HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1885-3-20, Page 1VOL.. XII. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1885.
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THE ROWE WOOLEN FACTORY.
As a good deal has been raid about
this factory and groat things expected
ju tbo future, we jotted down a few
items that may make interesting read-
ing for n large number of our subscrib-
ers. The building is brick, with a
stone basement andits dimensions
are 50x80 feet. The job was in the
bands of P. Thomson as overseer,
Tho mason work was dono by Wm,
Thompson, the brick work by Cornish
& Wright, the plastering by D. Low-
ery, painting, Roddick & Schofield,
reit and gravel roofing, by Cathrow,
of London. The building as it stands
at present has cost over $4,000. The
brick was manufactured chiefly at the
yard of Mrs. J. W. Shiel. The base-
ment will bo utilized for engine room
(in which will be placed a 94 horse
power engine) preparing and finishing
roots. The dyeing room and boiler
will be outside of the main building.
On the 1st flat, south side, is a neatly
fitted up office, 28x84 feet, with count-
.ers, shelving and drawers; a knitting
room and a large weaving room. The
2nd flat will be used for carding,
spinning, twisting, &c. The machin-
ery in the factory now consists of
knitting machines, a Karch shako wil-
low, shearing machine, 2 looms,
warper, epooler, beamer, crank, pully
and reels. The new machinery will
be of the most approved and modern
style capable of turning out the best
class of goods. Tho proprietor, Geo.
Howe, expects to have everything
running early in Mny. Between 80
and 50 hands will be employed at the
commencement and it is expected this
number will be largely increased as
the work goes on. In addition to the
usual goods manufactured in a well
ordered woolen factory Mr. Howe is
doing en extensive trade in jerseys,
children's hoods, scarfs, mitts, ladies'
vests, hosiery, tweeds, &c. Mr. Howe
is thoroughly competent to manage
the business and has proved himself
a worker in the way he handled the
old mill. He has had to contend
against no small amount of trouble
since coming to Brussels in connec-
tion with the fire, sickness, &c. but
through it all ho has steered his way
incl has his plans well matured for
the future. We believe the woolen
factory to be a valuable acquisition to
the industries of our village and think
the loan of $5,000 to him will be a
good investment, as the amount
of revenue from taxes on the premises
and on property belonging to parties
employed in the factory will about
make up the interest. D. A. imalo
is Bend clerk in connection with the
establishment anil pushes tint busi.
mess the way D. A, knows how. We
say all success to the Brussels woolen
mill.
'p'IUi }ECLIPSE.
The following is the way in which
ILO Toronto News talks about the Se-
]ipse :—A close estimate shows that
4,887 panes of glace were broken up
end smoked yesterday, 'and that 1,-
865 persons burned their fingers in
the operation. All ofthis trouble was
for the purpose of viewing the eclipse.
The street car companies issued
smoked glass at cheap mica on the
noon trips, and good views were ob-
tained from the south eucl of the cars
going north. Harry Piper shoved a
telescope through the roof of the iso
palace at the Zoo, and inn opposition
to the Toronto observatory. Two
young lashes stopped at the corner of
Yonge end King streets and put up
their bit of darkened glass for a peep.
"I see it," cried the first one, "but—"
"But what?" inquired the other fair
.one. "Why, the Nowa said that the
first contact would be a little south of
the sun's western limb, and I can't
see any limb." "Oh, well, never t
mind,1 suppose the editor of the News t
had been over to the Grund, and—"
Chief Draper, Detectives Newhall and
Brown, Inspector' ;Seymour and Deputy
Chief Stewart went down into the cells
at No. 1 pollee station to get the proper e
.altitude for their telescope. Burrows j
Came in and took a squint. "Howly
mother," said he, "jilt Ink at it, Oh, o
the size av it. Begobs it hides the t
face of all creation, and is as broad as
it ie long." Then they found that
Aid. Baxter was standing between B
them enol the sue, with his face to- t
wards the eclipse. tip at the observe.-
tory they had a splendid view, only 0
Moses Oates .nearly paralyzed his face o
trying to wink his off eye. Many a
women on the street had black tips on S
rho olid of their notes. 'They had boon
looking through smoked glass, Mr
Gooligan, on Berkeley street, starte
after her boy Mince with the patens
slipper, Mike made a dodge and fel
down the collar steps. It sons a mos
oomplete eclipse of the sun. Thre
thousand, eight hundred end seventy
eight men are alleged to have looke
at the eclipse through the bottom o
beer glasses. In general they wer
unsuccessful. John Walker Adam go
out of his bed at midnight to look fo
the oolipse. The announcement the
the eclipse would commence at twele
o'clock, did not say whether at noon
or midnight. How was he to know
which was meant, he said. John
Walker Adam is now a thorough apps
Ile of the proposed system of counting
time from one to twenty-four. The
eclipse came to view on schedule time,
and was perfectly clear and distinct.
About one-third of the body of the sun
was obscured, and the contact lasted
for nearly three hours.
Mrs
The t�uuuy South.
New Orleans and lite WoritPs Cotton
1 Centennial Exposition.
o SoV'17tratN TRIP .1OT1l�5s.
d In response to a very kind invitation
f from the Frees Association of the Prov nee
of Quebec, the writer joined the party at
o Toronto on the t)th of February, for a trip
t to the World's Cotton Centennial Exposi.
✓ tion at New Orleans, Tho events attending
t an ordinary journey to Chicago are well
known to the most of our readers, but ours
8 was one of more than ordinary character
and an occasional 1/5080 en route to the
Garden City will oonsequently bo admiss.
able. Our readers may precede as henoe
if they ohooeo, but our trip 000urred during
- the great snow storm in the Wooten] States
and being in the blockade, we were obliged
to spend several days on the reed whether
we desired it or not. Although the delay
was annoying and vexatious were limited,
still the time passed pleasantly. The Pull-
man "Sicily" Made a very comfortable tem•
porary home, the conductor and porter
were all attention, the company was a
friendly and light-hearted one, and one by
one the hours waned.
Our train reaohed Port Huron nearly on
time. Owing to the blockade we laid over
bore for the night ; crawled along to Battle
Creek and put up there for another night ;
left there at noon next day, and plowed on
to South Bend, Ind., where the third night
overtook us. Thence the road was practi-
eally clear to Chicago, and we gave over
the old.tiieo stage coach style of only trav-
elling by daylight, and reaehed the termin-
us of the G. T. B. early next morning. As
we did not leave Chicago until evening,
there was a day before us for sight-seeing.
This was not an unmixed pleasure. We
have it cold at home sometimes, but noth-
ing to compare with what is met here, zero
weather is no name for it, nnaeclimatized
Canadians can't endure it. But the Chi-
cagoan clone a plug bat, a pair of earmuffs,
and appears perfectly oblivious to the ex-
treme weather, Our exoursione of the day
proved to ue that this is ono of the finest
Miles on the continent.
At 8 p.m. we boarded the "Sicily" again,
now on the Illinois Central B. R. and de-
parted for the land of the magnolia and the
orange, the alligator and yellow fever.
During the night we flew over the prairies
of Illinois at lighning speed, and by morn-
ing had reaohed the city of Cairo, or Am-
erican Egypt, as it is called, at the south.
ern extremity of the State. Yehe the giant
transfer steamer takes up the train and
gently bears it in its arms serosa the wide
and sparkling Ohio. Tho snow has now
almost disappeared end we begin to think
we are nearing the Crescent City. Weave,
but have yet nearly 1,000 utiles before ue.
Having crossed the Ohio river we enter
)lentueky. This state surpasses every
other in the union in the produotion of to.
ba000, and large plantations, and store.
houses are frequently obeotved as the train
hurries se over the country. Wheat and
corn are also crown in this state, but the
farmers of Canada have nothing to learn
hero in the cultivation of the crops named.
In the south of Isentuaky is to be found the
famous Mammoth Cave. Wo hadn't the
pleasure of exploring its attractions.
Towards evening we entered Tennessee.
By this time snow has totally vanished,
but the streams and ponds have a slight
margin of ice along their edges. Cotton
fields now come into view. They are, how-
ever, not the expansive and carefully culti-
veted plantations wo had anticipated,
Small fields, slovenly tilled, carelessly
fenced and presenting et generally run-down
appearemee are the rule, An occasional
but with its mud chimney outside, and its
front door filled with numberless wooly
headed little darkios are to be seen here
and there along the route. The towns and
villages are numerous, but their low, wood-
en buildings look rather primitive to the
northerner. Bad roads scorn to predomin-
ate all through this country, and they aro
very irregularly laid out.
Mississippi is next ou our course. here
the Boil is more fertile. This state is the
,thief in the production of cotton ; eugar
and rice are also staples.
South of thie is Lonio,u,na, the Creole
State. It is said the railway pauses thio'
Me worst pert of the state. We hope it
did, for a woreo looking country wo have
no desire to see. It is 0110 continual miush
and the roust have travelled thtoegh 400 or
600 miles of low, swampy laud before reseali-
ng our destivation, However, it surely
has souse brignt side for it stands ne one of
the most important states, Spring-like
weather is now enjoyed, overcoats and
wraps aro laid aside we begin to realize
in very fact that the much talked of Sunny
South is rapidly being neared. Hero we
find extensive market gardens, filled with
vegetables of all kinds, some just planted,
others mebered and ready fur the market,
the grass is green and of luxuriant growth.
The first orange tree rs now passed. It is
full of ripe fruit, and ouch a eight. How
we from the snow -hound shores of the
frosty north feast upon the picture pre -
suited, and wish our friends at home wore
with 110 to edjoy thie attraction. The for.
oat trees are beautifully festooned with the
wonderful Louisianan. moss clinging to
every limb.
At nowt on Snuday tiro main building of
the World's Exposition rises in majoetio
proportieus before ns, se we swiftly glide
into the omtekirta of the city, and in a few
minutes we rental our journey's end, and
step out of the t1•ain info Nov Orleans, the
greatest cotton port of the world. An hour
m' no 15 now spoilt in eeouring a temporary
home. This accomplished we settle down
for a weak of eight -seeing and general en.
joy/slant. The eherohes are not so tumor-
ous hero as hi this "Canada of Ours," but
We attended sarviee in a couple of fine elf -
floes, and found that although the city,
externally, gives Very little evicicnee, that
Sunday eristo--as we observe it --there are
C7aundian Nowt..
In the Ottawa district 5,000 immi•
grants settled during the last year.
Grime has decreased fifty per cent
in Essex since border police have
been put on duty along the Detroit
river.
An effort is being made by prom-
inent men in Alviston-to organize a
joint stock company to bore for oil.
It fe proposed to put down a well
About, 1,200 feet.
The Ontario Base Ball League will
hold its annual meeting in Hamilton
on the 15th of April. The advisabil•
ity of forming 0 new league will be
taken into consideration.
Chas. R. Cherry, a former hotel -
keeper, has been arrested in Notta•
wastage towaebip for running an il-
liet still, and was fined $100 and
costs. The apparalus was destroyed.
A large number of Essex County
farmers aro making arrangements to
lease or dispose of their farms, and
will move with their families to Da.
kota, Maryland, Michigan or Mimi..
fobs.
Wiarton votes on April 7th for er
against a bonus by-law of $1,200 to
aid and assist in the erection of a
grieting and flouring mill. In addi-
tion to the money bonus exemption
from taxes for ten years is incorpor•
ated in the by-law.
Trainmen on the Canada Southern
Division of the Michigan Central have
been notified that an future, passenger
trains must not run at n greater speed
than 85 miles per hoar, and that
freight trains of all kinds must not
run faster than 18 miles per hour.
The North-western Indians are dy-
ing in largo numbere from a singular
disease, the first eymptons of which
are stiffening of the knees and joints.
from which death soon follows. Chick-
en -pox and diphtheria bavo taken off
many more, and they are in a gener-
ally starving condition.
Patrick McGeary, janitor of Water-
ford school, who was convicted of
an indecent assault on a Pupil of the
school, aged about 11, was senteneed
by Judge McMahon to bo imprisoned
in the Centre! Prison for eighteen
mouths and to receive fifteen lashes
within two weeks and fifteen more
within six weeks.
Last Monday iu the village of Ver.
en11 a funeral went to the Methodist
church, and daring the service one of
the pall. bearers, who sons drunk, rais-
ed a disturbance. When an attempt
was made to displace him he knooksd 1
a man down with his fist, and after,
when parrying the oorpee, he let the
coffin fall, creating a great exeitemen t.
Gibb Arnold, a young man, left
Louisville, 'six miles oast of Chatham,
on the raver Thames on Saturday
morning at 8 o'clock, and skated on
he Thames end Lake SI. Clair, a die-
anco of forty-five miles, where he tools
tt Great Western train end arrived in
Detroit the satnle evening at 6 o'olttck.
He reports Lake St. Clair frozen over,
with nothing to break the blank view
xoept a few fishing huts, extending
u many pinees miles from the shore.
A five mile abating race for the
hampionship of Ontario, came off at
be Speed Skating Rink, Guelph, lust
week between Blaolt, of Fergus, and
Dawson, of Seaforlh, and was won by
lack with half a lop to spare, the
into being 19:81. Ii justice to Dam-
on it may bo stated that lie has been
n the sick list for some time, rend
my entered in the race at the earnest
elicitation of the rink mangoes,
peight refusing to put in an appear.
1100,
many devout worshippers of the Ahnight
even here.
On Monday morning, n beautiful Jut
like morning, our party met et the S
Charism hotel and proceeded to the offic
of the Department of Printing and Pub
fishing for information respecting the Lx
mei ion. We were courteously receive
by W. I;1. II. Judson, Chief of the Dopar
moot, and to him is due our hearty thank
for many favors received during our vies
Now for the Cotton Centennial, W
direct one steps to the Clay Statue o
Canal street, the principal street of th
city. Here all the street ear lines of tit
oity centre, and -a few rods from this poin
is the passenger wharf for the Mississipe
steamers,. We take a ear up Prytaio
street, for a six mile ride to tho Bxhibitlot
grounds, passing in route numbers of rhos
elegant, roomy southern residences so full
dexcribed in the detailed descriptions
of
the eolith. Arriving at the grounds, with
out any change other than the nickle de
posited asfara, wo enter the main eutranc
and then pause to admire the immens
buildings and their surroundings. Th
Main Building 10 an architectural wonder.
Imagine, if you can, a third of one of our
100 acre farms covered ander one roof and
you ]lave the extent of this imposing edifice
The Government building covers another
twenty acres ; then follows the Hortioulhur-
al Ball, the Art Gallery, Factories and
Mills, Fnrnituro and Carriage Pavilions,
all of extensive proportions, besides innum-
erable smaller edifices. The exterior ap.
pearauceof the buildings hi grand and im-
posing, but although the principal build-
ings are considerably larger than those of
the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876,
they lack the exquisite polish and sense of
completeness found there, The mounds
are expansive and attractive. Scattered
over the green sod are clashes of color in
the manifold groups of foliage and bedding
plants in masses of roses, tulips, hyacinths
and lilies. Here i8 the glossy leaf of the
orange half hiding its luscious fruit ; there
is the broad leaf banana, or the delicately
leafed pomegranate, You will readily un-
derstand how we could enjoy and apprec-
iate the scene.
But where oat. we commence to describe
this great Exposition. It is impossible in
our very circumscribed space to attempt
anything like a detailed description,
We enter the main building, look at the
miles upon miles of avenues filled to over-
flowing with exhibits, some manufactured,
some iu raw condition, and others in pro-
cess of manufeatnro, the products and re-
sources of the wide world. Our pen lags.
We are lost in thought and admiration of
the scene before us, but a description is
impossible. Accompany us to the Govern.
ment building. Every state and territory
in the Union, except Utah, is represented,
end every one of these has done their level
beet to put her best foot before the gaze of
the critical world. And not only the pro-
ducts of each state ie exhibited, but ovary
conceivable invention is represented also,
Then walk to the Horticultural hall and
examine the 60,000 plates of fruit before
us ; examine the thousands of pots of flow-
ers of every ]mown neme, m the conserva-
tory ; view the numberless tropical plants.
Now turn with us to Machinery hall. Why
do yon start 7 Does the never ceasing din
and racket of the great huaas of machinery
etartia you ? Come with ue to the Art
Gallery. Look upon its thousands of eost-
ly paintings from all countries, Now you
aro entranced with the work of one of the
old masters ; you stop at this statue and
that bust. Pause ]tern n moment, you will
anyhow, aye for hours no doubt. And
considering all the above ask us not again
for a full description of the Exposition.
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y oan be studied syetematically, leisurely
and thoroughly. Five years' travel in for.
to eign rands could not give as much infer.
t. matron concerning the land and people as
e me week spent in viewing the exhibits
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If you can be satisfied with a few gener-
al notes you will receive them and welcome.
As we anter the main building their stands
directly before ue, in the aisle, a lump of
solid silver from Mexico, weighing 6,640
pounds, and valued ab 4114,000. We pass
up the aisle to the Concert hall, in the
centre of the building, Here is the im-
mense pipe organ so ntuoh talked about,
and here ie seating accommodation for 11,-
000 persona, and platform apace for 000
performers. And anent concerts as ere hero
rendered. Grand beyond description, Be-
hind the concert hull aro the twenty great
engines supplying power for the number.
lops machines in motion in the place, A
little west of titre is the famous Liberty
Iloll which proclaimed independence so
joyously in 1770. It is guarded day and
night. Ili titin building is the great dis-
play of cotton in all its forma. ''Cotton is
king” in the south. The representation of
this important product, from its natural
state, through all the stages, into manes
featured goods is most interesting. The
mauufacturesof silk is alae exhibited very
fully, As wo vase out observe the group of
hronzo statuary over the Archway ; they
deserve a study. While you pause listen
to the chime of bells in the great tower.
These grand altimeo are played every day
front 11'. to 1 o'clock, and on Sunday scored
airs ring over the city for an hour or more,
You can go to the top of the tower 160 fent
high, by elevator. Tho view over the city
and surrounding country in magnificent.
In the Government building the relies of
the Greoly relief expedition is the centre of
attraction ; the entire outfit 0f the party ie
shown. Tho Navy department unarms a
fine show. The Bduoational exhibit is
complete in every reaped. The patent
models create great interest. At one side
are stacks of ootbon, at another pyramids,
of iron, further on immense blocks of coal,
and beside them shonves of whoat and
shooke of corn, and so forth ad bottom.
The representation of the resonroea of
the United States is more oomplote than
ever before made. A large member 0f
foreign exhibits arc presort, but in this
respect the Centennial of 187(3 was far
more general it cb•urecter,
Tho Exposition is a wonderful affair.
It is a universal seltoal where the history
of all countries, the geogt'aphy of all lends,
the products of all ()lunates, the pfogress
of all races, and the inventions of all ages
avieig been through the exhibition we
desire a little time for the city itself, its
sights and attraetione.
Now Orleans, the capital of Louieanoa,
is built on a cresent-shaped bead of the
Mississippi,100 miles from its ntoutl,. Its
levee, four or five miles long, forms a vary
necessary embankment to the river, and is
a place of great activity. The publics build-
ings are numerous and some are of very
fine architectural design. The population
now numbers 260,000, one-fourth of which
number are negroes. The city has its die.
advantages. Being built upon marshy
ground, it lee no subterranean sewers, and
all its sewage runs along in guttate at the
sides of the streets into great reservoirs,
whence it is pumped into the river. Soft
water is exclusively used for drinking and
is collected in immense cisterns which rest
upon platforms above ground.
The Oreecent City has some fine streets.
When she stakes a street broad she gives
it magniMceut proportions, 160,170 and 200
feet wide, and down the centro of the prin.
cipal streets ars avenues of stately trees
and wall -kept boulevards dividing the Street
into emotions. Tho buoinoes streets are
solidly paved with imported stone. She is
lavish with the electric light, and her street
ear system is the simplest in the world.
The river front is constantly accompanied
by miles of masts and smoke stacks, and
the levee groans with its great burden of
cotton and eugar. The public squares and
parks are numerous and monuments are to
bo seen everywhere. The famous French
Market has a world-wide reputation. Hero
the slava business was transacted in its
palmy days.
Numerous pointe of interest aro situated
just outside the city. The cemeteries are
located midway between the city and West
Lend, Lake Pouchartrain. They present a
unique appearance to Northern People ;
interments all being made in voulta built
above ground, the graves are consequently
very conspicuous. West End, on lake
Ponchartraiu, the largest inland lake of
the south, and five miles from the city, is
a great resort. It is a oharming little
place. Spanish Fort, eight miles distant,
is aloe an attractive point, and is a place
of historical interest. Algiers, across the
river, is largely visited by the city people.
An event of considerable importance oc.
enrred in the city during our visit. This
was the famous Mardi Gras Carnival, of
which the outside world has heard and
road so mueb.
For two days, the World's Exposition
has lost its attractions. The tens of thou-
sandsofstrangers in New Orleans have
turned their thoughts away from the dis-
play of Arte and Science, Industry and In-
vention. The beautiful grounds, the mag.
nifioent buildings of the expoeitiou have
lost their fascination. Mardi Gras --
Shrove Tuesday—is the day of Days in
New Orleans. In obedience to the Royal
edict, all business, is suspended, schoolsboth
are a clonblicsed, private,
and
folly reign supremo. Masqueraders pre-
dominate. Processions are in continual
motion on the streets from morn till eve,
and from eve till incite] Ott these two days.
The night processions by torchlight are
remit magnificent. The immense tableaux
ears, representing the myths and worships
of China ; the illustrations of scenes from
Ivanhoe, and the Legends Beautiful are
wonderful in oonstrnetion, gorgeous in ap.
poaranee and s.
They aro all preparedoustthousands bo order of indollarPurrs.
'Chose who saw Mardi Gras and its accom-
panying attractions in February 1855, Saw
the ((limas of exhibitions of this character.
As rho lights from the torches vanish in
the distance we turn our steps homeward,
amazed at what we have been privileged to
witness and weary with so numb pleasure
concentrated rn so short tt time.
Tinto bas 11on'n rapidly sines wo left
Roma, and we realize that wo kunst bid
adieu to tits city which hem beau the me-
dium in affording us 50 much pleasure and
delight, and accordingly on friday evening
wo say farewell to rho World's Exposition,
the interesting city, friendly and courteous
people, the blushing bridal roses, the fra-
grant orange groves, mid the congenial Juue
weather, and depart Ona return jonruey to.
the snow -mantled but over.welcome and
alterished north, Unusual pleasure, inter-
est, instruction and profit are in store for
all who on conveniently pay a visit to New
Orleans and the World's Cotton Oontennial
Exposition.
Everything is clear fur the hosting
of the Scott Aot in Middlesex,
.A. keeper in the tVieenip,og ;iaylutn
was murdered by an in -a00 w.nlnen.
A Toronto polioenn'tn w is s tep•tid-
ed for being drunk while 09 11,11y.
A man and bit wife perished pct the
flames that ,instr'ytel their mina at
Haysville, Out.
A Belltiv]i1e exchange u;tys that a
ruiner while camiug 11 that town
recently overtook a middle-aged man,
who, having asked for, tette given a
rids. '1,'tnt former imorrapttiug the
latterfound that tli etr•utgor had
travailed ,lir foot frau tl,l %them, and
the rottvtet wad lhtt, ,aving travelled
from tin extruulo eastern part el the
Dominion to the place mentioned to
see the welfare of nevem orphans of a
airier late 1y killed ha ,et accident, he,
by hie evil areteeistol minus, had
sent inti, easel, ,tu,l urn, 11.tviu{ fnurle
for hi + 1,va pas ewe, to tit In lonely
and s t,l trip Winn( md• 12 Duo t is
true it is a"bri„!tt oci10000 „1 d:)vott•
od