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. ‘PRE FARRER TET AERA UREA Sean 4 r as owned by Bissell () Mhe Marine Record. HISLtORY OF LAKE NAVIGATION. BY J. W. HALL. Written for the Marine Record. CHAPTER LXXIV. In 1868 there were eighteen steamers com- missisned on the lakes, embracing a total of 8,701 tons, and fifty-four vessels, with a total of 14,549 tons, as tollows: STEAMERS, Metropolis, 425 tons, builtat Trenton, and owned by Sloan and others. Jay Cooke, 414 tons, builtat Detroit, owned by J. P. Clarke, Dove, 427 tons, built at Trenton, owned by Sloan and others. Manitowoe, 578 tons, built at Manitowoc, owned by A. E. Goodrich. J. K. White, 50 tons, built at Cleveland, owned by J. Greenhalgh, Sheboygan, 624 tons, built at Manitowoc; owned by A. E. Goodrich. PROPELLERS, Philadelphia, 1.463 tons, built at Buftalo, owned by Evans & Conipany. Grace Dormer, 100 tons, built at Buffalo, owned by Osman. Oakland, 311 tons, built at Erie, owned by Hearn & Scott. Vulean, 249 tons, built at Detroit, owned by W. Livingston. Lake Breeze, 196 tons, built at Toledo, owned by Phillips. ° Milwaukee, 419 tons, built at Ogdensburg, owned by the N. ‘I’, Company. St. Albans, 485 tons, built at Cleveland, owned by the N. IT’. Company. City of Concord, 440 tons, built at Cleve- Jand, owned by the N. TI. Company. Arizona, 874 tons, built at Cleveland,owned by F. B. Gardner. Nashna, 440 tons, built at Cleveland,owned by the N. T. Company, St. Paul, 909 tons, built at Marine City, owned by Eber Ward. Champion, 263 tons, built at Detroit,owned by Merrick & Company. SCHOONERS. J.B. Martin, 385 tons, built at Detroit, Pandora, 304 tons, built at Port Colborne,| October 11. Propeller Merchant, grain | owned by Jas. Hardi<on. | laden, struck near Malden and sunk. F. W. Gifford, 451 tons, built at Cleve-| October 13. Oliver Miner, master of the} land, owned by Scott & Berriman. | tug Goodnow, was murdered during the} Hoboken, 299 tons, built at Clayton,owned | night by negroes, at Malden. by A. Barker. Oztober 17. Heavy northwest gale on all H. P. Merry, 170 tons, built at Marine | the lakes and much damage. | City. owned by Merry. October 25. Bark L. H. Cotton, laden with | Heather Bell, 168 tons, built at Picton, | petroleum tor Liverpool, took fire soon after | owned by W. Ross & Company. | leaving Cleveland, and was a total loss | Florence Lester, 265 tons, built at Marine | October 26. Propeller Congress, formerly | | City, owned by D. Whitney, Jr. | the Detroit, laden with merchandise, was} Grand total, steamers and schooners, 23,- | stranded at Thunder Bay, and became a| 251 tons; total value of steamers, $758,000; | total loss. | value of schooners, $649,000; total value, November 10. Barge Michigan, formerly | $1,407,000. ajside-wheel steamer, was lost in Lake Erie The business season was fairly uctive, the | With a cargo of lumber. Barge City of| highest rates on wheat. being 1314c from Cleveland, formerly the steamer of that ds ns ; ane name, lost at the same time and place. The Chicago to Buffalo; the average 7.le., corn | schooner Gazelle, thirty-six years in service, at proportionate figures. lost in Lake Michgan. : | The prineipal incidents during the navi- |, November 25, Propeller City of Boston, sition Of 1863, 1nay be eunimed” ib aa fol- laden with flour and grain, was sunk by the od ah ‘ Ps propeller Milwaukee, near the Straits; a lows: sf foe total loss. March 15. Navigation opened between December 10. Cold weather set in on this Detroit and Maiden; the steamer Dove com- | date, and the navigation of 1868 terminated. menced plyiug on this date. The first marine disaster of the season was the schooner Eliza Caroline, forced out of the harbor at Cleveland by a freshet, and badly damaged. FRANKFORT, June 29, March 17. Navigation on Lake Erie opened In this week’s Recorp, in “History of is eed also, between Detroit and Port | Lake Navigation,” with the list of vessels March 24. Navigation between Detroit passed out of existence, I notice the schooner and Cleveland, the steamer R. N. Rice, Cap-| Byron. ‘This craft was owned by my father, tain Wm. McKay, commenced plying. and was used as a trading vessel on the ‘ April 4. ao wea to Port Colborne, west shore of Lake Michigan. On the even- the rteambarge Henry Howard arrived at ing of the 9th of May, 1867, about 7 o’clock, Detroit. ‘The steamer Dominion plied be- |! e F tween Detroit and Chatham. it being yet daylight, she was recklessly April 9. Steamer Seabird was burned on | run into by the schooner E. Kanter, of De- Lake Michigan, with loss of seventy-two | troit, The Byron rolled on her beam’s end, lives and total loss of vessel. On the same . lett : night the schooner Seabird was wrecked in- and the crew, consisting of my father, my Lake Erie by running ona reef; crew saved, | biother Byron, and Wm, Lovell, escaped by Navigation between Detroit and Alpena, the | clinging to the bob-chains of the Kanter, steamer Alpena, Captain J. Robertson, first | mather was asleep in the cabin at the time THE SCHOONER BYRON. To the Editor of the Marine Record. boat through. Schooner Erie, formerly : ; ‘ revenue sition and thirty-five MEaie id cer! of this accident, and coatless and barefooted, vice, was wrecked at St. Joseph. reached the other craft. The Kanter kept March 11. Navigation opened to Buffalo, | right on her course, and although father owned by D. Newhall. C. H. Hurd, 600 tons, built at Detroit, owned by Ralph & Hosmer. S. A. Wood, 314 tons, built at Manitowoc, owned by Lockwood. Fannie Campbell, 354 tons; St, Catharines, owned by Graham & Company. Hattie Howard, 278 tons, built at Port Huron, owned by Howard & Fitzgerald. George L. Wren, 216 tons, built at Green Bay, owned by O. B. Mullen. fale 850 tons, built at Port Huron, owned by Martin & Company. Dan Hayes, 145 tons, built at Fairport, owned by Hayes & Company. Anna P. Grover, 285 tons, built at Ver- million, owned by Grover & Felton. __ American Giant, 365 tons, built at Bay City, owned by J. Kelderhouse. Jane McLeod, 224 tons, built at St. Cath- -_ erines, owned Jus. Norris. : _M. I. Wilcox, 369 tons, built at Toledo, Psi: Fe ie I ns, built at Detroit, owned y John Stupinski. Undine, 222 tons, built at Hamilton, ocking Bird, 476 tons, built at Tona- Floretta, 820 to wanda, owned by F. N. Jones. ‘Two Brothers, 137 tons, built at Port Bur- well, owned by Wright & Company. Vampire, 143 tons, built at Ashtabula, owned by Haskell, Leviathan, 130 tons, built at Port Burwell, owned by Suffel & Ward. : Sam Flint, 499 tons, built at Toledo,owned 0. L. Nims. M. Mueller, 210 tons, built at Green Bay, owned by Mueller, Lewis Day, 381 tons, built at Cham ve ” island, owned by D. Clow, T. G. Lester, 204 tons, built at Saginaw, owned by ‘I’. G. Lester, Ella Doak, 75 tons, built at’ Pentwater, owned by Doak. Charger, 277 tons, built at Little Sodus, owned by H. Rogers. ; Morning Star, 185 tons, built at Sheboy- gan, owned by C. Raab. : James Garrett, 266 tons, built at Sheboy- gan, owned by Garrett & Elsey. Buteher Boy, 859 tons, builtat Green Bay, owned by Gotleib & Vompany. Louisa, 192 tons, built at Detroit, owned by Morgan and others, F. Palms, 560 tons, built at Marine City, owned by F. Morell. Alpena, 68 tons, built at Alpena, owned by Sanborn, Elmira, 296 tons, built at Sackets Harbor, owned by B. Everleigh, J. H. Traverse, 110 tons, built at Pent- water, owned by 8. Graham. ¢ Nemesis 82 tons, built at Goderich. St. Peter, 120 tons, built at New Baltimore, Rose Simmons, 265 tons, built at Milwau, kee, owned by Towmey. C, H. Hackley, 248 tons, built at Milwau- kee, owned by Aldrich & Reid. A. G. Wright, 100 tons, built at South Haven. Lily Gray, 60 tons, built at South Haven, ‘Thomas Parsons, 350 tons, built at Char. lotte, owned by H. Rogers. H. C. Potter, 308 tons, built at East Sagi- naw, owned by Jesse Hoyt. Bessie Boalt, 173 tons, built at Wolf River, owned by C. J. Magill. Lillie Parsons, 167 tons, built at Tona- wanada, owned by Lynch & Company. Fayette Brown, 558 tons, built at Cleve- land, owned by A, Bradley. Florida, 299 tons, built at Oswego, owned by Thomas Smith. Maumee Valley, 204 tons, built at Perrys burg, owned by F. R. Miller & Company. Brightie, 600 tons, built at Cleveland, owned by R. K. Winslow. Anandale, 218 tons, built at Kingston, ownee by John Caruthers. Jesse Philips, 260 tons, built at Manito- woe, owned by Packurd & Company. ne hr sal Wabash arrived at Detroit on offered $200 to buoy the spot where the this date. March 15. Bark Sunrise passed Detroit, | BY7" disappeared, it was refused, and the first sail vessel of the season, from Chi- | they refused to give the name of their craft, cago, en route to Buffalo. but Byron eluded their vigilance, looked ; eee oan M. chal nan eight pit over the stern and read her name. Night Sa ie Bae ee ne coming on, while near shore,they lowered a Michigan. The outfit of the propeller Gen- : Y essee Chief, schooners Republic and J. H,| yaw! and landed the shipwrecked sailors on Hartzell burned at Clark’s drydock Detroit. | the barren sand plains of Amsterday, twenty March 19. Straits of Mackinaw cleared, | miles south of Sheboygan. Wet and half the propeller Montgomery, Captain J. Nieh- bios first boat nage bound west. ie clad; they: walked slong thetsuady waste, March 22. The gates of Lock No. 2 Wel-|and reached Sheboygan, when they took land canal, carried away, suspending navi- | passage on the Seabird for their home, Mani- raty for severdil days. towoc. ‘The Byron was about 15 tons, and May 1. Propeller Governor Cushman ex- i : loded at Buffalo, killing twelve persons; | /#4en with a cargo of general merchandise, steamer a total loss. ‘ valued at about $3,000. The course taken bet Sy peobeller River Queen, burned at | by the Kanter’s crew was heartless and arine City. i i ; ‘ May 7. Navigation to Lake Superior, the oo ae = ee na — ” propeller Concord arrived at Detroit, | "4rd to a settlement, and to'this day we ‘violent northeast gale throughout the lake | have never seen or heard a word froin the region, causing much damage to the ship- | Kanter’screw or owners. BURMEISTER. ping. Schooner Free Democrat, was cap- ~~ sized in Lake Michigan. and four lives lost. LITERARY NOTICEs. May 18. Propeller’ Oneida, laden with | phe June CentuRy.—-A finely engraved merchandise, stranded and suuk at San- drawing trom Houdon’s bust of Benjamin Franklin is the trontispiece of the June dusky, damaging the entire cargo, May 28. Vessels passed Detroit, having Century, the several pages of “Unpublished Letters of Benjamin Franklio,” edited by been sixteen days on the passage from Chi- cago. ‘Ihe propellers Lrousides aud 5. D.| the Hon. John Bigelow, add to the literary interest of the number. ‘The Antietam cam- Caldwell were seized for debt, June l. Schooner Kingfisher took on 900 aign is the subject of the war papers in this nuinber, the illustrations referring mostly to tons of coal at Cleveland, inside of ten hours, the battle of Antietawn,and forming, perhaps, June 5. Propeller Concord arrived from Lake Superior at Detroit with a mass ot| the richest pictorial contribution yet made to the series. General James Longstreet’s copper weighing 19,556 lbs. : : June 7. Captain Wm. Kobb and_ his | reminiscences are covered by the title, ‘“Phe brother Captain James Robb were drowned Invasion of Maryland;’? General John G. at Long Point, the latter in trying to save| Walker writes of the battles of “Flarper’s the former. Bide : Ferry and Sharpsburg”—the latter being June 21. Steamer Morning Star and bark | the Confederate name for Antietam; Colo- Cortland collided between Cleveland and | yo} Henry Kyd Douglas, of Jackson’s staff, Point au Pellee, both vessels going to the | relates anecdotes of “Stonewall Jackson in bottom. ‘I'hirty-two lives lost with the Maryland;” and Charles Carelton Coffin, ; 2 yy steamer and two with the vessel. ‘I'he | the war correspondent, describes “Scenes at steamer was en route to Detroit from Cieve- Antietam.” land, ap command of Cantalp E. R. Viger. i July 10. Propeller City of Detroit struck 3 m4 an obstruction, coming into Detroit river, |, 3? NicHoras. ia June—J. T. Trow- and sunk, damaging cargo of corn. : bridge’s new serial, “Cho Kelp-Gatherers, July 12. Schooner Dunderburg, laden with | 18 the leading teature of the June St. Nicho- 40,000 bushels of corn, was sunk by the las. “Little Lord Faunleroy is continued propeller Empire State in Lake Huron; one |i? & mach longer installment than last life (Mrs. O. Wilcox, of Detroit,) lost. ‘The | @OMth’s and we are told how that young vessel was sailed by Captain O. Green, the | 2bleman learned to ride, and many other propeller by H. D. Pheatt. interesting items about him. ‘‘Mother’s July 17. Propeller St. Paul, 909 tons bur- | 14ea’” holds an idea for girls as well; and den, launched at Marine City. “The Satchel’’ contains a grotesquely amus- September 17. Propeller Hippocampus, | i®g mixture of fairy tale and science by laden with fruit, foundered in Lake Michi- | Puder Jenks, and five illustrations by J. E. gan, between St.Joseph and Chicago, twenty- Kelly. All normally constituted Ameriean six lives going down with her. A heavy | boys are fond of base ball and dogs, and are northeast gale prevailed on this date throngh- | Certain to be interested in reading | about a out the lake region, with much damage to remarkable canine that played as ‘Phe Left: vessels. ‘I'he steambarge Illinois, formerly | f¢ld of the Lincoln Nine.” The story of a side wheeler and the first of that name on | George Washington is continued throngh the lakes, was lost on Lake Huron. Bark | the exciting events of 1776.7. Clough, wrecked above Cleveland, with loss of seven lives. Since the disaster to the Algoma there September 26, Schooner Hyphen, ore|has been considerable speculation as to the laden, raised by wreckers near Point au | intentions ot the Canadian Pacific regarding Pellee, went down again, with loss of three; the recovery of parts of the wreck, in- lives. cluding the costly machinery. The com- September 29. Schooner Persian, laden | pany sent an agent to the various leading with wheat, was sunk by the schooner E, B. | wrecking.companies on the lakes recently, Allen, off Forty-Mile Point, Lake Huron, | and accepted bids trom them for the work and ten lives lost, of blasting the wreck with dynamite and September 30. Bark Etowah failed from | raising her engine and other machinery. Cleveland for Liverpool with a cargo of | The contract was let to the Moffat Tug and petroleum. Canada Wrecking Company, who are to October 6. Propeller Perseverance was | deliver the machivery in Owen Sound for burned on Lake Ontario while en route to | $6,500. Rumor says that the Canadian Oswego, and fourteen lives were lost. Pacifie will use the machinery in a new October 7. Heavy southwest gale on all | boat shortly to be built to take the place of the lakes. ‘ the Algoma. In addition to raising the October 9. Steamship Milwaukee went | Algoma’s machinery, an endeavor will be upon the beach at Grana Haven and became } made to recover the railway iron which a Coal loss. formed her cargo. d FARM FOR SALE. A fine farm on the banks of St. Clair river 8 miles from Port Huron and 4 from St. Ohair, is offered at a bargain—74 acres for $7,000, there are 65 acres under cultivation and balance woodland, and all under fence; the soil is clay loam, situated on a bluff and jin rock salt belt of Michigan. This farm shonld fine a purchaser very soon; the build- ings are good and commodious, consisting of a frame house, two stories, with large rooms andin fair condition; horse barn, grain barn and granary; watered by St. Clair river, Terms of sale, $3,000 or more down, and balance at 7 per cent. Geo. W. SNOVER. 103 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. ENGIN ER COKPS, U. 8S. A. Bric. GBNBRAL O MM. Por, No. 34 Congress-st West, Detroit, Mich, Lrevr. Cou. W. E. MERRILL, Custom House, Cincinnati, Ohio. Lieut. Cot. WALTER MCFARLAND, P. O. box 93, Station A, New York, N, Yu Lizvr, Cou. Joun W. Bartow. Chattanooga, Tenn MaJor G@. L. GInLespre, P. O, box 5346, Boston, Mass. Masor W. H. Benyaurp, P O, drawer 132, Chicago, Tl. MaJor L. COOPER OVERMAN, No. 89 Euclid ave,, Cleveland, Ohio. MaJor Cus. J. ALLEN, P. O. box H, St. Paul, Minn. Capt. CHaAs. E L. Davis, No. 3'1 Woodward ave., Detroit, Mich, Capt, J. B. QUINN. P. O. lock box 2124, St. Paul, Minn, Capt. Epwarp MaGuIRgE, Oswego, New York. Carr. W. L. MARSHALL, P. Q. drawer 42, Milwaukee, Wis. ~~ ROBERT RAE, Admiralty and Insurance Law Office, Room 37 Merchants’ nuilding, CHICAGO, ILL. WM. H. DeWITT, Attorney and Proctor in Admiralty. ROOM No. 6, BLACKSTONE BLOCK. CLEVELAND, OHIO. GHORGE £. HALLADHAY. Attorney and Proctor in Admiralty. Marine Business Promptly Attended To, OFKICE 2) BUAL BLOCK, DETROIT MICHIGAN. JAMES T. ROSE, Vessel Agent and Broker, Room 4, Exchange Building, Duluth, Minn. Ihave an excellent gang of Lrimmers this sea- son, Captain er’s old Crew. Special Attention Paid to Chartering Vessels, and seeing that they get dispatch tn Port. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. ALEX McDOUGALL, VESSEL AGENT AND BROKER, 122 wt ne: Owners and masters of vessels wishing to get cargees of fran from this port will do well to confer with ine. Will be glad to furnish information 1m regard to var- goee also in relation to docks, r thur, Washburn, A: and all points near the west end of Lake Superior. Good gangs of men fair- nished on short notice for iawoine ere es of grain, loading and unloading all kinds of freight $ THOS. WILSON MANAGING OWNER ‘Wilson’s Transit Line. Freight and Vessel Agent. CLEVELAND, 0. ; Gen. Forwarder. J. J. H. BROWN. BROWN & CO., Ship Brokers and Agents. Special Attention given to Surveying, Apprais- ing and Settling Marine Losses. Exchange Building, 202 Main-st., Buffalo, N. Y. PALMER & BENHAM, Vessel Owners & Agents, ie ee MOORE, BARTOW AND GILCHRISF, Ship Brokers and Agents, No. 101 St. Clair Street, Room 15. CLEVELAND, - OHIO. H. J. WEBB & CO., Ship Brokers, Vessel Owners and Agents. | [ESTABLISHED IN 1856.] _ ‘ H. J. Wane d Gon, eiltnhartee onaie ta Labatt Special ention ven arteri essels j Lake Su; r Iron Ore Trade, both for the seasce ana ARCADE BUILDING, 101 ST. CLAIR ST., Room 27. ; Cleveland, Ohio. =.¢ TELEPHONE { omce, No. 338. 1328, WARNER & BECKER, Vessel Agents andBrokers, — ROOM 10, CLEVELAND, OHIO. depth of water, etc., 11 — uth, Agate Bay (new iron ore port). Port Ar-. EDWARD SMITH. _