J y _ .,,,_____and appointed n_nqy1;_,B_¢_)_ard with ti

late Joseph W. Lawrence as chair- '

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_PAG'lBcftlie Lat- nt Local and For: QRNING

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THE CHARLOTIETDW G, ARD

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' w”ifi=’r‘€1’f~l-‘i»‘i¢i’»‘»*‘&Es'2i."i»’i?ii’~%i°i..} --oss Larson Nsws ci'-iARLoT'rsTowN CANADA SATURDAY MA'iic'HT ' " sf" “&h‘.“ tfiilnl ' » ‘ , . _'25, 1911. irms-r or ALL" ‘ (£31, 0”'-h’§,, WMA __

El-lRLY DAYS

There have been many and grentf _ - __ ' ' _ w 4 ' ` '~ . _ _ .‘~

B 1' ments and successive Governments at

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;,-3;-,he-“,;_,_:;;, °1,-;,,,1~1-533--_-_ It Was the European and North American Railway Then, Running From St. Johnto Shediac, Without Any Rail Connections §i‘.ff.‘,§_'.‘.i..“,;‘?.i_‘.‘i»_§;‘, §.}';.”.?’.§.°§‘.'i_‘_~‘£__f.Ii

- _ rcnc men , u owe y rgc B! -

- The-Commission Plan of Building and Operating-Appointments Were All Political--A 'Bhaiige of Government I1i‘iI£§i1,d”°.?..}.‘.’;‘.‘i.2§L“i`.‘i.‘ii' l§‘i§;.l'..‘i.';“

changes on the Intercoionial R

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from St. John to Shediac in early sixties of last century. hops the writer cannot better

Per

oi= THE iuiERcoLou_inL iniiLw1lYoi= iirw Brunswick

set - -

forth the growth and development of ‘ - I ‘ fr th " l f I

t_ th _ _ _ __ _ , _ _ _ _ om _e ri\ary o a competing com

the --S --1 8- by -mf W-_mn When All ffi p y ‘ ' -How Appointments Were _-fllade. {:f;;‘._§'.-,““_.‘1.._;’,‘,‘,',’;:“‘;f,;i,°,,_f;,;’,}" _*;‘:,,,°;;,;

some personal reminiscences of t

days when the road was young and

'was managed on a purely poiiti basis. It had been constructed by commission of which the late Hone Jardine was chairman, and wa'-i o

pointecs were good Liberals of f

understood in New Brunswick. In 1865 the question of confrdt-r

hee scheme was submitted to the ectors of New Brunswick and reje

C3-I lor was] ,-

_ _“___ his __;3_I:_\_;;i=!___tl_ie__i_i_lT:_c__e___a_;idvc_';e:;i:_ov_ISuperintendent and Auditor ca li- day' I had three days in whicli"f:soldmYn the lme ““an“°““c9d' Bt(-‘PF

ersted by this commission under the U10 husiiiess. They can't teach the" ca" before my Station and Ste Fisher-Tilley Government. All the np- iv 1.S0nU:§€‘b|t€;)l: the b“"‘i“'¢sS 5° \<l“iCk~

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old school as Liberalism was then wx]n;ec:_?;':__;>\1_iy__ilaYs_ Mr. Flflizlcr

‘ Zen ous instruct-

01" He left h°W€V“l` on Wcdnesda

ent of the Railway thc l is none" 1 '

ei. _ _ » nic J. Ed- _ » said. He opened the do t_|lV'“‘l B9Y‘1» 9~E-. Hieiipcdoif a pass. IMO the freight room, which was in ii-gin,

1111>' tI‘!1ln and came in to see mn

0 cials and Em lo ees Were Dismissed

cash and the ticket case and app

me ‘able smithereens, to the infinite em gret of the undersigned and -to t

rmtly found them all fight-~ “But these res nts i ht c

_ hat about ___ _ ____ D e_ mg _ ome, to send

_ ,._| » _ y. i“' _ vcur lcisht le store. and tr ii-m t i th ch ti ,.

tion as embodied in the famous t ue- Just hero” he Went *hc Superintend-‘the S“l)9"1“t9nd@“t i\1<ll\i1`€\`l- "The H 5 1 or wi am wr bot

I I t

0!" Pray. go the bottle by return

the same building then, and it was In those da s the locomotives 'burn-

a- strappers of the railway to whom

rc tle, and as in duty bound would ever

re- he

__ ,_11_eri;_i_i_1ncnt loss of tl;e European and

, ` or American Rai way. Wherefore

fe§r;g__c;f1h‘;; HSkf=_<_1_ht0 see my hooks. r_ prayed him or such other oi _the

em- EY went over the Great Moguls, Emperors, or under-

]..`r,_ T » .» » _ '- ~,',.__.‘__-..

_ __ freight. '-what is su this?" he as

' " “early filled with odds and ends

in St01'8, hut it was all paid for.

_<_Ji eddwgiod, the cars, which were small

_ _ _ _ - sn ow, but of broad gauge, were

ed' 1 amd It was freight, Bhd lf Wit: l_i_eated by wgod-burning stoves and __ _ EN WEN. o course. no sleeping,

;t_;I_;s__i:_1§ra_iil{i_ niii_r_il_Jer of questions and dining, _or parlor cars, I _________e;_____o __t_>weBin course of which Meanwhile another nominal over. not c ___ 1'- _Dvd that there was_i-,urn had come. The Governor ____ __a__ci=in__;wo1th of freight in store N_ew Brunswick had been induced to the ranw BTI WHS 9~l1Yfh\Hg due to _dissolve the Assembly on the Confed- _da ___ they. t Kas almost the only eration question, which the people

y c year t at this could have this time had accepted oni ei ht

seine part in the public discussion

up _

instances of several stations not ii

yours."

From that time on I seemed t

the i|ues_tion _and__ had spoken _from will send a mnn to help yon Qvith a telegraph station. I wanted to g the liustings in Kings County' in oli- your weekly and niontniy accounts." 175° St- Joh" at Ona time and C0“1

position to the scheme as then pro- l asked him not to do so, but let me do so hy taking the last train pass-

posed. Three Anti-Confedcratcs were try my nnnn at umm and _,,e,,d them ling my station, which was at

,.|,.,-_mr from Kings C,,nnty_ Mess,-g_ n,_ 1,- they wwe wrmg he ,mum Bend o’clock D. in.. and return by the Sus- way officials and employees who had

of them hack for coi-rectioii. With somc`Scx train and driving from Susse

Viiil Earl and Scovil. Dr. -Vail

Sussex, thc head of the ticket, was hesitation he consulted to try thislhome. I left a competent understud made Speaker of the n:w House of coin-5@_ My accounts passed aulin charge, and there would be n

Assembly. The Tilley Government rc- riglit, it seemed, for I never was aSk_ trains passing in my absence. Need- signcd mid a new Govcrnmint was ed to wr,-or-_L U,Dm_ less to say I did not intend to visit cas-e of the station master at Pen-

_ Both thu Govcmmmt and the Chief the Superintendent’s office that trip.

Allen, the late Sir Albert Smith and Qnmmissioucr Wcre close economist; 'But on stepping on the cars in St. U12 lflfe HOD- TimD\1lY W|11`1‘0l1 Aug- Mr. Lawrence made out a most ern; JOUR almost the first man I inet was ent came along the line, dismissing

nominal and Simple time mmm The Qupe-rintendent Boyd. He greeted me pretty nearly all hands and laid on

for-mnd of which the late Sir John C.

lin were leading spirits.

dismissed the Rsllwa. Commissione

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The AUti"C0¥\f€d0l`8t0 GOVPYUNEIW through trains were reduced to two Uleasuntly enough and I hastelled t

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iirctty nearly c clean swccr cf thmtroih iesy-iso siissox in the morning

llallllcned.) In the end I received the Anti-Qonfeaerntes had new rsétnrged 1"'-arty °U“El`l1'f“1&ti0l1S 0f_U10 Sl1l"'cl`“ in a House of forty-one, these being '_:;_t1';_"‘§_?_i__;";_|‘° t‘;_1_§1 "_\_l_:10tW__BSdthe popul_a_rly known as “the French Bri- “freiglit in sthlre "e sind hen gaiiie 312 gade’ led ‘by Hon' A' Smlth' ai-

- » terwards Sir Albert Smith. The Til-

. y _g

_siichdgoogsh was well up in the ers was dismissed and the new Board ___\_;>___f_i_§1_n_S. _ c_s_c were not cases of proceeded to dismiss pretty muchal ods __-?_yw¢:____3 ___b:t__<g_ :_o_i_>:~_¢;_i;1_;¢_§l:- gre men wipe? dthe Anti-Confederate sandsto the r0__d___ _said M___ Boyd overnmen a appointed and to "if all the stations were run like

ty mil” B-Wa Where the ffei ht (W0 the Board of Railway Commission

stand in favor with the Buperintend- One member of the new Government ent. Only this or his goodness of whom I knew very well, in Passing

REVERSING FALLS, sr. JOHN hcart. lea him to ovoriooii some rath-

* " " """""“ ‘ -- " -- - ._ . ___ ____ "_ lnexcllsable breach-es of discipline ped off the train to tell me that

cd by them. The writer had takeiil"You have had no time to learn the 0" my part- His Om” WHS in SU

of business," hc said and adam in John, and Penobsquis was not the

Y . 0 right to remove such as had been

f- ley Government came back to power;

i restore their-friends to office. We ha-d

all expected this and did not mind it very much. It was the custom of the

o time.

up and down the line frequently step-

was all right, that he was my friend

n and so on. Then Mr. Livingston, o editor of the St. John Telegraph, d which was vigorously supporting the

Government, editorially insisted that

2 while it was right to restore the rail-

x been|dismissed by the Anti-Confeder-

ate Government it would not be

appointed to fill vacancies, as in the

onsquis.

But shortly after the Superintend-

ri my table a notice that alter the ex-

‘ was a meeting of the Government

ernment was in trouqle. Was it the

blazes?" I am quite prepared to be- lieve him, after my experience in b

mg kept awake that night. _

The trouble was this: The list o

Brunswick in the new Canadian Par liament and while Westmorland had been given two Senators and even little Albert County had two, there were but three allowed for the coun-

collectively as the River Counties. Here the reoalcitrsnts had evidently good grounds for their kicking.

Albert County Senators-to-be, would not give way. The River members

At length Peter Mitchell suggested a

tell. Next day I saw Hon. Peter Mft chell and Hon. E. B. Chandler pac ing up and down in front of 'thu House of Assembly. Little did they think anybody knew of what they were talking. But in the end it

who was 9, man of large fortune, af- terwards Governor of New Bruns- wick. had resigned the Senatorsliip to which he was appointed and Hon. John Glazier, tbechoice of the River members, was appointed in his stead. Later, when the federal machine was running under full power Mr. Chand- ler was appointed one of the Com- missioners for the construction of the Intercolonial Railway.

The following morning, after the

stormy meeting of Council, I called at Mr. 'I‘illey’s office to inquire why I had been dismissed from the rail- way. He was usually a very pleas- ant man to meet and received me cordially. I told him my story brief- ly, that I had always been a sup- porter of his, until the confederation question came up, that I had been appointed to a station 'on the rail- way which was vacant at the time, by the Anti-Confederate Government

s' our l jug SL John ann' one Icfwlyapologisc for being absent without Dify of one month my services would and 'bad been dismissed by his Gov- e ing S1-nyinc dnny in the mornin S_ leave, explained the circumstances _be no longer required. I-_Ie _was good ernment.

rhese were mixed passenger anniand li_ow _I_had_left iicapable and enough to say that he was sorry to He said-tbere~had~evidentty-\rUslr_-_if

man. The new Commissioners madc freight trains. There was hiso it "

before this occurred Penohsquis’ sta-

INTERIOR OF I.

tion had become vacant by the resig- nation of C. F. Flagler, the former station master. '1"wo or more friends of mine and of the Confederate par- ty. had been in training for the place and were pretty well acquainted with the duties. I had taken a notion that I would like a. rest from -farm- lulr. and asked Dr. Vail if lie could seniirc the place for me. He protest- ed that they must, give me something better, but dually promised to write the Chief Commissioner, and asked mc to call the evening of the next day- When I met him he had just re- turned from Bt. John. “It's all flkhtf' he said. But advised me that Mr. Lawrence would like to see me. I took the first_train to St. John. siiw M-r. Lawrence; who was very gra- cious and gave me my first railway liars and a latter to Mr. Flagler, Swing in brief, "As Mi-_ McCieady will succeed you in the office, please post him all you can." I presented

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<‘ml>loy€EB Of the railway from t-1101101' Ht. John and returning in the Superintendent down and appoints their friends to the vacancies. Just my ,station nrrived about an horn.

ll evening. The two trains that passed

apn.i‘t, at one and two o'clock p.m.

C. R. PULLMAN

Theic was a weekly special freig t train besides, which went St. John-‘ wards on Tuesday and back the fol- lowing day.

The people doing business at my

station I think were all honest and

reliable. If a man wiintcd a ticket __ (__ ____ MA________ME___EX__RESs

or to get some freight of his out_of tho shed, and had not the money with him. l lct him have it and put my own money in the cash box. True, the i-nies oi the road were cash cu delivery, but the railway could n0t and did not suffer. Sometimes a merchant wltli a carload of freight at the station would_want to get some one or more articles out of the lot and while the rule was that the freight on thc whole consignmznt must bc paid for before any of hc goods were removed. I still allowed them to get what they wanted and pay when they could. As a rule £1105' were promptnsss itself. One day there came a suddcfl test

of__lio_w thestations were run.___Th€

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` uoirrsmsi. rsois NOTRE

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DAME CHURCH.

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trustworthy man in charge. It end- ed by him giving me permission un- der emergent circumstances to do the same thing again when there was not _time to write for leave, provided I Ireported the matter to him after- ward. _

It was, as I said, a time of econo-

my in things great and small onthe

'Government railway. One mixed train each way did the business of ithe roa-d and there was'like economy in office expenses. The railway sta- _tion was a mere shell, and one night when the wood fire had burned out the single bottle of ink with which the station master’s office was equip- ped froze and burst. I sent in a re- quisition for another bottle to the stores department. Instead of the bottle back came an inquiry from M. L. Gross demanding what became of the bottle of ink that had before been supplied to Penobsquis station? I was a little iiettled to have to en- ter upon an elaborate correspondence about a five cent bottle of ink and therefore proceeded to write Mr. Gross a most obsequlous letter of two closely written foolscap pagq; on the freezable and non-fre-erable li- quids known to civilization an-d science; how, the liquid known asfnk was among the congealable fluids which at 5, temperatiire of thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit, and at zero of the eentigrade system, tended to be- come solid, expanding during the pro- cess with tremendous force; that on the night of the twentieth November- instant, owing to the intense frigid- lty of the circumambicnt atmosphere the sable fluid in the one small bot- tle allotted for keeping the records

do this, but he had no alternative, that I had done my duty entirely to his satisfaction, and he laid down a pass for me over the road for a year. I asked him, if all this were true, why had I been dismissed? He said he _ must refer me to the Commissloners| for the answer. I said I did not know ' these gentlemen. He -replied, “Come with me on the train to St. John and I will introduce you to them." I asked him if he would be good enough to tell them all the nice things he had just said to me? He said he would.

I went with him to St. John and

straight to the Commissioners' office. Mr. Boyd in this as in all other mat- ters was as good as his word. He introduced me and told the Commis- sioners what he had sai-d and don-e at Penobsquis.‘ The Chairman, who spoke for the Board, declined to au- swer or to discuss the matter. He referred me to the Govemment. I said I would see the Government.

Two or three months later I saw

the Government at Fredericton. I had in the meantime joined the writ- ing staff of The Telegraph and was sent up to report the proceedings of the House of Assembly in its last session ss s Parliament before Con- federation with full provincial pow- ers. I arrived the night before the House opened and I put up at the Barker House. _ The clerk explained to me that he was giving me Hon. John M. Johnson's room. He would not arrive till next day and then I must change. I found my room was next door Hon. Peter Mltche\l‘s with a connecting door between. The door was closed and locked, of course, but

of Peuobsquis' had become congesl-ed, had expanded and exploded the bot- tle into infinitessimal and irrecover-

one could hear any noise in the other room. And it was a noisy night in the other room for that night than

mistake made; that he and three or four of his colleagues had been ab- sent in England at the time watch- ing the_B. N. A. Act through Parlia- ment, and ended by inviting me to come with him at 11 o'clock when a meeting of Council_ was to be held and we could have the matter thresh- ed out. So at 11 o'clock in this dis- tingulshed company the young report- er went round to attend his flrsfr- and last-cabinet meeting. Mr. Tilley introduced me and said the mistake had occurred while he and several of his colleagues were in England. Poli- ticians have the quality of being able to make their friends feel at home. They made me sit down among them at the table-nine ministers and one reporter. Hon. Charles Connell was at my right and Hon. John ‘NIcAdam at my left. Then Mr. Connell said, "I want Mi-._McCready to know that I had nothing to do with this.” This was too much for Mr. McAdam, who broke in-"And I had nothing to do with lt either."

An almost painful pause followed.

Only live members of the Cabinet had been present when I had been dis- missed. Two of them had denied having anything to do with it. An- other, as I took occasion to remark, had repoatedlytold me he was my friend and that my position was se- cure. I thought I noticed s signal for silence given by the raised hand of the Premier. For some almost painful moments no one spoke. I rose and remarked that I was puzzled to

insisted and threatened to "bolt." _ `_____,_-_»"_»f_;'K,_¢,_»i_ why ont. what it who the event wiu 1*" §u‘ll"5,’§ = ’“C'{§f'-5-"-Q-.'¢3-‘ fr ' -V-

orable

ness That left four. Ot course l

against it iii Parliament. It has siff- fered, too, from lack of certalutyfis

in "Yon think nornebnrly in ryingj' 1 to its f\i_tui-c, and from hostile criti-

.Peter Mitchews wom_ and the Gow assured nnn that I nanny not tynnir cism behind which wus the desire ‘of

it possible that honorable mi-n would cnc creat ccmimny or an-:ther to ob-

late J. Israel Tarts who told that state that which was untrue, but was thin ll<'SSPSSl01\ 'lf if- 011 BBSY WINS _ i Governments sometimes "iight like Pllzzled- He Pfoceeded t0 Hilmln- by mas” 0" by |"'r°h““E1 ' Fmmerly

Four of the Cabinet were away in these inlfucrices centred in the West,

e_ England, That left nw at home tr, more recently, since the_advent of

do business. 'He himself had been U10 (`-llnfldiall Pflcilic Bhd U16 Calip-

I called away on urgent private liusi- lliun Nortlici-ii to Nova Sleotimnomo

i>entiniciit has giowii up there in fa-

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3;; °;;0‘¥_£;'€_dt'we£_;8 lr';p';:_1:;:€r'§g§ know about the division \,¢t\-,een viii- of one or other of these compan-

noi-thern and snutliern New lli°un.~'.- ies tiikiiig over the Government sys-

' wick. Well, before he left it wastem. The ucw vrctcxf- 101' f-MB is '

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UGS Of Kil1g'B. Quccn’B. Sunbury, . _ ,J ._. , _ York, Carleton and Victoria, known _ 'f _ _ _ _ if.,'__-_'--_fe-‘-_v _

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agreed that no more dismissals

should be made at that meeting. But in crbse any other question shoiiiil should come up in which thcrc wo-,id

be a tie between ~iorth and s-iiitlc he had left power with one iiian from

the north and one from the south to jointly cast his vote to :leci-le the

tie.

Then when he (Mr. l\’icAdair») had

gone home, one of the northern men had, contrary to ngrcemciit, broireht. up the questioii of iiiy dismissal. They voted on it two and tivo, the north men for dismissal, the smith men against it. Then the northern man, who was opposed to me and my particular friend ii-om the south who had voted for me, _ioined to

` cAdam’s castiii vote against

throw M Z _ me. I believe and still bolieveillon- est John McAd-am's story. And that evening in the presence of _a good many members of the Legislature., The Telegraph reporter gave one hon-

member an estimate of what

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his friendship was worth. He had been tracked down.

These glimpses of the early history

of the Intercolonial in New Bruns- wick show something of the workings

of the party politics of the day in

connection with the Government Rail-

way. Three Governments had to do with it before confederation there, under the spoils system. The Nova Scotian portion had a somewhat sim- ilsr record, but of which the writer knows nothing personally. Surely the effort that has been made to eli- minate party politics from the con- trol of the road, and to give iixity of tenure to capable men in its em- ployment was well worth the mak- ing. ,And we must remember that since confederation and down to a comparatively recent period there has been too much of party politics an-d party patronage connected with Gov- ernment Railway matters.

Under diderent Provincial Govern-

ROM CITADEL

that the National Transcontinental doe.-i not intersect or touch Nova.

Scotia.

Through all these changes and un-

der all these disadvantages the Gov- ernment Railway hss held a first. place in populail favor among the people it has served. This from the simple reason that it has given the people n better service at lower rates than the company railways give, is more amenable to public opinion and is also, in n sense different from and more iiill than any corporation rail- way, tlie property of the people. The popular sentiment in favor of Gov- ernment ownership and control is shown by the fact that the people along any one of the twenty branch railways connected with the I.`O. R." desire that those roads :hall be taken over and become part of the Govern- ment system.

The fecling is universal that the

Government system is splundidly ‘equipped for speed, comfort and safe-

C. R.- niuiuc. GAR.

|ty ; that it is otliccred hy able and capable men, who honestly strive to give the public the best transporta- tion service in their power, at lower salaries than are paid for like capa- bility and experience on the big com- pany systems. And further, believe the opinion to he ve-ry general throughout eastern Canada that it would be an ill ilny for the Maritime Provinces and for Canada at large were the wholesome check and com- petition of a Government railway system to be withdrawn by the Inter- ciilonial falling into corporate hands. Rather let the Governmentboldly ex- tend it to the Great Lakes or on to Winnipeg as the people of the west are beginning to ardantly desire. With such extension it would bind to- gctlier the East, the Oenter and the West and become more truly than ever before a bond of steel connect- ing more Provinces and a true In- tei-colonial Railway of_Canada._____

know how with three out of tive in my favor I could have been dismiss- ed, and then bowed myself o\\t.

While walking slowly toward the hotel I heard some one behind me

calling"my name. Turning round I_ saw Hon. John Mcmfam. He laid, SYDNEY, N. S. _

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