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      Barge Phelps Floated The barge Captain Phelps, a 200 ton craft built and owned by Captain Frank Phelps of Chaumont, was brought into Chaumont Bay Sunday from the Gallup Island, where she was beached last fall during the storm that wrecked two government vessels. With ...

      Lake Boats Busy Thirteen boats carrying a total of 2,153,000 bushels of grain cleared from Fort William Thursday for lower lake and St. Lawrence river ports. The steamer Natironeo owned by A.B. Mc Kay of Hamilton, bound up light from Kingston, carried away two gates in Lock ...

      Navigation Open Unless unforeseen conditions arise, navigation will officially open between Cape Vincent and Kingston, Ontario, Monday. The steamer Missosqui at her dock in Kingston with steam up ready to make her first journey through the ice still floating down the channel, and ...

      Lumbering Extraordinary Probably the most peculiar lumbering operations I the world are being carried on in the Bay of Quinte, on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, where powerful engines are hoisting valuable oak and walnut logs from the bottom of the bay. Som of them are 50 feet ...

      Capt. Hinckley of Oswego, who has been at work on the sunken steamer Island Belle for several days, succeeded in raising the craft Sunday afternoon. After the hull had been covered with canvas two engines and a rotary pump attached to the engine of the steam roller were placed in …

      Schooners Disappearing The day of the old wind jammer on the lake is past. There are now twenty-eight schooners in commission on Lake Ontario, where formerly there were several hundred and they are nearly all Canadian owned, though nearly all once had an American register. As the ...

      Tragedy on Lake Oswego Sept. 20 Six persons aboard the barge Hiawatha, including two women and a child are missing and are believed to have been drowned when the barge foundered early today during a southwest storm on Lake Ontario. Those believed drowned are ...

      Captain A. R. Hinckley of Oswego has been awarded the contract for wrecking the M.T. company barge Davy, which sunk near Point Vivian in the St. Lawrence river some time ago. The Donnellys of Kingston took the contract for $60,000 and finally gave up. Mr Hinckley's contract is said to …

      Captain A. R. Hinckley has succeeded in raising the barge Davy which sunk near Point Vivian, St. Lawrence river last Fall. The Donnellys of Kingston took the contract for $6,000 and gave it up. Captain Hinckley was to have $7,000 if raised before the winter came on or $6 000 …

      Navigation Open Cape Vincent, April 16.- The steamer New Island Wandered (Wanderer) arrived here about 7 last evening from Kingston, Ont. This starts in operation the ferry service between this place and Kingston for the season. The Wanderer left Kingston at 1:30 p.m. and stopped ...

      OLD SLOOP WILL BE SUNK IN ONTARIO ____ Has Long Rested in Water at Ship House Point ____ At Sackets Over 50 Years ____ Hulk Has been in the Harbor for Many Years - She Will be Towed Out to Deep Water and Sunk. ____ The old sloop that has …

      Old-Timers Sailed Thrilling Races ____ Slattery Tells of Rivalry Between Schooners Moonlight and Porter ____ "We used to see some exciting races between freight schooners on the lakes in the old days," remarked ...

      Obituary. ____ George W. Goble George W. Goble died at two a.m. today in Los Angeles, Cal., following a stroke of paralysis suffered on October 21st. During the two weeks of illness Mr. Goble's family, including his wife and four ...

      Obituary M. J. Cummings Michael J. Cummings, one of Oswego's most successful business men, died at Atlantic City last night at eight o'clock. News of his death reached here this noon and the announcement, while received with great regret by citizens generally, was not ...

      Obituary ____ Gilbert Mollison, Sr. Gilbert Mollison, Sr., died at ten o'clock last night at his home, 92 West Fifth street, in his ninety-sixth year. The end was unexpected and the announcement called forth expressions of regret from many in all walks of life. No ...

      Obituary ____ Gilbert Mollison Gilbert Mollison, one of the oldest residents of this city, and one of the last business men who flourished in the fifties when Oswego was at the height of a commercial career, passed away yesterday at his residents, 92 West Fifth ...

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      In Marine Circles _______ Mariners Have Long Spell of Good Weather ______ Old Mariner Stated That He Had Experienced Warmest Weather For Sailing in His Forty years' Experience "This has certainly been a great summer and fall for marine work," remarked an ...

      Dad Kitts is Crowding 80 ___________ Will Have a Birthday Celebration ___________ With One Exception he is the Oldest Native Son of Oswego - How He Manages to Keep Young and Enjoy Life - Makes the Timber Fly on the Alleys Willard A. Kitts, oldest active ...

      Passing of the Sailing Schooner The indications are that it is only a matter of time, and a short time at that, when the sailing schooner will have disappeared completely from the Great Lakes. For the past few years the only trade they have been engaged in has ...