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Lucknow Sentinel, 1910-08-11, Page 8• Lucknow's Business Men GEORG1r1. DOUGLAS The name of George Douglas is as- sociated with one of the historical in- dustries of Lucknow. In the year 1866 —forty-four years ago—the firm of Lees ii Douglas (Sr.) was established, and commenced oper- ations, in the mill which is still stand- ing and still utilized for the same purpose. • as manufacturers of woolen goods. The business grew to large proportions After the death of George Douglas, Sr.,: in 1885, it passed 'in an , almost direct line into the hands of its present pro_ ptietors, who are sons of the form- ' er men. George Douglas, • therefore —the Jorge whose picture appears above— bet been connected with Lucknow Woolen Mill for fifteen years, in part. nership with George • Lees. They manufacture yarns and blankets in large quantities, and ship to all parts of the province: Mr. Douglas is a member of the Lucknow Council Bc,ard for the present year. REGE. BARRETT. A business theit deserves a .word of notice is that of Rege. Barrett. flim self a young man and not long estab: fished on his own account, he has, in a comparatively short time, made many friends in a, business sway a3 a maker aid dos'eL in harnoss, and saddlery entij?} ' l , trade wit .-fids ei .`S , 0 ` eriy mice i as dn apprentice. He 'has since moved eck to that very shop, and displays uncle a very complete stoat in the axions lines pert•iliing ,to his busi- ness. in tl son son) an e .kca and, ach cow Belf year ship toget store party eron on' hi went year betw THE LUCKNOW ORCHESTRA. On page three of this issue will be found a picture of the present Lucknow Orchestra. The musical taste of the village finds fit expression in this little group of players; and they receive numer- ous engagements to play on social occas- ions. Reading from left to right the names are: Mr. D. J. MacCharles; Miss Dora Lees; Mr. J. W. Henderson; Mr• Wm. Davison. DR. TENANT. For nearly forty years, a physician in Lucknow. Dr. Tenant came in 1864,. immediately after graduation, and re- mained until his death which occurred in 1902. The Dr. was very prominent in the Orange and Masonic Societies, and is pictured here with his Masonic regalia on. THE LUCKNOW BRASS BAND. The first Brass Band in Lucknow was organized by RobertGrahan: in con- nection with the Orange Society in 1867. An instructor was engaged who came up at intervals from Goderich. Since then band after band has been organ- ized and again disbanded, as players came and departed again. The Band of the present summer whose picture appears on page 2, is unusually good and strong; and promises unusual per- manence. W. J. TAYLOR. In a paper such as this we dare not omit the name of William Taylor. He himself would forgive us, no doubt, but many readers would not. For he is a big man, a strong man, a popular man, and better known, perhaps, to the farmers of four townships than any other grocer•'in Lucknow. Searching for some outstanding feature of William Taylor's character to touch upon in this little sketch, he appeals to us, curiously enough,not as a grocer, or an athlete or a pri- vate citizen, although he is all these and very worthily so; but, in a general physical way, as a man who can do things. He is a man of energy and enthusiasm. For the rolling of a sugar barrel, or the commanding of a fire brigade, or the decorating of the streets of Lucknow for an Old Boys Reunion, not a man within many miles is to be compared with him He approaches a task as if the sole end and aim of mortal existence were to accomplish that particular thing; and lo! before the draughtsman's plans are finished the bridge is built. "Blessed are the peacemakers" indeed; but equally blessed in this dilly-dally world, it seems to us, are the men who, in the kindly, cheerful way of William Taylor, do things—and do them so well. Twenty-one years ago, William Tay- lor came in from his farm somewhere in the north country, and entered the hardware business of his brother, Mr. D. C. Taylor. Ten years later h3 was no longer a hardware man—he was selling groceries further down the street, having gone into business for himself. And there you may find him at the present day; usually with a row of customers before his counters, a number of buggies standing before his door, and himself to busy to have his photo taken for the Sentinel. more than ordinary excellence in' two widely different arts —the nets of music and p tinting. His first lessons in both well taken in Lucknow: for he worked • A.s• a• paintef •with his father, the late Joseph Anderson, and at the same period took lessons in Instrumental music from. Miss Kate Strong, now in Chicago. That was nearly twenty-five years ago. After a short •time spent in Toronto and Woodstoak, b1r. A.ider:,on removed, in 1890, to Buffalo, where he engaged in contract work as a decorator and ornamental painter in various lines, and studied music and voice culture under Mr. Geo. Whelpton. For eigh- teen gears he was tenor soloist in Lafayette,Presbytorian Church, and was connected for nearly two years with the Lafayette Ave. Baptist Quartette. He was also instructor in vocal music for a time. Two years ago he returned to Lucknow, and has since been actively engaged both in painting and in the teaching of music, having, in the latter capacity sent out some very successful pupils. For some time Mr. Anderson has been leader of the choir of .the Meth- odist Church sere, and was instru mental in organizing for the Old Boys Reunion a splendid male chorus of voices, which could not well be sur- passed by any similar organization in the city. MRS. N. CAMPBELL Almost too well known to need a word of reference, is Mrs. Campbell's Restaurant. In her present stand, Mrs. Campbell has been supplying Ice Cream, Fruits, Soft Drinks, etc. for about four years; and has a patronage which is both large and constant DR. GARNIER. .a of the famous old timers of :now. Perhaps no man who ever iced medicine in Lucknow is ;r remembered by the passing ration than Dr. Garnier. No i of his life is here attempted. was noted in many ways:—as dical man, as a naturalist, as a of books, and not the least as a ' strangely blended character. •nier was the author of a dra- ;nce Pedro," which is a remarkable production and n to have been a man of in average intellect. His urred in February, 1898. JOHNTON. John Joynt. A young Tho has climbed to the s ladder without leaving T. L. TRELEAVEN. It seems the very irony of fate that a photoprapher cannot, with any as- surance of success, take a picture of himself. He who so often has occa sion to desire a pleas int look on an- other person's face, cannot fix and discover one on his own. But "Tommy" Treleaven has accomplished that feat; for,if, as we suppose,he is the artist of the above picture of himself, he has made it as pleasant and as like him- self as the limitations of art will al- low. T. L. Treleaven, who took so many pictures of the "Old Boys and Girls" when they were on a visit home, has had an extended experience in that work. For twenty years he has been a photographer in Lucknow. He learned his business here with E. L. Johnston, who will be remembered by the older generation of residents. After serving his apprenticeship, he spent three or more years in Mount Forest; afterwards returning and establishing himself where we still find him. In addition to his photographic gallery, he carries a large stock of stationery, novelties and cut glass. ware; and manufactures quantities of picture post -cards. Much of the il- lustrated work in the present edition of the Sentinel was done by him. NOTE Space in this issue is found at the last moment to he unexpectedly limited. In next week's issue of the Sentinel will be published a list of the Reunion visitors, a list of the Caledonian prize winners, and other matter that will be of interest to readers both locally and at a distance. Extra copies will be sent to any address'at 3 cents each or 2 for 5 cents, to cover cost of mailing and postage' . • I ,j , , ..,1 'JOHN McGARRY. Here is a genial Irish face that will be quickly recognized. Wbo is there, indeed, that does not know John McGarry, one of the meat pop- ular men, both in a business and pri- vate capacity, in two Counties'? The McGarry House, which John has owned and conducted for twenty- two years, is one of the land -marks of Lucknow. It was built about fifty years ago, by John McKenzie, who is still alive and now a resident of Rip- ley. He was succeeded,"as proprietor, by Dan. McDonagh, he by Rdbert Copeland, and he again, in 1878, by Robert Whitely, under whose name the House was conducted for ten, years. Then came John McGarry, from Berlin; and so long as he is w fill- ing to remain. no one is likely to de- sire any further change. J. C. ANDERSON. Visitoi;s to the great Reunion could scarcely fail to notice the many beau- tiful, painted streamers with which the "Old Home Town" was decorated. Those streamers were the work of one man, whose picture is hero presented. Mr. James C. Anderson is one of Lucknow'9 sons who has attained to JAMES IRVING. A business of comparatively recent establishment is that of James Irving, agent for Goold, Shapely & Muir Co., Brantford. Previous to starting on his ow n account, Mr. Irving because widely known through a nine years' connection at salesman with William Arlin. The present agency was taken over by him last January. The lines he carries are all the products of the firm above re- ferred to, and include' Wind Mills, Grain Grinders, Concrete Mixers, and Gas and Gasoline Engines. MOOR EROUSE MITQHELL. The subject of the present sketch is one of a family of three brothers who, for neurly t enty five years, have been intimates 'connected with the saw milling iudu ey in Canada. The ')articular branch of that in- dustry followed by thein is the man- ufacture of maple roller blocks for washing machines and paper staining; and, under the firm name of Mitchell Bros., they •o.j rate mills at Holland Crentte, Berkely, and Lucknow, with English headquarters at Liverpool. The Lucknow branch was established in 1886;,first in what was then known as McCarroll', mill, and three years later at the G. I'. R. Station.. Mitchell Brothers first came to Canada in 1858. The family located for three years in Wnitby; moving theice, in 1871, to Huron township where their milling operations began. Mr. Moorehouse Mitchell, with whom the present sketch has to do more particularity, was for a number of years a schoolteacher. After the es- tablishment of the Lucknow mill, he went to Liverpool . and was for four years manager of that end • of the business; afterwards returning to Lucknow to take charge here, where he has since resided. The business of the firin is a very extensive one. • The annual output from their three mills averages one hundred and fifty . thousand maple rollers, besides by-products. These rollers and additional large quantities purchased from other manufacturers are exported to London and Liverpool. For some years past the firm has b•.en supplying the English m 'rket with a special article in hardwood from the southern United States. Their bus- iness in Liverpool includes, in additicn, the manufacture of'Parquette flooring, and Piano Key boards, for which pur- poses nearly half a million feet of Basswood is imported annually from Ontario and Quebec. Mr. Mitchell has served four years on the Lucknow Council Board, being one of its members for the presont year. Personally, he is a man of ex- ceptional.,- mental ability, knd: as a platform debater possesses few equals. •s • D. C. McMORRAN. 'Dan' McMorran is a musical genius. if there is any musical contrivance under the sun that he cannot play, it would be worth a journey to see. The camera man has caught him in a char- acteristic attitude—surrounded by his favorite instruments which he can "comrnand to such utterances of harm- onThe chronology of certain lives is a matter of minor interest. In this connection it need only be said that Mr. McMorrari nas been for 13 years a resident of Lucknow, and that his original home was in Paisley. Since coming ':o Lucknow he has been more ,intimately as-•ociate.1 with the rnusica life of the villas than probably any other single individual; having been for a number of years in succession leader and instructor of the Brass Eand, also for a tiln3 c rnnecte 1 with the Orchestra, an:1 widely kis awn in a more individual capacity as a musical errter'ainer at concerts an 1 sucial L Witty The Great Home -Gathering (Continued from page 1) Every number on the programme was worthy of special mention. There were—besides the selections of the Lucknow Pipe Band and of Mr. Geo. Fox, Violinist,—a selection, "Annie Laurie", by a quartette of the,St. An- drew's Highlanders, led by Mr. R. S. Rankin, a vocalist an 1 instrue*tor of wide reputation; a recitation by Miss , Dhalia Pears of Toronto (who is a grand -daughter of Mr. Robert Graham) a little girl whose elocution- ary powers astonished the audience, several songs, rendered in splendid form, by Mr. W. G. Gilmore, of the St. Andrews Highlanders; a song very sweet'y rendered by Miss Murray; sea eral recitations by M r. Ed. Rich- ards, a former resident of these parts; recitations by Miss Elspeth McDonald of Tor.into; and :everal vocal selections by Mrs Haysteacl, who like her father, Mr. Rankin, has attained to consider- able distinction as a Scotch vocalist. Mrs. Geo. H. Smith presided at the piano. The concert concluded with a Grand Chorus, Auld Lang Syne, sung by the whole audience. * * * * The great crowds ha -e melted away. The Boys and Girls have near- ly all departed ,again. On Wednes- day morning the. Queen's O: vn Band, the White Heather Band, and many of the Toronto people said Good -Bye. Many from Detroit' followed in the afternoon. Others, from all points, have been going daily since. Out- wardly Lucknow is much as it was before: the bunting is gone, the arches have been removed, only a few of the flags are still flying. But in the lives of Lucknow cit;zens an interest has been awakened which wi'1 riot so readily pass away; and the old time Caledonia i Games will surely be con- tinued from year to year so long as the sentiment on which they are founded survives. WILLIAM (1EDDE William Geddes is second among the present citizens of Lu" know who have bee,i longest resident .in the village. First among these is Mrs. William Connell, and third is Robert. Graham. Mr. Geddes arrived in. Lucknow when only four horses were standing. That was in 1862. He began busi- ness then as a cooper, which business he has curried on ever since. Mr. Geddes is associated in an in- teresting way with the religious his- tory of Lucknow. For nearly two years'after his arrival, there was no organized body of worshippers in the village, and, is may b' •added, no pub sic school. In 1863, he and Robert McCready, who was then a working carpenter in the village, organized and opened up the first Sabbath School. The first meetings crf hat school were held in an inauspicious place, being the upper room, among the hides of cattle, In McDonagh's tannery which then stood on the spot where the present cement bridge spins Campbell street. -Shortly afterwards the first Methodist Church was built, to be followed by a Presbyterian• Church; and the hdmble• Sabbath School was soon displace:1 by others of a' .more denominational chad•acter. 'liirty-two years ago Robert Mc- Cready left Lucknow, ;led took up resicence in Fargo, North Dakota. In• tide summer of the present year, Mr. Geddes paid him a visit; and the meeting between these two old friends, we, may suppose, was next best. thing to an Ohl Boys Reunion in Lucknow. • • ROBERT -GRAHAM A prose paragraph seems to us alt. insufficient tribute to Robert Graham; for he himself is one of the most volum- inous writers of verse in all Canada, and would doubtless more appreciate sonle recognition in that style of•composition. But to us the oracle is dumb; the click of the typewriter anal the rumble of the printing preps have stilled,the Past faint warblings of the muse; we speak of this man of measured language only in the plainest of prose. Robert Graham, whe has been' 'for forty-seven years a resident of Lucknow ----who has seen his family grow and de- part here—who has traced the history of the village from its earliest beginnings to the present time, and celebrated the scenes and incidents of that period, in a hundred different rhymes—was born in the year 1835 in the county of Fer- managh, Ireland. When only eleven years of age, his parents removed to Canada and settled : near Toronto There the future man of verse learned the prosaic trade of shoemaking, and after his•removet to Lucknow, worked at that trade for nearly•.ten- years. Later, he was for fifteen years a mer- chant. Thirty-three years ago, Mr. Graham. �ea,e appointed a Justice of the Peace -- an office which he still holds. Twenty- two years later he received another ap- pointment; an appointment so appro- priate,to the elan as we known him to- day that we prefer to think of him in no other connection—that of Librarian i;i tl:e public Library. For eleven years, Wcc. repeat, in the library room of the Old Town Hall, and now in the new, he hiss been handing out boos, entering names; recording judgements, and writ- ing verses. He has five volumes of verse alreadytwritten, and'will ho doubt have many more before he lays aside his busy pen. The life of Robert Graham has been a long and eventful one. His old , age is such in its activities and outward feature;. as we could wish orr best friends to enjoy. • .. • • JOHN BOYD & SON. On the west side of Stauffer street, not far from the northern limits of the corporation, stands a little shop which has become, among non-residents of Lucknow, possible one of the most wide- ly known in the village. In that little shop have been made in the past quart- er of a century sufficient artificial limbs to outfit a good sized army. This busi- ness was established by the late John Boyd about twenty-five years ago: It was conducted by him until his death, in 1908, when it passed into the hands of his son, Mr. A. H. Boyd, who is still carrying it on. Their products have been unusually satisfactory, and custom- ers have come to Lucknow from far and near to have their requirements sup plied. CON. DEC K ER. A well patronized tailor shop is that of Conrad Decker. Not many years established here—only three or four, in fact—it is rapidly becoming better known; and has no inconsiderable in• fluence in maintaining the reputation of Lucknow as a well dressed com- munity. J. W. MOISE. Farmers and threshermen whose machinery breaks have been thankful many times that there is a machine shop in Lucknow where such bbreak'ages can be repaired. That machine shop has been conduct- ed by "Wes." Moise for fourteen years. He purchased it after the death of its former proprietor, James Findlater, with whom he served a portion of his apprenticeship. "Wes" himself, has been in Lucknow for twenty-nine years -no inconsiderable fact when it is rem- ember what changes and developments that period has brought about. A CONCLUDING SURVEY To complete a survey of Lucknow as a business centre, mention must be made of several establishments conduct- ed,by people whose names do not ap- pear in a more isolated connection. • There are iu Lucknow three black- smith shops. One of these is a horse - shoeing establishment conducted by W. Morn, in the eastern end of Moise's machinesshop. The others are general -shops, with wood -working, and carriage painting and repairing, done in connec- tion. One of the latter, on Ross street, was for a number of years conducted by Rr ter, and is now the pro- street. . On the extreme west of 'Campbell s tweet is the Planing Mill and Electric Light plant: of Walter Stewart &• Son, .pictured in another column. Two livery stables, enc of these con- ducted by John Blake, on Campbell 4 street, and the other by Allan McLeod, on Inglis street, are each well equip- ped with horses.and vehicles, and have become well-known to the travelling public. • Perhaps, in the same connec- tion„it would be appropriate to refer to the genial 'Bus man, Mr. Albert Mill - son, who is such a humorous fellow him- self and carries such big loads of com- mercial urea to and from the G. T.- R. station every day. Let us mention, also, Aaron Bennett Canadian Dx.press man and Produce Merchant; Isaac Morrison, dray -friary; John Bennet, Wm. Woods and Robert Snelgrove, painters, paperhangers and decorators; J. W. Henderson, Wm. Fisher, and Neil McInnes, work- ing and contracting carpenters; John all. William Murdoch, masons and brick -layers; James Miller and John Watson, cement contractors; James Henderson, manufacturer of cement tile and blocks; David Sherriff, Grain Dealer; W. Spindler agent for Frost Fences: Thomas H. Treleaven, pro- prietor of, a Saw mill and choping mill, elsewhere referred to; Tnornas Irwin, Jas. Young, Wm. Henderson Geo•Robertson, and Win. Mckenzie, Live Stock Dealers; Miss Boyd, Miss Woods, Miss Gaynor, Miss McGregor, Mrs.• Wm. Smith, Miss Durnin an 1 the Misses Bowman, Dressrnakers; Miss -Pentland and Miss Armstrong, Milliners; and if we have then omitted any names the omission is unknown t3 us. A Dry Goods store of modest preten- sions but carefully conducted is that of Mendelsohn & Blitzstein. The partners have been in 'iness here for nearly two years, and 'in that time have in- creased their stock, considerably besides moving to eir present prefnises on Campbell. street. A large *ade in latsi'of at kinds is 'done by Britton Brothers. They came here from Teeswater about a year ago, and opened iitp in t.lie shop formerly oc_ cupied by :Tarries Smith. About a month ago'they•purchased the busines9 of their opposition, across the street; ane -now have sole control of the trade •• • in 'Lucknow. t V