Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 42

Saturday. January 6, 1912. Saturday, Jtiuary 6, VAXCOUTEK WORLD PROGRESS AND BUILDING EDfflfi 42 1ullVf "K1U 1'kU(iKKSS AM) BUILDING EDITION 43 MM ir ii 1 tm.r 1 'i. ri i mm 4 Itfc' Ami i mi.ih. i nl i 11 "Wimi Wim MWIIWW I tMllW )' wrWWIW I mnirtiU IWW in 1 im I Illli kp il fcllp tgf A 1 4 iw tolls Kiffitew si iillKiMl 5SMSirSij i rrrr wur M3K5SMek F.Uff' "I NEVER SAW A CITY IN WHICH A GREAT FUTURE IS SO PLAINLY WRITTEN IN THE PRESENT." Lord Northdiffe.

IS THE FASTEST GR01V.NC C1TV IX THE OHTHW EST, PEK.1APS IN AM. Til Thr A Mrni TCD TKT TT TIP a I'han Half a (Vnlury Ago An Inharmoniriim Row THE F. H. LANTZ COMPANY, LIMITED ii i i a mm i i Tv i a i am li I. It 1 iiouMcn M'a liiiKM and Advi nlurors Ai fi V.aviTl ilu' Him and Suld itm Ilui I FV JL HY "OLD TIMER." CANADA LIFE BUILDING A ahack of ihakes, A cross cut saw, A jug of whisky And a squaw; Salmon In the river, Running deep and fast Ah, me! The simple life at last! From W.

A. Rubaivat. was required for home use; till one morning word came to close down, the big engine ceased to throb; litigation struck her on the windward eaire, putting out her lights, and in the cause of forty eight hours the mill's population had dwindled to about three people. After a period of nearly two years idleness, law troubles ended, when Captain Stamp, who had been the moving spirit and promoter, severed his connection with the concern. The company was reorganized and placed its business under a new management, of which Captain J.

A. Raymur, who was an old time sailor like his predecessor, took charge of the affairs of the company as iretieral grace in the brains of the clerk who wiselv directed proceedings and gave it a measure of legality. During the suspension of the mill the settlement languished, and one by one departed seeking repatriation in the open shop of Uncle Sam's domain. With the restarting came new blood and of a better class. The place had no name until the advent of John Deighton, better known as "Gassy Jack." a York shi' eman and an ex mariner, who had mapped out the great oceans, including the green seas that waste their fury on the poles.

He was a man of broad, ready humor, spicy, crisp and ever flowing, a grotesque Falstaffian dimensions, with a green) completed the outfit, and lookers on remarked it was a doubtful acquisition to the population. Gassy, with craft of a Macchiavelli, began to pass the loving cup with unstinted hand, telling that he had come to start a little business, that his means w. re limited and he would be glad to accept any assistance in the way of building the house. "Ten thousand swords leapt lrom their scabbards," saws and hammers fell from heaven and the populace joined, led by an errant carpenter name McXamara and in twenty four hours the Deighton house flung its doors open to the public. This was the beginning of today.

Jack pulled himself to the roof of the British Columbia Lands, Mining General Brokerage building, loosened out a Union Jack, and in a homely I s'H'l'('11' Po'ntini? to the flat ld his hearers i' all that was good, the blood and of Knglaml; it bobbed up on every sea, had been forty years, that he had pinned hi, fitilh it ami would stay with it; thanked everybody for their generous help, and regretted inform them that he wou have lo the rln isteiiing for a few He anticipated Khortage and di. pateh cd the Indian cousin with an older to New We niinster, the answer to whir), thus: "Cannot deliver your order to Indian, particularly Ihe fir works part; too great." Just (hi. announcement, a big red headed Woodsman came alon very dry. and unable to extract anything fn the much drawn upor, barrel, buiied his axe in (he hevi kicked it over the hank. A X.ri.h Briton, who Had been looking on, with the born utility in his blood, took up the barrel ami plar.nl it.

outride the kitchen door of the hotel. "To what base ii, nm' we return." Oh, Mrs. McXau hton, plea laugh. A most unbefitting alignment fo v.el which carried the sacred uka baugh (wiitr of the soul), that Os ian sang of, and br thr of th" hacred Lyre followed in sweeter strain, thou perhaps less lofty. 1 At this time there were two roir' on! of New Westminster; one called the Ha.

'Jmrs, W.ini'' out on tne Second Narrows, the other to the or Port Moody, both built by the or Engineers. A man named Oliver Hocking, a Comi hrnan ami a musician, onened wnvvi.l.. ortgages Vancouver Real Estate 4ungs roao, out on I which was afterwards a fjuired I chaud, a Frc nch Car.adiai:, ho i. Xa I'ou oil'iari Mi i''s kept a kimwri as elite of V. I y.

v. a. rt for BELIEVE my first sight of the inlet was in 1865. Approaching it from the sea our first view revealed an inharmonious row of shacks. About three cables, lenpth from shore, where the foot of Abbott Street ow stands, was a large, square rigged ship, the starte, loading spars, a vessel hailing from London md bound thereto.

Her cargo was being delivered to Jeremiah Rogers, who had cut and made it at ort Neville to the order of Stamp Son, who had lem towed to English Bay, where they were de vered to the ship by rowboat. This was the first jmmercial prow to divide Father Inlet's unruffled i i ood. How delighted he must have been to bear i his bosom such a substantial earnest of the iture! Of course, ther had been survey ships in i 9 and '80, but they never approached nearer than English Bay, from which place they dispatched lelr exploring parties, On the beach at the foot of Abbott street there jBs a building that had just been abandoned by a ial prospecting company, formed in, New West Sinster, headed by W. J. Armstrong, a merchant i id M.

P. for the city. The venture was not a suc jss after going down 1000 feet they gave it up. ibhn Dick, on expert from Nanaimo, had charge of i work. jThere was a shack at the foot of where Thurlow jjreet looks on the inlet and the remains of a brick la Why an industry of that nature should be rted was beyond human ken.

In an Indian coun jjiy without transportation of any kind, not even a bI1, and forgetting that on the Fraser there were jinks of the finest clay in the world going a beg jjbg; but probably they had some occult inspiration I a tubway in the future, connecting north and 1 nth fhores, when bricks would be in demand. Jn '('2, a man named Dave Ramage, a native of jttario and a millwright, built a water power at jjiat is now known as Moodyville. With scant cap and no market its business life was short. It Us later acquired by S. P.

Moody and for gBrly twenty years was carried on under the name the Moodyville Sawmill Company, Ltd. The iiltive manager, S. P. Moody, lost his life in the of the SS. Pacific in November, 1S75, oufeide Flattery.

The mill, now the Hastings, was being started, pe company's first grant from the government lis a piece of land on Brockton Point, comprising put forty acres, reaching from water to water, pd having Deadman's Island and surrounding water I st of it for boom ground, which was ideal for the I irpose, but on the north side after spending a deal I time and money they discovered that the force I the current made it impossible to construct arves or hold shipping, and asked the povern Int to exchange for the present site, which was so pared. The mill was constructed by an Ontario named Ludgate, an engineer and expert in this ja, from whom the gentleman of Deadman's Island Lne claims descent The mill advanced to mm. t'll re iii.M oaM nosieiry. i no piace Maxic's; it was the ea.ide ie the Royal f'ity. In tho dav was a small place; every re.

tnV.o a block of his own: the town was liberal lines: the L'o foot lot v. us' being an offspring of the c. p. land scalpers, wh came after, per stage by Ua.4ii,gt 1 owned by W. It.

Lewi, an Amen Stocks Bonds or Thr 1 I ft I 1 I man ui leror e. some vhyr General Insurance co'jid kit CMtA "if 'III i I mt A. 9 a ut: ia iat re i is aiKl JO 1' ii uje. lied on. There wen no rest and peers were treated alike from his schedule time for ai, entrusted to his caie were I mail.

He was ably as i ted by hi manager, James OTIaih.raii. Celt, with the fire ami broad as luck box, and when hi. time was with (ii'bert, a tri ky i with snatches of edition, f6" 'maSi' afcr V( ty 5. i i 1 tMT 1 dUgM) ft7 Vl' 1 niiim MHftynlHff tup U'H hi a tN'picuS race It the up i the was gatorv to the a rt fror Ap; a romance Ked Cupid that in Jimmy'? perched and it i' en flitted, leavi: Investments a puncture, a legacy of to this day remains under I sweet pain, which I Coal tion rapidly and was in a condition to cut all that I RAVEXSCOURT, THE RESIDENCE OF MR. F.

H. LANTZ Jimmy inner vest. Jirn Wise, French. and Jim E'lard had the i monopoly of Front street. Philips Hicks am! Joe I Arnaud divided the hotel bu ines between them on I the north side of Columbia street west.

Dean With row furniture). Ebenezc Brown (the great wine and spirit merchant), Mrs. Lewis' boarding bouse (Peace to her ashes; her meal was ample and varied). On the south side Holbronk's stone ware continued on Page 40) Successors to Paid Up Capital and Assets $800,000 agent, with head office in Victoria. The captain was a man of many sides, knew so much and yet so little, but a splendid subject for a pen picture.

He was a sailor, but the brine had left no mark, rather the opposite. With the pallor of an ascetic, which could be mistaken for intellect, nobodv would believe that he sailed the seven seas, and' I think hi access to the quarter deck was by wav of the cabin windows. He was in strong middle life, well educated, well dressed, with a readv business manner, and a beauty class he would have his place. On his visit to look over the ground, he asked: "What is the meaning of this aggregation of filth?" lie was answered it was a by product of the mill and would be within his sphere of influence. "Aye, aye and I'll make the beggars mind me.

I will not permit a running sore to fasten itself on an industrv entrusted to my care." The gallant captain kept his word; he declared war un Gas town and death to freedom, which meant lawlessness, and what Judge Begbie was to the earn vears of the province, so Captain Raymur was to Gastown. The captain dearly loved a bit of display, and on court days his coming was "Gilbert ian," lacking but costume to give it a Mikado He was accompanied by his clerk, who labored under a great tome, large enough to contain all the statutes from I William and Mary down, most of which the gallant captain was innocent of: but the court r.s. i urir. F. H.

Lantz Co ESTABLISHED muddy, deep purple complexion, that told its own story. He had the gift of grouping words, which he flung from him with the volubility of a fake doctor. By the way, these words, shot at random, always hit a mark; unlucky would be the man whom Jack would nickname, for he would carry it on his reluctant feet to Mountainview. Jack's story of his trip from New Westminster was an epic. He was marooned on an island for twelve hours, without fire or shelter; his faithless Tillicums abandoned him under the pretence of hunting game to renew his larder, which, they alleged, was scanty.

His invective on the Indian population was scathing, adjectives ami similes heaped together, but all unprintable. Jack was a sailor of the earlv part of the nineteenth century, an A.B. He could hand reef and steer, but the wooden ship bad departed, and gone was the trim mail packet that walked the water like a spirit, the palatial Eat Indiaman and lofty line of battleship to wh beauty and lordii ess old ocean made submission, and the iron tank that them will never inspire a IiiUir. i bring to the top a Nelson or a Col ling wood. Jack landed at his destination early in the af noon in a light dr.zile, with family.

irur of his Lerr.an, her mo her coowrs, a Kg Irxiiir who a.s the motive power sod on wbc cast green eyed looks, a yellow cl two h.i kt Tis. two weak barked ehairs and barrel of hi OVER 20 YEARS a OLD TOWN OF GRANVILLE (1K3) NOW WATER STREET 1, Deighton Hot; 2. Provincial Government; Telegraph Office 4, Mansion's Hotel; 5, Sullivan's Store: 6. nhortcW 7, Wilson's Store. CAKKALL Ki'kKFT.

SOCTH OI POWELL, 188S.