029roof
lie
built because of the Increas-'.
the book describing the progress
-
mnever
umdi ed expense which the promoters
during the early.yeara tided in fayor of the Woodstock gersoll: Electric Railway Company, ,by the company that a snow low
se jestimated. would cost $5,000 a mile
.,extra'
j Dr. S, Ritter Ickes and J. W pro?ect: - is also its, president, and the en- would be purchased. p
i Armstrong,'_ot`tbe firm, Ickes First rails were laid July 3, tire board of directors is. made up' Plans
Establishment of a street rail-
Away
of the Tillsonburk, Lake
aiid--Armstrong electric street 1900 About that time Dr. Ickes of prominent Woodstock men" Erie and Pacifie Railway for
'
in Woodstock was a topic of
';council
an
railway' promoters, came-. from over the Wallace took for. a .drive. Those who made speeches at the. entrance to Ingersoll'eppear to
1
T �;,i
i� WAIT
discussions in the early
�1880's,- but the Thames Valley
Pennsylvania 'toward the end of �gQ er, tWo Scarf ration included M a y o r have interfered for a time with ap.
1899 and applied for, ,a 99-year, his brother, John Oe sl f; R. W: Sawtell,� "
Railway was the first such endeav-'!
proval of the Woodstock corn -
franchise. The law firm of Wiil- of the gentlemen from Harris- Ka_rn�—• -F. c a s;� R. 'Ross, pany's' route, Yand the rails
burg, Pa.,
� IN
or in Woodstock and district. The�l�
and Little acted as their
most largely interested G, Ri Pattu an were
in the Woodstock gfcou to the town limas before the
i
. • •
was a period when the
y p
ear] • was
air was full radial projects.
g _
agents.
street railway."
Y•s Ba. er• they guests were Ate; council finally granted a 40 year
IThe constructing company- was'Ri`ceyW, G. Kay, John McKa lease, On June 14, 19CI,
Y,
;
'
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1�
7 .. During the. early and Successful
.
:operation
A 50-year franchise was offered
by. the council. Some members
� called the he Company,
ll Full Ceremonial
D. �r � — the first
Me- trip from Woodstock to Ingersoll
s
u P of the road,. an effort
was made to obtain an extension
advocated only a 25-year franchise
3np the same month in 1900"the
aa---�
" y' J• H•� ;._. W_ Ste.@� ?; C� and back was made. Toward the
� amlyn, Alex Watson
.from Beachville into West Zorr abut
the b law eventually companyend of". the year it was proposed
offfce m the' harles
Ifor od
north to Youngsville, but the rate-
50 ears. In January, X900 buildiiid of
y Mc e g, - pposite the old
that mail be carried.
I -- m I. -
1
•,; payers' defeated a bylaw to pur-
the Promoters -stated- $100,000 has North American'%Hotel. A trial
I
Wasken
The Von Echa Company was ac-
Lee, G. W. Hvnt, W. A. E. Moyer
chase stock.- Embro voted in fav-
been subscribed for stock, and it run was made on the line Novem
and' C,, ohns tive in Brant county,- and efforts
,
or but the project was never pro-.
was said that $130,000 was ,ouu-
ber' 7, and it was opened to tics
For a Time he covzra e of the :were made to enlist its interest in
i
ceeded with. -
ally invested, first and ,last. Coum
public the next day with full cere
line by local newspapers was al- northerly extensions. Depm!at.ons
I
` 'Old Scrapbook
A scrapbook found among the.
cil passed the bylaw on January
23, requiring that the line'be tom-
monial.
Thee Times of the period had
most humorous". with every minor: from as,far away as Goderich
came to look over the line here,
lincident being chronicled in
:
archives of the company containsthe
f'
pleted within 18 months, and that
t7ris to say: "The handsome car,
ands handsome
this t -'is
the'
pages of Woodstock publications.
After the first six months of op-."'
the complete record of all the do-.
ti ings in
company pave the street al-
lowance between. the rails.
a double oration the directors met and or-
If 'Estelle"'left the tracks which' dered payment of five per cent.
j Brill, stronger than the, average was the
connection. with the rail-
way, from arrival of the promot-
The charter of the Ingersoll
often case, or hit a dog,;or
I steel railway car, and beautifully failed to hold goin down Dundas on the bonds and two and o-e-
g
decorated.
i up to the fall 0%1903. Clip-
Ce pings from the Sentinel
Radial Electric Railwaywas re-
.half" per cent. on $100,000 of pre-
Pre -
Other cars will follow street hill and hit the Mill. street £erred stock. At that time.the di-
i
the 'star'. as soon as the track is curve too fast, it duly erectors
. -pings -Review,
so" ;Times, Express, Engersoll Sun and
vived and proved a stumbling
block for a time, until the rathva y
completed. g
was report- were J. G. Wallace resi-
ed. P
'electrical journals were. found in
committee of the Legislature de-
g
J. G. Wallace, Esq., the effici-
, dent, D. it Kara, N. Ball,
In'- Decc,mber;. 1901, when "Es- E, W: Nesbitt and WWrm-'.
:
'
ent and popular attorney for the telle" failed to climb the hill on strong
Woodstock, Thames Valley and In- account of snow, it was announced
i 1
Fay �a4 �ta�t
--^--r- S. Jei,.P
?fzteresting Photograph Recalls
1„ Ingersoll`Street"in the'601
two
fl.rria_
m
t r�
d This picture;' reproduced from aWe>Lr
Print •estimated to be from.,
it to 73 years of, age, shows's view looking
(
1O
north on Thames street.
-e.'was taken' from a. point approximately where the C.P.R. now crossed t d at street —but. there was no C.P.R. through here at that time. There IN but
one building shown in this picture which still exists today, that
being what is now the Sacred Heart
school on Thames street north,
formerly the Rums property.: This building is immediatelybehind
I`tlie,.pole in left foreground. Sacred Heart chin ch does: not how in s�' the picture, for the. reason that
the present edifice was not yet built It will'also be noted that trees are
showing in full maturity on the eft,
Where the Noxon company
P Y plant later came to be constructed, and to make a.name'forIngersoll. throughout
world
•'
the as well as a for-
tune for a family, Strangely .enough, the Noxon' plant has served its
long decades of, usage,
and is now out of any similar picture which. mightbe taken: today.. Note' that the superstructure of the '
-" a.��' '•A ''
present
Thames.. street bridge does not show —it too was not yet constructed.
Only a'li wooden
fen ,which bor email hand -rails cross the stream.
Note the fencing also which'. borders what is now Ingersoll's Alain
'tt
r
street from the river flats, and also the sheds of -the Great Western'
Railway which extend eastward to Thames
'a.. '
s• tr a..,
bearingstreet. The white building
the sign,
gn, goes under the name of the "Great Western House" {
and believed
•t 3 ` °'
sry, r ti�
a have later: become the McCarty house, now also
v
reiiioved,from the scene. Leaning against to
% g thing at the right 'j
are old wooden harrows,-
�a,
° �'
s' 2 >k
r v5
this being said tohave been an implement
shop.
n'� a c
1,411
". The original picture is the property of Mrs. Jane Wri
for.
merly of Ingersoll and Pest Oxford, who is now resi mg with her
imi Munay Wright,at Avon. It isbelieved
that the photograph
>PasStaken tvo or t ears after the Great Western .ail came°"-
�y,
hroughi an( ad Trunk ad not been thought
of at t a°''"`
Nam II h t-tinie�,�
MI Y, Mrs. Wright values the old photograph very highly. 1
im YEARS AGO
11
Febraary.2tf, i881 1 .
SAIiLGII3$_ N, who holds the unique record of 60 years' continuous 4
Q
I
gives some +friendly pointers. to Rob ark
(seated), who succeeds.
.More census return, were given Popula- ,
nas been with the post office since 1921,
;tlons included: Chatham 4,402, Woodstock.3,350,
St. Marys 2,778, Stratford 2,746.
vice ifr thd'Ingersoll post office
im as postmaster. Mr, Walk