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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1887-8-12, Page 1/ oRTlItTll TRAiI. ! W1 nl.R MUMd1CR 7114 f EO o CO E GODERICH. ONT.. FRIDAY, AUG. 12, 1881. GENERAL INTELLIGEN j a Me011.41eUDRY. Tuassess. 1 $1Jie A YIAR IS ADVANCE A BLUNDERING DUDY That body of sages, the Godaieh town monad, as at preens& represented, can safely claim the triumphal chaplet against all competitors, for ignor*uce of public affairs, inoousistency and diiluy- ally to the town in which they live Our readier* elreedy know of the *please - tin sotion of that band of worthies in sending the voters huts printing nut of town, and we will not enlarge upon that point, but there are some other subjects that we *hall proceed to lay before the elector* that may have eons effect on the public mind between 'tow and New Years. For the past year or two the "town improvement" agitation has been guing on, and on the 12th of May bylaws were -embattled to the electors, and carried "'toaluritieetawriog floe disburse- ment of $4,000 for serieultursl grounds -fad bmik inns, $34,001; dor for wat- .aworke, and $7,000 for an electric light -system. The three months allowed by •isw have elapsed, sod although it was ooshdently asserted by the prime ince d the "boom" that at the end of that period, when the Iegsl time for appeal was over, everything would he so at ranged that the work on all three pro. Mete would be at mice proceeded with, nothing has heen accomplished so far as the ingetting of the waterworks and glee uric light is concerned more than was done last fall, care and except the in curring of increased expenses ; and, in the natter of the agricultural buildings, progress has coin been made after incar- nate so expenditure in connection with the work of about twice that originally euatemplated. The mew who are responsible for this slate of affairs ars those whom the rate- payers cf this town elected net New WedWe have on a previous socasioe. to their eheesepering policy, and sow we will show op briefly some of their extravetaos, which, up to the prwnt,haa not been oonduei,e cit teoe6t to the town whoa money has been so carelessly sgwanlered : ft was believed that the agricultural aronnda and buildings could be fully equipped for .boat $4,000, end tbat suns was act in the bylaw and voted upon ; bet it now tarts out that it is question- able if the .tl can be kept within $7.000, whiskt1Mea a loss to the town ul $3,000, frons the inability of the town comma to conceive or execute a regular plan in oofsection with the work. The waterworks project has not yet been fully eu.aidered, and the council m.nsbera are at nixes and WOOS, and score of them nowhere at all, on the question of the system that should be adopted. N twithataoding the fact that oath* has been done upon which to Meese intelligent Idea in so far a the formulation of • tangible echoing is son - corned, the ratepayers have suffered to the followts, extent :— oft Wallace Den Tsang. he. ......... Jena unaware . Finance Camelot" $-111 a 32 M $1111 1t air D.Y. 8trseasa... . ..... . 13 0 Mews. Heastses.. Molten &Clarke IN M $1113 m t- Esgtseer hipee•n's a,. Net known. Theft flours. represent work dose which at the prevent time is 1101 an avail- able asset, and for wbicb, no value could be obtaisod if any eat were sad* to dispose of it. Mr Ohipaan's aseoeat hes not yet been presented, Let .orbs K eases it will rite the Odd above $1,900, which Uwe frittered sway. Already twee sneers ban acme before the entail. egttiised into the schemes, and failed to show bow a delimits gnat weld be adapted. It le witbia the reach of poes41101, that tinder rant* eitesenta.s.s apatber bebtw will have to else before the 'lesion, see fm that event the deathlifinlI,bf the project will be sottaded. Bet the voting down of the bylaw will get back ameba principal ear interest of the money already frit- tered away. All the onsnal tan skew for the osbtly is a bole in thin grovel is a let off Zes4 street, sad they held ae prepristory iMmest in the Perth that mmemaeeis the hole -a not very market- able seen, we shook' say. Os the sobj.et of the dsetvim light we will merely elute AIM .rdhi.g bee boss dale, as the operatics of that sshess M laterad, to .otic *stent, is theeosmum nation of the waterworks paint. Had the right MOO been i. oiee thou, is to dash& the blesd.eiag polity, for whish the ratepayers bays to pay, wield alt hare been passed. EiNef the abeam would net h... beat me- eatytmsd, or hadsi Is.. whish.. .l uv ditarroll be iia alst assn, they would have been vigorously prose- cuted t., • successful issue, the idea of public economy being well kept in mind, and every effort being made to keep • ithin the tiinautial bounds set in the bylaws. This has not been done, and w- bold the council responsible in the pre mu its. .t ayetem of time -wasting meetints has hien in vogue alunn•t since she be- ginning of the year, which has become tiresome, motorail the newspapers an con- cerned,and awing in the public interest. The amount of good accomplished has me Mmeneosurate with the tints lost in attendance at the count' m..tin,l,, and THE Si.,sAL has resolved to waste no inure time or rppee in present- ing reports of minutes of the meetings of our ■Ileged municipal legisla- tor. if they ever do anythir.g that is of interest to the town, we will not fail to make • note of it. lint, so far as the present council is concerned, a report of their deliberations henceforth can only obtain insertion in our mama at lbs and diM NMn ee r IM Mr with the notate it Ottawa. If any of Toe Sendai resisn sub- scribe fur this journal purposely to read the town council reports, they will hereafter hare to put up with superior literary pabulum, •.r go elsewhere for their reports. VOX POPULI. Mattel s of Moment Taken lip and Discuseed. t arbsdy Wb. was •antis t. Soy so rebate H...n..s. or Wimp ae.lres to tltaaly 11:a• rte a. iu re1•sa. we age rt.ZA.RI To es ,'ORUReTRh. Ma Eotms,—My attention has been called to a paragraph in TER Stovat of August 8th, wbicb states that I have been away to Owen Sound to see my brother, T.M.CatupbmH,wbu was unwell. Lest some of T. C. $ friends should fell uneasy because of said paragraph I write to correct it. T. M. C. i believe is well. My visit was with another brother to Sault Si. Marie and Petoskey. A delicious procram we found it for this hot weather. The mil on the Empire to the Sault with Capt. R.betteoe, who well deserves his popularity, was parti- cularly enjoyable. The American Sault we found booming. Hotels crowded with tourists and others, every capaieri of building available for business or ac- oomm.datwn used to its utmost capacity, some enterprising fellows rsktag in the shekels under the shade of canvas tents were dispenain,t lemonade and candies u nder the shady side of a pile of packing taxes A stormy passage from the Sault to Cheboygan gave us keener appetite for the unsurpassed, picturesque inland route from that t:•wn to Bay View, near Petoskey. The day spent on this inland route through small lakes and crooked ricers well repays for all the expense and trouble of the entire trip. The attractions of Bay View certainly cannot be eieelled by any of the many places of interest which invite to recrea- tion. Mouse of the most brilliant talent of the Union meets ooe Isere in sermon, lecture, and song for thaw whoa desire is that way, while Little Traverse bey and Crooked Like provide the fittest of opportunity fur boating and tithing. For a fortnight or more of real rest without stagnation and with oar northern lake breezes, no better choice can be made than Bay View. W. F. CAwPS,LL. QUESTIONS AND$WERB. weed. es Ise Wage and MbeVwtse •. "A Loom nr Oimoos Liri."—if you comply with the ordinary news- paper requirement, by sending your acme to ase, not for publication, bat for our own information, we will inert your communication "1 WANT To K.ow"--The salary for town clerk in Godereeh is $500 and per- goi.itee, mob as free office, feel, light, feast mayor's awns, ata ie the towm- ships the seam work is usually done for about $100, without office, fuel, light Ae. The n$cm was not tendered /w. Uke kisstn;, it goes by favor. "Nrey"—The tender* hays notet bees let for the *learn babe. The dis- play at the Northwestern Fair will be a business exhibition by the firms niter's: - ed. TORONTO LETTER. A Memorable July For Heat — Tussling With fbe Gar. Ile rber.weaeter "%raisers Utah. bet ail sua.lr it. Or.w slot Acr.desl w *culling walrie. Tbr lad soiree I sett. He is now down t.. his first-class rowing weight, 156 It». 11* rows ten mile. a Tolman, Aug. 8, 1887. l►na talks of the weather when he day, and walks six or eight, and u in has nothing site to t.lk about, and when splendid condition He leases next them is eery little in the weather iced( week for Australis to row Beach for the to tali about, but when you write shout °p1O°ship of the' world ; and • the weather there moat to something desperate race that wi.1 be. I eta of remarkable in the way . f hest or cold, opinion that Beach w 11 need to row reunion drouth, wand or dead calm. better than ever it he would keep the The month just closed has furnished trophy to the Antipode. nd weather observer* with some interesting The Ik,miniun or Industrial Eabibi• facts regarding the unusually high regi• tic n t1M motioning gf ba Tontu on Sept :rib. for two weeks and the managsn state that that dant every IIand as .esr is not ..e.ly a fast rower, I results I believe however, that Hait- ian will now f: r keeps, and 1 don't think be will "throw' a race on hia own WOK.I understand that he is on hie good behaviour, and anxious to win back a meagre of the fame he once enjoyed. bat tricky also, it u not sate to bet ons tenuge of the thermometer. Hen are WHAT'S UP? lr backing. se the sup.rt ..f the chsirsaaa o of the finance • :owe.. I hid fresh Things That Are Happening vantage instilled ricrac novo by hie Around Us.anion, and w..uder.'d how I lied e.. e watered, even f.•r n u...:nen*. It's quits rr.weerls ... Fr., Trade ..Tar. sleet" erne the storekeepers are Sur tuwnamM Opium 1s U. e'salrausa. A coir and pay eases', and nut stores, and pay Field sad s. Fluor ear clerks, acid give. w titime.m our goods 1's` vee an when the other fellows waist snob, but these are sentimental smatters that hays so rightto le dragged into adiscuasion ei this kind. I rejoice, therefore, that lbs finance chairman has sat his seal to the -It isn't often that I am forced to take exception to the cora pots.ed by TOR SIoNAL on public questions, but right here and now I must take issue with you at the queetien of the tenders for the practice of eneouragiug outside traffic town printery. 1 read the article in the publicly 411.11 ttlli.Oill teff what u good editorial column' of THE Sto.rAL lot fur the town twilit not to be 'alarm=week. and I also "read, studied and in- to tlwiadividual. wardly digested" the able article in your —Aad now, 1 might show how the wteemrd local cuntempunry, and fromi town would be beorhtted by accepting tenders from outsiders for the public must ay that, for once in his life, the uthces. I will take the oaks of town editor of that sheet had the=beet of Tum I clerk, for example. The present bolder, Stinal., so far a consistency was con-' sons. of the [scat notable points given bi 1.00111.001110r ru`+eet of aarner and "re varied cul- who testees $5°.° a year, if be au.'"the Government meteorological ubasrv- corned. YOU dont Underatand me, devote his mind to the requirements of 'action of exhibits and entertainment hu •ration Indus- don.'& you 1 Well, I'll be as explicit as a i the office would mal The highest temperature `98.8 lemur- geu neranly than at .y previous red on the 16tb July trial. The entries already quite nut - The thermometer never wont below number those of My former year, and 57 2: and that was un the llth and 241h. I the space in angel departments u fully Only lea. of an inch rain fell during the smgsged. Special exhiLus will be shown waherwoman to a bad -paying patron. ' officer, but the present incapable council You profess to be s free trader, and let I members c.omp.l hitn to think and set yon think you ought to be proteeled in for teen to such au vaunt outside of they instance ; while he is a protectionist, his regular o•rli:c work that this year he south. and, in his anxiety to ophold deme In- ; has hail himself open to •penalty of Nish the exception of 1888 it was the ray Manitoba and Algnn.a. Extra prizes dostries, is true to mime. Ah ' I see I hottest month on record. • are offered in the live stock- classes to hare enlightened your darkness 900 for dereliction of duty, in not hav- Then were only fix days on which the exhibitor* who will bring their animals tag the yours • Fetapt stud up by t) • —I've talked the matter over to the 6,1 'of Auoust,—that ie, if anybody thermometer did not record 80 or lint Ion the tint week, the same animals to neishbor* on the back street, and the ter be ei:tible 1 .r• the reviler competition , wanted the money and would bring sat It was the dee et July on record with greet ueGrrrified are •unit in the belief !against him. Now, there ace luta of an ors. . ti ani ons fifth cf the on the second seek. The must brilliant I that •mea or corporation has • perfect wool quantity of rein fell. display of fireworks ever produced in os the back street who would take t1 e right to Ret work or material where it nae The warmest day was the 1Gth, mean the Dontimicn is promised, in conuec- job et • lea • than the steam t temper•tore 82-17, and the coldest the 25rd meso temperature bb. `l' tion with a representatirn of the some "Howe Paarwrton• --No. Alth % the veinal less • resolution os the minute book, which has not been rescinded, the 'lark seat tbe ....an' list printing to Clinton. The clerk has the Ictal right to get the .otos' lists prated aaywhnr. M chooses. The may mis- take ittake be nark was is taking iadreetione from the Gesnw'sonatas .ad amain in the menet o1 the Modem. On the 10th the wind hada record of sod bomhardmeot of Pekin, with ex 31 miles an hour. termini scenery and living actors, to be The famous "hot wind" of Saturday, the 16th, blew 20 miles an hour. and would ordinarily brings drop of at least seven or eight decrees in temperature. Considering all these things it is a treat wonder that then was nota single °see of sunstroke reported during the month. Drowning accidents were not fregneot repeated st it.ter,als during the Exhibi- tive. Emersion rates have been secured from all the railways WHAT THEY SAY • All Kinds of Opinions on the during J a1y, but A.agust has already Subject. added two to the list of victims of the greedy waters of Toronto bay. On what .ar sretkera ef the err.. Mare so Saturday two young men while bathing at the Vi'inian baths, got into a hole worked in the sandy bottom by the screw of • propeller. As neither could swim, they went to the bottom in about eight feet of water. One was rescued in time to save his life by earefal treatment, but the other was drowned. On the same day two other young men in a row bust attempted to change seats, when they were Capsized. line of them swam to shote after an hour or so of • despe- rate straggle, during which he grew al moot delirious with terror. The body of the other than has not yet been re- covered. A couple of canoeists were up- set from their frail craft by the swell of a passing .teamer'on the same day, but both men were picked up alive. It is a wonder to me that oiore accidents are not the result of the recklessness exhi- bited on the bay hers. Young men olio know little or nothing about boating conduct themselves in the most foolhar- dy manner crossing to the island, often in a sea that would make an experienced oarsman and a good swimmer keep his head cool and his eye on the keen look- out. Narrow canoes fitted only for the placid surface of a ricer aro made to ride in the ;amity water* of the bay. and the men with the paddle is perhaps the merest tyro as • navigator. Then, too, the occupants of small boats often foolishly endeevor to run amiss the bows of • passing ferry.tam- sr or pleasure boat under sail, and bow so many happen to keep their craft free from collision and their own selves out of the water is • wonder. The sant astonishing thing to me is that of the .umber of deaths reported by drowning in the bay, as many appear to resold froln persons slipping into the water front the docks as from boating or bathing. It may he that all the persons who drop into the water off the whereas do not get is by accident. The Toronto seniors won the four -oar- ed rag. at Ottawa oe Saturday, as they pleased. The grew is said to be the finest amateur foot of Oesedians who ever pulled in a raw, and then is talk of median them to ib. sent Henley re- gatta They will make the Englishmen look like • tow. This crow defeated the Amerman Amateur, at Chataugea, and IM Argonauts, tttewa. and Laehiaes at Ottawa, and now hold the ebawlpioeship of Amerta and Canada. The enew sneer 170 Ib , ages are 23, 23, 24 end 18. A Turemo Isar also wan the denim s iell neo --a walb .vet. Arid that tended* we that Ilse - lea and Teener wIN rem kw "WASH. "— Toe ars miebbee. Th. Ito en Mira walks en the tial riesi sM IpM . it is otreet rwtmss .Iim' e11 ai a.ali♦ wi'► ah. Waal_ Mr 11.6.1 15.• meeest Moos* 5. -'Tse Mesar- - Tb. Old sad Ike sew. THR EDIT R. cit1:11a OF couroIT. Hamilton Tine..:—The McGillicuddy Bros, of Tea HURON SIGNAL, have dis- solved patnership, TM.•wa retiring from the business. which in future will be carried on by Dan. The former will assume the p.ritiou of shorthand writer to the Department of Agriculture for Ontario—a position whin h his phono- graphic ability and journalistic training fully equip him for. Mr. D. McGillicuddy, w ho will 000tro% the destinies of Toe i Swett. in future, is a bnght newspaper man, and that journal is sun to gra of and prosper. It is now in the front rank of the country weeklies. NO SYMPATHY FOR THE OTHEr FELLOW. Clinton New Era :—Mr Thos McGilli- cuddy, the junior editor of the Goderich SIGNAL, and who for a short time bee beet assisting Mr Blue, the Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture, Toronto, in the prepintion of his statistics, is permanently appointed private secretery to this gentleman. This will .eemmitate has withdawal front Tot StuaAL, which will hereafter be conducted solely by Mr D McGillicuddy. "Tom" is thmro- tybly eotapetent fur the duties of his n ew office, being an expert abortbander, sad he is to be congratulated on getting into a position when he will be relieved of the constant satiety and hard week incident tn newspaper life. ■R RN1OYvx tUVORR WR CA11fi W. Kingston Whie: —The McGillicuddy Bros., of the Goderich Romeo, have dissolved partnership. Thermos marine from the business, which in future will be carried on by Daniel. The former will ammo the position of shorthand writer to the department of agriewltere for Ontario. D. McGillicuddy will cam trol the destinies cit the SIGNAL. lie 1. a bright newspaper man and an old Kingseonian. tie w Aviaries On 5 s.tadar ..'laude lira are sissiewiensfia. TOR 0111110N or AN xxrERT. he had to the best advantage. It $ I clerk's salary, and I guess there are et human nature and horse sense to sell in I a few men in Clinton who would gladly the dearest and boy in the cheapest 1 jump at the Wet even with a reduced salary. I don't think the work is guest it the clerk doesn't want to be the heed, tail and spinal column of tb. couneil. Why, when I lived at the Four Corners, the clerk of the munici- pality did all the wcrk, and only got $80 a year, with four jury panel selec- tions at so much a day, the fees for re - market, sad, I fur one, am glad the able chairman ./ the finance committee bee pat his foot down fairly and sgaarely on this issue and nailed his Hag to the meat ; and that the town clerk has for- got his fossilized Toryism, and shut off his wind on the question of protecting home industries. —And now that that matter is settled vision oourt appeals, and the regiatr.. to my satiafaction, 1 want 10 see tha tion of births, marriages and deaths m chairan of the finance e•mmittee thrown snatch the other grievances baldheaded, d sol in. Of Doone he kept storm, and show that his war on that hydra- anran the post -office and was secretary of the township mutual fire iusarancee Stratford lfewee.t:—Aar clever friend, Mn. T. McGillicuddy, has accepted • position in the Dep•rtmeat of Aarienl- ten. Toronto, as secretary and macaw- grapher to Mr Mee, • position for which he is admirably olnaliled, and Mr D. McGillicuddy nnw onnduets Tse Sawa. . alone. He can do it. and do it well. "ALL ALONE rt uses O&A*T." headed monster, Protection to Home Industries, is to the death. During the year the °corporation employs many officers and lakorer., and pun:baass material of all kinds --from the nesse- series everseries of life that feed the town pampa to the coal that runs the fire engine. Mebbe the neighbor* have misinformed me, but I sin led to believe if the tour and cordwood, sod the coal and the lumber and the nails, and the clerk, and the inspector, sod the laborers, and everybody and everything that draws money eat of the town treasury were tendered for, we would be able to improve this town and make it better to live in because ..f the leasoed taxation that would remelt from the saving effected. This would be par- ticularly the ease if we were to send to the cities for the mereantite goods, sod swept outside tender* for the Alas. Stratford H,r lA —Mr. Daniel Mc- Gillicuddy will hsneefortts rue the Gode- rich Signal all himself, his brother Thomas hewing left his editorial poet to take a prominent position as shorthand venter in the Department of Agriculture at Toronto. Marines Rabe. All par cella/ thelr sale Msla prated at I this l ce willent a t Is • settee werted b that iter no mills flee of sale. Asetion tale of farm meek, implomeay and Imes, the property of Petr Fisher, we ibm preemies. let 6, ens. 9, Colbert* tow.sbtp, SD.. by C. fiseskea, *ter $tones►, 0111111111101111111 N 1 o eb.ek On e NO. 1ia 1.. 1 rases kr Nit. MOIL et —Here's the way I figure it Noel" trainman in town who acts a middle , If a neon in an outside town has a sr r - plus stook of dry -goods, or any „thelt commotion that he would lice to *end to Gudorich that we who have alittleash in the stocking could receive a benefit iron, the town council steps in with • pro- hibitory bylaw. and sa. they won't let him In unites be pays $100. besides bis rents and other eeper.sss. for the few weeks in which he cook s2ptoly w a11. The figure f..r license fees was small at one time, and the town got (1051. & now- lair orher in the ymsr, but now vow the rate has been raised. the town treasury gee no benefit from the license bylaw, and myself and the neeghbors get no bargains and are forced to put up with the priors local buyers see fit to d'art,. I Dopa the finance chairmen will at the neat meting move to de away with thin barrier to fres trads with uutaider%. —`&ebbe you've heard of Captain Bob- adil's method of defeetint. an tray. Well, thee'* my method of bendiest sp a town, and it is endorsed by the chair- man of the finance oomaitts. the desk of the town, the members of the councils a number of our town merchants, and many of the esighbors on the beak street. The coneegoeees is that, el - though the plan has Dot vet been am thoroughly tested as 1 would with. as elegant sutlicie iey has Men dome by the town council and errata individuals int -"or midst to show to, the wend wby tiodenrh occupies tie politica in oar mores sad ;red, ehi.;h she does at pre- sent. ewsent. There may he Moms who may take excoption to the plan of bu,ldit*m up the town which I hays ostliapd as the policy which me st ➢ream •doped hen. and 1.. thew, 1 may *tau that they need not endorse it. What I haws written h Irk• the salutatory of the Wasters editor who, bowie. laid dome the hoes upon which his paper w is be run, °untended ley states', "The above ars our pain -apses. bmf if inky draft emit the iM.l/ieswt poetise 4 Geo .oa0T,10 *WPC here •t!Nign coca any, sowed and split hie own wood, took Dare of a horse, drov3 a pedlar's wagon three day • week in rho summer season, counted the coppers on the plat• us Sendai, and was arbitrator 00 pretty nearly every lens fence distaste that • came up in the township. A..d he always had his hes posted up before the dib of August. Now, if a man like that, with • healthy wife and a growi family. could be brought in from one of the (outside municipalities by tendering at $I00 • year lees than the present clerk, there would be a saving to the town Ind an increase of populatioc to the tenpin of the family named ; and the retina* clerk euuld remain in town, and carry on the salt business and the inmranoe agency with neatness and dispatch. The ante plan could bre adopted with regard to the other ofhoars. Make the place• of emolument open to oatssdeis, and thus eucoura to people from other places to comp and settle in our weds --There is another way iu which as on the hack streets who are not su trade suffer at the hands of the town roma?. 011111 for any commodity has to get his profit, and pay rent sad taxes, in ad- dition to the origitaal suet of the article in the cities, and I think the oorpontis maid make money bydeeliag tinnily with the outside, thus dwag away with the eliudleoasn's profits and saving mosey by making the taxes leas. We talked this question over on the back stoop, the neighbon and I, and es noes of tin were is the non bunnies we unanimous'', agreed that a we got no percentages or profits from the council, .ad yet had to pay as many cents on the dollar tease as Oboes who did, we undoubtedly had f gr.yanes ; and if the council knew its business it would go in for the tender system on all mitten that called for dollars and dimes. or we would make our premises felt st the polls at the n ext elation. Tea. Fes for having the prices brought down to hardpan. inti that the man who isn't is trade will be placed on a level with the man who is. Then should be no invidious distinctions mod.. —There is soother plate of this gees- non untion that has Popped up, mod that is that many of oar prints einem, mead their waoney oat of tows M Throats, Brentford sad other pluses, baleen May afaim that they sod goods shaper and better pods there Now, the a- tm. of the &airman a( 1%0 (tiaras eom- naittaa enioress the motion of thuse is divld•sh who dobee todo trade he sewn nu the ground that they sea do bene, oalaiiw Allhnmtb I'm a hweradur i• theory I mast admit tb.t I bind of wtisbesd when this phase et the vow die sow se. wail I eessivellitrik NEM w 1