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6 THE MARINE RECORD. LAKE SUPERIOR. EVENTS—THE PORTAGE—8TANARD ROCK—LIST OF DISASTERS, Special Correspondence of the Marine Record. Detroit, May 12. Regarding the first navigation of this far- famed sheet of water, there are many under the impression that nothing of special in- terest transpired in that region until quite a recent period, at least until within a few years prior to the opening and completion of the Sault canal. Asearly as 1806 the fur companies owned two or three echooners that navigated those waters. A vessel called the Recovery, owned by the British North- west Fur Company, was employed fora short period prior to the war of 1812. As s00n as it became evident that war between the two countries was at hand, astrategem was re- sorted to to gave her from capture, She wae secreted In a narrow bay on the north side of Isle Royal and stripped of her spars and covered with brushwood, beside ‘being sunk where she lay, until peace was declared. Somewhere about the year 1830 she was raised and fitted out, having been purchased by Captain John Fellows, of Fort Erie, Canada, and Augustus Merwin, ef Cleve- land, Ohio. She was run down the rapids of the Sault Ste. Murie, and employed in the lumber trade on Lake Erie by €uptain Fel- lows. In due course of time she succumbed to age and her bones were beached at Fort Erie. Another vessel called the Mink was in commission on that lake before the war. She was also run down the rapide and after ward engaged in freighting by Cuptain ‘Yom Hammond, an officer who. served un- der Commodore Perry, on Lake Erie, during the memorable engagement of September, 1813. She was finally sunk/in the river Rouge, a few miles below Detroit. The third vessel from Lake Superior, and which was aleo run down the rapids, was the Fur Trader, which unfortunately went to pieces. From 1815 to 1822 Lake Superior was navi- gated by only one small vessel. The timber for a vessel, subsequently named. the Astor, was got out at Charleston, Ohio, in the fall of 1834, for the American Fur Com- pany. Her timbers and fit out were shipped to the Sault in the following spring by the late Oliver Newberry, of Detroit. The tim- ber and plank was carried to the head ot the rapids and put together. She was fin- ished in August and was sailed for Lu Pointe by Captain Chas. C. Stanard, who continued to command her until 1842, when his broth- er, Captain Ben A. Stanard, took charge of her. She was wrecked at Copper Harbor in 1844, where her remains were visible for sometime afterward, In 1837 the Ameri- ean Fur Company built two other vessels of some twenty tons each, one of which, how- ever, was never launched. ‘Ihe Madeline was sailed by Captain Angus, in the fishing trade. In 1833 the American Fur Company built the schooner Wm. Brewster, of 73 tons, John Wood, master. Four years subsequently she was run down the rapids and employed on Lake Erie. In 1846 the fleet employed on that lake was the steamer Julia Palmer, Capt. B. A. Stanard (the firet steam craf: hauled over the Portage); the propeller In- dependence, Captain Averell, and the follow- ing eail craft: schooners Napoleon, Algon- quin, Swallow, Merchant, Uncle 'l'om, Chip- pewa, Fur Trader, Siekawit, and White Fish. The steamer Julia Palmer was lost in the tall of 1847, at ‘'wo Heart river, Jaden with supplies, in command of Captain John Wood. The Napoleon was eailed for a time by Cap- tain John McKay. ‘Ihe schooner Merchant was lost with all on board in June, 1847, while in command of Captain Robert Brown, latterly of the Swallow; J. Dyer, mate, of Galt, Canada West; David Ford, James Crumer and James Clark, seamen, of Port Sarnia, Canada West; Isunc Adame, seaman, and Willis Moore, colored cook, of Detroit, and also the following passengers: J. H. Woods and E. Gregory, of Pontiac, Mich.; L. B. Smith and;Geo. Howard, of Norwalk, Ohio, all of whom had been employed by the National{Mining Co., and were on the way to its|location, Three othera of the passengers, names unknown, were lumber- men from Vermont, and had been at work at the L’Anse mills. A most distressing casualty happened to the propeller Inde- pendence, at the Sault Ste. Marie, in No- vember, 1858, by one of the woret explosions EARLY that period. The Independence, at that time, was in command of Captain John Mc- Kay, and was frelghted with winter sup- plies for Ontonagon and La Pointe. She had left the dock at the head of the Portage at about midnight of the 21st, and had pro- ceeded about a mile when the occurrence took place, which blew her into atoms with the exception of about twenty-tive feet of her bows, kitling or scalding to death four persons, the tirst engineer, one passenger and two firemen, and badly scalding the second engineer and several passengers. The first engineer was George Sisson; the names of others do not appear. ‘The clerk, J. W. Watson, and a Mr. ‘Thomas, of Cleve- land, were blown 100 teet from the bout into the water, but were rescued. The propeller was built in Chicago and was hauled over the Portage in 1847, and was owned by Messrs. McKnight and McKay. Among other steamers taken over the Por- tage was the propeller Manhattan, Captain John Caldwell, in 1850, which sunk on that lake in 1859; the propeller Monticello in 1851, commanded by Captain J. Wilson, and lost that season. ‘he Baltimore was hauled over in 1852, and during her sojourn there was sailed by Captains Jack Wilson and Jobn Shook, respectively. She was a side- wheeler. ‘The steamer Sam Ward and pro- peller Peninsula were taken over in 1853, the former commanded by Captain M. H. Estabrooks, the latter by H. J. Jones. The first shipment of copper of any amount wus in 1848. Stanard Rock was diecovered. by Captain C.C. Stanard, while sailing the schooner John Jacob Astor, in 1835. It is a sulitary and dangerous bare rocky projection, rising out of the lake off the mouth of Keweenaw Bay, in the route of steamers on their way from Marquette to Copper Harbor, 65 miles. A writer, in 1789, gives an account of a strange phenomenon which vccurred during that year at Grand Portage; “The water withdrew, leaving the ground dry which had never before been visible, the fall being equal to four perpendicular feet, and rush- ing back with great velocity above the com- mon mark. It continued thus rising and falling for several hours, gradually de- creasing until it remained stationary at the usual height.”? Prior tothe opening of the Sault canal, in 1855, commuuication was kept up between Detroit and the Sault by steam- ers beginning in 1844, via Mackinaw, the steamer Detroit in 1846, which, with the Champion and Pacific, continued during 1847 and 1848; the steamer Ben Franklin, Captain J. C. Benjamin, in 1849; the North- erner, Captain B. G. Sweet,. and London, Captain F. it. Baby in 1851; the same boats in 1852, the London being sailed by Captain Wm. Watts. In 1853 the Northerner, Cap tain Sweet, and London. Captain John Rob- ertson. ‘he steamer Albany, Captain H. J. Jones, made thirty-one trips to the Sault in 1853, and was lost in the fall of that year. Dur- ing the season of 1854 the Northerner, Vap- tain John Stewart; the E, K. Collins, Captain M. H. Estabrookg, and I}linois, Captain J. R. Howe, were on the route. ‘I'bis brings us up to the season of 1855, when the canal wag open, and the steamer I]linols, Captain J. Wil- eon was the first boat to pass through, since which period the reading public are pretty well versed as to what has tinnspired. It has been recorded within a short time past that the firet steam voyages made to the Sault were the Superior, in 1822, and the same bont, subsequently, at intervals up to 1828. ‘I'he following steamers have been Jost on Luke Superior beside those above no- ted: 1856, steamer Superior, 35 lives lost; propeller B. L. Webb, burned at White Fish Bay, mate perished; 1867, propeller City of Superior, at Copper Harbor; 1858, propeller Indiana sunk ; 1860, steamers Arctic and Ga- zelle; 1863, steamer Sunbeam, twenty-one lives lost, foundered; 1864, steamer Cleve- land, wrecked; 1865, steamer ‘l'raveler wrecked; 1869, propeller Queen of the Lakes, burned; 1873, propeller Union, wrecked; 1875, propeller Comet sunk by steamer Manitoba, eleven lives lost, rnd pro- peller Geneva sunk; 1877, steamer Cuber- land, wrecked ; 1881, propeller C'ty of Win- nipeg burned, four lives lost, and steambarge Middlesex, burned; 1883, steambarge Mary Jarecki wrecked, ana propeller Manistee foundered, nineteen lives lost. J. W. H, ——_— a Grain shipments by cannl from Buffalo to that had ever tuken place on the lakes up to| New York are large. Cc. E. BENHAM, S17 Detroit Street, KEEPS IN STOCK A Full Line of Vessel Supplies, Lubricating and Lamp Oils of the Best Quality, AND A GENERAL LINE OF LAMPS, CROCK- ERY AND TABLE CUTLERY. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. TELEPHONE NO. 1540. STEADY STARBOARD AND STOP -AT Capt. Dahlke’s ONE PRICE BOOT AND SHOE STORE And Examine a Fine Line of Spring Goods at Very Low Prices. 297 Pearl-st., Cleveland,0. BODIFELD & CO, 8 South Water-st Cleveland DEALERS IN RUBBER GOODS Agents for Akron Rubber Co.’s Valves, Hose, Packing, etc. F. « H. BORN, PLUMBERS. Manufacturers of Hovel Ranges & Laundry Stoves, and Dealers in House Furnishing Goods 128 SUPERIOR ST., TRAVELERS’ REGISTER. LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN. Commencing Sunday, November 18, at 12 0’clock noon the time given in the figures below is the new standard (Ninetieth meridian) time, which is thirty-three min- utes slower than Cleveland time proper and twenty- eight mtnutes slower than the time heretofore in use (Columbus time) by these roads. Eastward. Fast New York Express. NY, B & A Express. Elyria Accommodation.. Port Clinton Accommodation Buffalo Accommodation.,,,, N Y &B Fast Expreas,,,. CLEVELAND, O. | Arrive. | Depart. "107 4M) *1 22am *6 87 a M| “7 02 AM Nottingham [sunday only’ Night Express. Westward. Fast Limited Express...... Mich Express via Sandusk Chicago Exprees via “ Mich Accom, Norwalk.. Conneaut Accommodati Nottingham, (Sunday only]. Toledo Fxpress via Norwalk.. 8t Louis Ex via Sundusk C P Ex via Norwalk... Port Clinton Accommodatio Reference marke—* Daily, + daily, except Sunday édaily, except Monday. rt Le . ‘ BEE LINE CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, CINCINNATI & INDI- ANAPOLIS, Commencng Sunday, November 18th, trains of the Bee V.ine—( leveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indian- apolis Kailwa: —will teave and arrive at Cleveland as follows, CENTRAL STANDARD TIMK, 33 ininutes slower than Cleveland time: i ae Fort Wayne. 1.00 New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio R, R. NEW YORH, BOSTON AND THE East The Shortest and Quickest Route te Pitts. burg, Washington and Baltimore and the Southeast, Ceutral or Ninetieth Meridien or than Cleveland city time. ntil further notice trains will le: Central Depot, South Water street and Finda, be lows: ATLANTIC EXPR 6.50 a ll. man sleeping and hile Gente, Pal Leavittshurgh 8:35 a. m. to New York, Alban oe Boston without change. Arrive at Meadville at ane Sinkg 128 pene Samentostn ee Gta By prr' | a estown i U m Buftalo b:50 Pp. m. Rochester 6:00 pee 1-36 time. 36 minntes dow P. m5 Hornell:. ville 6:00 p. m. [eu r]; Corning 7:25 p. } ‘ m. ae caam ee pool m., A ay :00 a. m. Boe :45 p. m.; arriving at New York 6:15 a.m, 9-90 I], LBMTED EXPRESS “Through Puy. ‘ ’ +. mao sleeping coach from Cleveland to New York. Arrives at Meadville at 6:30 P.m , Jum town 8:47 p. m., Salamanca 9:45 p. m., New Yorl 10:10 a.m. ‘ ‘ NIGHT EXPRESS— (Dail 11:00 D. I Sunday) Seoping coach from Oteeaaert Horpellsville. Arrive at Youngstown at 1:60 a. Meadville 3:25 a. m., Corry 4:59 a. m, Jamestown 5,97 4° m, Buffalo 9:20 a. m.,* Rochester 12:58 Pp; m. Hortells. ville, 11:00 a mi. ornlag 12:07 ms Elmira 12140 p m nghampton 2:19 p m,,; New York 9: rrive at Piisburgh 5:50 a. m., without chai a? ae 9-90 Nl PITTSBURGH EXP: — Daily — ‘i D. +, Through without change, Parlor car at. tached, Arrives at Youngstown §: P m., Pittebu: 8:02 p. m., Washington 7:09 a. m , Baltimore 8:19 a. a 1] Nl MAHONING AOMMODATION . D. « Stopping at all way ‘stations, arriving at Youngstown 6:55 p. m., Sharon 8:01 p. m., Sharpesville 8:10 p. mi. ' PITTSBURGH. EXPRESS — = 6°50 a. i. Through without change. mays Youngstown 9.30 a. m., Sharon 10:30 a. m, 8! ville 10:40 a. m., Pittsburgh 12 45 n., Retumin; leaves Pittsburgh at 4:15 a. m., 7285 a. m., 12:56 p. = and 8:45 p,m. = OUNGSTOWN AND PIT AER econo aa arriving a oungstow: b . m, bare 543 P. Be : gstown 1:40 p, m. , Pitte- rains ‘arrive at Oleveland, 6:15 a. m.; 6: ‘ 10,208, m; 1:05 p.m, and 948 Pp. 2, to Re . isthe only route which hy rear oenzantey, penameien, Now Sey Sty i) in| Ww! ou ie to Boston and New England Cities. rege, Nol obangs Baggage checked through to all points East Through wckets and information regarding the route ean Be obtained at the ofc 18] Bank street, and at new Depot of N. Y. RR. th and Viaduct, Cleveland, 2, (Se eee 5 Gen’) Pass’r Ag’t Cleveland, 0. J. M FERRIS, Gen'l Man’gr, Clevelpd, M. L, FOUTS,Passenger Agt, 181 Bank St. Cleveland. The Nickel Plate! NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY. 3 The passenger equipment of this New Trunk Lin is all new and is supplied with the latest appliances necessary to safe speedy and comfortable travel, At Chicago, passenger trains anive at and leave from the Union Depot, Van Buren street. Following is the time in effect Nov. 18, 1288, and un- til further notice; GOING EAST. Ly. Chicago......... Arr. Valparaiso.. .‘' New Haven.. 1. “ West Leipsic. 8.45 “Arcadia... 4.44 ‘ Fostoria... Green Springs Cleveland. Lv Cleveland “ Green Springs. “ Fostoria... 4 Arcadia, “ West Leips! 11.20 “ New Haven. 1385p. m. if Fort Wayn 150 “ ” Valpraiso,. 5.55 * Chicago. j B. F. HORNER, Gen’l Passenger Agent, LEV'IS WILLIAMS, General Manager. Cleveland, 0, Rocky River Accommodation departs at 6:20 a.m and 2:15 p m. Euclid Accommodation departs at 7:30 am and 1042 pm. All trains daily except Sunday. GOL for the yrorking class. Sénd ten cents for por: tage and we will mail you free, a royal, value- ble box of sample goods that will put you im the way of making more money in a few days than you ever thought possible at any business. Capital not requimed. We will start you. ‘ou can work all the thme or in spare time only. The work is Bnlveseally. adapted to both sexes, young and old. You can easily earp from 60 cents to $ every evening. 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Fast Line wl 1:10 AM “dally, allother trains duily except ("Tickets by this popular route for sale at all regular Teket Officer. E. B. THOMAS, 0. B. SKINNER, General Manager. Traffic Manager. A. J. SMITH, General Passenger Agent. OLEVELAND, OHIO, “A.M. BARNUM, Vessel Agent and Broker, 15 Exchange St. Buffalo, N. Y. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE MY MONTHLY List OF VESSELS “OR SALE. SEN) FOR OT.