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NOV x DEC, 1985 Page 143 THE DAVID DOWS REVISITED by KENNETH DICKSON Part II The 1882 season found her in the same grain-coal trade between Buffalo and Chicago. While unloading grain at the Watson Elevator in Buffalo, she was rammed by the schooner C.B. Benson. Although the Benson was being towed by the tug Oneida at the time, con- siderable damage was visited upon the Dows. The jib-boom of the Benson ran between the Dow's mizzen rigging and mast, and the Dow's topmast was torn down. This accident occurred on May 25th and it was not until June 1st, that she was repaired and ready to go. Business conditions were not favorable and the firm of Carrington & Casey refused to let its ships W.T. Graves, G.W. Adams, and the David Dows load coal for Chicago until the freight rate of 85 cents per ton improved. The 1882 shipping season passed without further difficulty and it was probably the best season the Dows ever had. The Dows made a record run from Buffalo to Turtle Island Light, entrance to Maumee Bay in Toledo, in 18 hours, thus fulfilling the shipbuilder's promise that the Dows would make the Lake Erie passage in daylight. Captain Skeldon also boasted that the Dows made 14 round trips between Buffalo and Toledo in thirteen weeks. Her gross freight in that time amounted to the unheard of sum of $20,000. Various writers have suggested that the Dows was involved in a collision with the schooner Richard Mott somewhere between