolliest day ! I never did have i'o much fun!' kI am glad you enjoyed it,' said his father, grimly. 'My day has not been quite so pleasant. I have worn myself out trying to remedy the re- sults of your carelessness. You left the pasture gatd open this morning, and all the cattle got out. Dick and I had to quit work and spend the entire day gettiii!;g them back.' 'Oh, I'm awfully sorry !' exclaim - grapher turned and went into the inner office and locked himself in. He would not listen to a human voice or look into a human face. He bad; dropped into the first Chair, and he sat there, pale to the, Ups, and chilled as though he were turning to stone. His friend was outside knock- ing on the door and imploring to bo let in, but he did not hear him. IIe heard instead, over and over again: "There are vocations in which mis- takes cost more than money, They cost human life. The railroad busi- ness is one of them.' A horrible pietura was before him —a picture ofoppling' engines and crushed cars fall of mangled human bodies. IIe could hear the shrieks and groans as plainly as he could hear his own name ringing round the world in accents of execration. He could see his own ruined life, and his father's bov;led head, and his mother dying broken hearted, And yet he had only repeated the recapitulate all the steps which, offence that had spoiled his youth. after many year waiting and work, He had intended to do right, but he led to the establ hment of the house forgot. Strange that a moment's of Refuge and firm as an asylum for forgetfulness should be fraught with those indigeht or disabled inhabitants COUNTY OF HURON .HOUSE OF REFUGE. !Il I ,(ff N IpU pili Is�� I I ri Iif 91 Ul 1, .ou,d• „•.� 6"h Dila IV 1A;,. +iib 41011!1114 1471. �Yux,'f. d'd1• As the time i now at hand when can be soon formed. There are also private pi a ate rgo►ns on this floor for aged couples or paying inmates. At either end are also other stairways from the .basoment to the first floor, The first floor is filled with bed- rooms of various sizes, in which the manager can dispose of the varying numbers of inmates. The beds are of Central Prison Industries make, and are provided with non -corrosive mattrasses. The manager has his private bedroom in the centre, and has control of the stairway to the attic, in which is the steel water -tank from which the supply is drawn for the purposes of the house, and which in its turn is supplied from the well by the pumping of the windmill. The design provides for the ac- commodation of seventy-two inmates with every ample space, so that should occasion arise the number might be increased to very nearly one hundred, the only limit being the sleeping facilities as at present built ; the kitchen, dining rooms, ete., providing for a larger .number than will now occupy them. Future extensions will form wings to north and south of the main building, and be devoted to dormitories and private inmate's rooms. Plumbing of good quality has been introduced into the building, and baths and closets are on each floor where needed. In addition to the accommodations of the house itself the building affords a small hospital, with a men's ward, women's ward, .and lying-in ward,. The hospital can be entirely isolated from the other part of the building. The low pressure steam, with Safford Radiators, is that adopted by the architects as the means of warm- ing the building, the steam being generated in a large boiler built of Siemens and Dalziel steel plates, tested when built, up to 160 lbs. the heaviest pressure, however, will not exceed under any circumstances eight pounds, the automatic blow off valves fitted on every radiator pro- vide for letting. off steam at that pres- sure. The building; has been erected under the personal superintendence of one of the architects, J. Ades laundry, and store room for near Fowler, of the • firm of Fowler & everything wl1eh can be kept under the house roof. The ends of the building are o%beupied by washrooms and lavatories; the front at each end being large, cheerful and light winter work rooms. Throughout the whole of the floors the full and complete separation of the sexes has been carefully provid- ed for; each fit;orrtdor having a screen and doers which are kept locked and undet the control of the manager, who cljecupies the centre portion oMhe bulilding on each floor. The ground fjpor has the main entrance, vestibr corridors, with and easy-to-clitn l first floor, all of and the tipper maple flooring, t e narrowest being used in the kitchen. The room for the committee and general purpose is on the north side ,of the entrance, here also the doctor sees his patients, and so his dispensary is located in connection with this room. On the south side of the entrance is the sitting room for the manager and wife, and connoted by sliding doors is their dining room, the two room forming one nine apartment. The remainder of they front at each end is occupied by the large day or sitting room for men acrd women, respec- tively ; these are as sunny and bright as can be arranged. In the rear are the spa�Cious dining rooms '4vith adjoining skeins devoted to the the Douse of Rc inmates, a dotal building will be readers. It is h age is to receive its �d description of the of interest to our rdly necessary to such consequences ! If only he had trained himself to remember before forgetfulness became a crime! IIe had been sitting there how long he knew not, when the shriek- ing of wristles and the rumbling of car wheels aroused him. Were more trains passing to rush into that awful scene awaiting them up the road? He arose, weak as an old man, and tottered out upon the platform. And; there backing slowly into the station came the ex- cursion train wits n the special follow- ing it. Not a et was splintered, not a wheel was boken. The excur- sionists looked curiously from the windows, and a golden -haired baby leaned out and threw a kiss at him with her dimpled hand. One of the trainmen was hastily explaining, butil the young station 1 and scarcely under - d something about a r had stopped the special, and so the excursion train had time to work the air -brakes, though there was not a distance of six feet to spare between the noses of the two engine `Somebody 1 blunder; it wi when it comes man added sic agent was daze stood. He hea 'hot box' whit is made au awful be all day with, hila at who he is,' the ificantly. ;5 k . T The next day a yotmg man, ' with a face so haggard that he looked ten years older than his age, walked into the office of the superintendent, 'My name is Roy Dolton,' he said. '1 am agent ap Groveton. I made a mistake yestetday that might have cost two or ttaree scores of lives. I have come to esign my place and you who had gone out with his family may do what you please by way of years ago. punishment.' Almost before they had clasped And then his overwrought nerves forgot.' `Say, Roy! I'll stop off when we Mr. Delton came in at that Ino- come back this ,evening and' spend ment and heard the last words. Ile tomorrow with ou!' was very angry and it must be ac- And then t e train rounded the knowledged that he had sufficient reason. 'That is always your excuse,' he said. 'You forgot. Does that remedy the evil, or keep you from he would . have to say to him when repeating it ? You are always doing he came back. Old Percy King! some mischief by your carelessness, What times they' had had together! and then you say I forgot, as though He grew vers; impatient as the that settled, the whole matter. I time approache`k1 for the train to can't help thinking that such, conduct return, and waspo preoccupied that is the result .of pare selfishness and I be scarcely com rehended a message utter disregard to others.' that came click le over the wires: Roy stared at his father with 'Side track 8, excursion train, widening eyes. Never before in his .and wait for northbound special.' life had such things been said to He answered with the usual 'O.K.' hint, and he was deeply mortified and there hurrf ed out to meet the andconsidered�himself aggrieved and I train and Pere King. humiliated. For two or three days Bach handshaking and rejoicing afterward; he went around with a as there was. While they walked cloud on his face, and at last he j about with their arms over one told. his mother : I another's shoulders, the train moved '1 suppose father thinks I sin not out and Roy went on talking of what fit to stay on the farm, where my he had done. Ile was talking about mistake, do so much mischief. The his father then, and be said : best thing I cando is to accept 1 'I used to think father was hard Captain Sinclair' s offer and go into' on .tine, but I was rather careless, I the telegraph, office, t suppose. however, I'm well over And thottglr the subject was dis-: that now.' Missed with great earnestness for two Arid then he iemeinbered or three weeks, Roy finally had his , Percy was amazed to see him fall way, and went. Iiisfatherwas very back into a elixir with a ghastly grave through it all, and just as cloypallor on his faee. Almost instantly, waa starting he took the boy aside however, Roy sprang to the key and and said, more seriously than be had called up the neext town in feverish ever spoken in his life: !haste. '1:Ioy, your mistakes have hurt mc; 'Forty-eight passed here by mis- a great deal, in time and work as ' take. Detain *cid,' was the mess- well as iii pocket. They have caused age be rattled or. The next ine- me it great deal of anxiety and an- ment came the answer sounding like paganee. Never mind about that a thunderbolt in the quiet office: WM. T shall never mention it . 'Spial passed fifteen minutes . But there are avocations in ag > ;mist rko8 cost; more than Without a word the young tele-' curve and was alit of sight. All that day Roy thought of noth- ing else but the pleasure of meeting his old friend and the many things of the county' whose circumstances force them, often even after a life of ceaseless indust* , to look for their sustenance at the hands of their more fortunate ft{11ow-citizens. In the fine building which has been erected for this purpose by the County of 'Huron, on the London road, half a -mile south of Clinton, every detail whibli humanity could suggest, consistent with proper economy for the are and comfort of those who are brought as inmates, has been attended to, and health, as well as every other requisite, will be attended to iii the Haase on the hill. The fine breezy !t situation command- ing such . extef sive views of the county, forms a'fine site for a build- ing whose only ,ornamentation can be the arrangement of its parts to gain an architectural effect and give somewhat of " the monumental Character which should shew the public .building.#i •. Owing to the restrictions imposed on the designers by the official regulations, the height was limited to two stories, and greater height was obtained for the elevation by keeping the basement alS much as -possible above the grouni. The total lenith of the building is one hundred and twenty feet by a depth of forty ithree feet; behind this extends a.,+! wing thirty-six by thirty-nine the same height as the main building, ind a one story ad- dition as coal ``'shed, etc., in rear. Corridors run tine full length of the building—Nor 31 and South—on each floor. t Tho basement is nearly all covered with cement concrete, even those portions which have wooden floors have concrete grouted under them. This fiat is occupied by the boiler and room in :connection therewith, An illness og several weeks follow- ed, and two off• three weeks elapsed before Roy knew that he was in the company's hospital, with his mother always near him. During the days of Glconvaleseene he did a great deal of i! thinking, and once he said somewhat sadly : ' 'I never realized it before, mother, but now I know its no excuse to say 'I forgot.' I1eople have no right to forget, whether it's a case of shutting gates or of stopping trains. And the worst of it is' that the little things, such as 'gates for instance, finally grow into big things with human life involved: in them, and the fellow that forgets .finds himself rained. Perhaps it was a good thing, after all, that the superintendent happened to be visiting the hospital that morn- ing, and that he was standing near the door of ,the ward and. heard the little spece,ii. At .any rate he went in and said'Very kindly to him 'Young Man, you Inay report at my office as soon as you aro able. Your lesson has been a severe one, but I think" you have learned it. At any rate, 111 try you again.' 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HALSTED & SCOTT 13Z\Tr' R S_ Josephine Street • - Wfngilam, Ont. e, central hall and i solid, substantial stairway, up to the ardwood, and this oor are all laid in Iloolr'ai Pints cure liver tile, constipa-1 occasional Use of the very infirm ; tion, biliousnees, jaundice, .eiok head -1 these colnmunie'ttc with the dining rooms by Ineatis of large folding doors, so that should there be need of a large apartment for Sunday services, conceits, etc., a large room ache. t; I would have a man great in great things and elegant in little things... - Johnson. Fowler, whose designs were chosen by the Committee oat of nine sets sent in competition; it has been erected by Contractor Samuel S. Cooper, for the sum of $9,874, and the extra works involved are not of an extensive natpure. The building,aas now finished, is a plain, serviceable and substantial pile, built for use and for public pur- poses. It will remain a monument to those who hail the constructing of it, and whose names are destined to be handed down to posterity by a marble tablet, inl a handsome hard- wood frame, on which are inscribed the names of' the warden, Building Committee and Council, also County Officials, Architects and Contractor. The table is of' Italian marble, 3x4 ft.,1,supplied and engraved by Seale & Hoover, mal file dealers, Clinton. ,It is intends to light the building by electricity, ad to have telephone connection wit the town system. The building is a credit to the county, and has been well con- structed. It may not be perfect in all its details ---few large buildings are—but that it is well built is shown by the work itgelf, and the fact that it is done much' to the satisfaction of the architects. lit says not a little for the enterpria of a contractor so young in years s Mr. Coop)", that f he should be able to carry oat suc- cessfully so large and important a contract. The hope of his friends is that the profit from the undertaking may be itt harmony with the size of the building and responsihklkty in- volved. J. A..HHAL:3nm,I J. W. Story, Mount Forest. Listo*e Deposits Received and Interest. allowed. Phoney' Advanced to Farmers and Business Men, On long or short time, on endorsed notes or collateral security, Sale notes bought at a fair valuation. Money remitted to all part. of Canada at reasonable charges. Special Attention Given to Col- Ieeting Accounts and I'l otea. Agenta in Canada—The Merchants' Bank of Canada Office Hours—Prom 0 a. m. to 5 p. M. A. E. SMITH, Agent. FARM FOR SALE, Being N. E. part of Lot 33 and N. W. part of Lot 34, Concession 9, East Wawa - nosh, containing 73' acres; 15 acres clear- ed. Farm in good state of cultivation; good barn and stables. Well fenced; good bearing orchard; good water, both well and sprint;. Suitable for either stock or crop. Will be sold reasonable. Apply to ANGUS or JAMES McDONALD, St. Helens P. 0., Ont. FOR SALE. A complete brick cottage in the Town of Wingham, on Minnie street, one of the most desirable streets for a residence. Heated by a furnace; a large wood shed, with hard and soft water in wood shed; a good stable. The lot has 55 feet front- age and runs 105 feet back to a lane. Terms easy. Apply to JOHN NEELANDS,' Winghare. HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE. The subscriber olfersbis house and lot in Lower Wingliam for sale on reasonable terms. The lot contains hair an acre, on which there is a frame dwelling house containing five rooms; also good stable and poultry house; good well, 16 fruit trees, &c. For particulars, apply on the premises. R. C. HITT,SON. LAN?i' FOR SALE. For sale, about u00 acres of land; 200 ,of it nearly all in pasture; with tirst•t'lass buildings; large part of it uuderdrained, the balance, about 400 acres, mostly now land, with a large quantity of timber still on it. About 150 acres oleared and seeded tor pasture. Land will snake a first-class pasture, Farm situated two miles from Wingham. On the promises is a good saw mill in running order. All will be sold on reasonable terns. For particulars, apply to Post Office Box 125, Wingham, Ont. An Agreeable Latrative and NEEvl �r0ttX0 Bold by Druggists or scut by Mail. 260., 600, and 81.00 51.00 perpppackage. Samples free. KO114!l�Sot©ot.nnrehohadilath. . Sold at Chislioln's 40 a +: Drug store. `riot t6 A PtttORE of THE 6'AMCU9 CURE foe SCIATIC PAINS, ''fay 'IT reit BAC;NGlit r;xauKIATIsAt LUMBAGO 141JOALClA est it FOIL usCuilA Pomo AND ACHES nor iNAim TICstTINPnX ..Sb 41ENTI1..i. t1,, TIGf, pt .'moi'