The Evening Telegram, 1893

February 21, 1893

 Diphtheria at Heart’s Ease
Four Deaths Already – Eight cases reported today – Letter from the School Teacher.

Dear Sir:- Diphtheria has broken out here and has already carried away four of our young people. There are eight cases down with it today. Young children generally succumb, but the strong constitutions of the older ones seems to enable them to resist its terrible ravages. We have no Doctor to investigate the matter, and it spreads very fast. As there are no doctor’s books here, we know not what remedy to apply. Indeed, there is no medicine of any king available. Grave fears entertained that we shall lose more than four before the scourge is stamped out. The teacher did not care to take the responsibility on himself to close the school until it was too late, thinking it was only a cold. If the Government would send us a package of medicine and instructions, I am sure it would come alright.

Faithfully yours, TEACHER, Heart’s Ease, Feb. 15, 1893.

Assistance already on the way.

[It is hardly necessary to say that steps have already been taken by the active and sympathetic members for Trinity District to have the necessary assistance sent with all possible despatch. Prompt measures will also be adopted to confine the malady to the infected houses.]

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April 1, 1893, page 4

INTERESTING NOTES FROM TRINITY BAY.

Improved Circumstances of the People—Benefit of the Railway — Two Men Clear $43 in One Month—lncreasing Popularity of the Government—The Matter of Forest Fires—Milling. Logging, Hunting, &c.

A Heart’s Ease correspondent, writing under date of the 21st ultimo, says: “The residents of this locality are very well to do, although the fishery turned out such a failure last summer. The railway is

A Great Boon to the People Here.

I had an interview, the other day, with a friend of mine, who told me that he and his son, by one months’ work cutting ties, had cleared $43, aftering paying local board and other expenses. They speak very highly of Mr. W. D. Reid, the Contractor. Our progressive Government appears to be more popular than ever in this direction. Their efforts to develop the resources of the country and improve the condition of the people are duly appreciated. May Providence continue to smile upon them and to frustrate the politics and all the knavish tricks’ of

Our Country’s Enemies — the Opposition !

Diphtheria visited us this winter, as was stated in the popular Evening Telegram. On being apprised of the unfortunate circumstance, the Government took prompt measures for sending us medicine and rendering other assistance. Another.

Matter of Grave Importance

should he brought under the notice of the Government. I refer to the necessity of severely punishing those who, either wilfully or through carelessness, kindle forest fires in the summer months. It is no uncommon thing here to see people boiling soap, &c, out in the open air only a few feet from thickly-wooded laud. Warning notices should be posted in conspicuous places everywhere, and the law, ‘in such case made and provided,’ should be

Rigorously Enforced.

Millmen are doing excellent work in the way of securing logs, and the hunter meets with a liberal measure of success. Agriculture will be vigorously carried on the coming season. Every year the area of cultivated land becomes larger and more productive. At last our people are beginning to realize the value of the soil-”

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April 15, 1893

Notes and Comments
Lumber from Hearts Ease. — The schooner Nonpariel, Richard Seward, master, arrived
here from Hearts Ease on Thursday with a cargo of lumber. She leaves for another similar freight as
soon as discharged.

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June 3, 1893

THE MAIL SERVICE IN TRINITY BAY

The Genial Captain of the S.S. “Dart ” Interviewed and the Route Described.

Captain E. Seward who assumes command of the steamer Dart, engaged for the mail service on Trinity Bay, was interviewed by a reporter of ours on board the trim little craft this morning. The captain states that he will be ready to leave for Trinity Bay this evening, and that he will start on the mail route on Tuesday next. The captain describes the route as follows:—Leaving Lower Shoal Harbor on Tuesday morning, the steamer will call at Hickman’s Harbor, Fox Harbor, Deer Harbor and Trinity. Leaving Trinity on Wednesday morning, she will call at New Bonaventure, Ireland’s Eye and from there, crossing the bay, she will call at Heart’s Content, and, recrossing, she will call at Fox Harbor and stay there for the night. On Thursday morning she will leave Fox Harbor and call at Little Heart’s Ease, Hodge’s Cove, Long Beach, North Bight and back to Fox Harbor. Leaving Fox Harbor on Friday morning she will call at Hickman’s Harbor, Ball Knap, Lee Bight, Elliot’s Cove and Lower Shoal Harbor, completing the route.

The captain states that there might be some little alteration in the route described after he has gone over it and tested the capabilities of the little boat.

Captain Seward is a man of a good deal of push and energy, and is of a very genial and obliging disposition, and no better man to have charge of the service could be found in “this Newfoundland of ours.”
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September 25th, 1893

Shipwrecked Crews from Labrador

Brought on by the Steamers “Windsor Lake” and “Virginia Lake.”

 

There were three shipwrecked crews brought on from Labrador this trip by the steamers Windsor Lake and Virginia Lake, namely: — Capt. John Lewis, John Brown, John Hayse, Angelo Hayse, James Giles, Eveline Hayse and Phoebe Nofty, of the schooner Maria, of Harbor Round, French Shore; owned by John Lewis, Hayse & Sons, and lost Sept. 10th, at Hay Island, Labrador. Landed at Tilt Cove.

 

Capt. R. King, William Bemister, D. Butler, Mark Wells, Joseph Wells and John King, of the schooner Emily, of Trinity; owned by R. Brennan & Son, and lost Sept. 10th, at Stag Island, Labrador. Landed at Trinity.

 

Capt. Soper, Stephen Daine [Dean], Reuben Soper, John Drodge and George Daine [Dean], of the schooner Sarah, of Trinity; owned by Joseph Morrissey, and lost Sept. 10th, at Sleigh Tickle, Labrador. Landed at Trinity.

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October 4, 1893

A Grand Political Victory.

 

Opinion of One Who Has Made a Tour of Trinity Bay – The Old Feeling of Loyaltyto the Whiteway Party More Intensified Than Ever.

 

(Editor Evening Telegram.)

 

DEAR SIR, – Having recently made an extensive tour of this, Trinity Bay, I write with a mind rendered easy by the assurance of a grand political victory, and a heart throbbing with delight at the security which I received from our fisherman that they will sustain the Workingmen’s Party and keep our country free and untrammeled by the Tory graballs. I say, with such bright prospects before us – with the defeat of the Tories already in view – with the watch-word, “Whiteway and Progress,” echoing and re-echoing all along the line, I feel that I would be remiss in my duty to the land of my birth, if I did not lend my feeble pen to herald the glad tidings of great joy in the columns of your widely-circulated paper. Trinity, with a few exceptions, is solid for our progressive Government. Ireland’s Eye is wide open for them. Bonaventure, British Harbor, Deer Harbor, Fox Harbor, Hickman’s Harbor, Clarenceville, Shoal Harbor, Gooseberry Cove, George’s Cove and Butter Cove, Clay Pitts, Little Heart’s Ease, House Cove, Caplin Cove, Hodge’s Cove, Long Beach, Southern Brook, Black Brook, Northern Bight, St. Jones, Robinson’s Bight, Lady Cove, Lea Bight, Deep Bight, Bald Nap, Elliot’s Cove, Brickyard, Britannia Cove, and a long list of other places which I will not now delay to enumerate, are Whitewayites to the back bone.

 

To quote expressions indicative of their earnestness and enthusiasm would occupy too much of your space. A few examples will suffice just now, the balance of evidence will be forthcoming in a most tangible form in November. One sterling old voter in Ireland’s Eye, exclaimed: – “When is Sir William coming to see us? I have my gun all ready and a big horn of powder hanging up in the kitchen, and the ole’oman have some flags all ready.” That’s good my friend, but what about your vote? “Ah! Sir William is sure enough of that, and of everyone in the place as well. We’ll give him a welcome and no mistake.” An intelligent voter of Trinity said: “Vote for the Merchants Government? No, sir’ee, we know well enough what that is like. If I had a thousand votes I’d give them every one to sir William and his party. I have four in my house, and he’ll get them, besides all the rest I’ll get for him between this and polling day.” These people, Mr. Editor, recognize the fact that the country is growing independent; that there were never better times in Newfoundland than there are to-day. Plenty of employment at good wages is making the people contented and happy. The fishermen contrast the present prosperous state of the country with the deplorable condition of things under the Thorburn administration. Now for their labor on the roads and on any other public works they get paid in clean money at a rate with which they are satisfied, and consider adequate to the service rendered. Then they had to submit to the degradation of accepting payment in damaged flour, sour molasses and musty tea – that or nothing. And, Mr. Editor, the men who had the doling out of that stuff are the only men who are now clamoring for a return to power of that grinding, grasping set, who, during the four years of their reign of terror, well nigh crushed all spirit and independence out of our countrymen, and by their extravagance and dishonesty plunged the country into such financial difficulties that bankruptcy and ruin were knocking at her doors. Many who had the dispensing of that flour, molasses and tea, partly, and in some cases, wholly, kept their families upon it. A good deal of it they gave away to get their own private work done, such as fire-wood and fencing cut; staves, heading and hoops for oil casks and herring barrels brought from the woods. How very convenient for Chairmen of Road Boards and others intimately connected, was this Government flour and molasses! What a veritable gold mine it was for the merchants! No wonder; yes, no wonder, these political cormorants are anxious, eager, wild to get the reins of Government again. But get it they never will! The fishermen mechanics and laborers will never give up their liberty and independence. No! never! NEVER! NEVER!

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