When in Port Alberni Eat at

THE BEAUFORT CAFE

HUGH LEE, Proprietor

Port Alberni, British Colambia

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ROYAL MOTORS

MABEL E. HILLIER, Proprietress

Kingsway

Chrysler-Plymouth Fargo Trucks PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

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Real Estate and Insurance Telephone 744

P.O. Box 154 | PORT ALBERNI B. C.

5 AND 7 PASSENGER CARS

PHONE Ms 8 ; TAXI ; 5 3

F, MITCHELL and H. JAY, Props. PORT ALBERNI, B. C.

PHONE

Telephone 22

ALBERNI ENGINEERING WORKS LTD. Under New Management Marine Ways, Gas and Electric Welding

Established 20 Years Port Alberni, British Columbia

. to witness the event.

Arthur, and probably unjustly, I was just a mite afraid that, in his enthusiasm and desire to fully demonstrate, he might push me over the banister. I declined.

First Visir TO COAST

That was Arthur all over, he was an enthusiast, he was devoted to his art. I was one of the timekeepers when he established the world’s record for speed in executions. It was the first time I had ever seen him, and it was, in fact, his first appearance on the Pacific Coast.

A notorious individual named Henry Wagner, who rejoiced in the alias of The Flying Dutchman, escaped from well merited justice in the United States and entered upon a career of piracy on this Coast, looting summer homes and small craft. During a shopbreaking at Cumber- land, he murdered Prov. Const. Westaway. He was captured by Provincial Police and was duly sentenced to hang at Nanaimo Gaol.

It was in the summer of 1912. I was sent It was a glorious morning. The sun was streaming into the dining-room of the old Windsor Hotel when I went down for an early breakfast. There was no one in the room as I entered. I was hardly seated when a dapper little man in a grey suit, with a pink rose in his button- hole bounced in and approached my table.

“May I sit here?” he questioned after giving me a cheery greeting.

“Certainly,” I replied.

“Youre up early this morning,” beamed.

I nodded agreement.

“Perhaps,” he ventured, “you’re going down to see the regrettable affair at the gaol?”

“JT am, unfortunately,” I said.

“Ah, too bad that such things have to be,” he murmured, shaking his head. “But then, men will commit crimes that the law decrees deserve capital punishment—and the law must be supported.”

“T suppose so.”

“Are you a commercial man?” queried my table companion.

“No, a newspaper reporter.”

He fairly beamed; “Oh, I know a number of newspapermen,” he volunteered.

From that introduction we drifted into a discussion of literature, and I found that

he

SOMASS HOTEL E. ELY, Manager Commercial and Tourist Headquarters

60 Rooms, 35 with Private Bath Elevator Service LICENSED PREMISES

PORT ALBERNI, B. C.

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George C. Shead, Lid.

Established 1912 Third Avenue, Port Alberni Transportation and Fuel

Office Phone, 232 Res. Phone, 699 Ambulance

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Phones: Port Alberni 440, Nanaimo 253

West Coast Freight Service

LIMITED

Twice Daily Freight Service from Nanaimo

to Port Alberni Port Alberni, British Columbia

Alberni Hardware Company Limited “Everytking in Hardware”

Phone 146 Port Alberni, B. C.

THREE SISTERS CAFE

Alberni, B.C. DINE AND DANCE CHICKEN DINNERS

Full Course Meals

Compliments of

Alberni Pacific Lumber Co. Ltd.

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

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