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The Independent visited this insti- tution one Sunday afternoon recently, and while the editor of! this paper has, been more or less conversant with the affairs of the Home, still no idea was ever entertained that it was as model a place as it was found to be. If! you never have, then do so at the first opportunity, and if you do not come away trom there convinced that it is one of the finest and best con- ducted institutions that the county possesses it will be a funny thing. One enters the main entrance to the fine large brick building by a flight of steps up to a wide porch and going through the main entrance finds one- self in a large rotunda with a broad set of! stairs running up to the second floor in the very centre of! the room. It is very much like the rotunda of a large country hotel. This rotunda is in the very centre of the building and both upstairs and down all the rooms in the central part are occupied by Superintendent Frank Sifton and his family, while the upper and lower flats on one side and on mates. The Independent party was greeted by Superintendent Bitton and his good wife, who is Matron of the insti- tut/on and personally shown through the whole place by them. In the basement was found the large steam boiler that heats the place. This boiler is heated by an oil burner, This burner is supplied from a one hundred gallon oil tank in the basement, and this tank in turn is fed from a five thousand gallon tank buried in the ground outside the btiilding. This burner on the very coldest days in winter does not con- sume more than thirty-five gallons of bdildirig. This burner on the very coldest days in winter does not con- sume more than thirty-five gallons of oil in twenty-four hours, and its aver- age consumption per day is twenty- five gallons. This year the oil cost ten and one half cents a gallon, so that the home is very comfortably heated, at a cost of $2.621/2 cents a day. All the floors in the basement are of cement and the walls and ceil- ings are painted white and are spot- The kitchen and pantries and men's and women's dining rooms are also in the basement. The men's dining room is on one side of the kitchen and the women's dining room on the otherraide. The tables in the dining rooms are all painted white and cov- ered with white oilcloth and each one has accommodation tor four people. All meals are served through an aperture in the walls, while all dirty d'shes are carried from the dining rooms to the kitchen on an all-steel Made-in-Grimsby service wagon. This wagon was supplied the Home by The Metal Craft Co. In the basement is the laundry. This laundry is equipped with a large power driven washing machine and a large power driven drying and wringing mach’ne. The wet clothes are put in this wringer- drier and the machinery started. It revolves so fast that the water is virtually hurled out of the clothes through a series of holes in the re- volving tank and disappears down a drain pipe. When the clothes are taken from the machine they are not only absolutely free from water but are dry and ready for ironing. _ No better example of the pureness and clearness of the water supplied to the citizens by the Gr‘msby Water Commission can be found, than the ice being manufactured at the plant of. The Grimsby lee and Cold Storage In the next room is the cream separator and the butter churn, both Bower driven. All the machin- TELL TIME THRU CAKE OF ICE The ice coming out ot the ice mak- ing tanks is as clear as crystal and the time' ot day can be cleafly read on the dial of a watch, through a cake ot 'ce forty-two inches long. When ice is as clear as this, then the citizens have little tear as to the quality 0 tthe water they are drawing from their taps. (Continued on Page Three) the other Sid fem-ale inmates’ th em THE Ilhr0Dlf? (ox-Wmmo-mmmmmm-¢)-o.o-u-0.WWO-<’-()-<>-0-0-0.0-(>-0-(mm“).o.o-O-O.O-Omm)-0"“:0 Canada is recognized as a country of! boundless and varied resources, the development of which is only in an embryonic stage. Among the re- sources and industries, which have attained an extensive degree of de- velopment is that of fruit growing in the Niagara District, that fertile sec- tion of Southern Ontario, often de- scribed as "The Garden of Canada," and bordering on Lake Ontario from Tdronto to the Niagara River. fzflllll|llIllllll|IllIllIlllIII"ullljljlluII‘I_l|,l‘||1|rlljllllIIIJHIJIIIll|ll|[IllIII}llllllllllllllIllIIIIlllllllllIllll|Ill|I}|NI|llllllllllllllllll"InIllIllllII[IE1ll|IIIIHIHIJIIIIIIIIIIHHI iLdEiiroumt and immense orchards of peaches apd other fruits extending for miles to the shore of Lake On- tario, and the whole plain dotted with beautiful homes. . It would be dificult indeed to find a more beautiful spot than the "fruit district," in the vicinity of the vil- lages of Grimsby and Winona, with _One of the most interesting and charming sights in Ontario is the bloom of these vast, orchards, about the middle of May. Thousands of sightseérs travel through the district by the Canadian' National Railways, which traverses the heart of this district, and is the principal medium of transportation on "Blossom Day," and any one who has not witnessed that wonderful sight,, should not fail to do so at the first opportunity. was were 0:01-0.0-0-0Q‘ scale. The tir vested in 1896. Subsequently pered, and the ".oa--o-a-o-o-o-o-"-"'" ALD. JOHN E. SCOTT, who has retired from municipal life. The Editor of The Independent re- ceived a Christmas present from Sims Hardware thabhe very much ap- preciates. The present came in the form of a set of Grimsby name plates for his tour-wheeled gasoline eater. The plates are the same color scheme as the 1924 license plates; yellow background with raised black letters. The plates are ten inches long and the letters are one and one-half inches high. This set of plates made their appearance on the streets on Wednesday afternoon last and were the first set to make their appear- ance. n WE THANK YOU Canadian Nati FRUIT SHIPMENTS BY THE MILLIONS e developmel slow in its i1 first grown y grapes ,plu n 910 by five rown istr itial By W. E. Norman O about 1875, IS and othe ears later yt H .1y a "boom” 11 of the immi- fruit farming I‘OD ional Railways Magazine other trnuits Lter before commercial D was har- lped eacne follow in pros- rap- gration policy ot Sir Clifford Bitton, which resulted in many Britons pur- chasing fruit farms, which they Oper- ated with more or less success. They were quick to respond to the first call for volunteers in 1914, and quite a number of them disposed of! their properties, in some cases at consid- erable sacrifice. It would be impossible to do justice to the subject without quoting stars- tics indicating the magnitude of the fruit production in this district. Thedruit farms vary in size from ten acres to one hundred acres. The best land is valued at $1,000 per acre, whereas in 1882, the same land could be purchased ar810() per acre. The cost of labo has increased four told, baskets tl'fll'," fold, while frrutit sells During the season of 1922, with a crop somewhat less than normal, 4,078 earloads of fruit were shipped by .()-0-0-0.( )-(_().()-()-().0-( - _('()-( - that time carloads of fruit were shipped by Canadian National freight, 1,689,765 packages by Canadian National Ex- press and large quantities by other transportation" companies, including steamboats and motor trucks. On a recent occasion the Canadian National Express handled upwards of 40,000 packages of fruit in one af- ternoon. How this tremendous task was accomplished involves an explan- ation of the system of handling ex- press fruit shipments from the Nia- The'Railways have erected large fruit shelters, with open sides and high platforms at all shipping points. Each buyer, or co-operative agent has an assigned space on these platforms, where he receives and addresses the fruit as it is brought from the or- chards. GRIMSBY ROSES CROSS CANADA It can almost be said that Grimsby grown roses brought Christmas cheer Ni in humdreds ot homes in Canada from . coast to coast. , tal Never in the history of the big M. ,me Ofield and Sons plant has such a b l large or choice a cut of roses beenl e made as that which was cut and an' shipped tor the holiday trade. PlantI superintendent George Ofield .ary1(a I head rose grower MacPherson produlc- 'Of, ed a wonderful cr0p ot finest quality ’mc and for ten days previous to Christ-l mas fairly swamped the down town l Ive shipping office with the wonderful !On flowers. Head shipper McBride and. his staff worked night and day toI fill the hundreds of orders that came I Gr to his desk, and when Christmas Eve arrived every order had been filled vil and over one hundred and twenty tn thousand roses had been shipped to p points all over Canada. . i315 On the Thursday before Christmas) an order for one hundred number onei roses was shipped to Regina, Sask. jot! They left Grimsby on the six o’clock train and left Toronto the same night,’ arriving in the Saskatchewan capital (an on Sunday morning. The same day! three large orders were shipped atrt dealers in Halifax, N.S., and Monoton,! W. H. H. Astle, Grimsby Dec. 31, Fred Andrews, Gr‘msby Dec. 31, C. P. Hawkey, Grimsby Dee. 31, A. R. McCallum, Detroit G. Henry, Edmonton, Alta. PAID UP LIST Walter Young, Smithville N. B., so it is almost safe to say that Grimsby grown roses covered Canada from coast to coast. ress frult F. ara District The,Railw; Woolverton, Grimsby Dee GRIMSBY, WEDNESDAY';rJANUARY 2, 1924 June Dee. July 1, 31 30 31 1924 1924 1924 1924 1924 1924 1924 It is not unusual to packages on some of! the in lots of from five bask dreds of baskets, add/ess; points throughout Canad may, N? S., to Saskatoon _ ever, the loading of the The' express agent cheeks and re- ceits for the fruit, as met as the orders are completed nd stamps each lot "Checked," 'Ch/t is ready to forward. Everyone is bliged to work at a high tension in order to have the fruit in readiness, when the fruit brain mills into ‘the 'raurt shed siding. " Grimsby play their first and most important' out-of-town game in Niagara Falls, on Saturday next, January 5th. Owing to the uncer- tainty of weather condition, for motoring at this season, arrange- ments are being made for a special train, providing a sufficient num- ber of supporters accompany the team to cover the necessary guar- antee. Tickets are now being sold which are good in exchange for a return ticket on this train, and if a sufficient number are disposed of, before Thursday night, the train will be chartered; if ndt, the money will be refunded. At the present time, the tickets are going well, and if everyomr,who intends to go will purchase their ticket at once, the train is a certainty. The arrangement' ~~for the train are as follows: r. Grimsby at 7.00 p.m'LC:§topping at Grimsby, Grimsby ville, Vineland, lord: ‘land St. Catharines. Return, proximately 11 p.m. :.‘{::ing the same stops and stopr also. .. MUS: -o-tr-oarmro-o-o-oai.o-o- -()-O-()-0-0-0.0-U.O.()-0-0-0.()-0-0-0.0-0-(DUI-0.0-0-O-O-O-O.(.:Q HOCKEY SPECIAL Fare: Grins' other stops at the Seats have hi and will be avalia or- train. "The tickets tltr a sale may be exchanged for railway tickets and both Arena anenrslway tickets. purchased at W. W. Kidd's of- fice, on Saturday aftevmoon, from 1 to 5.30 o'clock, and at the depot thereafter. Tickets trill also be available on the train, but Arena tickets will only be guaranteed to those who have purchased the ex- change tickets before Friday night. It is earnestly hyped that a goodly crowd will accompany the team on this train af. help them along with their support. Get your tickets now. G behind your team. LET'S GOI ' mg a speeial express fruit tram at Grimsby Beach Station I " I ( ' MIB 'l "AX , i [lil if 'd i' . u,' 1"? ~~for the train are as follows: Train will leave 1'Lfl‘stopping at Grimsby, Grimsby East, Beams- "f Wand St. Catharines. Return, leaving at ap- Llfging the same stops and stopping at Winona. H t ii. ""r1‘)r1ces. ' giggved "en bloc" at the Niagara Falls Arena, l those who have purchased tickets on the t alci icorr . y Ivrrn, $1.50; Beamsville, return, $1.40, and 'ERTISING PAYS "p.S and rt- tt as the ma stamps ‘WPW bllY Two special express fruit trains ru‘t shed are operated between St. Catharines and Toronto from the middle of June lave 4,000 until about the end of October. A platforms, third train is operated in mid-sum- "s" to hun- mer, when the shipments are heaviest. to various The first train leaving St. Catharines from Syd- at 1 p.m. picks up fruit tor East of asky HOW-lToronto, including Ottawa District, 6! i "the and makes connections at Toronto V ’j bititr/tsigi', 'aietie,1, J':Epre:'c15 -.traip,,, leaving it“ _ ‘other trains follow closely on thel first one. [llllllllllll I1WMtgtMtlIIIIttgttiItiIttmtgip,MiiImmIIIIIttraIIIpttIIi Each train handles fruit tor a dit- ferent section of the country, and the distribution is facilitated by loading cars for various routes or divisional points, thereby" avoiding transfer by hand en route. Great care is neces- sary to sort properly the shipments in the cars at the time of! loading, so that the various piles of fruit will be 11 station order for iuinloading and wiWnot be carried past its destina- tion, or put off at the wrong station. While there is a considerable move- ment of carload shipments to specific important points, th's movement is but. a. verv small percentage of! the leaders, which rides the train and; quence of the very low rates in effect, works under the direction of an ex- and the special and expensive service press supervisor, in charge of Oper- which must be maintained owing to ations, who has a special knowledge its perishable nature. There is some of! the geography of this country and consolation in the fact that the fruit the passenger train service. shippers never complain of the Ex- Two special express fruit trains press rates on fruit, and have only are operated between St. Catharines complimentary remarks to make in and Toronto from the middle of June regard to the serv1ce rendered. until about the end of October. A An effort has been made recently third train is operated in mid-sum- to create a market for Canadian o-o-o-o-o-r-o-o-o-""- it tr ll n Either lines rom an exmn rom an express operating 1t, the proper handling t crop is a most difficult l and unremunerative, in NIENT 11 11 percenta a numb baggage cars, ven- refrigerator cars, Expressfruit train .nber being leased stand- of the prepos- CORSE- taamitttaimimmtiMiiimtNtititItIittommiittamititmMtMilirtoe. tions were formed on a small scale, and ceased to function. In 1920, the Niagara District Grape Growers' As- sodiation (and Selling Company) was formed and has been wonderfully suc- cessful. About one Year later the Niagara Peninsula Growers' Limited was organized with a membership of approximately 750. ALD. H. D. WALKER-Has re- tired from the council and is elected Water Commissioner by acclama- tion. -0-0-()-()-1)-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.0C VILLAGE INN TO We are pleased to announce this week that Manager Servais has de- c'ded to keep the Village Inn open for the winter months, The heavy overhead expenses, coupled with light business throughout the winter had caused him to make up his mind to close this fine hostlery until May 1st. Through an agreement with the town council whereby the taxes on the Inn would be cut in half, Mr. Servais has agreed to keep the hotel open tor the travelling public and for the use of the local people. REMAIN OPEN >.0-0-0-D-0-(Oz. $2.00 Per Year-s Cents a Copy Here, is tih,pff1usirrkaci of Jr.? Gritrsow., . v'.-3‘s£(,.r 5,.de an “1 srlifti'r' tition (ir'ityi.i'tt'i,'i:,gi"ia'Csrrii':'ir, certain sized house in Grimsby., occupied by a prominent business man, contains a certain number of lights, electric range, toaster, etc. It costs this man for power each and every month the year round an average' of $6.00. The same sized house in St. Cath- arines, with just as many lights, a range, toaster, etc., and two extra stove plates in the cellar for laun- dry purposes, costs only $4.00 every two months, or $2.00 a month. SOME DIFFERENCE! It costs the Grimsby, man as much money for two months' power supply as it costs his St. Catharines neighbor for six months. In other words, the power user in St. Catharines only pays $12.00 for six months' supply, while the Grimsby man pays $12.00 for a two months' supply. There is only one way in which the Grimsby man can get placed on the same basis as the St. Cathorines man and that is to bring Hydro to Grimsby. It has to come! It must come! The Hydro power lines run right through Grimsby. Let us build our own power distributing station, our own poles and line system and give our people electric juice for power and lighting purposes at half the cost they are paying today, and moreover, be the owners of our own power system instead of being under the thumb of a private corporation. Hydro will cut the pumping costs at the water works' pump house in half or more. Hydro will cut the cost of power to our manufacturers in two. Hydro will cut the cost to our house- holders in two. Therefore, by all means, let us have Hydro. Let us own and operate our own plant. Let 'us give North Grimsby a chance to continue its march of progress by bringing in Hydro and distributing it to all corners of the township. The cost of operating the pumps at the water works' pump house'can be cut in half in w,twenty-four hours once competitiortomes into effect...,, Grimsby at the present time is pay- ing' a rate for electric energy that would .at least be cut in half if there was competition. Paying a rate that competition would force down and down until it is quite possible that it would be even lower than half the present rate. - Grimsby rate can be mad? as. low as St. Catharines rate, and it IS less than half our rate. ' is up to every resident to put dollars in his or her own pocket and that is just what Hydro will do. ' Let our slogandor 1924 be: It is up to every citizen orGrimss, by to work and boost for Hydro. It Next Monday is election day, when the citizens of the town and town- ship will have an opportunity of ex- pressing by ballots their wishes as to who shall represent them during 1924 on the council boards. Why should the users of elec- tricity in Grimsby and North Grimsby pay more for it than the citizens of St. Catharines pay? Why should the town of Grimsby pay any more than half what it is now costing to run the electric pumps at the water- works pump house? 'these are three questions that every ratepayer in the town and township should take into deep consideration. These questions are worth while giving up some thought to. Ward I-chopping Mills-. J. J. Groce, deputy returning officer; Arthur Norton, poll clerk. Ward 3--Pettit's Real Estate Ottiee ,--Mr. H. Pettit, deputy returning ot- ticer; A. E. Phipps, poll clerk. Ward 2--Couneil Chamber-Jos. Ness, deputy returning officer; Fred Andrews, poll clerk. In the township the polls will be opened in the school houses in sec- tions one, two, three and tour; name- ly, Park School, Hagar’s School, A1- way’s School, Kemp’s School. In the town the polling places will be as follows:--. Why should the citizens of Grimsby and North Grimsby pay twice or even three times as much for electric current than is neces- sarv? WHERE T 0 VOTE Bring in Competition and Watch Your Rates Go Down---Grimsby, Pay- ing Three Times As Much For Juice as St. . Catharines--Cut Pump House Costs in Half. 'tor-o-o-o-oo-o-o-o-o- HYDRO FOR GRIMSBY" Pages 1 to 8