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TO PROHIBIT FIRECRACKERS
[Welland Telegraph, 31 May 1910]
The alderman who declares he will introduce a bylaw to prohibit the sale and use of fireworks in this town will find himself supported by a largely preponderating public opinion. Tuesday night one of the most valuable buildings in the down town section was set on fire by fireworks, and in that a splendid industry was threatened with destruction. A little girl in Welland had her eyes injured with a firecracker on Tuesday morning. On a public holiday the fine spirit loaded with firecrackers makes in unsafe for persons or vehicles to travel on Main Street. Property, of course, is always in danger. In St. Catharines on Victoria Day fireworks frightened a horse so that a man and his wife were thrown through a plate glass window and both had to be removed to the hospital.
There is surely something wrong about a pastime that carries with it exasperating annoyance and serious danger. The people of Welland are probably about ready to deny themselves the use of fire crackers.
[See related EVENT: TWO FIRES STARTED/A Number of Charges Against the Pastime of Shooting off Fireworks]
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