The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-09


accomplished on New Years Eve, and
must be reckoned as the most daring feat
ever performed on the lakes. The his
tory OF lake navigation can furnish no
precedent. The Caldwell met with no
permanent ice in the Straits, but consid-
cradle floating ice, much of which was of
great thickness. 1t offered no serious
impeachment to her progress, however,
and she got through into Lake Michiean
without difficulty. We are indebted to
Mr. Edwin Laundy, clerk Of the Cald-
well, for the following log Of the trip:
Left Cleveland at a. H., of the 22d
ult., met ice FIVE miles below Kelley
Island; ran to West Sister Island and
remained in the ice all night. On the
morning Of the 23d, started for the north
shore; proceeded as far as Little
Point and found the ice very strong; had
to remain all night. Left Little Point
on the morning of the 9th at 7 a. H.,
and arrived at Maiden at / a. M; left
Maiden at - o'clock noon met heavy
ice near Clark fishery got through,
and reached the head of Fighting Island,
where the river was found to be com
pletely blocked with ice; remained all
night. Started again at a. M, Dec
18th; passed Detroit at IL a. M met
large quantities of ice at the head of De-
troit River; passed through it, and en-
tered Lake st. Car al. p. M; at 3:45
p. M, ran into ice varying from four to
ten inches in thickness, moving north
ward. and were obliged to remain all
night Got out of this field of ice next
morning and anchored under Crosse
Point; weighed anchor, and at 5 p. NJ,
reached st. Clair River, passing through
ice varying from FIVE to nine inches in
thickness the entire distance Left St.
Clair River at $50 a. m., 27th, aud ar
rived in Thunder Bay at 10 p. ~, wind
blowing hard from northwest. Left
Thunder Bay at a. M, 2sth, and ar
rived off Forty Mile Point at noon of the
same day /; began to snow and blow very
hard from the westward weather very
cold ran into the Straits of Mackinac
and made land on the south shore near
Old Mackinac; could get no farther, and
laid over in the ice all night. Drlfted
with the ice some ten miles before morn
ing. Started again on the morning of
the 29th wind blowing gale from the
northwest; went under Old Macklnac
Point and remained until next day.
Heavy bodies of ice from one to fifteen
feet thick passing continually. At day
break on the morning of the Goth, wind
having hauled around to northeast, left
again and neared the island of St. Hele
ma; got fast in the ice +; wind veercd soon
after, and the ice began to move and
break up very fast; started again, and at
.. m., passed augoshance Light
house. Found heavy ice until Hat Is
land was reached. At this point found
omen water. and reached Milwaukee at 5
p. M, on the 3lst.
Captain Lewis estimates that during
the trip the Caldwell ran through one
hundred and seventy miles Of ice, the
thickness Of which varied from four
inches to fifteen feet She has cargo
Of four hundred tons of coal on board,
consigned to parties in Chicago, but
which will probably be discharged at this
point.-.Seuti1ct.
Quick TRIps-Captan Carlton Graves
Of North Madison, Ohio, an old lake
captain, can boast Of some quick trips
made by him in former years, which are
not equaled in the list of quick trips of
the past year. Captain Graves made
the run from Bay City to Buffalo in the
schooner Lookout, in May, 1866, in two
days and sixteen hours, inclusi!ng II stop
OF seven hours at the foot Of Lake Huron
waiting for ii t g to make up a TOW. The
schooner lockout was at he time loaded
with 100000 feet Of lumber. In So
the same vessel made six passages in
succession to and from Bay City and
Buffalo in four days each. In 1862.
Capt. E1arcs HlIc I ,ugnI trip from
Chicago to Buffalo, by way OF Erie, ii.
the barque A. 2. Nichols, and took
load Of coal on her return to Chicago, in
twelve and half days. In 1861, Capt
Nichols, with the same vessel, made the
round trip from Chicago to Buffalo and
return, loading with coal at Buffalo, in
twelve days Capt. Graves is the Oldest
of four brothers, all Of whom are masters
of vessels on the lakes.-Uet1oit Tribune
An editor is always cxcusable for
writing about the weather This is more
especially the case when there has been
such spell as we had the last of last
and the first of this. week. Such lnisera-
BILE, dreary, wet, gloomy, rainy, stormy,
unpleasantly nasty, sleety, snowy, sloshy
weather we do not remember having ever
experienced. Everybody had "a cold,
either in the head or in the feet, and
everybody was cross-oh, so cross! 1t
is said that two cold afflicted chaps got
into dispute about something, when one
who was getting the worst of the argu
ment-got mad and tried to be terribly
sarcastic, and uttered what sounded like
the following:
oh! bio y'r dose We darn dool -