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. 50 Vol 4. New Series No. 13 Thursday, August 16, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Lyons scows are again loading for Chicago. Their rest was brief. The steambarge M. F. BUTTERS is chartered to take timber to Holland for Dewar & Wing. Mr. Butters has purchased forty feet water front in addition to that purchased last fall, at the foot of James street. Duncan Dewar is now engaged extending the dock. The dredge is deepening the channel between the docks to admit of larger vessels loading and unloading. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series No. 51 Vol 4. New Series No. 14 Thursday, August 23, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Messrs. Dewar & Wing have completed their contract on the harbor and go from here to Holland where they have more work for the government - Manistee Democrat. From Mr. R. Arnott we learn that the overhauling and lengthening of F. & P. M. Steamer No. 1 is nearly com- pleted and that she will commence her regular trips again on Tuesday next. Steamer No. 2 has left for Detroit and will undergo the same overhauling. A steam barge having in tow a vessel loaded with coal for Allen & Son caused no little excitement late Tuesday evening by her continued whistling for a tug to come out to take the vessel in, she desiring to pursue her course without entering here. We are informed that not a few persons wended their way to the piers expecting to find a disabled steamer lying off this port. On Tuesday the revenue cutter ANDY JOHNSON, having on board General Supt. Kimball of the life saving service, District Supt. Robbins, and Secretary Folger as a guest, arrived at this port for the purpose of inspecting the workings of the members of the station here. The boys were put through the drill and in every instance showed what careful training and strict attention to duty would accomplish - being marked ten (the highest mark obtainable) in each particular drill, and securing at the close the praise of those witnessing it. The superintendent pro- nounces the members here as being second to no station is the service for efficiency, and expressed the belief that was it not for the line becoming entangled with some edgings on the beach in that part of the drill known as "shooting a line," they would have lowered the time made by the banner station at St. Joseph, this state. Upon the leaving of the JOHNSON later in the day, Capt. Broad- bent hoisted the signal as being the "banner station," and was answered back with the signal "Our compliments." Pretty good for a station whose numbers have been in training but about seven months. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Vol. XVI, Old Series No. 52 Vol 4. New Series No. 15 Thursday, August 30, 1883 [extracts of marine news] Steam barge M. F. BUTTERS took a cargo of pier timber to Holland this week for Dewar & Wing. The Canadian steambarge NIAGARA is taking a load of deals from the north mill for Quebec. The Canadian government lumber inspector accompanies the boat. The barge NELSON BLOOM left 1,000 tons of coal on the dock for Allen & Son this week. Capt. J. *. M*** arrived here this morning with the F. & P. M. boat No. 1. The addition to her length is 37 feet, 8 inches. The boat is vastly improved in appearance by the change, and now has a registered tonnage of 625, and is capable of carrying 1000 tons. The engine is left in the same position but the boilers have been placed in the hold. The cabin is lengthened in accordance with the alterations and will accommodate 100 first class passengers. There are 32 state rooms some of them arranged to accommodate families. The boat left Milwaukee last evening and made the passage easily in eight hours and five minutes, being a fraction over 12 miles an hour. The speed has not been changed ma- terially by the increase in length of keel. Boat No. 2 is now in Detroit undergoing the same change and will probably be in commission again by Oct. 1st. The contract for the removal and *****ion of the life- saving station will be given next Saturday. Several of our best contractors are figuring on the job. The present sta- tion with all its government material, will be removed to the new sight selected near the entrance of the harbor and placed 150 feet from the revetment. The building will be transported to the new sight, by water. A covered lookout is to be built on the roof with flagstaff in front of it. The pier will be cut down to the water line on an inclined plane from the station so that the boat or boats can be launched in the shortest possible time. The station will be not far from the water's edge outside of the harbor, and the contract calls for a sea fence one hundred feet west of the station. When completed, the new station will be one of the "institutions" of the city, and will no doubt be a favorite and interesting place to visit. more especially when the boys are on drill. The keeper of the light house on Beaver island is a woman, Mrs. D. Williams, and for 15 years she has faithfully kept her lamp trimmed and burning. Tom Lebois, while hoisting the lantern on the WHEELER, at Manistee on the 22nd inst., slipped, fell overboard and was drowned. The crew saw him in the water, hallooed, and he responded. They threw out a line, but he failed to catch it; and before they could throw it to him again he went down. He was a native of Canada, single, and 25 years old. ===========================================================================