lari

ance at Wha’

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN JUNE 21,

i has Taken Place

During That Time.

rst Mayor and Councillors--—-Olé-time Civic Officials----Other Items of Interast.

a cee. jaa

years would enable nim to Speak Wilh @ personal knowledge of what has transpired during the whole cf the period under con-

ation, But as this has not been done

HE City of Char- | power to adjudicate upon such cases as ottetown since in- might come before him in the City Court, “orporation! This and to perform all tie duties of ihe Police sthe theme that I | Court of the City of C nerereeres Mr. um asked to treat | Fitzgerald held the ion of Stinendiary the Jubilee! Mavistrate and Judge of the City Court

ion of rn nutil 1893, when be reai ened to contest an

¥ Ix ‘ER. | election in the City Charlottetown. F. regret that the) lL. Haszard was appvinted in his place, and

k has not been ne stil holds the office. The mar age~ signed one whose ; ment of the Police bas also been vested by

| re : }

; Statute In the b Police Court

| the Stipendiary Magistrate is a Justice of

diary Magistrate.

we Stiper

esides presiding over the

i the Peace for the

whole Province, and is I must make the most of the matter, | also Judge of the City Court where smal! speaking with a personal knowledge of | debt causes are tried. The present clerk wh: as occurred In recent years and | of the Magistrate’s Court is H. V. Palmer, relving 1 ' uch information as | m ays I who Is a mos! competent officer. His pre~ } able to aca regarding the transac- ecessor iu Cilice was Alfred Tomli us, W ho tions of the earlier period of the time | died a few years ago. a view | Mr. Lawson he the position of Phe City of Charlottetown was incor- | Recorder of the City until age and in- porated in April, 1855 The population | firmity,compsled him to resign. Since then at that treme was 6,500, and Sir Dominick | the following gentlemen have filled the Da'v was Lieutenen -Governor of the position: —

Pro ee Robert ae «ke ww aire Aug. 12 , 1874 1 first civie election was held by | Louis H Davies ies onstpe Feb. 2y, “yi William Bagnall, High Sheriff of Qaeen’s | T- Heath Haviland... 0.7 aoe phe

a se : | R. R. Fitzgerald, ib ere eneudaua Aug. fe cece County, on the Sth Augast,1955,a few) py) Baczard wy.a's scones as ge, Oe months after the incorporation of the City: |

cams 1 . 4 . . The various Mayors and Councilmen who

t this election, Robert Hutchinson was . as ii :

: 5 ee oo ; ee | have managed civic affairs since incorpora- elecied Mayor and the folluwing gentlemen |. : ; : . of 7 7 | tion have had the best interests of the

OUNCILIOTS ° | : : i‘ ‘ . ‘

: : | City at neart, am r legiSiation hs -

Ward 1—Benjemin Davies and Robert; ~. ,, ett <a eget on

; variably been forthe public good. Mis-

Lonzwor H Pe | takes may have been made by them.for all Ward 2—John C. McDonald and Don- | eae - ,

pe | are adie to err. But such mistakes as were

ald McIsaac : : oni ent ’ ; - ae were Lonest ones and wrought bo Ward 3—S:les Barnard and Artemas G. © : serious injary to the city. Sims. i ee cl | Twoor three years ago the different wards Ward 4—David Stewart and Thomas! | ‘ .

y Dodd oi the city were read Ijnsted

and the number of Councijlors reduced

Ward 5

Eeariz.

Vhe first meeting of the City Council was held at the res dence of Mayor Hutch-

Au-

etipg the follow-

Pownal Street, on Saturday,

1855. At this me

ing Officers were appointed : City Clerk—W. B. Welljner. Recorder—-John Lawson. Auditors—Willism Cundall and John

inson, gust 1],

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Assessors—Jobn McGill, acd William Heard.

City Marshal—Michael O'Hara.

Ofthe gentlemen who composed the first City Council have passed to that better life beyond the

Ri; Henry Smith

the greater majority

grave. I believe there are but three of them living at the present time, Hons.

Thomas W. Dodd and Benjamin and Richard Heartz, Esq. father of Mrs. J

Davies, Mayor Hutcbe- son ‘vas che D. Mason, and Mrs. Roderick Cameron of this city.

At a meeting of the City Council! held on the 18th February, 1556, Henry Palmer was appointed Chief Engineer of the Fire Department and held office for Following is a list of the Chiefa

y

about a

year. of the Fire Department since incorporation,

with the dates of their appointment :—

Beery PUR RNGe. os 5S ccceccesccancccs Ok LONG BE, IO 6+ so une 1857 Silas TI oes dbo. ccsc sass see ee, ee William Heard.........ccccceeceree Sept. 1858 dames Buncan...............+-2.0an. 1863 Thomae BU07 ....cccccscccccoce. «Ome: Lee Dovald McKinnon................J0an. 1875 BE FE i Fi net ccisbnces as cocceseast. See A: TR stb died Oo

Clerks

pointed since Mr. Wellner held that office.

There have been five City ap-

Their names and the dates of ti-eir appoint-

ment will be found below:

Peter McGowan..... ~Aug. 13, 1858 W. B Morrison ces coma Sept 5. i8i7 A. Bo. meroewes........ March 12, 1883 Duncan McLean (pro tem).Oct. 20, 1820 BE. . TpOR arcitesin csi. ~oiec. 8, 1896 Since incorporation the following gentie- men have occupied the Mayor 8 chair: Rebert Hute HIMGON c ccsees. <n: 1850 to 1267 Hon. Thomas H. Haviland..1857 to 1867 71 po s DesBrisay..... eoeee 1 801 tO 1872 Ne Rank Diccdcisuncuekias chee te peee , D ' TOo"F 1Q"y i | s CODITIGRY wecccceces 1010 to 13:44 a. S. Carve L877 to L878 W. KE. Daweon..... 1878 to 1882 1) M. He DOP ncccccccsccccces L882 » LOS4 He osece. aoe o 1886 | He i. Heath daviland ®. C.1836 to 1893 W. K. Daw =¢ age eee es mikcshoee to 1897 iptot vear 1875 the Mayor and one City Councillor preside: over the Police Court. ln May of that vear the Provincia! overnment made a change and appointed 2. R. Fitzzeraid Stipendiary Magistrate

azistrate was given

Thomas Pethick and Richard

W. E. Dawson > present

is Mayor of the The Conncil the

io eight. | City at the | Board is gentlemen : Ward 1— Henry C. Douse. Ward 2—Francis P. McCarron. Ward 3—Thomas Z. Taglor. Ward 4—Donald Nicholson and Dr. H. D. Johnson. Ward 5—Alex. Horne, and Geo. E. Hughes. The present Mayor and Councillors have been most zealous in the promotion of the people’s ivterest. Under their direction affairs have gone along smoothly, and the park roadway, that beautiful and

time.

compo:ed

¢ L

“£ Pal! rine of fo! lowing

D. L. Hooper

| commodious thoroughfare the formal opening of which will be an _ interesting

feature of the Jubilee celebratior, was completed. The cost of the roadway was | borne partly by the city and partly by the

Dominion Government. The Provincial Government granted a portion of the land.

H. M. Davison is City Clerk at the present time and he has proved himself to be a most efficient and painstaking official.

Robert City He the discharge of duties, and is in every way reliable.

Portraits of Mayor Hutcheson, the first Mayor Haviland, Recorder Lawson, oveupy prominent positions in the City Council Chamber to-day. Tiey are from the brush of that clever Islander, Mr. Robert Harris, now of Montreal, aad those who knew the gentlemen refer to the portraits as “speaking likenesses.”

Vaniderstine has been

is

bis

Collector for several years past.

most erergetic in

and

.

Writing int century, and taking a glance at the forty- two years which have elapsed siace town of Charloite was raised to the dignity

the

of an incorporated city,

observi. taken

our fair Province,

g that great changes have

place in the capital of

avd that these chanzes have al] been made

with a view to the betterment of ourselves

} and our sarroundinpgs must be admitted.

Charlottetown now boasts of

many

| modern conveaiences. It has a system of

| tele phone ser- and

of

era yh and light

none

waier worl KS, tele

e-ec-ric ap

re alarm, which of if time.

existence at che time

Tude

even da ial

in

rporati Or eed, it isa question

; were nt of at that

in these matters Charlottetown

with

in

g up the chariot

the near futu sewerage will undoubted

heoming. It tock years of persistent

1nd re ay

of

|

| Es , be

one cannot help }

omnes dinnananatiins

| person of

he autumn of the nineteenth

} } | | | | '

azitation to obtain the waterworks eystem

which we now enjoy, but now that an ex- cellent supply of water for fire and domea- iC purposes has heen obtained the people without it for

wonder how they did FO

many years. The Act providing forthe of passed the Legislature in the and

introduction of a system waterworks year 1887, work completed Jhe work of

' tine

very soon thereafter the

of construction began and was with ail possible de-pateh, erection was undertaken by citv, and

Hen. David Laird, Jobn Kelly and Alex- the sioners elected under the Waterworks Ac. of he Kelly and McKinnon

ander McKinnon were tirst Commis-

Hon. Mr. Laird was chosen chuirman the Commiesioners, a position which stil] holds, Messrs. died some years azo, and their places are tilled by Mesers.

Smith.

Peter Halloran and Henry The Commissioners have always

and

ability,

been men of good business

Road, and that section lying north of Euston Street and imediately east of Prince Street Las also been built upon to a large New and handsome dwelling

houses Lave

extent.

also been erected at Brighton

Road. Throughout the more ceniral portions of the city, building operations have also been active, and many hand- some residences, well appoimted stores

and spacious churches have been erected. Ju-t

now the Roman Catholics are making sub-tantial progress with their new Cathedrel, the cost of which will be

in the vicinity of $100,000 and the super- to fiud The

+ Lave replaced

difficult Provinces of Paul’ their oid house of worsh'p by « handsome + to St Peters ec

gation have built a new church at the west

ior of which it wiil be

any of the Canada,

cengregation of St. a> oe

e -itrneture, and mere-

end of the city. Sub-tantial aad comm

dious churches have also been erected by

LIEUT.-GOVERNOR

; the Presbyterian, :

they have discharged iheir duties faith- fuily and well. They have a thoroughly competent and popular secretary ip the

Mr. painstaking and energ intendent gin Mr. the last- tioned gentleman also fills the office of City Surveyor to t

Dancan MclLeao, and a

sty eLhe

enper

of work Chas. Dalziel.

men

he satisfaction of tbe

Mayor and Council and the general public

In the good old days, as some people

delight to speak of the time when they

were much more youthful than they now

are, Charlottetown p oper was rot so large in area as itis at present. I mean by this that it was pot built up to the extent

it now i+. Indeed it is not verv many vears

since the northern portion of the city was extended beyond Eu-ton Sireet and

that fine section opened up and developed. Less than twenty veara ago that part of the city between the Malpeque Road and Queen Street, known as Chestnut Street,

was a swamp and apparently of very little

Counclllor Douse.

value toapy one. But some people who saw in it a source of revenue filled up the

place and built upon the land thus made.

What is true of Chestnut Street in this particular applies more or less to other streets to the north and ncurthwest of that place. Each year that portion of the city

is partaking more and more of a residential]

character, and it bas been found necessary

to extend Queen Street to a point some distance beyond Spring Park. Prince Street ias also changed greatiy

in appearance and character Guring the

last twenty or thirty years. North of

Euston Street, time | a bu hand

1 seen tne

where there were ar

One

1 92a ach ev aS aif&O Cx

per enced

Iding boom and new some of the

somest residences in the city may be

re. A ‘urther South alo: 1g r thes ame

street on what was a few years ego the

residences has be

placed t e superior of which it would not ;

citie of

be easy to fi 1G in

YD: e-

Pp

a) ; Handsome

greater yns than Charlottetown.

&

and valuable resi erected at the north eg city, extendirg well

dences have also been

tern section of th

the Si,

e Peters

\

HOWLAN.

Baptist and Methodist

denominations. Two well-appointed Hospitals have also

been put up in the city, and in these the

sick and wounded receive the most car-ful

treatment and skilled medical aid. The Charlottetown Hospital is ljocated on Dundas Esp'anade, and is under the management of the Grey Nuns. lis erection was begun by His Lord-kip

Bishop Mclatyre, of revered memory, and the work was pushed to a_ successful termination by his successor in the episco- pal chair, the preseat Lord Bishop of The Prince Edward Island Hospital was erected subsequently, Si. Road, This yeara new Prince: Eiward Island Hospital is to be built onthe Lower St. Peter’s Road, near the Trotting Park, a plot of Jand having b2en donated for that purpose by Rev. Ralph Breckeo.

In the matter of business houses there

Coarlottetown

and is located en the Peter’s

has been a most ralical change. The en- tire south side of Queen Square has been

rebuilt, and handso-ne and well appointed

siruciures of brick have taken the P' ace of the woodeu buildings waich stood there not so manp yearsag>. New and

nandsome brick stores have also been put up on the north side of Qneen Square, and more are to follow. On Queen Street, west (f the square, new stores have also been and some of the old ones have been so changed for the better as to be un- recognizabie. Further along Queen Street,

erected,

extanding south and north, new places cf

business bave also reared their hesds ,and those which have not been rebuilt have been altered and eager To be sure

there are a few of tue old-time structures stil] standing on Upper and Lower Queen Street, necessarily follow thosesthat have

before.

but in the oear future they must

£One

A new Opera House was erected a few

years ago on Grafion Street, near Queen. The building was put up by the Masone,

and ie two ( \ i 3 bave

their meeting room thers Tue Opera

Jouse is very commodigr s, and the ‘

Prothonotary.

; CONCE

1897

appointments throughout are excellent, I has supplied a want long felt by thea:re- goers, and it has been the means of induc- ing a of

Charlot:etown on their itinerary.

better class players to place

The city has erected a brick building on the corner of Queen and Kent Streets, ov the second floor ct which are jocated ibe cflices of the Corporation and the Water Commissioners a8 well as tne C ty Coune:l Chamber and the Police Court. Central Fire istation is

The oD the fir-t with entrance on Queen Sireet. lice Station

tloer, The Po- the Fue Station, and is entered from Kent

is in the

rear of Street. The F.re Companies have their meeting rooms on the third floor. The general fire-

a'arm is in the Central station. Al! alerms

from the street boxes are sent in here.

Excellent eee for exhibition pur-

poses have been erected at the eastern end

Iu

upon

ee

of the city, near the railway crossing.

connection, there is a race Lrack

which meetings are held duriag the exhi- The track

biuon 1s cne of the best in the

lower vinces, and some interesting

> races have taken place thereon. hib

and are

The ex prov

‘h wdvantage of to a very

‘men to the whole

yitior iS BIC.

yince, te Le Dia ‘On sarge

extent. Iu former times these exhibitions

were managed by Commissioners appoint- . ’:

ed by the Provincial Guvernment. Now they are under the management of the

Exhibition Associaiion, which receives a

grant from the Government each Fear. On Market Square there has been a great The market

change. rousd

building

wherein those who came beiore us made

their purchases, bas been replaced by a more Commo iious straciure, the upper and

po

ouichers, market

lower portions of which are occupied by

1 3 } gardeners and others

.. — who trade in arlticies more or fess peces—

sary in every household. Every depart-

{ ment of the market is well stocked, and | Tuesdays and Fridays are field days, es- {pecially for the gentler sex. The cld | court-house building, which for years occupied a prominent position on the square, is now a thing of the past. Ib

| this building were located the post office,

1 pt sliee sts ALION, ani j po.ice court,

Passing eastward, and entering Queen

Square, what a change is to be seen there.

A few years ago this Square was io reality s = ] Z

@ common, where cows and other animals grazed and the sinall boy played at cricket Things are The Provircia! Building, a stone structure erected

and olber games. ditferent

there vow, however.

before the writer’s time, is now flanked on either

‘side by a maasive brick building, the one

j in the western section having been erected

by the Dominion Government and that in

} : . ; they wonld do something in this line on

.

the Provincial Government have not shown

disposition

any to do a similar act of kindness for their portion of the property. It was hoped that

Councillor Taylor.

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the occasion of the Jnbilee celebration,

but the fence seems to be as far away ag ever.

T wenty—iive or Hills. borough Square was one of the p ersantest

I:

laid ¢ft, aod well eared for in

thirty years ago

places ef resort in the city. was ore tily the-e dava, [is walks were neatly kept and its There

evenings

Feats band

the how-

. . ; most inviting. were #'50

eonecerts on certain during

summer months, During late rears,

Its walks were uncared for.and it became toall in‘ents Horses cows obtained entrance through defects in the fence or

ever, things have changed.

a common. and

|

the eastern section by the Provincial Gov- ernment. In the Dominion building may be foun! the Post Office, Savings Bank, Customs and Inland Revenue Departments, and the office of the of Marine. | Lhere are also apariments for the use of ' the Inspector of Weiglits and and the Inspector of Gas.

A gent

Measures Ta the building in the eastern section of the Square is the

Supreme Court Room, the high court of ihe province, with Cauambers for the Judges, and the offices of the Judge of Probate, the R gistrarof Deeds and the

The Law Library is also 11 Building and

jocated here. Jn the Provineis

T

is the Legislative Assemb!y several

Government offices, The grounds about

the Square were nicely laid off some years transformed

4 band 70 AZO,

ago,and the place

1nio a

aS ' ¥: eautiful flower garden. stand

was erected a year cr ty, and in the pr sare given by one of the city The Square, always a popular resort, is th

ronged on the

evcnings of the summer months onen- ade concert bands.

these The Square is badly

evenings

rts are given.

in need of a new fence, however. A few years ago the Dominicn Governmen erected an iron fence around their port I

se.ya

e place, but up to the present write

HIS WORSHIP MAYOR DAWSON.

TL TN Att tet

turnstiles, and roamed about at their own sweet will. Very young children gam- bolled about the grass and plaved havoc with the trees, whilst children of a larger growth inda‘ged in sports aud pastimes

oh nson.

ohn

Councillor J

pris within its precincis. The on latform in the centre £08,

i ‘ns of masic wer? seu