The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-16

Niagara river to Canada, the Union Jack low cred from the flagstaff and Old Glory given to the breeze In It's place.
 An American garrison was maintained there and the interval between the Revolution and the War of 1912 was one of pleasant social inter- course between the officers and their families at the American Fort Niagara and the British Fort George (now Queenstown, Ont.). In De cember, 1913, the British captured Fort Niagara and held 1t until the close of the war, but by the Treaty of Ghent 1t was restored to the United States and since that time 1t has been under the American flag. Although garrison was maintained there for awhile after that the signing of the Rush. -BagOt treaty in 1918 marked the end of the military career of Fort Niagara.
 In the years that followed, the historic old fort fell into Q gradual decline. The waters of Lake Ontario, washing against the sea wall, be- gan to undermine 1t and much of the wall fell into the lake, Then "The Castle" began to settle and 1t became apparent that 1t, too. would soon disappear. Then the Old Fort Niagara associa- ton, composed of representatives of various pa- triotic and civic organizations of the Niagara Frontier country, came into being. It secured appropriations from congress for restoration of the old fort and that restoration, under the di- rection of the War department has gone for ward steadily since that time.
 Today, from the moated Porte des Cinq Ma tions," straddling the entrance, to the British block-house which is its northeastern corner, the old fort stands precisely as 1t was at the stage of its most advanced physical development. Twenty-pounders frown again from its barbettes and wattled redoubts imperishably reconstructed near the famous Lombardy poplars on the parade ground is the 19-foot cross Father Pierre Milet raised in 1888; the hot-shot oven from which heroic Fanny Doyle snatched her incandescent cannonballs is once more in operating condition {; the primitive lifting mechanism of it's draw bridge has been recommissioned; the 30-man beds in the ancient French barracks are ready for exhausted soldiery; the armed French castle. fort within fort, has been restored in detail, from its subterranean dungeons, grotesque with the clipped names of military and political pri- soners, to its interior well, stocked trade room and covered gun-deck on the roof.
 And on the rampant which tops the sea wall on the Lake Ontario side, there will be unveiled during the celebration in September the impos- ing sandstone monument to the Rush-Bagot treaty. Two months ago this site was the scene of a dramatic ceremony. In the crypt of this memorial were placed the bones of number of "Unknown Warriors" which had been unearthed during the reconstruction work. Whether they were the remains of French, British or American soldiers or Indian warriors no one could tell But they found common grave there and over them were held burial rites by Tuscarora In- dian chief, a Catholic priest and an Episcopal clergyman. Enemies they were once. perhaps, dur ing century of warfare which centered around Old Fort Niagara, but now their dust minglel in a sepulchre beneath . monument dedicated to . century of friendly neighborliness and ts future centuries of peace. eby Western Nswspapss unioa.