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into wide-awake drunks whose
functions remain impaired by
alcohol.
En route to a family holiday
or parties, drivers should make
sure they can see out of all
windows and that their vehicles
including lights can be seen. In
this season combining slippery
roads, dense traffic and darting
pedestrians, drivers should make
sure , •there is enough space
betweeu„.,theni,and cars ahesd
and behind- in which to stop
safely in the event of an
emergency.
Turning to home accidents,
studies show alcohol is a major
factor in falls, fires and cuts,
dissipating the fallacy that
heading home before engaging in
heavy drinking ensures a safe
holiday.
Falls are the most common
home accidents. Ice-free walks
around the house prevent
accidents. Securing a firm
footing when putting up
decorations is essential. If
available, taller people should
decorate places out of reach of
other people rather then
employing makeshift ladders.
With a lot of people around,
main walking areas should be
freed of potential hazards such
as foot stools.
Fire is the next main
household hazard. Before
outdoor decorating is started,
householders should make sure
their circuits can take the extra
load and that their wiring is in
good condition. Weather-proof
cords and sockets should be
used. Never use larger than a 15
ampere fuse.
Frayed wires and cracked
Christmas tre‘light, fixtures can
also cause fires. ,The tree itself
should be kept moist by
inserting it in a stable,
water-filled container. Check
and refill the container if
necessary because Christmas
trees are thirstier than you
think.
Keep the tree away from
fireplaces and don't hang tinsel
near electric outlets or plugs
because any contact with
electricity causes dangerous
sparks. When the tree gets tinder
dry after Christmas, it should be
disposed of despite objections.
Gift wrappings should also be
thrown ,out as soon as possible
because they are most
flammable.
Cuts and burns ruin many
holidays and are often caused by
excessive traffic in the kitchen.
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48 clint9n News-.Record, ThgrgiaY0P cernbe a 1970
This snapshot was taken about 1940. At the extreme right the
bottom of the cement steps. The dark line opposite shows the
Malta sunk in the sand. The steps between the two poplar trees
are from the H. Bauer cottage. All this point has now washed
away.
Second of Two Parts,.
John Ferguson's son Jack and Frank Keegan were pals in their
early teens when the Malta washed ashore.
Some 20 years ago Frank Keegan told Lucy of sitting on the bluff
in Esson's field, shivering, while Jack Ferguson climbed up the
rigging and went hand over hand over the triactic stay to, another
spar. At that time boats had not much interest for Frank but Jack
loved them and was fearless. His father owned several fishing boats
and later as Captain J. A. Ferguson he commanded Great Lakes ships
for years. Later on Frank fished with Murdock Ross, joined a fishing
crew out of Greenoch and eventually worked for a few years on
Great Lakes ships himself.
After Captain Buckley and his son Harry had returned to Chicago,
the Malta was left a derelict open to pilfering or salvage by those
who wished to do so. The great tall masts were taken off by Jas.
Donaldson, sawed into lengths and made into shingles. For some
years the cabins served as bathing houses for villagers and summer
residents alike, until they too disappeared.
When Lucy first recalls her, the hull was settled with the prow just
at the water's edge and around the stern, the waves washed forming
a deep hole. She was warned to stay away from that end, but she
remembers jumping off mid-ship and clambering up again having
regard for the heavy hand torged iron spikes which stuck up out of
the ribs. As she thinks back they seemed to her to have been 12 or
18 inches long and about three-quarters or one inch thick with a flat
head.
Lucy asked Tom Bailey to estimate the length of the hull and he
guessed it at 90 or 100 feet. And he told of fishing off her when he
was a small boy.
He also remembered that when he was a boy Ira Stonehouse tried
to burn the wreck and did manage to salvage some metal this way.
With the Malta lying close to shore, a point started forming out
into the lake at the creek which ran through Dr. Metcalf s property.
It protected a good deal of the bank from erosion. And then after it
was washed farther in and covered with sand, it held the bank at that
particular spot. Of course the waves uncovered the hull on the
lakeside.
One day many years ago Mrs. R. H. F. Gardner saw an iron spike
lying on the sand and picked it up as a souvenir. It was 7" in length.
Perhaps this is the only souvenir of the Malta now in Bayfield. A
piece sawed off for a mantelpiece is reported.
For many a day the wreck of the Malta coloured the life of
Bayfield.
One went swimming down by "The Malta." The steps at the end
of Delevan Street were known as "The Malta steps." It-wayl point
of direction for visitors to locate others on the `beach.'
During the Second World War when iron was in such short supply
that the Village Trustees sacrificed our historic old cannon to the
war effort, more than one person remarked that if the iron spikes
were salvaged out of the old Malta wreck there'd be enough to build
a battleship. But local patriotic fervour locked the initiative and
muscle to carry out such a project.
And then one day in the spring of 1952 came a bad seiche and it
sucked out the old hull until she floated and was dashed up against
the bottom of the cement steps. Here people stepped over her onto
the beach.
Some evil sprite of the sea reached out long arms and again
disturbed her resting place. In high seas and strong winds a year or
more later, she was again washed into the lake. And this time her
keel broke in two. Half of the hull floated down the lake and came
to rest upside down off Mrs. Jas. P. Ferguson's cottage. And what
became of the other half, Lucy never learned.
She may have been an old schooner in 1882 but she was well-built
of finest oak to have lasted so long. Lucy has not been able to learn
where she was built or any of her history.
Certainly "The Malta" has been missed in Bayfield. As soon as she
moved from her first resting place, the point opposite the Metcalf
property began to wash away. And for the past few years the erosion
from wind, wave and frost has been much greater, really quite
serious, north of Delevan Street.
So if Captain Buckley did deliberately wreck his old schooner as
some tales carried down through the years suggest, he did the
landowners north of Delevan Street, and, the village in general, a
great service in preventing erosion.
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Take precautions
Canadians can keep
ambulances and fire engines
where they belong-in the
garage-this holiday season by
taking common sense
precautions, the Canada Safety
Council says.
"First be a friend-then a
host" is a good guideline for
festive parties which too often
lead to traffic mishaps, James
Thackray, President of the
Council said in a holiday
message.
Hosts should adopt a sense of
responsibility towards guests
who have to drive home, he said.
That one for the road might very
well put the guest off the road,
The average person's system
can absorb a one and a half
ounce drink of spirits or 12
ounce bottle of beer an hour.
The guest Who overdoes it
despite the best intentions of the
host should be sent home in a
taxi. The office party is
potentially dangerous for
employees who drive to work. A
number of firms solve this
problem by asking employees
not to_drive to work the day of
the party and • arranging
transportation home after the
event. •
A snack with coffee at the
end of the party will not sober
up guests but it will gain
valuable time for the body to
eliminate the alcohol. However,
guests who try to sober up with
a lot of coffee, cold showers and
exercise merely turn themselves
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