Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-02

she Lake superios region sn1
Is being sawed 81 saginaw
aud BAy City. You would - eurprasea
70 know how cheaply the iogs can -
RATED down. Tue cost uili not exceed
90 cents . tnousAnd, except occasionally
when the rafts are kroken IN gale
TINS very seldom happens, - the lo9s
are locked IN the Yafte for keeps. Logo
can be RATED cheaper from she north
than they can be put In on sle,ghs OF
BY rali."
hide we're opened here today for
two government contracts" sald
George Cooper Of the Wisconsan
Drsdgs And Dock company 81 the Nor
ton last night. e. Il. Crosby secured
the contract for the improvements ct
Muskegon fer $50 200. We we're the
lowest bidders for the work at Grand
Haven. That 10 . $6o.oo job alec.
There are three more contracts 70 let.
Ii Grand river is ever dredged there
will be . very good contract for come
body. According 70 ell reports il
would not be very big undertaking
TO construct 200 foot channel from
here u Grand Haven. II your public
men have any influence In congress
they ought not 70 have any trouble IN
securing IN appropriation Tor srch al
object"
c. II. Underwood and L. p. Ham,
mond Of Chicago Are ct the Morton. in
company with C. 8. Holmes. the hotel
broker. They arc ia the city 70 buy
furniture for . new 656-room hotel
that Is being built in Chicago. "They
are building hotel O. day IN Chicago
now" jokingly remarked Mr.. Holmss
last night. "Bus il 10 really surprising
the new hotels that are bsing built.
They spring up like mushrooms ell
over the city; aud ell OF them will b
completed before the worlds fair
opens."
az think the Michigan roads will
probably agree upon . angie trip
ticket TO the worlds fair" eald X. e.
| Downing Of Detroit At the Morton.
1.-THE roads running out Of Chicago
can increase their force of ticket
! agents TO handle the crowds, and the
TICKET ecalper will be left out on the
clammy cobblestones."
MEMBER of the Michigan Passenger
| Agents association held . meeting IN
| the Morton yesterday TO revise Tho
rules Of the ASSOCIATION. Those proeeni
| were: Ben Fletcher of Detroit, genera
passenger agent for the Detroit. Grand
I Haven q Milwaukee: G. X. King oil
Chicago, assistant general passenger
agent for the Michigan Central; f. {,
| Luce of Cleveland, assistant genera
passenger agent for the Lake shore;
James Houston of Pontiac, general sup.
erlntendent Of the Pontiac, Oxford a
Northern; E. A. Davis Of Chicago. gen.
ersI passenger agent for tho Chicago a
Grand Trunk; +. A. Mitchell OF Mania
tee, general passenger agent for the
Manletee 4 North Eastern; Van Dear.
ing Of Jackson, Michigan passenger
agent for the Duluth, South Shore 4
Atlantic; ]. H. Hall Of Jackson. Aichi'
gan agent for the Michigan Central; c.
L. lockwood OF this city. general pas
senger agent for the Grand Rapids a
Indiana; and r. 4. Downing OF Detroit
secretary Of the ASSOCIATION. A new
code Of rules was formulated and vii
b submitted 70 the winter meeting oI
the association.
Yesterday sftsrnoon n. p. Desrinl
Of Chicago, general baggage agent fcl
the Michigan Central; j. Z. Quick o.
Detroit, general baggage agent for thu
Grand Trunk; ]. L. Freeman of Cleve
land, general bag&age agent for thu
Lake Shore, and Representatives OF thu
local roads held meeting at the Nor
ton TO discuss new rates for excess bag
gage. Tne afternoon WAS spent in {
general discussion of the subject, but {
new tariff Was not adopted.