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'Y~~U"JN 2fth, 1958 Hotels From Days of rStage Coach to Date ,Teli a Wonderful Story ld hotels and lnns played their part in the early histary of Bowmanville, and ai Upper Canada. Wller's line af stage ~ ýcoaches taok mail and passen- bers from Toronto ta Kingston, Sand Bawmanville was anc ai the stops at which the horses were changed. <John Bane, who Is said ta Shave driven the last stage from Toronto ta Oshawa on Oct. 16, 1856, said that 400 horses were ~used on the route fram Toronto 'ta Mantreal. Four borses were used an a coach, and these were changed about cvery 20 xmiles, J, B. Fairbairn tels that anc of the first hatels apened in this section was owned and car- riedon for some time by a Mr. Bates who died of choiera in 1830. "By an unusual vagary ai this dreadful disease," he relates, "mast on the road es- caped, excepting the landlords, everyane ai whom between Kingstan and York savinig Mr. Hindes, became its victim." AI. phanso Hindes was the proprie- tor ai the Waverley Hotel in Bowmanville. Baies Hotel The Bates hatel was part way Fa rm erly Ruebottom, and Later Known up the long western hile and is understoad ta have been the house owned for some years past by A. E. Bellman who died carlier this year. If this is 50, the Bellman or Bates house is ane af the aId buildings ai Bow- manvîlle. A Rager Bates was in Clarke Township in 1797 and a James Bates ai Clarke mar- ried Elizabeth Burk af Darling- ton i 1811, and died i 1832 at the age af 42. This may have been the proprietar af the old caaching inn. At any rate, the Mr. Bates xvbo kept the hotl was here before 1832, forMr as Bowman House of gctting business wben the station was bufit. However, the railway came through farthcr south. It functioncd for a num- ber of years, however. and was finally destrayed by fire. Maynard's Hotel was ln the block accupied for many years aftcr by the f irm of Couch, Johnston & Cryderman. -Hen- derson's Hotel in the 1870'& and 1880's was in the block now oc- cupied by the Dominion Store aid Eastern Housez when Mr. Wm. Horsey purchas- ed the black. The hotel was on a lease which passed ta another persan wha continucd ta deal aut large quantities af liquor, and Mr. Horsey bccoming con- vinced that a good deal ai harm was being donc through this traifie, bought out the lessee. A hatel was in the block now accupied by the Frigid Locker Plant on King St. West, for many years, Aiter a framne building used as a school was tamn down, a brick block with an archway was built by Robert Armaur. and part ai this block was the Ruebottom Hotel. It Fairbairn tells that the Bates faniily befriended the Heals and the Coles wha arrived that year. They awned the iarm begin- ning on the west side of Wa- verley Raad and running ta Martin Road on the west and the Barton farm an the south. They also owned property across the Kingston Road. Mr. Gardon Beith remnembers when lie was a boy up around Wa- verley Stables, seeing Miss Nancy Bates who lived there alone. For same time prior ta 1850, When the past office was mov- The Bain when Mr. Fairbaimn's youngcr brother was leit ta assume these duties, hie slept through it ail, though the driver had tried ta, rouse bim. Mr. Fair- bairn arriving home not long afterward irom the party lie had attcnded, iound that the stage had been gone hall an hour. He roused the men at McCut- cheon's livery, got a horse and grabbed up the outgoing mail bag. He rode pell mell eastward and caught uo with the stauz near Newcastle wlhere hie de-i livered the bag and rcceived the one for Bowmanville, urider the ligbt ai the moon. "The passen- gers must have thoughit iL quite a novel procecding," he com- mnents. The Wavcrlcy The Wavcrley, on the site of the present Rcgistry Office, was in its earliest phase, a frame building. Then a three storey brick building was build which is said ta have had a handsome ballroom. It burned down in 1862. Incidentallv, Mr. Fair- baîrn tells that the first barber in town was a negro named Smith wbo bad bis shop in a "hale dug under the first botcl1 occupied by Hindes". -Mr. Hindes xvas well likeri and highly respected. He did not drink himself, and rna:n- tained law and order in his ho- tel with a firm hand. He and William Weller had been ch:ld- hood friends in Vermont, an'd Vieller aiten visited him at the Waverley. Six Hoteis In 1846 there were four t- verns in Bowmanville. accori- ing ta W. H. Smîth's Gazet- teer. In 1857. there were six: the Alma Hotel, a temperancé bouse. George Mason, praprie- tor; Eastern Hotel. Thomas Bru- die, Canada Hotel, John Mun- shaw: Commercial Hotel. Tho- mas Shaw; Waverley Houze, .Alphonso Hindes;, and the Wes- tern Hotel, James BaileN. Not ail tliat sers ed liqiior were as reputable as the Wa- vcrley. These were the da%.s of cheap whisk3y. and Mr. Fair- bairn tells ai scein.g maflv a fight and brawi as lie nassed b.v. Jamnes Bailey's. atualed ed from its location an the south side of King St. in a brick store at the west end, ta the Grand Central farthcr up, the stage coach horses were chang- ed at the Waverley. Mail For The Stage Mr. Fairbairn, who went into the post office in 1845 ta assist his father, the postmaster, tells that the large portion ai the mails arrived during the night and he had ta turn out, gener- ally twice, even on the bitter- est nights ai winter. While the horses were changed at the ho- tel "immediately opposite" and the driver went in and made mioral, OnIy Hote 1 himself comfortable, yaung James Fairbairn wrestled with the mail. The bag for Bowman- ville was usually on the bot- tam. The wood fires in the post office had long since gone out and the job was not an envi- able anc in winter. He relates also haw the dri- ver would blow his horn at Stanley's Hill (in the neigh- bourhood ai the bridge over the C.P.R. on No. 2 Hlghway) and on hearing it there was a dog at the Waverley who would always "yell for all he was worth". No doubt that the stage was coming! Even so, anc night in 1958 where Mr. F. C. Vanstone's re- father, who built another ho- sidence is now, was one which tel, the present building, an it. was noted for a good deal of He did flot run it himseli but brawling, and the proprietor lcased it ta several persans ini bimself bent the elbow too the course afitis existence. Af- frcely for bis own good. ter the Local Option By-law was This hotel had variaus pro. passed i January, 1909, the ho- prietors, ai wbom James Bai- tel went out of business and ley was only anc. He also ran bas neyer functioned since. It a pottery in the vicinity. Peter was known then as the Arling- Consaul bought the building, at ton. what date is not given, evident- For the past 30 years lt has ly demolished the hotel, and been owned by a William Har- built the present bouse on th,! ford who lived there, and bas site. It was occupied by Mr. now passed ta bis son W. J. Har- i Wesley of the D. O. & P. Com- fard ai Toronto. There are three pany when Mr. J. C. Vanstone apartments in tbe building. movcd fromn Tyrone i 1886 The Alma and bought the mill. Mr. J. C. Vanstone bought iL from J. B. The Aima Hotel was situat- Mitchell about 1893. ed on the corner ai Church and Eastern House Temperance Streets; the Bell The Eastern House inthe Telephone office is now on the block wbere Trimble's store is site. It was a handsome struc- now at the corner of King and turc, as will be seen by the ex- Liberty Streets, was a busy cellent photo afiti (from Mr. place in early days. The îarm- Frank Williams' collection) in ers drawing grain ta Port Dar- the book, "Bowmanvillc: A Re- lington passed this way and trospect". The market square the'rc is littie doubt that their was where the Town Hall and hirst xvas atten quenched Cenotaph are now, and on sum- there. mer evenings music provided Mr. David Monrison, Sr., writ- by the D. O. & P. Ca. Band ing in 1937, said the Eastern playing from the balcony af the House used ta be the scene ai Alma iloated out over this part many a festive occasion and ai town. many social assemblies were In the lire which destroyed held in its spaciaus ball-roorn. the hotel and stables an July 7, It was at that ime a threc- 1888, a famous. trotting horse storey building and in iLs palmy "Joe Brown" owned b.v a Mr. davs wvas a fine hotel. It is thi, Hall xvas burned, along with only hotel building listed in several other horses. Mr. Gar- 1857 which is still in existence. don Beith recalîs the day. It was A verv earlv hotel was one at a Saturdav afternoon, and De. Port Darlington situated sauth caration Day. The Fire Brigade ai Mr. Sbaw's residence, facinc was taking part in ceremonies the harbour. lt ran for many at the cemetery, and Glover's- years. but was empty when it horses which were used an the burned down before 1900. wagon. were at the station. The Station Hotel fire bad a good start before A botel at the Grand Trur.k anything could be donc. and (later C.NR.) station may have burned not onlv the hotel, but bcen crected flot long after th the praprictor's residence next railwav came throu2h in 1856,ta it. and the Cangregatianal thaugh Llis is conjecture. it Churchi and sheds further west. was flourishing in the l870*s, The hotel site remained cmpty under the proprictorship o! Tom until the Bell Telephone Office Totterdale who ran it for manv was erected there in 1936-37. years. Other prop.rietors wertv Rag ('astie a Mr. and Mrs. Guodwin. and a An earii' tiotel was the Rag Mrs. George. wvho had run the Castle at the corner of Liberty Ruebottomn House. The Tottet'- and the Base Line where ane dale House wvas burned dov.n turned ta go ta thc harbour. It ar'd the land purchased bv Mr. %vas built when tnc rai]wav was3 Shaw. Mrs. D. R. Morrisor.s being constructecl with the ide& was later knawn as the Ben- nett House, and finally as, the Bawman House. The date af erection is not known, but the Union School came inta exist- ence in 1855, so it was sanie ime aiter that.# It was the scene ai many celebratians, ane of which was the banquet for 100 on theDe cember day in 1890 when the High Sehool was oificially op- ened by the Minister ai Educa- tion. It was the Bennett House at that time. Ait Bfflnett was the proprietor at anc time, then a Mr. Leaman, followed by Ni'ck Morrissey. This led up ta thel Station Hotel at C.N.R. fateful day of Local Option in 1909. Mfter the By-law was passed by Council on Jan. 11, the ho- tels were given until. March or April ta close up their bars. It is said the last night o! the open bar was quite a night in Bowmanville. The Bennett House and Bal- moral claimed that they could not continue withaut liquor, and a committec of citizens iriterest- cd in kccping the hotels run- ning on temperance lines was formed. Ma.ny signed a petition and subscribed maney towards this end, including several from the surraunding country who used the hotel sheds for their horses when they came ta tawn. A. E. Beliman Hous cially successful. They got chir money back with interest. Need Ended The Goodyear Club was st1ili running at the end o! War I in 1918 and probably for a time aiterward. As the New Toron- ta plant got into operation there was no langer the same needi for accommodation, as many ai the employees were moved ta Toronto. The hotel bas had a numnber af owners since that ime including Mr. Wadhams, William Flaherty, Mr. Minns and others. A good deal ai re- modelling hat been donc by the present owners Herb and Ger- tie Woolley, who took,.over from Jack Weise in November, 1956. IL naw has an attractive snack bar and a spaciaus dining room for service club meetings, ban- quets and receptions. It is Bowý%- manville's only hotel at pres- ent. The Bowman House ran up until the early years af World War II, though latterly IL did flot do a great deal o! business. Buth the Bowmnan bfuse and the Balmoral had their difficul- ies during the Depression and aiter. The dev'elopmnent o! the motar hotci has rut into Cie amail town hotel trade to quite ,Mr. F. C. Vanstone and Mr. Gea. W. James wcrc two on the com- mittec. Money was subscribed by the citizens and others in- tcrested and the Bennett House and Balmoral taken over. The Bcnnett House wvas rented for some time, with Mr. and Mrs. Ross running it for a while. It was later sold. The Balmoral was sold ta the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1913 who installed Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lu.nney ta run it. The Club, as it was known, provided accom- modation for a large nù.mberi of single men warking on shifts at the Goodyear. It is interesting ta know that the com.mittee's venture into the hatel business was finan- se was Bates' Hotel an extent. The Kitson Brothers boughit t.he Bowman House in 1944 and the Frigid Locker Plant open- cd in'August, 1945. Mr. Wilfrid, Kit.son is naw the sale praprie-, tor. Hotel days there are just: a memary now. RULE 0F SAFETY Winnipeg Tribune It is passible ta live just as long in the big cities as else- where, a survey reports. Espe-. cially if yau stay an the same side of the street yau were barn an. Fe w !Rc TEE CANAD!Mi STATESMAN, EOWMAMILLICONTAMO_____________ ihen Hodunds Chased abbit Up -King St. and others on the Four Corners. It was alsa called the Farmers' Hotel. It was the establishment which went up in flames in March, 1870. from a brew which Mr. Hendersan had on the stave. intended for bis rheumatisni, blowing up and setting the place onfr.Mr. Horsey Buys It must have been rebufit, however, for Frank Hendersani atill had a hotel there in 1883 at King and Liberty drove for McClellan, and, when the fire bell rang how that team would run ta be at the lire hall ta pull the f ire engine. Do you remember the small bob-tail horses that Tasher Allen drove for Archie Tait's groccry store? Do you remember the day anc af aur citizens was bitten by a rat - everyonc stood up for years in their out-houses aiter that. Do yau reimember when the gang af boys fell through the ice on the pond, west of the railway bridge? We were play- ing hockey and after everyone got out safely, a woman's pawd- er puff was flaating on top of the water but no anc would claim it. 15 KING ST. W. PAGUYM ?4 The Statesman Solci At Following Stores Reg. Edmund'uý Store, Bethany Johnson's Drug Store, Newcastle T. Enwright, Newcastle S. Brown, Newtonville Porter's Gen. Store, Newtonvills C. Pethick, Euilskillen T. M. Siemoxi,ý Enniskillen 1F. L. Byam, Tyrane G. A. Barron, Hampton Trull's Store, Caurtice A. B. Rlbey, Burketon Blyth's Gen. Store, t1ackstock Keith Bradley. Pantypool C. B. Tyrreil, Orona Wmn. Turansky, Kendal Hcnderson's Book Store, Oshawa House That Jack Built R.R. 4. Oshawa -Bowmanville - &. P. Rlckaby - "Big 20" W. J. Berry Jack's Smoke Shop Rite's Smoke Shop Goheen's Uandy Store Jury & Loveil The Statesman Office Your reporter had asked Frank Jamiesan about the sports and other activities, in tawn, when he- was a young fellow. Here are some of Frank's rem- iniscences about the past: Centennial year covers many years of -past history, 100 years ago, 75 years aga, 50 ycars ago, 40 years ago, ycs, 25 years ago. Let us go back between 25 and 40 years aga, in the sport ofa the town. Can't you sec the following players on the baU team at the oid Fair Grounds near Downhamn Nursery ? 4Nip" Piper behind the bat, Ab Piper an shortstop, Bill Corden an first base, "Bun" Moore in the field, Sandy Somerville pitch.. ing, "Dutch" Osborne there on the mnound-no cry or lack of followers in those days. Hockey-In the winter it was always hoped that the Juniors would play their first game on New Year's afternoon at Taylor's old rink. On the Intermediate team can you picture "4Yank" Avery, "Moose"- Grant, Alan Densem, Ab. Piper, Stu. James in goal, Bert Colville also in goal, "Jumbo" Chartran on the wing? Do you remember Casey Martyn coming out ta try for goal as the new rules would al- low a goal-tender ta go down on' his knees to stop a puck? Other players were: Hilton Pearce, "Prower" McMurtry, "Pigeon" Luxton and Bill Cros- sey. How many more of the baîl players and hockey players can you1 remember? Do you remember Sîlver Street an the way to school? The boys always came down on the west side and the girls on the east side, and the same going bak to school? They do to-day, of course it. depends an how old you are. That is, if the girl craze had not affected you. Passibly one of you were in the group of boys that received the lovely candies at noon from Martyn's gracery store <where the bowling alley now stands) framn Casey Martyn. The next day we were there, anly in a larger group to receive the free candies but these candies had cayenne pepper in them! Just some of Casey's fun, no harm idone. iDo you remember the day the two beagle dogs af Milt Jam- ieson's started the rabbit behind Glen Rae Dairy and drove it up King Street and down by where aur arena now stands? Quite a noise from the two dogs. What was aur fun when we were six ta 12 years aid? The girls played jacks, hopscotch, skipped with the ropes, roller skated, just what they do now. The boys o! course would run all the way ta the pump house and the mili pond as soon as school was out. In those days there were no paved roads and many hours were put in at chas- îng and Çatching large King Billy butterfles. Eyery boy had his steel or iran hoop and boy fdid we make them go! Do yau remember the teamn af Dhorscs that Sam Candler .I~Centennial1Jfessage fro m JURY & LOVELL Esiablished 1856 PHONE MA 3-5718 i -J According ta the lateststatisticu, you are going ta live a great dca! longer than if you had been born in grandparents' time when Jury & Lovel establishcd this business. This happy state' of affairs is creditcd to the following basic reasons: 1. The almost miraculous resuits obtained by the use of the Antibiotie drugs and chemotherapeutic agents. 2. The more general use of vitamins, which strengthen and fortif y aur bodies against the niany types of serious infections, which formerly were responsible for a great many premature deaths. 3. The growing tendency ta consuit a physician before an illness becomes serious, and ta follow bis instructions more carefully. As a pharmacist, we consider it important ta keep informed about ail the latest advances ini Pharmnacy and Medicine. Your physician knows that he can prescribe any of the newest discoveries, with the assurance that your pharniacist will be able to compound his prescription. m"P""-.199MIFMý ý 1 --- - - Il -- --, -- -- - - -- . - -l -- mmý John Simpson, one of Bowmanville's most prom- inent citizens and a Senator from 1867 ta bis death in 1885, founded the Ontario Bank in~ 1857 with head office at Bowmanville. The handsome building was erected in 1866. Headquarters wcre later moved ta Toronto. On failure af the Ontario Bank in 1906, the Bowmanville branch became a branch of the Bank of Montreal. a-eo-"