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Che Daily Examiner MARCH 12, 1885. —

Public Works.

A few davs ago the Patriot had the temerity to institute certain comparisons betweeu the expenditures of the Macken- zie Administration and those of the present Administration.

Upon these comparisons AMINER remarked

Tre Ex-

** The fact is that more money was expended in building public works in this Province duriog last year than was expended during the whole five years Mackenzie, Laird & Com- pany were in power,

This remark is pronounced by the Patriot to be “ entirely false.”

lt is almost needless to say that we) referred, not to the amount expended = in the repair »nd improvement of old works, but to the money laid out in the ‘building’ of new works. To make good its state- ment that Tae Examiner published that which is ‘entirely false,” the Patriot has, | however, been compelled to include! amouots expended in the repair and im-| provement of the P. E. Island Railway. | his is, in itself, significant of weakuess. |

Atter looking over the accounts of the | respective years, we are willing to do more than we at first contemplated— we are willing that the McKenzie Gov- ernment should receive credit for all} that it expended in the actual erection of | buildings on the P. E. Island Railway ; | and still we maiutain that “ in building | public works in this Province,” the present Government expended more money last year than the McKeuzie Government expended during all the years they were io power !

Now to the proof.

The Public Accounts show that in 1874 there were expended on capital ac- count charged to the P. E. Island Rail- way the sum of $46,086.63. But no less than $11.8°5,24 were tae **expenses” ofa certain “special commissioner’—a certain Mr. Thomas Swinyard—whom some of our readers will remember, and ouly $8,647.32 were laid out in the erection of buldings, the balance being set down for ballasting, grading, tele- graph wires, etc. A_ useless “‘mariove hospital’ was erected at Souris in that year ata cost of $2,500; and on harbor improvements at Tiguish, Souris and New London, $5,829,.20 were expended.

The actual building operations of 1874-5 were:

Railway buildings... .. « 3 8647.32 Souris Marine Hospital............ 2500.00

Harbor improvements, . 5829.20

. 316976 52

Total in 1974-6.......

In 1875-6 nothing was, so far as we can see in the public accounts, expended in the erection of buildings, and the only expenditure sfor building were,—

Harbor Improvements at New

Ce ee $ 503 50 Harbor Improvements at Tiguish, 4,557 50 Harbor Improvements at Souris, . 20,009.60

Expenditure ia building in 1875-6, $25,111.00

In 1876-7 the sum of $200,000 is charged to our Railway on capital ac- count. But of this amount, the following sums only were paid for * building” :—

Machine Shop (Charlottetown). .... $9,588 27 Car Shop, ees 2,681 50 Blackemith’s Shop, ‘ 1,101 G4

Station House, Summerside.. 4,258 38

317,629 29

in addition to those amounts, $4,700 were expended in the improvement of Tigvish Harbor, and) $19,871.33 in the improvement of Souris Harbor—thus swelling the building expenditure of that year to $42,250.29.

In 1877-8, there were expended in building operations : Souris Breakwater. ... aa 28,506 00 Malpeque Breakwater........... - 9,281 CO st. Peter's Bay Improvements. . 1,754 30 Tignish Breakwater... 320 07

‘Total expended in 1877-8 . $40,855 37 Thus there were expend-

ed in building in P. F.

1874.5. $16,976.32

Island in " ™ 1875-6, 25,111.09 aie 1876 7. 42,259.29 . et 1877-8, 40, 854.37

F xpenditure in building operations

in tic iour years.... . $125,191.98 Lssse4 were expended in—

Hailding Cape Traverse Railway, $130,663.38 Building Suromerside Pest Office, 2.053.038

Now. in jiast year, there

Vatiding Malpeque Breakwater, $,5°4.72 Builling Rustico Harbor Works, 4,135 50 Bei'ding New Londen Harbor do, 1,151.70

Building Wood Island Harbor do, 4,008 53

Potal awscunt spent in building by

present Government last year, $145,596.86 fotal amount epent by the Mc.

Kenzie Governmert in four

years 195,191.98

320,404 88

Making ample allowance for the building expenditure in the paris of years during which the MeKeuzie administration was in power for which it is impossible to give the exact figures, we think that the statement of Tne Examiner, which the Patriot declared entirely false, has been clearly proven.

Excess ot last year's expeuditures

Concert at Georcnrowy.--The sehvool

children of Ge orgeto wr will givea Concert, coumsting of vocal and instrumental music, dialogues, ete, ip the Geo getown Public 1 > : g cs Pm. rf fiall on the evening of St Patrick’s day. Thev

have already given severs]l very suecesstul concerts, the proceeds of which have gone towards purchasing a library for their own use The library now contains 250 volumes, purchased at a cost of $200; and ag the pro- ceeds of this entertainmeut will be used for

| abuse.

'my criticism on the position he occupies as

| tion,—they are ready enough to vote mil-

the purpese of adding toit, ve hepa to see the Heli filled on St, Patrick's night, :

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. |

>

Letter from Hon. D. Davies.

Srr,—I must ask for space in your columns to reply to Mr. Hackett’s letter. It is refreshing to have to deal with a man who writes over his own signature when making personal charges. I agree with, Mr. Hackett that, as representatives, he | and Mr. Macdonald are what he calls) ‘* public property,” and I may add that my | acts, when a representative for King’s, are subjects for fair criticism, but not for Now, with respect to Mr. Mac-| donald, 1 made no personal attack upon | him. I simply stated a fact, viz. : thet he is not the representative of the majority of the electors of King’s, and I expressed the | opinion that by not throwing up his seat | and appealing to the people to confirm it, | he had made a fatal mistake. I may be | mistaken. ‘*The Macdonalds” are very | strong in King’s County !

With regard to Mr. Hackett, the sting of

ong of the representatives of Prince County, wes that he is a ‘non-resident and a hanger-on of the Canadian Pacitic Railway.” Perhaps I should not have said so, but he does not deny the ‘‘ soft impeachment.” i derived my information from some of his constituents. Persoielly, | have no ac- quaintance with Mr. Hackett, and would) not know him if I saw him. I am told that he is a smart man, and a good stump orator. His letter bears evidence that he is a poor writer.

Mr. Hackett is good enongh to say that “To am a garrulous old man, making malevolent attacks upon himself and Mr. Macdonald,—-that 1 was a servile follower of Mackenzie—of having suvk to the} depths of political infamy, and with being a renegade of the lowest type.” It is scarcely necessary for me to reply to this political blackguardism, further than to say that during the fifteen years I was a representa- tive of the people I held no office of emolu- ment; | was a busy and well-to-do mer- chant, and was cateful to preserve an) independent position. I yot all I conld for my constituents and supporters, but nothing for myself.

It will be observed that Mr. Hackett does not reply to the charge that the pre- sent government—of which he and* Mr. Macdonald are supporters — have done nothing towards improving winter naviga-

lions of the people’s money away for a use- less railway from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, but nothing for the Island! Mr. Hackett quotes an utterance of mine from Hansard, in 1877, to the effect that ‘*l considered the Northern Light had solved the question of the winter navigation of the St. Lawrence, and that I thought it would be difficult to build a steamer better adapted for both harbor and channel winter navigation.”

That the Northern Light could easily force her way from!{Quebec to the Atlantic, through the floe and fluid ice in mid-winter nobody who has witnessed her perform- ancescan doubt; but it would be of no practical advantage, as a winter ice going steamer from Quebec to England,could not compete with the Allan Line steamers from Halifax, and steamers from Portland and New York. Iam quite free to admit that the Northern Light is not adapted for fore- ing her way through harbor or fixed ice; but then, we require a steamer that will not only cut her way out of harbor ice, but be able to smazh up ‘‘ice floes’? and small fields of ice when she got out into the runningice. I find by reference to a speech made by Sir Alexander Campbeli in the Senate, on the 23rd of February last, on the subject cf Winter Communication with the Island, he stated that, during the winter of 1878, the Nor- thern Light was stupped 24 deys; winter of 1879, 36 days; winter of 1880, 31 days. He does net give the time she was stopped in winter of 1877—the first winter she was on the route. With the exception of about ten days lost in cutting her out of this bar- bor and getting round to Geurgetown, she ran all through that winter. Since the! winter of 1880 the average time that she| has stopped running for the four succeeding winters has been 62 days. She was laid up 80 deys in the winter ef 1883. She has not been worked !

Since 1877 great improvemenis have been made in steam navigation. My opinion—whatever it may be worth—is, thata powerful ice-going steamers of sy 300 tons, to be built at Glasgow or Dun- dee, could ply all winter between George- town cr Souris as objective points on the Island, and Cane Gecrge and Pictou on the Nova Scotia side; she would thus have the | range of two ports on each side to make for, which would be quite an object. With; such a steamer—which could move| a large quantity of freight—and | the Northern Light on the

south side | and the promised improvements at tho |

Capes, I do nut think anything more could | be doue towards keeping up continuous | winter ecommunication,—vunless they give us a “Tuonel!’ Of course a service) carried out in the way above indicated | would cost money, but it would only be! carrying out the terms of umon.

I shall have to ask you for space for} another letter ta dispose of the rest of | Mr. Hackett’s charges.

Your obdt, servant, Dantren Davirs.

Ch'town, March 11, 1885.

The Way To Do It.

! j ; ; i

Sir,—Itis not by sentimenta! speeches, appeals to a sympathetic public, nor invoca- tions to a common liberality, that Char- lottetown will ever resurrect into beauty and attractiveness. Nor is it manly to reason that because Lerd Lansdowne and his suite, beaded by a naval Princ*, are expecting fo perambulate our streets in the year of grace 1885, that the citizens of Charlottetown cought to scavenger for off:- cial pleasure what they have neglected to clean for their own comfort. Loraliy to others is a poor argument to citizens dis- loyal to themselves. The only effective way to clean up Charlottetown, is to begin at the bottom and leave off at the top -that is to say, to becin the cleansing process where it is most needed, and finish where sanitary | convictions have not become extine’. The | way to do it is to work at it, and} ticht the hydra-headed nuisance in his | den,and as ‘to the victor belongs the spoils,’ make the spoils pay the piper. The) wey to do it, is to convert the filth into | fertilizer, by providing a suitable place to

| uniformly heap it, upulfit for the land :

the game compost of a single year would be

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found worth a Jew's ransom to the town;

acquire a commercial would

because it would value for top-dressing pastures, It

| be collected and piled eight feet wide, by | ‘four high, for filty cents a cord or less, and ‘the year following it would be worth all of | 'a dollar a cord for fertilizing purposes, and if only 500 cords (alow estimate) were ob-

tained and sold. it would put (supposing the cost to be half) $2.50 to the credit of town improvements,

‘The town authorities should pass an or- dinance to the effect, that whereas Char-

tenants or owners, to remove all filth from their beck premises, yards, and sidewalks, within one month from the date thereof, or in definls tosubject themselves to double the cost if its removal by the general con- tractor. designated. much, probably not more than a dollar in any case, but when

other little sum to the credit of town in- provements. And there is yet another source of income, that might advantageous- ly be reaped in the form of a shade tree nursery belonging to the town for street decoration, and to sell to private improv-

| ete,

There are many beautiful trees, not found here, that could be planted out ina nursery and skilfully trained to head well ep, and thus furnish suitable shade as well as greater symmetry. If Charlottetown is to be supplied with suitable foliage for shade and beauty, that is the way to do it.

There is a maxim that ought to be borne in mind when the shade tree craze has got good hold, viz., ‘Don’t plant till you get good ready;” don’t do it in a hurry ; don’t bury the roots but plant them ; observe the proper depth ; the beat position ; prepare the ho'e and mix manure in the soil that goes back to it. Don’t let the trees wind- whip, and if it is troublesome to stake them, at least peg fast the main roots. In planting trees in the streets or squares, always determine the permanent level, and plant to it. Manya fine row of thrifty trees have had to be removed, either be- cause the ground had to be lowered or the grade raised to be in harmony with other

improvements that perhaps thirty vears |

after were made necessary.

It is very gratifying to find such an awakening (the new Mayor and Council can give the date) as there is among the citizens of Charlottetown, and it is to be hoped that between the claims of our true dignity as citizens and our common inetincts as towns- men, we shall now, henceforth and for ever, keep an open eye on every oppor- tunity that points beneficial'y to our might-be-beautiful city. Gentlemen, ‘‘its

got to be did,” and that this is the way io

do it, seems perfectly clear to ANNE OLDHAND.

The New Hotel.

Sirn,—L[am proud to see that there is such a lively interest being taken in the new hotel movement. There isa very fine site (and no doubt the best one) if it can be purchased, and that is the Douse prop- erty at the west end. This property has in addition the privilege of buiiding out nearly to the channel in the harbor. A wharf could be built, boats for fishing and shooting could be kept there, and bathing houses, croguet and lawn tennis grounds could be there also, and everything requi- site for a first-class hotel. The hundreds of visitors, who, we are told, would come here if an hotel were built, would not, I am sure, like to reside in a building where they would have nothing to look at from morning until night but dusty streets, coal and lumber carts, and to hear the general stampede of horses and trucks. Not only that,but the visitors could have access to Victoria Park by pleasure boats.

VIVACE.

Men's Inhumanity to Man.

Sir,—On the 9th inst., while the Hon. Lawrence Kickham was lying in the cold em- brace of death, the Patriot published an article in which he is represented asx having said at the King’s County Liberal-Covserva- tive Convention that he regretted that the ice- boats had turned up, or, in other words, that

he was sorry that one of ou: County members had not perished in the late Capes disaster. ‘Than this

nothing could be more infamously inhuman. Mr Kickham, it is weil known, was a good neighbor, charitable to the poor, and kind to the sick and the afflicted cf all clesses: always ready to give a helping hand to those suffering from sickness or misfortune. At the time the iceboats were missing at the Capes, no one was more-anxious for the safety of the pas- sepgers avd crew than he; and after Dr. MelIntyre arrived home, he visited him daily; making enquiries about him, and offering to do anything that lay in his power to alle- viate the Doctor's sufferings, Aad this is how his kindnevs is requited by the Patriot's writers. He did not deserve such mean, bruta! treatment at their hands, especially from the brace of vagrants, the revolving light guzzier and the bottleholder, who penned the article in question. Yours, &c,

N, Souris West, March 11, 1885. a LOU Be S [IN SPORE: ‘Kent,’ ‘*Beaver,”’ aud ‘Alpha’ Roller

Process,} patent, ‘‘Trarquility” and Choice Superior. FENTON T. NEWBERY. Ch’town, March J2 —3i wk her pat jourli

MOLASSES.

FOR SALE CHEAP. FENTON T. NEWBERY. Ch’town, March 12-~2i wkly her pat jourli

Schooner for Sale.

FREXHE Subscriber offers for sale the “chr. **a aline,” now lying at Queen’s Wharf. Yor further particulais apply to CAPT. KENNETH McLEOD, King Street [East ) Ch’town, March 13, 1885.--wkly tf

‘lottetown is filthy and must be cleaned, the 8 Ww | citizens are respectfully invited, whether | offered to all cash customers alike :— 7000 yds. Bed Tickings at

The filth to be removed to # place | This double fee would not be |

the whole job was. done, there would be a clean city and an- |

TO REN] MORE CHEAP GOODS! 7° "ES"

|terpanes only $1.10, worth $1.75; 2000 yds, Roller ‘Towellings'|

ER. MARCH 12 1825

Shop, formerly

eccupied the

o | Bremner Bros. as a book and stati Mean,

KOPLE Looking for Bargains ought to go first to Weeks &) W, A. BRENNAN Co.’s Cheap Store, where goods are sold all the year round) ‘' tows, Mareh 11, 1s85—tf

at ab ut the same rates as many shops call their “selling off” | an

prices.

. . . During March a number of excellent Bargains will be)

=

5 to 7cts. per yard under u_ual prices ; 200 white fringed Coun-|

at So, Ge, and Te; 1590 yds Tuble Linen, beginning at 1dc. very cheap; 4000 yds. Cotton Flannels, 4c. to 6c under prices; All Grass Cloths end Prints, Cretonnes, &c., at reduced prices ; about 9000 yds. choice Cotton Shirtings from 7c. per yard ; black and colored Cashmeres and other Dress Goods at a bargain, about) . : ° os . * Ladies’ Corsets, at low prices. Now is the time to buy votous) as they are going up in pr.ce, We have about 75,000 yards (HE HENLEY ROLLER SKATE: bleached and grey Cottons and Sheetings to offer at the lowest | pons onal wh ah of penal “ = prices ever seen. | cost ;—especially adeptcd to Rinks.

WSs Call and see the goods, even if you don’t want to buy.

W. A. WEEKS & CO.

Ch’town, March 5, 1885

Also the ‘new

HENLLY CT AMp SKATE”! bottoms of five s) ring steel,

by al! the best professions] skaters, ” | Send for illastrated circulars before buyj

| Professor Fletcher, the celebrated Roller | Skater, says: ‘*After having tried, | hei every style apd kind of skate worthy of atten. tion in this couvtry and in England, J freely

| pronounce the Henley Skate to be far

| rior to them all, and will vse no Other here after. It is lighter running, quicker ip

| Spowenneee, and in every respect better than a" other ”’ WILLIAM READ & SONS, 30

107 Washington, Boston, Mags. Agents for the Manafaeturer,

eee onienaet oe CLEARED jes March oe = tine : bt. Patrick’s Day,

PCE EATS ERT BATS TT

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ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND CANADIAN. | a" 7.

‘ r ‘as . "* es

20, 25 AND 50 PER CENT, DISCOUNT. “s+

———ewe () 5

ir YHE Anniversary of ILreland’s Patron Until the arrival of his new stock, J. H. Macdomald) = Suet “il be velebroted in Charlotte will offer the balance of his steck of Hats at a great)

srerifice. TUESDAY, 17th MARCH,

j iby a Procession of the Benevolent Irish |

OE ee ’ : 4 : Soviety from their Hall, Prine Street, sa Bo vot buy until you cxamine Goods and Prices at “to St. Duastan’s Cathedral 9.45 a m

i at

J.B. MACDONALD’S, |

Queen Street.

lu the evening a Literary and Musical

ENTERTAINMENT

WILL BE GIVEN IN THE

[MARKET HALL | Doors open at 7.15. | mence at 3.

ad [ Admission 25 cents Reserved seats # ; cents, to be procured at the various Drug

| Stores, and at the D‘amond Uookstore a Return Tickets will be issued from all Rail way Ststions to Chalottetown on I*th and 5 '7th March, good to return oa 17th, 18th and 19th March, at one first-class frre. By direction of liis Honor ths Lieut s e Governor, snd His Worship the Mayor, | Patrick's Day hos beea declared boths | public aud civie holiday JOHW HKENNESeY, Scoretary.

Chitown, March 3, 1885 —dly wkly

Entei tainment to com

—" MY STOCK QF

Boglish & American Hats

WILL BE SOLD AT A N hand, a quaatity <{ Ti toa, Goure CASH DISCOUNT OF 20 P. C., | Mives and Giace Bay Coal, | Also: Sydney (old mine) ound Oval. Will be sold for Cash at Summer prices, CAPT. JOHN HUGHES, W ater Street. Uh'town, May 10, 1885—Imo

March 10, 1885 —~eud

COAL.

For the next 15 days.

Now is the time to Buy when you can save 20 p. c. on the dollar. | we POSITIVELY ONLY 15 DAYS. “el - Rte

L. E. PROWSE, NOTICE.

4 * . | Sign of the BIG HAT, 74 Queen Street, | A SPECIAL Meeting of the Shareholdes Fil . - r LA of the Citizens’ Skating Rink Co, will bt Ch’ tow m, Marc h 3. 1 8£5—wkly held in the Rink Buildin, ou Thursdar, Mardi — a ce a Ro = oem rnereeere eee ee meme oe > wee | 12th, at 7 o’clock, p m., to take inte cons | ation the advisibility of makiog certain alter | ations to the Rink.

LONDON HOUSE

Custom Tailoring Department! iii ius,

STANLEY,

Seoretary,

WANES, LOSE, FOUND, dt

| '

OST—Retween the K, | Society's Hall

| 4 and Queen “treet, a it urse one (sum of mony aud come documents e finder will be rewarded by leaving it at thw | office. warll—li | srivnsuehintiahiiiiattieneiepenisntpcineiinisepln W ANTE D—At Hospital for Insave, ** / men Attendants, to whom libers! wages wil! be paid Apply at the Hospital. march !0 6i yee NY Persons willing to be trained a8 How | £4 pital Nurses are requested tv

Meltons, Sgitimes ; Qitimgs & ‘application to the Matron, at the Prne | Edward Island Hospital.—D RB. Maclenaa®

Light q vercea tings, Secretary. marlO 3i w ky 21

LL -A yellow-colored Glove (tnelh between Boyle’s ‘Tanvery and U | Prince Street. ‘The finder can have the

z me i 5 ‘oe ; i by applying at the Apovlecare Hall. Work dose with Prompiness and ia eee ee Best Styles, at the Lowest Prices.

A SPLENDID RANGE OF CLOTHS IN Broandcioths, W orsteds,

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siieiaiiiiaaiitaiaas oe e ——_—_—— 5 iV TANIED IMMEDIATELY—A oom i j Cook Apply l« Mrs. L. . Davies,

~ Riverside. mar] lw GEO... DAVINS & col fT OST—On Orlebar Street, near the a | BA dence of F. L. Ha-z:rd, Esq., @ Bull

Ch'town, Feb. 5, 1885-2 aw wkly

rewarded by

oo a | Robe. The finder will be mai6 tf

| leaving word at this <flice.

Ci HLGTTETGWH HAG re *O LET— A new house, fromting on Po i Stroet. Euquire of Thos. W. Didd: mar3 pat

- rr OX JAUNTING SLEIGH avd put ~ | ¥¥ (reversible seat) for sale. Apply og “f ; Bremner. {feb 21

just returned, after visiting | -

“i

AAR. RR. C. GOP, of the tirm of Dorsey, Goff & Co., has pt number of the leading Boot and Shoe Factories abroad T C . i hays is t's ers os oP es arte : he CHARLOTTETOWN | BOOT & SHOE FACTORY, “hich has been stopped during his absence, wiil cpen with ‘the h

latest improvements, which will enable us to give our customers better satiefaction than ever. | Spring Orders will receive our best attention. : " scomeniliiesingia Fh Our Traveller, Mr. Dewnis, will have the | E30}k SALE.—A Valuable Farm Be:

te ONEY WANTED — Provided iat low good secunty. Apply at fob

ituated in a good Jocality, with | of gc

od tfrewood and jum ver ; will be DORSEY, GOFF & CoO. oa od and Jumb

leasure of calling as out the Island, some tme in March, P of calling on our customers through | §4 / 2 bergain. For further particulars 4p a J, '©) Mrflonald. Biden, or et thig ofie*

Ch'town, Feb. 26, 1885 @

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