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     case was desperate and the army of fire-fighters resolved‘ ubtm 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     i The Ottawa of I867 w” a smigghng my‘ madefgwii  
     
     9mm?“ -c°mm"n‘fie5’ conimoniy . know‘: m‘ -Up}])-cll"ll" as a con. 
     
     Lowel- Town, with-the public buildings on Barrack is 1d Hm 
     
     “acting link. Lower Town was vmamly French, but m Y with 
     
     al l“ southefn yel-gg was a fashionable residential quartelr, t red 
     
     Daly Street as the most exclusive section. UPPBrTOW" °_“5 e _ 
     
     about the Chaudiere Falls and the great lumber mills, whose ‘ops; 
     
     atives were indifferently housed on Legrflmllrial” o" f“??? l 
     
     m,“ in [he shanty townof Hull. Westward fvromgthe I arhaitien 
     
     Buildings, just beyond where the statues of the bothers‘ 0f C°“‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed the waters of Dow's Lakeas a feederforthe Rideau Canal. 
     
     The darn was high andthe plentiful outflowing waters poured illi 
     
     a deluge downthe ravine below. Simullfiously, the sweeping 
     
     fire reached the ravine. Many cinder-s blew across, but the thou‘ 
     
     sands of ready hands with the plenty of water now at ltand; éx~ 
     
     tinguished every incipient blaze. ‘The cutting of tlte“dan1""l¢u 1'13")’ 
     
     ‘steamers and barges high and dry, and put the Rideau Canal out 
     
     of business for the season, but it saved the city. - 
     
     There was little of society in Ottawa in thdsedayfipexcelit» 
     
     that ntadc up of the cabinet ministers and their families-with 
     
     the civilservants, their Vwives and daughters, and these asyefTbnt 
     
     lately become residents. _ Curling ‘was in some vogueé a‘s’a winger 
     
     , ' " - as‘ the s ort, checkers and chess were layed in the wiiiter venings, ut 
     
     fedenmw now 5mm’ was ‘ml o"? sLo!i‘led-‘:lu‘ifl‘,‘,‘egé ‘,‘;‘l‘l“l,21¢5 were hldckey, or tobogganing had not fillet come in," nor hail llafiebally-ltmh 
     
     Omar‘, quarters." In ‘font o n15 u‘ f: gf l s iked hori~ nis or golf for summer pastimes. Casual visitors of more or less 
     
     Slandlfll» "fill Wllh 8' b1! of plank‘ ghoul (Vi; 66.253125 tiiree bears  note in the warrn season enjoyed the sensation ‘of rltlltliflg lhtf 
     
     Zomauy m ‘t5 p?‘ on these posmons o prorzislkin in the slur“. slides at the Chandiere on the cribs of big square timber. fr! Willi‘? 
     
     Pcfs °£ 7th: Regmlen" were Y?“ to rtePolssrkst in lill View from from the Upper Ottawa‘ for shipment at Quebec to Europe. There 
     
     Shme’ “w? were.” ab)?“ oh {eqilen .m l’ lhe building were, of coitrse, no telephones, electric lights or street cars. One 
     
     my 0m“ wm~dow m x-he-bom. ‘Iabtllomléxkol ell and Love-L.’ Walk railway, the Saint Lawrence and (Jttztivzt, gave the citizens ingress 
     
     t tma‘: izidbdziltfyollfnfligTliffwzslillvit‘ Igzxfrliiirstihnt‘ Square was rudely and egress by modern methods, and the station was beyond the 
     
     m) ye c  . ‘ ' . - ~-- eastern end of the town, " ‘ ' ‘ 
     
     endoged wnh a mghcziiiziifdrifesrichtafdfisigg iimliiiiiilnifmfiiistiflidciiizle A talk with one of the older residents ‘in those days turned 
     
     less‘ ‘It “h? fill: usnuare on agwarm June day, and these‘, when rtaturalfy ‘upon such events as the bringing to Ottawa of the body 
     
     ‘maturing q- ,dfi vmllll will] heads and mile QfQQQlOl the dead Duke of Richmond, on a rough ox-cart, along the 
     
     ‘muck by a tormemmghfl‘ y‘  w lhn loll and Sparks StreetslRiclnnond Itoad, then simply a winter lumber road. That had 
     
     race many down ‘he ‘ acres‘, e g “ -‘ ioccurred in 1820. He had been bitten by a pet fox, which had 
     
     1° the 47W“ fields beiond‘ f d rsten] of waterworks other thanigone triad, and he died in great agony in a barn ‘beside the‘"water~ 
     
     wells dittizihvuateiilailioti? fhoe “fciivti? from which hard water wasl way. in which he ltad come by boat from KlllgSlwL. Men and 
     
     drawn for drinking and culinary purposes. French carters from‘ women walked beside ‘the cart, vlmth difficulty holding m_ its place 
     
     Lgwgr Tuwn peddled soft water from the river, and did a brisk the rough box‘ m which tile ‘body had been placed: . Or, one 
     
     business on wash-days. They also supplied the fire department, WOlllLl be told of the (l-‘iyfi of Col, By and the canal building; or‘ ‘of 
     
     fires occurred as they Somellnw,» ‘lill, Hand engines, of the later event of h. B. lzddy, who cattle to the Chaudierewrth 
     
     “m?” fi’ - e Cluslvel l" us‘; The (lay,- lifty cents in his pocket, bought an axe and had already become 
     
     which the]: w"? vei ‘llrrjfffidvilrtsf fat comey To stimulate zenlla lumber king. (Jr, the story would he told of how the whole 
     
     l‘: xmfiutmixizguv-iafemen the city paid ‘rewards-I think it; totvirsite- of Ottawa had ‘been in the still earlier days battered for 
     
     was $20 to the engine throwing first water on the fire, and $5 wt?‘ Yoke of "xw- _ _ _ _ _ 
     
     the-mrter who brought first water to the engines, and the usual: Ottawa-was largely Catholic in religion then, from the ‘rc- 
     
     prioe per barrel thereafter.‘ There were strange scenes at fires in latively large ‘size of Lower lown. There were also Episcopalian 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Ottawa in those days I am ‘empled to record a lyplcal inCldglltflCilllTCllCS, high and lo\v; Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist, and ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     It ‘was a winter night and about ten o'clock when this par-‘lllfiffi was the Catholic Apostolic church, in which the Todds and 
     
    

    
     “m,” alarm was sounded. The firc ‘v35 h, a Shop on gparks-Patricks of the House of Commons staff were worthy and shining 
     
     Sweet west of Bulk Street The engines responded promptly, m; lights. Lord Cecil, a younger brother of the late Marquis of Salis- 
     
     lhe cl-‘qwd always did but there was no’water. The entire upperlibtrry, on his retirement from the rcgimentlin garrison, had rented 
     
     pa" of the lmlldlng ‘was S00" abhjzel and the bystanders werclthe thatre as a ‘placepf titeetiitg for the Plymouth Brethren. He. 
     
     jocularly throwing snowballs into the seelhlng flames and com-‘appears to have had the dotible object of closing the theatre 
     
     memlng on the shfewdnggg of the cnrtcrs. “They are ivaititigiagaitrst plays and dissentinating what he thought a purer gospel 
     
     for the big light t1 5t was 53m in allusion lo (he apparent custoiirthait ivas dispensed in other churches. Here he preached in his 
     
     \' U; becoming assllred that the ‘fire was to he really worth while foriorvn eccentric fashion, and his auditory sang hymns of hisremark- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Tilley and the 
     
    
   
   
    
     events it led‘ to. 
     
    
   
   
    
     supretttady Iwith 
     
    
   
   
    
     the patrons of tl 
     
     the litre came th 
     
    
   
   
    
     always done my 
     
     I-le also handed 
     
     good to the end 
     
    
   
   
    
     Well, if l would 
     
     would introduce 
     
     had just said to 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Executive 
     
     and assurednne 
     
     disturbed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     join thrzstaff of 
     
     met was sent to 
     
     the Government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     have what fun I 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the wawrmen w_attend_ They had a monopoly of the ‘vam- sup- able composition. A favorite among these began as folldHz ' 
     
     ply, and the bigger the fire the more barrels of water they would 
     
     sell. Moreover the Ottawa river was deeply frozen and the des- 
     
     cent to it along the-canal bank was steep. So on this particular 
     
     night they were in no hurry. Meanwhile the engines stood in a L, 
     
     row near the burning building, the firemen with their hands on 
     
     the brakes. The roof was ready to fall in when the first carter, 
     
     driving‘ furiously, appeared on the scene. His horse was seized 
     
     by the men of the nearest engine whilehe gesticulatd, swore and, mgrmt of,cul_ioslty_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     “t: “hwhipfllih h: hrs‘: b Qrlijdtiloygizrgzilogzfirtijttgglpreilclling in a theatre. "l"hose who attended fronrmere curiosiLv 
     
     su on ose in e arre an eg . 
     
    
   
   
    
     If you believe and l believe, 
     
     And all together strive, _ . 
     
     You shall the grace of God receive l 
     
     - And Ottawa shall revive. - 
     
     And Ottawa shall revive, qty. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     It was something to hear antl~ see -a -lol'd 
     
    
   
   
    
     another as Mr_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ldetaitred. Mr. Johnson's room, as it lm-ppcticrl, 
     
     ‘;and was only separated by n. (lUOr from that 
     
    
   
   
    
     Peter Mitchell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "ment in Mr. Mitchell's room, and it slurtlly tin-cling it ivzts. 
     
     . " , _ lkept the young irewspaperittan and ilistnisseil station hunter :i\v;tl<i-.‘°=lll¢1l “b0!1$-" 1 was shownone-of tl 
     
     These meetings in the theatre were largely attended by the‘ {hr along hm, the "ml-hing hour,- ,,l- gumhll, 
     
    
   
   
    
     .soldiers whom they were particularly intendedto benefitytand. byilll-l-s" wgfg l" revolt Ovcl» lllL- licl m‘ m-w gl-lhllnrlh 
     
    
   
   
    
     lthe working classes and servant girls. Others went to thenncetg4g._.l,ls,ilt..gllssg..€€twel.vu_“posing” or lhl- hliw, (h; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Vail been chosen 
     
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     froth‘ time to time V 
     
     heroic measures. They cut the big St. Louis dam which impotmdhl-Iouse. And presently theLieuteiiant-Governbi‘, against the coun- 
     
    
   
   
    
     sel of -his constitutional advisers. dissolved the Hoiise for Assembly. 
     
     There was a howl of indignation among the-etntieconfederates, but 
     
    
   
   
    
     swept the country, and he and his colleagues proceeded to do many this. 
     
     things, not omitting to restore their friendsto the otTu-es fromxalled aw on ‘urgent business.» .1: was understood that thei- 
     
     whichthjeydiztd ‘been dismissed, a  - ' 
     
    

    
     As a matter of course, the anti-confederate "Board of Rail-But tin the event of 8159 omitting» between-idle mom,“ 
     
     way Commissioners was swept away, and with them almost all thelthe two southern members who 
     
     ‘stationtmasters'fromYSt. John to Shediac. 
     
     to here relate my own dismissal but for 
     
    
   
   
    
     My fellow-workers "in the railway serviceizill exllected-distnissnlq 
     
     il was the customiof tlteitiitte "when a ‘change (if govermtreitt took 
     
     place, zlndi We'"did=not"rcscitt it. "Ttliail ‘iiitertlletfin a’ few tnonths 
     
     to resign, but could not resist the temptatidnito Blake-Some slight. 
     
     trouble for ‘the confederate antocrats who were now iisserting 
     
    
   
   
    
     the-land of his nativity. A petition wasflsigned by every one of‘ 
     
     iserving the noticcs-tltat at the" citilof the current tuonih our ser- 
     
     vices would‘ be no- longer 
     
    
   
   
    
     in most kindly and regret 
     
     that my accounts had been always correctlykept and that I ltad- 
     
    
   
   
    
     then, was 1 being tlisirrissetl? For rm answer 
     
     fer me to the Cottnnissioiters. 
     
    
   
   
    
     he more ‘lhml nmllc good hi,- wunl Tl“. glillll" Ql,,,,l,,;,,,.,,,,-,~,~ l-(~-.,{lllfl in those iluys ll1cpt),sili0n.0f correspondent 
     
     ferrcd me in turn to the (iovcrnment which ltad rtrdcrul the tlis~l 
     
     missal. I told them I would sec the (iovc-ritment itlttnil it. 
     
     did so later, as lterenftcr detailed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Following my dismissal front the railway, 
     
    
   
   
    
     that body retained its plenary limiters, and at which tht- terms nfillllsll VI‘- 
     
     Union were definitely adopted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     on Saturday evening, I put up at the Ilztrkcr llnutv. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hon: John M. Johnson's room till hloitilay and tln-n rliimlgr me to‘ hllrh‘ l0 m“ 454mm)’. 
     
    
   
   
    
     North 5h0rc,"while half the 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
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     in honored and favored guest ‘at Government 
     
    
   
   
    
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     teettrnsizihisa gig" ‘l ‘ giant’  the“ 
     
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     is a lie soniew re, he blurtd out 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     "You ‘think there‘ 
     
     better terms of the British North America Act ed. 110. not =1 15¢. but Stilh  understarul 
     
     way,"_he said, “thergvyyglqé fiyeiof us 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     "l; the meeting. -. .. 
     
     ewere . 
     
     ‘island. 
     
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     Otrany other matteiyl . 
     
     11ml. MCCICIEIIL ffgm me ‘ 
     
     tie... 'When I wasp“, I 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     to "be no m re dismissals .till,ourl_.leaders an", hacklmm E 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
          
     
         
     
         
     
          
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
           
     
         
     
         
     
          
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
          
     
        
     
        
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     remained, 
     
     It would beloo trivialleft power with McMillan. from the. north, 
     
     some more intercstitlgl south. to Jointly castmy vote-to decide the 
     
     The oflice and emoluments were of no UCCOUIIRIAfCIl/flililll brought up thetquestioaof your dismissal. 111mm‘ ‘ 
     
     Aorth Shore itiett-voted-againstyoutand Connell and M ‘ ‘ 
     
     ‘ ~_ ' ~ a CClelan _ 
     
     "d "W011i? fRVUF-r-Illillilltirldfi it-tie. then McMillan and McClelmvl? ‘ 
     
     geths? lhfsw my vote against you-Landyouiwero. dismissed» o; j_ 
     
     course, ‘I a f terlvards culled Mr. Mqclqmlm account, and he nuke 
     
     their/properly declined to discussdhc matter, what wasidone in“ the 
     
     so high a hand. aliveryliody has some friends in Louncrl llcntg urtder the seal of gecrgcy, ,;F0,.n,yl,flrl, lhavenever 
     
     doubted the substntttial-eiccttracy of ~"’Honost" john \/[ 
     
     l . _ . ' ._ _ l cAd .'_ 
     
     TIu-u ilown version. . _ _ ~. , . . _ . ‘_ _ U avm‘ 
     
     l The itlfeitlent dilflvf-‘Biilllyniutcresttit‘may. possess from the 
     
     prontlllrfllvfl. .111? Pfifwtls present at the two meetings of lllelqew . 
     
     rKequired. - ll-e tookolf my "otlicial lit-ad Brmlssvirk Cabinet. at one of lwhieh I Wino-will] accidental imam, 
     
     nl fashion. He gave mo ":1 certificate and thc other at WhlClLI waatmv invited ‘Spectator, llm-lls-l ol 
     
     nine incltiilci] some seven gentlemen who were afterward ‘ 
     
     _ , . . ‘ ‘ . ‘ bmemz 
     
     duty as station mastcr-rltttte to- his satisfitt-tuin. hers oflhe Ilouse of Commons, four who were ztfteruh-lrd-Senal: 
     
     me a pass over the road from station to stutionlflrh‘. tlwlflf lllffl Who were afterwardsijudges, and three who bu 
     
     of the year. llc ivas evidently my friend. \\'hy,|¢il111e I-|Cl1l-Ql13lll‘(J0\'Cl'll0T5‘Of the Province, one for two tmm _ 
     
     to that hc must rewllihvv illlvflvélrfl SlYOVl/(‘Il i1 disposition to-makc right an ‘ 
     
     q ~ ' ymxtl 0r 
     
     l (lill not km)“, mm, |,,,,.\.,,,,;llly_ ‘tltlllglllllry wrong they had done Jllorfllltl-l was larottipllyfilllnreil 
     
     gel (m lhc “all, “ml w, “qlh lllm ll, 51 l-ulm, lmlnue of the bcst railway SUHIIOIISQUII. the line. Khhis was not a“ 
     
     me. Would he tcll them all the twice things helfifiltllell llflrflllfifi 0i i111 alternative offer. of. alderkshil) in thelloirse 
     
     me and done? llc would. ‘ l "went with him and bf (vlnluons. lhe lclrym/th wanted atrOtlau/a correspondent . 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1e Slilllflll,‘ asking that Iberetaiitetl. " 
     
     e Superintendent, the late jzEdward Hoyt], (Lil. 
     
    
   
   
    
     for a journal sup- 
     
    
   
   
    
     porting the (iovernment \vifll.a pmllblmln 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ml I'th<- (‘ivil St-rvicc, I  ,  _, 
     
     Prcviotis _ l cnim- to (‘lttzuvzt with the hlaritittie Senators, members and 
     
     had steveral times called at my station in ltrtssing;'“‘\"‘l'"l""' mm» m“! "mcrml ‘he Reporters’ (‘iflllrrv and rwem m 
     
     that he was my friend, and that l Wfillivf not hel\\‘1"'l<- l 531d Ilvlhillg fllld lwhodycsaitl‘anything to me of the pm- 
     
     .|ni<e<l clerkship lill weeks uftcrdhvillousc met. 'l‘h<-ll 0m- ljl-ly -, 
     
     l \\'il'i asked tojblt.’ "llltlolle. was sent me containing my appointment as‘ " 
     
     the St. john '1'c/v_i/rn/-li,"and when the Luglfilallzlftfgtflirif 1H the House of Commons at $8oo a year, conditionally“ 
     
     report its proceedings, the last stession lll \vl1icltj"Ԥ1<l1l1l-EDfirlllflflently at the seat of Government. l promptly no- 
     
     Filley that l could not accept‘ "this. ‘ "le advisedme m 
     
     The TPfFflFllf/l was slllllltlfllllg.‘NR1’!I the duties were merelywsessionail, he sat , and itietnhers 
     
     l, as ‘its rcprcsental_ivc,‘ was still hound toflf l"1l"l"il"<‘"l 0'11)! Ffififlivfd $500 per sessioiritt those days; promo- 
     
     could over my dismissal. Arrived at l“l't‘tlt‘l‘lCl.Oll 1W" “Tfllld {OHQW Shurll)’. and I could gorott with my newspaper 
     
     'l‘ht- hotcl‘y\\'lll'i\'. and between the two would have apfair remuneration. I_ 
     
     told me he would luivc to give me >11" dsvhhcil but when (hi; session restimnel in March, 1868, l went 
     
     311d 11150 rrpvrtediluty asjunior‘ Clerk. lt 
     
     fit‘ lmd been “Y” flvmy that my first oflicial taskiwag to (ll-aw my p,” 
     
     was mn- of a stiite‘ In those days the pflicial staff of-the House were paid half- 
     
     OCVlIlIlvil hy lfo||.l"'0"'hl}’ l" Ildvilllctf- It was now the middle of March. l-fozmd 
     
     That night tht-rv wits :1 mcctiitg of lltt" titivern- lill‘ lmymg office busy, clerks and translators signing the book and 
     
     ll lit-mg handed out money, and in not: a few cases slips of paper 
     
     ieseby a fellow jttttior. lt 
     
     , “ (Signed) ‘ .”‘ On 
     
     Ilnw l-yalhdlltcse _bons" advances wercwegularly obtained by considerable 
     
     pcnsittion liitd iseitrlytllllllllwr-v‘ 0i thestatl as itoappeztrectz».~My<turn came until signed 
     
     llny or Fnnilay aml, ‘"1" $§l3~34f0F the latter ltalf of Mitrch, got the irtoneyantl turned 
     
     population of tln- ltfUYlllCtf rcsid- -'l\\‘1\\’- N r. Stanslii-hl, the ziccotnttatir, called me hack. lle handed 
     
    
   
   
    
     ivas not incompatible 
     
    
   
   
    
     to fills, Ulll‘ ntctnherl 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Jbllglllg clerk 
     
    
   
   
    
     Johnson WOtlltl thou have arrived. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The “River lvlenr T0114. “G004 for $20 at tny next pay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     from nlotigtltt-shtlrt-sof lill‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wat“ was thrown. The barre] was empty_the Caner ‘v35 juszlwere wont sometimes to leave irreverently in the midst of the 50l",lllg in the {cl-tile valley of the St john had lit-cu (l\'l‘l‘i(llll\'(fd, ill-S. inc another envelope containing a like amount for the first half 
     
    
   
   
    
     3mm“? all" his mad‘ Later from the eastwardfama zfgzmopmgitlemen were thus goingout, Lord Cecil paused rin=his discourse 
     
     “ti” Wm‘ water’ and the bystanders shame? wit‘? de“g_“i' Twdlto remark in his drawling way, “If there are any tnoroservanttgirls 
     
     mcnof another engine _ seized upon the prize with avidity, bntflvho wish m go out they had better g0 now, all together}, 
     
    

    
     the sllpply was not sufficient tfiqufle m‘ their hose’ and not  driml shot told, and there was less interruption of that. sort thereafter. 
     
     was thrown upon the fire. lhen another carter came racing m. Let ‘the foregoing Sum“ {or glimpses at we vollawa m» 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ajtruggle ensued to obtain possession of this little store and towarly Confederation 3mm 
     
    
   
   
    
     prevent the engine which had already a little from getting this ad- 
     
     ditional supply. That would mean first water and the reward. 
     
     Eventually‘ there came a troop of furiously driven nags and water _ 
     
     barrels, few of the barrels half full, and intermittently some watrr " 
     
     was throw“ by one and another engine upon ‘he fire‘ Soon ihclcatne to Upper Sussex, now Pcnobsquis, over fifty years ago,.tu 
     
     wming herd of watermell’ eager now to ‘Mk6 count’ formed n‘ form adivision of the Sous of- Temperance, andhe gave inrthe 
     
     eordpn about those within with empty barrels, and the latter could, 
     
    
   
   
    
     . . . _ _ Baptist Church one of his €l0‘(ltl€ll( addresses on the great moral 
     
     “gt fir)“: “or the gomfietllgi: illidimnl‘) thifpofice brokfime Mod“ reform to which he devoted the energies of his early and middle 
     
     a e. itte remaine o t e u: mg y t l5 ime. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ _ , l ,life. He was then a. man of fine presencqwith an excellent voice 
     
     _ Brqafi Streets find vlildc spaces between 'bu“dmgs'wcre ‘Kl for public speaking, and an engaging manner. Later I saw him 
     
     city's salvation many times m those (lays. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It were long to m“ howstauding in the midst of the tall grassin my_ father's meadow 
     
     at length movement for a better water supply was set afoot and " 
     
    
   
   
    
     , v . _ _ _ _ , _ ltalking with a number of the rcsidentefarmers about therailway 
     
     the F,” P75" was founded by Mitchel and carrier.“ ‘is eamesllthat was shortly to run through that beautiful valley, first to be 
     
     ‘dvmie; Wm“ the Smbject was publicly debated a Small armylknown as the European and North American Railway, and later as 
     
     df darters gathered on the square by the city hall and interruptedlthe Intercdlonlal‘ They were standing on almost the exact 8pc‘ 
     
     the§ipeakcrs for the space of three hours with angry 31mm’ “Nulwhere a ‘few years later "the embattled farmers" of the district 
     
     ‘Waiéfl No water!" frheir Craft was i" danger’ I rememberifought and won against ‘a captain and squad of railway police in 
     
     the“ scenes the more vividly from having bee“ a ‘laify Fontribmnrlzt matter of holding possession of their lands till the damages were 
     
    
   
   
    
     w the F7” Pres‘ on the water ‘mesfion at the timej lpaid. But that is another story. Looking over the broad, rich 
     
     The summer of 1870 was a season of gloom m (lttaisia and 
     
    
   
   
    
     __ , ' dows,‘the sloping well-tilled uplands and the green mountain 
     
     " ‘ . " 1 M d Id .~ b t. :1 1 lmea - - ‘ - - . 
     
     ‘aijfihgjtgtaittvapxsitylidSeal-lit“d Tlcigilinexzslileaifg gzwofvijfgl ranges of Prsgah and Pickadilly to north and south, M r. Tilley re- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Some Personal Experiences 
     
    
   
   
    
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     vice. Once when a party who thought themselves ladies‘ and gen-l‘ 
     
     l 
     
    
   
   
    
     My first recollection of Sir Leonard Tilley was whun he‘; 
     
    
   
   
    
     l ‘s _ V l 
     
     Hanged and. defied one another until the leaders saw 
     
    
   
   
    
     anust be done; 
     
    
   
   
    
     soft words and explanations. ‘ 
     
     ‘ It. was thought that Hon. l3. ll. 
     
    
   
   
    
     to "give up the S 
     
    
   
   
    
     took t0 sec him. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (In the end the 
     
     Chandler became 
     
    
   
   
    
     or wrongly, I ha 
     
     of the Telegraph 
     
     ‘lillcy of what I 
     
     ed ntyselfas the 
     
    
   
   
    
     nrtlessly inquired 
     
     his guard tirrirttt 
     
    
   
   
    
     all about it, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     tlie threatened Fenian invasion of the spring drought set in 1nd marked Wm‘ (fimomafic emhushsm to my father‘ “Mn Mccready‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ , _ I f h q d _ I l lif men could not live here and flourish and be happy, it would be 
     
     '“.*°1"Fl"° heat‘ No mm {e1 or mom s‘ ‘time W“ he ner-lllteir o\vn fault." And after he had gone my uncle, Caleb Mc— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘mmi-ibtu: rose todw degrees ‘n the shade’ and a“ ‘vork was ‘wsdCready told me of how well he lfad known the budding stiuestttatti 
     
     Pendgd. m, the mms‘ It was flangerous to Venn"? out wnmmt» uiwhen the latter was a clerk in Peter's drug storc, and my relative 
     
     $223319’: g: iffirgjyhzioz‘:  Sig? werlelcajlmlzlsg 2:210?‘ Zlmigjigzliwas learning a trade in St". jolm. I was destined to mcct Mr. 
     
     dense s‘: no bnegsaw m6 Sun ryirgr Sig; 10f ‘Juli; ma“ tiinic lTllley later, many titties, and to ‘have much to say of him in the 
     
     Mldllmy of the {drenoon a red ha" appeared dimly in the s-kihlSt. john Ypfess andlm Ottawa‘cprrespottdence, much that was ape 
     
     ‘ glut-k down fiercely for are“; hours and ‘then disappeared in theiggcliifitfgléhd 9055M)’ $9"? tlmgs ma.‘ fowl“ Pgfdly “w q‘"“.“‘._.t° 
     
     ~ .‘ . '" ‘ "'- , '- l l . r .- '--/ .:--. 
     
     Zl"l'i'...'.§'.il'i.°. iillifn°l.,l'i§ii“ril’l.lii.t miffilii _“l"i"“i’ gm ,   9.“; "m l‘°°l?"‘glk‘”l“.l.-‘° l“;"?li‘;.*r?*i‘"1"'*?¥"“fY F‘.'“‘?‘°':"“. 
     
     Then the wind ‘aroseyantl ‘a tempest ‘of "flame and stnokt-lstimcfsil é?“ soluzayghfh  “hé  W" ‘t?  
     
     swept the valley. Twio thousand persons were renderpilvhomelessdiom Zea. ~0 is?!” "$8 a. an n. . m i ‘iuiinlgot ‘i’ aiid 
     
     . - i i " ' . - . then turned to rend the  and those w): enacfefdfiit. The (‘lov- 
     
     tu a night; houses, hams, fences, crops, and hve stock all gone. . .  .f at "Nth" a t ll! l --  b . 
     
     The green, grass burned in the meadows and the very soil was emment was dc Fat? ' a fla voila-Lg O illiq- mo“ “L870 
     
     ‘consumed. The cit? was several times seriously threatened attdswept Put of ptibmilfe and. the" ~mi<vrepliiled' phltiwas ii‘ 185 .‘7' 
     
     Ridelu Hall was in great danger. To save the vice-regal resi-inut Tulle)‘ had Mk“ m ‘use agam’ wink igrqhitiitlonh w? him?‘ 
     
     deuce a broad track was cleared through the woods 0n all sidesifor ha, a7 Century” fifi-lgifiter queustflnp. iuiiiiwlgt c mvmus 
     
     with great labor, and full water barrels placed at short distaucesbad come i)" the scene w“ i ‘ Icy asus mam-gala vocate‘ He and 
     
    
   
   
    
     l , l . L . ' 
     
     .. . '  " "' I t 
     
     lo as,“ the delenm his Goverhment submitted the terms of ,tézre_ t‘ ebgc‘ Scieme to tie 
     
     ehlslneasure were 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     people ‘at’ ‘the pollspandvagain,.i.n‘1865,:_ _ I H l 
     
     ‘Later elm: thwrral crisis. rejected. The Allan-SmitlnAnglin Governmeiit came inandap- 
     
    
   
   
    
     i A "sudden change of wind» 
     
     brought the-dire sweepingtin on the 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     l southwestern side, where ‘the pointed tlfeir anti-confederate, friends, Qflicgmlhmong the latter, 
     
     forest-wait: actual touch with the suburb. Cinders and ashes I was given‘ charge of Peitobsquls y: _ sta P 
     
     drlffetf in the streets. , Almost every one believed the city to. be Legislature. met, its -f0l'ly-Ol:l6vlIlE,§‘l1b¢fS,_g t tu ed o 
     
    
   
   
    
     doomed. Householders packed their effects-for removal. There ential. th‘ nionedefeate 
     
    

    
      almolt»: panic when the mayor issued a proclamation‘ nrde E6 ‘ ‘ laerf ,‘ ‘ 
     
    

    
     iojlall placer of business closed, and that every man capable of‘ vitlfihi fenw _,  
     
    

    
     ‘ bucket should proceed to the fire line. ,Ihe.p’ear;gq$l;ve<l f 
     
     .,, 
     
    
   
   
    
     M i.’ ~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     d man, who 
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     s . ti". 
     
     s A ' 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     with a sense of t 
     
     obtained. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lilained." 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ttifsfake‘hadbeetfilisniisséd from" thiiqirallway, and luude me ‘alt 
     
    
   
   
    
     among the rest at 
     
     others hadbeen- 
     
    
   
   
    
     said. An awkward silence followed, which I greatly enloyed. I 
     
     \vas seated between Hon. Charles/Cantrell and lion. john McAdam. 
     
     Mr. Connell turned to me andsaidt 
     
    
   
   
    
     with it." 
     
    
   
   
    
     me ltail spoken. 
     
     station assuring 
     
    
   
   
    
     be. dlslllfbvd. and as thereyvas an ltlfleward plurals, I cited this 
     
     How couldyl- have  
     
    

    
     ._ tlrreewttiwtiorn were in my favor? Mt- 
     
     ot‘ the table opposite me, 
     
     rose, thanked them 
     
     ‘ o‘ beistlll ltt"“dtiflbt"as to 
     
    
   
   
    
     circumstance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     u 
     
    
   
   
    
     pised, treated with coittcmpt? 
     
     Cotmty, with a more handful of population, 
     
     atorsl- while four of the Rivertjottttties, Kings, Queens, Carleton‘ rvveiveil nearly five 
     
     Tlwfinld Victoria, had none? 
     
    
   
   
    
     wits rich and there was to be presently 
     
     sioirappoirtted to build the lntcrcolonial. "Peter Mitchell tinder-i 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Brunswick.) Thus, by accident, I had. got tnuch secret in- 
     
     formation vvhich-I-could‘ not publicly use, but with which, rightly‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Accordingly, on Monday morning, I galleria!» his officc, 
     
    
   
   
    
     the legislative proceedings. 
     
    
   
   
    
     inquired “What Settator P" 
     
     ivrnttgle of Saturday night. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In this I entirely cortctirredfnnil stated that I lt-‘ltl no 
     
     desire or intention to do so. 
     
     came it that I ltad been (lismissetl from the railway service? lilt- 
     
     inquircd the circumstances and l related them. 
     
     when I was in Etiglaiul, and, of coursa,'i'ha<l nolltitrg to do with 
     
     it," he said. t-“Come hack at r0 o'clock. 
     
     thtiti‘ and I-ivill take you in with me‘ atitlwe will havel-it all ex» 
     
    
   
   
    
     At ten _I_'_r_‘eturn‘ed, and he took ‘hté’with him to ‘the Cottncil 
     
     Chamberflintroiluced lite‘ as one "oft t/lteir "fflfllflS, who by "some 
     
    
   
   
    
     V Mr. McAdam, on the other glide, said: 
     
     to do with it, either." 
     
     who had been present 
     
    
   
   
    
     llow Cllllll‘ it that litllc Albcrtilll‘ March, and kept inc signing for one-halfrmonth back of an- 
     
    
   
   
    
     wzts given two senqihther to 0th November, 1867, the date of‘ my appointment. Soil 
     
     months’ pay "before l began work, and had 
     
     a fellow clerk (he had little but “bons" that 
     
    
   
   
    
     lh-‘tl somethiflsfllfly) hsfore I reached myrooms. "It was promptly repaid at the 
     
     to be rltiieivil with nit-rel‘ Link‘ pruntised. -i- ‘ l 
     
    
   
   
    
     And so they argued, rtunoirstrntcd, chaL loaned $40 of it to 
     
    
   
   
    
     The revoltwas Ion strong 
     
    
   
   
    
     (rhqmlkr mi h‘ I induud‘; lu stibscquent sketches I shall have something to say of five 
     
    

    
     .. ‘ ' t- " ....i_, -  ~- . i --  _ 
     
     he had Moll," (‘d H l, years‘ txpenentcs as a clerk m the Commons, and nuloug the mcn 
     
     _ mm -‘ ' "1])I'0I1‘lll‘l€l1l in political life ivfio l‘ met the"re in that capacity and 
     
     anew l\':1tl\v:tv Conmns‘ ,_ ; - ' , 
     
     ' at Ottawa of the St. john TcIcgra/m 
     
    
   
   
    
     iztftcrutartl as representative 
     
     _ _ and ‘T - l (,7 1, ' ' - . 
     
     Nhtche" could do it if any m“: mum. And thcl mono o c. Very pleasant experiences they were Ill the 
     
    
   
   
    
     enatorial scat t0 which 
     
    
   
   
    
     lllfl‘l. d!‘ "i H ' -'-' ' ' 
     
     next day being Sunday, I saw Peter Mitchell and ll, ll. Chandler‘ “ 0mm my Omcm‘ ‘hsouates o“ “the 5m“ of ‘he Commons 
     
     pacing up and down infronr of the hotel in earnest conference. 
     
    
   
   
    
     capable, courteous and efficient public ‘se'r_‘vahts. And of the public 
     
     men I trust Ishall have m ill-‘repoi-t. or Sit"_‘L‘e0nard‘TilleyI 
     
     lnvemor of fIIfIVCdIIOSl pleasautilhemoriesx ‘Since New Brdnswick blscalite a 
     
     rovmce no one of its sons ltéld greatersway in its affairs or for 
     
     liblollg?“ llllw. lle hail ngili ofdeatlefrsliip, was at oncegasltrtc and 
     
     stened to actluainruny principal, .\lr; Livingstone ill‘l‘l‘l‘_“y‘l“l‘l‘-‘ iblove an’ n Ina“, ‘VH0?  m“ ‘V35 irml’_r‘_’fl_c".' 
     
     l And l lhuught I ought to “ls” imquaint A“ Mn“ kin-harm 1c was a little l0PH-9¢n€ll'lVC;l(_)f newspaper criticism. 
     
     knew aud how l, liadurcqulretl the informatioul i - p5 our pens a"?s°"’.°ll"*°s~Si‘“'P°' ma“ w“ wot‘ 
     
     ~ _ Sir Leonard was not only the‘ greatest political leader that 
     
    

    
     llns Province bad hitherto raised. "Haws; numb more than that. 
     
     HE W“ a 8'79"‘ advocate "ilflfetlllililtyiif moral reform. After 
     
     prohibition had failed of tizcdlifiincié  his political fortunes had 
     
     gone with it, he remained faithful it‘) his total abstinence‘ princi- 
     
     ples till the cud of his (lays. ‘ " '}_"-'[}g‘a'l§(l h, his cfllfilillllfllCy 
     
     m‘ Si‘ Jam’ hfnevm’ fibuglit“mlz'>til'ér,"Hint?" ditch case,‘ iii about 
     
     a year, he won his old sent again. i “ “'““ ‘ ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     River Counties ‘got. another Senator, and Mr. 
     
     Railway Commissionertzittd, later, t 
     
    
   
   
    
     introilnc~ 
     
     10' report 
     
     llc receivcdrmc veryfigraciously. I 
     
    

    
     who ivas to be the new Senator? lie was on 
     
     oment and withtgravc faco-arltlltalf-closerlt eyes 
     
     ‘f‘lll'll l toldtcltitti" frankly that -l knew 
     
     haiPheett an citforcedilisttener‘ to all the Cabinet 
     
     l-lc at once endeavored to impress nu- 
     
     he intpropricty of publishing any information so 
     
    
   
   
    
     reppesentative of the Telcgm/tlr, CUlllC 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
          
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Our ‘Own Correspondent ‘ * t‘ 
     
     'l'he duties of "our" Own Corrltltlidttdéhf" for a lehtlitig 011' 
     
     llul theretivasanotheir matter. llow l)oinl"i(,ll daily are- Ina"), finllvnfie llllyjgrc also arduom; l" all 
     
     caskjlht will‘ find it often "very 
     
    
   
   
    
     llillllvh". If he is at all fitted for his 
     
     interesting, sometimes itltifilsdlyso.‘ _“If"'lfe“l"<nows the ministers of 
     
     state personally, so mucli‘ tliifbettenf if’ll“t: ‘(locshdt know thcin h; 
     
     will find it of advantiigehti‘tfiakcftlfeir"zidwtfaintance, choosing Iris 
     
     timeearelutly, for nloéF-niinislersQ-iris btl. “itieiif ‘flicy are also 
     
     ‘ men of like passiOhQWiIh dthétl?‘ "  kéYhql of liiwerstatiott 
     
     in life‘. have antennae." bfhiianne féfii inhibits,‘ lilfilfillkd!‘ m“! 
     
     di-iflkés; HFFsoitiefimePjealtJfrs of " ‘l t"‘“ hlfso on. "T085 
     
     ‘ i zhrqieifilsf“°- 
     
    
   
   
    
     on some’ $6 60PM‘ 
     
     ‘y a minister ill 
     
      serve t0 s01"? 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
              
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
     “‘l‘lit‘s took place 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
         
     
          
     
       
     
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     --'l'hc (Taliiiieris to meet 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
            
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     , ,_ ‘dttnéfiftit ‘IiYiistT-itiartl 
     
     t. materialistic." "Sdrllbtiines a ‘wtlttv-tlltlp 
     
     the most ‘casual way willllsuplillifiit ‘rltislfirlf 
     
     a pol-iticallriddle on which dnelittiyihiiilfe  
     
     vestigatioti. Moreover, it inayitig ffill‘ ‘ " 
     
     are seeking will be ffhlikly byddelllihidt! 
     
     when it could in no dtlieriwiffibé attained.‘ "  
     
     ‘It is of almost eilual imlid ilthécbflttlti ‘ 
     
     ters, the permanent "official lieads"iff"-tif‘e‘.”‘tl§i" , 
     
     deputy fmzy know morelff"‘fhtl"ltlht'fil' if so? 
     
     lo-find out than the political chief a, ’_ 
     
     it‘ the latter is comparatively, new to "dlhbliil 
     
     _ current that’ "minister! lztlltlthlttld  
     
     alley, who sat at the head m, go 0'" leonvllflly gtwyaa w“: 
     
     . “laid. hi‘ ‘an’ 5l§"§‘.if‘!".¥ll¢"°¢- ‘ I your favor wltlftlle d ‘ A 
     
     for thelyJcourteayhdfltldelnillkltig‘that"? was All“, “will, 
     
     howhnd Whyiflidflwrrdi " ' i =' , - "~ " 
     
    
   
   
    
     t a 
     
    
   
   
    
     the table. . Of course he, Mr. Mitchell, atld solnc 
     
     absent when-the dismissal hail lalienplace, he 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
         
     
          
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘fMilt-‘k, -I had ttothing to do 
     
     .“I‘ had nothing 
     
     '1‘ wo of the fiydrrietnbers of the Executive 
     
     at the meeting" Council which dismissed 
     
     A third was the  who had called at my 
     
     n1e that he was my there! and that I should not 
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
        
     
        
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
     r‘ ilic .'iskifll.'- 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ _  ‘uly-ntinis- 
     
     par ents. Tl"! 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
          
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
           
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
          
     
        
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     ismissed- by‘ five men.