The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-10

bottom, lying in about 101 feet of water.
4 and her chances for remaining there
are very good. Jim Reid, the Bay civ
| wrecker. has taken the contract TO
raise her. He has had big steel pontoons
| built, which he thinks will have buov-
ancy enough to lift her. The pontoons
were completed too late last fall for
him to do anything, but as soon as nav
igation opens in the spring he will be-
| gin operations. One day last fall he
| donned his diving suit and went down
| and made an examination of her. He
| found her in good condition and lying
| right side up. If he is successful and
gets her into a harbor in the straits he
will get something like 100000 for the
job. If he fails he will get nothing.
That is the no cure no pay plan.
good many wreckers have taken con-
tracts on that plan, but as a rule they
fall for the underwriters, after offer
ing them a half interest in the boat.
know that the boat cannot be raised.
Let me cite you another instance
where the better boat was sunk by an
old one-well, 1 won't say she was old,
for she had not been in commission
very long. She was an ungainly look
ing craft, and about the unluckiest boat
that had been built on the lakes for
some time. She was called the Jack,
and she was jack for your life Her
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lie notice was when she collided with
one of the locks in the Welland canal.
Navigation was delayed several days
by the accident. She was brought to
this city, where she was locked and
paired. l remember when she was i'm
the dock. walked up and took a look
at her. She had the appearance of a
sand scow with a square bow and was
about the queerest-looking boat had
ever seen.
THE next prominent feat that she
accomplished was to sink the big steel
steamer Norman, which was owned by |
the Menominee Steamship company. |
She sunk her in good shape out in the |
middle of Lake Huron and in deep wa
ter In fact. 1t has been a mystery |
where she did go down, for they have |
never been able to locate her. She was |
also worth about 100000 The Jack |
sustained little damage and was soon |
in commission again. Now there are
two boats which were worth about s4O.-
900, and both were sunk by boats which |
could be bought for $4,000, and that
would be a big price for them.
What is the cause of collisions? |
Well, as a rule it is gross carelessness.
defective hearing or
sight and the lack of good Judgment |
and caution, by running in a fog
sometimes collisions occur by the
steering gear giving out. Anyone that
has seen the way a wheel is put over
from hard a-port to hard a-starboard
will not be surprised that a collision
sometimes happens from that cause.
Look at the big line boats, they never
,huck down when running in thick
weather. You might say that they al
most run on time. They leave Buffalo
Ind the manager expects them to be
1t such and such a port at a certain
line. If they are not there the captain
S called on to give an account He
avs he had a good deal of fog on Lake
huron and run under check. Fog be
ID, says the manager, and when
he captain goes out of the office he
las either got to make the time or
hey will soon find a man who will
Generally he has a family to support
nd depends upon his position, so he
isks not only his own life, but the
yes of his crew to earn a little more
Money for some big corporation"