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1895 continuedfrom Vol. IV (2) July 5,1895 The steam barge J.S. Fay, with two consorts in tow and bound down, went aground on Grassy Island between Mamajuda and Grassy Island lights during Monday night. She was two feet out and considerable ofher cargo had to be lightered before she was released by the Saginaw on Thursday morning. The Victory, the largest steamship on the Great Lakes, was launched inthe Calumet River from the Chicago shipyards at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. The Victo?y is owned by the Intemational Transit Co. and will be in service in the iron ore trade between Lakes Superior and Erie, with occasional trips to South Chicago. She has 380 feet keel, is 400 feet over all, 48 feet beam, 28 feet depth ofhold and 1600 horsepower. The cost of the boat was $225,000. Asister ship, the Zenith City which will be an exact duplicate, is being built for Duluth capitalists. The little tug Harley, with the new barge A. W. Comstock in tow stopped here on Sunday aftemoon for fuel. After loading one side, the tug was turning around when the engineer mistook the signals and, instead ofchecking and stopping the engine, opened it wide open, so that the tug ran bow on into Shipman's dock giving her an awful shaking up. Ahole was made in her side, the seams between the deck and cover boards were opened up and her steam pipe was broken It was fe^ed that she would sink at once, but the coal that had been put on her was taken offand she was towed down to John Eraser's dock. The tug Dan Connellv towed the Comstock to Sandusky. On Monday, Collector of Customs Gott sefzed the Harley for infraction of the customs laws in calling at Canadian ports on the St ClairRiverwithout reporting. July 12.1895 fi. „The U.S steamer Micfegan called at Amherstburg last Friday on her wavfrom Cleveland to Detroit to take the naval brigade out for acruise r™ F Berry is not on her this year, having been stationed at the Naval School while Lieut. Reese is with the Chinese squadron. Onrthmror^orlfl,officers ren^in. U.S. Consul Patton made an official^llefajtra;.^ washonored witha salute on his departure. The water in the St. Clair River is about three inches higher than it was in I I I I L r :• T..: J the middle ofJune, and the water in Lake Huron is rising. July 19, 1895 On Monday the Saginaw released the steamer Thomas Davidson at Grosse Point after lightering 150 tons ofcargo. The schooner Zone Star, loaded with coal for the Mullen-Gatfield Coal Co. at Sandwich, went aground on Sunday night on Elliott's Point, below town. She was out six inches forward and four inches aft and had to lighter her cargo. The Grummond tug Swain came down on Sunday with the largest cedar raft ever brought down the river. The raft belonged to the Cleveland Cedar Company of Cleveland and goes to Defray. E.F. Allen, general manager of the company, states that the raft contained 12,000 telegraph poles, 25,000 ties and 50,000 posts. The big steambargeMajestic, loadedwith ore and bounddown, wenthard aground on a shoal about four miles southeast of Point Pelee Light on Saturday night. The steamer Craig tried to release her, but withoutsuccess, and the tugs Saginaw and Washburn were sent for on Sunday morning. The steamer was in amidships and after throwing 150 tons ofthe ore overboard and lightering about 200 tons on the Saginaw, she was released on Sunday night. The shoal on which the Majestic grounded hasevidently onlyformed recently, asbigboats were passing on both sides ofher without striking. Capt. Hagan ofthe Majestic says he never knew that there was a shoal where his boat struck. July 19. 1895 THE DEEP WATER CHANNEL.-CoIonel Foe's Report.-Colonel O.M. Poe, in charge ofthe work ofimproving the rivers and harbors on the Great Lakes, has made his annual report to Washington. He has supervision ofthe ship chaimel connecting Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo. The object is to obtain a 20- and 21-foot channel cormecting all these lakes. Appropriations have been made and the work placed imder the continuing contract system, so that it will be continued steadily. Colonel Poe says the ultimate attainment of a navigable depth oftwenty feet was foreseen when the projects were adopted for improving St. Mary's River at the falls and Hay Lake Channel, the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers. The cost of the entire project for a deep water channel is $3,340,000, of which $1,750,000 has already been appropriated. The Sault Ste. Marie Canal is an important feature of the waterway cormecting Lake Superior with the other lakes. Colonel Poe says there has been an increase ofall traffic through the canal except wheat, which has fallen