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Show he Inter Mountain Republican Se } Second Section. LA KE"CITY, CITY, UTAH, | SUNDAY, SALT OCTOBER 7, 1906. onlier; LTE LAVA TECOLDP SLALOM LEITL y BrIAITVEL & Zz FTIRPLER @«€ MONE TTARKTILG ELY, BOC. LL ACE WHERE, 3 Ghosts there be-ghosts of pasty achleovements-who steal from the shadowy de : ths of nowhere, and, in serried. runks pass for Silent review along the paths of memory Their bugles ring the cheering melody, their drumhends give 10 sound, their voices have no tunes and thei With noiseless tread of--an imagination footsteps on the misty that grows leisure to devastate the whole frontier, their operaniany Sn GA the burning of B ut vlo. Earlier in my article 1 have dd to the eats iblishment of Fort Niagara. From this place the French and English held sway over a vast emfrom Albany westward, first one then the other being in control. 17% it became an American strongOne of the principal features of Niagara is the magazine built in It came into the public tye in , reason of the inearceration Y William Morgan. who conducted an anti-Masonle crusade. He jisappeared from the dungeon-nobody knows how-and was never seen since. There was dispute as to whether he had been spirited away by Masons and killed, or had been allowed to escape. Still standing on the grounds of Fort Niagara-now un important United States urmy barracks-are two old block houses, built Im W771 and 1773. They, it will be thus seen, antedate the x perts to be the most perfect specimens eheir ki of architecture on th continent today. Opposite Fort Niagara ort George, bullt originally as an auxiliary to Fort Niagara at a time fall roads; with ¢. : Phe old constable at Fort Erie dozMe in the sunrays of a warm October day, shifted uneasil "a the siais on the hickory bench made ridges in his back, and, with eye il] closed, gently murmured, "Ten rods more and all is safe. The ghosts were walking for him He is himself an old soldfer-a soldier of the crown, with flowing: graloways of.a yintage long antedated and. memory that serves him well. QJothed bJlack with 1atty red trimming i keeps his daily vigil on the tf old Fort Erle and passes his ¢ In peaceful janitorship of the bloody plot he site of old Fort Itrie ie ne of many a& sangulinary conflict-has been in- | closed and made a part of the Canadian | National Park system It is opposite Buffalo, on the Canadian side, at the head of Niagara river, and s ar # as grim specter of the British harrae that guarded the river in the day when there was enmity between Amerfea and Great Britain. On the Ameri- | ein side of the river is the site of old Pe orter, now a beautiful Farther and the barracks| latter in nt mense history, Bolt lder Fort we Nase Porter before the war, und was]either ish on me to ha have been man now oft the ) \ War of 1812, and the siceping constable ser tl rout that attended the British | in the first attack on Buffalo, July 1 1813. Perhaps his slumber is lighted by the ria of the irning of Buffalo when the NH was destroyed by red coats and Indiar in a latter and ux cessful attack I Dec J ind. Dee 14/| when but ahs2) TAL bee heard th something and thi one bullet-proof earthen OZ STONE. 7 oUtVA FOEZ LakinF LOW LLL. oS i in = ument To I handful) a : American army : the Secord mon perpetuate Secord, thewho nani ane ‘iked Oe alone ire uitous , rere: breastwork Y uy ple Inge (7) econjeecure is t Buffalo-the continually been jor Blood too, and here the haye clished, redn scalped hi white cuns ngaged in pled in. dead and tlhesh own mother country to swoop gjans body shoot? AmMmonE» the' countenance | - the -eaming dream Eri when e of your the . or Gen, for wounded. Brock 500 On lost e n ik a « SHS along pris Ontg Ontario, jn intt than 7 and and h , where built Brit- er ee miles ey on along the in- -who visited this councenotaph marks the n. Grock fe arthe heights near the still be traced the out2 he ay r old Fort George, < the r s 0 remarkable stat was built in 17%, ayed a most im War of 1812 of Niagara are est Among the y hall (built tn the first session | pper Canada, and astion parliament of of it 5 as evolutionary into ‘American o with the atid s of frontier resl1 eee around , ing ; : 8 Nie spot panlone meal the ae Peart Pees tourist bel ~ the seven a ; Ss «¢ or ear = the ie tt ind see | cos or earits ro : saraugua built by: nhe Britaraugua, ; ; te ‘ e monument iu : t banks of Niagara . t conti ; bh iT and ‘ ' / uth he . ar i- GT, CZ r zi wh fr 7, te QE L } tio Olling ais , ‘ cay o ! the ( " I { word- ‘ I I p I o ( 1 doy ny ' nas on :ric ged perio ct as lal pri wail route nd see used 4 ce th I on a Kod « ot 1s ! cl mo I I Eos i 1 (<DEranD re time Sut on hronich ae ae r Rca enh mem hii be ) the f ao; \ tl his 0 ne eee 1 ion which here Its j during rocks, the Be rf a in| by which 0 a un mon- appears on empire by the The monument was Canadian parliament ‘ription of the historic site Erie built was built by Montressor again in 1778 rebuilt in 1741, and a fourth time in none of the latter penis mer location. Near the for sites of three British y 17%, 1807, the fort siege line of earthworks, protected extending inland for nearly mile. and still further strengthblock none of the 1812 period. is the ‘one of the famous R fapway, the really closing of the ridiculous Fenlan raid, 1 nundeul of ill-advised fanatics, gathering on an Island In Niagara \ fakson atuke the eee country asa Great Britain for the way in empire treated Ireland. The ement soon became a disgraceful ‘his was in 1856, A short distance away Niagara river -o gens out, and the widening of the stream's expanse Into. the bosom ae NS aL een aon es th colo} then his battery can troops i. 1¢ hill fu, on Lewiston y a he ! ott most t the Samuel \ the we morning hurried r, On POUnSS a story then Of to) A Cave Full it widens enormously and runs cia down to feet, thick To this day the bottom Ms strewn with human: bones, the relics of the road) Oca Low ms, tne whole in number, by Skye. the their | tury. terrific depth of over 259 clan of Macdonalds, over 200 who were miserably suffoMacleods the ‘She tragedy occurred at Hippler. Bones. Oct.) sre proceeded of 7 or or > * . gash the Egg, onc of a cave into which one can on hands and knees. In- Fort told us| in the) 2 Willams ut Lewiston ais snerson histori¢é point Five-mile as coreinnacie nown where, on the night of D where | British ata Niagara won, and war with m during above \ is the site where Gen Isle In the pianted Scot Winfield 1) which protected the Ameri-/des, there is in the first American Inva-| hardly creeo g ined whole Niagara frontl the | between ea ale ne nd pecially 10-1 resided re OEE S great poantiet e he! ho of ne] cy Sage vi KS vice: that lar Of Sn ‘ pramo a complete history Niagra of the t oe WAT eit ag ber t t th itt ats Pt Inland, | of s what I : eae ct WEN Ce Tver tO) eling up' of de of tt ‘ 3 ase ré a the Ni ceascl efforts toland down other-a the deol nin | tl from Hy , of On the hetght east of)) ... brie marks the. termination of the historic Niag rara frontier and the a rbyLuUscarore) Jocated still ition nd ne below end of our stor 3 figurté waa | id ‘ ‘ ind i noy tO Inte i tush cam Niel I> printed spell o Se' Ra fac I : Mr. I pup ( l I , .Dp is ; f ( ‘ ul. 1 D | 1 : d ~ 1 : 759 po ! sak Indians Herennepin in's s nan her ume PE fated at ‘ histor He was the. first white who ever saw the mighty cat ract sare ind the Ni Agar I pou A issoclation has discoveres to be-the site-ol Tiennding and the cabin which|) near the present village with man: er to he In this ho e;! Ash Sener wi ) i ) Ir} icwn od | an anal fe ine veh ‘ I nut 7 . CN l po i : ib "4 ) ag i ; é 1 I he rl ime pittinield marked is Passing up the river sull, we come to built In 17% Chippewa, site of Fort iy. and the battlefield of Chippewa Then on to old Fort Erie Here we disturbed the slumbers of the old Britio) coidjer and Hstened to an interest- st i Eg eT l BK little ac it hicl Singura. gorge is noted, and a spot most admirably sulted for.on am people to} buscads It is ‘a sort of a: gulch pd wspapel hrough i 1 jittl tream finds its wa printed i ir Sura 7 t little strean weve! iljran blood read on the day of t mas v1 print sacre nd has ever since borne the title of Bloody rut Phe onbu ade i ad was | oceurred on the Mth day of September Tee ‘ : Cor ( e TAGCGAL Pg tT! hig beut lang ey : portion of for ‘ pla i > ol 1 rt theJ he better TL ~bdegudhet a MLA 1 1 aT . tric} _ OFz- wale nd ‘ a ET ye? ! nt t nt the ide.\from i tled i@ « ‘ oT lr n" ¢ _ ce Enel 2 2 a oO©/ town . in the keep open the, the river Only escaped. A little) the picture maze mouth oOf/ 0 ine Sehlosser, | o.tead river, present north - the = to which a rhis monument was erected in 1895, | and comme morates simply the "Victory, lof the British-Canadlan forces on the 125th day of July, ‘and Is in jrate6) pumembrance the brave men who lated on that day mente for the unity D Pe ea Ish irelk ce zs eue eo ne hurried after them on 1e8W mi t eaching Lewiston Only elgh caped ees ee ond Beene t The Devi eis a natural se 5 come tient. ae the we Lane, on|dy's on stream down gone side t Landmark Niagara whiel Lh e frequently » pes further bands entire} of Indi whicho | onte d ent: outduring One Aft, that hi righ ut b> into American po ind ruil .s¢ 1 ernay chabnala tle of Jake et across; at ary a we . from pave ty es you? t rear new 1 } border, aren ther gitls as pretty as ‘here no Oat t are I vas. saying, | going Ala -\yle-bur ake American girl the pattie of Lakec | Lake of dreaming I was south Y the of south the to {Niagara Falls. Bot } chain of past used } line of trade along three men out of 100 0 ralt) rare! 1 \ wid Can- superb,' cunnon, the si bi first h rom Fort Niagara, at the the Niagara river, to Fort . batae Comn 2 1Ssa from ae 1B "fe lidway on ‘the road between the city, of Niagara Talls ind Lewiston are Bloody Run and Devils Hole He re the seneca nbushed British supply J train on t first return Journey OVer) a newly reconstructed road that ran ! Jor ( for the ‘ ope | | Phe Pea Free erp ferry's : | | Pet Didl ee nea { ut noise? thenmn a is smile ripple: é And old seared wrinkles 1 was © now > "y remember Salle - on ure Col *§ foers capt entire army, and his , entir was } | } site onthe a right demanding of the aloud of: that ‘«dis- | ¢ortun he=-be € ot \ ie ftar- : Si fvantag point Buffalo. on the ecured mighty of river,.enterpr agen: 10 , We ; with two fleldplecesapmen, of tour sts ae litthe mar ‘ty yr car fort sleeping a start ° Satthmries and asked ma dreaming of _ rreuter ate Washington it wus British rovernment _ f rr] hi from jodged Again, in city the shores ictory value Salle, +} D Dominique Ducharme, to sur: ick the enemy. at Peeks Beaver Dam), ond after =49 x2 80 fon, the firs Se A a a ms a : pas 3] ; eats slong the river from Brock's Papen Ca ofge -Americu wae cas NI " $e. 1 ae Spot : or ° | monume nt south-or, to be more strictljakes Neal i} ly speaking, up stream, we having | é ttlement bear the name of La}jiy Spe 5, theie American a ; or, # | ritish outpost at De raves Intended attack, and (h + . Lieut. Fitz Gibbon, the on "1813, with less than fifty * al je es ty's: Forty-ninth regi | . © &/) and militiamen t fifteen ao ix ition and ot ther Inpt. William of. & ap Johnson | ‘ s 1 lish, | shore the gjong a " pajsed no hand | oruelties upon mer | TALE C red, if their con }- _ egy se! te hireling the 4. can ull vs oe | psig .-2 discover the Western peace: we come : ilonge the) k ' gagles of war again a: Ap Ps sd their wing ibe Ta eh ; ang countless slave iping from the mo ee _ . Y r ‘ ve ‘ " eC |) bi, . hatwee rowed were war, ¢ vil the South during ‘ 1 Ss, andl ( > d) vo git \ in | The ‘ what yenty * perilous miles @ © through by route, pads ‘ swamps and miry roads,s to ; neugement @ eng . killed Immigrants to Michigan nd West sed over it to thelr | If; the » of shipyards, where a fleet was fitted out I yuric the tir steamboat on point Seajaquad ri and {t Ww ee this that in exact-the second took place rwel tacked 0 Americ It the Amerk ingles that enabled the defenders to meet the ettueckine foree with terrible firs Here on the other side you son And so he wandered on throug? I Intrihe e mazes of lecture long ago | learned by heart vhile we ometimes| listened and sometimes lost urselves | uniform and now hiding until son uspicious travels has |] SeC And) then all is change Wet and dirt, with the mu of Jowtands and barn yards clinging to her skirts, she dashes | into aritish camp. ‘here ts the call to arms. the quick and silent prepara tion he foreed march the terrible day Jun balmy aguin-a ind battle his swe girl of the old redcoat's of Arc-WAS | Joan Canadian dream-this has) A monument Secore Laura named memory In the Old | he to erected been eraveyard near the battlefie ld of LUN-) « Lane. d on the side o the C alee with! satisHed Not frontier. e avin apt : aes ople perpetuating » her bravery, vt British race, with characteristic of her 1 i and bast vanity, have 19 | tne luded rar t memory to her a touching | 1 « pute how of me defeated an Inscription on icun t ands of the Middle dence was left in the ruins Perhaps Line place iba have looked like in the scene stands mut oin co the day ths he told. about-in . the tre to any of thes Ma) tC IS Al aquy when frontier fights, revolution | bright June day with hower-scented internatton dl squabbles of ll kinds air and balmy breezes There is nO|upg numerous bands of tre Insign of war nd all is still coset 10F | dians madi the tenure of too the fiving footsteps ind th heavy i breathing of the solitary flgure in the ! properly inspect all the points of. | constable's dream-a young' girl with"! interes ll the battlefleld scenes of} wavy hair and burning cheeks, whose tmbuseads and terrible laughter journey is beset with many dift ilties lung the b k , Niagara river on ow she 1 fiying along a echuded both side ehould tike ibout a week.} roadway, now climbing a prickly hed Niawara frontier falrly breathes anon struggling through swamp and with histori interest From the days} morns proceeding with undaunted de- | ¢) cne great ex lorer, La Salle; and the termination ‘ her destination, | py of Father Hlennepin-the first passing along by circuitous routes,| white man te see the falls of Niagara, | | tl veurs carries mn on through that figure a here avolding gun and looks li 1 soldier withou a‘ tiv - rd.vertist of f B Britt Gavs the a slide co 1 ir ean fe rigtinic: ti AID ‘| small y e He most cpa te e monument m what travel does for others. The | destroyed our fleet. wus on Sept.since 10 | noonday doze not only paints In realis| i813 ae a relative of It mine-long tic colors the landseape of the nieieric | dead-sc ed one of the guns on | Niagara frontier, but summons by com- } British cn that went down He often } panies, by brigades, by armies and per-|told me of that bat le, «ind in my| haps sometimes alone and unattended! dreams I saw him training his gun and | the Sue forgotten heroes of a b lighting his fuse fc =a gone da As he shifts his Peete fore the water should ind murmurs Ten rods more and a le of the gun on t sat 10 can tell what he i sedi hip. Just as he Anat The Sn ate are walking for him Ll thought that the Perhaps they come in overwhelming | jad awukened me Bul numbers those tout-hearted, redfought too lon izo olonists same about to on all the Niagara frontler. grassy noll, resembling in some respects the side of Quebec, is crowned h rock monument, a tall grac ful abert which marks the site of the of Queenston Heights, on Oct. 13, histeric groundof the Niagara fr ontier | Erie, when your commodore with boats is familiar to him. Slumber does for | that he had made himself captured and the river, come the good all this long tf a poten etereer ma * geen by 4 m art ook's moniment. marking the site of the vatt o ueenston eights the ol constable at Fort Erle needs no wearlsome climb to vieW the panorama of the we battle of Queenston As Niagara is the oe soldiers are sent to rest up after| ard service, anc miles away, at the dari of the river, glaring. across mopeds up Lewiston, in the from is the supposed thirteenth Isles to cen- : |