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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Thursday, July 2, 1896 Volume XXIX [extracts of marine news] Preparations have been made by Capt. Taft of the life saving sta- tion to have the exercises as realistic as possible. A schooner will be anchored in the bay to furnish the supposed wreck and crew to be saved. At a meeting of the common council Tuesday night, the board of public works reported that the Fourth ward bridge was unsafe and should not be opened to navigation until repaired. It will take $100 to repair it. As the closing of the bridge to navigation might make a serious difference to the basket factory the council voted the basket company $50 and will keep the draw shut until next winter when repairs will be made. For deeds of humanity Capt. John Stewart has long been known. His last, and one long to be remembered was in launching the boat from the steamer MILWAUKEE to pick up a large Newfoundland dog ten miles from shore. How long the poor brute had been swimming can not be con- jectured but he was in an exhausted condition. The dog will be kept as a mascot, and is certain to be a great favorite with passengers when his story is [t]old. Excursionists on the steamer CITY OF CHICAGO who went across the lake from Chicago to St. Joseph Saturday night saw Capt. Charles McIntosh, the veteran commander, put a passenger in chains. The cap- tain, observing an excursionist sitting on the steamer's rail, told him it was against the rules of the vessel. The man made no answer, and was ordered down at once. "I will get down when I am good and ready," was the reply as the man reached for his revolver. Without another word Capt. McIntosh, who is over 60 years of age, seized the passenger, who weighed 180 pounds, and, after a brief struggle, threw him on the deck. He then sat down on him and held him until members of the crew brought a rope. He was securely bound and carried into the hold, where he was kept until the steamer's arrival at St. Joseph. He was then turned over to the United States deputy marshal on the charge of attempting to shoot an officer of a vessel on the high seas. The penalty for the offense is severe. He gave the name of Philip Rogers, and said he was a railroad man of Chicago. Another life saver was born at Point Sauble Tuesday and surfman Johnson is thrice happy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, July 9, 1896 Volume XXIX John Anderson, at Manistee, was fishing in a small boat near the pier. He hooked a big fish and in the struggle to haul him in cap- sized the boat. The life saving crew saw the accident and pulled out to the rescue of Anderson. The fish is looking for new victims. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, July 16, 1896 Volume XXIX The free excursion on the F. & P. M. boat Tuesday afternoon given for the benefit of the visiting leaguers was greatly enjoyed by at least two hundred. MARINE NOTES The EMMA BANNER came in Tuesday and cleaned up the tan bark on Grundeman's dock. The big barge DUNBAR is wind bound and is improving the situation by giving the hold a clean out. The CALEDONIA, of Racine, is loaded with hardwood lumber and has been ready to clear since yesterday noon. The three master JOHN C. BANER ran in yesterday for shelter. She will clear light for Point Betsy as soon as the wind abates. The O. K. JOHNSON is waiting for favorable weather to pull out with a high load of tan bark. She finished loading yesterday fore- noon. The steamer GLENN brought in about one hundred and fifty excur- sionists from Benton Harbor Tuesday morning. She returned last night. The little ferry steamer has a new captain. Capt. Lenox says he has had enough inland lake navigation and doesn't much care for water anyway. The four men charged with larceny from the steamer NYACK on the high seas were arraigned before United States Court Commissioner Snow at Muskegon. The testimony showed that John Green, who was a member of the crew, was the man who broke into the cargo and threw stuff overboard. He was held to the Federal grand jury at Grand Rapids. The other three were released. Eight schooners and two steam barges were wind bound in this harbor Wednesday. All got out the same night. All things considered a large quantity of fruit was shipped out of Ludington yesterday on the steamer MAXWELL and F. & P. M. No. 3. The dredge has deepened the channel at the cannery dock to an average of 16 feet. All sizes of craft can make that wharf now with- out trouble. Jerry Boynton, manager of the Michigan Central railway, has con- tracted with the Craig Shipbuilding company of Toledo for two large carferry boats of 34 cars capacity each to ply between Milwaukee and Grand Haven. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, July 23, 1896 Volume XXIX F. & P. M. No. 4 has just been released from the Manitowoc dry dock where she has been undergoing extensive repairs. The steamer was brought here Saturday morning and a crew of men are at work completing repairs on the hull and rebuilding the cabins and upper works. When the repairs are completed No. 4 will practically be a new boat. The steamer CUMMINGS, which has been making tri-weekly trips be- tween this city and Manistee in the fruit trade, will hereafter leave the Pere Marquette Canning company's dock daily at four p.m. The change is made to accommodate the large amount of fruit being shipped north. Yesterday morning the steamer MAXWELL brought up a carload of furniture enroute to Dubuque, Ia. The Fog Horn To Be Silenced. Ludington people will hail with delight the announcement that the government has at last decided that their peaceful slumbers shall no more be disturbed by the discordant tooting of the fog-horn. The contract has been let for the construction of a parabolic hood or sound reflector which will greatly deaden the sound of the big whistle landward. The reflector is in appearance like a huge concave lamp reflector, about eight feet high. The back is made of heavy planking and the front of sheet-iron, and the space between the wood and iron filled with sawdust. Placed back of the big whistle this arrangement will greatly increase the volume of sound on the water. This latter fact will make it a greater boon to mariners than it will be to people on land, if that is possible. The work will be completed some time before the end of the month. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, July 30, 1896 Volume XXIX A party of Ludington people went to Manistee on the CHARLEVOIX Sunday morning and returned in the evening on the tug SPORT. An extensive fleet of dredges, scows and tug arrived here Monday to dredge the harbor channel. They are owned by Starkey & Co., of Milwaukee, who have been awarded the harbor contracts all along this coast. Some young ladies who were visiting Ludington and seeing the sights wandered to the piers and for the first time saw the government dredge at work deepening the channel. When they reached home for supper they told of the wonderful things they had seen - salt blocks, saw mills, woodenware factories, and a queer looking steamer that had got aground and was digging itself out. Captain James Reid who is engaged in an attempt to raise the steam- er CAYUGA, which was recently sunk in Lake Michigan near Skillagallee reef, says that unpropitious weather has hindered the work materially, but everything is in such shape now that he hopes to be able to at- tempt a lift between the 1st and 10th of August. Three wire cables have been passed under the hull, one at the bow, one aft and one mid- ship. The wreck will be lifted about six or eight feet from the bot- tom and towed to Little Traverse bay, where the work will be com- pleted. Ed McLaughlin, one of the striking caulkers at Wheeler's shipyard, Bay City, went into Mr. Wheeler's private office Wednesday afternoon and demanded money, threatening to blow up the place if his demands were not complied with at once. Mr. Wheeler talked with the man until officers were summoned, and he was locked up. When the officers ap- peared McLaughlin said he made the threats only as a joke. A search failed to reveal anything about him with which he could have carried out his threats. Two little passengers who were not booked when the steamer CITY OF MILWAUKEE left Chicago for St. Joseph Tuesday morning made their ap- pearance in the afternoon when the steamer was in midlake, and their coming was heralded with some confusion, as the steamer had no pro- visions for such emergencies. They were twin boys born to Mrs. Jonas D. Jenkins, of Hutchinson, Kan., who was making a pleasure trip across the lake. With the kindly care of the matron the mother was made as comfortable as possible, while the little fellows, both of them bright, bouncing babies, were as healthy and active as their native lake and roared as lustily as the latter does in its anger. No names were given the little ones, although numerous suggestions were made by the passengers. ===========================================================================