NO. IT 1S BELIEVED THAT THE ABANDONED FRENCH FORT Cie Interest has been revived in Carle- Niagara by the British in July, 1759, fton Island, in the St. Lawrence, not far from Kingston 3 re three top- pling chimneys stand sentry origin is lost in the legendary mists of early colonial days where "Bloomed the myriad celebrated King's garden and where subterranean caverns are reputed to conceal - a treasure buried by fons of the Orleans nobility. Ar- ticles recently appeared in Canadian journals seeking to identify the caying hulks whose timbers can be seen under the waters of the little the site of the old vessels of the more or less I French fleet that tradition va uttled somewhere near of Ontario when Wolfe's gave Canada fo the British. These old hulks, filled with blocks of jimestone from the nearby long- abandoned quarry at head of Carleton Island, are supposed to have heen a couple of stone barges that some time during the last century foundered at their moorings, Canadian anti-quarrians lately ving the matter hold them to have been French war schooners that have lain beneath the waters of the bay for more than a century and a dialf once roses of 'the bay below the vistory foot the into Part of French Fleet, The Canadian chroniclers their belief that the French war fleet on the lakes at the time of the British conquest of Canada on the "Memoir Upon the L war be- tween the French and inglish in North America, 1775-60," by M. Pouchot, tg be found in Roberston's 'Landmarks of Toronto," Vel. 111, pages 818-828, the writer having been a commissioner during the last days of the French regime under the Marquis de Vaudreuil, governor of Canada, who according to his ac- count, had charge of the building of the French lake flotilla at the time of the 'seven years war," and thereafter controlled the movements of the little fleet, His account is that two 10-gun schooners, the Iro- quois and Outaouaise, were bullt with several batteaux mounting each one swivel gun. The identify of the two French schooners chronicled in M. Pouchet's memoirs with the hulks to be seen beneath the-waters of Carleton Is- land bay rests, according to the Canadian journals, on & narrative penned half a century Or more ago by Capt. James C. Van Cleve, an Am- erican lake sallor, who in a hand- written volume adorned by colored drawings, details curious things he noted during fifty years on the lakes and refers to the old wrecks. Ac- found had a He cording to his narrative the French in 1756 had from six to ten brigs and schooners on Lake Ontario, six of which in July of 1756 chased the British commodore, Bradley, into Oswego harbor, At the seige of Fort fA i An Sf OVET | tive part in defending the post. the ruins of an old French fort whose | fore the surrender, Van Cleve de-' but the | 2 Jup L101] ea on fact or fancy, it but adds one | AT CAR {according to Van: Cleve's story, the | French schooner Iroquois, command- led by Captain LaForce, took an ac- Be- as- | serts, she left for Frontenac, now | Kingston, and following the fall of | Qiifebec and Montreal and the cess- | ation of the Canadas by the French, | but before the signing of the articles of capitulation, the Iroquois and | another vessel, the Outaouaise, were | filled with gravel and sunk in a little |'bay on the northwest shore of an ¢island three miles below a port on the American shore. Van Cleve, | while not giving his authority for his j ain that the French war schooners were sunk in a bay at the northwest corner of an-island, makes it appar- | ent by his description of the isle, its 'ruined stone fort shows the bay and its three sentinel chimneys, that the { place referred to is the bay at the { head of Carleton Island. . | Whether Van Cleve's narrative, | making the old wrecks that lie be- {neath about fifteen feet of clear | green water of the St. {the head of Carleton Island . war | schooners of the traditional fresh water navy of New France, is found- c | | more chapter to the many romanti legends that cluster around the island | The "arly history of the and the old forts erected there by the French and later rebuilt and strengthened by the British and nam- ed Fort ly lost, but so far as existing data go to prove there was a fortress there of considerable strength, held by the French, as early as when with fRe resr~ef the French { domain it fell into the hands of the | English Whether it antedates the {old French redoubt built on Six Town point in the present limits of Henderson, to guard the landing place where the trail to the Iroquois country began, is a matter of dis- pire 2 - tf Island a Supply Depot. { Sometime during the year 1774 the lisland, then known as Buck Isle, be- came a depot for supplies of several Quebec merchants trading with the Six Nations, and stores were built there forming part of the chain of such trading posts stretching west of Michimilmasnac. In 1775 the British government established in i the old French fort a quartermaster's depot, and a year later, when the Revolutionary struggle commenced, the island became the rendezvous for the tories driven from the Mohawk valley along with Sir John Johnsen, Col. Guy Johnson, the Butlers, John and Walter, and the Indian war parties under Brant or Thayenden- aga, Thither came Col. Barry St. Leger from Montreal, with his force of regulars and Canadians, to join with the tory corps and Indians for a descent upon Fort Stanwix, and there he was encamped for ten days. 1 | Name Changed. i When Sir Frederick Haldimand i succeeded Sir Guy Carleton as gov- ernor general of the Canadas, he de- cided to make the island a strongly fortified position, capable of checking any attempted invasion of Canada by | way of the lake and St. Lawrence, and he sent Lieutenant Twiss, Bur- goyne's chief engineer; Lieutenant Schank, of the navy, and Captain Aubrey with a battalion of the Forty- seventh regiment of the line, to re- duild the old French fort, estab! a ship yard and construct a navy. The rebuilding of the fort was commenced rin August, 1777, when the name of | the island was changed from Ded | Isle to Carleton Island. The work of perfecting the fort was not com- ; pleted in 1783, when on cessation of hostilities it was discontinued and and never resumed. The. work occupied three-eights of an octagon, extending back from the ' edge of the cliff overhanging the bay | where the supposed old French schooners lie and which faces to the Lawrence at/ island | Halidmand, is almost entire-| 1760, ] ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1916 LETON ISLAND CONTAINS A TREASU south-west, The rear was protected| violins you sent," the list including by a strong earthwork, a ditch 5 feet| the names of Capt. Andrus Bradt, deep by 24 broad and an outer para-| Royal Greens, (Sir Johnson's corps) ; pet of stone, a glacis of the same| Lieut, John Bradt, Dr. MacCorlin, E. material and a strong abatis. . In| Armstrong and W. B. Sherhain, the the center of each face of the ram-|amount sent in. payment ranging part, midway between the salients, | from 5 to 12 pounds sterling for each was a strong bastion for four guns, | "fiddle." That there were many of to enfilade the ditch. The scrap was| the fair sex at the old fort during verticla, protected by a cheveaux-de the Revolutionary days is shown by rise of cedar loge sharpened at the | references in letters to the arrival outer ends. The counter serap was| of tory familles, refugees from their also vertical, and beyond it was a homes in the Mohawk country, Cap- couvert way of about the same width | tain Frazer in a letter praises Molly as the ditch, The outer parapet and | CON BELIEVED. glacis were of stone. Bomb-proof Brant for her goed influence over barracks and magazines stood 'within | the Indians, but refers to the hand- the works, and a well reached below [some half-breed Catherine Montour, the level of the water of the bay.| Who is charged with Bliving urged on Along the face of the cliff was a the Indians in their flendish 'work strong wall of stone backed by earth,|at Wyoming, in asything but com- with two heavy batteries and water plimentary terms, though he admits batteries at a point under the ¢liff.| that garbed in velvet and wearing The which the fort|a profusion of jewelry, she 'looked stood was known as Government a queen.' point. The above description is giv-] The proceeding of the court mar- en in a letter from Captain Frazer | tial held at Fort Carleton, November | in command April 17th, 1780, and | 13th, 1778, are to found among preserved in the archives of the do- the Haldimand pa » Canadian ar- minion at Ottawa. | chives Series B. V@l. 127, page 8, ---------- | wherein Captain Aubrey had placed Cuarded During Revplution, | a foreman of offices mamed Robert Orders, accounts and letters from | Shuter under arrest because Shuter the officers of the old fort, still pre- had incarcerated one' of 'his men, served at Ottawa, show that in addi-| Charles Mullor, "for leaving work to fion to a battalion of the Forty-| Make window frames fer the.com- seventh regiment, under Lieutenant |Mmandant. Shuter was under orders (Irvine, the fort was garrisoned dur-|of Engineer Twiss and the court mar- ing the Revolutionary days by a bat-| tial exonerated' him. "Capt. Joseph {tery -of oyal artillery commanded | Anderson of the Royal Greens was | by Lieut." Glennie; the oyalist regi-| President of the cotrt, and the pro- | ment -of New York under -Captaln |Ceedings are detailed at great length. | MacKenzie, and that Johnson's | The "King's Garden," as the plot | Greens, composed of loyalists of the! of about twenty-five acres on thé Mohawk valley were stationed there | south shore of Carleton Island, where when not engaged in forays through | Tose bushes still grow in wild pro: | their former homeland. Here we fusion, is known to have been laid | plapned the raids upon Cherry Valley | 0ut by the French &t the time of {andWyoming, by -Brant and his| their occupancy of the place. Here, | braves and the Butlers and their [it is said, a French offiter who was | tory 'band | a noted botanist, endeavored to cul- { The frontiersmen of the colonial | tivate every flowering plant that | forces appear to have frequently | Would thrive in the slime, with the threaded the wilderness lying be- | Purpose of leading 'the Canadian {tween the Mohawk country and .the | Settlers to beautify their homes, and | island, as Captain MacDougal, whe | Over fifty varieties of roses alone superseded Captain Aubrey on ar | there it is assumed. When peninsila -on | { 14th, 1779, writes two days, after| Willlam Majo, Sr., of Cape Vincent, | taking command to General Haldih-| "OW upwards of 90, moved there in {mand, that he had some guards cap-| 1859, the plot was a vast field; of {tured from the eastern end of the flowers. { island, and on June 12th following | coniplains "'a soldier and negro were | captured not 500 vards from the | fort. The first Masonic lodge ever con- | vened in what is now Jefferson coun-| ty held its communication apparently 4t-old-Bors Carleton, being evidently a "military" lodge such as still exist among regiments of the British army, for'in a letter written by John Urqu- hart from Carleton island 'under date of January 9th, 1783, to Francis Gor-| ing at Niagara, the writer, after stats ing that a list of goods in a post storé of one Thomas Robinson has been made out to his clerk, R. Hamjlton, addsy. "The latter had the honor con- ferred upon him a few nights ago to join our Ancient Free and Accepted fraternity, with four more, in one night." cs Home of Smugglers, There is asserted to have been an | underground passage leading from the moat of the old fort beneath thé bed of the St. Lawrence to the great cave at Millens Bay, o ite, entered from the Pea and Weaver farms and never in recent years éxplored to its remote depths, It is known that from the cellars of the old hotel on Dodge's Point, opposite Carleton island,burn- ed down many years ago, a door opened. into a subterranean passage running under the river bed, and Stone rock of the island. This pass- age was\ claimed to have been the route by which many bales of con- traband merchandise - entered and | left the country, being the haunt, as was claimed of a band of smugglers. An old lumber craft sunk many years ago near the entrance to the harbor at the western end of the {island, was through the medium of the ro- mantic atmosphere hanging about you a list of the strings wanted, and | the place been coverted in an auda- also the names of each that got the | cious smuggler that, blown ashore, * . {sank with fabulous amounts of | moneys, silks, laces and Canadian | brandies. Many legends tell of kegs of doub- Islanders Fond of Music. The same letter shows that the dwellers at the old fort in the midst | of the wilderness were musically in- | clined, for the writer says: "I send a $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper. will be | pl 10 TRIN (hat he 1a ay hax) loons and jewelled swords buried on one dreaded disease that seience has | the island by the French when they been able to sure in all Its stages, pie vacuated the place, and the soil of at 3s eatarrh. Cathre NE greatly {the King's Gardens has been dug over influenced by comstitutional conditions |. requires constitutional treatment. | 8t intervals for a century past for Halts Catareh Cute Is taken Suterraily buried treasure, the hunters having a acts through the blood on the mu- secured many flint arrow heads, coug surfaces of the system, thereby | : destroying the foundation of the dis. Stone tomahawks and old military ade giving ae Patient strength i buttons. an up the' Collstitution and assist-| Col, Austin Horr of Cape Vinceht ing nature in wWeing work. The * proprietors have m0 SN faith inuthe Often asserted that he once rowed a curatixe powers of Halls ata © re' stranger to the island, who, on the 3 ey offer ne undred rs i 3 return trip, brought with him a de- | for a ras bt it fafls t . 8 Lon Joy care tint.it fills to cute. Sénd |, in. Don-bound chest, encrusted EY & CO, To-| with earth, which he took across to Address: ¥, J. ohk ledo, Ohlo. Sold by all Druggists, 75e¢. | the stranger to place aboard the train just before it started, and which he believed to have contained the treasure reputed to have been buried in the "King's Garden." No! { Syrup, during the past few relieve a chronic cough 1 to violent coughing fits at night and ug Mrsetly. i ia he mon . | friends ¢ informed me wd There are many imitations of "Dr. Wood's" on the markét so see t TMITATED KAISER. German Officer's Wit Saved Him--A Pre-War Story. 'Among the officers [of William IL's suite a certain young captain has an extraordinary gift for imita- tion. A few months before the war, this captain was in one of the rooms of the lmpe. al Palace at Potsdam with other officer friends. He began to amuse himself by imitating the Emperor with amazing exactitude; the timbre of his voice, the tone, the gesture, the demeanor, all were ua- mistakable. ' "Suddenly there was a tense sil- ence; William II. had just burst into the room where his aides-de-camp were. The officers saluted respect- fully, and remained motionless. " 'Well! continue, ordered the Emperor, addressing himself to the captain. 'I did not know that you bad this gift.' "The officer hesitated for a se- cond, then, stretching out- his arm, and reproducing the intonation of his Sovereign, he said in a loud voice: '* 'Captain, you deserve to be dis- missed from the army, but out of consideration for your youth, and because I know you to be a brave and gallant soldier, I forgive you.' "That day William gave an ex- ample of marvelous leniency--he did not punish the captain." "The Emperor had, until recent- ly, a barber who was an expert at the business, but who always arriv- ed late. In order to cure him of his want of punctuality, the Emperor presented him with a splendid gold chronometer. The barber, however, was no more punctual than before. ** 'Have you still my watch? Wil- liam, losing patience, asked him at last '" 'Of course, your Majesty.' * 'Well, since it is no good, take this one instead,' the crestfallen barber the gold chro- nometer, he. gave him in exchange a nickel turnip that may have been worth five marks.""--The Two Wil- liams: Studies of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, by Paul Louis Hervier. A Bishop's Hymn ef Hate, While official Germany loses no chance of berating England as the arch-enemy, German clericals illus- trate their conception of Christianity by applauding murder. For instance, | Bishop Kaftan of Kiel offers up the! following blasphemous prayer of thanksgiving: "Let us thank Him who is not only the God of the Germans but the God of other nations, too, for His merciful support, if He allows our submarines to torpedo all Am- erican vessels and others carrying supplies to our enemies, quite re- gardless of how many and how im- pudent the Ameticans on board may hinge: Sa ho ven Gor en, but w ps 'e mans to do it, and ae ides wish it to continue with still greater success? England. Thank God, England's insular security is forever. May a hundred more pr pelins be visited upon ber, and shou they ever succeed in dropping bombs i y on the Bank of England, what a sociéty would be received. Our presi-| Jaiiiod so have Srminated in ome heartfelt cry of jubilation would re- [dent interviewed the president of the sound throughout Germany, consid- ering that it was for money that Great Britain started the war," Prince John. Prince John bas reached the man- ly age of eleven. He is the young est and most mischievous of their Majesties' five sons, and consequent- ly a great favorite with the retinue at the Palace, who love his little jokes. He is a bright and in teresting little chap, and has not yet made up his mind which he favors most--the navy or the army, for, while he always pays tribu fo the senior service by wearing darill or reefer suits, he never tires watching the soldiers @ near Ma home, Prince ohn 18 ah a taste of pu ife, for various mother has taken him to functions with his golden-haired sis- ter, of whom he is immenssly proud --Princess Mary. \ : War Economy. In the third-class compartment of the train the conversation turned on the important subject of war econo {the Cape in the skiff, and assisted) least statement. "Fact!" said the small one, brief-, ly, as he lit his pipe. { out of jail next week." And taking from | SECOND SECTION | instead of a cell in thé police stat- (Continued from Page 1.) So clear is the law on this point, that during his two years ofl office our agent collected and paid in- | to the funds of our local institution | for the care of -children, upwards of | $1,500. Until this year no request for maintenance was made upon city or county-----the grants given being ac- cepted in lieu thereof. But at the be- ginning of the year a bill for main- | tenance was presented to the society | by the management of the Infant's! Home. Later a similar account was Went in from St. Mary's-on-the-Lake; | the latter going direct to the city was | paid by the City Treasurer. | The authorities of the Orphans'| Home never asked for maintenance, | and so far as we are concerned, there has never been any friction between | us and that most excellent institu-| tion. But they gladly accepted what | was collected from other municipali- | ties; and as the city grant to the home ($175, less $59 for garbage collection), did not begin to cover the maintenance of our wards in the | hoine, we decided to ask for the pay- ment of the minimum of $2 a week from city and county, for the main- tenance of its wards in our charge, not only In St. Mary's-on-the-Lake, and the Infants' Home, but in the Orphans' Home as well. Does it sound an unreasonable thing to do? Mr. Kelso, superintendent of ne- glected children for the province, in- formed us that in coming to this de- cision we were acting in accordance with the instructions given agents by his department, though he thought we had certain children too long on our hands. But how could we get rid of these when we had no money with which to advertise their pres- ence, not only here, but in other parts of Ontario. The Shelter, Third: 'In regard to the shelter. The need of adequate shelter for our children has been felt for many years. On the first page of Mr, Kel- 80's report to the Provincial Secre- words: "During the year, quite a humber of societies have been able to secure the full time service of an, inspector --an indispensable factor in success- ful work--and in several counties , Children's Shelters have been pro- : vided. Both of these essentials have yet to be obtained in five or six counties.' Until the present year we managed fairly well, until the situation be- came acute for the following rea- sons: 1. A formal notification was re- ceived from the Infants' Home to the effect that a resolution had been pas- 'sed that no move infant wards of the | homé and urged that the decision should be reconsidered. The ans- wer was a second letter reiterating the decision. 2. The Orphan's Home could only receive children up to twelve years of age, and the worst of the immoral cases naturally could not be taken { there. What were we to do with these and the older ones? Of the {latter, the number recently was un- fortudately quite large. 3. The need of a detention room, ' for "Seal Bra spoonful in Ia ¥%, 1 and 2 pound tins. tary you will find him using these! fine ground for Percolators. Never sold in bulk. CHASE & SANBORN, MONTREAL. SER ion for the temporary holding of boys and girls in custody was strongly elt. Five years ago an arrangement was made by the city with the Sal- vation Army, with the special pur- pose of providing for a place for those guilty of an infraction of the curfew law. Mr. Graham at the an- nual meeting gave an explanation of why the arrangement fell through. It was not that brought to us by our agent at the time. We didyall we could to make ar- rangements for our wards and failed. We then appegled to the. city and county councils, pointing out that the law read that the municipality must provide a shelter or make adequate arrangements - with the existing homes. We were referred to a joint meeting of the finance committees of both councils, | We attended the meeting, confi- | dent that a solution would be found. We stated our case again, and the matter was referred to a comnrittee, consisting of the mayor of the city and warden of the county, who were to investigate and report to us. We have not yet heard from that com- mittee. In July we appealed again to the ity council, and were informed that both our matters would be treated by the finance committee. The de- cision of that committee we have not yet received. ~ After waiting until after the first September meeting of the council we decided to make another appeal, but instead of sending andther deputa- tion, to have the solicitor write a letter stating the claims and asking that it be met. But this again brought no answer. Rendered oe, In desperation we decided that th. only thing to do was to take our claim to the courts. Not -one of us desired litigation, but we felt there was no other course open fd us if our matters were to receive the attention we felt they deserved and must have, unless the society was to shut down its work. When we heard of the appeal to the head of the Provincial Depart- ment to come and straighten out the difficulty we were glad indeed. In our conference with him we tried to make it clear that what we were seeking was accommodation for our wards. If suitable arrangements could be made with the homes al- . ready existing for the younger 'chil- {dren we would be perfectly satisfied. But in addition we wanted accom- modation for the older ones, in which a detention room or rooms could be provided. We asked Mr. Kelso to make that clear in any meetings he ; had with the city officials. The idea of a $30,000 building never occurred | to us in our wildest dreams. | However, the responsibility is now | off our shoulders, and on others who {have our heartiest good wishes. If they could have been members of the society at any earlier date there is no doubt that our difficulties could | easily have been met and overcome | We did our best and failed. The new | council, with an energetic inspector, | will see the same need as we did, and seeing it will meet without the difficulties that we encountered. On behalf of,the executive of 1915- {1916: Douglas Laing, T. W. Savary, | G. M. Macdonnell, K.C., Archdeacon | Dobbs, Unless the poultry dealers unex- pectedly reduce their present prices, only United States plutocrats will "celebrate" Thanksgiving with the gobbler this year. The price of the restive bird to the ultimate consumer is now 34 or 35 cents & pound. The treat that its lovers learn to expect from a cup of "SEAL BRAND" COFFEE, is always realized to the full __ nd" holds its aroma and flavour to the last e air-tight can. --ground--pulverized--also 183 a