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      Black and white clipping from a newspaper. The picture is of Joe Cawthra with his horse drawn steam boiler. The image is from approximately 1906. The article is about the history of Burk's Falls and the way things used to be in the town.

      Obituary. ____ George Goble . To-day Oswego mourns one of her oldest and noblest citizens in the death of George Goble, for many years one of the best known shipbuilders on the Great ...

      BADGER STATE became more legitimate, maybe, but she burned to a total loss the following year on the St. Clair River with the loss of 15 lives.

      It was rather surprising to me that the RYERSON was attempting to transfer passengers to the GEORGIA while the big liner was still under way! A risky move, to say the least!

      ANOTHER SAFEGUARD DESIGNED FOR THE GREAT LAKES SAILOR _______ What seems to be a further improvement, from a safety standpoint, to the wire cables required this season on the large lake freighters, and which are equipped with the breeches buoy, is a device perfected by a ...

      *In the original list the ship names were separated from the overall length figures by dots or periods. I eliminated them in the hope of helping the list to remain in approximate column form when you receive it. Otherwise this is a verbatim transcription. Some of us grizzled old geezers …

      NOTE: This is a portion of a half-page article on the dedication and celebration of a new channel near Bois Blanc (Bob-Lo) Island, in the Detroit River, in the late summer of 1906.

      *Heyday of the fleet was actually about 10 years earlier than this. Most of its boat were built in the 50's **Build and loss information for these boats: Granite State (1852-1881) stranded Lake Michigan City of Toledo (1862-1879) stranded Lake Michigan Ogdensburg (1852-1864) collision, Lake Erie (250 or less lost …

      STEAMER IS IN TROUBLE ON ERIE _____ Ashtabula Lifesavers Unable to Overtake It - Gale is Subsiding _____ Latest reports indicate a subsidence of the gale on the lakes. No fatalities and no additional mishaps are chronicled, though the lifesavers at Ashtabula ...

      JOKE IS ON LIFESAVERS _______ Mistook Anchor Fleet Flag For Distress Signal Erie, October 26. - It was the fleet flag of the Anchor line flying at the forepeak of the steamer S. C. Reynolds, recently chartered by that company, which was mistaken yesterday for a ...

      Marine men here are so devoid of humor that they fail to see the point of the "joke" played on the Ashtabula lifesavers by the master of the steamer Reynolds, who let them row ten miles after him, thinking the ensign on the Reynolds was a distress signal. ...

      He is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Oswego.

      SCHOONER IS LOST _______ Foundered on Thursday off Sodus Point, N. Y. _______ The Crew Took to the Yawl and Were Able to Reach Shore - The Coal Was For Swift Destined For Queen's University. "Schooner Queen of the Lakes Foundered. All the crew ...

      FOR FLOATING POOLROOM _______ REAL USE FOR STEAMER STIRLING AT CHICAGO _______ Will Give Opposition to the City of Traverse _______ Chicago, June 30. - It was announced today that the steamer John R. Stirling, purchased last Monday at Detroit by Capt. ...

      OLD CAPT. McELROY RELATES SENSATIONS FELT IN 60-MILE GALE _______ Adrift on a scow in the sixty-mile gale on Lake Erie, Capt. George McElroy, of Port Huron, escaped with his life and is not much worse for the experience. And the scow was No. 13 of the fleet of a …

      WANT TOO MUCH WATER _______ CHICAGO PEOPLE WOULD LOWER PRESENT LAKE LEVELS President Livingstone, of the Lake Carriers Association, will be present today at a meeting of the International Deep Waterways commission at Buffalo. One of the principal questions to be ...

      The ROBERTS, at the time of the article, was named CITY OF WINDSOR and - like the JONES - was in Canadian registry. In 1910 she was renamed MICHIPICOTEN and was lost to fire in Bayfield Sound, North Channel, in 1927. JONES was built by Henry Marlton at Goderich, Ont., …

      COAL CARS ON RAMPAGE _______ Came Near Crashing Through Ferry Ashtabula Ashtabula, December 1. - While the stern of the carferry Ashtabula was raised so repairs could be made to the propeller, some coal cars on board broke from their fastening and ran forward, crashing ...

      ARE STUDYING WIRELESS _______ CHICAGO NAUTICAL SCHOOL HAS ONE WOMAN ENROLLED Chicago, October 31. - Wireless telegraphy will this winter form one of the courses taught at the nautical school conducted by Lieut. W. J. Wilson in the Masonic temple. At the first session ...

      J. W. Westcott, son of the deceased, was founder of the J. W. Wescott Co., marine reporters, which still survives today and has been operating the "on-the-fly" delivery service to moving ships for the Detroit River marine post office since the founding of the service in 1895.