Cape Breton's Magazine

Changing modes of delivering goods. Above: Apples, bananas, oranges • everything came by ferry to Newfoundland. Upper right: Rail? road cars are loaded aboard the Frederick Carter at North Sydney. Far right: Tying down a railroad car in the hold of a ferry. Right: Handling containers. Below that: A trucit rolls off either the Marine Nautica or the Marine Atlantic • caWed the "ro-ro' and men were travelling over the ice. And we were ordered out of St. John's to go down there. It took us a couple of days to get down. We picked up three of them on a floating pan, and one of them died before we got back. He died aboard the ship. You see, we thought they were coloured people with the blood ran down over their face where the glass--when it blew out the sky? light the glass cut their head around. The blood ran down and turned black. They looked like coloured people. (So you picked three up, one of whom died. And then did you get to the blast site?) No, she was gone. We saw parts of it. There was a part of the timbers on the pan (of ice) we picked those up on. But then we went on further where some of them walked ashore on Horse Island. We went and picked them up and hauled them back to the ship and brought them into St. John's. 's • roll on, roll off! The ice was terrific. We had to walk fourteen miles (round trip) to the island where some of the survivors were on. And haul them off on slides (to) where we got j ammed. That was a hard • • fci't'' walking, and rough ice. We had fellows ahead cutting the big pinnacles (off the ice) for our hauling in boats. We went and came the same day. Then we ran out of water down there. We The Big Names in New Equipment The Big Values in Used Equipment Skate Sharpening "Sports equipment that's used • not used up!" We Buy, Sell, Trade, Consign and Rent New and Used Sports Equipment 539-PLAY 7 5 2 9 Prince Street Plaza • 325 Prince St. • Sydney Muffler Man 93 King St., North Sydney D SERVIOE3! • Extiaust 'Brakes 'Struts 'Stiocks 'Springs • MIctielin and Goodrich Tires • Life Time Warranty • 4-Wheel Alignment • Wheel Balancing Estimates 794-7500 amium ihugshots & More NOW LOCATED AT OUR MAIN STORE . . . WE CAN PUT YOUR PHOTO ON ALMOST OnNI MnH' ANY OF OUR PRODUCTS ''''i'iH''n' OR TAKE A LIVE PICTURE PHOTO MUGS * PHOTO SWEATSHIRTS PHOTO CAPS * PHOTO FRIDGE MAGNETS| PHOTO BUnONS * COLOUR COPYING PHOTO KEYCHAINS rLAMINATING ??t!Jj[JJ??J-ft!iim'tJ,l| PHOTO T-SHIRTS AND MUCH MORE! i*JiiHllinTHrlll'll| 350 CHARLOTTE STREET, SYDNEY 562-7900 ma 101