Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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 APPEAL, Ludington, Michigan Thursday, December 8, 1898 MARINE Last Thursday the ice formed so thick in the harbor that the ferryboat SPRITE was compelled to stop running. She made her last trip Thursday night and is now laid up for the winter. The F. & P. M. company's ice tug, the J. O. EVANS, is expected here today. The F. and P. M. company have chartered her for 4 months from the Dunham line. This will keep her in service in the Ludington harbor until April 15. The latest reports indicate that the steamer FAYETTE BROWN which went aground on the reef at Pt. Pelee last week, will prove a total loss. Although several hundred tons of coal were taken off the steamer, wreckers were unable to save her. The body of Thomas Gillman, second engineer of the steamer L. R. DOTY, which sank in Lake Michigan October 25, drifted ashore near Glenn, Mich. The deceased's mother, Mrs. Johanna Gillman, lives in Berlin, Conn., and came all the way to Glenn to claim the body and take it to Berlin for burial. The steamer MARY H. BOYCE, whose charter with the Baltimore & Ohio Fairport line will expire December 12, is under engagement to the Crosby Transportation company for service between Milwaukee and Grand Haven during the winter months. The Boyce is to be utilized chiefly as a grain carrier. The steamer E. S. TICE met with an accident off Manistee harbor last Friday which might have proved quite disastrous. The bursting of a copper steam pipe was the cause. Upon sig- nals of distress being blown, the tug BARNES came to her assistance and the steamer was towed to this harbor, the sea being too heavy to take her into Manistee harbor safely. Temporary repairs were made to the Tice here and she proceeded to Milwaukee. It would seem that the Neffs have a Jonah along this shore. The life saving crew finished their season's work last Saturday and were paid off and discharged. The station presented quite a busy season Satur- day morning when our reporter called to say goodbye. Good natured Joe Mitchell was down on his hands and knees scrubbing the floor in a way that threatened to remove every particle of Anglo Saxon dirt. The other members of the crew were also variously engaged in like menial tasks prepara- tory to taking their departure. The boys are a jolly lot of fellows and we regret to see them go. As they cannot remain in the service all winter, we trust another season will see them all back at their old posts. The season of navigation has prac- tically closed so far as sailing vessels are concerned, nearly all the sailing craft having gone into winter quarters at the various ports along the lakes. Steam vessels, aside from all-winter steamers, are now making their last trips, and by another week will also be in winter quarters. We see by our exchanges that the steamers GEORGE W. ROBY and PARKS FOSTER were the last boats to clear from the lower lakes for Michigan ports this season. Ice has alread formed in the St. Clair river and at the Straits to a thickness of ten inches, making it almost impos- sible for steamers to navigate. All the smaller harbors are also frozen up and navigation henceforth will be con- fined to all-winter ports. A rather singular incident in marine affairs came to light recently and has some local interest attached to it. On November 8th the life saving crew at this point picked up a schooner's yawl boat a short distance from the north pier, carried it to the station and turned it upside down awaiting claim of ownership. There was no name on the boat nor other mark of indentifica- tion (sic). But one day Capt. Andrew Hansen of the schooner BARBARIAN, which was wrecked in Milwaukee harbor October 25 and the crew had such a narrow es- cape and rescue, chanced to be at the station and saw the boat which he immediately recognized as his own. He proved his ownership beyond any question and took the boat. It appears that when the Barbarian was off Sheboygan, a big sea washed her yawl boat away and it drifted clear across the lake and landed here. Capt. Hansen afterward shipped on the schooner MINERVA as first mate, and was driven to this port for shelter one day last month. He was glad to recover his yawl boat as a keepsake, if nothing more, of his lost schooner. ===========================================================================