St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-28


Pilot Whose salary Is Not Fin
dangercd Even in These Hard
Times = Montreal From the
River.
Special Letter to the Globe.
On THE ST.. LAWRENCE RIVER, Au-
gust, 1S93.-The air teens with historic,
romantic associations about Kingston,
Ont. the Limestone City, standing mar
tial guard at the foot of Lake Ontario.
at the head of 4he St. Lawrence chan
mel. 1t is from here you board the
steamer to run the rapids. Kingston is
a gray little city, alive with cadets, dead
with the forms and prejudices of the
buried past. About 5000 people keep
il buStlmg, while a varied traffic in
splendid harbor instiiIs it with a daily
concern that is quite satisfying to the
Canadian sense of a busy life. 1t was
here, on this very prOmontory, where
the confluence of the Cataraqui river
and the broad, blue bay churns fan
taSticdly, that the great FrOntenac,
greatest OF the governors of New
France, established first trading
post, then fort, in what he
termed '0ne of the most beautiful
and agreeable harb0rS in the world"
His tents were pitched where now stand
the Tete du Pont barracks. commanding
the mouth of the CataraQui. This was
away back III 1878. The foot was after
ward assigned to the illustriouS Robert
Cavalier de Ia Sale, who. being moved
70 oh, i,AH inn iDr 81 Yef
TO discover the route to the Gulf Of
Mexico. NJ. de Denonville was then APP
pointed pofernor. and, for his
Miserable Treachery
against the IroQuoiS Indians, the latter
retorted in fatal revenge by harrying
the French settlement. destroying Fort
Frontenac, and consummating the
tragedy by the midnight massacre of
Lachine. Then Frontenac. the favored
governor and mediator between the
whites and the Indians, returned, re-
stored the fort, reOrganiZed the colony.
and conducted its commercial. moral
and political prosperity for the succeed
ing fifty years.
In our little rub with England about
1912. Kingston came iuto prominence as
the strongest Canadian port on the lake,
the chief rival to the American strong
hold of Sackett's narbor. The town is
Still surrounded by the old battle
mented martello towers, dirty white,
glistening in the morning sun. Here is
the Royal Military college-the West
Point OF Canada; the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons, and the wom-
EMS medical college indeed. Kingston
is today quite an educational center,
being also the home of Queen'S college.
From the bay, Kingston presents the
viSage OF grim. war-Scarred veteran.
L he fort crOWns the glaciS above the
round tower which covers the landing,
At its base a semicircular bastlOn
pierced for artillery, is ready to sweep
the water. Immured on all sides with
these limestone batteries, with their ugly
rents and embrasurrs, the signatures of
strife and time, this little provincial
town, once the site of the seat of gov
ernment, when, in 1910, Upper and
Lower Canada were first united, is be-
come a picturesque relic, perpetuating
the early dawn af New France. Olsen
gaGing yourself from the bedciothes il
the
FIrss-Class Livery Stable
in which you have slept during the
night, wrapt in the wild presumption
that you are harb0rcd in hotel, yot
step on three or four importunate cal
drivers, and, making your way to t.