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 FREDERICTON BRIDG: 
 
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 M. H. PENGILLY. 
 
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 MonnoB S^sam Job Pbimt. 
 
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 PREFACE 
 
 This book is respectfully dedicated to the people of 
 Fredricton. The subject suggested itself to me oo read- 
 ing of the prososed bridge in the St. John papers brought 
 to mc by my son while imprisoned in the Provincial 
 Lunatic Asylum. i^ 
 
►^LUS ADDRESSED TO THE RIVER-?* 
 
 ON ITS LATE CLOSING, 
 
 "What aileth thee gentle river 
 
 Canst thou not hudh thy throbWng's in this December 
 
 weather ■■. ^ ■ -..•...., 
 
 As tbou hast done in former years, where hast thou found 
 
 thy gathered tears? 
 One morning I arose from off my bed, 
 And lo a silver sheet was o'er thy bosom spread, 
 And gazing on thee, to myself I said, 
 How kind, gentle river, thus quietly to sleep, 
 While still thy murmuring waters underneath their vigile^ 
 
 keep 
 Thou knowest *tis time to lay, boat oars and sails away, 
 That children should no longer, in thy chilling waters play. 
 Sleep on; sle«p on, till April's gentle falling raia 
 Shall wake thee into life again. 
 Another morn I wake, and yet again I say. 
 River what aileth thee 
 
 Why hast thou thrust thy coverings all away, 
 Art thou like the bewildered bud» and flowers 
 Who dreaming Springtime had returned again 
 Have wasted so much sweetness on the Autumn hoarsf, 
 And found too late, alt iiad been spent in vaiHi 
 Or has some visiting anrel whispered thee« 
 
Of desolated homes, of burniug cities and their sad rcsuhs, 
 
 Of delicate women, helpless babes, and feeble aged men, 
 
 Who once on soft luxurious couch reposed, 
 
 Now rest their aching limbs on pallets hard ^ 
 
 While but mean shelter covers their defenceless heads 
 
 Or have these whisperings been, news from afar, 
 
 Of the sad tidings from the eastern war. 
 
 How Turkish brigands slaked their hated thirst, 
 
 And on Bulgarians victims, who to them for succor fled, 
 
 Commit such deeds of horror as my pen dare not portray ; 
 
 Or did'st thou hear the cry go out, from Israelitish homes, 
 
 Where Russian soldiers riot and destroy 
 
 Where youth and age alike arc driven, 
 
 As frightened deer, chased through the forest wild, 
 
 Hear'est thou the groans from aching hearts, 
 
 Near Danube* shores, and Plevna's guarded walls, 
 
 Where lives, by thousands numbered are laid down 
 
 To pacify the insatiate gods of war. 
 
 No wonder that thy bosom swells and dreams, 
 
 And rise and fall with gathered tears from all thy little 
 
 streams. 
 Perhaps thou'st heard of desolations wrought 
 By rivers in the far off West, and thinkest, 
 That thou wilt not be outdone ; art gathering up thy forces 
 Piling down a stock of sure destruction ; art thou saying 
 To small towns and lowly valleys near thy banks, 
 More terrible am I. in my might and strength, than even 
 
 the fire fiend 
 Perhaps thou hast heard, how, borne in Merchants ships 
 Across the Western ocean, tons of the greatest curse on 
 
 earth to man 
 
Have come to fill the place of that which the fire fiend 
 
 might well destro}* 
 And in thy wrath has said, I will hoard up my strength 
 And deep piled in, when Spring shall come, 
 With one tremendous crash, shall sweep their tons away, 
 Hush gentle river, knowest thou not, that when 
 The fire destroyed the cursed stock, the children's bread 
 
 went also. 
 And homes and hearths in one huge funerael pyre left all 
 
 so desolate. 
 E*re yet my musings cease, cold John of old 
 Has drawn his silver sheet across thy breast, 
 And his north winds are whispering, come forth now 
 Ringing sleigh-bells, gay young hearts and merry laugh- 
 ing voices. 
 With glittering steel and nimbly gliding feet, I will my- 
 self insure 
 
 Your bridge, and road, and rink, and all secure, 
 So good night sleeping river, and good bye till Spring- 
 time comes again 
 And then may all the hearts of thy huge crystal cakes 
 By rays of noonday sun be softened quite away, 
 And gently, softly glide out to their ocean graves. 
 
 Written, Fredricton, Dec, 10, 1877, 
 Year of the Fire. 
 
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N the year 1877 having lost my home by fire, I 
 s|>eut the remainder of the Snmmer and Autumn in 
 Fredrictou. The home of my friends wl;h whom I 
 boarded was near the bank of the river *'St. John," and 
 my attention particularly drawn to the manner in which 
 it was getting settled down to its Winter sleep. In the 
 morning it would be covered with ice formed during the 
 night, and by noon swept farther down by the rains fall- 
 ing at its head, and at its many tributaries. We discuss 
 the subject and come to the conclusion that by all Appear- 
 ances and from the experiences of former years, there 
 wc.dd be a grtat ice jam in the Spring, from there being 
 such a body of water, forming so much ice, and stowing 
 down like a reserve force that will carry all before it in 
 the Spring, if the rains should fall and raise the waler 
 before the ice should be weakened by the sunshine and 
 warm winds of Springtime. (A few dry winds came just 
 in time to save the city that season.) The water ceased 
 to rise and the ice moved gradually away, keeping with- 
 in the river bounds. I being more nervous than usual 
 by my fire escapade, my nights were made more sleepless 
 while thinking of the river and as Spring approached T 
 dared not stay so near its banks. 
 
 I would not run the risk of being washed away from 
 a refuge to which I had been so lately driven by the fire. 
 I went to the house of a friend five miles above the city. 
 Its elevated position enabled us to soe the ice, night and 
 day, (the moon being full) . I watched it anxiously as 
 it crowded and jammed itself along. It lodged just be- 
 low the city and fears for its safety were entertained by 
 
 
many, forgotten now I suppofie in their desiro for im- 
 provement and connecting railways. The water rose 
 many feet above its usual height flowing into the yard of 
 my friend, and when they told me of it on my return. 
 I was very thankful that I had left for higher ground, 
 for I should have had no sleep there. Although I knew 
 I was safe on the hill, I left my bed many times to see if 
 the ice was yet standing still, often fancying I could see 
 it piling up over the banks of the doomed city, for whose 
 safety and that of my friends there I felt more than anx- 
 ious. 
 
 lee and water is I am sure a more dangerous foe 
 than fire, more rapid in its movements, more difficult to 
 escape from, and against whose losses we are seldom in- 
 sured. The proposed Bridge brings so forcibly to mind 
 that time of dread and anxiety for the safety of Fredric- 
 ton, that I cannot refrain from giving expression to my 
 thought and feelings on the subject*. If the people of Fred- 
 rictoD would consider this matter iu a natural and impar- 
 tial manner, they would not for the sake of money that 
 would necessarily be expended at that time, run the risk 
 of destroying the city by placing a bridge where, if built 
 with sufficient strength to resist the force of the ice in or- 
 dinary seasons might in a time like the Spring of '78, 
 hold the ice and assist in forming a dam that could not 
 fail to flood the city, if it did not sweep it entirely away. 
 IIow many cities and towns situated on low lands near 
 river banks have been destroyed by an element so much 
 beyond the control of feeble man. Why then should w« 
 thus lend our aid to so powerful an enemy as the water 
 * and ice would be, if the proposed bridge when completed 
 
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 should hold the last stone required to make perfect the 
 dam that should aid in the destruction of the city. 
 
 This has become so fast an age. the traveling and 
 commercial world can scarcely wait for ferryboats and 
 horses with which to exchange cars and stations. They 
 must needs have bridges or wings. Time to them is so 
 precious, so valuable. Is it of more value than human 
 lives. Is it more essential to the prosperity of a country 
 that railroads should be linked by bridges ttian that the 
 safety of its cities should be cousidored. Will the few 
 hours lost by such hindrances be missed at the end of 
 lif'es journey, I think not. Could not the traveling pub- 
 lic be expedited in a less dangerous, less expensive man- 
 ner. Would it not be better to expend one half the sum 
 which would be required to build a bridge in adding boats 
 and landings near the stations. 
 
 The exchanges would give added employment and so 
 increase the population by drawing to us workers from 
 other countries instead of allowing one to go west tor 
 lack of employment here, 
 
 The Bridge that will expedite travel and benefit few 
 while under course of erection will carry the business 
 more swiftly past the city and leave it quiet and lifeless 
 as before. Will it be better to draw so heavily on our 
 government funds tor the sake of a year ot prosperity, 
 that will subside into added taxation and debt, when we 
 may with much less expense secure quite sufficient by 
 ferryboats leaving landings at short intervals. 
 
 Let us do all in our power to iucrease the prosperity 
 of our cities that they may continue growing and with a 
 new impetus equal to those of the far west, which have 
 
been built up by a sacrifice to our Province, as they have 
 attracted from us so many of our most enterprising youn<r 
 men. 
 
 Lack of public spirit and a proper protective poh'cy 
 that would encourage the establishment of various man- 
 ufactories, has left us behind our Sister Provinces. This 
 has in a measure been overcome by the *• National Policy" 
 of our honoured Minister of Finance which must eventu- 
 ally become one of the bulwarks of the Dominion. 
 
 Let us always strive for the right. Let us expend 
 the public monies in such a manner as shall do the most 
 good to the many. 
 
 Let it not be in any sense an individual matter, but 
 such as will extend to our children's children, and shall 
 add to our wealth and strength without exposing ourselves 
 to the danger of being swept away by the resistless force 
 and mighty power of the ice floating down in Springtime, 
 when the late rains of Autumn may have added so much 
 to its usual weight and quantity. What is the puny arm 
 of man when trying to resist the power of God in the el- 
 ements. 'Tis true he has brought to his aid the lightning 
 from the sky and with it carries words and sounds across 
 oceans and continents. In forming the Electric light he 
 has been able to make brilliant the darkest night. He is 
 daily using the breath of Heaven to waft his ships across 
 the seas. 
 
 He forms channels through which to convey water 
 and make it subservient to his [mrpose, from water he 
 produces steam to move the mighty engine, the greatest 
 work of the present day, and yet by those elements he is 
 often and in various ways, swept out of existence in au 
 
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 iDstant, and they who come after him are benefited by 
 his wisdom or impoverished by his lack of judgement 
 or economy. 
 
 I hope the people of my native county in the City of 
 Fredricton may never have cause to regret that they have 
 not taken heed to this my prophetic warning in regard 
 to the Fredricton Bridge. 
 
 V 
 
POEM. 
 
 Why am I thus a stranger, 
 
 So far from home ; 
 My life is yet in danger, 
 
 Where're I roam. 
 
 Why am I thus sought after, 
 
 'Tis Dot for love ; 
 Oh ! in the great hereafter, 
 
 I will freely rove. 
 
 Wliat crime have X committed-^ 
 
 I ask of you ; 
 That I am not permitted, 
 
 Ky work to do. 
 
 My life is made complete ; 
 
 And my pen now 
 Shall save my weary feet, 
 
 Though age is on my brow. 
 
 Yes, that has provea my college, 
 
 That castle on the hill ; 
 In it I gained this knowledge. 
 
 To do my master's wilL 
 
 My graduating lessons 
 
 Have cost me dear ; 
 But they have proved rich blessings 
 
 I will not fear.