Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 44 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 7 Thursday, July 5, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Schooner S. B. POMEROY took a cargo from Allen, Cartier & Cos. dock this week, and was drawing 13 feet of water. The vessel passed out of the harbor without trouble; this is proof positive that large vessels can and do enter and leave Ludington safely. Wm. Osborn discovered three dead bodies on the beach a few miles north of Big Point Sauble Wednesday morning and reported it at the life saving station. They sent word to Coroner Shackleton who took the undertaker along with him this morning. Three young men, Mr. Markham of the Appeal office, E. D. Edwards, law student, and Willie Gatke went boat sailing yesterday and actually ventured out into lake Michigan at high noon. They reached a point nearly half a mile north of the pier and being inexperienced, capsized the boat. They all succeeded in getting a firm grip of the upturned craft and the concert began at once. The families residing near the lake shore were at dinner at the time and hearing the cries of distress rushed out to learn the cause. Charles Brown, Frank Brown and Daniel Chadwick launched their boat at once and pulled out to the assistance of the unfortunate and terror stricken pleasure seekers. They were taken in out of the wet and brought safely to land, meeting the Life Boat on the way. There might have been a respectable tragedy connected with the affair; those who stood safely on the pier were a great deal braver than this; they say they would rather drown than make such a fuss about it. Capt. S. W. Morgan has resigned as keeper of the Life- saving Station at Pt. Sauble, and crossed the lake to Milwaukee last Monday evening. He has been keeper of the station for the past seven years and retires with the "well done" of the people of this county. He has been many times called on to perform dangerous and fatiguing duties and has always done it well. Jesse T. Brown, who was for years No. 1 at the Ludington life-saving station, has been promoted and succeeds Capt. Morgan. He is a much younger man and may stay there many years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 45 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 8 Thursday, July 12, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Capt. W. H. Shaw has concluded to try his fortune with the steamer WESTERN as a ferry boat. He leaves the elevator dock near Osborn's fish house at 6 o'clock in the morning and will touch at any point along the lake where a passenger wishes to land. The WESTERN will leave the dock once each hour during the day until 9 p.m. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 46 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 9 Thursday, July 19, 1883 [extracts of marine news] IN MALE ATTIRE A Chicago Girl Who Successfully Personated the Jolly Tar. A young woman with a history was locked up at a Chicago police station the other night. She was dressed in men's clothing, and her disguise was the most deceiving the police ever met with. She was arrested on the docks, where she mingled as a sailor without her sex being discovered by even her nearest associate. For three years she has acted as cook's mate aboard various lake vessels, always passing for a boy and mingling with the sailors as one of them. She could give no other name than FRANK CHAMBERS, in- sisting that her real name was too sacred to divulge in a police station. She said she was born in Newark, Ohio, seventeen years ago, and donned male attire the better to get along. There was not one chance in twenty of getting employment as a woman where she could succeed as a man, and, as the latter had the better of it through life, she concluded to disguise her identity and engage in labor performed by the other sex. She liked the change. She liked the sea, and took it to the manner born. Though mixing constantly with the very roughest of the sea- faring element, few ever discovered her secret. She drank with the rough sailors, but was wise enough not to take too much, and she never became intoxicated. She accompanied them in their roistering tours when in port, but always had a ready excuse to offer when any frolic was proposed that might disclose her sex. She believed in woman's rights and smoked and chewed with the ease of an old tar. All her movements were masculine and her conversation was plenti- fully interlayed with expressions characteristic of the sterner sex. When proffered a cigar, she lit the match on her trousers, and when it went out, her disgust was expressed in terms more emphatic than elegant. She seemed to be a lad of eighteen, and though her features were regular and pleasing, there was nothing effeminate in her look. Her hair was cut close to the scalp, as if by a machine, and she wore a frock coat and black trousers, a cheviot shirt and a nobby derby. "Some one gave me away," was the reply she made when asked how she came to be arrested. "I have only been in the town a few days, and behaved myself the best I could. No one would suspect who I am, and I was never found out until I got in a row with a fellow once. I got a black eye, but then there is always a black eye aboard a ship; if the Captain hasn't got it, some of the crew have." On Saturday last the launch of the mammoth steamship GEO T. HOPE took place at Bay City. The craft was built and is owned by Capt. James Davidson. The HOPE'S extreme length is 200 feet, and her beam 40 feet, with hold 21 feet. She has a fore-and-aft compound engine, with high pressure cylinder 50 x 42, and low pressure 30 x 42. There are two Otis steel boilers 16 feet long and 8 1/2 feet shell. She is supplied with steam hoisting app- aratus on deck, American steam windlass, and latest improvements in the way of her outfit. Her carrying capacity is placed at 2,600 tons, or 90,000 bushels of corn or 1,500,000 feet of lumber. She is the larg- est craft ever built on Saginaw river and is spoken of as being the second largest boat on the lakes. She is named after the president of the Continental in- surance company of New York. Capt. Davidson will com- mand her the first two trips. Her cost was $130,000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series, No. 47 Vol. 4, New Series, No. 10 Thursday, July 26, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Last Saturday morning as the F. & P. M. No. 2 was leaving the elevator, a dock hand named John Von ToBell fell overboard and was drowned. For several hours afterwards the Life-saving crew were engaged in searching for the body but without success. It was discovered this morning by Captain Carter under the quarter of the steambarge M. F. BUTTERS as she lay at the R. R. dock loading. The superintendent of the Life-saving service and Senator Conger are about to make a tour of inspection of the stations and crews in the lake region. Several new stations will be established during the trip. The U.S. PERRY will be used. The P. M. L. Co. has donated a site on the north side of the harbor for the building of a new Life- Saving Station. Plans and specifications will soon be ready and advertising for proposals will be done in a short time. The old station will be abandoned as soon as the new one is completed. ==========================================================================