The “Mount Washington” now did the lion’s share of the business; but the “Lady” was continued in service until September 14, 1893. On that date she made her final regular trip from Wolfeboro to The Weirs with a crew composed of John S. Wadleigh as Captain; A. P. Hughes, clerk; John M. Lovett, pilot; Lorenzo Lovett, engineer; J. Fred Lovett, fireman; James Wilkins and Frank Hubert, deck hands; James Hawkins, kitchen colonel; and H. C. Wentworth, cook. On September 19, mainly for reasons of sentiment, the “Lady made a short trip from the Weirs out into “The Broads”; and on her return, she was towed to Lakeport where she was dismantled, and her machinery removed. The hull, with decks and cabins nearly intact, was taken to Glendale in 1894, where it was tied up on the shore of the lake and used as a boarding house for workmen engaged in construction of the now famous Kimball’s Castle. When this work was completed, the hull was towed out into the middle of Glendale Bay, holes were bored below the water line and the “Lady” found her last resting place in 45 feet of water at that location. The figure head which adorned her prow, a lady with a paddle in hand, was removed and placed atop the boathouse of Col. Charles H. Cummings on Spindle Point’ but in recent years it was removed, and may now be seen at the old Historical Building on North Main Street in Concord where it is resplendent in gold and while as it was for the forty-five years of the “Lady’s” career on Winnipesaukee.
Glendale Bay is Smith’s Cove in Gilford.
On one of our trips through Concord, if the weather is nice, I will see if I can find the figure head.