City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . he precautions prior toit to prevent any fire. Twoyears previous, Alex. Law-rie, a carriagemaker, hadbeen fined 9s. 9d. for start-ing a fire on Talbot streetto set a wagon tire, and in the same yearJohn Gray, he having received a box of luci-fer matches, was ordered by the village board 13-t CITY OF LONDON, to remove it to a distant outhouse, as it wasconsidered dangerous to allow the box to bekept in a store. There was also a clause inthe village by-lawsproviding for a jjen-alty should the watertanks be opened ex-cept
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . he precautions prior toit to prevent any fire. Twoyears previous, Alex. Law-rie, a carriagemaker, hadbeen fined 9s. 9d. for start-ing a fire on Talbot streetto set a wagon tire, and in the same yearJohn Gray, he having received a box of luci-fer matches, was ordered by the village board 13-t CITY OF LONDON, to remove it to a distant outhouse, as it wasconsidered dangerous to allow the box to bekept in a store. There was also a clause inthe village by-lawsproviding for a jjen-alty should the watertanks be opened ex-cept in case of fire,and the records showthat it was an ofPenseagainst the majestyof the law, punish-able by a fine, to per-mit a chimney tocatch fire. There havesince been fires inLondon of greatermagnitvide, consideredcommercially, butnone that can bespoken of as a calam-ity entailing sufferingand personal hardshipof so universal a char-acter on the people ofthe section as resulted from this fire. In 1854 the commerce of London hadreached such proportions as to justify the. LONDON CLUB HOUSE. when he gave place to his brother-in-law, Strathy, who continued in office till 1878,when Robert Reid was appointed, he being succeeded by GeorgeBurns, the presentcollector, in 1899. Atthe beginning, theground floor of thestore opposite theMarket Lane WHS largeenough to accommo-date the business. Butonly for a short time,when a removal wasmade to the buildingsopposite the City Hall,thence to the AlbionBlock, where the Cus-toms House remainedtill 1872, when a por-tion of the presentbuilding, the construc-tion of Avhich begantwo years previously,was occupied. Asshowing the growth of London commercially,a fe^\ figures gleaned from customs returnsare given, but the intelligent reader will
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