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The schooner MELVINA came in Monday with nearly 560 tons. The arrival of ore gives employment to quite a number of hands under Superintendent Armstrong. The PURITAN was visited by lots of people, on both sides of the river, as she lay at her docks on Sunday. The Graham & Morton Co. now give the people a daily line of boats between this place and Chicago, and very soon they will run twice daily. Messrs. Preston have sold their steam barge MAUD PRESTON to Capt. N. J. Bradley, of Muskegon; consideration $5,000. We understand that the boat will be continued in the lumber trade along this shore. Capt. F. J. Preston will sail her awhile longer. A party of young men from Benton Harbor went out sailing on the lake Sunday and were capsized about a mile south of the harbor. They held on to the boat until rescued by the St. Joseph Life-Saving Crew who saw the accident and were promptly to the rescue. The steamer PURITAN made her first trip to Chicago, for the season of 1888, on Sunday night. A description of this beautiful steamer has already appeared in this paper, but to appreciate her fully one must make special inspection of her. She is under the command of efficient and careful officers, with Ed. Stines as Captain, and Jas. R. Clarke Clerk; is brilliantly lighted with electric lights, ele- gantly furnished in all apartments, conveniently arranged and her machinery of the best and well calculated to speed her across the lake in quicker time than ever. In accord- ance with the rule of the G. & M. Co., time and money have not been spared in providing better transportation facili- ties for this section. The PURITAN is one of the grandest steamers on the lakes and with the LORA forms a line be- tween Benton Harbor, St. Joseph and Chicago that ought to be both pleasing and generally satisfactory to all in- terested, and The Herald thinks it is. The U. S. dredge and force of men under Capt. Manning are engaged in deepening the canal - a desirable im- provement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, June 9, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The MAY GRAHAM now makes daily trips on the river. The steamer MAY GRAHAM gave an excursion to the Old Settlers Picnic at the county-seat on Wednesday. A party of Chicago people came over Thursday on the PURITAN and spent the day on the MAY GRAHAM up the river. If you have not already seen her, do not fail to visit the new palace steamer PURITAN, of the Graham & Morton Transportation Co's line. She carries the "broom" in "get-up-and-get" for the chain of lakes. The steam-barge STREET arrived again Saturday with 810 tons of ore. Mr. J. Grant Hager left Tuesday night for Chicago, where he has accepted a position as clerk on the excursion steamer IVANHOE, of which his brother-in- law, Capt. Arthur Napier, is Master. Grant is worthy and deserves success wherever he may be. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, June 16, 1888 [extracts of marine news] When the elegant steamer PURITAN leaves her dock here for Chicago it seems but a moment before she is out of sight. The steamer H. W. WILLIAMS was in port, from South Haven, on Wednesday. She carried back a large lot of baskets from Wells & Co's factory. The ferry BELLE continues to be a favorite with out people. She is nicely equipped and especially fitted up for use for small excursion parties on lake and river. While catching minnows, in the river near the bayou bride, on Saturday afternoon last, Burrill Stubbs, aged about 14 years, a son of E. B. Stubbs, lost his balance and fell from the center spiling to the bridge into the water and was drowned. The St. Joseph Life- Saving Crew were notified and quickly arrived on the spot and soon recovered the body, when they made every effort to resuscitate the boy but without success. The remains were buried on Monday, Rev. Carrel officiating. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, June 23, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The steamers brought over large loads of passengers from Chicago, on Sunday. The MAY GRAHAM had a full load up the river. The Graham & Morton Co's steamers have been making lively time this week, and have put fruit and passen- gers across Lake Michigan promptly twice daily, and in good shape. Keeper Stevens and crew, of the St. Joseph Life- Saving service, are bound to have things pleasant and home-like about their station. They have been doing additional grading and sodding. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph Herald Saturday, June 30, 1888 [extracts of marine news] The LORA and PURITAN will hereafter run twice daily, leaving Chicago at 9 a.m. and 11:30 p.m., except Sun- day, and St. Joseph at 1:30 and 10 p.m. On next Wed- nesday, however, the boats will leave here earlier - one at 5:30 p.m. and the other at 8. Fruit growers will bear this day in mind so that they can have their fruit on the dock in time for the last boat. ===========================================================================