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      The Graham & Morton Transportation company suffered another severe loss by fire at an early hour this morning when their popular propeller, City of Louisville, was burned nearly to the water's edge. The saddest part of the disaster was the death of Charles Southwell, the watchman of the ...

 Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY), 5 Mar 1902, p. 1, column 4     Early Opening of Navigation Chicago, March 3.--The first boat to reach Chicago from the east shore of Lake Michigan this spring was the Edward Buckley, which has just arrived from Manistee. She has a cargo of 1,000 tons of salt. It is said the early opening of navigation at ...

      The Launch at Chaumont. Editor Daily Times: The new schooner was launched at this place on Saturday, the 9th, according to announcement, the day being one of the finest and everything connected with the vessel in perfect order. About 2 p.m. carriages and pedestrians were ...

      Marine Casualties _____ Two Schooners Ashore and Two Lives Lost - Particulars of the Accidents. _____ A special to the Times from Cape Vincent today, says the schooner Lem Ellsworth, loaded with corn from Chicago to Ogdensburg went ashore on the head of Carlton ...

      A Schooner Sank. The three masted schooner A. Vickery, with 21,000 bushels of corn for cargo bound for Prescott from Chicago struck a shoal near the Rock Island lighthouse near Fishers Landing last night. The schooner left Chicago August 5 and arrived at Clayton last night. ...

      A Sensational Story "A sensational incident of the wreck of the schooner Vickery", says the Evening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee has been made public and caused considerable gossip. It was night when the Vickery reached the river, and the Captain, not-with-standing the fact that ...

      * paper is creased on this line. I think that was 1887 History of the Great Lakes Beers. ** This is another Hinckley. This Hinckley was built in 1862. History of the Great Lakes Beers.

      An Old Ship Doomed The secretary of the navy has sent a communication to the speaker of the house, reporting the list of vessels stricken from the navy register under a late act of congress, with a recommendation that the vessels be broken up or sold at auction. Among those …

      The Old New Orleans We have already alluded to the fact that the secretary of the navy is about to order the sale of the old line-of-battle ship New Orleans, which has so long remained upon the stocks at Sackets Harbor. The official description is as follows. New Orleans, ...

      The New Orleans. The famous old vessel New Orleans, says the Chicago Tribune, is to be sold at auction, and a writer well posted on marine matters relates the following interesting narrative concerning her early history: Near the close of the war of 1812 the United States ...

      The last chapter in the history of the old ship New Orleans, which has been on the stocks at Sacket's Harbor since the war of 1812-15, closes today. The old relic has fallen, killing one man. Three others were seriously injured, and will probably carry scars with them to the …

      Sackets Harbor Workmen are now engaged in tearing down the old ship New Orleans. People wishing pieces of her for relics had better come soon, as they will be through in a few days.

      The Old New Orleans To the Editor of the Times Sackets Harbor, May 7 Considerable interest having been taken of late in the tearing down and removal of ship New Orleans, which stood for so many years in the navy yard at this place, it may be pleasing for ...

      The old war ship "New Orleans" at Sacket's Harbor, which has been visited and looked upon with wonder by so many as a relic of the war of 1812, will soon be no more. The party who bought it at the late sale commenced Monday to tear it down. It …

      Carrying the Cable Recalled Silas Lyman, 86 years old, relates the story of the carrying of the cable from Sandy Creek to Sackets Harbor in 1814 following the Battle of Big Sandy. "I have been requested by many to give some account of the cable that was taken up and …

      The steamer Rosedale has been released from her dangerous position on Charity Shoal and placed in the dry dock in Kingston.

      Safe at Henderson Late yesterday afternoon, says Saturday's Oswego Times, notice was received that a steambarge and a canal boat were anchored in Henderson Harbor, and it was at once conjectured that this was the Norman, which had not been heard from since Wednesday ...

      Chaumont - The fishing season is nearly ended; most of the nets have been taken up, and the barrels of ciscoes scattered over various parts of the bay and lake shore, where caught and packed are being gathered in and piled up in available places around the depot. The whole …

      Capt. Franklin D. Phelps Dies ________ Sailor and Boat Builder, 69, Expires at Chaumont ________ Constructed Many Vessels ________ Engaged in Building Fishing Boat At Time He Was Taken Ill ________ Death Comes ...

      A stick of oak timber 46 feet in length, 22 inches in diameter and containing 930 feet board measure, was delivered last week at the Ogdensburg shipyard. It was cut on a farm near Black Lake.