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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1928 AGE FIVER OLD CONVICT SHIP SAILS THE SEAS Dungeons and Torture In struments Still Intact on the "Success" Brockvile, Onmt., Sept 13.--The old British convict ship "Success" which has just passed down the St. Lawrence river en route to distant Australia after a stay of 16 year: In North American waters, is re- puted to be the oldest vessel now sailing the seas and is certainly rich in interest and historical as- sogiations. The fact that at an age of 138 years, the "Success" is to be taken under her own sail down the Atlantic Coast and -across the Pacific forms ample testimony to the strength of her teak timbers and to the skill of her master, Cap- tain Smith, who is confident that the fact will be satisfactorily aec- complished, Since the year 1890 the "Sue- cess" has toured the world as a floating museum for which purpose she 1s to be permanently stationed off the coast of Australia. But when she was laid down in the sha- dow of Kipling's Moulmein pagoda in British Burmah as long ago as the year 1790, she was destined for the East India Service and actually engaged in it, as ane of the fastest vessels in the trade, until the year 1802. Traces of her former grand- eur stil lexist in her figure-head and in her other carved teak. In- t resting though this association of the old vessel undoubutedly, is, vastly more interesting is her con- nection with the convict traffic of the fleet employed in which she is now the sole survivor. When the "Success" was taken from the East India Merchant service in 1802 to become the flagship of the British Felon fleet plying between Britain and Australia, she was thor- gughly equipped for that business and many evidences of such equip- ent still remain. A trip through e old yellow hulk seems to turn Back the clock to the middle ages, Here, in their original state, are preserved the cells and dungeons in which men and women were con- fined, the instruments used to tor- ture them and the official records of their crimes, trials and suffer- ings, Visitors are first directed to the ®reat officers' quarters beneath the high- quarter deck. In addition to the ancient muskets in the gum-room, there are old hand-cuffs, keys, locks and scores of documents re- lating to the Whi deportation ang, confinement prisoners, aw graphs of different Sovereigns and rare woodcuts etchings showing the inhuman treatment accorded oners in the old days, Om the main deck, immediately outside the of- ficer's quarters, there are displayed the original legirons used aboard the comvict ship when she was en- gaged in the transportation of hu- man freight. Transportation sem- tences were never less than seven years and ranged to the term of the natural lives of the ers. Leg-irons varied in weight fron 7 to 56 pounds, Some of them are atached to heavy punishment balls which refractory prisoners were ab- liged to drag about during their one hour of exercise each day. The original pumps of the vessel, still used to keep her free of water and utilized with remarkable suc- cess during her voyage of 96 days across the Atlantic in 1912, may be seen a few feet distant, The original mainmast of solid Burnese teak-like the other tim- bers of the ship still stands, al- though it is scarred by the inden- tation of a pirate's cannon-ball as long ago as 1800. The giant rigged stone to which a score or more con- victs were chained is amidship, while the original flogging frame and triangle to which hundreds of unfortunates were manacled; the cat O' nine tails used for the whip- ping; the "coffin bath" into which they were dipped in salt water; and numeurous other exhibits oc- cupy space on the main deck, On the lower decks are the cells and each of these--72 in number-- has its story. On the 'tween deck are the prison chapel and the pri- son hospital, merely larger cells into which the "prisoners were thrust for their spiritual or physi- cal needs, and here, too, is the "Tigers' Den", where the most fer- ocious of the prisoners were herd- ed to "fight it out amongst them selves," On the lowest deck, below the water line; are the solitary confinement cells and the infamous black holes. In these airless, light- less, tiny slop-sides cubicles, the most refactory prisoners were chained to a ringholt, unable either to sit dwn or to stand up. The majority of those so confined for any extended period came out blind, insane or dead, Even the con- demned cells situated at another oul O MEDAL COFFEE point of the same deck, in which men were given a few hours respite before heing strung up at the yard- arm, were less feared than the "black holes," It was not until 1851 that the 'Success' was taken out of the terrible conviet trade to become a permanent receiving prison off the site of the present city of Mel- bourne, Other than solitary con- f Never before have lighter than rubber, fatigue, only way to be sure TORONTO | Smartest Writer Smartest Looker! 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Scuttled and sunk in 1885 by irate Australians who desired to destroy the last trace of the iniquitous system, she lay under the water of Sydney Har- bor for five years and was then raised and started on her world tour as a floating museum, Since that time she has sailed across both the Pacific and the Atlantic, and has been inspected by fully 21,- 000,000 people, Apart altogether from her association with perhaps the darkest chapters of prison his- tory, the "Success" has a very real value for the teak-wond-of which she is made Is now almost unpro- curable, the most recent quotation for it being at the rate of $1.00 per pound, It is estimated that there are from 400 to 500 tons of this rare wood in her structure, DOGGY POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN INCREASES 1,000,000 London, Sept, 13.--The doggy population of Great Britain has,in- creased by nearly a million since the war, The total is now nearly three millions, This does not in- clude possibly 800,000 dogs used by farmers, who pay no dog tax. Whereas there was formerly one dog for every 18 of the population there is now one for every 12. An agitation has beer started by people who do not like dogs for raising the tax. Five dollars is sug- gested as a suitable figure, The tax for many years has stood at 2 dol- lars. With such a big increase in the dog population it is certain that efforts on the other hand to obtain a relaxation of the quarantine reg- ulations will prove fruitless. The Ministry of Agriculture holds that the restrictions are mwore necessary than ever. A revival in the popularity of breeding seems largely responsible for the big imcrease in the popular- ity of dogdom. The path of the pedigree dog seems to be particu- larly rosy, Ten thousand were en- tered for Cruft's show along at the begining of the year--an unprece- dented figure--while the number of breeders, especislly women, is steadily increasing. The informa- tion that London's dogs have in- creased to 866,000 may be borne with equanimity when it is remem- bered that according to laws of permutation and combination the time will ipevitably arrive when dogs will all be of exalted strain and breed. POPULAR ATHLETE WEDS MISS CONNOR OF GALT Galt, Ont., Sept. 12.--Norman Himes, popular local athlete, as- sistant pro at the Riverview Golf Club, and centre player of the New York American N.H.L. team, was married here this evening to Miss Ruth Connor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Connor, Chisholm street. Mr. and Mrs. Himes will spend their honeymoon on 2 motor trip to Sudbury, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec, then down through the States, arriving in New York fn time for Mr. Himes to report for practice. They will spend the Win- ter in New York. fi WELBECK ABBEY A BEAUTIFUL DOMAI Seat of Duke of Portland In Heart of Notting- hamshire London, Sept 13.--One of the most beautiful of the still-existing lordly domains of England is Wel- k Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Portland, In the heart of Nott- inghamshire. The other day the Duke, who was accompanied by the Duchess, met together at lunch over sixty men of the estate staff, all of whom had worked for 40 years or over. Five of them had i been estate workmen for over 60 years, and 22 men and one woman for over 50 years, ' Doubtless some of these excel- lent old retainers whom His Grace met the other day could, if they were so minded, furnish some en- {tertaining reminiscences of the pre- {sent Duke's uncle, his immediate predecessor in the title, The fifth Duke, who died in 1879, was a ve- cluse all his life. It is said he for- bade any man on the estate to speak to him or to recognize him in any way. What he is chiefly re- membered for around Welbeck and throughout Nottinghamshire is his passion for burrowing on the large scale. He constructed an enormous ball-roony beneath the lake in Wel- beck Park. He built an equally ela- borate riding-school underground, All the main approaches to Wel- "eck Abbey to this day are hy way of tunnels. The tunnels are thor. (aughly well-drained and are light- od at intervals by circular sky- lights, The old Duke kept up this extraordinary mole-like activity for twenty years or more, and it is said to have cost him a couple of mil- lions sterling, With all his accen- tricities he was liberal minded to his tenants and neighbors, He gave great entertainments at Welbeck, but never appeared at them him- self. His henefactions to the people of the country were on the most bountiful scale. The Duke used to disappear for long periods, or at any rate, it used to he thought he had disappeared. It may be, though, that his nearest servants knew perfectly well where he was, At any rate his mysterious comings and goings were in some measure at least responsible for a law case which was hefore the Courts for years. The widow of the proprietor of a famous West-end store believed that her hushand had heen none other than, the ec- centric Duke of Portland, She maintained that her hushand's fun- eral had been a mock funeral, and that the coffin contained nothing. For years the lady made applica- tions to the Courts. Witnesses were brought from the ends of the earth, either to support or to refute her statements. A company was floated at ome period to finance the lady's claim to the Portland estates, After years to be opened. The hody was found in the coffin, The lady's claim was thereby exploded. The only other result was that some of the wit- nesses in the earlier proceedings {recelved substantial sentences for | perjury, { LABOR CONGRESS DELEGATES ENTERTAINED AT NIAGARA Niagara Falls, Ont., Sept. 18.-- Four hundred and fifty delegates to the Canadian Trades and Lahor Congress were brought to Niagara Falls today and spent the time sight-seeing and being taken through the power plants, In the vrefectory tonight, as euests of the Ontario Government, the delegates were entertained at dinner, J. H. H, Ballantine, Deputy Minister of Labor presided, and the other speakers included His Worship, Mayor Harry P. Steph- ens, who formally welcomed the guests: President Tom Moore, who stated that he believed the old age pensions measure would be carried in the Ontario Legislature this year; and Hon, Charles Duncan, of London, Eng., Mrs. M. Schwartz, V.P. of Women's Trade Union of America, brought greetings from that country, THOMPSON'S London, Oat., Sept. 13.--Pierced by a steel bar, which went com- pletely through his body, while working in the C.N.R. reclamation yards in East London this after- noon, Gordon Scémdrett, aged 21, of 179 Broughdale avenue, is in Victoria hospital and Dr. I. R. Clegg says that unless complica- tions set in he will likely recover. hospital and medical circles declare the case to be amazing as usually a man in such condition has no chance of recovery. Forced Against Stomach Scandrett was using the bar un- der a car to move it along a siding. The bar slipped and jammed against an oak tie, with the other end against Scandrett's stomach. The moving car pushed relentless- ly onward, pushing the bar clean through the man and wedging the end of it in a wooden beam. This stopped the car, but Scandrett lay under it impaled. Fellow-worknien forced the bar back, with the victim directing them. When he was finally got from under, the iron pinch-bar was still through him and he shouted: "Come on, boys, and pull it out." Chats With Nurses This was done, and then Dr. Clegg had him rushed to Victoria Hospital, the man all the while re- maining conscious. Tonight he was chatting with the nurses in the hospital and claims he is not seriously injured. By peculiar good luck, the steel bar had missed all vital points, though it grazed the spine. ONTARIO INDUN TRIBES IN COUNCIL Woman's Right to Franchise Stirs Delegates at Soo Meetings Sault Ste. Marie, nOt., Sept. 12. --There are 46 chiefs and dele- gates from Indian tribes all over Ontario present at the fifty-sixth annual meeting of the Grand Gen- eral Indian Council of the Province of Ontario, at Garden River. J. E. Bigcanoe of Georgina was elected President of the Council and Emerson Snake of Moravia, Vice-President. Altogether there are 87 people important question which is before the Council is the right of women to vote. : Women will not be permitted to vote at the present session, but an attempt to secure for them a fran- chise at subsequent conventions is under way. The discussion culminated in a resolution by D. W. Osakgeo and E. Menass that a committee of three be formed to draw up a rves- olution or memorial to be presented to the Department of Indian Af- fairs, "giving reasons why we, as the Grand General Indian Council of Ontario, wish the franchise for women." The President, in his address, ad- vised and urged the Council that it was in their. best interests to work in unity for the good of the Indian race in genéral. The financial report of the See- retary-Treasurer showed a bhaluuce of $92 39. gua nk 10 Simcoe St. §, caused by fly contamination. 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