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EET RENE A S Made and Guaranteed by The Canada Cycle & Motor Co., Ltd., SALE ren) Foe BABY: CARRIAGES. Must be cleared out in 10 days. Big reductions at REID'S, Telephone 5% Awiulance, ARE RECALLED BY CAPT. R. HL. MKAY. Forni The Veteran Captain is Eiphty- Five Years Oid To-Day---Fe Tells of the Stirring Events of the Thirties at Kingston. To Capt. R. H, McKay cele- brated the ecichtv-fifth anniversars { his birth, lations day, of rece and IV h was born on May near the old navy yard, site occupied hy Royal Military ( His foreparents came from DUINErous é The captain the now the lege. Ar- Xyleshire, Seotlands Was a master gunner in » and his father wus The veteran eaptain's memory clear today as. it was half a asked jor re. the British also of the i a eentury minisern Kingston, he could recall events with exactness. For instance, places where! the at the navy yard ied with an old write a ago, McK know , and when of his early, days around remarkalie pointed he out the hips tall the - which Capt. Various war lay these map seen hy ear fieln't CAPT, R: H. McKAY. could name ofi- Hi ers and lieutenants tell many inter- Lawrence, aud sting thi 1 them, remen- Id St, a vhiclr his grandfather the Jake. to where IW ,» taker owed [Cross over 0 distiilery ne land sunk there, and a wharf built on the hull. He re the building of the Ridean which Col, was the who used come from Mtawa (then Bytown) Kingston in a bir bark dled by French-Cy When fourteen years of age, McKay joined the and for years and nine months served as ship's hoy. It that period and few years provious that the most interest- ing of his reminiscences He tells how the people of Pittsburg and the yard employees, Kingston, had to cross seow, A cable stretehed shore to she at worked was th until after bridge, the an American « fod, it was lease an old military well known to The toll for days was twopence, stands, members tv to to canal, of engineer, and canoe, pad- lad two the navy, Was a cover. ordnance department and navy when coming over to bay in a from the across the OW r-hand only means of getting the bridge was built. This ays, was built by ontractor. When finish od James Meaghar man, i the we was That across hand over captam to whose past generation passenger in those but all the people ernment paid only huty, hadn't t the Barriefield end of there was a gate, the hand side, at the entrance to Fhe house now stand there is where Admiral Bing bad a topsail vessel laid abreast of the house, with aboard. There wera also sailors and marines ahoard Fhe vessdl #as made fast a buoy Admiral Bing wa? called home and Commodore Barry game from England and took charge of the navv vard. He was recalled in 1523. The yard wae then closed until 1866, when Capt. Sandon, of the Roy- al navy, came to with a number of officers, sailors and marines, quartered the old stone frigate in the vard, Tt is still standing. At that time it was named the ship Niagara In 1837, the as thére were ships in the navy the government purchas them ith placed a. foot { employed by the gov If on LA {a penny they o pay at i the bridge right the naw vard ing on cannon to anchored there, Kingston and was in navy Hion broke out, and war: time, gtowm- and reby gunboats or at the I some ney vard manned w sailors and cannon aboard. The boats purchased by the govern: ment, Capt. Mehay recalls, were the Traveller, the Sovereign, the Experi- ment and the Mohawk, They were taken down to Prescott to the battle of the Windmill, The Traveller was commanded by Capt, Sandon; the Sovereign by 'Licut. Fowel; the Ex- periment by Lieut. Elliott, and the Mubawk by Licut. Wilkie. After the boats « had been at Prescott four or five days, dhe rebels surrendered, and the vesscle returned to Kingston with 150 prisoners, who were landed at Queen's wharf, and marched over the bridge to Fort Henry, designated hy Capt. McKay as the Gibraltar of Kingston. A short time clapsed be- fore they mere tried. Some Were tried by court-martial and sentepead to death. Others were sent to Vandie man's Land, Vor. Shite, the rebel general, was tried in be old court house, neds where the customs house now stands, He was condemned to death. His one ation 'Was witnessed by Capt, McKay, who thes described it: "The morning he was to be executed he was driven from the jail to Fort Henry | in a two-wheeled cart. The earter . who drove him wad named James Palmer. Von Shultz was seat wl between two priests, and behind the dart that he was in, followed an- eart. deawn by a man On this cart there was an nasal was marines IB THE DAILY BRITE |. | ractors who built Fort Heary, ol- His grandiather | sons were | SH WHIG, -- - - were ha named Uico g house on to Wadding- Von Shultz's ent burial, n into the town, The fect oul of the carl A ma jlari, who kept a drink { market place, close v | | | butcher shop and gave it Roman Catholic * other rebels were ht {jail, Th were | were at ope time. red Ashley was jailer at that tame, | That was the time when the steamer = Peel was bummed by ng ground. the old in all. Four A man pam- eleven ir Robert i It was surmised at the time that the aptain of the Peel was joleague witl | the rebels. 1 met Johnston years af | terwards and knew him well." Capt. McKay remembers the con- They | were Messrs. Robert Noble, David buf, land MeAdeo. John Strachan, uncle {of A, Strachan, also bad a contract. | William Ferguson, afterwards sheriff, {had the contract for furnishing the { stone. After the fort was pretty well underway, it was discovered that a [ake had been made Col { Wright, the engineer, who did not lay | out the foundation according to the { architect's plans, The work had pro- | cearled] 80 far that they did not change | the foundation, Instead of being built to keep enemies from coming into the | i : ies it was built to shoot up the by Rideau. Col. 'Wright was called home tried hy court martial and dis- | charged from the service. Sir Richard Bonnycastle was sent out from. Eng- {land, and the fort was fnished under | his directions, | Capt. McKay vividly remembers the { stirring events during the rebellion of I He remembers the arrival of pri | J { | and soners from Toronto and their incar in Fort Henry, They were but a short time, when a fore man carpenter named John Morgan got a plan of the fort, tied it round went into the fort ceration } th ere | | an iron erowhar and ditch at the rear passed it in to the Thi was done at the noon hour, when ev sryvanewas at dinner. Morgan tmme diately fled to the United States. Bs means of the plan, the prisoners were to eseape. Only one of them Hig name was John 6 a merchant. He kept street, and had gone to ronto to » part in Ie was a wards reprieved. A civil engineer whom Capt, McKay remembers, was Capt. John Beott, father of Capt. J, H of this city. He came to Canada with Col. By and erected houses the people who were employed at the building of the canal, between Kingston Mills and Smith's of the prisoners. enabled captured, Parker, Princess To » rebellion, Seott, Falls, bésides assisting Col. By in the engineering work. There is a point of land between those two places called Scott's Point, so named after Capt. Scott, who ongineerad that part of the work. : The coming of immigrants to Kir ton, from Montreal, in 1802, bat? teaux, is also remembered hy Capt. | McKay, The cholera very bad { heres that wear, and many died aboard the vescele, and the bodies were land- ell at the foot of Princesé street, the north side, The wharf there was owned hy a man named McGuire, The captain saw the dead lving in rows, and men, women and children weeping for their lost ones. The cholera again broke out in 188%, When 'the news of the accession of Queen Victorig arrived, in the year 1537, the lad Mehay took part in big procession held here in honor that great event. The procession, he remanbers, broke up opposite the British-American hotel, which still the corner of King | in was on a ol aml streets, 'The first the cap- of this ancient hos- stands at Clarence tam remembers telry was weompanied his father into it. {is just seventy-dight years ago. hotel building, the captain says, over 100 years old. Me thinks it was built somewhere about the year 17TW, I'he contractor's name whose two grandsons are Robert Walker, I have known the British Whig since its foundation in 1534," Capt. McKay, 'd was just years old then. Everybody in days read thesWhig, just as they now, was trying to convince Pense that it was a tory paper those days, but he said not. However, there was certainly a fine bunch of tories running it, and every tory i Kingston read it." That I'he Charles and, said elaven those do Mr in In | The captain received his education at Baxter's high school here, and was quite a grammarian and mathemati- cian when he was fifteen years of age. His parents wanted to send him to college at Toronto, as he gave pro mise of being a clever student, but the desire for a life on the rolling deep, such as his father and grand. father had in the British navy, was deep within him, and when be was seventeen years of age he set out for himself. In turn he sailed aboard the {following Invincible, from Kingston to Port Dalhousie: The Wil- liam Denn, Allenora, Chief Justice Robinson, Commodore Barry, High- lander. Then he sailed from Buffalo to Chicago. In 1857 he became a cap- tain, and in 1861 he guit sailing. For eighteen years he was with the Northern Transportation line, ' After that he became interested in farming, and lived many yenss near Oswego. During "the past fifteen years he has lived a retired life. His wife died about twelve years ago, at Fulton, N.Y. and since then the aged cap- tain has been spending * the greater portion of the vear in Kingston, come ing back to the seenes of his bowed hood days, The winters he spends in the sonth. He has a son and n mar ried daughter (a widow) in Fulton, N.Y, and a son in New York. The latter ix John A. MgKay, president of the Stavvesant compant which pub- lishes the weekly 'séciety magazine, "Town and Country." Capt. MoKay is a Presbyterian in re- Yigion. Me deplores the modern Sab- bath, as he was hrought up to ob sefve that day in quietude. After al his wanderings, and haviog passed the four-score mark by five years, he has not forgotten the religions teachings of his early days. He is hich up im the Masonie order, being of the this tv-third doirge . In Kingston, thous the companions of his youth have all vessels : named [pasted from the soemes of sarth, Cast, McKay has made a host of waem friends in the old Limestone City wines FRIDAY, Od | {Bill Johnston; and his river pirates. | tore on | in the year 1530 when he | is | was Walker, | | Tr MAY 29, 19508. ES ------------ NERY SUDDEN DEATH MRS. IRVINE PARKS PASSED TO REST, She Had Reached Sixty-Eight | Years of Ape--The Kilties i Band Gave a Fine Concert. | | Napmnee, May 29. --Another death ocourred, Wednesday when Mrs. Irvine Parks passed fter but a few days' illuess of Deceased about She Jes nig away Six ty- ves, bhe- tos, eight years was ol age. sides her husband, one daughter, Mrs, § {Ears Hufiman, Hay Bay. lt is just five weeks since her sister, Mrs, Jacks son, passed away. Mrs. Ibri Sills, still survives from a large family of twelve children. The funeral takes place, Friday afternoon, to Parks" cemetery, Hay Ray. The schooner Winnie Wing is un loading coal for Charles Stevens, Mr. and Mgs. W, H, Bourne and little son, | of Toronto, spent a few days this week with friends in town. Mrs, F.J L. Brawn, Niagara Falls, i the guest of Mrs. A. Alexander, ridge street. Miss Kdna G. Leitch Connolly, gra duaied on June 1st as a trained nurse from Brooklyn hospital. Harold Mar- tin returnd next week to Govan, Sask. | after spending a couple of weeks with his mother, Mrs. 8.7, Martin, J. F. Smith left for Chi ago, week, to present at the org tion exercises of his som. Charles, {will be a full-fledged dentist | Toesdayv, Mrs Hambly, wife of War den Hambly, il. Mrs. R, J. [Dickinson returned home this week {from a month's stay with her sister in { Picton, who Tas heen very iil The Kilties band gave in the driving park, the sister, this he » after is very a performance Tuesday after- 2th, on the previons dav. the awli fence was only fair, but those who at Hended sxpressat themselve eased with the mous hand. A very pleasant annual picnie took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs B. Miller, Morven. on May Cousins of Mrs. Miller from Oregon, Kingston, Consecon. r. Ni and Morven most on after the . d done ample luetica to, and music were on loved w hours. AN departed greatly pleased at the hospitality of Mr. and Mre. Miller. -------- Happenings At Harrowsmith, Harrowsmith, May 26 Farmers are finished seeding. William who has been laid up with a [lame knee for a week. has duties in the cheese The overland tower erected on the farm of J. Truse this vicinity, has been completed is eighty-five feet from the Mrs. D. Campsall,, of Harti said to be the first lady to 1 t The 18 rapidly. improving, under agement of ¥. H. Huffman. Some teresting matches are expected soon Ross Bertram, who 'has been Kingston General Hospital, with ty phoid fever, is convalescent. Visitor Mra. John Bertram, of Napanee, and William Bertram, of Parham at George Bertram's: Albert of Elkhorn, Ma: James Boyee's. as highly music of this fa | Tames 1 25th. [Portland | He 4 ent. Bath, were ance v nee The dav was lovable throughont and id rood things provided wer nea | Lyons, i resumed his factory, Survey to he in It ground it top of this tower ba he man mn in Patterson and wife itoba, at | Smith, of Enterprise, passe Saturday ev Ira away, on | daughter's, | funeral 10.30 a.m. t« | Harrowsmith | piest man in ening at Boyes ace, on Tuesday the Methodist Mr. vi George nt church, Publow is the hap to Bannockburn News. Bannockburn, May Miss Be | Wright, of Ottawa up to spend House,' continent, wi summer. Er v fishing Johnson, a girl » came {| Sunday at the "Mission we | fore leaving the {she will spend the | Chase has, returned at Maynooth Millbridge, Sani for was over Sunday, onl has gone to Cobalt. Henry Workman is, this week, wn the ottage to bridgis. Wil was thi buried un John Mrs moving fre | Kellar's { liam Cushman The Sunday held funeral Santord, on the | Ihe Orange } ane of ju locality, remains were der tha order, has just returned from Frankford and again at work at the COR. Israel McEwen expects to finish cut of th week Mrs, Samuel MeBwen very ill with pneamonia, Dr. of ado, is in attendance, argest ever James Sanford is sta tion. the season's logs Gardiner, Eldar Elginburg Echoes. Elginburg, May 28.--Charles 'Ewing in cularging his stables. Mrs. CG. Wood loft on Tuesday to see her sister. whol is home from 'Odessa, Mrs. Curram is very ill in Emerson, Man. Mrs. Ww. Lawson has gone for § vikdt to her daughter, Mrs, W, Smith, Messing, S. Jackson is having a wire fence erect ed. W. W, Kiell has built a new side walk in front of bis place on Church street, Visitors: Miss A. Alison, Ring ston, at her father's; G, Allison and wile at C. Houghston's. ------------ Two Aged Veterans. Belleville Intelligencer. Une of the most interesting sights at the parade on Sunslay waz Unlonel Sir Mackenzie Bowell and Rergeant Major Blaind, of the 49th regiment, [both decorated with their long serviee and Fenian Raid medals, leading the veterans on their march with the 15th regiment to bridge Street church, the Jot ages of the twain being 173 years, one being in ls eighty eighth year and the other in his eighty-fifth year. Notwithstanding their ages, at the word of command, they marched off jauntily, like "Boys of the Old Brigade." In addition 16 other ser vices Sergeant-Major Blaind did duty in the rebellion of 1837-8, $8,000,000 A Year. Toronto, May 29.-The Cobalt amp production of silver at. present is about ¥5.800.000 per annum, The profits in the mining snd dis- position of this amount of silver are anpum is represented hy about 490 mania with a total capitalization 5,000,000, yet ten companies of hig return after , and his ei "Ii amy fuses of of the above 490, with a capital of $19, . 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