The Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-05-19, Page 1010
The °Oer'Leh. 8igataldstar, Thuay, May 19,
The. Blue Thumb
OUR MAN IN SAVANNAH!
Tootling' -_a1 g. nnfamniliar
roads. " Seenetimesa, mistaking a
tern, You see some amusing
signs, or so they seemed when
the company was, so congenial.
"I lectrically Controlled"' Bird
Sanctuary". was one, followed .by
"Pope 'Hunting Club"; but of
course this was John ,Wesley
country. An authentic piece of
local 'color; a bit of card staked
on a pieee ofplough, notifying
a KKK meeting there in four
days time. Some unusual place (.
names too: 1AReund 0" and'
"Ninety-six";- even "Thundler-
bolt."
Before we looked in o n Sav-
annah wepopped into Hilton
Head Island and had lunch in
the well appointed dining room
of the Hilton Inn. This is ar-
ranged like the Durres Village
and right or. the 'leach.' Had
accontmodatir n been available,
iL Would have been a better
stop -over thar Beaufort, its sole
drawback being its isolation, but
if you care for !beachcombing
By G. Mact,EOD' ROSS •
this is for y01 The Hilton Inn
is not alone; others cluster a-
rotind And "Adventtlee" .IS yet
another hostelry, equally attra -
tive. The story goes that the
merchants of London. Town sub-
sidized „Captain Hilton, to survey
the coastline south of Charles-
ton, S.C. He wiled ,out of the
Thames in his ship "Adventure,"
discovered Hilton Head and re-
ported so favorably to his back-
ers in Lombard street, that an
expedition " of colonists sailed
forth.
In 'Old Savannah
Savannah, " Ga. is approached
from -the north by a bridge over
the Savannah river, which forms
the southern boundary with the
Carolinas. Georgia, consisting
of the triangle bounded by the
Carolinas, Florida and .Louisiana,
really had several historic per-
iods: The Franco -Spanish, the
English, the American and the
Civil War. °o, as, you peraTii-
bulate the streets of Savannah,
you are constantly jumping
from one per'od to the next, for
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PiOPANE LTD.
this 'is a . great.. city for monu-
meats- and like all selferespeaet-
Amercian cities, or "firsts."
The first steamship to eross the
Atlantic; the first ironclad; Wes-
ley's first ser mon; First Pro-
vincial Congress and so on.
Although, in U163, Charles Il
had given the eight Lords Fro-
prietors a grant which extended
from the Florida border to
North Carolina inclusive, they
had failed to do more: than set-
-tie the Carolinas before their
Ineptitude got them dispossess
ed in 1729, when the Crown took
back the administration of the
two Carolinas. However, in
1717, the same Proprietors had
granted an area' between Tiff
Savannah and Altamaha rivers
to Sir Robert Montgomery. Ile
was not as successful as his mod -
Retired Engra.ver, Artist
Winning Medal Designers
The- retired ohicf engraver of allion and Mcs. Hunt for the
the Royal Canadian Mint, Tho-
mas Shingles, and a Toronto
artist, Mrs: Dora de Pedery
Hunt, are the winning designers
in the limited competition for
the Centennial Medallion, Can-
ada's Centennial Commissioner
Jahn Fisher has announced,'
Mr Shingles, who now lives
in Victoria avid Mrs. Hunt will
each • receive $1,500 for their
winning designs; Mr. Shingles
for the obverse side of the rned-
reverse,
The naedalllons, more than
5,5Q0.000 of them, will be dis-
tributed to all Canadian school
children, grades one to 13, as
reminders of the Centennial
Year and its significance to Can-
ada and to Canadians.
" The medallions will be mint-
ed by the Royal Canadian Mint
and will be made of red brass
metal, an alloy of copper and
zltic. They will be one and one -
flagged. We have had to pro-
greee, which means Make more
taxes. So we• find all the old
houses in this area have been
"restored" by the South Atlan-
tic Gas Company and all In the
shadow of what is almost a •mus
eum piece of a gasometer, while
the houses have been let as
ern namesake and failed to set- offices for insurance brokers and
tle the tract at a time when real estate agents. All akin to
England was anxious to set up the pen* wise, pound foolish
a buffer state against Spanish policy that we know so well
Florida. It was then that one here at home.
James Oglethorpe appeared, and A Whiff Of Treasure Island
in 1732 secured a charter for Obviously when you run up
21 years. Oglethorpe was a fore -I against Spain and seaports and
runner of. the Prisoners' Aid So-, West Indian trade, you expect
ciety and had studied the F911 -;-pirates, piecee of eight, runt,
tent of the English gaols !and; and Aden dcublooris and you
found therein a number. of solidi get them, for nearby -is the Pir-
citizenssuffering.vindictive sent- ates' House, erected in 1759 as
ences for very minor offences. I an inn for seamen. Tradition
It was some 120 of them that has it that none other than blue -
he brought out and landed at' faced Captain Flint of "Treasure
Charleston. The. town of Sav-Island" died here . shouting:
armee was immediately laid out "Darby'. fetch aft the rum!" I,
by Captain John Bull' (presum-'have to report that the inn looks;
ably the original J.B.) a Caroline very euthentie. though, it too,;
ion engineer in 1733, on a site'
well up the Savannah river, yet
'forming a fine accessible, , yet
easily• defended, seaport. The
layout was unusual; built to'the
'design of Robert Castell, a fri-
end of Oglethorpe's, it was bas-
ed on a central apinaT str`ee"t colt=
ed Bull street, which runs nor-
mal to Qhe river front, and hay -
Ting squares arranged at three.
block intervals. So today the
name:: of Oglethorpe, Bull. and
:Montgomery still recur, With a
'statue. to Oglethorpe in Chip:
coin" and is by Alex A. Law-
rence. Throughout its pages,
while you glimpse the indomit-
able spirit of these people, you
are at the saan,e time overwhelm-
ed by their insularity and -their
ignorance of, what they faced.
They failed to realize they did
not possess either the manpower
or the munitions, still less the
leaders required. ` Their self-
confidence was amazing, until at
last the cruel truth, was present-
ed to them. 'I his account brings
home the brutal form !of war-
fare practised by Sherman in
his march to the sea through
Georgia. characterized by a fifty
mile wide swath ''of .desert of
his making.
quarter inches in diameter ar
'about the site of a silver dollar.
Distribution of the medallions
will be done thraugh- the co-
operation of provincial depart-
ments
erpartments of education, and terri-
torial •governmlents.
In the 'case of the latter, many
districts :in far north eastern
Canada which cannot be reach-
ed by water within the schedule
for distribution of bhe medal-.
lions will receive the medallions
far in advance of other. Can-
adian . centres, with aircraft—of
the RCAF making drops of pack-
ages of medallions in the North
late next autumn. They will
be presented to the school, child-
ren on June 1, 1967, in simul-
taneous 'ceremonies with_
held elsewhere in Canada.
Communities such as those to
the Northeast of Hudson Bay
and north of Fort Churchill a-
long the west side of the Bay,
as well as such locations as Alert
Bay and Mould Bay on the Arc-
tic islands will receive the med-
allions in this . way.
It is a dangerous fallacy that
black coffee is a •ceetain antidote
in cases of alcholic impairment.
You begin 'to realize why the The Ontario Safety League says
South has never forgiven to this that coffee has no effect what -
day; why it was said at 'the I soever on alcohol In the body.
time: "If hate had been a wen-' It is a mild stimulant, but, taken
pon, Georgiars would• have been to counteract drowsiness, its
well armed:" -You understand effect is only slight,-antl•- trans-
how—the
rans-how•"'the North became a stink! ient. It' does nothing to im
and a by -word among" other nae prov2 a driver's judgement, per-.
tions." " ception, reaction or vision.
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Good seaports are ,got too
plentiful along this south-east-
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trade was - developed in silk,
drugs and wine .The c bb1e_ __.
stones which pave' the streets
running down to the river from
the Factors' Walk came in- as
ballast in sailing ships. while
he. e you ran see examples cf
some of the hest cast-iron v rk
in railin`s and fences—that re-
main, e •
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I As a further example of en- The. Civil War mean: some
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river front, once 10 acres in ex- get in ,o the spirit of those days
tent, and forming one of the 1read a comparatively recent
'first' experimental gardens in.. !IND collection of letters and
Amer'c under a Dr. Wm- Housdiariea of the citizens. It • is
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