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VOL XU, NO. 10, ocr., 1955
• GE~ERAL ARTICLES Another 'fFirst" in Newfoundland Br A. B. SuJli"an Il's Spud Digging Time 32 \ C.\HILL By Samuel J. R pn F.ditor Lower Island Cove Church )larksl75th Anni\'crsaT)' 41 (Contributed) Snow in August? By Don Ryan Ferryland By M. P. \furph} • l'fCTORIAL Scenes to Remember 18 • NEWFOUNDLAND AS OTHERS SEE IT The American Viewpoint 34 By ;\l'ellie Dwyer • POETRY A Newfoundland Gypsy 37 By Carolyn L. Strong lie Guardian is Sniff, Sniff! 37 and published By Laura Murray rdian Umited. 91 • REPRINT OF THE MONTH Str!et, St. John's Heart Operation Makes l\fediC:1.1 History 38 Canada. Author~ (BosLOn Sunday Globe) ., Second Class POll Office De-- • DEPARTMENTS t, Ottawa. Sub_ The Editors' Page .3 rates, $2.00 a Baby oC the Month ...... 6 Ia.n""bere in the Picture Contest ...... 13 , (N~founcDand Contest 'Vinners for August 14 S. add 3% 5.S.A. Home News From Abroad 15 IIlrle copies, ZGc. Picture Credits: Pages 2, 19, 21, 23, 29, 31-.-\.delaide Leitch; Pages 4, 20, 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 44_Ewarl Young; Page 7. Garland Studios, Page 18. H. M. Blackmore; Page 24_R. L. Stevenson; Page 32-Samuel J. Ryan; Page 41_~frs. Allan Morris; Page 4~Don Ryan.
Cover Picture: Our co\er girl this month is aLlraCli\e Elizabeth Reid of S1. John's, "ihown in swim aLLire at Topsail beach. Be· sides swimming, Elizabeth is fond of tennis and dancing. but her chief interest at pres· enl is in school activities. She is a pupil at Bishop Spence,. College.-Photo by Ruggles.
THE EDITOR'S PAGE ·Taken To Task • 1 a matter how well you think you know your own country. there ,s always someone who knows it better. And more power to rhose who (orne forward to set matters right. In our own case we've just been stepped on by W. F. Randell. Postmaster at Port Rexton. Trinity Bay, for publishing an upside-down, inside-out picture of his hometown in our July issue. We thought we'd done ourselves real proud when we produced the 32-page Bonavista Album in that edition. That is, until the Randell letter arrived. Says Mr. Randell: "The picture on page 41. one of the pictures of Port Rexton, is wrong. The sea and houses should be on the right side of rhe picture and the hill shown, which is known as the 'Big Hill: should be on the left side. The road where the man is standing by the rai's is known as 'Sam's Hill' and appears leading downhill from Port Rexton and should be uphill." Wrong as it is. according to friend Randell of Port Rexton, the offending picture is reproduced on the opposite page. We wish we could present the scene as it should be, but unfortunately rhe negative is not available. It may simply be a case of an enlargement-exposure of the wrong side of the negative, giving an inside-out view of what must 10 any case be a very lovely settlement. Anyway, the customer is always right, and we gladly give Mr. Randell the last word. • The July issue, good as we thought it was, seems to have contained a number of inaccuracies. Richard Bugden of Toronto, Ont., but formerly of Trinity, T.B.. draws our attention to a factual error. 'You sayan page 5 (writes Mr. Bugden) that the first white child was born in Carbonear. According to mv records the first white child to be born in Newfoundland---- OCTOBER, 1955 ANOTHER "FIRST" New Telephone Cable Building at Clarenville By A. B. SULLIVAN N RELATION to the North important business of international I American continent and the comm unications was to be made. Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland has Among those who witnessed the been first in many things. The historic event, besides Clarenville's trend may be said to have begun population-to a man, woman and with the sighting of Cape Bona child-were Lieutenant-Governor vista by John Cabot on June 24, Sir Leonard Outerbridge, Hon. 1497, and it was still going strong J. W. Pickersgill. Canadian Min on June 22, of this year-when ister of Immigration, and officials the laying of the first trans-Atlan of the three concerns who are fin· tic telephone cable was started from ancing the project as a joint deal. Clarenville. Trinity Bay. Representing those sponsors That was a gala day for the were, W. A. Wolverson, director of busy little Newfoundland town overseas communications for lh, when dignitaries of three countries British Post Office; W. G. Thomp· -Britain. U.S. and the Canadian son, assistant vice-president of mainland-arrived to join ew Amerltan Telephone and Tele· foundlanders in an official cere graph Company and D. F. Bowie. mony at which new history in the chairman of Canadian Overseas ATLANTIC GUARDIA~ ,..... FOR NEWFOUNDLAND Telecommunications Corporation pound per foor or four million whose companies are backing the pounds rhroughout. r,nture in the proportion of fort1' Cosring forty million dollars, on', fifty and nine per cent re the undertak ing is designed to pro spectIvely. vide a system which will make Apart from the outstanding ad possible / thirty-six simultaneous dress,s delivered by those assembled conversations arross the Atlantic to commemorate the historic event. and it is further calculated that its before the cable ship Ai anarch repea tees or booster sections pull,d out to sea, highlight of the spaced at every forty miles-will cer,mony was the breaking, on the not need rhecking for at least land end of the cable, by COTC twenty years. Chairman D. F. Bowie of a bottle Going eastward from here, the of seawater from the harbor of M anarch was to payout cable Heart's Content. until she reached Oban-its Euro For this chtistening the tradi pean terminal in Scotland. West tional champagne was dispensed ward, the route from Ciarenville is with when the cable end was for over land to Terrenceville, Fortune mally passed over by Captain Bet Bay; from there to Sydney Mines son of the ship-significance of under sea and down through the the gestute being that the first Maritimes and Maine by radio re suceessfu I ttans-A tla ntic telegraph lay to New York. When com cable was landed at Heart's Content pleted, in the rail of 1956, the ! in 1866. western submarine section will pro In itself a masterpiece of engin vide twenty-four telephone con I eering, the new cable measures nections between mainland Canada about two thousand nautical miles. and Newfoundland. One and one quarter inches in diametet, it weighs about one --A I First it was GLASS Awireless ~ -:::~... cable-now .... "":.~ --= it's telephone Trade Supplied by R. J. COLEMAN LTD. across the seas DIAL 2415 Office-Z.c8 Duckworth Street ------OCTOBER, 1955 ...... I By comparison with the begin Cyrus Field Was Pioneer ning of trans-Atlantic cable history, The promoters of the first tr ·one thing stands out in the project Atlantic cable-laying venture halls. , 0", which is now underway. That is ever, had no such assurance 0; the progress which has been made success. And so It was with Cy in perfecting under-sea communi W. Field and Peter Cooper of ,rUl e cations within the last hundred York, who. brought into the v • en years. ture by Frederick Newton Gisbo . r The people who are sponsoring in 1854 formed the New Yo;, this project today do so with con ewfoundland and London Tel,. I fidence. This is no mere experi graph. C~mpany for the purpose 0 ment. It is a business proposition establIshIng, via eWfoundlao, and its backers know it is going to telegraphic communications b,. work-and pay. tween the United Kingdom an the United States. ti Having linked Cape Breton by cable with Cape Ray and built l Baby of tl.(. land line across the Island by 1856. for which his company received valuable concessions from New. Alontl. foundland, Field went to London in the summer of that year in the hope of interesting English capital in his plans. But, though he did not foresee it at the time, he was to make thirty-nine other trips across the A tlantic and twenty to Newfoundland before seeing those plans fulfilled. Even at this stage, howevet British financiers were sympathetic. As a result sufficient backing was received to launch the first attempt at spanning the Atlantic in the summer of 1857 and on August 6. the U.S.S. Niagara and the H.M.S. Agamemnon began the gigantic task. Things went smoothly for a Holding down this month:s week. But when 325 miles had "Baby of the Month" spot IS been paid out the cable parted. Derek Bartlett, pride and joy of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Bartlett Attempts to recover it failed so th, of Goose Cove, T.R. Derek was project was abandoned for a whole one year old in August at the year. time this picture w~s taken. (Continued on page 8) ATLANTIC GUARDIAN FORM PARTNERSHIP AS ADVERTISING SALESMEN JOSEPH P. CLEARY JAS. A. McGRATH Jim ~1cCralh and Joe Cleary, both of St. John's, have recenlly [armed a pa'u:ersh:p and plan to enter the advenising business as Pllblislr~rs' Rcpresen· la~i\es with office at 137:\ 'Vater Streel. They will represent ALiantic Guardian and the other publications of Guardian Limited in the Province of Newfound land. Jim ~lcGralh was born in 1932 at Buchans, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. ~lcGralh. lie was educated at St. Patrick's Hall School, St. John·s. He served in the R.C.A.F. as a Radio Operator and upon release from the AirfoTce in ]953 joined the sta[[ of the \"hile Clothing Co., later serving as an insurance sales tnan. Jim has been Sales Representative for the Colonial Broadcasting System "OC~I) [or the past ycar, during which titne he has become widely known in the ad\cnising business. He will continue to operate in this capacity. Joe Clear) is the son of Mr. R. C. Cleary, retired Chief Despatcher of the C.X.R. and :\1rs. Clear). He was born in Sl. John's in 1930 and was educated ~t. l. Bona"enture's College. joe's first job was with Steers Limited. He later JOllled the staff of the C.N.R. where he worked for four years. Prior to the (ormation of the partnership he was Sales Representative for the Imperial Life hllurance Company of St. John's. In their new field of endeavour McGrath and Cleary will be travelling in man) parts of Newfoundland. OCTOBER, ItSs ANOTHER "FIRST" FOR NEWFOUNDLAND (Continued from page 6) In July. 1858. the same two broke our in America. and ~ ships. each with a load of cable had to be she:ved for eight :e met in mid-Atlantic. spliced the In 1865 another attempt ends and began sai:ing in opposite made with the help of the G, directions-one for Ireland and the Ea3tern - largest ship afloat other for ewfoundland. On which had been built and PUt August 6. both ships reached their service since the last try. But destinations - the Agamemnon. attempt. like the othets, also en Valencia. Ireland. and the ,\'iagara. in failure when the cable pa Bay Bulls Arm. Ttinity Bay. 1200 miles out of Valencia a At long last a "'orking iin!< had the loose end dropped two milt. been established- 2000 miles of the bottom of the sea. ocean had been spa ·lUed. But the His stout heart almost brok triumph was of s"ort duration. for Field returned to England the f after four weeks of unsatisfactory lowing year -for one more tl operation-during w ich Queen But to add to his burdens Britain Victoria of England and Presidenr Attorney-General refused him per. Buchanan of the U.S. exchanged mission to sell mOre stock in hi greetings-the new medium of o'd company with the result thai communication sputtered and failed. the Anglo-American Telegraph Nothing daunted. Field and his Company was brought into being, associates tried again. But this Encouraged apparently by even time a new obstacle arose in the the short-lived success of 1858. form of the Civil War which investors came forward and within Head Office and Distributing Depot at Port Union, Newfoundland Incorporated in 1911. - Dranches along the :\'nrth- East eoa<;t from Port Rex-ton to LaScie • Importers of Dry • Exporters of Salted Coo d a • Hardware Hard Dried and ~Labrador Provisions, Fishery Cure Codfish, Pickled Sal Salt. Coal. etc. mon and Herring. Berries. ATLANTIC GUARDIAN LA fiY' months the Great Eastern was ,g,in on her way. Unlike the ELECTRICAL other assa ults on the vast expanse of th' Atlantic, this one was INSTALLATIONS crowned with success. The ship "il,d into Heart's Content on July GOOD WORK 27. 1866, and landed a cable which has not only been working BY merril}f ever since but is considered GOOD MEN th' b,st trans-Atlantic connection out of Newfoundland to this day. Following actual conquest of the Free Estimates Gladly d"p. the ridicule, the sneers and Supplied th' sarcasm expressed during the period of failure-even by such papers as the New York Times SNOWLIGHT subsided and the question arose as to who was the father of the LIMITED "mighty thought." This argument seems to have 115-119 Duckworth St. d'Yeioped from a letter published in the St. John's Courier over the St. John's. signature of Rev. Dr. Mullock, R.C. Bishop of St. John's, in ,'ovember, 1850, pointing to the ,dvantages of St. John's over Hali fax as a link in trans-Atlantic communications. E. &S. BARBOUR In this letter the prelate not Distributors Marine Engines only expressed his belief in the feasibility of spanning the Atlantic 472-474 Water St. West hj' telegraphic cable but also the St. John's. practicability of connecting Cape ~ay with Cape Breton-via St. Sole Agenls for aurs Island-by the same method. Used in conjunction with a land KELVIN RICARDO and line to St. John's this would, he KELVIN DIESEL ENGINES Contended_even in the absence of Ranging from 7Y.z to 132 h. p. trans-Atlantic telegraph-cut two HAWROLDT ~ays off the delivery of messages GAS MARINE ENGINES ~tween Europe and continental . orth America. Also That was in 1850. And as it Marine Puml)S, Uilge Pumps, :as not until 185 J that Me. Gis 'Veil PUlIIllS. Sorne, an official of the Nova Life Jackets, '.ifebuoy. COtla Telegcaph Company. ap OCTOBER, lOSS proached the Newfoundland gov through the century. Com ernment with a scheme for a trans Cable Company for instan~'rr insular land line and carrier pigeon seven telegraphic connection" ' s ~. service-instead of a submarine teath her SIde-all landing . n cable connection-between the west vicinity of Cuckold's Co/ coast and Sydney that some people QuI'd' I V'd'I L. C. anad'Ian 01'"' a held he had got his idea from TelecommunICatIOns Corporal!. Bishop Mullock's letter to the has one connectIng Middl, C press, with Perth Corno, Cornwall, \\?' tern Union has four OUt of a Many Cables Added Roberts to Penzanee, England. a Anyway, all added together, the one out of Bay Roberts to U chronological sequence was such as Azores whtle Anglo-Am,rican h to start a controversy-over who four joining Heart's Content WI; was first with the trans-Atlantic Valencia, Ireland. cable idea-between men like Rt. In addition, rates have gr Rev, Richard Howley, the Rev. down, circuit capacity has been I Moses Harvey and H. F. Shortis creased-rhrough the introducl!. an argument which has never been of deep-sea repeaters-and speed 0 cleared up. transmission stepped up. B Though this old and original most romantic of all seems to cable still spans the bottom of the the idea of speaking between (. ocean depths and works perfectly continents underneath two tho taday, things have not stood still sand miles of sea, in the business of trans-Atlantic What improvement, we fe, cable communication for the past compelled to ask, is there l'ft I hundred years, make? What will be next-d" Other cables-though with less sea, under-water or submanr. fanfare-have been added down TV? ATLANTIC GUARDIAN- The Magazine of Newfoundland GUARDIAN LIMITED, $2.00 for 1 Year 96 Water Street, St, John's, Nfld. $3.50 for 2 Years $5.00 for 3 Years Please send ATLANTIC GUARDIAN for year(s) to NAME ADDRESS. Amount enclosed $...... (8/55) Date .. 10 ATLANTIC GUARDIA.' Bigger ond Better! 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John's, Newfoundland. the following month's Picture Can· \ C.J.O.N. will broadcast news of the test prize money. contest three night a week-Mon 7. i\'ames of prize winners will '. days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, be announced over C.J.O.:-I. and from 8.15 to 8.30 p.m. published in .-\.TL.-\:\'TIC Gl' ~R 3. 0 entries will be opened until DlA:\'. the magazine in which the current 8. There are six contests in contest picture appears has been the present series. one each month on sale for TWO WEEKS. Three from July to December, 1955, in entries will then be drawn dur· clusive. 'Vinners in an} ODe con· ing each program, and to the test will not be debarred from sender DE each unsuccessful entry future contests. Tune in to C.J.O.N. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 8.15 to 8.30 p.m. for "Echoes of Yesterday" and News of ATLANTIC GUARDIAN'S exciting new Picture Contest 1% ATLANTIC GUARDIAl What Place Is It? i • Somebody will win $50.00 for the correct answer. Send in •~ YOUR entry today! II. 3 Only entries received on this form will be eligible. !: Do not mail entries to ATLANTIC GUARDIAN. ;. • "o 3 'lI GUARDIAN i' i "KNOW-YOUR-NEWFOUNDLAND" 'lI III• PICTURE CONTEST OCTOBER • c/o C.J.O.N., ' St. John's, Nfld. The settlement pictured above is NAME MR.. MRS.. MISS (PLEASE PRINT) ADDRESS OCCUPATION DATE. OCTOBER, lOSS 13 Contest Winners for August The $50.00 Cash Prize went to MRS. REG. i\fERCER, 20 Caribou Road, Comer Brook West who correctly named the mystery settlement. A consolation prize of a one-year subscription to Atlantic Guardi awarded to each of the following. Their entries were drawn but ·in ea:;: the answer was inconect. Qlt Mrs. Clyde Hobbs, 7 Power St., Gander. Duke Mouland, 303 Pennvwell R St. John's. . oao Mrs. Carrie Clarke, 83 Newtown Road, SL john·s. Mrs. Walter Maloney, West Min", Miss Doris Rendell, 40 Belvedere St., Bell Island. . St. John's. ~{is~ Diane Allen, 54 Bona\'enLur Mrs. james E. Ash, 53 Pearce Ave., Ave., St. John's. e St. john·s. Aloysius Maher, Camp 95 Birchy Lake, Leo Brazil, 7 Bradbury Street, c/o Bowaters, Deer Lake. St. John's. Mrs David Weste, Ladle Cove, N.D.B. Randolph Fifield, Hare Bay, Bonavista Bay. ]. W. Mitchell, 18 Mill Road, Grand Falls. ~amuel R. Ballam, 165 Military Road St. john·s. ' Mrs. Annie Durdle, Bonavisl3. Mrs. Richard Randell, Robert Squires, St. Phillips, 31 Boncloddy St., St. john·s. St. John's West. This is the Place ..... and the corerct answer is CLARVENVILLE 14 ATLANTIC GUARDIAN Home News from Abroad By RON PUMPHREY Where Dad Was Born bag. and Mrs. was given a set of • Jean ~fercer. a niled States nurse, sterling silver coffee spoons imprinted recenth visited Coley's Point. Bay with the Newfoundland codfish and Robert~. and Shearslown, Conception seal. Sa\. "We shall always cherish these sou Sheal')lOWn was the home of her venirs," they said. father. Edmund Mercer, who accom lanied her. Two More Wed in Toronto She'd neyer been in ~ewfoundland • Two more ~ew[oundlanders have be£Ole and it was "dad's" first visit wed in Toronto. m 32 long years. In that City of Churches recently, It was a memorable visit. Joan V. Warr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Warr, Twillingate, mar Local Boy Makes Good ried Gideon L. Abbott, son of Mr. • Harr) Brake of Brantford, Ontario, and Mrs. George Abbott, Bonavista. fonnerl}' of Hurnbermouth, :Newfound land, has been awarded a diploma in Renewed Old Acquaintances traffic management [rom La Salle Extension University, Chicago, after o Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Luscombe who two )cars' study. had been visiting relatives and friends in Montreal, ToronLO, and New York, This Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison recently returned home Lo St. John's, Brake is a gradu3k of Humbermouth Newfoundland, having spent a very high school, and a Brantford business enjoyable vacaLion. college where he spent a )'car They met many former Newfound Harn is now employed in the landers on the continent, including Iran'portation department of the Mr. W. F. Kenny, ~[r. and Mrs. Cyril Canadian :\'3(ional Railways, Brant Kenny, Mr. and :\lrs. Donald Wadden, ford, Ontario, where his sen·ices are high" \alued. Mr. and ~lrs. Owen Fe\er, and 'Mrs. James Dwyer. and Mesdames ~{ary (Polly) Kent, ~radge and Elsie Carew, More "Newfies" for the U.S. Carrie Brown, all of Brooklyn, N.Y.; • sah lake Cill", Ctah, L'.S..-\. has and Mrs. K. \l'areham, Long Island, claimed fh'c mor~ peo')le from :\'ew ~1rs. E. Bennett ;}nd her sister, ~frs. [Oundland. the A. B. Romne' family Stevens, Ve.-dun, P.Q., ~Ir. and '\{rs. froOl Buchans. . J. R. Bragg. Toronto. Before .\11'. and Mrs. Romney and "They all," said the Luscombes, "fm~ Ton~, Buzz\', and Larn, lef~ "the "retain a keen interest in their old great i~land," ~ir. was pre3~nted with homeland, and wish to be remembered a beautiful :\'f'wfoundland ... ealskin to relatives and friends. OCTOBER, 1955 15 President of Patients' Council was recently united in matrimonl • The president of the patients' First Lieutenant Harold Floyd WI council in Ridgewood Military Hos· o[ Texas. The ceremoll) was a daubl pitat. New Brunswick, is a :\'ewfound ~ewfoUnd~fl'I lander. one, so popular with He is Herb Ta} lor (regimental toda)'. number seven, the First Five Hun dred) . Visits After 35 Years Since 1916, he's had 18 operations • Ned Bishop. Toronto. Who and let another is pending. ~ewfoundland 35 years ago, relUr; home recently on vacation. The Spaniard's Bay to Texas mer fisherman and sealer had • When the song "Deep in the Hearl Britain's Oldest Colon} after the r of Texas" was popular. a certain "'arid "Tar. ;\'ewfoundland girl didn't dream for In making a lour of St. John'~ a minute thal she'd spend the first his brother, Jacob Bishop, 11 Po few weeks of her marriage there. Street, he noticed changes in the ( Audre)' Jean, daughter o[ Mr. and est city in :"Jorth America: gone \\ ~1rs. WalLer Crane o[ Spaniard's Ba)', the cobblesLOnes on \Vater Sin in ...., 'loull tinn " IJ . hoOse trom "More to C at A'{Rc'S Wonderful Selections at AYRE &SONS LTD. ST. JOHN'S A TLANTIC GUARDIA~ 16 missing were the old sailiRg schooners which once cob-webbed the local sky 1------1 line, new and modern were the many I I homes which had "stretched" the city. I "E\er)'thing's so wonderfully differ : ~4 7Vt4t ~ad I ent." he said. I I I I The Son Returned L __ ----I • Residents of Sl- John's and Car 'MY BANH" bonear were delighted recently, when a L'nited States Chaplain was ap pointed to Fort "epperrell. .5. ter ~ rilOr~ near St. John's. The Chaplain was Rev. John Snook, working witII Canadians in the son of two ~ewfoundlanders who'd roery wall< 01 life mi dted to the U.S.A. many years siure 1817 ago. The) were John Snook of Carbon car, and Ethel Bradbury of St. John's. BANK OF MONTlll!AL Rev. Snook had been minister of ~1ethodist the Crawford Memorial There are 12 B of M Offices in Church, "'inchester, Massachusetts, for Newfoundland to serve you eight years and conducted missions in .\'onh Africa and other places before assuming duties at the air force base in Newfoundland. TRASK Newfie Dances "Send" Them • Americans in New York like the ~ewfoundland square dances and their accompanying music, according to a FOUNDRY St. John's man who has lived in Manufacturers of the Brookl)'n for 33 years. Famous Howard Brown, 55, brother of St. JOhn's, Newfoundland, taximan Leo Brown, said that every couple of "Maid of Avalon" mOnths the Newfoundlanders in Brookl}n, New York, crowd to Pros AND pect Hall where they hold their unique dances. "Regal" Ranges Lots of nalh-e Americans are pres ent always-some just to watch. Oil Ranges, Electric Ranges "And When the ewfoundland ex- and Furnaces SOldiers in Brooklyn hold dances," WATER ST, WEST said ~1r. Brown. "that's when you'll see the crowds." 5 T. J 0 H N' 5 OCTOBER, lOSS t7 Bell Islander It is amazing how people aWa lr home recognize one another. )"1 " Travels Far no trouble whatsoever in reC01!n;~ Michael Jackman, despite the fa~;~ we had never met before. u..; Michael Jackman was born 0 Island in 1886 and for ninete:'Ikti his sixty-nine years lived there. Sh .. ly after the tum of the Today, Michael Jackman looks li~, a man twenty years younger and his gait would make you believe it. Ho. he came to be at Toronto's Mahon Airport is a long story but to make it brief, he was .returning to Cali[ornia via Toronto from Ottawa, where he visited his sister, Mrs. Arch Power fonnerly of St. John's, Newfoundland He had not seen his sister [or fifh years, nor has he touched Newfound_ land soil in that same period of tim, Maybe some day he will come back. _H. M. BLACKMORE. Toronto, Ont. i\UCHAEL JACKMAN Scenes To Remember MORE PICTURES OF _-. , NEWFOUNDLAND 1. ATLANTIC GUARDIAN S(°f>nf>S to Remember_Clarenl'ilJe Jetty OCTOBER. 1955 " Scenes to Remember_Along the Cabot Highway OCr08£R. JISS 23 OCTOBER, 1155 Scenes to Remember_l.ong Co\'e, Trinily nay OCTOBER, 1955 31 It"s Spud Digging TiDle By SAMUEL J. RYAN CTOBER IS spud digging O month, and ewfoundland's village folk are in their gardens spading them out. There are other vegetables, car rots, parsnips, beets, cabbage and onions to be harvested, but most of the crops con~ist of spuds, a"" aging from ten to twenty barrels per family. ATLANTIC GUARDIA.\ 32 Spud digging begins sometime ground to be picked up later for during the first two weeks of animal feed next winter. Uncle W HAT DO American women coming to Newfoundland and h think about Newfound wasn't disappointed with what :h: land? I put that question to a found here. She found it a b' number of ladies from the land of diffi.cult to unde~st~nd our spe,,~ Uncle Sam now living here, and at flCSt but now It ~sn't a problem this is what they said. any more. She thmks Our drug. stores are very modern and com. Mrs. Eve Stillwell had a word parable to those in the States, and of praise for Newfoundland as a that our people dress well. vacation centre. She enjoys the scenery, likes to visit quaint fish Mrs. Cleveland has her palat. ing villages and has spent many a attuned to the Newfoundland deli. happy hour indulging in one of cacies for she just loves trout, sal. her favorite pastimes - fishing. mon and lobster, and was lOOking Mrs. Stillwell dislikes our winters, forward to a good meal of fish drivers and roads and finds the tongues. money exchange a bit of a prob Mrs. Wini Warner finds New. lem. She thinks we are somewhat foundland people kind and hospit. backward but are making rapid able. Mrs. Warner knew quite I improvements and have improved bit about Newfoundland before considerably since she's been here, she came because her husband had which is about two years. She made several trips here in the a' gets quite a chuckle out of the in force and had described it to her. terior layout of our homes, especi She was glad to come to ew· ally the long halls. foundland because at the time she Mrs. Dorothy Cleveland, who was living in Texas where ir was hails from Texas, and is at present unbearably hot. She thinks we residing on Water Street West, was Newfoundlanders have two advant· thrilled when she heard she was ages over the States-our slow relaxed way of living and our cool ' summers. Of course she wouldn't THE NEWFOUNDLAND FIRE want to live here all the time be· AND cause there's little entertainment GENERAL INSURANCE CO. and not many places to go. Mrs. LTD. E. F. KENNEDY (Manager) Warner's first winter here wasn't 175 WATER ST. ST. JOHN'S all it could have been, having been PHONE SlS6 spent at Topsail for 6 months 34 ATLANTIC GUARDIAN for our schools which she thinks are advanced in the amount of work done and in the matter of WANTED: OLD discipline. Mrs. Giles didn't com NEWFOUNDLAND PHOTOS plain about the weather; as a Do you Nlve, tucked away in tbe matter of fact she finds the sum Lamilv albwn, some old Newfoundland mers pleasantly cool-but she phot';' that teU a story of an earlier would, having lived in Florida. period? Driving is a problem to her though; the kids on the street, she They're worth money if you have, says, are not traffic conscious and lor Allantic Guardian will pay 55.0n have absolutely no fear of moving lor cath old Newfoundland pICture vehicles. selected (or publication. Mrs. Nina Witherington's first What do we mean by "old"? 'Vhat impressions weren't very favorable lind of Ustory" is needed? \Ve can't as she came here in a bad time of the year in December. But she tell lou-we'd have to see the picturr and the story first. So, send in your survived the icy blasts and is now quite adapted to her surroundings old photm, or snapshots, anyway. Do not send postcards. and her neighbors who she claims, are very friendly. When Mrs. Address your letters to uOld Photos" Witherington first heard she was Department, Atlantic Guardian, 96 coming to Newfoundland she had Water Street, St. John's, Newfound· no idea where it was and had to land. locate it on a map. She had pic tured it to be further north and thought there would be very little vegetation. However, she acted ~h"e she was practically snowed smart and read some Newfound In. several times. But things are land books before coming this way qUIte different now because her husband. who is a building con ttactor, has settled her quite com fOrtably in a home he built him self on Downing Street. "Seems Real Nice" When I asked Mrs. Kitty Giles ~ Bonaventure Ave. how she liked . ''''foundland she answered in T. & M. WINTER, LTD. real American style: "Seems real Wholesale Provisions, St. John's n~c,"· She thinks our country is NEWFOUNDLAND AGENTS, ilCturesque but it can't satisfy that Standard Brands, Limited. Maple Leaf Milling Co., Ltd., hanging to be back in her own Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd. me M town among her relations. ESTABISHED IN 1878 • 's. Giles had a word of praise OCTOBER, lOSS 35 and when she came she further like so many of our other Am increased her knowledge by buy friends, would choose ewt on ing Newfoundland bal1ads. Mrs. land for a holiday but not Witherington also has quite a col permanent dwel1ing place. 't lection of Newfoundland records Mrs. Doris Feagles, Larch PI including our ever-popular "Squid thinks we're a smart people n l t Jiggin' Ground." Apparently she be always rushing and gettingO not only likes our fishy records where fast. She says we h'\'e but also our fishy meals, because happy knack of combining ~ cod tongues is one of her favorite with pleasure and so make I. dishes. Mrs. Witherington said more relaxed and easy. She sl'< she has thoroughly enjoyed her of how the men manage to stay here. that stretch out on the couch d Mrs. Helen Burns, who came to ing rhe lunch hour and go back Newfoundland about a year ago work feeling refreshed, and h from Kansas City, just loves it the women seem to work a schea here, the reason being-the nice to have the afternoons free to re neighbors she's met, the New and do as they please. foundland scenery she likes so much, and her nice comfortable Apparently, Mrs. Feagles accommodations on Liverpool Ave. n't think ewfoundland IS Mrs. Burns knew some time be worst place in the world bee forehand that she was coming to she chose it in preference to !e\'tt Newfoundland and made it a point other places. One reason for ht to see some Newfoundland films. having picked Newfoundland On her way over she caught her that at the time she was living first sight of rhe Atlantic which the west coast of the U.S. and was quite a thrill to her. One of parenrs lived on the east coast ," the things she finds quite amusing now she would get a chance to about us Newfoundlanders is the them. She is looking forward way in which we express ourselves. her trip going back. This I For instance on asking some one she wil1 proudly show her PdI the way to a certain place one day her little Newfie. she was told to go down the road Mrs. Feagles likes for about 15 or 20 minutes and foundland people and jokes. turn: she expected to be told in her neighbors over some of approximate miles. Mrs. Burns, dialects and finds some of words we use very interest," Her pet peeve is shopping bee< she ~ays, you have to go to ' many stores trying to find ex,d what you want. But these thm FURS SEALSKINS are trivial and she is quite h,p -==-GRENFELL HANDICRAFTS here because she's wirh her husb,· K..~~W;"',,~,:!~1t and children and rhat's what tel counts. 36 ATLANTIC GUARD! POETRY- PAGE I wish I were a gypsy. Then through thai Jonel} wild-wood .\nd free from warldy care And flowers on the way• To Ih-e and dream with whispering ""ith birds and bees around me winds- 1 evermore would stay. heh day and night spend there. Then as the sun descended I'd wake up at the dawning Down in the western sky. \nd see the rising sun; The whole wide world with silence fhen up and w3sh at nearb) brooks \\'ould hum a lullaby. Had '-ct the morn begun. \\'ith darkness ho\cring o'er Inc \nd through a lonel) forest I'd homeward happ} plod; With trees and brush and grass, Then raisc my eyes to heaven, I'd ~lancl and lie and wander, And send my prayer to God. \nd walch the morning pass. -CAROLY:-: L. STRO:-:C. rhe hour~ remaining I would spend \Iong a rippling shore; Lillie Ba} Islands. Or listen to the grasses Talk with the murmuring moor. Fried brown and crisp. But others, by the sweat of brow, P.laced in a pile- Earn many a dollar then, and now. Ihe smell Would wanderers But quicJ....I~, let's sit in and eat, Beguile. \\'e're ~e\\'foundlanders- Here"s our TREAT, What is this wonder? Served on a platter thal's antiquc You should know The LOWLY, SMELLY CAI'LI:-I. \\'hat would attract a Wanderer so! -LAUR.\ MURRAY. Some folks turn up their nose-:\~D llell Island. HOW! OCTOBER, 1'55 37 Heart Tumor Operatio For Young Nfld'r Makes Medical Histo~. By FRANCES BURNS (Boston Sunday Globe) blood supply from the lungs from a piece of tumor breakin~---'. YOU G man from Harbor into the blood stream (an embr A Main. Newfound'and. has ism) was almost inevitable. made medical his:ory in Bosron. by The heart's ceaseless pumping being the first patient to undergo a gallon of blood a minute. awa~ a new type of operation for tumor and as'eep. could not long continu of rhe heart. The o;:>eration was against the presssure of the jell successful and he is recovering. like lump. A slow growing tumor the size of a small orange was removed Short Breath First Sign from deep within the heart of Dr. J. Gordon Scannell. M.G.H Leonard M. Woodford. in Massa and Harvard surgeon. described th; • chusetts General Hospital. operation Thursday before M.G.H. The 32-year-old steelworker is physicians and surgeons from all the father of five children. He has parts of the world. returned home. and the operation The patient himself was present. is pronounced a success. In time. Taking part in the discussion wer, he may be able to resume a com Dr. Edwin F. Bland. chief of the pletely normal life. M.G.H. Heart Clinic. and Dr. Wil. Using the new freezing technique liam Brewster of the department to provide a bloodless heart and anesthesia. time for the surgeon to work. the Woodford had had his first in· operation was the first of its type timation of trouble a year and a in North America. the second in half ago when he began to be short the world. of breath. He was having episodes Often swinging rhrough girders of heart failure such as show up 10 stories above the ground. Wood with a narrowing va've. ford has been carrying around a At the M.G.H. Heart Clinic it growth almost a fourth the size of was decided to operate for wbal his heart. The tumor had nearly was believed to be "mitral steno· closed the mitral valve opening in sis." this is a narrowing of the to the heart's main pumping cham bishop's-cap-like valve which can· ber. troIs the flow of blood returning, Left alone. death from heart purified. from the lungs. through "failure" or shutting off the fresh one left chamber into the other 38 ATLANTIC GUARDIAN left atrium into the left ventricle) the circulation to the brain from where the blood is pumped by the the heart for as much as 20 minutes heart into the arteries. without damaging the brain. Un The operation for mitral steno der normal body temperature. brain sis. developed since the war. now damage begins after three minutes is done in many hospitals. But of stopped flow of blood and its when the surgeon opened the pati oxygen. ent's heart. instead of a narrowing Now working quickly, the sur valve, he found the tumor lying in geon clamped the vessels to the the upper chamber against the brain, then to the heart. then out I·alve. of the heart. This gave him a Attempts to remove such a tu ..dry" field. a heart not flooded by mor have been described a half blood. in which he could see what dozen times in medicaL literature. he was doing. Dr. Scannell explained. All of the It took six minutes to remove all operations had been done as soon the tumor, complete the repair and as the tumors were discovered. close the heart. Then the blood "We decided to wait, and make was let slowly back in reverse. as use of the new techniques which the clamps were removed out of have been developed in the last two the heart. into it. and back into Or three years. Besides. there was the brain. a risk which the patient had a The whole operation so far as right to know about." the heart beat was concerned, had So the incision was closed, with nothing done except to clarify the diagnosis and the patient and his Exporters: wife were consulted. It was decid ed to go ahead. Two weeks after the first oper FISH ation the second one was perform ed. and The patient was packed in ice from the neck down on the operat Ing table for three hours, until his FISHERY body temperature had dropped from a normal 98 degrees to around PRODUCTS 83. He had been given pentahal, a mild anesthetic, and anectine, Which by paralyzing muscles tem P~rarily prevents shivering. (Shiv enng is one of the mechanisms by whICh the body maintains its nor mal heat). When the body had cooled to 83 CROSBIE & CO. LTD. degrees it was possible to shut off WATER ST. ST. JOHN'S OCTOBER. U55 39 required 12 minutes. with a good body temperature to keep drop margin of safety for the brain. once it has started. This is P When the temperature of the happens in freezing under e~ operating room, which had been sure. When the body is dow around 75 degrees, was raised to 85 it keeps dropping by i~ 85 or 90, and while the surgeon without ice, and if the con/' . f Itl and his aids mopped their brows, were contlOued or more than the patient, by now wrapped in an time needed to operate it might electric blanket at 98 degrees, was too low for recovery. i slowly rewarmed. By the time his The cooling technique Was body reached 90 or 91 degrees he veloped by the prime effOrts was generating his own heat. As Dr. William J. Gigelow in he regained consciousness he open University of Toronto and b ed his eyes and asked for "a drink been used successfully in DeOl'~ of water, please." It is coming into use in other hill In three and a half to four hours pitals, and has been employed al~ his body was again at 98 degrees. at Peter Bent Brigham HOSpital. Dr. Scannell said such an op" Known as Hypothermia ation only is possible as a result 0 The operation had not been per team work and the most caref preparation. formed successfully before under this cooling technique, known as hypothermia. In Stockholm, Dr. Growth Not Cancerous Clarence Crafoord performed a suc The growth was not cancerous. cessful removal of a similar heart Nobody knows what causes it, bUI tumor by using an artificial heart it is believed to start in childhood. to keep the blood flowing into the enlarging very slowly. Some 20C brain from outside the body, while of them have been described In the heart itself was "dry" for the medical literature, as found " operation. autopsies. "Future advances in surgical COr Massachusetts General Hospital' rection of abnormalities and de "grand rounds" have an tnter· formities in the heart depend large national reputation. Each wee, lyon the new methods whereby the 1)10st interesting patients are the circulation of blood in the presented as part of the hospital's heart can be stopped," Dr. Bland and Harvard University's postgrad· commented. uate teaching program. The srs The danger in the cooling tech sions are open to any physician. nique lies in the tendency of the Dr. Scannell is a son of Dr David Scannell. an early Har"aru baseball "great," for many yea" See Page 13 chief surgeon at the Boston Cit' Hospital. Two years ago he re FOR A WAY TO WIN ceived the Leonard Wood Medal FIFTY DOLLARS for distinguished service at Boston City. 40 ATLANTIC GUARDIAN Lower .Island Cove Church J.J#arhs 175th Anniversary (Contributed) o E OF the oldest communi- 1793. It is a slab of rock on ties In Conception Bay is which the inscription. '"N. N .. died Lower Island Cove. For many Nov. 1793. aged 57 years' is \"'ars it was one of the largest carved. Added to this there is a fIsh' I I"g centres on the north shore. well preserved stone which stands b" recent years. however. there has overlooking the entrance to the eo" a falling off in the fishery. as cove. erected to one Philip lewis ~a"l' have left to live in other who came to Lower Island Cove OCalities. while others seek em forty years before, from Jersey. p!oyment away from the village in This stone is dated 1825. the summer time Standing in the old cemetry The first settle~s must have come there is a stone in memory of Eliza to lower Island Cove around the beth Locke who died in 1829. ""ddl f . Th e 0 the eIghteenth century. Rev. Wilson, a Methodist Mission , oldest tombstone is dated ary writing in 1820 on the history OC"rO BER, H!SS 4i of Methodism in Newfoundland, stands in memory of thirteen tells how Elizabeth Locke was the men who left this communi/ first woman who, through the in sh·lp to cut woodm .Trinity Y fluence of Methodism, refused to They were never heard of spread her fish on Sunday, His Hardly a family has not ~gl book gives a conversation which drowning in its history. Add:: took place when she refused to this were the rava~es of di", spread her fish, It had been a very The fatal dlphthena wiped wet week, and the fish was spoiling whole families of children IQ in the 'faggots.' Sunday dawned smgle day. clear and hot. Everyone else spread . ': survey of the harbor Or Co their fish, but she held out, despite md,cates the almost superbu the warnings from her neighbors will and daring required to .' that she would be killed when her a living from the sea. The sto~ husband came home. The story this year have again laid bare'. concludes by saying that everyone, rocks on which the few remalQ' except Elizabeth Locke, had their fishermen had built their prem fish sunburnt. ow, no more stands than w' According to Rev. Wilson's John Cabot first sighted t book the first Methodist Society shores. was formed here in 1780. Hence Lower Island Cove like oth the United Church of Canada in of its neighboring settlements I Lower Island Cove dates its be main; and if it is to remain it mn ginning from that time. This year do so as a fishing community. Th the church celebrates the 175th community's life must come frO" anniversary of its founding. Ex the sea. But the days of 10· tant records go back to the year dividual fishermen with their ow I 815 which is the year that little stage is past. There is n" Methodism was formally establish for something more in keep" ed here, and Newfoundland became not only with the need, but wi: a district. Lower Island Cove the times. Our province cann along with such places as Harbour afford to let places like Low Grace, Old Perlican and Bonavista Island Cove fade out as great fis became the first circuits of the ing centres. Methodist church. The present Yet despite the tragedies of vt church in the Cove was built in teryear and the setbacks of tad> 1904 and is the third structure the people look ahead with [;1:' that has stood there. The building and hope. Evidence of this f,,·' which preceeded the present one in the future was the building, I" was begun in 1850 to replace one 1954, of a new United Chuf(' which was worn out at that time. parsonage. This is a buildl' The records of the church bear which will stand for many yu' testimony to the tragedies which to come-years in which, we hoI" marred the life of the community. the dreams of many people VI A monument erected m 1893 come true. ATLANTIC 42 Snow In August? By DON RYAN HE MID-AUGUST sun had Many years ago the lOp soil T gone down when I arrived covering of a huge sand bank to at Lumsden South. Twilight had the north of the village was eroded crept Ovet the land. Thete was and the sand began its slow drift little of the village I could see. The towards the village until it finally 'ky was overcast, the night warm engulfed it, destroying vegelable and humid, but the next morning and flower gardens, and even bury the sun shone clear and bright ing lombstones beneath its drifts. ~cellent camera-clicking weather. The sand is fine like frosty snow hen I peered through the win and swirls around in the breezes, dow, this was the view I beheld drifting up a pile here, removing • 'nOW-White ground, fresh tracks another one there. It has incon ~verywhere, and garden fences uned venienced the villagers in mOre A beneath the drifts. Snow in ways than one-it is easily brought f UgUSt' No. .. but sand, as in on boots, it gets in your hair, Ine 's frosty snow and just about it sieves through cracks and cran :~ White, and in drifts throughout e Village. nies, so that windows have to be What kept tight when the drift is on. Ih happened? Where did Snow in Lumsden in August! IS sand came from? -lhe camera makes it appear so. OCTOBEI\, ltss Ferryland By MICHAEL P. MURPHY F EW PLACES in Newfound- that later was to carry his famill land are as rich in historic to the Iush acres of the Southerr interest as the settlement of Ferry part of the North American con· land, fifty miles from St. John's, tinent. on the Southern Shore of the There is a vast difference Avalon Peninsula. tween the little fishing settlem It was in Ferryland. away back of Ferryland on the Southern Sh, in the second decade of the seven and the thriving metropolis teenth century, that Sir George Baltimore in the State of Mar Calvert, afterwards Lord Balti land, and the only thing they ha more. who had been granted great in common is that both \I'll tracts of land on the A valon Pen founded by members of the 0 insula by King James I of Eng vert family. For it was the land, began a colonization scheme success of the FerryIand planlal 1945 - A(j.; Jenth ...Anniverjarlj - f95j ATLANTIC 44 rhal prompted Baltimore to acquire other grant of land from the ~~ng. this time in the fertile South land where his son. Cecil. who succeeded to lhe title. founded the colony of Maryland and the city of Baltimore. named in his honour. The story of the Ferryland plantation forms an engrossig chapter in the checkered history of England's Oldest Colony. It began '" 1621 when Captain Edward \\'ynn' and his party of colonists. mostly Welsh. were sent out from England by Sir George Calvert to ta'e possession of the land granred him by the King. Wynnes letter from Ferryland. dated July 28. 1622. describes the erection of the dw,lIing houses. store-rooms. and olher bUildings. and the cultivation of wheat. barley. oats. and peas. and garden vegetables. the digging of a well. and other intimate de tails in connection with the settle m'nt. Another settler. Daniel Powell. a West Countryman. was loud in his praise of the site of the plantation for in his letter of July. 1622. he says. "The land where THE COLONIAL CORDAGE CO., LIMITED St. John's, Newfoundland • Established 1882 Cordage, White and • Cotton Seine, Twine, Tarred Banking Cables, Herring Nets and Netting, Hemp and Commercial Wrapping Twines, Bolt Rope, White and Oakum, Cutch. Tarred Cotton Lines, Wholesale only. OCTOBEI\.======~IlOSS 4S on our Governor hath planted is a larg~, substantial stone house so good and commodious that for s~ene In later years of many a~ the quantity I think there is no Clden t . connected wi~h the Kir better in many parts of England." Downlngs, Treworgles, and 0 The first settlers. twelve in num The house was standing in 16" ber, under Wynne, had landed in Sir Joseph Williamson mentio lll September, 1621, and were follow as being only a 'Quoits th from the shore, and it app. rc ed by another parry of twenty-two . atl' under Daniel Powell in 1622. The be depicted upon Fitzhugh' first range of buildings to be erect in 1663." s I!' ed in the settlement was at the foot of the Downs facing the sea. A Hideout for Pirates Calvert himself, who had been created a baron in 1625, did not They were stirring tim., b.. visit the colony until 1627 and in the seventeenth century, Vi stayed but a few weeks, but he pirates of all races constantly pro came out again in the following ling the seas, and the seamen year and brought with him his the ships of war of the var' wife and children and his son-in nations opposed to England. ;, law, Sir R. Talbot. "At Ferry were little better than pirat.s thr~ land," says Prowse, "they lived in selves, always on the lookout ft WehaVeCl ~,.-1/II MIllION oE1.heIll1 It has always seemed to us that .' first function of any advertise",' is to get itself read. People do not have to read ad", tisementls. Therefore any art or d" vice, even as simple and inexpens', as this advertisement was to pr,pact commands more attention than cold type. USE MORE PICTURES Illustrate Your Advertising 46 ATLANTIC GUARDIA! poorly defended settlements to at gratitude of Charles I, Cecil Cal rark. Before the coming of the vert second Lord Baltimore, lost all settlers. Ferryland had been a his holdings in Newfoundland and favorite hideout for the notorious they were given to Sir David Kirke. pirate. Peter Easton, and the coast the Duke of Hamilton, and others. had been much frequented by sea in 1637. Sir David came out to farers of all nationalities. The ewfoundland in 1638. He tiny settlement did not remain brought along his wife and children long in isolation. Baltimore had and one hundred men. and by force scarcely arrived in the colony when of arms he turned Captain William the neighboring settlement of Cape Hill, Lord Baltimore's deputy, out Broyle was attacked by a fleet of of "Baltimore's chief Mansion three French ships and 400 men house (where the said Lord Balti under De La Rade. Baltimore more had at the time divers things sent out two ships after the French. of good value) and took posses gained a victory over them. and sion of the whole Province and of had little trouble on that score divers cattle and horses belonging thereafter. to Lord Baltimore." He was quite The coldness of the climate. a tyrant, this old seadog who had however. and the vexations and distinguished himself in capturing trials that daily fell to their lot Quebec, and he tried by every were having their effect on the means in his power to make money health and morale of the settlers, from the colonists and from the and many of them died from the visiting seamen in the various severities of the pioneer life. Most settlements. He charged rent for of them perhaps, like Vaughan's stage rooms, sold tavern licenses, senlers in Trepassey, were not of and, says Prowse. "made every Pioneer calibre, and we find Balti· Frenchman and foreigner pay him ~ore in August. 1629. complain, a commission on their catch of 109 to the King of the troubles he fish." His regime, however. was ~ad encountered, and praying for of short duration. Charges were a grant of a precinct of land in made against him and he was sup Virginia where he wishes to remove planted in 1640 by John Down· SOme forty persons with such ing, a London merchant. P;ivileges as King James granted to hIm in ewfoundland." French Attack Repulsed Through the treachery and in- In 1694 the French made an- Subscribe to the NEW ATLANTIC GlJABDIAN Use the convenient Order Form on page 10 ------OCTOBER, 19S5 47 other attack on Ferryland. The to live there long after BaIt' attack had been expected. as several and Kirke and the others had I~ a captives of the French at Placentia doned the place. In natural b I' · ea~ had escaped and made their way to FerryIand IS not as appealing to Ferryland. Arriving at the settle eye as other settlements aloo g ment. they informed Capt. William s;"ore. but a walk along the Do~. Holman of the ship William and to see the traces of Baltim Mary of the French designs on the house and the piece of ro~~ place. The Captain lost no time stoned road. probably one of in putting the settlement in a state oldest of its kind in the " of defence. He mounted all avail World. and some time spent On able guns on the headlands. and Isle of Buoys. will well repay tl pounded the superior French fleet visitor to the settlement. so roughly that they turned tail and fled. leaving behind them their anchors and cables. Two more Pixies on Hangman's Hill French attacks were made on the And. in conclusion. we feel thl settlement: one in 1705 by Mon a quotation from a lover of Ferry tigny who sacked the place and land. Dr. Stanley Truman BrOOk destroyed much property. and the of Pittsburgh. Pa.. would be other in 1708 when the French fitting climax to this short sketch attacked and were repulsed by the of the settlement. "On the beach ) batteries in the Isle of Buoy~. of the Howard Marry premises, Lieut. Chappel. R.N.. who visit says Dr. Brooks. "one can see the ed the settlement in 1813. gives old granite markers of the Holds. the following descriptIOn of Ferry worth estate. The first Holdsworth land harbor: "The inner part of in Newfoundland was one of the this port is as secure from all winds Admirals of the port of St. John', and waves as a basin or dock: and and it was his descendants that held is therefore caIled bv the inhabi the Calvert property and built the tants. 'The Pool.' The mouth of great stone house that has ani Ferryland harbor is narrow. but recently been removed. This Ian not dangerous; the tides rise three. period of the past is deeply marked four. and sometimes five feet; there in the sad and in the hearts of the is a sufficient depth of water in people of Feayland. It would bt Ferryland harbor for the reception well worth your time. some dar of large merchant vessels: and even to visit this part of the shore. stand ships of war have wintered in 'The on the same land. on the same Pool'." rock. with Easton. Calvert. Kirke. So much for the ancient history and Treworgie. Feel the fresh of Ferryland. The settlement to breezes from the Isle of Buoys and day is a fairly prosperous one. with the thundering surf. and perhaps fine homes. churches. and business you would like to get just a little establishments. and the residents bit pixilated with some of the are the descendants of the hardy pixies I know you will find along Irish and English settlers who went Hangman's Hill." 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