Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-11-17
Trouble Brewing.

"As is we'll known there has of late been
considerable strife between American
and Canadian tug owners concerning the
rescuing of wrecks of vessels OIL the
shores of the respective countries. To
say that the feeling has amounted to a
jealousy is to put it mildly. When =
Canadian vessel goes ashore on the
American side 1t bOils the blood of a
BritOn TO think that he cannot choose
the tug he wishes to rescue his property,
but when it happens that he cannot en-
ploy his own tug to help his own vessel,
but must employ Yankee ole. he fairly
whoops like All Arapahoe. SO, when
half dozen American crafts lay them
selves on the north shore of Lake Erie
tor instance, and there are only two
available Canadian tugs to do the rescu-
ing, and no American tug dare take a
hand in on pain of confscation, Jona-
than, progged Oh by Yankee spunk and
Yankee interest, swearS by the great
<1uCl Cas.lC SQN1
not be, not by Il long shot, chain shot, or
any other shot. Thus the trouble has
been brewing all season, until now ii ap.
pears that a elimination is at hand. The
schooner Almeda, as already reported in
the Post and Tribune, was driven ashore
last week near New Glasgow, on the Ca
madam shore OF Lake Erie, while loading
lumber lost by wreck some two weeks
previous. She is owned in Buffalo, We
believe, and to attempt rescuing her was
very tempting TO tug owners hereabOut.
But would they dare to do it in the face
of repeated refusals from the authorities
ut Ottawa to allow American tugs to
wreck in Canadian waters. and the same
kind of decisions from Washington in re-
gard to Canadian tugs? This question
got practical answer OH Friday night,
when the tug WinslOw, as was reported
exclusively IN the Post and Tribune,
started out OH wrecking expedition un-
der sealed Oaders. On Saturday it leaked
out that the expedition was for the pur-
pose of rescuing the schooner Almeda,
ashore ne New Glasgow. OH the Cana
dian shore OF Lake Erie. Here is bold.
ness for you. The British Lion defied
on his own homestead The appearance
of the WinsiOw at New Glasgow was tel
egraphed to various tug owners on the
other side. and they i'm turn applied to
Ottawa for protection from what they
regarded as equivalent to invasion. The
Ottawa authorities promptly took the
case in hand, and during the aftern oon
Canadian officer left Port Stanley on the
tug Parker, armed with the proper doc
uments, to seize the WinslOw. This
was the latest reported phase of the mat
ter up to Saturday evening. The Win
slows crew, it was learned in Detroit, do
not propose to let their boat be seized,
and will only be driven from working at
the Almeda by superior force. If force
is used they are to use force in return,
so that we have the staring of a nice lit
tie border warfare right at our doors.
The progress of things will be watched
with intense interest: but it is to be
hoped that reasonable cuunsels will pre-
vail and only test case come out of the
new construction of international law
bearing ON wrecking. The Canadian tug
men, it may be stated, however, have
got their bristles up. and sustained by re-
Deated assurances from Ottawa that they
will be protected in their rights, they are
hopeful of drying the American tug
away, no matter at what cost or by what
means.