HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-04-22, Page 31]1.11I ,'SIAAV, APRIL 22, 1937.
THE SEAI+ORTH NEWS PAGE THREE.
s Titrntbery and d9owiok, aid proved a
naroil9 s Ave. Railways boom to that district, causing the
(By W. IH, (Johnston in the lion- growth of Gorrie, Wroxeter, and
stns Free IP7e,se) claordwich.•
The county of Huron possessed ad-} liowe'ver, the narrowsguage road
'vantages over inland counties in be- did not prove a success in the Coun-
?•ngon the shore of Lake Huron, The ties of Grey and Bruce, where the
county, alawys noted for its fertility, show in winter often drifted several
grow great crops of wheat and other feed deep, and' ,the trstins were liable
produce, and a mal+ket had to be to leave the track where the snow
found for them. As there were no was deep. •Consequently, in Midi and
ruilmoad's, mit ch of the grain was ship -
standard
the road was changed to the
'ped by water from Rar'fiekd, but muchstandard gauge of other railways.
more .from Goderich. For :20 or 310 The GP:R. controls tie road now,
miles wheat was teamed to Goderich, and has a short branch running into
and often oxen drew the loads, as \Wmgham from Glenannan.
horses were {ew. The fourth railroad for Ilurol
On 1!4511, the Buffalo C. Lake Huron county was organized by a group of
Railway was opener!, and then .Gode-
rich.
financiers in London, chief among
rich, Clinton and Rea forth became the whom was the late Sir John Carling.
centres for the ,,hipment 01 grain, These sten saw the possibilities in
Srafrmtl r nccialt' was a busy rutin building a road almost due north from
Condo! to Winghant, through the
Ter the grain trade. Sometimes there
MI.ver one mile, of wagons and rich and fertile district in Centre
sleighs with grain resiting to he un -
through
The road was planned to run
lc 1rt(,1, Many o{ these loads of grain through Exeter, 'Hensall. Clinton,
were driven front points try to 30 Blyth and intermediate Points, having
notes atc.5V. Ls it any winder that \\'ingham as northern terminal, The
Seainrth was a h•insy and prosperous organization was ,begun in 71473, ,bat
town. in those days? Goderich and the road was not opened until 167716,
Clinton were too, only to a lesser Even then the company did trait get
degree_ full possession of the road because
The huge traffic aver the Buffalo the contractor, I-Iendrie, of Hamilton,
& bake 'Huron Railway lint the de-
velopment of agriculture in North
Huron, _Bruce and Perth 'combined to
advertise the need of a •railroad for
that territory, and tairleawake financ-
iers huiit a ,road from 'Harrisburg,
through Guelph and'Palmerston, to
Southampton, on Lake Huron, with a
branch line from Palmerston, through
Brussels, Lncknow, 1ipley to Kin-
cardine. This road was known as the
Wellington, Grey & Bruce ,Railway,
and it opened up a large territory
with litre possibilities. Its route 5505
Well settled with a line class of peo-
ple whose farms were about two-
thirds clearer, and they mere just in
shape to take advantage of the ship-
ping facilities provided by the new
railroad.
The road was opened in the :spring
of 118751, though not quite .6nfs11ed,
and the writer remembers. sawmill ac-
tivity in the vicinity of \'1'hitrelturel,
IHenfryn and Attroocl; the latter point
then called Newry Station. A List-
owel firm owned 3,21)6 acres in the
'Mina Swamp, and out millions a{ feet
of lumber there.
I-nnknow,. Brussels, Ripley. •snot
Kincardine made rapid strides.
In 17367, the Toronto, Grey &
Bruce Railway Company was organ-
ized to •i>uild a marrow-gnage railroad
from Toronto to Owen Sound, with a the line, Not only these villages pro -
'branch running from Orangeville to i titer] by the building of the London,
'I'eeswater. For some time they had, lil(1'(>t( eC 144'11". hut villages like
to move slowly, httt by ;II:grecs they Uashw•ood and lt,rieli, a few mics to
prevailed upon the municipalities to the %vest, shared in the convenience 511
vale them liberal Iloli(155', and the having shipping points not fair away,
road was completed. rh The t'nderieh & Guelph ,inunction
This plan o, securing honttaes from R tilway partly owned by the City of
473 towns, villages 11 township.; en- t,nulph, and running frown Guelph to
staled the promoters to build these ti od'rich, is part of the C. P. R. sys-
ratl :,tys at little coat to themselves, tela, and was built by them with the
had an unpaid claim of $299,000'
against the company for his work,
\\'hen titi, debt was paid, everything
ran smoothly, and the road was a suc-
cess from the beginning.
.1 great impetus was given to the
growth of the villages along the line,
When the road was opened, Exeter
,tis a village of -a few•, haudred peoP7'5,
but in less than ]dl years the popula-
tion had increa,cd to 2,11)10, and its
manufacturing concerns gave employ-
ment to a large number of workmen.
The elder Verity started a small
foundry in the north end!, and made a
financial success of building, reapers,
mowers, plows and other agricultural
implements. Exeter gave 'hint a humus
of $10,000, and he built a larger brick
foundry downtown, and tyeltt into
manufacturing on a larger scale. In'
144814 \lassey-Harris gave him an or-
der for 5090 plows.
In IBM, Hensel! was 'hut a name.
The Pettys were farmers and drov-
ers. They saw their opportunity, and
laid out 50 acres in town lots, and in
the spring of 11877 they held an auc-
tion sale, selling a large number, The
village 'began to grow rapidly.
As in ,ffen.sall and Exeter, so in
Londeshnrnugh and Blyth, Expansion
and prosperity visited these tillages
as well as all the other stations along
but with .1 (sine •'p1'i,rtlanity to make tun of 711111 nuu•ctiol will Lake
1 c ;neI51y with C;odcriclt. It
ar0.011„5„ester stoat crasser] ..stets Ii•tron near \\:(hon, and ries.
the nsr11,.5-Tern 'owner of Huron s,• .'tens i .•'Yt11 and :'ulnen, sere-
!
,. :h ,1,:: Ta,wnshi,s ,, area ,,, o.'o-rt. tr• ,
coi!. 1 1
tory. The last few miles •before enter-
ing IGod'erich were expensive to build,
rumor claiming that itcost about a
million dollars a mile. The approach
to the town over the Maitland River
was especially difficult.
The Lake 'Shore 'Railway is one
store railway that has been the Cause
of store controversy and ill -feeling
than all the others put together, and
that is the one projected and buil,
but which was never really in rvn-
ning order front Goderich to Kincar-
dine, It was 'built along the side of the
Blue Water Highway nn a grant of
land two rods wide on the cast side 1
of the highway, given by the town- I
ships. The projector secured from a
!lumber of municipalities guarantees
of large amounts of 'bonds for the
building of the road. 'these guaran-
tees were secured after mach opposi-
tion in the townships was overcome I
by a popular tote,
'fire guarantee's
t granted, the loud.
found a ready market, and the road
was built. The long -since rotten tint -I
hers of the culverts and ties on the
track, as well as a bridge over the
Nine -Mile River at 'Port Albert,
caused hitter continent.
The road was almost completed,
but its ,sponsor disappeared, The mun-
icipalities found themselves saddled
With large debts that they had to pay.
There was no relief in sight, but the
Great \\'ar 'helped them when the A'1 -
lies fnmxd they needed railroads in
Prance to bring up supplies, Many
miles of light railways were ;built to
till the need of moving food and am-
mmnition quickly. Canada supplied
much of the steed needed, and among
the Int were the rails from this Lake
Shore Railway. The 5111liutt paid for
then, was received gratefully by tate
townships Nebo had guaranteed the
bond -s. •
lit 15)38 this debt will be paid, and
the nightmare that has been resting
on the municipalities concerned for
the last 3(1 years will be removed.
Notwithstanding the failure of this
last railway to materialize, we find
Huron County well served by the lite
roads in active operation.
AT OTTAWA
Ottawa, ..- '1 Special Parliamentary
Correspondence.) Much legislation
finally agreed on, and much discus-
sion in consequence, not all of the
latter vital, were crowded into the last
1reek of the Eighteenth Parliament,
with three sessions daily. 'I'o record
the whole in detail was 0 mighty task,
is the fattened Illaneards show.
The major legislative proposals in
Ibis restricted period varied more than
lsltal'in their reach. They reacted in
;'romp; creation of various iopposi-
tion:, 171 vigilant in the exercise of
their respective fnnetions, Not, how-
ever, all under leadership, styled "of-
ficial" tit e dominating -oust. But the
otlieinl ,q,l,sition," under 'dr. Ben-
nett,
nett, moved a superior constructive
nsr^•lue,s over any other group of
objectors,.
\1r. •n
nett ar1+ 1 l not 11r.
11!miliu ',
formula that 1 bu•la 5.01'd
:tut J''1 !lave its oak,. after rat" t5 it,
have justified withholding financial
aid from this western :province, The
Opposition leader questioned the
Strict justice of the IBank of Canada's
refusal to lend Alberta money. There
was the iLIonvnion's credit 'to uphold.
There were also possible grounds for
this aid; but there was no provision
in the IErstimates, ,incase iA'ib rta de-
cided on 'terms of compromise. Hi-
charge was that '.A.herta had suffered
discrimination as compared with the
two sister 411105ie provinces. The net
effect of the discussion, was a half -
promise by the Finance \linister of
assistance to rAthrrta, contingent on
the outcome of provincial budgetary
developments, Arr. Bennett's word ill
season in support of the 1lonse of
C'onnlnons Social Credit grind. by ad-
vocating assistance to Alberta was
not altogether in vain.
The footnote to the gllvernment's
sel>edel' of the Canadian National
Railway s financial ,tat, merit stands.
But it is not as originally contended
for by the ilpposition, ,Minister Howe
wtt5 adamant in demanding the dele-
tion of 1hr figures of about one billion,
three 11 11101 d and thirty-five. millions
.which represented 4>rS(prietary equity
and actual debt-theamount of mon-
'3' that had lien expended on the
railway units, Now, minus these fig-
ures, the font note directs that all
sue, information may he found in the
11(1111' accounts of 'Canada.
:\s a bnrlad place •tor the :tigeres the
nubile accounts were described by
\lr. Bennett, in effect; "The differ -
•1155 4 etlt•eeh1 the ~tunic' 11gnres and
these of the \linister is the difference
between those who desire to disclose
a situation and those who desire to
conceal it."
Sonteilne with a growing prejudice
against commissions ;and their invar-
iably high rusts, now so prevalent.
has dubbed the latest project in this
line; "r10 •Enquiry to Restore 1'cdcral-
Provincial 'Harmony. This body will
prepare a report, for consideration at
nest session, 'based din enquiry, how
an arrangement can be arrived at to
make w•orkehle financial and ecorto t -
i5 co-operation .between Ottawa and
the provincial governments. This was
promised offhand on the eve of the
last election, But now a chapter co11111
he written on the varying !mints of
vier)' that have arisen •between the
pro(iut•rs since then,
Ands(15511(1)4 w'itlt another commis -
511111, ('sti1115(('5 naw- provide the 1(1 -
creased sun 'f „$1110.11410 for the" Purg-
ers engl(iry contenting various
pleases e'f the mta'lt discussed \\'heat
.1 more expeditious method was
provi(1ed int the ease of the develop-
ment of rile \laritin1e (:1tLintic) fish-
eries. instead of the ('nmmission
stase-,>f7, the s(1tu. of $5011,000 was
voted. This: is 111 addition to a general
_rant of 7^2,111 n1t) for tis}t enllure and
720,418) for oyster culture. The larger
non is to aid in the re-estahlishnloni
and reol•a:alizaliun of what is known
as the dried and pickled 0s11 iwanch of
-rte
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in the sum for storage .and marketing;
to expand the demand for the :pro-
ducts of the fish industry, and provide
better transportation facilities front
coastal paints. The respective sums
drawn from the $500,000 voted will ,be
subject to orders -in -council,
This is good news for the Mari-
times: :good newts for Nova Scotia es-
pecially. The .large grant followed the
openly spoken -of protests in the Lib-
eral caucus by Nova Scotia members,
Premier Macdonald was recently in
Ottawa. 1 -lis was said to he a visit of
conciliation. Provincial elections erre
due in Nova Scotia before the snow
flies.
\M'r. Bennett's unrennittii1c and ml-
dottbted 'parli'amentary pilotage in a
aigilaut andw3 enustimeti)'' sense, a;
\lcssrs. King and Dunning enhesi-
tatinzly admitted in the last hours,
vas boisterously coluftrnied ,by their
Following and, indeed, by. everyone „n
the Boor of the chamber. After the
of al adclress to 1-1 is \f ujesty had been
'a sed, the members standing in a
Indy
meanwhile, the taco leaders
•puktz , hrieflr. Appreciative .Miles
were noticeable after Mr. Bennett had
suavely acknowledged the 'Premier's
very pleasant references to Itelnfnl
15,. and excellent temper in practical
'(1 it4e•ti nit, coupled with congratula-
tion" on physical, improvement, due to
his recent tour. These smiles grew to
a prolonged on1(1(irst of laughter. in
which Mr. King heartily 'joined with
the house. I1 followed 41r. Ilenneit'a
world -tour ,prescription --tendered to
'Ile Premier and some of his followers,
if and trhen in ,O'pplsitioll,
Py way of sunletling not unlike a
climax, \ir. Bennett, arbsequently to
the tribute paid hits, listened attent-
ively to Minister of Labour Rogers'
reluctant acceptance of the decisions
,{ the Senate regal -1111W the t'olnhjnes
Commission, '1'lte 'Opposition Leader's
plea in the Commons for the liberty
of the suhiect had borne fruit. Now
the visa, or warrant, of a judge, not
that of the Minister of Justice, as
n•npns (1, will precede a fall i'n'quiry.
:titer the preliminaries: are submitted
by the Combines commissioner, The
latter acts as instructed by the Alit -l-
ister of Labour ander the law.
THE CRACKSMEN tomary moment—thus 'forestalling a
Late one Saturday night eight mer centra4 station .alarm. So efficient is
with badges and drawn revolrcrs,tbis scheme that it was recently pull-
ltnnrked on the doors of a m0,1551 led on rite of the leading branch
Chicago apartment hntrse, As cant 1 hanks in New York to the tune of
honseholrlcr appeared I15 was iofornt-'$`$,1111,11. Now, engineers have shrewd -
ed that they wereand 1'cd•eralt agents ; f ly eoiultered by making every vital'
rotting a nlLniti chafhrp nun
entrance• to the hank a part of the
alarm system, 'huts, when the -suave
''715) uj 11 (•errs- occupant of the flat. gentleman with the brief case steps
'I'hrn tenants - 41141 of them .-- were l u„ behind a bank ffi
herded into an apartnc•nt on the•' official at the stunt„r
second floor where they learned whatstn`k apIgun
' he d§uin s 171,1vasribtass and toldrays,.
Was really afoot.
"Ogen u'he's
1.11e eight men were bank burrlars But within 90 seconds the Ihltilr]ing
obs'tac'le, That is more than Isere bur-
�glarlyt--lit is •en!gineeris g, and it offers
some insight into today's 'problemof
how to stake a "strong 'box” secure.
While xttassive doors and walls .are
Very impressive, the real solution is
to put the .safe or vault inside a
wooden ca'bine't—a com'pova tively
:flimsy cabinet, which you cauid
amass! open with a ,baseball bat,
Yea, there are thousands of safes
la the eouutry protected in that man-
ner and not one has even been attack -
,:d .;vert -fully, I nr those cabinets
have hidden \tires leading out of the
building !o a central station on duty
24 hour. a clay and tied into police
headquarters. Smash that cabinet
Leith your baseball bat, and inside of
two minutes the cops will 'be upon
you, to this way therraeksntan has
been robbed of his most vital factor:
the time '10 stork. That, in spite of all
our bolt, and 'bars and vaul's, is ex-
actly- what modern burglary protec-
tion simmers down to The principle
is applied in the enormous new vaults
of the 'C1. S. Treasury at'Washington,
recently completed after almost two
years' work. With all its formidable
array of safeguards - 310 -inch walls
and •floors of toughest steel and rein-
forced concrete; doors which weigh
39 tons, although not touch taller
than a man—the Treasury is taking
no chancel... Walls and ceilings are in-
fester] with sound .detectors which, a't
the slightest hostile noise, will auto-
matically lock every exit front the
Treasury 'Building and summon the
local guard. the police, the fire ,de-
partment and military assistance. A-
lert banks and mercantile establish-
ments have similar systems not only
in vaults but throughout entire build-
ings. Stie'h wiring .can't he tampered.
with in any way without Setting off
an alarm, One tett• device, a -watch-
dog safe," .,gives an alarm throngh
101dy magnetism acting on a 'photo-
electrir cell when one merely ap-
proaches it.
With nighttime attacks frustrated
by snc11 nifty' gadgets, 'bandits gai.k-
ly got the idea of the "opening hour
Hold-np"; waiting for the employees
to arrive and compelling an official
to open the vault at precisely ,the ens -
Under the ',,use WaS tht•c vault r, f fs surrmilrle(d h' armored police car.
l
large p5i5575 hank. 1\'lih• the All that tot 1
tappened was that the offic-
'
a45. male themselves rontiort:tille
ra'1 merely turned his key to the left
under the
tuts of two alert Imrt rn_Iinstead of to the right as usual—or
tat guards, the ro{ te h:out lv,'') pressed ail he tyay intra the slot
to work with nxyarctyest-hh�nc t,rcttr', instead of it ttwot
third; in. This opened
For 1.1 hunts, working ill relays, they
the door butt a?so transmittcrl the
alarm, Similar trick lock,
••' , ntic •iy ,orad through a 0 rah n tellers'
tleu r, n reinforced e„n:retr ccthn., .t•1,, cages, vault rooms, etc. accomplish
x 111'111iple-layered steel ;ted the same thing. Nothing is sintnler
"per than to
tall; roof. Then ,,1,•v h, 1n l them arid, city. Int digits to the nor_
e 1 ,v'r ",r1,u%I , ,1'. ca -'L mal sale combination anti thus trans-
mit an aIartn znt'ir5 the nnsns>ectiir;
,,,int of return, this is an out-
1.11.
.tt- 1
nose ,,i the intrndcr. lleeatlse of auc'1
hat 1n utmost! it rs not ,
;union. 117 '• „t t
' ,.. t u Entik ai �i>anh attack; Yn-
n,, ,e resiricted to hack.cari
. l:a i, U1 t5 (7"Ilt '173(3ltaIt 5litrn11'etil'
, +-.1"y-.. 1.'n1.,r-,sir.,• jr'hs .., ,
"tectt,n, and to elayt1111,1 1,1,1ty-
11,1,1-1174•, the essence of the s:loess-
\loth a•'c
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u1 stick -1115 is cdncktwork 11,5(1 ,;1 11
'_tt'l,nn1 job in Si. 1'an1. The 14411146"g itttcnennnbr•r(11 speer! John
ratrati, is that the safeguarding of dl4noger once boasted that he c otrld
tc1lti1 has been 11 amt. and tuck battle
le:tt ea•tt yolksand bnr;alsu's,'with in-
genuity pretty- well divided. 'When'
the wooden strong 'box gave w -ay. to
the iron .safe, the locks remained
(weak. About 1(415, after Ianits Yale,
Jr., had publicly picked. the 'hest
locks of the day,' combination locks
came into Ilse. But !burglars found an
easy way to open this newfangled
keyless lock merely hold a candle to
the bare feet cif the .man who knew
the conl(ination and'he'd wax confi-
dential. 'Then time docks came in to
defeat the torture method of opening
safes, So the yeggs merrily poured
ulro¢lcc•rine into the hairline crack
of the door point and blew the door
off. When man'u'facturers produced
ti ilcpiidpproof safe the cracksmen •de-
veloped a magnified can opener with
which 'they ripped open the hacks of
safes.
Now the strong lox has a liFd-tun
door; walls of ntulinle layered, 'high
tensile -strength steel alternated with
'lye -ply. drill -proof plates of welded
r r1 11114 steel, all hound together
1 05uund to a liquid -proof tit. .And
,ae hair l'r!115 hurglaries. The ex -
i• that u'hat elan can stake,
can break—with one proviso: the
to w-+ rk unlmole ted. 1(1 recent
e, cracksmrn have tunneled
tuner r,wld down an alley almost a
'block ir,n1, coming :up through the.
coli.: 11,,,,r. ,ir worked in under-
5x(1(11( ;roma sewer t:'ine. 50 feet dis-
tnut with '11111 a1)1azinz. are11785y that
anis, •,u reed into the vault through
'It'-.dor'r ;v1,irit waC 171`-
. --criihrv,l by fi-tnres c'5. any. other
clean: out any bank he worked on in
three minutes and 40 seconds --and
since his moll collected over 4_114,OtJ9
1n less than four months, it is clear
that he knew what he was talking
about. The thing which makes this
speed possible is the exposure 'of
large suets of counter currency; bait
there are many devices to circumvent
counter hold-ups. As incoming cash
exceeds a safe (figure, the teller may
drop the surplus in a .compartment at
tine rear of the drawer; he shuts the
drawer; opens it—presto; the money
has disappeared into a hiding .place
well protected by a delayed time 'icsck.
Many teller's drawers have spring
bottoms; the honey lies nal a Inovalble
slah which is in itself an alarm. Take
out the money one way and nothing
happens; lift it another and the silent
alar 'goes in. .'Scattered all through
the premises are other secret signal-
ing devices such as coping rails, Inno-
cent looking 'footrails, and What not.
Rural Mail Courier Killed at
Level Crossing-- n
C'1larle,s Weiss, well known rural
mail- courier of route No. 1, Shakes-
pearc, met almost instalttanenits
death on Monday afternoon when the
car he w•as driving was struck 'broad -
de by a speeding Canadian National
Railways passenger drain at a level
crossing south of No. 7 ansi,1 high-
way. The 11(55' car \Veiss was driving
ht. ! only 400 miles registered on the
speedometer.
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