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The Clinton News-Record, 1911-05-11, Page 3Nows•Rocord famotin ✓ MOO ' • feat MAIM Viding that nbserve&" and Mr. with this 0, it would precaution to ensure op. One of o4lay is Mr. made hun- forts of con - to grief gator is Mr, aflame -White ennett inter- elmont Park, arveilous es- eeting. He eventy miles eriot, which, Manageable ., Suddenly, lies Mr. Le 'the incident, loose from bsoluteiy be- ing for the h a few ter - at I had to ight fall on wind caught and hurled e at terrific ck the pole ground, and ole snapped , everybody c was killed acle, he es- ises. k, too, that thrilling es - a height of s, "when I to a cloud I had no ell where I w the only up where I emed much out of the t the hang - d swooped ubles were d come up ouds. My d in wind h time in e or twice attempt to In a Bier - nil of his the raorn- wed by a s smooth ye. when ngine be - I would was no nged into old 7:ater was due eroplane perfectly, he waves ke things sink at wept out not in id come, en I was the boat he aero - tor, Mr. thrilling tip City the alti- und him- lene. "I to smash ew I was n before. a little. re just ,a t a bowl- gan skip - stopped rk plugs ddenly a rly froze o fill my p. I was helpless pped al- ne down at dives end, but eep cool ed to me a rate of 1 at once otned in wouldn't r. I set ant little ared the g a hur- e sandy NGS orse.— direc- Rens- being in the n can yed.— space ength- mitted ut not le are The e who ✓ who tion STATION LANDMARK ,111tOrentIng History of the 013 1,,,e0 Depot Now Ultiltl by the Cane. dlan Pacifica One of the UMW/ htedrearlge Of Ontario Is the. beautiful old manor Isola° now use& in all its rustle dresn• by the Canadian Pacific Railway at Guelph. It was built unwarlla of n, hundred years ago by the late Mr, John Galt when Commitisloner of the Canada Company, ono of the pioneer laud companies of this country. Thin famous old structure is soon to be abandoned, it appears, for more m dem and commodious quarters, but steps are being taken to preserVe the, present historic spot as an interesting link between the past and the preeent- It is one of the oldest houses in this part of Canada, still lids the old 7 x 9 windows, its log arches, and other adornments, of the early nineteenth century. Mr. Galt, who left more than one of these footprints on the sands of Time, was father at Sir Thoinite Galt, late Chief Justice of Common Pleas, and also of Sir A. T. Galt, One time Finance Minister of Canada. The late Mr. Galt was the happy Pea^ sessor of much Scotch humor, and left a legacy of writings of much merit, notably. "The Annals of the Parish," Mr. Galt, in his autobiography, gives a graphic story of his joys and sorrows in the prosecution of his arduous du- ties of Commissioner. Arriving in Upper Canada in 1827 he began hie work of colonization, and obtaining information respecting the country. Having received permission to attempt a settlement he directed an inspection of a block or tract of upwards of fifty thousand acres of the Company's pur- chase for the purpose of finding within it an eligible situation for a town. AU reports agreed in recommending the spot where Guelph now stands. As it was too early in the year to undertake field operations, he decided to wait a few weeks:and gave orders that opera- tions should commence on St. George's Day, April 23rd, 1827, and appointed a national holiday for the ceremony. "In the meantime," writes Mr. Galt, "as I imagined it would not be diffi- cult to persuade the directors to erect a central office for the Company there, and as a tavern and hotel were indis- pensable. I set about procuring plans." Mr. Galt was the architect, and, as he believed "the style of a building should always indicate and be appropriate to its purpose," on every corner of the building he placed rows of glasses, bottles, punch -bowls and wine decan- ters. "Such an exhibition," he says, "as did not require a man to be a god to tell it was an inn." On April 22nd he went to Galt, "a town named after me long before the Canada Company was imagined." The next morning, in company with Dr. Dunlap, whom he met at Hon. Wm. Dixon's, they walked towards the site (Guelph), some eigh- teen miles away, half of which was through forest. They lost their way and wandered alone like "babes in the woods," until they discovered a hut inhabited by a Dutch shoemaker, who directed them to the outskirts of the forest. Next they came to the cabin of a squatter, who informed them that all the men had gone forward. About sunteet, dripping wet, they arrived near the spot they were in quest of, and found the men, under Mr. Prior, whom he had employed, kindling a roaring fire. After drying out, Mr. Galt pro- posed that they go to the spot chosen for the town. "By this time," writes Mr. Galt, "the sun was set, and Dr. Dunlop, with his characteristic drol- lery, having doffed his wet garb and dressed himself, Indian fashion, in blankets, we proceeded, with Mr. Prior, attended by two woodmen with their axes. "It was consistent with my plan to invest our ceremony with a little mys- tery, the better to make it remem- bered. So, intimating that the main body of the men were not to come, we walked to the brow of the neighboring rising ground, and Mr. Prior having shown the site selected for the town, a large maple tree was chosen, on which, taking an axe from one of the oodmen, I struck the first stroke. To me, at least, the moment was im- pressive, and the silence of the woods, that echoed to the sound, was as the sigh of the solemn genius of the wilder- ness departing forever. "I do not suppose that the sublimity of the occasion was unfelt by the others, for I noticed that after the tree fell there was a funereal pause as when the coffin is lowered into the grave. It was, however, of short duration, for the doctor pulled a flask of whiskey from his bosom, and we drank pros- perity to the City of Guelph." The first emigrants were from La Guayra in South America, 57 in num- ber, and on August 12th, the King's birthday, Mr. Galt invited a number of friends and gave a public dinner in the market house to the inhabitants. Subsequently Mr. Galt removed his family to Guelph, being induced to repair, for a residence, the receiving house which Mr. Prior bad erected for settlers, as it was much better than such sort of buildings usually are. He had hoped that ultimately the house would make a good residence for Mr. Weld, of Lulworth Castle, latterly Cardinal Weld, whom he desired to allure to Guelph. Here is Mr. Galt'S description of the residence which, as stated before, is now used as a C.P.R. station: "Having in some sort a kind of taste in architecture, it seemed to me that the house cduld be made into a comfortable ecclesiastical abode, and, accordingly, although it was only ten feet high in the ceiling, I employed my best skill in laying it out. The, reader will please to recollect that it was but a cottage of one story and formed of trunks of trees. As I have said, how- ever, before, it was of its kind very beautifully constructed by Mr. Prior, Externally, I only added a rustic poi% tico to it of trees with the bark, but illustrative of the origin of the Ionia order. it did not cost five pounds. The interior was planned for effect, and on entering was imposing, but the hall and two principal rooms were only twenty feet some inches square." UNFIT FOR FOOD Frozen eggs, preserved with'farmal- dehyde, which were seized by Govern- ment inspectors in New York as unfit for human food, were declared in the courts to contain 8,400,000 germs Ng teaspoonful. 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