Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-04-14
MARINE.

The Messenger arrived at Chicago
Tuesday.
The music of the tug whistle is now
heard daily.
One of j. B. McArthur's lighters is
ready to launch and the other is nearly
completed.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean predicts
that the straits will be open by next
Friday, Goth.
AT Detroit all is activity along the
docks and painters and ship carpenters
are having harvest.
Charles Hart has his schooner C.
Hart fixed up in good shape. He has
changed her color and now she is black.
The steamer City of ChebOygan is
fitted out and is ready to migrate to
Black Lake as soon as the ice will per-
NIT.
The City of Cleveland is advertised
to leave Detroit next Monday for Alpena,
and the Pearl and Flora are announced
for the following day.
Capt. TOlsma commenced fitting out
his fishing tug Messenger, Thursday
morning. He expects Capt. MathersOn
and crew to arrive to-day.
Capt. James w. Brown is getting the
Van Raalte in good shape. She is being
repainted throughout. Her hull will be
black and her upper works white.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says the,
latest opening of navigation during the
last 10 years was in 1875, when the sea-
son did not commence until May II.
-Carkin, Stickney & Grams tug Nat
Stickney has been fitted out and is
ready for business. Their tug W. s.
Carkin is being fitted out this week.
The steamer City of Detroit is max
ing regular trips between Detroit and
Cleveland. She arrived at Detroit last
Saturday evening on her first trip from
Cleveland.
Fred Seymour is agent, at Chicago,
for the Northern Michigan line, and an
nOunces that either the Lawrence or
Champlaln would leave Chicago for Che
boygan about the goth, Ice permitting.
John Mitchell and crew are fitting
out one of Carkin, Stickney & Grams
dredges, to be ready to go to work on
the tarbOr as soon as the tug crew and
the inspector in charge arrives.
The Pearl looks gay this spring in her
new dress of paint. Her owners are
much obliged to our cotemporary for
those feathering paddles. They knew
nothing about the change until our
FneighbOrs announced it.
They were getting ready this morn
ing to launch the tug Eva English. She
comes out this spring as good as new,
with new wheel, larger shaft, and other
improvements. Next week she will go
up the river, to tow logs.
The propeller Messenger was meas
ured in Chicago Wednesday, under the
act of Aug. 5, 1882, for exemptions. Her
old measurement (gross) was 444.57. The
exemption under the new law is 102.95
making her tonnage now (neD 341.62.
The tug j. W. Bennett has been
chartered for the season to tow coal
barges between Black River, Ohio, and
Sarnia, Ont. Capt. Snow will sail her.
with James N. Riley as mate and Will
Carey as engineer. They commenced
fitting her out Wednesday.
"A large force of painters were at
work at Detroit, on the Flora the first of
the week rushing matters to get her
ready to leave that port for Cheboygan
by next Tuesday If there should be any
prospect of her getting through. I'm
pOrtant improvements have been made
on her.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says the
grain feet at that port, ready to leave.
numbers nearly sixty craft, with 2,321,-
600 bushels on board, destined for Sar-
MIA, Buffalo, Kingston and Montreal
and there will be numerous additional
charters within few days. Chicago
has stock of eighteen and half mil
lion bushels of grain at present, the
largest she ever had at any one time,
and it must GO forward.
The Algomah made an attempt
Tuesday afternoon to reach Mackinac
City from st. Ignace. Capt. Ames says
she went right along until she struck
an ice ridge, where she run out about
two feet and there she tarried until dug
out, Wednesday. She reached here that
evening. and returned the same night.
She was inIn good season Thursday morn
ing and has been making good time
since, considering the length of her run.
The Atlantic on her first trip up
will start from Toledo, Ohio instead OF
Cleveland. 1t is said there Is vast
amount of freight waiting at that port
for shipment up the lakes, and as the
Flora will have all the freight at Detroit
she can carry. the Atlantic goes to To-
ledo to relieve the pressure. This favor
ite propeller will be in better shape than
ever, this season. Capt. Nicholson will
be in command and Chas. Mcintosh, her
gentlemanly clerk of last season, will be
on deck again this season.
Onicial Canvass.
The official canvass of this county on
state ticket took place last Tuesday and
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