4 12 PAGES -------------- YEAR 85. ¥O, 286 ol | MARINE WRECKING RECORD . DURING THE 1918 SEASON The Donnelly Salvage and Wrecking Company be Have Successfully Floated Nineteen Vessels on Lake and River. Nineteen vessels have gone ashore or been wrecked at this end of the lake and in the St. Lawrence as far east as Cornwall during the past season, and thes Donnelly Wrecking Company of Kingston released them all. This figure does not Jjnclude the sections of the Northwest and iMinola which foundéred during the past ten days and were lost. The list is: ' May 9th--iBarge Gladys H., coal Jadén, ashore below Cardinal. May 29-88. Westerian, ashore opposite Thousand Island Park. May "dlet---Stteamer H. E. Run- nells, coal laden, ashore below the North Channel. June 9th---Barge Melrose, laden with wheat, sunk in Cornwall canal. June 24th Barge Selkirk, ashore in Lachine lake. July 10th---Steamer Arabian, lad- en with war munitions and supplies PA A AAA AAA A CAPT, JOHN DONNELLY. BI AANA NNN rN Nf tf NPN for the Allies, ashore in Rapid' du Plat. \ Aug. 20%th---Barge Hilda, grain laden, ashore foot of Lake Ontario. Sept. 1G6th---Passenger stteamer Ossifrage. ashore: Tousant Island, below Cardinal, Sept. 29th---Steamer Omaha, coal laden, ashore near Carletton Island, below Cape" Vincent, Oct. bth---Barge Kingston, ashore foot of Lake Ontario. Oct. Tth--Scow Sandsucker, sunk in 76 feet of water below Brock- ville. Oct. 19%th--Schooner Derbyshire, coal laden, ashore pear Maitland. Oct, 20th---Barge Thomas Quaile, coal laden, ashore in Kingston har- bor. ve / . Nov. 4th----Barge John Gascon, laden with oats, sunk in Soulanges canal . Nov, 11th -- Steamer Omaha, ashore below Iroquois. Nov. ldth-~Steamer Stuart W., coul laden, ashore at Scow shoal, where steamer Keystorm was sunk,' Nov. 17th---Tug Mary, sunk in twenty-five feet of water below Iro- quois. Nov. 20th--Steamer City of Ot- « tawa, laden With cargo of muni- tions and supplies for 'the Allies, ashoré below Morrisburg. Nov. 28rd--Steamer Compton, ashore Goose Neck Island below Morrisburg. . The latter steamer. ran aground near Brockville some hours after being released and will be left in its present position until spring, i in Marine Salvage, maohange of marine salvage on Take Ontario the St. Lawrence river between . t Dalhousie and Montreal has ged greatly in the last decade. Formerly the Majos- ity of the accidents were to the old- time sailing yessels that plied Lake Ontario, either in the barley or timber trafle from Canadian to Am- erican. ports, or the wheat, trade | {from Chicago to Kingston, or the {square timber trade from the upper {lake ports to Garden Island, where ithe cargoes were unloaded, made up {into rafts, and floated down the St. {Lawrence river and raplds to Que- bec. wheré they were reloaded and sent to the European markets. Most all of this trade is a thing of the past. \ In the fall of the year snow storms caused great destruction to the grain fleet by stranding. Fully ten galling vessels have been stranded in one snow' storm, on the south side of Amherst Island, by one vessel following the Mghts of the vessel ahead, the master saying to his crew, "Well, I cannot see where we are going, but I guess the master of that vessel can," and then came to grief. The modern that run over the same course all season can time the' distance run 80 exactly that many of them see no land marks until they are close in- to the harbors. . When the sailing vessels went ashore on Lake Ontario laden with grain very little thought was given of salvaging the eargo. Steam pumps were placed on board and the cargo was pumped overboard until the boat was lightened emough to be pulled off by a wrecking tug. Now a lighter with a clamshell outfit is placed alongside the wreck and about two tons of wet grain a min- ute is hoisted out and put in the lighter The grain is reconditioned by drying and used for feed pur- poses. The work requiring the greatest wrecking skill years ago was the salvaging of the passenger steamers of the Richelieu and Ontario Navi- gation Company after they - had grounded in the rapids. In some cases the hull was so badly damag- ed that the boat was not worth sav- Ing, and after the wreckers had re- moved the machinery out. of the wreck, pontoons were built on board the boat and put down in the hold, chained in position and pumped out, which gave buoyancy enough to float the wreck out of the channel. The 'placing of wooden sheeting over the iron plating of the bottom of those steamers reduced the num- ber of aceidents very greatly. steal freighters The Donnelly Company. The Donnelly Salvage and Wreck ing Company of Kingston has been connected with this work for the past fifty years without failure. The late Capt. John Donnelly, father of the present head of this company, Was master wrecker and partner of Calvin & Breck, of Garden Island, n their salvage work from the early fifties up till 1888, when the Don- nelly Salvage and Wrecking Com- pany was incorporated. .o The salvaging of the steamer Rosedale by this company, when she went ashore on Charity Shoal, Lake Ontario, late in November, twenty- lone years ago, in three days after the failure of the underwriters to 1elease her, was one of the best pieces of salvage work done in this vicinity up to that time. The work of salvaging the Eugene Zimmer- man, sunk in the Soo river in 1906, laden with 9,000 tons of coal, was another Donnelly feat. A false bow 28 feet long and 25 feet deep was built in six days twenty miles from the seené of the accident, floated down and put in place. It was so good a fit that she was pumped out with a ballast pump. Releasing the steamers Notting- ham and Smith, which went ashore in the outer harbor of Buffalo, N.Y., during the hurricane of the 28th of January, 1907. when it was necessary to dredge a chaunel, 1,- 800 feet long, 175 to 500 feet wide and twelve feet deep to release them, was another wrecking job that stands to the credit of the Don- nelly Company, For the past fow years the mast- er mind of the Ddnnelly Wrecking Company has been John Donnelly cone of the leading marine men of Canada, who also holds the Queen's University degree of mining engin- eer. He has had great success in all his marine ventures, and the list given above shows that he has had a bugy season. APPROVE OF CHURCH FEDERATION PLAN Definite } Toward Union Taken by Phila= delphia Congress. Philadelphia, Dec. 7.--The pro- posed federation of churches " was approved and resoluti recom- mending the appoin t of an linterdenominational ittee of every Protestant faith and of the Lome and foreign m x La { TO GET EXEMPTION | Witnesses Declare $2,200 Was | Sum Demanded by Mont- magny Notary. Quebec. Dee. 7.--Further vi] dence of an astonishing character | was brought out at the resumption {of the enquiry into the charges of trafficking in military service ex- |emptions against George Pion, N.P., |of Montmagny, Omer Guay and Cap- tain Goulet, of this city. Adelard Dube, aged 23 years, of |Montmagny, one of the witnesses, swore that Abbe Lafaivre, assistant priest at Montmagny, had told him that he (the abbe) had heard that Plon had secured exemption for a number of young men, but that it would cost $2,000. The witness and his father had called to see Pion and 'had later come to Quebec and had met Pion and Guay. They were 40ld on that occasion that the exemption could not be given for less than $2,200, and the next Sunday, when they went to Pion's home at Montmagny to settle, Pion agreed to cut 'off $100 | Aubert Dube, father of the wit- | ness, corroborated his son's testi- | mony. He said that he had gone to | Pion's house one day and had given Pion's wife $500 in cash and a draft for $1,600, payable in three months. Other witnesses testified as to their paying over money to Notary Pion to obtain an exemption from the military service Mrs. 'Caron, wife of thie owner of the Courier, a weekly paper of Montmagny, stated that Pion offered to. get exemption for her son, if she would give him a note for $1,200. Mrs. Caron said the mote was duly turned over to Daily British KINGSTON. ONTARIO. 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