The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

kenosha had been carefully erased, and
the word Racine was prominently i'm
printed on the stern of the Lady Ann and
from that circumstance we conclude
she had transferred allegiance to rival
port. That she was in service several
years, and that her prov kissed the will
ling waters of many port, both on this,
ana on the other side of the lake, we have
no reason to doubt. On one of her voy-
ages, however, she encountered one of the
most terrific storms that has ever oc-
CURED on this lake. 1t was hardly less
than destructive tornado. The Lady
Ann withstood the bufeting of the storm
with "neither sun nor moon for many days
appearing" presenting first her prov,
then her stern, anon her fair sides to the
warning elements But, failing in the I'M
equal contest, she took, as if by instinct,
a direct course for this place, and went
forward with frightful nnpetuosity. The
inhabitants living on or near the shore,
heard in the middle of the night, or i'm
agined they heard, a frightful shrek and
in the morning the severed timbers of the
Lady Ann were found scattered over por.
| tion of the island
There is saying that every vessel has
its winged companion " and there is al
SO superstitious belief among the more
| Illitterate portion of the seamen on our
great oceans that bird with huge wings,
never seen on any other occasion, follows
with unfagging persistency every vessel
ON its fatal and last voyages resting at last
on its wings, over the spot where the YES
sci went down, it sounds frightful requi-
EN-, dives beneath the surface of the wa
ter and disappears. It would not be diff
ficult to imagine the same winged messen-
ger following in the wake of the Lady
Ann
The next vessel built at this port was
named after our efficient and popular
Clerk of the Court, L. B. NICHOLS. She
was built by Mr.. Jason Lothrop, Jr,, for
IL G. Simmons, of this place We can
we'll remember the time when her arrivals
and departures were quite an event alike
nosha. We think her capacity was not
far from sixty thousand feet of lumber
The next vessel built was the Samuel
Hale She was grain carrying vessel,
with capacity, we think, for about eight
cen thousand bushels of wheat We no.
ticed her loss the present season. The L.
G. Irving was also built at this place by
Mr.. William Lay, for himself
In addition to those previously named,
quite number of first-class grain vessels
have been built at other ports, for owners
living at this place. The names of the
vessels that occur to us atthe present
writing, are the G. l. Hutchinson, Mary
B. Hale, and the. John V. Aver. There is
sad history connected with the last
named vessel. Her commander had just
| left the Paul Jones to command the Aver.
Both vessels left the port of Chicago on
the same day, loaded with wheat, and
both vessels, on the succeeding night dis
appeared forever 1t is conjectured that
the two vessels collided during a storm
that occurred few hours after they left
port, and went together to the bottom of
the lake The wife of the captain of the
John v. Aver, young, beautiful, intelli-
gent, and devotedly attached to her hus
band, became incurably insane soon after
receiving intelligence of the fate of her
husband. She resides at Buffalo, and who
ever she chances to meet, she at once adj
dresses to them the oft repeated inquiry,
! if they have seen the John Y. Aver, and
if her husband is soon expected into
port Alas! poor woman, she will have to
pass over to the "other shore" herself, b.
/ fore she meets him again
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