Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Chief Justice Waite OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 125281 DATE OF LOSS: 26 September 1899 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Chicago harbor, off Grant Park RIG TYPE: Sidewheel steamer HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: A. A. Turner, Trenton, MI., - 1874 OWNER(S): Thomas Bradwell MASTER: - TONNAGE: 571.10 gt DIMENSIONS: 188.8 x 46 x 11.4 CASUALTIES: none Went down during a gale and was sold to Thomas Bradwell who stripped her, in place, of anything that could be sold for junk. The remains of her hull were possibly used to form filling for the extension of the park. The WAITE had been deemed unseaworthy for several years and, in 1898, was refused a license by local inspectors. Even after repairs were made she was licensed on the condition that she not go beyond Manhatten beach. On August 13, 1899, as the WAITE was returning from a "moonlight excursion", she was met at the Clark street dock by six patrol wagons and fifty policemen who raided the vessel and arrested 160 people, including Captain Byron and the crew, on charges of being inmates of a common gambling house. In August, 1880, the WAITE was seized at Detroit for carrying more passengers than her license allowed. Her carrying capacity was about 800 but she had carried between 1,100 and 1,300 excursionists to Detroit from Toledo. ======================================================================== Sources: Ludington Daily Record, 19 August 1880 Merchant Vessel List, 1896 Chicago Daily Tribune, 13 August 1899 Chicago Daily Tribune, 20 January 1900 Detroit Free Press, 11 August 1900 Bowen, Dana T. "Memories of the Lakes" - 1969 Steamship Historical Society of America