PAGE FOUR Classy Tweed Hats and Caps "THE CLUB" 112 Princess St. WE ARE MAKING A HOLLER ABOYT Bob Sleigh Coupling because we know f is fhe best thing that ever te Sleighs. If you are subject to Hobslelgh trouble you ean not afford to do without ome. McNAMEE & SLACK AT THE OLD KELLY SHOP 54 QUEEN ST. Phone 1217w, LAKE ONTARIO'S RECORD {OF MYSTERIOUS ANCHS OF | The Last to Founder Was the Homer { Warren of Toronto--Sinking of the {| Queen of the Lakes and Boats. Toronto Telegram Did the "Homer Warren," wallow- ing In the welter ilky slumbering seas as she push her ay bome- { wards just a week ago to-night. hear the throb of the "Ontario's" long lost drum? King George 115. had a sloop of { war on this lake while the Thirteen Colonies were fighting the War of i Independence 8he was the flagship {of the fleet, and mounted 22 guns Commodore Andrews com nded her. In the year 1780 she took on board a detachment of the 8th King's Regiment under Col. Burton, at Nia- gara, and siiled for Oswego--at that time a British port A tremendous storm arose at night, and the "On. tario" and the hupdred and seven- ty-two seamen and soldiers who em- barked in her, were never seen again The only trace of her was the drum of the Sth King's Regi- ment, tossing among the breakers un- der the hill that overlooks Oswego harbor. : The King's schooner "Speedy" sailed from here on the 7th of Octo- { ber, 1804, with the most notable com- pany on hoard that had yet voyaged j out of the undeveloped harbor of York. It included Mr. Justice Coch- [ rance, Chief Justice of the province {of Upper Canada; Mr. Robert J. D { Gray, Solicitor-General; Mr. Angus | McDonell, Advocate, and member of { the House of Assembly; Mr. John | Fisk, high constable of York and | Mr George Cowan, Indian agent | There was also on board an Indian { Ogetonicut, held for the mur- der of John Sharpe, of the Queen's Rangers. The Indian was being tak- A AA VESSELS nan A i { i i DISAPPEAR-| Other | "oR fire blazed on Presqu'isle Pg | i {| But a northeast gale BRINGING UP FATHER on to Presqu'isie for trial. The voy-: BE was to effect the ina i if » of Presqu'isie as the capit the} new district of Newcastle i Had the trial proceeded Presqu'isle | "ROW a summer cottage resort, near | the Bay of Quinte--would possibly | have become the ial capital. | the bea- | int | and all her! provin« ¥ arose in vain, and the "Speedy" ompany---twenty souls rpear ed In the darkness. till the sea gives | up its dead. i Still on stormy nights old sailors | listen for the throb of "On- torie's' drum, and booming of the "Speedy's" minute-gun; but many & good ship has gone down since then In the same lake, leaving éven les- trace the the A Lake of Riddles. The stranger, even the landsman dwelling on its placid shores cannot! realize the irresistible fury of Lake Ontario roused. It is just a little lake, smallest of the five sisters----Ontario, Erie, Hu- ron, Superior, Michigan. Two hun- dred miles long from end to end. Fifty miles wide at its widest. Girdled by towns and cities within an hour's run of each other, all the way round, by train or trolley It has béen crossed by a tiny sailboat with bows rising only: six inches above the water level Only three months ago canoeists paddled across without mishap. And yet the 'Homer Warren" is only one of hundreds of ships that have been engulfed in On- tario's raging waters mysteriously sitice they closed on the "Ontario" and the "Speedy" over a century ago Sheltered city dwellers, for whom the "Homer Warren' was bringing vinter coal, would be incredulous ver the length of voyages Cargo vessels have to make on Lake On-| -the length, that is, in time, ra- her than distance. ario { snow and wind for weather The schooner "S. H. Dunn" left Toronto one November for hard coal. A pris os os THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Oswego is only 150 miles from 8 southeasterly direction, and the "Dunn" bad to get her coal st Pair haven, which §8 15 miles from Os- wego Ske left November, of Fairhaven she had to put inte Charlotte for shelter. She lay there for a week, with a mixture of rain, At last she reached Fairhaven, loaded her coal and started homewards. She got as far as Charlotte again, and again had to put into the Gene- Ses river mouth, There we lay, day after day, week after week praying for a favoring "slant." Sometimes it was blowing a gale, sometimes it was just sulking. Usually the wind was dead ahead, but even when it Toronto dn the 7th of | would come "fair" for home ft would threaten to chop round ere Toronto { ight could be picked up Voyage of 171 Days. Finally the schooner was frozen in. The erew stripped her for the winter and came home by train, ar- riving in Toronto on Christmas Day They went back for the "Dunn" and salled her up the following April, cempleting a round voyage of 27¢ miles in 171 days! And were the owners angry? They should not have been. At the end ofthe 171 days they had their schooner and their coal. The own- érs of the schooner "Queen of the Lakes," which loaded coal in Char- lotte while the "Duna' lay there had neither The "Queen" waited three weeks for favorable weather. She was bound for Kingstogy and the wester- ly winds, which held the "Duan," were home winds for her. One morn- ing in December, with a bright sky and soaring clouds, she made & start. She slipped out of the river under half sail. Before they got the mis zen hoisted on her the wind freshen- ed to a gale. She fled before it, re- ducing her already small canvas as To- | she ran { Tonto, diagomally across the lake, in | { ward bound. with a Within three hours' sail | iclous and passed away {to from Char-{ 2 Thi i= off shore, she i lotte, and eigh went to the Ix No one has ever f« 1 out what happened the Tort schooner | "Emerhid." She left Charlotte home| fair wind The } steam barge "Van Allen" passed in the dusk. She was well on her way and the two saluted, for the lake is a lonely place in the 11 of the year and "last: trippers'"' are more kindly to one another than whén the 'summer brings out crowds of| traffickers. The "Van Allen" arrived | in Toronto next morning without any | thing happening The *"Emeraid™ | should have come in that night, or} the next day at the latest, but she] never came. And no one knows) why. | Did she, too, hear the throbbing of | the drum of the long drowned "On-| tario?™ i INI AR Il PEMBROKE LOSES CITIZEN Walter Beatty Passed Away After] Paralytic Stroke. i Pembroke, Nov. 7.----Pembroke was greatly shocked on Wednesday night on learning of the passing away of Waiter Beatty, a very prominent and respected resident, at the age of seventy-eight vears Mr. Beatty worked at his planing factory util 4.30 o'clock, when he was sfeied with a paralytic stroke and being removed to his home became uncou- 7.45 pm The late Mr. Beatty was an elder of the Calvin church He leaves mourn his sudden : sons, Herbert J., and We the Misses Nellie, Alma Pembroke, and Mes. Kay of Smith's Falls. will take place frdm dence, Commercial afternoon. re ------ Miss C. P. Disney, clair fastest female swim Britain, is now in where she expects swimming contests i h street, Friday A Esther Devlin and {two Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) g {accepted er AA AA A re Ar FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1010. A ISAAC ZACKS FOR WINTER OVERCOATS NOW MEN! If you want an up-to-date OVERCOAT we have séme exceptionally . fine lines of Winter Coags. correct styles, best qualities, best workmanship--no bet- ter in the city at these prices--good value-- $32.50, $35.00, $38.00 and $40.00. Men's Tweed, Worsted and Serge Suits All different styles and shades. These Suits will give you satisfaction and you will never regret that you bought them from us. Prices $25.00, $30.00, $35.00 and $40.00 ISAAC ZACKS 271 Princess Street A LL A ~---- Troski,| Mrs. Margaret A. Waiston of Jack-, 1s, have sonville, Fla, is the only woman inj the world who makes Tpsin iypes, i AAA mii By GEORGE McMANUS > ™ DO HAPPY - | HIRED A NEW SERVANT - SHE'S A + WONDERFUL BR FORME YO HAVE A CALLER? MRONGLS - 19 IT ALL RIGHT ' | 7 CERTAWLY PARY -. HE 1D ONG, TO CALL Iam the advertising man for the LION Clothing House. I am out on this page to-day looking right at you, to tell you about LION O treat it with bare fists, using no Silk Gloves to they "ain't." The kind of truth I shall tell wi will it be so Jame that it needs a crutch. VERCOATS. In treating the subject I shall cover an iron hand or make things ill never need A PROP TO Things will be called by their seem what LEAN ON, nor right names. Wool all mixed up, to coax isn't CRIMINAL, but . with me is Wool, Cotton is Cotton and I don't intend to get the terms you into this store or get you into LION CLOTHES. Bad English words that mislead you are, so trust me to be mighty careful what I tell you. That said, I'll now come to my subject. You'll see models thought out, and wrought out by the best talent this store can buy. You will see every good color born with the present season. You will see every fabric that's fit for an Overcoat and every style if there is any style to it. Now that's what a trip to this store means and that's what the LION OVERCOAT stock "mounts to. So come in when you're out for yours. 1 have pow had my say for to-day and later on I'll say more--all for the * ; Special Sale of Overcoats AN EXTRA HEAVY, FORM-FITTING, DOUBLE BREASTED OVERCOAT TO GO AT $25.00. (Only a Limited Quantity). - e Lion Clo ie THE BARGAIN SPOT OF KINGSTON i Look for the Lion inthe Window. 11 3 347 King Street, Near Princess Strast