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. =========================================================================== St. Joseph Herald Saturday, April 7, 1888 [extracts of marine news] In the river and harbor bill St. Joseph harbor is recommended for $10,000, and St. Joseph river $2,500. The schooner HARVEY RANSOM came into St. Joseph harbor, from South Haven, on Friday last, and is the first arrival for the season of 1888. The LORA will make her first trip to Chicago, for 1888, on Monday night. She had been put in fine trim. Her officers will be Captain - J. McIntosh; First Mate - Frank Pattee; Clerk - Chas. Young; Steward - Geo. Waterhouse. The St. Joseph Life-Saving Crew went on duty on Monday. Four of the old crew - Messs. Howland, Keeler, Doyle and Abe Stevens - some of whom retired voluntar- ily - are succeeded by new men from abroad. The new crew is composed of the following: Wm. L. Stevens, Keeper and Captain; Lewis Mathews, Richard Stines, of St. Joseph; W. J. McCully, of Alpena; Wm. Robinson, of Montague; Sam'l H. Henderson, of South Haven; Michael King, of Benton Harbor; Fred. Hasse, of Michi- gan City. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, April 14, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The barge MAUD PRESTON went to Muskegon this week for a load of lumber. The tug HANNAH SULLIVAN with crew left Monday for Frankfort, to remain there during the fishing season. Messrs. Alex Crau and John Freitag have chartered H. E. Grimm's tug SWEET BROS. and are now running the same on the fishing route at this place. The LORA made her first trip to Chicago, for the season of 1888, on Monday night, in fine shape and on time. She had a good list of passengers. For the present she will run tri-weekly, leaving St. Joseph at 9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, and returning from Chicago on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights, leaving there at 11:30 p.m. Government Inspectors have been here this week inspecting the water craft. The Detroit Tribune prints a libel on St. Joseph harbor in saying that "it is one of the most danger- ous ports on Lake Michigan to enter in a storm." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, April 21, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The MAY GRAHAM will probably make her first trip up the river on Monday, April 30th. Messrs. Preston & Collins received, the first of the week, a cargo of lumber from the north, by the barge MAUD PRESTON. Lieut. Shoemaker, of the U.S. Life-Saving service, in response to accusations made against Keeper Stevens by late members of his crew, was in St. Joseph this week investigating the matter. Evidence was heard pro and con and the final verdict on the case is awaited with much interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, April 28, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The steamer PURITAN will look finely lighted with electric lights. ==========================================================================