Phone 526 Kingsway ROYAL MOTORS MABEL E. HILLIER, Proprietress Chrysler-Plymouth Fargo Trucks PORT ALBERNI, B.C. George C. Shead, Lid. Established 1912 Third Avenue, Port Alberni Transportation and Fuel Office Phone, 232 Res. Phone, 699 Ambulance SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOULDER STRAP. WING'S TAXI Phone 432 5 and 7-passenger cars at your service, day and night Stand: Corner Ist and Argyle PORT ALBERNI, B. C. ' Good's Sugar Bowl Cleanliness and Courteous Service Light Lunches Ice Cream, Tobacco and Confectionery The Best of Fountain Service You can obtain your copy of “THE SHOULDER STRAP” here PORT ALBERNI, B. C. THREE SISTERS CAFE Alberni, B. C. DINE AND DANCE CHICKEN DINNERS Full Course Meals brightly-lighted Stratton passed them on the left. Mae and Charlie Grant were chatting on the deck of the Willie Irving. “Look!” cried Mae. “The Stratton’s going to beat us into Dawson!” They watched the Stratton. One moment it was there across the river, its bright lights glow- ing. The next moment it was gone. “That’s funny,” exclaimed Charlie. “Unless the lights went out on the Stratton, it couldn’t just disappear like that!” There was little time to ponder. At that moment the Willie Irving began doing queer things. The doors and port holes were jamming out of shape. Suddenly they knew that the wooden-hulled vessel was caught in an ice-jam, and being crushed like an egg shell under their very feet! Up, up, up out of the ice-choked water it sprung, its sides nearly pressed together, until only the keel remained locked in the ice, holding the ship upright. -Meanwhile they heard screams from the left side of the river, and saw the lights of the Northwest Mounted Police flashing on the shore. The Stratton encountered the jammed ice and had sunk. Captain Griffith of the Willie Irving ordered two of his men to lay a rope across the jammed ice, and told everyone to follow the rope to shore. “Weren't breathlessly. “Not at first. But when I found myself, still a long way from shore with no ice to walk on—I guess I was frightened then! There lay the rope on free water! I turned to go back, and found that the ice I was- on had broken from that side, too, and was floating away down the river! There was nothing to do but stay on it, and pretty soon it came to rest against another ice-jam a little farther down the river.” “But you had no rope to follow there!” “No, I just had to go where I could. I jumped from floe to floe as they broke away, and managed to get ashore after awhile. The next morning we had to cross all the way to the left bank on the drifting ice, to get to the Mounted Police station. The Willie Irving was a total wreck. What of it had not broken away and drifted down the river, had sunk. We had the clothes we were wearing—nothing more. . “The Mounties had to take care of us, you frightened?” I asked A. M. VANDEPITTE, Proprietor ARLINGTON HOTEL ‘ ALBERRI, B.C. NEWLY RENOVATED - MODERN HEATED ROOMS e PRIVATE BATHS - RUNNING (H&C) WATER LICENSED PREMISES © Advertise in the Official Magazine of the Provincial Police Page Thirty-two as well as the passengers and crew from the Stratton. No lives were lost, but none of the cargo on either vessel was saved surely felt sorry for Charlie Grant! He'd had five thousand dollars worth of ho feed aboard the Irving and he couldnt well afford to lose it!” Everyone who was able pitched into thy job of taking care of the shocked and ‘iv jured. One of Mae’s special patients hag been a tiny baby, child of Leo and Cheeot, Chonita, Spanish dancers and trapeze per. formers. They belonged to a theatrica| troupe which Mr. Simons, manager of th theatre which afterward became the M ap; N, was taking to Dawson for the winte season. Jack Cavanaugh and Black Sy, livan, managers of the Monte Carlo, wer taking in another theatrical troupe. Other well-known Dawson people had been aboard the vessels; and of course the people in Dawson would be afraid, wha the steamers failed to arrive, that all liv: aboard them had been lost. The ice-jam broke up, and a large scoy, owned and operated by “Scow” Davis followed the ice down the river. Mrs. Dayis was aboard; and little Mae knowing she was gambling with death, went with then to Stewart. “That’s one trip I don’t want to live through again,” she declared. “If I could have seen what was going on, it might not have been so bad. But they put Mrs. Davis BROUGHTON’S TAXI PHONE 405 5 and 7-Passenger Cars - Radio Equipped and Steam Heated - At Your Service Day and Night ALBERNI B.C, ROLEY’S CLEANERS DRY CLEANERS CLEANING AND PRESSING We Specialize in Waterproofing For Prompt Service Phone 716 PORT ALBERNI B.C. THE JUKE BOX C. BENNEY, Proprietor DINE AND DANCE We Specialize in Real Italian Spaghetti and Chicken ALBERNI, British Columbia THE SHOULDER STRA?