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3X Many years ago Welland became notorints gor the crooked dcals that horsemen received, who went thers to race, ard the re:uit was that the Town of Welland had to give over holding raceâ€"mestings altsgether, as they found it impssible to secure enough horses to fill their classes [ ‘This was the direct result of the crooked work meted out to the horsemen when they visited that town. History Repeats Itself â€" What they did to the horsemen years ago they did to the dfiremen 3 The Welland Fiasco ‘_‘The City of Welland has again disgraced itself in the sporting line §ooRe QueBeaZecGecBeaBe oRe cBeaTe oRe aBeaBe oReaGeaBeoRe aBuaBecGeaJeaenia aBe afeafeaRe aBe aBe oBeale oBe aBeaZe ofe cBe cGecReaTe aBe oe afeaRe afeaBe aZecSe aSecfSea$ec$e ols TW O cause EVC i8 merchandise When you SEE and PRICE our beautiful goods, you would rather have our MERCHANDISE than your money. Main Street, W . Oak Streets, Grimsby THE PEOPLE‘S PAPER You can now get ""lots for your dollar‘" in ourâ€"store beâ€" _ we would rather have your MONEY than our summer OUR GOODS ARE GOOD; OUR PRICES LOW Come in, let‘s swap. THE INDEPENDENT K. M. Stephen sue JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers. JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, Business Manager J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor vy Wedne 1 wl e t Bs B on# ies wb TELEPHONTE from the Office of Publishers, Main and K1 «n 98 4 ces " Nemw RY "Noerr K cmer ESTABLISHED 1885 Grimsby who In the meantime the travelling public trucks iin and out of great holes in this st the road looks like a series of little l?,lges_ GRIMSBY did not suffer in t the list, and they had learned of t pared for it. n t ‘Welland apparently made up its mind to hokusâ€"pokus the public, by bring ing a large crowd to the City, getting their money, ‘and letting them go home after a most miserable exhibition Oof incompetency and crookedness on the part of the managing committee and judges. It has been usual, for ages, at Firemens demonstratiOons, IOP UTHC VIDILIHE firemen to receive tickets for hotel accommodation. In the case of Welland, the fireâ€"teams received their tickets, all right; but when they had partaken of their meal at the hotel or eatingâ€"Pl@ace to which they had been assigned, they had to pay for them; and were coolly informed that the ticket was merely a reservation 6f a space at the table in the diningroomâ€"and they paid for their own meal. * We Havre Long Memories What W(&land did to the horsergen August Fourth; and it â€"will be rem Y as it has been remembered against »e" Not One But Many Crooked Deals This steal from GRIMSBY was not the olny crooked act of the judges, that day. Burllington was easily the winner of the prize for the best appearing Department in the parade; but here again the committee got in its crooked work by refusing to allow Burlington â€"to carry off the prize on the flimsy exâ€" cuse that their uniform was an imitation of a military uniformâ€"as a matter of fact all uniforms are, more or less, imij.a.tions of military uniforms. Usual Courtesies Disregarded Not only did the committee of management of the Welland Firemens Demonstration plan to hokusâ€"pokus, bunco, and steal the public‘s money, but they planned to bunco the firemen themselves, who went there, at their own expense, to provide the days entertaign}el_lt The result of this piece of crooked work on the part of the committee was that every team entered for the drill f:_ompetition refused to drill, and the é;);éta'.t'ovl:s:. were robbed of this part of the programme In about another month the résident engineer Of C will have to consider steps to‘renew the fo_u_n‘da,t;ion laying down, for six months previous purpose of having built upon if & J Beamsville. is Crowd Knew of The Steal Fortunately the large crowd knew that GRIMSBY had actually won the race, and gave them the applause following their effortsâ€"but the local team was unable to carry off the trophy which was reserved for Niagara Falls by the judges Thru"the ‘dilatory action of the Dept road bhas never been built and the subs stroyved or so badly demoralized that it w Thus stealing two seconds from GRIMSBY, and placing them one second behind the team that had been chosen to win, by the judges. But where GRIMSBY got the bump was at the close of the race, when after having run a most admirable race and after the ladderâ€"man had exâ€" celled himself by a quick ascent, and after the official timer had announced "GRIMSBY run the race in thirtyâ€"eight seconds"â€"one â€"of the judges in the stand took a hand in the game and announced the race as having been run in forty seconds. W. A. McLean, Deputy Minister OL PUDHC 1gH flooded this country with pamphlets on road making many beutiful sections of country roads, pictured, beal finished and nice enough looking to make a roadâ€"( get onto them. e .l visited their tised prizes. The Provincial Highw There is nothing, you know, that will expose faulty road construcjcion’ like a good shower of rainâ€"the water finds its own level and spreads into and fills every hole and rut. § ++ 1 & These pictures were very nice to 100k roads which never existed in Ontarioâ€"and ever constructed by the Department of P else, under the advice and assistance of th The pictures were all cations from the mind of somewhere, sometime, but wOnl These pictures and the pamphlet constitutes about the entire lifeâ€"work cf the Deputy Minister of theAD_epAmj_m}ent of Public Highways. McelLean present time, hevi-:-; aE lâ€"ca_a;stâ€"â€"if_ifteéfi;eérs behind the times in road construction and is a veritable drag upon the wheels pf_pfogreSs in road building. 4 Although the Provincial Highway between Hamilton and the Niagara River has been under the special care of the Deputy Minister for two years, he has not yet built one tenâ€"foot piece of good rozdâ€"but he has wasted thousands and tens of thousands of dollars by sticking to his old, pet, fossilâ€" ized theory of macadamized stone roadâ€"under the delusion that they will carry automobile and truck traffic, although every other interested man in the country found out long ago that the stone road was the least able of all roads to carry this traffic. The best built macadamized stone ro2d 1 gravel road, for carrying traffic, and one tho clay road, for carrying trafiicâ€"in ary weather 0 A Local Example of Incompetence Yet McLean is so hidebound in his fossilized ideas that he is still wasting the peoples money on waterA-b‘ognd macadam roads. > The Public Pays a And the worst feature of it is that the travelling public is paying, heavily ; their lives are endangered every moment of the day and night by McLean‘s miserable attempt to do nothing. % % % % % % % % # % * Piles of stone are scattered all along the road; dumps anrd fills are left in the most miserable, contemptible and dangerous condition, continually; autoâ€" mobiles are smashed; business men are delayed; tyres are destroyed;â€"all because the Department of Public Highways has chosen as its motto "The Public Be Damned" Biggs a Joke The Minister of Public Highwaysâ€"the Hon. F. C. Biggs has proven h self to be a most thorough windbag. o ho o en n Mc AG. nctf a<nx i# *A minnst" nan t "An hi m ilure built a single halfâ€"mile of good road in the Province, apd a greater fai as a Minister of Public Works, and Highways, never sat in the Cabinet of the Ontario Legislature. ie ‘as pii ien to It is impossible to make sometking out of nothingâ€"and of the Denart.meqt of Public Highways it can be truly said "from nothing it came; to nothing it will go; and, nothing from nothingâ€"nothing remains. an y mmi He has never, to my knowledge, done anryrpth_e_r useful actâ€"and, at the w He is ‘a success at nothing except making bombastic speéches. He has? not is was the most barefaced b band of confidence men in ttee of management as the | OL Years Behind the Times THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ONTARIO 11 irt in d on ie tol al IMSB Y City, on Wednesday August Fourth, to compete for their adverâ€" pp tC owl ams 1€ iment Deputy Minister of Public Highways, a few years ago Ire Lp t AY ren n adamized stone road is five hundred percent behind a nz traffic, and one thousand percent behind a common )eT n roads in other countriesâ€"or else were pure fabriâ€" some engineer who dreamed of having seen them had never built them. partment went to & ns Demonstration order that the cit lly ed bunco game that has ever been pulled OLL i in this Rtovince, and it stamps the Welland the leadiDg threeâ€"cardâ€"monie sharpers in the : start two s 1 the Dept. of Public Highways the pel the substantial foundation will soon hat it will have to be reconstructed. In is respect as ie man‘s lack Firemens demonstrations, for the visiting lent engineer of the Provincial Hignway ew the foundation whichâ€" he was busy ; to the middle of July this year, for the permanent roadâ€"between Vineland and public will bump their automobiles and this stone foundation, and when it rains M ‘"ed‘s ago she did to the 1 wed against her by the fir ‘Lby the horsemen. * 1( re at, but there were photographs of not one mile of any such road was iblic Highways, or by any person e Department of Public Highways. in t Welland ens might their race came later on in of ability in time to be preâ€" cingâ€"in this pamphletâ€"were beautifully graded, smoothly adâ€"driver‘s mouth water to deal of trouble to prepare lland. 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