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      A Deadly Fall. ____ A Sailor Plunges from the Cross Trees of the Schooner Bentley, Eighty-five Feet to the Deck - A Rotten Rope. _____ About 8 o'clock last evening, Andrew Skillin, of West Eighth street between Seneca and Schuyler, a sailor on the schooner J. ...

      Along the Docks. Hon. A.C. Mattoon arrived here at 6:30 A.M. today with the engine and boiler of the steam barge Ellsworth from Stony Island. After a week's hard work with sixteen men under the eficient management of John E. Riley, the task of raising the heavy engine and boiler …

      The Ellsworth's Machinery Next week Hon.A.C. Msttoon will pobably raise the machinery of the propeller Ellsworth, sunk at Stony Island. There is considerable talk of building a first freight and passenger boat to run between Oswego and the river. It is believed that a safe, ...

      The New Steamer and Her Route. ____ Hon. A.C. Mattoon has contracted the timber for the passenger and freight propeller which he proposes to build this winter, and work will be commenced probably about the first of January. She is to be 110 ft. keel, 120 ft, over all, 20 …

      Important Changes in the Life Services at this Point Captain John Blackburn, keeper of the life saving station at this port has received an official communication from Capt. E.P. Dobbins of Buffalo, superintendent, informing him that a full paid crew will be kept at the Oswego ...

      Life Saving Services To be Strengthened and Improved at all the Principal Points on the Lakes - Last year's Report A short time since the three lake superintendents, Captain D.P. Dobbins of the ninth district, which includes Lakes Erie and Ontario, Captain Sawyer of the ...

      Narrow Escape of the Barges from Destruction. Saturday afternoon considerable excitement resulted from an attempt to drop the Ogdensburg coal barges below the bridge. The tugs C.P. Morey and W. H. Wheeler took the barges Hattie. L. Johnson in tow and was part way down the river, ...

      No major accidents proved to be forthcoming and the PASSPORT (C112142, renamed CASPIAN in 1898) continued to operate as a passenger and freight steamer until reduced to a barge in 1921. Most records give her launch year as 1846 and her builder as McCausland, Kingston.

      NOT FOR DANCING PURPOSES The Star line people are ever on the lookout for points that will add profit to the line as well as pleasure and convenience to the patrons. But they will probably object to passengers using the upper or hurricane deck for dancing purposes. On Saturday ...

      A RECKONING The series of gales that swept over the lakes between the 15th and 24th of November have proven unusually destructive to vessel property and life. There has probably been no parallel in the annals of lake navigation, not even excepting the destructive gale of 1870. Within ...

      WORK OF THE FESSENDEN The revenue cutter Fessenden has gone into winter quarters with the prestige of having done the biggest season's work ever performed on fresh waters. The following abstract from her report will serve to give some idea of what she has ...

      Imagine going back from 2001 and strolling the docks of the Chicago waterfront in the late fall of 1879. Practically every foot of wharf and dock space has a vessel tied to it for the winter. They are every size, shape, condition and color that you can imagine. 370 lake …

      During the period of this article the marine reporters of the Detroit Post and Tribune and the Detroit Free Press were having a lively time sniping back and forth, each gleefully pointing out any error committed by the other. The Post and Tribune referred to its rival by the name …

      The new Oswego schooner Leadville cannot get through lock No. 3, Welland Canal. A portion of her side gear has been removed without avail.

      Fort Gratiot was the long-time military post at the head of the St. Clair River, founded in 1814 on the site of the 1686 French outpost named Fort St. Joseph.. Fort Wayne was the the site of Detroit's primary military establishment from its founding in 1843 to the 1970's. The …

      During the season the steamer Northwest (Cleveland-Detroit-Buffalo) has made 106 trips and the City of Detroit 91. The former was the first boat out and the last one in. The steamer St. Joseph, now laid up at this port, has made 83 round trips [to Duluth] this season, just two …

      BROWNE . -- At 5 o'clock this morning there passed from this earthly scene another of Hamilton's enterprising citizens who have contributed much to the building up of the city as a great commercial centre. We refer to the death of Mr. Michael W. Browne which took place at his …

      WRECKING CHARGES The wrecking tug Leviathan, now stationed in the Straits, will charge as follows until September 30: For services of boat in wrecking per day $150 For services of 14-inch steam pump ...

      Along the Docks The old schooner Carleton, which has for a long time been an eyesore to spectators on the lower bridge, is being dismantled today. John Gibson, who is doing the work, says he will break up the hull for kindling wood if he does not succeed in selling …

      Along the Docks A long looked for effort to remove the old burned hulk of the schooner Powhattan from near the lower bridge is, at least, being made. One of Dobbie's steam pumps is at work on her today with a force of men and she will be raised and …