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AT THE FORKS OF THE GRAND line to Paris Junction. When Parisians heard that the railway com- pany was favorable to the idea, they were very much concerned. Particularly they were opposed to the removal of the level crossing on Grand River Street, to the cutting down of the roadway ten feet, and the building of a subway-bridge, to the raising of the level of the bridge over the Grand by ten feet, and to the building of a new station on East Broadway Street. And they were opposed to the noise that heavy traffic along the main line would make. A committee of interested property-owners protested against the "robber baron" methods of the railway company. It demanded that if the company was determined to carry out its plans with regard to a change in the route of the main line, it should build a new bridge across the Grand at a point a short distance upstream from the old, and should construct a new track across Riverview Park (in the direction of the present high school) to a point on the old main-line just east of the Junction. But all protests were futile. According to The Star-Transcript of September 7, 1904: . ....since early Sunday morning a large staff of men have been busily engaged constructing a temporary subway at the River Street crossing. During the whole of Sunday large crowds watched the proceedings. The old overhead bridge that has been used on East Broadway for some thirty years was, on Friday, partially taken down. The new street and bridge, farther up the track on John Street, was completed last week. The roadbed beneath the subway on River Street is being cut down and rigs can now pass under. In 1907, the present station was built, and the old station at the Junction was moved and transformed into a freight-shed. Miss Stella Mura, on June i6 at 12.o01 a.m., bought the first ticket at the new station. She was going to Brantford. The Telephone In 1870, Alexander Melville Bell moved his family from London, England, to Paris, Ontario. At first they lived with the Reverend Thomas Henderson, pastor of the Baptist Church, whose parson- age was the cobblestone house on Church Street that is now num- bered 22. Later, according to John Lindsay, they boarded for a time in another house nearby. Thus, when Alexander Graham Bell first came to Canada at the age of twenty-three, he lived in Paris. After moving with his family to Tutela Heights (south of Brant- ford) and living there for a few months, Alexander Graham Bell went to work in Boston. In 1874, during a summer vacation at Tutela Heights, he conceived the idea for the telephone. In 1875, in Boston, he carried out his first successful experiments. 226