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in.Romance of Canada : ,1 rails Exploits of Barrie en Abound We take care of batteries}--a11 makes. We re- _ charge andrepair batteries. But that sn te all. Come in! Ask` questios - no matter whether yours is ga Willard Battery or not. We re glad to be of any servicegwe can. H We're a cl_ea,tfing house for battfy infor- mation! _ ' Reresenting M Willard Storage Battgries BARRIE BATTERY SERVICE 39 Eliiabeth s:._, Barrie Phone 730 ` i Walter Moberly, second son, who also became an explorer, was one 1 year old when he arrived in Canada. |He and George received_ their first education from a soldier.of the gar- rison. Incidentally this reserve der- ; ived its name, Penetanguishene, from Ian Indian word meaning _falling- }sand,_a characteristic feature of the * isandy point. At the age of thirt_oen ,Walter was sent` to the Grammar `school at Barrie under Frederick }Gore, headmaster. Mr. Gore was a iclever mathematician and gave` Wal- !ter, the future engineer, a-good foun-' ldation in mathematics, an important ipart of his profession. A L A. Fight at Sea , On May 11, 1811,~the armed sloop j.Little Belt, commanded by Capt. }Arthur Batt Bingham,` and the U.S_. fFrigate, President, met o Virginia `Capes. It was a case of ght at sight on general principles. The U.S. ship iwas much the larger, carrying 44 lguns. The Little Belt had 16 guns. ]After` considerable bombarding of feach other, both withdrew. It was ja draw. Frank i_Moberly s father, '* John Mob'erly, was a lieutenant onl the-Little Belt_. In 1816Te was pro- lmoted to a captaincy. ~ George in Military Here 1 I ! George, the eldest son, was Cap- itain Moberly of Co_llingwood, com- lmander of the `Collingwood Military !Company, of which Frank was En- isign when it went to the Niagara lfrontier to stop the Southerners from iraiding. Harry, the third brother,- left Barrie in 1854 to join the Hud- 'son s Bay Company and become a Factor. He is now 86 and lives at Duck Lake, Sask.,_ superannuated af- ter 26 years service with the Hud- son s Bay Company, awarded a gold the counties of - Grey and Simcoe. Mrs. Moberly was the daughter of an artillery officer who fought. against Napoleon at Boroydino before? I Moscow. With his family, Capt. John Moberly emigrated to Canada in 1833 and purchaseda home on the old mil-I `itary reserve of Penetanguishene, `where naval and military officers` were stationed. In the order of age 'the--family were: Mary, who became Lady,Brydges, born in -1829 at Sow- erby, Yorkshire, Eng., and who is now living in Wales.` She is 93 years old. George, born in 1830, Sowerby; Walter, 1832, born at Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire; Harry, 1835, born at [Penetanguishene, 0nt.; . Clarence, E1838, Penetanguishene, (chief engin- leer of the Northern Railway); Arth- `ur, 1840, Penetanguishene, became a |medical doctor and was killed on the irailway at Allandale in 1879; Frank, H845, Barrie, and Emma, born in-Bar- `rie in 1847. A ` SThvow Walter's Sfart Frank Moberly, Civil Engineer, Government.Commissioner, . Exploring Canada from Coast to Coast, Saw Fifty Years ` of Unique Venture in Helping to Open the 9 . Dominion to Settlement. - - _- -w-u Ivovlao . 1` .` ` Railwy was Courtous I 1 Mr. Moberly was engaged by the`: gofeznment 011' the Nova Scqtia Rai1- ; lullluuun First of Fenian Raids. The Fenians were still active and when `Frank started for Nova Scotia to undertake some engineering work, he. met companies of the raiders at Portland, Me., returning to the United States `where they Mere put under military arrest by their own government. To get to Nova Scotia in` those days-1866-- he took the Grand Trunk to Portland, Me. From Portland he went to St. J_ohn, N.B., via boat, landing` at` Windsor and from there by rail to `Halifax. -The _ -Fenians at Portland were returning from raids at Campo Be1lo,AN.B., which was the very first of the" Fen- ian raids. They had seized a steamer in Portland and forced it to , carry them over. They landed and destroy- ed some property, but ` when they learned that New Brunswick was pre- ` paring to give them a hot l_)att1e they I got cold feet - and returned to Port- ` land where they were charged with j an act of piracy for stealing the ship to raid with. \_ 1: luu: H_i__pz'L--u-3 ';ul|\.uu- . _. It>3V}_1,S,.l& %-'Yi'16.4 that he went to `Niagara`as Ensign in the company of which his brother, George, was Captain. Alex. Clark of -Allandaie was a soldier in their company. The purpose of the Niagara` move was to stop the Southern raiders who were active at St. "Albans principally. In 65 the Fenian raids were making things hot at Fort Erie and opposite the Eastern Townships. Barrie and Collingwood companies joined the Queen's Own brigade at the battle of Ridgeway in connection with "those disorders. ` 1..`l1..-...l...n. J-Ln nusini--inn f`l':1l7I`\ ni medal for extraord,1na_ry servlce, and... _a pension. \ Fr#nk s\SchooIing Told - A Frank'Moberly was. the firstmili-g tary student to attain the second and i first class military school certificates} in_ Simcoe county, and, ix_1' fact, in Upper Canada. ' 1'1- ..4.L....A...I LL- .2.-.._;_ .__:I_u__,-_ ' Sound in 1865-66 of a -narrow gauge U.L$U1'uC].'b. - Following the quieting down of those events, Frank Moberly made: survevs -from Angus and Sunnidale ( to Durham for the Northern Railway. I Those surireys had as an object the heading o "from Toronto to Owen railroad. 1rI- - I--5,,-,,, ~n,s,1, v 11119:. wullaugo He -attended the first military school organized in Toronto, which was one of three opened in Upper; Canada during,1864. His rudiment- ary education was started at home and in 1854 he attended the Model _school in Toronto and went from the Model school, to Holy Trinity. The Powell boys of Barrie also attended at the same time. Planned a Naval Future In 1857 Frank went to England to attend the Royal Naval school at Greenwich, with the intention of en- tering the navy. Having met with an accident, however, the celebrated surgeon, Benjamin Brodie, of Lon- .don, would not permit Frank to at- eitend the naval `school. `Instead, the surgeon suggested thezyoung aspirant for the `sea,.to which adventure he `naturally inherited the disposition from his father, should go to a pri- vate tutor in the north of England, which he did. Forced to dismiss the idea of a naval career, Frank re- {turned to Canada in 1859. He was then too old to enter the navy, in fact, - e he /`I I ' Labia , I V He attended the Grammar s`Ehool' at Co_l1in `wood under the Rev. Dr. M Langtry a ter his return, and in _1861 started to study law with his brother, George, in the same town. That was the- year of the Trent affair; the year of the beginning `of the American _civil war. Things in general started to boil. It was the year, too, of the murder of William Gibbard, super- intendent of Fisheries,` while on a trip to the Manitoulin Islands. Ref- erence to this will be made farther in the story. More than two years at 1-aw gave him further versality with which to aid him in the wrestle with the big_prol1l.n.v:.~';aheial(i. 1t"w`as'1at.a i'.~'r*a4 that went This phdtograph shows the first two civil engineers who blazed the I trail and mapped the line for the rails of the Canadian Pacific Railway inthe Rocky.Mountains. That survey was made in 1871. The photo; was taken in honor of their first reunion in twenty years, during which time each had been exploring hitherto uncharted stretches` in the wilds of Canada. The date of their reunion was in 1902.` Walter was then i living` retired in Vancouver. The picture was taken in Victoria, where they` met when Frank came infrom the Hope Mountain coast range in British Columbia, after a survey for the British Columbiagovernment. `Three Brothers, Trail Blazers; One was First Locator in` Rocky Mountains, One Founder of Fort McMurraY: one a B.C. Explorer; All Living Close to Nature have Strange Experiences in Wilds, which, however, Are but Incidental to their Vast Engineering . Achievements. ` On `thgva left. Walter Mabel`-ly; qn the `right, Frank Moberly TRANS-CONTINENT PIONEER SURVEYORS %THEBARRIEEXAMINER : vua-Jo After leaving Western Iowa, Mr. : Mober1y s first Farther West exper- ience was with a location party on , the Union Pacific, which took him] _ through a portion of Utah and Ne- vada where he had charge of a_party of surveyors until transferred to a construction party in Weber Canon L during thwinter of '68. . Had Movie Towns. Then Towns over the Union Pacific were i mostly portable. They sprang up every twenty miles and moved on with the work, excepting a few that became permanent. Trains without schedule arrived at these new towns any old time. When they did pull in the easterners looked for curious sights and they found them. The ar- rival of each train meant acurious I -sight for the _west'erners, too; and `usually a profitable period for the ,westerners. Quickly from some- where, nowhere, along the streets appeared longstrings of tables bear- :way, one of the first rail lines built in the east, and which afterward be- came a part of the Intercolonial. `The job was to build an extension ifrom Trugo to Pict`ou. 7/ prairie had its fort in '68 with its ' time. ..... - g.g uuu ;.u\.nL1\. LlllVV&Jq I i Custom makes one _casual to cir- Tcumstances. So, regardless of what strange experience might come next, the engineer journeyed on the fol-; lowing year, 1868, over the Unionl Pacific line to Cheyenne. As late` as 1899 the writer was in Cheyennel and saw gambling wide open there, Indians riding free on train steps and cowboys holding stampedes in the capital town of Wyoming. What, then, must have been the mixed bor-i der scenes oflMr. Moberly s time ?| Every. station along that virgin! `Corporal guard who fought the In- dians and hid in dugouts. ` Raids on the Wells-Fargo Overland stage coaches werelcommon and of more spectacular character than the auto bandit s plundering ventures of our Greek Medts Greek Again. Soldiers of the Civil war, from the Union and Confederate armies, had but recently been demobolized, and one of the purposes of rushing the railway work westward was to em- ploy these thousands of idle,-roam- ing bands. _ Large government sub- sidies in money and land had been granted to expedite this work. There in Wyoming, Utah and Nevada on construction gangs the. North and South again met-- with the weapons of utility, though, rather than war. They worked, comingled, played and gambled, each to his own aspiration. And many were the tough characters that gathered. Sometimes the hot blood of the South, fired. with gin or rum, boiled over on a Northerner; sometimes the Northerner carried his abolition` theories into too'much talk, and the old war was renewed: even as it so occurs occasionally to this day. ' v S Ac`--. I....--:...... 1'tr.__L___._ I'-___- 11,, ibL\lIll gsutv UV aluvvuc | 1 That railroad goes down in history as an accommodating vehicle. When trains were en route Truro to Pictou the conductor kept a sharp lookout from the cupola or sidedoor combin- ,ation car--i like the boy aloft in the "`crowsnest-- and if he saw a team coming along in a cloud of dust on the highway he would signal the en- gineer to stop. If the occupants of the wagon wanted to take the train" the gang-plank was lowered and the arm-strong crane hoisted team, wagon, man and all into the car. The whistle blew toot-toot and away they wheeled to the next crossing and finally to the city. ` ' Tries Venture in U.S. In 1867- Mr. Moberly; with new ambitions, sought new fields in a jump to Council Bluffs, Ia., opposite from Omaha. The country in that section at the time was populated principally by Mormons and menac- ing hordes of rattlesnakes, which fre-I I quently necessitated battle combat} whether one 1ike_d it or not. It wasi an interesting, though sometimes dangerous pastime. This engagement was on a survey for the Chicago,` `Rock `Island and Pacific railway. l (`no.4-A... ..,...I..... A... ..........'l J... ..:_- IVICKERS LIMITED \_ DISTRIBUTORS F()R BARRIE DISTRICT GLUEIEC '\4ll\2 Lllluannnuvavnnu I Exploits for the purpose of "laying trade routes that will bring the East nearer the_Wes_t, the source of need- ed products closer to the markets, are 5 of infinitely greater moment. The` story that develops from such ex- ploits becomes the romance of a na-' 'tion's history. ` ` 7'... Zv.;IC.-:4-Inn] cnlnn :vu.In`:l\`.r `mama ingt curios and Indian relics for sale; But the fascinating tables were the? E varied gambling boards. ~~Every game 5 [in diee and cards was running and? many a tenderfoot was sold. i (To be continued) Now on Sale "His Mas'ter sVoice -'Vicftor Records for February (UK UI-l\l\ OULVLID Molly-0 (I Love You) William Robyn Love's Ship Charles Harrison Rose of My Soul John Steel Whisper '1`o Me In the Starlight ` Jnhn Steel `Georgia Rose - Sterling Trio Tomorrow Land Sterling Trio I've Got _My Habits On Miss Patricola Happy Hottentot 4 Miss Patricola There is a Wideness in God's Mercy Trinity Quartet . (1) Softly Now the Light of Day (2) Seven Fold Amen ` When Shall/e_ Meet Again Elna Brown-Elliott Shaw Mississippi Cradle . 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Marlowe of the Shrew-Part II E H. Sothern and J. Marlowe Arturo Toscanini and La Scala Orchestra Whorn Mv Dear Lndv Rlnonn 66019 74724 74726 66014 66017 66021 66020 87331 74704 74705 74725 R:-innlrl Wnrpnrafh M018 VOC-AL `AND INSTRUMENTAL RECORDS (I) Rlin, Run. Run (Concone) (2) Jumping (Gurlittj (3) Run-in ning (Gurlitt) (4) Ballet (Iadassnhm Arturo Where My Dear Lady Sleeps Ruulan Dance. - any %His Mater s Voice dealers ,,,,,, .p_-;._.__.l I... r)-..l.1...... IV-..-... A '| It\'It) ID. Iipniin fnnfranl _- ,, i , ,, _ Manufactured by Berliner Gram-o-phone Co.,Limited, Montreal wnysvsvu. | Frank Moberly was born July 19, 1845, in this town. During the period` of fifty years between his twenty-i fifth and his seventy-fifth birthdays he practically explored the Dominion "4 of Canada from coast to coast, from_ Newfoundland to Vancouver, from; New York to California, and helped? in opening it up for settlement. Dur-, ing that time, twenty-six years of which was `in government service and practically all of it pioneer -work,; he had the adventures of Soldie_r,l Surveyor and Civil'Engineer, Con-, tractor, Reeve, Justice of the Peace,} Provincial Magistrate, Magistrate, Magistrate of the Northwest Terri-T tories, rescuer of passengers and crew E from a wrecked ship, and other per-3; sonal ventures on his own accounti that only the pioneer explorer could: have. Many of these ventures, with; their picturesque `settings, incidents trials and hazards are here` sketched? from matter-of-fact records and re-V liable stories. Mr. Moberly has no! thought of self-exaltation or egotismE in permitting these facts to be re-V; lated regarding his exploits. But: from them the young and ambitiousi .~should.profit, and his contemporaries = find much of interest. His Father in Royal Navy Captain John Moberly, Frank s father, was born in Petrograd, or"; what was then St. Petersburg, Russia. 1 He entered the British navy in 1801: `and was retired about,183,-5 or '37.! His rapid rise in the navy will be; noted in his record, which shows that he was made a Post-Captain in 1816. That rank is equal to a full Colonel in.H?.e. army. In addition to a pension for faithful service, he was awarded_ a grant of several sections of land in_ I eme (Bohemian Festival) (No. 4 from "Scenes Plttoresques") y Dear Reinald Werrenrath 66018 Dance. Efrem Zimbalist 64955 Ask to hear these neze selectibns played on the Victrola RED SEAL RECORDS n,__:n_ ;, DANCE RECORDS I. II C.-- 'I"_:, POPULAR somcs * uuuuu .- 5 name: uaaassonn) Orchestra Metropolitan Military Band . Military Band ` wanz No. 2 I Hacke1-Berg Orchestra Thursday, February 9, 1922. ` I I9 '1I`II II'\I`\IIL\) Allegheny. Pa., has 9. river frontage of 333.000 feet. , _l.______l L..__ ,.` 2 , `I I ' l. r .a ' {Lu cuulul %to 14 feet. V111,, QL,, Exploits for the sake of adventure I form the basis of many stories so un- usual as to rivet close interest- and ` UU J1 LCCUO ' The bre of-the aloe is made into cord- age or coarse cloth. In4\a\J|\|J|J Emilio Galli-Curci NnunnhnIn|__. U.\lu\I IUVL. n -An almond free attains the height of 12. A 14 `on? FACTS AN D FA_NC| ES $21635-I 216355 1884] }2l6356 [8829 ` 18836 ~ 45263 35713 UIUII 3 Illlllll. 0 i I The individual who indelibly `pens these ever-living tales in the form of charts, railway lines, location for hamlet and` city, composes a story both of his personal accomplishments and his country's potentialities that! -becomes epochal. He Was Born in Barrie I In a dwelling house of Barrie, 76 years ago, was born a boy who was` rdestinedto be able to say he had l_ -helped to achieve results from which. such a story has been indited in his country's history, even as two of his: brothers had participated in similar exploits. E`...-...l; lllfnknulu iivnn kn-an T111" 10 18837 18838 18835 [8839 18842 18845 18841.) 18843 10$ Page -Two 1.50 2.25 2.25 1 m Agent Cr 41 DUNLOP BARRIE 79 Bayfie col Thursdi GRA 313:1: Scholursha; %`We re Headquarters for Service on AllNIakes of Bttees % Health rm For Pr TO Bl SEE OL Sale s The Fit `The W Give Shl All CL1 If you want to know what happens when water in the battery runs 1ow-when the charge goesp down-when a short circuit occurs, we ll tell ydu. More than that we ll tell you the few simple things you need to know to side-step battery trouble.