Sodus, May 12 -- That ghosts have a decided notion that the resting places of their corporeal remains should abide in piece without disturbance, even to the point of due reverence for the markers of their graves, has been demonstrated to at least one man in this town. Such a demonstration has...

    Abandon Big Sandy Coast Guard Post ________ Lake Traffic No Longer Passes In Vicinity ________ Famous Wrecks Recalled _______ Station Established over Half Century Ago When Port Ontario Was Port of Call ______ (Special To The Times.) Ellisburg, July 15. - The Coast Guard station at...

    Three Lives Lost When Steamer Rammed Schooner Oliver Mowat _______ Bad Marine Tragedy Late Last Thursday Night _______ Old Schooner Hit by Steamer Keywest Near Main Ducks and Cut in Two - Captain Tom Van Dusen One of the Victims. _______ Captain Thomas L. VanDusen, one of the best known...

    Two Masts Showing _______ Of the Ill-Fated Schooner Oliver Mowat. Two of the three masts of the ill-fated schooner Oliver Mowat, projecting from the water at a point t5wo miles this side of the Main Duck islands, mark the scene of the disaster that occurred last Thursday night when the ...

    Sunken Craft Still Visible _______ Hull of Large Boat Can Be Seen in St. Lawrence Below Rock Island _______ The Observer in "On the St. Lawrence," Clayton, has the following: There is a mystery of the deep, that is located near the black buoy shoal, a half mile down river from Rock ...

    Schooner Horace Taber May Be A Total Loss _______ Effort to Get Her Coal Cargo Out before She Goes to Pieces. _______ There appears to be no doubt that the schooner Horace Taber, which went ashore at Four Mile Point is a total loss. The weather has been too rough for tugs to get very close...

    Lake Freighter Burns, Sinks; Crew Rescued _______ 16 Men and One Woman Found by Canadian Steamship After Their Ship Had Burned to Water's Edge on Lake Ontario - Rescuers Stand By until Vessel Disappears. _______ Sixteen men and one woman, members of the crew of the freighter Charles Horne,...

    *Oswego ship chandler.

    BELIEVED TO BE DEAD, STARTED LIFE ANEW ______ Canadian Reported Drowned on Sinking Ship Lived 10 years Thereafter in Oklahoma. ______ BELLEVILLE, Ontario, March 7 (AP). - A letter received today notified relatives of Captain John Wesley Smith that their kinsman was not drowned ten years ...

    *Other accounts state the vessel left from Oswego. #Records show the vessel, built at Muskegon, Mich. in 1882, was 205 net tons. The passenger steamer "City of Dresden (C. 126197) Built at Walkerville, Ont. , 1872, 193 tons, 93x23x9 wrecked near Port Rowan, Ont. , Lake Erie, Nov. 18, 1922.

    Old Sailors of Ciscoe Chasers - Four of Them Are Making Home at Henderson ________ Of the old seamen who sailed the Great Lakes when the Ciscoe Chasers plied a brisk trade, only a few are left, says the Watertown Times. Four old sailors, all of them past 80, are still living hale and hearty...

    Daryaw Steals Into Port Like Ghost of Past ______ Rochester Writer Sees Schooner In Light of Fading Romance ______ Close hauled it seemed on a wind of dream to those few who were fortunate enough to see her, the old lake windjammer, Mary A. Daryaw, two-master, 125-foot topsail schooner, ...

    Built as Kewaunee , US14065, Port Huron, Mich. , 1866 by J. P. Arnold, last name April, 1921 when purchased by Daryaw brothers of Kingston.)

    This is the home of the curator of Fort Ontario, next to the fort. It originally was the lighthouse keeper's home.

    Only Two Lake Schooners Now Left on Lake Ontario _______ Davis and Merrill Last of Big Fleet That Operated Years Ago _______ Is the day of the sailing vessel past? The answer to the question is made quite clear by merely taking along the Kingston waterfront, says the Kingston Whig . The ...

    The Late Capt. Parsons _____ Lived In Kingston For Years - Known As A Splendid Mariner. _____ The news of the sudden death by drowning in Lake Huron this week of Capt. Joseph Parsons came as a grest shock to many in this city where he is well and favorably remembered by many of the ...

    23 Autos Slip Into the Lake Freighter Sultana Puts Into Kenosha Harbor After Battle in Storm. Weathering a severe storm that stood them on their beams ends most of the time, and swept 23 automobiles into the water, two steamers reached port Sunday night from Detroit and opened...

    Albert G. Kramer . Funeral services for Albert G. Kramer, 86, whose body was found in his home, 114 West Seneca street, Saturday afternoon by city authorities after neighbors had reported the aged man had not been seen for 24 hours, will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from the ...

    TEN YEAR OLD MYSTERY OF WRECK EXPECTED TO BE CLEARED UP NOW ______ Captain Smith of " George E. Marsh " Reported Drowned _____ BODY NOT FOUND _____ Son Thinks That His Father Has Just Died in Oklahoma _____ The ten-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Captain John W. Smith of...

    Saw Capt. Smith after The Wreck _______ Mrs. Luscomb Recognized Him in Toronto But He Avoided Her _______ "It is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard and it is easy to understand that it came from some one not responsible." Mrs. Keegan , 29 Wharf Street, a cousin of the late...

    There Were No Identification Marks On Smith _____ Relatives and Friends Discount Stores of Search For Treasure _____ Since the arrival of the post mortem photograph of John Smith of Harrah , no personal belongings or other marks of identification have been received by relatives or...

  Railway & Marine World (Toronto, ON), December 1920, page 688page 688  The steam tug Eleanor , owned in Port Dalhousie , was considerably damaged by fire at St.Catharines , Nov. 7. She was engaged on the repair of the pier there, and it was said that fires were left burning on board when she was tied up at night. The upper works were completely destroyed. She...

    Identification of Capt. Smith Is Not Certain _____ Apparently Dead Man Lived in Oklahoma town Since 1915 _____ BEFORE WRECK ____ Son Still Thinks The Remains Are Those of His Father _____ Harrah , Okla. March 8. - Death's seal today continued to prevent the positive identification...

    RECOGNIZES THE PICTURES AS OF CAPT. J.S. SMITH ____ Photographs From Harrah of Dead Man Are identified ____ SON SATISFIED ____ Face Shows Signs of Struggle During Past Ten Years ____ Captain John Smith whose mysterious disappearance from the sunken George E....

    BELIEVED TO BE DEAD, STARTED LIFE ANEW _______ Canadian Reported Drowned on Sinking Ship Lived 10 years Thereafter in Oklahoma. _______ BELLEVILLE, Ontario, March 7 (AP). - A letter received today notified relatives of Captain John Wesley Smith that their kinsman was not drowned ten years...

    LAKE ONTARIO DID NOT CLAIM CAPTAIN SMITH ________ Death Discloses He Had Lived 10 Years in West After His Boat Foundered Near Pigeon Island ________ John S. Parsons* and other Oswegonians who have been following transportation on Lake Ontario for many years were greatly interested today in...

    Identification of Capt. Smith Is Not Certain _____ Apparently Dead Man Lived in Oklahoma town Since 1915 _____ BEFORE WRECK ____ Son Still Thinks The Remains Are Those of His Father _____ Harrah, Okla. March 8. - Death's seal today continued to prevent the positive identification of a...

  Daily Intelligencer (Belleville, ON), Wednesday, March 9, 1927, page 1page 1  Young Smith is Now Doubtful Recent developments in the attempt to prove the John Smith of Horrah, Oklahoma, tend to the shaking of Mr Horace Smith's theory that the dead man is identical with the Captain Smith of the George E. Marsh. Mr George Dulmage, secretary of the Moira Lodge, is...

  Daily Intelligencer (Belleville, ON), Thursday, March 10, 1927, page 1page 1  Smith Doubtful Now of Identity Horace Smith left for Toronto last evening in company with his sister, Mrs Neil McClennan, where he will spend a couple of days at McClennan's home. He is becoming more doubtful as to the identity of the man John Smith, who died in Harrah, Oklahoma. According...

  Daily Intelligencer (Belleville, ON), Saturday, March 12, 1927, page 1page 1  Expect the Smith Photographs to Reach Belleville on Monday Secretary George Dulmage Believes Dead Man was former Bellevillian The photography of the late captain John Smith are not yet in Belleville but should be on Monday. A long distance call to Horrah Oklahoma yesterday elicited the ...

    RECOGNIZES THE PICTURES AS OF CAPT. J.S. SMITH ____ Photographs From Harrah of Dead Man Are identified ____ SON SATISFIED ____ Face Shows Signs of Struggle During Past Ten Years ____ Captain John Smith whose mysterious disappearance from the sunken George E. Marsh, has after a ten...

    Saw Capt. Smith after The Wreck _______ Mrs. Luscomb Recognized Him in Toronto But He Avoided Her _______ "It is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard and it is easy to understand that it came from some one not responsible." Mrs. Keegan, 29 Wharf Street, a cousin of the late Captain ...

    Days of Early Navigation on the River Recalled ________ Thriving Boat Traffic on the Genesee is Remembered - Port Was Easy One Then. _____ American steamers that burned wood and plied the lake, and excursion traffic on the river, lake and bay recalled by Captain Wilcox ______ There are...

    REMEMBRANCES FILL HOME OF CHAUNCEY YOUNG WHEN HE MARKS 89th BIRTHDAY Leading citizens here pay tribute with gifts & congratulations galore. Many well known Rochester men and women yesterday and Saturday called at the home of Chauncey Young, 771 Chili Ave., to congratulate him on his 89th ...

    The 24 September 1923 edition of the Herald-Press reported that searchers had found an oil slick, grape baskets and basket covers, and and running lights from the Forrelle about three miles from Milwaukee.

    Beaches Steamer When Leak Gains _______ Steamer Hinckley Loaded With Coal for Canada ______ Loaded with a full cargo of chestnut coal, taken on Monday afternoon, at the Lehigh Valley coal trestle, Fair Haven, the steamer Hinckley of this city is beached at Stony Point, where the captain...

    Assembly Plant to Save Steamer ______ Capt. Hinckley Will Take Charge of Salvage Work. ______ Captain A.R. Hinckley, owner of the steamer Hinckley which he beached near Gravely Bay, Stony Point, on the east side towards Henderson Harbor Monday night when the steamer sprung a leak while ...

    Will Take Coal From Steamer _____ Salvage Prince and Barge Davie at Work. ______ Efforts to salvage the cargo of 375 tons of chestnut coal in the steamer Hinckley, aground on Stony Point, were started Thursday. Plans of Captain A.R. Hinckley, to fit out a derrick scow owned by him and go to...

    May Not Float Stranded Ship ________ Excessive Leaks In Hull Prevent Salvage. ________ The steamer Hinckley may never be salvaged from Stony Point, where she was grounded Tuesday morning with a load of chestnut coal for Gananoque, Ont., marine men who were in touch with the situation at ...

    Steamer Total Wreck in Gale ____ Hinckley, Last of Fleet, Breaks Up On Stony Point. ____ Heavy pounding seas, which followed a northwesterly gale early Sunday morning, during the day completed the wreck of the steamer Hinckley on Stony Point, and at noon Sunday, only the top of the engine...