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i GLEBE CELEBRATIONS.

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STORY OF THE MUNICIPALITY.

To commemorato the jubilee of tho Glebe to-day tho Mayor, aldermen, and residents of tho municipality havo decided to hold public celebrations to-day. An artistic invitation card has boen issued, on which aro depicted the first unpretentious council-chambers and the pre- sent imposing Town Hall, as yvell as the Jubilee fountain and-Jubilee Park. Tho pro- gramme w111 open with a reception of his Excellency tho Stato Governor and Lady Chelmsford at the ontranco to tho munici- pality in Broadway, where an address of wel- come will bo presented to the Governor and a bouquet to Lady Chelmsford. A guard of honour from tho Glebe and Forest Lodge

cadets will be in, attendance. Tho Jubileo

fountain will bo unveiled by tho Governor, addresses will bo delivered by the Mayor, Al

dorman S. L. Cole, the member, Mr. J. A. I Hoguo, M.L A., aud an adjournment made to [Glebe P^int, yvhero trees will bo planted In 'jubilee Park. The Glebe jubilee ball will be held In the local Town Hall in tho evening,

i It is a far cry from a square mile of foresl

covered yvith globe lands to a thriving muni- cipality, but this Is what has been achieved during 60 years of local government In Glebe I Thon, Gleb<?road was but a track for bullock

teams, flanked by unpretentious woodon hutB I and "wnttlo and dab" shanties, with an occa-

sional-very occasional-brick cottage Now, electric trams run every few minutes from the . Quay to the Point, threading tho crowded Broadway, and passing, until tho residential area at Glebe Point is reached, long terraces of up-to-date emporiums. Then, the tidal waters of Port Jackson encroached upon the city as far as George-atrect West, whllo a long shelving beach, covered with erabs and mangroves, formed tho western boundary of Allen's Bush. Now, the wasto areas hav been roclaimed, and Wentworth Park, pic- turesquely ensconced in a natural amphl

thoatro, stands where the marshy swamp lande I lay, while engineers have forced back John Btone's Bay to form the wide oxpanso of Jubileo Park. . Grose Farm to-day 1B but a name. The last few acres of Allen's Bush have been handed over to the architect and | the builder. Even the boautiful broad acres of Toxteth House-built in 1831, and the home of the Allens for four generations-have been subdivided and estranged. The great trees of the forest have all fallen before the on- slaught of civilisation.

In the reign of George III. tho Church of England was the Church dominant in Australia. Nonconformists were fined for not attending

¡ the parish church, the Infant colony was

divided Into parishes, and largo areas or globe I lands were set aside for the support of the Church. An area of 435 acres botvvoen Parra

.rnatta-road and Blackwattle and Rozelle bays I was granted to the Church as St. Philip's I Globe. Trustees were appointed 35 years after j by Governor Ralph Darling, and certain por-

tions of the glebe were auctioned. Hon. George Allen secured a block overlooking Johnston's i Bay, and founded the Toxtoth Park Estate i Ambrose Foss, a Sydney chemist, purchased

another, built Forest Lodge Cottage, and made the nucleus of a suburb. Dr. Bowman built and founded Lyndhurst College; Captain Du- maresq, Captain Kortf, and others secured lots, and gradually St. Phillip's Glebe became a re- sidential district, known to all tho city folk as The Glebe. Various enterprising coach pro- prietors established communication with the  

town. Mr. Thos. Woolley imported an omni- bus, and charged a shilling to travel from Broadway to the city. Jonathan Howard fol- lowed suit. Then the old S.T. and O. Co. ran

a service which continued long after the steam I

trams wore installed.

The population of the glebo lands Increased until, in 1859, the residents felt that they wore quite equal to municipal honours. A move- ment yvas Inaugurated with that end In view,

and on August 1, Glebe becamo a municipality, i with Georgo Wigram Allen first Mayor. The first aldermen were John Korff, John Reilly, Ambrose Thornley, Thos. Tipple Smith, Ono Earnshaw, John Walton, Edward T. Blackett, .and James Slmpsou. Not one of tho original

council has survived to celebrate the Jubilee. Slncp the incorporation of tho borough, 75 aldormen havo sat In the local council. Thoso that havo held Mayorni office are: Georgo Wig- ram Allen, 1859 to 1877; Michael Chapman, 1882 to 1884; J. II. Seamer, 1878; Thos. J. Dunn, 1880-5-0-7; Win. Geo. Yeates, 1892; William Cary, 1879. 1S9C-7; Chas. Field, 1881; P. u. Lucas, 188S-9, 1891-3-S-9, 1900-6-7; G. F. R. Burcher, 1890; Wm. Alston Hutchinson, 1894-5; H. L. Macnamarra, 1901-2; Geo. F. Williamson, 1004; Thos. Nosworthy, 1902-3-4-6; S. L. Cole, 1908-9. The first council clerk was Henry Saun derson. Mr. T. D. Glasscock now holds the position, and has for tlio last 25 years. The Town Hall was originally a small wooden cot tago in Glebe-road. After changing the loca- tion a few times, the present site was chosen and In 1880 the Town Hall was erected. Im- portant additions have been made, until now the Glebe Town Hall, valued at nearly £9000, la ono of tho architectural adornments of the suburb.

i From tho time of tho elootion by tho first

council the Glebo has forged steadily ahead.\ The steam tram servlco yvas installed In 1833,

to be,superseded eventually by the present ¡ electric traction systom. Now tho district boasts a fino post offlco, pollco station, police court, fire station, soveral churches, and

schools, and some plcturesquo and historic |

mansions. The municipal revenue has in creasod from £2474 In 1850 to over £15,000 last year. The population has risen from 4000 to nearly 20,000. The improved capital

valuo of tho rateable area Is ovor two mil- I lions sterling. Tho financial position of tho

council Is so solvent and so satisfactory that | most of tho aldermen view with disfavour any . scheme that they think might swallow up the ¡ municipality in a Greater Sydney area. It I is a curious fact almost ovory office at the

disposal of tho Legislature has been hold by I members of tho Glebo-Spoaltor, Promlor, Co- lonial Treasurer, Colonial Secretary, Minis- ter for Public Works, for Justlco, for Pub- lic Instruction, for Labour and Industry. Amongst thoso who havo represented tho dis- trict In Parliament from the time whon Globo was a portion of tho Sydney Hamlets eleetorato aro:-Sir Stuart A. Donaldson, Thos. Ware Smart, Sir Daniel Cooper, John Campbell, Sir Wigram Allen, John Moekes, Dr. Camac Wil- kinson, Michael Chapman, Bruce Smith, T J Houghton, and James Aloxander Hoguo.

; The Glebo had its gonesls as a church. Bo

sldes the glebe lands, an aroa of 10 acres called tho doanory, and afterwards known as Bishopthorpe Estato, was allotted to the Arch- deacon. St. John's and St. Barnabas' chur- ches were subsequently built on portions of this estato, and tho remainder leased. But curiously enough, tho Glebo, though Bet apart for the support of the Church of Englnnd

became almost tho cradle of Mothoilsm in '

built a ohapel, which was for years the only place of worship in the Globe. A Wesloyan church was subsequently built on Glebe-road and a Primitive Methodist church in St John s-road, Forest Lodge. Presbyterian serl ylcos wore conducted in a room where the

University Hotel now stands SntT tho L^ffi of lTh° C°rn"er ot th0 Broadway was erected St. James' Romaa Catholic Church and School wore built In Woolloy-street and Brldgo-road. Tbo Congregationalists built a fine church In St. John's-road, where services wero conductod for many years, but some timo ago the property was sold, and tho promises are now occupied by the Glebe Working Men's Instituto Tho Sydney City Mission has a branch Mission Hall In Bay-street.

In sport Globo stands pre-eminent. It has he d tbo premiership honours In crickot, foot- ball, rowing, bowls, and othor games. 'Tho old Toxteth cricket ground witnessed many mo mornblo struggles. Wentworth Park has seen the old Black. Blue, and Gold, and tho later day Maroon time and again victorious. In tho "Wallabies" and "Kangaroos" footballers from tho Globe upheld the honour of the Globo lu tho old country, whllo tho exploits In various I Australian elevens of Bardsloy, Cotter, M'Kib bln, and Coningham aro well known.

I Elnborato preparations havo boen mado for

to-day's celobratlons.

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