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TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS invasion. They showed their resentment by starting brawls, which sometimes ended with a foreign sparker's being cooled off in a horse trough. Occasionally, too, they greased the rails on the hill that leads up Brock Street towards the Governor's Road. Then the sparkers had to get off and push. And it was said that on one occasion they placed two railroad torpedoes on the rails, and that the deafening explosion derailed the car. Even older males seem to have abhorred the invasion. On a number of occasions the editor of the Star-Transcript derided these foreign sparkers. For example, in i9Io, he wrote as follows: ' On Friday morning there were some tired and sorry looking speci- mens of the masculine gender in town. About forty of the Brant- , ford Sparkers' Brigade remained over for the 11 o'clock car, but owing to the storm, the service was cut off about 10 p.m. A few lucky ones took that car, but the more ardent wooers had to spend the night in Paris and "Oh what a difference in the morning!" It was hardly a fair deal of the company to serve such faithful p supporters such a trick. They should have sent up a car at the close of the storm. Such a trying experience is apt to cool the ardour of the most love-sick swain. A Gr and Va/Icy Car, south Paris. On April i7, i912, an editorial in The Star-Transcript announced to Parisians that the Grand Valley Line was going to have a rival - the Lake Erie and Northern; that a corps or engineers was prepar- ing to survey a route; and that"it will mean a great future for Paris, and the road cannot come too soon". Shortly afterwards, the Paris council invested $20,000 in second mortgage bonds of the new company. 231 l[ I H I !0 A4 Gr>a~d Va//e y carv, soath /)aris. I[On April 17, I912, an editorial in The Star-Transcript announced to Parisians that the Grand Valley Line was going to have a rival- I'the Lake Erie and Northern; that a corps or engineers was prepar- ing to survey a route; and that"it will mean a great future for Paris, IIand the road cannot come too soon". Shortly afterwards, the Paris council invested $20,000 in second mortgage bonds of the new company.' 23 fI