The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.
itotto anb itinta.

If You ..ant to enjoy • run by the Portland railway.
eatch the first train In UM morning at flowery Rodwell,
where Mr. Palmer ha. turned the de p cuttint into
garden, and thence hasten on past the Roods of Portland,
where forests of mast. streak to* t. 61•111 sunrise, or
massive hulls, hardly black, loom ichoetly through the
has.. Note the first-awakened wan. sobbing on the
Mere, or act, • long stretch of tide-bared shore abandoned
to the puffin., the gnu., mid the cormorants, scarcely
disturbed by the early rising *porton m, who .teala down
to get a that ii quaer feathered visitors from northern
Sea Portland with his night-cap on. the Verne
"fried by another masked battery, that of cloud,
tut boning him to fleecy mist, or see his !wad flaehing told
above the green as the lasy convicts creep out in the
finest air ever breathed, to two-fifths of • day's work.
Look swat over the Chesil to where the watchful beach
man is beat upon anticipating hi. nval, the coastguard,
1 in spying some relic of gallant ship. gone down beneath
the ambitious waves which ever o'eries themselves and
roam clawing angrily on the shore. Climb the bill and
loot from beside the Local Bed 011ioe to Wyk. gilt on
leery house-ridge, to Weymouth which, subetantial as
you loft It, enema benne but a mere spirlt.town, a vapour
that appeareth fur • bill. time, and then vaniabeth away.

But, how delightful Is it. just when 'you. warm (rem
the matutinal coffee that • good genius has comforted
you with, are calculatitx you shall racily he in time—to
Sod that the Harbour-master, under the idea that
"nobody is about at uven in the morning." has opened
the bridge to bet some trading veesel up. And bow extra
charming —when you and your fellow prisoners of hope
hue settled there is Jut • chnine—to see the vessel stick,
en the mud jut in the middle of the centre opening, and
bas to be drawn backwards to keep her moving at all,
while minute after minute dies and your toocandid friends
comfort you with the aseuratioe—" We are certain to be
too late " How we It lint for Mr Alderman Howard.
Mr. Matheeon, and Mr. Surveyor Moreau to have their
way with the bridge, itud give o. one that can be quickly
opened and ea quickly abut. Fervently do we add our
desires for some wonderful dredger to scrotal or spoon tie
the bottom of the harbour, till the "T and C. Sutton,
the Ravene worth, and any other vessel that is wanted to
go above bridge, shall find the water deep enough.

Mr. Atlas has prounonced az ealkedrd (in fact from one
of those highly Weymouthiso chairs whmit Mr. Mayor
Howard used to protect against the erefearat magus of
County Court suitor.) that in the middle of the Marlton,
channel dredging will nnt endanger the Quay Walla So
hasten, councillor., to dredge. and since you can't have
the smart little "Dickham" that steams six knot* an
hour, and equine the stuff soave of yards from the Quay,
let on have have one that will remove the last weak
remains, if any there be, of Weymouth BAI.
And good bye to the Bar and It. moaning."
Twill be so much the better if we can get one that will
deepen the channel all the way through without endanger-
ing the Quay walla.

" Zwerylvgly almost" is for making one surrender to
the Great Western propositions—the dredger is Weientno
to take up the Harbour bottom in the middle, and carry
It, if it can, to that amphibious triangle where the
prophetic eye of Mr. Alderman Thomae saw a public
playground. The dredging two feet and a hail, according
to Ur. Lowell who ought to know, Of 19 inchea, aocording
to the Great Western who'll hate to know, will anal&
the Cherbourg steamers to COMO into the port, and to fill
up the triangle will be exceptionally desirable, even
although the youngsters of old Weym-iuth still only hare
for a pigr-ground the imam around the pump in the Ploin
where it yet influence dominates Silreristrcet. The
dredging and filling will he the eget steps to that "good
time coming"in Weymouth Ward.Nrkkea "Use rough places
shall be me Plain."

"Plain" was hardly the word for the resolution of the
Council with regard to the traffic. When Russia seemed
to hare crushed Turkey into an anti-English alliance. an
idea that wun't half had, if it could have buts carried oat,
was that &island ahouti hare poisession of the Turkiati
Fleet filo the Councirs renolution seems to provide for
the cession of some of the Company's hosts, for it
mentioned " the Weymouth awl Channel
@learners. if the Wier wawa laic the Corporaiias funds'
felt true Wtlat I bear. —TAAL use U.W.I. C .lupsay are in
a Dunilreary mist about this resolution I firer since the
fsteful S sturday, I have doubted what the fueaning was
of —"arrangement. satisfactory to this Corpirstion be
enteroi into for rectifying any inJory that mar In, done
by them to our quay waits. Doe by whom! The
nearest antecedent is "this C 'ration." " In the
multitude of councillors there is wisdom." and to In,
mind that wisdom has ben shown in propounding a
problem —"one of these things that no tallith can make
out" I give It up.

80, I don't Ore up the trafilt. N there are .CI,OOO or
£1.300 • year for the Corporation Fonds, if the di theulties
con wet. lam glad to how positively that "C wens
and Co., limited" will not st d 2,1 In the way of the new
' tr They are willing to pot their doornail farther to
he edit at the Newer, or to Jo whSthiett reasonable
orter to helo bring more trade for th•rir (and our) town
[elan hope to hoar of something like • coming togethet
..r the different parties, on the principle of ' let byegone.
' bvietones." We all of us need tot she • new departore.
I loser, in these •teamer realer.: hot the ointlictina
.ntrree'• sell) wont • mediotor. I Mink it wa•Alderur in
Howard who suggested "compenevion" for Pol,enes.
Spiiclih.ce interests. Can that matter be arranjrdl Even
if it odd there is the Pile-pier question. It would he an
astoundieg anomaly It, out of three lines of steamere
liable to pay Pie pier duet, the two largest should be
esrepted—l moan the Cherbourg steamers and the Jeri.)
steamers, while the Portland steamers were expected to
psr the It e 3 lii dders' inters.', collect the duet. and [mint
and tar the Pier, and to do all thia out of 11. charged on en
(average) dulling fare.

Various plans of diapnsing the new staging make up the
'elk ,4 people anxious for the barn too ahead, of whom
claim to be onr. Beginning wayward. some declare
erre beat to make • better bridge and have the ...ter.
above This. I think, may be thrown overb " outeide
the live-fathom lin became everything will have to he
done, every expense to he incurred, sod no special con-
venience gained. Next the pre.nt Custom H-os•e is
1.1 owl, . he the right spot ; all c .nvenienoe for thesercb
I r coat relauptand, let me add. the pril ice-et stioo,luindy for
any gat who has too touch love fur detteuers, or any lady
with exaggerated idat. of the necesaity for a stock .4
mot-de-Cologne. Opposite the Custom homm-thanks to
the retiring nature of that Cite +tiara Mr. S. Charles
lids. the Geneva It. Come on Son isye, and pulls out
drowning children any day of the weeic-the harbour L
wider than at say other pert except at the Pilepier. I
cooed a good long step 00 time, here without fioding the
Quay broken by any stem so that the stage would not
Interfere much with busdlog from boats. But to petit
here would make the Harbour very crooked, and than are
other "crook, in the lot," loran oldastebliebed merchant
is determined to keep tomes from hie ships to his great
coal stores, where la olden time. Fr.-trade orators made
the weltering with their denunciations of the Corn Laws,
and he now I. determined to have protection for his trade :
Idemrs. Comets and Co., limited., neither want to be
roomed out of their water-frontage nor limited soy
further by having a stage in front of them permanently
occupied. We next crone to the wod of the promo.
staging ; but as Kr. Arise launches auto. the
Harbour, one look is enough to aati•fy any person
that the Cherbourg steamers had better not get opposite
his yard, or some day • hawser may snap, and a finis ship,
taking the water like a dock, may come how on to the
broadside of sou, steamer, making ducks aid drakes of •
lot of money, and convin ting the directors that while they
had sot rhourg at the other end of the line, there was
alio we bawd tree der (as the late H. Fleury said) at this
end. What are let bet the back of Pulteney buildings
and the Pilo pier? From the east end of the staging to
opposite the back of Devonshire buildings were about DO
and the Quay wall here is nearly the worst I can
see-tulged, sail bulging, great round stones without any
filling between, courses of masonry so eccentric that they
met one in mind of • gooier.al motion where the strata
have bora curiously upheaved and let down-here if any-
where, does the Q lay wall need the protection of a good
line of piles, and if the staging is really a protection, here
it I. wanted usnst Bet outeide are • number of pleas"re
boats, watched by the old watermen from their bench
whence they look out for a scanty bale& well
and hardly earned. "Private interests must Live
way to the public good " say owe, But Mr.
Alderman Howard haa ably laid down that private
interesta molt be compensated. How can we compensate
Pultenev and Devonshire-buildings, and how the
water-
men? Perhaps the private yachts may be moored on the
other side of the harbour, and then between the Plitt-pier
and the new staging may he room for the pleasure host%
while, as to the owners of the buildings, and their cow-
rien-ation. they would balm to state their view. The
three Bights of steps the Counril must answer for. Last
we reach the Pile-pier Heel,. As • plesaure resort it bids
to pay, since promenaders hare the 841,1aaade free. A
suggestion has been made that It be widened some 40 feet
on the north or Bay-side, taking down the prrseut stone
casing wall, and re-erecting it outside toe additional
width, filling in the middle, say with the stud dredged
(rein the Harbour Thus the passengers to the Portland
steamers could got. them on the widened part, passing to
the east of the Cherbourg steamers, which should be
stationed about where the Portland steamers now an, and
opposite to the Cherbourg sweaters the tramway, ex-
tended to the Pile-pier. be doubled, and perhaps d
sealn. Kt as to run the trucks hack *ben loaded from the
steamers, or tinlo•del int,, them. rh. would turn the
17PWET. Pile pier into a scene of commercial activity, and
A Lrnteglotte SQUABBLE -0-1 Friday, before Mr R the advocates of this plait urge that the tuoitey
fr. If: t ond (^doted dw &Melo. Bogert Guppy wa. sou laid out in widening the Pier would be amply
mated f aresultieg Alfred Chalker Hoe ad for repaid he the large tetenue in does. The other
elel•tiff Hume for deienilan•. -Chalker lives at day V dealt with the reasono why the railway coin-
and on Saturday. March 2, he went tofineik'r panies should be firmly kept within limits and made
beerhoma, and sat daan in the cora., of the mettle, when to give "change." But I don't forget that while Wey•
sisfaadeat cams into the room, welkel straight up, tip mouth may he very important to the Great Western, the
lies. Not let et et him ilk the mouth, a very hard blow, ha Low I. equally eo to the town, and we must deal wile
tbeeirbt. and it brought the blood. Had not seen defend- both sidea. I shall not venture to edema. either of the
fialore for the day. W. sitting down when be plan.; the Council ought to adopt some plan But first
tasegived the blow, and defendant struck him 'gain, mil of all, hadn't they better have a meeting, rescind their
whss be bwt done striking him. Keened asked whist It self-contradictory resolution, in which 'taro many awake"
for, ohes defendant said it was for sealingthat have sbotro their combined work lobe • "huh?" The
6 "sleet'. to his wife. PlainUff replied -"Gup_oy, resolution shoull be re-tit-awe, 'ay by the Mayor, and am innocent of the; lam m Jounces' sebabyKr• carefully scrutinised before it Ls peeled, and then the
On OMAN in and stood between them, saying if she meaning will be clear. O. mare ides-Do the Daiwa
we about it, she would not byre told shout the think they can settle each m atters without the consent
,ndistiaa. plaintiff did not itr,k. Guppy stall, but went of the bondboldvm of the pi., Would It not be wed to
for the 'ohm I ece then, from wives he had beard, he have • meeting (in c modem. with the priadpal hood-
wept la boilly fear. Orierrzansiaed by Hr. Wen.; Did holder? Hr. g Itwarde, HP.. would be a
sa• how Piot what be was &quiet and inaoceet man had arise and emceed &driest, it the ham gentleman meld be
been at Littiontow IS or LI years. Might have had a pint induced to aimed, and he has a right, as deeply
at alai before he watt to the hoses. Pleietiff we not iaternbal In Harbour bale, awl having by his extension
&eat when be left the pabliehluee had had two pints of the Outer Pier, made kg P.l. pier • m ere comfortable
of air...be penny ahe. KW* Via. fele P'.-11 but he place for steamers tolls at. With Mr. Edwards preerht,
did notivarrei with either ha had a few word. with I dim. a' Nil more cog. wtahle shout the asitertnen
Myr. .1 not belch Ciwypy_ that he knew ; did not with their boas. for Mr Ed garde wools! not let them
awn, s. to fight Igs lip em cat owes by the loos • chance of earning their bread. Tb• Council bate
blew. aa.l be hod • pdo on the howl for two or three. met tie Ore. Weatern directors ; now let them invite to
ye day. d word* -By Kr. H sward : The Mow wee etra,At • eanfwvede the other peathemen columned,
ha same tr., and the int blow awaited him .
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