Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Thursday, March 5, 1896 Volume XXIX Capt. Morrison of the Point Sauble Life Saving station has been to Canada for a wife. He is to be transferred to South Chicago and his bride will go with him. Mr. Walter Patterson went to Grand Haven Friday and was examined by the board of engineers. He was successful and will take the posi- tion of second engineer on the steam barge ANNIE LAURIE. The new monster boat being built for Messrs. Roby, Waldo and Duddleson will be launched at Bay City on Saturday. It has been de- cided to call it L. C. WALDO. Ice will be cut out from the river suf- ficient to make room for launching. Readers of the Record will remember that some weeks ago the Ann Arbor car ferry crossing from Kewaunee to Frankfort lost some cars of freight, among them two carloads of creamery butter. During the storm the butter got adrift and after being tossed about on the cold waves of the lake several days, was thrown on the beach, extending some miles along the shore. Recognizing a good thing, the natives confi- scated large quantities of it, finding it to be in perfect condition. The railroad has just settled accounts with the consignees, paying for 10,000 pounds at 23 cents a pound. Congressman Thomas of Michigan has offered a bill authorizing the light-house board to provide a steam fog signal for St. Joseph harbor. No appropriation is mentioned, and the cost of the whistle is left to be provided by the board. As the times are hard, even with Uncle Sam, we might lend Ludington's fog horn to St. Joseph for an indefinate period. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, March 12, 1896 Volume XXIX Capt. Moody, formerly of F. & P. M. No. 5, will command the steamer WASHBURN, of the Soo line. Messrs. Geo. N. Stray and H. A. Scott went to Bay City to witness the launching of the new monster boat L. C. WALDO, named after our late fellowtownsman. The visitors enjoyed the occasion and reached home again by the late train Saturday night. The new steamer L. C. WALDO, launched at Bay City last Saturday, will be an object of interest to engineers and naval architects. A new system of forced draft will be used in the boat. It differs from the Howden system which forces the air through the various parts of the boilers into the stack, in that it sucks the air through the boil- ers into the stack. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, March 19, 1896 Volume XXIX The schooner WRENN is putting on her Easter coat of paint and will sail as soon as navigation opens. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, March 26, 1896 Volume XXIX The approximate cost of the vessels now being built in the lake region, and to be used the coming summer, is $9,107,000. All lines of lake business, ore, grain, lumber, passenger and local freight, is feeling the advent of better times. The development of lake commerce surpasses anything of the kind elsewhere in the world. There are twenty big steel freighters now building costing an average of $200,000 each and capable of carrying 4,000 tons on 14 1/2 feet draft. Besides there are a dozen barges, similar in all respects to the steamers and capable of carrying the same amount of cargo, but without motive power. Besides this there is the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co.'s steamer, to cost $375,000, a $300,000 car ferry and numerous wooden cargo steamers, wooden tow barges, tugs, the revenue cutter JOHN G. CARLISLE, an oil tank barge and steam yachts, all of which are fast approaching completion. THE LIFE SAVERS. ---------------- THE CREWS AT LUDINGTON, POINT SAUBLE AND PENTWATER ORDERED INTO COMMISSION APRIL 1st. Orders have been received for the daring life savers in this vicinity to get ready for the season's work, and the above mentioned crews were examined by Dr. McConnell today. There are but few changes in the personel of the crews in this vicinity. The old reliable Capt. Charles Tufts will have charge of the crew at this point, while John A. Nelson, formerly No. 1 of the Ludington crew has been promoted to the captaincy of the Point Sauble crew. Capt. N. was in charge of this station while Capt. Tufts was at Atlanta looking after the government life saving exhibit at the great southern exposition, and from his previous record his friends predict that he will make a very creditable showing in his new position. The Pentwater crew will again be in charge of Capt. Martin Ewald, but we did not learn the names of the crew. R. B. Tyler and George Palmer have been transferred from the Point Sauble crew to fill the vacancies at this station, and the crew is now constituted as follows: - Charles Tufts, captain, Jos. Mitchell, Peter Carlson, Ben Carlson, Oscar Wilkinson, R. B. Tyler, George Palmer and J. Pratten. The new men in the Point Sauble crew are Charles Grennell and John Benson, but they are not new at the life saving business, both having been in the service before. The crew is as follows: John A. Nelson, captain; Wallace Thornton, Charles Dieckman, Mons Johnson, George Masten, Wm. Barr, Charles Grennell and John Benson. MARINE MATTERS -------------- THINGS ARE BEGINNING TO LIVEN UP AMONG THE MEN WHO SAIL On last Saturday and again yesterday the entire fleet of the F. & P. M. Co. were in this harbor, the No. 1 getting in here at noon. Almost all the fishermen at this point have nets out and are anxious to have the wind moderate sufficiently so they can get out and lift them. Capt. Wm. Turgeon will leave for Ashland early next week to fit out the MARY SCOTT. The SCOTT will run between Ashland and Washburn, on Chequamegon bay. The crew of the steambarge ANNIE LAURIE left for Milwaukee yester- day and it is expected that the steamer will be ready for her first trip of the season in about a week. The F. & P. M. No. 5 will make two more trips from this port and then go in the lower lake trade again for the same parties who had her chartered last fall - Paine Bros., of Milwaukee. The tugs SPORT and IDA M. STEVENS have been put in good trim for the season's business, under the personal supervision of Capt. John M. Crawford. The SPORT has received new bulwarks and stanchions. All the F. & P. M. steamers except the No. 1 cleared yesterday afternoon. They are all reported safe on the other side, but the trip must have been a rough one, as the wind turned from south to north last evening and was blowing pretty fresh. Andrew Borg, the well known fisherman, has launched a fine new fishing boat and named it the RUTH. She will be given a trial trip as soon as the weather moderates a little, and great things are expected of her as sailormen say she is a beauty. Work on. Mitchell Bros. & Co. are rushing along the work on their tug, the L. H. BUES, which has been rebuilt in a first class manner. Their dredges, pile drivers and scows are also being put in first class con- dition, and will be ready for the season's work in ample time. That familiar skeleton of a ship that has been seasoning on the stocks near the Fourth ward bridge since 1887, is now beginning to look like a vessel, and very soon the WM. RATH will be launched. The sails and rigging of the WM. CHAPMAN will be used for the outfit. Repairs on the schooner MARS, which were begun some time ago, have been discontinued by order of Mr. John S. Woodruff. The reason being, it is said, that the Soper Lumber company which owns the lumber on the Ward docks here, is not in want of any of it until later in the sea- son. Capt. Mat Shomer, of the schooner GEO. L. WRENN, is getting that craft in shape for the season's work. She is being caulked and paint- ed in a very thorough manner. Nels Thompson and John Hounsel are the artists doing the work under the personal supervision of Capt. Shomer. The WRENN will be ready to go into service about April 10th. Messrs. Warren A. Cartier and Capt. John M. Crawford have taken the contract for sorting and towing the logs at this point, and were over at the sorting gap yesterday morning looking over at the works at that point so as to determine the amount of repairs and improvements need- ed. The tug IDA M. STEVENS, in command of Capt. John G. Crawford will do the towing. ===========================================================================