| Show remarkable REMOVALS now cities and villages are shifted from one place to another according to a report from madrid the inhabitants of the town of bejar have addressed a 1 collective petition to he south american republics requesting the provision of means for their emigration en mase maise mai ma se bejar was ws at one time well known for its cloth industry ann and when it was la in a nourishing flourishing state the population ex ceedee now the trade has almost disappeared and the number of people in the town is only those people have made up lip their minds to emigrate to some other town where they can more easily gain a liveli hoc 1 and it if the south american republics agree to shift them and their oe longing the result will be one of the greatest movi moving ng jobs europe has ever seen meen wholesale removals of kind are of course unco uncommon ninio n put ut they are not by any means unprecedented some years ago the town of plated in ill south dakota was found to 1 be and the authorities th thought it would be beneficial it if the people their houses and their personal property I 1 wore were moved several miles A I 1 firm of house shifters were called in ill and they set to work without delay aon on the platte hotel tile the building was lifted on to several flat trucks and horses dragged it to its now new position at the rate of a mile a day the hotel had to cross a broad creek on the he way a difficulty hitherto unknown in the annalse ol of house home shift ing after the hotel was placed on its now foundation the town church was treated in the same way nothing was moved from its interior even the bibler and prayer books remaining in the pews during the proceeding the house next set to vork ork on the town shops and accomplished the moving with great success the rest of the town soon followed the inhabitants not leaving their houses and in several cases even sleeping I 1 in them I 1 I 1 1 great was wag the excitement at nine alfs when the london and southwestern railway company transported their carriage works to eastleigh East leigh this necessitated the removal for a distance of some seventy miles of 1 0 men women anil and children with their and famil families lez to say nothing of a mass of shopkeepers tradesmen and others were taken by special trains to eastleigh East leigh this wholesale moving job was carried through in a most successful manned it will be remembered that in april 1830 1890 the whole 0 of the inhabitants of tipperary removed to i a new town which had been built for them by tile the irish land J league eague arid and railed called new tipperary mr smith barry was wai the in nd n d lard of the and h et and nd his tenants coulden couldn could nota ot agre greeT e lna deuced by members of the land league u e the people made up lip their minds blinds to vacate their homes in a body on a certain lay day and migrated to new Tip tipperary on april the transfer was eff effected acted the townsfolk marching to the new town from their old one to chwe inspiring ins bIring pi ring music of several brass hands the people did not stay a 9 new tipperary very long howe however vei the town was out mit of the way and in december of the same year there was another whole wholesale oale exodus back to ta lary old tipperary in 1892 new alper ary which contained a central mar let roas of shops and streets ot comfortable dwelling houses wa was put lip for auction and eventually razed to the ground around tit bits |
