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TO RT d - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929 . A Ae a aL uoToRs crcvank ao IFIMIIS VESSEL = TOBE BROKEN UP, "Lady Brussels" Damaged By English at Zeebrugge London, March 8--The Brus- sels, the vessel imm a a in Dreston and for el Xs Dublin pasate 0 . Du > the war her. route was be- wenn Taewich and of KING AND SIMCOE STREETS IN 187 the command of Captain Feyatt 'a picture taken om Simcoe street, looking south from the Captain, Fryalt evaded capture by cornu ot Ring ~Photo by W. H. to ram an enemy Sub- street, in 1871, Kirby. emp marine, For that deed he was pre- the rail- - 3 : y sented 4 with Agi watch by plane depot ship and during the | Dublin and Lancashire Shipping Co., were : ' : SI ; To 1916 the. Brussels was ptured famous British raid in 1918, she was | refitted as a cattle steamer, and Alexandra street to Richmond street, : 4 A I | by German destroyers, poy July sepeatedly hit by the raiders' gunfire, | placed on the Dublin and Preston and from Metcalf street to Avenue ir A Lt Le ® | that year, Captain Fryatt was | After the raid the Germans stripped | route, street, a total of 1.05 miles, During | = 4 court-martialled at Bruges and shot | her of all brass and copper fittings ------ the years from 1913 to 1921 a total This is a bird's eye view of the ts so familiar to the people of Oshawa--the home of General Motors |at the same camp in which Nurse and sunk her at the outer ehtrance | NOVA SCOTIA'S SALT INDUSTRY of eight miles of concrete pavements | of Canada, It shows effectively the large amount of ground d by the ny's factories in Oshawa. Cavell was executed. The chief item | with other vessels, to prevent further Salt wining is the wird Most Fin portant and youngest mining indus- were laid, and from 1922 to date a id inst hi s the ine | raids. Tan t sinst him hi Bi his| For three years the Brussels lay |try in Nova Scotia, Commencing total of twenty-three miles of asphal- tic concrete pavements were con-| Last Monday the movies cele-| Herbert V, Parks, of Malaga, N.Y, | Alma, Wis, trapper killed grey | earlier feat. submerged, and the endof 1920 she |with small shipments in 1919 the structed, making a total length of | prated their twenty-first birthday. [likes coffee, but wife preferred tea. |fox with his hands when animal leap-| The Brussels was left alongside the | was salyed and taken to Leith. Sub- [value of the annual output is now paved streets amounting to thirty- | And they're just beginning to talk. [She seeks a divorce, ; ed toward him on highway, Mole at Zeebrugge and used as alsequently she was brought by the [well over $100,000, three miles in the city at the present time, or a length equal to the dist; from Oshawa to the centre of Tor- onto, There is no doubt but the dty hig continue to pave and beay. tify its streets as rapidly as possible. idewalks Bylaw No. 1 of the Village of Osh- awa authorized the contsruction of a lank sidewalk on Simcoe street rom King street to South Oshawa. This bylaw was read the third time and passed on February 27th, 1850, Previous to the year 1899 the town continued the construction of plank pend walks, but in Jhat year the business A. J. PARKHILY, section saw the first concrete side- . walks built, The city now has nearly President of the Kiwanis Club of one hundred miles of concrete side- Shawa, walks, some forty per cent of which have been built since 1922, In the early days surface waters were carried from the west of Centre street to the creek in open ditches. The centre of the old town was first drained through a natural depression 3 ) é running from near the corner of King and Simcoe streets in a southerly and YUL easterly direction to the creek then crossing the Ritson Road, south of GEO. C. ALCHIN Satisfaction where the Canadian Pacific Railway now runs, Later a large deep ditch President was dug along the location of the Oshawa Railway tracks on Prospect street, and finally a large wooden box ; drain was built along the line of the 1 general depression leading from the centre of the town to Ritson Road, south of the Canadian Pacific Rail- ' way, This drain was replaced by a roper storm sewer as recently as 921 and 1922, The storm sewer sys- ; tem of the city now comprises a total > ; : length of thirty-five miles of sewers, varying in size from twelve inches to forty-eight inches in diameter, The . DR. L. E. HUBBELL growth of the city is making con- President of the Oshawa Kinsman's | stant demand for further extensions Club, to the sretem, | Generator & Starter that in the year 1920 the total length of storm sewers was only seven miles, Sanitary Sewers i : The first sanitary sewers were con- structed in 1905 in conjunction with " the building of the water-works sys- 4 ] *) 4 tem, The first sewers were built ; | from the centre of the town and i : \ 'emptied along with the storm waters " : from the old box drain south of the i Canadian Pacific Railway, The first house connection was applied for on October 6th, 1906, and was completed on November 4th. ; N THE year 1925 a company was formed in Oshawa known as i as Spalens a) expindel : . in as i when the "outial" of the sewer was the Generator and Starter Co. Ltd., with George C. Alchin as its farm, Where the present sewage dis- hs president. The foundation lai] at that time consisted of two im- Like the storm sewers, the sanitary 74 At : portant points, namely, service and satisfaction. As time passed system has increased rapidly during the last few years--from a total of 5 these two points became the attention compellors by which the Gen- eighteen miles in 1920 to a total of T. W, G, McRAY Bn Niles today. a Ne CR erator and Starter Company Limited, were known, Asa reward for oR, e all important tion of sani Medical Officer of Health, tation should not be Ieft without men- © W. E. WARD FET [Gem of the fact thar 5 new and me Vice-President these efforts, the Company enjoyed increased business as was . = » 2 required and will doubtless be eon- shown in their statement for the year 1928--the greatest year since ", " . The object oF elusion ice fo 0 in its inception. This proves conclusively to us that the customers of ate as rie and Starter I smidted ben efitted phases of the development et Oshe ' the Generator imi » have greatly by the awa, 18 impossible h. | » seth 3 general outline The indus. | sound principles that the company upheld. On another page of ri evelopment of this i trial Pe o city should be traced by a person r 1 : this issue, Mr, Alchin announces the retirement of Messrs. Ward and or persons so that the st ri Campbell the Alchin remaining president en and institutions that' a hii | fr om company. Mr. is a8 shawa, and given to he h - | 4 markable 'and potential character : of the firm. Messrs. Ward and Campbell along with Mr. Alchin may not be lost or forgotten, Such | ; 1} {en an article should prove to b % join i expressing their thanks motoring public Bo and » rerio oat | { ; Jomm . » to the for sp ¢ t | boi i receiv the ears, and continuance oy se i, Seo -- did patronage received in the past years, and hope for a improvement and development of the ; of the same. The city has always enjoyed good local government and at present it is efficiently managed under the leader- ] ship of Mayor R. D. Preston and his | 1 | worthy council, while the affairs of ¢ The ideal 'principles that proved so beneficial to both the company Water Commission are ably handled by Chairman G. W, Mec- , ; 3 and the public will be maintained at all costs. Go Laughlin and the Commissioners. These men and the G. CAMPBELL Secretary-Treasurer =| Generator & Starter Co. country of the century, Surely it is privilege to be identified with the pr, LA LIMITED pirmirasill 15 Church St. ; Oshawa, Ont. fected by the Dominion Bureaw of tatisties fn co-oneration with the i JOHN GIBSON Chairman of the Oshawa Board of Health.