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Alex Laurie has donned the uniform of a farmer and will devote his time henceforth to tilling his eighty acre farm in Sevastopol. Thirty Years Ago - 1894 The schooner RICHARD MOTT loaded 1,000,000 shingles at Bay View for Thorkildson & Shaw, on Thursday. The steamer C. W. MOORE loaded 100,000 shingles at the same dock last week for Green Bay. Tellesford Boutin, of the canal life-saving crew, has been appointed keeper of the Milwaukee station. Forty Years Ago - 1884 Hagen & English, of Green Bay, will resume work at the govern- ment stone quarry at the mouth of this bay. Louis Nebel will be foreman and the stone quarried will be used in the harbor work at Ahnapee, Two Rivers, Sheboygan and Milwaukee. Fifteen men will be employed and the steambarge SAWYER will transport the stone. Marine News The two rum runners, CG 2208 and 2209, which were due here last Thursday on their way to be stationed at the Soo, arrived last Saturday. They stopped at the canal for dinner. In charge of the boats is Robert Anderson, of the Canal coast guard station. Four power life boats, four power surf boats, and three other surf boats in tow are expected to arrive here next Monday at the canal. They are in charge of Dan Magnussen, of the Duluth station, with a crew of ten men among whom is Ole Swenson, of the Canal station. One of the power boats will be dropped off here to re- place the present one which will be taken to Racine and dis- mantled. Among the pleasure craft in port last week was the handsome new schooner yacht AMANAP, of New York, recently purchased by the Uhlines of Milwaukee. Her owners have been making a cruise on the craft from the Atlantic coast to Milwaukee, covering all the Great Lakes, and as Sturgeon Bay and Door county afford many safe harbors as well as beautiful scenery, a stop was made here for several days. The AMANAP is a new craft about seventy feet over all with a good spread of canvas and auxiliary power. The only criticism our marine reporter could make is that the craft has been painted black, when immaculate white, in our judgement, is the best color for a handsome craft of this type. ========================================================================== Door County Advocate Sturgeon Bay, WI Friday, September 12, 1924 Marine News North American Burns HOLLAND, Mich., - Fire from an unknown cause burned the steamship NORTH AMERICAN, one of the finest passenger vessels on the Great Lakes, down to its steel hull here early Monday, causing damage estimated at $1,200,000. Three persons were injured, one of them, Gerry Westman, 70, a cook, being seriously burned. Most of the injured were burned when tanks of crude oil stored in the hold exploded. The oil continued to burn until dawn. The vessel which was tied up by the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Co., was tied up for the winter. All of its costly fittings had been removed and placed in storage. The New Bay Lights. Notice sent out by the lighthouse department includes the following information in regard to the newly established lights in this bay: Dunlap reef northwest end light in twelve feet of water, flashing red every three seconds, flash 0.3 second duration of 70 candlepower, 23 feet above water on red pyramidal skeleton tower on cyndrilical base, visible eight miles, located 75 yards southwesterly from center of dredged channel and at northwesterly end of the twelve foot contour of the reef. Middle ground northwest gas buoy discontinued. Hills Point light, flashing red every 3 seconds, flash 0.3 second duration of 70 candlepower, 40 feet above water, on a pyramidal skeleton tower on concrete base visible 8 miles; locate about 10 yards from water wash and 60 yards northerly from former Hills Point daymark. Hills Point daymark dis- continued. The steamer CLIFTON was in port several days this week receiving the finishing touches to her machinery and the Smith unloading device. The motor boat GLENDA, of Menominee, was in port Tuesday enroute across the lake for fruit. The GLENDA was formerly the yacht ISABELLA, owned by the Stephensons of Menominee. The craft was damaged by fire and later rebuilt and re- christened. The GLENDA is a staunch and speedy craft and will make a first class freighter and fruit boat. The fish tug GEORGE R. WEST, Capt. W. B. Chapman, arrived here from Frankfort, Mich., the first of the week with a new hull built at Holland, Michigan. The hull has been hauled out at the Wolter & O'Boyle ship yard where some work will be done below the water line including ironing off, putting in the shaft and wheel and a general searching-up. The machinery has been taken out of the WEST and will be placed in the new hull. It is expected that the new craft will be ready to go into commission by October 1st. The large freight and passenger steamer LAKELAND passed through this port Tuesday bound south. Heavy weather on the lake decided the captain to bring his boat up through Green bay after passing the straits. Upon reaching the lake through the canal he was undecided whether or not to proceed down the west shore, but after half an hour delay he ventured out, al- though there was a heavy sea running, and proceeded south. The LAKELAND was formerly the steam CAMBRIA owned at Cleveland, Ohio, and is 280 feet long. The new power life boat for the canal Coast Guard arrived the fore part of the week and is now on duty. The new boat is larger than the old one and has much more power. The motor is located amidships and a commodious water-proof house is built over it large enough to accommodate several men. The model of the hull is the latest type of modern life saving craft and has a larger side out than the old type. Dan Magnussen and his crew left the canal Wednesday for Racine with several other surf boats and power life boats which will be delivered to varous stations on Lake Michigan. From Advocate Files Twenty, Thirty, Forty Years Ago. Twenty Years Ago - 1904 The scow schooner GERMAN, Capt. Thos. Isabell, was caught in a squall off Sherwood Point Friday and lost her deck load. Her distress signals were seen by the light keeper who sent word to Sturgeon Bay for help. The tug DUNCAN CITY, Capt. Bebeau, went out and towed the disabled craft into port. The deck load consisted of telephone poles which were later picked up with the assistance of the fish boat owned by Theodore DeLille. Thirty Years Ago - 1894. Capt. Adolph Fritsch, and his little sloop, NINA, arrived in Queenstown, Europe, on September 12, after a most hazardous trip across the Atlantic ocean. He was reported lost by one big steamer which saw wreckage in mid-ocean, supposed to be that of the NINA. On August 20th Capt. Fritsch met the steamer MENONITA, in mid-ocean, and sent a letter to his wife stating that he was safe and expected to reach Queenstown by September 12. Forty Years Ago - 1884. The schooner SPARTAN took a cargo of wood from Jacksonport last week for Halstead & Co., in payment for a threshing machine. The wood went to Milwaukee. ========================================================================== Door County Advocate Sturgeon Bay, WI Friday, September 19, 1924 From Advocate Files Twenty, Thirty, Forty Years Ago. Twenty Years Ago - 1904 Capt. D. L. Ramage has purchased the old schooner MARY E. PACKARD from Smith Bros., of Port Washington, and it will be used as a lighter for freighting sugar beets from this port to Menominee. Thirty Years Ago - 1894 The fog station at the canal was damaged by fire the first of the week and was saved only through combined efforts of the life saving crew and light house men. Forty Years Ago - 1884 The schooner LETTIE MAY, Capt. Albert Kalmbach, arrived from Green Bay Saturday with eighteen tons of chestnut coal for Leathem & Smith. Marine News. The lighthouse supply steamer SUMAC coaled up at the Kalmbach dock Thursday of this week. The mother boat WHITE SWAN brought in another load of hard coal for A. Kalmbach on Monday. The government tug CUMBERLAND with the barge MILWAUKEE took out a load of crushed stone from the Smith quarry on Tuesday. The tug SMITH has been supplied with a new smokestack. The SMITH has been engaged with the barge ADRIATIC in delivering stone at ports on Green Bay. The FONTANA loaded 4,500 tons of stone Saturday at the Smith quarry for delivery at Detroit. The CLIFTON loaded 3,000 tons at the same quarry the following day to be de- livered at Detroit. Capt. Emil Winjum, who has been operating his new boat MURITANA on the Idlewild run this season, is now open to charter to any points on Green Bay or Lake Michigan. He may take a run across the lake after fruit if the market is favorable. The steamer ANDASTE brought a load of coal up from below Thursday of last week and delivered the same at Green Bay. From Green Bay she came to this port and will carry stone out of here to Lake Michigan ports during the remainder of the season. The steamer BAY STATE, which has been carrying stone for the L. D. Smith company from its quarry on this bay to ports on Lake Michigan, has been laid up for the season. The steamer ANDASTE, which has been on one of the lower lakes for some time, will take the place of the BAY STATE in the stone trade. =========================================================================== Door County Advocate Sturgeon Bay, WI Friday, September 26, 1924 HOPE WANES FOR STEAMER CLIFTON AFTER LATEST CLEVELAND REPORT. Oscoda Reports Reveal Ship GRIFFIN Safe Not CLIFTON Fear that the whaleback steamer CLIFTON, loaded with 2,200 tons of crushed stone from this port for the Birmingham Sand and Stone company, of Detroit, and a crew of 28 men, was lost in the terri- fic gale on north Lake Huron Sunday afternoon was still expressed in marine circles this morning. Advices from the Cleveland Plain Dealer at 10:30 p.m. yesterday are as follows: "Lake Huron alone knowns the whereabouts of Whaleback steamer CLIFTON, which was 75 hours overdue at Detroit tonight. Vessel men who know Capt. Gallagher serched Lake Huron today. They found nothing. Ships going in both directions have doubled their lookouts, and ships passing through the middle of Lake and on both sides along narrow strips of land where the CLIFTON might have sought shelter during the storm were searched, but Huron held the secret. The combing did not uncover one oar or fragment of splintered life boat. "Lake men believe that the CLIFTON has gone down. They believe the 56 mile gale which swept Lake Huron Sunday and shifted to northwest Sunday night battered her hatches off, while Captain Gallagher headed into the storm. Old sailors recalled today that waves in Lake Huron have known to batter in pilot houses and sweep away deck houses and form whirlpools between the bow and stern of boats. It is not surprising therefore that no wreckage was found, even though the boat went down. "A. E. Schneider, general manager of Progress Steamship company was still hopeful that the CLIFTON will show up." Further advices confirmed this report at 7:15 this morning: Fear that the whaleback steamer CLIFTON, loaded with 2,200 tons of crushed stone from this port for the Birmingham Sand and Stone company of Detroit, was lost in Lake Huron sometime Sunday, is ex- pressed in marine circles. Hopes that the steamer is sheltered, possibly in a disabled con- dition, at some place where communication cannot be established, is held out by L. D. Smith of this city, who has an interest in the boat, and by the Cleveland Cliffs company at Cleveland, which is also interested in the craft. The CLIFTON loaded stone at the Smith quarry at this port Satur- day, clearing for below that afternoon. A gale from the southeast swept Lake Huron Sunday. The steamer was reported passing through the Straits Sunday morning. The CLIFTON was seen that same afternoon by the tug FAVORITE at Forty Mile Point on Lake Huron, 40 miles east of the straits. No trace of the craft after that has been obtainable, although the entire west coast of Lake Huron has been searched by tugs and coast guards. A report was current that the steamer was anchored off of Oscoda, Saginaw Bay, Tuesday morning, but upon being traced it was found to have been the steamer "GRIFFIN," in place of the "CLIFTON." When the FAVORITE passed the CLIFTON, she was running into a southeast sea, and apparently making good weather of it. Marine men think it possible that later in the day Sunday, as the sea increased, Captain Gallagher, decided to turn around and run be- fore it. In doing this it is possible that the steamer's cargo of stone shifted, causing her to founder. Another theory is that he successfully got his boat before the wind, and for some reason ran across the lake to the Canadian shore, where there are hopes that the boat will be found safe. Up to a late hour last night no further information was obtain- able from the main office at Cleveland. The CLIFTON was a steel steamer 308 feet long and 38 feet beam. The CLIFTON carried a crew of 28 men, but the office of the L. D. Smith Dock company at this port can give a list of but eighteen, of which eight are from Sturgeon Bay, two from Sawyer, and one from Institute, this county. The official list of the crew is registered at Cleveland, and as many changes are made nearly every trip, the official list of the crew of the CLIFTON when she left port Saturday afternoon is not obtainable. The list as given out at the Smith office is as follows: Members of the crew from this county as far as known are as follows: Walter Oertling, chief engineer; George Maples, Perl Purdy, Bob Stedman, Harold Hart, Lawrence Haen, Roland Writt, Bernie Haen, all of this city. Harvey Jensen, Russel Erdmann, Sawyer; Leo. Brauer, Institute. Stedman and Hart shipped on the boat for their first trip Satur- day, and a number of others of the crew were making their first trip on the craft. Other members of the crew were: Emmett Gallagher, St. James, Mich., captain; Ed. Peck, Green Bay, first mate; "Mac" MacDonald, St. James, second mate; Peter Burns, Joseph Shied, wheelsmen, St. James; Sam Stevenson, steward, wife and baby, Benton Harbor. Two of the crew, name unknown, from Algoma; coal passer, second cook, and porter, names unknown, from Detroit, Mich. J. L. Shipley, of this city and William Anger, also from here, quit the ship here on her last trip from the south and were able to give the names of many of the crew. From Advocate Files Twenty, Thirty, Forty Years Ago. Twenty Years Ago - 1904 The tug DUNCAN CITY, Capt. Bebeau, lost her tow Thursday night near South Manitou island, while bound from this port to Petoskey, Mich. The tow consisted of the stone laden barge ALERT and a scow loaded at the Sturgeon Bay Stone Co. quarry. Wm. Laroy and Ole Tollefson were rescued from the ALERT before the craft was abandoned. The tug searched the shore line and lake the next morning but could find nothing of either craft. Later wreckage was found at Cathedral Point. Thirty Years Ago - 1894 During the equinoctial storm on Saturday and Sunday there were upward of thirty steam and sail craft sheltered in the bay. Forty Years Ago - 1884 The schooner BESSIE BOALT capsized off Two Rivers last Sunday morning while bound from Leland, Mich., to Milwaukee with a cargo of cordwood. The schooner A. B. C. F. M., Capt. Julius Sporland, was driven ashore near Gill's Pier on the east side of Lake Michigan last Thursday, but has since been released and taken to Milwaukee. Marine News. Sub Chaser 412 was in port again Monday and left Tuesday bound south. The government barge MILWAUKEE loaded stone at the dock of the Sturgeon Bay Stone company on the west side on Wednesday. The craft was in tow of the CUMBERLAND. The pleasure yachts EL MARIE and CORDELIA, of Chicago, were windbound in this port Wednesday while bound north. The latter craft was on Lake Winnebago Sunday during the big blow and her crew report a big sea running on the big lake. It is reported that the channel the whole length of Sturgeon Bay from the canal to the entrance of Green bay will be dredged next season. Large boats such as the ANN ARBOR and large freighters have but little water to spare in the channel and stir up the mud in most places while passing through the bay. Olaf Egeland, captain of the Baileys Harbor coast guard, has passed an examination which entitled him for promotion for duty on the Atlantic coast. He expects to be transferred within a short time to the coast, and will probably have charge of one of the large rum running chasers. The big steamer CONNEAUT, bound into Green Bay with a load of coal, ran aground at Long Tail Point on Thursday of last week, and it took the united efforts of the tugs TEED and SAUGATUCK an hour to release the big boat. The CONNEAUT is 416 feet long, and hails from Detroit, Michigan. Gradual dropping of the water in Green bay has resulted in the water becoming so shallow in Strawberry passage outside of Fish Creek and Ephraim, that there were times this season when the weather was unfavorable that the Goodrich boats took the longer passage out around Chambers Island. The Ephraim Men's club has taken steps to try and have a government appropriation made to deepen this channel. PERE MARQUETTE No. 22, latest addition to the carferry fleet, was given a trial run off the port of Manitowoc Monday and an official O. K. placed on it. No ceremony was attached to the test, and General Manager Mercereau was the only official representing the ship company. Several days will elapse before the new ferry goes on its regular run between Manitowoc, Ludington and Milwaukee, while finishing details are given attention. Capt. Esten Bahle, a newcomer of the Pere Marquette line, will command the ship. ===========================================================================