[A bifolded program printed on heavy cream card. Engraved heraldry of the Hume Shipping Company at top of front cover. Period typography.]
OF HONORED MEMORY
The Unveiling of the Monument to the Company and Passengers of the Steamer IPHIGENIA
Lost upon the Lake, the Seventh of November, Nineteen Hundred and Twelve
Quay Three, Port Hume Seven November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirteen At Twelve of the Clock
PROGRAMME
Invocation — The Reverend James Tanner, D.D., First Presbyterian Church.
Remarks of the Mayor — The Honourable Roland D. Whitlock.
The Reading of the Names — Mr. Edmund Hume, President of the Company.
Hymn — Eternal Father, Strong to Save. (Congregation standing; printed within.)
Unveiling of the Monument.
Benediction — The Reverend Isaac Fleming, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church; The Reverend Father Wiktor Jarzembek, St. Casimir's Polish Catholic Parish; Rabbi Mendel Arenson, Temple B'nai Abraham.
Reception in the Custom House Rotunda.
THE NAMES
Captain Raleigh Hume
First Mate Ewan McCausland
Second Officer Osier Brant, Third Officer Henry Connard, Chief Engineer Donald MacBride, Second Engineer Per Lindgren, Boatswain J. A. MacMillan, Purser C. W. Tennyson.
Deck Hands: Aleksy Sosowski, Stanisław Malinowski, Arvo Leino, Mikko Harju, Rocco Benelli, Frank Dooley, George Reape, William Innes.
Stokers: Jan Kowacs, Piotr Balinski, Karl Immelhoff, Augusto Renard, Joseph Gallagher, Klaus-Michael Scherr.
Stewards, Cooks, and Cabin Staff: Gianluca Benelli, Ellen Petterson, Mary MacLean, Teofil Kruszewski (cabin boy, aged fourteen), Morris Ellerbee, Daniel Welsh.
Passengers: Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Kehle of Cleveland; Miss Augusta Vandermark of Buffalo; Dr. and Mrs. Frederic Palliser of Port Hume; Mr. Thaddeus Cushing of Detroit; Mrs. Ursula Breed and daughter of Port Hume; Mr. Adrien Voss of Toronto; Mr. John Kruszewski, Jr. of Port Hume; the Rev. Fr. Andrzej Gołębiowski, of St. Adalbert's, Buffalo, travelling; Mr. Philip Quarrier of Port Hume; Mrs. Elenora Pemberton of Port Hume (née Whitling); Mr. Robert Andrew Bly of Cleveland, a hop merchant; Miss Christine Marggraf of Port Hume, teacher; and others, forty-seven in all.
May their names be held in honor through the years of this Company and this city.
DEDICATION INSCRIBED UPON THE MONUMENT:
"THEY WERE CARRIED BY THE WATERS. WE ARE CARRIED BY THEIR MEMORY. PORT HUME — 1913"
[The program includes, on the inside back cover, a reproduction of the sculptor's drawing of the monument: a bronze figure of a steersman at the wheel, a woman kneeling at his foot, and a gull passing across a wave — all set upon a granite base bearing the forty-seven names in alphabetical order, with the Captain and officers above, and the others in rank below.]