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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1912-9-19, Page 3TI! MEENAL AND ONLY ENURE B EWARE OF 1I ITA- TiOIfB. e uLD ON THE HEKIT8 Oh`` LR WS TOLL OF THE Boo KBI NDIN G MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS and 'LIBRARIES bound or repelled. t,u1.I • LETTERING LRATHER 000DS � .��•e� a t...b.. •a H eti iQNLL tsetisrfs` A. B. TAYLOR. $ UATPO D IEDICAL ll oar edam sae* AND T �°s- er unit, ass; elpkl MNAROLDTAAT aYlANL B.A. L IL B.. s. DR. W. F. GALWWand readliens W.. M. B. wink of t oaW BeelaDor Oboe TeMrasan 111. R. F. J. R FORME . awn EAR me awl areas mum, marrew London.is NamCbe . 'a 11 • a m.. r to a p. so.. T to. Psa. Tebroben. LICGAL MANY TRAGEDIES OCCUR ON GREAT INLAND SEAS D1WI DFOOT. HdYa t KILLOR- iANaetazies public .is has leHos 011111111. eta Weer l'IwCDYelOr L C., >< J. L NILL0RAN. J O. CAMERON. E. 00...H.ARRIB- aL. nat. behetter. notary 0000,- amines term. asierlek Mee See* freer mien. THE Lake Men Remember the Tarr(ble Record of tM Year 1906 Danger of Fire Is Not so Great as When Wooden Vessels Were in Vogue How tM Sze of Lake Freighters is Increasing. This ie the time of the year when the sailor men of the great lakes begin to premed fur the rough weather days and the rough w.- ther work that ate ante to its tb.ir- in greater or less de- gree mail the . I..re of the sea.on of nreiga'ion. Toe tourist who prom- enader the A• et or a too leen lake !rawer, with (night skive anJ sun- shine overhead sod rippling. blue waver all around, can have no concep- tion of the ch.' . e fast ( owes over the upper I..ker uuee the middle of the month of September bse pamwd. Bright skies and sunny days there aro. but they are the relief. welcome at all times, from many mote days when winds bowl and fogs lower and snowstorms bode everythiog from view until the ship seems to be the centre of a great hollow sphere. Then it is that the test of good seamanship and good navigation comes, for evety skipper knows. as every sailor man knows, that not far distant at any time are those rock-hounl coasts upon which many • good ship has found a grave and upon which many • good ship will yet find is grave. The wen who follow the businew mot take it for good and ill, for fair weather and foul, their own lives and the lives of others depending so often on good judgment iu • critical mom- ent. It is a calling that demands the very best in a man. and that brings out the very best that is in him. �tkiARLEB OAR1taustuelrO, W , L.Lsabousg..B., BA k MAL to Una at iswr.tt 'owls V 0. ,JOJDSTON, BARRISTER i. , esseurwar. asters p loses Hasrltw stews ads,fea 0 1. INSURANCE. LOANS. ETC. $20.000 P Azul; to 2 } Ito , 1aonster. tee stress Oodsrieb. 11', }t. ROBERTSON.1 LNSUaANCL AOLNT. Ittt[ A. L foto !.las: Ik[ttli, t anadL0 and American. SSicaNaas Ana laarlOT=ns' Luau/ rte : 'Ilse oce.n Aevidest sal Oeatantwe ,urporatioa, Liana. el lassam. HAL F iD•LITT AND l'Oaaaar s Some Tile U.E. Meaty and Gearaat e Gti-pam. tine at real -eros. oertie.st career of vlo- orta and Et Davit's at,esta. 'nom 175 OHN W. CRAWL LIFE, FIRE el sod seeids.t leweeesel. Aaeat flet 1s 1* .11 . .d Md ot =lissta�ewas�.tsRatak ..al at moos. Home- westtit est sal. aOse.t r either .1. Y. G rine .hese se MARRIAGE LICENSES WALTER 13 KELLY, J. P.. WALTER IMMUER OF 14AaR1A0Z LICENSES. AOl Imam1�Aearrier. ER o.t. RI- S RAVING PAR LOS �E U ION D BLOOM BARBER SHOP - mu. mei-Mews sal sued offers It. palmists the best Y reeving halre.t27q, ere.. HOItttrt�oeO�alr wW be MZR. Heed se. S. Brophey Bros. 40DSRICH The Leis* Funeral Moises and Embalmers "suss earef•tly attended to .t all bass. debt or day. Lake Superior. This steamer left Duluth with a flataeed, a cargo that so sailor man likes, because it is as slippery e. oter- r and in • rolling re. is liable to oft and rause a skip to turn turtle. is believed that this hi the fate that o took the Hudson. though no ane survived W tell the tail •. Yet, strange to relate, about a y. er I tie. iebe wheelhouse of Ilse Hua•on catue shore and in it, was the perfen ly pre - reed body of the wheel -man. From wbence did it come and dal the ice- cold water preserve the body from de- cowposition t There are mysteries of that great upper lake. The Record et tete. There wets 'mai-nine lives lost dur- ing uringg the searoo ut,1910, forty-four of which were in two aceidente.- the slak- ing of the steamer J. B. Wood in Lake Huron, which entailed the load of six- teen liver, and the foundering on Sep- tember 9, 1910, of the steamer Pere Ma:quett.e, No 18, from Ludington. Mich., bound fur Milwsukte,ir., with a cargo of twenty -nitre loaded carr. Twenty seven lives were lost. The season of 1909 on the great lakes was • more disastrous one, 128 lives befog sacrificed. In the sinking on Lake Et ie of the car ferry Marquette it Bessemer. No. 2, thirty people lost their lives. In one of the lifeboats nine frozen bodies were found. On July 12 of the tame year the mummer J. S. Cowie sank when it collided with the steamer 1. M. Scott us Lake Superior. Fourteen of the crew per- ished. Thirteen wen were lost with the steamer Adella Shores, and fifteen lives were claimed when the steamer Clarion of the Anchor Line burned on Lake Et ie on December 8. Thir- teen men got away from the Clarion in s yawl boat. but were doubtless. frozen to death and sunk by the ice, as they were rover heard from. There were severs! ether accidents in which lives were lost during the season of 1900 and tbe record was a terrible OOP. are TAE SIGN A1. : GOrERICH, ONTARIO 1911 a Fertosate Season. Last mama was one of the moat for- tunate on record in the ntatter of lives lost. The tragedies that did occur coat the lives of thirty-seven men and one woman. But when compered with the season of 1906, when oue Novem- ber storm alone took more than one hundred lives, 1911 will be remembered with gratitude. It will take long to blot out the sad memory of 1006, the season which closed with a terrible record after that late season storm had raged for several days. On Nov- ember 28 the steamer Nereids was wrecked just north of the Dnlutb ship canal, under circumstances as, sensa- tional as the history of the lakes can record. Thousands of people filled the streets, docks and bridges near by anti, helpless to aid, watched nine shipwrecked sailors freeze to death. Every effort was made to save them. but the peculiar situation in which the wrecked vessel was placed made any attempt to go to their rescue little abort of suicide. Yet, let it be told to the credit of the men who sail the lakes, there were scores ready to vol- unteer for the work of rescue. But what tug or lifeboat could live for an instant wbeo giant waves, rolling the hundreds of miles of Lake Superior's length. were breaking in destruction on the doomed vessel. Tbe men per- ished one by ooe and dropped to the icy grave. Duluth has bad many heartrending tragedies within its vicinity, where wrecks occur every year. Luc has known none more piteous than that of the Mataate. Others in Trouble. The Metaafs was nit the only steamer in trouble on that day. The big carrier Willia.rn Edenborn was on the rocks at Split Rock that same day and one man was drowned. The Crescent City was thrown high and dry on the beach near Lakewood, the. steamer Lafayette at Encamp- ment Island, and the steamer R. W England on Minnesota Point. lsarlier in the season, the Sevona, duringsevere gale. struck a reef in the vielnity of York Island, one of the Apostle group at the west end of Lake Superior, and sank, seven people perishing During the storms of Sep- tember, October and Novembetof that year. fifty-four vbseels were total loss- es. most of them on Lake Superior. Lotted tbe Bannockburn. Next to 1905, the year I9et: is remem bared by sailors as a particularly dis- astrous one on the lakes. In that year there were 237 lives lost, about 111 of them by stormy weather. The lose of the Canadian steamship Bannockburn, late in the wagon, is one that is partic- ularly well remembered in Ontario, for her crew were all Ontario men and not one of them survived the mysteri- ous happening thst tent this staunch little vested to the bottom. She left Fort William loaded with grain. At daylight next morning tbe big pass- enger steamer Moronic passed her away out in Lake Superior. low in the water. but showing no other evidence of trouble. A vessel low in the water causes no special attention in the late season. when cargoes ore 1,1.M -it'll! BUSINESS HAND seiletts twos b eft instructors ist Ike wl mks ham selir. Catalogues Lit Eistimdt Vim lestsrwl4 Jt 'modN Bad Wrecks in tgoll. The year 1908 saw some bad wracks none worse than the foundering of the big steel freighter D. M. Clemson near Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, about November 30. 1900. The entire crew of twenty-four men went down with the boat and no one survived. Capt. Chamberlain. of Duluth, was the master in charge. The Clemson rep- rexnted & property lois of about 11330,000. Twenty people perished the same veer when the old lake passenger steamer Soo City fouodered in the Gulf of..hit. Lawrence. During the season sixty vessels of all descriptions were lost, twenty-three baying burned. No lives wete lost aboard vessels en- gaged its passenger traffic. THURSDAY. Sttrrese Ran 19, 1912 $ The**Pandora" Range is doubly guaranteed— it is guaranteed by the makers and just as fearlessly guaranteed by every McClary agent. You hould know "Pandora" perfections before ou buy a range. Air sods by Howell Haastwsse Oo. and only a pair of light slippers oo his feet. In October it is cold on Lake Superior, and for the twelve bone that they were out in open borate .(t1 suffered severely. They finally landed on one of the Apostle I -!,ends and for two days more had only .almon and potatoes for fond. :'boy were then taken off by a cailbcat and landed at Bayfield on the shore of Lake Super- ior. Occasionally owe of the old-timers that has survived takes fire and thus endo its days, but the newer type of vessels stand little danger in this re- spect. The steel boat, however, is just as helpless as the wooden boat wheu it gets on the Cocky shores of Superior, where jogged rocks crash in plates and rend Mame asunder. The Great Likes seem bound to have their toll of life, the price of the commerce that man floats upon their great tt.tVty. Many Die in 1907. One hundred and thirty-five lives were lost on the great lakes doting the Mason of navigation in 1007. Twelve men were drowned in collisions, fif ty- two persons lost their lives in wrecks, eight were washed overboard and forty-three lost their lives in the burn- ing of vessels and from other causes. Twenty-two men went down. on October 12, when the steamer Cyprus foundered on Lake Superior. Fourteen people lust their lives on April 23 of the saute year, when the lumber hooker Arcadia foundered on Lake Michigan. Not a surviving witness was left to tell the story. The steamer Naomi burned during the season on Late Michigan. Five of the crew and two passengers met death. Few Lives Lost in mire. I'bere were few lives lost in IYUiand no great marine disasters recorded on the great Takes. Only fifteen people are reported to have perished in the lake trade doting the entire season. But the Reason of 1906 will long be remembered among marine men as an ill-fated year for vesseluten. More lives were sacrificed during those few months of active navigation than there have been since. Almost one- third of the fatalities on the lakes which have occurred within the past ten years toot place during 1906. it is stated that 444 persons lost their lives oo the waters of the !treat lakes and connecting waters during the sea- son of that year. Not a Passenger Loat. During the season of 1904, lht; per- sons lost their lives from various causes on the great lakes. Of Ibis number it is understood that only thirty-two lives were lost as a result of stormy weather. That Hot a single passenger was lost during the season is a noteworthy feet. During the sea- son of 1908 sixty vessels were lost. en- tailing a loss of but twenty-eight livee. There were no destructive storms during the season of 19118 and the weather during the summer months was uneventful. A cold spell set in about November 16 that year and navigation closed early. Tbe Record for Ten Years. and rates high. it was • co d, misty morning and the boats were soon out of sight of each otber. She was never sighted again and probably went down • few hours later. Tugs were sent out from the Boo and for days they marched the eastern rod of the lake without result. A life buoy or two, picked up later, is about the only evidence of C turned up. I t was the 211st of November tbat the boat and its tweet teen disappeared in Lake 'ap.utor a depths. Other Wrecks of egos: There were many other wrecks tot fall. Derlaig a heavy gale on Lake $os cm November 0, the selteteler O.kt5 biota frost ber towiSg da• ase sad wits error seen again. A crowed ed Neese wise lost in the�ind the abisismer OROIVe Dabber team altas sail of Kallay's islamr, Lake aria, se Jaw J. The steamer fl. 7. Mary soul an Noveeskar s off Peet well, Labe 111 &dog a heavy aalhl- ween ibe ere be wow felt lose la the lemedeples of Shp swelater O. IM Lowman/ w ralosarle .mel • crew ed sine kat ii+M oe the Balk .erinatal esmHSR=Dek as LISdorlag • aMw11011eselt 115 Lass l Ohs Russ A pasdler errs* was that of the A Marvel of the Century. The growth of the commerce of t be lakes is one of the marvels of the last fifty years on this continent. Anyone who stands at a point like Detroit or Serbia or the Soo and watches the procession of boats passing in both directions canuot fail to he iso with the importance of this c sib of waterways in the commercial lite of Canada and the United States. The development through the yeare is an interesting record. In 1866 the Roo Ceoat was opened. All ghat ore depo. t4are in the Lake Superior region. The onlyway to transport the ore prior to topening of the canal was to carry it in vessels and then poetess. the product over Sr. Marys Falls. And such veaielethey were that carried that ore 1 The schooner Swallow. the biggest of the L•tke Superior craft, tad an 90 -ton capacity. and she was too large to be considered practicable for the Lake Superior trade. The average tonnage of ore cart Tera at that time was 211 tons. All the *hips in the Lake Superior ore trade then, including their cargoes, could be par into the hold of the mam- moth steel steamer today, the William E. Corey. In 1890 almost all lake carriers had a capacity of about 500 tons. A jump of twenty-five years. to 1886, showed the advent of 1,2900 -ton carriers. In 1806 the carrying capacity of the big steamers bad risen to 2,500 tons. Wise people shook their heads and gloomily re- marked that such heavily laden boats must surely "bust" in two, if wave -har- assed, and Pink stet o foremost to the confines of Dave Joni locker. Started by Rockefeller. lu .1896, Rockefeller, becoming in- terested in Take traffic, built a 5,600 - ton steamer. Then came A. B. Wol- vin with four steamers of 7,500 tons eacb and 500 feet over all. This was in 1899. That was the birth of the modern monster monarchs of the un- salted seas, although the %verege cargo we. not over 4,000 tons until 1904. Then the August B. Wolvin, 300 feet over all, 02 feet longer than any other lake boat, was launched. Within the past ten years, accord- ing to fairly accurate records which have been kept, 1,328 persona have lost their lives on the great lakes- A very email percentage of this nnmber were passengers and in most instances they were the sailors on treigbters in the lake trade. The average loss of life nn the lakes during tbe put ten years has heen 132 persons, and it may be readily twee that ON 1911 death roll falls away he - low tHis figure. The same was true in 1910, when but forty-nine persons boat their lives on the great lakes. The ser cords for other years follow : 1009. 1214: 1008. 58 : 1901, 136. 1904 15; 1906, 444: 11104, 196: 1908, 28 ; 1902, 237. Tbe Deager of Fire One of the old horrors of tbe groat lakes that is disappearing is the t Irs- lng of vosssls tar out from shoreim the rays when all the boosts we the lake were huilt of word destruction by Sre sou not uneomrrton. hut with the advent of steel eonstruet.ioe tips snsabr of such bases grow. kart eeeh V mins of the lakes can tan thrill- ir g stories of are expSeieeoeti Chief Elam Blasi., of the trig Com Mise itael�tt Ra�oaf0. wsa engieuur ea the Prur s whoa she wee bursod ens Like aaparisr la Ostobr. 1f186 Th•rwa • sail !'raw were toned to lain tits staasse !Ina hurry in the vlsllity of tM Apostle Talonda fed rapidly 11* Ma the spread on t be old boat that tae iajarlty of the mew WPM forest to Maes only partially stftetel. In ddrty etllral.s the beat was sisal la 1901 on the •froth Am* of Rema 8Mglafer Ihldla bad ac nowt Now for Fall Business 0 N ACCOUNT of the many strikes and other unavoidable delays, deliver- ies from manufacturers have been rather slow, but the past week we have -passed into stock many shipments of the latest Fall and Winter Merchandise. New Coats New Coats Never before were we better prepared than this season to show the pick of the season's best garments from the celebrated Canadian manufacturers, McKinnon's "The Garments of Merit.- Cultere Garments, Princess Garments and Her Lady- ship Garments. Misses' and Children's Coats In Coats for Misses', Children's and Infants' smart wear we feature the renowned Fairsex Garments, and for style, vari- ety and price they are the best. Cloakings Cloakings See the new Reversible Coating very handsome. They cow in all popular combinations of colors. Just a coat length each piece. 56 inches wide, at per yard $2.25. Blanket Cloth for Children's Coats in all colors. McCall Patterns Ile i1 Naos Na 4573 tools, 15 oasts LADIES' MIMI Perrin's Gloves Perrin's Gloves The Store that is All a Store Should be MI LLAR'S SCOTCH STORE This was the fast of the so-called 10, 000 -ton carriers. The economy of this' type of boat was at once demonstrated. The Wolvin carried double the cargo of any other lake vessel at no greater cost for fuel and carried only three more men in her crew than the next largest boat. Since then vessel building has received a marvellous im- petus. Of the practical duplicates of the Wolvin, some are shorter and some longer. one of the longest being the Tbomae 8.. Cole, 006 feet over all, with a carrying capacity of 12,000 tons. There are now afloat or building about a hundred 10,000•ton boats on the lakes, and there are some that carry 13,000 tons. • Harold Jarvis in Goderich October 3. In the rendition of the "Messiah," with Albani as soprano, Madam der Veer Green. contralto, Norman Sal- mond, baritone, Mr. Jarvis sang hie tenor pate most excellently. He was most warmly received. -Globe. WE CAN safely say that everyone who came here this season -to look re- turned to buy. Why Because they found here qualities that surpass anything in tow n. ifl A RTIN BROS. Tailors for Men Who Care • i ewrn5 Gum The flavor lingers long—it's a smooth, succu- lent, lasting gum—made to taste delicious. No need to overlook your taste, no need to repress or destroy it—since you can buy the sootiest and the best gam made at the sane price, and flavored to suit you. You can have any fruit essence you desire. A better 'Spearmint' at the same price—or the best Pepsin, by asking for O-Pee-Chee. O-Pee-Chee is sold by all dealers who eel tie best Mal. O•Pee-Chee Gum Ca Landoll - Canoe*