Toronto streets turn icy when dust problem washed
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 00:00
Clippings from the newspapers of January 13, 1906.
Toronto Star.Medical Health Officer Dr. Sheard has given up sprinkling Toronto’s street with water from horse-drawn wagons in his “strenuous effort to solve the dust problem.” When the water hits the street it turns to ice, creating a “great danger to vehicular traffic.” He now has “five horse brooms and 15 hand brooms at work” cleaning up the dust.
Halifax Herald. A fortune awaits possible heirs to John E. Hughes, who was born in Halifax but recently died in Hartford, Connecticut, leaving “a large estate.” An estate attorney wrote to the Halifax police seeking “information on the whereabouts of his parents or anyone connected in any way” with Hughes.
Edmonton Bulletin. Saloon keepers will face many law suits as a result of a precedent set by a Chicago jury, says the Bulletin. The jury awarded $17,500 “to children of a drunken father for redress against saloon keepers alleged to have made a drunkard of him.”
London (England) Times. There will be “tyranny” in Ireland if Britain allows the Island “home rule,” says a letter writer, foreshadowing a century of sectarian violence. “It is beyond dispute,” says the writer, that even a “small measure” of local control would “be used to oust Protestants from any and every position of responsibility.”
London Advertiser. Roman Catholics should not be allowed to control the Toronto public school board and name its chairman, William Chinery, grand master of the Black Knights, tells a banquet of lodge 588 of the anti-Catholic Orange Order. Chinery is “loudly cheered” when he tells the Oranges that Toronto, with an Orange mayor, must have an all-Orange city council.
Montreal Star.“A very large number of deaths” among workers at a city plant that makes white lead are reported by Dr. Louis Laberge to the city’s Hygiene Committee. Dr. Laberge recommended the use of gloves and masks by workers; a separate room to store working clothes; provision for baths; a prohibition on eating or drinking in the factory; manufacturing to be carried out in closed vessels, and a doctor “put in charge of the factory to make an examination of all employees every week.” It was agreed that the plant manager would be asked to visit the committee, and a bylaw prepared covering safety precautions in the manufacture of white lead.
Toronto Week.“The Sound of Them that Weep” is described as a 16-page pamphlet appealing for help for the people of Shoreditch, “one of the worst places in London, or indeed, the world.” The parish, called “the sink hole of London,” has 8,000 people “packed together in a space which can be walked over one way in four minutes and the other way in two.”
Winnipeg Free Press. Constable Chaney has returned to his police office at Leduc, Alberta, from Conjuring Creek, where a scarcity of snow caused his failure to track and find a “supposed lunatic.” The missing man is presumed to “be a miner of the river who has become temporarily insane.”