AITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917. CAMS BLY SHOE S THE DAILY Hough's History of Jefferson County, (published in 1854) on page 349, a drawing of the "Ontario," in which {she is represented with paddle | S-------- | wheels on her sides and a large walk-| SENSE OF SECURE POSSESSION | ingbeam and smoke stack amidships | OF COURTLAND SHAKEN {and rigged with two masts for sails. | The aecount of this boat found on| The Russian Advance at Riga Has Steam vuterizing FIRST STEAMBOAT TUBE VULCANIZING Call in and get our prices before going elsewhere, First cians work ang res sonable prices. F. J. Pearson & Co. Cor Queen and Bagot Sta. ! i pages 348-352 of Heugh's History Hit The Teutons at a Very Sensi [ snows that on the 16th day of Aug- Condits | ust of the year 1816, Erl Lusher and Appeared Just One Hundred Years Apo Ati Charles Smyth became partners in an Sackets Harbor, | enterprise with Major General Jacob | tive Spot--The Present ions, Petrograd, Jan, 19.--The Russian advance west of Riga hits (un Ger- MARKED WORD" T AFI FIXED TO ALL GENUINE PACKETS This is the winning com- bination for any cold. Dr. Hickey's Speedy Cure will loos- en up the tightest cough and Dover's Cold Breakers will | quickly rid the system of the worst cold, back them up always with a real guarantee to do just as claimed for them. They are 25 cents each and will save dollars in doctors' bills. At Best's The Popular Drug Store Phone 50 Branch 2018 A A AAA The dead beat cannot escape the debt of nature, WAS NAMED THE ONTARIO AND IT WAS LAUNCHED IN | APRIL OF 1817 | Erl Lusher, Charles Smyth, Major General Jacob Brown, M. T. Wool- sey, Samuel F. Hooker, Hunter Crane and Elisha Camp Interested in its Building. { The fact that the year 1917 marks the 100th anniversary of the launch ling of the first steamboat on the | Great Lakes, is uncovered in a letter {to the Watertown Times from | Charles H. Scott of 528 State street | of that eity, j According to Mr. Scott's communi- | cation the first steamboat to sail the Great Lakes was built at Sakets | Harbor, and made its first trip in 1817. The fetter follows: | The year 1917 marks the 100th | anniversary of the launching of the { first steamboat on the Great Lakes. | Recently, while reading an old vol- | ume entitled, "Documentary History of New York," the following item | caught my eye: "The first steamer was built at this f place (Sackets Harbor) and called the "Ontario." She was commenced | in the year 1816; and made her first | trip In the first' part of April, 1817, | the day I cannot learn. (Signed) D. | McCullock, Collector, Sackets Har- { Bor, Dec, 21st, 1850." Since reading the above I found in AAA a re ee | Canada. Wire me your orders. Member Standard 24 King Street BUY BOSTON CREEK or 100% to 200%, Profit. The first shipment of ore, four weeks, is expected to be the richest J. T. Eastwood. Phones Main 3445-3446. to be made within the next ever made from Stock Exchange, West, Toronto. AT DAVIES Fresh Sea Herring Large Plump Fish 9c Lb. Wm. Davies' o., simited, Phone 397 Brown, M. T. Woolsey, Samuel F.| Hooker, Hunter Crane, and Elisha | Camp, for the navigation of boats on the waters of Lake Ontario either "by steam or fire." A boat was com- | menced at Sackets Harbor the same | summer, iafter the model of the Sea | Horse, then running on the Sound | near New York. She was 110 feet | long, 24 feet wide and eight feet | deep, measuring 237 tons. The boil-| ers are said to have been 17 feet! long, and three and a half feet in| diameter, with a cross head engine and cylinder of 20 inches diameter, ! and three feet stroke; wheels eleven | feet, four inches across, and capacity of engine, 21 horse power. "Barly in 1817 the steamer tario" was completed, and performed her first trip, being everywhere greeted with the most lively demon-| strations of joy. Bonfires, {llumin- | ations and mutual congratulations | of friends, bespoke the satisfaction | with which this achievement was re- | garded and the event was hailed as| a new era in the commerce of the lakes, Weekly trips from Ogdens- | burg to Lewiston were first attempt- | ed, but on the first of July, 1817, the! owners advertised that, finding the trip of about 600 miles too extensive to be performed within that time, it would be altered to ten days. The fare through was fixed at $15. Cap- tain Francis Mallaby, U. 8. N., was her first master. The Ontario con- tinued to run, seldom exceeding five miles an hour, until 1832, when she was broken up at Oswego." A petition of her builders drawn in December, 1816, to the . legisla- ture of New York state for a charter for a steamboat company, shows that her stopping places on her trips were to include Ogdensburg, Cape Vin- cent, Sackets Harbor, Oswego, Gen- esee river, and Lewiston. It de- clares that steamboats will not injure the villages on the lake shore but increase their prosperity. It further shows that the United States gov- ernment sold her bullders lumber for her construction from the naval de- pot at Sackets, *"The Ontario was the first steamer built on. a water subject to a swell, and determined. the interesting prob- lem that steamboats were adapted to the navigation of open seas, as well as sheltered rivers. The Frontenac was built soon after at Kingston, and the next season the first steamer ap- peared on Lake Erie." Regarding this first steamer on Lake Erie, I found in the Documen- tary History the following. "The first Lake Erie steamboat was called the "Walk on the Water." She was launched at Black Rock, on the Ni- agara river, on the 28th of May, 1818, and left theré on the first trip to Detroit on the 23rd of the follow- Ing "August, under the command of Captain Fish. The Buffalo Gazette, in announcing her departure, says, "In less than two hours she was "hull to' from the shore, a distance of 15 nautical miles." Concerning the first sailboats other than the cano , used by the Indians and early white settlers, I found in a History of the United States Navy, written by James Fen- imgre Cooper, and published in 1848, the following: "While the Enghsh were occupying the Atlantic coast, the French were gradually extending themselves along the chain of the Great Lakes in the interior, drawing a belt around the derritories of their rivals, In the course of events of this nature, de La Salle launched a vessel of ten tons on Lake Ontario In 1678, which was the first decked boat that evér sailed on those waters. The following year he caused a ves- sel of 60 tons to be launched on Lake Erle," The Documentary History referr- ed to says that the sailboat built by La Salle for Lake Erie was £alled the "Griffin. "Her keel was laid by La le on the 26th of January, 1679, on the American side of the Hiagara river, six miles above the t falls, She was probably launched in May or June, 1679, for the account says that Father Hen- "On- | Jepin visited Fort Frontenae (Kings: ) after it was launched, and hag given a sharp shock to that sense of secure possession in Courtland waich strongly colors the German dream of peace with victery. The retention of Courtland after the war has been one of the anxioms of the Prussian aggressive policy, one of the chief dogmas of internal propa- ganda. Courtland once formed part of the territory of Teutonic order; but what interests the Prussian junkers is not 80 much the romantic idea of the restoration of ancestaal privileges, as reunion with their kittsmen, the Bal- tic barons, and the very practical advantage of holding the southwest- ern shore of the Gulf of Riga and so dominating the Baltic and destroying the work of Peter the Great te con- ciliate the feelings of the Letts, who form 75 per cent of the population. The Prussians have toyed with the idea of the creation of a semi-inde- pendent grand duchy of Courtland, but the seed of their propaganda is sown on stony . The front guard- ing Courtland had been fortified with a fixed calculation on permanent pos- session. So firm was the confidence of the Germans in the strength of their lines that they found it possible to detach troops from the Riga front for the Rumanian advance. The sudden onslaught of Dmitri- eff's army in the depth of winter rudely upset the German reckoning. The route of the Russian advanee points directly towards Mitau, the capital of Courtland, and the Ger- mans made hasty preparation to evacuate the town. The first im- petus of 'the Russian onslaught has done its work, and the enemy has hurried up reinforcements and are now making furioys counter-attacks, but the theory of The tmpregnability of the German defences on the Court- land front has been shattered, and the consequences of the blow will be felt in all future conduct of the war on the east front. ---- i ------ Coming to Griffin's. The incomparable Mary Pickford ih "Less Than the Dust." Baby. By Samuel Baxter Foster. As I sit in the twilight this evening Watching moonbeams play o'er baby's face And touch as with gold his dark tresses, They add to his form a sweet grace, As if God had sent messengers to him To brighten this darkening place. * * * * * * ® * mans at a very sensitive point. "| But the sun now goes down; and the darkness, Creeping over the earth like a pall, Has shut out the moonbeams of evén- ing . That'played near the babe, on the wall, And any thoughts from their paradise vision To grief and despondency fall. As I dream of the paths that lie out- ward In the by ways and Hedges of sin, Temptations and trials and crosses, The world with its struggles and din, Of the passion, the pain and tempta- tions, "The battles that manhood must | win And I dream sitting here in the dark- ness Of the years yet to come, and I . pray That God will watch over my darling And turn cloudy nights into day That the rays of his sunlight will brighten And cheer up life's wearisome way. For I know, oh my Father in heaven, That thy precepts e'en line upon line Must be kept, but if crosses for baby Must come place then, Savior, on thine, Pierce thy heart with thy rod of cor- |] rection, i And merge all his scourgings in mine. Then the years that lie far in the dist- anee ! Seem to stand by that bedside to-|] night, i And His blessed presence seem, shed- |} ding . } Around them a halo of light, . | And the gloom that my fancy had | Is a ad and the future seems | A 'at the Steacy Store A host of genuine bargains that ought to crowd this big store from opening to closing time. Fron READ THIS LIST CAREFULLY Then come tomorrow and see for yourself that we do everything we advertise. BARGAINS ON SECOND FLOOR. PADDED SILK KIMONOS AND SACQUES $4.00 qualitiesat-.. .. ht $5.50 qualities at . . $6.50 qualities at . . $8.25 qualities at . . LADIES' DRESSES Made of fine all wool materials, in colors navy, copen, brown and black. $6.50 to $8.50 qualities. Sale price cee 0. 94.98 CHILDREN'S WINTER COATS Sale Made of good all wool $4.98 price .&. .. hie, SEP TE SKIRTS ' Néw garments, made in good style of tweeds, serges, also white corduroy; $5.50 to $7.00 values. Saleprice .. .. . .. .. $3.98 9 ONLY LADIES' TAILORED SUITS Made of tweeds, serges, cheviots, etc. One half price, to clear. 6 ONLY VELVET SUITS Very special, to clear CHILDREN'S VESTS warm garments in natural color. 35¢ quality. Sale price 21¢ materials. Garments up to $8.50. . . ". . . LADIES' VESTS and DRAWERS Good heavy quality in natural color. 75¢ values. Sale price 50¢ MEN'S UNDERWEAR ; Odd garments, all wool, every piece good value at regular prices. $1.00 to $1.50 qualities. Sale price... {... ....... . 7% PILLOW COTTON 40 inch circular cotton, fine even weave. 35¢ . quality. PYICE i a Me ie rtf nt wt ah as hee a ea 500 YARDS FANCY HUCK TOWELLING Old bleach, and go. S. Brown makes; very fine, sun bleached; 18 inches wide. Regular 65c¢ to 75¢. Sale price . . of oe TOWELS RE Pure linen huck; size 17 x 34; hemmed efids. Worth 25¢. Sale Don't fail to see these most interesting values tomorrow. Every Item Mentioned is a Genuine Bargain. Sale 25¢ >a