City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . rete some years past there have been laid invarious portions of the city sidewalks offlagstone and artificial stone or cement, andduring the past year the Council resolvedto hereafter lay no more plank sidewalks,and tp replace those now existing withcement as they wear out. London was thefirst city, and so far as we know is still theonly one, to undertake to deal with the his house to the school building. The ideawas noticed and the result is known to allwho walk our streets in winter. Some givethe credi
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . rete some years past there have been laid invarious portions of the city sidewalks offlagstone and artificial stone or cement, andduring the past year the Council resolvedto hereafter lay no more plank sidewalks,and tp replace those now existing withcement as they wear out. London was thefirst city, and so far as we know is still theonly one, to undertake to deal with the his house to the school building. The ideawas noticed and the result is known to allwho walk our streets in winter. Some givethe credit to the late John Plummer for oper-ating the first snow plow. He certainly didoperate one on Fullarton street about con-temporaneously with Mr. Barretts, and hemay have been the first. The municipal records of the early daysremind one very forcibly that history re-peats itself. The formal minutes of pro-ceedings do not set it down in so manyprecise words, but it is plain to be seen,reading between the lines, that wire-pullingfor trifling advantages was quite as frequent. RICHMOND 8TBKKT, LOOKING NORTH FROM DUNDAS, a photograph kindly loaned by Thos. Westoyi, Chicago. FOR 1900 VIEW, SEE OPPOSITE PAGE. question of snow on the sidewalks on acomprehensive, common-sense plan. Insteadof requiring the citizens to clean the side-walks in front of their premises, the cor-poration has a number of plows, which aredriven over the walks after every origin of this is worth noting. Barrett, who lived in the old 4thWard, had a little child six or seven yearsof age attending school, whom he was inthe habit of carrying through the snow fromhis home on Central Avenue to the old BondStreet School. He conceived the idea of thesnow plow, and put it in operation from on the part of municipal magnates in earlydays as ever since, and the process was quiteas well understood. There were the usualmotions, amendments, and amendments tothe amendments, varied by an occasion
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