Evening journal., 1906-10-05

Fory-ninth Regiment about 10
mllltiamen aud a sman force 81 Six
Nation ana other indians, under Capt.
William johnson Kerr aud Dominique
Duchafroe. TO surprise and attack the
enemy ut Reechwoods Tor Beaver
DAM. and after short engagement
capture Colonel Hoerstler, OF The q.
S. Army, mud bis entire force OF 5I2
men. with two neldpleces."
AS onr little party OF tourists APP
preached Fort Erie's sleeping caretaker
walked with start and asked; "What
was that noise9 Did hear anybody
shooty Aud then a smile rippled among
the wrinkles on bis scared old counte-
nance. II remember now; ] WIS dream
ing. was dreaming Of the hattie Of
Lake Erie. when your Commodore Per-
ry-you are from across the border.
aren't YOU. Yes, knew II. There are
no other girls as pretty as American
glrls--but as was saying, was dream
ing of the battle OF Lake Erie. when your
Commodore, with boats that he had made
himself. captured and destroyed our
feet II was ON September 10. 1913. and
a relative Of mine-long since dead
NlIANN Que Ni tue hNNn NH "a RAANA"A NAAN
that went down. He often told me OF
that battle, and In my dreams saw
him training his gun and lighting his
fuse for one last shot before the water
should run into the nozzle Of the gun on
the badly careening ship Just as he
fred ! woke up. and thought that the
noise Of the shot had awakened me.
But the battle was fought too long ago
and the scene Of the engagement was too
far away for me TO have heard the shot.
IL must have been something else. ! am
an old man now and things are not al
ways clear 70 me. This, ladies' and gen
tlemen, Is old Fort Erie. Here we see
remains Of the old British storehouse or
hulletproof retreut, and there are the
earthen breastworks thrown up at angles
that enabled the defenders to meet the
attacking force with terrible Gre. Here
on the other side you see
And so he wandered on through the
intricate mazes Of lecture long ago
learned by heart. while we sometimes
listened and sometimes lost ourselves IN
pleasing 90 conjecture as TO what the
place might have looked like IN the days
that he told about-in the days when
frontier fights. revolutions, international
sQuabbles OF all kinds aud numerous
bands Of treacherous Indians made the
tenure of life all too uncertain.
To properly inspect all the points OF In.
terest-nl the hattlenclds scenes OF am
buscade ana terrible slaughter along IN,
banks of Niagara River ON both side,
should take about n week The Niagara
frontier fairly hreathes with historic IN
terest. From the days of the great ex
plorer. La Salle and the time OF Fathe
Homeopathic nrst white man TO SCI
the falls Of Niagara, down on through
the years that witnessed the war Of 1871
and the burning Of Bunalo-the shore
of the river have continually been trod
den by the makers OF nations Blood let
ting there was, too. and here the Britls
and French have clashed, redman ha
fought aud scalped his white brother ant
Americans engaged In revolution hav'
grappied IN deadly conflict men Of thei
own aesh and blood Soldiers OF tn
mother country have engaged the Indian
10 swoop down upon the settlers alonl
the shores OF Niagara River aud raise'
no hand 10 stop the savage cruelties upol
men whose blood was as red, II thei
coats were not as scarlet as the hire