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Firstprinting 2004 r I I I i 1905 master up fi-om "salt water" for next season, though it isnot practicable to get the February 10, 1905 steamer here through the St. Lawrence River icein time to do theearly buoy and Death of Captain John Duncanson.-Capt. John Duncanson, one ofthe lighthouse work. It is true that the Haze has been too small for her largely increased early settlers in this town and also one of the best laiown of the early lake and river workforsometimeandsheis considerably out ofdate,aswellasneeding extensive pioneers, died at his home on Ramsay Street Friday morning last at the age of 82 boilerwork, but sheis saidto be quite worth re-building. years, 2months and 17 days, after ageneral decline of several months In fact the After arguing over the matter four days and at one time declaring the captm's health had been poor for the past five years and at one time before his conference offaltogether, the Tug &Dredge Owners' Protective Association and family was called home the state of his health had become so critical. To the last j the Brotherhood ofFiremen & Linesmen finallygot togetherFridayafternoon and ew weel^, however, he kept on his feet and there was hardly aday that he did not signed a contract covering wages and conditions oflater for the season of1905. walk up the street_ The end came peacefully and all his family was around at the The conditions are about the same as those granted the dredge engineers and nal su^ons. The funeral took place fi-om the house on Monday afternoon cranesmen, the calendar days or nights constituting a month's work and twelve s^ces bemg conducted by Rev. Thos. Nattress, pastor ofSt. Andrew's Church of hours constituting a days' work. Time and a half ispaid for overtime and double which deceased was amember. Rev. A. Macgillivrav MA nfPhotVi t. time is allowed for Simday and holiday work. With these conditions of labor, members of the union figme theyhave received an advance of about 814 per cent n, ..Honner, David Ireland,f Capt. J. LaframboisePallbeareis:andJohnHGD.DuffCousins,tuCX a over last season's scale. March 3, 1905 The new steamer William G. Mather, the coarse fi-eighter of the greatest breadth ofbeam onthe inland lakes, now building at the plant oftheGreat Lakes Park carrying package freight from Chicago to Liverpool He Engineering Works at Ecorse, is 531 feet long overall, 511 feet keel, 60 feet beam wo± about sixteen years ago but later for acouple ofTeat] ofa f and 31 feet deep. The boat will have a carrying capacity of 10,000 tons. J ACleveland special says: Capt. Averill of that city has pmchased the busme^ at the dock here. Alter that he settled Jown to a re« T ® steamer City of Grand Rapids of Dunkirk and will operate the vessel this year between Cleveland and Rondeau, Port Stanley and other points on the Canadian shore. There has been no boat on that route for some time, the Uranian being the last. The City ofGrand Rapids has been newly fitted out and first-class passenger accommodations have been installed. An agitation recently inaugurated to make the marine "rules ofthe road" more uniform will result in the appointment ofcommissions by the American and distance and the formefo^g to less Canadian Governments to investigate and agree on acode ofsignals for use on the Great Lakes. The signals on Canadian vessels differ in detail fi-om those observed February 24, 1905 by American boats and it is to make the rules similar and to provide for penalties for no douMTele^£;';,tr clfr; T their non-observance that will take up the time ofthe commission. seasons and has madTfte S rSccuras.s1nere ^istobea new steamer aswell as April 14, 1905 The steamers Martin Mullen, Kensington, Yosemite, Sonera and Saxona IB .y passed up on Sunday and were the first boats ofthe season upbound. They struck references last week toearlier steamers ontheGreat Lakes it may now be found of a field ofice about seventy miles inlength at the lower end ofLake Erie, but had interest to recall the sailing craft of an earlier day. The sailing fleet of 1850 and clear water the rest ofthe way. All the boats left Buffalo atthe same time with the thereabout was composed ofcanal-sized vessels, fore-and-aft schooners orthree- tug Cascade breaking away through the ice until clear water was reached. They had and-afters, carrying 12,000 to 18,000 bushels ofgrain. When a dozen years had clear water until reaching St. Mary's River, when they stuck fast in the ice and will passed and the rapidly settling prairie lands of the Westem states were pouring then- have toremain there a week, probably. crops into Chicago and Milwaukee harbors, the average size of lake vessels STEAMER Z,Z?VCQ£,A^BURNED.-Fire broke out in the steamer Lincoln at her moorings. King's dock. Sandwich, Thursday night oflast week and burned increased, as did their symmetry and the variety oftheir rig, until about 1865 or tiiat passenger steamer to the water's edge. The fire, which had its commencement 1870 the writer remembers thesensation caused bythe advent ofthe "Cream City" mthe hold of the craft, was not noticed until it had got beyond control and the a Milwaukee three-master, capable ofcarrying 72,000 bushels ofgrain, atthat time owners are puzzled as to its origin. The steamer Erin, which was moored in the near aphenomenal cargo. It was in the sixties, by the way, that the first schooner sailed ^cimty ofthe bumed boat, received ascorching and would have suffered alike fate from Chicago for Liverpool, the "Golden Harvest," laden with wheat, followed but for the timely arrival ofthe fire tug Detroit. shortly by another with an equally fancifiil name and alike decorated with flags and ^e Lincoln was purchased by the Pelee Navigation Co., comprised ofPelee streamers as she came gaily down the River Detroit.