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(4) for in the summer evenings this pleasure boating constituted a favorite pastime, when the objective frequently was a local picnic place, Cedar Point, some distance beyond the big bend at Dutchman‘s Bay. Small boat houses were tucked in behind where now stands the waterworks buildings. Sometimes the putâ€"put of a motor boat was heard dipping across the water. (5) When the town, in 1887, seriously considered erecting the waterâ€" works building, ‘‘owners of boat houses then located on the waterworks lot would be allowed the privilege of placing them on the lot lately leased from Mr. Brunton during the pleasure ofthe council.‘‘ (6) Again in 1895, ‘"boathouse owners on the east side of the waterworks were notified to either take out leases or council would proceed to remove them.‘‘ (7) By the early 1880‘s the floating bridge acquired a disreputable appearance, though it continued to afford access to the east side for less fortunate persons to secure a supply of wood, and in turn did a good job of clearing away the stumps and logs, thereby improving the appearance of the stream. At last it became so dilapidated that when a freshet occurred, it was washed down stream. A boom extended across the pond above the dam, a guard composed of logs chained end to end, and all were forbidden to go behind this boom. The name, Fairy Lake, was bestowed on the pond in some more recent year, but to New market people it has remained ‘"‘The Pond."‘ On the bank below Andrew Street was the ‘Ole Swimmin‘ Hole,‘ where, during the 60‘s and 70‘s the small boys of the village congreâ€" gated and in the warm water of afternoon, spent thrilling times clad in their birthday suits, During the evenings, crowds of young and older men bathed in the rear of Hartry‘s tannery where an ancient shed beâ€" longing to the tannery was convenient as a dressing shelter. While these local interests and pleasures continued for sometime in the new century, the advent of the electric railroad and the autoâ€" mobile quickly brought about acommon mode oftransportation. Distant resorts attracted the picnic crowds,â€" the automobile conveyed the family group, and the electric cars, sometimes 3 or 4 cars were chartered to carry the picnic throngs to Lake Simcoe. With the outbreak of war in 1914 very little, if any pleasure activity was seen on the Pond. The plot of ground, now the pretty park on the south side of Water Street, was, during the 1860‘s, occupied by several of the village‘s industrial buildings. In the corner next the railroad and close to the sidewalk, stood the saw mill of Arnott and Fox. Here the lumber was sawn and then transferred to an adjacent shed where the sun and the wind did the drying. When sufficiently dried, these staves were trundled across Water Street bridge to the Arnott and Fox Cooper shop which also stood close to the sidewalk on the old mill site, and in front of where the waterworks building has beenerected. Here they were shaped into barrels to be used in the Marsden flour mill, now the Office Specialty site, and for the Denne Mill near the railroad depot on Huron Street. (8) Next to this drying shed stood the Hartry tannery. In 1886 the leather 303