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1902 January 3, 1902 Steamer Imperial Sunk.-The siQwaev Imperial sank to the bottom of theriver Friday morning at Walkerville. The boat went into winter quarters last week at the dock in the rear of the Walkerville waterworks and Friday morning at 8o'clock was found partially submerged. How the accident happened is puzzling the officials of the Lake Erie Navigation Co., to whom the ill-fated steamer belonged. J. Titharge an employee of Hiram Walker & Sons, was cleaning snow offthe dock and at that time he says the boat was floating as usual. At 8 o'clock he noticed that the boat was shaking from stem to stem, and upon going over to the edge ofthe dock saw that the little craft was rapidly sinking out of sight. In afew minutes after his arrival at the dock the boat took adive and left only the extreme upper deck in view She vail be raised at once. The loss is about $500. The sinking was caused by bursting ofthe sea-cocks or the springing ofaleak from the pounding ofthe heaw ice The Imperial is valued at $6000 and only three years ago her upperworks were burnt at ^erstburg after which she was rebuilt at Windsor. The boat plied between Wmdsor, Amherstburg and Pelee Island. The season's shortage in grain shipments due to failure in the com crnn icreflected mthe falling offofbusiness at Buffalo compared with last year E^tfigures wvenng Buffalo's receipts of grain of all kinds have not Lwt W compiled, but they are in round numbers 1 onn nnn u u ^158,000.000 bushels in 1900, or adecrease of26,00^0bnSs""""""^Capt. Frank Hackett ofthe lightship Kewaunee arrived home Thuradav oflas. week after laymg up the boat at Cleveland. ursday oflast January 10, 1902 The Shipmasters' Association at a special meetino FriH^l^r ofio resolutions asking for the retention ofCol Lydecker in hk J, and the resolutions will be forwarded to Washinaon Masters;ProtectiveAssociation was also btS^^f^autpX^^^^^assoaattonwill be formed before the opening ofnavigation ® ^u.pa;,^L"^-™ df Dtews dredges and three tugs; Fitzsimmons&Connell Cnmn? Chicago, four and four tugs; StarkeDr^geCompany,Milwaukee,:i^;S^r»tS^^^ I Hickler Brothers, Sault Ste. Marie, two dredges and three tugs; H.W. Hubbell & Co., Sault Ste. Marie, two dredges and two tugs; Edward Brothers, Sault Ste. Marie, two dredges and two tugs; Jas. Pryor, Houghton, two dredges and two tugs; C.S. Barker, West Superior, six dredges and six tugs; William & Son, Duluth, five dredges and five tugs; Dunbar & Sullivan, Detroit, four dredges and five tugs; Breyman Bros., Toledo, three dredges and four tugs; Jas. Rooney, Toledo, two dredges and three tugs; L.P. & J.A. Smith, Cleveland, six dredges and six tugs; W.A. McGillis & Co., Cleveland, three dredges and three tugs; Hingston & Woods, Buffalo, nine dredges and seven tugs; Buffalo Dredging Co., four dredges and four tugs; Donnelly Company, Buffalo, three dredges and two tugs. One ofthe aims of the proposed Dredge Tmst will be to retain the business of the lakes with the understanding that the constituent companies shall depend solely upon the lake business for their sustenance. TheAlgomaCentralSteamship Co. - the Clerguevessel interest- has purchased a new steamer, said to be one ofthe side-wheel steamers now in use on Long Island Soimd. The new boat will be brought to the lakes in the spring and will be used in cormection with the new passenger and freight boat to be built for the line at the Craig yards, Toledo, for use in the Toledo and Soo trade, touching the ports on the east shore ofLake Huron and Georgian Bay. The boat to be built at the Craig yards will not be a side-wheeler, but will be along the lines ofthe Iroquois and Chippewa, tumed out by the Craig people a year ago. Capt. BakerofDetroit had the contract to raise the steamer Imperial. Harry Hamilton ofAmherstburg did the diving. The upperworks of the D. & C. boatswill be painted an old ivorycolournext spring, while the hullswill remainthe samecolor as at present, an olivegreen. January 17, 1902 The ferryPromise was downMondayto Bois Blancwith a load ofevergreen trees,whichwill be planted out on the island and on the company's property in this town. Capts. F.B. Hackett, David Girardin Sr., David Girardin Jr., J. Lafiramboise, Alex. Callam, D. West and Harry Hackett, Howard Hackett, Joseph Mahon and Walter Girardin attended the meeting ofthe Shipmasters' Association at Detroit this week.