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Write for particulars A, SEAMAN, 28 Colborne St., Toronto, Oni! * Open to all | Don't miss it! For alas, send name and address at THAT ISS R. 97 Wellington Street, f At the banquet of Marine Engineers last week, Alexander Milne, president of Kingston council, Marine Engineers Association; stated that the first boat to cross the Atlantic under her own steam was built in Canada, as was also the first iron boat to cross. His statement was contradicted, but the following history of boat building goes to prove that Mr. Milne was cor- rect in his statement : : The first steamboat on the St. Law- rence was the Accommodation, in 1808. She was really a schooner of about a 100 feet in length, with a very small horizontal direct acting engine propelling a wheel on each side face having buckets or. boards eigh- teen inches long. Like the first Hud- son. River boat, the Clermont, the Ae commodation was well' rigged to use sail power, but differed from the Cler mont in having her side wheels boxed, I once had of her. The Accommodation was followed by the Malsham, Swiftsure and Car of Commerce on the Quebec and Mont- real route, and by the Quebec and Traveller on the Quebec and Chambly route, None of. these boatg were lary er or more powerful than the Accom- modation, except the Car of Com- merce. They had very little accommo- dation for passengers, and ran slowly that thiryy te forty-eight up the river: from Quellec to Mont- real. So tedious and unpleasant was the trip. owing to the smallness the boats, that in the fine summer weather people preferred to drive in the old-fashioned post calashes, and did so until 1820. In 1817, the Swift sure was enlarged, and with a new and more' powerful 'enoine, at first with the Car of Commerce, then with the Lady Sherbrooke in "1818, the steamboat service improved so that the calashes were forsaken, and the steamers got all the traffic, The first stedthboat on Lake Ontario was the Queen Charlotte, built in 1816, a Brit- ish steamer of the © steam schooner tvpe, like the Accommodation and Malsham. The Ladv Sherbrooke was consider ed a beautiful hoat, like the Swift sure after the latter was enlarged. Thev had upoer decks covered with awnings of =ail cloth, the resort of main deck after of the engine was the | enr- | ladies' cabin. with open berths tained. and below the ladies down in the vessel's hold or steerage | was the centléemen's eabin. also with oven berths on each side of the cabin. | I'hese two steamers were about 150 | feet long each, could 'not spare | space for staterooms. Thev ran as | mail boats during the twenties, and | were followed bv the Waterloo and | John Molson in the late twenties and | early thirties. The Waterloo "founder | ing in Lake St. Peter, was succeeded | by the John Ball, a fine boat, 190 feet 80 long, which was burnt shortly after she commenced running. In 1831 the largest and most pow: erful steam schooner or steamship up | to that time built in the New World, | the Royal William, was built at Que- | bee, to run' between that port and | Halifax. She was 176 feet lang, al small boat we would now cousider her | but the Britannia, of the Cumard line, | was .ohly 204 ieet long. The Roval | William crossed the Atlantic in 1833, | the first ocean steamer to de #0. and | was sold to the Spanish government, | who made use of her as a man-of-war, | calling her the Ysabel Secunda. She | did good service in the action at San ! Sebastien during the Carlist war. | In the thirties a number of good sizes double engined: hoats avpeared | on the river, the first beine the Brit. | ish America, which towed the Royal ! William to Montreal after her launch, | to receive her engines. "The Pritish America's engines were 3inch | evlinders, ? with 8 feet stroke. She was followed by the 8t. George and the Canada in 1837, the latter, | the larcest and most rowerful steam- ! er in the new world. The Canada was about 240 feet lon with two gnvines, | 38 inch evlinders, 10 feet stroke. | A ---------- EE CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED | WITH LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as] they cannot reach the seal of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or consth | tutional disease, and in order to cure you must take internal remedies. Hall Catarrh Cure is taken intersally, d acts directly on the blood ard 'mucous suriaees. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a guack medicine It was prescribed Ly one of the best physicians in this coun- wry for ars and is a regular pre- scription. It is composed of the best | tonics known, combined with .the best | rs, acting directly on the | su es. The perfect combina- | of the two ingredients is what | produces such wonderful resnlts in curing | Catarth. Send for testimonials free | P. J. CHENEY & CO. Prous; i Toledo, O. i nse blood pur Sold by DNruggists, 5 The Malted Cereals Co., 200 Nou i rect Montreal, P.Q. m 750. * Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa- tion. of the boat, of no 'more than six feet | at least she so appeared in a picture | so | hours was the, time they took to run | = of | HR y | the passengers in fine weather. On the | cabin, | = the length, All had two boilers, one | on each side of the upper cabin, on main deck, aft of the paddle boxes. | & snow storm running on the rocks at f on the river .n the forties threw these" linto the Columtia in | still doing good service, fifty-six vears (navization to.or from Upper Canada, On Lake Ontario [ran through to the eaprying place at EARLIER NAVIGATION]: ® The First Steamers That Plied the: St. Lawrence River. The Accommodation Appeared First Away Back In 1808--Rapid Changes in Style of Boats Since That Time--Canada * Lead In Boat Building. | The finest | Hudson river was the North America. fi She was smaller and slower than the | St. Lawrence steamer Canada running at the same time, The North America had only one boiler and one engine; the Canada had 'a boiler for cach en i gine. In one respect both boats were | similar, in having awnine instead of upper cabins. The first upper cabin ! steamer was the grand South Ameri- | ca, which apvearcd on the Hudson | river in 1842, 'She was nearly 300 feet | long with a saloon on her upper deck | instead of an awning, and she had { staterooms instead of open berths on | each side of "the saloon | America was soon followed on the Hudson by. the equally fine steamer Hendrick Hudson, and these boats by the magnificent Isaac Newton and the Franeis Skiddy. The Newton's ceiling {in the grand saloon of stained glass, the Skiddy four boilers. 5 The St. Georpe was all had | and Cenada werd followed on the St. Lawrence hv the Lord Sydenham and Lady Colborn, | which were mail boats in 1842. Efforts | were made to place steamers on the St. Lawrence in the forties that would vie with the Hudson river hoats. Successivelv appeared the Row land Hill, Torrance's Montreal, Mol son's Quebec, The Queen, and the John Munn. All these were boats with steamboat then on the The South" ¢ of Quinte. Here for Cobourg, an all escellint road, and ol the steant- Cobourg for nls were of a then river Henry Brougs vr when con- Lake Ontarig brebre. | onstrons skeleton --as-broad as vows long. Cons the steerag: of thse hoats, wile f oil used in the ard pitching in gq swell, je Ontari, in "bad weather pleasant. < much so that ped' the tages, although ¥ roads were abominable. | Onta:is the ihirtise was avoided 88 much as possible. After the openin: of the Rideau Cenal Gromville and first Lachine efhal, it was possible to take ene of the' very smal! boats then ply ing on that route «t Montreal, and, proceeding up thie Ottawa to Bytown, the steamer would descend the Ridedu canal to Kingston, but the boats were cnly sixty foot Long, and the de ays were fo i that | aswsengers prefer red the mw Loats and stages of the St. Lawrence 1oute. These Dur ham Foiks were succeedad in 1840 hy the! Hen* gougham. which, cn Lake St. Le vith the iT. Cildersleeve on Ia'e FC. nels, Logan the Royal wail through line «ith the help of stages. At Presiolt connection was made with the Bay of Quinte boats. A fire steamer bill for this line to run on Lake Ontario, the Sir Kobort Peel, the first large British stenver on the lake, was burnt in 1510 hy (he rebels, She cost $0000, a large sum for a oat at (hat time. Sle was succeed ed by the Magnet, oi inally intended for a gun hoat, the (rst iron steamer on the lakes. dhe hull of the Magnet is still in mse by the Hamilton, The first iron steamers on the St Lawrence were two [wry hoate, the Prince Albert and lion Duke. They were shout 200 feet luny, with hori zontal eggin®, onc ior cach wheel, end ran in the fortics and fifties in the Montreal & Champlain railway service, at first between Montreal and La Pred de, afterwards between the Is] nd wharf and St. Lambert. The present great Richelien Steam boat company was started in INI5 to run a market boat between Montreal and Sorel, the Cilticateur. In 1836 tty put two small steamers, the Viz toria and Navolion. on the route he tween Mcntreal and Quelec, There wera three lines of large and finer aa p---------- the Great Northern Railway, London, Ct., February 6th. upper cabins, with powerful single heam engines, ranging in power from Rowland Hill's 45-inch cylinder and 10 fect stroke, to the Quebec's a 68- inch eylinder 11 feet stroke, the fast. est boat on the river, and the John Munn, a boat 400 feet long, with a single bean engine, having a 72-inch evlinder with 12 feet stroke. There was not much difference in the outside or inside of these steamers except in Torrance's Montreal about 300 fest long. Was a steamer SHe was lost in Cap a La Roche helow Batisean ip November, 1852. The Lord Sydenham was then lengthened to about _ 250 feet and renamed the Montreal. If was the Sydenham Montreal which was running as the mail boat with the John Munn in 1857 when the Montreal was burnt with a terrible loss of life. The engine of thy Lady Colborne is running vet. As we have seen she was the mailboat between Quebec and Mon- treal in 1842 with the lord Syden ham. The advent of the larger Fonts two out of work. Subsequently George Tate bolight the Lady Colborne and renamed, her the Crescent, running the Crescent 'with a small Upper Canada boat, the Lady Elgin, as an oppori tion lime between Quebee and Mon treal. The Creseent had a fine engine, forty-two inch cylinder ten feet stroke, and when the Cresent was converted 1861 the latter was considered a fast boat. The Col- umbia's engine was put into the steel steamer Trois Rivieres, . where it i after it was built, the Trois Hivieros being as long as the Lady Colborne, but much higher, having four decks 1, the Colborne's two. It iy, 1 heli the oldest ¢mgine in the world » running in a large passcnger steamer. In the twenties there was no steam the first steamers were too small, too weak to secure the t business from the packet schooners | which for travel cn the open lakes | were preferred. It was not i'l the | thirties that a route was opend be tween York and Prescott for steamers to monopolize the trafic. West bound passengers took the Sir James Kempt or H. Gildersieevi at Prescott, which The monster cargo-carrier, Dakota, and which will be launched at New 'the Fir bell built for the Pacific trade of boats then running on the route, ynd ro doubtiul was the énterptiss of suc- cess that th: Victorias and Napoleog were" built small enough 10 through the canals, should they pay on the river. The severe compe H isn between the larger boats in 1856, when passengers were carried 150 miles in the cabin, 'meals and berth included for one dollar, deck passagn run not being 124c., or a York shil'ng, the buriing of the Montreal, in 1857, caused all the lines to amalgamate and sell out to tha Richelieu com pany. The grand engi of the Que hee and John Munn were taken out and shipped New York for the opening of the Grand Teenk milway, it was thought, would never permit of Lirge' st aners ronting with profit Letween Quebec end Mentreal. The paliny doys of the tiser steam ery we e betwen 1842 and 1868 All Quebee used to turn out to see the boats off for' Montreal, and Montreal sort ite cro every ovening to sce the Quebec 12 offi. The clangor of hardly ceased when the scream 'their warning aching departure, and am would be forced ust pices with a noise cople on the wharves each other speak. 1 thin at Quebec a ca lashe, at Montreal, one of those ish old two-whee! abe with gaily colored rancls and 'viocls, would rush down with belated pusren the old Jokn Minn t in front of the old nd menage sonchow the basin into 'the anick in her move naller ontosition Le ats to whistl's wou criss of any the egear ing out of the « ro bud that could not hour Every noi to' the gan ges, and the would swing cs om hou fo get out of ii er almo t ments as (he ray © the Quen, the "Crescent, the Colenict. Thee weg mach more bustle in those days for' the amount : than there is now. io steam navigation | elowly. Even in the forties the lak. steamers on the Can ada side were small, about 155. long. They wore the iron steamer Magnet, the Mayflower, the Britannia, and the Hibernia. It was not (till 1948 that the Americans put any large boats on the lakes, their first boats being the Bay State and the Cata- ract. Large ac these Boats were, 210 feet lomg, they had no upper cahins, only awnings on the upper docks; the Cataracts. engines were inférior also cf business de On Lake Oy developed ver JRDAY, FEBRUARY ' 6, could travel' ---------------------------- EVERY WOMAN * A 19083. ¥ it being a = lo cylinder which gave such jerke to the boat that there was no 'sleeping on board at might. The iron steamer P 1848, followed by the Banshee, High. Royal Mail Through Line, gave daily Hamilton, until the canals wore open ed in 1850, when the mail boats ran through to Montreal, The palmy days of steamboating on Lake Outario wore in the fifties only. The As Express Line of Bay State, Cataract, Ontario and agara, another American line of 'larger boots, the Lake Ontario ess Line Northern, and the Great. Western rail way's immense steamers--Canada, Am: ica, Europe and Western World=. could not take all the traffic that of 1, so the hills boats running through to and from Montreal all did o good business, These large steamers connected ~at Prescott or Ogdensburg {with a number of handsome small steamers, 185 feet long, for Montreal, The British Empive, Montreal, Jenny Lind," British Queen, Ottawa, Maple Leaf, and Lord Elgin, all found em- plogment running up the canals and down the rapids. There were also - a Ex. number: of freight steamers plying be tween Moffreal and various lake ports, some of them fitted with excellent passenger accommodation. } Between Montreal and Ottawa, then called Bytown, two good passonger boats commenced running in 1513, the Phoenix and Lady Simpson. By 1838 all good sized hoats everywhere had discarded awnings for upper cabins, the Three Rivers boat Castor, how ever, vetaihed hers until 1554, the last fine boat to change. Possibly the twentieth century may rod an rpvival of the steamboat ern. The enlarging of the Chambly canal to the same sizg as the St. Lawrence canal, to conncet New England with the North-West hy water, and the growth af population in Algoma, would undoubtedly cause o demand for steamboats between Lake Cham plain and Lake Superior. Canada never grew so fast as she did in the forties and fifties in the palmy days of steamboating, for railroads only build up large terminal cities and im poverish the smaller towns between The reason for this is plain. The steamboats are usually owned where they run, and the profits are divided among their customer, while the pro: fits of a railroad are sent to the mon ey lenders in far-off countries, We sap never expect to see prosperity until we again see many steamboats in use, There was a fine class of sido wheel tugs an, use on the St, Lawrence in the fortiex and fifties. The Mercules and the British America, the pioneer powerful tues in the thirties and ties, wore followed by the Alliawe, then the most powerful tug «in {he world, having four boilers and twe en gine. Noxt to the Alliance came the James MoKenrie, also a very powerful doubleongine boat, the Hero, with the Rowland Hill's engine, the Canadian government tug Advance, a very fine boat, thé ship channel Taps St. Law. ence and Lake St. Peter, doublpen gine boats, and the Lord Seaforth, Rambler, and a host of loss powerful boats. The long pull up stroam of 100 miles required fine tugs, and we had them in any number i Steamer navigaticn en the Lower St. Lawrence develdped. very slowly, The Royal William onothe (uebeo and Halifax route did not pay end was sent to England. She was fotlowbd on that route in the fortis by the Uni rn, and she, in the fifties by the Canadian government iron' werew steamer Lidy Head. The Quebec fu Lord. Seaforth, a strony powerfu boat, 'was converted into a passenger steamer and went to carry the mpils on the straits of Northumberland in the fifties. Sho was followed = there by the fine Upper Canada boat Ara Lian, in 1858, Lhe first steamer to ply on the Sa guenay route was the Princess Royal, While 'a very - strengly built boat, neither her engine nor wheels were adapted for specd in salt water, : *o carly in the fiftiex she went on the Jpper Canada route where, ax ths New Era, antl subscquently as the Empress, she wes long a flaverite boat, Somé of these Canadisn Stegmers ended "their careers int United States.» The American Expross ; Line steamer Montreal, was sent around to New York, where she long plicd on the Upper Hudson, between Albany and Fort Edward, as the ity of Tepy. The Lake Ontario Expross Line ot or New York plied for many years be tween St. John, N.B., and Portland, Me. The Northeypor became gu United States transport during the war, ani #0 alio were the Great Western Rail way steamers Cenada ad Ambrica. To sum up, Conada built the first ocean steamer, the first man of war steamer, the first large Pe asenger steamer, the Canada, the finest in the forties and the longest in the (iis, the Jokn Munn, and the first iron iron steamer on the lakes, the Mag net, In building railways and stegm- bontr, the Cenadians have hegten the wold's records, ~K. A. HART, Corsets of every description at 2%¢., We., boc, and up. New York Dress Reform. § It ix gWite possible for a person to be short-sighted and also long wind: ed. : is interested and should know about the wonderful "Whirlpool | Spray." The new yugioal Syringe. Injection and 11 cleanses instantly. 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