-- wo MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920. FIX-A-TEAR ftepairs a Hole or Tear Instantly ~Iin rubber and waterprpof cloth ~--ot Water Bottles --Bieyele or Motor Car Tires. ~Garden Hose. \ ~ Ji bbers. Footballs. ~=Shve Linings, ete. &@ wonderful repair eutfit 35 CENT? For sale at all Drug Stores, or at Best's Drug Store 124 Princess St. A ae | Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. Insure Against After Regrets by Using Glasses Prescribed, Made and Fitted by Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. The optometrist of to-day to do good work must not only be equipped with the best mechan- ical apparatus but must have || that knowledge in its use { WHIEH ONLY LONG EXPERI- ENCE CAN GIVE. { It is this combination of mind and machinery of experience and equipment that makes || Keeley's service umfique in || Kingston. ll | | | mutor, the cylinders | age and power an less gas. RATE, KINGSTON WELDING SHOP T HE DAILY BRITISH WHIG | FORT HENRY, 18121914 | We are fully equipped fo fill all your Optical | Needs Promptly and Accurately. Doctor's Perscriptions carefully filled. NEW LENSES and FRAMES and other repairs quickly made. supplied Marriage Licenses Wedding Rings WN \ SMITH BROS. mS Established 1840 KING ST. KINGSTON | tial. Car Owners Let us drive that knock from your by burning the carbon from You will get more mile- %0 CENTS PER CYLINDER 43 PRINCESS STREET. ° The ond with the heaviest cross may do the least mourning. - Preserving Time NOW IS THE TIME to put in your supply of Granite- ware. We have a well-assorted stock on hand and at a very low price--prices which will make you feel happy with your purchase. » ~Granite Tea Pots, ~(iranite Sauce Pans. ~Granite Wash Bowls, ~Preserving Kettles. ~--Pudding Pans. --Granite Water Kettles. ~-Large Granite Spoons. ° This Sale Opens 'at 9 a.m. Tuesday and it will continue till Thursday at 5.30 p.m. providing goods last. Everything marked in plain figures. MCKELVEY & BIRCH, LID. THE BIG BUSY HARDWARE W. A. MITCHELL, Manager PHONE 287. Hardware Department. BROCK STREET Bed Room Furniture We are showing sone very fine designs in Bedroom Furniture. These suites are made of the best Black Walnut and Ma- hogany and are composed of the following pieces. The popular Vanity Dresser, fitted with three large mirrors and six drawers (three on each side). The Chiffrobe contains three linen drawers and three standard deep drawers. A Bed, with square or round cornered foot board. A Bench for Vanity Dresser. A Low. Rocker and a straight backed Chair. * . Make an early selection while the stock is large 1.F. Harrison Co, Lid. | nians. - (Continued From Saturday.) A pair of field-glasses used 'at twenty paces distance and at about o'clock on a sunny afternoon four will permit one to decipher the en- siderable graving quije readdy, but unless + these diréctions can be complied witis a 'ladder will be found necessary. The record thus left may well be envied by later generations for the proud economy of these early build- ers was well matched for the strength and excellence of their handiwork. The decline in the prosper- ity of Kingston, which hegan with the removal of the seat of government to Montreal in 1844, meant the wane of Fort Henry, its Importance dwindled still more as the long decades 'of peace passed by and the menace of border warfare was forgotten. British regulars were withdrawn from all Canada except | Halifax and Esquimalt. In the spring of 1885, during the unrest of the second Riel Rebellion, Major Joseph | Power and three companies of the 14th Regiment occupied the Fort once more as a precaution against possible attacks from American Fe- No attack ever came, and many Kingston belles of thirty-five years ago can still remember the dances in the Officers Quarters and the tennis parties in the <Lower Square that made that summer the brightest and most picturesque chap- ter in the whole history of the old ruin. That same autumn it was evac- uated once more and left empty ex- cept for a solitary caretaker and occasional : parties of the Canadian Ordnance Corps, who stored hera the munitions of the distritt. And as the years went by, many traditions came to gather about the old fortress, and the Childhood of Kingston was nourished on strange tales of the neighboring citadel. One of the most persistent of these stories. tells how the fort was built wrong way round and how the en- gineer who was guilty of this blun- der committad suicide while on his way back to England for court-mar- On making invéstigation, how- ever, I have been unable to find any chronicled corroboration of this *le- | gend, and careful examination of the | fort itself seems to prove that those | who planned and built it made no {such mistake. The basis for the | traditional arguments lies in the four {facts that (1) the entrance to the {fort is on the south side, facing the lake, (2) the moat on the north side {of the main fort is half as wide and {deep again as that on the south side, | (3) this northern portion of the |moat is rendered more effective by la caponiere in the centre and reverse | tire chambers in the extreme corners, {as well as by deep niches in the {angle walls to cause ricochets, while ithe moat on the south side has none {of 'these advantages, and (4) in the | Advanced Battery, added six years lafter the assumed blunder, nine {heavy guns were placed, as if to | safeguard -the entrance." The vital | point overlooked, in all such theoriz- {ing is that the War of 1812 had shown that an attack was to be look- ed for, not from the water, but from /the mainland. A hostile Great Lakes [fleet of that day could hope to play only a supporting role to a land force by an embarrassing bombard- {ment of the fort or the nearby city. | An invading army was by no maans {obliged to make a landing at the {foot of Point Henry and make a |cinematograph attack wap the bare, | steep, cannon-swept hill. Indeed, {any sane commander, as the fort- | builders - doubtless realized, would {land with impunity farther down the | shore, mags his troops out of gunshot, and then attack in force from the north. To meet such an attack the moat defences on the north were made doubly strong. And to prevent such a detachment from encompass- ing the fort and perhaps forcing the entrance by a surprise attack, the auxiliary moats were built, cutting the head of the point off from tha mainland and making it a compact defensive unit, capable of handling assaults from any direction. There seems to be every reason to balieve that the builders of 1832 would smile at the tale of their supposed mistake. Another local myth tells of secret passages which connect the Fort with | its Martello towers, with Fort Fred- |erick, even with Kingston. Another tunnel is supposed to lead under an arm of the St. Lawrence to York Redoubt, a small tower built on Cedar Island ten years after the fort was completed; and still an- other is fabled to have once opened 3 f out on Bar ld Commons, five hundred yards to the north, but to have had its outer entrance filled in with stones." As I was for some con- me onthe staff at..Fort unequalled opportunities for exploration; and made use of them all I examined minutely the official plans .of the fort; 1 sought out and cross-questioned every King- stonian wha! was reputed to have {seen the passages; I probed every isqrare foot of the citadel, giving " waus and floors 'a sledge-hammer test; I explored the moats and the Yartello towers, and went carefully over all ground within half a mile {of the fort; I made a special trip to Cedar Island and tested York Re- doubt inside and out; I offared un- official rewards to the men of the guard for any evidence of the tradi- {tional tunnels; and the net re- {sults were these: (1) I found ithese long subterranean and sub- {marine passages had apparently no objective existence. Indeed, the (service by which they could have justified construction is ex- tremely problematical, and the un- der-water portions would have been almost certainly impracticable at that time. - (2)- There are, howeaver, con- Henry I [nected closely with the fort, under- | {ground cells known technically as reverse fire chambers. These are constructed on a level with the moat floor and in its outside wall. The Imain moat contains two sets of theso chambers, built under 'its north-east and north-west cormers respeetively. Each set consists of gix chambers, three along each side of the coruer. {The upper or more northefly set in leach case was armed with three carronads, commanding the moat floor through small embrasures; the |two other sets were desjgned for | musket defence, and had oniy nar- row slits for fire purposes. Con- {necting these chambers ~ with the main fort are genuine underground passages which descend by stone |staircases far under the mioat and {then rise again on the inner s!de into rooms at the corners of the fort. | Visitors to the fort in the days of its {decline were usually taken through |these passages, and the dank walls and stalactitic ceilings perhaps made {many credulous of the imaginative lyarns of their cicerone, the -care- {taker. Reverse fire chambers are also to be found at each end of the moat in front of the Ailvanced Bat- Itery. These are large singie rooms, reached by'stone staircases from the |distal casemates on each side, and are redolent of rats and seeping sew- age. (3) A small stons passageway opens out a few feet from the south end of the bridge over the west auxi- !liary moat. It is wall nidden by long (grass, and would only bes delacted {after a carefull search. It led down jinto the moat, but is now partially |broken away at tha inner end. (4) { There are also two stons drains lead- ing 'from refuse-traps in the lower square, one under the west minat and |down to the shore by the Martello |tower on Navy Bay; the other under {the fort ia a south-easterly direction, opening out far down the slope to- wards the eastern tnwer. Neither {cloaca is more than threa feet square iin cross-section, and though a hardy | dog might come and go by this route, {it is obvious that human baings never {intended to do so.. I was unable {to find any other trace ot the tun- [nels sworn to by tradition. i And thus Fort Henry grew old and its past became veiled about with tradition. The 2lements worked their will, unchecked, on the grey lime- stone walls; year by year the rock crumbled and fell; grasses grew in the chinks of the slabs; weeds and even shrubs came to join them in their work of destruction; the roofs rotted, untended; the cannon grew thick with rust; here and there the heavy facing of the moat bulged and fell away; the front of the main fort began to totter; everywhere the blight of time and neglect laid waste the citadel. Little came to break the dusty silence of the spot. In 1894 a gunner named to pieces by the accidental discharge of a time-gun. In the fall of 1908 the victims of Kingston's smallpox epidemin were housed for a time in some of the lower casemates. But still the slow decay went on, unheed- ed, and when, in 1914, the country- side awakened at the tumult of a world at war and men sought to utilize the stronghold of earlier days they found it a sty of mouldering desolation. --WATSON KIRKCONNELL. | WANTS RE-OPENING OF WOLFE ISLAND CANAL | The Cape Vincent Eagle La- ments Loss of Excursions From Kingston. * The Cape Vincent! N.Y., Eagle la- ments the fact that the Wolfe Island canal has not been made navigable. The Canadian government has not maintained this waterway during the past decade and the Eagle suggests that merchants of Kingston and Cape Vincent bring the matter before the Canadian authorities that action nay be taken to dredge the canal. By boat the distance to Kingston is about twenty-five miles. The island lies between the two cities and stea- mers must go around the foot or ar- ound the head of the island. The ca- nal formerly cut the distance in two. Commenting on the loss of the wa- terway, the Eagle says: "Many there are in this village who will recall the time when the fare for Cape Vincent people was only a half dollar for the round trip. when scores and scores of Cape Vin- cent people could be seen on the streets of Kingston, and Saturday af- ternoons when the Cape was invaded by 'hundreds of Kingstonians, who made the round' trip for 25 cents. These Kingston people spent consid- cent people did in the Limestone City Iy. '""And the ' Wolfe Island which has been closed so long, was mainly responsible for the condi- tions that existed in those days. It mattered not how rough it was on Lake Ontario, or the St. Lawrence river either, there was the capal-- without a ripple and as peaceful as a mill pond--a safe, short, and direct a erable money here, just as Cape Vin- | and all enjoyed themselves immense- | canal, ; route to and from. Kingston. The trips through the old canal were heartily enjoyed by all who made them. is changed. Now and then the steam- er will bring over a small excursion from Kingston, but it is very seldom that you see many Cape Vincent peo- ple in Kingston at one time. The dis- tarice around the head of the island and the short time given passengers in the Canadian city 1s the cause, no doubt. '"The closing of the canal has caus- €d the merchants of Cape Vincent and Kingston to lose money during all these years, and there ought to be some way by which it can be dred- ged out, thereby making a short 'Limestone City.' Just how it can be done, the Eagle will not attempt to say, but we hope that some of the energetic business men of Kingston More People than ever before are drinking INSTANT PosSTUM because Popular of its fine flavor, health re a ei Sold everywhere by grocers i ' re Marsh was blown | "Since the closing of the canal all' 1oute between this village and the! 2 ~ PROBS : Tuesday, showery. 0 : = - Of Autumn Millineny and A A Tomorrow & Wednesday Ready to Wear ' take pleasure in In conjunction with the leading Millinery Shops of this city we making this special announcement. wonderfully with the EE tyn, Velvets, Satins and Metallic, enhanced with elaborate ery, ostrich or other fashionable feathers. Our Millinery Salon under the direction of Mrs. Roberts, presents the most authoritati ve showing high grade Mil- linery ever our privilege to show on an opening day. With-the near approach of autumn season the Millinery Salon looms forth in a wreath of new and rich shades -- colors that blend new Fall Coats and Suits--developed in Duve- embroid- = Prices are pleasantly moderate and really lovely Hats can be had for $7.50 to $15.00. All in all this is the most iniviting collection of Hats we have ever exhibited. TC Ra may bring the matter before the Ca- nadian government and that action may be taken whereby the Wolfe Is- fit for navigation." | { | DR. M. ARNOLD : French physician who has discovered {| a method of curing gassed and tuber- { cular soldiers' by inhalation 'of the es- sence of cloves and eucalyptus under i steam pressuse. 4 NO land canal will be dredged and made teacy's - Limite = a All ERT I Summer Fruits and Pure lee Cream We have all kinds of Fresh Fruits arriving daily CHOICE PEACHES, PEARS, CANTELOPES, ORANGES, BANANAS, ETC. MASOUD'S PURE ICE CREAM in bricks or bull FRUITLAND : ' ALLAN MASOUD, PROP. 848 Princess Street. : 3 : : Phone 904 EGG COAL . .. STOVE COAL . NUTCOAL ...... Pea Coal ...$16.50 per ton ...$16.50 per ton ......$16.50 per ton 15.00 per ton Carrying 50c. 4 PHONE 155. ALL SALFS FOR CASH. Phone orders O.0.D. SOWARDS COAL CO, A quiet wedding took place at Mt. Mrs. G. W. Weston daughter of St. Patrick on Wednesday morning | the late Mr. and Mrs. omas Storey, when John P. Herely and Miss Mary | Escott, Ont., died recently at Utlea, A Maloney were joined in matri-| N.Y. Deceased was forty years ol . lived most of her lie ja Eeogtt. . "Te msm itl sonnitab dealin