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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
4
The Prince Rupert Journal asserts its duty to inform readers and publish views, defending public access to statements and criticizing city council members. It notes subscription rates for Canada and international points and mentions advertising rates and an editor named O H Nelson.
The Prince Rupert City Council faced scrutiny from the press after recent proceedings. The Journal defends press duties, urges open sessions when possible, and describes the need to settle the G T P assessment dispute to secure Bank of Montreal financing for debentures.
The Journal declares it is a union office and has always been one. It states it pays union-scale wages and has never had trouble with the Typographical Union. The Journal asserts no concerted effort exists to draw it to the union and that other city offices would share this view.
Local social notes report Miss Coral Barker entertaining several friends at her home for a Wednesday evening gathering. Several residents, including O. B. Bush and J. Y. Rochester, are mentioned in brief updates on their recent activities and health.
At a Wednesday night council meeting the streets committee urged serving another notice to owners of buildings on streets and lanes to remove them within six days or the city would proceed. Alderman Mobley argued the time was short, but the report was adopted.
Police and the building inspector will enforce new rules prohibiting dragging logs along planked streets without protection. Clarke Brothers open in Christiansen Brandt building on Third avenue offering full wine and liquor stock for family trade. Sie Sloan & Company launch another suit club with 30 members paying 1 joining fee plus 1 weekly, drawing suits by numbered cards. Prince Rupert Wholesale Liquor & Supply Co on First Avenue expands to wholesale, with J F Macdonald returning from the south to arrange a strong liquor line and representing various brands in Northern British Columbia.
W. W. Gibson, Victoria aviator, conducts a second test flight in his unique Gibson twin-plane. The craft achieves stable flight though a cross wind causes a near-miss with trees. damage is minor and repairs will finish in days. Gibson notes no local flying schools exist in British Columbia and stresses learning by experience. The airship features two fixed cedar planes, a rear rudder, front operator seat, and dual contra-rotating propellers.
Building inspector condemns the Dunedin block and orders it vacated until retrofitted. The council, after his recommendation, voted to endorse the proposal last night.
Paris dispatch reports a nationwide wine harvest gloom for 1910 with France facing an exceptionally poor year across regions. M Goulet, head of the wholesale wine and spirit merchants syndicate in Paris, notes a bleak prospect for claret Burgundy Charentes and other wine products amid widespread scarcities.
The City Council of Prince Rupert intends to build a 16 foot plank roadway from McBride Street and Eighth Avenue to Eighth Avenue and Hay's Cove Circle. It will assess final costs on benefiting property and a lands diagram is open for inspection at the City Clerk’s office. Dated September 27, 1910. Ernest A. Woods, City Clerk.
The department of the Seine reports wide crops shortfalls. Bordeaux vineyards face 50 percent loss while Lower Burgundy yields nothing. Yonne will have no harvest, Chablis about 6,000 gallons, and Beaujolais losses near four fifths of normal. Champagne outlook labeled disastrous with details pending.
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