-37- dweliing and shops attached. Mr. Faught was a shoemaker, ar Englishman and a man much respected,, One of his daughters married Mr. William Boyle , tanner and currier*, At every corner at that time was a blacksmith shoj a tailor shop, a shoe shop, a carriage shop, a machine shop, or a rum shop. All these were busy; they had two or three apprentices all the time. Charlotte Town was a busy little town in those das at there xf&s a crockery factory making milk pans crocks and jars out of our red clay. There was Boyle's tan¬ nery buying- up all kinds of hides; there were a dozen men en ployed there, and there were four or five more tann eries ii the town. Dougald's furniture factory was a busy place, followed by John Newson 's big factory and storehouse. Wrigl & Coo, (successors to their uncle Mark Butcher ) had a furn¬ iture making store. White & Sons ran a factory making1 mow¬ ing and reaping machines, and there was a large woolen fact¬ ory employing 20 to 30 people. John Cairns was the first marble tombstone worker. Milner ran a big tinsmith business - sending out peddlers with his wares all through the Islanc A large number of house carpenters were employed in town anc country, lime plasterers, ship builders, and taverns, too many to count. Robert Young ran a large millinery and hat factory, many of the girls from town and country went there to learn the art of dress and hat making. Coming into the town from the west, at Queen's Arms, we turned to the right to . The Town was divided into districts? , Black Sam's Bridge, , , , etc. Black Sam lived by his bridge in a little cabin. The big stores had men carrying their advertising on a signboard on their backs; these men marched all round the Square on Market Days; it was a good deal cheaper than the Guardian ! The Town Crier, too, marched around Queen Square ringing- his bell, and crying at the top of his leath« lungs "A sale on I The packet just brought 40 barrels of good herring to be sold at two o'clock. Oh yes 1 Must be sold. Oh J Yes , at two o'clock! The churches weres St . James' Kirk, the Scottish Free and Seceeder Churches, the Methodist, and Bible Christ¬ ian Chapels, the English Church and the Roman Catholic Church. The original buildings are all gone. There was a town well on many corners—wooden pumj with wooden troughs for watering horses. Robert Percival kept the pumps in repair. Town lamps were at every corner, and men went round with a long rod to lip-ht them e*/erv nish-