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MEE In the Ice Three Days. Green Bay reports the release from the ‘tos off Benderville in Green bay by the tug George D. Nar of the email tug M. A. Knapp. The tug had been held imprisoned by the ice for three days. not fire ont out by the Nau was without food or fuel. . Ice Cat Her Planking. ‘The steamer C. Hickox will return to Milwau kee from Menominee via Death’s Door. While pashing through Sturgeon bay, on route for Me nominees, newly-formed ice cut through her planking and caused several leaks. The hull of the Hickox is not stoned. Could Not Effect a Passage. The steambarze St. Lawrence, which passed through the day Tuesday morning piloted by the tug Leather made a futile attempt to enter the port of Green Bay that night, there being too heavy for her. She returned to Menomines, and the following day she and the steamer Gould, of the Lackawana line, left lashed together to try and put their way through the ice fields, the Yantic at Odgensburg. The steamer Yantic has pageed all of the St. Lawrence canals and reached Ogdenebure. Some Ame will be spent there in taking an outfit and then she will travel under her own steam to Port Dalhousie, the entrance to the Welland Canal.” She will not reach there in less than five days. Her arrival in Detroit, therefore, depends altogether on the behavior of the weather. James Beld Still Sanguine. Captain James Reid has returned to Bay City from Harbor Springs, where he has been engaged the past two seasons trying to raise the sunken steamer Cayuga. He says that his efforts have not been without success, and bets still dim to his belief that the Cayuga can be floated. owing to the long spells of stormy weather, making it impossible for his divers to work, he has been delayed. He i quite sure that he will bring her to the surface early next season and thus put to naught the many predictions of failure that have been made ever since he undertook the difficult feat, The Nahant Fire. In its account of the burning of the steamer Nabant and the ore dock at which she was lying the Escanaba Mirror furnishes the following ex planation of the origin of the fire: * ‘As near as can be learned from the captain, chief engineer and first mate of the steamer, the fire started in the room of a fireman near the kitchen sand boiler room. When discovered it had gained good headway and spread with each rapidity the members of the crew who awoke had great difficulty in making their escapes. 1 The origin of the fire is attributed to Jacob Blesner, a fireman, who went to bed in an intoxi cated condition.’ A Center-Hoard Cook, A disputch from Racine dated Nov. 30, states that Captain Jacob Schenkenberg of the schooner Rob Roy is having much trouble. A short time ago he engaged a female cook and she had him arrested on some charge. The trouble was settled and she remained on the ‘weasel. When the boat was laid up for the season the captain did not provide for the woman, so she says, and second warrant was lasued. Tueaday sabe caught him on the Monument equate. There was a rough and tumble wrestle for time and the captain broke away and the; Isat seen of him he was running north. At last reports the sheriff is looking for him, Shipyard. Work. The Goodrich steamer Indiana is to be rebuilt this winter at Manitowoc. It is not yet known what the entire alterations will be, but she will be out in two and lengthened twenty-four feet and six inches. W. J. Wood, naval architect for the Goodrich company, is now at work on the plans. The work of remodeling the Goodrich Iiner Ludington at Manitowoc has been started and when she leaves the yard next spring she will practically be a new boat, who has been strip ped of her outside woodwork and the task of lengthening her will begin so soon as possible. Besides being made longer she will receive new engines and boilers. The offices of the steward such clerk will be on the main deck, and addition al sister rcoms will be placed in. Her sleeping capacity will be 200 persona. It is expected the improvements will cost $40,000. Winter Service on Lake Michigan, The steamer J. C. Ford has been chartered for the winter by the Toledo Ann Arbor Railway $e She will run between Kewaunee and Frank fort. The Crosby Transportation Co. has chartered the steamer Mary H. Boyce for the winter rate between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, service to begin about Dec. 20. . The steamer Alice Stafford will run between Mantauque and Frankfort, Mich., during the win ter months, in connection with the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie and Toledo Ann Arbor railways. The Graham Morton Transportation com pany announces that its winter line of steamers will be put on December 1, and that contracts have just beon closed with the Lake Michigan Take Superior Transportation company for the steamera City of Duluth and City of Traverse. The Duluth will be on the Chicago run, while the City of Traverse will do service on the Milwau kee route. On Manitou Island. During a heavy snow storm Thursday night the steamer Gogeble downward bound without argo. ran ashore at the southwest end of North Manitou Island, almost in the identical spot where the Bradley steel steamer Alva fetched up two seasons ago. The Gogeble went out furly 2 feet forward upon a rocky bottom. The captain immediately had the craft scuttled, but neverthe less the northwest seas ranged her to pound to such an extent as to render it certain that great damage has been sustained. The mate and a portion of the crew of the steamer reached Glen Haven friday afternoon in a lifeboat and tele graph for assistance. The trip to the mainland was a perilous one, and the men were drenched to the skin and thoroughly whified before they reached this point. The place where the Gogebic Iles Ia exponed to all but easterly winds and seas, and unless a spell of fine weather follows the present diaturbanos she may become a total wreck. The net measurement of the Gogebic is 1812.23 tons, rating AUG and valuation -about $50,000. She was built at West Bay City in 1687 and is owned by J. E. Milla of Port Huron, Miah. A full line of insurance was carried on her, Skill and Seamanship Recognized. Mr. Samuel Mather president of the Minnesota Steamship Co., Cleveland, has presented Captain ‘Frank D. Root, mister of the steamer Mariposa, with a beautiful watch, for the bravery and sea manship, displayed in reseculng the two survivors of the steamer Idaho, November 6. ‘The other members of the crew were not overlooked by Mr. Mather, as the following letter from Mr Mather to Captain Root will show: I wish to express to you, and through you to all of your brave crew, my sincere appreciation of the usually skillful seamanship, coolness, nerve and bravery displayed by you all in rescu ing the two poor survivors of the Idaho, nod to say further that notwithstanding the risk there by involved to the safety of the steamer, your act has the hearty commendation of this com mendation of this company and of myself. Not alone in this instance was the excellent dis cipling explating on the Mariposa evidenced, but also to a marked degree at the time of the colli sion with the Selwyn Eddy, and In some recogni tion of it I wish you to give your Grat mate and your chief segineer an extra month's salary each, and to all the other members of your crew an extra half month’s salary each, for which draft is enclosed herewith, and as for yourself, will you please call at our office upon your ar rival down and receive in person from us a testi monial of our regard and esteem. Whehlog you all continued good fortune in any other such at tempts to save life or overt disaster if similar occasions again arive. The captain was pre sented with a handsome watch suitably en raged. Captain Root has simply covered himself with glory In this his latest commendable act, al though he was favorably mentioned to the un derwriters on the occasion of the collision men toned above, and they were told that it was solely through the skill, discretion and discipline then exercised on board the vessel that the Mariposa had not become a total loss instead of the comparatively minor outlay which it cost to repair her. From this showing, there is little doubt but that Messrs. Johnson, Hirgina Co., general agents, New York, will, or has, made ouch representations to their underwriters as to insure due recognition of the valuable services of the crew of the Mariposa on that occasion, but of course It takes some time for foreign un derwriters to get together; then again big bodies move slowly. Local and Otherwise, Navigation has about closed for the season at this port. The tug Auntie D. will in all probability fish out of Mud Bay part of the present winter. The life-saving station at the canal clones for the season on Saturday at noon, being the bth instant. The car ferry service between Manitowoc and Boston Harbor will in all probability continue until the end of the year. At Manitowoc there is upwards of 100 care awaiting shipment. Robi, Dyne, one of the crew of the steamer Samuel Marshall, who had, his shoulder broken at Green Bay recently, arrived in the city on Thursday from that city and is under the care of the marine surgeon of this port. The captains of the three wind and cs-bound vessels, which lay in port within the week, telegraphed to Chicago for a tug to come and get them. The owner of the tug wanted just an even hundred dollars from each of them for the service. The deal was declared off im mediately. Car ferry barge No. 4, which operates between Manitowoc and Benton Harbor, was caught out in the gale of Thanksgiving day, and as a resort her master, Captain Matt, Ammorson, came with inou ace of loosing his life. The ferry was mak ing bad weather of ft, rolling, pitching and wal lowing in the heavy seas, and it was feared that some of the cars had worked from their fester ings. 'Tothlaend Captain Emmerson went be low to investigate their condition, and getting between the front end of a car and the door leading into the fire-room, all of which are on the main deck, the huge craft suddenly took row by the head in an after sex, and the car started with in Seeing his fate if he stood were he was another moment, he made a bold rush for the fire-room door, breaking the door from its hinges and lock, and he landed into a pot heap near the furnace doors. Had Captain Emmerson fail ed to break the door in he would have had every bone in his body crushed as the oar was almost on top of him at the time. Mscellaneous Marine Notes. The barge W. A. Young and Checotah will winter at Green Bay. The schooners Petrel and Ida Olson have gone into winter quarters at Sheboygan. Car ferry steamer Shenango No. 2 is command ed by Captain George L. Thompson. The deakst squall schooner Annie Dall has been laid up for the winter.At Milwaukee, The scow Emily and Eliza ip at Milwaukee with a Christmas tree cargo from this penineals. Captain J. C. Ackerman has taken command of the steamer J. C. Ford, which is to ply be tween Kenyones and Frankfort during the win ter months. The schooners Stafford, Alice M. Beers and Jura, which left Glen Haven last week with car oes of potatoes, were at last account a weather- bound in Frankfort harbor. At Menomines ce kept the barge N.C. Hol land 15 feet away from the Merryman company's lumber dock, and a staging had to be built from the dock to the vessel in order that she might be loaded. William Jacobson, formerly general freight agent of the Wisconsin Michigan railway car ferry line and one of its founders, had taken a similar position with the Michigan and Ohio car ferry line, Hankton, Ont., relatives of Robert William son, one of the seamen lost from the steamer Idaho in Lake Erie, will institute proceedings against the Western Transit craft, to recover damages. The Lake Michigan carferries will be in service till the end of the year if not prevented by ice. The number of cars awaiting transportation to South Chicago is increasing and from forty to fifty cars are constantly standing on the Peshti ‘go Harbor side tracks. There are already five tugs at Two Rivers that are to engage in fishing the coming winter and two more are expected to come there for the same purposes. The tugs already there are the Cooper, the Hammel, the Edwards, the L. P. Hill and the Fritz Karate. ‘The display of wind signals will be discon tinued at all upper lake ports on the following dates: On Lake Papin, December 1, 1897. On Lake Michigan and Huron, December 10, 1697. On Lake Superior, the date of the closing of the Jooke at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. ‘The steamer Saginaw Valley returned to Buf falo on Sunday from the steamer Idaho without having accomplished anything. The diver’abe carried became ill and refused to go down to the sunken steamer, and as another could not be secured in his stead the expedition had to return. .. The tug Pankratz arrived at Milwaukee Mon day with the schooner L. B. Coates, carrying a cargo of lumber shipped from Manitowoc‘ by Pankratz Co. The Coates had been stripped of her canvas and tanning gear before reaching port sod will winter there. The steamer City of New Baltimore, owned by Captain Graves of Green Bay, had been purchas ed by T. Ewing, J.D. Armatrong and C. Ewing ' of Escanaba, Mich. The atester will be put on ‘mw passenger route between Escanaba and Garden Bay. She has left for Escanaba for repairs. A majority of the aldertmen of the city of Ha cine are said to favor the scheme for widening’ Racine harbor from the lighthouse to the lift+ saving station and deepening the channel to 21 feet. The property necessary for the improve ment is owned by I. M Knapp and can be pur chased for about $10,000. Lattera received by Senator McMillan from W. R. Burt indicate that the ‘Toledo Ann Arbor railway will ask Congress to reimburne it for 400 feet of pier constructed at Frankfort, Mich., in order to make the harbor there available for steamers which the company owns or leaves. The plar, which cost $30,484.31, is alleged to have deepened the entrance to the harbor 5 feet, maki ng it 18 feet. Additions to the Lake Fleet, Lake shipbuilders are now building under con tract or on private account seventeen vessels, of which fourteen are freighters, two revenue pat tern for Uncle Sam, and one large sidewheat pas senger atesimer. An ocean tug, probably the largest in the world, is about completed and ready to start for the Atlantic and gulf. The combined capacity of the fourteen freighters is placed at 73,000 tops on a draught of 17 feet. Box on will be steamers and seven towbarges. Ten of these freighters will be of steel and the larg est size, and the remaining four of wood. James Davidson is building them at West Bay City on private account. Two of the huge steel wassels are calculated to carry 7000 gross’ tons of ore each. Gleaned From the Local Field. The tug Smith got back from Portage Lake Thursday afternoon. The Steamer towa passed through here on, her return trip south Thursday night. * The steam barge Mary Mills, Captain Bolton, arrived from the south Thursday evening ex route to Menomines for another load. The tug Golden is engaged in keeping the channel open through the bay for the car] ferries. The lee 18 sbout 5 inches thick. The shooters -Apprentice Boy and Ralph Campbell finally got away on Wednesday af ter being detained for a week by adverse, winds and ice. Captain Gunderson of the steam barge Susid ,Chipman, was among our callers Tuesday af ternoon while his boat lay in port bound up with a lumber cargo. The lumer-laden steambarges Soper and Otis succeeded in puncturing a passage thru the ice of this day Thursday night. They were on their fast trips. Eugineer Chas. Wondrasek got home from Racine on Saturday, where the tug Dixon was placed out of commission temporarily. Char ley states that the Dixon will fish out of Ra cine this winter. The tug Wright, Captain Henry Tufte, left here for Holland Saturday morning with the barge Harry Johnson in tow. The barge was laden with 600,000 feet of basswood lumber from Menominee. Captain Sam’! Christophson returned to bid home at Chicago on Thursday, after having finished a very successful season with the steambarge Pewaukee. The ADVOCATE ac knowledges a pleasant call from Captain Christophson. The tug Fischer arrived from the south on Wednesday with the carferry barges Nos. 1 and 2 in tow. She assisted the Golden in tow ing them through to the mouth of the bey. Returning she left with the No. 8, which had been lying in port a couple of days, ‘Captain Alex. Laurie has laid up the Schoon er Paige in the ice here for the winter. It has formerly been Captain Laurie's custom to haul the Paige out every winter at the stone quarry. The Paige has put in a very success ful season. The steambarge C, F. Curtie and Jow passed bound down to Menominee might trim for lumber cargoes for delivery at Buffalo Satur day morning. The tow had a rough experi ence of it coming down the lake from Chica go and was sheltered under Racine. The tug Smith left the canal early Saturday morning for Portage Lake with a scow laden with stone in tow. *The ADvocaTs erred last week in saying that the stone was shipped from the Course Stones Co's quarry, it should have been from that of the owners of the tug. The steambarge Pewaukee and consort barge Emerald arrived from the south on Sun day and immediately began proportions neces sary to place them into winter quarters. The Pawaukes and Emerald were sheltered in ‘Mil_ waukee during the heavy blow. The atest tug 8. M. Fischer, Captain Dunn, arrived here from the south Friday- nixbt’ of t last week with the car ferry barge No. Lin tow. She picked up the Nos. 1 and 2 lying here and started tack with them, arriving here again Wednesday afternoon. The steam barge Luella H. Worthington, Captain James Travis, with the consort barge D. R. Martin, passed, bound down to Metomi ee in light trim for cargoes on Tuesday. The Worthington had quite s tussle with the lee at Hill's point before she succeeded in petting through. The steambarge Wm, Rudolph will receive a partial rebuild at the shipyard this winter. She will be given alster-keelcons, steel arches, deck-beams, decks, etc. Her pilot-houls and texas will be moved from just shaft the amid ship line forward and built up the same as the' ordinary steam barge. send to Clarence E. Long, Sturgeon Bay, “Wis., for circulara of the Sturgeon Bay Neu tical School, which lanow open for the winter. Remember you can commence at any time; and’ lare instructed individually. In what better way can 4 marine man spend the winter,than 1 acquiring the art of navigation? The schooner Ford River, Captain Anton Everrett, with a lumber cargo for Chicago from Ford River arrived here Monday night via the bay. Captain Everrett says there was no ice at Ford River when he left that morn ing,but on arriving here found the bay en tirely covered with ice. The Ford River got away with the feet on Wedesday, being on her rest trip. The Ford River together with the Cora A., were sheltered in Baileys Harbor last week, they left together, but the former got loaded first. ‘The owner, or agent, of the little steamer Uncle Charley, which recently arrived from Chicago en voyage to Rapid River, gave up the announced intention of taking her to her new home this Season, and accordingly placed her into winter quarters here. After plowing the elevation on all sides it was deemed best to lay her up there as she needed considerable work done to her boiler this winter, and to Consequence she was taken in tow and shoved into the mud alongside of the hooker Paige, lying in the light formerly used for a boom age for the old upper mill. The tug Nelson was stripped on Saturday preparatory to going on the sectional dock for an entire rebuild this winter. After disman ting her at her dock as much as possible she proceeded to the dry dock, where her boiler was blown off and she was placed on the dock. The Nelson will be rebuilt from keel to track as the saying goes. Her hull will be torn down below the stckwork, new frames and stanchions put in with new deck-beams ‘and decks, Including a new house. be will be raised a couple of planke ‘higher ‘than her original height and she will be apread. The steam barge Wm. Rudolph, Captain R. Riebolat, arrived Tuesday morning ‘and im mediately proceeded to Egg Barbor for wood cargo. In coming down the bey from the canal that day the ‘Ie . was too heavy ,and the services of a tug had to be so roured to effect a’ passage for her. ‘The Ru dolph'got back and fnished out her fosd here with lath and shingles on Wednesday, pet ting away during the night. The tug Spauld \ng punctured the ice for her and she will keep the channel leading to the dry dock open, until the Rudolph gets back to go into dock. An arrival in port on Monday was the Good rich per Iowa, Captain H. Stines, deeply laden with package freight, ‘Bo deep waa sha that. it was with difficulty that the gangways could be worked, the gangplanks having Pitch to them of about 4 degrees. The Iowa was going as far north as Garden Bay, calling at way porta including Green Bay. This was to be the last Green Bay boat of the ling this season. Captain Stines reported a dirty pass age all the way down the lake from Milwau kee on account of snow and heavy vapor ris ing from off the lake, which was thick as mush. Nothing could be seen, he says, until after leaving Rhoapes when it cleared up.’ A wind-jammer to arrive in port on Monday ‘was the schooner York State, Captain Juluta ‘Baker, sought trim for Menominee from Chi cago’ for 8 lumber cargo. She was towed down from the’ canal through the ice and landed until the day following, when she was towed over by the brig Leather. The tug had a good deal of trouble in landing the vessel at her loading dock on account of the heavy iie. The York State was to have come for this load a week or two ago, but was necessari ly delayed at Chicago by the forecastle catch* ing se fire. The damage was not great and was covered by insurance. The fire was put out by the fre department. Captain Barker and pipeman John Kavanaugh, of the fre de partment, were overcome by the smoke and had to be carried from the vessel. The York State lay at Manitowoc several days on her way down the lake. The schooner Resumption, Captain Simon son, arrived via the bay from Ford River Fri dday afternoon during the high northerly blow. The Resumption left Ford River with « lum ber cargo Thanksgiving morning with the ‘wind free, but before reaching Death's Door passage the wind came out of the east and backed to ENE and later to NE, heading her off. She was then put about and headed up the bay with the intention of coming thro here as the wind continued to back, but when In the vicinity of Chambers Island it started to snow and shut in thick, and she was here to under the lee of the island where she sought an anchorage. Captain Simonson stated that the topsail schooner Bertha Bates was an hour or 80 ahead of him when he left Ford River, the Barnes having left Flat Rock, and she just succeeded in getting through the Door when the wind hauled ahead. The ‘Barnes must have reached Chicago by the time the Resumption’reached hers. Captain Aimenson also stated that the schooner H. A. Richmond, Captain Anderson, had arrived the day before he sailed, and was then taking ‘on - cargo of alabs hauled to her by teams, and at the rate they were handling the stuff it would take four or five days to complete load ing. The Resumption got away from here at midnight Friday, at which time the heavy NE sea in the lake from the previous day had run down, but she had only got up the lake as far as Kewaunee when the wind piped out of the southward. ‘Two Grand Haven Line in Milwaukee will have two winter lines of steamers to Grand Haven in the pear futura, Fostmaster Jacob Baer of Grand Haven, who was largely instrumental in the selection by the Detroit, Toledo Milwaukee Railroad company of that port for its lake terminal, states that the company has twenty-three acres of land above the Detroit, Grand Haven Milwaukee railway property and will begin to dock the water frontage in a few days. Simultaneously with this improvement a large freight shed will be erected, and when every thing is in readiness two steamers will be placed upon the Milwaukes route. Close tab is to be kept upon the carferry experiment of the Detroit, Grand Rapids Western rail way, and if it should turn out that freight can be handled cheaper in that way a slip will be built and carferry put on also.
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Sturgeon Bay Advocate
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, US
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