PRINCE GEORG
VOL. ", NO 18.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., FRIDAY. ncTOBKlR stli. 1924
FIVE CENTS
Wrecked Steamer "B. X." Is Towed Safely Into Port
t NIQUE FKAT OK STERNWHEEL SEAMANSHIP \< < OM�M,ISHKI> BY CAPTAIN miKWNK AM) VAlKW OF STKAMKK "II. C. KX-PKKSS"�BOAT WRECKED LAST YKAR BROUGHT BACK TO PORT.
LF/FT FOR BAST THIS MORNING
\ clover feat of seamanship, if river aavigatlon may be so termed, was accomplished by Captain O. P. Browne, the veteran stern wheel cup. tain of tho B. ('. Express Company's boats, who towed the disabled steamer "B.X." into the port at South Fort George on Wednesday last. bringing her safely through the Fort George Canyon lashed alongside of tiis boat.
The steamer "B.X." which is th^ pioneer boat of the large class on the upper Fraser, was wrecked at a point about Canyon Creek, thirty odd miles below the Fort George Canyon, on August 80th last year. Thfi boat was southbound at the time with about 70 tons of cement aboard for the abutments- of the Deep Creek bridge. She struck a submerged rook and although the sheck was slight it was soon noticed that the boat was badly hulled, and before nln> could be properly beached the bulkheads gave way in her hull and she settled on the bottom. Later she was lightened and drawn to the river bank.
Thv salvage work has been in the hands of the pioneer shipbuilder. Dan McPhee, who built both the "B. X " and her sister ship and rescuer the "B. C Express."
Towed Through Cunyou.
Repair work was completed on Sunday last and the "B.C. Express" took hold of the wrecked boat on the evening of that day and commenced the journey upstream. The lowed boat was lashed bv the side
of tin' Kxpress, and on reaching the
Fort George Canyon the latter boat
continued through alon<*. placed her
line, dropped back down the canyon
and again picked up her tow. Then
for the first time in the history of
stern Wheel boats one of these craft
towed another through a canyon. At
a point where the old "Charlotte"
was totally wrecked years ago, at
the south end of the steamboat
channel, steam dropped for a few
moments on the Express' boilers and
j "things got pretty lively," as Captain
Browne put it. There was also some
trouble at the eddy at the upper end
j of thp steamboat channel, but inch
'< by inch the sternwhe- ler fought her
! way through the canyon, full steam
| ahead and with her capstan winding
i in the bow line, until with her dls-
i abled siste.r she gained the free water
: at. the canyon head.
Had \Vat�>r.
The. Fort George Canyon is bad ! water. Many mishaps have occurred i there to steamboats. On the west- j i ern side of the canyon there stands the cross erected by one of the pio_ ; neer missionary priests where, years ago a number of Indians who were.1 taking him down river in a canoe were drowned.
Tied side by side, the two boats almost completely blocked the narrow sections of the steamboat channel. The feat, is a singularly able" demonstration of river craft on the , part of Captain Browne, his officers and crew and it marks a new departure in the work of sternwheel boats.
Huge Dredge to Be Built To Operate on Cottonwood
t in place of one of the mechanics, who travels by train. Captain Douglas is the officer who went avead of the flight and arranged the landing grounds, etc.
According to the lirst official ac. count of the flight to Nome, this aviation expedition which hoe jnct pass. ed into the eastern sky may be but the trail.blazing of a regular mail service to Alaska, which will use this place, amongst others, for a base.
The following first official account of th,> tlight of th�,. four aeroplanes from New York to Nome has be^n released by the Manufacturers' Aircraft Association co.operating with the army air servic- in co-ordinating the reports of the officers in charge of the most significant aviation event on the western hemisphere this year.' Captain St. Clair Street and his com. panions made the entire, flight of 4^45 miles in 56 hours' flying time. The original machines and identical motors were functioning perfectly when the fliers arrived at Nome.
The continuation of the expedition from Nome to Cape Prince of Wales and possibly across the 50-mile channel to Siberia means the North Am. erican continent will be linked with Asia; that instead of being an isolated possession of the United States, Alaska will become an important junction In commercial irade be. tween this county- and fhe Orient. In fact, this pioneering, trail-blazing flight, in the opinion of military and civilian aeronautcal leaders, is u? epochal in its'commercial importance as Bleriot's first n:ght across the English Channel; uot that it alone proves the ability of the airplane to fly such distances, but because of th-5 important bearing #. has on Alaska in connection with continental and Asiatic traffic.
Reports just received state that the Alaskans are determined to bring about regular communication by
Fairy Seaplane Crashes on
Transcontinental Flight
COIyONEJL EJECKIE AND MAJOR HOBBS CRASHED NORTH OP ST. JOHN YK-STK-IUrAY�NEITHER* HURT IN ACCIDENT AND NKW MACHINE IS ON WAV TO THK.V1�SEAPLANE WRECKED.
air. Prevented from establishing highways and railroad facilities by reason of the rough country befween the state and the territory, they look first to the government to foster the new project, and failing to secure such co-operation, plan to under, write the .nitial expense by popular subscription.
Route Is Charted. Even now, as a result of the air service flight, an t'-rial route has been photographed and charted diagonally across th* United States, across Canada and Alaska�a highway approximately 25 miles wid�, with tentative supply and service station sites. With the data and charts of this flight in his possession 1 an aviator can traverse the route ! with ease and comparative safety, I and in the quickest possible time, I surely more than a mile a naiute. 1 That there was need of pioneering I work such as that just completed ' may be assumed from one of Captain Street's reports *u Major-General , Charles T. Menoher, director of the j air service:
"In general the filers consider the
f"ontn,we<3 iroro page 4.)
ST.JOHN, N.B., Oct. 7.�The first cro.-s.Canada flight is in progress. Colone Leckie. D.S.O.. and Major Hobbs, D.S.O., hopped off from Halifax at eight o'clock on Thursday morning and made a fine flight across Cape Blomidon and the Ray of Fundy. Thousands watched them in their Fairey seaplane making good speed until a few minutes later they crashed at Long Beach, twenty miles north of this city, and their flight to Vancouver was interrupted. Their seaplane was badly wrecked, but the aviators were unhurt. Col. Leckie asked that another machine be sent to them. They soon resumed the flight. Captain Wilson, flying the second aeroplane, has left Montreal f6r Riviere du Louy>, Que., where he will stand by for relay purposes if necessary.
The flight from Halifax to Winnipeg will be made by seaplane and if successful the venture will be of immense value to Canada in the development of commercial flying. This will be the first all-Canada flight and the first attempt to fly across Lake Superior from Winnipeg. The flight will be taken up by aeroplanes flying in three relays, first to Moose Jaw, then Calgary, and last to Vancouver.
Klondike" Boyle, Chief of Staff to General Wrangel
OLD YUKONER IS APPOINTED TO HIGH POSITION IN WRANGEL COMMAND�WAS CAiNADIAN TRADE COMMISSIONER TO ROU_ MAMA�HOLDS OON3n>ERA BLE INFLUENCE IN RUSSIA;
AT WAR WITH OLIVER.
LONDON, Oct. 7.�Colonel Joseph I Boyle, familiarly known as "Klon. NELSON, Oct. s.�Thirty.seven I dike" Boyle, has been appointed cities and municipalities, represent-1 chief of statT to General Wrangel in ed in the Union of B.C. Municipal!. Southern Russia. It has beer, known
for some time that Colonel Boyle as. ties, in a convention which opened plred t0 a posl with the White Rus
fvere on Wednesday and closes next s.-jtn.s, when they were under General Saturday. The Good Roads League Denekin'a leadership. He possesses
closed its convention oi*Tuesday at con2i David Spencer department store, on Wednesday Pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to the Penitentiary. Justice Morrison K-entence'd him to five years on each of seven counts, the principal of which was the theft of" $38,000. The theftg covered a'lengthy period. The
sentences will run concurrently.
Hughes was for many years the; trusted accountant of the David j Spencer firm. The thefts approximate half a million for nearly all of > which Hughes has miule restitution, lie turned over the "Victoria Times." a large block of war bonds and other assets l�� the Spencer firm, all ot' which he lvu(fia<(iuired with th,.- <-iu. be/zlvd monies.
LLOYD GEORGE DEFENDS
COALITION IN INTERVIEW
SVw Magazine IJ*�arii�g Premier's
Name Is Vehicle Used to Ex.
prass His Views.
LONDON. Oct. 7.�Premier Lloyd George has given a lengthy interview lor publication in the first number of a new sixpenny magazine entitled the -'Uoyd George Liberal Magazine." issued today. "Defence of Coalition" is the heading on this interview, and this, taken with the title of the magazine, indicates the purpose of the publication. Lloyd Oeorge tells why he does not favor dominion home ru�e' for Ireland, as proposed by Asquith, and says it means dropping the control of the army, navy and taxation.
MRS. PANKHURST HAS
SENSATION *Aj DOCUMENTS
P�*.ik�, for Communistic ("onqiu^t of
Britain Brought From Russia
by Sylvia Pankhnrst.
LONDON, Oct 7.�Detailed plans ; for the communistic conquest of i Great Britain and other countries | have b�-n brought, from Russia by j Sylvia Pankhurst. Copies of a long ' document, intended only for perual
by British and Reds, have reached j several London newspapers. Lenine
insists that the first duty of com.
munists is to oust moderate men
from responsible positions.
Ti* IRRIGATE MESOPOTAMIA.
PRINCE RUPE.RT, Oct. 8.�Major G B Hull, late resident engineer hfilfl for the federal government, has been appointed British government representative on an irrigation scle'ine for Mesopotamia; and has loft for England with Mrs. Hull.