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a 'Continued from Page 3) The Barrie band was nearly always in attendunce---and it wus some band those days, too-~and would "parade" from the t, in front und bebind | the band. The writer can even now me the front row of that "old 35th" band ox it swung arouml the corner into Mary Mears, Bemrose and George Smith | with their big polished, shiny bax horns, and Urs. Sewrey and Charlie Cameron with slide trombones. "The Caliph of Bagh- dad' wun probubly the bund's favored con- | vert selection, but on the march "Skide Are Out Today" or "Dixie" was the real goods. And many's the time when that | same Urs. Sewrey--genial, jovial, happy go-lucky, squeaky-voiced ' Urs rey woul | really "extend -- himself in ng 4 particulurly igh note that slide trombone and _ inate would uccidentally( 7) reach some kid who | wax walking too close in front of the band a paste on the back of the neck. There never was and probably never will be a band parade without its accompanying boy heralds and uttendants generally, -- | | zg Following the Band Life was x joy when I wat 9 boy in the /f duys of tong ago, | When eye and ear could see and hear the things it was good to know But the kind old earth once glad with mirth and pleasures high and grand, Seems stale and tame vince IT became too big to follow the band, Yet I dure say earth holds today about aa nich or more Of joy and cheer, right now and here, than! ever it held before 1 But by our pride we're now denied good gifts on ever hand; We've grown too proud to follow the --S po BOYHOOD DAYS IN BARRIE ___ ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO = , The Boys of Mary St. and Their Doings-- Some of. Barrie's Old Bandsmen--Lumbering Activities. -- Jing. To present-day entertainer or enter jsome nifty turns, and many an amusing attention. |originally), Love, George and Ed, Sewrey, John Hobley, Joe Bone, Geo, and Al May, George Dudley, Tom Smith, Will Hutto, the Hurst brothers, the Butterfield boys, names just ot present are forgotten. Most of us, sometime or other, have heard the famous Liberati Washington Marine Bund, Cincinnati Leiderkranz, Sausa or Gilmore, amponi or Godfrey, Rogers or Pryor, the Frisco Golden Gute Park Band, and 13th of Hamilton, Queen's Own, Grenadiers or 48th Highlanders of Toronto, but none of 'em had anything on the old "35th" in the huleyon days of years and years ago. One of the outstanding features of the old-time celebration was the Calithumpian parade, s sort of street masquerade mude up of grotesque costumes and equipages, and this often started from the rink build: tained, anything without a motor cur in it' seems impossible, but just the sume those foot und horse equipped uttractions of the old days managed to shake together sturit whieh would put the blink in present day Rotary Clittrolies was turned loose Perhaps in this line Alex, ('Quin') Burns and Ben Smith didn't originate many 9 laugh with their hayseed couple coming to town in an old straw-laden, two-wheeled curt hitched to » diminutive donkey, with 4 carrot suspended on a pole a couple of feet in front of its nose as an inducement to "carry on' also. It was a rare time indeed when Ben Smith, even ax a kid, | Ontario way comes as a shock, for in those |didn't have a nag of some kind or other, |days the price was around $2, and supplies even if it was only a goat, and usually s/appareatly unlimited. Largo quantities good one were hauled over the ice from dowy the Does the sesserpent still disport itself bay even beyond Big Bay Point, with per in Kempenfeldt Bay, as in the days of haps two teams hitched to a string of half yore, or has probibition bad the effect offs dozen pairs of connected bobsleighs piled eliminating the seeing of such monsters? | high with four-foot hardwood, ending their Anyway, it used to form the theme of much | trip at the foot of Mary street, whence discussion, and someone or other ut irregu-|they would be hauled away up to the More-than-Average Mileage ee i id il i Famous Oarsmen on Barrie Bay_"The Sea Serpent "THE average tire would run a thousand or many more miles farther if given proper --An Old-Time Ice Boo: ad ° - . . : ae P ASSEN : Long service and accidents often cause hidden injuries, that develop into premature blowouts if neglected. Many such injuries are inevitable, but not necessarily permanent. A Goodyear Reliner, applied before the break or injury spreads, will strengthen the tire for 25 per cent, to 50 per cent. extra mileage. Try this plan-and see how effectively it lowers tire bills Goodyear Reliners can be easily and quickly applied'by anyone. Any Good year Service Station dealer can albply you Or, if you prefer, go to your repairman, who will apply the Reliner for a small s MADE Growd--too big to follow the band. iis ineervals reported the serpent's appesr. ance in the eerie hours of night, when it jwould be seen making its sinuous way ; 4 a when the moonlight threw its rays ins 'And wander buck slong e's track to:the Tt oo tne aiear. bide waters of eerapen Fee eee aires, seltmade,|Feldt Bay clear eros the shore to Lover's and the cares that come to men, | Creck. There may have been better ex For the keen delight of s boss plod right Misnutions of the serpent's movemienta giv Moctallons tee kapd tacts en to und by our elders, but there cer- tainly were none-more closely followed seis Beravom jthan those we wire-djed and open-mouthed sale te Mer Bene, i | ca at ae las some of the other members of Barrie's| Laueblin (father-in-law of Jack Neelands, famous band at various times were Messrs, | ho had s tinsmith sbop in Barrie?. night George Henderson. John King. Feber ened Watchman of the Simpmon Brewery. while Scbolopaky tlosderss. dim snd Beb Header. seated on the stepa of the old place or more ton, George Simmons, Ba. Rect, donee, of"en sprend out upon the sand at his feet | Charlie art Dave Ward. Jack Lackie Oe, beside & auwlog or stump on the beach Ingo. Charlie Henry, Lisle, Joe King, Bert there. snd the solemn quietnese of those Kang, Ered, Warne, Lee Lane, Gherie {long summer evenings, would be hroken Lane, Ghactie and: George Conner, Eagic nls by the wheezing "chuf-chufl" of a Kine, Will, Hany, Pook and Feet Pre jsbunting engine or the bumping of the Dhan" Frank, Froccis, Jeck Todd Tom od switched boxears in the Allandale railway | Fred Littlehales (who ran the 'gas works | Yards, and the softly-repeated echoes aa they 'were wofted over the moonlit, ealm waters only added to the concentration, But im a few minutes more the last passenger train from the south for the night would whizz yfast us, a dozen fect awuy, into the For Three Years, Hardand Awfully Sore. Disfigured, Cuticura Heals, station, and oon pars from view around Fishermen's Point, and again all was still. That was the end of a perfect day, and a nure sign that it was time for uy to mosey home to sleep. In this connection it might also be mentioned that many a contented hour was spent down in the cool basement "T had been suffering with a pim- ply face for three 'My face was full of pimples and they were hard and awfully sore. They fes- tered and dried up, and were scaly, and disfigured my face. They caused me to lose a lot of sleep, and were Jof that anme brewery, out of the hot awfully itchy, making me scratch and T'd like to stray in a careless way through the broad green fields of youth, summer afternoon heat. Many a quiet glass "of beer or porter had been enjoyed down there by our elders, but Tom Simp- son was & genial host to us boys when he just let us rest there among the big iron bound vate or have an ice-cold drink of water from the artesian well then in exist- ence on thoro premises. Then Harry Col- ling, the genial utility man, would show up with a coil of hose to.swish out the place clean with s stream of water, and we'd have to chase ourselves. The fact that Mary street was really the only one where the resdway and bay met at the same level made it a busy thoroughfare for horse-drawn traffic, es- N.S. pecially in winter-time, when many of the y-day toilet farmers coming to town took the short-cut purposes. Bathe ip, Soothe over the ice. To one who has not been with Ointment, dust with Taicum. there and seen the gradual depletion of the supply of maple and beech cordwood throughout | anadyan] 'St. Paul St, Montreal. Wap Sikicare Seas chavoe without us. sround Barrie, the bold announcement that so many hundred cords at $10 or $12 per cord were arriving by ¢rain from up New Save Your Old Tires! 'HEY can be saved, and 2,500 miles new life put into them by our Dri-Kure Process at about 34 the cost of buying new tires. Why throw away valu- able property-- Have your old Tires RE-RUBBERED |. 'The Dri-Kure Process, is so effective we cam guarantee results. If not a total wreck we can fave you money--If not repairable, we will | | market in regulation style, Dave and Tom Soules loomed large in these transactions. Tt wax also about that time that, one winter, through some frenk of nature. Bur rie was the only place in the whule coun- try where ice fit for domestic use wus formed. and ax a consequence the mupplien for most Ontario places, and many of those of the United States, even including as distant cities ax Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Chicago, were almost exclusively obtaiaed from Kempenfeldt Bay. Huge icehowies were erected---seores of them--on either ride of the railway, and strung along the waterfront from Poyntz St. to the lumber yards at the head of the bay, and aerial tramways carried the huge blocks of ice in an almost compact masa from the bay: to the more distantly located sarchounes. Besides, hundreds of cars were lowled and speeded away each day from the freight sheds, which were almost entirely given over to the efficient bundling of this tem poyery business. Nearly every man and jorse in the community that was nble to work was used at high prowure in these operations, and st good pay, as well ax the most up-to-date Inbor-saving _ machinery which had been brought over' for these harvesting Isbors, One Cincinnati firm brought seven carloads of quick-handling equipment, and one of its elevators housed three tons of ice each minute, the blocks coming in an endless procession to the entrance of the icehouse, where they were shot down a slide branching off into smaller slides running into different sections of the warchouse, the momentum carrying the blocks hundreds of feet to the destined place and requiring no human aid in this work, from the time the block left the water until it reached ite final-destinat Almost every aquare foot of ice in the bay for miles down was cut, and even a second crop in some cases wax gathered. To accommodate the added haulage by sleighs inclined skidwaya were erected wherever possible slong the waterfront, both for storing the ice and also loading into box- cara standing on sidings, these being operat- ed by the smaller firms, For year after- wards the small ponds formed in the hol- lows where these icehouses had stood pro- vided dandy places for little shavers to float rafts made up of discarded railway ties joined together with » broken plonk or other flotsam gathered by some indus- trious and ingenious kid--regular bouse- boats for these juveniles. These ice-cutting operations that winter surely gave Barrie an international reputa- tion it neither previously nor since occu: pied, not excepting even the big regattas which were almost yearly held on Barrie Bay and attended by thousands of out- sider. For these affairs buge grandstands 50 feet high were put up, extending from Carley's boathouse to Bayfield street, and were fully occupied, too, 'There also was a travelling grandstand, composed of tiers of plank seats built lengthwise on fist cars, and an engine hauling about forty of these cars would start from Barrie station with the commencement of each race and run slowly down to Fisherman's Point (the turning stake in a threemile race and the starting point in the one and a half mile race) and return, the spectat- ors having a close-up view of the contost- ants from the beginning to the end of each event. Edward Hanlan was almoat invine- ible as an oarsman from 1874 to\1884, and about 1876 beat Charlie Riley on Barrie tell you. Put an address tag on your old tires and express them to us collect. We repair any make or type of tire. 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Besides, of course, there were many amateur meeta in which the well-remem- bered Lachine sand Grand Trunk (Mont- real) Nautilus (Hamilton) Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Argonaut (Toronto), and Don (Toronto) vights, fours, doubles and singles took. part the wonder is why Barrie nowadays has so dropped out of ervice charge. YEAR IN CANADA holding similar big meets |rail. During the summer the loge were| railway locomotive runnin; 2 Tn these years Barrie was the centre of |hauled from all over Lake Simcoe by the |lel trick, cod Wong an ane agearal 4 2" important umber industry, not tugs Ids Burton, Luella, Isabella and Con-|of large' pulleys and hewsers and other only in its local application se exemplified |queror to the head of the bay, anti were |required tackle was the lifting power, by the Durham and Ardagh mills, and lat- loaded on to long strings of st care, be-|Bome of the more prominent lubiy ned er by the Vansickle mill, but was also the |ing hauled lengthwise up slanting ekidways timber men in Barrie in those days wore: saembling poind for large shipments by from tbe water, and for this purpose a (Continued on Page 15) MAXWELL Extra Fine in Metals Extra Fine in Mileage A Maxwell car weighs 2130 pounds. It is made of the | finest materials that may be obtained. 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