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Take FRUIT-A-TIVES anadians every where have found Fruitatives 12 ingredient formula quickly effective You will too, FRUITATIVES Medicinal ingredients herb and hioit extracts Vitamin BY FRUITATIVES A quality laxative extra Cost The Simon Langell, last of the wooden hulls, was Capt, Misener's second ship, reat Lakes Captain BY HENRY F, HEALD EHIND the doors of an old brick house in Port Colborne, distinguished as an office orly by three metal plates on the door, is the headquarters of Scott Misener Steamships Ltd, second largest of the Cana- dian Great Lakes shipping companies, In what would be the living room of the house, with a large window overlooking the Lake Erie en trance to the Welland Canal, Captain Robert Scott Misener, president of the firm, keeps his finger on the pulse of a $25,000,000 concern, The house was once the substantial West Street home of James Hamilton, weighmaster at the old Grand Trunk elevator, built in a day when the romance of sailing and not the bustle of heavy industry was the pervading atmosphere of the port, Captain Scott Misener bought the house in 1934, five years after he decided to make Port Colborne the base of his operations, In some ways it is typical of the Captain 'himself and his methods, It is simple yet adequate; efficient but not extravagant, Young Scott Misener started sailing as a boy of 15 out of the simple necessity of earning a living and helping to provide for the family needs, Depression forced the closure of his father's lumber business in their Providence Bay home on Manitoulin Island and there were younger mouths to feed, He signed on as ship's boy on the three master schooner Mary Everett, By 1902 Scott Misener had earned his master's papers on both sailing and steam ships, but decided to settle on shore, He borrowed $25,000 and bought the Grand Central Hotet" in Sault Ste, Marie, In four years he paid off his debt, sold the hotel for $50,000 and went into real estate, In 1916, having made and lost a fortune, he succumbed 'to the call to return to sailing, but this time it was in his own ship, The Overland was a wooden steamer with 600 tons cargo capacity, The Captain sailed. if for two years, sold it and bought the Simon Langell, a larger ship, but also of wood construction, At this time he invited John O, McKellar, a shipmate from the days. he sailed for Algoma Central, to put up $5,000 and join him as partner and chief engineer, The first steel ship, the Claremont, was bought in 1924 and in 1929 Capt, Misener purchased the first of the popular canallers which were to dominate Great Lakes shipping for the next 30 years. Shipping laws were such in those days that it was advantageowg have the fleet sailing under a variety of company names. However, in 1950 the |fleet was combined in Colonial Steamships Ltd, and in 958, prior to the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1960 Capt, R, Scott Mmener a fleet of 25 canallers and eight larger ships hore the familiar silver stripes on their black funnels and flew the blue flag with the large "M" and three crowns. Flagship of the fleet is the 20,000 ton Scott Misener, which at the time of launching ih 1954 was the largest - ship on the Great Lakes The canallers were designed to meet the need of lake shipping as it existed up to 1959, Bulk cargo of grain, ore and coal made up the major shipments, While large upper lakers were used efficiently in haul. ing ore from Minnesota to Lake Michigan and Lake Erie ports, the grain business necessitated trans-ship- ment either at the eastern end of Lake Erie or the eastern end of Lake Ontario, Canallers took the grain through the narrow canals of the St, Lawrence and into Montreal, With the opening of the long awaited seaway a dramatic change took place, A large upper laker could now deliver grain from the Lakehead directly to Mont- real or Three Rivers; or load ore at Seven Islands and discharge it at Hamilton or Toledo, New tolls on the Welland Canal, which for years had been toll free, contributed to making it uneconomical to operate the smaller craft, In addition, a multitude of "salties" began picking up vargo at lake ports for delivery overseas, Almost overnight the canaller became obsolete, Capt, Misener's answer to the challenge was to scrap the lot of them and to concentrate on larger ships, During the 1959 season several canallers did continue to operate, but by' freeze-up 12 had been sold and 12 more were left tied up at several lake ports, When the 1960 appointments were announced by Scott Misener Steamships (renamed in 1959), the A, Wheaton was the only canaller on the list, Three large upper lakers and five medium sized upper lakers completed the fleet, The John A, France, a modern 722-foot lake giant, is the latest in service and by June 1961 her sister ship will join the fleet, Proud of his own achievement, Capt, Misener is prouder of his family, John E, F, Misener, a captain like his father, won the DSC in the Canadian Navy in the Second World War, Ralph 8, Misener, the . eldest son, makes his headquarters in Winnipeg. Both are determined to carry on the family business, A third son, Everett Paul, was killed in action in the war, John A, France, 4 son-in-law, is also a keen member of the company, A | \